cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Weiterbildungsbereitschaft endlich belohnen!
Creators: name: Bosch, Gerhard
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Kurz gefasst


 Der Entwurf zum "Arbeit-von-Morgen-Gesetz" setzt vor allem (1) mit einem Rechtsanspruch für Geringqualifizierte, (2) der stärkeren finanziellen Förderung der Weiterbildung von Beschäftigten im Strukturwandel, sowie (3) der zusätzlichen Unterstützung von Weiterbildung in Transfermaßnahmen und (4) in Kurzarbeit wichtige Akzente im Aufbau eines Systems des lebenslangen Lernens.

Allerdings ist die Teilnahme an einem Ein-Euro-Job immer noch attraktiver als an einer anspruchsvollen Weiterbildung. Die Anträge der Fraktionen BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN und DIE LINKE schlagen vor, durch ein über dem Arbeitslosen I und - II liegendes Weiterbildungsgeld diese Fehlanreize zu beseitigen.

Die Vorschläge zur Förderung der Weiterbildung von Beschäftigten im Strukturwandel, in Transfermaßnahmen und in Kurzarbeit sind teilweise zu restriktiv gefasst, um in der Praxis zu wirken.

Die Dauer der Umschulungen von gering qualifizierten und lernentwöhnten Langzeitarbeitslosen sollte in begründeten Fällen auf drei Jahre ausgedehnt werden können. Mit der bislang üblichen Begrenzung auf zwei Jahre werden Umschulungen im Vergleich zu einer Erstausbildung um mindestens ein Drittel verkürzt, was zu einer Überforderung dieses Personenkreises und damit zum de facto Ausschluss aus abschlussbezogenen Weiterbildungen führt.
description: IAQ-Standpunkte, vol. 2020, no. 02
Middle Bronze Age- Late Bronze Age Transitions in the Southern Urals (Russia). Case Study: Shifts in Settlement Patterns in the Kyzil Area, Chelyabinsk District.
Creators: name: sharapov, denis
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The following paper focuses on the transitional period between the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Southern Urals, Russia.ÿ GIS-based analysis of Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Kyzil Area points to a number of important findings.ÿ The study concludes the demographic impossibility of an autonomous development scenario of the Sintashta ? Srubnaya-Alakul cultural transformation, rejects the presence of ?proto-city? or urbanization developments in the region during the Bronze Age, and points to the shift to a more collective form of control over natural resources during the LBA period.ÿ The study also examines the spatial distribution of ?kurgan? cemeteries in the area.ÿ Among other things, this thesis illustrates how settlement pattern studies can add to and complement the heavily burial data - driven research, often relied upon in the archaeological analysis of the Eurasian Steppes.ÿ
Supplementary Material from Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call
Creators: name: Collier, Katie
name: Radford, Andrew N.
name: Stoll, Sabine
name: Watson, Stuart K.
name: Manser, Marta B.
name: Bickel, Balthasar
name: Townsend, Simon W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Methods and Results concerning Bayesian analyses
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Westendorf, Astrid M.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 6
The Lacy Hotel Site: Gender Ideologies and Domestic Activities in a 19th Century Boardinghouse Context
Creators: name: scharffenberg, melissa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The Lacy Hotel was a part of the "Great Locomotive Chase", a significant historical event in Kennesaw, Georgia during the Civil War (AD 1861-1864), yet little is known of this site. The Lacy Hotel was a boardinghouse that operated for roughly six years until General William Tecumseh Sherman burned it in 1864. This research utilizes historical records along with archaeological fieldwork in order to provide a more detailed analysis of daily life within the Lacy household. Dominant ideologies influence the roles of women concerning their activities and choices of consumption within the household. Although the results show that the boardinghouse is not a typical household, the social dynamics and consumption are still constrained by the culture and ideology of the time period. In conclusion, this research offers a case study about the role of women on the eve of turmoil and contends that the boardinghouse is emblematic of broader changes within the rural South during the 19th century.
Ketogenic diet for mitochondrial disease: potential role in treating the Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis phenotype associated with the common MT-TK genetic mutation
Creators: name: Mattman, Andre
name: Nadeau, Elizabeth
name: Mezei, Michelle
name: Cresswell, Mark
name: Zhao, Sida
name: Bosdet, Taryn
name: Sin, Don
name: Guenette, Jordan A.
name: Dupuis, Isabelle
name: Allin, Emily
name: Clarke, David C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

Abstract
Supplementary document for Aberration Corrected Large-scale Hybrid-metalenses - 5436264.pdf
Creators: name: SAWANT, RAJATH
name: Andrén, Daniel
name: Martins, Renato
name: Khadir, Samira
name: Verre, Ruggero
name: Käll, Mikael
name: Genevet, Patrice
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary materials
Phidrimana amurensis
Creators: name: Titov, Sergey V.
name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Morozov, Pavel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Phidrimana
Phidrimana amurensis

description: Phidrimana amurensis (Staudinger, 1892)
 Bionomics. FP: VII–IX. Meso-xerophilous species. Forests and woodlands, steppes.
