cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Fabricating Freakery: The Display of Exceptional Bodies in Nineteenth-Century London
Creators: name: Woolf, John Jacob
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Freaks, freak shows, disability, history, London, nineteenth century, deformity, bodies, Victorian

description: This thesis examines five individuals in the tradition of freakery: the performance of constructed abnormality as entertainment. Departing from a tendency to explore the ‘freak’ and the ‘freak show’ from the mid-nineteenth century, this thesis starts at the beginning of the 1800s to explore the diachronic evolution of freakery as it went from small-scale transitory exhibitions to large-scale commercial enterprises tied to the burgeoning entertainment industry. This thesis argues that, as the freak show changed, it functioned as an index for broader social changes across the nineteenth century. Each chapter represents one or more of those changes, probing the construction and presentation of a specific identity rooted in a particular epoch and framed around the life history of a performer, whether this biography was alleged or ‘real’. 

The five agents explored in this thesis are Daniel Lambert (1770-1809), who displayed as a Fat Man; Chang and Eng, The Siamese Twins (1811-1874); Charles Stratton (1838-1883), a little person known as General Tom Thumb; Julia Pastrana (1834?-1860), billed as The Baboon Lady; and Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), The Elephant Man. Freakery was a lived identity reliant on a biographical history and dependent on numerous discourses that turned constructed identities into ambiguous, paradoxical and ambivalent representations. The hitherto entrenched historiographical dichotomy between the ‘offstage’ and ‘onstage’ life of a ‘freak’ is substituted for the claim of interdependency between performer and performance, reality and representation: agencies and the culture of everyday life were imbricated in the construction of ‘freak’ identities that were marked by character as much as corporeality. Overall, this thesis presents a picture of pervasive freakery in nineteenth-century London and beyond: a practice and discourse that permeated life and culture, representations and perceptions.
Perfect Zero-Knowledge PCPs for #P
Creators: name: Gur, T
name: O'Connor, J
name: Spooner, N
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: 4901 Applied Mathematics
46 Information and Computing Sciences
4904 Pure Mathematics
49 Mathematical Sciences

description: We construct perfect zero-knowledge probabilistically checkable proofs (PZK-PCPs) for every language in #P. This is the first construction of a PZK-PCP for any language outside BPP. Furthermore, unlike previous constructions of (statistical) zero-knowledge PCPs, our construction simultaneously achieves non-adaptivity and zero knowledge against arbitrary (adaptive) polynomial-time malicious verifiers. Our construction consists of a novel masked sumcheck PCP, which uses the combinatorial nullstellen- satz to obtain antisymmetric structure within the hypercube and randomness outside of it. To prove zero knowledge, we introduce the notion of locally simulatable encodings: randomised encodings in which every local view of the encoding can be efficiently sampled given a local view of the message. We show that the code arising from the sumcheck protocol (the Reed–Muller code augmented with subcube sums) admits a locally simulatable encoding. This reduces the algebraic problem of simulating our masked sumcheck to a combinatorial property of antisymmetric functions.
Supplemental material for this article is available online.
Creators: name: Munro-Kramer, Michelle L.
name: Skidmore, Lauren M.
name: Cannon, Lindsay M.
name: Huhman, Anne K.
name: Carter, Shareia N.
name: Williamsen, Kaaren M.
name: Ngo, Quyen M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material for The Dynamics of Interpersonal Relationships: Understanding Power and Control Tactics Among College Students by Michelle L. Munro-Kramer, Lauren M. Skidmore, Lindsay M. Cannon, Anne K. Huhman, Shareia N. Carter, Kaaren M. Williamsen and Quyen M. Ngo, in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Characterising road roughness using accelerometric- and profilometric-based methods
Creators: name: Yu, Qiqin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400504
subject: Construction engineering
classificationCode: 400508
subject: Infrastructure engineering and asset management

description: This thesis explores how vehicle-mounted smartphones can monitor road pavement roughness, which is critical for safe driving and effective road maintenance. It examines and mitigates the impact of practical factors, like driving speed, vehicle type and smartphone mounting configuration, on measurement accuracy and consistency. The research develops methods of characterising roughness conditions and validates the proposed method against current commercial Apps and professional survey instruments. By crowdsourcing data from public vehicles, this study offers a more scalable and accessible way to monitor road pavement conditions.
Additional file 1 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Description of landscape metrics extracted for each landscape in FRAGSTATS v4.2.
Why use the CC BY license
 for preprints? A guide for researchers (Arabic version)
Creators: name: Creative Commons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: طبعات قبلية
ترخيص
حقوق الطبع والنشر
وصول مفتوح
علوم المفتوحة
بحوث مفتوحة
بحوث
علوم

description: لماذا يوصى باعتماد رخصة CC BY للطبعات القبلية؟ دليل للباحثات والباحثين

