cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Representation learning with explicit and implicit graph structures
Creators: name: Fatemi, Bahare
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The world around us is composed of objects each having relations with other objects. The objects and relations form a (hyper)graph with objects as nodes and relations between objects as (hyper)edges. When learning, the underlying structure representing the relations between the nodes is either given explicitly in the training set or is implicit and needs to be inferred. This dissertation studies graph representation learning with both explicit and implicit structures. For explicit structure, we first tackle the challenge of enforcing taxonomic information while embedding entities and relations. We prove that some fully expressive models cannot respect subclass and subproperty information. With minimal modifications to an existing knowledge graph completion method, we enable the injection of taxonomic information. A second challenge is in representing explicit structures in relational hypergraphs that contain relations defined on an arbitrary number of entities. While techniques, such as reification, exist that convert non-binary relations into binary ones, we show that current embedding-based methods do not work well out of the box for knowledge graphs obtained through these techniques. We introduce embedding-based methods that work directly with relations of arbitrary arity. We also develop public datasets, benchmarks, and baselines and show experimentally that the proposed models are more effective than the baselines. We further bridge the gap between relational algebra and knowledge hypergraphs by proposing an embedding-based model that can represent relational algebra operations. Having introduced novel architectures for explicitly graph-structured data, we further investigate how models with relational inductive biases can be developed and applied to problems with implicit structures. Graph representation learning models work well when the structure is explicit. However, this structure may not always be available in real-world applications. We propose the Simultaneous Learning of Adjacency and graph neural network Parameters with Self-supervision, or SLAPS, a method that provides more supervision for inferring a graph structure through self-supervision. An experimental study demonstrates that SLAPS scales to large graphs with hundreds of thousands of nodes and outperforms several baselines on established benchmarks.
Extended Eligibility for Immediate Social Assistance
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: An Extension of Eligibility for Immediate Social Assistance (rozšířená dostupnost pro mimořádnou okamžitou pomoc) was made. The benefit could only be used to cover rent or mortgage, food, clothes, energy, and internet and phone bills (not for drugs, debts, leasing and business expenditure)
title: Occupancy-driven intelligent control of HVAC based on thermal comfort
Creators: name: Pazhoohesh, Mehdi
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Nowadays, the building sector is a substantial consumer of world’s energy. The dominant energy share of Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems, makes it the focus of research for saving energy. Current air conditioning systems often rely on maximum occupancy assumptions and fixed schedules to maintain sufficient comfort level. Having information regarding occupancy situation may lead to significant energy-savings. On the other hand, focusing on the reduction of energy only, may lead to sacrificing the thermal comfort of the occupants in a building. Moreover, due to the difference of preference of thermal comfort of individuals, particularly in a shared space, a fixed set point for HVAC systems, can cause discomfort. Therefore, a comprehensive technique is required to save energy while maintaining thermal comfort. The present research proposes an occupancy-driven HVAC control system based on thermal comfort analysis. A ZigBee-based indoor localization system is developed to monitor the location of occupants inside the buildings. Algorithms are used to improve the accuracy of positioning system, which include Near Neighbour Area (NNA), Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Exponential Moving Average algorithms (EMA). Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used to simulate the thermal comfort through modelling the indoor air distribution and flows. Wind velocity and temperature are simulated in several scenarios and the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and the Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied (PPD) are computed. The simulation results are verified through a survey asking for occupants’ real feelings and consequently thermal comfort zones are identified with associated occupants, which are used for possible energy saving while providing satisfied level to all the occupants. To investigate different satisfaction feeling of occupants, a personalized thermal profile is created for individuals inside the test bed area. A fuzzy based approach is used to develop a fuzzy map of each occupant and as a result, a personal thermal preference profile is created. Based on the present occupants in the room, the minimum and maximum preferred temperatures are estimated and used for controlling the HVAC system. The Semi-hidden Markov chain method is used to create the occupants’ behavioural pattern which can reduce the frequencies of turning ON or OFF the HVAC systems. The real-time locations of the persons, estimated based on the NNA and MA localization method, are combined with their behavioural patterns and thermal preference profiles and their comfort zones to control the corresponding HVACs. The proposed method has been implemented to a shared office occupied by nine users and equipped with two individual air conditioners. The comparison of different control strategies show that the proposed intelligent control has a significant potential of saving energy and at the same time maintaining occupants in a reasonable thermal comfort range.
