cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Translation and public opinion: The press in Jordan
Creators: name: Abughazzi, Aysha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Language, Modern.
subject: Journalism.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: My thesis explores the reflexive and constructive roles of translation in the press, epitomized through studying translation in the press in Jordan since 1989, a year marked for democratization in Jordan. The body of translated texts, mainly 'meta-news' as exhibited in the Jordanian newspapers constitutes defined political 'discourse' that is designed to form particular collective identities and institutional effects perpetuated through regulated discursive strategies. As an ideological apparatus, the media system responds to and reflects its environment. In Jordan's quasi-democratic political environment and under the weak economic infrastructure of the press, articles imported from foreign media constitute a pivotal medium for regulating access to information and harnessing the process of opinion-formation. Most specifically, translation contributes to moulding and maintaining a more balanced 'glocalized' viewpoint of world events, a liaison and compromise to the tension between the dominant Western media discourse and the domestic value systems. This mediated 'in-between' alterity enables the press to accelerate social development through negotiating public agendas and setting platforms for dialogue and debate in the public sphere. Strategies of text selection and exclusion are determined by journalistic news values as well as by domestic ideological frameworks. Examination of the dynamics of translation behaviour in the press raises fundamental questions concerning the dialectical relationship involving the media institution, the translator, and the audience. Within a marketing perspective in modern press institutions, the implicit notions that translators form of the audience as a collective entity, are emphasized as key factors that affect the logistics of text production and translation decisions. The translator in the media setting sees her/himself as a prototypical representative of the community s/he belongs to. Studying the complex impact of geopolitical, macro-economic, demographic and socio-cultural forces on translation strategies can help anchor a more profound understanding of the nature of both the media outcome and readership. Finally, the corpus of the press emerges as a rich ground for multi-layered scholarly research that incorporates journalistic values and ethics---that are exclusively pertinent to the print media---into Translation Studies.
Killer cell proteases can target viral immediate-early proteins to control human cytomegalovirus infection in a noncytotoxic manner.
Creators: name: Shan, Liling
name: Li, Shuang
name: Meeldijk, Jan
name: Blijenberg, Bernadet
name: Hendriks, Astrid
name: Van Boxtel, Karlijn J W M
name: Van Den Berg, Sara P H
name: Groves, Ian J
name: Potts, Martin
name: Svrlanska, Adriana
name: Stamminger, Thomas
name: Wills, Mark R
name: Bovenschen, Niels
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020

description: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most frequent viral cause of congenital defects and can trigger devastating disease in immune-suppressed patients. Cytotoxic lymphocytes (CD8+ T cells and NK cells) control HCMV infection by releasing interferon-γ and five granzymes (GrA, GrB, GrH, GrK, GrM), which are believed to kill infected host cells through cleavage of intracellular death substrates. However, it has recently been demonstrated that the in vivo killing capacity of cytotoxic T cells is limited and multiple T cell hits are required to kill a single virus-infected cell. This raises the question whether cytotoxic lymphocytes can use granzymes to control HCMV infection in a noncytotoxic manner. Here, we demonstrate that (primary) cytotoxic lymphocytes can block HCMV dissemination independent of host cell death, and interferon-α/β/γ. Prior to killing, cytotoxic lymphocytes induce the degradation of viral immediate-early (IE) proteins IE1 and IE2 in HCMV-infected cells. Intriguingly, both IE1 and/or IE2 are directly proteolyzed by all human granzymes, with GrB and GrM being most efficient. GrB and GrM cleave IE1 after Asp398 and Leu414, respectively, likely resulting in IE1 aberrant cellular localization, IE1 instability, and functional impairment of IE1 to interfere with the JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Furthermore, GrB and GrM cleave IE2 after Asp184 and Leu173, respectively, resulting in IE2 aberrant cellular localization and functional abolishment of IE2 to transactivate the HCMV UL112 early promoter. Taken together, our data indicate that cytotoxic lymphocytes can also employ noncytotoxic ways to control HCMV infection, which may be explained by granzyme-mediated targeting of indispensable viral proteins during lytic infection.
Volker S. Stahr: Die ASEAN und der Islam. Ist der Islam ein potentiell destabilisierender Faktor für die südostasiatische Staatengemeinschaft ASEAN?
Creators: name: Stauth, Georg
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
Hydrometeorological Short-Range Ensemble Forecasts in Complex Terrain. Part II: Economic Evaluation.
Creators: name: McCollor, Doug
name: Stull, Roland B., 1950-
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2011

