cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Galaxy and mass assembly (GAMA): End of survey report and data release 2
Creators: name: Liske, J.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Tuffs, R. J.
name: Alpaslan, M.
name: Andrae, E.
name: Brough, S.
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Grootes, M. W.
name: Gunawardhana, M. L. P.
name: Kelvin, L. S.
name: Loveday, J.
name: Robotham, A. S. G.
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Bamford, S. P.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Brown, M. J. I.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: Meyer, M. J.
name: Norberg, P.
name: Peacock, J. A.
name: Agius, N. K.
name: Andrews, S. K.
name: Bauer, A. E.
name: Ching, J. H. Y.
name: Colless, M.
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Davies, L. J. M.
name: De Propris, R.
name: Dunne, L.
name: Eardley, E. M.
name: Ellis, S.
name: Foster, C.
name: Frenk, C. S.
name: Häußler, B.
name: Holwerda, B. W.
name: Howlett, C.
name: Ibarra, H.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
name: Jones, D. H.
name: Kafle, P. R.
name: Lacey, C. G.
name: Lange, R.
name: Lara-López, M. A.
name: López-Sánchez, Á. R.
name: Maddox, S.
name: Madore, B. F.
name: McNaught-Roberts, T.
name: Moffett, A. J.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Palamara, D.
name: Penny, S. J.
name: Phillipps, S.
name: Pimbblet, K. A.
name: Popescu, C. C.
name: Prescott, M.
name: Proctor, R.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: Sansom, A. E.
name: Seibert, M.
name: Sharp, R.
name: Sutherland, W.
name: Vazquez-Mata, J. A.
name: van Kampen, E.
name: Wilkins, S. M.
name: Williams, R.
name: Wright, A. H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is one of the largest contemporary spectroscopic surveys of low redshift galaxies. Covering an area of ∼286 deg2 (split among five survey regions) down to a limiting magnitude of r < 19.8 mag, we have collected spectra and reliable redshifts for 238 000 objects using the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. In addition, we have assembled imaging data from a number of independent surveys in order to generate photometry spanning the wavelength range 1 nm–1 m. Here, we report on the recently completed spectroscopic survey and present a series of diagnostics to assess its final state and the quality of the redshift data. We also describe a number of survey aspects and procedures, or updates thereof, including changes to the input catalogue, redshifting and re-redshifting, and the derivation of ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry. Finally, we present the second public release of GAMA data. In this release, we provide input catalogue and targeting information, spectra, redshifts, ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry, single-component Sérsic fits, stellar masses, Hα-derived star formation rates, environment information, and group properties for all galaxies with r < 19.0 mag in two of our survey regions, and for all galaxies with r < 19.4 mag in a third region (72 225 objects in total). The data base serving these data is available at http://www.gama-survey.org/.
Additional file 4 of Identification of a novel ERF gene, TaERF8, associated with plant height and yield in wheat
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
name: Liu, Pan
name: Wu, Jing
name: Linyi Qiao
name: Guangyao Zhao
name: Jizeng Jia
name: Lifeng Gao
name: Jianming Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4: Table S2. The information of sample set 1 and their genotypes of TaERF8-2B.
Extending ERP Systems in SMEs into Personalized E-Commerce Applications
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
name: Leimstoll, Uwe
Publisher: name: University of Bremen, Germany
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Customer Profiles
subject: ERP-Systeme
subject: Personalisierung
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Personalization of E-Commerce applications is an issue that is gaining increasing importance with the advancing maturity of such systems. There is already E-Commerce software on the market offering integrated E-Shop and personalization functions. However, the available software is too time-consuming and expensive for SMEs. With this in mind we saw a need to investigate the potential for personalization from the particular angle of SMEs. This paper presents the results of a research project about personalization of E-Commerce applications run by SMEs. The project started with an empirical study about the current state of personalization in E-Commerce applications run by SMEs. The findings encouraged us to start the development of a project method for the development of standard personalization components in ERP systems. The method builds on a personalization framework which forms the basis for the requirement analysis and the consecutive extension of ERP-II systems.
Representing “The People of the North” in Select Arab-Islamic Literature
Creators: name: Murad, Alaa
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Islamic literature
Arabic literature
Medieval Europe
Orientalism
Occidentalism
Golden Age of Islam
Islam and the West
Ethnography

description: This thesis draws on the rich primary and secondary literature that highlights and analyzes how Muslims and Islamic institutions encountered the West in a period of intense confrontations. It offers a glimpse of how Muslim writers of the 11th/ 12th century interacted with nations such as the Franks, the Galicians, the Slavs and others and how these interactions were imagined and represented. These nations and their communities were imagined and represented in very interesting ways especially as juxtaposed against the ways of the Islamicate world. It argue that, for the most part, northern Europe, the home of Latin Christendom, was viewed with a curious indifference and neglect and that the main reason for this was the belief that there was little or nothing to be learned from their civilization. Nevertheless, when encounters between the Islamicate world and the “lands of the north” we recognize today as Europe became difficult to ignore, explicit disapproval and derogation was common on the Muslims’ part. These patterns when placed in their historical context of trade, cultural exchanges, war and truce seem less peculiar and more a product of struggles and motivations that can only be partially uncovered.
