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Predictive modeling of a buoyancy-operated cooling tower under saturated conditions - II: Optimal best-estimate results with reduced predicted uncertainties
No full textThis paper provides the results of the adjoint sensitivity model developed in the accompanying Part I for a natural draft counter-flow cooling tower. The selected responses are (1) outlet air temperature, (2) outlet water temperature, (3) outlet water mass flow rate, (4) air outlet relative humidity, and (5) air mass flow rate. Explicit expressions for the best-estimate nominal values of the model parameters and responses are also provided, together with the best-estimate reduced standard deviations of the predicted model parameters and responses. The results stemming from this work show that the PM_CMPS procedure reduces the predicted standard deviations of all responses and model parameters
The Features of the Production, Financial-Accounting and Human Resources Functions in the SMEs
No full textManagers of any organization exercising the functions of management, organization, coordination, training and control in different areas, which generally are called functions of the organization. Management of SMEs differ from the management in the large companies both in the way of exercising the functions of management, as well as by the features of specific activities of each functions of the organization. Therefore, the activities of production, financial-accounting and human resources functions remove highlighting a specific part of management of SMEs.production function; financial-accounting function; human resources function; SMEs.
Design and evaluation of neuroregenerative properties of 4D hydrogel scaffolds
No full textUnderstanding and controlling the interactions that occur between cells and engineered materials (i.e. attachment-detachment, or that influence cell development, function or fate) are central challenges towards progress in the development of biomedical devices and regenerative medicine therapies. A particularly complex system to translate in vitro is that of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), an interesting research target due to its relevance in peripheral nerve repair, and to its connection to the non-regenerative central nervous system (CNS). Severe peripheral nerve injuries have a limited regenerative capacity, with interventions typically not leading to full functional recovery. Ways to improve functional recovery include engineering devices that connect to both injured sides, having both cell growth guiding properties and a gradient contour to control the extent of cell-scaffold interactions. Direct ink writing (DIW) is prominent among fabrication techniques relevant to tissue engineering due to its versatility in terms of the range of materials that can be used and the limitless geometries that are easily programmed. This thesis describes three different in vitro systems, representing increasing functionality towards next generation 4D scaffolds for nerve reconstruction in vitro or nerve regeneration in vivo. The first takes advantage of cell-extracellular matrix interactions and presents an extracellular matrix (ECM)-mimetic surface treatment which, combined with DIW scaffolds of a wide range of geometries and a “blank-slate” hydrogel (pHEMA), leads to a means to exert control on the degree of cell-scaffold interactions, and manipulate cell culture development in 4D. The second explores a different class of scaffolds, compressively buckled mesostructures, which can be used as high-strain cellular frameworks leading to interesting cell behavior depending on scaffold strain and geometric aspect ratio. Further, this approach allows for the incorporation of increased functionality into these mesostructures, as they can function as electronic scaffolds for stimulation and recording of action potentials from DRG cells. Finally, the third approach combines efforts of the first two projects, building upon the ink and surface chemistries explored in the first, and the geometries explored in the second, adding a bioactive inorganic composite to create selectively growth compliant scaffolds that generate a hierarchal reorganization of DRG cells in culture mimicking that of a nerve. With the possibility of extending the complexity of these scaffolds by including controlled degradation, this last approach provides important guidelines to developing effective 4D scaffolds for nerve regeneration.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Adina Badea, accepted the attached license on 2017-12-04 at 16:17.The student, Adina Badea, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-12-04 at 16:38.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-12-08 at 12:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11838 on 2019-08-22 at 16:17:41Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 6
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La traduction n’est pas qu’une traduction. Quelques propos sur la traduction d’une écriture fragmentaire bilingue: <i>Cuvântul nisiparniţă</i> (<i>Le Mot sablier</i>) de Dumitru Tsepeneag
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Translation is not mere translation. A few remarks on the translation of a fragmentary bilingual text: Cuvântul nisiparniță (Le Mot sablier/The Hourglass Word) by Dumitru Tsepeneag
The present paper will focus on the translation of a fragmentary bilingual writing. Interested both in his own monolingualism and in the monolingualism of the other (see Derrida 1996, and here mainly the monolingualism of the French reader who should constitute a kind of pseudo-source-audience3), Dumitru Tsepeneag turns his own bilingualism into a topic in his book Cuvîntul nisiparniță (published first in translation as Le Mot sablier in 1984). “This (im)possible appropriation becomes the generating reason of the creation and in the creation, then in the self-translation”; a “writing experience” where the writer cultivates his bilingualism and his biculturalism, and sheds light on the process of translation from a perspective that is at least double: that of the translated42 and self-translated writer, but also that of the translator-writer” (Lungu-Badea 2008, 20). What translation strategy would be appropriate for a book that begins in Romanian and ends in French? We could claim that its destiny is to show how one language replaces another and, consequently, renders translation useless for bilingual users. If this is but an argument for the counter-translation, the French translation, published by the P.O.L. publishing house, does not challenge it. It could respect neither “the psychological intention of the author” (Ladmiral 2006, 140), nor the “semantic intention of the text” (Ladmiral and Lipiansky 1995, 53).</jats:p
PENINGKATAN KESADARAN BEROLAHRAGA MASYARAKAT DUSUN BADEAN DESA JATIMULYO MELALUI PELAKSANAAN SENAM, JALAN SEHAT DAN PERTANDINGAN TONIS
No full textKesadaran masyarakat Dusun Badean, Desa Jatimulyo, untuk melakukan pola hidup sehat dalam hal olahraga masih rendah. Padahal olahraga merupakan salah satu aktivitas yang diperlukan untuk menjaga kesehatan dan kebugaran tubuh. Mahasiswa KKN UAD melaksanakan program yang salah satunya difokuskan pada kesehatan dengan tujuan meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat terhadap pola hidup sehat, khususnya olahraga. Metode pelaksanaan kegiatan pengabdian ini yaitu dengan praktek langsung melaksanakan senam, jalan sehat dan pertandingan tonis. Dampak dari kegiatan ini adalah 1) meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat terhadap pola hidup sehat, terutama dalam hal berolahraga, 2) meningkatkan partisipasi pemuda desa dalam kampanye pola hidup sehat, khususnya dalam hal berolahraga, 3) meningkatkan interaksi positif antar warga masyarakat Dusun Badea
Analysis of the Rugby Game Result through the Rate of Territorial Dominance and Ball Possession
No full textThis research aims to analyse the determination of rugby game results, as a consequence of territorial dominance or ball possession, by the teams participating in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The objectives of our scientific approach were to record the variables linked to possession and territorial dominance in the rugby games and to process and interpret the results. In this applicative research, 48 matches were analysed, tracking total territorial dominance and sequential territorial dominance in the last 10 minutes of the game, as well as total possession and sequential possession in the last 10 minutes of the game. The research methods used are: scientific documentation, observation, measurement, statistical and mathematical method, graphical method. The results obtained from data processing and interpretation are contradictory. Thus, we have results displayed accordingly, when the team with total and sequential territorial dominance and superior total and sequential possession wins the game, but also when the team with total and sequential territorial dominance and superior total and sequential possession loses the game. We have results when the team with total territorial dominance and superior total possession wins the game, which is normal, but also results when the team with territorial dominance only in the last 10 minutes and superior possession only in the last 10 minutes wins the game. We might consider that these results are not a first, that they represent the exception, but what the research emphasises are the proportions between the results considered normal and those contradictory, which may generate questions and answers about the competition strategy.</jats:p
Author Correction: WDR1 is a novel EYA3 substrate and its dephosphorylation induces modifications of the cellular actin cytoskeleton
No full textAn amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
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