cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Farmers’ market use is associated with fruit and vegetable consumption in diverse southern rural communities
Creators: name: Gustafson, Alison
name: Rafferty, Ann P.
name: Jilcott Pitts, Stephanie B.
name: Mayo, Mariel Leah
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Keyserling, Thomas C.
name: Ammerman, Alice S.
name: McGuirt, Jared T.
name: Ward, Rachel K.
name: Lancaster, Mandee F.
name: Wu, Qiang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundWhile farmers’ markets are a potential strategy to increase access to fruits and vegetables in rural areas, more information is needed regarding use of farmers’ markets among rural residents. Thus, this study’s purpose was to examine (1) socio-demographic characteristics of participants; (2) barriers and facilitators to farmers’ market shopping in southern rural communities; and (3) associations between farmers’ market use with fruit and vegetable consumption and body mass index (BMI).MethodsCross-sectional surveys were conducted with a purposive sample of farmers’ market customers and a representative sample of primary household food shoppers in eastern North Carolina (NC) and the Appalachian region of Kentucky (KY). Customers were interviewed using an intercept survey instrument at farmers’ markets. Representative samples of primary food shoppers were identified via random digit dial (RDD) cellular phone and landline methods in counties that had at least one farmers’ market. All questionnaires assessed socio-demographic characteristics, food shopping patterns, barriers to and facilitators of farmers’ market shopping, fruit and vegetable consumption and self-reported height and weight. The main outcome measures were fruit and vegetable consumption and BMI. Descriptive statistics were used to examine socio-demographic characteristics, food shopping patterns, and barriers and facilitators to farmers’ market shopping. Linear regression analyses were used to examine associations between farmers’ market use with fruit and vegetable consumption and BMI, controlling for age, race, education, and gender.ResultsAmong farmers’ market customers, 44% and 55% (NC and KY customers, respectively) reported shopping at a farmers’ market at least weekly, compared to 16% and 18% of NC and KY RDD respondents. Frequently reported barriers to farmers’ market shopping were market days and hours, “only come when I need something”, extreme weather, and market location. Among the KY farmers’ market customers and NC and KY RDD respondents, fruit and vegetable consumption was positively associated with use of farmers’ markets. There were no associations between use of farmers’ markets and BMI.ConclusionsFruit and vegetable consumption was associated with farmers’ market shopping. Thus, farmers’ markets may be a viable method to increase population-level produce consumption.
(401154) Alexander Butchart Jack
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Sport e fisco
Creators: name: Magliaro, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2018

description: Il volume riprende gli atti del Convegno ??S?port e fisco? tenuto presso la Facolt� di Giurisprudenza dell?Universit� degli Studi di Trento il 24 febbraio 2017. Il ritardo nella pubblicazione si � reso necessario per permettere di aggiornare gli scritti alla luce dei successivi interventi legislativi (la c.d. riforma del terzo settore, d.lgs. 117/2017, nonch� la legge 205/2017) che in parte, o pi� corposamente, sono intervenuti a modificare la disciplina in esame. La giornata di studio � stata organizzata nella considerazione che lo sport, oggi, nel suo complesso, sta cambiando profondamente e richiede un maggiore impegno manageriale e capacit� di analisi. La semplice organizzazione delle attivit� sportive non � infatti pi� sufficiente, perch�, nell'attuale contesto sociale, la dirigenza sportiva ha bisogno di competenze anche in campo tributario. Gli atti del convegno si caratterizzano per un approfondimento delle tematiche sia degli sportivi professionisti sia di quelli dilettanti, prendendo in considerazione anche il variegato mondo delle associazioni e societ� sportive dilettantistiche nonch� il ruolo dei procuratori sportivi. In primo luogo si sono analizzati i rapporti tra la giustizia sportiva e quella statale (precisamente amministrativa, in ragione della riservata operata dalla legge 280/03), ma pi� in generale tra l'ordinamento giuridico sportivo e quello statale, caratterizzati per una spiccata autonomia della dimensione associativa endofederale, in un quadro di ampio riconoscimento sostenuto da solide basi costituzionali. � poi stato approfondito il tema della disciplina fiscale degli sportivi professionisti e dilettanti, nonch� i profili tributari delle associazioni e societ� sportive dilettantistiche. Si � altres� indagata approfonditamente la disciplina agevolativa stabilita dalla legge 398/1991. � anche stato presentato uno studio sulle peculiarit� trentine dello sci.
