cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hypertension, endothelial tyrosine hydroxylase, and hypoxia
Creators: name: Nygren, Johan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: A hypothetical disturbed feedback loop during chronic hypertension, hypoxia in vessel walls from compression upregulates TH, increases adrenaline synthesis and excretion from endothelium, increases cardiac output and contracts vascular system, increases blood pressure, increases compression-damage, upregulates TH, and so on.
Mucus clearance in the respiratory tract: A new concept? [Un nouveau concept de mécanisme de clairance respiratoire ?]
Creators: name: Ehre, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Dans toutes les muqueuses, respiratoire,
gastro-intestinale ou encore celle
des voies génitales, la présence d’un
film viscoélastique de mucus est nécessaire
pour protéger l’organisme contre
l’invasion d’agents pathogènes, qu’il
s’agisse de virus, bactéries ou autres
polluants. Ce mucus est constitué principalement
de larges glycoprotéines,
appelées mucines, qui doivent être parfaitement
hydratées pour maintenir les
propriétés viscoélastiques du mucus.
Dans les voies respiratoires, la couche
de mucus séquestre les agents inhalés
et progresse, grâce aux battements
ciliaires des cellules sous-jacentes, vers
la glotte. Le mucus est continuellement
avalé ou expectoré, ce qui définit le
mécanisme de clairance pulmonaire.
Depuis des décennies, le dogme veut
que les cellules ciliées battent librement
dans un milieu aqueux et propulsent
le mucus qui flotte sur l’épithélium
respiratoire, mais nous avons récemment
réfuté ce concept dans une étude
publiée dans Science [1]. En effet, l’ancienne
notion ne permet pas d’expliquer
l’incidence des plaques de mucus observées
dans les maladies caractérisées par
l’obstruction pulmonaire (par exemple :
bronchite chronique, mucoviscidose ou
asthme). Notre étude montre que l’espace
périciliaire est en fait occupé par
de larges glycoprotéines organisées de
manière spécifique en un réseau ayant
une densité supérieure à celle de la
couche mobile de mucus sus-jacente.
Ce réseau dense de macromolécules est
attaché aux cellules ciliées et possède
les mêmes propriétés qu’un gel.
Variational Sequences, Representation Sequences and Applications in Physics
Creators: name: Palese, Marcella
name: Rossi, Olga
name: Winterroth, Ekkehart
name: Musilová, Jana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 55N30, 55R10, 58A12, 58A20, 58E30, 70S10

description: This paper is a review containing new original results on the finite order variational sequence and its different representations with emphasis on applications in the theory of variational symmetries and conservation laws in physics.
ภูมิทัศน์วัฒนธรรมของชุมชนดั้งเดิม กรณีศึกษาชุมชนคลองแควอ้อม จังหวัดสมุทรสงคราม
Creators: name: ชนิธิกาญจน์ จีนใจตรง
Publisher: name: คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2020
Subjects: ภูมิทัศน์วัฒนธรรม
เอกลักษณ์
องค์ประกอบของภูมิทัศน์วัฒนธรรม
ชุมชนปากพะยูน

description: วารสาร สิ่งแวดล้อมสรรค์สร้างวินิจฉัย (Built Environment Inquiry BEI), 19, 3, 1-22
The Role of Maternity Waiting Homes on Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa:  A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Hyder, Sudipta
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Introduction: Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) are an intervention aimed at improving access to emergency and skilled maternal health services for pregnant women who are at high-risk for pregnancy complications and live long distances away from maternity services (Siabulanje et al., 2015). These facilities are located within close reach to hospitals that are well equipped with emergency obstetric care services (EmOC). The primary aim of this systematic review was to assess current published literature on maternity waiting homes to identify the role they play in maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes, and address the possible factors that contribute to women’s ability and decision to seek care in MWHs. 

Methods: The author searched PubMed, Scopus, and Global Health for studies reporting on maternity waiting home interventions. Included studies focused on the role in maternal, newborn, and child health and factors that influenced women’s ability and decision in the utilization of these facilities. Relevant data were extracted from each included study and was recorded in Microsoft Excel. Each of the included study and its outcomes was critically assessed for quality using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) conceptual framework. 

