cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Particle Emission Characteristics of a Gas Turbine with a Double Annular Combustor
Creators: name: Boies, Adam M.
name: Stettler, Marc E. J.
name: Swanson, Jacob J.
name: Johnson, Tyler J.
name: Olfert, Jason S.
name: Eggersdorfer, Max L.
name: Rindlisbacher, Theo
name: Wang, Jing
name: Thomson, Kevin
name: Smallwood, Greg
name: Sevcenco, Yura
name: Walters, David
name: Williams, Paul I.
name: Corbin, Joel
name: Amewu A. Mensah
name: Symonds, Jonathan
name: Dastanpour, Ramin
name: Rogak, Steven N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTThe total climate, air quality and health impact of aircraft black carbon (BC) emissions depends on quantity (mass and number concentration), as well as morphology (fractal dimension and surface area) of emitted BC aggregates. This study examines multiple BC emission metrics from a gas turbine with a double annular combustor, CFM56-5B4-2P. As a part of the SAMPLE III.2 campaign, concurrent measurements of particle mobility, particle mass, particle number concentration and mass concentration, as well as collection of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples, allowed for characterization of the BC emissions. Mass- and number-based emission indices were strongly influenced by thrust setting during pilot combustion and ranged from <1 to 208 mg/kg-fuel and 3×1012 to 3×1016 particles/kg-fuel, respectively. Mobility measurements indicated that mean diameters ranged from 7–44 nm with a strong dependence on thrust during pilot-only combustion. Using aggregation and sintering theory with empirical effective density relationships, a power law relationship between primary particle diameter and mobility diameter is presented. Mean primary particle diameter ranged from 6–19 nm, however, laser induced incandescence (LII) and mass-mobility calculated primary particle diameters demonstrated opposite trends with thrust setting. Similarly, mass-mobility-calculated aggregate mass specific surface area and LII-measured surface area were not in agreement, indicating both methods need further development and validation before use as quantitative indicators of primary particle diameter and mass-specific surface area.
Koloniale Kontinuitäten im unabhängigen Indien- eine Spurensuche
Creators: name: Ebbers, Theo
name: Geilen, Dirk
name: Keller, Walter
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2024

description: Südasien, Bd. 17 Nr. 4-5 (1997): 1947-1997: 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit
title: Essays on contextual and cultural approaches to the economics of social policy
title: Aufsätze über kontextuale und kulturelle Ansätze in der Ökonomik des Sozialstaates: Ein liberaler polit-ökonomischer Ansatz zur Lösung zeitgenössischer sozialer Probleme
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fritz, Roland
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: Sozialstaat
subject: Kultur
subject: Institution
subject: Liberalismus
subject: Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens
subject: Welfare State
subject: Culture
subject: Liberalism
subject: History of Economic Thought
subject: Sozialpolitik
subject: Institution
subject: Wirtschaftsgeschichte

description: The dissertation explores the interrelation between social policies and the informal institutions of societies. In order to contribute to this discussion, the dissertation does not chiefly add to the empirical findings on the matter, but instead opts to broaden our theoretical understanding of how the context under which economic activity takes place influences the decision of various actors. With respect to this, inquiry into informal constraints (i. a. culture, narratives, values and norms) is given priority over research into the formal institutions (i. a. the legal system) of societies. Special effort is made not only to add to the current discussion, but also to revive former approaches to similar questions and to pick up certain discussions that had previously been relegated to the realm of the history of economic thought, and to reapply them to contemporary economic and social problems. Furthermore, an effort is being made to converge the previously unconnected, yet related approaches of contextual economics and "mainline economics".
description: In der Dissertation wird die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Sozialpolitik und den informellen Institutionen von Gesellschaften untersucht. Um zu dieser Diskussion beizutragen, erweitert die Dissertation das theoretisches Verständnis darüber, wie der Kontext, in dem wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten stattfinden, die Entscheidungen der verschiedenen Akteure beeinflusst. Dabei hat die Erforschung informeller Rahmenbedingungen (u. a. Kultur, Narrative, Werte und Normen) Vorrang vor der Erforschung der formellen Institutionen (u. a. Rechtssystem) von Gesellschaften. Besondere Anstrengungen werden unternommen, um nicht nur die aktuelle Diskussion zu ergänzen, sondern auch frühere Ansätze zu ähnlichen Fragen wiederzubeleben und bestimmte Diskussionen, die bisher in den Bereich der Wirtschaftsgeschichte verbannt waren, aufzugreifen und auf aktuelle wirtschaftliche und soziale Probleme neu anzuwenden. Darüber hinaus wird versucht, die bisher unverbundenen, aber verwandten Ansätze der kontextuellen Ökonomie und der "mainline economics" zusammenzuführen.
