cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Early Life Antimicrobial Exposure: Impact on Clostridioides difficile Colonization in Infants
Creators: name: Obiakor, Chinwe Vivien
name: Parks, Jaclyn
name: Takaro, Tim K.
name: Tun, Hein M.
name: Morales-Lizcano, Nadia
name: Azad, Meghan B.
name: Mandhane, Piushkumar J.
name: Moraes, Theo J.
name: Simons, Elinor
name: Turvey, Stuart E.
name: Subbarao, Padmaja
name: Scott, James A.
name: Kozyrskyj, Anita L.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The relationship between antibiotic use and Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) has been well established in adults and older children but remains unclear and is yet to be fully examined in infant populations. This study aimed to determine the separate and cumulative impact from antibiotics and household cleaning products on C. difficile colonization in infants. This study included 1429 infants at 3–4 months of age and 1728 infants at 12 months of age from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) birth cohort. The levels of infant antimicrobial exposure were obtained from hospital birth charts and standardized questionnaires. Infant gut microbiota was characterized by Illumina 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) gene sequencing. Analysis of C. difficile was performed using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Overall, C. difficile colonized 31% and 46% of infants at 3–4 months and 12 months, respectively. At 3–4 months, C. difficile colonization was significantly higher in infants exposed to both antibiotics and higher (above average) usage of household cleaning products (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.50, 95% CI 1.03–2.17; p = 0.032) than in infants who had the least antimicrobial exposure. This higher colonization persisted up to 12 months of age. Our study suggests that cumulative exposure to systemic antibiotics and higher usage of household cleaning products facilitates C. difficile colonization in infants. Further research is needed to understand the future health impacts.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1945-02-12)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1945-02-13)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Impact of R-Carvedilol on β2-Adrenergic Receptor-Mediated Spontaneous Calcium Release in Human Atrial Myocytes
Creators: name: Casabella-Ramón, Sergi
name: Jiménez-Sábado, Verónica
name: Tarifa, Carmen
name: Casellas, Sandra
name: Lu, Tien Tina
name: Izquierdo-Castro, Paloma
name: Gich, Ignasi
name: Jiménez, Marcel
name: Ginel, Antonino
name: Guerra, José M.
name: Chen, S. R. Wayne
name: Benítez, Raul
name: Hove-Madsen, Leif
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: A hallmark of atrial fibrillation is an excess of spontaneous calcium release events, which can be mimicked by β1- or β2-adrenergic stimulation. Because β1-adrenergic receptor blockers (β1-blockers) are primarily used in clinical practice, we here examined the impact of β2-adrenergic stimulation on spontaneous calcium release and assessed whether the R- and S-enantiomers of the non-selective β- blocker carvedilol could reverse these effects. For this purpose, human atrial myocytes were isolated from patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery and subjected to confocal calcium imaging or immunofluorescent labeling of the ryanodine receptor (RyR2). Interestingly, the β2-adrenergic agonist fenoterol increased the incidence of calcium sparks and waves to levels observed with the non-specific β-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol. Moreover, fenoterol increased both the amplitude and duration of the sparks, facilitating their fusion into calcium waves. Subsequent application of the non β-blocking R-Carvedilol enantiomer reversed these effects of fenoterol in a dose-dependent manner. R-Carvedilol also reversed the fenoterol-induced phosphorylation of the RyR2 at Ser-2808 dose-dependently, and 1 µM of either R- or S-Carvedilol fully reversed the effect of fenoterol. Together, these findings demonstrate that β2-adrenergic stimulation alone stimulates RyR2 phosphorylation at Ser-2808 and spontaneous calcium release maximally, and points to carvedilol as a tool to attenuate the pathological activation of β2-receptors.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1945-02-14)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1945
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Space-based earth observation in support of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
Creators: name: Hegglin, Michaela I.
name: Bastos, Ana
name: Bovensmann, Heinrich
name: Mielke, Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Klimaänderung
Erdbeobachtung
Anpassung

