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Bruno Alfieri, “The United States at the 24th Biennale”; Introduction to Carla Lonzi, “An Operative Category”; Introduction to Mario Diacono, “Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauan, Joseph Kosuth”; Introduction to Tommaso Trini, “Art thet is More Realistic than Reality”
No full textLa pubblicazione Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, a cura di C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, include testi di critici di varie nazioni europee dedicati all’arte statunitense dal 1945 al 1990, che non erano mai stati tradotti in inglese, commentati da brevi introduzioni. L’autore dei testi introduttivi ai saggi ha selezionati anche i saggi.
Il testo The United States at the 24th Biennale (Gli Stati Uniti alla XXIV Biennale) di Bruno Alfieri pubblicato in “Arte Contemporanea”, ottobre 1948, è dedicato al Padiglione americano alla Biennale di Venezia del 1948; il testo An Operative Category (Una categoria operativa) di Carla Lonzi pubblicato in “Marcatrè”, n. 8-9-10, luglio-agosto-settembre 1964, è dedicato al new dada e alla pop art presentati alla Biennale di Venezia del 1964; il testo Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth (Materia – Destruttura: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth), di Mario Diacono pubblicato in “Collage, n. 9 dicembre 1970, è dedicato a tre importanti artisti americani di tendenza concettuale e processuale; il testo Art that is More Realistic than Reality” (Un’arte più realista della realtà) di Tommaso Trini pubblicato in “Corriere della Sera”, 19 settembre 1974, è una recensione della mostra tenutasi alla Rotonda della Besana e dedicata all’iperrealismo americano ed europeo.Hot Art, Cold War: Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, edited by C. Hopkins, I.B. Whyte, included text by art critics from several European Nations dedicated to the art in US since 1945 to 1990, never translated in English, analized in brief introductions. The author the introductions to the essays, has previously selected them.
The text The United States at the 24th Biennale by Bruno Alfieri, pubblished in “Arte Contemporanea”, October 1948, is dedicated to the American Pavillion at Venice Biennial 1948; the text An Operative Category by Carla Lonzi, pubblished in “Marcatrè”, no. 8-9-10, July-August-September 1964, is dedicated to new dada and to pop art, showed at Venice Biennial in 1964; the text Matter-Destructure: Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth by Mario Diacono, pubblished in “Collage, no. 9 dicembre 1970, is dedicated to three important American conceptual and processual artists; the text Art that is More Realistic than Reality”, by Tommaso Trini, pubblished in “Corriere della Sera”, September 19 ,1974, is a review of the exhivtion at Rotonda della Besana, Milan, dedicated to American and European hyperrealism
Preservative-free IOP-lowering medications: potential advantages
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I.B. Alekseev1, I.A. Koroleva2
1Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education, Moscow, Russian Federation
2City Clinical Hospital No. 15, Moscow, Russian Federation
According to the World Health Organization, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. Pharmacotherapy for glaucoma implies long-term instillations of IOP-lowering drugs. However, more glaucoma medications per day are required with time. In these cases, fixed-dose combinations containing several active ingredients are beneficial. Potential advantages of fixed-dose combinations include reduced costs, lower risk of washout, less instillations, reduced medication regimen complexity, and saved time. This results in better treatment compliance. Reduced preservative exposure is important as well. Many studies have demonstrated that preservatives induce local adverse reactions. Elimination or minimization of adverse reactions accompanying long-term glaucoma therapy is an important resource to improve treatment compliance and, therefore, to prevent vision loss and to maintain the quality of life. Hence, glaucoma patients may benefit from the avoidance of the addit ional risk of ocular surface disorders resulting from preservative exposure.
Keywords: glaucoma, intraocular pressure, monotherapy, combined treatment, fixed-dose combinations, prostaglandin analogues, ocular surface, compliance, tafluprost, Tapticom.
For citation: Alekseev I.B., Koroleva I.A. Preservative-free IOP-lowering medications: potential advantages. Russian Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology. 2019;19(3):137–142.
About the authors:
1Igor B. Alekseev — MD, PhD, Professor, ORCID iD 0000-0002-4506-4986;
2Irina A. Koroleva — MD, PhD, ophthalmologist, ORCID iD 0000-0003-1679-5701.
1Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education. 2/1, Barrikadnaya str., Moscow, 125993, Russian Federation.
2City Clinical Hospital No. 15. 23, Veshnyakovskaya str., Moscow, 111539, Russian Federation.
Contact information: Irina A. Koroleva, e-mail: [email protected]. Financial Disclosure: no author has a financial or property interest in any material or method mentioned. There is no conflict of interests. Received 24.06.2019.
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A letter to the author of the pamphlet called An answeer [sic] to the Hampshire narrative. : [Three lines from Proverbs]
No full text[4], 84, p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)Half-title: A letter to the author of the answer to the Hampshire narrative.Attributed to Jonathan Edwards by Johnson.Printer's mongram device with initials I.B. on title page; printer unknown.With an errata slip mounted on p. 84 in some copies
Management of root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita) on cowpea with plant extracts
No full textScreen house experiment was conducted to test the efficacies of leaf powder of neem (Azadirachta indica), kassod tree (Cassia siamea), eucalyptus (Eucalyptus gigantea) and locust bean tree (Parkia biglobosa) in the management of Meloidogyne incognita on cowpea yield. In this study, 50g of each of the leaf powder was separately mixed with 4 kg of soil in a 25-cm diameter plastic pot. Non-amended pots served as the control. Cowpea seeds were sown in each pot and each seedling was inoculated with about 3000 freshly hatched juveniles of Meloidogyne incognita two weeks after sowing. The experiment was laid out in a completely randomised design with five replications. The obtained data were analysed using ANOVA and means, while the significance values were separated using the Duncan multiple test. The result of the study showed that all the treatments significantly (p<0.001) reduced root galling and nematode population, as well as improved plant growth and yield of cowpeas. Although all treatments were effective in reducing root galls and nematode population, application of Azadirachta indica leaf powder gave the highest reduction in root galls (0.293) and nematode population (24), followed by Cassia siamea, Eucalyptus gigantea and Parkia biglobosa. The findings recorded root galls and nematode population of 28.25 and 37.34, 29 and 48, and 30 and 53.34 respectively as compared to the control treatment, which recorded root galls of 107.75 and nematode population of 189.34
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
The effect of simulated rain on the activity and uptake of Imazapyr on Mikania Micrantha H.B.K.
