cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding the implications of augmented reality out of context in engineering education
Creators: name: Ayer, Steven K.
name: Messner, John I.
name: Anumba, Chimay J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Educating building design and construction students about sustainability is critical to the development of a future workforce that is capable of making a positive impact on future sustainable buildings. Prior research has leveraged emerging computing technologies to remove some of the educational hurdles that are common among new engineering students, related to visualization and design assessment. In this prior work, an augmented reality (AR) based simulation game, called ecoCampus, was developed to allow students to design an exterior wall for an existing building on their campus to improve sustainable performance. After users created designs in ecoCampus, they were able to view a virtual mock-up of their design at full-scale with AR and then assess the performance of that concept using the basic simulation game interface. Using this technological approach to design, students were able to resist the tendency toward design fixation as compared to students who were not provided with the computerized ecoCampus interface. This paper further explores the AR component of ecoCampus to understand how students’ learning is affected when the design activity is completed out of the context of the physical building. In this work, students who used ecoCampus to design a new exterior wall concept for an existing building did so in a lab space where they were not able to physically explore the existing building for which they were designing the concept. Instead, they could only view the existing building through a single photograph that was projected on a screen. Students completed the same assessments as prior student cohorts and were allotted the same amount of time. After analyzing the collected data it was observed that, while students still employed beneficial design behaviours as compared to prior cohorts using paper-based design strategies, the process that they employed to arrive at their final design concept included fewer considerations of different design alternatives than students who used ecoCampus in the existing building. This suggests that there may be additional value in using AR in the physical context of a space for building design and assessment learning tasks, especially when design creativity is advantageous.
Supplementary document for Large-area fluorescence enhancement of R6G based on uniform PVA-Au plasmonic substrate - 6107972.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Qingru
name: Zhao, Xuemiao
name: Liu, Jinhua
name: Liu, Xinxin
name: Zhang, Yuting
name: Zhang, Dong
name: Li, Shuhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplemental document
Service Innovation for the Digital World
Creators: name: Chew, Eng K.
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: The foundational principles and conceptual building blocks of customer-centric service innovation (SI) practice are explained, and a resultant integrated framework of SI design practices for customer value co-creation is synthesised. The nexus of service strategy, service concept and business model is identified to assure SI commercialisation. The requisite SI models and processes to systematise the innovation practice are reviewed. The emergent practices of customer and community participation, in a digital world, across the firm’s entire SI lifecycle are explicated, together with the requisite strategic management practices for successful service innovation.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 9, No 1 (2014)
Additional file 1 of Digital patient-reported outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease routine clinical practice: the clinician perspective
Creators: name: Nielsen, Amalie Søgaard
name: Appel, Charlotte W.
name: Larsen, Birgit Furstrand
name: Hanna, Lisa
name: Kayser, Lars
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Interview guide.
Big Data Management and Analysis for Business Informatics - A Survey
Creators: name: Marchand-Maillet, Stéphane
name: Hofreiter, Birgit
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Modern communication networks have fueled the creation of massive volumes of data that may be valued as relevant information for business activities. In this paper, we review technologies for enabling and empowering business activities, leveraging the content of this big data. We distinguish between data- and user-related technologies, and study the parallel brought by the overlap of these categories. We show how the trend of Big Data is related to data security and user privacy. We then investigate automated ways of performing data analysis for Business Intelligence. We finally review how groups of users may be seen as a workforce in business through the notion of human computation or crowdsourcing, associated with the notions of trust and reputation. We conclude by discussing emerging trends in the domain.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 9, No 1 (2014)
Data-Driven Decisions in Service Engineering and Management
Creators: name: Setzer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (The German Informatics Society)
Year: 2015

description: Today, the frontier for using data to make business decisions has shifted, and high-performing service companies are building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that produce impressive business results. In principle, the ever-growing amount of available data would allow for deriving increasingly precise forecasts and optimised input for planning and decision models. However, the complexity resulting from considering large volumes of high-dimensional, fine-grained, and noisy data in mathematical models leads to the fact that dependencies and developments are not found, algorithms do not scale, and traditional statistics as well as data-mining techniques collapse because of the well-known curse of dimensionality. Hence, in order to make big data actionable, the intelligent reduction of vast amounts of data to problemrelevant features is necessary and advances are required at the intersection of economic theories, service management, dimensionality reduction, advanced analytics, robust prediction, and computational methods to solve managerial decisions and planning problems.
description: Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Vol 9, No 1 (2014)
Additional file 1 of Airway fibrin formation cascade in allergic asthma exacerbation: implications for inflammation and remodeling
Creators: name: Zhu, Yanlong
name: Esnault, Stephane
name: Ge, Ying
name: Jarjour, Nizar N.
name: Brasier, Allan R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
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: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Statistical Analysis of Microarray. SAM plot of expected vs observed abundance of proteins were plotted. Dashed lines are cut-off for ∆=0.6, corresponding to Q<0.5. Red dots are proteins upregulated by SBP-Ag; green are downregulated.
