cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The actual universe of valuation standards
Creators: name: Anghel, Ion
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2013

description: In the actual context (with issues like as viability of the global markets, cross-border transactions, transparency in financial reporting etc.) it is a common interest for professional valuers, investors, universities, researchers etc. to consider a convergent set of global professional valuation standards. It is also in their best interest to work towards enhancement and refinement of valuation methodologies and applications to be prepared to address valuation issues that are bound to arise in the future. The paper is a view of actual universe of valuation standards and options for national valuation standard enforcements starting from the operating system named International Valuation Standards (IVS).
description: Aestimum, XLI Meetings Proceedings (Rome)
The Synthesis of γ-l-glutamyl Peptides
Creators: name: Priestley, Gareth Philip
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 1976

description: The unequivocal synthesis of pteroyl-γ-l-glutamates has been achieved. The synthesis of -γ-glutamyl peptides, by "classical" methods, followed by coupling to a pteroic acid (2) derivative and by deprotection, was adopted as the general scheme. Attempts to repeat a previously published synthesis of γ-glutanyl peptides (Route 1) were abandoned when the dipeptide derivative (61) could not be crystallised. Crystalline and readily purified intermediates, including several which had not been previously prepared, were obtained during work on the novel synthesis (Route 2) of a pteroyl triglutamate derivative (99). Picolyl and 4-nitrobenzyl esters were used for carboxy-terminal protection and the peptide chain was built from an amino-terminal residue. Unfortunately, the pteroyl derivative (99) could not be deprotected and the route was abandoned; although it still provides a feasible synthesis of γ-glutamyl peptides. Chain elongation from an amino-terminal residue, allowing purification by salt formation at the γ-carboxy-terminal, was retained as a feature of subsequent schemes (Routes 3 and 4). The tertiary-butyl ester was employed for carboxy-terminal protection, to simplify final deprotection. Route 3 provided the fully-protected pteroyl tri-penta- and heptaglutamates (109), (110) and (111), which were fully characterised for the first time, although their synthesis by a different route had been previously reported. The use of protection by salt formation, at the γ-carboxy terminal, allowed the rapid synthesis (Route 4) of the pteroyl triglutamate derivative (114), which was readily deprotected to yield analytically pure pteroyl-γ-l-glutamyl-γ-l-glutamyl-L-glutamic acid. Very close attention was paid to the purity of the pteroic acid used in this work, so that, no doubt as a consequence, the pteroyl derivatives obtained were readily crystalline and easily purified. Previously, other workers have encountered severe purification difficulties when preparing similar compounds.
Additional file 2 of Genetic markers of late radiation toxicity in the era of image-guided radiotherapy: lower toxicity rates reduce the predictive value of γ-H2AX foci decay ratio in patients undergoing pelvic radiotherapy
Creators: name: Nuijens, Anna C.
name: Oei, Arlene L.
name: Koster, Lisa
name: Hoebe, Ron A.
name: Franken, Nicolaas A.P.
name: Rasch, Coen R.N.
name: Stalpers, Lukas J.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Myrmecina alpina Shattuck, 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Myrmecina
Myrmecina alpina

