cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 9 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Figure S8. The Kaplan–Meier survival curve of 21d-mortality using IPTW method by Xgboost. The survival rate of patients in group 4 (high-level stable) were significantly lower than other groups.
An active back-support exoskeleton to reduce spinal loads: actuation and control strategies
Creators: name: TOXIRI, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: Wearable exoskeletons promise to make an impact on many people by
substituting or complementing human capabilities. There has been increasing
interest in using these devices to reduce the physical loads and
the risk of musculoskeletal disorders for industrial workers. The interest
is reflected by a rapidly expanding landscape of research prototypes as
well as commercially available solutions. The potential of active exoskeletons
to reduce the physical loads is considered to be greater compared to
passive ones, but their present use and diffusion is still limited.
This thesis aims at exploring and addressing two key technological
challenges to advance the development of active exoskeletons, namely actuators
and control strategies, with focus on their adoption outside laboratory
settings and in real-life applications. The research work is specifically
applied to a back-support exoskeleton designed to assist repeated manual
handling of heavy objects. However, an attempt is made to generalise the
findings to a broader range of applications.
Actuators are the defining component of active exoskeletons. The greater
the required forces and performance, the heavier and more expensive actuators
become. The design rationale for a parallel-elastic actuator (PEA)
is proposed to make better use of the motor operating range in the target
task, characterized by asymmetrical torque requirements (i.e. large static
loads). This leads to improved dynamic performance as captured by the
proposed simplified model and measures, which are associated to user
comfort and are thus considered to promote user acceptance in the workplace.
The superior versatility of active exoskeletons lies in their potential
to adapt to varying task conditions and to implement different assistive
strategies for different tasks. In this respect, an open challenge is represented
by the compromise between minimally obtrusive, cost-effective
hardware interfaces and extracting meaningful information on user intent
resulting in intuitive use. This thesis attempts to exploit the versatility of
the active back-support exoskeleton by exploring the implementation of
different assistive strategies. The strategies use combinations of user posture
and muscular activity to modulate the forces generated by the exoskeleton.
The adoption of exoskeletons in the workplace is encouraged first of all
by evidence of their physical effectiveness. The thesis thus complements
the core contributions with a description of the methods for the biomechanical
validation. The preliminary findings are in line with previous
literature on comparable devices and encourage further work on the technical
development as well as on more accurate and specific validation.
Bounds of the overflow priority classification for blocking probability approximation in OBS networks
Creators: name: Li, Shuo
name: Wang, Meiqian
name: Wong, Eric W. M.
name: Abramov, Vyacheslav
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: It has been demonstrated that the overflow priority classification approximation (OPCA) is an accurate method for blocking probability evaluation for various networks and systems, including optical burst switched networks with deflection routing. OPCA is a hierarchical algorithm that requires fixed-point iterations in each layer of its hierarchy. This may imply a long running time. We prove here that the OPCA iterations alternately produce upper and lower bounds that consistently become closer to each other as more fixed-point iterations in each layer are used, and we demonstrate numerically that only a small number of iterations per layer are required for the bounds to be sufficiently close to each other. This behavior is demonstrated for various system parameters including offered load, number of channels per trunk, and maximum allowable number of deflections.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating the effectiveness of combined T4 and T3 therapy or desiccated thyroid versus T4 monotherapy in hypothyroidism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Nassar, Mahmoud
name: Hassan, Ahmed
name: Ramadan, Shrouk
name: Desouki, Mariam Tarek
name: Hassan, Malak A.
name: Chaudhuri, Ajay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
ENG 3010 Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Syllabus
Creators: name: Ozment, Kate
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Feminist theory

description: This is a zine-style syllabus of an undergraduate literary theory and cultural studies survey at Cal Poly Pomona. The course has two units. The first is a broad orientation to literary theory by touching on formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and historicism briefly before using representative examples to read Shelley's Frankenstein in a roundtable format. The second unit is a deeper dive into intersectional feminism, which students then use to interpret a text of their choice. This course uses a labor-based grading contract based on the work of Asao Inoue. Please message me for a screen-reader-accessible version.
Solar Cooling Technologies and Off-Grid Building Design in Hot Climatic Conditions
Creators: name: BRUMANA, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2018

