cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Morphology and viability of human spermatozoa vitrified with a new, cryoprotectant-free, artificial seminal fluid
Creators: name: Miglietta, Selenia
name: Agha-Rahimi, Azam
name: Khalili, Mohammad Ali
name: Moradi, Alireza
name: Antonouli, Sevastiani
name: Nottola, Stefania Annarita
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Spermatozoa; vitrification; artificial seminal fluid; human

description: Cryopreservation is a process finalized to store tissues and cells at a very low temperature. The most common freezing protocols used for gamete preservation in Assisted Reproductive Technologies are slow freezing and vitrification (1). Vitrification combines ultrarapid cooling with high concentrations of cryoprotectants; it avoids, better than slow freezing, the formation of ice crystals. It has been demonstrated, however, that cryoprotectant addition may significantly reduce cell viability (2). This study was aimed to design a new, cryoprotectant-free, medium similar to normal human seminal fluid (SF) formulation (artificial seminal fluid; ASF), and to compare the cryoprotective potential of this medium with SF and Human tubal fluid (HTF) medium. Thirty normal ejaculates were processed with swim-up technique and sperm suspensions were divided in four groups: fresh (controls); vitrified in HTF (Vit HTF); vitrified in patients’ SF (Vit SF); and vitrified in ASF (Vit ASF). To identify the effects of the different media we assessed sperm parameters of motility, viability and morphology after warming. Spermatozoa ultrastructure was also evaluated by scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM). The results showed that sperm motility, viability and normal morphology were significantly higher in Vit ASF than in Vit HTF. The same parameters were better in Vit ASF than in Vit SF, but only viability differed significantly. Deep cytoplasmic invaginations and folded tails were commonly observed by SEM in all vitrified sperms, but this alterations were more evident in Vit HTF and Vit SF than in Vit ASF. By TEM, acrosome damage, plasma membrane loss, chromatin vacuolation, disruption of mitochondria and adherence of several tail sections together were observed in all vitrified groups; the latter phenomenon, however, was more evident in Vit HTF and Vit SF than in Vit ASF. In conclusion, vitrification of human spermatozoa with ASF seems more effective in preserving sperm quality than Vit SF and, particularly, Vit HTF.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Additional file 5 of The needs of healthcare personnel who provide home-based pediatric palliative care: a mixed method systematic review
Creators: name: Schröder, Judith
name: Riiser, Kirsti
name: Holmen, Heidi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 5
title: Zur Ökonomie des Glücksspiels und der Spielsuchtbekämpfung
Creators: name: Usner, Clemens
Year: 2008

description: Die hohen Teilnahmezahlen an Glücksspielen und die enorme Präsenz großer Glücksspielunternehmen lassen diesen Wirtschaftszweig unaufhaltsam wachsen und für alle Beteiligten unverzichtbar profitabel werden. Zwar ist das Glücksspiel in Österreich in Form eines staatlichen Monopols gesetzlich geregelt, welches damit gerechtfertigt wird, der einzig wirksame Schutz gegen Spielsucht zu sein. Doch rütteln zahlreiche Dritte an dieser Herrschaftsstellung und fordern eine Öffnung bzw. Lockerung des Marktes, um einen Teil dieses lukrativen Geschäfts abzubekommen. Zudem weist das Glücksspiel, wie etwa auch die Alkoholsucht oder die Drogensucht, alle wesentlichen Symptome einer Sucht auf und hat daher negative Folgen für den Betroffenen und die Gesellschaft. Dies kann auch die viel versprechende Monopolstruktur nicht eindämmen. Die Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel „Zur Ökonomie des Glücksspiels und der Spielsuchtbekämpfung“ behandelt das Thema Glücksspiel anhand unterschiedlicher Fragestellungen und Betrachtungsweisen, um den Glücksspielmarkt in Österreich sowie die Spielsucht und deren Bekämpfung transparent zu machen. Ausgehend von historischen Aspekten des Glücksspiels und der Glücksspielsucht, wird die momentane Rechtslage des Glücksspielgesetzes dargestellt. Nach einem Überblick des Glücksspielangebots und der Glücksspielnachfrage in Österreich folgt der Blick auf das herrschende Glücksspielmonopol und dessen Gründe. Weiters wird das Problem und die Folge der Glücksspielsucht analysiert sowie die mögliche Behandlung des Suchtverhaltens erörtert. Es wird auf Lösungsvorschläge zur Glücksspielprävention im Hinblick auf das herrschende Glückspielmonopol und die zunehmende Öffnung des Marktes eingegangen, sowie ein anregender Ausblick auf die Zukunft des Marktes dargestellt. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich fortlaufend auf relevante Aspekte und Überlegungen bezüglich der Spielsucht. Es ist nicht Sinn dieser Arbeit, eine passende gesetzliche Regelung für das Glücksspielwesen (Monopol oder Liberalisierung) oder gar die ‚bessere’ Variante zu finden. Es wird hervorgehoben, wie wichtig die Gewährleistung eines Spielerschutz ist und, dass gegen illegale Glücksspielangebote vorgegangen werden muss, ganz egal unter welcher gesetzlichen Regelung.
