cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes: Evaluating the Quality of a Nurse’s Patient Teaching Near the Day of Discharge to Home
Creators: name: Rumley, Kimberley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Transitions in health care, such as discharge from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to home can be dangerous by placing older adult patients at risk for avoidable harms. However, SNFs do not commonly standardize the process of preparing patients for transitions in care. Teaching patients and caregivers a complete, written discharge plan on the day of discharge has been shown to improve the patients’ safety during this transition. In this Senior Honor Thesis, a nurse’s re-enactment of the Connect-Home’s day of discharge education was filmed.  Using the video and a checklist that was adapted from the Connect-Home intervention study, the components of the discharge teaching were analyzed to determine the quality of the discharge teaching. It was found that the nurse’s teaching was concordant with all components of the Connect-Home teaching protocol. The implication of this finding is that the Connect-Home teaching protocol is feasible and that this nurse’s re-enactment of her use of the protocol can be used to educate other nurses to effectively teach patients at discharge.  This is significant because new tools and standardized methods to train nurses on teaching a written discharge plan are needed. It is essential that nurses are trained to consistently use high quality teaching methods, and the protocol demonstrated in this video is an important tool for achieving this goal.
Taxing for human rights: a critical assessment the example of Zambia and the right to education
Creators: name: Ilic, Marijana
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: education
human rights
Zambia
international humanitarian law
taxation

description: Second semester University: Lund University.
description: Mobilising revenue and taxation are crucial tasks for all countries in order to fulfil human rights to which they have committed themselves by international law. But this task appears even more difficult and frustrating for developing countries and they struggle on a daily basis to mobilise necessary funds. The present thesis deals with the ability of Zambia to mobilise resources for the fulfilment of minimum core human rights obligations in the area of education. While assessing Zambia’s fiscal commitment to human rights, the analysis also incorporates the influence of external factors that influence the capacity to finance the most basic human rights. By looking at Zambia, it will be examined whether the state has done everything possible to advance the human right to education for all, without discrimination, and whether the government has undertaken every possible effort to mobilise resources necessary for its realisation.
H-ATLAS/GAMA: Quantifying the Morphological Evolution of the Galaxy Population Using Cosmic Calorimetry
Creators: name: Eales, Stephen
name: Fullard, Andrew
name: Allen, Matthew
name: Smith, M. W. L.
name: Baldry, Ivan
name: Bourne, Nathan
name: Clark, C. J. R.
name: Driver, Simon
name: Dunne, Loretta
name: Dye, Simon
name: Graham, Alister W.
name: Ibar, Edo
name: Hopkins, Andrew
name: Ivison, Rob
name: Kelvin, Lee S.
name: Maddox, Steve
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: Robotham, Aaron S. G.
name: Smith, Dan
name: Taylor, Edward N.
name: Valiante, Elisabetta
name: van der Werf, Paul
name: Baes, Maarten
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Clements, David
name: Cooray, Asantha
name: Gomez, Haley
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Phillipps, Steven
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Serjeant, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using results from the Herschel Astrophysical Terrahertz Large-Area Survey and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly project, we show that, for galaxy masses above approximately 1.0e8 solar masses, 51% of the stellar mass-density in the local Universe is in early-type galaxies (ETGs: Sersic n > 2.5) while 89% of the rate of production of stellar mass-density is occurring in late-type galaxies (LTGs: Sersic n < 2.5). From this zero-redshift benchmark, we have used a calorimetric technique to quantify the importance of the morphological transformation of galaxies over the history of the Universe. The extragalactic background radiation contains all the energy generated by nuclear fusion in stars since the Big Bang. By resolving this background radiation into individual galaxies using the deepest far-infrared survey with the Herschel Space Observatory and a deep near-infrared/optical survey with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and using measurements of the Sersic index of these galaxies derived from the HST images, we estimate that approximately 83% of the stellar mass-density formed over the history of the Universe occurred in LTGs. The difference between this and the fraction of the stellar mass-density that is in LTGs today implies there must have been a major transformation of LTGs into ETGs after the formation of most of the stars.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
From "the other" to "part of us" : a legal, historical, political and sociological analysis of the relationship between Austria and the Islam
Creators: name: Franzinelli, Corinna
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: integration
Islam
muslims
Austria

