Cyanobacterial toxins and liver diseaseThis article is one of a selection of papers published in a special issue celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (10) ◽  
pp. 773-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Labine ◽  
G.Y. Minuk
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Blue Green Algae ◽  
125Th Anniversary ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Present Understanding ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Freshwater Environments ◽  
Selection Of

Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, produce a variety of toxins, some of which have been implicated in the pathogenesis of severe and potentially life-threatening diseases in humans. As the growth of cyanobacteria within freshwater lakes increases worldwide, it is important to review our present understanding of their toxicity and potential carcinogenicity to gain insight into how these organisms impact human health. This review addresses each of these topics, with special emphasis given to cyanobacterial hepatotoxins within freshwater environments.

Editorial

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Daniele Checci ◽  
Janet Gornick
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Data Center ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Final Outcome ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
National Data ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Cross National

The articles included in this special issue of the Journal of Income Distribution are a selection of papers originally presented at the first LIS-LWS Users Conference, hosted by LIS, the cross-national data center in Luxembourg. The conference took place at the University of Luxembourg in Belval, Luxembourg, on April 27- 28, 2017. The submitted papers underwent a process of blind review, and this collection of five articles is the final outcome. Taken as a whole, these articles constitute an interesting overview of the ways in which the research community uses the LIS-LWS Databases, which provide researchers access to microdata on income and wealth, respectively.

The Colonial Experience in Education: Historical Issues and Perspectives. Edited by ANTONIO NÓVOA, MARC DEPAEPE, ERWIN V. JOHANNINGMEIER. (Pedagogica Historica: Supplementary Series, Vol. 1.) Gent: CSHP, 1995. Pp. 382. Belg. Fr. 1200 (ISSN 0030-9230; ISBN 90-800947-3-6).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
JOHN D. HARGREAVES
Keyword(s):  
History Of Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Supplementary Series ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Selection Of

This special issue of Pedagogica Historica, a journal published from the University of Gent, presents a selection of eighteen papers from an international conference on the history of education held in Lisbon in 1993. The texts are in English and French, although there are no contributors from France or Britain. The contributions deal with general themes and European backgrounds as well as colonial experience. Six which relate to Africa will be briefly described here.

Innovative seismic design of a post-tensioned concrete masonry houseThis article is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue on Masonry.

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 1393-1402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin D. Wight ◽  
Jason M. Ingham ◽  
Andrew R. Wilton
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Design ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Concrete Masonry ◽  
Limited Application ◽  
House Design ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Post Tensioned

Post-tensioned concrete masonry walls provide improved seismic performance, but have had limited application in seismic regions because of a lack of research pertaining to their in-plane response. Following focused research over recent years, a consortium of product suppliers has collaborated with the University of Auckland to construct New Zealand’s first post-tensioned concrete masonry house. A feature of this innovative design was that all incorporated products were commercially available, with no proprietary products being specifically developed for the prestressed masonry system used. Consequently, it is hoped that this house will be a showcase, and provide exposure for the technology in New Zealand and elsewhere. This paper provides a brief review of previous post-tensioned concrete masonry research applications, then discusses post-tensioning details and their application to house design and construction.

Experiments using a light gas gun to investigate the impact melting of gunshot residue analogues

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Spathis ◽  
M. C. Price
Keyword(s):  
Physical State ◽  
Gunshot Residue ◽  
Ignition Process ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Gas Gun ◽  
High Purity Silicon ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract In this set of experiments, the versatility of the University of Kent's light gas gun was utilised to obtain a selection of corroborative data regarding the formation and impact of metallic gunshot residues onto high purity silicon wafers. The results from the two experiments are presented. The first experiment investigated how the formation of metallic residues varied as gunshot residue analogues traversed through air under a range of pressures from 0.056 millibar (5.6 Pa) to 1 bar (100 kPa), using solely the energy released during primer ignition; the second involved firing a metallic powder mix of pre-determined composition (via a split-sabot) under vacuum at two velocities- 500 ms-1 and 2000 ms-1. This ensured that there was no ignition or heating of the powders, unlike the first experiment, and so the morphology of the particles collected would be solely due to impact. The residues on the substrates were then analysed using a cold Field Emission Gun Scanning Electron Microscope (FEG) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) detector. By separating the ignition process of the primers from the residue impacts, it allows for a closer look into the formation of these particles and helps determine whether their varied morphologies are due to the heating caused during the activation and combustion of the primer or whether its due to impact melting. This information can aid in the understanding of metallic particle formation in different pressure environments and give insight into the physical state of firearm residues when they impact a surface. Hydrocode modelling was also incorporated to corroborate the results observed during these experiments and gave results which mimicked the experimental data.