Results: The search produced a total of 390 studies that focused on MWHs and 12 studies met the inclusion criteria, six received a high GRADE rating, five moderate, and one low. Each included study reported on different demographic outcomes. Findings from the literature shows MWH utilization were linked with lower rates of maternal mortality, an increased uptake of antenatal healthcare, increased facility and assisted delivery during labor, and the absence of adverse pregnancy outcomes (uterine rupture, requiring caesarean sections, spontaneous vertex delivery) among MWH users. Factors that influenced women’s decision and ability to seek care at MWHs were heavily influenced by long distances from home to facility, direct and indirect cost linked to MWHs, lack of available transportation, and lack of awareness about MWHs. Studies have shown mixed results for overall women’s quality of satisfaction regarding the physical space of MWHs. 

Discussion and Conclusion: Current evidence suggests that there are many health benefits associated with MWH utilization among high-risk pregnant women and women who live far distances away from maternity care facilities. There is a need for more evidence-based studies to establish the continuity of quality improvement efforts to increase and sustain MWH utilization.
Field evaluation of three biopesticides for control of the raspberry cane midge, Resseliella thobaldi (Barnes) in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Mohamedova, M.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: The raspberry cane midge, Resseliella theobaldi is a key pest on red raspberry, Rubus idaeus. The larvae of the insect severely attack the raspberry canes, resulting in premature death of the plant canes. In the last decade, organic production of raspberry fruits has significantly increased in Bulgaria. At the same time there are few products of botanical or microbiological origin that might be used for control of this pest. In present study the effect of NeemAzal® T/C (azadirachtin A), Sineis 480 SC® (spinosad), and Bacillus subtilis on R. theobaldi was evaluated. The experiments were conducted in two raspberry fields at different altitude. In the field at lower altitude (196 m), the raspberry cane midge has developed four generation per year, while in the field at higher altitude (960 m) three generations of the pest have been completed. Lowest number of larvae in raspberry canes was observed after application of NeemAzal® T/C, and B. subtilis in both raspberry fields. Both products demonstrated highest efficacy at 7th day after treatment, when the number of larvae per splits was 67.1-82.5% for NeemAzal® T/C, and 75.1-81.2% for B. subtilis lower compared with the control at the two experimental sites.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 31 No 3 (2017)
Society, Politics, Grass-root Democracy: a 21st Century Agenda. An interview with Alain Touraine
Creators: name: Buccarelli, Filippo
name: Causarano, Pietro
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2017

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 7 No. 13 (2017)
Integrated Behavioral Care Models: Improving the Screening and Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Creators: name: Little, Kiersten
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) are a significant public health concern in the United States, impacting a large number of women every year and representing the most common complication of pregnancy. Despite efforts at increasing screening and treatment, more than half of women experiencing PMADs go undetected or undiagnosed. Integrated behavioral health care (IBHC), a patient-centered and population-based coordination of mental and physical health care, is a promising avenue for improving the screening and treatment of PMADs. IBHC in perinatal settings where women frequent during pregnancy or postpartum may decrease barriers to accessing and receiving behavioral health screening and treatment. The objective of this literature review was to understand the current evidence for the use of IBHC in perinatal settings in the United States.
(514) Robert Rowan Caldwell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Insurance Coverage Restrictions of Abortion: The Creeping Influence  of The Hyde Amendment in North Carolina
Creators: name: Durant, Sophia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Abortion is a common, safe and legal medical procedure in the United States. Yet abortion access has become increasing restricted over the past ten years. Although one in four women will access abortion care in their lifetime, the ability to access abortion is rapidly becoming jeopardized through federal and state restrictions. Insurance coverage restrictions of abortion are some of the most common types of federal and state restrictions. These restrictions stem from the federal Hyde Amendment which, originally, prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortion except in cases of life endangerment to the person who is pregnant. The Hyde Amendment has inspired additional federal and state-specific laws that further restrict insurance coverage of abortion. North Carolina enacted two such laws over the past ten years: one in 2011 and one in 2013. To better quantify the impact of these laws in North Carolina, this paper utilizes data from the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2010 and 2018 to examine the percent and number of women of reproductive age impacted within the state. The results document an increase in the number and percentage of women impacted by these laws, and identify characteristics associated with increased odds of having a type of insurance that is impacted by abortion coverage restrictions. These characteristics include being below 200% the federal poverty level (FPL), being ages 15 to 29, identifying as Black or African American, and being a federal, state or county employee. In 2018, federal and state restrictions of insurance coverage of abortion impacted 941,411 women in North Carolina (equivalent to about 39% of women of reproductive age in the state), an almost two-fold increase from 2010. State policies are increasingly restricting insurance coverage of abortion, which impairs abortion access, despite the fact that abortion is a fundamental part of reproductive health care. However, changing state policies could also dramatically increase abortion access. Medicaid expansion in North Carolina would cover an estimated 624,000 adults (57.7% of whom are women). In expanding Medicaid and removing all state insurance coverage restrictions of abortion, North Carolina could provide increased access to abortion care for 1,170,234 women.
(515) Agnes Annabella Findlay
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Le trophosome de Riftia pachyptila et Tevnia jerichonana (Vestimentifera) : bioaccumulations métalliques et métabolisme du soufre.
Creators: name: TRUCHET, Michel
name: BALLAN-DUFRANÇAIS, Christiane
name: JEANTET, Anne-Yvonne
name: LECHAIRE, Jean-Pierre
name: COSSON, Richard
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1998

