cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cavity mediated coherent coupling of magnetic moments
Creators: name: Lambert, N. J.
name: Haigh, J. A.
name: Langenfeld, S.
name: Doherty, A. C.
name: Ferguson, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the long range strong coupling of magnetostatic modes in spatially separated ferromagnets mediated by a microwave frequency cavity. Two spheres of yttrium iron garnet are embedded in the cavity and their magnetostatic modes probed using a dispersive measurement technique. We find they are strongly coupled to each other even when detuned from the cavity modes. We investigate the dependence of the magnet-magnet coupling on the cavity detuning $Δ$, and find a $1/Δ$ dependence also characteristic of cavity-coupled superconducting qubits. Dark states of the coupled magnetostatic modes of the system are observed, and ascribed to mismatches between the symmetries of the modes and the drive field.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Using microfinance to facilitate household investment in sanitation in rural Cambodia
Creators: name: Goldberg, Jeffrey
name: Leatherman, Sheila
name: Geissler, Kimberley H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Improved sanitation access is extremely low in rural Cambodia. Non-governmental organizations have helped build local supply side latrine markets to promote household latrine purchase and use, but households cite inability to pay as a key barrier to purchase. To examine the extent to which microfinance can be used to facilitate household investment in sanitation, we applied a two-pronged assessment: (1) to address the gap between interest in and use of microfinance, we conducted a pilot study to assess microfinance demand and feasibility of integration with a sanitation marketing program and (2) using a household survey ( n = 935) at latrine sales events in two rural provinces, we assessed attitudes about microfinance and financing for sanitation. We found substantial stated intent to use a microfinance institution (MFI) loan to purchase a latrine (27%). Five percent of current owners used an MFI loan for latrine purchase. Credit officers attended 159 events, with 4761 individuals attending. Actual loan applications were low, with 4% of sales events attendees applying for a loan immediately following the event (mean = 1.7 loans per event). Ongoing coordination was challenging, requiring management commitment from the sanitation marketing program and commitment to social responsibility from the MFI. Given the importance of improving sanitation coverage and concomitant health impacts, linking functional sanitation markets to already operational finance markets has the potential to give individuals and households more financial flexibility. Further product research and better integration of private vendors and financing modalities are necessary to create a scalable microfinance option for sanitation markets.
Nanostructured Intermetallic Nickel Silicide (Pre)Catalyst for Anodic Oxygen Evolution Reaction and Selective Dehydrogenation of Primary Amines
Creators: name: Mondal, Indranil
name: Hausmann, J. Niklas
name: Vijaykumar, Gonela
name: Mebs, Stefan
name: Dau, Holger
name: Driess, Matthias
name: Menezes, Prashanth W.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: in situ spectroscopy
subject: intermetallic
subject: nickel silicide
subject: oxygen evolution reaction
subject: primary amines oxidation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The development of novel earth-abundant metal-based catalysts to accelerate the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial for the process of large-scale production of green hydrogen. To solve this bottleneck, herein, a simple one-pot colloidal approach is reported to yield crystalline intermetallic nickel silicide (Ni2Si), which results in a promising precatalyst for anodic OER. Subsequently, an anodic-coupled electrosynthesis for the selective oxidation of organic amines (as sacrificial proton donating agents) to value-added organocyanides is established to boost the cathodic reaction. A partial transformation of the Ni2Si intermetallic precatalyst generates a porous nickel(oxy)hydroxide phase modified with oxidic silicon species as unequivocally demonstrated by a combination of quasi in situ Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopy as well as ex situ methods. The activated form of the catalyst generates a geometric current density of 100 mA cm−2 at an overpotential (η100) of 348 mV displaying long-term durability over a week and high efficiency in paired electrolysis.
