cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COLOMBIAN RURAL YOUTH DECISION-MAKING PROCESS REGARDING MIGRATION, UNIVERSITY EDUCATION AND CAREERS
Creators: name: Perilla, Andres Felipe Zabala
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Three research studies were conducted to explore and explain the Colombian rural youth decision-making process regarding migration, university education and careers. The first study was a review of literature about Latin American rural youth. Forty-five peer-review articles that conducted in 13 Latin American countries, including Colombia, during the last 20 years were reviewed and analyzed. After conducting a systematic review, four main approaches of research were identified: (a) rural youth migration, (b) education and/or communication programs (e.g., rural extension), (c) rural youth expectations or futures perspectives, and (d) characterization of rural youth. Regarding methods, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses were performed in these studies. Finally, main findings suggested that the rural context in these developing countries imposes socio-economic barriers for rural youth academic or professional development. Some authors also highlighted the importance of education or extension programs developed by local governments to empower Latin American rural youth. The second study was a quantitative analysis that explored factors concerning the Colombian rural youth migration expectation using a multi-level approach (Level 1 = individual variables; Level 2 = family variables). Data came from 945 Colombian rural youth that responded to a national survey in 2016. Results showed that age, gender, and school grade were positively correlated to the migration expectation. Moreover, the family socioeconomic status was negatively correlated to the outcome. Family level variables explained 9% of the total migration expectation. The third study explored and explained the Colombian rural youth perceptions about barriers they experienced during their career decision-making. This study used a convergent parallel mixed-method design. Participants of the quantitative phase were 155 Colombian youth that responded to a survey. On the other hand, the qualitative phase was made-up by five female and five male. These 10 people participated in an interview and wrote a short essay. All participants were members of the Colombian Rural Youth Network. Results showed that the career decision-making process for this Colombian occurred in a marginalized context, in which they did not have the same resources and/or tools to compete for university careers access with their urban peers. As general conclusion of this dissertation, the Colombian rural context imposes restrictions for rural youth to pursue their career aspirations, which results in a push factor for youth to migrate to urban areas for career opportunities.
STRUCTURAL AND MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO THE ACTIVATION OF PHOSPHOLIPASE C EPSILON BY SMALL GTPASE RAP1A
Creators: name: Selvia, Arielle F
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Analytical spectrometry

description: Phospholipase Cε (PLCε) is an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI4,5P2 or PIP2) and phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) lipids at the plasma membrane and perinuclear membrane, respectively, producing the second messengers diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3). PLCε has low basal activity, and is activated by direct interactions with the small GTPase Rap1A. Rap1A is activated downstream of β-adrenergic receptors and binds to the Ras association (RA) domain 2 (RA2) of PLCε. This interaction translocates the Rap1A-PLCε complex to the perinuclear membrane for lipid hydrolysis. PLCε is expressed in the heart, where it is vital for cardiomyocyte function, including processes such as proliferation, differentiation, and survival. The DAG produced from PI4P hydrolysis is required for Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release in the cardiovascular system. In addition, mutations and/or increased expression of PLCε is implicated in cardiac hypertrophy and heart disease. However, the exact role that Rap1A-dependent activation of PLCε plays in the disease process is not fully understood. The RA2 domain is essential for Rap1A binding and activation, and a recent study demonstrated that the PLCε pleckstrin homology (PH) domain and first two EF hands (EF 1/2) are also required. Small-angle X-ray scattering was used to investigate the solution structures of Rap1A-PLCε complexes that varied in their sensitivity to activation and showed that Rap1A can stabilizes unique conformational states. SAXS and activity assays were also used to investigate the roles of six conserved hydrophobic residues on the RA2 surface that were implicated in Rap1A-dependent activation. Taken together, these studies provide novel insights into the allosteric activation of PLCε by Rap1A.
sj-docx-2-pie-10.1177_09544089211042480 - Supplemental material for Improvement in joint efficiency with high productivity and narrow weld formation in friction stir welding
Creators: name: Khan, Noor Zaman
name: Siddiquee, Arshad Noor
name: Khan, Zahid A
name: Badruddin, Irfan Anjum
name: Kamangar, Sarfaraz
name: Maqbool, Annayath
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-pie-10.1177_09544089211042480 for Improvement in joint efficiency with high productivity and narrow weld formation in friction stir welding by Noor Zaman Khan, Arshad Noor Siddiquee, Zahid A Khan, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Sarfaraz Kamangar and Annayath Maqbool in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
Additional file 2 of The overlap of accessory virulence factors and multidrug resistance among clinical and surveillance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a neonatal intensive care unit in Nepal: a single-centre experience in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raj Kumar
name: Shrestha, Dhruba
name: Kunwar, Ajaya Jang
name: Thapa, Sandeep
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
name: Parry, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Gel electrophoresis results of PCR amplification products of representative samples showing genes investigated in this study.
The Development of PSMA-Targeted Drug Conjugates
Creators: name: Yoon, Hosog
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cleavable linker
Doxorubicin
Drug conjugates
Phosphoramidate
PSMA
Prostate Cancer