Axiology-based value quantification modeling for buildings
Creators: name: Zhang, Lu
name: El-Gohary, Nora M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A report published by the National Research Council of the National Academies identified the research on understanding and quantifying the value of our infrastructure systems to their stakeholders and how this value is impacted by the various planning, design, construction, and operation decisions as a “national imperative”. However, there is still a lack of understanding and formalized modeling of what different stakeholders value (e.g., energy conservation, safety, economic growth) in our infrastructure systems and how to valuate (i.e., quantify the worth) our infrastructure systems based on these values. This paper presents the authors’ work in the area of axiology-based valuation modeling of buildings. “Axiology” is a theory of value (worth) that explores questions such as what are the objects that we value and how to measure the value of these objects. In this paper, the authors propose a mathematical value quantification model for quantifying the degree that a building (and its objects) fulfills stakeholder values based on its properties. The proposed model is primarily theoretically grounded in axiology. It builds on two key notions in Hartman’s formal axiology that (1) object valuation depends on its properties, and (2) valuation has systemic, extrinsic, and intrinsic dimensions. The model was initially validated through a case study. The model offers a way to assess the value of our built infrastructure based on stakeholder values; it could facilitate value-sensitive decision making by embodying stakeholder values into project planning and design towards better synergy between human values and the built environment.
THE IRONIC EXPRESSION OF THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Creators: name: Parmonov, Alisher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article explores the interplay between irony and the linguistic worldview in English. It investigates how irony, as a pragmatic and stylistic device, shapes and reflects cultural and cognitive perceptions encoded in language. Through discourse analysis and cross-cultural comparison, the study reveals how ironic expressions in English serve as a tool for worldview construction, enabling speakers to express social critique, ambiguity, and layered meanings. The findings underscore irony’s crucial role in conceptualizing values, power relations, and shared norms within English-speaking societies.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows WG Recommendations
Creators: name: Sünje Dallmeier­Tiessen
name: Khodiyar, Varsha
name: Murphy, Fiona
name: Nurnberger, Amy
name: Raymond, Lisa
name: Whyte, Angus
name: Bloom, Theodora
name: Austin, Claire C
name: Tedds, Jonathan
name: Stockhause, Martina
name: Vardigan, Mary
Publisher: name: Research Data Alliance
Year: 2016

description: Data publishing is a major cornerstone of open science, reliable research, and modern scholarly communication. It enables researchers to share their materials via dedicated workflows, services and infrastructures and ultimately is intended to ensure that data – and in particular datasets underlying published results — are well documented, curated, persistent, interoperable, reusable, citable, attributable, quality assured and discoverable. Needless to say, data publishing workflows potentially have an enormous impact on researchers, research practices and publishing paradigms, as well as on funding strategies, and career and research evaluations.
            It is crucial for all stakeholders to understand the options for data publishing workflows and to be aware of emerging standards and best practices. To that end, the RDA-WDS Data Publishing Workflows group set out to survey the current data publishing workflow landscape across disciplines while at the same time paying attention to discipline-specific characteristics. We looked at a diverse set of workflows, including basic self-publishing services, institutional data repositories, curated data repositories, and joint data journal and repository arrangements to identify common components and standard practices. This permitted us to identify, analyze and categorize the main building blocks comprising data publishing workflows. We wanted to understand how workflows differ based on the desired outputs and how community needs play a role in workflows. Interestingly, we found that core concepts are congruent across disciplines and data publishing workflows.
            The present paper describes our findings and presents them as components of a data publishing reference model. Based on the assessment of the current data publishing landscape, we highlight important gaps and challenges to consider, especially when dealing with more complex workflows and their integration into the wider community frameworks. We conclude the paper with recommendations to advance data publishing in line with the identified standards. It is our hope that as more research communities seek to publish data associated with their research, they will build on one or more of the components identified in creating their own workflows and thus accelerate uptake.