Urinary bisphenol A and obesity in adults: results from the Canadian Health Measures Survey
Creators: name: Chang, Vicky C.
name: Mendez, Michelle A.
name: Do, Minh T.
name: de Groh, Margaret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to affect lipid metabolismand promote weight gain in animal studies. Recent epidemiological studies alsosupport a link between BPA and obesity in human populations, although many werelimited to a single adiposity measure or have not considered potential confounding bydietary factors. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between urinaryBPA and adiposity measures in a nationally representative sample of Canadian adults. Methods We performed analyses using biomonitoring and directly measured anthropometricdata from 4733 adults aged 18 to 79 years in the Canadian Health MeasuresSurvey (2007–2011). We used multinomial and binary logistic regression models to estimateassociations of urinary BPA with body mass index (BMI) categories (overweightvs. under/normal weight; obesity vs. under/normal weight) and elevated waist circumference(males: ≥ 102 cm; females: ≥ 88 cm), respectively, while controlling for potentialconfounders. Linear regression analyses were also performed to assess associationsbetween urinary BPA and continuous BMI and waist circumference measures. Results Urinary BPA was positively associated with BMI-defined obesity, with an oddsratio of 1.54 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.002–2.37) in the highest (vs. lowest) BPAquartile (test for trend, p = .041). Urinary BPA was not associated with elevated waistcircumference defined using standard cut-offs. Additionally, each natural-log unitincrease in urinary BPA concentration was associated with a 0.33 kg/m2 (95% CI: 0.10–0.57) increase in BMI and a 1.00 cm (95% CI: 0.34–1.65) increase in waistcircumference. Conclusion Our study contributes to the growing body of evidence that BPA is positivelyassociated with obesity. Prospective studies with repeated measures are neededto address temporality and improve exposure classification.
D3-brane model building and the supertrace rule
Creators: name: Bena, Iosif
name: Graña, Mariana
name: Kuperstein, Stanislav
name: Ntokos, Praxitelis
name: Petrini, Michela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common way to obtain standard-model-like Lagrangians in string theory is to place D3-branes inside flux compactifications. The bosonic and fermionic masses and couplings of the resulting gauge theory are determined by the ten-dimensional metric and the fluxes, respectively, and the breaking of supersymmetry is soft. However, not any soft-supersymmetry-breaking Lagrangian can be obtained this way since the string theory equations of motion impose certain relations between the soft couplings. We show that for D3-branes in background fluxes, these relations imply that the sums of the squares of the boson and of the fermion masses are equal and that, furthermore, one- and two-loop quantum corrections do not spoil this equality. This makes the use of D3-branes for constructing computationally controllable models for physics beyond the standard model problematic.
description: 4 pages. v2: minor changes
Spirituality and Popular Religion in Europe
Creators: name: Knoblauch, Hubert
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände
subject: 310 Sammlungen allgemeiner Statistiken
subject: transcendence
subject: phenomenological sociology
subject: subjective experience
subject: religious communication
subject: public and privatized religion
subject: popular religion

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: The author develops theoretical and partly tentative arguments on the state of what is called religion with a focus on Europe. The concept of "religion'' is complemented by a more basic and less biased notion such as "transcendence'', as plemented by a more basic and less biased notion such as "transcendence", as coined by the phenomenological sociology of Schütz, Berger and Luckmann, a notion that starts from the trajectory of subjective experience and action. In the first part the author focuses on extreme yet quite diverse (western) "religious'' movements that are somewhat dynamic, such as marked Christianity and alternative religiosity. Among other sociological features many of these movements lay great stress on subjective experiences of great transcendences (of a large variety of kinds). The actors' notions of spirituality nicely capture this phenomenological feature; moreover, spirituality also covers various sociological aspects, such as the individualistic orientation, the weak tendency to organization and its holistic function, that have also been identified by other organization and its holistic function, that have also been identified by other researchers. Instead, however, of reducing spirituality to the rather extreme forms of alternative spirituality, the author argues that spirituality of the kind sketched here is disseminated into and communicated by the general culture in such a way as to dissolve the boundaries of religious and non-religious communication. Indeed, modern mediated and popular culture can be identified as a major locus for the distribution of what should be called (modern) "popular religion''. It is this form of religion that breaks down the boundaries between "privatized'' and "public'' religion. It is concluded that the dissolution of the boundaries between the private and public as well as between religiously marked and unmarked communication indicates a basic transformation of religion that demands a reconceptualization in terms of transcendence instead of the binary code sacred/profane.
