102 research outputs found
Power-to-[x] : green hydrogen opportunities in Jordan : report to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
No full textauthors: Rashed Manna, Omar Saffouri ; reviewers: Shaker Hammad, Abdallah Alshamal
[Power-to-[x]] : [green hydrogen opportunities in Jordan : report to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung]
No full text[authors: Rashed Manna, Omar Saffouri ; reviewers: Shaker Hammad, Abdallah Alshamali]Text arabischArabisc
Before and After the Commentators: An Essay in Periodization.
No full textL'articolo considera il significato storico e filosofico dei commentatori neoplatonici di Aristotele. Gli autori situano il recente Sourcebook sui commentatori edito da Richard Sorbji in un contesto più ampio, che include il contributo dei commentatori nella formazione della filosofia tardo-antica e la loro posterità nella tradizione filosofica islamica. Dopo una sezione introduttiva (1) sullo stato attuale della ricerca in questo ambito, gli autori affrontano i temi seguenti: (2) Plotino, i commentatori e lo sviluppo del pensiero tardo antico; (3) il Sourcebook e la filosofia islamica. Riccardo Chiaradonna è co-autore della sezione (1) e autore della sezione (2), dove la ricezione dei trattati di scuola aristotelici è presentata come una caratteristica fondamentale nella transizione dalla filosofia post-ellenistica a quella tardo-antica. Plotino ha un ruolo cruciale in questo processo e l'assimilazione neoplatonica dei trattati di Aristotele non avrebbe avuto luoro senza il suo contributo.This article considers the historical and philosophical significance of the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle. The authors set Richard Sorabji's recent Sourcebook on the commentators within a wider backgroung, which covers the commentators' contribution in the shaping of late antique philosophy and their posterity in the Islamic philosophical tradition. After an introductory section (1) regarding the current status of research in this area, the authors tackle the following issues: (2) Plotinus, the commentators and the development of late antique thought; (3) the Sourcebook and Islamic Philosophy. Riccardo Chiaradonna is co-author of section (1) and author of section (2), where the reception of Aristotle's school treatises is set out as a key feature in the transition from Post Hellenistic to Late Antique philosophy. Plotinus has a pivotal position in this process and the Neoplatonic incorporation of Aristotle's treatises would have not taken place without Plotinus' contribution
Polymer multimode waveguide optical and electronic PCB manufacturing
No full textThe paper describes the research in the £1.3 million IeMRC Integrated Optical and Electronic Interconnect PCB Manufacturing (OPCB) Flagship Project in which 8 companies and 3 universities carry out collaborative research and which was formed and is technically led by the author. The consortium’s research is aimed at investigating a range of fabrication techniques, some established and some novel, for fabricating polymer multimode waveguides from several polymers, some formulations of which are being developed within the project. The challenge is to develop low cost waveguide manufacturing techniques compatible with commercial PCB manufacturing and to reduce their alignment cost. The project aims to take the first steps in making this hybrid optical waveguide and electrical copper track printed circuit board disruptive technology widely available by establishing and incorporating waveguide design rules into commercial PCB layout software and transferring the technology for fabricating such boards to a commercial PCB manufacturer. To focus the research the project is designing an optical waveguide backplane to tight realistic constraints, using commercial layout software with the new optical design rules, for a demonstrator into which 4 daughter cards are plugged, each carrying an aggregate of 80 Gb/s data so that each waveguide carries 10 Gb/s
The European REFORM Project for Hydromorphological Quality in River Basin Management
No full textThe Water Framework Directive commits European Union member states to achieve good ecological and chemical status of all water bodies. As hydromorphology is a key factor for ecological status, a consortium of 26 partners from 15 countries studied the role of hydromorphological pressures and measures in the REFORM project. Its main objective was to answer the question: How to make river restoration successful? The project developed guidance for this by structuring the information along the different stages of restoration projects and river basin management plans, posing a logical sequence of questions: How does my river work? What’s wrong? How to improve? Things can be wrong for ecological status as a result of morphological alterations. These alterations form pressures that can be countered or mitigated by measures that improve sedimentological and morphological features. We present two specific results of REFORM that focus on river morphology. First, we provide an overview of methods to assess morphological quality and diagnose alteration. Second, we present systematic cause–effect relationships for restoration measures.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineerin
Empédocle, fragment 32 Diels (Pseudo-Aristote, 'De lineis insecabilibus, 972 b 29-31)
No full textThe concluding lines of the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise On indivisible lines (972 b 25-33) contain a reference to Empedocles. The actual words attributed to Empedocles, as they stand in the manuscripts, no less than the purport of the argument in which they are embedded (972 b 29-31), are hopelessly obscure. We propose two very simple changes. The reference to Empedocles should be removed from the place it has in the manuscripts (972 b 29-30) to a position three lines earlier in the text (972 b 26). The final words of the argument (972 b 30-31) should be corrected from το ἐν τοῖς ἀκινήτοις to τὸ ἒν τῶν ἀκινήτων. The compendia for -ων and -οις (as in ἀκινήτων and ἀκινήτοις) are not always easily distinguishable and confusion is frequent in manuscripts of the Byzantine period. In this case, the genitive has been misread as a dative because the numeral (ἔν) has been misread as a preposition (ἐν). With these two changes, both the argument of the author and his reference to Empedocles acquire a meaning which is at once simple and obvious. Dare we hope that our emended text will bring to an end two hundred years of scholarly doubts and difficulties ?Les dernières lignes du traité pseudo-aristotélicien Des lignes insécables (972 b 25-33) contiennent une référence à Empédocle (fr. 32 Diels). Aussi bien l'argumentation du passage que la citation du poète sont incompréhensibles en l'état. On proposera ici deux corrections permettant d'en restituer la structure et le sens.O’Brien Denis, Rashed Marwan. Empédocle, fragment 32 Diels (Pseudo-Aristote, 'De lineis insecabilibus, 972 b 29-31). In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 114, Juillet-décembre 2001. pp. 349-358
Real-world management, resource use, patient-reported outcomes and adherence in patients receiving direct oral anticoagulants for first stroke attributed to non-valvular atrial fibrillation in secondary care: A UK mixed-methods observational study.
