cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rethinking Internationalization
Creators: name: II, William S Smith
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified
Higher education
Other education not elsewhere classified
Education systems not elsewhere classified
Continuing and community education

description: The following three articles in this dissertation challenge the current rationale of internationalization and makes the case for anew approach to internationalization within U.S. higher education. My first article delves deep into the rationale of internationalization in U.S. higher education over the years by way of U.S. study abroad. This analysis identifies and evaluates the multiple cause-and –effect relationships in a historical context in order to understand the origins that led to the expansion of internationalization efforts within U.S. higher education. My second article explores Mansilla and Gardner’s global consciousness framework as a viable solution to the issues that are currently plaguing internationalization efforts in U.S. higher education. I contend that the global consciousness framework provides an alternative approach to internationalization that is rooted in mindfulness rather than competiveness. Finally, my third article evaluates the impact of this proposed solution by examining how Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine students within the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine view their roles and careers in society after engaging with the global consciousness framework. Overall, these articles take a critical lens to our approach in preparing students for the global era.
title: Increasing global freedoms : the role of psychological flexibility
Creators: name: Thompson, Miles
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Global Freedoms, Global Poverty, Human Rights, ACT, Psychological Flexibility, Psychology

description: This thesis seeks to add to the psychological literature that may help reduce
global poverty and human rights abuse around the world. More specifically, it
investigates the potential role of psychological flexibility and Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT) in helping to increase “global freedoms”. It makes a
unique contribution through the way it applies psychological flexibility and ACT to this
novel area.

Following two introductory chapters, the next five describe the design and
preliminary evaluation of new self-report measures. Specifically these assess: i. helping
behaviour, ii. thoughts and cognitions, iii. feelings and emotions, and iv. values – all
related to global freedoms. A fifth scale measures psychological inflexibility in an
everyday context. Preliminary psychometric development includes both exploratory and
confirmatory factor analysis.

Following their development, the measures are used to answer five research
questions. In general terms these explore the interrelationships between the measures;
how they relate to helping behaviour and whether psychological flexibility plays a direct
or indirect role in this. The research questions are answered using a cross-sectional
dataset as well as a single session, lab based study which examines the potential of an
ACT based intervention to increase helping behaviour.

In summary, in both correlations and regressions, the thoughts and cognitions
measure had a significant, negative correlation with helping behaviour, while the
feelings and emotions, and values measure had significant, positive correlations with
helping behaviour. Psychological flexibility did not show a significant, direct
relationship with helping behaviour but, in mediation analyses, it was found to transmit
its influence through thoughts and cognitions onto helping behaviour. In terms of the
single session lab based study, neither ACT nor an education condition increased the
level of donation to charity greater than a control. The general discussion focuses on the
implications of these findings and the opportunities for future research.
title: An Aesthetic Consciousness: An Existentialist Reading of William Faulkner’s Fiction
Creators: name: Heller, Maya
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Existentialism, Sartre, Faulkner, Cubism, Modernism, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Mosquitoes, Elmer

description: This thesis presents an existentialist reading of William Faulkner’s early  fiction (1925-31). Moving away from a regionalist perspective the thesis  argues that Faulkner’s work can be viewed as part of a universal and aesthetic exploration of the human condition. By focusing specifically on Jean-Paul Sartre’s early philosophy (1930s-40s) and the concepts of consciousness, the duality of being: being-in-itself (the world of objects) and being-for-itself (human consciousness), the thesis investigates the way in which consciousness operates ontologically in Faulkner’s prose. It argues that a decidedly existentialist consciousness can be traced in Faulkner, one in which a linked relationship between imagination and reality lays bare the fragility of the 
characters and a sense of displacement in Faulkner’s fiction.  
 
Within the context of existentialism, the thesis also emphasizes the  importance of the artist figure within Faulkner’s writing. As the embodiment  of existential action and choice, the artist in Faulkner’s fiction reflects a sense  of liberation and freedom. In this context, the existentialist reading re-examines the way the artist’s sense of reality hinges on the interaction between human consciousness and the world of objects, between Faulkner’s representation of art (text, painting and sculpture) and form and technique 
 (fragmentation and multiple perspective).
Additional file 2 of Ecological risk assessment and source tracing of heavy metals in surface sediments of a hilly riverine reservoir in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Ao, Liang
name: Chang, Ruiting
name: Tang, Yanqiu
name: Zhang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 2: Summary statistics for each metal by sampling points.
title: The Pianoforte at the Great Exhibition of 1851: Investigating Cultural Value
Creators: name: Smith, Bethan Evie
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Piano, Great Exhibition, Value, Nineteenth Century

