553 research outputs found
El pantheon real, funebre aparato a las exequias, que en la ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala se hicieron por el alma, y â la piadosa memoria de nuestra catholica reina, y señora, doña Maria Amalia de Saxonia /
No full textSignatures: [A]² 1² 2(1) B-I² J-P² chi1 Q-T² chi² a-g².Engraved plate depicts catafalque.Includes poetry (Spanish, some Latin).Latin oration by Dighero, Q1r-T2v. Spanish oration by Joseph Til, chi1r-g2v. Both were delivered 27 Sept. 1761.Orations have bibliographical side notes.Mode of access: Internet.Binding: limp vellum. Remains of 2 pairs of ties at foredge. Edges sprinkled black
Tendenze evolutive della disciplina della responsabilità degli operatori marittimi
No full textL'articolo evidenzia gli elementi di novità nella disciplina del settore del trasporto marittimo, a seguito, soprattutto, dell'internazionalizzazione della disciplina, da un lato, e della massiccia introduzione del trasporto containerizzato, dall'altro.
Fra gli aspetti più rilevanti in tema di responsabilità degli operatori marittimi si segnala soprattutto il rapporto fra disciplina di diritto speciale e disciplina di diritto comune, caratterizzato da una crescente tendenza della prima ad occupare ambiti tradizionalmente privi di una specifica disciplina e, perciò, regolati dal diritto comune.
Dal punto di vista soggettivo, l'accento è posto sulla tendenza ad allargare l'ambito di applicazione della disciplina speciale a soggetti che operano nell'ambito delle attività interessate o in stretta connessione con esse, anche se non qualificabili come operatori marittimi.
Per quanto concerne più strettamente il regime di responsabilità, l'intervento segnala un'inversione di tendenza del legislatore internazionale rispetto al passato, ove, per la definizione delle regole di responsabilità operanti nel diritto speciale, erano prevalentemente impiegate le categorie generali di diritto privato o comunque principi mutuati da altri settori dell'ordinamento giuridico
Hypertension and Ischemic Heart Disease in Women
No full textBACKGROUND:
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the most important cause of mortality worldwide. Although the awareness of cardiovascular risk factors and IHD in women has increased over the last decades, mortality rates are still higher in women than in men. Among traditional cardiovascular risk factors, hypertension is associated with a greater risk for IHD in women as compared to men.
METHODS:
In this review, discuss gender differences in epidemiology and pathophysiology of hypertension and its impact on the incidence and outcomes of IHD in women. We also, discuss some "women conditions" such as hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Even though this is not a systematic review, English-language studies on MEDLINE and the Cochrane Database of Systematic reviews were searched for consultation and analysis.
RESULTS:
Hypertension display different epidemiological patterns in men and women. Studies have shown that hypertension has a different proatherogenic effects in men and women. Hypertension has a direct effect on microcirculation, but estrogens have a protective role in this regard in premenopausal women. However, after the decline in estrogen levels, women are exposed to the same cardiovascular risk as males. Postmenopausal women exhibit a greater burden of cardiovascular risk factors, which together with microvascular dysfunction and smaller and stiffer arteries conducts to the worse prognosis observed in women with IHD. "Women specific conditions" such as HDP and PCOS affects 10% of pregnant women and women in reproductive age, respectively. These conditions are associated with increased risk of hypertension and IHD later in life. Although women are more aware of their hypertension, cardiovascular mortality is higher in hypertensive women with comorbid IHD. Yet these gender disparities in outcomes seem to be attenuated with effective therapy.
CONCLUSION:
The pathophysiology of IHD is gender specific, women with ischemic symptoms presenting less often with coronary obstructive disease, and more frequently with dysfunction of the coronary microcirculation. Optimal control of hypertension could attenuate gender related differences in mortality in this population
Fra parole e immagini: il "visibile parlare" nel manoscritto Holkham 514 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, misc. 48)
No full textA (Global) History of What? Three Challenges in Contemporary Music History Writing
No full textWhat challenges do we face when trying to write Histories of music 2.0? How did Global History as a general field impact on music history writing? Are we carrying on our shoulders the legacies of 19th c. music histories when conceiving new ones? Discussing the topic of Eurocentrism in musicology, following Immanuel Wallerstein's description of Eurocentrism in the social sciences, and relating recent musicological works to Sebastian Conrad's description of the field of global history, this article promotes a post-colonial and decolonizing approach to the writing of music histories and singles out three specific challenges inherent to global music history writin
Vegetative growth and water use efficency characterization of durum wheat near isogenic lines for the QTL Qyld.idw-3B
No full textThe study of the genetic basis of grain yield is one of the major challenges of the scientific
community because of both its complex genetic control and the strong interaction with
environment and management practices. Furthermore, such interactions may affect yield during
the entire life cycle of the plant. It is therefore crucial to consider yield as the result of multiple
simpler traits and thus study their genetic control separately. In this study, we used the phenotyping
platform PhenoArch in order to identify growth and water use related traits that may explain the
segregation for yield and plant height observed at the QTL Qyld.idw-3B by Graziani et al. (2010).
