994 resultados para MET
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Take a random woman in her mid-twenties, with a crazy mother, a lousy job and no sex life, add some insecurity and a lot of alcohol and wrap her up in pink, and congratulations, you have just created your own chick lit heroine.The question is whether a chick lit heroine is this simplistic, or if she carries an important message to the readers. The most important traits in a chick lit novel are the complicated mother-daughter relationship, the career and the love life.Thus, this essay will outline to what extent the postfeminist features are depicted in theidentity of Bridget Jones, as an epitome of later chick lit heroines.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To a large extent, people who have suffered a stroke report unmet needs for rehabilitation. The purpose of this study was to explore aspects of rehabilitation provision that potentially contribute to self-reported met needs for rehabilitation 12 months after stroke with consideration also to severity of stroke. METHODS: The participants (n = 173) received care at the stroke units at the Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden. Using a questionnaire, the dependent variable, self-reported met needs for rehabilitation, was collected at 12 months after stroke. The independent variables were four aspects of rehabilitation provision based on data retrieved from registers and structured according to four aspects: amount of rehabilitation, service level (day care rehabilitation, primary care rehabilitation and home-based rehabilitation), operator level (physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist) and time after stroke onset. Multivariate logistic regression analyses regarding the aspects of rehabilitation were performed for the participants who were divided into three groups based on stroke severity at onset. RESULTS: Participants with moderate/severe stroke who had seen a physiotherapist at least once during each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-4th quarters of the first year (OR 8.36, CI 1.40-49.88 P = 0.020) were more likely to report met rehabilitation needs. CONCLUSION: For people with moderate/severe stroke, continuity in rehabilitation (preferably physiotherapy) during the first year after stroke seems to be associated with self-reported met needs for rehabilitation.
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This study is aimed to analyze the thermal comfort in different areas in the city of São Paulo. Two different areas were selected, a densely built (Consolação district) and the other was Fontes do Ipiranga State Park (FISP), an area with only a few buildings and reduced impermeability. A micro-climatic ENVImet was used to simulate the interaction surface-atmosphere in the urban environment. The model resolution is between 0.5 and 10m. This model was developed by Bruse and Fleer (1998) and Bruse (2004). Through the thermal comfort index PMV (predicted mean vote) and MRT (mean radiant temperature) provided by the model, it revealed that the State Park displays PMV values close to comfortable compared to the other studied area. The analysis of thermal comfort index and the Wind flow showed the influence of high buildings in the local climatic environment.
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Objective: This study aimed to determine the energy expenditure (EE) in terms of caloric cost and metabolic equivalents (METs) of two sessions of an exercise protocol. Methods: Fifteen subjects (51.0 ± 5.5years) performed the exercise sessions (80min), which were composed by (warming, walking and flexibility exercises; Session A) and (warming, walking and local muscular endurance exercises; Session B). Heart hate (HR) was measured during each part of the sessions. In laboratory environment, maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) and oxygen uptake in rest and exercise conditions (using mean HR obtained in classes) were measured on different days, using indirect calorimetry. Exercise METs were obtained by dividing VO2 in exercise (mL.kg-1.min-1) by VO2 in rest (mL.kg-1.min-1). The EE of the exercises was calculated by the formula: MET x Weight(kg) x Time(min)/60. The results were analyzed by ANOVA with Tuckey post hoc test (p < 0.05). Results: One MET for this group was 2.7 ± 0.1mL.kg-1.min-1. The mean METs of exercises were 4,7 ± 0,8 (warming), 5,8 ± 0,9 (walking) and 3,6 ± 0,7 (flexibility) on session A, and 4,6 ± 1,2 (warming), 5,6 ± 1,0 (walking) and 4.8 ± 1,0 (local muscular endurance exercises) on Session B. The training sessions showed similar energy cost (A: 398 ± 86.72 kcal and B: 404 ± 38.85 kcal; p > 0,05). None of activities were classified into vigorous intensity (> 7 METs). There were no differences on VO2 between walking (15,6 ± 2,8 or 15,4 ± 2,6 mL.kg-1.min-1) and local muscular endurance exercises (13,2 ± 2,9 mL.kg-1.min-1), although both were higher (p > 0.05) than flexibility exercises (10.1 ± 2.2 mL.kg-1.min-1). Conclusion: The proposed protocol achieves the physical activity needed by healthy adults to improve and maintain health, by their structure, moderate intensity, duration, frequency and caloric expenditure.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
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Background: One of the many cognitive deficits reported in bipolar disorder (BD) patients is facial emotion recognition (FER), which has recently been associated with dopaminergic catabolism. Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is one of the main enzymes involved in the metabolic degradation of dopamine (DA) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The COMT gene polymorphism rs4680 (Val(158)Met) Met allele is associated with decreased activity of this enzyme in healthy controls. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of Val(158)Met on FER during manic and depressive episodes in BD patients and in healthy controls. Materials and methods: 64 BD type I patients (39 in manic and 25 in depressive episodes) and 75 healthy controls were genotyped for COMT rs4680 and assessed for FER using the Ekman 60 Faces (EK60) and Emotion Hexagon (Hx) tests. Results: Bipolar manic patients carrying the Met allele recognized fewer surprised faces, while depressed patients with the Met allele recognized fewer "angry" and "happy" faces. Healthy homozygous subjects with the Met allele had higher FER scores on the Hx total score, as well as on "disgust" and "angry" faces than other genotypes. Conclusion: This is the first study suggesting that COMT rs4680 modulates FER differently during BD episodes and in healthy controls. This provides evidence that PFC DA is part of the neurobiological mechanisms of social cognition. Further studies on other COMT polymorphisms that include euthymic BD patients are warranted. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00969. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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La tesi presenta l’attività di Giovanni Francesco da Rimini, pittore attivo all’incirca dal 1440 al 1470. Analizzando le varie esperienze tra Padova, Perugia, Firenze e Bologna, si ricostruisce un catalogo delle sue opere.