Quenching and morphological transformation in semi-analytic models and CANDELS
Creators: name: Brennan, R.
name: Pandya, V.
name: Somerville, R. S.
name: Barro, G.
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Wuyts, S.
name: Bell, E. F.
name: Dekel, A.
name: Ferguson, H. C.
name: McIntosh, D. H.
name: Papovich, C.
name: Primack, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We examine the spheroid growth and star formation quenching experienced by galaxies since z ∼ 3 by studying the evolution with redshift of the quiescent and spheroid-dominated fractions of galaxies from the CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey) and GAMA (Galaxy and Mass Assembly) surveys. We compare the observed fractions with predictions from a semi-analytic model which includes prescriptions for bulge growth and AGN feedback due to mergers and disc instabilities. We facilitate direct morphological comparison by converting our model bulge-to-total stellar mass ratios to Sérsic indices. We then subdivide our population into the four quadrants of the specific star formation rate–Sérsic index plane and study the build-up of each of these subpopulations. We find that the fraction of star-forming discs declines steadily, while the fraction of quiescent spheroids builds up over cosmic time. The fractions of star-forming spheroids and quiescent discs are both non-negligible, and stay nearly constant over the period we have studied. Our model is qualitatively successful at reproducing the evolution of the two ‘main’ populations (star-forming discs and quiescent spheroids), and approximately reproduces the relative fractions of all four types, but predicts a stronger decline in star-forming spheroids, and increase in quiescent discs, than is seen in the observations. A model with an additional channel for bulge growth via disc instabilities agrees better overall with the observations than a model in which bulges can grow only through mergers. We also examine the relative importance of these different physical drivers of transformation (major and minor mergers and disc instabilities).
3162674.pdf
Creators: name: Porter, Christina
name: Tanksalvala, Michael
name: Gerrity, Michael
name: Miley, Galen
name: Zhang, Xiaoshi
name: Bevis, Charles
name: Shanblatt, Elisabeth
name: Karl, Robert
name: Murnane, Margaret
name: Adams, Daniel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental information with derivation of spatially dependent oversampling formalism, description of supporting simulations, and details of reconstruction process.
Investigation of opto-magnetic effect in axially birefringent media and its opto-magnetic applications
Creators: name: Lin, Shirong
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis aims at finding solutions for recording and storage challenges confronted in today's big data era. We focus on the magnetic recording since this is a widely used and stable technique. Our strategy is using the laser to control the magnetic domain in the birefringent magneto-optical materials. Circularly polarized light with helical phase front could transfer the angular momentum to the birefringent materials by means of the light-matter interaction. In this way, the magnetic state can be vectorial controlled, being transversely, longitudinally or arbitrarily 3D polarized. Thus all-optically 3D and multi-state opto-magnetic recording can be achieved.
IL-17/Th17 Pathway Is Activated in Acne Lesions
Creators: name: Kelhälä, Hanna-Leena
name: Palatsi, Riitta
name: Fyhrquist, Nanna
name: Lehtimäki, Sari
name: Väyrynen, Juha P.
name: Kallioinen, Matti
name: Kubin, Minna E.
name: Greco, Dario
name: Tasanen, Kaisa
name: Alenius, Harri
name: Bertino, Beatrice
name: Carlavan, Isabelle
name: Mehul, Bruno
name: Déret, Sophie
name: Reiniche, Pascale
name: Martel, Philippe
name: Marty, Carine
name: Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike
name: Voegel, Johannes J.
name: Lauerma, Antti
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The mechanisms of inflammation in acne are currently subject of intense investigation. This study focused on the activation of adaptive and innate immunity in clinically early visible inflamed acne lesions and was performed in two independent patient populations. Biopsies were collected from lesional and non-lesional skin of acne patients. Using Affymetrix Genechips, we observed significant elevation of the signature cytokines of the Th17 lineage in acne lesions compared to non-lesional skin. The increased expression of IL-17 was confirmed at the RNA and also protein level with real-time PCR (RT- PCR) and Luminex technology. Cytokines involved in Th17 lineage differentiation (IL-1β, IL-6, TGF-β, IL23p19) were remarkably induced at the RNA level. In addition, proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines (TNF-α, IL-8, CSF2 and CCL20), Th1 markers (IL12p40, CXCR3, T-bet, IFN-γ), T regulatory cell markers (Foxp3, IL-10, TGF-β) and IL-17 related antimicrobial peptides (S100A7, S100A9, lipocalin, hBD2, hBD3, hCAP18) were induced. Importantly, immunohistochemistry revealed significantly increased numbers of IL-17A positive T cells and CD83 dendritic cells in the acne lesions. In summary our results demonstrate the presence of IL-17A positive T cells and the activation of Th17-related cytokines in acne lesions, indicating that the Th17 pathway is activated and may play a pivotal role in the disease process, possibly offering new targets of therapy.