No full textCopyright: © 2025 Uprichard et al. This 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.This real-world study investigated the patient-related factors, characteristics, and outcomes of adult patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) receiving a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) for secondary stroke prevention. This was a multi-centre, mixed-methods, non-interventional study conducted in 8 UK secondary care National Health Service centres. The study included adult patients who presented with first ischaemic stroke associated with NVAF without previous anticoagulants. Group 1 included all patients. Group 2 is comprised of prospectively enrolled patients who were initiated on apixaban (n = 49), edoxaban (n = 39) or rivaroxaban (n = 5) post-first stroke from Group 1. The primary objective (Group 1) was to describe patients' demographics, clinical characteristics, and medical history, stratified by the anticoagulant prescribed. The secondary objectives (Group 2) were to describe the patient management pathways, hospital resource use and clinical assessments associated with DOAC treatment, and the patient-reported satisfaction and experience of DOAC treatment. 234 patients were recruited from 8 centres (Group 1). Baseline CHA2DS2-VASc risk scores ranged from 2-7; 70% (157/224) had a score of ≥4. 86% (n = 202/234) of patients presented with stroke at accident and emergency. For Group 2, the median time from stroke to first DOAC dose was 6 (IQR, 2.0-10.2; n = 88) days; 50% patients had ≥ 1 outpatient visit recorded related to AF or DOACs. At 3 and 6 months, 73% (46/63) and 83% (43/52) had high (score of 8) Morisky Medication Adherence Scale score (MMAS-8), respectively. No patients reported being dissatisfied at 3 or 6 months post-DOAC initiation. The study findings demonstrate high levels of adherence, persistence, and treatment satisfaction in the 6 months post-initiation of DOAC after first stroke attributable to NVAF in patients. The presented results provide clinicians with valuable insights into the experience of post-stroke patients with NVAF receiving treatment with a DOAC for secondary prevention of stroke during the 6 months post-stroke
Analysis of (3 + 1)-dimensional Boiti–Leon–Manna–Pempinelli equation via Lax pair investigation and group transformation method
No full textCheering the soul: Ibn Qāḍī Baʿlabakk’s Mufarriḥ an-Nafs. Arabic edition, english translation, study and glossaries
No full textThe Mufarriḥ an-nafs (Soul-Cheerer), attributed to Badr ad-Dīn Muẓaffar Ibn Qāḍī Baʿlabakk, who served under the Ayyubids as the Chief Medical Officer of Damascus in the mid-13th century, was written as a comprehensive guide for physicians outlining different approaches to cheering the soul. The tractate is divided into ten chapters, which explore the nature of the soul, its distinction to the body as well as their connection through sensorial perception. Ibn Qāḍī Baʿlabakk distinguishes the bodily senses – hearing, vision, smell, taste, touch – and the inner senses, which he sees as stimulated through activities such as hunting and engagement in poetry and the sciences. The seventh chapter of the Mufarriḥ an-nafs includes an extended encyclopedia on materia medica as well as dispensatory of simple and compound drugs, which is devoted to treating the soul and remains unparalleled in the history of Islamicate medicine.
My doctoral dissertation offers a complete recension and translation of the Mufarriḥ an-nafs based on a stemma codicum drawn from the seventeen extant text witnesses. The dissertation contextualizes the work, its author as well as sources, and features a text commentary that seeks to enable the reader to easily place and understand the Mufarriḥ an-nafs within the tradition of Galenic medicine. The glossaries on materia medica found at the end of the dissertation are aimed at facilitating access to the pharmacological dispensatory included in the seventh chapter
Exploratory Study of Reservoir Sedimentation by 2D and 3D Mathematical Modelling
No full textDifferent processes and phenomena related to reservoir sedimentation were simulated for a real and schematized reservoir, using Delft3D software, results were compared with the sedimentation of the Cachi Reservoir in Costa Rica
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