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Letter from Alexander T. Vogelsang to Mr. Snyder regarding the Havasupai reservation with draft of proposed bill
No full textLetter from Alexander Vogelsang to Homer P. Snyder regarding land allocation for the Havasupai Tribe
Foreign direct investment in a macroeconomic framework : finance, efficiency, incentives, and distortions
Full text linkDoes foreign direct investment (FDI) increase domestic investment, or does it provide additional foreign exchange for a pre-existing current account deficit, or some linear combination of the two? The author investigates this question for a group of five Pacific Basin countries and a control group of 11 other developing countries. For the sample of all 16 developing countries, the author finds that FDI does not provide additional balance of payments financing for a pre-existing current account deficit. In the control group of 11 developing countries, FDI is associated with reduced domestic investment - implying that FDI to those countries is simply a close substitute for other capital inflows. For the five Pacific Basin market economies, however, FDI raises domestic investment by the full extent of the FDI inflow. The author finds that FDI has a significantly negative impact on national saving in the sample of all 16 developing countries. For the control group, this negative effect is similar in magnitude to FDI's negative effect on domestic investment - implying a zero effect on the current account. But FDI's negative effect on national saving in the five Pacific Basin developing market economies implies that FDI could have more of a negative effect on the current account than through increased domestic investment alone. The author also investigates the impact of FDI on economic growth in these 16 countries, taking into account distortions in the economies. He estimates reduced-form current account equations, and presents an analytical framework for estimating FDI's effect on economic growth in the presence of incentive-disincentive packages and other economic distortions. He illustrates his framework using indicators of foreign trade and financial distortions. His main conclusion: the effect of FDI differs markedly from one group of countries to another. FDI has a negative effect on economic growth in the control group. It has the same positive effect on growth as domestically financed investment does in the Pacific Basin countries. The main cause for the different effect is the low level of distortion in the Pacific Basin countries.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Foreign Direct Investment,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Macroeconomic Management
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Presentness and the past in contemporary British opera
No full textThis chapter unpacks the presence of a distinctly British medievalism via case studies of two contemporary British operas: Taverner by Peter Maxwell Davies and Arianna by Alexander Goehr. By drawing new connections between spheres of contemporary opera and historically informed early music performance with popular music movements undergoing complementary folk and medieval revivals in the 1960s and 1970s, it seeks to demonstrate the interconnectedness of diverse cultural practices: avant-garde and popular, highbrow and lowbrow. The discussion is framed within the broader context of a forward-looking modernism looking for its inspiration—and innovation—in a distant (and often local) past
Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus
Full text linkBACKGROUND: Diabetic nephropathy is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus and is associated with considerable morbidity and high mortality. There is increasing evidence to suggest that dysregulation of the epigenome is involved in diabetic nephropathy. We assessed whether epigenetic modification of DNA methylation is associated with diabetic nephropathy in a case-control study of 192 Irish patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D). Cases had T1D and nephropathy whereas controls had T1D but no evidence of renal disease. METHODS: We performed DNA methylation profiling in bisulphite converted DNA from cases and controls using the recently developed Illumina Infinium(R) HumanMethylation27 BeadChip, that enables the direct investigation of 27,578 individual cytosines at CpG loci throughout the genome, which are focused on the promoter regions of 14,495 genes. RESULTS: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) analysis indicated that significant components of DNA methylation variation correlated with patient age, time to onset of diabetic nephropathy, and sex. Adjusting for confounding factors using multivariate Cox-regression analyses, and