description: Myrmecina alpina sp. n. (Figs 1-4, 47) Types. Holotype worker from Mt. Demi, 7km SW Mossman, 16°30'S145°19'E, 1100m, Queensland, 29 Oct. 1983, D. K. Yeates & G. I. Thompson, rainforest, sieved litter berlesate (ANIC, ANIC 32-047350);13 paratype workers, same data as holotype (ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, ANIC 32-047232). Diagnosis. Sides of head behind compound eyes with 2-3 well defined longitudinal carinae running nearly the length of the head. The presence of these carinae will separate this species from all others in Australia with the exception of some higher-elevation populations of M. silvangula. The longitudinal rather than transverse sculpturing on the pronotum will separate this taxon from these workers. Worker description. Antennal scapes smooth to weakly ridged. First segment of funiculus cone-shaped. Sides of head behind compound eyes with 2-3 longitudinal carinae running the length of the head. Sculpturing on dorsal surface of mesosoma running longitudinally and generally with the central carina (or carinae) running nearly the length (the pronotum not differentiated from the mesonotum). Carinae extending continuously from the dorsal surface onto the lateral surfaces of the mesosoma. Metanotal spines short. Propodeal spines long. Erect hairs abundant, straight. Colour dark brown-black, antennae, mandibles and legs yellow-red. Measurements. Worker (n = 5) - CI 95-99; HL 0.72-0.84; HW 0.69-0.80; MTL 0.38-0.45; SI 85-94; SL 0.65-0.72; WL 0.87-1.06. Additional material examined (ANIC except where noted). Queensland: 1km S Mt. Lewis (Calder,A. & Weir,T.); 2.5km N Mt. Lewis via Julatten (Yeates,D.K. & Thompson,G.I.); 4km WNW Round Mt. site 3 (Burwell,C.) (QMBA); 4km WNW Round Mt. site 5 (Yek,S) (QMBA); Mary Creek site 4 (Burwell,C.) (QMBA); Mary Creek site 5 (Burwell,C.) (QMBA); Mt. Demi, 7km SW Mossman (Yeates,D.K. & Thompson,G.I.); Mt. Lewis (Taylor & Feehan); Mt. Lewis (Van Ingen,L.) (TERC); Mt. Lewis summit, via Julatten (Monteith,G. & Cook,D.); The Bluff, 11km W Mossman (Monteith,G.B. & Yeates,D.K.). Comments. This is a high-elevation specialist known from a limited number of mountain-tops, the lowest collection site being just less than 1000m, and is confined to an area less than 20 square kilometres within Queensland's wet tropics. It is found in rainforest where it has been collected in leaf litter samples. It is sympatric with silvarugosa, another high-elevation species, and these two species are the only Australian species with carinae on the sides of the head behind the eyes.
description: Published as part of Shattuck, S. O., 2009, A revision the Australian species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2146 on pages 3-6
Which DBS Site has the Most Significant Speech Outcomes on Patients with PD: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Edlington, Caley
name: Bofill, Chrislain
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study investigated the recent literature concerning speech outcomes after subthalamic nuclei (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) versus globus pallidus (GPi) DBS. The aim of the study was to confirm previous research, collected by Lukins, Tisch, & Jonker (2013), suggesting greater positive speech outcomes after GPi DBS.
Cosmological studies with VLBI and strong gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Spingola, Cristiana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Current small-scale cosmological controversies are coming down to the precision level of observations. The key point is whether a better understanding of baryonic physics, dark matter physics, or both is required to address these challenges. In this talk, I will describe how VLBI and strong gravitational lensing are contributing to understand some of these small-scale cosmological issues from both a dark matter and a baryonic perspectives up to high redshift.
Additional file 14 of Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles from plasma and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients reveals disease activity-associated EAAT2
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Antonella
name: Zamboni, Silvia
name: Camerini, Serena
name: Casella, Marialuisa
name: Sanchez, Massimo
name: Pietraforte, Donatella
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Diociauti, Marco
name: Altieri, Marta
name: Di Piero, Vittorio
name: Francia, Ada
name: Pontecorvo, Simona
name: Puthenparampil, Marco
name: Gallo, Paolo
name: Margutti, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 14.
Comparing time versus money in sunk cost effects: Replication of Soman (2001)
Creators: name: Petrov, Nikolay
name: Chan, Megan
name: Lau, Cheuk Nam
name: Kwok, Tin Ho
name: Estelle, Chow
name: Yan, Lo
name: Song, Wenkai
name: Feldman, Gilad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: decision making
subject: Escalation of commitment
subject: money
subject: replication
subject: Sunk cost
subject: time

description: Freezing and pre-reg PCIRR stage 1 folder following IPA from PCI-RR.
Psychosocial disparities as mediators of increased risky sexual behaviour in sexual minorities: A twin approach
Creators: name: Oginni, Olakunle
name: jern, patrick
name: Pingault, Jean-Baptiste
name: Rijsdijk, Fruhling
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Non-heterosexual individuals (i.e. those who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual) report higher rates of mental health problems such as depression, suicidality, anxiety and substance use problems as well as social problems such as childhood adversity and intimate partner violence. These psychosocial difficulties have in turn been shown to be associated with increased risky sexual behaviour and risk for HIV infection in the general population and among non-heterosexual men. There is evidence that shared genetic and environmental factors respectively influence the association between mental health problems and sexual orientation, and risky sexual behaviour. The aetiology of the relationship between sexual orientation and disparities in psychosocial risk and risky sexual behaviour is not yet well understood. We recently demonstrated that increased mental health problems partly explained increased risky sexual behaviour among non-heterosexual individuals and that this mediation relationship was not confounded by shared aetiological influences. However, measures of social disparity were not included and the assessment of risky sexual behaviour was mostly based on the number of sexual partners. It will be informative to test this genetic model in a different sample incorporating better psychosocial variables and a broader index of risky sexual behaviour.
Guidelines on sampling the food processing area and equipment for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes
Creators: name: Carpentier, Brigitte
name: Barre, Léna
name: Barbuti, S.
name: Canet Noguera, J.
name: da Silva Mateus Fernandes Guedes, H.
name: Dufour, B.
name: Español Pueyo, A..
name: Ferreira Tavares, A. L.
name: Gram, L.
name: Grégori, T.
name: Hickey, B.
name: Lago, J.
name: Leglise, P.
name: Orfão Ferraz, A. S.
name: Pardos Bosch, J.
name: Pires Gomes, C. M.
name: Sanchez, N.
name: Sanchez Hernandez, J.
name: Sol, M.
name: Stahl, V.
name: Tenreiro dos Santos Monteiro Saraiva, M. M.
name: Kramarenko, J. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: EURL Lm
subject: Listeria monocytogenes
subject: Guidelines
subject: Food processing area
subject: Food processing equipment
subject: Detection
subject: Sampling
subject: ISO 18593
subject: surface sampling practices
subject: EU MSs' Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health
subject: https://www.cabi.org/cabithesaurus/mtwdk.exe?k=default&l=60&w=201992&s=5&t=2

