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Letter From Emmett L. Bennett Jr. to Leslie Crooks, September 23, 1991
No full textBennett forwards Palaima his request for a University of Texas calendar in this memo to Leslie Crooks.Classic
mHealth Geographies: Mobile Technologies and Health in the Global South
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the URL in this record
Creating Exhibitions in Virtual Worlds
No full textDemonstrating the multiple features of the Cerulean Gallery in Second Life, this research artifact, a Second Life video or machinima, showcases several exemplary exhibits created by students, artists, and museums.
Located in The Educational Media Center, a Second Life teaching and social space, the Cerulean Gallery exhibits functioned as case studies that tested its effectiveness as an alternative venue for exhibition and aesthetic discourse in virtual worlds, and to reveal the learning preferences of Net Generation learners.
This research is an examination of three recent major exhibits held at the Center: Places of the Heart, an intergenerational theme show, Wish You Were Here, a collaboration with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Center in the Outer Hebrides, UK, The Anime Show, a high school art club in Philadelphia, and a photography exhibit from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Link to Creating Exhibitions in Virtual Worlds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5W1fuVx74&list=UUdnVDdpBZCMwK7VQB1-VKkQ&index=14&t=0
Is cough important in acute exacerbations of COPD?
No full textChronic obstructive pulmonary disease is predicted to become the 4th leading cause of death worldwide by 2030. The natural history of the disease includes progressive symptoms punctuated by acute exacerbations during which symptoms rapidly deteriorate. The resulting disability places significant burden on health and social care systems. Cough is the second most common symptom reported by COPD patients, is a source of significant distress and is associated with adverse outcomes. We discuss the importance of cough in COPD, its mechanism and the relationship between cough and COPD exacerbations. We review the literature and present original data relating to the investigation of cough during COPD exacerbation, its associations and potential benefits of cough monitoring
Agreement between blood draw techniques for assessing platelet activation by flow cytometry
No full textIt is widely believed that assays of platelet activation are susceptible to preanalytical variables related to blood draw technique. We assessed platelet activation by whole blood flow cytometry and investigated the effects of: (1) drawing blood into vacuum tubes or manually aspirated syringes, and (2) discarding the first drawn blood sample (discard tube). Platelet P-selectin expression and platelet-monocyte complexes were measured by flow cytometry under both basal conditions and following stimulation with 0.1, 1, or 10 µM ADP. Bland-Altman plots demonstrated agreement between results for vacuum tube and syringe-aspirated samples with an a priori-defined clinically relevant agreement limit of 5%. Agreement of results was also observed between discard tube and second draw samples for both vacuum-driven and manually aspirated blood. We conclude that a vacuum tube or a manually-aspirated syringe can be used when assessing platelet activation by flow cytometry and that there is no need for a discard tube
A twist in time
No full textAdelaide Festival of Ideas session, Freemasons Chandelier Room, 10:00 am, Saturday 19th October, 2013. Chaired by Erica Green.One of the main threads of Daniel Crook’s striking moving image artworks at the Samstag Museum is the treatment of time as a spatial dimension, as a tangible and malleable material. Crooks meets with Lawrence Weschler, author of the exhibition’s catalogue essay, to discuss how he has become one of Australia’s most intriguing and successful visual artists.Presented by the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in collaboration with AFF
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is recorded by Radio Adelaide through the support of The Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia Library and Flinders University Library.http://adelaidefestivalofideas.com.a
Jarzynski equality, Crooks fluctuation theorem, and the fluctuation theorems of heat for arbitrary initial states
No full textBy taking full advantage of the dynamic property imposed by the detailed balance condition, we derive a new refined unified fluctuation theorem (FT) for general stochastic thermodynamic systems. This FT involves the joint probability distribution functions of the final phase-space point and a thermodynamic variable. Jarzynski equality, Crooks fluctuation theorem, and the FTs of heat as well as the trajectory entropy production can be regarded as special cases of this refined unified FT, and all of them are generalized to arbitrary initial distributions. We also find that the refined unified FT can easily reproduce the FTs for processes with the feedback control, due to its unconventional structure that separates the thermodynamic variable from the choices of initial distributions. Our result is heuristic for further understanding of the relations and distinctions between all kinds of FTs and might be valuable for studying thermodynamic processes with information exchange.National Science Foundation of China [11375012]; Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts of ChinaSCI(E)[email protected]
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