cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact and import of poetry in high school pedagogy
Creators: name: Roebuck, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: There are several reasons why it is important to teach students to read and write poetry. First, the study of poetry satisfies requirements required by the State of New Jersey for the development of essential language arts skills. Second, the construction of original verse provides students with an avenue to explore their sense of identity and voice; as Desai and Marsh (2005) claim, poetry provides a way to “reflect and articulate [students’] lived experiences while envisioning new possibilities” (p. 72). And finally, poetry appeals to students along a continuum of skills and abilities. Not only does poetry interest struggling and hesitant readers, “research that focuses on how particular skills and strategies produce good readers suggests that poetry is effective with strugglers” (Sekeres & Gregg, 2007, p. 466), but it also appeals to children who enjoy an intellectual challenge. Poetry can help “[more proficient readers] to build verbal communication skills, tap into the power of expression, make personal connections to texts, [and] build analytical thinking skills” (Young, 2007, p. 50). Because of these benefits, it is vitally important to teach poetry. Nonetheless, poetry is beginning to disappear from the classroom as a result of educator and student reticence, and state and federal level educational goals focusing on test scores and standardized assessments.
Process systems engineering methods for the development of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing processes
Creators: name: Rogers, Amanda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this dissertation is to develop mathematical methods to assist in the development of continuous processes for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drug products. Specifically, modeling, analysis and optimization techniques will be developed in order to apply concepts from the field of process systems engineering to pharmaceutical development. These concepts, including sensitivity analysis, feasibility and flexibility analysis and optimal design under uncertainty, can contribute to the development of robust and well-understood manufacturing processes. This is consistent with the aim Quality-by-Design in the pharmaceutical process development. Throughout this dissertation, case studies related to continuous solids-based manufacturing will be used to demonstrate the role that process systems engineering can play in process development. The mathematical methods introduced in this dissertation will emphasize the use of reduced-order and surrogate models to address the unique challenges associated with modeling, analysis and optimization of solids-based processes.
Additional file 5: of Strengthening close to community provision of maternal health services in fragile settings: an exploration of the changing roles of TBAs in Sierra Leone and Somaliland
Creators: name: Orya, Evelyn
name: Sunday Adaji
name: Thidar Pyone
name: Haja Wurie
name: Broek, Nynke Van Den
name: Theobald, Sally
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Codes after merging in nVivo and Matrix- Sierra Leone. An example of the coding using during the analysis process. (DOCX 143Â kb)
Excessive femininity as resistance in twentieth- and twenty-first century Mexican narrative and visual art
Creators: name: Romano, Mia Lynn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this dissertation I study the different ways that women are represented as “feminine,” or the different ways of being a “woman” in Mexico. I situate this study in questions of how womanhood is depicted in contemporary Mexican fiction and art, how the female body is used in such fluid representations of womanhood, and how gendered performance through the body helps define a woman’s identity. The unifying thread is that of women who enact femininity that goes against the traditional archetype of passive motherhood found in la Guadalupe and la Chingada: they avoid becoming mothers; seek sexual pleasure; avoid maternal, care-taking relationships with men; and enact alternative production rather than reproduction through their bodies. The corpus includes canonical and recent literature by female authors, fiction written by men, letters, corridos, poems, photographs, calendar cromos, paintings, drawings, letters, and lithographs, spanning materials from 1903 to 2004. The first two chapters explore the women of the Mexican Revolution in a female counter-archive in photographs and calendar cromos prints and corrido ballads and novels written by women, such as Cartucho by Nellie Campobello and Hasta no verte, Jesús mío by Elena Poniatowska. In the third chapter I deconstruct the submissive figure of the mujer abnegada through feminist re-readings of the novels Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela by Elena Poniatowska and Demasiado amor by Sara Sefchovich and the protagonists’ journeys of resisting selflessness and motherhood. Beyond a rejection of the maternal abnegada, in the fourth chapter I look at women who enact sexuality without maternity through suffering and bleeding in the paintings of Frida Kahlo and the novels Santa by Federico Gamboa and Duerme by Carmen Boullosa. In contrast to sexuality without maternity, the final chapter examines beauty, body image, and female sexual desire in Señorita México by Enrique Serna and Vapor by Julieta García González and how the protagonists resist male desire directed at them and enact their own. The thesis creates a counter-archive of womanhood that moves women’s bodies beyond the limits of traditional spaces for women, and contributes to constructions of womanhood in and outside of Mexico.
