cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Behavioural assessment of pain in commercial turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) with foot pad dermatitis
Creators: name: A. Sinclair
name: C. Weber Wyneken
name: T. Veldkamp
name: L.J. Vinco
name: P.M. Hocking
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Medicine

description: 1. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the differences in susceptibility to foot pad dermatitis (FPD) of two medium heavy lines of turkeys, and whether foot pad dermatitis is painful, by detailed analysis of behaviour in birds with and without analgesic treatment (betamethasone).2. Turkeys housed on dry litter in the first experiment generally had more frequent bouts of different behaviours that were of shorter duration than birds on wet litter. T-patterns (behavioural sequences) were more frequent, varied and complex on dry than on wet litter. Betamethasone-injected birds of line B, but not breed A, had shorter resting and longer standing durations on wet litter than saline-injected birds.3. In the second experiment, turkeys on wet litter given saline stood less and rested more than all other treatment groups, suggesting that they experienced pain that was alleviated in birds receiving betamethasone. Turkeys on dry litter had more frequent, varied and complex patterns of behaviour than turkeys on wet litter and birds kept on intermediate litter wetness. Betamethasone provision increased pattern variety regardless of litter treatment.4. Turkeys with low FPD scores transferred to wet litter and given saline injections had a longer total duration of resting and shorter duration of standing compared to betamethasone treated birds. Low FPD birds transferred to wet litter had a similar number of patterns and total pattern occurrence as high FPD birds transferred to dry litter. Betamethasone increased pattern variety and frequency compared to saline injections whereas overall pattern complexity was similar.5. It was concluded that wet litter affects the behaviour of turkey poults independently of FPD and that betamethasone may also change the behaviour of turkeys. There was some evidence from analgesic treatment and T-pattern analyses that FPD was painful. However there was no evidence of differences in susceptibility to FPD of the two commercial hybrids.
title: Youth Activities Newsletter: Winter 1975-1976
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1975
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91762
subject: Teenage drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91560
subject: Adolescents
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90631
subject: Safety programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90633
subject: Safety campaigns
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90637
subject: Traffic safety education
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91709
subject: Advisory groups

description: The 1975-76 Youth Highway Safety Advisory Committee held its first meeting in Washington, D.C. on September 26-27, 1975.
Microbial production of lactic acid: the latest development
Creators: name: Veeresh Juturu
name: Wu, Jin Chuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Lactic acid is an important platform chemical for producing polylactic acid (PLA) and other value-added products. It is naturally produced by a wide spectrum of microbes including bacteria, yeast and filamentous fungi. In general, bacteria ferment C5 and C6 sugars to lactic acid by either homo- or hetero-fermentative mode. Xylose isomerase, phosphoketolase, transaldolase, l- and d-lactate dehydrogenases are the key enzymes that affect the ways of lactic acid production. Metabolic engineering of microbial strains are usually needed to produce lactic acid from unconventional carbon sources. Production of d-LA has attracted much attention due to the demand for producing thermostable PLA, but large scale production of d-LA has not yet been commercialized. Thermophilic Bacillus coagulans strains are able to produce l-lactic acid from lignocellulose sugars homo-fermentatively under non-sterilized conditions, but the lack of genetic tools for metabolically engineering them severely affects their development for industrial applications. Pre-treatment of agriculture biomass to obtain fermentable sugars is a pre-requisite for utilization of the huge amounts of agricultural biomass to produce lactic acid. The major challenge is to obtain quality sugars of high concentrations in a cost effective-way. To avoid or minimize the use of neutralizing agents during fermentation, genetically engineering the strains to make them resist acidic environment and produce lactic acid at low pH would be very helpful for reducing the production cost of lactic acid.
Highly oxygenated triterpenoids from the roots of Schisandra chinensis and their anti-inflammatory activities
Creators: name: Song, Qiu-Yan
name: Gao, Kun
name: Nan, Zhi-Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A new highly oxygenated triterpenoid, schinchinenlactone D (1), and three known compounds (2–4) were isolated from the roots of Schisandra chinensis. Their structures were determined by combining the spectroscopic analysis with the theoretical computations. The anti-inflammatory activities of compounds 1–4 were evaluated, and compound 3 exhibits the most significant activity in the inhibition of NO production with an IC50 value of 10.6 μM.
Bull Qualification for Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program Through the University of Tennessee Bull Testing Sale
Creators: name: Boyer, Christopher N.
name: Griffith, Andrew P.
name: Rhinehart, Justin
name: Kirkpatrick, David
name: Boyer, Christopher N.
name: Griffith, Andrew P.
name: Rhinehart, Justin
name: Kirkpatrick, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: bull
subject: qualification
subject: Tennessee
subject: agricultural
subject: enhancement
subject: program
subject: University
subject: of
subject: testing
subject: sale
subject: performance
subject: tested
subject: phenotypic
subject: genetic
subject: traits

