cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Safe meat-handling knowledge, attitudes and practices of private and government meat processing plants? workers: implications for future policy
Creators: name: Adesokan, Hezekiah K
name: Raji, A OQ
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2014

description: Introduction. Food-borne disease outbreaks remain a major global health challenge and cross-contamination from raw meat due to poor handling is a major cause in developing countries. Adequate knowledge of meat handlers is important in limiting these outbreaks. This study evaluated and compared the safe meat-handling knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of private (PMPP) and government meat processing plants? (GMPP) workers in south-western Nigeria. Methods. This cross sectional study comprised 190 meat handlers (PMPP = 55; GMPP = 135). Data concerning their safe meat-handling knowledge, attitudes and practices as well as their socio-demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and work experience were collected. Results. A significant association was observed between the type of meat processing plants and their knowledge (p = 0.000), attitudes (p = 0.000) and practices (p = 0.000) of safe meat-handling. Meat handlers in the GMPP were respectively, about 17 times (OR = 0.060, 95%CI: 0.018-0.203), 57 times (OR = 0.019, 95% CI: 0.007-0.054) and 111 times (OR = 0.009, 95%CI: 0.001- 0.067) less likely to obtain good knowledge, attitude and practice level of safe meat-handling than those from PMPP. Further, KAP levels were significantly associated with age group, education and work experience (p inf. 0.05). Discussion. Study findings suggest the need for future policy in food industry in developing countries to accommodate increased involvement of private sector for improved food safety and quality delivery. Public health education on safe food handling and hygiene should be on the front burner among food handlers in general.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 55, No 1 (2014)
Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections among younger subjects of the city of Messina (Sicily)
Creators: name: Visalli, Giuseppa
name: Picerno, I
name: Spataro, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2014

description: Introduction. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are considered a serious public health problem worldwide, affecting especially young people. The international monitoring data indicate that 70% of patients with STIs are aged between 15 and 24 years and the World Health Organization estimates that one out of 20 teenagers contracts an STI each year. We wanted to evaluate, through this work, what high school students of Messina know about the STIs. Material and methods. From February to May 2013 questionnaires were distributed to students of the last three classes of seven high schools, three of which belonging to humanistic area and four to technical area. The completed questionnaires collected were 1588. Results and discussion. The investigation carried out showed a better knowledge of the STIs by students of humanistic schools than students of technical-scientific schools, the percentage of correct answers was 74% and 60% respectively; this probably also depends on the family context, in fact, there is a statistically significant correlation between the percentage of correct answers and parents education level. Young people have a limited knowledge on the subject. We concluded our work by stressing the importance and the need to deepen and improve the training and information of the medical staff, teachers and families, as it is from their knowl- edge and their ability to provide complete and accurate information about the risks posed by STIs that can derive knowledge and choices of appropriate lifestyle between the youth population.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 55, No 1 (2014)
Development of Radiosterilized Porcine Skin Electrosprayed with Silver Nanoparticles Prevents Infections in Deep Burns
Creators: name: Pérez-Díaz, Mario Alberto
name: Alvarado-Gómez, Elizabeth
name: Martínez-Pardo, María Esther
name: José Yacamán, Miguel
name: Flores-Santos, Andrés
name: Sánchez-Sánchez, Roberto
name: Martínez-Gutiérrez, Fidel
name: Bach, Horacio
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Extensive burns represent a significant challenge in biomedicine due to the multiple systemic and localized complications resulting from the major skin barrier loss. The functionalization of xenografts with nanostructured antibacterial agents proposes a fast and accessible application to restore barrier function and prevent localized bacterial contamination. Based on this, the objective of this work was to functionalize a xenograft by electrospray deposition with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and to evaluate its antibiofilm and cytotoxic effects on human fibroblasts. Initially, AgNPs were synthesized by a green microwave route with sizes of 2.1, 6.8, and 12.2 nm and concentrations of 0.055, 0.167, and 0.500 M, respectively. The AgNPs showed a size relationship directly proportional to the concentration of AgNO3, with a spherical and homogeneous distribution determined by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The surface functionalization of radiosterilized porcine skin (RPS) via electrospray deposition with the three AgNP concentrations (0.055, 0.167, and 0.500 M) in the epidermis and the dermis showed a uniform distribution on both surfaces by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The antibiofilm assays of clinical multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa showed significant effects at the concentrations of 0.167 and 0.500 M, with a log reduction of 1.3 and 2.6, respectively. Additionally, viability experiments with human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) exposed to AgNPs released from functionalized porcine skin showed favorable tolerance, with retention of viability more significant than 90% for concentrations of 0.05 and 0.167 M after 24 h exposure. Antibacterial activity combined with excellent biocompatibility makes this biomaterial a candidate for antibacterial protection by inhibiting bacterial biofilms in deep burns during early stages of development.