الطبعات القبلية عبارة عن مسودات كاملة لمقالات بحثية علمية تُنشر في مستودع أو مخزن بيانات إلكتروني قبل خضوعها لاستعراض رسمي من قبل الأقران. عندما تنشر أو تنشرين طبعة قبلية على ”خادم ما قبل الطباعة“، تظل أنت صاحب (ة) حقوق الطبع والنشر لبحثك وبيدك أن تقرر كيف ترخصه. يستعرض هذا الدليل المزايا المترتبة على ترخيص طبعتك القبلية بموجب CC BY .

Preprints are complete drafts of scientific research articles posted to an online repository before formal peer review. When you publish a preprint on a preprint server, you remain the copyright holder and can decide how to license your research. This guide explores the benefits of licensing your preprint CC BY.

This document has been translated to Arabic by Thalia Rahme.
Additional file 2 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Confusion matrix for the map derived from the supervised classification analysis using Random Forest as the classifier. The diagonal values of the matrix represent the number of correctly classified pixels for each category, while the off-diagonal values indicate the number of incorrectly classified pixels. UP user’s precision, PP producer’s precision.
Additional file 3 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Comparison of inter- and intra-sex proportions within anthropization levels for Triatoma garciabesi and T. guasayana.
Additional file 4 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. Results from analyzing body length, centroid size, head and wing linear measurements taken from adult specimens of T. garciabesi (a) and T. guasayana (b) that were gathered across landscapes exposed to three different degrees of anthropization (low, intermediate and high) are presented. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences seen between levels of anthropization for the same reference at P < 0.05 (Tukey’s post hoc tests for ANOVA; Dunn’s for Kruskal-Wallis as appropriate).
PLK1 AS A PROMISING TARGET IN THE CANCER TREATMENT
Creators: name: Mao, Fengyi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is a critical cell cycle regulator and overexpressed in multiple cancer types. As previously reported, PLK1 is tightly related to patient survival and cancer progression. Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and the second leading cause of cancer-associated death in the US. Once PCa patients develop resistance toward initial androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), the castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) will occur and become lethal. Thus, a novel therapeutic strategy to treat CRPC patients is urgently required. Herein, we have identified a novel combination therapy that PLK1 inhibitor GSK461364A and BRD4 inhibitor JQ1 cooperate to treat CRPC both in vitro and in vivo. GSK461364A and JQ1 act synergistically to inhibit cell proliferation and induce cell apoptosis through regulating c-MYC and AR signaling and dramatically impact cell metabolism as well. Furthermore, the progression of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive and deadly skin cancers, also firmly correlates with the PLK1 expression level in patients. In this study, we have utilized the mouse melanoma model BrafCA/+ / Ptenloxp/loxp to investigate the role of Plk1 in melanoma progression and metastasis. Elevated expression of Plk1 significantly shortened the survival period, promoted proliferation, induced metastasis, and impacted metabolism in mouse melanoma models. Intriguingly, PLK1 also contributes to the drug resistance toward PLX-4032, which is the FDA-approved drug to treat metastatic melanoma patients harboring BRAF V600E mutation. Therefore, the efficacy of combining PLX-4032 and PLK1 inhibitor BI6727 has been tested in human melanoma cell lines and the xenograft model, showing a strong synergy between the two drugs. To conclude, we have demonstrated that PLK1 functions as an oncogene in cancer development, and targeting PLK1 would be a promising therapeutic strategy in clinic.
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Lafia-Bruce, Audrey
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the transportation infrastructure based on performance measures. In doing so, the abstract presents a transportation network as a system of nodes and links. It is important to identify critical components in transportation networks. In identifying critical components of the network, performance measures such as nodal degree, nodal closeness, nodal eigen vector, nodal betweenness, which are the most widely used were explored in the analysis of the network. These measures account for the vulnerability of a node to failure in the transportation network. In our daily use of transportation networks, we are faced with disruptions that engender change in the transportation network. Disruptions tend to be commonplace in transportation systems. These include manmade disruptions such as accidents to natural disasters such as floods due to rainfall and hurricanes, seismic activities among others which are unprecedented. These incidents change how road users interact with the transportation system due to the disruptions that occur. The disruptions cause increased travel time, delays and even loss of property. These disruptions lead to direct, indirect and induced impacts. This study provides a firsthand diagnosis of the vulnerability of the transportation network to flood by ranking the nodes using performance measures and multicriteria evaluation. The paper found out that various performance measures may produce different critical nodes but with the employment of sensitivity analysis and veto rule, the most critical node can be established The paper found out that node 80 is the most critical and essential node of the entire network after the impact of flood.
Additional file 5 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S5. Reclassifying populations of wing and head shape variation in Triatoma garciabesi and T. guasayana. The analysis of canonical variables results in the number of accurately classified individuals.
sj-doc-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X211037921 – Supplemental material for Personalization of Medical Treatment Decisions: Simplifying Complex Models while Maintaining Patient Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Weyant, Christopher
name: Brandeau, Margaret L.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-doc-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X211037921 for Personalization of Medical Treatment Decisions: Simplifying Complex Models while Maintaining Patient Health Outcomes by Christopher Weyant and Margaret L. Brandeau in Medical Decision Making
Additional file 6 of Association between environmental gradient of anthropization and phenotypic plasticity in two species of triatomines
Creators: name: Fiad, Federico G.
name: Cardozo, Miriam
name: Nattero, Julieta
name: Gigena, Gisel V.
name: Gorla, David E.
name: Rodríguez, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S6. Results were obtained through Mantel tests to examine the correlation between phenotypic plasticity and geographic distances. Multivariate regressions were conducted to determine the presence of allometry between the centroid size and shape component of the structures studied for both species and sexes. The correlation coefficient (r) was calculated. All tests were performed with 10,000 permutations.
Population Connectivity in Lake Michigan Yellow Perch
Creators: name: Schraidt, Claire
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Fish physiology and genetics