description: My thesis is an object-based study which uses the piano as an investigative tool with which to explore cultural value from the perspective of different audiences in attendance at the Great Exhibition of 1851. In a nutshell, my approach is to use an object to explore how a specific historical event was understood.  The piano proves to be a provocative agent; physical complexity (both internal and external), the ability to signify multiple meanings and a varied price tag are all relevant characteristics.  The thesis examines the perspective of the Exhibition organisers, juxtaposed with networks of other human and non-human actors, focusing specifically on how the materiality of objects and the Exhibition building contributed to meaning.  The thesis also considers how visitors and judges might have evaluated exhibits taking into account what knowledge and ‘habitus’ would have shaped their understanding.  The piano maker’s perspective is investigated with a view to establishing why the range of instruments displayed was so diverse and whether or not the items chosen reflected normal everyday output.  The consumer’s perspective questions how class purchasing power might have impacted how visitors understood the designation ‘cheap’ which was applied to some products, including the piano.   Some of my work tackles issues already identified by Exhibition scholars such as visuality, imperialism, consumerism and the question of working-class inclusion, using alternate theoretical methods.  Most of the thesis, however, ventures into new territory, specifically the significance of materiality and the role of sound.   My work also questions whether the piano was understood primarily as a sound producer or as a decorative object adopting a constructivist methodology rather than the more usual technological approach.  In wider terms, my most significant contribution, both to the fields of New Organology and Material Culture Studies, concerns the application of physical evidence to answer wider cultural questions.
Antiretroviral Adherence among Persons Living with HIV in the United States and India
Creators: name: Luc, Casey Morgan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: The fifth decade of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has brought about developments in HIV therapeutics with the first licensure and distribution of injectable combination antiretroviral therapy (ART), yet challenges in oral ART adherence continue to persist in groups vulnerable to HIV. Using data collected from two separate baseline surveys within a pilot study in India and a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in the United States, we assessed determinants of ART adherence in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) and sex workers (SW) living with HIV in India, and young Black MSM living with HIV in the United States. Additionally, we assessed the acceptability and effectiveness of the first licensed injectable ART among a clinical sample of people living with HIV (PLWH) seeking care at a large, urban HIV/ Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) clinic in Chicago. In a preliminary analysis in India, we found that low health literacy was associated with non-optimal ART adherence, yet engaging in sex work did not contribute to non-optimal ART adherence. Other factors such as religious obligations, employment, and having children were associated with non-optimal ART adherence. In the United States, we used the information-motivation-behavioral skills model of ART adherence and found treatment self-efficacy to mediate the association between motivation/social support and non-optimal ART adherence, yet knowledge was not associated with non-optimal ART adherence. Among the clinical sample in Chicago receiving injectable ART, patients reported high acceptability and effectiveness. Notably, this sample had a high proportion of Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic individuals, women, and > 50 years old, better capturing those disproportionately impacted by HIV and often underrepresented in RCTs. Acceptability of injectable ART may suggest this form of treatment to be an acceptable alternative for those who struggle to adhere to daily oral ART regimens, like those disproportionately impacted by HIV in India and the United States. In addition, efforts to mitigate barriers of ART adherence, such as low health literacy and social support, are needed among these understudied groups.
FABRICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS BASED ON MODERN PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES
Creators: name: Zhu, Yuhang
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In the last decade, the information technology industry shifted its focus from personal computing devices to mobile computing devices. The benefit offered from information technologies is more accessible than ever. In recent years, mobile computing devices have been developed further due to the high-demand from the market. The trend has led to the evolution of mobile computing devices, with huge diversification towards wearable devices, implantable devices and flexible electronics. Aligned with such applications, this thesis focuses on flexible electronics and its fabrication technologies.In this context, several implementations are demonstrated. The first is an integration technology for embedding conventional rigid components and conventional chips into flexible substrate and using modern printing technologies to integrated the circuit with other components. The prototype exhibits good performance for dc and high-speed ac signals. It also shows outstanding flexibility, good durability and reliability. The fabrication process is simple and is designed to suit large-scale manufacturing processes.Next, a thin-film field-effect transistor technology using solution-based materials has been demonstrated. The materials used for the technology show excellent performance despite being implemented with solution-based techniques. Advantages of these materials and their potential for flexible electronic applications are explored. The materials have been process using a unique fabrication method, which may lead to low cost high performance and reliable flexible electronics.
title: Non-cognitive factors of educational achievement: motivation and anxiety
Creators: name: Malanchini, Margherita
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Academic Achievement, Behavioural Genetics, Learning, Motivation, Longitudinal, Mathematics, Anxiety

