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Switching from VA-ECMO to a Percutaneous right Ventricular assist device as a Bridge to Recovery in a Case of right Ventricular Myocardial Infarction
Authors: Giraud Raphaël
Published: June 2024

Acute right heart failure (RHF) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Temporary mechanical circulatory support (MCS) is now part of the advanced management strategy for refractory cardiogenic shock (CS). Among such support systems, veno-arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VA-ECMO) remains the fastest MCS system to set up. The ProtekDuo cannula can be used as a temporary and percutaneous right ventricular assist device (RVAD) in relay with VA-ECMO in the context of prolonged weaning. This case report describes the clinical course of a 69-year-old patient who underwent elective aortic valve replacement surgery complicated by acute RHF due to iatrogenic ligation of the right coronary artery. VA-ECMO was initiated in the context of refractory cardiogenic shock. Faced with prolonged MCS weaning, due to lack of recovery of the right ventricle associated with the absence of any other therapeutic option, a percutaneous RVAD via a ProtekDuo cannula was implanted as a bridge to recovery. The ProtekDuo was gradually weaned while the patient began rehabilitation. The patient was transferred to the medical ward after 5 weeks in the ICU, stayed 5 months in an acute medical setting, went to a rehabilitation center afterward and returned home 6 months after the initial surgery without any neurological sequalae or organ failures. In total, she remained on MCS for 39 days (21 on VA-ECMO and 18 on ProtekDuo). In cases of refractory RHF, after stabilization and organ perfusion restoration under VA-ECMO, it is feasible to switch to a percutaneous RVAD, allowing early mobilization of patients during prolonged MCS weaning until the right ventricle adapts to new loading conditions.
THE NEW MEDIA NATION
Authors: Alia Valerie
Published: June 2024

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on more than twenty years of research, observation, and work experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art, this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the circumpolar north, and First Nations peoples in the Yukon and southern Canada and the United States.
THE LAND IS DYING
Authors: Geissler Paul Wenzel , Prince Ruth Jane
Published: June 2024

Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth – of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land – and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and ‘Luo tradition’ in daily life, people find it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself.
DISMANTLING THE DREAM FACTORY
Authors: Baer Hester
Published: June 2024

The history of postwar German cinema has most often been told as a story of failure, a failure paradoxically epitomized by the remarkable popularity of film throughout the late 1940s and 1950s. Through the analysis of 10 representative films, Hester Baer reassesses this period, looking in particular at how the attempt to ‘dismantle the dream factory’ of Nazi entertainment cinema resulted in a new cinematic language which developed as a result of the changing audience demographic. In an era when female viewers comprised 70 per cent of cinema audiences a ‘women’s cinema’ emerged, which sought to appeal to female spectators through its genres, star choices, stories and formal conventions. In addition to analyzing the formal language and narrative content of these films, Baer uses a wide array of other sources to reconstruct the original context of their reception, including promotional and publicity materials, film programs, censorship documents, reviews and spreads in fan magazines. This book presents a new take on an essential period, which saw the rebirth of German cinema after its thorough delegitimization under the Nazi regime.
GARDENING THE WORLD
Authors: Strang Veronica
Published: June 2024

Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ecosystems are being severely degraded. These problems are particularly evident in Australia, with its industrialised economy and arid climate. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to examine the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two major Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this book examines their major water using and managing groups: indigenous communities, farmers, industries, recreational and domestic water users, and environmental organisations. It explores the issues that shape their different beliefs, values and practices in relation to water, and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings. Through an analysis of each group's diverse efforts to 'garden the world', it provides insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.
IMMIGRATION POLICY IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Authors: Klusmeyer Douglas B. , Papademetriou Demetrios G.
Published: June 2024

German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical analysis, and empirical evaluation to advance a more nuanced understanding of recent initiatives and the implications of these initiatives. Their approach combines both synthesis and original research in a presentation that is not only accessible to the general educated reader but also addresses the concerns of academic scholars and policy analysts. This important volume offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the history of German migration law and policy from the Federal Republic’s inception in 1949 to the present.
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES, MIGRATION AND GENDER
Authors: Zontini Elisabetta
Published: June 2024

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization — migrant women — as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questions dominant paradigms about women as passive victims of patriarchal structures and brings out instead their agency and the creative ways in which they take control of their lives in often difficult circumstances. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the author offers a valuable dual comparison between two Southern European countries on the one hand and between two migrant groups, one Christian and one Muslim, on the other, thus bringing to light unique detailed data on migration decision-making, settlement and on the multiple ways in which different women cope with the consequences of their transnational lives.
TURNING THE TUNE
Authors: Kaul Adam
Published: June 2024

