cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainable Complete Streets Design Criteria and Case Study in Naples, Italy
Creators: name: Montella, Alfonso
name: Chiaradonna, Salvatore
name: Mihiel, Alessandro Claudi De Saint
name: Lovegrove, G. R.
name: Nunziante, Pietro
name: Rella Riccardi, Maria
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2025

description: Background: A growing number of communities are re-discovering the value of their streets as important public spaces for many aspects of daily life, creating the need for a transformation in the quality of those streets. An emerging concept of ‘complete streets’ is to accommodate all users of the transportation system. Methods: In this paper, we present sustainable complete streets design criteria that integrate complete streets by adding socio-environmental design criteria related to the aesthetics, environment, liveability, and safety. To help set priorities, identify the street design features, and create intuitive multimodal networks throughout the city, we have defined a list of the general and specific criteria to be addressed for sustainable complete streets. Results: The proposed design criteria provide a street network with improvements in its aesthetics, to recover the historical urban character and realize historical area planning goals; the environment, to increase the permeable surfaces, reduce the heat island effect, and to absorb traffic-related air pollution; the liveability, to create a public space destination in the urban landscape; and safety, to improve the safety of all road users. The design scenarios proposed in the study were conceived to help practitioners to consider these context-based uses and design accordingly by gaining knowledge from past experiences to benefit future projects. Conclusions: The case study of the urban rehabilitation of the “Mostra d’Oltremare” area and its cultural and architectural assets in Naples, Italy, highlights the practical application of the proposed criteria and the possibility of using these criteria in other urban contexts.
School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne
Creators: name: Blythe, Richard
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design

description: BACKGROUND 'School of Architecture and Design RMIT University, Melbourne' is an article in the prestigious Italian Architecture magazine, DOMUS 1002, May 2016; the elaboration of an interview between Richard Blythe and Spartaco Paris (Centro Studi Domus) on the teaching and learning pedagogy surrounding experimentation and innovation at RMIT's School of Architecture and Design, where Blythe is Dean. CONTRIBUTION Blythe outlines the ways in which design-led, practice-based teaching - in an experimental studio model (where research, technology and poetics, based on a deep connection with disciplinary practice are incorporated into the student learning experience) - is seen to engender strong learning outcomes. This article contributes to debate surrounding how best to serve the needs of both students and the disciplines into which they are being trained. SIGNIFICANCE In this article, Blythe asserts that RMIT's School of Architecture and Design 'aims to provide an arena in which the interplay between technology, poetics and culture can be acted out in the service of society and to meet the needs of our future cities.' Ongoing research and discussion by expert contributors (in an international forum) on how best to train designers and architects into the future is essential to better fulfil societal, environmental, and practical human needs.
Distathma sordidula
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Distathma
Distathma sordidula