description: The purpose of this report is to present summary statistics of cost reimbursement eligibility through TAEP for bulls sold in the University of Tennessee bull test sale from 2011-2016. Specifically, we show the percentage of bulls that qualified for cost reimbursement by bull type, which include balanced bull, terminal bull and calving ease bull. More information about these bull types is available on the TAEP website. We also show the average price of the bulls sold that qualified for reimbursement for each bull type. All bull sale prices were adjusted for inflation into 2016 dollars. Less than 4 percent of the bulls sold during this time period were breeds other than Angus. Therefore, we only present results for Angus bulls. The total number of Angus bulls sold over this time period was 561.
Are returns to research quality lower in agricultural economics than in economics?
Creators: name: Gibson, John
name: Burton-McKenzie, Ethan
name: Gibson, John
name: Burton-McKenzie, Ethan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: academic salary
subject: citations
subject: journal rankings
subject: research quality

description: We compare eﬀects of research quality and quantity on the salary of academics in agricultural economics and economics departments of the same universities. Agricul-tural economists get a signiﬁcantly lower payoﬀ to research quality, whether measured by quality-weighted journal articles (based on nine diﬀerent weighting schemes) or by citations. Instead, salary depends on the quantity of journal articles, while article counts have no independent eﬀect on economist salaries. These diﬀerences in the reward structure for research are not due to either the extension focus of agricultural economists or to disciplinary diﬀerences in publishing with students and instead may reﬂect institutional factors that govern incentives within universities. One-third of academics in the agricultural economics departments studied here have doctoral training in economics; the very diﬀerent disciplinary reward structures may cause frustration for these faculty due to the muted returns to research quality that agricultural economics departments seem to oﬀer.
“Hygromorphism: green carbon-negative energy for water-sensitive urban design”
Creators: name: Buck, David
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design
classificationCode: 401610
subject: Timber, pulp and paper
classificationCode: 401102
subject: Environmentally sustainable engineering

description: Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is a vital component in an anthropocentric view to managing an entire water cycle as close as practicable to the once natural flow conditions within and through an urban catchment. A review of WSUD literature with a focus upon innovative opportunities for the concept presented a niche for WSUD advancement with energy inputs. WSUD systems tend not to require energy inputs to drive them, yet if a carbon-neutral green energy source existed, then novel WSUD system enhancements would ensue. Exceeding goals of carbon-neutrality, hygromorphism is carbon-negative green energy, with experiments presented by this research demonstrating its potential to aptly fill that void. 
Experimentation has shown hygromorphism to be measurable, predictable, and therefore suitable, for gauging its energy reliability. An important outcome of this research is that a novel investigative technique was designed that enabled the energy output of hygromorphism to be calculated from collected data of the elevation of weight achieved solely by timber cupping. The major result was calculable, harnessable, and useable green energy provided by timber hygromorphism which does not emit carbon whilst also being a carbon store in itself, thus a negative carbon emitter. The optimum geometries of timber to produce maximum hygromorphic torque and the dominant weather factors that enact and deactivate hygromorphism are detailed. 
The influence of timber geometry and various weather factors on hygromorphism is investigated and reported. Weather experimentation determined that the natural hygromorphic activation and deactivation phases could be made known. Relationships between prominent weather factors and hygromorphic phases, then modelling of those interactions with real-time data ensued. 
Finally, the graphing and statistical analysis of all of the weather and hygromorphic data enabled visualisation and identification of patterns and relationships to be made. Resultant to the data analysis, it became feasible to create an innovative parsimonious model for making hygromorphic predictions from various timber geometries situated in natural local weather conditions. The model is adjustable to suit any particular localised investigation by inputting relevant timber geometries and local weather. Recommendations on where this unique energy can be applied, particularly in WSUD and elsewhere, complete the research suite. 
This in-depth suite of research and experimentation not only successfully linked hygromorphism with its potential for powering innovative WSUD systems but also highlighted it as a virtually unexplored innovative green energy source. In an era thirsting for zero-emission technologies to thwart climate change, hygromorphism is auspicious for further investigation.
The impact of drought and water scarcity on irrigator farm exit intentions in the Murray– Darling Basin
Creators: name: Wheeler, Sarah Ann
name: Zuo, Alec
name: Wheeler, Sarah Ann
name: Zuo, Alec
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: ABARES farm survey
subject: farmers
subject: water allocations

