cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
OpenLab Evaluation of CAnTi
Creators: name: Konstantakis, Markos
name: Chrysanthi, Angeliki
name: Moraitou, Efthymia
name: Kotsopoulos, Konstantinos
name: Papastamatiou, Nikolaos
name: Papadimitriou, Alkistis
name: Caridakis, George
Publisher: name: Journal of Integrated Information Management
Year: 2024

description: Purpose - The Conservation of Ancient Tiryns (CAnTi) research project aims to improve the presentation and understanding of conservation and restoration (CnR) data for the Acropolis of Ancient Tiryns. To achieve this goal, the project focuses on designing and implementing virtual and mixed reality interactive applications. These applications serve as innovative tools for visualizing and communicating crucial CnR data, bridging the gap between specialists and the public while enhancing visitors' engagement and experience.


Design/methodology/approach - Apart from the finalization of the design and the development of the interactive applications, the evaluation in terms of their efficacy along four fundamental axes presents a field of interest. Firstly, the engagement of the public with the CnR domain will be assessed through the utilization of an OpenLab approach, which enables users to interact with and explore the applications in a user-friendly manner. Secondly, the comprehension of the information material regarding CnR interventions presented through the applications will be evaluated to ensure that the conveyed knowledge is clear and accessible to a wide range of audiences. Thirdly, the user-friendliness and efficiency of the virtual and mixed-reality applications will be closely scrutinized to optimize the overall visitor experience and ensure seamless navigation. Lastly, the satisfaction of specialists, who must be able to communicate complex CnR data with the public supported by the applications, will be gauged to understand how well the proposed approach facilitates their interactions.


Findings -Through this comprehensive evaluation, the research team aims to gain valuable insights into the extent to which the developed applications can effectively present and communicate CnR data on behalf of specialists. Additionally, this study aims to identify areas for improvement that can enhance overall visitor engagement and experience during their interaction with the Acropolis of Ancient Tiryns.
description: Journal of Integrated Information Management, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2024): Special issue (Jan-Jun 2024)
Kadaram
Creators: name: Iyer, Sreedhevi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 470213
subject: Postcolonial studies
classificationCode: 470599
subject: Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: Key postcolonial theoretical works are Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands, Stuart Hall’s Cultural Identity and Diaspora, and Cartographies of Diaspora by Avtar Brah. Key works on the history of lesser known religious monuments in India, include The Cholas and The History of South India by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri. Sastri had detailed Darasuram as a special territory of historical and architectural significance (1955). Places of significance become focalisation points of postcolonial identity (Ahmad.A, 1992). The researcher explored how diasporic notions of ‘home’, can influence the narrator’s own coming of age as a postcolonial subject.

‘Kadaram’ is a work that highlights connections of ‘home’ across disparate lands and cultures. In recounting a family trip to a remote location in Tamil Nadu, the work explicates an unknown history about a forgotten temple through the narrator’s relationship with her family. In witnessing her father struggle in finding a connection between the lost history and the family’s migrant identity, the protagonist understands how their diasporic identity is a concept in a state of flux.
The work extends the search for identity beyond the confines of a Eurocentric diaspora, universalising both the commonality of the search and the disappointment of the outcome.

The work was first published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the largest online literary journal in Asia. It has also formed a chapter in my collection of stories, Jungle Without Water, published across several countries: the UK edition by Jetstone, the Southeast Asian edition by GerakBudaya, and the Australia/New Zealand edition by GazeboBooks. The collection was shortlisted for the Penang Monthly Book Award in 2017.
Soritena Schaus 1924
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Soritena

description: Genus Soritena Schaus, 1924
Soritena Schaus, 1924: 32.
TYPE SPECIES. — Soritena habanera Schaus, 1924, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 241, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Xanthophaeina Hampson 1901
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Xanthophaeina

description: Genus Xanthophaeina Hampson, 1901
(Fig. 9E)
Xanthophaeina Hampson, 1901a: 82.
TYPE SPECIES. — Phaegoptera levis Druce, 1899, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 241, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Haemanota Hampson 1901
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Haemanota

description: Genus Haemanota Hampson, 1901
(Fig. 9F)
Haemanota Hampson, 1901a: 87.
TYPE SPECIES. — Haemanota rubriceps Hampson, 1901, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 241, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Haemanota rubriceps Hampson 1901
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Haemanota
Haemanota rubriceps

