cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vertebral osteomyelitis: a comparative, single-center study in northwestern China
Creators: name: Yu, Xue
name: Rao, Guo
name: Zhang, Yuxin
name: Liu, Zhaohua
name: Cai, Jun
name: Wang, Xiaoyun
name: Yang, Aixin
name: He, Tao
name: Zeng, Guofen
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) is an infection of the spine with increasing prevalence due to improved diagnostics and aging populations. Multiple pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Brucella spp., and pyogenic bacteria, can cause VO, making differential diagnosis complex, especially in regions with endemic brucellosis and tuberculosis. Early and accurate diagnosis is essential for appropriate treatment. This was a single-center, retrospective, observational study performed between 2019 and 2022 in Kashi, Xinjiang. In this study, a total of 319 patients were enrolled, comprising 45.5% with tuberculous vertebral osteomyelitis (TVO; 52.4% females), 37.9% with brucellar vertebral osteomyelitis (BVO; 19.8% females), and 16.6% with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO; 52.8% females). Demographically, TVO had a longer mean time to diagnosis compared to BVO and PVO. BVO was more prevalent in male, and PVO patients had higher rates of spinal surgery history (45.3%) and diabetes (13.2%). Clinically, TVO patients presented with fever (72.4%), sweating (83.4%), weight loss (71.7%), and appetite loss (84.8%) more frequently, while BVO patients reported more lower back pain (86.0%). Laboratory investigations revealed significantly higher leucocyte and neutrophil levels in PVO, whereas TVO patients had elevated monocyte-to-lymphocyte and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios. Radiologically, TVO patients exhibited a higher incidence of thoracic involvement (56.6%) and skip lesions (20%). Microbiologically, BVO and PVO had high positive culture rates (84.3 and 84.9%, respectively), with M. tuberculosis isolated from only 4.1% of TVO patients. These findings underscore the distinct clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics of TVO, BVO, and PVO.
Supporting Information from Catalyst-free decarboxylation of 4-hydroxycinnamic acids: efficient synthesis of 4-vinylphenols
Creators: name: Yang, Qian
name: Li, Youjuan
name: Liu, Huanhuan
name: Wang, Enhua
name: Peng, Mei
name: Deng, Tingfei
name: Pan, Xiong
name: Luo, Zhongsheng
name: Yan, Yanfang
name: Yang, Lishou
name: Yang, Xiaosheng
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis

description: We report herein an efficient protocol for the synthesis of 4-vinylphenols by a catalyst-free decarboxylation of trans-4-hydroxycinnamic acids. A variety of 4-vinylphenols has been synthesized in moderate to excellent yields. This protocol also features no polymerization.
What perturbs isotherms? An assessment using fission-track thermochronology and thermal modelling along the Gotthard transect, Central Alps
Creators: name: C. Glotzbach
name: C. Spiegel
name: J. Reinecker
name: M. Rahn
name: W. Frisch
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Interpretation of low-temperature thermochronological data usually relies on assumptions on the shape of isotherms. Recently, a number of thermal modelling approaches investigate and predict the theoretical influence of topography on isotherms. The application and proof of these predictions is not well confirmed by measured data. Here we present apatite fission-track (AFT) data from samples collected along the Gotthard road tunnel and its corresponding surface line to test these predictions. AFT ages broadly cluster around 6 Ma along the tunnel. No correlation of tunnel ages with superimposed topography is seen, which means that topography-induced perturbation of isotherms under given boundary conditions (topographic wavelength 12 km; relief 1.5 km; exhumation rate 0.45 km Ma−1) can be neglected for the interpretation of AFT ages. Thus, in areas characterized by similar topographies and exhumation rates, apparent exhumation rates deduced from the age–elevation relationship (AER) of AFT data need no correction for topography-induced perturbation of isotherms. Three-dimensional (3D) numerical thermal modelling was carried out incorporating thermally relevant parameters and mechanisms, such as topography, geology, thermal conductivities and heat production. Modelling reveals a strong influence on the shape of isotherms caused by spatially variable thermal parameters, especially heat production rates. Therefore, not only topography has to be considered for interpreting low-temperature thermochronological data, but also other parameters like heat production rates. Supplementary material: 1. Electron microprobe analyses, 2. Topography and model extend, 3. Model parameters are all available online at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18380.
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and associated risk factors in adult outpatients: comment
Creators: name: Daungsupawong, Hinpetch
name: Wiwanitkit, Viroj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Mental Health
Virology
Computational Biology

description: SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and associated risk factors in adult outpatients: comment
title: Devinette n°29
Creators: name: Naïm, Samia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Yemeni Arabic (Sanaa dialect)
subject: ayn
subject: Arabe Yéménite (dialecte de Sanaa)

