cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relación nueva. Reglas de un dictámen, y dictámen de unas reglas: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Working the Margins: Women in the Comic Book Industry
Creators: name: Chenault, Wesley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Women have been involved in the writing, illustrating, and production of comic books at almost every step of the genre’s development. The years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s were tumultuous for the comic book industry. At the societal level, these years were saturated with changes that challenged normative ideas of sex roles and gender.

The goal of this study is two-fold: it documents the specific contributions to the comic book industry made by the women interviewed, and it addresses research questions that focus on gender, change, and comic books.

This project asks: What was the role and status of women in the comic book industry between the early 1970s and late 1990s? By utilizing moderately scheduled, in-depth interviews with women working in the comic book industry during this period, this study explores their experiences and treatment while working in an insular, male-dominated field.
Relación nueva. Reglas de un dictámen, y dictámen de unas reglas: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2022), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Relación nueva. Reglas de un dictámen, y dictámen de unas reglas: Digital edition
Creators: name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
In Search of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist and Peace Advocate in the Early Twentieth Century
Creators: name: Yang, Jiling
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Martha Root (1872-1939) was an exceptional religious and spiritual activist, a leading figure in the international women's peace movement, and a new organism of a new world in the early twentieth century. This thesis represents Martha Root from three aspects: the early life of Martha Root, her four world teaching trips from 1919 to 1939, with a focus on her peace advocacy, and an investigation into her gender awareness and identity construction by reflecting on Tahirih the Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman, Martha Root's only book.
Coloring: An Investigation of Racial Identity Politics within the Black Indian Community
Creators: name: Graham, Charlene
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in America created a group of Black Indians whose lineage continues today. Though largely unrecognized, they remain an important racially mixed group. Through analysis using qualitative feminist methodologies, this thesis examines the history and analyzes the narratives of African-Native American females regarding their racial identity and political claims of tribal citizenship. Their socialization, which includes kin keeping, extended families and the sharing of family stories, allows them to claim native ancestry because of the information usually passed down to them from mothers, grandmothers, aunts and other family members. Their culture and identity revealed that Black Indian women have particular attitudes regarding their racial identity. I conclude my investigation with the suggestion that Native and African American studies can be instrumental as an alternative method of studying American race relations and the ways race intersects with gender in the formation of identity politics.
Rheumatology research report. Volume 10, issue 3 (Fall 2013)
Creators: name: Chen, Audrea
name: Cabral, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This is the Fall 2013 issue of the Rheumatology Research Report, which is distributed to patients and families who attend the Rheumatology clinic at BC Children's Hospital. It describes new research studies, provides an update on current projects, and reports on results of completed studies.
"So Very," "So Fetch": Constructing Girls on Film in the Era of Girl Power and Girls in Crisis
Creators: name: McCord, Mary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: In the mid-1990s, two discourses of girlhood emerged in both the popular and academic spheres. Consolidated as the girl power discourse and girls in crisis discourse, the tension between these two intertwined discourses created a space for new narratives of female adolescence in the decade between 1995 and 2005. As sites of cultural construction and representation, teen films reveal the narratives of girlhood. The films under consideration serve as useful exemplars for an examination of how such discourses become mainstreamed, pervading society’s image of female adolescence.
Dictyophorus griseus
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Dictyophorus
Dictyophorus griseus

description: Dictyophorus griseus (Reiche & Fairmaire, 1849)
Fig. 117
Distribution and occurrence.
Dictyophorus griseus is a common and widespread species in tropical Africa. The only known specimen from Socotra was photographed on 16 Jan 2019 near Hadiboh (Fig. 117). It is not a native species to the Archipelago and must have been introduced. It was probably ship-assisted.
Habitat and biology.
Dictyophorus griseus is a woodland species in its native range, but can also be a severe pest in agricultural fields and gardens (Rowell et al. 2015). Future colonisations must be eliminated at an early stage since this species can become invasive and significantly threaten native Orthoptera species.
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
Searching for the Womanist Within
Creators: name: Pattillo, Carmela
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Searching for the Womanist Within is a play about self identity and the daily experience of African-American women who are at the intersecting oppressions of race, gender and class. The unique life perspective of Afeican-American women is explored through the retelling of stories from the writer’s life as well as the lives of other black women. In Feminist, Black Feminist, Afrocentric and Womanist drama it is common to steer away from conventional theatrical structures, Solo drama, a less conventional structure, was selected for this play. In addition to the play is an essay about the writing process, as well as a literature review and a statement of significance about this creative thesis.
