cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review of From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianity, by Anne Primavesi
Creators: name: Kahl, Brigitte W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Theology

description: Der Titel ist programmatisch. Die Skologische Apokalypse findet bereits statt. Auf katastrophale Weise ist die christliche Tradition verstrickt in den herrenmenschlich-zerstorerischen Umgang der westlichen Zivilisation mit der Natur, indem sie das abendlandischpatriarchale Leitmodell eines hierarchischen Dualismus bis heute sanktioniert und reproduziert. Was ansteht, ist Umkehr zur Schopfung. Genesis muB neu gedacht, neu gelesen, neu zum Handlungsimpuls werden: Gott in Einheit mit der Schopfung, nicht transzendent und iiber ihr, der Geist als die der Welt von Anbeginn an innewohnende lebenschaffende und heilende Potenz der Regeneration, eingebunden in die wechselseitige Abhangigkeit und Aufeinanderbezogenheit aller Wesen. Kooperation und Partizipation, ''powerfrom- within", Interaktion und Reintegration sind die neuen Leitworte, die die hierarchische Aufspaltung der Welt in Uber-, Unter- und Gegeneinandergeordnetes in Frage stellen.
title: Acute aortic syndrome: CT imaging features
Creators: name: Teixeira, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chest
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Emergency
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Education
subject: Acute
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the spectrum of acute aortic syndromes (AAS), their clinical presentation and pathophysiology. Illustrate the main imaging characteristics on CT and understand their importance for diagnosis, treatment and...
Temporal dynamics of the under-ice Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom. ISME 18 Poster presentation.
Creators: name: Sim, Clarence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310703
subject: Microbial ecology

description: 2022/08/14 - 2022/08/19: 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Lausanne, Switzerland. Temporal dynamics of the under-ice Arctic phytoplankton spring bloom. Poster presentation.
MPEC 2023-H155 : 2023 FJ19
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: 3D Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) - how to increase radiologist confidence and reduce recall rates by knowing common artifacts and technical pitfalls
Creators: name: Allajbeu, Iris
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Education and training
subject: Artifacts
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Education
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Learn how to perform an optimal ABUS exam Become familiar with common ABUS artifacts and classify them into categories according to their origin Know how to avoid or minimize these artifacts and differentiate them from true lesions Recognize...
Compressive Imaging of Subwavelength Structures II. Periodic Rough Surfaces
Creators: name: Fannjiang, Albert
name: Tseng, Hsiao-Chieh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A compressed sensing scheme for near-field imaging of corrugations of relative sparse Fourier components is proposed. The scheme employs random sparse measurement of near field to recover the angular spectrum of the scattered field. It is shown heuristically and numerically that under the Rayleigh hypothesis the angular spectrum is compressible and amenable to compressed sensing techniques. Iteration schemes are developed for recovering the surface profile from the angular spectrum. The proposed nonlinear least squares in the Fourier basis produces accurate reconstructions even when the Rayleigh hypothesis is known to be false.
The novel fosfomycin resistance gene fosY is present on a genomic island in CC1 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Chen, Yiyi
name: Ji, Shujuan
name: Sun, Lu
name: Wang, Haiping
name: Zhu, Feiteng
name: Chen, Mengzhen
name: Zhuang, Hemu
name: Wang, Zhengan
name: Jiang, Shengnan
name: Yu, Yunsong
name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Fosfomycin has gained attention as a combination therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. Hence, the detection of novel fosfomycin-resistance mechanisms in S. aureus is important. Here, the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of fosfomycin in CC1 methicillin-resistant S. aureus were determined. The pangenome analysis and comparative genomics were used to analyse CC1 MRSA. The gene function was confirmed by cloning the gene into pTXΔ. A phylogenetic tree was constructed to determine the clustering of the CC1 strains of S. aureus. We identified a novel gene, designated fosY, that confers fosfomycin resistance in S. aureus. The FosY protein is a putative bacillithiol transferase enzyme sharing 65.9% to 77.5% amino acid identity with FosB and FosD, respectively. The function of fosY in decreasing fosfomycin susceptibility was confirmed by cloning it into pTXΔ. The pTX-fosY transformant exhibited a 16-fold increase in fosfomycin MIC. The bioinformatic analysis showed that fosY is in a novel genomic island designated RIfosY (for “resistance island carrying fosY”) that originated from other species. The global phylogenetic tree of ST1 MRSA displayed this fosY-positive ST1 clone, originating from different regions, in the same clade. The novel resistance gene in the fos family, fosY, and a genomic island, RIfosY, can promote cross-species gene transfer and confer resistance to CC1 MRSA causing the failure of clinical treatment. This emphasises the importance of genetic surveillance of resistance genes among MRSA isolates.
More about One-Loop Effective Action of Open Superstring in $AdS_5\times S^5$
Creators: name: Kristjansen, Charlotte
name: Makeenko, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the calculation of the one-loop effective action for an open Green-Schwarz superstring in the $AdS_5\times S^5$ background for a circular boundary loop. By an explicit computation of the ratio of relevant determinants, describing semi-classical fluctuations about the minimal surface in AdS and flat spaces, we show that it does not depend upon the AdS regularizing parameter $ε$. The only dependence upon $ε$ resides in the reparametrization path integral of the exponential of the classical boundary action. We analyze how the result depends on the choice of the boundary condition imposed on fluctuating fields and show that, despite the fact that the contribution of individual angular modes changes, the product over the modes remains unchanged.
description: 26pp., v2: minor corrections, v3: published in JHEP
title: Livestock or wildlife in western Ngamiland, Botswana: a case of who dares wins
title: Livestock or wildlife in western Ngamiland, Botswana? Who dares wins
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Perkins, J. S.
name: Brooks, C.
name: Bourquin, S.
name: Bradley, J.
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: Land use planning in North-western Botswana has reached a critical juncture. Key wildlife movements from the Okavango Delta System to the drier Kalahari have almost been cut-off by linear development, settlement expansion and dryland farming, along the margins of the Okavango Panhandle and Okavango Delta. Botswana's burgeoning elephant population is expanding outwards to an unprecedented degree, damaging fences and infrastructure and causing high levels of Human Elephant Conflict. Saline groundwater and an abundance of Dichapetalum cymosum has limited livestock expansion and currently vast areas of effectively ‘empty savannah' burn every year. Mobility is the key for the persistence of all the key wild ungulate populations and when this was lost in the Kalahari System thirty five years ago more than a half million blue wildebeest and red hartebeest perished never to recover. Fenced game and livestock ranches offer no substitute to an open system in which large ungulates are able to move between the Zambezian and Kalahari floristic domains. Game ranched populations cannot meaningfully contribute to the restocking of the free ranging populations as they become water dependent and behaviourally unable to survive in the harsh Kalahari environment. A hierarchy of options exist from visionary connectivity of north-western Botswana to the broader KAZA-TFCA, to the sectoral prioritization of a heavily subsidised beef sector. It would be a tragedy if the resolution of this natural resource management conflict followed that of the Kalahari System last century, where who dared won.
Review of Gottes selbstbewusste Töchter: Frauenemanzipation im frühen Christentum? by Anne Jensen
Creators: name: Kahl, Brigitte W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Theology