description: Space-based Earth observation (EO), in the form of long-term climate data records, has been crucial in the monitoring and quantification of slow changes in the climate system - from accumulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere, increasing surface temperatures, and melting sea-ice, glaciers and ice sheets, to rising sea-level. In addition to documenting a changing climate, EO is needed for effective policy making, implementation and monitoring, and ultimately to measure progress and achievements towards the overarching goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement to combat climate change. The best approach for translating EO into actionable information for policymakers and other stakeholders is, however, far from clear. For example, climate change is now self-evident through increasingly intense and frequent extreme events - heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and flooding - costing human lives and significant economic damage, even though single events do not constitute "climate". EO can capture and visualize the impacts of such events in single images, and thus help quantify and ultimately manage them within the framework of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement, both at the national level (via the Enhanced Transparency Framework) and global level (via the Global Stocktake). We present a transdisciplinary perspective, across policy and science, and also theory and practice, that sheds light on the potential of EO to inform mitigation, including sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, and adaptation, including loss and damage. Yet to be successful with this new mandate, EO science must undergo a radical overhaul: it must become more user-oriented, collaborative, and transdisciplinary; span the range from fiducial to contextual data; and embrace new technologies for data analysis (e.g., artificial intelligence). Only this will allow the creation of the knowledge base and actionable climate information needed to guide the UNFCCC Paris Agreement to a just and equitable success.
REINSER 2022 International Conference for Sharing Best Practices: Economic and Social Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers through Social Entrepreneurship. Book of abstracts.
Creators: name: Cittadini, Silvia
name: Savoia, Francesco
name: Zoppi, Marco
name: Bolzani, Daniela
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2022
Subjects: SECS-P/07 Economia aziendale
SPS/06 Storia delle relazioni internazionali

description: This book collects the proceedings of the Conference “Economic and Social Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees through Social Entrepreneurship – International Conference for Sharing Best Practices” held at the Forlì Campus of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna on the 10th and 11th of March 2022. The organisation of the conference took place in the framework of the Interreg-ADRION-funded project REInSER. The project aims to improve the economic and social integration of refugees and asylum seekers in host societies of the ADRION area by using social economy approaches and, in particular, social entrepreneurship (SE). The long-term objective is to enhance the possibilities for refugees to become active economic actors and agents of their integration in a given host society, contributing to the local and regional sustainable economic development by generating employment and supporting the creation of new social and responsible businesses.
Relaciones Gobierno - Congreso en el Estado Constitucional Colombiano. Un análisis crítico en torno al equilibrio de poderes
Creators: name: Cortés Zambrano, Sonia Patricia
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Colombia - Constitución - Reformas
subject: Partidos políticos - Estudios de caso
subject: Elecciones - Legislación
subject: Equilibrio de poder
subject: Gobierno
subject: Producción legislativa

description: Este libro constituye una reflexión crítica a las relaciones Gobierno – Congreso, a partir de la metodología de investigación cualitativa, desde una perspectiva histórico-descriptiva, que parte de la premisa fundamental de que el Estado constitucional y democrático es, por principio, un sistema de equilibrios, esto es, de poderes limitados y, en consecuencia, controlados. Se hizo evidente la necesidad de ponderar la realidad de las relaciones de poder entre gobierno, congreso y el nuevo papel de la Corte Constitucional en Colombia y cómo éstas relaciones siendo asimétricas, son un factor determinante a la hora de valorar principio de equilibrio de poderes, máxime cuando la misión de la justicia constitucional, en este contexto, se reconoce con claridad: proteger la voluntad del poder constituyente y garantizar, jurisdiccionalmente, la supremacía constitucional frente a la acción de los poderes constituidos.
A Field-Based Evaluation of the Reliability of Empirical Formulae for Quantifying the Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficient in Small Channels
Creators: name: Nogare, Marianni A.
name: Bauer, Bernard O.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The majority of formulae for predicting in-channel mixing by longitudinal dispersion are based on empirical evidence from medium to large rivers, whereas small creeks and streams are under-represented despite their hydrological and ecological importance. In this study, twenty-six formulae for predicting the longitudinal dispersion coefficient (Kx) were evaluated for their applicability to small channels using field measurements and hydraulic modeling. Predicted values for Kx, following guidelines recommended in the original publications for the formulae, were compared to measured dispersion coefficients obtained from sodium-chloride plumes injected into two small channels (a concrete-lined, trapezoidal channel and a small, natural stream) based on fitting the Hayami solution to the one-dimensional advection-dispersion equation (ADE) to each plume. The predicted Kx coefficients from the formulae were also utilized to create model-simulated plumes, which were compared to those measured well downstream of the point of injection. The findings demonstrate that the predictive accuracy of the twenty-six formulae was extremely variable; none were able to predict the dispersion process in the small channels with better than ± 50% accuracy. These results show that “universal” formulae are plagued with a large degree of uncertainty and should be used with caution when applied to small channels, although more robust predictions are possible with some formulae if site-specific data are available for calibration.
Régimen jurídico diferencial para el municipio en Colombia. Un camino hacia la autonomía
Creators: name: Osorio Torres, Aura Ximena
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Derecho municipal - Legislación
subject: Administración departamental - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Regalías - Derecho
subject: Regimen administrativo
subject: Presupuesto
subject: Regimen de presupuesto
subject: Ordenamiento territorial