description: The trophosome of the Vestimentifera Riftia pachyptila and Tevnia jerichonana: metal bioaccumulations and
 sulphur metabolism.
 Ultrastructural and microanalytic study of the Vestimentiferan trophosome shows that the important sulphur quantities pre-
 sent in the organ are not stored as globules as it was previously hypothesized. We assume that the elemental sulphur could
 exist under S8 octaedral structures, whose size is not observable at the microscopic scale inside the bacteria hyaloplasm.
 Metallic bioaccumulations are not considerable in bacteria and in bacteriocytes and are due to a physiological purifying
 metabolism. Metallic salts, abundant in the hydrothermal fluid, are probably poorly soluble and then less toxic than it appea-
 red previously.
The cometary composition of a protoplanetary disk as revealed by complex cyanides
Creators: name: Oberg, Karin I.
name: Guzman, Viviana V.
name: Furuya, Kenji
name: Qi, Chunhua
name: Aikawa, Yuri
name: Andrews, Sean M.
name: Loomis, Ryan
name: Wilner, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of comets and asteroids show that the Solar Nebula that spawned our planetary system was rich in water and organic molecules. Bombardment brought these organics to the young Earth's surface, seeding its early chemistry. Unlike asteroids, comets preserve a nearly pristine record of the Solar Nebula composition. The presence of cyanides in comets, including 0.01% of methyl cyanide (CH3CN) with respect to water, is of special interest because of the importance of C-N bonds for abiotic amino acid synthesis. Comet-like compositions of simple and complex volatiles are found in protostars, and can be readily explained by a combination of gas-phase chemistry to form e.g. HCN and an active ice-phase chemistry on grain surfaces that advances complexity[3]. Simple volatiles, including water and HCN, have been detected previously in Solar Nebula analogues - protoplanetary disks around young stars - indicating that they survive disk formation or are reformed in situ. It has been hitherto unclear whether the same holds for more complex organic molecules outside of the Solar Nebula, since recent observations show a dramatic change in the chemistry at the boundary between nascent envelopes and young disks due to accretion shocks[8]. Here we report the detection of CH3CN (and HCN and HC3N) in the protoplanetary disk around the young star MWC 480. We find abundance ratios of these N-bearing organics in the gas-phase similar to comets, which suggests an even higher relative abundance of complex cyanides in the disk ice. This implies that complex organics accompany simpler volatiles in protoplanetary disks, and that the rich organic chemistry of the Solar Nebula was not unique.
description: Definitive version of the manuscript is published in Nature, 520, 7546, 198, 2015. This is the author's version
Are Code Smell Co-occurrences Harmful to Internal Quality Attributes? A Mixed-Method Study. CBSOFT 2020.
Creators: name: Martins, Júlio Serafim
name: Bezerra, Carla
name: Uchôa, Anderson
name: Garcia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Research Track. Previous studies demonstrated how code smells (i.e., symptoms of the presence of system degradation) impact the software maintainability. However, few studies have investigated which code smell types tend to co-occur in the source code. Moreover, it is not clear to what extent the removal of code smell co-occurrences -- through refactoring operations -- has a positive impact on quality attributes such as cohesion, coupling, inheritance, complexity, and size. We aim at addressing these gaps through an empirical study.
 By investigating the impact of the smells co-occurrences in 11 releases of 3 closed-source systems, we observe (i) which code smells tend to co-occur together, (ii) the impact of the removal of code smell co-occurrences on quality internal attributes before and after refactoring, and (iii) which are the most difficult co-occurrences to refactoring from the developers’ perspective. Our results show that 2 types of code smell co-occurrences generally tend to co-occur. Moreover, we observed that the removal of code smells co-occurrences lead to a significant reduction in the complexity of the systems studied was obtained. Conversely, cohesion and coupling tend to get worse. We also found that two code smells co-occurrences (\textit{God Class--Long Method} and \textit{Disperse Coupling--Long Method}) as the most difficult to refactor indicating that attention is needed not to insert these anomalies in the source code. Based on our findings, we argue that further research is needed on the impact of code smells co-occurrences on internal quality attributes.
On the consistent treatment of the quasi-hydrostatic layers in hot star atmospheres
Creators: name: Sander, Andreas
name: Shenar, Tomer
name: Hainich, Rainer
name: Gímenez-García, Angel
name: Todt, Helge
name: Hamann, Wolf-Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CONTEXT: Spectroscopic analysis remains the most common method to derive masses of massive stars, the most fundamental stellar parameter. While binary orbits and stellar pulsations can provide much sharper constraints on the stellar mass, these methods are only rarely applicable to massive stars. Unfortunately, spectroscopic masses of massive stars heavily depend on the detailed physics of model atmospheres. AIMS: We demonstrate the impact of a consistent treatment of the radiative pressure on inferred gravities and spectroscopic masses of massive stars. Specifically, we investigate the contribution of line and continuum transitions to the photospheric radiative pressure. We further explore the effect of model parameters, e.g., abundances, on the deduced spectroscopic mass. Lastly, we compare our results with the plane-parallel TLUSTY code, commonly used for the analysis of massive stars with photospheric spectra. METHODS: We calculate a small set of O-star models with the Potsdam Wolf-Rayet (PoWR) code using different approaches for the quasi-hydrostatic part. These models allow us to quantify the effect of accounting for the radiative pressure consistently. We further use PoWR models to show how the Doppler widths of line profiles and abundances of elements such as iron affect the radiative pressure, and, as a consequence, the derived spectroscopic masses. RESULTS: Our study implies that errors on the order of a factor of two in the inferred spectroscopic mass are to be expected when neglecting the contribution of line and continuum transitions to the radiative acceleration in the photosphere. Usage of implausible microturbulent velocities, or the neglect of important opacity sources such as Fe, may result in errors of approximately 50% in the spectroscopic mass. A comparison with TLUSTY model atmospheres reveals a very good agreement with PoWR at the limit of low mass-loss rates.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Origin of Prunus x yedoenins 'Somei-yoshino' based on sequence analysis of PolA1 gene
Creators: name: Nakamura, I.
name: Takahashi, H.
name: Ohta, S.
name: Moriizumi, T.
name: Hanashiro, Y.
name: Sato, Y.-I.
name: Mill, M.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2015

