cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Childhood Abuse and Age at Menarche
Creators: name: Lividoti Hibert, Eileen
name: Wright, Rosalind
name: Putnam, Frank
name: Michels, Karin
name: Rich-Edwards, Janet
name: Forman, Michele
name: Boynton-Jarrett, Renée
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Purpose—Physical and sexual abuse are prevalent social hazards. We sought to examine the association between childhood physical and sexual abuse and age at menarche. Methods—Among 68,505 participants enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study II we investigated the association between childhood physical abuse and sexual abuse on menarche prior to age 11 (early) or after age 15 (late) using multivariate logistic regression analysis, mutually adjusting for both types of abuse. Results—Fifty-seven percent of respondents reported some form of physical or sexual abuse in childhood. We found a positive dose-response association between severity of sexual abuse in childhood and risk for early menarche. Compared to women who reported no childhood sexual abuse, the adjusted odds ratio [AOR] for early menarche was 1.20 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10, 1.37) for sexual touching and 1.49 (95% CI, 1.34, 1.66) for forced sexual activity. Only severe physical abuse predicted early menarche (AOR=1.22, 95% CI, 1.10–1.37). Childhood physical abuse had a dose-response association with late age at menarche: AOR 1.17 (95% CI, 1.04, 1.32) for mild, 1.20 (95% CI, 1.08, 1.33) for moderate, and 1.50 (95% CI, 1.27, 1.77) for severe physical abuse. Sexual abuse was not associated with late menarche. Conclusion—Childhood abuse was very prevalent in this large cohort of U.S. women. Severity of childhood sexual abuse was associated with risk for early onset of menarche, and physical abuse was associated with both early and late onset menarche. Implications and Contribution—The severity of childhood sexual abuse and severe physical abuse were associated with risk for accelerated menarche, while severity of childhood physical was associated with risk for delayed onset of menarche. The nature of the association between different forms of childhood adversities and reproductive lifespan may vary.
title:  M: Mutuals and Local Utilities
Creators: name: Monni, Salvatore
name: Novelli, Giulia
name: Pera, Laura
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: In uno studio comparativo tra ltalia, Stati Uniti ed Europa, gli autori ci ricordano l'importanza delle imprese cooperative per la fornitura dei servizi di interesse economico generale. E’ sempre più difficile per le autorità locali o per i singoli stati garantire servizi pubblici e questo vale sia nei paesi più ricchi che in quelli in via di sviluppo. Questo capitolo tenta di spiegare il ruolo delle cooperative e il motivo per cui le cooperative dovrebbero prendere iniziative, almeno a livello locale verso la fornitura di servizi alle comunità. Ci può essere una ragione economica per sostenere queste iniziative ma soprattutto, ci potrebbe anche essere un motivo sociale per farlo.
description: The co-operative firm. Keywords
การสื่อสารทางการตลาดที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจใช้บริการรักษา ด้วยแพทย์แผนจีน วิทยาลัยนครราชสีมา
Creators: name: ศิริพร พจน์พาณิชพงศ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2565
Subjects: การตัดสินใจ
การสื่อสารทางการตลาด
การรักษา
แพทย์แผนจีน

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 11, 1, 173-183
The effects of Brief Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression on cognitive control in affective contexts: An fMRI investigation
Creators: name: Dichter, Gabriel
name: Smoski, Moria
name: Felder, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background—Unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by impaired cognitive control in affective contexts, but the potential for psychotherapy to affect the neural correlates of these functions has not been evaluated. Method—Twelve adults with and 15 adults without MDD participated in two identical functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans that utilized a task requiring cognitive control in both sad and neutral contexts. Between scans, MDD outpatients received Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression, a psychotherapy modality designed to increase engagement with positive stimuli and reduce avoidance behaviors. Results—Seventy-five percent of adults with MDD were treatment responders, achieving posttreatment Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score of six or below. Consistent with predictions, psychotherapy resulted in decreased activation in response to cognitive control stimuli presented within a sad context in prefrontal structures, including the paracingulate gyrus, the right orbital frontal cortex, and the right frontal pole. Furthermore, the magnitude of pretreatment activation in the paracingulate gyrus cluster responsive to psychotherapy predicted the magnitude of depressive symptom change after psychotherapy. Limitations—Replication with larger samples is needed, as are follow-up studies that involve placebo control groups, wait-list control groups, and alternative forms of antidepressant intervention. Conclusions—Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression improves depressive symptoms and concomitantly influences brain systems mediating cognitive control in affective contexts.
