cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The causes of the high attrition rate of non-owner middle managers in a family-owned corporation in the Philippines.
Creators: name: Condino, Stephene Roy
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: This DBA thesis focused on exploring the role of emotions towards decision making for non-owner middle managers in a family firm in the Philippines. The Philippines is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and Asia after China. This family firm has over 8000 employees nationwide and is rapidly expanding in the Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) region. This DBA thesis tries to answer what are the causes of the high attrition rate of non-owner managers leaving the family firm. As a member of the owning family and as a second-generation owner-manager, I need to dwell on this issue, which could affect our business in the long run. For me to discuss this in my thesis, I used numerous literature which reframed my understanding and my first-hand experience in the phenomenon, which I think is happening in the family firm. These pieces of literature focused on coping, cognitive appraisal, emotions, identity or social identity, regret theory, decision making and professionalization of family firms. It also helped me as an owner-manager to use a qualitative ethnographic, phenomenological action research method. This method will best fit the action I intend to use to achieve change in the family firm. The action came from the guidelines or framework provided by the thematic analysis and coding as part of my methods. The stages of the action research I did focused on five stages. These stages include observation, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, pilot test project and consolidation of feedback from the participants. Aside from this, I also used a storytelling approach together with my diary, which incorporated in the DBA thesis that is part of the rich data used to support the method of research used. When I did my interviews with the participants, I made sure that the privacy and profile of these respondents remain anonymous as indicated and approved during the ethics approval stages of this DBA thesis. The reader of this DBA thesis expects to understand what are the factors that affect the decision making of the non-owner managers and how these decisions could be changed by looking into the emotions and identity of the individual. The reader of this DBA thesis will also appreciate the role of the non-owner managers in family firms (disvalued or disregarded based on the story I will elaborate here) to achieve an ideal family firm by empowering them to make decisions, giving the non-owner managers ample training and guidance, changing their salary schemes and making the workplace environment a collaborative one make this possible.
title: Considérations thermiques relatives au dessin des toits
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Heat performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0375
subject: Performance thermique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0375
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: roofs
subject: toiture
subject: heat losses
subject: déperdition de chaleur
subject: heat gains
subject: apport de chaleur
subject: thermal control
subject: contrôle thermique
subject: durability
subject: durabilité

description: C'est en effet du comportement thermique que dépend avant tout le succès ou l'echec d'un système de toit, et ce comportement peut, dans une grande mesure, être déterminé par le maître-d'oeuvre lors des études de plans. Les considérations thermiques relatives au dessin des toits peuvent être classées dans deux catégories générales: d'une part, moyens de régler les pertes et gains de chaleur; d'autre part, effets sur l'ensemble du toit des valeurs extrêmes de la température et de ses variations. Dans les bâtiments canadiens, où la température est très souvent réglée par chauffage en hiver et refroidissement en été, les gains et pertes de chaleur présentent une grande importance économique. Certains toits, en abritant le bâtiment des rayons solaires, le protègent seulement contre les gains de chaleur; mais tous les toits exposés aux intempéries subissent de grandes variations de température. Les effets des valeurs extrêmes de la température et de ses variations présentent une importance majeure parce qu'elles influent sur la durabilité de l'ensemble de la toiture.
Therapeutic microparticles functionalized with biomimetic cardiac stem cell membranes and secretome
Creators: name: Cheng, Ke
name: Allen, Tyler A.
name: Shen, Deliang
name: Cores, Jhon
name: Wang, Zegen
name: Kan, Quancheng
name: Hensley, Michael Taylor
name: Li, Tao-Sheng
name: Vandergriff, Adam C.
name: Zhang, Jinying
name: Caranasos, Thomas George
name: Tang, Junnan
name: Dinh, Phuong-Uyen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Stem cell therapy represents a promising strategy in regenerative medicine. However, cells need to be carefully preserved and processed before usage. In addition, cell transplantation carries immunogenicity and/or tumourigenicity risks. Mounting lines of evidence indicate that stem cells exert their beneficial effects mainly through secretion (of regenerative factors) and membrane-based cell–cell interaction with the injured cells. Here, we fabricate a synthetic cell-mimicking microparticle (CMMP) that recapitulates stem cell functions in tissue repair. CMMPs carry similar secreted proteins and membranes as genuine cardiac stem cells do. In a mouse model of myocardial infarction, injection of CMMPs leads to the preservation of viable myocardium and augmentation of cardiac functions similar to cardiac stem cell therapy. CMMPs (derived from human cells) do not stimulate T-cell infiltration in immuno-competent mice. In conclusion, CMMPs act as ‘synthetic stem cells’ which mimic the paracrine and biointerfacing activities of natural stem cells in therapeutic cardiac regeneration.