description: Educational achievement has traditionally been closely associated with general cognitive ability (g). Although g explains a substantial portion of variance in educational attainment, several non-cognitive factors have been found to relate to achievement beyond g. The present thesis focuses on exploring the association between achievement and two such factors: motivation and anxiety. The five empirical chapters included in the present thesis address several questions regarding the relation between motivation, anxiety and achievement, which to date remained unexplored. The present thesis includes data from two samples: the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS), a large-scale developmental twin sample from the United Kingdom (UK), and a sample of students attending the first year of secondary school in the UK, who contributed data longitudinally. The results showed that academic anxiety and motivation are domain-specific constructs. This observed domain-specificity of motivation and anxiety was also found to apply to their association with academic achievement. Motivation and anxiety constructs were moderately heritable, and the remaining variance explained by nonshared, individual specific, environmental influences. The cross-sectional and longitudinal links between motivation, anxiety and achievement were largely due to genetic influences common to all measures within a specific academic domain. The present thesis also explored the directionality of effects in the longitudinal associations between educational achievement and motivation; partly supporting the view of reciprocal links between the two constructs in several academic domains. However, a reciprocal relation between motivation and achievement was not observed in the domain of second language in a sample of naïve learners. The results of the present thesis have important implication for future research and practice. For example, it is argued that future interventions aimed at reducing the academic anxiety should consider three main factors: (1) its domain specific; (2) the directionality of effects in its association with achievement; (3) possible factors moderating or mediating the association between anxiety and achievement (i.e. motivation).
Additional file 3 of Ecological risk assessment and source tracing of heavy metals in surface sediments of a hilly riverine reservoir in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Ao, Liang
name: Chang, Ruiting
name: Tang, Yanqiu
name: Zhang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 3: Summary statistics for each metal by season.
title: Voice in Radio
Creators: name: Preston, Jon
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: participatory media, participatory community radio, community radio projects, inter-generational exchange, participatory radio, intergenerational radio project, hospice radio project, Pupil Referral Unit radio project, empowerment through voice in radio

description: “Voice in Radio” is a practice-based thesis. It reflects on a series of participatory media projects involving community groups and secondary school students working together to produce radio shows. The thesis offers an analysis of those projects through the academic prism of ‘voice’, a term defined in both the personal and socio-political senses. Further, it reflects on the possibilities for voice offered by Participatory Community Radio (PCR) practice. Having devised and led this practice, I occupy the position of a ‘reflexive practitioner’ in the study.  

The thesis is presented as a linear narrative: through PCR, a participant hears their own physical voice as others do, externally; they first become accustomed to and then comfortable with the sound of their own voice; they gain agency, becoming able to vocalise their stories through the radio project work; they gain further agency through socio-political Voice as their work is aired in a series of radio shows.

The participant groups are from a selection of cohorts encompassing a ‘Senior Citizens West Indian Luncheon and Social club’, a boys’ secondary school, a hospice, an Arts school and a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU). The data presented were collected through a mixed methods strategy. Project work and participant reflections are offered, together with comments from associated professionals. This material features in both written and aural form.

The ideas of authors including Berry, Chomsky, Couldry, Coyer, Dowmunt, Mayo and Rodenburg are drawn upon to establish the project work within a framework for discussion. Conclusions are offered on the possibilities of PCR in a neo-liberal economic and cultural climate specifically in relation to empowerment, voice and exchange. 

An hour-long audio CD accompanies the written thesis as an illustration of the PCR practice under review. Combined, these two elements offer an investigation into “Voice in Radio”.
sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916211040556 – Supplemental material for Fertility preservation strategies for patients with lymphoma: a real-world practice survey among Fondazione Italiana Linfomi centers
Creators: name: Viviani, Simonetta
name: Dellino, Miriam
name: Ramadan, Safaa
name: Peracchio, Claudia
name: Marcheselli, Luigi
name: Minoia, Carla
name: Guarini, Attilio
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916211040556 for Fertility preservation strategies for patients with lymphoma: a real-world practice survey among Fondazione Italiana Linfomi centers by Simonetta Viviani, Miriam Dellino, Safaa Ramadan, Claudia Peracchio, Luigi Marcheselli, Carla Minoia and Attilio Guarini in Tumori Journal
title: From Deathly Repetitions to Transversal
Co-dependences: Rethinking the Ecological as Tools for Radical Re-organisation of the Curatorial
Creators: name: Pope, Miranda
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: ecology, curating, The Three Ecologies, Chaosophy, Felix Guattari, the ecological, radical nature, arts and ecology, Prigogine and Stengers, Gregory Bateson, Bruno Latour, Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet: 1969-2009, Cape Farewell, RSA/ACE Arts and Ecology, MayDay Rooms, The Showroom, Communal Knowledge, R-Urban, Dalston Mill, Ultra Red, the curatorial, environmental art in the 1970s, eco-critical curating

