cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
مكتبة جامعة قادر هاس باسطنبول، تركيا
Creators: name: زكريا،محمود شريف احمد
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: السياسة التعليمية | البرامج التعليمية | الوسائل التعليمية | التعليم الجامعي | طلاب الجامعات | تركيا

description: هدفت الدراسة إلى الكشف عن مكتبة جامعة قادر هاس بإسطنبول، تركيا. وارتكزت الدراسة على عدة عناصر، ركز العنصر الأول على جامعة قادر هاسKadir Has Univ، حيث أنشأت الجامعة بتاريخ 28 مايو 1997، كمؤسسة غير ربحية، و تعرف الجامعة بين طلابها بمسمى (KHAS) ، وتشتمل الجامعة على ثلاثة أحرم جامعية ، ومركزي معلومات، كما تضم الجامعة سبع كليات أشهرها: الهندسة- العلوم والإنسانيات- الاقتصاد والعلوم الإدارية- الإعلام- الآداب والفنون الجميلة. وكشف العنصر الثاني عن مواعيد استقبال جمهور المستفيدين، حيث يفتح موقع المكتبة أبوابه أمام الطلاب منذ الساعة الثامنة صباحا وحتى الساعة العاشرة مساء. وأبرز العنصر الثالث مجتمع المستفيدين، حيث تتراوح نوعيات المستفيدين المترددين على المكتبة ما بين طلاب الجامعة والباحثين من طلاب الدراسات العليا وأعضاء هيئة التدريس. وتطرق العنصر الرابع إلى المبني والتجهيزات، حيث تشتمل المكتبة على ثلاث قاعات أساسية، هي كالتالي، قاعة القراء، قاعة المواد السمعية والبصرية، قاعة الأنترنت. وأشار العنصر الخامس إلى مجموعات المكتبة. وتناول العنصر السادس النظام الآلي بالمكتبة. واظهر العنصر السابع خدمات المعلومات بالمكتبة، حيث تقدم مكتبة جامعة قادر هاس مجموعة من الخدمات الهامة، منها، خدمة الاطلاع الداخلي، خدمة البحث في الفهرس الآلي، خدمة البحث في قواعد البيانات، خدمة الإحاطة الجارية. واختتمت الدراسة بالإشارة إلى مجموعة من الخدمات الأخرى التي تقدمها المكتبة، ومنها، خدمة الإنترنت، خدمة الإعارة الخارجية (الاستعارة)، وخدمة الإعارة بين المكتبات وخدمة حجز الكتب. كُتب هذا المستخلص من قِبل دار المنظومة 2018
Variations on sparsifier constructions
Creators: name: Xiao, Ke Han
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: We studied Joshua Batson, Daniel A. Spielman, and Nikhil Srivastava's Twice-Ramanujan Sparsifiers. On this basis, we try to generalize their potential function. Inspired by the idea of non-backtracking matrices, we designed the new potential formula that puts all eigenvalues on the complex plane. Following the construction of the twice Ramanujan sparsifier, we conclude some obstacles must be encountered to improve their bound.
Phytoseius Ribaga
Creators: name: Kreiter, Serge
name: Bopp, Marie-Charlotte
name: Douin, Martial
name: Nguyen, Duc Tung
name: Wyckhuys, Kris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Phytoseius

description: Genus Phytoseius Ribaga Phytoseius Ribaga, 1904: 177.
description: Published as part of Kreiter, Serge, Bopp, Marie-Charlotte, Douin, Martial, Nguyen, Duc Tung & Wyckhuys, Kris, 2020, Phytoseiidae of Vietnam (Acari: Mesostigmata) with description of a new species, pp. 75-110 in Acarologia 60 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204362, http://zenodo.org/record/3879894
description: {"references": ["Ribaga C. (1904) Gamasidi planticoli. Riv. Patol. Veg., 10: 175 - 178."]}
Additional file 1 of SPON1 is an independent prognostic biomarker for ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Miyakawa, Ryoya
name: Kobayashi, Makoto
name: Sugimoto, Kotaro
name: Endo, Yuta
name: Kojima, Manabu
name: Kobayashi, Yasuyuki
name: Furukawa, Shigenori
name: Honda, Tsuyoshi
name: Watanabe, Takafumi
name: Asano, Shigeyuki
name: Soeda, Shu
name: Hashimoto, Yuko
name: Fujimori, Keiya
name: Chiba, Hideki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Accuracy of diagnosing proximal caries using intra-oral bitewing radiographs and near infra-red imaging (NIRI) technology in iTero element 5D scanners : an in vivo study
Creators: name: Arjunan, Sharmila
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of near infra-red imaging (NIRI) technology of iTero Element 5D intra-oral scanners (index test) by comparing it to bitewing radiography (clinical reference standard) for detecting proximal surface enamel caries (target condition). Methods: We conducted a diagnostic study on 42 consecutive patients (22 males & 20 females) who presented for orthodontic treatment at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Consenting individuals ≥12 years of age received intra-oral digital scanning using iTero Element 5D scanners and full-mouth bitewing radiographs (BWRs). Two experienced pediatric dentists independently evaluated the non-restored proximal surfaces on BWRs and NIRI images for the presence/absence of initial enamel caries. Results: The prevalence of the target condition in the sample population was 5.8%. Of 1110 proximal surfaces included in the analysis, the diagnosis of the target condition was confirmed in 65 surfaces based on BWRs. The index test showed a sensitivity of 60.0%, specificity of 97.7%, positive predictive value of 61.9%, and negative predictive value of 97.5%. The inter- and intra-examiner reliability for BWRs and NIRI images were 0.78, 0.97, 0.85, and 1.0 respectively. The Area Under the Curve (AUC) value for the index test was 0.78 which can be considered acceptable in terms of the test’s ability to distinguish between positive (caries) and negative cases (no caries). Conclusions: The index test showed high specificity and negative predictive value; therefore, it has potential as a non-ionizing screening tool for the detection of proximal surfaces without enamel caries in permanent teeth, particularly in adolescents with a moderate/high caries risk. Acknowledgements: This project was supported by a 2021 Align Research Award (AWD-020121).