description: Two economic models are employed to perform a value assessment of short-range ensemble forecasts of 24-h precipitation probabilities for hydroelectric reservoir operation. Using a static cost–loss model, the value of the probability information is compared to the values of a deterministic control high-resolution forecast and of an ensemble-average forecast for forecast days 1 and 2. It is found that the probabilistic ensemble forecast provides value to a much wider range of hydroelectric operators than either the deterministic high-resolution forecast or the ensemble-average forecast, although for a small subset of operators the value of the three forecasts is the same. Forecasts for day-1 precipitation provide measurably higher value than forecasts for day-2 precipitation because of the loss of skill in the longer-range forecasts. A decision theory model provides a continuous-variable weighting of a user-specific utility function. The utility function weights are supplied by the ensemble prediction system, and the outcome is compared with weights calculated from a deterministic model, from the ensemble average, and from climatology. It is found that the methods employing the full ensemble and the ensemble average outperform the single deterministic model and climatology for the hydroelectric reservoir scenario studied.
Highly efficient surface-emitting semiconductor lasers exploiting quasi-crystalline distributed feedback photonic patterns.
Creators: name: Biasco, Simone
name: Ciavatti, Andrea
name: Li, Lianhe
name: Giles Davies, A
name: Linfield, Edmund H
name: Beere, Harvey
name: Ritchie, David
name: Vitiello, Miriam S
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Quantum Cascade Lasers
Electronics, Photonics And Device Physics

description: Quasi-crystal distributed feedback lasers do not require any form of mirror cavity to amplify and extract radiation. Once implemented on the top surface of a semiconductor laser, a quasi-crystal pattern can be used to tune both the radiation feedback and the extraction of highly radiative and high-quality-factor optical modes that do not have a defined symmetric or anti-symmetric nature. Therefore, this methodology offers the possibility to achieve efficient emission, combined with tailored spectra and controlled beam divergence. Here, we apply this concept to a one-dimensional quantum cascade wire laser. By lithographically patterning a series of air slits with different widths, following the Octonacci sequence, on the top metal layer of a double-metal quantum cascade laser operating at THz frequencies, we can vary the emission from single-frequency-mode to multimode over a 530-GHz bandwidth, achieving a maximum peak optical power of 240 mW (190 mW) in multimode (single-frequency-mode) lasers, with record slope efficiencies for multimode surface-emitting disordered THz lasers up to ≈570 mW/A at 78 K and ≈720 mW/A at 20 K and wall-plug efficiencies of η ≈ 1%.
Linguistic theory and the L2 acquisition of dative arguments
Creators: name: Sikorska, Margaret P
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: Verbal arguments are divided into two different types: (i) those that are true arguments of the verb; and, (ii) those that are non-core arguments in the sense that there is no evidence that they belong to the basic argument structure of the verb. Theories of argument structure are largely theories about how these additional arguments are introduced. In this dissertation, we adopt the view that in Spanish there are specialized functional heads, such as the low applicative head and the high applicative head that introduce dative arguments, i.e. non-core arguments. We investigate the second language acquisition of a wide range of dative constructions, i.e. applicative constructions, which have not been explored as a unified phenomenon previously in the literature. We compare the acquisition of Spanish as a second language by Polish and English speakers, whose languages have partially different mappings of argument structure to syntax. Since both languages differ crucially from Spanish with respect to the use of morphological markers in applicative constructions, we highlight the role played by morphology in the reanalysis of the mapping between argument structure and syntax.
Being red, blue and green: the genetic basis of coloration differences in the strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio).
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Ariel
name: Mundy, Nicholas I
name: Ibáñez, Roberto
name: Pröhl, Heike
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Pigments
SNPs
Gene Expression
Poison Frog
Coloration Genetics

