cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What a Difference Professor Beebe Makes
Creators: name: Geyer, Naomi
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: I first met Professor Beebe while attending the Teachers College, Columbia University, Tokyo Program. I was pursuing an MA in TESOL while teaching English full-time at a Japanese secondary school. One day, I overheard classmates gossiping about a professor from New York who was scheduled to teach the following semester. One student who claimed to have friends in the New York program warned that she was “extremely tough,” “super-strict,” and “slaughters you if you are not good enough.” I visualized this fearsome lady as an old scholar with thick glasses and penetrating eyes. Needless to say, we were positively frightened.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Narratives of coping among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: DeBruyn, Claire E.W.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Since 2019, the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has spread across the world and caused health, social, political and economic impacts. International students have been experiencing disproportionate and unique impacts due to COVID-19, but despite this, there is a lack of research examining how they were navigating, or coping with, these challenges (Browning et al., 2021; Koo, Yao, Gong, 2021; Maleku et al., 2021). This study sought to expand on the unique experiences international students had during the pandemic and explore their narratives of coping. The research design was based on narrative inquiry, within a social constructionist paradigm. The participants were six international students attending the University of British Columbia who were willing to discuss their challenges during the pandemic and how they navigated those challenges. Each participant completed an hour to hour and a half long interview, and a follow-up respondent verification interview. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Six major themes emerged through data analysis including; taking action, social connection, optimism and hope, acceptance, complications with coping, and growth. This study furthers research in this area and contributes to the knowledge base to better help counsellors and institutions understand and support these students.
Additional file 2 of Curcumin suppresses cell proliferation and reduces cholesterol absorption in Caco-2 cells by activating the TRPA1 channel
Creators: name: Qin, Si
name: Su, Qian
name: Li, Xiang
name: Shao, Muqing
name: Zhang, Yindi
name: Yu, Fadong
name: Ni, Yinxing
name: Zhong, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Language Socialization in the Tub: Examining Both Sides of the Interaction
Creators: name: Jacknick, Christine M.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: As a first-semester doctoral student in Leslie Beebe’s Linguistic Anthropology class, when the time came to start developing my final project, I had read seminal articles on language socialization, as well as more recent studies. I also had great data (20 months’ worth of video recordings of interaction between a child and her caregivers), but no direction in which to take it. As Leslie advised, I reviewed the video recordings to find excerpts that seemed superficially interesting to me, and then transcribed those instances in detail to determine why I had found them interesting in the first place. Again and again in office hours, she urged me to find the gap in the literature and to be clear about the story I wanted to tell with my data. Working with Leslie to narrow my focus led me to a work process that I have returned to time and again in subsequent projects. It is a process I am utilizing now as I analyze data for my dissertation. I will briefly present my findings from that earlier language socialization study below, and will conclude by examining how the experience of working on that project has shaped my subsequent work.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Cultural Difference or Male Dominance?: (Re)adjusting the Lens on the Maternal Image in Language Socialization Practices
Creators: name: DelPrete, Donna
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: It is not uncommon for doctoral students to experience some sort of intellectual turning point in the course of our studies. At this juncture a light bulb may go off, allowing us to experience an “Aha” moment (Tannen, 1984) with regard to a particular issue. This leads us to re-examine some of our most deeply ingrained beliefs about a particular research area. We stroll down new paths, explore new territories, and find new spaces to ponder our questions. One such exploration began for me in the spring of 2005, while I was enrolled in Interactional Sociolinguistics with Dr. Leslie M. Beebe. This course not only exposed me to a discourse analytic approach that would be foundational to my future dissertation work, but it also provided me with a new and expanded perspective on discourse and gender. The course was indeed an intellectual turning point in my life that began when I examined the debate surrounding crossgender (mis)communication, and then came full circle when I discovered an interest in family discourse and the maternal figure—an outgrowth of a Linguistic Anthropology course also taught by Dr. Beebe the following term.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
An Inverse Problem for Gibbs Fields with Hard Core Potential
Creators: name: Koralov, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G55, 60G60

description: It is well known that for a regular stable potential of pair interaction and a small value of activity one can define the corresponding Gibbs field (a measure on the space of configurations of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$). In this paper we consider a converse problem. Namely, we show that for a sufficiently small constant $\overlineρ_1$ and a sufficiently small function $\overlineρ_2(x)$, $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$, that is equal to zero in a neighborhood of the origin, there exist a hard core pair potential, and a value of activity, such that $\overlineρ_1$ is the density and $\overlineρ_2$ is the pair correlation function of the corresponding Gibbs field.
