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The Egyptian Dialect for a Democratic Form of Literature: Considerations for a Modern Language Policy
No full textThis paper compares two different ways of approaching literature and language in Egypt. In particular, I concentrate on the use of colloquial Egyptian in literature, and more specifically in prose. I look at the ideas of Ṭaha Ḥusayn on Egyptian dialect and juxtaposes them with those of intellectuals and writers contemporary to Ḥusayn such as Salama Musa and Muṣṭafa Mušarrafatu, the first Egyptian author to write a novel entirely in patois. In a radio interview, Nagib Maḥfuẓ described dialect as a disease affecting his fellow countrymen and preventing them from attaining social as well as technical progress. In Ṭaha Ḥusayn’s opinion, dialect is unworthy of being called a language and unfit to fulfil the aims of intellectual life. On the other hand, intellectuals like Salama Musa maintain that the use of dialect, even as an official language, and a linguistic reform are the most important prerequisites for the progress of Egypt. Extremely interesting, moreover, is Musa’s idea that the use of colloquial language in literature would give birth to a literature for everybody, that is a popular or democratic literature
Legea pentru încurajarea construirii de locuinţe
No full textBucureşti : Institutul de Arte Grafice şi Editură "Curierul Judiciar", 1927. - 132 p. ; 21 cm. - (Biblioteca legilor uzuale adnotate ; No. 8 ). - Mai cuprinde: Expunerea de motive a ministrului muncii [Grigore L. Trancu-Iaşi] ; Avizul Consiliului legislativ ; Raportul senatorului G. Văleanu ; Raportul deputatului Braiesku ; Instrucţiuni date de Ministerul de finanţe cu Circulara No. 131.688 din 23 mai 192
Microfabrication of sensors with magnetic resonating elements for further application in molecular probe chemistry
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Şantierul arheologic Suceava / Le chantier archéologique de Suceava
No full textMatei Mircea D., Foit Grigore, Martinovici Trifu, Nicorescu Mara, Teodor Dan G., Constantinescu Nicolae, Andronic Alexandru. Şantierul arheologic Suceava / Le chantier archéologique de Suceava. In: Materiale şi cercetări arheologice, N°9 1970. pp. 373-399
EFFECT OF THE 420C/G VARIANT OF THE RESISTIN GENE PROMOTER ON METABOLIC SYNDROME, OBESITY, MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND RENAL DYSFUNCTION
No full textOBJECTIVE:
Resistin is an adipokine that has been suggested to be correlated with markers of inflammation and to be predictive of coronary atherosclerosis and type II diabetes in humans. A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (-420C/G) in the promoter of resistin is associated with increased resistin plasma levels and susceptibility to type II diabetes. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of the -420C/G polymorphism with metabolic syndrome, obesity, myocardial infarction and kidney disease.
DESIGN AND RESULTS:
First we studied 1542 subjects from the PLIC study (a population based cohort). GG carriers showed an higher prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome as well as increased plasma triglycerides levels, BMI, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and cardiovascular risk according to Framingham algorithm (P < 0.05 for all). Next we investigated the presence of the -420C/G resistin polymorphism in a case-control study that included 300 subject with myocardial infarction and 300 age and sex matched controls and then we studied the role of the -420C/G SNP in 88 patients with mild to moderate renal dysfunction. No statistically significant differences in allele frequencies between the PLIC study, the myocardial infarction (MI) cases and the subjects with renal dysfunction were observed. Pro-inflammatory gene expression profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells failed to detect any difference between wild type subjects and carriers of the rare allele.
CONCLUSION:
Our data suggest that the presence of the -420C/G SNP of the resistin gene is associated with increased obesity and metabolic syndrome, although it is not different in subjects at high cardiovascular risk such as patients with myocardial infarction or patients with renal dysfunction compared with controls
Analysis of the electrical and thermal behaviour of Li-ion batteries using 0D and 3D-CFD approaches with validation on experimental data
No full textDue to their characteristics, lithium-ion cells are the reference in the construction of a
battery pack for electric vehicles (EVs). Despite this, their use is strongly affected by the
operating temperature because the materials they are made of are thermally stable only in a
relatively limited range around ambient temperature. Cell modelling and simulation become
therefore essential in the design of the cell, of the battery pack and of its auxiliary systems to
optimize performance while maintaining sufficient safety margins.
In the present study, two zero-dimensional equivalent circuit models of a commercial Li-ion cell
are developed and tuned in order to predict the electrical and thermal behaviour of the cell. The
models are validated and compared with experimental data found in the scientific literature
referring to both dynamic and static tests. This comparison shows the importance of tuning the
model parameters, which are decisive for the accuracy of the simulation.
Using a commercial tool dedicated to battery modelling, a three-dimensional model is then
developed to investigate the electrical and thermal behaviour of the cell from a spatial point of
view. The results obtained are aligned with those found in the scientific literature.
With the present work, it has been possible to simulate and analyse the global behaviour of the
cell (0D model) as well as its detailed behaviour (3D model) using relatively modest
computational resources, thus constituting a solid base for more complex modelling such as that
of a battery pack and its cooling system
Bibliographie Hilarion G. Petzold 1958 – 2009 mit Anhang als Einführung
No full textDieses Archiv enthält die Gesamtbibliographie der Werke des Autors nebst einiger Texte „Über H. G. Petzold“ im Schlussteil der Bibliographie sowie einen Anhang mit einer Einführung in die Architektur des Werkes in seinem wissenslogischen Aufbau als Ausarbeitung seines „Tree of Science Modells“ (2007).This archive contains the complete bibliography of the author and some texts about H. G. Petzold, moreover an epilogue with an introduction to the architecture of the works in its epistemological structure and composition and as an elaborations of Petzold’s „Tree of Science Modell (2007).https://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/01-2009-petzold-h-g-gesamtbibliographie-h-g-petzold-1958-2009-updating-november2009/peerReviewedpublishedVersio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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