cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Online Appendix for Article: Migrant health inequalities or unequal measurements?
Creators: name: XXX
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository contains all codes used to for the analysis in the article. The data preparation file (Stata) requires a series of data sets from the German Socioeconomic Panel (which cannot be published privately and have to be ordered from the institution) ; the names of the data sets are documented in the readme file. 

 

For reproducing the analysis: 

data_preparation_file : Do fie in stata to produce the working data set "meqdat_long.dta"

Script 1 : Measurement Invariance Tests 

Script 2: MI Test + Latent Means 

Script 3: Outputs : Fit measure table and figures

Script 4: Robustness Check with Threshold Invariance Test 

Script 5: Fit measure table and figures from Robustness Check Script 4

Script 6: Robustness Check (Only Model 5) with MLR estimator
Detailed Chemical Abundances of Cepheids Based on Near-Infrared Spectra
Creators: name: Elgueta S., Scarlet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cepheids
Spectroscopy
Near - Infrared
Abundances

description: In this thesis, we report a high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of Cepheids in our Galaxy observed in the near-infrared Y J bands (0.96–1.35 µm) using the WINERED spectrograph (R= λ/∆λ =28000). We aim to establish a method to derive accurate and precise stellar parameters, Teff and log g, as well as chemical abundances of several elements based on Y J-band spectra.
Χαρτογράφηση και ποιοτική αποτίμηση των επιδημιολογικών μοντέλων για COVID-19: Μια ανασκόπηση συστηματικών ανασκοπήσεων
Creators: name: Παπαδημητρίου, Ναταλία Εμμανουήλ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Πανδημία COVID-19
Συστηματική Ανασκόπηση
Μαθηματικά Επιδημιολογικά Μοντέλα
Επιδημιολογικά Χαρακτηριστικά
COVID19 Pandemic
Systematic Review
Mathematical Epidemiological Models
Epidemiological Characteristics

description: Η πανδημία της COVID-19, που εμφανίστηκε κατά το τέλος του 2019 στην Κίνα και εξαπλώθηκε ραγδαία από τον Φεβρουάριο του 2020 και μετά, είχε τεράστιο αντίκτυπο παγκοσμίως. Ο αριθμός των νοσούντων αλλά και οι απώλειες σε ανθρώπινες ζωές έκαναν επιτακτική την ανάγκη λήψης αποφάσεων που θα οδηγούσαν άμεσα στον περιορισμό και την εν δυνάμει καταστολή της εξάπλωσης του ιού. Σημαντικό ρόλο σ’ αυτό έπαιξε η άρτια εκτίμηση των επιδημιολογικών χαρακτηριστικών του, όπως ο βασικός αναπαραγωγικός αριθμός και ο χρόνος επώασης ή εμφάνισης συμπτωμάτων. Τα τελευταία χρόνια, τα μαθηματικά επιδημιολογικά μοντέλα αποτελούν ολοένα και ισχυρότερο εργαλείο στην πρόβλεψη των επιδημιών και στην εκτίμηση των χαρακτηριστικών τους. Στην πανδημία της COVID-19, η ακαδημαϊκή κοινότητα συνεργάστηκε ως προς τη διαχείριση των διαθέσιμων δεδομένων και τη χρήση των μοντέλων αυτών. Η παρούσα εργασία αποτελεί μία ανασκόπηση των συστηματικών ανασκοπήσεων, οι οποίες μελέτησαν και επεξεργάστηκαν πρωτογενείς έρευνες επιδημιολογικών δεικτών της COVID-19 με τη χρήση μαθηματικών μοντέλων, με στόχο την εκτίμηση τους σε τοπικό και παγκόσμιο επίπεδο. Τα κύρια ερευνητικά ερωτήματα που καλείται να απαντήσει είναι ποια χαρακτηριστικά μελετήθηκαν περισσότερο από τις έρευνες, με ποια μαθηματικά μοντέλα και τι εκτιμήσεις έγιναν για τα χαρακτηριστικά αυτά.
description: The COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in late 2019 in China and spread rapidly from February 2020 onwards, has had a huge impact worldwide. The number of sick people as well as the loss of human lives made it imperative to take decisions that would lead directly to limiting and potentially suppressing the spread of the virus. An important role in this was played by the accurate assessment of its epidemiological characteristics, such as the basic reproductive number and the time of incubation or appearance of symptoms. In recent years, mathematical epidemiological models have become an increasingly powerful tool in predicting epidemics and estimating their characteristics. In the COVID-19 pandemic, the academic community has collaborated on the management of available data and the use of these models. This paper is a review of systematic reviews, which studied and processed primary research of epidemiological indicators of COVID-19 using mathematical models, with the aim of estimating them at the local and global level. The main research questions it is asked to answer are which characteristics were studied more by the researches, with which mathematical models and what estimates were made for these characteristics.
Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Cosmology
Creators: name: Kleban, Matthew
name: Senatore, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology, the topology of the universe determines its ultimate fate. If the Weak Energy Condition is satisfied, open and flat universes must expand forever, while closed cosmologies can recollapse to a Big Crunch. A similar statement holds for homogeneous but anisotropic (Bianchi) universes. Here, we prove that $arbitrarily$ inhomogeneous and anisotropic cosmologies with "flat" (including toroidal) and "open" (including compact hyperbolic) spatial topology that are initially expanding must continue to expand forever at least in some region at a rate bounded from below by a positive number, despite the presence of arbitrarily large density fluctuations and/or the formation of black holes. Because the set of 3-manifold topologies is countable, a single integer determines the ultimate fate of the universe, and, in a specific sense, most 3-manifolds are "flat" or "open". Our result has important implications for inflation: if there is a positive cosmological constant (or suitable inflationary potential) and initial conditions for the inflaton, cosmologies with "flat" or "open" topology must expand forever in some region at least as fast as de Sitter space, and are therefore very likely to begin inflationary expansion eventually, regardless of the scale of the inflationary energy or the spectrum and amplitude of initial inhomogeneities and gravitational waves. Our result is also significant for numerical general relativity, which often makes use of periodic (toroidal) boundary conditions.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. v2: Important reference and minor clarifications added, v3: added appendix with extended explanations, JCAP published version
A homology valued invariant for trivalent fatgraph spines
Creators: name: Kuno, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F34, 32G15, 57N05