Education Through Language and Writing
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: The Education Through Language and Writing (Bildung durch Sprache und Schrift or BiSS) Transfer plan was introduced to promote linguistic education for children in pre-primary settings and schools
Pure tone discrimination with cochlear implants and filter-band spread
Creators: name: Wagner, Luise
name: Altindal, Reyhan
name: Plontke, Stefan K.-R.
name: Rahne, Torsten
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610

description: For many cochlear implant (CI) users, frequency discrimination is still challenging. We studied the effect of frequency differences relative to the electrode frequency bands on pure tone discrimination. A single-center, prospective, controlled, psychoacoustic exploratory study was conducted in a tertiary university referral center. Thirty-four patients with Cochlear Ltd. and MED-EL CIs and 19 age-matched normal-hearing control subjects were included. Two sinusoidal tones were presented with varying frequency differences. The reference tone frequency was chosen according to the center frequency of basal or apical electrodes. Discrimination abilities were psychophysically measured in a three-interval, two-alternative, forced-choice procedure (3I-2AFC) for various CI electrodes. Hit rates were measured, particularly with respect to discrimination abilities at the corner frequency of the electrode frequency-bands. The mean rate of correct decision concerning pitch difference was about 60% for CI users and about 90% for the normal-hearing control group. In CI users, the difference limen was two semitones, while normal-hearing participants detected the difference of one semitone. No influence of the corner frequency of the CI electrodes was found. In CI users, pure tone discrimination seems to be independent of tone positions relative to the corner frequency of the electrode frequency-band. Differences of 2 semitones can be distinguished within one electrode.
title: Особенности обучения и воспитания детей, рожденных в результате экстракорпорального оплодотворения
title: Монография
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Орлова О.С.
name:  Печенина В.А.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2019

description: В монографии рассматриваются особенности эмоционально-речевой сферы детей, рожденных в результате экстракорпорального оплодотворения (ЭКО) в сравнении с зачатыми естественным путем. Доказывается, что они вследствие совокупности факторов находятся в группе риска возникновения речевых нарушений, поэтому им требуется своевременная логопедическая и психологическая помощь: необходимость профилактики нарушений с момента зачатия и начало коррекции – с младенческого периода. Особое внимание уделяется медицинским, психологическим и когнитивным аспектам развития близнецов, проводится сопоставительный анализ их с одиночнорожденными. Изучается реабилитационный потенциал детей, находящихся в группе риска, и разрабатывается модель коррекционно-педагогической помощи детям, рожденным посредством ЭКО, с дифференцированным использованием средств артпедагогики и вовлечением междисциплинарной команды специалистов и родителей.
description: The monograph discusses the peculiarities of emotional-linguistic sphere of children born of in vitro fertilization (IVF) compared to naturally conceived. It is proved that they are due to a combination of factors are in the risk group for speech disorders, so they require timely speech therapy and psychological assistance: the need to prevent violations from the moment of conception and the beginning of correction – infant period. Special attention is paid to medical, psychological and cognitive aspects of development of twins, provides a comparative analysis of them with odnocletocnami. Examined the rehabilitation potential of children at risk, and a model of the correctional and pedagogical help to children born through IVF, with differentiated means of archidiocese and involvement of a multidisciplinary team of specialists and parents.
