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How women are imagined through conceptual metaphors in United Nations Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security

2017

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is a landmark pronouncement on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Not only does this resolution highlight the important role of the involvement of women in peace processes, but it also stresses the importance of their equal participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace. Furthermore, it also triggers the approval of some other resolutions, which are all further elaborations on that first document. The aim of this paper is to analyse, from a cognitive linguistic perspective, the way in which women are actually narrated in these pronouncements by means of the two conceptual metaphors that are most often repeated: WOME…

Modelling load-transmission mechanisms in axially loaded RC columns retrofitted with steel jackets

2018

The use of steel jacketing technique is a common practice for retrofitting existing reinforced concrete (RC) columns, as it allows increasing load-carrying capacity and ductility of the member. When the external jacket has no-end connections – i.e. the jacket is indirectly loaded- the load sustained by the column is transferred from the inner RC core to the external jacket through shear stresses along the contact surface. The assessment of this mechanism is quite complex, due to the marked non-linear behaviour of constituent materials and to the calibration of a proper shear stress-relative slip constitutive law of the concrete-to-steel interface. In this paper, a step-by-step analytical ap…

The application of electroanalytical methods to determine affinity series of metal cations for functional biosorbent groups

2018

Abstract The affinity of the selected heavy metal cations: Mn 2 + , Ni 2 + , Cu 2 + , Zn 2 + , Cd 2 + , Pb 2 + and Na + , K + , Mg 2 + , Ca 2 + was determined for the functional groups located on the surface of leached barley middlings, so called Brewer's spent grain (BSG) – a by-product of the brewing industry. A simple method for determining the affinity series, with the use of a conductivity meter and a pH-meter, was described. It was demonstrated that the affinity of cations for the functional groups located on the surface of the BSG increases in the series: Na + + 2 + 2 +  ≈ Zn 2 + 2 +  ≈ Ca 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + , and the series was determined by comparing concentrations expressed in gram e…

Self-validating bundles for flexible data access control

2016

Modern cloud-based services offer free or low-cost content sharing with significant advantages for the users but also new issues in privacy and security. To protect sensitive contents (i.e., copyrighted, top secret, and personal data) from the unauthorized access, sophisticated access management systems or/and decryption schemes have been proposed, generally based on trusted applications at client side. These applications work also as access controllers, verifying specific permissions and restrictions accessing user’s resources. We propose secure bundles (S-bundles), which encapsulate a behavioral model (provided as bytecode) to define versatile stand-alone access controllers and encoding/d…

Diferencias en las características clínico-biológicas y prevalencia de complicaciones crónicas en relación con el envejecimiento de pacientes con dia…

2016

Resumen La diabetes tipo 2 (DMT2) es una enfermedad con elevada prevalencia que aumenta con la edad. Por este motivo y por sus complicaciones cronicas genera elevado coste humano, social y economico en la poblacion mayor. Ademas, la poblacion mayor con DMT2 presenta una marcada heterogeneidad clinica. Por lo que nuestro objetivo principal es conocer como se relaciona la edad con el fenotipo clinico-biologico y cual es la prevalencia de complicaciones cronicas en el paciente con DMT2. Material y metodos Estudio transversal de una amplia poblacion de DMT2 (n = 405) seleccionada de forma aleatoria de una Unidad de Diabetes y 2 centros de salud (60%). En estos sujetos se recogieron variables cl…

CO-74: Altérations majeures du sphingophospholipidome des lipoprotéines de haute densité (HDL) de patients avec syndrome métabolique et glycémie norm…

2016

Rationnel Les phospholipides et sphingolipides jouent un role primordial dans la fonctionnalite et le role anti-atherogene des HDL. Ces proprietes sont alterees chez les patients porteurs d'un syndrome metabolique avant meme l'apparition d'une hyperglycemie. Nous avons donc recherche si les HDL de ces patients presentaient des anomalies de leur sphingophospholipidome. Patients et Methodes Par chromatographie liquide couplee a la spectrometrie de masse en tandem, nous avons quantifie 80 especes moleculaires des principales classes de phospholipides et sphingolipides des HDL2 et HDL3, chez 26 patients avec un syndrome metabolique et une glycemie a jeun nor-male (14 hommes, 12 femmes, âge moye…

Inhibición de la proproteína convertasa subtilisina/kexina tipo 9 en el tratamiento de la hipercolesterolemia

2016

Analyse de l’impact des facteurs socioéconomiques sur la sévérité initiale des accidents vasculaires cérébraux en France métropolitaine et aux Antill…

2016

Introduction Malgre un systeme de sante tres favorable, les inegalites sociales de sante se sont creusees en France au cours des deux dernieres decennies. En depit de cette situation, l’impact des facteurs socioeconomiques a ete peu etudie a l’echelle individuelle sur le territoire francais et les donnees a meme de mobiliser les acteurs restent insuffisantes. Par ailleurs le retentissement des AVC sur l’etat de sante des francais est considerable : premiere cause de handicap de l’adulte, deuxieme cause de demence, troisieme cause de mortalite. De plus, le niveau socioeconomique, par son impact sur les facteurs de risque d’AVC, est susceptible d’affecter les manifestations cliniques initiale…

Nursing Students Managing Deteriorating Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2018

Abstract Background The objective was to summarize knowledge and systematically collect and quantify meta-analytical results regarding the effects of high-fidelity simulation in nursing education to improve students' ability to recognize and respond to deteriorating patients. Methods In total, 4048 citations were screened, 40 articles were selected for full-text screening, and 14 articles were included. Six articles were subsequently included in the meta-analysis. Results Knowledge and performance increased after simulation. Four studies reported an increase in self-confidence. Conclusion Findings support that studies with high-quality research designs and improved measurement practices are…

Relation entre volume gastrique après sleeve et résultat pondéral : mythe ou réalité ?

2019

Introduction : La sleeve gastrectomie (SG) est devenue la technique de chirurgie bariatrique la plus réalisée en France. Cependant, les causes d’échec sont peu connues, et le volume gastrique (VG) pourrait y avoir un rôle. Le but de cette étude est donc d’analyser le lien entre le volume gastrique à un an et le succès pondéral. Patients et méthodes : Tous les patients obèses ayant bénéficié d’une SG entre septembre 2015 et juin 2017 ont bénéficié d’une volumétrie gastrique scanographique un an après la chirurgie. Le pourcentage d’excès de poids perdu à un an était mesuré pour évaluer le résultat pondéral et rechercher un lien avec le VG résiduel. Résultats : Cent soixante-huit patients cons…