Impact of Smartphone and Tablet based Application incorporating Social Stories and Games on Children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Ahmad, Hafiz Maaz
name: Khan, Hammad Ahmed
name: Ashfaque, Saad
name: Yasir, Tahreem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Abstract: The impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as tablets or smartphone based applications incorporating Social Stories (video modelled) and games on children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability (ID) is the main focus of the study. Literature review, field observations and contextual task analysis was done to study ID, its relationship with children, intervention techniques and role of ICT in wellbeing of these children. Following hypothesis were formulated 1) Tablets and smartphone based application, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Mild Intellectual Disability, 2) Tablets and smartphone based applications, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Moderate Intellectual Disability, 3) Animated Social Stories (video modelled) would be more effective to impact the overall social skills of children with ID. A comprehensive application containing Social Stories and games was developed and its impact was measured. The developed application was deployed on Android platform. Random sampling technique was used to collect the sample. A sample of forty six children with Mild and Moderate ID (twenty three experimental group and twenty three control group) were selected from Ameen Maktab (LHE) and Rising Sun (LHE). The collected data was analysed by calculated mean. There is a significant relationship between Social Stories and mild category. It is also found that culturally tailored Social Stories were effective in helping children. The overall result revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between tablet and smartphone based application and children with Mild and Moderate ID. With the growing population day by day in Pakistan and all over the world number of special children are also increase and it is very important to overcome or manage this problem. It is suggested that the community should give a good quality social support to these children to reduce their problems and take measures for their wellbeing. Since there is a very little research available to guide the practitioners which application to implement, it was also suggested that the developers of smartphone based applications for children with ID should verify before applying these applications on children.
The Performance of Knowledge: Pointing and Knowledge in Powerpoint Presentations
Creators: name: Knoblauch, Hubert
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 390 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: communication
subject: communicative culture
subject: knowledge
subject: knowledge society
subject: performance
subject: performative
subject: powerpoint

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Powerpoint and similar technologies have contributed to a profound transformation of lecturing and presenting information. In focusing on pointing in powerpoint presentations, the article addresses aspects of this transformation of speech into 'presentations'. As opposed to popular attacks against powerpoint, the analysis of a large number of audio-visually recorded presentations (mainly in German) demonstrates the creativity of these 'performances', based on the interplay of slides (and other aspects of this technology), speech, pointing and body formations. Pointing seems to be a particular feature of this kind of presentation, allowing knowledge to be located in space. Considering powerpoint as one of the typical technologies of so-called 'knowledge societies', this aspect provides some indication as to the social understanding of knowledge. Instead of 'representing' reality, knowledge is defined by the circularity of speaking and showing, thus becoming presented knowledge rather than representing knowledge.
Videography: analysing video data as a ‘focused’ ethnographic and hermeneutical exercise
Creators: name: Knoblauch, Hubert
name: Schnettler, Bernt
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 150 Psychologie
subject: communicative construction of reality
subject: interaction
subject: interpretation
subject: sequentiality
subject: sociology of knowledge
subject: visual analysis

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Visual research methods are becoming increasingly important for qualitative studies. Within this dynamically expanding field, methods for analysing ‘natural’ video recordings have developed considerably over the past decades. In this article we discuss methodological aspects of general importance for any analysis of this type of video data. Being a fundamentally interpretive method, our first argument is that sequential analysis is always a hermeneutic endeavour, which requires methodical understanding. The second refers to data collection. We stress that, in addition to sequential analysis, the ethnographic dimension of video analysis should be taken into account methodologically. Video analysis requires, thirdly, a systematic account of the subjectivity, both of the actors analysed as well as of the analysts. Our arguments are grounded in extensive data from several studies, including the communicative genre of powerpoint presentations, commemoration rituals and public events. Selected data fragments are presented here to support our claims. Building upon this expertise, we propose further improvement of video analysis methodology by reflecting on our own practice of analysing video in data sessions (i.e. the ‘video analysis of video analysis’).