description: According to a review of the literature undertaken by the European Union Reference Laboratory for Listeria monocytogenes (EURL Lm), the EURL Lm and the network of National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) agreed that the International Standard ISO 18593, describing surface sampling methods for the detection or enumeration of bacteria in food processing area and equipment, does not give sufficient guidance specific to L. monocytogenes detection (see also introduction). It was thus agreed that the EURL L. monocytogenes would write a guidance document on this topic, in collaboration with a working group (WG). This WG comprised 20 members from 7 EU Member States (MSs), belonging to 3 NRLs and other organizations (see front page).
 Apart from the literature review and the contributions from the WG members, these guidelines were based on a large survey conducted in 2010 on surface sampling practices (137 respondents from 15 EU MSs, belonging to FBOs, service providers in charge of hygiene control, official control services,…), which showed a great variety of practices and some wrong ones, emphasizing the need of a European document.
 Several drafts have been prepared, each submitted to a consultation of, in a first step, all NRLs which consulted at national level operators practicing surface sampling, and then the WG members.
 The current version 3 results from an agreement of all NRLs at their annual workshop on 28-30 March 2012 and takes into comments received from 3 EU MSs (UK, NL, DE), in the frame of a MS consultation made by DG SANCO. This version has been agreed by the EU MSs’ Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health at its meeting of 18 July 2012 and a further written 2-week consultation.
Myrmecina silvalaeva Shattuck, 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Myrmecina
Myrmecina silvalaeva

description: Myrmecina silvalaeva sp. n. (Figs 5, 7, 29-31, 47) Types. Holotype worker from Gadgarra, 17°16'S145°40'E, Queensland, Feb. 1976, P. J. M. Greenslade & J. Holt, litter (ANIC, ANIC 32-047265). Diagnosis. Sculpturing on anterior mesonotum consisting of continuous transverse "U"-shaped carinae, the area immediately behind the pronotal collar weakly sculptured or essentially smooth. This species is most similar to eruga and pumila in having weakly developed sculpturing on the pronotum immediately behind the collar but differs in having transversely arched (rather than longitudinal) carinae on the dorsum of the mesosoma. Worker description. Antennal scapes smooth with one or two low ridges. First segment of funiculus cone-shaped. Sides of head behind compound eyes smooth. Sculpturing on dorsal surface of mesosoma "U"- shaped anteriorly and "V"-shaped posteriorly, dorsal surface of pronotum immediately behind the collar with very weak sculpturing and nearly smooth. Carinae extending continuously from the dorsal surface onto the lateral surfaces of the mesosoma. Metanotal spines short. Propodeal spines long. Erect hairs abundant, straight, relatively short. Colour dark brown-black, antennae, mandibles, legs and tip of gaster yellow-red. Measurements. Worker (n = 3) - CI 93-96; HL 0.60-0.61; HW 0.56-0.59; MTL 0.29-0.29; SI 79-90; SL 0.47-0.52; WL 0.70-0.73. Additional material examined (ANIC). Queensland: 6km E Butchers Creek School (Monteith,G.). Comments. This rainforest species is known from a limited number of collections from a small area of the wet tropics, northern Queensland. It has been collected from leaf litter samples.
description: Published as part of Shattuck, S. O., 2009, A revision the Australian species of the ant genus Myrmecina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2146 on page 15
GAME-THEORETIC DESIGN FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT BEHAVIORS IN RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES
Creators: name: Kwarteng, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering design
Building science, technologies and systems