description: 18.7.3 Distathma sordidula (Spinola, 1851) *
Distribution. Chile: Región de Coquimbo (Spinola 1851).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Validation of the Swiss methane emission inventory by atmospheric observations and inverse modelling
Creators: name: Henne, S.
name: Brunner, D.
name: Oney, B.
name: Leuenberger, M.
name: Eugster, W.
name: Bamberger, I.
name: Meinhardt, F.
name: Steinbacher, M.
name: Emmenegger, L.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Atmospheric inverse modelling has the potential to provide observation-based estimates of greenhouse gas emissions at the country scale, thereby allowing for an independent validation of national emission inventories. Here, we present a regional scale inverse modelling study to quantify the emissions of methane (CH4) from Switzerland, making use of the newly established CarboCount-CH measurement network and a high resolution Lagrangian transport model. Overall we estimate national CH4 emissions to be 196 ş 18 Gg yr-1 for the year 2013 (1ó uncertainty). This result is in close agreement with the recently revised "bottom-up" estimate of 206 ş 33 Gg yr-1 published by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment as part of the Swiss Greenhouse Gas Inventory (SGHGI). Results from sensitivity inversions using alternative prior emissions, covariance settings, baseline treatments, two different inverse algorithms (Bayesian and extended Kalman Filter), and two different transport models confirms the robustness and independent character of our estimate. According to the latest "bottom-up" inventory the main CH4 source categories in Switzerland are agriculture (78 %), waste handling (15 %) and natural gas distribution and combustion (6 %). The spatial distribution and seasonal variability of our posterior emissions suggest an overestimation of agricultural CH4 emissions by 10 to 20 % in the most recent national inventory, which is likely due to an overestimation of emissions from manure handling. Urban areas do not appear as emission hotspots in our posterior results suggesting that leakages from natural gas disribution are only a minor source of CH4 in Switzerland. This is consistent with rather low emissions of 8.4 Gg yr-1 reported by the SGHGI but inconsistent with the much higher value of 32 Gg yr-1 implied by the EDGARv4.2 inventory for this sector. Increased CH4 emissions (up to 30 % compared to the prior) were deduced for the north-eastern parts of Switzerland. This feature was common to most sensitivity inversions, which rules out an artefact of the transport model and the inversion system. However, it was not possible to assign an unambiguous source process to the region. The observations of the CarboCount-CH network provided invaluable and independent information for the validation of the national bottom-up inventory. Similar systems need to be sustained to provide independent monitoring of future climate agreements.Quelle: http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net
In Conversation - Catalytic Urban Housing
Creators: name: Nazareth, Ian
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Research activity in the architectural disciplines takes place both within and without the academy. In order to communicate with this broad community of research, not just to reflect upon developments occurring outside the university but also to interact effectively with that community, architectural researchers working in universities must publish their research in professional journals and magazines. While these publications do not subject submissions to the blind review process used by scholarly journals, all work submitted for publication by these outlets is nevertheless subject to peer assessment. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The ideas presented in this essay - 'In Conversation - Catalytic Urban Housing', advocate for a more strategic approach to urban housing predicated on the multivariate approaches and responses in the region. Rather than simply pandering to capital, the proposition articulated contextualises the contingent social, economic and spatial implications on the residential project. Cities are primarily and necessarily about experiment. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: These shorter works play a significant role in informing Ian Nazareth's design-research and teaching practice as well as communicating and disseminating architectural innovation to the wider audience. This essay was referenced by Prof Leon van Schaik in a reflective 'Postview' article in the subsequent edition of Architectural Review Asia Pacific #AR143.
Supplementary document for Total Variation Constrained Graph Manifold Learning Strategy for Cerenkov Luminescence Tomography - 5542390.pdf
Creators: name: hongbo, Guo
name: Yu, Jingjing
name: He, Xuelei
name: Yi, Huangjian
name: Hou, Yuqing
name: He, Xiaowei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document1
Distathma xanthorrhaea
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Distathma
Distathma xanthorrhaea

description: 18.7.4 Distathma xanthorrhaea (Haliday, 1836)
Distribution. Neotropical; Chile: Región de Valparaíso (Townes & Townes 1966).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Lines of site
Creators: name: Attiwill, Susan
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330108
subject: Interior design

