cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of the effects of soluble fibers on the absorption of resveratrol and 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PHIP) in the Caco-2 cellular model of intestinal absorption
Creators: name: Willenberg, Ina
name: Wonik, Jasmin
name: Schebb, Nils Helge
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Soluble fibers are known to modulate intestinal absorption of non-polar compounds in the small intestine. Little is known about the modulation of absorption of more polar compounds. In the present study, we applied the Caco-2-transwell-system in order to investigate the modulation of intestinal bioavailability by soluble fibers. The system was tested using pectin and carrageenan as model soluble fibers at a concentration of 0.1% (w/v), which did not compromise the integrity of the cell monolayer. Modulation of absorption was evaluated for the heterocyclic amine aromatic 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PHIP) and the polyphenol resveratrol. Neither pectin nor carrageenan reduced the high flux of PHIP, apparent permeability coefficient (Papp) of 16 × 10−6 cm s−1. The low Papp of resveratrol was reduced by both soluble fibers, particularly by pectin. These results suggest that the low bioavailability of polyphenols could be further reduced by soluble fibers. Because of their co-occurrence in several fruits, these findings warrant further research.
Gaussian copula distributions for mixed data, with application in discrimination
Creators: name: F. Jiryaie
name: N. Withanage
name: B. Wu
name: A.R. De Leon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The construction of a joint model for mixed discrete and continuous random variables that accounts for their associations is an important statistical problem in many practical applications. In this paper, we use copulas to construct a class of joint distributions of mixed discrete and continuous random variables. In particular, we employ the Gaussian copula to generate joint distributions for mixed variables. Examples include the robit-normal and probit-normal-exponential distributions, the first for modelling the distribution of mixed binary-continuous data and the second for a mixture of continuous, binary and trichotomous variables. The new class of joint distributions is general enough to include many mixed-data models currently available. We study properties of the distributions and outline likelihood estimation; a small simulation study is used to investigate the finite-sample properties of estimates obtained by full and pairwise likelihood methods. Finally, we present an application to discriminant analysis of multiple correlated binary and continuous data from a study involving advanced breast cancer patients.
Newly derived children-based food index. An index that may detect childhood overweight and obesity
Creators: name: E. Magriplis
name: P. Farajian
name: G. Risvas
name: D. Panagiotakos
name: A. Zampelas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Medicine

description: A food index (FI) based on a priory knowledge was developed to assess the role of diet on overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) in school-aged children. This included «positive» and «negative» foods based on research evidence and food guidelines, with scores set accordingly. Statistical tests were used to strengthen the sensitivity of the index. The FI was validated using data from the GRECO study. The score ranged from 17 to 53.5 (mean 34.8 ± 5.01) and was inversely associated with body mass index (BMI) (−0.057 ± 0.02; 95% CI −0.098, −0.017) and waist circumference (WC) (−0.08 ± 0.03, 95% CI: −0.137, −0.022). Associations remained significant upon adjusting for age, gender and physical-inactivity (p = 0.02 ad 0.013, respectively). When stratified by gender, the association between FI and WC was not significant for boys (p = 0.08). The association with BMI remained significant for females and males (p = 0.047 and 0.037, respectively). The derived FI seems a valuable tool in detecting OW in children.
Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi Banarescu & Nalbant 1964
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Turcinoemacheilus
Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi

description: 75. Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi Banarescu & Nalbant, 1964
Common name. Kosswig’s dwarf loach
Taxonomy. Original description: Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi Bănărescu & Nalbant, 1964: 178, pl. 8 (fig. 14) [Kapozik Kadun, Tigris basin, 37°34’40"N, 43°44’10"E, Hakkari, Türkiye; holotype: ZMH H1884].
Revisions. Esmaeili et al. (2014).
Illustrations. Banarescu & Nalbant (1964: 178, pl. 8 (fig. 14)).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Loch mahi-e kotolye Zagros.—Listed in the previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Supplemental Data: Concordance of blood glucose and CGM during a pilot trial of automated insulin delivery in type 1 diabetes pregnancies.
Creators: name: Kaur, Ravinder Jeet
name: Levy, Carol
name: Castorino, Kristin
name: Wood-Wentz, Christina M.
name: Rizvi, Shafaq
name: Ozaslan, Basak
name: O'Malley, Grenye
name: Charisse Trinidad, Mari
name: Levister, Camilla
name: Mei Church, Mei
name: Desjardins, Donna
name: Ogyaadu, Selassie
name: Reid, Corey
name: R. Bailey, Kent
name: J. Doyle III, Francis
name: Pinsker, Jordan E.
name: Dassau, Eyal
name: Kudva, Yogish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: Customized and standard automated insulin delivery (AID) systems for use in pregnancies of women with pre-existing type 1 diabetes (T1D) are being developed and tested to achieve pregnancy appropriate continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) targets. Guidance on use of CGM for treatment decisions during pregnancy in the US is limited. Ten pregnant women with pre-existing T1D participated in a trial evaluating at-home use of a pregnancy-specific AID system. Seven-point self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) was compared to the closest sensor glucose (CGM-Dexcom G6) value biweekly to assess safety and reliability based on the 20%/20 mg/dL criteria (CGM within 20% of SMBG if SMBG >100mg/dL; or CGM within 20 mg/dL if SMBG ≤100 mg/dL). All participants completed the study with seven participants satisfying the safety and reliability criteria with mean absolute relative difference of 10.3%. Three participants did not fulfill criteria mainly because the frequency of SMBG did not meet requirements. Dexcom G6 CGM is safe and accurate in the real world setting for use in pregnant women with pre-existing T1D with reduced SMBG testing as part of a pregnancy specific AID system.
BOBURIY PODSHOH SHOHJAHON VA UNING IJODKOR AVLODI TARIXI
Creators: name: Sherxon QORAYEV, Qarshi irrigatsiya va agrotexnologiyalar instituti dotsenti (PhD).
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abul Muzaffar Shahobiddin Xurram (Shohjahon) adabiyotsevar boburiy hukmdorlardan bo‘lgan. Doktor Shafiqa Yorqin Shoh Jahon va uning zavjasi Mumtoz Mahalbegimning ijodi tazkiralarda qayd etilganini yozgan: “Boburshohning nabiralari va ularning farzandlari ham she’riy iste’dodni Boburshohdan meros olib, she’ru adabiyot an’analarini ko‘ragoniylar oilasida davom ettirdilar
GBA deficiency promotes SNCA/α-synuclein accumulation through autophagic inhibition by inactivated PPP2A
Creators: name: Du, Ting-Ting
name: Wang, Le
name: Duan, Chun-Li
name: Lu, Ling-Ling
name: Zhang, Jian-Liang
name: Gao, Ge
name: Qiu, Xiao-Bo
name: Wang, Xiao-Min
name: Yang, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology

description: Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding GBA (glucocerebrosidase, β, acid), the enzyme deficient in the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease, elevate the risk of Parkinson disease (PD), which is characterized by the misprocessing of SNCA/α-synuclein. However, the mechanistic link between GBA deficiency and SNCA accumulation remains poorly understood. In this study, we found that loss of GBA function resulted in increased levels of SNCA via inhibition of the autophagic pathway in SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells, primary rat cortical neurons, or the rat striatum. Furthermore, expression of the autophagy pathway component BECN1 was downregulated as a result of the GBA knockdown-induced decrease in glucocerebrosidase activity. Most importantly, inhibition of autophagy by loss of GBA function was associated with PPP2A (protein phosphatase 2A) inactivation via Tyr307 phosphorylation. C2-ceramide (C2), a PPP2A agonist, activated autophagy in GBA-silenced cells, while GBA knockdown-induced SNCA accumulation was reversed by C2 or rapamycin (an autophagy inducer), suggesting that PPP2A plays an important role in the GBA knockdown-mediated inhibition of autophagy. These findings demonstrate that loss of GBA function may contribute to SNCA accumulation through inhibition of autophagy via PPP2A inactivation, thereby providing a mechanistic basis for the increased PD risk associated with GBA deficiency.
Evening typology and morning tiredness associates with low leisure time physical activity and high sitting
Creators: name: Wennman, Heini
name: Kronholm, Erkki
name: Partonen, Timo
name: Peltonen, Markku
name: Vasankari, Tommi
name: Borodulin, Katja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Engineering

description: Circadian typology is a latent trait that is usually assessed with scoring on a series of questions thought to represent the construct. But, in the classification, most people fall into the intermediate type, i.e. neither a definite morning nor an evening type, but still showing stronger preference towards either end of the continuum. Our aim was to operationalize chronotype using latent class analysis (LCA) for a 6-item scale derived from the original Horne–Östberg Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire to compare and understand characteristics of chronotype in a population-based sample of adults in Finland. A total of 4904 men and women aged 25–74 years were included. We also analyzed the associations of chronotypes with physical activity (PA) and sitting. We found five latent chronotype groups including “rested more-evening type” (28%), “rested more-morning type” (24%), “morning type” (23%), “tired more-evening type” (17%) and “evening type” (8%) groups. Operationalization of chronotype by LCA suggests that morning alertness is an important feature differentiating chronotypes. Further, the “evening type” and the “tired, more-evening type” had higher odds for none to very low as well as low PA, as compared to “morning type”. In addition, “evening type” was associated with higher odds for more time spent sitting, as compared to “morning type”. Our findings indicate that it is important to assess sleep schedules and morning tiredness, which then could be targeted as a potential mediating factor for health behaviors, in particular, PA and health status.
Science Potential and Technical Design of the IceCube-Gen2 Surface Array
Creators: name: IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration
name: Schröder, Frank
Publisher: name: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Year: 2025

