cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rethinking the norm of Life Beyond Biopolitics. Towards an Ethical Framework
Creators: name: Raimondi, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is concerned with the qualification of forms of life in approaches of biopolitics and vitalism, two main perspectives that map discussions around the politics of life in contemporary political theorising. The literature on biopolitics highlights how modes of life are given meaning as effect of regimes of power that construct the value ascribed to forms of living. The idea of a norm of life captures the functioning of biopolitical apparatuses that operate through logics of inclusion and exclusion of forms of life, by rearticulating the ancient Greek distinction between zoe and bios. Opposite to biopolitics, vitalism looks at life in its materiality and attempts to re-ground the value ascribed to forms of living in an ontological dimension that starts from the assumption of a power intrinsic to life as the principle to inform also the laws of the social and political domain. Even though formulating an apparently opposite account to biopolitics, the thesis argues that perspectives of vitalism entail an idea of life that reproduces qualifications and exclusions in drawing out their political projects. By so doing, they are unable to reframe the terms of the debate of the politics of life in a way that fundamentally challenges the premises of biopolitics. After providing a schematic of this debate, the thesis elaborates an alternative perspective that, following the trajectory of the engagement with life that runs through the works of Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem and contemporary Spinozist perspectives, argues that a more comprehensive account of the ways in which power and life relate to each other cannot be captured by either a discursive or a materialist account only and needs to be seen as dependent on the contingent situations in which the engagement and encounter with modes of life are defined. By critically deploying William Connolly’s notion of ontopolitics, the argument maintains that this approach, which fosters a practical ethics of life, remains open and receptive to modes of life and their interaction with multiple levels of power. To this aim, the analysis formulates an ethical approach that conceives of modes of existence not as object of a discursive power over life only nor as a purely vital-materialist power of life, but treats modes of life in their singularity.
Microbial colonization and associated health risks
Creators: name: Dar, Jaffer Yousuf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: microplastics
microbes
microbial colonization
microorganisms
horizontal gene transfer
aquatic ecosystems
antibiotic resistence
tyre wear particles

description: This document is a summary of work performed by Jaffer Yousuf Dar, a Doctoral Student from the Aquatic Microbial Ecology group at Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB, led by Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Grossart Background The surface of microplastics (MPs) offers a high microbial cell density and increased nutrient availability, creating "hot-spots" for microbial colonization in the aquatic ecosystems. This colonization can include toxic, pathogenic, or invasive species. Since MPs can be transferred over long distances in aquatic ecosystems horizontally and within water columns (vertically), they may act as efficient vectors for selecting and spreading pathogenic and other harmful microbes. One concerning aspect is that MPs can facilitate the horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of genetic material among microorganisms. HGT is a mechanism by which genetic information, such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), can be transferred between different species of bacteria. This process plays a significant role in the spread of antibiotic resistance, which poses a serious threat to human and environmental health. In this context, we are studying the microbial colonization and potential transfer of ARGs on the surface of different plastic types, including tyre wear particles (TWP). TWP, in particular, is noteworthy due to its composition, which includes heavy metals. These heavy metals present in TWP could contribute to the co-selection and dissemination of ARGs, further exacerbating the issue of antibiotic resistance. For more information, see https://www.igb-berlin.de/profile/hans-peter-grossart and https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/grossart
Variation of the baryon-to-photon ratio due to decay of dark matter particles
Creators: name: Zavarygin, E. O.
name: Ivanchik, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of dark matter particle decay on the baryon-to-photon ratio has been studied for different cosmological epochs. We consider different parameter values of dark matter particles such as mass, lifetime, the relative fraction of dark matter particles. It is shown that the modern value of the dark matter density $Ω_{\rm CDM}=0.26$ is enough to lead to variation of the baryon-to-photon ratio up to $Δη/ η\sim 0.01 ÷1$ for decays of the particles with masses 10 GeV $÷$ 1 TeV. However, such processes can also be accompanied by emergence of an excessive gamma ray flux. The observational data on the diffuse gamma ray background are used to making constraints on the dark matter decay models and on the maximum possible variation of the baryon-to-photon ratio $Δη/η\lesssim10^{-5}$. Detection of such variation of the baryon density in future cosmological experiments can serve as a powerful means of studying properties of dark matter particles.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
STEM as Culture: Exploring exclusion and inclusion in mathematics and biology
Creators: name: Eaton, Carrie
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: This is a paper given as a plenary lecture at the second CalcConf in Bergen, Norway, June 2023. The paper explores how marginalization in society & living between worlds becomes a superpower in bringing together ideas across disciplines as a boundary spanner. This paper is focused on relationships, mathematics, and biology, and in particular, with making calculus more inclusive for biology students.
Leader II: la valutazione dei progetti quale strumento indispensabile al partenariato
Creators: name: Malagoli, Claudio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Il programma finanziario "LEADER dell'unione Europea è indirizzato al miglioramento delle condizioni di vita nelle aree in ritardo di sviluppo. Principali obiettivi dell'iniziativa comunitaria LEADER sono quelli di: promuovere iniziative locali di sviluppo rurale; sostenere finanziariamente operazioni innovative, dimostrative e trasferibili, in grado di evidenziare le possibilità offerte nel campo dello sviluppo rurale; intensificare lo scambio di esperienze ed il trasferimento del Knowhow; sostenere progetti con operatori dello sviluppo rurale di altri Paesi dell'unione Europea.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 37 (1999)
Bombus lapidarius
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus lapidarius