with a false discovery rate (FDR) of 0.05, we observed 19 CpG sites that demonstrated correlations with time to development of diabetic nephropathy. Of note, this included one CpG site located 18 bp upstream of the transcription start site of UNC13B, a gene in which the first intronic SNP rs13293564 has recently been reported to be associated with diabetic nephropathy. CONCLUSION: This high throughput platform was able to successfully interrogate the methylation state of individual cytosines and identified 19 prospective CpG sites associated with risk of diabetic nephropathy. These differences in DNA methylation are worthy of further follow-up in replication studies using larger cohorts of diabetic patients with and without nephropathy
Analysis for dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type models
Full text linkDie vorliegende Dissertation befasst sich mit der mathematischen Modellierung semi-klassischer Licht-Materie-Interaktion. Im semiklassischen Bild wird Materie durch eine Dichtematrix "rho" beschrieben. Das Konzept der Dichtematrizen ist quantenmechanischer Natur. Auf der anderen Seite wird Licht durch ein klassisches elektromagnetisches Feld "(E,H)" beschrieben. Wir stellen einen mathematischen Rahmen vor, in dem wir systematisch dissipative Effekte in die Liouville-von-Neumann-Gleichung inkludieren. Bei unserem Ansatz sticht ins Auge, dass Lösungen der resultierenden Gleichung eine intrinsische Liapunov-Funktion besitzen. Anschließend koppeln wir die resultierende Gleichung mit den Maxwell-Gleichungen und erhalten ein neues selbstkonsistentes, dissipatives Modell vom Maxwell-Bloch-Typ. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit liegt auf der intensiven mathematischen Studie des dissipativen Modells vom Maxwell-Bloch-Typ. Da das Modell Lipschitz-Stetigkeit vermissen lassen, kreieren wir eine regularisierte Version des Modells, das Lipschitz-stetig ist. Wir beschränken unsere Analyse im Wesentlichen auf die Lipschitz-stetige Regularisierung. Für regularisierte Versionen des dissipativen Modells zeigen wir die Existenz von Lösungen des zugehörigen Anfangswertproblems. Der Kern des Existenzbeweises besteht aus einem Resultat von ``compensated compactness'''', das von P. Gérard bewiesen wurde, sowie aus einem Lemma vom Rellich-Typ. In Teilen folgt dieser Beweis dem Vorgehen einer älteren Arbeit von J.-L. Joly, G. Métivier und J. Rauch.This thesis deals with the mathematical modeling of semi-classical matter-light interaction. In the semi-classical picture, matter is described by a density matrix "rho", a quantum mechanical concept. Light on the other hand, is described by a classical electromagnetic field "(E,H)". We give a short overview of the physical background, introduce the usual coupling mechanism and derive the classical Maxwell-Bloch equations which have intensively been studied in the literature. Moreover, We introduce a mathematical framework in which we state a systematic approach to include dissipative effects in the Liouville-von-Neumann equation. The striking advantage of our approach is the intrinsic existence of a Liapunov function for solutions to the resulting evolution equation. Next, we couple the resulting equation to the Maxwell equations and arrive at a new self-consistent dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model for semi-classical matter-light interaction. The main focus of this work lies on the intensive mathematical study of the dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model. Since our model lacks Lipschitz continuity, we create a regularized version of the model that is Lipschitz continuous. We mostly restrict our analysis to the Lipschitz continuous regularization. For regularized versions of the dissipative Maxwell-Bloch type model, we prove existence of solutions to the corresponding Cauchy problem. The core of the proof is based on results from compensated compactness due to P. Gérard and a Rellich type lemma. In parts, this proof closely follows the lines of an earlier work due to J.-L. Joly, G. Métivier and J. Rauch
Hyperamylasemia post living donor nephrectomy does not relate to pain
Full text linkIntroduction
The aetiology of pain after laparoscopic donor nephrectomy remains unclear. Given the
proximity of the left kidney to the tail of the pancreas, we aimed to assess whether mobilisation
and retrieval of the left kidney might inflame the pancreas, leading to pain and
hyperamylasaemia in the post-operative period.
Patient and methods
In the present study, 16 consecutive live kidney donors were analysed in the same three months
period. Amylase levels were measured on days 1 and 2. For each 24-hour period postoperatively
analgesia consumption was recorded, as well as pain scores at rest on a visual
analogue scale (VAS).