CT- AND MRI-DERIVED BIOMARKERS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Creators: name: MONTI, CATERINA BEATRICE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: Cardiac computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) have shown potential in providing new insights concerning different cardiovascular pathologies. More recently, the focus of such studies has shifted from a simple qualitative evaluation of imaging, to a more objective approach, which includes the assessment of quantitative biomarkers. In particular, late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), myocardial strain and extracellular volume fraction (ECV) could be used to aim for a more tailored approach to the study of different diseases. The main applications for LGE discussed in this study include the definition of a more appropriate gadolinium-based contrast dosage for the assessment of myocardial infarction at CMR, and the appraisal of LGE patterns and roles in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), the most common cyanogen congenital heart defect. The analysis of myocardial strain focused on the detection of subclinical contractility anomalies in patients with ToF, and with myocarditis, aiming for a quantitative approach which could help highlight early cardiac disease before myocardial function is irreversibly altered. The study of ECV, conversely, focused on the early detection of subclinical cardiotoxicity stemming from anthracycline treatment for breast cancer. Overall, the use of such quantitative biomarkers in imaging studies could help pave the way for a more tailored patient treatment, and towards personalized medicine.
Magnetized Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Siahaan, Haryanto M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the conjectured Kerr/CFT correspondence to the case of extremal Kerr black holes immersed by an magnetic field, namely the extremal Melvin-Kerr black holes. We compute the central charge which appears in the associated Virasoro algebra generated by a class of diffeomorphisms that satisfies a set of boundary conditions in the near horizon of an extremal Melvin-Kerr black hole. Our results support the Kerr/CFT conjecture, where the macroscopic Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for an extremal Melvin-Kerr black hole matches the result obtained from a dual 2D CFT microscopic computation using Cardy formula. Interestingly, the dual CFT description could be non-unitary, due to the possibility of negative central charge.
description: 13 pages, no figures; v2. 18 pages, add some clarifications and refs; v3. 19 pages, more clarifications
title:  N: New Media
Creators: name: Miani, Mattia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: Il capitolo esplora la relazione tra imprese cooperative e nuovi media attraverso due storie. La prima storia riguarda lo sviluppo della comunita’ virtuale The Well che a un certo punto arrivo’ a sperimentare il modello cooperative nel tentativo di formare uno spazio virtuale libero e sostenibile. La seconda storia riguarda la creazione del nome dominio di primo livello .coop.
description: The co-operative firm. Keywords
(179) James Ure
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Physician Perspectives on Medical Care Delivery in Assisted Living
Creators: name: Khandelwal, Christine
name: Reed, David
name: Perez, Rosa
name: Schumacher, John
name: Sloane, Philip
name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
name: Beeber, Anna Song
name: Mitchell, C. Madeline
name: Harris-Wallace, Brandy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: OBJECTIVES—To describe the provision of medical care in assisted living (AL) as provided by physicians who are especially active in providing care to older adults and AL residents; to identify characteristics associated with physician confidence in AL staff; and to ask physicians a variety of questions about their experience providing care to AL residents and how it compares with providing care in the nursing home and home care settings. DESIGN—Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING—AL communities in 27 states. PARTICIPANTS—One hundred sixty-five physicians and administrators of 125 AL settings in which they had patients. MEASUREMENTS—Interviews and questionnaires containing open- and close-ended questions regarding demographics, care arrangements, attitudes, and behaviors in managing medical problems. RESULTS—Most respondents were certified in internal medicine (46%) or family medicine (47%); 32% were certified in geriatrics and 30% in medical directorship. In this select sample, 48% visited the AL setting once a year or less, and 19% visited once a week or more. Mean physician confidence in AL staff was 3.3 (somewhat confident), with greater confidence associated with smaller AL community size, nursing presence, and the physician being the medical director. Qualitative analyses identified differences between settings including lack of vital sign assessment in the home setting, concern about the ability of AL staff to assess and monitor problems, and greater administrative and regulatory requirements in AL than in the other settings. CONCLUSION—Providing medical care for AL residents presents unique challenges and opportunities for physicians. Nursing presence and physician oversight and familiarity and communicating with AL staff who are highly familiar with a given resident and can monitor care may facilitate care.
