cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Independent Living Programs: Voice of Youth in Services
Creators: name: Clare Saavedra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Independent living programs (ILPs)
Independent living coordinators (ILC)
Transitional aged foster youth
Casey Life Assessment
Transitional Independent Living Plan (TILP)

description: Independent Living Programs (ILP’s) targeting older youth in foster care address important domains identified by Nathans and Chaffers (2022), including work, education, and social relationships. These programs, however, are lacking an understanding of the role of youth in helping design their program plans. This study explores this potential research gap by examining whether ILPs provide youth a role in designing their plans. To conduct this study, a survey was created asking ILPs questions regarding the services provided within the programs and how much you contribute to designing their plans. After the study was approved by the IRB of CSU, Fullerton, ILP directors found on an ILP Narrative Report were sent an email. Eighty-eight emails were sent with thirty-nine respondents of which eighteen completed it and eleven provided further information. The results indicated that most ILPs give youth some authority to plan their programs, however the amount and input type varied within different programs. Specifically, some programs indicated directly asking youth what they would like to do while others used various assessment tools to create a plan based on the responses. Overall, these findings suggest that ILPs do provide an opportunity for youth to contribute, but how it is achieved varies across programs.
Supplementary information for 'The potential of green ammonia in the de-fossilisation of the steel, glass and cement industries'
Creators: name: El-Kadi, Joseph
name: Vadiraj Kinhal, Krishna
name: Liedtke, Luc
name: Pinzón-Ramírez, Juan Luis
name: Smith, Collin
name: Torrente - Murciano, Laura
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400499
subject: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary information for Green Ammonia for Industry_revised.docx
Zodarion segurense Bosmans 1994
Creators: name: Shafaie, Sepideh
name: Pekár, Stano
name: Ortiz, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Zodarion
Zodarion segurense

description: Zodarion segurense Bosmans, 1994
Figs 32, 34P–R, 38I, 39I, 41H
Zodarion segurense Bosmans 1994: 122, figs 13–15, 89–90 (♂ ♀).
Material examined. SPAIN: 1♂, 1♀, Cazorla, Jaén, V.1979, J. Murphy & F. Murphy leg., MMUM-18764, G7572.12841; 1♀, labeled as “Sierra, Cazorla, Segura, 1800 m a.s.l., 23.V.1968, J. Murphy & F. Murphy leg., MMUM, G7512.1 ”.
Diagnosis: Zodarion segurense can be easily separated from other members of the styliferum group by the tibial apophysis, with a distinctively widly truncated tip visible in the ventral view (Fig. 34Q), and a flat arch-shaped median apophysis (Fig. 34Q). Females of Z. segurense can be easily distinguished from the closely related Z. gregua by the epigyne, which is approximately 1.3 times wider (Figs 38I, 41H vs. Figs 38E, 41E).
Description: For a detailed description of the habitus and male palp, see Bosmans (1994). Epigyne (Fig. 41H): Epigynal plate mushroom-shaped, anteriorly limited by a pair of touching margins, posteriorly gradually widened. Sides of the epigynal plate distinctly S-shaped. Epigyne with a short antero-median septum, accompanied by a pair of copulatory openings on antero-lateral sides of the septum; these copulatory openings linked to a pair of lateral pits by connecting grooves.
Distribution: Spain.
description: Published as part of Shafaie, Sepideh, Pekár, Stano & Ortiz, David, 2025, Integrative taxonomy of the Iberian Zodarion species of the rubidum and styliferum groups (Araneae: Zodariidae), pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5624 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5624.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324823
title: Guzmania :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Guzmania
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Exposure Assessment in Cohort Studies of Childhood Asthma
Creators: name: Arrandale, Victoria H.
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Brook, Jeffrey R.
name: Brunekreef, Bert
name: Gold, Diane R.
name: London, Stephanie J.
name: Miller, J. David
name: Özkaynak, Halûk
name: Ries, Nola M.
name: Sears, Malcolm R.
name: Silverman, Frances S.
name: Takaro, Tim K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Background: The environment is suspected to play an important role in the development of childhood asthma. Cohort studies are a powerful observational design for studying exposure–response relationships, but their power depends in part upon the accuracy of the exposure assessment. Objective: The purpose of this paper is to summarize and discuss issues that make accurate exposure assessment a challenge and to suggest strategies for improving exposure assessment in longitudinal cohort studies of childhood asthma and allergies. Data synthesis: Exposures of interest need to be prioritized, because a single study cannot measure all potentially relevant exposures. Hypotheses need to be based on proposed mechanisms, critical time windows for effects, prior knowledge of physical, physiologic, and immunologic development, as well as genetic pathways potentially influenced by the exposures. Modifiable exposures are most important from the public health perspective. Given the interest in evaluating gene–environment interactions, large cohort sizes are required, and planning for data pooling across independent studies is critical. Collection of additional samples, possibly through subject participation, will permit secondary analyses. Models combining air quality, environmental, and dose data provide exposure estimates across large cohorts but can still be improved. Conclusions: Exposure is best characterized through a combination of information sources. Improving exposure assessment is critical for reducing measurement error and increasing power, which increase confidence in characterization of children at risk, leading to improved health outcomes.
