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Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1065 - Bible (Video Orientation)
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Deep Margin Elevation: A Literature Review
Get PDFA conservative approach for restoring deep proximal lesions is to apply an increment of composite resin over the preexisting cervical margin to relocate it coronally, the so-called “deep margin elevation” (DME). A literature search for research articles referring to DME published from January 1998 until November 2021 was conducted using MEDLINE (PubMed), Ovid, Scopus, Cochrane Library and Semantic Scholar databases applying preset inclusion and exclusion criteria. Elevation material and adhesive system employed for luting seem to be significant factors concerning the marginal adaptation of the restoration. This technique does not affect bond strength, fatigue behavior, fracture resistance, failure pattern or repairability. DME and subgingival restorations are compatible with periodontal health, given that they are well-polished and refined. The available literature is limited mainly to in vitro studies. Therefore, randomized clinical trials with extended follow-up periods are necessary to clarify all aspects of the technique and ascertain its validity in clinical practice. For the time being, DME should be applied with caution respecting three criteria: capability of field isolation, the perfect seal of the cervical margin provided by the matrix, and no invasion of the connective compartment of biological width. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Runaway Advertisements from Jamaica, 1781-2
Get PDFNewspaper advertisements written and published by enslavers seeking the capture and return of enslaved people who had escaped. Published in the Gazette of St Jago (Spanish Town), Jamaica, February 1781 to October 1782
Perspectives on Digital Catalogs and Textual Networks of Old Norse Literature
Get PDFTaking its point of departure in the network analysis of manuscript contexts of Old Norse texts, based on data collected from digital catalogs of Nordic manuscripts, this article examines the possibilities and challenges of the digital manuscript studies. Through a close examination a single Old Norse text and its genre affiliation in the extant manuscripts, the present study reveals the limitations of the application of network analysis to similar cases and identifies the contemporary digital cataloging practice as the main limitation. From the point of view of automated data extraction and from the perspective of new research questions that could be answered through digital data analysis, this article emphasizes the importance of systematic and comprehensive digital manuscript cataloging for further developments in the field of manuscript studies. It discusses some of the key features of manuscript description and suggests crowd-sourcing cataloging as a potential solution to some of the challenges the digital cataloging projects face today
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1661 - Arts and sciences : chemistry. (Video Orientation)
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Policy Actions to Improve Economic and Environmental Outcomes of Poultry Litter Management in Delmarva
Get PDFOn the Delmarva Peninsula, poultry production reigns supreme as the most dominant industry of this region’s agricultural sector. This industry generates massive economic output for Delmarva agriculture, as well as a large amount of poultry litter (i.e., feces and bedding). Poultry litter is a valuable soil amendment used as an agricultural nutrient source. Historic land application of nutrient-rich poultry litter has led to high soil phosphorus levels in many areas of the Delmarva Peninsula, which has motivated a push to move litter out of the region to avoid negative environmental impacts of overapplication. However, there is also cropland without phosphorus surpluses that can benefit from poultry litter application as a valuable source of nutrients and organic matter. Despite the benefits that poultry litter application offers to agriculture, there are vast inefficiencies in its storage, transport, and utilization across the Delmarva Peninsula. The various regulatory schemes that govern poultry litter management are grossly uncoordinated. This lack of policy coherence has left many willing Delmarva farmers with distinct nutrient needs without access to this resource and created problems for poultry producers looking for a place to send litter. Additionally, there are numerous environmental and economic impacts to this inefficient distribution, such as excess nutrient runoff and unnecessary synthetic nutrient purchases. This report examines the underlying economic and environmental implications of the current system, identifies and analyzes the main policy barriers that discourage more effective poultry litter management, and provides succinct recommendations to improve and harmonize the Delmarva poultry litter policy landscape to achieve environmental and economic goals, noting obstacles to implementation
Fragments of the Concrete: Ecology and Technical Media in German Romanticism
No full textThis dissertation investigates how German romantic speculation concerning the possibility of constructing a perpetuum mobile sheds light on the central role played by technical media in the relationship between politics, poetics, and the life sciences around 1800. Focusing on the figures of Novalis, Schelling, Goethe, and Hölderlin, the project traces the contours of a discursive shift in the romantic reception of what Immanuel Kant calls the “technic of nature,” a concept Kant employs as a heuristic device for explaining the appearance of self-motivated activity in nature. While for Kant, this term refers to the ways internal forms of human cognition lead the observer to perceive a distinction between the autotelic activity of organic life and events determined by mechanical causality, for Kant’s romantic readers, the ‘technic of nature’ comes to signify a reciprocal mode of material relationality between humans and nature that combines organic and mechanical processes. This relational, exteriorizing comportment towards the making of technical objects and natural knowledge, what the philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon calls mechanology in his overlooked engagement with romanticism, becomes the basis for a series of thought experiments concerning perpetual motion which seek to develop a negentropic ecology of spatial relations for romantic poetics and nature philosophy
Changing Care Paradigms: A Pilot Study on User-Interface and Design Implications on the Efficacy of Medical Record Systems in Low-Resource Settings
Get PDFElectronic Medical Record Systems (EMRS) has quickly become the backbone of the healthcare delivery ecosystem in developed countries. Their reaches range from insurance to billing to physician charting. Despite the mainstream use of EMRS in developed countries, their implementation in low-resource settings has faced more barriers and challenges. During the development of EMRS, the concerns, hurdles, and considerations of developed nations are what were used as inspiration when designing these systems. This thesis explores the use of effective User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) design to help lower the accessibility barriers associated with EMRS implementation and usage in low-resource settings. Through this thesis, a pilot study was done on 10 users to assess how the proposed EMRS with the necessary UI/UX design implementations would impact the operational efficiency in low-resource settings. The pilot study was based on the workflow in a cancer clinic in Botswana to assess how UI/UX changes would expedite and ease care delivery in such settings with limited healthcare professionals and technology. The study compared the ease of use and efficiency of the proposed system with a commonly implemented, free open-source EMRS, known as “OpenEMR”, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Through the results obtained, it was shown that the proposed workflow was able to reduce workflow times by up to 300% for commonly done tasks such as data entry and data retrieval across both highly experienced and novice EMRS users
Collation Model for LJS 24: [Medical miscellany].
Get PDFCollection of 10th- through early 13th-century texts that formed the standard 13th-century medical curriculum (referred to and printed in the Renaissance under the collective title Articella), here copied in the mid-13th century with inhabited initials showing medical scenes. 5 works of Isaac Israeli concerning diet, urine, fevers, and the elements, which were translated into Latin in the 11th century by Constantine the African, a Benedictine monk, comprise most of the manuscript. These are preceded by a brief introduction to Galen and 2 short works on the pulse, the later of which, by Gilles de Corbeil, is the latest work in the collection. Most of the illuminations depict Dominican monks teaching and tending to patients.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1003/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for LJS 215: [Scientific miscellany] [manuscript].
Get PDFCompendium of astrological charts; astronomical and astrological tables; treatises on astronomy (calculating equinoxes and solstices, f. 51v; using an astrolabe, f. 68r) and geometry (f. 133r-180v, perhaps lacking ending, with numerous small diagrams and a few small illustrations); and instructions for making dyes and pigments (f. 182r-208r) and medical preparations (f. 224r, 226v). The first three gatherings of the manuscript are lacking, based on the signature of the first extant gathering, and the upper margin has been trimmed. 17th-century table of contents on lower flyleaf.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1006/thumbnail.jp