description: Drought and future water scarcity in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) will continue to restructure the irrigation industry in the coming decades. There has been little work conducted in Australia that has modelled farm exit or exit intention. ABARES farm survey data were used to model irrigators’ farm exit intentions across the southern MDB from 2006 to 2013. In particular, we examined the hypotheses that drought and water scarcity positively impacted on farm exit intentions and that it is the poorest performing farms that intend to exit in times of drought. Results revealed that water scarcity impacts varied considerably. There was only weak evidence to suggest that irrigators’ exit intentions were higher in times of drought, but there was stronger evidence to support the inﬂuence of a lagged water scarcity impact on farm exit intentions during periods of nondrought (e.g. intending to exit at times when the property market was less depressed). There was also strong evidence that poorer performing farms (measured by rates of return and higher debt over a certain level) were more likely to have exit intentions in drought periods, but not necessarily so in nondrought periods. Older age is the most consistent predictor of farm exit intentions across all industries, though it was most signiﬁcant in drought periods.
Highly oxygenated triterpenoids from the roots of Schisandra chinensis and their anti-inflammatory activities
Creators: name: Song, Qiu-Yan
name: Gao, Kun
name: Nan, Zhi-Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A new highly oxygenated triterpenoid, schinchinenlactone D (1), and three known compounds (2–4) were isolated from the roots of Schisandra chinensis. Their structures were determined by combining the spectroscopic analysis with the theoretical computations. The anti-inflammatory activities of compounds 1–4 were evaluated, and compound 3 exhibits the most significant activity in the inhibition of NO production with an IC50 value of 10.6 μM.
Price premiums for ecolabelled seafood: MSC certiﬁcation in Germany
Creators: name: Asche, Frank
name: Bronnmann, Julia
name: Asche, Frank
name: Bronnmann, Julia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: consumer preferences
subject: ecolabelling
subject: hedonic pricing
subject: marine stewardship council
subject: price premium
subject: scanner data

description: Whether ecolabelled seafood actually provides incentives to improve the management of ﬁsheries remains a controversial issue. A number of stated preference studies indicate a substantial willingness to pay for ecolabelled seafood. Early evidence from actual market data supports the existence of a premium, while more recent papers provide a more nuanced picture. In this paper, a hedonic price model for whiteﬁsh species on the German market is estimated that includes information on Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) labelling, the leading seafood ecolabel in Germany. The model also allows the potential premium to vary by species. Results indicate that MSC premiums in Germany vary substantially between species, from a hefty 30.6 per cent for the high-end species cod, to a 4 per cent premium for Alaska pollock, and no premiums for saithe.
The inﬂuence of farm input subsidies on the adoption of natural resource management technologies
Creators: name: Koppmair, Stefan
name: Kassie, Menale
name: Qaim, Matin
name: Koppmair, Stefan
name: Kassie, Menale
name: Qaim, Matin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Africa
subject: fertilizer subsidy
subject: Malawi
subject: small farms
subject: sustainable agriculture
subject: technology adoption

description: Farm input subsidies are often criticised on economic and ecological grounds. The promotion of natural resource management (NRM) technologies is widely seen as more sustainable to increase agricultural productivity and food security. Relatively little is known about how input subsidies aﬀect farmers’ decisions to adopt NRM technologies. There are concerns of incompatibility, because NRM technologies are one strategy to reduce the use of external inputs in intensive production systems. However, in smallholder systems of Africa, where the average use of external inputs is low, there may possibly be interesting complementarities. Here, we analyse the situation of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP). Using panel data from smallholder farm households, we develop a multivariate probit model and examine how FISP participation aﬀects farmers’ decisions to adopt various NRM technologies, such as intercropping of maize with legumes, use of organic manure, water conservation practices and vegetative strips. As expected, FISP increases the use of inorganic fertilizer and improved maize seeds. Yet, we also observe a positive association between FISP and the adoption of certain NRM technologies. For other NRM technologies, we ﬁnd no signiﬁcant eﬀect. We conclude that input subsidies and the promotion of NRM technologies can be compatible strategies.
title: Acacia stowardii
title: Version 1
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dr M.D.Tindale And Dr P.G.Kodela With The Assistance Of M.Bedward, S.J.Davies, C.Herscovitch, D.A.Keith And/Or D.A.Morrison
Publisher: name: Flora of Australia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Acacia stowardii

description: Taxonomic treatment for Acacia stowardii
Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio 2017
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Capoeta
Capoeta ferdowsii