The FORS1 catalogue of stellar magnetic field measurements
Creators: name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Fossati, L.
name: Landstreet, J. D.
name: Izzo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FORS1 instrument on the ESO Very Large Telescope was used to obtain low-resolution circular polarised spectra of nearly a thousand different stars, with the aim of measuring their mean longitudinal magnetic fields. A catalogue of FORS1 magnetic measurements would provide a valuable resource with which to better understand the strengths and limitations of this instrument and of similar low-dispersion, Cassegrain spectropolarimeters. However, FORS1 data reduction has been carried out by a number of different groups using a variety of reduction and analysis techniques. Our understanding of the instrument and our data reduction techniques have both improved over time. A full re-analysis of FORS1 archive data using a consistent and fully documented algorithm would optimise the accuracy and usefulness of a catalogue of field measurements. Based on the ESO FORS pipeline, we have developed a semi-automatic procedure for magnetic field determinations, which includes self-consistent checks for field detection reliability. We have applied our procedure to the full content of circular spectropolarimetric measurements of the FORS1 archive. We have produced a catalogue of spectro-polarimetric observations and magnetic field measurements for about 1400 observations of about 850 different objects. The spectral type of each object has been accurately classified. We have also been able to test different methods for data reduction is a systematic way. The resulting catalogue has been used to produce an estimator for an upper limit to the uncertainty in a field strength measurement of an early type star as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio of the observation. While FORS1 is not necessarily an optimal instrument for the discovery of weak magnetic fields, it is very useful for the systematic study of larger fields, such as those found in Ap/Bp stars and in white dwarfs.
description: Accepted for publication by A&A
title: Les sols d'assise expansibles et contractiles
Creators: name: Hamilton, J. J.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: subsoils
subject: sous sol (terre)
subject: clay soils
subject: sol argileux
subject: swelling clay
subject: argile gonflante
subject: shrinkage
subject: retrait (altération)
subject: heave
subject: soulèvement
subject: foundations
subject: fondations (ouvrage)
subject: basements
subject: sous sol (bâtiment)

description: Certains mouvements peuvent se produire dans les sols d' assise peu profonds en raison de changements de volume par inhibition ou dessication d'une couche argileuse sousjacente. L'auteur indique comment une bonne connaissance des causes de ces difficultés aide à tracer les plans de fondations de facon à éliminer les dommages résultant de l'inégalité des mouvements du sol d'assise.
Getting to know Classical Novae with Swift
Creators: name: Osborne, Julian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novae have been reported as transients for more than two thousand years. Their bright optical outbursts are the result of explosive nuclear burning of gas accreted from a binary companion onto a white dwarf. Novae containing a white dwarf close to the Chandrasekhar mass limit and accreting at a high rate are potentially the unknown progenitors of the type Ia supernovae used to measure the acceleration of the Universe. Swift X-ray observations have radically transformed our view of novae by providing dense monitoring throughout the outburst, revealing new phenomena in the super-soft X-rays from the still-burning white dwarf such as early extreme variability and half- to one-minute timescale quasi-periodic oscillations. The distinct evolution of this emission from the harder X-ray emission due to ejecta shocks has been clearly delineated. Soft X-ray observations allow the mass of the white dwarf, the mass burned and the mass ejected to be estimated. In combination with observations at other wavelengths, including the high spectral resolution observations of the large X-ray observatories, high resolution optical and radio imaging, radio monitoring, optical spectroscopy, and the detection of GeV gamma-ray emission from recent novae, models of the explosion have been tested and developed. I review nine novae for which Swift has made a significant impact; these have shown the signature of the components in the interacting binary system in addition to the white dwarf: the re-formed accretion disk, the companion star and its stellar wind.
description: 11 pages. As published
title: Bridging the Gap between Higher Education and the Logistic Sector Needs in Oman: Designing a Needs-based Curriculum
Creators: name: Al-Mahrooqi, Harib
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of the study is to evaluate and measure the curriculum as an academic plan that provides expected knowledge, skills and attitudes for the learner through understanding curriculum theories to build “a more practice-based curriculum” to achieve the stated learning outcomes to enhance job performance and predict job success of the logistics sector in Oman and identify the best processes and tools for designing the curriculum to fit the needs of the sector and bridge the bridge any gaps found in the curriculum gap using mixed-method through three samples (Curriculum Designers within HEIs, Middle-Managers and employees within logistics companies).