description: My research addresses political problems in curatorial practices that engage with notions of ecology and issues relating to environmental concerns. Taking as case studies the RSA/ACE Arts and Ecology project from 2005-2010; Cape Farewell, and exhibition Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, I argue that these curatorial forms dissipate and reify the political acuity of artistic content, curatorial context and the constituent, non-art issues. In holding on to an idea of the artwork’s autonomy, curating practice addressing issues that exist outside the flows and circuits of the art world is precluded from properly addressing the wider issues with which it seeks to connect. I call this situation the eco-critical curating paradigm.  

The problem is addressed in two stages: firstly through a detailed excavation of the term ecology, and secondly through a reformatting of the curatorial. Firstly, I argue that the term ecology has reached its limits as an intellectual force. In response, I propose a move to the ‘ecological’, embodied in four theoretical tools that are both questions and propositions, that initiate inquiries into the socio-politics of located forms and processes of organising, making and doing.  

Secondly I conduct a critique of the eco-critical curating paradigm. This results in a reformatting of the curatorial that exits the frameworks of art, a format I call the ecological-curatorial. What changes for curating is that form, organisation and production are equally situated alongside content, coalescing around a concern, with curatorial activities emerging out of the intersections of the circumstances, interests, aims and inquiries of the collective engaged in the inquiry. Art might align with these or come into their orbit, but this happens according to the terms of each specific format of the ecological-curatorial. Art therefore does not claim any privileged space within an assemblage of the ecological-curatorial, indeed the format of the ecological-curatorial asks us to critically reappraise the relationship between art and social realities.
Empathie Und Ihre Bedeutung Für Die Beratende Sozialarbeit
Creators: name: Reutlinger, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: gnd:4055676-1
subject: gnd:4005565-6
subject: gnd:4133262-3

