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Representing silk design: Nicholas Joubert de L'Hiberderie and Le dessinateur pour les etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie (Paris, 1765)
No full textLe Dessinateur pour les étoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie was published in Paris in 1765 depite the reservations of the silk-weaving guild of Lyons, receiving a good response in the Enlightenment press. As the first description on French of the trade of silk designer to appear in the public domain, it has become an important work on which much subsequent history has been based, often rather uncritically. This article delves into the representation of design offered by this text, evaluating it against the personal experience of its author, the literary and manufacturing heritage on which he drew, and the readership for women it was intended. The analysis is based on the form and content of the book, the structure, vocabulary and illustrations. Comparative data are drawn from two other important publications on silk manufacture, the relevant sections of Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie and Jean Paulet's L'Art du fabriquant
Marketing communications plan for L.E. Jones company Menominee, Michigan
No full textThe author researched the feasibility of improving marketing communications for L.E. Jones Company of Menominee, Michigan. Based on career experience and scholarship gained through the Cardinal Stritch Master of Business Administration program, the author was able to identify the problems facing the firm, analyze the marketing communications needs, recommend various alternatives, assist in the selection of alternatives, and create the actual advertising and sales support materials. These improvements in marketing communications will permit the firm to more confidently pursue new business in an increasingly competitive market
Copper Fractionation In Proteins From Plasma, Muscle And Liver Of Nile Tilapia [fracionamento De Cobre Em Proteínas Do Plasma, Músculo E Fígado De Tilápia Do Nilo]
No full textCopper fractionation in plasma, muscle and liver of Nile tilapia was performed after protein separation by 2D-PAGE. SR XRF analysis indicated the presence of copper in three protein spots of plasma, and in two protein spots of muscle and liver, respectively. Copper ions were found to be distributed mostly in proteins that had a molar mass of less than 54 kDa and greater than 13 kDa and a pI in the 5.3-9.3 range. The copper concentration bound to these proteins was determined by GFAAS which showed concentrations in the 1.20-4.82 mg g -1 range.353493498Knox, D., Cowey, C.B., Adron, J.W., (1982) Aquaculture, 27, p. 111Gatlin, D.M., Wilson, P.W., (1986) Aquaculture, 52, p. 191Neves, R.C.F., Moraes, P.M., Silva, F.A., Loureiro, V.R., Saleh, M.A.D., Padilha, C.C.F., Barros, M.M., Padilha, P.M., (2008) Sens. Instrumen. Food Qual., 2, p. 274Neves, R.C.F., Moraes, P.M., Saleh, M.A.D., Loureiro, V.R., Silva, F.A., Barros, M.M., Padilha, C.C.F., Padilha, P.M., (2009) Food Chem., 113, p. 679Sá, M.V.C., Pezzato, L.E., Barros, M.M., Padilha, P.M., (2004) Aquaculture, 238, p. 385Sá, M.V.C., Pezzato, L.E., Barros, M.M., Padilha, P.M., (2005) Aquac. Nutr., 11, p. 273Silva, F.A., Neves, R.C.F., Quintero-Pinto, L.G., Padilha, C.C.F., Jorge, S.M.A., Barros, M.M., Pezzato, L.E., Padilha, P.M., (2007) Chemosphere, 68, p. 1542Loureiro, V.R., Saleh, M.A.D., Moraes, P.M., Neves, R.C.F., Padilha, C.C.F., Padilha, P.M., (2007) J. Braz. Chem. Soc., 18, p. 1235Silva, F.A., Padilha, C.C.F., Pezzato, L.E., Barros, M.M., Padilha, P.M., (2006) Talanta, 69, p. 1025Haraguchi, H., (2004) J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 19, p. 5Szpunar, P., (2004) Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 378, p. 54Gòmez-Ariza, J.L., Garcia-Barrera, T., Lorenzo, F., Bernal, V., Villegas, M.J., Oliveira, V., (2004) Anal. Chim. Acta, 524, p. 15Garcia, J.S., Magalhães, C.S., Arruda, M.A.Z., (2006) Talanta, 69, p. 1Lima, P.M., Neves, R.C.F., Santos, F.A., Pérez, C.A., Silva, M.A.O., Arruda, M.A.Z., Castro, G.R., Padilha, P.M., (2010) Talanta, 82, p. 