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The Architecture of the Limit. The recovery of the southern Agrigento's historical walls.

2012

The fourteenth-century Agrigento's walls was interested by strong interventions during last century that led to the present image. In this critical place there are no project, no order, no logic, everything is left to chance. The ambitious target of the project was to give an order to this self caused chaos, to this route that should show the lost historical memory. The project aimed to reshape the urban area through zero-volume interventions and to make manifest the peculiarities of this territory trough small gestures, creating sequences of recognizable places that are able to express sense and identity of the urban space. The most significant intervention is designed for a doubling of th…

Trešo pušu e-maksājumu metožu ietekme uz patērētāju uzvedību Ķīnā

2018

ANOTĀCIJA Turpmākajā pētījumā galvenā uzmanība ir pievērsta trešās puses mobilo tiešsaistes maksājumu metodei un tās ietekmei uz patērētāju uzvedību Ķīnā. Ķīnā ir vērojama tendence – mobilo maksājumu metožu izmantošanas pieaugums. Mobilo maksājumu pakalpojumu tirgus pašlaik atrodas pārejas situācijā – no sākotnējo un neveiksmīgo darbību kursa uz daudzsološu izredžu nākotni, kā arī neskaidrības ar tehnoloģiskajām inovācijām. Balstoties uz šo attīstības stadiju, šī darba mērķis ir izpētīt faktorus un modeļus attiecībā uz mobilo maksājumu ietekmi uz patērētāju uzvedību. Faktori, kuri ietekmē mobilo ierīču uztveri un pieņemšanu ir īpaši būtiski un palīdz uzzināt vai mobilajiem maksājumiem ir p…

Draining and drying process development of the Tokamak Cooling Water System of ITER

2016

Abstract The ITER Organization (IO) developed a thermal-hydraulic (TH) model of the complex first wall and blanket (FW/BLK) cooling channels to determine gas flow rate and pressure required to effectively blow out the water in the FW/BLK. In addition, US ITER conducted experiments for selected geometries of FW/BLK flow channels to predict the blowout parameters. The analysis indicates that as low as 2 MPa of pressure difference over the blanket modules will ensure substantial evacuation of the water in blankets with just a few percent remaining in the blanket flow channels. A limited validation study indicates that the analysis yields less conservative results to compare against data collec…

Customer perceived value, satisfaction, and loyalty: the role of willingness to share information

2016

This study proposes and tests an integrative model to examine the relationships among customers’ willingness to share information, satisfaction, perceived value, and loyalty in a retailing context. This study extends research on customers’ willingness to share information from trust and privacy concerns toward key outcome measures such as perceived value, customer satisfaction, and loyalty, and is thus among the first to model customers’ willingness to share information with companies in robust theoretical retailing frameworks. The proposed relationships were tested using data from two retailing contexts – groceries (N = 429) and do-it-yourself (DIY) (N = 895). Findings from the two samples…

Why have consumers opposed, postponed, and rejected Innovations during a pandemic? A Study of mobile payment Innovations

2021

The highly infectious nature of the COVID-19 virus has made the use of contactless payment methods a health exigency. Yet, consumers are resisting using mobile payments (m-payments) during the pandemic, a confounding behavior that needs to be better understood. The present study explicates this behavior by examining consumer resistance to m-payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it provides more granular findings by measuring three levels of resistance/non-adoption, namely, postponement, opposition, and rejection. In this way, the study adds depth to the literature, which has largely examined resistance at an aggregate level to yield generic findings. Toward this end, the study…

Factor VIII and Antithrombin III in Atherosclerosis Obliterans of the Lower Limbs

1984

In the multifactorial pathogenesis of atherosclerosis (the W.H.O. gives a list of about forty risk factors) recent acquisitions have allowed to determine in part the role carried out by the term “haemocoagulative disorders” (90) showing the possible connections between haematic components of haemocoagulation and vascular wall that up to now have been only hypothesised.

An In Vitro Experiment for Postmortem Vascular Permeation. The Passage of Morphine and Morphine Glucuronides Across a Vascular Wall

1997

A venous blood sample taken at autopsy cannot be considered to represent the antemortem blood concentration of a particular substance. Autolytic processes cause disintegration and increasing permeability of the physiological and anatomical barriers such as vascular walls and lead to changes in substance concentrations. In the present study, the experimental design represents an in vitro postmortem simulation of a drug substance crossing a venous wall. The postmortem behavior of morphine, morphine-3- and morphine-6-glucuronide was investigated. A Chien-Valia-diffusion chamber with a patch of inferior vena cava as diffusion barrier was used. For optimal simulation of postmortem events, vein s…

Heparin–polynitroxide derivatives: a platform for new diagnostic and therapeutic agents in cardiovascular disease?

2013

Vascular wall extracellular oxidative stress Cardiovascular disease (CVD; mainly atherosclerosis, hypertension and diabetes mellitus) remains a major cause of death in western society [1]. Despite substantial progress achieved, the diagnosis of CVD often comes too late, when the disease has already advanced to therapeutically incurable stages. The development of efficient diagnostic probes allowing early non-invasive diagnostics, as well as drugs which can prevent or reverse CVD and/or its complications (e.g., myocardium infarctus and stroke) are highly desired tasks of the modern cardiovascular medicinal chemistry.

Evaluation of regional haemodynamic and alterations of vascular wall of the lower limbs in hypertensive subjects.

1995

The Relationship Between the Stomatognathic System and Body Posture

2009

In recent years, many researchers have investigated the various factors that can influence body posture: mood states, anxiety, head and neck positions, oral functions (respiration, swallowing), oculomotor and visual systems, and the inner ear. Recent studies indicate a role for trigeminal afferents on body posture, but this has not yet been demonstrated conclusively. The present study aims to review the papers that have shown a relationship between the stomatognathic system and body posture. These studies suggest that tension in the stomatognathic system can contribute to impaired neural control of posture. Numerous anatomical connections between the stomatognathic system’s proprioceptive i…