cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Occurrence of mycotic and aflatoxin contamination in Myristica fragrans seeds (nutmeg) and Capsicum annum (chili) packed in Italy and commercialized worldwide
Creators: name: Pesavento, Giovanna
name: Ostuni, Matteo
name: Calonico, Carmela
name: Rossi, Simona
name: Capei, Raffaella
name: Lo Nostro, Antonella
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016
Subjects: aflatoxins; moulds; spices

description: Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites of moulds known to be carcinogenic for humans, and therefore should not be ingested in high doses. This study aimed to determine the level of mould and aflatoxin contamination in dehydrated chili and nutmeg imported from India and Indonesia, respectively, packed in Italy, and commercialized worldwide.

63 samples of chili (22 sanitized through heat treatment, and 41 not heat treated) and 52 samples of nutmeg (22 sanitized through heat treatment, and 30 not heat treated) were tested for aflatoxin, moulds and moisture content.

Heat-treated samples were less contaminated than those not treated. Spices in powder (both chili and nutmeg) were more contaminated than whole ones. In untreated spices, we observed a positive correlation between mould and moisture content. Of the nutmeg and chili powder samples, 72.5% and 50% tested positive for aflatoxin contamination with a range of 0 â 17.2 μg kg-1 and 0 - 10.3 μg kg-1, respectively.

The steam treatment of spices would be useful in reducing the initial amount of moulds. Despite the fact that risk from the consumption of spices contaminated with aflatoxins is minimal, due to the small amount used in food, preventive screening actions of the whole food chain are very important, especially because the most frequently identified toxin was B1 which is the most dangerous of the four toxins (B1, B2, G1, G2).Â
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: Promotionsprojekte im Fokus: Methodische Breite und Datenvielfalt im Doktorand*innennetzwerk Gesprächsforschung
Creators: name: Krug, Maximilian
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Gesprächsforschung
subject: Promotion
subject: Nachwuchsförderung
subject: Statistik
subject: Onlineumfrage
subject: 400

description: Diese Studie untersucht die thematische und methodische Ausrichtung von Promotionsprojekten im Bereich der Gesprächsforschung, speziell im Doktorand*innennetzwerk Gesprächsforschung (DokGF). Basierend auf einer Umfrage im DokGF im Jahr 2024 erfasst die Studie im Rahmen einer statistischen Analyse erstmals systematisch die Forschungsschwerpunkte und die methodische Breite der Nachwuchsforschenden in der Gesprächsforschung. Die Ergebnisse zeigen deutliche methodische Präferenzen und eine enge Verknüpfung zwischen den Forschungssettings, den untersuchten Themen und der Methodenauswahl. Die identifizierten methodischen Cluster aus Kombinationen zentraler Ansätze der Gesprächsforschung (z.B. Interaktionale Linguistik und Konversationsanalyse oder Konversationsanalyse und Multimodale Interaktionsforschung) verdeutlichen, dass Promovierende im Bereich der Gesprächsforschung eine breite methodische Basis verwenden, um die Vielfalt kommunikativer Phänomene adäquat zu erfassen. Die Untersuchung schafft damit nicht nur einen Überblick über die Forschungslandschaft des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, sondern bildet auch eine Grundlage für eine gezielte Förderung und die methodologische Weiterentwicklung des Fachs – über das DokGF hinaus.
description: fokus:interaktion: eine Open-Access-Zeitschrift für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen der Gesprächsforschung, vol. 2024/2025Bd. 2 (2024/2025), p. 31
Efficacy of safety catheter devices in the prevention of occupational needlestick injuries: applied research in Liguria Region (Italy)
Creators: name: Sossai, Dimitri
name: Di Guardo, Marianna
name: Foscoli, Riccardo
name: Pezzi, Riccardo
name: Polimeni, Annamaria
name: Ruzza, Laila
name: Miele, Mariangela
name: Ottaggio, Laura
name: Fontana, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016
Subjects: healthcare workers, safety catheter devices, needlestick injury

description: Health care workers who use or may be exposed to needles are at increased risk of needlestick injuries which can lead to serious infections with bloodborne pathogens. These injuries can be avoided by eliminating the unnecessary use of needles, using safety devices. The present study was aimed at evaluating the impact of a safety-engineered device, with passive fully automatic needlestick protection, on the reduction of needlestick injuries among health care workers.Â

The setting of the study was a network of five public health care institutions situated in a Northern Italian Region. Data about the type of device, the number of employees and the amount of catheter devices used per year were collected through regular meetings with health care workers over a period of five years.
The most remarkable result of this study was represented by the huge risk reduction estimated for safety devices. Indeed, the risk of needlestick injuries due to conventional devices was found to be 25 fold higher than that observed for safety devices. However, it is noteworthy that a discernible part of this excess can be explained by the different background amount of devices used. Moreover, the descriptive analysis suggested that individuals with a poor/moderate training level showed a lower risk, albeit not statistically significant, than those with a good/high training.
In conclusion, there is a convincing evidence of a causal connection between the introduction of safety devices and reduction in the occurrence of needlestick injuries. This consideration pushes to introduce safety devices into daily clinical practice.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
Smoking during pregnancy: a difficult problem to face
Creators: name: Blanquet, Marie
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016
Subjects: pregnancy; tobacco consumption; environmental tobacco smoke

description: Introduction: Smoking tobacco during pregnancy is a preventable risk factor of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The aim of the study was to assess the impact of the information and training programme performed by the perinatal network of Auvergne, France, on smoking during pregnancy.

