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PRACTICAL INVESTIGATION OF GELS CONTAINING ARISTOLOCHIA (ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS) EXTRACT
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to embed the active ingredients of the hydroalcoholic extract from the aristolochia (Aristolochia clematitis) into a new semisolid preparation and a viscoelastic methylcellulose based hydrogel in order to broaden the topical applicability of the palette’s range. The methylcellulose based hydroalcoholic gel formulation, preparation and quality evaluation was realized by continuously measuring the product’s physico-chemical parameters. The evaluated physico-chemical parameters: the swelling degree, the equilibrium swelling degree, the swelling rate and the swelling fraction, the swelling rate parameter, the swelling kinetics order, the speed constant
Whole-genome analysis of diverse Chlamydia trachomatis strains identifies phylogenetic relationships masked by current clinical typing
Get PDFChlamydia trachomatis is responsible for both trachoma and sexually transmitted infections, causing substantial morbidity and economic cost globally. Despite this, our knowledge of its population and evolutionary genetics is limited. Here we present a detailed phylogeny based on whole-genome sequencing of representative strains of C. trachomatis from both trachoma and lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) biovars from temporally and geographically diverse sources. Our analysis shows that predicting phylogenetic structure using ompA, which is traditionally used to classify Chlamydia, is misleading because extensive recombination in this region masks any true relationships present. We show that in many instances, ompA is a chimera that can be exchanged in part or as a whole both within and between biovars. We also provide evidence for exchange of, and recombination within, the cryptic plasmid, which is another key diagnostic target. We used our phylogenetic framework to show how genetic exchange has manifested itself in ocular, urogenital and LGV C. trachomatis strains, including the epidemic LGV serotype L2b
Practical Investigation of Gels Containing Aristolochia (<i>Aristolochia Clematitis</i>) Extract
No full textMedienpapst und Papstmedien. Johannes Paul II. und die Vatikanmedien
No full textAls Schlüssel für den Medienerfolg Johannes Pauls II. sieht der Autor, der seit 23 Jahren die deutsche Abteilung von Radio Vatikan leitet, die kommunikative Persönlichkeit dieses Papstes. Dieser Medienerfolg ist jedoch kein Beweis für eine erfolgreiche Strategie und Struktur der normalen päpstlichen Medien. Im Gegenteil: Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die Unzulänglichkeiten des Pressesaals, des Osservatore, von Radio Vatikan, des Fernsehzentrums, der Internetaktivitäten und des Päpstlichen Medienrates. In Reflexionen zeigt er für jedes dieser Kommunikationsmittel Wege zur Verbesserung ihrer Effizienz. Er schlägt regelmässige Untersuchungen vor, um diese Medien entsprechend der technischen Entwicklung zu modernisieren und einen ständigen umfassenden Informationsfluss zu garantieren. Er tritt vor allem für eine Umstrukturierung des Medienrates zu einer verantwortlichen Instition ein, die alle Medienaktivitäten des Vatikans fortlaufend beobachtet und für ihre größte Wirkmöglichkeit sorgt.EnglishEberhard von Gemmingen SJ: Media Pope and Papal MediaThe author being head of the German speaking Radio Vatican since 23 years, regards the communicative personality of John Paul II. as key to his media success. This success, however, is no proof of a successful strategy and structure of the usual Vatican media. On the contrary: The author describes in detail the inadequacies ofthe Press Room, the Osser- vatore, Radio Vatican, the TV Center, Internetactivities and the Council for Social Communications. Considering these media he suggests ways to improve their efficiency. He proposes regular investigations in order to modernise,the technical development of the Vatican media and to guarantee a continous flow of information. He especially pleads for a reconstruction of the Media Council as a responsible institution which should regularly observe all Vatican media activities and take care of their efficieny.
Truth and untruth: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit and the memory of the Great War 1914-1918
Get PDFThis thesis examines Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s 1932 novel Voyage au bout de la nuit as a rewriting of his memory of the Great War 1914-1918. It seeks to resolve the truth problematic posed by the inversion in Voyage au bout de la nuit of Celine’s experience in the war, primarily the transition from Celine’s heroism in the war to his fictional self-portrait as the coward, Bardamu. It seeks to clarify the role and value of Celine’s fictional witness to war by placing the novel in a broadly developed context of the war and its commemoration. A major premise of this thesis is that Celine was traumatised by the war and that his rewriting of his war experience is informed by his need to break free of traumatised memory through the creation of a new, literary narrative of his personal past. By drawing on the literature of trauma and survival, as well as on studies of the Great War and other wars, this thesis succeeds in establishing that Celine was, indeed, traumatised by his war experience and succeeds in showing the many ways in which this trauma shapes Voyage. It also provides a thorough account of how Voyage as literary artefact engages with the memory of the Great War and how it functions as witness to war and the consequence of war. It brings us ultimately towards the dynamic of accusation which lies at the heart of Celine’s traumatic memory of the Great War and which underlies its keynotes of irony, satire and invective. This thesis is multi-disciplinary in its approach, drawing on historical, biographical, psychological, and literary studies. It provides an important contribution to Celine studies, but also to studies of the Great War, the memory and literature of the Great War and to studies of twentieth-century trauma, memory and identity
