cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Espectrometro fotoacústico para el estudio de plasmones de superficie /
Creators: name: Diaz Hernandez, Jesus Antonio.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ciencias||Tesis y disertaciones académicas||Plasmones (Fisica).
subject: QC176.8.P55 D53 1990

description: Se presenta el dispositivo experimental utilizado para observar el decaimiento no radiactivo de plasmones e superficie en películas delgadas metálicas y se discuten los resultados obtenidos con películas delgadas de plata.
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - September, 2017 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current home ownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
Evaluación y procedencia de las arenas negras de la playa SaNn Antonio Del Mar, B.C., México
Creators: name: Chavez Amparan, Ramon.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: QE364.2 .H4 Ch38 1990

description: Con el objeto de evaluar y determinar el origen de las arenas negras de la playa de San Antonio de Mar, de Baja California.
Equivalence classes of augmentations and Morse complex sequences of Legendrian knots
Creators: name: Henry, Michael B.
name: Rutherford, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R17 (Primary), 57M25, 53D40 (Secondary)

description: Let L be a Legendrian knot in R^3 with the standard contact structure. In [10], a map was constructed from equivalence classes of Morse complex sequences for L, which are combinatorial objects motivated by generating families, to homotopy classes of augmentations of the Legendrian contact homology algebra of L. Moreover, this map was shown to be a surjection. We show that this correspondence is, in fact, a bijection. As a corollary, homotopic augmentations determine the same graded normal ruling of L and have isomorphic linearized contact homology groups. A second corollary states that the count of equivalence classes of Morse complex sequences of a Legendrian knot is a Legendrian isotopy invariant.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - December, 2017 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current home ownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - October, 2017 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current home ownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
Soziale Ungleichheit und schwere COVID-19 Verläufe in der Schweizer Migrationsbevölkerung: Abschlussbericht
Creators: name: Bachmann, Nicole
name: Bayer-Oglesby, Lucy
name: Bühler, Sarah
name: Sepahniya, Samin
name: Solèr, Maria
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW
Year: 2024

description: Der vorliegende Bericht ist der 1. Meilenstein der Studie «Soziale Ungleichheit und schwere COVID-19 Verläufe in der Schweizer Migrationsbevölkerung 2022-2024», welche das Institut Soziale Arbeit und Gesundheit ISAGE im Auftrag des Bundesamtes für Gesundheit BAG, Sektion Gesundheitliche Chancengleichheit, durchführt (Vertrags-ID / Aktenzeichen 142005426 / 224-83/12). Der Bericht beschreibt das methodische Vorgehen in den Arbeitspaketen 1 und 2 der Studie. Das Arbeitspaket 3, in welchem Empfehlungen abgeleitet werden sollen, ist optional und nicht Gegenstand dieses Methodenberichts
Monografía de las familias Lessoniaceae y Desmarestiaceae (Phaeophyta) para las costas de la península de Baja California, México /
Creators: name: Espinoza Higuera, Jesus Fernando.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Lessoniaceae||Desmarestiaceae||Algas pardas||México, Baja California.
subject: QK569.L53 E86 1992

description: El presente estudio caracteriza a las especies de algas marinas pertenecientes a las familias Lessoniaceae y Desmarestiaceae (Phaeophyta) de la Península de la Baja California, México.
Multicenter Intestinal Current Measurements in Rectal Biopsies from CF and Non-CF Subjects to Monitor CFTR Function
Creators: name: Ernst, Sarah E.
name: Gabriel, Sherif E.
name: Ashlock, Melissa A.
name: Quinney, Nancy
name: Rowe, Steven M.
name: Donaldson, Scott H.
name: Lymp, James
name: Sugandha, Shajan P.
name: Rezayat, Amir
name: Fan, Lijuan
name: Ostmann, Alicia J.
name: Khan, Umer
name: Sun, Hongtao
name: Starner, Timothy D.
name: Clancy, John P.
name: Hornick, Douglas B.
name: Szczesniak, Rhonda D.