Pragmatics in Academia: The Role of Gender and Power Relations in the Use of Implicatures
Creators: name: Grujicic-Alatriste, Lubie
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: “Waiting to see me?” asked Dr. Beebe. Was it an implicature or a speech act? Was the utterance intended as an invitation—Come in—or as a request for information—Are you here to see me? I stood up and followed Dr. Beebe into her office. This very first encounter ushered pragmatics into my life. It was also my first step in discovering many different aspects of interaction, and later on, it allowed me to go in my research where others feared to tread, so to speak. Doctor Beebe’s passion for pragmatics, and her ability to ignite her students’ desire to pursue questions relevant to their lives, has kept many of us in her camp. The findings that will be presented in this paper come from my first research study inspired by Dr. Beebe’s class on pragmatics.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Discourse Markers in Cross-Cultural Conversation
Creators: name: Jung, Ji-Young
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: It is a great pleasure to offer this tribute to Professor Leslie M. Beebe and to help celebrate her vital contribution to the field of cross-cultural pragmatics (CCP). There is no denying that Professor Beebe stands as a distinguished scholar in the field. Anyone who wishes to conduct research on second language (L2) pragmatics would not be able to begin without learning of or citing her work. Among her contributions to the field, I would first like to ponder her groundbreaking call for serious attention to L2 pragmatics as early as the mid-1980s, a time when pragmatics was a neglected area in second language acquisition (SLA) research and L2 pedagogy. In a number of scholarly papers and at conferences, she suggested that “the social rules of speaking” are “basics, not frosting on the cake” (Beebe, 1995, p. 4). Professor Beebe is acknowledged among SLA researchers as one of the earliest linguists who was deeply concerned with cross-cultural misunderstandings (which often lead to unfortunate and offensive cultural stereotyping) resulting from a lack of pragmatic competence.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Matroids and Quantum Secret Sharing Schemes
Creators: name: Sarvepalli, Pradeep
name: Raussendorf, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A secret sharing scheme is a cryptographic protocol to distribute a secret state in an encoded form among a group of players such that only authorized subsets of the players can reconstruct the secret. Classically, efficient secret sharing schemes have been shown to be induced by matroids. Furthermore, access structures of such schemes can be characterized by an excluded minor relation. No such relations are known for quantum secret sharing schemes. In this paper we take the first steps toward a matroidal characterization of quantum secret sharing schemes. In addition to providing a new perspective on quantum secret sharing schemes, this characterization has important benefits. While previous work has shown how to construct quantum secret sharing schemes for general access structures, these schemes are not claimed to be efficient. In this context the present results prove to be useful; they enable us to construct efficient quantum secret sharing schemes for many general access structures. More precisely, we show that an identically self-dual matroid that is representable over a finite field induces a pure state quantum secret sharing scheme with information rate one.
Binding cooperativity of membrane adhesion receptors
Creators: name: Krobath, Heinrich
name: Rozycki, Bartosz
name: Lipowsky, Reinhard
name: Weikl, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The adhesion of cells is mediated by receptors and ligands anchored in apposing membranes. A central question is how to characterize the binding affinity of these membrane-anchored molecules. For soluble molecules, the binding affinity is typically quantified by the binding equilibrium constant K3D in the linear relation [RL] = K3D [R][L] between the volume concentration [RL] of bound complexes and the volume concentrations [R] and [L] of unbound molecules. For membrane-anchored molecules, it is often assumed by analogy that the area concentration of bound complexes [RL] is proportional to the product [R][L] of the area concentrations for the unbound receptor and ligand molecules. We show here (i) that this analogy is only valid for two planar membranes immobilized on rigid surfaces, and (ii) that the thermal roughness of flexible membranes leads to cooperative binding of receptors and ligands. In the case of flexible membranes, the area concentration [RL] of receptor-ligand bonds is proportional to the square of [R][L] for typical lengths and concentrations of receptors and ligands in cell adhesion zones. The cooperative binding helps to understand why different experimental methods for measuring the binding affinity of membrane-anchored molecules have led to values differing by several orders of magnitude.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Soft Matter
Pragmatic and Academic Socialization
Creators: name: Li, Duanduan
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: As Leslie’s advisee for seven years in the 1990s, I had the privilege of studying with a master teacher, caring mentor, and brilliant researcher who, over time, also became a cherished friend. Leslie’s compassion, sense of humor, passion for her subject matter as well as for life, and her academic vitality—or charisma—have impressed me more than she will ever know. I am indeed grateful for the foundation she gave me in sociolinguistics and second language (L2) pragmatics. I have never known a professor who could engage her students in such a powerful, enlightening, and entertaining way, as I experienced in the many captivating three-hour doctoral seminars I took with Leslie over the years.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
From Frequency to Meaning: Vector Space Models of Semantics
Creators: name: Turney, Peter D.