description: In den spannungsvollen okumenischen Auseinandersetzungen iiber die Gemeinschaft von Mannern und Frauen in der Kirche, deren Kontroverspunkte in jiingster Zeit durch die Zulassung von Frauen zum Priesteramt in der anglikanischen Kirche noch einmal deutlich zutage traten, sind fundierte Argumente mehr denn je gefragt. Besonderes Gewicht besitzt dabei die "Ursprungsfrage" nach der Entstehung der einseitig mannlich gepragten kirchlichen Amtsstrukturen, die das Bild von Katholizismus, Orthodoxie, Anglikanismus und Protestantismus bis heute in unterschiedlichen Graduierungen bestimmen. In einem aulkrordentlich kenntnis- und materialreichen Uberblick zur kirchengeschichtlichen Entwicklung der ersten vier Jahrhunderte zeigt Anne Jensen auf, dafl das Amtsverstandnis keineswegs von Anfang an exklusiv mannlich definiert, sondern zunachst plural, offen und umstritten war.
Additional file 1 of DMoVGPE: predicting gut microbial associated metabolites profiles with deep mixture of variational Gaussian Process experts
Creators: name: Weng, Qinghui
name: Hu, Mingyi
name: Peng, Guohao
name: Zhu, Jinlin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: Added value of Cinematic Rendering on oncologic imaging.
Creators: name: Alhussaini, Khadijah
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Oncologic Imaging
subject: Anatomy
subject: Computer applications
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To emphasize the added value of Cinematic Rendering (CR) in delineating tumors anatomy. 2. To demonstrate the potential applications of Cinematic Rendering in assessment of...
A teoria dos deveres fundamentais, as políticas públicas de saúde no SUS e o abstencionismo da população
Creators: name: Florindo da Silva, Heleno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: O presente trabalho, a partir de uma perspectiva metodológica ínsita ao materialismo histórico-dialético de fundo marxista, buscará discutir a possibilidade de identificarmos a existência de um dever fundamental dos usuários das ações e programas de saúde pública, inerentes às políticas públicas de saúde desenvolvidas pelo SUS, em contribuírem para sua manutenção e efetivação, a partir da redução ou da tomada de medidas, individuais, que proporcionem uma transformação da realidade dos altos índices de abstencionismo da população frente aos referidos serviços de saúde, o que se dará a partir, num primeiro momento, da análise dos fundamentos e da estrutura das políticas públicas do SUS, bem como, posteriormente, uma análise dos citados índices, em vários contextos regionais pelo país, que demonstram o problema inerente ao referido abstencionismo, para no fim, discutirmos, a partir de uma teoria dos deveres fundamentais, a existência do supracitado dever dos usuários do SUS em contribuir com a diminuição de seus gastos, através de uma mudança de conduta quanto a prática do abstencionismo.
Rotating superfluids in anharmonic traps: From vortex lattices to giant vortices
Creators: name: Correggi, Michele
name: Pinsker, Florian
name: Rougerie, Nicolas
name: Yngvason, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q55, 47J30, 76M23