Phenology of phytoplankton blooms and its response to environmental changes in the Baltic Sea
Creators: name: Beltran Perez, Oscar Dario
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 570 Life science

description: Changes in the occurrence of cyanobacteria blooms affect the entire Baltic Sea ecosystem. The difficulty of conducting phenological studies is due to the natural variability of cyanobacteria blooms and the temporal and spatial constraints this imposes on bloom detection. However, using in situ observations, a coupled physical-biological model and sediment trap data, it was possible to determine how the phenology of cyanobacteria blooms is changing in the eastern Baltic Sea and how these changes are related to environmental conditions.
Safety and Health Benefits of Novel Dietary Supplements Consisting Multiple Phytochemicals, Vitamins, Minerals and Essential Fatty Acids in High Fat Diet Fed Rats
Creators: name: Vanu Ramkumar Ramprasath
name: Jones, Peter J. H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The objective was to determine safety and efficacy of health supplements “Beyond Tangy Tangerine,” a multivitamin/mineral complex and combination of multivitamin/mineral complex, “Osteofx,” a bone healthy supplement and “Ultimate Essential Fatty Acids” in Sprague Dawley rats consuming high-fat diets. Initially a pilot study was conducted which confirmed palatability and acceptability of supplements. In a second study, rats (n = 15/group) were randomized to Control; Multivitamin/mineral complex (2 g/kg BW) or Combination (2 g Multivitamin/mineral complex, 1.5 g Bone healthy supplement and 0.34 g Essential fatty acids/kg BW). No differences were observed in BW change, feed intake, organ weights or bone mineral composition with supplementations compared to control. Multivitamin/mineral complex supplementation decreased abdominal white adipose tissue weights (WAT) (p = .005), total (p = .033) and fat mass (p = .040), plasma IL-6 (p = .016) and ALKP (p = .038) and elevated plasma calcium (p < .001), phosphorus (p = .038), total protein (p = .002), albumin (p = .014) and globulin (p = .018), compared to control. Similarly, combination supplementation reduced WAT (p < .001), total (p = .023) and fat mass (p = .045), plasma triglycerides (p = .018), IL-6 (p = .002) and ALKP (p < .001) with increases in plasma calcium (p = .031), phosphorus (p < .001) compared to control. Results indicate that consuming either supplement can be considered safe and improves overall health by reducing inflammation, abdominal fat mass and plasma triglycerides, as well as promote bone health.
The Spot 42 RNA: A regulatory small RNA with roles in the central metabolism
Creators: name: Bækkedal, Cecilie
name: Peik Haugen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The Spot 42 RNA is a 109 nucleotide long (in Escherichia coli) noncoding small regulatory RNA (sRNA) encoded by the spf (spot fourty-two) gene. spf is found in gamma-proteobacteria and the majority of experimental work on Spot 42 RNA has been performed using E. coli, and recently Aliivibrio salmonicida. In the cell Spot 42 RNA plays essential roles as a regulator in carbohydrate metabolism and uptake, and its expression is activated by glucose, and inhibited by the cAMP-CRP complex. Here we summarize the current knowledge on Spot 42, and present the natural distribution of spf, show family-specific secondary structural features of Spot 42, and link highly conserved structural regions to mRNA target binding.
