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Literacy, Media Literacy and Social Change. Where Do We Go From Now?

2017

Over the years research on literacy has progressively moved away from a narrow definition of the term in strictly psycholinguistic terms expanding it so as to recognize its inevitable embeddedness within particular social relationships and practices. In this paper, after a short historical overview of the scientific debate developed around this expanding notion of literacy, we are going to focus on the role media technologies have played in accelerating this expansion towards media literacy. To be media literate today means to be able to cope efficiently with the flood of information in contemporary highly mediated societies and act as critical, creative and responsible digital citizens. Ev…

Diffusiosmessungen an polymeren in lösung mittels tracer-technik

2007

A cell for measuring coefficients of diffusion and self-diffusion by tracer techniques is described. The cell consists of two Teflon disks and is of the rotational shearing type. The amount of polymer is minimal (about 0.1 ml. for both components). Labeled and unlabeled fractionated polymethacrylate of identical molecular weight distribution was used to determine diffusion coefficients in benzene and toluene. The classical optical measurement is impossible, for these solvents exhibit a refraction index very close to that of polymethacrylate. In acetone, where optical as well as tracer techniques are applicable, the measured diffusion coefficients of the two methods are in good agreement. Al…

Municipal Integrated Coastal Management Facilitation in Latvia: Piloting Public Multi-Thematical Monitoring

2021

This paper contains a pilot study on coastal values and potential means of determining and characterising them in the terms of coastal planning and management. The research case study took place in the coastal region of North East Latvia – in the municipality of Salacgriva. The municipality coast is very diverse: coastal access, landscape and the whole biogeography is changing very much along the whole 54 km, being also rich in various natural and cultural heritage assets. Such great coastal variety in the limits of one administrative territory does require very selective governance approaches and dynamic management to be realized by local administration, which has very limited necessary ca…

An Instrument-Assisted coracoid pain test: an exploratory diagnostic accuracy study

2022

The coracoid pain test (CPT) could contribute to the diagnosis of frozen shoulder (FS) with palpation. However, due to assessor performance these values might be unreliable. Therefore, the aim was to explore the diagnostic accuracy of an instrument-assisted CPT and two alternative approaches (pain severity and side comparison) for assistance in the diagnosis of FS. Patients with FS and healthy age-matched controls were recruited. All participants underwent the instrument-assisted CPT on both shoulders with a pressure algometer. Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios were determined for the three approaches. In total, 35 patients with FS and 35 healthy participants were included. Th…

Sievietes reprezentācija Latvijas hiphopa dziesmās

2022

Bakalaura darbs “Sievietes reprezentācija Latvijas hiphopa dziesmās” ietver četru Latvijas Mūzikas ierakstu gada balvas nominācijas ”Labākais hiphop mūzikas albums” laureātu dziesmu analīzi, divu fokusa grupu diskusiju analīzi un divu mūzikas nozares profesionāļu interviju analīzi. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot Latvijas hiphopa mākslinieku veidotos sievietes tēlus, lai noskaidrotu kādēļ un kā tie tiek pasniegti sabiedrībai caur populārās kultūras produktiem. Darba problēma ir tāda, ka sieviešu seksualizēšana Latvijas hiphopa mūzikas praksē rada nepatiesas, aizvainojošas un seksistiskas ekspektācijas no sieviešu dzimuma pārstāvēm. Darba teorētiskā daļa sastāv no septiņām apakšnodaļām. Bakalaura…

The synthesis and condensation of oligo(phenylenevinylene)s with alkoxysilyl end groups

2002

Monodisperse alkoxylated oligo(phenylenevinylene)s with 3, 4, or 5 benzene rings were connected to reactive di- and triethoxysilanes, either directly or via flexible spacers. Aminopropylsilanes were condensed with stilbenoid aldehydes and subsequently reduced to amines, for the direct, rigid connection, the Heck reaction and also cross-metathesis with vinyl silanes proved to be successful routes. Hydrolysis of the ethoxysilanes leads to polymerisable cyclosiloxanes or curable three-dimensional networks with pendent chromophores.

Numerische Simulation der Phasengrenzen und Schmelzenströmung bei der Züchtung von Siliziumeinkristallen mit dem Floating-Zone Verfahren

1997

Dubultvalūtas nodibināšanās iespējas: kandidāta darbs

1935

Three 2,5-dialkoxy-1,4-diethynylbenzene derivatives

2008

2,5-Dieth­oxy-1,4-bis­[(trimethyl­silyl)ethyn­yl]benzene, C20H30O2Si2, (I), constitutes one of the first structurally characterized examples of a family of compounds, viz. the 2,5-dialk­oxy-1,4-bis­[(trimethyl­silyl)ethyn­yl]benzene derivatives, used in the preparation of oligo(phenyl­ene­ethynylene)s via Pd/Cu-catalysed cross-coupling. 2,5-Dieth­oxy-1,4-diethynylbenzene, C14H14O2, (II), results from protodesilylation of (I). 1,4-Diethynyl-2,5-bis­(hept­yloxy)benzene, C24H34O2, (III), is a long alk­yloxy chain analogue of (II). The molecules of compounds (I)–(III) are located on sites with crystallographic inversion symmetry. The large substituents either in the alkynyl group or in the benz…

The clinical relevance of low-density-lipoproteins size modulation by statins.

2006

The predominance of small, dense low density lipoproteins (LDL) has been accepted as an emerging cardiovascular risk factor by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III; in fact, LDL size seems to be an important predictor of cardiovascular events and progression of coronary heart disease. Several studies have also shown that the therapeutical modulation of LDL size is of great benefit in reducing the risk of cardiovascular events. Hypolipidemic treatment is able to alter LDL subclass distribution and statins are currently the most widely used lipid-lowering agents. Statins are potent inhibitors of hydroxy-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, the rate-limiting en…