description: We study a superfluid in a rotating anharmonic trap and explicate a rigorous proof of a transition from a vortex lattice to a giant vortex state as the rotation is increased beyond a limiting speed determined by the interaction strength. The transition is characterized by the disappearance of the vortices from the annulus where the bulk of the superfluid is concentrated due to centrifugal forces while a macroscopic phase circulation remains. The analysis is carried out within two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii theory at large coupling constant and reveals significant differences between 'soft' anharmonic traps (like a quartic plus quadratic trapping potential) and traps with a fixed boundary: In the latter case the transition takes place in a parameter regime where the size of vortices is very small relative to the width of the annulus whereas in 'soft' traps the vortex lattice persists until the width of the annulus becomes comparable to the vortex cores. Moreover, the density profile in the annulus where the bulk is concentrated is, in the 'soft' case, approximately gaussian with long tails and not of the Thomas-Fermi type like in a trap with a fixed boundary.
description: Published version. Typos corrected, references added
title: Cystic artery pseudoaneurysm as a rare complication of cholecystitis
Creators: name: Morcillo Cabrera, Atenea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Surgery
subject: Embolisation
subject: Drainage
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: CT
subject: Emergency
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Emergency Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the likely pathogenesis of cystic artery pseudoaneurysm (CAP) and its forms of presentation. To identify the sonographic and CT findings of the CAP. To expose the treatment of choice and other alternatives according to the...
Spin period evolution of GX 1+4
Creators: name: González-Galán, A.
name: Kuulkers, E.
name: Kretschmar, P.
name: Larsson, S.
name: Postnov, K.
name: Kochetkova, A.
name: Finger, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim both to complement the existing data on the spin history of the peculiar accreting X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 with more past and current data from BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, and Fermi and to interpret the evolution in the framework of accretion theory. We used source light curves obtained from BeppoSAX/WFC and INTEGRAL/ISGRI to derive pulse periods using an epoch-folding analysis. Fermi/GBM data were analyzed by fitting a constant plus a Fourier expansion to background-subtracted rates, and maximizing the Y2 statistic. We completed the sample with hard X-ray light curves from Swift/BAT. The data were checked for correlations between flux and changes of the pulsar spin on different timescales. The spin-down of the pulsar continues with a constant change in frequency, i.e., an apparently accelerating change in the period. Over the past three decades, the pulse period has increased by about ~50%. Short-term fluctuations on top of this long-term trend do show anti-correlation with the source flux. Possible explanations of the observed long-term frequency and its dependence on flux are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Diseases of special importance to the wildlife industry in Namibia
Creators: name: Tubbesing, Ulf
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
In-vitro Evaluation of Fungicide Sensitivity of Tomato Leaf Blight Pathogens.pdf
Creators: name: Ogolla, Fredrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agrochemicals and biocides (incl. application)
Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Tomato early and late blight diseases caused by Alternaria solani and Phytophthora infestans respectively are constraints to tomato production globally. Conventional use of commercial synthetic fungicides in management of tomato blight disease has become akey input for tomato production among farmers in Tharaka Nithi County. This study was carried out in-vitro to evaluate the efficacy of six synthetic commercial fungicides used by farmers around River Ruguti, against two tomato leaf blight pathogens; Alternaria solani and Phytophthora infestans. The poison food method was used to evaluate fungicides known by trade names and application levels; Mancozeb (640 g kg-1) + Metalaxyl (40 g kg-1), Mancozeb 640 g/kg + Metalaxyl 80 g/kg, Mancozeb, Propineb 700 g/kg + Cymoxanil 60 g/kg, Carbendazim and Triticonazole at different concentration (25%, 50% and 75%). The in-vitro plate experiment was laid out in a Complete Randomized Design with 3 replicates, and data on mycelia growth inhibition analyzed through General Linear Model (α=.05) and significant means separated using Least significant difference (LSD) using Scientific Analysis System version 9.4. All the tested fungicides significantly (p≤ 0.05) inhibited mycelial growth of tested pathogen. Percentage inhibition for early blight pathogen (Alternaria solani) was 80.42% compared to late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans at 69.51%. Mancozeb (640 g kg-1) + Metalaxyl (40 g kg-1) and Propineb 700 g/kg + Cymoxanil 60 g/kg recorded higher per cent inhibition of mycelia growth of 92.4% and 89.71% respectively. Carbendazim recorded lower per cent inhibition of 39.15%. Mycelia growth inhibition increased with an increase in fungicide concentration. Lower inhibition of 71.78% was observed at 25% concentration as compared to 50% and 75% with 76.77% and 76.36% respectively. Fungicides screened varied in mycelia inhibition against P. infestans and A. solani isolates with Mancozeb (640 g kg-1) + Metalaxyl (40 g kg-1) and Propineb 700g/kg+ Cymoxanil 60g/kg giving significantly (p≤0.05) better inhibition while Carbendazim had the lowest inhibition effect. Increased fungicide concentration effectively inhibited mycelia growth.
title: MSK Ultrasound in the ED: Sounds like an emergency
Creators: name: Perone, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the role of musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound in the emergency department from a radiologist and non-radiologist perspective. Describeinstances in which emergency ultrasound can uniquely provide valuable diagnostic information, including...
Hat Frau Chung Totengeister beschworen? Eine Nachbemerkung zur VII. Vollversammlung des Okumenischen Rates der Kirchen in Canberra
Creators: name: Kahl, Brigitte W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: Religion