name: Karp, Philip H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Intestinal current measurements (ICM) from rectal biopsies are a sensitive means to detect cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) function, but have not been optimized for multicenter use. We piloted multicenter standard operating procedures (SOPs) to detect CFTR activity by ICM and examined key questions for use in clinical trials. SOPs for ICM using human rectal biopsies were developed across three centers and used to characterize ion transport from non-CF and CF subjects (two severe CFTR mutations). All data were centrally evaluated by a blinded interpreter. SOPs were then used across four centers to examine the effect of cold storage on CFTR currents and compare CFTR currents in biopsies from one subject studied simultaneously either at two sites (24 hours post-biopsy) or when biopsies were obtained by either forceps or suction. Rectal biopsies from 44 non-CF and 17 CF subjects were analyzed. Mean differences (µA/cm2; 95% confidence intervals) between CF and non-CF were forskolin/IBMX=102.6(128.0 to 81.1), carbachol=96.3(118.7 to 73.9), forskolin/IBMX+carbachol=200.9(243.1 to 158.6), and bumetanide-44.6 (-33.7 to -55.6) (P<0.005, CF vs non-CF for all parameters). Receiver Operating Characteristic curves indicated that each parameter discriminated CF from non-CF subjects (area under the curve of 0.94-0.98). CFTR dependent currents following 18-24 hours of cold storage for forskolin/IBMX, carbachol, and forskolin/IBMX+carbachol stimulation (n=17 non-CF subjects) were 44%, 47.5%, and 47.3%, respectively of those in fresh biopsies. CFTR-dependent currents from biopsies studied after cold storage at two sites simultaneously demonstrated moderate correlation (n=14 non-CF subjects, Pearson correlation coefficients 0.389, 0.484, and 0.533). Similar CFTR dependent currents were detected from fresh biopsies obtained by either forceps or suction (within-subject comparisons, n=22 biopsies from three non-CF subjects). Multicenter ICM is a feasible CFTR outcome measure that discriminates CF from non-CF ion transport, offers unique advantages over other CFTR bioassays, and warrants further development as a potential CFTR biomarker.
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - November, 2017 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current home ownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
Mitigation of infectious disease at school: targeted class closure vs school closure
Creators: name: Gemmetto, Valerio
name: Barrat, Alain
name: Cattuto, Ciro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: School environments are thought to play an important role in the community spread of airborne infections (e.g., influenza) because of the high mixing rates of school children. The closure of schools has therefore been proposed as efficient mitigation strategy, with however high social and economic costs: alternative, less disruptive interventions are highly desirable. The recent availability of high-resolution contact networks in school environments provides an opportunity to design micro-interventions and compare the outcomes of alternative mitigation measures. We consider mitigation measures that involve the targeted closure of school classes or grades based on readily available information such as the number of symptomatic infectious children in a class. We focus on the case of a primary school for which we have high-resolution data on the close-range interactions of children and teachers. We simulate the spread of an influenza-like illness in this population by using an SEIR model with asymptomatics and compare the outcomes of different mitigation strategies. We find that targeted class closure affords strong mitigation effects: closing a class for a fixed period of time -equal to the sum of the average infectious and latent durations- whenever two infectious individuals are detected in that class decreases the attack rate by almost 70% and strongly decreases the probability of a severe outbreak. The closure of all classes of the same grade mitigates the spread almost as much as closing the whole school. Targeted class closure strategies based on readily available information on symptomatic subjects and on limited information on mixing patterns, such as the grade structure of the school, can be almost as effective as whole-school closure, at a much lower cost. This may inform public health policies for the management and mitigation of influenza-like outbreaks in the community.
Additional file 5 of Effectiveness of a digital medication event reminder and monitor device for patients with tuberculosis (SELFTB): a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Manyazewal, Tsegahun
name: Woldeamanuel, Yimtubezinash
name: Holland, David P.
name: Fekadu, Abebaw
name: Marconi, Vincent C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Treatment adherence monitoring tool.
On the Search for Time Reversal Invariance Violation in Neutron Transmission
Creators: name: Bowman, J. David
name: Gudkov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time Reversal Invariant Violating (TRIV) effects in neutron transmission through a nuclei target are discussed. We demonstrate the existence of a class of experiments that are free from falls asymmetries. We discuss enhancement of TRIV effects. We analyze a model experiment and show that such tests have a discovery potential of $10^2 - 10^4$ compare to current limits.
The chosen few: the low mass halos that host faint galaxies
Creators: name: Sawala, Till
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Fattahi, Azadeh
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Theuns, Tom
name: Bower, Richard G.
name: Crain, Robert A.