description: BACKGROUND:Animal coloration is usually an adaptive attribute, under strong local selection pressures and often diversified among species or populations. The strawberry poison frog (Oophaga pumilio) shows an impressive array of color morphs across its distribution in Central America. Here we quantify gene expression and genetic variation to identify candidate genes involved in generating divergence in coloration between populations of red, green and blue O. pumilio from the Bocas del Toro archipelago in Panama. RESULTS:We generated a high quality non-redundant reference transcriptome by mapping the products of genome-guided and de novo transcriptome assemblies onto a re-scaffolded draft genome of O. pumilio. We then measured gene expression in individuals of the three color phenotypes and identified color-associated candidate genes by comparing differential expression results against a list of a priori gene sets for five different functional categories of coloration - pteridine synthesis, carotenoid synthesis, melanin synthesis, iridophore pathways (structural coloration), and chromatophore development. We found 68 candidate coloration loci with significant expression differences among the color phenotypes. Notable upregulated examples include pteridine synthesis genes spr, xdh and pts (in red and green frogs); carotenoid metabolism genes bco2 (in blue frogs), scarb1 (in red frogs), and guanine metabolism gene psat1 (in blue frogs). We detected significantly higher expression of the pteridine synthesis gene set in red and green frogs versus blue frogs. In addition to gene expression differences, we identified 370 outlier SNPs on 162 annotated genes showing signatures of diversifying selection, including eight pigmentation-associated genes. CONCLUSIONS:Gene expression in the skin of the three populations of frogs with differing coloration is highly divergent. The strong signal of differential expression in pteridine genes is consistent with a major role of these genes in generating the coloration differences among the three morphs. However, the finding of differentially expressed genes across pathways and functional categories suggests that multiple mechanisms are responsible for the coloration differences, likely involving both pigmentary and structural coloration. In addition to regulatory differences, we found potential evidence of differential selection acting at the protein sequence level in several color-associated loci, which could contribute to the color polymorphism.
Hydrometeorological Short-Range Ensemble Forecasts in Complex Terrain. Part I: Meteorological Evaluation.
Creators: name: McCollor, Doug
name: Stull, Roland B., 1950-
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2011

description: This paper addresses the question of whether it is better to include lower-resolution members of a nested suite of numerical precipitation forecasts to increase ensemble size, or to utilize high-resolution members only to maximize forecast details in regions of complex terrain. A short-range ensemble forecast (SREF) system is formed from three models running in nested configurations at 108-, 36-, 12-, and 4-km horizontal grid spacings. The forecasts are sampled at 27 precipitation-gauge locations, representing 15 pluvial watersheds in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. This is a region of complex topography characterized by high mountains, glaciers, fjords, and land–ocean boundaries. Matching forecast–observation pairs are analyzed for two consecutive wet seasons: October 2003–March 2004 and October 2004–March 2005. The northwest coast of North America is typically subject to intense landfalling Pacific cyclones and frontal systems during these months. Using forecast analysis tools that are well designed for SREF systems, it is found that utilizing the full suite of ensemble members, including the lowest-resolution members, produced the highest quality probabilistic forecasts of precipitation. A companion paper assesses the economic value of SREF probabilistic forecasts for hydroelectric operations. Copyright 2008 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
Reevaluating the evidence for a Hadean-Eoarchean dynamo.
Creators: name: Borlina, Cauê S
name: Weiss, Benjamin P
name: Lima, Eduardo A
name: Tang, Fengzai
name: Taylor, Richard J M
name: Einsle, Joshua F
name: Harrison, Richard J
name: Fu, Roger R
name: Bell, Elizabeth A
name: Alexander, Ellen W
name: Kirkpatrick, Heather M
name: Wielicki, Matthew M
name: Harrison, T Mark
name: Ramezani, Jahandar
name: Maloof, Adam C
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020

description: The time of origin of the geodynamo has important implications for the thermal evolution of the planetary interior and the habitability of early Earth. It has been proposed that detrital zircon grains from Jack Hills, Western Australia, provide evidence for an active geodynamo as early as 4.2 billion years (Ga) ago. However, our combined paleomagnetic, geochemical, and mineralogical studies on Jack Hills zircons indicate that most have poor magnetic recording properties and secondary magnetization carriers that postdate the formation of the zircons. Therefore, the existence of the geodynamo before 3.5 Ga ago remains unknown.
title: The Art Formula as a Universal Visual Language of Evolution
title: Empirical Foundations of the Hegel-Liedtke Art Formula across Biology, Physics, and Culture
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Liedtke, Dieter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description:  

Description

This comprehensive study explores the Hegel-Liedtke Art Formula as a fundamental principle of biological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. It presents empirical evidence that visual stimuli—specifically structured through the formula’s minimal syntax—can activate neuronal and epigenetic responses leading to increased creativity, health, intelligence, and even the resolution of addiction patterns. Studies by Eric Kandel, Rizzolatti (mirror neurons), and global institutions like the WHO and UNESCO are integrated to demonstrate the formula’s effectiveness.

The study draws parallels between the formula and historic visual systems, concluding that while cuneiform, Yin-Yang, and I Ching were culturally bound, the Art Formula operates as a biologically encoded and educationally barrier-free tool of universal applicability.

