cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Losing our religion: sources of solidarity in pluralist settings
Creators: name: Stacey, Timothy
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Religion, secularism, community, solidarity, social action, collective action, statism, capitalism

description: For the last thirty years a quiet revolution has been taking place in political theory. Starting in theology and philosophy, and making its way through history and sociology to politics, policy and practice, this disparate movement has slowly adopted the title of post-liberalism. Although difficult to encapsulate in a single argument, the central idea of post liberalism is that political theory has, over the course of the last four centuries, slowly but surely become dominated by liberalism, neglecting ideas of the good in favour of an abstract respect for plurality. This theory has apparently infiltrated politics, policy and practice, leaving these unable to inspire feelings of solidarity or collective action.

The aim of this thesis is to explore these ideas both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, it places post-liberal ideas into dialogue with anthropologies and sociologies of religion, of the state, and of capitalism, with special attention to research engaged with how these categories influence ideas of the good. Empirically, it undertakes a multiple case-study ethnography of civic action groups working in London. The cases are chosen on the basis of their representing key policy paradigms for social solidarity in the post-war era: Christian, secular, multi-faith and post-secular.

The thesis concludes by offering an alternative framework, in which religion sits as a subset, for developing shared ideas of the good deliberatively and inclusively, so as to not only respect but thrive on plurality.
Coronary Artery Disease Difference By Age,Gender,Region
Creators: name: RAJENDIRAN, SATHISHKUMAR
name: DEVARAJAKUMAR JALAJA, DEJO
name: Gavkharoi Islamovna, Umurzakova
name: Abdykerimovna, Momunova Aygul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320199
subject: Cardiovascular medicine and haematology not elsewhere classified

description: This article provides an in-depth analysis of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. It explores the pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnostic approaches, and current treatment strategies for CAD. The paper also highlights the importance of lifestyle modifications and preventive measures in managing the disease, along with emerging research and technological advancements in this field.
title: Cartographic Abstraction : Mapping Practices in Contemporary Art
Creators: name: Reddleman, Claire
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: cartography, cartographic abstraction, cartographic viewing, mapping, geocoded world, contemporary art, cartographic artworks, capitalism, materialism

description: This thesis proposes a theory of cartographic abstraction as a framework
for investigating cartographic viewing, and does so through engaging with
a series of contemporary artworks concerned with cartographic ‘ways of
seeing’ (Berger 1972). Cartographic abstraction is a material modality of
thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques
of depiction. It is the more-than-visual register that posits and produces
the ‘cartographic world’, or what John Pickles has called the ‘geo-coded
world’ (2006). By this I mean the naturalized apprehension of the earth as
a homogeneous space that is naturally, even necessarily, understood as
regular, consistent and objective. I argue for identifying cartographic
techniques of depiction as themselves abstract, and cartographic
abstraction as such as the modality of thought and experience that these
techniques produce. Abstraction within capitalism comes to be socially
real and material, taking place outside thought.

I propose a series of viewpoints, that are posited by the relations of viewing
enacted by the selected artworks themselves. I analyse these viewpoints
in relation to modes of cartographic viewing offered by theorists. Through
close readings of cartographic artworks, I expand the current possibilities
for understanding cartographic abstraction and its effects, through
proposing a range of viewpoints that are both deployed in, and themselves
problematize, cartographic viewing. I connect cartographic abstraction to
debates about abstraction in Marxist and materialist approaches to
philosophy, arguing for interpreting cartographic viewing as an abstract
practice through which subjects are positioned and structured in relation to
the ‘viewed’. This study discerns ‘real abstraction’ functioning in a
particular area of ‘the operations of capitalism’; that is, modes of visual,
and epistemological, abstraction that we can identify by exploring artworks
concerned with cartographic depiction and conceptualisation. This
approach to abstraction explores how cartographic knowledge can be
theorized through recognising cartographic abstraction as a material modality
 of thought and experience.
title: The Political House of Art: The South African National Gallery 1930-2009
Creators: name: Hahn, Catherine Neville
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: South African National Gallery (SANG), visual sociology, museums, art, racism, apartheid, representation

description: The thesis analyses modes of representation in the South African National Gallery (SANG) between 
1930 and 2009. Built in 1930, for the larger part of its history SANG was situated in a white state 
that disenfranchised the black populace. Whiteness, as citizenship, was normalised and glorified in 
the state’s museums. Analysis of evidence collected from the archive, décor, art collection, 
exhibitions, attendance of walking tours and semi-structured interviews with staff demonstrates 
that SANG’s historic practice does not fit neatly within the dominant theoretical understanding of 
the art museum, namely a sacred space in which power has been obscured through the ‘art for art’s 
sake’ model. Instead, the thesis finds at SANG invisible symbolic capital resided alongside the 
more muscular capital of the colony, which derived its strength from an overt relationship with 
commerce, politics and race. The thesis further finds that SANG developed a close relationship with 
its white audience through its construction as a ‘homely space’. As a consequence, I argue SANG 
developed museological conventions that better fit the analogy of the political house than the 
temple.

