167 research outputs found
From gesenius to bauer-leander hebrew grammar and the challenge of comparative linguistics
No full textThis article analyses the influence of comparative grammars of semitic language on the study of hebrew in the 19 century. By comparing the works of Gesenius (1817) e Bauer & Leander (1918), the author points out some aspects of this influence in the 19 century, as well as the changes of perspective o occurred under the influence of 20 century Linguistics.Este artigo analisa a influência da gramática comparativa de línguas semíticas sobre o estudo do hebráico no século XIX. Pela comparação entre as obras de Genesius (1817) e Bauer & Leander (1918), o autor pontua alguns aspectos dessa influência no século XIX, e as mudanças de perspectiva ocorridas sob a influência da linguística do século XIX.Este artigo analisa a influência da gramática comparativa de línguas semíticas sobre o estudo do hebráico no século XIX. Pela comparação entre as obras de Genesius (1817) e Bauer & Leander (1918), o autor pontua alguns aspectos dessa influência no século XIX, e as mudanças de perspectiva ocorridas sob a influência da linguística do século XIX
I Wanna Hold Your Hand: Touch, Intimacy and Equality in Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and George Chapman's "Continuation"
No full textabstract: This thesis examines Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander and George Chapman's Continuation thereof through a theoretical lens that includes theories of intimacy, sexuality and touch taken from Lee Edelman, Daniel Gil, James Bromley, Katherine Rowe and others. Hands are seen as the privileged organ of touch as well as synecdoche for human agency. Because it is all too often an unexamined sense, the theory of touch is dealt with in detail. The analysis of hands and touch leads to a discussion of how Marlowe's writing creates a picture of sexual intimacy that goes against traditional institutions and resists the traditional role of the couple in society. Marlowe's poem favors an equal, companionate intimacy that does not engage in traditional structures, while Chapman's Continuation to Marlowe's work serves to reaffirm the transgressive nature of Marlowe's poem by reasserting traditional social institutions surrounding the couple. Viewing the two pieces of literature together further supports the conclusion that Marlowe's work is transgressive because of how conservative Chapman's reaction to Hero and Leander is.Dissertation/ThesisM.A. English 201
The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)
No full textGastrotricha and Platyhelminthes form a clade called Rouphozoa. Representatives of both taxa are main components of meiofaunal communities, but their role in the trophic ecology of marine and freshwater communities is not sufficiently studied. Traditional collection methods for meiofauna are optimized for Ecdysozoa, and include the use of fixatives or flotation techniques that are unsuitable for the preservation and identification of soft-bodied meiofauna. As a result, rouphozoans are usually underestimated in conventional biodiversity surveys and ecological studies. Here, we give an updated outline of their diversity and taxonomy, with some phylogenetic considerations. We describe successfully tested techniques for their recovery and study, and emphasize current knowledge on the ecology, distribution, and dispersal of freshwater gastrotrichs and microturbellarians. We also discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of (meta)barcoding studies as a means of overcoming the taxonomic impediment. Finally, we discuss the importance of rouphozoans in aquatic ecosystems and provide future research directions to fill in crucial gaps in the biology of these organisms needed for understanding their basic role in the ecology of benthos and their place in the trophic networks linking micro-, meio-, and macrofauna of freshwater ecosystems.Julian P.S. Smith III was supported bygrant P20GM103499 (SC INBRE) from the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health; Niels
Van Steenkiste and Brian Leander were supported by grants
from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (2019-03986) and the Hakai Institute; Maria Balsamo
and Loretta Guidi were supported by Scientific Research grants
from the Italian Ministry of University (MIUR, 2019). The
authors are grateful to Dr. Rick Hochberg for the free and open
sharing of his ideas concerning feeding guilds in gastrotrichs,
and to Dr. Seth Tyler for pointing us to historical literature on
microturbellaria as parasites and hosts.Balsamo, M (corresponding author), Univ Urbino, Dept Biomol Sci, Urbino, Italy.