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Domestic Market Environment Affecting to Export Decision of Canned Seafood Industries
Creators: name: Phattharaphon Chummee
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University.
Year: 2014
Subjects: domestic market environment
export decision

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 1, 2, 1-14
Understanding the Intricacies of the Gut Microbiome
Creators: name: Oishik, Adib
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: ABSTRACTThe human gut microbiota, a complex community of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, plays a vital role in maintaining health and homeostasis. Primarily located in the colon, these microorganisms contribute to digestion by breaking down fibers, producing essential nutrients, and generating short-chain fatty acids. Beyond digestion, gut microbiota influences immune function, metabolism, and even neurological processes. Its composition is shaped by factors such as genetics, diet, delivery mode, and environmental influences like stress and medications. An imbalance in the gut microbiome, known as dysbiosis, has been linked to various diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and inflammatory bowel disease. Therapeutic strategies targeting the gut microbiome, such as dietary interventions, prebiotics, probiotics, and microbial transplants, offer promising avenues for preventing and managing these conditions. Ongoing research is crucial to fully elucidate the complex interactions between the gut microbiome and human health, paving the way for microbiota-based therapies. In this article, we review some current knowledge on the human gut and its relationship with disease.

Keywords: Gut Microbiota, Microbiota development, Influencing factors of gut microbiota, Microbiota function, Eubiosis, Dysbiosis, Diseases.
Parlare di pandemia a bambini e adolescenti: la letteratura swahili nella prevenzione e lotta all’HIV/AIDS in Kenya e Tanzania
Creators: name: Acquaviva, Graziella
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Since the early 1980s, when the first cases of HIV/AIDS infection were detected in East Africa, local governments have acted in cooperation with international agencies in order to prevent a larger diffusion of the virus through information and prevention campaigns aimed in particular to fighting prejudices, stigma and discrimination against the sick individuals and their families. Children and adolescents make up the age group most vulnerable to contagion. How do you let somebody who is sexually active but not yet an adult understand how ae virus is transmitted? And which intervention can be put in place with an aim at the well-being of school-age children? Most of all, from a strictly cultural perspective, what is the role played by literature in the collective effort to stop the spread of an invisible enemy that keeps claiming its victims? What are the common man’s perceptions in this regard, and what else can change them into words and images – except a writer’s pen and a poet’s sensibility? These are the questions addressed, admittedly with no exhaustivity, by this study: a study voicing the fear and trauma created by a pandemic infection.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
The Impact of Digitalization on Sustainability in the Banking Sector:Case Study from the GCC Countries
Creators: name: Farooq Taher, Zainab
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 350107
subject: Sustainability accounting and reporting
classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance

description: Digitalization in the banking sector is a revolutionary change that all banks must embrace or face a loss of power and position within the industry (Deshpande, 2018). To be precise, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalization in the banking sector since the launch of cashless transactions. This study explores the impact of digitalization on the banking sector in the selected GCC countries, specifically the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Different independent variables are studied using pooled panel data of the countries’ banking sectors chosen to achieve this objective. This includes payment systems, real-time gross settlement systems, cheque clearings, and the number of ATMs. Return on equity (ROE) approximates the sector’s performance. Using the ordinary least squares regression model (OLS), random and fixed effects models, and the feasible generalized least squares model (FGLS), the results show that the aggregated digital transactions are significant at 95%, and looking at each independent variable individually, payment systems (PAY) is significant at 99%, indicating that it is the most digitalized and has a positive and significant impact on the banking sector’s performance. This research contributes to developing the theory of modern banking, where the obtained results are useful for researchers, banks, and public authorities. In addition, to increase the e-benefits of digitalization in the banking sector, governments should encourage different banks to enhance their social and financial supply capabilities with differentiated products, services, and refined management.