Methods: A multicentre before-and-after population-based study, based on two cross-sectional surveys, was carried out between July 2003 and June 2004, and December 2008 and January 2010. Pregnant women aged over 18 years old, fluently writing and speaking French were eligible. The main outcome was the prevalence of pregnant women daily smoking. The preventive programme consisted of information of women and healthcare providers and training for healthcare providers. Multivariate analysis was performed by using manual logistic regression and calculated crude and adjusted Odds Ratio.

Findings: Before and after surveys involved 1027 and 720 women, respectively. A higher percentage of women smoked daily in the after survey at diagnosis 43.49% vs. 51.94%, adjusted Odds Ratio 1.45 [1.10; 1.90] and during the third term 40.53% vs. 51.94%, adjusted Odds Ratio 1.62 [1.24; 2.12]. Environmental tobacco smoke exposure among the non-smokers was higher in the after survey 52.83% vs. 69.57% adjusted Odds Ratio 1.95 [1.54; 2.47].

Conclusion: The programme was not associated with the decrease of tobacco consumption during pregnancy. There was an increased exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. French public health authorities should introduce a new policy aimed specifically at tackling tobacco use during pregnancy and exposure to second hand smoke that takes into account the entire environment of pregnant women.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
Current preventive policies and practices against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and tuberculosis targeted for workers from hospitals of the Sardinia Region, Italy
Creators: name: Campagna, Marcello
name: Argiolas, Federico
name: Soggiu, Bruna
name: Mereu, Noemi Maria
name: Lai, Alberto
name: Galletta, Maura
name: Coppola, Rosa Cristina
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Health care Workers are exposed to infectious diseases more than the general population. Many of these infections are preventable by vaccination. The objective in this study is to investigate whether, how, and which vaccination underwent Sardinia Health Care Workers (HCWs) and the variability of policies in different Hospital Health Managements of the whole region.Â Methods: In March 2013, we enrolled the Hospital Health Management of all the 32 Sardinia hospitals. We investigate on immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases and education campaigns about recommended vaccinations for HCWs. Flu, hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella, varicella and tuberculosis were the objects of our research.Â Results: In most of the hospitals, influenza vaccination coverage among HCWs is less than 6%. Hepatitis B antibody assay was performed in all the respondent hospitals but only 14 had available data as collected electronically. Most of the hospitals did not perform serological tests for the evaluation of antibodies against Varicella, Measles, Mumps and Rubella in their HCWs. In 30 hospitals Mantoux test was replaced or integrated by âin vitroâ test for health surveillance protocols.Â Conclusions: This method produced a large amount of data in small time and at a low cost. Sending back data to respective Hospital Health Management (HHM) we took a step towards greater awareness of the issue of biological risks of HCWs and of vaccine coverage.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
Spatial distributions of seaweed, Sargassum muticum, before and after cleaning historic Herbarium data
Creators: name: Ido, Yoshizumi
name: Jubinville-Mah, Justin
name: Park, Grace
name: Zhao, Jocelyn
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Motivation for Work With over half a million botanical specimens within its collections, the UBC Herbarium is the second largest collection of herbarium data in Canada. However, a large amount of historic data has not been cleaned nor updated to meet current standards and practices, weakening the reliability of the herbarium database for related research purposes and policy decisions by introducing inaccurate data or incomprehensive data to the analyses. In collaboration with the UBC Herbarium, we would like to systematically examine the impact cleaning historic herbarium geospatial data has on scientific analysis, using the invasive marine algae species Sargassum muticum as a case study. Research Questions 1. What is the implication and significance of cleaning herbarium species distribution data? 2. How has cleaning historic geographic data for S. muticum on the North American west coast impacted the species distribution? Data Used UBC Herbarium geospatial and species data for Sargassum muticum (uncleaned and cleaned) Types of Analysis Geospatial analysis of S. muticum distributions in the North American Pacific northwest both before and after herbarium data was cleaned for accuracy and completeness. Main Findings • 276 of 276 data points had corresponding geospatial coordinates after cleaning compared to 163 of 276 points (precleaning). Representing a significantly increase the number of usable data points for analysis. • Precision of all geospatial data points and their uncertainties were vastly improved (going from the tens of kilometers to meters in several cases). This allows clearer knowledge on the distribution of the species. • After cleaning, there were significant shifts in a number of geospatial data points, representing new previously unknown distributions of S. muticum. • Overall, there was a significant impact on S. muticum data after cleaning the historic herbarium data, impacting the resulting scientific analysis and known distributions of the algae species. • Relying on uncleaned historic herbarium data of scientific analysis and governmental policy the making has the strong potential to lead to erroneous conclusions based on inaccurate data. • It should be a priority for historic herbarium data to be reviewed and cleaned, such that it meets current standards before use in any analysis to ensure meaningful accurate conclusions can be drawn from said datasets.
Measuring and benchmarking the quality of two different organizational ways in delivering infant vaccination
Creators: name: Maurici, Massimo
name: Paulon, Luca
name: Carlino, Cristiana
name: Campolongo, Alessandra
name: Catapano, Raffaele
name: Sgricia, Stefano
name: Franco, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: The aim of this study was the quality of service evaluation of two different organizational ways in delivering infant vaccination according to a Regional Vaccination Plan.Â Materials and Methods: Eleven vaccination centres were selected in two Local Health Units (ASLs) belonging to the Regional Health Service of the Lazio Region, Italy. The services offering paediatric vaccinations for children under three years of age, delivered with the need for an appointment (VACL) or else without an appointment (VACP), were investigated. The quality aspects under evaluation were communicational efficiency, organisational efficiency and comfort. Three steps are necessary to quantify the overall quality of service. Step 1 involves different stakeholders and the elicitation of best and worst feasible performance conditions for the ASLs when delivering VACP/VACL services (i.e., subjective data collection). Step 2 consists in the observation of current performances of the selected vaccination centres (i.e., objective data collection). Step 3 involves the combination of all data. Benchmarking between VACP and VACL, i.e., two different organisational ways in delivering infant vaccination, can be performed as a result of the probabilistic meaning of the evaluated scores.Â Results: An expert of vaccination services, i.e., a virtual combination of patients, doctors and nurses, claims the quality of service delivery of the ASLs under investigation with probability 78.03% and 69.67% for VACL and VACP, respectively. In other words, for short, the quality scores of the ASLs were 78.03% for VACP and 69.67% for VACL. Furthermore our results show how to practically improve the current service delivery.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: Ausgabe 14 (November 2024): Digitalisierung & IT-Sicherheit
Creators: name: Zentrum Für Informations- Und Mediendienste (Duisburg; Essen)
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Du@IT
subject: 000