CP Violating Two-Higgs-Doublet Model: Constraints and LHC Predictions
Creators: name: Keus, Venus
name: King, Stephen F.
name: Moretti, Stefano
name: Yagyu, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-Higgs-Doublet Models (2HDMs) are amongst the simplest extensions of the Standard Model. Such models allow for tree-level CP Violation (CPV) in the Higgs sector. We analyse a class of CPV 2HDM (of Type-I) in which only one of the two Higgs doublets couples to quarks and leptons, avoiding dangerous Flavour Changing Neutral Currents. We provide an up to date and comprehensive analysis of the constraints and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) predictions of such a model. Of immediate interest to the LHC Run 2 is the golden channel where all three neutral Higgs bosons are observed to decay into gauge boson pairs, $WW$ and $ZZ$, providing a smoking gun signature of the CPV 2HDM.
description: The version appearing in JHEP
[Book Review:] Contact mechanics and friction: physical principles and applications
Creators: name: Knothe, Klaus
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: review
subject: contact mechanics
subject: frictionphysical principles

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
HOW MUCH EXERCISE IS TOO MUCH EXERCISE: A LOOK AT EXERCISE ADDICTION IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
Creators: name: Farrell, Taylor N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Exercise addiction
Compulsive exercise
College students
Gender

description: Exercise is essential for physical, mental, and emotional health; however, there is a significant distinction between healthy and unhealthy exercise habits. While the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests approximately 150 minutes of physical activity per week, individuals who engage in more time than that may develop obsessional exercise habits. Some individuals develop exercise addiction, which is described as compulsive exercise characterized by intrinsic or obligatory motivation, psychological dependence, increased physiological tolerance, and prioritizing exercise over life. Compulsive exercise can result in the development of other mental health issues such as muscle and body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Vieria, 2021). My project focuses specifically on the manifestation of exercise addiction in male and female college students, and how it affects body and muscle dysmorphia, self-esteem, and body image. Undergraduate students from California State University, Fullerton completed a survey about their exercise habits, self-esteem, body image, and body and muscle dysmorphia. The goal is to understand that there is a correlation between exercise habits and mental health regarding body image, and identify any potential gender differences. Using t test and analysis of variance (ANOVA), the results of the surveys are analyzed to determine the potential differences between male and female college students’ perceptions of body image, self-esteem, body dysmorphia, and muscle dysmorphia. With this information I hope to bring awareness about unhealthy exercise habits and potential risks for such behaviors.
Predicting schizophrenia at risk of readmissions in the short- and long-term using decision tree model
Creators: name: Jaree Thongkam
Publisher: name: Research and Technology Transfer Affairs Division.Khon Kaen University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Psychiatric patient, Rehospitalization, Risk factors, Data mining

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 21, 3, 91-103
Caregiver responses to early cleft palate care: A mixed method approach.
Creators: name: Broder, Hillary L.
name: Phillips, Ceib
name: Sischo, Lacey
name: Clouston, Sean A.P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study sought to understand caregivers’ (CGs’) responses to early cleft lip/palate care for their infants.
ShapeSorter: a fully probabilistic method for detecting conserved RNA structure features supported by SHAPE evidence
Creators: name: Tsybulskyi, Volodymyr
name: Meyer, Irmtraud M.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nucleic acid structure
subject: RNA characterisation and manipulation
subject: Computational Methods
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: There is an increased interest in the determination of RNA structures in vivo as it is now possible to probe them in a high-throughput manner, e.g. using SHAPE protocols. By now, there exist a range of computational methods that integrate experimental SHAPE-probing evidence into computational RNA secondary structure prediction. The state-of-the-art in this field is currently provided by computational methods that employ the minimum-free energy strategy for prediction RNA secondary structures with SHAPE-probing evidence. These methods, however, rely on the assumption that transcripts in vivo fold into the thermodynamically most stable configuration and ignore evolutionary evidence for conserved RNA structure features. We here present a new computational method, ShapeSorter, that predicts RNA structure features without employing the thermodynamic strategy. Instead, ShapeSorter employs a fully probabilistic framework to identify RNA structure features that are supported by evolutionary and SHAPE-probing evidence. Our method can capture RNA structure heterogeneity, pseudo-knotted RNA structures as well as transient and mutually exclusive RNA structure features. Moreover, it estimates P-values for the predicted RNA structure features which allows for easy filtering and ranking. We investigate the merits of our method in a comprehensive performance benchmarking and conclude that ShapeSorter has a significantly superior performance for predicting base-pairs than the existing state-of-the-art methods.
Stem Cell Therapy Without The Stem Cells
Creators: name: Drake, Walter P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Regenerative medicine (incl. stem cells)

description: Today it is postulated that the in vivo activation of dormant stem cell repair activity is the primary cause of increased therapeutic benefit to patients, not the injection of stem cells themselves. We can almost say that stem cells are not even particularly necessary to the beneficial stem cell treatment of various conditions and diseases.
