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The Linden Tree
No full textA delightful fictional memoir about César Aira’s small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as César Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning with his parents—an enigmatic handsome black father who gathered linden flowers for his sleep-inducing tea and an irrational, crippled mother of European descent—the narrator catalogs memories of his childhood: his friends, his peculiar first job, his many gossiping neighbors, and the landscape and architecture of the provinces. The Linden Tree beautifully brings back to life that period in Argentina when the poor, under the guiding hand of Eva Perón, aspired to a newly created middle class. As it moves from anecdote to anecdote, this charming short novella—touching, funny, and sometimes surreal—invites the reader to visit the source of Aira’s extraordinary imagination. Translated by Chris Andrews
Evaluation of linden fibre as a potential reinforcement material for polymer composites
No full textThe aim of this study is to characterize linden fibres as a novel cellulose-based fibre to be used as a reinforcement material in composites and to investigate the adhesion property to unsaturated polyester. Up to now, there is no report regarding the potential usability of linden fibre in composite applications. Linden fibres were extracted from the stem of a plant of Tilia rubra DC. subsp. caucasica (Rupr.) V.Engl. Characterization of linden fibres was studied by Fourier transform infrared, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray diffraction analysis, tensile and pull-out tests. Morphological properties of the fibres were observed through scanning electron and optical microscopes. Initial degradation temperature of the linden fibre was reported to be 238℃. The tensile strength and the Young’s modulus of the linden fibres were calculated to be 675.4 ± 45.7 MPa and 61.0 ± 9.8 GPa, respectively. The interfacial shear strength of the linden fibre with unsaturated polyester matrix was computed as 26.15 ± 2.27 MPa via pullout test. This study offers an alternative and eco-friendly reinforcement material which may have usability potential in polymeric composites. © 2014, © The Author(s) 2014
Seated group of people with some Latvian traditional clothing, and others wearing woven traditonal wreaths of Oak, Linden and Ivy leaves as well as wild flowers
No full textA group of men and women seated with some dressed in traditional Latvian costume and others wearing the traditional headwreaths with Oak, Linden and Ivy leaves along with wildflowers1.0 Imanta, 13.1.2 Traditional Costume, 16.1.6 Latvian cultural fesitvals and celebration
Make Scents: The laboratory and botanical greenhouse produces and preserves the essence of Linden tree
No full textMake Scents considers the impact of changing climate conditions on resource extraction by establishing an in-house laboratory that specializes in producing fragrances specific to a region. This contribution captures Berlin’s landscape transitory due to critical climate change. As of 2040 the Linden tree—a significantlongstanding tree with Berlin and Germany—is at risk of survival due to shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Rather than preserve one tree species, the city’s greenery shifted toward biodiversity. This contribution captures the conversion of this event through fashion production and makes a unique flavor of memory preserving for posterityFashion HouseThe Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Desig
Der Fuchs in der Kunst: Ein Nachschlagewerk über den Fuchs in der Kunst
No full textThe cover proclaims that this is a research book for Exponate in Elfenbein, Meerschaum, Silver, Porzellan, Glas, Holz und Bronze. It is! There are over seven hundred illustrations in color of a marvelous range of objects. The breadth of the collection put together by Herr von Fuchs is impressive. It gives some sense of the collection to notice that there are eighteen pipes pictured here! There are many fable illustrations along the way. A silver-plated fruit-dish, crafted in Russia about 1965, shows FG (34). Several fable motifs occur together on 68, including FS on a candy box, FC on on the early twentieth-century cookie box I first found along the Seine, and FC as a bookend. A gunpowder bottle from about 1800 pictures FC (79). The same page includes a porcelain plate of FG and a small wall stand with a hand-cut base of FC. FG is back on 81 in a Viennese bronze Tischglockendrücker. Three Minton tiles displaying The Fox and the Goat, FC, and FS are shown on 87; are the designs really from Walter Crane? I think they come rather from John Moyr Smith. There are eight beautiful embroidery patterns for fables of La Fontaine from Verlag Reinhold Beist in Frankfurt about 1914 on 89. The following page features oven plates for FG, FS, FC, and The Fox and the Goat. On 90 there are three fable scenes from the stucco ceiling of the Einhardhaus in Seligenstadt: two come from FS and one from The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse. A wine barrel on 94 shows FG, and the same scene is on the portal of Saint Mark's in Venice on the following page. There is a laterna magica scene of FC after La Fontaine on 101. Herr von Fuchs closes the book with a touching remark placed under the skull of a fox: Das Ende eines jeden Sammlers ist mit seinem Ableben besiegelt. Um die Exponate der Nachwelt zu erhalten, sollen Sammlungen nie aufgeteilt werden.Language note: GermanErste AuflageSigned by Friedrich von FuchsZusammengestellt und aus der Sammlung von Friedrich von Fuch