description: Der Autor befasst sich mit Wesen und Ursprung der Empathie und beschreibt ihre Bedeutung für die Beratungstätigkeit in der Sozialarbeit. Empathie ist eine angeborene Fähigkeit, welche durch die Funktion der Spiegelneurone im Gehirn ermöglicht wird. Sie wurde von der Evolution herausgebildet, weil sich damit intuitiv Befindlichkeit und Absichten von Mitmenschen erkennen lassen. Daraus resultiert ein Anpassungsvorteil in der sozialen Umwelt. Empathische Prozesse werden reflexartig ausgelöst, sobald bei einem Gegenüber affektive Signale erkannt werden. Auch die Wahrnehmung der Situation von Hilfebedürftigen kann denselben Auslösemechanismus aktivieren. Die Persönlichkeitskomponenten der beobachtenden Person beeinflussen den Verlauf des empathischen Geschehens und bestimmen, ob und wie es sich in einer prosozialen Handlung äussert. Beratungsbeziehungen sind geprägt durch Nähe und intensive Auseinandersetzung mit belastenden Aspekten der Klientinnen und Klienten. Sie lösen bei Sozialarbeitenden empathische Prozesse aus. Die Beratenden sind dabei aber nicht einfach Spielball ihrer genetischen Programmierung, sondern können die Vorgänge auf Ebenen der Persönlichkeitsreflexion, beruflichen Haltung und Fachkompetenz steuern. Mit einer empathischen Haltung werden Ratsuchende ganzheitlich wahrgenommen und sie ermöglicht ihnen, sich ihren Problemen zu stellen und eigene Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln. Empathie ist für Beratungsprozesse eine wertvolle Bereicherung. Sie kann sich aber in Verbindung mit bestimmten Persönlichkeitsstrukturen der Beratenden in Über-Identifikation oder Vermeidungshaltungen äussern und eine erfolgreiche Unterstützung verhindern und gar verun-möglichen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2009 be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2009
Additional file 4 of Ecological risk assessment and source tracing of heavy metals in surface sediments of a hilly riverine reservoir in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Ao, Liang
name: Chang, Ruiting
name: Tang, Yanqiu
name: Zhang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 4: Skewness-Kurtosis test results.
Securing Healthcare with AI: A Review of Privacy-Preserving Models and Their Impact
Creators: name: Dukkipati, Shri Sai Nithin Chowdhary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This review explores how privacy-preserving artificial intelligence (AI)—particularly federated learning (FL)—can enable secure, compliant, and collaborative healthcare innovation in the United States. The paper outlines the foundational principles of FL, examines its advantages over centralized machine learning, and presents real-world use cases in clinical prediction, chronic care, and emergency triage. We analyze technical frameworks (e.g., PySyft, Flower, TensorFlow Federated), data privacy tools (e.g., differential privacy, secure aggregation), and deployment strategies that align with HIPAA and other regulatory frameworks. A case study of MedSypher, a healthcare AI startup, illustrates how federated systems can support hospitals in reducing readmissions, improving outcomes, and complying with evolving data protection standards. The paper also highlights future opportunities in explainability, personalization, and public health integration—positioning FL as a critical enabler for ethical, scalable, and trustworthy healthcare AI.
Additional file 5 of Ecological risk assessment and source tracing of heavy metals in surface sediments of a hilly riverine reservoir in Chongqing, China
Creators: name: Ao, Liang
name: Chang, Ruiting
name: Tang, Yanqiu
name: Zhang, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 5: Two-way ANOVA applied to the nine heavy metal test results.
Scattering off a junction
Creators: name: Tan, Eric
name: Ganesh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering off a potential is a fundamental problem in quantum physics. It has been studied extensively with amplitudes derived for various potentials. In this article, we explore a setting with no potentials, where scattering occurs off a junction where many wires meet. We study this problem using a tight-binding discretization of a star graph geometry -- one incoming wire and $M$ outgoing wires intersecting at a point. When an incoming wave scatters, one part is reflected along the same wire while the rest is transmitted along the others. Remarkably, the reflectance increases monotonically with $M$, i.e., the greater the number of outgoing channels, the more the particle bounces back. In the $M \rightarrow \infty$ limit, the wave is entirely reflected back along the incoming wire. We rationalize this observation by establishing a quantitative mapping between a junction and an on-site potential. To each junction, we assign an equivalent potential that produces the same reflectance. As the number of wires ($M$) increases, the equivalent potential also increases. A recent article by one of us has drawn an equivalence between junctions and potentials from the point of view of bound state formation. Our results here show that the same equivalence also holds for scattering amplitudes. We verify our analytic results by simulating wavepacket motion through a junction. We extend the wavepacket approach to two dimensions where analytic solutions cannot be found. An incoming wave travels on a sheet and scatters off a point where many sheets intersect. Unlike in 1D, the equivalent potential is momentum-dependent. Nevertheless, for any given momentum, the equivalent potential grows monotonically with the number of intersecting sheets. Our findings can be tested in ultracold atom setups and semiconductor structures.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Urban Teacher Job Retention: What Makes Them Stay?
Creators: name: Rinehart, Laurie Eileen
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021

