cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
James A. Mackay: Early Influences on a Southern Reformer
Creators: name: Grady, Kevin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: James A. Mackay was a decorated World War II veteran, who returned to Georgia in 1945, determined to make a difference in the segregated world of Georgia politics. He was a staunch opponent of Georgia?s county unit system that entrenched political power in rural counties. From 1950 through 1964 he was a state house member who fought to keep Georgia public schools open in the face of political opposition to desegregation. Elected to Congress in 1964, he was one of two deep-South congressmen who voted in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 1967 he co-founded the Georgia Conservancy. For the next 25 years he was Georgia?s leading environmentalist. This thesis explores Mackay?s life from 1919-1950 and the significance of his parents, his experiences at Emory University, World War II, his legal challenge to the county unit system, and his role in writing Who Runs Georgia?
Altered Tau Kinase Activity in rTg4510 Mice after a Single Interfaced CHIMERA Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: Cheng, Wai Hang
name: Cheung, Honor
name: Kang, Amy
name: Fan, Jianjia
name: Cooper, Jennifer
name: Anwer, Mehwish
name: Barron, Carlos
name: Wilkinson, Anna
name: Hu, Grace
name: Yue, Jefferey
name: Cripton, Peter Alec, 1965-
name: Vocadlo, David J.
name: Wellington, Cheryl L.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an established risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we used the Closed Head Injury Model of Engineered Rotational Acceleration (CHIMERA) to investigate the effects of a single high-energy TBI in rTg4510 mice, a mouse model of tauopathy. Fifteen male rTg4510 mice (4 mo) were impacted at 4.0 J using interfaced CHIMERA and were compared to sham controls. Immediately after injury, the TBI mice showed significant mortality (7/15; 47%) and a prolonged duration of loss of the righting reflex. At 2 mo post-injury, surviving mice displayed significant microgliosis (Iba1) and axonal injury (Neurosilver). Western blotting indicated a reduced p-GSK-3β (S9):GSK-3β ratio in TBI mice, suggesting chronic activation of tau kinase. Although longitudinal analysis of plasma total tau suggested that TBI accelerates the appearance of tau in the circulation, there were no significant differences in brain total or p-tau levels, nor did we observe evidence of enhanced neurodegeneration in TBI mice compared to sham mice. In summary, we showed that a single high-energy head impact induces chronic white matter injury and altered GSK-3β activity without an apparent change in post-injury tauopathy in rTg4510 mice.
Scaptius ditissimus Walker 1855
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius ditissimus

description: Scaptius ditissimus Walker, 1855
Scaptius ditissimus Walker, 1855a: 643.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Brazil], [Amazonas], Tefé [Ega].
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (!) (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Political is Personal: The Georgia Equal Rights Amendment Debate in Public and Private Discourse
Creators: name: Aaron, Haley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Although previous scholars have addressed the legislative parameters of the Equal Rights Amendment debate in non-ratifying states, analysis of amendment supporters? rhetoric has been limited. Examining the public and private writings of activists, This thesis presents the argument that pro-ERA coalitions in Georgia addressed the concerns of their opponents and developed rhetoric that deemphasized connections to the radical women?s liberation movement and argued that the ERA would enact legal, rather than social, change. While the educational materials produced by pro-ERA coalitions presented a logical analysis of the amendment?s legal ramifications, the personal discourse of Georgia activists presented an emotional defense of the amendment that has often been overlooked in previous studies.
Reflections on Practice
Creators: name: van Schaik, Johan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: BACKGROUND: 'Writing & Concepts' is a research project by Jan van Schaik which premises the role of writing in the development of works by artists and writers. It took the form of public lectures by esteemed practitioners from 2016 to 2018. Speakers include practitioners for whom the written form was their primary professional output and practitioners whose work manifested as exhibitions or events or creative works within the domain of art, architecture and design. In 2018, the first volume of a hard copy publication expressing ideas and concepts revealed through the lectures was published by Art + Australia. Van Schaik contributed an essay entitled 'Reflections on Practice.' CONTRIBUTION: In his reflective essay, van Schaik discusses writing as both a process and an outcome from the perspective of an architectural practitioner. It shares the critical notion that writing is a tool of reflection and inquiry, opening up the complex relationship between the process of writing and the development of social, political and philosophical questions within contemporary cultural practice. The article also contextualises the project with its 3 distinct parts: the lectures, web archive (repository of recorded lectures), and book publication. This work not only highlights new perspectives of writing within contemporary art practices but also extends van Schaik's practice that challenges traditional approaches to writing within architecture, and positions writing as a design practice in its own right. SIGNIFICANCE: Art + Australia is a publishing and research body at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The article was published alongside contributions from Maura Edmond, Nikos Papastergiadis and Callum Morton among many others. The book is a vital addition to Art + Australia Publishing's Documents Series which engages with watershed moments in Australian art and writing through the collation of archival material, artworks, creative writing and essays.
