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A novel arousal-based individual screening reveals susceptibility and resilience to PTSD-like phenotypes in mice
2021
Translational animal models for studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are valuable for elucidating the poorly understood neurobiology of this neuropsychiatric disorder. These models should encompass crucial features, including persistence of PTSD-like phenotypes triggered after exposure to a single traumatic event, trauma susceptibility/resilience and predictive validity. Here we propose a novel arousal-based individual screening (AIS) model that recapitulates all these features. The AIS model was designed by coupling the traumatization (24 h restraint) of C57BL/6 J mice with a novel individual screening. This screening consists of z-normalization of post-trauma changes in startle …
Simplified equivalent finite element modelling of concrete-filled steel tubular K-joints with and without studs
2022
Concrete Filled Steel Tubular (CFST) K-joints employed for truss structures gained high interest in the last years due to their widespread use in engineering practice. The overall performances of these joints can be efficiently improved by using steel studs welded in the inner surface of the steel chord filled with the concrete, avoiding punching shear failure, and improving the overall strength and ductility. However, a reliable prediction of the structural behavior of the joints is outmost of importance for the assessment of the capacity of new and existing structures, and there are no standardized design methods nowadays. In this paper, the structural performances of CFST K-joints with a…
Voice and Culture: A Prospect Theory Approach
2014
The present study examines the congruence of individuals' minimum preferred amounts of voice with the prospect theory value function across nine countries. Accounting for previously ignored minimum preferred amounts of voice and actual voice amounts integral to testing the steepness of gain and loss functions explicated in prospect theory, we use curve fitting to show that ratings of procedural justice fit prospect theory's value function specifically. Further, we investigate the form of this function across nine countries that range in power distance. Results suggest that the form of the value function is congruent with prospect theory, showing an S-shaped curve that is steeper in the loss…
Seven Shades of Grey: A Follow-Up Study on the Molecular Basis of Coat Colour in Indicine Grey Cattle Using Genome-Wide SNP Data
2022
Shades of grey and brown are a dominant component in mammal coat colours, representing a fundamental trait involved in a great number of processes including cryptism, sexual selection and signalling. The genetic mechanisms of the grey colouration in mammals are very complex and controlled by hundreds of genes whose effects and interactions are still largely unclear. In this study, we adopted a robust multi-cohort Fst outlier approach based on pairwise contrasts between seven grey indicine cattle breeds and both taurine and indicine non-grey cattle breeds in order to find genomic regions potentially related to the grey colouration. On the basis of three main drawn settings, built in order to…
Review of wind tunnel modelling of flow and pollutant dispersion within and from naturally ventilated livestock buildings
2021
[EN] Ammonia emissions from naturally ventilated livestock buildings (NVLBs) pose a serious environmental problem. However, the mechanisms that control these emissions are still not fully understood. One promising method for understanding these mechanisms is physical modelling in wind tunnels. This paper reviews studies that have used this method to investigate flow or pollutant dispersion within or from NVLBs. The review indicates the importance of wind tunnels for understanding the flow and pollutant dispersion processes within and from NVLBs. However, most studies have investigated the flow, while only few studies have focused on pollutant dispersion. Furthermore, only few studies have s…
La enseñanza monumentalista y utilitarista de las causas de la biodiversidad y de las estrategias para su conservación: un estudio sobre la transposi…
2015
Este trabajo estudia la presencia y complejidad en el tratamiento de las causas de la biodiversidad y de las razones para su conservación que realizan manuales escolares de la Educación Secundaria de España. Para ello, se determinó el ámbito conceptual y axiológico que define la comunidad de expertos, se examinó el tratamiento propuesto en el currículo español y se analizaron 50 manuales escolares (27 de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria –ESO – y 30 del Bachillerato). Los resultados mostraron que el proceso de transposición didáctica vuelve monumentalista la enseñanza de la biodiversidad, ya que olvida las razones de su existencia, y se enriquece de connotaciones biologicistas y utilitari…
Kultūru attāluma ietekme uz ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām Baltijas valstīs
2022
Bakalaura darba “Kultūru attāluma ietekme uz ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām Baltijas valstīs” galvenais mērķis ir izpētīt kultūru attāluma ietekmi uz Baltijā ienākošo uzkrāto ārvalstu tiešo investīciju apjomu. Balstoties uz zinātnisko literatūru, ir aprakstīta ārvalstu tiešo investīciju būtība, to lokāciju noteicošie faktori, kā arī apzināta kultūru attāluma ietekme uz ārvalstu tiešajām investīcijām, izmantojot G. Hofstedes kultūru vērtību modeļa sešas dimensijas. Balstoties uz statistikas datiem, ir analizēta ārvalstu tiešo investīciju situācija Baltijas valstīs, kā arī pēc pielāgota ekonometriskā modeļa veiktas vairākas regresijas analīzes, nosakot kultūru attāluma ietekmi uz Baltijā ienā…
Nacionālo un korporatīvo kultūru ietekme uz uzņēmuma darbību.
2017
Mūsdienu globalizācijas laikmetā tiek ietekmēta uzņēmējdarbības attīstība gan vietējā, gan starptautiskā tirgū. Palielinoties uzņēmuma vadītāju lomai, organizējot darbību vairāku kultūru ietvaros, vadītājiem ir jāsaprot kultūru vienojošus un atšķirošus faktorus, lai spētu organizēt efektīvu darbu plānošanu un efektīvu plānu izpildi. Darba mērķis ir identificēt nacionālo kultūru atšķirības uzņēmumā “Ernst & Young Baltic”, apkopojot un salīdzinot Latvijas, Lietuvas un Igaunijas projektu vadītāju vadības stilus. Darbs sastāv no anotācijas latviešu un angļu valodās, apzīmējumu saraksta, ievada, četrām nodaļām, secinājumu un priekšlikumu sadaļas, pielikuma. Darba apjoms ir 71 lapaspuse, ar ievie…
Life Experience, Values and Education
2016
The paper deals with the contemporary problems of education – its functions, mission, humanistic essence and need for the understanding of value. Education is not only school training or getting competences at the highest educational institutions. It is understood as a life experience, where cognition, judgement and practical activity come together in one complex. Nowadays the most popular systems of education are structured on the model based mainly on pragmatism, professionalism, information, technology, to which philosophers are trying to attach moral and cultural dimensions, but their views do not carry much weight. The author agrees with R. Dahrendorf that we need empathetic education …
Regional gender inequality in the Norwegian culture of equality
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Gender Issues. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12147-014-9131-0 This research project has its origin in statistical findings indicating that there has been a long-standing regional variation in the attainment of gender equality in Norway whereby the southern region has been identified as the least gender-equal. This is likely to be caused by an interaction of economic, political and cultural structures. Nevertheless, the understanding of this phenomenon remains incomplete since the cultural dimension too often ends up as a residual category or a dependent variable. The project seeks to explore the cultural dime…