description: Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
 6.VI.2004, remblais argileux récent, Brassica juncea, 339, 2J; 6.VI.2004, friche avec buissons, Cornus sanguinea, 1J, 19, Rosa canina, 39, Rubus fruticosus s.l., 39; 17.VII..2004, friche remblais, Trifolium repens, 139, Melilotus albus, 59, Cirsium sp., 69; 15.VI..2005, remblais, Lotus corniculatus, 109; 8.IV.2007, 1♀; 9.VII.2013, Brassicaceae jaunes, 29, Cirsium sp., 19, Melilotus albus, 19, Lotus corniculatus, 19.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Mexican Migrant Mothers' Health Miracle
Creators: name: Cabello-De la Garza, Ana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The Mexican Migrant Mothers' Health Paradox is an experiential training that focuses on the fact that during the first weeks of life when more than 50% of all deaths occur, infants born to Mexican women in the US exhibit mortality rates that are statistically equal or even better than babies born to white women. The paradox was coined for the Latinx population because it went against the belief that wealth equaled health. Besides better birth outcomes, Mexican migrants have a lower incidence of mental health issues, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Since 1986, this epidemiological trend has been studied because it provides an opportunity to learn best practices, validate as well as reinforce healthy behaviors and attitudes, and further improve as well as take up to scale healthy outcomes. This population's socio-cultural resilience has helped the community members overcome the usual risk factors that lead to poor health. However, these protective factors seem to be threatened by an expiration date negotiated by the degree of acculturation. In order to respect, protect, and optimize these positive outcomes according to the ideal of health as a human right and social good, it is important to apply strengths-based, structurally competent, and patient-centered approaches. This training is the first step in health system transformation that builds synergistic capacity among participants who will learn how to apply tools to sustainably promote health equity.
Bombus pascuorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pascuorum

description: Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1793)
 6.VI.2004, friche, Rubus sp., 19; 17.VII.2004, friche remblais, Trifolium repens, 219, Melilotus albus, 19; 15.VI.2005, remblais, Trifolium repens, 39; 9.VII.2013, Lathyrus tuberosus, 19.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Mating Relevant Perceptions of Voice Pitch: A Cross-cultural Examination
Creators: name: Aung, Toe
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: While many studies have shown that voice pitch influences social perceptions, it is unknown (a) how variable these effects are across societies and (b) the degree to which they depend on theoretically relevant social and societal variables. The current study addresses these questions by manipulating pitch in men’s and women’s voices and examining 1) mating competition-relevant perceptions of men’s and women’s pitch across contexts and cultures and 2) environmental factors that may predict cross-cultural variation in perceptions of men’s and women’s pitch.
Bombus pratorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pratorum

description: Bombus pratorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
 24.V.2004, parc avec haies, Rosa villosa, 39; 15.VI.2004, friche, Rubus sp, 1J; 17.VII.2004, friche remblais, Melilotus albus, 19.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Hesperiella elongata Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariida
Porcelliidae
Hesperiella