scholarly journals First person – Stéphanie Cottier

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. bio054171
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Cell Wall Protein ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Conserved Residues ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Stéphanie Cottier is first author on ‘The yeast cell wall protein Pry3 inhibits mating through highly conserved residues within the CAP domain’, published in BiO. Stéphanie is a post-doc in the lab of Roger Schneiter at the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, investigating using yeast model organism to gain insight into the function of the widespread CAP protein superfamily.

scholarly journals Editorial

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Computing Support ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

The first conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C 94), sub-titled Enabling Active Learning, took place at the University of Hull last September. It provided a unique opportunity for lecturers, courseware developers, library staff, computing support staff, educational development staff and institutional managers to meet and discuss the effective implementation of educational technology. Space has allowed only a small selection of the papers presented to be included in this special issue of ALT-J devoted mainly to the conference, but these papers address the major issues discussed.DOI:10.1080/0968776950030101

Editorial: Taste of City, transnational food and place marketing

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-61
Author(s):  
Evinc Dogan ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Place Marketing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Culinary Traditions ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

In this special issue of Transnational Marketing Journal, we brought together a selection of articles drawn from presentations at the Taste of City Conference 2016: Food and Place Marketing which was held at the University of Belgrade, Serbia on 1st September 2016. We have supported the event along with Transnational Press London. We thank to Goran Petkovic, the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade, and Goran’s volunteer students team who helped with the conference organisation. Mobilities are often addressed within social sciences varying across a wide range of disciplines including geography, migration studies, cultural studies, tourism, sociology and anthropology. Food mobilities capture eating, tasting, producing and consuming practices as well as traveling and transferring. Food and tastes are carried around the world, along the routes of mobility through out the history. As people take their own culture to the places, they take their food too. Food meets and mingles with other cultures on the way. Fusion food is born when food transcends the borders and mix with different ingredients from different culinary traditions. Although certain places are associated and branded with food, it is a challenging job to understand the role of food and taste in forming and reformulating the identity of places. 

scholarly journals Cardiolipin synthesis is required to support human cholesterol biosynthesis from palmitate upon serum removal in Hela cellsThis article is one of a selection of papers published in a special issue celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.

2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (10) ◽  
pp. 813-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin D. Hauff ◽  
Seok-Yong Choi ◽  
Michael A. Frohman ◽  
Grant M. Hatch
Keyword(s):  
Hela Cells ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Cholesterol Biosynthesis ◽  
Molar Ratio ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Mock Control ◽  
125Th Anniversary ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
The University ◽  
Serum Free Conditions

We examined whether cardiolipin (CL) synthesis was required to support cholesterol (CH) production from palmitate in Hela cells. Knockdown of human cardiolipin synthase-1 (hCLS1) in Hela cells has been shown to reduce CL synthesis. Therefore Hela cells stably expressing shRNA for hCLS1 and mock control cells were incubated for 16 h with [14C(U)]palmitate bound to albumin (1:1 molar ratio) in the absence or presence of serum. Knockdown of hCLS1 in Hela cells resulted in a reduction in [14C(U)]palmitate incorporation into CL and CH. This reduction in [14C(U)]palmitate incorporation into CH was most pronounced during incubation under serum-free conditions. The reduction in [14C(U)]palmitate incorporation into CH was not due to alterations in total uptake of [14C(U)]palmitate into cells or altered palmitate metabolism, since [14C(U)]palmitate incorporation into phosphatidylcholine, the major [14C(U)]palmitate-containing lipid, and its immediate precursor, 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol, were unaffected by hCLS1 knockdown. In addition, knockdown of hCLS1 did not affect CH pool size, indicating that CH catabolism was unaltered. Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase enzyme activity and its mRNA expression were reduced by knockdown of hCLS1 and this was most pronounced in Hela cells cultured under serum-free conditions. These data indicate that CL synthesis is required to support human de novo CH biosynthesis under conditions of increased demand for CH.

scholarly journals Introduction: Exploring Nordic Game Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raine Koskimaa ◽  
Frans Mäyrä ◽  
Jaakko Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

Nordic DiGRA 2012 Conference was held at the University of Tampere on June 6-8, 2012. In this Special Issue of the Transactions of DiGRA journal, we present a selection of the best papers of that conference.

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