Polydeoxyribonucleotide, an adenosine-A2A receptor agonist, preserves blood testis barrier from cadmium-induced injury
Creators: name: Puzzolo, Domenico
name: Micali, Antonio
name: Pisani, Antonina
name: Arco, Alba Maria
name: Rinaldi, Mariagrazia
name: Irrera, Natasha
name: Marini, Herbert
name: Laurà, Rosaria
name: Squadrito, Francesco
name: Altavilla, Domenica
name: Minutoli, Letteria
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cadmium; PDRN; blood-testis barrier; pERK 1/2; TGF-β3; immunohistochemistry; transmission electron microscopy

description: Cadmium (Cd) impairs the blood-testis barrier (BTB) with changes of its junctional complexes [1]. Polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN), an adenosine A2A agonist, has positive effects on male reproductive system [2]. We investigated the effects of PDRN on the morphological and functional Cd-induced changes in mice testes. Swiss mice were divided into four groups: control animals treated with 0.9% NaCl (1 ml/kg, i.p., daily); control animals treated with PDRN (8 mg/kg, i.p. daily), animals challenged with Cd chloride (CdCl2) (2 mg/kg i.p, daily) and animals challenged with CdCl2 and treated with PDRN. The experiments lasted 14 days. At the end of experiment, the testes were processed for biochemical, structural and ultrastructural evaluation. CdCl2 increased pERK 1/2 expression and Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) levels, decreased testosterone (TE) and inhibin-B levels and induced structural damages in the extratubular compartment and in the seminiferous epithelium, with ultrastructural features of BTB disruption. Many TUNEL-positive germ cells were present in the peripheral parts of the tubules. CdCl2 increased also tubular TGF-β3 immunoreactivity and reduced claudin-11, occludin and N-cadherin immunoreactivity. PDRN administration reduced pERK 1/2 expression, FSH and LH levels, increased TE and inhibin-B levels, ameliorated germinal epithelium changes and protected BTB ultrastructure. Only few TUNEL-positive germ cells were present and the extratubular compartment was preserved, showing only a mild edema. Furthermore PDRN decreased TGF-β3 immunoreactivity and enhanced claudin-11, occludin and N-cadherin immunoreactivity. We demonstrate, for the first time, a protective effect of PDRN on Cd-induced BTB damages in mice testes. We suggest that the A2A agonist may play an important role against environmental Cd, and in particular against its harmful effects on gametogenesis.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Local Purity Distillation in Quantum Systems: Exploring the Complementarity Between Purity and Entanglement
Creators: name: Ganardi, Ray
name: Masajada, Piotr
name: Naseri, Moein
name: Streltsov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum thermodynamics and quantum entanglement represent two pivotal quantum resource theories with significant relevance in quantum information science. Despite their importance, the intricate relationship between these two theories is still not fully understood. Here, we delve into the interplay between entanglement and thermodynamics, particularly in the context of local cooling processes. We introduce and develop the framework of Gibbs-preserving local operations and classical communication. Within this framework, we explore strategies enabling remote parties to effectively cool their local systems to the ground state. Our analysis is centered on scenarios where only a single copy of a quantum state is accessible, with the ideal performance defined by the highest possible fidelity to the ground state achievable under these constraints. We focus on systems with fully degenerate local Hamiltonians, where local cooling aligns with the extraction of local purity. In this context, we establish a powerful link between the efficiency of local purity extraction and the degree of entanglement present in the system, a concept we define as purity-entanglement complementarity. Moreover, we demonstrate that in many pertinent scenarios, the optimal performance can be precisely determined through semidefinite programming techniques. Our findings open doors to various practical applications, including techniques for entanglement detection and estimation. We demonstrate this by evaluating the amount of entanglement for a class of bound entangled states.