description: Hesperiella elongata n.sp. PI. 7 figs 5-7 Description. Shell very small, rather high spired, sinistral, anomphalous or hemiomphalous. Protoconch coiling inward and hidden by later whorls, apex a funnellike hole. Teleoconch with whorl profile rather straight; collabral costae widely spaced, opisthocline, with about 40 cords in the final whorl. Selenizone narrow, concave, smooth, adjacent to lower suture, seen only in the final whorl. Aperture subangular. [table omitted] Types. Holotype (F78399) and 3 paratypes (F78400, F78405). Type locality. 4 km south-east of 'Rangari' homestead, on the Gunnedah-Barraba roadside, 34 km north-east of Gunnedah, NSW (Locality 18). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, the middle limestone lens in the Tulcumba Sandstone. Additional material. 1 specimen each from north of 'Rangari' (Locality 14), north-east of 'Rangari' (Locality 15) and Glenbawn (Locality 29). Geographic distribution. 'Rangari' to Glenbawn. Geological age. Middle to late Tournaisian. Etymology. Derived from the Latin elongatus meaning elongate, referring to the tall spire of shell. Remarks. This species is characterised by a tall-spired shell with a rather flat whorl profile, which is very different from any other HesperieUa species.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Technological Innovation in Architecture: The Role of the Aberrant Practitioner
Creators: name: Mclean, William
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: Technological innovation in architecture can often be attributed to the work or works of individual designers and their unique (tacit) working method. Through an analysis of my published work (articles, essays, edited, coauthored and authored books), I will present how the aberrant creative process which the economist Joseph Schumpeter described as the ‘innovating entrepreneur’ can enlarge the palette of technological possibilities for the architect and define a unique role within the construction industry. The published works survey and explore atypical and innovative technologies and working practices in relation to architecture. The ‘McLean’s Nuggets’ column presented a series of short articles, factual and outliers (provocations in some instances) and established an expansive view of the variety and potential of technology and its application in architecture as a socially beneficial design tool. The essays, papers and books develop these themes in more detail in specific regards to five practitioners of architecture, engineering and art. The thesis has been developed through a literature review and additional interviews with featured professionals to help establish a socio-technicalhistorical context for the published works. The critical research commentary will draw together key themes of the work including innovative construction technologies and the relative acceptance and uptake of these technologies and how the architect designer through innovative or ‘aberrant’ modes of practice can better embrace these innovations in a sociotechnical understanding of architecture. This thesis features the work of five protagonists each working within the field of architecture and each of whom has innovated as much through their working method as through the work itself.
Finanzermittlungen. Jahresbericht 2011
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Baden-Württemberg , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Bericht über die Entwicklung der Finanzkriminalität in Baden-Württemberg im Jahr 2011.
Finanzermittlungen. Jahresbericht 2016
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Baden-Württemberg , Geldwäsche , Bericht
subject: 360

