cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
In situ evaluation of the biological active poly functionalized novel amino-1,8-naphthyridine derivatives as DNA-electrochemical biosensor
Creators: name: Riaz, Muhammad Tariq
name: Yaqub, Muhammad
name: Javed, Shumaila
name: Hussain, Dilshad
name: Ashiq, Muhammad Naeem
name: Shafiq, Zahid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A one-pot three-component protocol was designed for cascade synthesis of novel heterocyclic amino-1,8-naphthyridines. Materials synthesis is confirmed by NMR (1H and 13C) and structures are verified by computational models. The in vitro phytotoxic and urease enzyme inhibition studies with IC50 ranges from 23.76 ± 0.027 µM to 67.46 ± 3.93 indicating significant pharmacological activity of synthesized compounds. Osiris calculations results confirm the non-mutagenicity and non-irritating patterns. Molinspiration calculations values of 3.49–3.94 indicate the permeability of the derivates through membranes. Amino-1,8-naphthyridines are used for the first time in electrochemical sensing of DNA. The mechanism of interaction between DNA and amino-1,8-naphthyridine derivatives is evaluated via a constant current potentiometric method. Different electrochemical parameters such as scan rate, binding time, and effect of concentration of DNA are optimized. The strong interaction of these compounds with the human DNA under physiological conditions justified their potential applications as biosensors after further optimization.
Development of a downstream process for purification and purity analysis of glutaminase free L-asparaginase using UPLC, DLS-ZP and DSC-TGA
Creators: name: Prakash, Pragya
name: Chandrayan, Sanjeev
name: Tiwari, Purnima
name: Singh, Hare Ram
name: Jha, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Several bacterial strains were isolated from soil and water in the current work and screened for glutaminase-free L-asparaginase activity. The selected strain was subjected to the production of glutaminase-free L-asparaginase and thereby purification. Before purification, pH scouting was performed, and 8.6 pH was the optimum working pH to carry out purification. The enzyme was purified using Sephadex G-200 gel filtration chromatography and up to 4.55-folds and its purity percentage was determined using UPLC. The purity of L-asparaginase was determined to be 99.2%. The enzyme was characterized using UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, DLS, ZP, DSC, TGA. The loss of the enzyme was 65% after sublimation, indicating its purity compared to the standard drug. The results report a developed process for the purification of L-asparaginase and its characterization, which can prove instrumental in the purification process of naturally occurring enzymes because today, most developed processes deal with recombinant enzymes.
Sulphated polysaccharides from seaweeds as potential entry inhibitors and vaccine adjuvants against SARS-CoV-2 RBD spike protein: a computational approach
Creators: name: Douma, Mountasser
name: Boualy, Brahim
name: Manaut, Najat
name: Hammal, Redouan
name: Byadi, Said
name: Lahlali, Meryem
name: Eddaoudi, Fatima-Ezzahra
name: Mallouk, Siham
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The health pandemic (covid-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected, to date, over 233 million people and over 4.77 million deaths worldwide. Therefore, it is important to offer a wide understanding of the ability of potential antiviral biomolecules to combat this virus, which begins to develop new variants, potentially more transmissible and infectious. Sulphated polysaccharides (SPs) from seaweeds have been reported for their antiviral activity and their potential as vaccine adjuvants. However, their effect against SARS-CoV-2 remains very limited. In this study, seventeen ligands of SPs were screened for effective interaction with the domain (RBD) spike protein using a computational approach. The obtained results indicated that two PS ligands (Xylan sulphate and Heparin tetrasaccharide N-sulphated) effectively bind to the RBD protein and could efficiently inhibit viral entry. Overall, data support the potential importance of SPs against SARS-CoV-2 as entry inhibitors and vaccine adjuvants. Highlights Seventeen ligands of sulphated polysaccharides (SPs) were subjected to a molecular docking to assess their interaction with SARS-CoV-2 RBD spike protein;Two SP ligands showed an effective binding affinity to the RBD protein and could efficiently inhibit viral entry;One effective SP ligand (Xylan Sulphate) was predicted using ADMETox evaluation as good inhibitor;Effective candidates can have an importance against SARS-CoV-2 as entry inhibitors and vaccine adjuvants. Seventeen ligands of sulphated polysaccharides (SPs) were subjected to a molecular docking to assess their interaction with SARS-CoV-2 RBD spike protein; Two SP ligands showed an effective binding affinity to the RBD protein and could efficiently inhibit viral entry; One effective SP ligand (Xylan Sulphate) was predicted using ADMETox evaluation as good inhibitor; Effective candidates can have an importance against SARS-CoV-2 as entry inhibitors and vaccine adjuvants.
title: Zarzamora :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Blackberry
Group identity.

