cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La libertà religiosa alla prova del Covid-19. Asimmetrie giuridiche nello “stato di emergenza” e nuove opportunità pratiche di socialità
Creators: name: Macrì, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Breve premessa orientativa - 2. Verso dove convergere - 3. Il nuovo statuto della solidarietà - 4. Rinnovate pratiche di relazioni sociali: il laboratorio della libertà religiosa - 5. Socializzare i diritti/espandere le libertà - 6. Il test della libertà religiosa in tempi di Coronavirus - 7. Fare tesoro dell’esperienza, modulare le risposte, organizzare il futuro. Religious freedom and the challenge of Covid-19. Legal asymmetries in the “state of emergency” and new opportunities for social actors ABSTRACT: The essay develops some concrete, both legal and political, analyses concerning the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and the fundamental right of religious freedom. The "state of emergency" that came about and the consequent decisions taken by the government to contain the spread of the coronavirus, have put pressure on certain fundamental freedoms and rights of both individuals and social formations, including religious freedom - according to some, more compressed from the point of view of its practical expressions. The question arises of how much, in the mid-long term, such measures will affect the structure of relations between the State and religious confessions and, more generally, religiosity as a sentiment widespread at societal level.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 4 maggio
Falcicaputis praxia Prada-Lara & St Laurent & Weller & Fagua 2025, comb. n.
Creators: name: Prada-Lara, Liliana
name: St Laurent, Ryan A.
name: Weller, Susan
name: Fagua, Giovanny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Notodontidae
Falcicaputis
Falcicaputis praxia

description: Falcicaputis praxia (Schaus, 1921), comb. n.
Figs 12I, J, 13C, 14G.
Type material: Holotype: GUATEMALA: Cayuga Guat / May/ Schaus and Barnes coll/ Gopha? praxia type Schaus/ TypeNo. 23439 U.S. N.M./ Photo done by A. SCHINTLMEISTER #30.089/ LECTOTYPE Gopha praxia Designated 2014 by Alexander Schintlmeister/ USNMENT00991089/ lysate frozen same USNM#/ St Laurent dissection USNMENT00991089/
Diagnosis. See diagnosis of F. australis above.
Redescription. Male: Head: As for genus. Thorax: As for genus. Forewing length 11 mm (n = 1); Wings as for genus but darker brown overall and with continuous black apical band, and presence of light scales submarginally and antemedially.Abdomen: As for genus but the VIII sternite hourglass shaped and with a particularly long anterior projection. Terminalia: (Fig. 14G) (n = 1). As for genus but socii elongated with few spine-like setae at apices, valvae narrowly triangular with short costulae covered in thick spine-like setae, and phallus thin and short.
Female: Unknown.
Life history. Unknown.
Distribution. Guatemala.
Remarks. This species is known to us only by the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Prada-Lara, Liliana, St Laurent, Ryan A., Weller, Susan & Fagua, Giovanny, 2025, Nystaleinae moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae): A morphological review of the subfamily, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 5622 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5622.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324538
title: Geospatial Data Catalogs: Approaches by Academic Libraries
Creators: name: Kollen, Christine
name: Dietz, Cynthia
name: Suh, Joy
name: Lee, Angela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geospatial data
subject: Geospatial web services
subject: Geospatial data catalogs
subject: Academic libraries

description: The role of academic libraries in providing access to and preserving geographic information has seen considerable change. Some libraries are beginning to provide access to geospatial data using geospatial data catalogs and geospatial Web services. Academic libraries are interested in developing geospatial data catalogs, but this can be complicated. The technology is rapidly evolving and many have questions around what software to use and what staffing might be required. The American Library Association (ALA) Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT) Geographic Technologies Committee established the Spatial Data Subcommittee in September 2010 to investigate spatial data catalogs and provide recommendations to MAGIRT on technology, staffing needs, and similar issues needed to develop a spatial data catalog. The subcommittee conducted interviews with eleven geospatial data catalog managers at academic libraries that yielded findings showing the diversity of implementation and prioritization. Guidance is provided that will help academic libraries determine what the best approach is for their situation and needs on their campus.
Integration der Informationsanforderung in den Informationsaustausch mit Information Delivery Specification und buildingSMART Data Dictionary
Creators: name: Hostettler, Sascha
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Architektur, Bau und Geomatik FHNW
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: OpenBIM
subject: Information Delivery Specification (IDS)
subject: BuildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD)
subject: Informationsanforderung
subject: Informationsmanagementprozess
subject: BIM2FM
subject: 624 - Ingenieurbau und Umwelttechnik