The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind of pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. He begins by tracing its historical development from the days prior to the influx of visitors, through a period called "the Revival," in which traditional Irish music was revitalized and transformed, to the modern period, which is dominated by tourism. A large number of incomers, locally known as "blow-ins," have moved to the area, and the traditional Irish music is now largely performed and passed on by them. This fine-grained ethnographic study explores the commercialization of music and culture, the touristic consolidation and consumption of “place,” and offers a critique of the trope of "authenticity," all in a setting of dramatic social change in which the movement of people is constant.
BÉLA BALÁZS: EARLY FILM THEORY
Authors: Balázs Béla
Published: June 2024

Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs’s detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar silents.
GODLESS INTELLECTUALS?
Authors: Riley Alexander Tristan
Published: June 2024

The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz) are significantly more complicated than this. Through his extensive analysis of large volumes of correspondence as well as historical and macro-sociological mappings of the intellectual and social worlds in which the Durkheimian project emerged, the author shows the Durkheimian project to have constituted a quasi-religious quest in ways much deeper than most interpreters have thought. Their fascination, both personal and intellectual, with the sacred is the basis on which the author reconstructs some important components of modern French intellectual history, connecting Durkheimian thought to key representatives of French poststructuralism and postmodernism: Bataille, Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, and Deleuze.
'FOR THEIR OWN GOOD'
Authors: Torrie Julia S.
Published: June 2024

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II. The evidence uncovered exposes the complexities of an assumed monolithic and all-powerful Nazi state by showing that citizens' objections to evacuations, which were rooted in family concerns, forced changes in policy. Drawing attention to the interaction between the Germans and French throughout World War II, this book shows how policies in each country were shaped by events in the other. A truly cross-national comparison in a field dominated by accounts of one country or the other, this book provides a unique historical context for addressing current concerns about the impact of air raids and military occupations on civilians.
CONTESTED NATIONALISM
Authors: Caspersen Nina
Published: June 2024

"Only unity saves the Serbs" is the famous call for unity in the Serb nationalist doctrine. But even though this doctrine was ideologically adhered to by most of the Serb leaders in Croatia and Bosnia, disunity characterized Serb politics during the Yugoslav disintegration and war. Nationalism was contested and nationalist claims to homogeneity did not reflect the reality of Serb politics. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Serb politics and challenges widespread assumptions regarding the Yugoslav conflict and war. It finds that although Slobodan Milosevic played a highly significant role, he was not always able to control the local Serb leaders. Moreover, it adds to the emerging evidence of the lack of importance of popular attitudes; hardline dominance was generally based on the control of economic and coercive resources rather than on elites successfully "playing the ethnic card." It moves beyond an assumption of automatic ethnic outbidding and thus contributes toward a better understanding of intra-ethnic rivalry in other cases such as Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, Nagorno-Karabakh and Rwanda.
Orta Asya Türk Cumhuriyetlerine yönelik Türk dış politikasının paradiplomatik etkileri
Authors: Gönültaş Yasin Can , Yaylı Hasan
Published: June 2024

ÖZ: 1945-1991 yılları arasında ülkelerin tüm diplomatik ilişkilerini etkileyen Soğuk Savaş Dönemi’nin ardından Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyetler Birliği’nin dağılması, Türkiye’nin Orta Asya Türk Cumhuriyetlerine yönelik dış politikada etkin bir rol almasını sağlayan önemli bir dönüm noktası olmuştur. Resmi ilişkilerin ideolojik ve duygusal bir boyuta taşınması dönemini ihtiva eden 1991-2003 dönemi ile stratejilerin profesyonelleştiği ve ofansif diplomasinin oluşturulduğu 2003-2023 yılları arasında söz konusu ülkelerle çeşitli diplomatik ilişkiler kurulmuştur. Dış politikada gerçekleştirilen uygulamalar, ulus-altı birimlerin birbirleriyle olan uluslararası ilişkilerini belirleyen onları tamamlayan ve paralel bir politik faaliyetler dizisi olan paradiplomasiyi de doğrudan etkilemektedir. Çalışma, Orta Asya Türk Devletleri’ne yönelik dış politika faaliyetlerinin, yerel birimlerin gerçekleştirdiği paradiplomatik faaliyetlerine etkisini; paradiplomasinin ekonomi ve kültürel işbirliği kapsamında incelemekte, Türk yerel dış politika literatürüne katkı sağlamayı hedeflemektedir.
Certain results concerning (p, q)-parameterized beta logarithmic function and their properties
Authors: Khan Nabiullah , Khan Mohammad Iqbal , Saif Mohd , Usman Talha
Published: June 2024

The primary object of this article is to introduce (p, q)-beta logarithmic function with extended beta function by using the logarithmic mean. We evaluate different properties and representations of beta logarithmic function. Further, it is evaluated logarithmic distribution, hypergeometric and confluent hypergeometric functions via logarithmic mean are evaluated and their essential properties are studied. Numerous formulas of (p, q)-beta logarithmic functions such as integral formula, derivative formula, transformation formula and generating function are analyzed.
Separation, compactness, and sobriety in the category of constant limit spaces
Authors: Erciyes Ayhan , Qasım Muhammad , Güvey İsmail Alper
Published: June 2024