description: 5+5 pages, 5 figures
The reduced content of estrogen and progesterone receptors in varicocele sperm may be indicative of the clinical surgery in the testicular varicocele
Creators: name: Passarelli, Valentina
name: De Rose, Daniela
name: Santoro, Marta
name: Aquila, Saveria
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Testicular varicocele; steroid receptors; human sperm

description: The enigma of testicular varicocele has always attracted the researcher’s attention as attested by the consistent literature, although conflicting data are reported (1). The detrimental role of varicocele in fertility is supported by the presence of an higher frequency of affected men in the infertile population (2). Varicocele influences male fertility in a variety of ways: spermatogenesis, semen quality and gamete biology. However, the mechanism/s by which the pathology impairs sperm production and activity, are not known yet. In spite of active interest, our knowledge about sperm molecular anatomy is very limited. Instead, it is important to fully elucidate the molecular sperm architecture, in order to clarify clinical cases of idiopathic infertility since not all the apparently normal sperm are able to fertilize. The presence of steroid/steroid receptor systems was demonstrated in human sperm, suggesting that both systemic and local steroids through sperm receptors, may influence male fertility. From our data, it emerged that varicocele causes a damage in the gamete at molecular level which includes a significant reduction of estrogen and progesterone receptors, opening a new chapter in the already multifaceted physiopathology of the disease. By the time of ovulation, estradiol and progesterone are almost everywhere in the egg microenvironment affecting ability of sperm to fertilize the oocyte. Therefore, the reduced responsiveness to these hormones as we observed in varicocele sperm, impedes their goal. Altogether, these studies constrain the need of further researches on the molecular anatomy of human male gamete both in healthy and in pathological conditions related the male genital apparatus, considering the high couple infertility linked to the male. The translation of these new researches in the clinic surgery of testicular varicocele needs to be taken into account since the reduction of steroid receptors in sperm implies a decline in the acquisition of fertilizing ability.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
A fitness index model for Italian adolescents living in Southern Italy. The ASSO project
Creators: name: Bianco, Antonino
name: Mammina, Caterina
name: Jemni, Monèm
name: Filippi, Anna Rita
name: Battaglia, Giuseppe
name: Bellafiore, Marianna
name: Paoli, Antonio
name: Messina, Giuseppe
name: Tabacchi, Garden
name: Palma, Antonio
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Physical fitness; fitness index; adolescents; Fitness Test Battery

description: Strong relations between physical fitness and health in adolescents have been established in the last decades. The main objectives of the present investigation were to assess major physical fitness components in a sample of Italian school adolescents, comparing them with international data, and providing a fitness index model derived from percentile cut-off values of five considered physical fitness components. A total of 644 school pupils (15.9±1.1yrs; M=399; F=245) were tested using the ASSO-Fitness Test Battery (FTB), a tool developed within the Adolescents and Surveillance System for the Obesity prevention project, which included the handgrip, standing broad-jump, sit-up to exhaustion, 4×10m shuttle run and 20m shuttle run tests. Stratified percentile values and related smoothed curves were obtained. The method of principal components analysis (PCA) was applied to the considered five fitness components to derive a continuous fitness level score (the Fit-Score). A Likert-type scale on the Fit-Score values was applied to obtain an intuitive classification of the individual level of fitness: very poor (X0.5) between the Fit-Score and all the fitness components. The median Fit-Score was equal to 33 for females and 53 for males (in a scale of 0-100). The ASSO-FTB allowed the assessment of health-related fitness components in a convenient sample of Italian adolescents and provided a fitness index model incorporating all these components for an intuitive classification of fitness levels. If this model will be confirmed, the monitoring of these variables will allow early detection of health related issues in a mass population and hence will give the opportunity to plan appropriate interventions.This work was supported by grants from MIUR-Agenas GR-2008-1140742 (CUP 185J10000500001).
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Tracing the dynamics of misinformation and vaccine stance in Finland amid COVID-19
Creators: name: Unlu, Ali
name: Truong, Sophie
name: Sawhney, Nitin
name: Sivelä, Jonas
name: Tammi, Tuukka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study analyzed 1,683,700 vaccine-related tweets in Finnish using FinBERT language model, Botometer, and BERTopic, from December 2019 to October 2022. A strong correlation was identified between Negative Stance towards Vaccines (NSV) and misinformation, with an upward trend over time and a significant role of malicious bot accounts. Topic modeling revealed persistent themes of vaccine skepticism and diverse misinformation themes adapting to debunking efforts. Approximately a third of tweets contained misinformation, irrespective of source reliability, leading to increased NSV. The study observed a gap in active countering of misinformation by authorities, suggesting proactive involvement by public authorities, public education for effective misinformation management and social media literacy.