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A comparative study of the certification requirements for teachers in fifteen southern states, 1940
No full textTrailing Edge Loss of Choked Organic Vapor Turbine Blades
No full textThe present study reports the outcome of an experimental study of organic vapor trailing edge flows. As a working fluid, the organic vapor Novec 649 was used under representative pressure and temperature conditions for organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbine applications characterized by values of the fundamental derivative of gas dynamics below unity. An idealized vane configuration was placed in the test section of a closed-loop organic vapor wind tunnel. The effect of the Reynolds number was assessed independently from the Mach number by charging the closed wind tunnel. The airfoil surface roughness and the trailing edge shape were evaluated by experimenting with different test blades. The flow and the loss behavior were obtained using Pitot probes, static wall pressure taps, and background-oriented schlieren (BOS) optics. Isentropic exit Mach numbers up to 1.5 were investigated. Features predicted via a simple flow model proposed by Denton and Xu in 1989 were observed for organic vapor flows. Still, roughness affected the downstream loss behavior significantly due to shockwave boundary-layer interactions and flow separation. The new experimental results obtained for this organic vapor are compared with correlations from the literature and available loss data
The concealed presence of the other: the imprint of European literature on the production of the first Greek novel Leander
No full text“Some people could accuse us of having copied from Foscolo’s Jacopo Ortis or from Goethe’s Werther, but, if you read these books, they witness in our favour” writes Panayotis Soutsos in the introduction of Leander, defending his novel. Nevertheless, we find passages where the author closely imitates those texts, endorsing the idea of a creative translation. This is however a provocation; he throws caution to the wind, challenging the reader to reveal his deceit and thereby match his own knowledge. Though Soutsos’s writing points to some specific models, he conceals his greatest influence, French literature. The more extended passages, adapted and embedded in his text, come from Lamartine’s poetry and Chateaubriand’s novels. Is this a voluntary or a subconscious failure to quote his source? To what extent can attentive reading affect the creative procedure? These questions lead us to the problem: how do Modern Greeks position themselves in respect to Europe? The Greek Enlightenment claims Ancient Greek culture back from Europe, integrating it into the Greek tradition. As Koraes points out, now is the time for Europeans to pay their debt, by transposing the culture they received to the Modern Greeks. In a way, the text reflects these ideas by appropriating discourse. Europe is the Other, cherished and detested. It is therefore present in absentia, haunting creation, emerging throughout the Greek text
Zimmerman - Leander M. Zimmerman
No full textA.B.; A.M., 1887; Phi Beta Kappa; Philomathaean. Entered Preparatory, 1878. Grad. Gettysburg Seminary, 1887; D.D., Susquehanna U., 1901. Born Aug. 29, 1860, or August 22, 1861, Manchester, Md. Parents, Henry and Leah. Brother of J.Z., class of 1873. Lutheran clergyman: Baltimore, Md., 1887-1925; pastor-emeritus, Christ Church, Baltimore, Md., 1925- . Member, Home Miss. Bd., 1899-1908; pres. of Deaconess Bd.; past pres. of Md. Synod; director, Gettysburg Seminary, 1909- ; past pres., Baltimore Min. Assoc. Author: Paths That Cross; Yvonne; Sparks; Cordelia; Dot; Echoes from Battlefield; For Love's Sake; Reminiscences; The Gospel Minister; and many booklets on social and religious subjects. Address: Burlington Hotel, Washington D.C
Ein Wörterbuch für die Bedürfnisse der Habsburgermonarchie des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Supplement-Band zu jedem italienisch-deutschen und deutsch-italienischen Wörterbuch von Johann Ritter von Vogtberg (1831)
No full textThis article deals with the Supplement-Band zu jedem italienisch-deutschen
und deutsch-italienischen Wörterbuch, the supplementary volume to every
Italian-German and German-Italian dictionary, published in Vienna in 1831 by
the imperial-royal Rechnungsrath, “accountant”, Johann Ritter von Vogtberg.