description: Der angestrebte Mehrwert von Building Information Modeling (BIM) wird unter anderem durch die Nutzung und Anwendung über den gesamten Lebenszyklus eines Bauwerks erreicht. Der Informationsaustausch zwischen den Hauptphasen (Projektphase und Betriebsphase) ist in diesem Zusammen-hang ein wichtiger Bestandteil. Um eine strukturierte und für das Facility-Management (FM) nutzbare Informationsbereitstellung zu gewährleisten, ist es notwendig, dass das FM einen klaren Informations-bedarf definiert und frühzeitig in die Projektphase eingebunden wird. Best Practice ist heute die Beschreibung der Informationsanforderung in Excel-Tabellen mit Fokus auf die menschliche Interpretierbarkeit. Durch die Beschreibung der Informationsanforderung nach dem Schema Information Delivery Specification (IDS) und der Terminologie des Schemas Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) sowie die Einbindung des Service buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) zur Veröffentlichung von Klassifikationen wird eine digitale Transformation des Informationsaustausches zwischen den Hauptphasen entworfen. Das Konzept zeigt einen durchgängig digitalen Prozess, wobei alle beteiligten Anwendungen den Import und Export der Austauschformate IDS und IFC sowie die Anbindung an bSDD unterstützen. Der Ansatz berücksichtigt synthetisierte Erfolgsfaktoren aus der Literatur sowie identifizierte Randbedingungen aus Expertengesprächen und wird in einem Proof of Concept auf seine Umsetzbarkeit geprüft. Die Auswertung zeigt, dass der Einsatz offener Formate und standardisierten Schemata es ermöglicht, eine gemeinsame Kommunikationsebene zwischen den zwei durch unterschiedliche Charaktere geprägten Hauptphasen zu schaffen. Unter Einbezug von bSDD kann weiter gezeigt wer-den, dass die unterschiedlichen Sichten der beiden Hauptphasen mit geringem Modellierungsaufwand integriert abgebildet werden können. Letztlich zeigt das Konzept, dass die zwei unterschiedlich geprägten Systeme nahtlos miteinander interagieren können.
title: Forschungsdatenstrategie 2019-2022
Creators: name: Universität Potsdam, Präsidium
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Diese Forschungsdatenstrategie definiert die technischen und organisatorischen Voraussetzungen zur Einhaltung der Forschungsdaten-Policy der Universität Potsdam, zu deren Schaffung sich die Universität verpflichtet. Sie behandelt Fragen von Offenheit und Nachnutzbarkeit ebenso wie Herausforderungen, die sich aus der Digitalisierung von Forschungsprozessen ergeben. Dazu definiert sie auf Basis einer ausführlichen Bewertung des Ist-Stands an der Universität Potsdam 22 Handlungsziele in den Handlungsfeldern „IT-Infrastruktur für die Forschung“, „Dedizierte Forschungsdaten-Dienste“ und „Kommunikation und Vernetzung“. Die Handlungsziele sollen bis Ende 2022 umgesetzt werden.
Diese Strategie wurde am 4. September 2019 vom Präsidium beschlossen und am 25. September 2019 vom Senat zur Kenntnis genommen. Sie wird hier mit redaktionellen Änderungen an Fußnoten, Abbildungen und Anhängen veröffentlicht.
Helmut Laumer/Wolgang Ochel (unter Mitarbeit v. Sueo Sekiguchi u. Jens-Uwe Jungnickel): Strukturpolitik für traditionelle Industriezweige in Japan./ Werner Pascha: Strukturanpassung in schrumpfenden Branchen - Japans Textilindustrie vor dem Hintergrund veränderter Wettbewerbsvorteile.
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 20 (1986): ASIEN (Juli)
An Assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enhanced Classroom on Teacher's Productivity in Lagos State Education District V
Creators: name: GIWA, Yussuf Olaoye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390107
subject: Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
classificationCode: 390103
subject: Economics, business and management curriculum and pedagogy

description: This study investigated an assessment of artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced classrooms on teachers' productivity in Lagos State Education District V. The study population consisted of 10 senior secondary schools in Lagos State Educational District V. Simple random sampling techniques were used to select one school from each zone under the selected education district. On the other hand, 25 teachers were chosen at random from each chosen school using a purposive sampling technique, making a total of 100 participants. This study used a 4-point Likert scale questionnaire to generate the data. Hypotheses were tested using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Analysis. (β = 0.242, p < 0.05) Study results showed that artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced classrooms have a positive effect on teachers' productivity in Lagos State Education District V. It was recommended that educational policymakers and administrators in Lagos State Educational District V take additional steps to integrate AI-enhanced classrooms, given the study's strong findings, and encouraging educators to work together and share knowledge in a positive environment helps hasten the adoption of AI technologies.
Hungdah Chiu/ Shao-chuan Leng (Hrsg.): China. Seventy Years after the 1911 Hsin -Hai Revolution.
Creators: name: Pfennig, Werner
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 20 (1986): ASIEN (Juli)
Experience embracing genAI in an engineering computations course: What went wrong and what next
Creators: name: Barba, Lorena A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: This paper is a candid reflection on adopting generative AI in an undergraduate engineering computations course, revealing unforeseen challenges despite best intentions. Students quickly developed patterns of using AI as a shortcut rather than a learning companion, leading to decreased attendance and an ``illusion of competence.'' It discusses the disconnect between instructor expectations and student behavior, how traditional assessment formats reinforced counterproductive AI usage, and ideas for guiding students toward using AI as a copilot rather than a substitute for critical thinking while maintaining academic integrity.To appear in IEEE Computer.
title: Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era
title: Afro-American Identity
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Allen, Ernest
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1985