Biophotonic tools to image cellular mechanics
Creators: name: Meek, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophotometry
subject: Biophysics
subject: Photonics
subject: Cells - mechanical properties
subject: Interference spectroscopy
subject: Brillouin scattering
subject: QH324.9B48M4

description: The mechanical interaction of cells with their environment, e.g. the application and sensing of forces by cells, is at the heart of many important phenomena in biology. While our understanding of biochemical signals in cellular function in- creases rapidly, many aspects of mechanical activity and interaction remain elusive, largely due to the lack of suitable tools to detect and image the small forces at play. The creation of new biophotonic tools and methods to fulfil this role has therefore become a topic of strong interest in recent years. A recent innovation in cellular force measurement technology was ERISM (Elastic Resonator Interference Stress Microscopy), which uses interference within an elastic microcavity to provide widefield, label free measurements of cellular forces with piconewton precision. In addition to force imaging of cells, the relationship between cell force and mechanical stiffness is a topic of strong interest in mechanobiology. Brillouin microscopy uses laser light to provide non-contact, in-vivo imaging of tissue and cellular stiffness with a very high spatial and measurement resolution. I demonstrate here a combined ERISM and Brillouin instrument which images both cellular force and stiffness, in addition to innovations in both ERISM and Brillouin microscopy which were necessary for the integration of these technologies. Furthermore, I have developed a new form of force imaging technique which evolved from ERISM. It provides the same non-invasive, high-resolution force images, but offers a 1000-fold improvement in speed and temporal resolution, along- side a radically simplified experimental setup. I show real-time force measurements of fibroblast focal adhesions and macrophage podosomes, and demonstrate force imaging of beating neonatal cardiomyocytes at ≈ 100 fps which resolves micro-contractions associated with spontaneous oscillatory contractions (SPOC waves).
Global variation in seed covering structure hardness of woody species with orthodox seeds [Data & code]
Creators: name: Visscher, Anne M.
name: Gomez Barreiro, Pablo
name: Soto Gomez, Marybel
name: Carta, A
name: Liu, Udayangani
name: Wu, Yu
name: Muthuthanthirige, Deshika
name: Forest, Félix
name: McCabe, Sian
name: Pritchard, Hugh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310899
subject: Plant biology not elsewhere classified

description: Data and code used in Visscher, Anne M., et al. "Global variation in seed covering structure hardness of woody species with orthodox seeds." Annals of Botany (2025): mcaf027.

https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf027/8044980
Performance indicators for sustainability assessment of buildings
Creators: name: Kamali, Mohammad
name: Hewage, Kasun
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: During the past few decades, the construction industry has been exposed to “sustainable construction” processes, which address the triple bottom line (TBL) that is the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability, during the entire life cycle of a building. Due to the importance of sustainable construction, it is imperative to comprehensively assess the sustainability of the built environment, such as buildings. A significant step to evaluate the sustainability of buildings is investigating the existing building sustainability performance indicators (SPIs). In this paper, a list of building SPIs, including environmental, economic, and social, has been developed through conducting a content‐analysis based literature review. The literature includes sustainable building rating systems such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Green Globes, Living Building Challenge (LBC), among others. In addition, other published literature related to sustainable construction is reviewed. Similar SPIs or those which have some overlaps are combined or modified. Finally, refined TBL SPI sets are created, which can be used for sustainability assessment of buildings. The results of this study indicate that among various environmental performance criteria used in different publications, 16 SPIs are the most significant ones. In addition, a total number of 9 SPIs and 12 SPIs are identified as the most commonly used criteria related to the life cycle economic and social performance of buildings, respectively.
Additional file 1 of Two-year intermittent exposure of a multiwalled carbon nanotube by intratracheal instillation induces lung tumors and pleural mesotheliomas in F344 rats
Creators: name: Hojo, Motoki
name: Maeno, Ai
name: Sakamoto, Yoshimitsu
name: Ohnuki, Aya
name: Tada, Yukie
name: Yamamoto, Yukio
name: Ikushima, Kiyomi
name: Inaba, Ryota
name: Suzuki, Jin
name: Taquahashi, Yuhji
name: Yokota, Satoshi
name: Kobayashi, Norihiro
name: Ohnishi, Makoto
name: Goto, Yuko
name: Numano, Takamasa
name: Tsuda, Hiroyuki
name: Alexander, David B.
name: Kanno, Jun
name: Hirose, Akihiko
name: Inomata, Akiko
name: Nakae, Dai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. The disposition of the animals in this study. Table S2. Deaths prior to the termination among the animals used for the carcinogenicity test. Table S3. Major organs weights. Table S4. Hematological analyses for rats in the terminal necropsy. Table S5. Histological classification of all pleural mesothelioma cases found in this study. Table S6. Incidences of other tumors. Table S7. Amounts of MWCNT in the lung and PLF. Table S8. Mean doses for each administration.
title: Arsenic
title: Arsenico
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Quin, Frederick H. F.
