An Assortment of Boeotian Vases

"The brilliance of Athenian art is one of the major attractions of antiquity which draws us to the civilization of Greece and the origins of western culture. It is this brilliance, however, which occasionally blinds us to the provincial and often interesting art produced in other regions of Greece. One such area is Boeotia, located north of Athens and containing the city of Thebes. The Boeotians, like their Attic neighbors, produced vases of both figured and monochrome decoration. A collection of five vases in the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri-Columbia represents both techniques of decoration and typifies the more common as well as less frequent vase shapes made in Boeotia during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C."--First paragraph.Includes bibliographical reference

Effects of a Parish Based Heart Healthy Education Program

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the United States. Some risk factors for cardiovascular disease can be modified which include: diet; physical activity; smoking; hypertension; diabetes; and weight. Various national programs, such as “Go Red for Women” and “Let’s Move,” have been implemented to address this growing epidemic. Community programs are needed as an adjunct to these national initiatives. Thus, a parish based cardiovascular disease educational program would provide for a unique socially and spiritually supportive environment for education at the community level. Research findings indicate that parish based educational programs are effective in increasing health knowledge of participants. The Health Belief Model and the IOWA model served as frameworks to support implementation of this Evidence Based Practice (EBP) project. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s “Ten Commandments for a Healthy Heart,” was utilized as the 20 minute educational platform. A convenience sample of 20 parishioners from a Midwestern, Roman Catholic Church was obtained to assess knowledge gained from the 20 minute heart healthy education session. A cardiovascular disease knowledge questionnaire evaluated baseline and post education intervention knowledge. Resulting data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a paired t-test to compare baseline and post education intervention knowledge scores. Results indicated a statistically significant improvement between baseline and post education intervention test scores (p\u3c.000). The findings of this EBP project support implementing parish based educational programs. The Advanced Practice Nurse, as a healthcare professional, can replicate this EBP project to provide education at the community level

El reensamblaje y la reposición virtual de un recipiente de beber fragmentado

[EN] A key issue in the study of cultural assets is theiroften fragmentary condition. This causes serious problems and questions regarding theirstudy and presentation. Pottery fragments are the most numerous findings in every excavation. Furthermore, pottery plays an essential role for the reconstruction of the past, since it providesinformation for all aspects of life (private, public, religion, death, economy, society, trade,etc.). Therefore,a thorough study and presentation of pottery fragments contribute to a better knowledge of the past.The focus of this work is the visualisation of an ancient Greek drinking vase, a kantharos, which was unearthed during the excavations at the settlement of Karabournaki (ancient Therme) in the area of Thessaloniki (Greece). It dates to the Archaic period (7th-6thc. B.C.) and it was found in fragments among the settlement's architectural remains. The vase is of great archaeological significance due to its peculiarities in terms of shape, decoration and function. Therefore,its digital completion and 3D reconstruction willcontribute to its betterstudy and scholarly publication along with a general contribution to the field of pottery studies.We discuss on the 3D digitisation of the kantharosfragments that werebased onStructure from Motion/Multiple View Stereovision (SfM/MVS) and a custom automated data collection system. A detailed description of the digitisation pipeline is given along with details related to the quality of the 3D digital replicas of the sherds. Furthermore, we presentour manual virtual reassembly and reconstruction pipelineof the kantharosby describing the challenges, issues and ambiguities discovered while analysing the geometrical features of each sherd. A number of photorealistic reconstruction visualisations of the artefact are presented in order to question the applicability of the solution for the actual reconstruction[ES] Una cuestión clave en el estudio de los bienes culturales es su condición amenudo fragmentaria. Estacausa problemas y serias dudas en cuanto a su estudio y presentación. Los fragmentos de cerámica son los hallazgos más frecuentes en una excavación. Además, la cerámica juega un papel esencial para la reconstrucción del pasado, ya que proporciona información acerca de todos los aspectos de la vida (privada, pública, la religión, la muerte, la economía, la sociedad, el comercio, etc.). Por lo tanto, un estudio a fondo y la presentación de los fragmentos de cerámica pueden conducir a un mejor conocimiento del pasado.El objetivo de este trabajo es la visualización de un recipiente griego para beber, un Kantharo (recipiente para bebidas) descubierto en las excavaciones del asentamiento de Karabournaki (antigua Therme) en la zona de Tesalónica (Grecia). El vaso se fecha en el periodo arcaico (VII-VI a.C.) y sus fragmentos se encontraronentre los restos arquitectónicos del asentamiento. El recipiente es de gran importancia arqueológica debido a sus peculiaridades en cuanto a la forma, la decoración y su función. Por lo tanto, su acabado digital y la reconstrucción 3D contribuirán a su mejor estudio y a la publicación además de una aportación genérica enel campo de los estudios de cerámica.Se discute sobre la digitalización en 3D de losfragmentos del kantharos, que estábasadoen StructurefromMotion/Multiple View Stereovision(SfM/MVS) y un sistema automatizado de recogida de datos a medida. Se ofrece una descripción detallada del proceso de digitalización junto con los detalles relacionados con la calidad de las réplicas digitales en 3D de los pedazos. Además, presentamos nuestro manual de reensamblaje virtual y el proceso de reconstrucción virtual del kantharos,mediante la descripción delos desafíos, de los problemas y de las ambigüedades descubiertas durante el análisis de las características geométricas de cada fragmento. Se presentanvisualizaciones fotorrealistas de la reconstrucción del artefacto con el fin de cuestionar la aplicabilidad de la solución a la reconstrucción realThis work was implemented as a Case Study within the framework of the COST-Action TD 1201: Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH). COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020.Tsiafaki, D.; Koutsoudis, A.; Arnaoutoglou, F.; Michailidou, N. (2015). Virtual reassembly and completion of a fragmentary drinking vessel. Virtual Archaeology Review. 7(15):67-76. doi:10.4995/var.2016.5910.SWORD677671

