cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Motivations, changes and challenges of participating in food-related social innovations and their transformative potential: three cases from Berlin (Germany)
Creators: name: Zoll, Felix
name: Harder, Alexandra
name: Manatsa, Lerato Nyaradzo
name: Friedrich, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sustainability transitions; agri-food system; cooperation
subject: Transformative social innovation
subject: Food sharing
subject: Community development
subject: Consumer research
subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 640 Hauswirtschaft und Familie

description: Dominant agri-food systems are increasingly seen as unsustainable in terms of environmental degradation, mass production or high food waste. In an attempt to counteract these developments and foster sustainability transitions in agri-food systems, a variety of actors are engaging in socially innovative models of food production and consumption. Using a multiple case study approach, our study examines three contrasting alternative economic models in the city of Berlin: community gardens, the app Too Good To Go (TGTG), and a cooperative supermarket. Based on 15 qualitative interviews, we provide insights into their transformative potential by exploring participants' underlying motivations, the changes they have experienced, and the challenges and potential for future development of these models. We find that participation in community gardens and the cooperative supermarket is similarly motivated by social aspects and dissatisfaction with existing food access options, while TGTG users are more motivated by financial reasons. Our study shows that change is experienced mainly at the individual level, e.g. by building new relationships, changing cognitive framings, and learning (new) practices, especially in community-oriented settings. The individualization of change shows that these models have a rather low potential to lead to more systemic accounts of changes. Yet, they can prefigure regime change, describe resistance, and foster cumulative incremental change that may spill over into society. We conclude that in order to sustain this role and drive transitions, it is important to up- and outscale these models; and we provide recommendations on how these models can mutually support their development, establishment, and protection.
Qualitative and Quantitative Detection of Botulinum Neurotoxins from Complex Matrices: Results of the First International Proficiency Test
Creators: name: Worbs, Sylvia
name: Fiebig, Uwe
name: Zeleny, Reinhard
name: Schimmel, Heinz
name: Rummel, Andreas
name: Luginbühl, Werner
name: Dorner, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Biologische Sicherheit
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: proficiency test
subject: reference material
subject: standardized detection
subject: BoNT
subject: 610 Medizin

description: In the framework of the EU project EQuATox, a first international proficiency test (PT) on the detection and quantification of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) was conducted. Sample materials included BoNT serotypes A, B and E spiked into buffer, milk, meat extract and serum. Different methods were applied by the participants combining different principles of detection, identification and quantification. Based on qualitative assays, 95% of all results reported were correct. Successful strategies for BoNT detection were based on a combination of complementary immunological, MS-based and functional methods or on suitable functional in vivo/in vitro approaches (mouse bioassay, hemidiaphragm assay and Endopep-MS assay). Quantification of BoNT/A, BoNT/B and BoNT/E was performed by 48% of participating laboratories. It turned out that precise quantification of BoNT was difficult, resulting in a substantial scatter of quantitative data. This was especially true for results obtained by the mouse bioassay which is currently considered as “gold standard” for BoNT detection. The results clearly demonstrate the urgent need for certified BoNT reference materials and the development of methods replacing animal testing. In this context, the BoNT PT provided the valuable information that both the Endopep-MS assay and the hemidiaphragm assay delivered quantitative results superior to the mouse bioassay.
sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_23998083211025535 - Supplemental material for Integrating conformance and performance for the evaluation of urban planning implementation from a goal-oriented perspective
Creators: name: Li, Jianwei
name: Li, Guo'ao
name: Li, Jingang
name: Liu, Aoran
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geography
Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_23998083211025535 for Integrating conformance and performance for the evaluation of urban planning implementation from a goal-oriented perspective by Jianwei Li, Guo'ao Li, Jingang Li and Aoran Liu in EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science
"It is the east": Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia
Creators: name: Alice Joubin, Alexa
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: English literature
subject: Translating and interpreting
subject: Japanese literature
subject: Chinese literature
subject: Drama

description: Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical allusions, and spirituality. These adaptations tend to present the plays in hybrid performative genres, sometimes turning tragedy into comedy or parody. These adaptations are also informed by intra-regional borrowing and allusions that matter to each separate cultural location and to East Asia as a whole. They tend to interpret Shakespearean tragedies through issues of spirituality and through the artists' personal, rather than national, identities, giving primacy to personal life stories and to the interaction with the audience, rather than attempting 'authentic' representations either of Shakespearean tragedy or indeed of 'Asia'.
title: Future perspectives of Brazilian beef production: what is the role of Silvopastoral systems?
Creators: name: Agethen, Katrin
name: Mauricio, Rogerio Martins
name: Deblitz, Claus
name: Izquierdo, Maria Dolores
name: Reyes, Ernesto
name: Chará, Julian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Production system analysis
subject: GHG emissions
subject: Carbon sequestration
subject: Sustainable beef production
subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 640 Hauswirtschaft und Familie

