cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What exactly is infrastructure? Seeing the leopard's spots
Creators: name: Bilder, Geoffrey
name: Lin, Jennifer
name: Neylon, Cameron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy

description: We ducked a fundamental question raised by our proposal for infrastructure principles: “what exactly counts as infrastructure?” Of course this is not a straightforward question and part of the reason for leaving it in untouched in the introductory post. We believe that any definition must entail a much broader discussion from the community. But we wanted to kick this off with a discussion of an important part of the infrastructure puzzle that we think is often missed. That the infrastructure we should care most about is often a layer below where our attention is focused.
General Health Effects and Toxicity of a Specific Mixture of Isomalto-oligosaccharides
Creators: name: Donal Day, PhD
name: Chang-Ho Chung, PhD
name: Maren Hegsted, PhD
name: M.L. Marceau-Day, PhD
name: McCutcheon, Kathleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Toxicology

description: Prebiotics are non-digestible carbohydrate compounds, often referred to as "soluble fiber". Although these carbohydrates are non-nutritive, they can influence the gut microbiome. An isomalto-oligosaccharide (IMO) prebiotic, specifically, a fermented mixture of maltosyl-isomalto-oligosaccharides (MIMO, DP 3-9), was tested for acceptability, toxicity, morphological/histopathological and biochemical changes in laboratory rats that were given three concentrations of MIMO (5, 10, and 20 % w/w and an energy control) added to their feed. Male Sprague Dawley rats were used to evaluate potential adverse effects of this specific IMO. No evidence of adverse effects was noted in any of the rodent test groups given the prebiotic, even when it was presented as a significant percentage of their diet (e.g. 20 %). It appears that this prebiotic mixture was well-tolerated, non-toxic, and may be suitable for use as dietary supplement in other mammals.
Additional file 1 of Instrumental variable analysis to estimate treatment effects: a simulation study showing potential benefits of conditioning on hospital
Creators: name: Ceyisakar, I. E.
name: van Leeuwen, N.
name: Steyerberg, E. W.
name: Lingsma, H. F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 2 of Instrumental variable analysis to estimate treatment effects: a simulation study showing potential benefits of conditioning on hospital
Creators: name: Ceyisakar, I. E.
name: van Leeuwen, N.
name: Steyerberg, E. W.
name: Lingsma, H. F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Sustainability of cattle farming using analysis approach of Structural Equation Modeling (a study on dry land of Tanah Laut Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia)
Creators: name: Iqbal, Zahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: Soil Science
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Education