name: Quin, Fredericus H. F.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1820
Subjects: subject: Arsenic
subject: Poison
subject: Compounds
subject: Medical
subject: Toxicity

description: ARSENICUM pro dissertationis inauguralis argumento ideo selegi, quod laurum Apollinarem hactenus petentium pauci attentionem huic rei attribuisse videntur; liceat mihi quoque adjicere verba ex opere celeberrimi ORFILAE de venenis, quae hujus studii utilitatem clare evin cunt : "Les préparations arsenicales sont, parmi les substances vénéneuses du règne minéral, les plus meurtrières, et celles dont le médecin doit le mieux connôitre les propriétés. # ## ### ## # I chose arsenic as the subject for my inaugural dissertation because few seeking the Apollonian laurel have paid attention to this topic. Allow me to add words from the renowned Orfila on poisons, which clearly demonstrate the importance of this study: "Arsenic preparations are among the most deadly poisonous substances from the mineral kingdom and are those whose properties a physician must best understand."
The everyday life of patients with tuberculosis in the concentration camp of Mittelbau-Dora (1943–1945)
Creators: name: Kiosze, Philipp
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Dora (Concentration camp)
subject: World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners and prisons, German
subject: Tuberculosis
subject: National socialism
subject: Concentration camps
subject: Lung diseases
subject: Prisoners
subject: World War II
subject: Medical staff
subject: Medical records
subject: Tuberkulose
subject: Weltkrieg <1939-1945>
subject: Nationalsozialismus
subject: Konzentrationslager Mittelbau-Dora
subject: Gefangener

description: The everyday life of patients with tuberculosis in the main prisoner infirmary of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp is analyzed historically-critically by medical records, documents of the Schutzstaffel (SS) physicians, contemporary medical textbooks and memoirs of former inmates from partly international archives. To compare the medical treatment in the three phases of the concentration camp, the representative months of February 1944, July 1944 and January 1945 were examined. The analysis shows that SS hygienists inspected the place for fear of a collapse of the V-2 rocket production. The primitive medical infrastructure was slowly expanded after its founding in 1943. SS physicians and medics led and supervised the treatment provided by inmates. These were in an ethical dilemma between cooperation with the SS and commitment to the sick prisoners. The Tuberculosis Department was used for isolation. Sputum diagnostics and X-ray equipment were utilized as selection tools. Infectious patients laid usually for weeks in the same bed with two other patients. Significantly more resources were available, however, for non-infectious tuberculosis patients. The therapy was based on the medical expert opinion of the time and wasmainly symptomatic such as fever reduction. Rest and vitamins should make prisoners fit for the armament industry. Patients with tuberculosis had a high death rate. The prisoners who survived were discharged, but often did not recover. Several thousand prisoners were selected for transports, which led to special concentration camps for seriously ill prisoners (Lublin-Majdanek, Bergen-Belsen) and the subcamp Boelcke-Kaserne. There, they often died of catastrophic conditions or were killed.
General rather than specific: cognitive deficits in suppressing task irrelevant stimuli are associated with buying-shopping disorder
Creators: name: Lindheimer, Nico
name: Nicolai, Jennifer
name: Moshagen, Morten
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Buying-shopping disorder
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Compulsive behavior
subject: Consumers
subject: Behavior, Addictive
subject: Behavior, Addictive; Therapy
subject: Impulsive behavior
subject: Impulsive behavior; Therapy
subject: Comorbidity
subject: Kaufsucht

description: Objective To investigate associations between buying-shopping disorder (BSD) propensity and the performance in the Stroop Matching Task. This task measures stimulus interference, one specific component of behavioral impulsivity, using neutral (i.e. not buying related) stimuli. Deficits thus mirror a general rather than a specific deficit to resist task-irrelevant stimuli. Method 222 participants completed the Stroop Matching Task, the Pathological Buying Screener, and various questionnaires assessing clinical background variables as well as trait-impulsivity. Results Correlation analyses showed that BSD propensity was associated with poorer performance in the Stroop Matching Task. Multiple regression analyses controlling for related disorders and trait-impulsivity indicated that BSD was the only significant predictor. Conclusion These findings indicate that BSD propensity is associated with deficits in the stimulus interference component of behavioral impulsivity, mirroring a general cognitive deficit. Since no other disorder significantly predicted the performance in the Stroop Matching Task, this deficit seems to be unique for BSD.
