cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of ERK/Nrf2 pathway activation by caffeic acid in HepG2 cells alleviates its hepatocellular damage caused by t-butylhydroperoxide-induced oxidative stress
Creators: name: Sung-Yong Yang
name: Pyo, Min
name: Nam, Mi-Hyun
name: Kwang-Won Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. The cDNA sequences of primers for RT-PCR and qRT-PCR. (DOCX 17 kb)
Double quantization of $\cp$ type orbits by generalized Verma modules
Creators: name: Donin, J.
name: Gurevich, D.
name: Khoroshkin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is known that symmetric orbits in ${\bf g}^*$ for any simple Lie algebra ${\bf g}$ are equiped with a Poisson pencil generated by the Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau bracket and the reduced Sklyanin bracket associated to the "canonical" R-matrix. We realize quantization of this Poisson pencil on $\cp$ type orbits (i.e. orbits in $sl(n+1)^*$ whose real compact form is $ CP^n$) by means of q-deformed Verma modules.
description: 21 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Scintilla DESHAYES 1856
Creators: name: Lützen, Jørgen
name: Nielsen, Claus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Haptophyta
Coccolithophyceae
Isochrysidales
Isochrysidaceae
Scintilla

description: GENUS SCINTILLA DESHAYES, 1856
Shell more or less inflated, rather thin, smooth, polished. Umbones moderately prominent, submedian or anterior to middle. Right valve with a single prominent cardinal, left valve with two somewhat divergent cardinals. Posterior laterals present.
Shell may be completely concealed by mid-mantle folds, which anteriorly extend beyond the shell to form a wide inhalant-pedal gape. The small posterior exhalant siphon is low and conical. Each opening is dorsally guarded by an unpaired siphonal tentacle, longer or stouter than any other tentacle present. The exposed mantle is provided with shorter papillae and/or longer tentacles, many of which are distinctly paired.
 Type species: Scintilla philippinensis Deshayes, 1856 (subsequent designation by Stoliczka, 1871).
 Remarks
 Two species of Scintilla ( S. sannio sp. nov.  and  S. papillosa sp. nov. ) are only provisionally referred to the genus since they do not entirely satisfy the above diagnosis.
 SCINTILLA PHILIPPINENSIS DESHAYES, 1856
(FIGS 3A- C, 7, 8)
 Scintilla philippinensis Deshayes, 1856b: 176. – Adams & Adams, 1857: 480, pl. 115, fig. 4. Sowerby, 1862: 179, pl. 235, figs 31, 32. Sowerby, 1874: species 5, pl. I, fig. 5a, b. Lynge, 1909: 186. Habe, 1977: 151. Morris & Purchon, 1981: 324. Higo, Callomon & Goto, 1999: 460. Higo, Callomon & Goto, 2001: 160, B667.
 Scintilla reevei Deshayes, 1856b: 176 (syn. nov.). – Sowerby, 1874: species 4, pl. I, fig. 4a, b.
 Material examined
 Holotype: BMNH 196745 /1, Island of Cebu, Philippines, SL = 14.1 mm.
 Museum material: Holotype of S. reevei: BMNH 196770, Bais, Island of Negros, Philippines, SL = 16.2 mm. BMNH, unregistered: specimens from Port Blair, Andaman Islands; Pulau Bidang, N of Penang, and Pulau Perhentian, E coast of Malaysia; Pulau Blakang, Mati, Mindanao, Philippines; Trincomalee, Sri Lanka; Krusadai, Gulf of Manaar. ZMUC, unregistered: Koh Kahdat, Gulf of Thailand, one specimen.
 New material: Reef off PMBC: 16 and 20 February 1982, eight specimens; 24 and 26 February 2002, five specimens; 6 and 9 February 2003, 11 specimens (one of them PMBC 20093, the other ten dissected or sectioned); Ao Tung Khen: 8 February 2003, one specimen.
description: Published as part of Lützen, Jørgen & Nielsen, Claus, 2005, Galeommatid bivalves from Phuket, Thailand, pp. 261-308 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (3) on page 264, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00168.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434040
Diagnosis and predictors of post-implantation syndrome following endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms – a narrative review
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Tiago F.
name: Soares Ferreira, Rita
name: Bento, Rita
name: Pais, Fábio
name: Cardoso, Joana
name: Bastos Gonçalves, Frederico
name: Amaral, Carlos
name: Emília Ferreira, Maria
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: After endovascular aortic repair (EVAR), many patients develop a systemic inflammatory response called post-implantation syndrome (PIS). AAA and procedure-related characteristics have been linked with increased odds of developing this syndrome. Similarly, some short- and long-term consequences have been associated with PIS. This study aims to review the literature on the diagnosis and predictors of post-implantation after endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms.