description: The study was conducted in the village of Sumber Makmur and Central Banua, Takisung Sub-district, Tanah
Laut Regency, South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. This study aims to determine (1) factors influencing the
sustainability of beef cattle farming (2) factors influencing the welfare of farmers, in form of a case study on the
dry land. The study was conducted with survey method to 111 respondents using questionnaires that had been
prepared previously (structured). The respondents were chosen by purposive sampling with criteria of having or
farming beef cattle. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), completion of the data
was conducted using AMOS software. In this study, there are seven endogenous variables and two exogenous
variables. The endogenous variables are environmental, economic, social, technology, physical, human, and
institutional resources. The results show that environmental, economic, technological, physical, human, and
institutional resources influence the sustainability of beef cattle farming; environmental, economic,
technological, physical, human, and institutional resources influence, either directly or indirectly, the welfare of
farmers (except social); and cattle farming sustainability variable influences the welfare of farmers. According to
the result of this study, it is suggested that for the sustainability of beef cattle farming and to improve the welfare
of farmers, several things that should be improved and considered are the improvements of resources, primarily
environmental, economic, technological, physical, human, and institutional resources.
Scalable Orchestrator Interim Release (D4.2)
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Apostolos
name: Kraja, Elian
name: Agueci, Leonardo
name: Carrozzo, Gino
name: Preto, Ricardo
name: Albanese, Antonino
name: Viscardo Costa
name: Verderame, Valerio Vecchio
name: Meixner, Carlos Colman
name: Baldoni, Gabrielle
name: Sechkova, Teodora
name: Paolino, Michele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Interim release of the 5GCity orchestrator, including the SDK, the service programming models and the dashboard
Post impact repair of in-situ polymerisable thermoplastic based carbon fibre composite and its assessment under compression after impact loading
Creators: name: Bhatia, Gursahib Singh
name: Hejjaji, Akshay
name: COMER, ANTHONY
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This work investigates the impact response, associated damage, the feasibility of repair and strength recovery of infusible thermoplastic based carbon fibre reinforced composites. Impact behaviour of the laminates is studied using drop tower impact tests at three energy levels i.e. 40 J, 30 J and 20 J resulting in delamination as the primary damage mode at lower energy levels with evidence of fibre breakage at 40 J. Repair is performed by thermally re-consolidating impact damaged specimens under vacuum at a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the matrix. X-ray micro computed tomography (CT) scans and ultrasonic C-Scans reveal significant post repair re-consolidation. Compression testing using compression after impact (CAI) fixture resulted in a retained strength of 78 %, 88 %, and 93 % for impacts at 40 J, 30 J, and 20 J respectively. Post-repair compression strength using CAI tests, recovered 85 % of the pristine strength for 40 J impacts and close to 100 % of pristine strength for both 30 J and 20 J impacts. Thermography during CAI testing revealed a difference in the location of damage initiation under compressive loading for impacted and repaired specimens. The overall results highlight the potential for effective on-site repair and strength recovery using a relatively simple thermal re-consolidation procedure
Additional file 1 of Hypereosinophilia is a predictive biomarker of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced hypopituitarism in patients with renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Yamada, Hodaka
name: Washino, Satoshi
name: Suzuki, Daisuke
name: Saikawa, Rika
name: Tonezawa, Shiori
name: Hagiwara, Rie
name: Funazaki, Shunsuke
name: Yoshida, Masashi
name: Konishi, Tsuzumi
name: Saito, Kimitoshi
name: Miyagawa, Tomoaki
name: Hara, Kazuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Clinical characteristics between patients with ICI-induced hypopituitarism who presented with hypereosinophilia and those who did not
Performance analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol for DSRC with and without Retransmissions
Creators: name: Hassan, Md. Imrul
name: Vu, Hai
name: Sakurai, Taka
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We develop an accurate analytical model for a dedicated short range communication (DSRC) network that uses the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) MAC protocol, as adopted by the forthcoming IEEE 802.11p specification for DSRC. The specific focus is on broadcast vehicle-to-vehicle safety messages. We derive explicit expressions for the mean of the total packet delay and the packet delivery ratio (PDR) in an unsaturated network formed by moving vehicles on a highway. Our model is validated using extensive simulations and we show that our model yields better predictive accuracy than other existing models. The model is then used to investigate the performance of a modified DCF that uses a fixed number of sequential retransmissions to improve the reliability of packet delivery. We find that with sequential retransmissions, the PDR improves at low vehicle density (i.e. low traffic load), but degrades at heavy loads where higher collisions induced by the retransmissions outweighs the benefit of repeated attempts.
MPEC 2024-E86 : 2024 EC2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EC2

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.
Additional file 1 of Are foxes (Vulpes spp.) good sentinel species for Toxoplasma gondii in northern Canada?
Creators: name: Bouchard, Émilie
name: Sharma, Rajnish
name: Hernández-Ortiz, Adrián
name: Buhler, Kayla
name: Al-Adhami, Batol
name: Su, Chunlei
name: Fenton, Heather
name: G.-Gouin, Géraldine
name: Roth, James D.
name: Rodrigues, Chloé Warret
name: Pamak, Carla
name: Simon, Audrey
name: Bachand, Nicholas
name: Leighton, Patrick
name: Jenkins, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Density of data for each species (Arctic fox in blue and red fox in yellow) compared to latitude in decimal coordinates indicating strong relationships (VIF = 146)
Additional file 2 of Are foxes (Vulpes spp.) good sentinel species for Toxoplasma gondii in northern Canada?
Creators: name: Bouchard, Émilie
name: Sharma, Rajnish
name: Hernández-Ortiz, Adrián
name: Buhler, Kayla
name: Al-Adhami, Batol
name: Su, Chunlei
name: Fenton, Heather
name: G.-Gouin, Géraldine
name: Roth, James D.
name: Rodrigues, Chloé Warret
name: Pamak, Carla
name: Simon, Audrey
name: Bachand, Nicholas
name: Leighton, Patrick
name: Jenkins, Emily
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. a Model selection results for hypotheses of risk factors influencing Toxoplasma gondii infection intensity in foxes in Canada. b Model selection results for hypotheses including “BCI^lat” interaction term and other possible risk factors influencing Toxoplasma gondii infection intensity in foxes in Canada.
Performance Analysis of Best-Effort Service in Saturated IEEE 802.16 Networks
Creators: name: Vu, Hai
name: Chan, S.
name: Andrew, L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The IEEE 802.16 standard is a promising technology for the fourth-generation mobile networks and is being actively promoted by the WiMAX Forum, an industry-led consortium. Among the various service classes supported in the standard, best-effort service is expected to be the major service class subscribed to by users due to its operational simplicity and lower charging rate compared with other service classes. In this paper, we investigate the throughput and packet access delay performance of the best-effort service using the contention-based bandwidth request mechanism in a saturated 802.16 network. In particular, we develop a simple fixed point analysis to approximate the failure probability of a bandwidth request and derive analytical expressions for network throughput and packet access delay. Furthermore, the uniqueness of the fixed point is established. The accuracy of the analytical model is validated by comparing with simulation over a wide range of operating conditions. The implications of various different parameter configurations on the system performance are investigated using the analytical model. The utility of the model is further demonstrated by finding the maximum achievable throughput and obtaining its corresponding optimal initial contention window.
Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome
Creators: name: Hong, Bryan Kun
name: Toussaint, Brian
name: Tripathy, Koushik
name: Omesh P. Gupta
name: Shah, Vinay A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Diseases