Extended Web Assessment Method (EWAM) - Evaluation Of E-Commerce Applications From The Customer's Viewpoint
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
name: Dettling, Walter
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: E-Commerce
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: The paper presents and applies the Extended Web Assessment Method (EWAM) an evaluation tool which has been specifically created for the assessment of e-commerce applications. EWAM builds on the Web Assessment Method developed at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland [Schubert/Selz 1999] and integrates findings from the Technology Acceptance Model [Davis 1985] and several alternative approaches. It defines an evaluation grid including a set of criteria to appraise the quality and success of existing e-commerce applications. The focus lies on consumer perspectives and the specific features of the Internet as medium. Using the EWAM tool, an analysis of eight commercial Web sites in two different business sectors ? consumer goods and e-banking ? was performed. The findings show that most of the Web sites assessed do still not fully meet user expectations. Consumer goods are a local business.
Soil mycorrhizal inoculum of Neolamarckia cadamba
Creators: name: Sabang, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis envisages that inexpensive and simple soil bio-enhancement practices should be considered as the way forward to increase tree growth performance of forest plantations in Sarawak namely for the tree species Neolamarckia cadamba. The study carried out encompassed nursery and field trials on the efficacy of soil mycorrhizal inoculum produced, and the characterization and identification of the related spore specimen. Future work on further ascertaining the nomenclature of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi species and its relationship with Neolamarckia cadamba is suggested.
title: Lesotho: BANFES Final Report 1991
Creators: name: Schorn, Frank
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: BANFES
subject: Ministry of Education
subject: Lesotho
subject: Teacher training
subject: Africa
subject: Education
subject: Other Educational Administration and Supervision
subject: Other Teacher Education and Professional Development

description: Staff development has been a central theme for the BANFES project over the past 5 years and training has indeed pervaded every aspect of the project in all its goals, tasks and accomplishments. Trained and confident Ministry of Education (MOE) personnel were considered critical to assure effective systems, procedures, curriculum and materials. It was expected that trained individuals would continue to improve Lesotho's education system. This report is a review of tasks and accomplishments associated with the coordination of training for a complex and decentralized project which involved over 10 000 participants in 300 activities. Included in the report is a review of the process and procedures used in for establishing the BANFES training component as required by the Project Document, an outline of the logistical support provided and a summary of outcomes both in terms of completed training and structures for institutionalization and sustainability that were established. It should be noted that my tasks were twofold: To establish a mechanism resulting in the effective coordination of all project training based on needs identified at each component by Technical Advisors and local staff. To help establish a Ministry of Education training infrastructure which could be useful after the completion of the Project.
A Légierő Művelettámogatási Tanszék szerepe a repülő-műszaki hallgatók NATO integrációs felkészítésében
Creators: name: Jakab, László
Publisher: name: Magyar Hadtudományi Társaság
Year: 2020

description: Hadtudomány, vol. 30. issue 1., ISSN 1215-4121, eISSN 1588-0605
Acute effects of breaking up prolonged sitting on fatigue and cognition: a pilot study
Creators: name: Wennberg, Patrik
name: Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan
name: Wheeler, Michael
name: Howard, Bethany
name: Dempsey, Paddy
name: Lambert, Gavin
name: Eikelis, Nina
name: Larsen, Robyn
name: Sethi, Parneet
name: Occleston, Jessica
name: Hernestal-Boman, Jenny
name: Ellis, Kathryn A.
name: Owen, Neville
name: Dunstan, David W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5202
subject: Biological psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Objectives: To compare the acute effects of uninterrupted sitting with sitting interrupted by brief bouts of light-intensity walking on self-reported fatigue, cognition, neuroendocrine biomarkers and cardiometabolic risk markers in overweight/obese adults.
Design: Randomised two-condition crossover trial.
Setting: Laboratory study conducted in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: 19 overweight/obese adults (45-75 years). Interventions: After an initial 2 h period seated, participants consumed a meal-replacement beverage and completed (on 2 days separated by a 6-day washout period) each condition over the next 5 h: uninterrupted sitting (sedentary condition) or sitting with 3 min bouts of light-intensity walking every 30 min (active condition).

Primary outcome measures: Self-reported fatigue, executive function and episodic memory at 0 h, 4 h and 7 h. Secondary outcome measures: Neuroendocrine biomarkers and cardiometabolic risk markers (blood collections at 0 h, 4 h and 7 h, blood pressure and heart rate measured hourly and interstitial glucose measured using a continuous glucose monitoring system).
