cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extradural Primary Malignant Spinal Tumors in a Population Younger than 25 Years : An Ambispective International Multicenter Study on Onco-Surgical Outcomes
Creators: name: Disch, Alexander C.
name: Boriani, Stefano
name: Luzzati, Alessandro
name: Rhines, Laurence D.
name: Fisher, Charles G.
name: Lazary, Aron
name: Gokaslan, Ziya L.
name: Chou, Dean
name: Clarke, Michelle J.
name: Fehlings, Michael G.
name: Schaser, Klaus-Dieter
name: Germscheid, Nicole M.
name: Reynolds, Jeremy J.
name: Tumor, The AO Spine Knowledge Forum
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Extradural malignant primary spinal tumors are rare and outcome data, especially for younger patients, is limited. In a worldwide (11 centers) study (Predictors of Mortality and Morbidity in the Surgical Management of Primary Tumors of the Spine study; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01643174) by the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Tumor, patients surgically treated for primary tumors of the spine between 1992 and 2012, were retrospectively analyzed from a prospective database of their medical history. Medical history, tumor characteristics, diagnostics, treatments, cross-sectional survival, and local recurrences were analyzed. Sixty-eight cases (32 f; 36 m), at an average age of 18.6 ± 4.7 years at the time of diagnosis, were identified (median follow-up 2.9 years). The most common entities were Ewing’s sarcoma (42.6%). Of the patients, 28% had undergone previous spine tumor surgery in another center (84% with intralesional margins). Resection was considered “Enneking appropriate” (EA) in 47.8% of the cases. Of the patients, 77.9% underwent chemotherapy and 50% radiotherapy. A local recurrence occurred in 36.4%. Over a third of patients died within a 10-year follow-up period. Kaplan-Meier-analysis demonstrated statistically significant overall survival (p = 0.007) and local recurrence rates (p = 0.042) for tumors treated with EA surgery versus Enneking inappropriate surgery. Aggressive resection of extradural primary malignant spinal tumors combined with adjuvant therapy reveals low local recurrence rates and better outcomes overall in younger patients.
Foreign Buyer Taxes And Housing Affordability
Creators: name: Pavlov, Andrey
name: Somerville, Tsur
name: Wetzel, Jake
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: To improve housing affordability many jurisdictions around the world have introduced substantial taxes and other restrictions on non-resident home buyers. We use the foreign buyer tax introduced in British Columbia, Canada in August 2016 to investigate the extent to which such taxes and restrictions improve housing affordability for the local population by reducing house prices. Our work is based on a direct transaction-level identification of foreign buyers. This identification was instituted through legislation prior to the announcement and subsequent introduction of the tax. Using a difference in differences methodology to compare house price changes pre- and post-tax between high and low foreign buyer concentration neighbourhoods, we find the tax to reduce house prices on the order of 6%. The quantitative effects are also striking, with overall foreign buyer share falling from 9.5% of transactions in the six weeks prior to the announcement of the tax to 1.7% for the four months following the tax. Additionally, we find that the tax had no effect on areas and market segments with little presence of foreign buyers.
Infrastructure and Agricultural Development in Benue State 1999-2019
Creators: name: Eugene T. A.
name: Jacho D. S.
name: Aliyu I. M.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: This work sets out to assess the state of infrastructure and their effect on agricultural development in Benue state. This is because Benue which hitherto known and addressed as the food basket of the nation cannot longer boast of being among the first ten states in agricultural development in Nigeria today. The research adopted both primary and secondary sources of data collection. It also embarked on a physical survey and verification of some selected agriculture infrastructural facilities. The theory of the developmental state was adopted. This is because of the efforts made by developing states who have adopted this approach and given them the result of massive and fast economic and most importantly industrial development. The work found out that agricultural policies in Benue state have faced massive failures, like agricultural infrastructure is in massive deficit, hence, inability of the good agricultural environment to positively reproduce itself. Poor government commitment to agricultural activities with limited efforts towards modern agricultural activities, etc. It recommends amongst others that, there is need for a well supported and coordinated private sector driven agriculture supported by government, improved technical support to farmers through provision of agricultural extension services and encouraging and supporting the reactivation and formation of farming cooperative ventures, and for government to sustain the provision of farm inputs like tractor services, fertilizers and seedling and pesticides, etc.
FAD Express : Guide d'adaptation d'un cours en FAD, version condensée
Creators: name: Allard, Marie-Pierre
name: Denis, Constance
name: Dube, Marianne
name: Lez, Alexandra
name: Kim, Sea
name: Morin, Sonia
Publisher: name: Université de Sherbrooke
Year: 2020
Subjects: Formation à distance (FAD)
Guide pédagogique
Pédagogie universitaire
Formation à distance
Enseignement à distance
Enseignement universitaire
Préparation de cours

description: Structuré en 4 étapes express, ce guide se veut un outil utile et structurant pour toute personne désirant effectuer une migration de son cours en formation à distance.