description: Haemanota rubriceps Hampson, 1901
Haemanota rubriceps Hampson, 1901a: 87.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Espirito Santo.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 241, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Supplementation of Corosolic acid prevents the development of Neuropathic pain in Streptozotocin induced diabetic rats
Creators: name: Upaganlawar, Aman
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The present study was design to screen the neuroprotective and antioxidant activity of corosolic acid in painful diabetic neuropathy (DN).  Diabetes was induced in rats by single dose of STZ (60mg/kg, i.p). Diabetic rats were tested week for the development of pain, at 6th week the rats developed significant neuropathic pain. They were divided into different groups and treated with Corosolic acid (2 and 4 mg/kg, p.o) for further two weeks. Pain was assessed in the diabetic rats by mechano-tactil allodynia, mechanical hyperalgesia and cold allodynia. At the end of treatment period rats were scarified and biochemical changes such as plasma glucose level, endogenous antioxidants (Lipid peroxidation, reduced glutathione, superoxide dismutase and catalase) in sciatic nerve were evaluated. Further Na+/K+ ATPase and nitric oxide content was also evaluated. Treatment with corosolic acid for two weeks restored the altered body weight and elevated blood sugar level. Further corosolic acid showed dose dependent reduction in pain in neuropathic animals. The level of endogenous antioxidants enzymes, Na+/K+ ATPase and nitric oxide were significantly prevented. In conclusion. The result of the present study suggests the antidiabetic, antioxidant and neuroprotectieve property of corosolic acid in diabetic rats with neuropathic pain.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Quantum-Logic Gate between Two Optical Photons with an Average Efficiency above 40%
Creators: name: Stolz, Thomas
name: Hegels, Hendrik
name: Winter, Maximilian
name: Röhr, Bianca
name: Hsiao, Ya-Fen
name: Husel, Lukas
name: Rempe, Gerhard
name: Dürr, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical qubits uniquely combine information transfer in optical fibers with a good processing capability and are therefore attractive tools for quantum technologies. A large challenge, however, is to overcome the low efficiency of two-qubit logic gates. The experimentally achieved efficiency in an optical controlled NOT (CNOT) gate reached approximately 11% in 2003 and has seen no increase since. Here we report on a new platform that was designed to surpass this long-standing record. The new scheme avoids inherently probabilistic protocols and, instead, combines aspects of two established quantum nonlinear systems: atom-cavity systems and Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency. We demonstrate a CNOT gate between two optical photons with an average efficiency of 41.7(5)% at a postselected process fidelity of 81(2)%. Moreover, we extend the scheme to a CNOT gate with multiple target qubits and produce entangled states of presently up to five photons. All these achievements are promising and have the potential to advance optical quantum information processing in which almost all advanced protocols would profit from high-efficiency logic gates.
description: In this revision, we extend the discussion of the efficiency in Sec. IV.C and we add models in appendices B, E, and L-O
Haemanota sanguidorsia
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Haemanota
Haemanota sanguidorsia

description: Haemanota sanguidorsia (Schaus, 1905)
Neritos sanguidorsia Schaus, 1905: 226.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Jean du Maroni.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 8623 (USNM).
Haemanota cubana Rothschild, 1910a: 35.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Cuba, Holguin.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on one male and one female. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “ Holguin, Cuba (Parish)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Haemanota cubana Type Rothsch[ild]” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Haemanota cubana ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Artist Interviews – Field Theory Site is Set
Creators: name: Murray, Philippa
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330108
subject: Interior design
classificationCode: 360101
subject: Art criticism
classificationCode: 360102
subject: Art history

description: BACKGROUND
Field Theory is an acclaimed Melbourne-based collective that creates site-specific public art projects. For a decade, they have been at the leading-edge of interdisciplinary, live art and socially-engaged art practice, locally and internationally. Field Theory’s anthology, No Acting, No Admin, reflects on a decade of experimental projects featuring significant Australian artists, alongside commissioned texts by Robert Walton, Mish Grigor and myself. The book was launched at the NGV Art Book Fair. (ISBN: 978-0-646-81280-9)

CONTRIBUTION
My contribution was three long-form interviews exploring ambitious commissions: Zoe Scoglio’s MASS, a ‘ceremonial gathering’ of cars and people at Calder Park Raceway; Jackson Castiglione’s Rainbow Leprechaun!, a subversive intervention into a suburban dance competition; and Jess Olivieri’s Death to the White Horse, a critique of colonialism through a guided tour of artworks featuring white horses in the NGV’s collection.