The evolutionary ecology of the endemic European Eocene Plagiolophus (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) Supplementary data
Creators: name: Perales-Gogenola, Leire
name: Merceron, Gildas
name: Badiola, Ainara
name: Gómez-Olivencia, Asier
name: Pereda-Suberbiola, Xabier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Paleontology

description: The evolutionary ecology of the endemic European Eocene Plagiolophus (Mammalia: Perissodactyla)
Supplementary Data
Spatio-temporal changes in glutathione and thioredoxin redox couples during ionizing radiation-induced oxidative stress regulate tumor radio-resistance
Creators: name: R. S. Patwardhan
name: D. Sharma
name: R. Checker
name: M. Thoh
name: S. K. Sandur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Ionizing radiation (IR)-induced oxidative stress in tumor cells is effectively managed by constitutive and inducible antioxidant defense systems. This study was initiated to understand the relative contribution of different redox regulatory systems in determining the tumor radio-resistance. In this study, human T-cell lymphoma (Jurkat) cells were exposed to IR (4 Gy) and monitored for the spatio-temporal changes in cellular redox regulatory parameters. We monitored the changes in the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) (total, mitochondrial, primary, and secondary), thiols (total, surface, and intracellular), GSH/GSSG ratio, antioxidant enzyme activity viz. thioredoxin (Trx), Trx reductase (TrxR), glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase with respect to time. We have also measured protein glutathionylation. We observed that tumor cells mount a biphasic response after IR exposure which can be divided into early (0–6 h) and late (16–48 h) responses in terms of changes in cellular redox parameters. During early response, constitutively active GSH and Trx systems respond to restore cellular redox balance to pre-exposure levels and help in activation of redox-sensitive transcription factor Nrf-2. During late response, increase in the levels of antioxidants GSH and Trx rescue cells against IR-mediated damage. We observed that disruption of either glutathione or thioredoxin metabolism led to partial impairment of ability of cells to survive against IR-induced damage. But simultaneous disruption of both the pathways significantly increased radio sensitivity of Jurkat cells. This highlighted the importance of these two antioxidant pathways in regulating redox homeostasis under conditions of IR-induced oxidative stress.
Safety and Health Benefits of Novel Dietary Supplements Consisting Multiple Phytochemicals, Vitamins, Minerals and Essential Fatty Acids in High Fat Diet Fed Rats
Creators: name: Vanu Ramkumar Ramprasath
name: Jones, Peter J. H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The objective was to determine safety and efficacy of health supplements “Beyond Tangy Tangerine,” a multivitamin/mineral complex and combination of multivitamin/mineral complex, “Osteofx,” a bone healthy supplement and “Ultimate Essential Fatty Acids” in Sprague Dawley rats consuming high-fat diets. Initially a pilot study was conducted which confirmed palatability and acceptability of supplements. In a second study, rats (n = 15/group) were randomized to Control; Multivitamin/mineral complex (2 g/kg BW) or Combination (2 g Multivitamin/mineral complex, 1.5 g Bone healthy supplement and 0.34 g Essential fatty acids/kg BW). No differences were observed in BW change, feed intake, organ weights or bone mineral composition with supplementations compared to control. Multivitamin/mineral complex supplementation decreased abdominal white adipose tissue weights (WAT) (p = .005), total (p = .033) and fat mass (p = .040), plasma IL-6 (p = .016) and ALKP (p = .038) and elevated plasma calcium (p < .001), phosphorus (p = .038), total protein (p = .002), albumin (p = .014) and globulin (p = .018), compared to control. Similarly, combination supplementation reduced WAT (p < .001), total (p = .023) and fat mass (p = .045), plasma triglycerides (p = .018), IL-6 (p = .002) and ALKP (p < .001) with increases in plasma calcium (p = .031), phosphorus (p < .001) compared to control. Results indicate that consuming either supplement can be considered safe and improves overall health by reducing inflammation, abdominal fat mass and plasma triglycerides, as well as promote bone health.
The Spot 42 RNA: A regulatory small RNA with roles in the central metabolism
Creators: name: Bækkedal, Cecilie
name: Peik Haugen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The Spot 42 RNA is a 109 nucleotide long (in Escherichia coli) noncoding small regulatory RNA (sRNA) encoded by the spf (spot fourty-two) gene. spf is found in gamma-proteobacteria and the majority of experimental work on Spot 42 RNA has been performed using E. coli, and recently Aliivibrio salmonicida. In the cell Spot 42 RNA plays essential roles as a regulator in carbohydrate metabolism and uptake, and its expression is activated by glucose, and inhibited by the cAMP-CRP complex. Here we summarize the current knowledge on Spot 42, and present the natural distribution of spf, show family-specific secondary structural features of Spot 42, and link highly conserved structural regions to mRNA target binding.
