cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Long-term effectiveness of stress management at work : effects of the changes in perceived stress reactivity on mental health and sleep problems seven years later
Creators: name: Herr, Raphael M.
name: Barrech, Amira
name: Riedel, Natalie
name: Gündel, Harald
name: Angerer, Peter
name: Li, Jian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Stress reactivity
subject: Work stress
subject: Sleep problems
subject: Stress management intervention
subject: Long-term effectiveness
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Job stress
subject: Longitudinal method
subject: Stress managment
subject: Sleep wake disorders
subject: Occupational stress
subject: Mental helath
subject: Stressreaktion
subject: Arbeitsplatz
subject: Stress
subject: Schlafstörung

description: The reduction of stress reactivity resulting from stress management interventions prevents disorders and improves mental health, however, its long-term sustainability has been little examined. The objective of this study was, therefore, to determine the effectiveness of a stress management intervention, designed to improve stress reactivity, for mental health and sleep problems seven years later, using longitudinal data from 101 male industrial workers. Linear regressions estimated the adjusted effects of the changes in stress reactivity in general as well as in its six subdimensions (work overload, social conflict, social stress, failure at work, and anticipatory and prolonged reactivity) on depression, anxiety, and sleep problems seven years later. The improvement of the prolonged reactivity had positive effects on depression, anxiety, and sleep problems (unstandardized regression coefficients [Bs] ≥ 0.35, all p-values ≤ 0.01). Depression and sleep problems were further improved by a reduction of the reactivity to social conflicts (Bs ≥ 0.29, p-values < 0.05), and an improvement in the overall reactivity score positively influenced sleep problems (B = 0.07, p = 0.017). In conclusion, the improvement of stress reactivity resulting from a work stress intervention was effective and generally long-lasting in preventing mental health and sleep problems. The reduction of the prolonged reactivity seems of particular importance and efficient in inhibiting negative stress manifestations
The significance of erōs in Thucydides' Portrayal of Athenian imperialism.
Creators: name: Côté, Catherine-Élisabeth.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Language, Ancient.

description: Thucydides' text reveals nine instances of $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ and closely related words. The lack of evidence to support the assumption that a sexual context must necessarily form the primary meaning of $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ in the fifth century scB.C. invites a closer examination. The first three instances in the History appear in conjunction with three Athenian leaders, who represent three very distinct stages in Athenian imperialism, namely Pericles, Cleon and Alcibiades. Throughout his treatments of these individuals, Thucydides highlights their interaction with the demos and underlines the process by which $\sp{\sp,}\!\!\acute\epsilon\rho\omega\varsigma$ ultimately subordinates reason: his portrayal of Pericles demonstrates the opposition between the rational $\gamma\nu\acute\omega\mu\eta$ and the irrational $\rm o\sp{\!\!\sp,}\rho\gamma\acute\eta,$ that of Cleon illustrates the process by which the Athenians turn from $\gamma\nu\acute\omega\mu\eta$ to $\rm o\sp{\!\!\sp,}\rho\gamma\acute\eta,$ and his treatment of Alcibiades underlines the dangers of such impulsive resolution. What was once $\tau\acute o\lambda\mu\alpha$ is rendered $\alpha\sp{\!\!\!\sp,}\lambda\acute o\gamma\iota\sigma\tau o\varsigma\ \tau\rm\acute o\lambda\mu\alpha.$
Bodenschutz in der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU (GAP)
Creators: name: Schneider, Christian
name: Köder, Lea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Eine nicht-nachhaltige landwirtschaftliche Bodennutzung führt in Deutschland und Europa vielerorts zu Bodendegradation. Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) der Europäischen Union stellt den einzigen einheitlichen Rechtsrahmen für Bodenschutz auf EU-Ebene dar. Im Juni 2018 hat die EU-Kommission Legislativvorschläge für die kommende Förderperiode 2021 bis 2027 vorgelegt. Für den Bodenschutz relevant sind darin vor allem die ökologischen Mindestanforderungen für Subventionen (Konditionalität), Umweltprogramme in der ersten Säule (Eco-Schemes) sowie Subventionen, die aus Mitteln zur ländlichen Entwicklung gefördert werden (Agrarumwelt- und Klimaverpflichtungen nach Artikel 65 der Legislativvorschläge). Es zeichnet sich ab, dass die Mitgliedsstaaten große Spielräume bei der nationalen Ausgestaltung der Agrarpolitik haben werden. Ein partizipativ zu erstellender nationaler Strategieplan wird zukünftig die Agrarsubventionen in Deutschland regeln. Daraus ergibt sich ein wichtiger Gestaltungsauftrag auch für die Bodenwissenschaften, die sich aktiv in die Erstellung der nationalen Strategiepläne einschalten sollten. Quelle: https://www.bodenschutzdigital.de
description: Non-sustainable farming methods cause soil degradation in Germany and Europe. Currently, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the most consistent policy for soil protection on a European level. The European Commissionâ€Ìs regulation proposals for the next CAP period from 2021 to 2027 contains the following regulations which are of special importance for soil protection. The new conditionality replaces cross compliance and greening obligations and defines ecological minimum standards. Parts of the direct payments will be coupled on eco-schemes, and subsidies for rural development will partly fund agri-environmental programs including soil protection measures (article 65). The legislative proposal enables a high degree of freedom for member states to shape the national CAP regulations and to set up national strategic plans. These plans shall be drawn up in a participatory manner. This provides an opportunity for the soil science community to shape soil protection requirements for future CAP payments in Germany. Quelle: https://www.bodenschutzdigital.de
title: BRILLOS MEDULARES EN  T2: diagnóstico diferencial mediante RM.