description: Prostate cancer ranks as the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths among American men. Historically, treatments for prostate cancer have faced challenges with off-target effects and a lack of specificity, leading to diminished treatment efficacy and potential impacts on the patients’ quality of life. Efforts in targeted therapy focus on the delivery of cytotoxic agents to diseased tissue to achieve a controlled therapeutic outcome. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) being a dominant enzyme-biomarker associated with prostate cancer makes it an ideal target for various approaches, including antibodies, imaging agents, radiotherapeutics, and small-molecule drug conjugates (SMDC). Like many other groups in the field of targeted drug delivery,
description: we have developed a phosphoramidate-based inhibitor which has a high-affinity for PSMA. This inhibitor binds irreversibly to PSMA and can deliver a diverse array of payloads to PSMA (+) cells. Current research in the Berkman lab focuses on the development of drug-delivery platforms that includes: (1) a cytotoxic agent, (2) a novel pH-sensitive linker, and (3) a small molecule targeting ligand for PSMA. Recent work in our group was the development of pH sensitive
description: phosphoramidate scaffolds. Our goal was to design a modular drug-delivery platform for prostate cancer that allows for late-stage modifications without compromising its affinity for PSMA. The work detailed in this report demonstrates the selectivity and effectiveness of our PSMA-targeted SMDCs against PSMA (+) cell lines, exploration of self-immolative spacers to be incorporated into our phosphoramidate scaffolds, and the synthesis of a second-generation phosphoramidate-based SMDCs to broaden the application of clinically relevant targeted chemotherapeutic agents for prostate cancer therapy.
BROTHERLANDS TO BLOODLANDS: ETHNIC GERMANS AND JEWS IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE, LATE TSARIST TO POSTWAR
Creators: name: Nickell, Amber N.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Historical studies not elsewhere classified
Jewish studies

description: Ethnic Germans and Jews lived alongside one another in Southern Ukraine for over a century prior to the Holocaust. They were as Shimon Redlich observes of Jewish-Gentile relations in his Polish hometown, "together and apart." Both groups started out the twentieth century closer together than they had ever been, and interactions between them were and remained comparatively normalized and less violent than Jews' experiences with the other groups surrounding them on Ukraine's pre-Revolutionary landscape. Yet, by 1941, with the joint Romanian-German occupation of the region, ethnic Germans enthusiastically plundered, exploited, and murdered their Jewish neighbors with little prodding from the Romanian and Nazi occupation regimes. How did over a century of ethnic German-Jewish coexistence devolve into local violence? Which historical processes fueled some ethnic Germans' conversion from neighbors to murderers, and when exactly did this transition begin?
 This project examines coexistence, confluence, and conflict between ethnic Germans and their Jewish neighbors in Southern Ukraine from the late Tsarist period through the Holocaust. It builds upon the work of formidable scholars like Jan Gross, Jan Grabowski, Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, Timothy Snyder, Wendy Lower, Karl Berkhoff, Eric Steinhart, and Doris Bergen, all of which examine the impact of double, sometimes triple or more, occupations on intergroup relationships and/or local collaboration in occupied territories. However, unlike many of these case studies, which root collaborators’ motives in the years immediately predating the war, or in the war itself, this project seeks to understand the impact of decades of occupation and revanchist policies (Austro-German, Soviet, Romanian, Nazi) on the groups’ interactions with and perceptions of one another. Moreover, as opposed to splitting the region into two separate entities, as the Romanian and Nazi regimes did, this project illuminates some of the continuities across the river Buh, as lived and died, by ethnic Germans and Jews in Ukraine prior to and during the Holocaust. This longue durée analysis illuminates the roles sustained violence and occupational policies played in disrupting centuries of interactions between ethnic Germans and Jews. By 1941, the two groups had been violently reconfigured, pulled together, and pushed apart in profoundly consequential ways. The Nazi and Romanian occupiers, equipped with vernaculars of violence and nation erected by the Soviet state and its predecessors, capitalized on ongoing historical processes, quickly incorporating ethnic Germans into their genocidal machine.
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211009223 – Supplemental material for Developing a Coding System for Sulking Behavior in Young Children
Creators: name: Hardecker, David J. K.
name: Schmidt, Marco F. H.
name: Haun, Daniel B. M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211009223 for Developing a Coding System for Sulking Behavior in Young Children by David J. K. Hardecker, Marco F. H. Schmidt and Daniel B. M. Haun in SAGE Open
title: Implementation of quantum and classical discrete fractional Fourier transforms
Creators: name: Weimann, Steffen
name: Perez-Leija, Armando
name: Lebugle, Maxime
name: Keil, Robert
name: Tichy, Malte
name: Gräfe, Markus
name: Heilmann, René
name: Nolte, Stefan
name: Moya-Cessa, Hector
name: Weihs, Gregor
name: Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
name: Szameit, Alexander
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2025