HOMOGENEOUS CATALYTIC REDUCTIVE CARBONYLATION OF ORGANIC NITRO COMPOUNDS: BIDENTATE NITROGEN LIGANDS AS A KEY POINT
Creators: name: FERRETTI, FRANCESCO MARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: The reductive carbonylation of nitro compounds is a process with a high potential synthetic and industrial interest, since many products can be obtained from nitro compounds and CO, including isocyanates, carbamates, ureas and heterocyclic compounds. The most active systems in this kind of reactions are based on the use of a transition metal catalyst and a nitrogen ligand. In this PhD thesis studies on reduction by carbon monoxide of palladium complexes relevant to the reaction of carbonylation of nitroarenes are reported. Moreover catalytic studies were conducted on the use of differently substituted nitrogen ligands in the palladium catalyzed synthesis of methyl N-phenylcarbamate. In particular the effect of non symmetric ligands on the activity of the catalytic system and the use of long alkyl chain substituted phenanthrolines for catalyst recycling are discussed. A system based on a palladium/phenanthroline complex was also investigated for the reductive cyclization of beta-nitrostyrenes to indoles: the optimization of the reaction and its scope are reported.
Ab initio spin-flip conductance of hydrogenated graphene nanoribbons: Spin-orbit interaction and scattering with local impurity spins
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Jan
name: Walz, Michael
name: Evers, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the spin-dependent zero-bias conductance $G_{σσ'}$ in armchair graphene nanoribbons with hydrogen adsorbates employing a DFT-based ab initio transport formalism including spin-orbit interaction. We find that the spin-flip conductance $G_{σ\barσ}$ can reach the same order of magnitude as the spin-conserving one, $G_{σσ}$, due to exchange-mediated spin scattering. In contrast, the genuine spin-orbit interaction appears to play a secondary role, only.
(181) James Melville McCulloch
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dental Caries in Older Adults in the Last Year of Life
Creators: name: Preisser, John
name: Chen, Xi
name: Naorungroj, Supawadee
name: Shuman, Stephen
name: Clark, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES—Older adults experience dramatic declines in health and function at the end of life. These complex physiological, psychological and functional changes may substantially increase risk of dental caries. This study’s objective was to examine dental caries severity (measured by number of carious teeth) in older adults in the last year of life. DESIGN—Cross-sectional study based on dental records. SETTING—A community-based geriatric dental clinic. PARTICIPANTS—1216 older adults aged 65 or above, including 168 individuals in the last year of life (e.g., individuals died within one year after their new patient exams). MEASUREMENTS—Participants’ socioeconomics, medical history, medications, functional status and oral health measures, including number of carious teeth, were abstracted from dental records. End-of-life status was determined using the National Death Index. Propensities of death were first calculated using a logistic regression, then adjusted together with mobility and oral care function in the multivariable regression model to examine the impact of end-of-life status on dental caries. RESULTS—Caries severity differed in end-of-life participants with different oral care function. Among those needing help with oral care, end-of-life participants had only slightly elevated and non-statistically significant risk (7.5 vs. 6.1, adjusted IDR= 1.12, 95% CI=0.85–1.48) to have more carious teeth than those not in the last year of life. However, caries severity decreased among end-of-life participants without impaired oral care function (IDR=0.53, 95% CI: 0.30–0.92). CONCLUSION—Oral care function modifies the association between caries severity and end-of-life status. Individuals who could maintain oral hygiene independently had a relatively low level of caries at the end of life; however, dental caries had increased before functionally-dependent patients entered their last year of life.
ผลของปริมาณน้ำตาล กรดซิตริก และเพคติน ที่มีต่อคุณภาพผลิตภัณฑ์มัลเบอรี่แผ่น
Creators: name: ปิยะนุช  รสเครือ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลล้านนา
Year: 2020
Subjects: ผลไม้แผ่น
มัลเบอรี่
ค่าวอเตอร์แอกตีวีตี้
การวิเคราะห์พื้นผิวตอบสนอง

description: วารสารวิชาการและวิจัย มทร.พระนคร สาขาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 14, 1, 58-69
การสร้างอัตลักษณ์อาหารท้องถิ่นและการส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวชุมชนในกลุ่มจังหวัดร้อยแก่นสารสินธุ์
Creators: name: สิทธิศักดิ์ เตียงงา
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2565
Subjects: อัตลักษณ์
อาหารท้องถิ่น
ร้อยแก่นสารสินธุ์

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 11, 1, 184-199
แนวทางการบริหารความเสี่ยงของสหกรณ์ออมทรัพย์ในประเทศไทย
Creators: name: สุมณฑา ประสงค์ศรี
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2565
Subjects: แนวทางการบริหารความเสี่ยง
สหกรณ์ออมทรัพย์ในประเทศไทย

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 11, 1, 200-213
Simplification and analysis of a model of social interaction in voting
Creators: name: Lafuerza, Luis F.