 Known localities. Z: Krasnovka, Moiseyevka, Pyatiryzhsk, Urlyutyub, Shipichka; T: Terenkol, Ay-Sary; P: Pavlodar, Pavlodarskoye, Rozovka, Zhetekshi, Ken-Aral; AK: Borly; B: Abet Bulak, Airtas; M: Zmeinyi Yar; E: Kudaykol.
 Literature: Titov et al. (2017); Titov et al. (2017b, in Amphipyrini).
 Note. The genus Phidrimana Kononenko, 1989 was transferred from Amphipyrini to Psaphidina by Pekarsky et al. (2019).
description: Published as part of Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V. & Morozov, Pavel S., 2024, Revised checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of Northeast Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region), pp. 288-376 in Ecologica Montenegrina 73 on page 327, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.73.22, http://zenodo.org/record/13248329
title: Influenzavirus - gefährliche Wandlungsfähigkeit: Hürden bei der Impfstoffentwicklung und die Rolle des angeborenen Immunsystems als alternativer Ansatzpunkt für neue Therapien
Creators: name: Knuschke, Torben
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Influenzavirus-Infektionen sind weltweit verbreitet und stellen eine immer wiederkehrende gesundheitliche Gefahr dar. In Deutschland treten sie über das Jahr wellenförmig verteilt, regelmäßig in den Wintermonaten, meist nach dem Jahreswechsel, auf. Innerhalb dieser jährlichen Grippewellen werden laut Schätzungen des Robert-Koch-Institutes fünf bis 20 Prozent der Bevölkerung infiziert. Weltweit gibt es laut Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) jährlich schätzungsweise eine Milliarde Influenza-Infektionen. Dieser Beitrag behandelt Fragen der Impfstoffentwicklung und alternative Therapiemöglichkeiten.
description: Influenza is still a global health problem, with approximately one billion cases worldwide each year. Due to the continuous antigenic changes, the influenza virus retains high pandemic risk potential. One of the worst pandemic outbreaks, from 1918 to 1920, killed more than 40 million people worldwide. Recent outbreaks have raised concerns that a new influenza pandemic might occur in the near future. Although a protective seasonal influenza vaccine is available, the vaccine is updated annually in order to target the virus expected to be the most prevalent, and every vaccine therefore only lasts for the respective season. Usually, the influenza season occurs during the winter months. New strategies must be developed in order to enhance the therapeutic possibilities of severe influenza disease. Innate immune cells, such as macrophages, dendritic cells and monocytes, are the first line of defence against viruses and bacteria and activate the adaptive immune response. In the lung, the primary location of the influenza infection, the distribution of these innate immune cells is controlled by several molecular mechanisms. Macrophages are the main cells found within the lumen of airways and alveoli and are therefore thought to play a central role in influenza defense, since they are the first cells that recognize the virus and influence the subsequent immune response. Better understanding of these molecular processes should aid development of alternative therapeutic strategies to treat severe influenza virus infections.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 8
Investigating the Ancient Maya Landscape: A Settlement Survey in the Periphery of Pacbitun
Creators: name: Weber, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis presents the results of research conducted at the ancient Maya site of Pacbitun. The site, located in the foothills of the Maya Mountains in the Cayo District of Belize, offered a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between the site core and various caves located in its 9 km2 periphery. The landscape was a critical component of ancient Maya religion. The earth and all of its topographic features were considered to be alive and, as living beings, to interact in human affairs. Caves were seen as portals to the underworld and homes to deities. Pilgrimages to these sacred places influenced and were influenced by settlement patterns and socio-political relations. Particularly targeted in this study is the causeway system, which connects the site core to a ritually used cave, and is analyzed through the application of predictive modeling. Since analysis of the intermediate area between sites and caves has been rare, this research makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the ritual landscape.
Strategic Neighboring and "Beloved Community" Development in West Atlanta Neighborhoods
Creators: name: Case, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This study investigates the phenomenon of faith-motivated actors in blighted inner-city neighborhoods on the west side of Atlanta, Georgia. In merging community development literature with a framework of place, this research explores the role of faith in neighborhood transformation efforts. In particular, it examines the motivations and values of these actors that shape how they conceptualize their neighborhoods and in turn how these values are then inscribed into place. Fewer than 40 strategic neighbors are known to be active in Atlanta?s west side; of these 32 participated in the research through in-depth interviews, surveys, diaries and other qualitative research methods. Through this extensive qualitative investigation, this thesis explores the middle-class identity struggles experienced by participants as they reconfigure the social and material spaces of their neighborhoods as they live out their faith.