description: "Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era" and the former work are part of a larger study in progress concerning Afro-American identity in general and Afro-American radicalism in particular.
Andreas Lukas: Regionale Wirtschaftsgemeinschaften im internationalen System. Eine Analyse ausgewählter Wirtschaftsgemeinschaften, Interaktionen, insbesondere zwischen der EG und der ASEAN.
Creators: name: Ehlers, G.
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 20 (1986): ASIEN (Juli)
EVALUATING LANGUAGE USE AMONG SCIENCE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL STUDENTS AT FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC MUBI
Creators: name: Amina, Zainab Bello
Publisher: name: Continental Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Linguistics, Pharmaceutical, Veins, Deviant, Cognisance, Etc

description: This paper assesses the language use of science and laboratory technology and pharmaceutical students of federal polytechnic, mubi Adamawa State. The theoretical framework underpinning the research is error analysis (EA), a theory of second language acquisition (SLA) which is concerned with the identification, description, and explanation of language learner’s error in either the spoken or written form. 4 randomly selected ND II students from each of the two departments during the 2021/2022 academic session wrote SIWES report on their industrial training (IT) programme. The technical reports were marked for error identification. The identified error were marked as thus: Verb, Spelling, wrongs words, Nouns, Punctuation/Capitalization, Pronouns, articles, abbreviation/Coinages and prepositions. Descriptive/Statistics involving of measure of central tendency (percentage and means scores) were use to analyze the data collected. Based on Ellis and Barkhurzen’s (2005) surface structure taxonomy of error categorization, most of the errors can be categorized into those of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Following form the underlying assumption of (EA) as it relates to error in second language learning, the identified error can be said to have been the result of overgeneralization of rules, interference from the mother tongue, extra lingual factors such as textbooks and inadequate learning. Its recommended that giving an enabling environment, functional teaching of English should be encouraged to improve the communicative competence of the learners
title: Recycling von NdFeB-Magneten in Deutschland
Creators: name: Schönfeld, Mario
name: Diehl, Oliver
name: Gassmann, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04d77de73
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Unter den kommerziell erhältlichen Permanentmagnetwerkstoffen weisen Neodym-Eisen-Bor-Magnete (NdFeB) die höchste Energiedichte auf. Diese Eigenschaft macht sie zur mit Abstand bedeutendsten Magnetart. NdFeB-Magnete spielen eine wichtige Rolle in verschiedenen industriellen Anwendungen, darunter Elektromotoren, Windkraftanlagen und elektronische Geräte.

 Recyclingprozesse für NdFeB-Magnete werden in werkstoffliches und rohstoffliches Recycling kategorisiert. Das werkstoffliche Recycling hat den Vorteil eines geringeren Energieverbrauchs im Vergleich zum rohstofflichen Recycling. Es eignet sich in besonderem Maße zur Herstellung von recycelten Magneten. Das rohstoffliche Recycling ist zwar prozessintensiver, ermöglicht jedoch die Rückgewinnung von Seltenen Erden und ist auf eine breitere Palette von magnethaltigen Abfallströmen anwendbar. Die direkte Wiederverwendung von Magneten ist zwar die nachhaltigste Option, allerdings ist diese in vielen Fällen nicht umsetzbar.

Unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Quellen wie Elektronikschrott, Windkraftanlagen und Automobilanwendungen lässt sich das Recyclingpotenzial von NdFeB-Magneten in Deutschland und Europa abschätzen, wobei die erwarteten Tonnagen teilweise weit auseinanderliegen. Um die Recyclingquoten zu steigern, ist die Einrichtung effektiver Sammel- und Rücknahmesysteme für NdFeB-Magnete erforderlich. Derzeit ist in Deutschland kein nennenswerter Handel mit End-of-Life-NdFeB-Magneten zu verzeichnen. Zudem ist das Recycling von NdFeB-Magneten mit logistischen Herausforderungen verbunden. Dazu zählen die Heterogenität der Abfallströme, unterschiedliche Lebenszyklen von Produkten, die Magnete enthalten, sowie die Schwierigkeit, die Demontage kleiner Komponenten zu automatisieren. Der Preis für recycelte Magnete ist eng mit dem Preis für Primärmagnete verknüpft, der wiederum stark von den Preisen für Seltenerdelemente beeinflusst wird. Die Studie präsentiert eine Übersicht von Unternehmen und Start-ups in Deutschland und darüber hinaus, die sich mit dem Recycling von Magneten befassen.
Interannual variability of the carbon balance of three different-aged Douglas-fir stands in the Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: Krishnan, Praveena
name: Black, T. Andrew
name: Jassal, Rachhpal S.
name: Chen, Baozhang
name: Nesic, Zoran
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2011