name: Dyson, Louise
name: Edmonds, Bruce
name: McKane, Alan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A recently proposed model of social interaction in voting is investigated by simplifying it down into a version that is more analytically tractable and which allows a mathematical analysis to be performed. This analysis clarifies the interplay of the different elements present in the system --- social influence, heterogeneity and noise --- and leads to a better understanding of its properties. The origin of a regime of bistability is identified. The insight gained in this way gives further intuition into the behaviour of the original model.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
การศึกษาจริยธรรมของบุคลากรเทศบาลตำบลบางม่วง อำเภอบางใหญ่ จังหวัดนนทบุรี
Creators: name: อภิชาติ ศิริบุญญกาล
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ
Year: 2565
Subjects: จริยธรรม
บุคลากร
เทศบาลตำบลบางม่วง

description: วารสารวิชาการ มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์ทกรุงเทพ, 11, 1, 214-222
(174) Jessie Hannah Clark
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
On the operation of machines powered by quantum non-thermal baths
Creators: name: Niedenzu, Wolfgang
name: Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, David
name: Kofman, Abraham G.
name: Kurizki, Gershon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diverse models of engines energised by quantum-coherent, hence non-thermal, baths allow the engine efficiency to transgress the standard thermodynamic Carnot bound. These transgressions call for an elucidation of the underlying mechanisms. Here we show that non-thermal baths may impart not only heat, but also mechanical work to a machine. The Carnot bound is inapplicable to such a hybrid machine. Intriguingly, it may exhibit dual action, concurrently as engine and refrigerator, with up to 100% efficiency. We conclude that even though a machine powered by a quantum bath may exhibit an unconventional performance, it still abides by the traditional principles of thermodynamics.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Early GABAA receptor clustering during the development of the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract
Creators: name: Schweitzer, L.
name: Heck, W.L.
name: Slusarczyk, A.
name: Basaraba, A.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: While there is an abundance of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the gustatory zone of the nucleus of the solitary tract of the perinatal rat, we know that GABAergic synapse formation is not complete until well after birth. Our recent results have shown that GABAB receptors are present at birth in the cells of the nucleus; however, they do not redistribute and cluster at synaptic sites until after PND10. The present study examined the time course of appearance and redistribution of GABAA receptors in the nucleus. GABAA receptors were also present at birth. However, in comparison to GABAB receptors, GABAA receptors underwent an earlier translocation to synaptic sites. Extrasynaptic label, for example, of GABAA receptors was non-existent compared to GABAB receptors at PND10 and well-defined clusters of GABAA receptors could be seen as early as PND1. We propose that while GABAA receptors may play an early neurotransmitter role at the synapse, GABAB receptors may play a non-transmitter neurotrophic role.
High-resolution visualization of airspace structures in intact mice via synchrotron phase-contrast X-ray imaging (PCXI)
Creators: name: Uesugi, Kentaro
name: Siu, Karen
name: Boucher, Richard
name: Williams, Ivan
name: Fouras, Andreas
name: Parsons, David
name: Crosbie, Jeffrey
name: Donnelley, Martin
name: Yagi, Naoto
name: Morgan, Kaye
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Anatomical visualization of airspace-containing organs in intact small animals has been limited by the resolution and contrast available from current imaging methods such as X-ray, micro-computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Determining structural relationships and detailed anatomy has therefore relied on suitable fixation, sectioning and histological processing. More complex and informative analyses such as orthogonal views of an organ and three-dimensional structure visualizations have required different animals and image sets, laboriously processed to gather this complementary structural information. Precise three-dimensional anatomical views have always been difficult to achieve in small animals. Here we report the ability of phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray imaging to provide detailed two- and three-dimensional visualization of airspace organ structures in intact animals. Using sub-micrometre square pixel charge-coupled device array detectors, the structure and anatomy of hard and soft tissues, and of airspaces, is readily available using phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray imaging. Moreover, software-controlled volume-reconstructions of tomographic images not only provide unsurpassed image clarity and detail, but also selectable anatomical views that cannot be obtained with established histological techniques. The morphology and structure of nasal and lung airways and the middle ear are illustrated in intact mice, using two- and three-dimensional representations. The utility of phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray imaging for non-invasively localizing objects implanted within airspaces, and the detection of gas bubbles transiting live airways, are other novel features of this visualization methodology. The coupling of phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray imaging technology with software-based reconstruction techniques holds promise for novel and high-resolution non-invasive examination of airspace anatomy in small animal models.