The effect of cathepsin K deficiency on airway development and TGF-β1 degradation
Creators: name: Zhang, Dongwei
name: Leung, Nelson
name: Weber, Ekkehard
name: Saftig, Paul
name: Brömme, Dieter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Cathepsin K, a cysteine protease predominantly expressed in osteoclasts, is a major drug target for the treatment of osteoporosis. Recent findings, however, indicate that cathepsin K is also involved in non-skeletal metabolism. The development of fibrotic phenotypes in lung and skin is a concern for cathepsin K inhibitors presently evaluated in clinical trials. Cathepsin K is expressed in lung tissue and has been implicated in lung fibrosis. However, little is known about the role of cathepsin K in airway development and its effect on TGF-β1 degradation. Methods: We investigated the effects of cathepsin K-deficiency on alterations in airway integrity, extracellular matrix composition, and TGF-β1 expression and degradation. Lung homogenates of wild-type and cathepsin K-deficient mice were used to evaluate their contents of collagen, glycosaminoglycans, and TGF-β1. The accessibility of TGF-β1 to cathepsin K-mediated degradation was determined in vitro and lung fibroblast proliferations in wild-type and cathepsin K-deficient cells were evaluated. Results: Lung airway cathepsin K expression in wild-type mice remained constant between 1 and 6 months of age and the airway integrity was maintained. In contrast, after 2 months of age, all Ctsk -/- mice demonstrated increased airway epithelium thickness by 16-28%, a lower structural airway integrity (1-2 score units lower), elevated cytokeratin expression of 12%, increased α-actin and vimentin expression by 50% and 70%, increased area of smooth muscle cells by 15%, elevated hydroxyproline and GAGs content by 20% and 25%, and increased TGF-β1 expression by 25%. TGF-β1 proved an efficient substrate of cathepsin K and TGF-β1 protein content in lung was increased by a potent cathepsin inhibitor. Lung fibroblasts from Ctsk-/- mice after TGF-β1 treatment showed increased proliferation rates, increased levels of TGF-β1 by 30%, and increased ECM secretion. Conclusion: This study suggests that airway development is partly regulated by cathepsin K and that its expression contributes to the maintenance of the airway structural integrity. The anticipated use of therapeutic cathepsin K inhibitors needs to take potential changes in human lungs into consideration.
Supplemental 2 Costs associated with providing training workshops. Cost-effectiveness of brief structured interventions to discontinue long-term benzodiazepine use: an economic analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Trepel, D
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This is supplemental 2 which presents 'Costs associated with providing training workshop' for manuscript entitled: Cost-effectiveness of brief structured interventions to discontinue long-term benzodiazepine use: an economic analysis alongside a randomised controlled trial. Trepel D, Ali S, Gilbody S, Leiva A, Mcmillan D, Bejarano F, Sempere E and Vicens C
title: Extending Machine Language Models toward Human-Level Language Understanding
Creators: name: McClelland, James
name: Hill, Felix
name: Rudolph, Maja
name: Baldridge, Jason
name: Schütze, Hinrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019

description: Language is central to human intelligence. We review recent break- throughs in machine language processing and consider what re- mains to be achieved. Recent approaches rely on domain general principles of learning and representation captured in artificial neu- ral networks. Most current models, however, focus too closely on language itself. In humans, language is part of a larger system for acquiring, representing, and communicating about objects and sit- uations in the physical and social world, and future machine lan- guage models should emulate such a system. We describe exist- ing machine models linking language to concrete situations, and point toward extensions to address more abstract cases. Human language processing exploits complementary learning systems, in- cluding a deep neural network-like learning system that learns grad- ually as machine systems do, as well as a fast-learning system that supports learning new information quickly. Adding such a system to machine language models will be an important further step toward truly human-like language understanding.
Antibiotic consumption in children prior to diagnosis of asthma
Creators: name: Marra, Fawziah
name: Marra, Carlo A.
name: Richardson, Kathryn
name: Lynd, Larry D.
name: FitzGerald, Mark J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Asthma is difficult to diagnose in children and at times misdiagnosis of an infection can occur. However, little is known about the magnitude and patterns of antibiotic consumption in children with asthma relative to those without asthma. Methods: Using population-based data, 128,872 children were identified with at least 6 years of follow-up. The adjusted rate-ratio (RR) of antibiotics dispensed to asthmatic as compared to non-asthmatic children was determined. Results: At age six, the RR of antibiotic consumption for asthmatics compared to non-asthmatics varied between, 1.66 to 2.32, depending on the year of asthma diagnosis. Of the 18,864 children with asthma at ages 2-8, 52% (n = 9,841) had antibiotics dispensed in the 6 months prior to their index date of asthma diagnosis. The RR of antibiotic consumption in the 1 month prior to asthma diagnosis compared to 5 months prior was 1.66 (95% CI 1.60-1.71). The RR was lower in males compared to females (1.58 vs 1.77), and lower in those who received antibiotics in the first year of life relative to those that did not (1.60 vs. 1.76). Conclusions: There is higher antibiotic consumption in children with asthma compared to those without asthma. The pattern of antibiotic use suggests that diagnosis guidelines are difficult to follow in young children leading to misdiagnosis and over treatment with antibiotics.