name: Furlong, Michelle
name: Jenkins, Adrian
name: Schaller, Matthieu
name: Schaye, Joop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since reionization prevents star formation in most halos below 3 x 10^9 solar masses, dwarf galaxies only populate a fraction of existing dark matter halos. We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of the Local Group to study the discriminating factors for galaxy formation in the early Universe and connect them to the present-day properties of galaxies and halos. A combination of selection effects related to reionization, and the subsequent evolution of halos in different environments, introduces strong biases between the population of halos that host dwarf galaxies, and the total halo population. Halos that host galaxies formed earlier and are more concentrated. In addition, halos more affected by tidal stripping are more likely to host a galaxy for a given mass or maximum circular velocity, vmax, today. Consequently, satellite halos are populated more frequently than field halos, and satellite halos of 10^8 - 10^9 solar masses or vmax of 12 - 20 km/s, similar to the Local Group dwarf spheroidals, have experienced a greater than average reduction in both mass and vmax after infall. They are on closer, more radial orbits with higher infall velocities and earlier infall times. Together, these effects make dwarf galaxies highly biased tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Sobrevivencia y metamorfosis larval de Penaeus vannamei (Boone) alimentado con Chaetoceros gracilis producida con fertilizantes agrícolas /
Creators: name: Perez Castañeda, Roberto.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: SH380.6 P47 1992

description: Se comparó la sobrevivencia y metamorfosis larval de Penaeus vannaemi alimentada con Chaetoceros gracilis producida con fertilizantes agricolas, y medio f/2 (control). Las microalgas se ciltivaron en agua de marnatural fertilizada con 35.285 mgl-1 N-Nh4NO3 y 3.548 mgL-1 P-P2O5, como sustitutos de nitrógeno y fósforo del medio f/2.
TYUTOR PEDAGOGIK FAOLIYATINI TASHKIL ETISHNING PSIXOLOGIK ASOSLARI
Creators: name: Temirov, Jahongir
name: Toshpo'latov, Abdulaziz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada tyutor pedagogic faoliyatini tashkil etishning psixologik asoslari, talabalar bilan muloqot jarayoni va ular bilan ishlash ko'nikmalari haqida yoritib o'tilgan.
Native Predators Do Not Influence Invasion Success of Pacific Lionfish on Caribbean Reefs
Creators: name: Bruno, John F.
name: Layman, Craig A.
name: Precht, William F.
name: Green, Stephanie J.
name: Cox, Courtney E.
name: Hackerott, Serena
name: Valdivia, Abel
name: Akins, Lad
name: Côté, Isabelle M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Biotic resistance, the process by which new colonists are excluded from a community by predation from and/or competition with resident species, can prevent or limit species invasions. We examined whether biotic resistance by native predators on Caribbean coral reefs has influenced the invasion success of red lionfishes (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles), piscivores from the Indo-Pacific. Specifically, we surveyed the abundance (density and biomass) of lionfish and native predatory fishes that could interact with lionfish (either through predation or competition) on 71 reefs in three biogeographic regions of the Caribbean. We recorded protection status of the reefs, and abiotic variables including depth, habitat type, and wind/wave exposure at each site. We found no relationship between the density or biomass of lionfish and that of native predators. However, lionfish densities were significantly lower on windward sites, potentially because of habitat preferences, and in marine protected areas, most likely because of ongoing removal efforts by reserve managers. Our results suggest that interactions with native predators do not influence the colonization or post-establishment population density of invasive lionfish on Caribbean reefs.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: July 2017 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Country going in right/wrong direction (1); health care going in right/wrong direction (1); Affordable Care Act (2); health care law repeal and replacement (4); President Donald Trump and Congress handling the health care law (4); Medicaid (7); federal budget (3); health insurance coverage (2); Senate health care plan (4); source of health insurance (2); general health (1); political party preference (2); approval/disapproval of Trump (1).
Eficiencia biológica, biometría y análisis nutricional de Pl. /
Creators: name: Lizarraga Escobar, Marcos.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ciencias||Tesis y disertaciones académicas||Pleurotus ostreatus||Crecimiento y desarrollo||Setas comestibles||Crecimiento y desarrollo
subject: QK629.A4 L59 1993

description: Se determinó la eficiencia biológica (E.B.) de una cepa de Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacquin ex Fr.) Kummer, (sin esporas), usando como sustratos sin fermentar cascarilla de algodón al 100% orujo de uva al 100%, olote al 100% y mezclas de 1.1 de cascarilla de algodón y orujo de uva, cascarilla de algodón y olote, olote y orujo de uva.