Power and Surrender: African American Sunni Women and Embodied Agency
Creators: name: Frazier, Lisa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This thesis addresses the lack of scholarly attention devoted to African American Sunni women by examining how they use collective memory to negotiate embodied agency. Through an analysis of African American Sunni women’s narratives of testifying conversion, and vignettes from diaries and interviews, I show how African American Sunni women utilize racial, religious, and spiritual memory in the form of ritual practices and Islamic texts to multiply construct their bodies, and how this construction allows them to enact multimodal and nomadic forms of agency. A contextual analysis also illustrates how environment and interpretation (tafsir) further mobilizes forms of agency, articulating a need for flexibility in regard to the concept of embodied agency and challenging the dichotomy prevalent in Western and Eurocentric conceptions of liberatory agency.
TEMURIYLAR DAVRIDA ME'MORCHILIK
Creators: name: Usmanov, Jahongir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada Temuriylar davrida olib borilgan qurilish va bunyodkorlik ishlari, Samarqand shahrining qayta qurilishi, yangi me’morchilik obidalari va ularning o‘ziga xos jihatlari, Xoja Ahmad Yassaviy, Ulug’bek rasadxonasi va Oqsaroy qurilishi haqida so’z boradi.
The Mystery of the Body: Embodiment in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series
Creators: name: Still, Katie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This thesis investigates the ways in which ideas about class, gender, and race are produced and articulated through the body in the Nancy Drew Mystery series in the 1930s.  Physical descriptions and bodily movements, as well as material surroundings, work together to reify and contradict dominant ideas of normalcy and deviance being located on the body.
Engineering in Transition.
Approaches, strategies and technologies for implementing system innovation towards sustainability
Creators: name: Cappellaro, Francesca <1971>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: ING-IND/29 Ingegneria delle materie prime

description: With the aim to provide people with sustainable options,
engineers are ethically required to hold the safety, health and welfare of the public paramount and to satisfy society's need for sustainable development.
The global crisis and related sustainability challenges are calling for a fundamental change in culture, structures and practices. Sustainability Transitions (ST) have been recognized as promising frameworks for radical system innovation towards sustainability. In order to enhance the effectiveness of transformative processes, both the adoption of a transdisciplinary approach and the experimentation of practices are crucial. The evolution of approaches towards ST provides a series of inspiring cases which allow to identify advances in making sustainability transitions happen. In this framework, the thesis has emphasized the role of Transition Engineering (TE). TE adopts a transdisciplinary approach for engineering to face the sustainability challenges and address the risks of un-sustainability. With this purpose, a definition of Transition Technologies is provided as a valid instruments to contribute to ST. In the empirical section, several transition initiatives have been analysed especially at the urban level. As a consequence, the model of living-lab of sustainability has crucially emerged. Living-labs are environments in which innovative technologies and services are co-created with users active participation. In this framework, university can play a key role as learning organization. The core of the thesis has concerned the experimental application of transition approach within the School of Engineering and Architecture of University of Bologna at Terracini Campus. The final vision is to realize a living-lab of sustainability. Particularly, a Transition Team has been established and several transition experiments have been conducted. The final result is not only the improvement of sustainability and resilience of the Terracini Campus, but the demonstration that university can generate solutions and strategies that tackle the complex, dynamic
factors fuelling the global crisis.
Middle School Technology and Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study
Creators: name: Parks, Mekisha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This qualitative action research case study seeks to modify a Middle School Computer Science Course at a medium?sized private school in North Atlanta, Georgia by examining the intersection
of media literacy, technology, and adolescent teens. The main purpose of this project is to
improve the course by incorporating media literacy skills into the curriculum. Guided class
discussions, active participant observation, participant journals, and participant projects will be used to learn more about students’ experience with Media Literacy education. Centering on
reflective practices, teacher-student dialogue, and peer collaboration, this project aims to
identify, engage, and explore issues critical to the effective implementation of a new Media
Literacy curriculum. The findings from this completed project shall be made available to school administration and the larger community for the continued improvement of the Middle School Computer Science program.
Supplementary document for Fiber optofluidic Coriolis flowmeter based on dual-antiresonant reflecting optical waveguide - 5863558.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, Ran
name: li, zhipei
name: Xin, Xiangjun
name: Zhang, Han
name: Chang, Huan
name: Guo, Dong
name: Wang, Fu
name: Zhou, Sitong
name: Yu, Chao
name: Liu, Xinyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: HCF morphology, sensitivity, and stability
Rheumatology research report. Volume 10, issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2013)
Creators: name: Hitchcock, Emma
name: Cabral, David A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: In this edition of the newsletter, two new studies that will be starting in summer 2013 in Rheumatology are introduced,and results of the Measuring What Counts study are provided.
