111 research outputs found
Impact of renin-angiotensin system genetic polymorphisms on short- and long-term survival rates in patients with severe pressure overload cardiomyopathy
No full textInter-Organizational Co-Creation: An Approach to Support Energy Transition Projects
No full textSocietal challenges such as climate change and inefficiency of energysystems more and more crave for a sustainable environment. Research proved thatrestructuring energy systems into more sustainable forms, called “Energy Transition”, has faced challenges. How to deal with these challenges requires the cocreation between various actors with multiple disciplines, expertise, and perspectivesfrom different organizations. The research question to be answered here is whetherco-creation helps the interaction between different actors in an inter-organizationalproject for the sake of better project results. By doing case study research in theNetherlands, an example of co-creation project in its front-end phase was investigatedregarding the interaction among different actors involved in the project. The researchrevealed that in the case of a co-creation project the multiple actors collaborate acrossorganizational boundaries in order to unite. This leads to a better solution-findingapproach. Openness, trust and respect are valued more in co-creation. Moreover,the project team is better integrated to work towards a shared interest which aresocial benefits. The co-creation facilitated the data-sharing among the key actorsin the project which traditionally is influenced highly by the mother-organizations’culture. Further research will investigate the transition in organizations to supportthe co-creation approach.Green 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.Integral Design & Managemen
Minimally invasive hybrid myocardial revascularisation. Short and long-term clinical follow-up
No full textFactors Affecting the Integration of Sustainability in the Early Project Phases in an Integrated Project Management Model
No full textThis study investigates the factors affecting the integration of sustainability into the project management of infrastructure projects, specifically highway projects during early phases. The research was drawn upon previous studies in order to develop a sustainability framework for measuring the project success in three aspects of sustainability: People, Planet, and Prosperity (triple bottom line). Next, Critical Success Factor (CSF) framework in the construction sector was extracted through a comprehensive literature review. A qualitative cross-case analysis was conducted on three sustainability-oriented highways projects in the Netherlands. Data were collected through document review and twelve in-depth interviews with different roles of Integrated Project Management (IPM) model. The findings suggest that each IPM role is inclined towards specific sustainability dimension which affects the application of sustainability CSFs. The results reveal that among the sixteen identified CSFs promoting the integration of sustainability, following factors were acknowledged by all the IPM roles: awareness of project external factors, clearly defined scope, clearly defined goals/ambitions. Further, the paper conceptualizes a model for integrating key roles involved in the project management of infrastructure projects. The model is based on the triple bottom line of sustainability bringing all the roles involved in the project management of infrastructure projects together.Green 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.Integral Design & ManagementPublic Commissionin
Renin-Angiotensin System Genetic Polymorphisms Associate with Left Ventricular Remodeling and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Severe Pressure Overload Cardiomyopathy
No full textCityPortUnit Innovation through localisation: Reading, negotiating and altering existing conditions
No full textCityPortUnit is an investigation into why and how architectural programs are created. Can our cities be seen as entities in synchrony, as nodes of decentralised networks and if so, how does this impact their response to changes in neighbouring or distant nodes? The project and research try to answer these question by proposing a link to strengthen relations between Port and City in Rotterdam, a showcase for an innovative industry that promises to alter our way of using natural resources, The Algal Biomass Industry. As new programs emerge, technologies and materials may inform and radically impact the way in which we perceive urban space and well established urban genres. We develop a design process driven by local conditions, through algorithmic design and digital fabrication, as we look more in detail at materialization and the use of 3D Printed Fibrous Assemblages.HyperbodyArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Consumo de alimentos vegetales fermentados y cambios en la microbiota intestinal: una revisión bibliográfica