description: Technological advances and gaming have assisted users in becoming energy-efficient or raising awareness about energy efficiency. However, these games typically take place in schools and workplaces. Low-income households, which spend a larger percentage of income on utilities compared to average income households, exhibit greater sensitivity to energy disturbances. Despite this, there has been limited research on applying these technologies in low-income households.
 The dissertation addresses the research gap concerning motivating low-income households to adopt new technologies focused on implementing energy-efficient HVAC behaviors. To achieve this objective, a gamification approach is employed, integrating a competitive social game into a cloud-based application named MySmartE. This application offers personalized eco-feedback and enables voice commands using Amazon Alexa. The game is deployed in two multi-residential low-income household communities located in Indiana. The collected data from field studies is analyzed to explore various aspects, including community interactions during the gaming seasons, technology adoption, and factors influencing participation in the social game. The findings reveal a positive correlation between increased gaming interac- tions and the adoption of MySmartE technology within these communities, underscoring the potential of gamification and technology to effectively engage low-income households in adopting energy-efficient practices.
Tables for Rates of Growth and Rates of Decline
Creators: name: Mackie, Arthur B.
name: Kirby, Riley H.
name: Mackie, Arthur B.
name: Kirby, Riley H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1966
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: The task of estimating the changes in the various indicators of a country's economy over time is very important in economic analyses and foreign economic research. The measurement of growth or decline in such as population, income, production, trade, and many others are often done in terms of years and rates. We have found the following tables to be very helpful in our foreign economic research and decided to reproduce them so that other researchers might have access to them. The following growth tables are similar to the compound interest tables published in mathematical and statistical handbooks such as the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. In addition, we are showing tables for the rates of decline. The tables given here indicate rates by tenths of a percent instead of by quarters and twelths of a percent as in most standard tables. Note that for greater convenience the axes of the tables are reversed from the usual; the rates are shown in the left column and the years of growth or decline appear as column headings. Among the many possible uses of these tables are: (1) to ascertain the rate of growth in a country's population for 1 up to 40 years, or (2) to project the level of per capita income at some future year, starting from a given level and assuming a constant compound rate of increase. Similar uses may be made of the tables showing the rates of decline on pages 17-29.
UNICORNS extended data
Creators: name: Kellett, Salomey
name: Rahi, Jugnoo
name: Dick, Andrew
name: Knowles, Rachel
name: Tadić, Valerija
name: Solebo, Ammenat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: This project contains the extended data files used for the F1000 research protocol article. It contains three supplementary files S1 - List of collaborating centres S2 - Study information packs S3 - Minimal uveitis core dataset
Occupational Justice: Educational choices of black male college students
Creators: name: Petteway, Alexis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: IntroductionOccupational justice promotes fairness and equity to enable opportunities for participation.Occupations emerge within the transaction of socio-cultural, historical, personal and relational contexts.Occupational choices are shaped by these contextual elements. There are disparities when regarding academic achievement and participation of black males in comparison to other racial/ethnic groups, but there is a lack of occupational research exploring this specific population.
Forgetting is a Feature, not a Bug: Intentionally Forgetting Some Things Helps Us Remember Others by Freeing up Working Memory Resources
Creators: name: Popov, Vencislav
name: Marevic, Ivan
name: Rummel, Jan
name: Reder, Lynne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: associative memory
subject: computational modeling
subject: directed forgetting
subject: directed-forgetting after-effects
subject: item-method

description: We used an item-method directed forgetting paradigm to test whether instructions to forget or to remember one item in a list affects memory for the subsequent item in that list. In two experiments, we found that free and cued recall were higher when a word-pair was preceded during study by a to-be-forgotten (TBF) word pair. This effect was cumulative – performance was higher when more of the preceding items during study were TBF. It also interacted with lag between study items – the effect decreased as the lag between the current and a prior item increased. Experiment 2 used a dual-task paradigm in which we suppressed either verbal rehearsal or attentional refreshing during encoding. We found that neither task removed the effect, thus the advantage from previous TBF items could not be due to rehearsal or attentional borrowing. We propose that storing items in long-term memory depletes a limited pool of resources that recovers over time, and that TBF items deplete fewer resources, leaving more available for storing subsequent items. A computational model implementing the theory provided excellent fits to the data.
Semiparametric estimation of INAR models using roughness penalization
Creators: name: Faymonville, Maxime
name: Jentsch, Carsten
name: Weiß, Christian H.
name: Aleksandrov, Boris
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Count data
subject: Penalized estimation
subject: Integer-valued autoregressions
subject: Innovation distribution
subject: Validation
subject: 310