description: Global warming is the main problem of the century. The scientific community is addressing many efforts to face the environmental problems and solar cooling systems are one of the best candidates.
The thesis proposes a solution developed through the improvement of the three main aspects of the chain: building energy efficiency, cooling production and distribution. The Middle East region represents the challenge locations for developing new technologies for air conditioning.
This work proposes the improvement of sustainable buildings and promote an innovative design to reduce energy consumption.
The development of district cooling systems allows the optimization of the cooling production and reduces the waste associated with single users, enabling the installation of higher efficiency technologies.
Solar cooling systems, the main focus of this research, are the best available solution to significantly reduce power consumption. Moreover, even under the economic aspect can certainly replace the traditional systems that have so far been adopted.
Particular attention is devoted to the heat rejection systems, the only component that can improve the cooling plants performance in hot climates.
The sun, cause of the cooling load, must effectively turn into the solution of the problem.
sj-docx-1-mde-10.1177_23821205221082913 - Supplemental material for Developing a Curriculum for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A National Collaborative Process
Creators: name: Kolomitro, Klodiana
name: Graves, Lisa
name: Kirby, Fran
name: Turnnidge, Jennifer
name: Hastings Truelove, Amber
name: Dalgarno, Nancy
name: van Wylick, Richard
name: Stockley, Denise
name: Mulder, Jeanne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mde-10.1177_23821205221082913 for Developing a Curriculum for Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A National Collaborative Process by Klodiana Kolomitro, Lisa Graves, Fran Kirby, Jennifer Turnnidge, Amber Hastings Truelove, Nancy Dalgarno, Richard van Wylick, Denise Stockley and Jeanne Mulder in Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Properties of a Gallium-Conjugated Siderophore Complex as an Antibacterial Treatment
Creators: name: Cendo, Demetri Z.
name: Enkeshafi, Parmida
name: Han, Paul W.
name: Harner, Cameron R.
name: Herman, Rae J.
name: Huffman, Margo P.
name: Lee, Faith C.
name: Liu, Qing T.
name: Nguyen, Connie P.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team GOLD

description: In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that approximately two million individuals in the United States developed antibiotic-resistant infections. This increasing rate of bacterial antibiotic resistance necessitates the development of alternative treatments. Gallium-desferrioxamine (Ga-DFO), a gallium-chelated bacterial siderophore, offers a promising alternative treatment by exploiting the natural iron-uptake pathway of bacteria to introduce toxic gallium ions into the cytoplasm. Previous research demonstrates that the Ga-DFO complex is effective against a number of bacterial strains in ideal treatment conditions. The present study examines the properties of Ga-DFO and its effectiveness against additional strains in a non-iron-depleted environment and in mammalian cell culture. Ga-DFO was found to successfully inhibit the growth of each bacterial strain tested. It was also effective when added at any time point during bacterial growth.
60745: Edward Delme Evans
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: A colour photocopy of a photo of Private Edward Delme Evans 55318 of 2nd Batt. Welch Regiment, and of the Laundry, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), Wales.

Photographs and photocopies of Evans' War and Victory medals, a newspaper cutting after his death, the Memorial Plaque, and his family's memorial to him on silk.

Mrs Jones: Edward D. Evans was killed at the Battle of Ypres on the 17 November 1917. He had just returned to the front having had an appendix operation and at which time the wound was still weeping. Edward was the son of Edward and Jane Evans, of the Laundry, Maesmawr and later of Tanyard Row, Llansantffraid. He was just 20 years age. There is no known grave, his name appears on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, in Belgium. Private Edward Evans was one of 7 children. His father was a clogger by trade who worked around the woods in the Maesmawr district selecting alders suitable to make clog soles, these were then cut down, shaped into soles and piled in a pyramid fashion to dry through. Pte Evans was a pupil at Maesmawr School with some of his brothers and sisters. After the war the family moved to Llansantfraidd where the father could continue his trade in the clogging business.

