cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing the national debt of several selected East African countries An application of a longitudinal panel data.
Creators: name: aden, sadik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140302 Econometric and Statistical Methods
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140206 Experimental Economics
subject: 140102 Macroeconomic Theory
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth
subject: 160401 Economic Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160505 Economic Development Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: East African countries are the fastest-growing nations in the region. These countries have the membership in several well-known regional agreements such as COMESA, IGAD, and EAC. Hence, because of their impressive growth in the course of the previous years, these countries are demanding an extensive analysis from many dimensions. Consequently, this paper has an objective to inspect the national debt of 9 selected East African countries from the period 2000 to 2021. For that reason, longitudinal panel data was utilized in order to evaluate the impact that the GDP, inflation rate, government spending, and trade have on the national debt of these countries. The findings in our fixed effect model revealed that the variables GDP, inflation rate, government spending and exportation have a significant impact on the national debt of the east African countries. Whereas, importation demonstrated insignificant impact on the national debt according to our model because it had a p-value less than 1% and 5%. Finally, the study will provide evidence to the African countries especially my country Djibouti how to adjust and limit their national debt in conformity with their gross domestic product and economic capacity. Additionally, it will provide economists a better comprehension about the economic situation in east Africa.
title: Die gesundheitsförderlichen Wirkungen tiergestützter Interventionen auf Pflegeheimbewohner
Creators: name: Krompass, Christina
Year: 2009

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit trägt bereits vorhandene wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu den gesundheitsförderlichen Wirkungen tiergestützter Interventionen auf Pflegeheimbewohner zusammen. Die Darlegung wissenschaftlicher Nachweise und die vermehrte Erforschung der vom Tier ausgehenden Potentiale ist nötig, damit der gezielte Tierkontakt in Form tiergestützter Interventionen allerorts zu einer öffentlich anerkannten und gängigen Maßnahme in der Förderung und Wiederherstellung des menschlichen Wohlbefindens werden kann. Das erste Kapitel dieser Arbeit zeigt, dass der pflegebedürftige alte Mensch in einer stationären Wohnform weder Abhängigkeit, Unkontrollierbarkeit noch Monotonie erfahren darf, vielmehr sollte er im Pflegeheim vielfältig gesundheitsförderliche Anregung erleben. Im zweiten Kapitel werden die verschiedenen Formen der Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Tieren im therapeutischen Kontext dargestellt, der Hund als Co-Therapeut erfährt aufgrund seiner begründbaren besonderen Eignung als Therapietier eine Hervorhebung. Vor dem Hintergrund theoretischer Grundlagen und Rahmenbedingungen des Wirkungsspektrums von Tieren, kann im dritten Kapitel unter wissenschaftlicher Begründung nachgewiesen werden, dass ein Tierkontakt in Form von Tierhaltung als auch ein gezielter Tierkontakt in Form von tiergestützten Interventionen die menschliche Gesundheit auf physischer, psychischer und sozialer Ebene fördert. Die vorhandenen Ergebnisse lassen im vierten Kapitel die Schlussfolgerung zu, dass Therapietiere einen Schlüssel zu einer professionellen Altenpflege, die auf Aktivierung und Gesundheitsförderung zielt, darstellen können, da mit ihrer Hilfe ganzheitlich gesundheitsförderliche Effekte relativ einfach erreicht werden können. Unter der pflegewissenschaftlichen Entwicklung und Etablierung forschungsgestützter Theorien und Modelle zur tiergestützten Pflege, sowie unter der Berücksichtigung der Grenzen eines gezielten Tierkontaktes in Form von Hygienemaßnahmen und dem Schutz des Therapietieres können tiergestützte Interventionen zu einem festen und erfolgversprechenden Bestandteil der Pflegepraxis werden.
Adaptive gesture recognition for human-robot interface using mechanomyography (MMG)
Creators: name: Wattanasiri, Panipat
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: In the past decades, hand gesture recognition (HGR) has been a widely studied topic, with researchers aiming to improve information extracted from human muscle activities. However, the majority of studies have focused on using electromyogram (EMG) as a main acquisition method, in which the sensors can face disadvantages from impedance changes during non-laboratory usage. On the other hand, interest in utilizing alternative sensors has recently increased to address the disadvantages of mainstream EMG. Among these alternative sensors, mechanomyogram (MMG) has shown promising results due to its information quality and robustness to non-laboratory environment factors. This research presents a novel hand gesture recognition system, integrating mechanomyogram (MMG) sensors and an Inertial Measurement Unit into an upper limb wearable. MMG, which detects mechanical vibrations from muscle activities, can provide descriptive information during gesture contractions and is robust to undesired real-world noises, such as perspiration. By developing a portable system embedded with these sensors and its tailored gesture recognition pipeline, this research can offer improvements to HGR applications, including prosthesis hand control for upper-limb amputees. In this research, the initial algorithm tailored for forearm MMG was developed and tested within a controlled environment. Explorations on forearm MMG signals were conducted along with optimization processes under various real-world usage constraints. Afterward, the study was extended to non-laboratory environment usages by incorporating unsupervised domain adaptation techniques into the pipeline to achieve adaptation on dynamic factors. The changes in muscle activities from different arm positions were used as the study topic. The developed pipeline can adapt to these changes and achieve improved prediction accuracy within limited training information. By providing insights and practical solutions for MMG-tailored HGR developments, this work could provide a foundation for efficient and versatile systems capable of accurately recognizing hand gestures in diverse environments and for a wide range of users.
Supplemental Material - Calibrating Items Using an Unfolding Model of Item Response Theory: The Case of the Trait Personality Questionnaire 5 (TPQue5)
Creators: name: Mitropoulou, Eirini M.
name: Zampetakis, Leonidas A.
name: Tsaousis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods

description: Supplemental Material for Calibrating Items Using an Unfolding Model of Item Response Theory: The Case of the Trait Personality Questionnaire 5 (TPQue5) by Eirini M. Mitropoulou, Leonidas A. Zampetakis and Ioannis Tsaousis in Evaluation Review
Additional file 5 of Effects of sustained viral response on lipid in Hepatitis C: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Mei, Tingting
name: Huang, Xiaojie
name: Tang, Shan
name: Liu, Menglu
name: Zhang, Wenyan
name: Yu, Haibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 5
sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506231213775 – Supplemental material for Increases in Intellectual Humility From Guided Conversations Are Greater When People Perceive Affiliation With Conversation Partners
Creators: name: Thorson, Katherine R.
name: Beck, Lindsey A.
name: Ketay, Sarah
name: Welker, Keith M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506231213775 for Increases in Intellectual Humility From Guided Conversations Are Greater When People Perceive Affiliation With Conversation Partners by Katherine R. Thorson, Lindsey A. Beck, Sarah Ketay and Keith M. Welker in Social Psychological and Personality Science
A multimodal dielectric waveguide-based monopulse radar at 160 GHz
Creators: name: Geiger, Martin
name: Grüner, Patrik
name: Fischer, Michael
name: Dürr, André
name: Chaloun, Tobias
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: dielectric waveguide
subject: flexible radar sensor
subject: transition
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Millimeter waves
subject: Monopulse radar
subject: Millimeterwelle
subject: MMIC
subject: Multimodales System

description: For highly integrated imaging systems above 100 GHz, the complexity and chip area increases signiﬁcantly with increasing number of channels. In addition, bulky dielectric lenses prevent applications in spatially restricted surroundings. The presented concept of an imaging monopulse radar with a mechanically ﬂexible front end reduces the required chip area and allows the antenna to be placed in any desired position apart from the sensitive electronics. The radar system is based on a two-channel 160 GHz microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) feeding a ﬂexible dielectric waveguide. Depending on the angle of the incidence signal, a sum mode (HE11 mode) and a difference mode (HE21 mode) are excited in the dielectric waveguide. MMIC and waveguide are connected by a self-aligning transition reducing the requirements for packaging accuracy. The required chip area of the transition is only 0.022λ² with a spacing between the on-chip antennas of λ/4. The measured ambiguity-free region between −18° and 15° is deﬁned by the modiﬁed elliptical lens antenna focusing in the E-plane only. A mechanical bending of the ﬂexible waveguide is possible down to a radius of at least 2 cm without affecting the angle estimation capability.
D2.5 AgriBIT Open APIs and interfaces (rev. 2)
Creators: name: Vella, Giuseppe
name: Scrima, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this document is to describe the AgriBIT Open APIs. Firstly, a technological context is given, then the list of AgriBIT APIs for third parties’ users is presented. The APIs are split in three major macro areas: PA services, GNSS enablers services and Big Data Analytics (BDA) services. Each service is described using a summarization table containing all the information needed to invoke the service. This document provides the guidelines to develop services integrating the AgriBIT functionality by using APIs provided.
Individual difference variables and the occurrence and effectiveness of faking behavior in interviews
Creators: name: Buehl, Anne-Kathrin
name: Melchers, Klaus G.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: selection interview
subject: faking
subject: personality
subject: attitudes
subject: cognitive ability
subject: social skills
subject: structured employment interview
subject: construct-related validity
subject: core self-evaluations
subject: impression management
subject: applicant faking
subject: personnel-selection
subject: job-performance
subject: comprehensive metaanalysis
subject: personality measurement
subject: psychometric properties
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: Employee selection
subject: Personality assessment
subject: Employment interviewing
subject: Persönlichkeitspsychologie
subject: Personalauswahl
subject: Vorstellungsgespräch

