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OBJECTIVE To report and evaluate risk factors for conversion and perioperative and long-term outcomes in dogs undergoing thoracoscopic lung lobectomy for resection of lung masses. ANIMALS 61 client-owned dogs. METHODS This retrospective cohort study (June 11, 2008, to February 14, 2020) of data collected from medical records included signalment, results of diagnostic imaging, surgical technique, surgical and anesthesia time, mass location and size, hospitalization time, histopathologic findings, and long-term outcome. Follow-up was obtained from medical records and telephone contact with owners or referring veterinarians. RESULTS Histopathology results were available for 60 of 61 tumors. Fifty-seven (95%) were considered primary lung tumors, of which 46 (81%) were carcinomas. Clean surgical margins were achieved in 46 of 52 (88%) dogs. Conversion from thoracoscopy to thoracoscopic-assisted or open surgery occurred in 16 of 61 (26%) dogs. Larger tumor diameter (2 5 cm) and Iymphadenopathy detected by preoperative CT scan were significantly associated with increased risk of conversion. There was no association between conversion and patient weight, body condition score, and tumor location. All 61 dogs survived to discharge, and 56 of 57 were alive 1 month postoperatively. Median overall survival time was 311 days (95% Cl, 224 to 570 days). Tracheobronchial Iymphadenopathy on preoperative CT scans was associated with shorter postoperative survival (P < .001). Patient age, tumor diameter, adjuvant chemotherapy following surgery, and incomplete margins were not associated with survival time. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Dogs had high survival to discharge and good long-term prognosis following thoracoscopic lung lobectomy. However, larger tumor size and tracheobronchial Iymphadenopathy may increase the likelihood of conversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we explored the possibilities for observing the angular momentum alignment-to-orientation conversion (AOC) in the ground state of various alkali metals: K, Rb, Cs. For theoretical analysis we used a model that is based on the Optical Bloch equations for the density matrix. In our model we took into account the interaction of the laser light with all hyperfine levels, which are mixed as the magnetic field increases. The radiation's coherence properties were also included. Finally, the results were averaged over the Doppler profile. Additionally we simulated signals where the ground- or the excited-state coherent processes were numerically switched off in order to determine the origins of the features of the obtained signals. We also performed experiments on Cs atoms with two laser beams: a linearly polarized Cs D 1 pump and circularly polarized Cs D 2 probe. We used the pump beam to create angular momentum alignment in the ground state and observed the transmission signal of the probe beam as we changed the magnetic field. A detailed analysis of the experimentally obtained transmission signal from a single circularly polarized probe laser component is provided. Finally, prospects for observing AOC experimentally are discussed, as well as experiments were even a weak AOC signal could lead to systematic errors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper will discuss an important target variable in value-based management: the Economic Value Added (or EVA). EVA is a measure of a company's financial performance based on the residual wealth calculated by deducting its cost of capital from its operating profit, adjusted for taxes on a cash basis. EVA can also be referred to as economic profit, as it attempts to capture the true economic profit of a company. This measure was devised by management consulting firm Stern Value Management, originally incorporated as Stern Stewart & Co. This research will also discuss adjustments and different types of assumptions that are necessary for the calculation as well as how to use them properly to obtain an interpretable result. Paper will explain the formula and which conversions should be considered. It remains to be noted that the EVA concept only leads to small progress from a scientific point of view, but that the clever marketing by Stern & Stewart has initiated a renaissance of the underlying residual profit concept. The paper provides practitioners and academics with a good overview of the demonstrable added value of EVA controlling and, in contrast, also illustrates the weaknesses of the calculation model or the inaccuracy due to interpretation variables, which overall limit the value of EVA as a management key performance indicator. The research includes comprehensive and substantial discussion in the scientific literature on EVA and its interpretation.

Jews settled in three coastal towns of the medieval diocese of Koper (Capodistria) – Koper, Izola and Piran – at the end of the 14th century. They came there stimulated by the needs of cities that, after the collapse of Tuscan banks, did not have the financial sources to support the developing economy. In addition to some bankers who are fairly well known from archival sources, we also have to consider a layer of the poorer population of servants and merchants. These were relatively small communities composed of few families, which were tolerated in a distinctly Catholic environment, but in close contact with the majority population sometimes received a benevolent or even aggressive pressure to convert. For studied region, there is no systematic study about this topic yet. However, there are some archival or written sources related to it in one way or another. Although these are mostly short notes or remarks within other discussions, which certainly do not represent the whole background of these stories, they still give us some idea of the dynamics of that kind of relations between religious communities and at the same time the formal position of the Venetian and local authorities about conversions and freedom of faith between 15th and 18th century.