description: Against the backdrop of changing production conditions and market requirements, it seems time has come to rethink Brazil’s beef production systems. We analyse the economic and environmental performance of three beef production systems: classic beef production system (CB), and two types of silvopastoral systems: the integrated crop-livestock-forestry system (ICLFS) and the natural regeneration system (NR) in a comparative case study analysis. We find that, though costs of production are the lowest for CB, only the ICLFS and NR case studies are generating long-term profits. While greenhouse gas emissions per kg live weight added are lowest in ICLFS, followed by NR and CB, per hectare (ha) emissions are highest in NR, followed by ICLFS and CB. Considering the system’s carbon removal, NR and potentially ICLFS are sequestering more than releasing. Additionally, the land required to produce beef is lowest in NR, followed by ICLFS and CB. Considering the additional outputs produced by ICLFS and NR, they showcase the potential of multifunctional production systems for future scenarios, where land scarcity puts land-demanding production systems, such as beef, under pressure. The three production systems perform differently depending on the indicators analysed. How they will reply to future challenges depends on the location and the specific environment. Yet, from the analysed systems, CB is the least sustainable, economically and environmentally.
Disagreement of the two oscillometric blood pressure measurement devices, Datascope Accutorr Plus and Omron HEM-705CP II, and bidirectional conversion of blood pressure values.
Creators: name: Adler, Carolin
name: Ellert, Ute
name: Neuhauser, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Reproducibility of Results
subject: Adult
subject: Middle Aged
subject: Young Adult
subject: Blood Pressure
subject: Blood Pressure Determination/instrumentation
subject: Hypertension/diagnosis
subject: Hypertension/epidemiology
subject: Oscillometry/instrumentation
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objective(s): Oscillometric blood pressure (BP) measurement devices frequently replace the standard mercury sphygmomanometer. Comparisons of oscillometric devices are rare, but their agreement is important to ensure comparability of BP data. This study aims to compare two oscillometric devices, Datascope Accutorr Plus and Omron HEM-705CP II, and to develop BP conversion models. Methods: A sample of 109 adults aged 21–64 years were subjected to alternate same-arm BP measurements according to the International Protocol revision 2010 for the validation of BP measuring devices in adults of the European Society of Hypertension. Results: A total of 327 BP measurement pairs were obtained. Datascope systolic blood pressure (SBP) pairs, in mmHg, were optimal (
"Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre
Creators: name: Salter, Anastasia
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Mass media--Study and teaching