description: Ein Gespenst ging um in Canberra. Das Gespenst des Synkretismus. Und alle hatten es gesehen. Chung Hyun Kyung aus Sudkorea hatte in einem der Erbffnungsreferate (Junge Kirche 3/91) Ahnengeister beschworen. In der Tat gespenstisch. Man denkt an jene schauerhche Szene im Hause der Hexe von Endor (1. Samuel 28), Konig Sauls makabre Totenbeschworung hart an der Grenze des biblisch Denkbaren. Man mochte, bei allem Verstandms fur okumenische Exotik, an dieser Stelle denn doch das 1. Gebot anmahnen, die fur den bibhschen Glauben konstitutive Verweigerung gegenuber fremden Gottern, Gotzen und Damonen. Fehlte doch dieser jungen Frau, immerhin Professorin fur systematische Theoiogie, offenkundig Etliches an theologischem Durchblick, ganz zu schweigen von der Scharfsicht Barthianischer Religionskritik. Und auBerdem: Wenn dieses Referat auf der Vollversammlung zu einem weiteren Reibungspunkt im ohnehin belasteten Verhaltnis zur Orthodoxie wurde - war das nicht eine unnotige Provokation?
Graphene-protein bioelectronic devices with wavelength-dependent photoresponse
Creators: name: Lu, Ye
name: Lerner, Mitchell B.
name: Qi, Zhengqing John
name: Mitala, Joseph J.
name: Lim, Jong Hsien
name: Discher, Bohdana M.
name: Johnson, A. T. Charlie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implemented a nanoelectronic interface between graphene field effect transistors (FETs) and soluble proteins. This enables production of bioelectronic devices that combine functionalities of the biomolecular and inorganic components. The method serves to link polyhistidine-tagged proteins to graphene FETs using the tag itself. Atomic Force Microscopy and Raman spectroscopy provide structural understanding of the bio/nano hybrid; current-gate voltage measurements are used to elucidate the electronic properties. As an example application, we functionalize graphene FETs with fluorescent proteins to yield hybrids that respond to light at wavelengths defined by the optical absorption spectrum of the protein
description: 10 pages, 3 figures; To appear in Applied Physics Letters
Characterization of the Testicular Abnormality in 5a-Reductase Deficiency
Creators: name: Johnson, Larry
name: George, Frederick W.
name: Neaves, William B.
name: Rosenthal, Ira M.
name: Christiansen, Ronald A.
name: DeChristoforo, Anton
name: Schweikert, Hans-Udo
name: Sauer, Mark V.
name: Leshin, Mark
name: Griffin, James E.
name: Wilson, Jean D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Endocrinology