Taking new museum ethics into consideration, the thesis examines how SANG’s distinctive heritage 
impacted on its ability to be inclusive. My fieldwork on recent representational practice at SANG 
reveals strategies congruent with the post-museum, including performative political exhibitions, 
diversification of the collection and active dialogue with the communities it seeks to serve. At 
the same time embedded modes of white cultural representation were identified that restricted its 
capacity to ‘move-on’. The thesis contributes to the field of museum studies by drawing attention 
to the significance of the individual histories of art institutions in determining their ability to 
make change. The thesis also contributes to the field of visual sociology by presenting
images and ‘map-making’ as an integral feature of the research design.
MULTIFERROIC DEVICES: MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Andrawis, Robert
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Elemental semiconductors

description: Recently, multiferroic-based devices have gained significant spotlight in the literature due to its non-volatility and high on/off current ratio. In order to analyze such devices and to have an insightful understanding of their characteristics, there is a need for developing a multi-physics modeling and simulation framework. The simulation framework discussed in this study is motivated by the scarcity of such multi-physics studies in the literature. In this thesis, a theoretical analysis of multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) is demonstrated using self-consistent analysis of spin-based non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method to estimate the tunneling current, Landau-Khalatnikov (LK) equation to model the ferroelectric polarization dynamics, together with landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert’s (LLG) equations to capture the magnetization dynamics. The spin-based NEGF method is equipped with a magnetization dependent Hamiltonian that eases the modeling of the tunneling electroresistance (TER), tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR), and the magnetoelectric effect (ME) in MFTJs. Moreover, we apply the first principle calculations to estimate the screening lengths of the MFTJ electrodes that are necessary for the estimation of tunneling current. These multiferroic-based devices show significant performance improvement in many applications. In this study, we demonstrate the use of these multiferroic-based devices for in-memory computing and combinatorial optimization problems. The simulation results of these applications show significant performance improvement compared to conventional computing schema.
LimitNet: Progressive, Content-Aware Image Offloading for Extremely Weak Devices & Networks
Creators: name: Hojjat, Ali
name: Haberer, Janek
name: Zainab, Tayyaba
name: Landsiedel, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: IoT devices have limited hardware capabilities and are often deployed in remote areas. Consequently, advanced vision models surpass such devices' processing and storage capabilities, requiring offloading of such tasks to the cloud. However, remote areas often rely on LPWANs technology with limited bandwidth, high packet loss rates, and extremely low duty cycles, which makes fast offloading for time-sensitive inference challenging. Today's approaches, which are deployable on weak devices, generate a non-progressive bit stream, and therefore, their decoding quality suffers strongly when data is only partially available on the cloud at a deadline due to limited bandwidth or packet losses.
 In this paper, we introduce LimitNet, a progressive, content-aware image compression model designed for extremely weak devices and networks. LimitNet's lightweight progressive encoder prioritizes critical data during transmission based on the content of the image, which gives the cloud the opportunity to run inference even with partial data availability.
 Experimental results demonstrate that LimitNet, on average, compared to SOTA, achieves 14.01 p.p. (percentage point) higher accuracy on ImageNet1000, 18.01 pp on CIFAR100, and 0.1 higher mAP@0.5 on COCO. Also, on average, LimitNet saves 61.24% bandwidth on ImageNet1000, 83.68% on CIFAR100, and 42.25% on the COCO dataset compared to SOTA, while it only has 4% more encoding time compared to JPEG (with a fixed quality) on STM32F7 (Cortex-M7).
description: This is the author's accepted manuscript. The Version of Record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3643832.3661856
Additional file 2 of An evaluation of the cost of human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine delivery in Zambia
Creators: name: Simuyemba, Moses C
name: Chama-Chiliba, Chitalu M
name: Chompolola, Abson
name: Sinyangwe, Aaron
name: Bchir, Abdallah
name: Asiimwe, Gilbert
name: Chibwesha, Carla
name: Masiye, Felix
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
The NAFTA Negotiations — and Canada’s Priority Watch List Designation: It’s all about the Leverage
Creators: name: Stephens, Hugh
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2018