Additional file 1 of Traffic-related air pollution and supplemental folic acid intake in relation to DNA methylation in granulosa cells
Creators: name: Gaskins, Audrey J.
name: Hood, Robert B.
name: Ford, Jennifer B.
name: Hauser, Russ
name: Knight, Anna K.
name: Smith, Alicia K.
name: Everson, Todd M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Figure 1. Scatterplots depicting the association between chronological age and predicted epigenetic age of the granulosa cells according to the Horvath Pan-tissue, Grim Age, and Granulosa Cell clocks. Supplemental Figure 2. QQ plots of EWAS results from the analysis of NO2 (A) and supplemental folate (B), where models were adjusted for age and for three surrogate variables. Supplemental Figure 3. Volcano Plots of EWAS results from the analysis of NO2 (A) and supplemental folate (B), where models were adjusted for age and for three surrogate variables; CpGs that yielded FDR q-values < 0.1 are highlighted with red outlines. Supplemental Table 1. Differentially methylated CpGs associated with high versus low NO2 exposure that yielded FDR q-values < 0.10. Supplemental Table 2. Differentially methylated CpGs associated with high versus low supplemental folate intake that yielded FDR q-values < 0.10.
Describing Future Eventualities in Tlingit
Creators: name: Cable, Seth Alfred
Publisher: name: Semantic Fieldwork Methods
Year: 2019

description: This paper details two storyboards —"Hawaii Trip" and "Imagining the Future"—which are designed to help investigate the way a given language does (or does not) mark predicates describing eventualities that take place in the future. I describe two studies employing these storyboards with a speaker of the Tlingit language (Na-Dene; Alaska, British Columbia, Yukon). In prior literature, it has been claimed that a verb in Tlingit does not require special future tense marking in order to describe a future eventuality (Leer 1991). However, it has proven difficult to confirm such uses of non-future-marked verbs in regular elicitation sessions with native speakers.  Through use of these two storyboards with a gifted Tlingit story-teller, it was found that some narrators do indeed use non-future-marked verbs to describe eventualities that are understood to take place in the future. However, various contextual clues—including metalinguistic comments made by the narrator himself—-suggest that such usage may reflect a special narrative or rhetorical device, akin to 'narrative present' in English. Consequently, it appears that the regular grammar of the language does require future tense marking when describing future eventualities, but artful narrators can in the course of the narrative 'shift' the temporal perspective of the narration to the future time in question, presenting those future events as on-going. While much more work must be done to rigorously test this hypothesis, these case studies nicely illustrate the use and utility of these fieldwork instruments.
description: Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol 1 No 1 (2019): Semantic Fieldwork Methods
Additional file 1 of COVID-19 pandemic response in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion: methods, participation and recommendations of a longitudinal cross-border study
Creators: name: Stabourlos, C.
name: van Bilsen, C. J. A.
name: Brinkhues, S.
name: Moonen, C. P. B.
name: Demarest, S.
name: Hanssen, D. A. T.
name: van Loo, I. H. M.
name: Savelkoul, P. H. M.
name: Philippsen, D.
name: van der Zanden, B. A. M.
name: Dukers-Muijrers, N. H. T. M.
name: Hoebe, C. J. P. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Items of the online questionnaires in ‘Impact of COVID-19 on the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion’ [13,14].
Additional file 1 of Structure and number of mating pheromone genes is closely linked to sexual reproductive strategy in Huntiella
Creators: name: Wilson, Andi M.
name: Wingfield, Michael J.
name: Wingfield, Brenda D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. RNA mapping to confirm the single nucleotide deletion in the H. moniliformis MAT1-2-7. Fig. S2. The structure of the Huntiella a-factor pheromone proteins and the sequence of the putative mature repeats. Fig. S3. An alignment of the a1 a-factor pheromone factor genes from all eight Huntiella species considered in this study. Fig. S4. RNA mapping to confirm in frame stop codons in the a1 and a6 a-factor pheromone factor genes from the unisexual H. moniliformis. Fig. S5. An alignment of the a3 a-factor pheromone from all eight Huntiella species considered in this study. Fig. S6. RNA mapping to determine expression of the multiple a-factor pheromone genes from H. abstrusa. Fig. S7. RNA mapping to determine expression of the multiple a-factor pheromone genes from H. omanensis. Fig. S8. RNA mapping to determine expression of the multiple a-factor pheromone genes from H. moniliformis. Fig. S9. The structure of the Huntiella α-factor pheromones from the various Huntiella species along with the sequences of the putative mature repeats.