 Techniques, such as those use in fat reduction, should be explored as a means to dissociate the extracellular matrix of abdominal tissue in situ, with the goal of activating innate systemic stem cell activity. This may be achieved by in situ lipolysis, laser applications, ultrasound, and other modalities likely to dissociate and break down the adipose tissue extracellular matrix, thereby releasing various endogenous stem cell activating cells and factors into the periphery.
Aus der Arbeit der zweiten Studienkommission des ökumenischen Rates: Gottes Heilsplan und das menschliche Zeugnis
Publisher: name: Herder Korrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Herder Korrespondenz, Bd. 2 Nr. 9 (1947): Herder Korrespondenz, Band 2, Heft 9
Daily stressor reactivity during adolescence: The buffering role of parental warmth.
Creators: name: Buxton, Orfeu M.
name: McHale, Susan M.
name: Lippold, Melissa A.
name: Almeida, David M.
name: Davis, Kelly D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study examined youth stressor reactivity in the form of links between daily stressors and adolescents’ negative affect, physical health symptoms, and cortisol patterns. We also tested whether youth gender and parental warmth moderated these linkages.
Trust in Educational Settings—What It Is and Why It Matters. European Perspectives
Creators: name: Bormann, Inka
name: Niedlich, Sebastian
name: Würbel, Iris
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: trust
subject: educational settings
subject: European countries
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: This editorial paper introduces the relevance of trust in educational settings. It discusses interdisciplinary approaches to trust, reflects upon the relationships between trust and education and how trust has so far been studied in educational research. In addition, a comprehensive model of trust is introduced as a framework for the individual papers of this special issue that altogether, through different disciplinary and methodological lenses, investigate trust in various realms of education in five European countries.
Abilities of phosphate solubilizing bacteria isolated from sandy soils under rubber tree plantations of different ages in Northeast Thailand
Creators: name: Kiriya Sungthongwises
Publisher: name: Research and Technology Transfer Affairs Division.Khon Kaen University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bacteria, Phosphate Solubilization, Rubber, sandy soil

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 21, 4, 1-6
Introducing a New Technique for Fascial Closure to Avoid Renal Allograft Compartment Syndrome in Pediatric Recipients: The Use of Tutoplast® Fascia Lata
Creators: name: Bañuelos Marco, Beatriz
name: Bergel, Berenice
name: Geppert, Tamara
name: Müller, Dominik
name: Lingnau, Anja
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Tutoplast®
subject: RACS
subject: pediatric kidney transplantation
subject: abdominal compartment syndrome
subject: en bloc
subject: living donor
subject: cadaver donor
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Introduction: Renal allograft compartment syndrome (RACS) is a complication that infrequently occurs after renal transplantation. Tight muscle closure may lead to RACS due to compression of renal parenchyma or kinking of the renal vessels. Many techniques have been proposed in an attempt to achieve tension-free closure, which can be specially challenging in child recipients. We present our experience with Tutoplast® Fascia Lata (RTI Surgical Tutogen Medical GmbH Industriestrasse 6, 91077 Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany) closure. Methods: All pediatric patients who underwent renal transplantation in our center between 2012 and 2021 were reviewed. Eight patients with Tutoplast® Fascia Lata placed at the time of initial transplantation were identified. Donor and recipient characteristics, Doppler ultrasound findings, and overall patient and graft survival rates were analyzed. Results: Doppler ultrasound was performed intra-operatively after abdominal wall closure. If any sign of vascular compromise was seen, the abdominal wall was opened and the graft was revised. The Tutoplast® Fascia Lata implant was used to perform tension-free fascia closure and, afterwards, a Doppler ultrasound was performed to confirm the optimal renal artery perfusion and venous patency. Three of the renal transplantations were from a cadaver donor, with two of them en bloc. Living donor transplantation was performed in four cases. Among which, there was a case of auto-transplantation due to bilateral renal artery stenosis. None of the patients presented any complications of either short or long term that was derived from the abdominal closure with Tutoplast® Fascia Lata. There was also no record of graft failure till datum. Conclusions: Restricted volume of the recipient pelvic cavity and the size discrepancy between the recipient pelvic cavity space and the donor adult kidney may lead to RACS. Other situations that occur more infrequently, i.e., as en bloc or auto-transplantation, are prone to suffer the same problem. Tutoplast® Fascia Lata is a safe option for these patients.