description: La pregunta central de esta investigación es: ¿el régimen legal uniforme para todos los municipios ha sido un posible obstáculo para que los municipios con capacidades institucionales limitadas logren autonomía en Colombia? ¿Los municipios han logrado autonomía en el contexto de un régimen legal uniforme en Colombia? La tesis es que en Colombia los municipios que aún se encuentran en desarrollo, no pueden avanzar en autonomía local debido a que el régimen jurídico uniforme no tiene en cuenta las dotaciones iniciales que se manifiestan en capacidades institucionales diversas, así mismo, los ciudades que cuentan con mejores capacidades institucionales, se ven limitadas por la desconfianza que existe en la administración pública local y que ha impuesto restricciones que limitan su desarrollo. La asignación de competencias sin establecer diferenciaciones genera una mayor centralización que disminuye la posibilidad de desarrollar modelos autonómicos con mayor profundidad. ¿es necesario un régimen legal diferencial para que los municipios tengan mayor autonomía municipal?, ¿cómo debe ser ese régimen legal diferencial?
Digital Exclusion and the Structural Barriers to Safety Strategies among Men and Non-Binary Sex Workers Who Solicit Clients Online
Creators: name: Koenig, Brett
name: Murphy, Alka
name: Johnston, Spencer
name: Pearson, Jennie
name: Knight, Rod E.
name: Gilbert, M.
name: Shannon, K.
name: Krüsi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Background: Evidence shows that online solicitation facilitates sex workers’ ability to mitigate the risk of workplace violence. However, little is known about how end-demand sex work criminalization and the regulation of online sex work sites shape men and non-binary sex workers’ ability to maintain their own safety while soliciting services online. Methods: We conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with men and non-binary sex workers in British Columbia between 2020–2021 and examined their ability to enact safety strategies online in the context of end-demand criminalization. Analysis drew on a structural determinants of health framework. Results: Most participants emphasized that sex work is not inherently dangerous and described how soliciting services online facilitated their ability to enact personal safety strategies and remain in control of client interactions. However, participants also described how end-demand criminalization, sex work stigma, and restrictive website policies compromise their ability to solicit services online and to enact safety strategies. Conclusions: Alongside calls to decriminalize sex work, these findings emphasize the need to normalize sex work as a form of labour, promote access to online solicitation among men and non-binary sex workers, and develop standards for online sex work platforms in partnership with sex workers that prioritize sex worker safety.
Field guide to writing a father
Creators: name: Rendle-Short, Francesca
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: BACKGROUND Field Guide to Writing a Father, is an incremental development to a series of essays, exhibitions and papers contributing to research findings for the project: Writing the Father. This essay lays the foundation for thinking about form and content in a single, 'satisifying' short piece, and builds on previous published essays, including My Father's Body (first published in the prestigious literary journal, Overland (197, 2009), and reprinted in The Invisible Thread: 100 years of words, Halstead Press, 2012, to celebrate Canberra's century). Field Guide to Writing a Father was conceived and developed at a writing retreat led by Robin Hemley, director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, University of Iowa. CONTRIBUTION The concept for this work brings together the delicate subject matter of familial relationships and furthers the author's research into memoir and family. Its subtitle - On Piecing Together a Relationship - highlights the reason why this experiment is a vehicle for exploring nuance and shade. It is a speculative essay, 'suggestive and beckoning in its specificity' (as a Granta volume on fathers puts the task 'writing the father', Winter 2009); it takes a subject 'as personal and as necessarily complex' as the father and renders it freshly, obliquely. It manages to draw the reader into considerations of their own father. We also speculate creatively on this father - given his interest in birds - on what sort of bird or birds would he be, and how best to write him into existence. SIGNIFICANCE After her attendance at the writing retreat, this nonfiction essay is one of the works that contributed to Rendle-Short being awarded the prestigious 2013 International Nonfiction Writing Fellowship at Iowa.
title: Matrix Interpretations and Tools for Investigating Even Functionals
Creators: name: Stringer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Engineering and technology
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Even functionals are a set of polynomials evaluated on the terms of hollow symmetric matrices. Their properties lend themselves to applications such as counting subgraph embeddings in generic (weighted or unweighted) host graphs and computing moments of binary quadratic forms, which occur in combinatorial optimization. This research focuses primarily on counting subgraph embeddings, which is traditionally accomplished with brute-force algorithms or algorithms curated for special types of graphs. Even functionals provide a method for counting subgraphs algebraically in time proportional to matrix multiplication and is not restricted to particular graph types. Counting subgraph embeddings can be accomplished by evaluating a linear combination of matrix expressions on the adjacency matrix of a host graph. Algorithms for computing the coefficients of these terms for counting arbitrary subgraphs are presented, with a special focus on efficiency and robustness. These algorithms are used to produce coefficients for counting the number of 8-cycles in a host graph. The matrix expressions used are derived from the space of even functionals of degree 𝑙. This space is represented by the set of even multigraphs with 𝑙 edges. A difficulty in discovering these spaces hence is discovery of the even graphs themselves. Included in the research are tools developed to facilitate investigation of even functionals. These tools, written in both Python and C++, perform arbitrary-precision evaluation of matrix expressions, solve linear systems of equations, draw and compare graphs, and more. They utilize well-known libraries and packages such as GMP, NumPy, NetworkX, and Graphviz.
description: © 2022 Benjamin Stringer
Los mecanismos alternativos de solución de conflictos en la contratación estatal
Creators: name: Ostau De Lafont Pianeta, Rafael Enrique
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Conciliación - Derecho penal
subject: Derechos humanos - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Políticas de desarrollo - Legislación
subject: Estructura estatal
subject: Conflictos
subject: Derecho fundamental
subject: Conciliación judicial