description: Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome- Eyewiki Original article contributed by: Brian Toussaint MD
All contributors: Bryan Kun Hong, Brian Toussaint MD, Koushik Tripathy, Omesh P. Gupta, MD, MBA and Vinay A. Shah M.D. http://eyewiki.org/Multiple_Evanescent_White_Dot_Syndrome
RIOS Working Group - Debunking the Myth that Race is Biological
Creators: name: Lenahan, Melanie
name: Gaffney, Karen
name: Mitchell, Jalissa
name: Schneider, Caitlin
name: Lehrer, Sydney
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: This RIOS Working Group grant funding compensated Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) students for creating curricular materials that could be used to debunk the myth that race is biological. Not only does this myth persist, but belief in it is rising. This is a serious problem for two reasons. First, this belief is false; second, it is dangerous, with harmful and even fatal consequences. This myth has served as a rationale and justification for white supremacy, colonialism, genocide, slavery, eugenics, and more. Institutions of higher education have an opportunity to take a more active role in debunking the myth that race is biological through teaching.
Book Reviews
Creators: name: Norman, Matthew
name: Ord, Mark
name: Liht, Helle
name: Carson, Marion L.S.
name: Ewell, Samuel E.
name: Aadne, Linda
name: Faroe, Charles E.
name: Purves, Jim
Publisher: name: Journal of European Baptist Studies
Year: 2019

description: Journal of European Baptist Studies, Vol 19 No 2 (2019): Journal of European Baptist Studies
Additional file 2 of First metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis/fusion: a systematic review of modern fixation techniques
Creators: name: Kang, Yang S.
name: Bridgen, Andy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Wayshowing in hospitals
Creators: name: Mollerup, Per
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the causes of the wayfinding problems in hospitals and suggests ways to solve them. The paper is by and large based on the author's personal experience and observations. Several causes make wayfinding in hospitals difficult. One group of causes concerns the complicated environment. Another group of causes concerns the users, a broad group out of which several constituents have reduced sight, mental and other capacities. The combination of a complicated environment and possibly weak wayfinders calls for carefully planned wayshowing.
Short course palliative radiotherapy in the management of choroidal metastasis: An effective technique since ages
Creators: name: Soumyajit Roy
name: Madan, Renu
name: Gogia, Ajay
name: Tripathy, Koushik
name: Dayanand Sharma
name: Julka, Pramod Kumar
name: Goura Kishore Rath
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Diseases

description: Roy, Soumyajit, Renu Madan, Ajay Gogia, Koushik Tripathy, Dayanand Sharma, Pramod Kumar Julka, and Goura Kishore Rath. “Short Course Palliative Radiotherapy in the Management of Choroidal Metastasis: An Effective Technique since Ages.” Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute, July 31, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.jnci.2015.07.003.
Mapping Vulnerability in Africa Research Brief No. 1
Creators: name: Richmond, Amy
name: Malcomb, Dylan
name: Ringler, Kristine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science
Geography