description: This study examined job satisfaction factors and teacher demographics in relation to a teacher’s likelihood of returning to an urban teaching setting the following school year. The researcher specifically examined factors relating to teachers’ job satisfaction, utilizing Paul Spector’s Job Satisfaction Survey (1999). Four hundred fifty-nine Indiana urban schoolteachers whose districts are members of Indiana Urban School Association (IUSA) participated in this study. Participants’ demographic and job satisfaction data was analyzed by point biserial correlations and binary logistic regressions. A significant correlation was found between the total JSS score and teachers’ decision to return teaching in urban school setting. Additionally, an increased number of years of teaching, promotion, and nature of work were associated with an increased likelihood of returning to teach. In contrast, an increase in age was associated with a reduced probability of teaching or returning by 0.746. An increase in the number of teaching years was related to an increased probability of returning to teaching by 3.204. There is an increased chance of returning to teaching by 4.066 as promotion increases. A reduced probability of returning to teaching by .313 was correlated with relationships with colleagues. Finally, increasing levels of nature of work was associated with an increased likelihood or returning to work by 3.103. Based on the findings from this study, the researcher concluded administrators in urban school settings should focus on factors that will enhance teacher experience and overall job satisfaction to discourage attrition.
Additional file 1 of Local transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells improves encephalo-myo-synangiosis-mediated collateral neovascularization in chronic brain ischemia
Creators: name: Zhang, Xincheng
name: Huang, Yimin
name: Liu, Yuan
name: Liu, Yanchao
name: He, Xuejun
name: Ma, Xiaopeng
name: Gan, Chao
name: Zou, Xin
name: Wang, Sheng
name: Shu, Kai
name: Lei, Ting
name: Zhang, Huaqiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. RT-qPCR results of angiogenic related mRNA (A) and miRNA (B) of cortex attached to the temporal muscle 30 days after EMS.
A matrix model of a non-Hermitian $β$-ensemble
Creators: name: Mezzadri, Francesco
name: Taylor, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the first random matrix model of a complex $β$-ensemble. The matrices are tridiagonal and can be thought of as the non-Hermitian analogue of the Hermite $β$-ensembles discovered by Dumitriu and Edelman (J. Math. Phys., Vol. 43, 5830 (2002)). The main feature of the model is that the exponent $β$ of the Vandermonde determinant in the joint probability density function (j.p.d.f.) of the eigenvalues can take any value in $\mathbb{R}_+$. However, when $β=2$, the j.p.d.f. does not reduce to that of the Ginibre ensemble, but it contains an extra factor expressed as a multidimensional integral over the space of the eigenvectors.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures. Added Lemma 2.1 and Appendix B. Minor corrections
sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501327211042790 – Supplemental material for Practice Patterns and Training Needs Among Physicians Certifying Patients for Medical Marijuana in Florida
Creators: name: Sajdeya, Ruba
name: Shavers, Anna
name: Jean-Jacques, Jennifer
name: Costales, Brianna
name: Jugl, Sebastian
name: Crump, Carly
name: Wang, Yan
name: Manfio, Luran
name: Pipitone, R. Nathan
name: Rosenthal, Martha S.
name: Winterstein, Almut G.
name: Cook, Robert L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Health and Community Services
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501327211042790 for Practice Patterns and Training Needs Among Physicians Certifying Patients for Medical Marijuana in Florida by Ruba Sajdeya, Anna Shavers, Jennifer Jean-Jacques, Brianna Costales, Sebastian Jugl, Carly Crump, Yan Wang, Luran Manfio, R. Nathan Pipitone, Martha S. Rosenthal, Almut G. Winterstein and Robert L. Cook in Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Additional file 1 of Insights and challenges of insecticide resistance modelling in malaria vectors: a review
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Eric Ali
name: Wamalwa, Mark
name: Odindi, John
name: Tonnang, Henri Edouard Zefack
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of articles included in final systematic review follow the screening process.
Quantum coherent feedback control of an N-level atom with multiple excitations
Creators: name: Ding, Haijin
name: Zhang, Guofeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of a quantum coherent feedback network, where an $N$-level atom is coupled with a cavity and the cavity is also coupled with single or multiple parallel waveguides. When the atom is initialized at the highest energy level, it can emit multiple photons into the cavity, and the photons can be further transmitted to the waveguides and re-interact with the cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED) system. The transmission of photons in the waveguide can construct a feedback channel with a delay determined by the length of the waveguide. We model the dynamics of the atomic and photonic states of the cavity-QED system as a linear control system with delay. By tuning the control parameters such as the coupling strengths among the atom, cavity and waveguide, the eigenstates of the quantum system can be exponentially stable or unstable, and the exponential stability of the linear quantum control system with delay is related with the generation of single- and multi-photon states. Besides, when the cavity-QED system is coupled with multiple parallel waveguides, the emitted photons oscillate among different waveguides and the stability of quantum states is influenced by the feedback loop length and coupling strengths among waveguides.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024
Additional file 2 of Insights and challenges of insecticide resistance modelling in malaria vectors: a review
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Eric Ali
name: Wamalwa, Mark
name: Odindi, John
name: Tonnang, Henri Edouard Zefack
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2.Summary on approaches used to model and map insecticide resistance.
The effect of malic acid supplementation on diet digestibility and methane production by beef cattle fed a forage diet
Creators: name: Cobb, Stacey Marie
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Beef cattle--Feeding and feeds.
Malic acid.