description: BACKGROUND: 'Lines of site' was a commissioned review of an exhibition 'Sitelines' at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Natasha Johns-Messenger, an Australian artist based in New York, was commissioned to produce a site-specific installation for the galleries of Heide. She was in Australia 6 months to the prepare the exhibition. CONTRIBUTION: This review is the fourth in a series Attiwill has published with Architecture Media. In each, she focuses on exhibitions by internationally renowned Australian artists and considers how their work relates to her own research on interior design/interiority as a practice of making relations between people and environment, subjectivities and space. The previous three reviews were: 'Inside Anne Zahalka's Hall of Mirrors', Artichoke 19 December 2007, pp. 74-79; 'Murmur. Installation by Rosslynd Piggott', Artichoke 2013, pp. 84-88 and 'Anne Zahalka's portrait of a building', Architecture Australia 2014, pp. 26-28. Attiwill draws on her research into conditions of interior and interiority to critically engage with the work of these artists. Her writing re-thinks and re-poses interior design within the context of the profession itself, i.e. with the context of a professional magazine. In the editorial for this issue, editorial director Cameron Bruhn writes: 'Suzie brings her assiduous engagement with interiors and interiority to the critique.' (p.12) These magazines are read by designers and architects rather than artists so Attiwill's critical writing brings these artists' works into the context of interior design in a way that enables different ways of thinking about this practice. SIGNIFICANCE: This review was commissioned by 'Architecture Australia', the magazine for the Australian Institute of Architects. 'Architecture Australia' published quarterly by Architecture Media, is Australia's most respected architecture and design magazine and it has a wide trade, profession and general readership.
Molecular Effects of Iodine-Biofortified Lettuce in Human Gastrointestinal Cancer Cells
Creators: name: Sularz, Olga
name: Koronowicz, Aneta
name: Boycott, Cayla
name: Smoleń, Sylwester
name: Stefanska, Barbara
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Considering the growing number of cancer cases around the world, natural products from the diet that exhibit potential antitumor properties are of interest. Our previous research demonstrated that fortification with iodine compounds is an effective way to improve the antioxidant potential of lettuce. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of iodine-biofortified lettuce on antitumor properties in human gastrointestinal cancer cell lines, gastric AGS and colon HT-29. Our results showed that extracts from iodine-biofortified lettuce reduce the viability and proliferation of gastric and colon cancer cells. The extracts mediated cell cycle arrest which was accompanied by inactivation of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 and activation of caspases, as assessed by flow cytometry. However, extracts from lettuce fortified with organic forms of iodine acted more effectively than extracts from control and KIO3-enriched plants. Using quantitative PCR, we detected the increase in pro-apoptotic genes BAD, BAX and BID in AGS cells whereas up-regulation of cell cycle progression inhibitor CDKN2A and downregulation of pro-proliferative MDM2 in HT-29 cells. Interestingly, lettuce extracts led to down-regulation of pro-survival AKT1 and protooncogenic MDM2, which was consistent for extracts of lettuce fortified with organic form of iodine, 5-ISA, in both cell lines. MDM2 downregulation in HT-29 colon cancer cells was associated with RB1 upregulation upon 5-ISA-fortified lettuce extracts, which provides a link to the epigenetic regulation of tumor suppressor genes by RB/MDM2 pathway. Indeed, SEMA3A tumor suppressor gene was hypomethylated and upregulated in HT-29 cells treated with 5-ISA-fortified lettuce. Control lettuce exerted similar effects on RB/MDM2 pathway and SEMA3A epigenetic activation in HT-29 cells. Our findings suggest that lettuce as well as lettuce fortified with organic form of iodine, 5-ISA, may exert epigenetic anti-cancer effects that can be cancer type-specific.
Generative AI in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Rapid Review
Creators: name: Hale, Joshua
name: Wright, Sarah Towner
name: Alexander, Seth
name: Gilliland, Kurt
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: 
OBJECTIVES
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard have forced educators to consider how these tools will be efficiently utilized to improve medical education. This article investigates current literature on how generative AI is and could be used and implemented in undergraduate medical education (UME).

METHODS
A rapid review of the literature was performed utilizing a librarian-generated search strategy to identify articles published before June 30, 2023, in 6 databases (Pubmed, EMBASE.com, Scopus, ERIC via EBSCO, Computer Science Database via EBSCO, and CINAHL via EBSCO). Inclusion criteria were (1) a focus on osteopathic and/or allopathic UME and (2) a defined use or implementation strategy for generative AI. Two reviewers screened all articles, and data extraction was performed by 1 reviewer and confirmed by the other reviewer.

RESULTS
A total of 521 relevant articles were screened during this review. Forty-one articles underwent full-text review and data extraction. The majority of the articles were opinion pieces (9), case reports (8), letters to the editor (5), editorials (5), and commentaries (3) about the use of generative AI while 7 articles used qualitative and/or quantitative methods. The literature is best divided into 5 categories of uses for generative AI in UME: nonclinical learning assistant, content developer, virtual patient interaction, clinical decision-making tutor, and medical writing. The literature indicates generative AI tools’ greatest potential is for use as a virtual patient and clinical decision-making tutor.

CONCLUSIONS
While the possibilities proliferate for generative AI in UME, there remains a dearth of quantitative evidence of its use for improving learner outcomes. The majority of the literature opines the potential for utilization, but only 7 studies formally evaluated the results of using generative AI. Future research should focus on the effectiveness of incorporating generative AI into preclinical and clinical curricula in UME.
Biomonitoring of arsenic, cadmium and lead in two artisanal and small-scale gold mining areas in Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Rakete, Stefan
name: Moonga, Given
name: Tobollik, Myriam
name: Wahl, Anna-Maria
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Bewässerung
Biomonitoring
Blei
Blut
Cadmium
Exposition
Lebensmittel
Metall
Nachweisgrenze
Quecksilber
Querschnittsstudie
Referenzwertüberschreitung
Schadstoffbelastung
Toxische Metalle
Wasser
Simbabwe