Calcium and vitamin D intakes may be positively associated with brain lesions in depressed and nondepressed elders
Creators: name: Steffens, David C.
name: Anderson, John J.B.
name: Payne, Martha E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Studies indicate that diet and vascular calcification may be related to the occurrence of brain lesions, although the importance of dietary calcium and vitamin D has not been investigated. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that calcium and vitamin D intakes would be positively associated with brain lesion volumes in elderly individuals with and without late-life depression. A cross sectional study was performed as part of a longitudinal clinical study of late-life depression. Calcium and vitamin D intakes were assessed in 232 elderly subjects (95 with current or prior depression, 137 without depression) using a Block 1998 food frequency questionnaire. Calcium, vitamin D, and kilocalorie intake were determined. Brain lesion volumes were calculated from magnetic resonance imaging scan. Subjects were age 60 years or over. Calcium and vitamin D intakes were significantly and positively correlated with brain lesion volume (p < 0.05 and p < 0.001, respectively). In two separate multivariable models, controlling for age, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, group (depression/comparison), lesion load (high/low), and total kilocalories, these positive associations remained significant (p<0.05 for calcium; p < 0.001 for vitamin D). In conclusion, calcium and vitamin D consumption were associated with brain lesions in elderly subjects, even after controlling for potentially explanatory variables. These associations may be due to vascular calcification or other mechanism. The possibility of adverse effects of high intakes of calcium and vitamin D needs to be further explored in longitudinal studies of elderly subjects.
Wave dynamics on networks: method and application to the sine-Gordon equation
Creators: name: Dutykh, Denys
name: Caputo, Jean-Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a scalar Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equation formulated on networks; this is a non standard problem because these domains are not locally homeomorphic to any subset of the Euclidean space. More precisely, we assume each edge to be a 1D uniform line with end points identified with graph vertices. The interface conditions at these vertices are introduced and justified using conservation laws and an homothetic argument. We present a detailed methodology based on a symplectic finite difference scheme together with a special treatment at the junctions to solve the problem and apply it to the sine-Gordon equation. Numerical results on a simple graph containing four loops show the performance of the scheme for kinks and breathers initial conditions.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, 41 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/
(401153) George Butchart Jack
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Correlates of antioxidant nutrients and oxidative DNA damage differ by race in a cross-sectional study of healthy African American and white adults
Creators: name: Satia, Jessie A.
name: Kupper, Lawrence L.
name: Watters, Joanne L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Although antioxidant nutrients and oxidative DNA damage have been associated with carcinogenesis, few studies have investigated the factors that influence antioxidant intake and oxidative DNA damage in racially diverse populations. Demographic, behavioral, and diet-related psychosocial correlates of plasma antioxidant (carotenoids, vitamin C, and vitamin E) concentrations and oxidative DNA damage were examined using data from a cross-sectional study of 147 generally healthy, non-smoking African American and White adults in North Carolina, age 20 to 45 years. All participants completed self-administered demographic, diet, and health questionnaires and provided semi-fasting (≥ 6 hours) blood samples. Multivariate regression analyses were computed separately for each race to determine associations between the potential correlates with plasma antioxidant concentrations and oxidative DNA damage, separately. Our findings suggest appreciable differences by race. Only a few factors (age, supplement use, and several psychosocial factors) were associated with antioxidant concentrations in African Americans, whereas these and additional factors, including physical activity, waist circumference, and passive smoke exposure, were associated with antioxidant concentrations in Whites. For oxidative DNA damage, passive smoke exposure was significantly associated with oxidative DNA damage in African Americans, and age and alcohol were significant in Whites. In addition, the regression models generally explained more of the variance in plasma antioxidant concentrations and oxidative DNA damage in Whites than in African Americans. Considering the salient correlates differed by race, this work has important implications for the design and implementation of future research studies investigating antioxidant nutrients and/or oxidative stress, especially those in racially diverse populations.
La scienza aperta contro la mercificazione della ricerca accademica? = Open Science vs Commodification of Academic Research?