The Spot 42 RNA: A regulatory small RNA with roles in the central metabolism
Creators: name: Bækkedal, Cecilie
name: Peik Haugen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The Spot 42 RNA is a 109 nucleotide long (in Escherichia coli) noncoding small regulatory RNA (sRNA) encoded by the spf (spot fourty-two) gene. spf is found in gamma-proteobacteria and the majority of experimental work on Spot 42 RNA has been performed using E. coli, and recently Aliivibrio salmonicida. In the cell Spot 42 RNA plays essential roles as a regulator in carbohydrate metabolism and uptake, and its expression is activated by glucose, and inhibited by the cAMP-CRP complex. Here we summarize the current knowledge on Spot 42, and present the natural distribution of spf, show family-specific secondary structural features of Spot 42, and link highly conserved structural regions to mRNA target binding.
Spatio-Temporal Changes in Glutathione and Thioredoxin Redox Couples during Ionizing Radiation Induced Oxidative Stress Regulate Tumor Radio-resistance
Creators: name: R. S. Patwardhan
name: D. Sharma
name: R. Checker
name: M. Thoh
name: S. K. Sandur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Ionizing radiation (IR) induced oxidative stress in tumor cells is effectively managed by constitutive and inducible antioxidant defense systems. This study was initiated to understand the relative contribution of different redox regulatory systems in determining the tumor radio-resistance. In this study, human T cell lymphoma (Jurkat) cells were exposed to IR (4Gy) and monitored for the spatio-temporal changes in cellular redox regulatory parameters. We monitored the changes in the levels of ROS (total, mitochondrial, primary and secondary), thiols (total, surface and intracellular), GSH/GSSG ratio, antioxidant enzyme activity viz. Trx, TrxR, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase with respect to time. We have also measured protein glutathionylation. We observed that tumor cells mount a biphasic response after IR exposure which can be divided into early (0 to 6h) and late (16 to 48h) responses in terms of changes in cellular redox parameters. During early response constitutively active GSH and Trx systems respond to restore cellular redox balance to pre-exposure levels and help in activation of redox sensitive transcription factor Nrf-2. During late response, increase in the levels of antioxidants GSH and Trx rescue cells against IR mediated damage. We observed that disruption of either glutathione or thioredoxin metabolism led to partial impairment of ability of cells to survive against IR induced damage. But simultaneous disruption of both the pathways significantly increased radio-sensitivity of Jurkat cells. This highlighted the importance of these two antioxidant pathways in regulating redox homeostasis under conditions of IR induced oxidative stress.
Particle Emission Characteristics of a Gas Turbine with a Double Annular Combustor
Creators: name: Boies, Adam M.
name: Stettler, Marc E. J.
name: Swanson, Jacob J.
name: Johnson, Tyler J.
name: Olfert, Jason S.
name: Eggersdorfer, Max L.
name: Rindlisbacher, Theo
name: Wang, Jing
name: Thomson, Kevin
name: Smallwood, Greg
name: Sevcenco, Yura
name: Walters, David
name: Williams, Paul I.
name: Corbin, Joel
name: Amewu A. Mensah
name: Symonds, Jonathan
name: Dastanpour, Ramin
name: Rogak, Steven N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: The total climate, air quality, and health impact of aircraft black carbon (BC) emissions depend on quantity (mass and number concentration) as well as morphology (fractal dimension and surface area) of emitted BC aggregates. This study examines multiple BC emission metrics from a gas turbine with a double annular combustor, CFM56-5B4-2P. As a part of the SAMPLE III.2 campaign, concurrent measurements of particle mobility, particle mass, particle number concentration, and mass concentration, as well as collection of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples, allowed for characterization of the BC emissions. Mass- and number-based emission indices were strongly influenced by thrust setting during pilot combustion and ranged from <1 to 208 mg/kg-fuel and 3 ×× 1012 to 3 ×× 1016 particles/kg-fuel, respectively. Mobility measurements indicated that mean diameters ranged from 7 to 44 nm with a strong dependence on thrust during pilot-only combustion. Using aggregation and sintering theory with empirical effective density relationships, a power-law relationship between primary particle diameter and mobility diameter is presented. Mean primary particle diameter ranged from 6 to 19 nm; however, laser-induced incandescence (LII) and mass-mobility-calculated primary particle diameters demonstrated opposite trends with thrust setting. Similarly, mass-mobility-calculated aggregate mass specific surface area and LII-measured surface area were not in agreement, indicating both methods need further development and validation before use as quantitative indicators of primary particle diameter and mass-specific surface area.Copyright 2015 American Association for Aerosol Research
title: Essays in microeconomic modelling of the burden of choice
Creators: name: Santoul, Jérôme Pierre Gilles
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: This thesis in applied microeconomics theory looks at three situations where economic agents have to make a decision under constraints that present a major burden. The burden can manifest itself in different ways. The first chapter presents a model of the market for top-level football players. The second chapter presents a new perspective on exploding offers and how agents can deal with them. The third and last chapter deals with how agents can overcome choice overload by using products’ characteristics. In each case, I will put forward a theoretical model to represent each burden faced by economic agents, attempt to solve the model and show the properties of the equilibrium solution in terms of welfare. The research aims at showing that the impact of choice overload on agents’ welfare can be mitigated, provided the correct conditions are met. Football teams recruiting football players can avoid going into deficit if the market is sufficiently homogeneous compared to the cost of players. Exploding offers will be as efficient as open offers provided the lifetime of exploding offers is above a critical value. Finally, agents can use a choice among acceptable utility heuristic to perform efficient choices that satisfy WARP over a subset of the menu.