description: There is widespread fear that applicants can fake during selection interviews and that this impairs the quality of selection decisions. Several theories assume that faking occurrence is influenced by personality and attitudes, which together influence applicants’ motivation to show faking behavior. However, for faking behavior to be effective, interviewees also need certain skills and abilities. To investigate the impact of several relevant individual difference variables on faking behavior and interview success, we conducted two studies. In Study 1, we surveyed 222 individuals to assess different personality variables, attitude toward faking, cognitive ability, self-reported faking behavior, and success in previous interviews, and in Study 2, we assessed cognitive ability, social skills, faking behavior, and interview performance in an interview simulation with 108 participants. Taken together, personality, as well as attitude toward faking, influenced who showed faking behavior in an interview, but there was no evidence for the assumed moderating effect of cognitive ability or social skills on interview success.
Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments
Creators: name: Vardi, Reut
name: Berger-Tal, Oded
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Passer domesticus
reversal learning
urban development
urban nature

description: Global urbanization processes have highlighted the importance of understanding the effects of urban habitats on animal behavior. Behavioral changes are usually evaluated along an urbanization gradient, comparing urban and rural populations. However, this metric fails to consider heterogeneity between urban habitats that can differ significantly in their characteristics, such as their level of environmental variability. We suggest incorporating dimensions of environmental variability into the urbanization metric. We tested the importance of both level of urbanization and level of urban stability (the rate of anthropogenic changes) on animals' behavioral flexibility by comparing reversal learning abilities in house sparrows from sites differing in the rate of urban development over time. We show that at least for males, urban stability better explains levels of behavioral flexibility than urbanization level. We further show that urban stability corresponds to other behavioral traits such as scrounging behavior and foraging activity. Thus, considering environmental stability and predictability in the form of urban changes can help better understand the mechanisms allowing behavioral changes and adaptations to urban environments. Evaluating the dynamics of the urban built environment could provide a better metric with which to understand urbanization effects on wildlife behavior and an important next step in urban ecology.
description: Reversal learning experiment results for all 65 house sparrows. Supplementary figures and tables.
Additional file 1 of FLI1 induces erythroleukemia through opposing effects on UBASH3A and UBASH3B expression
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
name: Wang, Chunlin
name: Hu, Anling
name: Yu, Kunlin
name: Kuang, Yi
name: Gajendran, Babu
name: Zacksenhaus, Eldad
name: Sample, Klarke Michael
name: Xiao, Xiao
name: Liu, Wuling
name: Ben-David, Yaacov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Materials 1.
Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites
Creators: name: Buckingham, Lydia
name: Ashby, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: host
parasite
pathogen
Coevolution
resistance
infectivity
Theory
mathematical modelling
Red Queen

description: Host and parasite evolution are closely intertwined, with selection for adaptations and counter-adaptations forming a coevolutionary feedback loop. Coevolutionary dynamics are often difficult to intuit due to these feedbacks and are hard to demonstrate empirically in most systems. Theoretical models have therefore played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of host-parasite coevolution. Theoretical models vary widely in their assumptions, approaches and aims, and such variety makes it difficult, especially for non-theoreticians and those new to the field, to: (1) understand how model approaches relate to one another; (2) identify key modelling assumptions; (3) determine how model assumptions relate to biological systems and (4) reconcile the results of different models with contrasting assumptions. In this review, we identify important model features, highlight key results and predictions and describe how these pertain to model assumptions. We carry out a literature survey of theoretical studies published since the 1950s (n=219 papers) to support our analysis. We identify two particularly important features of models that tend to have a significant qualitative impact on the outcome of host-parasite coevolution: population dynamics and the genetic basis of infection. We also highlight the importance of other modelling features, such as stochasticity and whether time proceeds continuously or in discrete steps, that have received less attention but can drastically alter coevolutionary dynamics. We finish by summarising recent developments in the field, specifically the trend towards greater model complexity, and discuss likely future directions for research.
description: Please see README file for full description. Funding provided by: Natural Environment Research Council
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270
Award Number: NE/N014979/1Funding provided by: Natural Environment Research Council
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270
Award Number: NE/V003909/1Funding provided by: Evolution Education Trust*
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description: A PRISMA diagram is included which describes the compilation of the literature survey.
Mein lieber Schwan! Die Jupitermonde bei Raffael und Leonardo
Creators: name: Keim, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Leonardo, da Vinci
subject: Francesco Melzi
subject: DDC 520 / Astronomy
subject: DDC 700 / Arts
subject: Astronomy in art [LCSH]
subject: Leonardo, da Vinci 1452-1519
subject: Raffael 1483-1520
subject: Solar system
subject: Leonardo
subject: Raffaello
subject: Heliozentrisches System
subject: Die Schule von Athen
subject: Dioskuren
subject: Leda mit dem Schwan

