cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The experiences of caregivers whose children access dental care under the Healthy Kids Dental Program
Creators: name: Melanson, Sharon Louise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Objectives: The intent of publicly financed dental insurance programs is to provide to children in deprived circumstances the coverage they need to remove the financial barrier to obtaining dental treatment. Recent research has revealed that publicly financed programs available to adults have failed to overcome financial barriers to dental care for many, yet surprisingly there has been no research on this issue regarding access to treatment for children. Assessing how well publicly financed dental programs are meeting the needs of children is a significant gap in the literature and this study was undertaken in an attempt to begin to fill that gap. This study is limited to the Healthy Kids Dental Program of British Columbia. Methods: Qualitative description was the method used for this study. Little is known about this issue of children accessing dental care under publicly financed dental programs, therefore this research was exploratory. Because the research was intended to uncover the range of experiences for a specific population, the sampling technique was purposeful and sought maximum variation. Data collection was via 16 semi-structured interviews, primarily from residents in the North and Central Okanagan (14), and two from the Kootenay Boundary area. The data were analyzed using the method of content analysis. This research sought to describe phenomena by uncovering the voice of those affected through stories of their experiences. Results: The Healthy Kids Dental Program did work very well for some families. Parents greatly appreciated the financial help that was provided. However, over half of participants interviewed did not have the financial help they needed from the program to obtain dental care. The results show that for many people the publicly financed dental program for children in BC is not doing what it was developed to do, i.e., help parents overcome financial barriers to obtaining dental treatment for their children. Conclusion: The Healthy Kids Dental Program is valued, the program is serving some participants well but failing others, and there exists a discrepancy between what the dentist bills and what the government funds. This is creating financial barriers to dental care that some families cannot overcome.
Leveraging the Advances in Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology for Point-Of- Care Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
Creators: name: Toppings, Noah B
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Diagnostics
subject: RT-LAMP
subject: LAMP
subject: NAAT
subject: Nucleic acid amplification test
subject: Loop-mediated isothermal amplification
subject: test
subject: pandemic
subject: Health Sciences--General
subject: Biology--Microbiology
subject: Biology--Virology

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has put immense pressure on diagnostic testing infrastructure. The widely accepted reference standard laboratory testing method for COVID-19 is reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR). While highly sensitive and specific, RT-PCR tests suffer from their high cost, slow speed, and requirements for specialized instruments and technical expertise. In the community, rapid antigen tests are widely used due to their low cost, rapid speed, and ease of use. However, rapid antigen tests are hindered by their low sensitivity. The goal of this project was to help fill the gap that exists between RT-PCR tests and rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 in terms of cost, sensitivity, specificity, speed, and ease of use. To this end, two RT-LAMP tests for COVID-19 were developed. The key difference between the two tests lies in their extraction methods: one test used a silica column-based extraction method (saliva dry-LAMP) while the other test used heat-inactivated samples (direct dry-LAMP). Direct dry-LAMP was developed to improve on the shortcomings of saliva dry-LAMP. Saliva dry-LAMP was validated to near regulatory standards, while the focus was more on method optimization for the direct dry-LAMP test. For each test, a self-contained portable testing platform was developed to perform all steps of the test. The heat inactivation method in the direct dry-LAMP workflow enabled performance improvements in the areas of speed, simplicity, and sensitivity. However, this project was only moderately successful as marginal cost improvements over similar tests were not achieved. Both testing methods could be easily and quickly adapted to test for other respiratory viruses in the event of a pandemic.
A fully covariant mean-field dynamo closure for numerical 3+1 resistive GRMHD
Creators: name: Bucciantini, N.
name: Del Zanna, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The powerful high-energy phenomena typically encountered in astrophysics invariably involve physical engines, like neutron stars and black hole accretion disks, characterized by a combination of highly magnetized plasmas, strong gravitational fields, and relativistic motions. In recent years numerical schemes for General Relativistic MHD (GRMHD) have been developed to model the multidimensional dynamics of such systems, including the possibility of an evolving spacetime. Such schemes have been also extended beyond the ideal limit including the effects of resistivity, in an attempt to model dissipative physical processes acting on small scales (sub-grid effects) over the global dynamics. Along the same lines, magnetic fields could be amplified by the presence of turbulent dynamo processes, as often invoked to explain the high values of magnetization required in accretion disks and neutron stars. Here we present, for the first time, a further extension to include the possibility of a mean-field dynamo action within the framework of numerical 3+1 (resistive) GRMHD. A fully covariant dynamo closure is proposed, in analogy with the classical theory, assuming a simple alpha-effect in the comoving frame. Its implementation into a finite-difference scheme for GRMHD in dynamical spacetimes [the X-ECHO code: (Bucciantini and Del Zanna 2011)] is described, and a set of numerical test is presented and compared with analytical solutions wherever possible.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Bob Flanagan, quand les performances d’un supermasochist exorcisent la mort
Creators: name: Bouguet, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: art; body; death; body art