description: Popular models for time series of count data are integer-valued autoregressive (INAR) models, for which the literature mainly deals with parametric estimation. In this regard, a semiparametric estimation approach is a remarkable exception which allows for estimation of the INAR models without any parametric assumption on the innovation distribution. However, for small sample sizes, the estimation performance of this semiparametric estimation approach may be inferior. Therefore, to improve the estimation accuracy, we propose a penalized version of the semiparametric estimation approach, which exploits the fact that the innovation distribution is often considered to be smooth, i.e. two consecutive entries of the PMF differ only slightly from each other. This is the case, for example, in the frequently used INAR models with Poisson, negative binomially or geometrically distributed innovations. For the data-driven selection of the penalization parameter, we propose two algorithms and evaluate their performance. In Monte Carlo simulations, we illustrate the superiority of the proposed penalized estimation approach and argue that a combination of penalized and unpenalized estimation approaches results in overall best INAR model fits.
description: Statistical methods & applications;32(2)
Changing Course Reserves Systems: Tumult Creates Teamwork
Creators: name: Allegri, Francesca
name: Savage, Noah
name: Mohanty, Suchi
name: Kozak, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: “Changing Course Reserves Systems: Tumult Creates Teamwork,” is an example of how a dramatic change in a service platform, under a tight deadline, can open the door to deeper collaborations, improved processes, and improved services for patrons. In Summer 2015, the House Undergraduate Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill decided to merge two reserves systems together, move to a new platform, and be operational within 6 months. Presenters are Noah Savage, Reserves Manager, Undergraduate Library; and Claire Kozak, Assistant Reserves Manager, Health Sciences Library; and Suchi Mohanty, Head of the Undergraduate Library.
parents' experience with diagnosis and treatment of learning disorders in Flanders
Creators: name: Warreyn, Petra
name: Desoete, Annemie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project maps the opinion and experiences of parents of primary school children with learning disorders. Using an online survey (on the limesurvey platform), we ask them about the diagnostic process (who was involved, which tests were used, ...) and the treatment of their child (frequency, disciplines, content, ...). We end with open questions on how the process could be improved.
The impact of COVID-19 on territorial preferences in Catalonia
Creators: name: Balcells, Laia
name: Dorsey, Spencer
name: Tellez, Juan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Catalonia
subject: COVID-19
subject: Federalism
subject: Secession
subject: Spain
subject: Trust

description: This project combines longitudinal survey data and Twitter data to analyze the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on territorial preferences in Catalonia, political polarization, and trust in institutions.
Connecting characterizations of equivalence of expressions: design research in Grade 5 by bridging graphical and symbolic representations
Creators: name: Tondorf, Alexandra
name: Prediger, Susanne
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Early algebra
subject: Expressions
subject: Equivalence
subject: Connecting multiple representations
subject: Conceptual understanding
subject: 510