Impact of Smartphone and Tablet based Application incorporating Social Stories and Games on Children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability
Creators: name: Ahmad, Hafiz Maaz
name: Ashfaque, Saad
name: Yasir, Tahreem
name: Khan, Hammad Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: Abstract: The impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as tablets or smartphone based applications incorporating Social Stories (video modelled) and games on children with Mild and Moderate Intellectual Disability (ID) is the main focus of the study. Literature review, field observations and contextual task analysis was done to study ID, its relationship with children, intervention techniques and role of ICT in wellbeing of these children. Following hypothesis were formulated 1) Tablets and smartphone based application, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Mild Intellectual Disability, 2) Tablets and smartphone based applications, would be more helpful to enhance the capabilities of children with Moderate Intellectual Disability, 3) Animated Social Stories (video modelled) would be more effective to impact the overall social skills of children with ID. A comprehensive application containing Social Stories and games was developed and its impact was measured. The developed application was deployed on Android platform. Random sampling technique was used to collect the sample. A sample of forty six children with Mild and Moderate ID (twenty three experimental group and twenty three control group) were selected from Ameen Maktab (LHE) and Rising Sun (LHE). The collected data was analysed by calculated mean. There is a significant relationship between Social Stories and mild category. It is also found that culturally tailored Social Stories were effective in helping children. The overall result revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between tablet and smartphone based application and children with Mild and Moderate ID. With the growing population day by day in Pakistan and all over the world number of special children are also increase and it is very important to overcome or manage this problem. It is suggested that the community should give a good quality social support to these children to reduce their problems and take measures for their wellbeing. Since there is a very little research available to guide the practitioners which application to implement, it was also suggested that the developers of smartphone based applications for children with ID should verify before applying these applications on children.
TARGETED MESSAGING ABOUT FOOD STORAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
Creators: name: Batla, Lyba F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: machine learning
Instagram
Twitter
food waste
FoodKeeper
sustainability

description: With current global food waste rates being at an extreme, the question arises of how do restaurateurs, particularly ones searching for the perfect Instagram picture to post, contribute to global food waste? The problem is more relevant now, seeing that users are so focused on trying the trendiest foods, however not realizing the amount of food they waste. The solution to this is to educate the users about ways that they may be able to store their leftovers to be consumed at a later time. This research project aims at creating a machine learning program using Python and Microsoft Computer Vision in order to process Instagram pictures and Twitter tweets. The machine learning program will determine the food presented in the post and display an informational message on how that food can be stored for later consumption. A dataset, provided and published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, contains a variety of foods and ways those can be stored through three means: pantry, refrigeration, and freezing. The method of this research project included reading twitter tweets as well as processing Instagram images to determine what food was being displayed or talked about. The program then analyzed the dataset and recognized the food item. If the food was present in the dataset, the program displayed leftover storage options. As a result, the program accurately found and identified the food from the image. My long-term career objective is to focus on projects that would bring some sort of benefit to humanity. The impact of our findings informs users on Instagram and Twitter on ways to preserve leftovers. This ultimately reduces food waste. Our hope is that these results cause our social media users to consider how their actions might impact society negatively and how we can use technology to solve societal problems.
The framing of green innovations—a comparative topic modeling study on the public frames of the electric vehicle in Germany and UK
Creators: name: Bohn, Stephan
name: Rogge, Jan-Christoph
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Green innovations
subject: Framing
subject: Legitimacy barriers
subject: Topic modeling
subject: Fossil lock-in
subject: Electric vehicle
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: In the innovation framing literature, scholars argue that green innovations are being challenged by legitimacy barriers associated with strong lock-in effects on the fossil-based economy. To break down barriers and create legitimacy, we stress the role of demarcation frames. Demarcation frames we argue are an important supplement to the established framing mechanisms that signal alignment and similarity with existing systems. Building on a machine-learning topic modeling approach, we investigate the development of the perception and meaning of the electric vehicle over a period of 27 years—i.e., its framing. By using public media data to undertake a systematic cross-country study in Germany and the UK, we show how and through which combinations of framing mechanisms the electric vehicle overcame the initial skepticism that was closely linked to the internal combustion vehicle. Hence, our research contributes to a better understanding of the framing processes around green innovations in the carbon-based economy. Firstly, we offer a novel analytical perspective focusing on the overarching public framing of green innovations. Secondly, we contribute to the literature by describing the theoretical implications and functionality of demarcation frames to overcome lock-ins. And thirdly, we discuss policy implications to support the dissemination of green innovations and propose future research avenues relevant for the green innovation and innovation framing field.
