3,515 research outputs found
Suburban Interventions, A Question of Property, and Assigned Value (title)
Suburban Interventions, A Question of Property, and Assigned Value (title) originated in West Texas in 2000, and since then these projects have been installed or taken place in diverse locations throughout the United States: from Los Angeles, California to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and from El Paso, Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts. These three art projects incorporate and juxtapose the disciplines of sculpture and architecture with the Western legal discourses of property, First Amendment, and intellectual property law. In particular, these projects invoke, and thus critique, the assumed universality and normativity of Western jurisprudence
Características del suministro de leña al mercado energético doméstico en la ciudad de Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Casi la mitad de la población de la provincia de
Santiago del Estero, Argentina, emplea la leña como
combustible para cubrir sus necesidades energéticas
tanto para el consumo doméstico familiar como para
la producción a escala artesanal de alimentos
destinados a la venta.
Este trabajo analiza el uso intensivo de recursos
forestales escasos en el ámbito doméstico, así como
el desconocimiento de formas alternativas
generadoras de energía y la falta de previsión para
asegurarse la provisión de los mismos.
El objetivo de esta investigación es caracterizar el
modo de transacción y sus mecanismos referidos a la
leña en el mercado local describiendo el modo de
pago más empleado, así como los medios de
transporte, el origen de la leña, y una breve
caracterización de las tendencias acerca del recurso
y la actitud de cambio de actividad productiva ante
la escasez del mismo.
La metodología se basó en el empleo de encuestas
semi-estructuradas a consumidores de leña para uso
productivo artesanal de comidas y alimentos típicos
de la ciudad. Las encuestas contenían preguntas
acerca de la cantidad de leña consumida en la
producción de alimentos, el medio de pago, el origen
de la leña y la forma de traslado de la misma.
Los resultados revelan tres niveles de consumidores
según el peso de leña consumida. Se detectó la
presencia de un sistema de comercialización no
formal manejado con vehículos motorizados. Casi
toda la leña consumida es comprada y las
transacciones son todas del modo contado efectivo.___________________________________Almost half of the population of Santiago del Estero,
Argentina, uses firewood as fuel to meet their energy
needs for both family consumption and sale-oriented
production of food and meals at a craft level.
This work analyses the intensive use of scarce forest
resources within the domestic environment, the
ignorance about energy-generating alternative forms
as well as the lack of forecast for assuring their
supply.
The aim of this research is to characterize the way
and the mechanisms by which firewood is
commercialized locally, describing the most used
ways of payment, transportation, firewood origin
and including a brief characterization of the trends
as to the resource and the attitude towards changing
the productive activity to face its scarcity.
Methodologically, semi-structured surveys were
conducted among those using firewood for a craft
production of typical food and meals. The surveys
included questions concerning the quantity of
firewood employed in preparing foods, its origin,
and the ways it is hauled and paid.
The results reveal three different levels of consumers
according to the firewood they employ and detect
the existence of a non-formal system of
commercialization run by motorized vehicles. Both
the purchase of almost all firewood consumed and
transactions are made in cash
Antibiotic Prescribing Practices of Filipino Dentists
There are reports that dentists overprescribe antibiotics which may contribute to antibiotic resistance. This is an exploratory study on antibiotic prescribing practices of Filipino dentists using an online platform to form a basis for antimicrobial stewardship policy for dentists. A link to an online questionnaire using Survey Monkey was posted in a Closed Group Facebook account of Filipino dentists. Two hundred thirty (230) dentists participated. Data was analyzed by Survey Monkey. Amoxicillin is the first choice of antibiotics(71.18%), andclindamycin is the second (57.27%). Most respondents follow the indications for antibiotic therapy, however, some will prescribe antibiotics for conditions without indications. For dental procedures, 88.99% will prescribe for periodontal surgery, 75.45% for endodontic surgery, 68.3% for extraction of a tooth with chronic infection, 87.17% for third molar surgery, 26.7% for routine endodontics, and 23.56% for periodontal treatment without surgery. Not all of the respondents would prescribe for medical conditions that require antibiotic prophylaxis, while 60.36% will prescribe when in doubt in diagnosis, under time pressure (25.68%), and 48.67% considers patient preference. Only 10.48% of the respondents are very familiar with antimicrobial stewardship, while majority (69.74%) have not attended a lecture for antimicrobial stewardship for dentists.There is inappropriate antibiotic prescribing of participants on certain dental diseases, procedures, and medical conditions. Most respondents are not very familiar and have not attended a lecture on antimicrobial stewardship for specifically for dentists
Cognitive outcome and gamma noise power unrelated to neuregulin 1 and 3 variation in schizophrenia
Background
Neuregulins are a family of signalling proteins that orchestrate a broad range of cellular responses. Four genes encoding Neuregulins 1–4 have been identified so far in vertebrates. Among them, Neuregulin 1 and Neuregulin 3 have been reported to contribute to an increased risk for developing schizophrenia. We hypothesized that three specific variants of these genes (rs6994992 and rs3924999 for Neuregulin 1 and rs10748842 for Neuregulin 3) that have been related to this illness may modify information processing capacity in the cortex, which would be reflected in electrophysiological parameters (P3b amplitude or gamma noise power) and/or cognitive performance.
Methods
We obtained DNA from 31 patients with schizophrenia and 23 healthy controls and analyzed NRG1 rs6994992, NRG1 rs3924999 and NRG3 rs10748842 promoter polymorphisms by allelic discrimination with real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). We compared cognitive outcome, P300 amplitude parameters and an electroencephalographic measure of noise power in the gamma band between the groups dichotomized according to genotype.
