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None in Three: a global vision for change | #Ni3Centre
No full textThis film documents the story of how members of the None in Three global research centre worked together towards their vision for a future free of violence against women and girls, through an innovative and creative solution: research-based serious computer games. It charts the four years from the award of a Global Challenges Research Fund grant in 2017, across seven work packages and four study countries
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No full text[[abstract]]<<韓非子>>是集法家之大成的著作,同時也是法學專著的代表,此乃學術界
所公認之事實,然而在其法家思想的背後,卻又以儒、道、墨、法、名、陰
陽等各家思想為其思想背景,本篇論文即以<<韓非子>>的道家色彩為命題,
旨在探討<<韓非子>>與道家思想的關係,一方面對<<韓非子>>的思想做一
追本溯源的釐清,另一方面也由此突顯出<<韓非子>>中濃厚的道家色彩
。<<韓非子>>中最具道家色彩的篇章,如<主道>、<揚搉>、<解老>、<喻
老>、<大體>、<觀行>等諸篇,很多學者認為此六篇應非韓非之著作,然本
篇論文便以<<韓非子>>的現行本為研究對象,並以此六篇為研究主軸,由思
想與文學兩方面來論證此六篇在<<韓非子>>書中應有的存在價值及意義,
並由此六篇道、法結合的微妙思想內容及文學用語,揭示出<<韓非子>>中
以道為法用、因道全法的思想面貌,同時也由此六篇在<<韓非子>>中所扮
演的角色,論定其他各篇具有道家色彩的篇章也應為<<韓非子>>中的一部
分,而不可斷然將之畫出<<韓非子>>思想體系之外。由<<韓非子>>的<解
老>、<喻老>中,可知韓非的解釋<<老子>>,乃是透過黃老思想的影響,進一
步對<<老子>>哲學做一番新的吸收與改造,而<主道>、<揚搉>、<大體>、<
觀行>四篇的虛靜、自然、因等詞,也是以含有黃老道家的思想成分進一步
為法家所用的道家用語,因此,本篇論文的道家便包含了原始道家以及黃老
道家兩層意義。原始道家以老子、莊子為代表,黃老道家以慎到、申不害
為代表,由此表現出<<韓非子>>思想與道家思想的關係。本篇論文的研討
路線是以道家之「道」為總綱,而後以「道」的特質因情、虛靜、任自然
三者,分別論述其與<<韓非子>>法、術、勢三者間的轉化與結合,並以道、
法二家的共同理想「無為而治」為政治理論的總結,最後再以單一的「相
對」概念與文學層面的研討,由另一角度探討<<韓非子>>中濃厚的道家色
彩,並呈現出此六篇獨特的文學特色。
QUALITY CONTROL ASSESSMENT OF X-RAY MACHINES IN SOME RADIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENTS IN BENUE STATE
No full textQuality Control parameters; (kV]) Reproducibility, mA Reciprocity, mA Linearity, Tube Potential Accuracy, Tube Output Consistency with klip, Tube Filtration (Half Value Layer), Focal Spot Size, Perpendicularity Test (1.5°) and the Congruence between Optical and X-ray Field of thirteen (13) diagnostic X-ray machines located in some major hospitals in Benue State were investigated with the aim of assessing their Quality Control status. Eight of these machines were single-phase X-ray.s. while five (5) were three-phase X-ray machines. The assessment was carried out using Gammex Radiologicifluoroscopic kits model Gammex184D, and Kodak and Agfa X-ray films. The results for kVp reproducibility and mA reciprocity indicate that three (3) facility's results were within the reference limit of (±5`,)/0 and (±10%) respectively, while ten ( 0) X-ray machines failed the assessment test. There was non-linearity in Dose/mAs in twelve (12) X-ray machines, only the X-ray machine(s) located at Benue State University Teaching Hospital passed the linearity test. For tube potential accuracy, only two (2) X-ray machines were within the reference limit of (±5%), while eleven (11) X-ray machines
failed Tube output consistency kVp results show that eight (8) X-ray machines
passed, while five (5) X-ray machines failed. Half Value Layer (HVL) which is a
measure of X-ray beam quality indicates that all X-ray machines have this half value layer filtration above the reference level of 2. 3mmAl except General Hospital Otukpo X-ray machine which is below the recommended level with 0.8mmAl. It was also found that the line pair per millimetre (1p/mtn) and the calculated effective focal vot was within the nominal focal spot for all the X-ray machines except General Hospital Okpoga X-ray machine which .failed the test. Three (3) X-ray machines were found to be congruent between optical and X-ray field within 1.5°, while ten (10) X-ray machines failed the test. Also there was much beam misalignment amongst the diagnostic machines, with eight X-ray machines found to he within limit, while.five failed the assessment test. This research work shows that none of the X-ray machines passed all the ten (IQ) quality control tests. The best amongst them is Benue State Teaching Hospital Makurdi which failed only one test on Tithe filtration. This work has highlighted the quality control deficiencies of most diagnostic X-ray machines in Hospitals in Benue State.NONENON
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No full textBackground: Police are most at risk, and so are the residents due to the vulnerability in the slum community of WestPoint. Despite the efforts of the government to improve community living standards by encouraging the role of Community policing in crime prevention, there is instead an increase in the crime rate and insecurity in the neighborhoods. Aim: To assess the development and practice of Community policing to understand the challenges and the reasons for the ineffectiveness of policing in WestPoint, Greater Monrovia, Liberia. Methods: A qualitative method was employed using open-ended survey questions. Malmö University library and google scholar search engines were utilized with several inclusion criteria to arrive at 48 articles and books for this review. Results: To be able to implement Community policing, there should be competency among police officers and more trained officers in the force, Police also need to have a good view of their power or authority and administer their duties in the appropriate form and manner, increasing good communication between the Police and the residents.Conclusion: In the light of the restraints, implementation of Community policing in WestPoint has failed due to its inadequacy to collaborate with partners between security agencies and communities; failure to protect volunteers of information among the community resident; failure to provide awareness to WestPoint residents on the importance to uphold the existing laws and procedures of the public safety and security.Keywords: Community policing; Efficacy; Disorganization Neighborhood; Crime prevention