No full textThe effect of simulated rain on the activity and uptake of imazapyr was studied on Mikania micrantha H.B.K. The activity of imazapyr was significantly increased both at high concentration of imazapyr and low volumes of staying. Imazapyr required at least six hours between herbicide application and onset of simulated rain to obtain wore than 50% control. Increasing the volume and intensity of simulated rain adversely affected the activity of imazapyr. Lowest percentage of control was obtained at 10 mm and 50 mm/h for volume and intensity of simulated rain respectively. Greater uptake of IfC-imazapyr was recorded in plants pretreated with simulated rain than those without exposure to simulated rain. Tzventy-four hours after treatment, uptake was 78.7% and 70.5% for those exposed to simulated rain and without simulated rain respectively
Fabrication of nitinol nanoparticle using pulsed laser ablation
No full textThis paper consists of the study of the fabrication of Nano material of the Shape memory alloy NiTinol. A
detailed examination is done on the impact of test conditions on the properties of Ni-Ti nanoparticles created by
nanosecond laser ablation of NiTinol target. The paper likewise incorporates the basic circulation of the lighted surface.
The laser wavelengths utilized were 248nm for KrF laser and 1064 nm for Q-exchanged Nd:YAG laser. Nitinol targets
were inundated in mediums like refined water and ethanol. The examples were illuminated with pulses from both the
lasers. 500 pulses were utilized for the investigation of the surface of the objective and 20000 pulses for the molecule age.
The fluences utilized were 2 and 5 J/cm2 individually. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was utilized to think about
the morphology of laser treated NiTi surface and the measure of the produced nanoparticles. Component mapping was
considered through vitality dispersive X-beam spectroscopy (EDX). The outcomes got, was that the ethanol based trial
demonstrates a relative homogeneous natural conveyance in both the laser treated NiTinol surface and the created
nanoparticles. While in refined water inundation, isolate nearness of Nickel and Titanium components was seen on the
illuminated surface and also the produced nanoparticles
Cracking potential of alkali-activated concrete ïnduced by autogenous shrinkage
No full textAlkali activated concrete (AAC) has not received broader industry
acceptance, one reason of which lies in the uncertainties in the durability against
shrinkage and potential cracking. Many studies reported that AAC exhibit larger
autogenous shrinkage than OPC concrete. However, it is unable to deduce that
AAC should show higher cracking potential than OPC concrete only based on the
higher autogenous shrinkage of AAC. The cracking potential of concrete is
determined by multiple factors including autogenous shrinkage, creep/relaxation,
elastic modulus, and tensile properties of the concrete. However, very few studies
have considered these parameters. Furthermore, the influence of precursors (e.g.
slag or fly ash) on the cracking potential of AAC induced by autogenous shrinkage
is also rarely studied. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the autogenous shrinkage-induced cracking potential of slag and fly ash-based AAC. The
free autogenous shrinkage of the specimens is measured by Autogenous
Deformation Testing Machine (ADTM). The autogenous shrinkage-induced stress
and cracking of the concrete under restraint condition is tracked by Thermal Stress
Testing Machine (TSTM). Additionally, the influence of precursors on the autogenous shrinkage induced cracking potential is discussed
Isolation and identification of lactic acid bacteria from Indonesian fermented foods as ?-aminobutyric acid-producing bacteria
No full text?-aminobutyric acid is the most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in brain and has various physiological functions. The aim of this study was to isolated and screened GABA-producing lactic acid bacteria originally from Indonesia. Twelve fermented foods were considered in this study and the ability of LAB as GABA-producing bacteria were analyzed using TLC cellulose plates and pre-staining chromatography method. Six isolates (IFK-10, IFK-11, IFK-12, FN-12, FN-14, FN-15) were able to convert MSG to GABA during 24 h of cultivation. Two strains IFK10 and IFK-11 showed the highest amount of GABA concentration i.e 2.68 and 2.06 mg/ml, respectively. These strains were identified as Lactobacillus plantarum IFK-10 and Pediococcus pentosaceus IFK-11. Two strains of LAB from Indonesian as GABA-producing bacteria have a promising prospect and could support the development of functional foods
Smart materials [SMS] for today’s smart cities: The dawn of a New smart era
No full textAn overview is presented of the current research and development of smartmaterials, including shape-memory alloys, shape-memory ceramics,shape-memory polymers, smart planes, intelligent houses, shape memory textiles, micromachines, self-assembling structures, color-changing paint and nano systems. Th smartmaterials exhibit some novel performances, such as sensoring (thermal, stress or field), large-stroke actuation, high damping, adaptive responses, shape memory and superelasticity capability, which can be utilized in various engineering approaches to smart systems. Smart Materials has emerged as a very innovative productand brought a revolution in many fields includingautomobile industry, smart architecture and on the whole developing a new Smart City.This paper also includes a case study of the Smart City: London as well as a smart car which canbe developed using smartmaterials
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