Classifying ground terrain using multiveiw methods
Creators: name: Rosen, Elie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis, we acquire outdoor and indoor ground terrain photos at multiple viewing angles in natural light as a means to discover fundamental differences between terrains due to reflectance variation in natural illumination. Ground terrain affects robot control algorithms but little attention has been given to automatically determining the ground terrain composition using vision-based recognition techniques. For example, autonomous cars that can understand the presence of ice and wet road surfaces can automatically determine potential hazards, this in turn allows the car to adjust its driving accordingly to keep passengers safe. We examine an existing classification method, Texton Boost, to set the basis for comparison to a new proposed method based on angular gradient differential illumination histograms for automatically determining and classifying ground terrain surfaces. A database of 50 ground covers, each imaged from 33 viewing angles including finely quantized angular directions for computing gradients, was acquired by a mobile robot platform for this work. A selection of terrains in the database include gravel, carpet, tile, snow, ice, pebbles, grass, leaves, concrete, and asphalt. Multiple outdoor samples also include wet and dry varieties.  The database of 1,650 ground terrain images is made publicly available for research use.
Additional file 1: of Age at first birth and risk of later-life cardiovascular disease: a systematic review of the literature, its limitation, and recommendations for future research
Creators: name: Rosendaal, Nicole
name: Pirkle, Catherine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Search Strategy. (DOCX 11 kb)
Rhynchomeles prattorum Thomas 1920
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Peramelemorphia
Peramelidae
Rhynchomeles
Rhynchomeles prattorum

description: Rhynchomeles prattorum Thomas 1920
Rhynchomeles prattorum Thomas 1920, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 6: 429-430.
Type Locality: Indonesia, Ceram (= Seram) Isl, Mt. Manusela, 1800 m.
Vernacular Names: Seram Bandicoot.
Distribution: Seram Isl (Indonesia), restricted to high elevations.
Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient. Rare.
Discussion: See Groves and Flannery (1990), Kittchener et al. (1993).
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Peramelemorphia, pp. 38-42 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Additional file 1: of Association of community sanitation usage with soil-transmitted helminth infections among school-aged children in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Oswald, William
name: Stewart, Aisha
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Tekola Endeshaw
name: Mulat Zerihun
name: Berhanu Melak
name: Eshetu Sata
name: Demelash Gessese
name: Tesfaye Teferi
name: Zerihun Tadesse
name: Birhan Guadie
name: King, Jonathan
name: Emerson, Paul
name: Callahan, Elizabeth
name: Freeman, Matthew
name: W. Flanders
name: Clasen, Thomas
name: Moe, Christine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary information. Table S1. Estimated measures of association of household ownership of a latrine in use with prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides infection, using conditional logistic regression and mixed regression with and without individual sampling weights. Table S2. Number of clusters (n) contributing to each stratum-specific analysis out of the total number of clusters within that stratum of community sanitation usage (N) and correlation between cluster-specific odds ratios of association of household ownership of a latrine in use with prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides infection and respective sampling weight by strata of community sanitation usage. (DOCX 24Â kb)
"A new strange disease"
Creators: name: Ryan, William John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation demonstrates the previously unacknowledged role of the Hippocratic case history—a brief narrative of illness experienced by a patient and observed by a physician—in the formation of scientific and literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Specifically, I argue that the medical case registers in literary form the unresolved commingling of confidence and despair that characterizes the colonial Enlightenment. To a tradition of early American scholarship that posits complicity between medical discourse and the expansion of European empire in the New World, I offer the individual patient history as an aperture through which to glimpse the contingent, affective experience of colonization. Rather than presenting a familiar narrative of hegemony and subversion, I focus on how authors struggled in literary form with the tragic paradoxes present at the dawn of the modern age.