Additional file 2 of Two-year intermittent exposure of a multiwalled carbon nanotube by intratracheal instillation induces lung tumors and pleural mesotheliomas in F344 rats
Creators: name: Hojo, Motoki
name: Maeno, Ai
name: Sakamoto, Yoshimitsu
name: Ohnuki, Aya
name: Tada, Yukie
name: Yamamoto, Yukio
name: Ikushima, Kiyomi
name: Inaba, Ryota
name: Suzuki, Jin
name: Taquahashi, Yuhji
name: Yokota, Satoshi
name: Kobayashi, Norihiro
name: Ohnishi, Makoto
name: Goto, Yuko
name: Numano, Takamasa
name: Tsuda, Hiroyuki
name: Alexander, David B.
name: Kanno, Jun
name: Hirose, Akihiko
name: Inomata, Akiko
name: Nakae, Dai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1 Anatomical structure of the mediastinum and histological sample preparations of the pleura. Fig. S2. MWNT-7 fibers piercing the visceral pleura. Fig. S3. Characterization of the bulk MWNT-7: a comparison with Taquann-treated MWNT-7.
Frequency response areas of neurons in the mouse inferior colliculus. III. Time-domain responses: Constancy, dynamics, and precision in relation to spectral resolution, and perception in the time domain
Creators: name: Egorova, Marina A.
name: Akimov, Alexander G.
name: Khorunzhii, Gleb D.
name: Ehret, Günter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: AUDITORY MIDBRAIN
subject: CENTRAL NUCLEUS
subject: INTRINSIC-PROPERTIES
subject: GAP DETECTION
subject: HOUSE MOUSE
subject: DURATION DISCRIMINATION
subject: COMMUNICATION CALLS
subject: DISCHARGE PATTERNS
subject: IDENTIFIED NEURONS
subject: DDC 590 / Animals (Zoology)
subject: Mice
subject: Speech perception

description: The auditory midbrain (central nucleus of inferior colliculus, ICC) receives multiple brainstem projections and recodes auditory information for perception in higher centers. Many neural response characteristics are represented in gradients (maps) in the three-dimensional ICC space. Map overlap suggests that neurons, depending on their ICC location, encode information in several domains simultaneously by different aspects of their responses. Thus, interdependence of coding, e.g. in spectral and temporal domains, seems to be a general ICC principle. Studies on covariation of response properties and possible impact on sound perception are, however, rare. Here, we evaluated tone-evoked single neuron activity from the mouse ICC and compared shapes of excitatory frequency-response areas (including strength and shape of inhibition within and around the excitatory area; classes I, II, III) with types of temporal response patterns and first-spike response latencies. Analyses showed covariation of sharpness of frequency tuning with constancy and precision of responding to tone onsets. Highest precision (first-spike latency jitter < 1 ms) and stable phasic responses throughout frequency-response areas were the quality mainly of class III neurons with broad frequency tuning, least influenced by inhibition. Class II neurons with narrow frequency tuning and dominating inhibitory influence were unsuitable for time domain coding with high precision. The ICC center seems specialized rather for high spectral resolution (class II presence), lateral parts for constantly precise responding to sound onsets (class III presence). Further, the variation of tone-response latencies in the frequency-response areas of individual neurons with phasic, tonic, phasic-tonic, or pauser responses gave rise to the definition of a core area, which represented a time window of about 20 ms from tone onset for tone-onset responding of the whole ICC. This time window corresponds to the roughly 20 ms shortest time interval that was found critical in several auditory perceptual tasks in humans and mice.
Additional file 1 of Microbiomes of the Sydney Rock Oyster are acquired through both vertical and horizontal transmission
Creators: name: Unzueta-Martínez, Andrea
name: Scanes, Elliot
name: Parker, Laura M.
name: Ross, Pauline M.
name: O’Connor, Wayne
name: Bowen, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information for Microbiomes of the Sydney Rock Oyster are acquired through both vertical and horizontal transmission.
Validation of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS)
Creators: name: Terhorst, Yannik
name: Philippi, Paula
name: Sander, Lasse
name: Schultchen, Dana
name: Paganini, Sarah
name: Bardus, Marco
name: Santo, Karla
name: Knitza, Johannes
name: Machado, Gustavo C.
