538 research outputs found
Stolen Children, Identity Rights, and Rhetoric: (Argentina, 1983–2012)
No full textPublished in: JAC 33.3–4 (2013) pp. 425-453
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Nestle on a Grasshopper’s Wings on our Mother Apple Tree
No full text"The thesis is a surreal, multi vocal allegory of love in the Anthropocene, complete with pet psychics, mall princesses, sentient balls of moss and women born of trees," as said best by author Jac Jemc
The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture
No full textI was interviewed by the author about aspects of my practice (e.g. working with chance strategies and social animals). Excerpts from this interview and images of the processes and exhibited sculptures are used throughout the book.The Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture is both a survey and a celebration of contemporary approaches to sculptures that are formed from more than one material. It profiles the discipline in all its expanded forms and recognizes sculpture in the twenty-first century not as something solid and static, but rather as a fluid interface in material, time and space. It gives insightful revelations of the creative journeys of ten renowned sculptors and showcases twenty-eight international sculptors. With over two hundred colour photographs - See more at: http://www.crowood.com/eBooks.asp?bid=9781847977229#sthash.UJQgvo8P.dpu
Sexual diversity in the judiciary in England and Wales; research on barriers to judicial careers
No full textDebates about the diversity of the judiciary in the UK have been dominated by gender, race and ethnicity. Sexuality is notable by its absence and is perceived to pose particular challenges. It is usually missing from the list of diversity categories. When present, its appearance is nominal. One effect of this has been a total lack of official data on the sexual composition of the judiciary. Another is the gap in research on the barriers to the goal of a more sexually diverse judiciary. In 2008 the Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC) for England and Wales undertook research to better understand the challenges limiting progress towards judicial diversity. A central gaol of the project was to investigate barriers to application for judicial appointment across different groups defined by “sex, ethnicity and employment status”. Sexual orientation was again noticeable by its absence. Its absence was yet another missed opportunity to recognise and take seriously this strand of diversity. This study is based on a response to that absence. A stakeholder organisation, InterLaw Diversity Forum for lesbian gay bisexual and transgender networks in the legal services sector, with the JAC’s approval, used their questionnaire and for the first time asked lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lawyers about the perceptions and experiences of barriers to judicial appointment. This paper examines the findings of that unique research and considers them in the light of the initial research on barriers to judicial appointment and subsequent developments
Inflammatory effects of cook stove emissions on cultured human bronchial epithelial cells
No full textDepartment Head: Jac A. Nickoloff.2010 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.Approximately half the world's population uses biomass as a fuel for cooking and heating. This form of combustion is typically achieved by burning wood in a primitive indoor cook stove. Human exposure to combustion byproducts emitted from these 'traditional' stoves is an important global health concern. Such exposures cause an estimated two million premature deaths each year and have been associated with increased incidence of pulmonary disease, eyesight degradation, cancer, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Many types of 'improved cook stoves' have been developed over the past few decades to address this concern. The aim of this research was to compare the effects of traditional and improved cook stove emissions on normal human bronchial epithelial cells exposed to a single biomass combustion event. We used a direct, aerosolto-cell deposition system to expose cell cultures to cook stove emissions. We then quantified the relative expression of three different mRNA transcripts associated with a cellular inflammation at 1 and 24 hours following exposure. We hypothesized that cultured human bronchial epithelial cells exposed to wood smoke from an improved cook stove would produce lower levels of inflammatory transcripts as compared to cells exposed to emissions from a traditional stove. Wood smoke was generated from three stove types: an energy efficient model designed and distributed by Envirofit International, an energy efficient model designed and distributed by Philips Inc., and a traditional three stone fire. The emissions from each cook stove were substantially different, with the three stone fire having the highest emissions of particle number, particle size, and particle mass. Cellular expression of inflammatory genes was also significantly higher in exposed vs. control cells, with the three stone fire having the greatest effect. These results provide preliminary evidence that improved cook stoves have the potential to improve human health
Delay Estimation for Ranging and Localization Using Multiband Channel State Information