Is Virtual Reality accepted as part of interventions for children with attention deficits? Results from a feasibility and acceptability study
Creators: name: Pachiti, Iouliani
name: Dimitropoulou, Panagiota
Publisher: name: Horizons of Psychology, Scientific and Professional Psychological Journal of the Slovenian Psychologists' Association
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: attention deficits
subject: immersive virtual reality
subject: cognitive training
subject: 150

description: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most commonly diagnosed childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. It is evidently known that it significantly affects children’s school, social and family life making it essential for them and their parents to receive specialized supportive services. Virtual reality (VR) technology has been applied lately as part of intervention programs for children with ADHD specifically for training of the executive function, namely, attention. The main aim of this study, which is part of the European funded project “Neo-PRISM-C: Neurodevelopmental Optimal-Predictors, Risk factors, and Intervention from a Systems approach to Maladjustment in Children” (Horizon2020- Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN program), is the implementation of a multimodal intervention program for children with attention deficits and their parents utilizing the potentials of VR technology as part of the program. Prior to the implementation of the intervention program, which is called “Child ViReal Support program” (Eiko-Stirixi and child program), a feasibility and acceptability study will be conducted between December 2021-January 2022 aiming to measure the opinions and views of children, parents and facilitators of the intervention regarding the program and the VR technology respectively. The study includes 5 children 9-12 years old with ADHD and their parents. Children test the VR tasks and complete questionnaires for the quality, usability, and acceptability of VR technology and of the virtual tasks that have been scheduled for training attention. Facilitators will also complete questionnaires regarding the VR equipment and tasks. It is expected that children will evaluate positively the usage of VR technology and VR tasks, hence they will support the continuation of its implementation. Furthermore, the results provide valuable feedback for proceeding to all necessary alterations and adjustments, intending to increase VR tasks’ feasibility and sustainability.
Authenticating drivers based on driving behavior
Creators: name: Salemi, Mahrad
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Contemporary cars come by default equipped with several kinds of anti-theft systems. Despite this, the cars remain vulnerable to a simple physical attack: stealing the keys. Towards the end of improving anti-theft systems, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a driver behavior based authentication system. Our system uses various data available from the cars' computers as features in the authentication. For evaluating our approach, we collected driving data from 30 participants in a controlled experiment. Our approach shows promising results in distinguishing the authorized drivers from unauthorized drivers with a mean Equal Error Rate (EER) of 4.44%.
Brentus anchorago Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Mantilleri, Antoine
name: Bartolozzi, Luca
name: Sforzi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Brentus
Brentus anchorago

description: Brentus anchorago (Linnaeus, 1758).
Known from the entire Neotropical region, from Southern United States of America to Paraguay.
description: Published as part of Mantilleri, Antoine, Bartolozzi, Luca & Sforzi, Alessandra, 2017, Brentidae of Peru (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Zootaxa 4221 (1), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246755
Additional file 2: Table S2. of African ancestry is associated with facial melasma in women: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: D’Elia, Maria Paula
name: Brandão, Marcela
name: Ramos, Bruna De Andrade
name: Silva, Márcia Da
name: Miot, Luciane
name: Santos, Sidney Dos
name: Miot, Hélio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Sensitivity analysis of data without imputation (n = 180). (DOCX 16 kb)
Brentus approximatus Erichson 1847
Creators: name: Mantilleri, Antoine
name: Bartolozzi, Luca
name: Sforzi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Brentus
Brentus approximatus

description: Brentus approximatus Erichson, 1847.
Widespread in the Neotropical region, from Mexico to Argentina.
description: Published as part of Mantilleri, Antoine, Bartolozzi, Luca & Sforzi, Alessandra, 2017, Brentidae of Peru (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Zootaxa 4221 (1), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246755
The local food movement and urban redevelopment in Oklahoma City
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation examines the relationship between alternative food initiatives and urban processes through a case study of the statewide local food movement in Oklahoma and its cultural, political, and economic linkages with urban redevelopment in Oklahoma City. Building on literature in geography, urban studies, and food studies, the work deploys ethnographic, participatory, and archival field research to trace the development of the local food movement and redevelopment. The state’s local food movement has grown rapidly, with a number of firms demonstrating diverse operating models and relations of production, which seek to balance economic, ecological, and social goals in varying ways and to varying degrees. The movement has also benefited from increasing support from state agencies and other organizations, and from the redevelopment strategies of Oklahoma City, which focus on quality of life initiatives aimed at attracting large companies and the well-educated labor force they require. However, the study finds that benefits to local food enterprises generated by the growth of the city’s ‘creative class’ have been uneven, due in part to increased corporate interest in specialty food markets. At the same time, local and other specialty foods have played an important role in revalorizing the urban core, from which less affluent and racial minority residents of some areas have been displaced by gentrification, raising questions about the social significance of both redevelopment and the local food movement. While these questions remain open, the study concludes by demonstrating how current efforts to create a local food hub in Oklahoma City suggest that the potential for more just and sustainable food systems and modes of urban redevelopment remains substantial.
