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Visual abstract - Supplemental material for Can Patients Travel by Air Less Than 1 Week After Lung Nodulectomy?
No full textVisual abstract, Supplemental material for Can Patients Travel by Air Less Than 1 Week After Lung Nodulectomy? by Alainna Simpson, Tiffany Wyatt,, Alex Foley, Tara Karamlou, and Peter Baik in Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery</p
Designing for TARA: The radar control unit
No full textThis thesis describes the work done on a control system for the Transportable Atmospheric RAdar (TARA), which is located at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmosperic Research (CESAR). It describes the way in which this radar control unit was implemented within the TARA, by making use of a high-level programming language. The control unit consists of a PXI-system of National Instruments, LabVIEW software, a DDS from Analog Devices and provided Matlab code. The project resulted in a working prototype. The TARA itself is a FM-CW radar with the possibility of sending and receiving in multiple polarizations and orientations for weather measurements. The system was tested and most functions worked properly. During the test, the measurements with the new system generated the same data as the current system. This proved that the system is working correctly, which is of great importance for the ATMOS group, because they are planning to transport the TARA to a measurement campaign in France in 2012 using the upgraded system.Remote Sensing of the EnvironmentElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Engagement, Learning, Outreach, and Fun in 60 Seconds: Button Making at the Rutgers University Libraries
No full textButton making is a low-cost, high-impact, pop-up makerspace activity that libraries can use to facilitate outreach, connect patrons with collections, teach about copyright, and promote creativity and fun, all in just 60 seconds.
In the fall of 2016, the Rutgers University Libraries- New Brunswick Learning and Engagement team spent $518 to purchase a button maker and supplies to make 1,000 buttons. Since then, the libraries have collaborated on button projects with many departments on campus including the Rutgers Art History Student Association, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the School of Arts & Sciences Honors program. These partnerships have helped the libraries build strong ties with the Rutgers New Brunswick communities and attracted a devoted group of button makers who regularly come to library events.
Making a button provides quick moment of engagement between a patron and a library staff member, but it is from these kinds of meaningful brief encounters that libraries can learn about their patrons’ lives and needs. These encounters can also be a source for the powerful stories, images, and statistics that help libraries demonstrate their impact and value to their communities.thanks for your help, please let me know any questions. I think we can put this version in SOAR? Best, MC
Through the Looking Glass : The Influence of 18th Century Child Theorists on 19th Century Children's Literature.
No full textIn this thesis, I argue that we can see the influence of 18th century child theorists in 19th century children's literature. Through the Looking Glass examines three theorists and three children's novels. The theorists are John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and William Wordsworth. The novels are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, and Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Each author takes a different approach to creating the child which stems from different combinations of the theorists. In doing so, the authors argue for various opinions on society's influence on child development. The child protagonists serve as manifestations of the author's beliefs on the nature of childhood
The new real-time measurement capabilities of the profiling TARA radar
No full textIn the past 10 years, the S-band FM-CW TARA (Transportable Atmospheric RAdar), placed at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research (CESAR), provided in real-time vertical profiles of the Doppler moments. Classical spectral processing was carried out. The polarimetric and multi-beam measurement capabilities of the radar were not exploited in real-time. It was only possible to acquire raw data for case studies. Based on them, new algorithms were developed using spectral polarimetry and the multi-beam capability of TARA. They have been tested during the COPS (2007) and EUCAARI-IMPACT campaigns (2008). To measure in real-time the Doppler moments of three beams, the differential reflectivity, the linear depolarization ratio, the horizontal wind and the vertical mean Doppler velocity, it became necessary to upgrade TARA. This resulted in a new design of the radar control unit and a new processing based on spectral polarimetry. This major upgrade took place in 2011. TARA can now deliver multi-parameters profiles with high spatial and time resolution and raw data in real-time. They are stored with the NetCDF format. Furthermore, detailed quick-looks of all the observables are available in real-time at http://ftp.tudelft.nl/TUDelft/irctr-rse/tara/index.html. For the design of the radar control unit and processing, a flexible solution that can process the data in a high level programming language, was chosen. This was done to be able to easily implement future developments in radar signal processing and algorithms.Geoscience & Remote SensingCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Induction of Labor in Post Dated Pregnancy with Intra-cervical Foley Catheter in Antenatal Ward
No full textIntroduction: Induction of labor is one of the commonest obstetric procedures done these days with the aim of normal vaginal delivery. Among the different methods, transcervical Foley catheter is one of them used with great success and less complications.Objective: This study assesses the effect of intra-cervical Foley catheter in induction of labor in post dated pregnancy.Methodology: This was a descriptive observational study. Patients admitted in antenatal ward of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) with period of gestation (POG) ≥ 41 weeks without any complications were taken. Patients were induced either with Foley catheter or directly with misoprostol. Patients induced with Foley catheter were included in the study. Sixteen French Gauge Foley catheter was inserted intracervically and bulb was inflated with 40- 60 ml of distilled water and observed for 24 hours. If patient didn't go into labor after 24 hours with or without Foley expulsion, patient was reassessed and prostaglandin was used for further induction. Structured Pro forma was used for data collection and collected data was analyzed using SPSS software 11.5.Results: During the study period 353 patients were induced with intracervical Foley catheter. Among them 97(27.48%) went to labor and 256 (72.52%) needed further prostaglandin. Among 97 patients who went to labor 80 had normal vaginal delivery, 16 underwent cesarean section and one patient had vacuum assisted vaginal delivery. There were nine patients who had delivered baby with meconium stained liquor. Four patients had postpartum hemorrhage and two patients had intrapartum fever. None of the patients had hyper stimulation syndrome but one patient had still birth.Conclusion: Intracervical Foley catheter is one of the options to induce the patient in postdatism for priming the cervix to increase the rate of normal vaginal delivery with less complications.BJHS 2018;3(1)5 : 338-341</jats:p
