cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Study of Zwitterionic Materials for Biomedical and Energy Storage Applications
Creators: name: Wang, Kun
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: This dissertation focused on the design of zwitterionic materials, synthesis of zwitterionic polymers with desired properties, material characterizations, and the exploration of the applications of zwitterionic polymers in the biomedical and energy storage areas. A series of zwitterionic thermoplastic polyurethane (PCB-PTHFUs) with critical antifouling properties were synthesized. The PCB-PTHFUs exhibit a high breaking strain, a high resistance to fibroblast cells, and an excellent ability to prevent biofilm formation. This study lays a foundation for clarifying the structure-function relationships of zwitterionic polymers. This thermoplastic PCB-PTHFU platform, with its unmatched antifouling properties and high elasticity, has the potential for implanted medical devices and a broad spectrum of applications that suffer from biofouling, such as material-associated infection. The application of PCB-PTHFUs was then extended to constructing a non-fouling membrane surface. We developed a plasma separation device to achieve large output and a high virus recovery for on-site viral load tests. We describe a portable, easy-to-use, cost-efficient, membrane-filtration-based plasma separation device that enables rapid large-volume plasma extraction from whole blood, designed for point-of-care virus assays. The device benefits from the PCB-PTHFU-coated membrane, which can greatly inhibit the surface fouling of blood cells and enables rapid plasma separation and high biomarker recovery. With its high plasma yield and good phage recovery, our plasma separation device provides an excellent replacement for traditional plasma separation protocols for point-of-care virus assays and a broad spectrum of clinical tests. We also presented our efforts on making a zwitterionic polyurethane electrolyte (zPUSPE), which consists of orders of magnitude larger ionic conductivity than conventional polymer electrolytes. Although studied as a biomedical material for decades, the applications of zwitterionic materials as ion conductors in batteries only largely emerged in recent years. The zwitterionic CB groups enable fast ion transport, high surface adhesion energy, and fast self-healing of the zPUSPE. As a result, this zPUSPE exhibited high ionic conductivity, good adhesion to the electrode, and stable cycling in an ASSLIB. These great features of this zPUSPE make it a promising electrolyte for applications in the energy storage area.
Dark Doctoring Types in Fiction and in Life
Creators: name: Hurwitz, Brian
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2014

description: The life of the UK general practitioner Dr Harold Shipman is one of the most important medico-moral tales of our time; not only because he was a serial killer who murdered fifteen patients and killed hundreds more; not only because his activities led directly to two public inquiries, a review of death certification and of the UK coronership, to irresistible demands for medical re-validation, and the fading of 150 years of medical self-regulation. Though Shipman’s motives remain obscure he accomplished something more significant than these bureaucratic changes, some of which were in train before his activities came to light. Shipman succeeded in adding to the actual and symbolic possibilities of modern family doctoring: to one end of the spectrum of possible characteristics, preoccupations and traits that could lie behind the professional persona of the doctor, Shipman added the appetites, drives and satisfactions of the serial killer. Yet Shipman was a most popular and hard-working GP, considered by his patients an excellent doctor. How was he mistaken for a good doctor and allowed to poison with impunity? This paper investigates fictional depictions of medical figures and health care organisations where beneficence as a moral principal is centrally distorted or turned upside down, throwing into relief the extent to which symbolic configurations of doctors are equated with good and trusted work.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 6 (2014): Literature at the Intersection of Medicine and Culture
The feasibility and effect of a nurse-led, patient-centered asthma education program in a Nigerian context
Creators: name: Ozoh, Obianuju B.
name: Akinbolagbe, Yeside
name: Tekobo, Abiodun
name: Dede, Sandra K.
name: Dania, Michelle G.
name: Adeyeye, Olufunke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Insufficient asthma education is an unmet need in Nigeria. We aimed to assess the feasibility of a nurse-led asthma education program and its effect on asthma knowledge and outcomes in Lagos, Nigeria. Using a quasi-experimental study design, we recruited participants ≥12 years with physician diagnosed asthma. We assessed asthma knowledge, asthma control, medication adherence, health related quality of life and inhaler technique and also measured lung function. A trained nurse delivered asthma education sessions during the regular clinic visits and demonstrated correct inhaler technique. All assessments were repeated at 3-month. Data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant for all associations. Of the 80 participants at baseline, 42 (52.5%) completed the follow-up assessment and were included in the outcome analysis. Their ages ranged from 12 to 75 years, 35 (83.3%) were ≥18 years old and 30 (71.4%) were females. There was significant improvement in knowledge score immediately post intervention (15.48 ± 3.05 versus 18.33 ± 2.21, p < 0.001) and at 3 months (17.52 ± 2.63, p < 0.001). Those with uncontrolled asthma (Asthma Control Test score ≤19) had a meaningful (3.8-point) change in ACT score at follow-up. The improvement in the mean score on the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale was significant (p = 0.03), but a change of 0.48 was not considered meaningful. There was significant (p < 0.001) and meaningful (1.08) improvement in Mini Asthma Quality of Life score at 3 months. Pre-bronchodilator FEV1% predicted and scores on the inhaler technique check list for the Diskus and pressurized meter dose inhaler did not significantly change at follow-up (p = 0.38, 0.26 and 0.80 respectively). It is practicable for nurses to deliver effective asthma education during regular clinic visits in our practice setting. This training could meaningfully improve asthma control and health related quality of life.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1081.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 10.07.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
British Gallup Poll CQ 42
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Seeing Across the Bridge film (2); unemployment changes (1); earnings increasing or decreasing (1); should present government carry on (1); general election party preference (1); 1955 general election (1); port drinking habits (8); frequency of cinema visits (1); radio and TV sets owned (1); channels received (2).
Staging the Stigma: Syphilis and Its Metaphors  in Claude McKay’s The Clinic
Creators: name: Iuliano, Fiorenzo
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2014