description: 122. Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017
Common name. Zohreh scraper-Ferdowsi scraper
Taxonomy. Original description: Capoeta ferdowsii Jouladeh-Roudbar, Eagderi, Murillo-Ramos, Ghanavi & Doadrio, 2017: 138, figs. 3-6, 8 [Tang-e Shiv River at Bekr sofla village, Zohreh River drainage, Tigris River basin, Fars Province, Iran, 30°25'26"N, 51°21'55"E; holotype: IMNRF-UT 1111-61].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2017: 138, fig. 3).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Zohreh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Endemic].—Siyah mahi-e Ferdowsi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: IMNRF, ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
KCTD5 is endowed with large, functionally relevant, interdomain motions
Creators: name: Barone, Daniela
name: Balasco, Nicole
name: Vitagliano, Luigi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The KCTD family is an emerging class of proteins that are involved in important biological processes whose biochemical and structural properties are rather poorly characterized or even completely undefined. We here used KCTD5, the only member of the family with a known three-dimensional structure, to gain insights into the intrinsic structural stability of the C-terminal domain (CTD) and into the mutual dynamic interplay between the two domains of the protein. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations indicate that in the simulation timescale (120 ns), the pentameric assembly of the CTD is endowed with a significant intrinsic stability. Moreover, MD analyses also led to the identification of exposed β-strand residues. Being these regions intrinsically sticky, they could be involved in the substrate recognition. More importantly, simulations conducted on the full-length protein provide interesting information of the relative motions between the BTB domain and the CTD of the protein. Indeed, the dissection of the overall motion of the protein is indicative of a large interdomain twisting associated with limited bending movements. Notably, MD data indicate that the entire interdomain motion is pivoted by a single residue (Ser150) of the hinge region that connects the domains. The functional relevance of these motions was evaluated in the context of the functional macromolecular machinery in which KCTD5 is involved. This analysis indicates that the interdomain twisting motion here characterized may be important for the correct positioning of the substrate to be ubiquitinated with respect to the other factors of the ubiquitination machinery.
NODES_INNDIANA_Z86_Harnessing cyclodextrin nanosponges for the oral delivery of apomorphine: in vitro and in vivo studies
Creators: name: ARGENZIANO, Monica
name: Hoti, Gjylije
name: Er-Rahmai, Sara
name: Trotta, Francesco
name: Cavalli, Roberta
name: Priano, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
INNDIANA Project
Eco healthcare
ECS00000036
Neurodegenerative disease
Apomorphine
Dextrins
Nanocarriers
Oral Nanoformulation
In vitro
In vivo

description: This research describes the development of an innovative Apomorphine nanoformulation exploiting cyclodextrin-based nanosponges, in order to achieve adequate and sustained drug plasma levels after oral administration.
title: Exploring Young Migrant Children's 'Funds of Knowledge' Through Documentary Photography
Creators: name: Horsley, Karen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022

description: In the context of unprecedented global migration (Migration Data Portal, 2020), there are increasing numbers of children from migrant backgrounds entering early childhood education and care (ECEC) contexts. However, the rich funds of knowledge of young children whose families have migrated to the UK are largely invisible. This qualitative visual participatory case study foregrounds, and renders visible, the funds of knowledge of three young migrant children through documentary photography, challenging dominant deficit perspectives (Bove and Sharmahd, 2020; UNESCO, 2018). Case studies with three, three- to four-year-old children were generated at home and in an English nursery over four months. Naturalistic data generation methods included: child-led photography and allied video recorded photo conversations; photo storybooks, semi-structured interviews, field notes and reflexive journaling that were analysed thematically. The findings illuminate the children’s intuitive and wise photography about their everyday funds of knowledge as a ‘touchstone’. Their democratic photography reflected colour, texture, layers, patterns, rhythms and poetry as portals. The children frequently revisited these portals over time with affection, quiet and humour, re-storying and analysing in their own aesthetic authorial, and co-authored voices in the nursery as a ‘cultural setting’ (Moll, 2005, p.283). This study’s original contribution to knowledge is in its development of a theoretical framework of layered listening in a novel application of visual concepts: intuitive and wise photography (Norris Webb, 2014); ambiguity (Franklin, 2020); photographing democratically (Eggleston, 2019) and ‘elastic spaces’ (Ghirri, 2017). The children’s documentary photography invites alternative ways of seeing young migrant children’s funds of knowledge. A blurring of methodology and pedagogy through documentary photography offers an expanded notion of ongoing, unfinished human conversational spaces of shared funds of knowledge over time. The children’s photographs are portals and touchstones to limitless future trajectories and possibilities for their visible funds of knowledge as pedagogical resources (González et al., 2005).
Graphene oxide coated wad as a new sorbent in fixed bed column for the removal of crystal violet from contaminated water
Creators: name: Shokooh Sadat Khaloo
name: Marzaleh, Milad Ahmadi
name: Kavousian, Maryam
name: Gendeshmin, Saeed Bahramzadeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: An efficient method was developed to fabricate graphene oxide coated cotton wad (GO/W) using self-assembly technique. GO/W could be used as an adsorbent material in remediation of environmental pollutants in a continuous packed bed column. The efficiency of GO/W fixed bed column in the removal of crystal violet (CV) from an aquatic environment was studied. The experimental breakthrough data were modeled using Thomas, Adams-Bohart, and Yoon-Nelson models, and the column parameters for all these models were calculated. Increasing the effluent discharge rate and initial adsorbate concentration make the breakthrough and saturation points to be obtained faster and hence lower the adsorption capacity of column.
NEW APPROACHES IN ASSESSING LEARNER'S SPEAKING SKILLS (B1 LEVEL LEARNERS)
Creators: name: Pulatkhodjaeva, Lola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Assessing speaking skills in language learners has long been a difficult issue for educators. With the advent of communicative language instruction and the emphasis on real-world language usage, new evaluation systems have evolved, notably for learners at the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). This article investigates novel ways for measuring speaking skills, including both formative and summative assessments, as well as the role of technology in improving evaluation processes.
Economic Impacts to Tennessee Soybean Producers and Regional Economies from China's 25 Percent Tariff on Soybeans
Creators: name: Smith, S. Aaron
name: Menard, Jamey
name: English, Burton C.
name: Smith, S. Aaron
name: Menard, Jamey
name: English, Burton C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: economic
subject: impacts
subject: Tennessee
subject: soybean
subject: producers
subject: regional
subject: economies
subject: China
subject: 25
subject: percent
subject: tariff
subject: soybeans
subject: trade
subject: disruptions
subject: international