Magnetic Configuration of Active Regions Associated with GLE Events
Creators: name: Suleymanova, Regina A.
name: Miroshnichenko, Leonty I.
name: Abramenko, Valentina I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charged particles, generated in solar flares, sometimes can get extremely high energy, above the 500 MeV level, and produce abrupt ground level enhancements (GLEs) on the ground-based detectors of cosmic rays. The initial flares are strong eruptions and they should be originated from active regions (ARs). A list of GLE events and associated flares was initially available, and our aim here was to find the hosting AR for each GLE event. Moreover, we aimed to classify the revealed ARs using the magneto-morphological classification (MMC: \citealp{2021MNRAS.507.3698A}). We have shown that in 94\% of cases such ARs belong to the most complex morphological classes, namely, $βγ$, $βδ$, $γδ$, $βγδ$ classes by the Hale classification and B2, B3 classes by the MMC. We also found that the GLE-associated ARs are the ARs with the total unsigned magnetic flux much stronger than the common ARs of the same complexity. The set of GLE-related ARs only partially overlaps with the set of SARs (super-active regions). These ARs seem to be a manifestation of nonlinearities in the regular process of the global mean-field dynamo, the key ingredient to keep fluctuations and to create critical conditions in different aspects of the solar activity.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Stri-Dharma: Voice of the Indian Women's Rights Movement 1928-1936
Creators: name: Broome, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: The journal Stri-Dharma, published by the Women?s Indian Association from 1918 to 1936, endeavored to be the voice of the Indian women?s rights movement. It addressed political and social issues facing women in India as well as the achievements of women worldwide. Using the dichotomy of the home and world, this thesis examines how Stri-Dharma represented the tensions experienced by the Indian women?s movement as it pressed for reforms from the British colonial state, participation in the Indian nationalist movement, and inclusion in the international women?s movement.
Scaptius sordida subsp. sordida sordida (Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius sordida
Scaptius sordida sordida (rothschild, 1909)

description: Scaptius sordida sordida (Rothschild, 1909)
Prumala sordida Rothschild, 1909a: 25.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Peru, [Puno], La Union, R[io] Huacamayo, Carabaya.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Rohstoffe für Deutschland
Creators: name: Kaumanns, Sven C.
name: Lauber, Ursula
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bedarfsanalyse
subject: Konsum
subject: Investition
subject: Ausfuhr
subject: Rohstoffe
subject: Export
subject: Makroebene
subject: Mesoebene
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Die Bundesregierung spricht sich dafür aus, Rohstoffe sparsam und effizient zu nutzen. Hierfür ist es unerlässlich, den Umfang der direkten und indirekten Rohstoffnutzung zu kennen und zu identifizieren, was diese Nutzung beeinflusst. In diesem Projekt werden methodische Überlegungen angestellt, um sowohl das direkte und indirekte Rohstoffaufkommen als auch insbesondere deren Verwendung in möglichst tiefer Gliederung darzustellen. Entsprechende Ergebnisse für die Jahre 2000 sowie 2008, 2009 und 2010 werden präsentiert. Als einer der Haupttreiber der Rohstoffnutzung wird der Export identifiziert.
"White, Black, and Dusky": Girl Guiding in Malaya, Nigeria, India, and Australia from 1909-1960
Creators: name: Stanhope, Sally
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This comparative study of Girl Guiding in Malaya, India, Nigeria, and Australia examines the dynamics of engagement between Western and non-Western women participants. Originally a program to promote feminine citizenship only to British girls, Guiding became tied up with efforts to maintain, transform, or build different kinds of imagined communities?imperial states, nationalists movements, and independent nation states. From the program?s origins in London in 1909 until 1960 the relationship of the metropole and colonies resembled a complex web of influence, adaptation, and agency. The interactions between Girl Guide officialdom headquartered in London, Guide leaders of colonized girls, and the colonized girls who joined suggest that the foundational ideology of Guiding, maternalism, became a common language that participants used to work toward different ideas and practices of civic belonging initially as members of the British Empire and later as members of independent nations.
Additional file 1 of Investigation on environmental factors contributing to bispecific antibody stability and the reversal of self-associated aggregates
Creators: name: Ingavat, Nattha
name: Dzulkiflie, Nuruljannah
name: Liew, Jia Min
name: Wang, Xinhui
name: Leong, Eunice
name: Loh, Han Ping
name: Ng, Say Kong
name: Yang, Yuansheng
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
My Life with the Wave
Creators: name: Scott, Ronald
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Research background Cruising, as a cultural practice that depends on observation, has been theorised and practiced in creative writing by Garth Greenwell and J Bryan Lowder. Description, as a creative methodology that depends on observation, has been practiced in creative writing at the Fitzroy Pool by Helen Garner (Aqua Profonda 1981). My Life with the Wave is creative writing that connects these two kinds of looking - the cultural practice of cruising and the writerly practice of description - through writing creative nonfiction set in the queer space of the Fitzroy Pool. Can the queer act of looking and cruising space, and the nonfictional methods of immersion and observation (e.g. as practiced by Garner), be used to comment on and change each other in a work of creative nonfiction? Research contribution Cruising is both an attentive and an ambiguous cultural practice, whereas description of place/space such as that practiced by Garner depends on fixing down details. So how does cruising take shape through language? This creative writing research describes the queer practice of cruising by evoking detail without pinning it down; it obscures aspects of space e.g. place names, character names, time stamps, instead focusing on voice, fluid time and point of view. It puts together a cultural practice and a creative methodology and thereby shows how creative nonfiction can describe an ambiguous space in which queer practices occur. Research significance This research is significant to creative writing because it suggests new methods for describing spaces with uncertain cultural meanings and thereby expands tools available to creative writers. This project was commissioned by and developed through a network of editors at Griffith REVIEW, acknowledged as the 'gold standard' of literary journals, 'Australia's most prestigious literary journal' by local and international reviews. This creative work played a significant role in an ongoing research project, which includes fictional descriptions of the same space, in the novel The Adversary, funded by the Australia Council in 2017 and contracted for publication by Penguin Random House
Scaptius submarginalis
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius submarginalis

description: Scaptius submarginalis (Rothschild, 1909)
Prumala submarginalis Rothschild, 1909a: 24.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Brazil], Miñas Gerais.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
"Little Holes to Hide In": Civil Defense and the Public Backlash Against Home Fallout Shelters, 1957-1963
Creators: name: Whitehurst, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Throughout the 1950s, U.S. policymakers actively encouraged Americans to participate in civil defense through a variety of policies. In 1958, amidst confusion concerning which of these policies were most efficient, President Eisenhower established the National Shelter Plan and a new civil defense agency titled The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. This agency urged homeowners to build private fallout shelters through print media. In response, Americans used newspapers, magazines, and science fiction novels to contest civil defense and the foreign and domestic policies that it was based upon, including nuclear strategy. Many Americans remained unconvinced of the viability of civil defense or feared its psychological impacts on society. Eventually, these criticisms were able to weaken civil defense efforts and even alter nuclear defense strategy and missile defense technology.
"With Vietnam We Are Bound as Brothers": Theorizing Socialism, Internationalism, and the Politics of Public Agency Among Vietnamese Contract Workers in the German Democratic Republic
Creators: name: schmitt, jonathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis considers the social, economic and ideological climate in the German Democratic Republic in the last decade of its existence (the 1980s) when excessive labor demands lead the country to import tens of thousands of ?contract workers? from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Focusing primarily on theoretical contradictions in GDR socialism, and their impact on the day to day lives Vietnamese workers, I will argue that ideologically freighted pronouncements of ?socialist fraternity? with Vietnam functioned to obscure the true, economic reasons for labor importation.
Improving the realism of robotic surgery simulation through injection of learning-based estimated errors
Creators: name: Barragan, Juan Antonio
name: Ishida, Hisashi
name: Munawar, Adnan
name: Kazanzides, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The development of algorithms for automation of subtasks during robotic surgery can be accelerated by the availability of realistic simulation environments. In this work, we focus on one aspect of the realism of a surgical simulator, which is the positional accuracy of the robot. In current simulators, robots have perfect or near-perfect accuracy, which is not representative of their physical counterparts. We therefore propose a pair of neural networks, trained by data collected from a physical robot, to estimate both the controller error and the kinematic and non-kinematic error. These error estimates are then injected within the simulator to produce a simulated robot that has the characteristic performance of the physical robot. In this scenario, we believe it is sufficient for the estimated error used in the simulation to have a statistically similar distribution to the actual error of the physical robot. This is less stringent, and therefore more tenable, than the requirement for error compensation of a physical robot, where the estimated error should equal the actual error. Our results demonstrate that error injection reduces the mean position and orientation differences between the simulated and physical robots from 5.0 mm / 3.6 deg to 1.3 mm / 1.7 deg, respectively, which represents reductions by factors of 3.8 and 2.1.
description: 6 page paper
Companionate Lives and Consonant Voices in We Two Together: The 1950 Dual Autobiography of Irish and Indian Reformers Margaret and James Cousins
Creators: name: Copland, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores We Two Together, the unique dual autobiography of the reformers Margaret and James Cousins. It places this rich text in the context of the first half of the twentieth century and demonstrates its value as a source for Irish, Indian, gender, and global history. It investigates how the Cousinses represent their efforts to create and maintain a companionate marriage over a lifetime, depict their work as activists for women?s suffrage, Indian nationalism, educational reform, and other causes, and recount the impact of cross-cultural encounters on their cosmopolitan lives. We Two Together provides insight into the lives of two extraordinary individuals as they witnessed and participated in several key social and political movements in Ireland and India. In bringing attention to this book, I hope that other historians will make use of it and that librarians will preserve the rare copies in their possession.
The Price of Freedom: Greece's Role in the Cold War
Creators: name: Tzolis, Hristos
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Much of the available scholarship today underplays the role of Greece within the context of the Cold War between, the United States and the Soviet Union.  The purpose of this study, we will place Greece as the test subject of a modern approach to war by Washington in assuming a neo-colonial master?s role to reconstruct Europe post World War II.  The following thesis will challenge the preconceived notion that Greece and the United States entered into this diplomatic arrangement with only the intentions of containing communism.  This research will concentrate on the role of political fear, through government legislation and political rhetoric played out in the Cold War.  Re-contextualizing the Greek crisis and the Cold War will bring awareness to the early dawn of this ideological war, or as Howard Jones describes it, a new kind of war, and how it was the basis for future foreign interventions by Washington.
Defending Renaissance Italy: The Innovative Culture of Italian Military Engineers
Creators: name: Carter, Brett
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The cultural and social effect of the Renaissance Italian military engineer is profiled within this thesis. It encompasses their vocational careers concerning the fluctuations in individuality, print censorship, and uneasiness attached to patronage and marketability. Their work and reputation directly coincided with the demand for trace italienne from numerous Italian city-states and entities throughout the cinquecento. As knowledge spread throughout the Italian peninsula, the individualistic demand for military engineers diminished, integrating their discipline with other professions. As the demand for patronage intensified, fears of fraudulence and plagiarism existed among printers and fellow engineers. This apprehension directly contributed to a lack of printed fortification treatises throughout the cinquecento and was escalated by foreign interventions (Sack of Rome, 1527). This thesis aims to tackle these issues met by Italian military engineers.
PFAS and Phthalate/DINCH exposure in association with age at menarche in teenagers of the HBM4EU aligned studies
Creators: name: Cox, Bianca
name: Wauters, Natasha
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Rodríguez-Carrillo, Andrea
name: Gerofke, Antje
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: DINCH

description: Early puberty has been found to be associated with adverse health outcomes such as metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and hormone-dependent cancers. The decrease in age at menarche observed during the past decades has been linked to an increased exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs). Evidence for the association between PFAS and phthalate exposure and menarche onset, however, is inconsistent. We studied the association between PFAS and phthalate/DINCH exposure and age at menarche using data of 514 teenagers (12 to 18 years) from four aligned studies of the Human Biomonitoring for Europe initiative (HBM4EU): Riksmaten Adolescents 2016-2017 (Sweden), PCB cohort (follow-up; Slovakia), GerES V-sub (Germany), and FLEHS IV (Belgium). PFAS concentrations were measured in blood, and phthalate/DINCH concentrations in urine. We assessed the role of each individual pollutant within the context of the others, by using different multi-pollutant approaches, adjusting for age, age- and sex-standardized body mass index z-score and household educational level. Exposure to di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), especially mono(2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl) phthalate (5OH-MEHP), was associated with an earlier age at menarche, with estimates per interquartile fold change in 5OH-MEHP ranging from -0.34 to -0.12 years in the different models. Findings from this study indicated associations between age at menarche and some specific EDCs at concentrations detected in the general European population, but due to the study design (menarche onset preceded the chemical measurements), caution is needed in the interpretation of causality. © 2023 by the authors
Scaptius obscurata
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius obscurata

description: Scaptius obscurata (Schaus, 1920)
Automolis obscurata Schaus, 1920: 116.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guatemala, [Izabal], Cayuga.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female no. 22 417 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The Legacy of Luther: National Identity and State-Building in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
Creators: name: Dewhurst, Ruth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Historians have posited a number of theories about nationalism. Using Anthony D. Smith's historic ethno-symbolic theory, this thesis examines the development of German national identity in the decades following the French Revolution up to the 1848 revolutions and the National Assembly that met in Frankfurt to write a constitution for the German Nation. Martin Luther was an important figure to Germans in the nineteenth century and a number of influential intellectuals drew on his contributions to define themselves as a distinctive people, even though Germans as yet, had no nation-state. The particular contributions of Luther examined in this thesis are language, music and concepts of freedom and unity.
Regional inversion of CO2 ecosystem fluxes from atmospheric measurements
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013

description: The Bayesian framework of CO2flux inversions permits estimates of the retrieved flux uncertainties. Here, the reliability of these theoretical estimates is studied through a comparison against the misfits between the inverted fluxes and independent measurements of the CO2 Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) made by the eddy covariance technique at local (few hectares) scale. Regional inversions at 0.5˚ resolution are applied for the western European domain where ~ 50 eddy covariance sites are operated. These inversions are conducted for the period 2002-2007. They use a mesoscale atmospheric transport model, a prior estimate of the NEE from a terrestrial ecosystem model and rely on the variational assimilation of in situ continuous measurements of CO2atmospheric mole fractions. Averaged over monthly periods and over the whole domain, the misfits are in good agreement with the theoretical uncertainties for prior and inverted NEE, and pass the chi-square test for the variance at the 30% and 5% significance levels respectively, despite the scale mismatch and the independence between the prior (respectively inverted) NEE and the flux measurements. The theoretical uncertainty reduction for the monthly NEE at the measurement sites is 53% while the inversion decreases the standard deviation of the misfits by 38%. These results build confidence in the NEE estimates at the European/monthly scales and in their theoretical uncertainty from the regional inverse modelling system. However, the uncertainties at the monthly (respectively annual) scale remain larger than the amplitude of the inter-annual variability of monthly (respectively annual) fluxes, so that this study does not engender confidence in the inter-annual variations. The uncertainties at the monthly scale are significantly smaller than the seasonal variations. The seasonal cycle of the inverted fluxes is thus reliable. In particular, the CO2sink period over the European continent likely ends later than represented by the prior ecosystem model.Quelle: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net
Chondrocyte Thrombomodulin Protects against Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Kang, Lin
name: Yang, Ai-Lun
name: Lai, Chao-Han
name: Chen, Tsan-Ju
name: Lin, Sung-Yen
name: Wang, Yan-Hsiung
name: Wang, Chau-Zen
name: Conway, Edward M.
name: Wu, Hua-Lin
name: Ho, Mei-Ling
name: Chang, Je-Ken
name: Chen, Chung-Hwan
name: Cheng, Tsung-Lin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent form of arthritis that affects over 32.5 million adults worldwide, causing significant cartilage damage and disability. Unfortunately, there are currently no effective treatments for OA, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic approaches. Thrombomodulin (TM), a glycoprotein expressed by chondrocytes and other cell types, has an unknown role in OA. Here, we investigated the function of TM in chondrocytes and OA using various methods, including recombinant TM (rTM), transgenic mice lacking the TM lectin-like domain (TMLeD/LeD), and a microRNA (miRNA) antagomir that increased TM expression. Results showed that chondrocyte-expressed TM and soluble TM [sTM, like recombinant TM domain 1 to 3 (rTMD123)] enhanced cell growth and migration, blocked interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-mediated signaling and protected against knee function and bone integrity loss in an anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT)-induced mouse model of OA. Conversely, TMLeD/LeD mice exhibited accelerated knee function loss, while treatment with rTMD123 protected against cartilage loss even one-week post-surgery. The administration of an miRNA antagomir (miR-up-TM) also increased TM expression and protected against cartilage damage in the OA model. These findings suggested that chondrocyte TM plays a crucial role in counteracting OA, and miR-up-TM may represent a promising therapeutic approach to protect against cartilage-related disorders.
Evolution of a Word: Democracy and the Democratic-Republican Societies, 1793-1796
Creators: name: Walker, Jarrett
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Even though most historians agree on democracy?s basic definition and that it emerged with the American Revolution in the United States, historians disagree on how it developed after the Revolution.  Some argue that democracy thrived while others claim that it was tamed during the 1790s.  Instead of siding with one side or the other, this thesis argues that democracy meant different things to different people and developed in multiple ways.  People created their own definition and over time they helped evolve it and one group was the Democratic-Republican Societies that formed in 1793 and ended in 1796.  Their definition started out by describing an egalitarian society, but over time it evolved in reaction to three different events: French Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Jay Treaty.  Each event allowed their definition to become clearer because through their responses the Societies defined democracy.
Treibhausgas-Emissionen durch Infrastruktur und Fahrzeuge des Straßen-, Schienen- und Luftverkehrs sowie der Binnenschifffahrt in Deutschland
Creators: name: Bergmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Verkehrsinfrastruktur
subject: Verkehrsträger
subject: Stoffstromanalyse
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: Luftverkehr
subject: Straßenverkehr
subject: Binnenschiffahrt
subject: Schienenverkehr
subject: Verkehr
subject: Transport

description: Die Studie untersucht anhand einer orientierenden Stoffstromanalyse die Treibhausgasemissionen, die durch den Bau, die Instandhaltung und den Betrieb der Infrastruktur sowie die Herstellung und den Unterhalt der Fahrzeuge für den Straßen-, Schienen-, Luft- und Binnenschiffsverkehr verursacht werden und bezieht diese auf die erbrachte Verkehrsleistung (Personenkilometer bzw. Tonnenkilometer). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass bei allen Verkehrsmitteln relevante Anteile der Gesamtemissionen auf den Bau, Instandhaltung und Betrieb von Infrastruktur und Fahrzeugen entfallen (Personennahverkehr 12-26 %, Personenfernverkehr 10-29 % und Güterverkehr 4-29 %). Die Reihenfolge unter den Verkehrsträgern bezüglich der spezifischen Treibhausgasemissionen wird durch diese umfassendere Betrachtungsweise nicht verändert.Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Studie untersucht anhand einer orientierenden Stoffstromanalyse die Treibhausgasemissionen, die durch den Bau, die Instandhaltung und den Betrieb der Infrastruktur sowie die Herstellung und den Unterhalt der Fahrzeuge für den Straßen-, Schienen-, Luft- und Binnenschiffsverkehr verursacht werden und bezieht diese auf die erbrachte ⁠Verkehrsleistung⁠ (⁠Personenkilometer⁠ bzw. ⁠Tonnenkilometer⁠). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass bei allen Verkehrsmitteln relevante Anteile der Gesamtemissionen auf den Bau, Instandhaltung und Betrieb von Infrastruktur und Fahrzeugen entfallen (Personennahverkehr 12-26 %, Personenfernverkehr 10-29 % und Güterverkehr 4-29 %). Die Reihenfolge unter den Verkehrsträgern bezüglich der spezifischen Treibhausgasemissionen wird durch diese umfassendere Betrachtungsweise nicht verändert.
Scaptius chrysopera
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius chrysopera

description: Scaptius chrysopera (Schaus, 1905)
Automolis chrysopera Schaus, 1905: 217.
Automolis sanguistrigata Dognin, 1910: 7. — Type locality: French Guiana, Nouveau Chantier. — Type specimen: Lectotype male no. 30 512 designated by Watson (1971: 84) (USNM).
TYPE LOCALITY. — French Guiana, Saint Laurent, Maroni River.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female no. 8591 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Nonfiction Poems 2017-2018
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Jessica
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Research Background Cole Swensen writes: 'poetry...is not only perfectly capable of conveying truth; it can also attain a unique relationship to truth because it implicitly acknowledges and interrogates the limitations of language' (2011, 58). This portfolio of 'nonfiction poems' gathers individually published works that continue my scholarly and creative-practice research in the field of 'nonfiction poetry' to explore how poetry is capable of representing nonfiction subject matter in new and productive ways. Contemporary writers engaged in similar explorations include: Jordie Albiston (Aus), Susan Howe (US), Rita Dove (US) and Michael Ondaatje (Canada). Each of these writers undertake, in different ways, historical and archival research in order to produce poems on historical figures, while also at times experimenting with writing autobiographical poetry. Research Contribution Each poem in this portfolio explores intersections and tensions between factual 'data' and the poetic form. The poems employ nuances of poetic language-line, rhythm, metaphor, visual play etc.-in an attempt to represent an aspect(s) of the subject's life and experience, through writing. In other words, these poems develop the possibilities of the "biographical" or "autobiographical" poem tradition by highlighting the significance of components of form when it comes to biographical writing. Research Significance These separate works were published in four of the most well-respected Australian literary journals in my field: 'Cordite', 'Westerly', 'Australian Poetry Anthology' and 'Overland'. 'Apollon Musagete' was subsequently republished in 'Best Australian Poems 2017'. Three of the poems were produced as outcomes of research conducted in the NY Public Library and Houghton Library (Harvard) supported by the prestigious Marten Bequest Travel Award. The autobiographical work ('Reflected') was produced as a result of an international exchange program funded by an Australia-Korea Foundation grant.
Scaptius chrysoperina
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius chrysoperina

description: Scaptius chrysoperina (Gaede, 1928)
Automolis chrysoperina Gaede, 1928a: 28.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [Panama], Chiriqui.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female (ZMHB).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Liberty Of Mine Own Country: The Political Perspective Of Henry Clay
Creators: name: Walters, Joshua
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Henry Clay's effect on the second party system is undeniable.  However, this thesis intends to do more than chronicle Clay?s life.  By analyzing key points of Clay?s political career, one sees several key aspects of Clay?s political philosophy come to life.  Unionism, the role of the Constitution, and compromise are fundamental to Clay?s political perspective.  Other historians have argued that Clay was always motivated by ?self-interest? and personal politics, but Clay?s politics never strayed far from national compromise and maintaining the Union.
A Reassessment of Deindustrialization and the Case of Atlantic Steel
Creators: name: Lawrence, Timothy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis seeks to understand the causal factors of deindustrialization in the steel industry during the late twentieth century and uses the former Atlantic Steel Company mill in Atlanta, Georgia as a case study. Using company records and secondary sources from a variety of social science disciplines, I explore the roles of neoliberalism, government foreign and domestic policies, and the world economic crisis of 1973 to reassess contemporary understanding of the concept of deindustrialization.
Modes of Power: Time, Temporality, and Calendar Reform by Jesuit Missionaries in Late Imperial China
Creators: name: Blasingame, Ryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This work explores the relationship between time, temporality, and power by utilizing interactions between Jesuit missionaries and the Ming and Qing governments of late imperial China as a case study. It outlines the complex relationship between knowledge of celestial mechanics, methods of measuring the passage of time, and the tightly controlled circumstances in which that knowledge was allowed to operate. Just as the Chinese courts exercised authority over time and the heavens, so too had the Catholic Church in Europe. So as messengers of God?s authority, the Jesuits identified the importance of astronomical and temporal authority in Chinese culture and sought to convey the supremacy of Christianity through their mastery of the stars and negotiate positions of power within both imperial governments.
Destroying the Mystique of Paris: How the Destruction of Les Halles Served as a Symbol for Gaullist Power and Modernization in 1960s and 1970s Paris
Creators: name: Kasten, Scott
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Les Halles, Paris's historic marketplace, was once called ?the belly of Paris? by Emile Zola.  Les Halles was a Parisian institution.  The destruction of the marketplace in 1971, especially the famed Baltard pavilions, set off a firestorm of debate and public dissent not seen on an urban issue in nearly a century.  Within the debate over Les Halles existed a series of gripping juxtapositions or binaries- a battle between the Gaullists and the liberal intellectuals, capitalists and workers, modernity and tradition.  These juxtapositions reveal France?s struggle to adapt to the new modernity that emerged in the postwar and post-colonial years. The battle over Les Halles was symbolic of the power struggle between Gaullists who wanted to ?modernize? France on the one side, and on the other, a group of intellectuals and preservationists who sough to protect Les Halles as a symbol of traditional French identity.
Scaptius neritosia
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Scaptius
Scaptius neritosia

description: Scaptius neritosia (Jones, 1908)
Automolis neritosia Jones, 1908: 146.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Paraná, Castro.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male designated by Hampson (1920: 131) (BMNH).
REMARK
Watson (1975: 93) erroneously designated as lectotype the specimen already designated by Hampson.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Refashioning After the Split: Morocco and the Remaking of French Christianity After the 1905 Law of Separation
Creators: name: Abernathy, Whitney
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: On December 9, 1905, newspapers announced the French Third Republic had passed the Law on the Separation of the Churches and the State. This law dissolved the complex relationship that had existed between the French state and the Catholic Church and ended the public role of religion. However, while religious conviction seemed to be on the wane within the French metropole, public discourse in the early twentieth century regarding the impending French seizure of Morocco consistently referred to the French populace as ?Christians? while the Moroccans were collectively labeled as ?Muslim savages.? This thesis argues that the French media, government, and other public figures generated the concept of a ?Christian France? in order to underline the moral and civilizational superiority of a supposedly unified French civilization in relation to the inhabitants of Morocco.
Aiding Africans: West German Perceptions of Race and Modernity in the 1960s
Creators: name: Nass, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: During the 1960s, decolonization and the Cold War pushed many West Germans to concern themselves with aiding Africans. This aid came in the form of federally funded development aid or Entwicklungshilfe, student activism, and the continuation of missionary work. Utilizing print media, scholarly sources, as well as reports from missionaries and other aid workers, my thesis explores the discourses that surrounded aid work. These discourses reveal a number of ways West Germans conceived of race, modernity, and their role in the world. While acknowledging the multiplicity of views and contest over attitudes, I argue that in general aid to Africa supported West German conceptions of themselves as racially superior, modern, agents of goodwill, and benefactors to the world.
Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917?1919
Creators: name: Warhop, Bill
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis analyzes the culture of coercive voluntarism in Georgia during the First World War using studies of legislation and vigilance, the press, and the Georgia Council of Defense. Each of the themes studied demonstrates how organizations attempted to coerce support of the US war effort in Georgia. The study focuses on Georgia as a single state rather than simply as part of the South, as most other studies have done. The purpose is to challenge studies that have emphasized resistance only, which presents an incomplete picture of Georgia?s domestic scene during the war. In fact, many elements within Georgia?at the state, local, and citizen level?actively supported the war, often with the same level of intention, if not the same results, as did other areas of the country. Georgia attempted to comply with federal imperatives while preserving its rights as a state.
Umweltbewusstsein in Deutschland 2020
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Umweltbewusstseinsstudie
subject: Umweltbewusstsein
subject: Umweltverhalten
subject: Umwelteinstellung
subject: Umweltengagement
subject: CO2-Fußabdruck
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: transformation
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Studie zum Umweltbewusstsein im Jahr 2020 zeigt, dass der Umwelt- und Klimaschutz trotz Corona-Pandemie nicht an Bedeutung verloren hat. 65 Prozent der Befragten bewerteten ihn als sehr wichtig, was ein ähnlicher Wert ist wie im Jahr 2018. Insbesondere der Klimaschutz ist während der Corona-Pandemie für 70 Prozent der Befragten weiterhin genauso wichtig, für 16 Prozent sogar wichtiger geworden. Entsprechend wird ein entschlossenes Handeln beim Klimaschutz von großen Teilen der Bevölkerung klar befürwortet. Mit der Studie wird seit 1996 im Zweijahresrhythmus untersucht, wie sich Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten in Deutschland entwickeln. Für die Studie wurden Ende 2020 rund 2.000 Personen mittels repräsentativer Online-Interviews befragt. Die Studie bietet eine sozialwissenschaftlich fundierte Grundlage für die Umweltpolitik und Umweltkommunikation und richtet sich an die fachlich interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Studie zum Umweltbewusstsein im Jahr 2020 zeigt, dass der Umwelt- und ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ trotz Corona-Pandemie nicht an Bedeutung verloren hat. 65 Prozent der Befragten bewerteten ihn als sehr wichtig, was ein ähnlicher Wert ist wie im Jahr 2018. Insbesondere der Klimaschutz ist während der Corona-Pandemie für 70 Prozent der Befragten weiterhin genauso wichtig, für 16 Prozent sogar wichtiger geworden. Entsprechend wird ein entschlossenes Handeln beim Klimaschutz von großen Teilen der Bevölkerung klar befürwortet.Mit der Studie wird seit 1996 im Zweijahresrhythmus untersucht, wie sich Umweltbewusstsein und Umweltverhalten in Deutschland entwickeln. Für die Studie wurden Ende 2020 rund 2.000 Personen mittels repräsentativer Online-Interviews befragt.Die Studie bietet eine sozialwissenschaftlich fundierte Grundlage für die Umweltpolitik und Umweltkommunikation und richtet sich an die fachlich interessierte Öffentlichkeit.Druckexemplare können Sie über die Website des Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz (BMUV) beziehen.