Native Tertiary Structure and Nucleoside Modifications Suppress tRNA’s Intrinsic Ability to Activate the Innate Immune Sensor PKR
Creators: name: Bevilacqua, Philip C.
name: Cameron, Craig E.
name: Jones, Christie N.
name: Nallagatla, Subba Rao
name: Ghosh, Saikat Kumar B.
name: Spremulli, Linda L.
name: Sharma, Suresh D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Interferon inducible protein kinase PKR is an essential component of innate immunity. It is activated by long stretches of dsRNA and provides the first line of host defense against pathogens by inhibiting translation initiation in the infected cell. Many cellular and viral transcripts contain nucleoside modifications and/or tertiary structure that could affect PKR activation. We have previously demonstrated that a 5′-end triphosphate–a signature of certain viral and bacterial transcripts–confers the ability of relatively unstructured model RNA transcripts to activate PKR to inhibit translation, and that this activation is abrogated by certain modifications present in cellular RNAs. In order to understand the biological implications of native RNA tertiary structure and nucleoside modifications on PKR activation, we study here the heavily modified cellular tRNAs and the unmodified or the lightly modified mitochondrial tRNAs (mt-tRNA). We find that both a T7 transcript of yeast tRNAPhe and natively extracted total bovine liver mt-tRNA activate PKR in vitro, whereas native E. coli, bovine liver, yeast, and wheat tRNAPhe do not, nor do a variety of base- or sugar-modified T7 transcripts. These results are further supported by activation of PKR by a natively folded T7 transcript of tRNAPhe in vivo supporting the importance of tRNA modification in suppressing PKR activation in cells. We also examine PKR activation by a T7 transcript of the A14G pathogenic mutant of mt-tRNALeu, which is known to dimerize, and find that the misfolded dimeric form activates PKR in vitro while the monomeric form does not. Overall, the in vitro and in vivo findings herein indicate that tRNAs have an intrinsic ability to activate PKR and that nucleoside modifications and native RNA tertiary folding may function, at least in part, to suppress such activation, thus serving to distinguish self and non-self tRNA in innate immunity.
The association between socioeconomic position and the likelihood of developing type II diabetes mellitus in Danish prostate cancer survivors – Study protocol
Creators: name: Barsøe, Monika
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Neoplasms
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Cohort study
subject: Late effects
subject: Mediation analysis
subject: Socioeconomic position
subject: Prostate cancer
subject: Diabetes
subject: Inaquality

description: This is a study protocol for a cohort study examining the association between socioeconomic position and the likelihood of developing type II diabetes mellitus in Danish survivors of prostate cancer. Data on participants from the Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort will be used and linked with information from Danish registries.
Reduced matrix elements of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra
Creators: name: Gould, Mark D.
name: Isaac, Phillip S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We utilise characteristic identities to construct eigenvalue formulae for invariants and reduced matrix elements corresponding to irreducible representations of osp(m|n). In presenting these results, we further develop our programme of constructive representation theory via characteristic identities.
description: 41 pages
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: June 2017 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Affordable Care Act (1); health care law repeal and replacement (9); responsibility of Democrats/Republicans for problems with health care law (1); health insurance marketplaces (4); single payer health care system (7); prescription birth control (3); Medicaid (9); Senate health care plan (1); pre-existing conditions (2); federal/state control of health insurance (1); health insurance coverage (1); source of health insurance (10); general health (1); medical bills (1); political party preference (3); registered to vote (1); approval/disapproval of President Donald Trump (1).
Neuron Glia-Related Cell Adhesion Molecule (NrCAM) Promotes Topographic Retinocollicular Mapping
Creators: name: Dalva, Matthew B.
name: Buhusi, Mona
name: Dai, Jinxia
name: Brennaman, Leann H.
name: Demyanenko, Galina P.
name: Hruska, Martin
name: Maness, Patricia F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: NrCAM (Neuron-glial related cell adhesion molecule), a member of the L1 family of cell adhesion molecules, reversibly binds ankyrin and regulates axon growth, but it has not been studied for a role in retinotopic mapping. During development of retino-collicular topography, NrCAM was expressed uniformly in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) along both mediolateral and anteroposterior retinal axes, and was localized on RGC axons within the optic tract and superior colliculus (SC). Anterograde tracing of RGC axons in NrCAM null mutant mice at P10, when the map resembles its mature form, revealed laterally displaced ectopic termination zones (eTZs) of axons from the temporal retina, indicating defective mediolateral topography, which is governed by ephrinB/EphBs. Axon tracing at P2 revealed that interstitial branch orientation of ventral-temporal RGC axons in NrCAM null mice was compromised in the medial direction, likely accounting for displacement of eTZs. A similar retinocollicular targeting defect in EphB mutant mice suggested that NrCAM and EphB interact to regulate mediolateral retino-collicular targeting. We found that EphB2 tyrosine kinase but not an EphB2 kinase dead mutant, phosphorylated NrCAM at a conserved tyrosine residue in the FIGQY ankyrin binding motif, perturbing ankyrin recruitment in NrCAM transfected HEK293 cells. Furthermore, the phosphorylation of NrCAM at FIGQY in SC was decreased in EphB1/3 and EphB1/2/3 null mice compared to WT, while phospho-FIGQY of NrCAM in SC was increased in EphB2 constitutively active (F620D/F620D) mice. These results demonstrate that NrCAM contributes to mediolateral retinocollicular axon targeting by regulating RGC branch orientation through a likely mechanism in which ephrinB/EphB phosphorylates NrCAM to modulate linkage to the actin cytoskeleton.