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Adsorption removal of Congo red onto L-cysteine/rGO/PANI nanocomposite: equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamic studies
Creators: name: Razzaq, Saba
name: Akhtar, Mehwish
name: Zulfiqar, Sonia
name: Zafar, Shagufta
name: Shakir, Imran
name: Agboola, Philips O.
name: Haider, Sajjad
name: Warsi, Muhammad Farooq
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this paper, adsorption of Congo red (CR) onto L-cysteine decorated with reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline composite at room temperature was investigated. The morphology and structure properties of as-prepared nanocomposite were verified by UV–visible spectroscopy (UV–visible), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Brunauer Emmett Teller (BET) studies. Effect ofabsorbent dosage, contact time, initial dye concentration and temperature were studied and optimal conditions for the adsorption process of Congo red dye were found. The obtained results indicated that isotherms data fitted well to Langmuir model. While kinetics data fitted well to the pseudo-second-order kinetic equation and the adsorption process was generally governed via intra-particle diffusion. Thermodynamic data showed that adsorption process of CR was endothermic and spontaneous in nature. At optimal conditions, the maximum adsorption capacity of CR was calculated and found to be 56.57 mg/g, which shows that L-cysteine functionalized reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline based nanocomposite can be efficiently used for wastewater management.
Synergistic effect of reduced graphene oxide layers wrapped in polyaniline sheets to porous blades for boosted oxygen evolution reaction
Creators: name: Abbas, Sajid
name: Yasmeen, Ghazala
name: Manzoor, Suryyia
name: Manzoor, Sumaira
name: Hussain, Dilshad
name: Yousaf, Ammar
name: Al-Buriahi, M. S.
name: Alshahrani, B.
name: Ashiq, Muhammad Naeem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Electrochemical water splitting is a unique approach for producing renewable energy in hydrogen fuel, though it is limited due to the sluggish kinetics of oxygen evolution reaction (OER). To enhance the efficacy of hydrogen production, it is a need to regulate oxygen evolution reaction. An efficient strategy is to construct a competent electrocatalyst with an immense open, active site, highly stable, porous structure, and large surface area. This study employs an inexpensive, facile, and eco-friendly single-step route to fabricate reduced graphene oxide (rGO) layers wrapped in polyaniline (PANI) sheets to achieve the controlled blades morphology. All the synthesized materials are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), BET to examine their structural, morphological, and textural properties. Interestingly, when all the synthesized materials are employed for electrochemical measurements, rGO/PANI nanocomposite exhibits exceptional performance with a low overpotential of 221 mV to achieve a current density of 10 mA/cm2, lower Tafel slope of 37 mV/dec, and also high stability of 20 h. Overall, this work could lead up to the fabrication of innovative blade structured nanocomposite as an efficient electrocatalyst and make it applicable for multiple applications.
Topology optimization of structures under constraints on first passage probability
Creators: name: Chun, Junho
name: Song, Junho
name: Paulino, Glaucio H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A new method is proposed to incorporate the first passage probability into stochastic topology optimization using sequential compounding method (Kang and Song 2010). Parameter sensitivities of the first passage probability in the probabilistic constraint are derived to facilitate the use of gradient-based optimizer for efficient topology optimization. The proposed method is applied to building structures subjected to stochastic ground motion to find optimal bracing systems which can resist future realization of stochastic excitations while achieving a desired level of reliability.
title: Représentation différentielle des métiers selon le genre des élèves luxembourgeois et impact sur le choix professionnel
Creators: name: Rastoder, Merlin
name: Duric, Lucija
name: Houssemand, Claude
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: Différentiation de genre
choix vocationnel
représentation des professions
cartographie des emplois
intérêts professionnels

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
BAYANI KA. INSPIRASYON KO….
Creators: name: BALUYOT, JOHN MICHAEL N.
Publisher: name: BINAS PUBLISHING
Year: 2025
Subjects: BAYANI, INSPIRASYON

description: PACIFICUS: A Literary Magazine by Binas Publishing (Volume 1, Issue 1)

PACIFICUS is a literary magazine by Binas Publishing that celebrates the power of words through a diverse collection of poetry, short stories, essays, and creative works. With its inaugural issue, PACIFICUS Volume 1, Issue 1 sets the stage for a platform where writers and artists can share their voices, perspectives, and imagination.

