cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perfil de acidos grasos de barbacoa de borregos pelibuey
Creators: name: Espinoza-Marín, R.
name: Hernández-Mendo, O.
name: Ortega-Cerrilla, M.E.
name: Hernández-Sánchez, D.
name: Huerta-Bravo, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: barbacoa
subject: meat
subject: isomers

description: The objective of this study was to evaluate the fatty acids profile in Pelibuey sheep barbacoa complemented with protected conjugated linoleic acid. Samples of the Longissimus dorsi muscle were used, from 24 Pelibuey sheep which were housed in groups of six animals. Each group was assigned randomly to apply the treatments: 1) base diet with 0, 2) 25, 3) 50, and 4) 75 g of protected conjugated linoleic acid (ALCp) animal1 d1. A completely random design was used, using the PROC GLM and Tukey test for means comparison. Additionally, polynomials and orthogonal contrasts were used. The Tukey test didn’t show significant differences between treatments, but the orthogonal contrasts evidenced that adding protected conjugated linoleic acid to the sheep’s diet increases the cis-9, trans-11 isomer content, but that the saturated fatty acids tend to increase and the mono-unsaturated to decrease.
Effect of Bio Field Treatment on the Physical and Thermal Characteristics of Vanadium Pentoxide Powders
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Vanadium pentoxide powders are very useful in producing ferrous as well as aluminium alloys, in removing carbon and sulphur and as catalysts in synthesizing ammonia and sulphuric acid. It is also used as corrosion inhibitor petroleum and chemical processing.

In the present investigation V2O5 powders are exposed to biofield. Both the exposed and unexposed powders are later characterized by various techniques. The average particle size is found to decrease with increase in number of days after treatment up to a maximum of 15.9% in 110 days indicating severe fracture at agglomerate/ crystallite boundaries. The BET surface area showed a surprising decrease (it should increase as particle size is decreased) of 7.22% in 109 days indicating the surface densification/ removal of sharp surface corners/ formation of large particles. SEM photographs indeed showed that samples exposed to biofield after 20 days showed increase in size as well as rounded corners. Thermal analysis indicated an increase in melting temperature by 9.9% in samples treated after 57 days along with a much reduced change in weight.

X-ray diffraction of the powder samples indicated both increase and decrease in crystallite size, unit cell volume and molecular weight of samples exposed to biofield after 28, 104, 124 and 139 days.

These results indicate that the catalytic nature of vanadium pentoxide can be controlled by exposing to bio field and using after a specific number of days after exposure.
Prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CAD) due to industrial air pollutants in the proximity of Islamabad Industrial Estate (IEI), Pakistan
Creators: name: Rayan, Muhammad
name: Khayyam, Umer
name: Hussain Adil, Iftikhar
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 710