Boletim Epidemiológico Hanseníase no Município do Rio de Janeiro 2025
Creators: name: Ferreira, Caroline
name: de Souza Monteiro Bernardes, Cristina
name: MATEUS OLIVEIRA AGUILAR, GISLANI
name: Pereira Ribeiro, Luiz Claudio
name: Saraceni, Valeria
name: Alves da Silva, Denise
name: de Carvalho Vommaro, Felipe
name: T. de Oliveira Cardoso, Gabriela
name: dos Santos Oliveira, Jaqueline
name: Moraes Irineu, Nadyra
name: Cruz, Oswaldo
name: Fiorito, Paula
name: Ferrari, Cláudia
name: Freitas, Luciano
name: Soranz, Daniel
name: Prado, Rodrigo
name: Pereira de Oliveira Corrêa, Emanuelle
name: Rodrigues de Aguiar, Aline
name: Terrezo Machado, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Este boletim foi elaborado em conjunto pelo Centro de Inteligência Epidemiológica (CIE) da Superintendência de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS) e pela Gerência da Área Técnica das Doenças Dermatológicas Prevalentes da Coordenação das Linhas de Cuidado das Doenças Crônicas Transmissíveis da Superintendência de Atenção Primária (SAP), ambos da Subsecretaria de Promoção, Atenção Primária e Vigilância em Saúde (SUBPAV) da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde do Rio de Janeiro (SMS-Rio). Esta edição do boletim epidemiológico é em formato eletrônico e interativo.

A hanseníase é uma doença infecciosa crônica causada pelo Mycobacterium leprae. Este agente tem afinidade pelas células da pele e nervos periféricos fazendo com que as principais manifestações da doença sejam cutâneas e neurais, que podem gerar deficiência física. Essa complicação é evitada com a detecção precoce, acompanhamento e tratamento adequado.

A doença integra a Lista Nacional de Notificação Compulsória, o que exige que todos os casos sejam notificados com informações completas, precisas e atualizadas em tempo oportuno. O registro correto dos dados é essencial não apenas para o acompanhamento individual do cuidado, mas também para fornecer subsídios ao planejamento, monitoramento e avaliação das políticas de saúde.
Supplementary document for Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors - 5552927.pdf
Creators: name: Miyata, Masashi
name: Nemoto, Naru
name: Shikama, Kota
name: Kobayashi, Fumihide
name: Hashimoto, Toshikazu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors
Additional file 1 of Determinants of adherence to personal preventive behaviours based on the health belief model: a cross-sectional study in South Korea during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Baek, Jiwon
name: Kim, Kyung Hee
name: Choi, Jae Wook
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Anti-aestheticizing Australian Landscape: Compounding Historical Narratives within Pictures
Creators: name: Greene, Brent
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330109
subject: Landscape architecture

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Greene's article, 'Anti-aestheticizing Australian Landscape: Compounding Historical Narratives within Pictures' gives an overview of his creative works that aspire to construct landscapes that carry multiple, rather than singular narratives as a means to explore Australia's extensive landscape tradition. This written piece appeared in the visual art section of 'Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language', Vol. 7 Issue 1 (2013). RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The works described in the text respond to the tradition of landscape representation in Australia, whereby 'landscape' was appropriated to construct colonial, nation-building narratives with a disregard to lesser-known yet equally significant landscape histories such as Indigenous dispossession and genocide. Through description and discussion of his works, Greene suggests strategies for landscape depiction and expression that communicate past and present entanglements within Australian space. This written piece draws on and contributes to Greene's ongoing research practice exploring how multiple components of the urban landscape, including nature based phenomena, economic and political systems, impact the conceptualisation and design of urban wildness in public open space. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language' is a respected journal that offers a platform for exploring the interrelationships between landscape and language, with a particular interest in ecocritical approaches. All submissions, including creative works, are rigorously refereed.