description: INHALT Strategisches zur Digitalisierung an der UDE Cyberangriff auf die UDE eduVPN IT-Sicherheit von privaten Geräten Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierung Potsdam Cyber Games Das Datacenter in Duisburg-Wedau High-Performance-Computing an der UDE ZKI Arbeitskreis Supercomputing in Duisburg Augmented Learning an der UDE Technikdidaktik-Symposium in München Umstieg auf neue Moodle-Version Veranstaltungen Universe.nrw Wandkalender 2025 Zukunftsorientierte Telefonie Das ZIM als Arbeitgeber Qualitätsverbesserungsmittel für 2024/25
description: DUEIT: Information, Kommunikation, Medien, no. 14
title: D1.1.1. Strategy for implementing green transportation concepts by using inland waterways
title: WISTAR Deliverable D1.1.1. Strategy for implementing green transportation concepts by using inland waterways
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Delferriere, Théo
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: The WISTAR project, Waterways for Green Inland Sustainable Transport and Rural Businesses, aims to develop sustainable urban logistics solutions in North-West Europe (NWE) by leveraging Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) to create an eco-friendly supply chain that aligns with both environmental and economic objectives. This report delves into the challenges, opportunities, and actionable strategies for integrating renewable energy solutions and optimizing transshipment points specifically designed for inland waterway logistics. The report addresses three key objectives: Market Demand Analysis: We assess the demand for IWT services across urban and rural areas in Germany, France, and Belgium. The study examines the role of inland waterways in sectors such as agrifood, last-mile urban deliveries, and intermodal logistics, focusing on how these services can meet business needs while reducing transportation costs and environmental impact. Transportation Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Concepts: This section evaluates the current infrastructure supporting IWT in each region, highlighting renewable energy options such as bio-GNC, hydrogen, and electric energy for transport logistics. The report also examines the potential for adopting energy-efficient practices in line with local and national regulatory frameworks. Identification of Transshipment Points: The report offers a mapping of potential transshipment points that can serve as strategic hubs for IWT operations. These points enable flexible and decentralized logistics solutions, reducing dependency on traditional ports and facilitating supply chain connections between rural and urban regions. The findings highlight the potential for IWT to become a cornerstone of sustainable logistics in the NWE area. WISTAR’s transnational approach underscores the need for collaborative efforts to harmonize policies, streamline regulations, and foster infrastructure development, ensuring that solutions are tailored to each country’s unique characteristics. In summary, the WISTAR project envisions a green, integrated supply chain model that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, supports energy efficiency, and promotes the economic growth of rural-urban logistics networks in North-West Europe. By developing region-specific recommendations and best practices, this report sets the foundation for a sustainable logistics framework capable of evolving to meet future challenges.
description: WISTAR. Waterways for Green Inland Sustainable Transport and Rural Businesses
Disease systems biology of the autoantibody production by liver-infiltrating B cells in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Creators: name: D.B.R.K. Gupta Udatha
name: Chung, Brian K
name: Evaggelia  Liaskou
name: Hirschfield, Gideon M
name: Karlsen, Tom Hemming
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a cholestatic autoimmune liver disorder of unknown etiology characterized by prominent hepatic immune infiltrate and extensive fibrotic strictures of the intra- and extra-hepatic biliary ducts. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown that the genetic architecture of PSC closely resembles other prototypical autoimmune disorders such as celiac disease and type 1 diabetes where the strongest genetic risk factors reside within the HLA alleles of the major histocompatibility complex. In PSC, the contribution of the overwhelming HLA association is unclear. In this work, we assessed the genetic HLA association in PSC by screening the autoantibody response in patient livers using human recombinant protein arrays and HLA elution studies. We identified eleven novel autoantibody targets shared among PSC samples from nine patients, which implies pathways involving these proteins may be targeted by autoimmune responses in patients with PSC. Furthermore, systems level analysis of the pathways modulated by the shared PSC autoantibody targets and their sequence homology analysis against the known proteomes have refined our understanding of the molecular triggers of PSC.
title: Globale Ergebnisse BTI 2022
title: Abnehmende Resilienz
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hartmann, Hauke
name: Thiery, Peter
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transformation
Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Demokratie
Governance