In its reduction to one sign and two colours, the formula enables unprecedented clarity for recognising innovation in art, science, and society. It proposes a universal "alphabet" of creativity—comparable to the historical rise of literacy—and highlights the evolutionary necessity of integrating innovation into every level of culture.
description: Abstract:

This study investigates the Hegel-Liedtke Art Formula as a universal visual and epigenetically effective language for representing innovation and cognitive evolution. With a single graphical element—a dash—and two symbolic colours (red for new information and yellow for the known), the formula enables the immediate recognition of innovation within artistic, biological, and cultural systems. It bridges science, art, education, and social transformation.

The formula’s effectiveness is supported by over 30 empirical studies from neuroscience, epigenetics, quantum physics, and evolutionary biology. Mirror neurons, neuroplasticity, and gene expression mechanisms are triggered through visual perception of the formula. The study compares the formula's universality and minimalism to historical symbol systems such as Sumerian cuneiform, the Phoenician alphabet, the Chinese hexagram (I Ching), and the Yin-Yang symbol—concluding that the Art Formula surpasses all in clarity, universality, and cognitive activation.

This research repositions art as a measurable tool of evolution and social development. It reveals that innovation is not only a product of the mind but a structural, biologically anchored principle. The Hegel-Liedtke Art Formula is thus proposed as a visual epistemology for the 21st century.
Clinical Pearls from the most popular Cochrane reviews in 2007
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 70 summarizes the top five most accessed Cochrane reviews in 2007. Topics include prevention of fall in elderly people, treating obesity in children, low glycaemic diets for overweight and obesity, and nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation.
Obstacles to detecting isoforms using full-length scRNA-seq data.
Creators: name: Westoby, Jennifer
name: Artemov, Pavel
name: Hemberg, Martin
name: Ferguson-Smith, Anne
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Gene
Single cell
Isoform
Alternative splicing
Dropouts
Scrna-seq
Isoform Choice

description: BACKGROUND:Early single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) studies suggested that it was unusual to see more than one isoform being produced from a gene in a single cell, even when multiple isoforms were detected in matched bulk RNA-seq samples. However, these studies generally did not consider the impact of dropouts or isoform quantification errors, potentially confounding the results of these analyses. RESULTS:In this study, we take a simulation based approach in which we explicitly account for dropouts and isoform quantification errors. We use our simulations to ask to what extent it is possible to study alternative splicing using scRNA-seq. Additionally, we ask what limitations must be overcome to make splicing analysis feasible. We find that the high rate of dropouts associated with scRNA-seq is a major obstacle to studying alternative splicing. In mice and other well-established model organisms, the relatively low rate of isoform quantification errors poses a lesser obstacle to splicing analysis. We find that different models of isoform choice meaningfully change our simulation results. CONCLUSIONS:To accurately study alternative splicing with single-cell RNA-seq, a better understanding of isoform choice and the errors associated with scRNA-seq is required. An increase in the capture efficiency of scRNA-seq would also be beneficial. Until some or all of the above are achieved, we do not recommend attempting to resolve isoforms in individual cells using scRNA-seq.
Comparing scoring instruments for the performance assessment of professional competencies
Creators: name: Smee, Sydney M
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Education, Tests and Measurements.
subject: Health Sciences, Education.
subject: Education, Higher.