No full textIn wireless networks, an essential step for precise range-based localization is the high-resolution estimation of multipath channel delays. The resolution of traditional delay estimation algorithms is inversely proportional to the bandwidth of the training signals used for channel probing. Considering that typical training signals have limited bandwidth, delay estimation using these algorithms often leads to poor localization performance. To mitigate these constraints, we exploit the multiband and carrier frequency switching capabilities of wireless transceivers and propose to acquire channel state information (CSI) in multiple bands spread over a large frequency aperture. The data model of the acquired measurements has a multiple shift-invariance structure, and we use this property to develop a high-resolution delay estimation algorithm. We derive the Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) for the data model and perform numerical simulations of the algorithm using system parameters of the emerging IEEE 802.11be standard. Simulations show that the algorithm is asymptotically efficient and converges to the CRB. To validate modeling assumptions, we test the algorithm using channel measurements acquired in real indoor scenarios. From these results, it is seen that delays (ranges) estimated from multiband CSI with a total bandwidth of 320 MHz show an average RMSE of less than 0.3 ns (10 cm) in 90% of the cases.Signal Processing System
The success of particular acinetobacter baumannii clones: accumulating resistance and virulence inside a sugary shield
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy following peer review. The version of record Liliana Silva, Filipa Grosso, Carla Rodrigues, Magdalena Ksiezarek, Helena Ramos, Luísa Peixe, The success of particular Acinetobacter baumannii clones: accumulating resistance and virulence inside a sugary shield, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, , dkaa453, https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkaa453 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/jac/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jac/dkaa453/5956384?redirectedFrom=fulltextIn Portugal, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) has been associated with ST98, ST103 and ST208 (Oxford Scheme, Oxf) and a clone has usually been associated with a particular period of time. These clonal shifts were primarily explained by an increased antimicrobial resistance profile. Here we explore genomic and biochemical differences among these and more recent clones, which could further explain the diversity and evolution of this species.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
High risk and probability of progression to osteoporosis at 10 years in HIV-infected individuals: the role of PIs
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy following peer review. The version of record Negredo, E., Langohr, K., Bonjoch, A., Perez, N., Estany, C., Puig, J., Echevarría, P., Clotet, B., Gómez Melis, G. High risk and probability of progression to osteoporosis at 10 years in HIV-infected individuals: the role of PIs. "Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy", 1 Setembre 2018, vol. 73, núm. 9, p. 2452-2459 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/jac/article-abstract/73/9/2452/5026321.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Retracted: Adoption of goat production technology and its impact among rural farmers in Nawalparsi district of Nepal
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Jurnal Agercolere Publication Ethics (http://faperta.unisan.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/jac/ethics).
This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The author has published manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication, as follow:
K. Aryal, M. Jaishi and A. Gaire, “Adoption of goat production technology and its impact among rural farmers of Nawalparasi district, Nepal” - Nepalese Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018, pp. 109–113.
One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.This article has been retracted: please see Jurnal Agercolere Publication Ethics (http://faperta.unisan.ac.id/jurnal/index.php/jac/ethics).
This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The author has published manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication, as follow:
K. Aryal, M. Jaishi and A. Gaire, “Adoption of goat production technology and its impact among rural farmers of Nawalparasi district, Nepal” - Nepalese Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018, pp. 109–113.
One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process
Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso
No full textCiudad Juárez, Chihuahua, is home to the U.S.–Mexico border’s largest maquiladora labor force, and also its worst air pollution. We marshal two types of evidence to examine the link between maquiladoras and air pollution in Ciudad Juárez, and in its sister city, El Paso, Texas. First, we use a publicly available sector-level emissions inventory for Ciudad Juárez to determine the importance of all industrial facilities (including maquiladoras) as a source of air pollution. Second, we use original plantlevel data from two sample maquiladoras to better understand the impacts of maquiladora air pollution on human health. We use a series of computational models to estimate health damages attributable to air pollution from these plants, we compare these damages to estimates of damages from non-maquiladora industrial polluters, and we use regression analysis to determine whether the poor suffer disproportionately from maquiladora air pollution. We find that air pollution from maquiladoras has serious consequences for human health, including respiratory disease and premature mortality. However, maquiladoras are clearly not the leading cause of air pollution in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso. Moreover, most maquiladoras are probably less important sources of dangerous air pollution than at least one notoriously polluting Mexican-owned industry. Finally, we find no evidence to suggest that maquiladora air pollution affects the poor disproportionately.maquiladora, air pollution, human health, environmental justice, U.S.-Mexico border, Ciudad Juárez, El Paso
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