description: Fourier transforms, integer and fractional, are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied science. Certainly, since the ordinary Fourier transform is merely a particular case of a continuous set of fractional Fourier domains, every property and application of the ordinary Fourier transform becomes a special case of the fractional Fourier transform. Despite the great practical importance of the discrete Fourier transform, implementation of fractional orders of the corresponding discrete operation has been elusive. Here we report classical and quantum optical realizations of the discrete fractional Fourier transform. In the context of classical optics, we implement discrete fractional Fourier transforms of exemplary wave functions and experimentally demonstrate the shift theorem. Moreover, we apply this approach in the quantum realm to Fourier transform separable and path-entangled biphoton wave functions. The proposed approach is versatile and could find applications in various fields where Fourier transforms are essential tools.
sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875211047273 – Supplemental material for Virtual Reality in Destination Marketing: Telepresence, Social Presence, and Tourists’ Visit Intentions
Creators: name: Ying, Tianyu
name: Tang, Jingyi
name: Ye, Shun
name: Tan, Xiaoyuan
name: Wei, Wei
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Organisation and Management Theory
Hospitality Management

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875211047273 for Virtual Reality in Destination Marketing: Telepresence, Social Presence, and Tourists’ Visit Intentions by Tianyu Ying, Jingyi Tang, Shun Ye, Xiaoyuan Tan and Wei Wei in Journal of Travel Research
Three Essays on Household Consumption Expenditures
Creators: name: Wahdat, Ahmad Zia
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: In my dissertation, I investigate the relationship between household consumption expenditures and transitory income shocks. In the first two essays, I pay particular attention to household expenditures in the aftermath of natural disasters, which are becoming more frequent and costly in the U.S. since 1980. Additionally, I study specialty farm producers' risk attitudes after an income shock due to natural disasters. Although the permanent income hypothesis predicts that households smooth consumption over their lifetimes, credit-constrained households may find consumption smoothing impractical. This dissertation brings forth evidence regarding heterogeneity in the effect of income shocks on household expenditures. First, I find that floods and hurricanes affect food-at-home (FAH) spending in different ways. The average 15-day decrease in FAH spending is about $2 in the 90 days after a flood and about $7 in the 30 days after a hurricane. In other words, floods have a prolonged effect and hurricanes have an immediate effect. I find that floods and hurricanes remain a threat to the FAH expenditures of vulnerable households, for instance, low-income households and households in coastal states. Second, Indiana specialty farm households reduce their monthly expenses of food and miscellaneous categories by about $119 and $280, respectively, after an income loss of 20%-32%. I also find that Indiana specialty producers are less willing to take financial risk after an income loss experience, i.e., they have a decreasing absolute risk aversion. Finally, in the third essay, I show that Australian households exhibit loss aversion in consumption expenditures which also means that they behave asymmetrically in their consumption response to income shocks. However, it is only working-age younger households that show asymmetric consumption behavior as opposed to the symmetric behavior of retirement-age households. The main message of these various findings is clear: after an income shock, the magnitude of change in consumption expenditures and the saliency of certain expenditure categories for adjustment are context- and population-dependent. Hence, income support policies and post-disaster relief programs may benefit from a better understanding of the consumption behavior of beneficiary population, to achieve maximum impact through better targeting.
Additional file 3 of The overlap of accessory virulence factors and multidrug resistance among clinical and surveillance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a neonatal intensive care unit in Nepal: a single-centre experience in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raj Kumar
name: Shrestha, Dhruba
name: Kunwar, Ajaya Jang
name: Thapa, Sandeep
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
name: Parry, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Dendrogram of ERIC–PCR fingerprints of 57 K. pneumoniae isolates based on Dice similarity and UPGMA linkage showing significant genetic heterogeneity among the isolates.
SeSaM: Seasonal Sargassum Monitoring
Creators: name: Space Climate Observatory
Publisher: name: GEO Knowledge Hub
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Coastal areas
Ocean
Health