RESULTS: A non-systematic review of the MEDLINE and Scopus databases was performed using the keywords "abdominal aortic aneurysm," "inflammation," and "endovascular techniques.” No time or language limitations were imposed. Manuscripts were considered irrespective of study design. Articles of interest were analyzed, and the relevant information was organized in tables.

RESULTS: PIS is defined as a combination of constitutional symptoms, including fatigue and fever, and elevated inflammatory markers. There are several proposed diagnostic criteria, most including a combination of fever with leukocytosis and/or elevated C-reactive protein (CRP). These result in discrepant rates, as low as 2% and up to 100%. The typical evolution of this syndrome is spontaneous resolution, although pharmacologic measures for symptom relief may be needed. These symptoms often resolve within two weeks; no significant permanent complications remain. Most PIS cases will present up to the first 72 postoperative hours. Endograft material, particularly polyester-based stent grafts, has been consistently linked to increased odds of PIS, up to five-fold, compared to polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts. Aneurysm thrombus load (both pre-existing and new-onset) has also been related to an increased odds of PIS. Bacterial translocation, contrast media, and other patient or procedure-related characteristics have not been linked to an increased risk of PIS.

CONCLUSION: PIS is a common finding after EVAR. Universal diagnostic criteria for diagnosis are required. Polyester-based stent grafts present the highest risk of developing this syndrome. Aneurysm thrombus load may also relate to this increased risk. The impact of other clinical or anatomical factors remains undetermined.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): March
RNASeq Based Transcriptional Profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14 after Short- and Long-Term Anoxic Cultivation in Synthetic Cystic Fibrosis Sputum Medium
Creators: name: Tata, Muralidhar
name: Wolfinger, Michael T.
name: Amman, Fabian
name: Roschanski, Nicole
name: Dötsch, Andreas
name: Sonnleitner, Elisabeth
name: Häussler, Susanne
name: Bläsi, Udo
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: The opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa can thrive under microaerophilic to anaerobic conditions in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. RNASeq based comparative RNA profiling of the clinical isolate PA14 cultured in synthetic cystic fibrosis medium was performed after planktonic growth (OD600 = 2.0; P), 30 min after shift to anaerobiosis (A-30) and after anaerobic biofilm growth for 96h (B-96) with the aim to reveal differentially regulated functions impacting on sustained anoxic biofilm formation as well as on tolerance towards different antibiotics. Most notably, functions involved in sulfur metabolism were found to be up-regulated in B-96 cells when compared to A-30 cells. Based on the transcriptome studies a set of transposon mutants were screened, which revealed novel functions involved in anoxic biofilm growth.In addition, these studies revealed a decreased and an increased abundance of the oprD and the mexCD-oprJ operon transcripts, respectively, in B-96 cells, which may explain their increased tolerance towards meropenem and to antibiotics that are expelled by the MexCD-OprD efflux pump. The OprI protein has been implicated as a target for cationic antimicrobial peptides, such as SMAP-29. The transcriptome and subsequent Northern-blot analyses showed that the abundance of the oprI transcript encoding the OprI protein is strongly decreased in B-96 cells. However, follow up studies revealed that the susceptibility of a constructed PA14ΔoprI mutant towards SMAP-29 was indistinguishable from the parental wild-type strain, which questions OprI as a target for this antimicrobial peptide in strain PA14.
Speeding up VP9 Intra Encoder with Hierarchical Deep Learning Based Partition Prediction
Creators: name: Paul, Somdyuti
name: Norkin, Andrey
name: Bovik, Alan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In VP9 video codec, the sizes of blocks are decided during encoding by recursively partitioning 64$\times$64 superblocks using rate-distortion optimization (RDO). This process is computationally intensive because of the combinatorial search space of possible partitions of a superblock. Here, we propose a deep learning based alternative framework to predict the intra-mode superblock partitions in the form of a four-level partition tree, using a hierarchical fully convolutional network (H-FCN). We created a large database of VP9 superblocks and the corresponding partitions to train an H-FCN model, which was subsequently integrated with the VP9 encoder to reduce the intra-mode encoding time. The experimental results establish that our approach speeds up intra-mode encoding by 69.7% on average, at the expense of a 1.71% increase in the Bjontegaard-Delta bitrate (BD-rate). While VP9 provides several built-in speed levels which are designed to provide faster encoding at the expense of decreased rate-distortion performance, we find that our model is able to outperform the fastest recommended speed level of the reference VP9 encoder for the good quality intra encoding configuration, in terms of both speedup and BD-rate.
Dynamic asset trees and portfolio analysis
Creators: name: Onnela, J. -P.
name: Chakraborti, A.
name: Kaski, K.
name: Kertesz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The minimum spanning tree, based on the concept of ultrametricity, is constructed from the correlation matrix of stock returns and provides a meaningful economic taxonomy of the stock market. In order to study the dynamics of this asset tree we characterize it by its normalized length and by the mean occupation layer, as measured from an appropriately chosen center. We show how the tree evolves over time, and how it shrinks particularly strongly during a stock market crisis. We then demonstrate that the assets of the optimal Markowitz portfolio lie practically at all times on the outskirts of the tree. We also show that the normalized tree length and the investment diversification potential are very strongly correlated.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures (encapsulated postscript)
Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism
Creators: Vaca, Daniel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Book industries and trade
Religious literature--Publishing
Evangelicalism
Religion
History
Americans