Results: During the active condition, fatigue levels were lower at 4 h (-13.32 (95% CI -23.48 to -3.16)) and at 7 h (-10.73 (95% CI -20.89 to -0.58)) compared to the sedentary condition. Heart rate was higher at 4 h (4.47 (95% CI 8.37 to 0.58)) and at 7 h (4.32 (95% CI 8.21 to 0.42)) during the active condition compared to the sedentary condition. There were no significant differences between conditions by time for other variables. In the sedentary condition, changes in fatigue scores over time correlated with a decrease in heart rate and plasma dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) and an increase in plasma dihydroxyphenylglycol (DHPG).
Conclusions: Interrupting prolonged sitting with lightintensity walking breaks may be an effective fatigue countermeasure acutely. Fatigue levels corresponded with the heart rate and neuroendocrine biomarker changes in uninterrupted sitting in this pilot study. Further research is needed to identify potential implications, particularly for the occupational health context.
A pilot clinical trial of recombinant human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in acute respiratory distress syndrome
Creators: name: Khan, Akram
name: Benthin, Cody
name: Zeno, Brian
name: Albertson, Timothy E
name: Boyd, John
name: Christie, Jason D
name: Hall, Richard
name: Poirier, Germain
name: Ronco, Juan J
name: Tidswell, Mark
name: Hardes, Kelly
name: Powley, William M
name: Wright, Tracey J
name: Siederer, Sarah K
name: Fairman, David A
name: Lipson, David A
name: Bayliffe, Andrew I
name: Lazaar, Aili L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) signaling and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We postulated that repleting ACE2 using GSK2586881, a recombinant form of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (rhACE2), could attenuate acute lung injury. Methods: We conducted a two-part phase II trial comprising an open-label intrapatient dose escalation and a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase in ten intensive care units in North America. Patients were between the ages of 18 and 80 years, had an American-European Consensus Criteria consensus diagnosis of ARDS, and had been mechanically ventilated for less than 72 h. In part A, open-label GSK2586881 was administered at doses from 0.1 mg/kg to 0.8 mg/kg to assess safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Following review of data from part A, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled investigation of twice-daily doses of GSK2586881 (0.4 mg/kg) for 3 days was conducted (part B). Biomarkers, physiological assessments, and clinical endpoints were collected over the dosing period and during follow-up. Results: Dose escalation in part A was well-tolerated without clinically significant hemodynamic changes. Part B was terminated after 39 of the planned 60 patients following a planned futility analysis. Angiotensin II levels decreased rapidly following infusion of GSK2586881, whereas angiotensin-(1–7) and angiotensin-(1–5) levels increased and remained elevated for 48 h. Surfactant protein D concentrations were increased, whereas there was a trend for a decrease in interleukin-6 concentrations in rhACE2-treated subjects compared with placebo. No significant differences were noted in ratio of partial pressure of arterial oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen, oxygenation index, or Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score. Conclusions: GSK2586881 was well-tolerated in patients with ARDS, and the rapid modulation of RAS peptides suggests target engagement, although the study was not powered to detect changes in acute physiology or clinical outcomes. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01597635 . Registered on 26 January 2012.
Enhancing risk assessment and nursing interventions to prevent aggression and reduce the use of restrictive interventions in forensic mental health units
Creators: name: Maguire, Tessa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The ultimate aim of this thesis was to test whether structuring nursing interventions and linking them to the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA) would lead to a reduction in aggression and restrictive interventions in a forensic mental health unit for female patients. Initial studies showed that the DASA has modest predictive validity for both males and females, although these is a need to revise the risk bands, and that some nursing interventions may aggravate patients, leading to an increase rather than decrease in aggression. These results were used to develop an Aggression Prevention Protocol, which was embedded in an electronic application of the DASA. The introduction of this APP resulted in a lessening of restrictive interventions, administration of PRN medication, and verbal aggression, with an increase in documented nursing interventions.
Sensorbasiertes Monitoring bei Alzheimer-Demenz
Creators: name: Lösel, Susanne
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Untersucht wurde unter Anwendung von sensorbasiertem Monitoring das Bewegungsverhalten von Patienten mit einer klinisch wahrscheinlichen Alzheimer-Demenz vergleichend zu einer gesunden Kontrollgruppe. Aus den Bewegungsdaten konnte der akzelerometrische Bewegungsmarker identifiziert werden. Mit diesem gelang eine Gruppenzuordnung anhand der Bewegungsdaten zur Demenzgruppe und zur gesunden Kontrollgruppe. Des Weiteren zeigte der akzelerometrische Bewegungsmarker einen signifikanten Zusammenhang mit dem MMST und den physikalischen Faktoren der Cohen-Mansfield-Skala.
Business-Software-Studie 2013: Mobile Business in Schweizer KMU
Creators: name: Leimstoll, Uwe
name: Quade, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Abacus
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Mobile Computing mit Smartphones und Tablets hält Einzug in Schweizer KMU. Die Ergebnisse einer Studie der FHNW belegen, dass der Einsatz dieser mobilen Geräte in den meisten Unternehmen zu einer erhöhten Flexibilität und Produktivität der Mitarbeitenden führt. Die Investitionen in mobile Geräte dürften weiter markant zunehmen.