description: Bericht über die Entwicklung der Finanzkriminalität in Baden-Württemberg im Jahr 2016.
title: Adoption of digital planning methods in architectural practices: the role of software customization
Creators: name: Veseli, Alketa
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adoption
subject: BIM
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a newly emerging approach in the construction industry that promises to improve building development, construction, and operation in architecture, engineering, and construction. In architecture, there is an increasing need for knowledge of how BIM technologies and processes can be implemented and used in projects. However, the lack of guidance is one of the reasons many small architecture offices are discouraged from adopting BIM. BIM adoption is addressed from a technological standpoint in this thesis. The thesis aims to present the process of adopting digital planning methods to facilitate BIM in small architectural offices. In particular, it focuses on project template development as an aspect of the transition from traditional CAD to level 1/2 BIM. A project template is a predefined file that contains preference settings, standards, tool default settings, and placed elements. They allow us to avoid repetition, increase efficiency, establish reliable planning results and comparative evaluations, and bring consistency to the files. Although numerous project templates are available, they may be insufficient to meet users' needs. Offices know the standards but may lack the knowledge to implement them in their tools. A case study was undertaken in an architectural office using complete participation research to identify the difficulties and issues experienced while developing such project templates and to document the development process. The template development was based on user/client/project requirements and BIM standards. These requirements and standards were the main elements in ensuring that the template includes the necessary elements to start a new project. This allowed the office to begin work without repeating tasks with each new project, reduced errors within the projects, saved time, increased efficiency and brought consistency to the files.
Lessons from the field: Observation of Kangaroo Mother Care implementation at a District Hospital in Malawi
Creators: name: Sawaya, Natsuko
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Problem Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an evidence based, high-impact and cost-effective method to support newborns to survive. However, successful KMC implementation in resource-limited settings is not straightforward. Approach The lead author undertook a two-and-a-half-month resident observation at a district hospital in Malawi to identify the challenges that the facility was facing regarding KMC implementation. The observation was documented on a quality process map that outlined KMC intervention including the insights and knowledge of local hospital staff. Local setting The observation took place in a district and referral hospital with over 700 deliveries a month. Only one nurse-midwife was assigned for KMC intervention. Despite KMC quality improvement (QI) interventions by aid organizations, not all the infants with birthweights less than 2,000 grams received KMC at the hospital. Relevant changes Working side by side with the data registrars enabled them to comprehend and execute a locally developed idea for a control system of KMC-eligible babies to be admitted at the KMC Unit accordingly. Enhanced understanding of the processes enriched the guidance that the KMC nurse-midwife provided to mothers and caregivers, which contributed to establishing positive relationships with the families and encouraging the KMC practice. Lessons learnt An embedded observation over an extended period was an optimal approach to understand the actual circumstances and barriers regarding KMC implementation, because good working relationships with the facility staff strengthened collaboration and allowed testing of new local-derived change ideas. However, even though challenges were identified, many could not be addressed because of limitations in hospital and health system resources. Holding QI meetings for better management of existing capacity and workflows and involving other stakeholders, especially the government, to improve the infrastructure and human resource allocation are crucial to enable better KMC uptake and improve infant outcomes.
Checklist – Measurement and data planning for machine learning in assembly
Creators: name: Schnur, Christopher
name: Klein, Steffen
name: Blum, Anne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data Quality
Assembly
Machine Learning
Checklist

description: Data quality plays a decisive role in fully exploiting the potential of artificial intelligence or machine learning in industry, especially in assembly. The checklist provided here is intended to support industrial users, especially in medium-sized companies, in acquiring high-quality data to minimize the effort required for data analysis and increase the meaningfulness of the results. It supports the planning of a project to use machine learning at an existing assembly plant (brownfield). Therefore, the focus is not on acquiring a new plant or data planning for prototypes in product development. Nevertheless, the checklist can also provide guidance in these use cases. It follows the approach of recording valid data as precisely as possible by contributing expert knowledge and making it available clearly. Due to the high diversity of available machine learning methods, data analysis is only covered at a basic level within the scope of this document. The primary target groups of this checklist are manufacturing SMEs and large companies. This checklist is also available in German on the link https://zenodo.org/record/6943476#.Y8-jiXbMJD8.
description: Developed as part of a cooperation between the Lab for Measurement Technology and the Chair of Assembly Systems within the framework of the ERDF project "Messtechnisch gestützte Montage" and the follow-up project" "iTecPro – Erforschung und Entwicklung von innovativen Prozessen und Technologien für die Produktion der Zukunft". Future development is carried out in the project "NFDI4Ing – the National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 442146713
Theory of morphological transformation of viral capsid shells during maturation process
Creators: name: Konevtsova, O. V.
name: Lorman, V. L.
name: Rochal, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the frame of the Landau-Ginzburg formalism we propose a minimal phenomenological model for a morphological transformation in viral capsid shells. The transformation takes place during virus maturation process which renders virus infectious. The theory is illustrated on the example of the HK97 bacteriophage and viruses with similar morphological changes in the protective protein shell. The transformation is shown to be a structural phase transition driven by two order parameters. The first order parameter describes the isotropic expansion of the protein shell while the second one is responsible for the shape symmetry breaking and the resulting shell faceting. The group theory analysis and the resulting thermodynamic model make it possible to choose the parameter which discriminates between the icosahedral shell faceting often observed in viral capsids and the dodecahedral one observed in viruses of the Parvovirus family. Calculated phase diagram illustrates the discontinuous character of the virus morphological transformation and shows two qualitatively different paths of the transformation in a function of two main external thermodynamic parameters of the in vitro and in vivo experiments.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Training Materials For Hogares Sanos Nutrition Course For Latina Women Implemented In Burlington, NC
Creators: name: Latta, Courtney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Abstract: Courtney Latta, MPH candidate from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Periclean Scholars class of 2013 at Elon University implemented the Hogares Sanos (healthy homes) program in the summer of 2012. This partnership was formed to create a community nutrition education course for recently immigrated Latino mothers in Burlington, NC. The seven-week workshop aimed to give mothers the information and tools they needed within the context of their community to purchase and prepare nutritious foods for their families. Adult education theory and social network theories played a role in the creation and development of the curriculum. These theories suggest empowering learners through creating social networks and gaining practical skills with background knowledge to understand their context in day-to-day nutrition planning. Through Hogares Sanos participants learned practical skills such as food nutrition label reading, cooking in healthy ways, and budgeting for food costs that they can continue to use to help their families. Participants also learned basic nutrition information, sanitation lessons for food preparation, and took a field trip to the grocery store to practice the skills they had learned. Each participant kept a food diary and exercise journal and tracked their progress through the summer months and after the workshop the women formed a group that would continue to meet once a week and focus on different health and wellness issues facing themselves and their families. Fifteen women graduated from the workshop, and 100% of the women passed the workshop post-test. All of the women self reported feeling more confident at budgeting and making nutritional decisions for their family.
Bombus terrestris, s.l.
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus terrestris