***Le guide FAD Express est disponible à toute communauté enseignante mais il faut savoir que plusieurs ressources en hyperliens sont accessibles uniquement à la communauté enseignante de l'Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS), car elles exigent une authentification de l’UdeS.****
description: Ressources éducatives libres

REL

Open educational resources

OER
description: Discipline : Éducation

Format : Texte/html

Type de la ressource : Objet d'apprentissage
Supplementary document for Examining the optical model of graphene via the photonic spin Hall effect - 5576747.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Yunpeng
name: Liu, Shuoqing
name: Chen, Shizhen
name: Luo, Hailu
name: Wen, Shuangchun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Dépliant du DOAJ
Creators: name: Belhamel, Kamel
name: Directory of Open Access Journals
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: libre accès
subject: DOAJ
subject: open access
subject: Open Access Publishing

description: DOAJ est un index unique et exhaustif de diverses revues en libre accès du monde entier, alimenté par une communauté croissante qui s'engage à garantir un contenu de qualité,  disponible en ligne pour que tout le monde puisse en profiter.

Ce dépliant décrit :

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title: A tiered high-throughput screening approach for evaluation of estrogen and androgen receptor modulation by environmentally relevant bisphenol A substitutes
title: A tiered high-throughput screening approach for evaluation of estrogen and androgen receptor modulation by environmentally relevant bisphenol A substitutes
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Arning, Jürgen
name: Keminer, Oliver
name: Teigeler, Matthias
name: Kohler, Manfred
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bisphenol A

description: Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high production volume chemical with a broad application spectrum. As an endocrine disrupting chemical, mainly by modulation of nuclear receptors (NRs), BPA has an adverse impact on organisms and is identified as a substance of very high concern under the European REACH regulation. Various BPA substitution candidates have been developed in recent years, however, information concerning the endocrine disrupting potential of these substances is still incomplete or missing. In this study, we intended to investigate the endocrine potential of BPA substitution candidates used in environmentally relevant applications such as thermal paper or epoxy resins. Based on an extensive literature and patent search, 33 environmentally relevant BPA substitution candidates were identified. In order to evaluate the endocrine potential of the BPA replacements, a screening cascade consisting of biochemical and cell-based assays was employed to investigate substance binding to the NRs estrogen receptor ÎÌ and Î2, as well as androgen receptor, co-activator recruitment and NR-mediated reporter gene activation. In addition, a computational docking approach for retrospective prediction of receptor binding was carried out. Our results show that some BPA substitution candidates, for which so far no or only very few data were available, possess a substantial endocrine disrupting potential (TDP, BPZ), while several substances (BPS, D-8, DD70, DMP-OH, TBSA, D4, CBDO, ISO, VITC, DPA, and DOPO) did not reveal any NR binding. © 2019 The Author(s).
title: Imaginaires, No. 26 (2024): Retrophilia, Nostalgia and the End of Pop Culture
title: Retrophilia, Nostalgia and the End of Pop Culture
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Imaginaires
Publisher: name: Imaginaires
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this publication is to question and re-evaluate Simon Reynold’s 2011 assumption that “We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. […] Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is … its past?” One decade after Reynolds’s thought-provoking analysis, one may wonder whether this assumption is still relevant today. Can it be extended to other objects of pop culture? In the Post-pandemic age, is pop culture still fixated on its (and our) past? Is this “addiction” to the past a regressive trend or, on the contrary, an opportunity to reassess modern history and re-evaluate its legacy and its representation in popular mass media? In terms of forms and formats, can something “radically new” emerge from nostalgia?


Issue edited by Yannick Bellenger-Morvan


Reading Committee:


Claire Dutriaux – Sorbonne Université
Marine Galiné – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Catherine Girodet – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Xavier Giudicelli – Université Paris-Nanterre
Laura Goudet – Université de Rouen
Elsa Grassy – Université de Strasbourg
Vincent Jaunas – Université de Saint-Etienne
Pauline Macadré – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Sébastien Mignot – Université de Caen
Sylvie Mikowski– Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Stéphane Partel – Université des Antilles
description: Renégocier l’histoire par la musique ; ou comment la bande originale de Django Unchained (2012) permet de reconquérir l’esclavage...174-189
Brand New Your Retro? Yugo-nostalgia and/as Yugo-futurism in alternative and popular music...152-173
Anemoia and the Vaporwave Phenomenon: the ‘New’ Aesthetic of an Imagined Nostalgia...132-151
As Night Turns to Mourning: YouTube’s Ahistoric Rave Archive...115-131
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories...88-114
Back to the Retro-Closet: Narratives of Closetedness and Coming Out in Retro Television Shows...68-87
This is (the) U.S.: Life, Death, and Washing Machines...30-67
Gender And Nostalgia In Period Drama: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Mad Men...11-29
Introduction: Is Pop Culture trapped in the past? ...7-10
Research on Survey Methodology
Creators: name: Human Nutrition Information Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research Research Methods/Statistical Methods