Strongylophthalmyia thaii L. Papp
Creators: name: Galinskaya, Tatiana V.
name: Shatalkin, Anatoly I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Strongylophthalmyiidae
Strongylophthalmyia
Strongylophthalmyia thaii

description: Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Strongylophthalmyiidae Strongylophthalmyia thaii L. Papp Figure 10 Strongylophthalmyia thaii L. Papp, 2006: 171 (male) Material. 2 females, Vietnam, Lai Cai Province, So Pa (22.34147°N, 103.85818°E), 1490 m, 28.X.2015 (D. Gavryushin); 1 male, Thailand, Chang Mai, Sop Poeng (19.122°N, 98.805°E), 13-17. XI. 2009 (N. Vikhrev). Description of female. Head rounded, its length equal to its height. Frons shiny black, with yellowish spot between antenna and eye. Face yellow with row of short blackish setulae along suture. Clypeus black, shining. Parafacial yellowish, covered with silvery grey tomentum. Antenna yellow, first flagellomere transversal, its length 0.7 times shorter than its height, yellowish-orange, widely dark brown on apical margin on outer surface, with short yellow dorsal setulae. Arista dark brown, bare. Mouthparts dark brown; palpus black, yellowish on basal fourth, with short thick black setulae apically. 3 orbital setae, 1 ocellar seta, 1 postocellar seta, 1 inner vertical seta, 1 outer vertical seta; 2 short frontal setae. Thorax. Postpronotum laterally, propleuron, anepisternum around of spiracle and basisternum yellow. Mesonotum black shining, sparsely clothed with short yellowish setulae; pleuron shiny, anepisternum medially without fan of 14-15 very long yellow setulae peculiar to male; scutellum shiny black. Legs yellow, hind femora with dark brown narrow apical ring; mid tibia darkened slightly in basal half; hind tibia darkened dorsally and ventrally in basal two thirds. Wings transparent. R2+3 long: section of C between R1 and R2+3 1.6 times longer than a projection of the following section (between R2+3 and R4+5). R4+5 and M1+2 nearly parallel apically. Basal section of M1+2 between r-m and dm-cu equal to previous section and nearly 2.0 times less than ultimate section. Cell bm approximately 0.5 times shorter than discal cell. Calypter light grey with fan of very long light setulae on margin. Halteres with yellow stem and whitish knob. Chaetotaxy: two small postpronotal seta, two dorsocentral seta, two notopleural setae, one supraalar seta, one postalar seta, one anepisternal seta, one stout apical scutellar seta and one short setae in front of apical ones. All setae black. Abdomen shiny black, tergite 1 and partly 2 yellowish. Body length 3.9 mm; wing length 3.5 mm.
description: Published as part of Galinskaya, Tatiana V. & Shatalkin, Anatoly I., 2016, Eight new species of Strongylophthalmyia Heller from Vietnam with a key to species from Vietnam and neighbouring countries (Diptera, Strongylophthalmyiidae), pp. 111-142 in ZooKeys 625 on pages 133-134, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.625.8711
Targeted Opening of ECEC Settings
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: Emergency care services were provided in some ECEC settings for certain groups of children as most of them closed in many municipalities, although they were not ordered to close
Anilocra Leach 1818
Creators: name: Welicky, Rachel L.
name: Hadfield, Kerry A.
name: Sikkel, Paul C.
name: Smit, Nico J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cymothoidae
Anilocra

description: Genus Anilocra Leach, 1818 Anilocra Leach 1818: 348, 350. Desmarest 1825: 306; Edwards 1840: 255; Dana 1853: 747; Schioedte and Meinert 1881: 100; Gerstaecker 1882: 231; Richardson 1905: 25; Hale 1926: 210; Schultz 1969: 153; Kensley 1978: 78; Kussakin 1979: 281; Brusca 1981: 140; Brusca and Iverson 1985: 45. Bruce 1987: 89; Trilles 1975: 303; Trilles 1994: 55; Thatcher and Blumenfeldt 2001: 270. Canolira Leach, 1818: 350. Epichthyes Herklots, 1870: 122. Diagnosis. A detailed diagnosis was given by Bruce (1987). Type species. The type species for this genus is Anilocra cuvieri Leach, 1818, junior synonym of Anilocra physodes (Linnaeus, 1758) (see Bruce 1987); by subsequent designation (Kussakin 1979). Leach (1818) described three species: Anilocra cuvieri, Anilocra mediterranea Leach, 1818, and Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 without designating a type species. A. cuvieri was designated as the type species by Kussakin (1979). Both Anilocra cuvieri and A. mediterranea were synonymized with A. physodes (Trilles 1975; Ellis 1981). Remarks. The body of female Anilocra is dorsally symmetrical and strongly vaulted. The posterior margins of their cephalon are smooth and straight, and the rostrum is more blunt than pointed. The rostrum folds into the area between the antennula bases. The antennula is shorter than the antenna. The posterolateral margins of the pereonites are not produced. Coxae 1-3 are short, posteriorly rounded and do not form a rounded point posteriorly, whereas coxae 4-6 are longer, less rounded and more elongate than coxae 1-3, and form a rounded point posteriorly. The pereopods gradually increase in size towards the posterior. In the Cymothoidae, the external-attaching genera include but are not limited to Anilocra, Nerocila Leach, 1818, Renocila Miers, 1880, Creniola Bruce, 1987, and Pleopodias Richardson, 1910. Anilocra can be distinguished from Nerocila by the posterior margin of the cephalon, which is conspicuously trilobed in Nerocila, whereas the posterior margin of the cephalon of Anilocra is not tri-lobed to weakly tri-lobed. The posterolateral pereonite margins of Nerocila are more produced, elongate and pointed than that of Anilocra. In the Caribbean, some species of Anilocra and Renocila share numerous similarities, but in Anilocra pereopod 6 is shorter in length than pereopod 7, whereas in Renocila pereopods 6 and 7 are of similar length. To date the genera Creniola and Pleopodias have not been reported from the Caribbean.
