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Dynamic laser speckle analyzed considering inhomogeneities in the biological sample
2017
Dynamic laser speckle phenomenon allows a contactless and nondestructive way to monitor biological changes that are quantified by second-order statistics applied in the images in time using a secondary matrix known as time history of the speckle pattern (THSP). To avoid being time consuming, the traditional way to build the THSP restricts the data to a line or column. Our hypothesis is that the spatial restriction of the information could compromise the results, particularly when undesirable and unexpected optical inhomogeneities occur, such as in cell culture media. It tested a spatial random approach to collect the points to form a THSP. Cells in a culture medium and in drying paint, repr…
La variación formal de los cuantificadores en catalán: estudio diacrónico (siglos XV‒XX)
2020
AbstractThis article studies the formal variation of the existential quantifiers u/un (‘one; a, an’), algú/algun (‘someone; some’), ningú/ningun (‘no one, anyone; any’) and the distributive universal quantifier cada u/cada un (‘everyone’) in Catalan. The research is based on an extensive diachronic corpus of texts written between the 15th and 20th centuries. The author classifies the syntactic structures of these quantifiers and analyses their meaning and formal vacillations: apocopated form (without ‑n) vs. non-apocopated form (with ‑n). Although hesitations tend to disappear gradually during the period under analysis, the uses of these quantifiers change in Catalan dialects. In fact, dist…
Atenuación: algunas claves metodológicas para su análisis
2018
El estudio de la atenuación lingüística, en tanto fenómeno pragmático, necesita criterios consensuados de identificación que ayuden al analista en sus investigaciones y facilite el desarrollo de estudios contrastivos. En esta línea, este artículo se propone reflexionar acerca del fenómeno de la atenuación y, más concretamente, sobre los criterios que la bibliografía ha empleado para su reconocimiento. Dichos criterios podrían resumirse grosso modo en la vaguedad del contenido semántico, la mitigación de la fuerza ilocutiva, la desfocalización del papel de los participantes en la interacción y el reconocimiento de la función o finalidad de la atenuación. Además de estos criterios, se ofrecen…
Gender formal regularization in the adjectives of catalan in comparison with spanish
2020
espanolCon la desaparicion del genero neutro en el paso del latin a las lenguas romanicas, los adjetivos latinos de tres terminaciones se adaptaron en catalan como adjetivos de dos terminaciones, normalmente con las marcas O para el masculino y -a para el femenino, como en clar-O ‘claro’ ~ clar-a ‘clara’; este patron es transparente y maximamente iconico. Los adjetivos de dos terminaciones, en cambio, se convirtieron en invariables, como en catalan antiguo fort-O ‘fuerte’. El sincretismo de genero, a pesar de los problemas de iconicidad y transparencia que genera, podria mantenerse si las clases invariables estuvieran definidas por propiedades extramorfologicas que contribuyeran a su estabi…
Evidence against linkage of schizophrenia to chromosome 5q11-q13 markers in systematically ascertained families.
1992
Ten pedigrees systematically ascertained in Germany were tested for linkage to chromosome 5q11-q13. In order to replicate the previous report by Sherrington et al (1988), families with a bipolar family member were omitted from the lod score calculations, all diagnoses were based upon Research Diagnostic Criteria, and four different models of the affection status were calculated, including the model for which Sherrington et al calculated the highest lod scores. None of the families investigated showed a positive lod score. Using multipoint linkage analyses, we were able to exclude the region for which a positive linkage has been reported.
Inflammatory Characteristics of Monocytes from Pediatric Patients with Tuberous Sclerosis.
2015
Objective Therapeutic options for the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) syndrome showed varying outcomes. Malfunctional tsc1 / tsc2 genes leave mTOR uninhibited, a positive downstream modulator of the innate proinflammatory immune system, which has not yet been described in pediatric patients with TSC. Methods Using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) gene expression levels of monocytes after cultivation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or with LPS + mTOR inhibitor rapamycin, patients with TSC ( n = 16) were compared with healthy subjects ( n = 20). Results Compared with monocytes from healthy controls, LPS showed a more prominent gene expression pattern in patients with TSC (CCL24, CXCL10, IL…
Los géneros literarios y la etnografía del habla
2019
Este artículo se ocupa de los géneros literarios desde un punto de vista etnolingüístico. Los acercamientos habituales a este problema consideran los géneros literarios como modalidades de la literatura en las que se evidencian determinadas actitudes de los participantes: así, la poesía destacaría la contribución del hablante, el drama la del oyente y la narrativa aspiraría a reflejar el mundo exterior. Está muy extendida la idea de que estas tres modalidades son características de la cultura occidental, en tanto que las culturas más "primitivas" sólo conocerían la poesía, o incluso el drama (es lo que sucede en China y en el Japón), pero nunca la narrativa, el género más complejo y tardío.…
Introduction: Using Placebo Research to Explore Belief and Healing in Late Antiquity
2021
Abstract This special issue explores belief and healing in Late Antiquity, through insight and terminology developed in modern placebo research. My introduction outlines the history of placebo research and its use in historical studies of medicine and healing. It has helped historians pose new questions to their sources and discuss them in light of modern medical research. Most studies analyse various descriptions or records of symptoms or diagnoses, but some researchers also extend their work to include social or anthropological studies of healing. Summarizing insights from such efforts in medical research and the history of medicine, I propose a selection of questions and perspectives fro…
Contemporary Money Magic: Taboos and Prescriptions (on Latvian Material)
2018
In the article, the magic of money in contemporary Latvian urban practices is analyzed. The money magic aims at money making. Field work showed that these practices are popular today among different generations in Latvia. Respondents know well taboos and prescriptions about money and use them in order to make money or to prevent loosing them. The collected material represents that Latvian narratives and practices are very similar to other regions of post-Soviet space. The interviews in Russian and Latvian taken in the frames of field research were supplemented by texts of traditional folklore, gathered on the territory of Latvia in 19th–20th centuries. Examples of Internet folklore also ill…
Platelet count does not predict bleeding in cirrhotic patients: Results from the PRO-LIVER Study
2018
OBJECTIVES: Thrombocytopenia is a hallmark for patients with cirrhosis and it is perceived as a risk factor for bleeding events. However, the relationship between platelet count and bleeding is still unclear. METHODS: We investigated the relationship between platelet count and major or clinical relevant nonmajor bleedings during a follow-up of â¼4 years. RESULTS: A total of 280 cirrhotic patients with different degrees of liver disease (67% males; age 64±37 years; 47% ChildâPugh B and C) were followed up for a median of 1,129 (interquartile range: 800â1,498) days yielding 953.12 patient-year of observation. The annual rate of any significant bleeding was 5.45%/year (3.57%/year and 1.8…