Creators: name: Sánchez Jiménez, Regina Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir la anatomía medular. Elaborar una guía para establecer el diagnóstico diferencial de lesiones intramedulares hiperintensas en T2 por...
Philanthropic foundations and the governance of global health: the Rockefeller Foundation and Product Development Partnerships
Creators: name: Moran, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores the influence of private philanthropic foundations in the governance of global health. Such foundations, including Rockefeller and Ford, have historically played an important role in infectious disease control, providing seed finance to develop vaccines (e.g. yellow fever) and subsidies for the eradication of certain parasites (e.g. hookworm). More recently these actors have utilised their material resources to facilitate and broker strategic coalitions between civil society groups, transnational corporations, international organisations (IOs) and states in innovative policy arrangements variously known in the literature as public-private, multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Partnerships, such as the GAVI Alliance, the Institute for OneWorld Health and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, to name but a few high-profile cases, have been identified as appropriate policy responses to complex, and seemingly intractable, global health threats. However while theorists and practitioners have devoted considerable attention to the implications of these instruments for health governance, focussing their attention on the quality of health outcomes as well as the normative desirability of multi-actor collaboration, there remains a relative paucity of empirical research on the role played by private philanthropic foundations in both financing partnerships and influencing global health policy. While some researchers recognise the central importance of these actors to the development of the partnership model there is a continued perception that they remain benign agents, rather than actors with considerable leverage to achieve both desirable and undesirable outcomes. This paper attempts to address this vacuum by undertaking a case study analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation’s support for Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Particular attention is paid to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a PDP initiated by the Foundation which played an important role in the emergence of the model as a norm in global health governance. It is suggested that the Rockefeller Foundation’s instrumental role in establishing a blueprint for PDPs, as well as convening meetings that led to the development of financing partnerships like the GAVI Alliance, enabled the Foundation to retain influence in the health sphere, despite its relative decline in assets and diminished importance in the philanthropic sector more generally.
Supplementary document for Construction and validation of UV-C decontamination cabinets for filtering facepiece respirators - 4720876.pdf
Creators: name: Purschke, Martin
name: Elsamaloty, Mazzin
name: Wilde, Jeff
name: Starr, Nichole
name: Anderson, R. Rox
name: Farinelli, William
name: Sakamoto, Fernanda
name: Tung, Maryann
name: Tam, Joshua
name: Hesselink, Lambertus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Expanded design and fabrication details
Dark-ages reionization and galaxy formation simulation-XI. Clustering and halo masses of high redshift galaxies
Creators: name: Park, Jaehong
name: Kim, Han-Seek
name: Liu, Chuanwu
name: Trenti, Michele
name: Duffy, Alan
name: Geil, Paul M.
name: Mutch, Simon J.
name: Poole, Gregory B.
name: Mesinger, Andrei
name: Wyithe, J. Stuart B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We investigate the clustering properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z similar to 6 - 8. Using the semi-analytical model MERAXES constructed as part of the dark-ages reionization and galaxy-formation observables from numerical simulation (DRAGONS) project, we predict the angular correlation function (ACF) of LBGs at z similar to 6 - 8. Overall, we find that the predicted ACFs are in good agreement with recent measurements at z similar to 6 and z similar to 7.2 from observations consisting of the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and cosmic sssembly nearinfrared deep extragalactic legacy survey field. We confirm the dependence of clustering on luminosity, with more massive dark matter haloes hosting brighter galaxies, remains valid at high redshift. The predicted galaxy bias at fixed luminosity is found to increase with redshift, in agreement with observations. We find that LBGs of magnitude M-AB(1600) < -19.4 at 6 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 8 reside in dark matter haloes of mean mass similar to 10(11.0)-10(11.5)M(circle dot), and this dark matter halo mass does not evolve significantly during reionisation.