description: The Human Nutrition Information Service conducts periodic nationwide surveys of food consumption by households and by individuals. The research on survey methodology presented in these papers was sponsored by HNIS in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of those surveys.
description: The research papers presented in this report were delivered at a symposium held on April 1, 1987, at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Information Service sponsored the symposium.
title: U.S. Section 321 Imports Surge with Rising E-commerce Shipments From China
Creators: name: Serletis, George
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: U.S. imports under the de minimis threshold of $800 enter free of tariffs and taxes and with minimal
customs inspection and processing. The majority of these imports, shipped by postal and express delivery
services, are retail products purchased online. Section 321 imports have been the key channel for Chinese
business-to-consumer (B2C) online retailers that ship direct from factories or distribution centers in China
to U.S. consumers. The large volume and fast growth of these imports from China since 2018 has led to
increased Congressional scrutiny and proposed legislation to modify what some have called an outdated
program not suited to the current trade environment of surging cross-border e-commerce.
APPRAISAL OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AS MOTIVATORS IN SELECTED SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISE
Creators: name: Asore, Olorunfemi Bolaji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380107
subject: Financial economics
classificationCode: 350704
subject: Entrepreneurship
classificationCode: 520403
subject: Learning, motivation and emotion
classificationCode: 460611
subject: Performance evaluation
classificationCode: 350716
subject: Small business organisation and management

description: Production chain crisis has always been a major concern to different, product owners, shareholders, and stakeholders especially the operative personnel who are duly paid to produce to their maximum optimization could not sum up to their role by a diminish causes of a return presume knowledge base concern in vast majority economic of the world. The appraisal of the financial empowerment scheme has been commissioning a strategic plan that can contribute to manufacturing growth opine vast majority classes differential industry ecosystem adopt an appraised financial incentives scheme has been looking upon by different expertise to be a good, impelled equipment for the selected Small and Medium Scale Enterprise SME and MME business, Nigeria is the focus of this research. In writing this project, the researcher has raised the need to understand financial incentives as motivators in the commerce ecosystem and to get adequate information on what the government is doing by bringing information to their doorstep concerning the emergence of the financial ecosystem.
PA-Tran: Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose with Partial Annotation
Creators: name: Yu, Tianze
name: Bidulka, Luke
name: McKeown, Martin J.
name: Wang, Z. Jane
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2025

description: This paper tackles a novel and challenging problem—3D hand pose estimation (HPE) from a single RGB image using partial annotation. Most HPE methods ignore the fact that the keypoints could be partially visible (e.g., under occlusions). In contrast, we propose a deep-learning framework, PA-Tran, that jointly estimates the keypoints status and 3D hand pose from a single RGB image with two dependent branches. The regression branch consists of a Transformer encoder which is trained to predict a set of target keypoints, given an input set of status, position, and visual features embedding from a convolutional neural network (CNN); the classification branch adopts a CNN for estimating the keypoints status. One key idea of PA-Tran is a selective mask training (SMT) objective that uses a binary encoding scheme to represent the status of the keypoints as observed or unobserved during training. In addition, by explicitly encoding the label status (observed/unobserved), the proposed PA-Tran can efficiently handle the condition when only partial annotation is available. Investigating the annotation percentage ranging from 50–100%, we show that training with partial annotation is more efficient (e.g., achieving the best 6.0 PA-MPJPE when using about 85% annotations). Moreover, we provide two new datasets. APDM-Hand, is for synthetic hands with APDM sensor accessories, which is designed for a specific hand task. PD-APDM-Hand, is a real hand dataset collected from Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients with partial annotation. The proposed PA-Tran can achieve higher estimation accuracy when evaluated on both proposed datasets and a more general hand dataset.
Wilms tumor with bony -mandibular ,rib and calvarial metastases.
Creators: name: AUTKAR, GAYATRI
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Staging
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 3 years
description: Clinical History: 3 year male child presented with lump in abdomen on right side, abdominal pain , increasing abdominal girth since 6 months. Final Diagnosis: Wilms tumor with distant metastases -(mandibular, rib, pleural,lung, liver,adrenal).
title: Spatial Participatory Tool
title: "My window" Tool
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Samulionytė, Greta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The “My Window” tool is a participatory spatial tool created as part of Greta Samulionytė’s Master’s Thesis in Urbanism at the Technical University of Delft. The thesis, titled “Fostering Trauma Recovery through Citizen Participation: Reshaping Public Space through Trauma-Informed Urban Design in Alytus, Lithuania,” explores the intersection of urban design and trauma recovery.