Assessing variable importance in survival analysis using machine learning
Creators: name: Wolock, Charles J.
name: Gilbert, Peter B.
name: Simon, Noah
name: Carone, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a collection of features available for inclusion in a predictive model, it may be of interest to quantify the relative importance of a subset of features for the prediction task at hand. For example, in HIV vaccine trials, participant baseline characteristics are used to predict the probability of HIV acquisition over the intended follow-up period, and investigators may wish to understand how much certain types of predictors, such as behavioral factors, contribute toward overall predictiveness. Time-to-event outcomes such as time to HIV acquisition are often subject to right censoring, and existing methods for assessing variable importance are typically not intended to be used in this setting. We describe a broad class of algorithm-agnostic variable importance measures for prediction in the context of survival data. We propose a nonparametric efficient estimation procedure that incorporates flexible learning of nuisance parameters, yields asymptotically valid inference, and enjoys double-robustness. We assess the performance of our proposed procedure via numerical simulations and analyze data from the HVTN 702 vaccine trial to inform enrollment strategies for future HIV vaccine trials.
description: 98 total pages (37 main text, 61 supplementary)
Additional file 1 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening
Creators: name: Cappelletto, Ambra
name: Alfì, Edoardo
name: Volf, Nina
name: Vu, Thi Van Anh
name: Bortolotti, Francesca
name: Ciucci, Giulio
name: Vodret, Simone
name: Fantuz, Marco
name: Perin, Martina
name: Colliva, Andrea
name: Rozzi, Giacomo
name: Rossi, Matilde
name: Ruozi, Giulia
name: Zentilin, Lorena
name: Vuerich, Roman
name: Borin, Daniele
name: Lapasin, Romano
name: Piazza, Silvano
name: Chiesa, Mattia
name: Lorizio, Daniela
name: Triboli, Luca
name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Morello, Gaia
name: Tripodo, Claudio
name: Pinamonti, Maurizio
name: Piperno, Giulia Maria
name: Benvenuti, Federica
name: Rustighi, Alessandra
name: Jo, Hanjoong
name: Piccolo, Stefano
name: Del Sal, Giannino
name: Carrer, Alessandro
name: Giacca, Mauro
name: Zacchigna, Serena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1: Table S1. Composition of the pilot AAV9 pool
Investigating body composition in wheelchair athletes
Creators: name: Cavedon, Valentina
name: Milanese, Chiara
name: Cecchini, Maria Paola
name: Zancanaro, Carlo
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Paralympic; spinal cord injury; fat mass; lean mass

description: Subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at risk for adverse changes in body composition (BC), which are harmful for their health and relevant to sport performance. This study investigated whole-body and regional BC in wheelchair athletes (WA) by comparing tetraplegic and paraplegic WA with a larger sample of healthy males athletes. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) was used by one operator to measure subtotal (total-body less head) and regional (arms, legs and trunk) body composition (lean mass [LM], bone mineral content [BMC], fat mass [FM] and fat mass percentage [%FM]) in twenty-seven male WA aged 30.0±9.4y with chronic SCI. WA were classified as tetraplegic (lesion above T1; Tetra, n=10) and paraplegic (lesion at T1 and below; Para, n=17) and matched each to three healthy males athletes (n=81) on the basis of DXA area and BMI. BC outcomes were compared in Tetra and Para as well as Tetra and Para, and their respective control with the t-test for independent samples. Alpha value was set at 0.05 and p-values corrected for multiple comparisons (pc; Benjamini and Hochberg procedure). Percent FM was significant higher in Tetra vs. Para at the subtotal and regional level (0.024
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Importance of ACE polymorphisms for endurance performance
Creators: name: Ciaurelli, Stefano
name: Businaro, Rita
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: ACE polymorphisms; epigenetic factors; muscle metabolism; endurance

description: The skeletal muscle renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in exercise metabolism. A functional insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism in the angiotensin I- converting enzyme (ACE) gene (rs4646994) has been associated with ACE activity. The ACE DD genotype is associated with increased circulating ACE levels, which are generally two times as high as those found for II genotypes. Although most reports suggest that the I allele predisposes to human endurance (1) the literature also contains some opposite data (2). These inconsistencies from genetic association studies relating to the ACE gene and its I/D polymorphism maybe attributable, partially, to epigenetic factors that have been reported to influence ACE activity. Indeed, if both copies of the ACE D/D gene are transiently methylated, ACE increased levels associated with this polymorphism, may be down-regulated. However, there have not been any reports that address whether epigenetic regulation of the ACE gene is specifically involved in modifying human endurance, but, importantly, the human ACE gene promoter has been shown to harbor CpG islands. It is well established that environmental factors may modify the epigenetic profile and that nutrition training, muscle unloading and mechanical stimulation significantly impact on performance, playing an epigenetic role . Hence, it is conceivable that some of these factors might influence the CpG islands within the ACE promoter affecting its expression. The present study is aimed at modulating the epigenetic pattern of the ACE promoter by administering arginine to professional soccer players. ACE (DD, ID, and II) will be genotyped by PCR, then the epigenetic profile of ACE (gene promoter methylation) will be determined by bisulfite method, the serum levels of angiotensin 2 will be measured by ELISA. Hence, we compare the performance capacity of soccer players exhibiting different ACE polymorphisms, by strength, speed, and endurance tests. Subsequently, we will split the subjects under study in 2 groups: group 1 will follow a mediterrean diet, group 2 will follow the same mediterrean diet supplemented with arginine. After six months we will analyze if an epigenetic regulation of the ACE gene has occurred, modulating endurance performance.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