description: The classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the past, fans are keeping these stories alive. Authorship of these games has changed hands: it is now under the control of the fans, the former and current players. Through the online sharing of fan-created game design tool sets and of the fan-created games themselves, these new coauthors create a haven to revisit these decades-old games using fresh eyes and fresh systems. The products of these folk art–reminiscent efforts also offer a venue to reconsider video game fandom in light of genres. They also allow us to understand these "personal games," productions of one or more people that are not intended for commercial sale, as carrying the heritage of the classic era forward into the next generation of gaming.
title: Προσδιορισμός άμορφου υλικού σε μπεντονίτες σε συνθήκες χαμήλης-μέσης σχετικής υγρασίας με τη μέθοδο Rietveld
Creators: name: Σταθουλοπουλος Χρηστος-Αθανασιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής είναι ο προσδιορισμός του άμορφου υλικού σε εμπορικούς μπεντονίτες με τη χρήση σύγχρονων τεχνικών χαρακτηρισμού. Ο προσδιορισμός έγινε σε δυο συνθήκες σχετικής υγρασίας, οι οποίες είναι συνθήκες δωματίου (χώρος εργαστηρίου με σχετική υγρασία ~45%) και συνθήκες μηδενικής σχετικής υγρασίας μετά από θέρμανση στους 250οC. Για αυτό το σκοπό επιλέχθηκαν οχτώ (8) δείγματα μπεντονίτη διαφορετικής προέλευσης (ΗΠΑ, Βουλγαρία, Μήλος, Ινδία) τα οποία αναμείχθηκαν με αναλογία εσωτερικού προτύπου (ZnO).
Η ορυκτολογία των δειγμάτων προσδιορίστηκε με περιθλασιμετρία ακτίνων-Χ (XRD) με χρήση του λογισμικού EVA (Economically Value Added). Σε όλα τα δείγματα το κυρίαρχο ορυκτό είναι ο σμεκτίτης. Συνυπάρχουν επίσης σε διάφορα ποσοστά ορυκτά του πυριτίου (χαλαζίας), ανθρακικά ορυκτά (ασβεστίτης, δολομίτης, ανκερίτης), πλαγιόκλαστα (αλβίτης και ανδεσίτης) σανίδινο, σιδηροπυρίτης, βιοτίτης, χριστοβαλίτης, ανατάσης, καολινίτης, γύψος και μαγκεμίτης.
	Η διαδικασία της ποσοτικοποίησης φάσεων που περιλαμβάνει την αναγνώριση των κύριων και δευτερευουσών φάσεων έγινε με χρήση του λογισμικού AutoQuan, το οποίο χρησιμοποιεί τον κώδικα BGMN.  O ποσοτικός προσδιορισμός του άμορφου υλικού επιτεύχθηκε με τη χρήση του εσωτερικού προτύπου. Η μέθοδος Rietveld που χρησιμοποιείται είναι μια ευαίσθητη  τεχνική για ποσοτική ανάλυση μπεντονιτών με χρήση εσωτερικού προτύπου. Εξαρτάται από πολλές παραμέτρους και για να αποδώσει ακριβή αποτελέσματα θα πρέπει τα βήματα για την επεξεργασία να είναι προσεκτικά από τον χειριστή.
Από την εκτίμηση, την αξιολόγηση των αποτελεσμάτων και σε σύγκριση με τα δεδομένα που εισήχθησαν, παρατηρήθηκε ότι τόσο σε συνθήκες περιβάλλοντος όσο και σε συνθήκες ξήρανσης οι μπεντονίτες που επιλέχθηκαν να μελετηθούν δεν παρουσιάζουν ποσοστά άμορφου υλικού. Τα ποσοστά άμορφης μάζας είναι αρνητικά επομένως δεν προσδιορίστηκε η άμορφη μάζα με την επίδραση της υγρασίας. Εξαίρεση αποτελεί ο μπεντονίτης από το Τέξας όπου σε συνθήκες ξήρανσης παρουσιάζει χαμηλό ποσοστό άμορφης μάζας, ενώ σε συνθήκες υγρασίας περιβάλλοντος το άμορφο υλικό δεν μπορεί να προσδιοριστεί. Προτείνεται, ότι η ξήρανση των συγκεκριμένων δειγμάτων μπεντονίτη σε θερμοκρασία θα πρέπει να αποφεύγεται για μια τέτοια διεργασία διότι δεν αποδίδει κάποιο αποτέλεσμα.
sj-pdf-3-cet-10.1177_14777509211015897 - Supplemental material for Shared decision-making in patient–doctor consultations – How does it relate to other patient-centred aspects and satisfaction?
Creators: name: Bodegård, Helene
name: Helgesson, Gert
name: Olsson, Daniel
name: Juth, Niklas
name: Lynøe, Niels
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220106 Medical Ethics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-cet-10.1177_14777509211015897 for Shared decision-making in patient–doctor consultations – How does it relate to other patient-centred aspects and satisfaction? by Helene Bodegård, Gert Helgesson, Daniel Olsson, Niklas Juth and Niels Lynøe in Clinical Ethics
“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon
Creators: name: Eve, Martin Paul
name: Sussman, Mark
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: United States
subject: History
subject: American literature

description: The June 1888 issue of the Phonographic World magazine presented John Pynchon, an ancestor of Thomas, as “The First American Shorthand Reporter”. While most biographical criticism to date of Thomas Pynchon has focused on the cameo appearance of a thinly veiled William Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, we here set out further historical information on John alongside an appraisal of shorthand in the novels of Thomas.
title: Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
title: Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Gifford, James
Publisher: name: Punctum Books
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Canadian literature
subject: Literature, Modern