description: Contaminated air quality, in lieu of massive industrial pollution, is severely attributing to health anomalies in the proximity of industrial units. Cardiovascular Disease (CAD) is rising around industrial units in the planned capital city of Pakistan, Pakistan. To study self-reported CAD in the proximity of Industrial Estate Islamabad (IEI) by equating two distinct study groups as ‘Band-I’: the residence 0–650 meters and ‘Band-II’ 650–1300 meters radius around the perimeter of IEI. The perimeters were digitized using Google Earth and GIS. Field survey was conducted on deploying 388 (194 in each Band) close-ended (self-administered) questionnaires at the household level, after adjusting the potential confounding variables. The research calculated odds ratios (ORs) of the CAD at 95% CI. The study’s findings of the multiple logistic regression for ORs confirmed a significant increase in CAD problems due to industrial affluents in Band-I than in Band-II which were less severe and less life-threatening. Study confirmed high incidences of high blood pressure and breathing issues (up to 67%), due to accumulation of unhealthy affluents thus leading to heart stroke (Band I = 56.20% and Band II = 60.30%). It is aided by smoking that has increased CAD in Band-I. Societal attributes of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and preferences fail to safeguard the local residents amid high concentration of harmful pollutants. As a counter measure the affected respondents engaged in highlighting the issue to the concerned public offices, yet there is a high need on part of the capital government to take mitigative measures to immediately halt the disastrous industrial air emissions to save precious lives.
description: PLoS ONE;19(7)
A Novel Group A Rotavirus Associated With Acute Illness and Hepatic Necrosis in Pigeons (Columba livia), in Australia
Creators: name: McCowan, Christina
name: Crameri, Sandra
name: Kocak, Ayfer
name: Songhua Shan
name: Fegan, Mark
name: Forshaw, David
name: Rubbenstroth, Dennis
name: Honglei Chen
name: Holmes, Clare
name: Harper, Jenni
name: Dearnley, Megan
name: Batovska, Jana
name: Bergfeld, Jemma
name: Walker, Colin
name: Jianning Wang
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2018 McCowan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cases of vomiting and diarrhoea were reported in racing pigeons in Western Australia in May, 2016. Morbidity and mortality rates were high. Similar clinical disease was seen in Victoria in December and by early 2017 had been reported in all states except the Northern Territory, in different classes of domestic pigeon–racing, fancy and meat bird–and in a flock of feral pigeons. Autopsy findings were frequently unremarkable; histological examination demonstrated significant hepatic necrosis as the major and consistent lesion, often with minimal inflammatory infiltration. Negative contrast tissue suspension and thin section transmission electron microscopy of liver demonstrated virus particles consistent with a member of the Reoviridae. Inoculation of trypsin-treated Vero, MDBK and MA-104 cell lines resulted in cytopathic changes at two days after infection. Next generation sequencing was undertaken using fresh liver samples and a previously undescribed group A rotavirus (genotype G18P [17]) of avian origin was identified and the virus was isolated in several cell lines. A q-RT-PCR assay was developed and used to screen a wider range of samples, including recovered birds. Episodes of disease have continued to occur and to reoccur in previously recovered lofts, with variable virulence reported. This is the first report of a rotavirus associated with hepatic necrosis in any avian species.
IMPACT DES DEPENSES PUBLIQUES SUR LA CROISSANCE ECONOMIQUE AU CAMEROUN : UNE APPROCHE DU MODELE ARDL
Creators: name: DUDJO YEN Gildas Boris
name: NTAVOUA Honoré Samuel
name: TEKAM OUMBE Honoré
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’impact des dépenses publiques sur la  croissance  économique au Cameroun sur la période de 1990 à 2018. Nous avons appliqué la méthode d’estimation ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag). Les résultats de l’estimation montrent qu’à court terme, l’effet des dépenses publiques sur la croissance est positif même si le signe change  d’une année à l’autre. A long terme, nous constatons que les dépenses publiques exercent un effet positif. Cela nous permet de conclure que la croissance au Cameroun est expliquée par les dépenses publiques.
Supplementary document for Alignment-free twisted-split-ring metasurface on single substrate with 2π phase range for linearly polarized sub-terahertz wave - 6447936.pdf
Creators: name: Kitayama, Daisuke
name: Pander, Adam
name: Hama, Yuto
name: Takahashi, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
An Improved Stellar Age-Activity Relationship For Ages Beyond A Gigayear
Creators: name: Booth, Rachel
name: Poppenhaeger, Katja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: When the first bio-marker in an exoplanetary atmosphere is found, it will most likely be found in a planet orbiting an inactive, old nearby star. In order to assess this exoplanet's evolution, we will need to reliably estimate the age of the star, which is notoriously difficult for old field stars. Since Skumanich first presented evidence of a relationship between the rotation and the age of a star there has been much interest in developing a calibrated relationship which can be used to provide an estimate of a star's age. Currently these age-activity relationships are only reliable for ages under a gigayear. My research uses the advancement in asteroseismology which has allowed large samples of solar and late-type stars' ages to be determined and combines these with X-ray data from which I measure the stellar activity in order to derive a new and improved age-activity relationship for stars with ages greater than a gigayear.
description: Contributed talk at the Splinter Session on "Variability of Solar/Stellar Magnetic Activity" (http://coolstars19.com/splinters/stellar-var/index.html) at the "Cool Stars 19" Workshop
Multi-Parameter Compensation Method for Accurate In Situ Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter Monitoring and Properties Characterization
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Guilherme F
name: Bertone, Edoardo
name: Stewart, Rodney A
name: Awad, John
name: Holland, Aleicia
name: O'Halloran, Kelvin
name: Bird, Steve
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3701
subject: Atmospheric sciences
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4011
subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: The recent deployment of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDOM) probes in dam catchments and drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) for water quality monitoring purposes has resulted in the production of a large amount of data that requires scientific evaluation. This study introduces a comprehensive, transferable methodological framework for scientists and water professionals to model fluorescence site-specific quenching on fDOM probe readings caused by temperature, suspended particles, and the inner filter effect (IFE) and applies it to an Australian subtropical reservoir. The findings revealed that quenching due to turbidity and IFE effects were best predicted by threshold autoregressive models. Raw fDOM probe measurements were validated as being more reliable if they were systematically compensated using the proposed procedure. The developed fDOM compensation procedure must consider the instrument features (i.e., wavelength broadband and responsiveness) and site-specific conditions (i.e., DOMcharacteristics and suspended particles). A finding of particular interest was that the compensated normalized fDOM readings had a high correlation with the low (<500 Da) molecular weight fraction of the DOM, which is more recalcitrant to removal by coagulation. As a consequence, there is potential to use compensated fDOM probe readings to provide real-time, in situ information on DOM properties in freshwater systems, which will enable water treatment plant operators to optimize the coagulation process.
title: A Multilane Pipelined Architecture for Real Time Enhancement of Color Video Streams
Creators: name: Livingston, Adam Redd
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2006