description: Second semester University: Comenius University, Bratislava.
description: The general purpose of this thesis is to analyse the attitude towards and the relationship with Islam in Austria, a country actually among the most liberal and active ones in Europe. Due to demographic changes, the Muslim population of Austria increased substantially during the last decades. Anti-Muslim attitudes, direct and indirect discrimination and the rise of right-wing parties and nationalism are opposed to this demographic development. Muslim and Islam are still perceived as something not belonging to ‘us’ and both the media and political parties are misusing corresponding images. This thesis will try to throw light on the real situation through an in-depth analysis of the legal, historical, political and sociological aspects that influence the relationship between the Austrian state and Islam. Starting with an analysis of the 2015 Islam Act, it will continue by explaining the Austrian approach to secularism (through recognising religious groups) and examine the creation of Austrian national identity, showing that religion has played a minor role in this process. In order to understand the othering discourse regarding Muslims, theories of cultural and collective memory will be used. Finally, the thesis shows how – on a historical and sociological level- Islam has in fact been/become part of Austria. Nevertheless, the situation remains tense due to national and international developments. For this reason, it is crucial to promote integration, collaboration and participation of Muslims in the Austrian society.
European Union and external migration management in Turkey and Serbia: the case for human rights
Creators: name: Barros, Madalena : Gonçalves De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: European Union
migrations
Turkey
Serbia
human rights
foreign relations

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana
description: Regarding the current increase of the migration flows in the 21st century, different impacts have developed various actions in the multiple stakeholders. In fact, migrants faced many challenges on their migratory routes from the origin, over the transit and until the host countries. Therefore, the present thesis will focus its analysis on the capacity of the EU to ensure the protection of the human rights of the migrants. Considering the lack of protection of the migrants in the context of the migratory flows in Europe, the present research aims to explore how to better align the EU external migration management with the protection of the human rights of the migrants in third countries, concretely considering the specificities of the Turkish and Serbian cases.
Germline Analysis from Tumor-Germline Sequencing Dyads to Identify Clinically Actionable Secondary Findings
Creators: name: Amin, Krunal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In the past decade, tumor-germline next generation sequencing has become a
routine part of personalized oncology care. Via this method, germline mutations are
typically subtracted from those in the tumor to identify somatic mutations, thus negating
the possibility of discovering germline variants. Previously, it has been proposed that the
identification of germline variants could have significant clinical implications for patients
with hereditary cancers and their family members. In this exploratory research study, we
sought to investigate the prevalence of germline variants identified through clinical
tumor-germline sequencing among a cohort of patients across ten major cancer types.
Germline sequencing data from 439 individuals undergoing tumor-germline sequencing
through the LCCC1108/UNCseq™ (NCT01457196) study were analyzed for genetic
variants in 36 hereditary cancer susceptibility genes. Variants indicative of hereditary
cancer predisposition were identified in 19 (4.3%) patients. For about half (10/19), these
findings represent new molecular diagnostic information with potentially important
implications for the patient and their family. Genes with pathogenic variants included the
hereditary cancer genes: ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CDKN2A, and CHEK2. Furthermore, a
substantial proportion of patients (178, or 40.5%) had Variants of Uncertain Significance
(VUS), 24 of which had VUS in genes pertinent to the presenting cancer. Overall, with
approximately 4% of cases harboring pathogenic variants in known hereditary cancer
susceptibility genes, diagnostic germline findings such as these could be beneficial for
patients and their families
EU sanctions: a new human rights tool? : the case of Belarus
Creators: name: Alamillos Sánchez, Rocio
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: foreign policy
sanctions
Belarus
European Union

description: Second semester University: University of Graz.
description: The thesis focuses on the use of EU sanctions to promote respect for human rights in third countries. Targeted or ‘smart’ sanctions have been widely used in recent years by the European Union in pursue of its foreign policy objectives. Their purpose it is not punitive but to bring about a behavioural or policy change. This work reveals to what extent sanctions have become a ‘normative tool’ to promote ‘normative aims’. On the other hand sanctions may conflict with other fundamental principles of international law, namely the principle of non-intervention or with respect for fundamental right of the targets. This work claims that the EU sanctions can effectively contribute to decrease human rights violations in third states. However, the effectiveness of these measures depends on a higher level of consistency among member states at the decision-making and implementation level. Based on the research outlined above the case study on Belarus illustrates the function of sanctions in a wider strategy to promote and protect human rights, however, the existence of the above mentioned inconsistencies have led to failure of this policy.
Do more liberal prostitution policies increase human trafficking? : an analysis of the Swedish and the German prostitution policies
Creators: name: Hausser, Claudia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: prostitution
Germany
Sweden
trafficking