description: This article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s inter­national anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shang­hai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at the historical recuperation in order to contex­tualize a more focused revision of critical approaches to the Canadian novelist Elizabeth Smart in her 1945 work By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept.
description: This article gestures to the 1930s through 1950s inter­national anarchist literary networks that ran from Paris to London and Athens, Cairo and Alexandria, Shang­hai, Oxford and Cambridge, New York and San Francisco, and finally Big Sur and Vancouver. The distribution across these nodes was intense and sustained, but this project only hints at the historical recuperation in order to contex­tualize a more focused revision of critical approaches to the Canadian novelist Elizabeth Smart in her 1945 work By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept.
Clues on the nature of the quasi-periodic optical outbursts of the blazar OJ 287
Creators: name: Gopal-Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fascination with the blazar OJ 287 stems not only from its status as a prominent candidate for a close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary, but also because of the thermal bremsstrahlung origin proposed for its giant optical outbursts. These outbursts arrive as pairs, quasi-periodically every $\sim 12$ years, based on the unique 130-year-long, well-sampled optical light curve available for this blazar. For its three well-known, large quasi-periodic optical outbursts (QPOOs), observed in 1983, 2007 and 2015, optical photo-polarimetric monitoring has been reported in the literature. For these initially radio-undetected QPOOs, widely acclaimed as `bremsstrahlung flares', we have scrutinised the available measurements of optical polarisation and spectral index during the rising phase. Several inconsistencies of these data with the optical bremsstrahlung interpretation are noted, which point towards a synchrotron-dominated alternative interpretation for all these prominent QPOOs, just as for the optical emission observed between the outbursts. Possible reasons for the radio non-detection of the QPOOs during the initial stage are outlined.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letters)
"The Commotion of Souls"
Creators: name: Zunshine, Lisa
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: American literature
subject: Comparative literature
subject: English literature
subject: Psychology and literature

description: An essay written for "Neuroscience and Fiction," a special issue of SubStance guest-edited by Pierre Casso-Nogues
Genome Sequence of Bovine Polyomavirus 1 Detected in a Salers Cow (Bos taurus) from Catalonia, Spain
Creators: name: Salem, Nicole Ben
name: Val, Bernat Pérez De
name: Martin, Maite
name: Moens, Ugo
name: Ehlers, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: We identified a variant of the first bovine polyomavirus (BPyV1; family Polyomaviridae) in a lymph node of a Salers cow. As the 2 previously published genome sequences of this virus originated from fetal bovine serum and ground beef, respectively, this is the first BPyV1 genome that could be traced back to an individual.
Low-energy peak in the one-particle spectral function of the electron gas at metallic densities
Creators: name: Takada, Yasutami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a nonperturbative scheme to determine the self-energy Σ(k,iw_n) with automatically satisfying the Ward identity and the total momentum conservation law, a fully self-consistent calculation is done in the electron gas at various temperatures T to obtain G(k,iw_n) the one-particle Green's function with fulfilling all known conservation laws, sum rules, and correct asymptotic behaviors; here, T is taken unprecedentedly low, namely, T/E_F down to 10^{-4} with E_F the Fermi energy, and tiny mesh as small as 10^{-4}k_F is chosen near the Fermi surface in k space with k_F the Fermi momentum. By analytically continuing G(k,iw_n) to the retarded function G^R(k,w), we find a novel low-energy peak, in addition to the quasiparticle (QP) peak and one- and two-plasmon high-energy satellites, in the spectral function A(k,w)[= -Im G^R(k,w)/π] for T less than about 10^{-3}E_F in the simple-metal density region (2
description: 26 pages, 22 figures with 23 figure files in eps
Anti-Oedipalizing Great Expectations: Masochism, Subjectivity, Capitalism
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: British literature

description: Dickens, in his infatuation with the orphan, anticipates Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which argues against interpreting everyone's life experience in terms of the Oedipal conflict's family drama.
Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies
Creators: name: Gould, Amanda Starling
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Mass media--Study and teaching

description: This article presents a digital environmental media studies (DEMS) framework that shifts the primary focus of digital media study from one grounded in computation to one fully rooted in the earth. DEMS proposes a relational, metabolic ontology wherein popular media theory terms like atmospheric media, elemental media, cyborg, and digital labor are put to new use to call attention to the evolving, inseparable and transformative, material relations between the human, the earth, and the digital network. Motivated by the absence of environmental thinking from both digital theory and popular digital rhetoric, this article counters by making visible the overlooked intersections of media materiality, social reflexivity, and the environment.
Additional file 1 of Understanding the healthcare provider role on post abortion contraception adoption in India using National Family Health Survey-5
Creators: name: Bansal, Anjali
name: Kullu, Arpana
name: Dixit, Priyanka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: S1. Percentage distribution of contraception use, permanent, spacing, and traditional method among currently married women according to status of abortion in last five years in India, NFHS-5, 2019-21.
Review of Scholarship on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Association of Department of English
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Career development
subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Literature--Study and teaching