Modelagem da liberação controlada de princípios ativos (betacaroteno e lidocaína) de microcápsulas

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Química, Florianópolis, 2015.Neste trabalho os seguintes modelos matemáticos já existentes na literatura são aplicados para simular a liberação de princípios ativos contidos em microcápsulas poliméricas do tipo matriz em um solvente: 2ª. Lei de Fick, Linear Driving Force (LDF), modelo de Solução Monolítica e outros modelos semiempíricos. Os resultados obtidos são comparados com os disponíveis na literatura para os seguintes sistemas: Poli (3-hidroxibutirato-co-3-hidroxivalerato) o PHBV e betacaroteno em etanol, acetato de etila e n-hexano; Polímero de ácido Lático o PLA e lidocaína em solução aquosa de 0,3 M de polifosfato. Para demonstrar o desempenho de cada modelo comparativamente aos dados experimentais, é feita uma análise estatística. Os resultados médios para o coeficiente de difusão para cada sistema princípio ativo-solvente foram de 4,5x10-14 cm2/s, para o betacaroteno em etanol anidro, de 2,7x10-12 cm2/s para o betacaroteno em acetato de etila, de 3,9x10-12 cm2/s para o betacaroteno em n-hexano e de 7,1x10-15 cm2/s para a lidocaína em água com 0,3 molar de fosfato. Foi também calculado o coeficiente de transferência de massa km2 para cada sistema princípio ativo-solvente, obtendo-se os seguintes valores: 0,21 cm/s para betacaroteno e etanol anidro, 0,57 cm/s para betacaroteno e acetato de etila, 0,76 cm/s para betacaroteno e n-hexano e 0,67 cm/s para lidocaína e água com 0,3 molar de fosfato. Pode-se observar que houve variação das liberações de equilíbrio para diferentes sistemas de solvente em microcápsulas, mostrando que existe uma relação estreita entre a fase sólida e a líquida, pois se tem dois sistemas onde ocorre a transferência de massa, que é dentro da microcápsula e no reator agitado. Pode?se concluir a partir disso, que os modelos mais completos são sempre os que melhor se baseiam na fenomenologia do problema, pois foram capazes de representar as etapas fundamentais do processo de transferência de massa como a resistência à transferência de massa na superfície da microcápsula, erosão, difusão Fickiana, quasi-Fickiana e anômala, assim aproximando melhor os resultados numéricos dos resultados experimentais.Abstract : In this work, the following mathematical models existing in the literature are applied to simulate the release of active ingredients contained in polymeric microcapsules of type matrix with a solvent: 2nd. Fick's law, Linear Driving Force (LDF), monolithic solution model and other semi-empirical models. The results obtained are compared with those available in the literature for the following systems: Poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) PHBV, and beta-carotene in ethanol, ethyl acetate and n-hexane; Lactic Acid Polymer PLA and lidocaine in 0.3 M aqueous polyphosphate. To demonstrate the performance of each model compared to experimental data, it is made a statistical analysis. The average results for the diffusion coefficient for each active principle-solvent system were 4.50x10-14 cm2 / s, for beta-carotene in anhydrous ethanol, 2.70x10-12 cm2 / s for beta-carotene in ethyl acetate, 3.90x10-12 of cm2 / s for beta-carotene in n-hexane and 7.10x10-15 cm2 / s for water with lidocaine in 0.3 molar phosphate. It was also calculated the mass transfer coefficient for each km2 of active principle-solvent system to yield the following values: 0.21 cm / s for beta-carotene and anhydrous ethanol, 0.57 cm / s for beta-carotene and ethyl acetate, 0.76 cm / s for beta-carotene and n-hexane and 0.67 cm / s for lidocaine and water with 0.3 molar phosphate. It can be seen that there was a variation of the equilibrium releases for different solvent in microcapsules systems, showing that there is a close relation between the solid phase and the liquid. Therefore, there are two systems where the mass transfer process occurs: within the microcapsule and stirred reactor. It can be conclude that the more complete models have been able to represent the fundamental steps of the mass transfer process as resistance to mass transfer on the surface of the microcapsule, erosion, Fickian diffusion, quasi-Fickian and anomalous, so rather approaching the numerical results of the experimental results

