22,370 research outputs found
Toora wind farm, South Gippsland region, Victoria 2006 [transparency] /
No full textTitle from acquisition documentation.; Inscriptions: "Australia. Victoria. Eastern. Strzelecki Ra. Toora wind farm. Generators & blades, Nov 2006. 55691.03"--On mount.; Part of the collection: Robin Smith slide collection of Australian people, industry and agricultural activities.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4235776
Johnson C. Smith University 100th Anniversary Committee
No full textPhotograph of Johnson C. Smith Univerity's 100th anniversary committeeIsmael A. Santiago Photographer 29 Tuckerman St NW Wash DC RA. 3-245
Relationship Between Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Hot Flash Experience, and Habitual Physical Activity in Healthy Perimenopausal People
No full textCardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death for women in the United States and all around the world. Perimenopause is a period of transition to the final menstrual period when women experience vasomotor symptoms (i.e., hot flashes and night sweats), and increased risk for CVD. Vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness are preclinical CVD risk factors that precede the clinical manifestation of CVD. Hot flashes (HF) are bothersome symptoms of menopause and are correlated with some subclinical CVD risk factors, but the exact relationships between HF and CVD risk remain inconclusive. Habitual physical activity (PA) influences prevention and treatment of CVD in many populations. However, the role of habitual PA to benefit vascular health in perimenopausal people remains unclear.
The aims of this project were to: 1) determine the relations between subclinical vascular CVD risk factors including endothelial function and arterial stiffness and HFs and 2) measure associations between vascular CVD risk factors and habitual PA in healthy perimenopausal people. We hypothesized that (1) endothelial function will decrease and arterial stiffness will increase with increasing HF experience and (2) endothelial function will increase, and arterial stiffness will decrease with increasing habitual PA.
Healthy perimenopausal women who were non-smoking and free from CVD risk factors were recruited. The endothelial function was measured in two ways: (1) flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and (2) plasma endothelin-1 (ET-1). Arterial stiffness was measured via (1) carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) and (2) augmentation index (AIx) and wave reflection variables (Pf, Pb, and RM). Hot flash experience was measured objectively for 24 hours using ambulatory sternal skin conductance monitoring and habitual PA activity was quantified objectively using a 7-day PA accelerometer. All statistical analyses were performed using R (version 4.2.3) and RStudio (2023.06.2+561). Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to evaluate the associations between dependent and outcome variables.
There were 62 perimenopausal women included in our analysis. Lower endothelial function (i.e., FMD and ET-1) and higher arterial stiffness (i.e., AIx, Pb, and RM) were significantly associated with more objective HFs. Lower arterial stiffness (i.e., AIx and RM) was associated with greater amounts of moderate-vigorous PA. Endothelial health was not correlated with PA in this study.
Hot flashes should be monitored as they may be associated with negative CVD outcomes in perimenopausal women. Performing moderate-vigorous physical activity may be worth considering in decreasing arterial stiffness in healthy women going through menopausal transition
Potential Afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the Relation of Film and Performance
Get PDFIn this conversation with the book’s editors, filmmaker and multimedia artist Cauleen Smith discusses the possible afterlives of her works— as documentation, as reenactment, and as memory. She explains the relation between film and performance, noting that she approaches every project as a film, whether or not it results in one, and stresses the importance of embracing contingency in her work. Works included in the discussion are Drylongso (1998), Remote Viewing (2011), Sojourner (2019), and Space is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011), the last of which documents the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band, a “flash mob” Smith organized in Chicago, for which a high school marching band played the music of Sun Ra. She also speaks about Black Love Procession, a collective performance—part celebratory parade, part political protest—that she organized in Chicago in 2015. As Smith explains, revisiting the past—as she has done in several different ways— has the potential both to resurrect old traumas but also to build a better future
Trombone Trombining Tra ra! Tra ra! Tra ra! [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceads on back cover for T.B. Harms stockJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
154, Item 037Words by Harry B. Smith. Music by Jerome Kern.Messrs. Shubert Present Oh I Say
Trombone Trombining Tra ra! Tra ra! Tra ra! [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voiceads on back cover for T.B. Harms stockJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
154, Item 037Words by Harry B. Smith. Music by Jerome Kern.Messrs. Shubert Present Oh I Say
The Swedish Two-County Trial twenty years later: updated mortality results and new insights from long-term follow-up
No full textRayleigh number dependence of the Archimedes number dependent large-scale flow structure formation in mixed convection
No full textWe report on experimental investigations of large-scale flow structure formation in mixed convection. We characterize the flow field by measuring the velocity fields within a rectangular model room using 2D2C PIV. The control parameters are the Reynolds number Re, the Rayleigh number Ra and the Prandtl number Pr. All parameters are linked through the Archimedes number Ar. In 6.4x10-2 ≤ Ar ≤ 1.39x101, 4.2x103 ≤ Re ≤ 6.35x104 and Ra = 3.1x107, Ra = 1.8x108 and Pr = 0.713 we found flow 3 different flow structures. While keeping Ra and Pr constant and varying Ar through Re variations, we found an Ar dependence of the largescale flow structure formation within 6.4x10-2 ≤ Ar ≤ 1.39x101. Furthermore, we found a Ra dependence of the structure formation, which shifts the transition points between the structures to higher Archimedes numbers and reduces the mean velocities within the investigated domain
Readers’ Advisory: Trends and Directions in RA Education
No full textThe last two issues of the Readers’ Advisory (RA) column have featured thoughtful, though somewhat different, views of the future of services to readers in public libraries. Duncan Smith and Bill Crowley share an understanding of the value and importance of RA services, if disagreeing on the steps to ensure the continued success of those services. Here, Stephanie Anderson looks at a topic that lays the foundation for the future of RA practice: RA education.—Edito
Smith - Miller + Hawkinson : una tipología narrativa
No full textThe work of Smith-Miller + Hawkinson; a proramatic approach to architecture, focused on the dinamics and flexibility of space.Una aproximación a la arquitectura a través del programa, y un especial interés en cómo la arquitectura puede registrar el movimiento alejándose del sentido de pertenencia tan omnipresente en nuestra manera de entender el espacio, son las ideas que surgen con mayor vigor de la obra de los arquitectos Smith-Miller + Hawkinson
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