This is a sample from a folder of research undertaken by Mrs Jones into the men named on the war memorial (1914-1919) of Guilsfield parish (near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire - now Powys, in Wales). The names include: Frank Arthur, Ernest Charlton, Edward Evans, Robert Evans, Fred Evans, Charles Galliers, Robert Gainsford, Edward Griffiths,John Higgins, Edwin Jones, James Jones, Charles Jones, William Jones, Alan Langlands, Edward Lloyd, John Lloyd, Richard Morgan, Edward Morris, John Owen, Evan Phillips, Herbert Trevor, David E. Bailey, Herbert Bailey, Arthur Gough, Charles Jones, George R. Jones, Arthur T. Lewis, Mathew W.H. Morris, Richard D.H. Mytton, Gruffydd V. Trevor. Representing a number of regiments of the army, also the Royal Navy and the Royal Flying Corps. Also evident is the volunteers who joined up early in the war, as well as the tribunals which decided that even though farming was a reserved occupation that man-power being so scarce some men would be compelled to join the army, leaving their families, their aging fathers, mothers, sisters and younger siblings to continue to provide food for the war effort - an insight into the home-front in rural Wales.
The neurophysiological response following sub-concussive soccer heading
Creators: name: Pearce, Alan J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Concussion is the most common type of traumatic brain injury (Shaw, 2002). Research into concussion has significantly increased in the past decade reflecting the growing recognition of repeated head-injuries in sport. Whilst the focus of the research has centred on those who have been concussed, there is also increasing awareness regarding the effects of sub-concussion.Defined as events that occurwhen there is an apparent brain insult with insufficient force to produce clinical symptoms that are characteristic of concussion (Gysland et al., 2012), sub-clinical acute effects of sub-concussion are relatively unknown. At present it has been suggested that exposure to repetitive, sub-concussive events may result in persistent cognitive or motor impairments, and behavioral changes (McKee et al., 2014) associated to long-term neurophysiological changes due to cumulative effects (Pearce et al., 2014). Moreover, there have been suggestions of the possibility that high numbers of repetitive sub-concussions, more than concussions, contributes to increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (McKee et al., 2014; Smith et al., 2013).
Cryptanalysis of PMACx, PMAC2x, and SIVx
Creators: name: Minematsu, Kazuhiko
name: Iwata, Tetsu
Publisher: name: International Association for Cryptologic Research
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cryptanalysis; PMACx; PMAC2x; SIVx; provable security

description: At CT-RSA 2017, List and Nandi proposed two variable input length pseudorandom functions (VI-PRFs) called PMACx and PMAC2x, and a deterministic authenticated encryption scheme called SIVx. These schemes use a tweakable block cipher (TBC) as the underlying primitive, and are provably secure up to the query complexity of 2n, where n denotes the block length of the TBC. In this paper, we falsify the provable security claims by presenting concrete attacks. We show that with the query complexity of O(2n/2), i.e., with the birthday complexity, PMACx, PMAC2x, and SIVx are all insecure.
description: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Volume 2017, Issue 2
กะเทาะแก่นอาเซียน เรียนรู้วัฒนธรรมร่วมสมัย "POP CULTURE"
Creators: name: พิทักษ์ ชูมงคล
Publisher: name: คณะนิเทศศาสตร์และนวัตกรรมการจัดการ สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนบริหารศาสตร์
Year: 2558

description: วารสารนิเทศศาสตร์และนวัตกรรม นิด้า, 2, 2
Additional file 10 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S9. ARDS mediates about 13.36% effect of OSI trajectory index on ICU mortality. OSI: oxygen saturation index.
I modelli di strategia dell?Employer Branding e gli indicatori di performance
Creators: name: BONACCINI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: Questa ricerca di dottorato riguarda l?employer branding. Le domande che sono state poste sono le seguenti: ?Esistono modelli teorici concettuali di successo, che possano essere implementati in realt� organizzative aziendali?? e ancora ?Esistono dei sistemi di misurazione delle performance dei modelli di strategia di employer branding??. La ricerca si � riproposta di raccogliere quei contributi di letteratura relativi alle teorie che contribuiscono a formulare modelli concettuali di riferimento e ai suoi sistemi di misurazione. Tenendo in considerazione il contesto economico globale, sono state descritte le principali cause che determinano una situazione di difficolt� nel campo delle risorse umane. L?employer branding viene presentata come una strategia che, se ben sviluppata ed implementata, pu� dare alle aziende che la adottano un vantaggio competitivo. Partendo dalle origini dell?employer branding e percorrendo la sua evoluzione attraverso il marketing interno, � stata evidenziata l?importanza della cultura aziendale, affinch� un progetto di employer branding possa essere implementato. Sono stati valutati i benefici che scaturiscono dall?implementazione di tali progetti che consistono nella diminuzione dei costi di assunzione, l?aumento del tasso di mantenimento dei dipendenti, all?aumento della collaborazione delle funzioni aziendali risorse umane, marketing e comunicazione. La seguente ricerca ha proposto una serie di tecniche di segmentazione applicate al mercato del lavoro e ai candidati, sia quelli attivi che quelli passivi. Sono stati analizzati i principali modelli di strategia di employer branding e gli indicatori di performance maggiormente citati nella letteratura. Inoltre sono stati visti i legami tra i social media e l?employer branding. Per ultimo, la ricerca si � posta l?obiettivo di guardare oltre gli attuali confini dell?employer branding, e di scorgere i segnali di possibili nuove tendenze di cambiamento, che potessero presagire all?evoluzione del concetto di employer branding. Queste pratiche pi� evolute e maggiormente efficaci prendono il nome di Talent Relationship Management.
58498: Postcard from Sarah Lynn to her mother (also Sarah)
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Sarah (the daughter) was married in 1914. By now her husband was away. She wrote about missing him. Here she wrote

"Dear Mother Thanks very much for the kind letter very sorry you cannot get this week but of course I thought the snow would stop you, has(sic)it was 8 inches deep on the level & 18 inches where it had drifted, it has never been so deep for about 11 years.

