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Hellēņu dimensija Eiropai : Rīgas 1. starptautiskās hellēnistikas konferences "Hellēņu pasaule un mēs" materiāli

2003

3D Bioprinting for Vascularized Tissue-Engineered Bone Fabrication

2020

Vascularization in bone tissues is essential for the distribution of nutrients and oxygen, as well as the removal of waste products. Fabrication of tissue-engineered bone constructs with functional vascular networks has great potential for biomimicking nature bone tissue in vitro and enhancing bone regeneration in vivo. Over the past decades, many approaches have been applied to fabricate biomimetic vascularized tissue-engineered bone constructs. However, traditional tissue-engineered methods based on seeding cells into scaffolds are unable to control the spatial architecture and the encapsulated cell distribution precisely, which posed a significant challenge in constructing complex vascul…

Streaming for vehicular users via elastic proxy buffer management

2004

In this article we refer to the market of vehicular networks, where groups of customers located in the same public vehicle (e.g., a train or bus) connect to a terrestrial network through a wireless/satellite backbone link. Elastic buffering is a proxy management technique devised to decouple the multimedia information retrieval rate on the network backbone from the playout streaming rate at the user terminal. It has been shown in the past that the application of elastic buffering mechanisms in terrestrial networks brings significant advantages in terms of network effectiveness. We show that elastic buffering is an extremely effective means to reduce, or even eliminate, streaming service out…

Recent advances in upscalable wet methods and ink formulations for printed electronics

2014

This review deals with the use of solution processing approaches for organic electronics with a focus on material ink formulations as well as on their applicability. The solution processing techniques include methods like gravure printing, screen printing and ink-jet printing. Basic principles of each approach are understood and fundamental correlations between material (metals, semiconductors, and dielectrics) ink properties and final device performances can be drawn. Nevertheless, solution processing methods have the potential to evolve as the most promising tools in organic device fabrication techniques and have already been applied successfully in the fields of organic thin film transis…

Milk versus caseinophosphopeptides added to fruit beverage: Resistance and release from simulated gastrointestinal digestion

2010

The influence of simulated gastrointestinal digestion on caseinophosphopeptides (CPPs) formation in milk-based fruit beverage was evaluated, together with resistance of a pool of CPPs added to fruit beverage. In milk-based fruit beverage, four CPPs were identified that can be justified by their presence in raw milk or due to processing. When it was subjected to simulated gastrointestinal digestion, 10 CPPs were identified, and only 1 presented the cluster (SpSpSpEE) (3 phosphoseryl group followed by 2 glutamic acid residues), which corresponded to αs2-CN(1-19)4P. CPPs added to fruit beverage are resistant to simulated gastrointestinal digestion, and 16 CPPs were identified originating from …

Is unintentional doping real, or just an excuse?

2017

Although some athletes who engage in doping do so willingly in order to gain an unfair advantage (ie, ‘to cheat’), the possibility of athletes doping inadvertently or unintentionally cannot be discounted. In this article, we aim to address common misconceptions of the notion of ‘unintentional doping’, and discuss this topic with reference to statistics, reports and recommendations (eg, anti-doping codes) produced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), together with evidence from recent empirical research. Unintentional doping (also known as ‘inadvertent’ or ‘accidental’ doping) refers to the accidental consumption of performance-enhancing substances included on WADA’s banned list.1 It ofte…

Point-to-point readout for the ALICE EMCal detector

2014

Abstract It is anticipated that the LHC will deliver Pb+Pb collisions at a minimum bias interaction rate of about 50 kHz after the second long shutdown of the LHC in 2018. This will be roughly two orders of magnitude greater than the current data recording rate capability of the ALICE experiment. Therefore a major upgrade of the ALICE detector is planned for the next shutdown to enable ALICE to record data at the full Pb+Pb minimum bias interaction rate delivered by the LHC. A new point-to-point readout system for the electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal) of ALICE has been developed, to replace the legacy readout bus, that essentially accomplishes this goal, and is being installed during the …

Zinc accelerates respiratory burst termination in human PMN

2021

The respiratory burst of phagocytes is essential for human survival. Innate immune defence against pathogens relies strongly on reactive oxygen species (ROS) production by the NADPH oxidase (NOX2). ROS kill pathogens while the translocation of electrons across the plasma membrane via NOX2 depolarizes the cell. Simultaneously, protons are released into the cytosol. Here, we compare freshly isolated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) to the granulocytes-like cell line PLB 985. We are recording ROS production while inhibiting the charge compensating and pH regulating voltage-gated proton channel (HV1). The data suggests that human PMN and the PLB 985 generate ROS via a general mechanism,…

Bifurcations of links of periodic orbits in non-singular Morse–Smale systems with a rotational symmetry on S3

2000

Abstract In this paper we consider a rotational symmetry on a non-singular Morse–Smale (NMS) system analyzing the restrictions this symmetry imposes on the links defined by the set of its periodic orbits and to the appearance of local generic codimension one bifurcations in the set of NMS flows on S 3 . The topological characterization is obtained by writing the involved links in terms of Wada operations. It is also obtained that symmetry implies that in general bifurcations have to be multiple. On the other hand, we also see that there exists a set of links that cannot be related to any other by sequences of this kind of bifurcation.

Dzelzs, cinka, slāpekļa un fosfora satura izvērtējums mazdārziņa augsnē

2022

Dzelzs, cinka, slāpekļa un fosfora satura izvērtējums mazdārziņa augsnē. Čehoviča M., darba vadītāja Mg.chem. pētniece Gunita Celma. Bakalaura darbs, 38 lappuses, 12 attēli, 13 tabulas, 37 literatūras atsauces, 7 pielikumi. Latviešu valodā. Darbā tika izmantotas dažādas kvantitatīvās analīzes metodes, lai noteiktu dzelzs, cinka, slāpekļa un fosfora saturu piemājas dārza augsnē. Paraugi tika ievākti divos gadalaikos - rudenī un pavasarī. Tika ievākti arī ārstnieciskie augi un noteikts to dzelzs un cinka saturs. Augiem noteikts mitruma saturs un augsnes kopējais un aktīvais skābums. Dzelzi un cinku noteica,izmantojot liesmas atomabsorbcijas spektroskopiju, bet fosforu un amoniju –spketrofotom…