APPROACHES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED STRIATAL NEURON DIFFERENTIATION PROTOCOLS AND QUANTITATIVE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY METHODS.
Creators: name: LAPORTA, ANGELA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Directed differentiation of human Embryonic Stem cells (hESC) and induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPS) is used to produce in vitro models to understand the mechanisms involved in neural development and to study the cellular and molecular processes affected in neurodegenerative diseases. Furthermore, these cells represent a potential source of in vitro generated mature neurons that can be used in cell replacement therapies. The laboratory where I performed my PhD thesis is interested in studying Huntington Disease (HD), a rare inherited disorder caused by an expanded stretch of CAG trinucleotide repeats in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which results in neuronal dysfunction and death. In HD, the medium spiny neurons (MSNs) of the striatum represent the population most severely affected. The study of the different stages of striatal development in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC) could be instrumental for both the identification of the molecular processes that are affected in HD and the generation of MSNs for cell replacement therapies. For this reason, the main goal of my doctoral degree was to create in vitro models that recapitulate human striatal development in vivo and ultimately generate authentic MSNs. In the first part of my thesis, I confirmed previous data from the lab showing that H9 hPSC can efficiently differentiate towards the striatal lineage (Delli Carri et al., 2013). Moreover, I extended this finding by showing that this protocol can be successfully applied to other three hPSC lines. Additionally, to better characterize the progenitor and neuronal subpopulations generated at different stages of the in vitro differentiation, I developed an automated microscope image quantification pipeline that enabled a high degree of accuracy in a diverse range of molecular marker measurements. With this new method, I was able to monitor cell identity transitions observed during in vitro differentiation and quantify the resulting neuronal subpopulations. Previous in vivo analysis of cell transitions in the human developing striatum allowed to identify two transcription factors (TFs), Gsx2 and Ebf1, involved in neuronal identity progression. Based on this, in the second part of my PhD work, I developed a strategy to improve MSNs generation efficiency from hESC. Following in vitro differentiation, I monitored the effects of the exogenous TFs expression by analysing the expression of various cell identity molecular markers by immunofluorescence. By using this strategy, I was able to improve the differentiation of hPSCs into MSNs in vitro from 7% to 38%. In the future, we are planning to take advantage of the tools and knowledge gathered in the course of my PhD to develop a differentiation protocol in line with the GMP procedures necessary for the cell replacement approach.
Mechanical cooling in the single-photon quadratical optomechanics
Creators: name: Gu, Wen-ju
name: Yi, Zhen
name: Sun, Li-hui
name: Xu, Da-hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper we study the nonlinear mechanical cooling processes in the intrinsic quadratically optomechanical coupling system without linearizing the optomechanical interaction. We apply the scattering theory to calculate the transition rates between different mechanical Fock states with the use of the resolvent of Hamiltonian, which allows for a direct identification of the underlying physical processes, where only even-phonon transitions are permitted and odd-phonon transitions are forbidden. We verify the feasibility of the approach by comparing the steady-state mean phonon number obtained from transition rates with the simulation of the full quantum master equation, and also discuss the analytical results in the weak coupling limit that coincide with two-phonon mechanical cooling processes. Furthermore, to evaluate the statistical properties of steady mechanical state, we respectively apply the Mandel Q parameter to show that the oscillator can be in a nonclassical mechanical states, and the phonon number uctuations F to display that the even-phonon transitions favor to suppress the phonon number uctuations compared to the linear coupling optomechanical system.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Descriptive Epidemiology of Collegiate Women's Field Hockey Injuries: National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System, 1988–1989 Through 2002–2003
Creators: name: Vela, Luzita
name: Messina, Renee
name: Dick, Randall
name: Marshall, Stephen W
name: Agel, Julie
name: Hootman, Jennifer M
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Objective: To review 15 years of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) injury surveillance data for women’s field hockey and identify potential areas for injury prevention initiatives. Background: Field hockey is one of the most popular sports worldwide and is growing in participation in the United States, particularly among women. From 1988–1989 to 2002–2003, participation in NCAA women’s field hockey increased 12%, with the largest growth among Division III programs. In 2002–2003, 253 colleges offered women’s field hockey and 5385 women participated. Main Results: Game injury rates showed a significant average annual 2.5% decline over 15 years, most likely fueled by drops in ankle ligament sprain, knee internal derangement, and finger fracture injuries. Despite this, ankle ligament sprains were common (13.7% of game and 15.0% of practice injuries) and a frequent cause of severe injuries (resulting in 10+ days of time-loss activity). Concussion and head laceration injuries increased over this same time, and the risk of sustaining a concussion in a game was 6 times higher than the risk of sustaining one during practice. Overall, injury rates were twice as high in games as in practices (7.87 versus 3.70 injuries per 1000 athlete-exposures, rate ratio = 2.1, 95% confidence interval = 2.0, 2.3). Most head/neck/face (71%) and hand/finger/thumb (68%) injuries occurred when the player was near the goal or within the 25-yd line and were caused by contact with the stick or ball (greater than 77% for both body sites)
description: for 34% of head/neck/face injuries, a penalty was called on the play. Recommendations: Equipment (requiring helmets and padded gloves) and rule changes (to decrease field congestion near the goal) as well as evidence-based injury prevention interventions (eg, prophylactic ankle taping/bracing, neuromuscular balance exercise programs) may be viable prevention initiatives for reducing injury rates in women’s collegiate field hockey players.