description: This project addresses the need for interdisciplinary and multilevel research through applied case studies in the Rift Valleys of Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia using spatially relevant analysis, archival research and field studies to address the complex factors that trigger or exacerbate environmental vulnerabilities.
The unveiling of the newly discovered vela supercluster
Creators: name: Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C.
name: Jarrett, Thomas H.
name: Elagali, Ahmed
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Bilicki, Maciej
name: Colless, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Multi-object spectroscopic observations of high density galaxy concentrations were obtained between 2012 and 2014 with SALT, using the multi-object spectrometer (MOS) of the Robert Stobie
Spectograph (RSS) on SALT. The goal was to find the missing clusters in an earlier identified ex-
tended galaxy overdensity centered at ~18000 km s-1 located at low Galactic latitudes in Vela.
Reliable redshifts could be extracted for ~ 80% of the targeted, highly-obscured galaxies. They
were found to have an accuracy of the order of ~ 150 km s-1. Of the 13 observed fields, ten
revealed clear signatures of galaxy clusters. The majority of the clusters form part of the Vela
overdensity. Their distribution also confirmed our suspicion that the Vela overdensity is even
more extended and seems to straddle the Galactic Plane. Subsequent multi-fibre spectroscopy
with AAOmega +2dF on the Australian Telescope confirmed that these clusters are embedded in
a gigantic overdensity of about 20 x 20 on the sky. The overdensity and its clusters show strong
similarities to massive superclusters such as the Shapley Supercluster. This previously unknown
Vela Supercluster may well constitute an additional missing piece of the puzzle in solving the
various contradictory (residual) bulk flow results given its location on the sky.
Additional file 3 of First metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis/fusion: a systematic review of modern fixation techniques
Creators: name: Kang, Yang S.
name: Bridgen, Andy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
Additional file 1 of First metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis/fusion: a systematic review of modern fixation techniques
Creators: name: Kang, Yang S.
name: Bridgen, Andy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Detecting highly dispersed bursts with next-generation radio telescopes
Creators: name: Hassall, T. E.
name: Keane, Evan
name: Fender, R. P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recently, there have been reports of six bright, dispersed bursts of coherent radio emission found in pulsar surveys with the Parkes Multibeam Receiver. Not much is known about the progenitors of these bursts, but they are highly energetic, and probably of extragalactic origin. Their properties suggest extreme environments and interesting physics, but in order to understand and study these events, more examples need to be found. Fortunately, the recent boom in radio astronomy means many 'next-generation' radio telescopes are set to begin observing in the near future. In this paper we discuss the prospects of detecting short extragalactic bursts, in both beamformed and imaging data, using these instruments. We find that often the volume of space probed by radio surveys of fast transients is limited by the dispersion measure of the source, rather than its physical distance (although the two quantities are related). This effect is larger for low-frequency telescopes, where propagation effects are more prominent, but their larger fields-of-view are often enough to compensate for this. Our simulations suggest that the low-frequency component of Square Kilometre Array Phase 1 could find an extragalactic burst every hour.We also show that if the sensitivity of the telescope is above a certain threshold, imaging surveysmay prove more fruitful than beamformed surveys in finding these sorts of transients.
Mapping Vulnerability at the household level in Africa
Creators: name: Richmond, Amy
name: Malcomb, Dylan
name: Ringler, Kristine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science
Geography

description: This project addresses the need for interdisciplinary and multilevel research through applied case studies in the Rift Valleys of Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia using spatially relevant analysis, archival research and field studies to address the complex factors that trigger or exacerbate environmental vulnerabilities.
Mapping vulnerability at the household level in Africa
Creators: name: Richmond, Amy
name: Malcomb, Dylan
name: Ringler, Kristine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science
Geography