Introduction Hysterical disorders were considered separately in the context of the dynamics of the course of either endogenous affective diseases or schizophrenia, without attention to the conjugation and interaction of issues of hysterical symptoms and affective or psychotic syndromes. Objectives To test the psychopathological structure and provide a typology of the conjugation of hysterical symptoms with other psychopathological syndromes. Methods 120 patients (82 women and 38 men) with schizophrenic and affective disorders with associated hysterical symptoms were examined by a clinical psychopathological method. Results Three variants of conjugation were identified. In the group of hysterical disorders associated with affective diseases (37,1%) the structure and dynamics of hysterical symptoms directly influenced the developing affective phase: the low intensity of hysterical symptoms contributed to the development of an apatho-adynamic type of depression, and bright and spontaneous hysterical manifestations formed an anxious-hypochondriac type of depression. Hysterical disorders formed in the structure of the psychotic state (41,4%) influenced the nature, structure, dynamics and content of delusional, hallucinatory and paranoid disorders. “Caste” hysterical symptoms (21,4%) revealed a lack of connection with affective and psychotic states. Hysterical symptoms were characterized by persistence, stability, invariability of manifestations, long-term psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological resistance. Conclusions Clinical and psychopathological analysis of endogenous mental diseases of the affective and schizophrenic spectrum, occurring with hysterical symptoms, showed that the parameter of the conjugation of hysterical symptoms with other psychopathological syndromes is prognostically significant. Disclosure No significant relationships.

This article is an attempt to present the problem of abandoning the Muslim religion in favor of Christianity. The article is based on materials collected and stored in the archives of Russia (Saint Petersburg), Lithuania (Vilnius), and Belarus (Grodno). These mostly contain either surviving records of baptisms sent to the consistory or police reports. The cases of conversion among nineteenth-century Muslims in the territory of the Russian Empire cited in the article have served as the basis for this phenomenon's typology in the Muslim Tatar community. Moreover, they have provided the basis for analyzing whether it is possible to fit them into pre-existing conversion models in social sciences. The examples quoted in the text show the kinds of life problems that prompted Muslim Tatars to abandon the religion of their ancestors, e.g., terminal illness, the issue of marriage, or the likelihood of rejection by one's group. It should be mentioned that there had already been conversions among Muslim Tatars in the early period of their settlement. However, this trend has never taken on a mass character, as evidenced by the relatively good condition of the Muslim community living in the former territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lombok Institute of Information and Computer Management (STMIK) is one of the colleges in Central Lombok. In Higher Education there is a set of subjects given to participants in a period of education called the curriculum. Because the curriculum in each tertiary institution is different, a system that can equalize or convert courses is needed. Especially in supporting all lecture activities which in Higher Education must have a conversion system for equalizing subjects along with the number of effective semester credits takes up to two days, the head of study program is required to be able to produce or which is often referred to as a conversion term, both for advanced students and transfer students. The process of converting courses has not resulted in a decision that is a fast and appropriate decision for transfer student lectures. Based on the description above, the author intends to make a design entitled "The Design of Information Systems Conversion for Transfer and Advanced Students (Case Study of STMIK Lombok)".

Cognitive difficulty arises from two types of cognitive processes: treatments; within the same, conversions; between different types of representational registers. Conversions are difficult since they ask for understanding of two representations. Direction and the choice of first register could be a threshold for the student. Wasan geometry is used as a thought provoker and pre service mathematics teachers' written solutions to those problems for usage of cognitive processes: treatments and conversions are analyzed by content analysis method of qualitative research. Descriptive data regarding number of conversions and treatments are given. As much as correct / partially correct answers, the relation between cognitive processes and answers were analyzed. Students' written answers to three Wasan geometry problems on tangent circles are qualitatively analyzed for specific examples of treatment processes and conversion processes. Neither problem type nor correct answer is a reason for the choice of representational registers. One treatment may be worth many conversions. More usage is related to students' conformity. Direction of the conversion may be misleading. None of the students stays in mono-functional registers. Top and lowest grade students use more treatments and conversions. Usage of more conversions is not related to success and result in less number of treatments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[ca] La societat valenciana del segle XIII, com a conseqüència de la conquesta de Jaume I, va originar un col·lectiu de convertits de l’islam que la documentació identifica com a batiats, batejats o neòfits. Les notícies sobre aquest col·lectiu són ben poques, prova de la marginalitat i de l’escàs pes demogràfic en les viles i ciutats del país, ja que el seu assentament va ser sobretot urbà. L’objectiu d’aquesta indagació és esbrinar les raons que van empènyer al canvi de religió, quin era el seu perfil social i econòmic i de quina manera es va produir la integració en el teixit social.