SIGNIFICANCE
Initially, Field Theory’s approach to practice was niche, unconventional and, due to its disregard for discipline boundaries, challenging to fund and present. Over the past decade, however, Field Theory’s approach to practice has become central to and, indeed, ubiquitous in global contemporary art. My text was mindful of this shift and aimed to document an important Australian case study in this global narrative. Furthermore, socially-engaged projects can be fraught, so my contribution provided insights into three distinctive and best practice models for creating complex artworks in complex public spaces with complex publics. Field Theory’s focus on the situational, relational and site-specific is shared by Interior Design, furthering my own scholarship in this discipline.
Stochastic Dynamics and Bound States of Heavy Impurities in a Fermi Bath
Creators: name: Sighinolfi, Matteo
name: De Boni, Davide
name: Roggero, Alessandro
name: Garberoglio, Giovanni
name: Faccioli, Pietro
name: Recati, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of heavy impurities embedded in an ultra-cold Fermi gas by using a Generalized Langevin equation. The latter -- derived by means of influence functional theory -- describes the stochastic classical dynamics of the impurities and the quantum nature of the fermionic bath manifests in the emergent interaction between the impurities and in the viscosity tensor. By focusing on the two-impurity case, we predict the existence of bound states, in different conditions of coupling and temperature, and whose life-time can be analytically estimated. Our predictions should be testable using cold-gases platforms within current technology.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
On the 3d compactifications of 5d SCFTs associated with SU(N+1) gauge theories
Creators: name: Sacchi, Matteo
name: Sela, Orr
name: Zafrir, Gabi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories resulting from the compactification of a family of $5d$ SCFTs on a torus with flux in the global symmetry. The family of $5d$ SCFTs used in the analysis is the one that UV completes the $5d$ $SU(N+1)$ gauge theories with Chern--Simons level $k$ and $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets, generalizing the previous investigation of the torus compactifications of the rank 1 Seiberg $E_{N_f+1}$ SCFT (which is the $N=1$ member of the family). This construction systematically yields three-dimensional theories presenting highly non-trivial non-perturbative phenomena such as infra-red dualities and enhanced symmetries, which we check using various methods.
description: 87 pages, 24 figures
Lipowheat phytoceramides, a powerful dietary ingredient for hydration and anti-aging
Creators: name: Sylvie, DR Boisnic
name: Marie-Christine, Branchet
name: Emmanuelle, Gaillard
name: Irène, Lamour
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Lipowheat  is  the  first  natural ingredient rich in ceramides intended todietary   supplements.   There  is  a correlation  between  themodification  of  skin  lipids  in skin dryness and aging. Ceramides play amajor  role  in  this  relationship.  Studies  have  proven  that a lack ofceramides  in  the  skin leads to a non-functional hydrolipidic barrier, todry skin, to a lack of plumpness and finally to the apparition of wrinkles.Lipowheat is objectivized through in vitrotests, ex-vivotests and four oralingestion  clinical  studies  on  a total of 150 volunteers. The results ofthese  studies show that Lipowheat improves dramatically skin hydration andreduces all associated dry skin signs like roughness, itching, redness. Newresults  indicate  that  Lipowheat  improves  significantly  aging signs byreducing  wrinkle  depth (-18%),  by  increasing  significantly dermis density (+48%)(echography  measurements) and homogeneity of the complexion (+58,2%).  All  these  findings  indicate  a new powerful anti-aging action.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Exploring the relationship between politics and administration: Understanding the dichotomy
Creators: name: Salisu, Usman
name: Oaikhena, Marvellous
name: Anas, Abdul
name: Akongbowa, Amadasun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A B S TR A CT  