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this short essay is to answer the following question: is Open Science (OS) able to oppose the expansion of commodification of scientific and academic research? The answer is positive only if we conceive OS not only as free access to and reuse of scientific outputs (publications and data), but also as a broader system of values such as democracy, transparency, equity, cooperation, and moral integrity. From this perspective, fostering OS also means investing energy in teaching. We need to educate the new generation of scientists by teaching them the values and practices of OS. In addition, policy and formal norms can help us to build a legal environment apt to embrace the OS principles. In particular, we have to adjust the current research assessment system by decentralising the evaluation process and making it transparent. Moreover, we need to reform copyright law to enable more freedom to access to and reuse of scientific contents. All these efforts may generate a new communication ecosystem in which interaction among ethics, formal norms and technology would guarantee the pluralism of sources and intermediaries.
La successione a titolo particolare nel diritto controverso
Creators: name: Widmann, Paola
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2015

description: La presente indagine ha ad oggetto il fenomeno della successone nel diritto controverso e, pi� precisamente, la disciplina dettata a tal riguardo all?art. 111 del codice di rito. � quest?ultima una disposizione normativa la cui interpretazione ha dato luogo, da pi� punti di vista, a incertezze particolarmente gravi, in ordine alle quali la riflessione dottrinale ha fornito risposte di segno diverso e, talora, nettamente contrapposto. Si tratta peraltro, nella pi� gran parte dei casi, di incertezze scaturenti da quelli che sono i nodi ricostruttivi ?strutturali? dell?istituto in parola ovvero ? altrimenti detto ? dalle difficolt� connaturate alla regolamentazione di un fenomeno (quale � il trasferimento lite pendente del rapporto giuridico litigioso) eccezionale e anomalo, come tale suscettibile d?esser inquadrato nella sistematica dell?ordinamento soltanto al prezzo di significative deroghe alla fisionomia ordinaria delle categorie dogmatiche coinvolte. Proprio in considerazione dell?origine in larga misura ?strutturale? delle difficolt� di deciframento dell?istituto della successione nel diritto controverso, risulta particolarmente opportuno accostarsi alla disamina dell?art. 111 c.p.c. collocandosi in una prospettiva d?indagine che, lungi dall?esaurire il proprio orizzonte ai confini spazio-temporali dell?ordinamento italiano vigente, abbracci invece, altres�, la dimensione comparatistica (tanto diacronica quanto sincronica) della ricerca. Da questo punto di vista, un?attenzione peculiare deve essere riservata poi, fra tutte, all?esperienza germanica ? pertanto, eletta a punto di riferimento costante della presente indagine -; ci�, per un verso, a motivo del fatto che proprio nella disciplina tedesca in tema di Ver�u?erung der in Streit befangenen Sache (�� 265, 325, 727 dZPO) si rintracciano, senza dubbio alcuno, le matrici del nostro art. 111 c.p.c.; per l?altro, in ragione dello spiccato interesse manifestato dalla dottrina germanica, sin dagli albori del XX secolo, per la tematica de qua, interesse donde � scaturito un approfondimento teorico dell?istituto connotato da una latitudine e profondit� d?indagine altrove sconosciute.
(401152) Margaret Butchart
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Secure, Distributed Financial Exchanges: Design and Implementation
Creators: name: Ngo, Chan Nam
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: Blockchains and Byzantine Fault Tolerance form the basis of decentralized currencies and ledgers, such as Bitcoin, Ripple, ZeroCash, and Ethereum. Several studies have focused on the currency aspects (e.g. authenticity, integrity, anonymity, and independence from central banks). In this thesis, we start by exploring to understand the security challenges and practical solutions for building simple payment networks. Then, we leverage such understanding in identifying the security challenges of more advanced and complex systems, in particular Futures Exchanges. The decentralization of a Futures Exchange poses new security challenges: i) the interplay between the security and economic viability, i.e. using the Price Discrimination Attack one can strategically force a trader out of the market when the trader's anonymity is broken; ii) the non-monotonic security behavior of an Exchange, i.e. an honest action may invalidate security evidence; and iii) the proportional burden requirement in the presence of high-frequency participants. Our goal is to enucleate the non-trivial design principles to resolve these challenges for building secure and distributed financial exchanges. We demonstrate the application of the distilled design principles by building a cryptographic reference for a futures exchange called FuturesMEX. We also simulate the performance of a FuturesMEX Proof-of-Concept with the Lean Hog market data obtained from the Thomson Reuters Ticks History DB. The results show that the obtained protocol is feasible for a low-frequency market such as Lean Hog. Furthermore, we investigate an extension of public markets, i.e. dark pools (private markets), in which the order book information is conditionally visible to some (financially) suitable parties. We propose a new cryptographic scheme called Witness Key Agreement that makes dark trading possible by probing prices and volumes based on committed financial information Finally, we evaluate the theoretical and practical performance of the new scheme; using a simulation of the dark pool data collected from the aggressive Bloomberg Tradebook, we obtain positive results.