description: The SeSAM (Sargassum Seasonal forecasting and Monitoring) project is dedicated to the observation, modeling, and forecasting of Sargassum proliferation and strandings in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. This initiative aims to support risk management and mitigation strategies, responding to a pressing demand from civil society and affected coastal communities.
SeSAM builds upon existing international efforts (NOAA, GEO Blue Planet) and integrates two key components:

SAMTool (CLS): An operational satellite detection system providing near real-time monitoring.
NEMO-Sarg1.0 (IRD - FORESEA Project): A basin-scale forecasting model simulating the biological and drift properties of Sargassum rafts.
The project leverages Mercator Ocean International's Digital Twin Ocean framework to implement an advanced prediction and monitoring system, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions for Sargassum management and mitigation.
Key Features

Near real-time monitoring of Sargassum presence using high-resolution satellite data.
Seasonal forecasting of Sargassum influxes across the Tropical Atlantic.
Data accessibility through open platforms (AVISO/ODATIS, Sargassum Hub).
Support for communities and policymakers in Sargassum-affected regions.
SeSAM provides free and open access to its outputs, enhancing the global response to Sargassum proliferation and supporting scientific collaboration in this field.
POLICY INDUCED MIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Bonin, Daniel
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other economics not elsewhere classified
Human geography not elsewhere classified
Labour economics
Panel data analysis
Public economics - publicly provided goods
Urban and regional economics
Economic history
Econometric and statistical methods
Cross-sectional analysis

description: State and local adoption/repeal of highly polarized policies causes migration responses both out of and into the affected region. Interpreting the responses as revealed policy pref?erences leads to the conclusion that marijuana legalization and abortion waiting periods had been favored nationally, while gay marriage had been opposed. Policy preferences are geographically heterogeneous, which leads to different responses across counties. From 1992- 2017, these policy changes reduced domestic migration by two percent, which is approxi?mately 20% of the total migration decline. The migration changes, via partisan sorting, accounted for a significant share of the increased political polarization from 2012-2016 in western, urban, and swing counties.

In cases where unmarried parents have joint physical custody of their child(ren), there is a wide range of default relocation restrictions that depend on their state of origin. Using IRS county-to-county migration data, demographic data from the ACS, and state relocation restrictions gathered from divorce law websites, I study the impact of these default reloca?tion restrictions on domestic US migration. Results from both regression discontinuity and selection on observables designs, find about 10% - 30% less migration to counties that are outside the allowed relocation range. This migration friction is shown to strengthen from 1992 - 2012, as both joint physical custody and unmarried parents became more common, thereby contributing to the decline in domestic US migration.

In the United States, between 2004 and 2008, 28 states increased their minimum wage; the national minimum wage was increased in 2007. The average migration response to these increases was a 3% change in migration away from a one dollar increase. These effects are not distributed evenly across the population. People from more impacted demographic groups are more likely to move away from minimum wage increases.
title: Coreopsis :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Coreopsis
Tickseed