This edition features compelling narratives, thought-provoking reflections, and artistic expressions that resonate with readers across different backgrounds. Whether exploring themes of identity, resilience, culture, or the human experience, PACIFICUS embodies the essence of storytelling that inspires and connects.

As a publication dedicated to fostering literary excellence, PACIFICUS aims to nurture emerging and established writers while enriching the literary landscape. Each issue aspires to be a testament to creativity, insight, and the enduring impact of literature.
title: Nonformal Education as an Empowering Process with Case Studies from Indonesia and Thailand
Creators: name: Kindervatter, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Center for International Education
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Indonesia
subject: Thailand
subject: nonformal education

description: This study develops a role for nonformal education consonant with recent thinking on Third World development: nonformal education as an empowering process. A consideration of nonformal education's relationship to the new concepts of development is particularly important today. The effectiveness of traditional models of development has been seriously questioned and new approaches have been defined. As a development sector, nonformal education should adapt to these new definitions. The first part of the study establishes a rationale for the role of empowering. The second part evolves both the concept and practice of nonformal education as an empowering process. To build the rationale, the study begins by discussing new perspectives on the causes of underdevelopment and on the meaning of development, all of which is summarized by a concept called "another development." Next, the work of several institutions and individuals involved in conceptualizing nonformal education is examined in an attempt to discover a role for nonformal education which is consonant with "another development." The role which emerges is one that enables people to develop skills and capabilities which increase their control over decisions, resources, and structures affecting their lives. For the purposes of this study, this role is termed "empowering" and the means by which the role is fulfilled is an "empowering process."
A perfect example of application of FBI's Criminal Profiling with Mad Bomber's (1957) Profile
Creators: name: Paul, Akash
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024

description: Criminal Profiling is a authentic investigative tool to find the offender by analysing the crime scene. It was introduced in FBI Academy. John E. Douglas was one the greatest criminal profiler who's also called the Father of Modern Criminal Profiling Technique. In this paper we're going to witness a perfect application of Criminal Profiling to find the culprit. Also we're going to see how law enforcement officials used this technique to find The Mad Bomber who terrorised hole New York city by planting bombs in 1950's.
Reliability-based design of tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) equipped multi-storey frame buildings under seismic excitation
Creators: name: Giaralis, Agathoklis
name: Taflanidis, Alexandros A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The reliability based optimal design is considered of tuned mass-damper-inerter (TMDI) equipped linear building frames subject to seismic excitations modeled as stationary colored random processes. The TMDI is a recently introduced generalization of the classical linear tuned mass-damper (TMD) benefitting from the mass amplification property, the so-called inertance, of the inerter device to enhance the vibration suppression capabilities of the TMD. The frequency, damping ratio, and inertance TMDI properties are treated as design variables to minimize out-crossing rates of pre-specified thresholds for building floor accelerations, inter-storey drifts, and TMDI mass displacement. Numerical data pertaining to a 10-storey frame structure equipped with a TMDI arranged in 12 different topologies are furnished indicating the enhanced performance of the TMDI over the classical TMD especially for relatively small additional attached mass.
A perfect example of application of FBI’s Criminal Profiling with Mad Bomber’s (1957) Profile
Creators: name: Paul, Akash
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Criminal Profiling is a authentic investigative tool to find the offender by analysing the crime scene. It was introduced in FBI Academy. John E. Douglas was one the greatest criminal profiler who’s also called the Father of Modern Criminal Profiling Technique. In this paper we’re going to witness a perfect application of Criminal Profiling to find the culprit. Also we’re going to see how law enforcement officials used this technique to find The Mad Bomber who terrorised hole New York city by planting bombs in 1950’s.
Environmental benign analytical quality by design and UPLC method development for Betamethasone and Calcipotriene in ointment
Creators: name: Kannaiah, Kanaka Parvathi
name: Sugumaran, Abimanyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The present study aimed to estimate Betamethasone and Calcipotriene in bulk and ointment formulation using a validated UPLC method by applying analytical quality design with green analytical chemistry principles. The optimal method resulted with Dikma Endeversil C18 ODS (2.1 × 50 mm, 1.8 µm) column at a UV detection of 254 nm encompassed ethanol and potassium dihydrogen phosphate (3.0 pH) buffer 51:49 (v/v), with a flow rate of 0.31 mL/min. The detector response was linear at 125–750 and 12.5–75 µg/mL for Betamethasone and Calcipotriene with a detection limit and quantification of 12.484, 37.831 and 3.229, 9.785 µg/mL, respectively. The % recovery was found to be within limits of less than 1.5%. Overall, the AQbD based developed method was greener and confirmed by the greenness evaluation tools. Hence, the optimized technique is environment friendly, simple, robust for the concurrent assessment of Betamethasone and Calcipotriene in bulk and ointment formulation.
Effectiveness of legal and institutional frameworks for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in preventing post-election violence in East Africa. The case of Kenya.
Creators: name: Martin, Prof. Martin
name: Ndirangu, Joy
name: Ndirangu, Joy
name: Rono, Prof. Ruthie
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: United Nations