Ted was quite well up to last Thur. Well Mother I wish you many many happy returns of the day & I hope the Boys will soon be home. With fondest Love your ever affect daughtter Sarah xxxxxx
A Non Philosophical Approach to the Sociology of Religious Pluralism
Creators: name: Swami, Narasimhananda
Publisher: name: Mittal Publications
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: India
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This paper follows Francois Laruelle's non-philosophy and his non-religion and non-theology to suggest a non-philosophical approach to the sociology of religious pluralism. The entanglements of experiences of the religious end-user are analyzed vis-a-vis Laruelle's thought and a dogma-free inclusive approach to religion is envisaged.
Rotor Shape Manipulation for the Design of an Alternator-Based Regenerative Braking System
Creators: name: Bradley, Brendan
name: Buxbaum, Clifton
name: Golsen, Dain
name: Haliyur, Sean
name: Hosamane, Nikhil
name: Kaplan, Alan
name: Layne, Avery
name: Patel, Trisha
name: Piqué, Alexander
name: Rodriguez, Zachary
name: Spawn, Zachary
name: Zeug, Bryan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team DRIVE

description: To widen the scope of hybrid technology, Team DRIVE studied the implementation of an alternator-based regenerative braking system onto an automobile’s drive shaft. The team hypothesized that salient rotors were more ideal for an alternator-based regenerative braking system than the standard Lundell rotor due to their improved efficiency at lower angular velocities. The team conducted computer simulations and physical experiments to evaluate the performance of three electromagnet rotors: a 4-pole and 8-pole salient rotor, and a Lundell rotor. ANSYS Maxwell was used to optimize the geometry of the salient rotors. A test apparatus was designed to test the Lundell rotor by simulating driving conditions. Recommendations were made for the implementation of a salient rotor in an alternator-based regenerative braking system.
La percezione dei parchi nazionali italiani : un'analisi netografica sul Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso
Creators: name: SAVINI, Silvia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: The primary objective of this study is to propose an innovative methodological approach to investigate the relations among National Parks and tourists. The literature about the relationship among tourists? perception, involvement, place attachment and satisfaction in national parks is still scarce: the few available studies provide only a mere description of the numbers of visits in protected areas, sometimes comparing the development over the years. As a result, it became necessary investigate the relationship between parks and tourists and analyze tourists? attitudes in a different way, in a dynamic way. To fill the gap, this study aims to analyze the personal experiences of individuals through netnography, investigating the case of the Gran Paradiso National Park. The decision to use netnography is justified by the fact that travel and tourism destinations are increasingly subject of discussions on online community, where visitors share their own experiences. The proposed methodological approach integrates netnography with techniques of text mining.
The results showed an interesting variety of opinions. In particular, the nature and landscapes of the Park are appreciated, but the offer of the Park, in terms of type and number of possible excursions but also museums, is not perceived by the visitor in a complete way. Finally, cluster analysis showed the presence of three different types of visitors: nature, recreation and sports. The knowledge of their characteristics combined with findings from the analysis of word associations provides interesting suggestions for management.
Bioremediation of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Spaces Using a Novel Biowall Design: A Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Brown, Erica
name: Enguillado, Gabrielle
name: McDermott, Robert
name: Palumbo, Nicole
name: Smith, Jill
name: Stanley, Michelle
name: Sulzbach, Morgan
name: Taylor, Jaclyn
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team BREATHE

