cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
sj-pdf-3-qch-10.1177_0272684X211025932 - Supplemental material for Relationship Between Achievement Motivation, Mental Health and Academic Success in University Students
Creators: name: Mahdavi, Parinaz
name: Valibeygi, Adib
name: Moradi, Masoud
name: Sadeghi, Shahram
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-qch-10.1177_0272684X211025932 for Relationship Between Achievement Motivation, Mental Health and Academic Success in University Students by Parinaz Mahdavi, Adib Valibeygi, Masoud Moradi and Shahram Sadeghi in International Quarterly of Community Health Education
Dynamic Modeling COVID-19 for Comparing Containment Strategies in a Pandemic Scenario
Creators: name: Lu, Min
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021

description: Since instances of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) community spread emerged in the United States, federal and local governments have implemented multiple containment measures. However, in order to satisfy the needs of citizens, the strictest containment measures can be only executed for short period. This article compares two types of containment strategies: a constant containment strategy that could satisfy the needs of citizens for a long period and an adaptive containment strategy whose strict level changes across time. When to implement the strictest measures is also of interest. A prediction model is proposed and a simple tool is developed for policy makers to compare different containment strategies. As an example, a county with 2.8 million population and initial 200 infected cases is considered, where about 0.2\% people are assumed to be dead during the pandemic.  Compared with a constant containment strategy, adaptive containment strategies shorten the outbreak length, but executing the strictest measures late, even with stricter overall containment measures, will cause more mortality.
Detection of retroviral super-infection from non-invasive samples.
Creators: name: Goffe, Adeelia S.
name: Blasse, Anja
name: Mundry, Roger
name: Leendertz, Fabian
name: Calvignac, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Sequence Alignment
subject: Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods
subject: Retroviridae Infections/veterinary
subject: Ape Diseases/virology
subject: Pan troglodytes/virology
subject: Simian foamy virus/genetics
subject: Viral Load/genetics
subject: Ape Diseases/genetics
subject: Retroviridae Infections/genetics
subject: 610 Medizin

description: While much attention has been focused on the molecular epidemiology of retroviruses in wild primate populations, the correlated question of the frequency and nature of super-infection events, i.e., the simultaneous infection of the same individual host with several strains of the same virus, has remained largely neglected. In particular, methods possibly allowing the investigation of super-infection from samples collected non-invasively (such as faeces) have never been properly compared. Here, we fill in this gap by assessing the costs and benefits of end-point dilution PCR (EPD-PCR) and multiple bulk-PCR cloning, as applied to a case study focusing on simian foamy virus super-infection in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). We show that, although considered to be the gold standard, EPD-PCR can lead to massive consumption of biological material when only low copy numbers of the target are expected. This constitutes a serious drawback in a field in which rarity of biological material is a fundamental constraint. In addition, we demonstrate that EPD-PCR results (single/multiple infection; founder strains) can be well predicted from multiple bulk-PCR clone experiments, by applying simple statistical and network analyses to sequence alignments. We therefore recommend the implementation of the latter method when the focus is put on retroviral super-infection and only low retroviral loads are encountered.
sj-pdf-4-qch-10.1177_0272684X211025932 - Supplemental material for Relationship Between Achievement Motivation, Mental Health and Academic Success in University Students
Creators: name: Mahdavi, Parinaz
name: Valibeygi, Adib
name: Moradi, Masoud
name: Sadeghi, Shahram
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-qch-10.1177_0272684X211025932 for Relationship Between Achievement Motivation, Mental Health and Academic Success in University Students by Parinaz Mahdavi, Adib Valibeygi, Masoud Moradi and Shahram Sadeghi in International Quarterly of Community Health Education
Sharing Authority in Collaborative Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Library Workers' Perspectives
Creators: name: Keener, Alix
name: Rowell, Chelcie
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities

description: Often collaborators come together to teach digital humanities (DH) in the hope of modeling for students what the humanities can be — generous, collaborative, publicly engaged. At times, though, collaborative DH pedagogy in fact reproduces power structures inherent in academic institutions, placing faculty, students, and staff in the same strict caste-based roles. Though the scholarly and professional conversation around digital humanities and libraries increasingly recognizes library workers as collaborators rather than service providers (Muñoz), library workers' lived experiences do not always reflect these shared values (Risam and Edwards). On the contrary, it's frustratingly common for library workers to report being condescended to or feeling disrespected when collaborating with disciplinary faculty. At times, the DH field even holds library workers at fault for failing to become full-fledged collaborators due to their "timidity" (Vandegrift and Varner) or the "ingraining of an organizational service mentality" (Nowviskie 58). But this explanation is insufficient; there are complex power dynamics at play when library workers and disciplinary faculty engage in collaborative teaching. As Roxanne Shirazi suggests, building upon Arlie Russel Hochschild's work in The Managed Heart, "perhaps the problem is not service itself, but exploitation" (90). Hochschild emphasizes that exploitation takes place when recompense ("money, authority, status, honor, well-being") is inequitably distributed among laborers (12). For library workers, including ourselves, exploitation can look like a lack of respect or disregard for our time and energy. One step toward modeling expansive and inclusive humanities practice requires understanding how library workers experience collaborative DH pedagogy — including, sometimes, as exploitation — so that all partners are accountable for creating mutually rewarding collaborative teaching and learning experiences.