This tool consists of a deck of transparent paper cards, each measuring 21 x 14 cm. The main scenario on each card, about 16 x 11 cm, depicts various elements found in public spaces. Each card includes additional details such as a number, title, and description. The cards are categorized into blocks, greenery, mobility, activities, and interior elements.

The tool is both in English and Lithuanian.
Supplementary document for Examining the optical model of graphene via the photonic spin Hall effect - 5576747.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Yunpeng
name: Liu, Shuoqing
name: Chen, Shizhen
name: Luo, Hailu
name: Wen, Shuangchun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Innovatives, hochpräzises Lackiersystem zur Vermeidung des Oversprays : Abschlussbericht
Creators: name: Hertfelder, Walter
name: Pichler, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Oberflächenbehandlung
Lackierung
Vorbelastung
Lack
Materialeffizienz

description: Im Rahmen des Investitionsvorhabens wurde ein hochpräzises Lackiersystem realisiert, welches unter ökologischen und funktionalen Gesichtspunkten einen maßgeblichen Entwicklungsschritt für die gesamte Branche darstellt. Aufgrund der erreichten Präzision des Lackierverfahrens und des Applikationssystems erfolgt der Lackauftrag definiert und oberflächenkonturnah. Das heißt, dass infolgedessen der benötigte Lackbedarf sowie die durch fehlerhafte Beschichtungen bedingte Ausschussware erheblich reduziert werden konnten. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht das Lackiersystem den Einsatz des InkJet-Verfahrens sowie der piezobasierten Mikrodosiertechnik, was im Bereich der Industrielackierung neue Möglichkeiten für die Realisierung von mehrfarbigen Lackierungen, Schriftzügen oder Verzierungen eröffnet. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: As a part of the investment plans, a highly precise coating system was implemented. This system represents a major evolution for the entire industry in terms of its ecological and functional aspects. Due to the precision achieved in the coating process and by the application system, the application of the paint occurs in a precise fashion, close to the contour of the surface. This means that, as a result, the required amount of paint as well as the number of goods rejected due to faulty coating have been reduced significantly. In addition, the coating system allows for the use of inkjet processes as well as piezo-based microdosing technology, which opens up new opportunities for realizing multi-color coatings, logos and lettering or decorations in the field of industrial coating. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
Autonomy and (In)Capacity to Consent in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment and Care
Creators: name: Goodyear, Trevor
name: Jenkins, Emily (Emily K.), 1981-
name: Knight, Rod E.
name: Sedgemore, Kali-Olt
name: White, Melissa
name: Culham, Tania
name: Fast, Danya
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

Abstract
title: The Location and Timing of New U.S. Import Entry
Creators: name: Riker, David
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: I use sub-national U.S. import data to estimate the geographical distribution of the
consumer benefits from new import entry. Statistical analysis of the data indicates that
imports initially enter one or two customs districts closest to the exporting country, and
their participation in the U.S. market is usually short-lived. If import entry is sustained
for three or more years, the imports expand to other regions of the United States at
a predictable rate. I use data on recent entries of imports from 12 middle income
countries to estimate econometric models that forecast this gradual expansion.
Dataset, statistical analysis code, and supplementary material of juvenile ravens' responses towards acoustic cues of different social categories
Creators: name: Gallego-Abenza, Mario
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Early-social environment
attention response
common raven

description: Social competence i.e., defined as the ability to adjust the expression of social behaviour to the available social information, is known to be influenced by early-life conditions. Brood size might be one of the factors determining such early conditions, particularly in species with extended parental care. We here tested in ravens, whether growing up in families of different sizes affects the chicks' responsiveness to social information. We experimentally manipulated the brood size of 20 captive raven families, creating either small or large families. Simulating dispersal, juveniles were separated from their parents and temporarily housed in one of two captive non-breeder groups. After five weeks of socialization, each raven was individually tested in a playback setting with food-associated calls from three social categories: sibling, familiar unrelated raven they were housed with, and unfamiliar unrelated raven from the other non-breeder aviary. We found that individuals reared in small families were more attentive than birds from large families, in particular towards the familiar unrelated peer. These results indicate that variation in family size during upbringing can affect how juvenile ravens value social information. Whether the observed attention patterns translate into behavioural preferences under daily life conditions remains to be tested in future studies.
description: The Supplementary material contains Tables and Figures of additional analyses referred to in the manuscript. The .csv file contains the behavioral responses of tested individuals and their life history, including data referring to their family ID and brood size. The R code describes step by step the statistical analyses reported in the current manuscript.Funding provided by: FWF
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100022218
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Impacts of Tariffs on Energy Conscious Behavior with Respect to Household Attributes in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Nahiduzzaman, Kh Md
name: Said Abdallah, Abdullatif
name: Moradzadeh, Arash
name: Mohammadpour Shotorbani, Amin
name: Hewage, Kasun
name: Sadiq, Rehan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2023