description: Der BTI 2022 stellt erneut erhebliche Rückschritte in den Transformationsprozessen weltweit fest. Die Leitbilder von Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft stehen unter starkem Druck und werden durch korrupte Eliten, illiberalen Populismus und autoritäre Herrschaft herausgefordert. Erstmals führt der Transformationsindex mehr autoritär als demokratisch regierte Staaten auf. Noch nie sind in den letzten zwanzig Jahren sozioökonomisches Entwicklungsniveau und Wirtschaftsleistung im BTI so niedrig bewertet worden. Auch die Regierungsleistungen nehmen weiter ab, insbesondere in den konsensbezogenen Aspekten von Governance.
Compressive structural bioinformatics: High efficiency 3D structure compression
Creators: name: Rose, Peter
name: Valasatava, Yana
name: Bradley, Anthony
name: Rose, Alexander
name: Duarte, Jose
name: Prlic, Andreas
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: As technologies in structural biology continue to improve, many new large complex 3D structures are becoming characterized. Interactive visualization of large complex structures and large scale queries or structural comparisons across the entire Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive are becoming a bottleneck in terms of network bandwidth, I/O, parsing, and memory consumption. We have developed a compact and extensible representation of 3D molecules to overcome these challenges. This compact representation (Macromolecular Transmission Format, MMTF, http://mmtf.rcsb.org) enables efficient data transfer for interactive visualization. In large scale distributed parallel processing, the compressed PDB or large subsets can be kept in memory, leading to large efficiency gains, as we move the data to the processor.
title: Dagstuhl Reports, Table of Contents, Volume 14, Issue 12, 2024
Creators: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Table of Contents
subject: Frontmatter

description: Dagstuhl Reports, Table of Contents, Volume 14, Issue 12, 2024
description: DagRep, Volume 14, Issue 12, pages i-ii
Epidemiological analysis of coronary heart disease and its main risk factors: are their associations multiplicative, additive, or interactive?
Creators: name: Voutilainen, Ari
name: Brester, Christina
name: Kolehmainen, Mikko
name: Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The purpose of this study was to discover how considering multiplicative, additive, and interactive effects modifies results of a prospective cohort study on coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence and its main risk factors. The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor (KIHD) Study provided the study material, 2682 Eastern Finnish middle-aged men, followed since the 1980s. We applied multiplicative and additive survival models together with different statistical metrics and confidence intervals for risk ratios and risk differences to estimate the nature of associations. The mean (SD) follow-up time among men who were free of CHD at baseline (n = 1958) was 21.4 (10.4) years, and 717 (37%) of them had the disease and 301 (15%) died for CHD before the end of follow-up. All tested non-modifiable and modifiable risk factors statistically significantly predicted CHD incidence. We detected three interactions: circulating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) × age, obesity × age, and obesity × smoking of which LDL-C × age was the most evident one. High LDL-C increased the risk of CHD more among men younger than 50 [risk ratio (RR) 2.10] than those older than 50 (RR 1.22). LDL-C status was the only additive covariate. The additive effect of high LDL-C increased almost linearly up to 18 years and then reached a plateau. The simple multiplicative survival model stressed glycemic status as the strongest modifiable risk factor for developing CHD [hazard ratio (HR) for diabetes vs. normoglycemia was 2.69], whereas the model considering interactions and time dependence emphasised the role of LDL-C status (HR for high LDL-C vs. lower than borderline was 4.43). Age was the strongest non-modifiable predictor. Including covariate interactions and time dependence in survival models potentially refine results of epidemiological analyses and ease to define the order of importance across CHD risk factors. KEY MESSAGESIncluding covariate interactions and time dependence in survival models potentially refine results of epidemiological analyses on coronary heart disease.Including covariate interactions and time dependence in survival models potentially ease to define the order of importance across coronary heart disease risk factors. Including covariate interactions and time dependence in survival models potentially refine results of epidemiological analyses on coronary heart disease. Including covariate interactions and time dependence in survival models potentially ease to define the order of importance across coronary heart disease risk factors.
Kollaborative Diensteplattform. Digitalisierung als Mittel teamorientierter Selbstorganisation
Creators: name: Kubek, Vanessa
name: Velten, Sebastian
name: Uhde, Alarith
name: Schlicker, Nadine
name: Blaudszun-Lahm, Annette
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: Schichtplanung
subject: Pflege
subject: Schichtarbeit
subject: Autonomie
subject: Selbstorganisation
subject: Shift planning
subject: Care
subject: Shift work
subject: Autonomy
subject: Self organization
subject: Pflegeberuf
subject: Autonomie
subject: Selbstorganisation

