131 research outputs found
Nitratherkunft im Bodenwasser und Grundwasser = Origine des nitrates dans l'eau du sol et les eaux souterraines
No full textUntersuchungsgebiet unteres Birstal zwischen Reinach und Aesc
Women’s Visions/ Imaginaries: Futuring energy for Mexico City’s public markets
No full textIn this PhD thesis, the author considers that mobilizing a single future limits the possibilities of transforming energy systems, as it excludes multiple voices and visions. The thesis begins as an interrogation of the role of socio-technical imaginaries and visions of energy and becomes a creative and playful exploration of plural and diverse futures, based on alternative imaginaries
ploewe/MOSS: v1.0
No full textThis is the first release of the MOSS codebase in its transient GitHub repository to ensure long term preservation of the codebase, scientific citation and due credit to the original authors (including Carl N Reed III and Sol Katz)
Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany
No full text"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for caring for young children should be ready for employment or labor market program participation have grown stronger. However, discretion for program assignments is left to individual case managers in employment offices. Thus, lone mothers' participation in labor market programs is studied empirically here. This can contribute to determining the extent to which lone mothers are treated as adult workers in interactions with welfare state institutions in Germany. Entries into labor market programs are analyzed on the basis of large-scale administrative data using event-history analysis. Findings are that lone mothers' participation rates in workfare programs and class-room training programs closely approach or even surpass those of single childless women by the time their youngest child is 3 - 5 years old. In the case of programs that give more direct support for entering regular employment, like job subsidies and in-firm training programs, however, lone mothers' participation rates do not reach those of childless single women until their children are 6 - 9 or even 15 - 17 years old." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))allein Erziehende, Mütter, arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme - Erfolgskontrolle, Teilnehmer, Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger, Langzeitarbeitslose, Trainingsmaßnahme, Einstiegsgeld, Eingliederungszuschuss, Arbeitsgelegenheit, Kinder, altersspezifische Faktoren
Cubes and Concepts:Notes on possible relations between minimal art and architecture
No full textThe article discusses the links and interchanges between art and architecture in the late sixties and early seventies with emphasis on the exchanges between conceptual or minimal art and architecture. The basic assumption of the article is that the rigorous conceptualisation that characterised minimal artist was transferred into some advanced architectural practices during the late sixties and early seventies. The text examines relations and differences between artists (mainly Sol Lewitt) and architects (mainly Peter Eisenman) and argues that this discussion is still relevant to current practices exploring the potentials of digital based design through the use of parametrics, scripting etc. The text concludes with an example of design-based research conducted by the author, which reflects on the themes raised in the article.
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Straipsnyje analizuojamos XX a. septintojo dešimtmečio pabaigai ir aštuntojo dešimtmečio pradžiai būdingos kai kurios konceptualizmo ir minimalizmo apraiškos skulptūroje ir architektūroje. Tyrimas remiasi prielaida, kad griežtai konceptualių metodų taikymas iš minimalistinės skulptūros buvo perkeltas į kai kurias progresyvias architektūrines praktikas. Aptariant sąsajas tarp skulptorių, tokių kaip Sol Lewittas, ir architektų, tokių kaip Peteris Eisenmanas, siekiama atskleisti, kad jų kūryboje plėtotos idėjos vis dar išlieka aktualios šių dienų meninėje architektūros kūryboje, tiriančioje kompiuterinio projektavimo galimybes, naudojant parametrinį modeliavimą, veiksmus automatizuojantį programavimą (scriptingą). Analizė iliustruojama modeliais, kuriuos autorius per meninį tyrimą sukūrė pritaikęs straipsnyje nagrinėtus metodus.