In an attempt to evaluate the discourse on the dichotomy with regards to politics-administration and determine its’ implications in the theory and practice of public administration. This study looks into the background of the public administration model, how it evolves, and its ground supporters’ views and critiques, and raises some questions by looking at the politics-administration dichotomy in a practical sense to explore more insight. Questions include: What is the Wilsonian’s position? How do politicians decide policy? Do all politicians know or have all the details of what the government does? Are administrators really free from politics and as neutral as they say? What is the Nigerian politicsadministration dichotomy (peculiarity) regarding the constituency project? What is the implication of the politics-administration dichotomy model on theory, practice, and public administration? In that manner, insight is given into dichotomies as a view, counterview, and review, each involving thinkers and practitioners/scholarly submissions. The study finds that the politics-administration relationship is illuminable and intelligible; this is to say, the appointed administrators should illuminate the path for the elected politicians in matters of the policy cycle, most especially in problem identification, policy initiation, formulation, and proper implementation. In conclusion, this study serves as a panacea for politicians’ capability to comprehend and intelligibly adhere to the democratic principles and values to be imbued with honesty, truthfulness, and trustworthiness in their conduct.
Bioaccessibil Polyphenols Recovery and Antioxidant Activity of Stirred Fortified Date Yoghurt during In Vitro Digestion
Creators: name: Helal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study was to produce functional yoghurt and investigate the in vitro bioaccessibility of polyphenols and antioxidant activity after simulated gastro-intestinal digestion. Fortified stirred yoghurt was produced with the addition of different concentration of date palm products (powder pulp and filtered powder pulp), and stored up to 10 days at 4±1oC.  Chemical characteristics, rheological properties and sensory quality of stirred yoghurt samples were determined. All results were compared to control plain stirred yoghurt.

Significant different of chemical composition and rheological properties have been observed among different treatments and respect to control treatment.

Highly accepted treatments were then selected to simulate Gastro-pancreatic digestion and determine the total and individual phenolic compounds, as well as the antioxidant activity of functional yoghurt.

Generally, the increasing of date concentration led to increase the polyphenols content and antioxidant activity as a consequent.

Comparing to the polyphenols content of raw powder of date, the phenolic content in yoghurt was significantly lower as a result of binding activity between casein and polyphenols.

After the in vitro digestion, there have been significant increases in polyphenols content and antioxidant activity as a result of releasing the phenolic compound from casein-phenol complex
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL IN VIVO STUDIES OF ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITIES OF THREE SERBIAN TRADITIONAL HERBAL DRUGS
Creators: name: Ždero Pavlović, Ružica
name: Štajner, Dubravka
name: Vranješ, Marijana
name: Popović, Boris M.
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The effects of three medicinal plants used in ethnopharmacology, corn silk (Maydis stigma), parsley (Petroselinum crispum) and bearberry leaves (Uva ursi folium) on antioxidant capacity pretreated mice blood and liver were determined. The first group of ten animals drank corn silk, second parsley and third bearberry leaf extract. The fourth group was the control when animals drank water. Extracts and water were administrated ad libitum. Antioxidant status of blood and liver was investigated by determining superoxide dismutase, catalase, guiacole peroxidase, glutathione peroxidase activities and reduced glutathione quantity. Quantities of generated hydroxyl and DPPH radicals, lipid peroxidation LP and total antioxidant power, FRAP, were determined at the end of experiment. On the basis of the overall presented results corn silk and bearberry extracts confirmed the therapeutic values known in ethnomedicine and could be proposed for further investigations as a new therapeutic approach in prevention and treatment of blood and liver diseases in modern medicine.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Preclinical and clinical effects of co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT® treatment on autism spectrum disorder
Creators: name: Cuzzocrea, Salvatore
name: Crupi, Rosalia
name: Impellizzeri, Daniela
name: Bruschetta, Giuseppe
name: Cordaro, Marika
name: Siracusa, Rosalba
name: Esposito, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder characterized by impaired social interactions, verbal - non-verbal communication, and repetitive stereotyped patterns of behaviours. Association of the fatty acid amide signaling molecule palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) with the flavonoid luteolin displays neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory actions in different models of central nervous system pathologies. We thus hypothesized that the association of PEA with luteolin might have therapeutic utility in ASD.

We investigated both the effect of an association of ultra-micronized PEA with luteolin, namely co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT®, in a well-recognized autism animal model, namely sodium valproate administration, that the effect of co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT® in a patient affected by ASD. Co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT® ameliorated social and non-social behaviors in valproic acid-induced autistic mice. Co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT® reduced the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein and nitrotyrosine, modulated apoptosis in hippocampus and cerebellum, and increased neurogenesis and neuroplasticity in the hippocampus of autistic mice.