A curvature formula associated to a family of pseudoconvex domains
Creators: name: Wang, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32A25, 32L25, 32G05

description: We shall give a definition of the curvature operator for a family of weighted Bergman spaces $\{\mathcal H_t\}$ associated to a smooth family of smoothly bounded strongly pseudoconvex domains $\{D_t\}$. In order to study the boundary term in the curvature operator, we shall introduce the notion of geodesic curvature for the associated family of boundaries $\{\partial D_t\}$. As an application, we get a variation formula for the norms of Bergman projections of currents with compact support. A flatness criterion for $\{\mathcal H_t\}$ and its applications to triviality of fibrations are also given in this paper.
description: 35 pages, to appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier
CCRL2, A PUTATIVE CHEMOTACTIC RECEPTOR, PARTICIPATES IN THE LUNG DENDRITIC CELL TRAFFICKING
Creators: name: GONZALVO FEO, SAFIYE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: CCRL2 (chemokine CC motif receptor-like 2) is an orphan heptahelic serpentine receptor that is rapidly induced in dendritic cells (DC) during maturation. CCRL2 shares the highest homology with the inflammatory chemokine receptors CCR1 and CCR5 and the ligand, chemerin, with the chemotactic receptor ChemR23. Although both CCRL2 and ChemR23 are expressed by DC, they show an opposite regulation during DC maturation. In addition, CCRL2 is apparently unable to signal in response to chemerin and was shown to function as a presenting protein of chemerin to ChemR23-expressing cells. In order to evaluate the biological relevance of this receptor, we used CCRL2 deficient mice in an established model of allergen-induced airway inflammation in which DC are known to play a crucial role. CCRL2-/- mice were protected in a model of OVA-induced airway inflammation with reduced leukocyte recruitment in the BAL (eosinophils and mononuclear cells) and reduced production of the Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-5 and chemokines CCL11 and CCL17. CCRL2-/- mice showed normal recruitment of circulating DC into the lung but a defective trafficking of antigen-loaded lung DC to mediastinal lymph nodes. This defect was associated to a reduction in lymph node cellularity and reduced priming of Th2 response. Chemerin was expressed by mouse lung vascular endothelial cells and by lymphatic endothelial cells and was found to be upregulated by retinoic acid. Retinoic acid stimulated endothelial cells (EC) promoted the transmigration of DC in a ChemR23-dependent manner, suggesting a role for membrane associated chemerin. The results here reported define chemerin as a new relevant protein for DC trafficking across lymphatic and blood endothelial barriers. In addition, these results highlight a nonredundant role for CCRL2 in the migration of lung DC and in the induction of Th2-polarized airway allergic inflammation. Altogether, this study proposes the CCRL2/chemerin axis as a new potential target for therapeutic strategies aimed at controlling lung hypersensitivity.
