30 research outputs found
Identification of capillary blood pressure levels at which capillary collapse is likely in a tissue subjected to large compressive and shear deformations
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Insulin-coated gold nanoparticles as an effective approach for bypassing the blood-brain barrier
No full textALGORYTHM OF BRIBERY INVESTIGATION
No full textImplementing the situational approach, the article defines the typical investigation situations occurring when revealing and investigating bribery. Definingthe investigation activities which should be carried out in a certain situation, and classifying them, enabled the author to elaborate the pattern of bribery investigation, which can be used for its planning and organization
Design and development of a deformable and flow compliant aneurysm model for MRI experimentation: effects of turbulence in the MR signal at 3T using a phase contrast-quantitative flow MR protocol.
No full textThesis (M.A.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.Cerebral aneurysms are pathological dilations or weakened bulges of the vasculature in the brain. Screening patients with a family history of aneurysms is common, but adds to the healthcare burden. Researchers estimate that unruptured aneurysms affect about 5% of the population. Aneurysm ruptures and the resultant hemorrhage can lead to death or significant functional impairment. It is estimated that up to 80% of hemorrhages in the brain result from intracranial aneurysms. The annual rupture rate for cerebral aneurysms has been reported to be approximately 2%. However, rupture rates have also been reported to significantly increase with aneurysm size, with an estimated 55% of cerebral aneurysms greater than 1Omm rupturing within a 10 year span. The mortality rate for patients that experience a ruptured cerebral aneurysm is reported to be approximately 47%. These patients are also at an increased risk of recurring hemorrhage. Annual lost wages for patients that experience a SAH and those that assist them have been estimated to be as high as 138,000,000 U.S. dollars.
Therefore, it is important to understand potential risk factors for ruptures in order to better monitor stable or growing aneurysms and intervene at an appropriate time in order to prevent ruptures. Although trauma, family history, and hypertension are known to contribute to formation of aneurysms, factors that lead to their rupture are poorly
understood. Literature suggests that large aneurysm size, smoking, excessive alcohol
Annual lost wages for patients that experience a SAH and intake, hypertension, aneurysm wall structure, age, location, and intra-aneurysmal hemodynamics all play a potential role in rupture. Models are often used to study the effects that these factors have on a simulated aneurysm structure. [TRUNCATED
Катарсис адской боли (смеховая орнаментация автобиографической повести Шайло Гарриса «Стальная воля»)
No full textThe author of the novel "Steel Will" is the veteran of the war in Iraq Shilo Harris. After terrible mutilations and many operations, he retained a love of life. The role of humor in describing the vicissitudes, a special selection of the facts mentioned from life is investigated.Автором повісті «Сталева воля» є ветеран війни в Іраку Шайло Гарріс. Після страшних каліцтв і багатьох операцій він зберіг любов до життя. Досліджено роль гумору під час опису перипетій, особливий добір згадуваних фактів із життя.Автором повести «Стальная воля» является ветеран войны в Ираке Шайло Гаррис. После страшных увечий и многих операций он сохранил любовь к жизни. Исследована роль юмора при описании перипетий, особый отбор упоминавшихся фактов из жизни
The ideal music course for public schools /
No full textUnaccompanied melodies, some in 2 parts.v.1. Adapted to primary grades.--v.2. Adapted to intermediate grades.--v.3. Adapted to upper grammar grades and high schools.Mode of access: Internet
'No-body' is my friend: Cultural considerations of young children's 'imaginary companions'
No full textThe variegated relationships young children may have during their early childhood education (ECE) years have long been of interest to theorists and teachers alike. Relationships, and understandings of companionship, can take multiple forms. Our understandings of what these relationships may look like are frequently informed by complex social and cultural constructs; therefore, seeking to apply a one-size-fits-all interpretation is theoretically and culturally problematic, especially when the companions young children may spend time with may be unseen or unnoticed by surrounding adults.
A common Euro-western notion is that unseen companions are not real; hence they are generally referred to in the literature as being imaginary. In an extensive literature review, this thesis explores whether companionship with the unseen are one of many possible forms of relationships. Dominant Euro-western claims that such relationships are imaginary are considered critically before the analysis widens in theoretical scope to draw on various alternative cultural accounts. The analysis draws on the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Karen Barad, in particular. An additional exploration considers the author’s own situated experiences of parenting a child who during her childhood years had companions that were unseen to the author. The final analysis, based on a small selection of carefully chosen autoethnographic accounts, draws on the significance of ancestral inheritance. Within this specific research context that inheritance comprises my daughter’s Māori ancestry and our shared Celtic ancestry.
Ancestral inheritance provides reflexive companionship for the entire thesis. Examining inheritance sheds light on ways that traditional Euro-western claims of the imagined worlds of children, and consequently childhood, have produced a legacy of ideas which have subsequently held the term imaginary in place. These dominant worldviews are shown to fall short in their capacity to cover the diversity of lived realities of children and their unseen (to others) companion(s). Inheritance also denotes the culturally mediated birthright that may travel alongside a young child and how this birthright may provide insight and alternative cultural knowledge and understandings of various multiform relationship companions.
As a result of analysing several possible perspectives on the relationships under study, this thesis proposes the new term culturally compatible travelling companions (CCTC): companions who travel alongside children as ordinary, expected features of their lifespan. This shift in term acknowledges that diverse notions of companionship, and the forms this may take, are integral and salient constructions of each culture’s historical and narrative accounts.
This is timely research, as currently nearly 64% of young children aged between birth and four years of age attend some type of Early Childhood Education (ECE) service in Aotearoa New Zealand (Ministry of Education [MoE], 2019). The national ECE curriculum document Te Whāriki (MoE, 2017) recognises the significance of young children’s relationships and understands those relationships within the rich and complex cultural knowledge patterning that travels alongside a young child.
The aim of this research is to add to the theoretical understandings of the forms, functions and features of the multiple, complex relationship companions who may share the lives of young children, whether or not these companions are seen or discernible to those around the children. It suggests an alternative perspective to the dominant view and offers provocations for those who work alongside young children to think differently about whether these relationship companions are indeed only imaginary