description: The paper proposes a reading of Claude McKay’s The Clinic (circa 1923) as a text addressing the male diseased body and the clinic as symbolic sites of stigma. More specifically, the male (homo)sexualized body at the center of McKay’s poetic investigation is scrutinized according to two crucial axes of dis-identification: sexuality and ethnicity. Drawing on the Foucauldian genesis of the clinic as a space of signification of illness and of the body, I contend that McKay stages the shift from medical to poetic gaze and scrutinizes the diseased body as a site of stigma and shame to disavow, in order to advocate a new, idealized model of black subjectivity.
description: Status Quaestionis, No 6 (2014): Literature at the Intersection of Medicine and Culture
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1129.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.08.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1076.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.07.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
High serum cytokine levels may predict the responsiveness of patients with severe asthma to benralizumab
Creators: name: Watanabe, Shizuka
name: Suzukawa, Maho
name: Tashimo, Hiroyuki
name: Ohshima, Nobuharu
name: Asari, Isao
name: Imoto, Sahoko
name: Kobayashi, Nobuyuki
name: Tohma, Shigeto
name: Nagase, Takahide
name: Ohta, Ken
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: Benralizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody against human IL-5 receptor alpha, is effective in treating eosinophilic severe asthma. However, patients’ response to benralizumab varies widely. In this study, we aimed to identify a new serum biomarker to accurately predict benralizumab response. Methods: Seventeen benralizumab-treated patients with severe eosinophilic asthma were enrolled. Blood samples were collected; pulmonary function tests were performed and questionnaires were disseminated at baseline and after 1, 2, 4, and 6 months of treatment. Blood cytokine levels were measured. Response was defined as an elevation in forced expiratory volume in 1 s of at least 10.4% from baseline after 4 months of treatment. Results: There were nine respondents and eight non-respondents. The non-responders showed significantly higher baseline serum interferon-γ; interleukin (IL)-4, -5, -6, -7, and -12p70; IL-17/IL-17A; IL-17E/IL-25; IL-18/IL-1F4; chemokine (C-C motif) ligand (CCL)3/macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1α; CCL4/MIP-1β; CCL11/eotaxin; matrix metalloproteinase-12; tumor necrosis factor-α, and thymic stromal lymphopoietin levels. After benralizumab administration, the serum CCL3/MIP-1α and CCL11/eotaxin levels significantly and persistently increased in the responders (CCL3/MIP-1α, responders: 144.5 ± 37.9 pg/ml (baseline) vs. 210.3 ± 59.4 pg/ml (4 months), p = 0.009; non-responders: 270.8 ± 139.8 pg/ml (baseline) vs. 299.5 ± 159.9 pg/ml (4 months), p = 0.33; CCL11/eotaxin, responders: 167.9 ± 62.6 pg/ml (baseline) vs. 326.7 ± 134.4 pg/ml (4 months), p = 0.038; non-responders: 420.9 ± 323.1 pg/ml (baseline) vs. 502.1 ± 406.0 pg/ml (4 months), p = 0.30). Conclusion: Low baseline serum inflammatory cytokine levels may be useful in predicting a good benralizumab response. Supplemental data for this article is available online at at www.tandfonline.com/ijas .
What Can Cryptography Do For Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
Creators: name: Wu, Ke
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Theoretical Computer Science