Sero-epidemiology of measles-specific IgG antibodies and predictive factors for low or missing titres in a German population-based cross-sectional study in children and adolescents (KiGGS)
Creators: name: Poethko-Müller, Christina
name: Mankertz, Annette
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Vaccination
subject: Seroprevalence
subject: IgG measles antibodies
subject: Waning
subject: Age at first vaccination
subject: Health survey
subject: Immunity
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background and objective: In the European Region, measles elimination is now targeted to 2015. To measure progress towards elimination age-group specific susceptibility targets have been defined. Age-specific measles susceptibility in children and adolescents was evaluated in Germany. Taking into account a broad range of socio-demographic, health- and vaccination status related variables, populations for vaccination campaigns were identified. Method: We analysed data from children aged 1–17 years in the representative German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS). Measles immunoglobulin G antibodies were measured in 13,977 participants by enzyme immunoassay (ELISA). Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to determine parental and infant related factors associated with measles susceptibility. Results: The overall prevalence of seronegativity in children tested for measles IgG aged 1–17 years was 10.0% (95% CI 9.4–10.7). The prevalence of seronegativity in the German population was below the WHO targets for measles elimination in children aged 2–9 year-olds but exceeded the target for 10–17 year-olds. Age differences in the level of seronegativity were found to be mainly due to differences in vaccination coverage. A higher level of susceptibility was observed if parents did not comply with the request to present the child's vaccination card. In vaccinated children, immigration, male gender, very young age at first vaccination and a longer time period since last vaccination were associated with a higher level of susceptibility. Conclusion: Further increase of the two-dose vaccination coverage is necessary in order to achieve the WHO targets. Catch up vaccination campaigns should focus on adolescents and immigrants.
From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures
Creators: name: Gagnier, Regenia
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Memory
subject: Globalization
subject: Nationalism
subject: Women
subject: Feminism

description: ABSTRACT The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with particular attention to the roles and responses of women in the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. World-historically, this was the emergence of self-governing dominions of Anglophone cultures, increasing US influence, and decolonization. Eighty-five states gained independence since 1922, with the African nation-states after 1956. While nationalist projects often deferred the Woman Question, liberal projects of New Womanism initiated debate between feminist individualism and more collectivist practices and ideologies. Movements like social Darwinism and eugenics impacted on women, and in terms of deformed relations of part to whole (a classic definition of decadence), modernization included the great unification movements of the “Pans” – Pan-Hellenism, -Islamism, -Asianism, -Africanism, and Zionism – but also the partitions of India/Pakistan, Palestine/Israel, the PRC/Taiwan, Ireland, Korea, Vietnam, and Cyprus, which often impacted women unequally. Under processes of globalization and nation-building, modernization and expressions of decadence have been in dialectical relations, though the meanings and targets shift as hegemons rise and fall.
sj-docx-1-scx-10.1177_10755470211027235 – Supplemental material for Using a News Article to Convey Climate Science Consensus Information
Creators: name: Rode, Jacob B.
name: Iqbal, Saad
name: Butler, Brendon J.