description: Since the end of the last century, we’ve noticed in our western society an uneasiness regarding the mention of death. Whereas some mystical dimension allowed man to give death a meaning, the Hegelian-Nietzschean prophecy of the death of God made this impossible. Indeed, knowing that the promise of a Kingdom of Heaven was not assured any more, man prefered to obscure the death that haunted him. Despite the difficulty to face this ontological condition, we can see that the subject of death is more and more present on the contemporary artistic scene. The body which is central in relation to this problematic becomes for the artist the material through which death exorcizes and declines itself. However, from Body Art achievements to the exhibition of corpses, we can see that the experiment of death only seems possible through the treatment of the body as a martyr. If Body Art protagonists seem to find in it their model to experiment the human being in the limits of their own bodies and thus comprehend death, there are others for whom it’s the diagnosed death that is shaping the relationship to their own bodies. That’s the case with Bob Flanagan. Doomed since childhood by cystic fibrosis, we will see how this artist, by the detour of borderline achievements with a masochistic tendency and ritualised on a setting of Christianity, will redefine his relationship to the body experience and through this manage to exorcize the idea of an impending death.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Resilience, Sustainability, and Social Justice Panel Resource Document
Creators: name: Ivy, Julie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: climate
subject: climate change
subject: resilience
subject: community engagement
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?q=subject.term%3A%22Climate+Change%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?q=subject.term%3A%22climate+change%22

description: The resource document summarizes the Resilience, Sustainability, and Social Justice Panel and outlines the questions posed during the panel and the online resources that were shared. Panelists: Angela Harris, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering Zakiya Leggett, Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources Jennifer Runkle, Research Scholar, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies Mary Watzin, Professor, College of Natural Resources
The Star-Forming Galaxy Contribution to the Cosmic MeV and GeV Gamma-Ray Background
Creators: name: Lacki, Brian C.
name: Horiuchi, Shunsaku
name: Beacom, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While star-forming galaxies could be major contributors to the cosmic GeV $γ$-ray background, they are expected to be MeV-dim because of the "pion bump" falling off below ~100 MeV. However, there are very few observations of galaxies in the MeV range, and other emission processes could be present. We investigate the MeV background from star-forming galaxies by running one-zone models of cosmic ray populations, including Inverse Compton and bremsstrahlung, as well as nuclear lines (including $^{26}$Al), emission from core-collapse supernovae, and positron annihilation emission, in addition to the pionic emission. We use the Milky Way and M82 as templates of normal and starburst galaxies, and compare our models to radio and GeV--TeV $γ$-ray data. We find that (1) higher gas densities in high-z normal galaxies lead to a strong pion bump, (2) starbursts may have significant MeV emission if their magnetic field strengths are low, and (3) cascades can contribute to the MeV emission of starbursts if they emit mainly hadronic $γ$-rays. Our fiducial model predicts that most of the unresolved GeV background is from star-forming galaxies, but this prediction is uncertain by an order of magnitude. About ~2% of the claimed 1 MeV background is diffuse emission from star-forming galaxies; we place a firm upper limit of
description: Published in ApJ, 27 pages, emulateapj format. Readers may be interested in the concurrent paper by Chakraborty and Fields (arXiv:1206.0770), a calculation of the Inverse Compton background from star-forming galaxies
Superluminal neutrino, flavor, and relativity
Creators: name: Klinkhamer, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modified neutrino dispersion relations, which still obey the relativity principle, can have both a superluminal (muon-type) neutrino and a luminal (electron-type) neutrino, as long as neutrino-mass effects can be neglected. The idea is to allow for flavor-dependent deformed Lorentz transformations and an appropriate hierarchy of energy scales. If OPERA's result on a superluminal velocity of the muon-neutrino is confirmed, the model has a matching superluminal velocity of the corresponding charged lepton, the muon, at equal particle energy. Assuming that this model is not already ruled out, new TeV-scale effects in the muon sector are predicted. Also discussed is a different model with a superluminal sterile neutrino propagating in the usual 4 spacetime dimensions.
description: 8 pages, v7: published version
Natural Hazards and Disasters Resilient Design Panel Resource Document
Creators: name: Smith, Gavin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: climate
subject: climate change
subject: resilience
subject: community engagement
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?q=subject.term%3A%22Climate+Change%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?q=subject.term%3A%22climate+change%22