The Big Idea: A Party Card Game for a Problem-Based Learning Course of Business English
Creators: name: Rosmawati, R
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

description: Party Card Games (PCG), though not originally developed for language teaching purposes, can be creatively re-purposed for teaching language. This paper demonstrates the creative use of a party card game, called The Big Idea, to suit the needs of an in-company training course for Business English. This course was designed based on the Problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, which has been shown in literature to benefit learners in many aspects, including improving creative and critical thinking, problem solving skills, as well as verbal ability, in addition to the most important dimension of content knowledge acquisition. In language classrooms, the PBL design of a course has also been shown to be effective in enhancing students’ communicative skills and in sustaining their motivation to learn. In this paper, we will showcase an innovative integration of a PBL design into a workplace training course for Business English through the utilization of a party card game that is highly relevant to the context of business.
New Onset of Constipation during Long-Term Physical Inactivity: A Proof-of-Concept Study on the Immobility-Induced Bowel Changes
Creators: name: Iovino, Paola
name: Pisot, Rado
name: Bilancio, Giancarlo
name: Mekjavic, Igor B.
name: Ciacci, Carolina
name: Cirillo, Massimo
name: Chiarioni, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundThe pathophysiological mechanisms underlining constipation are incompletely understood, but prolonged bed rest is commonly considered a relevant determinant.AimsOur primary aim was to study the effect of long-term physical inactivity on determining a new onset of constipation. Secondary aim were the evaluation of changes in stool frequency, bowel function and symptoms induced by this prolonged physical inactivity.MethodsTen healthy men underwent a 7-day run-in followed by 35-day study of experimentally-controlled bed rest. The study was sponsored by the Italian Space Agency. The onset of constipation was evaluated according to Rome III criteria for functional constipation. Abdominal bloating, flatulence, pain and urgency were assessed by a 100mm Visual Analog Scales and bowel function by adjectival scales (Bristol Stool Form Scale, ease of passage of stool and sense of incomplete evacuation). Daily measurements of bowel movements was summarized on a weekly score. Pre and post bed rest Quality of Life (SF-36), general health (Goldberg’s General Health) and depression mood (Zung scale) questionnaires were administered.ResultsNew onset of functional constipation fulfilling Rome III criteria was found in 60% (6/10) of participants (p=0.03). The score of flatulence significantly increased whilst the stool frequency significantly decreased during the week-by-week comparisons period (repeated-measures ANOVA, p=0.02 and p=0.001, respectively). Stool consistency and bowel symptoms were not influenced by prolonged physical inactivity. In addition, no significant changes were observed in general health, in mood state and in quality of life at the end of bed restConclusionsOur results provide evidence that prolonged physical inactivity is relevant etiology in functional constipation in healthy individuals. The common clinical suggestion of early mobilization in bedridden patients is supported as well.
Two-gap superconductivity in heavily n-doped graphene: ab initio Migdal-Eliashberg theory
Creators: name: Margine, E. R.
name: Giustino, Feliciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene is the only member of the carbon family from zero- to three-dimensional materials for which superconductivity has not been observed yet. At this time, it is not clear whether the quest for superconducting graphene is hindered by technical challenges, or else by the fluctuation of the order parameter in two dimensions. In this area, ab initio calculations are useful to guide experimental efforts by narrowing down the search space. In this spirit, we investigate from first principles the possibility of inducing superconductivity in doped graphene using the fully anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory powered by Wannier-Fourier interpolation. To address a best-case scenario, we consider both electron and hole doping at high carrier densities, so as to align the Fermi level to a van Hove singularity. In these conditions, we find superconducting gaps of $s$-wave symmetry, with a slight anisotropy induced by the trigonal warping, and, in the case of $n$-doped graphene, an unexpected two-gap structure reminiscent of MgB$_2$. Our Migdal-Eliashberg calculations suggest that the observation of superconductivity at low temperature should be possible for $n$-doped graphene at carrier densities exceeding $10^{15}$ cm$^{-2}$.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: May 2017 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Affordable Care Act (2); Democrats/Republicans responsible for problems with health care law (1); health care law repeal and replacement (1); opinion of American Health Care Act (13); President Donald Trump health care promises (1); effects of AHCA (5); allowing insurance plans that cost less but cover fewer benefits (5); pre-existing conditions (6); Medicaid (4); health insurance coverage (1); source of health insurance (9); general health (1); political party preference (2); registered to vote (1); Trump job performance (1).