The objective of this article is to characterize each of compact, sober, and $T_{i}$ for $i=0,1,2$ constant limit spaces as well as to investigate the relationships between them. Finally, we compare our results in some topological categories.
Parametric generalization of the modified Bernstein-Kantorovich operators
Authors: Kanat Kadir , Sofyalıoğlu Melek , Erdal Selin
Published: June 2024

In the current article, a parametrization of the modified Bernstein-Kantorovich operators is studied. Then the Korovkin theorem, approximation properties and central moments of these operators are investigated. The rate of approximation of the operators is obtained by the help of modulus of continuity, functions from Lipschitz class and Peetre-$\mathcal{K}$ functional. Finally, some numerical examples are illustrated to show the effectiveness of the newly defined operators.
Numerical radius and p-Schatten norm inequalities for power series of operators in Hilbert spaces
Authors: Dragomır Sever
Published: June 2024

Let $H$ be a complex Hilbert space. Assume that the power series with complex coefficients $f(z):=\sum\nolimits_{k=0}^{\infty }a_{k}z^{k}$ is convergent on the open disk $D(0,R),~f_{a}(z):=\sum\nolimits_{k=0}^{\infty}\left\vert a_{k}\right\vert z^{k}$ that has the same radius of convergence $R$ and $A,~B,~C\in B(H)$ with $\left\Vert A\right\Vert $ <$R$, then we have the
following Schwarz type inequality
$
\left\vert \left\langle C^{\ast }Af(A)Bx,y\right\rangle \right\vert \leq
f_{a}(\left\Vert A\right\Vert )\left\langle \left\vert \left\vert
A\right\vert ^{\alpha }B\right\vert ^{2}x,x\right\rangle ^{1/2}\left\langle
\left\vert \left\vert A^{\ast }\right\vert ^{1-\alpha }C\right\vert
^{2}y,y\right\rangle ^{1/2}
$
for $\alpha \in \lbrack 0,1]$ and $x,y\in H.$ Some natural applications for numerical radius and p-Schatten norm are also provided.
$B-$ Riezs potential in $B-$ local Morrey-Lorentz spaces
Authors: Kaya Esra , Aykol Canay
Published: June 2024

In this paper, the Riesz potential (B−Riesz potential) which are generated by the Laplace-Bessel differential operator will be studied. We obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of the B−Riesz potential $I_{\gamma }^{\alpha }$ in the B-local Morrey-Lorentz spaces $M_{p,q,\lambda,\gamma }^{loc}(\mathbb{R}_{k,+}^{n})$ with the use of the rearrangement inequalities and boundedness of the Hardy operators $H_{\upsilon }^{\beta }$ and $\mathcal{H}_{\upsilon}^{\beta }$ with power weights.
General logarithmic control modulo and Tauberian remainder theorems
Authors: Okur Muhammet Ali
Published: June 2024

Let $\lambda=(\lambda_n)$ be a nondecreasing sequence of positive numbers such that $\lambda_n\to\infty$. A sequence $(\xi_n)$ is called $\lambda$-bounded if \begin{equation*} \lambda_n(\xi_n-\alpha)=O(1)\end{equation*} with the limit $\displaystyle{\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\xi_n=\alpha}$. In this work, we obtain several Tauberian remainder theorems on $\lambda$-bounded sequences for the logarithmic summability method with help of general logarithmic control modulo of the oscillatory behavior. Tauber conditions in our main results are on the generator sequence and the general logarithmic control modulo.
Russian Studies of Atmospheric Electricity in 2019–2022
Authors: Mareev E. A. , Stasenko V. N. , Shatalina M. V.
Published: June 2024

This review contains the most significant results of Russian studies in the field of atmospheric electricity in 2019–2022. It is part of the Russian National Report on Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciencesto the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS). The report was presented and approved at the XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)2.The review is followed by a list of the main published works on the studies of atmospheric electricity of Russian scientists in 2019–2022.
Russian Climate Research in 2019–2022
Authors: Mokhov I. I.
Published: June 2024

The results of Russian studies of climate and its changes (published in 2019–2022) are presented based on a review prepared for the National Report on Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences for the XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (Berlin, Germany, July 11–20, 2023).
Enhancing Evacuation Warning Responsiveness: Exploring the Impact of Social Interactions through an Agent-Based Model Approach
Authors: Salazar Alessandro Toledo , Medrano Matthew , Medina Mathias Duque , Roa Julio , Pesantez Jorge E.
Published: June 2024