description: The purpose of the study was to establish the gaps in the legal and institutional frameworks for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in preventing post-election violence in Kenya. The study was underpinned by the liberal feminist theory. The study adopted mixed reach methodologies including qualitative and quantitative approaches. The target population comprised women living in Kibra Sub County, women groups involved in peacebuilding, area ward administrators, local chiefs and individual women who were victims or had first-hand experience of PEV of 2007/08. The study adopted stratified random sampling to select individual women living in Kibra Sub County to participate in the study. The study also adopted purposive sampling to select women groups involved in peacebuilding, area ward administrators, and local administrative chiefs. Snowball sampling was adopted to identify women who were victims or had first-hand experience of PEV in 2007/08. The study used questionnaires, Key Informants Interview and Case narratives to collect needed information. In analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, content analysis and simple descriptive analysis were done respectively. The established a number of legal and institutional frameworks that have aided the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Kenya including Kenya National Action Plan, National Steering Committee (NSC) on peace building and conflict management, the National Gender and Equality Act (2011), the Constitution of Kenya (CoK) of 2010, the National Cohesion and Integration Act (2008) and Vision 2030.
Synthesis, molecular docking and biochemical analysis of aminoalkylated naphthalene-based chalcones as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
Creators: name: Aljohani, Ghadah
name: Ali, Adeeb Al-Sheikh
name: Alraqa, Shaya Y.
name: Amran, Syazwani Itri
name: Basar, Norazah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Twelve novel chalcones were synthesized using 2-alkyloxy-naphthaldehydes and Mannich bases of 4-hydroxyacetophenone. The chalcones were characterized using FTIR, 1D and 2D NMR and HRMS spectroscopy. Comparative docking analysis was carried out to screen their affinity towards the AChE enzyme (PDB 1EVE). All chalcones showed lower binding energy (−13.06 to −10.43 kcal/mol) against AChE better than donepezil (−10.52 kcal/mol). All chalcones were potent inhibitors towards AChE, with IC50 values ranging between 0.11 and 5.34 nM better than donepezil (IC50 33.4 nM) and selectivity indexes (0.66–23.83), despite the fact that chalcones 10 and 13 were inactive. The structure activity relationship indicated that introducing diethyl amine in ring A of the chalcone skeleton and the propargyl moiety at ring B was aﬃrmed to be a prospective drug against AChE. The multifunctional properties of chalcone 15 were all advantages that demonstrate an excellent candidate for the development of an effective drug against AChE.
MPEC 2024-N154 : 2022 CQ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A Look at China's Total Energy Supply (2020-2022 Data)
Creators: name: Akçevin, Yalın
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Energy policy
subject: China
subject: Power resources