RAPPORTI TRA SISTEMA SEMANTICO E SISTEMA DI DESCRIZIONE STRUTTURALE: ASPETTI TEORICI, COSTRUZIONE DI UN NUOVO STRUMENTO E STUDIO DI PAZIENTI CON LESIONI CEREBRALI EMISFERICHE FOCALI
Creators: name: RASSIGA, CECILIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The Structural Description System stores pre-semantic visual information about the shape of objects. During visual perception, the actually perceived shape should activate the SDS before accessing the Semantic System. The standard shape of known objects results from the assembly of distinct parts, each of a given size with respect to the other parts. Also the size of the whole object in comparison to other objects may be variable, but only within a definite range. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge of shape, features- and whole object?s dimensions, checking the influence of demographic variables. In addiction, we wanted to analyse the relationship between the knowledge of object?s shape, of whole-size and of subparts-size. To this aim we created a new neuropsychological battery which consists of 4 test based on 10 tools and 10 animals pictures from the Snodgrass set. In the Feature Dimension Assessment (FDA), the size of one feature of the picture was progressively reduced or amplified, so that only 50% of the resulting shapes was still acceptable. In the Object Dimension Assessment (ODA), two pictures were presented on the same sheet of paper, and the relative size of one of two objects was progressively reduced or amplified, so that only in 50% of the cases the relative size of the stimuli was acceptable. In addition, the battery included a picture reality judgment (FINOFI), based on real and chimerical pictures of animals and tools, and a Semantic Questionnaire (SQ) with verbal probes about perceptual and functional aspects of animals and tools. The battery was given to 100 Italian healthy participants. Each test was standardised with the Equivalent Score procedure by calculating the contribution of demographic variables. Normal control subjects? performances were correlated to one another with Pearson?s linear correlation. The battery was also administered to 24 right brain-damaged patients and to 11 left brain-damaged patients. We used Cohen?s weighted k and McNemar test to assess the agreement between different tests in right brain-damaged patients. Right occipital patients were then picked out to verify their performance on each of the 4 tests at issue. Results show that FDA and FINOFI are apparently tapping similar aspects of the Structural Description System. ODA seems neither related to Semantic System, nor to the Structural Description System.
An Algebraic Study of Multivariable Integration and Linear Substitution
Creators: name: Rosenkranz, Markus
name: Gao, Xing
name: Guo, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47G10, 16W99, 16T10, 68W30, 12H05, 47G20, 13N10, 16W70

description: We set up an algebraic theory of multivariable integration, based on a hierarchy of Rota-Baxter operators and an action of the matrix monoid as linear substitutions. Given a suitable coefficient domain with a bialgebra structure, this allows us to build an operator ring that acts naturally on the given Rota-Baxter hierarchy. We conjecture that the operator relations are a noncommutative Groebner basis for the ideal they generate.
description: 44 pages, 1 table
Cavity-enhanced Raman Microscopy of Individual Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Hümmer, Thomas
name: Noe, Jonathan
name: Hofmann, Matthias S.
name: Hänsch, Theodor W.
name: Högele, Alexander
name: Hunger, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman spectroscopy reveals chemically specific information and provides label-free insight into the molecular world. However, the signals are intrinsically weak and call for enhancement techniques. Here, we demonstrate Purcell enhancement of Raman scattering in a tunable high-finesse microcavity, and utilize it for molecular diagnostics by combined Raman and absorption imaging. Studying individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, we identify crucial structural parameters such as nanotube radius, electronic structure and extinction cross-section. We observe a 320-times enhanced Raman scattering spectral density and an effective Purcell factor of 6.2, together with a collection efficiency of 60%. Potential for significantly higher enhancement, quantitative signals, inherent spectral filtering and absence of intrinsic background in cavity-vacuum stimulated Raman scattering render the technique a promising tool for molecular imaging. Furthermore, cavity-enhanced Raman transitions involving localized excitons could potentially be used for gaining quantum control over nanomechanical motion and open a route for molecular cavity optomechanics.