A question of truth: accusations of untruthfulness by populist and non-populist politicians on Facebook during the COVID-19 crisis
Creators: name: Kluknavská, Alena
name: Eisele, Olga
name: Bartkowska, Monika
name: Kriegler, Nina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Online environments can foster opportunities for political engagement but can also hinder democratic deliberation by promoting hostile and polarizing communication. A prominent concern revolves around the attacks on political actors’ truthfulness in public discourse. Such discourse is expressed through anti-elite and antagonistic attacks on perceived (un)truthfulness employed by some politicians toward political opponents in public debates, and it is argued to maintain a close affinity with populist politics. During crises, when people seek guidance from elites, discourses of untruthfulness can lead to further uncertainty by eroding trust in political leadership. Relying on the extensive claims analysis of 7,109 Facebook posts published by political party leaders between March 2020 and February 2021, this study investigates how accusations of untruthfulness unfold in the social media posts of populist and non-populist political leaders in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings show that populist leaders are generally more prone to utilize accusations of untruthfulness in their social media posts than non-populist politicians, but the extent of attacks is context-dependent.
The associations between internet use and loneliness among older adults: a three-level meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cao, Weijie
name: Ma, Yuanxiao
name: Zhang, Yilin
name: Chen, Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Loneliness is a significant risk factor for physical and mental health in older adults. Internet use was closely associated with loneliness in the older population in the digital age, but consensus on the association is lacking. The present study aims to conduct a meta-analysis to quantify how internet use is associated with loneliness in older adults. Based on the PRISMA method, the present study used a three-level meta-analysis with 41 studies (N = 75,736) to explore the association between internet use and loneliness in older adults and the possible moderating variables of this association. The results revealed a significant negative association between internet use and loneliness in older adults (r = −0.080, p < 0.001), with I2 = 95.5% indicating considerable heterogeneity. Moreover, age [F (1, 70) = 5.729, p = 0.019], internet use measurement [F (2, 104) = 9.739, p < 0.001], and purposes of internet use [F (3, 48) = 5.428, p = 0.003] were found to moderate the association significantly, as the negative correlation was stronger with age increasing; the negative correlation was stronger by the frequency measure of internet use (r = −0.105) than by the duration measure of internet use (r = 0.067), and the negative correlation was stronger for communication (r = −0.116) than for information acquisition (r = −0.052) and entertainment (r = 0.022). Through a comprehensive exploration of the overall effect and moderating variables, this meta-analysis offers further insights into the relationship between internet use and loneliness among older adults.
Additional file 4 of EMID2 is a novel biotherapeutic for aggressive cancers identified by in vivo screening
Creators: name: Cappelletto, Ambra
name: Alfì, Edoardo
name: Volf, Nina
name: Vu, Thi Van Anh
name: Bortolotti, Francesca
name: Ciucci, Giulio
name: Vodret, Simone
name: Fantuz, Marco
name: Perin, Martina
name: Colliva, Andrea
name: Rozzi, Giacomo
name: Rossi, Matilde
name: Ruozi, Giulia
name: Zentilin, Lorena
name: Vuerich, Roman
name: Borin, Daniele
name: Lapasin, Romano
name: Piazza, Silvano
name: Chiesa, Mattia
name: Lorizio, Daniela
name: Triboli, Luca
name: Kumar, Sandeep
name: Morello, Gaia
name: Tripodo, Claudio
name: Pinamonti, Maurizio
name: Piperno, Giulia Maria
name: Benvenuti, Federica
name: Rustighi, Alessandra
name: Jo, Hanjoong
name: Piccolo, Stefano
name: Del Sal, Giannino
name: Carrer, Alessandro
name: Giacca, Mauro
name: Zacchigna, Serena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 4: Supplementary figures and methods
MPEC 2024-O97 : 2024 OR
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 OR

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 Biochemical and proteomic response of the freshwater green alga Pseudochlorella pringsheimii to iron and salinity stressors
Creators: name: Ismaiel, Mostafa M. S.
name: Piercey-Normore, Michele D.
name: Rampitsch, Christof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
KRIPTOVALYUTALAR VA RAQAMLI AKTIVLAR: FUQAROLIK HUQUQIDA YANGI MULK SHAKLI SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Pardayev, Akmal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqolada kriptovalyutalar va raqamli aktivlarning fuqarolik huquqi nuqtai nazaridan yangi mulk shakli sifatida e’tirof etilishi o‘rganiladi. Raqamli aktivlarning huquqiy maqomi, ularning egalik qilish va muomala qoidalari xalqaro tajriba va milliy qonunchilik asosida tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, blokcheyn texnologiyasi asosida shakllangan mulkiy huquqlar va ular bilan bog‘liq xavf-xatarlar ham ko‘rib chiqiladi. Fuqarolik-huquqiy munosabatlarda kriptovalyutalarning o‘ziga xos jihatlari va ularni huquqiy tartibga solish yo‘nalishlari tahlil qilinadi.