description: "Book People: Evangelical Books and the Making of Contemporary Evangelicalism" traces the conjoined histories of evangelical Christianity and evangelical book culture in the United States. Although existing studies of religion, media, and business have explored evangelical print culture in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, historians rarely have lent their attention to the century that intervenes. Addressing this historiographic silence, this dissertation's chapters move from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. These chapters center their narrative on the middle decades of this period, when ministerial and entrepreneurial evangelicals increasingly turned to books not only as tools of cultural and theological discipline but also as commercial opportunities. By the end of the century, the marketplace had molded evangelicalism into a constituency that everyone from ministers to scholars to politicians to suburban shoppers to international media conglomerates regularly imagined, addressed, and invoked. Drawing on such archival sources as business records, meeting minutes, advertisements, editorial correspondence, marketing plans, sermon collections, and interviews, "Book People" illustrates how contemporary evangelicalism and the contemporary evangelical book industry helped bring each other into being.
Experimental band structure spectroscopy along a synthetic dimension
Creators: name: Dutt, Avik
name: Minkov, Momchil
name: Lin, Qian
name: Yuan, Luqi
name: Miller, David A. B.
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years there has been significant interest in the concepts of synthetic dimensions, where one couples the internal degrees of freedom of a particle to form higher-dimensional lattices in lower-dimensional physical structures. For these systems the concept of band structure along the synthetic dimension plays a central role in their theoretical description. Here we provide the first direct experimental measurement of the band structure along the synthetic dimension. By dynamically modulating a ring resonator at frequencies commensurate with its mode spacing, we realize a periodically driven system with a synthetic frequency dimension lattice. The strength and range of the couplings along the lattice can be dynamically reconfigured by changing the amplitude and frequency of modulation. We show theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that time-resolved transmission measurements of this system result in a direct "read out" of its band structure. We also show how long-range coupling, photonic gauge potentials and nonreciprocal bands can be realized in the system by simply incorporating additional frequency drives, enabling great flexibility in engineering the band structure.
Amphicarpa inhacae
Creators: name: Monniot, Claude
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Stolidobranchia
Styelidae
Amphicarpa
Amphicarpa inhacae