description: The seasonal and interannual variability of gross ecosystem photosynthesis (Pg) and ecosystem respiration (Re), and their relationships to environmental variables and stand characteristics were used to explain the variation of eddy-covariance-measured net ecosystem productivity (FNEP) of three different-aged Douglas-fir stands located on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. During the 9-year period, 1998–2006, which included a strong El Niño/La Niña event, the near-end-of-rotation stand (DF49, 57 years old in 2006) was a moderate carbon (C) sink for CO2 with annual FNEP ranging from 267 to 410 g C m−2 yr−1 (mean ± SD, 357 ± 51 g C m−2 yr−1). The pole/sapling stand (HDF88, 18 years old in 2006) was a weak C source (FNEP = −64 ± 75 g C m−2 yr−1), and the recently harvested stand (HDF00, 6 years old in 2006) was a large C source (FNEP = −515 ± 88 g C m−2 yr−1) during 2002–2006. Irrespective of stand age, all sites responded quite similarly to changes in environmental variables during each year. Daily total values of Pg and Re were highest in July–August in all three stands, while daily FNEP peaked during April–June at DF49, May–June at HDF88, and June–July at HDF00. Reductions in root-zone soil water content decreased both Pg and Re especially during the dry period from May to September, and this effect was more pronounced in the younger stands. Evapotranspiration and dry-foliage surface conductance also decreased with decreasing root-zone soil water content whereas water use efficiency appeared to be conservative, especially at DF49. Increasing spring temperature had a positive effect on annual Pg and Re but caused a slight decrease in annual FNEP. During the summer to autumn transition period, increases in soil water content resulted in a greater increase in Re than Pg causing a reduction in FNEP. The interannual variation in the C balance was determined mainly by the interannual variation in Re for the near-end-of-rotation stand and Pg for the two younger stands. The results indicate that regardless of the stand age, interannual variability in the C balance was mainly determined by year-to-year variability in spring temperature and water availability in late summer. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2009 American Geophysical Union.
Observation and analysis of shear instability in the Fraser River estuary
Creators: name: Tedford, E. W.
name: Carpenter, J. R.
name: Pawlowicz, Rich
name: Pieters, R.
name: Lawrence, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2011

description: We investigate the occurrence of shear instability in the Fraser River estuary. Instabilities observed with an echo sounder are compared with a linear stability analysis based on observed velocity and density profiles. We find that each set of observed instabilities coincides with an unstable mode predicted by the Taylor-Goldstein equation. Each of these instabilities occurs in a region where the gradient Richardson number is less than the critical value of 1/4. Both the Taylor-Goldstein predictions and the echo soundings indicate the instabilities are concentrated either above or below the density interface. This “one sidedness” is in contrast to the archetypal Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Although the dominant source of mixing in the estuary appears to be caused by shear instability, when the tide produces strong near-bed velocities, small-scale overturning due to boundary layer turbulence is apparent throughout the depth. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2009 American Geophysical Union.
Assessing future impacts of land use policies in Brazil
Creators: name: Camara, Gilberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Tropical deforestation, Land use change, Amazonia, Brazil, Paris Agreement

description: This presentation describes the methods and results of the REDD+ Policy Assessment Centre project (REDD-PAC) project, that supports decision making on REDD+, biodiversity and land use policies in Brazil. The project team adapted the global economic model GLOBIOM (developed by IIASA) to analyse land use policies in Brazil. The model results were taken into account by Brazilian decision-makers when developing the country's intended nationally determined contribution (INDC), submitted to UNFCCC COP-21 in Paris in 2015. In its NDC, Brazil aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and land use as a contribution to climate change mitigation and to conserve the country’s rich biodiversity. The country has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 37% below 2005 levels by 2025 and intends to reach a 43% cut by 2030. This is the first time a major developing country has committed to an absolute decrease in emissions.
The association of depression and pain interference with disease-management self-efficacy in community-dwelling individuals with spinal cord injury
Creators: name: Pang, Marco
name: Eng, Janice
name: Lin, Kwan-Hwa
name: Tang, Pei-Fang
name: Hung, Chihya
name: Wang, Yen-Ho
Publisher: name: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Year: 2010