description: Published as part of Welicky, Rachel L., Hadfield, Kerry A., Sikkel, Paul C. & Smit, Nico J., 2017, Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocrabrillae sp. n., pp. 21-43 in ZooKeys 663 on page 23, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.663.11415
قياس الشبكات العنكبوتية بين النظرية والتطبيق الويب الأكاديمي العربي
Creators: name: زكريا،محمود شريف احمد
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: وسائل الإتصالات | تكنولوجيا المعلومات | الإنترنت | الويب | قياس الشبكة العنكبوتية

description: يشكل القياس يوجه عام موضوعا بحثيا رائج السمعة لدى عدد من التخصصات المعرفية
Islamic revivalism, radicalism and the paradoxical governance of Islam in Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Komil-Burley, Dilsora
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Prior to Soviet control of Central Asia, Islam was a matrix which produced socio-political culture. The Soviet government, however, viewed religion as a threat to its ideology. During seven decades of Soviet rule in Uzbekistan, Islamic texts were destroyed, religious practices suspended, mosques and learning centres demolished, Islamic legal systems abolished, and Islamic leaders persecuted (Khalid, 2007). The gradual weakening and ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union coincided with the revival of Islam in Central Asia. In the early 1990s, socialism’s hostility towards religion was replaced by paradoxical models of religious governance in Uzbekistan. On one hand, Islam became central to national identity and was embraced by the majority of Uzbeks; on the other hand, the transition away from socialism coincided with the establishment of an anti-Islamic authoritarian regime. Islamic revivalism is a complex phenomenon. It refers to diverse forms of movements, that seek renewed commitment to Islam by promoting Islamic education, practices, values, and principles in society. For this dissertation, I conducted multi-method qualitative research to study Islamic revivalism and the relationship between the secular state and Islam in Uzbekistan from various perspectives. Building on recent work in critical secular studies (Mahmood, 2017; Gole, 2015; Kosmin, & Keysar, 2007), I studied different religious and political engagements; how they perpetuate inequality, intolerance, and destruction while intersecting with power dynamics; how the labels ‘extremist’, ‘radical’, and ‘terrorist’ aided the government in seizing and securing power; and how the social construction of “adashganlar” – Muslims on “the wrong path” – served the government of Uzbekistan to strengthen its grip on society and justify persecution of innocent Muslims. I examined the re-establishment of official Islam and reformation of underground unofficial Islam, the repertoire of exchanges between these two forms of Islam and the secular state. I combined relational and dialectical approaches to frame the progression of radicalization between the state and Islam, which I called dialectical radicalization. The advancement of social media and internet technologies also played a significant role in the rigorous revival of Islam by creating new virtual spaces for easy interaction (Helland, 2000).
Madecorphnus simplex Frolov 2010
Creators: name: Frolov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Orphnidae
Madecorphnus
Madecorphnus simplex

description: Madecorphnus simplex Frolov, 2010 Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: R. Harin'Hala; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Madecorphnussimplex; genus: Madecorphnus; specificEpithet: simplex; scientificNameAuthorship: Frolov, 2010; Location: country: Madagascar; stateProvince: Fianarantsoa; verbatimLocality: Parc National Ranomafana, at broken bridge; verbatimElevation: 1110 m; verbatimLatitude: 17°10'30''S; verbatimLongitude: 49°16'05''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 19-26 March 2002; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Fisher, Griswold et al.; individualCount: 1; sex: male; Taxon: scientificName: Madecorphnussimplex; genus: Madecorphnus; specificEpithet: simplex; scientificNameAuthorship: Frolov, 2010; Location: country: Madagascar; stateProvince: Fianarantsoa; verbatimLocality: Foret d'Atsirakambiaty, 7.6 km 285° WNW Itremo; verbatimElevation: 1550 m; verbatimLatitude: 20°35'36''S; verbatimLongitude: 046°33'48''E; Identification: identifiedBy: Andrey V. Frolov; Event: eventDate: 22-26 January 2003; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35143; institutionCode: CAS; collectionCode: CASENT Distribution The species was described from one specimen from Ambatofitorahana. The new locality records include Itremo Massif and Ranomafana National Park (Fig. 3).