description: This project was conducted to determine the effect of malic acid (MA) supplementation to a forage diet on ruminal fermentation and methane (CH4) production by beef cattle. Four ruminally fistulated animals were fed at maintenance a 75% bluegrass straw and 25% alfalfa hay basal diet at 0700 and 1900 h. Malic acid treatment levels were 0, 196.6, 409.5, and 607.7 g/d and were supplemented via the rumen fistula in two equal portions. Ruminal fluid samples were collected at 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 h after feeding and immediately analyzed for pH. Bluegrass straw and alfalfa hay dry matter (DM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), and organic matter (OM) in situ digestibilities were determined at 0, 8, 16, 24, and 48 h after feeding. Methane emissions were determined twice daily.
description: The mean ruminal fluid pH level was 6.4 ± 0.04 and was unaffected by MA treatment. Bluegrass straw in situ NDF, ADF, and ash disappearance were unaffected by MA treatment, though there was a trend towards reduced DM and OM disappearance with increasing MA supplementation. An effect of time on disappearance was observed for BGS DM, NDF, ADF, and OM disappearance. An interaction between treatment and time was observed for all BGS disappearance measurements. These interactions indicate a suppression of BGS DM, NDF, ADF, and OM disappearance over time as MA treatment level increases. An effect of time on disappearance was observed for alfalfa hay DM, NDF, ADF, and OM disappearance. However, alfalfa hay DM, NDF, ADF, and OM disappearance was unaffected by MA treatment. Methane emissions averaged 299.1 ± 0.11 g/d and were not affected by treatment. In addition, CH4 loss as a percent of gross energy intake was not affected by treatment and averaged 7.6% across all treatments. Consequently, MA treatments added directly to ruminal contents at these levels was ineffective at reducing CH4 emissions.
INCORPORATING NITROGEN STABLE ISOTOPES INTO ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY MODELS
Creators: name: Fang, Huan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes
Isotope geochemistry
Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified
Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The nitrogen stable isotope composition (δ15N) of nitrogen oxides (NOx) may be an effective tool to evaluate the accuracy of the NOx emission inventories, which are based on different assumptions. In order to approach this goal, the understanding of (1) the δ15N(NOx) values of the major emission sources, (2) how atmospheric processes, such as mixing, transport, and deposition, alters the composition of atmospheric NOx, (3) gas-phase isotope effects that occur during the oxidation of NOx into NOy (NOx + NO3, N2O5, HNO3, + HNO4 + HONO + Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) + organic nitrates + any oxidized N compound), and (4) the corresponding δ15N measurement of atmospheric NOx under different scenarios are necessary. Therefore, I developed 15N incorporated CMAQ (The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System), to explore the changes in δ15N driven by atmospheric processes and tropospheric photochemistry after different sources of NOx being emitted to the atmosphere. The 15N was first incorporated into the emission dataset, based on the amount of NOx emission from each source retrieved from the emission inventories, and the corresponding δ15N(NOx) values characterized from the prior studies. Then the 15N incorporated emission dataset was used as input to run CMAQ, to trace how atmospheric processes alter the composition of NOx, by using WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model to prepare meteorology conditions. Finally, 15N was incorporated into the chemical mechanisms of CMAQ to explore the gas phase isotope effects associated with NOx oxidation, by adding the 15N of N compounds and replicate the chemical reactions involving N compounds, with the corresponding fractionation factors () based on prior experimental and theoretical studies. The simulated δ15N(NOx) was compared with corresponding measurements at NADP sides within Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky. Overall, this research explores changes in δ15N values along the “journey” of atmospheric NOx, for better understanding the spatial distributions of the NOx emission budgets, as well as the impacts from the associated atmospheric processes and NOx oxidation chemistry.
title: Sting Like a Butterfly, Float Like a Bee.
Vulnerability, Representation, and Vacillation:
The Female Boxer in Contemporary Art
Creators: name: Brossard, Genève
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: female boxers, boxing, contemporary art, poetics, monstrousness, sport, vacillation

description: This PhD aims to create a reading strategy for the subject of the female boxer in order to intervene in the ways in which this figure is utilized and understood in contemporary culture. Ultimately, I am positing the limits of social constructivism and social science as a way to understand the boxing body and, specifically, the female boxer. Readings arising out of the philosophy of phenomenology, among other areas of thought, are more useful as a way to understand and capture this. Art can draw on the difference and also the intersection between these understandings, as well as add new meanings to our thinking around the subject.

I am considering the female boxer as a cipher to explore questions around the representation and vulnerability of moving bodies. My interest is in the contradictions present in the plurality of the subject; on the one hand, a political need exists to count the particular body of the female boxer as a body that matters; on the other hand, the female boxing body is an example of physicality and potentiality that is not totally captured by current semantic, cultural definition. I will discuss depictions and conceptualizations that exist both in the sociological definition of the boxing body and in methods of artistic representation, with the intention of articulating an understanding of the subject that allows for its inconclusivity as a lived body. 