description: Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) are an ecologically and economically important species in the Great Lakes. In Lake Michigan, there is substantial interest in restoring Yellow perch to their historic abundance. Populations in Lake Michigan began to decline dramatically in the late 1980s and, despite management efforts, have not rebounded. Understanding stock structure is imperative for implementing successful management strategies, but assessing population structure in yellow perch is particularly challenging. Yellow perch disperse on surface currents during a 30-40 day larval period where dispersal is difficult to observe directly and varies interannually. In order to better understand yellow perch population structure and connectivity, we sequenced 960 individuals, collected at 20 sampling locations across Lake Michigan using restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RADseq). We used 3337 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to observe genetic differences between populations and paired these findings with a Lagrangian particle tracking model to explain patterns of connectivity and gene flow. We showed that Green Bay and the main basin of Lake Michigan are genetically distinct populations. Within these two genetic groups, drivers for population structure appear to be very different. Green Bay shows distinct populations across its 150 kilometers, consistent with isolation by distance. These populations show lower global allelic richness and heterozygosity than the main basin. In contrast, the main basin shows low but significant genetic distance (measured as pairwise FST) and higher allelic richness and observed heterozygosity, appearing to behave more like a marine system. To validate this observation, we paired these findings with a Lagrangian particle tracking model to explain patterns of connectivity and gene flow and found that distances derived from these particle tracking models were significantly correlated with the genetic distances observed between main basin populations.
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES OF AN INTERNATIONAL BODY
Creators: name: Bravo, Ma. Victoria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study looks into the communicative practices of an international body in the accomplishment of interorganizational collaboration or IOC. It aligns with the Montreal School of the communicative constitution of organization or CCO approach, wherein conversations reflect the collective experience of individual members and become authored into text that shapes the collective organization. An ethnomethodological approach was used in carrying out the data collection and analysis. This includes transcribing and coding conversations from meeting workshops of a consortium established by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). Results from this study show that contextualizing, consensus building, and confirming commitment (3Cs) are accomplished through communicative practices. These 3Cs constitute IOC through co-orientation and formation of authoritative text. The 3Cs demonstrate an authoritative text that enables individual members of an interorganizational network to act in consonance as a collective organization. This study also explains how the 3Cs could help gain a better appreciation for communication as well as recommendations for future research.
Microbiome Ecology of Medicinal Plants
Creators: name: Zagal, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This exploratory study was designed to identify factors implicating microbial influence on medicinal plant metabolomes. Utilizing a whole-microbiome approach, amplicon sequencing was used to identify the makeup of fungal and bacterial assemblages from endophytic (interior) and epiphytic (external) environments in two different sets of congeneric host-plant pairs, with collection of multiple samples of two medicinal plant species (Actaea racemosa, Rhodiola rosea) and two generic analogs (A. rubra, R. integrifolia). Diversity analysis of microbial assemblages revealed the influence of three primary factors driving variance in microbial community composition: host-plant taxonomy, the compartmentalization of microbial communities within discrete plant parts, and the scale of distance (microhabitat heterogeneity) between sampling locations. These three factors accounted for ~60% of variance within and between investigated microbiomes. Across all our collections, bacterial populations were more diverse than fungi (per compartment), and microbial density in epiphytic compartments (aerial parts, rhizosphere) were higher than those of endophytes (leaf and root). These comparative data point to key loci associated with variation between congeneric pairs and plant genera, providing insight into the complex and contrasting relationships found within this multi-kingdom co-evolutionary relationship. Although reflective of only a limited set of botanical source materials, these data document the richness of a relatively unexplored component of the plant world and highlight the relevance of a whole-microbiome ecology-driven approach to botanical research and directed natural products investigation.
ZAMONAVIY RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALAR: GADJETLAR, BUYUMLAR INTERNETI, SIMSIZ INTERNET, 3D BOSMA TEXNOLOGIYALAR
Creators: name: Qodirov, Farrux
name: Elboyeva, Munisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Zamonaviy raqamli texnologiyalar hayotimizning barcha jabhalariga kirib kelib, inson faoliyatini yengillashtirish va samaradorligini oshirishda muhim rol o‘ynamoqda. Gadjetlar kundalik hayot va ish jarayonlarini avtomatlashtirishda keng qo‘llaniladi. Buyumlar interneti (IoT) esa turli qurilmalarni global tarmoq orqali bog‘lab, ularni aqlli boshqarish imkonini yaratadi. Simsiz internet texnologiyalari (Wi-Fi, 5G) tezkor va uzluksiz aloqa o‘rnatishni ta’minlaydi. 3D bosma texnologiyalari esa ishlab chiqarish, tibbiyot va arxitektura sohalarida innovatsion yechimlar yaratishda qo‘llanilmoqda. Ushbu texnologiyalar jamiyatning raqamli rivojlanishida katta ahamiyat kasb etadi.
EXPLORING THE VIABILITY OF COMMUNITY HOMESTAY MODELS IN UTTARAKHAND: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
Creators: name: Astha Adhikari
name: Prof. Atul Joshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Community, Homestay Tourism, Uttarakhand.