description: Video stream enhancement is a key fixture in a wide variety of applications from video surveillance, automatic navigation, medical imagery, to facial/object recognition systems. When a video stream contains non-uniform lighting it can be difficult to obtain what is in the darker regions without over enhancing brighter regions. The Adaptive and Integrated Neighborhood Dependant Approach for Nonlinear Enhancement (AINDANE) algorithm combines a tunable nonlinear transfer function, convolution by a multi-scale Gaussian kernel, and tunable contrast enhancement to address this problem for a single image. Luminance values are tuned based on the global cumulative distribution function (CDF) of an image. Contrast enhancements are tuned by applying an exponential weighting based on the global standard deviation. Due to the data driven nature of this algorithm standard, processors lack the computational power to complete 30 frames per second.

A highly parallel and pipelined architecture is designed for real-time performance of the nonlinear enhancement system. First, the AINDANE algorithm is modified to become more suitable to hardware architecture. These modifications include a shift into the logarithmic domain to eliminate exponentiation, multiplications, and divisions. Simple denominators are normalized to powers of two, allowing division to be performed through bus shilling and addition where applicable. The AINDANE algorithm is partitioned into independent functional modules each performing one specific function. Each of these functions is further broken down to find as much data level parallelism as possible. Finally, all blocks are assembled in parallel where possible. Delays are added to ensure that all inputs to each block are properly aligned to yield a correct result.

The resulting architecture is implemented on the Virtex2 2v3000bf957-4 Xilinx FPGA, consuming 57% of the slices available and 37% of the flip flops available. A clock rate of 60.761MHz is achieved. The overall delay of the pipelined architecture is 7W+63 cycle, where W is the width of the image. This is due to the delay associated with the neighborhood dependence of the convolution component. Since the design is pipelined a new frame will be produced every T cycles, where T is the frame size. This achieves a frame rate of around 60 frames per second or 60 Mpixels per second for a 1024x 1024 pixel frame. This result is almost double the goal frame rate for real time applications. Further research work is concentrated on the design of a completely multiplier-less architecture employing log-domain computations.
Reclamation of a Six-Year-Old Sida Hermaphrodita Field Trial: Experience after Three Years of Agricultural Practice
Creators: name: Jablonowski, Nicolai David
name: Ohrem, Benedict
name: Gitzen, Michael
name: Kollmann, Tobias
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2024

description: 32nd EUBCE European Biomass Conference & Exhibition, EUBCE, Marseille, France, 24 Jun 2024 - 27 Jun 2024
description: In this study, the elimination of a six-year-old Sida hermaphrodita (hereafter referred to as Sida) stand for agricultural reclamation was investigated over a period of three years. Crop rotation using maize, wheat, and sugar beet, a catch crop, as well as mechanical-chemical treatments were employed according to agricultural practices. After soil grubbing at the beginning of the experiment and prior to further mechanical-chemical treatments, visible Sida roots were manually removed in addition on half of the former Sida planting area to determine any potential effects of this on total resprouting. Prior to each crop harvest, resprouted Sida plants were counted. The aims of this study were to investigate 1) in how far an elimination of the established Sida stand is possible by means of the applied conventional mechanical-chemical agricultural practices; 2) if resprouted Sida plants impede the productivity of subsequent crops used in this study, i.e., maize, winter wheat, and sugar beet; 3) if resprouted Sida plants hinder harvesting of the following crops; and 4) if Sida shows an invasive nature in the agricultural area of investigation.
Ecosystem impacts of marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific
Creators: name: Wyatt, Abigale M.
name: Resplandy, Laure
name: Marchetti, Adrian
Publisher: name: Copernicus Publications
Year: 2022