Evacuations are the preferred response to human- or natural-caused disasters. The process often involves people deciding when and how to evacuate based on messages from local authorities. However, diverse opinions of the affected people may influence their decision to evacuate or to stay and see how the situation unfolds. This project applies an opinion dynamics concept to model the opinion and decision-making of people threatened by wildfire. To demonstrate how individual opinions evolve with time, the model applies an agent-based approach that includes the interaction between an agency sending an evacuation message and the affected population. There are three sources of information concerning the mathematical model of an opinion: the global broadcasting message, interaction of the agent with its social media network, and observations of neighbors’ actions. The opinion value of each agent leads to a decision to evacuate if it overcomes a resistance threshold. By combining sources of information, the results show that when global broadcasting is the only information available to agents, a decision to evacuate is unanimously reached after a short period. However, when social media interactions are included, there is a delay in reaching a unanimous agreement to evacuate. Furthermore, when social media interactions are replaced by observing the actions of neighbors, there is no agreement to evacuate among the agents, and most of them decide to stay and see how the situation progresses. This research project provides opportunities for planning and management of traffic and routes when an evacuation is expected but the number of people participating is unknown. The results provide valuable insights that could be applied as part of disaster-planning and other potentially life-saving measures.
Illus. A.II.4
Authors: Kjølbye-Biddle Birthe
Published: June 2024

The Romanesque tiled floor (RDFT) of the third chapter house: the evidence of the tiles found in position and the pattern of missing tiles left in the mortar bedding.
Sind Subventionen sinnvoll?
Authors: Sturm Roland
Published: June 2024

Subventionen verzerren den wirtschaftlichen Wettbewerb und dennoch sind sie omnipräsent. Der Beitrag frägt, was wir über Subventionen wissen, welche Bereiche der Wirtschaft subventioniert werden und wie die Subventionskontrolle funktioniert.
Planning as an educative process : the development of solid waste policy in the St. Louis area
Authors:   , Skelton Luther William III
Published: June 2024

"The central contention of this study is that environmental management policy formation is more dependent on the planning process than upon the formal plan resulting from the process. As used in this study, environmental management relates to human activities which broadly impinge on natural environments, involves a plurality of decision making processes, and is of a continuing nature inherent in the immediate and recurrent necessities of human maintenance. We are concerned with those basic and recognized necessities which are the last to be sacrificed. Potable water supplies, food resources, sewage controls, solid waste controls, warmth and housing are among these necessities. The growth of the human population, the increase of human demands for goods and services, and increased human mobility in a reduced time frame have lent a dynamic character to these basic necessities. Environmental management is being recognized as important to the continuation of a quality standard of living. In his article "The Planning Syndrome in Western Culture", Christopher Tunnard recognizes this condition while at the same time stressing that planning has a humanist function in process which is at least as important as its scientific function. Policy formation tends to follow, we believe, the dynamics of the pressures, possibilities, and demands of the physical and human environment to the extent the policy making mechanisms are attuned to these forces. There is, therefore, an aspect of latency or discovery of potential in policy formation through the planning process. In the formation of a solid waste policy in the St. Louis area, we find an aspect of latency. This latency of policy is a product of the complex nature of the region's political and economic systems and its technological possibilities and problems. It embodies both possibilities and constraints, some of which became evident during the process of planning for a regional solid waste system. The planning process was particularly important in this respect because it became sensitive to possibility and restriction which otherwise might have gone unrecognized or ignored."--Introduction.
Latin American economic integration and the foreign trade of Colombia
Authors:   , Dow Jose Kamal
Published: June 2024

"Introducton: Shortly after the Montevideo Treaty was signed in February i960 Colombia decided to join the Latin American Free Trade Association. Since then it has become one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Latin American integration; the number of concessions granted so far and, most important, the evolution of its trade figures with the rest of the countries in the region show beyond any doubt that Colombia is one of the most "integratiorist" countries in the area. Its will to expedite the process of economic integration was further demonstrated by the leadership role that it played in the negotiations leading to the formation of the Andean group. At the time of Colombia's entrance into the Latin American Free Trade Association (from here on called LAFTA) it was thought that the country could only gain from such a partnership. The atmosphere prevailing in the economic spheres and in the higher decision-making circles was much like that prevailing throughout the region, which will be described in Chapter II. The trade figures of the last few years, however, show that in certain cases the reciprocity that was implicit in the Montevideo Treaty has not existed; they also show that most of the gains have been through trade with the countries of the Andean Group and finally, they show that the country's dependence on trade partners from outside the region has not decreased as rapidly as was expected. The developments that have taken place in the integration process will be mentioned in the next chapter. From them, it will become evident that the LAFTA countries will be facing crucial issues in the negotiations that will take place in the near future. Thus, this seems to be the right time for each country to stop and take a thorough analytical look at its present position relative to the other countries and to the region as a whole. It may prove useful in providing some guides as to what the future policy with respect to integration should be. This study does that for the case of Colombia."--Page 1.
Stiffened cylindrical shell parametric instability
Authors:   , Adams Charles R.
Published: June 2024

"Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the parametric instability of the stiffened cylindrical shell. The boundaries of the parametric instability regions are determined theoretically for a simply supported shell which is subjected to a periodic uniform axial load. Three parametric instability theories are developed for the stiffened cylindrical. The classical discrete stiffener theory and the classical smeared stiffener theory are both based upon the classical membrane assumption. These two theories are used, primarily, to compare the relative validity of the smeared stiffener assumption with respect to the discrete stiffener assumption. The third theory, the eccentric load smeared stiffener theory, is based upon the recently developed nonlinear prestress assumption. This theory is employed to examine the axial load eccentricity effects upon the parametric instability region boundaries."--Page 1.
The Black community in Boone County, Missouri, 1850-1900
Authors:   , Grenz Suzanna Maria
Published: June 2024

"Looking at the black community in one county of a border state during the last half of the nineteenth century enables the historian to examine the continuities of the Afro-American's life in the antebellum period and afterward. At this local level the sufferings, hardships, joys, and triumphs of the slaves and freedmen become sharply detailed. Because of its slave heritage, Boone County, Missouri, makes an excellent subject for such an examination. The black population of the county from 1850 to 1900 remained large enough to analyze its reactions to slavery and emancipation. Yet, it was small enough to allow a generational study of several families. During these years the black population reached its peak in 1860 when 26 percent of the county population was black. All but 1 percent of these Afro-Americans were slaves. By the turn of the century blacks composed only about 16 percent of the county's population (see Appendix 1). From this county population the historian can trace the separation of slave family members through sales and estate settlements, their efforts to maintain contact with each other, and their reunion with emancipation. The historian is able to discuss the reactions of these people to freedom and their attempt to ameliorate their economic and social situation. With the generational study the historian can watch the development of the leadership class of the community both in the slave generation and in its children. The interactions of the black and white communities become sharply focused at the county level and help the historian realize the role that race relations played for the black community. Through such an analysis, which focuses on a local setting like Boone County, the historian understands better the social, economic, and cultural life the Afro- Americans established for themselves in their community."--Pages 4-5.
Investigation of the pressure-flow relationships of blood in the mammalian kidney
Authors:   , Purdy Alan Harris
Published: June 2024

This dissertation deals with the problem of quantification of the properties and activities of living tissue in the peripheral vasculature. The method of quantification is lumped hydraulic impedance analysis. The object of this study is to show that the mammalian peripheral vasculature, specifically the dog's kidney, meets the conditions necessary for lumped hydraulic impedance analysis. This is an experimental and theoretical study to demonstrate that the relationship between blood pressure and flow is linear and that the physical size of the vasculature involved is small enough to meet the requirements of the lumping theory. The experimental method used is the injection of hydraulic sine waves into the blood flow system of the dog's kidney. By this means, two proofs of linearity were derived. One method of proof was to examine the pressure flow relationships of the blood by means of cross correlation. The other means was to compare the velocities of the pulse waves of different mean blood pressures. Pulse wave velocities were also measured as a means of demonstrating the length of the system with respect to the wave length and thus show the degree of lumping. The theoretical chapter of the dissertation demonstrates the necessity of the complex relationship between pressure and flow being a constant, i.e., linear. The meaning of the lumped hydraulic impedance as applied to the vasculature is also explained. The newly observed facts in this investigation show: (1) the relationship between pressure and flow of blood in the dog's kidney is linear as shown by a mean cross-correlation coefficient of .9792. (2) the physical length of the vascular bed of the kidney is shown to be small enough with respect to the pulse wave length to apply lumped hydraulic analysis with an error of less than 6.5 percent to quantify the following properties: A. Pulsatile resistance. B. Total reactance. C. Inertance reactance. D. Compliance reactance. E. Lumped depth of wave penetration. F. Lumped vessel radius. G. Pulsatile real work. H. Pulsatile reactive work.
The redistributive effects of construction grants resulting from Public Law 92-500 in EPA Region VII
Authors:   , Collins Robert A.
Published: June 2024

This study investigates the redistributive consequences of federal construction grants made for publicly owned wastewater treatment plants in EPA Region VII. This is accomplished by estimating the proportion of the benefits that accrue to each income class and the proportion of the costs that are borne by each income class as a result of these construction grants. Under the assumptions in the study, it was found that significant redistribution of income from middle income classes to high income classes is expected to occur as these grants are made.
Middleton's dramaturgy : a study of the major comedies
Authors:   , Zappen James Philip
Published: June 2024

