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PIDR(s): IDR(s) as a Projection Method
No full textThe Induced Dimension Reduction(s) method (or the IDR(s) method) is an example of an iterative method used for solving systems of linear equations. Projection methods are a special type of iterative method. They find an approximate solution in a subspace (the right subspace) by requiring that the residual is orthogonal to another subspace (the left subspace). In this thesis we investigate how we can implement IDR(s) as a projection method. We call this method IDR(s), which stands for Projected IDR(s).We present an implementation of PIDR(s) for solving systems of linear equations and for solving eigenvalue problems. These implementations are not meant to be optimal, but they are used to show that IDR(s) can indeed be seen as a projection method.Track: educationScience Education and CommunicationApplied Science
Actie podium van de stad - De plek voor overlapping van publieke en private actie; onderzoeksrapport. Het grote huis en de kleine stad - de stad van ankers in plaats van wortels; essay, onderdeel van onderzoeksrapport.
No full textHet onderzoeksrapport is in samenwerking van bovengenoemde auteurs tot stand gekomen. Het essay is enkel geschreven door M.B. Dekker.At home in the city - BerlinDwellingArchitectur
Effect of perinatal consumption of low-calorie sweetener on maternal health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textBackground and aims: Evidence regarding perinatal low-calorie (or artificial) sweetener (LCS) consumption and its effect on maternal health outcomes is limited and inconclusive. The primary outcomes of our systematic review and meta-analysis were the effect of preconception and pregnancy LCS exposure on reproductive and pregnancy outcomes. Secondary outcomes included long-term maternal health. Methods: A systematic search of electronic databases, including PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO, ProQuest Health and Medical, ClinicalTrials.gov and Google Scholar, was conducted up to 20 November 2023. Primary studies, including clinical trials, cohort studies, caseecontrol studies, which reported any LCS consumption during perinatal period and pregnancy and maternal health outcomes were eligible. A random effects model with restricted maximum likelihood estimation was used for the meta-analysis. We appraised the quality of the included studies using the National Institute of Health study quality appraisal tool and the overall quality of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation tool. Results: A total of 19 eligible studies with 203,706 participants were included. LCS consumption during pregnancy was associated with 11% increased risk of preterm birth (RR ¼ 1.11, 95% CI: 1.07e1.16, I 2 ¼ 0.01%) and 42% increased risk of gestational diabetes (RR ¼ 1.42, 95% CI: 0.98e2.04, I2 ¼ 67.60%) compared with no consumption, however, the effect size for gestational diabetes was not precise as the 95% CI indicated that the effect estimate could range from 2% lower risk to 204% (or 2.04 times) higher risk. We found no association between LCS consumption during pregnancy and gestational weight gain (standardized mean difference (SMD) ¼ 0.04; 95% CI: 0.17 - 0.24, I2 ¼ 41.31%) or gestational age at birth (SMD ¼ 0.00; 95% CI: 0.13 e 0.14, I2 ¼ 80.13%). The effect of LCS consumption on reproductive treatment outcomes were inconsistent. Conclusions: Based on the evidence available, LCS consumption in pregnancy was associated with increased risk of preterm birth and gestational diabetes. Robust research, such as well-designed randomized trials and large prospective cohort studies, is required to confirm the causal effect of LCS consumption during perinatal period on adverse maternal health outcomes.Bereket Gebremichael, Zohra S. Lassi, Mumtaz Begum, Shao Jia Zho
Author Correction:A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)
No full textCorrection to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01221-6, published online 25 November 2021The original version of this Article contained errors in the author list where Marjolein D. Bosch was omitted from the author list, and Mikołaj Urbanowski was incorrectly listed as an author of the original Article, and has subsequently been removed.The Author contributions section now reads:“S.T. W.N. and A.N. conceived the project; S.T., W.N., A.P., M.B., S.C., M.D., H.F., A.M., M.D. B., D.P., M.P.R., C.M.R., V.S-M., G.M.S., P.S., M.S., K.S., A.V., F.W., H.W., A.W., M.Z., S.B., A.N., J-J. H., performed research; S.T., A.P., W.N., M.B., M.D.B., S.C., M.D., H.F., A.M., D.P., M.P.R., C.M.R., V.S-M., G.M.S., P.S., M.S., K.S., A.V., F.W., H.W., A.W., M.Z., S.B., A.N., J-J. H. analysed all archaeological data; S.T. and A.P. wrote the paper with the collaboration of all the co-authors.”The original Article and its accompanying Supplementary Information file have been corrected
Internet and e-health Care: an Interdigital Field of Study
No full textThe foreword focuses on a historical definition of the e-health field. The author contributed to shaping the e-health field in the international community being one of the pioneers' scholars since the 1990s. The chapter discusses current and challenging future scenarios based on the international evolution that brings about new challenges
LA PRIMA RICEZIONE DELLA FENOMENOLOGIA NEGLI STATI UNITI: UN'ANALISI STORICO-CRITICA
No full textMy research analyzes the characteristics of the first reception of husserlian phenomenology in the United States. The base of this work is a detailed historiographical reconstruction of this phase representing the point of departure of all those studies on phenomenological tradition that have been developed in the American academic world. Several institutions belong to the context in which this reception took place: the New School for Social Research as the original center for the teaching of phenomenology and a number of societies arisen since the sixties to diffuse Husserl’s philosophy in the United States (First Part: Chapter 2 and Chapter 3).