description: The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of China's energy supply and consumption from various sources, as well as energy policy based on data from the 2020-2022 period.
Determination of target safety for structures
Creators: name: Holicky, Milan
name: Diamantidis, Dimitris
name: Sykora, Miroslav
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Codes of practice aim at guaranteeing structures having the risks acceptable to the public and the minimum total costs over a design working life. However, current criteria for structural design provide a broad range of target reliability indices, specified often for different reference periods even though their recalculation for different reference periods is indeterminate due to mutual dependence of failure events. General approaches for selecting target reliability levels are discussed in view of cost-benefit optimisation and human safety aspects. Design strategies seem to be driven by economic arguments rather than by human safety criteria.
A Look at China's Total Energy Supply (2020-2022 Data)
Creators: name: Akçevin, Yalın
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: China
subject: Power resources
subject: Energy policy

description: The aim of this presentation is to provide an overview of China's energy supply and consumption from various sources, as well as energy policy based on data from the 2020-2022 period.
The Hawaii limited-access longline logbook summary report, 1 January to 31 March 2014.
Creators: name: Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.). Fisheries Research And Monitoring Division.
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Longlining (Fisheries)--Monitoring--Hawaii.

description: The following tables represent effort, retained catch (kept) and discard as reported on longline log sheets for the Hawaii limited-access longline fishery. To satisfy confidentiality RFMO reporting standards, data from the California-based longline fishery is also included in this report. Catch-and-effort statistics are summarized from logbook data submitted to the PIFSC report. Catch-and-effort statistics are summarized from logbook data submitted to the PIFSC FRMD and are based on date of longline haul. The statistics originate from an Oracle table LLDS_REPORT_STATS_HICA database extraction done on 3 May 2016. When a statistic (number of vessels, trips) can involve dates of haul in 2 summary periods (i.e. years, semi-annual, quarters) the item is counted in both summary periods. Thus, a trip total is for "partial and completed" trips. As such, these are not additive statistics (i.e. sum of 4 quarters is not the total for the year, etc).
The Metaverse as a pedagogical tool in the teaching of biological sciences: a systematic review.
Creators: name: Dos Santos Villegas, David
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2026

description: This systematic review analyses the impact of the metaverse in biological education at secondary and higher levels, incorporating an in-depth analysis of 47 key references. It identifies the metaverse as an evolving technology that extends beyond a mere technological platform, encompassing a social and cultural ecosystem with transformative potential in biological sciences’ education. The review confirms the metaverse's effectiveness in enhancing immersive and personalized learning experiences, as highlighted by several studies. While recognizing its potential, the review also acknowledges limitations such as technological issues, pedagogy, data security, privacy, and varied applicability. The findings support the research's central objectives, showing the metaverse's ability to enrich educational experiences, increasing student engagement and motivation. Comparative analysis with other technologies and traditional methods further underscores the metaverse's pedagogical efficacy. The study concludes that the metaverse could revolutionize biological science education, advocating for a thoughtful implementation and continuous research. Its application aligns with ethical teaching practices and contributes significantly to Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education, innovation, and partnerships.
Supplementary document for In vivo imaging of human retinal ganglion cells using optical coherence tomography without adaptive optics - 7081099.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Furu
name: Kovalick, Katherine
name: Raghavendra, Achyut
name: Soltanian-Zadeh, Somayyeh
name: Farsiu, Sina
name: Hammer, Daniel
name: Liu, Zhuolin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Vision Science

description: Supplemental 1
Lesson Plan: Library research for Architecture Thesis Students
Creators: name: Frank, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Libraries
subject: Research
subject: Teaching--Aids and devices
subject: Teaching

description: This is a lesson plan for use by a librarian to explain resources available to the architecture masters students. They are in the second to last semester and doing the research before they start designing their chosen building for their thesis defense.
Lesson Plan: Library research for Architecture Thesis Students
Creators: name: Frank, Cynthia
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Libraries
subject: Teaching--Aids and devices
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Research
subject: Teaching

description: This is a lesson plan for use by a librarian to explain resources available to the architecture masters students. They are in the second to last semester and doing the research before they start designing their chosen building for their thesis defense.
How DNA Has Changed Our Story of the Black Death
Creators: name: H. Green, Monica
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2026
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: History
subject: Natural history
subject: Historiography
subject: Communicable diseases
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Globalization
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Archaeology
subject: Prehistoric peoples