Thin single crystal perovskite solar cells to harvest below-bandgap light absorption
Creators: name: Tang, Shi
name: Deng, Yehao
name: Xiao, Xun
name: Dong, Qingfeng
name: Fang, Yanjun
name: Wang, Qi
name: Huang, Jinsong
name: Liu, Ye
name: Bao, Chunxiong
name: Bai, Yang
name: Lin, Yun
name: Chen, Zhaolai
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The efficiency of perovskite solar cells has surged in the past few years, while the bandgaps of current perovskite materials for record efficiencies are much larger than the optimal value, which makes the efficiency far lower than the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit. Here we show that utilizing the below-bandgap absorption of perovskite single crystals can narrow down their effective optical bandgap without changing the composition. Thin methylammonium lead triiodide single crystals with tuned thickness of tens of micrometers are directly grown on hole-transport-layer covered substrates by a hydrophobic interface confined lateral crystal growth method. The spectral response of the methylammonium lead triiodide single crystal solar cells is extended to 820 nm, 20 nm broader than the corresponding polycrystalline thin-film solar cells. The open-circuit voltage and fill factor are not sacrificed, resulting in an efficiency of 17.8% for single crystal perovskite solar cells.
Scrophularia pumilio Lall
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia pumilio

description: 27. Scrophularia pumilio Lall in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 134, t. 2b (1970)
 Type:— TURKEY. C 10 Hakkari: Cilo Tepe, 3353 m, 8 viii 1954, loose scree, Davis & O. Polunin, D. 24064 (holotype K!).
 Flowering time:— August.
 Habitat:— Loose limestone scree and crevices. 3000‒3355 m elevation.
 Distribution:— Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
 Note: — This species, which is distributed in the Hakkari region, has not been collected despite that area has been herborised several times. However, some places in the territory have not been reached for safety reasons, but the species has been searched in possible similar habitats without success. Type specimens of the species were identified at K and the species description was made according to that material. Taking into account the possibility of its presence in the further study, it has been keep it on the species identification key.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
acrwimoslides uploaded.pptx
Creators: name: McCandlish, Alison
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Technical writing
Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified
Digital writing

description: Trackers created for AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month) 2022, to track personal writing progress.
 The slides are designed to allow habit tracking and progress records of writing during ACWriMo2022, include a calendar for the month, and pages for tracking brain dump writing, writing times/ days, writing retreats, reading and reflection on texts, and self care.
 Use the trackers to stamp (track) your habits Add extra slides for notes as needed Save as a record of your AcWriMo2022
 A "stamp" tool is included in the Powerpoint.
 Slides are created using Adobe Express and Powerpoint.
Tradict enables accurate prediction of eukaryotic transcriptional states from 100 marker genes
Creators: name: Teixeira, Paulo José Pereira Lima
name: Biswas, Surojit
name: Dangl, Jeffery L.
name: Kerner, Konstantin
name: Jojic, Vladimir
name: Wigge, Philip A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Transcript levels are a critical determinant of the proteome and hence cellular function. Because the transcriptome is an outcome of the interactions between genes and their products, it may be accurately represented by a subset of transcript abundances. We develop a method, Tradict (transcriptome predict), capable of learning and using the expression measurements of a small subset of 100 marker genes to predict transcriptome-wide gene abundances and the expression of a comprehensive, but interpretable list of transcriptional programs that represent the major biological processes and pathways of the cell. By analyzing over 23,000 publicly available RNA-Seq data sets, we show that Tradict is robust to noise and accurate. Coupled with targeted RNA sequencing, Tradict may therefore enable simultaneous transcriptome-wide screening and mechanistic investigation at large scales.
title: Assessment methods in Science in a Higher education institution described and compared with assessment methods in Science in a Secondary education institution.