Legal certainty is needed in the Company Law area, and this could be obtained if all the factors act jointly to achieve this aim by introducing division and conversion regulation, improving legal framework on mergers and in this manner create for company law the possibility to interact properly with EU legal framework specially designed to ensure that cross border operations will not be used in abusive way. The proposed Company Law Package by the European Commission which consists of two proposals for Directives amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132:Directive as regards the use of digital tools and processes in company law and Directive as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions will achieve its best results only when both instruments could work together, complementing each other. Online solutions for European businesses so that they cut costs and save time and the choice of where to do business and how to grow or reorganise their businesses for honest entrepreneurs should push for a fairer modern Single Market. For the first time in European Union law, rules are provided for cross border conversions and divisions and the regime of cross border merger is improved, the legal framework being adapted to the economic and social realities.

A specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of the late Ottoman Empire, Selim Deringil reexamines the historiography of the Hamidian period, its particular context and the Ottoman imperial ideology of the time, very different from that established by the Committee of Union and Progress at the time of the genocide, to better highlight the difficulties, and even the risks, when comparing the two events.

Lebanon, which is at the heart of the Arab world, has been the subject of a dynamic proselytizing enterprise led by evangelical Christians for more than 15 years. The latter are focused primarily on women. This article attempts to understand the reasons for this situation by examining in particular the argument of "feminism" understood as a defense of women's rights. If the author relativizes the importance of this argument, she demonstrates that women find in the evangelical universe a social role and resources, both material and symbolic, that they did not have in their original religion.

Despite an overwhelming amount of primary sources, there are surprisingly few detailed studies on the massacres of 1894-1897. Events in the countryside are still less known than those in the major towns. This article is a micro-historical approach to the massacres of late autumn 1895 in two rural districts of Bitlis province, Hizan and Şirvan. Both districts particularly attracted the attention of contemporary observers because of alarming reports of thousands of conversions to Islam. On the basis of hitherto unused Armenian, British and Ottoman reports, after an introduction of geographical, ethnic, and socio-economic character of the districts, the article sets out to reconstruct the events aiming at an inventory of incidents and an estimate of the number of victims. It also explores other important issues like the identity of the perpetrators and their motives, the role of the authorities, and possible involvement of Armenian revolutionaries and Kurdish Hamidiye.

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The believers in Islam living in the Russian Federation are conventionally divided into two groups: autochthonous and immigrants. The first group includes Tatars and Bashkirs inhabiting Tatarstan, Bashkiria, the Volga Region, southern Ural, Siberia, and Moscow. The second Muslim zone in Russia is the northern Caucasus. Migrant Muslims are mostly incoming from neighboring states, former republics of the USSR. Their presence in Russia is based on economic grounds. Along with the abovementioned ethnic Russian Muslims, there are also Russians of Slavic origin, who have converted to Islam for various reasons. The article discusses the motivations of Russian (Slavic) females converting to Islam. The analysis is based on the quantitative and qualitative content of messages posted on two web forums: Evimturkiye.com, in a thread entitled Change of confession. I adopted Islam; and forumok.ru, in the thread A woman in Islam. The author makes an attempt to answer the question of why Russian women convert to Islam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integration of 3D city models with Building Information Models (BIM), coined as GeoBIM, facilitates improved data support to several applications, e.g., 3D map updates, building permits issuing, detailed city analysis, infrastructure design, context-based building design, to name a few. To solve the integration, several issues need to be tackled and solved, i.e., harmonization of features, interoperability, format conversions, integration of procedures. The GeoBIM benchmark 2019, funded by ISPRS and EuroSDR, evaluated the state of implementation of tools addressing some of those issues. In particular, in the part of the benchmark described in this paper, the application of georeferencing to Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) models and making consistent conversions between 3D city models and BIM are investigated, considering the OGC CityGML and buildingSMART IFC as reference standards. In the benchmark, sample datasets in the two reference standards were provided. External volunteers were asked to describe and test georeferencing procedures for IFC models and conversion tools between CityGML and IFC. From the analysis of the delivered answers and processed datasets, it was possible to notice that while there are tools and procedures available to support georeferencing and data conversion, comprehensive definition of the requirements, clear rules to perform such two tasks, as well as solid technological solutions implementing them, are still lacking in functionalities. Those specific issues can be a sensible starting point for planning the next GeoBIM integration agendas.