description: Historically, the combination of generous subsidies along with extreme climate has led to unsustainable domestic electricity consumption in Saudi Arabia. The residential sector constitutes a significant portion of this consumption. Amid the economic challenges, the country enforced a new electricity tariff for residential consumers in 2018. This study thus leverages change in 2018–2020 by collecting and analyzing the electricity consumption data of 73 households in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The energy consumption is modeled based on the households’ attributes (e.g., dwelling type, ownership, number of residents, rooms, ventilation type, etc.) and applied tariffs using a machine learning technique. The extreme learning machine (ELM) is employed in solving the overfitting problem due to low-volume data. The correlation matrix is also constructed to determine the relationship between the household attributes. The ELM model developed in this study extracts the correlation between the input variables in determining energy consumption and also predicts the energy consumption related to low consumption data. The findings indicated that the electricity consumption between the pre-revised tariff year and the revised tariff enforcement year saw a reduction which was consistent in the subsequent years. This was also validated by the paired sample t-test, which showed a significant decrease in electricity consumption for the study period. The analysis also revealed that several household attributes had a relatively high impact on the reduction in the electricity consumption level following the revised tariffs, whereas the majority of the attributes had a moderate impact. In addition to these key findings, the demonstrated pathway adopted in this study is itself a methodological contribution that provides critical information about the sensitivity of the impacts of tariffs on energy consumption with respect to different household attributes. Economic factors being the critical stress need to be blended with existing energy consciousness for positive changes in favor of energy-saving behavior of the household members. The study does not attempt to represent the population of concern, but demonstrates a methodology that would help unleash inherent energy consciousness in favor of sustainable and energy-efficient behavior.
What is the role of nuclear energy in achieving climate targets in global scenarios?
Creators: name: Loreck, Charlotte
name: Pistner, Christoph
name: Herold, Anke
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Kernenergie
subject: Elektrizitätserzeugung
subject: Globales Klimaszenario
subject: Anteil erneuerbarer Energien
subject: Kernkraftwerk
subject: Atomstrom
subject: Übereinkommen von Paris
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: This factsheet analyses the role of nuclear energy in global climate scenarios. It shows, that a global tripling of nuclear capacity until 2050 is neither realistic nor is it needed to achieve climate targets according to the Paris agreement. The factsheet presents an analysis of nine global climate scenarios that achieve climate targets according to the Paris agreement as well as two non-target scenarios with an emphasis on the role of nuclear energy. In order to assess how realistic these top-down scenarios are, it compares these figures with the plans and programmes of governments for the expansion (or phase out) of nuclear power. Quelle: umweltbundesamt.de
description: This factsheet analyses the role of nuclear energy in global climate scenarios. It shows, that a global tripling of nuclear capacity until 2050 is neither realistic nor is it needed to achieve climate targets according to the Paris agreement.The factsheet presents an analysis of nine global climate scenarios that achieve climate targets according to the Paris agreement as well as two non-target scenarios with an emphasis on the role of nuclear energy.In order to assess how realistic these top-down scenarios are, it compares these figures with the plans and programmes of governments for the expansion (or phase out) of nuclear power.
title: Developing a forward collision warning system timing and interface approach by placing drivers in realistic rear-end crash situations
Creators: name: Kiefer, RJ
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2000