description: IceCube-Gen2, the next generation extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, offers a unique scientific potential for cosmic-ray physics at PeV to EeV energies complementing the main science case of neutrino astronomy. The cosmic-ray science case will be enabled by a surface array on top of an extended optical array deep in the polar ice. The optical array measures TeV muons of air showers, and the surface array primarily measures the electromagnetic shower component and low-energy muons. The design of the surface array foresees scintillation panels providing a full-efficiency threshold for near-vertical proton showers of 0.5 PeV and radio antennas increasing the measurement accuracy for the electromagnetic shower component in the energy range of the Galactic-to-extragalactic transition. Compared to IceCube, the aperture for air showers measured in coincidence with the surface and optical arrays will increase by a factor of 30, due to the larger area and angular acceptance in zenith angle. The science potential includes both, the particle physics of air showers, such as prompt muons, and the astrophysics of the highest energy Galactic cosmic-rays, enabled by the higher sensitivity for the mass composition and anisotropy of cosmic rays, and by the search for PeV photons. This proceeding summarizes the science case and design of the surface array as presented in the recently released IceCube-Gen2 Technical Design Report: https://icecube-gen2.wisc.edu/science/publications/tdr/
Ontology-based Software Architecture Documentation
Creators: name: de Graaf, Klaas Andries
name: Tang, Antony
name: Liang, Peng
name: van Vliet, Hans
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of file-based documents. This approach offers a single-dimensional perspective on the architectural knowledge contained. Knowledge retrieval from file-based architecture documentation is efficient if the perspective chosen fits the needs of the readers, it is less so if the perspective does not match the needs of the readers. In this paper we describe an approach aimed at addressing architecture documentation retrieval issues. We have employed a software ontology in a semantic wiki optimized for architecture documentation. We have evaluated this ontology-based approach in a controlled industry experiment involving software professionals. The efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach is found to be better than that of the file-based approach.
GBA deficiency promotes SNCA/α-synuclein accumulation through autophagic inhibition by inactivated PPP2A
Creators: name: Du, Ting-Ting
name: Wang, Le
name: Duan, Chun-Li
name: Lu, Ling-Ling
name: Zhang, Jian-Liang
name: Gao, Ge
name: Qiu, Xiao-Bo
name: Wang, Xiao-Min
name: Yang, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology

description: Loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding GBA (glucocerebrosidase, β, acid), the enzyme deficient in the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease, elevate the risk of Parkinson disease (PD), which is characterized by the misprocessing of SNCA/α-synuclein. However, the mechanistic link between GBA deficiency and SNCA accumulation remains poorly understood. In this study, we found that loss of GBA function resulted in increased levels of SNCA via inhibition of the autophagic pathway in SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells, primary rat cortical neurons, or the rat striatum. Furthermore, expression of the autophagy pathway component BECN1 was downregulated as a result of the GBA knockdown-induced decrease in glucocerebrosidase activity. Most importantly, inhibition of autophagy by loss of GBA function was associated with PPP2A (protein phosphatase 2A) inactivation via Tyr307 phosphorylation. C2-ceramide (C2), a PPP2A agonist, activated autophagy in GBA-silenced cells, while GBA knockdown-induced SNCA accumulation was reversed by C2 or rapamycin (an autophagy inducer), suggesting that PPP2A plays an important role in the GBA knockdown-mediated inhibition of autophagy. These findings demonstrate that loss of GBA function may contribute to SNCA accumulation through inhibition of autophagy via PPP2A inactivation, thereby providing a mechanistic basis for the increased PD risk associated with GBA deficiency.
Audiences as consumers - Broadcasting meets telecoms
Creators: name: McCutcheon, Marion
name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radio and television broadcasting services are popular, influential and almost universally available. For most of their history, they have been provided free-to-air. Listeners and viewers were conceived as audiences rather than consumers. This is no longer the case. Pay TV, audio- and video-on-demand services and many forms of interaction between broadcasters and their audiences mean the users of TV and radio are already consumers. They have relationships with broadcasters and expectations about them and their services that are familiar to consumers of voice and mobile telephony and internet access services. Drawing on a study for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACANN) in mid-2009, this article explores three areas where telecommunications and broadcasting legislators, regulators and service providers are adapting to this changed landscape. First, in audio- and video-on-demand services, they are learning about new and evolving kinds of consumer behaviour. Second, the regulation of content that has always been so important a part of broadcasting regulation has expanded to telecommunication services, which historically were largely free of content restrictions. Third, the obligations of broadcasters and telecommunications providers to offer universal access to all potential consumers are being reworked. In each of these areas, as broadcast audiences become consumers and the users of carriage services become viewers and listeners, the institutional arrangements for setting and enforcing standards about communications services are being tested.
Wireless politics II
Creators: name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Broadband was one of the few issues that deeply divided the major parties in the August 2010 federal election. Labor and the Coalition disagreed about how big the problem was, what was needed to fix it, and how much should be spent. Strikingly, their positions cleaved down an old fault-line. Labor planned much more wire; the Coalition emphasised a bigger role for wireless. This article examines the background to this conflict and the arguments presented in support of the Labor Government’s heavy investment in fixed line infrastructure. It then indulges in a 'thought experiment' to argue the opposite case - that mobile access networks will dominate in the future so as to undermine the rationale for subsidising (not for building without subsidy if commercial investors choose to do so) some or all of the FTTP NBN. It concludes that a Government planning the biggest intervention in Australian infrastructure history might find itself with rather more competition from wireless access networks and rather less interdependence and symbiosis between wire and wireless than it hopes.
Wireless politics
Creators: name: Given, Jock
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On 12 July 1906, representatives of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company staged a demonstration of the new medium of wireless telegraphy across Bass Strait, between Point Lonsdale in Victoria and Devonport in Tasmania. A special train was organised from Melbourne for the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, most of the cabinet and members of the young Australian Parliament, who deferred debate that day on important industrial legislation. The event and its aftermath provided a striking illustration of the relationship between politics and communications. Political enthusiasm for the idea of new communications technology ran well ahead of the capacity to make lasting decisions about how it should be deployed.
EFFECT OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON THE PERFORMANCE OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN ENUGU STATE
Creators: name: Egbo, John, Ikechukwu
name: Prof.  Adoani, O, Okonkwo
name: Nwabueze, Chidozie, Onyema
Publisher: name: noland journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Ethical
Leadership
Performance
Integrity
Fairness
Profitability