Bioarchaeological Investigations of Community and Identity at the Avondale Burial Place (McArthur Cemetery), Bibb County, Georgia
Creators: name: Vanderpool, Emily
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This study conducts a multi-isotopic bioarchaeological analysis of the Avondale Burial Place (McArthur Cemetery), a recently discovered Emancipation-era African American cemetery near Macon, GA.  Stable isotopic analyses were performed on available dental remains in order to reconstruct the diet and demography of the individuals buried at McArthur Cemetery. Specifically, ë18O and ë13C were characterized in tooth enamel and examined in tandem with collaborative osteological and mortuary analyses to reconstruct early-life diet and residential origin.  The results suggest that members of the Avondale community buried in McArthur did not experience significant mobility, but rather resided in the area for most of their lives. Overall, these results greatly contribute to the genealogical research of McArthur Cemetery?s descendants as well as the fragmented history of the South by exploring whether the individuals in this community took part in the Great Migration following the Civil War.
Passing through Dink ? A Closer Look at How Couples in the United States Make the Decision to Have Children
Creators: name: Korb, Allyson
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores how Dual Income No Kids (DINK) couples within the United States approach family planning. The study is based on ethnographic work I carried out over the course of 2011, including a nationwide survey and in-depth interviews I conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Denver Colorado. Specifically, I was interested in investigating why these couples were ?delaying? having children based on the national average. While current literature points to changes in education, healthcare, and societal values as being the catalyst for the DINK movement, I wanted to understand Americans? childbearing decisions on a more personal level. Through this project I looked at how both the social goals (parent and peer role models) and personal pressures (prioritization of education, career and marital partnership) influence an individual?s decision about whether and when to have children. As such, I also explore themes of identity, life narrative, and choice in regards to family planning. Whereas the popular stereotype of DINK suggests that these couples are uninterested in family or ?family values?, my research shows that many couples actually choose to be DINK for a time because they are actively pursuing and preparing for parenthood.
The Promise of Gayness: Queers and Kin in South Korea
Creators: name: Gitzen, Timothy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines whether the interrelationship of family and gay identity in South Korea is best understood as one of conflict, pitting a traditional, national, and filial constraint against a presumed global, progressive, and individualistic freedom, or whether it requires (or perhaps, in the narratives themselves, already provides) a different, more recursive understanding.  This thesis explores the recursivity between gay identity and filial piety among college students in contemporary Korea while also providing a critique of a global gay paradigm that others may argue infiltrates Korean gay discourse.  The aim of this ethnography is not just to collect the stories that these young South Korean college men tell about their experiences of being gay and a son, but to trace how my position as a researcher and a friend are shaped by my experiences with other gay Korean men and how those positions are intimately tied to this ethnography as a whole.
Figure S1: The Buzzard Field, Blocks 19/5a, 19/10a, 20/1 and 20/6a, UK North Sea
Creators: name: E.E. Taylor
name: N.J. Webb
name: C.J. Stevenson
name: J.R. Henderson
name: A. Kovac
name: J.J. Millington
name: J.A. Rhodes
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Pressure analysis of pre-production wells showing the free water level at 9183 ft TVDSS which is similar to the oil–water contact range observed from well log data.
What's to Know?: Navigating Knowledge Gaps of Hansen's Disease in the U.S.
Creators: name: Kuhns, Kristen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis uses a critical medical anthropology approach to explore healthcare professionals? perspectives of Hansen?s disease (HD) patients? treatment-seeking experiences in the United States. During semi-structured interviews my eight informants discussed challenges patients face when seeking treatment. The number one challenge discussed was that of knowledge gaps among healthcare professionals which influence misconceptions of HD being highly contagious and dangerous. Such misconceptions negatively influence patients? treatment from start to finish. My informants discussed their understandings of, and roles in minimizing challenges for their patients.
Negotiating Beauty Ideals: Perceptions of Beauty Among Black Female University Students
Creators: name: Swain, Fiana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores the college lives of Black women who attend or recently attended majority white colleges and universities in the United States. Emphasis is placed on how Black women?s college experience is influenced by the way they define beauty, as well as how they perceive their White peers to define beauty. Through the collection of ten in-depth interviews, I examine how Black women?s perceptions of beauty compare with those of mainstream United States standards and those of the dominant culture of their schools. I explored how the Black women I interviewed responded when confronted with these mainstream beauty standards and how these standards influence their social and academic lives on campus.
