cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparison of Shedding Characteristics of Seasonal Influenza Virus (Sub)Types and Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09; Germany, 2007–2011
Creators: name: Süß, Thorsten
name: Remschmidt, Cornelius
name: Schink, Susanne
name: Schweiger, Brunhilde
name: Heider, Alla
name: Milde, Jeanette
name: Nitsche, Andreas
name: Schroeder, Kati
name: Döllinger, Jörg
name: Braun, Christian
name: Haas, Walter
name: Krause, Gérard
name: Buchholz, Udo
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Influenza viral shedding studies provide fundamental information for preventive strategies and modelling exercises. We conducted a prospective household study to investigate viral shedding in seasonal and pandemic influenza between 2007 and 2011 in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Methods: Study physicians recruited index patients and their household members. Serial nasal specimens were obtained from all household members over at least eight days and tested quantitatively by qRT-PCR for the influenza virus (sub)type of the index patient. A subset of samples was also tested by viral culture. Symptoms were recorded daily. Results: We recruited 122 index patients and 320 household contacts, of which 67 became secondary household cases. Among all 189 influenza cases, 12 were infected with seasonal/prepandemic influenza A(H1N1), 19 with A(H3N2), 60 with influenza B, and 98 with A(H1N1)pdm09. Nine (14%) of 65 non-vaccinated secondary cases were asymptomatic/subclinical (0 (0%) of 21 children, 9 (21%) of 44 adults; p = 0.03). Viral load among patients with influenza-like illness (ILI) peaked on illness days 1, 2 or 3 for all (sub)types and declined steadily until days 7–9. Clinical symptom scores roughly paralleled viral shedding dynamics. On the first day prior to symptom onset 30% (12/40) of specimens were positive. Viral load in 6 asymptomatic/subclinical patients was similar to that in ILI-patients. Duration of infectiousness as measured by viral culture lasted approximately until illness days 4–6. Viral load did not seem to be influenced by antiviral therapy, age or vaccination status. Conclusion: Asymptomatic/subclinical infections occur infrequently, but may be associated with substantial amounts of viral shedding. Presymptomatic shedding may arise in one third of cases, and shedding characteristics appear to be independent of (seasonal or pandemic) (sub)type, age, antiviral therapy or vaccination; however the power to find moderate differences was limited.
Vancomycin-resistant vanB-type Enterococcus faecium isolates expressing varying levels of vancomycin resistance and being highly prevalent among neonatal patients in a single ICU
Creators: name: Werner, Guido
name: Klare, Ingo
name: Fleige, Carola
name: Geringer, Uta
name: Witte, Wolfgang
name: Just, Heinz-Michael
name: Ziegler, Renate
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Vancomycin-resistant isolates of E. faecalis and E. faecium are of special concern and patients at risk of acquiring a VRE colonization/infection include also intensively-cared neonates. We describe here an ongoing high prevalence of VanB type E. faecium in a neonatal ICU hardly to identify by routine diagnostics. Methods: During a 10 months’ key period 71 E. faecium isolates including 67 vanB-type isolates from 61 patients were collected non-selectively. Vancomycin resistance was determined by different MIC methods (broth microdilution, Vitek® 2) including two Etest® protocols (McFarland 0.5/2.0. on Mueller-Hinton/Brain Heart Infusion agars). Performance of three chromogenic VRE agars to identify the vanB type outbreak VRE was evaluated (BrillianceTM VRE agar, chromIDTM VRE agar, CHROMagarTM VRE). Isolates were genotyped by SmaI- and CeuI-macrorestriction analysis in PFGE, plasmid profiling, vanB Southern hybridisations as well as MLST typing. Results: Majority of vanB isolates (n = 56, 79%) belonged to a single ST192 outbreak strain type showing an identical PFGE pattern and analyzed representative isolates revealed a chromosomal localization of a vanB2-Tn5382 cluster type. Vancomycin MICs in cation-adjusted MH broth revealed a susceptible value of ≤4 mg/L for 31 (55%) of the 56 outbreak VRE isolates. Etest® vancomycin on MH and BHI agars revealed only two vanB VRE isolates with a susceptible result; in general Etest® MIC results were about 1 to 2 doubling dilutions higher than MICs assessed in broth and values after the 48 h readout were 0.5 to 1 doubling dilutions higher for vanB VRE. Of all vanB type VRE only three, three and two isolates did not grow on BrillianceTM VRE agar, chromIDTM VRE agar and CHROMagarTM VRE, respectively. Permanent cross contamination via the patients’ surrounding appeared as a possible risk factor for permanent VRE colonization/infection. Conclusions: Low level expression of vanB resistance may complicate a proper routine diagnostics of vanB VRE and mask an ongoing high VRE prevalence. A high inoculum and growth on rich solid media showed the highest sensitivity in identifying vanB type resistance.