description: One typical challenge in algebra education is that many students justify the equivalence of expressions only by referring to transformation rules that they perceive as arbitrary without being able to justify these rules. A good algebraic understanding involves connecting the transformation rules to other characterizations of equivalence of expressions (e.g., description equivalence that both expressions describe the same situation or figure). In order to overcome this disconnection even before variables are introduced, a design research study was conducted in Grade 5 to design and investigate an early algebra learning environment to establish stronger connections between different mental models and representations of equivalence of expressions. The qualitative analysis of design experiments with 14 fifth graders revealed deep insights into complexities of connecting representations. It confirmed that many students first relate the representations in ways that are too superficial without establishing deep connections. Analyzing successful students’ processes helped to identify an additional characterization that can support students in bridging the connection between other characterizations, which we call restructuring equivalence. By including learning opportunities for restructuring equivalence, students can be supported to compare expressions in graphical and symbolic representation simultaneously and dynamically. The design research study disentangles the complex requirements for realizing the design principle of connecting multiple representations, which should be of relevance beyond the specific concept of equivalence and applicable to other mathematical topics.
description: Educational studies in mathematics;111(3)
It’s Not What Defines Us, It’s Just What We Do: An Investigation of Urban Homesteading and Identity
Creators: name: Franzen, Erin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: BackgroundUrban homesteading: localization, self-reliance and sustainabilityParticipants desire to close the gap between food production and food consumptionJoining the movement = joining larger collective of individuals with similar passionsSocial occupations provide a space to create shared meaning Individuals gain a sense of who they are through what they doResearch Aim: Investigate the experience of urban homesteading and its influence on identity
Formation of materialism parcels from Eugene-Springfield Community Sample data
Creators: name: Saucier, Gerard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The goal of these analyses is to create parcels from the 14 materialism items that were included in the BFAS (Big Five Aspects Scales) section of the Life and Time Study (four waves, 2010-2013), while doing in an independent data set. The Item pool is those 14 materialism items. Data is Eugene-Springfield Community sample, from which the 14 items were originally drawn. 13 of these items were administered in 2008 (N=608). The 14th item had been administered in 2003 (along with 5 of the 13 items from 2008, as these had been previously administered as part of the International Personality Item Pool). Because the 14th item was administered at a different time (5 years before), it was judged eligible to be added to an otherwise-formed scale (based on its pattern of convergent and divergent correlations) but not to be part of the factor analysis fundamental to formation of the parcels. Prime analyses: Exploratory factor analysis of 13 items, seeking a solution in which every factor has at least 3 salients and the number of factors is maximized. Procedures: Maximum Likelihood extraction of factors, and unrotated solution plus four widely used rotations (for the rotations going from 2 factors up seeking the largest number of factors meeting the criterion, by whatever rotated (or unrotated) solution leads to that optimal result. The rotations: Varimax, Quartimax, Equamax, Oblimin(0). If a factor has at least 3 items, its salient will be taken as a provisional scale for a parcel. If the scale has more than 3 items, items for that scale will be removed only if doing so produces a net improvement in the internal consistency and unidimensionality of the scale (as indexed by increasing coefficient Alpha and decreasing the variance of the interitem correlations). After parcel scales are formed without it, the 14th item will be correlated with the existing parcels to see which one it fits best. Then it will be included in a reliability analysis with other items in that parcel, but will be removed if the same criterion for doing so, described in the previous paragraph, is met.
Additional file 9 of Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles from plasma and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients reveals disease activity-associated EAAT2
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Antonella
name: Zamboni, Silvia
name: Camerini, Serena
name: Casella, Marialuisa
name: Sanchez, Massimo
name: Pietraforte, Donatella
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Diociauti, Marco
name: Altieri, Marta
name: Di Piero, Vittorio
name: Francia, Ada
name: Pontecorvo, Simona
name: Puthenparampil, Marco
name: Gallo, Paolo
name: Margutti, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9.
Quality of Data Downloads: Bibliographic Databases Frequently Used for Systematic Reviews
Creators: name: Walker, Jennifer S.
name: Posey, Rachael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: To assess the quality of data downloaded from a variety of bibliographic databases commonly searched in systematic reviews, in order to provide guidance on the order in which database records should be uploaded into a citation manager and which record should be used as the “primary record” during the duplicate removal process. Methods: We downloaded the bibliographic records of a random sampling of two hundred journal articles from the following databases: MEDLINE (via PubMed and Ovid), Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane, CINAHL (via Ebsco), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (via Ebsco), Sociological Abstracts (via Proquest), and Google Scholar. We required that each article be available in at least three databases and that each database contain at least fifty of these articles. We then assessed the completeness and correctness of the downloads using the full-text article as our gold standard. Records were scored on presence, completeness, and correctness of the following fields: title, authors, digital object identifier (DOI), volume, issue, pages, publication year, accession number, abstract, and URL. Using these data, we calculated an overall score for each database and a head-to-head score for each database combination using the article overlap for each database pair.