"Throughout a career covering most of the first quarter of the seventeenth century, Thomas Middleton produced a body of work remarkable for both its quantity and variety. Those features of Middleton's work are nowhere more evident than in the comedies, which appear at intervals throughout the entire period, beginning in about 1602 and ending with the staging of Game at Chess in August, 1624. Criticism has seldom taken full account of Middleton's remarkable achievement in comedy. Usually, studies of the comedies have been limited to an analysis of social and moral issues or have been limited to a particular group of plays, Middleton's comedies of London life. The present study attempts to avoid these restrictions, first, by stressing the art of Middleton's comedies and, secondly, by dealing with the best of the comedies, whether or not the setting happens to be London. The early satiric comedies are excluded as inferior to the best that Middleton wrote."--Page 2.
Sir Philip Sidney : contrasting views on the value and morality of rhetoric and poetry
Authors:   , Stanford Charles L.
Published: June 2024

Sidney's attitude toward rhetoric passes through three rather distinct stages. At first, he is quite positive toward it, treats it with respect, and, what is perhaps even more important, with enthusiasm. His attitude toward it becomes more ambiguous as he begins to doubt its morality; during this middle period he is becoming very distrustful of the amoral nature of rhetoric as opposed to poetry which he sees as distinctly moral. Toward the end of his writing career, he sees rhetoric as more immoral than amoral. The psychology and strategy used by the orator remains the same, but Sidney sees rhetoric increasingly being used for immoral purposes. It is no coincidence that this attitude finds its strongest expression in his Defense of Leicester. Sidney was thoroughly familiar with such terms as Exordium, Narratio, etc., and he followed them in his Defense of Poesy. He was no less familiar with the terms for the parts of rhetoric, terms such as "Invention" and "Disposition." Yet it becomes increasingly obvious to the reader alert to rhetoric in Sidney that these terms will not serve the purpose of the literary critic who hopes to study Sidney's use of rhetoric. As he did with everything else he encountered in the realm of ideas, Sidney assimilated the rhetorical thought of his day, digested it, and made it his own. Sidney has his own categories of rhetoric. They are the strategy of rhetoric, the psychology of rhetoric, and the morality of rhetoric. Strategy is distinguished from psychology in that strategy has to do with techniques, with the practical, business-like, craftsmanship of the orator. Psychology has to do with knowing when to use these strategic weapons, on whom, and how. The morality of rhetoric is a completely different area of concern. It has to do with the moral implications of using either rhetorical strategy of psychology, and also whether the effect or motive is good or evil.
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Authors: Endrawan I Bagus , Sukmawati Noviria , Fikri Aprizal , Wardana Mitra
Published: June 2024

Badminton is a sport that requires a high level of technical and strategic expertise. Correct positioning allows the player to have an optimal viewing angle of the game and makes it easy to respond to the movement of the shuttlecock. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the application of smash precision training methods on junior badminton players in the Eternal Badminton Union. This study adopts a quantitative approach by using experimental methods pretest-post-test design of one group. This experiment will be conducted for six weeks with a training frequency of four sessions per week. The population and subjects were junior athletes of the Eternal Badminton Union, which numbered 15 people, namely nine male athletes and six female athletes. The data analysis using SPSS statistical software 20. The research instrument used questionnaires, smash accuracy tests before and after training, and field observations to evaluate the effectiveness of smash precision training methods in junior badminton athletes.  The results showed that the drill method can improve the accuracy of badminton strokes of junior athletes from the Badminton Association of PB Abadi. Further research can develop different training methods by combining different training methods. This will help to better identify the factors that can improve the smash badminton results of junior athletes.
Application of Appropriate Technology for Making Organic NPK Fertilizer by Utilizing Palm Oil Mill Waste in Bekiung Village
Authors: Hafnes Wahyuni
Published: June 2024

Bekiung is one of the villages in Langkat Regency. Farmers in this village generally cultivate a lot of oil palm plants. The waste is quite large and causes environmental pollution problems. On the other hand, experience problems in the form of scarcity and expensive synthetic fertilizers, subsidized fertilizers that are no longer available, and less fertile soil. This is due to the lack of knowledge and skills of farmers, limited advice and infrastructure in waste processing. The aim of this activity is to increase farmers' knowledge and skills in processing palm oil waste into organic NPK fertilizer, open farmers' insight into the importance of organic fertilizer as a diversification of synthetic fertilizer which is beneficial for soil properties and increase the independence of partners in waste processing. The solution offered to overcome this problem is the introduction of appropriate technology and processing palm oil factory waste into organic NPK fertilizer. The methods used in this activity are socialization and direct practice in the field. The results obtained were the introduction and delivery of technology transfer equipment in the form of a hummer mill, conveyor and simple filter, training and assistance in making organic NPK fertilizer up to packaging. The conclusion of this activity is that it is a beneficial activity for partners because it increases the understanding and independence of partners in processing palm oil mill waste into organic NPK fertilizer which can overcome the problem of the availability of scarce and expensive fertilizer.
АНАЛІЗ ІСНУЮЧИХ МЕТОДІВ ТА ПРОГРАМНИХ ЗАСОБІВ ОПТИМІЗАЦІЇ ЛОГІСТИЧНИХ ПРОЦЕСІВ У ВАНТАЖНИХ ПЕРЕВЕЗЕНЯХ
Authors: БАГРІЙ Владислав , ГРАФ Марина
Published: June 2024