Bio-preservative potential of marjoram and fennel essential oil nano-emulsions against toxigenic fungi in citrus: integrating in-vitro, in-vivo, and in-silico approaches
Creators: name: Gharzouli, Merihane
name: Aouf, Abdel Hakim
name: Moawad, Shimaa
name: Ali, Hatem
name: Alsulami, Tawfiq
name: Farouk, Amr
name: Hoppe, Karolina
name: Badr, Ahmed Noah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Citrus fruits, known for their vibrant flavours and health benefits, are susceptible to fungal attacks, particularly from toxigenic Penicillium fungi, which pose a significant pre- and post-harvest hazard. However, aromatic oils and their nanoparticles may effectively address this issue. Marjoram and fennel oils, alongside their nanoparticles, were extracted, and their aromatic constituents and antimicrobial activities were evaluated. A simulated medium with fungal spores was used to assess anti-toxigenic activity, and a simulated infection experiment was conducted with orange and lemon fruits. The capacity and mechanisms of aromatic constituents were analysed through molecular docking assays targeting enzymes involved in fungal growth and mycotoxin production. The nanoparticles exhibited good stability (89.17%–92.41%) and compact formulation (density of 0.92–0.96 g/mL). Results demonstrated substantial effectiveness of nano-emulsions against toxigenic fungi, with major aromatic compounds identified as terpinene-4-ol (18%) and γ-terpinene (11%) in marjoram and estragole (38%) and anethole (29%) in fennel oil. Diffusion assays revealed significant anti-pathogen effects (8.33–11 mm) and antifungal activity (33.33 ± 2.88–89.33 ± 1.15 mm) of marjoram and fennel nano-emulsions. Results regarding simulated infected fruit reflect spoilage delay without impacting fruit quality or sensory. The interactions between oil or nano-emulsions and fungal enzymes showed strong binding-free energy values, with significant docking scores (−6.6 to −7.0 kcal/mol) for aromatic constituents. In conclusion, aromatic antifungals offer a promising strategy for controlling Penicillium, enhancing the safety and quality of oranges and lemons, with oil nanoparticles improving antifungal efficacy by significantly reducing mycelium weight and spore germination.
Supplementary document for Construction and validation of UV-C decontamination cabinets for filtering facepiece respirators - 4720876.pdf
Creators: name: Purschke, Martin
name: Elsamaloty, Mazzin
name: Wilde, Jeff
name: Starr, Nichole
name: Anderson, R. Rox
name: Farinelli, William
name: Sakamoto, Fernanda
name: Tung, Maryann
name: Tam, Joshua
name: Hesselink, Lambertus
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Expanded design and fabrication details
Rapid alterations in the levels of bombesin-like peptides and their receptors in response to a single meal.
Creators: name: Kateb, Claude Christian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Biology, Animal Physiology.

description: It has been suggested that bombesin (BN)-like peptides may play a physiological role in the control of food intake. The working hypothesis behind the experiments presented in this dissertation was that if this family of peptides is involved in the mediation of satiety, then the availability of the peptide(s) and/or its receptors should change with feeding status. Thus, the specific objectives of this research were to elucidate the changes in the availability of central and peripheral BN-like peptides and their receptors during a meal. In our preliminary experiments, all rats were food deprived for a 12 hr period. Half the animals were then permitted to eat solid food until satiated (35 min). Techniques of Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and quantitative autoradiography (QAR) were employed to measure peptide and receptor levels respectively in several brain and gut sites. Our results indicated significant increases in BN-like peptide levels, specifically gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) GRP1-27 and/or GRP18-27, in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, and antral region of the stomach after food ingestion. The autoradiography study indicated an effect of food intake on central, but not gastrointestinal, BN-like peptide receptors, but failed to identify specific loci where these differences were significant between feeding states. The objective of the next series of experiments was to elucidate the pattern and degree of change in the levels of BN-like peptides and their receptors at different timepoints during different feeding states. These experiments included four groups of animals: (1) Rats that were food deprived for a 12 hr period; (2) and then given access to food for either 10 min or (3) 35 min. The fourth group constituted of non-deprived controls (ad libitum fed). RIA of hypothalamic, hippocampal, and medullary (control) tissues replicated and extended our earlier findings and showed that, in relation to the ad libitum condition, hypothalamic BN-like peptide concentrations were reduced by fasting, while hippocampal levels were elevated by feeding. The autoradiographic studies of several central areas demonstrated decreased binding in the hypothalamus, fundus striatum, and nucleus accumbens of the postprandial animals, as compared to the food deprived group. In the next experiment, an attempt was made to identify whether the changes noted at the receptor level were related to changes in the receptor number or affinity. The saturation experiments did not reveal significant alterations in the KD and Bmax of BN-like peptide receptors in response to food intake. Thus, the mechanisms underlying these receptor changes were not successfully established. The rapid alterations in peptide and receptor levels may support the contention that BN-like peptides play a physiological role in the regulation of ingestive behavior.
