878 research outputs found
Letter from Bishop Patrick Collier to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Bishop Patrick Collier, Sion House, Kilkenny, to (Hagan). Enclosing Peter's Pence and an accompanying letter in presentation; also enclosing notes in terna for the replacement of the dean, naming Archdeacon Tobias Walsh, Canon James Doyle, Canon James Dunphy; the replacement of the parish priest of St. Canice's, naming Canon John Doody, Fr. Martin Kealy, and Fr. Charles Cavanagh; likewise for a parish priest of Slieverne, naming Fr. Edward Brennan, Fr. John Clohessy, Fr. John Bergin; recommending the first-named in each case. (With notes by Curran.
Introduzione
No full textIntroduction to the issue of Textus, edited by the author and Stuart Curran, dedicated to "Renaissance and Romanticism: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Transmission of Literary and Cultural Models
Cell-level path allocation in a three-stage ATM switch
No full textA method of cell-level path allocation for three-stage ATM switches has previously been proposed by the authors. The performance of ATM switches using this path allocation algorithm has been evaluated by simulation, and is described. Both uniform and non-uniform models of output loading are considered. The algorithm requires knowledge of the number of cells requesting each output module from a given input module. A fast method for counting the number of requests is described
Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran 1927
No full textTrichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927 Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927: 255. HOLOTYPE: J, Canada,Alta.[= Alberta], Banff, 23.viii.1922, No. 2606, C. B. G. Garrett leg. (CNC). Chaetosa pilirostris Ringdahl, 1936: 178. HOLOTYPE: J, Norway, ‘im nördlichen Norwegen [= in northern Norway], Ein J vom Verf. bei Tromsö [= one male collected by the author near Tromsø]’ (probably MZLU). Synonymized by GORODKOV (1986: 28). Distribution. Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 131); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 46); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 836).Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 140-141, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.534249
Liver fibrosis markers and all cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: a population based study (The Ayrshire Diabetes Outcomes Cohort (ADOC) Study)
No full textAims: To describe the distribution of the biomarker scores Fibrosis-4 (FIB4), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis score (NFS), and aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI), and the associations between risk categories and all-cause mortality. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of 12 589 patients, with follow-up from January 2012 until November 2021. The cut-off points used to identify low risk were: FIB4 <1.3 if aged <65 years or <2.0 if aged ≥65 years; NFS < −1.455 if aged <65 years or <0.12 if aged ≥ 65 years; APRI <1 (independent of age). High-risk cut-off points were FIB4 >2.67, NFS >0.676 and APRI ≥1 (all independent of age). Multivariable Cox regression analysis was performed to assess the association between liver fibrosis scores and all-cause mortality. Results: The mean ± standard deviation age was 65.2 ± 12.1 years, 54.5% were men and the median (interquartile range) diabetes duration was 5.8 (2.8–9.3) years. The prevalence of high-risk categories was 6.1% for FIB4, 23.5% for NFS and 1.6% for APRI. During a median follow-up of 9.8 years, 3925 patients (31.1%) died, resulting in a crude mortality rate of 40.4 per 1000 person-years. The overall adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) in the high- compared with low-fibrosis-risk groups were 3.69 (1.95–2.75) for FIB4, 2.32 (2.88–4.70) for NFS, and 3.92 (2.88–5.34) for APRI. Stratified adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios for individuals under 65 years and people over 65 years of age at cohort entry were 3.89 (95% CI 2.99–5.05) and 1.44 (95% CI 1.28–1.61) for FIB4, 2.50 (95% CI 1.89–3.18) and 1.35 (95% CI 1.24–1.48) for NFS and 3.74 (95% CI 2.73–5.14) and 1.64 (95% CI 1.24–2.17) for APRI. Conclusions: All three fibrosis risk scores were positively associated with all-cause mortality in people with type 2 diabetes, with higher relative risks in younger than older people. Effective interventions are required to minimize excess mortality in people at high risk of liver fibrosis.</p
Widening the gap – Indigenous affairs
No full textThe author points out the implications for aboriginal Australians of the decision to cut funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services. Curran gives individual examples to show how early intervention to give aboriginals effective access to services and avoid jail helps to close the gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people and saves taxpayers’ money
Letter from M.J. Curran to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from M.[J.Curran], Rome, to Hagan. Sr. Rita progresses well; she does suffer from typhoid after all. Explaining the matter concerning the Enright Burse; a draft has been received. In Tivoli, a new municipal tax is imposed on all building materials; asking for advice. Latest progress on the Via Santi Quattro site. The Civiltà Cattolica has apparently excelled itself in an attack on the author of the Isola Smeralda; promising to send the issue
Homeless shelters are mandated by the Maine State Housing Authority to provide s
No full textHomeless shelters are mandated by the Maine State Housing Authority to provide shelter for no longer than 45 days, and the average stay is about 10 days. Shelters need 500,00 increase in funding instead of a hoped-for 100,000 was found, increasing the state funding by $6 per person per night. Details on author Hugh Curran\u27s efforts to gain more funds for the homeless from the state
Numerical prediction of vortex dynamics in inviscid sheet cavitation
No full textRecent studies have indicated that mass transfer models are able to correctly reflect the sheet cavitation dynamics of inertia driven flows, given that the mass transfer model constants governing the source term magnitude are sufficiently large (Koukouvinis and Gavaises 2015) and that enough temporal resolution is provided (Schenke and Van Terwisga 2017). The inertia driven dynamics, characterised by cavity collapse time, shedding frequencies and local pressure impact frequencies, were shown to be insensitive to variations of the mass transfer coefficients in this limit.This study focuses on an inviscid cavitating flow around a NACA0015 hydrofoil. The flow dynamics are driven by the re-entrant jet as the main mechanism of cavity shedding. A threshold of mass transfer magnitude, temporal and spanwise spatial resolution is identified, beyond which the frequency of local pressure impacts is model parameter independent. Although the excact values of peak pressure loads remain time step size, grid size and model parameter dependent, the sheet cavitation dynamics are considered as well resolved in this regime as far as shedding frequency and characteristic cavity collapse time are concerned. The results are compared to experimental results by Van Rijsbergen et al. (2012).Based on this, the study further focuses on the mechanism of vorticity generation and vorticity break-up, causing potentially erosive cavitating structures such as horseshoe cavities (Dular and Petkovˇsek 2015).Accepted Author ManuscriptShip Hydromechanics and Structure
A three-stage ATM switch with cell-level path allocation
No full textA method is described for performing routing in three-stage asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches which feature multiple channels between the switch modules in adjacent stages. The method is suited to hardware implementation using parallelism to achieve a very short execution time. This allows cell-level routing to be performed, whereby routes are updated in each time slot. The algorithm allows a contention-free routing to be performed, so that buffering is not required in the intermediate stage. An algorithm with this property, which preserves the cell sequence, is referred to as a path allocation algorithm. A detailed description of the necessary hardware is presented. This hardware uses a novel circuit to count the number of cells requesting each output module, it allocates a path through the intermediate stage of the switch to each cell, and it generates a routing tag for each cell, indicating the path assigned to it. The method of routing tag assignment described employs a nonblocking copy network. The use of highly parallel hardware reduces the clock rate required of the circuitry, for a given-switch size. The performance of ATM switches using this path allocation algorithm has been evaluated by simulation, and is described
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