description: People living and working in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) areas are frequently exposed to elemental mercury (Hg), which is used for gold extraction. However, additional exposure to other toxic metals such as arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) may result from mining-related activities and could be ingested via dust, water or food. In these areas, only limited biomonitoring data is available for toxic metals other than Hg. In particular, data about the exposure to As, Cd and Pb is unavailable for the Zimbabwean population. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study in two ASGM areas in Zimbabwe to evaluate the internal exposure to these metals. In total, urine and blood samples from 207 people that identified themselves as miners were collected and analysed for As and Cd in urine as well as Pb in blood by GF-AAS. Median levels (interquartile ranges in (micro)g/l) of As and Pb were 9.7 (micro)g/l (4.0, 18.5) and 19.7 (micro)g/l (12.5, 34.5), respectively. The 25th percentile and the median for Cd were below the limit of detection (0.5 (micro)g/l); the 75th percentile was at 0.9 (micro)g/l. The results were compared to reference values found for the general population in the USA and Germany, and a significant number of participants exceeded these values (As, 33 %; Cd, 27 %; Pb, 32 %), indicating a relevant exposure to toxic metals. Although not representative for the Zimbabwean population, our results demonstrate that the exposure to toxic metals is relevant for the public health in Zimbabwe and requires further investigation. © 2021, The Author(s)
Website for a Rummage Through Visual Art Education in Australia: An Overview
Creators: name: Selkrig, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Melbourne
Year: 2022
Subjects: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy

description: A report on issues that shape the provision of quality visual art education in Australia.
 This site has been developed to outline and share the findings of a significant research project related to Visual Art Education in Australia that occurred in 2017.
“The Prognostic Role of Aspartate Transaminase to Platelet Ratio Index (APRI) on Outcomes Following Non-emergent Minor Hepatectomy”
Creators: name: Patel, Dhruv J.
name: LeCompte, Michael T.
name: Gleeson, Elizabeth M.
name: Jin Kim, Hong
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: IntroductionFibrosis and cirrhosis are associated with worse outcomes after hepatectomy. Aspartate transaminase to platelet ratio index (APRI) is associated with fibrosis and cirrhosis in hepatitis C patients. However, APRI has not been studied to predict outcomes after hepatectomy in patients without viral hepatitis.MethodsWe reviewed the ACS-NSQIP dataset to identify patients who underwent a minor hepatectomy between 2014 and 2021. We excluded patients with viral hepatitis or ascites as well as patients who underwent emergent operations or biliary reconstruction. APRI was calculated using the following equation: (AST/40)/(platelet count) × 100. APRI ≥0.7 was used to identify significant fibrosis. Univariable analysis was performed to identify factors associated with APRI ≥0.7, transfusion, serious morbidity, overall morbidity, and 30-day mortality. Multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify adjusted predictors of these outcomes.ResultsOf the 18,069 patients who met inclusion criteria, 1630 (9.0%) patients had an APRI ≥0.7. A perioperative blood transfusion was administered to 2139 (11.8%). Overall morbidity, serious morbidity, and mortality were experienced by 3162 (17.5%), 2475 (13.7%), and 131 (.7%) patients, respectively. APRI ≥0.7 was an independent predictor of transfusion (adjusted OR: 1.48 [1.26-1.74], P < .001), overall morbidity (1.17 [1.02-1.33], P = .022), and mortality (1.97 [1.22-3.06], P = .004). Transfusion was an independent predictor of overall morbidity (3.31 [2.99-3.65], P < .001), serious morbidity (3.70 [3.33-4.11], P < .001), and mortality (5.73 [4.01-8.14], P < .001).ConclusionsAPRI ≥0.7 is associated with perioperative transfusion, overall morbidity, and 30-day mortality. APRI may serve as a noninvasive tool to risk stratify patients prior to elective minor hepatectomy.
MPEC 2024-N143 : 2024 NJ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 NJ3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Ideological and Populist Bases of Partisan Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America
Creators: name: de la Cerda, Nicolás
name: Martinez-Gallardo, Cecilia
name: Hartlyn, Jonathan
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: 
This research note explores variation in how political parties and presidents in Latin America responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), we argue that preferences regarding the trade-off between virus containment and maintaining an open economy were shaped by the ideological positions of presidents and parties, particularly for more programmatic ones. This is largely consistent with findings in other world regions. Yet, beyond ideological orientation, populism, also had an important – though heterogeneous – effect on response preferences, with non-populists, particularly highly programmatic ones, more consistently supporting virus containment. In addition, both incumbents and more populist presidents and parties favoured further concentration of executive power to address the pandemic. These findings provide evidence of the importance of understanding how ideology, populism and programmatic linkages interact in Latin America’s party systems.
Transverse single spin asymmetries of heavy flavor electrons in 200 GeV pp collisions at midrapidity from PHENIX
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Dillon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dis22
phenix
p+p
heavy flavor
electron
transverse spin asymmetry
mid-rapidity
open charm