What Participation? Distinguishing Water Monitoring Programs in Mining Regions Based on Community Participation
Creators: name: Pareja, Claudio
name: Honey-Rosés, Jordi
name: Kunz, Nadja C.
name: Fraser, Jocelyn
name: Xavier, André
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Water issues are a major concern for the mining sector and for communities living near mining operations. Water-related conflicts can damage a firm’s social license to operate while violent conflicts pose devastating impacts on community well-being. Collaborative approaches to water management are gaining attention as a proactive solution to prevent conflict. One manifestation of these efforts is participatory water monitoring (PWM). PWM programs have the potential to generate new scientific information on water quantity and quality, improve scientific literacy, generate trust among stakeholders, improve water resource management and ultimately mitigate conflict. The emergence of PWM programs signals a shift toward greater stakeholder collaboration and more inclusive water governance within mining regions. In this article, we propose a new framework to evaluate the degree and extent of community involvement in PWM programs. This framework builds on citizen science literature. When applied to 20 cases in Latin America, notable differences in the degree of community and company participation between PWM programs are found. These differences suggest that companies and communities approach these programs from very different points of view. It is concluded that more attentive collaboration between firms and communities in the design of the program, the collection of data and interpretation of the results is needed to effectively build trust through PWM.
XDM-compatible service repository for user-centric service creation and discovery
Creators: name: Yu, Jian
name: Falcann, Paolo
name: Rego, Sancho
name: Ordas, Isabel
name: Martms, Eduardo
name: Sun, Quan
name: Trapero, Ruben
name: Sheng, Quan Z.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The key objective of OPUCE system is to enable the participation of end-users in the management of their own services, by providing them with innovative tools which allow an easy creation and delivery of personalized communication and information services. This paper describes the OPUCE service and component repository, which extends the OMA OSPE service model storage approach XDM. By integrating an ebXML Registry using the native notification mechanisms of XDM, the search capability of the repository is dramatically improved. Moreover, this repository also exploits semantic Web technology to provide an intuitive visualized browser for convenient servke exploring.
IoT live updating
Creators: name: Ulrich, Julian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: IoT
subject: Software Updates
subject: Side-cars
subject: IoT Live Updating
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Internet of things
subject: Plug-ins (Computer programs)
subject: Internet der Dinge
subject: Update
subject: Plug in

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an increasingly prevalent topic, ranging from homes, office buildings and factories, to cities. The IoT is ambigous and development is ongoing, resulting in a lack of standardized solutions for common problems. This implies continuous change regarding the handling of challenges and requirements for implementations. Updates are required to extend the functionality of devices or services with new features, simply adding capabilities or integrating new aspects for our everyday life. Those are not trivial due to the heterogeneity of devices, critical systems that should not face long downtime, the distributed nature of IoT applications and the nature of devices, that are often minimal appliances. Particularly the emerging trend of orchestration of smart devices in cities - on a large scale - makes a sophisticated approach on managing updates inevitable. The named challenges highlight the need for a solution for updating devices or services in the IoT domain during run-time. This paper assesses approaches on this problem domain, introducing solutions on different levels, such as the appliance itself, as a separate service or middleware, or in the superordinate orchestration system. The proposals and levels are discussed and compared regarding their applicability in the IoT domain, using smart cities as a reference for the area of application.
The Aging Lung and Cancer: Evidence of Field Cancerization from Transcriptional Profiles of Normal Human and Mouse Lung Tissues
Creators: name: Villeneuve, Patrick James
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.
subject: Health Sciences, Aging.