Space for Girls: Possibilities of Feminist Agency and Political Engagement on the Internet
Creators: name: Szucs, Eszter
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis analyzes the teen-targeted website gURL.com, which is committed to providing safe space for young girls to explore different aspects of girlhood. I primarily focus on girls’ comments and conversations posted on the message boards in order to trace how teens mediate and extend the borders of the popular conceptualizations of contemporary girlhood. I interpret young women's online activities within the discursive framework of the complex relation between Girl Culture and feminism. Without overvaluing the freedom of online environments, I assume that the relatively unregulated space of the Internet enables girls to step outside the dominant stereotypes and discover alternative modes of doing feminist activism. I argue that these new venues of political engagement are adequate ways of resistance within the specific era of postmodern global capitalism.
Where my Girls at?: The Interpellation of Women in Gangsta Hip-Hop
Creators: name: Craft, Chanel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis interrogates gangsta hip-hop for the unique attention it plays to the drug trade. I read theories of hypervisibility/invisibility and Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation alongside hip-hop feminist theory to examine the Black female criminal subjectivity that operates within hip-hop.  Using methods of discourse analysis, I question the constructions of gangster femininity in rap lyrics as well as the absences of girlhood on Season 4 of HBO’s television drama The Wire. In doing so, I argue that the discursive construction of Black female subjectivity within gangsta hip-hop provides a hypervisibility that portrays Black women as violent while simultaneously erasing the broader social processes that impact the lives of Black women and girls.  Hip-hop feminism allows the cultural formations of hip-hop to be read against the politics that structure the lives of women of color in order to provide a lens for analyzing how their criminality is constructed through media.
"NODES_Inndiana_Z13_LIPODISTROFIE: COME RICONOSCERLE IN AMBITO DIABETOLOGICO "
Creators: name: University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spoke 5 - Industry for Health and Silver Economy
INNDIANA Project
Eco healthcare
ECS00000036

description: Congresso SCDU
Paradise Found? Black Gay Men in Atlanta: An Exploration of Community
Creators: name: Spears, Tobias
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: This study examines the ways in which Black gay men in Atlanta create and experience community and culture every day, notwithstanding those discursive sources that situate life for Black gay men as particularly troubled. Drawing on ethnographic methods, including participant observation and interviewing, I attempt to show the complexity of Black gay men by exploring their world in Atlanta, Georgia, a city that has increasingly become known as a Black Gay Mecca. Qualitative research examining the ways Black gay men create and experience community has the potential to broaden academic discourses that have increasingly medicalized the Black gay male experience, and complicate popular social sentiment which (when recognizing the existence of Black gay men) often posits their life as one dimensional or dimensionless.
You're Wearing the Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls and the All American Girl Next Door
Creators: name: Cook, Rachel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Hooters restaurants are typically staffed by Caucasian women that resemble the company’s idea of an “All American Girl, Surfer Girl, Girl Next Door” image, promoted in employee training materials. However, my experience working for this company has been in a predominantly African American-staffed Hooters, atypical for the corporation. Through a mixed methods approach encompassing content analysis, participant observation, autoethnography, and interviews, this research seeks to understand the ideal Hooters Girl image promoted by the corporation, and the performance of that ideal in an atypical Hooters location.
IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHING FACTORY (TEFA) IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE THE COMPETENCY OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN KARAWANG DISTRICT (STUDY CASE AT HUMAN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL TAZAKKA AND TECHNOLOGY VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN THE REGENCY KARAWANG)
Creators: name: MACHRUS ALIE
name: SOBARI
name: ENDANG KOMARA
name: R. SUPYAN SAURI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: TEFA, Teaching Factory, Competency.

