Abstract The monumentalization of public space has received significant scholarly attention both globally and locally. In the South African context, this interest been further heightened by #Rhodes Must Fall campaign in 2015, which raised questions about relevance colonial statues post-transformation era. This sparked extensive debates regarding within country’s cultural landscape. Against back...

The article is an analysis of the problem identity present in two novels by French writers Iranian origin : Marx et la poupée [Marx and Doll] Maryam Madjidi Désorientale [Disoriental] Negar Djavadi. issue exile reconstruction context immigration illustrated on basis Fernando Ortiz's theory "deculturation, acculturation, transculturation". subject research also intercultural dialogue, which appl...

there is controversy in the literature regarding a number of topics related to anterior cruciate ligament (acl)reconstruction. the purpose of this article is to answer the following questions: 1) bone patellar tendon bone (bptb) reconstruction or hamstring reconstruction (hr); 2) double bundle or single bundle; 3) allograft or authograft; 4) early or late reconstruction; 5) rate of return to sp...

Frames are an essential tool for many emerging applications such as data transmission. Their main advantage is the fact that frames can be designed to be redundant while still providing reconstruction formulas. This makes them robust against noise and losses while allowing freedom in design (see, for example, [5, 10]). Due to their numerical stability, tight frames and Parseval frames are of in...

Hair follicle (HF) reconstruction in vitro is a promising field in alopecia treatment and human HF development research. Here, we combined postnatal human dermal papilla (DP) cells and skin epidermal keratinocytes (KCs) in a hanging drop culture to develop an artificial HF germ. The method is based on DP cell hair-inducing properties and KC self-organization. We evaluated two protocols of aggre...

OBJECTIVE Our goal was to identify and describe types of meaning-making processes that occur among parents during bereavement meetings with their child's intensive care physician after their child's death in a pediatric intensive care unit. METHODS Fifty-three parents of 35 deceased children participated in a bereavement meeting with their child's physician 14.5 ± 6.3 weeks after the child's ...

We describe the Microbial Community Reconstruction (MCR) Problem, which is fundamental for microbiome analysis. In this problem, the goal is to reconstruct the identity and frequency of species comprising a microbial community, using short sequence reads from Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS) data obtained for specified genomic regions. We formulate the problem mathematically as a convex opti...

Personalisation of voice output communication aids (VOCAs) allows to preserve the vocal identity of people suffering from speech disorders. This can be achieved by the adaptation of HMM-based speech synthesis systems using a small amount of adaptation data. When the voice has begun to deteriorate, reconstruction is still possible in the statistical domain by correcting the parameters of the mod...