description: Der Autor macht darauf aufmerksam, dass Nomenklaturen für die Jupitermonde bereits bei Raffael und Leonardo existierten. Erstmals wird Leonardos rätselhaftes Gemälde Leda und der Schwan dekodiert. Leda gebar mit Zeus (Alias Jupiter) vier Kinder: die Jupitermonde. Die von Leonardo vermutlich intendierte Nomenklatur für die Monde lautet: I (Pollux), II (Castor), III (Helena), IV (Klytaimnestra).
Efficient and scalable quality-diversity for open-ended robot learning
Creators: name: Lim, Bryan Wei Tern
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: General-purpose robots can benefit society by assisting and enabling humans to perform various tasks across different environments. While progress has been made towards this goal across disciplines, robots still struggle to obtain the creativity, generality and reliability we want. This is due to the diversity and open-ended nature of tasks and environments in the real-world. We posit that open-ended problems require open-ended solutions. Open-ended systems continuously invent and generate interesting problems and solutions. In this thesis, we present Quality-Diversity (QD) as a framework for open-ended search and robot learning. We first explore QD algorithms for online learning. Specifically, we combine learning world models and QD search to leverage the synergy between predictive and generative capabilities of deep models and the open-ended creativity of QD. We show this significantly increases the efficiency of QD and enables robots to learn diverse skills from scratch, directly in the real-world in a safe and autonomous manner. While learning online is important to effectively collect new experiences and adapt, it is also practical to use data, simulation and pre-trained models to build in strong priors into robots offline before deployment. In the second part, we propose methods which highlight QD as effective data generators and for effective learning of diverse priors in the offline setting. To enable this, we present work that scales QD algorithms through tensorization and parallelization. Using hardware accelerators, this results in ∼100× speed up in wall-time through compared to previous implementations, unlocking algorithmic innovation with QD through speed and scale. Finally, we present a unified perspective of QD algorithms and conclude by highlighting the insights from this thesis provide an algorithmic foundation for open-ended learning systems that can improve the creativity, generality and reliability of embodied AI systems like robots and beyond to any AI system.
Additional file 2 of FLI1 induces erythroleukemia through opposing effects on UBASH3A and UBASH3B expression
Creators: name: Wang, Jie
name: Wang, Chunlin
name: Hu, Anling
name: Yu, Kunlin
name: Kuang, Yi
name: Gajendran, Babu
name: Zacksenhaus, Eldad
name: Sample, Klarke Michael
name: Xiao, Xiao
name: Liu, Wuling
name: Ben-David, Yaacov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Materials 2.
sj-docx-1-jsn-10.1177_10598405221131012 - Supplemental material for An Update on State Legislation Supporting Menstrual Hygiene Products in US Schools: A Legislative Review, Policy Report, and Recommendations for School Nurse Leadership
Creators: name: Francis, Lucine
name: Meraj, Shafkat
name: Konduru, Divya
name: Perrin, Eliana M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jsn-10.1177_10598405221131012 for An Update on State Legislation Supporting Menstrual Hygiene Products in US Schools: A Legislative Review, Policy Report, and Recommendations for School Nurse Leadership by Lucine Francis, PhD, RN, Shafkat Meraj, Divya Konduru, and Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH in The Journal of School Nursing
title: Rauchen - finde ich cool?
Creators: name: Puganigg, Katharina
Year: 2009