Patient and care partner experiences with Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker testing
Creators: name: Patel, Khushbu Jayeshkumar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing for the core Alzheimer’s disease (AD) biomarkers (i.e., amyloid-β and tau proteoforms) has high diagnostic accuracy for early and accurate detection of AD pathology. The majority of literature documenting experiences of patients and their families with AD biomarker testing comes, not from biofluid biomarkers, but from amyloid positron emission tomography. Additionally, these experiences are from individuals participating in research studies, not those considering testing specifically for medical care, where disclosure of imaging results follows a strict protocol. In the context of AD CSF biomarker testing performed in medical care, the perspectives of patients undergoing testing, and their family/friends (‘care partners’), are lacking. To address this gap in knowledge, we aimed to describe patient and care partner experiences with AD CSF biomarker testing in medical care, and evaluate the impact of testing and result disclosure on their decision-making and planning. We undertook an observational, longitudinal trial: ‘Investigating the Impact of Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostics in British Columbia’ (IMPACT-AD BC) study. The study included patients (n=142) undergoing AD CSF biomarker testing as part of their medical care for investigation of the etiology of their cognitive impairment. For the personal utility arm of the study, a subset of these patients (n=34), and their care partners (n=31), were interviewed post-biomarker result disclosure about the decision process around testing, impact of receiving results, wellness and lifestyle changes, and future planning. A majority of patients (90%) rated their decision to undergo testing as ‘easy’. Post-disclosure, majority (82%) reported overall positive feelings from having greater certainty and the ability to plan ahead, and results spurred them to adopt/continue healthy behaviors such as exercise (84%) and cognitive activities (54%). Care partners expressed relief from having more diagnostic certainty, increased appreciation of future caregiving responsibilities and a desire to connect with support resources. These perspectives of persons with lived experience in dementia provide new insight into the value of biomarker testing and should be included as part of evidence-guided considerations for pre-test counseling and result disclosure. Moreover, study findings identify an interval when patients and care partners are highly receptive to positive lifestyle and medical interventions.
In My Backyard - archive
Creators: name: GonzÃ¡Lez, Esteban
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The project aims to understand and map the use of pesticides and fertilizers and sustainable alternative practices in the context of home farming and gardening. Simultaneously, it aims to disseminate information on the topic with the final aim of reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
description: Research Object in rohub2020: https://w3id.org/ro-id/2c64f81e-c24e-4fcc-a3fc-06d3773061f0
In My Backyard - archive
Creators: name: GonzÃ¡Lez, Esteban
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The project aims to understand and map the use of pesticides and fertilizers and sustainable alternative practices in the context of home farming and gardening. Simultaneously, it aims to disseminate information on the topic with the final aim of reducing the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
description: Research Object in rohub2020: https://w3id.org/ro-id/d5559bd3-596c-414d-ad64-6fb1b9796a1c
Additional file 1 of Cardiovascular implications and physical activity in middle-aged and older adults with a history of COVID-19 (CV COVID): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Rahman, Mushidur
name: Russell, Sophie L.
name: Okwose, Nduka C.
name: Hood, Olivia M. A.
name: Harwood, Amy E.
name: McGregor, Gordon
name: Raleigh, Stuart M.
name: Sandhu, Hardip
name: Roden, Laura C.
name: Maddock, Helen
name: Banerjee, Prithwish
name: Jakovljevic, Djordje G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Clinical trials registration information.
MOESM1 of Adverse effects of endometriosis on pregnancy: a case-control study
Creators: name: Miura, Mayo
name: Ushida, Takafumi
name: Imai, Kenji
name: Wang, Jingwen
name: Moriyama, Yoshinori
name: Nakano-Kobayashi, Tomoko
name: Osuka, Satoko
name: Kikkawa, Fumitaka
name: Kotani, Tomomi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Univariate and Multivariate Analysis of Risk Factors associated with Postpartum Hemorrhage. Table S2. Maternal Outcomes in the Surgical treatment and Non-surgical treatment groups. Table S3. Neonatal Outcomes in the Surgical treatment and Non-surgical treatment groups.