Creators: name: Mahmood, Adeeba
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Assessment has been emphasised as one of most important components of teaching and learning (Boud, 2010). However, the assessment methods across higher education and secondary education are markedly different and there is little investigation into the impact of this (Boud, 2010). In this study, assessment methods will be described and compared from two sectors: higher education and secondary education in order to investigate the similarities and differences from a teachers’ point of view. This study is qualitative using an interpretative phenomenological approach to describe the phenomenon of assessment across the two sectors. The data collection method used was semi-structured interviews in which each participant was also asked to bring an assessment artefact with them for analysis. Also, documentary analysis was used to support interview findings from each context in order to describe and compare the similarities and differences between the assessment methods used across the two sectors. The data analysis procedure was interpretative phenomenological analysis to suit the design of the study. Results show that at higher education the assessment methods used by lecturers have an emphasis on ‘process’ and ‘skills’ development and deep approaches to learning, whereas, in secondary education there is an emphasis on ‘knowledge’ and exam practise which can be repetitive and akin to students regurgitating mark scheme answers which is less cognitively challenging and leads to surface approaches to learning. Five themes emerged from the interview and documentary data which are: to assess knowledge and understanding, in order to assess throughout the learning, using a variety of assessment methods, teachers views on the learning process and to challenge students. Changes were suggested that can help revamp the current assessment methods in secondary education and higher education. Recommendations have been proposed in this research to help bridge this gap between the assessment methods used across the two sectors in order to help secondary education students successfully transition into higher education.
title: Programmes, policies and practices which hinder/augment Singapore-based teachers’ intentions to further increase their pedagogical creative capacity: A sequential exploratory approach
Creators: name: Tang, Suyun
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: Students’ effective learning and creativity development is an important agenda, especially for Singapore. Human capital being the only natural economic resource Singapore has, it is important that teachers are able to teach students effectively. Whilst teachers in Singapore are prepared with creative pedagogical strategies for use in the classrooms, this may not be a sufficient approach if the aim is to increase the quality and capacity of future creative capital. This study aims to uncover how Singapore based teachers’ intention to further develop their pedagogical creative capacity may be increased through development programmes, policies and practices. A mixed method approach was utilised for this study. Employing an exploratory sequential design, qualitative data was first collected using semi-structured interviews (n=16). Based on the resultant themes, items were incorporated into the quantitative phase of data collection (n = 14). Analysis of quantitative data was carried out using the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman’s Correlation.
Scrophularia pulverulenta Boiss. & Noe
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia pulverulenta

description: 28. Scrophularia pulverulenta Boiss. & Noë in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 2(3): 155 (1856)
 Type: — [TURKEY. B 7 Diyarbakir / Elazığ] in subalpinis et ruderatis Armeniae meridionalis circa Ardana (?Ergani), May 1852, Noë 1066 (holotype G!)
 Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Bitlis: Kuskunkıran tunnel, stony slopes, 2550 m, 02 June 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2554 (GAZI); Diyarbakır: Maden, 02 June 1957 (ISTE 43717); Maden, ca. 1300 m, 02 June 1957, Davis & Hedge 29084 (K, WU); Elazığ: Elazığ- Kovancılar, steppe, 850 m, 19 July 1978, F. Erhendorhen 787‒70‒5 (WU); 14 km to Maden, volcanic rocky, 1230 m, 03 June 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2558 (GAZI); Ergani-Maden, near Maden, 08 June 1971 (ISTE 20150); Erzincan: Kemaliye, around Sandıkbağı, 900 m, 18 May 1980, Ş. Yıldırımlı 2828 (HUB, EGE 32245); Van: Gevaş, Dokuzev Village, Akdamar, 1750 m, 07 September 1996, A. A. Dönmez 5620 (HUB).
 Flowering time:— May–June
 Habitat:— Volcanic rocky and slopes, steppe, rocky slopes. 850‒2550 m elevation.
 Distribution:— Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
title: Importance de la prévention des fuites d'air
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Air and vapour barriers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Pare-vapeur et pare-air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0310
subject: Building envelope
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Enveloppe du bâtiment
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Air flow/Wind pressure
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: Surcharges dues au vent/écoulement d'air
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0344
subject: air leakages
subject: pénetration de l'air
subject: infiltration
subject: exfiltration
subject: wind penetration
subject: pénetration du vent
subject: stack effect
subject: convection naturelle
subject: mechanical ventilation
subject: ventilation mécanique
subject: vapor barriers
subject: pare vapeur

description: Les fuites d'air se produisent dans la plupart des bâtiments, mais en raison des exigences posées par les nouvelles normes d'efficience, de la nécessité d'humidifier l'air interne en hiver et de la tendance à la construction de bâtiments plus hauts que précédemment, ces fuites deviennent de moins en moins tolérables. Une prévention efficace n'en peut être réalisée que par un soin particulier dans la conception et, une inspection serrée au cours de la construction, en vue d'éviter toute malfacon viciant les plans.