description: Prunus × yedoensis ‘Somei-yoshino’ is the most popular cultivar of flowering cherry in Japan. Although the origin of this cultivar has been considered hybrid between P. pendula f. ascendens and P. lannesiana var. speciosa, the paternity of P. lannesiana has not been clearly proven by molecular analysis. To reveal the origin of ‘Somei-yoshino,’ we analyzed sequences of intron 19 and exon 20 of PolA1, a single-copy nuclear gene encoding the largest subunit of RNA polymerase I. One of two exon 20 sequences found in ‘Somei-yoshino’ was the same as that of P. pendula, whereas the other sequence was shared with several taxa in seven wild species, including P. jamasakura and P. lannesiana. ‘Someiyoshino’ contained two different haplotypes of the intron 19 sequences; one was the same as that of P. lannesiana, which is endemic to the Izu and Boso Peninsula in Japan. While another haplotype of ‘Somei-yoshino’ was different from that of P. pendula by two SNPs but identical to one of two haplotypes of P. pendula ‘Komatsu-otome,’ which is a cultivar found in the Ueno Park, Tokyo. These results indicated that ‘Somei-yoshino’ probably originated by the hybridization of cultivars derived from P. pendula and P. lannesiana.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 29 No 1 (2015)
Sexual Health Interventions Inclusive of Sexual Minority Youth: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Roberts, Rossana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Background: Adolescent sexuality has shifted in the last several decades to be understood as a normative developmental process where teenagers engage in different behaviors as an exploration in pursuit of identity, self-understanding, and the formation of their sexual self-concept. Despite this shift, sexual minority youth (SMY, i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and questioning individuals ages 13 through 18 years old) are at heightened risk for engaging in sexual risk behaviors and experiencing negative sexual health outcomes such as sexual victimization and sexually transmitted infections. 
Objectives: The first goal of this review was to systematically scan the literature on sexual health interventions inclusive of sexual minority youth (ages 10-19 years old) in the United States, and understand the evidence for the impact they have on intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes. The second goal of this review was to identify intervention components that contribute to the acceptability of sexual health interventions among sexual minority youth.
Results: Of the thirteen studies included in the review-- nine were experimental randomized control trials, three were nonexperimental and one was a quasi-experimental process evaluation. Nine of the thirteen studies targeted sexual minority youth, and four studies consisted of both heterosexual and sexual minority youth in the sample.
Conclusions: Findings show that there are promising sexual health interventions that can help work towards promoting positive sexual health behaviors and reducing negative sexual health outcomes among SMY. Interventions included in this review had the strongest impact on improving sexual health outcomes related to knowledge and reports of self-efficacy. This topic is still in an early phase of research and additional, longitudinal research should be conducted to understand the longer-term impact of these interventions on sexual health behaviors and outcomes on sexual minority youth.
Sovereign women: why academia?
Creators: name: Thunig, Amy
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: As higher education institutions increasingly display stated commitments to diversity, equity, and increasing Indigenous student enrolment and completion, it is undeniable that Indigenous academics are in high demand. However, fewer than 430 Indigenous academics are currently employed on the continent now commonly referred to as ‘Australia’, and 69% of that cohort identify as female. This thesis aims to explore the motivation for and experience of engagement in academic careers for Indigenous academic women from their own perspectives. It reports on a nationwide study of 17 one-on-one, face-to-face interviews with Indigenous academic women. The study applies Indigenous research methodologies and poetic transcription to inquire into the experiential and relational aspects of Indigenous academic women’s roles in Australian higher education. It also uses storytelling and Indigenous women’s standpoint theory to centre the consideration of legacy motivations for both academic women’s professional work and their initial journey into higher education study, highlighting concepts of ‘first in family’ and ‘first for family’ in the data. This study argues that the implications of academic engagement for Indigenous women who sit at the centre of their communities include wider influences, impacts and outcomes for their immediate familial, extended kinship and broader Indigenous community groups. It posits that these are not secondary or incidental, but primary motivations and shaping influences on Indigenous women’s academic careers and how they should be understood, valued and supported by institutions.
Use of liquefied cold temperature dimethyl ether for extraction of pigments from fresh vegetable tissues
Creators: name: Noriyasu, A.
name: Furukawa, H.
name: Kikuchi, A.
name: Takaichi, H.
name: Bouteau, François
name: Li, X.
name: Nishihama, Syouhei
name: Yoshizuka, K.
name: Kawano, Tomonori
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2015