การศึกษาพฤติกรรมการเผาไหม้ของเตาแก๊สแรงดันต่ำแบบเวอร์ติคอลพอร์ตด้วยวิธีพลศาสตร์ของไหลเชิงคำนวณ
Creators: name: อนิรุตต์ มัทธุจักร์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี
Year: 2020
Subjects: พลศาสตร์ของไหลเชิงคำนวณ
เตาแก๊สแบบเวอร์ติคอลพอร์ต
การไหลแบบหมุนวน
พฤติกรรมการเผาไหม้

description: วารสารวิชาการและวิจัย มทร.พระนคร สาขาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 14, 1, 70-81
การอบแห้งพริกด้วยเครื่องอบแห้งอุณหภูมิต่ำที่เสริมการทำงานด้วยเครื่องอุ่นอากาศเทอร์โมอิเล็คทริค
Creators: name: พชร ว่องไพศาลกิจ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีสุรนารี
Year: 2020
Subjects: เครื่องอบแห้ง
เทอร์โมอิเล็คทริค
พริก

description: วารสารวิชาการและวิจัย มทร.พระนคร สาขาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 14, 1, 82-96
Hip Kinematics During a Stop-Jump Task in Patients With Chronic Ankle Instability
Creators: name: Marshall, Stephen
name: Padua, Darin
name: Guskiewicz, Kevin
name: Brown, Cathleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Context: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) commonly develops after lateral ankle sprain. Movement pattern differences at proximal joints may play a role in instability. Objective: To determine whether people with mechanical ankle instability (MAI) or functional ankle instability (FAI) exhibited different hip kinematics and kinetics during a stop-jump task compared with “copers.” Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Sports medicine research laboratory. Patients or Other Participants: Sixty-three recreational athletes, 21 (11 men, 10 women) per group, matched for sex, age, height, mass, and limb dominance. All participants reported a history of a moderate to severe ankle sprain. The participants with MAI and FAI reported 2 or more episodes of giving way at the ankle in the last year and decreased functional ability; copers did not. The MAI group demonstrated clinically positive anterior drawer and talar tilt tests, whereas the FAI group and copers did not. Intervention(s): Participants performed a maximum-speed approach run and a 2-legged stop jump followed by a maximum vertical jump. Main Outcome Measure(s): An electromagnetic tracking device synchronized with a force plate collected data during the stance phase of a 2-legged stop jump. Hip motion was measured from initial contact to takeoff into the vertical jump. Group differences in hip kinematics and kinetics were assessed. Results: The MAI group demonstrated greater hip flexion at initial contact and at maximum (P = .029 and P = .017, respectively) and greater hip external rotation at maximum (P = .035) than the coper group. The MAI group also demonstrated greater hip flexion displacement than both the FAI (P = .050) and coper groups (P = .006). No differences were noted between the FAI and coper groups in hip kinematic variables or among any of the groups in ground reaction force variables. Conclusions: The MAI group demonstrated different hip kinematics than the FAI and coper groups. Proximal joint motion may be affected by ankle joint function and laxity, and clinicians may need to assess proximal joints after repeated ankle sprains.
Understanding the Shared E-scooter Travels in Austin, TX
Creators: name: Jiao, Junfeng
name: Bai, Shunhua
Publisher: name: International Journal of Geo-Information
Year: 2020
Subjects: e-scooter
urban environment
travel pattern
shared micro-mobility

description: This publication is by UT affiliates that was featured in the September Good Systems Network Digest in 2020.
(176) Helen Hunter
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Photoreactivation in phr mutants of Escherichia coli K-12.
Creators: name: Sancar, A
name: Husain, I
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: however strains carrying the delta (gal-att lambda) deletions displayed increased sensitivity to near-UV radiation.
description: We have investigated the genetics of photoreactivation in Escherichia coli K-12. We found that strains with point mutations or deletions in the phr gene showed a significant residual level of photoreactivation after exposure to large fluences of photoreactivating light. It had been previously proposed that a gene in the gal-att lambda interval is also involved in photoreactivation and that the residual photoreactivating activity might be due to this so-called phrA gene located at this interval. We found that deletions of the gal-att lambda region had no effect on either the rate or the final extent of photoreactivation observed in phr+ cells or phr mutants
Data Set Modelability by QSAR
Creators: name: Tropsha, Alexander
name: Muratov, Eugene
name: Golbraikh, Alexander
name: Fourches, Denis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We introduce a simple MODelability Index (MODI) that estimates the feasibility of obtaining predictive QSAR models (Correct Classification Rate above 0.7) for a binary dataset of bioactive compounds. MODI is defined as an activity class-weighted ratio of the number of the nearest neighbor pairs of compounds with the same activity class versus the total number of pairs. The MODI values were calculated for more than 100 datasets and the threshold of 0.65 was found to separate non-modelable from the modelable datasets.
On boundary value problems for some conformally invariant differential operators
Creators: name: Möllers, Jan
name: Ørsted, Bent
name: Zhang, Genkai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study boundary value problems for some differential operators on Euclidean space and the Heisenberg group which are invariant under the conformal group of a Euclidean subspace resp. Heisenberg subgroup. These operators are shown to be self-adjoint in certain Sobolev type spaces and the related boundary value problems are proven to have unique solutions in these spaces. We further find the corresponding Poisson transforms explicitly in terms of their integral kernels and show that they are isometric between Sobolev spaces and extend to bounded operators between certain $L^p$-spaces. The conformal invariance of the differential operators allows us to apply unitary representation theory of reductive Lie groups, in particular recently developed methods for restriction problems.
description: 31 pages
(177) Jessie Ure
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.