name: Pantel, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.1; I.2.6; I.2.7

description: Computers understand very little of the meaning of human language. This profoundly limits our ability to give instructions to computers, the ability of computers to explain their actions to us, and the ability of computers to analyse and process text. Vector space models (VSMs) of semantics are beginning to address these limits. This paper surveys the use of VSMs for semantic processing of text. We organize the literature on VSMs according to the structure of the matrix in a VSM. There are currently three broad classes of VSMs, based on term-document, word-context, and pair-pattern matrices, yielding three classes of applications. We survey a broad range of applications in these three categories and we take a detailed look at a specific open source project in each category. Our goal in this survey is to show the breadth of applications of VSMs for semantics, to provide a new perspective on VSMs for those who are already familiar with the area, and to provide pointers into the literature for those who are less familiar with the field.
“Could You, Perhaps, Pretty Please?”: Request Directness in Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization
Creators: name: Tatton, Heather
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: I am grateful to Professor Beebe for introducing me to the field of discourse analysis. Since that first introductory class, I have continued to be intrigued by the many facets of discourse studies. I was so affected that in subsequent courses, if the option was available, I chose to focus my assigned research on an area related to discourse, including studies in pragmatics and conversation analysis. In addition, I have internalized much of what I learned from Professor Beebe and have a tendency to apply it to everyday conversations (sometimes to the dismay of my friends and family members). The article below is an excerpt from the first paper that I submitted to Professor Beebe. I remember it fondly and will always be thankful for her assistance and influence.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Social Network of Ottoman Constantine, Algeria, 1567-1837
Creators: name: Sanders, Ashley
name: Dean, Veronica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ottoman Empire
subject: network analysis
subject: history
subject: Algeria
subject: social network

description: Contains the nodes and edges lists as CSV files for the Ottoman-Algerian social network, as well as a code book for the data in both CSV and Excel file formats.
The Gamma-Gamma Interaction : A Critical Test of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Yock, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data from the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) at CERN on hadron production in gamma-gamma interactions exceed the predictions of the standard model by an order of magnitude at the highest observed transverse momenta in three channels. The amplitude for the process is asymptotically proportional to the sum of the squares of the charges of quarks. The data are suggestive of models where quarks have unit charges, or larger, and where partons have substructure. A previously proposed model of electro-strong interactions includes both these features. Definitive measurements could be made with either of the linear electron-positron colliders that have been proposed, viz. the International Linear Collider (ILC) or the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). However, an electron-electron collider employing the recently developed plasma wakefield acceleration technique could provide the most affordable option. An independent check of the multi-muon events that were recently reported at Fermilab could also be made with this type of collider.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, invited paper at "Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Field Theory: 75 Years since Solvay", November 27-29, 2008, Singapore; typos corrected in v2
A Multi-Layered Framework of Framing
Creators: name: Johnson, Rebekah J.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: Professor Leslie M. Beebe has always been an unfailing source of encouragement, a wealth of knowledge and insight, and a wonderful critic. She has taught me much about pragmatics and sociolinguistics, the foundations of my current interests in the social construction of meaning in interaction. My passion for discourse analysis developed while taking several of Professor Beebe’s courses, in particular Interactional Sociolinguistics, where I was introduced to the notion of framing. From our classroom discussions and readings, I developed a conceptualization of framing that became the underlying framework for my subsequent research and current dissertation work on family discourse and identity construction. Below is an adaptation of the “framework of framing” from my data collection paper in the Interactional Sociolinguistics class.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Framing, Footing, and Alignment
Creators: name: Wine, Linda
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: Goffman’s (1974, 1981) ideas on framing, footing, and alignment provide a powerful lens for examining social roles, how they are signaled, and how speakers position themselves vis-à-vis one another during interactions. However, as constructs, these terms can be so squishy that one is tempted to quote that famous Supreme Court line on the definition of pornography: “I might not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it” (Simpson, 1988). On the one hand, the richness of Goffman's notions resides precisely in their ability qua metaphors to be sufficiently imprecise to capture the vagaries and ambivalences of the human condition. As Lakoff and Johnson (1980) note, the very strength of metaphors is in their ability to express what is hard to pin down in more reductionist ways. On the other hand, the strength of one's work in the social sciences often rests on empirical research. Consequently, finding workable definitions for constructs—which, by their very nature, can be elusive—is an important part of the game. And hitting upon a definition others embrace is tantamount to striking gold.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
On the applications of mu=-1 metamaterial lenses for magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Freire, Manuel J.