description: Abstract

Government through Regulation President No. 41 of 2015 has organize alignment programs form Teaching Factory and Technopark. Teaching Factory also defined as “factory in school” or factory teaching. Policy administering this program required for fulfil achievements HR standards, in order to have skilled graduatesin field certain, so the gap that occurs between quality graduate of with IDUKA needs during this can handled. Of course it is point press the success of this program is require he woke up collaboration with Vocational School Teaching Factory with government region, department education, society as well as IDUKA via agreed regulations and mechanisms in the MoU together. Teaching Factory is a learning model in vocational school based production or services that refer to standards and procedures applicable in the industry and are implemented in atmosphere as happens in industry. One of factor supporter implementation Teaching Factory in the environment school is existence of the Production Unit School or Service Agency Regional General Affairs (BLUD) in the environment school. Application to the Teaching Factory (TEFA) in schools expected can increase competence students, so for in the future school can produce power competent work in accordance with the field. Study this use approach qualitative ones are not look for because consequences, however done in a way intensive, detailed, and in-depth to something organization, institution or symptom certain. In study this , researcher try understand as well as study about Teaching Factory (TEFA) as a learning medium in effort increase competence graduate at Human Vocational School Tazakka and Technology Vocational Schools in the Regency Karawang through observation on -site directive research and interaction communicative with civitas academics and the community involved in it. Implementation Teaching Factory (TEFA) in increase competence graduate at Human Vocational School Tazakka and Technology Vocational Schools in the Regency Karawang Already implemented at Human Vocational School Tazakka and Vocational School of Technology, however Teaching Factory (TEFA) at Insan Vocational School Tazakka and Technology Vocational School Not yet walk in accordance with guidance issued Directorate.
Pyrgomorpha conica subsp. kurii Hsiung & Kevan 1975
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Pyrgomorpha
Pyrgomorpha conica
Pyrgomorpha conica kurii hsiung & kevan, 1975

description: Pyrgomorpha conica kurii Hsiung & Kevan, 1975
Fig. 123
References for Socotra.
Burr 1903: 412, 424 [as Pyrgomorpha cognata]; Hsiung and Kevan 1975: 64, 66–67, figs 1 F, L, R, X, 5 F; Popov 1997: 152, figs 87–88, 91; Wranik 2003: 320; Massa 2009: 56; Rowell, C. Hemp and Harvey 2015: 125.
Diagnostic notes.
Pyrgomorphid grasshoppers generally have a spindle-like shape, with tapered ends of the body and a maximum width in the middle. The head is conical, often with an elongated vertex, downward-facing frons, concave below the eyes, a characteristic groove along the frontal part of the vertex and slightly flattened first antenna segments. In this respect, Pyrgomorpha resembles members of Truxalis and Oxytruxalis.
Pyrgomorpha conica kurii and the following species are typical members of the P. conica - bispinosa- cognata complex (Kevan 1974; Hsiung and Kevan 1975). Species of this complex are difficult to identify. All have a relatively small size, a very variable colour, fully developed tegmina and hind wings with a pinkish hue. The kurii subspecies is characterised by a distinctly robust appearance, with a dorsally more convex head and more concave frons than the nominate (Hsiung and Kevan 1975). The sides of the female pronotum are diverging posteriorly over the entire length of the pronotum.
Taxonomic notes.
Hsiung and Kevan (1975) described the endemic ssp. of P. conica (Olivier, 1791), based on specimens collected by Guichard in 1967 and, on one specimen, collected by Forbes and Ogilvie-Grant in 1898 on Abd el Kuri.
Distribution and occurrence.
Endemic to Abd el Kuri Is. and known from two sites, one on the northern shore of the island and one on the north-western slope of Jebel Saleh (Fig. 123). It is probably more widespread and not uncommon on the island, although Wranik did not collect this taxon during his visits.
Habitat and biology.
The habitat on the presumed collecting site on Jebel Saleh is described in the species account of Sphingonotus albipennis. Records are from May and December.