FAIR Data Infrastructure with Enhanced Functionality and Domain Specific Applications
Creators: name: Mansour, Ahmed E.
name: Brückner, Sebastian
name: Brockhauser, Sandor
name: Rudzinski, Joseph
name: Dietrich, Felix
name: Welle, Alexander
name: Coors, Victoria
name: Wojas, Adrianna
name: Scheidgen, Markus
name: Marquez Prieto, Jose A.
name: Albrecht, Martin
name: Weber, Heiko B.
name: Botti, Silvana
name: Bungartz, Hans-Joachim
name: Wöll, Christof
name: Aeschlimann, Martin
name: Koch, Christoph T.
name: Draxl, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Starting as a repository for computational materials-science data, NOMAD’s functionality has been significantly expanded by FAIRmat. Not only has its computational support been extended to excited-state calculations from many-body theories, classical molecular-dynamics simulations, and complex simulation workflows, it has also become a platform for sample synthesis, various experimental techniques, and an array of use cases. These advances have been achieved through FAIRmat’s development of (meta)data models and tools to process and describe the plethora of heterogeneous data available within the large materials-science community. Today, NOMAD contains 13 million entries, representing more than 3 million materials.

Explore NOMAD’s domain-specific apps! These applications provide customizable dashboards for interactive data exploration and domain- or application-specific visualization of datasets. The Solar-Cell App integrates, for instance, more than 40,000 devices from the Perovskite Database Project. Our app for Metal-Organic Frameworks contains 17,000 calculations and is currently being expanded to synthesis conditions. Further applications will soon be available, ranging from heterogeneous catalysis to battery research.

With NOMAD Oasis, FAIRmat brings our data infrastructure to individual labs. NOMAD Oasis allows researchers from various fields to adapt the NOMAD software to their individual needs. To learn more, please, visit our website at: https://nomad-lab.eu.
description: This work is funded by the NFDI consortium FAIRmat - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project 460197019
Supplemental Material - Subjective Sensitivity to Exteroceptive and Interoceptive processing in Highly Sensitive Person
Creators: name: Ujiie, Yuta
name: Takahashi, Kohske
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material for Subjective Sensitivity to Exteroceptive and Interoceptive processing in Highly Sensitive Person by Yuta Ujiie and Kohske Takahashi in Psychological Reports
Forces at Work: Workforce Perspectives in Print Journalism Amid Paradigm Shift
Creators: name: Bernat, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Print newspapers are in an age of disruption that has radically affected readership, news consumption, news production and news distribution. As such, the industry has experimented with new business models that incorporate online, including blog-style reporting, short-format stories, and investigatory reporting via social media. This experimentation could be identified as a Kuhnian pre-paradigmatic phase of a print news industry in crisis. Meanwhile the workforce of print newspapers is experiencing a disruption of identity as what it means to be a journalist has changed in reaction. Exodus of journalists from print newspapers has been both involuntary through layoffs and voluntary as journalists themselves analyze external factors, including economy, technology, social and readership habits, and business practices and models. Amid layoffs and cutbacks, journalists who stay in the print newspaper industry are being asked to do more in newsrooms with less staff, and to do more of their work for online distribution. They see coworkers, some in the industry for decades, subject to early retirement buyouts and layoffs. The decisions to leave aren’t made easily, but they are becoming logical as they realize these rising industry trends have altered the print journalism industry, and it is no longer the kind of journalism they signed up for.

Findings in this thesis confirm that the workforce agrees with prior research that factors contributing to newspapers’ decline include online/digital technology, changes in advertising and competition, changes in readership, changes in newspaper ownership/management, and economic factors. This mixed methods study of journalists and former journalists has found that these factors have contributed to a 66.8% reduction in overall perception of stability over participants’ career-spans. Follow-up interviews of survey participants examined turning points in careers, and found a majority of journalists reported feelings of instability about the future of their careers as a result of the instability of the overall newspaper industry. Job change and opportunity correlates to perception of greater stability, and generational review of the findings revealed that Baby Boomer journalists had greater perception of stability at the start of their careers and have experienced a greater increase in perception of instability as their careers progressed than younger generations. Analysis of these and other findings considers what’s at stake for the workforce of print newspapers amid a disruption in the established paradigm.