name: Ditto, Peter H.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-scx-10.1177_10755470211027235 for Using a News Article to Convey Climate Science Consensus Information by Jacob B. Rode, Saad Iqbal, Brendon J. Butler and Peter H. Ditto in Science Communication
Effectiveness and Timing of Vaccination during School Measles Outbreak
Creators: name: Marinović, Axel Antonio Bonačić
name: Swaan, Corien
name: Wichmann, Ole
name: Steenbergen, Jim Van
name: Kretzschmar, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disease Outbreaks
subject: Humans
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Retrospective Studies
subject: Time Factors
subject: Measles/epidemiology
subject: Vaccination
subject: Schools
subject: Measles/prevention & control
subject: Models Theoretical
subject: Measles Vaccine/immunology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Despite high vaccination coverage in most European countries, large community outbreaks of measles do occur, normally clustered around schools and resulting from suboptimal vaccination coverage. To determine whether or when it is worth implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns in schools, we used stochastic outbreak models to reproduce a public school outbreak in Germany, where no vaccination campaign was implemented. We assumed 2 scenarios covering the baseline vaccination ratio range (91.3%–94.3%) estimated for that school and computed outbreaks assuming various vaccination delays. In one scenario, reacting (i.e., implementing outbreak-response vaccination campaigns) within 12–24 days avoided large outbreaks and reacting within 50 days reduced outbreak size. In the other scenario, reacting within 6–14 days avoided large outbreaks and reacting within 40 days reduced the outbreak size. These are realistic time frames for implementing school outbreak response vaccination campaigns. High baseline vaccination ratios extended the time needed for effective response.
Additional file 1 of Whole genome analyses of toxicants tolerance genes of Apis mellifera gut-derived Enterococcus faecium strains
Creators: name: Zaghloul, Heba A. H.
name: El Halfawy, Nancy M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
WAGES OF INEQUALITY: CORRUPTION AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IN SOKOTO STATE
Creators: name: Abdulahi, Musa Hassan
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Corruption, civil service, public goods, socio-economic development, poverty

description: Corruption remains a formidable obstacle to political, economic, and social progress across various political systems, exerting detrimental effects on development efforts and bureaucratic efficiency while eroding the credibility of governmental institutions. In the civil service sector, corruption is particularly pervasive, exerting profound impacts on the provision of public goods and services and hindering socio-economic development in affected states. This article explores the multifaceted nature of corruption within the civil service, highlighting its detrimental consequences such as the abuse of public power for private gain. Such corrupt practices directly contribute to exacerbating poverty levels and impeding economic growth and democratic transitions. Drawing on the works of scholars like Chetwynd et al. (2003) and Adam (2015), corruption in the civil service is delineated as the illicit manipulation of delegated authority, wherein civil servants exploit their entrusted roles for personal benefit. Understanding the intricate dynamics of corruption within the civil service is crucial for developing effective strategies to combat this pervasive phenomenon and foster sustainable development and governance.
Resistente Tuberkulose
Creators: name: Hauer, Barbara
name: Castell, S.
name: Loddenkemper, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Tuberkulose
subject: Epidemiologie
subject: HIV-Infektion
subject: Medikamentenresistenz
subject: Fallmanagement
subject: Epidemiology
subject: HIV infection
subject: Tuberculosis
subject: Drug resistance
subject: Case management
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die Medikamentenresistenz stellt bei der Tuberkulose (TB) ein zunehmendes Problem dar. Eine multiresistente (MDR-)TB wird bereits bei 440.000 Fällen, eine extensiv resistente (XDR-)TB bei 25.000 Fällen der weltweit über 9 Mio. jährlichen Neuerkrankungen angenommen. Um diese dramatische Entwicklung in den Griff zu bekommen, sind international konzertierte Anstrengungen notwendig, die sowohl die Therapie auf der Basis von Resistenztestungen als auch strikte Infektionsverhütungsmaßnahmen beinhalten müssen. Es mangelt jedoch an Laborkapazitäten, gerade in den am meisten betroffenen Ländern (China, Indien, frühere Sowjetunion), aber auch an ausreichend wirksamen Medikamenten, insbesondere bei der XDR-TB.
description: Drug resistance is an increasing problem in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). Multidrug-resistant (MDR-)TB is already assumed to be present in 440,000, extensively resistant (XDR-)TB in 25,000 of the nine million new TB cases worldwide per year. To gain control of this dramatic development, internationally concerted efforts are needed regarding both treatment regimens based on drug resistance tests and strict infection prevention measures. However, particularly the most affected countries (China, India, and the former Soviet Union) lack laboratory capacities, but also effective drugs, especially for XDR-TB.
165. Runaway stars
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Gaia

description: Runaway stars are stars with such high space velocities that they must have been imparted by a particular formation process.  Many insights into the favoured scenarios - binary-supernova and dynamical ejection - are being made as Gaia's astrometry yields their accurate distances and space motions.