description: Indoor air can contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), released from household materials at concentrations ten times higher than outdoors, causing numerous health problems, and potentially cancer. Indoor biowalls present a solution to poor air quality from their ability to bioremediate VOCs with Hyphomicrobium spp., which exists on plant roots and actively consumes VOCs. Quantitative-PCR was used to assess Hyphomicrobium spp. population among four morphologically different plant species exposed to four common VOCs in enclosed aeroponic chambers with inconclusive results due to equipment failure. Additionally, an innovative biowall was designed incorporating a dissolution system into the irrigation loop to deliver VOCs to Hyphomicrobium spp. On roots via water. The dissolution system successfully absorbed 96% of isopropanol from air during experimental testing. Analysis of the prototype biowall provided unclear results due to complications with system airtightness, but resulted in multiple insights into improvements in methodology and direction of future research.
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide analyses of member identification, expression pattern, and protein–protein interaction of EPF/EPFL gene family in Gossypium
Creators: name: Li, Pengtao
name: Zhao, Zilin
name: Wang, Wenkui
name: Wang, Tao
name: Hu, Nan
name: Wei, Yangyang
name: Sun, Zhihao
name: Chen, Yu
name: Li, Yanfang
name: Liu, Qiankun
name: Yang, Shuhan
name: Gong, Juwu
name: Xiao, Xianghui
name: Liu, Yuling
name: Shi, Yuzhen
name: Peng, Renhai
name: Lu, Quanwei
name: Yuan, Youlu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer information of 15 GhEPF/EPFL and Ubiquitin7 for qRT-PCR experiments. Table S2. Identification and physiochemical characteristic analysis of cotton EPF/EPFL genes.
58505: Letter from Mr Walter C Baynes to Walter 'Dem" Baynes
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Letter from father to son. Son is awaiting demobilisation. Letter discusses election and various local politics. Walter Baynes (junior) served on the Somme. Brother (Arthur Baynes) served in the Navy. Father and mother - Walter and Bertha Baynes - ran china shop in Wakefield.
Reliability of finite element method for time harmonic electromagnetic problems involving moving bodies
Creators: name: KALARICKEL RAMAKRISHNAN, PRAVEEN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: This work is mainly concerned about the time-harmonic electromagnetic problems involving moving bodies. Such a formulation is possible when the boundaries between different moving objects are stationary and the sources involved are time-harmonic. Even simple media present bianisotropic properties when they are in motion. This kind of problems find applications in diverse fields. Numerical solution is required for most of the practical problems. We examined the reliability of finite element simulator developed for solving such problems.
Identification and Quantification of Secreted Proteins Driving Hematopoiesis in an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Coculture System
Creators: name: Amedeo, Michael
name: Chowdhary, Prableen K
name: Jalalian, Aria
name: Lai, Wei Chen
name: Sahai, Amil
name: Thomas, George
name: Uppalapati, Akhil
name: Vejzagic, Farah
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team BLOOD

description: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) results from a genetic alteration in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Recent treatment techniques focused on the utilization of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) as an avenue to introduce HSCs in patients with AML. In this study, we analyze whether OP9 cells assist in HSC differentiation through direct cell signaling or indirect cell signaling of iPSCs. We measured the expression levels of relevant cytokines known to play a role in hematopoiesis. Our data showed a significant upregulation of all the proteins we analyzed in the iPSC/OP9 direct coculture and significant downregulation in the iPSC/OP9 indirect coculture. Our results indicate that direct cell to cell contact with OP9 cells may be necessary to induce differentiation of iPSCs.
In-Situ Electro-Assembly of Redox-Based Glucose Sensors for Microfluidic Applications
Creators: name: Chan, Joanne
name: Dhamsania, Chandni
name: Ghodasra, Monil
name: Laster, Elana
name: Lo, Kimberly
name: Mehta, Julie
name: Patel, Mayuri
name: Ravishankar, Veda
name: Rombro, Sam
name: Santharam, Yasas
name: Onimus, Sarah
name: Wang, Joy
name: Yau, Jessica
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team BioCHIPS

description: Microfluidic models of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, known as gut-on-a-chip devices, mimic the structural, absorptive, pathophysiological and microbial environment of the human gut. They have potential to revolutionize drug delivery testing and replace animal testing to improve efficacy. However, current models lack methods for quantitative assessment of molecular cues that determine biological function, limiting their ability to discern the efficacy of treatments on diseases. Team BioCHIPS developed a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) gut-on-a-chip model lined with Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cells, with the novel incorporation of catechol-chitosan biomolecular sensors. This is the first instance of in situ assembled biomolecular sensors that provide direct electrical connectivity and assessment of glucose level in real time. These sensors enable quantifying changes in the physiological conditions due to alterations in glucose concentration, to monitor effects of treatments on their respective GI diseases.
Classifying Bias in Large Multilingual Corpora via Crowdsourcing and Topic Modeling
Creators: name: Caljean, Brianna
name: Calvert, Katherine
name: Chang, Ashley
name: Frank, Elliot
name: Garay Jáuregui, Rosana
name: Palo, Geoffrey
name: Rinker, Ryan
name: Weakly, Gareth
name: Wolfrey, Nicolette
name: Zhang, William
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team BIASES