description: Second semester University: Lund University.
description: In 2013 Germany among other EU states, started to review its prostitution policy and naturally discussions on trafficking in human beings (THB) as the “modern-day slavery” are always accompanying these legislative reforms. Although clear empirical evidence on an actual link between the prostitution policies of states and THB is still missing, the public and political debate on prostitution is always highly emotionally loaded and it is never discussed without also touching upon the topic of THB. Sweden and Germany have completely different prostitution policies. The so called Swedish Model was the first prostitution policy that focussed on the clients of sex workers through criminalising the purchase of sexual services in 1999. In contrast, the German prostitution law reform from 2002 liberalised the German sex work market through inter alia a legal de-stigmatisation of sex work. This thesis deals with the question whether or not more liberal prostitution policies increase THB. For this purpose the terms THB, prostitution/sex work and forced prostitution are defined and the question, how THB and sex work are interlinked, is answered. Furthermore, the Swedish and German prostitution polices and their present statistics on THB for sexual exploitation are analysed, evaluated and compared.
Dynamically Probing Ultracold Lattice Gases via Rydberg Molecules
Creators: name: Manthey, Torsten
name: Niederprüm, Thomas
name: Thomas, Oliver
name: Ott, Herwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the excitation of long-range Rydberg molecules in a three-dimensional optical lattice can be used as a position- and time-sensitive probe of the site occupancy in the system. To this end, we detect the ions which are continuously generated by the decay of the formed Rydberg molecules. While a superfluid gas shows molecule formation for all parameters, a Mott insulator with $n=1$ filling reveals a strong suppression of the number of formed molecules. In the limit of weak probing, the technique can be used to probe the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition in real-time. Our method can be extended to higher fillings and has various applications for the real-time diagnosis and manipulation of ultracold lattice gases.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Characterization of Proteorhodopsins in the Oceanic Diatom Pseudo-nitzschia Granii
Creators: name: Catlett, Dylan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Proteorhodopsins are retinal-binding membrane proteins that may act as light-driven proton pumps to generate energy that can be used for metabolism and growth. These proteins were originally characterized in prokaryotes, but have now been found in many eukaryotic marine species including one of the ocean’s most important primary producers, the pennate diatom Pseudo-nitzschia granii. The precise function of proteorhodopsins in P. granii is unknown. Evidence suggests that these proteins are expressed in response to iron limitation to function in the formation of ATP when the photosynthetic machinery, which is highly dependent upon iron availability, is not providing enough energy for the cell. The goal of my research is to elucidate the function of these proteins in diatoms by examining the relative expression levels of the rhodopsin and carotenoid oxygenase genes in response to iron and light limitation. My results suggest that proteorhodopsins do serve as an alternative to photosynthesis for the generation of ATP under iron limitation and that they may also serve to supplement energy production by photosynthesis under light limitation. This research will provide valuable insight into these diatoms’ mechanisms of coping with a common source of environmental stress.
Citizenship and nationality in the Caucasus region 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union: ending statelessness in the Caucasus
Creators: name: Griffiths, Zoë Alison
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: citizenship
Caucasus
statelessness

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark - Danish Institute for Human Rights.
description: The thesis examines statelessness using the example of the multi-ethnic region of the Caucasus, the region is composed of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and part of the Russian Federation. In December 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, creating new states; these newly established states were faced with having to create a new legal framework for citizenship. In other words, to determine who will be included and who will be excluded, who qualifies as a full member of society with the panoply of rights and protection that citizenship entails and who falls outside the reach of citizenship protection. By first identifying the keys to the problem of statelessness, this thesis then presents the region of the case study; the Caucasus. Later, the thesis dedicates one of its chapters to the human side of statelessness; what it means to be a stateless person. Last but not least, the thesis depicts the legal side of citizenship and statelessness in the Caucasus. The aim of the thesis is the establishment of recommendations so as to improve the situation of stateless persons and so as to end statelessness in the Caucasus. NB: This research only deals with de jure stateless persons. De jure stateless persons have no legal bond with any country. This research excludes de facto stateless persons. De facto stateless persons have citizenship but the reality is different as the country of their citizenship fails to protect them. NB: In this thesis, in general the term nationality refers to the ethnic origin, and the term citizenship to the legal relation one has with a country. In international law, the term nationality refers, most of the time, to the legal relation one has with a country. When a terms is used for another meaning, especially when quoting international law, it is specified in a foot note.
Self-Organized Topological Superconductivity in a Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Chain
Creators: name: Schecter, M.
name: Flensberg, K.
name: Christensen, M. H.
name: Andersen, B. M.
name: Paaske, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a chain of magnetic moments exchange coupled to a conventional three dimensional superconductor. In the normal state the chain orders into a collinear configuration, while in the superconducting phase we find that ferromagnetism is unstable to the formation of a magnetic spiral state. Beyond weak exchange coupling the spiral wavevector greatly exceeds the inverse superconducting coherence length as a result of the strong spin-spin interaction mediated through the subgap band of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. Moreover, the simple spin-spin exchange description breaks down as the subgap band crosses the Fermi energy, wherein the spiral phase becomes stabilized by the spontaneous opening of a $p-$wave superconducting gap within the band. This leads to the possibility of electron-driven topological superconductivity with Majorana boundary modes using magnetic atoms on superconducting surfaces.
description: 12 pages, Published version
Patient-led functional genomics identifies novel drivers of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Creators: name: Younger, Nicholas Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
iCCA
K/NRAS mutants