description: The testes of five phenotypic women (from four families) with 5ª-reductase deficiency were studied. In one of the patients, the enzyme deficiency was similar in the testis and epididymis and in fibroblasts cultured from the labia majora. In testes from four of the patients, the concentrations of the 55ªreduced steroids dihydrotestosterone and 3ª-androstanediol were less than 10% of those in normal subjects. We conclude that the testis is involved in 55ª-reductase deficiency. Impaired spermatogenesis was evident in testicular biopsies from all five subjects, and in two, sperm production, as estimated in testicular homogenates, was less than 10% of normal. The extent to which spermatogenic arrest is due to 55ª-reductase deficiency or testicular maldescent is not clear.
Multi-energy systems simulator for hourly management and optimization of GHG emissions and fuel costs
Creators: name: Lopez, Cesar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Many legacy infrastructures are reaching the end of their service life. The necessary replacement of these infrastructures creates an opportunity to replace them with environmentally friendly and innovative systems. The steam plant at the University of British Columbia is one of those cases requiring replacement due to aging. The steam generation boilers are, on average, 53 years old and have short expected remaining service. The boilers process is fed by natural gas as main fuel. It was identified that almost 80% of the CO₂e emissions on campus are produced from the use of gas for heating purposes. UBC is worldwide recognized for being one of the most sustainable university campuses, and the first university in Canada awarded a gold rating in sustainability. UBC’s GHG emissions targets for Kyoto protocol were reached in 2007; at that point, new aggressive reduction targets were established, aiming for 33% by 2015, 67% by 2020 and 100% by 2050. These reductions are expressed in tonnes of CO₂e. The situation described offers an opportunity to explore alternatives for the Steam Plant potential replacements. The Infrastructures Interdependencies Simulator (I2Sim) was selected as simulation platform for this study. The simulator allows real-time resource management using hourly historical operational data. To meet the campus thermal requirements, the system considers biomass cogeneration, heat pump, and excess electricity to offset traditional natural gas fuel sources. All technologies take advantage of real-time management of fuels allocation to reduce GHG emissions. A parallel distribution system based on hot-water is modeled, because of the potential in increasing the overall heating system performance. Four modeling scenarios are constructed, showing that fuel costs can be reduced by 51%, GHG emissions reduced by 76% and overall energy consumption reduced by 29%. The simulator is a first step in integrating all critical infrastructures into a Smart Energy MicroGrid paradigm.
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of gall bladder cancer and its prevalence worldwide: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Afzal, Ali
name: Liu, Yan-Yan
name: Noureen, Amara
name: Rehman, Amna
name: Iftikhar, Mehreen
name: Afzal, Hanan
name: Azam, Fareeha
name: Saddozai, Umair Ali Khan
name: Jan, Tayyba
name: Asif, Zoya
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Ji, Xin-Ying
name: Khawar, Muhammad Babar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Watch out for your kitten: different clinical presentations of cat scratch disease and its main sonographic findings
Creators: name: Furtado, Renata
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Infection
subject: Abscess
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Spleen
subject: Paediatric
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review cat scratch disease (CSD) physiopathology, clinical presentations, and diagnosis; To illustrate the most important sonographic findings in local self-limited and disseminated type of CSD; To demonstrate the evolution of the disease through...
title: Upper extremity deep vein thrombosis: a rising problem
Creators: name: Borges, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Extremities
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the incidence, risk factors and clinical features of upper extremity deep vein thrombosis. Tocharacterize its diagnostic algorithm and imaging...
title: The Angolan experience: bringing animals without land to a land without animals
title: The Angolan experience and how this can be done in the Congo (DRC)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Van Hoven, Wouter
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: The 27 year long civil war in Angola has devastated the national parks and wildlife populations of this country. In cooperation with the Angolan government we planned the return of many locally extinct species including elephant. All animals had to be airlifted, including elephant in family groups and giraffe plus 12 other species. The wildlife was all released into a Special Conservation Area within the Kissama national Park. The operation will be discussed, how it was planned, and the ecology behind it, the benefit to the local communities, and where it stands today. Wildlife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been devastated during the past years of civil war. The Kiala Community Land just north of the Angola border together with private land form a natural area of 500 000 ha. We are planning with the community to fence the first 75 000 ha and reintroduce wildlife in order to start a conservation plan based on ecotourism and the sustainable use of natural resources. Can we repeat the Angola project in DRC?
Parental Incarceration: Recent Trends and Implications for Child Welfare
Creators: name: Johnson, Elizabeth I.
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Families

