La diabetes mellitus se describe como un desorden crónico caracterizado por una elevación de los niveles de glucosa en sangre debido a una disminución absoluta o relativa de insulina. La glucosa hace posible el normal funcionamiento de las células; las personas que padecen esta patología son susceptibles a complicaciones micro y macro vasculares atribuidas al incumplimiento del régimen terapéutico.

Savo šalyje turime unikalų XIX-XX amžių sandūroje pastatytą militaristinės architektūros paveldą – Kauno žiedinę fortinę tvirtovę. Tačiau daugelis šios tvirtovės statinių yra apleisti, kelia grėsmę visuomenės saugumui. Pagrindinė problema – visuomenės požiūris į militaristinį paveldą. Būtina keisti visuomenės supratimą ir įrodyti, kad šį paveldą galima pritaikyti savoms reikmėms, o tai kur kas naudingiau nei okupaciją primenantys kraupūs griuvėsiai. Baigiamajame darbe analizuojami analogiški statiniai, kurie atsikratė šiurpios praeities pėdsakų ir šiuo metu tarnauja žmonėms. Įvertinami nagrinėjamo Kauno tvirtovės 5-ojo forto vertingi elementai, istoriniai architektūrinės struktūros pakitimai, konstrukcijų techninė būklė, paminklosauginiai reikalavimai. Pagal atliktą analizę ieškoma architektūrinių priemonių išsaugoti apleistus 5-ojo forto slėpinius, prikelti juos naujam gyvenimui ir pritaikyti naujai paskirčiai. Darbą sudaro 7 dalys: įvadas, analitinė dalis, duomenų apie pastatą apibendrinimas, pastato architektūrinis bei konstrukcijų techninės būklės įvertinimas, tyrimo medžiagos apdorojimas, architektūriniai bei konstrukciniai pastato renovacijos siūlymai, literatūros sąrašas. Darbo apimtis – 111 p. teksto be priedų, 215 iliustr., 1 lent., 44 informaciniai šaltiniai. Atskirai pridedami darbo priedai. / In our country we have a sample of unique militaristic architectural heritage built at the turn of XIX-XX centuries - Kaunas circular fortress. However, many of the buildings of the fortress are abandoned and cause a threat to public safety. The main problem is the public attitude to the militaristic heritage. It is necessary to change the public's understanding and to demonstrate that this heritage can be adapted for their own purposes which is much more beneficial than the gloomy ruins that remind of occupation. Similar structures which were freed from traces of grisly past and currently serve the people are analyzed in the final work. The valuable elements of the historic architectural changes of the structure, structural condition, and memorial preservation requirements of the Kaunas Fortress 5th fort are also evaluated. According to the performed analysis, it is searched for architectural measures to preserve the abandoned 5th fortress mysteries, to raise them to new live and to adapt for new uses. Work consists of 7 parts: introduction, analytical part, the summary on the data of the building, technical evaluation of architectural and building construction, processing of the study materials, architectural design and building renovation proposals, references. Thesis consist of: 111 p. text without appendixes, 215 pictures, 1 table, 44 bibliographical entries. Appendixes included.

We discuss efficient Bayesian estimation of dynamic covariance matrices in multivariate time series through a factor stochastic volatility model. In particular, we propose two interweaving strategies (Yu and Meng, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 20(3), 531-570, 2011) to substantially accelerate convergence and mixing of standard MCMC approaches. Similar to marginal data augmentation techniques, the proposed acceleration procedures exploit non-identifiability issues which frequently arise in factor models. Our new interweaving strategies are easy to implement and come at almost no extra computational cost; nevertheless, they can boost estimation efficiency by several orders of magnitude as is shown in extensive simulation studies. To conclude, the application of our algorithm to a 26-dimensional exchange rate data set illustrates the superior performance of the new approach for real-world data. / Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics

A number of logical code coverage criteria have been used throughout the years in the testing of safety-critical software. Kaminski, et al. proposed Relational Operator Replacement Global (RORG), a method to bring benefits from ROR mutation to Modified Condition / Decision Coverage (MCDC), which is widely used in the avionics industry. However, there is a lack of studies in the industry to support this method. In this thesis, we report on the results of applying RORG to avionic code, augmenting an MCDC adequate test set to satisfy RORG, evaluating its ability to find real faults in industrial software. Conclusions drawn from this thesis are: (1) Faults in relational operators in avionic code are rare, no faults were found in this study. (2) 24% of the relational operators in our study would require additional software requirements to be verified for RORG coverage. (3) 37% of the relational operators in our study were infeasible to test due to program semantics. (4) 84% of the tests added covered enumeration comparisons.

Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Semitic Languages)

Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Semitic Languages)