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Devinette n°29
Dextral shear, terrane accretion and basin formation in the Northern Andes: best explained by interaction with a Pacific-derived Caribbean Plate?
Creators: name: Lorcan Kennan
name: Pindell, James L.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The structure, stratigraphy and magmatic history of northern Peru, Ecuador and Colombia are only adequately explained by Pacific-origin models for the Caribbean Plate. Inter-American models for the origin of the Caribbean Plate cannot explain the contrasts between the Northern Andes and the Central Andes. Persistent large magnitude subduction, arc magmatism and compressional deformation typify the Central Andes, while the Northern Andes shows back-arc basin and passive margin formation followed by dextral oblique accretion of oceanic plateau basalt and island arc terranes with Caribbean affinity. Cretaceous separation between the Americas resulted in the development of a NNE-trending dextral–transpressive boundary between the Caribbean and northwestern South America, becoming more compressional when spreading in the Proto-Caribbean Seaway slowed towards the end of the Cretaceous. Dextral transpression started at 120–100 Ma, when the Caribbean Arc formed at the leading edge of the Caribbean Plate as a result of subduction zone polarity reversal at the site of the pre-existing Trans-American Arc, which had linked to Central America to South America in the vicinity of the present-day Peru–Ecuador border. Subsequent closure of the Andean Back-Arc Basin resulted in accretion of Caribbean terranes to western Colombia. Initiation of flat-slab subduction of the Caribbean Plate beneath Colombia at about 100 Ma is associated with limited magmatism, with no subsequent development of a magmatic arc. This was followed by northward-younging Maastrichtian to Eocene collision of the trailing edge Panama Arc. The triple junction where the Panama Arc joined the Peru–Chile trench was located west of present-day Ecuador as late as Eocene time, and the Talara, Tumbes and Manabi pull-apart basins directly relate to its northward migration. Features associated with the subduction of the Nazca Plate, such as active calc-alkaline volcanic arcs built on South American crust, only became established in Ecuador, and then Colombia, as the triple junction migrated to the north. Our model provides a comprehensive, regional and testable framework for analysing the as yet poorly understood collage of arc remnants, basement blocks and basins in the Northern Andes.
title: Région de Rabat. Densités de population
title: Région de Rabat. Densités de population
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Démographie
subject: Densité démographique