In recent years, the ways of producing and mobilizing Islamic identity, and being a Muslim in Brazil, have undergone important transformations. An increase in the number of Brazilians converting has contributed to this process, raising questions about what Islam is and in what forms and spaces to experience it in the local context, where Muslims are a minority. This article examines these dynamics by analyzing how understandings of Islam are constructed and circulated by Muslims and their Sunni and Shia institutions in Rio de Janeiro. The data presented here are the result of ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Muslims and their institutions in Rio de Janeiro in different periods between 2005 and 2017.

Aśu was a twelfth-century woman from the West Coast of South India. She is mentioned as a Tuḷuva “slave girl” (šifḥa) in a deed of manumission authored by Abraham Ben Yijū, a Jewish merchant who lived with her for nearly eighteen years and had children with her. It is thus accepted that Aśu was a manumitted slave. However, there is evidence to the contrary suggesting that Aśu was a member of a matrilineal household of the Nāyar caste of landlords, and that by allying with her, Ben Yijū was establishing a transregional network in collaboration with hinterland Indian merchants. In what follows, I examine the textual evidence from the Cairo Geniza related to the couple and reevaluate it against the anthropological history of Nāyars, especially in relation to their matrilineal inheritance customs and intercaste matrimonial alliances. Arguably, familial alliances such as those of Aśu and Ben Yijū matured into full-fledged communities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the region. A better understanding of the relations between these two individuals, Aśu and Ben Yijū, can shed light on the history of the transregional maritime networks and, consequently, on the history of interreligious relations in the Malayalam-speaking region.

The presented results show that coverings from mechanically alloyed thermoreacting powders of system «nickel–aluminum» are nonequilibrium multiphase systems which basis represents solid solution of aluminum in nickel. It has the microcrystalline type of structure which is characterized by an advanced surface of borders of the grains and subgrains stabilized by nanodimensional inclusions of oxides and alyuminid. These coverings surpass by 1,2–1,6 times analogs in durability, hardness and wear resistance.

The paper focuses on brownfields of agricultural facilities in three locations, i.e. in the center of a small village, on the outskirts of the village and in the countryside. Historical sites with cultural and social value were selected for their location, context and their nature or the existence of listed buildings. This created the opportunity to present three model situations of approaches to site solutions. The issues were gradually presented to Master's degree students in Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of VŠB-TU in Ostrava, to allow each of them to create an opinion over the course of the semester on the possibility and level of utilization of abandoned agricultural sites. The results of their work show their thinking on the direction and re-use of the brownfields, primarily influenced by their location, but also by other aspects that had a significant impact on the resulting design concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the article, the author focuses on the phenomenon of Pentecostal expansion among contemporary Brazilians, first discussing some sociocultural contexts of massive conversions by means of applying chosen theories to the Brazilian religious context, and then looking at the decisions behind religious transitions through their socially and culturally situated perspective, which prepares a relevant background for understanding the reasons and meanings of individual decisions dealt with in the second part of the article. Based on conversion "flashes" from individual testimonies given by converts, the author makes an attempt to show the common and most enticing features of Pentecostal conversion in a search for an explanation for its "snowball effect" in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports on a qualitative, interpretivist study that focused on the use of visualisation and analytic strategies by Grade 12 learners when working with problems based on transformation geometry. The research was conducted with 40 learners from a Grade 12 class at one high school in the north Durban area of Kwazulu-Natal. Participants completed a written task and a smaller sample of the participants engaged in investigative semi-structured interviews with the researchers. The framework for the study was based on transformations of semiotic representations as well as the visualiser/analyser model. The findings revealed that most learners performed treatments in the analytic mode when responding to the tasks, and showed limited movement across the two modes which are essential for a deepening of understanding. The study identified one learner, however, who was able to move flexibly between the modes and who displayed a deep understanding of the concepts. The article concludes by recommending that opportunities need to be created for learners to engage in transformation geometry activities which emphasise conversion.

The Catholics from Goa and other former Portuguese territories in India created churches and houses which are unique in the world history of architecture. These buildings appeared in Goa and are known since the mid 20th century as Indo-Portuguese architecture. The singularity of this architecture is usually attributed to it being the result of a synthesis between Portuguese architecture and art, on the one hand, and Indian influence, on the other. The present article discusses these churches from a different point of view, examining aspects of the religious situation in which they appeared and suggesting they were the more important early manifestation of an autonomous culture of Goan Catholics.