Additional file 1 of Anti-cancer activity of Moringa oleifera Lam. seed oil on oral cancer
Creators: name: Das, Moumita
name: Mohanty, Jatindra Nath
name: Bhuyan, Sanat Kumar
name: Bhuyan, Ruchi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Phytochemicals identified by 2D GC-TOF-MS analysis.
Pericles Wet presented by Portland Shakespeare Project at Artists Repertory Theatre
Creators: name: E. Tavares, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: English drama
subject: Sixteenth century
subject: Seventeenth century
subject: Theater

description: What happened to the “fair Hesperides” (1.1.28)? This is the ques- tion behind Ellen Margolis’s Pericles Wet, an adaptation of Pericles pro- duced for its world premiere by the Portland Shakespeare Project. An act of recovery, the play is organized around the lives of female characters Pericles meets, or the sequence of punishments he suffers. Having “built a life on the wreckage” of the incest of Antiochus’s daughter, Hes, I was still (productively) uncertain, after two viewings of this production, as to whether this was a play about a hero or about the victims such ostensible paragons leave in their wake.
Measles viruses of genotype H1 evade recognition by vaccine-induced neutralizing antibodies targeting the linear haemagglutinin noose epitope
Creators: name: Finsterbusch, Tim
name: Wolbert, Anne
name: Deitemeier, Ingrid
name: Meyer, Kerstin
name: Mosquera, Maria Mar
name: Mankertz, Annette
name: Santibanez, Sabine
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Amino Acid Sequence
subject: Humans
subject: Molecular Sequence Data
subject: Genotype
subject: Measles virus/genetics
subject: Neutralization Tests
subject: Sequence Analysis DNA
subject: Mutation Missense
subject: RNA Viral/genetics
subject: Asia
subject: Antibodies Viral/immunology
subject: Measles virus/isolation & purification
subject: Measles/virology
subject: Measles virus/immunology
subject: Epitopes/immunology
subject: Hemagglutinins Viral/genetics
subject: Hemagglutinins Viral/immunology
subject: Measles Vaccine/immunology
subject: Mutant Proteins/immunology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The linear haemagglutinin noose epitope (HNE; aa 379-410) is a protective B-cell epitope and considered to be highly conserved in both the vaccine and the wild-type measles virus (MeV) haemagglutinin (H) proteins. Vaccine virus-derived monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) BH6 and BH216, which target the HNE, neutralized MeVs of genotypes B3, C2, D4, D5, D6, D7 and D8, and the vaccine strain Edmonston Zagreb. In the case of genotype H1, only strain Berlin.DEU/44.01 was neutralized by these mAbs, whereas strains Shenyang.CHN/22.99 and Sofia.BGR/19.05 were not. The H gene sequences of these two strains showed an exchange of proline 397 (P397) to leucine (L397). Mutated H proteins, with P397 exchanged to L and vice versa, were compared with original H proteins by indirect fluorescence assay. H proteins exhibiting P397 but not those with L397 were recognized by BH6 and BH216. This indicates that L397 leads to the loss of the neutralizing HNE. In contrast, human sera obtained from vaccinees (n=10) did not discriminate between genotype H1 variants P397 and L397. This concurs with the epidemiological observation that the live-attenuated vaccine protects against both H1 variants. Furthermore, we demonstrated that MeVs of genotype H1 also lack the neutralizing epitopes defined by the vaccine virus-induced mAbs BH15, BH125 and BH47. The loss of several neutralizing epitopes, as shown for H1 viruses currently circulating endemically in Asia, implies that epitope monitoring should be considered to be included in measles surveillance.
Examining longitudinal disparities in COVID-19 prevalence in the U.S.: a county level growth rate perspective
Creators: name: Kiaghadi, Amin
name: Adepoju, Omolola E.
name: Rifai, Hanadi S.