description: Cartographie
description: BESM-carto_1956-69-p019_069-02
description: 19
description: 69
description: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM) > BESM (Cartographie)
description: Relation: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/idurl/1/81623
description: Coverage: Maroc
description: Coverage: Rabat
description: Coverage: XXe siècle
description: Temporal: XXe siècle
description: Bibliographic citation: « Région de Rabat. Densités de population », In Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM), n° 69, 1956
description: Provenance: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Provenance: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/
Feasibility study of V2X communications in initial 5G NR deployments
Creators: name: Clancy, Joseph
name: Mullins, Darragh
name: Deegan, Brian
name: Horgan, Jonathan
name: Ward, Enda
name: Denny, Patrick
name: Eising, Ciarán
name: Jones, Edward
name: Glavin, Martin
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Advancements in intelligent vehicles and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) have shown that they are now feasible in both technology and commerce. However, there are still significant challenges to overcome, particularly regarding the perception and coordination of intelligent vehicles in unfavourable conditions. Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications is a technology that aims to enable intelligent vehicles to communicate with other road users and infrastructure to increase their range of perception and coordination capabilities. While the 4th generation of cellular technology (4G LTE) is capable of supporting V2X communications to some extent, its multimedia and telephony-centric design does not translate well to safety-critical applications. As a result, the 5th generation of cellular technology (5G NR) is being developed to improve V2X communications. To investigate the effectiveness of 5G NR in V2X communications, a driving-based measurement campaign of a commercial cellular network with early 5G NR deployments was conducted. Results showed that the existing 4G LTE network is limited in its capability, and early 5G NR deployments can in fact outperform it. However, neither 4G LTE nor 5G NR can reliably support advanced V2X applications. Early 5G NR deployments suffer from significant reliability issues compared to existing 4G LTE deployments. These reliability issues are of particular concern, as they impact the vehicle’s ability to trust the information it receives. These findings highlight the need for further design and implementation of intelligent vehicles and future 5G NR networks to address these reliability concerns and ensure the safe and efficient operation of intelligent vehicles in all conditions.
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, qui régit la manière en laquelle les Auditeurs de la Gouvernance de Douai & Orchies, pourront recevoir des actes
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Officier de justice d'Ancien Régime
Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: created: 01/10/2018
description: created: 08/06/1680
Is the Cretaceous primitive island arc series in the circum-Caribbean region geochemically analogous to the modern island arc tholeiite series?
Creators: name: Hastie, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The Early Cretaceous island arc lavas in the Caribbean region are frequently assigned to the primitive island arc (PIA) series and not to the island arc tholeiite (IAT) series. However, this review demonstrates that the Caribbean PIA rocks have immobile trace element abundances, trace element ratios and Nd–Hf isotope systematics which are indistinguishable from modern IAT lavas. Thus, it is proposed that the term PIA series be discarded and that the Early Cretaceous island arc rocks in the Caribbean be classified as IAT rocks.
Geochemistry and tectonomagmatic significance of Lower Cretaceous island arc lavas from the Devils Racecourse Formation, eastern Jamaica
Creators: name: Hastie, Alan R.
name: Kerr, Andrew C.
name: Mitchell, Simon F.
name: Millar, Ian L.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The Benbow Inlier in Jamaica contains the Devils Racecourse Formation, which is composed of a Hauterivian to Aptian island arc succession. The lavas can be split into a lower succession of basaltic andesites and dacites/rhyolites, which have an island arc tholeiite (IAT) composition and an upper basaltic and basaltic andesite sequence with a calc-alkaline (CA) chemistry. Trace element and Nd–Hf isotopic evidence reveals that the IAT and CA lavas are derived from two chemically similar mantle wedge source regions predominantly composed of normal mid-ocean ridge-type spinel lherzolite. In addition, Th-light rare earth element/high field strength element–heavy rare earth element ratios, Nd–Hf isotope systematics, (Ce/Ce*)n-mn and Th/La ratios indicate that the IAT and CA mantle wedge source regions were enriched by chemically distinct slab fluxes, which were derived from both the altered basaltic portion of the slab and its accompanying pelagic and terrigenous sedimentary veneer respectively. The presence of IAT and CA island arc lavas before and after the Aptian–Albian demonstrates that the compositional change in the Great Arc of the Caribbean was the result of the subduction of chemically differing sedimentary material. There is therefore no evidence from the geochemistry of this lava succession to support arc-wide subduction polarity reversal in the Aptian–Albian.
title: Devinette n°4
Creators: name: Naïm, Samia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Yemeni Arabic (Sanaa dialect)
subject: ayn
subject: Arabe Yéménite (dialecte de Sanaa)

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Devinette n°4
Paradoxes of grassroots peacemaking : warrior masculinity, violence and intergenerational dialogues in postwar El Salvador
Creators: name: Velásquez Estrada, R. Elizabeth
name: 0000-0001-8194-6938
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gender relations
Gender violence
Violence
Youth gangs
Grassroots peacemaking
Warrior masculinity
El Salvador
Central America