description: This project addresses the need for interdisciplinary and multilevel research through applied case studies in the Rift Valleys of Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia using spatially relevant analysis, archival research and field studies to address the complex factors that trigger or exacerbate environmental vulnerabilities.
Adaptive fast finite time control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems
Creators: name: Khoo, Suiyang
name: Man, Zhihong
name: Zhao, Shengkui
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper concerns the adaptive fast finite time control of a class of nonlinear uncertain systems of which the upper bounds of the system uncertainties are unknown. By using the fast non-smooth control Lyapunov function and the method of so-called adding a power integrator merging with adaptive technique, a recursive design procedure is provided, which guarantees the fast finite time stability of the closed-loop system. It is proved that the control input is bounded, and a simulation example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
Autophagy-related protein PlATG2 regulates the vegetative growth, sporangial cleavage, autophagosome formation, and pathogenicity of peronophythora litchii
Creators: name: Lv, Lin
name: Yang, Chengdong
name: Zhang, Xue
name: Chen, Taixu
name: Luo, Manfei
name: Yu, Ge
name: Chen, Qinghe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Autophagy is an intracellular degradation process that is important for the development and pathogenicity of phytopathogenic fungi and for the defence response of plants. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying autophagy in the pathogenicity of the plant pathogenic oomycete Peronophythora litchii, the causal agent of litchi downy blight, have not been well characterized. In this study, the autophagy-related protein ATG2 homolog, PlATG2, was identified and characterized using a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene replacement strategy in P. litchii. A monodansylcadaverine (MDC) staining assay indicated that deletion of PlATG2 abolished autophagosome formation. Infection assays demonstrated that ΔPlatg2 mutants showed significantly impaired pathogenicity in litchi leaves and fruits. Further studies have revealed that PlATG2 participates in radial growth and asexual/sexual development of P. litchii. Moreover, zoospore release and cytoplasmic cleavage of sporangia were considerably lower in the ΔPlatg2 mutants than in the wild-type strain by FM4–64 staining. Taken together, our results revealed that PlATG2 plays a pivotal role in vegetative growth, sporangia and oospore production, zoospore release, sporangial cleavage, and plant infection of P. litchii. This study advances our understanding of the pathogenicity mechanisms of the phytopathogenic oomycete P. litchii and is conducive to the development of effective control strategies.
Fish Oil Diet Associated with Acute Reperfusion Related Hemorrhage, and with Reduced Stroke-Related Sickness Behaviors and Motor Impairment
Creators: name: Pascoe, Michaela C.
name: Howells, David W.
name: Crewther, David
name: Constantinou, Nicki
name: Carey, Leeanne M.
name: Rewell, Sarah S.
name: Turchini, Giovanni M.
name: Kaur, Gunveen
name: Crewther, Sheila G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Ischemic stroke is associated with motor impairment and increased incidence of affective disorders such as anxiety/clinical depression. In non-stroke populations, successful management of such disorders and symptoms has been reported following diet supplementation with long chain omega-3-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids (PUFAs). However, the potential protective effects of PUFA supplementation on affective behaviors after experimentally induced stroke and sham surgery have not been examined previously. This study investigated the behavioral effects of PUFA supplementation over a 6-week period following either middle cerebral artery occlusion or sham surgery in the hooded-Wistar rat. The PUFA diet supplied during the acclimation period prior to surgery was found to be associated with an increased risk of acute hemorrhage following the reperfusion component of the surgery. In surviving animals, PUFA supplementation did not influence infarct size as determined 6 weeks after surgery, but did decrease omega-6-fatty-acid levels, moderate sickness behaviors, acute motor impairment, and longer-term locomotor hyperactivity and depression/anxiety-like behavior.
Library Skills RMA Science of Religion
Creators: name: Rossem, Maaike Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Religious Studies

description: Tutorial Library Skills for advanced students Science of Religion at the University of Amsterdam: searching, finding, selecting and saving primary (digital) sources and academic (digital) literature on a highly specialised level.
Mapping vulnerability in Africa Research Brief No. 1
Creators: name: Richmond, Amy
name: Malcomb, Dylan
name: Ringler, Kristine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science
Geography

description: This project addresses the need for interdisciplinary and multilevel research through applied case studies in the Rift Valleys of Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia using spatially relevant analysis, archival research and field studies to address the complex factors that trigger or exacerbate environmental vulnerabilities.
The Unique Identity of Mushrooms and Their Potential Effects on Brain Health
Creators: name: Glover, Emily Suzanne
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 321004
subject: Nutritional science
classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology

description: Mushrooms are unique and edible fungi containing many bioactive compounds and antioxidants, such as ergothioneine, ergosterol, glutathione, and erinacines (specific to Hericium erinaceus species) that may promote neuroprotective effects, such as reducing neuroinflammation and reactive oxygen species in the brain. In addition to these neuroprotective compounds, the ergosterol in mushrooms can convert to vitamin D2 after UV light exposure. Vitamin D has purported benefits for brain health as well, with vitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk of depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline. For centuries, mushrooms have been consumed for nutritive and medicinal purposes, however, science still does not know the full neuroprotective potential of mushrooms despite the many brain health-promoting compounds they contain. Research assessing the effects of mushrooms on brain health is limited and the results are mixed, with tentative improvements reported in mood and cognitive function. Research included in this thesis aims to assess the effects of consuming mushrooms produced to contain vitamin D on indexes of anxiety, depression, mood, cognition, and well-being. No prior studies, to our knowledge, have investigated the effects of fresh, whole vitamin D-enriched mushrooms on brain health-related outcomes in humans. The research presented in this thesis confirms that mushrooms are nutritionally unique foods that may not impact anxiety, depression, mood, cognitive function, or perceived well-being. In terms of influencing vitamin D status, mushrooms produced to contain vitamin D increase serum vitamin D2 levels, but may decrease vitamin D3 with no overall improvements in total vitamin D status. However, retrospective analyses revealed that the participants who consumed mushrooms with adequate amounts of vitamin D exhibited a better maintenance of total vitamin D compared to the control and those who did not have adequate vitamin D in their mushrooms. Continued research is needed to examine its effects on cognitive and mood outcomes in different populations.
Law Enforcement and Water Resources of the Malacca River A Case Study of Public Perception
Creators: name: Hua, Ang Kean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science
Geography
Science Policy
Survey Results
Environmental Humanities