description: Agricultural producers face numerous production and price uncertainties. International trade disruptions can exacerbate issues for producers. In 2018, as a result of escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, both countries imposed tariffs on various imports. China’s tariffs have largely focused on U.S. agricultural commodities and products, specifically soybeans, creating an uncertain marketing environment that affects soybean producers’ income expectations for 2018. Due to tariffs on soybeans, the Trump administration announced payments to producers through the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) (Best, Smith and Muhammad, 2018). Soybean MFP payments are designed to partially offset decreases in soybean producer income as a result of the Chinese tariffs. This article estimates the economic impact of decreased soybean prices, due to tariffs, and soybean MFP payments on 2018 soybean producer income and regional economies in Tennessee.
Knowledge graph analytics platform combining LINCS and IDG for Parkinson's disease drug target illumination
Creators: name: Yang, Jeremy
name: Gessner, Christopher
name: Duerksen, Joel
name: Bieber, Daniel
name: Binder, Jessica
name: Ozturk, Murat
name: Foote, Brian
name: McEntire, Robin
name: Stirling, Kyle
name: Ding, Ying
name: Wild, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: LINCS, “Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures”, and IDG, “Illuminating the Druggable Genome”, are both NIH projects and consortia that have generated rich datasets for the study of the molecular basis of human health and disease. LINCS L1000 expression signatures provide unbiased systems/omics experimental evidence. IDG provides compiled and curated knowledge for illumination and prioritization of novel drug target hypotheses. Together, these resources can support a powerful new approach to identifying novel drug targets for complex diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), which continues to inflict severe harm on human health, and resist traditional research approaches.
Capoeta fusca Nikolskii 1897
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Capoeta
Capoeta fusca