description: A medida que ha ido creciendo la importancia de la temática contractual del Estado por las implicaciones políticas, económicas y sociales que ella genera, crece igualmente la trascendencia jurídica de la misma y aumenta la preocupación por revisar, con mayor frecuencia, las tendencias de la experiencia que acumula la aplicación de la legislación vigente sobre la materia, para verificar el cumplimiento de los fines perseguidos, con la adopción de la regulación correspondiente. Dentro de este contexto, la normativa sobre la contratación estatal en Colombia ha sido particularmente sometida a un riguroso escrutinio y adecuación a los cambiantes perfiles que la institución acoge como consecuencia de las enseñanzas recibidas de la múltiple gestión de la “cosa pública”, acompasada con las nuevas orientaciones impuestas por el desarrollo de los fundamentos sustentadores de la organización del Estado Social de Derecho, implantadas con la promulgación de la Carta Constitucional de 1991. Precisamente, consideraciones como las que preceden fundamentan la decisión del constituyente primario de recuperar para el Congreso de la República una trascendente misión, al imponerle la función de adoptar un Estatuto General de la Contratación Pública, aplicable con criterio universal para todas las entidades del Estado1, buscando con ello no solo superar una antitécnica y dispersa proliferación normativa, sino, fundamentalmente, con el propósito de establecer criterios de unificación en torno a una política pública propiciadora de un mayor grado de eficiencia funcional, especialmente en el uso y destino de los recursos estatales.
Exposure to coronavirus news on mainstream media: The role of risk perceptions and depression
Creators: name: Olagoke, Ayokunle A
name: Olagoke, Olakanmi O
name: Hughes, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: OBJECTIVE: The mainstream media tend to rely on news content that will increase risk perceptions of pandemic outbreaks to stimulate public response and persuade people to comply with preventive behaviours. The objective of this study was to examine associations between exposure to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news, risk perceptions, and depressive symptoms. METHODS: Cross-sectional data were collected from 501 participants who were ≥18 years. Exposure to COVID-19 news was assessed as our exposure variable. We screened for depression (outcome variable) with the Patient Health Questionnaire and examined the roles of risk perceptions. Multiple linear regressions and mediation analysis with 1000 bootstrap resamples were conducted. RESULTS: Participants were 55.29% female, 67.86% White with mean age 32.44 ± 11.94 years. After controlling for sociodemographic and socio-economic factors, news exposure was positively associated with depressive symptoms β = .11; 95% confidence interval (95%CI) = 0.02-0.20. Mediation analysis showed that perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 mediated 34.4% of this relationship (β = .04; 95%CI = 0.01-0.06). CONCLUSION: Perceived vulnerability to COVID-19 can serve as a pathway through which exposure to COVID-19 news on mainstream media may be associated with depressive symptoms. Based on our findings, we offered recommendations for media-health partnership, practice, and research.
Anthropogene Spurenstoffe
Creators: name: Grummt, Tamara
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Risikomanagement