description: Published as part of Frolov, Andrey V., 2013, Little known Orphninae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) collected by the Madagascan expeditions of the California Academy of Sciences 1, pp. 1016 in Biodiversity Data Journal 1 on page 1016, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e1016
title: Μηχανισμοί ανθεκτικότητας μικροοργανισμών στα αντιβιοτικά
title: Mechanisms of resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Σωτήρχου, Χριστίνα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2021
Subjects: Aντιβιοτικά
Ανθεκτικότητα στα αντιβιοτικά

description: Θέμα της παρούσας πτυχιακής εργασίας είναι οι μηχανισμοί ανθεκτικότητας που αναπτύσσουν οι μικροοργανισμοί στα αντιμικροβιακά φάρμακα. Πρόκειται για ένα πρόβλημα που απασχολεί την παγκόσμια επιστημονική κοινότητα εδώ και δεκαετίες, και με το πέρασμα του χρόνου το πρόβλημα διογκώνεται. Τα αντιβιοτικά αποτέλεσαν μία επανάσταση στην ιατρική αλλά και στην κτηνοτροφία κατά τον 20ο αιώνα. Έδωσαν τη δυνατότητα στον άνθρωπο να αντιμετωπίσει σοβαρές μικροβιακές λοιμώξεις που απειλούσαν τη ζωή του και, επίσης, έδωσε τη δυνατότητα στην κτηνοτροφία να αυξήσει το παραγωγικό δυναμικό της. Ωστόσο, η αλόγιστη και υπέρμετρη χρήση των αντιβιοτικών οδήγησε τους μικροοργανισμούς, και ιδίως τα βακτήρια να αναπτύξουν μηχανισμούς ανθεκτικότητας και αντοχής σε πολλά από αυτά τα φάρμακα. Δημιουργήθηκαν στελέχη μικροοργανισμών ανθεκτικών και δύσκολων να αντιμετωπιστούν με τη συνήθη φαρμακευτική αγωγή. Συχνά απαιτείται μεγαλύτερη δόση φαρμάκων ή μεγαλύτερη διάρκεια αγωγής ή ακόμη και η συμπληρωματική χρήση εναλλακτικών ή δευτερευόντων φαρμάκων.Οι κύριοι μηχανισμοί αντίστασης που αναπτύσσουν οι μικροοργανισμοί στα αντιβιοτικά είναι ο περιορισμός της πρόσληψης του φαρμάκου, η τροποποίηση του στόχου δράσης του φαρμάκου είτε με κάποια μετάλλαξη της δομής ή με κάποια ουσιαστική μεταβολή, η απενεργοποίηση των αντιβιοτικών συνήθως μέσω ενζύμων και η ενεργή εκροή των αντιβιοτικών με την βοήθεια κατάλληλων αντλιών εκροής. Απαιτείται για την ανάσχεση της μικροβιακής ανθεκτικότητας στα αντιβιοτικά πρώτα από όλα ενημέρωση, υπευθυνότητα και συνεργασία σε κρατικό αλλά και ατομικό επίπεδο.
ctDNA: An emerging neoadjuvant biomarker in resectable solid tumors.
Creators: name: Abbosh, Christopher
name: Swanton, Charles
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: Tumour Biology
Signalling & Oncogenes
Genetics & Genomics
Genome Integrity & Repair
Human Biology & Physiology
Chemical Biology & High Throughput
Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
Computational & Systems Biology

description: Christopher Abbosh and Charles Swanton discuss circulating tumor DNA as a potential biomarker for neoadjuvant treatment response in solid tumors.
Effect of amination on the mechanical and physical properties of graphene
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter Physics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20499 Condensed Matter Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: 20203 Particle Physics
subject: 20405 Soft Condensed Matter
subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30206 Solid State Chemistry
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Amination is the process by which an amine group is introduced into an organic molecule. This type of reaction is important because organonitrogen compounds are pervasive. Enzymes that catalyse this reaction are termed aminases. Amination can occur in a number of ways including reaction with ammonia or another amine such as an alkylation, reductive amination and the Mannich reaction. Many alkyl amines are produced industrially by the amination of alcohols using ammonia in the presence of solid acid catalysts. The Ritter reaction of isobutene with hydrogen cyanide is not useful in this case because it produces too much waste. In electrophilic amination, the amine as the nucleophile reacts with another organic compound as the electrophile. This sense of reactivity may be reversed for some electron-deficient amines. When the amine is used as an electrophile, the reaction is called electrophilic amination. Electron-rich organic substrates that may be used as nucleophiles for this process include carbanions and enolates. Alpha hydroxy acids can be converted into amino acids directly using aqueous ammonia solution, hydrogen gas and a heterogeneous metallic ruthenium catalyst. In hydroamination, amines add to alkenes. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China
The effect of PCG layer thickness on bendability of aluminum extrusion alloys
Creators: name: Nikkhah Fini, Sheida
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Recently, there is an increase in demand for the usage of aluminum extrusion alloys in automotive applications to reduce the vehicle weight. Bendability (i.e. how much bending the material can sustain without cracking) is an important material property, both for the forming of components and in crash behavior. During the production of Al-Mg-Si extrusion alloys (AA6082 non- recrystallized) which was studied in this research, the properties of the surface can be substantially different from those of the interior as these alloys are prone to forming a surface layer known as the Peripheral Coarse Grain (PCG) zone. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the PCG layer thickness on bendability of aluminum alloys. Different PCG layers thicknesses were achieved in the range of 50 μm to 800 μm at different extrusion ram speeds by our industry partner. In this project, different mechanical tests were done to characterize the effect of PCG layer thickness, and heat treatment on the bendability of aluminum extrusion alloys. The microstructures were examined using Barker’s etch to observe the initiation of cracks in bend region. To see the effect of PCG layer on the bendability, the PCG layer was removed from one side of the sample and then the test was conducted with the PCG layer in tension and compression. The results show that the sample with a very thin PCG layer (50μm) showed similar load- displacement curves whether the PCG layer was in compression or tension. However, for the thicker PCG layers, the bend response was poorer when the PCG layer was in tension. Tests done on the samples in ED and TD direction (Note: ED- bend axis ⊥ to extrusion direction, TD- bend axis ∥ to extrusion direction) and results show that for all thicknesses of the PCG layer, tests done in TD direction showed a lower bend angle failure compared to the tests done in ED direction. Finally, to see the effect of cooling rate on bendability, cooling rate of 13-20 °C/s was chosen and after bend test the results showed that the lower cooling rate had 10-20% poorer bendability.