description: "Die demografische Entwicklung, aber auch der medizinische Fortschritt haben bereits in der Vergangenheit dazu geführt, dass der Bedarf an Pflegepersonal in der Kranken- und Altenpflege gestiegen ist. Diese Entwicklung wird sich fortsetzen... Die Prognosen über die zu erwartende Versorgungslücke fallen dabei unterschiedlich aus. Dies stellt eine Herausforderung für die künftige Fachkräftesicherung dar. Sie wird verschärft durch die Tatsache, dass bereits jetzt ein bundesweiter Fachkräftemangel bei examinierten Alten- und Krankenpflegern herrscht" (Bundesagentur für Arbeit 2019, S. 5). Diese Analyse der Bundesagentur für Arbeit beschreibt ein Problem, das für viele Pflegeeinrichtungen dramatische Ausprägungen angenommen hat. Der Fachkräftemangel in der Pflege ist – in vielen Regionen Deutschlands – enorm. Zur Begründung wird in diesem Zusammenhang immer wieder auf die mangelnde Attraktivität des Pflegeberufes verwiesen. Die Attraktivität wird dabei durch unterschiedliche Faktoren eingeschränkt, zum Beispiel durch die körperlich und psychisch beanspruchende Tätigkeit, die häufig unter hohem Zeitdruck zu erbringen ist und vergleichsweise schlecht vergütet wird. Darüber hinaus ist die work-life-Balance von Pflegekräften durch Arbeit im Schichtdienst beeinträchtigt.
Nut consumption in a representative survey of Australians: A secondary analysis of the 2011-2012 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey
Creators: name: Nikodijevic, Cassandra
name: Probst, Yasmine
name: Batterham, Marijka
name: Tapsell, Linda
name: Neale, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 3210
subject: Nutrition and dietetics
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Nut consumption is associated with a range of health benefits. The current study aimed to examine nut consumption in the 2011-2012 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (NNPAS) and to investigate associations between nut intake, nutrient intake and anthropometric and blood pressure measurements. Design: Secondary analysis of the 2011-2012 NNPAS. Usual consumption of nuts in the 2011-2012 NNPAS was determined, and nut consumption was compared with population recommendations of 30 g nuts per day. The relationship between nut consumption and intakes of key nutrients, anthropometric outcomes (weight, BMI and waist circumference) and blood pressure was examined using linear regression for participants aged over 18 years. Setting: Australia. Participants: Australians (2 years and older, n 12 153) participating in the representative 2011-2012 NNPAS. Results: Mean nut intake was 4·61 (95 % CI: 4·36, 4·86) g/d, with only 5·6 % of nut consumers consuming 30 g of nuts per day. Nut consumption was associated with significantly greater intakes of fibre, vitamin E, Fe, Mg and P. There was no association between nut consumption and body weight, BMI, waist circumference, or blood pressure. Conclusions: Exploration of nut consumption in a representative sample of Australians identified that nut intake does not meet recommendations. Higher nut consumption was not adversely associated with higher body weight, aligning with the current evidence base. Given the current levels of nut consumption in Australia, strategies to increase nut intake to recommended levels are required.
Effects Known to be Caused by Hyperfine Interactions
Creators: name: Biskup, Till
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Hyperfine Interaction
Magnetic Resonance
HYP*MOL
Radical-Pair-Mechanism
Spin Mixing
Spin Relaxation

