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Stiff landings are associated with increased ACL injury risk in young female basketball and floorball players
2016
Background: Few prospective studies have investigated the biomechanical risk factors of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. Purpose: To investigate the relationship between biomechanical characteristics of vertical drop jump (VDJ) performance and the risk of ACL injury in young female basketball and floorball players. Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: At baseline, a total of 171 female basketball and floorball players (age range, 12-21 years) participated in a VDJ test using 3-dimensional motion analysis. The following biomechanical variables were analyzed: (1) knee valgus angle at initial contact (IC), (2) peak knee abduction moment, (3) knee flexion angle at …
(Re)creating “society in silico” : surveillance capitalism, simulations and subjectivity in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
2021
This article provides a different angle to understand the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data scandal. It focuses on the role of models and simulations in the big data campaigning tools CA allegedly used, and their epistemological and ontological potential to produce and reproduce voters' digital doubles that would first colonise and eventually replace the analogue selves they were related to. By integrating and revising Zuboff's surveillance capitalism framework with Debord's classic theory of the Spectacle, the article argues that the dystopian simulations played as real life experiments by surveillance capitalist firms such as CA have the ultimate goal of replacing analogue humanity with digit…
Salt accumulation and effects within foliage of Tilia × vulgaris trees from the street greenery of Riga, Latvia
2020
International audience; Green infrastructures within sprawling cities provide essential ecosystem services, increasingly undermined by environmental stress. The main objective in this study was to relate the allocation patterns of NaCl contaminants to injury within foliage of lime trees mechanistically and distinguish between the effects of salt and other environmental stressors. Using field material representative of salt contamination levels in the street greenery of Riga, Latvia, the contribution of salt contaminants to structural and ultrastructural injury was analyzed, combining different microscopy techniques. On severely salt-polluted and dystrophic soils, the foliage of street lime …
in vitro biological evaluation of folate-functionalized block copolymer micelles for selective anti-cancer drug delivery.
2008
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of folic acid-functionalized diblock copolymer micelles to improve the delivery and uptake of two poorly water-soluble anti-tumor drugs, tamoxifen and paclitaxel, to cancer cells through folate receptor targeting. The diblock copolymer used in this study comprised a hydrophilic poly[2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine] (MPC) block, carrying at the chain end the folate targeting moiety, and a pH-sensitive hydrophobic poly[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (DPA) block (FA-MPC-DPA). The drug-loading capacities of tamoxifen- and paclitaxel-loaded micelles were determined by high performance liquid chromatography and the m…
Datu noliktavām specifisku īpašību salīdzināšana dažādās izstrādes vidēs
2016
Datu noliktavas pielietošana uzņēmumu vai organizāciju darbā ir efektīvs rīks datu izpētei un secinājumu veikšanai, kas ir nozīmīgi darba efektivitātes uzlabošanai. Taču kāda izstrādes vide labāk nodrošina datu noliktavām nepieciešamo funkcionalitāti? Šajā darbā tiek pētīts, kādas datu noliktavām specifiskas īpašības tiek atbalstītas izstrādes vidēs Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL un MySQL. Darbā tiek aplūkots, kādas ir datu noliktavām specifiskas īpašības, kas ir būtiskas datu noliktavas izstrādes vidē, kā arī tiek pētīts, kādas no šīm īpašībām un kādas papildus īpašības tiek atbalstītas katrā no aplūkotajām izstrādes vidēm. Uzdevuma veikšanai tiek pielietota viena datu noliktava,…
Sadales tīkla telpisko datu apstrādes sistēma
2022
Darba mērķis ir izveidot viegli izmantojamu pamatu telpisko datu apstrādes sistēmai uzņēmumam AS “Latvenergo”, kas apstrādātu telpiskos datus un spētu sniegt lietotājiem loģiskus rezultātus. Papildus tam darba mērķis bija iegūt plašāku izpratni par telpisko datu apstrādi un padziļinātas zināšanas Oracle un PostgreSQL datubāžu tipos. Sistēma ir veidota pēc uzņēmuma AS “Latvenergo” pieprasījuma, lai uzlabotu telpisku datu apstrādes procesu. Izveidotā sistēma tiks izmantota AS “Latvenergo” iekšējo uzdevumu izpildei. Sistēma ir veidota, lai nodrošinātu veiksmīgu savstarpēju saskarsmi starp Oracle un PostgreSQL datubāzēm. Šīs sistēmas funkcijas ļauj lietotājiem izveidot nepieciešamos pamata telp…
Homeopathic remedies and mass advertising in Spain: 1880-1910
2020
La homeopatía se introdujo en España en la década de 1830, pero vivió su época dorada a finales del siglo XIX. Tradicionalmente se había dicho que la causa era la buena respuesta de los remedios homeopáticos frente a las epidemias de cólera que sobrevinieron en las décadas de 1880 y 1890. Aquí se demuestra que la publicidad de masas actuó a gran escala para legitimar los productos homeopáticos. En primer lugar, apareció la publicidad vinculada a empresas norteamericanas que pretendían abrir un mercado global. A continuación, fue una publicidad impulsada por farmacéuticos locales convertidos en fabricantes de producos homeopáticos. A través de estas dos fases, la publicidad de masas alteró l…
Assessment of the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of a Spanish Asthma Quality of Life questionnaire.
1998
A Spanish-language questionnaire designed for measuring the impact of asthma on quality of life in adults was developed. It was derived, by the application of a rigorous translation protocol, from a previously validated, English-language Asthma Quality of Life (AQL) questionnaire which had been developed in Australia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish AQL questionnaire using a cross-sectional and longitudinal design. Two hundred ninety-four clinically stable subjects with asthma (168 women, mean baseline forced expiratory volume in 1 sec [FEV1] = 85% predicted), aged 17-70, attended for the initial baseline assessment. All subjects completed th…
A phase II study of carboplatin and paclitaxel as first line chemotherapy in elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
2006
Introduction: Lung cancer is the leading cause of tumour-related deaths in the elderly population but the optimal management of advanced NSCLC in older patients has not been defined to date. The present phase II study was planned to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of the combination of carboplatin and paclitaxel in elderly patients with advanced NSCLC. Patients and methods: Patients (>70 years old) who had pathologically been proven to have a NSCLC and measurable lesions were treated with paclitaxel (175 mg/m2for 3 h) and carboplatin [area under the concentration-time curve (AUC = 5)] on day 1 every 3 weeks. Results: Forty patients were enrolled into the study. The median age was 74 year…