description: Malacca state is a historical tourism based economy, and has been recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site. However, Malacca River pollution can be attributed to human activities such as agriculture, livestock, factories, commercial, and settlements. So, this research study has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of law enforcement of water resources in the Malacca River. The research involves a quantitative approach, which is a questionnaire divided into two parts. Part A is a demographic profile and part B concerns water pollution in the river and the effectiveness of law and regulation towards water resources in Malacca River. The sample size of 400 was decided with a sampling area of Alor Gajah and Melaka Tengah. Analyses involve chi-square (x2) analysis and correlation analysis. A majority of respondents agree that the Malacca River is dirty due to industrial and excretory waste turning the water black, smelly, and contaminated. Polluted water cause disease and poisoning aquatic animals to death, and affect plant species through nutrients loss. At worst, polluted river leads to aquatic species becoming extinct and dirty the habitat of animals. Hence, the Water Act 1920, Environmental Quality Act 1974, Sewage and Industrial Effluent 1979, Sewage Service Act 1993, and River Act could stop pollution and protect the water resources of the Malacca River. Malacca state is a historical tourism based economy, and has been recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site. However, Malacca River pollution can be attributed to human activities such as agriculture, livestock, factories, commercial, and settlements. So, this research study has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of law enforcement of water resources in the Malacca River. The research involves a quantitative approach, which is a questionnaire divided into two parts. Part A is a demographic profile and part B concerns water pollution in the river and the effectiveness of law and regulation towards water resources in Malacca River. The sample size of 400 was decided with a sampling area of Alor Gajah and Melaka Tengah. Analyses involve chi-square (x2) analysis and correlation analysis. A majority of respondents agree that the Malacca River is dirty due to industrial and excretory waste turning the water black, smelly, and contaminated. Polluted water cause disease and poisoning aquatic animals to death, and affect plant species through nutrients loss. At worst, polluted river leads to aquatic species becoming extinct and dirty the habitat of animals. Hence, the Water Act 1920, Environmental Quality Act 1974, Sewage and Industrial Effluent 1979, Sewage Service Act 1993, and River Act could stop pollution and protect the water resources of the Malacca River.
Additional file 1 of SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses in elderly and immunosuppressed participants and patients with hematologic disease or checkpoint inhibition in solid tumors: study protocol of the prospective, observational CoCo immune study
Creators: name: Dopfer-Jablonka, Alexandra
name: Steffens, Sandra
name: Müller, Frank
name: Mikuteit, Marie
name: Niewolik, Jacqueline
name: Cossmann, Anne
name: Stankov, Metodi V.
name: Behrens, Georg M. N.
name: Hummers, Eva
name: Heesen, Gloria
name: Schröder, Dominik
name: Roder, Sascha
name: Klawonn, Frank
name: Vahldiek, Kai
name: Hasenkamp, Justin
name: Kallusky, Jonathan
name: Falk, Christine S.
name: Overbeck, Tobias R.
name: Heinemann, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Data Management Plan.
Life Cycle Assessment of Soy Protein Isolate
Creators: name: Proc. ISSST
name: Berardy, Andrew
name: Costello, Christine
name: Seager, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: Life cycle assessment (LCA) of food indicates that plant-based diets have lower impacts on the environment than those which include meat. However, such conclusions are based on a narrow representation of plant-based diets that excludes the growing number of meat substitutes available. These assessments therefore misrepresent the potential range of environmental impacts associated with plant-based diets, which depends in part on the foods people choose to fulfill their protein needs. Many realistic plant-based meat alternatives use soy protein isolate (SPI) to replicate the texture and nutritional profiles of a variety of meats. SPI uses soybean meal (soymeal) as a feedstock, which undergoes mechanical and chemical processing that in turn increases the environmental impact of the final product. The environmental impacts of SPI per kilogram are estimated here using LCA and expressed in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater eutrophication, land use, water depletion, fossil fuel use, and energy use. These results are compared to published values for soybeans, soymeal, tofu, chicken, pork and beef for reference. Publically available data, published literature and the ecoinvent database are used in SimaPro with the ReCiPe method to estimate environmental impacts associated with production of one kilogram of SPI. Results indicate that SPI has global warming potential higher than unprocessed chicken and pork, and similar to beef. Freshwater eutrophication associated with SPI is below impacts associated with chicken, pork and beef. Water depletion and fossil fuel depletion are higher in SPI than chicken, pork and beef. Energy use for SPI is lower than energy use for chicken, pork and beef. Land use associated with SPI is negative because of environmental credits from allocation to the byproduct of soymeal, soy oil and therefore represents a lower impact than chicken, pork, and beef. These findings demonstrate that this component of realistic fake meat may not be an environmentally preferable alternative to chicken, pork, or beef, depending on the impact categories considered.
Education for Sustainability in UK Universities
Creators: name: Czarnecka, Barbara
name: Baxter, Katherine
name: O'Rourke, Grace
Publisher: name: LSBU
Year: 2023
Subjects: education for sustainability
business courses
UK universities