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
Additional file 4 of The overlap of accessory virulence factors and multidrug resistance among clinical and surveillance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a neonatal intensive care unit in Nepal: a single-centre experience in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raj Kumar
name: Shrestha, Dhruba
name: Kunwar, Ajaya Jang
name: Thapa, Sandeep
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
name: Parry, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Antimicrobial non-susceptibility patterns of infection-causing, possibly infection-causing, colonizing, and environmental K. pneumoniae isolates.
title: Narratives of Return : The Contemporary Caribbean Woman Writer and the Quest for Home.
Creators: name: Thompson, Rachel Grace
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Caribbean Literature, Narratives of Return, Diaspora, Caribbean Novel, Caribbean Women's Writing

description: This thesis investigates how diasporic Caribbean women writers use the vehicle of the novel to effect a ‘writing back’ to the Caribbean home through what I propose to consider as a specific sub-genre of Caribbean literature: ‘narratives of return’. I argue that novels which constitute ‘narratives of return’ reveal how diasporic identity continues to be informed by a particularised connection to the Caribbean homeland. Firstly, I propose the region’s literary representation within these narratives as the home of cultural memories which fully inform the hybridised nature of diasporic subjectivity. Secondly, I investigate the narrative of return’s depiction of the Caribbean as the site of historical, collective, and personal trauma which continues to influence notions of identification and belonging to the region for Caribbean people. 
Whilst ‘return’ refers to the act of ‘writing back’ to the Caribbean by diasporic authors, I suggest that the ‘return’ represented within the narratives can also be literary, symbolic, metaphorical and physical. I investigate how the ‘return’ is negotiated within the text, exploring what ‘narratives of return’ reveal about Caribbean diasporic subjectivity and the relationship of protagonist and author with Caribbean history and the ancestral home. Theories of culture and identity acquisition will be crucial in addressing these questions, while my analysis explores how Caribbean diasporic identity is informed by an inherently traumatic and violent history of colonialism. 
I argue towards the healing, therapeutic function of the discourse of the ‘narrative of return’ in selected novels by diasporic authors from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone Caribbean. My approach seeks to unveil links between islands, recognising similarities in diasporic and Caribbean experience across racial, cultural and linguistic differences. I propose the Caribbean as a space which is representative of traumatic experience for Caribbean people across racial and cultural boundaries, investigating the palliative nature of the ‘narrative of return’ in effecting a process of confronting and working through past traumas.
Anomalous conductance steps in 3D TI HgTe-based quantum point contacts
Creators: name: Richter, Elisabeth
name: Barth, Michael
name: Kozlov, Dmitriy A.
name: Knothe, Angelika
name: Mikhailov, Nikolay N.
name: Steidl, Juliane
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Hartl, Stefan
name: Himmler, Wolfgang
name: Richter, Klaus
name: Weiss, Dieter
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: We explore electrical transport through a point contact in strained HgTe, a three-dimensional topological insulator. In the absence of a magnetic field B, there is no quantization. However, under higher magnetic fields, we observe distinct non-integer conductance steps. Based on numerical tight-binding calculations and a phenomenological Landauer-Büttiker approach, we attribute these atypical, non-integer quantized plateaus to significant scattering effects at the point contact.
title: A Worker's Inquiry in a UK Call Centre : the Labour Process, Management, and Resistance
Creators: name: Woodcock, Jamie
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Marxism, labour process, call centre, class

description: This thesis contributes to an understanding of the labour process, management techniques, and the possibilities for resistance in a call centre. The research uses ethnographic methods to focus on a workplace inspired by the different moments of workers inquiry – from Marx, the Johnston-Forest Tendency, Socialisme ou Barbarie, to the Operaismo – and a sociological approach like Burawoy's (1979) extended case method. The study combines a theoretical analysis of the development and organisation of call centres with a detailed ethnographic account. It focuses on the specific features of the labour process and the application of Taylorist principles, developing Taylor and Bain's (1999:109) research on call centre work as creating the experience of ‘an assembly-line in the head.’ It discusses the implications of the shift towards the exploitation of emotional and affective labour. 

