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Tribadi, sodomiti, invertite e invertiti, pederasti, femminelle, ermafroditi... Per una storia dell’omosessualità, della bisessualità e delle trasgressioni di genere in Italia
No full textLa raccolta di saggi fotografa il fermento degli studi storici incentrati sull'omosessualità, la bisessualità e le identità di genere non allineate in Italia
State-Space Inference and Learning with Gaussian Processes
No full text18.10.13 KB. Ok to add author version to spiral, authors hold copyright.State-space inference and learning with Gaussian processes (GPs) is an unsolved problem. We propose a new, general methodology for inference and learning in nonlinear state-space models that are described probabilistically by non-parametric GP models. We apply the expectation maximization algorithm to iterate between inference in the latent state-space and learning the parameters of the underlying GP dynamics model. Copyright 2010 by the authors
Systematic Reconstruction of Molecular Cascades Regulating GP Development Using Single-Cell RNA-Seq
No full textSummaryThe growth plate (GP) comprising sequentially differentiated cell layers is a critical structure for bone elongation and regeneration. Although several key regulators in GP development have been identified using genetic perturbation, systematic understanding is still limited. Here, we used single-cell RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) to determine the gene expression profiles of 217 single cells from GPs and developed a bioinformatics pipeline named Sinova to de novo reconstruct physiological GP development in both temporal and spatial high resolution. Our unsupervised model not only confirmed prior knowledge, but also enabled the systematic discovery of genes, potential signal pathways, and surface markers CD9/CD200 to precisely depict development. Sinova further identified the effective combination of transcriptional factors (TFs) that regulates GP maturation, and the result was validated using an in vitro EGFP-Col10a screening system. Our case systematically reconstructed molecular cascades in GP development through single-cell profiling, and the bioinformatics pipeline is applicable to other developmental processes.Video Abstrac
Performances of authorial presence and absence : the author dies hard
No full textThis book takes Roland Barthes’s famous proclamation of ‘The Death of the Author’ as a starting point to investigate concepts of authorial presence and absence on various levels of text and performance. By offering a new understanding of ‘the author’ as neither a source of unquestioned authority nor an obsolete construct, but rather as a performative figure, the book illuminates wide-ranging aesthetic and political aspects of ‘authorial death’ by asking: how is the author constructed through cultural and political imaginaries and erasures, intertextual and intertheatrical references, re-performances and self-referentiality? And what are the politics and ethics of these constructions
Volume effect and exertional dyspnoea after bronchodilator in patients with COPD with and without expiratory flow limitation at rest.
No full textBackground: A study was undertaken to investigate whether bronchodilators are associated with less breathlessness at rest and during light exercise in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with resting tidal expiratory flow limitation (EFL; flow limited (FL)) compared with those without EFL (non-flow limited (NFL). Methods: Twenty subjects (13 men) of mean (SD) age 65 (8) years (range 43–77) suffering from COPD with forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) 47 (18)% predicted were studied before and after inhalation of salbutamol (400 μg). Routine pulmonary function tests were performed in the seated position at rest. EFL was assessed by the negative expiratory pressure (NEP) method and changes in end expiratory lung volume (EELV) were inferred from variations in inspiratory capacity (IC). Dyspnoea was measured using the Borg scale at rest and at the end of a 6 minute steady state exercise test at 33% of the maximal predicted workload. Results: EFL occurred in 11 patients. Following salbutamol IC did not change in NFL patients but increased by 24% (95% CI 15 to 33) in FL patients (p<0.001). Maximal inspiratory pressure (PImax) improved at EELV from 45 (95% CI 26 to 63) to 55 (95% CI 31 to 79) cm H2O (p<0.05) in FL patients after salbutamol but remained unchanged in NFL patients. The workload performed during exercise amounted to 34 (95% CI 27 to 41) and 31 (95% CI 21 to 40) watts (NS) for patients without and with EFL, respectively. After salbutamol, dyspnoea did not change either at rest or during exercise in the NFL patients, but decreased from 0.3 (95% CI –0.1 to 0.8) to 0.1 (95% CI –0.1 to 0.4) at rest (NS) and from 3.7 (95% CI 1.7 to 5.7) to 2.6 (95% CI 1.1 to 4.0) at the end of exercise (p<0.01) in FL patients. Conclusions: Patients with COPD with EFL may experience less breathlessness after a bronchodilator, at least during light exercise, than those without EFL. This beneficial effect, which is closely related to an increase in IC at rest, occurs even in the absence of a significant improvement in FEV1 and is associated with a greater PImax
Vliv Moto GP na cestovní ruch v Brně
No full textThe main aim of the bachelor thesis is find out how Moto GP influence tourism in Brno, what is the availability of accommodation facilities, what is the increase in prices during this period. In the theoretical part, analyse the tourism as a whole, destination of tourism, Moto GP. Practical part examines using a questionnaire how residents perceive the action Moto GP. There is unfortunately not sufficient statistical data to determine the icrease in prices as well as occupancy of acommodation capacities in the period when Moto GP race takes place in Brno. That is the reason why the author of this thesis has decided to conduct a research by using a sample of 10 % of hotels in Brno to be able to answer these questions
Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) for the ex vivo purging of the bone marrow in patients with multiple myeloma.
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