name: Jelinek, Lukas
name: Marques, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work some possible applications of negative permeability magnetic metamaterial lenses for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are analyzed. Metamaterials are artificial composites designed to have a given permittivity and/or permeability, including negative values for these constants. It is shown that using magnetic metamaterials lenses it is possible to manipulate the spatial distribution of the radio-frequency (RF) field used in MR systems and, under some circumstances, improve the sensitivity of surface coils. Furthermore a collimation of the RF field, phenomenon that may find application in parallel imaging, is presented. MR images of real tissues are shown in order to prove the suitability of the theoretical analysis for practical applications.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Understanding relationships between people and nature in the context of privately protected areas in Peru
Creators: name: López De La Lama, Rocío María
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The global biodiversity crisis needs innovative and flexible strategies for nature conservation. Privately protected areas (PPAs) offer a potential avenue for citizen participation in conservation efforts but fulfilling their potential depends on a deeper understanding of the underlying reasons for establishing PPAs and the challenges faced by landowners. This dissertation follows a structural and individual perspective to understand the governance context surrounding PPAs and the diverse and meaningful relationships that landowners have with nature, humans, and more-than-human beings that they seek to protect through the PPA. The focus is primarily on Peru, where PPAs have proliferated across the country despite limited governmental support and multiple structural challenges. This research involves an extensive review of legal frameworks governing PPAs in South American countries, followed by 32 semi-structured interviews with landowners who own and manage a PPA in Peru. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the legal frameworks recognizing PPAs in South America. Here I found that a disparity exists between low government support for PPAs and high commitment expected of landowners. Chapter 3 challenges the common perception that PPAs are established by wealthy and foreign landowners, revealing that local people are the main implementers. These landowners hold diverse intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values that underlie their commitment to voluntary conservation initiatives. Chapter 4 showcases that landowners implement multiple stewardship practices within their PPAs as a relational act of care and love for the land. Through these practices, landowners deepen their relationships with the land they seek to protect and restore, perceiving multiple personal, social, and environmental outcomes throughout the process. However, Chapter 5 uncovers a high degree of tenure insecurity among landowners, which directly impacts the long-term sustainability of these initiatives. This last empirical chapter underscores the need for robust legal frameworks concerning property rights, strengthening institutional capacity, and recognition of both formal and informal tenure systems to ensure the effectiveness of PPAs.