Results
Contrary to our hypothesis, we could not detect any significant influence of variation in Neuregulin 1/Neuregulin 3 polymorphisms on cognitive performance or electrophysiological parameters of patients with schizophrenia.
Conclusions
Despite our findings, we cannot discard that other genetic variants and, more likely, interactions between those variants and with genetic variation related to different pathways may still influence cerebral processing in schizophrenia
Pulse Propagation in Chains with Nonlinear Interactions
Pulse propagation in nonlinear arrays continues to be of interest because it
provides a possible mechanism for energy transfer with little dispersion. Here
we show that common measures of pulse dispersion might be misleading; in
strongly anharmonic systems they tend to reflect a succession of extremely
narrow pulses traveling at decreasing velocities rather than the actual width
of a single pulse. We present analytic estimates for the fraction of the
initial energy that travels in the leading pulses. We also provide analytic
predictions for the leading pulse velocity in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam beta-chain
Towards a Semantic Gas Source Localization under Uncertainty
Towards a Semantic Gas Source Localization under Uncertainty.Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 855), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91479-4_42This work addresses the problem of efficiently and coherently
locating a gas source in a domestic environment with a mobile
robot, meaning efficiently the coverage of the shortest distance as possible
and coherently the consideration of different gas sources explaining
the gas presence. The main contribution is the exploitation, for the
first time, of semantic relationships between the gases detected and the
objects present in the environment to face this challenging issue. Our
proposal also takes into account both the uncertainty inherent in the
gas classification and object recognition processes. These uncertainties
are combined through a probabilistic Bayesian framework to provide a
priority-ordered list of (previously observed) objects to check. Moreover
the proximity of the different candidates to the current robot location
is also considered by a cost function, which output is used for planning
the robot inspection path. We have conducted an initial demonstration
of the suitability of our gas source localization approach by simulating
this task within domestic environments for a variable number of objects,
and comparing it with an greedy approach.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
Medium power hydrogen arcjet performance
An experimental investigation was performed to evaluate hydrogen arcjet operating characteristics in the range of 1 to 4 kW. A series of nozzles were operated in modular laboratory thrusters to examine the effects of geometric parameters such as constrictor diameter and nozzle divergence angle. Each nozzle was tested over a range of current and mass flow rates to explore stability and performance. In the range of mass flow rates and power levels tested, specific impulse values between 650 and 1250 sec were obtained at efficiencies between 30 and 40 percent. The performance of the two larger half angle (20, 15 deg) nozzles was similar for each of the two constrictor diameters tested. The nozzles with the smallest half angle (10 deg) were difiicult to operate. A restrike mode of operation was identified and described. Damage in the form of melting was observed in the constrictor region of all the nozzle inserts tested. Arcjet ignition was also difficult in many tests and a glow discharge mode that prevents starting was identified
The Antiferromagnetic Band Structure of La2CuO4 Revisited
Using the Becke-3-LYP functional, we have performed band structure
calculations on the high temperature superconductor parent compound, La2CuO4.
Under the restricted spin formalism (rho(alpha) equal to rho(beta)), the
R-B3LYP band structure agrees well with the standard LDA band structure. It is
metallic with a single Cu x2-y2/O p(sigma) band crossing the Fermi level. Under
the unrestricted spin formalism (rho(alpha) not equal to rho(beta)), the UB3LYP
band structure has a spin polarized antiferromagnetic solution with a band gap
of 2.0 eV, agreeing well with experiment. This state is 1.0 eV (per formula
unit) lower than that calculated from the R-B3LYP. The apparent high energy of
the spin restricted state is attributed to an overestimate of on-site Coulomb
repulsion which is corrected in the unrestricted spin calculations. The
stabilization of the total energy with spin polarization arises primarily from
the stabilization of the x2-y2 band, such that the character of the eigenstates
at the top of the valence band in the antiferromagnetic state becomes a strong
mixture of Cu x2-y2/O p(sigma) and Cu z2/O' p(z). Since the Hohenberg-Kohn
theorem requires the spin restricted and spin unrestricted calculations give
exactly the same ground state energy and total density for the exact
functionals, this large disparity in energy reflects the inadequacy of current
functionals for describing the cuprates. This calls into question the use of
band structures based on current restricted spin density functionals (including
LDA) as a basis for single band theories of superconductivity in these
materials.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B, for more information
see http://www.firstprinciples.co
Tropical contamination by hydrocarbons: Biotechnological perspective for the remediation of soils in forests, application case Peruvian Amazon, Bagua - Imaza
The objective of the present investigation is to publicize the situation of the forests with respect to the contamination of soils by hydrocarbons. The biotechnological processes applied to soil bioremediation and the feasibility of applying them in the country were investigated. Hydrocarbons are the major contaminants due to their resistance to biodegradation and their ability to bioaccumulate in the soil. In the world it is estimated that around 2,381,000 barrels of oil are spilled per year due to spills. Similarly, only in the Peruvian Amazon there have been 566 oil spills and from 1997 to 2021 87,370.82 barrels of oil have been spilled. All this has caused social conflicts and loss of species. In the case of the Bagua province, Imaza district, Inayo annex that crosses the Norperuano Pipeline, many times due to mismanagement, the pipeline has suffered ruptures and subsequent hydrocarbon leaks. The purpose of the study is to publicize in-situ bioremediation techniques, bioventing, bioaugmentation and biostimulation, and ex-situ Technology remediation techniques such as biopiles and landfarming. As well as the phytoremediation technique. The comparative result of the techniques showed the lines of thought that led to the selection of the most appropriate technique for the Amazonian soil of study.Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológic
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