description: "How DNA Has Changed Our Story of the Black Death" was a lecture presented (virtually) at the University of Cyprus on 7 February 2024, at the invitation of Professor Dionysios Stathakopoulos. The lecture actually covered the entire global history of Yersinia pestis (the bacterium that causes plague), drawing on the latest paleogenetics work (including Sikora et al. 2023 (bioRxiv), Krause-Kyora et al. 2023 [Research Square], and Jiang et al. 2024 [Research Square]). The core of the argument was that a multidisciplinary approach to plague's history must also recognize the ways different disciplines can, and cannot, document time. The narrative of Y. pestis' evolutionary history is expanding by millennia, and the phenomena we see in medieval records may be evidence of these longer histories. But we need to read those medieval sources with a more nuanced eye. The deposit here in Humanities Commons is meant to preserve an archival copy of the presentation. I will be working on a formal publication in the coming months. In the meantime, see my other work listed on my Academia.edu page. And feel free to write me for further information: monica.h.green@gmail.com.
How DNA Has Changed Our Story of the Black Death
Creators: name: H. Green, Monica
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Middle Ages
subject: Prehistoric peoples
subject: Natural history
subject: Globalization
subject: History
subject: Archaeology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Communicable diseases
subject: Medicine
subject: Historiography

description: "How DNA Has Changed Our Story of the Black Death" was a lecture presented (virtually) at the University of Cyprus on 7 February 2024, at the invitation of Professor Dionysios Stathakopoulos. The lecture actually covered the entire global history of Yersinia pestis (the bacterium that causes plague), drawing on the latest paleogenetics work (including Sikora et al. 2023 (bioRxiv), Krause-Kyora et al. 2023 [Research Square], and Jiang et al. 2024 [Research Square]). The core of the argument was that a multidisciplinary approach to plague's history must also recognize the ways different disciplines can, and cannot, document time. The narrative of Y. pestis' evolutionary history is expanding by millennia, and the phenomena we see in medieval records may be evidence of these longer histories. But we need to read those medieval sources with a more nuanced eye. The deposit here in Humanities Commons is meant to preserve an archival copy of the presentation. I will be working on a formal publication in the coming months. In the meantime, see my other work listed on my Academia.edu page. And feel free to write me for further information: monica.h.green@gmail.com.
A stochastic dynamics approach for response spectrum analysis of bilinear systems using time-dependent equivalent linear properties
Creators: name: Giaralis, Agathoklis
name: Kougioumtzoglou, Ioannis A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A stochastic averaging approach is used in conjunction with non-stationary response spectrum compatible random processes to derive time-varying effective linear properties (ELPs), namely damping ratio and natural frequency, for bilinear hysteretic oscillators subject to seismic excitation specified by an elastic response spectrum. It is shown numerically that the peak response of linear oscillators defined by these ELPs at the time instant for which the variance of either the excitation process or the estimated non-linear response process approximates well the peak inelastic response of a given bilinear oscillator. This is demonstrated by considering a uniformly modulated random process compatible with the Eurocode 8 (EC8) elastic response spectrum to derive ELPs from bilinear oscillators of various properties, and an ensemble of 40 artificial EC8 compatible non-stationary accelerograms to obtain peak responses of the same oscillators in a Monte Carlo based analysis. The reported numerical data suggest that peak response of bilinear hysteretic systems can be reliably estimated by the peak response of surrogate linear systems without the need to undertake nonlinear response history analysis for seismic excitation represented by appropriate non-stationary random processes.
Decolonial Information Technologies: challenges for design from intersectional and feminist perspectives in human-computer interaction (HCI)
Creators: name: Nas, Elen
name: Renata, Frade
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Decolonization
subject: Human-computer interaction
subject: Feminist theory
subject: Public health