description: This study examined the extent to which environmental sustainability topics are embedded in course descriptions of business-related courses offered by British universities and how these course descriptions are related to formal commitment of universities to sustainability issues and selected organisational characteristics. This study is the first study to systematically analyse descriptions of 2758 business-related courses offered by all universities in the UK and therefore adds new comprehensive knowledge to the debate on education for sustainability and organisational hypocrisy.
description: Content analysis of websites
description: Data was aggregated from course level to university level.

Dataset contains the following variables: university, 
INTRO_WORDS_mean, INTRO_WORDS_sum, Modules_with_keyword_in_title_mean,Core_modules_mean, Word_sustainability_mean, Word_natural_environment_mean, Word_climate_change_mean, Word_environmentally_sustainable_mean, Word_enviromental_issues_management_mean, Word_enivronmental_demage_impact_mean, Word_green_technology_mean, Word_green_marketing_strategy_mean, Word_responsible_consumption_mean, Word_business_corporate_responsibility_mean, Word_renewable_energy_mean, Word_carbon_carbon_neutrals_mean, Word_circular_economy_mean, Word_ecology_mean, Word_conservation_mean, Sustainability_statement_website_mean, Russel_Group_Member_mean, TEF_score_mean, Nation_mean, Optional_Modules_mean, TOTAL_WORDS_mean, Number_of_courses, PRME_Membership, Number_students_2022 OverallREF_3_4_percentage
title: Acts of Resistance – Cultural Humility in Action: How First Nations Health Authority Employees Have Become Catalysts for Systems Change and Equity
Creators: name: Moon, Katelyn
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University
Year: 2024
Subjects: School of leadership studies

description: 2024
description: Eleven diverse First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) employees with deep practices of cultural humility participated in this action-oriented research to answer the question: How might the lived experience of FNHA employees, who have a sustained commitment to cultural humility and who enact acts of resistance against colonialism and white supremacy, inform how cultural humility is developed and actioned? Participants shared personal journeys of cultural humility development over their lives in three methods: interviews, a circle discussion, and a kitchen table discussion. Participants contributed to themes, conclusions, and recommendations for a relational and reciprocal culture of safety, a culture of humility, and a culture of learning that elevates the wisdom held by FNHA employees. The outcomes of this research will contribute to the development of the FNHA’s Culture and People Development Program to support organizational learning. This research was conducted in accordance with Royal Roads University and FNHA research ethics approval.
Omega-3 fatty acids modify human cortical visual processing-a double-blind, crossover study
Creators: name: Bauer, Isabelle
name: Crewther, David
name: Pipingas, Andrew
name: Rowsell, Renee
name: Cockerell, Robyn
name: Crewther, Sheila G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While cardiovascular and mood benefits of dietary omega-3 fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are manifest, direct neurophysiological evidence of their effects on cortical activity is still limited. Hence we chose to examine the effects of two proprietary fish oil products with different EPA:DHA ratios (EPA-rich, high EPA:DHA; DHA-rich) on mental processing speed and visual evoked brain activity. We proposed that nonlinear multifocal visual evoked potentials (mfVEP) would be sensitive to any alteration of the neural function induced by omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, because the higher order kernel responses directly measure the degree of recovery of the neural system as a function of time following stimulation. Twenty-two healthy participants aged 18-34, with no known neurological or psychiatric disorder and not currently taking any nutritional supplementation, were recruited. A double-blind, crossover design was utilized, including a 30-day washout period, between two 30-day supplementation periods of the EPA-rich and DHA-rich diets (with order of diet randomized). Psychophysical choice reaction times and multi-focal nonlinear visual evoked potential (VEP) testing were performed at baseline (No Diet), and after each supplementation period. Following the EPA-rich supplementation, for stimulation at high luminance contrast, a significant reduction in the amplitude of the first slice of the second order VEP kernel response, previously related to activation in the magnocellular pathway, was observed. The correlations between the amplitude changes of short latency second and first order components were significantly different for the two supplementations. Significantly faster choice reaction times were observed psychophysically (compared with baseline performance) under the EPA-rich (but not DHA-rich) supplementation, while simple reaction times were not affected. The reduced nonlinearities observed under the EPA-rich diet suggest a mechanism involving more efficient neural recovery of magnocellular-like visual responses following cortical activation.
Genetically engineered biomaterials
Creators: name: Sinith Rashmin Withanage
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Genetic Engineering