description:
Marine heat waves (MHWs) are a recurrent phenomenon in the northeast Pacific that impact regional ecosystems and are expected to intensify in the future. Prior work showed that these events, including the 2014–2015 “warm blob”, are associated with widespread surface nutrient declines in the subpolar Alaska Gyre (AG) and the North Pacific Transition Zone (NPTZ) but reduced chlorophyll concentrations in the NPTZ only. Here we explain the contrast between these two regions using a global ocean biogeochemical model (MOM6-COBALT) with Argo float and ship-based observations to investigate how MHWs influence marine productivity. We find that phytoplankton and zooplankton production respond relatively modestly to MHWs in both regions. However, differences in the response to seasonal iron and nitrogen limitation between large (>10 µm) and small (<10 µm) phytoplankton size classes explain the differences in ecosystem response to MHWs across the two biomes. During MHWs, reduced nutrient supply limits large phytoplankton production in the NPTZ (−13 % annually) but has a limited impact on the already iron-limited large phytoplankton population in the AG (−2 %). In contrast, MHWs yield a springtime increase in small phytoplankton in both regions due to shallower mixed layers and weaker light limitation. These modest changes are in apparent contradiction with prior estimates suggesting a collapse in net community production during the warm blob. We show, however, that 70 % of the decline in net community production previously calculated from nitrate Argo data can be attributed to artifacts in the method and that only 30 % can be attributed to interannual variability, in line with our model-based results. Although modest, the primary production anomalies associated with MHWs modify the phytoplankton size distribution, resulting in a significant shift towards small phytoplankton production (i.e., lower large-to-small-phytoplankton ratio) and reduced secondary and export production, especially in the NPTZ.
Gamme chromatique du galoubet
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
فهرس مجلة حوليات التراث العدد 20-2020
Creators: name: Abbassa, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470501
subject: African literature
classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory

description: مجلة حوليات التراث كلية الآداب والفنون جامعة مستغانم العدد العشرون 2020
The Effects of Unihemispheric Concurrent Dual-Site Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Sequence Learning in Healthy Individuals: A Randomized, Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Talimkhani, Ailin
name: Abdollahi, Iraj
name: Zoghi, Maryam
name: Ghane, Elaheh Talebi
name: Jaberzadeh, Shapour
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4404
subject: Development studies

description: Background: Unihemispheric concurrent dual-site anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCSUHCDS) of the primary motor cortex (M1) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are introduced as effective techniques on M1 corticospinal excitability enhancement and its after-effects. Objectives: The current study aimed at investigating the potential effects of multiple sessions of a-tDCSUHCDS of M1-DLPFC on motor skills learning in healthy individuals. Methods: The randomized, clinical trial was conducted on a total of 37 volunteers completed all sessions of the study and were randomly divided into two groups of a-tDCSUHCDS and sham stimulation by the block randomization method. The current study was performed from January to May 2017 in Iran. Participants attended daily 20-minute motor training sessions for three consecutive days, while they concurrently received a-tDCS. Motor skills were assessed before the intervention (day 1), immediately after the intervention (day 3), and one week after the completion of the intervention. Results: A total of 37 participants were included in the data analysis. Immediately after the completion of the intervention on day 3, mean skills in the experimental and control groups were 0.33 and 0.30, respectively. One week after the completion of the intervention, mean skills in the experimental and control groups were 0.36 and 0.29, respectively. The trend of motor learning considerably increased in the experimental (0.17; P < 0.001) and control (0.11; P < 0.001) groups. No significant difference was observed in motor learning immediately after the intervention between the groups (P = 0.23), while there was a significant difference in long-term offline learning between the groups (P = 0.04). Conclusions: Greater motor skills in the a-tDCSUHCDS group compared with the sham tDCS group at one-week retention indicated the robustness of the a-tDCSUHCDS effect.
Mapping data report, Cruise EX1006 : Exploration Mapping, October 19 - 29, 2010, Honolulu, HI to Alameda, CA
Creators: name: Lobecker, Elizabeth
name: VerPlanck, Nicola
name: Stuart, Lillian
name: Stuart, Elaine
name: Brouillette, Donald
name: Harris, Ashley
name: Kissinger, Karma
name: Standfast, Theresa
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Multibeam mapping -- North Pacific Ocean

description: The overall purpose of the cruise was to transit in a safe and timely manner between Honolulu, HI and San Francisco Bay, CA. The ship will go into dry dock in Alameda, CA for winter repairs. Continuous multibeam data collection occurred, and is described in this report....The route is roughly parallel to the 2009 transit from San Francisco to Hawaii, cruise EX0908. This provided opportunities for system performance and data quality comparisons between data from EX0908 and EX1006....The mapping departments cruise objectives included: 1. Collecting continuous high-quality multibeam data 2. Comparison of multibeam data between cruises EX0908 to EX1006 3. Deep water collection settings testing to further understand optimal deep water system performance.
title: Data report :  2011 Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey
title: 2011 Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Raring, Nate W.
name: Laman, Edward A.
name: Von Szalay, Paul G.  (Paul Gunnar)
name: Martin, Michael Hall
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Groundfish fisheries--Catch effort--Alaska--Alaska, Gulf of--Observations.