description: Talk presented at the Deep-Inelastic Scattering 2022 conference
Ethelurgus Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ethelurgus

description: 18.8 Genus Ethelurgus Förster, 1869
Ethelurgus Förster, 1869: 180.
Type species Hemiteles lonicerae Viereck, 1917, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1922: 135).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
URBAN + INTERIOR
Creators: name: Attiwill, Susan
name: Crespi, Luciano
name: Hermida, Belen
name: Fassi, Davide
name: Giunta, Elena Enrica
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330108
subject: Interior design

description: RESEARCH BACKGROUND: IDEA Journal is recognized as an international peer review journal dedicated to fostering and publishing research in the discipline. There are only 3 other journals ranked as such. Established in 1996, IDEA's (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association's) purpose is the advancement of education by encouraging and supporting excellence in interior design/interior architecture education and research within Australasia; and being the regional authority on, and advocate for interior design/interior architecture education and research. The journal has been published since 1999; from 2014 to 2016, I was invited to be executive editor. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: I invited colleagues from Milan and Madrid to collaborate on a special issue that brought urban + interior together to address the significant transformation of cities. An international call for papers and creative works resulted in 83 registrations of interest with 41 full submissions and 8 selected for publication after double-blind peer review. 'URBAN + INTERIOR' details the development of urban interior as a research and pedagogical concern at different institutions as well as the research of the five co-editors. The essay presents the value of an expanded idea of interior design situated in the urban environment with a significant contribution to 21st century societies and cultures. My contribution presents the research group Urban Interior and draws on research I conducted plus the research encountered through IDEA Journal's call for submissions. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Published online http://idea-edu.com/journal/2015-idea-journal/ and distributed via hard copy, the journal is IDEA's major initiative. The impact of the editorial provocation, call for submissions and the essay 'Urban + Interior' have found resonance internationally as evidenced by the published submissions; as well as creating a cross-institutional dialogue.
Is progress being made on Canada’s palliative care framework and action plan? : A survey of stakeholder perspectives
Creators: name: Pesut, Barbara
name: Thorne, Sally E. (Sally Elizabeth), 1951-
name: Huisken, Anne
name: Wright, David Kenneth
name: Chambaere, Kenneth
name: Tishelman, Carol
name: Ghosh, Sunita
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: The legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada in 2016 provided new impetus for improving palliative care. This commitment to improvement included the development of a National Palliative Care Framework and Action Plan. The purpose of this study was to understand the progress made in palliative care since 2016 from the perspective of persons working and volunteering in palliative care and compare geographic differences. Methods: A digital survey was developed from goals identified in Canada’s Palliative Care Framework and Action Plan and administered online using Qualtrics. Participants were recruited through national palliative care organizations. The survey included both quantitative survey items designed to evaluate improvements across 5 domains and 29 items and included open-ended questions about impacts, innovations, and ongoing challenges. Descriptive statistics were generated for survey domains, items, and demographic variables. Geographic differences were compared using Independent-Samples Kruskal–Wallis test. Qualitative data was analyzed inductively into themes. Results: One hundred fifty surveys met inclusion criteria and were analysed. Overall, the most improvement was reported in palliative care education and the least improvement was reported in support for family caregivers. Items on which respondents reported the most improvement included healthcare provider education in palliative care, advance care planning, and use of technology. Items on which respondents reported the least improvement were respite for family caregivers, access to bereavement services, and in-home support for family caregivers. Notably, rural participants reported more statistically significant improvements in the domains of education, access, and research and data collection than their urban counterparts. However, rural participants reported less improvement in places to die when home is not preferable. The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant contributor to these perceived improvements and ongoing challenges. Conclusion: Canada’s Framework and Action Plan sets out a roadmap for improving palliative care in Canada. Participants in this survey noted significant improvements in key areas, a notable accomplishment amidst the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some improvements were a result of greater use of distance technology. Further leveraging these improvements will make an important contribution to solving some of the rural and remote palliative care issues that have arisen from Canada’s unique geography.
Black (W)hole Foods : Okra, Soil and Blackness in The Underground Railroad (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2021)
Creators: name: Brown, William, 1977-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: This essay analyses the role played by okra in The Underground Railroad, together with how it functions in relation to the soil that sustains it and which allows it to grow. I argue that okra represents an otherwise lost African past for both protagonist Cora and for the show in general and that this transplanted plant, similar to the transplanted Africans who endured the Middle Passage on the way to ‘New World’ slave plantations, survives by going through ‘black holes’, something that is not only linked poetically to the established trope of the otherwise absent Black mother but which also finds support from physics, where wormholes (similar to the holes created by worms in the soil) take us through black holes and into new worlds, realities or dimensions. This is reflected in Jenkins’s series (as well as Whitehead’s novel) by the titular Underground Railroad itself, which sees Cora and others disappear underground only to reappear in new states (the show travels from Georgia to South Carolina to North Carolina to Tennessee to Indiana and so on), as well as specifically in the show through the formal properties of the audio-visual (cinematic/televisual) medium, which, with its cuts and movements, similarly keeps shifting through space and time in a nonlinear but generative fashion. Finally, I suggest that we cannot philosophise the plant or the medium of film (or television or streaming media) without philosophising race, with The Underground Railroad serving as a means for bringing together plants and plantations, soil and wormholes and Blackness and black holes, which, collectively and playfully, I group under the umbrella term ‘black (w)hole foods’.
Study of forward J/Psi production vs eventmultiplicity in p+p collisions at PHENIX
Creators: name: Liu, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dis22
phenix
spin
J/Ψ
multiplicity
p+p
forward-rapidity
dimuon
alice
star