description: OBJECTIVE: To determine factors influencing disease-management self-efficacy in individuals with spinal cord injury. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS: Forty-nine community-dwelling individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (mean age 44 years) participated in the study. METHODS: Each subject was evaluated for disease-management self-efficacy (Self-efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease), depression (10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale), pain interference (Pain Interference Scale), and availability of support (Interpersonal Support Evaluation List short form). Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine the relative contributions of these factors to disease-management self-efficacy. RESULTS: The mean disease-management self-efficacy score was 6.5 out of 10 (standard deviation 1.6). Bivariate correlation analysis showed that higher self-efficacy was significantly correlated with longer time since injury (r = 0.367, p = 0.010), better social support (r = 0.434, p = 0.002), lower pain interference (r = -0.589, p <0.001), and less severe depressive symptoms (r=-0.463, p=0.001). In multiple regression analysis, only lower pain interference and less severe depressive symptoms were significantly associated with higher disease-management self-efficacy (F 4,44=10.249, R2=0.482, p<0.001). CONCLUSION: Disease-management self-efficacy is suboptimal in many community-living people with spinal cord injury. This research suggests that rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury should include self-efficacy-enhancing strategies. Alleviation of depressive symptoms and pain self-management may be important for improving disease-management self-efficacy in this population, but this requires further study.
Healthy neighborhoods : walkability and air pollution
Creators: name: Marshall, Julian D.
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Frank, Lawrence D.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Background: The built environment may influence health in part through the promotion of physical activity and exposure to pollution. To date, no studies have explored interactions between neighborhood walkability and air pollution exposure. Methods: We estimated concentrations of nitric oxide (NO), a marker for direct vehicle emissions), and ozone (O₃) and a neighborhood walkability score, for 49,702 (89% of total) postal codes in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. NO concentrations were estimated from a land-use regression model, O₃ was estimated from ambient monitoring data; walkability was calculated based on geographic attributes such as land-use mix, street connectivity, and residential density. Results: All three attributes exhibit an urban–rural gradient, with high walkability and NO concentrations, and low O₃ concentrations, near the city center. Lower-income areas tend to have higher NO concentrations and walkability and lower O₃ concentrations. Higher-income areas tend to have lower pollution (NO and O₃). “Sweet-spot” neighborhoods (low pollution, high walkability) are generally located near but not at the city center and are almost exclusively higher income. Policy impmplications: Increased concentration of activities in urban settings yields both health costs and benefits. Our research identifies neighborhoods that do especially well (and especially poorly) for walkability and air pollution exposure. Work is needed to ensure that the poor do not bear an undue burden of urban air pollution and that neighborhoods designed for walking, bicycling, or mass transit do not adversely affect resident’s exposure to air pollution. Analyses presented here could be replicated in other cities and tracked over time to better understand interactions among neighborhood walkability, air pollution exposure, and income level.
THE ART OF STORYTELLING: VOICE AND MEMORY IN DANTICAT'S LITERARY LANDSCAPE
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Sani Usman
Publisher: name: Continental Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Poetics of Narration (Voice), Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker, The Farming of Bones, Narratology

description: Most critical analyses of Edwidge Danticat’s works have primarily focused on context-based theories to explore the Caribbean people's historical, cultural, psychological, and political realities. However, there has been inadequate emphasis on her narratives' artistic and textual elements, particularly the examination of recurring narratological poetics. This paper aims to investigate the narratological poetics of narration (voice) in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker (2004) and The Farming of Bones (1998) within the corpus of Caribbean literature. Using a qualitative approach, the research seeks to demonstrate the extent and purposes of deploying classical narratological poetics of narration (voice) in selected texts. The study argues that narratology offers unique insights into deciphering narrative structures and that narratological poetics/tenets are effective tools for studying narrative techniques. The research shows that the shift from homodiegetic to heterodiegetic narration and the shifting narratorial alliances from one character to another within a heterodiegetic narration allow The Dew Breaker, and by implication narrative texts, to represent different individual consciousnesses as they recreate their experiences. This is what lends The Dew Breaker its narratorial complexity, beauty, and aesthetic dexterity. The paper also reveals that narrative levels in The Farming of Bones add different perspectives and diversity to the narrative act of the text and increase the complexity and narrative aesthetics of the text. The research further demonstrates that intradiegetic narrations have both explicative and thematic functions in The Farming of Bones. The study argues that the classical narratological poetics of narration (voice) can determine the extent to which readers are guided or manipulated in relation to any given narrative text. Overall, Danticat’s narratives’ meanings and artistic complexities are influenced by the application of narration (voice) poetics, which serves to represent Haitian/Caribbean realities.
Tsuru Shigeto & Helmut Weidner: Ein Modell für uns: Die Erfolge der japanischen Umweltpolitik.
Creators: name: Mathias-Pauer, Regine
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 18 (1986): ASIEN (Januar)
Investigations into social engineering evidence for security research
Creators: name: Übelacker, Sven
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 004
subject: Computer Sciences

