585 research outputs found
Piazzoli, Erika (2018): Embodying Language in Action: The Artistry of Process Drama for Second Language Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan
No full textLet’s start with the image on the book cover which is placed between the author’s name and the book title. It immediately grabs our attention, shows how eight adult individuals bodily connect and create a beautiful shape that looks like a flower, or rather a flower in full bloom. Is the shape that has been created by these individuals (movement artists?) the result of excellent choreography? The ‘embodiment image’ prepares the reader for the main focus of Erika Piazzoli’s monograph (367 pages): the aesthetic dimension of foreign language teaching and learning. Reflecting on “What is ‘Artistry’ and Why Do We Need It in Second Language Education?” in Chapter 1, she then continues to address the aesthetic dimension in three parts: In Part I (chapters 2-5) she engages with “Key Definitions in the Aesthetic Dimension”; Part II (chapters 6-8) deals with aspects of “Navigating the Aesthetic Dimension”; Part III (chapters 9-12) centres on “Researching the Aesthetic Dimension”. In these twelve chapters the author deals with a broad range of theoretical perspectives, including second language education, sociocultural theory, neuroscience and art history. This review highlights some aspects of this impressive monograph by concentrating on keywords which are captured in its title: process ..
Logic, Computation and Rigorous Methods : Essays Dedicated to Egon Boerger on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday
No full textThis Festschrift was published in honor of Egon Börger on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
It acknowledges Prof. Börger's inspiration as a scientist, author, mentor, and community organizer. Dedicated to a pioneer in the fields of logic and computer science, Egon Börger's research interests are unusual in scope, from programming languages to hardware architectures, software architectures, control systems, workflow and interaction patterns, business processes, web applications, and concurrent systems.
The 18 invited contributions in this volume are by leading researchers in the areas of software engineering, programming languages, business information systems, and computer science logic
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop
No full textProfessional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe (based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling Photoshop author Martin Evening to create this goldmine of information for advanced Photoshop users. Building on Martin Evening's successful Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series of titles, this new guide takes the same winning approach and applies it to a professional Photoshop workflow. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step tutorials, this advanced guide will really appeal to those who want to see how the experts approach Photoshop, produc
Fast emulator of changes in crop yields at different levels of global warming
No full textThis is the Online Supplement to the following publication: Ostberg, S., Schewe, J., Childers, K.,
and Frieler, K.: Changes in crop yields and their variability at different levels of global warming, Earth System
Dynamics, 9, 2018. The Supplement contains a number of additional figures as well as the emulator coefficients
needed to apply the emulators presented in the paper to derive yield changes for any given pair of global mean
temperature change (GMT) and atmospheric CO2 concentration (pCO2). See readme.pdf for details.</p
The selenoenzyme Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase controls the activity of the 15-Lipoxygenase with complex substrates and mantains the specicicity of the oxygenation products.
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Human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages linked to remotely observed floods (FLODIS)
No full textFLODIS links estimates of flood-induced human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages to flooded areas observed through remote sensing. The repository contains the two final FLODIS datasets for displacement, fatalities and damages. Additionally, geocoded IDMC data on displacement between 2008 and 2021 is provided, which can be linked with other hazard inventories.
Mester, B., Frieler, K. & Schewe, J. Human displacements, fatalities, and economic damages linked to remotely observed floods. Sci Data 10, 482 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02376-
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What Constitutes a Service on the Web?
No full textThere are many approaches to modelling and development of service-oriented systems, but there is still no convincing answer to what a (software) service is. In this chapter, we discuss the various attempts to develop a theory of services, identify aspects that have already been addressed and extract gaps. This leads us to propose the BDCM2 framework capturing behaviour, description, contracting, monitoring and mediation. For the behavioural model, we refer to the two-layer model of Abstract State Services (AS2s) capturing functional aspects of data-intensive Web services. The model of service mediators permits building complex applications, in which parts are realised by services. Furthermore, we highlight the decisive role of service ontologies for supporting the location of services as well as the capture of contractual aspects by means of service-level agreements (SLAs). Finally, we conclude that a contract is only as good as the means to monitor the agreements. While part of the research has already reached a promising level of maturity, some aspects are still in an infant state
A novel 3D parametrization approach for topology optimization of rollbonded cooling plates
No full textElectric mobility depends on batteries, which typically require a thermal management system. Those systems are often realized as sheet metal plates with integrated channel structures. Rollbonding technology is one of the most promising technologies to produce such cooling plates due to the competitive cost structure in combination with its unmatched design freedom. However, the design of a cooling plate manufactured using rollbonding is challenging. Such a design requires thermal and hydraulic targets to be considered while manufacturing constraints must be satisfied. Due to the given design freedom and the conflicting targets manual design of cooling plates is challenging and requires significant development time and effort. Topology optimization is a popular method for automated and optimal design of components.In this paper, the authors present a strategy to design rollbonded cooling plates by topology optimization, taking thermal, hydraulic, and manufacturing requirements into account. State-of-the-art methods usually consider channel shapes with rectangular cross-sections, ignoring the effects of realistically curved channel cross-sections as they result from the manufacturing technology. The authors present a novel parametrization strategy, considering the 3D channel shape in a realistic manner. The mathematical formulation of the novel modelling approach is shown and validated based on a small, simplified test case. The methodology is implemented into a custom, solver-agnostic framework and coupled with commercial Finite Element software
Is there evidence for immunological alterations with GLP-1 agonists in people living with HIV?
No full textcategory: Co-morbidities Abstract body Purpose: The use of dolutegravir (DTG) has been associated with weight gain and potential risk for hypertension. We evaluated change in blood pressure, weight and other cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Second-line Switch to DTG study (2SD). Method: The 2SD study evaluated the efficacy and safety of switching virally suppressed adults on ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor (PI/r) based second line regi-men to DTG relative to remaining on a PI/r over 48 weeks. The primary outcomes of this post-hoc analysis were incident hypertension and weight gain. Secondary outcomes included change in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, change in blood sugar, incident diabetes and change in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) 10 year risk prediction score. The incidence rate ratio of hypertension was compared between groups and multivariable analysis conducted for predictors 1 of incident hypertension. Results: Data from 795 participants (397 DTG, 398 PI/r) enrolled into the study between Feb and Sep 2020 was analysed. All participants were black and 66% were female, with baseline characteristics balanced between arms. Incident hypertension occurred in 161 participants (86 in the DTG arm and 75 in the PI/r arm) with an incidence rate of 31.4% (33.4% on DTG, 29.3% on PI/r, p = 0.4). Changes in systolic and diastolic BP are highlighted in Figure 1. The percentage change in body mass index (BMI) was 2.1 in the DTG arm and 1.3 in the PI/r arm (p = 0.019) (Figure 2). Incident diabetes occurred in 26 (3.3%) participants (3.5% on DTG, 3.0% on PI/r, p = 0.2). The ASCVD score worsened in 16% of participants (16% on DTG, 15% on PI/r, p = 0.5) (Table 1). Predictors of incident hypertension included age, body mass index and creatinine clearance. Conclusions: DTG was associated with higher weight gain; there was no difference in incident hypertension, blood pressure changes or overall CVD risk stratification between groups
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