Additional file 1: of Association of community sanitation usage with soil-transmitted helminth infections among school-aged children in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Oswald, William
name: Stewart, Aisha
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Tekola Endeshaw
name: Mulat Zerihun
name: Berhanu Melak
name: Eshetu Sata
name: Demelash Gessese
name: Tesfaye Teferi
name: Zerihun Tadesse
name: Birhan Guadie
name: King, Jonathan
name: Emerson, Paul
name: Callahan, Elizabeth
name: Freeman, Matthew
name: W. Flanders
name: Clasen, Thomas
name: Moe, Christine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary information. Table S1. Estimated measures of association of household ownership of a latrine in use with prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides infection, using conditional logistic regression and mixed regression with and without individual sampling weights. Table S2. Number of clusters (n) contributing to each stratum-specific analysis out of the total number of clusters within that stratum of community sanitation usage (N) and correlation between cluster-specific odds ratios of association of household ownership of a latrine in use with prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides infection and respective sampling weight by strata of community sanitation usage. (DOCX 24Â kb)
In-situ energy dispersive x-ray diffraction study of pressure and electric field effects in the densification of ceramic oxide nanoparticles
Creators: name: Savkliyildiz, Ilyas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Of current interest are dense polycrystalline ceramics with <100 nm grain size. The densification of such ceramics requires additional driving forces such as pressure or electricity to suppress grain growth while promoting high density. In this study, we use a ultrahigh energy polychromatic synchrotron radiation with superb temporal resolution to study the time evolution of prototype multicomponent ceramic oxide as a function of hydrostatic pressure and electric field.   Firstly, we study the temperature and pressure dependence of phase evolution in  0.5MgO-0.5Y2O3 and 0.8MgO-0.2Y2O3 IR nanocomposites using a diamond anvil apparatus in conjunction with in situ synchrotron energy dispersive x-ray diffraction at 1000 oC with 5.5-7.0 GPa hydrostatic pressure . Isothermal and isobaric hold at (1273 K, 5.5-7 GPa) for 60 min, the macroscopic shrinkage due to densification is 3% by volume which endorses densification. Furthermore, volumetric expansion around 1%, on MgO site is observed due to Y2O3 dissolving in cubic MgO despite the large differences in the ionic radii of the cations during isobaric and isothermal hold. The release of pressure at room temperature preserves the MgO lattice expansion and results in a metastable composite the cubic phase of MgO, and the cubic, hexagonal and monoclinic phases of Y2O3. Aging up to 240 h did not destroy the 4-phase co-existence. A crystallographic model is proposed due to observed volumetric expansion of the MgO unit cell based on Coulomb repulsion among O-2 ions in the vicinity of Mg+2 vacancies, and misfit strain due to differences in ionic radii. Secondly, we study the densification of 8% yttria doped zirconia (8YSZ) under superimposed thermal and electric field using time-resolved in-situ high temperature EDXRD method with a polychromatic 200 keV synchrotron probe as a function of applied electric field. Nonisothermal densification occurred in the 790–930 oC range with 3 Amps maximum current draw, resulting in 95-98 % density. No local melting at particle-particle contacts was observed in pertaining electron microscopy analysis. The onset of densification scales inversely with the applied field. Densification is accompanied by transients of high current draw, anomalous anelastic volume expansion ranging from 1% to 3%. No phase transformations are observed. We attribute the reduction in densification temperature and time to ultrafast ambipolar diffusion of species arising from the superposition of mass fluxes due to Fickian diffusion, thermodiffusion (Soret effect), and electromigration, which in turn are a consequence of a superposition of chemical, temperature, and electrical potential gradients. This densification mode is named field assisted sintering or “burst-mode” due to its discontinuous nature.