The Language of Death and Bare Life: Revisiting Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poetry
Creators: name: Farahmandfar, Masoud
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Death is a timeless subject which has occupied the minds of human beings throughout their far-reaching history, and scholars and writers have dealt with this subject in their own ways. In contemporary Persian poetry, death has an imposing presence, a good many modernist poets have tried to tame this wild subject in their artistic work, especially the poets who were writing during the period from the 1953 Iranian coup to the very beginning of the 1970s, when a degree of social peace and prosperity began to shine on the whole nation. An influential poet who was active at the first half of this period was Forugh Farrokhzād (1934-1967), who believed that every human being discovers the secret of their individuality in the mirror of their death, and it is in the face of death that they mature.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Lost in Translation: perdite culturali nel passaggio dall’arabo all’italiano
Creators: name: Waly, Naglaa
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This article investigates the Italian language rendering of some colloquial expressions, idioms and proverbs in the Egyptian vernacular that have been cited in literary works. The aim is to verify any cultural losses due to the difficulty of translating social and anthropological realia of Egypt. This article does not pass judgments on the strategies adopted by the various translators or on the correctness of the translation. Its aim is rather to find equivalents of expressions closely related to local Egyptian referents. In proposing the various solutions, the anthropological sources of the said and or of the term will be analyzed. This research could start an inventory of the losses deriving from the lack of cultural equivalence in literary translation, through a comparative method between the Arabic, Italian and possibly English versions of the text. The corpus is a list of idiomatic expressions and cultural elements from two stories by the Egyptian writer Yūsuf Idrīs: Arḫaṣ layālī (“The Cheapest Nights”), a short story published in 1954 in a collection that bears the same title and the second story Bayt mīn laḥm (“House of Flesh”), published in the collection that bears the same title in 1971. Both stories were originally translated into Italian by Luisa Orelli and published in the collection Alla fine del mondo in 1993.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Monika Browarczyk. Narrating Lives, Narrating Selves. Women’s Autobiographies in Hindi (2019)
Creators: name: Consolaro, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
The Busta dell’Ascari: War propaganda in Oromo in Latin script from 1940
Creators: name: Tosco, Mauro
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: This article describes the first (and possibly only) issue of a four-pages newspaper issued by the Italian military command on the eve of the Second World War and designed to spread war propaganda among the Ascari, i.e., the Italian colonial troops. The main point of interest is provided by the use of four languages: Italian, Amharic, Arabic and Oromo, the latter written in Latin script and following the conventions of the Italian orthography. After an historical introduction (section 1.), sections 2. and 3. describe the orthography, language and contents of the Oromo text. Section 4. presents a large portion of the text itself, comparing it with the Italian text (very possibly its source), analyzing it with the help of morphological glosses and attempting a re-transcription in modern Oromo orthography. In the end, section 5. comments on this historical document and the fate of this early attempt at writing down the Oromo language.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Homelessness and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among a cohort of HIV-infected injection drug users
Creators: name: Palepu, Anita
name: Milloy, M-J
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Zhang, Ruth
name: Wood, Evan
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2017

description: Homelessness is prevalent among HIV-infected injection drug users (IDU) and may adversely affect access and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). There are limited descriptions of the effect of homelessness on adherence to ART in long-term cohorts of HIV-infected IDU. We used data from a community-recruited prospective cohort of HIV-infected IDU, including comprehensive ART dispensation records, in a setting where HIV care is free. We examined the relationship between the homelessness measured longitudinally, and the odds of ≥95% adherence to ART using generalized estimating equations logistic regression modeling adjusting for sociodemographics, drug use, and clinical variables. Between May 1996 and September 2008, 545 HIV-infected IDU were recruited and eligible for the present study. The median follow-up duration was 23.8 months (IQR 8.5–91.6 months) contributing 2,197 person-years of follow-up. At baseline, homeless participants were slightly younger (35.8 vs. 37.9 years, p = 0.01) and more likely to inject heroin at least daily (37.1% vs. 24.6%. p = 0.004) than participants who had housing. The multivariate model revealed that homelessness (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.66; 95% CI: 0.53–0.84) and frequent heroin use (AOR 0.40; 95% CI: 0.30–0.53) were significantly and negatively associated with ART adherence, whereas methadone maintenance was positively associated (AOR 2.33; 95% CI: 1.86–2.92). Sub-optimal ART adherence was associated with homelessness and daily injection heroin use among HIV-infected IDU. Given the survival benefit of ART, it is critical to develop and evaluate innovative strategies such as supportive housing and methadone maintenance to address these risk factors to improve adherence.
Aizuchi and ma (pause) in online interactions of distance learning classes of Japanese: an empirical study
Creators: name: Carpi, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, classes and project works that involve online communication between foreign language learners of Japanese and Japanese native speakers have increasingly taken place. In a video call, in order to have a fluent conversation it is necessary to be able to use appropriate aizuchi and to take pauses accordingly. Considering that the ability to communicate remotely in foreign language learning will be increasingly important in the future, this is a valuable attempt to convey the cultural context of the local learner in a global environment. It is well known that aizuchi tends to be used more frequently in modern Japanese than in other languages during conversation. Non-monotone aizuchi used with high frequency leads to good communication, and its frequency of use by learners has been considered, by previous research, a way to measure language proficiency. In this study, I analyze the use of aizuchi and pause/interval ma in remote conversations between Italian learners of Japanese language and Japanese native speakers in Japan. This kind of research on remote communication between foreign language learners and native speakers provides important suggestions to ease distance language learning in the future.