This first reception, promoted since the late thirties by Kaufmann, Schutz, Gurwitsch, Cairns and Farber, must be distinguished from an earlier phase, presenting only the general approach to Husserl’s thought of some American scholars (Second Part: Chapter 1). The origin of the studies of each author undoubtedly typifies their promotion of husserlian phenomenology: Gurwitsch, Schutz and Kaufmann belong to the European tradition, (First Part: Chapter 1) while the Americans Farber and Cairns mainly owe the growing interest in Husserl’s thought to their studies in Freiburg (Second Part: Chapter 2). Nevertheless, during this phase of reception of phenomenology, the original adherence to his lesson – useful to distinguish them from others Husserl’s students emigrated in United States – gradually disappears from their critiques. The aim of my research is to single out the salient features that characterize the different interpretations of Husserl’s thought elaborated by each author, whereas their originality can be indicated as decisive for following developments (Third Part). Gurwitsch builds an interesting critique of Husserl’s whole-part theory, focuses his analysis on the noema, and elaborates a non-egological conception of consciousness. Schutz’s critique of transcendental phenomenology mainly refers to his concept of mundane intersubjectivity. For what concerns Cairns, his few writings published until now don’t allow to deepen the exam on his interpretation. After the arrival in the United States, Kaufmann concentrates his discussion on the relationship between husserlian phenomenology and the logic. Farber proposes a critique which is far from being an original interpretation, although his analysis remains bound to the interest in phenomenology until the end.
With this work I want to explain how the interest about husserlian phenomenology began in the United States, who were its promoters, and also what kind of interpretations they developed in the American academic world. It must be considered that they hadn’t a decisive influence on further developments of phenomenological studies, but in any case helped bringing the attention on Husserl’s thought throughout their teaching
Modelling the Social Environment: Towards Socially Adaptive Electronic Partners
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
What should I do?: Deriving norms from actions,values and context
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
Development of a simulation-based tool for designing AGV-systems for hospital logistics
No full textOne of the expenses of a hospital that does not provide added value are its logistics costs. Given the development in AGV systems the last couple of years, implementing this type of system to pick up a part of the logistics demand can result in savings. At Deerns Consulting Engineers logistics studies are performed for customers in this hospital industry. To be able to design and assess such an AGV system, the need arose to develop a tool making this possible. The goal of this research is to develop a tool based on discrete event simulation that aids in the design and assessment of designs. In this design different control strategies must be available to the user. To ensure a good methodology for assessing such systems, key performance indicators are required. Since this type of system is specially for hospitals some elements need to be introduced that are different from those present in existing industrial applications of AGVs. In this study battery management and elevators are the main added elements to be studied...Mechanical, Maritime and Materials EngineeringMarine and Transport TechnologyTransport Engineering and Logistics2012.TEL.768
Effect of moving dairy cows at different stages of labor on behavior during parturition
No full textCows are often moved from a group to an individual maternity pen just before calving. However, it is unclear whether moving cows during labor may alter their behavior or affect the progress of labor. The aim of this study was to determine if moving cows to a maternity pen at different stages of labor would influence calving behavior or the length of the second stage of labor. Seventy-nine multiparous Holstein dairy cows were moved from 1 of 2 group pens to 1 of 10 maternity pens adjacent to each group pen either 3 d before expected calving date or when one or more behavioral or physical signs of labor were observed. These signs were noted, and were used to retrospectively categorize cows into 1 of 3 movement categories: (1) moved before labor, (2) moved during early stage I labor (signs of suddenly tense and enlarged udder, raised tail or relaxed pelvic ligaments; could also be immediately prelabor), or (3) moved during late stage I labor (signs of viscous, bloody mucus or abdominal contractions; could also be transitioning to stage II labor). Calves were weighed within 12h of birth and remained with their dam for 3 d. The length of the second stage of labor (the time between first abdominal contractions to the delivery the calf) and the total time of abdominal contractions, lying time, and number of position changes from standing to lying made by the cow in the hour before calving were recorded. A single blood sample was taken from the jugular vein of cows 3 to 27h after calving to determine content of haptoglobin, a marker of systemic inflammation. The effect of movement category on length of the second stage of labor and behavioral variables was tested with ANOVA; category was a fixed effect and calf body weight (BW) and cow parity were covariates. The relationship between haptoglobin and the length of the second stage of labor was tested in a model with time of sampling relative to calving as a covariate. Cows moved during late stage I had the longest labor, but did not have longer contractions compared with cows in the other categories. These same cows spent half as much time lying in the 1h before calving compared with cows in the other categories, but did not differ in the number of position changes from standing to lying. We did not have the power to test the effect of movement category on haptoglobin, but cows with longer stage II labor had higher haptoglobin postcalving. Moving cows to a maternity pen during the late part of the first stage of labor caused a delay in the second stage of labor, and this was likely driven by altered lying behavior
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