In a 10-year-old male child treated with co-ultramicronized PEA-LUT® twice a day for 12 months an improved clinical picture was noted. These data suggest that ASD symptomatology may be improved by agents documented to control the activation of mast cells and microglia.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Haemanota haemabasis
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Haemanota
Haemanota haemabasis

description: Haemanota haemabasis (Dognin, 1914)
Paranerita haemabasis Dognin, 1914: 20.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Boyaca], Muzo.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 30 526 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Co-ultra PEALut enhances neuronal recovery after a moderate traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Paterniti, Irene
name: Campolo, Michela
name: Crupi, Rosalia
name: Cordaro, Marika
name: Bruschetta, Giuseppe
name: Siracusa, Rosalba
name: Esposito, Emanuela
name: Cuzzocrea, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major health problem worldwide. Currently, there is no effective treatment to improve neural structural repair and functional recovery. Recently, has been demonstrated that hippocampal injury-induced neurogenesis is one mechanism underlying endogenous repair following TBI. The aim of this study was to evaluate the neuro-regenerative properties co-ultra PEALut (constituted by the association of palmitoylethanolamide (PEA), with the flavonoid luteolin (Lut)) in a mouse model of TBI until 7 days. TBI was induced in mice by the controlled cortical impact (CCI), one of the most common models of TBI; the mice were orally administered co-ultra PEALut (1mg/Kg) 1h after trauma and daily for 72h and 7d. A conspicuous neurogenesis was seen in mice 72h and 7d after trauma. Co-ultra PEALut treatment stimulated neuronal reconstitution process restoring the basal level of new neurons (by BrdU staining) and mature neurons (by doublecortin staining). Moreover this positive effect was associated with an important upregulation of neurotrophic factors (BDNF and NT-3), ultimately leading to improvement in memory recall on behavioral testing (Morris water maze test).

Co-ultra PEALut could represent a therapeutic potential of augmenting the endogenous repair response for treating TBI.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Chirality-Induced Spin Filtering in Pseudo Jahn-Teller Molecules
Creators: name: Kato, Akihito
name: Yamamoto, Hiroshi M.
name: Kishine, Jun-ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) refers to an ability to induce a spin polarization of an electron transmitted through chiral materials. An important experimental observation is that incredibly large spin polarization is realized at room temperature even for organic molecules that have weak spin-orbit coupling (SOC), although SOC is the only interaction that can manipulate the electrons' spins in the setups. Therefore, the mechanism of the CISS needs to be constructed in a way insensitive to or enhancing the magnitude of the SOC strength. In this paper, we describe a theoretical study of CISS with a model chiral molecule that belongs to the point group $\mathrm{C}_3$. In this molecule, electronic translational and rotational degrees of freedom for an injected electron are coupled to one another via the nuclear vibrational mode with a pseudo Jahn-Teller effect. By properly taking the molecular symmetry as well as the time-reversal symmetry into account and classifying the molecular ground states by their angular- and spin-momentum quantum numbers, we show that the chiral molecule can act as an efficient spin filter. The efficiency of this spin filtering can be nearly independent of the SOC strength in this model, while it well exceeds the spin polarization relying solely on the SOC. The nuclear vibrations turned out to have the role of not only mediating the translation-rotation coupling, but also enhancing the spin-filtering efficiency.
description: 9pages, 4 figures
title: Assessment Practices: Student’s and Teachers’ Perceptions of Classroom Assessment
Creators: name: Mussawy, Sayed Ahmad Javid
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Assessment
subject: Practices
subject: Students
subject: Teachers
subject: Perception
subject: Classroom
subject: Learning
subject: Feedback
subject: Baghlan Higher Education Institution
subject: Higher Education
subject: Afghanistan
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Educational Methods
subject: International and Comparative Education
subject: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
subject: Teacher Education and Professional Development

description: The primary aim of this study is to explore pre-service teachers’ perceptions of classroom assessment. A secondary purpose is to explore the faculty members’ perceptions of classroom assessment and their expectations of students’ learning. This study examines what assessment approaches are being used in Baghlan Higher Education Institution, School of Education. In addition, the investigator was interested in learning the extent to which assessment results were used to improve students’ learning and classroom instruction.
Regardless of decorum: a response to Seneca's 'Of anger'
Creators: name: Van Loon, Julienne
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Research Background: This minor creative work (a personal essay) writes back to the philosopher Seneca from a contemporary feminist perspective. It is a provocative response to his essay on anger, which belittles and disregards women, children and animals and denies their capacity as thinking, intelligent subjects. Specifically, the essay responds to the question: how might we extract a feminist reading from Seneca’s ‘Of Anger’? And also, is it possible?

Research Contribution: This work extends my practice in the genre of feminist popular philosophy (see, for example, The Thinking Woman, 2019) via an extended quest to collapse the personal and the philosophical, the academic and popular, the didactic and the poetic through an innovative blend of memoir, philosophy and engagement with key philosophers. I take an immersive and deliberately generous approach to the subject of anger (via Seneca), drawing stylistically on antecedent texts by leading international essayists Rebecca Solnit, Sarah Bakewell and Siri Hustvedt. Identity formation as a collective, kinetic work-in-progress is central to this methodology. It is a timely contribution in an era of increased outrage regarding violence against women.

Research Significance: ‘Regardless of Decorum’ contributes to an emerging field of feminist literary practice. Evidence of the quality and significance of the piece includes: (1) it was commissioned by leading independent literary publisher, Georgia Richter at Fremantle Press; (2) it has been received well critically. Caitlin McGregor, writing for the Australian Book Review, for example, singles out this essay as ‘particularly confronting’ because of the ‘room made for ambivalence about rage; acknowledge[ing] its destructive capacity, its potential for misdirection and harm.’ (‘Walking fuel stocks: twenty essays on rage’, Australian Book Review, February 2021).
Supplementary document for Resonance mode analysis of DNA self-assembled metamolecules with an effective refractive index model - 5627413.pdf
Creators: name: Fukuhara, Masashi
name: Tachiiri, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: fabrication of metamolecules, simulation method, quadrumer structure, polarization dependence
Classification of Fermi-LAT blazars with Bayesian neural networks
Creators: name: Butter, Anja
name: Finke, Thorben
name: Keil, Felicitas
name: Krämer, Michael
name: Manconi, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of Bayesian neural networks is a novel approach for the classification of gamma-ray sources. We focus on the classification of Fermi-LAT blazar candidates, which can be divided into BL Lacertae objects and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars. In contrast to conventional dense networks, Bayesian neural networks provide a reliable estimate of the uncertainty of the network predictions. We explore the correspondence between conventional and Bayesian neural networks and the effect of data augmentation. We find that Bayesian neural networks provide a robust classifier with reliable uncertainty estimates and are particularly well suited for classification problems that are based on comparatively small and imbalanced data sets. The results of our blazar candidate classification are valuable input for population studies aimed at constraining the blazar luminosity function and to guide future observational campaigns.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures. Minor changes, matches version accepted by JCAP
Haemanota maculosa
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Haemanota
Haemanota maculosa