name: Schoeppe, Stephanie
name: Bauereiß, Natalie
name: Portenhauser, Alexandra
name: Domhardt, Matthias
name: Walter, Benjamin
name: Krusche, Martin
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Messner, Eva-Maria
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Smartphone Apps
subject: Interventions
subject: Management
subject: Efficacy
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Medical informatics applications
subject: Mobile applications
subject: Telemedicine
subject: Mental health
subject: App
subject: Telemedizin

description: Background Mobile health apps (MHA) have the potential to improve health care. The commercial MHA market is rapidly growing, but the content and quality of available MHA are unknown. Instruments for the assessment of the quality and content of MHA are highly needed. The Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) is one of the most widely used tools to evaluate the quality of MHA. Only few validation studies investigated its metric quality. No study has evaluated the construct validity and concurrent validity. Objective This study evaluates the construct validity, concurrent validity, reliability, and objectivity, of the MARS. Methods Data was pooled from 15 international app quality reviews to evaluate the metric properties of the MARS. The MARS measures app quality across four dimensions: engagement, functionality, aesthetics and information quality. Construct validity was evaluated by assessing related competing confirmatory models by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Non-centrality (RMSEA), incremental (CFI, TLI) and residual (SRMR) fit indices were used to evaluate the goodness of fit. As a measure of concurrent validity, the correlations to another quality assessment tool (ENLIGHT) were investigated. Reliability was determined using Omega. Objectivity was assessed by intra-class correlation. Results In total, MARS ratings from 1,299 MHA covering 15 different health domains were included. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed a bifactor model with a general factor and a factor for each dimension (RMSEA = 0.074, TLI = 0.922, CFI = 0.940, SRMR = 0.059). Reliability was good to excellent (Omega 0.79 to 0.93). Objectivity was high (ICC = 0.82). MARS correlated with ENLIGHT (ps<.05). Conclusion The metric evaluation of the MARS demonstrated its suitability for the quality assessment. As such, the MARS could be used to make the quality of MHA transparent to health care stakeholders and patients. Future studies could extend the present findings by investigating the re-test reliability and predictive validity of the MARS.
New multimedia safety education program : impacts on emotions, risk perceptions, and learning
Creators: name: Bhandari, Siddharth
name: Hallowell, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Safety training is a vital component of any construction organization’s safety program. Training offers an opportunity for the transfer of explicit and tacit knowledge of safe work practices. Often, safety training focuses on core issues faced by the specific organization and links to desired worker behaviour. Unfortunately, the typical delivery modes involve PowerPoint presentations, written safety protocols, and classroom-style settings. Such teaching modes do not facilitate active, inductive, context-based learning that is essential for effective andragogy (i.e., adult learning) and, therefore, often fail to achieve their desired objectives. This study tests the hypotheses that a new method of risk-free safety training, Live Safety Demos, increases engagement through emotional response to training activities. The technique involves demonstrating the cause and effect of actual injuries to human hands, which are the most commonly injured body part in construction. The delivery of the demos include the following key components: (1) biologically-realistic replicas of human hands that include flesh, bones, and blood networks; (2) in-person demonstrations of common injuries to worker’s hands (e.g., pinch-points between sections of pipe); (3) videos showing injuries to the replicas recorded at over 2100 frames per second to show detail; and (4) worker-led activities to design work practices that would prevent each injury type. The research was achieved with a team that included one faculty member, three students, a senior manager from the owner organization, four safety managers, and an English-to-Spanish translator. To test the aforementioned hypothesis, the research team used field-validated methods from experimental psychology to measure emotional response to the training program. Using a longitudinal A+B experiment, the demos were tested over the course of a one-week period with approximately 1,200 workers who belonged to approximately 100 crews. The results indicate a very strong emotional response to the Live Safety Demos with statistically significant changes in almost every emotion category. There was a significant increase in negative emotions, which is known to increase risk perception and decrease risk tolerance. Increase in induced activating emotions lead to a more engaged learning commitment during safety training, which increases the ability of workers to recognize more hazards. Thus, this research shows that live safety demos, although resource-intensive, has the potential to transform safety training in the construction industry. Future research is suggested to broaden the sample population and to test additional elements such as retention levels, duration of these induced emotions, communication networks, and ability to respond ad hoc to new safety environments.
title: Gaussian active learning on multi-resolution arbitrary polynomial chaos emulator : concept for bias correction, assessment of surrogate reliability and its application to the carbon dioxide benchmark
Creators: name: Kohlhaas, Rebecca
name: Kröker, Ilja
name: Oladyshkin, Sergey
name: Nowak, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Stuttgart
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Surrogate models are widely used to improve the computational efficiency in various geophysical simulation problems by reducing the number of model runs. Conventional one-layer surrogate representations are based on global (e.g. polynomial chaos expansion, PCE) or on local kernels (e.g., Gaussian process emulator, GPE). Global representations omit some details, while local kernels require more model runs. The existing multi-resolution PCE is a promising hybrid: it is a global representation with local refinement. However, it can not (yet) estimate the uncertainty of the resulting surrogate, which techniques like the GPE can do. We propose to join multi-resolution PCE and GPE s into a joint surrogate framework to get the best out of both worlds. By doing so, we correct the surrogate bias and assess the remaining uncertainty of the surrogate itself. The resulting multi-resolution emulator offers a pathway for several active learning strategies to improve the surrogate at acceptable computational costs, compared to the existing PCE-kriging approach it adds the multi-resolution aspect. We analyze the performance of a multi-resolution emulator and a plain GPE using didactic test cases and a CO2 benchmark, that is representative of many alike problems in the geosciences. Both approaches show similar improvements during the active learning, but our multi-resolution emulator leads to much more stable results than the GPE. Overall, our suggested emulator can be seen as a generalization of multi-resolution PCE and GPE concepts that offers the possibility for active learning.