Convergent evolution of cytoskeletal traits in the intestinal parasites (Myzozoa, Platyproteum) of peanut worms
Creators: name: Currie-Olsen, Danja
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The Myzozoa is a monophyletic group of primarily single-celled eukaryotes that have adopted diverse modes of nutrition, such as vampire-like predation, photoautotrophy and parasitism. Most myzozoans fall into two major subgroups, dinoflagellates and apicomplexans, but several lineages fall outside of these groups, such as predatory colpodellids and parasitic squirmids. In this study, the 3-dimensional cytoskeletal organization of a squirmid lineage, namely Platyproteum vivax, was investigated with confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). Platyproteum inhabits the intestines of Pacific peanut worms (Phascolosoma agassizii) and has traits that are similar to other distantly related lineages of intestinal parasites within the Myzozoa called ‘gregarine apicomplexans’ (i.e., Selenidium), such as conspicuous feeding stages, called "trophozoites", capable of dynamic undulations via a system of longitudinal microtubules. More detailed characterizations of these traits will refine inferences about convergent evolution in the intestinal parasites of marine invertebrates. For instance, SEM and CLSM micrographs of P. vivax revealed the presence of an inconspicuous flagellar apparatus and a uniform array of longitudinal microtubules organized in bundles (LMBs). Extreme flattening of the trophozoites and a consistent orientation of the anterior end provided a reliable way to distinguish the dorsal and ventral surfaces. CLSM data also revealed a novel system of microtubules oriented in the flattened dorsoventral plane. Most of these ‘dorsoventral microtubule bundles’ (DVMBs) had a punctate distribution in dorsoventral view and were evenly spaced along a curved line spanning the longitudinal axis of the trophozoites. This configuration of microtubules is novel amongst myzozoans and is inferred to function in maintaining the flattened shape and potentially facilitate dynamic undulations via microtubule sliding. Overall, this study revealed novel traits in the trophozoites of Platyproteum, such as a flagellar apparatus and a system of DVMBs, that are consistent with phylogenomic data showing that this lineage of intestinal parasites is only distantly related to Selenidium and other marine gregarine apicomplexans. Therefore, similarities in the trophozoites of Platyproteum and Selenidium, such as relatively large trophozoites capable of dynamic undulations and uniform arrays of superficial microtubules, reflect convergent evolution within the intestines of marine invertebrates.
title: Constraints to a full adoption of renewable energy: An empirical assessment.
Creators: name: Minato, F
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Renewable energy technologies are becoming increasingly important due to uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources worldwide, by human beings, to sustain the current lifestyle. Renewable energy technologies development and acceptance is key to keep the current technological evolutionary pace with responsible use of natural resources. This work is based on identification and test of constraints that have been retaining the acceptance process of renewable energy technologies in Brazil and testing these in organizational environment. For this purpose, the researcher has based its work on behavioural theory i.e. the theory of reasoned action (TRA) (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975), and theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985). With these in mind, the researcher has adopted the technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis, 1985) and integrated some extensions to it regarding environmental attitude. The environmental view was considered based on the new environmental paradigm (NEP) (Dunlap and Van Liere, 1978) and the ecologically conscious consumer behaviour model (ECCB) (Roberts, 1996). This research has adopted a mixed methodology using quantitative research and action research via learning sets, gathering data from the environment, referred to technological and environmental challenges identified by the society and using this data as information to an organization so that it could learn and develop new strategies that will help increasing sales of renewable energy technologies' based products. On the quantitative phase of this research, 132 Brazilian citizens living in the south and southeast area of Brazil, with an income not lower than 9 minimum wages, owning graduation degree, responded the quantitative questionnaire. The data collected was analysed using factor analysis and multiple regression which provided information for the Action Research phase, when the organization that participated used learning sets, conducted by the researcher, with a group of sales managers that analysed, debated, developed and applied ideas based on the data of the quantitative questionnaire, aiming the increase of sales of renewable energy technologies' products. The results found consider the constraints of technological acceptance by usefulness or ease of use not high, but greatest challenges lies on price levels and environmental attitude. By looking at these constraints during the learning sets, the organization managed to develop new working strategies for increasing sales of renewable energy technologies' products, such as working with the government for funding and help on price reduction levels and increasing user's environmental knowledge of the importance and benefits that renewable energy technologies' products can bring not only to their businesses but to society.
Additional file 1 of TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions
Creators: name: Shaw, Sara E.
name: Paparini, Sara
name: Murdoch, Jamie
name: Green, Judith
name: Greenhalgh, Trisha
name: Hanckel, Benjamin
name: James, Hannah M.
name: Petticrew, Mark
name: Wood, Gary W.
name: Papoutsi, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Example question from Round 2 of the Delphi process.
Additional file 2 of TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions
Creators: name: Shaw, Sara E.
name: Paparini, Sara
name: Murdoch, Jamie
name: Green, Judith
name: Greenhalgh, Trisha
name: Hanckel, Benjamin
name: James, Hannah M.
name: Petticrew, Mark
name: Wood, Gary W.
name: Papoutsi, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Results from Triple C Delphi Panel, Rounds 1-3.
title: HITTING THE TARGET BUT MISSING THE POINT: MERSEYSIDE POLICE’S RESPONSE TO THE BRM SATISFACTION GAP
Creators: name: Pantak, N
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: The study is an evaluation of how Merseyside Police attempted to narrow the Black and Racial Minority (BRM) satisfaction gap, as measured by the Home Office performance indicator. The research considers the sense with which both police officers and, more importantly, victims made of the policies and processes used. It asks whether this activity resulted in an improvement to the service being provided, therefore benefitting the victim, or in the construction of performance data thereby benefitting the organisation. The research was undertaken between 2011 and 2015 and completed as a case study. It involved the views of those people within Merseyside Police who were responsible for the design and implementation of policy along, with some of those responsible for delivering the service to the public. The research also includes the narrative of victims who had taken part in Merseyside Police’s monthly victim satisfaction survey. The BRM satisfaction gap was initially proposed by the Macpherson Report, which had examined the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence. It was one of ten performance indicators intending to monitor and assess whether trust and confidence in the police was improving within BRM communities. Previous research had identified factors other than the quality of police contact as influencing a person’s level of satisfaction. However, this research shows how the BRM satisfaction gap was treated as a single subject by Merseyside Police, who chose to focus purely on service delivery to improve victim satisfaction. Warnings regarding statistical relevance of the BRM satisfaction gap, along with concerns as to whether the victim satisfaction survey was fit for purpose, were ignored in their efforts to ensure the performance indicator was on target. The research highlights how New Public Management (NPM) principles of performance management were used to produce organisational focus and develop a system which closely tracked the service provided to BRM victims by individual officers. However, it shows that although it resulted in a good knowledge amongst senior officers, this was not embedded amongst those delivering the service. Instead, reporting officers developed their own working practices to deliver Merseyside Police’s required ‘Gold Service’ to BRM victims, whilst many victims remained confused and frustrated with the service provided. Merseyside Police did statistically narrow the BRM satisfaction gap. However, the research highlights the influence of performance construction and questions whether the recorded improvement in performance was as result of an improved service or was manufactured by gaming techniques. Although the BRM satisfaction gap was intended to measure trust and confidence, the research concludes this was never a consideration for Merseyside Police who, instead, focussed their efforts on improving their performance indicator.
Additional file 3 of TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions
Creators: name: Shaw, Sara E.
name: Paparini, Sara
name: Murdoch, Jamie
name: Green, Judith
name: Greenhalgh, Trisha
name: Hanckel, Benjamin
name: James, Hannah M.
name: Petticrew, Mark
name: Wood, Gary W.
name: Papoutsi, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Suggested materials put forward by panel members to support case study evaluations and the role of context in complex interventions.
title: Higher order corrections for precision observables
Creators: name: Cerdà Sevilla, M
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2018

description: Higher order corrections are a fundamental ingredient for the analysis of physical ob- servables. They are essential to improve the precision of theory predictions within the Standard Model which then lead to an increased sensitivity of these observables to physics beyond the Standard Model. In this thesis we compute higher order QCD corrections to the effective Lagrangian for weak decays. We combine previous results for the Next-to-Next-to-Leading order in the five-flavour theory with new matching calculations. This allows us to determine the effective Lagrangian in the four- and in the three-flavour theory for current-current and QCD penguin operators. We discuss explicitly the relevant steps required for a proper matching calculation, in particular the cancellation of the ultra-violet and infra-red divergences. We also introduce a new formalism that leads to scale and scheme independent intermediate results. Moreover the scheme change for the electroweak penguin operators at the Next-to-Leading or- der is calculated, and the one-loop and two-loop anomalous dimensions for a general number of flavours in the modern basis is presented for the first time in this thesis. In addition we present an updated QCD×QED running. Here a detailed discussion is provided to explain the problem with the singularities when the eigenvalues of the anomalous dimension matrix differ by a factor $2\beta_{00}^s$. Finally we apply the result to the theory prediction of the CP-conserving hadronic kaon decays, and the $\varepsilon^\prime/\varepsilon$ observable, reducing the perturbative uncertainty by a factor 0.12 at NNLO level.
title: Once Upon a Time There Was Far Transfer
Creators: name: Sala, G
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: The last two decades have seen the rise of cognitive-training research. Strong claims have been made. Roaring refutations have been published. Then again counter-evidence supporting the effectiveness of cognitive training has been produced. Definite conclusions are far from being drawn. Undoubtedly, due to the potential theoretical and practical implications, the idea of enhancing cognitive function and, hence, a broad range of other real-life skills by training is appealing. However, this idea is at variance with substantial research into the psychology of expertise showing that performance in specific tasks relies massively on perceptual information. In fact, such information is hardly transferable across different domains. To solve these discrepancies, I ran a series of meta-analytic models to examine the effects of several types of cognitive training (i.e., chess, music, working memory, video-game, and exergame training) on cognitive and academic skills in different types of populations. None of the five types of cognitive training exerted any meaningful effect on any non-trained skill. While confirming the previous findings of the research on expertise, these results convincingly reject the cognitive-training hypothesis. The lack of generalization across different domains of skills acquired by training appears to be a constant in human cognition. The program of research of cognitive training has failed. Transfer of skills across loosely related domains remains a chimera.
Behavioural ecology and distribution of Pacific salmon in a fjord estuary of the Salish Sea
Creators: name: Lingard, Stephanie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Evaluations of habitat use and the functions of specific habitats in an organism’s life history can help identify potential survival bottlenecks and guide the development of habitat-based conservation measures. Using acoustic telemetry, I investigated the effect of biological and environmental factors on the residence of sub-yearling Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha in a fjord estuary in British Columbia. Wild Chinook Salmon (n=49; 67-95 mm) were experimentally released into the estuary of which 36 exited successfully. The median residence duration for the fish I released was 11.2 days (95% CI 6.5 -15.5). Using model selection and time-to-event analysis, I found tide direction and salinity to be important factors influencing when fish left the estuary. While in the estuary, fish displayed either direct or indirect migration patterns. Binomial generalized linear models were used to evaluate the association between intrinsic factors and the probability of a fish making direct movements. In this analysis, faster freshwater growth increased the probability of a fish making direct movements out of the estuary. This study indicates this estuary to be a stop-over habitat for larger sub-yearlings. The results of this study also suggest migration phenology and habitat use are both partially shaped by intrinsic factors in sub-yearling Chinook Salmon. In a second experiment, I modelled the spatial distribution of juvenile salmon (O. kisutch, O. keta, O. tshawytscha) and flatfish (Platichthys stellatus) in a fjord estuary as a function of habitat conditions. Fish were captured bi-weekly in channel and beach habitats (n=20) at the North end of Howe Sound. A spatial generalized linear model (sdmTMB) was used to elucidate associations between catch and habitat factors. Both environmental and structural habitat factors were included as predictors. I found most associations between catch and the variables included in the analysis to be weak. The results of the two studies in this thesis indicate environmental conditions to have weak and uncertain effects on the residence duration and distribution of juvenile salmon in the fjord estuary studied, which suggests juvenile salmon are able to exploit a range of habitats and tolerate variable environmental conditions.
Additional file 4 of TRIPLE C reporting principles for case study evaluations of the role of context in complex interventions
Creators: name: Shaw, Sara E.
name: Paparini, Sara
name: Murdoch, Jamie
name: Green, Judith
name: Greenhalgh, Trisha
name: Hanckel, Benjamin
name: James, Hannah M.
name: Petticrew, Mark
name: Wood, Gary W.
name: Papoutsi, Chrysanthi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Qualitative comments during the Delphi process.
Additional file 1 of Peripheral precocious puberty in Li–Fraumeni syndrome: a case report and literature review of pure androgen-secreting adrenocortical tumors
Creators: name: Ryckx, Sofie
name: De Schepper, Jean
name: Giron, Philippe
name: Maes, Ken
name: Vaeyens, Freya
name: Wilgenhof, Kaat
name: Lefesvre, Pierre
name: Ernst, Caroline
name: Vanderlinden, Kim
name: Klink, Daniel
name: Hes, Frederik
name: Vanbesien, Jesse
name: Gies, Inge
name: Staels, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of 165 analyzed cancer-related genes.
title: Characterisation of the Damage of Bituminous Materials Prepared with Warm Mix Asphalt Additives
Creators: name: Sadeq, M
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Warm mix asphalt (WMA) is a relatively new technology that allows asphalt mixtures to be mixed and compacted at lower temperatures than the conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA). Previous WMA investigations have predominantly been limited to basic performance indicators and properties, especially in the Middle East region. Implementing the WMA technology in the asphalt pavement industry in the State of Qatar requires investigation of material properties and performance under the prevailing climatic conditions in the country. This study provides a fundamental material evaluation of WMA material damage using advanced testing and analysis approaches. The results led to a conceptual understanding of the impact of WMA additives on asphalt materials’ performance. It was found that Sasobit is the most effective WMA additive, as it increases the material’s (bitumen and mastic) stiffness, enhances resistance to rutting, and causes a reduction in the ageing effect on fatigue. The study also evaluated the impact of ageing on WMA material damage. Fine Aggregate Mix (FAM) samples were placed in an accelerated weathering machine that was controlled to simulate the climatic condition in Qatar (UV light and heat). The samples showed significant changes after ageing in the weathering instrument. The aged FAM samples were then subjected to repeated creep and recovery testing and the performance of the material at different ageing levels was studied. The results showed that the Sasobit mix had the highest ability to recover damage induced during the loading period. The results showed a high correlation between the recovery modulus of the material and the reduced damage captured during the unloading. In order to further characterise damage, air void sizes in the asphalt mixture before and after adopting the repeated creep and recovery test were examined by scanning them using the X-Ray CT system. The air voids of the control mix (without any WMA additives) iii showed a remarkable change after the repeated creep and recovery test; however, all WMA samples had lower air void sizes and minor changes after testing. The CT imaging also confirmed that ageing using the UV light has an insignificant impact on air void changing before and after the repeated loading test. The results confirmed the benefits of implementing the WMA technology in the asphalt industry in the State of Qatar. This is particularly the case for Sasobit, which showed significant improvement in the performance testing results in comparison with the control mix and other WMA additives.
MOESM1 of Immunoglobulin somatic hypermutation has clinical impact in DLBCL and potential implications for immune checkpoint blockade and neoantigen-based immunotherapies
Creators: name: Xu-Monette, Zijun
name: Li, Jianyong
name: Xia, Yi
name: Crossley, Beryl
name: Bremel, Robert
name: Miao, Yi
name: Xiao, Min
name: Snyder, Thomas
name: Manyam, Ganiraju
name: Tan, Xiaohong
name: Zhang, Hongwei
name: Visco, Carlo
name: Tzankov, Alexandar
name: Dybkaer, Karen
name: Bhagat, Govind
name: Tam, Wayne
name: You, Hua
name: Hsi, Eric
name: Krieken, J.
name: Huh, Jooryung
name: Ponzoni, Maurilio
name: Ferreri, Andrés
name: Møller, Michael
name: Piris, Miguel
name: Winter, Jane
name: Medeiros, Jeffrey
name: Xu, Bing
name: Li, Yong
name: Kirsch, Ilan
name: Young, Ken
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1.. Construction and clinical outcome of the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cohort. Fig. S2. Diagram showing numbers of cases in this mutation study that have been characterized by various biomarker studies, and survival rates of patients whose sequencing results were correlated with prognosis. Fig. S3. CONSORT flow diagram illustrating the number of cases performed for high-throughput IG sequencing and clonal sequence analysis. Fig. S4. Molecular characterization for immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) gene usage in the study cohort. Fig. S5. Immunoglobulin heavy chain V gene (IGHV) somatic hypermutation (SHM) analysis. Fig. S6. Analysis for length of heavy chain CDR3. Fig. S7. Prediction of MHC-binding peptides and frequency of T-cell exposed motifs (TCEM) for immunoglobulin diagnostic sequences in the training set and validation set. (a) Regional distribution of relatively rare neoantigens derived from heavy chain and light chain immunoglobulin genes in DLBCL patients in the training set (top) and validation set (bottom). (b) Cases with high degree of heavy chain or light chain IGV SHM compared with cases without had higher frequency of relatively rare TCEM in the training (left) and validation sets (right). (c) In ABC-DLBCL, high IGV SHM was associated with lower tissue cellularity of CD4+ T cells. Fig. S8. Moleclar analysis for immunoglobulin heavy chain ongoing SHM and light chain SHM. Fig. S9. Immunoglobulin light chain SHM and CDR3 analysis. Fig S10. Comparison between different subsets of DLBCL. Fig S11. Light chain IGK/LV ongoing SHM analysis.
Evaluation of various carbon cloth as biomass support media for bioaugmentation of anaerobic digestion of municipal sludge
Creators: name: Kumar, Vikas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Municipal wastewater sludge disposal is a growing global environmental issue due to high concentrations organic pollutants and pathogens. Anaerobic digestion is a widely adopted process for treating municipal sludge and producing biogas as renewable energy. However, the complex structure of sludge and the difficulties retaining slow-growing archaea in bioreactors, leads to low organic conversion efficiency and lower biogas yield in anaerobic digestion. To address these issues, the present research develops a side-stream incubator reactor system that grows a dense population of syntrophic bacteria and archaea, with attention to microbial syntrophy. The research is divided into three main parts: developing a high-performance activated carbon cloth that retains beneficial cultures; a novel incubator using carbon cloth; and an effective bioaugmentation strategy to transfer microbial cultures from the incubator to a Control reactor (conventional digester, baseline scenario). To synthesize high-performance activated carbon cloth, two methods were implemented: a two-step activation process (acid pretreatment and air calcination at 525 ± 25°C), and metal-impregnation of carbon cloth that incorporated nickel and/or iron nanometals. Although metal impregnation enhanced the electrical conductivity however reduced the surface area for microbial attachment. The activated carbon cloth had a 435-times larger pore size area than the commercial carbon cloth, leading to improved microbial colonization and methane production rates in preliminary biochemical methane potential assays. Next, the activated carbon cloth braided ropes were used in a continuous-flow incubator reactor, with a packing density of 1.48 g activated carbon cloth/g volatile solids of substrate, determined from the preliminary assays. The developed incubator system produced a continuous supply of active microbial culture for bioaugmentation of the Control for process improvement. Finally, two bioaugmentation strategies, pellet bioaugmentation and liquid bioaugmentation, were tested to transfer microbial cultures from the incubator system to the Control digester. Pellet bioaugmentation outperformed the liquid bioaugmentation with 33 and 88% daily biogas increases at digester hydraulic retention times of 20 and 10, respectively, with a 2% higher methane compared to the Control reactor. Also, the pellet bioaugmentation strategy enhanced the Control digester's resilience to stress induced at higher organic loads and can be retrofitted to existing wastewater treatment plants.