description: The study evaluated the effect of ethical leadership on the performance of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Enugu State. The specific objectives of the study are to; examine the effect of integrity on the output; and ascertain the effect of fairness on the profitability of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Enugu State. The descriptive survey design was used. The study adopted simple random sampling technique in selecting the sample unit and the sample size for the study which was, 266 academic staff out of a total population of 865 of the study organisations derived with the use of Ferund Williams’s formula. A total of 251 staff returned the questionnaire accurately filled, which gave 94 percent response rate. Data were presented and analyzed using mean score and standard deviation using Sprint Likert Scale. The hypotheses were analyzed using the Pearson correlation (r). The findings indicated that Integrity had significant positive effect on the output, Z (95, n = 251), 6.754 < 9.152 = p. < 0.05 and Fairness had significant positive effect on the profitability of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Enugu State Z (95, n = 251), 5.681 < 9.231 = p. < 0.05. The study concluded that integrity and fairness had significant positive effect on the output and profitability of food and beverage manufacturing firms in Enugu State. The study recommended among others that Leader’s integrity sets the tone for the employees to improve their task performance.
ESDL: A simple description language for population-based evolutionary computation
Creators: name: Dower, Steve
name: Woodward, Clinton
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A large proportion of publications in the field of evolutionary computation describe algorithm specialisation and experimentation. Algorithms are variously described using text, tables, flowcharts, functions or pseudocode. However, ambiguity that can limit the efficiency of communication is common. Evolutionary System Definition Language (ESDL) is a conceptual model and language for describing evolutionary systems efficiently and with reduced ambiguity, including systems with multiple populations and adaptive parameters. ESDL may also be machine-interpreted, allowing algorithms to be tested without requiring a hand-coded implementation, as may already be done using the esec framework. The style is distinct from existing notations used within the field and is easily recognisable. This paper describes the case for ESDL, provides an overview of ESDL and examples of its use.
Tuning the water intrinsic permeability of PEGDA hydrogel membranes by adding free PEG chains of varying molar masses
Creators: name: Eddine, Malak Alaa
name: Carvalho, Alain
name: Schmutz, M.
name: Salez, Thomas
name: de Chateauneuf-Randon, Sixtine
name: Bresson, Bruno
name: Pantoustier, Nadège
name: Monteux, C.
name: Belbekhouche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effect of poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) molar mass on the intrinsic permeability and structural characteristics of poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate PEGDA/PEG composite hydrogel membranes. We observe that by varying the PEG content and molar mass, we can finely adjust the water intrinsic permeability over several orders of magnitude. Notably, we show the existence of a maximum water intrinsic permeability, already identified in a previous study to be located at the critical overlap concentration C^* of PEG chains, for the highest PEG molar mass studied. Furthermore, we note that the maximum intrinsic permeability follows a non-monotonic evolution with respect to the PEG molar mass and reaches its peak at 35 000 g.mol-1. Besides our results show that a significant fraction of PEG chains is irreversibly trapped within the PEGDA matrix even for the shortest molar masses down to 600 g.mol-1. This observation suggests the possibility of covalent grafting of PEG chains to the PEGDA matrix. CryoSEM and AFM measurements demonstrate the presence of large micron-sized cavities separated by PEGDA-rich walls whose nanometric structure strongly depends on the PEG content. By combining our permeability and structural measurements, we suggest that the PEG chains trapped inside the PEGDA rich walls induce nanoscale defects in the cross linking density, resulting in an increased permeability below C^*. Conversely, above C^*, we speculate that partially-trapped PEG chains may form a brush-like arrangement on the surface of the PEGDA-rich walls, leading to a reduction in permeability. These two opposing effects are anticipated to exhibit molar-mass-dependent trends, contributing to the non-monotonic variation of the maximum intrinsic permeability at C^*. Overall, our results demonstrate the potential to fine-tune the properties of hydrogel membranes, offering new opportunities in separation applications.
AI Cat Narrator: Designing an AI Tool for Exploring the Shared World and Social Connection with a Cat
Creators: name: Lai, Zhenchi
name: Huang, Janet Yi-Ching
name: Liang, Rung-Huei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As technology continues to advance, the interaction between humans and cats is becoming more diverse. Our research introduces a new tool called the AI Cat Narrator, which offers a unique perspective on the shared lives of humans and cats. We combined the method of ethnography with fictional storytelling, using a defamiliarization strategy to merge real-world data seen through the eyes of cats with excerpts from cat literature. This combination serves as the foundation for a database to instruct the AI Cat Narrator in crafting alternative narrative. Our findings indicate that using defamiliarized data for training purposes significantly contributes to the development of characters that are both more empathetic and individualized. The contributions of our study are twofold: 1) proposing an innovative approach to prompting a reevaluation of living alongside cats; 2) establishing a collaborative, exploratory tool developed by humans, cats, and AI together.
description: 5 pages
How Real is Really? A Perceptually Motivated System for Quantifying Visual Realism in Digital Images
Creators: name: Wang, Norman
name: Doube, Wendy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Contemporary video games are generally designed with the aim of engendering a state of immersion in their players. A sense of 'presence' is considered to be a prerequisite of total immersion, the ultimate level of immersion, and can be directly related to the degree of realism in the simulation presented in a videogame. However, continuously increasing the degree of visual realism in an image could cause adverse effects such as fault amplification and more importantly, emotions like fear and dread of the uncanny. It can also substantially raise the development costs of a game. Consequently, videogame developers would benefit greatly from knowing the threshold beyond which increased realism is counter-productive. This paper details the development of an image processing system that measures the degree of realism of an image using three methods - gradient variance, color variance and shadow softness - derived from existing theories and practices in perceptual psychology, photoforensics and image processing. It then discusses testing of the system on a variety of photographic and video game images.
Re-training automatic action tendencies to approach cigarettes among adolescent smokers: a pilot study
Creators: name: Cousijn, Janna
name: Salemink, Elske
name: Wiers, Reinout W.
name: Kong, Grace
name: Larsen, Helle
name: Cavallo, Dana A.
name: Becker, Daniela
name: Annemat L. Collot D’Escury-Koenigs
name: Morean, Meghan E.
name: Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biotechnology