description: This dissertation analyzes how the Salvadoran state, civil war veterans, and gang members share a common understanding of peace that enables them to occupy the paradoxical position of being both purveyors of violence and “peacemakers.” I conducted this work in a violent, distrustful and hyper-masculine context with the help of civil war veterans who were mentoring relatives in youth gangs to support their efforts to make peace with other gangs and the government. Throughout my 2011 - 2015 ethnographic research in San Salvador, I found that many women, relatives of civil war veterans and gang member interlocutors, characterized the 1992 Peace Accords as una paz masculinista (a masculinist peace). While la paz maculinista denotes the absence of violence between men in conflict, for women living with social and gender violence and struggling with poverty reinforced by neoliberal economic policies, life was anything but peaceful. I build on Johan Galtung’s concept of “negative” and “positive” peace by using an intersectional theory perspective. I argue that the postwar experience is shaped by a negative notion of peace that is highly gendered. I further complicate the state’s notion of postwar peacemaking through an analysis of the rise of gang and femicidal violence, and the state’s punitive responses to both as a measure to attain peace. I discovered that gangs use their own peacemaking efforts to question the state’s racialized violence and human rights violations against its members. However, neither top-down (state-led) nor bottom-up (gang-led) peacemaking efforts have seriously grappled with violence against women or with the harsh realities of living under neoliberalism. My dissertation contends that to build a lasting peace, peacemaking in El Salvador must address not just ending war, but transforming economic inequality, class-based political exclusion, and racialized and gendered violence
Neoproterozoic reworking of the Palaeoproterozoic Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia and implications for the amalgamation of Rodinia
Creators: name: Occhipinti, Sandra A.
name: Reddy, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Argon isotopic data from mica from the southern Capricorn region of Western Australia record complex intra- and inter-grain systematics that reflect modification due to a range of processes. However, 40Ar/39Ar age distributions, though complex, generally show early Neoproterozoic ages in the west, increasing to Mesoproterozoic ages in the east. Palaeoproterozoic ages associated with cooling after the c. 1.8 Ga Capricorn Orogen or c. 1.6 Ga Mangaroon Orogen are not preserved. These data reflect cooling from a c. 300 °C thermal overprint that took place prior to 960 Ma that is related to the enigmatic Edmundian Orogeny. These data, combined with sediment provenance data from the Early Neoproterozoic Officer Basin and U–Pb age data from the nearby Pinjarra Orogen, indicate that the late Mesoproterozoic–Neoproterozoic Pinjarra and Edmundian events are dynamically linked and reflect tectonic activity on the western margin of the amalgamated West Australian Craton. The temporal framework for this event suggest a link to the evolving Rodinian supercontinent and reflect the oblique collision of either Greater India or Kalahari cratons with the West Australian Craton. These results illustrate that the temporal evolution of poorly preserved orogens can be constrained by low-temperature thermochronology in the adjacent cratons.
title: Devinette n°15
Creators: name: Naïm, Samia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Yemeni Arabic (Sanaa dialect)
subject: ayn
subject: Arabe Yéménite (dialecte de Sanaa)

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Devinette n°15
title: Devinette n°26
Creators: name: Naïm, Samia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Yemeni Arabic (Sanaa dialect)
subject: ayn
subject: Arabe Yéménite (dialecte de Sanaa)

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Devinette n°26
title: Devinette n°14
Creators: name: Naïm, Samia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Yemeni Arabic (Sanaa dialect)
subject: ayn
subject: Arabe Yéménite (dialecte de Sanaa)

