cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Revelation of the Veiled in Toni Morrison's Paradise: The Whirling Dervishes in the Harem of the Convent
Creators: name: R. Atieh, Majda
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Religion

description: Muslim women's perspective on liberatory Islamic orality (or empowerment via the oral traditions within Islam) is vastly accentuated in Fatema Mernissi's and Leila Ahmed's examinations of the harem structure. These harem narratives celebrate Sufism, a mystical Islamic theosophy that foregrounds orality and invites a constant search toward divine discovery and liberation from human limitations. Recalling these narratives, Morrison's Paradise (1997) emerges as a harem narrative that culls the liberatory Sufi rituals crystallized by Jalalu 'ddin Rumi, his lineage of the Mevlevi Order, and other Sufi mystics such as Mansur al-Hallaj and Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi. Paradise celebrates Sufism as a paradigmatic vision for female resistance, empowerment, and liberation.
sj-pdf-1-jbx-10.1177_24725552211026245 – Supplemental material for High-Throughput Screening to Identify Small Molecules That Selectively Inhibit APOL1 Protein Level in Podocytes
Creators: name: Choy, Jonathan
name: Kan, Yanqing
name: Cifelli, Steve
name: Johnson, Josephine
name: Chen, Michelle
name: Shiao, Lin-Lin
name: Zhou, Haihong
name: Previs, Stephen
name: Lei, Ying
name: Johnstone, Richard
name: Liaw, Andy
name: Saigal, Ashmita
name: Hu, Lufei
name: Ramos, Robert
name: Visconti, Richard
name: McElroy, William T.
name: Kreamer, Anthony
name: Wildey, Mary-Jo
name: Peier, Andrea
name: Shin, Myung K.
name: Imbriglio, Jason
name: Ren, Zhao
name: Hoek, Maarten
name: Weinglass, Adam
name: Ai, Xi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jbx-10.1177_24725552211026245 for High-Throughput Screening to Identify Small Molecules That Selectively Inhibit APOL1 Protein Level in Podocytes by Jonathan Choy, Yanqing Kan, Steve Cifelli, Josephine Johnson, Michelle Chen, Lin-Lin Shiao, Haihong Zhou, Stephen Previs, Ying Lei, Richard Johnstone, Andy Liaw, Ashmita Saigal, Lufei Hu, Robert Ramos, Richard Visconti, William T. McElroy, Anthony Kreamer, Mary-Jo Wildey, Andrea Peier, Myung K. Shin, Jason Imbriglio, Zhao Ren, Maarten Hoek, Adam Weinglass and Xi Ai in SLAS Discovery
"The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound": Following Memory's Storyline with Mystory
Creators: name: Dana Rust, Martha
name: England, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: American literature
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Teaching
subject: Russia
subject: History

description: "A colored spiral in a small ball of glass, this is how I see my own life," writes Vladimir Nabokov in his memoir, Speak, Memory. In our course “What is Memory?” we read and write with Nabokov’s life story using our own form of Gregory Ulmer’s "mystory" mode of writing as a way to discover the life cycles of memories--ours and our students as well as those related by Nabokov--and to explore their tendencies to constellate around images, objects, and their metaphorical relations--the spiral, for instance. Following Ulmer, our mystory is modeled after Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. Like A Lover’s Discourse, it is based on a "tutor text": A Lover’s Discourse’s tutor text is Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther; ours is Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. Like A Lover’s Discourse, our mystory consists of a collection of "figures," short open-ended compositions in which we write with and after Nabokov, weaving our responses to the autobiography with our own and each others' memories, including autobiographical and collective memories as well as memories of other texts. This "weaving" process is supported by our use of Scalar a multi-modal web-authoring platform, as the environment for our collaborative work. Coupling the responsive mystory mode of studying a memoir to the collaborative Scalar writing environment facilitates students’ appreciation of the similarities between life writing and story writing, thereby also helping them to recognize the activity of remembering as itself a creative process.
A McKeonist Understanding of Kenneth Burke's Rhetorical Realism in Particular and Constructivism in General
Creators: name: Victor Wess, Robert
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Rhetoric

description: Readers of KB Journal likely know Richard McKeon mainly through his essays on rhetoric and his relationship to Kenneth Burke. But McKeon was first and foremost a philosopher who came to rhetoric in mid-career, so that his work is a philosophical path to and defense of rhetoric. This path, moreover, precisely because of its philosophical depth, offers insight into why "the linguistic turn," which began sooner than is commonly thought today, culminated in "the rhetorical turn" that informs constructivist theorizing in general and that is perhaps best exemplified by Burke's "rhetorical realism" in particular.
sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211026130 – Supplemental material for An Investigation of the Relationship Between Cross-Race Friendships and Attraction
Creators: name: Thai, Michael
name: O’Donnell, Alexander W.
name: Turner, Rhiannon N.