name: Liaw, Winston
name: Woodard, Lechauncy D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: The objectives of the present study are to understand the longitudinal variability in COVID-19 reported cases at the county level and to associate the observed rates of infection with the adoption and lifting of stay-home orders. Materials and Methods: The study uses the trajectory of the pandemic in a county and controls for social and economic risk factors, physical environment, and health behaviors to elucidate the social determinants contributing to the observed rates of infection. Results and conclusion: Results indicated that counties with higher percentages of young individuals, racial and ethnic minorities and, higher population densities experienced greater difficulty suppressing transmission.Except for Education and the Gini Index, all factors were influential on the rate of COVID-19 spread before and after stay-home orders. However, after lifting the orders, six of the factors were not influential on the rate of spread; these included: African-Americans, Population Density, Single Parent Households, Average Daily PM2.5, HIV Prevalence Rate, and Home Ownership. It was concluded that different factors from the ones controlling the initial spread of COVID-19 are at play after stay-home orders are lifted.KEY MESSAGESObserved rates of COVID-19 infection at the County level in the U.S. are not directly associated with adoption and lifting of stay-home orders.Disadvantages in sociodemographic determinants negatively influence the rate of COVID-19 spread.Counties with more young individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, and higher population densities have greater difficulty suppressing transmission. Observed rates of COVID-19 infection at the County level in the U.S. are not directly associated with adoption and lifting of stay-home orders. Disadvantages in sociodemographic determinants negatively influence the rate of COVID-19 spread. Counties with more young individuals, racial and ethnic minorities, and higher population densities have greater difficulty suppressing transmission.
An overview of the European Health Examination Survey Pilot Joint Action
Creators: name: Kuulasmaa, Kari
name: Tolonen, Hanna
name: Koponen, Päivikki
name: Kilpeläinen, Katri
name: Avdicová, Mária
name: Broda, Grazyna
name: Calleja, Neville
name: Dias, Carlos
name: Gösswald, Antje
name: Kubinova, Ruzena
name: Mindell, Jennifer
name: Männistö, Satu
name: Palmieri, Luigi
name: Tell, Grethe S.
name: Trichopoulou, Antonia
name: Verschuren, WM M.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chronic diseases
subject: Risk factors
subject: Health surveys
subject: Population health monitoring
subject: EHES
subject: Survey methods
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Health Examination Surveys (HESs) can provide essential information on the health and health determinants of a population, which is not available from other data sources. Nevertheless, only some European countries have systems of national HESs. A study conducted in 2006–2008 concluded that it is feasible to organize national HESs using standardized measurement procedures in nearly all EU countries. The feasibility study also outlined a structure for a European Health Examination Survey (EHES), which is a collaboration to organize standardized HESs in countries across Europe. To facilitate setting up national surveys and to gain experience in applying the EHES methods in different cultures, EHES Joint Action (2010–2011) planned and piloted standardized HESs in the working age population in 12 countries. This included countries with earlier national HESs and countries which were planning their first national HES. The core measurements included in all surveys were weight, height, waist circumference and blood pressure, and blood samples were taken to measure lipid profiles and glucose or glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c). These are modifiable determinants of major chronic diseases not identified in health interview surveys. There was a questionnaire to complement the data on the examination measurements. Methods: Evaluation of the pilot surveys was based on review of national manuals and evaluation reports of survey organizers; observations and discussions of survey procedures during site visits and training seminars; and other communication with the survey organizers. Results: Despite unavoidable differences in the ways HESs are organized in the various countries, high quality and comparability of the data seems achievable. The biggest challenge in each country was obtaining high participation rate. Most of the pilot countries are now ready to start their full-size national HES, and six of them have already started. Conclusions: The EHES Pilot Project has set up the structure for obtaining comparable high quality health indicators on health and important modifiable risk factors of major non-communicable diseases from the European countries. The European Union is now in a key position to make this structure sustainable. The EHES core survey can be expanded to cover other measurements.
NPAC FM Color Halftoning for the Indigo Press: Challenges and Solutions
Creators: name: Liu, Jiayin
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: FM halftoning is increasingly popular with traditional analog offset lithographic printing processes. There is a desire to offer this capability with digital presses based on electrophotographic printing (EP) technologies. However, the inherent instability of the EP process challenges the achievement of satisfactory print quality with dispersed-dot, aperiodic halftoning. The direct binary search (DBS) algorithm is widely considered to represent the gold standard of dispersed-dot, aperiodic halftone image quality. In this paper, we continue our previous efforts to adapt DBS to use with the Indigo liquid EP printing technology. We describe a complete color management pipeline for halftoning with a PARAWACS matrix designed using DBS. For the first time, we show actual printed patches obtained using our process. Our gamut mapping is performed in the YyCxCz color space, and is image-dependent. It incorporates several stages of alignment between the input and output spaces, as well as several stages of compression. After the gamut mapping, we tessellate the output color space into six global tetrahedra that each share the neutral axis, as an edge. Then, we determine the Neugebauer Primary Area Coverage (NPAC) for each pixel in the image to be printed by tetrahedral interpolation from the four nearest neighbors in the inverse printer mapping table. These four nearest neighbors are chosen so that only four Neugebauer primaries are used to render each pixel.