description: Background: This pilot study conducted a preliminary examination of whether Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM), a computerized task to retrain cognitive-approach biases towards smoking stimuli (a) changed approach bias for cigarettes, and (b) improved smoking cessation outcomes in adolescent smokers. Methods: Sixty adolescent smokers received four weeks of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation, with CBM (90% avoidance/10% approach for smoking stimuli and 10% avoidance/90% approach for neutral stimuli) or sham (50% avoidance/50% approach for smoking and neutral stimuli) training in the Netherlands (n = 42) and the United States (n = 18). Results: While we did not observe changes in action tendencies related to CBM, adolescents with higher smoking approach biases at baseline had greater decreases in approach biases at follow-up, compared to adolescents with smoking avoidance biases, regardless of treatment condition (p = 0.01). Intent-to-treat (ITT) analyses showed that CBM, when compared with sham trended toward higher end-of-treatment, biochemically-confirmed, seven-day point prevalence abstinence, (17.2% vs. 3.2%, p = 0.071). ITT analysis also showed that regardless of treatment condition, cotinine level (p = 0.045) and average number of cigarette smoked (p ≤ 0.001) significantly decreased over the course of treatment. Conclusions: The findings from this pilot study suggests that re-training approach biases toward cigarettes shows promise for smoking cessation among adolescent smokers. Future research should utilize larger samples and increased distinction between CBM and sham conditions, and examine mechanisms underlying the CBM approach.
Community and Technical Needs to Facilitate Sample Citation
Creators: name: Damerow, Joan
name: Thomer, Andrea
name: Stanley, Val
Publisher: name: ESIP
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics
classificationCode: 460908
subject: Information systems organisation and management
classificationCode: 461001
subject: Digital curation and preservation