description:  Recent works of Roughgarden (EC’21) and Chung and Shi (SODA’23) initiate the study of a new decentralized mechanism design problem called transaction fee mechanism design (TFM). Unfortunately, Chung and Shi showed two main impossibility results that rule out the existence of a dream TFM. First, any TFM that provides incentive compatibility for individual users and miner-user coalitions must always have zero miner revenue, even if the block size is infinite. Second, assuming a finite block size, no non-trivial TFM can simultaneously provide incentive compatibility for any individual user and for any miner-user coalition. 
This thesis explores potential relaxations and the theoretical landscape of transaction fee mechanisms under these relaxations. We delve into four key directions: 

 MPC-assisted model. We introduce a new MPC-assisted model, where the TFM is implemented through a joint multi-party computation (MPC) protocol among miners. While this model does not get rid of the zero-miner revenue limitation, it indeed allows us to overcome some impossibility results pertaining to the original model (henceforth called the plain model), leading to non-trivial mechanisms with useful guarantees that are otherwise impossible in the plain model. 
  Approximate Incentive Compatibility. Allowing strategic players to gain no more than ϵ-additional utility compared to honest behavior, we design mechanisms with positive miner revenues in both the plain and MPC-assisted models. Despite achieving optimality with respect to the miner revenue, these mechanisms have poorly scalable miner revenue, as we proved with certain impossibility results. 
  Reasonable-world assumption. We show that if we make a mildly stronger assumption assuming that we know a lower bound h on the number of honest users and an upper bound d on the number of bids controlled by the coalition, we can circumvent the previous limitations on miner revenue, and design mechanisms that generate optimal miner revenue linear in h. 
  Miner-user coalition proof. Here, we consider another flavor of notion capturing incentives of the miner-user coalitions: miner-user coalition proof, which requires that any miner-user coalition is unstable. We show that, under this new notion, we are able to design interesting transaction fee mechanisms for finite block sizes that satisfy incentive compatibility for any individual user and any miner coalition, as well as miner-user coalition proofness.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1203.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.11.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
Exploring the Structure and Political Consequences of Black Chicagoans' Racial Attitudes
Creators: name: Lambouths, Danny Lee
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2024

description: Black Americans have historically based their explanations of Black/White racial disparities on structural factors, mainly discrimination and prejudice. However, in this post-Civil Rights era, survey trends have shown movement away from these structural roots, raising concerns about the current structure of Black racial attitudes. Prior research has been dominated by old data sources and variable-centered approaches (e.g., factor analyses, regression analyses) that have contributed to a structural vs. individual (i.e., either/or) understanding of racial attitudes in general, and Black racial attitudes in particular.

My dissertation fills this gap in the literature by exploring the contemporary structure of Black Chicagoans racial attitudes using a person-centered approach (i.e., latent class analysis). Using data from the 2018 Chicago Area Study, I was able to analyze racial inequality across four domains: unemployment, education, justice, and health. First, I used exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine the dimensional structure of Black Chicagoans explanations for racial inequality. Then, I brought in latent class analysis (LCA) to identify profiles of Black Chicagoans based on their levels of support for each domain’s racial inequality explanations. Lastly, racial policy variables were added to previous LCA models as distal outcomes to examine the relationship between Black Chicagoans explanations for racial inequality and their racial policy attitudes. Incorporating a person-centered approach to the study of Black Chicagoans explanations for racial inequality revealed politically consequential racial attitude configurations that extend our understanding of Black racial attitudes by providing a more comprehensive view into how Black Americans explain racial inequality today.
The impact of asthma on in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 patients
Creators: name: Mather, Jeffrey F.
name: Mosleh, Wassim
name: McKay, Raymond G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The impact of asthma as a possible risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of asthma on adverse clinical outcomes in a COVID-19 hospitalized cohort. Retrospective, propensity-matched observational study of consecutive COVID-19-positive patients between February 24, 2020, and November 3, 2020 at a single health care system. In the initial population of 1925 patients, 4.4% presented with asthma. Propensity score matching reduced the total sample to n = 1045: 88 (8.4%) with asthma and n = 957 without asthma. A total of 164 (15.7%) patients died during the hospitalization, including 7 (8.0%) in the asthma group and 157 (16.4%), p = .037, in the non-asthmatic cohort. There was no difference between these groups in need for mechanical ventilation, length of stay on a ventilator, or hospital length of stay. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that asthma was an independent predictor of lower mortality, while older age, BMI > 30 kg/m2, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and admission National Early Warning Score (NEWS) were significantly associated with an increased risk of in-hospital death. There were no significant differences between asthmatic and non-asthmatic cohorts with respect to need for mechanical ventilation, length of mechanical ventilation, serum markers of severe COVID-19 disease, or overall length of hospital stay. We conclude that asthma in hospitalized COVID-19 patients is associated with a lower risk of mortality and no increase in disease severity in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1176.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.10.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
Thalamita admete
Creators: name: Shaga, I Bevin
name: Priya, K
name: Ramar, Selvakumar
name: Srinidhi, S
name: Mohan, G Chandra
name: Ranganathan, Sukanya
name: Moulvi, S M M
name: Mani, Bhuvaneswari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Thalamita
Thalamita admete