description: Starting with the basic definition of hyperfine couplings, effects that hyperfine interactions can cause are summarised for a non-specialist audience: spin mixing and spin relaxation/decoherence. Particularly for spin mixing, the magnetic field effect and magnetic isotope effect and their common basis, the radical-pair mechanism, are briefly described.
A comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms in a study of differential gene expression
Creators: name: Lahens, Nicholas
name: Ricciotti, Emanuela
name: Smirnova, Olga
name: Torrens, Erik
name: Kim, Eun Ji
name: Baruzzo, Giacomo
name: Hayer, Katharina
name: Ganguly, Tapan
name: Schug, Jonathan
name: Grant, Gregory
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Though Illumina has largely dominated the RNA-seq market, the emergence of Ion Torrent in recent years has left scientists wondering which platform is best-suited for RNA-seq analysis. Previous studies comparing the two have often used reference samples derived from cell lines and brain tissue. These comparisons more closely-model studies of tissue-specific expression, marked by large-scale transcriptional differences between samples. Here we use a treatment/control experimental design, which allows us to compare these platforms in the context of the more subtle differences common to differential gene expression (DGE) experiments. We assessed the hepatic inflammatory response of mice by using an Illumina HiSeq and Ion Torrent Proton to study liver RNA from control and IL1B-treated animals. While we found the most difference between these platforms at the level of read alignment/coverage, they showed greater concordance at the level of DGE analysis, and yielded very similar results for pathways affected by IL1B treatment. Interestingly, we also observed a strong interaction between sequencing platform and choice of aligner. By aligning both real and simulated Illumina and Ion Torrent data with twelve of the most commonly-cited aligners in the literature, we found different aligner and platform combinations were better suited to probing different genomic features, like disentangling the source of expression in gene-pseudogene pairs. Taken together, our results show that while Illumina and Ion Torrent show similar capacity to detect changes in biology from a treatment/control experiment, these platforms may be tailored to interrogate different transcriptional phenomena through careful selection of alignment software.
A multi-omics visualization platform (MVP) plug-in for Galaxy-based applications
Creators: name: McGowan, Thomas
name: Johnson, James
name: Pratik Jagtap
name: Getiria  Onsongo
name: Guerrero, Candace
name: Griffin, Timothy
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Galaxy-P project has extended the popular Galaxy bioinformatics framework deploying tools for MS-based proteomics data analysis and integrative "multi-omic" applications. The MVP visualization tool extends Galaxy-P's advantages into the visualization of large, complex data sets. This allows researchers to quickly inspect and verify the quality of the results as well offer an overview with visualization and a deeper understanding of underlying spectral data. This can be especially valuable when results include inputs from possibly diverse domains. The core of the MVP is based on standard JavaScript and js libraries. In addition it receives data from a documented Galaxy sqlite data provider. The main visualization is integrated into Galaxy via the Galaxy visualizations registry. Once registered, any dataset of type mz.sqlite will automatically be viewable from the MVP tool. The MVP tool uses 1) the DataTables library to manage the presentation, sorting and filtering of data 2) the Lorikeet MS/MS viewer to visualize spectra, and 3) the IGV.js package to interactively present features of interest. This enables a researcher to see, in one HTML window, both genomic and proteomic data as they relate to one another. With the incorporation of Integrated Genomics Viewer (IGV) and Lorikeet, the MVP platform is already merging proteomic and genomic results into a single, accessible output. A user can, with relatively few keystrokes, filter and order large datasets down to a manageable subset. Due to the tools use of server-side caching, large data sets are handled as quickly as small datasets.
title: UDE Diversity Monitoring - Update 2022
Creators: name: Ebert, Anna
name: Stammen, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Vielfalt
subject: Monitoring
subject: Diversity Management
subject: Student
subject: Studentin
subject: Absolvent
subject: Absolventin
subject: Heterogenität
subject: Intersektionalität
subject: 300

description: Wie divers sind die Studienanfänger*innen und Absolvent*innen der Universität Duisburg-Essen? Auf Basis von Befragungen der Studienanfänger*innen der Wintersemester 2012/13 bis 2021/22 sowie der Absolvent*innen der Prüfungsjahrgänge 2010 bis 2020 der Universität Duisburg-Essen werden Vielfaltsaspekte der Studienanfänger*innen und Absolvent*innen mit (sozio-)demografischen Merkmalen in Bezug gesetzt. Die betrachteten Diversitätsmerkmale und Vielfaltsaspekte wurden theoriegeleitet bestimmt, ihre Darstellung erfolgt in grafischer und tabellarischer Form. Um mögliche Veränderungen im zeitlichen Verlauf leicht sichtbar und im zeitlichen Verlauf auftretende Muster bzw. Trends erkennbar zu machen, werden die Ergebnisse aller Erhebungszeitpunkte innerhalb einer Grafik bzw. Tabelle dargestellt und differenziert nach Fakultäten berichtet.
description: How diverse are the students and graduates of the University of Duisburg-Essen? On the basis of surveys among first-year students in the winter semesters 2012/13 to 2021/22 and graduates of the examination years 2010 to 2020 of the University of Duisburg-Essen, aspects of diversity of the first-year students and graduates have been correlated with (socio)demographic variables. The variables and aspects of diversity under investigation have been defined by means of theoretical concepts, and they are presented in the form of graphs and tables. To make possible changes over time easily visible and to recognize patterns or trends that occur over time, the results of all survey time points are presented in a graph or table and reported separately by faculties.
description: UDE Diversity Monitoring
CONNECTING COMMUNITY AND CULTURE THROUGH INNOVATIVE STORYTELLING
Creators: name: Hrvatin Maluela
name: Domijanic Dravec Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: torytelling, story doing, interactive multilingual performance, stakeholder networking, live interpretation, experiences and community