CSR Motivation and Engagement: Are they Associated with Stock Liquidity?
Creators: name: Nguyen, Minh Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, CSR motivations, the presence and effectiveness of a CSR committee, and female CSR committee interlocking memberships and stock liquidity. Using a sample of listed companies included in the S&P ASX 300 over the period 2009-2018, a positive association is found between each of CSR performance, strategic CSR motivation, the presence and effectiveness of CSR committees, gender diversity and interlocking among CSR committee members and stock liquidity. These findings provide valuable new insights into CSR motivation and the role and value of CSR committees, female CSR committee memberships and interlocks in improving stock liquidity.
3162674.pdf
Creators: name: Porter, Christina
name: Tanksalvala, Michael
name: Gerrity, Michael
name: Miley, Galen
name: Zhang, Xiaoshi
name: Bevis, Charles
name: Shanblatt, Elisabeth
name: Karl, Robert
name: Murnane, Margaret
name: Adams, Daniel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental information with derivation of spatially dependent oversampling formalism, description of supporting simulations, and details of reconstruction process.
Statistical Properties of Directional Ocean Waves: The Role of the Modulational Instability in the Formation of Extreme Events
Creators: name: Onorato, M.
name: Waseda, T.
name: Toffoli, Alessandro
name: Cavaleri, L.
name: Gramstad, O.
name: Janssen, P. A. E. M.
name: Kinoshita, T.
name: Monbaliu, J.
name: Mori, N.
name: Osborne, A. R.
name: Serio, M.
name: Stansberg, C. T.
name: Tamura, H.
name: Trulsen, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We discuss two independent, large scale experiments performed in two wave basins of different dimensions in which the statistics of the surface wave elevation are addressed. Both facilities are equipped with a wave maker capable of generating waves with prescribed frequency and directional properties. The experimental results show that the probability of the formation of large amplitude waves strongly depends on the directional properties of the waves. Sea states characterized by long-crested and steep waves are more likely to be populated by freak waves with respect to those characterized by a large directional spreading.
Piwi-interacting RNAs as novel prognostic markers in clear cell renal cell carcinomas
Creators: name: Busch, Jonas
name: Ralla, Bernhard
name: Jung, Monika
name: Wotschofsky, Zofia
name: Trujillo-Arribas, Elena
name: Schwabe, Philipp
name: Kilic, Ergin
name: Fendler, Annika
name: Jung, Klaus
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma
subject: piRNA
subject: Prognosis
subject: Metastasis
subject: Recurrence
subject: Overall survival
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are small RNAs of 27–30 nucleotides mapping to transposons or clustering in repeat genomic regions. Preliminary studies suggest an important role in cancerogenesis. This study is the first one investigating their prognostic impact in clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) patients. Methods Three piRNAs (piR-30924, piR-57125, and piR-38756) selected on the basis of initial piRNA microarray analyses were determined using RT-qPCR in non-metastatic (n = 76) and metastatic (n = 30) ccRCC tissue at the time of nephrectomy in comparison to normal renal tissue (n = 77) and tissue from distant ccRCC metastases (n = 13). Primary clinical end points were recurrence-free and overall survival. Results piR-57125 showed lower expression in metastatic than in non-metastatic tumors, whereas the expression of piR-30924 and piR-38756 increased in metastatic tumors. The higher expression of piR-30924 and piR-38756 as well as the lower expression of piR-57125 in metastatic primary tumors were significantly associated with tumor recurrence and overall survival. Multivariate Cox regression analyses revealed both piR-30924 and piR-57125 as independent prognostic predictors. This impact was even more pronounced in non-metastatic patients. Conclusions This study demonstrates that the expression levels of these piRNAs in primary non-metastatic and metastatic ccRCC tissue can serve as potential prognostic biomarkers in combination with clinicopathological factors.
The Utilisation of Spent Coffee Grounds in Manufacutring Alkali-Activated Unfired Clay Bricks and Cement Bricks
Creators: name: Chung, Leopold L. P.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Who discovered the potential use of Spent Coffee Grounds as additives in manufacturing low-temperature building bricks. Spent Coffee Grounds are common organic waste traditionally being disposed of in landfills and the decomposition is harmful to the environment. His study showed that the incorporation of Spent Coffee Grounds as additives in alkali-activated clay bricks was feasible and could potentially reduce a significant amount of Spent Coffee Grounds being sent to landfills.