description: Thalamita admete (Herbst, 1803)
Material examined. Off Kuwannon, Koror Is., Palau Is., dredged, with coralline algae; 1♂ (cb 15.8×cl 10.0 mm), 1 ♀ (11.6× 7.6 mm), NSMT-Cr 30969; June 17, 1980; K. Baba leg.
Remarks. This species is the commonest among the Thalamita species having two lobedfront, being characterized by the basal antennal segment armed with a crest fringed with sharp granules as figured by Wee and Ng (1995). Many synonyms of this species including Thalamita dispar Rathbun, 1914, were discussed in detail by Stephenson and Rees (1967).
Distribution. Many records of occurrence in the whole Indo-West Pacific, from tidal flats to shallow waters.
description: Published as part of Shaga, I Bevin, Priya, K, Ramar, Selvakumar, Srinidhi, S, Mohan, G Chandra, Ranganathan, Sukanya, Moulvi, S M M & Mani, Bhuvaneswari, 2023, A Small Collection of Subtidal Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Palau Islands Collected by Dredging, pp. 7-42 in Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 49 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.50826/bnmnszool.49.1_7, http://zenodo.org/record/13826440
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung L-Nr. 1123.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.08.1943, erstellt von Karl Rapp in Locarno-Monti
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1943

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument 1943 in Locarno, laut Astronomischen Mitteilungen Nr. 143, S. 76: Spiegelfernrohr, Öffnung von 11 cm, Okular von 88facher Vergrösserung, Beobachtungen mit einem Graukeil. - Es sind oft Resultate mehrerer Aufnahmen pro Tag aufgelistet. Zudem sind immer Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Sonnenbild-Durchmesser D = 25 cm.
Zeichnung aus der Zeit der Beobachtertätigkeit von Ing. Karl Rapp als Privat-Astronom, die er seit den Neunzehnvierziger Jahren für die Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich ausführte. Aus den ersten zwei Jahren der freiwilligen Mitarbeit sind nur einzelne Stücke überliefert. Erst zwei Jahre später ist jeweils eine ergänzende Serie in Zürich aufbewahrt worden. Nochmals fünf Jahre später arbeitete Karl Rapp neu auf vertraglicher Basis weiter mit, bis schliesslich nach einem weiteren Jahrzehnt die permanente Beobachtungsstation in Locarno-Monti geschaffen wurde, welche an die langjährige Serie von Karl Rapp anknüpfte
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16409.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.09.1946, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1946

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Wöchnerinnen-Liste
Creators: name: Dietschy, Heusler & Co
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1899

description: Darin: Eingeklebte Einlagen vorne. Lose Einlagen hinten: Alte Wöchnerinnenlisten (1899-1922), Wöchnerinnenliste Zettlerei (1925-1928) sowie leere Formulare, Werbebrief Stämpfli Verlag für neue Formularbücher (1919), Geburtsschein (1924)
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2017 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Martin Lüpold
Brief an Daniel I Bernoulli
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1748
Subjects: Gravesande, Willem Jacob1688-1742
Hausen
Hummel
Müller, Johann Heinrich1671-1731
Nollet, Jean Antoine1700-1770
Scherz, Johann Georg1678-1754
Schöpflin, Johann Daniel1694-1771
Sturm, Johann Christoph1635-1703
Volckamer, Johann Georg1616-1693
Wolf, Johann Christian