description: Forward Collision Warning (FCW) systems are intended to reduce the harm caused by rear-end crashes. As part of the GM-Ford Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership FCW project, four closed-course studies were conducted. These studies were focused on defining when to present FCW system crash alerts to drivers (i.e., the crash alert timing approach) and how to present FCW system crash alerts to drivers (i.e., visual, auditory, and/or haptic alerts). This project developed a "surrogate target" methodology which allowed experimenters to safely place inattentive drivers in realistic, "surprise" rear-end crash scenarios and observe their behavior. Results from these studies provided support for the deceleration-based crash alert timing approach developed, and support coupling the visual and non-speech tone alert components evaluated for FCW system implementation.
Pollen-assoziierte allergische Erkrankungen in Zeiten des Klimawandels - Neue Daten zur Entwicklung in Deutschland
Creators: name: Höflich, Conny
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Allergien, insbesondere Pollen-assoziierte Allergien der Atemwege, sind weltweit verbreitet und nehmen weiter zu. Den Klimawandel verursachende beziehungsweise kennzeichnende Veränderungen, wie der Anstieg der atmosphärischen Kohlendioxidkonzentration und der Erdoberflächentemperatur, führen sehr wahrscheinlich zu einer Zunahme der Pollenbelastung und damit zu einer Zunahme allergischer Pollensensibilisierungen und Pollen-assoziierter allergischer Erkrankungen. Im Jahr 2014 wurde in dieser Zeitschrift ausführlicher über diese möglichen Zusammenhänge berichtet. Im Jahr 2017 hielt die Autorin auf dem Deutschen Allergiekongress am Beispiel der Pollen der Beifuß-Ambrosie einen Plenarvortrag zu diesem Thema. Der folgende Beitrag fasst die Inhalte des Vortrags zusammen. In: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser. (2018), Heft 1, Seite 5
description: Allergies, especially pollen associated respiratory allergies are widespread all over the world with a tendency to increase further. Changes associated with climate change, in particular, the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide and global ground temperature, will very likely result in an increased pollen load leading to an increase in allergic pollen sensitisation and pollen-associated allergic diseases. In 2014 was informed in more detail about these possible relationships in this journal. In 2017, the author gave a lecture on this topic focusing on ragweed pollen at the German Allergy Congress. The following article summarises the lecture contents. In: UMID : Umwelt und Mensch - Informationsdienst ; Umwelt & Gesundheit, Umweltmedizin, Verbraucherschutz / Boden- und Lufthygiene (Berlin) Institut für Wasser. (2018), Heft 1, Seite 5
Allele-specific quantitation of ATXN3 and HTT transcripts in polyQ disease models
Creators: name: Joachimiak, Paweł
name: Ciesiołka, Adam
name: Kozłowska, Emilia
name: Świtoński, Paweł M.
name: Figura, Grzegorz
name: Ciołak, Agata
name: Adamek, Grażyna
name: Surdyka, Magdalena
name: Kalinowska-Pośka, Żaneta
name: Figiel, Maciej
name: Caron, Nicholas S.
name: Hayden, Michael R.
name: Fiszer, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2023

description: Background: The majority of genes in the human genome is present in two copies but the expression levels of both alleles is not equal. Allelic imbalance is an aspect of gene expression relevant not only in the context of genetic variation, but also to understand the pathophysiology of genes implicated in genetic disorders, in particular, dominant genetic diseases where patients possess one normal and one mutant allele. Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are caused by the expansion of CAG trinucleotide tracts within specific genes. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) and Huntington’s disease (HD) patients harbor one normal and one mutant allele that differ in the length of CAG tracts. However, assessing the expression level of individual alleles is challenging due to the presence of abundant CAG repeats in the human transcriptome, which make difficult the design of allele-specific methods, as well as of therapeutic strategies to selectively engage CAG sequences in mutant transcripts. Results: To precisely quantify expression in an allele-specific manner, we used SNP variants that are linked to either normal or CAG expanded alleles of the ataxin-3 (ATXN3) and huntingtin (HTT) genes in selected patient-derived cell lines. We applied a SNP-based quantitative droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) protocol for precise determination of the levels of transcripts in cellular and mouse models. For HD, we showed that the process of cell differentiation can affect the ratio between endogenous alleles of HTT mRNA. Additionally, we reported changes in the absolute number of the ATXN3 and HTT transcripts per cell during neuronal differentiation. We also implemented our assay to reliably monitor, in an allele-specific manner, the silencing efficiency of mRNA-targeting therapeutic approaches for HD. Finally, using the humanized Hu128/21 HD mouse model, we showed that the ratio of normal and mutant HTT transgene expression in brain slightly changes with the age of mice. Conclusions: Using allele-specific ddPCR assays, we observed differences in allele expression levels in the context of SCA3 and HD. Our allele-selective approach is a reliable and quantitative method to analyze low abundant transcripts and is performed with high accuracy and reproducibility. Therefore, the use of this approach can significantly improve understanding of allele-related mechanisms, e.g., related with mRNA processing that may be affected in polyQ diseases.
Supplementary document for Bi-modal Near-infrared Fluorescence and Ultrasound Imaging via a Transparent Ultrasound Transducer for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization - 5578117.pdf
Creators: name: Park, Jeongwoo
name: Park, Byullee
name: Yong, Uijung
name: Ahn, Joongho
name: Kim, Jin
name: Kim, Hyung Ham
name: Jang, Jinah
name: Kim, Chulhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplement 1
Development of a Quality Control Chart for Phase II Product Net weight monitoring in a Manufacturing Enterprise
Creators: name: Ezewu, Kesiena
name: Uchechukwu, Chukwuma
name: Uwoghiren, Uriel
name: Alexander, Eliab
Publisher: name: NIPES
Year: 2025