description: Talk presented at the Deep-Inelastic Scattering 2022 conference
Bestandsaufnahme der Emissionen, Einleitungen und Verluste nach Art. 5 der RL 2008/105/EG bzw. § 4 Abs. 2 OGewV in Deutschland
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Oberflächengewässer
subject: Schadstoffemission
subject: Emissionen
subject: Schadstoffeinleitung
subject: Wasser
subject: Water

description: Das methodische Vorgehen und die Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen der ersten Bestandsaufnahme der Emissionen, Einleitungen und Verluste nach Artikel 5 der Richtlinie 2008/105/EG bzw. § 4 Absatz 2 Oberflächengewässerverordnung (prioritäre Stoffe und bestimmter anderer Schadstoffe) in Deutschland werden zusammengefasst. Als Schlussfolgerungen aus den Ergebnissen werden Empfehlungen für zukünftige Bestandsaufnahmen formuliert. In dieser ersten Bestandsaufnahme lag neben der Abschätzung der Emissionen, Einträge und Verluste prioritärer Stoffe ein Fokus auf der Erarbeitung und Abstimmung eines in Bund-/Länder- Kooperation bundesweit koordinierten und abgestimmten organisatorischen und methodischen Vorgehens. Dieses Ziel wurde erreicht. Notwendige Arbeitsschritte, Zuständigkeiten und der Informationsbedarf wurden herausgearbeitet und transparent und nachvollziehbar in insgesamt sechs Arbeitspapieren dokumentiert. Das auf diese Weise erarbeitete organisatorische sowie fachliche Gesamtkonzept des Vorgehens war nicht nur Arbeitsgrundlage für die erste Bestandsaufnahme, sondern kann auch als solides Grundgerüst und Vorlage für die Durchführung zukünftiger Bestandsaufnahmen dienen.
Ethelurgus syrphicola
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Ethelurgus
Ethelurgus syrphicola