Стаття присвячена дослідженню методів та програмних засобів оптимізації логістичних процесів у галузі вантажних перевезень. Метою роботи було дослідити сучасні методи оптимізації, що використовують інформаційних технологій, такі як: метод управління ланцюгом постачання (англ. supply chain management (SCM)), метод Трекінгу (англ tracking and tracing), а також метод використання інтернету речей (англ internet of things (IoT)). Методологія аналізу і класифікації методів оптимізації полягає у детальному розгляді принципів їх роботи, переваг та недоліків, прикладів використання у конкретних сервісах. У статті розкрито концепцію використання SCM систем, історію виникнення, основне призначення, різницю між підсистеми Supply chain planning (SCP) та Supply chain execution (SCE), сучасну реалізацію цієї системи з використанням інформаційних технологій, та розглянуто роботу на конкретних сервісах. Описано метод трекінгу вантажу, його основні етапи, технічні реалізації, зокрема з використанням технології radio frequency identification (RFID), переваги використання таких систем у вантажних перевезеннях, а також на розглянуто принцип роботи на основі існуючих технологій і сервісів. Також був проведений аналіз метода використання технології Internet of things (IoT) у галузі вантажних перевезень, розглянуті можливі застосування, описані переваги цих технологій, а також на прикладі існуючих систем показана робота. Наукова новизна отриманих у роботі результатів полягає у розробці зрозумілої і зручної системи класифікації сучасних методів оптимізації логістичних процесів, а також надання вичерпної інформації, з прикладами, для базового розуміння цих процесів. Отримані дані, можуть бути стати відправною точкою для подальших, поглиблених досліджень у сфері застосування інформаційних технологій у вантажних перевезеннях. Висновки. В результаті проведених досліджень встановлено, що застосування цих методів може покращити наступні показники ефективності логістичних процесів як: швидкість виконання операцій, швидкість прийняття рішень, точність прогнозування ризиків і попиту, контрольованість і злагодженість дій усіх учасників перевезень, зменшення фінансових витрат. Дані методи оптимізації дозволяють покращити контроль над усіма етапами перевезень, вести моніторинг у реальному часі, що, в свою чергу, зменшить ризики виникнення форс-мажорних ситуацій у дорозі, а також дасть можливість якісніше збирати дані про рейс для більш якісного планування наступних поїздок.
МЕТОДИКИ CRO НА ОСНОВІ МАШИННОГО НАВЧАННЯ
Authors: КОНОТОПЧИК Артем , МЕЛЬНИК Катерина , ЛАВРЕНЧУК Світлана
Published: June 2024

У даній статті проводиться аналіз методик оптимізації конверсій (CRO) на основі машинного навчання. Детально розглядаються існуючі системи CRO, зокрема їх функціонал та ефективність. В статті надається огляд різних методів, які вже використовуються в CRO системах, таких як A/B-тестування, веб-аналітика та персоналізація контенту. Окрема увага приділяється впровадженню методів машинного навчання в сферу CRO. Зазначаються переваги використання ML, такі як здатність аналізувати великі обсяги даних, швидкість прийняття рішень та автоматизація процесів. Подано конкретний план впровадження ML в систему CRO, включаючи використання алгоритмів для прогнозування змін у конверсіях, ідентифікації патернів користувачів та оптимізації контенту. Стаття висвітлює важливість розвитку та сучасності в галузі CRO, а також вказує на потенційні переваги використання машинного навчання для підвищення ефективності оптимізації конверсій. Мета роботи полягає у вдосконаленні існуючих методів CRO шляхом використання методів машинного навчання для точнішого прогнозування поведінки користувачів та ефективнішої персоналізації контенту. Методологія дослідження базується на аналізі великих даних, використанні нейронних мереж та кластерного аналізу. Зокрема, застосовано метод кластерного аналізу для групування текстових описів товарів та рекомендаційна система на основі алгоритму колаборативної фільтрації реалізованому глибокою нейронною мережею. Наукова новизна полягає у використанні машинного навчання для адаптивної рекомендаційної та пошукової системи на основі нейронних мереж та кластерного аналізу. Висновком є значний потенціал використання машинного навчання у сфері CRO, демонструючи, що впровадження глибоких нейронних мереж та алгоритмів кластерного аналізу можуть бути ефективними у прогнозуванні конверсій та персоналізації контенту.
Architetture invisibili
Authors: Barbara Anna
Published: June 2024