Excess free energy of supercooled liquids at disordered walls
Creators: name: Benjamin, Ronald
name: Horbach, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a novel thermodynamic integration scheme, we compute the excess free energy, $γ$, of a glass-forming, binary Lennard-Jones liquid in contact with a frozen amorphous wall, formed by particles frozen into a similar structure as the liquid. We find that $γ$ is non-zero, becoming negative at low temperature. This indicates that the thermodynamics of the system is perturbed by the effect of the amorphous wall.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, References corrected
Estandarización del esfuerzo pesquero en la captura incidental del pez espada (Xiphias gladius) por la flota palangrera Vellan Mendoza atunera japonesa en el Océano Pacífico Oriental /
Creators: name: Movellan Mendoza, Enrique.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Oceanología||Tesis y disertaciones académicas||Pesquerías||Modelos matemáticos||Pez espada.
subject: SH331.5.M48 M68 1994

description: Se aplicó el modelo general lineal para la estandarización del esfuerzo pesquero por parte de la flota palangrera atunera japonesa en la pesca incidental de pez espada (Xiphlas gladius) en tres zonas del Oceáno Pacífico Oriental, Hawai.
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Creators: name: Rosmawati, R
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

description: Party Card Games (PCG), though not originally developed for language teaching purposes, can be creatively re-purposed for teaching language. This paper demonstrates the creative use of a party card game, called The Big Idea, to suit the needs of an in-company training course for Business English. This course was designed based on the Problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, which has been shown in literature to benefit learners in many aspects, including improving creative and critical thinking, problem solving skills, as well as verbal ability, in addition to the most important dimension of content knowledge acquisition. In language classrooms, the PBL design of a course has also been shown to be effective in enhancing students’ communicative skills and in sustaining their motivation to learn. In this paper, we will showcase an innovative integration of a PBL design into a workplace training course for Business English through the utilization of a party card game that is highly relevant to the context of business.
Módulo de medición de tiempo de trabajo y consumo de combustible :
Creators: name: Peralta Trasviña, Sergio Eduardo.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Motores de combustion interna||Medición||Ingeniería eléctrica.
subject: TJ759 P47 1994

description: Se llevó a cabo el diseño, construcción y prueba a nivel experimental de un módulo electrónico que toma lecturas de niveles de gasolina y tiempo de uso de un vehículo. El módulo almacena los datos y cuenta con una interfaz para realizar la comunicación serie.
N-MYC DOWN-REGULATED-LIKE Proteins Regulate Meristem Initiation by Modulating Auxin Transport and MAX2 Expression
Creators: name: Jones, Alan M.
name: Mudgil, Yashwanti
name: Ghawana, Sanjay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundN-MYC DOWN-REGULATED-LIKE (NDL) proteins interact with the Gβ subunit (AGB1) of the heterotrimeric G protein complex and play an important role in AGB1-dependent regulation of lateral root formation by affecting root auxin transport, auxin gradients and the steady-state levels of mRNA encoding the PIN-FORMED 2 and AUXIN 1 auxin transport facilitators. Auxin transport in aerial tissue follows different paths and utilizes different transporters than in roots; therefore, in the present study, we analyzed whether NDL proteins play an important role in AGB1-dependent, auxin-mediated meristem development.Methodology/Principal FindingsExpression levels of NDL gene family members need to be tightly regulated, and altered expression (both over-expression and down-regulation) confers ectopic growth. Over-expression of NDL1 disrupts vegetative and reproductive organ development. Reduced expression of the NDL gene family members results in asymmetric leaf emergence, twinning of rosette leaves, defects in leaf formation, and abnormal silique distribution. Reduced expression of the NDL genes in the agb1-2 (null allele) mutant rescues some of the abnormal phenotypes, such as silique morphology, silique distribution, and peduncle angle, suggesting that proper levels of NDL proteins are maintained by AGB1. We found that all of these abnormal aerial phenotypes due to altered NDL expression were associated with increases in basipetal auxin transport, altered auxin maxima and altered MAX2 expression within the inflorescence stem.Conclusion/SignificanceNDL proteins, together with AGB1, act as positive regulators of meristem initiation and branching. AGB1 and NDL1 positively regulate basipetal inflorescence auxin transport and modulate MAX2 expression in shoots, which in turn regulates organ and lateral meristem formation by the establishment and maintenance of auxin gradients.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: Early April 2017 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Country going in right/wrong direction (1); health care going in right/wrong direction (1); Affordable Care Act favorability (1); President Donald Trump health care promises (1); health care law repeal and replacement (2); opinions on Congress not passing health care bill (4); Republicans in Congress should keep working on health care/move on to other priorities (1); who and what is responsible for health care bill not passing (10); Trump administration should make ACA work/make ACA fail so they can replace it (1); Democrats/Republicans responsible for problems with current health care law (1); source of health insurance (4); general health (1); political party preference (2); Trump job performance (1).