description: AMPHICARPA INHACAE (MILLAR, 1956)
 Polyandrocarpa inhacae Millar, 1956: 927, fig. 14 – Mozambique, Inhaca.
 Amphicarpa inhacae: Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1999: 27, fig. 16, pl. 3D – Mozambique and Tanzania, and synonymy.
 Material
Mozambique: Ibo Island; coll. C. Monniot, 1995.
 Remarks
 This species is covered with sand that coats a purple tunic. The zooids reach 1 cm and more when relaxed. They are united by stolons which are also covered with sediment. This species inhabits the undersides of dead corals, and also lives under Agaricia species and often on Polycarpa species on the external slope of coral reefs.
description: Published as part of Monniot, Claude, 2002, Stolidobranch ascidians from the tropical western Indian Ocean, pp. 65-120 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 135 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00017.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434598
The novel human influenza A(H7N9) virus is naturally adapted to efficient growth in human lung tissue
Creators: name: Knepper, Jessica
name: Schierhorn, Kristina L
name: Becher, Anne
name: Budt, Matthias
name: Tönnies, Mario
name: Bauer, Torsten T.
name: Schneider, Paul
name: Neudecker, Jens
name: Rückert, Jens C.
name: Gruber, Achim Dieter
name: Suttorp, Norbert
name: Schweiger, Brunhilde
name: Hippenstiel, Stefan
name: Hocke, Andreas C.
name: Wolff, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: A novel influenza A virus (IAV) of the H7N9 subtype has been isolated from severely diseased patients with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome and, apparently, from healthy poultry in March 2013 in Eastern China. We evaluated replication, tropism, and cytokine induction of the A/Anhui/1/2013 (H7N9) virus isolated from a fatal human infection and two low- pathogenic avian H7 subtype viruses in a human lung organ culture system mimicking infection of the lower respiratory tract. The A(H7N9) patient isolate replicated similarly well as a seasonal IAV in explanted human lung tissue, whereas avian H7 subtype viruses propagated poorly. Interestingly, the avian H7 strains provoked a strong antiviral type I interferon (IFN-I) response, whereas the A(H7N9) virus induced only low IFN levels. Nevertheless, all viruses analyzed were detected predominantly in type II pneumocytes, indicating that the A(H7N9) virus does not differ in its cellular tropism from other avian or human influenza viruses. Tissue culture-based studies suggested that the low induction of the IFN-β promoter correlated with an efficient suppression by the viral NS1 protein. These findings demonstrate that the zoonotic A(H7N9) virus is unusually well adapted to efficient propagation in human alveolar tissue, which most likely contributes to the severity of lower respiratory tract disease seen in many patients. Humans are usually not infected by avian influenza A viruses (IAV), but this large group of viruses contributes to the emergence of human pandemic strains. Transmission of virulent avian IAV to humans is therefore an alarming event that requires assessment of the biology as well as pathogenic and pandemic potentials of the viruses in clinically relevant models. Here, we demonstrate that an early virus isolate from the recent A(H7N9) outbreak in Eastern China replicated as efficiently as human-adapted IAV in explanted human lung tissue, whereas avian H7 subtype viruses were unable to propagate. Robust replication of the H7N9 strain correlated with a low induction of antiviral beta interferon (IFN-β), and cell-based studies indicated that this is due to efficient suppression of the IFN response by the viral NS1 protein. Thus, explanted human lung tissue appears to be a useful experimental model to explore the determinants facilitating cross-species transmission of the H7N9 virus to humans.
Carbon cage-like materials as potential low work function metallic compounds: Case of clathrates
Creators: name: Timoshevskii, V.
name: Connétable, D.
name: Blase, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ab-initio calculation of the electronic affinity of the hypothetical C-46 clathrate by studying its bare and hydrogenated (100) surfaces. We show that such a system shares with the diamond phase a small electronic affinity. Further, contrary to the diamond phase, the possibility of doping endohedrally these cage-like systems allows to significantly raise the position of the Fermi level, resulting in a true metal with a small work function. This is illustrated in the case of the Li8@C-46 doped compound. Such a class of materials might be of much interest for the design of electron-emitting devices.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX
Bone Marrow: A New Way of Modeling a Classic Organ
Creators: Churchill, Michael John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cell culture--Technique
subject: Hematopoietic stem cells
subject: Antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity
subject: Bone marrow
subject: Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In this study, we show that removal of a quorum sensing subtype of stromal macrophage expands the support capacity of ex vivo bone marrow culture.  Notably, this system maintains much of the remaining paracrine signaling of the organ, unlike traditional macrophage ablation or cytokine supplemented media and does not place undue stress on the HSPC itself.  Recent studies have independently identified alternatively activated macrophages that suppress hematopoiesis in in vitro culture.  We have identified for the first time, a small molecule capable of preferentially killing those cells, thus providing a method to both culture unaltered HSPC ex vivo for long periods of time and significantly expand transient progenitor cells to assist transplantation efficiency.  Our culture system in unique in its ability to maintain cultured HSPC in the physiological micro-environment of the bone marrow
      We found the small molecule “999” capable of expanding hematopoietic capacity of stroma culture by selectively eliminating an MHCII-Hi subpopulation of stromal macrophages that suppress HSPC growth.  Removal of these macrophages enables long-term HSC ex vivo stability and massive expansion of the MPP and its progeny.  Cultures expanded in this manner have increased engraftment potential and behave physiologically normal upon transplantation.
      This investigation has also helped to uncover the role of TGFB in bone marrow quiescence signaling.  The MHCII-HI target cells express TGFB and through it, signal quiescence to the HSPC, likely as a form of quorum sensing.  Targeted acute elimination of that signal leads to unabashed expansion of MPP.
      Furthermore, macrophage polarization in the tumor microenvironment has also been show to promote tumor formation and often leads to poor prognosis. Molecular tools such as 999 that have the ability to alter macrophage polarization ratios may prove to be valuable synergistic tools for oncologists in conjunction with current therapies.