Investigation into Levels of Pain, Quality of Life, and Depression by Stage of Endometriosis
Creators: name: Zolnoun, Denniz
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Objective: Despite the high prevalence of endometriosis, controversy exists surrounding the association between the stage of endometriosis and long-term treatment outcomes. The objective of the present study was to investigate the postsurgical long-term pain, quality-of-life, and psychological distress among women with differing stages of endometriosis. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between 2008 and 2009. Women who had undergone surgery for pelvic pain at UNC Hospitals from 2003 to 2006 were mailed questionnaires to collect information on demographics, pain, sexual dysfunction, quality of life, and depression. Descriptive statistics and ANOVAs were used to examine the distribution of these variables by stage of endometriosis. Results: The study population included women aged 22 to 50 years old (mean age 36 years). Of the 82 women, 38 (46%) were classified as having stage 1 endometriosis, 26 (32%) having stage 2 endometriosis, 13 (16%) having stage 3 endometriosis, and 5 (6%) having stage 4 endometriosis. Across the four stages, there was no pattern of increased overall pain, pelvic pain, quality-of-life, or depression with increasing stage of endometriosis. The mean scores (standard deviation) on an adapted version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire for total pain were 8.0 (7.8), 10.4 (10.8), 4.6 (7.5), and 9.4 (13.4) for stages 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively (ANOVA p-value 0.34). The mean scores for intensity of pelvic pain (possible score range of 0-5) were 1.5 (1.4), 1.7 (1.4), 1.0 (1.6), and 1.6 (0.9), respectively (ANOVA p-value 0.56). Using the SF12 quality-of-life measure the mean (standard deviation) mental and physical component standardized scores were 43.2 (10.3) and 45.6 (11.7) for stage 1, 45.5 (11.4) and 44.1 (10.2) for stage 2, 47.3 (12.8) and 50.4 (9.4) for stage 3, and 36.0 (14.8) and 43.3 (8.7) for stage 4 (ANOVA p-values 0.30 and 0.39 for the mental and physical components, respectively). Finally, scores on the Beck Depression Inventory were also similar by stage, although women with stage 4 endometriosis did score higher than the other three stages [stage 1: 9.2 (7.9), stage 2: 10.9 (7.5), stage 3: 8.3 (8.4) and stage 4: 16.2 (12.3)] (ANOVA p-value 0.26). Conclusions: These results indicate that long-term treatment outcomes in women undergoing laparoscopic surgery for pelvic pain may not be related to the stage of endometriosis. Regardless of endometriosis stage, most women were found to have residual pain symptoms. Further research to understand chronic pain, quality-of-life, and psychological distress and endometriosis is warranted. Summary: This study has shown that among women who underwent surgery for pelvic pain at UNC Hospitals, level of pain, quality-of-life, and depression do not increase with increasing stage of endometriosis.
title: Soft Security Crises in Egyptian Foreign Policy
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Abd El Rehim, Aida
Publisher: name: University of Dundee
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is an exploration of soft security crises in Egyptian foreign policy. The time frame for this dissertation is between 2011 until 2018. The argument through this dissertation is that soft security issues, such as water and migrants’ problems, can indirectly lead to overthrowing leaders and to regime change. Thus, in order to establish their rule during transitional times, leaders frame crises in soft security domains that they then resolve to further consolidate their power. The two cases used illustrate how rational leaders take on such a risk (generating a soft security crisis) to gain further support for their rule. These two cases have been under-researched in Egypt post the Arab Spring. Therefore, the main research question is: How does Egypt manage and resolve its soft security crises? In addition, sub-questions include: how soft security crises are constructed/interpreted? Which actors are involved in addressing soft security crises? What are the intersections between domestic and foreign policies in addressing soft security crises? What impact does soft security have? In order to answer these questions, I use the Securitisation Theory (ST) alongside the Foreign Policy Decision-Making (FPDM) approach centred on the presidential leadership style. I argue that, as Securitisation Theory helps us understand the process, it does not always explain leader’s underlying motivations behind the process or the behaviour of different administrations facing the same situations. On the other hand, FPDM, when centred on leaders, can explain the decision-making processes and actions. However, FPDM does not explain how issues become constructed as threats in the first place nor why they were accepted as such. Hence, I parallel the application of both ST with FDPM to give an answer to the thesis question as two distinct theories. The methodology used in this dissertation is document analysis extracted from both local and international newspapers to analyse officials’ speeches. Reference and analysis are also made with reports published by international organisations. This is in addition to investigating the Egyptian presidents’ and key officials’ speeches and interviews available on YouTube. Besides conducting interviews with Syrian refugees and migrants in Egypt, in addition to MPs and lawyers. The thesis is divided into six chapters and a conclusion. In the conclusion, the argument is made that soft security threats can be abused by policymakers in transitional times to frame crises while these policymakers act as the same key players in resolving the same crises in order to establish and solidify their rule. The findings show that decision-makers use both soft and hard measures to manage and resolve these crises and show that the FPDM explains the leadership style in Egypt.
title: "Chant achewwiq ""Ô mère il m'est arrivé"" et son explication
Creators: name: Garaoun, Massinissa
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Tasahlit