Remoção de compostos BTEX de soluções aquosas por adsorção

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia QuímicaA adsorção em coluna de leito fixo é um método de tratamento muito usado para a retirada de contaminantes de efluentes na indústria petroquímica. Neste trabalho é investigado o uso do carvão ativado de casca de coco no tratamento de correntes industriais aquosas, contaminadas com o BTEX, que é o benzeno, tolueno, etilbenzeno e o-xileno. Os compostos BTEX foram escolhidos, pela sua facilidade, frente aos outros hidrocarbonetos presentes no petróleo, de se misturar com a água e do grave impacto ambiental ocasionado pela presença dos mesmos nos cursos d'água, devido à sua elevada toxicidade. Foram feitos testes para a determinação de isotermas de equilíbrio e se observou que tanto o modelo de Langmuir, quanto o modelo de Freundlich, apresentaram um bom ajuste aos dados experimentais. Foram ainda realizados testes cinéticos em batelada para a obtenção do coeficiente de difusão efetiva para os compostos e testes cinéticos em contínuo para a obtenção das curvas de ruptura "breakthrough", sendo este teste para o benzeno realizado para diferentes condições de altura do leito e vazões. A melhor condição de operação, obtida experimentalmente para o benzeno, foi aplicada para os outros compostos, tolueno, etilbenzeno e o-xileno. Foi desenvolvido um modelo para a simulação das condições experimentais utilizando a linguagem de programação FORTRAN e o software comercial CFX. No algoritmo desenvolvido na linguagem FORTRAN, o ADSBTEX, foi utilizado o método de diferenças finitas para resolver as equações diferenciais que governam o fenômeno de adsorção no leito fixo. Através dos métodos CFD empregadas no software CFX foram geradas as malhas, aplicadas às condições de contorno e obtidas as soluções numéricas. Os resultados obtidos experimentalmente foram utilizados para corroborar os modelos e algoritmos numéricos desenvolvidos, verificando-se um desvio médio máximo de 7,5 %. Os modelos foram considerados representativos do processo em estudo e os resultados simulados adequados para a predição do comportamento do processo de adsorção em sistema contínuo

A Tale of Two Seasons

A story of The City College of New York\u27s rise and fall in the CUNY basketball circuit, and how an athletic department and administrative issues disrupted the flow of what could\u27ve been a winning tradition. http://thecityschildren.tilda.ws

Flinging a New Star: “Fire and Cloud” and “Bright and Morning Star” as Reflections of Richard Wright’s Changing Relationship with Communism

Richard Wright's collection of short novella's, Uncle Tom's Children, was originally published in 1938; in 1940, after the success of Native Son, a new printing of the text appeared with two additions.  The first was the introductory essay entitled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," which was written in 1937, and later served as part of Black Boy. The second was the novella "Bright and Morning Star." Michel Fabre notes that Harper's Magazine rejected this story, "but since it fit Party specifications even better than had the four previous stories, New Masses published it as part of a special literary supplement on May 10, [1938]" (164) . In fact, perhaps because New Masses originally published the final story, critical attention to the revised edition of book almost exclusively posits that the 1940 edition reflects Wright's commitment to Communism at the time. However, several of Wright's other writings-including the introductory essay to the 1940 edition, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow;" "Blue print for Negro Writing," first published in New Challenge in the fall of 1937; "I Tried to be a Communist," first published in Atlantic Monthly in August and September 1944; and his responses to the Communist party's review of Native Son in 1940-also indicate that his focus in the late 1930s was more on the development of an individual black consciousness than on advancing the causes of the Communist party. By juxtaposing the final two stories, "Fire and Cloud" and "Bright and Morning Star," and considering them in terms of the other writings indicated above, I argue that the 1940 edition of Uncle Tom's Children (with the two additions) demonstrates Wright's growing ambivalence with the Communist Party between the years of 1937 and 1940.  

The T2K Side Muon Range Detector

The T2K experiment is a long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment aiming to observe the appearance of {\nu} e in a {\nu}{\mu} beam. The {\nu}{\mu} beam is produced at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), observed with the 295 km distant Super- Kamiokande Detector and monitored by a suite of near detectors at 280m from the proton target. The near detectors include a magnetized off-axis detector (ND280) which measures the un-oscillated neutrino flux and neutrino cross sections. The present paper describes the outermost component of ND280 which is a side muon range detector (SMRD) composed of scintillation counters with embedded wavelength shifting fibers and Multi-Pixel Photon Counter read-out. The components, performance and response of the SMRD are presented.Comment: 13 pages, 19 figures v2: fixed several typos; fixed reference