description: Anthropogene Spurenstoffe können aufgrund ihrer Stoffeigenschaften (Polarität, Persistenz und Mobilität) Kläranlagen passieren und bis ins Trinkwasser gelangen. Zugleich sind durch moderne analytische Messverfahren immer mehr Stoffe in immer niedrigeren Konzentrationen im Wasserkreislauf nachweisbar. Das theoretische Konzept zur Ableitung gesundheitlicher Orientierungswerte (GOW) erlaubt für Spurenstoffe, über die in der Regel eine unzureichende Datenbasis vorliegt, eine zeitnahe toxikologische Bewertung. Derzeit werden für die im GOW-Konzept genannten prioritären Wirkmechanismen (Gentoxizität, Neurotoxizität und endokrine Wirkungen) In-vitro-Testbatterien entwickelt, um eine experimentell basierte Bewertung vornehmen zu können. Am Beispiel der Humanarzneimittel lässt sich aufzeigen, dass im Falle der anthropogenen Spurenstoffe die Minimierungsstrategien nicht allein auf technischen Eliminierungsmaßnahmen in Kläranlage fokussieren müssen. Durch die Einbeziehung wichtiger Akteure (Ärzte, Apotheker, Verbraucher) ließe sich z. B. durch umweltgerechte Verschreibungspraktiken, Rücknahmesysteme und Entsorgung der Eintrag von Humanarzneistoffen in die Umwelt deutlich minimieren.
Quelle: http://link.springer.com/
description: Given their specific properties (polarity, persistency and mobility), anthropogenic trace substances can pass through water treatment plants and find their way into drinking water. At the same time, modern analytical systems are capable of detecting more and more substances in the water cycle at increasingly small concentrations. The theoretical concept for deriving health-oriented target values (gesundheitlicher Orientierungswerte/GOW) makes it possible to perform toxicological assessments of trace substances for which as a rule we have insufficient prior data. Currently, batteries of in-vitro tests for the primary mechanisms of action identified in the GOW concept (genotoxicity, neurotoxicity and endocrine effects) are being developed to support experiment-based assessments. The example of medicinal products for human use demonstrates that, in the case of anthropogenic trace substances, minimization strategies should not focus on the technical elimination methods in treatment plants alone. If important actors (doctors, pharmacists and consumers) can be integrated, the amount of substances from medicinal products for human use that pollutes our environment can be significantly reduced, through e.g. environmentally friendly prescription-writing practices, product/packaging return systems and better disposal options.
Quelle: http://link.springer.com/
Exploring the Physicochemical, Mechanical, and Photocatalytic Antibacterial Properties of a Methacrylate-Based Dental Material Loaded with ZnO Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Comeau, Patricia
name: Burgess, Julia
name: Malekafzali, Niknaz
name: Leite, Maria Luisa
name: Lee, Aidan
name: Manso, Adriana
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: While resin-based materials meet the many requirements of a restorative material, they lack adequate, long-lasting antimicrobial power. This study investigated a zinc oxide nanoparticle (ZnO NP)-loaded resin-blend (RB) toward a new antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT)-based approach for managing dental caries. The results confirmed that up to 20 wt% ZnO NPs could be added without compromising the degree of conversion (DC) of the original blend. The DC achieved for the 20 wt% ZnO NP blend has been the highest reported. The effects on flexural strength (FS), shear bond strength to dentin (SBS), water sorption (WS), solubility (SL), and viability of Streptococcus mutans under 1.35 J/cm2 blue light or dark conditions were limited to ≤20 wt% ZnO NP loading. The addition of up to 20 wt% ZnO NPs had a minimal impact on FS or SBS, while a reduction in the bacteria count was observed. The maximum loading resulted in an increase in SL. Furthermore, 28-day aging in 37 °C water increased the FS for all groups, while it sustained the reduction in bacteria count for the 20 wt% resin blends. Overall, the ZnO NP-loaded resin-based restorative material presents significant potential for use in aPDT.
ASSESSING THE PREVALENCE OF ACTIVE TRACHOMA AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN IN RELATION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SAFE STRATEGY IN EBINAT AND EAST BELESA WOREDA, NORTH WEST ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: ALEMAYEHU MESFIN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005

description: ASSESSING THE PREVALENCE OF ACTIVE TRACHOMA AMONG YOUNG 

CHILDREN IN RELATION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SAFE STRATEGY IN 

