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Spiking Chemical Sensor (SCS): A new platform for neuro-chemical sensing
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Towards a Reconfigurable Sense-and-Stimulate Neural Interface Generating Biphasic Interleaved Stimulus
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Author headings for the official publications of the State of Kansas
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (page x).This list of author headings covers all official agencies as found in the laws of the territory and the laws of the state of Kansas from May 30, 1854 through July 1955; also agencies created by Executive Order, and administrative divisions, or boards, created within a department of the state. Agencies included are:
1. All departments, bureaus, divisions, commissions, courts, legislative bodies and special committees created by the laws or joint resolutions of the territory or state of Kansas, or by Executive Order*
2. Subdivisions of the respective departments, bureaus, commissions and committees even though not expressly created by acts of the legislature, but which are included in the official reports of the agencies*
3. Legislative bodies and their committees, if created by law, or if their reports were published.
4. Societies supported wholly, or in part, by the state.
5. All state and territorial institutions (including educational, charitable, correctional and penal)
As If Death Summoned A Novel of the AIDS Epidemic
No full textAs If Death Summoned is the powerful story of one man's journey through the AIDS epidemic and finding the courage to bring oneself back from the dead.Intro -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- Chapter Thirty-Two -- Chapter Thirty-Three -- Chapter Thirty-Four -- Chapter Thirty-Five -- Chapter Thirty-Six -- Chapter Thirty-Seven -- Chapter Thirty-Eight -- Chapter Thirty-Nine -- Chapter Forty -- Chapter Forty-One -- Chapter Forty-Two -- Chapter Forty-Three -- Chapter Forty-Four -- Chapter Forty-Five -- Chapter Forty-Six -- Chapter Forty-Seven -- Chapter Forty-Eight -- Chapter Forty-Nine -- Chapter Fifty -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Discussion Guide -- About Amble PressAs If Death Summoned is the powerful story of one man's journey through the AIDS epidemic and finding the courage to bring oneself back from the dead.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
“Not ‘Do you remember’, but ‘What if’?”
No full textShort story based on the author Katherine Mansfiel
TEACHING AND RESEARCH: THE ERASMUS PLUS EXPERIENCE
No full textThe paper illustrates the dual experience of exchange Erasmus-Plus, conducted in collaboration between the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of Università della Campania "L. Vanvitelli" and the National Technical University of Athens - School of Architecture, focusing not only on the positive impacts that the activity has had for the two university structures, but above all highlighting the added value for the two research groups that during this experience have compared the different teaching methods implemented in the dual exchange.
Infact, Lisboa strategy gives the human capital a central role in the process of social growth and it gives learning the function of essential tool in the management of both human sources and work qualification. In this scenario, the support from the Scientific Research world can be extremely meaningful for a didactic path, where the scientific knowledge is structured to orientate, qualify and substantiate teaching, both on the disciplinary contents level and on the methodological one. Therefore, the scientific support is configured not only under the pedagogic profile, but also above all as a support structured to acquire specific knowledge/competence. This is to favour the most rightful and complete acquaintance of knowledge gained and scientifically tested by experts of the sector, who, as professors, can transfer their theoretical knowledge, practical experiences and specialist disciplinary skills.
No learning path can be considered highly qualified if high competency is not used, besides a punctual transfer of didactic contents, which will manage to maximize the learning process working not only on contents but also on competence. The Erasmus Plus, approved by the EU Regulation N.1288/2013, is designed to give concrete answers to these issues, through educational opportunities, abroad training, which puts providentially comparing educational and international research experience and interdisciplinary methods.
This paper describes the twofold didactic path implemented through methodologies aimed at developing specialized skills in the field of energy efficient and environmentally sustainable buildings, based on laboratory teaching, problem solving approach and design of technological solutions in teams, through the use of specialized software for decision support
The Shifting Values of Port Cities: Towards “what if histories” and “design fiction”?
No full textWhat if we had the chance to reboot and redesign our society? Who would have considered it possible that the current pandemic crisis offers exactly that opportunity? Within a matter of weeks, we have experienced a change in lifestyle that seemed impossible as a response to climate change a few months ago. The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting people and businesses hard. This is also true of ports and their surrounding cities. Attempts to protect people from a life-threatening disease have changed the functioning of such port cities around the world. In some, ships continue to deliver much-needed goods. But in others, they have become floating storage or laid up, upsetting the entire maritime system. Meanwhile, streets and public spaces are emptier than usual, with satellite images revealing significant drops in air pollution. While some people are working harder than ever—think of the medical professions—others have lost their jobs and their livelihood or even died.History, Form & Aesthetic
High-power CMOS current driver with accurate transconductance for electrical impedance tomography
No full textCurrent drivers are fundamental circuits in bioimpedance measurements including electrical impedance tomography (EIT). In the case of EIT, the current driver is required to have a large output impedance to guarantee high current accuracy over a wide range of load impedance values. This paper presents an integrated current driver which meets these requirements and is capable of delivering large sinusoidal currents to the load. The current driver employs a differential architecture and negative feedback, the latter allowing the output current to be accurately set by the ratio of the input voltage to a resistor value. The circuit was fabricated in a 0.6- μm high-voltage CMOS process technology and its core occupies a silicon area of 0.64 mm (2) . It operates from a ± 9 V power supply and can deliver output currents up to 5 mA p-p. The accuracy of the maximum output current is within 0.41% up to 500 kHz, reducing to 0.47% at 1 MHz with a total harmonic distortion of 0.69%. The output impedance is 665 k Ω at 100 kHz and 372 k Ω at 500 kHz
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Characteristics of Self-Citation in Journal of Natural Rubber Research 1988-1997: a Ten-Year Bibliometric Study
No full textAnalyses the extent of journal self-citation and author self-citation in the research articles and short communications published in Journal of Natural Rubber Research during 1988 to 1997. Results show that 53% of articles contained journal self-citations; the rate of journal self-citations per article ranges between 1 to 12; a high percentage of authors (61.4%) contributing articles to the journal cited themselves; a tendency is noticed for authors affiliated to the institution publishing the journal to cite the journal; the highest self-citing author is A. D. Roberts
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