Tickle Booklets
Creators: name: Lethlean, Perry
name: Cullity, Kate
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330109
subject: Landscape architecture

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Tickle Booklets are a series of pamphlets that communicate the research focus of the landscape architectural practice Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL), where Perry Lethlean is a Director. The Booklets came out of TCL's Tickle program: its vehicle for discourse, collaboration and innovation through research investigations, manifestos, exhibitions, lectures and symposiums. The first six booklets were generated over 3 years, and included Waterfronts 01, Streetscapes 02, Peculiar Places 03, Clocked Off 04 and Pop-Ups 05 and Victoria Square/ Tarndanyangga ESD 06. Together these booklets capture the parallel investigations of TCL's practice and collate it for future reflection, progression and dissemination to a broader audience. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The production and curation of Tickle Booklets required thought, care and appreciation of what is intangible. Through battling with the idea of losing the data within the 'system' the booklets extract the data and transform it into a designed legible booklet that can transfer the knowledge from designer to a wider audience. Through this act rigour is sought to define the content and push the boundaries of how a landscape architect can act within practice. This project demonstrates Lethlean's contributions to practice-based research, and to speculations on the future of landscape architecture practice, and how TCL could challenge existing paradigms and continue to contribute meaningfully. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The Tickle Booklets won the prestigious 2014 Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA) National Award for Research and Communication. The jury commended TCL for this important contribution to the profession. The project is documented on Tickle's blog - the central reference point for TCL's research discourse and activities. Tickle featured on World Landscape Architecture (webzine) and Architecture Australia (professional journal).
Additional file 18 of Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish
Creators: name: Parmentier, T.
name: Gaju-Ricart, M.
name: Wenseleers, T.
name: Molero-Baltanás, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 18. Details of survival tests.
Differences in Durability of PARP Inhibition by Clinically Approved PARP Inhibitors: Implications for Combinations and Scheduling
Creators: name: Smith, Hannah L.
name: Willmore, Elaine
name: Mukhopadhyay, Asima
name: Drew, Yvette
name: Curtin, Nicola J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Six PARP inhibitors (PARPi) are approved for cancer therapy as monotherapy agents in daily or twice-daily continuous dosing schedules to maintain the necessary continuous suppression of PARP activity. Continuous PARP inhibition is required for single-agent anticancer activity. To investigate if such intense schedules are necessary, we determined the durability of PARP inhibition up to 72 h after a 1 h pulse of 1 µM of five of the approved PARPi, rucaparib, olaparib, niraparib, talazoparib and pamiparib, in IGROV-1 and ES-2 (human ovarian cancer) cells. Rucaparib caused the most persistent inhibition of PARP activity when maintained at ≥75% at 72 h after drug withdrawal in both IGROV-1 and ES-2 cells, but inhibition was more rapidly lost with the other PARPi. PARPi are also under clinical investigation with ATR inhibitors, and thus, we evaluated the implications for scheduling with an ATR inhibitor (VE-821). Rucaparib enhanced VE-821 cytotoxicity in co-exposure, sequential and delayed (24 h drug-free) schedules in IGROV-1 and ES-2 cells. Olaparib and niraparib enhanced VE-821 cytotoxicity only in co-exposed cells and not in sequential exposures. These data have clinical implications for the scheduling of PARPi as a monotherapy and in combination with ATR inhibitors and other cytotoxic drugs.
Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites
Creators: name: Snooks, Roland
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: This essay discusses the behavioural design methodologies that sustain Kokkugia's architectural design practice. As Director of the practice, Roland Snooks was initially invited by The Funambulist to write the essay for its weblog. The essay was subsequently selected for publication in the book The Funambulist Papers, volume 1; curated and edited by Leopold Lambert, the book is a collection of 35 texts from guest writers' essays written for the weblog between June 2011 and November 2012. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: In this essay, Snooks presents a theoretical argument based on complexity theory to articulate his design process based on behavioural structural formation and an inherently organisational understanding of form. He states that behavioural design methodologies represent a shift from 'form being imposed upon matter' to 'form emerging from the interaction of localized entities within a complex system.' This essay demonstrates Snooks' larger research trajectory to develop and articulate a behavioural approach to architectural design that draws from the logic of swarm intelligence and operates through multi-agent algorithms. It situates his practice within a new architectural paradigm that has developed out of complexity theory, computation and emergent phenomena. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This essay was selected for The Funambulist Papers Volume 1. It was published by Punctum Books (New York) which specialises in publications that focus on radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry in association with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons: The New School for Design. Snooks' essay was included in a significant collection that critically considers architecture as something embedded within (geo)political, cultural, social, historical, biological, and dromological mechanisms that widely exceed what is traditionally understood as the limits of its expertise.