title: Die Einmischer: Interferone: Wie sie die Immunantwort beeinflussen, um Viren effektiv zu bekämpfen
Creators: name: Sutter, Kathrin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Bislang sind die genauen molekularen Mechanismen fast aller medizinisch wichtigen Anwendungen der Interferone und besonders der verschiedenen Subtypen kaum verstanden. Ein größerer Einblick, wie genau Interferone Virusinfektionen beeinflussen, kann durchaus zur Entwicklung von potenten IFN-basierten Immuntherapien führen, die spezifischer und effektiver in ihrer biologischen Wirkung sind als die bisher zugelassenen IFN-Therapien.
description: Type I interferons (IFN), which are immediately induced after most virus infections, are central for direct antiviral immunity and link innate and adaptive immune responses. After induction, they bind to their IFNα/β receptor, which leads to downstream signalling resulting in the expression of numerous differ-ent IFN-stimulated genes. These genes encode anti-viral proteins that directly inhibit viral replication and modulate immune function. Thus, the induction of type I IFN is a very powerful tool of the host to fight virus infections. However, several viruses have evolved strategies to evade the IFN response by prevent-ing IFN induction or blocking IFN signalling pathways. Therapeutic application of exogenous type I IFN is thus a significant option for future immunotherapies against chronic viral infections. An important part of the type I IFN family are 12 IFNαsubtypes, which all bind to the same receptor but differ significantly in their biological activities. To date, only one IFNα subtype (IFNα2) is being used in clinical treatment against chronic virus infections such as hepatitis B; however, its thera-peutic success rate is rather limited. Various clinical studies with human IFNα2 demonstrated no or modest beneficial therapeutic effects during human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Recent studies by our group addressed the important question of whether other IFNαsubtypes would be more potent against retroviral or hepadnaviral infections in in vitro and in vivoexperiments. Indeed, very potent IFNα subtypes were defined and their antiviral and immunomodu-latory properties characterized. The findings demonstrate the non-redundant role of the different IFNαsubtypes in viral infections, and the characterization of the mechanisms underlying the IFN response might help us to develop novel strategies for future immunotherapies against chronic viral infections.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 18
Supplementary document for Surface light scattering in reflection geometry: Capabilities and limitations - 5436601.pdf
Creators: name: Koller, Thomas
name: Cui, Junwei
name: Schmidt, Michael
name: Knorr, Johannes
name: Froba, Andreas Paul
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental information to the manuscript
Calophasia opalina
Creators: name: Titov, Sergey V.
name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Morozov, Pavel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Calophasia
Calophasia opalina

description: Calophasia opalina (Esper, [1794])
 Bionomics. FP: V–XI. Xerophilous species. Steppes.
 Known localities. P: Zhertumsyk; AK: Karaul.
 Literature: Titov et al. (2017b).
description: Published as part of Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V. & Morozov, Pavel S., 2024, Revised checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of Northeast Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region), pp. 288-376 in Ecologica Montenegrina 73 on page 328, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.73.22, http://zenodo.org/record/13248329
title: Malaria - quo vadis?: Neue Erkenntnisse zur Therapie, Impfstoffentwicklung und Reaktion unseres Immunsystems
Creators: name: Hansen, Wiebke
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Malaria gehört zu den weltweit bedeutendsten Infektionserkrankungen und tritt in etwa 100 Ländern der tropischen und subtropischen Gebiete auf. Schätzungsweise 40 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung lebt in Malaria-endemischen Gebieten, zu denen Länder in Afrika, Asien und Südamerika gehören. Insbesondere Menschen in Afrika sind mit 90 Prozent der Fälle am meisten betroffen. Weltweit werden jährlich mehr als 200 Millionen Menschen infiziert, und etwa 450.000 versterben in Folge der Infektion. Besonders Kinder unter fünf Jahren und schwangere Frauen haben ein erhöhtes Risiko, eine schwere Malaria zu entwickeln.