Additional file 2 of Biochemical and proteomic response of the freshwater green alga Pseudochlorella pringsheimii to iron and salinity stressors
Creators: name: Ismaiel, Mostafa M. S.
name: Piercey-Normore, Michele D.
name: Rampitsch, Christof
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-docx-3-aln-10.1177_11771801221118950 – Supplemental material for A consistent definition of cultural safety within Australian health professional education: a scoping review
Creators: name: Brumpton, Kay
name: Evans, Rebecca
name: Ward, Raelene
name: Sen Gupta, Tarun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-aln-10.1177_11771801221118950 for A consistent definition of cultural safety within Australian health professional education: a scoping review by Kay Brumpton, Rebecca Evans, Raelene Ward and Tarun Sen Gupta in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
UGG: Unified Generative Grasping
Creators: name: Lu, Jiaxin
name: Kang, Hao
name: Li, Haoxiang
name: Liu, Bo
name: Yang, Yiding
name: Huang, Qixing
name: Hua, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dexterous grasping aims to produce diverse grasping postures with a high grasping success rate. Regression-based methods that directly predict grasping parameters given the object may achieve a high success rate but often lack diversity. Generation-based methods that generate grasping postures conditioned on the object can often produce diverse grasping, but they are insufficient for high grasping success due to lack of discriminative information. To mitigate, we introduce a unified diffusion-based dexterous grasp generation model, dubbed the name UGG, which operates within the object point cloud and hand parameter spaces. Our all-transformer architecture unifies the information from the object, the hand, and the contacts, introducing a novel representation of contact points for improved contact modeling. The flexibility and quality of our model enable the integration of a lightweight discriminator, benefiting from simulated discriminative data, which pushes for a high success rate while preserving high diversity. Beyond grasp generation, our model can also generate objects based on hand information, offering valuable insights into object design and studying how the generative model perceives objects. Our model achieves state-of-the-art dexterous grasping on the large-scale DexGraspNet dataset while facilitating human-centric object design, marking a significant advancement in dexterous grasping research. Our project page is https://jiaxin-lu.github.io/ugg/.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, ECCV 2024
sj-docx-4-aln-10.1177_11771801221118950 – Supplemental material for A consistent definition of cultural safety within Australian health professional education: a scoping review
Creators: name: Brumpton, Kay
name: Evans, Rebecca
name: Ward, Raelene
name: Sen Gupta, Tarun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-4-aln-10.1177_11771801221118950 for A consistent definition of cultural safety within Australian health professional education: a scoping review by Kay Brumpton, Rebecca Evans, Raelene Ward and Tarun Sen Gupta in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
Additional file 1 of Regional anesthesia might reduce recurrence and metastasis rates in adult patients with cancers after surgery: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Xie, Shuang
name: Li, Liang
name: Meng, Fanqing
name: Wang, Huanliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Regional anesthesia might reduce recurrence and metastasis rates in adult patients with cancers after surgery: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Xie, Shuang
name: Li, Liang
name: Meng, Fanqing
name: Wang, Huanliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2
Additional file 1 of Alamandine attenuates ovariectomy-induced osteoporosis by promoting osteogenic differentiation via AMPK/eNOS axis
Creators: name: Luo, Wanxin
name: Yao, Chen
name: Sun, Jie
name: Zhang, Bo
name: Chen, Hao
name: Miao, Jin
name: Zhang, Yafeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-dem-10.1177_14713012221123578 – Supplemental Material for How do family carers and care-home staff manage refusals when assisting a person with advanced dementia with their personal care?
Creators: name: Backhouse, Tamara
name: Jeon, Yun-Hee
name: Killett, Anne
name: Mioshi, Eneida
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material sj-pdf-1-dem-10.1177_14713012221123578 for How do family carers and care-home staff manage refusals when assisting a person with advanced dementia with their personal care? by Tamara Backhouse, Yun-Hee Jeon, Anne Killett and Eneida Mioshi in Dementia
THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS, MARKET ORIENTATION, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, AND STRATEGIC AGILITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUSINESSES IN THAILAND
Creators: name: PANNANUNT PARISUTSOONTORN
name: BUNDIT PUNGNIRUND
name: NATTAPONG TECHARATTANASED
name: PLEUMJAI SINARKORN
name: PAWEENA SRIBUNRUENG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Sustainable, Performance, Development Businesses.