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
GLYCATED HUMAN ALBUMIN TRIGGERS MITOCHONDRIAL METABOLISM OF PREADIPOCYTE  CELLS
Creators: name: Baret, Pascal
name: Bourdon, Emmanuel
name: Devin, Anne
name: Rondeau, Philippe
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Diabetes and obesity are strongly associated with enhanced circulating advanced glycoxidation end products (AGE) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. Despite the determinant role of adipose tissue in diabetes/obesity-associated disorders and the key position of mitochondria in energy metabolism and cellular ROS formation, impact of AGE on adipose tissue remains unexplored. Herein, we investigated the impact of human albumin-derived AGE products on mitochondrial bioenergetic and biogenesis modifications of murine preadipocyte cells (3T3-L1) and subsequent cellular redox homeostasis. We show that albumin-AGE stimulates mitochondrial activity and mitochondrial respiration of preadipocyte cells together with inducing an oxidative stress. This AGE-induced intracellular ROS production was strengthen in the presence of rotenone and antimycin A and blocked by diphenylene iodonium (NAD(P)H inhibitor). In parallel, antioxidant enzymes (catalase, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase) were found to be activated upon AGE treatment. Our results suggest that AGE-induced oxidative stress leads to a cellular proliferation arrest associated with intensification of mitochondrial metabolism, mitochondrial biogenesis and increased level of ROS-detoxifying enzymes. These ROS are generated by NAD(P)H oxidase and involved the mitochondrial electron transport chain. These new data show how AGEs may be involved in hyperglycemia-induced oxidative damage in adipocytes and its potential links to diabetes progression.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Hooking Up on College Campuses
Creators: name: Weiss, Elena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: A 2001 national study of college women’s sexual attitudes and behaviors revealed that students have stopped dating and started “hooking up.”  Previous studies focused on fraternities and their
 relation to the rape culture but neglected to connect rape culture to hook up culture.  This study evaluated the culture surrounding rape by interviewing seventeen college aged men about masculinity, behavior in male homosocial groups, “hooking up” and rape.  It addresses
 the following questions: 1-How do college men understand “hooking up” and sexual consent? 2-In what ways might men’s understanding of “hooking up” and sexual consent be related to the ongoing incidence of rape on college campuses? 3- How do men understand and adhere to rape
 myths?  In-depth interviews with college men in this study point to their dependence on nonverbal communication when negotiating “hookups,” with implications for their understandings of consent and perpetuation of myths concerning women's sexuality.
GLYCATION ABOLISHES THE CARDIOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF ALBUMIN DURING ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION
Creators: name: Essop, M.Faadiel
name: Mapanga, Rudo
name: Joseph, Danzil
name: Boyer, Florence
name: Bourdon, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Although albumin can exert therapeutic effects, diabetes can trigger modifications e.g. advanced glycation end products (AGE) that are associated with cardiovascular complications (1). We therefore hypothesized that albumin glycation results in loss of its cardioprotective properties during ischemia-reperfusion under conditions simulating acute hyperglycemia. Rat hearts were divided into 6 groups: control (11 mM glucose) +/- native bovine serum albumin (BSA) or glycated BSA (BSAgly); and high glucose (33 mM) +/- BSA or BSAgly (n=6 per group). Isolated hearts were subjected to global or regional ischemia protocols as before (2).  Immunoblotting was performed on stored ventricular tissues for various markers of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis. These data revealed impaired cardiac function with ischemia-reperfusion under acute hyperglycemic conditions together with enhanced myocardial UPS, AGE and inflammatory markers. This is consistent with our previous findings where higher UPS lowered cardiac function together with increased oxidative stress, inflammation and cell death (3).  For the current study, BSA treatment offered cardioprotection by augmenting antioxidant capacity while lowering UPS activation.  However, albumin's cardioprotective effects are lost when modified by glycation and BSAgly hearts displayed activated UPS (in part) together with increased inflammation, loss of antioxidant capacity and higher AGE levels.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Immunogenicity of biological macromolecules damage by advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs): A Probable Bio-marker for the Auto-immune Diseases
Creators: name: Ahmad, Saheem
name: Akhter, Firoz
name: Khan, M. Salman
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Immunogenicity is the ability of a particular substance, such as an antigen or epitope, to provoke an immune response in the body of a human or an animal. There has been a recent development in the study of the immunologic behaviour of the modified DNA and proteins in the induction and furtherance of immunogenicity [1]. Our Research group has shown that advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) plays a major role in the structural perturbations of DNA, LDL and as well as HSA biological macromolecules [2]. Glucose reacts non-enzymatically with protein amino groups to initiate glycation, the early stage of the Maillard reaction and forms AGEs [3-4]. The AGEs thus formed has several roles in the development of pathological conditions like, diabetes mellitus, arthritis and aging. Recently, the role of carbonyl species modified human placental DNA in the induction of circulating cancer auto-antibodies has also been reported [5]. Therefore, in my opinion the auto-antibodies against the damaged DNA might be used for the early detection of the disease, caused by reactive species.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse
Creators: name: Harris, Adenike
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This creative thesis illustrates how the writer initiated a ‘call-and-response’ dialogue as a healing strategy to heal her relationship with her non-abusive biological father after revealing to him that her stepfather had sexually abused her from ages 14 to 22. This memoir both contributes to the field of Women’s Studies and provides an example that other sexual abuse survivors can follow to heal their intimate relationships.