Knowing Your Reader: Text-External Influences on Textual Features in Résumé Construction
Creators: name: Fagan, Drew S.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: In the field of teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), great importance has often been placed on using language in authentic ways. As a result of the inability of many second language (L2) students to construct and adapt language for various academic and professional needs (St. John, 1996), genre analysis has gained attention as a framework for teaching ESL students to write texts they way they are constructed in authentic situations. However, the lack of empiricallyderived discipline-specific genre exemplars to practically utilize in the L2 writing classroom has prompted the need for (a) further analysis of various texts found outside of the classroom setting and (b) an investigation into how language is manipulated to meet the purposes of those texts. Following Bhatia’s (2008) and Cheng’s (2008) notions that students need to have practical genre exemplars to aid them in understanding how text-external influences (e.g., the purpose for writing and the reader’s expectations) affect linguistic choices, the focus of this paper is to demonstrate how one type of professional text, the résumé, is constructed using a genre-based framework.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
The effects of thermohaline mixing on low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars
Creators: name: Stancliffe, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effects of thermohaline mixing on the composition of the envelopes of low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. We have evolved models of 1, 1.5 and 2 solar masses from the pre-main sequence to the end of the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch with thermohaline mixing applied throughout the simulations. In agreement with other authors, we find that thermohaline mixing substantially reduces the abundance of helium-3 on the upper part of the red giant branch in our lowest mass model. However, the small amount of helium-3 that remains is enough to drive thermohaline mixing on the AGB. We find that thermohaline mixing is most efficient in the early thermal pulses and its efficiency drops from pulse to pulse. Nitrogen is not substantially affected by the process, but we do see substantial changes in carbon-13. The carbon-12 to carbon-13 ratio is substantially lowered during the early thermal pulses but the efficacy of the process is seen to diminish rapidly. As the process stops after a few pulses, the carbon-12 to carbon-13 ratio is still able to reach values of 10^3-10^4, which is inconsistent with the values measured in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars. We also note a surprising increase in the lithium-7 abundance, with log epsilon(Li-7) reaching values of over 2.5 in the 1.5 solar mass model. It is thus possible to get stars which are both C- and Li-rich at the same time. We compare our models to measurements of carbon and lithium in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars which have not yet reached the giant branch. These models can simultaneously reproduced the observed C and Li abundances of carbon-enhanced metal-poor turn-off stars that are Li-rich, but the observed nitrogen abundances still cannot be matched.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 12 pages, 7 figures
Topic Familiarity and Input Enhancement: An Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Combs, Charles
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: Over the past 15 years, SLA practitioners have devoted a sizable amount of research to investigating the effectiveness of various pedagogical interventions on L2 learners’ processing of input and their subsequent performance. Textual input enhancement (Sharwood Smith, 1993) and topic familiarity (Lesser, 2004) are two such approaches that researchers have investigated in this domain. The current quasi-experimental study, which involves 36 adult ESL learners, attempts to measure the impact of these two approaches upon the participants’ acquisition of form. In the study, the researcher incorporates grammatical structures—vis-à-vis textual input enhancement—in a meaning-oriented ESL reading class to observe the impact on the learners. The researcher also examines the role topic familiarity plays in acquisition of form.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2008)
Reactive T Cells in Convalescent COVID-19 Patients With Negative SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Serology
Creators: name: Steiner, Sophie
name: Schwarz, Tatjana
name: Corman, Victor M.
name: Sotzny, Franziska
name: Bauer, Sandra
name: Drosten, Christian
name: Volk, Hans-Dieter
name: Scheibenbogen, Carmen
name: Hanitsch, Leif G.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
subject: T cell response
subject: seronegative
subject: antibody response
subject: human endemic coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E)
subject: human endemic coronavirus OC43 (HCoV-OC43)
subject: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Despite RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19, specific antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 spike are undetectable in serum in approximately 10% of convalescent patients after mild disease course. This raises the question of induction and persistence of SARS-CoV-2-reactive T cells in these convalescent individuals. Using flow cytometry, we assessed specific SARS-CoV-2 and human endemic coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, -OC43) reactive T cells after stimulation with spike and nucleocapsid peptide pools and analyzed cytokine polyfunctionality (IFNγ, TNFα, and IL-2) in seropositive and seronegative convalescent COVID-19 patients as well as in unexposed healthy controls. Stimulation with SARS-CoV-2 spike and nucleocapsid (NCAP) as well as HCoV spike peptide pools elicited a similar T cell response in seropositive and seronegative post COVID-19 patients. Significantly higher frequencies of polyfunctional cytokine nucleocapsid reactive CD4+ T cells (triple positive for IFNγ, TNFα, and IL-2) were observed in both, seropositive (p = 0.008) and seronegative (p = 0.04), COVID-19 convalescent compared to healthy controls and were detectable up to day 162 post RT-PCR positivity in seronegative convalescents. Our data indicate an important role of NCAP-specific T cells for viral control.