description: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is a rare and universally lethal malignancy arising in the liver. Incidence has steadily been increasing globally yet effective therapeutics are lacking. Currently, gold standard treatment is complete resection for which a minority of patients are suitable and recurrence rates post resection are high. For the majority of patients unsuitable for surgery, standard chemotherapeutic options extend life by only 3-6 months on average. As such there is a pressing need to elucidate the genetic and molecular features of this malignancy so as to inform the development of more effective therapies. To date, a small but robust set of driver genes have been discovered and for some targeted therapies in development, with mixed results in clinical trials. This work aimed to extend the set of known driver genes by exploring the long tail of infrequently mutated genes in patient sequencing data. Through computational prediction and in vivo screening, a set of driver genes were uncovered which cooperate with the more commonly encountered oncogenic RASG12 isoforms of KRAS and NRAS. Validation studies in vivo confirmed that the membrane cytoskeleton adaptor protein Merlin, encoded by NF2, and the canonical transmembrane semaphorin receptor PLXNB2 encoded by PLXNB2 are tumour suppressors occurring at low frequency in the patient population. Mutation of these genes significantly accelerated disease progression and propagated aggressive, invasive tumour phenotypes.
Consequences of Persistent Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Increased Oxidative Stress
Creators: name: Donoghue, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Environmental toxicants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons can cause irreparable
mitochondrial DNA damage. Mitochondria play a critical role in energy production and aging.
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been associated with diseases occurring in 1 in 4,000 individuals.
In C. elegans nematodes, persistent mitochondrial DNA damage during development from
exposure to ultraviolet C (UVC) irradiation results in delays in development, reduced ATP
production and reduced oxygen consumption and, thus, suggesting dysfunction of the electron
transport chain (ETC). The mechanism by which UVC irradiation causes these effects is unclear;
one hypothesis is that UVC irradiation-induced mitochondrial dysfunction results in production
of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Both ETC dysfunction and UVC exposure can increase levels
of ROS associated with increased cellular damage and homeostatic cell signaling. I investigated
the larval arrest, growth, genome copy number, and regulation of unfolded protein responses by
heat shock proteins in superoxide dismutase (SOD) mutant C. elegans with persistent
mitochondrial DNA damage to investigate the potential role of increased oxidative stress.
Development delay, growth inhibition, and a decrease in mitochondrial-to-nuclear genome copy
number, were seen in UVC-exposed mitochondrial SOD mutants compared to UVC-exposed
wild-type while cytosolic SOD mutants exhibited altered phenotypes similar to wild-type. No
nematode strains showed significant upregulation of mitochondrial, endoplasmic reticulum, or
cytosolic heath shock proteins. These results suggest that UVC exposure specifically affects
mitochondria and that the effects of the mitochondrial DNA damage are exacerbated by
decreased defense against damage caused by mitochondrial superoxide. Further experiments are needed to determine the mechanism(s) that contribute to these altered phenotypes and the extent
of ETC dysfunction due to persistent mitochondrial DNA damage caused by UVC irradiation.
The best way to protect the right to the truth : set-alone or under the framework of other rights or obligations?
Creators: name: Gao, Yang
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: right to the truth

description: Second semester University: Lund University
description: The premises of the research are rooted in the debate about the legal status of the right to the truth in the international law. Since 1980s the right to the truth emerged as a form of remedy for victims of gross human rights violations and a weapon to fight against impunity. It offers individual victims and their relatives a way to gain closure, restore their dignity and experience at least some remedy for their losses. It also helps prevent violations from recurrence in the future. However, the right to the truth is merely explicitly provided for in the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, although it recognized by a series of international instruments, resolutions of intergovernmental bodies and national laws. In majority of cases, international criminal court and regional human rights courts outlined the right to the truth under other human rights or the obligations of state. In order to provide victims and their families with complete protection, it is vital to conduct an in-depth research on the right to the truth. The thesis mainly analyzes two feasible approaches to realize the right to the truth: regarding it as an independent right or outlining it under other rights or obligations. Finally, I will draw a conclusion by presenting evidences.
Juvenile detainees education : a question not only of law but also of curriculum
Creators: name: Sakka, Anthi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: juvenile detention
Cyprus
Greece
right to education