Determinants of utilization of traditional bone setters in Ilorin, North Central Nigeria
Creators: name: Aderibigbe, SA
name: Agaja,
name: Bamidele, JO
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: Background. Traditional bone setting (TBS) practice is an important part of health care delivery in many developing coun- tries and has been in Nigeria for long. Despite the complications that arise from the cultural practice, TBS services is still in high demand by a significant number of people. This study was con- ducted to determine the factors that influence the utilization of TBS practice.
Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using a semi structured questionnaire to gather information from 400 randomly selected residents of Ilorin West LGA in north cen- tral Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents.
Results. The respondents were between the ages of 18-72 years with a mean age of 36.3 Â± 12.3. Three hundred and three (77.3%) of the respondents know of TBS practice as a way of getting treat- ment for bone injuries. More than two third 210 (69.3%) of the respondents who know TBS practice as a form of treatment for bone injuries think that TBS therapy is preferable to Orthodox medicine in handling bone injuries. Reasons for preference are that it is cheap 134 (63.8%), acceptable 123 (58.6%) and accessible 109 (51.9%) to them. More than half (52.3%) of the respond- ents had patronized TBS treatment at one time or the other. Main reason for patronage of TBS was influence from family mem- bers and friends (53.6%). However, factors that influence the respondents decision to utilize TBS treatment include attitude of health workers 310 (77.5%), delay in hospitals 284(71.0%) fear of amputation 272 (54.35) and fear of operation 217(54.3%) in hospitals. There was a statistically significant (p  inf.  0.05) relation- ship between respondents age, sex, marital status, occupation, ethnicity as well as the income level of the respondents and the utilization of TBS.
Conclusions. Utilisation of TBS is quite popular among the stud- ied population because it is believed to be cheap, acceptable and accessible to them and a high proportion of the respondents uti- lize TBS notwithstanding that they live in a community where they have better access to orthodox medical care. Influence from fam- ily and friends is the main reason for consulting TBS. Regulations should be made concerning the advertisement of TBS practice by relevant agencies and the public should be made aware through health education on the dangers of TBS treatment.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Correlation between physical activity and sedentary behavior with healthy and unhealthy behaviors in Italy and Tuscan region: a cross sectional study
Creators: name: Lazzeri, Giacomo
name: Azzolini, E
name: Pammolli, A
name: De Wet, DR
name: Giacchi, MV
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: Introduction. Regular physical activity (PA) has associated with various positive health aspects such as a decreased risk of chronic or generic illnesses, furthermore, a sedentary lifestyle has been asso- ciated with health problems such as obesity. To examine the rela- tionship between patterns of PA, screen-based media use (SBM) and social health indicators within a specific demographic group and highlight the regional vs. national differences in these relationships. Methods. The data is drawn from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) database, a national cross-sec- tional survey in a representative sample (N = 3920) of students aged 11-13-15 years and compared to those of the Tuscan region (N = 3381). Variables considered other than PA and SBM use includes positive health indicators such as physical health status, quality of family and peer relationships, fruit consumption, break- fast consumption as well as negative health indicators, such as health complaints, smoking and alcohol use. Results. Some positive health indicators showed a positive cor- relation with PA. Students adopting healthy behaviours often met the Physical Activity Guide Line (PAGL). On the contrary, negative health indicators were associated with PAGL in a neg- ative way.
In general SBM was positively related to several of the negative health indicators and vice versa.
SBM was related in a positive fashion to tobacco use that repre- sents a protective factor.
Discussion. The results show that met PAGL is associated with positive health indicators and that high levels of SBM use is asso- ciated with negative health indicators. The study also emphasizes the relationship between PA, SBM use and social factors. Increas- ing PA and decreasing SBM use should be an aim in general health behaviour promotion.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Additional file 1 of Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish
Creators: name: Parmentier, T.
name: Gaju-Ricart, M.
name: Wenseleers, T.
name: Molero-Baltanás, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Phylogeny based on morphological traits of the studied species.
Asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia using rapid diagnostic test in unbooked pregnant women in rural Ondo-south district, Nigeria
Creators: name: Nwaneri, DU
name: Adeleye, OA
name: Ande, AB
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: Background. Malaria is a major contributor of maternal and peri-natal morbidity and mortality. The disease may be asymp- tomatic despite sequestration of parasitized red blood cells in the placental micro-circulation with antecedent complications. In such condition, it may also be difficult to identify the malaria parasite by the peripheral blood film microscopy, thus the need for use of simple but reliable tool for malaria parasite diagnosis. Objective and method. To determine the prevalence of asymp- tomatic malaria parasitaemia using the Rapid Diagnostic Test in pregnant unbooked women seen in a primary health centre dur- ing a malaria control campaign programme in rural Ondo-south, District Nigeria. Results. Prevalence of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia was 25.9%. Only 3 (3.5%) of the 85 women had the long lasting insecticide-treated nets. There was no significant association between malaria parasitaemia, and the age group, parity and gestation age.
Conclusion. Given the high prevalence of asymptomatic malaria in pregnancy, routine screening for malaria at booking and scaling-up of other malaria control strategies such as the use of long lasting insecticidal-treated nets and intermittent preventive therapy for pregnant women are recommended.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Prognostic peripheral blood biomarkers at ICU admission predict COVID-19 clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Messing, Melina
name: Sekhon, Mypinder S.
name: Hughes, Michael R.
name: Stukas, Sophie
name: Hoiland, Ryan L.
name: Cooper, Jennifer
name: Ahmed, Nyra
name: Hamer, Mark S.
name: Li, Yicong
name: Shin, Samuel B.
name: Tung, Lin Wei
name: Wellington, Cheryl L.
name: Sin, Don D.
name: Leslie, Kevin B.
name: McNagny, Kelly M.
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2022

description: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge the capacities of hospital ICUs which currently lack the ability to identify prospectively those patients who may require extended management. In this study of 90 ICU COVID-19 patients, we evaluated serum levels of four cytokines (IL-1b, IL-6, IL-10 and TNFa) as well as standard clinical and laboratory measurements. On 42 of these patients (binned into Initial and Replication Cohorts), we further performed CyTOF-based deep immunophenotyping of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with a panel of 38 antibodies. All measurements and patient samples were taken at time of ICU admission and retrospectively linked to patient clinical outcomes through statistical approaches. These analyses resulted in the definition of a new measure of patient clinical outcome: patients who will recover after short ICU stays (< 6 days) and those who will subsequently die or recover after long ICU stays (≥6 days). Based on these clinical outcome categories, we identified blood prognostic biomarkers that, at time of ICU admission, prospectively distinguish, with 91% sensitivity and 91% specificity (positive likelihood ratio 10.1), patients in the two clinical outcome groups. This is achieved through a tiered evaluation of serum IL-10 and targeted immunophenotyping of monocyte subsets, specifically, CD11clow classical monocytes. Both immune biomarkers were consistently elevated ( ≥15 pg/ml and ≥2.7 x107 /L for serum IL-10 and CD11clow classical monocytes, respectively) in those patients who will subsequently die or recover after long ICU stays. This highly sensitive and specific prognostic test could prove useful in guiding clinical resource allocation.
Baking soda and salt in bakeries of Mehrdasht (Najafabad), Isfahan, Iran: a survey on a typical rural population in a developing country
Creators: name: Rezaiimofrad, M
name: Rangraz Jeddi, F
name: Azarbad, Z
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: Background. Bread is a valuable source of proteins, minerals and calories. Baking soda prevents the absorption and digestion of bread and more salt used in production of bread also causes different diseases. This study was conducted to determine the amount of soda and salt in bakeries.
Method. Cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 50 bakeries district during 2009. 400 samples were collected in four steps randomly. The standard PH  inf.  6.2 indicative of no consumption of baking soda in bread and salt less than 2g/100 g was con- sidered as the reference.
Results. The PH less than 6.2 was seen in 91.5% of samples and analyzed by random effect analysis. In 64.5% of samples, the amount of salt was more than the standard.