title: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Geschichte im Krieg
Creators: name: Winkler, Martina
Publisher: name: ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: zdbooks
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 947 Geschichte Osteuropas; Russlands

description: Am Morgen des 24. Februar, kurz nachdem Russland die Ukraine angegriffen hatte, lag eine Mail der Pressesprecherin meiner Universität im Postfach: Sie rechne angesichts der Lage mit vermehrten Anfragen der Presse. Ob ich, immerhin doch Osteuropahistorikerin, als Expertin für den aktuellen Konflikt zur Verfügung stünde? Wenn man, wie ich, seine Schwerpunkte in der Kindheitsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts einerseits und dem russischen 17. und 18. Jahrhundert andererseits gelegt hat, wird man mit solchen Anfragen normalerweise nicht überhäuft. Sicher, Dokumentarfilmer*innen und Podcaster*innen fragen manchmal an, aber das heute-journal oder die Tagesschau? Ungewöhnlich.
To Catch Who? Moral Panics in Contemporary Television Media
Creators: name: Baker, Crystal
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: My thesis looks at the creation of moral panics surrounding childhood, sexuality, and media proliferation of “stranger danger,” in American culture.  I have chosen to analyze the television program “To Catch a Predator” to illustrate the ways in which these “stranger danger” narratives are related to childhood sexual moral panics and how these two phenomena work to encourage viewership and consumerism in American culture.  The exacerbation of “predator” moral panics in reality television maintains the fear of invasion of secure suburban space largely due to the portrayal of African American men as threatening and/or violent within “To Catch a Predator’s” narrative.
Xenephias socotranus Kevan 1973
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Acrididae
Xenephias
Xenephias socotranus

description: Xenephias socotranus Kevan, 1973
Figs 127, 128, 129
References for Socotra.
Kevan 1973: 1169–1173, figs 1, 2; Guichard 1992: 186; Popov 1997: 147–148, figs 76–78; Wranik 2003: 320, plate 154.
Diagnostic notes.
Xenephias socotranus is a medium-sized, typical pyrgomorphid grasshopper with an elongated vertex, downward-facing frons, concave below the eyes and slightly flattened first antenna segments (Fig. 128). It resembles a Pyrgomorpha species. but is entirely wingless, featuring a rugose body uniformly adorned with granules.
Taxonomic notes.
Kevan (1973) considered Xenephias a member of the subtribus Sphenexiina, with Sphenexia Karsch, 1896 as its closest relative. The latter genus occurs in coastal forests in East Africa. According to Kevan (1973), this demonstrates the relation of the Socotran Orthoptera to the Ethiopian fauna, as Uvarov and Popov (1957) mentioned earlier.
Distribution and occurrence.
Xenephias is endemic to Socotra and only known from the highest elevations in the Hagher at Adho Dimello, the lower slopes of Mt. Shihali and Mt. Skand (Fig. 129). In Mar / Apr 2022, Kay van Damme and Francesca Pella (in litt.) observed a nymph at Mt. Skand (Fig. 127).
For remarks on Guichard’s collecting site on Mt. Shihali on 20 April 1967, see the species account of Dioscoridus depressus.
Habitat and biology.
The species strictly occurs above 1000 m a. s. l. in montane forests and shrubland. The only records are from March and April.
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
iRAGE AS A NOVEL CARBOXYMETHYLATED PEPTIDE THAT PREVENTS AGE-INDUCED APOPTOSIS AND ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS
Creators: name: Maltais, Jean-Sébastien
name: Simard, Elie
name: Froehlich, Ulrike
name: Denault, Jean-Bernard
name: Gendron, Louis
name: Grandbois, Michel
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: RAGE overexpression in smooth muscle cells of vulnerable atheromatous plaques suggests a central role in their apoptosis and in diabetes-related cardiovascular events. With the goal of preventing RAGE activation, we synthesized a peptide (iRAGE) whose sequence is derived from an 11-amino acid site surrounding lysine-378, a frequently glycated binding site of carboxymethyllysine-human serum albumin (CML-HSA) in vivo. Pretreatment with iRAGE was successful to prevent RAGE signaling via NF-κB, a major contributor to chronic inflammation. Moreover, as RAGE activation induced apoptosis of more than 75.6% of smooth muscle cells stimulated with CML-HSA, the peptide inhibited RAGE-induced apoptosis and normalized the expression of Bcl-2 homologs, key regulators of the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis. Interestingly, RAGE blockade diminished the generation of endoplasmic reticular stress, as observed by reduced formation of stress granules and lesser expression of stress marker HuR. This result is of particular interest since HuR can regulate apoptosis by increasing the expression of caspase-9, an event that is prevented by treatment with iRAGE. As activation of RAGE involves the oligomerization of the receptor, our results support the model by which iRAGE inhibits RAGE signaling by hindering the binding of multimeric ligands and by stabilizing the receptors in a monomer state.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Marketing of Merck & Co.'s Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®
Creators: name: Redmond, Malika
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: This is a critical discourse analysis research project that examines the print and television advertisements of Merck & Co.’s Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine GARDASIL®.  There are three commercial campaigns identified for this project: “Make the Connection/ Charm4Life,” “Tell Someone,” and “One Less/ I Choose.”  Two print and two television commercials per campaign are analyzed.  I used black feminist and girls studies theoretical frameworks to address how representations of race, class, “girl power,” and the cooptation of feminist language are both expressed and utilized in the marketing as a method to target consumers.  I conclude with “parody/ protest” advertisements of the vaccine featuring young women demonstrating a critical consumer voice towards the marketing of the vaccine.  As a result, I found that the PSAs used fear-driven messages about HPV’s link to cervical cancer beginning a year before the FDA’s approval of GARDASIL® in order to market and sell its product.