description: Compiled to support the work of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the
Status of African American Faculty Members in English, this scholarship review is not comprehensive. Much of the relevant literature treats diversity and equity issues in higher education broadly, a consequence of the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on specific disciplines and the sometimes statistically insignificant numbers when one does. Broad treatments show, too, that the low number of black faculty members in English cannot be attributed to simple, local problems; instead, a complex interaction of social, economic, and educational factors leads black students, especially black men, away from higher education or, more specifically, away from English and militates against their success when they do pursue advanced degrees and faculty careers.
Review of Scholarship on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Career development
subject: Literature--Study and teaching

description: Compiled to support the work of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English, this scholarship review is not comprehensive. Much of the relevant literature treats diversity and equity issues in higher education broadly, a consequence of the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on specific disciplines and the sometimes statistically insignificant numbers when one does. Broad treatments show, too, that the low number of black faculty members in English cannot be attributed to simple, local problems; instead, a complex interaction of social, economic, and educational factors leads black students, especially black men, away from higher education or, more specifically, away from English and militates against their success when they do pursue advanced degrees and faculty careers.
Viral promoters can initiate expression of toxin genes introduced into Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Lewin, Astrid
name: Mayer, Martin
name: Chusainow, Janet
name: Jacob, Daniela
name: Appel, Bernd
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Escherichia coli/genetics
subject: Cloning
subject: Molecular
subject: Molecular Sequence Data
subject: Bacterial Proteins/genetics
subject: Baculoviridae/genetics
subject: Base Sequence
subject: Biotechnology/methods
subject: Cytomegalovirus/genetics
subject: Cytotoxins/genetics
subject: DNA/analysis
subject: Escherichia coli/metabolism
subject: Gene Expression Regulation
subject: Bacterial
subject: Viral
subject: Genes
subject: Reporter
subject: HIV-1/genetics
subject: Hemolysin Proteins/metabolism
subject: Hemolysis
subject: Luciferases/metabolism
subject: Luminescence
subject: Models
subject: Genetic
subject: Plasmids/metabolism
subject: Promoter Regions
subject: Simian virus 40/genetics
subject: Terminal Repeat Sequences
subject: Thymidine Kinase/genetics
subject: Thymidine Kinase/metabolism
subject: Toxins
subject: Biological/metabolism
subject: Transcription Initiation Site
subject: Transcription
subject: Viral Proteins/genetics
subject: Viral Structural Proteins
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The expression of recombinant proteins in eukaryotic cells requires the fusion of the coding region to a promoter functional in the eukaryotic cell line. Viral promoters are very often used for this purpose. The preceding cloning procedures are usually performed in Escherichia coli and it is therefore of interest if the foreign promoter results in an expression of the gene in bacteria. In the case molecules toxic for humans are to be expressed, this knowledge is indispensable for the specification of safety measures. Results: We selected five frequently used viral promoters and quantified their activity in E. coli with a reporter system. Only the promoter from the thymidine kinase gene from HSV1 showed no activity, while the polyhedrin promoter from baculovirus, the early immediate CMV promoter, the early SV40 promoter and the 5' LTR promoter from HIV-1 directed gene expression in E. coli. The determination of transcription start sites in the immediate early CMV promoter and the polyhedrin promoter confirmed the existence of bacterial -10 and -35 consensus sequences. The importance of this heterologous gene expression for safety considerations was further supported by analysing fusions between the aforementioned promoters and a promoter-less cytotoxin gene. Conclusion: According to our results a high percentage of viral promoters have the ability of initiating gene expression in E. coli. The degree of such heterologous gene expression can be sufficient for the expression of toxin genes and must therefore be considered when defining safety measures for the handling of corresponding genetically modified organisms.
Disorder-dependent superconducting pairing symmetry in doped graphene
Creators: name: Guo, Kaiyi
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Liang, Ying
name: Ma, Tianxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disorder and doping have profound effects on the intrinsic physical mechanisms of superconductivity. In this paper, we employed the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method to investigate the symmetry-allowed superconducting orders on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice within the Hubbard model, using doped graphene as the carrier, focusing their response to bond disorder. Specifically, we calculated the pairing susceptibility and effective pairing interactions for the $d+id$ wave and extended $s$-wave pairings for different electron densities and disorder strengths. Our calculations show that at high electron densities, increased disorder strength may lead to a transform from $d+id$ wave dominance to extended $s$ wave dominance. However, at lower electron densities, neither of the two superconducting pairings appears under larger disorder strength. Our calculations may contribute to a further understanding of the superconducting behavior in doped materials affected by disorder.
description: 9 pages and 11 figures. Published version
The Status of African American Faculty Members in English
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Career development