Anna Barbara e Anthony Perliss scavano in profondità nella relazione inesplorata, ma profonda, tra luoghi e odori. In che modo l’odore di un luogo, di un edificio, influenza la nostra percezione? In che modo l’esperienza olfattiva modifica il nostro comportamento e la comprensione del luogo? Ripercorrendo la storia dell’olfatto nell’architettura, attraverso le culture e i secoli, Architetture invisibili è un’esplorazione inedita di sette grandi binomi che riguardano i luoghi attraverso il più invisibile e trascurato dei nostri sensi.
Chewing lice (Psocodea, Phthiraptera: Amblycera and Ischnocera) in wild birds in Zungarococha, Iquitos (Peru)
Authors: Roque D. , Minaya D. , Muñoz G. E. , Saravia K. G. , Fong E. E. , Iannacone J.
Published: June 2024

The objective of this work was to identify the species of chewing lice collected from thirty wild birds from the town of Zungarococha, Iquitos (Peru). We identified 11 specimens from a total of 36 collected. The species Columbicola passerinae (Wilson, 1941) presented the largest number of hosts, and Motmotnirmus marginellus (Nitzsch, 1874) and Docophorus rufus (Kellogg, 1899) presented the highest prevalence, intensity, and average abundance. This study reports 11 species of lice for the first time, and new host associations, expanding the list of host birds in Peru.
ВПЛИВ ОБРОБКИ НАСІННЯ ТА РЕСУРСООЩАДНОГО ЖИВЛЕННЯ НА ВОДОСПОЖИВАННЯ ЛЬОНУ ОЛІЙНОГО В УМОВАХ ПІВДЕННОГО СТЕПУ УКРАЇНИ
Authors: Гамаюнова В.В. , Задирко Р.В.
Published: June 2024

Мета. Визначити вплив передпосівної обробки насіння та фону живлення рослин на сумарне водоспоживання, складові його балансу та коефіцієнт водоспоживання в технології вирощування льону олійного сорту Надійний на чорноземі південному в умовах Степу України. Методи. Польовий, аналітичний, статистичний. Дослідження проводили впродовж 2021–2023 рр. на дослідному полі ННПЦ Миколаївського НАУ. Дослід двофакторний. Фактор А – передпосівна обробка насіння: 1. Обробка водою; 2. Баст Комплекс (0,5 л/т). Фактор В – фон живлення: 1. Без добрив; 2. N15P15K15; 3. Баст Комплекс (1,5 л/га); 4. N15P15K15 + Баст Комплекс (1,5 л/га); 5. Органік Д-2М (2 л/га); 6. N15P15K15 + Органік Д-2М (2 л/га); 7. Бор (1 л/га); 8. N15P15K15 + Бор (1 л/га). Позакореневі підживлення посівів проводили у фазі «ялинки». Результати. Умови зволоження року вирощування суттєво вплинули на сумарне водоспоживання посівів льону олійного. У найбільш вологому 2021 р. воно було в 2,4 рази більшим, порівняно з посушливим 2022 р. Така суттєва різниця позначилась на складових балансу водоспоживання. У 2022 р. частка ґрунтової вологи і опадів вегетаційного періоду була майже однаковою – 46,6 і 53,4%, тоді як у роки з достатньою кількістю опадів дана частка балансу водоспоживання значно переважала. У найбільш вологому 2021 р. коефіцієнт водоспоживання в 1,3–1,7 разів перевищував посушливий 2022 р. Коефіцієнт водоспоживання у варіантах з проведенням передпосівної обробки насіння мікродобривом у середньому за 3 роки досліджень виявився на 6,2–8,7% нижчим, ніж у варіантах з обробкою насіння водою. Оптимізація фону живлення сприяла зменшенню показника на 15,0–30,4% у варіантах з обробкою насіння водою та на 14,6–29,5% у варіантах з обробкою насіння мікродобривом Баст Комплекс. Мінімальний коефіцієнт водоспоживання визначено за внесення комплексного мінерального добрива у нормі N15P15K15 з проведенням позакореневих підживлень мікродобривом Баст Комплекс, органо-мінеральним добривом Органік Д-2М та мікроелементом Бором. Між урожайністю насіння та сумарним водоспоживанням посівів льону олійного, врожайністю та коефіцієнтом водоспоживання встановлено дуже сильний кореляційний зв’язок. Висновки. Умови зволоження значно впливають на сумарне водоспоживання посівів льону олійного, складові його балансу та коефіцієнт водоспоживання. Встановлено, що основне внесення мінеральних добрив, передпосівна обробка насіння мікродобривом Баст Комплекс та позакореневі підживлення Бором, органо-мінеральним добривом Органік Д-2М або мікродобривом Баст Комплекс сприяють найбільш ефективному використанню вологи рослинами льону олійного.