name: Barlow, Fiona Kate
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-psp-10.1177_01461672211026130 for An Investigation of the Relationship Between Cross-Race Friendships and Attraction by Michael Thai, Alexander W. O’Donnell, Rhiannon N. Turner and Fiona Kate Barlow in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Additional file 7 of Deficits in mitochondrial TCA cycle and OXPHOS precede rod photoreceptor degeneration during chronic HIF activation
Creators: name: Todorova, Vyara
name: Stauffacher, Mia Fee
name: Ravotto, Luca
name: Nötzli, Sarah
name: Karademir, Duygu
name: Ebner, Lynn J. A.
name: Imsand, Cornelia
name: Merolla, Luca
name: Hauck, Stefanie M.
name: Samardzija, Marijana
name: Saab, Aiman S.
name: Barros, L. Felipe
name: Weber, Bruno
name: Grimm, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S3. Top 50 differentially regulated proteins in the PS of  $$rod^{\varDelta\ Vhl}$$ r o d Δ V h l mice.
A Burkean Approach to Education in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Creators: name: Victor Wess, Robert
Publisher: name: Parlor Press
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Ecocriticism
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Literature
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities

description: Conceived humanistically, education is the study of what it means to be human. For Burke, humans are "symbol-using animals" or "bodies that learn language." Burke understands humans both biologically, as part of the earth's ecosystem, and linguistically, as a distinctive way to inhabit the earth. This combination points toward the day when science and the humanities can stop talking past one another ("the two cultures") in order to begin to learn from one another.
title: Leadership and multicultural education: An analysis of multicultural leadership practice in a Cypriot primary school
Creators: name: Savvidis, Thanasis
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: This study set out to gain an understanding of the leadership practice in response to the multicultural orientation of education due to the increasingly multicultural environment of schools in Cyprus. The research aimed to analyse the complexity of leadership and ME by investigating the different school stakeholders' roles in and contribution to the leadership behaviour and practice of ME in a Cypriot primary school. Aiming to provide an in depth and rounded view of the beliefs, and behaviours of the different stakeholders that may affect the processes of leadership practice for ME, the study adopted a qualitative, case study design. Purposive sampling and criterion-based selection were used to select a primary school and to identify stakeholders within that school to participate in the study. The participants were the headteacher, teachers, parents, students and inspector of the school. The main research instrument employed as the semi-structured interview. Other data collection methods included observation, concept map, conversation, documents and open questionnaire. Data were analysed using thematic analysis by employing themes and codes both preconceived as well as grounded in the data. The study used Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model as a conceptual framework to analyse the evidence and examine the research aims. The findings reveal the complexity of multicultural leadership practice and the influence of the different school stakeholders' beliefs and behaviour. Furthermore, the research findings highlight the importance of a moral, democratic and distributed discourse of leadership in response to multiculturalism,: accompanied by forms of transformational and instructional leadership. Another outcome is that the practice of multi cultural leadership is affected by the ecological system of the school in various ways. Finally, some behaviours and characteristics (conceptualizations of ME, multicultural competence, celebrating diversity, parental and communal involvement, state support, school culture, relationships, curriculum, collaboration, experience and personal qualities, school's support system) are presented as those that may enable or disable multicultural leadership practice in the school in numerous different ways. The findings discussed in this report provide important data that could be interesting for researchers and professionals in the field of educational leadership, multi cultural education and school policy. These concern school stakeholders (teachers, headteachers, students, parents, governors and inspectors), policy makers and providers of leadership professional development programmes.
The Transmembrane Protein of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus - K (HERV-K) Modulates Cytokine Release and Gene Expression
Creators: name: Morozov, Vladimir
name: Thi, Viet Loan Dao
name: Denner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Amino Acid Sequence
subject: Molecular Sequence Data
subject: Mice
subject: Peptides/genetics
subject: Membrane Proteins/genetics
subject: Membrane Proteins/metabolism
subject: Leukocytes Mononuclear/metabolism
subject: Viral Proteins/genetics
subject: Viral Proteins/chemistry
subject: Viral Proteins/metabolism
subject: Mice Inbred BALB C
subject: Blotting Western
subject: Binding Sites/genetics
subject: Cell Line Tumor
subject: Cell Proliferation/drug effects
subject: Cells Cultured
subject: Cytokines/genetics
subject: Cytokines/secretion
subject: Endogenous Retroviruses/genetics
subject: Endogenous Retroviruses/metabolism
subject: HEK293 Cells
subject: Interleukin-10/genetics
subject: Interleukin-10/secretion
subject: Leukocytes Mononuclear/cytology
subject: Membrane Proteins/chemistry
subject: Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
subject: Peptides/pharmacology
subject: Spleen/cytology
subject: Spleen/metabolism
subject: Swine/virology
subject: Transcriptome/drug effects
subject: Transcriptome/genetics
subject: Virion/genetics
subject: Virion/metabolism
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Numerous copies of endogenous retroviruses are present in the genome of mammals including man. Although most of them are defective, some, e.g., the human endogenous retroviruses HERV-K, were found to be expressed under certain physiological conditions. For instance, HERV-K is expressed in germ cell tumours and melanomas as well as in the placenta. Most exogenous retroviruses including the human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 induce severe immunodeficiencies and there is increasing evidence that the transmembrane envelope (TM) proteins of these retroviruses may be involved. We show here that HERV-K particles released from a human teratocarcinoma cell line, a recombinant TM protein and a peptide corresponding to a highly conserved so-called immunosuppressive domain in the TM protein of HERV-K inhibit the proliferation of human immune cells, induce modulation of the expression of numerous cytokines, and modulate the expression of cellular genes as detected by a microarray analysis. The changes in cytokine release and gene expression induced by the TM protein of HERV-K are similar to those found previously induced by the TM protein of HIV-1. These data suggest that the mechanism of immunosuppression may be similar for different retroviruses and that the expression of the TM protein in tumours and in the placenta may suppress immune responses and thus prevent rejection of the tumour and the embryo.