description: The resource document summarizes the Natural Hazards and Disasters Resilient Design Panel and outlines the questions posed during the panel and the online resources that were shared. Panelists: Mohammed Gabr, Professor, College of Engineering Natalie Nelson, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Andy Fox, Professor, College of Design
Sex based comparison of in-vivo knee cartilage compression properties
Creators: name: Smith, Parker M
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Cartilage
subject: In-vivo
subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative cartilage disease characterized by degradation of articular cartilage. Changes in tissue mechanical performance (deformation, strain, and stiffness) could present sensitive measures for early detection of OA. This study employed a novel methodology for the in-vivo measurement of tibiofemoral cartilage deformation, strain, and stiffness by combining estimates of joint contact forces with cartilage deformation data generated from dual fluoroscopy (DF), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. This study further aimed to advance understanding of changes in cartilage mechanical performance between human sexes, as females exhibit a higher prevalence of OA. Two groups of young, healthy participants (10 male and 10 female) were tested to determine median cartilage deformation, strain, and stiffness over a 10-minute static loading trial. Sample sizes were reduced in determining metrics for specific outcome variables if unexplained, physiologically impossible data was observed. The male group (n=6) femoral deformation at one minute of loading median (Interquartile Range) was -0.53 (-0.81/-0.35) mm with female (n=6) as -0.33 (-0.44/-0.22) mm. Mann-Whitney U tests determined the male group displayed significantly more deformation in the femur lateral (U=4.5, p=0.026, a=0.05, eta^2= 0.626), tibia lateral (U=1.0, p=0.004, a=0.05,eta^2= 0.786), and tibia medial (U=5.5, p=0.041, a=0.05,eta^2= 0.579) compartments. These contain large effect sizes (>0.5, Cohen’s criteria) meaning a large relationship between groups. The male femoral strain at one minute of loading was -23.2 (-36.6/-17.3) % with female as -13.7 (-22.5/-9.8) %. Statistical significance (U=2.0, p=0.009, a=0.05,eta^2= 0.740), was found for the tibia lateral compartment of the male group displaying more strain. The male (n=10) tibiofemoral joint contact force at one minute of loading was 2.9 (2.8/3.1) times Body Weight (xBW) with female (n=10) as 3.1 (2.7/3.2) xBW. The male (n=6) femoral stiffness at one minute of loading was 4010 (2259/6088) N/mm with female as 5673 (3786/8313) N/mm. This research is the first to combine compartmental tibiofemoral joint contact force estimates with in-vivo deformation estimates to perform a sex-based comparison of healthy cartilage mechanical properties. Information from these results can contribute to the insights in in-vivo cartilage mechanical behaviour to potentially detect early OA and monitor its progression.
Writing In-between Life and Death: Contemplation as Death Ritual in Michael Ondaatje's "Death at Kataragama"
Creators: name: Kohn, Liberty
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: poetics, spirituality, Ondaatje, literacy, orality, colonialism

description: Michael Ondaatje's collection of poetry, Handwriting, uses writing as a metaphor for Sri Lanka's pre-alphabetic, multi-modal forms of writing, thought, and culture. A prose poem in the collection, "Death at Kataragama," presents a speaker contemplating death. Kataragama, both a god and city, both a metaphysical space and a physical place, defines a struggle between a self created in a space of identification with the physical/metaphysical conflict. In the poem, it is the contemplation of cultural hybridity that provides a spirituality or metaphysic, that drives the poem's speaker to write, and that prepares the speaker for death. The speaker in the poem finds that it is contemplation of multiplicity and cultural longing and belonging, not the attempt or inability to recover cultural belonging, that provides meaning to the death ritual.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Modulation of habituation kinetics and behavioural shifts by members of the heterotrimeric G-protein signaling pathways
Creators: name: McEwan, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Despite its apparent simplicity, the soil-dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has a surprisingly large capacity to learn and remember. Previous characterization of C. elegans genome and neuronal circuit makes this worm an ideal choice for studying behavior and the mechanisms that underlie it. Through careful behavioral and genetic studies, nematodes have been shown to form many different types of memory, including short-term non-associative memory called habituation. Habituation is the defined as the decrement in response after repeated, irrelevant stimuli. In the first part of this thesis, detailed analyses showed that as one response type, reversals, decreased other responses, accelerations, decelerations and pauses became more prevalent. An earlier large-scale screen of mutant strains of C.elegans showed that several genes related to heterotrimeric G-protein family of signaling pathways exhibited striking defects in habituation. To follow-up on those findings, in the second part of my thesis I investigated the role of heterotrimeric G-protein signaling pathway and showed that Gαi and Gαq signaling pathways share a broad role regulating habituation whereas the Gαs pathway modulates the rate of habituation. The analyses of all the behaviours nematodes preform in response to habituation training showed that heterotrimeric G-protein signaling pathways play a role in regulating the shift in behaviour during habituation training. Together these data add to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying habituation of the tap response in C. elegans.
Agency and Otherness in Teresa Margolles’ Aesthetic of Death
Creators: name: Banwell, Julia
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: spectatorship; agency; otherness; ethics; death; eroticism

