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Farshid Moussavi
No full textIn this lecture, Farshid Moussavi will argue that architecturally speaking, politics is about people’s attachment to buildings- how buildings alter what people see, hear and do in and around them. This is not a question that is settled in advance through representation, but has to be evaluated in its irreducible singularity each time.
Alongside leading an award-winning architectural practice, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she lectures regularly at arts institutions and schools of architecture worldwide and is a published author. Moussavi was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to architecture. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2017.
Moussavi’s ideas and work are at the forefront of critical debate about architecture. In 2017 she was Architectural curator of the Royal Academy Summer Show where she proposed a highly original approach, showing the internal mechanisms and the construction process that underpins architecture. Her work is deeply rooted in critical research which she carries out through FunctionLab, the research branch of FMA. FunctionLab explores cultural questions that find actualisation in the building commissions of the office, allowing for informed and innovative results. With the influential series of books that Moussavi published with Harvard, The Function of…, she has explored the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style
Mutation frequency of non-ESBL phenotype SENTRY (Asia-Pacific) isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae conversion to an ESBL positive phenotype
No full textExtended spectrum β-lactamases or ESBLs, which are derived from non-ESBL precursors by point mutation of β-lactamase genes (bla), are spreading rapidly all over the world and have caused considerable problems in the treatment of infections caused by bacteria which harbour them. The mechanism of this resistance is not fully understood and a better understanding of these mechanisms might significantly impact on choosing proper diagnostic and treatment strategies. Previous work on SHV β-lactamase gene, blaSHV, has shown that only Klebsiella pneumoniae strains which contain plasmid-borne blaSHV are able to mutate to phenotypically ESBL-positive strains and there was also evidence of an increase in blaSHV copy number. Therefore, it was hypothesised that although specific point mutation is essential for acquisition of ESBL activity, it is not yet enough, and blaSHV copy number amplification is also essential for an ESBL-positive phenotype, with homologous recombination being the likely mechanism of blaSHV copy number expansion. In this study, we investigated the mutation rate of non-ESBL expressing K. pneumoniae isolates to an ESBL-positive status by using the MSS-maximum likelihood method. Our data showed that blaSHV mutation rate of a non-ESBL expressing isolate is lower than the mutation rate of the other single base changes on the chromosome, even with a plasmid-borne blaSHV gene. On the other hand, mutation rate from a low MIC ESBL-positive (≤ 8 µg/mL for cefotaxime) to high MIC ESBL-positive (≥16 µg/mL for cefotaxime) is very high. This is because only gene copy number increase is needed which is probably mediated by homologous recombination that typically takes place at a much higher frequencies than point mutations. Using a subinhibitory concentration of novobiocin, as a homologous recombination inhibitor, revealed that this is the case
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Three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108).In 1975, Muhammad Reza Shah, the king of Iran, inaugurated the construction of a ceremonial urban center in northern Tehran. The proposed plan, prepared by Llewelyn-Davies International, consisted of a large plaza and two boulevards lined with governmental and commercial buildings-an extravagant project made possible by the 1973 oil boom that quadrupled Iran's revenue. But the Shah's vision was never realized: construction was soon halted with the eruption of the protests that led to the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979. The Llewelyn-Davies plan was not the first proposal for the site. It was initially planned in Tehran's master plan-prepared jointly by Victor Gruen and Farmanfarmaian Associates (1966-70). In late 1973, Louis Kahn was solicited to prepare a proposal, which was never finished as Kahn died in March 1974. This thesis examines these three proposed plans for a new urban center in Tehran. Through a detailed examination of consultancy reports, architectural drawings and archival documents, the thesis critically analyzes the urban vision and socio-political underpinnings of the projects. Based on the three main roles of the new urban center-civic, national, and international-I interpret the plans as metaphors of urban life; as political tools of nation building in the postwar web of nation-states; and as products of international design currents. The aim is to delineate the ways in which international design currents meshed with the political, social and intellectual context of Iran in the 1970s, a period characterized by authoritarian rule, monarchical nationalism and rapid modernization. Underlying all three proposals was a yearning to create a modernized, acculturated and apolitical urban middle class. The trajectory of these plans demonstrates how the demand for rapid modernization obliterated alternative voices and led, ultimately, to "the tragedy of development."by Farshid Emami.S.M
Retraction notice to “Rechargeable Batteries for Energy Storage: A review” [e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy 8 (2024) 100510]
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).Suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper were discovered.The paper was originally submitted by Ehsan Kianfar as single author. Co-authors Chou-Yi Hsu, Yathrib Ajaj, Ghadir Kamil Ghadir, Hayder Musaad Al-Tmimi, Zaid Khalid Alani, Ausama A. Almulla, Mustafa Asaad Hussein, Ahmed Read Al-Tameemi, Zaid H. Mahmoud, Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa, Farshid Kianfar, and Sajjad Habibzadehwere were added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is a violation of the journal's policies. The publisher reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes.The Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon and has decided to retract the article
Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Water, Sediments and Fish from Lake Tashk, Iran
No full textAbstractIn this study, the levels of organochlorine (OC) pesticide residues in Lake Tashk have been investigated using water, sediment and fish (carp) samples as a case study to find out the extent of pesticide contamination and accumulation in the lake. Six OC pesticides namely DDT, DDE, lindane, endosulfan, heptachlor and chlordane were analyzed in four sites at four seasons. Water samples were processed using a liquid–liquid extraction technique and gas chromatograph equipped with electron capture detector (GC-ECD). Soxhlet extraction was used for fish and sediment samples followed by clean up and gas chromatograph. DDE was the predominant residue in all the samples analyzed, at the mean concentrations of 0.075ppb, 8.750ppb and 4.446ppb in water, sediment and fish samples, respectively. The lowest levels of OC pesticides were related to heptachlor and chlordane which none of them were found in water samples. Gonban and Midstream sites had the highest and the lowest concentrations of OC pesticides, respectively
A Critical Review on the Book Principles of Parthian History
No full textOur awareness of Parthian Iran has been growing in recent decades. The concise but prolific book Principles of Parthian History by German archaeologist Klaus Schipmann was published in 1980. The main issue of this article is the content and form critique of the book and the views of its author. The book is reviewed based on analytical and critical methods. The chapter on political history, especially its political and legal analysis in the report on relations between Rome and Iran, is one of the brilliant chapters and a turning point of the book. The annoying tightness of the social, artistic, and economic sectors and the author's refusal to provide additional information and explanations are among the book's weaknesses. Other shortcomings of the book include the lack of images, the lack of related maps, and the author's refusal to provide excerpts from the text of coins, inscriptions, and written sources. The book has a high-quality typeface, page layout, and binding. In the field of translation, in addition to the difficult and sometimes formal prose of the translator and some errors in the names of the persons, some vague equations as well as the incorrect chronology of events, the book receives an acceptable score
Interobserver variability by pathologists in the distinction between cellular fibroadenomas and phyllodes tumors
No full textFibroepithelial lesions with cellular stroma are frequently termed cellular fibroadenomas although criteria for distinguishing them from a phyllodes tumor are vague and subjective. However, the clinical implications and surgical management for these 2 lesions may be different. We randomly selected 21 cases of fibroepithelial lesions sent in consultation to the senior author that were challenging to classify as cellular fibroadenoma or phyllodes tumor. One to 2 representative slides of each case along with patient age were sent to 10 pathologists who specialize in breast pathology. The World Health Organization criteria for phyllodes tumors and a diagnosis form were included with the study set. For the purposes of data reporting, fibroadenoma and cellular fibroadenoma are considered together. In only 2 cases was there uniform agreement as to whether the tumor represented a fibroadenoma or phyllodes tumor. Of the remaining 19 cases, if the diagnoses of fibroadenoma and benign phyllodes tumor were combined and separated from borderline and malignant phyllodes tumors, there was 100% agreement in 53% of cases and 90% agreement in 79% of cases. This study highlights the difficulty that exists in distinguishing some cellular fibroadenomas from phyllodes tumors even for pathologists who specialize in breast pathology. However, there appears to be considerable agreement when cellular fibroadenomas and benign phyllodes tumors are distinguished from borderline and malignant phyllodes tumors. Further studies are needed to determine if there is a clinically significant difference between cellular fibroadenomas and benign phyllodes tumors and how to better distinguish them from borderline and malignant phyllodes tumors.Thomas J. Lawton, Geza Acs, Pedram Argani, Gelareh Farshid, Michael Gilcrease, Neal Goldstein, Frederick Koerner, J. Jordi Rowe, Melinda Sanders, Sejal S. Shah, Carol Reynold
Signal prediction on Catalonia cell coverage
No full textThe GenCat Mobile Coverage app is designed to collect information on the mobile telephone network coverage in Catalonia. Through an Android app, citizens can contribute to this initiative by recording data. The dataset com-piled by the platform offers a comprehensive view of the data collected be-tween 2015 and 2017, encompassing 20 features with 11,744,914 observa-tions. This research aims to predict signal strengths of the mobile network in Catalonia using various factors, including location, network supplier, signal strength and other relevant features.First author draf
Idiopathic fascicular ventricular tachycardia and verapamil: how to administer a continuous perfusion
No full textIdiopathic fascicular ventricular tachycardia is a rare form of ventricular tachycardia that is treated with verapamil, according to recent European guidelines. However, the authors and the majority of manufacturers only mention bolus intravenous administration of verapamil in these guidelines and in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC), which leaves clinicians uncertain when continuous perfusion is required. This brief comment addresses this issue and suggests a protocol for the preparation and administration of continuous intravenous verapamil perfusion for adult patients.
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