Co-producing soft law and uncertain knowledge
Creators: name: Scott, Deborah Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this dissertation, I examine processes of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to develop international soft law on biofuels and synthetic biology. I ask how decision-making happens in the unique context of this treaty and on these issues, specifically looking to the role of knowledge politics. To do this, I first establish the cultures and legal structures that have developed within the CBD’s permanent bodies, identifying characteristics that have drawn criticism but that also have the potential to establish the CBD as a productive forum for examining emerging and uncertain technosciences. I then turn to the treaty’s engagement with biofuels and synthetic biology under its “New and Emerging Issues” mechanism. I identify three main ways knowledge politics have been expressed: setting the issue’s scope; establishing appropriate sources and types of knowledge for decision-making; and the meaning and implications of scientific uncertainties. I trace how the political, scientific, and administrative bodies of the treaty have grappled with each of these aspects, in the process providing a forum for consideration of the treaty’s scope, its legal epistemology, and its approach to decision-making in a post-predictive paradigm.    Research methods include textual analysis, semi-structured interviews, participant observation of CBD negotiating events, and observant participation of treaty processes through an internship and consultancy with the CBD Secretariat on synthetic biology. This dissertation speaks to scholarship on global environmental governance and the governance of emerging technologies, expanding the concept of the co-production of law and science to include soft international law and a broad range of scientific uncertainties.
The relative effectiveness of line drawing algorithms at depicting 3D shape
Creators: name: Sanik, Kevin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Line drawings offer a way to depict 3D shape using a ``minimal'' representation. They can abstract away other features like shading, texture, color, and others while still yielding a vivid sense of shape. Attempts to have computers automatically generate line drawings vary based on the ``definitions'' used to determine line placement. However, the resulting drawings are inconsistent in quality. In order to improve these methods, we use perceptual studies to understand when these methods are effective and when they are not.    In the first study, we compare the accuracy of 3D shape percepts from line definitions, artist drawings, and shaded images. We find that line drawings can yield percepts almost as accurate as shaded images, but that no line definition is universally superior to others. We also find some evidence that the quality of these line definitions depends on the geometric context of the line.  In the second set of studies, we examine the factors that determine the relevant context of two line definitions:  apparent ridges and suggestive contours. We found that the effectiveness of an apparent ridge was largely dependent on the maximal curvature along apparent ridge, while suggestive contours are affected by multiple geometric variables.    The final chapter studies these geometric variables in greater detail, and uses them to create a novel  classification scheme for suggestive contours. Implementing this classification scheme allows for greater control over which suggestive contours are drawn and separate thresholds for each category, allowing users to include the ``best'' suggestive contours. We also show that this classification scheme allows users to combine suggestive contours with other line definitions to generate more effective line drawings.
Harmonic dualism: an annotated bibliography with additional inventories and list of musical analyses
Creators: name: Collin, Tim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Music Theory
Harmonic Dualism
Dualism
Riemann

description: The following bibliography is a collection of sources on harmonic dualism, a view on harmony that describes the minor triad as equally consonant and of natural origin as the major triad. It presents an overview of the sources available on this topic and can serve as a starting point to discover what is written about it. However, other sources on harmonic dualism may be missing, so it is not a given that this list is complete. The sources are here ordered alphabetically, but this document is accompanied by another one that contains four inventories to categorize them by their different contents and goals. A third document is added, containing a list of analyses that are done or presented within some of these sources. This list is not complete, but exists of the longest or more detailed analyses that are available within the given sources.

 

The documents are provided both in pdf and docx format.
Gendered literacy through social media
Creators: name: Seitz, Emily M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation observes and theorizes gendered literacy, a term that has so far been poorly defined. Gendered literacy (in the United States and other Western contexts), has been discussed as enacted by children and educators; as a quantifiable test-based outcome; as a result of biological, cognitive differences between females and males; and, as the result of the historically feminized U.S. educational system.   Data were sampled from 23 blogs in the KidLitosphere, a website aggregating over 550 blogs relating to children’s literature. These data, along with data collected from interviews, were qualitatively analyzed using the constant comparative method. Research questions included:  • RQ1: What are the conceptions of gendered literacy among literacy educators (parents, public librarians, school librarians, and teachers); creators of texts for children (published authors, editors, and published illustrators); and, children/young adults, as represented in their blogging activities?  • RQ2: How do the conceptions of gendered literacy identified through the blogging activities of literacy educators, creators of texts for children, and children/young adults compare to the theoretical conceptions identified in the literature review?  • RQ3: What similarities and differences, if any, are represented in conceptions of gendered literacy among literacy educators; creators of texts for children; and, children/young adults, as represented in their blogging activities?  • RQ4: What patterns, if any, of resistance to the dominant conceptions of gendered literacy may be found among the blog posts analyzed?   Prominent findings relate to educators’ perceptions of boys’ reading preferences and labeling of “boy” and “girl” books. Other  findings relate to gendered literacy behaviors (other than reading preferences) and perceptions of these behaviors, including roughly equal numbers of examples describing boys’ love of reading and/or advanced reading level, as compared to those describing girls’. Implications for future practice include educators’ refraining from labeling of books according to boy/girl; encouraging positive perceptions of boys’ reading; motivating children to read in a resistant way – to read texts that would not be considered appropriate for their sex; encouraging producers of reading materials for youth to produce more gender-neutral materials; and, fostering children’s reading and literacy in ways that do not focus on gender.
Multiscale modeling and validation of particulate processes
Creators: name: Sen, Maitraye
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Since solid handling and processing have a wide application in many chemical and pharmaceutical industries, it is important to understand the powder dynamics. The objective of this work is to build multiscale models (with the aid of different modeling techniques; PBM (population balance model), DEM (discrete element model) and CFD (computational fluid dynamics) for various solid/powder handling operations and design an integrated flowsheet model connecting the continuous API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) purification/processing and downstream tablet manufacturing operations  (as applicable in case of pharmaceutical industries). At present there is no existing link between the API processing and purification and downstream tablet manufacturing operation. However it has been seen that the physical properties of API (size, shape etc.) have considerable effect on the critical quality attributes (CQAs) of the product obtained from the downstream tablet manufacturing operations. Therefore, such a flowsheet will allow a detailed study of the effect of upstream (API purification and processing) process parameters on the downstream (tablet manufacturing) product  attributes. A multiscale modeling approach has been adapted in order to develop a novel PBM for powder mixing (an important unit operation in tablet manufacturing framework), which can track various CQAs such as RTD (residence time distribution), RSD (relative standard deviation) and composition of the final blended product. The model demonstrated good prediction when validated against experimental results. The mixing model has been used for developing a multiscale, continuous, integrated flowsheet model. In this flowsheet model, the mixing unit has been integrated with the API separation and purification steps (i.e. crystallization, filtration and drying). The crystallization model has been developed based on population balance methodology and experimentally validated. The flowsheet model has been further used to perform optimization studies and design an efficient hybrid MPC-PID control system. A multiscale CFD-DEM-PBM model has been developed for a fluid bed granulation process as well, which is an important operation present in the downstream tablet manufacturing framework (often present after the mixing operation). This model can be used to study the dynamics of the process and determine the CQAs of the granulated product. The multiscale model thus developed can be used to develop a reduced order model (ROM) which can be integrated with the flowsheet model. This work will make a significant contribution towards understanding the process dynamics, process design and optimization in order to enhance the efficiency of the pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
Why energy-saving measures in commercial office buildings fail
Creators: name: Senick, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Buildings consume large amounts of energy and other natural resources.  The green building movement is a response to associated impacts; however the failure of these buildings to perform as intended is a persistent challenge. This is most apparent regarding energy use, which has continued to grow despite decades of public policy and investment to the contrary.  In this dissertation, I demonstrate that underperformance is linked to poor usability and that building-level Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) often are misaligned with the functions and use structures they are meant to support.  In particular, I conclude that: 1) the social nature of workplace-based lighting and HVAC energy measures is not well understood by designers who conceptualize their use structures as narrow and shallow, when they are wide and deep; 2) innovation in energy-saving technologies has not kept pace with popular workplace organizational contexts – e.g., flex time, telecommuting and collaborative/activity-based design; and 3) the organizational implications of the convergence of advanced energy conservation technologies and IT is only beginning to become clear to adopting organizations, who have not implemented organizational protocols that empower decentralized users.    These usability shortcomings in turn negatively impact the case for greater diffusion of workplace-based energy conservation measures.
Additional file 6: of Strengthening close to community provision of maternal health services in fragile settings: an exploration of the changing roles of TBAs in Sierra Leone and Somaliland
Creators: name: Orya, Evelyn
name: Sunday Adaji
name: Thidar Pyone
name: Haja Wurie
name: Broek, Nynke Van Den
name: Theobald, Sally
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Tree Map in nVivo - Sierra Leone. Mapping of the emerging themes. (DOCX 279Â kb)
Visual localization, semantic video segmentation and labeling using satellite maps
Creators: name: Senlet, Turgay
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this dissertation, I propose vision-based geo-localization and segmentation methods that make use of semantic and appearance information from satellite images. First, I present a framework for vision-based localization of moving platforms by registering perspective camera images to satellite maps and by employing particle filter tracking techniques. I present different versions of the localization framework for stereo and monocular imagery. Second, I propose a novel computer vision method that uses semantic elements for efficient localization of a given aerial image in a large search area. In this method, I use buildings on the aerial image as semantic elements and make use of building neighborhood structures to obtain accurate localization results, efficiently. For this problem, I perform tests on a very large city building dataset with 300K buildings. Third, I propose a novel framework for semantic segmentation and labeling of videos that propagates semantic information from satellite maps on to globally localized video frames. This method generates accurate labeling of semantic elements without performing any prior learning on the video itself. Finally, in order to understand and extract semantic information from satellite images, I investigate algorithms for semantically labeling satellite images; mainly focusing on labeling buildings, roads, sidewalks, and crosswalks from satellite images. I propose novel techniques to estimate sidewalk paths occluded by trees on satellite images.
Estimation of urban scale network-wide emissions based on fundamental properties of the network
Creators: name: Shabihkhani, Rooholamin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: One of the main criteria for evaluating traffic control systems, especially in large urban networks, is vehicular emissions, since it is the major contributor of urban air pollution. Decision makers in the cities want to minimize fuel consumption and emission of pollutants from traffic in addition to managing average speed and delay in the network. In order to optimize these parameters, a consistent estimation of the network-wide parameters is essential. Since existing macroscopic emission models based on average speed cannot provide accurate estimates for large-scale networks, there is a need for reliable emissions estimation based on the traffic features of a network.   In the first part of this study, in order to have a more reliable, network-wide emissions estimation, the Integrated Traffic Emissions Model (ITEM) has been introduced to integrate macroscopic traffic parameters that have a major influence on emissions with microscopically calculated emission factors. This mesoscopic emission model takes three aggregated traffic parameters, which include: number of vehicle stops, duration of time spent cruising, and the time spend idling, all expressed per Vehicle Mile Traveled (VMT), and multiply them with corresponding emission factors to estimate overall emissions of the network.   In the next step of this study, the macroscopic connection between three aggregated traffic parameters needed for ITEM and the average density on an idealized ring shape model has been investigated. The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) is used to understand the existence of a robust relationship between the average flow with the average number of vehicles circulating on the network. An analytical approach has been proposed to estimate the macroscopic traffic parameters based only on fundamental properties of the network.  In the final step, the proposed model and analytical approach have been tested on a more realistic grid network with heterogeneous traffic states across links of the network caused by turning movements. The results show that there is not only a robust and reproducible relationship between the aggregated traffic parameters and resulting total emissions with the average density on the network, but also the comparison of the analytical estimates with detailed calculations shows that the errors are in an acceptable range, especially for not completely jammed traffic conditions.
Decomposition approaches for enterprise-wide optimization in process industry
Creators: name: Shah, Nikisha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Enterprise-wide optimization (EWO) has gain lot of interest in recent years as the globalization trends of past few decades have significantly increased the scale and complexity of modern process industry and increasing economic pressures to remain competitive in global marketplace. EWO entails optimization of supply, manufacturing, and distribution activities to reduce costs and inventories through an integrated and coordinated decision-making among various functions in the industry (vendors, production facilities, and distribution). One of the major challenges in achieving EWO is mathematical tools for planning and scheduling for manufacturing facilities.    Main objective of this dissertation is to develop mathematical methodologies to assist in achieving EWO goals for chemical process industry. Specially, mathematical formulation for planning and scheduling decisions and decomposition strategies will be developed in order to bridge the gap between concepts and industrial application. In this work, planning and scheduling of multisite, multiproduct batch production and distribution faculties is addressed via dual decomposition based approach, which aims to reduce computational complexity through parallel computation. In the area of continuous production facilities, lack of efficient scheduling models prevents us from developing coordinated planning and scheduling tools. To address this issue, mathematical formulations for scheduling of refinery operations is developed and novel heuristics and mathematical decomposition strategies for large scale complex mixed integer linear programming models are proposed. Throughout this dissertation, case studies will be used to demonstrate the applicability of proposed decomposition approaches.
Transdermal delivery of insulin
Creators: name: Shah, Shiv S.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Diabetes is a disease where the body either cannot produce insulin (type I) or the cells simply reject the insulin (type II).  While type II can develop in adults, type I diabetes is more common in children and is harder to control.  Since insulin is not naturally produced in type I diabetics, synthetic insulin has been developed to be administered to the body and control blood sugar levels.  This administration is usually done through a pump which is not only uncomfortable but is also bulky.  The aim of this study is to determine if liposomes can be used to effectively administer insulin transdermally by using the pH gradient between the stratum corneum (pH 4.0) and the bloodstream (pH 7.4).  Evaluation of encapsulation efficiency and time-release of liposomes was performed using a Pierce BCA protein assay.  At each time point, the released insulin was separated using size exclusion chromatography.  The results of this study show that lyophilized liposomes can encapsulate about 60% of insulin. Liposomes retain their contents in acidic pH values while all of their contents are released within one hour at pH 7.4.
Brentus armiger Herbst 1797
Creators: name: Mantilleri, Antoine
name: Bartolozzi, Luca
name: Sforzi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Brentus
Brentus armiger

description: Brentus armiger Herbst, 1797.
Widespread in the Neotropical region, from Mexico to Argentina.
description: Published as part of Mantilleri, Antoine, Bartolozzi, Luca & Sforzi, Alessandra, 2017, Brentidae of Peru (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in Zootaxa 4221 (1), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.246755
Genome assembly of Stewartia sinensis reveals origin and evolution of orphan genes in Theaceae
Creators: name: 程琳
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2025
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Multiisolate
Evolution

description: Orphan genes play crucial roles in diverse biological processes, but the evolutionary trajectories and functional divergence remain largely unexplored. The Theaceae family, including the economically and culturally important tea plant, offers a distinctive model to examine these aspects. Here, we integrate Nanopore long-read sequencing, Illumina short-read sequencing, and Hi-C methods to decode a pseudo-chromosomal genome assembly of Stewartia sinensis, from the earliest-diverging tribe of Theaceae, spanning 2.95 Gb. Comparative genomic analysis revealed the absence of recent whole-genome duplication events in the Theaceae ancestor, highlighting tandem duplications as the predominant mechanism of gene expansion. We identify 31,331 orphan genes, some of which appear to have ancient origins, suggesting early emergence with frequent gains and losses, while others seem more specific and recent. Notably, orphan genes are distinguished by shorter lengths, fewer exons and functional domains compared to genes that originate much earlier, like transcription factors. Moreover, tandem duplication contributes significantly to the adaptive evolution and characteristic diversity of Theaceae, and it is also a major mechanism driving the origination of orphan genes. This study illuminates the evolutionary dynamics of orphan genes, providing a valuable resource for understanding the origin and evolution of tea plant flavor and enhancing genetic breeding efforts.
Structure-solubility relationships in fluoride-containing phosphate based bioactive glasses
Creators: name: Shaharyar, Yaqoot
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The dissolution of fluoride-containing bioactive glasses critically affects their biomedical applications. Most commercial fluoride-releasing bioactive glasses have been designed in the soda-lime-silica system. However, their relatively slow chemical dissolution and the adverse effect of fluoride on their bioactivity are stimulating the study of novel biodegradable materials with higher bioactivity, such as biodegradable phosphate-based bioactive glasses, which can be a viable alternative for applications where a fast release of active ions is sought. In order to design new biomaterials with controlled degradability and high bioactivity, it is essential to understand the connection between chemical composition, molecular structure, and solubility in physiological fluids.Accordingly, in this work we have combined the strengths of various experimental techniques with Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, to elucidate the impact of fluoride ions on the structure and chemical dissolution of bioactive phosphate glasses in the system: 10Na2O - (45-x) CaO - 45P2O5 - xCaF2, where x varies between 0 – 10 mol.%. NMR and MD data reveal that the medium-range atomic-scale structure of thse glasses is dominated by Q2 phosphate units followed by Q1 units, and the MD simulations further show that fluoride tends to associate with network modifier cations to form alkali/alkaline-earth rich ionic aggregates. On a macroscopic scale, we find that incorporating fluoride in phosphate glasses does not affect the rate of apatite formation on the glass surface in simulated body fluid (SBF). However, fluoride has a marked favorable impact on the glass dissolution in deionized water. Similarly, fluoride incorporation in the glasses results in significant weight gain due to adsorption of water (in the form of OH ions). These macroscopic trends are discussed on the basis of the F effect on the atomistic structure of the glasses, such as the F-induced phosphate network re-polymerization, in a first attempt to establish composition-structure-property relationships for these biomaterials.