sj-docx-1-jre-10.1177_15562646211012296 – Supplemental material for Perceived Social Influences on Women's Decisions to use Medications not Studied in Pregnancy. A Qualitative Ethical Analysis of Preexposure Prophylaxis Implementation Research in Kenya
Creators: name: Ngure, Kenneth
name: Trinidad, Susan B.
name: Beima-Sofie, Kristin
name: Kinuthia, John
name: Matemo, Daniel
name: Kimemia, Grace
name: Njoroge, Anne
name: Achiro, Lillian
name: Pintye, Jillian
name: Mugo, Nelly R.
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth A.
name: Baeten, Jared M.
name: Heffron, Renee
name: John-Stewart, Grace
name: Kelley, Maureen C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eeg-10.1177_15562646211012296 for Perceived Social Influences on Women's Decisions to use Medications not Studied in Pregnancy. A Qualitative Ethical Analysis of Preexposure Prophylaxis Implementation Research in Kenya by Kenneth Ngure, Susan B. Trinidad, Kristin Beima-Sofie, John Kinuthia, Daniel Matemo, Grace Kimemia, Anne Njoroge, Lillian Achiro, Jillian Pintye, Nelly R. Mugo, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron, Grace John-Stewart and Maureen C. Kelley in Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
Understanding the Impact of Culture on the TESOL Classroom
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching
subject: Education
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: The paper gives eight specific examples of the way Arabian, specifically Omani, culture impacts the learning environment. Teachers are encouraged to explain their own understandings on such classroom issues as lateness, cheating, class participation and asking questions in order to avoid possible misunderstandings. In addition, the author promotes cultural understanding and adjustments to create a positive atmosphere so that teachers and students can concentrate on education.
Detection and Typing of Norovirus from Frozen Strawberries Involved in a Large-Scale Gastroenteritis Outbreak in Germany
Creators: name: Mäde, Dietrich
name: Trübner, Katja
name: Neubert, Eckehard
name: Höhne, Marina
name: Johne, Reimar
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Norovirus
subject: Strawberries
subject: Genotyping
subject: Real-time RT-PCR
subject: Food safety
subject: 610 Medizin

description: During September/October 2012, a norovirus gastroenteritis outbreak affecting about 11,000 people occurred in Germany. Epidemiological studies suggested that frozen strawberries represented the vehicle of infection. We describe here the analysis of frozen strawberries for the presence of norovirus. Samples were taken by applying a stratified subsampling scheme. Two different methods for virus extraction from strawberries were compared. First, viruses were eluted from strawberries under alkaline conditions and concentrated using a polyethylene glycol precipitation. Second, ultrafiltration was applied for concentration of viruses rinsed off of the berries. In both cases, RNA was extracted and analyzed by real-time RT-PCR. Application of the ultrafiltration method generally resulted in a lower detection rate. Noroviruses were detected in 7/11 samples derived from the lot of strawberries implicated in the outbreak using the precipitation method. Typing of norovirus revealed three different genotypes including a combination of norovirus genotype II.16 (viral polymerase) and II.13 (viral capsid). This genotype combination was also found in some of the patients that were involved in the outbreak, but that had not been reported in Germany so far. In conclusion, heterogeneously distributed noroviruses in frozen strawberries can be detected by applying an optimized combination of sampling procedures, virus extraction methods, and real-time RT-PCR protocols. The detection of several different genotypes in the strawberries may suggest contamination from sewage rather than from a single infected food handler.
NUMERICAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF RESIDUAL STRESSES AND MICROSTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT DURING LASER-BASED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Creators: name: Bailey, Neil S.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This study is focused on the prediction of residual stresses and microstructure development of steel and aluminum alloys during laser-based manufacturing processes by means of multi-physics numerical modeling. A finite element model is developed to predict solid-state phase transformation, material hardness, and residual stresses produced during laser-based manufacturing processes such as laser hardening and laser additive manufacturing processes based on the predicted temperature and geometry from a free-surface tracking laser deposition model. The solid-state phase transformational model considers heating, cooling, and multiple laser track heating and cooling as well as multiple layer tempering effects. The residual stress model is applied to the laser hardening of 4140 steel and to laser direct deposition of H13 tool steel and includes the effects of thermal strain and solid-state phase transformational strain based on the resultant phase distributions. Predicted results, including material hardness and residual stresses, are validated with measured values. Two dendrite growth predictive models are also developed to simulate microsegregation and dendrite growth during laser-based manufacturing processes that involve melting and solidification of multicomponent alloys such as laser welding and laser-based additive manufacturing processes. The first model uses the Phase Field method to predict dendrite growth and microsegregation in 2D and 3D. It is validated against simple 2D and 3D cases of single dendrite growth as well as 2D and 3D cases of multiple dendrite growth. It is then applied to laser welding of aluminum alloy Al 6061 and used to predict microstructure within a small domain. The second model uses a novel technique by combining the Cellular Automata method and the Phase Field method to accurately predict solidification on a larger scale with the intent of modeling dendrite growth. The greater computational efficiency of the this model allows for the simulation of entire weld pools in 2D. The model is validated against an analytical model and results in the literature.
Sozialer Status und Teilnahme am Gesundheits-Check-up von Männern und Frauen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse der GEDA-Studie 2009 und 2010
Creators: name: Hoebel, Jens
name: Richter, Matthias
name: Lampert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Robert-Koch-Institut
subject: Gesundheitsverhalten
subject: Krankheitsfrüherkennung
subject: Sozialstatus
subject: Studie
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hintergrund: Auf Basis repräsentativer Daten für Deutschland wurde untersucht, inwieweit die Teilnahme am Gesundheits-Check-up zur Krankheitsfrüherkennung mit verschiedenen Merkmalen des sozialen Status zusammenhängt. Methode: Die Analysen basierten auf Daten der Studie „Gesundheit in Deutschland aktuell“ (GEDA) des Robert Koch-Instituts aus den Jahren 2009 und 2010. Es wurden Angaben zur Teilnahme am Gesundheits-Check-up von gesetzlich Krankenversicherten ab 35 Jahren ausgewertet (n = 26 555). Für die Analysen zum Zusammenhang zwischen Sozialstatus und Teilnahmeverhalten wurden sowohl ein mehrdimensionaler Statusindex als auch die statusbildenden Einzelindikatoren (Bildung, Berufsstatus, Einkommen) herangezogen. Ergebnisse: Insgesamt hatten 50,8 % der Männer ab 35 Jahren und 49,8 % der gleichaltrigen Frauen in den letzten zwei Jahren vor der Befragung am Gesundheits-Check-up teilgenommen. Dabei war ein niedriger Sozialstatus bei Männern und Frauen mit einer geringeren Teilnahme am Gesundheits-Check-up assoziiert (Männer: Odds Ratio [OR] = 0,59; 95-%-Konfidenzintervall [95-%-KI]: 0,50–0,70; p < 0,001; Frauen: OR = 0,63; 95-%-KI: 0,55–0,72; p < 0,001). Diesen Sozialstatuseffekten lagen bei Männern und Frauen eigenständige Effekte der Einkommenssituation und des Berufsstatus zugrunde, wohingegen für den Bildungsstand kein unabhängiger Effekt auf das Teilnahmeverhalten festzustellen war. Schlussfolgerung: Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass sozial benachteiligte Bevölkerungsgruppen mit dem Gesundheits-Check-up schlechter erreicht werden als sozial besser gestellte. Bemühungen um eine Erhöhung der Teilnahme am Gesundheits-Check-up sollten unter anderem die aufgezeigten Unterschiede nach Einkommen und Berufsstatus berücksichtigen.
Understanding the Impact of Culture on the TESOL Classroom
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Education
subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching

description: The paper gives eight specific examples of the way Arabian, specifically Omani, culture impacts the learning environment. Teachers are encouraged to explain their own understandings on such classroom issues as lateness, cheating, class participation and asking questions in order to avoid possible misunderstandings. In addition, the author promotes cultural understanding and adjustments to create a positive atmosphere so that teachers and students can concentrate on education.
sj-pdf-1-jbf-10.1177_22808000211014007 – Supplemental material for Exploration into practical significance of integral water permeability of textile vascular grafts
Creators: name: Guan, Guoping
name: Yu, Chenglong
name: Fang, Xuan
name: Guidoin, Robert
name: King, Martin W
name: Wang, Hongjun
name: Wang, Lu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jbf-10.1177_22808000211014007 for Exploration into practical significance of integral water permeability of textile vascular grafts by Guoping Guan, Chenglong Yu, Xuan Fang, Robert Guidoin, Martin W King, Hongjun Wang and Lu Wang in Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials
Herausforderungen durch Infektionen und mehrfach-resistente Bakterien bei alten Menschen in Heimen
Creators: name: Ruscher, Claudia
name: Schaumann, R.