1056Santos, F.A., Lima, P.M., Neves, R.C.F., Moraes, P.M., Pérez, C.A., Silva, M.A.O., Arruda, M.A.Z., Padilha, P.M., (2011) Microchim. Acta, 173, p. 49Hames, B.D., Rickwood, D., (1990) Gel Electrophoresis of Proteins: A Practical Approach, p. 383. , 2nd ed., IRL Press: New YorkBerkelman, T., Stenstedt, T., (1998) 2-D Electrophoresis: Principles and Methods, p. 101. , Amersham Biosciences: UppsalaLanças, F.M., Silva, J.C.R., Bicudo, R.C., Neto, M.B., (2003) Analytica, 6, p. 60Bradford, M.M., (1976) Anal. Biochem., 72, p. 248Candiano, G., Bruschi, M., Musante, L., Santucci, L., Ghiggeri, G.M., Carnemolla, B., Orecchia, P., Righetti, P.G., (2004) Electrophoresis, 25, p. 1327Weseloh, G., Kuhbacher, M., Bertelsmann, H., Ozaslan, M., Kyriakopoulos, A., Knochel, A., Behne, D., (2004) J. Radioanal. Nuclear Chem., 259, p. 473Saleh, M.A.D., Neves, R.C.F., Silva, F.A., Moraes, P.M., Loureiro, V.R., Roldan, P.S., Padilha, P.M., (2009) Food Anal. Meth., 2, p. 162Garcia, J.S., Sousa, G.H.M.F., Eberlin, M.N., Arruda, M.A.Z., (2009) Metallomics, 1, p. 107Verbi, F.M., Arruda, S.C.C., Rodríguez, A.P.M., Pérez, C.A., Arruda, M.A.Z., (2005) J. Biochem. Biophys. Meth., 62, p. 97Sussulini, A., Garcia, J.S., Mesko, M.F., Moraes, D.P., Flores, E.M., Pérez, C.A., Arruda, M.A.Z., (2007) Microchim. Acta, 158, p. 173Wind, M., Lehamann, W.D., (2004) J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 19, p. 20Padilha, C.C.F., Moraes, P.M., Garcia, L.A., Pozzi, C.M.C., Lima, G.P.P., Valente, J.P.S., Jorge, S.M.A., Padilha, P.M., (2011) Food Anal. Meth., 4, p. 32
The effect of stocking density and a blind on the behavior of Holstein dairy cows in group maternity pens. Part II: Labor length, lying behavior, and social behavior
No full textIn natural settings, dairy cows separate from the herd to give birth. When kept indoors, seeking isolation before calving may be restricted and may depend on space and resources provided in maternity housing. The effect of group maternity pens on behavior around calving and labor progress is unknown. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the effects of stocking density and provision of a blind in group bedded pack maternity pens on lying and social behavior as well as length of labor of preparturient dairy animals. The study was conducted as a complete randomized block design with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments including stocking density and presence or absence of a blind, resulting in a total of 4 treatments: (1) high stocking density (7.7–12.9 m2 lying space/cow) with a blind, (2) low stocking density (15.4–25.8 m2) with a blind, (3) high stocking density without a blind, and (4) low stocking density without a blind. A total of 127 primiparous heifers and 247 multiparous cows were housed in mixed-parity groups from approximately 3 wk before and immediately after calving. During the 4 h before calving, lying behavior (lying time and bouts) was collected automatically using accelerometers, and social behavior (agonistic interactions, allogrooming, and attention from other cows), stage II labor duration, and frequency of position change during stage II labor were collected using video. Lying behavior was collected with accelerometers. Regardless of treatment, lying time and bouts increased as calving approached. Cows and heifers performed more lying bouts in low stocking density pens compared with high stocking density pens. Agonistic interactions and allogrooming were not different between treatments. Other cows spent more time paying attention to focal animals regardless of stocking density as calving approached, but time spent paying attention was reduced by the presence of a blind during h −2 before calving. The hazard of calving unassisted was greater for cows and heifers in low stocking density pens with a blind compared with all other treatments. Further, animals in pens with a blind tended to change positions fewer times during stage II labor. These results suggest that providing a blind in group maternity pens may improve the calving environment for cows and heifers and, in combination with low stocking density, may reduce the amount of time spent in labor
Desafios e possibilidades de flexibilizar o currículo na educação infantil: atividades interdependentes.