description: Conforms to: doi:10.34847/cocoon.49aefa90-8c1f-3ba8-a099-0ebefc6a2aa7
description: Devinette n°14
Ni-Vanuatu 'Making Business' through Seasonal Worker Programs
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: An objective of both Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE) is to encourage economic development in the Pacific. This In Brief highlights how a number of ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers in both RSE and SWP have created various and sometimes unexpected businesses and responded to the changing economic environment in Vanuatu. This research reveals seasonal workers have been encouraged to invest businesses that are not necessarily aligned with what workers want or need.
Limiting Possible Exploitation in Transportation Services for Seasonal Worker Programs
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This In Brief highlights the problem of overcharging for transportation of seasonal workers to and from their worksites in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme (RSE). Unlike accommodation providers and their services to seasonal workers discussed in a previous In Brief, transportation services and costs are rarely addressed. Yet, like other ‘wrap around’ services such as accommodation, the costs for transport and the services provided vary. Workers trust providers to charge fair rates for their services, however research has shown that excessive costs for transport have been imposed on workers, and transport providers have been criticised for disproportionate charges.
And Then There Were Three: A New Chinese Miner in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Smith, Graeme
name: Dinnen, Sinclair
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Barrick Gold Corporation announced on 26 May 2015 that it had sold a 50 per cent stake in Barrick Niugini Limited to Zijin Mining Group, one of China’s ‘big four’ state-owned gold mining companies, for US$298 million in cash (BGC 26/5/2015). Barrick owns 95 per cent of the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea (PNG), with the remaining five per cent in the hands of the Enga provincial government and landowners. The deal was part of a broader ‘strategic partnership’ between Barrick and Zijin, and is in line with Barrick’s new approach of deleveraging and reducing exposure to legacy assets outside North America (Hill and Campbell 2/12/2013).
Justice Delivered Locally in Rural Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Sinclair, Dinnen
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: Justice and security are important development goals for donors such as Australia and a high priority for poor people around the world. The plural realities of security and justice provision, comprising interplay between diverse actors and practices at different scales, are now widely acknowledged in development circles. Plural approaches to dispute resolution and everyday security prevail throughout rural Melanesia. While engaging with pluralism has become a standard exhortation in policy discourse, the evidence base for doing so is often thin. Few comprehensive studies have been undertaken by governments or donors to map out local configurations of justice and security provision and illuminate how end users navigate plural regulatory terrains.
Ni-Vanuatu in Australia and New Zealand's Labour Mobility Schemes: An Examination of Provinces
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
name: Rereman, Julie
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: This In Brief discusses the demographic study undertaken in July 2018 by Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA), in collaboration with the Vanuatu Department of Labour and Employment Services (ESU). The study focuses on ni-Vanuatu workers in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme (RSE). The rationale for the exercise was to determine which provinces, islands and villages are gaining access to these programs. The information collected will be used to determine future research on the impacts of labour mobility in Vanuatu. The database sample contains information on workers’ age, gender, marital status, education, their agents or employers, the type of job, whether they are returnees, and other personal information, which will be the source for future publications. This type of data collection has the potential to assist future decisions on labour mobility policy and development outcome assessments. The authors recommend other Pacific Island states consider undertaking such demographic research.
A case for a negative-strand coding sequence in a group of positive-sense RNA viruses.
Creators: name: Dinan, Adam M
name: Lukhovitskaya, Nina I
name: Olendraite, Ingrida
name: Firth, Andrew E
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: RNA virus
Overlapping Genes

description: Positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses form the largest and most diverse group of eukaryote-infecting viruses. Their genomes comprise one or more segments of coding-sense RNA that function directly as messenger RNAs upon release into the cytoplasm of infected cells. Positive-sense RNA viruses are generally accepted to encode proteins solely on the positive strand. However, we previously identified a surprisingly long (∼1,000-codon) open reading frame (ORF) on the negative strand of some members of the family Narnaviridae which, together with RNA bacteriophages of the family Leviviridae, form a sister group to all other positive-sense RNA viruses. Here, we completed the genomes of three mosquito-associated narnaviruses, all of which have the long reverse-frame ORF. We systematically identified narnaviral sequences in public data sets from a wide range of sources, including arthropod, fungal, and plant transcriptomic data sets. Long reverse-frame ORFs are widespread in one clade of narnaviruses, where they frequently occupy >95 per cent of the genome. The reverse-frame ORFs correspond to a specific avoidance of CUA, UUA, and UCA codons (i.e. stop codon reverse complements) in the forward-frame RNA-dependent RNA polymerase ORF. However, absence of these codons cannot be explained by other factors such as inability to decode these codons or GC3 bias. Together with other analyses, we provide the strongest evidence yet of coding capacity on the negative strand of a positive-sense RNA virus. As these ORFs comprise some of the longest known overlapping genes, their study may be of broad relevance to understanding overlapping gene evolution and de novo origin of genes.
A Role of Cholesterol in Modulating the Binding of α-Synuclein to Synaptic-Like Vesicles.
Creators: name: Man, Wing K
name: De Simone, Alfonso
name: Barritt, Joseph D
name: Vendruscolo, Michele
name: Dobson, Christopher M
name: Fusco, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cholesterol
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Membrane interaction
α-synuclein
Synaptic Vesicles