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna
description: It is estimated that more than a million children worldwide are deprived of their liberty for different reasons and in different ways and contexts. However, passing through the prison gate does not mean that children lose their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that are associated with the deprivation of liberty. This study, which focuses on the context of juvenile justice, aims to shed light on children’s rights to education concerning those in pre-trial detention or serving a sentence in prison, as derived from international human rights instruments and standards. It also investigates the compliance of Greek and Cypriot prison education practices with the international human rights requirements through national laws and the implemented curricula. The study concludes with recommendations to the Greek state for drafting an adaptable and acceptable curriculum especially designed for primary prison schools. The recommendations are based on the findings of the qualitative study that was conducted in the primary school of the Special Juvenile Detention Establishment of Avlonas. Visit was also conducted in the general prison school of Nicosia Central Prisons.
Nitella axillaris A. Braun 1858
Creators: name: Borges, Fabio Renato
name: Jr, Orlando Necchi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Charophyceae
Charales
Characeae
Nitella
Nitella axillaris

description: Nitella axillaris A. Braun (1858: 356)
Figs. 11–16.
Plants monoecious, up to 26.6 cm high, without calcium carbonate deposition. Axes 299–1182 μm in diameter, internodes 0.7–4.1 cm long, 0.5–3.5 (mean 1.1) times as long as the branchlets. Branchlets sterile and fertile different; steriles (5–) 6–8 in a whorl, 0.7–3.7 cm long, 1(2) furcated but appearing simple with tiny terminal coronula; rays (5–) 6–8, constituting the entire branchlet lenght, 283–929 μm in diameter. Dactyls (2)3–4(–6), 2(3)-celled, abbreviated, 0.02–0.04 cm long, 81–279 μm in diameter, penultimate cell tapering gradually towards the base of end cell; end cell conical, acute or acuminate, often deciduous. Fertile branchlets compacted in axillary heads (rarely terminal), 1–2 furcate. Heads numerous, axillary; sessile or stipitate, densely compact or rarely loose, to 0.4cm. Gametangia sejoined or conjoined restricted to branchlet nodes of the heads (rarely at branchlet nodes out of heads). Oogonia 1–2 at a node, 191–411 μm long (excl. nucula), 140–381 μm in wide; convolutions (5)6–7; coronula 26–43 μm high, 46–71 μm wide at base, upper cells usually higher than basal cells; coronular cells convergent, persistent. Oospores brown to dark brown, 236–278 μm long, 224–264 μm wide; striae (5–)6(–7); fossa 39–59 μm across; membrane reticulate under LM and beaded imperfect reticulate to reticulate under SEM. Antheridia solitary, 104–204 μm in diameter, 8 scutate.
 Specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Mato Grosso do Sul: Entrance to the Recanto da Barra Farm, BR262, near KM484, between the municipalities of Terenos and Anastácio, 20°30’6.1’’S, 55°45’34.7’’W, 13 May 2014, coll. F. R. Borges (SJRP32553). São Paulo: Pond of Ninféias, State Park, Municipality of São Paulo, 23°38’19.40”S, 46°37’19.18”W, 12 September 2014, coll. D. F. Peralta (SJRP32566).
 DNA sequences: rbc L- MG004810, MG004809; ITS1- MG029146, MG004809; ITS2- MG029146, MG004809.
description: Published as part of Borges, Fabio Renato & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, Taxonomy and phylogeny of Nitella (Charophyceae, Characeae) from Brazil with emphasis on the midwest and southeast regions, pp. 181-198 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on pages 189-190, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706746
Entanglement temperature for black branes with hyperscaling violation
Creators: name: Xu, Xiao-Bao
name: Li, Gu-Qiang
name: Mo, Jie-Xiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement temperature is an interesting quantity which relates the increased amount of entanglement entropy and energy for a weakly excited state in entanglement first-law, it is proportional to the inverse of the size of the entanglement subsystem and only depends on the shape of the entanglement region. We find the explicit formula of entanglement temperature for the general hyperscaling violation backgrounds with a strip-subsystem. We then investigate the entanglement temperature for a round ball-subsystem, we check that the entanglement temperature have a universal form when the hyperscaling violation exponent is near zero.
description: 14 pages, no figures, v2: minor clarifications and typos corrected
Teenage pregnancy and education : girls right to education and how it is affected by pregnancy before the age of eighteen
Creators: name: Georgiadou, Despoina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2012
Subjects: right to education
teenage pregnancy