description: Abstract: This study thoroughly examines the feasibility of community homestay models in Uttarakhand, providing detailed case studies of various projects across the region. It discerns the inherent prospects and challenges within these community-driven initiatives. Utilizing real-life examples, the research highlights the potential advantages of these models, such as economic empowerment, cultural interchange, and fostering sustainable tourism. Nevertheless, it also uncovers a range of obstacles, spanning from infrastructural constraints to marketing and community engagement issues. Drawing from these insights, the study proposes strategic recommendations to bolster the efficiency and endurance of community homestay programs in Uttarakhand. By addressing both opportunities and hindrances, this research enriches the dialogue on community-led tourism development and offers pragmatic guidance for stakeholders and policymakers.
sj-pdf-1-het-10.1177_09603271211038742 – Supplemental Material for AgNPs reduce reproductive capability of female mouse for their toxic effects on mouse early embryo development
Creators: name: Zhang, Di
name: Yu, Fangfang
name: Li, Huanhuan
name: Wang, Qiuyue
name: Wang, Meiya
name: Qian, Hongli
name: Wu, Xiaoqing
name: Wu, Fengrui
name: Liu, Yong
name: Jiang, Shuanglin
name: Li, Pu
name: Wang, Rong
name: Li, Wenyong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-het-10.1177_09603271211038742 for AgNPs reduce reproductive capability of female mouse for their toxic effects on mouse early embryo development by Di Zhang, Fangfang Yu, Huanhuan Li, Qiuyue Wang, Meiya Wang, Hongli Qian, Xiaoqing Wu, Fengrui Wu, Yong Liu, Shuanglin Jiang, Pu Li, Rong Wang and Wenyong Li in Human & Experimental Toxicology
sj-pdf-1-pms-10.1177_00315125211041714 - Supplemental material for Investigating Chinese University Students’ Enjoyment in a Web-Based Language Learning Environment: Validation of the Online Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Wang, Yang
name: Yang, Yizhi
name: Wang, Lu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pms-10.1177_00315125211041714 for Investigating Chinese University Students’ Enjoyment in a Web-Based Language Learning Environment: Validation of the Online Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale by Xin Wang, Yang Wang, Yizhi Yang and Lu Wang in Perceptual and Motor Skills
sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_09612033211040366 – Supplemental Material for Association of MALAT-1 gene single nucleotide polymorphisms with genetic susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Mao, Yan-Mei
name: He, Yi-Sheng
name: Wu, Guo-Cui
name: Hu, Yu-Qian
name: Xiang, Kun
name: Liao, Tao
name: Yan, Yu-Lu
name: Yang, Xiao-Ke
name: Shuai, Zong-Wen
name: Wang, Gui-Hong
name: Pan, Hai-Feng
name: Ye, Dong-Qing
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_09612033211040366 for Association of MALAT-1 gene single nucleotide polymorphisms with genetic susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus by Yan-Mei Mao, Yi-Sheng He, Guo-Cui Wu, Yu-Qian Hu, Kun Xiang, Tao Liao, Yu-Lu Yan, Xiao-Ke Yang, Zong-Wen Shuai, Gui-Hong Wang, Hai-Feng Pan and Dong-Qing Ye in Lupus
预印本采用 CC BY 许可后会如何影响生成式 AI 的训练 : 研究人员指南
Creators: name: Creative Commons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: 预印本
许可
版权
开放获取
开放科学
开放研究
科研
科学