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Ces dernières années, en Égypte, des affaires spectaculaires de conversions ont saturé l’espace médiatique, dans le contexte de heurts confessionnels récurrents. À divers égards, le début des années 2000 marque un tournant important dans le jeu communautaire égyptien, aboutissant à fragiliser les fidélités primaires. Ainsi, des activistes coptes commencent à investir la scène militante, à distance du clergé. Par ailleurs, le surgissement de tensions confessionnelles reflète paradoxalement une porosité croissante des frontières communautaires. Ainsi, le phénomène conversionnel en Égypte donne à voir des mutations sociodémographiques majeures et illustre l’émergence de nouvelles sociabilités. Dans un contexte conflictuel, la question des conversions interroge l’état de la législation égyptienne en matière de droit personnel et de liberté d’expression, un enjeu fondamental de la transition politique en cours en Égypte. Cet article examine les modalités de développement des conversions religieuses en Égypte et les enjeux qu’elles revêtent. L’auteure se base sur des données théoriques et empiriques collectées lors d’une thèse consacrée aux conversions évangéliques et à l’évolution des relations islamo-chrétiennes au Moyen-Orient.

A partir de recherches menées au Caire auprès de migrants africains, chrétiens et musulmans, cet article propose d'aborder la question des conversions religieuses sous l'angle des parcours migratoires. Si la circulation des individus suscite de nouvelles dynamiques religieuses et en réactive d'anciennes, la condition de migrant génère aussi de nouveaux modes d'investissements religieux, de nouvelles vocations et parfois des conversions. À partir de nos terrains cairotes, nous tenterons de comprendre ces phénomènes et de distinguer les mobilités religieuses qui s'apparentent à la conversion légère ou appuyée, des mobilités symboliques ou encore de celles qui sont plutôt de l'ordre du butinage religieux.

Abstract: The conversion of pollutants in automotive three way catalytic converter (TWC) channels is influenced by fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and catalytic reactions. The quantification of the total and relative importance of the physical and chemical phenomena involved is of major importance for the TWC performance optimization. In this paper, we present and implement a method to quantify the magnitudes of the external and internal mass transfer resistances as well as the chemical reaction resistance. The resistance quantification method was applied to analyze the influence of the TWC substrate cell density on the mass transfer and reaction resistances. Two TWCs with different cell density, referred to as TWC 200 cpsi and TWC 400 cpsi, were investigated. The experimental data were obtained under real world TWC operating conditions. For both TWCs and over the range of operating temperatures investigated the results reveal that (i) the magnitude of the reaction resistance is insignificant, (ii) the magnitude of the internal mass transfer resistance is higher than the magnitude of the external mass transfer resistance, and (iii) the washcoat thickness of the TWCs investigated (δ C =30μm) is so high that limits the contact between the reactants and the PCM. A comparison between the two TWCs indicates that (i) the magnitude of the external mass transfer resistance for the TWC 200 cpsi is higher than that for the TWC 400 cpsi, and (ii) the magnitude of both the internal mass transfer and the reaction resistance for the TWC 200 cpsi is lower than those for the TWC 400 cpsi. The present study also demonstrates that, keeping constant both the PCM loading and the washcoat mass, a TWC with high cell density along with a thinner washcoat layer allows reducing simultaneously the external and internal mass transfer limitations, which may enhance further the TWC conversions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This study investigated outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), who needed conversion to CPB. Between September, 1998 and September, 2003, 1000 CABG procedures were performed in a Cardiovascular Clinic, University Clinical Centre Tuzla. Multivessel CABG were selected arbitrarily for CABG without CPB (OPCAB) or CABG with CPB (ONCAB). Patients who required conversion due to technical difficulty with grafting were performed with ONCAB including cardioplegic arrest. Patients with severe hemodynamic instability and cardiac arrest were performed as ONCAB without crossclamping, while patients converted for mild to moderate hemodynamic instability were given cardioplegic arrest or not, depending on surgeon preference. 493 operations were scheduled and performed as ONCAB (49,3%), 468 as OPCAB (46,8%) and 39 originally scheduled OPCAB operations were converted to ONCAB (7,7% of originally scheduled OPCAB patients or 3,9% of total number of CABG). Reasons for conversions were: mild to severe hemodynamic instability - 28 (71,8%); poor vessels or difficult graft revision - 11 (28,2%). Patients converted because of technical difficulty or mild hemodynamic instability behaved as regular ONCAB patients. In the 9 patients who were emergently converted due to cardiac arrest or ventricular fibrillation, 3 patients had stroke and 3 severe myocardial ischemia requiring intraaortic balloon pump. It is of great importance to keep conversions to CPB due to cardiac arrest at a low level. The serious complications seen in such patients can significantly impede the overall benefits of a successful OPCAB program.