description: Dan. B. hat sich bei Grauel (Instrumentenbauer in Strassburg 1711- 1761) für einen ihm übersandten handschriftlichen Katalog physikalischer Instrumente bedankt. Grauel informiert nun über weitere Details seiner Instrumente. Er wird das Kompliment an Schöpflin ausrichten
description: von Jean Philippe Grauel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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title: Representing Variability in Software Architecture
Creators: name: Haider, Umaima
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Software Architecture is a high level description of a software intensive system that enables architects to have a better intellectual control over the complete system. It is also used as a communication vehicle among the various system stakeholders. Variability in software-intensive systems is the ability of a software artefact (e.g., a system, subsystem, or component) to be extended, customised, or configured for deployment in a specific context. Although variability in software architecture is recognised as a challenge in multiple domains, there has been no formal consensus on how variability should be captured or represented.
In this research, we addressed the problem of representing variability in software architecture through a three phase approach. First, we examined existing literature using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) methodology, which helped us identify the gaps and challenges within the current body of knowledge. Equipped with the findings from the SLR, a set of design principles have been formulated that are used to introduce variability management capabilities to an existing Architecture Description Language (ADL). The chosen ADL was developed within our research group (ALI) and to which we have had complete access. Finally, we evaluated the new version of the ADL produced using two distinct case studies: one from the Information Systems domain, an Asset Management System (AMS); and another from the embedded systems domain, a Wheel Brake System (WBS).
This thesis presents the main findings from the three phases of the research work, including a comprehensive study of the state-of-the-art; the complete specification of an ADL that is focused on managing variability; and the lessons learnt from the evaluation work of two distinct real-life case studies.
Belief and adherence to COVID 19-lockdown restrictions in patients with asthma versus other chronic diseases: results from a cross-sectional survey nested in the ComPaRe e-cohort, in France
Creators: name: Taillé, Camille
name: Roche, Nicolas
name: Tesson, Florian
name: Tardivon, Coralie
name: Tran, Viet-Thi
name: Couffignal, Camille
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Asthma patients are under-represented among patients with COVID-19. Their behavior during lockdown and associated restrictions is unknown, as well as whether it was influenced by coexistent cardiovascular conditions. We conducted a cross-sectional survey in May 2020, in France, nested in ComPaRe, an e-cohort of adults with chronic diseases. A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to 10,859 people; 3701 fully completed questionnaires. The prevalence of self-reported asthma was 7%. Patients were classified in 4 categories: asthma with (n = 106) or without (n = 149) cardiovascular disease and other diseases with (n = 1186) or without (n = 2260) cardiovascular disease. Adherence to movement restrictions during the lockdown was very strong: 89% of participants reported a frequency of outings of “less than once per week” and “once or twice per week” for errands and no family-related outings during the lockdown. This proportion and frequency of outings were similar whatever the chronic disease (p = 0.122). Most patients (96%) reported a high feeling of security during the lockdown, but 95% felt anxious or depressed, with no difference by disease. As compared with patients with controlled asthma, those with uncontrolled asthma more frequently reported complaints related to deteriorated medical follow-up, waived care, anxiety or depression. Behaviors during the lockdown in France among the asthma population did not differ from patients with other chronic diseases in this cohort, which strengthens hypotheses for specific disease-related susceptibility to explain the low representation of asthmatics among COVID-19 cases. Special attention should be paid to the subgroup of patients with uncontrolled asthma during lockdowns.
Brief an Daniel I Bernoulli
Creators: name: Frisi, Paolo
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1769
Subjects: HeydtGeneral
Firmian, Carlo1718-1782
Lloyd, Henry Humphrey Evans1729-1783