description: 18.8.1 Ethelurgus syrphicola (Ashmead, 1890)
Distribution. Nearctic, Neotropical; Chile: Región Metropolitana (Townes 1983); Región del Biobío (Townes 1983); Región de La Araucanía (Townes 1983).
Comments. The species is present in Chile with the subspecies Ethelurgus syrphicola rufipes (Brèthes, 1909) (Townes 1983).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Sub rosa
Creators: name: Rendle-Short, Francesca
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: BACKGROUND Creative writing practice can be a performative act, a process through which a range of subjectivities can be construed and disseminated (Baker and Thompson, 2015), identities and sexualities can be explored, interrogated. 'Sub rosa' was commissioned with the brief to explore the idea of the unconscious and queer culture (allegorical language) as expressed through personal histories, symbols and images. What happens when you peer into, or pull queer out of, the interstices of lived experience? How might it look/form itself on the page, how would a reader read it for the ear; in other words, what happens when the essay Acts Up (Fleischmann 2013) or 'performs'? CONTRIBUTION The author proceeds to answer these questions by way of the queer critical/creative practice of Maggie Nelson and ideas of the always-as-possibles (2015) and Quinn Eades and écriture matière (2015). 'Sub rosa' investigates notions of shame and assertion/display hand-in-glove with the queer aesthetic of the nonfiction essay form, how far it can be stretched, manipulated, queered, while making some sort of sense. SIGNIFICANCE 'Sub rosa' probes the malleability of the written form, finds joy or jouissance in the telling; elevates as queer cantillation the unspoken, unsettled, peculiar, and tangential. It is uncompromising in tackling the political. Arts Hub singled out 'Sub rosa' as a notable contribution for its 'radical re-thinking of the symbolic order'. It is included in the Nick Henderson Zine Collection on Informit in the National Library of Australia. The Lifted Brow queer folio was launched with readings at a special event at the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival. A reading of this work was also included in the sold-out Queer Literary Salon, top-pick of Readings Bookstore and Time Out. The Lifted Brow is a praised quarterly print magazine/journal that is read nationally and internationally (6500 distributed), publishing a rollcall of outstanding national and international writers.
Preclinical and Clinical Research Models of Prostate Cancer: A Brief Overview
Creators: name: Basak, Debasish
name: Gregori, Lisney
name: Johora, Fatema
name: Deb, Subrata
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: The incidence and mortality from prostate cancer (PCa) are on the rise which poses a major public health concern worldwide. In this narrative review, we have summarized the characteristics of major in vitro and in vivo PCa models including their utility in developing treatment strategies. Androgens, particularly, testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) activate the androgen receptor (AR) signaling pathway that facilitates the development and progression of castration resistant PCa. Several enzymes namely, CYP17A1, HSD17B, and SRD5A are essential to furnishing DHT from dehydroepiandrosterone in the classical pathway while DHT is formed from androstanediol in the backdoor pathway. The advancement in delineating the molecular heterogeneity of PCa has been possible through the development of several in vitro and in vivo research models. Generally, tissue culture models are advantageous to understand PCa biology and investigate the efficacy and toxicity of novel agents; nevertheless, animal models are indispensable to studying the PCa etiology and treatment since they can simulate the tumor microenvironment that plays a central role in initiation and progression of the disease. Moreover, the availability of several genetically engineered mouse models has made it possible to study the metastasis process. However, the conventional models are not devoid of limitations. For example, the lack of heterogeneity in tissue culture models and the variation of metastatic characteristics in xenograft models are obviously challenging. Additionally, due to the racial and ethnic disparities in PCa pathophysiology, a new model that can represent PCa encompassing different ethnicities is urgently needed. New models should continue to evolve to address the genetic and molecular complexities as well as to further elucidate the finer details of the steroidogenic pathway associated with PCa.
title: Ermittlung und Bewertung der Einträge von versauernden und eutrophierenden Luftschadstoffen in terrestrische Ökosysteme (PINETI2)
title: Ermittlung und Bewertung der Einträge von versauernden und eutrophierenden Luftschadstoffen in terrestrische Ökosysteme (PINETI2)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schlutow, Angela
name: Scheuschner, Thomas
name: Bouwer, Yolandi
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2017
Subjects: Critical Load
Versauerung
Eutrophierung

description: Zur Bewertung der Risiken, denen naturnahe Ökosysteme durch den Eintrag von Luftschadstoffen ausgesetzt sind, wurde in diesem Vorhaben der Critical-Load-Ansatz nach der einfachen Massenbilanzmethode verwendet. Wird der ökosystemspezifische Critical Load durch die ebenfalls in diesem Vorhaben ermittelten Stoffeinträge für die Jahre 2009, 2010 und 2011 überschritten, sind die Ökosysteme durch den Eintrag von Schwefel- und Stickstoffverbindungen einem Versauerungsrisiko ausgesetzt bzw. unterliegen einer unzulässigen Eutrophierung (nur Stickstoff). Damit einher geht die Gefährdung der Biodiversität in Deutschland. Beim Schutz vor Versauerung zeigen die Maßnahmen zur Luftreinhaltung große Wirkung. So verminderte sich der Anteil an Ökosystemen, die von Überschreitungen des Critical Load für Säureeinträge betroffenen sind, von ehemals über 80 Prozent im Jahr 1990 auf nunmehr ca. 10 Prozent (Jahr 2011, seesalzkorrigiert). Deutlich geringere Entlastungen gab es beim Schutz vor Eutrophierung, wo auch im Jahr 2011 noch ca. 65 Prozent aller Ökosysteme durch Überschreitung der zulässigen Stickstoffeinträge gefährdet bleiben. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: To evaluate the risks that natural ecosystems are exposed by deposition of air pollutants, the simple mass balance critical load approach has been used in this project. If the ecosystem specific critical loads are exceeded due to air pollutant depositions determined in this project for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011, ecosystems are exposed to an acidification risk by the entry of sulfur and nitrogen compounds and/or are under risk of eutrophication (nitrogen only). This is accompanied by the threat to biodiversity in Germany. In protection against acidification the measures to avoid air pollution have a great effect. Thus, the proportion of ecosystems that are affected by critical load exceedance decreased from formerly more than 80 percent in the year 1990 to recent 10 percent (2011, sea salt corrected). But there was significantly less progress in the protection against eutrophication, where about 65 percent of all ecosystems remain endangered in 2011 by nitrogen deposition above the critical load. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Gelis Thunberg 1827
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Gelis