description: Chanson (incomplète) de type Achewwiq (chant kabyle féminin acapella) suivie d'une explication du sens de ses parôles
title: New Leadership – Führen in agilen Unternehmen
Creators: name: Möller, Heidi
name: Giernalczyk, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: agile Führung
subject: Macht
subject: Change-Prozess
subject: psychologische Sicherheit
subject: Selbststeuerung
subject: agile leadership
subject: power
subject: change-process
subject: psychological safety
subject: self-management
subject: 300
subject: Agilität
subject: Führung
subject: Macht
subject: Change Management
subject: Psychologie
subject: Sicherheit
subject: Selbststeuerung

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Additional file 15 of Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles from plasma and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients reveals disease activity-associated EAAT2
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Antonella
name: Zamboni, Silvia
name: Camerini, Serena
name: Casella, Marialuisa
name: Sanchez, Massimo
name: Pietraforte, Donatella
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Diociauti, Marco
name: Altieri, Marta
name: Di Piero, Vittorio
name: Francia, Ada
name: Pontecorvo, Simona
name: Puthenparampil, Marco
name: Gallo, Paolo
name: Margutti, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 15.
Individual pay-for-performance and performance variation
Creators: name: Fan, Xueqing
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Performance variation, which refers to the extent to which one’s performance deviates from its overall level and trend, has been a crucial but long ignored aspect of employees’ dynamic performance profile. In this dissertation, I propose a theoretical model that relates an organization’s compensation practice—individual pay-for-performance (PFP) intensity (i.e., marginal gains in pay employees derive from increased individual performance)—to the variation of employee performance. Specifically, I examine (1) how individual PFP intensity is associated with employee performance variation, (2) how the association between individual PFP intensity and employee performance variation varies by employees’ job experience, (3) how the association between individual PFP intensity and employee performance variation varies by organizational position, and (4) how individual PFP intensity and performance variation interact to influence voluntary turnover. To test the theoretical model, I collected longitudinal data from 1,056 individuals over 12 months at a commercial bank located in Guangdong Province of China. The main results of this dissertation reveal a significant negative effect of individual PFP intensity on performance variation, which is more negative among more experienced employees and employees who rank higher in the organization. I discuss the implications for theory and practice on dynamic performance and compensation and offer future research directions.
Phalangiidae Latreille 1802
Creators: name: Dunlop, Jason
name: Mitov, Plamen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Phalangiidae

description: Family Phalangiidae Latreille, 1802  Dicranopalpus genus group Remarks. The following two genera are clearly related, but their position has been debated. For example Martens (1978) referred them to Gyantinae [= Gyinae]. Crawford (1992, p. 4) disputed this and recognised an informal ‘ Dicranopalpus genus group’ comprising Dicranopalpus, Amelinus and Lanthanopilio Cokendolpher & Cokendolpher, 1984; which he suggested could eventually merit family status. In the absence of further revision, Crawford’s term is adopted here.
description: Published as part of Dunlop, Jason & Mitov, Plamen, 2009, Fossil harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) from Bitterfeld amber, pp. 347-375 in ZooKeys 16 on page 360, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.224, http://zenodo.org/record/576490
description: {"references": ["Latreille PA (1802) Histoire Naturelle des Fourmis, et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignees, les faucheurs, et autres insectes. Paris, 445 pp.", "Martens J (1978) Spinnentiere, Arachnida, Weberknechte, Opiliones. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. 64. Teil. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena, 464 pp.", "Crawford RL (1992) Catalogue of the genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea (Arachnida). Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History 8: 1 - 60.", "Cokendolpher JC, Cokendolpher JE (1984) A new genus of harvestman from Costa Rica with comments on the status of the Neotropical Phalangiinae (Opiliones, Phalangiidae). Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 6: 167 - 172."]}
Additional file 1 of Integrative microbiome and metabolome profiles reveal the impacts of periodontitis via oral-gut axis in first-trimester pregnant women
Creators: name: Cheng, Tianfan
name: Wen, Ping
name: Yu, Rong
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Li, Huijun
name: Xu, Xiaoyi
name: Zhao, Dan
name: Liu, Fang
name: Su, Weilan
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Yang, Hong
name: Yao, Jilong
name: Jin, Lijian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Citizen Science project: Schools and Satellites
Creators: name: Camarena, Mónica Estébanez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science
rainfall

description: On 6 June, Monica Estebanez Camarena, a researcher at TU Delft Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, presented the Schools and Satellites (SaS) project she lead from 2019 to 2021 and shared her perspective on Citizen Science during a pandemic. SaS project combined Earth observation, Citizen Science and Deep Learning for accurate rainfall information in Ghana. SaS worked with high schools and farmers in northern Ghana to create a Citizen Observatory of daily rainfall monitoring, that became the densest rainfall observation network in the region. While the value of Citizen Science became obvious during the project, there were also challenges that brought many learnings that Monica shared during this talk.