description: The effect of increased age on gene expression has not previously been evaluated in lung tissues. Cancer incidence increases with age, and lung cancer in particular has been found to have an incidence that peaks in the later decades of life. Based on previously published studies of aging effects in human muscle, kidney and retinal tissues, significant transcriptional changes are anticipated in both mouse and human aged lung tissues that may predispose to the development of cancer. We examined lung aging between young and old mice (6 vs. 30 months), using a hybrid mouse model (CB6F1) and an experimental colorectal metastasis model (CT26 cells). We also recruited young (<30 years) and aged (>60 years) human patients. Microarray analysis of mouse lung tissues using MOE430v2 and human lung tissues suing HG U133 2.0+ Affymetrix arrays was performed using total lung RNA, after which expression values were computed from .CEL files by applying RMA normalization within sets of replicate samples. Statistical testing was performed using the significance analysis of microarrays algorithm. Statistically significant transcripts were validated by histochemical staining and quantitative polymerase chain reactions (PCR). In mouse tissues, induced metastatic disease was found to be associated with reduced overall survival in older mice. The pattern of pulmonary metastases was more diffuse as compared to younger mice. Age-related transcriptional changes in the lung of extremely old hybrid mice were related to altered effectors of the immune system, regulators of angiogenesis and elements of DNA repair mechanisms, likely explaining the molecular basis behind the altered patterns of pulmonary metastasis observed in the extremely old mice. In human tissues, eighty-two genes were differentially expressed in a statistically significantly manner. Most genes were downregulated in aged lung tissue and included collagen isoforms and proteins responsible for extracellular matrix synthesis and turnover. A single upregulated transcript was a MYC binding protein. Selected transcripts were validated by PCR and histochemical staining. This is the first examination of lung metastases and the molecular biology of lung tissues at the extremes of age. Alterations to gene expression profiles was observed in both mouse and human lung tissues, and supports the concept of a field defect in normal lung tissues that develops with increased age.
Supplementary document for Parametric study of optical transmission through plasmonic hole arrays modulated by the phase transition of vanadium dioxide - 4721089.pdf
Creators: name: Donev, Eugenii
name: Hart, Francis
name: Nkurunziza, Bertrand
name: Bertschinger, Kevin
name: Zhang, Jinlin
name: Suh, Jae-Yong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document for Parametric study of optical transmission through plasmonic hole arrays modulated by the phase transition of vanadium dioxide
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 316 (42. Jg.), Juni 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Universität Ulm

description: N/A
Methoden- und Indikatorenentwicklung für Kenndaten zum Klimaschutz im Energiebereich
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Durch die zunehmende Einführung energie- und klimapolitischer Ziele haben das regelmäßige Monitoring und die Erfolgskontrolle dieser Ziele sowie die damit verbundenen Fragestellungen in den letzten Jahren erheblich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Vor diesem Hintergrund soll in diesem Projekt zur Beurteilung energie- und klimapolitischer Maßnahmen und Prozesse auf aggregierter Ebene ein Indikatorengerüst aus Daten, Methoden und Kennzahlen in einen einheitlichen und konsistenten Rahmen gestellt werden. Die gewählten Indikatoren sollen die Fortschritte Deutschlands im Rahmen des Klimaschutzes beschreiben und dabei auch einem breiten Publikum darstellbar und verständlich sein. Der Fokus liegt auf Top-down-Indikatoren, die auf der Grundlage aggregierter statistischer Daten ermittelt werden. Der Bericht enthält ausgewählte Indikatoren für die folgenden fünf Themenfelder, die Kernthemen für die Energiewende darstellen: Energieverbrauch und Energieeffizienz, Erneuerbare Energien, Kraftwerke und Netze Umwelteffekte Ökonomische und soziale Effekte. Die ausgewählten Indikatoren werden anhand einheitlicher Kriterien beschrieben und bewertet sowie in ihrer zeitlichen Entwicklung graphisch dargestellt.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Against the backdrop of a growing number of energy and climate targets, it has also become more important to regularly monitor the progress made towards these targets. Therefore, this project aims at the development of a consistent set of indicators as a basis for the evaluation of energy and climate policies. The selected indicators shall both describe the progress in Germany with regard to climate protection and be easily understandable for a general public. The focus is on top-down indicators which are based on aggregated statistical data. The report contains selected indicators for the following areas which are key topics of the German "EnergiewendeŁ (energy transition): Energy consumption and energy efficiency Renewable energy sources Electricity generation and grid infrastructure Environmentaleffects of the Energiewende Economic and socialeffects of the Energiewende The selected indicators are described and evaluated according to homogenous criteria and their development is visualized.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Detection and Characterization of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Wang, Kaidi
name: Li, Shenmiao
name: Petersen, Marlen
name: Wang, Shuo
name: Lu, Xiaonan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This mini-review summarizes the most recent progress concerning the use of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) for the detection and characterization of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We first discussed the design and synthesis of various types of nanomaterials that can be used as the SERS-active substrates for biosensing trace levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We then reviewed the tandem-SERS strategy of integrating a separation element/platform with SERS sensing to achieve the detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environmental, agri-food, and clinical samples. Finally, we demonstrated the application of using SERS to investigate bacterial antibiotic resistance and susceptibility as well as the working mechanism of antibiotics based on spectral fingerprinting of the whole cells.