Developing an Implicit Association Test to Explore Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes of Empathy in Scientists among University Students in England
Creators: name: Qin, Yishu
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Stereotypes of Scientist
Empathy
Implicit Association Test

description: Over the past 50 years, strong social norms have developed in Western societies that encourage people to curb the overt expression of prejudice and stereotypes based on social categories such as gender and race. Yet, approaches applying new measurement of stereotypes, focusing on implicit evaluations and beliefs that are not under conscious control, suggest that such suppressed thoughts are not simply eliminated but may leak out in more subtle ways. Recent work has demonstrated that one of the subtle ways is through feature-based stereotyping. Regarding the issue of women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields, we argue that instead of referring to gender-based stereotypes, students may look to other characteristics (e.g., empathy) as a feature-based cue to determine whether they fit the image of particular careers. The main purpose of the PhD project was to develop a new Implicit Association Test (IAT) to explore people’s unconscious feature-based stereotyping of empathy in scientists. It was comprised of three stages. In the first stage, the procedure of how to systematically design and computerize the online Science-Empathy IAT (SE-IAT) was presented. In the second stage, psychometric properties of the newly developed SE-IAT were examined and issues with the original SE-IAT were addressed by modifying the test to the Single-Category SE-IAT (SSE-IAT). In the third stage, comparisons between implicit and explicit attitudes were made using the modified SSE-IAT and self-report questionnaires. Results showed that implicit and explicit stereotypes were distinct constructs. Despite the self-report positive attitudes, participants demonstrated implicit bias against empathy in scientists. Moreover, different gendered patterns, as well as variations by major subject, were also observed for implicit and explicit stereotypes. Finally, explicit stereotype, but not implicit stereotype, was found to relate to scientific career aspirations. These findings indicate that the ‘socially clumsy’ image of scientists may still be a deeply embedded stereotype amongst University students in England. Interventions such as counter-stereotyping role models are in demand to attract more people to pursue science.
Thermodynamics and phases in quantum gravity
Creators: name: Husain, Viqar
name: Mann, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an approach for studying quantum gravity effects on black hole thermodynamics. This combines a quantum framework for gravitational collapse with quasi-local definitions of energy and surface gravity. Our arguments suggest that (i) the specific heat of a black hole becomes positive after a phase transition near the Planck scale,(ii) its entropy acquires a logarithmic correction, and (iii) the mass loss rate is modified such that Hawking radiation stops near the Planck scale. These results are due essentially to a realization of fundamental discreteness in quantum gravity, and are in this sense potentially theory independent.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure; matches published version
Intersections Between Violence and Health Promotion Among Indigenous Women Living in Canada
Creators: name: Williams, Julie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Indigenous women
intimate partner violence
structural violence
nursing
qualitative research
systematic review
colonization
cultural humility
Canada
trauma and violence informed care

description: Violence against Indigenous women is a major public health concern worldwide and Canada is no exception. Multiple forms of violence inform the broader context of violence against Indigenous women. Nurses are likely to encounter Indigenous women in a variety of settings, but evidence suggests that nurses may lack understandings of violence. This thesis explored the following question: How does extant qualitative research conducted in Canada, contribute to understanding the health and wellbeing of First Nations, Métis and Inuit (Indigenous) women who have experienced violence? During the development of this thesis, significant gaps were highlighted including underrepresentation of Inuit women in the literature, limited focus on health promotion, and lack of methodological approaches to systematic reviews that were participatory and inclusive of the community. Therefore, a secondary aim of this thesis was to privilege perspectives of Inuit women and their communities, by developing a study protocol for a collaborative and community centered approach to reviewing and assessing the extant literature. A configurative and inductive approach based on thematic synthesis was used to systematically search, retrieve, analyze and synthesize extant literature. Post-colonial feminist theory and intersectionality were used as theoretical lenses to emphasize intersections between multiple forms of violence and locate the problem within the broader context of colonization and oppression. Sixteen studies were included in this review, fifteen qualitative and one mixed methods study. Four themes with subthemes emerged based on analysis and synthesis of findings in the included studies: 1) ruptured connections between family and home, 2) that emptiness… my spirit being removed, 3) seeking help and feeling unheard, and 4) a core no one can touch. These themes represent interconnected pathways that influenced health among Indigenous women, and have implications for healthy public policy, clinical practice, and nursing education.