description: Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) s.l.
 24.V.2004, friche avec buissons, Viburnum opulus, 59; 24.V.2004, parc avec haies, Rosa villosa, 109; 24.V.2004, friche avec buissons, Rosa canina, 39; 6.VI.2004, friche avec buissons, Plantago lanceolata, 49, Cornus sanguinea, 69, Rubus fruticosa s.l., 109; 6.VI.2004, remblais argileux récent, Brassica juncea, 159.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Adenylate-Uridylate-Rich element RNA binding protein ZFP36L1 suppresses replication stress-induced genomic instability
Creators: name: Sidali, Ahmed
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2023

description: The RNA binding protein (RBP) ZFP36L1, which binds to adenylate/uridylate (AU)-rich elements (AREs) (AU-RBP) in the 3’ untranslated region of many messenger RNAs, has been extensively characterised for its role in post-transcriptional control of gene expression and is reported as a newly identified cancer driver gene. Replication stress (RS) threatens DNA replication fidelity and stability of the genome. Recently, a small number of AU-RBPs have emerged as key figures in the maintenance of genome integrity through mechanisms that govern the replication stress response and DNA repair. Herein, we report that treatment with low doses of aphidicolin results in hallmarks of RS-associated genomic instability in a cellular model depleted of ZFP36L1 using CRISPR/Cas9. We find that loss of ZFP36L1 results in defects in mitosis leading to chromosome segregation errors and genomic instability. Remarkably, we also identify loss of ZFP36L1 increases the prevalence of FANCD2-associated anaphase ultra-fine bridges indicating chromatid non-disjunction at intrinsically labile common fragile site loci. Furthermore, we detected an increase in RPA and γH2AX foci in S/G2 cells indicative of replication stress-induced DNA damage potentially indicating chronic replication fork stalling and double-strand break formation as demonstrated by increased γH2AX foci colocalising with 53BP1. Surprisingly, chromatin enrichment of U-2OS, HCT116 and Hela cells demonstrated that ZFP36L1 is physically bound to chromatin fractions. Here we also demonstrated the specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 mediated ablation of ZFP36L1 through the inducible expression of ZFP36L1 that demonstrated suppression of 53BP1 nuclear bodies (NBs) and micronuclei formation. Importantly, we demonstrate, by overexpression of a catalytically inactive mutant of human RNase H1 tagged with GFP that loss of ZFP36L1 induces R-loop formation. We also implicate unscheduled R-loop formation as a potential cause for replication stress associated genomic instability through the expression of wild-type RNase H1 which was able to limit the occurrence of 53BP1 NBs in G1 phase cells and RPA in S/G2 phase cells. Finally, we highlight potential ZFP36L1 interactions through mass spectrometry that uncover proteins involved in the maintenance of genome integrity and R-loop resolution. Taken together, our work highlights an important, yet previously unidentified role, for ZFP36L1 in preserving genomic stability including limiting the formation of R-loops in response to replication stress.
Ceratina cyanea
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Ceratina
Ceratina cyanea