description: 本指南旨在帮助研究者,在当前生成式 AI 工具与训练技术发展的背景下,为其预印本选择合适的开放许可证。

A guide for researchers navigating open licensing decisions for their preprints in light of current developments around generative AI tools and training.

This document has been translated to Chinese by Caroline Gu.
Heterogeneous Graph Based Neural Network for Social Recommendations with Balanced Random Walk Initialization
Creators: name: Salamat, Amirreza
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Knowledge representation and reasoning

description: Research on social networks and understanding the interactions of the users can be modeled as a task of graph mining, such as predicting nodes and edges in networks.Dealing with such unstructured data in large social networks has been a challenge for researchers in several years. Neural Networks have recently proven very successful in performing predictions on number of speech, image, and text data and have become the de facto method when dealing with such data in a large volume. Graph NeuralNetworks, however, have only recently become mature enough to be used in real large-scale graph prediction tasks, and require proper structure and data modeling to be viable and successful. In this research, we provide a new modeling of the social network which captures the attributes of the nodes from various dimensions. We also introduce the Neural Network architecture that is required for optimally utilizing the new data structure. Finally, in order to provide a hot-start for our model, we initialize the weights of the neural network using a pre-trained graph embedding method. We have also developed a new graph embedding algorithm. We will first explain how previous graph embedding methods are not optimal for all types of graphs, and then provide a solution on how to combat those limitations and come up with a new graph embedding method.
title: Branded Reality: The Rise of Embedded Branding (‘Branded Content’): Implications for the Cultural Public Sphere
Creators: name: Balint, Anat
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Branded reality, embedded branding, branded content, content commercialisation, deep integration, continuous integration, manipulative messages, audience trust, cultural public sphere

description: This thesis explores the rise of embedded branding (‘branded content’) since the early 2000s, a funding model in which sponsors are integrated into media content. It examines its implications for the functioning of the media as a cultural public sphere. Located within the political economy approach, the research takes a critical perspective, arguing that ‘branded content’ is, in Habermasian terms, an act of manipulation. 

Two case studies of British and Israeli reality television shows were used to explore three questions: 1. How does the ‘branded content’ market work? 2. Are we witnessing a new phase of content commercialisation and if so, what are its characteristics? 3. What are the implications for the media’s functioning as a cultural public sphere and, consequently, how should regulators and policy makers cope with the phenomenon? 

The findings uncover a niche market in which branded content agents facilitate formal agreements between sponsors and producers. As both sides have the need to look for alternative funding models in a growingly fragmented reality, these co-operations typically start as ‘synergetic’, however their implementation often becomes rife with conflict.  

