Plasma Spectroscopy Group

One of research field of the group is applying low-temperature plasma sources (as e.g. wall-stabilized arc or barrier discharge source) for excitation of atoms and ions. Based on the registered spectra the atomic data as the transition probabilities or Stark-broadening parameters are determined. The Stark-broadening of the spectral line in the plasma is studied also by theoretical methods (including numerical simulation). In order to improve the quality of obtained atomic data, study of properties and phenomena present the plasma produced in those sources (as e.g. demixing effect or thermal equilibrium) are next object of interest. It is associated with development of the diagnostic techniq…

UL Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research

The activities of the UL Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research are based on innovation and interdisciplinary cooperation between the UL faculties, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia and other Latvian and international institutions, as well as diaspora researchers worldwide.

Inverse problems Research Group

Inverse problems research concentrates on the mathematical theory and practical implementation of indirect measurements. Applications are found in numerous research fields involving scientific, medical or industrial imaging; familiar examples include X-ray computed tomography and ultrasound imaging. Inverse problems have a rich mathematical theory employing modern methods in partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and differential geometry.

Crystallization kinetics in relation to polymer processing

1993

Phase distribution of quenched samples has been determined by a deconvolution procedure of WAXS spectra in a wide range of cooling rates. The informations collected together with isothermal and DSC results provide a very wide set of data on the crystallization kinetics of polymers relevant which covers conditions encountered in most polymer processing operations. They have been compared with predictions of a non-isothermal crystallization model assuming two independent and parallel crystallization processes competing during solidification.

Triassic Fossils Collection

A collection of vertebrate remains from the famous Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian) deposits of Krasiejów. Excavations are carried out at the site since the early 2000s. In the UO collection, hundreds of specimens are held, including fossils assigned to different groups of fishes, temnospondyl amphibians (Cyclotosaurus, Metoposaurus), and reptiles, mostly gharial-like Paleorhinus/Parasuchus and armored Stagonolepis. UO collection includes also microvertebrate remains – isolated teeth and scales. \nIn the future, the digital collection will be enlarged to include also Middle Triassic findings from the vicinity of Opole, like vertebrate-bearing findings from Gogolin.

Critical Role of Substrate Conformational Change in the Proton Transfer Process Catalyzed by 4-Oxalocrotonate Tautomerase

2009

4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase enzyme (4-OT) catalyzes the isomerization of 2-oxo-4-hexenedioate to 2-oxo-3-hexenedioate. The chemical process involves two proton transfers, one from a carbon of the substrate to the nitrogen of Pro1 and another from this nitrogen atom to a different carbon of the substrate. In this paper the isomerization has been studied using the combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) method with a dual-level treatment of the quantum subsystem employing the MPW1BK density functional as the higher level. Exploration of the potential energy surface shows that the process is stepwise, with a stable intermediate state corresponding to the deprotonated subs…

Crypt of the Repentite

The crypt came to light by chance in 2005, during some renovation works of an old religious complex in via Divisi and is currently intended for University Departments. It is still intact in its original beauty. Burial place for the “Repentite”, it preserves a valuable 17th century altar, almost intact.

Q. Curtii Rufi, Historia Alexandri Magni. Cum notis selectiss. variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, & c.

Editio variorum of Quintus Curtius Rufus Historiae Alexandri Magni, with comments and annotations by various specialists. It is the story of the life and career of Alexander the Great.

Lettere dell'ill.re signore don Antonio di Guevara, vescovo di Mondogneto, predicator, cronista, & consigliero della maestà cesarca

Collection of religious letters by the Spanish Catholic bishop Antonio de Guevara (1480-1545).

Della guerra di Fiandra, descritta dal cardinal Bentivoglio.

Historical work, in eloquent style, that tells the story of the religious war in the Netherlands against Philip II. It is divided into two parts: the first one goes up to 1577, the second one starts from year 1578.

Kokot, Waltraud, Christian Giordano and Mijal Gandelsman-Trier (eds.) 2013.Diaspora as a resource: comparative studies in strategies, networks and ur…

2015

Soil-Water Interactions Unveiled by Fast Field Cycling NMR Relaxometry

2017

Oratory of the Falegnami

This precious chapel, incorporated in the Convent of the Teatini, former headquarter of the University of Palermo in via Maqueda, is the reconstruction of the oratory destroyed during the realization of the portico, in the main building. Closed to the public and to worship for many years, it was reopened as University Chapel in 2009.