description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Furukura Keiko: Konbini-Woman or Heroin of a Monstrified Japan? The Thousand Truths [review article of: Murata Sayaka. Konbini Ningen (2016)]
Creators: name: Sorrentino, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
Year: 2020

description: Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 1 (2020)
Untapped ethical resources for neurodegeneration research
Creators: name: Robillard, Julie M.
name: Federico, Carole A.
name: Tairyan, Kate
name: Ivinson, Adrian J.
name: Illes, Judy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. The research community has a mandate to discover effective treatments for neurodegenerative disorders. The ethics landscape surrounding this mandate is in a constant state of flux, and ongoing challenges place ever greater demands on investigators to be accountable to the public and to answer questions about the implications of their work for health care, society, and policy. Methods We surveyed US-based investigators involved in neurodegenerative diseases research about how they value ethics-related issues, what motivates them to give consideration to those issues, and the barriers to doing so. Using the NIH CRISP database we identified 1,034 researchers with relevant, active grants and invited them to complete an online questionnaire. We received 193 responses. We used exploratory factor analysis to transform individual survey questions into a smaller set of factors, and linear regression to understand the effect of key variables of interest on the factor scores. Results Ethics-related issues clustered into two groups: research ethics and external influences. Heads of research groups viewed issues of research ethics to be more important than the other respondents. Concern about external influences was related to overall interest in ethics. Motivators clustered into five groups: ensuring public understanding, external forces, requirements, values, and press and public. Heads of research groups were more motivated to ensure public understanding of research than the other respondents. Barriers clustered into four groups: lack of resources, administrative burden, relevance to the research, and lack of interest. Perceived lack of ethics resources was a particular barrier for investigators working in drug discovery. Conclusions The data suggest that senior level neuroscientists working in the field of neurodegeneration (ND), and drug discovery specifically, are motivated to consider ethics issues related to their work, but the perceived lack of ethics resources thwarts their efforts. With bioethics centres at more than 50% of the institutions at which these respondents reside, the neuroscience and bioethics communities appear to be disconnected. Dedicated ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) programs, such as those fully integrated into genetics and regenerative medicine, provide models for achieving meaningful partnerships not yet adequately realized for scholars and trainees interested in drug discovery for ND.
The guidelines for developing integrated marketing communication to promote tourism in Bang Luang Market and Community, Nakhon Pathom Province
Creators: name: Kwanyupa Srisawang
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University.
Year: 2014
Subjects: integrated marketing communication
Bang Luang Market

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 1, 2, 15-29
A honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) PeptideAtlas crossing castes and tissues
Creators: name: Chan, Queenie W.
name: Parker, Robert
name: Sun, Zhi
name: Deutsch, Eric W.
name: Foster, Leonard J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Honey bees are a mainstay of agriculture, contributing billions of dollars through their pollination activities. Bees have been a model system for sociality and group behavior for decades but only recently have molecular techniques been brought to study this fascinating and valuable organism. With the release of the first draft of its genome in 2006, proteomics of bees became feasible and over the past five years we have amassed in excess of 5E+6 MS/MS spectra. The lack of a consolidated platform to organize this massive resource hampers our ability, and that of others, to mine the information to its maximum potential. Results Here we introduce the Honey Bee PeptideAtlas, a web-based resource for visualizing mass spectrometry data across experiments, providing protein descriptions and Gene Ontology annotations where possible. We anticipate that this will be helpful in planning proteomics experiments, especially in the selection of transitions for selected reaction monitoring. Through a proteogenomics effort, we have used MS/MS data to anchor the annotation of previously undescribed genes and to re-annotate previous gene models in order to improve the current genome annotation. Conclusions The Honey Bee PeptideAtlas will contribute to the efficiency of bee proteomics and accelerate our understanding of this species. This publicly accessible and interactive database is an important framework for the current and future analysis of mass spectrometry data.
Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey of Ectoparasites in Sheep from Central Tunisia: Does Low Prevalence Indicate Good Hygiene or Resistance to Ectoparasites?