Novel Dialogue 2.3: Because I Couldn't Be a Dancer: Sigrid Nunez and Tara Menon (JP)
No full textThe brilliant New York writer Sigrid Nunez's most recent novel is What Are You Going Through; her previous one, The Friend, (2018) won the National Book Award. She speaks with Tara Menon, of the Harvard English department, and author of a terrific article about Sigrid Nunez in the Sewanee Review. The conversation ranges widely and then plunges into depths. Because life is defined by grief and mourning, so too are my novels, says Nunez. She thinks her upbringing with immigrant parents who felt adrift from their homeland and her own "failure" as a dancer (recounted in her 1995 debut novel, A Feather on the Breath of God ) are the ferment from which her vocation as a writer arose. The question of genre is tossed around: "fictional memoir" perhaps, which gets confused (insultingly, Tara thinks!) with auto-fiction. But Sigrid is fascinated by establishing a reality that is entirely made-up ("not a single friend angry!"), yet also documentary in nature. Perhaps the best tag for her work is "essay novel": that allows one to do what Javier Marias calls "literary thinking." And there's a wonderfully non-Pavlovian answer to the treat question: sometimes you can just have the whiskey
INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE COORDINATION CHEMISTRY OF SUBSITUTED THIOBIURETS AND THEIR ANALOGUES WITH LANTHANIDES AND EARTH-ABUNDANT METALS
No full textRare earth elements (REE) are increasingly becoming important in modern society as those elements are widely added to novel inventions to enhance performance, such as lanthanum (La) being used to increase refraction and keep dispersion low in optical glasses or neodymium (Nd) being commercially used in permanent magnets, but our high demand for REE is not fully satisfied since it remains very difficult to separate REE from each other during hydrometallurgical processes even though the natural abundance of REE is rather high. The “rarity” of REE comes from their unique characteristics and also separation issues because of similar chemical and physical properties. Use of common extractants result in a low differentiation between different elements and low efficiency during separation is unavoidable. To result in effective separation (liquid-liquid, liquid-solid), different extractants has been designed and among those extractants, bifunctional (two donor atoms) extractants are well-developed such as diglycolamide, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), beta-diketone, malonamide and succinamide. This thesis starts the idea of expanding the choice of bifunctional extractants and make exploratory attempts in the extraction or even in the separation of lanthanide elements.
The initial hypothesis for this thesis was that by varying the degree of hardness of the donor atoms on a biuret-based ligand skeleton from relatively polarizable Sulfur atoms to relatively no-polarizable O donor atoms, we could control the preference of ligands to the rare earth elements. Biuret-based ligands were chosen due to their ease of synthesis and success within the Foley group with regards to selective leaching of gold by dithiobiuret-based ligands.
The first part of the thesis explores methodologies by which substituted dithiobiurets can be selectively oxidized into their corresponding monothiobiuret or biuret derivatives with an easy control and good yield under mild conditions. Initial focus was on dithiobiurets synthesised from secondary amines, CS2, and a carbodiimide. General procedures were established resulting in the synthesis of several previously unreported monothiobiuret and biuret derivatives in high yields. Alternative synthetic strategies involving thiocarbomoyl isothiocynate derivatives as the starting materials were also explored however the resulting thiobiurets were found to be relatively unstable compared to those obtained via the CS2 route.
After determining how to efficiently and selectively convert substituted dithiobiuret into their corresponding monothiobiuret or biuret derivatives, the second part of the thesis involves investigation towards the selective leaching of lanthanides. While preliminary results indicated a degree of coordination of select ligands to lanthanides, progress was complicated by insolubility issues and paramagnetism of the resulting compounds. Under the conditions evaluated, biuret-based ligands did not yield conclusive results for the selective extraction of lanthanides.
Due to the inconclusive nature of the investigation involving the selective leaching of lanthanides. The research focus shifted to the exploring the coordination chemistry of dithiobiuret, monothiobiuret and biuret-based ligands with earth-abundant metals. While previous members of the Foley group have shown the dithiobiuret ligands have high selectivity towards gold over base metal, little research have been carried to study the efficiency of the ligands in coordination to base metals or the nature of the resulting complexes that might form. To better understand the chemistry of the dithiobiuret ligands and their oxidized analogues, their coordination chemistry was investigated with earth abundant metal including Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn
Stories
No full textAuthor Note:
(Tara) Setareh Farahani is a graduate of the Bachelor of Social Work program at Ryerson University. The author is thankful for the support of the Ryerson Faculty of Community Services, including the Ryerson School of Social Work, and the CAOS reviewers in the publication of her multiple artistic works. Correspondence concerning these artistic works should be addressed to Tara Farahani at [email protected]. 
Why I Eat
No full textAuthor Note:
(Tara) Setareh Farahani is a graduate of the Bachelor of Social Work program at Ryerson University. The author is thankful for the support of the Ryerson Faculty of Community Services, including the Ryerson School of Social Work, and the CAOS reviewers in the publication of her multiple artistic works. Correspondence concerning these artistic works should be addressed to Tara Farahani at [email protected].
 
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