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Portions of the Minutes of the Seceder Congregation in Arnhem
Portions of the minutes of the Seceder congregation in Arnhem, Province of Gelderland, pastored by Albertus C. Van Raalte and Antonie Brummelkamp. Other dates are July 11 and 23, 1847. A letter dated, Arnhem, August 12, 1947, written by H. Hafkamp gives considerable explanation of the minutes and are very helpful in understanding what the portions of the above minutes included.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1235/thumbnail.jp
Conjugation reactions of hybrid organosilanes for nanoparticle and surface modifications
Hybrid Molecules with incorporation of heteroatoms and different domains and properties could be achieved by the use of Silanes, Organosilanes, and chemically functionalized Organosilanes. These chemical agents are versatile reagents that could be covalent linked to other types of molecules such Organics by covalent and non-covalent linking. In this way, in this Research communications was summarized and discussed the use of a set of modified Organosilanes based on different experimental reactions for targeted objectives. Different conjugation reactions were involucrated based on optimized current Organic chemical reactions. By this manner, it was showed the chemical modifications of Organosilanes with Fluorescent dye reporters. As example, it was afforded the use of these bi-functional chemical species, with hydrolysable hetero-atom bonds accompanied with Laser dyes sensitizer properties. Thus, it was showed their applications for design and synthesis of Nanoparticle s and chemical surface modifications.Fil: In den Kirschen, Otto Wilhelm. Universitat Regensburg; AlemaniaFil: Hutchinson, William. University Of Akron; Estados UnidosFil: Bracamonte, Angel Guillermo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico-química de Córdoba; Argentin
Anesthetic considerations of percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve implantation: first attempt in Korea -A report of 2 cases-
Conventional aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis is associated with a high operative mortality in the elderly patients with significant comorbidities, including severe respiratory dysfunction, renal insufficiency, and compromised cardiac function. Human transcatheter aortic valve implantation was first reported in 2002 and has become a valid alternative in selected high-risk patients in Europe and North America. This article describes the first attempt of transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation in Korea. The procedure was applied in two consecutive patients with severe aortic stenosis. Despite several intra-operative complications during procedure, the post-operative outcomes were good for both patients. At post-operative 30 days there was satisfactory prosthetic valve function and hemodynamic stability
Rabies in southern Africa
The first confirmed outbreak of rabies in Africa, believed to have followed the importation of an infected
dog from England in 1892, occurred in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and was brought under
control in 1894. An unconfirmed epidemic of rabies in dogs occurred in western Zambia in 1901. By the
following year the disease had apparently spread along a major trade route, to cause an outbreak in
Zimbabwe which engulfed most of the country before being eradicated in 1913. The existence of endemic
rabies of viverrids (mongooses and genets) was confirmed in South Africa in 1928, and since then the
viverrid disease has continued to occur widely on the interior plateau of the country with spill-over of
infection to cattle and a variety of other animals. From about 1947 onwards, an invasive form of dog
rabies spread from southern Zambia and/or Angola into Namibia, across northern and eastern Botswana
into Zimbabwe and the northern Transvaal by 1950, entered Mozambique in 1952, and spread from there
to Swaziland in 1954. Dog rabies extended from southern Mozambique into Natal in 1961 to cause a
major epidemic which was brought under control in 1968. The disease re-entered northern Natal from
Mozambique in 1976 and since then dog rabies has proved difficult to control in the peri-urban settlements
of Natal-KwaZulu. The disease spread from Natal to Lesotho in 1982, and into the Transkei region of the
eastern Cape Province in 1987, to reach the Ciskei by 1990. The spread of the disease in dogs was
followed by the emergence of rabies of jackals and cattle in central Namibia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe
and the northern Transvaal. A unique outbreak of rabies in kudu antelope occurred in central Namibia
from 1977 to 1985, apparently involving oral spread of infection between individuals. A few cases of rabies
in the bat-eared fox were recognized each year in Namibia from 1967 onwards, and from the 1970s the
occurrence of the disease in the fox has emerged as a distinct problem in the northern Cape Province
and spread to the west coast. The rabies-related viruses, Lagos bat, Mokola and Duvenhage, associated
with bats, shrews and rodents in Africa, are known to have caused isolated cases of disease in South Africa,
and on one occasion a small outbreak involving six cats and a dog in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. However,
the results of monoclonal antibody tests on numerous specimens indicate that the rabies-related
viruses are not a major cause of disease in southern Africa.The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi.
Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.mn2014mn201
Measurements of long-range near-side angular correlations in TeV proton-lead collisions in the forward region
Two-particle angular correlations are studied in proton-lead collisions at a
nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of TeV, collected
with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The analysis is based on data recorded in
two beam configurations, in which either the direction of the proton or that of
the lead ion is analysed. The correlations are measured in the laboratory
system as a function of relative pseudorapidity, , and relative
azimuthal angle, , for events in different classes of event
activity and for different bins of particle transverse momentum. In
high-activity events a long-range correlation on the near side, , is observed in the pseudorapidity range . This
measurement of long-range correlations on the near side in proton-lead
collisions extends previous observations into the forward region up to
. The correlation increases with growing event activity and is found
to be more pronounced in the direction of the lead beam. However, the
correlation in the direction of the lead and proton beams are found to be
compatible when comparing events with similar absolute activity in the
direction analysed.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and
additional information, are available at
https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-040.htm
Study of the production of and hadrons in collisions and first measurement of the branching fraction
The product of the () differential production
cross-section and the branching fraction of the decay () is
measured as a function of the beauty hadron transverse momentum, ,
and rapidity, . The kinematic region of the measurements is and . The measurements use a data sample
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of collected by the
LHCb detector in collisions at centre-of-mass energies in 2011 and in 2012. Based on previous LHCb
results of the fragmentation fraction ratio, , the
branching fraction of the decay is
measured to be \begin{equation*} \mathcal{B}(\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi
pK^-)= (3.17\pm0.04\pm0.07\pm0.34^{+0.45}_{-0.28})\times10^{-4},
\end{equation*} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is
systematic, the third is due to the uncertainty on the branching fraction of
the decay , and the
fourth is due to the knowledge of . The sum of the
asymmetries in the production and decay between and
is also measured as a function of and .
The previously published branching fraction of , relative to that of , is updated.
The branching fractions of are determined.Comment: 29 pages, 19figures. All figures and tables, along with any
supplementary material and additional information, are available at
https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-032.htm
Evidence for the strangeness-changing weak decay
Using a collision data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity
of 3.0~fb, collected by the LHCb detector, we present the first search
for the strangeness-changing weak decay . No
hadron decay of this type has been seen before. A signal for this decay,
corresponding to a significance of 3.2 standard deviations, is reported. The
relative rate is measured to be
, where and
are the and fragmentation
fractions, and is the branching
fraction. Assuming is bounded between 0.1 and
0.3, the branching fraction would lie
in the range from to .Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, All figures and tables, along with any
supplementary material and additional information, are available at
https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-047.htm
Search for the rare decays and
A search for the rare decay of a or meson into the final
state is performed, using data collected by the LHCb experiment
in collisions at and TeV, corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 3 fb. The observed number of signal candidates is
consistent with a background-only hypothesis. Branching fraction values larger
than for the decay mode are
excluded at 90% confidence level. For the decay
mode, branching fraction values larger than are excluded at
90% confidence level, this is the first branching fraction limit for this
decay.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and
additional information, are available at
https://lhcbproject.web.cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/LHCbProjectPublic/LHCb-PAPER-2015-044.htm
Methods of estimation of mitral valve regurgitation for the cardiac surgeon
Mitral valve regurgitation is a relatively common and important heart valve lesion in clinical practice and adequate assessment is fundamental to decision on management, repair or replacement. Disease localised to the posterior mitral valve leaflet or focal involvement of the anterior mitral valve leaflet is most amenable to mitral valve repair, whereas patients with extensive involvement of the anterior leaflet or incomplete closure of the valve are more suitable for valve replacement. Echocardiography is the recognized investigation of choice for heart valve disease evaluation and assessment. However, the technique is depended on operator experience and on patient's hemodynamic profile, and may not always give optimal diagnostic views of mitral valve dysfunction. Cardiac catheterization is related to common complications of an interventional procedure and needs a hemodynamic laboratory. Cardiac magnetic resonance (MRI) seems to be a useful tool which gives details about mitral valve anatomy, precise point of valve damage, as well as the quantity of regurgitation. Finally, despite of its higher cost, cardiac MRI using cine images with optimized spatial and temporal resolution can also resolve mitral valve leaflet structural motion, and can reliably estimate the grade of regurgitation
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