Conclusion. The amount of baking soda used in the bakeries was not high; bakers either had no enough knowledge about the amount of salt or had more other reasons. Drastic measures are recommended.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Supplementary document for Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors - 5552927.pdf
Creators: name: Miyata, Masashi
name: Nemoto, Naru
name: Shikama, Kota
name: Kobayashi, Fumihide
name: Hashimoto, Toshikazu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document for Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors
Dermatosis caused by Corythuca ciliata (Say, 1932) (Heteroptera, Tingidae). Diagnostic and clinical aspects of an unrecognized pseudoparasitosis
Creators: name: Dutto, M
name: Bertero, M
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: The present article discusses three cases of human infestation by Corythuca ciliata (Lace bugs), a parasite of plane trees. The cases were all in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy and the symptoms involved a large number of hives on the subjects? bodies which were scarcely or not at all itchy and which spontaneously cleared up in all the cases in less than 24 hours. It can be concluded that the Lace bug can be an agent of insect-caused dermatosis and this should be considered in examining subjects who visit or live near wooded areas which are infested.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Additional file 20 of Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish
Creators: name: Parmentier, T.
name: Gaju-Ricart, M.
name: Wenseleers, T.
name: Molero-Baltanás, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 20. Exemplary chromatograms of silverfish and corresponding host species. NMDS plots based on the Bray-Curtis distances of the shared CHC peaks are also given for ant-silverfish pairs.
Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the gram-negative bacteria isolated from septicemia in Children?s Medical Center, Tehran, Iran
Creators: name: Rabirad, Namela
name: Mohammadpoor, Masoud
name: Rastegar Lari, Abdolaziz
name: Shojaie, A
name: Bayat, R
name: Alebouyeh, M R
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2014

description: Introduction. The choice of antimicrobial treatment for septicemia is often empirical and based on the knowledge of local antimicrobial activity patterns of the most common bacteria causing such bloodstream infections. The current study aimed to study the prevalence of bacterial pathogens causing septicemia and their antimicrobial resistant profiles in hospital admitted patients. Methods. This cross sectional study done at Children?s Medical Center, Tehran, Iran. We examined 168 bacterial strains isolated from 186 clinically diagnosed septicemia cases refereed at Children?s Medical Center, Tehran, Iran Over a period of twelve months from July 2010 to 2011 July. 11446 blood samples from patients of clinically suggestive septicemia were evaluated. Results. Bacterial strains were isolated from 910 (7.95%) of blood cultures. Gram-negative bacteria identified were Pseudomonas species (20.5%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1.86%), Salmonella spp (1.09%), Acinetobacter naumannii (8.13%), Escherichia coli (4.06%), Klebsiella spp (5.16%). Gram-negative pathogens were more than gram positive in bloodstream infections. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was done according to Clinical and Labo- ratory Standards Institute (CLSI, USA) guidelines against: amikacin ampicillin, amoxicillin, amoxiclav, cefuroxime, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefoperazone tetracycline, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin. Resistanc to different antibiotics in the most important isolated bacteria were: 32.1 %, 10.8%, 87.8%, 96%, 39.1%, 35.2, 49.4%, 69%, 80.02%, 22%, 59%, 30.1% respectively, for Pseudomonas spp, 32%, 3.7%, 84.2 %, 83.2%, 80.1%, 75.4%, 44.8%, 45.2%, 33.3%, 19%, 34.1, 11.5% respectively for Acinetobacter species. Discussion. Resistant to majority of the antimicrobial agents for several pathogens implicated in bloodstream infections, particularly in Gram-negative bacteria, can make complication in treatment of infection cause by them.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 55, No 1 (2014)
Supplementary document for Cascaded Crosstalk Suppression in Single-Shot Full-Stokes Polarization-Integrated Infrared Focal Plane Arrays - 7451901.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Lingfang
name: Zhou, Yi
name: Cai, Wenli
name: Zhou, Jian
name: Ying, xiangxiao
name: Wang, Fangfang
name: Wang, Yupeng
name: Pei, Jindi
name: Liu, Yunmeng
name: Chen, Jianxin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
Identification and molecular epidemiology of nosocomial outbreaks due to Burkholderia cepacia in cystic fibrosis patients of Masih Daneshvary Hospital, Iran
Creators: name: Soltan Dallal, Mohammad Mehdi
name: Telefian, Celin F
name: Hajia, Massoud
name: Kalantar, Enayat
name: Dolatyar Dehkharghani, Ali Reza
name: Rahimi Forushani, Abbas
name: Khanbabaei, Qamartaj
name: Mobarhan, Mandana
name: Farzami, Marjan
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2014