description: We introduce an invariant for trivalent fatgraph spines of a once bordered surface, which takes values in the first homology of the surface. This invariant is the secondary object coming from two 1-cocycles on the dual fatgraph complex, one introduced by Morita and Penner in 2008, and the other by Penner, Turaev, and the author in 2013. We present an explicit formula for this invariant and investigate its properties. We also show that the mod 2 reduction of the invariant is the difference of naturally defined two spin structures on the surface.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
Ιερά Μονή Ζωοδόχου Πηγής Πόρου: Ιστορία και πολιτισμός. Η Μονή ως κέντρο θρησκευτικού και προσκυνηματικού τουρισμού στον Πόρο
Creators: name: Ροποτού, Ελένη Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ιερά Μονή
Πόρος
Ζωοδόχος Πηγή
Holy Monastery
Poros
Life-Giving Spring

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως στόχο να αναδείξει την καθοριστική συμβολή της Ιεράς Μονής Ζωοδόχου Πηγής Πόρου στην ιστορία και τον πολιτισμό του νησιού ως θρησκευτικό και προσκυνηματικό κέντρο. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο, παρουσιάζεται μια σύντομη ιστορική αναδρομή του νησιού μέσα από ιστορικά και περιηγητικά κείμενα. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο, συνιστά μια εκτενή παρουσίαση της Ιεράς Μονής μέσα από ιστορικά γεγονότα και εξέχουσες προσωπικότητες που συνδέθηκαν με αυτή, όπως ο Άγιος Ιερομάρτυρας Γρηγόριος Ε΄ Πατριάρχης Κων/πόλεως, ο Κυβερνήτης Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας και ο Άγιος Νεκτάριος επίσκοπος Πενταπόλεως. Ακόμη, περιέχει ένα σύγχρονο προσκυνητάριο της Ιεράς Μονής Ζωοδόχου Πηγής Πόρου. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο, γίνεται μια πρώτη επίσημη δημοσίευση των ήδη υπάρχουσων καταγραφών των θησαυρών της Ιεράς Μονής και των συμπερασμάτων που εξάγονται από αυτή. Το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο, αποτελεί μια περιήγηση στα πιο σπουδαία ιστορικά και πολιτιστικά μνημεία του Πόρου. Στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο, εξάγονται συμπεράσματα και προτείνονται ιδέες ανάδειξης της Ιεράς Μονής Ζωοδόχου Πηγής Πόρου ως θρησκευτικό και προσκυνηματικό κέντρο.
description: This thesis aims to highlight the crucial contribution of the Holy Monastery of the Life-giving Spring in Poros to the history and culture of the island as a religious and pilgrimage center. In the first chapter, a brief historical overview of the island is presented through historical and touristic texts. The second chapter constitutes an extensive presentation of the Holy Monastery through historical events and prominent personalities connected with it such as the Holy Martyr Gregory V Patriarch of Constantinople, the Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias and the Saint Nektarios bishop of Pentapolis. It also contains a modern pilgrimage of the Holy Monastery of Life-giving Spring in Poros. In the third chapter, a first official publication is made of the existing records of the treasures of the Holy Monastery and of the conclusions drawn from it. The fourth chapter is a tour of the most important historical and cultural monuments of Poros. In the fifth chapter, conclusions are drawn and ideas are proposed for the promotion of the Holy Monastery of Life-giving Spring in Poros as a religious and pilgrimage center.
Interactive distance learning in post-doctoral orthodontic education
Creators: name: Klein, Katherine Pennington
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: A series of research projects at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (UNC) have been dedicated to determining the best way to provide distance education to graduate orthodontic programs. Data from early studies by Bednar and Miller et al, determined the most effective and acceptable method for distance learning in post-graduate orthodontic programs was a "blended" experience. This blended approach combines self-preparation through reading assigned articles, watching a recording of an actual interactive seminar on a designated website, and follow up discussion with faculty (either live or distant). In 2008, a grant from the American Association of Orthodontists made it possible to open this experience to all 63 programs in the United States. This master's thesis consists of two papers: Paper I evaluates the utilization and acceptability of interactive distance learning for orthodontic residents; Paper II investigates problems with interactive distance learning in post-doctoral education and identifies potential solutions.
FDM-HAWK: Forschungsdatenmanagement an Thüringer HAW - Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze
Creators: name: Boelter, Sarah
name: Meyer, Romy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement
Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften
Fachhochschulen
FDM an HAW
FDM
Forschungsdaten