title: Improving quality of decision making in project approvals at the Medical Research Council
Creators: name: Simon, Susan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: The Medical Research Council has experienced a consistent decrease of capital funding over the recent decade. But capital is essential for the purchase of scientific equipment and the upkeep, updating and expansion of the research facilities. Hence the development of accurate project estimates and the selection of the proposals most beneficial to the scientific advancement is an increasingly critical aspect of delivering Value for Money to the taxpayer. Action Research, using interviews and questionnaires has been undertaken to understand the processes and dynamics within the MRC, motivation of bidders and reasoning of approvers. A database has been developed to test the effectiveness of Reference Class Forecasting, heavily promoted by the UK Government, around science facilities. It was found that a distinct lack of communication between the involved parties led to a failure of understanding of both the bidding process and evaluation criteria as well as project drivers, priorities and assumptions made in the development of the estimates. Furthermore, the charge of strategic misrepresentation should be reviewed considering the way in which government departments distribute funds and/or award specific projects. Arbitrary budget awards force project teams to engineer the requirements to fit in those envelopes. The environment of projects in the public sector was found to be very complex and have a significant influence on project strategies. More research needs to be done to understand these complexities better and consider appropriate actions to mitigate detrimental effects. A programme of continuous improvement within the MRC concluded the first two research cycles and has resulted in a specific strategy to target improvements of project performance. Data from the research is being used to bid for an increase of capital funding to ensure the MRC can deliver the cutting edge, world leading science, which the government expects.
title: From Freire to Fortune: Critical Changes in Business Education
Creators: name: McCartney, Christa
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: Business schools are in a critical condition. There is pressure from all sides pushing for adoption of a more globally aware paradigm. It is increasingly obvious to practitioners and students alike that business schools need a pedagogy suitable for our time. In this thesis, a bricolage methodology, with its emphasis on point of entry text taken from the title, is applied to examine changes in business education and the paradigm-shift to sustainability; assessing its rootedness, and innovative praxis in business sustainability education, through observing higher education applications.
title: Les nouveaux revêtements de finition organiques
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Buildings
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: Bâtiments
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: paints
subject: peinture (produit)
subject: alkyd paints
subject: peinture alkyd
subject: vinyl paints
subject: peinture au vinyle
subject: acrylic paints
subject: peinture acrylique
subject: epoxy coatings
subject: enduit à l'epoxy
subject: polyester paints
subject: peinture au polyester
subject: urethane coatings
subject: enduit à l'uréthane

description: L'auteur décrit les nouveaux enduits qui ont pris une certaine importance commerciale au cours des deux dernières décennies. Il étudie les avantages et les inconvénients qui découlent de leur composition.
Universal fragment descriptors for predicting properties of inorganic crystals
Creators: name: Isayev, Olexandr
name: Oses, Corey
name: Gossett, Eric
name: Tropsha, Alexander
name: Toher, Cormac
name: Curtarolo, Stefano
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Although historically materials discovery has been driven by a laborious trial-and-error process, knowledge-driven materials design can now be enabled by the rational combination of Machine Learning methods and materials databases. Here, data from the AFLOW repository for ab initio calculations is combined with Quantitative Materials Structure-Property Relationship models to predict important properties: metal/insulator classification, band gap energy, bulk/shear moduli, Debye temperature and heat capacities. The prediction's accuracy compares well with the quality of the training data for virtually any stoichiometric inorganic crystalline material, reciprocating the available thermomechanical experimental data. The universality of the approach is attributed to the construction of the descriptors: Property-Labelled Materials Fragments. The representations require only minimal structural input allowing straightforward implementations of simple heuristic design rules.
Scrophularia bitlisica Lall
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia bitlisica

description: 31. Scrophularia bitlisica Lall in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 132, f. la (1970)
 Type: — [TURKEY. B9 Bitlis]: 1550 m, castle ruins, 20 v 1966, Davis 44314 (holotype E!; isotype K!).
 Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Bitlis: Güroymak-Bitlis, Başhan, steppe, 1790 m, 02 June 2015, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2663 (GAZI); Tatvan-Van, Alacabük (Pelli) Mountain, stony steppe, 2180 m, 04 September 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2481 (GAZI); Tatvan, Küçüksu, Obuz village road, roadsides, slopes, 1792 m, 04 September 2013, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2479 (GAZI); Tatvan-Ahlat, 25 August 1954, Davis & O. Polunin 24613 (K).
 Flowering time:— May–September.
 Habitat:— Castle ruins, steppe, rocky and stony slopes, roadsides. 1550‒2180 m elevation.