description: Performance assessments of professionals are commonly scored with rating scales but checklists are used with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Theory suggests checklists are too detailed (Norman, 2005a) and studies show that generic rating scales (e.g., Hodges, Regehr, McNaughton, Tiberius, & Hanson, 1999) are more discriminating and reliable. However, generic scales may represent clinical expertise too narrowly, resulting in less valid scores. Study One asked how case-specific rating scale scores and decisions compared to checklist scores and decisions at representing professional competency. Study Two asked the same question about a skill-specific rating scale. Data were from a medical licensure OSCE. Participants were 1,587 test takers and 190 physician raters. Two patient cases (Depression and Delirium) were used. In each case, two physicians scored. One scored a checklist and the other a rating scale; both scored a patient interaction rating scale (PIRS). Results from both studies showed internal consistency was higher for rating scales (e.g., for Study One alpha=.87 and alpha=.79 for rating scales; alpha=.55 and alpha=.64 for checklists). Item-total score correlations (ITC) for each rating scale as an item within the OSCE were also higher than the ITC for the checklists in both studies. Logistic regression analyses predicting pass/fail decisions from a 3-variable expertise model explained more variance for the rating scales decisions than it did for the checklists in both studies (e.g., RL2=16.4% and RL2=16.4% for rating scales; RL2=12.7% and RL2=5.7% for checklists in Study One). The highest Pearson correlations (corrected for attenuation) were between the rating scale scores and the respective PIRS scores. In conclusion, these rating scale scores are more discriminating and reliable than checklist scores but correlations with PIRS scores indicate they may not measure the intended dimension of the clinical expertise construct. Evidence for a validity argument was strongest for the case-specific rating scale for Depression, raising the question of whether rating scale methodology is appropriate for all OSCE cases.
Christian Weiß, Tom Weichert, Evelin Hust, Harald Fischer-Tine (Hrsg.): Religion - Macht - Gewalt. Religiöser 'Fundamentalismus' und Hindu-Moslem- Konflikte in Südasien
Creators: name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
The use of Gene Ontology terms for predicting highly-connected 'hub' nodes in protein-protein interaction networks
Creators: name: Hsing, Michael
name: Byler, Kendall G
name: Cherkasov, Artem
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Protein-protein interactions mediate a wide range of cellular functions and responses and have been studied rigorously through recent large-scale proteomics experiments and bioinformatics analyses. One of the most important findings of those endeavours was the observation that 'hub' proteins participate in significant numbers of protein interactions and play critical roles in the organization and function of cellular protein interaction networks (PINs) [1, 2]. It has also been demonstrated that such hub proteins may constitute an important pool of attractive drug targets. Thus, it is crucial to be able to identify hub proteins based not only on experimental data but also by means of bioinformatics predictions. Results A hub protein classifier has been developed based on the available interaction data and Gene Ontology (GO) annotations for proteins in the Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens genomes. In particular, by utilizing the machine learning method of boosting trees we were able to create a predictive bioinformatics tool for the identification of proteins that are likely to play the role of a hub in protein interaction networks. Testing the developed hub classifier on external sets of experimental protein interaction data in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 252 and Caenorhabditis elegans demonstrated that our approach can predict hub proteins with a high degree of accuracy. A practical application of the developed bioinformatics method has been illustrated by the effective protein bait selection for large-scale pull-down experiments that aim to map complete protein-protein interaction networks for several species. Conclusion The successful development of an accurate hub classifier demonstrated that highly-connected proteins tend to share certain relevant functional properties reflected in their Gene Ontology annotations. It is anticipated that the developed bioinformatics hub classifier will represent a useful tool for the theoretical prediction of highly-interacting proteins, the study of cellular network organizations, and the identification of prospective drug targets – even in those organisms that currently lack large-scale protein interaction data.
Catching Hope, Shifting Identity: An Adhder Study of The Bottom End Fishing Community And The Impact of Brexit
Creators: name: Peterken, Tabitha
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2024
Subjects: ADHD
ADHDer
Bottom End
North Yorkshire
Fishing
Brexit
EU
Fish
Identity
Ethnography
Women ADHD