description: ZIEL: Die vorliegende Studie untersucht das Rauchverhalten Klagenfurter Jugendlicher der neunten Schulstufe, die das 16. Lebensjahr noch nicht vollendet haben, im Zusammenhang mit Geschlecht, Einstellung der Jugendlichen zum Tabakkonsum, sozialem und schulischem Umfeld, Freizeitverhalten, subjektivem Belastungsempfinden sowie Rauchverboten und Jugendschutz. METHODEN: Im Schuljahr 2008/2009 wurden an 12 Klagenfurter Schulen 935 SchülerInnen befragt. Zur Datenanalyse wurden davon 819 Tests der SchülerInnen unter 16 Jahren herangezogen. Die Testung erfolgte mittels online-Selbstausfüller-Fragebogen. ERGEBNISSE: Das Raucherverhalten Jugendlicher ist von Geschlecht (p=0,022), Schultyp (p<0,001), Regelung des Rauchens durch die Schule (Rauchverbot an der Schule) (p<0,001), Rauchverhalten der Eltern (p<0,001) und Freunde (p<0,001) abhängig. Jugendliche, die rauchen, gelegentlich rauchen und nicht rauchen, unterscheiden sich in ihrem subjektiven Belastungsempfinden (p<0,001), ihrem Freizeitverhalten (unterschiedliche p-Werte für die einzelnen Variablen) und ihrer Einstellung zu Warnhinweisen (p<0,001) und Vorschriften (p<0,001). Des Weiteren besteht ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen der Nikotinabhängigkeit, gemessen an der \textit{Hooked on Nicotine Checklist}, und dem Belastungsempfinden der Jugendlichen (p<0,001, r=0,293). SCHULSSFOLGERUNG: Nicht nur Freunde/Freundinnen beeinflussen das Rauchverhalten, sonder auch die Eltern und LehrerInnen müssen sich ihrer Vorbildwirkung bewusst werden. Ebenso ist die Schule ein Ort, an dem Normen und Regeln der Gesellschaft vermittelt werden, und sollte im Sinne der Tabakprävention strikte Rauchverbote einführen. Des Weiteren ist es notwendig, dass wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, die die Abhängigkeit erzeugende Wirkung des Tabaks belegen, auch gesellschaftspolitisch anerkannt werden. Da Jugendliche immer früher zur Zigarette greifen, muss es Aufgabe des Staates sein, durch gezielte präventive Maßnahmen, den Tabakkonsum im Jugendalter zu verhindern.
sj-docx-1-whs-10.1177_21650799221119147 – Supplemental material for Depression Screening Implementation: Quality Improvement Project in a Primary Care Clinic for First Responders
Creators: name: Blake, Canaan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-whs-10.1177_21650799221119147 for Depression Screening Implementation: Quality Improvement Project in a Primary Care Clinic for First Responders by Canaan Blake in Workplace Health & Safety
Association of dietary patterns and type-2 diabetes mellitus in metabolically homogeneous subgroups in the KORA FF4 study
Creators: name: Wawro, Nina
name: Pestoni, Giulia
name: Riedl, Anna
name: Breuninger, Taylor A.
name: Peters, Annette
name: Rathmann, Wolfgang
name: Koenig, Wolfgang
name: Huth, Cornelia
name: Meisinger, Christa
name: Rohrmann, Sabine
name: Linseisen, Jakob
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: diabetes mellitus
subject: dietary pattern
subject: metabotype
subject: metabolic phenotype
subject: Mediterranean Diet Score
subject: Alternate Healthy Eating Index
subject: Metaanalysis
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Diabetes mellitus, Type 2; Diet therapy
subject: Diet, Diabetic
subject: Nutritional physiological phenomena
subject: Diet, Mediterranean
subject: Diet, Healthy
subject: Risk factors
subject: Mortality
subject: Diabetes mellitus Typ 2
subject: Ernährung
subject: Mittelmeerraum
subject: Gesunde Ernährung
subject: Metaanalyse

description: There is evidence that a change in lifestyle, especially physical activity and diet, can reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the response to dietary changes varies among individuals due to differences in metabolic characteristics. Therefore, we investigated the association between dietary patterns and T2DM while taking into account these differences. For 1287 participants of the population-based KORA FF4 study (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg), we identified three metabolically-homogenous subgroups (metabotypes) using 16 clinical markers. Based on usual dietary intake data, two diet quality scores, the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) and the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), were calculated. We explored the associations between T2DM and diet quality scores. Multi-variable adjusted models, including metabotype subgroup, were fitted. In addition, analyses stratified by metabotype were carried out. We found significant interaction effects between metabotype and both diet quality scores (p < 0.05). In the analysis stratified by metabotype, significant negative associations between T2DM and both diet quality scores were detected only in the metabolically-unfavorable homogenous subgroup (Odds Ratio (OR) = 0.62, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.39–0.90 for AHEI and OR = 0.60, 95% CI = 0.40–0.96 for MDS). Prospective studies taking metabotype into account are needed to confirm our results, which allow for the tailoring of dietary recommendations in the prevention of T2DM.
The gender pay gap: income inequality over life course – a multilevel analysis
Creators: name: Toczek, Lisa
name: Bosma, Hans
name: Peter, Richard
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: employment biographies
subject: gender inequality
subject: income trajectories
subject: LidA-study
subject: trajectories of labor market factors
subject: DDC 300 / Social sciences
subject: DDC 330 / Economics
subject: Sex discrimination in employment
subject: Wages; Women; Germany
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: Einkommen
subject: Geschlecht
subject: Einkommensdisparität

description: The gender pay gap has been observed for decades, and still exists. Due to a life course perspective, gender differences in income are analyzed over a period of 24 years. Therefore, this study aims to investigate income trajectories and the differences regarding men and women. Moreover, the study examines how human capital determinants, occupational positions and factors that accumulate disadvantages over time contribute to the explanation of the GPG in Germany. Therefore, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the GPG over the life course. The data are based on the German cohort study lidA (living at work), which links survey data individually with employment register data. Based on social security data, the income of men and women over time are analyzed using a multilevel analysis. The results show that the GPG exists in Germany over the life course: men have a higher daily average income per year than women. In addition, the income developments of men rise more sharply than those of women over time. Moreover, even after controlling for factors potentially explaining the GPG like education, work experience, occupational status or unemployment episodes the GPG persists. Concluding, further research is required that covers additional factors like individual behavior or information about the labor market structure for a better understanding of the GPG.
Indización de documentos según la Metodología LILACS 2024: Proceso de indización temática
Creators: name: Ramiréz Chaves, Irene
name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metodología LILACS
indización de documentos
proceso de indexação temática

description: Sesión 1 -   Presentación en: 28 de março de 2024

Série de Webinars "Indización de Documentos según la Metodología LILACS 2024"