 Distribution:— Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
title: The contribution of musculoskeletal disorders and multimorbidity to health-related job loss among older working-age adults: a population-based study
Creators: name: Duffield, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2020

description: BACKGROUND: Employment is the most important source of financial income and material well-being and therefore is the main driver of the social gradient in physical health, mental health, and mortality. In addition, good employment fulfils psychosocial needs and is fundamental for an individual’s social status, societal participation, and identity. However, work participation is known to fall steeply after the age of 50 in women and 55 in men. In the EU, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) account for 50% of all absences from work lasting 3 days or longer and for 60% of all permanent work incapacity. However, in those aged over 50, MSDs also commonly co-occur with other health conditions, in what is known as multimorbidity. AIMS: the overarching aims of this thesis are to investigate, among older working-aged people, a) the impact of common comorbid health conditions on work outcomes in people with MSDs, and b) the common patterns of multimorbidity and their contribution to health-related job loss. METHODS: Chapter four is a systematic review of the impact of comorbidity on work outcomes in people with musculoskeletal disease. The chapters that follow describe results from a nested matched case-control study of working-age participants, over the age of fifty. Health and Employment After Fifty (HEAF) study participants with health-related job loss (HRJL) were matched 1:1 to working control participants for age, sex, and GP practice. Participants’ health diagnoses at the time of HRJL were extracted using retrospective data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Chapter five describes a cohort of older workers with HRJL (case participants) for their known demographic, lifestyle, occupational, and health factors. Chapter six compares case participants to working controls for CPRD-defined health disorders to assess their association with HRJL. Chapter seven uses cluster analysis to describe common patterns of multimorbidity across the total study sample. In Chapter eight, these prominent clusters of health disorders were explored for their association with HRJL. Finally, in Chapter nine, multivariable conditional logistic models were constructed using purposeful selection to explore the population attributable fraction of HRJL for CPRD-defined health disorders. CONCLUSIONS: Results supported the primary importance of common mental health problems and musculoskeletal disorders for health-related job loss in the older working-age population. However, multimorbidity (classified as two or more CPRD-defined health disorders) was strongly associated with HRJL and accounted for a significantly greater proportion of HRJL than any individual health disorder. Multimorbidity clusters formed by co-occurring musculoskeletal disorders and mental health problems appeared to have a particularly strong impact on HRJL.
title: Qu'est-ce que la peinture?
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Buildings
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: Bâtiments
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: paints
subject: peinture (produit)
subject: pigment
subject: binders (paints)
subject: liant (peinture)

description: Le présent digeste traite des éléments principaux des revêtements et plus particulièrement des revetêments pigmentés et des fonctions qu'ils remplissent. Les propriétés générales que doivent posséder les matériaux non volatils, c' est-à-dire les pigments et les liants, sont étudiées ci-dessus.
Scrophularia serratifolia Hub.
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia serratifolia

description: 32. Scrophularia serratifolia Hub. ‒Mor. ex Lall in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 30: 135 (1970)
 Type: — TURKEY. A 6 Sivas: distr. Suşehri, Şerefiye Yayla-Suşehri, Eruptivgestein 11 km N. O. Şerefiye, 1900 m, 30 vi 1955, Huber-Morath 13994 (holotype G!).
 Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Erzincan: Tercan-Aşkale, ca. 1850 m, 08 June 1957, Davis & Hedge 29313 (K); Malatya: Gürün, Pınarbaşı, 18 June 1954, P. H. Davis 21990 (K); Sivas: Suşehri-Şerefiye, 2 km to Karabayır pass, limestone slopes, 1879 m, 21 June 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2581 (GAZI); Suşehri-Şerefiye, Karabayır pass, limestone slopes, 1970 m, 19 July 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2621 (GAZI); Suşehri-Şerefiye, 10‒12 km to Şerefiye, Karabayır pass, volcanic rocky places, 1920 m, 21 June 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2584 (GAZI); Yıldız Mountain, rocky, 2000‒2100 m, 19 July 2014, M. E. Uzunhisarcıklı 2618 (GAZI); Yozgat: between Akdağmadeni-Yıldızeli, Aslanköy, serpentine, ca. 1300 m, 06 June 1980, T. October 5038 (K).
 Flowering time:— May–July.
 Habitat:— Limestone slopes, volcanic rocky places, serpentine. 1300‒2100 m elevation.