name: Mielke, Martin
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Alte Menschen
subject: Prävalenz
subject: Mehrfach-resistente Bakterien
subject: Antibiotikaeinsatz
subject: Infektionsprävention
subject: Elderly people
subject: Prevalence
subject: Multiresistant bacteria
subject: Antibiotics use
subject: Infection control
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Nosokomiale Infektionen betreffen nicht nur Patienten, die im Rahmen von Krankenhausaufenthalten behandelt werden, sondern auch Menschen, die im Bereich der stationären und ambulanten Pflege versorgt werden. Da dies in der Regel ältere Menschen sind, birgt der demografische Wandel in Deutschland eine Vielzahl neuer Herausforderungen im Bereich der Infektionsprävention. Der Alterungsprozess des Menschen geht mit einigen physiologischen Veränderungen einher, die die individuelle Disposition gegenüber Infektionskrankheiten erhöhen können. Für alte Menschen, die in Heimen leben, ergeben sich durch den Gemeinschaftsalltag, durch pflegerische Maßnahmen und den teils inadäquaten Einsatz von Antibiotika mitunter zusätzliche Infektionsrisiken. Bakterien, die Resistenzen gegenüber gebräuchlichen antimikrobiellen Wirkstoffen erworben haben, sind auch bei Bewohnern von Pflegeeinrichtungen inzwischen verbreitet. Die Einrichtungen müssen sich im Rahmen ihrer Präventionskonzepte der Aufgabe stellen, eine geeignete Balance zwischen der Wahrung des häuslichen Lebensumfelds und dem Infektionsschutz zu finden, und fühlen sich hierbei vielfach allein gelassen. Der vorliegende Beitrag soll einen Einblick geben in die Charakteristika der Infektionen des alten Menschen, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die stationäre Pflege.
description: Healthcare-associated infections not only affect patients in acute care hospitals but also patients in need of long-term care. As the elderly are generally most affected, the demographic change in Germany faces a range of increasing challenges in the field of infection control. The ageing process itself is accompanied by several physiological and pathological changes which may result in an increase in the risk of infectious diseases. Elderly living in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) may in addition be exposed to further risks due to their everyday life in a community, nursing care and the, to some extent, inappropriate use of antibiotics. Bacteria that have become resistant to commonly used antimicrobial agents are meanwhile prevalent in nursing homes. Caregivers often feel left alone when facing the task of achieving a balance between the need for a comfortable familiar environment and the application of infection control measures according to a resolute prevention strategy. This review aims to give an overview about the characteristics of infections among the elderly, especially with respect to long-term care.
Particle Mechanics Approach to Modeling Impact Response and Wave Propagation in Bonded Particulate Systems
Creators: name: Baker, Caroline E.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Powder and particle technology
Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation
Composite and hybrid materials

description: Particle mechanics approaches to modeling granular solids employ contact laws to determine interparticle forces and moments and time integrators to integrate the Euler-Lagrange equations of motion to obtain the dynamic behavior of the granular system. The aim of this thesis is to present these modeling approaches to study impact response and wave propagation in large bonded particular systems over long times. To achieve this aim, we develop a six-degree-of freedom momentum-preserving explicit time integrator that exhibits nearconservation of total energy and excellent stability over exponentially long times. We use a rescaled Rodriguez parameterization of particle attitude. In addition, we build a complex particle-binder-particle contact law between the particles to account for normal, tangential, torsional, and bending interactions transmitted through an elastic binder. This contact law also includes binder failure mechanisms in both tension and compression, and the resulting direct particle-particle interactions following binder failure. With this integrator and contact law, we explore the microstructural response of a plastic-bonded explosive composed of HMX crystals embedded in a Sylgard® binder to impacts at various velocities ranging from 10 m/s to 400 m/s. Our system includes nearly 100 000 particles and roughly 1.6 million contacts, allowing us to create probability distributions of stresses, strains, and velocities occuring throughout the simulation with a high statistical significance. The majority of the microstructural response appears to depend upon the axial strain more than upon the impact velocity, excepting the interparticle relative approach velocity. Because hotspot formation in PBXs under impact loading is known to occur above a threshold impact velocity, but not below, any physical phenomena related to the formation of such hotspots must also be dependent upon the impact velocity. Thus, we postulate that any rare events, such as the formation of hotspots that generate chain reactions in granular energetic assemblies, are tied to the interparticle approach velocities.