No full textAntecedentes: la microbiota intestinal, compuesta por más de miles de millones de bacterias, desempeña un papel crucial en la salud humana, participando en funciones inmunológicas, metabólicas y nutricionales. Los alimentos fermentados, ricos en probióticos, pueden modular positivamente esta microbiota, contribuyendo a la prevención y tratamiento de diversas enfermedades. Objetivo: el presente trabajo pretende examinar el impacto del consumo de alimentos vegetales fermentados en la microbiota intestinal, mediante una revisión bibliográfica de ensayos clínicos. Metodología: se realizó una búsqueda exhaustiva en las bases de datos Medline y Cochrane, utilizando los términos alternativos al descriptor ‘‘alimentos de soja’’: Natto, Tempeh, Miso, el término Kimchi, los descriptores Fermented Foods y Gastrointestinal Microbiome, y los términos libres Fermented vegetables y Sauerkraut. Los filtros de búsqueda aplicados fueron: Clinical Trial y Human. Los estudios incluidos seguían los criterios de inclusión: ensayos clínicos, intervenciones con alimentos vegetales fermentados, bebidas o preparados a partir de extractos vegetales fermentados y evaluación de cambios en la microbiota intestinal. Los criterios de exclusión fueron: estudios observacionales, estudios de intervención en animales y/o estudios de intervención cuyo alimento fuese un lácteo (por ejemplo; kéfir), no estuviese fermentado (proteína de soja) y/o cuyo extracto no procediese de ningún alimento vegetal fermentado. Resultados y discusión: se hallaron 47 estudios y fueron seleccionados 11 estudios clínicos que evaluaron diversos alimentos vegetales fermentados como el kimchi, chucrut y bebidas fermentadas de avena, entre otros. La calidad metodológica de los estudios fue evaluada utilizando la escala de Jadad y la mayoría poseía una buena calidad metodológica. Se analizó la diversidad microbiana mediante el análisis del gen 16S DNAr y 16S RNAr. En varios estudios se observó una mejora de la salud intestinal al aumentar BAL (bacterias del ácido láctico) como Lactobacillus y/o Lactococcus, del género Ruminococcus, bacterias del filo Firmicutes y Bacteroidetes y al disminuir Proteobacterias, entre otras. Conclusión: el consumo regular de alimentos vegetales fermentados puede ofrecer beneficios significativos para la salud intestinal, sugiriendo su potencial uso en intervenciones dietéticas tanto en poblaciones sanas como en individuos con enfermedades crónicas o agudas. Esta revisión destaca la importancia de seguir investigando en este campo para comprender mejor los mecanismos y efectos terapéuticos de los alimentos fermentados en la microbiota intestinal
The Legal Contest at the Execution of an executory Title Emitted by a Public Authority
No full textThe public authority, naturally, acting in regime of a public power for the redressing of the publicand legal interests, emits administrative acts as well as administrative jurisdictional documents. Under certaincircumstances these acts may wrong the legal rights or interests of anyone. The law of the administrativedisputed claims office offers the legal background for solving the litigations where one of the sides is thepublic authority, and thus, resulting a large area of applicability of whatever(legal) stedy that aims this law.The purpose of elaborating this work is to increase the interest of the jurists to know and apply at the sametime the law of the administrative disputed claims office. The achievement of these objectives is important forboth the elimination of the power excess and for the unitarian practice of the legal instances. At the sametime, the realization of the State of Law implies the observance of the citizenz rights and liberties by thepublic authority. Starting from an authentic species, the author of this work pleads for the claimant and usesas research methods the observation, the problematization, the investigation, the debate and it proposes toanswer the following questions: 1. Does the Law Court-the civil section- have the material competence tojudge the legal contest at the execution of an executory title emitted by a public authoriry? 2. In whatconditions is put into execution the executory title emitted by a public authority? According to the author, thepresent species can be looked upon as a distinct case investigation especially in the universitary fielddepartment
Political violence and economic growth
No full textThis paper analyzes the economic growth impact of organized political violence. First, the authors articulate the theoretical underpinnings of the growth impact of political violence in a popular model of growth under uncertainty. The authors show that, under plausible assumptions regarding attitudes toward risk, the overall effects of organized political violence are likely to be much higher than its direct capital destruction impact. Second, using a quantitative model of violence that distinguishes between three levels of political violence (riots, coups, and civil war), the authors use predicted probabilities of aggregate violence and its three manifestations to identify their growth effects in an encompassing growth model. Panel regressions suggest that organized political violence, especially civil war, significantly lowers long-term economic growth. Moreover, unlike most previous studies, the authors also find ethnic fractionalization to have a negative and direct effect on growth, though its effect is substantially ameliorated by the institutions specific to a non-factional partial democracy. Third, the results show that Sub-Saharan Africa has been disproportionately impacted by civil war, which explains a substantial share of its economic decline, including the widening income gap relative to East Asia. Civil wars have also been costly for Sub-Saharan Africa. For the case of Sudan, a typical large African country experiencing a long-duration conflict, the cost of war amounts to $46 billion (in 2000 fixed prices), whichis roughly double the country's current stock of external debt. Fourth, the authors suggest that to break free from its conflict-underdevelopment trap, Africa needs to better manage its ethnic diversity. The way to do this would be to develop inclusive, non-factional democracy. A democratic but factional polity would not work, and would be only marginally better than an authoritarian regime.Post Conflict Reconstruction,Population Policies,Hazard Risk Management,Post Conflict Reintegration,Social Conflict and Violence
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