Supplementary document for Enhancement of third harmonic generation induced by surface lattice resonances in plasmonic metasurfaces - 6107990.pdf
Creators: name: Gour, Jeetendra
name: Beer, Sebastian
name: Alberucci, Alessandro
name: Zeitner, Uwe
name: Nolte, Stefan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the supplemental, we show SEM images of our samples, linear transmission spectra, post-processing, conversion efficiency, and TH signal vs input power slope confirming the third order nonlinearity from the metasurfaces.
Range of surgical strategies for individual adolescent idiopathic scoliosis cases: evaluation of a multi-centre survey
Creators: name: Schlager, Benedikt
name: Großkinsky, Maresa
name: Ruf, Michael
name: Wiedenhöfer, Bernd
name: Akbar, Michael
name: Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Surgery
subject: Biomechanics
subject: Survey
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Purpose Surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is very complex, involves many critical decisions and modern instrumentation techniques, and offers multiple possibilities. It is known that the surgical strategy may vary strongly between surgeons for AIS cases. The goal of this study was to document, summarize, and analyse the current biomechanical relevant variabilities in the surgical treatments of individual AIS patient cases. Methods Eight experienced scoliosis surgeons from different hospitals were asked to plan surgeries on 12 representative patients with AIS. The surgeons were provided with radiographs during upright standing in the coronal and sagittal plane, as well as lateral bending images to the left and right. The surgeons were asked to specify the Lenke type, their surgical approach, the resection steps, the planned fusion length, and the type of implants. The data were analysed with respect to the inter-rater variability, which was quantified using the Fleiss Kappa method. Results In the selection of the surgical approach, the surgeons concurred most with Lenke curve types 2 ( κ =  0.88) and 4 ( κ =  0.75). The largest differences were shown at Lenke 1 ( κ =  0.39) and 5 ( κ =  0.32). Anterior approaches were selected in the majority of cases at Lenke types 5, with an average of 50%. The strongest deviation in fusion length was documented at Lenke curve type 6. Conclusion The survey highlighted differences in the surgical strategy depending on the Lenke curve type, the direction of the surgical approach, and the surgeon. The main discrepancies between the surgeons were found for Lenke 1, 5, and 6 curves, and consistencies for Lenke 2, 3, and 4. The documented discrepancies indicate the remaining open questions in the surgical treatment and understanding of scoliosis biomechanics.
Development and utilization of the project definition rating index for index for small industrial projects
Creators: name: Collins, Wesley
name: Parrish, Kristen
name: Gibson, G. Edward
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Front end planning is arguably the most impactful activity in the management of construction projects. Organizations expend substantial effort in planning large projects, intending to minimize risk and promote project success. Small projects –typically classified as such based on their lower costs – often have minimal planning completed prior to the start of design and construction. To date, little research has been performed regarding the planning and management of small construction projects, especially those in the industrial sector. In 2013, the Construction Industry Institute (CII) set out to develop a Project Definition Rating Index (a front end planning tool) specifically for small industrial projects. CII Research Team 314 identified forty-one specific elements as most pertinent in assessing a small industrial project. Sixty-five industry practitioners reviewed and prioritized these elements through a series of focus group “weighting workshops.” The tool has been used to assess 12 separate small industrial projects to date, with positive results. This paper summarizes how the PDRI-Small Industrial Projects was developed, how the tool differs from the previously-developed PDRI-Industrial Projects tool, and how it has been utilized to date to assess small industrial projects. Future research opportunities are proposed, including use of the PDRI-Small Industrial Projects research methodology to develop similar tools for the infrastructure and building construction sectors.