EBINAT AND EAST BELESA WOREDA, NORTH WEST ETHIOPIA
title: Undoing Colorblind Ecologies
title: Redlining and Just Green Enough in the Urban Forest of Boston's Franklin Park
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Parise, Chelsea M.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Urban political ecology research increasingly engages multi-disciplinary methodologies to clarify the role that the botanic plays in creating, maintaining, or subverting ecological geographies of power. Fredrick Law Olmsted intended the forest within Franklin Park to heal the physical degeneration and social disunity he believed resulted from urban living conditions but instead the forest within Franklin Park has grown in contexts of increasingly complex environmental and racial difference. I examine how the urban forest in Boston’s Franklin Park has ecologically manifested racialized power relations through distinct periods of elite nature-making and segregated grassroots stewardship. I utilized archival research, forest surveys, and semi-structured interviews to trace the influence of race on forest socio-successional processes and its implication for future forests. I found that periods of racialized land management have formed ecological signatures in the forest strata and shifted forest succession, leaving the forest vulnerable to being inscribed into the processes of green gentrification through forest revitalization. Furthermore, these forest processes create a unique and place-based socio-ecology that reflects the racial tensions in Boston since Franklin Park’s establishment. This research complicates the alleged political neutrality of historical and ecological forest restoration. Utilizing a “just green enough” approach, I caution against urban greening initiatives for climate resilience remaking place-based natures and discuss the ways spontaneous vegetation can become collaborators in ecologies of resistance.
description: © 2022 Chelsea M. Parise
Metabolic syndrome is associated with increased rate of complications following minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Ballato, Elliot
name: Chobarporn, Thitiporn
name: Wood, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metabolic Syndrome
Retrospective Studies
Esophagectomy
Obesity
Adenocarcinoma
Esophageal Neoplasms
Multivariate Analysis
Adenosine Triphosphate
Intensive Care Units

description: It has been reported that obesity is associated with adverse outcomes following esophagectomy for resectable esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). To our knowledge, however, no study has investigated the direct impact of underlying metabolic syndrome (MetS) on peri-operative outcomes following minimally invasive esophagectomy. This is a retrospective, chart-review analysis of our institutional esophageal cancer database combined with institutional NSQIP data between the years of 2013 – 2023.
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Creators: name: Carter, Paul
name: Hensing, Andrea
name: Williams, Christopher
name: Hempton, Jermain
name: Hein, Mat
name: Flanagan, Lisa
name: Darley, Eilen
name: O'Keefe, Nathan
name: Wadey, Kate
name: Walker, Rory
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330399
subject: Design not elsewhere classified

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Mac ' a radio play, grew out of 2010 project, 'Ground Truth' in which Carter created a sound history of the region of Victoria known as the Mallee. Part of this research involved retracing the life journeys of Wotjobaluk man 'Jowley' and labourer poet John Shaw Neilson. In about 1900, Neilson was admitted to hospital suffering from nervous exhaustion. In 'Mac', Neilson is visited by voices and apparitions, most especially a Wotjobaluk man by the name of 'Jowley', whom he might have met but who in life eluded him. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The radiophonic composition 'Mac' transposes the storylines of Jowley and Neilson. Jowley was raised by white people after being discovered, alone, in a hollow log. It is unclear whether he was lost, abandoned or stolen. The play imagines a pre-settled and unsettling auditory terrain where a 'polyphonic chaos' still reigns. From this cacophony, an alernative history emerges, one where unrealised aspirations criss-cross one another. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This play was commissioned by ABC Radio National and recorded at ABC Collinswood, South Australia at the end of 2010 and it was broadcast the following September. 'Mac' achieved peer review via the commisison and subsequent broadcast and it featured a cast of leading Australian actors, including Lisa Flanagan and Rory Walker.
Daten zur Umwelt 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Klima
Boden
Landwirtschaft
Abfall
Nachhaltigkeit