Four pairs of durum wheat near-isogenic lines (NILs) for the QTL Qyld.idw-3B were grown at three
levels of drought stress: no stress (soil water potential > -1 bar), mild stress (soil water potential of
-5/-8 bar) and severe stress (soil water potential ≈ -13 bar). The stress was applied at the beginning
of stem elongation until the end of the experiment (late milk stage, Zadok 77) on eight replicates
per genotype per treatment. We recorded two main types of phenotypic data: (i) canopy images
and (ii) weight measurements: every night, digital RGB images were collected. From these images
we estimated several growth related phenotypes like biomass, leaf expansion and plant height;
every plant was weighted to estimate the evapotranspiration at least once per day. Combining these
data, it was possible to evaluate key physiological parameters like water use efficiency (WUE) and
leaf transpiration. The QTL seemed to not affect vegetative behaviour and water use of plants during
the early vegetative stages while majorly differentiating the NILs couples during the reproductive
and earl ripening stages. This explains the segregation for final plant height previously observed by
Graziani et al (2010). These results may provide useful information for further phenotypic as well as
physiological and genetic characterization of the QTL Qyld.idw-3B with a main focus on mid to late
stem elongation and reproductive/maturity stages
An Adaptive Dynamic Mixing Model for sEMG Real-Time ICA on an Ultra-Low Power Processor
No full textSurface electromyography (sEMG) is a State-of-the-Art (SoA) data source for natural and dexterous control in human-machine interaction for industrial, commercial, and rehabilitation use cases. Despite non-invasiveness and versatility, a major challenge for sEMG-based control is the inherent presence of many signal variability factors, which hamper the generalization of automated learning models. In this work, we propose an unsupervised adaptation technique for sEMG classification and apply it to arm posture variability. The approach relies on aligning the Principal Components (PCs) of new data with the PCs of the training set. No classifier retraining is required, and the PCs are estimated online, consuming one sample at a time without storing any data. We validate our method on the UniBo-INAIL dataset, showing that it recovers 37% to 51% of the inter-posture accuracy drop. We deploy our solution on GAP9, a parallel ultra-low-power microcontroller, obtaining a latency within 3.57 ms and an energy consumption within 0.125 mJ per update step. These values satisfy the constraints for real-time operation on embedded devices. Our solution is unsupervised and thus suitable for real incremental learning conditions where ground truth is not available
The "Persian" Identity in Religious Controversies. Again on the case of the "divided loyalty" in Sasanian Iran.
No full textThe author discusses some interesting conclusions proposed by Sebastian Brock, analyzing the special condition of the Christian community in Sasanian Iran, and their concept of "national identity"
Critérios essenciais à implantação da Social Accountability (SA) 8000: um estudo de caso
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produçã
Reconstruction of a 2D layer of KBr on Ir(111) and electromechanical alteration by graphene
No full textA novel reconstruction of a two-dimensional layer of KBr on an Ir(111) surface is observed by high-resolution noncontact atomic force microscopy and verified by density functional theory (DFT). The observed KBr structure is oriented along the main directions of the Ir(111) surface, but forms a characteristic double-line pattern. Comprehensive calculations by DFT, taking into account the observed periodicities, resulted in a new low-energy reconstruction. However, it is fully relaxed into a common cubic structure when a monolayer of graphene is located between substrate and KBr. By using Kelvin probe force microscopy, the work functions of the reconstructed and the cubic configuration of KBr were measured and indicate, in accordance with the DFT calculations, a difference of nearly 900 meV. The difference is due to the strong interaction and local charge displacement of the K; +; /Br; -; ions and the Ir(111) surface, which are reduced by the decoupling effect of graphene, thus yielding different electrical and mechanical properties of the top KBr layer
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