description: Abstract

This study develops a structural equation model to explore the influences of leadership characteristics, market orientation, human resource management, innovation management, and strategic agility on the operational performance of electric vehicle businesses in Thailand. The population for this research consists of 1,890 automotive industry operators in Thailand (Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion, 2022). The quantitative sample size was determined based on the observation variable ratio of 1 to 20, resulting in a sample size of 380 participants selected through stratified sampling, as there were 19 observation variables. Additionally, qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with 20 executives and entrepreneurs in the domestic electric vehicle industry, with data analyzed using content analysis. The structural equation model was validated against empirical data, revealing a perfect fit with significant coefficients across various relationships. Leadership characteristics were found to have a direct and significant impact on innovation management, strategic agility, and organizational performance, with coefficients of 0.138, 0.197, and 0.119, respectively. Additionally, market orientation and human resource management demonstrated strong direct influences on innovation management, while also significantly affecting strategic agility and organizational performance. The results indicate that innovation management directly influences strategic agility, which in turn affects organizational performance. Collectively, the factors of leadership characteristics, market orientation, and human resource management accounted for 18% of the variance in innovation management, while they, alongside innovation management, predicted strategic agility. These findings underscore the importance of strategic leadership and human resource practices in enhancing innovation and operational effectiveness within the electric vehicle sector in Thailand.
sj-pdf-1-isw-10.1177_00208728221112728 – Supplemental material for Writing reports in social work: Characteristics, correctness and style
Creators: name: Cortés García, Mayte
name: Cury, Silvia Patricia
name: Arias Astray, Andrés
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160512 Social Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-isw-10.1177_00208728221112728 for Writing reports in social work: Characteristics, correctness and style by Mayte Cortés García, Silvia Patricia Cury and Andrés Arias Astray in International Social Work
Anthropometric indices of sarcopenia in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Creators: name: Galasso, Letizia
name: Montagna, Lorenzo
name: Vitale, Jacopo Antonino
name: Vettoretti, Simone
name: Caldiroli, Lara
name: Roveda, Eliana
name: Carandente, Franca
name: Montaruli, Angela
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chronic kidney disease; eGFR; anthropometry

description: The Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a kidney dysfunction for which the estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) results <90 ml/min. The primary causes are glomerulonephritis, nephrosclerosis, diabetic nephropathy, nephropathy due to obesity and unilateral kidney (1). CKD is associated with frailty, cardiovascular disease, hypokinesia, sarcopenia and disability (2). In this study participated 74 subjects with CKD (mean age ≥ 65 years), 45 males and 29 females. All subjects underwent to anthropometric measurements: height, weight, BMI, circumferences (waist, dominant wrist, right/left arm, right/left thigh, right/left leg), body folds (biceps right/left, triceps right/left), calculation of the arm areas (adipose area, lean area, total area and muscle circumference). We divided the subjects into 5 samples according to the classification of Walker (2) based on the eGFR (ml/min): stage I+II (n=1), stage III (n=14) stage IV (n=50) stage V (n=9). In particular we have taken into account the anthropometric data of the stage III and V: BMI (stage III 28.85 ± 6.2 vs stage V 26.47 ± 3.69); total arm area (stage III 72.33 ± 16.52 vs stage V 65.36 ± 18.1); muscle arm circumference (stage III 26.06 ± 3.05 vs stage V 24.46 ± 3.52); adipose arm area (stage III 16.80 ± 7.94 vs stage V 16.58 ± 6.39); lean arm area (stage III 55.37 ± 13.68 vs stage V 48.90 ± 15.09). These preliminary results show that there is a worsening trend in anthropometric data according to the disease progression, from III to V stage, though the statistical analysis did not reach the significance.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Matrix product state fixed points of non-Hermitian transfer matrices
Creators: name: Tang, Wei
name: Verstraete, Frank
name: Haegeman, Jutho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contraction of tensor networks is a central task in the application of tensor network methods to the study of quantum and classical many body systems. In this paper, we investigate the impact of gauge degrees of freedom in the virtual indices of the tensor network on the contraction process, specifically focusing on boundary matrix product state methods for contracting two-dimensional tensor networks. We show that the gauge transformation can affect the entanglement structures of the eigenstates of the transfer matrix and change how the physical information is encoded in the eigenstates, which can influence the accuracy of the numerical simulation. We demonstrate this effect by looking at two different examples. First, we focus on the local gauge transformation, and analyze its effect by viewing it as an imaginary-time evolution governed by a diagonal Hamiltonian. As a specific example, we perform a numerical analysis in the classical Ising model on the square lattice. Second, we go beyond the scope of local gauge transformations and study the antiferromagnetic Ising model on the triangular lattice. The partition function of this model has two tensor network representations connected by a non-local gauge transformation, resulting in distinct numerical performances in the boundary matrix product state calculation.
description: published version. 13 pages, 14 figures