description: Frisi lässt Dan. B. durch den General Heydt sein Werk "De Gravitate" überreichen. Er bitte um ein Urteil. Graf Firmian hat das Kompliment Dan. B.s erhalten und hat eine hohe Meinung von Daniel.
description: von Paolo Frisi
description: Am Briefkopf Bleistiftvermerk von der Hand J.J. Hubers: "Epistola Pauli Frisii ad Danielem Bernouli in Exemplari operis de Gravitate a. 1791 in auctione Bernoulliana acquisito reperta."
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description: Französisch
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
title: The Creative Unconscious and the Pictorial Sign
Creators: name: Helliwell, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Within The Creative Unconscious and Pictorial Sign I explore the dialogue that exists between social language and personal expression to understand how creativity is mediated. I consider how the involuntary inventiveness of artistic creativity and the structuring function of language come to negotiate what artists can experience and represent. My Doctoral practice attempts to question the influence of orthodox postmodernist views and allow sensual and direct experiences to be located within improvisation and spontaneous approaches to image making. I ask if it is possible for a humanistic and psychological interpretation of creativity to move beyond the copy and quotation that some postmodern theories of simulation and the hyperreal advance; but to retain the communicative function of visual expression and the model of a social form of signification instead of naïvely promoting unintelligible and personal languages.
title: Closing the Gap: Young People's Views on Learning at School
Creators: name: Griffiths, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2016

description: The UK has been criticised for its inequitable education system, as student outcomes are strongly linked to parental socio-economic status. Children and young people experiencing poverty are less likely than their better off peers to leave school with good grades, which can perpetuate disadvantage in later life.
The attainment gap between children and young people experiencing poverty and their better off peers in the UK is widening, despite an increasing media and policy focus in this area. Poverty-related educational inequality is a complex area and there is no conclusive evidence in what works to reduce its effects. While there is a plethora of research on the impact of poverty on education, very little of it includes the voice of children and young people and/or the psychological impact of poverty on learning.
The importance of hearing the views of children and young people is central to educational psychology, as is social justice and facilitating access to the curriculum for all students. The barriers presented by the experience of poverty to learning are thus vital for educational psychologists to address.
This study used qualitative methods to explore the learning journey of Key Stage 3 (age 12-13) young people experiencing poverty in an English coastal borough. Questions from the Little Box of Big Questions 2 were used as a tool in semi-structured interviews, in addition to questions devised by the researcher.
Young people discussed aspects of their lives that enabled them to learn at school, and aspects that presented barriers to learning. The research used Positive Psychology, taking a strengths based approach to explore the skills young people thought they brought to education, skills they would like to develop, and how they could be supported in this. The study has highlighted themes that, if addressed, could potentially raise the attainment of children and young people experiencing poverty.
How does the Canadian Acute Respiratory Illness and Flu Scale relate to other scales in pediatric asthma exacerbations?
Creators: name: Teoh, Laurel
name: Chatfield, Mark D.
name: Acworth, Jason P.
name: McCallum, Gabrielle B.
name: Chang, Anne B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In children with asthma exacerbations, we evaluated the relationship between Canadian Acute Respiratory Illness and Flu Scale (CARIFS) scores and (a) Asthma Diary Scale (ADS) scores for 14 days; (b) Pediatric Asthma Caregiver’s Quality of Life (QoL) Questionnaire (PACQLQ) scores on days 1, 7 and 14; (c) viral detection. We hypothesized that in children with acute asthma, CARIFS scores correlate with ADS and PACQLQ scores over time and that viruses have little impact on CARIFS scores. In children aged 2–16 years who presented with acute asthma to the Emergency Departments of 2 hospitals, we documented the clinical history, examination, asthma severity at baseline and on presentation. Eighteen respiratory pathogens were determined by PCR on nasopharyngeal aspirate (NPA) collected on recruitment. The parent(s) recorded their child’s daily CARIFS and ADS and weekly PACQLQ for 14 days. We used Spearman’s correlation to relate the scores of 108 children. CARIFS scores correlated well with ADS scores throughout 14 days (rs ranged 0.30–0.67). CARIFS and PACQLQ scores correlated −0.28, −0.14 and −0.44 on days 1, 7 and 14 respectively. There was no significant difference in CARIFS scores between children whose NPAs were PCR virus-positive or -negative over 14 days. CARIFS and ADS scores correlated well as a disease severity measure during the recovery period in children with acute asthma and this was not influenced by the virus state. The ADS may be used as an alternative in selected situations. The CARIFS reflects different aspects to acute asthma severity and QoL.
title: Service User Involvement in the British Red Cross: Experience and Factors Affecting Willingness to Participate
Creators: name: Hickin, Natasha Louise
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2016