The volumewas developed in the context of the Habsburg Monarchy and was an
auxiliarytool for civil servants and tradesmen who had to solve language-mediating
tasks in the field of administration, trade or navigation in the Italian territories. For
them, the larger German-Italian dictionaries of the time did not provide the necessary terminology. After an introduction to the teaching of Italian and German in the historical context under analysis and an overview of the situation of the German-Italian dictionary, the author Johann von Vogtberg is introduced. Furthermore, the most important notes on his approach are reconstructed from the preface to the supplementary volume. The conclusion is a random analysis of his four glossaries
Objective Image Quality Assessment and Comparison of Ultrasound Probes: Research to Application of Trans-Balloon, Miniaturized TEE in Atrial Ablation Procedures
No full textAtrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common type of arrhythmia, characterized by rapid and irregular contraction of the atria. Irregular contraction of the atria is caused by erroneous electrical activation, originating from the tissue around the Pulmonary Veins (PV) in the Left Atrium (LA). Catheter-based treatment of AF includes ablation of the tissue around the PV. Imaging of ablation catheters and LA-anatomy is of great importance for accurate and successful treatment of AF. In current state of the art LA-ablation procedures, static, pre-procedural acquired 3D models of the LA are used for catheter navigation and monitoring. However, due to the limited accuracy of these static 3D models there is a continuous demand for real-time 3D imaging techniques during catheter based treatment of AF.A possible solution for real time imaging is to use trans-balloon, miniaturized transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as imaging modality for AF ablation procedures. Trans-balloon, miniaturized TEE can provide real-time 3D ultrasound imaging of the LA. Since trans-balloon, miniaturized TEE is not used in clinical practice yet, it is unknown whether image quality of the miniaturized TEE probe will be sufficient for imaging during AF ablation procedures. Therefore, the image quality of trans-balloon, miniaturized TEE has to be compared to image quality current state of the art TEE probes.In this thesis, image quality of the miniaturized ultrasound probe was compared to current state of the art TEE probes, and the influence of the balloon on image quality was investigated. Image quality was assessed using standardized ultrasound image quality assessment phantoms and software. Image quality was measured using the following image quality parameters: contrast to noise ratio (CNR), spatial resolution and penetration depth of the ultrasound signal.The results have shown that CNR of the miniaturized probe is equal to that of state of the art probes, but that spatial resolution of the miniaturized probe strongly depends on the rotation angle of the ultrasound imaging plane. Rotating the imaging plane of the miniaturized TEE probe negatively impacts spatial resolution, which was not observed for the state of the art TEE probes. The penetration depth of the ultrasound signal was significantly less compared to state of the art TEE probes.The rotation-dependent spatial resolution of the miniaturized probe is undesired, since rotating the imaging plane is common practice in TEE. A review study involving clinical experts is recommended to judge whether image quality of the miniaturized probe with rotated imaging plane is sufficient.Since the anatomical structures of interest during AF are close to the transducer, the limited penetration depth of the miniaturized probe will not be a major limitation. Despite aforementioned limitations, the results suggest that trans-balloon miniaturized TEE can be used for real-time ultrasound imaging during AF ablation procedures.The research in this thesis provides a theoretical framework to measure and compare image quality of ultrasound probes, which is an important first step in the development of a novel, real-time 3D imaging technique for imaging of AF ablation procedures.Biomedical Engineerin
Healing environments within existing hospital architecture: A study into architectural interventions in the AMC Amsterdam
No full textHospitals fulfill an important function within the healthcare systems, providing complex and specialized care. Healthcare continues to evolve into more effective forms of care and thus benefiting those in need. While care changes the physical hospital rarely does, resulting in hospital architecture which leaks the quality to contribute to and improve the users wellbeing. This design thesis explores a large scale architectural intervention strategy that improves the hospital architecture of the AMC Amsterdam through means parametric and computational design. The intervention focuses on spatial redistribution of function based on trends and innovations in healthcare. Resulting in vacant space available for spatial interventions. In order to increase wellbeing the intervention focusses on the themes of nature, exercises, sight and daylight. Creating an biophilic experiential structure that connects vertically and horizontally on the various floors. Enabling patients to move, stay and experience the intervention each on their own manner, while simultaneously creating an healing environment that improves patients wellbeing.http://100ybp.roboticbuilding.eu/index.php/project04:Main The Robotic building studio facilitates a website for its participants. This link refers to my personal page, showcasing design progress and different types of media not supported by the TU Delft repository. || http://100ybp.roboticbuilding.eu/index.php/Msc2G4:Presentation Part of the Robotic building studio is the research by design method. This link explores showcases the research and presentation from our group. The research focuses on the design of an acoustic panel through means of parametric and computational design, while also presenting the step from a computational design to a physical product. This has been done through usage of an programmed robotic arm that makes use of subtractive techniques.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Robotic Buildin
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