Additional file 1 of Presence and role of viruses in anaerobic digestion of food waste under environmental variability
Creators: name: Fan, Lu
name: Peng, Wei
name: Duan, Haowen
name: Lü, Fan
name: Zhang, Hua
name: He, Pinjing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1: of Usability and acceptability of four systematic review automation software packages: a mixed method design
Creators: name: Cleo, Gina
name: Scott, Anna
name: Islam, Farhana
name: Julien, Blair
name: Beller, Elaine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Table S1. Qualitative questionnaire schedule. (DOCX 16 kb)
Satellite constellations for trusted node QKD networks
Creators: name: Vergoossen, Tom
name: Loarte, Sergio
name: Bedington, Robert
name: Kuiper, Hans
name: Ling, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution from satellites becomes particularly valuable when it can be used on a large network and on-demand to provide a symmetric encryption key to any two nodes. A constellation model is described which enables QKD-derived encryption keys to be established between any two ground stations with low latency. This is achieved through the use of low earth orbit, trusted-node QKD satellites which create a buffer of keys with the ground stations they pass over, and geostationary relay satellites to transfer secure combinations of the keys to the ground stations. Regional and global network models are considered and the use of inter-satellite QKD links for balancing keys is assessed.
description: 12 pages
title: Institutions in a World System
title: Contours of a Research Program
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Panther, Stephan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: In this paper I sketch the contours of a research program which draws on the insights of both institutionalist theories of long term economic change and world system analysis in order to analyze the many ways in which national and global inequalities interact. While the political economy approach developed in the research program of Acemoglu and Robinson has provided important insights on the relationship between national inequalities and economic growth, world system analysis focuses on interactions and asymmetries in the global economic and political system and their effects on national trajectories. On the one hand, I propose ways to make national institutions endogenous to international economic and political interaction via the influences these may have on national inequalities. The key to this discussion is the realization that the impact of international economic interaction on domestic distribution may be changed significantly, even in sign, if rights are weakly enforced and “grabbing” type redistributive activities are ubiquitous, especially inside and by the state. On the other hand, I explore the gains from looking at the world system as an institutional system, applying ideas developed by Acemoglu and Robinson, and North, Wallis and Weingast to analyze inequalities and asymmetries in countries to the entire globe. Here, both the question of whether a global elite coalition is to be defined as a group of countries or as a network of global elites in states, business and media and the question of how the international institutional order limits access to global political and economic resources are central.
title: Latin America
title: Anti-poverty schemes instead of social protection
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lavinas, Lena
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: welfare schemes
subject: cash transfers
subject: social spending
subject: Bolsa Família
subject: decommodification
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: This paper examines the extent to which poverty reduction schemes and targeting replaced the incomplete framework of social protection and universality in Latin America over the last decade, through the provision of monetary cash transfers rather than decommodified goods and services. Is this a turning point towards a new pattern of social policy in the region, characterized by basic standards, controls and selectivity for those who cannot afford market provision? What are the outcomes of such a turnaround with regard to poverty and inequality? Are there setbacks in the reduction of inequality, notably in terms of failing to overcome patterns of segregation and the social stigma of poverty? Will these new trends reinforce the case for reforming social protection pillars for the non-poor? Will the discourse of privatization gain a new momentum and reverse the counter-reforms in favor of integrated public systems? The first section of this paper provides the conceptual background to understand why social protection systems and poverty reduction strategies differ, highlighting the role of the various components of social protection and their arguments in economic terms and for purposes of equity and social justice. Likewise, two distinct paradigms will be confronted: on the one hand, the social risk management strategy (Holzmann and Jørgensen 2000), and, on the other, universal social protection systems as they were gradually fashioned during the golden years of the 20th century in Western countries. The second section scrutinizes the profile of the public provision of welfare in some Latin American countries, through an overview of social spending, presenting the main features of conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America and other contributory schemes that have been reshaped as of late. The last section draws lessons from the experiment of the Bolsa Família Program in Brazil to discuss the effectiveness and the limits of conditional cash transfers on poverty reduction and inequality. Finally, the concluding section calls attention to the risks of developing social protection schemes mainly on the grounds of the provision of cash benefits – a pro-market strategy – if the goal is to tackle poverty and inequality in the long run, promoting social cohesion such an uneven region.
Targeted therapy with sirolimus in vascular malformations – a case report
Creators: name: Gueifão, Inês
name: Amaral, Carlos
name: Soares Ferreira, Rita
name: Quintas, Anita
name: Ferreira, Maria Emília
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: BACKGROUND: Vascular malformations are a heterogeneous group of vascular development disorders with historically few treatment options. Recent studies have shown the potential benefit of mTOR inhibitors—such as sirolimus—in their treatment, particularly in low-flow malformations. However, reports on their efficacy in highflow malformations are scarce and controversial. We report the case of a patient with a combined malformation who benefited from treatment with sirolimus.