description: Malaria is still one of the most life-threatening infectious diseases worldwide. Each year, more than 200 million people are infected and nearly half a million people, in particular children under five years of age, die from the infection. Plasmodium species are the causative agents of malaria. These parasites are transmitted by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes and have a complex life cycle in humans and mosquitoes. Several effective drugs exist for the treatment of malaria, including artemisinin-based combination therapies, but more and more drug-resistant parasites have emerged. Different vaccination strategies have been developed, but most have failed. RTS,S was the only vaccine tested in phase III clinical trials. Despite initial promising results, RTS,S provides only short-lived, partial protection against malaria. To date, it is well established that T-lymphocytes and antibody responses play a crucial role during immune responses against Plasmodium. However, there are still many fundamental questions as to how our immune system reacts and how it is controlled during malaria. A better understanding of the mechanistic processes of the immunology should help in the development of more practical and reliable immunization and therapeutic interventions to control or eliminate malaria.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 28
Stable isotope analysis of human remains from the Early Contact Period site of La Capilla del Ni¤o Serranito at La Capilla de Santa Mar¡a Magdalena de Eten
Creators: name: Brown, Leslie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Oxygen and carbon stable isotope analyses of bone and tooth enamel carbonate were conducted on a subset of the burial population (n = 17) of the La Capilla de El Ni¤o Serranito of the La Capilla Santa Mar¡a Magdalena de Eten site in the Lambayeque Valley of Peru.  The individuals sampled display oxygen stable isotope (ë18Odw(V-SMOW) ) values consistent with higher altitude ë 18Odw(V-SMOW) levels.  Carbon stable isotope (ë13C(VPDB)) values for the individuals sampled are consistent with C4 and potentially marine-based food sources.  The results of the stable isotope analyses, when combined with elements from the site-specific archaeological and bioarchaeological data, provide a more comprehensive view of the lives and identities of the individuals examined.
Which chart and which cut-point: deciding on the INTERGROWTH, World Health Organization, or Hadlock fetal growth chart
Creators: name: Liauw, Jessica
name: Mayer, Chantal
name: Albert, Arianne
name: Fernandez, Ariadna
name: Hutcheon, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Objective To determine how various centile cut points on the INTERGROWTH-21st (INTERGROWTH), World Health Organization (WHO), and Hadlock fetal growth charts predict perinatal morbidity/mortality, and how this relates to choosing a fetal growth chart for clinical use. Methods We linked antenatal ultrasound measurements for fetuses > 28 weeks’ gestation from the British Columbia Women’s hospital ultrasound unit with the provincial perinatal database. We estimated the risk of perinatal morbidity/mortality (decreased cord pH, neonatal seizures, hypoglycemia, and perinatal death) associated with select centiles on each fetal growth chart (the 3rd, 10th, the centile identifying 10% of the population, and the optimal cut-point by Youden’s Index), and determined how well each centile predicted perinatal morbidity/mortality. Results Among 10,366 pregnancies, the 10th centile cut-point had a sensitivity of 11% (95% CI 8, 14), 13% (95% CI 10, 16), and 12% (95% CI 10, 16), to detect fetuses with perinatal morbidity/mortality on the INTERGROWTH, WHO, and Hadlock charts, respectively. All charts performed similarly in predicting perinatal morbidity/mortality (area under the curve [AUC] =0.54 for all three charts). The statistically optimal cut-points were the 39th, 31st, and 32nd centiles on the INTERGROWTH, WHO, and Hadlock charts respectively. Conclusion The INTERGROWTH, WHO, and Hadlock fetal growth charts performed similarly in predicting perinatal morbidity/mortality, even when evaluating multiple cut points. Deciding which cut-point and chart to use may be guided by other considerations such as impact on workflow and how the chart was derived.
Investigation of the Effects of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) using Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Creators: name: Keatch, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a type of non-invasive brain stimulation that uses low-level electrical current to stimulate the auricular branch of the vagus nerve on the ear. It has been utilised as a treatment option for a number of different medical conditions, although the parameters of stimulation have not been investigated or optimised fully. I used a neuro-imaging technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG) to measure how the brain responds to tVNS and investigated whether varying the frequency or site of stimulation led to a difference in brain response. This was a novel approach, as simultaneous MEG and tVNS had not been performed before due to large stimulation artifacts from the electrical stimulation. I developed a successful methodology that reduced and removed stimulation artifact in the data and allowed for the recovery of underlying brain dynamics that could then be analysed further. The results from this thesis suggest that different stimulation frequencies and sites elicit different brain response and illustrate the potential for customised stimulation parameters to be developed for the personalised treatment of different individuals or medical conditions.
Refining Dietary Estimates at Machu Picchu Using Combined Dental Macro/Microwear and Isotopic Analyses
Creators: name: Livengood, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Reconstructing diet in Andean populations is complicated by ecological complexity and by large-scale population movements and trade networks during the period of imperial rule. It is therefore more difficult to reconstruct dietary patterns within these contexts. Previous multi-isotopic analysis of the skeletal population from the Inca site of Machu Picchu indicates marked variation in dietary composition both early and late in life. However, these data are limited in their specificity due to overlap in isotopic signals from different resource types. I compare existing isotopic data to enamel macro- and microwear data to more accurately profile diet composition in a Machu Picchu skeletal population subset. Results suggest there is little to no dietary variation between sexes and age groups. Results also reveal the role that maize played in the diet of this non-elite population, which may prove useful in more accurately estimating consumed food resources in this and other Andean populations.