The research considers the role of management and supervision in the call centre, detailing the electronic surveillance, “buzz sessions”, and motivational methods. The analysis re-applies the metaphor that Fernie and Metcalf (1997:3) used to conceptualise call centres as an ‘electronic panopticon’, through a return to Bentham (1995) and Foucault (1991). However, the central argument of this thesis is the ability of workers to resist in call centres, rather than the victory of management. The research uncovers a ‘repertoire of resistance strategies’ similar to those identified by Mulholland (2004) in an Irish call centre: ‘Slammin’ Scammin’ Smokin’ an’ Leavin’.’ These moments of resistance are conceptualised as expressions of the refusal of work, a key theme developed in the thesis. The problem of worker retention is therefore understood as the culmination of these different moments. The analysis of the case study at Trade Union Cover, a private company that sells insurance to trade union members, provides an important insight into the shift towards service unionism and its implications for workers and organisation.
title: A quiet revolution : the moral economies shaping journalists' use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa.
Creators: name: Wright, Katherine
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Africa, Non-Governmental Organisation, news, journalism, online, media, photography, photojournalism

description: Mainstream news coverage of Africa relies increasingly on material provided by NGOs, who stand to gain in political influence as a result of becoming ever-more media savvy in a digital age. But at a time of widespread cost-cutting in mainstream journalism, is it appropriate for NGOs to ‘make news’ by providing audio, photographs and video to increasingly time and resource-poor journalists or does this diminish what news should be? 

Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia that tends to focus on the coverage of ‘disasters’ or ‘humanitarian emergencies’, this study analyses journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia about Africa during a very different news-making period – what journalists call a ‘quiet news week’.
 
The research involved sixty semi-structured interviews with those whose decisions shaped the production of six media items, which were also subject to qualitative content analysis. These items were about a range of topics and African countries: all of which were published or broadcast in news readily available to British audiences. But why and how journalists used NGO-provided multimedia was shaped most powerfully by the ‘moral economies’ (Sayer 2007) structuring each news outlet. 

These moral economies were found to have brought about a ‘quiet revolution’: leading to the emergence of a number of heterogeneous, normatively-laden coalitions between NGOs and news outlets, often hidden from the view of audiences. Consequently, journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia was found to have limited progressive potential: for it inhibited collective reasoning by preventing critical scrutiny, as well as systematically excluding the political value of ‘voice’ in ways which further marginalised the disadvantaged and powerless (Sen 2010).
Rebounds of sevoflurane concentration during simulated trigger-free pediatric and adult anesthesia
Creators: name: Zumsande, Simon
name: Thoben, Christian
name: Dennhardt, Nils
name: Krauß, Terence
name: Sümpelmann, Robert
name: Zimmermann, Stefan
name: Rüffert, Henrik
name: Heiderich, Sebastian
Publisher: name: [London] : BioMed Central
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Active charcoal filters
subject: Malignant hyperthermia
subject: Patient safety
subject: Pediatric anesthesia
subject: Rebound effect
subject: Trigger-free anesthesia
subject: Volatile anesthetics
subject: Washout method
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Background: In trigger-free anesthesia a volatile anesthetic concentration of 5 parts per million (ppm) should not be exceeded. According to European Malignant Hyperthermia Group (EMHG) guideline, this may be achieved by removing the vapor, changing the anesthetic breathing circuit and renewing the soda lime canister followed by flushing with O2 or air for a workstation specific time. Reduction of the fresh gas flow (FGF) or stand-by modes are known to cause rebound effects. In this study, simulated trigger-free pediatric and adult ventilation was carried out on test lungs including ventilation maneuvers commonly used in clinical practice. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether rebounds of sevoflurane develop during trigger-free anesthesia. Methods: A Dräger® Primus® was contaminated with decreasing concentrations of sevoflurane for 120 min. Then, the machine was prepared for trigger-free anesthesia according to EMHG guideline by changing recommended parts and flushing the breathing circuits using 10 or 18 l⋅min− 1 FGF. The machine was neither switched off after preparation nor was FGF reduced. Simulated trigger-free ventilation was performed with volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) and pressure-controlled ventilation (PCV) including various ventilation maneuvers like pressure support ventilation (PSV), apnea, decreased lung compliance (DLC), recruitment maneuvers, prolonged expiration and manual ventilation (MV). A high-resolution ion mobility spectrometer with gas chromatographic pre-separation was used to measure sevoflurane in the ventilation gas mixture in a 20 s interval. Results: Immediately after start of simulated anesthesia, there was an initial peak of 11–18 ppm sevoflurane in all experiments. The concentration dropped below 5 ppm after 2–3 min during adult and 4–18 min during pediatric ventilation. Other rebounds of sevoflurane > 5 ppm occurred after apnea, DLC and PSV. MV resulted in a decrease of sevoflurane < 5 ppm within 1 min. Conclusion: This study shows that after guideline-compliant preparation for trigger-free ventilation anesthetic machines may develop rebounds of sevoflurane > 5 ppm during typical maneuvers used in clinical practice. The changes in rate and direction of internal gas flow during different ventilation modes and maneuvers are possible explanations. Therefore, manufacturers should provide machine-specific washout protocols or emphasize the use of active charcoal filters (ACF) for trigger-free anesthesia.
A Fiber-Reinforced Constitutive Model for Earthen Materials in Partially Saturated Conditions
Creators: name: Koci, Persid
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: A new elasto-plastic constitutive model for fiber-reinforced materials is developed. The model considers the effect of distributed fibers embedded in a matrix. The effect of the tensile stresses in the fibers is integrated numerically over possible orientations to convert it into a homogenized composite material stress. The fiber model considers both the degradation of the cohesive bond due to fiber-matrix interface mechanism, the elasto-plastic behavior of the fibers and their ultimate strength. Fiber model is coupled with the constitutive model of the soil matrix to obtain the constitutive model of fiber reinforced soil. Additionally, the soil model is embedded in a partially saturated framework. A mixed finite element formulation is employed to account for the coupling of the solid skeleton and pore liquid. The dry case and the fully saturated case are obtained as special cases of the partially saturated formulation. A finite element code is developed in Matlab to implement the coupled formulation. The finite element code for the soil with no fibers is verified with several numerical examples with known solutions from literature. Furthermore, the fiber-reinforced material is used to investigate the behavior of various structural elements in partially saturated conditions and loading, with the overall goal of improving the mechanical behavior of this material.
3D-Druck zur Miniaturisierung von chromatographischen Anwendungen
Creators: name: Kortmann, Carlotta
name: Habib, Taieb
name: Solle, Dörte
name: Bahnemann, Janina
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer Nature
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 3D printing
subject: chromatography
subject: lab-on-a-chip systems
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: 3D printing as a tool for prototyping is already well established in many areas of biotechnology. Whether for the production of individual laboratory devices, for the development of biocompatible devices for cell cultivation or even lab-on-a-chip systems for miniaturization and reduction of consumables – the technology is now used by many research areas within biotechnology. However, there is one area where 3D printing is still comparatively underutilized: chromatography. Here, we explain the potential and possible applications of 3D printing for the development of miniaturized chromatography systems.
Theory of modelling wastewater treatment plants: using of Biowin and West software's. Exercises and examples
Creators: name: Hydar, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Wastewater treatment plant
Biowin and West software
Biowin applications