description: This study is an account of destabilising identity during a time of Brexit, the severing of the UK from the European Union and its regulations, having global and personal ramifications. For me and for the fishermen of my study, the essence of the past few years has been a delicate balance of information gathering and relationships. Balancing a discussion of national politics, the reality of economic hardship and the onset of destabilised identity, this PhD merges and twists through personal narrative and quantitative analysis. The subjects demand for several distinct processes of approaching the topic both objectively and subjectively, obliged me to combine methodologies. I had to fuse focused thinking with fact-based results and the qualitative narrative of my informants, individuals operating through the crisis of adversity whilst attempting to manage a newly shifting identity. I had to recognise and manage the awareness that I was collaborating with real people in challenging times. I want this work to stand as dedication to those with ADHD or Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and a celebratory memorial to the observable resilience of the fishers and their community of the Bottom End. I present this study to raise awareness of the consequential connections between complex external events and individuals in their community, and the impact that has on all of us. I hope to have achieved a small part of that aim.
Delay in admission for elective coronary-artery bypass grafting is associated with increased in-hospital mortality
Creators: name: Sobolev, Boris
name: Fradet, Guy
name: Hayden, Robert
name: Kuramoto, Lisa
name: Levy, Adrian R.
name: FitzGerald, Mark J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Many health care systems now use priority wait lists for scheduling elective coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery, but there have not yet been any direct estimates of reductions in in-hospital mortality rate afforded by ensuring that the operation is performed within recommended time periods. Methods: We used a population-based registry to identify patients with established coronary artery disease who underwent isolated CABG in British Columbia, Canada. We studied whether postoperative survival during hospital admission for CABG differed significantly among patients who waited for surgery longer than the recommended time, 6 weeks for patients needing semi-urgent surgery and 12 weeks for those needing non-urgent surgery. Results: Among 7316 patients who underwent CABG, 97 died during the same hospital admission, for a province-wide death rate at discharge of 1.3%. The observed proportion of patients who died during the same admission was 1.0% (27 deaths among 2675 patients) for patients treated within the recommended time and 1.5% (70 among 4641) for whom CABG was delayed. After adjustment for age, sex, anatomy, comorbidity, calendar period, hospital, and mode of admission, patients with early CABG were only 2/3 as likely as those for whom CABG was delayed to experience in-hospital death (odds ratio 0.61; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.39 to 0.96). There was a linear trend of 5% increase in the odds of in-hospital death for every additional month of delay before surgery, adjusted OR = 1.05 (95% CI 1.00 to 1.11). Conclusion: We found a significant survival benefit from performing surgical revascularization within the time deemed acceptable to consultant surgeons for patients requiring the treatment on a semi-urgent or non-urgent basis.
Was ist Neokonservativismus?
Creators: name: Schubert, Gunter
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Neoconservatism seems to have become a mainstream in Chinese politicial thinking since the early 90s. It can be heuristically divided into political and cultural (intellectual) neoconservatism, both of them aiming at a new legitimatization of political authority in present-day China. Neoconservatism is as much a consequence of the eroding ideological power basis of the Communist Party as a reaction of China's intellectuals to postmodern theory. Closely connected to the new trend of nationalist thinking in China, it's theoretical influence even on the so-called liberal camp should not be underestimated.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
Im Spannungsfeld von Tradition und Modernisierung
Creators: name: Hernig, Marcus
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: German Studies and German Language Training in China have quite a long history closely linked to the impact of reforms and foreign exchange activities from the second half of the 19th century onwards. There are both traditions in very practical and economically useful language training as well as in philological studies (germanistics) especially after the May 4th-Movement. German Studies are also closely related to the development of Chinese politics and economics as forming the macro-level of the Chinese opening and reform policy since 1979, to educational reforms, the development of German-Chinese relations and to foreign language study and research policy reforms. While study activities of B.A.-curricula concentrate on language training and economically useful course contents which will provide the students with better job opportunities in future, research is engaged in translations and philological studies on (often contrastive) literature and grammar as well as in teaching methods. Teaching is the most important task of Chinese Germanists and dominates the comparatively rare research activities, which often are a function of teaching itself. Increasing lack of teaching staff and research material cause problems that have to be solved in future.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
The intersection of desire, drugs, and unsafe sexual practices: An ethnographic study of the gay circuit party subculture
Creators: name: O'Byrne, Patrick
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Theology.
subject: GLBT Studies.
subject: Health Sciences, Public Health.