description: Introduction. B. cepacia complex have emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized and immunocompromised patients. Small hospital outbreaks are frequent and are usually due to a single contaminated environmental source. In this study we were going to investigate the role of B.cepacia complex in those patients suspected to involve with cystic fibrosis and evaluate responsible types in Masih Daneshvary Hospital. Methods. One hundred specimens were collected from all admitted patients who were suspected to cystic fibrosis to Masih Daneshvary hospital during one year April 2011 till end of March 2012. All were culture and identified standard procedure. All samples were checked by API system (API20NE) and by specific PCR method for genus Bulkhorderia and Bcc as well. Identified strains were finally tested by PFGE system to identifying specific involving pulse-types. Results. Isolation and identification methods revealed 5 specimens were B.cepasia, The frequency of the cystic fibrosis detected at this study was lower than other similar study previously reported. All these isolates showed similar pattern by PFGE standard protocol that may have spread from a single source and could not be attributed to cross infections from patient to patients. Discussion. Application of PFGE and identification of pulse-type is a potential tool to enhance the investigation of apparent nosocomial outbreaks of B.cepacia. However it needs to be adjusted with environmental findings. Implementation of educational programs and adherence to infection control policies are obviously the main element for complete elimination of an outbreak.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 55, No 1 (2014)
Additional file 21 of Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish
Creators: name: Parmentier, T.
name: Gaju-Ricart, M.
name: Wenseleers, T.
name: Molero-Baltanás, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 21. NMDS based on the CHC profiles of Messor and Messor specialists.
Drawing an Ideogram
Creators: name: van Schaik, Leonardus
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND 'Drawing an Ideogram' was included in the catalogue documenting 'Drawing Is/Not Building', an exhibition of works by architectural practitioners Roland Snooks, Sarah Treadwell and Simon Twose curated by Twose & Treadwell. The exhibition investigated in detail through design research the status of drawing across the three distinct architectural practices. Van Schaik was one of 17 international practitioners to provide a written work and drawing to be included in the exhibition catalogue as part of a wider survey of the role of drawing in contemporary architectural practice. He also contributed a preface for the catalogue, providing an overview of the works represented in the catalogue. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION This textual work describes the process of making an ideogram and the capacity of this drawing technique to concurrently visualise, map and understand the spatial qualities of complex interrelationships and environments. The discussion of the ideogram drawn to show the roles of the executive team of the Dean of Architecture & Design RMIT demonstrates van Schaik's ideogram as a rigorous tool for symbolising situations. This work contributes to his ongoing research practice and contribution related to the importance of spatial thinking and intelligence to architectural design. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE 'Drawing an Ideogram' was included alongside works by national and international scholars, practitioners and researchers of drawing including Ross Jenner, Helene Frichot, Teresa Stoppani and Neil Spiller. The inclusion of van Schaik's work relating to his ongoing practice of ideogram drawing evidences the significant value placed on this research activity.
Supplementary document for Cerebrovascular imaging in vivo by non-contact photoacoustic microscopy based on photoacoustic remote sensing with a laser diode for interrogation - 5553333.pdf
Creators: name: Liang, Siqi
name: Zhou, Jiasheng
name: Yang, Wenzhao
name: Chen, Sung-Liang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Additional file 2 of Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish
Creators: name: Parmentier, T.
name: Gaju-Ricart, M.
name: Wenseleers, T.
name: Molero-Baltanás, R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Coordinates of nests where ants and silverfish were collected for chemical analyses.
Influenza vaccination in HIV-positive subjects: latest evidence and future perspective
Creators: name: Ceravolo, A
name: Orsi, Giovanni Battista
name: Parodi, V
name: Ansaldi, Filippo
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: nnual influenza vaccination is recommended for persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Recent reports indi- cate that immunizations may increase HIV replication in infected individuals. Generally, vaccination against influenza is well toler- ated in both children and adult individuals with HIV and does not induce significant changes in viral load and CD4+ cell counts. The observed increase in viral replication is usually transient and a clear, measurable progression of the underlying HIV disease is hard to be determined. Several studies reported immunogenicity data in HIV+ population, by comparing different influenza vaccines, adju- vanted or not, and different administration routes. Data are encour- aging because an adequate immune response is shown, although split/subunit vaccines do not elicite an efficient immune response in these subjects. New strategies have been evaluated to increase the immune response in immunocompromised patients.The aim of this review is to evaluate tolerability, safety, immunogenicity and effi- cacy of vaccines actually approved for human use and to consider latest evidence and future perspective in HIV positive subjects.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)
Application of Two-Eyed Seeing in Adolescent Mental Health to Bridge Design Thinking and Indigenous Collective Storytelling
Creators: name: Sam, Johanna
name: Richardson, Christopher G.