Analysis of Secular Change and a Novel Method of Stature Estimation Utilizing Modern Skeletal Collections
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Tony
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Reconstructing stature is at the core of providing information on unidentified human remains. This research shows that there are significant differences between modern populations and those used to create the most common stature estimation formulae. New formulae for the femur and fibula in males and females were created to provide accurate estimates for modern forensic cases. Additionally, a novel measurement of the femur is shown to be moderately correlated with stature and stature estimation formulae for this measurement are included.
Sympistis strioligera
Creators: name: Titov, Sergey V.
name: Volynkin, Anton V.
name: Morozov, Pavel S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Sympistis
Sympistis strioligera

description: Sympistis strioligera (Lederer, 1853)
 Bionomics. FP: VII–IX. Xerophilous species. Montane shrub-steppes.
 Known localities. B: Birzhankol, Kurkeli, Shonai, Kempirtas, Abet Bulak, Zhana Zhosaly, Zhasybai, Moldybulak; M: Koktas.
 Literature: Titov et al. (2017b).
description: Published as part of Titov, Sergey V., Volynkin, Anton V. & Morozov, Pavel S., 2024, Revised checklist of the superfamily Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) of Northeast Kazakhstan (Pavlodar Region), pp. 288-376 in Ecologica Montenegrina 73 on page 328, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.73.22, http://zenodo.org/record/13248329
title: Sprachbildung: Erfolgreiche Fortbildungsangebote für Berufsbildungspersonal
Creators: name: Minova, Milena
name: Pitton, Anja
name: Roll, Heike
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Im Zeitraum von Nov. 2019 – Febr. 2020 wurden erfolgreich 10 Fortbildungstage für Berufsbildungspersonal an der Universität Duisburg-Essen zum Thema „Sprachbildung im Ausbildungskontext“ durchgeführt. Dadurch wurden 38 Akteure aus verschiedenen Einrichtungen der beruflichen Bildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen erreicht und bei der sprachsensiblen Gestaltung der Lehr-Lern-Prozesse unterstützt. Die Veranstaltungen, durchgeführt unter dem Titel „Berufsbezogenes Deutsch am Beispiel technischer Ausbildungsberufe“, sind im Rahmen des von der Stiftung Mercator geförderten Projekts der Universitätsallianz Ruhr (UA Ruhr) „Fit im Fach durch sprach- und kultursensiblen Unterricht“ entstanden.
"Where There is No Love, Put Love": Homeless Addiction Recovery Perspectives and Ways to Enhance Healing
Creators: name: Flanagan, Mark
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This study explores how middle-aged homeless persons in Atlanta, GA, who have harmful, self-identified addictive behaviors come to make positive material and psychological changes, while constrained by urban poverty and structural violence. This study is divided into two parts. In part one, I examine the interaction between individual, social, and material factors that promote recovery from addiction in a poor, urban context. I argue that recovery occurs through a process, initiated by a decision and realized through practice. Recovery is enhanced by a stable community and consistent material access. In part two, I examine how pain associated with homelessness can create a strong drive to intensify substance usage as a means to seek relief. I then describe how alienation, pain and corresponding addictive behaviors among homeless persons can be lessened through intentioned, empowering acts, which I call ?symbolic love?. Finally, I offer policy recommendations based on my findings.
Mortuary Variability in the Final Palatial Period on Crete: Investigating Regionality, Status, and ?Mycenaean? Identity
Creators: name: Kerr, Heather
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The Late Bronze Age on the island of Crete saw a period of strong administrative and religious control by the palace at Knossos, which also controlled a vast trade network with the rest of the eastern Mediterranean. After the collapse of the palace of Knossos, the Final Palatial period (1490 - 1320 BCE), was a time of sociopolitical transition and change, witnessing an explosion in number and variety of mortuary practices used, even within the same cemetery. In this thesis I analyze Final Palatial burial practices in a more systematic method than has been previously attempted, in order to gain a better understanding of how the Minoans chose to use the mortuary sphere as a platform for constructing and negotiating their social and political identities in the dynamic socio-political climate of the Final Palatial period.
title: Gute Mikroben, schlechte Mikroben: Ist die Darm-Mikrobiota Teil des Problems oder die Lösung bei chronisch-entzündlichen Darmerkrankungen?