description: Dimethyl ether (DME) is known as a useful precursor to other organic compounds and is a promising alternative fuel without issues of toxicity, production, infrastructure, and transportation as is the case with various other fuels. Recently, DME has attracted the attention of scientists and engineers since it behaves as a subcritical solvent or a low-temperature solvent applicable for the extraction of organic molecules from bio-materials. This paper presents the extraction of chlorophylls and carotenoids from green peel and yellow cortex of Japanese squash, spinach leaves and carrot roots using low-temperature liquefied DME. Spectroscopic and fluorescence analyses of the extracted pigments revealed that chlorophylls were successfully extracted by liquefied DME from green materials (squash peel and spinach leaves). HPLC analysis further confirmed that chlorophylls extracted include both chlorophylls a and b. By using liquefied DME, carotenoids were extracted from all vegetable samples examined. The performance of DME as a novel pigment extracting agent is confirmed in this work and its use as a “green” solvent, as opposed to conventional solvents, for the preparation and extraction of various plant pigments is highly encouraged from an environmental point of view.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 29 No 1 (2015)
Salicylic acid improves salinity-alkalinity tolerance in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)
Creators: name: Amirinejad, A.-A.
name: Sayyari, M.
name: Ghanbari, F.
name: Kordi, S.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: Salinization and alkalization of soils are agricultural problems in arid and semiarid regions of the world such as Iran. In this experiment the effects of salicylic acid (SA) on resistance of pepper plants under salt stress (SS) and alkali stress (AS) were evaluated. Treatments include 0 and 150 mM of SS, 0, 50 and 100 mM of AS and 0, 0.75 and 1.5 mM SA. Results showed that SS and AS imposed negative effects on pepper plant growth and productivity. Reduction in growth and yield in SS was higher than AS and maximum reduction occurred in high mixed stresses. SA application improved growth parameters and increased yield, relative water content (RWC) and chlorophyll of plants subjected to SS and AS and provided significant protection against stress compared to non-SA-treated plants. For most traits, 0.75 mM of SA was more effective than 1.5 mM concentration. SA ameliorated the injury caused by SS and AS by increasing chlorophyll and RWC and inhibiting proline accumulation and leaf electrolyte leakage (EL). In general, results indicate that salinity and alkalinity have negative effects on growth and yield of pepper plants and these negative effects can be ameliorated by application of SA.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 31 No 3 (2017)
Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
Creators: name: Di Bonaventura, Florence
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2017