description: Wo technische Schutzmaßnahmen zu unflexibel sind und Sicherheitsentscheidungen den Menschen überlassen werden, werden Menschen Teil der sozio-technischen Angriffsfläche. Es wird zur Science of Security bzgl. Social Engineering (SE) beigetragen. Verschiedene Quellen wurden herangezogen, um SE zu identifizieren, zu analysieren und zu verstehen. Dies ermöglicht die Entwicklung einer multidisziplinären Wissensdatenbank und geeigneter Schutzmaßnahmen. Eine Definition inkl. fünf SE-Indikatoren wurde entwickelt, mithilfe derer SE identifiziert werden kann. Gerichtsurteile (Phishing), Legomodellierung (Cloud) sowie ein neuartiges SE Poetry Slam-Konzept dienten für tiefergreifende Untersuchungen.
description: When technical protection mechanisms are too inflexible and security decisions are passed to users, users become part of the attack surface of a socio-technical system. This thesis contributes to the science of security regarding Social Engineering (SE), where users are the core enabler of successful attacks. Various sources were consulted to identify, analyse, and understand SE, enabling the development of a multidisciplinary knowledge base and appropriate safeguards. A suitable definition comprising five SE indicators was developed to examine anecdotes whether they express SE. Court documents (phishing), Lego modelling (cloud), and a novel SE poetry slam concept served as sources for in-depth analyses.
Earth observations for national development: the promise of big data, the chain of trust, and the sharing of risk
Creators: name: Camara, Gilberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Big earth observation data, Sustainable development, Capacity building, Institutional building

description: This presentation discusses the use of big Earth observation data for national development. It argues that the area of Earth Observations (EO) is undergoing a major change. Public space agencies are making petabytes of data openly available. Cloud services are reducing the need for investment on infrastructure. Machine learning methods are delivering much better results than earlier methods. Data cubes are allowing EO data to be organised for easy access and processing. However, this knowledge has be organised in ways that stakeholders and user communities can produce the information they need. A process of co-design is essential for the joint definition of sustainability challenges and the translation of these challenges into research needs. Stakeholders and academic participants need work together to establish the research goals and to agree on their roles. The presentation argues for the importance of State actions in developing countries to build institutions capable of actively promoting sustainable development using advanced data and tools.
Guidelines for the design and implementation of scenarios in WILIAM
Creators: name: Gallego-Medina, Raquel
name: Wergles, Nathalie
name: Capellán-Pérez, Íñigo
name: López-Muñoz, Paola
name: Miguel González, Luis Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Scenarios
IAM
WILIAM
GEEDS
Integrated Assessment Models

description: The main objective of this document is to create a common guideline and framework describing how to design a scenario and implement it in the Within Limits Integrated Assessment Model (WILIAM). It is important to highlight that the aim of this guide is not to show how to model new policies, but to create scenarios with the ones that are already modelled in WILIAM.

We would like to highlight that it is a live document which will be completed and improved with its use, so feedback to authors is encourage.
A new clinical rating scale for work absence and productivity: validation in patients with major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Lam, Raymond W.
name: Michalak, Erin E.
name: Yatham, Lakshmi N.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. The prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is highest in working age people and depression causes significant impairment in occupational functioning. Work productivity and work absence should be incorporated into clinical assessments but currently available scales may not be optimized for clinical use. This study seeks to validate the Lam Employment Absence and Productivity Scale (LEAPS), a 10-item self-report questionnaire that takes 3-5 minutes to complete. Methods The study sample consisted of consecutive patients attending a Mood Disorders outpatient clinic who were in full- or part-time paid work. All patients met DSM-IV criteria for MDD and completed during their intake assessment the LEAPS, the self-rated version of the Quick Inventory for Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS-SR), the Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS) and the Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ). Standard psychometric analyses for validation were conducted. Results A total of 234 patients with MDD completed the assessments. The LEAPS displayed excellent internal consistency as assessed by Cronbach's alpha of 0.89. External validity was assessed by comparing the LEAPS to the other clinical and work functioning scales. The LEAPS total score was significantly correlated with the SDS work disability score (r = 0.63, p < 0.01) and the Global Work Performance rating from the HPQ (r = -0.79, p < 0.01). The LEAPS total score also increased with greater depression severity. Conclusion The LEAPS displays good internal and external validity in a population of patients with MDD attending an outpatient clinic, which suggests that it may be a clinically useful tool to assess and monitor work functioning and productivity in depressed patients.
Love as harm reduction: fighting AIDS and stigma in Vietnam
Creators: name: Small, Dan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: In the summer of 2009, I visited a humble orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam. Here, like many parts in the world, the very existence of marginalized people with stigmatized illness is hidden away. Relegated to the shadows of society, these children lacked something more fundamental than housing, shelter, nutrition and medications. They lacked families to love and care for them unconditionally. One might think it self-evident that a visit to an orphanage for children with HIV would be profound, but the profundity wasn't where I expected to find it. It was in how the children had created their own family, loving each other like brothers and sisters, and the way the priest who operated the shelters was more than a Father, he was a dad to dozens of children. This is an account of love as harm reduction in the Mai Tam orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City.
Chinesische Literatur in japanischer Übersetzung: Lehren für den deutschen Rezeptionsprozeß? (Ein Überblick nach Tan Ruqians Übersetzungsbibliographie)
Creators: name: Martin, Helmut
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 18 (1986): ASIEN (Januar)
title: Same but Different: Providing a Probabilistic Foundation for the Feature-Matching Approach to Similarity and Categorization
Creators: name: Poth, Nina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: The feature-matching approach pioneered by Amos Tversky remains a groundwork for psychological models of similarity and categorization but is rarely explicitly justified considering recent advances in thinking about cognition. While psychologists often view similarity as an unproblematic foundational concept that explains generalization and conceptual thought, long-standing philosophical problems challenging this assumption suggest that similarity derives from processes of higher-level cognition, including inference and conceptual thought. This paper addresses three specific challenges to Tversky’s approach: (i) the feature-selection problem, (ii) the problem of cognitive implausibility, and (iii) the problem of unprincipled tweaking. It subsequently supports key insights from Tversky’s account based on recent developments in Bayesian modeling of cognition. A novel computational view of similarity as inference is proposed that addresses each challenge by considering the contrast class as constitutive of similarity and selecting for highly informative features. In so doing, this view illustrates the ongoing promise of the feature-matching approach in explaining perception, generalization and conceptual thought by grounding them in principles of probabilistic inference.
N.A. Bootsma: Buren en de koloniale tijd. De Philippijnen onder Amerikaans ewind en de Nederlandse, Indische en Indonesische reacties daarop, 1898-1942.
Creators: name: Wagner, Wilfried
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2020