REPORT: A three-year-old patient was referred to our center with a diffuse and progressive vascular malformation on her right leg, difficult to classify according to ISSVA, with disabling pain, limb deformity, and walking impairment. The initial MRI showed a diffuse malformation on the deep subcutaneous tissue without muscle or bone involvement, measuring 18cm on the largest axis. A progressive clinical worsening occurred, and after discussion with an international reference center in vascular malformations, it was classified as a diffuse vascular malformation with the involvement of contiguous structures without defined borders, with both a low and high-flow component. The high-flow component now behaves like a type IV Yakes AVM. Nevertheless, longterm therapy with sirolimus was instituted when the patient was nine years old, resulting in complete remission of pain, recovery of walking ability, and partial recovery of knee valgus. No side effects were reported. With 38 months of follow-up, the 13-year-old remains pain-free and has improved quality of life despite no imagological improvement.

CONCLUSION: Although the available evidence for mTOR inhibitors is mainly for low-flow malformations, it may be a safe and effective option for selected high-flow malformations when intervention is not possible or carries significant morbidity risks. Some studies showed a reduction in the size of the malformation with treatment; however, this was not the case in our patient, notwithstanding the clear improvement in quality of life for four years without other intervention.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): March
Additional file 2: of Deletion of the Îą subunit of the heterotrimeric Go protein impairs cerebellar cortical development in mice
Creators: name: Cha, Hye
name: Choi, Jung-Mi
name: Huy-Hyen Oh
name: Bashyal, Narayan
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
name: Birnbaumer, Lutz
name: Haeyoung Suh-Kim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: PFs in the ML visualized in vGluT1-stained cerebellum. (PDF 85 kb)
title: Psychometric Evaluation of the Brachial Assessment Tool for Assessment of Activity Following Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury
Creators: name: Hill, Bridget
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF)
subject: Brachial plexus Injury
subject: Spinal cord injury
subject: Neck injury
subject: Brachial Assessment Tool (BrAT)

description: Brachial plexus Injury (BPI) occurs following trauma to the nerves as they exit the spinal cord in the neck. Dependent on the site and degree of the initial trauma, people with BPI display a board spectrum of ability to use their affected arm to perform day-to-day activities. BPI is a heterogeneous condition that has a significant impact on how the individuals use their arm. Some may only achieve simple stabilising or carrying tasks; others may undertake more complex movements that use the whole arm and hand. Historically, outcomes following adult traumatic BPI have been discussed in terms of impairments such as strength or range of motion. Despite evidence of good outcomes, people still report on-going dissatisfaction with the day-to-day use of their arm. Using the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework, a systematic review of the literature was undertaken to identify all patient-reported outcome measures that predominantly assessed activity. Two patient-reported outcome measures were identified, yet neither had been psychometrically evaluated for BPI. Further, they did not appear to include the range of activities required to assess the full spectrum of ability seen in adults with BPI, particularly for those with limited arm use. Seventeen additional outcome measures were identified that had been developed by experts solely for a research purpose, lending support for a new BPI outcome measure in the clinical setting.
Transport critical current densities and n factors in mono- and multifilamentary MgB2/Fe tapes and wires using fine powders
Creators: name: Suo, H. L.
name: Lezza, P.
name: Uglietti, D.
name: Beneduce, C.
name: Abacherli, V.
name: Flukiger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mono- and multifilamentary MgB2/Fe tapes and wires with high transport critical current densities have been prepared using the powder-in-tube (PIT) process. The fabrication details are described. The effect of powder grain sizes and recrystallization temperature on jc has been investigated. At 25K and 1 T, jc values close to 105 A/cm2 were measured, while jc of 106 A/cm2 were extrapolated for 4.2K/0T in our monofilamentary tape. MgB2/Fe tapes exhibit high exponential n factors for the resistive transition: n ~ 80 and 40 were found at 5 T and 7 T, respectively. The highest transport jc values obtained so far in MgB2/Fe wires with 7 filaments were 1.1 * 105 A/cm2 at 4.2 K and in a field of 2 T, which is still lower than for monofilamentary tapes. Improved deformation and recovering processing is expected to lead to higher jc values.
description: 4 pages, 8 figures; Submitted to ASC 2002
Unfractionated heparin in ruptured aortic aneurysms – narrative review
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Tiago F.
name: Correia, Ricardo
name: Bento, Rita
name: Pais, Fábio
name: Soares Ferreira, Rita
name: Bastos Gonçalves, Frederico
name: Amaral, Carlos
name: Emília Ferreira, Maria
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Portuguese estimates point out that nearly 20% of aortic aneurysms are treated in a ruptured setting, with in-hospital mortality reaching up to 50%. Although unfractionated heparin (UFH) is routine during elective surgery, this technical point is debatable when treating ruptured aneurysms. The authors aimed to review the literature on the topic of intraoperative heparinization with UFH within the intraoperative period of ruptured aortic aneurysms.