description: This paper intends to feed a methodological, theoretical and philosophical reflexion on the critical perspectives historical and political sociology can imply or afford as regards the formation of the modern State and its developments. Indeed, whether they are classical or contemporary, many political sociologists or socio-historians have bequeathed or proposed socio-historical intuitions, (self-) critical reflexions or innovative tools enabling us to better understand the relations between the State and (civil) society as well as the power relations that could lead to stability or instability of political regimes over time; and to enrich contemporary debates on the meanings of the State, democracy and related concepts. These authors of the past and the present have often been questioning and critical, enabling us to relativise the Eurocentric and deterministic character historical sociology is sometimes "accused" of, whereof its authors were or are more or less conscious.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 7 No. 13 (2017)
(518) John Campbell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Le Rivoluzioni colorate in Eurasia: Georgia, Ucraina e Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Fazzi, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2017

description: The protests at the turn of the new millennium that have involved Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, defined Color Revolutions, have represented events of particular interest in the debate on the post-soviet transitology. The aim of the essay is to define the subject in its theoretical framework and to examine the main events which led to the fall of the regimes in these countries, in order to find the common thread that joins the cases examined.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 7 No. 13 (2017)
(512) Mary Irvine
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Convex integration for the Monge-Ampère equation in two dimensions
Creators: name: Lewicka, Marta
name: Pakzad, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35D30

description: This paper concerns the questions of flexibility and rigidity of solutions to the Monge-Ampère equation which arises as a natural geometrical constraint in prestrained nonlinear elasticity. In particular, we focus on anomalous i.e. "flexible" weak solutions that can be constructed through methods of convex integration à la Nash & Kuiper and establish the related h-principle for the Monge-Ampère equation in two dimensions
description: 30 pages, 1 figure
L’insegnante e lo Stress
Creators: name: Carraro, Maria Cristina
name: Cifiello, Stefano
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2017

description: First of all will be presented some minimal results taken from the huge literature on the subject, with reference to Stress and consequent Burn Out phenomena, then will be illustrated what is deduced from the mentioned literature on the specific topic of the Teacher’s stress. Again will be provided some methodological addresses for relieving work stress in general, but useful with reference to Teachers then to illustrate the partecipatory research carried out with the World Cafè methodology, which will be shortly provided the operational features. Finally will be presented the way of stress manifest among the Teachers as it comes from the research, in order to propose a possible stress intervention procedure.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 7 No. 13 (2017)
Preliminary diagnostic chart for the diagnosis of H63D Syndrome type-1
Creators: name: Nathan, Simon
name: Ivanova, Olga
name: Diamandis, Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: H63D syndrome type-1 is a rare genetic disease (orphan disease), which can manifest as a phenotype as a consequence of a homozygous mutation of the HFE gene H63D. A homozygous H63D mutation can lead to many different clinical pictures, but the H63D syndrome is a special variant from the field of iron metabolism disorders, which practically only occurs in the presence of this mutation. It is not, as is often confused, a form of hemochromatosis, but a separate disease.
A FRAMEWORK FOR REDUCING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS  OF EXTREME HEAT AMONG MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH  HOME VISITATION PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
Creators: name: Clough, Jennifer (Ginger)
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Home Visitation
Maternal-Child Health
Extreme Heat