description: There has been an increase in momentum around service user involvement in
service evaluation, planning and delivery since the 1980’s. This change resulted
from both the shift to market-led approaches to service provision, and the rise of
influential service user and carer movements. Service user involvement is now
a necessity for services in Health and Social Care; however, the coordination of
these activities is complex and studies continue to reveal tokenistic practices.
Large organisations, especially those with diverse service user populations,
have an even greater challenge. Since the introduction of Any Qualified
Provider, charitable organisations are now able to bid for statutory services. The
British Red Cross has service user involvement at the heart of its corporate
strategy, and has already won several statutory contracts.
Nine individuals who had both used British Red Cross services and
subsequently been involved in service user involvement initiatives took part in
semi-structured interviews. The interview questioned them on their experiences
and motivations for becoming involved. Each interview was transcribed and
thematic analysis conducted on the data. Four themes were identified across
the data, each indicating important areas in the process of service user
involvement; ‘motivations when starting out’, ‘“I committed myself to them”’,
‘barriers and challenges’ and ‘room for improvement.’ Service user involvement
was revealed to be patchy within the British Red Cross and participants
indicated both a lack of clarity over their role, and lack of follow up after
involvement. Despite this, participants described their experiences favorably
and all expressed a desire to continue their involvement with the organisation.
Key factors influencing participants decision to become involved initially differed
from those that impacted on their on going involvement. Experiences key to the
continued involvement of the participants were the social aspect of involvement,
skills development, and feeling valued by the organisation. This study again
highlighted the complexities of service user involvement within large diverse
organisations. Implications of the findings for both the British Red Cross and
similar organisations are considered.
The impact of asthma on in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 patients
Creators: name: Mather, Jeffrey F.
name: Mosleh, Wassim
name: McKay, Raymond G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The impact of asthma as a possible risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of asthma on adverse clinical outcomes in a COVID-19 hospitalized cohort. Retrospective, propensity-matched observational study of consecutive COVID-19-positive patients between February 24, 2020, and November 3, 2020 at a single health care system. In the initial population of 1925 patients, 4.4% presented with asthma. Propensity score matching reduced the total sample to n = 1045: 88 (8.4%) with asthma and n = 957 without asthma. A total of 164 (15.7%) patients died during the hospitalization, including 7 (8.0%) in the asthma group and 157 (16.4%), p = .037, in the non-asthmatic cohort. There was no difference between these groups in need for mechanical ventilation, length of stay on a ventilator, or hospital length of stay. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that asthma was an independent predictor of lower mortality, while older age, BMI > 30 kg/m2, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and admission National Early Warning Score (NEWS) were significantly associated with an increased risk of in-hospital death. There were no significant differences between asthmatic and non-asthmatic cohorts with respect to need for mechanical ventilation, length of mechanical ventilation, serum markers of severe COVID-19 disease, or overall length of hospital stay. We conclude that asthma in hospitalized COVID-19 patients is associated with a lower risk of mortality and no increase in disease severity in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16478.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.11.1946, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1946

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Edmund Waller Esqr.
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1760
Subjects: Waller, EdmunddpcAbgebildet

description: Radierung und Kupferstich, Blatt beschnitten, mit schwarzem Rahmen umgeben und mit Textfeld versehen. Dargestellt ist der Schriftsteller und Politiker Edmund Waller (1606-1687).
title: Exploring Young People's Constructions of a First Episode of Psychosis
Creators: name: Harris, Samantha
Publisher: name: The University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Background: Mental health services have been demonstrated to play a key role in shaping how people make sense of their experiences of psychosis. Past research has highlighted the dominance of the biomedical model within services, however, first-person accounts suggest this is not always meaningful or helpful for recovery. Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services aim to provide a more holistic, non-stigmatising approach for young people experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP). However, there is very limited research exploring how these services might impact upon how young people construct their experiences. This study aimed to explore the culturally available narratives drawn upon by young people accessing EIP services and the consequences of these for service utilisation and subjectivity.
Method: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with five young people (aged 18-35) who were accessing an EIP service for a FEP. A Narrative Analysis (NA) approach facilitated exploration of how young people constructed their experiences of a FEP and how they narrated this had changed since accessing the EIP service.
Results: The participant’s narratives emphasised the idiosyncratic ways they constructed their FEP, drawing on a range of culturally available discourses. While accessing the EIP service appeared to facilitate the exploration of a range of casual theories, often drawing on a biopsychosocial model, their narratives also highlighted the implicit power of the biomedical approach in shaping their sense of self and the future.
Conclusions: The findings support previous literature that highlights the importance of meaning-making for young people experiencing a FEP. The discourses available within EIP services appear to play a key role in shaping young people’s constructions and this study highlights the value of privileging multiple perspectives when supporting people to make sense of their experiences of psychosis.