Understanding fiber Bragg gratings at harmonics of the Bragg wavelength through spectra and images
Creators: name: Collins, Stephen F.
name: Wade, Scott
name: Sidiroglou, Fotios
name: Baxter, Greg W.
name: Liao, Yanbiao
name: Jin, Wei
name: Sampson, David D.
name: Yamauchi, Ryozo
name: Chung, Youngjoo
name: Nakamura, Kentaro
name: Rao, Yunjiang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Fiber Bragg gratings written using a phase-mask exhibit a complex refractive index pattern in the fiber core, as observed in differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy. This results in dual periodicities along the fiber core and gratings at both the Bragg wavelength, twice the Bragg wavelength, and the harmonics of these. Features in grating spectra arise from one or both of these periodicities and spectra for twice the Bragg wavelength (or its odd harmonics) are very sensitive to the details of how the UV complex diffraction field of the phase mask becomes imprinted as refractive index changes in the fiber core.
Narrativa e resistenza: "invenzione" della letteratura e testimonianza della storia
Creators: name: LORENZETTI, SARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2016

description: La tesi si propone di rintracciare linee evolutive all'interno del panorama dei romanzi sulla Resistenza pubblicati dalla Liberazione ad oggi, senza trascurare la memorialistica e la letteratura della Rsi
Engineered manganese oxide nanomaterials for the control of oxygen - from catalysts to biology
Creators: name: Sabri, Mayada
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many have noted that "disordered metal oxides" can be highly efficient catalysts for water oxidation. Interestingly, "disordered metal oxides" are also observed to be highly reactive and have unusual properties in some biological and environmental systems too. In this work we systematically explore the impact of structural disorder on different types of reactivity. A test set of Manganese (III, IV) oxides were used through the thesis to systematically explore differences in catalytic efficiency, redox efficiency and biological activity. The thesis is set out in a way that addresses each of these issues. We start with the synthesis and characterisation of a "test set" of manganese oxides, then develop an assay that examines the effect of disorder on thermodynamics. Concluding that disorder has the effect of destabilising the materials thermodynamically. The second results chapter explores the relationship between "redox chemistry" and "catalytic chemistry" we find that the two phenomena are closely related however, that the time scales of a redox reaction (being slow) and a catalysis reaction (being fast) fundamentally separate them. The final chapter explores the effect of disorder on antibacterial activity. A strong correlations between the biological and chemical observations find being that the disordered manganese oxides have substantially more antimicrobial activity than their more ordered cousins. In summary, it was found that disorder has a destabilising effect on manganese oxides that significantly impacts their reactivity, whether as oxidants, catalysts or as antimicrobial agents. Engineering disorder into materials may provide a new pathway in material design not previously recognised.
Additional file 5 of Identification of a novel ERF gene, TaERF8, associated with plant height and yield in wheat
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
name: Liu, Pan
name: Wu, Jing
name: Linyi Qiao
name: Guangyao Zhao
name: Jizeng Jia
name: Lifeng Gao
name: Jianming Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Association analysis of TaERF8-2B haplotypes and agronomic traits in nine environments.
Barriers to retention in methadone maintenance therapy among people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Ti, Lianping
name: Ayutthaya, Prempreeda P N
name: Suwannawong, Paisan
name: Kaplan, Karyn
name: Small, Will
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is a mainstay for treating opioid use disorder and preventing and managing HIV among people who inject drugs (PWID). While previous research suggested low dosing of methadone and high rates of discontinuation of MMT among PWID in Thailand, little is known about patients’ lived experiences with MMT in this setting. Therefore, we conducted a mixed-methods study to examine barriers to retention in MMT among PWID in Bangkok, Thailand, with particular attention to methadone dosing. Methods: Bivariate statistics were used to analyze quantitative survey data collected from methadone-treated PWID between July and October 2011. Qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with 16 methadone-treated PWID between July 2011 and June 2012 were analyzed thematically, with a focus on individual-level, social-structural, and environmental barriers to accessing MMT. Results: Among 158 survey participants, a median dosage of methadone was 30 mg/day (interquartile range 20–50). Of these, 15.8% reported having acquired street methadone due to low prescribed dosages of methadone and 19.0% reported recent syringe sharing. Qualitative interview data indicated some methadone provider-related barriers, including discouraging patients from using methadone due to it being a Western medicine, difficulty negotiating higher doses of methadone, and abrupt dose reductions without patient consultation (involving the provision of non-medicated “syrup” in some cases). Social-structural and environmental barriers to optimal MMT access included intense police surveillance of methadone clinics; and frequent incarceration of PWID and a lack of access to methadone in prisons. Conclusions: Among our sample of methadone-treated PWID, methadone dosages were suboptimal according to the international guidelines. Poor adherence to international guidelines for opioid agonist therapies, aggressive law enforcement, and a lack of methadone in prisons need to be addressed to optimize MMT and reduce harms associated with untreated opioid use disorder in Thailand.