description: This presentation belongs to a presentation that was given during the Winter School on 'Consequences of climate change addressed through SES applied to water and wastewater management for increased resiliency and efficiency, and IT solutions or current/circulation models for coastal management', held on 27-31 January 2025 in Ancona, İtaly for SMART4ENV Project.  The winter school lasted for 5 days and Presentations/studies/lectures were presented on the first 2 days on "Wastewater Field", on the 3rd day on "Coastal protection and resilience under the threat of climate change", on the 4th day on "Water and Wastewater" and on the 5th day on "Coastal".

This presentation at the 2nd session of the lectures titled "Water and Wastwater Field", held on, Ali Hydar from UNIVPM shared Biowin applications, using of Biowin and West software’s, examples of common applications. Additionally, this session was done Biowin MLE exercises.
Additional file 5 of The overlap of accessory virulence factors and multidrug resistance among clinical and surveillance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a neonatal intensive care unit in Nepal: a single-centre experience in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raj Kumar
name: Shrestha, Dhruba
name: Kunwar, Ajaya Jang
name: Thapa, Sandeep
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
name: Parry, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 5: Table S2. Distribution of β-lactamases stratified number of accessory virulence genes among infection-causing, colonizing, and environmental isolates.
Predictive Vehicle Safety—Validation Strategy of a Perception-Based Crash Severity Prediction Function
Creators: name: Putter, Roman
name: Neubohn, Andre
name: Leschke, Andre
name: Lachmayer, Roland
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: accident scenario clustering
subject: crash severity prediction
subject: functional safety
subject: Pre-Crash systems
subject: validation and verification
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Traffic accident avoidance and mitigation are the main targets of accident research and vehicle safety development worldwide. Despite improving advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and active safety systems, it will not be possible to avoid all vehicle accidents in the near future. Innovative Pre-Crash systems (PCS) should contribute to the accident mitigation of unavoidable accidents. However, there are no standardized testing methods for Pre-Crash systems. In particular, irreversible Pre-Crash systems lead to great challenges in the verification and validation (V&V) process. The reliable and precise real-time crash severity prediction (CSP) is, however, the basic prerequisite for irreversible PCS activation. This study proposes a novel validation and safety assessment strategy for a perception-based crash severity prediction function. In doing so, the intended functionality, safety and validation requirements of PCS are worked out in the context of ISO 26262 and ISO/PAS 21448 standards. In order to reduce the testing effort, a real-data-driven scenario-based testing approach is applied. Therefore, the authors present a novel unsupervised machine learning methodology for the creation of concrete and logical test scenario catalogs based on K-Means++ and k-NN algorithms. The developed methodology is used on the GIDAS database to extract 35 representative clusters of car to car collision scenarios, which are utilized for virtual testing. The limitations of the presented method are disclosed afterwards to help future research to set the right focus.
Additional file 6 of The overlap of accessory virulence factors and multidrug resistance among clinical and surveillance Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from a neonatal intensive care unit in Nepal: a single-centre experience in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Shrestha, Raj Kumar
name: Shrestha, Dhruba
name: Kunwar, Ajaya Jang
name: Thapa, Sandeep
name: Shrestha, Nipun
name: Dhoubhadel, Bhim Gopal
name: Parry, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 6: Text. Additional details on the laboratory methods.
DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND SEQUENCE OF GAS-PHASE PEPTIDES USING SPECTROSCOPIC AND MASS SPECTROMETRIC METHODS
Creators: name: Fischer, Joshua L
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Analytical chemistry not elsewhere classified
Analytical spectrometry
Physical chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: The function of many biological processes depends on the structure and composition of the biomolecules involved. Both spectroscopy and mass spectrometry provide complimentary information regarding the three-dimensional conformation and the composition, respectively, as well as many other things. Here, double resonance conformer specific spectroscopy coupled with the latest ab inito computational methods is used to make structural assignments at the atomic resolution as well obtain information regarding propensities of intramolecular interactions. Additionally, rapid cooling in conjunction with IR excitation to modulate and measure the relative populations of conformers present in the expansion. Two different designer peptide systems are studied, including an achiral acylated 𝛼-aminoisobutryic acid dipeptide (Ac-AIB2-R) with various C-terminal protecting groups (R=NHBn, NHBnF, 𝛼-methylbenzylamine) and an acylated 𝛾4-phenylalanine (Ac-𝛾4Phe-NHMe) with the a methyl amine C-terminal protecting group. Mass spectrometry is used to determine the kinetics of gas-phase covalent tagging reactions used to enhance the sequence coverage. The covalent modification reactions utilize click chemistry between NHS or HOBt substituted sulfobenzoic acid tags with nucleophiles present on the residues of the amino acids composing the backbone. Effective temperatures are approximated using the Tolmachev model, which relates the statistical average internal energy of the molecule to a temperature.
A teaching concept for school experiments on radioactivity using augmented reality methods
Creators: name: Schuette, Charlotte
name: Streuber, Marcus
name: Pottgiesser, Vivien
name: Preim, Bernhard
name: Saalfeld, Patrick
name: Vahlbruch, Jan-Willem
name: Walther, Clemens
Publisher: name: Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Augmented Reality
subject: Gamma Rays
subject: Internet
subject: Radioactivity
subject: Schools
subject: augmented reality
subject: gamma radiation
subject: radioactivity
subject: school
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Digital media are becoming increasingly influential in society, especially among the younger generation. Therefore, an augmented reality (AR) app was developed that simulates experiments with radioactive sources. The app runs experiments on the range and penetration power of alpha, beta and gamma radiation. It assigns virtual radiation sources, shielding materials or a detector to printed image markers, and superimposes their 3D images on the camera image. Alpha, beta and gamma radiation are clearly distinguishable by choosing different visualizations. The detector displays the measured count rates. At school, the app can be used in different ways. A concept for a teaching unit in Grade 10 was developed and tested in several classes based on a prototype of the app. The learning progress from the AR experiments was examined. Furthermore, an evaluation of the app was carried out. The most recent version of the app can be found here: https://seafile.projekt.uni-hannover.de/d/dd033aaaf5df4ec18362/