Desperately seeking diarrhoea: outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome caused by emerging sorbitol-fermenting shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H-, Germany, 2009
Creators: name: Nielsen, Stine
name: Frank, Christina
name: Fruth, Angelika
name: Spode, Anke
name: Prager, Rita
name: Graff, A.
name: Plenge-Bönig, A.
name: Loos, S.
name: Lütgehetmann, M.
name: Müller-Wiefel, D. E.
name: Werber, Dirk
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Child
subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Disease Outbreaks
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Male
subject: Risk Factors
subject: Infant
subject: Interviews as Topic
subject: Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome/microbiology
subject: Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome/epidemiology
subject: Feces/microbiology
subject: Child Preschool
subject: Sorbitol/metabolism
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/epidemiology
subject: Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli
subject: Diarrhea/complications
subject: Diarrhea/epidemiology
subject: Diarrhea/microbiology
subject: Environmental Exposure/adverse effects
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/complications
subject: Escherichia coli O157*/isolation & purification
subject: Escherichia coli O157*/pathogenicity
subject: Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome/complications
subject: Play and Playthings
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Infection with sorbitol-fermenting Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H- (sf STEC O157:H-) is rare, but emerging in Europe. The pathogen is typically isolated from paediatric patients with life-threatening haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). It is unclear whether this observation primarily reflects the pathogen's virulence or its complex laboratory diagnosis, not routinely conducted in diarrhoeal patients. In summer 2009, four boys living in the same suburb in Germany developed diarrhoea-associated HUS: three were infected by sf STEC O157:H- and one died. We conducted two analytical epidemiological studies, an extensive search for diarrhoeal cases in potentially exposed groups, and an environmental investigation. Outbreak cases were residents of the suburb diagnosed with HUS, sf STEC O157:H- infection, or both between 24 July 2009 and 25 August 2009. Overall, we ascertained eight cases with a median age of 4 years (range: from 8 months to 9 years). Stool screening of 220 persons led to the identification of only four additional cases: two asymptomatic carriers and two diarrhoeal cases. HUS was strongly associated with visiting a local playground in July, particularly on 16th July (odds ratio = 42.7, P = 0.002). No other commonality, including food, was identified, and all environmental samples (n = 24) were negative. In this localized non-foodborne outbreak, the place of likely infection was a local playground. Sf STEC O157:H- infection apparently limits itself rarely to diarrhoeal illness and progresses frequently to HUS. Therefore, detection of and response to this hypervirulent pathogen primarily relies on HUS surveillance.
OPS Fest The Taming of the Shrew
Creators: name: E. Tavares, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: English literature
subject: English drama
subject: Sixteenth century
subject: Seventeenth century
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Theater

description: For the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival (OPS Fest), the text of William Shakespeare's First Folio is a wellspring for improvisational comedy. The troupe employs an actor-oriented original practice, referred to as First Folio technique by practitioners, to render accessible Renaissance theater to Portland and the Pacific Northwest region. The troupe is nearly a decade into their mission of adding two Shakespeare plays into their repertoire each summer until they can rotate the entire canon. In a culturally "white" region that prides itself on progressivism, there are a few plays that pose unique challenges, either in terms of casting, namely Othello, or ethics, such as The Taming of the Shrew. OPS Fest's recent performance of Shrew at the Mission Theatre was a test-run of sorts, designed to consider whether it is an ethically stage-able play in 2017.
More reasons to dread rain on vacation? Dengue fever in 42 German and United Kingdom Madeira tourists during autumn 2012
Creators: name: Frank, Christina
name: Höhle, Michael
name: Stark, Klaus
name: Lawrence, J.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: In October and November 2012 residents and tourists in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal, were affected by dengue fever. The outbreak waned during the unusually dry winter. Using a Monte Carlo test we investigated the hypothesis that rainy weather conveyed increased risk of dengue virus infection among tourists. Results confirmed the hypothesis. As it is unclear whether the outbreak is over, upkeep and emphasis on mosquito avoidance on rainy days may help residents and tourists reduce infection risk.