description: α-Synuclein (αS) is a presynaptic protein whose aggregation is associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Although the physiological function of αS is still unclear, several lines of evidence indicate that this protein may play a role in the trafficking of synaptic vesicles (SVs) during neurotransmitter release, a task associated with its ability to bind SVs and promote their clustering. It is therefore crucial to identify the cellular factors that modulate this process. To address this question, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy we have characterized the role of cholesterol, a major component of the membrane of SVs, in the binding of αS with synaptic-like vesicles. Our results indicate that cholesterol can act as a modulator of the overall affinity of αS for SVs by reducing the local affinity of the region spanning residues 65-97 in the non-amyloid-β component (NAC) of the protein. The increased population of bound states that expose the region 65-97 to the solvent was found to induce stronger vesicle-vesicle interactions by αS. These results provide evidence that cholesterol modulates the clustering of synaptic vesicles induced by (α)S, and supports the role of the disorder-to-order equilibrium of the NAC region in the modulation of the biological properties of the membrane-bound state of αS.
New range data for marine invertebrate species across the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) mass extinction
Creators: name: Caswell, Bryony A.
name: Coe, Angela L.
name: Cohen, Anthony S.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: We have reinvestigated the marine mass extinction interval that occurred during the early Toarcian, which was a time of widespread marine anoxia. The ranges of marine benthic invertebrates are significantly altered using new observations from the Cleveland Basin, UK. Goniomya rhombifera is reported for the first time from the Whitby Mudstone Formation and together with an increased epifaunal bivalve diversity indicates a brief, relatively oxygenated period towards the end of the event. The new data, together with published results, suggest three apparent extinction horizons on a global scale; the first is just above the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary, and the following two are in the semicelatum ammonite Subzone. As a result of the Signor–Lipps effect there may be only one, or possibly two, true extinctions. The youngest extinction horizon coincides with the first of the abrupt carbon isotope shifts that characterize this interval, and with increases in sea surface temperature, continental weathering rates, and seawater anoxia. Pseudomytiloides dubius is the only abundant benthic macroinvertebrate during the most hostile environmental conditions but it and all other benthic species are almost entirely absent for many thousands of years immediately after each abrupt negative carbon isotope shift.
title: 02_1263
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
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Mapeamento participativo de riscos e vulnerabilidade aos incêndios florestais (Guia Orientativo)
Creators: name: Saad, Guilherme
name: Dias, Joana
name: Partidário, Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Este Guia Orientativo destina-se aos técnicos florestais das Câmaras Municipais, representantes de organizações de produtores florestais, entidades locais e demais públicos interessados na prática do Mapeamento Participativo. O Guia visa partilhar a experiência do MP adaptado ao contexto de riscos e vulnerabilidades aos incêndios florestais e contribuir para orientar (e incentivar!) o amplo uso do método MP em diversos outros territórios florestais, de modo a contribuir para promover uma gestão resiliente e sustentável das florestas. 

Este trabalho foi financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT-Fundação Portuguesa para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do projeto BRIDGE "Unir a ciência e as comunidades locais para a redução do risco de incêndios florestais" (PCIF/AGT/0072/2019).