Computing the dielectric constant of liquid water at constant dielectric displacement
Creators: name: Zhang, Chao
name: Sprik, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static dielectric constant of liquid water is computed using classical force field based molecular dynamics simulation at fixed electric displacement D. The method to constrain the electric displacement is the finite temperature classical variant of the constant-D method developed by Stengel, Spaldin and Vanderbilt (Nat. Phys. 2009, 5: 304). There is also a modification of this scheme imposing fixed values of the macroscopic field E. The method is applied to the popular SPC/E model of liquid water. We compare four different estimates of the dielectric constant, two obtained from fluctuations of the polarization at D = 0 and E = 0 and two from the variation of polarization with finite D and E. It is found that all four estimates agree when properly converged. The computational effort to achieve convergence varies however, with constant D calculations being substantially more efficient. We attribute this difference to the much shorter relaxation time of longitudinal polarization compared to transverse polarization accelerating constant D calculations.
The light neutrino exchange mechanism of the $0νββ$-decay with left- and right-handed leptonic and hadronic currents revisited
Creators: name: Stefanik, Dusan
name: Dvornicky, Rastislav
name: Simkovic, Fedor
name: Vogel, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extension of Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of the neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0νββ$) with the inclusion of right-handed leptonic and hadronic currents is revisited. While only the exchange of light neutrinos is assumed, the $s_{1/2}$ and $p_{1/2}$-states of emitted electrons as well as recoil corrections to the nucleon currents are taken into account. Within the standard approximations the decay rate is factorized into a sum of products of kinematical phase-space factors, nuclear matrix elements and the fundamental parameters that characterize the lepton number violation. Unlike in the previous treatments the induced pseudoscalar term of hadron current is included, resulting in additional nuclear matrix elements. An improved numerical computation of the phase-space factors is presented, based on the exact Dirac wave functions of the $s_{1/2}$ and $p_{1/2}$ electrons with finite nuclear size and electron screening taken into account. The dependence of values of these phase-space factors on the different approximation schemes used in evaluation of electron wave functions is discussed. The upper limits for effective neutrino mass and the parameters $\langleλ\rangle$ and $\langleη\rangle$ characterizing the right-handed current mechanism are deduced from data on the $0νββ$-decay of $^{76}$Ge and $^{136}$Xe using nuclear matrix elements calculated within the nuclear shell model and quasiparticle random phase approximation. The differential decay rates, i.e. the angular correlations and the single electron energy distributions for various combinations of the total lepton number violating parameters that can help to disentangle the possible mechanism are described and discussed.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
New Evidence on the Green House Model of Nursing Home Care: Synthesis of Findings and Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
name: Cohen, Lauren W.
name: Horn, Susan D.
name: Kemper, Peter
name: Bowers, Barbara J.
name: Grabowski, David C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: To synthesize new findings from the THRIVE Research Collaborative (The Research Initiative Valuing Eldercare) related to the Green House (GH) model of nursing home care and broadly consider their implications.

DATA SOURCES: Interviews and observations conducted in GH and comparison homes, Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments, Medicare data, and Online Survey, Certification and Reporting data.

STUDY DESIGN: Critical integration and interpretation of findings based on primary data collected 2011-2014 in 28 GH homes (from 16 organizations), and 15 comparison nursing home units (from 8 organizations); and secondary data derived from 2005 to 2010 for 72 GH homes (from 15 organizations) and 223 comparison homes.

PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Implementation of the GH model is inconsistent, sometimes differing from design. Among residents of GH homes, adoption lowers hospital readmissions, three MDS measures of poor quality, and Part A/hospice Medicare expenditures. Some evidence suggests the model is associated with lower direct care staff turnover.