The Origin of the X-ray Emission from the High-velocity Cloud MS30.7-81.4-118
Creators: name: Henley, David B.
name: Shelton, Robin L.
name: Kwak, Kyujin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A soft X-ray enhancement has recently been reported toward the high-velocity cloud MS30.7-81.4-118 (MS30.7), a constituent of the Magellanic Stream. In order to investigate the origin of this enhancement, we have analyzed two overlapping XMM-Newton observations of this cloud. We find that the X-ray enhancement is $\sim$6' or $\sim$100 pc across, and is concentrated to the north and west of the densest part of the cloud. We modeled the X-ray enhancement with a variety of spectral models. A single-temperature equilibrium plasma model yields a temperature of $(3.69^{+0.47}_{-0.44}) \times 10^6$ K and a 0.4-2.0 keV luminosity of $7.9 \times 10^{33}$ erg s$^{-1}$. However, this model underpredicts the on-enhancement emission around 1 keV, which may indicate the additional presence of hotter plasma ($T \gtrsim 10^7$ K), or that recombination emission is important. We examined several different physical models for the origin of the X-ray enhancement. We find that turbulent mixing of cold cloud material with hot ambient material, compression or shock heating of a hot ambient medium, and charge exchange reactions between cloud atoms and ions in a hot ambient medium all lead to emission that is too faint. In addition, shock heating in a cool or warm medium leads to emission that is too soft (for reasonable cloud speeds). We find that magnetic reconnection could plausibly power the observed X-ray emission, but resistive magnetohydrodynamical simulations are needed to test this hypothesis. If magnetic reconnection is responsible for the X-ray enhancement, the observed spectral properties could potentially constrain the magnetic field in the vicinity of the Magellanic Stream.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Complete intersections in certain affine and projective monomial curves
Creators: name: Bermejo, I.
name: García-Marco, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $k$ be an arbitrary field, the purpose of this work is to provide families of positive integers $\mathcal{A} = \{d_1,\ldots,d_n\}$ such that either the toric ideal $I_{\mathcal A}$ of the affine monomial curve $\mathcal C = \{(t^{d_1},\ldots,\,t^{d_n}) \ | \ t \in k\} \subset \mathbb{A}_k^n$ or the toric ideal $I_{\mathcal A^{\star}}$ of its projective closure ${\mathcal C^{\star}} \subset \mathbb{P}_k^n$ is a complete intersection. More precisely, we characterize the complete intersection property for $I_{\mathcal A}$ and for $I_{\mathcal A^{\star}}$ when: (a) $\mathcal{A}$ is a generalized arithmetic sequence, (b) $\mathcal{A} \setminus \{d_n\}$ is a generalized arithmetic sequence and $d_n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, (c) $\mathcal{A}$ consists of certain terms of the $(p,q)$-Fibonacci sequence, and (d) $\mathcal{A}$ consists of certain terms of the $(p,q)$-Lucas sequence. The results in this paper arise as consequences of those in Bermejo et al. [J. Symb. Comput. 42 (2007)], Bermejo and Garc\'ıa-Marco [J. Symb. Comput. (2014), to appear] and some new results regarding the toric ideal of the curve.
description: 22 pages. To appear in Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society
Sistema de información universitario de apoyo al plan flexible /
Creators: name: Haro Avalos, Horacio.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: TK5105.5 H37 1997

description: La presente investigación consiste en realizar un sistema de información automatizado en un ambiente de red a nivel unidad Ensenada, que permite el uso e intercambio de información de planes de estudio, cartas descriptivas y docentes, relacionadas con el Plan Flexible de la U.A.B.C.