description: Using national survey data, we analyze 11-year trends in parental incarceration. Results indicate that children with incarcerated parents have become an increasingly large share of the foster care population since the mid-1980s and a notable share of U.S. children living with grandparent caregivers. Findings underscore the need to develop and implement specific child welfare and criminal justice policies for serving these families.
Welcome to Volume 6, No. 1
Creators: name: Thompson, Stephen
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing
Year: 2012

description: Welcome to Volume 6, Number 1 of the New Voices in Public Policy (NVPP). We are pleased to present you with a variety of work covering some of the most salient local and global issues of contemporary public policy.  Our peer-reviewed journal is comprised of high quality work created by both current and former students of the SPP. The journal strives to provide a forum for insightful and innovative works in the policy arena that highlight the diversity of ideas and the range of study undertaken by the SPP student body. The most important aspect of our work has been the continued showcasing of student scholarship present at George Masons School of Public Policy. Our first article, written by SPP alumnus Christopher Richard Mantas, tackles the upcoming reality of an Afghanistan devoid of international security forces. The first of our New Voices, by Kathryn Corbi, focuses on the entrenched arms trafficking problems that emanate from Yemen. This is followed by informal series of articles on US economic policy, beginning with an examination of payday lending in Virginia, written by Lauren Campbell, Marcie Weadon-Moreno Foster, Silvia Gulino-Passera, Luis Gutierrez, and Kyung Min Lee. The final article of this issue comes to us from Jaime L. Hastings and Alexandra Saris as a proposal for the mounting insolvency of unemployment insurance funds in US states. We congratulate all of our authors on their timely, scholarly, and persuasive pieces. We hope that you find this diverse set of articles thought-provoking, as well.
description: New Voices In Public Policy, Vol 6, No 1 (2012)
Geometrical CP violation from non-renormalisable scalar potentials
Creators: name: Varzielas, Ivo de Medeiros
name: Emmanuel-Costa, David
name: Leser, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider in detail the non-renormalisable scalar potential of three Higgs doublets transforming as an irreducible triplet of Delta(27) or Delta(54). We start from a renormalisable potential that spontaneously leads to a vacuum with CP-violating phases independent of arbitrary parameters - geometrical CP violation. Then we analyse to arbitrarily high order non-renormalisable terms that are consistent with the symmetry and we demonstrate that inclusion of non-renormalisable terms in the potential can preserve the geometrical CP-violating vacuum.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. v2: references added, accepted by PLB
Critical Concepts for Children in Disasters Identified by Hands-on Professionals: Summary of Issues Demanding Solutions Before the Next One
Creators: name: Johnston, Carden
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Child disaster victims
Pediatricians
Emergency management--Planning
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: This supplement contains many hands-on experiences of pediatricians and others who cared for children during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. They have all offered significant insightful suggestions to help planners better prepare for care of children during the next disaster. Pediatricians and other providers need to educate families on many aspects of disaster planning. Families should know that help may not be available for many hours or even days in the immediate aftermath of a major community-wide disaster. Pediatricians can help by advising families directly or providing information with respect to available resources, online or otherwise. Discussing and even rehearsing a family emergency plan and developing disaster kits with essential supplies are essential. Pediatricians and families should be aware of the superb informational resource available from the American Academy of Pediatrics at www.aap.org/ terrorism.
The Perverse Logic of Immigration Detention: Unraveling the Rationality of Imprisoning Immigrants Based on Markers of Race and Class Otherness
Creators: name: Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc García
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Imprisonment
subject: Race discrimination--Law and legislation
subject: Emigration and immigration law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In an effort to explain the massive growth of immigration imprisonment, this Essay explores the use of race and class as tools for policing immigration law. The Essay does this by contemplating the effect of an immigration law scheme that, at its most fundamental, requires sorting desirable immigrants from undesirable immigrants, and that, in recent years, has accomplished this sorting through increased reliance on criminal records. Placing these two features of contemporary immigration law within the context of two decades-old forms of indisputably racialized policing—mass incarceration of black and brown people for criminal law violations and the Supreme Court's sanctioning of racial profiling in immigration law policing—the Essay concludes that it was inevitable for penal imprisonment trends to taint immigration law enforcement with raced and classed mass incarceration.
Protecting Afghan Civilians after the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Withdrawal
Creators: name: Mantas, Christopher Richard
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing
Year: 2012