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast.
description: The aim of this thesis is to shed light on the ways the right to education of teenage mothers is affected in the cases of Greece and Northern Ireland. For the assessment of this right are used the 4As scheme for evaluating whether education is accessible, available, acceptable and adaptable and states’ obligations of respect, protection and fulfilment. Despite the fact that the right to education is protected by various international, national and domestic legal documents in the two referred countries, reality differs from theory. Teenage mothers face lack of policies and insufficient monitoring of the existing ones with regard to their education. They are unaware of their rights in order to claim them and when this is not the case, bureaucracy hardens the realisation of their rights. Schools neither adjust to the needs of school age mothers, nor prepare them for the job market and most of the times schools’ personnel defines their educational future. Lack of benefits and tutors for their due date, uniform changes and difficulties in transportation towards their school, child’s nursery and home enhance the disengagement of teenage mothers from education. This thesis presents the weaknesses between theory and practice, but on the other hand by the analysis of these cases, the author highlights the situation within Europe and specifically in Greece and in Northern Ireland.
Inhibition of insulin secretion in β-cells exposed to arsenic, cadmium and manganese is associated with altered microRNA expression
Creators: name: Chandi, Mohit
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a global public health epidemic characterized by the inability of the body to properly regulate blood glucose and can manifest in different forms. A variety of risk factors, such as obesity, family history and a high-caloric diet, increase the risk of developing Type II DM. Recently, environmental exposures, including inorganic arsenic (iAs), cadmium (Cd) and manganese (Mn) have been associated with diabetes and altered glucose homeostasis. Previous research from our lab has shown that while iAs, Cd and Mn impair glucose stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) in rat insulinoma (beta) cells, they may be operating through different mechanisms which remain unknown. MicroRNAs, which are short, non-coding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally, have recently emerged as a candidate link between metal exposure and the development of diabetes. The goal of the present study was to evaluate iAs, Cd or Mn exposure on insulin response in rat insulinoma cells and their association with dysregulated miRNA expression. As anticipated, 24-hour exposure to a non-cytotoxic concentration of iAs (1 μM) inhibited GSIS by nearly 50%, while non-cytotoxic concentrations of Cd (5 μM) and Mn (25 μM) inhibited GSIS by more than 50%. These same metal exposures did not have the same effect on the three probed microRNAs (miR-29b, miR-146a, miR-217), which suggests each metal may be operating in a unique way. Small RNA sequencing revealed that these exposures resulted in a unique miRNA profile, with all of the exposures sharing a set of miRNAs found to be highly enriched in pancreatic islets and specifically β-cells. By combining sequencing data with in vitro techniques, we have begun to investigate the relationship between heavy metal exposure, miRNAs, and impaired insulin secretion.
Cancer Caregivers' Safe Handling of Contaminated Excreta with Antineoplastic Drugs: More Research is Needed
Creators: name: Pickert, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Antineoplastic drugs are a key component to treating cancer. Although antineoplastic agents are toxic to the body’s cells, they are therapeutic for oncology patients because they kill the rapidly dividing neoplastic cells. During treatment, oncology patients’ excreta (sweat, urine, vomit, feces) is contaminated with antineoplastic drugs and can, therefore, expose others, including their caregivers to the antineoplastic agents. While guidelines exist for safe handling for healthcare professionals, there is limited research concerning caregiver safe handling of contaminated excreta in the home setting. Without clear guidelines and educational materials for the caregivers to follow, they are at an increased risk of antineoplastic exposure and possible drug side effects such as infertility, skin rashes, and miscarriages (CDC, 2018).
Nitella elegans B. P. Pal 1932
Creators: name: Borges, Fabio Renato
name: Jr, Orlando Necchi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Charophyceae
Charales
Characeae
Nitella
Nitella elegans