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This dissertation describes the technical further development of the microclimate simulation ENVI-met in the years from 2007 to 2010 and shows examples of how ENVI-met can help solve typical microclimatic questions within an urban environment.
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L’oggetto della ricerca è stato il processo di creazione del distretto del Comune di Reggio Emilia tra il XII e l’inizio del XIII secolo, di cui sono stati analizzati diversi aspetti salienti, così come emergono in primo luogo dall’analisi del liber iurium reggiano, il Liber grossus antiquus. L’elaborato è suddiviso in due parti. Nella prima parte si è cercato di ricostruire le vicende, i legami e il patrimonio delle famiglie rurali reggiane nel corso del XII secolo in particolare e gli aspetti caratteristici del Comune cittadino nella sua fase iniziale. Nella seconda parte ci si è concentrati sull’analisi dei caratteri più rilevanti del processo di creazione del distretto comunale reggiano: il rapporto tra i signori del contado, i Comuni rurali e il Comune urbano; la difesa e l’incremento dei Communia cittadini; la fondazione di borghi franchi e nuovi. Il Comune di Reggio Emilia tentò di annettere l’intero territorio diocesano al distretto cittadino, non riuscendoci completamente e adottando una politica territoriale diversificata a seconda dei caratteri delle zone controllate.
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Il lavoro di ricerca è rivolto ad indagare l’emersione di schemi di variazione comuni all’arte e al design, limitatamente al contesto italiano e in un arco di tempo che va dalla metà degli anni Sessanta del secolo scorso a oggi. L’analisi vuole rintracciare, mediante l’applicazione della metodologia fenomenologica, un sentire condiviso tra le due discipline e, nel pieno rispetto dei relativi linguaggi e con nessuna volontà di sudditanza degli uni rispetto agli altri, individuare i rapporti di corrispondenza omologica capaci di mettere in luce lo spirito del tempo che le ha generate. La ricerca si pone l’obiettivo di estendere gli studi sul contemporaneo attraverso un’impostazione che intende applicare gli strumenti metodologici della critica d’arte all’evoluzione stilistica delle tendenze del design italiano. Non si è voluto redigere una “storia” del design italiano ma, considerata anche l’ampiezza dell’argomento, si è necessariamente proceduto a delimitare il territorio di applicazione scegliendo di prendere in considerazione il solo settore del design dell’arredo. Si è dunque optato per una visione globale delle vicende del design del prodotto, tesa ad indagare gli snodi principali, concentrando pertanto l’analisi su alcuni protagonisti della cultura del progetto, ossia su quelle figure risultate dominanti nel proprio tempo perché capaci con il loro lavoro di dare un contribuito determinante alla comprensione delle fasi evolutive del design italiano. Gli strumenti utili a condurre l’analisi provengono principalmente dalla metodologia binaria individuata dallo storico dell’arte Heinrich Wölfflin e dagli studi di Renato Barilli, il cui impianto culturologico ha fornito un indispensabile contributo al processo di sistematizzazione dei meccanismi di variazione interni alle arti; sia quelli di tipo orizzontale, di convergenza reciproca con gli altri saperi, che di tipo verticale, in rapporto cioè con le scoperte scientifiche e tecnologiche della coeva cultura materiale.
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Questo elaborato si concentra sulla serie televisiva americana How I met your mother e sulla traduzione italiana dei titoli degli episodi che la compongono. In particolare, si prederanno in esame quelle proposte traduttive che non rispettano appieno le regole che governano la tipologia testuale del titolo, e verranno proposte soluzioni alternative. In seguito, si analizzeranno alcuni dei titoli appartenenti alla stagione inedita in Italia, per i quali si proporranno delle traduzioni appropriate. Al fine di rendere più concreta questa analisi, una parte della tesi verrà anche dedicata agli aspetti teorici indicati da Maurizio Viezzi riguardo alla tipologia testuale del titolo. Inoltre, si parlerà anche delle varie funzioni individuate dalla studiosa di traduzione Christiane Nord che dovrebbero generalmente regolamentare la traduzione di questo tipo di testo.