Objetivo: 

Conceitualizar a indicação de documentos de acordo com a Metodologia LILACS

Apresentar o processo e as etapas realizadas para uma boa indicação

Público: Profesionales de información y Bibliotecólogos

Ponente: Irene Ramiréz Chaves

Gravações e apresentações estarão disponíveis na página: https://bit.ly/IndizaciónLILACS2024

Organização: Sueli Mitiko Yano Suga y Laís Silva

Contexto:

Esta capacitación forma parte del programa de Fortalecimiento de las Redes de Información en Salud en AL&C 2024 que se subdivide en 4 ejes:

Buenas prácticas en los Procesos Editoriales de Revistas Científicas LILACS; 

Encuentros de la Red BVS; 

Encuentros de la Red de Referencistas;

Indización de documentos según la Metodología LILACS.

Las Redes de Información en Salud son fundamentales para fortalecer y ampliar el trabajo que realiza BIREME a favor de la BVS, LILACS, DeCS y de todas las fuentes de información que contribuyan a la democratización del acceso y visibilidad del conocimiento científico en salud en los países de AL&C.
Evolution of evaporating lava planets
Creators: name: Curry, Alfred
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: The interiors of rocky planets are heavily influenced by planet formation and hugely affect the subsequent evolution of planets; therefore understanding them is essential. A particular class of detected system that may be useful in probing rocky interior composition is the catastrophically evaporating planets. These planets are detected through dust tails which originate from the planets' molten surfaces. Linking the composition of the tails to that of the bulk planet requires understanding the evolution of the underlying planets. In this thesis, I develop a 1D interior model and use it to model the catastrophically evaporating planets. The model includes simultaneous structural and thermal evolution alongside mass loss and appropriate boundary conditions for these super-heated planets. I find that, despite their high irradiation, the planets are likely able to mostly solidify and so the outflows only originate from a thin lava pool close to the surface. Using this as a premise, I go on to study the evolution of the lava pool-atmosphere system under mass loss. I find that once enough material is removed from the pool a steady state is reached, where the composition of the outflowing atmosphere matches that of material melted into the pool. I also show that this situation may be common, even amongst fairly high-mass planets. By considering how frequently one might expect to observe mass loss from the catastrophically evaporating planets, I predict the occurrence of the underlying population of planets needed to produce the number of observations. This is of interest because the progenitors are thought to be low mass and thus difficult to detect in conventional surveys. I find that the population is either in line with, or much higher than, detected larger planets of the same substellar temperatures, depending on model assumptions.
A corrupção na visão da psicanálise-Breve reflexão
Creators: name: Mangani Fineza André Lopes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Corrupção
Psicanálise
Sistema simbólico

description: Subtract This communication aims to reflect on corruption from the perspective of psychoanalysis. To achieve this desideratum, the starting question was raised: What is the psychoanalytic point of view on corruption? In order to answer the question raised, a survey of bibliographic data inherent to the topic under discussion was carried out. Psychoanalysis takes a deeper look at corruption, which goes beyond common sense. For this approach, it is the symbolic system that is corrupted, when its representative supports two logics, one public (public or common interests) and the other private (personal or private interests).
Additional file 2 of Does the use of different scaffolds have an impact on the therapeutic efficacy of regenerative endodontic procedures? A systematic evaluation and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Feng
name: Sheng, Kai
name: Yu, Lintong
name: Wang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Appendix Figure 1. Comparison of other scaffolds versus BCs by outcome: Apical foramen closure.
Les Enjeux Des Politiques De Libre Accès Aux Ressources Scientifiques
Creators: name: Piron, Florence
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: open access
libre accès
science ouverte
Afrique
science africaine