description: Ceratina cyanea (Kirby, 1802)
 9.VII.2013, Convolvulus arvensis, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Memory and limit cycles in rock-scissors-paper
Creators: name: Burridge, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When playing games in groups, it is an advantage for individuals to have accurate statistical information on the strategies of their opponents. Such information may be obtained by remembering previous interactions. We consider a rock-scissors-paper game in which agents are able to recall their last $m$ interactions, used to estimate the behaviour of their opponents. At critical memory length, a Hopf bifurcation leads to the formation of stable limit cycles. In a mixed population, agents with longer memories have an advantage, provided the system has a stable fixed point, and there is some asymmetry in the payoffs of the pure strategies. However, at a critical concentration of long memory agents, the appearance of limit cycles destroys their advantage. By introducing population dynamics that favours successful agents, we show that the system evolves toward the bifurcation point.
An Analysis of the Impact of Income Tax Changes on the Rate of Business Creation in the United States, 1992-2018
Creators: name: Wolters, Dominic
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Submitted under the supervision of Laura Kalambokidis to the University Honors Program at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor Science, summa cum laude in Applied Economics.
title: Whodunit: Detection and Attribution of Synthetic Images by Leveraging Model-specific Fingerprints
Creators: name: Wißmann, Alexander
name: Zeiler, Steffen
name: Nickel, Robert M.
name: Kolossa, Dorothea
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::600 Technik::600 Technik, Technologie
subject: image forensics
subject: computer vision
subject: synthetic images
subject: diffusion models
subject: disinformation

description: With increasingly easier access to large, pre-trained text-to-image models, a surge of synthetic images, often visually indistinguishable from natural images, can be observed. Since naturalistic, synthetic images can be misidentified as natural, a general mistrust in visually conveyed information could be the result, especially considering misinformation potentially carried by synthetic images. The reverse case—misidentifying natural images as synthetic—may also contribute to this outcome. Detection and attribution of synthetic images can provide essential information about the source of an image, thus contributing to a realistic evaluation of its credibility. In this work, several features, including the Power Spectral Density (PSD), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and autocorrelation (ACF) are visually investigated before evaluating their merit as features in a neural network-based classifier, which is used for the detection and attribution of synthetic images, while especially focusing on the attribution of synthetic images to specific, differently fine-tuned versions of a pre-trained text-to-image model. Subjects of this investigation are portraits, generated by large, pre-trained, diffusion-based text-to-image models, due to their supreme potential for misuse and harm. Since this is the first work to consider attribution to differently fine-tuned versions of the same model architecture, a custom dataset is created, including images generated with Midjourney and three differently fine-tuned versions of the Stable Diffusion model. Investigating the characteristics of synthetic images reveals a bias in the average ACF, which is not only distinct between different text-to-image model architectures, but also among differently fine-tuned versions of the same architecture. While this bias does not necessarily support the classification of individual images, both, the DCT and PSD prove to be well-suited for robust detection and attribution with high accuracy. Even attribution to differently fine-tuned diffusion models, if these are sufficiently different, as measured by Frèchet Inception Distance is, to an extent possible.
Experience Sampling Study - State Fits/Authenticity and Acculturation Change
Creators: name: Guo, Yingchi
name: Schmader, Toni
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Acculturation
subject: Social Fit
subject: State Authenticity
subject: State Fit