WMCAUS2022 Presentation
Creators: name: Boem, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Seismic vulnerability, Masonry strengthening, Composites, FRM, CRM, Numerical modelling.

description: This presentation, titled "Masonry elements strengthened with TRM: modelling in OOFEM by using multi-layered 3D elements ", was held for the 7th World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS 2022 (05-09 September 2022, Prague - CZ).
description: The project "conFiRMa" has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101003410
Le definizioni nel diritto. Atti delle giornate di studio 30-31 ottobre 2015
Creators: name: Cortese, Fulvio
name: Tomasi, Marta
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2016

description: L?oggetto delle riflessioni raccolte in questo volume � la definizione giuridica quale problema. Nel discorso giuridico, infatti, come in ogni discorso, le definizioni svolgono significative funzioni. Sicch� la loro formulazione viene spesso invocata o cercata come un dato essenziale. Nella tradizione occidentale, tuttavia, � consolidata anche una chiara e diffusa consapevolezza sulle criticit� che comporta l?atto del definire: da un lato, conferisce certezza, specie a fronte di fenomeni nuovi, bisognosi di regolazione ma dai contorni ancora indistinti; dall?altro, determina situazioni di minore flessibilit� nelle complesse operazioni di individuazione della regola maggiormente adeguata al caso concreto. La definizione, dunque, pone al giurista una sfida costante, nella quale non si tratta solo di partecipare attivamente a un?utile azione di spiegazione, determinazione o classificazione, ma anche di misurare la pertinenza e la proporzionalit� puntuali di quell?azione. Gli orizzonti di questa difficile attivit� di razionalizzazione vengono, cos�, indagati da prospettive disciplinari diverse (storica, privatistica, pubblicistica, penalistica), al fine di tracciare un bilancio su come si pu� manifestare tuttora la questione definitoria, anche a fronte delle grandi trasformazioni indotte dall?influenza del diritto internazionale e dell?Unione europea ovvero dalle molte e sensibili sollecitazioni che derivano dal confronto tra diritto, scienza e nuove tecnologie.
(401151) Magdalen Ferrier
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Uncertainties in polarimetric 3D reconstructions of coronal mass ejections
Creators: name: Bemporad, Alessandro
name: Pagano, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is aimed at quantifying the uncertainties in the 3D reconstruction of the location of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) obtained with the polarization ratio technique. The method takes advantage of the different distributions along the line of sight (LOS) of total (tB) and polarized (pB) brightnesses to estimate the average location of the emitting plasma. To this end, we assumed two simple electron density distributions along the LOS (a constant density and Gaussian density profiles) for a plasma blob and synthesized the expected tB and pB for different distances $z$ of the blob from the plane of the sky (POS) and different projected altitudes $ρ$. Reconstructed locations of the blob along the LOS were thus compared with the real ones, allowing a precise determination of uncertainties in the method. Independently of the analytical density profile, when the blob is centered at a small distance from the POS (i.e. for limb CMEs) the distance from the POS starts to be significantly overestimated. Polarization ratio technique provides the LOS position of the center of mass of what we call folded density distribution, given by reflecting and summing in front of the POS the fraction of density profile located behind that plane. On the other hand, when the blob is far from the POS, but with very small projected altitudes (i.e. for halo CMEs, $ρ< 1.4$ R$_\odot$), the inferred distance from that plane is significantly underestimated. Better determination of the real blob position along the LOS is given for intermediate locations, and in particular when the blob is centered at an angle of $20^\circ$ from the POS. These result have important consequences not only for future 3D reconstruction of CMEs with polarization ratio technique, but also for the design of future coronagraphs aimed at providing a continuous monitoring of halo-CMEs for space weather prediction purposes.
Reef-associated ichthyofauna from a marginal coral reef habitat along the west coast of India: Implication for management strategies
Creators: name: DE, Kalyan
name: SANAYE, Sushant V.
name: MOTE, Sambhaji
name: NANAJKAR, Mandar
name: INGOLE, Baban
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2021

description: Coral reefs harbour remarkable high biodiversity. Reef fishes are among the most important communities in the coral reef ecosystem, significantly contributing to ecosystem functioning and reef resilience. However, under the continuous effect of climate change and human activities, corals and reef fishes are in peril. For the first time, we documented coral reef-associated ichthyofauna from Malvan marine sanctuary (MMS) on the central west coast of India, an understudied marginal patch coral reef habitat.Experiencing severe stress due to concurrent coral bleaching, fishing, sedimentation, intensifying tourism, and coastal development activities. We reported the occurrence of 47 species of reef fishes belonging to 35 genera and 26 families from the MMS, also a list of hard corals from in the MMS, thus highlighting the biodiversity of reef building corals and reef fishes in the MMS. The coral habitat in the MMS is experiencing severe stress due to concurrent thermal coral bleaching, fishing, sedimentation, intensifying tourism, and coastal development activities.. Therefore, urgent intervention with sustainable fishery management policies and long-term reef protection measures is a prerequisite for the persistence of the corals and the associated reef fishes in the MMS.
Il Manuale per Formatori della Scienza Aperta
Creators: name: Moscon, Roberta
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: Il Manuale per Formatori della Scienza Aperta, tradotto in italiano dal testo originale in inglese "The Open Science Training Handbook", fornisce un?ampia e dettagliata panoramica sulle risorse, metodi e strumenti disponibili ai formatori impegnati a formare -e soprattutto- ad ispirare ricercatori, dottorandi e simpatizzanti su tutti i diversi aspetti della Scienza Aperta. Il manuale non solo illustra concetti e principi che sono alla base della Scienza Aperta, esso offre altres� informazioni sulle pratiche della Scienza Aperta includendo una serie di esempi e di esercitazioni pratiche nonch� consigli e suggerimenti su come meglio affrontare una platea eterogenea ed adulta ottenendo i migliori risultati di apprendimento, su come organizzare attivit� di advocacy a sostegno della Scienza Aperta ed infine su come e quali eventi di formazione organizzare. Il manuale online � stato scritto da 14 esperti internazionali durante un ?book sprint? nel 2018.La traduzione in italiano � anch'essa il risultato di un lavoro di traduzione e di revisione collettiva al quale hanno partecipato diversi traduttori-volontari in servizio presso diversi atenei italiani. Il manuale � un'opera in continua costruzione; la versione pi� aggiornata � depositata in GitHub. Per chi volesse scaricare e/o stampare l'intero volume ne abbiamo predisposto una copia in formato pdf disponibile su questa piattaforma. Il manuale � disponibile anche in spagnolo e in portoghese.
Dietary protein intake is associated with maximal and explosive strength of the leg flexors in young and older blue collar workers
Creators: name: Smith-Ryan, Abbie E.
name: Ryan, Eric D.
name: Thompson, Brennan J.
name: Sobolewski, Eric J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between dietary PRO intake and maximal and rapid strength of the leg flexors in blue collar (BC) working men. Twenty-four young (age=23.2±2.1 yrs), and nineteen older aged (age=52.8±5.2 yrs) men employed in BC occupations completed a three day dietary record and isometric strength testing of the leg flexors. Food logs were analyzed for total protein (TPRO) and essential amino acid (EAA) intake. Rapid and maximal strength capacities were examined from the rate of torque development at 50ms (RTD50) and peak torque (PT) of the torque-time curves, respectively. Pearson correlations and partial correlations were used to examine the relationships between TPRO and EAA intake on strength variables. PT was positively correlated to TPRO and EAA intake in the young (r=0.439 and 0.431;P<0.05) and older aged (r=0.636 and 0.605; P<0.01) men and RTD50 was correlated to TPRO and EAA intake in the young (r=0.512 and 0.310; P=0.01) and older aged (r=0.662 and 0.665; P<0.01) men, respectively. There were no relationships (P>0.05) between TPRO and strength variables when controlling for EAA intake. TPRO intake explained 20–44% of the variance in rapid and maximal strength for both age groups. EAA intake was largely responsible for the positive relationship between PRO intake and strength. Across young and older aged blue collar working male populations, protein consumption was associated with both maximal and explosive strength capacities of the leg flexors muscle group.
(401150) William Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Secular instability in the spatial three-body problem
Creators: name: Féjoz, Jacques
name: Guardia, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider the spatial three-body problem, in the regime where one body revolves far away around the other two, in space, the masses of the bodies being arbitrary but fixed; in this regime, there are no resonances in mean motions. The so-called secular dynamics governs the slow evolution of the Keplerian ellipses. We show that it contains a horseshoe and all the chaotic dynamics which goes along with it, corresponding to motions along which the eccentricity of the inner ellipse undergoes large, random excursions. The proof goes through the surprisingly explicit computation of the homoclinic solution of the first order secular system, its complex singularities and the Melnikov potential.
title: Identification and in vitro bioactivity screening of some marine-derived fungi from Turkish coastlines
Creators: name: HEYDARI, Hajar
name: KONUKLUGIL, Belma
name: GIRAY, Betul
name: KARADAG, Ayse Esra
name: GUZEL, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The marine environment represents a great variety of conditions of pressure, temperature, salinity, and light depending on depth, latitude and interactions with the continental shelf. These extreme and variable conditions enforce marine-derived microbial communities to produce a variety of structurally complex secondary metabolites which may have considerable pharmaceutical potential. In this study four marine-derived fungi were successfully isolated and identified from marine invertebrates (Axinella cannabina, Aplysina aerophoba, Axinella verrucosa, Dendrectilla tremitersis) and investigated for their antioxidant, cytotoxic, antifungal and antimicrobial activities. Three marine fungi strains - Aspergillus sp., Trichoderma sp. and Rhizopus oryzae - were isolated and identified genotypically. Aspergillus sp. had the highest antioxidant activity, and together with Rhizopus oryzae also showed significant cytotoxic activity against HCT-116 cell line. Moreover, among the tested marine-derived fungi extracts Aspergillus sp. was exhibited the highest antifungal activity against Botrytis cinerea.
Trace elements as predictors of preeclampsia in type 1 diabetic pregnancy
Creators: name: Aston, Christopher E.
name: Lyons, Timothy J.
name: Jenkins, Alicia J.
name: Lorentzen, Bjørg
name: Garg, Satish K.
name: Hanssen, Kristian F.
name: Hammad, Samar M.
name: Yu, Jeremy Y.
name: Menard, M. Kathryn
name: Nankervis, Alison J.
name: Henriksen, Tore
name: Basu, Arpita
name: Scardo, James A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Preeclampsia (PE) affects approximately 5% of all pregnancies, but is increased several-fold in women with pre-gestational type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). Increased oxidative stress and altered maternal plasma trace elements that modulate the antioxidant system have been implicated in PE. In non-diabetic women, increased plasma copper and iron, and decreased manganese, selenium, and zinc have been associated with PE in cross-sectional studies. In a longitudinal study, we hypothesized that plasma levels of trace elements differ between T1DM women with vs. without subsequent PE. Samples were collected during the first (gestation 12.2 ± 1.9 weeks, (mean ± SD)), second (21.6 ± 1.5 weeks), and third (31.5 ± 1.7 weeks) trimesters of pregnancy, all before the onset of PE. We compared 23 T1DM women who subsequently developed PE with 24 T1DM women who remained normotensive; and we included 19 non-diabetic (non-DM) normotensive pregnant women as reference controls. Trace elements were measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS). In T1DM women with subsequent PE vs. normotensive, only plasma zinc was significantly higher at the first trimester, while copper:zinc and copper:HDL-cholesterol ratios were higher throughout gestation (all p<0.05). These findings persisted after adjustment for covariates. Higher copper:zinc ratios may contribute to oxidative stress in T1DM women who develop PE. Ratio of pro- to anti-oxidant factors may predict risk for PE in diabetic pregnancies more effectively than individual trace element levels.