description: This paper highlights the enormous opportunity that NATO, led by the US, has to reevaluate several of its current policies and establish a secure environment to protect Afghan civilians after the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraws in 2014.
description: New Voices In Public Policy, Vol 6, No 1 (2012)
Historic seismicity near the source zone of the great 2008 Wenchuan earthquake: Implications for seismic hazards
Creators: name: Hsu, Leslie
name: Chen, Wang-Ping
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Seismology
subject: Earthquakes
subject: Wenchuan Earthquake (China : 2008)

description: In the past 500 years, 14 historical earthquakes, including one that caused a maximum intensity of IX, occurred over a distance of more than 300 km along the Longmen Shan thrust belt, including portions that did not rupture during the devastating Wenchuan earthquake sequence of May 12, 2008. Estimated locations of epicenters and trends of faulting during historical events complement information gathered after the 2008 sequence. In particular, in addition to the two fault splays that ruptured in 2008, there are additional seismogenic faults across the Longmen Shan belt, including those in the hinterland and in the foreland. In the latter case, the occurrence of moderate-sized historical earthquakes and the disproportionally wide region of reported damage in the Sichuan basin from large events within the Longmen Shan belt, probably an effect of low attenuation in the stable basin, calls for attention to the potential of seismic hazard in the heavily populated Chengdu basin. Moreover, long recurrence-intervals of great events, estimated from trenching of colluvium along the ruptures of the 2008 sequence, should not be taken as reliable estimates for somewhat smaller, but nonetheless highly destructive events along the Longmen Shan thrust belt.
Additional file 1 of Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals variation in intramuscular fat among muscle locations of Qinchuan cattle
Creators: name: Yu, Hengwei
name: Wang, Jianfang
name: Zhang, Ke
name: Cheng, Gong
name: Mei, Chugang
name: Zan, Linsen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Small Arms Trafficking in Yemen: A Threat to Regional Security and Stability
Creators: name: Corbi, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing
Year: 2012

description: Yemens role in shaping regional and global stability came to greater international attention beginning in February 2011. On the heels of the Arab Spring, Yemeni citizens protested against its president of thirty-three years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and demanded he step down. Saleh announced he would transfer power to his vice president in November 2011. The success of the opposition has raised hopes for a government that is both more responsive to the needs of its people and a stable partner in international efforts to curb the illicit arms trade, terrorism, and piracy.
description: New Voices In Public Policy, Vol 6, No 1 (2012)
title: Axillary staging of breast cancer: role of elastosonography and color Doppler ultrasound
Creators: name: Porrello, Giorgia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases
subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Oncology
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the multiparametric ultrasound features (B-mode, elastography, and color Doppler ultrasound) helpful to differentiate between benign and malignant axillary lymph nodes (LNs) in breast cancer...
Payday Lending in Virginia: The Lesser of Many Evils?
Creators: name: Campbell, Lauren
name: Foster, Marcie Weadon-Moreno
name: Gulino-Passera, Silvia
name: Gutierrez, Luis
name: Lee, Kyung Min
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing
Year: 2012

description: The use of payday lending has exploded in the U.S. and gained even greater momentum since the recession began in 2008. Attractive because they do not require borrowers to go through a credit check and can be approved quickly, payday loans have also fallen under harsh criticism from consumer advocates across the country and in the state of Virginia. These groups claim that payday lenders charge exorbitant interest rates (as high as 819 percent APR in Virginia in 2010) and set loan terms so short (typically 14 days) that it makes it nearly impossible for the borrower to pay off the loan without having to take out a second or third loan just to pay off the accrued interest.

Payday loan  use in Virginia has been highly responsive to the tightening of restrictions on the industry. In 2008, payday lending was a $1.3 billion business, providing nearly 3.4 million loans annually. After stricter regulations were passed, in 2009, payday loans decreased by over 80 percent and the average number of loans per borrower drastically declined. While the decline in total payday loans and the average number of loans taken out by borrowers represents a positive step forward, we believe that, since the tightening of state regulations around payday loans, borrowers may have migrated to other, more predatory financial products. 