Queer Feelings, Political Potential: Tracing Affect in Performance Spaces
Creators: name: Blackston, Dylan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis layers theories of affect circulation, queer performance participation, counterpublics, and queer space and time with ethnographic work performed in queer performance spaces. In so doing, the thesis explores affective networks in queer performance spaces in order to begin a theoretical analysis of the connecting affects amongst queer performance participants. In my interviews, I found affective connections which I explored as keywords. These keywords express affects that, in part, create the affective networks of queer performance participants.
Recovering Frances Virginia and the Frances Virginia Tea Room: Transition Era Activism at the Intersections of Womanism, Feminism, and Home Economics, 1920-1962
Creators: name: Coleman, Mildred
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This work answers the question “Who was Frances Virginia?” by recovering the story of an Atlanta entrepreneur, Frances Virginia Wikle Whitaker, and her tea room foodservice business. It acknowledges “Frances Virginia,” as the public knew her; and focuses on her career as demonstrative of an under?theorized form of women’s activism. Her education and proclivity in the once all?female domain of home economics have important characteristics that are under? represented, and often misinterpreted, in today’s discourse. I use a womanist theoretical lens within a historical frame to examine her story as a home economist during the tea room movement of the U. S. feminist movement’s Transition Era, 1920s?1960s. Together, these elements illuminate the significance of Frances Virginia and her particular form of activism.
Dietary advanced glycation end-products and chronic kidney disease: Higher consumption of AGEs through dietary fat
Creators: name: Ejtahed, Hanieh-Sadat
name: Angoorani, Pooneh
name: Asghari, Golaleh
name: Mirmiran, Parvin
name: Azizi, Fereidoun
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Objectives: Accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are thought to have adverse effects on kidneys through oxidative stress, inflammation and endothelial dysfunction (1). We designed this study to evaluate longitudinal association between dietary AGEs and risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a population based study.
 Methodology: Of 3462 subjects of the third phase of Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), evaluated after approximately 3 years, 1692 participants, free of baseline CKD with complete follow up data, remained for longitudinal analysis. Daily consumption of carboxymethyl lysine (CML), a major type of dietary AGEs, was determined using a validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (2). CKD was defined as eGFR<60 ml/min/1.73 m2 based on the national kidney foundation guidelines.
Results: Mean dietary intake of energy-adjusted AGEs was 8336±1532 kU/day. Longitudinal analysis indicated that compared to the first quartile category of AGE intakes from fat, in participants of the fourth quartile category, the risk of CKD increased (OR: 2.02, 95% CI: 1.16-3.54). The odds of CKD had increasing trends across increasing categories of AGE intakes (P for trend <0.05).
 Conclusion: Higher consumption of AGEs through dietary fat was associated with higher risk of CKD.
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)
Not Simply Women's Bodybuilding: Gender and the Female Competition Categories
Creators: name: Hunter, Sheena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Once known only as Bodybuilding and Women’s Bodybuilding, the sport has grown to include multiple competition categories that both limit and expand opportunities for female bodybuilders. While the creation of additional categories, such as Fitness, Figure, Bikini, and Physique, appears to make the sport more inclusive to more variations and interpretation of the feminine, muscular physique, it also creates more in-between spaces. This auto ethnographic research explores the ways that multiple female competition categories within the sport of Bodybuilding define, reinforce, and complicate the gendered experiences of female physique athletes, by bringing freak theory into conversation with body categories.
