[Archives de la Parole]. , [Chant en dialecte Toḍa] : chant, dialecte Kasuva [sic], Malabar, Inde / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Chant solo, homme

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Province de Madras [i.e. Chennai]]

[Archives de la Parole]. , [Rangami gari] : [chant populaire en dialecte Kui] Inde, Malabar / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Chant solo, homme

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Province de Madras [i.e. Chennai]]

[Archives de la Parole]. , [Chant] : Inde, Savara, prov[ince] de Madras / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Chant solo, homme

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Province de Madras [i.e. Chennai]]

[Archives de la Parole]. , Marriage song : in Kharia / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Homme, chant solo

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Chotā Nāgpur]

[Archives de la Parole]. , [Santali songs] / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Homme, chant solo

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Chotā Nāgpur]

[Archives de la Parole]. , Veleška p'sen' (Bulgare) ; Milano : sipska pesn' (Bulgare) / Chant solo homme et accompagnement instrumental

Bulgare

Wavelet analysis residual kriging vs. neural network residual kriging

This paper deals with the problem of spatial data mapping. A new method based on wavelet interpolation and geostatistical prediction (kriging) is proposed. The method - wavelet analysis residual kriging (WARK) - is developed in order to assess the problems rising for highly variable data in presence of spatial trends. In these cases stationary prediction models have very limited application. Wavelet analysis is used to model large-scale structures and kriging of the remaining residuals focuses on small-scale peculiarities. WARK is able to model spatial pattern which features multiscale structure. In the present work WARK is applied to the rainfall data and the results of validation are compared with the ones obtained from neural network residual kriging (NNRK). NNRK is also a residual-based method, which uses artificial neural network to model large-scale non-linear trends. The comparison of the results demonstrates the high quality performance of WARK in predicting hot spots, reproducing global statistical characteristics of the distribution and spatial correlation structure.

[Archives de la Parole]. , Chant hébreu ; Chant hébreu / Chant solo homme ; introduction instrumentale (oud)

Enregistrement : (France) [Studio Bernard Roux, Paris], -.]-[s.d

[Archives de la Parole]. , [Story of Mathi] : chant, dialecte Toda [i.e. Ḳoṭa], Malabar, Inde / [Sir George Grierson], éd. ; Linguistic survey of India ; Chant solo, homme

[Traditions. Asie. Inde. Province de Madras [i.e. Chennai]]

Residual antimalarials in malaria patients from Tanzania--implications on drug efficacy assessment and spread of parasite resistance.

Repeated antimalarial treatment for febrile episodes and self-treatment are common in malaria-endemic areas. The intake of antimalarials prior to participating in an in vivo study may alter treatment outcome and affect the interpretation of both efficacy and safety outcomes. We report the findings from baseline plasma sampling of malaria patients prior to inclusion into an in vivo study in Tanzania and discuss the implications of residual concentrations of antimalarials in this setting. In an in vivo study conducted in a rural area of Tanzania in 2008, baseline plasma samples from patients reporting no antimalarial intake within the last 28 days were screened for the presence of 14 antimalarials (parent drugs or metabolites) using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Among the 148 patients enrolled, 110 (74.3%) had at least one antimalarial in their plasma: 80 (54.1%) had lumefantrine above the lower limit of calibration (LLC = 4 ng/mL), 7 (4.7%) desbutyl-lumefantrine (4 ng/mL), 77 (52.0%) sulfadoxine (0.5 ng/mL), 15 (10.1%) pyrimethamine (0.5 ng/mL), 16 (10.8%) quinine (2.5 ng/mL) and none chloroquine (2.5 ng/mL). The proportion of patients with detectable antimalarial drug levels prior to enrollment into the study is worrying. Indeed artemether-lumefantrine was supposed to be available only at government health facilities. Although sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is only recommended for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp), it was still widely used in public and private health facilities and sold in drug shops. Self-reporting of previous drug intake is unreliable and thus screening for the presence of antimalarial drug levels should be considered in future in vivo studies to allow for accurate assessment of treatment outcome. Furthermore, persisting sub-therapeutic drug levels of antimalarials in a population could promote the spread of drug resistance. The knowledge on drug pressure in a given population is important to monitor standard treatment policy implementation.

High-resolution 3D whole-heart coronary MRA: a study on the combination of data acquisition in multiple breath-holds and 1D residual respiratory motion compensation.