description: At present, HIV rates within the population of men who have sex with men continue to rise despite increased resources being dedicated to stopping this trend. Previous research has indicated that drug use, particularly within the context of gay circuit parties (GCP), may be a central factor in this rise in HIV rates. Further research has revealed that one reason for this phenomenon is that much of the research that has been undertaken to-date ignores the role of desire. In fact, an in-depth review of previously undertaken research that aimed to understand men's motivations for sexual practices revealed a strong, uncritical reliance, on the assumption that individuals are inherently driven to act in healthy ways. In response, this research project undertook an ethnographic study of GCPs, and engaged in direct observation, surveying, and interviewing guided by a poststructuralist perspective. The goal was to challenge mainstream assumptions about health, drug use, unprotected sex, and GCP party attendance. To accomplish this, a theoretical framework was developed drawing primarily on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, and supported by the theoretical work by Bataille, Foucault, Grosz, and Lupton. After this groundwork was laid, two days worth of direct GCP attendance was undertaken, followed by the administration of 209 auto-administered surveys, and the completion of 17, hour-long, formal interviews. The major findings of this study are (1) that desire is not necessarily a reaction to previous negative situations as is posited by psychoanalysis, and drawn upon by mainstream sexual health researchers, and (2) that drug use and GCP attendance do not cause individuals to engage in unsafe sexual practices, but rather, that individuals use drugs and attend GCPs with the pre-established goal of engaging in unsafe practices. In this way, drugs and GCPs become mechanisms that are used to allow individuals to indulge in their desires, not causes of what they desire. Therefore, the findings of this research indicate that GCPs should be capitalized on as important sites of health promotion work for nurses, and that this work should not be based on the conjecture that drug use or unsafe sex is irrational or deviant, but rather, that its use follows the dictates of desire.
Persisting atypical and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local inflammation in Lyme neuroborreliosis
Creators: name: Miklossy, Judith
name: Kasas, Sandor
name: Zurn, Anne D
name: McCall, Sherman
name: Yu, Sheng
name: McGeer, Patrick L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The long latent stage seen in syphilis, followed by chronic central nervous system infection and inflammation, can be explained by the persistence of atypical cystic and granular forms of Treponema pallidum. We investigated whether a similar situation may occur in Lyme neuroborreliosis. Method Atypical forms of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes were induced exposing cultures of Borrelia burgdorferi (strains B31 and ADB1) to such unfavorable conditions as osmotic and heat shock, and exposure to the binding agents Thioflavin S and Congo red. We also analyzed whether these forms may be induced in vitro, following infection of primary chicken and rat neurons, as well as rat and human astrocytes. We further analyzed whether atypical forms similar to those induced in vitro may also occur in vivo, in brains of three patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis. We used immunohistochemical methods to detect evidence of neuroinflammation in the form of reactive microglia and astrocytes. Results Under these conditions we observed atypical cystic, rolled and granular forms of these spirochetes. We characterized these abnormal forms by histochemical, immunohistochemical, dark field and atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods. The atypical and cystic forms found in the brains of three patients with neuropathologically confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis were identical to those induced in vitro. We also observed nuclear fragmentation of the infected astrocytes using the TUNEL method. Abundant HLA-DR positive microglia and GFAP positive reactive astrocytes were present in the cerebral cortex. Conclusion The results indicate that atypical extra- and intracellular pleomorphic and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local neuroinflammation occur in the brain in chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis. The persistence of these more resistant spirochete forms, and their intracellular location in neurons and glial cells, may explain the long latent stage and persistence of Borrelia infection. The results also suggest that Borrelia burgdorferi may induce cellular dysfunction and apoptosis. The detection and recognition of atypical, cystic and granular forms in infected tissues is essential for the diagnosis and the treatment as they can occur in the absence of the typical spiral Borrelia form.
RAQAMLI TEXNALOGIYANI TIBBIYOTDAGI AHAMIYATI
Creators: name: Yusupova, Sevinch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Hozirgi kunda boshqa sohalarga raqamli texnalogiya kerak bo’lganiday Tibbiyot sohasida ham o’z rivojini ko’rsatib kelmoqda. Sog’liqni saqlash amaliyotiga axborot texnologiyalarining joriy etilishi shifokorlar va bemorlar o’rtasidagi o’zaro munosabatlarning shakl va usullarini, diagnostika va davolash jarayonlarini, kasalliklarning oldini olish va sog’lomlashtirish usullarini o’zgartiradi. Keksa va yosh foydalanuvchilar axborot texnologiyalaridan foydalanish imkoniyati ega. Raqamli texnologiyalarni qo’llashda mas’uliyatning o’ziga xos xususiyatlari ko’rib chiqiladi.
Malurus alboscapulatus subsp. aida Hartert 1930
Creators: name: LeCroy, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Maluridae
Malurus
Malurus alboscapulatus
Malurus alboscapulatus aida hartert

description: Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert
 Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert, 1930b: 78 (Ifaar, on the Sentani Lakes).
 Now Malurus alboscapulatus aida Hartert, 1930. See Schodde, 1982: 101, and Coates, 1990: 96.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 602750, adult female, collected at Ifaar, 02.34S, 140.31E (USBGN, 1982a), Sentani Lake, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 26 September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2622). From the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype. The type series comprised 24 specimens, including the holotype. Mayr’s fieldwork in former Dutch New Guinea was supported jointly by Rothschild and by Leonard C. Sanford for AMNH. After the collection was reported on by Hartert, it was divided between the two museums. With purchase of the Rothschild Collection by AMNH, Mayr’s collection was brought together again. Twenty-one of the 23 paratypes (all that were cataloged) are now present at AMNH: AMNH 293910–293920, 602744–602749, and 602751–602754. In some cases a small representative series from Mayr’s collection was sent to Stresemann in ZMB, and perhaps the other two paratypes are there.
description: Published as part of LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, pp. 1-287 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1) on page 102, DOI: 10.1206/313.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13223808
Chinesische Beschäftigungspolitik zwischen Stabilitäts- und Effizienzzielen
Creators: name: Opper, Sonja
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Transformation countries generally have to cope with the burden of heavy structural adjustments. The adjustment of distorted prices and production structures usually requires not only significant changes in the employment structure but also steep increases in the overall unemployment rate, which is tantamount to a significant deterioration of the social and economic situation of many citizens. Obviously employment policy has a crucial function during transformation processes. On the one hand it should reduce social burdens and increase both social and political stability, on the other hand it should by no means hinder the enhancement of economic efficiency. In a word, successful employment policy should simultaneously guarantee social stability and improve economic efficiency. It is well known that the adjustment of state owned enterprises in China resulted in a very poor performance up to now, especially with regard to its huge amount of surplus labour. This article seeks to analyse in which way the Chinese employment policy of the reform era was influenced by the above mentioned trade-off and may have hindered successful restructuring. It will be shown that there has been a strong over-emphasis on social functions at the expense of efficiency since 1978. But in recent years there is some evidence that the economic function of employment policy has gained significance.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
Estuarine forcing of a river plume by river flow and tides
Creators: name: Halverson, Mark J.
name: Pawlowicz, Rich
Publisher: name: American Geophysical Union
Year: 2011