description: Umweltpolitik braucht einen langen Atem, nicht nur beimKlimaschutz. Auch in der Luftreinhaltung oder beim Gewässerschutz zeigt sich: In vielen Bereichen sinken zwar die schädlichen Einträge in die Umwelt. Dies ist aber kein Grund zur Entwarnung. So sind beispielsweise nur zehn Prozent der Flüsse und Bäche und nur rund ein Prozent der untersuchten Abschnitte an Nord- und Ostseeküste in einem guten ökologischen Zustand. Grund ist vor allem die immer noch zu hohe Nährstoffbelastung.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Marginally Male: Re-Centering Effeminate Male Characters in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howards End
Creators: name: Clark, Damion
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: In this thesis I argue that understanding Forster?s effeminate male characters is central to understanding the novels that they appear in. Tibby in Howards End and Cecil in A Room with a View are often viewed as inconsequential figures that provide comic relief and inspire pity. But if, instead of keeping them at the margins, readers put Tibby and Cecil in direct contact and conflict with the dominant themes of gender identity, gendered power structures, and gender equality in these novels, these characters develop a deeper significance that details the fin de si?cle?s ever-changing attitudes regarding prescribed gender roles for both men and women. Indeed, by examining Forster?s feminized male characters, one can chart the development of these roles in both the larger world and Forster?s prescription for gender evolution in his novels.
Determining Quality through  Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children
Creators: name: Michaels, Cindy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: While numerous studies on academic writers composing for non-academic audiences exist, few if any studies address academic writers composing biographies for children. This self-reflective case study of a Eudora Welty biography for children provides insight into how an academic writer can effectively write in a specific genre (biography) for a specific audience (children) and into practical rhetorical choices such as choosing photographs and designing page layouts. The study also offers triangulated data regarding essential criteria of quality children?s literature as identified by experts in the field (editors, publishers, award committee members, scholars, and authors). The author?s findings include sixty-eight of the most often cited criteria, such as accuracy and the use of documented evidence, that serve as guidelines and a means of evaluating biographies written for children.
Savage Ballet
Creators: name: Wortman, Leslie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: The title Savage Ballet came into being because, so far as I articulate, it aptly describes the beauty and horror that are borne from combining art and instruction. Poetry, itself, is a ballet. And poetry, itself, is savage. It is a ballet of words carefully choreographed and practiced and spun into being. Poetry is the body politic of the ballet. It is beautiful and often fancy when the curtain rises, but behind the scenes and tucked into toe shoes is the instruction ? the gnashing of teeth and blisters and broken nails. Thus, the savage side of poetry presents itself. And, may it also be said, graduate school is a savage beast. It wrestles and tests and knocks down to build up. And, if the dancer is lucky, they will rise.
Theory in Culture: Toward a Psychoanalytic Criticism of Advertising
Creators: name: Bellinson, Robin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The role of advertising in postmodern culture is far more than an impetus to capitalist economy; from its first full flowering in the 1920s, it has addressed its human subjects in ways that exceed considerations of monetary exchange. Advertising has come not only to sell people what they desire ? it has also materially changed their desire, and thus the people themselves in the process. Certainly ?individuals? have become ?consumers? ? but the problem is greater than this. Advertising, with its undeniable aspects of fantasy, often stands in complete opposition to critical thinking. This examination explores advertising?s effects on the individual through the critical lenses of ideology and psychoanalysis, concluding that although ideology is a relevant methodology, it remains incomplete. Psychoanalytic theory, on the other hand, provides multiple avenues of interpreting how advertising addresses both the conscious and the unconscious mind, and offers a potential methodology for personal resistance and social change.
Unveiling Objectification: The Gaze and its Silent Power in the Novels of Frances Burney
Creators: name: Wingfield, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis seeks to portray how an objectifying intra-diegetic gaze influences and constructs the plot devices Frances Burney uses in her four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer. Burney creates a literary reality within her four novels? narratives and breaks that reality down with the influence of the gazes and judgments of her novels? characters upon each of her heroines. The gaze is an almost microscopic examination that objectifies and depersonalizes all of Burney?s heroines. Burney shows how the gaze shifts perspectives and manipulates that which it objectifies. Burney places her audience and her heroines into unfamiliar situations and then she shows the costs and benefits of reasserting one?s gaze. This thesis will show how Burney portrays the power of objectification in her novels upon her heroines, and the consequences that arise from the tensions of bombarding social gazes in all their duplicitous forms.
Tonight is the Night I Come Unglued
Creators: name: Raines, Laurah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis is comprised of a collection of stories concerning adolescents involved in the North Carolina and Atlanta punk rock subcultures. The thesis, which contains six stories, focuses on the crisis moments in the lives of the teenagers and is firmly rooted in contemporary southern culture. The first three stories center on a Georgia native, Aaron, and his aimless adventures in small towns and big punk clubs. The second set of stories is all based in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, and each concerns a different adolescent girl.    INDEX WORDS: Creative Writing, Punk, Greensboro, North Carolina, Georgia, Atlanta, Adolescence, Teenagers, Thesis
Jazz Babies, a Femme Fatale, and a Joad:  Women and the Automobile in the American Modernist Era
Creators: name: Bremmer, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: The 1920's and 30's saw the advent of the automotive era in America as Henry Ford?s vision of production and technological progress was fully realized. But the pleasure of automobility was initially afforded to a select few, and so the automobile revealed a growing chasm between social classes. Additionally, the automobile contributed to a transformation of the social ideology of gender as more and more women spent time in cars as passengers and as drivers. And while some viewed this ideological shift as a welcome change, many Americans worried about the negative implications of women in cars. Representations of automobiles in American literature reveal this juxtaposition between positive and negative reactions, and this thesis explores the cultural impetus behind this duality, as well as the manifestations of this duality in F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, James M. Cain?s Double Indemnity, and John Steinbeck?s The Grapes of Wrath.
A Pós-Graduação EaD em Ipatinga na  Faculdade FaSouza: ampliando  horizontes acadêmicos
Creators: name: Souza, Marcos Alexandre de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: pós-graduação ead ipatinga
pos-graduação ead
pós-graduação
especialização
ipatinga mg
faculdade
fasouza
ensino superior
ead
a distância