Caregiver's Allowance Extension
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: An Extension of Caregiver's Allowance (Rozšíření Ošetřovného) was made
Evaluation of Literacy Coalition of Central Texas Texas Family Literacy AmeriCorps (TFLA) Initiative
Creators: name: Juniper, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education
Employment
Family and Social Policy
Workforce Development

description: Literacy Coalition of Central Texas (LCCT) received funding from the OneStar Foundation to implement the Texas Family Literacy AmeriCorps (TFLA) program. Each partner site works with two LCCT AmeriCorps members who are trained to implement the TFLA program in the context of each site’s existing literacy services. Program participants meet with AmeriCorps members to receive one-on-one job coaching services. Students interested in advanced career development instruction receive job readiness training and have an opportunity to enter occupational skills training. Participants work with an AmeriCorps job coach to complete an Individual Learning Plan to further outline their educational and career goals. The TFLA program has the potential to address inequities in employment and earnings advancement by coordinating education, training, and support services for low-wage workers to advance into in-demand, middle-skill jobs to increase their wages and economic security. Literacy Coalition of Central Texas contracted with the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources (RMC), a research institute of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, to conduct an evaluation including implementation, outcomes and impacts analysis components. The purpose of the study is to present information that can assist LCCT to better understand the components of effective efforts to advance the careers of low-income workers.
Additional file 1 of Associations between vitamin D status and biomarkers linked with inflammation in patients with asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional and observational studies
Creators: name: El Abd, Asmae
name: Dasari, Harika
name: Dodin, Philippe
name: Trottier, Helen
name: Ducharme, Francine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Gnaphosa ustyuzhanini Fomichev, Marusik & Omelko 2013
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Fomichev, Alexander A.
name: Omelko, Mikhail M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Gnaphosa
Gnaphosa ustyuzhanini

description: Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Gnaphosidae Gnaphosa ustyuzhanini Fomichev, Marusik & Omelko, 2013 Figs 17-18 Gnaphosa ustyuzhanini Fomichev et al. 2013: 153, f. 1-10 (♂). Material examined. MONGOLIA: Khovd Aimag: 1♂ (NHMB) with label "Nr.649, Z.Kaszab, Chovd aimak: Mongol Altaj Gebirge, Tal des Flusses Uenč gol, cca 64 km N von Somon Uenč, 2100 m, 8.VII.1966. - Im Flusstal unter Steinen geeinzelt, resp. geschossen." Comments. The type series of this species was collected at the same place where the type locality of Gnaphosa khovdensis sp. n. is located. The newly examined specimen has a more prominent embolic spine than in the holotype and paratype males.
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M., Fomichev, Alexander A. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2014, A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 2. Two new Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 species from Western Mongolia, pp. 1-9 in ZooKeys 426 on page 6, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.426.7898
title: Entrepreneurial ecosystems in an interconnected world : Emergence, governance, and digitalization
Creators: name: Bouncken, Ricarda B.
name: Kraus, Sascha
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Entrepreneurial
subject: Innovation
subject: Ecosystems
subject: Digitalization
subject: 300
subject: 330

description: Achieving and sustaining growth depends on the effective work of multiple and interconnected actors—such as e.g. governments, the private sector, society, universities, entrepreneurs and many others—who build an ecosystem, i.e. a social and economic environment for innovative and entrepreneurial endeavors. The underlying idea is that firms do not just compete with each other through well-developed stand-alone strategies to achieve advantages over their rivals, uniquely relying on their own resources, knowledge, and capabilities, but rather base their business models on shared resources, network externalities, knowledge spill-overs, local endowments, and governmental support. This introductory article offers a wide array of topics, methods and fields of application within the field of entrepreneurial ecosystems as well as a theorizing about potential fruitful future areas of research within the field, concentrating on legitimation and identification processes in ecosystems, possibly culminating towards a meta-identity of the ecosystem.