description: Conférence présentée à l'Université Laval le 25 octobre 2016, dans le cadre de la Semaine internationale du libre accès
sj-docx-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231208976 – Supplemental material for Undercutting Transit? Exploring Potential Competition Between Automated Vehicles and Public Transportation in the United States
Creators: name: Kaplan, Leah
name: Helveston, John Paul
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-trr-10.1177_03611981231208976 for Undercutting Transit? Exploring Potential Competition Between Automated Vehicles and Public Transportation in the United States by Leah Kaplan and John Paul Helveston in Transportation Research Record
sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359231217966 – Supplemental material for CXCL14 as a potential marker for immunotherapy response prediction in renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Pan, Qiwen
name: Liu, Ruiqi
name: Zhang, Xinyue
name: Cai, Lingling
name: Li, Yilin
name: Dong, Pei
name: Gao, Jianming
name: Liu, Yang
name: He, Liru
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tam-10.1177_17588359231217966 for CXCL14 as a potential marker for immunotherapy response prediction in renal cell carcinoma by Qiwen Pan, Ruiqi Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Lingling Cai, Yilin Li, Pei Dong, Jianming Gao, Yang Liu and Liru He in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Additional file 3 of Does the use of different scaffolds have an impact on the therapeutic efficacy of regenerative endodontic procedures? A systematic evaluation and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Feng
name: Sheng, Kai
name: Yu, Lintong
name: Wang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Appendix Figure 2. Comparison of other scaffolds versus BCs by outcome: Root canal calcification.
sj-docx-2-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 – Supplemental material for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction
Creators: name: Ogilvie, James M.
name: McKillop, Nadine
name: Cale, Jesse
name: Allard, Troy
name: Rynne, John
name: Smallbone, Stephen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Criminology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-ijo-10.1177_0306624X231219216 for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Specialized, Field-Based Treatment Program for Youth Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses in an Australian Jurisdiction by James M. Ogilvie, Nadine McKillop, Jesse Cale, Troy Allard, John Rynne and Stephen Smallbone in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
In vitro model for lumbar disc herniation to Iinvestigate regenerative tissue repair approaches
Creators: name: Zengerle, Laura
name: Debout, Elisabeth
name: Kluger, Bruno
name: Zöllner, Lena
name: Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: test method
subject: dynamic testing
subject: (lumbar) disc herniation
subject: physiological activities
subject: regenerative approaches
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Intervertebral disc displacement
subject: Intervertebral disc
subject: Tissue engineering
subject: Spinal cord regeneration
subject: In vitro techniques
subject: Bandscheibenvorfall
subject: Bandscheibe
subject: Tissue Engineering
subject: In vitro

description: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is the most common reason for low back pain in the working society. New regenerative approaches and novel implants are directed towards the restoration of the disc or its biomechanical properties. Aiming to investigate these new therapies under physiological conditions, in this study, a model for LDH was established by developing a new physiological in vitro test method. In 14 human lumbar motion segments, different daily-life and worst-case activities were simulated successfully by applying a physiological range of motion and axial loading in order to create physiological intradiscal pressure. An LDH could be provoked in 11 of the 14 specimens through vertical and round annular defects of different sizes. Interestingly, the defect and the LDH hardly influenced the biomechanical properties of the disc. For the investigation of regenerative approaches in further experiments, the recommendation based on the results of this study is to create an LDH in non-degenerated motion segments by the application of the new physiological in vitro test method after setting the round annular defects to a size of 4 mm in diameter.
Robust representation learning with topological and geometric constraints in medical imaging
Creators: name: Santhirasekaram, Ainkaran
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: Robust representation learning in medical imaging is crucial for the reliable application of deep learning models in critical tasks like clinical decision-making. The vulnerability of deep learning models to subtle perturbations, particularly when facing distributional shifts in test data not encountered during training, is well-documented. To enhance model robustness, common approaches involve data augmentation, adversarial training, and self-supervised learning strategies. In this thesis, we will explore the importance of geometry and topology of the latent space in building robust representation for medical imaging. We start with restricting the latent space to a finite set of components using vector quantisation for downstream segmentation and classification tasks. We claim that imposing a compositional structure on the latent space enables a more robust representation. Next, we will explore the natural curvature in which to embed these components for segmentation. Specifically, we impose hierarchical compositionality in a latent space equipped with hyperbolic geometry to compose the segmentation output to improve robustness. We then explore an alternative geometric perspective by constraining the latent space to a dictionary of group equivariant shape components which is sampled to construct the segmentation output. We analyse equivariance to various groups and demonstrate how the order of the group affects model robustness. We follow up our exposition into robust segmentation with a discrete latent space by sampling the dictionary of shape components such that topology is preserved using persistent homology and cellular sheaf theory. We show the advantage of using cellular sheaf theory over persistent homology to extract richer geometric information. Finally, we show the importance of curvature for embedding symbols in neurosymbolic reasoning. Specifically, we develop robust hierarchical explanations in hyperbolic space for deep discriminative models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods to improve model robustness under various perturbations and in single domain generalisation tasks.
Additional file 4 of Does the use of different scaffolds have an impact on the therapeutic efficacy of regenerative endodontic procedures? A systematic evaluation and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yang, Feng
name: Sheng, Kai
name: Yu, Lintong
name: Wang, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Appendix Figure 3. Comparison of other scaffolds versus BCs by outcome: Clinical success rate, subgroup analysis of aetiology.
Unilateral Duane syndrome
Creators: name: AHIRE, PANKAJ
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 4 years
description: Clinical History: 4 years female child came with chief complaints of restriction of eye movement on left side. She was unable to abduct left eye. Her neurodevelopment was normal. Final Diagnosis: Unilateral Duane syndrome on left side.
TRAILblazing strategies for cancer treatment
Creators: name: Kretz, Anna-Laura
name: Trauzold, Anna
name: Hillenbrand, Andreas
name: Knippschild, Uwe
name: Henne-Bruns, Doris
name: Karstedt, Silvia Von
name: Lemke, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: TRAIL signalling
subject: TRAIL sensitising
subject: TRAIL-induced apoptosis
subject: TRAIL in cancer
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand
subject: Tumor necrosis factors
subject: Tumor-Nekrose-Faktor
subject: Apoptosis

