Soc. 10 mars 2009

2009

Parchment collection

The parchment collection of the Library of the University of Latvia contains a total of 9 liturgical and 8 secular texts. Parchments were made between the 14th and 17th centuries - both individual documents and fragments of books, where different types of writing were used. Parchment sheets also vary in size, from octave pocketbooks to large folio bindings. These are secular and liturgical texts in Latin, German and Spanish.

Iosephi Binghami ... Origines sive antiquitates ecclesiasticae. Ex lingua anglicana in latinam vertit

Translation from English into Latin of a vast religious-historical work which gives a systematic account of Christian antiquities, grouped by headings. The third volume contains books VII, VIII and IX.

Body Mass Index and Liver Stiffness Affect Accuracy of Ultrasonography in Detecting Steatosis in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1 I…

2013

Background & Aims: Few studies have evaluated the accuracy of ultrasonography in detecting steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. We assessed its accuracy in detecting steatosis and factors that affect its diagnostic performance in consecutive patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1infection. Methods: We analyzed data from 515 patients with chronic hepatitis C, confirmed by liver biopsy, assessing anthropometric, biochemical, metabolic, virologic, and ultrasonography features. Transient elastography was performed to measure liver stiffness. Steatosis was identified with ultrasonography based on detection of a bright liver echo pattern. Results: Ultrasonography identified…

Influence of climatic variables on acute myocardial infarction hospital admissions

2009

BACKGROUND: Seasonal peaks in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) incidence have been widely reported. Weather has been postulated to be one of the elements at the basis of this association. The aim of our study was to determine the influence of seasonal variations and weather on AMI hospital admissions. METHODS: We correlated the daily number of AMI cases admitted to a western Sicily hospital over twelve years and weather conditions on a day-to-day basis. Information on temperature, humidity, wind force and direction, precipitation, sunny hours and atmospheric pressure was obtained from the local Birgi Air Force base. A total of 3918 consecutive patients were admitted with AMI over the perio…

Frequency of the odontogenic maxillary sinusitis extended to the anterior ethmoid sinus and response to surgical treatment

2014

Objectives: Odontogenic sinusitis usually affects the maxillary sinus but may extend to the anterior ethmoid sinuses. The purpose of this study is to determine the percentage of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis extended to the anterior ethmoid sinuses and determine also the surgical resolution differences between odontogenic maxillary sinusitis and odontogenic maxillary associated to anterior ethmoidal sinusitis. Study Design: This is a retrospective cohort study performed on 55 patients diagnosed of odontogenic sinusitis and treated surgically by functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Results: This study showed that 52.7% of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis spreads to anterior ethmoid, causing…

Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldassar Castiglione

Treatise describing the qualities of the perfect courtier through a conversation between renowned personalities, depicting at the same time an ideal model of sixteenth-century court society.

Baldone Observatory

Baldone Observatory - an object of national significance and the only base of professional optical astronomical observations in Latvia - is currently the basic structure of the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Latvia. The Schmidt Telescope, a unique large-field instrument, is the largest in the Baltics and the twelfth largest telescope of such a system in the world. The telescope is designed for both direct and spectral observations of celestial bodies. Baldone Observatory is the only professional observatory in Latvia, which deals with observations in the optical range.

Peptide-mediated interference with baculovirus transduction

2007

Baculovirus represents a multifunctional platform with potential for biomedical applications including disease therapies. The importance of F3, a tumor-homing peptide, in baculovirus transduction was previously recognized by the ability of F3 to augment viral binding and gene delivery to human cancer cells following display on the viral envelope. Here, F3 was utilized as a molecular tool to expand understanding of the poorly characterized baculovirus-mammalian cell interactions. Baculovirus-mediated transduction of HepG2 hepatocarcinoma cells was strongly inhibited by coincubating the virus with synthetic F3 or following incorporation of F3 into viral nucleocapsid by genetic engineering, th…