description: This is a chapter for the forthcoming book "Human Rights and Health: Gender and Sexuality in Insurgent Voices" organized by Maria Helena Barros de Oliveira, Angélica Batista da Silva and Patrícia Von der Way, to be published in Portuguese. It discusses how Feminist HCI, Design Justice, Intersectionality, and Decoloniality relate through the common critique of power dynamics reflected in information technologies. Demands for justice have been incorporated into reflections on design through frameworks born from activism by scholars and researchers in architecture and design, such as Design Justice, which maps and combats biases, prejudices, violence, and racism of all kinds, especially within communities. We report this new aspect to a recent theoretical field arising from human-computer interaction, which, with artificial intelligence and a series of new technologies, impacts new types of interaction, such as human-algorithm interaction.
Recent research on technological feminism and design has converged – over the last 15 years – towards the 'Feminist IHC,' which advocates for including feminist elements in the design and development of technological artifacts.
By identifying how biases manifest themselves through design, we understand that the debate is intersectional when it relates the problems of inequalities, misogyny, and racism – as well as the environmental impact of technologies – to the legacy of colonialism.
Physically-based seismic reliability evaluation of water distribution networks
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Sun, Qianwei
name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this paper, a physically-based seismic reliability evaluation program is proposed to evaluate the performance of water distribution networks (WDNs) subjected to earthquakes. Firstly, a hydraulic equation which considers the leakage of WDNs after earthquakes is introduced. Then, combining with seismic analysis for buried pipeline systems, the hydraulic equation can be solved and the nodal heads of WDNs can be given. Finally, employing a probability density evolution method and a physically-based random function model for ground motions, the probability density function of the extreme values of nodal heads can be obtained, and the seismic functional reliability of WDNs can be given readily.
Artificial Intelligence & Education:  International Regulation  for the Human Rights
Creators: name: Stracke, Christian M.
name: Chounta, Irene-Angelica
name: Dimitrova, Vania
name: Havinga, Beth
name: Holmes, Wayne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The need for AI regulation is true in particular in the fields of education. Education is a special case and different from other sectors. Therefore, it requires careful considerations: How can we develop and implement legal and organisational requirements for ethical AI introduction and usage? How can we safeguard and maybe even strengthen human rights, democracy, digital equity and rules of law through AI-supported education and learning opportunities? And how can we involve all educational levels (micro, meso, macro) and stakeholders to guarantee a trustworthy and ethical AI usage? These open and urgent questions will be discussed during a workshop that aims to identify and document next steps towards establishing ethical and legal requirements for Artificial Intelligence and Education.

This presentation was held as introduction and basis for the Workshop "Ethical AI and Education" at the International AIED Conference 2024 in Recife, Brazil on 12th of July 2024. The workshop program is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12659055. All documents and results of this workshop will be published on: http://aied2024.learning-innovations.eu
Comment on a PREreview of "Seeking community input for: mzPeak - a modern, scalable, and interoperable mass spectrometry data format for the future"
Creators: name: Samuel Wein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This Zenodo record is a permanently preserved version of a comment on a PREreview. You can view the complete PREreview and comments at https://prereview.org/reviews/15036754.

Hi Laura-Isobel,
I agree that vendor buy-in is a must for this to succeed. We have representatives from most of the major vendors on the committee, and have interest in adding the ability to export into this format directly already from several of those. Talks are ongoing, and of course any commitments at this point are contingent on business approval, but there seems to be appetite there.
Sam

Competing interests

             I am one of the authors on the preprint.
title: Violences sexistes et sexuelles dans l’enseignement supérieur en Suisse : plusieurs campagnes de prévention… à l’impact inconnu
Creators: name: Magni, Giorgia
name: Collet, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: campagnes de sensibilisation
enseignement supérieur
étudiant-es
Suisse
violences sexistes et sexuelles
#Metoo

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
title: Recovering the Messy Side of Urban Life
Creators: name: Nevola, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Diamond Open Access Journals at Cambridge
Year: 2024

description: In this interview Fabrizio Nevola discusses Italian Renaissance urban spaces as an aspect of visual culture, delving into the way in which cityscapes were designed and how inhabitants interacted with them – whether through ceremonial rituals or simply everyday activities. He also evaluates how digital humanities research can facilitate a more nuanced understanding of this topic.
title: Ronce Fruitière :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Blackberry
Group identity.