Agradecemos aos participantes do Mapeamento Participativo em Monchique, pela partilha de suas visões, ideias e conhecimentos. Agradecemos às autarquias e entidades locais pela parceria e apoio no MP. Agradecemos todo o apoio e parceria dos Centros de Investigação CiTUA R&D (10.54499/UIDB/05703/2020) e CEG-IST (UIDB/00097/2020), Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, e do Centro de Investigação MED (UIDB/05183/2020), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, UAlg
Sustaining the Gains in Post-RAMSI Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Dinnen, Sinclair
name: Allen, Matthew
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) recently concluded at an estimated cost to Australia of AU$2.6 billion between 2003 and 2013. RAMSI was originally conceived in the ‘state-building moment’ that shaped Western responses to ‘state failure’ in the late 1990s and first decade of the new millennium. That moment has now passed, with renewed fiscal austerity, growing scepticism about liberal interventionism, as well as organisational changes and policy shifts in Australia’s foreign relations. Drawing on a recent workshop presentation (Allen and Dinnen forthcoming), we consider how post-RAMSI donor assistance can help sustain gains made over the past decade. Referencing research in rural Solomons and neighbouring Bougainville, we sketch some possibilities for hybrid forms of institutional and economic development capable of accommodating the strengths of both local and liberal orders.
Suitable Accommodation for Seasonal Worker Programs
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: Accommodation is one of the largest expenses incurred by seasonal workers participating in Australia’s Seasonal Workers Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme (RSE). The cost of accommodation varies depending on the employer and availability in the area. The provision of ‘suitable’ accommodation is a condition of the pastoral care policy of both programs and is the responsibility of employers, not the workers. Workers must pay for this provided accommodation with deductions taken from their pay regardless of whether they are earning an income or not. There has been public criticism about accommodation for seasonal workers in Australia and New Zealand. Reports have shown that some Pacific workers have been placed in overcrowded and substandard lodgings with inadequate facilities and rates set too high (Bailey 2009:117–18).1 This In Brief looks at some of the challenges as well as changes that have recently occurred in relation to accommodation standards in the RSE and argues that such changes should also be considered in the SWP. More research is recommended as well as better oversight from governments.
O'SIMLIK FENOLLARI NEFT UGLEVODORODLARI PIROLIZINING SUYUQ MAHSULOTLARINI QAYTA ISHLASHDA TERMOPOLIMERIZATSIYA INGIBITORLARINI ISHLAB CHIQARISH UCHUN TEXNOGEN FENOLLAR MUQOBIL  MAHSULOT SIFATIDA.
Creators: name: G'afurova, Gulnoz
name: Qosimova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Neft-kimyo sanoati uchun polimerizatsiya jarayonlarining samarali ingibitorlarining yangi manbai - yog'och va boshqa o'simlik materiallaridan ajratilgan polifenollar taklif qilindi.  Chunki o'simlik polifenoli va samarali antioksidant - yuqori antiradikal faollikka ega, sanoat neft-kimyo jarayonlarida antipolimerizatorlar sifatida ishlatiladigan birikmalardandir. So'nggi yillarda ingibitorlar  bozorida  nitroksil radikallarini (NR ) o'z ichiga olgan kompozitsiyalar namunalari tavsiya qilinib kelinardi. Bu nisbatan arzon, ammo NR ning faol radikal turlari bilan o'zaro ta'sir qilish mexanizmi texnologik yechimlar juda noaniq va qo'shimcha tadqiqotlarni talab qiladi.
Blacklisting and Reporting in Seasonal Worker Programs
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: This In Brief examines the practice of blacklisting in seasonal worker programs such as Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme (RSE). Blacklisting occurs when workers are permanently or temporarily excluded from programs. It can vary from two to five years, or be indefinite, depending on the offence. The practice of blacklisting is rarely highlighted and should be discussed as there are implications for all stakeholders. This paper raises these issues in the context of ni-Vanuatu in the RSE scheme. The main impetus for this paper is to highlight what happens when workers are blacklisted, some of the reasons behind this, and how growers are affected when perceived problematic workers are not reported to government labour sending units in future seasons.
Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development: A Critical Interrogation
Creators: name: Dinnen, Sinclair
name: Kent, Lia
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: This In Brief introduces the malleable and contested concept of ‘hybridity’ with a view to establishing its heuristic value for academics and practitioners working in the fields of peacebuilding and development. It draws on discussions that occurred over the course of nine thematic panel presentations on the theme ‘Interrogating Hybridity: History, Power and Scale’ organised by the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU, in 2015.
Evaluating Winding Numbers and Counting Complex Roots Through Cauchy Indices in Isabelle/HOL.
Creators: name: Li, Wenda
name: Paulson, Lawrence C
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Computer Algebra
Winding Number
Isabelle/hol
Interactive Theorem Proving
Root Counting
Cauchy Index
The Routh–hurwitz Stability Criterion

description: In complex analysis, the winding number measures the number of times a path (counter-clockwise) winds around a point, while the Cauchy index can approximate how the path winds. We formalise this approximation in the Isabelle theorem prover, and provide a tactic to evaluate winding numbers through Cauchy indices. By further combining this approximation with the argument principle, we are able to make use of remainder sequences to effectively count the number of complex roots of a polynomial within some domains, such as a rectangular box and a half-plane.
Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme/Seasonal Worker Programme Team Leaders’ Workshop: Vanuatu 2017
Creators: name: Bailey, Rochelle
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2017