description: 18.9 Genus Gelis Thunberg, 1827
Gelis Thunberg, 1827: 199.
Type species Mutilla acarorum Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1914: 61).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Extracts from Frangula alnus Mill. and Their Effects on Environmental and Probiotic Bacteria
Creators: name: Kledecka, Agata
name: Siejak, Przemysław
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
name: Kowalczewski, Przemysław Łukasz
name: Fathordoobady, Farahnaz
name: Jarzębski, Maciej
name: Smułek, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: The bark of Frangula alnus Mill (FAM), the so-called alder buckthorn, has been widely investigated for its medicinal properties, especially its laxative effects and the bioactive properties of the plant material extract. Still, there is no wider study devoted to its antibacterial properties. This is important in the context of its impact on probiotic gut bacteria. The aim of the research was to recognize the effect of FAM extract on bacterial cells, and to determine how the bioactive properties and composition of the extract are influenced by the type of solvent used for the extraction. To find the most suitable conditions for the FAM extraction, we used four solvent solutions with different polarities, including water, methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol. We assessed the quality and composition of the extracts with spectral analysis, using spectrophotometric (FTIR, UV-Vis) and chromatographic methods (GC-MS). Finally, we analyzed the extractant impact of the extracts on the selected bacterial cells. The results showed that the chemical diversity of the extracts increased with the increase in solvent polarity, in which the abundance of frangulin, the main bioactive compound in buckthorn bark, was confirmed. Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 was particularly sensitive to the action of extracts, whereas other strains of the Pseudomonas genus showed practically no adverse effects. Ethanolic extracts had the strongest effect on most of the selected bacteria strains. We found that the probiotic Lactobacillus strain, which represents intestinal microflora, has no direct effect on probiotic microorganisms. The research shown FAM extracts can be safe for probiotic bacteria present in human gut microflora. Moreover, the study indicated that contact with the extracts may reduce the total permeability of the bacterial membranes. This opens up the possibility of using FAM extracts as a factor regulating transport into cells, which may be used to support the action of other bioactive substances.
PHENIX - very forward neutron AN
Creators: name: Seidl, Ralf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dis22
phenix
p+p
spin
forward-rapidity
neutron
zdc
smd
transverse spin asymmetry
p+al
p+au
upc
correlations
bbc

description: Talk presented at the Deep-Inelastic Scattering 2022 conference
Gelis abortivus
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Gelis
Gelis abortivus

description: 18.9.1 Gelis abortivus (Spinola, 1851) *
Distribution. Chile (Spinola 1851).
Comments. Spinola (1851) in the original description does not cite any locality for the original type series. Townes & Townes (1966) acknowledged the possibility that the species belongs to Braconidae.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Isdromas Forster 1869
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Isdromas

description: 18.10 Genus Isdromas Förster, 1869
Isdromas Förster, 1869: 180.
Type species Acrolyta aletiae Ashmead, 1896, by subsequent designation by Viereck (1914: 78).
Comments. Porter (1991) mentions one unidentified species for Región de Tarapacá.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Meringops Townes 1970
Creators: name: Araujo, Rodrigo O.
name: Fernandes, Daniell R. R.
name: Pos, Davide Dal
name: Giovanni, Filippo Di
name: Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
name: Pádua, Diego G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Meringops

description: 18.11 Genus Meringops Townes, 1970 *
Meringops Townes, 1970a: 80.
Type species Meringops minipes Townes, 1970, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rodrigo O., Fernandes, Daniell R. R., Pos, Davide Dal, Giovanni, Filippo Di, Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés & Pádua, Diego G., 2025, Unveiling the secrets of South American Darwin wasps, part I: a comprehensive checklist of the Chilean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea), pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15326657
Measurement of direct photon cross-section and double helicity asymmetry at 510 GeV in p+p collisions at PHENIX
Creators: name: Ji, Zhongling
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dis22
phenix
direct photon
p+p
isolated
photon
longitudinal spin asymmetry
pythia
cross section

description: Talk presented at the Deep-Inelastic Scattering 2022 conference