description: Estuarine forcing of a river plume by river discharge and tides is examined with a novel data set capable of characterizing semidiurnal to annual time scales. An instrumented ferry made high‐resolution salinity measurements as it crossed the Fraser River plume, British Columbia, Canada, eight times per day over the years 2003–2006. The relative contribution of different forcing factors in controlling the river plume salinity and surface area is examined over the full range of time scales. A Lomb‐Scargle periodogram of the plume salinity shows energy concentrated in the semidiurnal and diurnal tidal bands. Diurnal lines contain more energy relative to semidiurnal lines than the respective tidal constituents would suggest. At fortnightly frequencies, local maxima in plume salinity coincide with periods of maxima in daily tidal height, with no phase shift. Thus the estuary adjusts quickly to changes in forcing. The effectiveness of tides in setting the plume salinity is a function of river discharge and is greatest when the river discharge is high and minimal when the river discharge is low. Tidal effects are superimposed onto the long‐period river discharge cycle. At time scales of 25 days or longer, the mean river plume salinity decreases quasi‐linearly with increasing river discharge, but the change in salinity with river discharge is instantaneous to within the sampling resolution. Plume surface area increases with river discharge, from 200–500 km2 at low river flow to 1000–1500 km2 at high river flow. The magnitude of the surface area is predicted well by scaling the mouth deformation radius. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright (year) American Geophysical Union. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. Copyright 2008 American Geophysical Union.
Demokratisierung in Südkorea: Die Rolle der Gewerkschaften und Unternehmerverbände
Creators: name: Croissant, Aurel
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: In the wake of the global trend to democracy, which Huntington called the Third Wave of Democratization, especially since the breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, the occupation with different kinds of development and political outcomes of processes of democratization, but first of all with the chances for consolidation of democracies have became one of the main subjects in social science research in the nineties. Just in relation to the processes of democratization in Eastern Asia, the role of trade unions and employer-federations was neglected although they are one of the main institutions for the mediation of social interests. The aim of this study is to investigate, by the example of South Korea, what kind of influences and developments the rules-structures of functional mediation of interest in post authoritarian societies are subject to, and also which impulses can come from the concrete organization of industrial relationships on the consolidation of a democratic system altogether.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 65 (1997): ASIEN (Oktober)
Die Aktivität der Phosphatasen im Rebholz und deren Beziehungen zum Kohlenhydratmetabolismus während verschiedener Temperaturbedingungen in der winterlichen Ruheperiode
Creators: name: Wienhaus, H.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2017

description: Eine Änderung der Phosphataseaktivität im Rebholz war während der verschiedenen Stärkemobilisierungsperioden im Winter nicht zu beobachten. In Gewebebereichen mit ständig hoher Phosphataseaktivität trat jedoch eine besonders intensive Stärkehydrolyse auf. Solche Gewebe sind die Markstrahlen in der Rinde und die Rindenparenchymzellen. In den Markstrahlzellen des Holzes zeigte sich eine geringere Phosphataseaktivität, in den stärkeführenden Markzellen war sie kaum vorhanden. Auch ein sortentypischer Unterschied der Phosphataseaktivität war feststellbar. Bei den frostresistenten Sorten Riesling und Perle von Alzey wurden im Gegensatz zur weniger frostresistenten Sorte S 88 höhere Aktivitäten ermittelt. Ebenso war der Stärkeumsatz bei den erst genannten Sorten forciert. Die starken Enzymaktivitäten in den Holzparenchymzellen, die die großen Gefäße umgeben, und die Aktivitäten in einzelnen radial verlaufenden Zellreihen der Holzmarkstrahlen deuten auf eine Mitwirkung dieser Enzyme bei der Zuckertranslokation hin.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 8 No. 2 (1969): Vitis