title: Source attribution of community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease-results from the German LeTriWa study
title: Source attribution of community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease-results from the German LeTriWa study
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Adler, Kristin
name: Buchholz, Udo
name: Bochmann, Jacqueline
name: Jahn, Heiko Jürgen
name: Brodhun, Bonita
name: Förster, Christina
name: Koch, Madlen
name: Schreiner, Yvonne
name: Stemmler, Fabian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Methods Analysis of secondary patient samples for monoclonal antibody (MAb) type (and sequence type); questionnaire-based interviews, analysis of standard household water samples for Legionella concentration followed by MAb (and sequence) typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp1) isolates; among cases taking of additional water samples to identify the infectious source as appropriate; recruitment of control persons for comparison of exposure history and Legionella in standard household water samples. For each case an appraisal matrix was filled in to attribute any of three source types (external (non-residence) source, residential non-drinking water (RnDW) source (not directly from drinking water outlet), residential drinking water (RDW) as source) using three evidence types (microbiological results, cluster evidence, analytical-comparative evidence (using added information from controls)). Results Inclusion of 111 study cases and 202 controls. Median age of cases was 67 years (range 25ââą Ì93 years), 74 (67%) were male. Among 65 patients with urine typable for MAb type we found a MAb 3/1-positive strain in all of them. Compared to controls being a case was not associated with a higher Legionella concentration in standard household water samples, however, the presence of a MAb 3/1-positive strain was significantly associated (odds ratio (OR) = 4.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.7 to 11). Thus, a source was attributed by microbiological evidence if it contained a MAb 3/1-positive strain. A source was attributed by cluster evidence if at least two cases were exposed to the same source. Statistically significant general source types were attributed by calculating the population attributable risk (analytical-comparative evidence). We identified an external source in 16 (14%) cases, and RDW as source in 28 (25%). Wearing inadequately disinfected dentures was the only RnDW source significantly associated with cases (OR = 3.2, 95% CI 1.3 to 7.8) and led to an additional 8% of cases with source attribution, for a total of 48% of cases attributed. Conclusion Using the appraisal matrix we attributed almost half of all cases of CALD to an infectious source, predominantly RDW. Risk for LD seems to be conferred primarily by the type of Legionella rather than the amount. Dentures as a new infectious source needs further, in particular, integrated microbiological, molecular and epidemiological confirmation. Quelle: https://journals.plos.org
Housing and social inclusion / exclusion
Creators: name: Arthurson, Kathy
name: Jacobs, Keith
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A study carried out on behalf of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) assessed the relevance of the concept of social exclusion for Australian housing policy. This article summarises the findings of the study. It discusses problems with the definition of social exclusion and its lack of precision, the connection of social housing with social exclusion and inclusion and the possible resultant stigmatisation of social housing, and ways of differentiating between exclusion from housing and through housing. It concludes that there is a danger that the term social exclusion is becoming a label for the symptoms rather than contributing anything towards policy solutions for social housing.
Bringing Aristotle into the 20th century: Definition-oriented concept analysis in a terminological knowledge base.
Creators: name: Eck, Karen.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Language, General.

description: This thesis develops and tests a definition-oriented approach to concept analysis. In this approach, a computerized knowledge management system called CODE is used to help the terminologist carry out concept analysis specifically aimed at constructing intensional (Aristotelian) definitions for a terminological knowledge base (TKB). The approach is developed by first exploring what the literature has to say about the intensional terminological definition (ITD) as a process, a product, and a tool. The primary conclusion that arises from this exploration is that ITDs for co-concepts must be consistent in content and form, and must clearly indicate the place of their respective concepts in the concept system. Second, this thesis looks at how a specific feature of the CODE system, the Characteristic Comparison Matrix (CCM), can be enhanced to facilitate definition-oriented concept analysis. The result is a powerful, flexible feature that aids the terminologist in recording consistent characteristics and selecting characteristics for definition construction. Third, this thesis proposes enhancements to an existing general approach to concept analysis. These enhancements are based on definition research, knowledge of CODE, and introspection, supported by previous experience performing general concept analysis with the COGNITERM Project. The result is an approach which allows the terminologist to carry out concept analysis in a methodical manner, using CODE to create good, consistent ITDs for a TKB. This approach is tested by creating a TKB for the subject field of lasers (concentrating on 16 concepts), complete with ITDs. The approach works quite well, although it requires some minor modifications. The definitions are consistent and contain only that information necessary to distinguish co-concepts from one another and to indicate their place within a concept system. Although CODE is helpful in facilitating definition-oriented concept analysis, some enhancements to the technology would make it even more useful.