description: Folien zum Vortrag "FDM-HAWK: Forschungsdatenmanagement an Thüringer HAW - Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze" im Rahmen der 5. Thüringer FDM-Tage vom 20.-21. Juni 2023, ausgerichtet vom Thüringer Kompetenznetzwerk Forschungsdatenmanagement (TKFDM). Links zu allen weiteren Materialien finden sie auf der Webseite des TKFDM: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html Die Aufzeichnung dieses Vortrags finden Sie hier: https://youtu.be/3GqBMP7dx7o ------------------------------------------ English: Slides of the presentation "FDM-HAWK: Forschungsdatenmanagement an Thüringer HAW - Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze" as part of the 5th Thuringian RDM Days from June 20-21, 2023, hosted by the Thuringian Competence Network Research Data Management (TKFDM). Links to all other materials can be found on the TKFDM website: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html The recording of the presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/3GqBMP7dx7o
SARS-CoV-2 meta-interactome suggests disease-specific, autoimmune pathophysiologies and therapeutic targets: extended data
Creators: name: Bellucci, Gianmarco
name: Ballerini, Chiara
name: Mechelli, Rosella
name: Bigi, Rachele
name: Rinaldi, Virginia
name: Reniè, Roberta
name: Buscarinu, Maria
name: Baranzini, Sergio
name: Madireddy, Lohith
name: Matarese, Giuseppe
name: Salvetti, Marco
name: Ristori, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Here we host extended data of a bionformatical analysis of SARS-CoV-2 and other virus-host interaction networks suggesting autoimmune and comorbidity-dependent mechanisms implicated in severe COVID-19, and a network-based drug repuroposing screening.
title: Investor and Assuror perspectives on materiality for sustainability reporting: An exploratory case study of Nigeria's oil and gas industry
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Nnodim, Osai Simeon
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2022

description: This thesis utilises the materiality concept of accounting to investigate institutional investor and assuror practitioner perspectives on sustainability reporting in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. The outcome of this investigation is expected to provide some insight into the prospects of success for the Nigerian financial sector’s drive to normalise sustainability reporting. For this purpose, a qualitative case study research was undertaken, which involved interviews of investors in decision making roles and auditors with social and/or environmental audit experience, and the content and narrative analyses of oil company sustainability disclosures.

The main findings of this thesis indicate that the materiality decision for social and environmental issues is arrived at by considering the impacts on and of the company, the interests of influential stakeholder groups, and the unique socio-cultural attitudes of the region. The perspectives of both investor and assuror stakeholder groups are positively associated, implying that this decision model is likely to hold for both groups. Evidence was found suggesting that institutional forces are driving investor and assuror understandings of corporate sustainability, and that investors are unaware of their power to influence sustainability reporting adoption. Evidence was also found that investors have a culture of secrecy. It was also found that oil company narratives are structured in a manner that manages impressions and reduces reputation risk.

Additionally, there are suggestions from the data that an information needs gap exists between the oil companies that prepare sustainability reports and the investors and assurors that use them. This disconnect implies that the normalisation of sustainability reporting in Nigeria is a work in progress that is untenable in the short term.
Planar carbon nanotube-graphene hybrid films for high-performance broadband photodetectors
Creators: name: Liu, Yuanda
name: Wang, Fengqiu
name: Wang, Xiaomu
name: Wang, Xizhang
name: Flahaut, Emmanuel
name: Liu, Xiaolong
name: Li, Yao
name: Wang, Xinran
name: Xu, Yongbing
name: Shi, Yi
name: Zhang, Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene has emerged as a promising material for photonic applications fuelled by its superior electronic and optical properties. However, the photoresponsivity is limited by the low absorption cross section and ultrafast recombination rates of photoexcited carriers. Here we demonstrate a photoconductive gain of $\sim$ 10$^5$ electrons per photon in a carbon nanotube-graphene one dimensional-two dimensional hybrid due to efficient photocarriers generation and transport within the nanostructure. A broadband photodetector (covering 400 nm to 1550 nm) based on such hybrid films is fabricated with a high photoresponsivity of more than 100 AW$^{-1}$ and a fast response time of approximately 100 μs. The combination of ultra-broad bandwidth, high responsivities and fast operating speeds affords new opportunities for facile and scalable fabrication of all-carbon optoelectronic devices.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
Emotionally Motivated Behavior and Personality Among Women with Bulimia Nervosa
Creators: name: Brownstone, Lisa May
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: The current study examines ways in which personality may account for frequency and variability of emotionally motivated behaviors among individuals with subthreshold and threshold bulimia nervosa (BN). Personality subtyping studies have consistently recognized categories of over-restricted and dysregulated subtypes of BN. Rather than conceptualizing personality categorically, the current study aims to see how the continuous personality variables of inhibitedness, impulsivity, and emotion dysregulation may interact to identify frequency and variability of emotionally motivated behaviors in a sample of females with bulimic-type eating disorders. All of the behaviors explored in this study (bulimic and non-bulimic comorbid behaviors) are generally considered maladaptive and related to affect regulation. The sample included 204 females with threshold and subthreshold BN who provided self-report data via questionnaires. Results indicated that there was an interaction between emotion dysregulation and inhibitedness in accounting for frequencies of both hard exercise and laxative use. On its own, emotion dysregulation accounted for a significant amount of variance in two of the dependent variables of interest (frequency of subjective binge eating and variability of non-BN behaviors). Impulsivity was also found to account for a significant amount of variance in two of the dependent variables of interest (frequency of laxative use and variability of non-BN behaviors). Future research should continue to examine correlates and predictors of both frequency and variability of bulimic and non-bulimic emotionally motivated behaviors.
Forschungsdatenmanagement - das auch noch? Was bringt es mir und wie fange ich an.
Creators: name: Kirsch, Stefan
name: Meyer, Romy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement

description: Folien zum Vortrag "Forschungsdatenmanagement - das auch noch? Was bringt es mir und wie fange ich an" im Rahmen der 5. Thüringer FDM-Tage vom 20.-21. Juni 2023, ausgerichtet vom Thüringer Kompetenznetzwerk Forschungsdatenmanagement (TKFDM). Links zu allen weiteren Materialien finden sie auf der Webseite des TKFDM: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html Die Aufzeichnung dieses Vortrags finden Sie hier: https://youtu.be/lRVWhujQ4dg ------------------------------------------ English: Slides of the presentation "Forschungsdatenmanagement - das auch noch? Was bringt es mir und wie fange ich an" as part of the 5th Thuringian RDM Days from June 20-21, 2023, hosted by the Thuringian Competence Network Research Data Management (TKFDM). Links to all other materials can be found on the TKFDM website: https://forschungsdaten-thueringen.de/material-veranstaltungen.html The recording of the presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/lRVWhujQ4dg
Voices 2: prosodic training program in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Codesido, María
name: Caballero, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Our project consists in the evaluation of the aplicability of a rehabilitation online program, called Voices. This program is dedicated to prosodic training in patients with schizophrenia to improve their recognition of basic and complex emotions, resulting, secondarily, in the simultaneous improvement of social cognition and social competencies. Our hypothesis is that participants in this prosodic rehabilitation program have better results in prosodic tests than the ones that participate in a contol group of active placebo treatment. We also want to measure this improvements one month after intervention.
Beliefs and Practices of Traditional Medicine towards Women’s Reproductive Healthcare: Evidences from Wolaytta Zone, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Murugan, Padmanabhan
name: Yared, Paulos
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2018
Subjects: Abortion; Reproductive Health; Traditional Medicine

description: Traditional medicine, a widely used health system, whose use and importance is fast increasing in many parts of the world. In the developing world cultural acceptance and local pharmacopoeias are the determinant factors making people to have strong beliefs towards traditional medicine and to use it extensively for their various healthcare needs. This study focuses on the beliefs and practices of traditional medicine towards women’s reproductive healthcare issues. Although reproductive health problems include many, the main focus of this study is towards women’s reproductive health issues, specifically, on abortion services, birth control/spacing and STDs that mostly require an intervention of a practitioner. The study was conducted in six kebeles of Damot Woydie woreda of Wolaytta zone of Ethiopia. Employing a cross-sectional qualitative research approach data were gathered using in-depth interviews, key-informant interviews and focus group discussions from both married and unmarried women of reproductive age, traditional medical practitioners who are dealing with diagnosing and treating women’s aforesaid reproductive health problems and also health extension workers of the study areas. The study findings reveal that rural women in the study areas have strong beliefs towards traditional medicine as well as the traditional medicine practitioners. People practice traditional medicine because it has stood the test of time, and has ‘won over’ the trust of the rural people. The knowledge of traditional medicines of the practitioners is said to be passed from generation to generation orally, usually from parents to a favorite child i.e., mother to a girl child. The practitioners prepare traditional medicines squeezing or powdering various herbs, leaves and seeds of plants and trees for treating various reproductive health problems of women. Rural women in the study areas do not undermine modern medicine; they believe that modern medicine could deal successfully with various reproductive health problems (except Wulawushshiyaa [Hepatitis B]). Women in the study areas have all the faiths in the practice of traditional medicine and also the services rendered by the traditional medicine practitioners in dealing with their reproductive health problems; this shows the pivotal role played by traditional medicine and also the practitioners in dealing with women’s reproductive health problems.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 8, No 2 (2018)
Sida glomerata Cavanilles 1785
Creators: name: Brandão, José Lourenço
name: Baracho, George Sidney
name: Sales, Margareth Ferreira De
name: Filho, Marcelo Paulino Viegas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Sida
Sida glomerata

description: 8. Sida glomerata Cavanilles (1785: 18) (Figs. 2D – E, 4B). Type:— Jussieu s.n. (holotype, P-JU 12249, as IDC microfiche, photo!).
 Taxonomic notes: — Sida glomerata belongs to Sida sect. Distichifolia (Krapovickas 2003a) because of the following morphological traits: herbs or subshrubs variously pubescent, indumentum with stellate trichomes, more or less abundant and dense, mixed with simple hairs, variable in length up to 2 mm long, and bifurcate, more or less appressed and less frequent hairs; dimorphic stipules 2–15 mm long, lanceolate to oval-lanceolate, falcate, 3–5-nerved, ciliate; leaves elliptic-lanceolate and distichous with upper surface flattened in lateral branches; shorter flowers mostly arranged in glomerular 3–5-flowered cymes in the leaf axils; calyx blackish; and mericarps 5, brownish or blackish, usually short-spinescent.
 Distribution and habitat: — Sida glomerata occurs widely throughout the Caribbean and tropical America (Fryxell 1985), from Costa Rica to Argentina and all Brazilian regions, from Amazonas to Santa Catarina. It also occurs widely in Pernambuco, from Littoral to Caatinga, and in different habitats (mixed secondary forests and associated types, restinga and coastal terraces, dry caatinga vegetation and brejos de altitude), and in ruderal places or wastelands. Grows in small populations.
 Representative specimen: — BRAZIL. Pernambuco. Igarassu, Usina São José, 24 September 2012, fr., J.L. Brandão & L. Lima 283 (PEUFR).
description: Published as part of Brandão, José Lourenço, Baracho, George Sidney, Sales, Margareth Ferreira De & Filho, Marcelo Paulino Viegas, 2017, Synopsis of Sida (Malvaceae, Malvoideae, Malveae) in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, pp. 205-227 in Phytotaxa 307 (3) on page 215, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.307.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13686639
The Temporal Association Between Sleep and Glucose Among Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: Abu Irsheed, Ghada
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Achieving the recommended A1C level (< 7%) is the primary focus of type 1 diabetes (T1D) management and glycemic control. However, approximately 80% of young adults with T1D fail to meet glycemic targets. Sleep is a potential target to improve glycemic control. This study aimed to describe the sleep characteristics (sleep quality, sleep efficiency, sleep duration, sleep regularity, sleep latency, sleep fragmentation, and wake after sleep onset) and glycemic parameters (mean glucose level, glycemic variability, and glycemic control) of the young adult sample and identify between-person associations. In addition, it aimed to identify within-person associations as well as factors modifying glycemic parameter outcomes. This secondary analysis included a sample of 53 young adults with T1D aged between 18 and 40 years, using baseline data from an ongoing randomized controlled trial study. The mean age of this sample was 30.2, primarily female 64.15% and 81.13% White. The mean diabetes duration was 16.3 years with 69.81% using insulin pumps and 88.68% using CGM. Of the 53 participants, 45.28% reported “fairly bad” sleep quality. The median of sleep efficiency was 86.68%, 01:17 hour of mid-sleep time, 10:11 minutes of sleep latency, and 16.82 of sleep fragmentation index. Approximately one-third (30.19%) of the sample had an average wake after sleep onset of ≥40 minutes. Sleep duration and sleep regularity significantly predicted time below range of glucose levels. No significant temporal associations were observed between sleep characteristics and glycemic parameters in the study sample. Self-management behavior was a significant moderator for the association between sleep regularity and time below range, where better self-management behavior decreased the association between the mid-sleep time and time below range. In conclusion, short sleep duration and sleep irregularity were the key sleep characteristics found to be significantly associated with poor glycemic variability among young adults with T1D. The findings of this study emphasize the importance of routine sleep health evaluation for this population. Further research is required to establish causal relationships between sleep characteristics and glycemic parameters while considering potential factors that might contribute to the lack of significant associations observed in the present study among young adults with T1D.
THE ROLE OF IL-29 AND IL-28B IN THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE
Creators: name: Williamson, Megumi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Aims: Chronic periodontitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease induced by dysbiotic biofilm in a susceptible host, resulting in progressive attachment loss, and subsequent alveolar bone loss. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and genome-wide gene centric analysis on periodontal complex traits (PCTs) identified possible associations of IL-29 and IL-28B with periodontal diseases. However, the underlying mechanisms for how these genes contribute to the pathogenesis of periodontitis are largely unknown. The aims of the present study were to explore the role of IL-29 and IL-28B and their gene polymorphisms in the innate immune response by dendritic cells. Materials and methods: To explore the effect of IL-29 on the cytokine production in response to TLR4 stimulation, the IL-29 gene was knocked-down in THP-1 cells using IL-29 shRNA lentiviral particles. Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine levels were measured with Luminex® multiplex assay. To assess the effect of genetic variations in IL-29 and IL-28B, whole blood samples from fifteen subjects (6 subjects with major allele for both IL-29 and IL-28B, 5 subjects for major allele in IL-29 and minor allele in IL-28B, and 4 subjects with minor alleles for both genes) were collected and CD14+/CD16lo PBMCs were isolated to generate DCs. The effect of IL-29 and IL-28B SNPs on TNF-α and IL-10 expression in PBMC-derived dendritic cells were examined in response to stimulation with ligands of TLR1-2, TLR-2, and TLR4 using Luminex multiplex assay. Results: THP-1 cell-derived DCs showed decreased expression of TNF-α and IL-10 in IL-29 gene knockdown DCs, compared to DCs transduced with the scramble shRNA control lentiviral clone. IL-28B expression was decreased in IL-29 knockdown clones, while there was no difference between the scramble and two IL-29 gene knocked-down clones. Based on the evaluated samples, SNPs in IL-29 and IL-28B did not affect the expression levels of IL-10 or TNF-α in PBMC-derived DCs in response to TLR1-2, TLR2, and TLR4 stimulation. Similarly, the expression levels of IL-28A and IL-28B were unaffected by these SNPs. Conclusion:  While the studied SNPs did not show effect on the evaluated cytokines, our results indicate that IL-29 and IL-28B may regulate pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine production in DCs in an autocrine manner.
Inferring synthetic lethal interactions from mutual exclusivity of genetic events in cancer
Creators: name: Srihari, Sriganesh
name: Singla, Jitin
name: Wong, Limsoon
name: Ragan, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92Bxx

description: Background: Synthetic lethality (SL) refers to the genetic interaction between two or more genes where only their co-alteration (e.g. by mutations, amplifications or deletions) results in cell death. In recent years, SL has emerged as an attractive therapeutic strategy against cancer: by targeting the SL partners of altered genes in cancer cells, these cells can be selectively killed while sparing the normal cells. Consequently, a number of studies have attempted prediction of SL interactions in human, a majority by extrapolating SL interactions inferred through large-scale screens in model organisms. However, these predicted SL interactions either do not hold in human cells or do not include genes that are (frequently) altered in human cancers, and are therefore not attractive in the context of cancer therapy. Results: Here, we develop a computational approach to infer SL interactions directly from frequently altered genes in human cancers. It is based on the observation that pairs of genes that are altered in a (significantly) mutually exclusive manner in cancers are likely to constitute lethal combinations. Using genomic copy-number and gene-expression data from four cancers, breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine (total 3980 samples) from The Cancer Genome Atlas, we identify 718 genes that are frequently amplified or upregulated, and are likely to be synthetic lethal with six key DNA-damage response (DDR) genes in these cancers. By comparing with published data on gene essentiality (~16000 genes) from ten DDR-deficient cancer cell lines, we show that our identified genes are enriched among the top quartile of essential genes in these cell lines, implying that our inferred genes are highly likely to be (synthetic) lethal upon knockdown in these cell lines.
description: 35 pages, 7 figures
Experimental temporal quantum steering
Creators: name: Bartkiewicz, Karol
name: Černoch, Antonín
name: Lemr, Karel
name: Miranowicz, Adam
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temporal steering is a form of temporal correlation between the initial and final state of a quantum system. It is a temporal analogue of the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (spatial) steering. We demonstrate, by measuring the photon polarization, that temporal steering allows two parties to verify if they have been interacting with the same particle, even if they have no information about what happened with the particle in between the measurements. This is the first experimental study of temporal steering. We also performed experimental tests, based on the violation of temporal steering inequalities, of the security of two quantum key distribution protocols against individual attacks. Thus, these results can lead to applications for secure quantum communications and quantum engineering.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. Our article arXiv:1503.00612v3 was extended and split into arXiv:1503.00612v4 and this article
Simmel’s Actuality in the Light of Migratory Processes
Creators: name: Golino, Antonella
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2018
Subjects: foreigner, Simmel, integration, society

description: The present paper aims to reflect over the social figure of the foreigner in the light of the current condition of migrants fleeing from countries at war. The analysis is rooted in the thought of Georg Simmel, his conception of society as a set of social relations through which it is possible to know and understand the attitudes and the appearance of society itself.

It traces the author’s thought, who intuited more than a century ago, the dual role of the foreigner to be either a guest/traveller or a citizen of arrival contexts. Their image linked to the concept of a stranger, that of being never completely close, but at the same time an indispensable function, which produces consequences for the construction of social exchanges and relationships.

A reinterpretation of Simmel and its pregnant relevance are the background of such work, aimed at embracing new arguments.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 8, No 2 (2018)
The role of spin-orbit interaction in the ultrafast demagnetization of small iron clusters
Creators: name: Stamenova, Maria
name: Simoni, Jacopo
name: Sanvito, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ultra-fast demagnetization of small iron clusters initiated by an intense optical excitation is studied with time-dependent spin density functional theory (TDSDFT). In particular we investigate the effect of the spin-orbit interaction on the onset of the demagnetization process. It is found that the initial rate of coherent spin loss is proportional to the square of the atomic spin-orbit coupling constant, $λ$. A simplified quantum spin model comprising spin-orbit interaction and a local time-dependent magnetic field is found to be the minimal model able to reproduce our {\it ab initio} results. The model predicts the $λ^2$ dependence of the onset rate of demagnetization when it is solved either numerically or analytically in the linear response limit. Our findings are supported by additional TDSDFT simulations of clusters made of Co and Ni.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Sida glutinosa Commerson ex Cavanilles 1785
Creators: name: Brandão, José Lourenço
name: Baracho, George Sidney
name: Sales, Margareth Ferreira De
name: Filho, Marcelo Paulino Viegas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Sida
Sida glutinosa

description: 9. Sida glutinosa Commerson ex Cavanilles (1785: 16) (Figs. 2F, 4B). Lectotype:— ISLE DE FRANCE. herb. P. Commerson (P-JU 12278 A!, designated by Borssum Waalkes (1966); isolectotypes, MPU 016909!, P 00037083!; isotype, MA 267581!).
 Taxonomic notes: — Sida glutinosa is in Sida subsect. Nelavagae (Baracho & Agra 2016) and is distinguished from all other species by the stems densely viscid with glandular and setose hairs, sometimes with stellate hairs; leaf blades 2–4 × 1–3 cm, symmetric, concolor, oval-cordate; solitary flowers at the axils or in diffuse terminal panicles; calyx 4.5–5.0 mm, not accrescent, densely covered by glandular-viscid hairs and mixed with simple and stellate hairs, sepals obtrullate; corolla 1–2 cm in diameter; petals symmetric, retuse, yellow with or without red center, stamens 12–20, free filaments towards apex; and mericarps 5, apically 2–spined, spines densely covered with antrorse hairs.
 Distribution and habitat: —The circumscription of S. glutinosa with respect to its closest relative, S. glabra Miller (1768: Sida no. 14), has recently been clarified by Baracho & Agra (2016). This species occurs in tropical America, from northwest Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina and Brazil (Krapovickas 2006) where it is found from the Northeast to Central-West and Southeast Regions. It is considered quite rare in the State of Pernambuco. Only a single record was previously reported by Monteiro-Filho (1949) and re-collected in 1996, after a gap of 50 years, in an area of Brejo de Altitude, Mata zone of state. On the other hand, some collections of Sida from herbarium IPA (see Albuquerque 35AJ, Andrade-Lima 8989, Andrade-Lima et al. 9303, Lima et al. 734, and Pereira et al. 874) have been incorrectly assigned to S. glutinosa and this error has been propagated, but there is no doubt that all collections refers to S. ulei Ulbr. (Baracho & Agra 2016).
 Representative specimens: — BRAZIL. Pernambuco. Caruaru, Estação Ecológica de Brejo dos Cavalos, 8º8’00”– 8º10’00” S, 36º2’00”– 36º10’00” W, 750–1000 m, 20 October 1996, fl., fr., G.S. Baracho et al. 223 (UFP).
description: Published as part of Brandão, José Lourenço, Baracho, George Sidney, Sales, Margareth Ferreira De & Filho, Marcelo Paulino Viegas, 2017, Synopsis of Sida (Malvaceae, Malvoideae, Malveae) in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, pp. 205-227 in Phytotaxa 307 (3) on page 215, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.307.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13686639
Habitat complexity and patch choice: spatiotemporal distribution of foraging shorebirds on intertidal sand flats
Creators: name: VanDusen, Beth Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This early-winter study correlated patch- and landscape-level factors with spatial and temporal shorebird foraging patterns on four discrete, yet connected, intertidal sand flats in the New River Inlet, North Carolina, USA. Shorebirds were distributed non-randomly among flats, with major differences in abundance and species composition strongly correlated with the benthic macroinvertebrate community. Sediment characteristics added explanatory power; benthic macroinvertebrate community and sediment composition together explained two thirds of the variation in shorebird community patterns. Influence of landscape characteristics such as area-to-edge ratio of the flat and nature of the surrounding habitat (indicative of varying predation risk) likely contributed to the unexplained variation. Sedimentary influence was exemplified when probing shorebirds avoided a sand flat that contained large amounts of coarse material (gravel, shell). Significantly higher prey (polychaete) densities on this flat suggested that the coarse material acted as a refuge for infaunal prey by deterring probing shorebirds.
Membrane tension feedback on shape and motility of eukaryotic cells
Creators: name: Winkler, Benjamin
name: Aranson, Igor S.
name: Ziebert, Falko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the framework of a phase field model of a single cell crawling on a substrate, we investigate how the properties of the cell membrane affect the shape and motility of the cell. Since the membrane influences the cell dynamics on multiple levels and provides a nontrivial feedback, we consider the following fundamental interactions: (i) the reduction of the actin polymerization rate by membrane tension; (ii) area conservation of the cell's two-dimensional cross-section vs. conservation of its circumference (i.e. membrane inextensibility); and (iii) the contribution from the membrane's bending energy to the shape and integrity of the cell. As in experiments, we investigate two pertinent observables -- the cell's velocity and its aspect ratio. We find that the most important effect is the feedback of membrane tension on the actin polymerization. Bending rigidity has only minor effects, visible mostly in dynamic reshaping events, as exemplified by collisions of the cell with an obstacle.
Meridional rank and bridge number for a class of links
Creators: name: Boileau, Michel
name: Jang, Yeonhee
name: Weidmann, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that links with meridional rank 3 whose 2-fold branched covers are graph manifolds are 3-bridge links. This gives a partial answer to a question by S. Cappell and J. Shaneson on the relation between the bridge numbers and meridional ranks of links. To prove this, we also show that the meridional rank of any satellite knot is at least 4.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
Nanodiamonds carrying quantum emitters with almost lifetime-limited linewidths
Creators: name: Jantzen, Uwe
name: Filipovski, Andrea B.
name: Rudnicki, Daniel S.
name: Schäfermeier, Clemens
name: Jahnke, Kay D.
name: Andersen, Ulrik L.
name: Davydov, Valery A.
name: Agafonov, Viatcheslav N.
name: Kubanek, Alexander
name: Rogers, Lachlan J.
name: Jelezko, Fedor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanodiamonds (NDs) hosting optically active defects are an important technical material for applications in quantum sensing, biological imaging, and quantum optics. The negatively charged silicon vacancy (SiV) defect is known to fluoresce in molecular sized NDs (1 to 6 nm) and its spectral properties depend on the quality of the surrounding host lattice. This defect is therefore a good probe to investigate the material properties of small NDs. Here we report unprecedented narrow optical transitions for SiV colour centers hosted in nanodiamonds produced using a novel high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) technique. The SiV zero-phonon lines were measured to have an inhomogeneous distribution of 1.05 nm at 5 K across a sample of numerous NDs. Individual spectral lines as narrow as 354 MHz were measured for SiV centres in nanodiamonds smaller than 200 nm, which is four times narrower than the best SiV line previously reported for nanodiamonds. Correcting for apparent spectral diffusion yielded a homogeneous linewith of about 200 MHz, which is close to the width limit imposed by the radiative lifetime. These results demonstrate that the direct HPHT synthesis technique is capable of producing nanodiamonds with high crystal lattice quality, which are therefore a valuable technical material.
The Day After. Considerations and Future Prospects for Studying the Phenomenon of Othering after Jihadist Terrorist Attacks
Creators: name: Conti, Uliano
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2018
Subjects: othering, orientalism, terrorism, social change, sociology

description: The paper defines the Othering phenomenon in a sociological perspective. This phenomenon can be contextualised starting from the concept of Orientalism and addressed with reference to sociological theories and concepts.

Aim of the article is to propose the concept of Othering and the analysis of the processes of Othering as a key to responding to the consequences of the jihadist terrorist strategy in the West. After September 11, 2001 and after the terrorist attacks in Europe, in fact, citizens of Middle Eastern and Arab origin have been victims of processes of Othering and social exclusion because of their ethnic origin.

This paper considers some empirical research on the processes of Othering. The main referenced sociological theories and concepts are highlighted for each empirical research taken into consideration, with attention given to the role of visual perception in favoring the processes of Othering. Media, television and films as well as online platforms, thanks to visual tools and contents, use stereotypes when portraying people of Middle Eastern and Arab origin. The article examines how the processes of Othering originate from the sensory path of sight.

Finally, it emerges that to date the theme of Othering has not yet been placed in a general field of theory in sociological literature. Each considered empirical research focuses on a particular concept or theory, thus reducing the complexity of the Othering phenomenon. The study of the processes of Othering to be set in a complex theory of otherness, takes shape as a sociological key to respond to important social challenges, such as terrorism.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 8, No 2 (2018)
title: José de Anchieta de Mesquita
Creators: name: Araujo, Renata
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica José de Anchieta de Mesquita, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Araújo, Renata. 2022. José de Anchieta de Mesquita in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Viele Wege führen ins Basisformat des DTA – Prototypische Kuration historischer Textkorpora zur Integration in Text+
Creators: name: Marius, Hug.
name: Wiegand, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Humanities
DH
Text+
NFDI
BBAW
TEI
DWDS

description: Das Deutsche Textarchiv (DTA) ist ein aktives Archiv für deutschsprachige, historische Textsammlungen an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Es umfasst annotierte Volltexttranskriptionen von Drucken, Zeitungen und Zeitschriften sowie handgeschriebene Dokumente verschiedener Gattungen und Textarten. Für die Transkriptionen wird mit dem DTABf – ein Subset der TEI-P5-Guidelines – ein etabliertes Basisformat angeboten. Aktuell stellt das DTA etwa 40 Textsammlungen als Forschungsdaten zur Nachnutzung bereit. Das Poster zeigt exemplarisch anhand dreier Textsammlungen den Weg der Kuration in das DTA und verweist auf die jeweiligen Einstiegsseiten und Suchmöglichkeiten in den Textsammlungen, mitsamt der zugehörigen Publikationen im Blog von Text+.