description: Extreme heat events are the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States. Age, health status, occupation and the built environment are all factors that increase heat related illness and mortality risks  Of particular concern are the adverse effects of extreme heat exposure on vulnerable maternal-child health populations: pregnant and postpartum people, infants and young children. Despite the growing evidence for heat health risks among this population, there are currently no interventions addressing risk or disparities for risk through the US Department of Health and Humans Services Maternal Child Health Bureau. This paper explores the use of Healthy People 2020 MAP-IT as the framework for preventing, mitigating and responding to heat health risks among Maternal-Child Health Visitation participants through stakeholder coalition building. Included is a discussion of how public health leadership skills, attributes, and style best support a diverse coalition to address a complex public health problem.
ÉTUDE HISTOLOGIÇUE DU DÉVELOPPEMENT D'HYDRACTINIA ECHINATA (FLEM.)
Creators: name: VAN DE VYVER, Gisèle
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1964

description: The development of Hydractinia echinata (Flem.) has been studied by different histological technics. The eggs of Hydractinia become mature in a gonophor, then are laid, fecunded and cleave isoleted in the external sea water. The segmentation is total, radial and subsequal ; it gives a true morula which evolves in gastrula by an active rearrangement of cellular material. There is never typical coeloblastula. The two layered gastrula differentiates into a swimming larval : the planula which, after a few days of free live, settles at a support and gives rice to a new colony.
Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health: An Evaluation of the Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Intervention
Creators: name: Olivia E. Horton
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objectives. Preterm birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW) are adverse birth outcomes of critical public health concern. This paper seeks to evaluate a Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) intervention as part of Improving Community Outcomes for Maternal and Child Health (ICO4MCH).

Methods. Aim one used birth certificate data to determine if the intervention contributed to decreased PTB and LBW. Aim two used county-level contraceptive data to determine if the intervention was associated with an increase in LARC methods.

Results. Babies born in ICO4MCH counties had decreased odds of PTB but not LBW post implementation. Health departments in most but not all ICO4MCH counties had increased uptake of LARC methods post intervention.

Conclusions. Findings from this evaluation lend support to LARC to reduce PTB.
The evolutionary origins of hierarchy
Creators: name: Mengistu, Henok
name: Huizinga, Joost
name: Mouret, Jean-Baptiste
name: Clune, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hierarchical organization -- the recursive composition of sub-modules -- is ubiquitous in biological networks, including neural, metabolic, ecological, and genetic regulatory networks, and in human-made systems, such as large organizations and the Internet. To date, most research on hierarchy in networks has been limited to quantifying this property. However, an open, important question in evolutionary biology is why hierarchical organization evolves in the first place. It has recently been shown that modularity evolves because of the presence of a cost for network connections. Here we investigate whether such connection costs also tend to cause a hierarchical organization of such modules. In computational simulations, we find that networks without a connection cost do not evolve to be hierarchical, even when the task has a hierarchical structure. However, with a connection cost, networks evolve to be both modular and hierarchical, and these networks exhibit higher overall performance and evolvability (i.e. faster adaptation to new environments). Additional analyses confirm that hierarchy independently improves adaptability after controlling for modularity. Overall, our results suggest that the same force--the cost of connections--promotes the evolution of both hierarchy and modularity, and that these properties are important drivers of network performance and adaptability. In addition to shedding light on the emergence of hierarchy across the many domains in which it appears, these findings will also accelerate future research into evolving more complex, intelligent computational brains in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics.
description: 32 pages
On the species identification of two non-native tilapia species including the first record of a feral population of Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) in South Korea
Creators: name: Wang, Ju Hyoun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: NCBI GenBank accession numbers used in this study to trace the origin of the invasive populations of Oreochromis spp.
Tube growth process in the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila (Vestimentifera): synthesis and degradation of chitin
Creators: name: RAVAUX, Juliette
name: GAY, Lucien
name: VOSS-FOUCARF, Marie-Françoise
name: GAILL, Françoise
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1998