Observatory of Sciences of the Universe Earth Man Environment Time Astronomy of Franche-Comté-Bourgogn

The observatory "Astronomical, chronometric and meteorological" of Besançon was created in 1878 and has since developed by diversifying its research topics. Astronomy and chronometry remain nevertheless strong axes of the establishment. From the "historical" Besançon observatory, which regrouped the astronomy part of UTINAM and which was already in charge of providing observational services recognized by INSU (time and frequency metrology, large-scale surveys and data archiving), the establishment became the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Terre-Homme-Environnement-Temps-Astronomie (OSU THETA) of Franche-Comté/Bourgogne by federating the following laboratories or teams: UTINAM (UMR C…

Sacrae Rotae Romanae Decisiones coram reverendissimo P. domino Cyriaco Lancetta …

Collection of the sentences of Sacra Rotafrom from January 11, 1715 to December 12, 1718, taken from the autographs of Ciriaco Lancetta, auditor of the Sacra Rota.

Traitté de la peinture.

Autotransfusión predepósito en artroplastia total de cadera como programa de ahorro de sangre alogénica

2006

Las necesidades transfusionales en Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología son elevadas, condicionando un alto coste. Existen diferentes técnicas de ahorro de sangre alogénica siendo la autotransfusión predepósito sin duda el patrón oro en la actualidad. Realizamos un estudio retrospectivo con el objeto de valorar si las técnicas de ahorro de sangre y especialmente la autotransfusión predepósito disminuyen las necesidades de transfusión alogénica en cirugía ortopédica programada de cadera. El mayor inconveniente de la autotransfusión fue el alto coste-efectividad. El principal factor que ancarece la técnica es la gran cantidad de unidades donadas y no transfundidas, que genera un rendimiento baj…

Low-temperature atomic layer deposition of ZnO thin films: Control of crystallinity and orientation

2011

Abstract Low-temperature atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes are intensely looked for to extend the usability of the technique to applications where sensitive substrates such as polymers or biological materials need to be coated by high-quality thin films. A preferred film orientation, on the other hand, is often required to enhance the desired film properties. Here we demonstrate that smooth, crystalline ZnO thin films can be deposited from diethylzinc and water by ALD even at room temperature. The depositions were carried out on Si(100) substrates in the temperature range from 23 to 140 °C. Highly c-axis-oriented films were realized at temperatures below ~ 80 °C. The film crystallinit…

Cultural Studies

The laboratory was born from the comparison between Cultural Studies and the practical and theoretical urgencies detected in the recent debate on Italian Theory, therefore within that paradigm that has relaunched contemporary Italian thought. The laboratory, part of the international research group “ Italian Thought Network”, operates on three conceptual axes and is powered by their possible, desired and determined encounters: the bios, whose “cultural” analysis is enriched by a fruitful, and in Italy pioneering, attention to neuroscience and cognitive science; (bio)politics, thematized starting from the Foucauldian lesson but “forced” to interact with Gramsci’s elaboration, inspiring the i…

Flora of Opole Silesia collection

A collection of vascular plants from Poland that comprises mainly Opole Silesia region. Additionally there are stored collections of A. Nowak, E. Kuźniewski from Sudety Mts., Carpathians, Croatia, Romania and the Czech Republic. The number of stored specimens exceeds 13,000.

Relationship between aortic root size and glomerular filtration rate in hypertensive patients

2016

OBJECTIVE: Recent studies suggest that enlarged aortic root diameter (ARD) may predict cardiovascular events in absence of aneurysmatic alterations. Little is known about the influence of renal function on ARD. Our study was aimed to assess the relationships between glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and ARD in hypertensive subjects. METHODS: We enrolled 611 hypertensive individuals (mean age: 52 ± 15 years; men 63%). ARD was measured by echocardiography at the level of Valsalva's sinuses using M-mode tracings. It was considered as absolute measure, normalized to body surface area (ARD/BSA) and indexed to height (ARD/H). GFR was estimated by the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaborati…