cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Asthma control in Brazil: a systematic review
Creators: name: Nakamuta, Juliana S.
name: Puglia, Ana Lia Pradella
name: Meireles, Paula
name: Blanco, Daniela Cavalet
name: Lima, Marina Andrade
name: Birck, Marina Gabriela
name: Braga, Marion Coting
name: de Oliveira, Renato Watanabe
name: Julian, Guilherme Silva
name: Forestiero, Francisco Jose
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To explore asthma control in patients undergoing pharmacotherapy on studies in the last 20 years in Brazil. Asthma is a chronic airway inflammation disease with a high prevalence worldwide. Even with a variety of drug treatment improvements, attaining asthma control is challenging, since it should have a personalized approach. In Brazil, studies on the prevalence of asthma control are scarce and usually from a small sample size. A systematic review was performed to assess asthma control in Brazilian population. Terms related to “asthma”, “asthma control” and “Brazil” were used in the search strategies in PubMed, BVSalud, Embase and Cochrane Library, including Brazilian Journal of Allergy and Immunology as data sources. A narrative synthesis was performed to report key outcome. In total, 23 studies were included. Most of them were conducted in the Southeastern and Northeast regions, in a short duration. Pediatric and non-pediatric population were assessed, with a higher proportion of female. In pediatric population, those with poorly controlled asthma usually had severe or persistent disease. In elderly, an increased asthma severity was found, although proper treatment might be effective. Most studies (70%) also described exacerbations, hospitalizations (48%), quality of life (39%), and emergency visits (30%). Despite heterogeneity of outcomes and population, studies show an important prevalence of uncontrolled asthma even in patients being treated, with better disease control with treatment improvements. Studies in Brazil have shown that asthma control remains a challenge and there is still a need for improvement on disease management.
Sustaining the international service-learning experience: a phenomenological study of a program alumni community
Creators: name: Leroy, William Scott
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Institutions of higher education seek to promote global citizenship among students. International Service-Learning (ISL) programming is a common approach to further those ends. While ISL programming has been shown to promote global citizenship in the short term, few studies have persuasively demonstrated its impact is lasting. It has been hypothesized that remaining engaged with fellow ISL program alumni could deepen and extend the impact of such programming. The present research explores this hypothesis. Using a phenomenological approach, this study sought to understand how students at Worldview University (WU) were impacted by remaining connected with other members of a program alumni community upon return from an extended ISL experience. Data were gathered through a 26-question questionnaire, which was completed by 102 individuals (a 30 percent response rate), and through 16 one-on-one interviews. Lin’s (1999) network theory of social capital provided a theoretical framework for analyzing data. Findings indicate that remaining connected with other alumni community members can provide individuals with support and a reminder of the experience as well as facilitating the development of knowledge, attitudes, and skills associated with global citizenship. Findings also showed these “resources” can be mobilized into various forms of social action. Data also revealed the mechanisms by which resources were exchanged among alumni community members as well as some of the factors influencing their flow. Findings have important implications for WU administrators as well as ISL program administrators throughout higher education. For WU administrators, the study reaffirms the value of devoting resources to nurturing a program alumni community. Recommendations are made to help students more easily form and strengthen network connections and to intervene to diminish toxic group behaviors. For ISL program administrators more broadly, by demonstrating a program alumni community can deepen and sustain programmatic impact, the study makes a compelling case for investing resources in the design and development of such programming. Additionally, study findings provide a helpful pathway for program administrators to follow to successfully create and maintain thriving program alumni communities.
title: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter Neue Folge Nr. 50, Jahrgang 2011
title: 1 Wegweiser zur Stadtgeschichte: Die Historie der Reutlinger Straßennamen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 2 Der Ohmenhäuser Ehrenbürger Christian Gottlob Erhard Bunz (1833-1888). Ein Leben zwischen Kirche und Kunst
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 3 Ars una: Der Kunsthistoriker Otto Fischer (1886-1948)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 4 Urschel, Nachtfräulein und andere Gespenster. Überlieferungen und Sagen in Reutlingen und Pfullingen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kronberger, Gerald
name: Bunz, Rainer
name: Meier, Nikolaus
name: Graf, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Reutlingen , Fischer, Otto , Ohmenhausen , Sage , Pfullingen
subject: 050

description: Beiträge zur Geschichte, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt und Region Reutlingen.
Contested norms : the human rights discourse against female genital cutting and its impact on local realities
Creators: name: Giovanelli, Barbara
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: female circumcision

description: Second semester University: KU Leuven.
description: Simultaneously representing a most personal experience, a cultural custom, and a field of global ideological debate, female genital cutting (FGC) continues to fascinate scholars’ and human rights activists’ attention. As a practice that interferes with a woman’s physical integrity on mere cultural grounds, leading to a permanent change in her most intimate organ, it is by many considered a fundamental human rights violation. However, despite committed international eradication efforts it remains to be widely practiced. Starting from the discrepancy between the earnestness of the anti-FGC movement and the ritual’s persistent continuation, this thesis aims at critically analysing the strategy and the rhetoric of the international human rights regime as it tries to counteract the practice. What arguments does it use to delegitimise FGC? How do local realities react to externally imposed change? What perils does a legal top-down approach potentially invoke? In exploring these questions, the case of FGC serves as an insightful example for testing the universality of human rights. Case studies have shown that a radically condemning approach with a straightforward criminalisation of the practice often proves counterproductive and reinforces FGC as a form of protest against western intervention. Only through culturally sensitive and community-led projects that provoke a locally grown transformation of the social norms in which FGC is rooted, change seems to be possible and sustainable.
Uncovering the evolution of non-stationary stochastic variables: the example of asset volume-price fluctuations
Creators: name: Rocha, Paulo
name: Raischel, Frank
name: Boto, João P.
name: Lind, Pedro G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a framework for describing the evolution of stochastic observables having a non-stationary distribution of values. The framework is applied to empirical volume-prices from assets traded at the New York stock exchange. Using Kullback-Leibler divergence we evaluate the best model out from four biparametric models standardly used in the context of financial data analysis. In our present data sets we conclude that the inverse $Γ$-distribution is a good model, particularly for the distribution tail of the largest volume-price fluctuations. Extracting the time-series of the corresponding parameter values we show that they evolve in time as stochastic variables themselves. For the particular case of the parameter controlling the volume-price distribution tail we are able to extract an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation which describes the fluctuations of the largest volume-prices observed in the data. Finally, we discuss how to bridge from the stochastic evolution of the distribution parameters to the stochastic evolution of the (non-stationary) observable and put our conclusions into perspective for other applications in geophysics and biology.
description: 9 pages, 14 figures
Initial emergency department vital signs may predict PICU admission in pediatric patients presenting with asthma exacerbation
Creators: name: Freedman, Michael S.
name: Forno, Erick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Severe asthma exacerbations account for a large share of asthma morbidity, mortality, and costs. Here, we aim to identify early predictive factors associated with pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. We performed a retrospective observational study of 5,185 emergency department (ED) encounters at a large children’s hospital, including 86 (1.7%) resulting in PICU admission between 10/1/2015 and 8/7/2018 with ICD9/ICD10 codes for “asthma,” “bronchospasm,” or “wheezing.” Vital signs and demographic information were obtained from electronic health record data and analyzed for each encounter. Predictive factors were identified using adjusted regression models, and our primary outcome was PICU admission. Higher mean heart rates (HRs) and respiratory rates (RRs), and lower SpO2 within the first hour of ED presentation were independently associated with PICU admission. Odds of PICU admission increased 70% for each 10 beats/min higher HR, 125% for each 10 breaths/min higher RR, and 34% for each 5% lower SpO2. A binary predictive index using 1-h vitals yielded OR 13.4 (95% CI 8.1–22.1) for PICU admission, area under receiver operator characteristic (AUROC) curve 0.84 and overall accuracy of 80.1%. Results were largely unchanged (AUROC 0.84–0.88) after adjusting for surrogates of asthma severity and initial ED management. In combination with a secondary standardized clinical asthma distress score, positive predictive value increased by sevenfold (6.1%–46%). A predictive index using HR, RR, and SpO2 within the first hour of ED presentation accurately predicted PICU admission in this cohort. Automated vital signs trend analysis may help identify vulnerable patients quickly upon presentation.
From empirical data to continuous Markov processes: a systematic approach
Creators: name: Lencastre, Pedro
name: Raischel, Frank
name: Rogers, Tim
name: Lind, Pedro G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an approach for testing for the existence of continuous generators of discrete stochastic transition matrices. Typically, the known approaches to ascertain the existence of continuous Markov processes are based in the assumption that only time-homogeneous generators exist. Here, a systematic extension to time-inhomogeneity is presented, based in new mathematical propositions incorporating necessary and sufficient conditions, which are then implemented computationally and applied to numerical data. A discussion concerning the bridging between rigorous mathematical results on the existence of generators to its computational implementation. Our detection algorithm shows to be effective in more than $80\%$ of tested matrices, typically $90\%$ to $95\%$, and for those an estimate of the (non-homogeneous) generator matrix follows. We also solve the embedding problem analytically for the particular case of three-dimensional circulant matrices. Finally, a discussion of possible applications of our framework to problems in different fields is briefly addressed.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Modulation Classification for MIMO-OFDM Signals via Approximate Bayesian Inference
Creators: name: Liu, Yu
name: Simeone, Osvaldo
name: Haimovich, Alexander M.
name: Su, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of modulation classification for a multiple-antenna (MIMO) system employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is investigated under the assumption of unknown frequency-selective fading channels and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The classification problem is formulated as a Bayesian inference task, and solutions are proposed based on Gibbs sampling and mean field variational inference. The proposed methods rely on a selection of the prior distributions that adopts a latent Dirichlet model for the modulation type and on the Bayesian network formalism. The Gibbs sampling method converges to the optimal Bayesian solution and, using numerical results, its accuracy is seen to improve for small sample sizes when switching to the mean field variational inference technique after a number of iterations. The speed of convergence is shown to improve via annealing and random restarts. While most of the literature on modulation classification assume that the channels are flat fading, that the number of receive antennas is no less than that of transmit antennas, and that a large number of observed data symbols are available, the proposed methods perform well under more general conditions. Finally, the proposed Bayesian methods are demonstrated to improve over existing non-Bayesian approaches based on independent component analysis and on prior Bayesian methods based on the `superconstellation' method.
description: To be appear in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technology
De bevrijding van Q72752496 (album amicorum Jacob Heyblocq) & de Wikidata-activiteiten van de KB, 2 april 2020
Creators: name: Janssen, Olaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Album amicorum
Jacob Heyblocq
Alba amicorum
Wikidata
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
KB, national library of the Netherlands
Wikipedia
Olaf Janssen
Wikimedia Commons
GLAMwiki

description: In dit verhaal wordt de motivatie en de aanpak van het Wikidataproject Album amicorum Jacob Heyblocq stap voor stap uitgelegd.
Het meten van hergebruik van de collecties van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek via de Wikimedia-platformen, 18-06-2020
Creators: name: Janssen, Olaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Olaf Janssen
KPIs
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wikipedia
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
KB, national library of the Netherlands
GLAMwiki
reuse
hergebruik
statistieken

description: Deze presentatie gaat over het meten van het kwantitatieve hergebruik ('keiharde cijfers' dus) van de collecties van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek via Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons en Wikidata, o.b.v. de indicatoren zoals die op https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_en_Nationaal_Archief/Resultaten beschreven worden. Presentatie gegeven op 18 juni 2020 voor 15 GLAMWiki-coordinatoren van Nederlandse erfgoedinstellingen.
The Synthesis of antiCD3-F(ab’)2 and Fab, and the Biodistribution of an antiCD3-F(ab’)2 Radiotracer in C57BL/6J and BALB/c mice
Creators: name: Soliman, Luke
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background: The activation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) has become a
prominent immunotherapy technique for the treatment of various cancers. The binding of
the antiCD3 immunoglobulin (IgG) to the CD3 T-cell receptor (TCR) produces the
cytotoxic T-cell, thereby eliciting an immune response against biological malignancies.
In addition to the therapeutic action that these T-cells induce, imaging of these cells
serves as a foundation to monitor immunotherapy treatment efficacy. Antigen binding
fragments, derived from full-sized therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), have been
shown to bind identically to their parent mAbs while also exhibiting more rapid clearance
from the bloodstream. We developed novel protocols for the production of antiCD3
antigen binding fragments, characterized the fragments, and preliminarily evaluated their
capabilities to rapidly and non-invasively analyze the efficacy of TIL therapy.
Methods: A monoclonal antiCD3 antibody (mAb) was enzymatically digested into Fab
and F(ab’)2 fragments by ficin and pepsin respectively. The antiCD3-F(ab’)2 fragment
was isolated by size-exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography (SE-HPLC), and
characterized by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDSPAGE),
dynamic light scattering (DLS), and SE-HPLC. The fragment was then
conjugated with the metal chelating agent p-SCN-Bn-NOTA (NOTA), radiolabeled with
copper-64 (Cu-64 or 64Cu), and injected into immunocompetent (C57BL/6J) and
immunocompromised (BALB/c) mice. 64Cu labeled antiCD3-F(ab’)2 uptake was
evaluated ex vivo by measurement of radioactivity in target tissues at 6 h and 24 h posttail
vein injection.
Result: Protocols for the digestion of antiCD3 to crude Fab and F(ab’)2 were developed
and optimized. SE-HPLC purification was successfully performed to isolate the antiCD3-
F(ab’)2 fragment. The percent injected dose per gram of tissue (%ID/g) of 64Cu-NOTAantiCD3-
F(ab’)2 between black and nude mice was statistically significant for the spleen
at 6 h, and for the kidney, spleen, cervical lymph node (CLN), and axillary lymph node
(ALN) at 24 h.
Conclusion: Novel protocols for the fragmentation and purification of an antiCD3 mAb
to Fab and F(ab’)2 were developed. The conjugated, radiolabeled antiCD3-F(ab’)2
fragment showed rapid clearance via the kidney, significant uptake in several lymphoid
organs, and further potential for development as an imaging agent for cancer
immunotherapy efficacy.
Climate change regime as the basis for the protection of human rights: enforcing the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement through climate litigation
Creators: name: Punger, Erik
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: climatic changes
human rights
government policy
international cooperation
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

description: Second semester University: Ruhr - University Bochum
description: Climate change continues to have adverse implications for the fulfillment of human rights worldwide. Unfortunately, after almost 30 years, since the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, there still is no international climate change instrument that can effectively implement international law norms, prevent the further deterioration of the climate as well as ensure and protect the enjoyment of human rights in relation to climate change, as 2017’s temperatures stand to show. This master’s thesis seeks to answer the question, to what extent is it possible to invoke the provisions of the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and the recently adopted and entered into force Paris Agreement, to ensure and protect the enjoyment of human rights against the adverse effects of climate change. This thesis examines the use of climate change litigation as an alternative way to force governments to combat climate change, so as to ensure and protect the fulfillment of human rights against the adverse effects of climate change. More broadly, it investigates the capacity of courts at the national level to enforce states’ obligations under the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and especially the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change and ensure and protect the effective enjoyment of human rights against the harm caused by climate change.
Elaphoglossum wardiae Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum wardiae

description: Elaphoglossum wardiae Mickel, Brittonia 37(3): 277. 1985. (Fig. 52D)
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests; 700–1700 m in Peru, 1450–2600 m in Bolivia.
 Notes: — Specimens from Bolivia have darker blade scales than those from Peru (type locality) and occur at higher elevations; more than one species may be involved.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Nationality-based discrimination in the inter/national legal framework: findings from a case study on UNDP and MSF in Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Asanbaeva, Meerim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: discrimination in employment
labour law
human rights
international organisation
NGOs
developing countries
Kyrgyzstan

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: The dissertation addresses the issue of nationality-based discrimination in the Human Resources (HR) policies and practices of International Organisations (IOs) and Inter-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) in developing countries, in view of the inter/national legal framework, namely international human rights and labour law. Using the case study of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kyrgyzstan, it finds evidence that both organisations discriminate against their national staff and in favour of their international staff in terms of differences in wages, as well as unequal opportunities in training, networking and career progression (promotion and expatriation). In other words, local/national staff are paid less than their international/expatriate staff for the same work; they have fewer opportunities to receive training and promotion; and they are almost entirely excluded from the possibility of networking in view of achieving expatriation, that is, joining their organisation’s international staff roster. The study finds that this is in violation of UNDP’s and MSF’s own HR rules and regulations, as well as the international (UNDP, MSF) and national (MSF) legal framework within which they operate in Kyrgyzstan. Positive gender-based discrimination is instead evidenced in both organisations’ work in the country. Finally, the dissertation specifies that, given the scope of the study, these findings have to be considered as preliminary, as well as bound to UNDP and MSF in Kyrgyzstan. More research is needed in this little-explored debate, to which the present dissertation hopes to contribute.
Optimal well-being after depression and anxiety in Canada
Creators: name: Devendorf, Andrew
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We will use data from the Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health (CCHS-MH) to explore optimal well-being (OWB) after depression and anxiety in a nationally representative Canadian sample. We will also examine if our OWB criteria selects a different rate of individuals than Keyes (2005) complete mental health criteria. Additionally, we will examine clinical and psychosocial correlates of OWB. Research Questions (1) What is the prevalence of OWB after depression and anxiety in a Canadian sample? (2) How does the current study’s definition of OWB (Rottenberg et al., 2018) compare to other definitions of high functioning after psychopathology (e.g., complete mental health; Keyes, 2002; Fuller-Thompson, Agbeyaka, LaFond, & BerKlug, 2016)? (3) What are the clinical correlates and predictors of OWB after depression and anxiety? (4) What is the prevalence of OWB after additional disorders, including bipolar 1 and 2, alcohol or drug abuse, and suicide ideation or attempts?
title: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter Neue Folge Nr. 49, Jahrgang 2010
title: 1 Bea Maier (1895-1943) zwischen Reutlingen und Auschwitz. Das Schicksal einer jüdischen Mitbürgerin und ihrer Familie im Zusammenhang der Zeitgeschichte
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 2 Die "Pfandschaft Achalm" im Besitz der Tiroler Linie des Hauses Habsburg. Expansionsbestrebungen in Vorderösterreich während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 3 Zur Geschichte der Reutlinger Mutschel und ihrer Gebräuche
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Borth, Wilhelm
name: Fritz, Eberhard
name: Ströbele, Werner
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Reutlingen , Achalm , Dreißigjähriger Krieg , Judenverfolgung , Antisemitismus
subject: 050
subject: Mutschel

description: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kulturgeschichte Reutlingens und der Region
Germany’s return policies and rejected African asylum seekers. Why don’t failed Ghanaian and Nigerian asylum applicants return home?
Creators: name: Gomez Mensah, Kobby
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: asylum
Germany
return migration
Nigeria
Ghana
irregular migrations

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg
description: Studies on return migration often hypothesise how success or failure of the migration experiment facilitate or hinder return. This has resulted in various migration theories providing grounded basis for return migration. Some theories assume that return becomes the logical choice once the migrant has gained enough knowledge, invested in the country of origin and mobilised sufficient assets. In an attempt to explain why failed asylum seekers from Ghana and Nigerian in Germany do not return to their countries of origin, this case study found that human security concerns rank topmost among the reasons failed asylum seekers of the case studies refuse to return home. This qualitative study interviewed nineteen (19) migrants with varied statuses in Hamburg and also found that due to absence of freedom from fear and want in their home countries, migrants flee reception facilities after receiving negative response on their asylum requests. Their disappearance into existing migrants networks in Germany is to avoid the implementation of return policies, thereby remaining in Germany as irregular migrants. Migrants cite the investment in their trips; non-payment of assured cash sums upon return home; unachieved travel goals; poor economic conditions of other returned migrants and fear of embarrassments in their home countries among others as their reasons for refusing to return home despite failing to secure asylum in Germany.
Quasi-periodic oscillations in accreting magnetic white dwarfs I. Observational constraints in X-ray and optical
Creators: name: Bonnet-Bidaud, J. M.
name: Mouchet, M.
name: Busschaert, C.
name: Falize, E.
name: Michaut, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in the optical flux of some polars with typical periods of 1 to 3 s but none have been observed yet in X-rays where a significant part of the accreting energy is released. QPOs are expected and predicted from shock oscillations. Most of the polars have been observed by the XMM-Newton satellite. We made use of the homogeneous set of observations of the polars by XMM-Newton to search for the presence of QPOs in the (0.5-10 keV) energy range and to set significant upper limits for the brightest X-ray polars. We extracted high time-resolution X-ray light curves by taking advantage of the 0.07 sec resolution of the EPIC-PN camera. Among the 65 polars observed with XMM-Newton from 1998 to 2012, a sample of 24 sources was selected on the basis of their counting rate in the PN instrument to secure significant limits. We searched for QPOs using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) methods and defined limits of detection using statistical tools. Among the sample surveyed, none shows QPOs at a significant level. Upper limits to the fractional flux in QPOs range from 7% to 71%. These negative results are compared to the detailed theoretical predictions of numerical simulations based on a 2D hydrodynamical code presented in Paper II. Cooling instabilities in the accretion column are expected to produce shock quasi-oscillations with a maximum amplitude reaching ~ 40% in the bremsstrahlung (0.5-10 keV) X-ray emission and ~ 20% in the optical cyclotron emission. The absence of X-ray QPOs imposes an upper limit of ~ (5-10) g.cm-2.s-1 on the specific accretion rate but this condition is found inconsistent with the value required to account for the amplitudes and frequencies of the observed optical QPOs. This contradiction outlines probable shortcomings with the shock instability model.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
You for Death, Me for Chaïm: The Carcasses of Chaïm Soutine
Creators: name: Hashmonay, Ori Erna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Housing the largest group of paintings by Chaïm Soutine in the world, the Musée de L’Orangerie is a museum small in scale located prominently on the bank of the Seine in Paris. Secluded in the farthest corner of the museum, a dim room contains seven still-life paintings by Soutine, segregated from his fifteen other paintings of landscapes and portraits. A painter of both life and death, Soutine presents a constant subject in his still-life paintings, carcasses of hares, cattle, and fowl. With each painting situated in the gallery, whether it be The Rabbit (1923) or The Plucked Chicken (1925), Soutine is not simply fascinated by blood-streaked flesh, rather the artist desires to present his complex relationship with assimilation by evoking themes of his status as an émigré artist and inspiration from the Old Masters of the Louvre. This thesis seeks to contextualize this sentiment of wavering identity by analyzing Soutine’s pictorial evolution with regard to his carcass series.  I argue that Soutine’s carcasses directly correlate to his evolving status as a foreigner in Paris.  By exploring Soutine’s carcass paintings, I would like to examine the artist’s dual identity as both an accomplished artist in France and an outsider, in an attempt to emphasize the nuance and complexities of self-image in the artistry of Soutine.
Elaphoglossum zebrinum Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum zebrinum

description: Elaphoglossum zebrinum Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 165. 1991. (Fig. 38A–F)
 Range: — Colombia to Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Rare; epiphytic in humid forests; 300–1000 m.
 Notes: —This species is named for its zebra-like white stripes between the veins. In Bolivia, it is known only from two relatively recent collections: Kessler 8489 (LPB, UC) and Weigelt 90210 (LPB, TUR).
  Sect. Squamipedia  Mickel & Atehortúa, Amer. Fern J. 70(2): 59. 1980.
 Most species in this small section are readily recognized by slender, 1–1.5 mm thick, long-creeping rhizomes; the presence of two aerophores on the rhizomes just behind each petiole (the aerophores are often hidden by scales); pale brown rhizome scales; the absence of hydathodes and phyllopodia; and echinulate spores. One atypical species in this group is E. nidiforme, thought to belong here on molecular grounds. Unlike other species of the section, it is large, with compact rhizomes and nest-forming leaves. We treat the species here, but it is also keyed in section Elaphoglossum. Section Squamipedia is believed to be monophyletic (Rouhan et al. 2004, Skog et al. 2004, Vasco et al. 2015). Two of the Bolivian species have divided blades and have been previously separated as Peltapteris (e.g., Mickel 1991). Except for blade division, they are similar in every aspect to the other species in the section and have been found, based on molecular evidence, to be nested within sect. Squamipedia (Vasco et al. 2015). The section was recently monographed by Vasco et al. (2013), and we follow that treatment.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Methodological Challenges and Sine Qua Nons for Research on LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Public Spaces
Creators: name: Verma, Adarsh K.
name: Rajeev, Devu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Public spaces, inclusive of all types of people, serve as a great way to promote social relations among the community members. However, when we talk about the LGBTQ+ community, they are often not openly welcomed by the heteronormative population. The existing literature on LGBTQ+ is limited to lifestyle, mental health, and their inclusion in workspaces, but their inclusion in public spaces is largely neglected. The present work discusses the requirements for LGBTQ+ inclusion research, commonly occurring challenges, and the potential steps to overcome identified challenges...
Citizenship, democracy, education and the demands of the twenty-first century
Creators: name: Caterina, Martina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2010
Subjects: citizenship
Council of Europe
democracy
education

description: Second semester University: University College Dublin.
description: This thesis deals with citizenship education in democratic societies. Many of the issues democratic societies have to deal with have made clear that the health and the stability of a modern democracy depend not only on the justness of its ‘basic structure’, but also on the qualities and attitudes of its citizens. This explains why discussions on citizenship education have recently become so relevant. This thesis explores how citizenship has been conceptualized in the education policies of the Council of Europe, analysing how these have evolved from the 1950s and focusing in particular on the features of the model of Education for Democratic Citizenship that the Council is striving to implement from the 1990s. These concern the knowledge, skills and attitudes with which citizens should be equipped in order to participate in democratic life. This model is then critically assessed against standards established by political and educational theory in the field of citizenship education, in order to propose elaborations and to deepen the model
Quasi-periodic oscillations in accreting magnetic white dwarfs II. The asset of numerical modelling for interpreting observations
Creators: name: Busschaert, C.
name: Falize, E.
name: Michaut, C.
name: Bonnet-Bidaud, J. -M.
name: Mouchet, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic cataclysmic variables are close binary systems containing a strongly magnetized white dwarf that accretes matter coming from an M-dwarf companion. High-energy radiation coming from those objects is emitted from the accretion column close to the white dwarf photosphere at the impact region. Its properties depend on the characteristics of the white dwarf and an accurate accretion column model allows the properties of the binary system to be inferred, such as the white dwarf mass, its magnetic field, and the accretion rate. We study the temporal and spectral behaviour of the accretion region and use the tools we developed to accurately connect the simulation results to the X-ray and optical astronomical observations. The radiation hydrodynamics code Hades was adapted to simulate this specific accretion phenomena. Classical approaches were used to model the radiative losses of the two main radiative processes: bremsstrahlung and cyclotron. The oscillation frequencies and amplitudes in the X-ray and optical domains are studied to compare those numerical results to observational ones. Different dimensional formulae were developed to complete the numerical evaluations. The complete characterization of the emitting region is described for the two main radiative regimes: when only the bremsstrahlung losses and when both cyclotron and bremsstrahlung losses are considered. The effect of the non-linear cooling in- stability regime on the accretion column behaviour is analysed. Variation in luminosity on short timescales (~ 1 s quasi-periodic oscillations) is an expected consequence of this specific dynamic. The importance of secondary shock instability on the quasi-periodic oscillation phenomenon is discussed. The stabilization effect of the cyclotron process is confirmed by our numerical simulations, as well as the power distribution in the various modes of oscillation.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Measurement of D$_s^+$ production and nuclear modification factor in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of prompt D$_s^+$ mesons was measured for the first time in collisions of heavy nuclei with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The analysis was performed on a data sample of Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair, $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$, of 2.76 TeV in two different centrality classes, namely 0-10% and 20-50%. D$_s^+$ mesons and their antiparticles were reconstructed at mid-rapidity from their hadronic decay channel D$_s^+\rightarrowϕπ^+$, with $ϕ\rightarrow$K$^-$K$^+$, in the transverse momentum intervals $4< p_{\rm T}<12$ GeV/$c$ and $6< p_{\rm T}<12$ GeV/$c$ for the 0-10% and 20-50% centrality classes, respectively. The nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm AA}$ was computed by comparing the $p_{\rm T}$-differential production yields in Pb-Pb collisions to those in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the same energy. This pp reference was obtained using the cross section measured at $\sqrt{s}= 7$ TeV and scaled to $\sqrt{s}= 2.76$ TeV. The $R_{\rm AA}$ of D$_s^+$ mesons was compared to that of non-strange D mesons in the 10% most central Pb-Pb collisions. At high $p_{\rm T}$ ($8< p_{\rm T}<12$ GeV/$c$) a suppression of the D$_s^+$-meson yield by a factor of about three, compatible within uncertainties with that of non-strange D mesons, is observed. At lower $p_{\rm T}$ ($4< p_{\rm T}<8$ GeV/$c$) the values of the D$_s^+$-meson $R_{\rm AA}$ are larger than those of non-strange D mesons, although compatible within uncertainties. The production ratios D$_s^+$/D$^0$ and D$_s^+$\D$^+$ were also measured in Pb-Pb collisions and compared to their values in proton-proton collisions.
description: 27 pages, 6 captioned figures, 4 tables, authors from page 22, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1883
Is offshoring the solution? The EU and the extraterritorial processing of asylum claims
Creators: name: Vassalo Amorim, Sara : Abreu Vieitas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: European Union
law
European Convention on Human Rights
migrations
asylum
extraterritoriality

description: Second semester University: University of Graz. Awarded thesis 2017/2018
Elaphoglossum nidiforme Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum nidiforme

description: Elaphoglossum nidiforme Mickel, Fieldiana, Bot., n.s., 27: 148. 1991. (Fig. 40G–L)
 Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests; 700–2000 m.
 Notes: —Although it resembles some members of sect. Elaphoglossum, molecular phylogenetic evidence places this species in sect. Squamipedia (Rouhan et al. 2007, Vasco et al. 2015). The thin, light orange to brown scales on petioles and costal bases, as well as the echinulate spores, are typical of sect. Squamipedia (Moran et al. 2007). Elaphoglossum nidiforme is a nest-forming epiphyte, with short-petiolate leaves arranged in a basket or funnel that captures falling leaf litter and other debris from the canopy.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Exploring the nature of relationships among those involved in planning, implementing and participating in Aboriginal group programs for healthy healing – A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Urquhart, Lisa
name: Brown, Leanne
name: Fisher, Karin
name: Duncanson, Kerith
name: Cook, Jen
name: Monaghan, Natasha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aboriginal Health
subject: Chronic Disease
subject: Exercise
subject: Healthy Healing
subject: Indigenous Health
subject: Lifestyle Program
subject: Nutrition
subject: Relationships
subject: Service Delivery
subject: Torres Strait Islander
subject: Wellbeing Program

description: We wish to dialogue with texts to explore how relationships are represented that occur between participants and researchers and/or program facilitators of Aboriginal exercise and nutrition group programs.
Probing mixing of photons and axion-like particles by geometric phase
Creators: name: Capolupo, A.
name: Lambiase, G.
name: Vitiello, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that a geometric phase characterizes the phenomenon of mixing of photons with axion-like particles (ALPs). The laboratory observation of such a phase may provide a novel tool able to detect such a mixing phenomenon. We show that the geometric phase is dependent on the axion-like particle mass and coupling constant. We discuss an interferometric experiment able to detect the geometric phase associated to the ALPs-photon mixing.
description: 7 pages, to be published on Advances in High Energy Physics
Highly Restrictive Goals Turn Temptations into Multifinal Means
Creators: name: Price, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: A goal that is characterized by highly restrictive demands threatens personal behavioral
freedoms, activating psychological reactance. Reactance is a goal to restore the freedom to
engage in those threatened behaviors. As such, temptations that are forbidden by the highly
restrictive goal satisfy the goal to indulge in an appealing behavior (the definition of temptation),
and the freedom goal activated by psychological reactance. The present work investigated the
hypothesis that highly restrictive goals transform temptations into multifinal means.
Consequently increasing their perceived value and decreasing their perceived instrumentality,
compared to unifinal alternatives. Two studies supported this hypothesis. Temptations-means
were perceived as less instrumental than goal-means in the context of a highly restrictive goal,
but not in the context of a less restrictive goal (Study 2). Additionally, highly restrictive goals
caused greater desire for restricted than non-restricted temptations, but a less restrictive goal did
not (Study 3). These findings demonstrated that when goals are framed as highly restrictive,
temptations are transformed from unifinal into multifinal means.
Elaphoglossum peltatum Urb., Symb. Antill.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum peltatum

description: Elaphoglossum peltatum (Sw.) Urb., Symb. Antill. 4: 61. 1903. (Fig. 42J, T, U)
 Range: — Costa Rica to Venezuela to Bolivia (LP); so far known in Bolivia from only the immediate vicinity of Estación Biológica Tunquini, Nor Yungas, where it is common.
 Ecology: —Locally common; epiphytic and saxicolous in humid forests; 700–2200 m.
 Notes: —Several forms are distinguished based on the degree of laminar dissection. Of these, only f. flabellatum (Willd.) Mickel is known from Bolivia. Morphologically, it intergrades with var. peltatum in other countries.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Transverse momentum dependence of D-meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of prompt charmed mesons D$^0$, D$^+$ and D$^{*+}$, and their antiparticles, was measured with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair, $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$, of 2.76 TeV. The production yields for rapidity $|y|<0.5$ are presented as a function of transverse momentum, $p_{\rm T}$, in the interval 1-36 GeV/$c$ for the centrality class 0-10% and in the interval 1-16 GeV/$c$ for the centrality class 30-50%. The nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm AA}$ was computed using a proton-proton reference at $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV, based on measurements at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV and on theoretical calculations. A maximum suppression by a factor of 5-6 with respect to binary-scaled pp yields is observed for the most central collisions at $p_{\rm T}$ of about 10 GeV/$c$. A suppression by a factor of about 2-3 persists at the highest $p_{\rm T}$ covered by the measurements. At low $p_{\rm T}$ (1-3 GeV/$c$), the $R_{\rm AA}$ has large uncertainties that span the range 0.35 (factor of about 3 suppression) to 1 (no suppression). In all $p_{\rm T}$ intervals, the $R_{\rm AA}$ is larger in the 30-50% centrality class compared to central collisions. The D-meson $R_{\rm AA}$ is also compared with that of charged pions and, at large $p_{\rm T}$, charged hadrons, and with model calculations.
description: 37 pages, 13 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 32, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1868