description: Enzymatic activities involved in chitin metabolism were studied in the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila in order
 to understand the tube growth process. Experiments performed on repressurized worms provided tissues, from the
 vestimentum and trunk, that were in a secretion state. Analysis of the composition of the tube newly secreted during these
 experiments showed a chitin content of about 12% and a protein content of about 22%, approximately twofold less than in
 mature tubes. Chitin synthase assays demonstrated the presence of an enzymatic activity functioning with UDP-GlcNAc as
 a substrate. This activity was sensitive to polyoxin D, insensitive to proteolysis by trypsin and stimulated by GlcNAc.
 Notable results are the lack of a Mg2+ requirement and stimulation by chitobiose and chitotriose. The activity, in our
 experimental conditions, was shown to be identical in tissues from repressurized animals and from non repressurized animals
 rapidly dissected after collection. A chitinolytic activity was demonstrated in the opisthosome and in the plume. These results
 support the model of tube growth at both ends (Gaill et al., 1997).
Commercial advantages on basil architecture by ultraviolet-B irradiation
Creators: name: Ciurli, A.
name: Huarancca Reyes, T.
name: Guglielminetti, L.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) is one of the most important herbs widely used for its medicinal properties and as food ingredient. The marketing of this product highlights the problem that these plants have long and slender stems, which are easy to break off and thus making difficult their market distribution. In this work, two cultivars of basil (Genovese and Profumo) at the adequate development stage for sale were used. We evaluated the effect of supplemental ultraviolet (UV)-B irradiation (15 W m-2; 3 h day-1) on plant growth and market quality. Both cultivars of basil plants under UV-B irradiation resulted in increased leaf size and biomass, and decreased shoot length in comparison to that of under control growth conditions. These results indicate that the application of UV-B irradiation beneficially influenced plant architecture in basil improving their greenhouse production for fresh market.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 31 No 3 (2017)
Pitt County School ACEs & Resilience Project:  An Exploration of the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences & Resilience as the Antidote to Trauma
Creators: name: Lauren White Gibson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Trauma, specifically childhood trauma, is being called the public health crisis of the current generation by many public health leaders. Childhood trauma, known in many circles as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), has tremendous negative health impacts over a person’s lifetime and can lead to malaise and chronic disease in adults. The long-term impacts of ACEs, however, can be remedied through “rewiring” one’s brain, a phenomenon called neuroplasticity. Resilience skills are the mechanism by which neuroplasticity changes the brain to remedy the effects of ACEs. 
	In North Carolina, the Pitt County School ACEs & Resilience Project, is currently underway. Let by the Pitt County ACEs Collaborative, BRACE, and funded by a North Carolina Department of Public Instruction grant, this project brings training on ACEs and resilience skills to school systems and community organizations in the county. ACEs have a great impact on learning abilities and behaviors of children; therefore, it is optimal to create learning environments for children that are trauma-informed and resilience-focused. This work sets forth a program plan and evaluation for the Pitt County School ACEs & Resilience Project.

KEYWORDS: Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACEs, Resilience, Pitt County Schools, trauma-informed, resilience-focused, school
Aggressiveness of four Fusarium head blight species on wheat cultivars
Creators: name: Sakr, N.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: Aggressiveness of four Fusarium head blight species (F. culmorum, F. solani, F. verticillioides and F. equiesti) was studied on six Syrian wheat cultivars under controlled conditions. Two aggressiveness criteria: diseased-head severity (DHS, Fusarium infection) and disease development (DD, Fusarium spread) were visually estimated as percentage of heads showing Fusarium symptoms in wheat cultivars at the soft dough stage. Results showed significant differences among fungal isolates and wheat cultivars for the two tested criteria. The mean values of DHS evaluations ranged from 33.27 to 45.49% among fungal isolates, and from 29.62 to 42.22% among tested cultivars. The mean DD rating varied from 25.58 to 35.43% among fungal isolates, and from 25.33 to 34.01% among tested cultivars. Results in the current research highlighted that the level of resistance in Syrian cultivars to Fusarium species is characterized with low to moderate DHS and DD evaluations (%). Also, the results were comparable with those previously obtained using the same fungal isolates and wheat cultivars in vitro. The current study confirmed the suitability of in vitro method to be used as fast and reliable test to analyze aggressiveness in Fusarium species.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 31 No 3 (2017)
Reply to Randal W. Eveland regarding comparative evaluation of the microbicidal activity of low-temperature sterilization technologies to steam sterilization
Creators: name: Gergen, M.F.
name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Sickbert-Bennett, E.E.
name: Weber, D.J.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020

description: To the Editor—We thank Dr Randal Eveland, Steris Corporation, for his letter regarding our paper that compared the microbicidal activity of low-temperature sterilization technologies (ie, vaporized hydrogen peroxide [VHP], ethylene oxide [ETO], and hydrogen peroxide gas plasma [HPGP]) to steam sterilization in the presence of salt and serum to simulate inadequate precleaning. As noted in our paper, the literature contains a paucity of information on the comparative microbicidal activity of the sterilization technologies cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for sterilizing medical and surgical devices. We believe that the data from this study will help clinicians in infection prevention assess the robustness of healthcare sterilization technologies and the risk of infection to patients when an uncleaned instrument is unintentionally brought into the operating room or used on a patient.