description: Negotiating tactics can often appear harsh, but when the United States Trade Representative (USTR) placed Canada on its Priority Watch List (PWL), the move went beyond the standard give-and-take of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Canada – a nation that believes in the rule of law – joins China, Algeria, Kuwait and Venezuela, to name just a few, on the PWL list for its alleged “worst” record in intellectual property standards. Granted, Canada has room for improvement in this area, but for the USTR’s annual Special 301 report to place it on the PWL is hardly credible. It is no coincidence that Canada, the only G7 country—and virtually the only western country-- to make either the PWL and the USTR’s lesser Watch List (WL), is also in the midst of renegotiating NAFTA with the United States and Mexico.

The 301 process has always been political to some degree, but using it as a negotiating hammer with which to hit Canada over the head risks devaluing its importance in identifying genuine shortcomings in the IP realm that affect U.S. and Canadian businesses.

The report is on target in identifying several IP areas requiring more rigorous attention from Canada, including counterfeit goods in transit and copyright issues. However, the U.S. is also unhappy with changes to Canadian pharmaceutical patent regulations and protectionist matters arising from the Canada-EU Trade Agreement that have to do with European geographical indications. Still, although Canada is not alone in the latter area, no European country is on the WL.

Ironically, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s own ranking of 50 world economies on their IP standards shows that Canada improved in four out of six categories, coming in 18th among the 50. Venezuela, with whom Canada shares the notoriety of being on the PWL, was 50th out of 50.

Clearly, Canada’s new ranking does not reflect reality and is a blatant negotiating tool, but the USTR appears less interested in the collateral damage it may cause as long as the U.S. can get the concessions it wants at the table. This is a game that two can play, however, and Canada’s turn at hardball may come if the U.S. decides one day that it wants to rejoin the latest incarnation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which it so hastily withdrew when Donald Trump was elected president.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol 11 (2018)
Nanomanufacturing of Wearable Electronics for Energy Conversion and Human-integrated Monitoring
Creators: name: Wu, Min
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Functional materials
Additive manufacturing
Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Recently, energy crisis and environment pollution has become global issues and there is a great demand for developing green and renewable energy system. At the same time, advancements in materials production, device fabrication, and flexible circuit has led to the huge prosperity of wearable devices, which also requires facile and efficient approaches to power these ubiquitous electronics. Piezoelectric nanogenerators and triboelectric nanogenerators have attracted enormous interest in recent years due to their capacity of transferring the ambient mechanical energy into desired electricity, and also the potential of working as self-powered sensors. However, there still exists some obstacles in the aspect of materials synthesis, device fabrication, and also the sensor performance optimization as well as their application exploration.Here in this research, several different materials possessing the piezoelectric and triboelectric properties (selenium nanowires, tellurium nanowires, natural polymer hydrogel) have been successfully synthesized, and also a few novel manufacturing techniques (additive manufacturing) have been implemented for the fabrication of wearable sensors. The piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators developed could effectively convert the mechanical energy into electricity for an energy conversion purpose, and also their application as self-powered human-integrated sensors have also been demonstrated, like achieving a real-time monitoring of radial artery pulses. Other applications of the developed sensors, such as serving as electric heaters and infrared cloaking devices are also presented here. This research is expected to have a positive impact and immediate relevance to many societally pervasive areas, e.g. energy and environment, biomedical electronics, and human-machine interface.
title: Transaction Machines – The Infrastructure of Financial Markets
Creators: name: Dragos, Bogdan
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Markets, History, Transactions, Algorithms, High-Frequency Trading, Simondon, Mirowski