description: Nitella elegans B. P. Pal (1932: 73)
Figs: 17–22.
 Plants monoecious, up to 29 cm high, without calcium carbonate deposition, but with or without mucous. Axes 57–385 μm in diameter, internodes 0.21–2.3 cm long, 0.6–4.5 (mean 1.75) times as long as the branchlets. Branchlets sterile and fertile similar or the sterile larger and somewhat less furcate; sterile (5–)7–8(–9) in a whorl, 0.3–2.3 cm long, 3–4(5) furcated; primaries rays (5–)7–8(–9), 0.14–1.10 cm long, 55–240 μm in diameter; secondaries rays (4–)6–8(– 10), 0.06–0.60 cm long, 33–152 μm in diameter, with or without central ray; tertiaries rays (3–)5–7, 0.02–0.37 cm long, 28–127 μm in diameter, whit or without central ray; quaternaries (2–)4–6(–8), 0.04–0.24 cm long, 28–109 μm in diameter; quinaries rare. Dactyls (1)2–4(5), 2(–4) celled, commonly abbreviated, 0.01–0.25 cm long, 21–117 μm in diameter, penultimate cell cylindrical tapering distally to base of end cell; end cell conical, acuminate, mucronate. Heads lacking but upper whorls often smaller and somewhat compacted. Gametangia solitary or conjoined at 2 nd –3 rd (–4 th) branchlets nodes with or without mucus. Oogonia 1 at a node, 141–508 μm long (excl. nucula), 109–397 μm in wide; convolutions (5)6–7(8); coronula 27–41 μm high, 43–63 μm wide at base, upper cells normally higher than basal cells; coronular cells convergent, persistent. Oospores light brown to black, 244–301 μm long, 229–268 μm wide; striae 6–7; fossa 40–71 μm across; membrane granulate under LM and finely granulate under SEM. Antheridia solitary, 99–176 μm in diameter, 8 scutate.
 Specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Goiás: BR 070, between the Municipalities of Aragarças and Jussara, elev. 339m, 15°51’26.3”S, 51°36’9.5”W, 15 April 2015, coll. F. R. Borges (SJRP32571). Mato Grosso: District of Primaverinha, BR163, between the Municipalities of Sorriso and Lucas do Rio Verde, 12°50’43.2’’S, 55°49’32.6’’W, 11 May 2014, coll. F. R. Borges (SJRP32548). São Paulo: Pond of Ninféias, State Park, Municipality of São Paulo, 23°38’19.40”S, 46°37’19.18”W, 12 September 2014, coll. D. F. Peralta (SJRP32567).
 DNA sequences: rbc L- MG004801, MG004800, MG004799; ITS1- MG029150, MG029148; ITS2- MG029150, MG029148, MG029149.
 Nitella elegans is here reported for the first time in Brazil.
description: Published as part of Borges, Fabio Renato & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, Taxonomy and phylogeny of Nitella (Charophyceae, Characeae) from Brazil with emphasis on the midwest and southeast regions, pp. 181-198 in Phytotaxa 356 (3) on pages 190-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706746
Evolution of holographic entanglement entropy in an anisotropic system
Creators: name: Ecker, Christian
name: Grumiller, Daniel
name: Stricker, Stefan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine holographically 2-point correlators of gauge invariant operators with large conformal weights and entanglement entropy of strips for a time-dependent anisotropic 5-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime. At the early stage of evolution where geodesics and extremal surfaces can extend beyond the apparent horizon all observables vary substantially from their thermal value, but thermalize rapidly. At late times we recover quasi-normal ringing of correlators and holographic entanglement entropy around their thermal values, as expected on general grounds. We check the behaviour of holographic entanglement entropy and correlators as function of the separation length of the strip and find agreement with the exact expressions derived in the small and large temperature limits.
description: 15 pages + appendices; v2: added references
Fragments of carceral memory : abolitionist narrative work in literature and penal heritage commemoration
Creators: name: Reyes, Michael
name: 0000-0002-5080-0386
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Comparative literature
African-American
French
Caribbean
Guyane
Carceral
Penal heritage
Prison abolition