description: The article addresses a topic of pressing but long-­standing concern to many in the higher education community: the disproportionately low number of African American faculty members in English, assessing the facts of the situation and how they might be addressed effectively.
sj-docx-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163211026518 – Supplemental material for Increased number of deaths within 24 h of admission during a period of social restriction related to the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective service evaluation in a metropolitan palliative care unit
Creators: name: Everitt, Rachel
name: Robinson, Neil
name: Marco, David
name: Weil, Jennifer
name: Bryan, Tamsin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-pmj-10.1177_02692163211026518 for Increased number of deaths within 24 h of admission during a period of social restriction related to the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective service evaluation in a metropolitan palliative care unit by Rachel Everitt, Neil Robinson, David Marco, Jennifer Weil and Tamsin Bryan in Palliative Medicine
Time-dependent condensate formation in ultracold atoms with energy-dependent transport coefficients
Creators: name: Larsson, M.
name: Wolschin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-dependent Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) formation in ultracold atoms is investigated in a nonlinear diffusion model. For constant transport coefficients, the model has been solved analytically. Here, we extend it to include energy-dependent transport coeffcients and numerically solve the nonlinear equation. Our results are compared with the earlier analytical model for constant transport coeffcients, and with recent deep-quench data for K-39 at various scattering lengths. Some non-physical predictions from the constant-coefficient model are resolved using energy-dependent drift and diffusion.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. A
sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211027695 – Supplemental material for When two fields collide: Identifying “super-recognisers” for neuropsychological and forensic face recognition research
Creators: name: Bate, Sarah
name: Portch, Emma
name: Mestry, Natalie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211027695 for When two fields collide: Identifying “super-recognisers” for neuropsychological and forensic face recognition research by Sarah Bate, Emma Portch and Natalie Mestry in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2010

description: The members of the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada noted at a recent meeting that they often make generalizations about humanities doctorate recipients and faculty members of color that would benefit from the light that systematic national data might shed on them. This report responds to the committee’s call for such information.
An international comparative study of blood pressure in populations of European vs. African descent
Creators: name: Cooper, Richard S
name: Wolf-Maier, Katharina
name: Luke, Amy
name: Adeyemo, Adebowale
name: Banegas, Jose R
name: Forrester, Terrence
name: Giampaoli, Simona
name: Joffres, Michel
name: Kastarinen, Mika
name: Primatesta, Paola
name: Stegmayr, Birgitta
name: Thamm, Michael
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Middle Aged
subject: African Americans/statistics & numerical data
subject: Blood Pressure
subject: Body Mass Index
subject: Canada/epidemiology
subject: European Continental Ancestry Group/statistics & numerical data
subject: Hypertension/ethnology
subject: Jamaica/epidemiology
subject: Nigeria/epidemiology
subject: Obesity/complications
subject: Obesity/ethnology
subject: Prevalence
subject: United States/epidemiology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The consistent finding of higher prevalence of hypertension in US blacks compared to whites has led to speculation that African-origin populations are particularly susceptible to this condition. Large surveys now provide new information on this issue. Methods: Using a standardized analysis strategy we examined prevalence estimates for 8 white and 3 black populations (N = 85,000 participants). Results: The range in hypertension prevalence was from 27 to 55% for whites and 14 to 44% for blacks. Conclusions: These data demonstrate that not only is there a wide variation in hypertension prevalence among both racial groups, the rates among blacks are not unusually high when viewed internationally. These data suggest that the impact of environmental factors among both populations may have been under-appreciated.
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X211024371 - Supplemental material for Tissue outcome prediction in hyperacute ischemic stroke: Comparison of machine learning models
Creators: name: Benzakoun, Joseph
name: Charron, Sylvain
name: Turc, Guillaume
name: Hassen, Wagih Ben
name: Legrand, Laurence
name: Boulouis, Grégoire
name: Naggara, Olivier
name: Baron, Jean-Claude
name: Thirion, Bertrand
name: Oppenheim, Catherine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 110320 Radiology and Organ Imaging
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X211024371 for Tissue outcome prediction in hyperacute ischemic stroke: Comparison of machine learning models by Joseph Benzakoun, Sylvain Charron, Guillaume Turc, Wagih Ben Hassen, Laurence Legrand, Grégoire Boulouis, Olivier Naggara, Jean-Claude Baron, Bertrand Thirion and Catherine Oppenheim in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Molekulare Analyse humaner Influenzaviren
Creators: name: Biere, Barbara
name: Schweiger, Brunhilde
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Evolution
subject: Influenza-A-Virus
subject: Influenza-B-Virus
subject: Reassortment
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die Evolution der Influenzaviren wird in zunehmendem Umfang außer mittels klassischer Methoden über molekulare Verfahren verfolgt. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Analyse der beiden Hüllantigene Hämagglutinin (HA) und Neuraminidase (NA), die das Antigenprofil der Viren bestimmen. Die Influenza-A(H3N2)-Viren weisen eine besonders hohe Variabilität auf, sodass in der Regel mindestens 2 Virusvarianten kozirkulieren. Gemeinsam mit den Influenza-B-Viren verursachten sie etwa 90% der in Deutschland in den vergangenen 12 Saisons aufgetretenen Influenzavirus-Infektionen, während die A-(H1N1-)Viren nur eine untergeordnete Rolle spielten. In den Saisons 2001/02 und 2002/03 traten unerwartet reassortierte Viren des Subtyps A(H1N2) auf, die aber nur vereinzelt isoliert wurden und keine epidemiologische Bedeutung erlangten. In der Saison 2001/02 wurden zudem nach 10-jähriger Abwesenheit erstmalig wieder Influenza-B-Viren der Victoria-Linie in Deutschland und in anderen Ländern der Nordhalbkugel nachgewiesen. Auch hier kam es zu Reassortment-Ereignissen mit den kozirkulierenden Yamagata-like-Influenza-B-Viren, die sich am Auftreten von Viren mit einem Victoria-like HA und einem Yamagata-like NA zeigten.
Yukio Ninagawa
Creators: name: Alice Joubin, Alexa
Publisher: name: Arden Bloomsbury
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japanese literature
subject: Translating and interpreting
subject: English literature
subject: Drama