Additional file 2 of Associations between vitamin D status and biomarkers linked with inflammation in patients with asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional and observational studies
Creators: name: El Abd, Asmae
name: Dasari, Harika
name: Dodin, Philippe
name: Trottier, Helen
name: Ducharme, Francine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2
Hard X-ray phase-contrast-enhanced micro-CT for quantifying interfaces within brittle dense root-filling-restored human teeth
Creators: name: Prates Soares, Ana
name: Blunck, Uwe
name: Bitter, Kerstin
name: Paris, Sebastian
name: Rack, Alexander
name: Zaslansky, Paul
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: phase contrast enhanced micro-CT
subject: interfacial gaps
subject: restoration flaws
subject: dental composites
subject: resin bonding
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Bonding of resin composite fillings, for example following root-canal treatment, is a challenge because remaining gaps grow and lead to failure. Here, phase-contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography (PCE-CT) is used to explore methods of non-destructive quantification of the problem, so that countermeasures can be devised. Five human central incisors with damaged crowns were root-filled followed by restoration with a dental post. Thereafter, the crowns were rebuilt with a resin composite that was bonded conventionally to the tooth with a dental adhesive system (Futurabond U). Each sample was imaged by PCE-CT in a synchrotron facility (ID19, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) with a pixel size of 650 nm. The reconstructed datasets from each sample were segmented and analysed in a semi-automated manner using ImageJ. PCE-CT at sub-micrometre resolution provided images with an impressive increased contrast and detail when compared with laboratory micro-computed tomography. The interface between the dental adhesive and the tooth was often strongly disrupted by the presence of large debonded gaps (on average 34% ± 15% on all surfaces). The thickness of the gaps spanned 2 µm to 16 µm. There was a large variability in the distribution of gaps within the bonding area in each sample, with some regions around the canal exhibiting up to 100% discontinuity. Although only several micrometres thick, the extensive wide gaps may serve as gateways to biofilm leakage, leading to failure of the restorations. They can also act as stress-raising `cracks' that are likely to expand over time in response to cyclic mechanical loading as a consequence of mastication. The observations here show how PCE-CT can be used as a non-destructive quantitative tool for understanding and improving the performance of clinically used bonded dental restorations.
Crisis Caregiver's Allowance
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: A Crisis Caregiver's Allowance (Krizové ošetřovné) was provided to allow people to take time off from work to care for children during the closure of ECEC settings and schools
Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics
Creators: name: Larsen, Jesper
name: Raisen, Claire L.
name: Ba, Xiaoliang
name: Sadgrove, Nicholas J.
name: Padilla-Gonzalez, Guillermo F.
name: Simmonds, Monique S. J.
name: Loncaric, Igor
name: Kerschner, Heidrun
name: Apfalter, Petra
name: Walther, Birgit
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antimicrobial resistance
subject: Bacterial evolution
subject: Infectious-disease epidemiology
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The discovery of antibiotics more than 80 years ago has led to considerable improvements in human and animal health. Although antibiotic resistance in environmental bacteria is ancient, resistance in human pathogens is thought to be a modern phenomenon that is driven by the clinical use of antibiotics1. Here we show that particular lineages of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus—a notorious human pathogen—appeared in European hedgehogs in the pre-antibiotic era. Subsequently, these lineages spread within the local hedgehog populations and between hedgehogs and secondary hosts, including livestock and humans. We also demonstrate that the hedgehog dermatophyte Trichophyton erinacei produces two β-lactam antibiotics that provide a natural selective environment in which methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates have an advantage over susceptible isolates. Together, these results suggest that methicillin resistance emerged in the pre-antibiotic era as a co-evolutionary adaptation of S. aureus to the colonization of dermatophyte-infected hedgehogs. The evolution of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in wild animals and the connectivity of natural, agricultural and human ecosystems demonstrate that the use of a One Health approach is critical for our understanding and management of antibiotic resistance, which is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development.