Antibiotika-Resistenzgene als Marker in gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen
Creators: name: Brandt, Peter
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Antibiotika-Resistenzgene
subject: Marker
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Antibiotika-Resistenzgene bakteriellen Ursprungs können bei Transformationsexperimenten mit Pflanzen als Marker-Gene benutzt werden, um bereits in einem sehr frühen Stadium die erfolgreiche Transformation nachzuweisen. Von den rund 1300 Freisetzungsvorhaben in der EU seit 1991 waren rund 800 Projekte mit transgenen Pflanzen, die Antibiotika-Resistenzgene enthielten. Neben amp, kan und hph wurde hauptsächlich nptll als Marker-Gen verwendet. Von den 14 transgenen Pflanzen, deren Inverkehrbringen EU-weit genehmigt worden ist, enthalten sieben keine Antibiotika-Resistenzgene, fünf das nptll und zwei das amp (bzw. einen Teil davon). Die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Übertragung von Antibiotika-Resistenzgenen aus dem transgenen Pflanzenmaterial auf Mikroorganismen wird als sehr gering eingestuft, ist jedoch nicht gänzlich auszuschließen. Inwieweit sich aus einer solchen Übertragung eine veränderte Situation in Bezug auf die Verbreitung des jeweiligen Antibiotika-Resistenzgens herleiten läßt, ist vor dem Hintergrund seines heutigen natürlichen Auftretens sowie in Bezug auf den therapeutischen Einsatz der relevanten Antibiotika zu erwägen. Bei Verwendung von nptll, amp, kan oder hph als Marker-Gene in transgenen Pflanzen ist nicht davon auszugehen, daß sich diese Antibiotika-Resistenzen weiter ausbreiten und damit ein zusätzliches Gefährdungspotential für Mensch oder Tier darstellen. In einem Ausblick werden drei alternative Transformationsmethoden ohne den Einsatz von Antibiotika-Resistenzgenen kurz erläutert.
Analyzing Arabic Teaching to Improve English Teaching
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching
subject: Middle East
subject: Language and languages
subject: Arabic language
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: Do you remember how it felt to be a confused, foreign language student? The presenter will explain how five weeks as a full-time, beginning Arabic language student produced helpful insights into how Arabian Peninsula students are taught. These insights led to changed and improved pedagogical methods in English language classrooms.
AIDS und HIV-Infektionen bei Frauen und Kindern in Deutschland
Creators: name: Marcus, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: HIV
subject: AIDS
subject: Deutschland
subject: Kinder
subject: Frauen
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Der Anteil von Frauen an den HIV-Infizierten und AIDS-Patienten in Deutschland ist – wie in anderen Industriestaaten – deutlich geringer als der der Männer. Die unterschiedliche Betroffenheit von Frauen in den Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern ist auf soziale, kulturelle und ökonomische Ursachen zurückzuführen. Im Verlauf der HIV-Epidemie in Deutschland hat der Anteil von Frauen an den Infizierten langsam, aber stetig zugenommen und liegt derzeit bei etwa 20%. Auch die Infektionsrisiken haben sich gewandelt: Anfangs war die Mehrheit der weiblichen Infizierten i.v. drogenabhängig, seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre ist der heterosexuelle Übertragungsweg der bedeutendste Infektionsweg. Trotz der zahlenmäßigen Zunahme HIV-infizierter Frauen sank die Zahl perinatal mit HIV infizierter Kinder in den vergangenen fünf Jahren. Dies ist auf eine Kombination medikamentöser Prophylaxe und geburtshilflicher Maßnahmen zurückzuführen, die sich in Deutschland seit 1994 als Standardvorgehen etabliert haben. Mit diesem Vorgehen konnte das Übertragungsrisiko von Mutter zu Kind auf unter 2% gesenkt werden. Da die Maßnahmen nur bei Kenntnis der HIV-Infektion der Mutter eingesetzt werden können, sollte möglichst allen Schwangeren ein HIV-Antikörpertest mit entsprechender Aufklärung und Beratung angeboten werden.
description: The proportion of women among people with HIV infection and AIDS in Germany is considerably smaller than the proportion of men. The differential extent of the HIV epidemic in women in developed and developing countries is caused by certain social, cultural and economic conditions. During the course of the HIV epidemic in Germany the proportion of females among the infected persons has increased slowly, but steadily and has reached 20% by now. Also the transmission risks have changed. In the beginning of the epidemic the majority of women with HIV infection were IDU (intravenous drug users), since the nineties the majority has been infected by heterosexual intercourse. Despite the increase of HIV infected females the number of perinatally infected children has been decreasing in the last five years. This is because a combination of antiretroviral prophylactic therapy with primary cesarean section as the mode of delivery has been established as the standard procedure in Germany. With this procedure the transmission risk from mother to children declined to below 2%. Because these measures can only be used, if the HIV status of the pregnant women is known, HIV antibody testing with adequate counselling should be offered to all pregnant women.
High-Shear Deformation Processing on Aluminum Alloy for Sheet Production
Creators: name: Bai, Xiaolong
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Aluminum alloy sheets are typically manufactured from cast slabs by multi-step rolling and annealing process. This process is very energy intensive, especially in the homogenization process after casting, which usually is conducted at 480 to 580 ℃ for up to 48 h. To reduce the processing steps and energy, a shear-based single-step deformation process, large strain extrusion machining (LSEM), was used to create strips from AA6013-T6 with and without preheating of the workpiece. Continuous strips were obtained from this alloy with low workability. Flow patterns through the thickness of the strips exhibited primary shear with grains inclined steeply to the faces of the strips, modified to varying degrees by secondary shear from friction with the tools at the surfaces. Through control of the deformation parameters (strain, strain rate and temperature), a wide range of microstructure could be achieved. In high-temperature LSEM, dynamic recrystallization occurs at lower temperatures than in commercial hot rolling processes.