description: Stemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa's interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan's rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that 'modern Japan is a culture of translation' has been taken for granted by many Japanese writers, playwrights, and their audiences. . In his own words, Ninagawa came from 'a generation that has always been very interested in Europe, which is why [he has] been blending elements of Japanese culture and European culture." This chapter focuses on the artistic terms of the cross-cultural ventures of Ninagawa as a great Shakespearean, a man of theatre, and a 'metteur en scène' in the words of Tadashi Suzuki. Over the past five decades, Ninagawa has produced such a wide range of works—classical Greek, Shakespearean, operatic (Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, 1992), and modern and contemporary American (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1991) and Japanese—and achieved so much in the fields of theatre and cultural diplomacy that it is necessary to place him within the contexts of Japanese, touring, and Shakespearean performance cultures.
Economie de santé : revue de littérature sur les origines et le cadre normatif d'un nouveau champ d'analyse économique
Creators: name: Wadie MESSOUDI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Dans les années soixante, l’économie de la santé a été officialisée en tant que sous-discipline économique, marquée par l’adoption de nouvelles méthodes d’analyse rationnelle pour les décisions publiques. Arrow, considéré comme le père fondateur de cette discipline, a été le premier à appliquer la théorie du choix rationnel pour étudier l'efficacité et l'équilibre du marché des soins de santé. Par la suite, en 1972, Grossman a développé un modèle de demande de santé, inspiré du concept d'investissement dans le capital humain. Cependant, l'application des principes néoclassiques à la santé, a suscité de nombreuses critiques et limites de certaines hypothèses dans l’explication du fonctionnement et la distribution équitable du marché des soins. En réponse, un nouveau cadre théorique a été institué en s’adaptant aux spécificités du secteur. C’est ainsi, que l’analyse économique a adopté une approche centrée sur la pathogenèse de la santé, en soutenant que les soins de santé répondent à un besoin de santé et que leur consommation contribue à améliorer l'état de santé et, par conséquent, le bien-être des individus.
Imprint of the magnetic activity cycle on solar asteroseismic characterisation based on 26 years of GOLF and BiSON data
Creators: name: Bétrisey, Jérôme
name: Farnir, Martin
name: Breton, Sylvain N.
name: García, Rafael A.
name: Broomhall, Anne-Marie
name: Amarsi, Anish M.
name: Kochukhov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Building on the success of previous missions, asteroseismic modelling will play a key role in future space-based missions, such as PLATO, CubeSpec, and Roman. Despite remarkable achievements, asteroseismology has revealed significant discrepancies in the physics of theoretical stellar models, which have the potential to bias stellar characterisation at the precision level demanded by PLATO. The current modelling strategies largely overlook magnetic activity, assuming that its effects are masked by filtering the so-called surface effects. Given the presence of activity cycles in multiple solar-like oscillators, and activity variations in a significant fraction of Kepler observations of main-sequence stars (Santos et al. 2019b, 2021, 2023), we measured the impact of magnetic activity on the asteroseismic characterisation of the Sun based on 26.5 years of GOLF and BiSON observations. While magnetic activity is partially absorbed in the treatment of surface effects, we found a discernible imprint of the activity cycle in the determination of the solar age. Notably, this imprint persists across both BiSON and GOLF datasets, with significant variations of up to 6.5% observed between solar minima and maxima. Considering that the Sun exhibits low levels of activity, our study underscores the looming challenge posed by magnetic activity for future photometry missions, and prompts a potential reevaluation of the asteroseismic characterisation of Kepler's most active targets.
description: Accepted for publication as a Letter in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature
Creators: name: Jaén, Isabel
name: Simon, Julien Jacques
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature and science
subject: Psychology and literature
subject: Spanish language