description: This thesis describes financial markets as complex machines in the broader sense, as systems for organizing informational flows and performing certain functions in regards to the processing of transactions. We focus on the transaction infrastructure of financial markets, on the flow architecture that allows transactions to happen in the first place. First, in order for a financial market to function there needs to be some mechanism for aggregating and matching disparate transactional requests. Another mechanism is then needed in order to untangle and reduce the complexity of overlapping exposures between participants. The history of finance shows us that there are indeed certain patterns and regularities, procedures and mechanisms present in any system that processes financial transactions. The thesis describes this sequence of functions as transaction machines, understood as complex socio-technical systems for the execution of financial transactions. This is achieved by leveraging a specific philosophical account of technology coupled with a computational and evolutionary account of financial markets. We ultimately focus two types of transaction machines, performing the matching and clearing of financial flows, acting as the infrastructure of financial markets. We also provide a sketch for an evolutionary trajectory of these machines, evolving under the demands and needs of marker participants. From medieval fairs to the millisecond electronic platforms of today, transaction machines have gradually transitioned from human-based ‘hardware’ to electronic automated platforms. Moreover, we also describe the complex power dynamics of contemporary transaction machines. In as much as they are the dominant hubs of global financial markets, the thesis argues for the necessity of a more granular account of the functioning and evolution of transaction machines.
Returning negative results to individuals in a genomic screening program: lessons learned
Creators: name: Kuczynski, Kristine J.
name: Evans, James P.
name: Waltz, Margaret
name: Rini, Christine
name: Goddard, Katrina A. B.
name: Muessig, Kristin R.
name: Butterfield, Rita M.
name: Cadigan, R. Jean
name: Henderson, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2018

description:
Purpose In genomics, the return of negative screening results for rare, medically actionable conditions in large unselected populations with low prior risk of disease is novel and may involve important and nuanced concerns for communicating their meaning. Recruitment may result in self-selection because of participants’ personal or family history, changing the characteristics of the screened population and interpretation of both positive and negative findings; prior motivations may also affect responses to results. Methods Using data from GeneScreen, an exploratory adult screening project that targets 17 genes related to 11 medically actionable conditions, we address four questions: (1) Do participants self-select based on actual or perceived risk for one of the conditions? (2) Do participants understand negative results? (3) What are their psychosocial responses? (4) Are negative results related to changes in reported health-related behaviors? Results We found disproportionate enrollment of individuals at elevated prior risk for conditions being screened, and a need to improve communication about the nature of screening and meaning of negative screening results. Participants expressed no decision regret and did not report intention to change health-related behaviors. Conclusion This study illuminates critical challenges to overcome if genomic screening is to benefit the general population.
title: Remembering Palestine: A multi-media ethnography of generational memories among diaspora Palestinians
Creators: name: Blachnicka-Ciacek, Dominika
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: diaspora, memory, Palestine, exile, ethnographic methods, multi-sensory methods

description: This thesis is a qualitative investigation of memories of Palestine among exiled Palestinians
and their descendants in Poland and in the UK. Taking the continuous character of
Palestinian dispossession as a point of departure, it examines their modes of remembering,
imagining and relating to Palestine. The thesis seeks to contribute to the sociology of
diaspora by shedding light on the multiplicity of situated trajectories that shape diasporic
Palestinians’ relationships with their ‘ancestral’ homeland. It delineates three generations
of Palestinians in diaspora: those exiled in the 1948 and their descendants born in refugee
camps; those who left as a direct or indirect result of the occupation; and those born as
‘second generation migrants’ in their parent’s countries of exile. It argues that while the
continuing erasure of Palestine informs all of their experiences, each generation produces
memories of ancestral homeland in relation to different geographies, temporalities and set
of imaginings. Tracing these differences, I am concerned with how the plurality of diasporic
memories allows generations of Palestinians to endure and constantly re-create their
relationships with the Palestine despite more than six decades of continuous uprooting.

The research is based on oral history interviews with 33 Palestinians in Poland and the UK,
followed by an ethnographic audio-visual exploration of some of the research participants’
sites of memory. The audio-visual engagements have moved back and forth between stories
narrated in Poland and in the UK and site-specific field visits within today’s Israel and the
Occupied Palestinian Territories. The five ethnographic études that accompany the written
part of this thesis strive to restore, at least partially, access to context that was lost with the
participants’ uprooting and to explore the texture and materiality of their dispossession.
This approach contributes to the development of a multi-sensory methodology that seeks to
understand diasporic and exilic experiences by placing the relationship between memory,
time and place at the heart of sociological enquiry.
Design Space Exploration of Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification
Creators: name: Shah, Prasham Alpeshbhai
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Autonomous vehicle systems