The data further suggests sponsors influence media content in two key ways. First, through ‘deep integration’: brands appearing through abstract and surreptitious representations in programming (rather than ‘classic’ product placement). Second, through ‘continuous integration’: the tendency of these agreements to encompass multiple platforms, and predominantly the Internet, which enables personal data collection. Embedded branding therefore should be seen as a new commercialisation phase, typical of the digital age, in which brands gain omnipresence in the cultural public sphere. 

The two main potential harms caused by these developments are first, the saturation of the media with manipulative messages by sponsors, which distorts the editorial process and threatens freedom of expression. The second relates to the gradual loss of audience trust in the media as a platform for public debate, which is the gravest threat ‘branded content’ presents to the role of the media in democracies.
sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316211040829 – Supplemental material for Hybrid Glenoid Designs in Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Haleem, Ahmed
name: Sedrak, Phelopater
name: Gohal, Chetan
name: Athwal, George S.
name: Khan, Moin
name: Alolabi, Bashar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316211040829 for Hybrid Glenoid Designs in Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review by Ahmed Haleem, Phelopater Sedrak, Chetan Gohal, George S. Athwal, Moin Khan and Bashar Alolabi in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
title: Consuming Colour: A Critical Theory of Colour Concerning the Legality and Implications of Colour in Public Space
Creators: name: Corvette, Michelle Nicole Anderson
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Colour, Public Space, Colour Psychology, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, Perceptual Humanism

description: This thesis investigates the legality of colours and the implications of colours within public spaces. By legality of colours, this thesis references the quality or state of being in accordance and observance of laws that address colour. Colour is a phenomenon of visual light perception described in terms of hue, lightness, and saturation in tandem with the understanding that colour is a vibrating wavelength interpreted through the brain within a complex neurobiological construction. What are the impacts, force, and agency of colours in public spaces? How do colours re(produce) socio-cultural power relationships in neoliberal societies? How do colours contribute to fixing and replicating social, national, and economic differences? In what ways do colours either implicitly or explicitly work as mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion?

It is argued that colour is a mechanism for the commodification of public spaces within neoliberal societies. By commodification, this thesis refers to the theory used to describe the process by which something that does not have an economic value is assigned a value and thus illustrating how market values can replace other social values. Colour has been controlled, manipulated, and regulated within public spaces by authoritative powers to psychologically influence human populations. Within this argument, a concern for the effects of colour in public spaces has predominately been overshadowed by a concern for capitalization. An understanding of the historical trajectory of the control of colour immersed with the perspicacity of how colour becomes a device of capitalism is essential. Case studies analysed draw attention to utilizations of colour by dominant forms of authority such as the colour elite nexus and government institutions. Colour is revealed to be a process and is therefore multitudinal and complex. The unravelling of these threads will provide a sharpened sense of colour and the implications of colour within public spaces.
MPEC 2025-F94 : 2025 FB4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FB4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316211040416 – Supplemental material for Bipolar Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Genicular Nerves for Chronic Pain Due to Knee Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Singh, Jaspal R.
name: Kwon, Susie S.
name: Schirripa, Frank V.
name: Habibi, Behnum A.
name: Rand, Ethan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316211040416 for Bipolar Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Genicular Nerves for Chronic Pain Due to Knee Osteoarthritis by Jaspal R. Singh, Susie S. Kwon, Frank V. Schirripa, Behnum A. Habibi and Ethan Rand in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
Additional file 1 of Classification system for primary care provider eConsults about medications for older adults with frailty
Creators: name: Schneider, T
name: Farrell, B
name: Karunananthan, S
name: Afkham, A
name: Keely, E
name: Liddy, C
name: McCarthy, L. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Table 1. The Final Classification System Created to Classify Medication-Related eConsults and Table 2. Questions Removed From the Final Classification System If the editor’s preference is to list them together, the caption could be "Final Classification System Created to Classify Medication-Related eConsults and Removed Question
title: Transnational Screens and Asia Pacific Public Cultures: Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, 1997-2007
Creators: name: Yeo, Su-Anne
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Media globalization, transnationalism, independent cinema, film distribution, screen exhibition, Asia Pacific

