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Feeding of Calanus finmarchicus nauplii in the Irminger Sea
No full textRecent studies have shown that the passage from nauplius to copepodite is a key event in the population dynamics of Calanus finmarchicus. As a first step towards understanding if and how trophic interactions influence this event, we investigated the feeding of C. finmarchicus nauplii IV-VI in the Irminger Sea during spring and summer in a series of incubation experiments. Generally, feeding efficiencies were highest on large cells, whereas small flagellates were ingested at very low rates. Colonies of Phaeocystis sp. were not ingested. Among the larger cells, the diatoms Chaetoceros pelagicus and Tropodineis sp. and the ciliate Strombidium sp. were the main food sources. We observed a negative relationship between the percentage of diatoms in the food environment and the filtration rate on Strombidium sp. We therefore suggest that the combination of low feeding efficiency on small cells and the generally low concentrations of ciliates in oceanic waters explains why C. finmarchicus relies on phytoplankton blooms for recruitment from nauplius to the first copepodite stage
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Mr. Melvin J. Collier, RWWL AUC, June 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Mr. Melvin J. Collier. Mr. Collier talks about his book, "From Mississippi to Africa: A Journey of Discovery". Daniel Le, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
La inclusión financiera para la inserción productiva y el papel de la banca de desarrollo
No full textLa inclusión financiera abarca todas las iniciativas públicas y privadas, tanto desde el punto de vista de la demanda como de la oferta, orientadas a brindar servicios a los hogares y las pymes que tradicionalmente están excluidos de los servicios financieros formales, utilizando productos y servicios que se adecuen a sus necesidades. Más allá de ampliar los niveles de acceso financiero y bancarización, la inclusión financiera también se refiere a las políticas para mejorar y perfeccionar el uso del sistema financiero para las pymes y hogares que ya forman parte del circuito financiero formal.
Con esta lógica, la inclusión financiera debe ser concebida como una política de inserción productiva. Se trata de usar el sistema financiero como instrumento para ampliar las posibilidades de ahorro y consumo de las personas y, a la vez, mejorar el aprovechamiento de los talentos empresariales y las oportunidades de inversión. La inclusión financiera permite que el sistema financiero responda a las distintas y heterogéneas necesidades de financiamiento de los hogares en sus distintas fases del ciclo de vida y de las empresas en sus distintas etapas del proceso productivo y tecnológico. Los distintos capítulos de este libro ponen el foco en la capacidad de los bancos de desarrollo para formular instrumentos dirigidos a las pymes, algo fundamental para América Latina y el Caribe ya que estas empresas son actores clave de la estructura productiva y en la creación de empleo.Prólogo .-- Introducción .--- Parte 1. Inclusión financiera e inserción productiva .-- Capítulo I. Hechos estilizados sobre la inclusión financiera en América Latina / Georgina Cipoletta Tomassian, Adriana Matos .-- Capítulo II. La banca de desarrollo y la innovación para la inclusión financiera / Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Daniel Titelman .--- Parte 2. Inclusión financiera, innovación y banca de desarrollo: estudios nacionales .-- Capítulo III. Inclusión financiera de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en la Argentina / Sergio Woyecheszen En colaboración con María Delfina Rossi .-- Capítulo IV. Inclusión financiera de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas en el Brasil / Germano Mendes de Paula, Sávio de Carvalho Araújo, Welber Tomás de Oliveira .-- Capítulo V. Inclusión financiera de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en México: el papel de la banca de desarrollo / Ramón Lecuona V. .-- Capítulo VI. Inclusión financiera de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en Colombia / Luis Alberto Zuleta J. .-- Capítulo VII. Inclusión financiera de las microempresas y las pequeñas y medianas empresas en el Perú: el caso de la banca de desarrollo / Janina León .-- Capítulo VIII. Inclusión financiera de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en el Ecuador / Sylvia Neira Burneo .-- Capítulo IX. Inclusión financiera de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en Costa Rica / Francisco Sancho Villalobos . --- Parte 3. Aspectos comparativos de la inclusión financiera en América Latina .-- Capítulo X. La inclusión financiera en América Latina desde una perspectiva regional / João Carlos Ferraz, Luma Ramos .-- Capítulo XI. Una caja de herramientas para promover la inclusión financiera / Ramón Lecuona, Sylvia Neira Burneo, Luis Alberto Zuleta .--- Parte 4. Conclusiones y reflexiones finales.-- Capítulo XII. Aspectos a considerar en la construcción de un sistema financiero inclusivo para el financiamiento productivo / Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Daniel Titelman y Luis Rodrigo Díaz Pavez
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Evidence for the decay B0→J/ψω and measurement of the relative branching fractions of meson decays to J/ψη and J/ψη′