description: This session will focus on identifying community and technical needs to make sample tracking and citation possible. Over the last few years, the Physical Sample Curation Cluster has been developing guidelines to support sample citation.  We are currently working on a paper writing up our recommendations, and have recently drafted a short flyer entitled, “4 Steps to Publish Open Earth Science Samples” However, we have realized that there are many things that can’t be solved by citation best practices alone. We need repositories, publishers, and other major players in scholarly communication to make changes to their platforms in order to support the Sample community’s needs for citation, tracking metrics, and so on. However, in order to push for that change, we as a community need to come together to tell them what we want.

In this session, we want to work together to come up with a “wish list” of technical functionalities and best practices that research labs, repositories, identifier minting agents, publishers, metrics aggregators, and more need to adopt in order to support our community. This wish list will be used both for our in progress paper, and for further advocacy to push the state of sample citation forward. We hope for this to be a working session in which participants split into break out groups to contribute to the wish list.

Here we provide the slide deck for a conference session hosted by the ESIP Physical Samples Curation Cluster during the 2024 ESIP Winter Meeting held online.
Variation in serotonin neurotransmission genes affects neural activation during response inhibition in adolescents and young adults with ADHD and healthy controls
Creators: name: Rooij, Daan Van
name: Hartman, Catharina A.
name: Donkelaar, Marjolein M.J. Van
name: Bralten, Janita
name: Rhein, Daniel Von
name: Hakobjan, Marina
name: Franke, Barbara
name: Heslenfeld, Dirk J.
name: Oosterlaan, Jaap
name: Rommelse, Nanda
name: Buitelaar, Jan K.
name: Hoekstra, Pieter J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives. Deficits in response inhibition have been associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Given the role of serotonin in ADHD and impulsivity, we postulated that genetic variants within the serotonin pathway might influence response inhibition. Methods. We measured neural activation during stop-signal task performance in adolescents with ADHD (N = 185), their unaffected siblings (N = 111), and healthy controls (N = 124), and investigated the relationship of two serotonin gene polymorphisms (the rs6296 SNP of the HTR1B gene and HTTLPR variants of the 5-HTT gene) with the neural correlates of response inhibition. Results. The whole-brain analyses demonstrated large scale neural activation differences in the inferior and medial frontal and temporal/parietal regions of the response inhibition network between the different variants of both the HTR1B and 5HTT genes. Activation in these regions was significantly associated with stop-task performance, but not with ADHD diagnosis or severity. No associations were found between HTR1B and 5HTT variants and ADHD or ADHD-related neural activation. Conclusions. These results provide novel evidence that serotonin may play an important role in the neurobiology of response inhibition. Although response inhibition is strongly linked to ADHD, serotonin linked genetic variants associated with response inhibition and its neural correlates do not explain variance of the ADHD phenotype.
Standardization of nasalance scores in normal Saudi speakers
Creators: name: El-Kassabi, Rasha M.
name: Hassan, Sabah
name: Mesallam, Tamer A.
name: Malki, Khalid H.
name: Farahat, Mohamed
name: Alfaris, Abdullah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences
Medicine

description: Objective. The aims of this study were to obtain normative nasalance scores for a normal Saudi population with different ages and genders, to develop nasometric Arabic speech materials, and to make cross-linguistic comparison.Subjects. Participants included 219 normal Saudi native monolingual Arabic speakers of different ages. Subjects were classified into four groups according to age and gender. Subjects did not have any history of oral, nasal, or velopharyngeal abnormality.Methods. Arabic speech samples were developed to evaluate nasalance scores, which included syllables repetition, three oral sentences, three oro-nasal sentences, and three nasal sentences. Nasalance data were obtained using Nasometer II–6400.Results. Normative nasalance values were determined. Significant differences between the male and female children groups were noticed in many parameters. Nasalance scores were higher in adults, with significant differences between all groups.Conclusion. Normative nasalance scores for Saudi Arabic speakers have been developed for both adults and children. The Arabic speech materials developed in this study appear to be easy to use and applicable for different age groups.
Covid-19 - impact on evolution of energy demand
Creators: name: Pérez, Sergio Roque Duarte
name: Gallardo, Alejandro Guijarro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Covid-19
Energy Demand