description: Scientists of the Groundfish Assessment Program of Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering (RACE) Division conducted the seventh biennial groundfish assessment survey of the Gulf of Alaska during the summer of 2011. These surveys extend the series of surveys, previously conducted every 3 years between 1984 and 1999, which constitute the time series used in stock assessments of Gulf of Alaska groundfish resources. The survey area covered the continental shelf and upper continental slope to 700 m in the Gulf of Alaska from Islands of Four Mountains (170° W long.) and continued eastward approximately 2,800 km across the Gulf of Alaska to Dixon Entrance (133° 25' W long.). The survey was conducted aboard two chartered commercial trawlers, the FV Ocean Explorer and the FV Sea Storm. Trawl haul samples were successfully collected at 670 survey stations using standard RACE Division Poly Nor'Eastern high-opening bottom trawl nets with rubber bobbin roller gear. The primary survey objectives were to define the distribution and estimate the relative abundance of the principal groundfish within the survey area and to collect data to estimate biological parameters useful to groundfish researchers and managers including age, growth, length-weight relationships, feeding habits, and size, sex, and age composition. The survey also collected ancillary data requested by other research groups. More than 150 fish and 360 invertebrate species were captured in survey tows. The species highest in total catch abundance (by weight) over the entire survey area were arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias), Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus), Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus), and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis). Survey results are presented including estimates of catch per unit of effort, biomass, population size composition, and lengthweight relationships, as well as charts depicting the distribution of catch for commercially important species encountered during the survey.
Shadow Puppets and Neglected Diseases: Evaluating a Health Promotion Performance in Rural Indonesia
Creators: name: Kurscheid, Johanna
name: Bendrups, Daniell
name: Susilo, Joko
name: Williams, Courtney
name: Amaral, Salvador
name: Laksono, Budi
name: Stewart, Donald E
name: Gray, Darren J
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: ‘Rama and the Worm’ is a shadow puppet production targeting neglected diseases in Central Java. It is an entertainment-based intervention study to promote health by reducing the impact of parasitic diseases such as soil-transmitted helminths (STH). The study uses traditional Javanese shadow puppetry (wayang kulit) as a vehicle in village communities to disseminate health messages and promote behaviour change to prevent diseases caused, primarily, by inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. The health education messages contained in the play, although using traditional characters and themes, required the creation of a completely new narrative script, using characters and plot lines familiar to the wayang kulit repertoire, but placing them in new situations that relate specifically to health promotion objectives. The intervention was piloted in a village in Central Java, Indonesia using a pre/post design with both qualitative and quantitative analysis. A total of 96 male and female villagers, aged between 7 and 87 years, provided both baseline and follow up data. Participant knowledge and behaviours related to gastrointestinal and helminth-related disease were assessed before and after the intervention through a questionnaire administered by interview. Results revealed statistically significant improvements in both knowledge (48.6% pre-intervention score vs. 62.8% post-intervention score, p < 0.001) and behaviour (77.4% vs. 80.6%, p = 0.004) related to gastrointestinal and helminth disease. Findings of the study indicate the wayang kulit performance is an effective health education tool. The results provide proof of concept with scaling up the next step forward. The wayang kulit production provides a significant additional component for an integrated, comprehensive approach to reduction and elimination of STH infection.
Identifying comprehensive key criteria of sustainable development for traditional manufacturing in Taiwan
Creators: name: Lee, ZY
name: Chu, Mei-Tai
name: Chen, SS
name: Tsai, CH
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4014
subject: Manufacturing engineering

description: The traditional manufacturing industry has suffered from changing global demands and rapid technology upgrades. It is critical to incorporate innovation into contemporary manufacturing for sustainable development. A comprehensive interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change is greatly needed. Therefore, this study aims to explore innovative applications that can enhance the value of manufacturing and examine the key factors associated with these innovations. In this paper, three traditional manufacturing industries are analyzed using the research methodologies analytic hierarchy processing (AHP) and Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL), resulting in a set of six key criteria for innovative manufacturing. The causal relationships considering the six criteria in three industries are analyzed. The main contribution of this study is to establish a new framework for the sustainable development of traditional manufacturing industries. This could help to support conceptual innovation in these industries and establish a pragmatic approach to increase sustainable development. From the research results, the following suggestions can be made. The traditional manufacturing industries in Taiwan should focus on design and innovation. This can enhance the value-added and international competitiveness of industrial chains, enterprises, and products. Ultimately, it can lead to the sustainable development of Taiwan's traditional industries.
Overexpression of IGF1R predicts outcome in invasive urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder
Creators: name: González-Roibón, Nilda
name: Kim, Jenny
name: Chaux, Alcides
name: Munari, Enrico
name: Faraj, Sheila
name: Ellis, Carla
name: Sharma, Rajni
name: Bivalacqua, Trinity
name: Schoenberg, Mark P.
name: Carducci, Michael
name: Netto, George
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF1R) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor involved in cell proliferation and differentiation. IGF1R is overexpressed in several tumors including bladder cancer and is currently under investigation as a target of therapy. We explored IGF1R expression in urothelial carcinoma (UC) and its association with clinicopathologic parameters and prognostic role.