Paratettix subpustulatus
Creators: name: Felix, Rob
name: Bouwman, Jaap
name: Odé, Baudewijn
name: Ketelaar, Robert
name: Pham, Duc Minh
name: Bailey, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae
Paratettix
Paratettix subpustulatus

description: Paratettix subpustulatus (Walker, 1871)
Figs 130, 131
References for Socotra.
Krauss 1907: 17, 18, 29 [as Paratettix scaber]; Uvarov (in Uvarov and Popov (1957)): 366 [as Paratettix sp.]; Wranik 2003: 318, plate 154 [as Paratettix sp.]; Massa 2009: 55–56; Devriese et al. 2023: 524–526.
Diagnostic notes.
Members of Tetrigidae are amongst the smallest grasshoppers in the world. A long and pointed projection of the pronotum covers their abdomen. Tegmina are reduced to small, scale-like structures placed on the side of the body, while the hind wings are fully developed and can be very long, even projecting beyond the apex of the pronotum (Fig. 130). Nymphs can be separated from adults by the absence of tegmina and an uninterrupted keel over the hind femora at the knee level.
Paratettix species are characterised by a median carina of the pronotum ending just before it reaches the anterior margin of the pronotum. So far, Paratettix subpustulatus is the only tetrigid that occurs in the Archipelago. It can be separated from other members of the genus by its pale brown hind tibia without dark rings, straight borders of the middle femora and a straight carina on the hind femora (Devriese et al. 2023).
Taxonomic notes.
The identity of the taxon present on Socotra has long been unclear. Hendrik Devriese identified Tetrix specimens collected by Bruno Massa in 2008 as Paratettix subpustulatus, a widespread African species (Devriese in Massa 2009). Devriese also identified our specimens collected in 2009 as belonging to the same species (H. Devriese in litt.). In their revision of the African Tetrigini, Devriese et al. (2023) confirmed the identity of the Socotran tetrigid as P. subpustulatus. Other than the specimens examined by Devriese (Massa’s and our material), the specimens mentioned in the material examined section have only been superficially examined by us.
Distribution and occurrence.
P. subpustulatus is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar, the Comores and Socotra (Devriese et al. 2023). On Socotra, it is common, but because it prefers moist habitats, it is mainly restricted to the eastern half of Socotra (Fig. 131).
Habitat and biology.
On Socotra, it can be found on moist soil, in wadis and wetlands, from 25–1450 m a. s. l. In 2009, the species was common along a stream in Wadi Ayhaft, in vegetation dominated by Plantago amplexicaulis. Records are from all seasons.
description: Published as part of Felix, Rob, Bouwman, Jaap, Odé, Baudewijn, Ketelaar, Robert, Pham, Duc Minh & Bailey, James, 2025, The grasshoppers and crickets (Orthoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): a comprehensive overview and a description of a new Oecanthus Tree Cricket (Oecanthidae), pp. 21-166 in Contributions to Entomology 75 (1) on pages 21-166, DOI: 10.3897/contrib.entomol.75.e144389
The effect of advanced glycation end-products consumption on lipid profile
Creators: name: Angoorani, Pooneh
name: Ejtahed, Hanieh Sadat
name: Mirmiran, Parvin
name: Mirzaei, Sahar
name: Azizi, Fereidoun
Publisher: name: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health
Year: 2016

description: Objective: To evaluated the association between dietary Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and risk of hyperlipidemia, in a representative sample of Iranian adults participated in the fourth phase of Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS).
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 5848 men and women, aged 19-70 years. The carboxymethyl lysine (CML) was determined in food items of fourth phase of TLGS food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) by using the American published food CML-AGE database and adjusted for daily energy intake and categorized by using quartile cutoffs. The association between lipid profiles in each quartile category of AGE consumption was estimated using the multivariate logistic regression models.
Results: Mean age of participants (43% men) was 40.6±12.9 years. Mean dietary intake of energy-adjusted AGEs was 8826±3498 kU/day. Daily energy intake of participants was significantly different between the quartile categories of AGEs (P<0.01). Subjects in the highest compared to the lowest quartile category of AGEs had 26% higher risk of hypertriglyceridemia (OR: 1.26 95% CI: 1.07-1.49); but no significant association observed between AGEs consumption and low HDL-C.

Conclusion: Higher intake of AGEs was associated with higher risk of hypertriglyceridemia but has no effect on low HDL-C in Iranian adults
description: Journal of International Society of Antioxidants in  Nutrition & Health, Vol 3, No 2 (2016)