LSEM was performed directly on the as-cast AA6013 without homogenization. By appropriate combination of strain and strain rate, continuous strips were obtained in a single step without preheating directly from the as-cast workpiece. The highly deformed LSEM strip has enhanced workability. It can be cold rolled with at least 73% reduction in a single step without cracking. The strips were characterized by strong shear texture with partial {111} and <110> fibers. After annealing, a mixed texture containing simple shear texture and other texture develops. The annealed strips are expected to have better formability than commercial ones made by rolling.

In comparison, multi-step warm-rolling and cold rolling were performed on the as-cast AA6013. The as-cast material was preheated to 300 ℃ and rolled with 12% reduction per pass till the same effective strain as the LSEM. The warm-rolled strips were then cold-rolled with the same reductions as those on LSEM strips. The results showed that during warm rolling process, cracking occurs on the strips before reaching the same effective strain and the warm-rolled strips can only be further cold rolled with reduction less than 26% before cracking, compared with 73% reduction without cracking for LSEM strips.

Based on the simple shear LSEM process, a novel way to produce aluminum strip/sheet material is introduced. The alloys are cast into disk-shape workpiece and then transferred to the LSEM line. In this line, continuous strips/sheets are obtained in a single step at room temperature. The materials are then coiled if needed and cold rolled to the final gauge. Finally, the strips/sheets are solution treated for further deformation processing. In this method, the conventional homogenization and hot rolling, including reversing and multi-stand hot rolling, are replaced by a single-step LSEM process at room temperature.
sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_08902070211028104 - Supplemental material for Prosociality Beyond Big Five Agreeableness and HEXACO Honesty-Humility: Is Openness/Intellect Associated With Cooperativeness in the Public Goods Game?
Creators: name: Lawn, Erin C. R.
name: Zhao, Kun
name: Laham, Simon M.
name: Smillie, Luke D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-erp-10.1177_08902070211028104 for Prosociality Beyond Big Five Agreeableness and HEXACO Honesty-Humility: Is Openness/Intellect Associated With Cooperativeness in the Public Goods Game? by Erin C. R. Lawn, Kun Zhao, Simon M. Laham and Luke D. Smillie in European Journal of Personality
Additional file 10 of Clinical characteristics and survival prediction of surgical patients with invasive pancreatic cystic neoplasm: a large retrospective study over two decades
Creators: name: Song, Yanjing
name: Li, Zhe
name: Cui, Hongyuan
name: Xu, Jingyong
name: Song, Jinghai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 10: Table S7. Demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of patients diagnosed with iIPMN and PDAC before and after propensity score matching.
Hygiene perception changes during the influenza A H1N1 pandemic in Germany: incorporating the results of two cross-sectional telephone surveys 2008–2009
Creators: name: Meilicke, Gerald
name: Riedmann, Klaus
name: Biederbick, Walter
name: Müller, Ute
name: Wierer, Traugott
name: Bartels, Cornelius
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Adolescent
subject: Adult
subject: Cross-Sectional Studies
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Young Adult
subject: Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice
subject: Influenza Human/prevention & control
subject: Pandemics
subject: Influenza Human/epidemiology
subject: Multivariate Analysis
subject: Influenza A Virus H1N1 Subtype/isolation & purification
subject: Hand Disinfection/trends
subject: Health Surveys/methods
subject: Hygiene
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The federal campaign Wir gegen Viren [Us against viruses] promoted hygiene in Germany during the influenza A H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The intervention aimed to encourage people to protect themselves against respiratory infections by simple means of hygiene behaviour. Quantitative research was carried out to outline changes in hygiene perception of the population over time, and to find out whether the potential hygiene perception changes were consistent to the federal campaign about hygiene or not. Methods: To determine changes in the hygiene perception of the population, two cross-sectional telephone surveys were held, each one with n = 2006 participants. The initial survey was carried out before the influenza A H1N1 pandemic in calendar week 49–51 in 2008 and the second in week 48 in 2009 directly after the peak of the pandemic in Germany. The questionnaire contained indicators about perceived hand hygiene efficacy, preference for coughing into the sleeve, propensity for presenteeism while showing symptoms of a cold and acceptance of hygiene masks. Results: The proportion of people who perceive the efficacy of hand washing as “very good” increased significantly from 50.9% in 2008 to 61.1% in 2009. The proportion of people who perceive coughing into the sleeve as the best way to cough increased even more dramatically from 4.8% in 2008 to 38.3% in 2009. In contrast the propensity for presenteeism decreased significantly: The proportion of people who state that they always report to work while they show symptoms of a cold decreased from 50.8% in 2008 to 40.9% in 2009. Acceptance of hygiene masks has not changed significantly from 2008 to 2009. Conclusions: The results revealed changes in hygiene perception during influenza A H1N1 pandemic in Germany. The changes we found are in accordance with the hygiene recommendations given by the federal campaign Wir gegen Viren [Us against viruses]. Results can constitute a practical benchmark for future research about hygiene perception and hygiene promotion for adults. A pivotal question is: does the increase in hygiene perception persist after the pandemic has ceased?