METHODS: A MEDLINE and Scopus database search using the terms “unfractionated heparin," “aortic aneurysm," and “ruptured aortic aneurysm” was performed. No time or language limitations were imposed. The last search was run in July 2023. Manuscripts were considered irrespective of study design. Additional articles of scientific interest for the purpose of this non-systematic review were included by cross-referencing.

RESULTS: In the rupture setting, UFH usage rates have widely varied throughout time and geographical sites, and they are reported to be as low as 16%. Overall, the evidence of UFH in clinical practice in this scenario is limited. Notwithstanding, there is some evidence from observational studies of an increased pro-coagulant activity in this clinical scenario, favoring a theoretical physiologic benefit. A prospective, non-randomized study of 131 OSR patients found that patients treated with UFH had improved 30-day survival (84% vs 67%, P=0.001). Non-significant differences in blood product usage were noted. Therefore, societal guideline recommendations about intraoperative UFH in ruptured aortic aneurysms are often missing.

CONCLUSION: UFH may potentially reduce death after open repair of rAAA. These findings should be carefully interpreted, as the evidence is scarce and heterogeneous and only portrays open repair.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): March
A New Injection and Acceleration Scheme of Positrons in the Laser-Plasma Bubble Regime
Creators: name: Xu, Z. Y.
name: Xiao, C. F.
name: Lu, H. Y.
name: Hu, R. H.
name: Yu, J. Q.
name: Gong, Z.
name: Shou, Y. R.
name: Liu, J. X.
name: Xie, C. Z.
name: Chen, S. Y.
name: Lu, H. G.
name: Xu, T. Q.
name: Li, R. X.
name: Hafz, N.
name: Najmudin, Z.
name: Rajeev, P. P.
name: Neely, D.
name: Yan, X. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel approach for positron injection and acceleration in laser driven plasma wakefield is proposed. A theoretical model is developed and confirmed through PIC simulation. One ring-shaped beam and one co-axially propagating Gaussian beam drive wakefields in a preformed plasma volume filled with both electrons and positrons. The laser's ponderomotive force as well as the charge separation force in the front bucket of the first bubble are utilized to provide the transverse momenta of injected positrons and those positrons can be trapped by the focusing field and then accelerated by the wakefield. The simulation shows that a relatively high-charge, quasi-monoenergetic positron beams can be obtained.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, submit to Physical Review Letters
Giant renal tumor with inferior vena cava thrombus – a case report
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Tiago F.
name: Soares Ferreira, Rita
name: Garcia, Rita
name: Bento, Rita
name: Fidalgo, Helena
name: Ferrito, Fernando
name: Aragão De Morais, José
name: Ferreira, Maria Emília
Publisher: name: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular
Year: 2024

description: INTRODUCTION: Vascular migration and venous tumor thrombus are infrequent but unique aspects of renal cell carcinoma, and these features have significant therapeutic and prognostic implications. We report a case of renal neoplasm with a vena cava tumor thrombus treated with surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy.

CASE REPORT: A 53-year-old, otherwise healthy woman presented to the emergency department due to macroscopic hematuria and abdominal pain. A large abdominal mass was noted. A computed tomography angiography was performed, and a right renal tumor (105x207mm) with level II inferior vena cava tumor thrombus and local adenopathy was noted. After a multidisciplinary discussion, she was proposed for surgical resection. Through a bilateral subcostal incision (Chevron), a standard right radical nephrectomy and perivascular lymph node excision were performed. The IVC was exposed, and a thrombectomy was performed through a longitudinal cavotomy. Pathology revealed clear renal cell carcinoma and lymph node metastasis. The postoperative period was uneventful. However, the patient developed multiple liver and lung metastases at early follow-up and was treated with chemotherapy.