Pattern Exploration from Citizen Geospatial Data
Creators: name: Liu, Ke
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling
Geomatic engineering not elsewhere classified
Human geography not elsewhere classified

description: Due to the advances in location-acquisition techniques, citizen geospatial data has emerged with opportunity for research, development, innovation, and business. A variety of research has been developed to study society and citizens through exploring patterns from geospatial data. In this thesis, we investigate patterns of population and human sentiments using GPS trajectory data and geo-tagged tweets. Kernel density estimation and emerging hot spot analysis are first used to demonstrate population distribution across space and time. Then a flow extraction model is proposed based on density difference for human movement detection and visualization. Case studies with volleyball game in West Lafayette and traffics in Puerto Rico verify the effectiveness of this method. Flow maps are capable of tracking clustering behaviors and direction maps drawn upon the orientation of vectors can precisely identify location of events. This thesis also analyzes patterns of human sentiments. Polarity of tweets is represented by a numeric value based on linguistics rules. Sentiments of four US college cities are analyzed according to its distribution on citizen, time, and space. The research result suggests that social media can be used to understand patterns of public sentiment and well-being.
Overweight and obesity in Germany
Creators: name: Mensink, Gert
name: Schienkiewitz, Anja
name: Haftenberger, Marjolein
name: Lampert, Thomas
name: Ziese, Thomas
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Health survey
subject: Obesity
subject: Overweight
subject: Adults
subject: Anthropometrics
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The increase in overweight and obesity is a worldwide health problem. The first wave of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1), conducted from 2008 through 2011, provides current data about overweight and obesity among adults in Germany. Within DEGS1, a representative sample of the 18- to 79-year-old population was interviewed with regard to health relevant issues and physically examined (n=7,116). From measurements of body height and weight, the body mass index (BMI) was calculated, which was used to define overweight (BMI≥25 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2). Results are stratified for gender, age group, socioeconomic status and region and compared with results from the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 1998 (GNHIES98) and the National Examination Surveys 1990/92. According to DEGS1, 67.1% of men and 53.0% of women are overweight. The prevalence of overweight has not changed compared to GNHIES98. The prevalence of obesity, however, has risen substantially, especially among men: in GNHIES98, 18.9% of men and 22.5% of women were obese, in DEGS1, these figures were 23.3% and 23.9%, respectively. The increase in obesity occurred especially among young adults.
Performance analysis for a membrane-based liquid desiccant air dehumidifier: experiment and modeling
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Separation technologies
Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Liquid desiccant air dehumidification (LDAD) is a promising substitute for the conventional dehumidification systems that use mechanical cooling. However, the LDAD system shares a little market because of its high installation cost, carryover problem, and severe corrosion problem caused by the conventional liquid desiccant. The research reported in this thesis aimed to address these challenges by applying membrane technology and ionic liquid desiccants (ILDs) in LDAD. The membrane technology uses semi-permeable materials to separate the air and liquid desiccants, therefore, the solution droplets cannot enter into the air stream to corrode the metal piping and degrade the air quality. The ILDs are synthesized salts in the liquid phase, with a large dehumidification capacity but no corrosion problems. In order to study the applicability and performance of these two technologies, both experimental and modeling investigations were made as follows.In the study, experimental researches and existing models on the membrane-based LDAD (MLDAD) was extensively reviewed with respects of the characteristics of liquid desiccants and membranes, the module design, the performance assessment and comparison, as well as the modeling methods for MLDAD.A small-scale prototype of the MLDAD was tested by using ILD in controlled conditions to characterize its performance in Oak Ridge National Lab. The preliminary experimental results indicated that the MLDAD was able to dehumidify the air and the ILD could be regenerated at 40 ºC temperature. However, the latent effectiveness is relatively lower compared with conventional LDAD systems, and the current design was prone to leakage, especially under the conditions of high air and solution flow rates.To improve the dehumidification performance of our MLDAD prototype, the two-dimensional numerical heat and mass transfer models were developed for both porous and nonporous membranes based on the microstructure of the membrane material. The finite element method was used to solve the equations in MATLAB. The models for porous and nonporous membranes were validated by the experimental data available from literature and our performance test, respectively. The validated models were able to predict the performance of the MLDAD module and conduct parametric studies to identify the optimal material selection, design, and operation of the MLDAD.
Shakespeare’s Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre by Janet Clare
Creators: name: E. Tavares, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: English literature
subject: European drama--Renaissance

description: At the center of Clare’s study are the allusive networks linked with William Shakespeare’s plays, offering a theoretical framework to the processes of adapta- tion on early modern stages. Updating source-study methodologies that account for performance conditions and dating, she locates the commerce of theatre as a function of genre rather than authorship or playing company. In challenging criti- cal norms that valorize his originality, Clare argues that Shakespeare systemically drew on materials that were already established in the dramatic tradition, molding them in the spirit of Renaissance aesthetic theories of appropriation.