Supplementary document for Parametric study of optical transmission through plasmonic hole arrays modulated by the phase transition of vanadium dioxide - 4721089.pdf
Creators: name: Donev, Eugenii
name: Hart, Francis
name: Nkurunziza, Bertrand
name: Bertschinger, Kevin
name: Zhang, Jinlin
name: Suh, Jae-Yong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary document for Parametric study of optical transmission through plasmonic hole arrays modulated by the phase transition of vanadium dioxide
The changing roles of allocations systems in social housing
Creators: name: Hulse, Kathleen
name: Burke, Terry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Allocations systems lie at the core of social housing. They determine who is eligible for housing, the order of providing assistance, and the matching of households with specific properties. In so doing, they affect the circumstances and wellbeing of individual households and the composition and capacity of local communities. Allocations systems also affect all aspects of housing providers' operations, including tenancy management, asset planning and management, rent revenue and, ultimately, financial viability. Despite the importance of social housing allocations systems to households, communities and social housing agencies, to date the main mechanism in Australia for considering allocations has been irregular, practice-based reviews carried out by state and territory housing authorities, community housing agencies and some peak bodies. There has been no national and sector-wide research. This is the Final Report of a project that fills a significant research gap in undertaking a review of allocations policies and practices in the Australian social housing sector, comprising public housing, community housing and an emerging affordable housing sector. It reports on research that identifies the drivers for change and explores some reforms being undertaken both in Australia and overseas.
Supplementary document for Nonlinear higher-order polariton topological insulator - 4721428.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiqi
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav
name: Torner, Lluis
name: Ferrando, Albert
name: Li, Yongdong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Materials about topological invariant
Understanding the biology of self-renewing macrophages
Creators: name: Röszer, Tamás
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: macrophage
subject: leukocyte biology
subject: stem cell
subject: proliferation
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Macrophages
subject: Leucocytes
subject: Stem cells
subject: Cell proliferation
subject: Makrophage
subject: Leukozyt
subject: Stammzelle
subject: Proliferation

description: Macrophages reside in specific territories in organs, where they contribute to the development, homeostasis, and repair of tissues. Recent work has shown that the size of tissue macrophage populations has an impact on tissue functions and is determined by the balance between replenishment and elimination. Macrophage replenishment is mainly due to self-renewal of macrophages, with a secondary contribution from blood monocytes. Self-renewal is a recently discovered trait of macrophages, which can have a major impact on their physiological functions and hence on the wellbeing of the organism. In this review, I discuss our current understanding of the developmental origin of self-renewing macrophages and the mechanisms used to maintain a physiologically stable macrophage pool.
Forschungsbericht 2006 - 2010 [Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Ulm]
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gvhd
subject: Pädiatrie
subject: Stammzellentransplantation
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Disease. In adolescence. Therapy
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Syndrom
subject: Diabetologie
subject: Endokrinologie
subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: Frühgeburt
subject: Hämatologie
subject: Immundefekt
subject: Immunologie
subject: Kinderheilkunde
subject: Krebsforschung
subject: Zelltod

description: This report covers the research activities of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of University Medical Center Ulm in the years 2006 to 2010. It contains detailed descriptions of the research groups and coordinated research networks, key data on other research networks and clinical trials, the list of publications, as well as lists with conferences organized, doctorates supervised, habilitations of personnel, guest scientists, and awards received.
Reactor based voltage regulators for single wire earth return systems
Creators: name: Wolfs, Peter
name: Senini, Steven
name: Hosseinzadeh, Nasser
name: Loveday, Anthony
name: Turner, Jon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Single wire earth return systems, (SWER), are the lowest cost technology for rural power distribution and have global application. Voltage regulation is the determining factor for system capacity for long SWER systems. In long systems, directly connected shunt reactors are often used to compensate the effects of line to ground capacitance. The replacement of fixed shunt reactors with controllable reactors provides an opportunity to significantly increase the system capacity. Three methods of reactor control are studied. Thyristor controlled reactors or mechanically switched reactors can be connected via transformers. Alternatively, switched reactors can be connected to consumer transformers. A case study based on the North Jericho system shows the approaches capable of effecting capacity increases ranging from 82% to 100%.