name: Currie, Leanne M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Background: eMental health apps are increasingly being considered for use in health care with growing recognition of the importance of considering end-user preferences in their design and implementation. The key to the success of using apps with Indigenous youth is tailoring the design and content to include Indigenous perspectives. In this study we used a Two-Eyed Seeing perspective to integrate Indigenous and human computer interaction methodologies to identify end-user preferences for a tablet-based mental health screening app used in a primary care clinic serving Indigenous youth. Objective: The research objectives used a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to (i) collectively create stories about Indigenous youth lived experiences accessing integrated primary care for their mental health concerns; and (ii) engage Indigenous youth in Design Circles to determine their usability preferences for digital mental health screening tools. Method: Eight adolescents (n = 4 young women; n = 3 young men; and n = 1 Two Spirit) between 20 to 24 years old who self-identified as Indigenous participated. Indigenous youth joined Design Circles to co-create a story about accessing mental health care and their needs and preferences for an eMental Health app. Results: Findings highlighted the importance of collective Indigenous storytelling about accessing integrated primary care for mental health needs. Participants created three persona stories about their challenges accessing mental health care and the role of social support. Participants sorted their usability design preferences for an eMental Health app to be inclusive of Indigenous knowledges. Conclusions: A Two-Eyed Seeing perspective was useful to incorporate a design thinking approach as collective storytelling among Indigenous youth. This research may inform and shape the design of eMental health apps used in health clinics to better engage Indigenous youth.
New Feet for 5 Years a Minute
Creators: name: Van Den Berghe, Johan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: This is an artistic, transdisciplinary research project led by Van Den Berghe in collaboration with composer Jeroen D'hoe. In 2011, a spatial and audio-visual live performance of the work took place at Concertgebouw Brugge, with Spectra Ensemble, conducted by Filip Rathe. The concert was preceded by an introductory lecture and exhibition. The public was then granted access to the main stage where they took place between the musicians and the spatial installation with tilting projection panels in order to maximally participate in the "spatial sound experience." RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The project examined the synaesthesia of architecture, video and music to generate new compositional possibilities. Through their shared imaginations of sensory experiences both researching artists explored and demonstrated 'other' concepts of time-space combinations. By borrowing compositional principles from each other, both disciplines (architecture and music) can develop new creative tools (new knowledge) through architectural-artistic creation (research-in-and-through-the-arts), and they can grow towards each other, into a trans-discipline with extended possibilities. It realised groundbreaking, 'whirling' time-space experiences through and in the making of virtual case studies, leading to a study of time as a compositional tool in architectural design. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of the project is evidenced by the public performance of the work at the prestigious concert hall in Brussels, in collaboration with the internationally-recognised Spectra Ensemble. In 2013, it culminated in the publication of a book (of the same title), by Acco, Brussels. The project received funding of 62836,01 Euros for 6 years from KU Leuven, spanning 6 years.
Health promotion or pharmacological treatment for chronic diseases?
Creators: name: Allam, MF
name: Arjona, O
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2013

description: Over the last years medicine has progressed very rapidly. Com- municable diseases, which were the leading causes of mortali- ties, are not anymore, especially in developed countries. Cur- rently, non-communicable diseases are more prevalent, and most of them are related to changes in our daily habits and degenerative processes. Most of these diseases are chronic, need continuous care and treatment with limited improvement and high costs. The General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 65/238 recognized the primary role and responsibility of Governments in responding to the challenge of non- communicable diseases and the essential need for the efforts and engagement of all sectors of society to generate an effec- tive response. Special emphasis has been concentrated on phar- macological treatments for most of chronic non-communicable diseases with the challenge to discover new drugs for treating, in most cases, chronic irreversible degenerative diseases asso- ciated with aging. Little care was given to non-pharmacological lines of treatment.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 54, No 1 (2013)