description: 123. Capoeta fusca Nikolskii, 1897
Common name. Brown capoeta
Taxonomy. Original description: Capoeta fusca Nikolskii, 1897: 340 [Mondechi and Kuss, probably Mandehi or Miandehi, 34°53'N, 58°38'E, Iran; syntypes: ZIN 11108-12 (2,?, 5, 1, 1)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Zareian et al. (2018: 386, fig. 14-15).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Hari River, Dasht-e Kavir, Bejestan, Sistan, Dasht-e Lut.— Distribution in Ecoregions: 448-Kavir & Lut Deserts, 631-Upper Amu Darya, 702-Helmand–Sistan.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Siyah mahi-e qanati.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZIN, ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
KCTD5 is endowed with large, functionally relevant, interdomain motions
Creators: name: Barone, Daniela
name: Balasco, Nicole
name: Vitagliano, Luigi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: The KCTD family is an emerging class of proteins that are involved in important biological processes whose biochemical and structural properties are rather poorly characterized or even completely undefined. We here used KCTD5, the only member of the family with a known three-dimensional structure, to gain insights into the intrinsic structural stability of the C-terminal domain and into the mutual dynamic interplay between the two domains of the protein. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations indicate that, in the simulation timescale (120 ns), the pentameric assembly of the C-terminal domain (CTD) is endowed with a significant intrinsic stability. Moreover, MD analyses also led to the identification of exposed β-strand residues. Being these regions intrinsically sticky, they could be involved in the substrate recognition. More importantly, simulations conducted on the full-length protein provide interesting information of the relative motions between the BTB domain and the CTD of the protein. Indeed, the dissection of the overall motion of the protein is indicative of a large interdomain twisting associated with limited bending movements. Notably, MD data indicate that the entire interdomain motion is pivoted by a single residue (Ser150) of the hinge region that connects the domains. The functional relevance of these motions was evaluated in the context of the functional macromolecular machinery in which KCTD5 is involved. This analysis indicates that the interdomain twisting motion here characterized may be important for the correct positioning of the substrate to be ubiquitinated with respect to the other factors of the ubiquitination machinery.
Movilización de recursos para el trabajo colaborativo
Creators: name: BIREME/OPS/OMS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Reunión de Coordinación LILACS

description: Politica de voluntariado Movilización de recursos para Webinarios Publicación de Revistas Científicas Grabación en Youtube https://youtu.be/ZNhhszb1P00
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Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect using Sliding Dumbbell Method in Isobar Collisions ($^{96}_{44}Ru$+$^{96}_{44}Ru$ and $^{96}_{40}Zr$+$^{96}_{40}Zr$) at RHIC
Creators: name: Singh, Jagbir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments conducted in the last decade to search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions have been inconclusive. The Isobar program at RHIC was undertaken to address this problem. Also, a new approach known as the Sliding Dumbbell Method (SDM) has been developed to study the CME. This method searches for the back-to-back charge separation on an event-by-event basis.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures
Complex formation equilibria between aluminum(III), gadolinium(III) and yttrium(III) ions and some fluoroquinolone ligands. Potentiometric and spectroscopic study
Creators: name: Jakovljevic, Ivan
name: Djordje Petrovic
name: Joksovic, Ljubinka
name: Lazarevic, Ivan
name: Jelikic-Stankov, Milena
name: Djurdjevic, Predrag
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: Complex formation equilibria of aluminum(III), gadolinium(III), and yttrium(III) ions with the fluoroquinolone antibacterials moxifloxacin, ofloxacin, fleroxacin, lomefloxacin, levofloxacin, and ciprofloxacin were studied in aqueous solution by potentiometric and spectroscopic methods. The identity and stability of metal–fluoroquinolone complexes were determined by analyzing potentiometric titration curves (310 K, μ = 0.15 M NaCl, pH range = 2–11, CL/CM = 1 : 1 to 3 : 1, CM = 1.0 mM) with the aid of Hyperquad2006 program. The main species formed in the system may be formulated as MpHqLr (p = 1, q = −2 to 2, r = 1–3, L = fluoroquinolone anion, logarithm of overall stability constant, log βp,q,r = in the range ca. −10 to 45). The stability of complexes is mostly influenced by metal ion properties (ionization potential, ionic radius) indicating partial ionic character of the coordination bond. The complexes were also characterized by spectroscopic measurements: spectrofluorimetry, 1H-NMR, and ESI-MS. Fluorimetric data were evaluated with the aid of HypSpec2014 and indicated the formation of MLr (r = 1–3) complexes with cumulative conditional stability constants significantly lower than the thermodynamic ones. NMR and MS data corroborate potentiometrically determined speciation. Calculated plasma mobilizing capacity of the ligands generally follows the order levofloxacin > moxifloxacin > ciprofloxacin at concentration levels of the ligands higher or equal to ca. 10−4 M.
Graphene oxide coated wad as a new sorbent in fixed bed column for the removal of crystal violet from contaminated water
Creators: name: Sh. Khaloo
name: M. Ahmadi
name: M. Kavousian
name: S. Bahramzadeh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biophysics

