421 research outputs found
The influence of temperament on weight gain in early infancy
No full textDifficult temperament has been associated with fast weight gain and slow weight gain, although the latter mostly in referred subjects studies in late infancy. The current study set out to investigate early weight gain in relation to all domains of temperament in a community-screened sample. Weight gain from birth to 8 weeks was assessed in 75 infants recruited from local health care clinics who had demonstrated slow, average, or fast weight gain. Mothers completed a temperament questionnaire and a 2-day diary recording infant behaviors (sleeping, feeding, fussing, and crying). Weight gain from birth to 8 weeks was significantly related to infant temperament. The temperament dimension fear (acceptance or rejection of new objects or persons) was related to slow weight gain and the temperament dimension distress to limitations (negative emotionality and the infant's reaction to frustrating situations) was related to fast weight gain. The regression model explained 59% of the variance, with the temperament dimensions explaining 11%. Diary data showed that infants who scored high on fear tended to cry a lot, while infants with high scores on distress to limitations tended to sleep less and cry and fuss more. The results emphasize that different temperament domains influence slow and fast weight gain. In addition, the data suggest that infant temperament plays a part in physical development in early infancy
Semantic Crash Bucketing: ASE 2018 Artifact
No full text<p>This is the ASE 2018 VM artifact archived for the paper cited below. Find more information at <a href="https://github.com/squaresLab/SemanticCrashBucketing">https://github.com/squaresLab/SemanticCrashBucketing</a>.</p>
<pre><code>@inproceedings{vanTonderSCB2018,
author = {{van~Tonder}, Rijnard and Kotheimer, John and {Le~Goues}, Claire},
title = {Semantic Crash Bucketing},
booktitle = {International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
series = {ASE '18},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1145/3238147.3238200}
}</code></pre>
[[alternative]]Interfacing ASE and HPLC for the determination of PAH in soil
No full text[[abstract]]Abstract
As a fast, convenient, and low solvent consuming extraction method, accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) technique has been studied for the analyses of organic compounds followed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). However, many classes of widely-used organic compounds today are semi- or nonvolatiles, such as pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). They are easily separated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Thus, it would be advantageous to interface ASE with an HPLC system to provide easy sample preparation as well as possess high resolving power for semi- and non-volatiles simultaneously.
A method was developed to couple an accelerated solvent extraction system (ASE) with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the analysis of PAH in soil samples. The resolution of HPLC is well maintained while the advantages of ASE, fast extraction, less solvent consumption and ease of operation, are well expressed. The precision and accuracy of this method are verified by a series of analyses of reference material (QCS345sample from ERA). And the real sample collected at different sites in Taiwan. The data shows that it is feasible to analyze real samples using this method.
Lucia Berciu ‒ a teacher that opened new roads
No full textFrom 1950 up to 1991, when the faculty of
International Relations was established, the Chair for
Foreign Languages was part of the Faculty of
Commerce (at present Faculty of Business and Turism.
„Between 1968 and 1976 functioned the Chair for
German Languages” (Mariana Nicolae) and its Chef
was Professor Lucia Berciu. Lucia Berciu was
„Asistant PhD. (1944-1953), Lecturer PhD. (1953-
1969), Seniour Lecturer PhD. (1969-1977), Professor
PhD. (1977-1979)” (Lora Constantinescu), and
confirm as a promotor of the study of the German
languages at the Commercial Academy and later at
the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE).
In the university year 1951-1952 she was the first
employee at the Chair for German Languages (also
only one employee had the Chair for English
Languages), and in the same time the Chair for
Russian Languages had 32 professors and the Chair
for French Languages had four professors. After 1989,
Lucia Berciu was consultant professor and in the next decade she was translator and
author of university manuals. Between 1968 (Manual de limba germană pentru anii II-III/
Manual for german Languages for the II.-III. year, Faculty of Commerce, Section Foreign
Commerce, Lito ASE) and 1999 (Germana pentru studenți/ German for Students, Editor
Silvy) she was author or co-author for 11 manuals and university courses. In the picture
below Professor Lucia Berciu is looking back nostalgically to past success and efforts of
the chosen carreer. (Nicolae Lupu
E-Business Security Architectures
No full textBy default the Internet is an open high risk environment and also the main place where the e-business is growing. As result of this fact, the paper aims to highlight the security aspects that relate to distributed applications [3], with reference to the concept of e-business. In this direction will analyze the quality characteristics, considered to be important by the author. Based on these and on existing e-business architectures will be presented a particularly diagram which will reflect a new approach to the concept of future e-business. The development of the new architecture will have its stands based on technologies that are used to build the applications of tomorrow.e-business, distributed applications, security, architecture, technology
[[alternative]]Application of Ase and Isotope Dilution GC-MS for the Determination of 35 PAHs in Soil Samples
No full text[[abstract]]A new technique for sample preparation, accelerated solvent extraction (ASE), that combines elevated temperature and pressure with liquid solvent is utilized in this study to pretreat soil samples for PAH analysis, The effects of various operational parameters (i.e. temperature, pressure, solvent type, extraction time) on the performance of ASE were investigated.The research aims at the development of a new sample pretreatment .technique for 35 polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil samples with GC-FID and isotope dilution GC-MS.