No full textTrabalho de Conclusão do Curso de Especialização em Educação Infantil - primeira Edição – Polo Chapecó, para a obtenção do Grau de Especialista em Educação Infantil.O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar elementos destacados do processo de aplicação de um Projeto de Intervenção Pedagógica, o qual teve como finalidade flexibilizar, por meio de atividades interdependentes o currículo de uma turma de educação infantil, respeitando as necessidades, os interesses e os tempos e espaços das crianças. A organização e implementação do Projeto de Intervenção teve diferentes fases, dentre elas, destacam-se a pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a temática escolhida, o registro das manifestações e interesses das crianças, o planejamento e realização das atividades e o registro delas, observando e anotando as ações e reações das crianças no Diário de Campo. A intervenção foi realizada na turma onde trabalho como professora com vinte e cinco crianças com idade de cinco a seis anos da pré-escola de um Centro de Educação Infantil do Oeste de Santa Catarina. O resultado das intervenções nos ajuda a compreender que a prática educativa, permeada por intencionalidade educativa pode partir de acontecimentos inesperados, necessidades e interesses que aparecem no contexto de interação e assim oportunizar a criança a apropriação do conhecimento historicamente produzido. Além disso, respeitar o espaço e o tempo da infância é trabalhar com a compreensão do currículo flexível. O planejamento do dia a dia do professor mostrou-se como sendo muito mais do que uma receita a ser seguida, exigindo conhecimento, dedicação e compromisso não apenas do professor, mas do sistema educacional a que a instituição está ligada, a fim de garantir padrões de a qualidade na educação infantil
On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts
No full textThe paper deals with Frege's distinction between sense and colouring or tone as applied both to proper names and to compound sentences. It argues that Frege's way of drawing this distinction is unsatisfactory, much for the same reasons as Grice's theory of conventional implicature is a non starter. The author suggests that tone may contributes to assertoric content depending on contextually specified circumstances. The phenomenon of linguistic underdetermination is very widespread, and tone is only the tip of an iceberg that we need to explore more fully.
The paper deals with Frege's notions of sense and tone within the framework of recent theories of contextualism, literalism and multi-dimensionalism. Dummett's account of Frege's account of sense is reviewed and extended. The author suggests that tone differs from sense only as regards a higher degree of undeterdeterminationa and occasion sensitivity. Tone contributes to assertoric content, and differs from conventional implicatures, as described by Paul Grice and his followers
Wiring the Binocular Visual Pathways
No full textAuthor Contributions: Conceptualization, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—original draft preparation, V.M.-B. and L.E.; writing—review and editing, V.M.-B. and L.E.; visualization, V.M.-B. Funding: V.M.-B. holds a postdoctoral contract from the Generalitat Valenciana (APOSTD/2016/017).Peer reviewe
Optimizing stakes in simultaneous bets
No full textWe want to find the convex combination S of iid Bernoulli random variables that maximizes P(S ≥ t) for a given threshold t. Endre Csóka conjectured that such an S is an average if t ≥ p, where p is the success probability of the Bernoulli random variables. We prove this conjecture for a range of p and tGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Probabilit
Met Markov ketens op zoek naar de Zero Variance Importance Sampling verdeling
No full textStandaard Monte Carlo is niet geschikt voor het analyseren van Rare Events. We laten zien dat we bij dit soort problemen Importance Sampling kunnen toepassen en hoe we de Zero Variance verdeling kunnen vinden. Deze verdeling hangt echter af van constanten waar we de waarde niet van weten, maar door deze constanten te benaderen krijgen we een benadering van de verdeling. We passen deze methode toe op een eenvoudig (bonimiaal) Credit Risk model. Door de Zero Variance verdeling beter te benaderen, kunnen we een grotere variantie reductie realiseren. We hebben daarom een nieuwe methode ontwikkeld die na elke iteratie een betere benadering van deze verdeling geeft. De variantie reductie bij het gebruik van deze methode is aanzienlijk maar de methode is niet eenvoudig te implementeren.Applied MathematicsDelft Institute of Applied MathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling
No full textNowadays, Monte Carlo integration is a popular tool for estimating high-dimensional, complex integrals. Its scope of application can be widened if ways can be found to produce estimates with smaller variance at the same computational cost. Variance reduction techniques aim to accomplish this. In particular, using importance sampling with the so-called zero-variance distribution would result in a simulation procedure with variance zero. Unfortunately the zero-variance distribution cannot be constructed in practice, as it requires knowledge of the value to be estimated. In this thesis we look at how iterative approximation of the zero-variance distribution can be exploited to yield more efficient Monte Carlo simulations, a technique called adaptive importance sampling. We will explore the characteristics of existing methods for adaptive importance sampling, and prove some generic limit theorems for such methods. Based on the methods by Ping Zhang, which use kernel density estimation to approximate the zero-variance distribution, we then propose Maximally Adaptive Nonparametric Importance Sampling. This variation aims to make better use of the information available by updating its approximation to the zero-variance distribution after every generated sample. We will show that the method (when using n samples) yields an estimator with an asymptotic variance of O(ln(n)n^{-7/6}), faster than methods (eventually) based on i.i.d. replicates. We illustrate the empirical convergence of the method with a simulation experiment, and briefly discuss the issues and considerations related to application of the method in practice.ProbabilityApplied mathematicsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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