Fallstudie OPO Oeschger AG
Creators: name: Siegenthaler, Marcel
Publisher: name: Hanser
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: Integration
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Seit vielen Jahren schon setzt sich die OPO Oeschger AG dafür ein, ihren Kunden auch auf elektronischem Weg optimale Dienstleistungen anzubieten. Die IT-Lösungen des mittelständischen Handelsunternehmens wurden kontinuierlich verbessert, immer mit den Kundenbedürfnissen im Auge. Heute wird mehr als ein Fünftel des Umsatzes über E-Business abgewickelt. Die interne Integration der E-Business-Lösung ermöglicht einen hohen Automatisierungsgrad in der Auftragsabwicklung durch den Einbezug diverser (halb-) automatischer Lager und Transportsysteme. Die externe Integration greift mit dem Einbezug der Konstruktionssoftware für Schreiner tief in die Kundenprozesse ein und ermöglicht den Kunden die Reduktion kapitalintensiver Teilelager.
Endothelial MMP-9 Drives the Inflammatory Response in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
Creators: name: RAMELLA, MARTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2017

description: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex multi-factorial disease leading to life-threatening complications. Chronic inflammation and extracellular matrix degradation are the major pathological features of AAA. Vascular inflammation involves complex interaction among inflammatory cells (i.e. neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, macrophages), endothelial cells (ECs), vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and extracellular matrix (ECM). Although vascular endothelium plays a key role in aneurysm disease, the molecular mechanisms underlying its involvement is only partially understood. In this study, we have characterized the role of matrix matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) as potential trigger of the inflammatory response during the reciprocal interaction between ECs and VSMCs. Briefly, in biopsies of human AAA we found increased level of MMP-9, IL-6 and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), which correlated with a massive medial neo-angiogenesis. In particular, in vitro silencing of MMP-9 in ECs, using specific shRNA delivered by lentiviral vectors, inhibited TNF-alpha mediated activation of NF-kB. In addition, ECS void of MMP-9 failed to migrate in 3D matrix and affected VSMC behavior in terms of matrix remodeling. Overall our findings indicate that silencing of MMP-9 may represent a therapeutic target to restore vascular extracellular matrix remodeling.
NGC 4370: A case study for testing our ability to infer dust distribution and mass in nearby galaxies
Creators: name: Viaene, S.
name: De Geyter, G.
name: Baes, M.
name: Fritz, J.
name: Bendo, G. J.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Côté, P.
name: Cuillandre, J.-C.
name: De Looze, I.
name: di Serego Alighieri, S.
name: Ferrarese, L.
name: Gwyn, S. D. J.
name: Hughes, T. M.
name: Pappalardo, C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Context. A segment of the early-type galaxy population hosts a prominent dust lane, often decoupled from its stellar body. Methods of quantifying the dust content of these systems based on optical imaging data usually yield dust masses that are an order of magnitude lower than dust masses derived from the observed far-IR (FIR) emission. The discrepancy is often explained by invoking a diffuse dust component that is hard to trace in the UV or optical. Aims. High-quality optical data from the Next Generation Virgo cluster Survey (NGVS) and FIR/sub-mm observations from the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS) allow us to revisit previous methods of determining the dust content in galaxies and explore new ones. NGC 4370 is an edge-on, early-type galaxy with a conspicuous dust lane and regular morphology, making it suitable for several (semi-)analytical modelling techniques. We aim to derive the dust mass from both optical and FIR data and to investigate the need to invoke a putative diffuse dust component. Methods. We used different methods to determine the total dust mass in the dust lane. We used our exquisite optical data to create colour and attenuation maps, which are converted to approximate dust mass maps based on simple dust geometries. Dust masses were also derived from SED fits to FIR to sub-mm observations. Finally, inverse radiative transfer fitting was performed to investigate more complex dust geometries, such as an exponential dust disc and a dust ring and to treat the dust-starlight interaction in a self-consistent way. Results. We find that the empirical methods applied to the optical data yield lower limits of 3.4 × 105 M⊙, an order of magnitude below the total dust masses derived from SED fitting. In contrast, radiative transfer models yield dust masses that are slightly lower, but fully consistent with the FIR-derived mass. We find that the effect of a nuclear stellar disc on the derivation of the total dust mass is minor. Conclusions. Dust is more likely to be distributed in a ring around the centre of NGC 4370 as opposed to an exponential disc or a simple foreground screen. Moreover, by using inverse radiative transfer fitting, we are able to constrain most of the parameters that describe these geometries. The resulting dust masses are high enough to account for the dust observed at FIR/sub-mm wavelengths, so that no diffuse dust component needs to be invoked. We furthermore caution against interpreting dust masses and optical depths based on optical data alone, when using overly simplistic star-dust geometries and the neglect of scattering effects.