OBJECT: To study a scan protocol for coronary magnetic resonance angiography based on multiple breath-holds featuring 1D motion compensation and to compare the resulting image quality to a navigator-gated free-breathing acquisition. Image reconstruction was performed using L1 regularized iterative SENSE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The effects of respiratory motion on the Cartesian sampling scheme were minimized by performing data acquisition in multiple breath-holds. During the scan, repetitive readouts through a k-space center were used to detect and correct the respiratory displacement of the heart by exploiting the self-navigation principle in image reconstruction. In vivo experiments were performed in nine healthy volunteers and the resulting image quality was compared to a navigator-gated reference in terms of vessel length and sharpness. RESULTS: Acquisition in breath-hold is an effective method to reduce the scan time by more than 30 % compared to the navigator-gated reference. Although an equivalent mean image quality with respect to the reference was achieved with the proposed method, the 1D motion compensation did not work equally well in all cases. CONCLUSION: In general, the image quality scaled with the robustness of the motion compensation. Nevertheless, the featured setup provides a positive basis for future extension with more advanced motion compensation methods.

Tecnologias de gestão e uso do solo para melhoria da eficiência no uso da água pluvial na Bacia Hidrográfica de Ribeira Seca

A produção de alimentos em ambientes secos, como Cabo Verde, é severamente afectada pela chuva insuficiente e irregular, secas recorrentes, eventos de alta intensidade, perdas de água através de escoamento rápido e altas taxas de evaporação do solo, resultando em baixa eficiência na utilização da água pluvial. Apesar dos investimentos em técnicas de conservação do solo e da água em Cabo Verde, a produtividade das culturas pluviais permanece baixa. O projecto de pesquisa propõe investigar tecnologias de gestão e uso da terra para condições de sequeiro de Cabo-Verde para aumentar a eficiência do uso da água de chuva e rendimento das culturas, combinando conhecimentos científicos e tradicionais numa abordagem participativa no campo. Ensaios de campo a escala de parcelas foram instalados para testar os efeitos de técnicas integradas no rendimento das culturas, nutrientes do solo e no balanço hídrico. As experiencias de campo foram concebidas e estão a ser executadas em estreita colaboração com os agricultores locais e os resultados avaliados utilizando indicadores biofísicos e económicos. O enfoque recai sobre as técnicas acessíveis de gestão e uso da terra que sejam viáveis e eficientes, aumentando a eficiência no uso da água pluvial e o rendimento das culturas de sequeiro.

Degradação do Solo e Desertificação das Terras – Estratégias existentes e Potências de Prevenção e Conservação

Em sequência ao “1º Workshop de Formação” realizado em CEMACAM, Múrcia – Espanha, de 1 a 5 de Outubro de 2007 que foi centrada em dois assuntos nomeadamente o WP3.1 (1º workshop dos parceiros interessados) e o WP3.2 (avaliação e documentação de estratégias), o INIDA, na qualidade de parceiro do Projecto DESIRE em Cabo Verde, organizou um workshop dirigido aos parceiros interessados locais (externo & interno). Um vez que a Ilha de Santiago foi selecionada como a nossa área de estudo, e a Ribeira Seca selecionada como o nosso “ponto de acesso”, foi consensualmente decidido que o workshop deveria ocorrer num ambiente informal, numa sala com as condições mínimas de trabalho, e situada dentro dos limites da bacia hidrográfica. Desta forma os participantes podiam facilmente identificar-se com o inteiro cenário, a fim participarem livremente e fornecerem tantas informações quanto possíveis. Assim, os critérios de selecção para o convite dos parceiros interessados, incluiriam as instituições públicas e privadas, indivíduos, e os grupos de comunitários, cujas actividades estariam dentro ou teriam alguma influência na área de estudo. De acordo com as nossas expectativas a atmosfera do workshop foi serena e muito participativa, para além de ter sido eficiente, informativo, formativo, e benéfico para todos os intervenientes, visto que forneceu momentos de identificação de problemas e propostas de soluções dos mesmos, pelos diferentes parceiros interessados. Não obstante os diferentes pontos de vista dos diferentes parceiros interessados, através de muitas discussões e sugestões, as plataformas dos acordos foram alcançados; isso constituirá possível e potencialmente parte da resolução de problemas locais, que servirá para a remediação dos processos de degradação da terra e de desertificação.