description: In the late 1990s, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), a member of the TNF-family, started receiving much attention for its potential in cancer therapy, due to its capacity to induce apoptosis selectively in tumour cells in vivo. TRAIL binds to its membrane-bound death receptors TRAIL-R1 (DR4) and TRAIL-R2 (DR5) inducing the formation of a death-inducing signalling complex (DISC) thereby activating the apoptotic cascade. The ability of TRAIL to also induce apoptosis independently of p53 makes TRAIL a promising anticancer agent, especially in p53-mutated tumour entities. Thus, several so-called TRAIL receptor agonists (TRAs) were developed. Unfortunately, clinical testing of these TRAs did not reveal any significant anticancer activity, presumably due to inherent or acquired TRAIL resistance of most primary tumour cells. Since the potential power of TRAIL-based therapies still lies in TRAIL’s explicit cancer cell-selectivity, a desirable approach going forward for TRAIL-based cancer therapy is the identification of substances that sensitise tumour cells for TRAIL-induced apoptosis while sparing normal cells. Numerous of such TRAIL-sensitising strategies have been identified within the last decades. However, many of these approaches have not been verified in animal models, and therefore potential toxicity of these approaches has not been taken into consideration. Here, we critically summarise and discuss the status quo of TRAIL signalling in cancer cells and strategies to force tumour cells into undergoing apoptosis triggered by TRAIL as a cancer therapeutic approach. Moreover, we provide an overview and outlook on innovative and promising future TRAIL-based therapeutic strategies.
Supplemental Material - autoRasch: An R Package to Do Semi-Automated Rasch Analysis
Creators: name: Wijayanto, Feri
name: Bucur, Ioan Gabriel
name: Groot, Perry
name: Heskes, Tom
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material for autoRasch: An R Package to Do Semi-Automated Rasch Analysis by Feri Wijayanto, Ioan Gabriel Bucur, Perry Groot, and Tom Heskes in Applied Psychological Measurement
An implantable optical fibre sensing system for multiplexed brain monitoring
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuqian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: Brain monitoring is pivotal in medical diagnostics and treatment, offering real-time insights into brain function that empower healthcare professionals in the effective management of various brain disorders. However, traditional monitoring methods like microdialysis-based or electrochemical sensor-based systems suffer from limitations such as low temporal resolutions, insufficient selectivity, and poor stability. Recent advancements in optical sensing, microfabrication, signal processing, and machine learning present innovative solutions to surmount these constraints and enhance monitoring capabilities. Therefore, this thesis aims to develop an optical fibre sensing system for implantable and multiplexed brain monitoring. In its initial phase, a reflection optical fibre-based sensing system was engineered to enable the continuous monitoring of four brain biomarkers—pH, oxygenation, glucose, and temperature—simultaneously. Leveraging optical sensing techniques and novel film fabrication methods, highly sensitive and selective biosensors were developed and seamlessly integrated onto the tip of a reflection fibre for four distinct brain biomarkers monitoring. To further improve the sensing performance, in the subsequent stage, an optical fibre bundle-based sensing system was proposed, aiming to incorporate two additional biomarkers, Na+ and Ca2+, while reducing the sensor size for minimally invasive measurements. Polymer-encapsulated fluorescent receptors were adopted for the sensor fabrication to enhance the sensing sensitivity and reversibility. Characterisation test results affirmed the sensors' high sensitivity, specificity, reversibility, and environmental robustness in measuring all six biomarkers. Mathematical modelling algorithms, including machine learning and deep learning models, were employed for spectrum processing, environmental compensation, and precise biomarker concentration readings. The proposed sensing system successfully identified three commonly encountered brain complications accurately using ex vivo brain models. In the end, a fully automated sensing system was prototyped by integrating the optical components and algorithms, enabling continuous online brain biomarker monitoring. The proposed multiplexed brain monitoring system underwent successful validation using real human cerebrospinal fluid samples, showcasing its potential for clinical application.