description: Haemanota maculosa (Schaus, 1905)
Neritos maculosa Schaus, 1905: 225.
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Jean, Maroni River.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 8620 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Non-BPS Floating Branes and Bubbling Geometries
Creators: name: Heidmann, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a non-BPS linear ansatz using the charged Weyl formalism in string and M-theory backgrounds. Generic solutions are static and axially-symmetric with an arbitrary number of non-BPS sources corresponding to various brane, momentum and KKm charges. Regular sources are either four-charge non-extremal black holes or smooth non-BPS bubbles. We construct several families such as chains of non-extremal black holes or smooth non-BPS bubbling geometries and study their physics. The smooth horizonless geometries can have the same mass and charges as non-extremal black holes. Furthermore, we find examples that scale towards the four-charge BPS black hole when the non-BPS parameters are taken to be small, but the horizon is smoothly resolved by adding a small amount of non-extremality.
description: 36 pages + appendix, 8 figures; v2: minor corrections and published version
Using a theory-informed approach to guide the initial development of a post-tuberculosis care package in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Romanowski, Kamila
name: Cook, Victoria J.
name: Gilbert, M.
name: Johnston, James C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: The importance of addressing the long-term needs of tuberculosis (TB) survivors is gaining increasing attention. One promising approach to improving post-TB care is implementing a post-TB care package. With a specific focus on the perspectives of healthcare providers in British Columbia, Canada, this study aimed to (1) determine a set of components to be included in a post-TB care package, (2) explore barriers and facilitators influencing their implementation, and (3) propose potential solutions to overcome identified challenges. Methods Employing a multi-method approach guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework, we first conducted virtual workshops with TB care providers and utilized a modified Delphi process to establish a preliminary list of care package components. Then, we surveyed healthcare providers using closed-ended, Likert-scale questions to identify implementation barriers and enablers. Lastly, we mapped the identified barriers and enablers to establish behaviour change techniques to identify possible solutions to overcome the challenges identified. Results Eleven participants attended virtual workshops, and 23 of 51 (45.1%) healthcare providers completed questionnaires. Identified components of the post-TB care package included: 1. Linking people with TB to a primary care provider if they do not have one. 2. Referring people with pulmonary TB for an end-of-treatment chest x-ray and pulmonary function testing. 3. Referring people with TB who smoke to a smoking cessation specialist. 4. Sharing a one-page post-TB information sheet with the patient's primary care provider, including a summary of post-TB health concerns, complications, and recommendations to prioritize age-appropriate screening for cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and depression. Survey results indicated that domain scores for ‘environment, context, and resources’ were the lowest, suggesting potential implementation barriers. Care navigation services to help individuals overcome health system barriers while transitioning from TB care, information leaflets, and checklists summarizing key post-TB health concerns for patients and healthcare providers to help facilitate discussions may help overcome the identified barriers. Conclusion Healthcare providers in British Columbia acknowledge that post-TB care is integral to comprehensive health care but are limited by time and resources. Care navigation services, a post-TB checklist, and patient information leaflets may help resolve some of these barriers.
Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of flavonoid-rich fraction of bergamot juice (BJe) in a mouse model of intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury
Creators: name: Campolo, Michela
name: Impellizzeri, Daniela
name: Cordaro, Marika
name: Navarra, Michele
name: Esposito, Emanuela
name: Cuzzocrea, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The flavonoid fraction of bergamot juice (BJe) has demonstrated radical-scavenging and anti-inflammatory activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of BJe on the modulation of the ileum inflammation caused by intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. This was induced in mice by clamping the superior mesenteric artery and the celiac trunk for 30 min, followed by release of the clamp, allowing reperfusion for 1 h. After 1 h of reperfusion, animals were killed for histological examination of the ileum tissue, the expression of  proinflammatory cytokines and adhesion molecules; for biochemical assays such as myeloperoxidase activity (MPO) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels. Moreover, by Western blot analysis, we also investigated the expression of nuclear factor NF-κB, IκB-α, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and the expression of antioxidant such as MnSOD. The results obtained from histological and molecular examinations showed that BJe was able to reduce histological damage, cytokines production, adhesion molecules expression, neutrophil infiltration and oxidative stress. In addition, NF-κB and MAP kinases pathways were also modulated by BJe treatment. In conclusion, in this study we demonstrated that BJe could represent a possible treatment against secondary events of intestinal I/R injury.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
The Cetus-Palca stream: A disrupted small dwarf galaxy. A prequel to the science possible with WEAVE with precise spectro-photometric distances
Creators: name: Thomas, Guillaume F.