Choline: an essential nutrient for public health
Creators: name: Zeisel, Steven H.
name: Da Costa, Kerry Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Choline was officially recognized as an essential nutrient by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1998. There is a significant variation in the dietary requirement for choline that can be explained by common genetic polymorphisms. Because of its wide-ranging roles in human metabolism, from cell structure to neurotransmitter synthesis, choline-deficiency is now thought to have an impact on diseases such as liver disease, atherosclerosis and possibly neurological disorders. Choline is found in a wide variety of foods. Egg yolks are the most concentrated source of choline in the American diet, providing 680 milligrams per 100 grams. Mean choline intakes for older children, men, women and pregnant women are far below the Adequate Intake established by the IOM. Given the importance of choline in a wide range of critical functions in the human body, coupled with less than optimal intakes among the population, dietary guidance should be developed to encourage the intake of choline-rich foods.
title: Description of Daptonema brevicaudatus sp. nov. (Nematoda: Xyalidae) from the South China Sea
Creators: name: QIAO, Chunyan
name: HUANG, Yong
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: A new species of Daptonema belonging to the family Xyalidae was collected from the intertidal beach of Zhuhai City in the southern China, and described here as Daptonema brevicaudatus sp. nov. The new species is characterized by having 12-14 anterior sensory setae in six groups; small circular amphideal fovea; large conical cardia; short conico-cylindrical tail with three terminal setae, anterior one third portions abruptly narrow to conical, transforming to posterior two thirds cylindrical portions, with numerous caudal setae; caudal glands extending forward into the precaudal region; spicules slightly curved, proximal half slender with cephalated end, distal half swollen with pointed and hooked end; gubernaculum with prominent dorso-caudal apophysis; precloacal supplements absent. The new species differs from all previous known species of the genus mainly by its special structure of tail and spicules.
title: Where the wild things are: First dedicated vessel-based expedition of marine mammals in Belize
Creators: name: RAMOS, Eric A.
name: CASTELBLANCO-MARTÍNEZ, Nataly
name: COLLOM, Kristi A.
name: BARRAGÁN-BARRERA, Dalia C.
name: GARCÉS-CUARTAS, Natalia
name: PREZAS-HERNÁNDEZ, Benito
name: CAREY, Teresa
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Baseline data on the distribution and occurrence of marine mammals are needed to better understand their role in marine ecosystems and to protect them from the negative impacts of climate change and human activity. Here, we report the results of vessel-based surveys to document marine mammals throughout the territorial waters of Belize in the Western Caribbean Sea. In 2016 and 2017, 543 km of transects (85 h of survey effort) aboard a 14-m catamaran resulted in 17 sightings of four species of marine mammal: inshore and offshore bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus, Atlantic spotted dolphins Stenella frontalis, pantropical spotted dolphins Stenella attenuata, and Antillean manatees Trichechus manatus manatus. Coastal manatees and bottlenose dolphins were found in shallow waters and all other species exclusively in deep waters east of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. These preliminary findings suggest there is a low density of marine mammals in the offshore habitats of Belize. Future studies should employ vessel-based distance sampling techniques and passive acoustic monitoring to reliably track the occurrence of marine mammals in this region and assess their distribution and abundance.
(401149) Janet Bowman
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(401148) William Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: New records of peanut worms (Sipuncula) from a transitional coastal lagoon in Guerrero Negro, Baja California Peninsula, Mexico and notes on Nephasoma (Nephasoma) laetmophilum (Fisher, 1952)
Creators: name: GÁLVEZ-ZEFERINO, Neysi
name: RIVAZ HERNÁNDEZ, José Amet
name: MORALES-ZÁRATE, María Verónica
name: AGUILAR-AGUILAR, Rogelio
name: SALINAS-ZAVALA, César Augusto
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Five species of sipunculan worms belonging to two families and three genera were identified from the western coast of Baja California Peninsula and collected in Guerrero Negro lagoon. This lagoon system, located in western Baja California Peninsula, exhibits characteristics of marine connectivity, temperature, sediment transport and precipitation that, together, allow it to be considered as a transitional environment. This work constitutes the first approach to sipunculans in transitional aquatic systems and coastal lagoons in Mexico. Four species are new records for the marine fauna of the country. The morphological and distributional features of all species are critically discussed. Moreover, the species Nephasoma (Nephasoma) laetmophilum (Fisher, 1952), which has a narrow distribution in the Eastern Pacific (southern California and western coast of Baja California Peninsula), is noted after almost 67 years after its description. Our results represent a significant contribution for the taxonomic composition and distribution of sipunculans in Mexico. In addition, we point out the relevance of detailed redescriptions in neglected groups, such as sipunculans, as an essential tool for the proper evaluation of species status of specific doubtful names.