Distribution of soil tardigrades as revealed by molecular identification across a large-scale area of Australia
Creators: name: He, ZY
name: Hu, HW
name: Nguyen, BA Thi
name: Chen, QL
name: Weatherley, A
name: Nash, Michael
name: Bi, L
name: Wu, K
name: He, JZ
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation
classificationCode: 4106
subject: Soil sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Tardigrades, also known as ‘water bear’ or ‘moss piglet’, inhabit diverse environments ranging from marine to freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They occupy various trophic levels in the micro-food web attributed to their different feeding preferences and different predators, which also heralds the complexity of their ecological functions. Therefore, understanding the ecological preference of tardigrades and their interactions with other organisms is crucial for uncovering the changes in ecosystem functions performed by these organisms under future scenarios of climate change. Here, we investigated the diversity and community composition of tardigrades, and their driving factors from 194 soil samples across south and eastern Australia, based on amplicon sequencing of 18S rRNA gene. We further validated the presence or absence of tardigrades in selected soil samples using morphological detection. Eleven tardigrade genera were observed in 53 samples, predominantly from coastal soils, with Eremobiotus as the most dominant genus. Notably, mean annual temperature (MAT) was the most important factor influencing the presence of tardigrades, revealing a decreased relative abundance of tardigrades as MAT increased. Other abiotic factors, including soil pH, total nitrogen, and mean annual precipitation, as well as biotic factors, including bacteria, fungi, protists, algae and nematodes, were also critical to the distribution of tardigrades, as revealed by structural equation modelling. Morphological identification broadly aligned with our molecular findings; it also illustrated the sporadic distribution pattern of tardigrades. Taken together, our findings provide the first empirical evidence for the relationships between soil tardigrades and the environmental factors using environmental DNA and demonstrated the importance of both biotic and abiotic factors in shaping the large-scale distribution patterns of soil tardigrades. Additionally, our findings imply a certain degree of feasibility for soil tardigrade researches using environmental DNA, and highlight the potential risk of a decline in tardigrade communities in the face of increasing global temperatures.
title: Colono-TC y su relevancia en la planificación quirúrgica de las neoplasias colónicas.
Creators: name: Arnau Ferragut, María Socorro
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
OBJETIVO Describir nuestra experiencia desde la implementación de la colonoscopia por tomografía computarizada (CTC) en el Hospital General de Castellón (HGS) desde marzo de 2009 a febrero de 2012 y cómo ha influido en la planificación...
Formato del Proyecto Memoria de Odontología de la Universidad de Talca
Creators: name: Rivera, César
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Formato del informe escrito de Memoria de la Escuela de Odontología de la Universidad de Talca, para su utilización a partir del año 2019. Actualizado el 2020, incorporando texto en inglés.
description: Documento que puede servir como plantilla para la redacción dell informe Memoria de la Escuela de Odontología de la Universidad de Talca. Los títulos, subtítulos y secciones están formateados para crear un Índice de contenidos automático con Microsoft Word.
title: EDGAR v4.3.2 global atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970-2012
title: EDGAR v4.3.2 global atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970-2012
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Janssens-Maenhout, Greet
name: Crippa, Monica
name: Guizzardi, Diego
name: Döring, Ulrike
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) compiles anthropogenic emissions data for greenhouse gases (GHGs), and for multiple air pollutants, based on international statistics and emission factors. EDGAR data provide quantitative support for atmospheric modelling and for mitigation scenario and impact assessment analyses as well as for policy evaluation. The new version (v4.3.2) of the EDGAR emission inventory provides global estimates, broken down to IPCC-relevant source-sector levels, from 1970 (the year of the European Union's first Air Quality Directive) to 2012 (the end year of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, KP). Strengths of EDGAR v4.3.2 include global geo-coverage (226 countries), continuity in time, and comprehensiveness in activities. Emissions of multiple chemical compounds, GHGs as well as air pollutants, from relevant sources (fossil fuel activities but also, for example, fermentation processes in agricultural activities) are compiled following a bottom-up (BU), transparent and IPCC-compliant methodology. This paper describes EDGAR v4.3.2 developments with respect to three major long-lived GHGs (CO2, CH4, and N2O) derived from a wide range of human activities apart from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector and apart from savannah burning; a companion paper quantifies and discusses emissions of air pollutants. Detailed information is included for each of the IPCC-relevant source sectors, leading to global totals for 2010 (in the middle of the first KP commitment period) (with a 95% confidence interval in parentheses): 33.6(+/-5.9)Pg CO2 yr-1, 0.34(+/-0.16) Pg CH4 yr-1, and 7.2(+/-3.7) Tg N2O yr-1. We provide uncertainty factors in emissions data for the different GHGs and for three different groups of countries: OECD countries of 1990, countries with economies in transition in 1990, and the remaining countries in development (the UNFCCC non-Annex I parties). We document trends for the major emitting countries together with the European Union in more detail, demonstrating that effects of fuel markets and financial instability have had greater impacts on GHG trends than effects of income or population. These data (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2658138, Janssens-Maenhout et al., 2019) are visualised with annual and monthly global emissions grid maps of for each source sector. © Author(s) 2019