name: Battaglia, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new fully data-driven approach to derive spectro-photometric distances based on artificial neural networks. The method was developed and tested on SEGUE data and will serve as a reference for the $Contributed$ $Data$ $Product$ SPdist of the WEAVE survey. With this method, the relative precision of the distances is of $\sim 13 \%$. The catalogue of more than 300,000 SEGUE stars for which we have derived spectro-photometric distances will soon be publicly available on the Vizier service of the Centre de Données de Strasbourg. With this 6D catalogue of stars with positions, distances, line-of-sight velocity, and $Gaia$ proper motions, we were able to identify stars belonging to the Cetus stellar stream in the integrals of motion space. Guided by the properties we derived for the Cetus stream from this 6D sample, we searched for additional stars from the blue horizontal and from the red giant branches in a 5D sample. We find that the Cetus stream and the Palca overdensity are actually two parts of the same structure, which therefore we propose to rename the Cetus-Palca stream. We found that the Cetus-Palca stream has a stellar mass of $\simeq 1.5 \times 10^6$ M$_\odot$ and presents a prominent distance gradient of 15 kpc over the $\sim 100 °$ that it covers on the sky. Additionally, we also report the discovery of a second structure, almost parallel to the Cetus stream, covering $\sim 50 °$ of the sky, that could potentially be a stellar stream formed by the tidal disruption of a globular cluster that was orbiting around the Cetus stream progenitor.
description: 20 pages. Published in A&A
Chiral models of composite axions and accidental Peccei-Quinn symmetry
Creators: name: Contino, Roberto
name: Podo, Alessandro
name: Revello, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a class of composite axion models that provide a natural solution to the strong CP problem, and possibly account for the observed dark matter abundance. The QCD axion arises as a composite Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from the dynamics of a chiral gauge theory with a strongly-interacting and confining SU(N) factor and a weakly-interacting U(1), with no fundamental scalar fields. The Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is accidental and all the mass scales are generated dynamically. We analyze specific models where the PQ symmetry is broken only by operators of dimension 12 or higher. We also classify several other models where the PQ symmetry can be potentially protected up to the dimension 15 or 18 level. Our framework can be easily extended to a scenario where the Standard Model (SM) is unified into a simple gauge group, and we discuss the case of non-supersymmetric SU(5) unification. The GUT models predict the existence of additional pseudo NGBs, parametrically lighter than the GUT and PQ scales, which could have an impact on the cosmological evolution and leave observable signatures. We also clarify the selection rules under which higher-dimensional PQ-violating operators can generate a potential for the axion in the IR, and provide a discussion of the discrete symmetries in composite axion models associated to the number of domain walls. These results can be of general interest for composite axion models based on a QCD-like confining gauge group.
description: 48 pages. v2: improved classification of models with more inclusive selection criteria; added clarifications and other minor changes. v3: matches published version
Frequency-tunable Kerr-free three-wave mixing with a gradiometric SNAIL
Creators: name: Miano, A.
name: Liu, G.
name: Sivak, V. V.
name: Frattini, N. E.
name: Joshi, V. R.
name: Dai, W.
name: Frunzio, L.
name: Devoret, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-wave mixing is a key process in superconducting quantum information processing, being involved in quantum-limited amplification and parametric coupling between superconducting cavities. These operations can be implemented by SNAIL-based devices that present a Kerr-free flux-bias point where unwanted parasitic effects such as Stark shift are suppressed. However, with a single flux-bias parameter, these circuits can only host one Kerr-free point, limiting the range of their applications. In this Letter, we demonstrate how to overcome this constraint with a gradiometric SNAIL, a doubly-flux biased superconducting circuit for which both effective inductance and Kerr coefficient can be independently tuned. Experimental data show the capability of the gradiometric SNAIL to suppress Kerr effect in a three-wave mixing parametric amplifier over a continuum of flux bias points corresponding to a 1.7 GHz range of operating frequencies.
Fumaric Acid Esters Attenuate Degeneration and Promote Functional Recovery Following Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Esposito, Emanuela
name: Campolo, Michela
name: Biundo, Flavia
name: Casili, Giovanna
name: Crupi, Rosalia
name: Cuzzocrea, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons and loss of substantia nigra. Fumaric acid esters (FAEs) display immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties. Recent studies showed that treatment with FAEs significantly reduces leukocyte infiltration in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and colitis and also activates the Nrf2 antioxidant response pathway.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential effects of dimethyl fumarate (DMF) in a mouse model of PD. Mice received four injections of the dopaminergic neurotoxin MPTP, starting 24 h after the first administration of MPTP, animals received DMF (10-30-100 mg/kg ip) daily for 7 days. On the 8th days, brains were processed for future analysis.

Treatments with DMF significantly increased the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and dopamine transporter (DAT) and reduced α-synuclein; moreover, DMF treatment significantly reduced pro-inflammatory markers such as NFκB, COX-2 and nitrosative stress and exerts protective effects enhancing recovery of motor function. The results of the present study clearly showed that DMF exerts its neuroprotective effects possibly by reducing the neuroinflammation and activating the Nrf2 antioxidant response pathway. DMF may constitute a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as PD.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress