cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genomics and virulence factors of Fusobacterium necrophorum
Creators: name: Wright, Katie
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: Fusobacterium necrophorum, a Gram negative, anaerobic bacterium, is a common cause of acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis and a rare cause of more severe infections of the head and neck. At the beginning of the project, there was no available genome sequence for F. necrophorum. The aim of this project was to sequence the F. necrophorum genome and identify and study its putative virulence factors contained using in silico and in vitro analysis. Type strains JCM 3718 and JCM 3724,F. necrophorum subspecies necrophorum (Fnn) and funduliforme (Fnf), respectively, and strain ARU 01 (Fnf), isolated from a patient with LS, were commercially sequenced by Roche 454 GS-FLX+ next generation sequencing and assembled into contigs using Roche GS Assembler. Sequence data was annotated semi-automatically, using the xBASE pipeline, BLASTp and Pfam. The F. necrophorum genome was determined to be approximately 2.1 – 2.3 Mb in size, with an estimated 1,950 ORFs and includes genes for a leukotoxin, ecotin, haemolysin, haemagglutinin, haemin receptor, adhesin and type Vb and Vc secretion systems. The prevalence of the leukotoxin gene was investigated in strains JCM 3718, JCM 3724 and ARU 01, as well as a clinical collection of 25 Fnf strains, identified using biochemical and molecular tests. The leukotoxin operon was found to be universal within the strain collection by PCR. HL-60 cells subjected to aliquots of concentrated high molecular weight culture supernatant, predicted to contain the secreted leukotoxins of strains JCM 3718, JCM 3724 and ARU 01, were killed in a dose-dependent manner. The cytotoxic effect of the leukotoxin against human donor white blood cells was also tested to validate the HL-60 assay. The differences in the results between the two assays were not statistically significant. Ecotin, a serine protease inhibitor, was found to be present in 100 % of the strain collection and had a highly conserved sequence with primary and secondary binding sites exposed on opposing sides of the protein. During enzyme inhibition studies, a purified recombinant F. necrophorum ecotin protein inhibited human neutrophil elastase, a protease that degrades bacteria at inflammation sites, and human plasma kallikrein, a component of the host clotting cascade. The recombinant ecotin also prolonged human plasma clotting times by up to 7-fold for the extrinsic pathway, and up to 40-fold for the intrinsic pathway. The genome sequence data provides important information about F. necrophorum type strains and enables comparative study between strains and subspecies. Results from the leukotoxin and ecotin assays can be used to build up an understanding of how the organism behaves during infection.
Space and aesthetics: interplay between the ‘where’ and the ‘what’ in human evaluation and memory (2)
Creators: name: Babo-Rebelo, Mariana
name: Haggard, Patrick
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objects and locations are canonical elements of experience. The association between object and location has been extensively studied but its impact on experiences and behavior has not been considered. Our aim here is twofold: 1) Replicating the results of our previous study, Babo-Rebelo, Travers & Haggard (2020, Psyarxiv) Looking, liking and locating: an experimental aesthetics of orienting. 2) Investigating how spatial organization may segment and organize experience – memory for objects (unfamiliar art exhibits), spatial memory and aesthetic evaluation. We also investigate whether aesthetic evaluation may contribute to another experience segmentation.
Raccontare storie per costruire storia: la vicenda della schiavitù nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
Creators: name: Vivan, Itala
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: In her essay, Telling stories to create history: slavery in Toni Morrison’s fiction, Itala Vivan analyzes the fictional work of the African American writer Toni Morrison and focuses especially on Beloved (1987) and A Mercy (2008), both stories of women slaves. Through individual stories Morrison gives a history of the African American community but also, at the same time, of the whole of America. The writer reveals the consubstantiality of such stories in the creation of modernity whose multiple nature, originally announced by William Edward Burghardt DuBois, is reconfirmed and enriched with elements from the cultural imagery of the American universe. Morrison outlines a history and a story built of unspeakable truths that unveil tragic, multi-layered elements streaming from the veins of America and intertwined with the running blood of slavery. Keywords: Toni Morrison, schiavitù, storia delle donne, America, Beloved, A Mercy, letteratura afroamericana; Toni Morrison, slavery, America, Beloved, A Mercy, African-American literature, women’s history.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
IBL in ESL class
Creators: name: Madi, Kholoud
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Inquiry-based learning
subject: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers

description: This project examines teaching English as a second language (ESL) abroad with inquiry-based learning (IBL) concepts. Last year, I was a full-time student and I had a chance to experience IBL myself. IBL helps students develop a growth mindset, which means students believe that their talent and intelligence can be developed and their failures are opportunities to enhance learning. The question of why students achieve better results when they study the English language abroad than at home (in the Middle East) is addressed through a current literature review. One solution to ESL schools in the Middle East will be in this project, which is a handbook for ESL educators. The handbook guides ESL educators through three sample lesson plans to teach communication, thinking, and personal and social skills.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5549/Madi.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
Le nuove schiave del XXI secolo
Creators: name: Rossilli, Mariagrazia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: Trafficking in persons is a slavery-like practice of our time which is linked with many different forms of exploitation. The most common form of trafficking is for the purpose of sexual exploitation of women, in particular of illegal migrants in European countries. The essay illustrates the characteristics of this specific slavery-like practice in Italy and the transformation of sexual trafficking during the last few decades. It illustrates the consequences for the victims and the weaknesses of the legal measures to protect their rights that have been implemented in the EU and in Italy. It suggests that changes are needed in this respect, but also in respect to EU immigration policies and legislation against violence against women. Keywords: tratta di esseri umani, prostituzione, normativa internazionale, Italia; trafficking in human beings, prostitution, international legislation, Italy.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
Chip games and paintability
Creators: name: Duraj, Lech
name: Gutowski, Grzegorz
name: Kozik, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.2; G.2.2
subject: 05C15, 68W27

description: We prove that the difference between the paint number and the choice number of a complete bipartite graph $K_{N,N}$ is $Θ(\log \log N )$. That answers the question of Zhu (2009) whether this difference, for all graphs, can be bounded by a common constant. By a classical correspondence, our result translates to the framework of on-line coloring of uniform hypergraphs. This way we obtain that for every on-line two coloring algorithm there exists a k-uniform hypergraph with $Θ(2^k )$ edges on which the strategy fails. The results are derived through an analysis of a natural family of chip games.
Exploring the experiences of Arab students at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arab students
subject: Universities and colleges

description: Although there exists extensive literature on the experiences of international students studying at post-secondary institutions in North America; there is scant literature on the unique challenges experienced by Arab students who are studying in Canadian universities and colleges. This study explored challenges faced by Arab international students at Vancouver Island University (VIU) in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Data was collected using interviews from 6 international Arab students studying at VIU and analyzed into themes using narrative analysis. Accordingly, the audio recordings from the interview was transcribed verbatim by the researcher and transcripts shared with participants which ensure precision and accuracy of data. Results revealed that international Arab students studying at VIU face several challenges: cultural and religious adjustment and differences, personal experiences related to isolation, homesickness and isolation, stereotypes and prejudice, and academic challenges. These students employed several strategies to overcome the identified challenges: hired tutors, sought support from tutors and professors, put in time and effort, utilized social support from their friends, sought help via religion, and utilized campus resources. This result confirmed that international Arab students studying at VIU have unique requirements and therefore, represent a unique group of students due to their Arabic culture and the nature of their religion. This uniqueness makes them to experience unique challenges identified in this study. It is, therefore, important for the university to come up with specific strategies and programs to assist these students in adjusting and accepting the Canadian culture and society.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5550/Mahmoud.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
The role of genetics and the environment on the relationship between weight and common mental health conditions.
Creators: name: Thompson, Ellen
name: Eley, Thalia
name: Steves, Claire
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Mental and Social Health

description: This project aims to investigate the directionality between body mass index (BMI) and emotional symptoms and explore the magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on different types of anthropometric indicators and emotional symptoms. In order to investigate this genetically sensitive designs will be applied to both the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) and the TwinsUK study.
Anthidium manicatum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Anthidium
Anthidium manicatum

description: Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 26.VI.2004, percée vers bassin d'orage, Salvia sp., 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Differential and persistent expression patterns of CNS gene transfer by an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector
Creators: name: Breese, George R.
name: Li, Juan
name: Crown, Thomas J.
name: Xiao, Xiao
name: Samulski, R. Jude
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Safe, long-term gene expression is a primary criteria for effective gene therapy in the brain, so studies were initiated to evaluate adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector transfer of a reporter gene into specific sites of the rat brain. In the 4 day old rat, site infusions of AAV-CMV-lacZ (1 μ1; 5 × 104 particles) produced neuronal β-galactosidase gene expression 3 weeks later in the hippocampus and inferior colliculus, but not in the cerebral cortex. Seven days after infusion of AAV-CMV-lacZ viral vectors (1 μ1) in the adult rat, β-galactosidase gene expression was found in the olfactory tubercle, caudate, hippocampus, piriform cortex and inferior colliculus, primarily in multipolar neurons close to the infusion site. Three months after vector microinfusion, similar levels of gene expression remained in the olfactory tubercle and the inferior colliculus, with some reduction found in the caudate, but substantial reductions in β-galactosidase gene expression occurred in the hippocampus and piriform cortex. In no case were obvious signs of toxicity noted. Therefore, AAV vectors can transfer foreign genes into the adult and neonatal CNS, but the pattern and longevity of gene expression depends upon the area of brain being studied.
Gruppe 12
Creators: name: Kirchner, Paula
name: Stiller, Anna
name: Nettersheim, Marie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: DEA HAusaufgabe 6: Exploratorische Regressionsanalyse für Identifikation potentieller Prädiktoren für Depressionen. Danach, Kreuzvalidierung mit neuer Stichprobe
L’esclavage des femmes en Europe à l’époque moderne
Creators: name: Bennassar, Bartolomé
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: In this short essay I am trying to present two different aspects of the women’s slavery in Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Firstly in the case of Andalucia and south of Portugal, especially thanks to the recent thesis of Aurelia Martin Casares and Julio Izquierdo Labrado, and also thanks to the work of Vicenta Cortes Alonso and the excellent work, unfortunately not published, of Albert N’Damba, an catholic priest of Congo. The main outcome of this works is the obvious preference of the owners of slaves for the women and the prices of women are higher than the prices of the men. The motive is the productive ability of women. Secondly, I improve my investigations in the record offices of the Inquisitions of Malta and Sicily to point out the part of the corsairs in the trade of the human, especially the women proceeding from Russia, Greece, Central Europe. Keywords: esclavage, femmes, Andalousie, Mediterranée, exploitation sexuelle; slavery, women, Andalucia, Mediterranean, sexual working out.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
DLD terminology for SLPs (Steffes & Finestack, 2023)
Creators: name: Steffes, Erin
name: Finestack, Lizbeth H.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition

description: Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a relatively new, internationally promoted term to describe individuals with language impairments not secondary to a biomedical condition. This study aimed to better understand speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) current level of comfort using DLD terminology and knowledge of DLD in the United States to help SLPs better understand how and why they should consider adopting DLD terminology in their clinical practice.Method: After completing an online presurvey to evaluate current comfort levels in using DLD terminology and current knowledge of DLD, currently practicing SLPs viewed a 45-min prerecorded educational video on DLD. Following this viewing, participants completed a postsurvey nearly identical to the presurvey to measure change in their comfort levels with DLD terminology use and in DLD knowledge.Results: After filtering to remove likely fraudulent responders, we included 77 participants in all analyses. Presurvey Likert scale responses indicated at least some comfort in using DLD terminology. Additionally, presurvey results of true/false DLD knowledge questions revealed high variability in respondents’ knowledge of DLD. A McNemar chi-square test indicated statistically significant changes in participants’ comfort levels in using DLD terminology from pre- to postsurvey for each question. A paired t test indicated statistically significant changes in DLD knowledge from pre- to postsurvey.Conclusion: Despite some limitations, it was concluded that diffusion efforts, such as educational presentations, are likely to increase SLPs’ comfort levels in using DLD terminology and SLPs’ knowledge of DLD.Supplemental Material S1. Video presentation slides.Steffes, E., & Finestack, L. H. (2023). Developmental language disorder terminology: A survey of speech-language pathologists’ use and knowledge. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(3), 841–855. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00116
Thermodynamics of Chiral Spin Liquids with Abelian and Non-Abelian Anyons
Creators: name: Nasu, Joji
name: Motome, Yukitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic properties of chiral spin liquids are investigated for a variant of the Kitaev model defined on a decorated honeycomb lattice. Using the quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we find that the model exhibits a finite-temperature phase transition associated with the time reversal symmetry breaking, in both topologically trivial and nontrivial regions. While changing the exchange constants, the phase transition changes from continuous to discontinuous one, apparently correlated with the change in the excitations from Abelian to non-Abelian anyons. We show this coincidence by computing the topological quantities: the Chern number and the thermal Hall conductivity. In addition, we find, as a diagnostic of the chiral spin liquids, successive crossovers with multi-stage entropy release above the critical temperature, which indicates that the hierarchical fractionalization of a quantum spin occurs differently between the two regions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Il corpo della madre schiava, i corpi dei figli. Forme di resistenza alla schiavitù nell’America del XIX secolo
Creators: name: Fattacciu, Irene
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: Slavery represents the most evident form of appropriation and exploitation of the body, notably of the female body. This article focuses on motherhood as a place of oppression and resistance to slavery. The devastating consequences of slavery on the mother-child relation is exemplified, in many slave narratives, by the account of when a child, realizing that he does not belong to his/her parents, perceives him/herself as a slave for the first time. Female slaves suffered a double form of exploitation, both economic (as work force) and sexual: besides being exposed to the sexual abuses by masters and overseers, after 1807 they became the only precious resource to “produce” new slaves. The impotence and disillusion felt by enslaved mothers shaped contradictory and contrasting definitions of motherhood. This ambiguity was the centre of women’s daily resistance to slavery: if slavery denied parental role, the refusal of motherhood became the most explicit form of denial of women’s role in the maintenance of the slave system. The author also looks at the reinterpretation of these stories in 20th century literature, shifting the focus from motherhood as an aspect of slavery to investigating slavery in order to understand the evolving definition and practices of motherhood in history. Keywords: schiave, corpo, famiglia, maternità, madri, figli, racconti di schiavitù, resistenza, sessualità, infanticidio; female slaves, body, family, motherhood, mothers, children, slave narratives, resistance, sexuality, infanticide.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
Chelostoma campanularum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Chelostoma
Chelostoma campanularum

description: Chelostoma campanularum (Kirby, 1802)
 26.VI.2004, friche chemin de fer, Campanula rapunculus, 2J, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
“Chi dice donna dice…”. Le parole come strumento di infamia
Creators: name: D’Achille, Paolo
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2011

description: This study is a linguistic approach to “gender oriented” insulting. After touching on some generic features of linguistic aggression (already censored by Medieval treaty texts on the sins of the language) and of identity and diversity expressed via words, the work points out the aspect of linguistic sexism which seem to set up a “negativity” of the “feminine” in itself. The central part of the work focuses on the Italian words which, as an act of detracting or direct insult, more often deal with women: “strega” and, above all, “puttana”. Of the latter it is remembered the wide range of synonyms (euphemistic or dysphemistic, denotative or connotative, cultivated or dialectal) one finds in the history of Italian up to the most recent foreignism (“escort”); some of them are analyzed as useful to semantic and socio-cultural considerations.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol 6 - 7 (2011) Fama e infamia
Fra emarginazione e infamia. La legittimazione sociale del rifiuto
Creators: name: Meringolo, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2011

description: This contribution analyzes social construction of infamy, beginning from stereotype as an image coming not from direct information but rather from a social construction, assumed as true. Psychological researches highlighted that may be easier for an individual to remember information related to social knowledge instead of look at them with a critical eye, so learned scripts will be enriched with new confirmations, undervaluing inconsistent statements. This process may lead to stigma, referred to unusual and unwanted aspects of labeled people, so to made him/her as an avoided person. Gender differences are analyzed: the first offense ascribed to women is to refuse compliance with role expectations. Women have more coercive norms in playing family and social roles, and so greater possibilities to be stigmatized as deviant. Social attitudes seem not to be affected by modernity or new ways of communication, that even may be used to increase their believableness.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol 6 - 7 (2011) Fama e infamia
Chelostoma florisomne
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Chelostoma
Chelostoma florisomne

description: Chelostoma florisomne (Linnaeus, 1758)
 26.VI.2004, friche chemin de fer, Campanula rapunculus, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Asymmetric stochastic transport models with ${\mathcal{U}}_q(\mathfrak{su}(1,1))$ symmetry
Creators: name: Carinci, Gioia
name: Giardina', Cristian
name: Redig, Frank
name: Sasamoto, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the algebraic construction outlined in \cite{CGRS}, we introduce several Markov processes related to the ${\mathcal{U}}_q(\mathfrak{su}(1,1))$ quantum Lie algebra. These processes serve as asymmetric transport models and their algebraic structure easily allows to deduce duality properties of the systems. The results include: (a) the asymmetric version of the Inclusion Process, which is self-dual; (b) the diffusion limit of this process, which is a natural asymmetric analogue of the Brownian Energy Process and which turns out to have the symmetric Inclusion Process as a dual process; (c) the asymmetric analogue of the KMP Process, which also turns out to have a symmetric dual process. We give applications of the various duality relations by computing exponential moments of the current.
description: 51 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.3367
Selecting the special or choosing the common? A high-powered conceptual replication of Kim and Markus’ (1999) pen study
Creators: name: Folwarczny, Michal
name: Bhatnagar, Roopali
name: Otterbring, Tobias
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Kim and Markus (1999; Study 3) found that 74% of European Americans selected a pen with an uncommon (vs. common) color, whereas only 24% of East Asians made such a choice, highlighting a pronounced cross-cultural difference in the extent to which people opt for originality or make majority-based choices. The present high-powered study (N = 729) conceptually replicates the results from Kim and Markus (1999; Study 3), although our effect size (r = .12) is significantly weaker than that of the original study (r = .52). Interestingly, a larger proportion of Chinese, but not the US, participants selected a pen with an uncommon color now than during the original study. Thus, our findings indicate a potential transmission of certain western values to cultures traditionally characterized by collectivism and conformity, likely exacerbated by the globalization of mass media and the rapid economic growth in many East Asian countries.
Tentative insight into the multiplicity of the persistent dust maker WR106 from X-ray observations
Creators: name: De Becker, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the results of the analysis of the very first dedicated X-ray observation with XMM-Newton of WR106. This carbon-rich WC9d Wolf-Rayet star belongs to the category of persistent dust makers (WCd stars). The issue of the multiplicity of these dust makers is pivotal to understand the dust formation process, and in this context X-ray observations may allow to reveal an X-ray emission attributable to colliding-winds in a binary system. The main result of this analysis is the lack of detection of X-rays coming from WR106. Upper limits on the X-ray flux are estimated, but the derived numbers are not sufficient to provide compelling constraints on the existence or not of a colliding-wind region. Detailed inspection of archive data bases reveals that persistent dust makers have been poorly investigated by the most sensitive X-ray observatories. Certainly, the combination of several approaches to indirectly constrain their multiplicity should be applied to lift a part of the veil on the nature of these persistent dust makers.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in New Astronomy (in press)
Home and Away: Home, Migrancy, and Belonging Through Landscape Photographic Practice
Creators: name: Pollard, Ingrid
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The thesis consists of six bodies of photographic visual works: the exhibitions Self Evident, Regarding the Frame, and Oceans Apart, the publication Hidden in a Public Place, an artist-curator project, TradeWinds-LandFall and the video Belonging in Britain. The works are primarily lens-based practice and have been published and exhibited during the last ten years. The overall field of enquiry across the six works is concerned with the issues of Place, situated within the key themes of Home, Migrancy, and Belonging. The accompanying text details the development of the works through multiple readings of the relationship between material practices and ideas of landscape, Britishness and race. By taking a historical, but not chronological examination of the works the chapters examine aspects of the visual politics of landscape aligned with cultural experience and explore how these are expressed across a range of media and theoretical strands. The vital discussion of visual and material practice within the commentary is indicated and accompanied by extensive Supplementary Evidence, Appendix A (page 99). This appendix includes exhibition catalogues, research publications, and audio, music CD and DVD video extracts. This evidence positions the theoretical concepts within the parameters of the practice based research. The thesis also assigns authority to ‘other voices’ for a more nuanced response to the complexity of archive work. The thesis challenges and complicates ideas of rootedness to examine the possibilities of meaningful immersions and interactions within communities related to personal biography, history and diaspora as a practice method. In this sense the work locates ways, through practice, which have challenged conventional thinking about identity that limit the discourse and communication around race with the historical classification of ‘black arts’.
Demonstration of novel high-power acoustic through-the-wall sensor
Creators: name: Felber, Franklin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A high-power acoustic sensor, capable of detecting and tracking persons through steel walls of cargo containers, trailer truck bodies, and train cars, has been developed and demonstrated. The sensor is based on a new concept for narrowband mechanical-impact acoustic transmitters and matched resonant receivers. The lightweight, compact, and low-cost transmitters produce high-power acoustic pulses at one or more discrete frequencies with little input power. The energy for each pulse is accumulated over long times at low powers, like a mousetrap, and therefore can be operated with ordinary batteries and no power conditioning. A breadboard impact-transmitter and matched-receiver system that detected human motion through thick walls with only rudimentary signal processing is described, and results are presented. A conceptual design is presented of an acoustic through-the-wall sensor, costing about $10,000 per unit and capable of remotely and non-intrusively scanning steel cargo containers for stowaways at a rate of two containers per minute. Advantages of acoustic through-the-wall sensors over radar are: Sound penetrates metal walls; and acoustic sensors are sensitive to small and slow motions, and so can detect stationary persons by breathing motion alone. Other attractive features include: high-resolution locating and tracking; portability; low cost; quick and easy preparation and deployment; and near-real-time data processing and display. These features provide a robust stand-alone through-the-wall surveillance capability or an excellent complement to a radar sensor.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, published in Proc. SPIE
Assessing the Satisfaction of Citizens Using Teleconsent in Clinical Research
Creators: name: Khairat, Saif
name: Newlin, Thomas
name: Ottmar, Paige
name: McCall, Terika
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Researchers tested the functionality, and evaluated the feasibility of a telemedicine software, Doxy.me, to complete informed teleconsent sessions remotely with prospective research participants. Twenty healthy volunteers completed a teleconsent session, and web survey assessing overall experience and satisfaction with the Doxy.me software. There was a statistically significant correlation found between age and mean response for the overall reaction category (r = 0.398, p = 0.091) and the systems capabilities category (r = 0.380, p = 0.099). Results suggested that younger users are more satisfied than older users with using teleconsent as a modality for informed consenting. This information will be used to improve the software design and functionality of the Doxy.me software to make the teleconsent experience as simple and intuitive as possible.
Chelostoma rapunculi
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Chelostoma
Chelostoma rapunculi

description: Chelostoma rapunculi (Lepeletier, 1841)
 26.VI.2004, friche chemin de fer, Campanula rapunculus, 3J, Cirsium sp., 1♀; 26.VI.2004, percée vers bassin d'orage, Cirsium sp., 1J; 18.VII.2013, Campanula sp., 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Using the Results of Benchmarking in Surgical Care to Improve Quality – the Role of Feedback and Communication Strategies: A Rapid Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Anja, Domenghino
name: Hincapié, Cesar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Medical Education
subject: Surgery
subject: benchmarking
subject: best possible outcome
subject: communication strategies
subject: feedback
subject: interventional medicine
subject: surgery

description: Benchmarking applications have been successfully used in industry for the last few decades – they describe a systematic way to identify superior processes and practices to be adopted by an organization to reduce costs, increase reliability, and provide greater customer satisfaction. During the last 20 years benchmarking has become more popular in healthcare and surgery. While outcomes after a given procedure have been compared mostly with average results, recently the definition of and comparison to best possible outcomes is becoming more common. There are different benchmarking methodologies in healthcare literature and varying approaches to determine benchmarks - to strive towards the “best possible outcomes”. Our scoping review will focus on feedback and communication strategies in benchmarking and surgical healthcare to promote change and quality improvement when talking to surgeons and interventionalists, as well as department heads. This review is done as part of the “Benchmarking in surgery” Panel for the consensus conference, OUTCOME4MEDICINE. This consensus conference has the challenging aim to develop consensus on how to measure and report outcomes after medical interventions. In a separate related scoping review of our Panel 6 group, we will map the literature to identify and characterize the methodological standards and general practices of benchmarking in surgery. www.outcome4medicine.ch
De la militante parcial a la militante total. La militancia comunista de la mujer española durante el franquismo
Creators: name: Pala, Giaime
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the type of military roles that Catalan Communist women held during the years of Franco’s dictatorship. The secrecy and harshness of the repression exercised by General Francisco Franco’s regime led the Catalan Communist Party (PSUC) to employ, for a sustained period of time, a type of heavily masculinised activism, in which physical endurance, “manly” courage and the possibility of full-time devotion to political work, limited the female communist activist to the supporting role of “assistant to the militant-man”. It was during the last years of Franco’s dictatorship that, while fighting against the Regime, many female militants questioned both these forms of militant inequality and the gender relations within the party.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol 6 - 7 (2011) Fama e infamia
Sleep, Stress and Aggression: A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: , Olivia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Sleep is a fundamental biological process that is critical for healthy brain function. It is therefore unsurprising that sleep disturbances are common in many clinical disorders. There is evidence to suggest that the global average duration of sleep per night is decreasing, and that the prevalence of sleep disturbances and disorders are increasing. However, less well understood is how sleep is related to specific behavioural characteristics such as stress and aggression; despite more than three decades of research on these topics, individual research studies have failed to identify consistent results. The present study was therefore designed to provide the first meta-analytic review of the relationship between sleep with both stress and aggression.
Volume product of planar polar convex bodies --- lower estimates with stability
Creators: name: Böröczky, K. J.
name: Makai, E.
name: Meyer, M.
name: Reisner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A40

description: Let $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ be an $o$-symmetric convex body, and $K^*$ its polar body. Then we have $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge 8$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a parallelogram. ($| \cdot |$ denotes volume). If $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ is a convex body, with $o \in {\text{int}}\,K$, then $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge 27/4$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a triangle and $o$ is its centroid. If $K \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ is a convex body, then we have $|K| \cdot |[(K-K)/2)]^* | \ge 6$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a triangle. These theorems are due to Mahler and Reisner, Mahler and Meyer, and to Eggleston, respectively. We show an analogous theorem: if $K$ has $n$-fold rotational symmetry about $o$, then $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge n^2 \sin ^2 ( π/n)$, with equality if and only if $K$ is a regular $n$-gon of centre $o$. We will also give stability variants of these four inequalities, both for the body, and for the centre of polarity. For this we use the Banach-Mazur distance (from parallelograms, or triangles), or its analogue with similar copies rather than affine transforms (from regular $n$-gons), respectively. The stability variants are sharp, up to constant factors. We extend the inequality $|K|\cdot |K^*| \ge n^2 \sin ^2 ( π/n)$ to bodies with $o \in {\text{int}}\,K$, which contain, and are contained in, two regular $n$-gons, the vertices of the contained $n$-gon being incident to the sides of the containing $n$-gon. Our key lemma is a stability estimate for the area product of two sectors of convex bodies polar to each other. To several of our statements we give several proofs; in particular, we give a new proof for the theorem of Mahler-Reisner.
description: 49 TEX pages
Safety Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Tashjian, Sarah
name: Wise, Toby
name: mobbs, dean
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Update to preregistration filed February 23, 2021. Hypotheses - (H1) Models will examine degree of MB control in response to safety compared to reward rather than dynamism as initially stated. Measured variables - Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods will be used to assess model-based control. Statistical models - Two weighting parameters will be specified for each of safety and reward.
A Social Care Co-operative: Doing Care Differently
Creators: name: Oliver, Jonathan
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: social care
co-operative
community business
learning disabilities
neoliberalism
asset-based approaches
situational analysis
grounded theory

description: A manifestation of neoliberal ideas, which has been linked to a general erosion of working conditions and the quality of care in the UK care sector, is the recent trend for local authorities to respond to their budgets being cut by outsourcing care to privately-owned companies (Button & Bedford, 2019; Jensen, 2018). The consensus of long-term crisis in the sector has necessitated the exploration of alternative ownership models, including social care co-operatives (SCCs), a type of ‘community business’ which take an asset-based approach (ABA) by responding to needs in particular geographical places, seeking to benefit whole local communities, and ensure that communities are able to influence the direction of the business (Hopkins & Rippon, 2015; Richards et al., 2018). This research conducted semi-structured interviews with 9 members of ‘Care Co-operative’ (CC) (a pseudonym), a multi-stakeholder SCC in Wales, and aimed to explore the social processes that shape wellbeing in a SCC. Data was analysed using a Situational Analysis methodology, an adaptation of Grounded Theory (GT). Wellbeing at CC was understood in terms of two core processes, ‘constructing equality’ and ‘facilitating relationships’, that were both supported and restricted by a range of contextual factors including Covid-19 and statutory systems. As well as recommendations for service development at CC, implications for policymakers and clinical psychologists wishing to further the growth of ABAs and SCCs are discussed.
Coelioxys rufescens Lepeletier 1852
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Coelioxys
Coelioxys rufescens

description: Coelioxys rufescens Lepeletier, 1852
 26.VI.2004, percée vers bassin d'orage, Cirsium sp., 3J, 1♀, Salvia sp., 2J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
On closed sets of relational constraints and classes of functions closed under variable substitutions
Creators: name: Couceiro, Miguel
name: Foldes, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Pippenger's Galois theory of finite functions and relational constraints is extended to the infinite case. The functions involved are functions of several variables on a set $A$ and taking values in a possibly different set $B$, where any or both of $A$ and $B$ may be finite or infinite.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0810.3212
Fathers’ linguistic input to children who are DHH (Brock & Hampton, 2023)
Creators: name: Brock, Aleah S.
name: Hampton, Claire E.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition
classificationCode: 520405
subject: Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)
classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology

description: Purpose: This study presents an exploration of facilitative language techniques (FLTs) used by fathers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) in the natural environment.Method: This investigation utilized the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) to collect full-day audio samples from three families with children who were DHH and between 22 and 27 months of age. A total of 6 hr of audio recordings per participant was manually coded for the presence of 10 FLTs used by fathers in the natural environment. These data were compared with FLT use by mothers from the same samples.Results: Fathers of children who are DHH used fewer overall FLTs, fewer responsive FLTs, and more directives compared with mothers.Conclusions: Results of this analysis indicate that fathers provide less linguistic input to their children who are DHH in the natural environment. Furthermore, their input tends to be directive in nature rather than responsive to the child. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.Supplemental Material S1. Examples of codes from the study.Brock, A. S., & Hampton, C. E. (2023). The linguistic input of fathers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8(4), 683–692. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00002
The glyph project: The distinctiveness of written characters — online crowdsourcing for a typology of letter shapes
Creators: name: Morin, Olivier
name: Kim, Yoolim
name: Miton, Helena
name: Tang, Marc
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Art and Design
subject: Communication
subject: Comparative and Historical Linguistics
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Digital Humanities
subject: Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Typological Linguistics and Linguistic Diversity
subject: Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Computational Linguistics
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: See the appended pdf file Distinctiveness-prereg-2022-02-03.pdf for a full description of the study.
Relire l’histoire coloniale au XVIIIe siècle. L’édition critique de l’"Histoire des deux Indes"
Creators: name: Platania, Marco
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: En 1781, Guillaume-Thomas Raynal (1713-1796), ancien directeur du “Mercure de France” et l’un des membres les mieux connus de la République des Lettres, s’exile de Paris pour se soustraire au décret du Parlement (25 mai) qui voulait son emprisonnement. Il ne regagnera la France qu’en 1784, et Paris seulement en 1790. Qu’est-ce qui lui avait attiré la rage du Parlement? La Cour de Paris s’en était prise à quatre volumes qui venaient de paraître sous le nom de Raynal: l’Histoire politique et philosophique de l’établissement et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Cette oeuvre, célèbre à l’époque, est aujourd’hui l’objet d’une importante édition critique – la première qui en a jamais été faite. Cette entreprise éditoriale récente se saisit d’un moment important de la vie intellectuelle de la France d’Ancien Régime et de la circulation d’informations à l'échelle non seulement européenne mais mondiale. La présente édition de l’Histoire des deux Indes s'avère ainsi un instrument de travail indispensable pour se plonger au sein du débat sur la colonisation au XVIIIe siècle.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)