description: In order to meet regulatory requirements, reduce rework and scrapping of completed goods, and maintain competitiveness in the current global and competitive economy, manufacturers need to come up with a way to monitor important aspects of manufactured goods in real time and make sure they remain within predetermined control limits. Therefore, in light of regulatory regulations regarding the net content of packaged goods, the goal of this study is to create quality control charts that are appropriate for deployment in phase II product net weight monitoring and subject to only common causes of fluctuation. The Minitab 2021 statistical software package was used for data analysis. The X-bar-S chart was used to investigate process stability and variability. Also, probability plots, process capability analysis, and the summary report obtained from the dataset, as well as the β-risk and the Average Run Length (ARL), were useful tools guiding the effective deployment of the X-bar chart for phase II product net weight monitoring. The probability of detecting a shift in the mean of the manufacturing process was found to be 95% with an ARL of one, which informs us that the process mean must be monitored batch by batch to ensure the mean remains within the desired control limits to ensure the product net weight conforms to regulatory standards.
Reliability and validity of the Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39 (SAQOL-39) for a Serbian population
Creators: name: VukoviĆ, Mile
name: Sukur, Željana
name: VukoviĆ, Irena
name: Salis, Christos
name: Code, Chris
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Aphasia has a negative impact on a person’s quality of life (QOL). The Stroke Aphasia Quality of Life-39 scale (SAQOL-39) is a widely-used measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) developed for people with aphasia that has been translated into several languages. Its psychometric properties have been examined not only in English, but also in other languages. This study examined the reliability and validity of a translation and adaptation of the SAQOL-39 into Serbian in Serbian-speaking people with aphasia. Method: Using forward and backward translation, the SAQOL-39 was translated and adapted from English into Serbian and its psychometric properties were examined in 90 Serbian-speaking people with a broad range of times post-onset of aphasia. Internal consistency, test–retest reliability and other analyses were conducted. Result: Internal consistency and test–retest reliability of the Serbian version was high (Cronbach’s α > 0.9; ICC ≥0.87), which is similar to versions of the scale in other languages. Conclusion: The Serbian translation and adaptation of the SAQOL-39 was shown to be a valid and reliable measure of QOL in people with aphasia with reliable psychometric properties and is suitable for the assessment of Serbian people with aphasia.
Economic evaluation of the Happy Talk pilot effectiveness trial: A targeted selective speech, language and communication intervention for children from areas of social disadvantage
Creators: name: Frizelle, Pauline
name: Mckean, Cristina
name: O’Shea, Aoife
name: Horgan, Anne
name: Murphy, Aileen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: This study presents a cost-effectiveness analysis of a targeted selective pre-school intervention programme, “Happy Talk”, which focuses on language development, by simultaneously enhancing parental interaction and the pre-school environment. Method: Happy Talk (delivered to 77 children) is an add on intervention, and is compared to usual care, adopting a healthcare perspective. Cost-effectiveness analyses were carried out using the Pre-school Language Scale 5- Total (PLS-5) for baseline analysis and the Child Health Utility Instrument (CHU9D) in a secondary analysis. Result: Baseline cost-effectiveness analysis showed Happy Talk was more effective (6.3 point change in total PLS-5 standard score – effect size 0.463SD and more expensive (€82.06) than usual care (cost-effectiveness ratio is €13.02 per unit change). Employing a proxy to estimate monetary net benefit, the benefits outweigh the costs, showing that it is cost-effective. However, results do not persist when health-related quality of life outcome measures are considered. Conclusion: Findings suggest a targeted selective public health approach, could be considered value for money to reduce the societal burden of children with low levels of speech, language and communication. However, measurement of longer term outcomes and a larger trial are required, to definitively inform policy changes.
title: Do Female Workers in Developing Countries Benefit from Labor Provisions in PTAs?
Creators: name: Ahmad, Saad
name: Raess, Damian
name: Thome, Karen
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: The inclusion of labor provisions in PTAs has become more common in recent years
as economies seek to protect labor rights through trade policy. However, as documented in the LABPTA dataset (Raess and Sari, 2018), there is significant variation
in the scope and enforceability of these labor provisions across the different PTAs.
Building on LABPTA, we extend coverage to include all PTAs signed between 2016
and 2021 and perform a retrospective econometric analysis to determine the effect
of PTAs with labor provisions on gender wage gap, a key indicator of gender equality
and women’s economic right.
Data from: Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist
Creators: name: Koga, Ryuichi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: We report an experimental system in which Escherichia coli evolves into an insect mutualist. When the essential gut symbiont of the stinkbug Plautia stali was replaced by E. coli, a few survivor insects exhibited specific localization and vertical transmission of E. coli. Through trans-generational maintenance with P. stali, several hyper-mutating E. coli lines independently evolved host's high adult emergence and improved body color. Such "mutualistic" E. coli lines exhibited independent mutations disrupting the carbon catabolite repression (CCR) global transcriptional regulator. Each of the mutations reproduced the mutualistic phenotypes when introduced into wild-type E. coli, confirming that the single CCR mutations instantly make E. coli an insect mutualist. Our discovery uncovers that evolution of elaborate mutualism can proceed more easily and rapidly than conventionally envisaged.
description: Funding provided by: JST ERATO*
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Award Number: JPMJER1902Funding provided by: JSPS KAKENHI*
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Award Number: JP25221107Funding provided by: JSPS KAKENHI*
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Award Number: JP16H06279
Supplementary document for Bi-modal Near-infrared Fluorescence and Ultrasound Imaging via a Transparent Ultrasound Transducer for Sentinel Lymph Node Localization - 5578117.pdf
Creators: name: Park, Jeongwoo
name: Park, Byullee
name: Yong, Uijung
name: Ahn, Joongho
name: Kim, Jin
name: Kim, Hyung Ham
name: Jang, Jinah
name: Kim, Chulhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplement 1
title: Development of a camera-based forward collision alert system
Creators: name: Raphael, E
name: Kiefer, R
name: Reisman, P
name: Hayon, G
Publisher: name: SAE International
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 4005 Civil Engineering
subject: 40 Engineering
subject: 4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies
subject: Generic health relevance
subject: 3 Good Health and Well Being