Caregiver Allowance for the Self-employed
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: A Caregiver Allowance for the Self-Employed (Ošetřovné pro osoba samostatně výdělečně činná) was provided to allow self-employed people to take time off from work to care for children during the closure of ECEC settings and schools
Vitamin A controls the allergic response through T follicular helper cell as well as plasmablast differentiation
Creators: name: Scholz, Josephine
name: Kuhrau, Julia
name: Heinrich, Frederik
name: Heinz, Gitta Anne
name: Hutloff, Andreas
name: Worm, Margitta
name: Heine, Guido
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 9-cis retinoic acid
subject: allergy
subject: RAR
subject: Tfh cells
subject: vitamin A
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Vitamin A regulates the adaptive immune response and a modulatory impact on type I allergy is discussed. The cellular mechanisms are largely unknown. Objective To determine the vitamin A-responding specific lymphocyte reaction in vivo. Methods Antigen-specific B and T lymphocytes were analyzed in an adoptive transfer airway inflammation mouse model in response to 9-cis retinoic acid (9cRA) and after lymphocyte-specific genetic targeting of the receptor RAR alpha. Flow cytometry, quantitative PCR, next-generation sequencing, and specific Ig-ELISA were used to characterize the cells functionally. Results Systemic 9cRA profoundly enhanced the specific IgA-secreting B-cell frequencies in the lung tissue and serum IgA while reducing serum IgE concentrations. RAR alpha overexpression in antigen-specific B cells promoted differentiation into plasmablasts at the expense of germinal center B cells. In antigen-specific T cells, RAR alpha strongly promoted the differentiation of T follicular helper cells followed by an enhanced germinal center response. Conclusions 9cRA signaling via RAR alpha impacts the allergen-specific immunoglobulin response directly by the differentiation of B cells and indirectly by promoting T follicular helper cells.
Habitat suitability and landscape connectivity for carnivores in a South American biodiversity hotspot
Creators: name: Hurtado Martinez, Cindy Meliza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The establishment of protected areas (PA) has become a primary conservation action to prevent further loss of biodiversity. However, the isolation of PAs due to habitat loss threatens their effectiveness. Limited conservation funding should be directed to improve effectiveness in vulnerable regions, such as biodiversity hotspots, and for vulnerable species. Species from the Order Carnivora are often the focus of conservation efforts, particularly efforts aiming to increase landscape connectivity through the implementation of wildlife corridors. I investigated connectivity and carnivore conservation in the Tumbesian Region, a biodiversity hotspot in northern Peru and southern Ecuador. I aimed to address three main questions: 1) what is the importance of landscape connectivity for carnivores in fragmented landscapes? 2) Can existing knowledge be used to create reliable habitat suitability models (HSM)? 3) Can these HSMs inform corridor design? To answer the first question, I used an extensive camera-trapping dataset and hierarchical occupancy models to test the effect of landscape connectivity on carnivores. For the second, I used scientific literature, expert opinion, and camera trapping to develop HSMs for the puma (Puma concolor). Using expert opinion, I also developed HSMs for three other species: ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), margay (Leopardus wiedii), and Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola). Finally, I defined and compared puma corridors using circuit theory methods based on the three types of HSMs. My results suggest that landscape connectivity is of similar importance to habitat amount and habitat protection in maintaining carnivore richness and occupancy. Carnivore responses to these factors varied by species, but occupancy of forest-dependent mesocarnivores was most positively associated with landscape connectivity, while almost all carnivore species had a negative association with roads. Additionally, I showed that existing scientific literature can inform HSMs for pumas when using information from across their range. Habitat suitability inferred from expert-opinion models was more accurate for forest-dependent rather than open-habitat carnivores. I found that some corridors identified using expert opinion and literature HSMs were similar to those identified from models using more labour-intensive camera-trap surveys. My results underscore the importance of conserving landscape connectivity and highlight cost-effective approaches to inform habitat protection in fragmented biodiversity hotspots.
Estimating growth at risk with skewed stochastic volatility models
Creators: name: Wolf, Elias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: growth at risk
subject: macro finance
subject: Bayesian econometrics
subject: particle filters
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::339 Makroökonomie und verwandte Themen

description: This paper proposes a Skewed Stochastic Volatility (SSV) model to model time varying, asymmetric forecast distributions to estimate Growth at Risk as introduced in Adrian, Boyarchenko, and Giannone’s (2019) seminal paper ”Vulnerable Growth”. In contrary to their semi-parametric approach, the SSV model enables researchers to capture the evolution of the densities parametrically to conduct statistical tests and compare different models. The SSV-model forms a non-linear, non-gaussian state space model that can be estimated using Particle Filtering and MCMC algorithms. To remedy drawbacks of standard Bootstrap Particle Filters, I modify the Tempered Particle Filter of Herbst and Schorfheide’s (2019) to account for stochastic volatility and asymmetric measurement densities. Estimating the model based on US data yields conditional forecast densities that closely resemble the findings by Adrian et al. (2019). Exploiting the advantages of the proposed model, I find that the estimated parameter values for the effect of financial conditions on the variance and skewness of the conditional distributions are statistically significant and in line with the intuition of the results found in the existing literature.