The analytes are extracted by acetonitrile at 130℃ and 1500 psi within 5 minutes of static extraction.The time for the entire extraction process is 20 minutes.Results demonstrated that the ASE extraction is selective for PAHs.Thus, a further clean-up procedure after ASE is not necessary.The procedure of the extraction is simple and fast.ASE in recovery compared with Soxhlet extraction is higher.The results from CRM 103-100 and QCS345 analyses further vrified the high precision and accuracy of the developed analytical scheme.The result from real samples demonstrated that the concentration of PAHs in soil is low.
An Outstanding Career: Professor Emeritus Iacob Cătoiu
No full textThrough the duration of his commissions of Deputy Dean (1981-1989) and, respectively, Dean (1992-2003), and also by the manner of approaching the managerial problems and his scientific extension, Professor Iacob Cătoiu left and indelible trace on the evolution of the former Department of Commerce in the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE) – now the Department of Business and Tourism. He is author or co-author of an important number of books (57) and articles (105) and book presentations. Thus, after he made the personal acquaintance with Philip Kotler, the guru of international marketing, in 1997, Professor Iacob Cătoiu wrote the Forward to the Romanian version of Philip Kotler's volume Managementul marketingului (Marketing Management) a fundamental book in its field. (Nicolae Lupu
Re: long-term psychosocial outcomes among bereaved siblings of children with cancer
No full textComment inAuthors' response to van der Geest et al. [J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015]Comment onLong-term psychosocial outcomes among bereaved siblings of children with cancer. [J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015]<br/
Victor Tufescu or the Perfect Elegance of Man and Spirit
No full textIn the 1950s and 1960s, the Department of Economic
Geography at the Bucharest University of Economic
Studies (BUES, in Romanian known as “ASE”) was part of
the Faculty of Commerce (now the Faculty of Business and
Tourism). Also, after 2011, the geography collective
became part of the newly established Department of
Tourism and Geography. Given the esteem in which
geography was regarded in ASE, for a long time, until
2013, it was an admission discipline, either compulsory or
optional. For example, in 1963, there were even two exams
– written and oral – for the Geography of the People's
Republic of Romania. Between 1941 and 1968, the most
prominent personality of geography taught at ASE was
Professor Victor Tufescu. Between 1951 and 1956 he was
abusively removed from university teaching and at one
point arrested. Before his university career, he taught
geography at the secondary school level. Since 1958, he
has been the author of Geography of the RPR / RSR /
Romania textbooks for the final grades of general school
and high school, respectively, most often in collaboration with Claudiu Giurcăneanu and
Gheorghe Ghica. For at least 40 years, students have learnt the geography of the country
from successive editions of these books. The observation is that the attribution of the
textbooks would have been done directly, possibly as moral reparation for the three
authors, colleagues at the former Commercial Academy, who had also previously suffered
obvious professional restrictions. Professor Victor Tufescu has been awarded the
Romanian Academy Prizes twice, under different political regimes: for A region of living
circulation: Poarta Târgului-Frumos (published in 1940), the “George Vâlsan” Prize, and
for Natural relief modelling and accelerated erosion (published in 1966), the “Gheorghe
Munteanu-Murgoci” Prize
The Development of Citizen Oriented Informatics
No full textWe define the concept of citizen-oriented computer application. Quality characteristics are set for computer applications developed in the conditions of citizen-oriented computing and outline the development cycle for these applications. It defines the conditions of existence for citizen-oriented applications. Average and long-term strategies are elaborated.Distributed Applications, Metrics, Citizen-Orientation, Strategies
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