3168852.pdf
Creators: name: Woolf, David
name: Kadlec, Emil
name: Bethke, Don
name: Grine, Albert
name: Nogan, John
name: Cederberg, Jeffrey
name: Burckel, D. Bruce
name: Luk, Ting S. Willie
name: Shaner, Eric
name: Hensley, Joel
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures and text
title: Machine learning techniques for the optimization of joint replacements
title: Application to a short-stem hip implant
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Cilla, Myriam
name: Borgiani, Edoardo
name: Martinez, Javier
name: Duda, Georg N.
name: Checa, Sara
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::006 Spezielle Computerverfahren
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::680 Industrielle Fertigung für einzelne Verwendungszwecke::680 Industrielle Fertigung für einzelne Verwendungszwecke

description: Today, different implant designs exist in the market; however, there is not a clear understanding of which are the best implant design parameters to achieve mechanical optimal conditions. Therefore, the aim of this project was to investigate if the geometry of a commercial short stem hip prosthesis can be further optimized to reduce stress shielding effects and achieve better short- stemmed implant performance. To reach this aim, the potential of machine learning techniques combined with parametric Finite Element analysis was used. The selected implant geometrical parameters were: total stem length (L), thickness in the lateral (R1) and medial (R2) and the distance between the implant neck and the central stem surface (D). The results show that the total stem length was not the only parameter playing a role in stress shielding. An optimized implant should aim for a decreased stem length and a reduced length of the surface in contact with the bone. The two radiuses that characterize the stem width at the distal cross-section in contact with the bone were less influential in the reduction of stress shielding compared with the other two parameters; but they also play a role where thinner stems present better results.
Exploring the magnetospheric and rotational properties of radio pulsars
Creators: name: Lower, Marcus Edward
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Pulsars are ultra-dense, city-sized stellar remnants born from the explosive deaths of massive stars. Observations of pulsars at allow us to test our theories of fundamental physics in some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. This thesis describes studies of both individual and populations of pulsars observed with the Molonglo and Parkes radio telescopes in Australia, and the MeerKAT array in South Africa. Modern statistical techniques were used to identify irregularities in the spins of large pulsar samples, map the magnetic-field geometry of a highly magnetised pulsar, and probe the eclipses detected in a unique “double pulsar” system.
title: The optimism gap
title: lay prescriptions for characterizing, estimating, and communicating about uncertainty
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Miller, Jane Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Iowa
Year: 2025
Subjects: climate
decision making
judgment
likelihood
optimism
uncertainty
public abstract

description: When faced when an uncertain outcome, what do people believe is the best outlook—an optimistic, pessimistic, or realistic one—that others should employ to make the best judgment? An initial set of studies introduced a new measure for better characterizing prescriptions under uncertainty. Experimental findings found that people do not generally recommend being overly optimistic in the form of biased estimation, but also do not endorse accurate estimation when given the option. Two additional sets of studies found more evidence that people do not prescribe optimistically-biased estimation for future events in the domains of a novel global crisis and threatening weather. Experimental findings consistently showed, across several different events and outcomes, that people think other people should be pessimistic about crisis-related outcomes. A more nuanced understanding of how people estimate and think about prescriptions under uncertainty is ultimately critical for improving decisions about, and preparations for, important life events.
Augusto del Noce interprete di Karl Marx. L'ateismo, la gnosi, il "dialogo" con Galvano Della Volpe e con Lucien Goldmann
Creators: name: RIILI, AMBROGIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2017

description: Nella mia ricerca mi sono occupato dell'interpretazione di del Noce su Marx. Augusto Del Noce si presenta innanzitutto come "filosofo attraverso la storia. Il suo tentativo � quello di restaurare i valori trascendenti proponendo un'interpretazione originale della storia della filosofia. Pertanto l'"avversario" pi� importante con cui si � "confrontato" � senz'altro il marxismo. Gi� dal 1946 cominci� a scrivere saggi che sarebbero diventati fondamentali nella sua interpretazione, e di cui i pi� importanti sarebbero confluiti nelle sue opere maggiori, ossia "Il problema dell'ateismo" e "Riforma cattolica e filosofia moderna".E' innegabile che Marx sia uno degli interlocutori(se non l'interlocutore) di maggior rilievo del pensiero di Del Noce. Ovviamente l'interesse di quest'ultimo si � esteso agli interpreti del pensiero marxiano. Per questo la nostra ricerca si � proposta di esaminare l'Auserinandersetzung di Del Noce con Karl Marx, secondo una prospettiva particolare, ossia indagando il rapporto del pensatore torinese con due autori che delle dottrine di Marx fecero il centro della propria attenzione: Galvano della Volpe e Lucien Goldmann. Il "dialogo" con entrambi forn� al filosofo torinese molti degli elementi teorici che permisero di giungere alla sua originale interpretazione della storia della filosofia moderna. Si pensi al concetto di "galileismo morale" ripreso da Della Volpe e al concetto di "struttura significativa" ripreso da Goldmann, che costituisce il fondamento della "scommessa" goldmanniana su Marx. Naturalmente le prospettive di Della Volpe e di Goldmann differiscono tra loro. Il primo rappresenta per Del Noce il marxismo "anti-hegeliano", cio� anti-storicistico, che, nel migliore dei casi, accetta lo "storicismo" solo nell'ambito del materialismo, ossia subordina il problema della storia alla dimensione economico-sociale dell'uomo. Il secondo, invece, accetta la visione storicistica del marxismo - quella del Lukacs di "Storia e coscienza di classe."