Creators: name: Elati, Khawla
name: Daly, Nesrine
name: Dhibi, Mokhtar
name: Laaribi, Hela
name: Rekik, Mourad
name: Gharbi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Psoroptes ovis
subject: Ctenocephalides canis
subject: ticks
subject: ectoparasites
subject: sheep
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Sheep ectoparasites such as chewing lice, fleas and ticks are serious constraints to sheep productivity and are the cause of skin lesions in animals that decrease their market value. This study aims at investigating the ectoparasite fauna infesting small ruminants in the district of Sidi Bouzid (central Tunisia). A total of 1243 Barbarine and Queue Fine de l’Ouest (QFO) sheep were examined every two months for one year. Of the total animals examined, 74 were infested by at least 1 parasite group (5.95%). Three ectoparasite groups were identified as Psoroptes ovis (0.48%; 6/1243), ticks (5.3%; n = 66/1243) and one specimen of Ctenocephalides canis (0.08%; n = 1/1243). The most abundant tick among the 358 specimens was Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (n = 337; 94.1%), followed by Hyalomma impeltatum (n = 7/358; 1.9%), H. dromedarii (n = 7/358; 1.9%), H. excavatum (n = 5/358; 1.4%) and only two specimens of H. scupense (n = 2/358; 0.55%). The sheep herds showed low infestation prevalence by ectoparasite over the year, with a significant difference according to the seasons (p < 0.05). A higher infestation prevalence was recorded in March (14.36%). Barbarine sheep breed showed significantly higher infestation prevalence (16.8%) compared to QFO (0.8%) (p < 0.01). There were no differences in infestation prevalence according to sex of the animal or age groups. Knowledge of the ectoparasite population harboured by sheep, its activity dynamics and risk factors is required to develop effective ectoparasite control options. The low prevalence of ectoparasite infestation in sheep reported here may be due to possible genetic resistance or simply to successful hygiene measures implemented by farmers.
title: Η σημασία του επιτραπέζιου παιχνιδιού στην περίοδο της πανδημίας Covid- 19 σε παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας.
title: The importance of board games during the Covid-19 pandemic among children of pre-school age.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Κωνσταντινίδου, Ευαγγελία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: COVID-19
Προσχολική ηλικία
Επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι

description: Εισαγωγή: Η πανδημία COVID-19 έθεσε πολλές προκλήσεις στην προσχολική εκπαίδευση και στη φυσιολογική ανάπτυξη των παιδιών αυτής της ευάλωτης ηλικίας με την απουσία συμμετοχής στο παιχνίδι να αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό παράγοντα κινδύνου φυσιολογικής ανάπτυξης. Σκοπός: Η διερεύνηση και η τεκμηρίωση ότι το παιχνίδι και πιο ειδικά το επιτραπέζιο συμβάλει θετικά στην αντιμετώπιση καταστάσεων κρίσης, όπως μία πανδημία, καθώς και η διερεύνηση της σημασίας της επικοινωνίας μεταξύ εκπαιδευτικών προσχολικής εκπαίδευσης και γονέων για την εποικοδομητική χρήση των επιτραπέζιων παιχνιδιών. Μέθοδος: Έγινε ανασκόπηση της βιβλιογραφίας από τις βάσεις δεδομένων Google Scholar, PubMed και Scopus μέσω της χρήσης λέξεων κλειδιών και ακολούθησε ομαδοποίηση των δημοσιεύσεων σύμφωνα με τις ανάγκες της μελέτης. Αποτελέσματα: Βρέθηκε ότι τα παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας κατά την πανδημία COVID-19 στερήθηκαν την πρόσβαση στο παιχνίδι και στην εκπαίδευση η οποία αντικαταστάθηκε από την εξ’ αποστάσεως με τη χρήση μέσων τεχνολογίας και πληροφοριών. Η χρήση του ενδεδειγμένου παιχνιδιού για την ηλικία και τις δεξιότητες των παιδιών στην προσχολική εκπαίδευση επί καταστάσεων κρίσης προάγει την απόκτηση γνωστικών, κοινωνικών και συμπεριφοριστικών ικανοτήτων με ένα ακόμη πλεονέκτημα τη σωστή διαχείριση των αρνητικών συναισθημάτων που προκύπτουν από μια τέτοια κατάσταση. Τα επιτραπέζια παιχνίδια συμβάλλουν στην αύξηση του λεξιλογίου, στην κατάκτηση αριθμητικών ικανοτήτων και προάγουν το ενδιαφέρον για τις επιστήμες και βοηθούν στη σωστή επικοινωνία μεταξύ εκπαιδευτικών, γονέων και παιδιών προάγοντας την απόκτηση αναπτυξιακών οροσήμων με έναν ψυχαγωγικό τρόπο. Επιπλέον, λόγω του ότι επί καταστάσεων κρίσης οι γονείς αναλαμβάνουν την εκπαίδευση των παιδιών χωρίς να έχουν τις κατάλληλες γνώσεις και δεξιότητες, η χρήση των επιτραπέζιων παιχνιδιών διευκολύνει αυτόν το ρόλο ο οποίος ενδυναμώνεται μέσω της συνεχούς και αποτελεσματικής επικοινωνίας με τους εκπαιδευτικούς.
Individual Behavior and Sustainability Transitions: Managing Uncertainty for Innovation and Resilience
Creators: name: Haensse, Luca
Publisher: name: Universität Vechta
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sustainability
subject: Individual Behavior
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Transition
subject: Change
subject: Innovation
subject: Resilience
subject: DDC Sachgruppen::300 - Sozialwissenschaften

description: The pursuit of sustainability is tied to large-scale change processes or transitions occurring within societal, ecological, and technological spheres. Innovation and resilience-centered approaches have emerged as important frameworks for analyzing sustainability transitions. While research on sustainability transitions often places innovation and resilience in the context systemic change, there is less understanding of how individuals contribute to these change processes. This is despite the potential of individuals to act as facilitators or inhibitors of change. Given that sustainability transitions introduce significant uncertainty, examining how individuals experience and manage uncertainty can provide important insights into their engagement in sustainability transitions. The four articles comprising this dissertation underscore the importance of an uncertainty management perspective in understanding individual intentions and behaviors related to innovation and resilience. This research aims to inform both research and policy in developing individual-centered approaches toward sustainability.
title: Νανοτεχνολογία Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και Εκπαιδευτική κοινωνιολογία: Συσχέτιση και Προοπτικές
title: Nanotechnology Artificial Intelligence and Educational Sociology: Interrelation and Prospects
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μπαρού, Σοφία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Νανοτεχνολογία
Καινοτομία στην εκπαίδευση
Τεχνητή νοημοσύνη

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία αναλύει τρία κύρια πεδία: Νανοτεχνολογία, Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και Εκπαιδευτική Κοινωνιολογία. Ξεκινά με μια εισαγωγή σε κάθε πεδίο, περιγράφοντας την ιστορία, τις εφαρμογές και τις επιπτώσεις τους στον κόσμο μας. Ο σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας φαίνεται να είναι η εξέταση και η ανάδειξη του πώς η συνένωση της Νανοτεχνολογίας, της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης και της Εκπαιδευτι-κής Κοινωνιολογίας μπορεί να επηρεάσει τον τομέα της εκπαίδευσης. Αναζητά τρόπους με τους οποίους αυτές οι τεχνολογίες και οι κοινωνικές προσεγγίσεις μπορούν να συνδυα-στούν για τη βελτίωση της μάθησης, της εκπαιδευτικής διαδικασίας και της εκπαιδευτικής πρακτικής γενικότερα. Επίσης, πιθανόν να ερευνά τις προοπτικές για μελλοντικές εφαρ-μογές και τις πιθανές επιπτώσεις αυτής της σύγκλισης των τομέων στον τομέα της εκπαί-δευσης. Αποτέλεσμα αυτών αποτελεί η σύνθεση των ευρημάτων από την ανάλυση των τριών τομέων (Νανοτεχνολογία, Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, Εκπαιδευτική Κοινωνιολογία), προ-τάσεις για μελλοντικές εφαρμογές ή έρευνες, και συνήθως παρέχει συμπεράσματα και πιθανές συστάσεις για περαιτέρω μελέτη ή χρήση των ευρημάτων στην πράξη. Επίσης, προτάσεις για εκπαιδευτικές πρακτικές που βασίζονται στη συνένωση των τομέων αυτών, ώστε να βελτιωθεί η διαδικασία της εκπαίδευσης. Η σύγχρονη εκπαίδευση επωφελείται από τη συνένωση της Νανοτεχνολογίας, της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης και της Εκπαιδευτικής Κοινωνιολογίας. Το σύνολο αυτών των πεδίων προσφέρει νέες δυνατότητες για προσαρ-μοσμένες εκπαιδευτικές προσεγγίσεις και προοπτικές, ενισχύοντας τη διαδικασία μάθη-σης και την ανάπτυξη κρίσιμων δεξιοτήτων για το μέλλον. Το συμπέρασμα αναδεικνύει τη σπουδαιότητα της εφαρμογής αυτών των τομέων στην εκπαιδευτική πραγματικότητα για τη δημιουργία ενός πιο ολοκληρωμένου και προ-οδευτικού συστήματος εκπαίδευσης.
A study investigates the connection of stress and depression with heart diseases in Turku
Creators: name: Kuusela, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011

description: Turun Sanomat Friday 9 September 2011 Brains are examined with light
 A study to produce unique information on the development of babies’ and children’s brain is about to start in Turku, Finland. Brain are imaged with a device that utilizes rays of light. Doctor Shashank Shekhar presents the device.
The role of female hormones on lung function in chronic lung diseases
Creators: name: Tam, Anthony
name: Morrish, Don
name: Wadsworth, Samuel
name: Dorscheid, Delbert
name: Man, S. F. P.
name: Sin, Don D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. The prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis (CF) are increasing in women. There is a dearth of data on the biological mechanisms to explain such observations. However, some large epidemiologic studies suggest that lung function fluctuates during the menstrual cycle in female patients with airways disease but not in women without disease, suggesting that circulating estradiol and progesterone may be involved in this process. Discussion In asthma, estradiol shuttles adaptive immunity towards the TH2 phenotype while in smokers estrogens may be involved in the generation of toxic intermediate metabolites in the airways of female smokers, which may be relevant in COPD pathogenesis. In CF, estradiol has been demonstrated to up-regulate MUC5B gene in human airway epithelial cells and inhibit chloride secretion in the airways. Progesterone may augment airway inflammation. Summary Taken together, clinical and in-vivo data have demonstrated a sex-related difference in that females may be more susceptible to the pathogenesis of lung diseases. In this paper, we review the effect of female sex hormones in the context of these inflammatory airway diseases.