description: An efficient method was developed to fabricate graphene oxide coated cotton wad (GO/W) using self-assembly technique. GO/W could be used as an adsorbent material in remediation of environmental pollutants in a continuous packed bed column. The efficiency of GO/W fixed bed column in removal of crystal violet from aquatic environment was studied. The experimental breakthrough data were modeled using Thomas, Adams–Bohart and Yoon–Nelson models, and the column parameters for all these models were calculated. Increasing the effluent discharge rate and initial adsorbate concentration make the breakthrough and saturation points to be obtained faster and hence lower the adsorption capacity of column.
title: Ιδιωτικότητα και έξυπνες πόλεις
title: Privacy and smart cities
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κωνσταντάς, Σπυρίδων
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Έξυπνες πόλεις
subject: Αστική τεχνολογία
subject: Απόρρητο δεδομένων
subject: Δέσμευση κοινότητας
subject: Κυβερνοασφάλεια
subject: Βιώσιμη ανάπτυξη
subject: Διαδίκτυο των Πραγμάτων
subject: IoT
subject: Δημόσια πολιτική
subject: Προσαρμοστικές στρατηγικές
subject: Τεχνολογική καινοτομία

description: Η έννοια των έξυπνων πόλεων αντιπροσωπεύει μια επαναστατική αλλαγή στην αστική ανάπτυξη, που χαρακτηρίζεται από την ενσωμάτωση τεχνολογιών πληροφοριών και επικοινωνιών για τη βελτίωση της αποτελεσματικότητας, της βιωσιμότητας και της ποιότητας ζωής στα αστικά περιβάλλοντα. Αυτό το έγγραφο παρέχει μια ολοκληρωμένη ανάλυση της πολύπλευρης φύσης των έξυπνων πόλεων, διερευνώντας τα οφέλη, τις προκλήσεις και τις στρατηγικές για επιτυχή εφαρμογή. Εμβαθύνουμε στα πλεονεκτήματα των έξυπνων πόλεων όσον αφορά τη βελτιωμένη απόδοση, την ασφάλεια, τη βιωσιμότητα και την ποιότητα ζωής. Ωστόσο, αυτές οι εξελίξεις δεν έρχονται χωρίς προκλήσεις, ιδίως όσον αφορά τα ζητήματα απορρήτου, την υπέρβαση της επιτήρησης, την κακή χρήση δεδομένων και τις ευπάθειες ασφαλείας. Η αντιμετώπιση αυτών των προκλήσεων απαιτεί μια ισορροπημένη προσέγγιση που περιλαμβάνει τεχνολογικές λύσεις, ρυθμιστικά πλαίσια, δέσμευση της κοινότητας, συνεχή παρακολούθηση και προσαρμοστικές στρατηγικές. Τεχνολογικές λύσεις όπως κρυπτογράφηση, ασφαλή πρωτόκολλα επικοινωνίας και προηγμένοι μηχανισμοί ελέγχου ταυτότητας διερευνώνται ως μέσα για τη βελτίωση της ασφάλειας δεδομένων. Επιπλέον, ο ρόλος των ρυθμιστικών πλαισίων, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των νόμων προστασίας δεδομένων όπως ο GDPR, εξετάζεται στη διατήρηση της ιδιωτικής ζωής και των δεοντολογικών προτύπων στη διαχείριση δεδομένων. Το έγγραφο τονίζει τον κρίσιμο ρόλο της κοινοτικής δέσμευσης και διακυβέρνησης στη διασφάλιση ότι οι πρωτοβουλίες έξυπνων πόλεων ευθυγραμμίζονται με τις ανάγκες και τις αξίες των κατοίκων, υποστηρίζοντας μια συμμετοχική προσέγγιση στην αστική ανάπτυξη. Η συνεχής παρακολούθηση και οι προσαρμοστικές στρατηγικές επισημαίνονται ως απαραίτητες για την αντιμετώπιση των εξελισσόμενων τεχνολογικών τοπίων και των αναδυόμενων απειλών. Η εργασία ολοκληρώνεται υποστηρίζοντας μια ισορροπημένη και βιώσιμη προσέγγιση για την ανάπτυξη έξυπνων πόλεων. Αυτή η προσέγγιση ενσωματώνει τις τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις με μεγάλη έμφαση σε κοινωνικούς, ηθικούς και περιβαλλοντικούς παράγοντες, διασφαλίζοντας ότι οι έξυπνες πόλεις δεν είναι μόνο τεχνολογικά αποτελεσματικές αλλά και κοινωνικά χωρίς αποκλεισμούς και ανταποκρίνονται στις εξελισσόμενες ανάγκες των πολιτών τους. Το μέλλον των έξυπνων πόλεων, όπως συζητήθηκε, έγκειται στην εναρμόνιση της καινοτομίας με ηθικούς λόγους, την προστασία της ιδιωτικής ζωής, τη διακυβέρνηση χωρίς αποκλεισμούς και τη δέσμευση για συνεχή προσαρμογή και μάθηση.
Spatial price premium transmission for Meat Standards Australia-graded cattle: the vulnerability of price premiums to outside shocks
Creators: name: Morales, Luis Emilio
name: Hoang, Nam
name: Stuen, Eric
name: Morales, Luis Emilio
name: Hoang, Nam
name: Stuen, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR)
subject: cattle markets
subject: market integration
subject: Price premiums
subject: sign restriction identiﬁcation