Adenosine-producing regulatory B cells in head and neck cancer
Creators: name: Jeske, Sandra S.
name: Brand, Matthias
name: Ziebart, Andreas
name: Laban, Simon
name: Doescher, Johannes
name: Greve, Jens
name: Jackson, Edwin K.
name: Hoffmann, Thomas K.
name: Brunner, Cornelia
name: Schuler, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Regulatory B cells
subject: Adenosine
subject: BTK
subject: Head and neck cancer
subject: ADORA2A
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Abstract Background Multiple mechanisms of immunosuppression have been identified in the tumor microenvironment including regulatory B cells (Breg). Recently, we have shown that Breg suppress T cell function by production of adenosine (ADO). However, the autocrine effect of ADO on B cells and the role of Breg in head and neck cancer remains unclear. Methods Blood (n = 42) and tumor tissue (n = 39) of head and neck cancer patients and healthy donors (n = 60) were analyzed by FACS. The effect of ADO on phenotype, intracellular signaling pathways, Ca2+ influx and ADO production was analyzed in Breg and effector B cells (Beff) by FACS, luminescence and mass spectrometry. The blockage of the ADO receptor A2A was analyzed in a murine head and neck cancer model. Results ADO-producing Breg were found in tumor tissue and peripheral blood. ADO inhibited the intracellular Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) and Ca2+ influx only in Beff. The inhibition of BTK by ibrutinib mimicked the effect of ADO, and ibrutinib reduced the production of ADO by downregulation of CD39 in vitro. The inhibition of ADO receptor A2A significantly reduced tumor mass and increased B cell infiltration, in vivo. Conclusion Our data demonstrate the presence of a novel ADO-producing Breg population within the tumor microenvironment in mice and humans. A new model is proposed on how ADO-producing Breg can influence the function of Beff cells in healthy donors and cancer patients. Thus, the modulation of the ADO pathway in B cells may serve as a therapeutic approach for cancer patients.
Brazilian and the Canadian oil & gas industries : similarities, differences, challenges and perspectives for a sustainable industry
Creators: name: Aragao, Rodrigo R.
name: El-Diraby, Tamer
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Brazilian and the Canadian Oil and Gas industries are facing similar challenges now: both countries are developing huge oil fields; as a result, companies, governments and policy makers have started to invest escalating resources in projects and regulations. These efforts have provided both countries with a significant increase in their oil production. Brazil discovered the Pre-Salt field, located off its Southeastern coast, what resulted in complex technical researches whose outcome will guarantee a safer and more environmentally friendly production. The oil sands in the western Canada, along with the shale formations, despite the abundance, have been utterly criticized by environmentalists who report the possible impacts of the methods used to extract the oil. This paper aims to analyze the similarities, differences and challenges that both countries have to confront. In addition, as many companies in other sectors, the oil and gas industry has taken the initiative to demonstrate that their activities are in accordance with the best practices of sustainability by seeking the optimal efficiency in water consumption, energy and waste management; as well as minimizing carbon emissions to reduce the greenhouse effect. Nevertheless, the oil and gas industry still has to face the common sense that their activities cannot be innovated to reduce environmental impacts and therefore be aligned with the best sustainable practices. Analogous to the movement that has led the AEC industry to create the “green buildings”, two proposals on how to address the sustainability of these projects is presented.
Additional file 1 of A qualitative study of the acceptability of remote electronic bednet use monitoring in Uganda
Creators: name: Alexander, Sarah M.
name: Agaba, Alfred
name: Campbell, Jeffrey I.
name: Nambogo, Nuriat
name: Camlin, Carol S.
name: Johnson, Mallory
name: Dorsey, Grant
name: Olson, Kristian R.
name: Bangsberg, David R.
name: Carroll, Ryan W.
name: Santorino, Data
name: Krezanoski, Paul J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A.
Energy Star windows' performance and orientation
Creators: name: Jalili, Maral
name: Clevenger, Caroline M.
name: Ozbek, Mehmet E.
name: Abdallah, Moatassem A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In 2012 and 2013, ten building product categories were eligible for United States ENERGY STAR Federal Tax Credits. High performance windows that meet certain energy efficiency criteria are one of the qualifying products. The ENERGY STAR Tax Credit program sets U-factor and Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) standards for these windows according to four climate zones. Research demonstrates that buildings with well-designed and constructed fenestration systems can lower requirements for heating, cooling and lighting during operation. However, previous research and energy modeling also demonstrates that, in addition to energy efficiency characteristics, orientation impacts the energy performance of windows. The ENERGY STAR tax program makes no distinction regarding window orientation or placement when evaluating tax credit eligibility. This research studies the potential impact of orientation on performance for qualifying ENERGY STAR window products. Using TRNSYS energy modeling comparisons, findings suggest that the performance of qualifying windows may vary up to 14 percent for different orientations depending on climate zone.
Additional file 1 of B7-H3 is eligible for predicting clinical outcomes in lung adenocarcinoma patients treated with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: Yang, Ying
name: Huang, Jun-feng
name: Hu, Bing-qi
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Wang, Xian
name: Feng, Zhen-zhong
name: Chen, Yu-ting
name: Pan, Fa-ming
name: Cheng, Huai-dong
name: Chen, Li-wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Additional file Table S1. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression models for PFS and OS.