description: Deseja ampliar seus horizontes acadêmicos sem sair de casa? A Faculdade FaSouza, em Ipatinga MG, oferece uma pós-graduação à distância (EaD) que proporciona essa oportunidade. Com um ensino de qualidade comprovada e flexibilidade de horários, você pode conquistar seu certificado de especialização, matriculando-se, em nossos cursos a distância.

A pós-graduação EaD da FaSouza é ideal para profissionais que desejam aprimorar seus conhecimentos e se destacar no mercado de trabalho. Com uma grade curricular atualizada e professores renomados, o curso oferece uma educação de excelência, preparando você para os desafios da sua área de atuação.

Além disso, estudar a distância oferece uma série de benefícios, como a flexibilidade para conciliar os estudos com outras responsabilidades, acesso a recursos online que enriquece o seu aprendizado.

Não perca a oportunidade de investir em sua carreira e conquistar novas oportunidades profissionais. Inscreva-se agora na pós-graduação EaD da Faculdade FaSouza em Ipatinga, MG, e dê um passo rumo ao sucesso acadêmico.
Aesthetic Excuses and Moral Crimes: The Convergence of Morality and Aesthetics in Nabokov's Lolita
Creators: name: Green, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This thesis examines the debate between morality and aesthetics that is outlined by Nabokov in Lolita?s afterword. Incorporating a discussion of Lolita?s critical history in order to reveal how critics have chosen a single, limited side of the debate, either the moral or aesthetic, this thesis seeks to expose the complexities of the novel where morality and aesthetics intersect. First, the general moral and aesthetic features of Lolita are discussed. Finally, I address the two together, illustrating how Lolita cannot be categorized as immoral, amoral, or didactic. Instead, it is through the juxtaposition of form and content, parody and reality, that the intersection of aesthetics and morality appears, subverting and repudiating the voice of its own narrator and protagonist, evoking sympathy for an appropriated and abused child, and challenging readers to evaluate their own ethical boundaries.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Study of Apocalyptic Cycles, Religion and Science, Religious Ethics and Secular Ethics, Sin and Redemption, and Myth and Preternatural Innocence
Creators: name: Smith, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: Walter M. Miller, Jr.?s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a timeless story about apocalyptic cycles, conflicts and similarities between religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and redemption, myth and preternatural innocence. Canticle is a very religious story about a monastery dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge from the time before nuclear war which devastated the world and reduced humanity to a pre-technological civilization. The Catholic Church and this monastery are portrayed as a bastion of civilization amidst barbarians and a light of faith amidst atheism. Unfortunately, humanity destroys the Earth once again, but Miller ends with two beacons of hope: a starship headed for the unknown to help humanity begin again and the preternaturally innocent Rachel who portends a future for similarly innocent human beings repopulating the Earth. Thus, faith ultimately triumphs over atheism even in the midst of almost total catastrophe.
Being Incommensurable/Incommensurable Beings: Ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen's Short Stories
Creators: name: Smith, Jeannette
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: I investigate the ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen?s short stories, ?Green Holly? and ?The Happy Autumn Fields.? By blending psychoanalytic feminism and social feminism, I argue that these female ghosts are the incommensurable feminine?a feminine that exceeds the bounds of phallocentric logic and cannot be defined by her social or symbolic manifestations.

An analysis of Bowen?s ghosts as actual ghosts is uncharted territory. Previous Bowen critics postulate that Bowen?s ghosts are imaginary figments or metaphors. These critics make Bowen?s stories ?truthful? representations of the world, but, as such, Bowen?s ghosts become representations of the world?s phallocentric order.

In contrast, I argue that these stories adopt a mestiza consciousness. Gloria Anzald?a postulates that through a subaltern perspective developed outside of western logic, the mestiza reclaims the supernatural that exists outside of the masculine, symbolic order. The female ghosts are the feminine that Luce Irigaray explains, ?remain[s] elsewhere? (76) as they live incommensurably in an alternate supernatural realm, disrupting phallic logic.