DESIGN: Five tissue microarrays (TMA) were constructed from 100 cystectomy specimens performed for invasive UC at our institution (1994 to 2007). Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded paired tumor and benign samples were spotted 3-4 times each. Membranous IGF1R staining was evaluated using immunohistochemistry (G11, Ventana Medical Systems). A scoring method analogous to that of Her2 expression in breast carcinoma was used and the highest score was assigned to each tumor. IGF1R was considered overexpressed in cases with score ≥ 1. Endpoints of the study included overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (DSS). Patients were followed-up for a median of 33.5 months (range: 1-141 months).

RESULTS: We found IGF1R overexpression in 62% of UC. No differences were noted between normal urothelium and UC regarding IGF1R overexpression (60% vs. 74%; P=0.14). IGF1R overexpression was more frequent in tumors from African-American patients compared to Caucasians (100% vs. 59%, P=0.04). Tumors at stage pT4 overexpressed IGF1R less frequently than tumors at stages pT1-pT3 (29% vs. 69%, P=0.005). We did not find any association with other analyzed clinicopathologic parameters such as patient's age or gender, muscularis propria invasion, or lymph node metastasis. OS and DSS rates were 58% and 69%, respectively. Patients with tumors overexpressing IGF1R had a lower OS and DSS compared to those without IGF1R overexpression (Mantel-Cox P=0.0007 and P=0.006, respectively). Using Cox proportional hazards regression, IGF1R overexpression remained a significant predictor of OS (HR=3.49, P=0.001) and DSS (HR=3.54, P=0.007) after adjusting for pathologic stage.

CONCLUSION: Overexpression of IGF1R was found in 62% of UC. More importantly, IGF1R overexpression was a significant independent predictor of OS and DSS, suggesting its usefulness as a prognosticator in UC. The findings also point to IGF1R as a potential target of therapy in UC.
TLO 4: Identify and Interpret a Wide Variety of Secondary and Primary Sources
Creators: name: Jones, Adrian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © Springer Nature Singapore Pty Ltd. 2018. All rights reserved.
This chapter addresses the fourth Australian Threshold Learning Outcome (TLO) for university studies of history: 'identify and interpret a wide variety of secondary and primary sources'. There are equivalents in the European Union Tuning and in the UK Quality Assurance Agency. Notions of primacy in 'sourcing' are at stake in this TLO. It is about finding and interpreting evidence. But what is a source? And what makes one primary, and another secondary? These notions reflect authorial orderings of authority when communicating about history. My key points are that these notions have changed. They have a history. A hypothesis is tested: Difficulties encountered by students in relation to 'sourcing' echo past thinking about what 'authority' and its associated sense of 'evident-ness' might amount to when communicating about history. This chapter places the pedagogical literature on barriers to student learning beside the history of history writing and research, and in the light of studies of the epistemology of history.
Recent Trends and Prospective Developments in Air Shipments of Agricultural Commodities
Creators: name: DeWolfe, Mildred R.
name: DeWolfe, Mildred R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: World air freight traffic has grown sensationally, increasing more than 32 times since 1946 and more than 4 times in the past 10 years. Shippers are now spending more than $700 million yearly to send their goods by air. The volume of agricultural commodities shipped by air is still a very small part of total air shipments, but it is growing. A recent survey by some of the major airlines shows that the volume of fresh fruits and vegetables shipped by air during July-June 1964-65 was between 4 and 5 times that during 1961. These airlines expect a similar increase by 1970. Cut flowers move in large quantities by air, making up two-fifths of the total volume of agricultural products carried by these airlines. One of the major airlines reported cut flowers as the sixth most important item it carried and fruits and vegetables as the seventh. Other horticultural products such as shrubbery, plants, ornamental greens, etc. are also moving in fairly large quantities as are poultry and eggs and miscellaneous foodstuffs. Shipments of agricultural commodities no longer move by air only when the commodity is in short supply. During the 1965 season, the airlines transported more than 1,100 carlot equivalents of strawberries out of California, almost 50 percent more than in 1964, and about 180 carlot equivalents of other fruits and vegetables. Commodities hauled by airlines included fresh figs, cherries, peaches, cantaloupes, apricots, nectarines, plums, grapes, raspberries, asparagus, lettuce, parsley, okra, tomatoes, frozen foods, poultry, eggs, meats, seafoods, and oriental vegetables.
description: Reprinted from the Marketing and Transportation Situation February 1966
د. حكيم بوغازي، الأدب في خطر لتزفيتان تودروف قراءة في ضوء نظرية نقد النّقد
Creators: name: بوغازي, حكيم
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470505
subject: Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian)
classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory

description: د. حكيم بوغازي، الأدب في خطر لتزفيتان تودروف قراءة في ضوء نظرية نقد النّقد
د. حكيم بوغازي، الأدب في خطر لتزفيتان تودروف قراءة في ضوء نظرية نقد النّقد
Creators: name: Abbassa, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470505
subject: Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian)
classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory

description: د. حكيم بوغازي، الأدب في خطر لتزفيتان تودروف قراءة في ضوء نظرية نقد النّقد
Audit records of the Empress Hotel
Creators: name: Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Canadian Pacific Hotels. The Empress Hotel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Balance sheets, sales reports, correspondence and other material related to finances and accounts of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, collected during an audit made by H. A. Mills, travelling auditor for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. File includes audit reports and letters from Mills regarding preparations for the audit.
Fc‐gamma receptor polymorphisms, cetuximab therapy, and overall survival in the CCTG CO.20 trial of metastatic colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Shepshelovich, D
name: Townsend, AR
name: Espin-Garcia, O
name: Latifovic, L
name: Callaghan, CJ O
name: Jonker, DJ
name: Tu, D
name: Chen, E
name: Morgen, E
name: Price, TJ
name: Shapiro, J
name: Siu, LL
name: Kubo, M
name: Dobrovic, Alexander
name: Ratain, MJ
name: Xu, W
name: Mushiroda, T
name: Liu, G
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3211
subject: Oncology and carcinogenesis

description: Background: Two germ line Fc-γ receptor (FCGR) polymorphisms, rs1801274 [FCGR2A; His(H)131Arg(R)] and rs396991 [FCGR3A; Phe(F)158Val(V)], produce altered proteins through amino acid substitutions. We previously reported that the FCGR2A H/H genotype was associated with longer overall survival (OS) in cetuximab-treated chemotherapy-refractory patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Here, we aimed to replicate and extend this finding in the Canadian Clinical Trials Group CO.20 trial. Methods: After germ line DNA genotyping, polymorphic relationships with survival were assessed using log-rank tests and hazard ratios (HR) from Cox proportional hazard models, adjusting for known prognostic factors. The dominant genetic inheritance model was used for the main analysis. Results: Of 592 wild-type KRAS patients treated with cetuximab, those with the FCGR2A H/H genotype (n = 165, 28%) had improved OS (HR: 0.66, P < 0.001; median absolute benefit, 1.3 months) compared to those with R/- genotype (n = 427, 72%). Patients with H/R had intermediate results under a codominant genetic inheritance model (HR: 0.72, P = 0.003). No significant associations were found between FCGR3A genotype and OS. In an exploratory analysis, patients with the combination of FCGR2A H/H + FCGR3A F/F genotype had significantly better OS (HR: 0.33, P = 0.003; median absolute benefit, 12.5 months) than patients with the combination of double-variant R/R + V/V genotype. Progression-free survival results were similar to OS. Toxicity rates were not associated with either polymorphism. Conclusions: The FCGR2A genotype was associated with efficacy but not with toxicity in wild-type KRAS, cetuximab-treated colorectal cancer patients. FCGR3A genotype may modulate the relationship between FCGR2A polymorphism and outcome. FCGR2A is a promising biomarker for clinical management for these patients.
title: Hierarchical Hybrid Multicast An End System Multicast Algorithm Approach
Creators: name: Loaisiga, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2004

description: Due to the rapid development in the computer and communication technologies, the Internet is experiencing an increasing demand of high-speed, real-time distributed applications, such as live streaming multimedia, videoconferencing, distributed simulations, and multiparty games. Multicast is an efficient transmission mechanism to support these applications. Historically, IP Multicast (IPM) has provided multicast support with well-known benefits, especially in bandwidth savings. However, it has experienced little deployment due to economic and architectural limitations.

Overlay multicast holds promise for the implementation of large scale Internet multicast services. An overlay network is a virtual topology constructed on top of the Internet infrastructure. This concept enables multicast to be deployed as a service network rather than a network primitive mechanism allowing the deployment of application-level designs. Just recently, End System Multicast (ESM) has emerged as a promising application-layer solution where all the multicast functionality is shifted to the end-users. However, to become a practical alternative to IP Multicast, this architecture still needs to solve several issues like the overhead introduced at the end users and the slow response to highly dynamic changes in the network conditions. The main contribution of this thesis work is the design and implementation of an ESM-based algorithm called Hierarchical Hybrid Multicast (HHM), a temporary application-level solution. HHM incorporates some modifications like the combination of unicast and multicast, the placement of proxy nodes and the division of the entire tree in multiple subgroups rooted at the source to form a hierarchical structure. To test this algorithm, several Java applications were developed and real-time experiments were conducted under different network conditions using video streaming data to simulate a traditional network in terms of congestion control and bandwidth availability. Latency and bandwidth were the metrics considered. The results obtained in the experiments show that HHM performs better than Multiple Unicast (MU) and close to IPM. For this reason we consider this approach as the base of future designs and implementations of more efficient application-layer multicast alternatives.
Supplementary document for Spatially-variant image deconvolution for photoacoustic tomography - 6448077.pdf
Creators: name: Xie, Dan
name: Wende, Dong
name: Zheng, Jiawei
name: Tian, Chao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
د. الشارف لطروش، اللّسانيات التطبيقية وتعليم اللّغات
Creators: name: لطروش, الشارف
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390306
subject: Secondary education
classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education

description: الشارف لطروش، اللّسانيات التطبيقية وتعليم اللّغات
د. الشارف لطروش، اللّسانيات التطبيقية وتعليم اللّغات
Creators: name: Abbassa, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390306
subject: Secondary education
classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education

description: الشارف لطروش، اللّسانيات التطبيقية وتعليم اللّغات
Smarts Lab Overview: Concepts Methods And Tools For Cyber-Physical Power Systems
Creators: name: Vanfretti, Luigi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: pmu
smart grid
synchrophasors
power systems
real time
oss
open source software
rt hil
wacs
wampac
simulation
Modelica

description: This presentation gives an overview of KTH SmarTS Lab's research activities in cyber-physical power systems / smart grid.
description: Presented at at the NI Smart Grid Lead Users Panel by National Instruments in collaboration with the Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems - E.ON Energy Research Center - RWTH Aachen University. Tuesday, September 27th, 2016. E.ON Energy Research Center - RWTH Aachen University.
The first complete mitogenome of Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans)
Creators: name: Das, S
name: Rakib, TM
name: Islam, MS
name: Rahaman, MM
name: Das, T
name: Hossain, MA
name: Sarker, Subir
name: Raidal, SR
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology

description: The complete mitochondrial genome of Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans) was characterized having 16,446 bp nucleotides encoding 37 genes in circular orientation comprising 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes and two rRNA genes. The lengths of 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA were 973 bp and 1600 bp. A non-coding control region (D-Loop) of 966 bp was identified between tRNAPro and tRNAPhe having seven interrupted tandem repeats. A single A + 1 frameshift insertion in the ND3 gene (ND3-174) was also discovered. The complete mitogenome of G. elegans would contribute in deeper understanding of the evolutionary dynamics and conservation effort of vulnerable testudine families.
The emerging role of DNA damage in the pathogenesis of the C9Orf72 repeat expansion in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Konopka, A
name: Atkin, Julie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a behavioural disorder resulting in early-onset dementia. Hexanucleotide (G4C2) repeat expansions in the gene encoding chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) are the major cause of familial forms of both ALS (~40%) and FTD (~20%) worldwide. The C9orf72 repeat expansion is known to form abnormal nuclei acid structures, such as hairpins, G-quadruplexes, and R-loops, which are increasingly associated with human diseases involving microsatellite repeats. These configurations form during normal cellular processes, but if they persist they also damage DNA, and hence are a serious threat to genome integrity. It is unclear how the repeat expansion in C9orf72 causes ALS, but recent evidence implicates DNA damage in neurodegeneration. This may arise from abnormal nucleic acid structures, the greatly expanded C9orf72 RNA, or by repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation, which generates toxic dipeptide repeat proteins. In this review, we detail recent advances implicating DNA damage in C9orf72-ALS. Furthermore, we also discuss increasing evidence that targeting these aberrant C9orf72 confirmations may have therapeutic value for ALS, thus revealing new avenues for drug discovery for this disorder.
BIOLOGIYANI O'QITISHDA STEM DASTURIDAN FOYDALANISH
Creators: name: ENAZAROVA, GO'ZALOY
name: MAMAJONOVA, IQBOLOY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: bu tezida STEM dasturi va uni o’quvchilarga bilim berishda qanday yengilliklar haqida yokida o’quvchilar eslab qolishi, yangi mavzularni ham amaliy ham nazariy jihatdan yaxshi o’zlashtirishlari uchun yaratilgan yangi o’qitish tizimi haqida.
Didostait, mignoned
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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