CONCLUSIONS: Recommendations relate to assessing fidelity, monitoring quality, capitalizing opportunities to improve care, incorporating evidence-based practices, including primary care providers, supporting high-performance workforce practices, aligning Medicare financial incentives, promoting equity, informing broad culture change, and conducting future research.
TRPV4 Stimulation Level Regulates Ca2+-Dependent Control of Human Corneal Endothelial Cell Viability and Survival
Creators: name: Donau, Jennifer
name: Luo, Huan
name: Virta, Iiris
name: Skupin, Annett
name: Pushina, Margarita
name: Loeffler, Jana
name: Haertel, Frauke V.
name: Das, Anupam
name: Kurth, Thomas
name: Gerlach, Michael
name: Lindemann, Dirk
name: Reinach, Peter S.
name: Mergler, Stefan
name: Valtink, Monika
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: human corneal endothelial cells
subject: transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 4
subject: cell survival
subject: cell surface differentiation
subject: transepithelial electrical resistance
subject: intracellular Ca2+ signaling
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The functional contribution of transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) expression in maintaining human corneal endothelial cells (HCEC) homeostasis is unclear. Accordingly, we determined the effects of TRPV4 gene and protein overexpression on responses modulating the viability and survival of HCEC. Q-PCR, Western blot, FACS analyses and fluorescence single-cell calcium imaging confirmed TRPV4 gene and protein overexpression in lentivirally transduced 12V4 cells derived from their parent HCEC-12 line. Although TRPV4 overexpression did not alter the baseline transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER), its cellular capacitance (Ccl) was larger than that in its parent. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that only the 12V4 cells developed densely packed villus-like protrusions. Stimulation of TRPV4 activity with GSK1016790A (GSK101, 10 mu mol/L) induced larger Ca2+ transients in the 12V4 cells than those in the parental HCEC-12. One to ten nmol/L GSK101 decreased 12V4 viability, increased cell death rates and reduced the TEER, whereas 1 mu mol/L GSK101 was required to induce similar effects in the HCEC-12. However, the TRPV4 channel blocker RN1734 (1 to 30 mu mol/L) failed to alter HCEC-12 and 12V4 morphology, cell viability and metabolic activity. Taken together, TRPV4 overexpression altered both the HCEC morphology and markedly lowered the GSK101 dosages required to stimulate its channel activity.
Video survey of deep benthic macroalgae and macroalgal detritus along a glacial Arctic fjord: Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen)
Creators: name: Schimani, Katherina
name: Zacher, Katharina
name: Jerosch, Kerstin
name: Pehlke, Hendrik
name: Wiencke, Christian
name: Bartsch, Inka
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arctic fjord
subject: Detached macroalgae
subject: Lower macroalgal depth distribution
subject: Deep sea
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: In Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen), we quantified the zonation of visually dominant macroalgal taxa and of detached macroalgae from underwater videos taken in summer 2009 at six transects between 2 and 138 m water depth. For the first time, we provide information on the occurrence of deep water red algae below the kelp forest and of detached macroalgae at water depth > 30 m. The presence and depth distribution of visually dominant red algae were especially pronounced at the outer fjord, decreased with proximity to the glacial front and they were absent at the innermost locations. Deepest crustose coralline red algae and foliose red algae were observed at 72 and 68 m, respectively. Brown algae were distributed along the entire fjord axis at 2–32 m. Green algae were only present at the middle to inner fjord and at areas influenced by physical disturbance at water depths of 2–26 m. With proximity to the inner fjord the depth distribution of all macroalgae became shallower and only extended to 18 m depth at the innermost location. Major recipients of detached macroalgae were sites at the shallower inner fjord and at the middle fjord below the photic zone at depths to 138 m. They may either fuel deep water secondary production, decompose or support carbon sequestration. Univariate and community analyses of macroalgal classes including detached macroalgae across transects and over depths reveal a considerable difference in community structure between the outermost sites, the central part and the inner fjord areas, reflecting the strong environmental gradients along glacial fjords.
Der Papst gibt Richtlinien für Leben und Handeln der katholischen Jugend
Creators: name: Pius XII., Papst
Publisher: name: Herder Korrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Herder Korrespondenz, Bd. 2 Nr. 5/6 (1947): Herder Korrespondenz, Band 2, Heft 5/6