No Effect of Genome-Wide Copy Number Variation on Measures of Intelligence in a New Zealand Birth Cohort
Creators: name: Kennedy, Martin A.
name: Fergusson, David M.
name: Sullivan, Patrick F.
name: Liu, Youfang
name: Horwood, L. John
name: Bagshaw, Andrew T. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Variation in human intelligence is approximately 50% heritable, but understanding of the genes involved is limited. Several forms of genetic variation remain under-studied in relation to intelligence, one of which is copy number variation (CNV). Using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) -based microarrays, we genotyped CNVs genome-wide in a birth cohort of 723 New Zealanders, and correlated them with four intelligence-related phenotypes. We found no significant association for any common CNV after false discovery correction, which is consistent with previous work. In contrast to a previous study, however, we found no effect on any cognitive measure of rare CNV burden, defined as total number of bases inserted or deleted in CNVs rarer than 5%. We discuss possible reasons for this failure to replicate, including interaction between CNV and aging in determining the effects of rare CNVs. While our results suggest that no CNV assayable by SNP chips contributes more than a very small amount to variation in human intelligence, it remains possible that common CNVs in segmental duplication arrays, which are not well covered by SNP chips, are important contributors.
Respuesta metabolica de poslarvas de abulón Haliotis rufescens, con diferentes nutrimentos disueltos en el agua /
Creators: name: Chacon Aguirre, Oscar Alejandro.
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abulones ||Cultivo||Oceanología|| Biología||Tesis.
subject: SH371.5 Ch32 1998

description: En el presente trabajo se evaluó el efecto de nutrimentos disueltos en el agua de mar en el cultivo de poslarvas de abulón rojo Haliotis rufescens.
Temperature effects in first-principles solid state calculations of the chemical shielding tensor made simple
Creators: name: Monserrat, Bartomeu
name: Needs, Richard J.
name: Pickard, Chris J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of atomic vibrations on the solid-state chemical shielding tensor using first principles density functional theory calculations. At the harmonic level, we use a Monte Carlo method and a perturbative expansion. The Monte Carlo method is accurate but computationally expensive, while the perturbative method is computationally more efficient, but approximate. We find excellent agreement between the two methods for both the isotropic shift and the shielding anisotropy. The effects of zero-point quantum mechanical nuclear motion are important up to relatively high temperatures: at 500 K they still represent about half of the overall vibrational contribution. We also investigate the effects of anharmonic vibrations, finding that their contribution to the zero-point correction to the chemical shielding tensor is small. We exemplify these ideas using magnesium oxide and the molecular crystals L-alanine and beta-aspartyl-L-alanine. We therefore propose as the method of choice to incorporate the effects of temperature in solid state chemical shielding tensor calculations the perturbative expansion within the harmonic approximation. This approach is accurate and requires a computational effort that is about an order of magnitude smaller than that of dynamical or Monte Carlo approaches, so these effects might be routinely accounted for.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators - January, 2018 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); moving plans (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (6); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current home ownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
Non-Smoking Male Adolescents' Reactions to Cigarette Warnings
Creators: name: McRee, Annie-Laurie
name: Pepper, Jessica K.
name: Cameron, Linda D.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Reiter, Paul L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to introduce new graphic warning labels for cigarette packages, the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years. We sought to examine whether warnings discouraged participants from wanting to smoke and altered perceived likelihood of harms among adolescent males and whether these warning effects varied by age.MethodsA national sample of 386 non-smoking American males ages 11–17 participated in an online experiment during fall 2010. We randomly assigned participants to view warnings using a 2×2 between-subjects design. The warnings described a harm of smoking (addiction or lung cancer) using text only or text plus an image used on European cigarette package warnings. Analyses tested whether age moderated the warnings' impact on risk perceptions and smoking motivations.ResultsThe warnings discouraged most adolescents from wanting to smoke, but lung cancer warnings discouraged them more than addiction warnings did (60% vs. 34% were “very much” discouraged, p<.001). Including an image had no effect on discouragement. The warnings affected several beliefs about the harms from smoking, and age moderated these effects. Adolescents said addiction was easier to imagine and more likely to happen to them than lung cancer. They also believed that their true likelihood of experiencing any harm was lower than what an expert would say.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that warnings focusing on lung cancer, rather than addiction, are more likely to discourage wanting to smoke among adolescent males and enhance their ability to imagine the harmful consequences of smoking. Including images on warnings had little effect on non-smoking male adolescents' discouragement or beliefs, though additional research on the effects of pictorial warnings for this at-risk population is needed as the FDA moves forward with developing new graphic labels.