Evaluation of meat as a first complementary food for breastfed infants: impact on iron intake: Nutrition Reviews©, Vol. 66, No. S1
Creators: name: Wright, Linda L.
name: Mcclure, Elizabeth M.
name: Westcott, Jamie
name: Chomba, Elwyn
name: Mazariegos, Manolo
name: Jiang, Tianjiang
name: Goldenberg, Robert L.
name: Sami, Neelofar
name: Hambidge, K. Michael
name: Sheng, Xiaoyang
name: Manasyan, Albert
name: Tshefu, Antoinette
name: Krebs, Nancy F.
name: Carlo, Waldemar A.
name: Li, Dinghua
name: Garces, Ana
name: Lokangaka, Adrien
name: Bose, Carl
name: Koso-Thomas, Marion
name: Goco, Norman
name: Pasha, Omrana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The rationale for promoting the availability of local, affordable, non-fortified food sources of bioavailable iron in developing countries is considered in this review. Intake of iron from the regular consumption of meat from the age of 6 months is evaluated with respect to physiological requirements. Two major randomized controlled trials evaluating meat as a first and regular complementary food are described in this article. These trials are presently in progress in poor communities in Guatemala, Pakistan, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and China.
Active-set Methods for Submodular Minimization Problems
Creators: name: Kumar, K. S. Sesh
name: Bach, Francis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the submodular function minimization (SFM) and the quadratic minimization problemsregularized by the Lov'asz extension of the submodular function. These optimization problemsare intimately related; for example,min-cut problems and total variation denoising problems, wherethe cut function is submodular and its Lov'asz extension is given by the associated total variation.When a quadratic loss is regularized by the total variation of a cut function, it thus becomes atotal variation denoising problem and we use the same terminology in this paper for "general" submodularfunctions. We propose a new active-set algorithm for total variation denoising with theassumption of an oracle that solves the corresponding SFM problem. This can be seen as localdescent algorithm over ordered partitions with explicit convergence guarantees. It is more flexiblethan the existing algorithms with the ability for warm-restarts using the solution of a closely relatedproblem. Further, we also consider the case when a submodular function can be decomposed intothe sum of two submodular functions F1 and F2 and assume SFM oracles for these two functions.We propose a new active-set algorithm for total variation denoising (and hence SFM by thresholdingthe solution at zero). This algorithm also performs local descent over ordered partitions and itsability to warm start considerably improves the performance of the algorithm. In the experiments,we compare the performance of the proposed algorithms with state-of-the-art algorithms, showingthat it reduces the calls to SFM oracles.
NOW AND THEN: The Global Nutrition Transition: The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Ng, Shu Wen
name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Decades ago discussion of an impending global pandemic of obesity was thought of as heresy. Diets in the 1970’s began to shift toward increased reliance upon processed foods, increased away from home intake and greater use of edible oils and sugar-sweetened beverages. Reduced physical activity and increased sedentary time was seen also. These changes began in the early 1990-‘s in the low and middle income world but did not become clearly recognized until diabetes, hypertension and obesity began to dominate the globe. Urban and rural areas from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia’s poorest countries to the higher income ones are shown to have experienced rapid increases in overweight and obesity status. Concurrent rapid shifts in diet and activity are documented. An array of large-scale programmatic and policy shifts are being explored in a few countries; however despite the major health challenges faced, few countries are serious in addressing prevention of the dietary challenges faced.
Research design using the Creative Thinking Quest - link to online game
Creators: name: Abbott, Daisy Ann
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
Sociological methodology and research methods
Information systems philosophy, research methods and theory

description: Are you keen to start a quest towards designing a creative and/or research project?
 This text-based 'Choose Your Own Adventure' is interspersed with challenges, choices, and battles, all of which will help you become a project design master and complete your journey towards starting your creative or research project.
 This quest is particularly suited to students in Higher Education.
 Play the quest at https://daisyabbottitchio.itch.io/creative-thinking-quest
(401147) John Bowman Young
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(401146) Ellen [Walker]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.