Zaitunia Lehtinen 1967
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Zamani, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Filistatidae
Zaitunia

description: Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Filistatidae Genus Zaitunia Lehtinen, 1967 Type species. Filistata schmitzi Kulczyński, 1911. Zaitunia is a small genus of small to medium-sized Filistatinae spiders with 11 described species distributed from East Mediterranean to Central Asia. They are diagnosable from the similarly-looking Filistata by the lack of a thoracic fovea, short and subvertical clypeus, subcircular sternum, as broad as long labium, and by a short and swollen palpal tibia of males (Zonstein 2009, Zonstein et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Zamani, Alireza, 2015, The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran, pp. 123-135 in ZooKeys 516 on page 127, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.516.10146
Zaitunia alexandri Brignoli 1982
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Zamani, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Filistatidae
Zaitunia
Zaitunia alexandri

description: Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Filistatidae Zaitunia alexandri Brignoli, 1982 Figs 5b, 7 Zaitunia alexandri Brignoli 1982: 74, f. 15 (♀). Type. IRAN: holotype ♀ (MCSN), Fars Province: Kuhenjan, 27 May 1976 (S. Zerunian). Diagnosis. This species differs from other Iranian congeners by the shape of the sac-like receptacles, slightly longer than wide. Description. Well-described by Brignoli (1982). Record in Iran. Fars. Distribution. Endemic to southern Iran.
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Zamani, Alireza, 2015, The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran, pp. 123-135 in ZooKeys 516 on page 129, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.516.10146
ЦИФРОВА ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЯ ВИКОНАВЧОГО ПРОВАДЖЕННЯ: ВИКЛИКИ ПРАВОВОГО РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ І ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ШТУЧНОГО ІНТЕЛЕКТУ
Creators: name: Ковалів М. В.
name: Сидор М. Я.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: цифровізація, штучний інтелект, суд, ускладнення у виконавчому провадженні, заходи примусового виконання, виконавче провадження, виконання судових рішень немайнового характеру, ухвала суду, боржник і стягувач, виконавчі процесуальні правовідносини, державний і приватний виконавець, правочини у виконавчому провадженні, виконуваність угоди, примусове виконання рішень судів та інших юрисдикційних органів, захист прав особи у виконавчому провадженні

description: У статті досліджено сучасного стан та перспективи цифрової трансформації виконавчого провадження в Україні. Обґрунтовано, що цифровізація цієї сфери має розглядатися як ключовий етап модернізації механізму примусового виконання. Виокремлено проблеми нормативного забезпечення запровадження інструментів штучного інтелекту (ШІ) у сфері виконання судових рішень. Авторами проаналізовано європейські підходи та міжнародні акти, зокрема етичну Хартію CEPEJ та Глобальний кодекс виконання. Встановлено, що застосування ШІ у виконавчому провадженні має здійснюватися у межах принципів верховенства права, поваги до прав людини та процесуальних гарантій. Наголошено на перевагах використання ШІ, зокрема в автоматизації процесів розшуку активів боржника, виявленні шахрайства, персоналізації комунікації та оптимізації офісної роботи виконавців. Здійснено виокремлення функціоналу ШІ у виконавчому процесі на основі класифікації за рівнем ризику, відповідно до Акта Європейської Комісії про ШІ. Зроблено висновок, що гармонізація технологічної ефективності з гуманістичною природою права є визначальною умовою подальшої цифрової трансформації виконавчого провадження. Запропоновано підхід, згідно з яким ШІ має виконувати допоміжну роль, не підмінюючи особу виконавця. Аргументовано, що нова модель цифрового виконавчого провадження повинна бути побудована на прозорості алгоритмів, правовій визначеності, захищеності персональних даних, контролі з боку людини (виконавця). Особлива увага приділена потребі у фаховій підготовці правників до роботи з цифровими інструментами та необхідності запровадження етичних стандартів у сфері алгоритмічного правозастосування. Сформульовано концептуальні орієнтири для реформування законодавства та визначено виклики, що мають бути враховані для забезпечення ефективного, справедливого та технологічно адаптивного виконавчого провадження в умовах цифрової доби.
Zaitunia medica Brignoli 1982
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri M.
name: Zamani, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Filistatidae
Zaitunia
Zaitunia medica

description: Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Filistatidae Zaitunia medica Brignoli, 1982 Figs 5 c–d, 7 Zaitunia medica Brignoli 1982: 72, f. 16 (♀). Types. IRAN: holotype ♀ and paratype ♀ (MCSN), Isfahan Province: Laybid, 2100 m, 7 July 1975 (P. Brignoli & M. Di Rao). Diagnosis. This species differs from other Iranian congeners by the shape of sac-like receptacles, which are wider than long. Description. Well-described by Brignoli (1982). Record in Iran. Isfahan. Distribution. Endemic to central Iran.
description: Published as part of Marusik, Yuri M. & Zamani, Alireza, 2015, The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran, pp. 123-135 in ZooKeys 516 on pages 129-130, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.516.10146
Bridging the Gaps: A Replication and Extension of the Network Analysis on Perfectionism, Depression, and Anxiety
Creators: name: Kim, Andy J
name: Mackinnon, Sean
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Analysis preregistration for Sample 2 in "Bridging the Gaps: Comparing Structural Equation Models to Network Analysis Models of Depression, Anxiety, and Perfectionism".