The UL Centre for European and Transition Studies

The UL Centre for European and Transition Studies (CETS) was established in 2000 as a unit of the University of Latvia. It aims to promote and support interdisciplinary academic and applied research on European issues, involving students from both EU Member States and from a number of third countries. CETS focuses on sectors, such as economics, political science, law, public administration and regional policy. CETS includes projects by Jean Monnet and Marie Curie from European Commission and provides advice to state institutions on economic and social development issues related to European integration. CETS operates as an internationally recognised forum for debate for academics, graduates …

Nano Hybrid Lab

Current interests of NHL Group involve the development of novel efficient recyclable and sustainable catalysts (metal nanoparticles, organometallic- and organo-catalysts), the development of new functional hybrid silica-, poly ionic liquid-, polydopamine-based materials as well as carbon nanoforms-based materials (fullerenes, nanotubes, nanohorns, nanodiamonds and graphene) and the development of novel protocols for the chemical functionalization of nanocarbons.

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).

Centre for Lifecourse Nutrition

Nutrition in phases preconception, pregnancy, kindergarten, school and childhood. Food and health in schools, dietary assessments, anthropology of food systems, nutrition and metabolism.

Zamora Calvo, María Jesús: Artes Maleficorum. Brujas, magos y demonios en el Siglo de Oro.

2016

Georgii Trapezuntii Rhetoricorum libri quinque. Indicem capitum, ac rerum in hoc opere contentarum, in calcem operus reiecimus

Specialist work that analyzes the various aspects of rhetoric in a technical and preceptual way, referring to the Ciceronian lesson.

Museo di zoologia “P.Doderlein”

The Zoology Museum preserves several thousands of Invertebrate and Vertebrate specimens. Established in the second half of the 19th century, it is an important conservation centre for Sicilian and Mediterranean zoological material. Thanks to its peculiar structure, it gives visitors the same atmosphere in which zoology scientists worked in the second half of the 19th century.

Institute of Latvian History of the University of Latvia

The mission of the ILH UL is to carry out a science-based study of Latvia's history from the most ancient times to the present in the context of European history, on the basis of historical sources. Several research directions are being developed in the ILH UL: archaeology, bioarchaeology, dendrochronology, ethnography, ethnology, history of modern and contemporary times, social history, 20th century history, etc. Repository of Archaeological Materials, Repository of Bioarchaeological Materials, Repository of Ethnographic Materials and Dendrochronological Lab operate under it

Nicolai Heneli[i] [...] Silesiographia Hoc est Silesiæ Delineatio Brevis Et succincta [...]

Flora of Middle Asia collection

The collection of vascular plants from Middle Asia (mainly Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with some from Uzbekistan). It consists of approx. 15,000 specimens with ca. 6,000 identified. They were collected during 2006-2021 in almost all vegetation types and habitats of the Global Hotspot of Biodiversity “Mountains of Central Asia”. The collection was used to comparative studies on several groups of species and is the voucher collection for a number of ecological studies.

Biotechnology applied to forest and aromatic species

Research activity focused on the conservation and improvement of forest and aromatic species. It comprises two lines of research funded by MINECO, EU, and GVA (PrometeoII). 1- Biotechnology of forest species. It applies somatic embryogenesis (SE) as a tool to increase the resilience of forest species towards sustainable forest exploitation. In recent years, protocols of SE have been optimized in Pinus pinaster (maritime pine) and Quercus ilex (holm oak), highlighting the selection of Pinus pinaster families with high embryogenic capacity, the creation of a germplasm bank with these lines, the development of genetic transformation protocols in maritime pine and stone pine, and the establish…

Q-nexus: a comprehensive and efficient analysis pipeline designed for ChIP-nexus

2016

Background: ChIP-nexus, an extension of the ChIP-exo protocol, can be used to map the borders of protein-bound DNA sequences at nucleotide resolution, requires less input DNA and enables selective PCR duplicate removal using random barcodes. However, the use of random barcodes requires additional preprocessing of the mapping data, which complicates the computational analysis. To date, only a very limited number of software packages are available for the analysis of ChIP-exo data, which have not yet been systematically tested and compared on ChIP-nexus data. Results: Here, we present a comprehensive software package for ChIP-nexus data that exploits the random barcodes for selective removal …