description: Involvement of genetic engineering techniques in development of novel biomaterials, has huge impact on vast range of applications. [1] The capability of new genetically engineered material has achieved various innovative scopes in the biomedical industry. Such materials are usually designed via chemical and physical methods of genetic engineering. [2,3] According to the genetic basis of sequence, molecular weight, folded structure, and stereochemistry, protein polymers thus suggest generous view for the architecture of protein based genetically engineered biomaterials.[3,4,5] The scope of developing genetically engineered bio materials are leading to improve biological features of materials which can enhance the applicability and properties of materials.[4,5,6] In the last five years, Genetic engineering research is becoming closer to the mass consumer. Leading global geneticists predict that in the coming years, a boom will occur in the genetic engineering market, comparable to the massive spread of personal computers in the 1980s.[7] Thus genetically modified biomaterials with upgraded biological properties, expanding towards mass scale industrial production and the considerable consumption in regular universal activities.[6,7] The techniques used to develop new materials and to modify the properties of existing materials, are subjected to different industries and fields of scientific researches. CRISPR is an authoritative research tool that facilitates scientists to deal with the expression of a gene. It has shown tremendous potential in genome research due to its ability to delete unwanted traits, and possibly even replace them with desirable traits. [8] It is agile, worthwhile, and more authentic than any preceding gene editing techniques. Genetically engineered biomaterials have been an enormous field of research over the last fifteen years and CRISPR has already initiated performing a significant aspect in boosting biomaterial research.
Additional file 1 of Acceptability, simplicity, and relevance of the new human papillomavirus/DNA test among 35-year-old ever-married women in a district of Sri Lanka: focus group discussions
Creators: name: Perera, K. C.
name: Mapitigama, K. N.
name: Abeysena, T. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. A Moderator Guide for Focus Group Discussion.
Statistical inference in abstracts of 3 influential clinical pharmacology journals analysed using a text-mining algorithm
Creators: name: Stang, A
name: Amiri, M
name: Michel, M.C
name: Deckert, M
name: Poole, C
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: Aims To describe the trend in the prevalence of statistical inference in 3 influential clinical pharmacology journals. Methods We applied a computer-based algorithm to abstracts of 3 clinical pharmacology journals published in 1976–2016 to identify statistical inference and its subtypes. Furthermore, we manually reviewed a random sample of 300 articles to access algorithm's performance in finding statistical inference in abstracts and as a screening tool for presence and absence of statistical inference in full text. Results The algorithm identified 59% (13 375/22 516 [mid-P 95% confidence interval {CI}, 59–60%]) article abstracts with statistical inference. The percentage of abstracts with statistical inference was similar in 1976 and 2016, 48% (179/377 [mid-P 95%CI, 42–52%]) vs. 49% (386/791 [mid-P 95%CI, 45–52%]). Statistical reporting pattern varied among journals. Among abstracts containing any statistical inference in the publications from 1976 to 2016, null-hypothesis significance testing was the most prevalent reported statistical inference. The algorithm had high sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for finding statistical inferences in abstract. While positive predictive value for predicting the statistical inference in full text (including abstract, text, tables and figures) was high, negative predictive value was low. Conclusion Despite journals’ editorials and statistical associations' guidelines, most authors focused on testing rather than estimation. In the future, better statistical reporting might be ensured by improving the statistical knowledge of authors and an addition of statistical guides to journals' instruction to authors to the extent that editors would like their statistical inference preferences to be incorporated into submitted manuscripts.