The mouse liver displays daily rhythms in the metabolism of phospholipids and in the activity of lipid synthesizing enzymes
Creators: name: Acosta-Rodríguez, Victoria A.
name: Gorné, Lucas D.
name: Pasquaré, Susana J.
name: Salvador, Gabriela A.
name: Giusto, Norma M.
name: Guido, Mario Eduardo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The circadian system involves central and peripheral oscillators regulating temporally biochemical processes including lipid metabolism; their disruption leads to severe metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes, etc). Here, we investigated the temporal regulation of glycerophospholipid (GPL) synthesis in mouse liver, a well-known peripheral oscillator. Mice were synchronized to a 12:12 h light–dark (LD) cycle and then released to constant darkness with food ad libitum. Livers collected at different times exhibited a daily rhythmicity in some individual GPL content with highest levels during the subjective day. The activity of GPL-synthesizing/remodeling enzymes: phosphatidate phosphohydrolase 1 (PAP-1/lipin) and lysophospholipid acyltransferases (LPLATs) also displayed significant variations, with higher levels during the subjective day and at dusk. We evaluated the temporal regulation of expression and activity of phosphatidylcholine (PC) synthesizing enzymes. PC is mainly synthesized through the Kennedy pathway with Choline Kinase (ChoK) as a key regulatory enzyme or through the phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) N-methyltransferase (PEMT) pathway. The PC/PE content ratio exhibited a daily variation with lowest levels at night, while ChoKα and PEMT mRNA expression displayed maximal levels at nocturnal phases. Our results demonstrate that mouse liver GPL metabolism oscillates rhythmically with a precise temporal control in the expression and/or activity of specific enzymes.
CovidStat @ INFN Open Access Repository
Creators: name: Barbera, Roberto
name: Bruno, Riccardo
name: Fargetta, Marco
name: Rotondo, Riccardo
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
CovidStart project
FAIR data
Open Science

description: La presentazione mostra il modello dei dati e dei metadati per l'integrazione dei prodotti della ricerca dell'applicazione CovidStat (https://covid19.infn.it) con l'INFN Open Access Repository, in ottemperanza ai principi FAIR (www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/).
In vitro avarol does affect the growth of Candida sp.
Creators: name: Pejin, Boris
name: Ciric, Ana
name: Markovic, Dejan
name: Tommonaro, Giuseppina
name: Sokovic, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This work extends in vitro screening of antimicrobial activity of avarol, the marine natural product firstly isolated from the Mediterranean sponge Dysidea avara. Its anticandidial activity was evaluated by microdilution method against eight Candida strains, two ATCC and six clinical ones. At a different extent this compound was proven to be active against all the strains tested (MIC 0.8–6.0 μg/mL and MFC 1.6–12.0 μg/mL, respectively). According to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on avarol activity towards any yeast strain which may be of relevance for Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed, avarol derivatives showing moderate AChE activity should be screened for anticandidial activity both in vitro and in vivo.
title: „Die Welt wie eine Orange geteilt“.: Machen Bilder Recht?