 Distribution:— Endemic. Irano-Turanian element.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
Zika virus pathogenesis in rhesus macaques is unaffected by pre-existing immunity to dengue virus
Creators: name: González, Olga
name: Rodríguez, Idia V.
name: Pantoja, Petraleigh
name: Arana, Teresa
name: Giavedoni, Luis
name: Sariol, Carlos A.
name: Brien, James D.
name: Pérez-Guzmán, Erick X.
name: White, Laura J.
name: De Silva, Aravinda
name: Hassert, Mariah A.
name: Cruz, Lorna
name: Hodara, Vida
name: Pinto, Amelia K.
name: Martínez, Melween I.
name: Serrano, Crisanta
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Zika virus (ZIKV) is a re-emerging virus that has recently spread into dengue virus (DENV) endemic regions and cross-reactive antibodies (Abs) could potentially affect ZIKV pathogenesis. Using DENV-immune serum, it has been shown in vitro that antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of ZIKV infection can occur. Here we study the effects of pre-existing DENV immunity on ZIKV infection in vivo. We infect two cohorts of rhesus macaques with ZIKV; one cohort has been exposed to DENV 2.8 years earlier and a second control cohort is naïve to flaviviral infection. Our results, while confirming ADE in vitro, suggest that pre-existing DENV immunity does not result in more severe ZIKV disease. Rather our results show a reduction in the number of days of ZIKV viremia compared to naïve macaques and that the previous exposure to DENV may result in modulation of the immune response without resulting in enhancement of ZIKV pathogenesis.
title: Principes d'établissement des plans de fondations
Creators: name: Legget, R. F.
name: Crawford, C. B.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: foundations
subject: fondation (ouvrage)
subject: loadbearing soils
subject: sol de fondation
subject: site analysis
subject: analyse du site

description: L'auteur récapitule les principes qui doivent régir le calcul des fondations de bâtiments, afin que le maître d' oeuvre sache en quelle circonstance il doit consulter le spécialiste.
Circle-based Eye Center Localization (CECL)
Creators: name: Soelistio, Yustinus Eko
name: Postma, Eric
name: Maes, Alfons
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an improved eye center localization method based on the Hough transform, called Circle-based Eye Center Localization (CECL) that is simple, robust, and achieves accuracy on a par with typically more complex state-of-the-art methods. The CECL method relies on color and shape cues that distinguish the iris from other facial structures. The accuracy of the CECL method is demonstrated through a comparison with 15 state-of-the-art eye center localization methods against five error thresholds, as reported in the literature. The CECL method achieved an accuracy of 80.8% to 99.4% and ranked first for 2 of the 5 thresholds. It is concluded that the CECL method offers an attractive alternative to existing methods for automatic eye center localization.
description: Published and presented at The 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, 2015. http://www.mva-org.jp/mva2015/
GWAS of epigenetic aging rates in blood reveals a critical role for TERT
Creators: name: Joehanes, Roby
name: Bell, Jordana T.
name: Yet, Idil
name: Levine, Morgan E.
name: Wareham, Nicholas J.
name: Assimes, Themistocles
name: Aviv, Abraham
name: Baccarelli, Andrea A.
name: Li, Yun
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
name: Xue, Luting
name: Raj, Kenneth
name: Kiel, Douglas P.
name: Hou, Lifang
name: Murabito, Joanne M.
name: Whitsel, Eric A.
name: Stewart, James D.
name: McRae, Allan F.
name: Chen, Brian H.
name: Levy, Daniel
name: Quach, Austin
name: Cardona, Alexia
name: Wray, Naomi R.
name: Visscher, Peter M.
name: Perry, John R. B.
name: Tsao, Philip S.
name: Ferrucci, Luigi
name: Mangino, Massimo
name: Lunetta, Kathryn L.
name: Reiner, Alex P.
name: Absher, Devin
name: Deary, Ian J.
name: Ong, Ken K.
name: Day, Felix R.
name: Lu, Ake T.
name: Salfati, Elias L.
name: Tanaka, Toshiko
name: Tsai, Pei-Chien
name: Horvath, Steve
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: DNA methylation age is an accurate biomarker of chronological age and predicts lifespan, but its underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. In this genome-wide association study of 9907 individuals, we find gene variants mapping to five loci associated with intrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (IEAA) and gene variants in three loci associated with extrinsic epigenetic age acceleration (EEAA). Mendelian randomization analysis suggests causal influences of menarche and menopause on IEAA and lipoproteins on IEAA and EEAA. Variants associated with longer leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in the telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (TERT) paradoxically confer higher IEAA (P < 2.7 × 10−11). Causal modeling indicates TERT-specific and independent effects on LTL and IEAA. Experimental hTERT-expression in primary human fibroblasts engenders a linear increase in DNA methylation age with cell population doubling number. Together, these findings indicate a critical role for hTERT in regulating the epigenetic clock, in addition to its established role of compensating for cell replication-dependent telomere shortening.