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 25 (1987): ASIEN (Oktober)
limma, edgeR and Glimma enable differential analyses of genomic data
Creators: name: Chen, Yunshun
name: Law, Charity
name: Smyth, Gordon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: limma, edgeR and Glimma are R packages that are part of Bioconductor, the world's foremost software development project in statistical bioinformatics. They address one of the most fundamental of all genomic problems, that is detecting and interpreting differences in the abundance of genes or other genomic features between experimental conditions, cell types or disease states.
Involvement of cyclin B1 in progesterone-mediated cell growth inhibition, G2/M cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis in human endometrial cell
Creators: name: Tang, Li
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Pan, Hong
name: Luo, Qiong
name: Zhu, Xiao-Ming
name: Dong, Min-Yue
name: Leung, P. C. K.
name: Sheng, Jian-Zhong
name: Huang, He-Feng
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Progesterone plays an important role in the proliferation and differentiation of human endometrial cells (hECs). Large-dose treatment with progesterone has been used for treatment of endometrial proliferative disorders. However, the mechanisms behind remain unknown. Methods To investigate the role of cyclin B1 in proliferation and differentiation of hECs in menstrual cycle, the expression of cyclin B1 throughout the menstrual cycle was evaluated in hECs. To determine the effects of progesterone on the proliferation, cell cycle progression and apoptosis of hECs and to test if cyclin B1 is involved in these effects, progesterone and/or Alsterpaullone (Alp, a specific inhibitor of Cyclin B1/Cdc2) were added to primary hECs. Cellular proliferation was evaluated with MTT test, cell cycle with propidium iodide (PI) staining and flow cytometry, apoptosis with FITC-Annexin V and the expression of cyclin B1 with Western blotting. Results The expression level of cyclin B1 in secretory endometria was significantly lower than in proliferative endometria (p < 0.01). Progesterone significantly inhibited the growth of hECs in a concentration-dependent manner (P < 0.01). The treatment with progesterone significantly decreased the expression of cyclin B1, increased the proportions of cell in G2/M phase, and apoptotic cells (P < 0.05 for all). The presence of Alp significantly enhanced the effects of progesterone on cyclin B1 down-regulation, G2/M cell cycle arrest and induction of apoptosis (P < 0.01 for all). Conclusion Our findings suggest that cyclin B1 is a critical factor in proliferation and differentiation of hECs. Progesterone may inhibit cell proliferation, mediate G2/M cell cycle arrest and induce apoptosis in hECs via down-regulating Cyclin B1.
Stem cells, inflammation and allergy
Creators: name: Blanchet, Marie-Renee
name: McNagny, Kelly M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Recently, many studies have suggested a potential role for early hematopoietic progenitor cell and hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) recruitment and differentiation in the development of allergy and inflammation. This is based largely on evidence that stem cells or CD34+ progenitor cells are recruited to the site of inflammation in allergic diseases, likely through many of the same adhesion and chemokine receptors used for stem cell homing to the bone marrow (PSGL-1, CXCL12, alpha4-beta1 integrin, CD44, etc). Once at the site of inflammation, it has been suggested that stem cells could participate in the perpetuation of inflammation by maturing, locally, into inflammatory cells in response to the growth factors released in situ. Here we provide a brief review of the evidence to suggest that hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (versus mature hematopoietic lineages) are, indeed, recruited to the site of allergic inflammation. We also discuss the molecules that likely play a role in this process, and highlight a number of our novel observations on a specific role for the stem cell antigen CD34 in this process.
Manual annotation and analysis of the defensin gene cluster in the C57BL/6J mouse reference genome
Creators: name: Amid, Clara
name: Rehaume, Linda M.
name: Brown, Kelly L.
name: Gilbert, James G.
name: Dougan, Gordon
name: Hancock, R. E. W. (Robert E. W.)