Creators: name: Duve, Thomas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Im Jahr 1518 schien der Fall klar: Die Demarkationslinie zwischen den Einflußsphären der portugiesischen und der spanischen Monarchie teilte den gesamten Erdball auf. „Wie eine Orange“ habe Papst Alexander VI. die Welt in zwei Hälften geschnitten.
description: Legal History Insights
CS2 And H2S adsorption studies on novel hex-star phosphorene nanosheet – a DFT perspective
Creators: name: Nagarajan, V.
name: Chandiramouli, R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The adsorption properties of carbon disulfide (CS2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas molecules on hex-star phosphorene nanosheet (hex-star PNS) are studied. Initially, the structural stability of hex-star PNS is ensured based on phonon band structure and formation energy. The hex-star PNS possesses an energy band gap of 1.393 eV. Besides, upon adsorption of CS2 and H2S on hex-star PNS, the changes in the electronic properties are noticed through electron density difference, band structure, and density of states spectrum. The CS2 and H2S are physisorbed on hex-star PNS, confirming the reversibility of base material. Hence, the results suggest the deployment of hex-star PNS as a sensing substrate toward CS2 and H2S molecules.
Investigating the Adoption of Precautionary Behaviors Among Young Rural Adults in South Iran During COVID-19
Creators: name: Tajeri Moghadam, Maryam
name: Zobeidi, Tahereh
name: Sieber, Stefan
name: Löhr, Katharina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: preventive behavior
subject: rural youth
subject: health belief model
subject: adoption
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: COVID-19 is an unprecedented challenge for public health worldwide. Reducing the incidence of the disease requires protective measures to prevent virus transmission. Understanding those factors influencing preventive behavior is the first step in preventing the spread of the disease. This study investigates factors affecting youth intention and preventive behaviors in the face of COVID-19 through the health belief model by using a cross-sectional survey collected through an online questionnaire. The sample comprises 304 rural youth in South Iran who were selected through a random sampling technique. The results reveal that perceived severity, perceived benefits, public health beliefs, perceived self-efficacy, and the cue to act positively and significantly affect preventive behaviors. The model explains 59% of variance changes in rural youth preventive behaviors during COVID-19. Cue to action is the strongest and self-efficacy was the weakest determinant of youth's preventive behavior. This study confirms that the HBM framework has appropriate predictive power and is an effective tool for investigating preventive behaviors during COVID-19. These results provide important policy implications for the development of policies that aim to avoid the further spread of COVID-19 between young citizens.
Investigating the expression of object manipulation behaviour in zoo-housed Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus)
Creators: name: Siôn Evans, Iwan
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2025
Subjects: D740 - Agricultural zoology
D322 - Animal physiology

description: Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus) engage in intricate activities using their paws for purposes such as food extraction, exploration and tactile communication within their social group. This thesis aimed to explore the expression of object manipulation behaviours (OMBs) such as “rock juggling” and the variation in their expression due to environmental factors including location within the otters’ enclosure, zoo visitor numbers and temperature. Four motion-activated cameras were positioned around the otter exhibit (containing 4 males and 2 females) at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, Lincolnshire, UK. When activated, cameras captured behaviour for 20 seconds at a time. Thirty days of video were collected between May-Sept 2023. Data are reported at group level as reliable individual otter identification was not possible. Online redemption tickets were used as a proxy to daily visitor numbers as daily admittance data were unavailable. BORIS (Behavioural Observation Research Interactive Software) was used to characterise the number of bouts (n) and duration (s) of OMBs and additional behaviours in the otters’ behaviour repertoire. Daily total bouts and duration of all behaviours were first descriptively summarised. A General Linear Model (GLM) with likelihood ratio test (LRT) was performed to assess the effect of exhibit location, visitor density and air temperature on total daily duration of OMBs. Three Principal Component Analyses (PCA) provided a multivariate description of the behaviour data. This study described seven distinct OMBs (straw rolling, stick manipulation, and five patterns of rock manipulation) across the collection period. Exhibit location was significantly associated with the otters’ performance of OMBs, while an increase in temperature saw a decline in the duration of OMBs expression. PCA indicated there was a strong correlation between OMBs and less active behaviours such as laying down. Understanding how visitor numbers and location within the enclosure affect expression of OMBs in otters may shed light on the causes and function of these behaviours, which may be useful in informing management to promote otter welfare. Relationships with other behaviours may also shed light on the origins of OMBs, as they did not appear to be associated with feeding behaviour butrather were commonly observed in association with less active behaviours.