Results
Three out of 16 donors presented hyperamylasemia. A multiple regression analysis found
levobupivacaine dose, propofol dose, transversus abdominis plane block and day 1 amylase did
not significantly predict pain scores. Interestingly, body mass index significantly correlated
with increased pain scores (p = 0.041). Also, increasing CO2 insufflation pressure and use of
local anaesthetic infusion catheters predicted a decreased deep pain score (p = 0.036 and p =
0.037).
Conclusion
There was no correlation of amylase levels and pain scores. Pancreatitis is a rare complication
of nephrectomy and no overt cases were seen in the case of donor nephrectomy
LIFE AND WORK OF ALEXANDER RAUTER
Full text linkNamen diplomskega dela Življenje in delo Aleksandra Rauterja – duhovnika, pesnika in profesorja matematike – je bil, predstaviti Rauterjevo literarno ustvarjanje na podlagi sedmih tematskih sklopov, in sicer ljubezni, smrti, življenja, duhovnih, zgodovinskih in ljudskih pesmi ter pesmi, ki jih je pesnik posvetil pesnikom in pisateljem. Pričujoče delo prinaša strnjen pregled njegovega literarnega ustvarjanja, iskanje podobnosti in razlik med posameznimi pesniškimi zbirkami. Diplomsko delo je bilo teoretično zastavljeno, nastalo je s poglobljenim študijem literature in virov, tako da predstavlja ustvarjalen prispevek. Pri obravnavi so bile uporabljene naslednje metode: deskriptivna metoda (življenjepis Aleksandra Rauterja), komparativna metoda (primerjanje tematskih sklopov ljubezni, smrti, življenja, duhovne, zgodovinske in ljudske pesmi ter pesmi o pesnikih in pisateljih), metoda klasifikacije (umestitev literarnega ustvarjanja Aleksandra Rauterja v slovenski prostor in književnost) ter metoda sinteze in analize (analiza ugotovljenih dejstev). Pri analiziranju in sintetiziranju Rauterjevih literarnih del se je pokazalo, da so motivi zelo različni, saj je obseg njegovega zanimanja za raznovrstno tematiko zelo obsežen. Snov je pri večini pesmi vzeta iz avtorjevih doživetij in doživljanj, zato je pogosto opazna njegova refleksija. Prepoznavna sporočilnost njegovih pesmi je, da majhnim dogodkom pripiše velik pomenskozi te želi bralce svoje poezije voditi v skladu s krščanskimi vrednotami in nauki.The purpose of diploma thesis “Life and work of Alexander Rauter”, a priest, poet and professor of mathematics, was to present Rauter\u27s literary work based on seven themes. These themes are love, death, life, spiritual, historical and folk songs as well as lyrics which the poet dedicated to poets and writers. The present work provides a concise overview of his literary work as well as searching for similarities and differences between his collections of poetry. The thesis is based on theory and is the result of a thorough study of literature and other sources. The following theoretical methods were used: the descriptive method (Alexander Rauter’s curriculum vitæ), the comparative method (comparing the themes of love, death, life, spiritual, historical and folk songs and poems about poets and writers), the method of classification (classifying Alexander Rauter’s literary work in Slovene area and literature) and the method of synthesis and analysis (analysis of facts). In the analysis and synthesis of Rauter\u27s literary work is shown that the motives are very different because of his interest for a variety of topics. The subject of his poems is mostly taken from the author\u27s experience and perception and therefore his reflection is often noticeable. Recognizable characteristic of his poems is that small events are given great significance through which the author wants to lead readers of his poetry accordant with Christian values and doctrine
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq., to which is prefixed the life of the author,
No full textIncludes his translations of Homer, and Parnell's translation of The battle of the frogs and mice (Batrachomyomachia) corrected by Pope.Added t.-p., engr.: The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq. Including his translation of Homer.Mode of access: Internet
The universal prayer: By the author of the Essay on man.
No full text7,[1]p. ; 2⁰.The author of the Essay on man = Alexander Pope.This edition has "Incence" in last line.Reproduction of original from the British Library.Foxon, P982Griffith, 492English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT5757.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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