description: Storytelling has existed since the oldest times. It was and still is a way of connecting people, creating communities and evoking emotions. Storytelling represents the intangible heritage, while locations related to a particular legend, myth or story represent the tangible heritage. Storytelling is a fundamental part of being human. Stories let us share information in a way that creates an emotional connection. They help us understand that information and each other, making the information memorable. Storytelling can encourage the development of society by making them aware of heritage, valuing traditions and customs, encouraging some further thinking, and inspiring them with new development ideas for a particular area. Today's social challenges are marked by daily, frequent changes imposed on us by the environment. The possibilities of storytelling lead to the release of negativity and encourage the development of society through a different prism. Istra Inspirit team the creative team of numerous actors, performers, entertainers, experts for culture and history, academics, and many others created a unique experience for each location. Every experience was different, but they all had some things in common: they were based on storytelling, included guests to the ‘show’ actively, and included thematic lunch or dinner that also had a story to tell.
title: การยอมรับการฉีดพ่นสารกำจัดวัชพืชบนแปลงอ้อยโดยใช้ยานพาหนะทางอากาศที่ไม่มีคนขับ (โดรน) อำเภอกุมภวาปี จังหวัดอุดรธานี
Creators: name: กฤษฎากรณ์ ว่องไว
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: ชาวไร่อ้อย
อ้อยและน้ำตาล
การยอมรับ
อากาศยานไร้คนขับ
โดรน

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 22, 1, 1-10
Supplementary document for Adaptive Optics Optical Coherence Tomography and Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy system for in vivo mouse retina imaging - 6180687.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Wahl, Daniel
name: Mocci, Jacopo
name: Miller, Eric
name: Bonora, Stefano
name: Sarunic, Marinko
name: Zawadzki, Robert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Vision Science

description: Suplemental Document
title: NICU NETWORK NEUROBEHAVIORAL SCALE TO ASSESS NEURODEVELOPMENT IN INFANTS WITH PRENATAL TOXIC SUBSTANCE OR DRUG EXPOSURE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Creators: name: Supattra SITTIWANG
Publisher: name: Asian Interdisciplinary and Sustainability Review
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025
Subjects: NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Neurodevelopment
Infants
Prenatal Exposure
Drug Exposure

description: Asian Interdisciplinary and Sustainability Review, 14, 1, Article 6
Gender Inequality and Ghanaian Economic Growth (1991–2017)
Creators: name: Abdul Rahman, Mohammed Muntaka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study investigates the relationship between gender inequality and economic growth in Ghana between 1991 to 2017. It looks at the determinants of female contribution to economic growth in Ghana as well as to examine the relationship between women’s participation and economic growth in Ghana. Data from World Development Indicators (WDI) of the World Bank was used in the econometric analyses. The major findings were that Male School Enrolment and Female Employment Rate have significant impact on the economic growth of Ghana. However, while Male Enrolment had negative relationship with GDP, Female Enrolment had positive relationship. Based on the findings, I recommended that the issue of gender equality should be a matter of interest to the government, if the powers that be are really bent on achieving the sustainable development goal 5 which would engender structural transformation of the Ghanaian economy; the government should make prudent investment to create employment opportunities, boost education standard, and more significantly try reducing the bottlenecks that cause inequality in gender.
Data for Unveiling Global Diversity of Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) Bacteria and Functional Interactions with Host Microbes
Creators: name: ji, yanhan
name: liu, Xu
name: Wang, Baozhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310703
subject: Microbial ecology