LIT3212: Research & Writing About Literature
Creators: name: Mauer, Barry
name: Venecek, John
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Research
subject: Inquiry-based learning
subject: Literature
subject: Literature--Research
subject: Critical race theory
subject: Study skills--Research

description: When we began collaborating, our goal was to integrate core principles of the ACRL Framework with key literary research strategies. Dr. Mauer taught Lit3212: Research and Writing about Literature in the spring of 2023. Our research skills textbook, Strategies for Conducting Literary Research, was designed for the course and we offer the textbook as an OER to instructors throughout the humanities at UCF, where it is being used in many courses. The textbook and the specific course, LIT 3212, are built around the ACRL's Information Literacy framework, with openness and adaptability being two more of our primary goals. We built the course around Scholarship and Conversation, Research as Inquiry, Searching as Strategic Exploration, and Authority is Constructed and Contextual. Each of those ideas has its own module within the course as well as a companion video featuring a student researcher, Jada Reyes, who studied James Baldwin's short story, "Sonny's Blues" through the lens of Critical Race Theory. In the videos, Jada discusses how each aspect of the Framework informed her research.
Spatial Ecology of Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) Nesting at Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica
Creators: name: Bergman, Quintin D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)

description: The beaches in the Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge (GMNWR) in southeastern Costa Rica are known to host nesting critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata). The spatial ecology and movement behaviors of this nesting population has never been observed. Evaluating the spatial ecology of nesting sea turtles allows for a better understanding of their local movement behavior as well as their large scale oceanic movements that inform conservation needs. Satellite tracks reveal internesting, postnesting migration, and foraging behaviors for four nesting hawksbills from the GMNWR. During the internesting behavior, satellite-tracked hawksbills remained in the coastal waters near the nesting beach for 15 to 55 days before making their postnesting migration. Home-range areas occupied by internesting hawksbills vary between 21.9 and 557.9 km2. Hawksbill internesting high use areas overlapped with the marine boundary of the GMNWR for an average of 29% of time spent inside the refuge. The beginning of all four turtle’s migrations start with a pelagic circular movement away from the coast into the Caribbean Sea before resuming a northern coastal migration pattern. Migration routes varied in length from 662 to 1,486 km and passed through three or four exclusive economic zones of various neighboring nations. Foraging areas of three hawksbills were situated east of Nicaragua and one was found along the northern coast of Honduras, near Roatan. Foraging home-range areas of satellite-tracked hawksbills varied from 205.1 to 696.1 km2. This is the second satellite telemetry study completed on nesting hawksbills in the Costa Rican Caribbean and the first for GMNWR. These results display the use of pelagic and coastal migratory routes for the critically endangered hawksbill. Distant foraging grounds utilized by hawksbills nesting in Costa Rica reveal the importance for the preservation of the Miskito Cays and nearby ecosystems.
MARS4P01: Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Creators: name: Knight, Leah
name: Sharron, David
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Middle Ages
subject: Renaissance
subject: Inquiry-based learning
subject: Sources
subject: Library science
subject: Education--Research
subject: Education, Secondary--Sources

description: Four information-literacy objectives were integrated into a course on Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: 1. Research as Inquiry 2. Information Creation as a Process 3. Scholarship as Conversation 4. Searching as Strategic Exploration We reached these objectives by foregrounding period primary sources in richly scaffolded term-long research projects. Students were invited to radically slow processes of inquiry (Objective 1) in order to reflect critically on how they were forming a representation of each object of study (Objective 2). They shared their growing expertise in a series of presentations that deliberately forestalled the performance of mastery to foster, instead, curiosity both about their object and constructive feedback to their treatment of it (Objective 3). After initial intensive study of and reflection on their primary source in Special Collections, students were introduced to the library’s open stacks—which none had previously entered (not least owing to multiple years of COVID-related online learning). With the objective of teaching how and why to explore physical holdings as well as the digital resources within easier reach, they were invited to develop and refine search strategies to locate relevant, credible secondary sources— which had the added benefit of helping them learn the affordances of the library’s new catalogue (Objective 4).
Assessing vaccine coverage and delivery strategies for influenza and COVID-19 among Italian healthcare workers: A 2015–2023 case study
Creators: name: Pascucci, Domenico
name: Lontano, Alberto
name: Marziali, Eleonora
name: Vetrugno, Giuseppe
name: Moscato, Umberto
name: Laurenti, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are essential in preventing and managing infectious diseases. Despite their critical role, vaccination coverage among HCWs remains suboptimal, endangering not only patient safety and healthcare system efficiency, but also HCWs’ own health due to their frequent exposure to infectious agents. This study examines a decade of influenza vaccination trends and recent COVID-19 vaccine co-administration patterns at a major Italian hospital, aiming to identify factors affecting vaccine acceptance and evaluate organizational strategies to enhance vaccination uptake. A retrospective cohort study analyzed vaccination data from 6,341 hCWs between 2015 and 2023, examining acceptance rates across different vaccination delivery models. Mixed effects logistic regression models evaluated the impact of sociodemographic and professional factors and organizational approaches on vaccine acceptance. Results showed influenza vaccination peaked at 46% during the first COVID-19 year, before declining to pre-pandemic levels. Co-administration rates increased significantly, with a 118.94% rise between 2021 and 2022. Different delivery models significantly influenced vaccine acceptance: “open-day” events significantly boosted influenza vaccine acceptance (OR 22.29, 95% CI [18.22; 27.27]), while the hospital outpatient service proved optimal for co-administration (OR 61.03, 95% CI [30.97; 120.25]). This study reveals important patterns in vaccination behavior and organizational effectiveness. The observed decline in influenza vaccination after the COVID-19 peak suggests vaccine fatigue and reduced risk perception due to widespread preventive measures. The success of different delivery models indicates that healthcare institutions should implement multiple, complementary vaccination strategies tailored to specific contexts and workforce preferences, while maintaining continuous educational support to ensure sustained vaccine coverage.
sj-pdf-1-taj-10.1177_20406223211029616 – Supplemental material for Digital work engagement among Italian neurologists
Creators: name: Brigo, Francesco
name: Ponzano, Marta
name: Sormani, Maria Pia
name: Clerico, Marinella
name: Abbadessa, Gianmarco
name: Cossu, Giovanni
name: Trojsi, Francesca
name: Colucci, Fabiana
name: Tortorella, Carla
name: Miele, Giuseppina
name: Spina, Emanuele
name: Artusi, Carlo Alberto
name: Carmisciano, Luca
name: Servillo, Giovanna
name: Bozzali, Marco
name: Sparaco, Maddalena
name: Leocani, Letizia
name: Lanzillo, Roberta
name: Tedeschi, Gioacchino
name: Bonavita, Simona
name: Lavorgna, Luigi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-taj-10.1177_20406223211029616 for Digital work engagement among Italian neurologists by Francesco Brigo, Marta Ponzano, Maria Pia Sormani, Marinella Clerico, Gianmarco Abbadessa, Giovanni Cossu, Francesca Trojsi, Fabiana Colucci, Carla Tortorella, Giuseppina Miele, Emanuele Spina, Carlo Alberto Artusi, Luca Carmisciano, Giovanna Servillo, Marco Bozzali, Maddalena Sparaco, Letizia Leocani, Roberta Lanzillo, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Simona Bonavita and Luigi Lavorgna in Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease
MARS4P01: Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Creators: name: Knight, Leah
name: Sharron, David
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Renaissance
subject: Library science
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Sources
subject: Inquiry-based learning
subject: Education--Research
subject: Education, Secondary--Sources

description: Four information-literacy objectives were integrated
into a course on Sources and Methods in Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
1. Research as Inquiry
2. Information Creation as a Process
3. Scholarship as Conversation
4. Searching as Strategic Exploration
We reached these objectives by foregrounding period primary sources in richly scaffolded term-long research projects. Students were invited to radically slow processes of inquiry (Objective 1) in order to reflect critically on how they were forming a representation of each object of study (Objective 2). They shared their growing expertise in a series of presentations that deliberately forestalled the performance of mastery to foster, instead, curiosity both about their object and constructive feedback to their treatment of it (Objective 3). After initial intensive study of and reflection on their primary source in Special Collections, students were introduced to the library's open stacks—which none had previously entered (not least owing to multiple years of COVID-related online learning). With the objective of teaching how and why to explore physical holdings as well as the digital resources within easier reach, they were invited to develop and refine search strategies to locate relevant, credible secondary sources— which had the added benefit of helping them learn the affordances of the library's new catalogue (Objective 4).
Population-based incidences of non-fatal injuries - results of the German-wide telephone survey 2004
Creators: name: Saß, Anke-Christine
name: Stang, Andreas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: Incidence
subject: Health survey
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Injuries
subject: Accidents
subject: Traffic accidents
subject: Domestic accidents
subject: Leisure-time accidents
subject: Work-related accidents
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: To plan preventive measures against accident-related injuries, it is important to have detailed epidemiological data on this topic. The aim of this report was to present population-based incidence estimates of injuries due to non-fatal accidents in relation to age, gender and educational level. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional telephone survey from 2003 to 2004 of the resident adult population of Germany, which included 7,341 subjects (response rate: 32.6 to 39.4%). The interview included 13 questions about injuries caused by accidents that happened in the 12 months preceding the interview. We estimated one-year cumulative incidences of injuries by gender, age and educational level. Results: Overall, 10.3% of the subjects reported an unintentional injury requiring medical treatment in the previous 12 months. The age-standardised incidence of injuries was higher among men than women (men: 11.3%, women: 8.9%). Generally, accidents at home were the most frequently reported (27.4%). Men and women aged 18 to 29 years suffered accident-related injuries (and also repeated injuries) the most often during the preceding 12 months. Although the overall incidence of injuries caused by accidents did not differ by educational level, the incidences of accidents at different places differed by educational level. The incidence of work-related injuries was higher among people with a low educational level. Conclusions: Our age- and gender-specific results provide detailed insight into specific patterns of accident-related injuries in Germany. Young men are especially at high risk of injuries. This information is valuable because a nationwide comprehensive recording of injuries caused by accidents does not exist. The data highlight the target groups for injury prevention measures.
sj-pdf-4-car-10.1177_19476035211030991 – Supplemental material for Etiology of Cartilage Lesions Does Not Affect Clinical Outcomes of Patellofemoral Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation
Creators: name: Mestriner, Alexandre Barbieri
name: Ackermann, Jakob
name: Merkely, Gergo
name: Galvão, Pedro Henrique Schmidt Alves Ferreira
name: Ambra, Luiz Felipe Morlin
name: Gomoll, Andreas H.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-car-10.1177_19476035211030991 for Etiology of Cartilage Lesions Does Not Affect Clinical Outcomes of Patellofemoral Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation by Alexandre Barbieri Mestriner, Jakob Ackermann, Gergo Merkely, Pedro Henrique Schmidt Alves Ferreira Galvão, Luiz Felipe Morlin Ambra and Andreas H. Gomoll in CARTILAGE
Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Camoglu, Arif
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Romanticism
subject: Turkish language
subject: Literature
subject: Orientalism
subject: Turkey
subject: Eurocentrism

description: This essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e., hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary and vocabulary back in the spatiotemporally dispersed, multilingual landscape where they emerged and evolved. As it seeks to move beyond the Euro-U.S.-centric frameworks employed in transnational accounts of romantic aesthetics, this article foregrounds linguistic difference and plurality as a conduit for rethinking globality in literary critical approaches to the nineteenth century.
Superstructure Bridge Selection Based on Bridge Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Creators: name: Maldonado, Stefan Leonardo Leiva
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) has been defined as a method to assess the total cost of a project. It is a simple tool to use when a single project has different alternatives that fulfill the original requirements. Different alternatives could differ in initial investment, operational and maintenance costs among other long term costs. The cost involved in building a bridge depends upon many different factors. Moreover, long-term cost needs to be considered to estimate the true overall cost of the project and determine its life-cycle cost. Without watchful consideration of the long-term costs and full life cycle costing, current investment decisions that look attractive could result in a waste of economic resources in the future. This research is focused on short and medium span bridges (between 30-ft and 130-ft) which represents 65\% of the NBI INDIANA bridge inventory.
Bridges are categorized in three different groups of span ranges. Different superstructure types are considered for both concrete and steel options. Types considered include: bulb tees, AASHTO prestressed beams, slab bridges, prestressed concrete box beams, steel beams, steel girders, folded plate girders and simply supported steel beams for dead load and continuous for live load (SDCL). A design plan composed of simply supported bridges and continuous spans arrangements was carried out. Analysis for short and medium span bridges in Indiana based on LCCA is presented for different span ranges and span configurations.
Deterministic and stochastic analysis were done for all the span ranges considered. Monte Carlo Simulations (MCS) were used and the categorization of the different superstructure alternatives was done based on stochastic dominance. First, second, almost first and almost second stochastic dominance rules were used to determined the efficient set for each span length and all span configurations. Cost-effective life cycle cost profiles for each superstructure type were proposed. Additionally, the top three cost-effective alternatives for superstructure types depending on the span length are presented as well as the optimum superstructure types set for both simply supported and continuous beams. Results will help designers to consider the most cost-effective bridge solution for new projects, resulting in cost savings for agencies involved.
Comparative Life Cycle Analysis for Value Recovery of Precious Metals and Rare Earth Elements from Electronic Waste
Creators: name: Li, Zhen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: There is an ever-increasing concern regarding electronic waste (e-waste), which is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. E-waste contains highly toxic materials such as halogenated flame retardants and heavy metals, as well as precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum. Its proper management and disposition are paramount. Incentivized by various legislations and the intrinsic value of critical metals inside, recycling of e-waste is becoming an attractive business opportunity that also benefits the environment. A novel electrochemical recovery (ER) process has been developed as a promising alternative to the existing pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes-based technologies to recover base metals, precious metals, and rare earth elements (REEs) from e-waste. Experimental results indicate that the ER process has lower chemical consumption, enhanced control, and reduced energy demand compared to the pyrometallurgical and the hydrometallurgical processes. To quantify and compare the environmental performances of the three technologies, life cycle analysis has been conducted. The baseline comparison used $1000 revenue from the e-waste recovery as a functional unit. Results show that the ER process outperforms the other two processes in almost all impact categories adopted in TRACI and ILCD while there is no clear winner between the hydrometallurgical and the pyrometallurgical processes. The life cycle analysis helped identify the significant inputs for different processes. The highest impactful input for the ER method is hydrochloric acid, and for the pyrometallurgical method is copper scrap, while for the hydrometallurgical method, it is hydrogen peroxide, an oxidizer that accelerates base metal extraction process that dominates the overall environmental footprint. Other than the baseline case, the environmental impacts of recovering REE from e-waste with different processes and from other method were studied. The results indicate REE recovered from e-waste has a lower environmental footprint than virgin extraction. Overall, the ER process has the lowest impacts on the environmental side among the three e-waste treatment processes. The environmental viability of the ER process warrants the further development of the ER process at industrial scale.
Additional file 1 of Inverse association between plasma chlordecone concentrations and progression of alcoholic liver fibrosis: the role of liver metabolism
Creators: name: Gelu-Simeon, Moana
name: Lafrance, Marie-Josée
name: Michineau, Leah
name: Saillard, Eric
name: Thomé, Jean Pierre
name: Emond, Claude
name: Samson, Michel
name: Multigner, Luc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-jou-10.1177_14648849211033131 – Supplemental material for Back to the future of journalist work? Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalism in Sweden
Creators: name: Norbäck, Maria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jou-10.1177_14648849211033131 for Back to the future of journalist work? Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalism in Sweden by Maria Norbäck in Journalism
Hepatitis E Virus Mutations: Functional and Clinical Relevance
Creators: name: Tong, Hoang Van
name: Hoan, Nghiem Xuan
name: Wang, Bo
name: Wedemeyer, Heiner
name: Bock, Thomas
name: Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hepatitis E virus
subject: HEV infection
subject: HEV mutation
subject: HEV variability
subject: HEV treatment failure
subject: HEV replication
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a major cause of acute hepatitis and affects more than 20 million individuals, with three million symptomatic cases and 56,000 recognized HEV-related deaths worldwide. HEV is endemic in developing countries and is gaining importance in developed countries, due to increased number of autochthone cases. Although HEV replication is controlled by the host immune system, viral factors (especially specific viral genotypes and mutants) can modulate HEV replication, infection and pathogenesis. Limited knowledge exists on the contribution of HEV genome variants towards pathogenesis, susceptibility and to therapeutic response. Nonsynonymous substitutions can modulate viral proteins structurally and thus dysregulate virus-host interactions. This review aims to compile knowledge and discuss recent advances on the casual role of HEV heterogeneity and its variants on viral morphogenesis, pathogenesis, clinical outcome and antiviral resistance.
Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024
Creators: name: Winick, Meryl
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: "Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse's Trail of Lightning" Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
"Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina," Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
"H. G. Wells's Fetishism " Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami
Antibiotika-resistente Erreger in Deutschland
Creators: name: Idelevich, Evgeny A.
name: Lanckohr, Christian
name: Horn, Dagmar
name: Wieler, Lothar H.
name: Becker, Karsten
name: Köck, Robin
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Deutschland
subject: Zoonose
subject: Multiresistente Erreger
subject: Nutztier
subject: Haustier
subject: Germany
subject: Livestock
subject: Antibiotics
subject: Zoonosis
subject: Pets
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hintergrund: Die Frage, ob die zunehmende Verbreitung von Erregern mit Antibiotika-Multiresistenzen (MRE) beim Menschen durch Übertragungen von Tieren erklärbar ist, wird öffentlich diskutiert. Ziel der Arbeit: Diese Übersichtsarbeit trägt Daten zum Vorkommen von Methicillin-resistenten Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) und Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) bildenden Enterobakterien bei Mensch und Tier zusammen und beschreibt die Erkenntnisse zur zoonotischen Transmission. Material und Methoden: Es wurde eine Literaturrecherche durchgeführt. Relevante Literatur wurde durch Screening von Überschriften und Abstracts identifiziert und ergänzt durch Publikationen von Infektionsschutzbehörden bzw. die dort zitierten Originalarbeiten. Ergebnisse: Es zeigte sich eine Vielzahl nosokomialer Verbreitungswege von MRE sowie eine zunehmende Relevanz von außerhalb des Gesundheitswesens gelegenen Infektionsquellen. Diskussion: Für eine effektive Prävention von MRE ist ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz notwendig, der sowohl die Grenzen medizinischer und pharmazeutischer Fachgebiete als auch die Grenzen zwischen Human- und Veterinärmedizin überschreitet.
"There is wealth in the struggle": Unearthing and embracing community knowledges through organizing work in Appalachia
Creators: name: Carlson, Erin Brock
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Technical writing
Professional writing and journalism practice
Philosophy of language

description: In the midst of a period of economic transition, community organizers across Appalachia are working towards a just future that privileges community growth over corporate gain. A recent turn towards social justice concerns in Professional and Technical Communication suggests that efforts of community organizers might be of interest to scholars focused on addressing wicked problems in disenfranchised communities. This dissertation draws from results of a participatory photovoice study in which 11 community organizers took photos, wrote narratives, and responded in focus groups, and site visits to several communities. These methods call for deep engagement with community knowledges, producing rich visual and textual portraits of life in Appalachia that challenge stereotypical renderings of the region and its residents. After providing a heuristic for uncovering and re-valuing community knowledges, this dissertation looks at how place, technology, and community factor into the experiences of community organizers. Results from gathered qualitative data suggest that community members are experts on their own experiences, as participants revealed understandings of complex problems that call into question standard development practices lauded by technical experts. Second, participants demonstrated a capacity for embracing the very elements of their communities that had been used to marginalize them, pointing to the power of unexpected and creative tactics. Lastly, their reflections revealed the need for more attention to be placed upon community organizing in rural contexts and what kinds of community knowledges exist beyond expected parameters. By documenting their experiences organizing around public problems, participants confronted monolithic representations of their region, articulated their own nuanced accounts of life in rural areas, and crafted strategies for community-focused development that privileges people. Ultimately this project argues that by inviting community knowledges into the academic sphere, we might craft more effective coalitions to tackle complex public problems.
sj-docx-1-han-10.1177_15589447211028919 – Supplemental material for Outcome Metrics in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures in Patients Aged Above 50 Years: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Fogel, Nathaniel
name: Mertz, Kevin
name: Shapiro, Lauren M.
name: Roe, Allison
name: Denduluri, Sahitya
name: Kamal, Robin N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-han-10.1177_15589447211028919 for Outcome Metrics in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures in Patients Aged Above 50 Years: A Systematic Review by Nathaniel Fogel, Kevin Mertz, Lauren M. Shapiro, Allison Roe, Sahitya Denduluri and Robin N. Kamal in HAND
Noninvasive grading of renal interstitial fibrosis and prediction of annual renal function loss in chronic kidney disease: the optimal solution of seven MR diffusion models
Creators: name: Yuan, Guanjie
name: Liao, Zhouyan
name: Liang, Ping
name: Cai, Lingli
name: Zhou, Kailun
name: Yin, Ting
name: Chen, Wei
name: Darwish, Omar
name: Xu, Chuou
name: Han, Min
name: Li, Zhen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology
Cancer

description: To explore the optimal choice of seven diffusion models (DWI, IVIM, DKI, CTRW, FROC, SEM, and sADC) to assess renal interstitial fibrosis (IF) and annual renal function loss in chronic kidney disease (CKD). One hundred thirty-three CKD patients and 30 controls underwent multi-b diffusion sequence scans. Patients were divided into the training, testing, and temporal external validation sets. Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression and logistic regression were used to select the optimal metrics for distinguishing the mild from moderate-to-severe IF. The performances of imaging, clinical, and combined models were compared. A linear mixed-effects model calculated estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) slope, and multiple linear regression assessed the association between metrics and 1–3-year eGFR slopes. The training, testing, and temporal external validation sets had 75, 30, and 28 patients, respectively. The combined model incorporating cortical fIVIM, MKDKI and eGFR was superior to the clinical model combining the eGFR and 24-hour urinary protein in all sets (net reclassification index [NRI] > 0, p < 0.05). Decision curve analysis showed the combined model provided greater net clinical benefit across most thresholds. Fifty-two, 35, and 16 patients completed 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-ups. After adjusting for covariates, cortical fIVIM correlated with the 1-year eGFR slope (β = 30.600, p = 0.001), and cortical αSEM correlated with the 2- and 3-year eGFR slopes (β = 44.859, p = 0.002; β = 95.631, p = 0.019). A combined model of cortical fIVIM, MKDKI and eGFR provides a useful comprehensive tool for grading IF, with cortical fIVIM and αSEM as potential biomarkers for CKD progression.
Additional file 1 of The impact of shape and attachment position of biologging devices in Northern Bald Ibises
Creators: name: Mizrahy-Rewald, Ortal
name: Winkler, Natalie
name: Amann, Frederik
name: Neugebauer, Katharina
name: Voelkl, Bernhard
name: Grogger, Herwig A.
name: Ruf, Thomas
name: Fritz, Johannes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Environmental Noise Annoyance and Mental Health in Adults: Findings from the Cross-Sectional German Health Update (GEDA) Study 2012
Creators: name: Hammersen, Friederike
name: Niemann, Hildegard
name: Hoebel, Jens
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: mental health
subject: noise
subject: noise annoyance
subject: transportation noise
subject: environmental noise
subject: ICBEN
subject: noise pollution
subject: MHI-5
subject: mental disorder
subject: environmental health
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The health implications of environmental noise, especially cardiovascular effects, have been studied intensively. Research on associations between noise and mental health, however, has shown contradictory results. The present study examined associations between individual levels of noise annoyance due to noise from various sources in the living environment and mental health of adults in Germany. It evaluated whether these associations persisted after adjusting for potential covariates. Data were obtained from the cross-sectional “German Health Update” study 2012 (GEDA 2012), a national health interview survey among adults in Germany conducted by the Robert Koch Institute (n = 19,294). Noise annoyance questions referred to overall noise and that from road traffic, neighbours, and air traffic. Mental health was measured with the five-item Mental Health Inventory. Bivariate analysis showed associations between high levels of noise annoyance and impaired mental health for all noise sources except air traffic. After adjusting for covariates (sociodemographic factors, chronic disease, and social support), both men and women who reported high overall noise annoyance showed more than doubled odds of impaired mental health compared to those who were not annoyed. The odds of impaired mental health in the highest noise annoyance category from road traffic and neighbours were also significantly increased. These findings indicate that high noise annoyance is associated with impaired mental health and that this association can vary with the source of environmental noise. Further research on covariates of this association is necessary. Particularly, longitudinal data are required to establish the direction of associations and to address questions of causality
Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024
Creators: HC User
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: "Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning" Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U "Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina," Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick "H. G. Wells’s Fetishism " Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C Respondent:  Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami
Vivian and Her Son
Creators: name: Salti, Ramzi
Publisher: name: Three Continents Press
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Postcolonialism
subject: Arab countries
subject: Short stories
subject: Jordan
subject: Postcolonialism in literature
subject: Gender identity
subject: Fiction
subject: Arab Americans

description: This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled "The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World". It has been turned into a short film titled "The 40th Day'--available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
Vivian and Her Son
Creators: name: Salti, Ramzi
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Arab Americans
subject: Fiction
subject: Arab countries
subject: Jordan
subject: Gender identity
subject: Postcolonialism
subject: Postcolonialism in literature
subject: Short stories

description: This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled "The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World".  It has been turned into a short film titled "The 40th Day'--available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
Häufung „Polio-ähnlicher“ Erkrankungen in 2016
Creators: name: Diedrich, Sabine
name: Böttcher, Sindy
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Seit August 2016 wird das Nationale Referenzzentrum für Poliomyelitis und Enteroviren (NRZ PE) ungewöhnlich häufig von Neurologen kontaktiert, die von Patienten mit „Polio-ähnlichen“ Symptomen berichteten. In Magnetresonanztomographie(MRT)- und elektrophysiologischen Untersuchungen waren die für eine Poliomyelitis typischen Schädigungen der Motoneuronen im Vorderhorn des Rückenmarks sichtbar. Polioviren als Ursache der akuten schlaffen Lähmungen (AFP) konnten mit Hilfe von Laboruntersuchungen ausgeschlossen werden.
The effects of human papillomavirus vaccination in Japan
Creators: name: Choi, Wongyeong
name: Shim, Eunha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a prevalent virus responsible for nearly all cervical cancer cases, a major health issue worldwide, including in Japan. With over 12,000 cases of cervical cancer and 4,213 related deaths annually in Japan, effective prevention through vaccination is essential. The 9-valent HPV (9vHPV) vaccine provides broader protection against high-risk HPV types (HPV-31, -33, -45, -52, -58) compared to the bivalent and quadrivalent (4vHPV) vaccines. This study evaluates the public health impact of both girls-only and gender-neutral vaccination strategies using 9vHPV and 4vHPV vaccines in Japan. A dynamic transmission model, calibrated with Japanese population data, was used to project cervical cancer and genital wart outcomes over 100 years. Vaccination scenarios included no vaccination, girls-only and gender-neutral vaccination with both 4vHPV and 9vHPV vaccines. Results show that switching to the 9vHPV vaccine significantly reduces cervical cancer incidence and mortality compared to 4vHPV, particularly in gender-neutral strategies. The 9vHPV vaccine was projected to prevent an additional 857,549 cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN2/3) and 43,799 cervical cancer deaths in a girls-only vaccination strategy compared to the 4vHPV vaccine, over a 100-y period. Gender-neutral vaccination with the 9vHPV further amplifies these benefits, with a faster reduction in HPV-related diseases for both genders. Even under conservative assumptions of 20-y vaccine protection, 9vHPV outperformed 4vHPV in all scenarios. These findings support switching to the 9vHPV vaccine and expanding the National Immunization Program to include boys to achieve long-term HPV control, reduce HPV-related cancers, and improve public health outcomes in Japan.
Handlungsempfehlungen für die Erstellung von Hitzeaktionsplänen zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit
Creators: name: Koch-Institut, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die im nachfolgenden Dokument gegebenen Empfehlungen zur Prävention hitzebedingter Erkrankungen wurden von einem Autorenteam der oben genannten Ad-hoc Arbeitsgruppe erstellt. Sie sollen eine hohe Bekanntheit und eine möglichst breite Anwendung u.a. im öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst erfahren.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-cpc-10.1177_10556656211031877 - Early Communication Behaviors in Infants With Cleft Palate With and Without Robin Sequence: A Preliminary Study
Creators: name: van Eeden, Stephanie
name: Wren, Yvonne
name: McKean, Cristina
name: Stringer, Helen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-cpc-10.1177_10556656211031877 for Early Communication Behaviors in Infants With Cleft Palate With and Without Robin Sequence: A Preliminary Study by Stephanie van Eeden, Yvonne Wren, Cristina McKean and Helen Stringer in The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
Providing English Language Learner Teachers Professional Development through Digital Badges
Creators: name: Rico, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Educational technology and computing
Higher education
Other education not elsewhere classified
Teacher education and professional development of educators

description: This study investigated the viability of a Digital Badge system to deliver professional development to teachers working with English language learners. The study asked several research questions to determine if Purdue’s Passport system was effective at delivering ELL teacher PD. First, the study asked, is a digital badge system a viable tool for delivering professional development to in-service teachers of English language learners? This question helped determine if the in-service teachers participating in this study would be able to obtain the training materials and navigate the online system on their own to obtain the digital badge.
 Then, the study asked, what types of training do ELL teachers think could be converted to digital badges? This question was asked to identify the types of trainings the participants in this study believed could be transferred to an online system such as Purdue’s Passport system and delivered as individual badges teachers could complete with little to no assistance. This question also helped investigate how teachers perceive the current training they attend in face-to-face sessions.

The final question the study asked was, what are ELL teachers’ perceptions of digital badges and their role in professional development? The final question was asked to determine if the participants’ attitudes toward digital badges changed throughout the study and what the participants believed digital badges’ role could be in delivering ELL teacher professional development.

The data collected in this study included the participants’ written reflections within the digital badge system, pre and post-surveys and interviews after they completed the running record badge. The results of this qualitative study suggest that for in-service teachers there are some benefits to delivering ELL teacher PD through digital badges. Results indicate that the participants enjoyed the ability to complete the training on their own schedule and had no issues viewing the content within the running record digital badge. The participants also had numerous recommendations for the types of training they believed could be converted to digital badges and how a digital badge system could be implemented at their school.