description: Studies of market integration show that price changes are transmitted spatially through arbitrage. Transmission across diﬀerentiated agricultural products is impor-tant to investigate, but it has not been explored given its complexities for assessment. Using data from Australian cattle markets, we examine the dynamics of Meat Standards Australia price premium transmission between states. An impulse response function analysis using Bayesian vector autoregression with sign restriction identiﬁ-cation shows that shocks to prices and price premiums are partially transmitted contemporaneously between markets and it takes several weeks to complete transmission. In addition, we ﬁnd an asymmetry of price and price premium shocks originating in Southern Queensland that have an inverse immediate impact in New South Wales, and take months to transmit the usual price response. This outcome may be explained by diﬀerences in cattle availability in each state, which can be related to forage availability due to weather conditions. Based on these results, producers can forecast ﬂuctuations on price premiums and adjust their cattle supply accordingly.
Financial activity in agricultural futures markets: evidence from quantile regressions
Creators: name: Pradkhan, Elina
name: Pradkhan, Elina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: futures markets
subject: Granger causality
subject: quantile regressions
subject: speculation

description: This study analyses the relationship between ﬁnancial activity and price returns in 12 US agricultural futures markets. It contributes to the existing research by exploring the forecasting power of trading activity for returns from the perspective of conditional quantiles. Quantile regressions detect Granger-causal eﬀects from positions of speculators and index traders to price returns in a wide range of commodity markets such as cocoa, coﬀee, corn, sugar and SRW wheat.
Properties and limits of some essential oils: chemical characterisation, antimicrobial activity, interaction with antibiotics and cytotoxicity
Creators: name: Scazzocchio, Francesca
name: Garzoli, Stefania
name: Conti, Cinzia
name: Leone, Claudia
name: Renaioli, Clio
name: Pepi, Federico
name: Angiolella, Letizia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Because of the emergence of multi-drug resistance bacteria and fungi, alternatives to conventional antimicrobial therapy are needed. This study aims to evaluate in vitro the antimicrobial activity of: Mirtus communis, Coriandrum sativum, Pelargonium capitatum, Cuminum cyminum, Ocimum basilicum, Citrus aurantium amara, Cymbopogon. winterianus, Cymbopogon martini, Salvia sclarea, Melaleuca alternifolia and Mentha suaveolens essential oils on bacteria and fungi, in relation to their chemical composition. The potential interaction of M. alternifolia (TTO), C. sativum (CDO) and M. suaveolens (EOMS) essential oils when used in combination with gentamicin and fluconazole has been evaluated. The results obtained showed a synergic effect on some bacteria and fungi, with FICI values ≤5. The cytotoxicity of TTO, CDO and EOMS was investigated towards HeLa cells. Only EOMS did not result cytotoxic at the active concentrations on micro-organisms. Further studies are necessary to obtain optimal ratios and dosing regimens for higher therapeutic efficacy and to decrease toxicological profiles.
Enhanced dissolution and oral bioavailability of valsartan solid dispersions prepared by a freeze-drying technique using hydrophilic polymers
Creators: name: Xu, Wei-Juan
name: Xie, Hong-Juan
name: Qing-Ri Cao
name: Shi, Li-Li
name: Cao, Yue
name: Zhu, Xiao-Yin
name: Jing-Hao Cui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: This study aimed to improve the dissolution rate and oral bioavailability of valsartan (VAL), a poorly soluble drug using solid dispersions (SDs). The SDs were prepared by a freeze-drying technique with polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG6000) and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC 100KV) as hydrophilic polymers, sodium hydroxide (NaOH) as an alkalizer, and poloxamer 188 as a surfactant without using any organic solvents. In vitro dissolution rate and physicochemical properties of the SDs were characterized using the USP paddle method, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, respectively. In addition, the oral bioavailability of SDs in rats was evaluated by using VAL (pure drug) as a reference. The dissolution rates of the SDs were significantly improved at pH 1.2 and pH 6.8 compared to those of the pure drug. The results from DSC, XRD showed that VAL was molecularly dispersed in the SDs as an amorphous form. The FT-IR results suggested that intermolecular hydrogen bonding had formed between VAL and its carriers. The SDs exhibited significantly higher values of AUC0–24 h and Cmax in comparison with the pure drug. In conclusion, hydrophilic polymer-based SDs prepared by a freeze-drying technique can be a promising method to enhance dissolution rate and oral bioavailability of VAL.