description: The main goal of this particular study (embedded within a larger project) is to provide longitudinal evidence to the previous findings of the association between acculturation of university students’ identification with North American culture and state fit/authenticity.
Telling Stories: the Link Between Organisational Identity, Culture and Employee Advocacy
Creators: name: Zinkstein, Katja
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: Employees who represent the firm to outsiders are a possible advantage of an organisation in the war for talents. Therefore, Employee Advocacy has been identified as important concept. The thesis aims to understand what motivates employees to be advocates from an organisational perspective. As important factors existing research has identified identification, loyalty, satisfaction and commitment. The thesis aims to explore these antecedents with their link to organisational factors, such as organisational identity and organisational culture. An ethnographic approach was chosen that included 33 semi-structured interviews, 48 narratives and an auto-ethnographic account of the experience at one subsidiary of a large German organisation founded fifteen years before the study took place. The interviews were analysed with grounded theory. The narratives went through a thematic analysis based on dimensions that were developed after the literature research: Actor, Connection, Relationship, and Value. The findings showed that an identity of entrepreneurial thinking manifested in customer orientation and pragmatism helps loyalty, an identity of caring that manifests in cohesion and comfort helps satisfaction, and an identity of success by unruliness that manifests in risk-taking and freedom helps identification. If all these are present advocacy is the highest. Furthermore, the findings showed that the meta-themes: Enfant Terrible, Avant-Garde, Extra Mile, Family Cocoon and Biedermeier, generated with the thematic analysis, describe various phases of one grand story: The new conceptualization of the Organisational Life Story was developed. Within the story, the organisational identity that manifests in the organisational culture changes from one phase to the other and thus changes the Employee Advocacy. Seeing Employee Advocacy as dynamic concept dependent on organisational development is the new and unique contribution of this research project. This means that for Employee Advocacy past, present and future of the organisation are equally important.
Reporting of studies on evidence-based health care (EBHC) e-learning according to the GREET guidelines: A methodological cross sectional study
Creators: name: Bala, Malgorzata
name: Peričić, Tina
name: Motaze, Nkengafac
name: Young, Taryn
name: Zając, Joanna
name: Ćaćić, Nensi
name: Žuljević, Marija
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: a cross-sectional, methodological research-on-research study
Visual forms of canonical interpretation in Song China (960-1279)
Creators: name: Yang, Qin
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: Scholars in the Song period (960–1279) used a variety of visual forms (tu 圖), including pictures, dot diagrams, maps, and word charts, to interpret classical texts and propose new understandings of them. These visual commentaries represented commentarial arguments and provided visual alternatives to verbal modes of canonical interpretation. Visual approaches to classics complement but also call into question certain long-held views of Chinese classical learning that rely heavily on textual sources. First, the concept of symbolic image (xiang 象) is deeply rooted in classical texts. In the Rites of Zhou, the visual aspect of rituals was reflected in early conceptions of governance and hierarchy. In the Book of Changes, the ‘Commentary on Images’, a parallel section to the ‘Commentary on Verdicts’, explains the plural symbolic images of each hexagram. Second, scholars in the Song extended their commentarial arguments by producing visual, rather than textual, commentaries. They shifted from the linear process of reading to incorporating simultaneous processes of viewing. Their visual commentaries directly convey the meanings attributed to canonical texts and represent commentarial treaties with immediacy and argumentative power. This study begins by establishing the intellectual background of visual commentaries in the Song period as well as the conceptual approaches required to read such commentaries. Four major cases of visual commentary are subsequently examined: pictures of the ‘Three Rites’, diagrams of the ‘Attached Statements’ to the Book of Changes, maps of the ‘Tribute of Yu’ in the Book of Documents, and word diagrams of the Doctrine of the Mean. Produced at different times and with different visual styles, each case contributes to our understanding of the uses of visual methods in Song canonical interpretation. These visual materials underscore the potential for a new line of inquiry into Chinese intellectual history: visual commentaries to canonical texts as a new way in which Song scholars engaged in debates on ideological and ethical issues.
The Moderating Effect of Academic Self-Concept in the Relation Between Social Groups and Educational Track Mismatch
Creators: name: Visser, Tessa
name: Ringoot, Ank
name: Tiemeier, Henning
name: Arends, Lidia
name: Luijk, Maartje
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: School Psychology
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Hypotheses and analysis plan are described in the document.
Itô-Wiener expansion for functionals of the Arratia's flow $n$-point motion
Creators: name: Riabov, Georgii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The structure of square integrable functionals measurable with respect to the $n-$point motion of the Arratia flow is studied. Relying on the change of measure technique, a new construction of multiple stochastic integrals along trajectories of the flow is presented. The analogue of the Itô-Wiener expansion for square integrable functionals from the Arratia's flow $n-$point motion is constructed.
The Role of Retailers in the Selection of Healthful, Low-Cost Products among WIC Recipients
Creators: name: Chauvenet, Christina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: Currently, there is a gap in the literature examining attitudes, challenges, and opportunities around the promotion of healthy and low-cost options to WIC recipients from a retailer perspective. Methods: Five interviews were conducted with retailers to explore these construct as part of the formative research phase of the Duke-UNC USDA Center For Behavioral Economics And Healthy Food Choice Research (BECR). Interviewees were senior employees in national or regional grocery store chains with experience in WIC sales and administration. Results: Most interviewees were enthusiastic about the potential of promotions of healthy, low-cost food items to WIC recipients. The potential for increased revenue is a motivator for retailers to increase marketing efforts to WIC customers. The transition to EBT is also relevant to the promotion of healthy and low-cost food items because it frees up the costs and time of the store associated with administering WIC benefits. The possibility of increased revenue from fresh fruit and vegetable sales presents an area of potential collaboration between public health officials and retailers. The main barriers to increased promotion were the risk of stigmatization and restrictions around promotion of store items directly to WIC customers. Conclusions: This research indicates a need for public health practitioners to work with retailers to identify mechanisms to promote healthier options to WIC customers without creating additional stigma.
Hesperiella planorbis Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariida
Porcelliidae
Hesperiella