No full textFirst evidence of the B 0 → J / ψ ω decay is found and the B s 0 → J / ψ η and B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ decays are studied using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb -1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The branching fractions of these decays are measured relative to that of the B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0 decay:frac(B (B 0 → J / ψ ω), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 0.89 ± 0.19 (stat) - 0.13 + 0.07 (syst),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 14.0 ± 1.2 (stat) - 1.5 + 1.1 (syst) - 1.0 + 1.1 (frac(f d, f s)),frac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B 0 → J / ψ ρ 0)) = 12.7 ± 1.1 (stat) - 1.3 + 0.5 (syst) - 0.9 + 1.0 (frac(f d, f s)), where the last uncertainty is due to the knowledge of f d / f s, the ratio of b-quark hadronization factors that accounts for the different production rate of B 0 and B s 0 mesons. The ratio of the branching fractions of B s 0 → J / ψ η ′ and B s 0 → J / ψ η decays is measured to befrac(B (B s 0 → J / ψ η ′), B (B s 0 → J / ψ η)) = 0.90 ± 0.09 (stat) - 0.02 + 0.06 (syst)
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae : epidemiology and dynamics of fecal carriage
No full textESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae (EPE) has become a major cause of community acquired urinary tract infection (UTI), and fecal carriage of EPE is emerging worldwide. The aims of this thesis were to study the molecular epidemiology of ESBL-enzymes in Stockholm (I) to evaluate treatment alternatives to the carbapenems for EPE (I-III), and to study the duration of fecal carriage and identify factors associated with prolonged carriage (IV).Paper I describes a consecutive collection of EPE (n=169). The distribution of ESBL-enzymes and clonal relatedness of the isolates was determined with PCR, DNA sequencing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Antimicrobial activity was evaluated using gradient test, broth microdilution and disk diffusion, and the susceptibility test methods were compared for parenteral !-lactams. We found that CTX-M-15 (75%) and CTX-M-14 (23%) were the dominating genotypes, that the collection was largely polyclonal and that 41% of E. coli belonged to the international clone sequence type (ST) 131. We concluded that there are several oral (mecillinam, nitrofurantoin, fosfomycin) and parenteral (piperacillin-tazobactam, tigecycline, temocillin) treatment alternatives for E. coli but few for K. pneumoniae. We also showed that susceptibility rates obtained with Etest and disk diffusion (DD) were not in agreement with the reference method broth microdilution for piperacillin- tazobactam (TZP). Etest and DD are therefore not reliable to detect resistance to TZP, with the breakpoints used at the time of the study.In paper II the novel cephalosporin CXA-101 (later known as ceftolozane) in combination with tazobactam (CXA-201) was evaluated against the same collection of isolates as in paper I, and compared to other !-lactam/!-lactamase inhibitors. MICs were determined with broth microdilution and susceptibility to CXA-201 was 88-98%, depending on the concentration of tazobactam and the tentative breakpoint used. All ACL-resistant and 94% of the TZP-resistant isolates were CXA-201 susceptible. We concluded that ceftolozane-tazobactam (CXA-201) is a potential future therapeutic option against EPE, especially for TZP-resistant isolates.Paper III evaluates the clinical and bacteriological activity of pivmecillinam for patients treated for lower UTI caused by an EPE (n=8). The clinical cure (resolved UTI symptoms after completed treatment) was high (8/8) but bacteriological cure (In paper IV we studied the duration and dynamics of ESBL-carriage. A cohort of patients (n=61) were followed with fecal samples and questionnaires about antimicrobial treatment and risk factors for EPE, 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after EPE infection. EPE strains were subjected to PFGE, PCR for phylogrouping, detection of CTX-M phylogroup, pabB (ST131) and virulence genes and PCR based replicon typing. Patient and strain related variables were compared for carriers and non-carriers at 12 months. We concluded that EPE carriage is common 12 months after infection (43%) and that persisting carriage may be associated with E. coli phylogroup B2 and CTX-M-9. The strain background frequently changes throughout the carriage and negative samples do not imply eliminated carriage.This knowledge will hopefully contribute to providing better medical care of patients with infection caused by EPE. It may also prove important for defining patients in require of prolonged isolation in single rooms or cohorts. Thereby the spread of EPE in hospitals and long term care facilities can be limited.List of scientific papersI. Titelman E, Iversen A, Kahlmeter and Giske CG. Antimicrobial susceptibility to parenteral and oral agents in a largely polyclonal collection of CTX-M- 14 and CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. APMIS. 2011; 119: 853-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0463.2011.02766.x II. Titelman E, Karlsson I, Ge Y and Giske CG. In vitro activity of CXA-101 plus tazobactam (CXA-201) against CTX-M-14 and 15-producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2011; 70: 137-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.02.004 III. Titelman E, Iversen A, Kalin M and Giske CG. Efficacy of pivmecillinam for lower urinary tract infection caused by Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Microbial Drug Resistance. 2012; 18: 189-192. https://doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2011.0161 IV. Titelman E, Chowdhury MH, Iversen A, Kais M, Kalin M and Giske CG. Fecal carriage of Extended-spectrum !-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae is common twelve months after infection and is related to strain factors. [Submitted]</p
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
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The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
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