description: Our project extends previous algorithmic approaches to finding bias in large text corpora. We used multilingual topic modeling to examine language-specific bias in the English, Spanish, and Russian versions of Wikipedia. In particular, we placed Spanish articles discussing the Cold War on a Russian-English viewpoint spectrum based on similarity in topic distribution. We then crowdsourced human annotations of Spanish Wikipedia articles for comparison to the topic model. Our hypothesis was that human annotators and topic modeling algorithms would provide correlated results for bias. However, that was not the case. Our annotators indicated that humans were more perceptive of sentiment in article text than topic distribution, which suggests that our classifier provides a different perspective on a text’s bias.
Chemometric analysis of lavender essential oils using targeted and untargeted GC-MS acquired data for the rapid identification and characterization of oil quality
Creators: name: Beale, David J.
name: Morrison, Paul D.
name: Karpe, Avinash V.
name: Dunn, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Standard raw material test methods such as the ISO Standard 11024 are focused on the identification of lavender oil and not the actual class/quality of the oil. However, the quality of the oil has a significant effect on its price at market. As such, there is a need for raw material tests to identify not only the type of oil but its quality. This paper describes two approaches to rapidly identifying and classifying lavender oil. First, the ISO Standard 11024 test method was evaluated in order to determine its suitability to assess lavender oil quality but due to its targeted and simplistic approach, it has the potential to miss classify oil quality. Second, utilizing the data generated by the ISO Standard 11024 test methodology, an untargeted chemometric predicative model was developed in order to rapidly assess and characterize lavender oils (Lavandula angustifolia L.) for geographical/environmental adulteration that impact quality. Of the 170 compounds identified as per the ISO Standard 11024 test method utilizing GC-MS analyses, 15 unique compounds that greatly differentiate between the two classes of lavender were identified. Using these 15 compounds, a predicative multivariate chemometric model was developed that enabled lavender oil samples to be reliably differentiated based on quality. A misclassification analysis was performed and it was found that the predictions were sound (100% matching rate). Such an approach will enable producers, distributers, suppliers and manufactures to rapidly screen lavender essential oil. The authors concede that the validation and implementation of such an approach is more difficult than a conventional chromatographic assay. However, the rapid, reliable and less problematic screening is vastly superior and easily justifies any early implementation validation difficulties and costs.
Famiglie numerose italiane : consumo e felicit�
Creators: name: BELINGHERI, ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: This research is based on the assumption that Large Families have not been studied in detail by Marketing and Consumer Behaviour literature. Thus, according with CCT (Consumer Culture Theory) and Interpretive Consumer Research, a deep analysis has been done both in qualitative and quantitative terms in regard to different aspect of ?how Large Families consume?: focus on economical items and happiness question.
Comparing data of this survey with the ones of Bank of Italy and Istat, appears that Large Families have to assure the well-being of all their members redistributing the same average income as the other families, but within a wider number of components.
For these reasons, Large Families who have decided to give priority to children care instead of individual consumers, and due to economic need as well, have to divide the same income among more people; in so doing they have to make specific choice in term of sobriety, as it has been shown clearly in this study. Nevertheless, the index of Happiness of Large Families results higher than the other families.
Large Families might be studied as a sub-culture, a Tribe that shares the same cultural values, based on principles like the well-being of the family, sharing, authentic hospitality, rather than the material goods consumptions.
Sobriety, sharing and relationship might built happiness in spite of economic consumption.
'This is what you need to be learning': an analysis of messages received by first-year mathematics students during their transition to university
Creators: name: Kouvela, Eirini
name: Hernandez Martinez, Paul
name: Croft, Tony
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper explores the messages that first-year mathematics students receive in the context of their academic studies during their transition from school to university mathematics. Through observations of lectures and discussions with first-year mathematics undergraduates in an English university, we identified and analysed the messages that two of their lecturers transmitted to them during this transitional phase. The results suggest that strongly framed messages are more easily perceived by students and affect them during their transition. Additionally, messages that have been received in the school context continue to have control over students’ thinking and on many occasions can impede adjustment to the new setting.
Additional file 2 of Genome-wide analyses of member identification, expression pattern, and protein–protein interaction of EPF/EPFL gene family in Gossypium
Creators: name: Li, Pengtao
name: Zhao, Zilin
name: Wang, Wenkui
name: Wang, Tao
name: Hu, Nan
name: Wei, Yangyang
name: Sun, Zhihao
name: Chen, Yu
name: Li, Yanfang
name: Liu, Qiankun
name: Yang, Shuhan
name: Gong, Juwu
name: Xiao, Xianghui
name: Liu, Yuling
name: Shi, Yuzhen
name: Peng, Renhai
name: Lu, Quanwei
name: Yuan, Youlu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. The conserved peptides among the EPF/EPFL proteins. Figure S2. The information of 8 conserved motifs.
Using Enzymatic Combinations to Reduce Asphaltene Aggregation
Creators: name: Abolafia, Julia
name: Cowan, Jack
name: Harrison, Anna
name: Hensley, Jackson
name: Kim, Danme
name: Ko, Wing-Mei
name: Le, Megan
name: Manivannan, Hema
name: Rivera Rubio, Lorena
name: Sarker, Prateeti
name: Tyagi, Radhika
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team BACTERIA