description: Despite widespread scholarly interest in media globalization in East Asia and the Asia Pacific region, there has been very little attention paid to the circulation of independent screen media. This thesis aims to address this gap by examining three sites and processes of non-mainstream screen distribution and exhibition: a non-profit film distributor in Hong Kong, a diasporic film festival in Toronto, and a non-collecting gallery in Vancouver. Using a scavenger methodology and through empirical research, the thesis reveals how these sites have responded proactively to opportunities and threats posed by deregulation, privatization, and the rise of Asia. Unlike governments or media conglomerates, however, these sites have not been driven by competition and profit-seeking, but by a commitment to social and political transformation. The study highlights the sites’ adoption of a minor transnational strategy—a linking together of peripheral screen cultures and marginal groups to other peripheral screen cultures and marginal groups—as an alternative within globalism and regionalization. It argues that minor transnational practices depend first on “independent sole traders”—educational migrants and cultural workers who broker the movement of media within and across marginal groups—and second, on minor-to-minor distribution and exhibition circuits that are contingent and dispersed. By staging cultural connections and exchanges within and between peripheries, these sites have led to the production of new identities, such as queer Asian, and social imaginaries, such as an “imagined community of indies,” that exceed the logics of the market and the neoliberal nation-state.
Additional file 1 of Developing, implementing, and monitoring tailored strategies for integrated knowledge translation in five sub-Saharan African countries
Creators: name: Sell, Kerstin
name: Jessani, Nasreen S.
name: Mesfin, Firaol
name: Rehfuess, Eva A.
name: Rohwer, Anke
name: Delobelle, Peter
name: Balugaba, Bonny E.
name: Schmidt, Bey-Marrié
name: Kedir, Kiya
name: Mpando, Talitha
name: Niyibizi, Jean Berchmans
name: Osuret, Jimmy
name: Bayiga-Zziwa, Esther
name: Kredo, Tamara
name: Mbeye, Nyanyiwe Masingi
name: Pfadenhauer, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Overview of CEBHA + research tasks and activities.
Extensions to the Chicken Game in the Context of Public Goods
Creators: name: Chong, Bryan H
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Operations research

description: We study the Edge-Building Game (EBG), a parameterized formulation of the Chicken Game in the context of a public goods game. In the EBG, each of two players can either propose or abstain from building a shared resource. At least one person must propose in order for the resource to be built, but neither wants to contribute the associated edge cost. They must then trade off the possible benefi?t of gaining the resource for free against the chance that neither get anything at all. Contexts include trade deals between countries and interest signaling in interpersonal relationships.
We ?first study two extensions to the game: the EBG on a continuous strategy set where players can propose from a continuum of strength (as opposed to just proposingor abstaining), and the EBG with multiple players on the same resource. Even with continuous strategy sets, the EBG is a discontinuous game, and we ?find discontinuousNash equilibrium distributions for different game scenarios. These discontinuous equilibria take the following general form: Propose with a ?fixed probability, and withthe remaining probability draw from some parameterized probability distribution. In the multiplayer game, we fi?nd that proposal probability drops rapidly with an increasein the number of players (at low edge-cost), and we fi?nd that the expected utility when playing a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium is worse than the two-player case, but the reverse holding true for a particular correlated equilibrium.
Next, we play the game on a graph/network, under both simultaneous- and sequential-play rules. Here, we allow nodes to have different utility functions thatdepend on graph topology. We explore the general intractability of computing Nash and correlated equilibria of the simultaneous EBG on networks, and present some special cases of the problem where Nash and correlated equilibria can be efficiently found. Correlated equilibria can even be optimized over when the simultaneous gameon networks is played on a tree with bounded degree, and when node utilities only depend on a local subgraph with a particular radius.
We then run simulations of the sequential game, where pairs of players on the network take turns playing, and study how the parameterization of node utility functions affects output metrics. We also introduce a novel submodular network measure that we use in the sequential game simulations.
Relatedly, we introduce a combinatorial problem on attacking defended networks, the Probe-and-Attack Problem (PAP). In the PAP, nodes confer protection fromattacks to all its neighbors. An attacker must decide how to allocate a budget between probing nodes to disable this protection, and attacking unprotected nodes to extractdirect utility. We show it is NP-hard, produce upper- and lower-bounds that are found by solving a (much more tractable) knapsack problem, and present efficientheuristics or the problem, testing the heuristics on simulated networks.
Additional file 2 of The efficacy of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) versus non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in patients at high risk of extubation failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Qiaoying
name: Peng, Yanchun
name: Xu, Shurong
name: Lin, Lingyu
name: Chen, Liangwan
name: Lin, Yanjuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Medline search.
Age and perceived risks and benefits of preventive genomic screening
Creators: name: Prince, Anya E R
name: Henderson, Gail E
name: Waltz, Margaret
name: Cadigan, R Jean
name: Skinner, Debra
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2017