Additional file 1 of IL-22 inhibits bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in association with inhibition of IL-17A in mice
Creators: name: Qu, Ziye
name: Dou, Wencan
name: Zhang, Kexin
name: Duan, Lili
name: Zhou, Dongmei
name: Yin, Songlou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sequence of primers used in the study. Figure S1. Lung tissues were collected at day 7 post bleomycin administration. qPCR was used to detect mRNA level of IL-22RA1 in lung tissues (n = 6). GAPDH was used as a normalization gene. Data represent fold changes relative to normal control. Figure S2. In the bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis model, lung tissues were collected at day 7 and day 21. qPCR was used to detect mRNA (n = 6) levels of IL-17 subtypes. Data are mean ± SEM, compared using one-way ANOVA test. *, P < 0.05. Figure S3. NIH/3T3 cells and MLFs were cultured with or without the IL-17A siRNAs. Western blotting was used to detect protein level of IL-17A (n = 3). Relative intensity of each band was normalized to GAPDH protein. The relevant gels and blots were cropped. Data are mean ± SEM, compared using t-test. *, P < 0.05.
Study Protocol: Validation and Adaptation of community-workeradministered stroke symptom questionnaire in a periurban Pakistani community to determine disease burden
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Background—Stroke is the second leading cause of mortality and the leading cause of disability in the world today. The disease burden is on the rise in developing nations, but there is scarcity of data from these regions to inform policy decisions. Stroke burden can be determined by clinical diagnosis alone in the public health context and is a far more feasible way to assess disease status in low- to middle-income countries like Pakistan. We aim to translate and adapt a validated stroke symptom questionnaire, train community health workers in its administration, and verify it against assessment by two trained neurologists. Methods/Design—This is a prospective study, which we aim to carry out in Ibrahim Hyderi, a periurban slum of Karachi. We translated into Urdu the questionnaire for verifying stroke free status (QVSFS), which is an internationally validated tool to assess the same. Two community health workers (CHW) will be identified and will receive training by neurologists, which will include teaching regarding stroke pathophysiology, symptomatology, and detection. They will be familiarized with the QVSFS, and their questionnaire administration will be assessed through roleplay. We intend to recruit 322 subjects from the same community and the CHWs will gather data on them. The same subjects will later be assessed by two trained neurologists, and the findings collaborated to validate those obtained by the CHWs. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and Cohen's kappa will be determined for the CHW-administered questionnaire tested against assessment by two neurologists together and separately for the two CHWs. Data analysis will be done using SPSS version 19.0. Discussion—The results of this study will determine if and how well CHW-administered questionnaires are at assessing stroke status in a community. This will facilitate use of the same as a practical alternative for stroke surveillance in the country.
An interview with Dr. Bill VanPatten
Creators: name: Choong, Kung-Wan Philip
name: Liao, Yen-Fen Alick
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: Editorial Board members Philip Choong and Alick Liao recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Bill VanPatten, the invited guest speaker at the 2008 APPLE Lecture sponsored by the Programs in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2008)
Anchoring of quality variance factors and uncovering its influence on the flavor quality of BCSGB during aging process of sun-exposure
Creators: name: Chen, Hao
name: Hou, Yaxin
name: Huang, He
name: Sun, Yue
name: Wu, Yashuai
name: Hong, Jiaxin
name: Zhao, Dongrui
name: Sun, Jinyuan
name: Huang, Mingquan
name: Sun, Baoguo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The aging process is crucial to improve the harmony and fullness of the flavor of baijiu. Nevertheless, the traditional aging process consumes space and times and significantly increased the loss of baijiu. Hence, how to shorten the aging time through manual intervention becomes the research hotspot. Thus, a new aging method of exposure to sunlight was established to accelerate the balance of flavor compounds in baijiu. It was still unclear about the quality variance factors and its influence on the flavor quality of BCSGB (banchengshaoguo baijiu) during the sun-exposure process. Hence, adsorption pen combined with GC–MS were utilized to identify trace components, and pH liquid–liquid extraction and GC–O–MS were employed to screen and assess flavor compounds. Afterward, based on the sensory evaluation of BCSGB, three assessment systems (sensory evaluation, mental test, and random forest) were created to screen the quality variance factors. Thus, the quality variance factors were responsive to changes in the flavor quality of BCSGB during the sun-exposure process, which support process quality monitoring and aging process optimization.