Tacticity effects on conformational structure and hydration of poly-(methacrylic acid) in aqueous solutions-a molecular dynamics simulation study
Creators: name: Abhishek K. Gupta
name: Upendra Natarajan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The influence of tacticity on chain dimensions, backbone and side-group conformational states and relaxation dynamics, intermolecular hydrogen bonding and its relaxation dynamics was investigated for 30 repeat unit poly(methacrylic acid) (PMA) as a function of the degree-of-neutralisation, f (i.e. charge density) [0 f + neutralising counter-ions, using molecular dynamics simulations. Chain expansion with increase in charge density is observed. Simulation results, where applicable, compare well with experimental results in the literature. Isotactic (i-PMA) chain exhibits the largest expansion (89% change in Rg), and syndiotactic (s-PMA-RR-0.7) chain shows 31%. For fully neutralised chain (high charge density), the probability for trans conformation at backbone bonds follows the trend i-PMA > a-PMA > s-PMA. At high charge density, a higher probability of trans state is obtained at meso dyads as compared to racemic dyads and the side group in i-PMA relative to other tacticity is conformationally more extended. RR triads impart better hydrogen bonding with water. In the COOH side group, greater rotational mobility is observed for i-PMA as compared to s-PMA. Water coordination to PMA is invariant with tacticity at low f. For f = 1, s-PMA exhibits the best level of H-bonding, due to its 3D chemical structural configuration. Binding distance between water and PMA atoms and their coordination number remain unchanged with respect to ionisation of COOH groups. Isotactic (i-PMA) exhibits the fastest relaxation of polymer-water H-bonds. While counter-ion coordination on to PMA is unaffected by tacticity, the intensity of ion condensation as well as hydrogen bond relaxation time at f = 1 varies in the order i-PMA > a-PMA > s-PMA.
Valorization of rendering industry wastes and co-products for industrial chemicals, materials and energy: review
Creators: name: Tizazu Mekonnen
name: Mussone, Paolo
name: Bressler, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Over the past decades, strong global demand for industrial chemicals, raw materials and energy has been driven by rapid industrialization and population growth across the world. In this context, long-term environmental sustainability demands the development of sustainable strategies of resource utilization. The agricultural sector is a major source of underutilized or low-value streams that accompany the production of food and other biomass commodities. Animal agriculture in particular constitutes a substantial portion of the overall agricultural sector, with wastes being generated along the supply chain of slaughtering, handling, catering and rendering. The recent emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) resulted in the elimination of most of the traditional uses of rendered animal meals such as blood meal, meat and bone meal (MBM) as animal feed with significant economic losses for the entire sector. The focus of this review is on the valorization progress achieved on converting protein feedstock into bio-based plastics, flocculants, surfactants and adhesives. The utilization of other rendering streams such as fat and ash rich biomass for the production of renewable fuels, solvents, drop-in chemicals, minerals and fertilizers is also critically reviewed.
A Survey on Wearable Human Activity Recognition: Innovative Pipeline Development for Enhanced Research and Practice
Creators: name: Huang, Yiran
name: Zhou, Yexu
name: Zhao, Haibin
name: Riedel, Till
name: Beigl, Michael
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2024
Subjects: wearable human activity recognition
machine learning
deep learning

description: Recent trends in Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) have led to an unprecedented 42.9% increase in scholarly articles in 2022, underscoring the urgency for a comprehensive review to systematically categorize their varied research directions. Moreover, our analysis reveals that the contributions of current articles often deviate from the traditional stages of the human activity recognition pipeline, as established in prior literature. This misalignment suggests the necessity for an updated pipeline that more accurately reflects the intricacies and nuances of WHAR studies. In response, we review WHAR articles from 2021 to 2023 and introduce an innovative WHAR pipeline, emphasizing a research-focused approach. This new pipeline offers distinct advantages: it provides researchers with a clear and systematic categorization of WHAR articles, thereby enhancing understanding of the field. For practitioners, it facilitates the selection of customized methods for each stage, thereby optimizing final assembled model efficacy.
Common Ground in the Global Quest for Open Research
Creators: name: Hampson, Glenn
Publisher: name: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings
Year: 2020

description: Scholarly communication is incredibly important to modern research—a vast field where many different organizations, interest groups and experts tackle a dizzying array of issues related to how research gets communicated. These organizations, interests and issues overlap and intersectin important ways but they most often exert separate and distinct forces on the function and evolution of the scholarly communication ecosystem.