Creators: name: Adamczyk, Alexandra
name: Westendorf, Astrid M.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Eine zunehmende Zahl an Forschungsarbeiten im Laufe der letzten zehn Jahre gibt deutliche Hinweise, dass die Zusammensetzung und auch die Funktion der intestinalen Mikrobiota, früher als Darmflora bezeichnet, einen fundamentalen Einfluss auf die Gesundheit des Menschen haben.
description: The human intestine is colonized by a multitude of microbes such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and other eukaryotes. It is a complex and dynamic ecosystem established during the first years of life. The availability of new sequencing tech-nologies and bioinformatic methods has made it possible to analyze the human microbiome quickly and affordably at the molecular level. These molecular analyses of the 16S-ribosomal RNA have increased previous culture-dependent esti-mates of the total microbiota from 200 to 300 species to up to 1800 genera with up to 36,000 species. Importantly, the microbial composi-tion can be influenced by various factors such as nutrition, stress and medication. Therefore, the exact composition of intestinal micro-biota is as unique as the fingerprint. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, are chronic and relapsing inflammatory disorders of the intestine. Although their incidence is increasing globally, the precise etiology remains unclear, and a cure for IBD has yet to be discov-ered. The most accepted hypothesis of IBD pathogenesis is that complex interactions between genetics, envi-ronmental factors, the microbiota, and the host immune system lead to aberrant immune responses and chronic intestinal inflammation. Recent studies have shown that a shift in the composition of the microbiome can also be observed in patients with chronic inflamma-tory bowel diseases. In addition, the incidence of intestinal infections has increased over the past 15 years among hospitalized IBD patients, primarily driven by Clostridium difficile infections. Thus, fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) is currently emerging as one of the more promising microbiome-mod-ulating IBD therapies. It cannot be answered in general terms whether the microbiota is friend or foe of IBD; presumably both is true. Pro-spective studies that are focusing on the gut microbial composition, the epithelial integrity and the mucosal immune system in IBD are therefore warranted to shed light on this ques-tion in more detail. Although the large number of scientific publica-tions suggests that our knowledge in this field has exponentially expanded over the past 10 years, research is still in its infancy. Intensive ongoing research in the future will show to what extent we will use the modula-tion of the intestinal microbiota for human health.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 48
Political Theatre in Public Spaces: Manifesting Identity in Venice, Italy
Creators: name: Tapp, Ivey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The combination of poorly managed mass tourism, rapidly increasing international migration, and a declining economy facilitated a permanent exodus of natives out of the Venetian lagoon. This thesis examines how the community activism group and social network Venessia.com attempts to reclaim a place-?based and place-?manifested Venetian identity (venezianit…) through theatrical public protests. While members are sensitive to an ethic of intercultural awareness, the discourse accompanying their concerns reveals nostalgia for the power and grandeur of Venice?s past that is threatened by a perceived invasion by suspicious outsiders. The theoretical framework I employ to illuminate Venessia.com's efforts includes the socio-?cultural and economic implications of mass tourism, theory of space and place, and critiques of modernity and postmodernity.
A Landscape of Conflict: An Archaeological Investigation of the New Hope Church Battlefield
Creators: name: Brooks, Jason
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The Battle of New Hope Church was fought on May 25-26, 1864 as part of the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. This research utilizes historical records along with archaeological fieldwork in order to better understand the battlefield landscape. In particular, I seek to answer whether soldiers behaved in, perceived of, and constructed the battlefield landscape based on a set of cultural norms imposed on them by the strict structure of the military. This research offers insight into the construction of the battlefield landscape at New Hope Church, how it is connected to related battlefield landscapes, and how it has been memorialized as a landscape of conflict.
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?y”t—nj¡  Village: Making Africans in America
Creators: name: Brown-Waithe, Antionette
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description:  ?y”t—nj¡:  The Making of Africans in America examines the impact of self-identification with African culture and the impact it has on African identity within social and Black Nationalist movements.    More so than the Civil Rights movement, the Black Nationalist movement has influenced the ways in which African Americans self identified as a group and as individuals.   Comprised primarily of African nationalists, ?y”t—nj¡ Village was considered the vanguard in re- introducing the African ideology into Santeria, and giving birth to what is now considered the Ifa/Yoruba tradition. As the intentional community of ?y”t—nj¡ grew, the Ifa tradition spread as well because of its porous population. To explore the relationship between identity and social movements, this paper examines the motivation behind the formation of ?y”t—nj¡ Village and the formation of an independent community.
Negotiations for Spooky Spaces during the Halloween Season: Trunk-or-Treats in the Bible Belt South
Creators: name: Sharbaugh, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The Halloween ritual, trick-or-treat, has compelled suburban residents in Atlanta, Georgia to parade throughout the shared public spaces of their communities? streets for nearly a century. In recent years, however, privatized children?s rituals beyond the realm of the neighborhood seemingly compete for trick-or-treat?s participants: trunk-or-treats in church parking lots now rise in popularity. I parse the impetuses behind the construction of these innovative ritual spaces using in-depth interviews and participant observations alongside the Christian churches who host them and the parents and guardians who participate in them. Cursorily appearing solely as privatized defangings of otherwise venomous and pagan-aligned public rites, trunk-or-treats embody social action in other ways: by actualizing and expanding faith communities? networks of social capital, they not only afford churches the means to surmount various challenges they face in the New South, but also provide safe and attractive options for security-conscious parents and guardians in contemporary suburban Atlanta.