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Full text linkpada kasus lapangan seperti peletakan dan instalasi steel jacket structure di laut, salah satu metodenya dengan diluncurkan
dari launch barge. cara tersebut adalah paling riskan dibanding metode instalasi yang lain. pada aspek konstruksi masalah akan
timbul pada langkah-langkah jacket meluncur, dimana timbul beban penambahan dan pengurangan secara tiba-tiba pada struktur leg diatas
leg diatas launch skid dan engsel tilt bea
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No full textPURPOSE. The outer blood-retina barrier (BRB) separates the neural retina from the choroidal vasculature, which is responsible for approximately 80% of blood supplies in the eye. To determine the significance of outer BRB breakdown in diabetic retinopathy, the outer BRB-specific leakage of macromolecules in diabetic and ischemic rodents was investigated. METHODS. Diabetes and ischemia were induced in rodents by streptozotocin and oxygen-induced retinopathy, respectively. Diabetic and ischemic rodents were injected intravenously with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-dextran. The outer BRB-specific leakage in diabetic and ischemic rodents was visualized by fluorescent microscopy. RESULTS. A microscopic imaging assay was developed to examine outer BRB breakdown. The outer BRB-specific leakage of fluorescent macromolecules was visualized in diabetic and ischemic rodents. Substantial leakages of macromolecules through the outer BRB in diabetic and ischemic rodents were detected with this assay. The number of severe outer BRB leakage sites is inversely proportional to the size of macromolecules. Significant depletion of occludin in the RPE of ischemic and diabetic rodents was also observed. CONCLUSIONS. For the first time, a microscopic imaging assay for directly visualizing macromolecules leaked through the outer BRB in rodents was developed. Using this assay, the authors demonstrated the significance of outer BRB breakdown in diabetes and ischemia, which will have implications to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of diabetic macular edema and other ocular diseases with outer BRB defects. The microscopic imaging assay established in this study will likely be very useful to the development of drugs for macular edema. (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011;52:2160 -2164 DOI:10.1167/ iovs.10-6518 A unique feature about the human retina is the presence of two blood-retina barriers (BRBs), the inner and outer BRBs that are formed by tight junctions between adjacent endothelial or retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. While the inner BRB has been well studied due to its apparent relevance to diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity, little is known about the biology and pathophysiology of the outer BRB. The outer BRB separates the neural retina from a network of fenestrated vessels called choriocapillaris, which is the major blood supplier for the neural retina. The outer BRB plays many essential roles in the maintenance of normal physiological processes in the retina, through the transport of nutrients, water, and ions, and the removal of metabolic wastes (for review, see Ref. 1). A major outer BRB function is to participate in phagocytosis, a process that requires the daily renewal and removal of approximately 10% of lipid-rich photoreceptor outer segment discs. 2 Thus, the outer BRB plays a crucial role in the transport and recycle of fatty acids, 3 such as docosahexaenoic acid, which is a major component of photoreceptors and is important to retinal function. 7 These active transports are fueled by the Na ϩ -K ϩ -ATPase, located in the apical side of the RPE. 1 Finally, the outer BRB is also responsible for the removal of excessive water in the subretinal space to the choriocapillaris, which is driven by the transport of Cl Ϫ and K ϩ . 1,8 The diabetes-induced outer BRB dysfunction has been observed in humans and animals. 9 -12 Morphologic changes in the RPE can be readily detected in diabetic animals, 18 Despite these observations, the contribution of outer BRB dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy is almost neglected. A major hurdle for an insufficient progress in this area is the difficulty to measure the outer BRB-specific leakage experimentally, as existing methods cannot clearly distinguish the macromolecules leaked through the outer BRB and what appeared to be the overwhelming inner BRB-specific leakage under pathologic conditions. Consequently the extent and significance of outer BRBspecific leakage to the pathology of macular edema and other BRB diseases are unclear. Therefore, we recently developed a fluorescent microscopic imaging assay for visualizing and quantifying the outer BRB-specific leakage in diabetic and ischemic rodents after intravenous injection of fluorescent macromolecules. This report summarizes our study on the development of the methodology and visualization/detection of outer BRB breakdown in diabetic and ischemic rodents
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