description: R code for network analysis diamond database for rpS3 identity and phylogenetic analysis
eDNAqua-Plan Deliverable 6: Report on DNA Reference Libraries
Creators: name: Costa, Filipe
name: Moutinho, Jorge
name: Woollard, Peter
name: Krawczyk, Dawid
name: Kavakiotis, Ioannis
name: Seweryński, Michał
name: Rimet, Frédéric
name: Cabezas, M. Pilar
name: Beermann, Arne
name: Leese, Florian
name: Papakostas, Spiros
name: Grabowski, Michal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This report contains an inventory of DNA barcoding projects across Europe, as well as repositories containing DNA barcode reference libraries, identifying their geographical, ecological, and taxonomic coverages. Such libraries (sensu Weigand et al. 2019), containing reliable and taxonomically curated DNA sequences, are essential for biodiversity monitoring, as they allow the utilisation of ecological and biogeographical information on species in a comparable manner.The report includes a brief description of the methodologies used to perform the inventory. In order to identify DNA barcoding projects and DNA reference libraries of European aquatic biodiversity, the main approach that was followed was a survey targeting peers who are, or have been involved in relevant projects in Europe. Additionally, an experimental approach was investigated, using the development of a large language model (LLM) for automatic processing of publications’ content. Thecollected content was explored using a list of search criteria agreed upon by the consortium members which allows for analysing gaps and overlaps of (meta)data.The survey was intended to directly gather information from key actors in the development of DNA reference libraries of European aquatic biodiversity, increasing the likelihood of acquiring data from current projects that have yet to publish or deposit any information. Yet, its outcome is biased as it was largely dependent on the peers that responded to the survey. The experimental LLM-based approach aimed to provide an automated method for reviewing available publications, allowing for a more timeefficient data collection process. This approach also has limitations resulting from the content of the training dataset and the set of questions on which the LLM was based. Combining the two approaches facilitates a more comprehensive review of the existing libraries.
Communication, dissemination, exploitation action plan
Creators: name: Giannetti, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The present deliverable describes the plan for communication, dissemination and exploitation within the SASPAM-SA project. Therefore, the first action for the WP7 has been to fix the needs of the project and to identify its communication and dissemination goals to be reached and how to achieve them. EUG will play a role in identifying the most efficient actions and channels to reach the target audiences. To maximize the impact of the project outcomes, this strategic plan includes:

• A detailed planning of all communication, dissemination and exploitation actions, their goals and timing, including the actions to strengthen the background and skills of young generations in the SA field.

• A description of the main action lines.

• Key messages and defined target audiences.

• Identification of key performance indicators for the goals to be reached, such as the number of international journal papers, the number of public website views, or the engagement on social media.
Supplementary document for High-fidelity Mesoscopic Fluorescence Molecular Tomography based on SSB-Net - 6181015.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Kaixuan
name: Jiang, Yuxuan
name: Li, Wensong
name: Chen, Haitao
name: Luo, Qingming
name: Deng, Yong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary materials
Applying an ontology-guided machine learning methodology to SEER-MHOS dataset
Creators: name: Min, Hua
name: Hedyeh Mobahi
name: Vukomanovic, Sava
name: Irvin, Katherine
name: Ilirjeta Krasniqi
name: Avramovic, Sanja
name: Wojtusiak, Janusz
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We developed an advanced method by adding ontology to a machine learning system, AQ21. Bio-ontologies are used to provide computable knowledge to help AQ21 to “understand” biomedical data. We applied the method to SEER-MHOS data to identify predictors affecting patients’ ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs).  It has been shown that the ontology-based machine learning system can achieve higher accuracy as compared to other methods without ontology.
title: Global Findings BTI 2022
title: Resilience wearing thin
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hartmann, Hauke
name: Thiery, Peter
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transformation
Economic development
Democracy
Governance

description: As in previous years, the BTI 2022 has identified considerable regression worldwide with regard to trans-formation processes. The guiding principles of democracy and the market economy have been subjected to intense pressure and are being challenged by corrupt elites, illiberal populism and authoritarian rule. For the first time, the Transformation Index lists more authoritarian states than democratic states. At no time in the last 20 years has the BTI assessed levels of socioeconomic development and economic performance as being so low. The quality of government performance has also continued to decline, particularly with respect to the consensus-related aspects of governance.
Recent developments and new directions for the Galaxy-P project
Creators: name: Pratik Jagtap
name: Johnson, James
name: McGowan, Thomas
name: Onsongo, Innocent
name: Lynch, Benjamin
name: Guerrero, Candace
name: Murray, Kevin
name: Smith, Lloyd M
name: Shortreed, Michael R
name: Cesnick, Anthony
name: Martens, Lennart
name: Hegeman, Adrian
name: Griffin, Timothy
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Galaxy-P project has extended the popular Galaxy bioinformatics framework into new realms, deploying tools for MS-based proteomics data analysis and integrative “multi-omic” applications. Galaxy-P leverages the many advantages offered by the Galaxy operating environment for informatics and data analysis, including flexibility, transparency and accessibility for bench scientists.

In the past, we have demonstrated Galaxy-P’s effectiveness not only standard proteomic studies, but also multi-omic applications such as proteogenomic and metaproteomics. Here, we describe more recent developments and emerging applications using Galaxy-P. These include: 1) expansion of tools for more comprehensive characterization of protein modifications; 2) new visualization functionalities for results interpretation; 3) Integration of informatics tools for MS-based metabolomics; and 4) New avenues for dissemination of tools and workflows.
title: GitLab
Creators: name: Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Informationsmaterialien der Research Data Services an der Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication d'un tambourin, sculpture à la gouge d'un motif décoratif
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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