description: Consumo_elect_COVID_2020 & Consumo elect_COVID_2019 Dataset with register of energy demand in Spain. Timeframe: January to March (2019 & 2020) Casos_COVID_ESPAÑA Dataset with register of the evolution of the spread of Covid-19 in Spain. Break-down of data per region (CCAA). Timeframe: January to March 2020 Casos_COVID_mundo Dataset with register of the evolution of the spread of Covid-19 in Spain. Break-down of data per country. Timeframe: January to March 2020
description: Data realted to Energy Demand in Spain is property of Red Eléctrica (https://www.ree.es/es). Use of this data is forbidden for comercial purposes.
RECADM Chamada Especial: Verso, Prosa, Drama e Ficção: Literatura e Organizações
Creators: name: Ipiranga, Ana Sílvia Rocha
name: Saraiva, Luiz Alex Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: literatura
organizações
administração
verso e prosa
drama e ficção

description: Esta chamada de trabalhos é propositadamente ampla em seu alcance, tendo como objetivo convidar pesquisadores a apresentarem artigos empíricos e ou teóricos-conceituais, diversos em conteúdo e escopo, por meio de diferentes posicionamentos epistemológicos e metodológicos, mas que tenham como eixo temas da Literatura e da Administração.
Magnetic record of extreme marine inundation events at Las Salinas site, Jalisco, Mexican Pacific coast
Creators: name: Černý, Jan
name: María-Teresa Ramírez-Herrera
name: María-Felicidad Bógalo
name: Avto Goguitchaichvili
name: Castillo-Aja, Rocío
name: Morales, Juan
name: Sanchez-Cabeza, Joan Albert
name: Ruiz-Fernández, Ana Carolina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: ABSTRACTExtreme marine inundation events (i.e. severe storms and tsunamis) denote a major hazard to coastal communities around the globe. In order to assess this hazard, long-term (beyond the instrumental and historic records) information on the magnitude and frequency of these events is critical. The coastal sedimentary record, together with other proxies, is now being tested to distinguish and reconstruct evidence of ancient inundation events. Recent studies commonly use anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) parameters without statistical evaluation of the lateral variability of sedimentary layers. Here, we provide results from tested sedimentary layers. Moreover, we discuss the most recent strategies to identify deposits produced by major inundation events using the full battery of rock magnetic properties of sediments in Careyes Bay on the Jalisco coast, Eastern Pacific, a tectonically active coast subject to hurricanes. Oriented samples of lagoonal sediments were taken from a dug pit at Las Salinas site. The sampled stratigraphic sequence was basically composed of an upper sand and lower clay units. The upper part of the Las Salinas profile shows a drop in magnetic susceptibility by 50%. Two distinct magnetic fabrics are clearly identified. Fabric from the upper part of the profile most probably reflects a sedimentary structure which was originated in a more dynamic environment than the magnetic fabric recognized in the lower part of the profile. Hysteresis parameters also show variation in behaviour between the upper and lower parts of the profile. We propose here that the origin of the upper sand unit at the study site is most probably related to an extreme marine inundation event.
How can we connect and track use of physical samples and associated data?
Creators: name: Damerow, Joan
name: Thomer, Andrea
name: Stanley, Val
Publisher: name: ESIP
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics
classificationCode: 460908
subject: Information systems organisation and management
classificationCode: 461001
subject: Digital curation and preservation

description: The Physical Samples Curation Cluster has been developing author guidelines and recommendations for journal publications involving physical samples. These guidelines were designed to help journal article authors improve the discoverability, interoperability, use of samples/specimens in the future, making samples and associated research outputs more open and FAIR. For a portion of the session, we will review these guidelines and use cases for referencing related samples and data in papers. 

In the process of developing these guidelines, we identified many areas of work needed to enable authors to efficiently reference samples and related data, link related samples and data, and track their use. The study of complex environmental processes may involve diverse collections of samples and associated field or laboratory measurements, sensors, remote sensing data, and more. However, there are currently no widely adopted practices for linking or citing samples and their associated data in published research. Presentations will address current efforts and infrastructural capacity to connect and track use of related samples and data. We will then work together to outline community practices and coordination, and/or infrastructure still needed to make sample-related research more open and FAIR. 