sj-pdf-1-apr-10.1177_1532673X211027859 – Supplemental material for Place or Partisanship? The Conditional Role of Identities on Candidate Support
Creators: name: Fudge, Daniel
name: Armaly, Miles T.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-apr-10.1177_1532673X211027859 for Place or Partisanship? The Conditional Role of Identities on Candidate Support by Daniel Fudge and Miles T. Armaly in American Politics Research
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jbd-10.1177_01650254211022858 - Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International
Creators: name: Tirrell, Jonathan M.
name: Hay, Samuel W.
name: Gansert, Patricia K.
name: Le, Trang U.
name: O’Neil, Bridget C.
name: Vaughn, Jennifer M.
name: Bishara, Leanne
name: Tan, Esther
name: Lerner, Jacqueline V.
name: King, Pamela Ebstyne
name: Dowling, Elizabeth M.
name: Williams, Kate
name: Iraheta, Guillermo
name: Sim, Alistair T. R.
name: Lerner, Richard M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jbd-10.1177_01650254211022858 for Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International by Jonathan M. Tirrell, Samuel W. Hay, Patricia K. Gansert, Trang U. Le, Bridget C. O’Neil, Jennifer M. Vaughn, Leanne Bishara, Esther Tan, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Pamela Ebstyne King, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Kate Williams, Guillermo Iraheta, Alistair T. R. Sim and Richard M. Lerner in International Journal of Behavioral Development
Genome and Transcriptome Adaptation Accompanying Emergence of the Definitive Type 2 Host-Restricted Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Pathovar
Creators: name: Kingsley, Robert A.
name: Kay, Sally
name: Connor, Thomas
name: Barquist, Lars
name: Sait, Leanne
name: Holt, Kathryn E.
name: Sivaraman, Karthi
name: Wileman, Thomas
name: Goulding, David
name: Clare, Simon
name: Hale, Christine
name: Seshasayee, Aswin
name: Harris, Simon
name: Thomson, Nicholas R.
name: Gardner, Paul
name: Rabsch, Wolfgang
name: Wigley, Paul
name: Humphrey, Tom
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Dougan, Gordon
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive type 2 (DT2) is host restricted to Columba livia (rock or feral pigeon) but is also closely related to S. Typhimurium isolates that circulate in livestock and cause a zoonosis characterized by gastroenteritis in humans. DT2 isolates formed a distinct phylogenetic cluster within S. Typhimurium based on whole-genome-sequence polymorphisms. Comparative genome analysis of DT2 94-213 and S. Typhimurium SL1344, DT104, and D23580 identified few differences in gene content with the exception of variations within prophages. However, DT2 94-213 harbored 22 pseudogenes that were intact in other closely related S. Typhimurium strains. We report a novel in silico approach to identify single amino acid substitutions in proteins that have a high probability of a functional impact. One polymorphism identified using this method, a single-residue deletion in the Tar protein, abrogated chemotaxis to aspartate in vitro. DT2 94-213 also exhibited an altered transcriptional profile in response to culture at 42°C compared to that of SL1344. Such differentially regulated genes included a number involved in flagellum biosynthesis and motility. IMPORTANCE Whereas Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium can infect a wide range of animal species, some variants within this serovar exhibit a more limited host range and altered disease potential. Phylogenetic analysis based on whole-genome sequences can identify lineages associated with specific virulence traits, including host adaptation. This study represents one of the first to link pathogen-specific genetic signatures, including coding capacity, genome degradation, and transcriptional responses to host adaptation within a Salmonella serovar. We performed comparative genome analysis of reference and pigeon-adapted definitive type 2 (DT2) S. Typhimurium isolates alongside phenotypic and transcriptome analyses, to identify genetic signatures linked to host adaptation within the DT2 lineage.
Analyzing Arabic Teaching to Improve English Teaching
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arabic language
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Language and languages
subject: Middle East
subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching

description: Do you remember how it felt to be a confused, foreign language student? The presenter will explain how five weeks as a full-time, beginning Arabic language student produced helpful insights into how Arabian Peninsula students are taught. These insights led to changed and improved pedagogical methods in English language classrooms.
Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag
Creators: name: Seymour, Nicole
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Ecocriticism
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mass media--Study and teaching

description: This article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour argues that these performances—which include, for example, a human inserting a fishhook in his face before being thrown into shark-infested waters—constitute an extension of this media corpus's general investment in affective interconnectivity. As Seymour shows, such performances ask us to feel along with the performers, which includes feeling along with them as animals. Paying attention to the comic as well as the tragic resonances of animal drag, the article outlines the ethical role that nonserious affective modes can play in probing the trans-, or intersectional and interdependent, nature of human and nonhuman life.