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T-Cell Subsets Predict Mortality in Malnourished Zambian Adults Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy.
No full textThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedTo estimate the prognostic value of T-cell subsets in Zambian patients initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), and to assess the impact of a nutritional intervention on T-cell subsets.This work was supported by European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership grant # IP.2009.33011.004; trial foods were prepared and supplied by Nutriset, Malauney, Franc
Shop window lighting: the use of sun to improve the visual appeal and reduce energy demand
No full textThe present study deals with the potential reduction of energy consumption for the lighting of shop window displays, which is a highly energy-consuming sector. Light has the power of attracting people´s attention, which is one of the goals of the trading and selling activity and very high illuminance levels are usually recommended. In the Mediterranean areas, where daytime lasts for many hours, commercial activity takes place mainly under sunshine conditions and shop windows frequently fail to fulfil their main corporative goal, namely the unobstructed observation of the products exhibited. The necessary increase of artificial lighting illuminance levels to accent interior light conditions, due to extremely high-luminance urban surroundings, leads to an important increase of energy consumption, as a common solution. Nevertheless, the results are generally very poor, because reflections and other kinds of visual problems still defy solution and the final result is an economic and energy waste during daytime, especially in low latitude countries. The present study evaluates the visual and energetic benefits of an innovative passive design that obstructs solar rays and redirects them into the interior of the shop window scene. A scale model of this new design confirms the visual benefits produced by its use, via the different luminance maps tested. This new lighting passive system results in a very simple, effective and low cost solution. The most important fact is that high illuminance levels are achieved and, simultaneously, there is important energy reduction, taking advantage of natural light instead of competing with sun power.Postprint (published version
Shop window lighting: the use of sun to improve the visual appeal and reduce energy demand
No full textThe present study deals with the potential reduction of energy consumption for the lighting of shop window displays, which is a highly energy-consuming sector. Light has the power of attracting people´s attention, which is one of the goals of the trading and selling activity and very high illuminance levels are usually recommended. In the Mediterranean areas, where daytime lasts for many hours, commercial activity takes place mainly under sunshine conditions and shop windows frequently fail to fulfil their main corporative goal, namely the unobstructed observation of the products exhibited. The necessary increase of artificial lighting illuminance levels to accent interior light conditions, due to extremely high-luminance urban surroundings, leads to an important increase of energy consumption, as a common solution. Nevertheless, the results are generally very poor, because reflections and other kinds of visual problems still defy solution and the final result is an economic and energy waste during daytime, especially in low latitude countries. The present study evaluates the visual and energetic benefits of an innovative passive design that obstructs solar rays and redirects them into the interior of the shop window scene. A scale model of this new design confirms the visual benefits produced by its use, via the different luminance maps tested. This new lighting passive system results in a very simple, effective and low cost solution. The most important fact is that high illuminance levels are achieved and, simultaneously, there is important energy reduction, taking advantage of natural light instead of competing with sun power.Postprint (published version
Sistemas de protección para las personas con enfermedad mental, de las XII Tablas a la nueva reforma de la Ley 8/2021 de 2 de junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica : referencia especial a la cura furiosi
No full textEn el presente trabajo la autora examina distintos paralelismos en cuanto a la flexibilidad y elasticidad de la institución de la curatela en Roma, que posibilitan la vigencia de las soluciones romanas en la reforma de la Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, teniendo en cuenta que la preeminencia del principio de la voluntad de la persona discapacitada deriva de implementación en este ámbito de los Derechos Humanos.In this paper, the author examines different parallels in terms of the flexibility and elasticity of the institution of guardianship in Rome, which make possible the validity of Roman solutions in the reform of Law 8/2021, of 2 June, which reforms civil and procedural legislation to support persons with disabilities in the exercise of their legal capacity, taking into account that the pre-eminence of the principle of the will of the disabled person derives from the implementation in this area of Human Rights
Seminari de Literatura i Cultura de l’Edat Mitjana i l’Edat Moderna (SLIMM) del Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat de Barcelona (2012-2013)
No full textSeminari de Literatura i Cultura de l'Edat Mitjanai l'Edat Moderna (SLIMM) of the Catalan Philology Department of the University of Barcelona (2011-2012)
No full textSeminari de Literatura i Cultura de l’Edat Mitjana i l’Edat Moderna (SLIMM) del Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat de Barcelona (2013-2014)
No full textASYMMETRIC TOP CONTOUR SIMULATION AND VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF ISOPROPYL FORMATE
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, Texas A\&H University; Department of Chemistry, Texas A\&H University; Laboratorium Anorganische Scheikunde, Universiteit Antwerpen. Rijksuniversitair Centrum AntwerpenIsopropyl formate and four isotopically deuterated derivatives have been synthesized. The vapor, liquid, and solid (amorphous and crystalline) infrared and Raman spectra have been recorded and interpreted for all five compounds with attention given to the presence of one or more conformers. Low temperature mid-infrared polarization experiments were used to facilitate assignments of various bonds. Previous investigations have suggested that the dominant conformer has a structure in which the COCH torsional angle is approximately 40. Using asymmetric top theory, the vapor phase contours for the carbony1 stretch of the compound and the isolated Lsopropy1 C-H stretch of the compound were simulated. These contours were compared to experiment in order to determine the identity of the conformers present in the vapor phase
ROTATIONAL SPECTRUM OF THE FIRST TORSIONAL EXCITED STATE OF ACETONE, CHCOCH
No full text{P. Groner et al., 53rd Ohio State University International Symposium, 1998, presentation TH02{P. Groner, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 4483 (1997)Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099; Institut fur Physikalische Chemie, Universitat Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, GermanyThe first report on the rotational spectrum (260 to 350 GHz) of the first torsional excited state of acetone (80 cm above the ground state) has been presented at an earlier meeting.} Since then, measurements in the regions 72-122 and 176-253 GHz (from JPL) have been added to the analysis with the effective rotional Hamiltonian for molecules with two periodic large-amplituded motions.} Several hundred frequencies have been assigned and fit to near experimental precision The microwave spectrum of acetone at room temperature has been recorded between 12 and 18 GHz with the Kiel Fourier-transform waveguide instrument. Assignment of the transitions of the first torsional excited state in this region is in progress. In contrast to expectations based on the assignments at higher frequencies, this is not a trivial affair. Many other transitions in the mm/sub-mm region of the spectrum have been assigned, but the least-squares fit deteriorates significantly when they are included
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Novel mutations in the vWFA2 domain of COCH in two Chinese DFNA9 families
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