description: Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the cognitive literary studies research that has been taking place within early modern Spanish studies over the last fifteen years. Next, it traces the creation of self in the context of the novel, focusing on Cervantes's Don Quixote in relation to the notions of embodiment and autopoiesis as well as the faculties of memory and imagination as understood in early modernity. It continues to explore the concept of embodiment, showing its relevance to delve into the mechanics of the interaction between actors and audience both in the jongleuresque and the comedia traditions. It then centers on cognitive theories of perception, the psychology of immersion in fictional worlds, and early modern and modern-day notions of intentionality to discuss the role of perceiving and understanding others in performance, Don Quixote, and courtly conduct manuals. The last section focuses on the affective dimension of audience-performer interactions in the theatrical space of the Spanish corrales and how emotion and empathy can inform new approaches to presenting Las Casas's work in the literature classroom. The volume closes with an afterword offering strategies to design a course on mind and literature in early modernity.
Adding to Yersinia enterocolitica Gene Pool Diversity: Two Cryptic Plasmids from a Biotype 1A Isolate
Creators: name: Lepka, Daniela
name: Kerrinnes, Tobias
name: Skiebe, Evelyn
name: Hahn, Birgitt
name: Fruth, Angelika
name: Wilharm, Gottfried
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Yersinia enterocolitica
subject: biotype 1A
subject: cryptic plasmid
subject: virulence
subject: yersinia secretable repeat protein
subject: YsrA
subject: horizontal gene transfer
subject: Yersinia low temperature protein A
subject: YltA
subject: 610 Medizin

description: We report the nucleotide sequence of two novel cryptic plasmids (4357 and 14 662 base pairs) carried by a Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A strain isolated from pork. As distinguished from most biotype 1A strains, this isolate, designated 07-04449, exhibited adherence to eukaryotic cells. The smaller plasmid pYe4449-1 carries five attributable open reading frames (ORFs) encoding the first CcdA/CcdB-like antitoxin/toxin system described for a Yersinia plasmid, a RepA-like replication initiation protein, and mobilizing factors MobA and MobC. The deduced amino acid sequences showed highest similarity to proteins described in Salmonella (CcdA/B), Klebsiella (RepA), and Plesiomonas (MobA/C) indicating genomic fluidity among members of the Enterobacteriaceae. One additional ORF with unknown function, termed ORF5, was identified with an ancestry distinct from the rest of the plasmid. While the C+G content of ORF5 is 38.3%, the rest of pYe4449-1 shows a C+G content of 55.7%. The C+G content of the larger plasmid pYe4449-2 (54.9%) was similar to that of pYe4449-1 (53.7%) and differed from that of the Y. enterocolitica genome (47.3%). Of the 14 ORFs identified on pYe4449-2, only six ORFs showed significant similarity to database entries. For three of these ORFs likely functions could be ascribed: a TnpR-like resolvase and a phage replication protein, localized each on a low C+G island, and DNA primase TraC. Two ORFs of pYe4449-2, ORF3 and ORF7, seem to encode secretable proteins. Epitope-tagging of ORF3 revealed protein expression at 4°C but not at or above 27°C suggesting adaptation to a habitat outside swine. The hypothetical protein encoded by ORF7 is the member of a novel repeat protein family sharing the DxxGN(x)nDxxGN motif. Our findings illustrate the exceptional gene pool diversity within the species Y. enterocolitica driven by horizontal gene transfer events.