description: Computer vision is a domain which deals with the goal of making technology as efficient as human vision. To achieve that goal, after decades of research, researchers have developed algorithms that are able to work efficiently on resource constrained hardware like mobile or embedded devices for computer vision applications. Due to their constant efforts, such devices have become capable for tasks like Image Classification, Object Detection, Object Recognition, Semantic Segmentation, and many other applications. Autonomous systems like self-driving cars, Drones and UAVs, are being successfully developed because of these advances in AI. Deep Learning, a part of AI, is a specific domain of Machine Learning which focuses on developing algorithms for such applications. Deep Learning deals with tasks like extracting features from raw image data, replacing pipelines of specialized models with single end-to-end models, making models usable for multiple tasks with superior performance. A major focus is on techniques to detect and extract features which provide better context for inference about an image or video stream. A deep hierarchy of rich features can be learned and automatically extracted from images, provided by the multiple deep layers of CNN models. CNNs are the backbone of Computer Vision. The reason that CNNs are the focus of attention for deep learning models is that they were specifically designed for image data. They are complicated but very effective in extracting features from an image or a video stream. After AlexNet won the ILSVRC in 2012, there was a drastic increase in research related with CNNs. Many state-of-the-art architectures like VGG Net, GoogleNet, ResNet, Inception-v4, Inception-Resnet-v2, ShuffleNet, Xception, MobileNet, MobileNetV2, SqueezeNet, SqueezeNext and many more were introduced. The trend behind the research depicts an increase in the number of layers of CNN to make them more efficient but with that, the size of the model increased as well. This problem was fixed with the advent of new algorithms which resulted in a decrease in model size. As a result, today we have CNN models, which are implemented on mobile devices. These mobile models are compact and have low latency, which in turn reduces the computational cost of the embedded system. This thesis resembles similar idea, it proposes two new CNN architectures, A-MnasNet and R-MnasNet, which have been derived from MnasNet by Design Space Exploration. These architectures outperform MnasNet in terms of model size and accuracy. They have been trained and tested on CIFAR-10 dataset. Furthermore, they were implemented on NXP Bluebox 2.0, an autonomous driving platform, for Image Classification.
Additional file 1 of Fungal and bacterial communities and their associations in snow-free and snow covered (sub-)alpine Pinus cembra forest soils
Creators: name: Probst, Maraike
name: Telagathoti, Anusha
name: Mandolini, Edoardo
name: Peintner, Ursula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures.
title: The Politics of Public Space and the Emergence of the Commons in Contemporary Athens
Creators: name: Dimitriou, Orsalia
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Public space, Commons, Social Movements, Athens, Exarcheia, Urban, Urban Theory, Urban Design, Visual Ethnography, Architecture, Politics, Democracy, Indignants, December 2008

description: This thesis investigates the public spaces of the contemporary city of Athens within a democratic political framework, analysing the urban space as ‘produced’ (Lefebvre,1991) by material practices of representation and everyday practices of appropriation, rather than as a fixed physical entity. The timeframe of this research coincides with radical changes in the sites that are the subject of the key studies, as the urban riots of December 2008 shattered the solidified and unequal relationship between state and society, introducing new public actors and spaces, such as the commons, while the indignants movement in 2011 questioned the statutory definition of public sphere and the incumbent democratic model.

In order to respond to the challenges of this highly shifting research field, focused in the main statutory square of Syntagma, the notorious main square of Exarcheia and Navarinou Park, and in order to explore the emerging commons and the elusive, informal and heterogeneous civic practices, this project adopts a visual ethnographic perspective. The research material is edited in two separate short films that are intended at the same time as methodological tools, as justification and records of this research, and as creative filmic works and means of advocacy and as such are an intrinsic part of this project.

The core argument and key finding of this thesis is the conjoining of the terms commons and public, spatially, notionally and politically that signals their reciprocal influence and constitution and herein lies a dramatic departure from those urban and social theories in which public space in contemporary democratic society is regarded as inherently bound up with the notion of the state. When analysed in regards to the democratic political model, their convergence constitutes a shared field of practices that enriches  the public sphere and can lead to a deepening of democratisation processes.
sj-pdf-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X211042215 – Supplemental material for Acute motor axonal neuropathy after ipilimumab and nivolumab treatment in melanoma brain metastases: A case report and review of the literature
Creators: name: Piña, Yolanda
name: Evernden, Brittany R.
name: Khushalani, Nikhil
name: Margolin, Kim
name: Tawbi, Hussein
name: Tran, Nam D.
name: Macaulay, Robert
name: Forsyth, Peter
name: Peguero, Edwin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sco-10.1177_2050313X211042215 for Acute motor axonal neuropathy after ipilimumab and nivolumab treatment in melanoma brain metastases: A case report and review of the literature by Yolanda Piña, Brittany R. Evernden, Nikhil Khushalani, Kim Margolin, Hussein Tawbi, Nam D. Tran, Robert Macaulay, Peter Forsyth and Edwin Peguero in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
Investigating the Threats of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) at Airports
Creators: name: Wang, Cheng
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Air transportation and freight services
Technology management
Innovation management