“Fuera de lugar”: sentidos comunes sobre la presencia de mujeres, niñas y niños guaraníes en el centro de Florianópolis (Santa Catarina, Brasil)
Creators: name: Portela García, Sandra Carolina
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas. Centro de Investigaciones sobre Dinámica Social (CIDS). Área de Investigación en Cultura y Sociedad
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Guaraníes (Familia indígena) - Mujeres - Aspectos sociales - Brasil
subject: Guaraníes (Familia indígena) - Mujeres - Trabajo - Brasil
subject: Identidad cultural – Brasil
subject: Sentido común
subject: Guaraní
subject: Otredad
subject: Genero
subject: Indígena

description: El artículo busca, a partir del abordaje etnográfico reconocer las maneras como las mujeres guaraní, sus hijas e hijos vivencian y circulan en la ciudad de Florianópolis (Santa Catarina, Brasil) desafiando con su presencia los imaginarios del ciudadano común y del estado sobre el ser indígena (que comprende la idea de que los verdaderos indígenas hablan lengua, usan vestido y viven en áreas rurales o tradicionales), demostrando como un contexto que se entiende históricamente blanco reconoce a estas mujeres como indígenas, pero al mismo tiempo duda de su autenticidad, especialmente en lo que concierne al uso que hacen del espacio público en la ciudad. La etnografía nos permite comprender como esos sentidos comunes podrían ser revaluados a la luz de su propia experiencia y nos dejan observar cómo esta posibilita la comprensión amplia de la relación identidad, territorio y cultura, donde estas evidentemente se entremezclan pero no necesariamente se condicionan.
description: The article seeks, based on an ethnographic approach, to recognize the ways in which Guaraní women, their daughters and sons live and circulate in the city of Florianopolis (Santa Catarina, Brazil), challenging with their presence the imaginaries of the common citizen and the state about being indigenous (which includes the idea that true indigenous people speak a different language, wear clothing and live in rural or traditional areas), demonstrating how in a context that is understood to be historically white, it recognizes these women as indigenous, but at the same time doubts their authenticity , especially with regard to the use they make of public space in the city. Ethnography allows us to understand how these common senses could be reevaluated in the light of their own experience and allow us to observe how their experience enables a broad understanding of the relationship of identity, territory and culture, where these intermingle but are not necessarily conditioned.
Providing Performance Feedback and Patient Outcome Follow-Up to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is Associated with Subsequent Improved Clinical Performance
Creators: name: McGuire, Sarayna S.
name: Klassen, Aaron
name: Luke, Anuradha
name: Rentz, Lisa
name: Liedl, Chad P.
name: Mullan, Aidan F.
name: Sztajnkrycer, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians desire performance feedback (PF) and patient outcome follow-up (POF). Within our agency, both a peer-review and feedback/outcome (PF/POF) process exist. Our objective was to determine whether receiving feedback and outcome data improved future clinical care amongst EMS, based upon peer-review scores. This retrospective cohort study took place between 1/1/2020 and 6/7/2023 within an EMS agency site with 22,000 average annual 9-1-1 calls. Requests for PF/POF were submitted on an individual basis beginning June 2020 and completed by a dedicated EMS nurse, EMS physician, or emergency medicine (EM) resident. Peer-review of select high-acuity cases were scored by two Quality Assurance (QA) specialists within the categories of assessment, treatment, disposition/outcome and process/administrative guidelines. Association between overall peer-review score and number of PF/POF requests at time of assessment was evaluated by linear regression. A total of 378 PF/POF requests were received, with the most common patient complaints being cardiac (n = 105; 27.8%, including 49 (13.0%) out of hospital cardiac arrests), altered mental status/neurologic (n = 103; 27.2%), trauma (n = 61; 16.1%, including 2 (0.5%) traumatic arrests); and respiratory distress (n = 47; 12.4%). A total of 378 runs meeting QA criteria were peer-reviewed post-PF/POF process implementation, including 337 (89.2%) cardiac/respiratory arrests, 27 (7.1%) with difficult airway management, and 14 (3.7%) major trauma/traumatic arrests. The number of prior PF/POF requests made by the team leader was associated with higher overall peer-review scores. Team leaders with >5 prior PF/POF requests had a peer-review score 0.39 points greater (95% CI: 0.16 − 0.62, p = 0.001) than those with <5 prior requests. The number of prior PF/POF requests amongst the entire crew was also associated with higher peer-review scores. Crews that collectively had >5 prior PF/POF requests had an increase in peer-review score 0.32 points greater (95% CI: 0.14 − 0.50, p < 0.001) than those with <5 prior requests. Providing performance feedback and patient outcome follow-up to EMS is associated with improved peer-review scores of clinical performance. Future studies should assess if those that are submitting cases for feedback/outcome are higher performers at baseline or if the process of receiving feedback/outcome improves their performance.