DISCUSSION: Tumor thrombus can extend up to the right atrium and occurs in nearly 10–25% of renal cell carcinoma patients. The natural history of this condition is poor, with a median survival of 5 months and significant survival improvements following radical nephrectomy and IVC tumor thrombus removal are observed, with 40-60% 5-year survival. Surgical treatment should, therefore, be considered in this group of patients. Such operations can be challenging, particularly when thrombus extent is significant, and the combination of efforts between oncologists, urologists, and vascular surgeons can improve patient safety and perioperative outcomes with significant improvements in overall prognosis.
description: Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2024): March
Areniscas Contentivas de Hidrocarburos en Yacimientos Altamente Heterogéneos Implementando la Metodología de Redes Neuronales
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Nestor
name: Mendez, Jhonny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91406 Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 40312 Structural Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geology
subject: 40399 Geology not elsewhere classified
subject: 40309 Petroleum and Coal Geology
subject: 80199 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80108 Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation
subject: 170205 Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Presentado en I Jornadas de Geología Región Zulia. 2006. Sociedad Venezolana de Geólogos Filial - Zulia
title: Making Sense of Contextualised Tasks in Prevocational Mathematics: A Critical Discursive Perspective
Creators: name: Ryan, Jill
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Prevocational mathematics
subject: Critical discourse analysis
subject: Contextualised tasks
subject: Mathematics education
subject: Vocational training

description: This study investigated how, and how much, one school’s Prevocational Mathematics students and teachers drew on the new reform discourses for senior schooling in general and senior school mathematics/numeracy in particular to make sense of the contextualised tasks that were an integral part of the subject. It is situated within a critical research perspective that conceptualises mathematics education as a complex, multi-layered network of social practices. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) provided the main theoretical and analytical foundations for the study. An approach to CDA that foregrounds the relationship between discourse and social change was considered to be particularly salient for investigating the subject-specific translation of senior schooling reforms into the Prevocational Mathematics syllabus and their subsequent enactment in the classroom. The notion of recontextualisation—a process of relocating elements of one social practice in the context of another—was central to the conceptualising of policy discourses (instantiated in curriculum reform and subject-specific syllabus documents) and classroom discourses (instantiated in written task specifications) as links in a genre chain. The process of operationalisation, whereby changes in discourse are transformed into new ways of acting and interacting, and new ways of organising time and space also contributed to the conceptual framework. Together, the concepts of genre chains, recontextualisation and operationalisation were used to theorise the research ‘across the nodes’ of the network of social practices. Thus, the study traced (dis)continuities between (i) the discourses associated with senior school educational reform processes, (ii) their recontextualisation and operationalisation into subject-specific discourses in the Prevocational Mathematics syllabus, and (iii) the further recontextualisation and operationalisation of these discourses in the classroom practices of one school’s Year 11 and 12 classes.
Border Lives: Exploring the Experiences of Immigrant Teachers Teaching and Caring for Young Immigrant Children and Families
Creators: McDevitt, Seung Eun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Early childhood education
Education
Education--Study and teaching
Teaching
Immigrant children--Education
Teacher-student relationships
Immigrants--Social conditions

description: The field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) is facing one of the most rapid changes as one in four children under the age of six in the United States are immigrant children or children of immigrants (Woods, Hanson, Saxton, & Simms, 2016). With this demographic shift along with the current political climate towards immigrants, teaching immigrant children has become more complex and challenging than ever before. Further, the evidence in the existing literature consistently reflects immigrant children’s narratives of their experiences in schools as alienated, excluded, and othered, attesting to this challenging task for educators (e.g. Igoa, 1995; Kirova, 2001).
      	Amid these challenges, what stories are there yet to be told when immigrants with such experiences and backgrounds become teachers and teach immigrant students? Grounded in a funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff, & González, 1992) and borderlands (Anzaldúa, 1987) framework, this study seeks to bring the voices of immigrant teachers to the forefront and to examine their immigration and schooling experiences, first as immigrant students and now teaching and caring for young immigrant students and families in ECEC settings. Using the methods of multi-case study, I highlight the intimate and nuanced teaching and learning experiences of immigrant teachers by delving deeper into a borderland space, where their lives mesh with their immigrant students and their families.
      	Looking deeply at the experiences of immigrant teachers straddling between multiple worlds, remembering being newcomers while working as welcomers, proposes that we re-think and ask new questions about the complex realities of immigrants in schooling. This work highlights the heart of teaching and caring for young immigrants as contingent upon understanding the nuances of their daily experiences as border crossers within the self, among others, and in multiple cultural worlds.
Convergence of Bieberbach polynomials in domains with interior cusps
Creators: name: Andrievskii, V. V.
name: Pritsker, I. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30E10, 41A10, 30C40

description: We extend the results on the uniform convergence of Bieberbach polynomials to domains with certain interior zero angles (outward pointing cusps), and show that they play a special role in the problem. Namely, we construct a Keldysh-type example on the divergence of Bieberbach polynomials at an outward pointing cusp and discuss the critical order of tangency at this interior zero angle, separating the convergent behavior of Bieberbach polynomials from the divergent one for sufficiently thin cusps.
description: 18 pages, AMS-LaTeX, to appear in J. d'Analyse Math