Readers’ Credits for Volume 8, Issue 1
Creators: name: Grabowski, Kirby
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2008

description: Teachers College, Columbia University, Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics thanks the following people for one or more reviews of the manuscripts for Volume 8, Issue 1 (2008).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2008)
R-charges, Chiral Rings and RG Flows in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theories
Creators: name: Niarchos, Vasilis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the non-perturbative behavior of the U(1)_R symmetry in N=2 superconformal Chern-Simons theories coupled to matter in the (anti)fundamental and adjoint representations of the gauge group, which we take to be U(N). Inequalities constraining this behavior are obtained as consequences of spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry and Seiberg duality. This information reveals a web of RG flows connecting different interacting superconformal field theories in three dimensions. We observe that a subclass of these theories admits an ADE classification. In addition, we postulate new examples of Seiberg duality in N=2 and N=3 Chern-Simons-matter theories and point out interesting parallels with familiar non-perturbative properties in N=1 (adjoint) SQCD theories in four dimensions where the exact U(1)_R symmetry can be determined using a-maximization.
description: 47 pages, 4 figures; v2 paragraph added below eq. (4.17) about R_X,lim; v3 added footnote 3, a reference, and minor changes to match the JHEP published version
Topic Modeling French-Language Chronicles of Ottoman Constantine, Algeria
Creators: name: Sanders, Ashley
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algeria
subject: corpus
subject: topic model
subject: French
subject: Ottoman Empire
subject: history

description: Contains the corpus with documents from the three French-language chronicles of Ottoman Constantine created by splitting each volume into one document per governor. This folder also contains the stopwords list used, the index of governors to assist with reference lookup, and each model's output files.
Slow Mass Transport and Statistical Evolution of An Atomic Gas Across the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition
Creators: name: Hung, Chen-Lung
name: Zhang, Xibo
name: Gemelke, Nathan
name: Chin, Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transport dynamics of ultracold cesium atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice across the superfluid-Mott insulator transition based on in situ imaging. Inducing the phase transition with a lattice ramping routine expected to be locally adiabatic, we observe a global mass redistribution which requires a very long time to equilibrate, more than 100 times longer than the microscopic time scales for on-site interaction and tunneling. When the sample enters the Mott insulator regime, mass transport significantly slows down. By employing fast recombination pulses to analyze the occupancy distribution, we observe similarly slow-evolving dynamics, and a lower effective temperature at the center of the sample.
Characteristics of the Users of Troubled Desire, a Web-Based Self-management App for Individuals With Sexual Interest in Children: Descriptive Analysis of Self-assessment Data
Creators: name: Schuler, Miriam
name: Gieseler, Hannes
name: Schweder, Katharina W.
name: Heyden, Maximilian Von
name: Beier, Klaus M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: pedophilia
subject: hebephilia
subject: child sexual offenses
subject: child sexual abuse material
subject: web-based assessment
subject: web-based treatment
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Despite the high prevalence of child sexual offenses and the increasing amounts of available child sexual abuse material, there is a global shortage of preventive interventions focusing on individuals at risk of sexual offending. The web-based app Troubled Desire aims to address this shortage by offering self-assessments and self-management training modules in different languages to individuals with sexual interests in prepubescent and early pubescent children (ie, those with pedophilic and hebephiliac sexual interest, respectively). Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of the users of the Troubled Desire app. Methods: The fully completed self-assessment data gathered within the first 30 months of this study from October 25, 2017 to April 25, 2020 were investigated. The main outcome measures were (1) sociodemographic information and (2) sexual interests and sexual behaviors of the users of Troubled Desire. Results: The self-assessment was completed by 4161 users. User accesses were mainly from Germany (2277/4161, 54.7%) and the United States (474/4161, 11.4%). Approximately 78.9% (3281/4161) of the users reported sexual interest in children; these users were significantly more likely to report distress and trouble owing to their sexual interest. Further, child sexual offenses and consumption of child sexual abuse material were significantly more common among users with sexual interest in children than among users with no sexual interest in children. Additionally, the majority of the offenses were not known to legal authorities. Conclusions: The Troubled Desire app is useful in reaching out to individuals with sexual interest in prepubescent and early pubescent children. However, future research is warranted to understand the prospective relevance of the Troubled Desire app in the prevention of child sexual offending.