name: Harrow, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Host defense peptides are a critical component of the innate immune system. Human alpha- and beta-defensin genes are subject to copy number variation (CNV) and historically the organization of mouse alpha-defensin genes has been poorly defined. Here we present the first full manual genomic annotation of the mouse defensin region on Chromosome 8 of the reference strain C57BL/6J, and the analysis of the orthologous regions of the human and rat genomes. Problems were identified with the reference assemblies of all three genomes. Defensins have been studied for over two decades and their naming has become a critical issue due to incorrect identification of defensin genes derived from different mouse strains and the duplicated nature of this region. Results The defensin gene cluster region on mouse Chromosome 8 A2 contains 98 gene loci: 53 are likely active defensin genes and 22 defensin pseudogenes. Several TATA box motifs were found for human and mouse defensin genes that likely impact gene expression. Three novel defensin genes belonging to the Cryptdin Related Sequences (CRS) family were identified. All additional mouse defensin loci on Chromosomes 1, 2 and 14 were annotated and unusual splice variants identified. Comparison of the mouse alpha-defensins in the three main mouse reference gene sets Ensembl, Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), and NCBI RefSeq reveals significant inconsistencies in annotation and nomenclature. We are collaborating with the Mouse Genome Nomenclature Committee (MGNC) to establish a standardized naming scheme for alpha-defensins. Conclusions Prior to this analysis, there was no reliable reference gene set available for the mouse strain C57BL/6J defensin genes, demonstrating that manual intervention is still critical for the annotation of complex gene families and heavily duplicated regions. Accurate gene annotation is facilitated by the annotation of pseudogenes and regulatory elements. Manually curated gene models will be incorporated into the Ensembl and Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) reference sets. Elucidation of the genomic structure of this complex gene cluster on the mouse reference sequence, and adoption of a clear and unambiguous naming scheme, will provide a valuable tool to support studies on the evolution, regulatory mechanisms and biological functions of defensins in vivo.
ATP stimulates chemokine production via a store-operated calcium entry pathway in C6 glioma cells
Creators: name: Jantaratnotai, Nattinee
name: Choi, Hyun B
name: McLarnon, James G
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Glioma present as one of the most challenging cancers to treat, however, understanding of tumor cell biology is not well understood. Extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) could serve as a critical signaling molecule regulating tumor development. This study has examined pharmacological modulation of calcium (Ca2+) entry through store-operated channels (SOC) on cellular expression and production of immune-cell mobilizing chemokines in ATP-stimulated C6 glioma cells. Methods Calcium spectrofluorometry was carried out to measure mobilization of intracellular Ca2+ [Ca2+]i following ATP stimulation of rat C6 glioma cells. Pretreatment with two inhibitors of SOC, SKF96365 or gadolinium, was used to examine for effects on [Ca2+]i. RT-PCR was performed to determine effects of purinergic stimulation on C6 cell expression of metabotropic P2Y receptors (P2YR) and the chemokines, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and interleukin-8 (IL-8). ELISA was carried out to measure production of MCP-1 and IL-8 with ATP stimulation of glioma cells. Results Application of ATP (at 100 μM) to C6 glioma induced an increase in [Ca2+]i with the response exhibiting two components of decay. In the presence of the SOC inhibitors, SKF96365 or gadolinium, or with Ca2+-free solution, ATP responses lacked a slow phase suggesting the secondary component was due to SOC-mediated influx of Ca2+. RT-PCR confirmed expression of purinergic P2Y-subtype receptors in C6 cells which would serve as a precursor to activation of SOC. In addition, ATP-stimulated C6 cells showed enhanced expression of the chemokines, MCP-1 and IL-8, with SKF96365 or gadolinium effective in reducing chemokine expression. Gadolinium treatment of ATP-stimulated C6 cells was also found to inhibit the production of MCP-1 and IL-8. Conclusion These results suggest ATP-induced Ca2+ entry, mediated by activation of SOC in C6 glioma, as a mechanism leading to increased cellular expression and release of chemokines. Elevated levels of MCP-1 and IL-8 are predicted to enhance the mobility of tumor cells and promote recruitment of microglia into developing tumors thereby supporting tumor growth.
The Anatomy behind giving students feedback
Creators: name: Farquharson, Claire
name: Sandford, Sarah
name: parker, danielle
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390199
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified

description: As part of the "anatomy series" infographics for early career academics, this infographic aims to look at the anatomy behind giving students feedback.  A central element to a students learning experience is feedback to support their learning and development. The aim of the infographic to highlight a “positive feedback loop” approach to promote student centred approach to feedback and to allow academics to consider the best approach for them.