description: Hesperiella planorbis n.sp. PI. 7 figs 9-13 Description. Shell very small, low spired, sinistral, broadly phaneromphalous. Protoconch coiling inward and hidden by later whorls, but seen in umbilicus, smooth, one and one eighth whorls, apex bulbous. Teleoconch with first I? whorls planispiral, becoming ultradextral, growth lines in early whorls but gradually becoming stronger; collabral lirae above selenizone, opisthocline below selenizone; fine collabral thread extended to umbilicus. Selenizone present from early teleoconch whorl, narrow on periphery. Aperture round; inner and parietal lips thin, outer lip thickened; slit is seen in juvenile shells. Types. Holotype (F78402) and 3 figured paratypes (F78403). There are 15 unfigured additional specimens (F78404) from the type locality. Type locality. 150 m west of 'Marohn' homestead, on the Scone-Gundy roadside, 4 km south-west of Gundy, NSW (Locality 28). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, in upper part of the Dangarfield Formation. Additional material. 1 specimen from Glenbawn (Locality 31) and 1 from Swains Gully (Locality 25). Geographic distribution. Swains Gully to Glenbawn. Geological age. Middle to late Tournaisian. Etymology. Referring to the planispirally coiled early stage of development of the shell. Remarks. This species differs from other species of this genus in having a low-spired shell, a very wide umbilicus, and a flattened selenizone. The protoconch and nepionic whorls are planispiral and the early ontogenetic pattern of development is seen through the umbilicus. Two figured paratypes are juveniles.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Nomada ferruginata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada ferruginata

description: Nomada ferruginata (Linnaeus, 1767)
 14.IV.2013, Salix caprea, 4J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Nomada fucata Panzer 1798
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada fucata

description: Nomada fucata Panzer, 1798
 17.VII.2004, friche remblais, Senecio sp., 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Sicarius boliviensis Magalhaes, Brescovit & Santos, 2017, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Magalhaes, Ivan L F
name: Brescovit, Antonio D
name: Santos, Adalberto J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sicariidae
Sicarius
Sicarius boliviensis

description: SICARIUS BOLIVIENSIS SP. NOV.
Figures 18E, 26B, 31E, 32E, 33J, 48, 49
Sicarius terrosus: Chamberlin, 1916: 214, plates 9 – 10 (misidentified, probably this species).
Note: We could not re-examine Chamberlin’s specimen (MCZ 20753) before it was lost at the fire at Instituto Butantan in 2010, but the locality data (Santa Ana, Peru) and sternum morphology indicate it most probably refers to this species.
Type material: Male holotype from BOLIVIA.
description: Published as part of Magalhaes, Ivan L F, Brescovit, Antonio D & Santos, Adalberto J, 2017, Phylogeny of Sicariidae spiders (Araneae: Haplogynae), with a monograph on Neotropical Sicarius, pp. 767-864 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179 (4) on page 829, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12442, http://zenodo.org/record/14806136
Reply to comment by M. Pitkin on "Measurements of Newton's gravitational constant and the length of day"
Creators: name: Anderson, John D.
name: Schubert, Gerald
name: Trimble, Virginia
name: Feldman, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We offer a response to recent claims that a constant $G$ measurement model with an additional Gaussian noise term fits the experimental data better than a model containing periodic terms.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in EPL