Dissertatio Inauguralis Juridica De Jure Visitandi Ecclesias Quoad temporalia Episcopis Germaniæ ex observantia competente
No full textMainz, Univ., Jur. Diss., 1785Quam Una Cum Selectis Ex Omni Jure Thesibus Ex Indultu Inclytæ Facultatis Juridicæ In Alma Universitate Moguntina Sine Præside Pro Summis In Utroque Jure Honoribus & Privilegiis Rite Consequendis Publicæ Eruditorum Censuræ Submittit Franciscus Josephus Ignatius De Linden, Can. Domicell. Ad S. S. Petrum & Alexandrum Aschafefnburgi Author & Respondens. Die Januarii MDCCLXXXV.Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Moguntiæ, Ex Typographia Elect. Aul. Acad. privil. apud Joan. Joseph. Alef, Hæred. Haefner. 1785
Real-time self-regulation of emotion networks in patients with depression
No full textThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited - Copyright @ 2012 Linden et al.Many patients show no or incomplete responses to current pharmacological or psychological therapies for depression. Here we explored the feasibility of a new brain self-regulation technique that integrates psychological and neurobiological approaches through neurofeedback with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In a proof-of-concept study, eight patients with depression learned to upregulate brain areas involved in the generation of positive emotions (such as the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and insula) during four neurofeedback sessions. Their clinical symptoms, as assessed with the 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HDRS), improved significantly. A control group that underwent a training procedure with the same cognitive strategies but without neurofeedback did not improve clinically. Randomised blinded clinical trials are now needed to exclude possible placebo effects and to determine whether fMRI-based neurofeedback might become a useful adjunct to current therapies for depression.This work was supported by the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience with funds from the Welsh Assembly Government and by the Medical Research Council (grant reference G1100629/1)
Rescuers and Good Samaritans
No full textIn the past, tort law has displayed reluctance to impose a duty to rescue or to compensate rescuers injured during a rescue attempt. Furthermore, tort liability has been imposed upon would-be rescuers whose incompetence has led to an abortive attempt. Professor Linden argues that this reluctance to promote rescue is out-dated in modern society which espouses humanitarian ideals. The author examines Canadian and English jurisprudence to demonstrate the recent recognition of the need to encourage and compensate Good Samaritans. New tort duties to render aid, which have been fashioned by analogy to criminal legislation, are analyzed as well as the rescuer\u27s duty which arises once the rescue has been undertaken. Professor Linden also discusses the applicability of the principle of voluntary assumption of risk to rescuer\u27s claim for compensation for injuries sustained during the course of the rescue. The author concludes by suggesting that the concept of contributory negligence be used to dissuade rash rescue attempts in place of the current judicial practice of complete denial of compensation
Investigation on Rosehip Fruit Tea, Linden Herbal Tea, Sage Herbal Tea and Green Tea-are thay acidic or not?
No full textTea is a widely-consumed daily life product, which is claimed to be very
advantageous for health. But it may have negative effects on health, too. Consuming
tea with a hungry stomach causes stomachache, and doctors say that this is because
the tea is acidic. This investigation aims to determine if four types of teas (Rosehip
Fruit tea, Linden Herbal Tea, Sage Herbal Tea and Gren Tea with Lemon) are acidic
or not.
This investigation is important in the sense that the way the tea is consumed may be
limited. Determining if the tea is acidic or not may effect the habits of many people
about tea consumption. In order to determine if the tea is acidic or not, I used the
titration method. Titration is a technique in which the molarity of a solution can be
found by using a strong base or acid with a known molarity and volume.
At the end of my trials, I found out that these four types of teas are all acidic. These
results showed me that Rosehip Fruit Tea is the most acidic one among all, and the
Linden Herbal Tea is the one closest to the neutral. When an order is made between
the acidities tea types, I reached to the conclusion below:
Rosehip tea > Green tea with Lemon > Sage tea > Linden te
Neolithic Human Diet Based on Studies of Coprolites from the Swifterbant Culture Sites, the Netherlands: Synthesis - Human versus community diet
No full textThe aim of this final chapter is to integrate the results obtained from the multi-disciplinary study applied to a series of coprolites from the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Swifterbant Culture sites, to determine their role as a source of information about the prehistoric dietary tradition and health.The study of coprolites provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct the most complete spectrum of the foods that were consumed in the past, both as cooked meals as well as foods that were eaten raw. In addition to the food remains, coprolites also contain intestinal parasites which affected the health of prehistoric populations. Coprolite studies can also provide information about palaeoenvironmental conditions through the types of microfossils and macrofossils they contain.Geo-engineerin
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