description: Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings, 2020
Fractal OAM Generation and Detection Schemes
Creators: name: Lyu, Runyu
name: Cheng, Wenchi
name: Wang, Muyao
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Orbital angular momentum (OAM) carried electromagnetic waves have the potential to improve spectrum efficiency in optical and radio-frequency communications due to the orthogonal wavefronts of different OAM modes. However, OAM beams are vortically hollow and divergent, which significantly decreases the capacity of OAM transmissions. In addition, unaligned transceivers in OAM transmissions can result in a high bit error rate (BER). The Talbot effect is a self-imaging phenomenon that can be used to generate optical or radio-frequency OAM beams with periodic repeating structures at multiples of a certain distance along the propagation direction. These periodic structures make it unnecessary for the transceiver antennas to be perfectly aligned and can also alleviate the hollow divergence of OAM beams. In this paper, we propose Talbot-effect-based fractal OAM generation and detection schemes using a uniform circular array (UCA) to significantly improve capacity and BER performance in unaligned OAM transmissions. We first provide a brief overview of fractal OAM. Then, we propose the fractal OAM beam generation and detection schemes. Numerical analysis and simulations verify the effectiveness of our proposed fractal OAM generation scheme and also demonstrate improved capacity and BER performance compared to normal OAM transmissions. We also analyze how the receive UCA radius and the distance between the UCAs impact the capacity and BER performances.
description: 15 pages, 20 figures
MPEC 2024-F90 : 2019 VZ50
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2019 VZ50

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Anterior paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus is a central hub for the downstream processing of socially transferred pain in the anterior cingulate cortex and the insular cortex
Creators: name: Li, Ruoqi
name: Chen, Xiaoke
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: empathy
subject: social transfer of pain
subject: anterior paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus
subject: anterior cingulate cortex
subject: insular cortex

description: Empathy – the adoption of a sensory or affective state that is more appropriate to another’s situation than one’s own – is critical for an animal’s ability to extract danger signals from its social environment. Mice express an evolutionarily conserved antecedent of empathy known as the social transfer of pain, where the presence of a conspecific already experiencing pain causes hyperalgesia in test animals that were not subjected to any pain-inducing stimuli. Neuronal projections from the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and from the insular cortex (IC) to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) encode the social transfer of pain in mice. However, the relevant input regions to the ACC remain poorly defined. We have previously found the neuronal activity in the anterior paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (aPVT) to be necessary for the expression of socially transferred pain (unpublished data). Here, we identify the aPVT as an ACC and IC input region, and we further demonstrate that the aPVT-to-ACC and aPVT-to-IC projections are necessary for the transfer of social pain. Chemogenetic inhibition of aPVT terminals either in the ACC or the IC significantly reduced “observer” mice’s expression of socially transferred pain after observing a familiar “demonstrator” mouse in a chronic pain state induced by spared nerve injury (SNI) surgery. This work expands our understanding of the neural circuitry involved in the bottom-up affective processing of empathy in an experimentally accessible animal model. These findings additionally contribute to hypotheses that can be evaluated in human subjects using noninvasive assays, especially given the conservation of ACC and IC function across mice and humans. Finally, a more sophisticated understanding of neural mechanisms of empathy will drive the development of new therapies for the empathy-related deficits associated with a broad range of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper
Creators: name: Dinneen, Jesse David
name: Krtalić, Maja
name: Davoudi, Nilou
name: Hellmich, Helene
name: Ochsner, Catharina
name: Bressel, Paulina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften

description: Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology-augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death-related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.
Characterization of Bacterial Sterol Transporter (Bst) Proteins and Development of a Generalizable Workflow for Ligand Identification
Creators: name: Oo, Hannah
name: Dassama, Laura
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Bacteria
subject: Sterols
subject: Protein binding

description: Though sterol biosynthesis and function are well understood in eukaryotes, the role of sterols in prokaryotes is widely unknown. Using bioinformatics, novel bacterial sterol transport (Bst) proteins were identified, used in binding studies, and structurally characterized to support the discovery of a novel tripartite sterol transport system in Methylococcus capsulatus. Further bioinformatics and protein homology comparisons revealed two proteins of interest in Enhygromyxa salina, a novel cholesterol producing bacterium. Both were produced recombinantly and structurally characterized. This thesis attempts to identify substrates for these proteins. It was found that Es_TatT binds to long-chain fatty acids than a sterol metabolite, while a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry workflow was developed in attempt to identify the ligand of Es_BstC. These results mark the exploration of poorly characterized prokaryotic protein families while also demonstrating the development of robust experimental methods to study these proteins.