description: Forward Collision Alert (or Forward Collision Warning) systems provide alerts intended to assist drivers in avoiding or mitigating the harm caused by rear-end crashes. These systems currently use front-grille mounted, forward-looking radar devices as the primary sensor. In contrast, Lane Departure Warning (LDW) systems employ forward-looking cameras mounted behind the windshield to monitor lane markings ahead and warn drivers of unintended lane violations. The increasing imaging sensor resolution and processing capability of forward-looking cameras, as well recent important advances in machine vision algorithms, have pushed the state-of-the-art for camera-based features. Consequently, camera-based systems are emerging as a key crash avoidance system component in both a primary and supporting sensing role. There are currently no production vehicles with cameras used as the sole FCA sensing device. This paper discusses the development of a camera-based FCA system that uses a camera in place of a radar device for sensing rear-end crash situations. This paper provides an overview of the system, including how the system detects vehicles, tracks vehicles, projects collision course trajectories, and estimates time-to-collision (TTC) using image scale change. Results from test track and public road testing support the deployment of a camera-based FCA system, and indicate this system would meet the United States Department of Transportation New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Forward Collision Warning confirmation test requirements. Furthermore, the conditions under which most rear-end crashes occur suggests that this system provides a promising approach to reduce the harm caused by rear-end crashes. © 2011 SAE International.
Intrinsic subtypes in Ethiopian breast cancer patient
Creators: name: Desalegn, Zelalem
name: Yohannes, Meron
name: Pörsch, Martin
name: Stückrath, Kathrin
name: Anberber, Endale
name: Santos, Pablo
name: Bauer, Marcus
name: Addissie, Adamu
name: Bekurtsion, Yonas
name: Assefa, Mathewos
name: Worku, Yasin
name: Taylor, Lesley
name: Abbäbä, Tamrat
name: Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna
name: Vetter, Martina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Purpose: The recent development of multi-gene assays for gene expression profiling has contributed significantly to the understanding of the clinically and biologically heterogeneous breast cancer (BC) disease. PAM50 is one of these assays used to stratify BC patients and individualize treatment. The present study was conducted to characterize PAM50-based intrinsic subtypes among Ethiopian BC patients. Patients and methods: Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues were collected from 334 BC patients who attended five different Ethiopian health facilities. All samples were assessed using the PAM50 algorithm for intrinsic subtyping. Results: The tumor samples were classified into PAM50 intrinsic subtypes as follows: 104 samples (31.1%) were luminal A, 91 samples (27.2%) were luminal B, 62 samples (18.6%) were HER2-enriched and 77 samples (23.1%) were basal-like. The intrinsic subtypes were found to be associated with clinical and histopathological parameters such as steroid hormone receptor status, HER2 status, Ki-67 proliferation index and tumor differentiation, but not with age, tumor size or histological type. An immunohistochemistry-based classification of tumors (IHC groups) was found to correlate with intrinsic subtypes. Conclusion: The distribution of the intrinsic subtypes confirms previous immunohistochemistry-based studies from Ethiopia showing potentially endocrine-sensitive tumors in more than half of the patients. Health workers in primary or secondary level health care facilities can be trained to offer endocrine therapy to improve breast cancer care. Additionally, the findings indicate that PAM50-based classification offers a robust method for the molecular classification of tumors in the Ethiopian context.