title: Les couvre-joints pour toitures multicouches
Creators: name: Baker, M. C.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: flat roofs
subject: toiture en terrasse
subject: flashings
subject: solin
subject: eaves flashings
subject: solin de rive
subject: joint covers
subject: couvre joint
subject: leakages
subject: fuite

description: Les principes à suivre pour le dessin des couvre-joints des couvertures ont été illustrés ci-dessus. Les experts ont recommandé de libérer les relevés de tout lien rigide avec les ouvrages traversant le toit, et les bandes métalliques de solin seront séparés du revêtement de couverture; les bandes de solin égoutteront l'eau et seront libres à leur extrémité inférieure pour prévenir tout gauchissement ou cassure. On ne peut bien entendu séparer le dessin des couvre-joints de celui des murs du bâtiment ou de la toiture. Le toit, par exemple, doit être incliné pour permettre l'écoulement des eaux, et les murs seront concus pour décourager l'infiltration de la pluie. Le maître d' oeuvre, pour toutes ces raisons, devra étudier dans tous ses détails l'ensemble des mesures de lutte contre la pénétration des eaux.
title: Weaving Together: An Exploration of Succession Planning in Rural Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions
Creators: name: Snauwaert, Tiffany
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: There is a real concern about the increasing vacancies for corporate and higher education leadership positions. It is essential that planning and preparing take place for these vacancies. However, despite an ever-evolving body of organizational research literature regarding succession and leadership development, there is a perceived gap in the evidence base on best practices for higher education, particularly within Canada, and especially in rural Canadian post-secondary institutions. This primarily qualitative study uses an informed grounded theoretical framework with a social constructivist lens. By learning more about the succession planning experiences of those who are likely to be subjects and initiators of succession planning systems, this study aims to inform future developments in succession planning in Canadian post-secondary institutions operating in rural centres. Based on semi-structured interviews and questionnaires with post-secondary leaders working in seven of the 13 Canadian provinces and territories a new model was formed through an iterative and reflexive analysis of the data, emergent themes, and literature. The new model provides a framework which employees, supervisors, and institutions could use to support constructive dialogue and action plans for individuals to hone their leadership practice fit for Canadian post-secondary. Challenging the common pipeline metaphor, the model proposes weaving together learning-by-doing opportunities through multiple touchpoints with people throughout the organization and beyond. Additionally, the model encourages institutions to consider the desired leadership competencies and accountabilities to facilitate a cohesively-, yet organically-, built succession planning system. A system based on human connection and conversation with the goal to meet institutional leadership workforce needs, and optimize employees’ career goals. In this way, it is hoped the anticipated leadership deficit can be alleviated.
Missouri River Basin Agricultural Program
Creators: name: United State Department Of Agriculture
name: United State Department Of Agriculture
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1949
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Public Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the report: The Missouri River Basin is a vast region extending from the forested Rocky Mountains of the Continental Divide, through the Great Plains to the humid areas of east-central Missouri. It includes all of Nebraska, most of South Dakota, large fractions of North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, about half of Kansas and Missouri, and smaller parts of Colorado, Iowa, and Minnesota. The part of the Missouri Basin lying in the United States covers about 326,000,000 acres, or 509,375 square miles. The part lying in the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, covers 9,715 square miles, or 6,217,600 acres. The proposed agricultural development program for the Missouri Basin embraces about 14,000,000 acres of land outside the Basin proper in North Dakota. This additional area is affected by the proposed diversion of water to the Souris and Sheyenne River basins. For purposes of this report, the term "Missouri Basin" includes all the Missouri River drainage, exclusive of the area in Canada, and the additional area in North Dakota. This is a total of approximately 340,000,000 acres. The program is directed toward improving and stabilizing agriculture in the Missouri Basin by the conservation, development, and use of the Basin's land, water, and forest resources. The recommended program will assist the people of the Basin to reach this objective. The ultimate purpose is to increase the economic and social well-being of the people of the Basin and in the Nation.
description: The basin-wide agricultural program recommended in this report is designed to complement, support and protect the vast system of engineering works being constructed in the Missouri Basin under what has come to be known as the "Pick-Sloan Plan." This plan was approved by the Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1944. It provides for the control of floods in the principal valleys of the basin, the irrigation of arid and semi-arid lands, the generation of power and the improvement of the river for navigation.