First Publish Online: 22 May 2013
Reikšminiai žodžiai: minimalus menas, Sol Lewitt, Peter Eisenman, kompiuterinis projektavimas, meninis tyrimas, architektūros teorij
Electrospinning of Ceramic Solid Electrolyte Nanowires for Lithium-Ion Batteries with Enhanced Ionic Conductivity
No full textabstract: Solid electrolytes have great potential to address the safety issues of Li-ion batteries, but better synthesis methods are still required for ceramics electrolytes such as lithium lanthanum titanate (LLTO) and lithium lanthanum zirconate (LLZO). Pellets made from ceramic nanopowders using conventional sintering can be porous due to the agglomeration of nanoparticles (NPs). Electrospinning is a simple and versatile technique for preparing oxide ceramic nanowires (NWs) and was used to prepare electrospun LLTO and LLZO NWs. Pellets prepared from the electrospun LLTO NWs had higher density, less void space, and higher Li+ conductivity compared to those comprised of LLTO prepared with conventional sol-gel methods, which demonstrated the potential that electrospinning can provide towards improving the properties of sol-gel derived ceramics. Cubic phase LLZO was stabilized at room temperature in the form of electrospun NWs without extrinsic dopants. Bulk LLZO with tetragonal structure was transformed to the cubic phase using particle size reduction via ball milling. Heating conditions that promoted particle coalescence and grain growth induced a transformation from the cubic to tetragonal phase in both types of nanostructured LLZO. Composite polymer solid electrolyte was fabricated using LLZO NWs as the filler and showed an improved ionic conductivity at room temperature. Nuclear magnetic resonance studies show that LLZO NWs partially modify the polymer matrix and create preferential pathways for Li+ conduction through the modified polymer regions. Doping did not have significant effect on improving the overall conductivity as the interfaces played a predominant role. By comparing fillers with different morphologies and intrinsic conductivities, it was found that both NW morphology and high intrinsic conductivity are desired.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Materials Science and Engineering 201
Practised imagination : tracing transnational networks in Crete and beyond ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
No full textThe imagination has become a major site for studying transnational cultural flows. Yet it is mainly the mass media that are explored as channels directing the imagination from "the West" towards "the rest". And there is still little empirical "testing" of this field. How do such ‐ and other ‐ imaginary sources work into social practice? And what does such "practised imagination" imply for the practice of transnational anthropology? This article attempts to address these questions from the perspective of fieldwork in progress. In and between Crete and Germany I traced transnational networks based on the reciprocal mobilities of migration, remigration, and tourism. Here, multiple domains of imagination are drawn upon by various audiences, thus effectively contributing to the creation of these relations and the places in which they localise. Anthropological research on tourism and migration has tended to separate the imagination ‐ as being an external impact ‐ from local practice. Yet, transnational ethnography needs to challenge this opposition and is in itself a strategy to do so, in that it perceives the imagination as a practice of transcending physical and cultural distance
Influencias olmecas y teotihuacanas en el oriente de la península de Yucatán. Antropología. Boletín Oficial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Cien años. Anales del Museo Nacional de México (1877-1977). Num. 69 Nueva Época (2003) enero-marzo
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Topical Brazilian propolis improves corneal wound healing and inflammation in rats following alkali burns
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The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of the Brazilian Scaptotrigona sp propolis, a widely used folk medicine, in corneal wound healing and inflammation.\ud
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Corneal epithelial defects of 1 mm in diameter were made in the right eyes of Wistar male adult rats by cauterization with silver nitrate sticks. Subsequently, they were divided in two groups (n = 40 rats/group): Brazilian propolis (BP) group was topically treated with a microemulsion containing 1% Brazilian propolis; vehicle (VH) group received the same formulation without propolis. The epithelial defect area was photographed and measured at t = 0 (wound induction), and after 12, 24, 48 and 120 h of treatment. The inflammatory response was evaluated based on counting of neutrophils. Epithelial regeneration rates were determined based on Ki-67 expression in basal epithelial cells. Comparisons were made using the Kruskal-Wallis and the Mann–Whitney U test.\ud
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The BP group presented both smaller epithelial defect areas at 12, 24 and 48 h and fewer corneal infiltrating neutrophils at 24 and 48 h (P < 0.01) than the VH group. These effects were associated with more pervasive Ki-67 staining in the BP group at 12 and 24 h (P < 0.05).\ud
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Topically applied BP accelerated wound healing and reduced the inflammatory response to silver nitrate-induced corneal alkali burns in rats.The authors sincerely acknowledge Rosângela Orlandin Lopes, Mateus Freire Leite, Patrícia Modiano and Aline Turatti, of the Department of Pathology - Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo for their help with the histological preparations and photographs on this study. We also acknowledge the NIH Fellows Editorial Board for editorial assistance and Peter Sol Reinach for his careful assistance in the revision of the English grammar and style
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
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