description: Safety is the top priority for the aviation industry and a safe airport environment is essential to aviation safety. However, due to the increasing prevalence of UAS in recent years, UAS sightings have become a potential threat to airports. When UAS appear in the vicinity of airports, they bring safety concerns and result in negative operational and economic impacts on airports. Since the FAA’s mission is to provide the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world, further research regarding the threat of UAS sightings to airports is needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the threat of UAS to airports and in the national airspace system (NAS). This study includes three primary components: the analysis of 6,551 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) UAS sighting reports, a case study of the impacts of the UAS sighting at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) on January 22, 2019, and a synthesis of airport operator perspectives based on interviews with airport personnel at five airports. The analysis of UAS sighting reports shows the characteristics of UAS sightings, the case study on EWR UAS illustrates the impact of the UAS sighting at the airport, and interview results illustrate the current perspective of airport operators regarding the risk of UAS. Along with the results, the scientific methods of identifying and analyzing the characteristics of UAS sightings in controlled airspace close to airports could be used by researchers to study UAS sightings in the future. Findings from this study may be beneficial to multiple stakeholders, including airport personnel, regulators, entrepreneurs, and vendors in the aviation industry.
sj-docx-3-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 – Supplemental material for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-Ju
name: Liu, Shih-Chia
name: Lai, Kuo-Lung
name: Tang, Kuo-Tung
name: Lin, Ching-Heng
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Tseng, Chih-Wei
name: Chang, Yu-Mei
name: Gotcher, Donald F.
name: Chiou, Chuang-Chun
name: Weng, Shao-Jen
name: Chen, Hsin-Hua
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study by Yen-Ju Chen, Shih-Chia Liu, Kuo-Lung Lai, Kuo-Tung Tang, Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen, Chih-Wei Tseng, Yu-Mei Chang, Donald F. Gotcher, Chuang-Chun Chiou, Shao-Jen Weng and Hsin-Hua Chen in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
sj-docx-5-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 – Supplemental material for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study
Creators: name: Chen, Yen-Ju
name: Liu, Shih-Chia
name: Lai, Kuo-Lung
name: Tang, Kuo-Tung
name: Lin, Ching-Heng
name: Chen, Yi-Ming
name: Tseng, Chih-Wei
name: Chang, Yu-Mei
name: Gotcher, Donald F.
name: Chiou, Chuang-Chun
name: Weng, Shao-Jen
name: Chen, Hsin-Hua
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Orthopaedics
Sports Medicine
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-5-tab-10.1177_1759720X211030809 for Factors associated with risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide, population-based, case-control study by Yen-Ju Chen, Shih-Chia Liu, Kuo-Lung Lai, Kuo-Tung Tang, Ching-Heng Lin, Yi-Ming Chen, Chih-Wei Tseng, Yu-Mei Chang, Donald F. Gotcher, Chuang-Chun Chiou, Shao-Jen Weng and Hsin-Hua Chen in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
Dynamic Resonance Frequency Identification for Energy-Efficient Movement of Legged Microbots
Creators: name: Russo, Luca
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: Advances in robotics and manufacturing processes have enabled the development of ex
tremely small robotic devices, even as tiny as a penny. In this domain, legged microrobots
 (a.k.a. microbots) offer numerous potential applications and characteristics to explore. How
ever, controlling such small multi-legged robots presents significant challenges in achieving the
 desired behavior. Primarily, due to the robot’s small size, it can only operate with a tiny
 battery, therefore, an extremely computationally efficient controller is needed. Tiny robots are
 also susceptible to damage and control methodologies are needed that also ensure longevity.
 This thesis work presents a novel approach for creating a control algorithm for a multi-legged
 system that dynamically identifies and operates a microbot at its resonance frequency of move
ment. At the resonance frequency, a microbot’s leg oscillations achieve maximum amplitude
 with minimal energy, resulting in optimal locomotion efficiency. After imposing a sinusoidal
 control for actuating each of the robot’s legs, a two-part controller is developed. The controller
 is then trained using soft actor-critic-based reinforcement learning on a custom model of the
 mClari microbot. A successful simulation-based demonstration of the learning-based controller
 is shown by varying the underlying surface (such as wet, soft, etc.) of the microbot where
 the controller dynamically identifies and switches to the corresponding resonance frequency,
 achieving efficient and adaptive locomotion.
Integrated strategies to develop post-translationally modified proteins in extracellular vesicles as candidate disease markers
Creators: name: Aguilar, Hillary Andaluz
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Analytical chemistry not elsewhere classified
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-enclosed nanoparticles containing proteins and nucleic acid cargo. These vesicles are released by almost all cell types and provide an effective and ubiquitous path for intercellular communication and transmission of pathogenic and signaling molecules among cells. Research into potential biomarkers isolated from EV has been propelled by the development of methods and tools to acquire them by minimally and non-invasive means, which reinforces their great diagnostic potential. In the context of cancer, this opens the door to apply EV based liquid biopsy for early detection prior to alternate, more prevailing diagnostic tools like imaging studies. In autoimmune diseases, EVs play a crucial role in immune responses and as immunomodulatory agents as they can modulate the function of a wide variety of immune cells, especially in antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Several efforts have been made to study EVs and their cargo in numerous disease models, but very few in autoimmunity. Autoimmune diseases are chronic, have been underexplored especially in the omics area, and their diagnosis and treatment rely on traditional therapy. Therefore, there is a need for efficient methods to elucidate biomarkers that could provide additional layers of information for treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis. Additionally, protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as phosphorylation, glycosylation, and acetylation, are involved in multiple essential cellular processes and represent an important mechanism of regulation for cellular physiological functions, leading to the development of effective and targeted therapeutics. Discovery and profiling PTMs have established the relevance of PTMs in EVs and associated EV functions and novel applications. This dissertation proposes integrated proteomic strategies to efficiently isolate and analyze EVs in human plasma from different types of pathologies like cancer and autoimmune diseases. The main focus is the development of the platforms, to not only isolate the proteome from EVs, but also PTMs including phosphorylation, glycosylation and acetylation, simultaneously. Chapter one, which is the core of this dissertation, describes the platform to sequentially isolate and analyze the EV proteome, phosphoproteome and glycoproteome from human plasma. Chapters two and three focus on the ongoing application of this platform with slight modifications into different disease models, in this case breast cancer subtypes and autoimmune diseases.
The chemistry of plutonium partitioning to an acidic, sandy sediment
Creators: name: Loyland, Stacey M.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Sedimentation analysis
Plutonium
Partition coefficient (Chemistry)
Actinide elements