Here we provide the slide deck for a conference session hosted by the ESIP Physical Samples Curation Cluster during the 2023 ESIP Summer Meeting held in Burlington, VT, USA
Gender and stereotypes in motivation to study computer programming for careers in multimedia
Creators: name: Doube, Wendy
name: Lang, Catherine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A multimedia university programme with relatively equal numbers of male and female students in elective programming subjects provided a rare opportunity to investigate female motivation to study and pursue computer programming in a career. The MSLQ was used to survey 85 participants. In common with research into deterrence of females from STEM domains, females displayed significantly lower self-efficacy and expectancy for success. In contrast to research into deterrence of females from STEM domains, both genders placed similar high values on computer programming and shared high extrinsic and intrinsic goal orientation. The authors propose that the stereotype associated with a creative multimedia career could attract female participation in computer programming whereas the stereotype associated with computer science could be a deterrent.
Typing over autocomplete: Cognitive load in website use by older adults
Creators: name: Doube, Wendy
name: Beh, Jeanie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes an exploration into factors influencing the interaction of cognitive processing with visual and motor skills during website use by older adults. Twenty-eight older adults and 18 younger adults completed an on-line air-ticketing search task. Quantitative and qualitative data was captured from multiple sources, and analysed from the perspective of cognitive load. Compared with the younger control group, older adults took significantly longer and made significantly more errors in reporting the results of the task. Although the mean duration of gaze down at the keyboard and notes was similar for both age groups, the mean duration of screen gaze was significantly longer for older than for younger participants. Older adults also logged a significantly higher number of gazes from keyboard to screen. Their longer task times were associated with actions that increase cognitive load by decreasing spatial and temporal contiguity of information. Unlike their younger counterparts, they did not glance rapidly between screen and keyboard, but focussed their gaze on the keyboard, checking their typing only when they had completed a form field. Accordingly, they typed into autocomplete combo boxes, ignoring preset options, with the unexpected consequence of more expensive fares and a smaller range of results. When participant background information was analysed, task time was correlated with less Internet experience as well as with age. Supported by observation and self-report which did not signal pronounced vision or motor problems, these results suggest that task times could be reduced through automation of repeatable user interface actions with practice, especially with training in screen glancing rather than gazing. Although the number of search reporting errors was correlated with age group and not experience, greater proficiency with the interface could possibly free cognitive resources for improved problem-solving.
EFFECTS OF E-CRM ON THE SERVICE ATTRIBUTES AND QUALITY OF CUSTOMER-BANK RELATIONSHIP
Creators: name: Mohammad Amin Abdi, Mohammad Reza Hamidizadeh
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Service Attributes
Relationship quality
Relationship outcomes
Banking services
Electronic Customer Relationship Management
Virtual relationships
eBanking
eCRM.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 4, 11A04Q: 1-12
ارتباط اخلاق و سیاست
Creators: name: Sarkhosh, Javad
name: راضیه فرقانی
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: اخلاق ، سیاست ، ارتباط

description: ازدیربازدیدگاه های متفاوتی ازسوی دانشمندان ومتفکران درخصوص ارتباط اخلاق وسیاست مطرح شده است که شامل ارتباط وعدم ارتباط هریک ازسیاست واخلاق می باشد.با توجه به تمرکزاین تحقیق براندیشه اسلامی،این ارتباط ازمنظراسلام با ابتنای سیاست بر اخلاق می باشد وارزش گذاری فعل سیاسی دراسلام مبتنی براخلاق می باشد.دراین تحقیق به مفهوم شناسی اخلاق وسیاست،ارتباط اخلاق وسیاست دراندیشه اندیشمندانی چون افلاطون وارسطو وبررسی رابطه ی اخلاق وسیاست درعصرمدرن ازمنظر ماکیاولی وکانت وبررسی اندیشه متفکران اسلامی مانند فارابی، ابن سینا، خواجه نصیرالدین طوسی مورد بررسی قرارگرفته است.درپایان با تبیین انواع ارتباط اخلاق وسیاست، سه دیدگاه تفکیک اخلاق ازسیاست،تقدم اخلاق برسیاست و تقدم سیاست براخلاق نتیجه می شود.
Sound absorption characteristics of aluminum foam with spherical cells
Creators: name: Li, Yunjie
name: Wang, Xinfu
name: Wang, Xingfu
name: Ren, Yuelu
name: Han, Fusheng
name: Wen, Cuie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Aluminum foams were fabricated by an infiltration process. The foams possess spherical cells with a fixed porosity of 65% and varied pore sizes which ranged from 1.3 to 1.9 mm. The spherical cells are interconnected by small pores or pore openings on the cell walls that cause the foams show a characteristic of open cell structures. The sound absorption coefficient of the aluminum foams was measured by a standing wave tube and calculated by a transfer function method. It is shown that the sound absorption coefficient increases with an increase in the number of pore openings in the unit area or with a decrease of the diameter of the pore openings in the range of 0.3 to 0.4 mm. If backed with an air cavity, the resonant absorption peaks in the sound absorption coefficient versus frequency curves will be shifted toward lower frequencies as the cavity depth is increased. The samples with the same pore opening size but different pore size show almost the same absorption behavior, especially in the low frequency range. The present results are in good agreement with some theoretical predictions based on the acoustic impedance measurements of metal foams with circular apertures and cylindrical cavities and the principle of electroacoustic analogy.