description: Team BACTERIA’s research aims to determine an optimal mixture of enzymes produced by fungi that would effectively reduce asphaltene aggregation in heavy crude oil, also known as bitumen. One of the biggest challenges associated with handling heavy crude oil is the asphaltene aggregation, which leads to a spontaneous flocculation that causes clogging of the pipelines. The key to impede the flocculation is preventing the formation of the asphaltene nanoaggregation by reducing the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) within the asphaltene. Conventional methods of asphaltene de-flocculation utilize chemicals that are both energy-intensive and expensive, while a biological method can improve the sustainability of heavy crude oil refinement. In this study, extensive experiments were conducted to determine whether the enzymes laccase and chloroperoxidase reduced flocculation by oxygenation, thereby reducing PAHs and increasing the oxygen-containing functional groups. A combination of these enzymes was also tested to determine whether the combination of enzymes would be more effective at degrading asphaltene than the individual enzymes. Enzymatic treatment of asphaltene demonstrated a significant reduction in flocculation when compared to untreated asphaltene, but the combination of laccase and chloroperoxidase did not exhibit a significant reduction in flocculation when compared to the individual enzymes. Based on the results of the flocculation tests and FTIR analysis, the team provided for the first time an example mechanism of the chemical pathways of such enzyme-mediated asphaltene degradation. This research, therefore, offers possibly the first comprehensive and systematic investigation of the technique of enzyme-mediated asphaltene oxygenation and degradation.
Gift of the Gab: Exploring the Audiobook and the Festive Direction in the American Library
Creators: name: Kilduff, Thomas
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mass media--Study and teaching
subject: Social sciences--Comparative method
subject: Sound--Study and teaching
subject: Christianity
subject: American literature
subject: Collection development (Libraries)
subject: Library science
subject: History

description: Abstract

The audiobook, in its modern form, was created in the 1930s to assist the blind community, World War I veterans and others unable to engage in Sustained Silent Reading (SSR). This dissertation investigates exactly how the audiobook and, to a lesser extent, the podcast have been received and celebrated by the world of library and information science (LIS). Original to this dissertation are the concepts of a festive direction and a clinical direction in LIS which have shaped the collections of the American library. This alternative history of library science also explores how the fractured development of Christianity played a surprising role in shaping audio literature.

Underpinning this research is a survey of how American public and membership libraries are leveraging the audiobook and the podcast in order to diversify their services. Other prosocial actions are assessed in the institutional quest to attract and maintain patronage. This research will benefit library managers and catalogers in the American library who are attempting to speak to new demographics.
60966: Letters of Lieutenant A. Fraser MacLean, 16th Royal Scots. The 'Merchant Maiden' Magazine
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Gives a good administartive history, as well as detailing aspects of his toime during the war, and what he thought of life during this time. Also provides an image of him.
Functionalized biodegradable electrospun scaffolds and nanoengineered particles as innovative tools for vascular medicine
Creators: name: FERRARI, PIER FRANCESCO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: In the Western World, atherosclerosis-related diseases, including coronary and peripheral arterial pathologies, are one of the most common cause of morbidity and mortality. In some cases, in order to restore the blood flow, preserving all the functions of the downstream tissue, is necessary to introduce an arterial bypass or substitute in the patient. If autologous veins or artery are not available for different reasons (previous harvest, anatomical defects and anomalies, disease progression, other vascular problems etc.), artificial vascular constructs are required.
Ball milling: A green mechanochemical approach for synthesis of nitrogen doped carbon nanoparticles
Creators: name: Xing, Tan
name: Sunarso, Jaka
name: Yang, Wenrong
name: Yin, Yongbai
name: Glushenkov, Alexey M.
name: Li, Lu Hua
name: Howlett, Patrick C.
name: Chen, Ying
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Technological and scientific challenges coupled with environmental considerations have attracted a search for robust, green and energy-efficient synthesis and processing routes for advanced functional nanomaterials. In this article, we demonstrate a high-energy ball milling technique for large-scale synthesis of nitrogen doped carbon nanoparticles, which can be used as an electro-catalyst for oxygen reduction reactions after a structural refinement with controlled thermal annealing. The resulting carbon nanoparticles exhibited competitive catalytic activity (5.2 mA cm-2 kinetic-limiting current density compared with 7.6 mA cm-2 on Pt/C reference) and excellent methanol tolerance compared to a commercial Pt/C catalyst. The proposed synthesis route by ball milling and annealing is an effective process for carbon nanoparticle production and efficient nitrogen doping, providing a large-scale production method for the development of highly efficient and practical electrocatalysts.
Developing an Extracellular Vesicle Based Treatment for Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Sumon
name: Chen, Allison
name: Chill, Stephanie
name: Golding, Madelyn
name: Lee, Danielle
name: Mumford, Thomas
name: Pu, Alex
name: Robichaux, Mary
name: Sukri, Kayla
name: Swayambunathan, Jay
name: Weigand, Kellen
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gemstone Team MATRIX