title: Graduiertenkollegs sind ein großes Plus: Ein Gespräch mit der Sprecherin des Graduiertenkollegs „Immunantwort in Infektionskrankheiten“ (GRK 1949), Prof. Dr. Astrid Westendorf und der Koordinatorin des Kollegs, Daniela Catrini M.A.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 82
"Yeah, But Can It Kill You?" Understanding Endometriosis in the Atlanta Area
Creators: name: Day, Amanda
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on women with endometriosis, a gynecological condition in which tissue similar to the endometrium, or lining of the uterus which is shed during menses, grows elsewhere in the body. Despite a growing understanding of the disease in medical literature, it is still not well known by the general population or fully understood by the medical community. The paper incorporates a biomedical understanding with Emma Whelan?s idea of these women as an epistemological community, autoethnography, and narratives of sufferers in order to understand how women discuss, experience, and form communities around it. It draws upon individual interviews, a focus group, and readings of medical and social science literature and found that women of dissimilar socioeconomic backgrounds approached and discussed the disease distinctively from one another with three phases of coping with the illness: the discovery, quest, and revelation.
An Archaeological Survey at Oak Level Mound: Investigating Settlement Patterns and Intrasite Use During the Middle Mississippian Period (A.D. 1150-1350)
Creators: name: McCarley, Billy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This study is about a Middle Mississippian (A.D. 1150-1350) burial mound site known as Oak Level Mound. Located in the back swamps of Bryan County, Georgia 2.4 km south of the Ogeechee River, the site is situated amongst Live Oak hammocks and Palmettoes. The earthen architecture and material remains found at Oak Level Mound during the fall of 2012 and winter 2013 tell a tale of ancient people whose subsistence included oysters, snail, and nuts. Their daily practices are expressed in burial mounds and utilitarian and/or status goods, such as plain, cord-marked, and complicated-stamped pottery. This study, then, seeks to understand those daily practices taking place at Oak Level Mound between A.D. 1150 and A.D 1350, both locally and regionally.
title: Im Rennen der Roten Königin: Evolutionäres Wettrüsten zwischen Herpesviren und ihren Wirten
Creators: name: Trilling, Mirko
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Viruses and hosts exist in an infinite evolutionary competition. The selection pressure elicited by the virus leads to the development and gradual improvement of the immune system of the host. Simultaneously, the immune system selects viruses that adapt by more and more sophisticated immune evasion strategies. The resulting stalemate situation is quasi-stable and exhibits the characteristics of a so-called Red Queen Race, in which maximum adaptation and evolution are necessary to maintain the status quo. Applying recombinant DNA techniques of mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) and/or its natural host enables us to manipulate this delicate balance and study the resulting consequences. STAT2 is essential for the antiviral activity of interferons. In the absence of STAT2, mice become moribund during the first week of MCMV infection. This suggests that STAT2 is indispensable for mice to survive MCMV infections. As a reaction to the selection pressure elicited by STAT2-dependent processes, MCMV evolved the STAT2 antagonist pM27, which exploits DDB1 and Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) to instruct the poly-ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation of STAT2. Drugs that interfere with the activity of the proteasome, ubiquitination or CRLs restore STAT2 in cells infected with MCMV or human CMV and elicit pronounced antiviral activity. An MCMV mutant lacking pM27 (ΔM27-MCMV) is strongly attenuated in vivo. The residual replication does not cause disease in mice, but is sufficient to induce pronounced humoral immune responses. Vaccination with ΔM27-MCMV raises protective immune responses in mice. We are currently in the process of translating the findings to human cytomegalovirus.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 54Medizin: Infektionskrankheiten - ein globales Problem, p. 62
Dietary Reconstruction in Medieval Holb‘k, Denmark using Dental Microwear and Macrowear, Isotopic Analyses, and Dental Caries
Creators: name: Turner, Sara
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The medieval period in Denmark (11th-16th century) was a time of great social and economic change. The current study seeks to analyze dietary patterns of individuals from a medieval site in Holb‘k, Denmark who lived during this historically dynamic and tumultuous period. A previous isotopic analysis indicated a mixed terrestrial C3 based diet with varying amounts of marine foods (J?rkov 2007). This study compares the existing isotopic data with collected data from dental microwear, macrowear, and caries in order to provide a more complete picture of diet and subsistence patterns of these individuals during their latter years. Results suggest that there were some dietary and behavioral differences between males and females with a lack of change in diet over time that run counter to expectations given the historical record. A subset of males were also discovered with entirely different dietary patterns. This study contributes a better understanding of variation in medieval European populations.