description: On 30 June 2017, the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia program (now Department of Pacific Affairs) at the Australian National University hosted the Team Leaders’ Workshop in Port Vila for ni-Vanuatu participating in Australia’s Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) and New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE). This was the first time that team leaders from both programs,1 agents, employers, the Vanuatu Employment Service Unit (ESU), and representatives from the Australian and New Zealand High Commissions had come together for this purpose. The workshop provided an opportunity for the various groups to understand the opportunities, challenges, and expectations of team leaders, and for leaders themselves to share their experiences. It also explored support and training options for existing and future team leaders.
C-reactive protein as a potential biomarker for disease progression in dengue: a multi-country observational study.
Creators: name: Vuong, Nguyen Lam
name: Le Duyen, Huynh Thi
name: Lam, Phung Khanh
name: Tam, Dong Thi Hoai
name: Vinh Chau, Nguyen Van
name: Van Kinh, Nguyen
name: Chanpheaktra, Ngoun
name: Lum, Lucy Chai See
name: Pleités, Ernesto
name: Jones, Nick Keith
name: Simmons, Cameron Paul
name: Rosenberger, Kerstin
name: Jaenisch, Thomas
name: Halleux, Christine
name: Olliaro, Piero Luigi
name: Wills, Bridget
name: Yacoub, Sophie
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Prognosis
Biomarker
Dengue
C-reactive Protein
Other Febrile Illness

description: BACKGROUND:Dengue infection can cause a wide spectrum of clinical outcomes. The severe clinical manifestations occur sufficiently late in the disease course, during day 4-6 of illness, to allow a window of opportunity for risk stratification. Markers of inflammation may be useful biomarkers. We investigated the value of C-reactive protein (CRP) measured early on illness days 1-3 to predict dengue disease outcome and the difference in CRP levels between dengue and other febrile illnesses (OFI). METHOD:We performed a nested case-control study using the clinical data and samples collected from the IDAMS-consortium multi-country study. This was a prospective multi-center observational study that enrolled almost 8000 participants presenting with a dengue-like illness to outpatient facilities in 8 countries across Asia and Latin America. Predefined severity definitions of severe and intermediate dengue were used as the primary outcomes. A total of 281 cases with severe/intermediate dengue were compared to 836 uncomplicated dengue patients as controls (ratio 1:3), and also 394 patients with OFI. RESULTS:In patients with confirmed dengue, median (interquartile range) of CRP level within the first 3 days was 30.2 mg/L (12.4-61.2 mg/L) (uncomplicated dengue, 28.6 (10.5-58.9); severe or intermediate dengue, 34.0 (17.4-71.8)). Higher CRP levels in the first 3 days of illness were associated with a higher risk of severe or intermediate outcome (OR 1.17, 95% CI 1.07-1.29), especially in children. Higher CRP levels, exceeding 30 mg/L, also associated with hospitalization (OR 1.37, 95% CI 1.14-1.64) and longer fever clearance time (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.76-0.93), especially in adults. CRP levels in patients with dengue were higher than patients with potential viral infection but lower than patients with potential bacterial infection, resulting in a quadratic association between dengue diagnosis and CRP, with levels of approximately 30 mg/L associated with the highest risk of having dengue. CRP had a positive correlation with total white cell count and neutrophils and negative correlation with lymphocytes, but did not correlate with liver transaminases, albumin, or platelet nadir. CONCLUSIONS:In summary, CRP measured in the first 3 days of illness could be a useful biomarker for early dengue risk prediction and may assist differentiating dengue from other febrile illnesses.
Feasibility of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting in Ovarian Tumors for T1 and T2 Mapping in a PET/MR Setting.
Creators: name: Kaggie, Joshua D
name: Deen, Surrin
name: Kessler, Dimitri A
name: McLean, Mary A
name: Buonincontri, Guido
name: Schulte, Rolf F
name: Addley, Helen
name: Sala, Evis
name: Brenton, James
name: Graves, Martin J
name: Gallagher, Ferdia A
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ovarian cancer
Oncology
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Imaging Techniques
Clinical Imaging
Cancer Applications

description: Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to characterize many cancer subtypes including ovarian cancer. Quantitative mapping of MRI relaxation values, such as T 1 and T 2 mapping, is promising for improving tumor assessment beyond conventional qualitative T 1- and T 2-weighted images. However, quantitative MRI relaxation mapping methods often involve long scan times due to sequentially measuring many parameters. Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a new method that enables fast quantitative MRI by exploiting the transient signals caused by the variation of pseudorandom sequence parameters. These transient signals are then matched to a simulated dictionary of T 1 and T 2 values to create quantitative maps. The ability of MRF to simultaneously measure multiple parameters, could represent a new approach to characterizing cancer and assessing treatment response. This feasibility study investigates MRF for simultaneous T 1, T 2, and relative proton density (rPD) mapping using ovarian cancer as a model system.