description: Fragments of Carceral Memory weaves through interconnections between race, colonialism, and criminalization. I use a twofold approach to studying African-American, Caribbean, and French carceral narratives alongside penal heritage commemoration practices, with a primary focus on Guyane’s penal colony. Firstly, my analyses of anti-carceral literary texts includes dramas by Jean Genet and Lorraine Hansberry, an epic poem by Reinaldo Arenas, photo-texts by Eduardo Lalo and Patrick Chamoiseau, and a James Baldwin novel. Secondly, I address a discursive gap between colonial era prison tropes that characterize penal heritage sites and contemporary social movements aimed at abolishing prisons. This research conjoins a broad range of narrative work being created at individual, collective, and institutional levels—from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first—to explain how stories (both personal and imperial) must undergird public understanding of what I term a “colonial-carceral nexus.” Using disciplinary conventions in comparative literature to place Caribbean studies and carceral studies in dialogue, I trace how histories of targeted criminalization and pervasive imprisonment are recalled in literature, re-imagined through memory, and relived through legal systems. My research finds that institutional practices of penal heritage commemoration, in contrast to anti-carceral narratives authored by writers who have either been imprisoned or subjected to prolonged targeted surveillance, tend to view imprisonment in a favorable light. I propose some solutions to bridging this discursive gap and shifting the tenor of institutionally narrativized discourse. In conclusion, I contest the presumed incompatibility of carceral commemoration and prison abolition by raising a parting question: What if a tour in a former prison could become an educational opportunity for encouraging abolitionism?
Electrophysiological effects of transcranial infrared laser stimulation
Creators: name: Fernandez, Dariella A.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Photobiomodulation
EEG
Transcranial laser stimulation

description: Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation (TILS) is a non-invasive intervention that has been found to modulate mitochondrial respiration and cellular functions in brain neurons. In healthy adults, eight minutes of TILS to the right prefrontal cortex has been shown to improve memory and attention. However, little is known about what electrophysiological effect TILS has on the brain. Thus, the objective of this study was to map and image electrophysiological effects in the cerebral cortex during and after TILS to the right prefrontal cortex. A transcranial infrared laser beam at 1064 nm was used on healthy human adult participants. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions, which they were blind to: TILS to the right side of the forehead, or a sham TILS treatment. The participants’ electrophysiological oscillations were recorded from the scalp using 64-channel electroencephalograms (EEG) with eyes closed during a 5-minute baseline, 8-minute TILS or sham treatment, and five-minute post-treatment recording. The results show that TILS significantly increased the density of alpha and beta waves as compared to sham, with the largest increases seen in the alpha waves. Increases in alpha and beta waves were seen bilaterally in anterior and posterior regions of the brain. Changes were dose-dependent but did not continue after the TILS treatment ended. The results from this study help us to further understand the mechanistic link between photobiomodulation and the cognitive enhancing benefits from TILS and can help guide future clinical applications of TILS.
“Sorry for the inconvenience, we are being killed” : the complicity of the Mexican State on the face of feminicide
Creators: name: Ochoa Esquivel, Monica
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mexico
women
homicide
crimes against women
state responsibility
violence against women

description: Second semester University: Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
description: Everyday 6 women are killed in Mexico. Feminicide is a term made popular by the women killed in Ciudad Juarez, however it is now a global phenomena. Nevertheless Mexico, was the first country to receive an international court sentence on this subject, and will remain this thesis subject of study. The Mexican has signed and ratified all of the international and regional instruments on women’s rights, it has received the biggest number of recommendations on this subject matter and has reformed its legislation and criminal code to typify this form of violence. Why is it then that the number of feminicides continue to increase? Why has the Mexican State failed in protecting women against this form of violence? This is the question developed on this research. The thesis starts with the importance of defining concepts, it mentions the various international instruments and mechanisms for women’s rights that acknowledge this form of violence, and finishing with an analysis of the Mexican framework, concluding that it is not that Mexico is incapable of protect women against feminicide, but by perpetuating gender violence, corruption, impunity, and continuously dismissing the victims the State is complicit to the crimes.
The Holy See: sovereign power internationally recognised : does the authority the Holy See exercises within the international community go along with a responsibility for human rights violations?
Creators: name: Leyns, Nathalie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: human rights violations
international law
sovereignty
Vatican City
state liability

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University
description: The objective of this thesis is to examine the link between the competence and power recognised to the Holy See among the international community of states and international responsibility in case of human rights violations. The first part enlightens the purpose of the creation of the Vatican City State and gives a general background to the unique status the Holy See has been granted with. The second part analyses certain international treaties on human rights the Holy See has ratified and the consequences in case of violation. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is considered as a case study in order to discuss the possible direct responsibility of the Holy See. The third part examines the issue of alleged human rights violations that originated from actions of ecclesiastical members or institutions. Focus lies on liability under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in the United States. As regards the European Convention, it is argued that the European Court may influence church-state relations in matters related to certain human rights principles such as the right to a fair trial, the right to respect for private and family life as well as the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Thus, the third part encompasses an analysis of certain judgments of the European Court where decisions of churches’ institutions may have been taken in breach of individual’s rights. On the other hand, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, the special relationship between religious ministers, such as priests, and the Holy See is analysed through the recognition of the possibility for the Holy See to be seen as the priests’ employer and thus to engage its liability for clerical sexual abuses committed against children in the United States.