We explore four policy alternatives for the payday loan industry: 1) enacting a statewide ban on payday lenders, 2) keeping current law, 3) providing incentives to employers to provide small-dollar loans to employees, and 4) removing the allowance of a 20 percent loan origination fee in the current payday loan regulations. 

Our research shows that the revised Virginia Payday Loan Act as it stands goes to great lengths to protect borrowers. We find that the best policy option for Virginia is to keep current law but infuse competition into the small-dollar loan market by incentivizing public and private employers to provide loans through credit unions to their employees. Because we believe that the current decline in payday loans has resulted in greater proliferation of more predatory financial products, we do not recommend taking action that would cause payday lenders to leave the state entirely. Until these new products are fully understood and examined, we cannot support an alternative that would ban a borderline exploitative industry in favor of a purely predatory one. To better understand these new loan products, we further recommend the creation of a Commission to examine their scope and growth. Because much of the evidence is anecdotal, there is a need for data to be collected on lines of credit and Internet loans, among any other fringe products that can be identified.
description: New Voices In Public Policy, Vol 6, No 1 (2012)
The implementation of modern genetic improvement methods in wildlife
Creators: name: Neser, Frederick
name: Fair, Mike
name: Van Wyk, Japie
name: Lubout, Paul
name: Josling, Charné
name: De Waal, HO
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016

description: Presented at the 9th international wildlife ranching symposium: wildlife - the key to prosperity for rural communities, held on 12-16 September 2016 at Hotel Safari & the Safari Court, Windhoek, Namibia.
description: In recent times the economic value of wildlife has extended beyond merely hunting and eco-tourism. The demand for exotic and alternative meat sources worldwide has resulted in a shift on emphasis placed on the improvement of production and reproduction traits in the wildlife sector. This trend is in line with the current genetic improvement of commercial farm animals. However, the over emphasis placed on single trait selection, like horn length and colour, without considering the genetic correlations that exist between all possible traits, could have detrimental effect on the important traits of fertility and adaptation. Unfortunately these traits are normally difficult to measure, lowly heritable and negatively correlated with production. To overcome these obstacles it is necessary to have proper phenotypic and genomic data to implement modern genetic evaluation methodologies. To avoid mistakes made in the traditional livestock industry, the defining of sustainable and balanced selection goals is of paramount importance. Apart from the benefits of genetic improvement, conservation and diversity can also be maintained and improved, while inbreeding can be monitored and controlled.
Prevalence of banana Xanthomonas wilt in Nithi, Tharaka Nithi County in Kenya
Creators: name: Ogolla, Fredrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Banana (Musa spp.) is a nutrient rich crop that is grown in small and large scale across the globe. It is rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals thus, may serve as the source of nutrition in low resourced regions such as Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. However, banana production in many areas is faced with biotic constraints such as banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris p.v musacearum. The pathogen attacks photosynthetic leaves and young fruits, reducing palatability and marketability. There is currently scanty information on prevalence of BXW in Nithi region of Tharaka Nithi County. Additionally, it remains unclear whether farmers in the region are knowledgeable on occurrence of BXW disease, symptoms and management practices. The prevalence of BXW was assessed through survey method in five villages (Kiang’ondu, Marima, Mitheru, Kibumbu and Giampampo) in Nithi. Percentage BXW prevalence in the studied villages was not significantly different (p>0.05). However, slightly higher BXW prevalence value of 21.14% was recorded at Giampampo village and was lower at Mitheru 11.24%. There was significant relationship (X2 (8, N = 46) = 19.93, p= 0.0034) between banana variety grown and occurrence of banana diseases. There was significant relationship (X2 (8, N = 46) = 31.165, p = 0.0053) between banana variety grown and susceptibility to diseases. The relationship between years of growing banana in the same farm and occurrence of banana diseases was significant (X2 (6, N= 46) = 8.761, p <0.0001. The relationship between occurrence of banana diseases and season of the year was significant (X2 (8, N= 46) = 32.4591, p <0.0001). The relationship between occurrence of banana diseases and management option in Nithi was significant (X2 (4, N= 46) = 6.9758, p= 0.0025). Majority of the farmers (92%) were unaware of existence of BXW in the region. Farmers expressed lack of knowledge on methods of managing BXW diseases in their banana farms with majority not being able to identify common diseases of banana. Based on these observations, there is need to educate farmers on best banana farming practices, disease identification and management.