description:
Purpose As genome sequencing moves from research to clinical practice, sequencing technologies focused on “medically actionable” targets are being promoted for preventive screening despite the dearth of systematic evidence of risks and benefits and of criteria for selection of screening subjects. This study investigates researchers’ and research participants’ perceptions of these issues within the context of a preventive genomic screening study, GeneScreen. Methods We recorded researcher deliberations regarding age eligibility criteria and the risks and benefits of screening, and conducted interviews with 50 GeneScreen participants about their motivations for joining and their perceptions of risks and benefits. Results Researchers made assumptions about who would want and benefit from screening based on age. After discussion, researchers opted not to have an upper age limit for enrollment. Participants of all ages perceived similar benefits, including prevention, treatment, and cascade testing, and similar risks, such as insurance discrimination and worry. Conclusion While clinical benefits of preventive genomic screening for older adults are debatable, our respondents perceived a range of benefits of screening in both clinical and research settings. Researchers and clinicians should carefully consider decisions about whether to exclude older adults and whether to provide information about benefits and risks across age groups.
Additional file 2 of Developing, implementing, and monitoring tailored strategies for integrated knowledge translation in five sub-Saharan African countries
Creators: name: Sell, Kerstin
name: Jessani, Nasreen S.
name: Mesfin, Firaol
name: Rehfuess, Eva A.
name: Rohwer, Anke
name: Delobelle, Peter
name: Balugaba, Bonny E.
name: Schmidt, Bey-Marrié
name: Kedir, Kiya
name: Mpando, Talitha
name: Niyibizi, Jean Berchmans
name: Osuret, Jimmy
name: Bayiga-Zziwa, Esther
name: Kredo, Tamara
name: Mbeye, Nyanyiwe Masingi
name: Pfadenhauer, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Reflective Survey and corresponding TIDieR checklist items.
GROWTH AND REMODELING OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX DURING LIMB DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Leng, Yue
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biomechanical engineering

description: Within the cellular microenvironment, the extracellular matrix (ECM) is an essential support structure that provides dynamic signaling cues through biochemical and physical factors. In response to interactions with the ECM, cells activate biochemical and mechanotransduction pathways that modulate their survival, migration, proliferation, differentiation, and function. Recent studies suggest the utility of ECM molecules as a basis for engineered scaffolds to restore functionality to damaged or missing tissues. However, current designs have poor functional outcomes. A reason engineered scaffolds have not been able to adequately restore the damaged tissue is that the scaffold design predominantly relies upon artificial polymers and/or ECM components that mimic the architecture and composition of the homeostatic adult tissue. Meanwhile, researchers investigating the mechanism of tissue formation and regeneration have primarily focused on the transcription factors and growth factor-induced signaling pathways controlling cell behaviors. What has yet to be fully taken into consideration by tissue engineers is that the composition and mechanics of ECM undergoes dramatical remodeling during development and scar-free repair, which plays a significant role in directing cellular behavior in the formation of mature functional tissue.Here, we focus on the musculoskeletal system, and the hypothesis driving this research is that an ECM-based template is crucial for the functional muscle formation during vertebrate forelimb development. To test our hypothesis, we first evaluate how hyaluronic acid, a main skeletal muscle ECM component, regulates myogenesis. Secondly, we investigate the musculoskeletal ECM as a whole using clearing methods to see how the ECM template guides the muscle fiber alignment and growth in the murine developing forelimb. Third, we develop a multiscale computational model to help characterize macroscale growth and remodeling which is driven by microscale ECM remodeling processes. Taken together, a better understanding of the synergistic biochemical and biomechanical interactions between cells and the ECM will provide critical insight into the mechanisms that orchestrate tissue assembly and establish guidelines for regenerative therapies.
Additional file 1 of The efficacy of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) versus non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in patients at high risk of extubation failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Qiaoying
name: Peng, Yanchun
name: Xu, Shurong
name: Lin, Lingyu
name: Chen, Liangwan
name: Lin, Yanjuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA checklist.