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease characterized by the degradation of articular cartilage. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cargo-filled bodies that mediate intercellular communication and are influential in OA pathogenesis. This study utilized parallel methodologies to investigate whether EV signaling can be manipulated to combat OA. The first approach aimed to identify cells lines that produce EVs with therapeutic activity against OA, while the second introduced miRNA in EVs to induce cartilage regeneration. EVs derived from synovial fibroblasts (SFBs) induced further inflammation. Moreover, miRNA did not impact MMP-13 production. While SFB-EVs were pro-inflammatory, increasing the amount of MMP-13 present, human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BM-hMSC) EVs did not stimulate a change in MMP-13 production. Future studies should further characterize these results to maximize therapeutic impact.
Additional file 11 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Figure S10. The subgroup analysis of the association between OSI-trajectory based phenotypes and ICU mortality. COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CKD: chronic kidney disease; AKI: acute kidney injury
Additional file 1 of Increased co-expression of PD1 and TIM3 is associated with poor prognosis and immune microenvironment heterogeneity in gallbladder cancer
Creators: name: He, Xing
name: Peng, Yaorong
name: He, Gui
name: Ye, Huilin
name: Liu, Liqiang
name: Zhou, Qixian
name: Shi, Juanyi
name: Fu, Sha
name: Wang, Jie
name: Zhou, Zhenyu
name: Li, Wenbin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Materials Table S1. Information on the primary antibodies used in IHC and their incubation message. Table S2. Optimal cut-off value for the ICP H-score and immune cell density obtained by X-TILE software. Table S3. Clinicopathological characteristics of GBC study cohort. Table S4. The correlation between CTLA4, LAG3, TIGIT expression status and clinicopathological characteristics in GBC. Figure S1. Kaplan-Meier survival curves for postoperative OS of GBC patients according to TIGIT, CTLA4, and LAG3 expression status. Figure S2. The chord diagram shows the correlation network of immune cell density in GBC tissue. The band represents a positive correlation between the ICP and immune cell density, and the width indicates the magnitude of the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (the P value for testing the correlation coefficient was < 0.05). Figure S3. The correlation of PD1 and TIM3 expression status and CD8+TIL, CD4+TIL, CD68+cell, Foxp3+TIL density in GBC tissue (*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001). Figure S4. The percentage of CD8+TIL with different PD1/TIM3 co-expression status in GBC tissues. Figure S5. Kaplan-Meier survival curves for postoperative OS of GBC patients according to CD8+TIL, CD4+TIL, CD68+ cell, Foxp3+TIL infiltration density. Figure S6. Panoramic scan of the section of a tumor with liver invasion. The white dotted line marks the line of liver invasion and the red area of 1000μm width is defined as the Hepatic invasion margin. Figure S7. Representative IHC images of PD1, TIM3, TIGIT, LAG3, CTLA4 staining are shown from the same GBC patient who had primary tumor (left column) and liver metastases (right column). Figure S8. Representative IHC images of CD8, CD4, CD68, Foxp3 staining are shown from the same GBC patient who had primary tumor (left column) and liver metastases (right column). Figure S9. Comparison of Immune cell counts between primary tumor and liver metastases in GBC (***P < 0.001; ns: no significance).
Customer relationship management e performance di marketing : modelli di previsione e caso pratico
Creators: name: BONOMETTI, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: This work aims to analyze the impact of technology on relationships inside of the supply chain. In order to do this, the author adopts the Relationship Marketing theory by David Ballantyne. Consequently, He studies Customer Relationship Management (C.R.M.) from different point of views: Supplier, Sales Agent and Customer. A study is conducted to verify if C.R.M. can help to make predictions about performance when shifting from Distributors to direct sales. In order to do this, the stochastic method by Fader is used within a different setting such as health service, with a different metrics such as Share of the Wallet. In addition to this Customer Metrics, the researcher has studied Customer Lifetime Value and Return on Customersm also. The thesis is confirmed within a non contractual setting. A kind of supremacy of Share of the Wallet over the other Customer Metrics is supported. In the end, the author emphasizes a new conceptual framework for Marketing Resources allocation compared to Kumar?s one.
61134: Letters of William Given Affleck
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Originals and typed copies of the letters of William Given Affleck, Canadian Army.