An Exploration of Nonprofit Human Service Volunteer Training and Retention
Creators: name: Lowenberg-Deboer, Kylie K.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This study was an exploration of nonprofit human service volunteer training as related to the retention of volunteers. In their pursuit to fulfill client needs, human service nonprofit organizations often rely heavily on volunteers, which emphasizes the need for a better understanding of the means through which organizations may affect positively the retention rates of volunteers. Training long has been thought to be an effective tool for decreasing attrition and engaging volunteers. By investigating the training experiences of volunteers with a focus on retention, this study hoped to further develop the research community’s understanding of how training helps or hinders volunteer retention and may serve as the basis for further research on the link between training design and retention.
Additional file 2 of Whole genome analyses of toxicants tolerance genes of Apis mellifera gut-derived Enterococcus faecium strains
Creators: name: Zaghloul, Heba A. H.
name: El Halfawy, Nancy M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
The Comedy of Errors (review)
Creators: name: E. Tavares, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: English drama
subject: Sixteenth century
subject: Seventeenth century
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Theater

description: Director Sean Graney’s work can typically be categorized as either ex- plicitly experimental or engaging with the tradition of adaptation. These aesthetic trajectories merged in the Court Theatre’s The Comedy of Errors, a meaty 90-minute production focused on skirting buffoonery in order to find translatable humor within William Shakespeare’s farcical language. As Graney stated during a post-performance discussion, “I wanted the play to feel funny in new ways,” which is an often-difficult task given the play’s archaic humor. Indeed, Errors has a performance history marked by the inability to reconcile its absurd elements, on which the plot and play depend, with contemporary tastes. Graney addressed this problem by focusing on issues of identity confusion and the farce tradition. The result was a pliant dark comedy anchored by bodily representations of humor and highlighting the problem of Renaissance comedic anachronisms.
Off-label medicine use in children and adolescents: results of a population-based study in Germany
Creators: name: Knopf, Hildtraud
name: Wolf, Ingrid-Katharina
name: Sarganas, Giselle
name: Zhuang, Wanli
name: Rascher, Wolfgang
name: Neubert, Antje
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Children
subject: KiGGS study
subject: Off-label
subject: Paediatric
subject: Under-dosing
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Population-based self-reported data on off-label medicine use independent from health care provisions are lacking. The purpose of this study is to investigate off-label medicine use in children and adolescents in Germany in a non-clinical setting and to identify prevalence, determinants and spectrum of off-label medicine use. Methods: Data were obtained from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) conducted by the Robert Koch Institute (2003–2006). 17,450 randomly selected children aged 0–17 years took part in the drug interviews. Of those, 8,899 took at least one medicine during the 7 days preceding the interview. Off-label medicine use was defined as the discrepancy between actual use and the intended use described in the summary of product characteristics. Off-label medicine use was stratified into off-label indication, off-label age, off-label over-dosing, and off-label under-dosing. Results: The prevalence rate of off-label medicine use among those who used medicines amount of is 40.2%. The prevalence rate is significantly higher in boys (41.4%), in children aged 3 to 6 years (48.7%), without migration background (40.9%), with high social status (42.5%), living in small (42.0%) and medium sized cities (41.6%), and with a poor parents rated health status (41.7%). 12,667 preparations (attributable in respect to off-label use) were taken by 8,899 children. 30% of the medicines have been used off-label. Off-label medicine use was highest in preparations of the ATC-class “C00 Cardiovascular System”. In all origins of medicine, all age groups and all ATC-classes under-dosing was the most frequent reason for off-label medicine use. Conclusions: There is a considerable level of self-reported off-label medicines use in the general paediatric population. Further investigations are needed to examine in how far off-label medicine use is based on lack of knowledge or on empiricism in paediatric pharmacotherapy. Attention also needs to be paid to under-dosing which potentially exposes drug users to risks of side effects without the benefit of a therapeutic effect. Clinical trials for licensing of paediatric medicines, education of health care professionals, but also of parents and carers are needed to ensure the rational use of medicines.
Additional file 3 of Effect of COVID-19 on antenatal care: experiences of medical professionals in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Gamberini, Carlotta
name: Angeli, Federica
name: Knight, Lucia
name: Zaami, Mariama
name: Al-Nasiry, Salwan
name: Ambrosino, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Participant Information Sheet. Information sheet about the current project that was sent prior to the interview to the participants