Brian Massumi writes, “in motion, a body is in an immediate, unfolding relation to its own non-present potential to vary.”  The charge of indeterminacy as carried by a body is inseparable from it, as long as the body is dynamic and alive. This thesis describes, addresses, and challenges the ways in which the female boxing body is functioning and being defined as a sociological signifier, specifically the practice of gender construction as it frames the boxing body in art and theory. Via an understanding of the female boxer as vacillating, as being both irresolute and situated, my project engages with particular works of contemporary art that are attempting an alteration of our existing interpretations of the subject. My ultimate intention is to elucidate the becoming female boxer as a generative prism, and to investigate the ways in which art could be engaging with the ensuing spectrum.
Information Retrieval using Markov random Fields and Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Creators: name: Kamma, Monika
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Information retrieval and web search
Natural language processing

description: When a user types in a search query in an Information Retrieval system, a list of top ‘n’ ranked documents relevant to the query are returned by the system. Relevant means not just returning documents that belong to the same category as that of the search query, but also returning documents that provide a concise answer to the search query. Determining the relevance of the documents is a significant challenge as the classic indexing techniques that use term/word frequencies do not consider the term (word) dependencies or the impact of previous terms on the current words or the meaning of the words in the document. There is a need to model the dependencies of the terms in the text data and learn the underlying statistical patterns to find the similarity between the user query and the documents to determine the relevancy.
This research proposes a solution based on Markov Random Fields (MRF) and Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) to solve the problem of term dependencies and learn the underlying patterns to return documents that are very similar to the user query.
Time Restricted Eating Versus Daily Calorie Restriction for Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Pavlou, Vasiliki
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: Time-restricted eating (TRE) is a popular diet strategy, but its long-term efficacy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is not known. Our research compared 8-hour TRE with traditional calorie restriction (CR) and a control group on body weight, glycemic control, cardiometabolic risk factors, and sleep in adults with T2DM over 6 months. Seventy-five participants with obesity and T2DM were randomized to TRE (eating 12-8 pm without calorie counting), CR (25% energy restriction), or control. TRE led to a significant reduction in body weight (-3.56%, 95% CI, -5.92, -1.20; P ≤ 0.01) compared to controls, while CR did not (-1.78%, 95% CI, -3.67, 0.11; P = 0.06). Both TRE and CR improved HbA1c (-0.91% and -0.94%, respectively), with no difference between groups. There were no changes to cardiometabolic risk factors and sleep parameters in either intervention group. TRE, without calorie counting, is an effective alternative to CR for weight loss and glycemic control in adults with T2DM. Longer-term studies are needed to further explore TRE’s role in diabetes management.
Диагностика генетически детерминированных заболеваний голштинской породы крупного рогатого скота
Creators: name: Зайцева, Ольга Сергеевна
name: Соколова, Ольга Васильевна
name: Шкуратова, Ирина Алексеевна
name: Мартынов, Николай Александрович
name: Безбородова, Наталья Александровна
name: Бытов, Максим Владимирович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Agricultural genetics

description:  В настоящее время с целью повышения генетического потенциала продуктивности животных используют генетический материал от выдающихся быков-производителей. Однако отмечается, что часть из них не проходит тестирование на предмет носительства генетических заболеваний, распространенных в голштинской породе [15]. Согласно данным многих исследователей [6, 1, 2, 22, 16, 3, 25], именно производители могут являться носителями летальных генов, что создает опасность распространения генетических аномалий среди крупного рогатого скота и вызывает различные наследственные заболевания, многие из которых не совместимы с жизнью. Современная структура размножения популяций крупного рогатого скота молочного направления продуктивности приводит к распространению в них LoF-мутаций (LoF, loss-of-function), ассоциированных с эмбриональной и ранней постэмбриональной смертностью, обозначенных как гаплотипы фертильности [6, 7]. Описание первых генетических нарушений в голштинской породе крупного рогатого скота было спровоцировано появлением больных животных. Клинические проявления нарушений заключались в прерывании беременности на разных сроках, мертворождениях, болезнях и гибели телят после рождения [6, 8, 24, 25], что не удавалось связать с инфекцией. Согласно Решению Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии от 2 июня 2020 г. № 74 «Об утверждении Положения о проведении молекулярной генетической экспертизы племенной продукции государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза», генетически детерминированное заболевание – это наследственно обусловленное заболевание, вызванное изменениями ДНК, приводящее к развитию патологических процессов в организме потомства и нежелательное с точки зрения здоровья популяции [17]. Генотипирование популяции голштинской породы крупного рогатого скота проводят на предмет носительства следующих генетически детерминированных заболеваний: дефицит холестерина (HCD), дефицит лейкоцитарной адгезии (BLAD), комплексный порок позвоночника (CVM), дефицит уридинмонофосфатсинтазы (DUMPS), дефицит фактора XI крови (FXID), брахиспина (BY) и голштинские гаплотипы 1–6 (HH1-HH6).