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Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2007/08, Ziema

2007

Latvijas Zinātnes padome, Latvijas Universitāte

The 90-day oscillations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot revisited

2000

Abstract We have analyzed a large set of ground-based CCD images covering the period from 1993 to early 1999, to address the current status and behavior of the 90-day longitudinal oscillations of the Jovian Great Red Spot (GRS). The good temporal sampling of these data have been complemented with a small set of high resolution Hubble Space Telescope images. The average zonal velocity of the GRS from 1994 to 1998 was −3.8 ms−1 with extreme values of −2.4 and −4.2 ms−1 in 1993–1994 resulting from the interactions with nearby features. Our study confirms the existence of the longitudinal oscillations with a mean period of 89.8±0.15 days and an amplitude of 1.2±0.7°. The oscillations survived t…

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 2008/09, Ziema

2008

Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmija, Latvijas Universitāte

Zvaigžņotā Debess: 60.gadskārta

2019

Contents: In Remembrance of Jānis Ikaunieks, Arturs Balklavs and Andrejs Alksnis: I.Pundure. «ZVAIGŽŅOTĀ DEBESS» Was Leading to the Truth … ; I.Pundure. Astronomers of Latvian Origin in IAU Management ; DISCOVERIES: I.Pundure. Gaia’s Most Accurate Star Map of Milky Way and Its Surroundings ; SPACE RESEARCH and EXPLORATION: I.Pundure. ESA Selects Three New Missions to Explore the Universe ; LATVIAN SCIENTISTS: The List of Popular Science Papers (1958-2016) by Professor Andrejs Alksnis (concluded) ; In memoriam: Dr.sc.ing. Edgars Bervalds (1936-2019) ; In memoriam: Dr.phys. Natālija Cimahoviča (1926-2019) ; FLASHBACK: I.Pundure. On Hawking’s Publication in the Vatican’s Commentarii Series ; F…

Step-by-step diagnosis and management of the nocebo/drucebo effect in statin-associated muscle symptoms patients: a position paper from the Internati…

2022

Statin intolerance is a clinical syndrome whereby adverse effects (AEs) associated with statin therapy [most commonly statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS)] result in the discontinuation of therapy and consequently increase the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. However, complete statin intolerance occurs in only a small minority of treated patients (estimated prevalence of only 3-5%). Many perceived AEs are misattributed (e.g. physical musculoskeletal injury and inflammatory myopathies), and subjective symptoms occur as a result of the fact that patients expect them to do so when taking medicines (the nocebo/drucebo effect)-what might be truth even for over 50% of all patients wit…

Fast Approximated Discriminative Common Vectors Using Rank-One SVD Updates

2013

An efficient incremental approach to the discriminative common vector (DCV) method for dimensionality reduction and classification is presented. The proposal consists of a rank-one update along with an adaptive restriction on the rank of the null space which leads to an approximate but convenient solution. The algorithm can be implemented very efficiently in terms of matrix operations and space complexity, which enables its use in large-scale dynamic application domains. Deep comparative experimentation using publicly available high dimensional image datasets has been carried out in order to properly assess the proposed algorithm against several recent incremental formulations.

7-Ketocholesterol as marker of cholesterol oxidation in model and food systems: when and how.

2014

Cholesterol can undergo oxidation through enzymatic or chemical mechanisms, generating a wide range of oxidation products (COPs) with adverse biological effects. COPs are characterized by different functional groups and are produced in different ratios or amounts, depending on the treatment and storage conditions. To follow the cholesterol oxidation process, 7-ketocholesterol (7-KC) has been often used as an oxidation marker in both model and food systems, since it is easily formed and is one of the most representative ring COPs. However, 7-KC does not always rise with increasing time/temperature conditions, especially in complex systems and high-protein or extensively processed foods. The …

Kinetic studies on the aerobic reduction of a Rh(III)-complex by formiate ions in the presence of DPPC vesicles

2008

Governance through Economic Paradigms: Addressing Climate Change by Accounting for Health

2016

"Climate change is a major challenge for sustainable development, impacting human health, wellbeing, security, and livelihoods. While the post-2015 development agenda sets out action on climate change as one of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is little provision on how this can be achieved in tandem with the desired economic progress and the required improvements in health and wellbeing. This paper examines synergies and tensions between the goals addressing climate change and economic progress. We identify reductionist approaches in economics, such as 'externalities', reliance on the metric of the Gross Domestic Product, positive discount rates, and short-term profit targets as so…

Nuadu Concept for personal management of lifestyle related health risks

2008

Majority of the health risks and diseases in the modern world are related to lifestyles, e.g., overweight, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, sleep deprivation, and stress. Behavioral change towards healthy lifestyles is the key to the prevention and management of these risks, but early and efficient interventions are scarcely available. We present the Nuadu Concept, an ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) assisted wellness toolbox for the management of multiple, behavior-originated health risks. The concept is based on psychological models, which provide methods and motivation for behavior change. The individual is considered as the best expert of his/her own wellness. Thus, …