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
Reliability-based seismic harzard analysis
Creators: name: Rahimi, Hossain
name: Mahsuli, Mojtaba
name: Bakhshi, Ali
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents a new approach to probabilistic seismic hazard analysis. Hazard in this context means the probability of exceeding a measure of earthquake intensity. The main components of the proposed approach are twofold: 1) Reliability methods compute the exceedance probabilities; 2) Multiple probabilistic models compute the earthquake intensity. These two components are presented in details. The proposed methodology is employed in a comprehensive seismic hazard analysis of Iran with an area of nearly 1.65 million square kilometers and 112 sources of seismicity. In this analysis, a grid of 2045 points is chosen to produce a high resolution hazard map. The analysis consists of 861 random variables and 57,615 model instances. The primary results are seismic zonation maps. The results are compared to other studies that employed the conventional seismic hazard analysis for this region. This paper concludes with a discussion on the advantages and practical differences between the results of the reliability-based approach and those of the conventional probabilistic seismic hazard analysis.
D6.17: QRBS Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Ferro, Gonzalo
name: Gomez, Andres
name: Magaz Romero, Samuel
name: Moret Bonillo, Vicente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report is the last deliverable of use case 6 – Quantum Rule-Based Systems (QRBS) for breast cancer detection - of the NEASQC project. It presents the results of the software evaluation and benchmarking against classical solutions.

The evaluation was done in five steps:

Check the programmability of the developed library, i.e., the possibility of developing applications by other programmers.

Integration of the library into Eviden Qaptiva environment.

Test the proposed algorithms using a basic synthetic case.

Benchmark the solution against classical standard for Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) diagnosis.

Evaluate the solution on noisy emulated Quantum Processing Units (QPU).

As a consequence of this work, the QRBS software release was extended with four tutorials using notebooks, some issues that limited the usability were identified and corrected, and additional support for emulators with larger capacity and other capabilities (such as the possibility of emulating noise using Qaptiva software) was introduced.

The main conclusions extracted from the evaluation are:

The results obtained for all the cases in a noiseless environment are those expected for the defined problems. These values present a high degree of similarity with those of classical models, as shown by the comparison of QRBS with fuzzy logic. In fact, the problem is not inferential; the problem is derived from the classification criteria.

When comparing classical and quantum methods, it can be observed that the corresponding results are consistent. However, the QRBS approach improves the outputs adding intrinsic uncertainties to the inferences, which are not available in the classical approach. The results obtained show an almost identical behaviour among them, thus reinforcing the hypothesis (in both, qualitatively and quantitatively perspectives) that Quantum Computing is a more general paradigm, with the capacity to encompass the different classical models of symbolic reasoning.

Noise affects the results catastrophically when is higher than a threshold, producing for the current QPUs useless results. However, for the tested models, a moderate improvement in the quality of the QPUs could produce acceptable results. Of course, the executed models do not justify yet the usage of real QPUs, because they are still small, allowing the classical ideal emulation. Experiments with larger models are needed to assess clearly the effect of the noise.
title: The Diachronic Projection: Past and Future Movements of Hydrographic Systems on Early Modern Maps
Creators: name: Martino, Davide
Publisher: name: Diamond Open Access Journals at Cambridge
Year: 2024

description: To this day, the Mercator projection allows cartographers to flatten the three-dimensional world onto two-dimensional paper. As this article shows, Mercator’s was not the only cartographic innovation pioneered in the early modern period: contemporary hydraulic experts routinely included the fourth dimension, time, in their maps. Capturing past movements of water, such as floods, but also future ones, such as planned land reclamation, required the development of a visual language allowing several temporalities to coexist within the same space. Early modern hydraulic experts can thus be said to have developed the diachronic projection. As well as allowing for the reduction of four dimensions onto two, this captured affects and desires on paper by combining depictions of the undesired (floods) and the desired (land reclamation). Given the recent interest for the history of projects, and the reframing of the early modern period as a projecting age, this article argues that it is time for scholars to recognise the importance of the diachronic projection.
Application of the Box-Cox power transformation in extreme value analysis of wind speed
Creators: name: Hong, H. P.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Gumbel distribution is one of the commonly used models for the extreme wind speed or the squared wind speed. The best choice between fitting the wind speed or squared wind speed is not apparent. To objectively avoid the need for the choice, we apply the Box-Cox power transformation with the Gumbel distribution and the generalized extreme value distribution in this study. The application of the transformation improves the rate of convergence in extreme value analysis. For the numerical example analysis, we consider the wind data recorded at 14 meteorological stations in Canada. Results indicate that the proposed application with the Gumbel distribution gives consistent estimates of the load effects whether the wind speed or squared wind speed are used for the distribution fitting; the application with the generalized extreme value distribution with Box-Cox transform is ineffective for the extreme data considered.