Various opioids were used to investigate the role they might play in the cardiovascular responses to fatiguing isometric contractions. Changes in blood pressure were measured in cats anaesthetised with α-chloralose. Fatiguing isometric contractions of the hind limb muscles (ergoreceptor activation) were generated using a microprocessor controlled stimulator (50 Hz, 0.2 ms, 200-800 mV). Baroreceptor inactivation was elicited by carotid artery occlusion. Muscle contraction caused an increase in mean arterial pressure of 51 (SEM 12) mm Hg and carotid occlusion an increase of 56(9) mm Hg above resting levels in control conditions. Injection of dynorphin (0.5-5.0 μg·5 μl-1) into the cerebral aqueduct just rostra1 to the 4th ventricle eliminated the pressor response to muscular contraction (mean arterial pressure at rest, 80-118 mm Hg: on fatigue, 72-129 mm Hg) but did not affect the pressor response to carotid occlusion in the same cats. Similarly, injections of met-enkephalin (1-100 μg·5 μl-1) or β-endorphin (10-100 μg·5 μl-1) eliminated the ergoreceptor induced changes in mean arterial pressure during isometric contractions but had no effect on the changes caused by carotid occlusion. Pressor responses to nerve crush were not eliminated. These results support the suggestion that a catecholaminergic-opioidergic pathway in part mediates the cardiovascular responses to ergoreceptor afferent but probably not baroreceptor afferent input.

This text is the second part of a Bachelor's degree project, dealing with the artistic research and presentation, peripheral dancing, conducted as the first part of the project. The research started from a question: Can one challenge, rethink and explore the peripheries, centres, and orientations of and through one's dancing? The work is perceived through the context of Stockholm University of The Arts, specifically through the lens of the BA in Dance Performance programme. In choosing this context, the essay looks at teachers, classes, authors, and theories encountered in the programme. The different aspects of the research, the physical, sounding, and writing practice, are discussed in dialogue with two main references: Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, a book by British-Australian writer and scholar Sara Ahmed, and We Should All Be Dreaming: Words Make Worlds, a publication by feminist art community UrbanApa. After describing the physical presentation of the research, the essay questions how one can rethink the peripheries and centres of the stage. Furthermore, the work is placed into the context of artists and artworks challenging who and what art is placed in institutions in Sweden and other Nordic countries. The second part of this text offers a toolbox, diving into the physical research of the project, describing scores and materials, as well as references and influences. / <p>Presentation:</p><p>January 17th, 2023</p><p>Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Brinellvägen 58, Stockholm</p>

No / This paper presents a Knowledge-Based (KB) integrated approach for planning and designing of number of machining centres, selection of material handling system, layout and networking architecture and cost analysis for a Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). The KB model can be applied for integrating the decision issues at both the planning and designing stages of an FMS for three types of layouts (single row, double row, and loop) and three MHS types (robot-conveyor, AGV-conveyor and a hybrid AGV-robot-conveyor). The KB methodology starts from a suitable information input, which includes demand per year of part types, part type’s information, machining centre’s calculation, Material Handling System (MHS) selection, machining centre’s layout selection, networking selection and financial analysis. The KB methodology is developed by using AM, an expert system shell, and contains over 1500 KB rules. The performance of the system has been verified and validated through four published and four industrial case studies, respectively. The validation results from industry show that the KB methodology is capable of considering detailed design inputs and is able to assist in designing and selecting a practical FMS. It is concluded that a KB system for the present FMS application is a viable and efficient methodology.

In an attempt to slow down the development of growing shopping centres and a decrease in sales in the smaller towns, the Danish government introduced a planning act in 1997 that included strict retail regulations. The regulations made sure that any retail development only took place inside the city centres, preventing the out-of-town establishments from continuing its quick development. In 2017 the regulations were removed at the same time as the planning responsibility was moved from the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Business and Growth. This thesis aims to understand how the regulations have affected cities in Denmark, in a perspective of planning and urban development, but also how cities in Denmark reacted when they regained planning freedom after 20 years of regulations. Three cities of different sizes have been looked at, Nyborg, Elsinore and Aalborg, where planning and strategic documents published by the municipalities during and after the time period of retail regulations have been looked at. The collected material has then been analysed with the help of theories of resilience, central places and the thoughts of Jan Gehl, resulting in several key outcomes. During the time period of regulations the municipalities had little room to implement any bigger projects, but there could be seen a difference in attitude between the cities, where smaller cities accepted the situation and bigger cities more actively tried to go around the regulation as much as possible. The shift of restructuring the planning to the municipal level again in 2017 can be understood in a wider neo-liberal agenda from the government's side. On the smaller scale, which is the main focus of the thesis, a similar strategy could be seen over all three cases after the easement of regulation, where relief areas in the outskirts of cities have become the main focus area and are being prioritised in the retail planning. This has caused a collision though as the cities simultaneously promote an inside out strategy, to keep the retail concentration in the city centres. These strategies made by the cities goes against the presented theories on how to create a rich urban life and a lively city centre. There also lacks any discussion on how to create a resilient environment in the city centres, something that according to the literature is necessary in order to prevent the city centres from external shocks, and rising competition from e-trading and rising competition. The conclusion states that with no rethinking of strategies, the retailscape in Denmark will follow a path similar to the one observed in the beginning of the 90s, where bigger retail centres will outcompete smaller ones. Cities in Denmark will also need to incorporate a resilience based thinking in the future, in order to reach their intentions of keeping the city centres as the main retail area in the municipalities, or their own current strategies will be the reason for the decline of retail in the city centres.

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Thèse d'exercice : Médecine. Médecine générale : Paris 12 : 2005. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. f. 66-68.

Thèse d'exercice : Médecine. Pédiatrie : Paris 12 : 2007. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. 236 f. : ill. Bibliogr. f. 222-236.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1999.

The concept of the African Renaissance has gained ground over the past couple of years since it was first introduce to the mass public in the mid 1990’s. It aims to address a variety of challenges that affect the African continent and the people that reside within it. These challenges are mostly as a result of the centuries of oppression that the continent and its people had to endure as well as the latent effects that persist as a result of those oppressive regimes even though they no longer exist. The African Renaissance is meant to be a tool that will transform all aspects of society throughout the entire continent. The African Renaissance has been associated with a number of different social, economic and cultural issues, but has yet to be adequately investigated in relation to the built environment and architecture in particular. The investigation is therefore a quest to determine whether there is a link or relationship between the concept and architecture, and if so, how can architecture be utilized to further the concept of the renaissance. / Thesis (M.Arch.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.

Mémoire (M.P.M.O.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1995. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU