cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF ELLAGITANNINS-RICH STRAWBERRY EXTRACTS ON BIOCHEMICAL AND METABOLIC BIOMARKERS OF RATS FED A DIET HIGH IN FRUCTOSE
Creators: name: JUSKIEWICZ, JERZY
name: Krzysztof, Kolodziejczyk
name: Adam, Jurgonski
name: Monika, Kosmala
name: Joanna, Milala
name: Bartosz, Fotschki
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The study compared the effects of two dietary strawberry extracts rich in monomeric (ME) or dimeric (DE) ellagitannins (ET) on blood and tissue biomarkers in rats fed high-fructose diets. The extract rich in monomeric ET contained 94.9% polyphenols and 67% ME in it, the extract rich in dimeric ET 95.9% polyphenols, and 78.0% DE in it. Although both strawberry extracts beneficially affected antioxidant status and lipid profile of the liver and blood serum, the ME extract showed a higher ability to inhibit lipid peroxidation in liver, more effectively decreased serum and liver triglycerides, and exerted greater anti-inflammatory effect in blood serum in comparison to the DE extract. The above mentioned changes in some metabolic biomarkers were connected to the fact that monomeric ET were more prone to intestinal breakdown than dimeric ET. The total caecal and urinal content of ET metabolites was significantly higher in the ME groups vs. DE groups, regardless of diet type. To sum up, the biochemical action of the monomeric ET-rich extract from strawberry in the normalization of fructose-induced disturbances was more distinct than those of dimeric ET-rich preparation. The study was supported by the National Science Centre Poland (grant DEC-2012/05/B/NZ9/03402).
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Data-Driven Approximations of Chance Constrained Programs in Nonstationary Environments
Creators: name: Yan, Shuhao
name: Parise, Francesca
name: Bitar, Eilyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study sample average approximations (SAA) of chance constrained programs. SAA methods typically approximate the actual distribution in the chance constraint using an empirical distribution constructed from random samples assumed to be independent and identically distributed according to the actual distribution. In this paper, we consider a nonstationary variant of this problem, where the random samples are assumed to be independently drawn in a sequential fashion from an unknown and possibly time-varying distribution. This nonstationarity may be driven by changing environmental conditions present in many real-world applications. To account for the potential nonstationarity in the data generation process, we propose a novel robust SAA method exploiting information about the Wasserstein distance between the sequence of data-generating distributions and the actual chance constraint distribution. As a key result, we obtain distribution-free estimates of the sample size required to ensure that the robust SAA method will yield solutions that are feasible for the chance constraint under the actual distribution with high confidence.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Watsonidia pardea
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Watsonidia
Watsonidia pardea

description: Watsonidia pardea (Schaus, 1933)
Glaucostola pardea Schaus, 1933: 572.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Bolivar], Buena Vista.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 34 389 designated by Watson (1971: 71) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 245, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Elucidating the formation of structural defects in flax fibres through synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast microtomography
Creators: name: Bourmaud, Alain
name: Pinsard, Lola
name: Guillou, Elouan
name: De Luycker, Emmanuel
name: Fazzini, Marina
name: Perrin, Jonathan
name: Weitkamp, Timm
name: Ouagne, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The creation and ultrastructure of kink-bands in flax fibres are key issues for developing more and more performing biobased composite materials. Nevertheless, despite many hypotheses and structural characterization, the exact origin of kink-bands and the moment they appear remain unexplained. Here, by using cutting-edge techniques such as microtomography, a range of flax stems and fibres, from the green stem to stretched fibres, were morphologically explored. The study shows that all the extracted fibres, whether scutched, combed or stretched, contain significant amounts of kink-bands, which can be identified by the large pores they contain. On the other hand, at the scale of the green or retted stems, tomographic analysis does not reveal any kink-bands. These original observations suggest that the stress undergone by the plants during their growth is not sufficient, without major growth or lodging accidents, to generate these structural defects; the latter are only revealed after mechanical extraction of the fibres. Hypotheses regarding the kink-band appearance deformation levels are also given to complete the observations.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Industrial Crops and Products (ISSN 0926-6690)
We thought we knew what summer was
Creators: name: Ballard, Susan
name: Brasier, Hannah
name: Buck, Sholto
name: Carlin, David
name: Langley, Sophie
name: Lobb, Joshua
name: Magner, Brigid
name: McKinnon, Catherine
name: Michael, Rosemary
name: Murray, Peta
name: Rendle-Short, Francesca
name: Strahan, Lucinda
name: Taylor, Stayci
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Background
This work sits within the field of Creative Writing; specifically the sub-field of contemporary essay practice. The development of the lyric essay (D’Agata and Tall 1997) as an affective, poetic turn within nonfiction, away from narrative and discursive argument, has opened up fertile grounds for experiments in form and process. At the same time, in the context of catastrophic climate change, scholars such as Haraway (2016), Tsing (2015) and Van Dooren (2014) have asked how new modes of composition and new provisional assemblages can suggest ways to testify and respond to what we are collectively facing.

Contribution
'We thought we knew what summer was' is a collaboratively written essay composed in response to the experience of the Black Summer 2019/20 fires in Australia. Using a novel technique of cross-over writing’ (Carlin et al 2019), previously developed through the 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder book project, this work expands the field of the contemporary lyric essay by showing how multiple authorial voices of testimony can knit into an affectively charged choric essay form. The scale and intensity of the lived experience of climate change, as represented by the mega-event of Black Summer, is conjured through the juxtaposition and meshing of multiple intimate observations and reflections.
Significance
This work is internationally significant in that it brings together an interdisciplinary group of award-winning and acclaimed novelists, essayists, poets, screen and performance writers and art historians, for a novel experiment in collective creative writing addressing climate change. It has been published in Axon: Creative Explorations, one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals focused on creativity and creative processes in creative writing, with a distinguished International Editorial Board including Gail Jones, Ross Gibson, Janet Turner-Hospital, Stephen Muecke and Andrew Melrose.
Volume reduction of water samples to increase sensitivity for radioassay of lead contamination
Creators: name: Aguilar-Arevalo, A.
name: Canet, C.
name: Cruz-Pérez, M. A.
name: Deisting, A.
name: Dias, A.
name: D'Olivo, J. C.
name: Favela-Pérez, F.
name: Garcés, E. A.
name: Muñoz, A. González
name: Guerra-Pulido, J. O.
name: Mancera-Alejandrez, J.
name: Marín-Lámbarri, D. J.
name: Montero, M. Martinez
name: Monroe, J. R.
name: Paling, S.
name: Peeters, S. J. M.
name: Scovell, P. R.
name: Türkoğlu, C.
name: Vázquez-Jáuregui, E.
name: Walding, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The World Health Organisation (WHO) presents an upper limit for lead in drinking water of 10 parts per billion ppb. Typically, to reach this level of sensitivity, expensive metrology is required. To increase the sensitivity of low cost devices, this paper explores the prospects of using a volume reduction technique of a boiled water sample doped with Lead-210 ($^{210}Pb$), as a means to increase the solute's concentration. $^{210}$Pb is a radioactive lead isotope and its concentration in a water sample can be measured with e.g. High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors at the Boulby Underground Germanium Suite. Concentrations close to the WHO limit have not been examined. This paper presents a measurement of the volume reduction technique retaining $99\pm(9)\%$ of $^{210}$Pb starting from a concentration of $1.9\times10^{-6}$ ppb before reduction and resulting in $2.63\times10^{-4}$ ppb after reduction. This work also applies the volume reduction technique to London tap water and reports the radioassay results from gamma counting in HPGe detectors. Among other radio-isotopes, $^{40}$K, $^{210}$Pb, $^{131}$I and $^{177}$Lu were identified at measured concentrations of $2.83\times10^{3}$ ppb, $2.55\times10^{-7}$ ppb, $5.06\times10^{-10}$ ppb and $5.84\times10^{-10}$ ppb in the London tap water sample. This technique retained $90\pm50\%$ of $^{40}$K. Stable lead was inferred from the same water sample at a measured concentration of 0.012 ppb, prior to reduction.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 26 : Short Psalter, produced in the west English Abbey of Malmesbury
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: Short Psalter from the early 14th century, produced in the now dissolved west English Abbey of Malmesbury, with calendar and All Saints Litany, illustrated with artful initials and margin borders composed of leaves, flowers, animals and human heads. Acquired by the Cloister of St. Gall since 1500 at the latest, the volume was "augmented" at this location by the addition of some recipes for medical preparations.
description: Online Since: 2008-12-23
Long-term instability of the inner Solar System: numerical experiments
Creators: name: Hoang, Nam H.
name: Mogavero, Federico
name: Laskar, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Apart from being chaotic, the inner planets in the Solar System constitute an open system, as they are forced by the regular long-term motion of the outer ones. No integrals of motion can bound a priori the stochastic wanderings in their high-dimensional phase space. Still, the probability of a dynamical instability is remarkably low over the next 5 billion years, a timescale thousand times longer than the Lyapunov time. The dynamical half-life of Mercury has indeed been estimated recently at 40 billion years. By means of the computer algebra system TRIP, we consider a set of dynamical models resulting from truncation of the forced secular dynamics recently proposed for the inner planets at different degrees in eccentricities and inclinations. Through ensembles of $10^3$ to $10^5$ numerical integrations spanning 5 to 100 Gyr, we find that the Hamiltonian truncated at degree 4 practically does not allow any instability over 5 Gyr. The destabilisation is mainly due to terms of degree 6. This surprising result suggests an analogy to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem, in which tangency to Toda Hamiltonian explains the very long timescale of thermalisation, which Fermi unsuccessfully looked for.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 9 pages, 7 figures
Glaucostola Hampson 1901
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Glaucostola

description: Genus Glaucostola Hampson, 1901
(Fig. 9H)
Glaucostola Hampson, 1901a: 87.
TYPE SPECIES. — Leucopsumis guttipalpis Walker, 1856, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 245, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Oxidative Stress Markers and their Dynamic  Changes in Patients after Acute Ischaemic Stroke
Creators: name: Žitňanová, Ingrid
name: Šiarnik, Pavol
name: Kollár, Branislav
name: Chomová, Mária
name: Pazderová, Petra
name: Andrezálová, Lucia
name: Ježovičová, Miriam
name: Koňariková, Katarína
name: Laubertová, Lucia
name: Turčáni, Peter
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: In the pathogenesis of acute ischaemic stroke (AIS), oxidative stress plays a critical role. In this study we have focused on determining the range of oxidative stress biomarkers and their dynamic changes as well as the protein expression of SOD and catalase in stroke patients at different time points after the AIS. 82 patients with AIS were involved in our study and were tested: within 24h from the onset of the attack; at 7-day and 3-month follow-ups. 81 healthy, age and gender matched volunteers were used as controls. Stroke patients had significantly higher concentrations of plasma lipid peroxides when compared with controls. Activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD)  and catalase were elevated  and activity of paraoxonase (PON1) reduced compared with controls. Activity of GPx was without any change. Patients at the 7-day follow-up had increased activities of SOD  and catalase but reduced activity of PON1. Patients at the 3-month follow-up had significantly elevated plasma antioxidant capacity as well as activities of SOD and catalase. Our results suggest that generation of free radicals play a role in pathogenesis of AIS. Activated antioxidant protection could limit the damage caused by free radicals.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 83 : Bible (Epistles, Acts, Apoc)
Creators: name: Beda, Venerabilis
name: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing the Pauline Epistles, the Acts and Revelations. The last volume (6) of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
description: Online Since: 2006-12-12
Can fish oil emulsion rich in omega-3 fatty acids influence symptoms of depressive disorder and antioxidant status in children?
Creators: name: Ďuračková, Zdeňka
name: Trebatická, Jana
name: Hrsdečná, Zuzana
name: Böhmer, František
name: Vaváková, Magdaléna
name: Waczulíková, Iveta
name: Garaiova, Iveta
name: Nagyová, Zuzana
name: Škodáček, Igor
name: Šuba, Ján
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Background Omega-3 fatty acids (FA) have emerged as a adjuvant therapy for depressive disorder. The primary objective of this pilot, single-centre, randomized, double-blind and active-controlled study was to compare the efficacy of omega-3 FA fish oil with omega-6 FA sunflower oil emulsions during standard treatment of depressive symptoms in children and to investigate the antioxidant status of depressive children. Methods  36 children aged 11 to 17 years were randomised to the intervention groups. Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) ratings were performed at baseline, at 2 weeks interval during 12 weeks intervention period and at 4 weeks post-intervention. 34 patients completed at least 8 weeks of intervention. Antioxidant status was determined spectrophotometrically as TEAC.

Results Significant  reduction in CDI mean scores were observed after 6, 8 and 10 weeks in the omega-3 FA fish oil emulsion group, but not in the omega-6 FA sunflower oil emulsion group, when compared to baseline values. After the diagnosis stratification to Depressive Episode (DE) and Mixed Anxiety Depressive Disorder (MADD) subgroups, the DE subgroup omega-3 FA showed a greater improvement when compared to the whole group (DE plus MADD). No difference in TEAC values between patients and controls was seen.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 86 : The Pseudo-Clementines
Creators: name: Clemens I, Papa
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: The Pseudo-Clementines in a copy produced at the Cloister of Einsiedeln in the period around 950/970, with a title illustration showing the conflict between Peter the Apostle and Simon Magus. The 10-book "Pseudo-Klementinen" is written from the point of view of Peter's follower Clement and tells about Peter's travels, his conflict with Simon Magus, and the conversion of his pupil, Clement of Rome.
description: Online Since: 2008-12-09
Glaucostola guttipalpis
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Glaucostola
Glaucostola guttipalpis

description: Glaucostola guttipalpis (Walker, 1856)
Leucopsumis guttipalpis Walker, 1856: 1649.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (?).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 245, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 130 : Hieronymus, Liber quaestionum hebraicarum in Genesim. Anonimus, Expositio in proverbiis Salomonis. Junilius, Instituta regularia divinae legis. Hieronymus, Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum; Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum
Creators: name: Iunilius, Africanus
name: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: This composite manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, consists of two parts. The first part was written at the beginning of the 9th century; on pp. 1-74, it contains a copy of the Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim (addressing questions about the translation of the Book of Genesis from the Hebrew) by the Church Father Jerome († 420), in addition on pp. 74-136 it contains the Expositio in proverbiis Salomonis, an anonymous commentary on the Old Testament Proverbs of Solomon, and on pp. 137-190 the Instituta regularia divinae legis by Junilius Africanus (around 551). The second part is from the end of the 9th century and contains two works by Jerome about Hebrew names for places and people in the Bible: the Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum (pp. 191–267) and the Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum (pp. 267–355), the end of which is incomplete.
description: Online Since: 2011-10-04
Workforce Implications of Increased Referrals to Hereditary Cancer Services in Canada: A Scenario-Based Analysis
Creators: name: Dragojlovic, Nick
name: Borle, Kennedy
name: Kopac, Nicola
name: Nisselle, Amy
name: Nuk, Jennifer
name: Jevon, Mandy
name: Friedman, J. M. (Jan Marshall), 1947-
name: Elliott, Alison M.
name: Lynd, Larry D.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Over the last decade, utilization of clinical genetics services has grown rapidly, putting increasing pressure on the workforce available to deliver genetic healthcare. To highlight the policy challenges facing Canadian health systems, a needs-based workforce requirements model was developed to determine the number of Canadian patients in 2030 for whom an assessment of hereditary cancer risk would be indicated according to current standards and the numbers of genetic counsellors, clinical geneticists and other physicians with expertise in genetics needed to provide care under a diverse set of scenarios. Our model projects that by 2030, a total of 90 specialist physicians and 326 genetic counsellors (1.7-fold and 1.6-fold increases from 2020, respectively) will be required to provide Canadians with indicated hereditary cancer services if current growth trends and care models remain unchanged. However, if the expansion in eligibility for hereditary cancer assessment accelerates, the need for healthcare providers with expertise in genetics would increase dramatically unless alternative care models are widely adopted. Increasing capacity through service delivery innovation, as well as mainstreaming of cancer genetics care, will be critical to Canadian health systems’ ability to meet this challenge.
Hypercholesterolemic children, lipid profile and antioxidant status
Creators: name: Nagyová, Zuzana
name: Muchová, Jana
name: Andrezálová, Lucia
name: Garaiova, Iveta
name: Ďuračková, Zdenka
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Hypercholesterolemia represents increase of cholesterol level above 6.2 mmol/l in adults and above 4.5 mmol/l in children. Every fourth child in Slovakia aged 11-12 years has elevated cholesterol level. We investigated some relations between lipid profile, antioxidant status and parameters of oxidative stress.
  In serum of 34 hypercholesterolemic children and adolescents (av. age 16.37 ± 3.75 years) lipid profile, HDL-subfractions (Lipoprint Quantimetrix, Ltd, USA), parameters of oxidative stress – lipoperoxides (LP), iso-prostanes (isoP), antioxidant capacity (TEAC), uric acid (UA), arylesterase and lactonase activities of paraoxonase 1 were analysed.
  The positive correlations between LP and TAG and UA were observed (r=0.713, r=0.435, p<0.05) resp.) Positive correlation was determined for waist circumference (WC) and UA (r=0.699, p<0.05) and a trend for WC vs. LP (r=0.253, 0.05
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Exploring Soils: a hidden world underground
Creators: name: Grover, Samantha
name: Heisler, Camille
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education

description: Research Background:
'Exploring Soils' draws upon my two decades of expertise as a Soil Scientist and interprets this scientific content in the context of my more recent role as a parent. Inspired by the United Nations 2015 International Year of Soil, I authored 'Exploring Soils' and worked with illustrator Camille Heisler and CSIRO Publishing to produce the 3rd in their expanding series of scientific works for a younger audience.

Research Contribution:
'Exploring Soils' takes the fundamental concepts of soil science and communicates them in narrative form, through the experiences of a young child. Complex concepts are described in plain English and the illustrations draw readers young and old in to the mysteries occurring beneath our feet. With over 4000 copies sold and libraries across Australia lending this book out every week, the contribution that this work has made could be considered to surpass that of traditional research outputs.

Research Significance:
This work has been recognised as a "Notable Book" by the Children's Book Council of Australia under the Eve Pownall Award for junior non-fiction 2018 and short listed for The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature 2018. The book featured in workshops and pannel discussions at the Bendigo Writers Festival 2018. In 2019 'Exploring Soils' was recommended reading to all NSW school children, listed on the NSW Premiers' Reading Challenge Reading List. I continue to work with CSIRO Publishing to promote the book and would welcome any opportunities to do so within RMIT events.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 158 : Augustinus de baptismo contra Donatistas, libri VII
Creators: name: Augustinus, Aurelius
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: This copy of the work "De baptismo" (On Baptism) by the Church father Augustine (d. 430) is significant in terms of textual history; it was produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
description: Online Since: 2009-07-31
Effect of Renal Transplantation on Selected Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Modification of Biomolecules
Creators: name: Országhová, Zuzana
name: Paduchová, Zuzana
name: Horváthová, Martina
name: Chomová, Mária
name: Ježovičová, Miriam
name: Žilinská, Zuzana
name: Trebatický, Branislav
name: Muchová, Jana
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: It was demonstrated that oxidative stress plays important role in patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of transplantation on oxidative stress level in patients compared to the patients on dialysis.
 49 patients who underwent a renal transplantation and 63 patients on dialysis (with CKD) were included in study. Kidney transplant patients had good graft function (MDRD = 1.078 ml/s per 1.73m2, serum creatinine levels 99.18 micromol/l). Plasma levels of markers of oxidative damage to biomolecules were determined – advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP), nitrotyrosines, lipoperoxides (LP), 8-isoprostanes (8-Iso) and 8-oxo-guanosine (8-oxoG). In addition activities of antioxidative enzymes (SOD, GPx, CAT) and plasma total antioxidant status (TEAC) were measured.
 We observed in transplanted patients compared to dialyzed ones significant improvement in oxidative modifications of lipids, proteins and DNA, represented by decreased LP level by 33.45%, 8-Iso by 55.87%, AOPP by 29.24% and 8-oxoG by 65.58%. Although TEAC was not changed, SOD and GPx activities were significantly increased by 5.95% and 14.82% resp.
 Following our results we can conclude that transplantation has improving effect on oxidative damage to biomolecules and antioxidant systems of organism in kidney diseases.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 189 : Eucherii Instructiones; Isidori liber differentiarum; S. Hieronymus super Daniel.
Creators: name: Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius
name: Isidorus, Hispalensis
name: Eucherius, Lugdunensis
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: Copy of the first book of the work Instructiones by Eucherius of Lyon († about 450) as well as a small portion of his work Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, the Libri differentiarum by Isidore of Seville, and the commentary of Jerome on the Old Testament book of Daniel, written in an Alemannic minuscule script at the Abbey of St. Gall near the end of the 8th century. This codex, still in its original Carolingian binding, represents the base manuscript of the commentary by Jerome.
description: Online Since: 2009-07-31
An Efficient Summation Algorithm for the Accuracy, Convergence and Reproducibility of Parallel Numerical Methods
Creators: name: Benmouhoub, Farah
name: Garoche, Pierre-Loïc
name: Martel, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Nowadays, parallel computing is ubiquitous in several application fields, both in engineering and science. The computations rely on the floating-point arithmetic specified by the IEEE754 Standard. In this context, an elementary brick of computation, used everywhere, is the sum of a sequence of numbers. This sum is subject to many numerical errors in floating-point arithmetic. To alleviate this issue, we have introduced a new parallel algorithm for summing a sequence of floating-point numbers. This algorithm which scales up easily with the number of processors, adds numbers of the same exponents first. In this article, our main contribution is an extensive analysis of its efficiency with respect to several properties: accuracy, convergence and reproducibility. In order to show the usefulness of our algorithm, we have chosen a set of representative numerical methods which are Simpson, Jacobi, LU factorization and the Iterated power method.
EVALUATION OF MARKERS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMATTION IN PATIENTS WITH END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASES
Creators: name: Paduchova, Zuzana
name: Horvathova, Martina
name: Orszaghova, Zuzana
name: Chomova, Maria
name: Jezovicova, Miriam
name: Trebaticky, Branislav
name: Zilinska, Zuzana
name: Muchova, Jana
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: End-stage kidney diseases (ESKD) represent terminal stage of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) and they have common elements that can be interlinked through the pathways regulated by oxidative stress and chronic inflammation. Therefore the aim of our study was to determine the markers of oxidative damage to DNA, proteins and lipids, also the levels of antioxidant defence (SOD, CAT, and GPx) and special markers (neopterin, paraoxonase activity, ADMA) which are associated with cardiovascular diseases in patients in ESKD undergoing haemodialysis approximately for 3.5 years (2–6.5 years).
 The study involved 27 outpatients (9 female and 18 male) with CKD (average age 62.9±1.76 years) based on primary diagnoses divided into four groups: chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis (ChTIN), glomerulonephritis (ChGN), polycystic kidneys (PK) and diabetic nephropathy (DN).
 Our results confirmed elevated levels of markers of inflammation and oxidative damage in all groups compared to healthy volunteers. The parameters also confirmed the different participation of oxidative stress in pathophysiology of ESKD.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Effect of Renal Transplantation on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Creators: name: Muchová, Jana
name: Paduchova, Zuzana
name: Horvathova, Martina
name: Trebaticky, Branislav
name: Zilinska, Zuzana
name: Orszaghova, Zuzana
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Cardiovascular disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), before and after a kidney transplantation (KT). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of KT on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors – lipid profile, HDL-associated antioxidative enzyme paraoxonase (PON), neopterin (Neo), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), and thromboxanes (TBX) - some of which reflecting proinflammatory state of recipients as well as effect of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), a new independent cardiovascular risk factor.
 63 patients with CKD and 49 patients after a KT were included into the study. Kidney transplant patients had good graft function (MDRD = 1.078 ml/s per 1.73 m2, serum creatinine levels 99.18 mmol/l).

Total, HDL-, LDL-cholesterols were increased but in physiological range. Arylesterase resp. lactonase activities of PON A were increased by 23,9 % and 37,3 % resp. in KT patients in comparison to CKD patients. The level of Neo, CRP, TBX and ADMA were significantly decreased (by 90.28%; 48.17%; 57.07% and 16.08% resp.) after KT. Our data allow us to conclude that transplantation decreases in patients possible cardiovascular risk.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
BOSHLANGICH SINFLARDA AXBOROT TEXNOLOGIYALARI FANINING ELEKTRON DASTURIY TA'MINOTINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Daniyarova, Sarbinaz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqola boshlang'ich sinflarda axborot texnologiyalari (AT) fanining elektron dasturiy ta'minotini takomillashtirish masalalarini o'rganadi. Tadqiqot usullari sifatida adabiyotlar tahlili va amaliyotdagi kuzatishlar qo'llanilgan. Natijalar shuni ko'rsatadiki, AT fanining elektron dasturiy ta'minoti boshlang'ich sinf o'quvchilarining yosh xususiyatlarini hisobga olgan holda takomillashtirilishi lozim. Tahlil va muhokamada mavjud dasturiy ta'minotning kamchiliklari va ularni bartaraf etish yo'llari keltirilgan. Xulosada AT fanining elektron dasturiy ta'minotini takomillashtirish bo'yicha tavsiyalar berilgan.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 204 : Homiliae XL in evangelia
Creators: name: Gregorius I, Papa
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: An exceptionally fine copy of the 40 homilies by Pope Gregory the Great on the Gospels. Written and illuminated with gold and minium initials in the monastery of St. Gall ca. 1000.
description: Online Since: 2006-12-12
Glaucostola romula
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Glaucostola
Glaucostola romula

description: Glaucostola romula (Druce, 1895)
Cratoplastis romula Druce, 1895a: 45.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Costa Rica.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes from Candelaria Mountains labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 245, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Role of Oxidative Stress in Inflammation in Patients  with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Creators: name: Hannun, Prof. Raid Maallak
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this study is to determine the level of blood markers of cellular oxidative stress and then to establish the oxidative profile in 145 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The samples of the study include patients with RA. They were achieved four or more of the criteria of the 2010 American College of Rheumatology, the samples of the study was conducted to fifty persons apparently healthy volunteered to perform the test of this study. We determined the plasmatic levels of malondialdehyde, compared  with the inflammatory parameters .
 Results: in comparison to controls, patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis presented high concentrations of lipid peroxidation products (determined by plasmatic levels of malondialdehyde) . In conclusion,our results indicate the presence of molecular damage determined by oxygen free radicals in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 333 : Haimo of Auxerre, Sermones super epistolas et evangelia
Creators: name: Eccardus IV, Sangallensis
name: Haimo, Altissiodorensis
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: Homiliary of the Benedictine Scholar Haimo of Auxerre (Haimo Autissiodorensis; † around 878). A much used manuscript from the 10th/11th century with marginal notes by the St. Gall Monk Ekkehard IV with added pages from the 12th/13th century.
description: Online Since: 2013-12-13
Anti-aging effects of Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 and the mechanism of action
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Hisako
name: Kobatake, Eiji
name: Miyazaki, Tadaaki
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Aim. The beneficial effects of Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055 (LG2055) on animal and human health have been reported. In this study, we first investigated whether LG2055 has the anti-aging effects on Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and mammalian cell.
 Methods. We analyzed the life span after administration of LG2055 or control E.coli OP50 in wild type N2 and several mutants of C. elegans. In addition, expression of critical genes for oxidative stress response was determined using qPCR. Furthermore, we examined the influence of LG2055 treatment on the mitochondria membrane potential, total ATP levels and mitochondria mass in mammalian cell damaged by CCCP (Carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone).
 Results. LG2055 feeding up-regulated the expression of skn-1 gene and its target genes. Interestingly, mitochondrial mass and ATP level were significantly increased by LG2055 feeding in comparison with the control group. In mammalian cell, CCCP decreased the number of mitochondria, but LG2055 treatment inhibited the decrease of mitochondrial mass. LG2055 also enhanced the function of mitochondria, increased ATP levels and decreased ROS levels.
 Conclusion. LG2055 feeding/treatment were effective to extend lifespan by strengthening resistance to the oxidative stress and up-regulation of the mass and function of mitochondria in C.elegans and mammalian cell.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
THE EFFECTS OF CHERRY SEED OIL, BLACK CUMIN OIL AND TAURUS FIR RESIN ON OXIDATIVE STRESS AND TRACE ELEMENTS DURING CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING
Creators: name: Belge Kurutas, Ergul
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Background: Elimination of oxidative stress and determination of trace element status may  be an important strategy to improve healing of wounds.  This the first study, we aimed to investigate the levels of oxidative stress biomarkers and trace elements during cutaneous wound healing.
Materials and Methods: Thirty rats were used in this study. Our study consisted of six groups such as sham group, control group, cherry seed oil group, black cumin oil and taurus fir resin group. On days 7 and 14 after the wound, the levels of oxidative stress  biomarkers (MDA, SOD, CAT, GPx) and trace elements  were measured.
Results: In our study, MDA levels decreased in the sham and treatment groups compared to the control group. SOD and GPx activities in control group were significantly lower than the other groups. However, CAT activity increased in control group compared to the other groups. Furhermore, decreased Zn levels were found in control group compared  to treatment groups. On the contrary, Cu and Se levels were increased in control group compared to treatment groups.
Conclusion: The imbalance in trace element levels with scar formation and increase of oxidative stress induced by it may increase the intensity lesion.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress
Circular Feed
Creators: name: Iyer, Sreedhevi
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470526
subject: Other literatures in English

description: Background: Susan Sontag’s The Way We Live Now (1986), Kwame Appiah’s Making Conversation (2006), Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides (1993) and Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) form key influences on the research methods and craft choices of Circular Feed, specifically in terms of linguistic and aesthetic innovation as alternative method of reader engagement. While narratives around dehumanisation of detention center refugees proliferate in Australian media, there are very few fictionalised accounts that adequately represent the fragility of that experience to a larger readership.

Contribution: Circular Feed utilises an innovative aesthetic of a collective narrator’s perspective, resembling a Greek chorus. The varying individuation and deindividuation of multiple characters without a singular protagonist is an experimental but aesthetically accurate form of depicting the general public perception of detention centre refugees, as a collective monolithic whole with very little points of individual separation. Eventually forming one of the stories in my collection, this craft method brings in an acute realism to a fictionalised account that challenges reader habits of conventional narratives, and thereby conveying the irony of dehumanisation through aesthetic innovation.

Significance: The story was commissioned by Martin Alexander, the editor of Asia Literary Review, for its Summer 2016 issue. Considered the ‘Granta of Asia’, the publication has featured works and interviews by Aung San Su Kyi, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Seamus Heaney, Bei Dao and Lio Xiaobo. The story in the collection was reviewed in TEXT Journal as “a confronting story…whose names are all etched into the conscience of readers in this razor-sharp tale” (Burns 2019)
Instagram As a Catalyst for Gemeinschaft During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Vietnam
Creators: name: Battin, Justin
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a pressing concern worldwide, and a range of media channels have played myriad roles to communicate information about it to populaces worldwide. This peer-reviewed blogpost provides research about how prominent social media influencers in Vietnam have used the photo-based platform, Instagram, to communicate information and foster social solidarity.

Contribution: Through a textual analysis of select Instagram accounts, this blogpost contributes to the growing body of knowledge of how online personalities around the world have responded to the virus, with specific attention given to Vietnam, a country receiving widespread praise for its handling of the virus.

Significance: This blog post was accepted for publication on the Witnessing Corona blog, a collaboration between the Global Studies South Center (Cologne), Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology, and the blog “Medizinethnologie.” This peer-reviewed blog series seeks to address questions about a host of themes related to the coronavirus pandemic from a social science and/or medical anthropological perspective. This blog is accessible online and available to the public.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 443 : Ritual; preface to Manfred Barbarini Lupus’ compositions for several voices in Cod. Sang. 542 and 543
Creators: name: Mauritius, Enk
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: This manuscript consists of two-parts bound together; the first part (pp. 3-26) contains a 15th century ritual with instructions for visits to the sick, for spiritual care for the dying, and for burial (this is cut off in the prayer at the coffin on p. 26). The second part (pp. 27-86) consists of two discourses in defense of polyphonic music, composed by St. Gall monk Mauritius Enck († 1575) at the behest of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1530-1564). These discourses are meant as prefaces to Manfred Barbarini Lupus’ compositions for several voices in Cod. Sang. 542 and 543. Enck defends polyphonic music against widespread criticism, for example for its presumed lascivia (wantonness), and postulates an ideal for church music consisting of a combination with a chorale as the foundation and figural music as embellishment. Thus he describes precisely the compositions of Barbarini Lupus. At the end of the first discourse (pp. 47-48), Enck names the artists who contributed to Cod. Sang. 542 and 543 as well as the time period of their work on the manuscripts (from 1561 to 1563).
description: Online Since: 2014-09-23
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 455 : Martyrologium by Ado of Vienne
Creators: name: Arx, Ildefons von
name: Ado, Viennensis
Publisher: name: e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
Year: 2025

description: Martyrologium by Ado of Vienne († 875), the main part of which probably was not written in St. Gall, although the manuscript was kept there since the 11th century (supplements to the patron saints of St. Gall). At the end of the volume, there are annals-style notes about the comet of 1264, calendar dates, notes regarding the construction of the cities of Milan and Alexandria, the founding of the Cistercian Monastery of Wettingen, the discord between Emperor Frederick II and his son Henry VII around 1236 as well as the latter’s imprisonment, and hexameters regarding the correct preparation of eucharistic bread (p. 601-602).
description: Online Since: 2013-12-13
Comparative antioxidant activity and potential neuroprotective of Zingiber officinale Roscoe extracts collected from Thailand and Malaysia against glutamate-induced oxidative neurotoxicity
Creators: name: Cao, Shuqin
name: Brimson, James M.
name: Tencomnao, Tewin
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Zingiberaceae) is considered a chemopreventive agent possessing antioxidant, anti-cancer, and neuroprotective activities. Alzheimer’s disease is aggravated overtime due to oxidative stress causing neurotoxicity. In this study, we investigated whether environmental factors and polarity of solvents should be considered as effectors of the neuroprotective potential of eight prepared extracts, from Thai and Malaysian ginger. The total phenolic and flavonoid contents varied from 23.48 to 123.61 mg/g and from 2.11 to 5.62 mg/g of dry extract, respectively. DPPH and ABTS assays revealed the values ranged from 2.44 to 83.66% and from 10.45 to 94.20%, respectively. As co-treatment HT-22 cells with varied concentrations of ginger and glutamate (5mM) was carried out, ginger restored cell viability by 0.25 to 17.67% comparing to glutamate alone. H2DCFDA assay showed ROS reduced from 10 to 46% comparing to glutamate-treated cells. The aqueous extract showed the higher activity in Thai ginger, whereas the ethanol extract had higher function in Malaysian ginger. The geographical factor and polarity of solvents made a significant difference in the protection provided to the HT22 cells. The ginger considered as a neuroprotective agent against glutamate-induced neurotoxicity in HT-22 cells, via an attenuated intercellular ROS accumulation mechanism.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 1 (2016): Special Volume of ISANH Conference/Congress