description: Teresa Margolles (b. 1963) is Mexico's foremost proponent of corpse art. Her work meditates upon her obsessions with the dead body and the processes that occur after death, and shows death as a direct result of violence. Employing a range of techniques of representation, Margolles implicates the spectator into potentially uncomfortably close contemplation of the artwork, sometimes through direct physical contact with the raw materials used in its creation. She transgresses the boundaries between the interior and the exterior of the body, and between life and death, occupying an artistic space where the minimalist and internationally accessible language of conceptual art interacts with her method of commenting upon a specifically Mexican set of circumstances, at times disguising unsettling realities behind deceptively subtle artistic techniques of representation. Drawing on theories of spectatorship and the problematics of looking at death, this essay will explore aspects of agency, eroticism and otherness in examples of Margolles' artwork, also paying attention to the question of ethics. The bodies and body parts the artist places at the centre of her works, witness the unsettlingly direct relation between violence enacted upon the body, and its result, death. The removal of these physical entities from social space leaves behind traces and residues that now, by means of the artist's intervention, metonymically evidence their former lives and erase the distance between dead and living bodies.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Additional file 3 of Combination therapy of BCR-ABL-positive B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia by tyrosine kinase inhibitor dasatinib and c-JUN N-terminal kinase inhibition
Creators: name: Xiao, Xinhua
name: Liu, Ping
name: Li, Donghe
name: Xia, Zhizhou
name: Wang, Peihong
name: Zhang, Xiuli
name: Liu, Mingzhu
name: Liao, Lujian
name: Jiao, Bo
name: Ren, Ruibao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. The effect of dasatinib on CML cell line and primary Ph+ B-ALL cells. Figure S2. Preparation of mouse BCR-ABL+ B-ALL cells and KiNativ profiling of dasatinib and imatinib. Figure S3. Dasatinib and JNK inhibitor suppress c-MYC expression synergistically in Ph+ B-ALL cells.
A Curated Life
Creators: name: Kemick, Richard K
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Suburbs
subject: Calgary
subject: Urban
subject: Communications And The Arts
subject: Journalism
subject: Language, Literature, And Linguistics
subject: Literature

description: This dissertation is composed of two sections: the first section, titled “A Curated Life,” is a collection of creative nonfiction essays that explore the cultural, political, and idealogical ramifications that growing up in suburbia had on my youth and continues to have on my adulthood; the second section, titled “(De)Centering Suburban Mythologies in Contemporary Canada,” is an exegesis in which I evaluate my creative writing through a lens of literary theory and criticism. In relation to the dissertation’s first section, I wanted to write a collection of creative non-fiction essays set in North American suburbs because I believe there is a dearth of like material currently found within contemporary Canadian literature. This dearth is made even more concerning by the fact that contemporary Canadians now overwhelmingly reside within the suburbs. In some small way, I hope this dissertation begins to address this lack of literature set within the suburbs. In the second section, I adjust the scope of the dissertation to not only evaluate the how the relationship between the suburbs and myself appears within these essays. I deemed this topic to be important because by not analyzing the stories that we tell about the suburbs it will remain difficult if not impossible to fully understand the effects these communities have on our sense of community, each other, and ourselves; ultimately, it will be impossible to understand the places we construct and the places that construct us. _x000C_
Multiple Lorentz groups - a toy model for superluminal muon neutrinos
Creators: name: Schreck, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article an idea is presented, which allows for the explanation of superluminal muon neutrinos. It is based on the introduction of a new superluminal, massless gauge boson coupling to the neutrino only, but not to other standard model particles. The model is discussed with regard to the Supernova 1987 (SN 1987) velocity bound on electron antineutrinos and the Cohen-Glashow constraint on superluminal neutrino propagation. The latter can be circumvented if - within the framework of the model - a sterile neutrino mixing with the active neutrino mass eigenstates is introduced. The suggestion of a sterile neutrino accounting for superluminal neutrinos has already been proposed in several papers. It is possible to choose mixing angles with the sterile neutrino sector such that the model respects both the SN 1987 bound and the muon neutrino travels superluminally.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Natural Hazards and Disasters Resilient Design Panel
Creators: name: Gabr, Mo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: climate
subject: climate change
subject: resilience
subject: community engagement
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22Climate%20Change%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22climate%20change%22

description: Gabr, Distinguished Professor from the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering North Carolina State University, was a panelist on the Natural Hazards and Disasters Resilient Design Panel and summarized resilient engineering design, and research challenges for natural hazards.
Desde el lado de la muerte: ficción y finitud en la poesía de Jaime Gil de Biedma, Alfonso Costafreda y José Ángel Valente
Creators: name: Fernández Castillo, José Luis
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: poesía española; Gil de Biedma; Valente; Costafreda; finitud; prolepsis; muerte; España; Siglo XX

description: In his famous work The Rhetoric of temporality, Paul de Man alluded to William Wordsworth as «one of the few poets who can write prolectically about his own death and speak, as it were, from beyond their own graves». My paper explores this kind of prolectic writing about death: cases in which authors write about themselves as if they were already dead. I analyze texts of three major poets of the second half of the 20th Century: Jaime Gil de Biedma, José Ángel Valente and Alfonso Costafreda -members of the so called Generación del 50 in Spanish Poetry. My aim is to think about the philosophical implications of these fictional attempts of writing about death confronted to Heidegger's remark about the impossibility of experiencing one's death. This article contributes to clarify how experience of death in Late Modern Poetry is related to a more lucid approach to finitude once all kind of eschatological or metaphysical projections have entered a deep crisis.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Use of Antimicrobial Peptides in Control of Mannheimia haemolytica that Cause Bovine Respiratory Disease
Creators: name: Bao, Ruina
Publisher: name: Veterinary Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: antimicrobial resistance
subject: antimicrobial peptide
subject: bovine respiratory disease
subject: Biological Sciences

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cattle raised in North America. Upon arrival to the feedlot, cattle are often subject to metaphylactic treatment with macrolides to prevent bacterial cases of BRD, a practice that may promote antimicrobial resistance in BRD bacteria, impairing drug efficacy. Mannheimia haemolytica is one of the major bacterial causative agents of BRD. Emerging resistance to first line antibiotics has resulted in an urgent need for novel strategies to control members of the BRD bacterial complex. The inhibitory effect of two amphipathic, ?-helical (PRW4, WRL3) and one ?-sheet (WK2) antimicrobial peptides was evaluated against multidrug-resistant (MDR) M. haemolytica isolated from Alberta feedlots. Isolates were also screened for biofilm forming ability using crystal violet staining. WK2 was determined to not be cytotoxic against bovine turbinate cells by the MTT (3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay. All three peptides inhibited M. haemolytica, with WK2, being the most efficacious against multiple isolates. The most robust biofilm former, Mh 330, was cocultured on bovine turbinate cells (BT) to assess the bactericidal activity of WK2. At 8-16 µg/mL, WK2 was bactericidal against Mh 330 in broth and at 32 µg/mL in the presence of BT cells, reducing the population by 3 logs CFU/mL without causing cytotoxic effects. To determine the inhibitory mechanism of the peptide, membrane integrity of Mh 330 was examined using NPN (1-N-phenylnaphthylamine), and ONPG (o-Nitrophenyl ?-D-galactopyranoside) with both the inner and outer membranes being compromised. Thus, WK2 may be a viable alternative to the use of macrolides to control M. haemolytica as part of a BRD prevention and treatment strategies.
Il cinema di Pasolini e la morte: tra complesso della mummia e sindrome di Frankenstein
Creators: name: Subini, Tomaso
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: Pasolini; Bazin; religione; morte; performance

description: Cinema's ability to defeat death by stopping the run of time is written inside its own statute. Confiding on this capacity, Pasolini devotes his filmic work to the theme of death (interrogated through Christ's myth) and elaborates a linguistic theory (strictly linked to the performative aspects of his artistic work) to give an explanation of death through a filmic metaphor.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Is there a need for sub-specialist pregnancy clinics for women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? The imapct of attendance at and geographic variation in access to the dedicated IBD pregnancy clinics in Alberta, Canada
Creators: name: Lee, Sangmin
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Health Services Research
subject: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
subject: Sub-specialty prenatal care
subject: sub-specialty pregnancy clinics
subject: access to health care
subject: propensity score analysis
subject: geospatial analysis
subject: location-allocation analysis
subject: Health Sciences--Epidemiology

description: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is commonly diagnosed during the childbearing years.1,2 Women with IBD have increased risks of adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes, and these risks are increased with active disease at conception, as this doubles the risk of disease relapse during pregnancy.3–6 Suboptimal knowledge and misperceptions on the impact of IBD on pregnancy may result in poor decision making, resulting in worsening of outcomes.7–9 Preconception counselling from dedicated IBD pregnancy clinics have been shown to increase IBD-specific pregnancy knowledge and improve IBD management during pregnancy.10,11Using five population-based administrative health care databases linked by unique maternal and neonatal identification numbers in Alberta, we found that approximately 30% of pregnant women with IBD attended a dedicated IBD pregnancy clinic. Women were more likely to attend if they resided in close vicinity to the first established clinic, were nulliparous, had a disease flare prior to pregnancy, and were on any maintenance IBD medications. Propensity score weights were used to adjust for baseline covariates and evaluate the impact of attendance on IBD-specific, pregnancy, and infant outcomes. Despite increased odds of active disease and IBD-related emergency department (ED) visits during pregnancy in women who attended the clinic compared to women who did not attend, there was no difference in postpartum disease activity or IBD-related ED visit on clinic attendance and infants born to mothers who attended had better health status at birth. Increased risk of scheduled caesarean delivery in women who attended the clinic may reflect the complex phenotype of women requiring sub-specialty care.Using geospatial analyses, we identified geographic disparities in maternal characteristics, adverse pregnancy outcomes, attendance at an IBD pregnancy clinic, the proportion of reproductive-aged women with IBD living in a given area, and local geographic access to gastroenterologists or obstetricians/gynecologists. Location-allocation analysis identified three potential locations for satellite IBD pregnancy clinics in the North and South Alberta Health Services (AHS) Zones to decrease travelling time for reproductive-aged women with IBD. Further work, however, is needed to identify the most optimal health care delivery model (e.g., telemedicine) with limited health care resources in these geographic regions.
WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE CUTOFF POINT DETERMINATION FOR DEFINING METABOLIC SYNDROME AMONG TYPE II DIABETIC MELLITUS PATIENTS AT AYDER COMPREHENSIVE SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL, MEKELLE UNIVERSITY, TIGRAY REGION, NORTHERN ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Hailemariam, Shewit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: No abstract available for this resource
Path(o)s of Mourning. Memory, Death and the Invisible Body in Derek Jarman’s Blue
Creators: name: Vallorani, Nicoletta
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: Derek Jarman, AIDS, Blue, path, pathos, Stonewall, GRID, political resistance

description: The essay addresses two quite complex issues. The first one is the virulence of the hostility toward  gay men that the AIDS pandemic has released: this is the backdrop against which Jarman's extended elaboration and mourning for his own death  is performed, after his diagnosis as body-positive in 1986. The second issue  links to the open question of public mourning and its relation to AIDS in the early 90s, when the AIDS epidemic is not at its height, but it is certainly more visible than before, and many artists register the impact of the new sensibility this medical and social emergency actually moulds.  Considering a specific time span (the 90s) and  focusing mostly on cinema a strategic, privileged arena where gay cultures resist to social and cultural sanctions, this work elaborates on how AIDS as a deathly social and cultural destiny has suggested strategies of mournings that introduce new artistic practices. The analysis is specifically focused on Derek Jarman's last works, culminating in the film Blue (1993).
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Modulation of Voluntary Behaviour and Responses to Mechanical Perturbations Reflect the Accuracy Demands of Upper Limb Reaching
Creators: name: Poscente, Sophia V
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Motor Control
subject: Stretch Reflexes
subject: Optimal Feedback Control
subject: Mechanical Perturbations
subject: Accuracy Demands
subject: Biology--Neuroscience

description: Humans move in environments with changing accuracy and time demands throughout daily life and in sport. We can readily change our actions to match the demands of a task. Studies have examined the way we plan and prepare voluntary movements so that our actions can match features of a task. We also interact with environments where our movements may be disturbed, such as playing soccer against a defender. Separate studies have used external disturbances to examine flexible, task-dependent changes in sensory processing. Recent theoretical perspectives have suggested that there is an explicit link between the way we perform voluntary actions and how we process sensory feedback. Theory also suggests that we change the way we control our movements in a way that minimizes the consequences of potential errors. However, we do not know how behaviour is tuned to match accuracy constraints under strict time demands, and when there is a potential for actions to be perturbed. Here, we performed two experiments to examine how the nervous system controls upper limb reaching movements with changing accuracy demands and the potential to be disturbed. In Experiment 1, we found that participants reduced the variability of their movements and increased their muscle activity when reaching to small targets. In Experiment 2, participants displayed a reduction in movement variability, while increasing the peak velocity and muscle activity associated with reaching to small targets. When disturbed by the same mechanical perturbations, participants generated larger muscle responses and a reduction in evoked arm motion while reaching to small targets. Overall, our results suggest that participants modify their behaviour to minimize the potential consequences of errors when reaching to small targets. Comparing across Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that participants increased the vigour of their movements when reaching in the presence of perturbations in Experiment 2, but otherwise displayed similar unperturbed reaching behaviour to participants in Experiment 1. Taken together, our results suggest that voluntary actions are modulated to reflect the accuracy demands and potential to be disturbed while performing upper limb reaching movements.
Hierarchical Nature of the Quantum Hall Effects
Creators: name: Bonderson, Parsa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I demonstrate that the wavefunction for a nu = n+ tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with Landau levels 0,1,...,n-1 filled and a filling fraction tilde{nu} quantum Hall state with 0 < tilde{nu} \leq 1 in the nth Landau level can be obtained hierarchically from the nu = n state by introducing quasielectrons which are then projected into the (conjugate of the) tilde{nu} state. In particular, the tilde{nu}=1 case produces the filled Landau level wavefunctions hierarchically, thus establishing the hierarchical nature of the integer quantum Hall states. It follows that the composite fermion description of fractional quantum Hall states fits within the hierarchy theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect. I also demonstrate this directly by generating the composite fermion ground-state wavefunctions via application of the hierarchy construction to fractional quantum Hall states, starting from the nu=1/m Laughlin states.
description: 4 pages + 2 pages of supplementary material; v2: minor modifications and supplementary material added
АНАТОМИЯ ПЕЧЕНИ. ЦИРРОЗ ПЕЧЕНИ
Creators: name: Туранова Махлиё Курбанова студент Ташкентский государственный стоматологический  институт (ТГСИ) Министерство здравоохранения Республики Узбекистан г.Ташкент
name: Научный руководитель:Хайдарова Барно Исраилжановна Старший преподаватель кафедры анатомии Ташкентский государственный стоматологический институт (ТГСИ) Министерство здравоохранения республики Узбекистан г.Ташкент
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Печень, гепар, представляет собой объемный железистый орган (весит около 1500 г). Функция печени разнообразна. Это большая пищеварительная железа, которая вырабатывает в основном желчь и попадает в двенадцатиперстную кишку через выводной проток. (Эта связь между железой и кишечником объясняется развитием эпителия передней деки, в котором расположена часть двенадцатиперстной кишки develops.It выполняет барьерную функцию: токсические продукты белкового обмена, поступающие в печень с кровью, нейтрализуются в печени; Кроме того, эндотелиальные капилляры печени и звездчатые ретикулоэндотелиальные клетки обладают фагоцитарными свойствами (гист октябрьская система лимфоцитов), которые важны для нейтрализации всасываемых веществ в кишечнике.
“Tutti loro erano persone vere”. Il problema della rappresentazione dell’AIDS nella poesia di Hezy Leskly
Creators: name: Ferrari, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: Hezy Leskly; AIDS; representation; art; reality

description: The aim of this lecture is to explore the question of representing AIDS in the poetry of Hezy Leskly, namely in the book, Sotim yekarim, "Dear perverts", his fourth and last collection which has been published after his death in 1994. Contrarily to what one could have expected, representations of AIDS and references to this disease are almost totally absent from the book, except in the last poem, Yitzkhak. Nevertheless, although Hezy Leskly explicitly writes on the subject only once, AIDS, or better, the malaise generated by AIDS epidemic, permeates the whole book being an integral part of Leskly's poetic discourse.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Do Transition Metal Substitutions Dope Carriers in Iron Based Superconductors?
Creators: name: Berlijn, Tom
name: Lin, Chia-Hui
name: Garber, William
name: Ku, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the currently debated issue concerning whether transition metal substitutions dope carriers in iron based superconductors. From first-principles calculations of the configuration-averaged spectral function of BaFe$_2$As$_2$ with disordered Co/Zn substitutions of Fe, important doping effects are found beyond merely changing the carrier density. While the chemical potential shifts suggest doping of a large amount of carriers, a reduction of the coherent carrier density is found due to the loss of spectral weight. Therefore, none of the change in the Fermi surface, density of states, or charge distribution can be solely used for counting doped coherent carriers, let alone presenting the full effects of the disordered substitutions. Our study highlights the necessity of including disorder effects in the studies of doped materials in general.
Migrants in a Small Chinese City: Lifestyle, Entrepreneurialism, and the Politics of Interstitiality
Creators: name: Zhao, Yawei
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geography

description: In light of the escalating interest in the linkages between migration and urbanization, this dissertation looks at the influx of migrants in a small Chinese city and explores its implications as it relates to the smallness of the city. First, this dissertation provides alternative accounts of China’s internal migration and its household registration (hukou) system and supplies empirical evidence on the urbanization of small cities. This dissertation also touches upon spatial practices, rural-urban configurations, and local-central dynamics that are manifest in, and reshaped by, migrants’ activities. Moreover, this dissertation explores how lifestyle migrants have played into the hand of the market in the neoliberal age, when the economic ambitions of business entities and the local state coalesced into a city-marketing process that intends to transform a city that focuses on tourism into a destination for second-home ownership. How, in this process, new experiencescapes have been created along with new forms of inequality and exclusion is then investigated. Finally, this dissertation examines what I have called ‘the politics of interstitiality’ with respect to the (in)formalization of entrepreneurial activities in tourism and highlights how ‘state entrepreneurialism’ unfolds in a geographically remote small city, where there is constant negotiation and tension between different levels of governments. Overall, this dissertation reveals how lifestyle migration, tourism entrepreneurship, and informal economy have intersected in a small city, an under-researched topic in migration and urban studies.
Corpses of Metaphor. Images of Death in David Leavitt and Jamaica Kincaid
Creators: name: Iuliano, Fiorenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2010
Subjects: AIDS literature; corpse; David Leavitt; Jamaica Kincaid

description: This essay analyzes two works, My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid, and "Saturn Street" by David Leavitt, investigating the construction of homosexuality as a process accomplished by resorting to illness (AIDS) and death. In both works, indeed, the slow and dramatic course of AIDS amounts to the progressive unveiling of homosexuality as a social threat or a cause of anxiety and repulsion.
The two works are set in different contexts: whereas Jamaica Kincaid refers to the problematic situation of homosexuality in the Caribbean, David Leavitt explores the social and cultural scenario of the 1990s Los Angeles, in the wake of a by now ended utopian confidence in science and technology.  This comparative approach helps us understand the political dynamics through which, in different and, to some extents, opposite realities, the social stigma of AIDS worked as a means to construct homosexual identity and set it apart from the sanitized spectrum of normal and sanctioned sexual behaviors. The point I want to make in this essay is that the corpse is used as an effective metaphor for a dehumanized depiction of male homosexual and ill subjects.
description: Altre Modernità, No 4 (2010): La morte e i suoi riti nella cultura contemporanea
Fiction e identità narrativa
Creators: name: Talamo, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Nell’articolo si compie una ricognizione dei principali indirizzi di teoria del romanzo che leggono questo genere narrativo come forma della vita interiore svelata. Confrontando queste teorie con il concetto di “identità narrativa” sviluppato da Ricœur, si propone un’idea originale di analisi delle vite interiori narrate nella fiction, a partire dalla definizione auerbachiana di “realismo moderno” come tentativo di avvicinarsi alla realtà oggettiva tramite “molte impressioni soggettive avute da molte persone”.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 6 (2012)
Relativistic Mean-Field Treatment of Pulsar Kick from Neutrino Propagation in Magnetized Proto-Neutron
Creators: name: Maruyama, Tomoyuki
name: Yasutake, Nobutoshi
name: Cheoun, Myung-Ki
name: Hidaka, Jun
name: Mathews, Toshitaka Kajino. Grant. J.
name: Ryu, Chung-Yeol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make a perturbative calculation of neutrino scattering and absorption in hot and dense hyperonic neutron-star matter in the presence of a strong magnetic Field. We calculate that the absorption cross-sections in a fully relativistic mean-field theory. We find that there is a remarkable angular dependence, i.e. the neutrino absorption strength is reduced in a direction parallel to the magnetic Field and enhanced in the opposite direction. This asymmetry in the neutrino absorption is estimated to be as much as 2.2 % of the entire neutrino momentum for an interior magnetic Field of 2 x 10^{17} G. The pulsar kick velocities associated with this asymmetry are shown to be comparable to observed velocities.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1009.0976
1 Alemu WG, et al . BMJ Open 2018; 8 :e021157. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021157 Open access Prevalence and associated factors of khat chewing among students in Ethiopia: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wondale Getinet Alemu, Tadele Amare Zeleke
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

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