description: Knowledge of the chemistry controlling the partitioning of actinides to soils and sediments in natural systems is essential for modeling their environmental fate and developing safe and cost-effective strategies for remediation. Plutonium (Pu) is known to cycle between sediments and the water column in warm, monomictic reservoirs. The geochemical processes that influence Pu mobility in such systems remain elusive; however, the mechanisms of sorption and release are controlled by the chemistry of the interaction between Pu and specific components of the sediment. Sequential extraction methods were used to elucidate Pu partitioning in a sediment matrix. Two sequential extraction methods were employed, and the methods provided similar results. The majority of the Pu was extracted from the bulk sediment by the treatment intended to target oxidizable components such as natural organic matter. Filter pore size was varied to study the effects of colloidal and suspended material. A fraction of the Pu in this sediment is colloidal, and that material is refractory rather than oxidizable. Finally, studies of Pu distributions in various particle size fractions of the sediment indicate isotopic fractionation with larger fractions of 238Pu being associated with smaller particles than 239+240Pu. When the amount of organic matter associated with each size fraction is considered, these studies suggest that the partitioning of 239+240Pu is more influenced by organic matter than the 238Pu. Based on these results the feasibility of ex-situ remediation technologies such as supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is considered. Ligand assisted SFE was applied to this sediment, and changes in the partitioning of actinides and other metals was determined. This work suggests that under suitable chemical conditions, SFE can be used to extract many metal cations, including actinides, from the sediment while minimizing the generation of secondary waste streams.
Additional file 1 of Family systems approaches in pediatric obesity management: a scoping review
Creators: name: Wills-Ibarra, Natasha
name: Chemtob, Keryn
name: Hart, Heather
name: Frati, Francesca
name: Pratt, Keeley J
name: Ball, Geoff DC
name: Van Hulst, Andraea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Real Time Nanogravimetric Monitoring of Corrosion in Radioactive Environments
Creators: name: Tzagkaroulakis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2017

description: Monitoring and understanding the mechanism of metal corrosion throughout
      the nuclear fuel cycle play a key role in the safe asset management of
      facilities. They also provide information essential for making an informed
      choice regarding the selection of decontamination methods for steel plant
      and equipment scheduled for decommissioning. Recent advances in Quartz
      Crystal Nanobalance (QCN) technology offer the means of monitoring
      corrosion in-situ, in radiologically harsh environments, in real time and
      with high sensitivity. Oxalic acid has been widely used in nuclear plants
      and installations as a corrosion inhibitor for carbon steels and as a
      decontamination cleaning agent due to its ability to remove rust from the
      surface of ferritic metals and alloys. As an exemplar system for
      decontamination, the corrosion behaviour of mild carbon steel and pure
      iron samples in 1 wt% to 8wt% oxalic acid solutions have been measured and
      compared in real time and in situ using QCN. Corrosion rates measured
      using QCN are found to agree with those obtained using corrosion current
      (iCORR) measurements, with the added advantages of: (i) real time
      measurements of higher sensitivity with the potential for making them in
      situ; (ii) reduced uncertainty in the conversion of the QCN measured
      frequency change to a mass change-based corrosion rate compared to the
      conversion of the iCORR measured by LSV with Tafel extrapolation to mass
      change; (iii) the provision of mechanistic insights into the action of
      oxalic acid on Fe-rich steels. QCN has been used as a corrosion monitoring
      technique to study the impact of radiolytically generated peroxide on the
      corrosion protection afforded by oxalate to Fe surfaces. Results reveal
      that QCN can be the ideal means of measuring corrosion rates in situ, in
      real time, when two chemical reactions are taking place such as the
      ferrous oxalate layer production and the breakdown of the layer due to
      Fenton reactions. QCN has been studied as a corrosion monitoring technique
      for other decontamination solutions such as basic and acid permanganate
      and oxalic acid / nitric acid mixtures. Results reveal that QCN is a very
      promising tool for studying the efficacy of these new decontamination
      agent formulations with the sensor providing useful mechanistic
      information of the mode-of-action of the decontaminating agent from the
      mass change (gain or loss) in real time.
Climate Change and Geopolitics: A Conflict in the Arctic
Creators: name: Covino, Lisa
Publisher: name: Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
Year: 2018
Subjects: climate change
Canadian Arctic
sustainability
sustainable development
polar geopolitics
Arctic sovereignty
geoeconomics

description: This thesis is focused on the redefinition of the Canadian domestic and foreign Arctic policies based on a model of sustainability and sustainable development customized for the Arctic region. More specifically, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Arctic has become a pivotal region in terms of energy resources and economic opportunities due to the influence of the effects of climate change on the region. In fact, climate change is considered the prime trigger of ecological phenomena such as raising of the average seasonal temperatures, thawing of the sea ice and dysfunctional patterns of precipitations. As a result, fundamental ecological mechanisms determining the equilibrium and survival of the ecosystem, such as the albedo effect, are affected, producing alterations in the ecosystem’s biodiversity and physical composition. Therefore, this thesis will focus on the causal relationship that links climate change with both ecological changes and geopolitical and economic opportunities. First, I will analyze this region from an ecological perspective, thus I will define the Arctic as an ecosystem, which means a systemic unit in the planetary environmental system of ecological mechanisms. Through the theory of tipping points, I will demonstrate the crucial role played by the stability of this region in the determination of planetary wind and oceanic currencies. Then I will focus my attention on the great availability of natural and energy resources in the region. I will consider Canada and the Canadian North as a case study to understand the importance of the Arctic physical composition in the determination of domestic and foreign policies. In fact, the increasing global demand for energy resources and the potential opening of a faster and larger international shipping route compared to the Panama Canal make the Arctic at the centre of global economic policies. For this reason, Canada is trying to obtain a globally recognized leading position in the research about the effects of climate change in the region and internationally recognized sovereign borders in the North. Finally, after having understood and described the region’s ecological vulnerabilities and the main Canadian interests in the North, I will develop a customized model of sustainable policy making for the region. I will ground my model on the theories of sustainability science and geoeconomics. I will achieve a deep understanding of the major Canadian economic objectives, describing them in sustainable terms, which means that I will define the set of parameters, such as public investments, necessary to make an economic policy as much ‘environmentally harmless’ as possible. My objective is determining a new Canadian model of sustainable policymaking, aimed at the protection and development of the North.