cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Engineering support system for sustainable optimization of automation task supervision
Creators: name: MAZZOLINI, Mauro
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2015

description: The main objectives of this PhD are the conception and development of an Engineering Support System (ESS) for sustainable optimization of automation tasks supervision which is a set of formalisms, methods and tools introduced to support the control engineer in the design phase of optimized supervisor solutions. The ESS is based on the IEC 61499 standard and on a new formalism for the control problem description and specification that leads the control engineer within all the control design phases, in order to obtain high performance manufacturing systems while pursuing optimization of key parameter indicators, including for example minimal energy consumption and emissions. To such an aim it enables the possibility to formalize the control supervision problem into a constrained optimization problem to be solved with the most appropriate optimization algorithm selecting the most interesting optimization objective.
Finally, an innovative virtual commissioning platform is proposed. It allows to validate the developed automation tasks supervision system using the real targets running the control solution connected with the virtual model of the system to be controlled in place of the real one.
Two applications of the developed engineering support system has been addressed considering an industrial painting plant and a reconfigurable manufacturing system test-bed owned by the University of Michigan which is a production plant composed by three robotic cells which allows to realize different type of products starting from raw plastic blocks. The performance reached by both the two application cases addressed are explained in the thesis as proof of the effectiveness of the engineering support system developed as the main result of the PhD activities.
Additional file 5 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. The loveplot of covariables. The SMD generated by IPTW (logistic) or IPTW (Xgboost) were significantly smaller than the SMD in crude covariables. SMD: standardized mean difference; OSI: oxygen saturation index; PEEP: positive end expiratory pressure; NMBAs: neuromuscular blockades; APS: acute physiology score III; ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome; AKI: acute kidney injury; BMI: body mass index; HB: hemoglobin; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HF: heart failure; CKD: chronic kidney disease.
Additional file 3 of ALKBH5 promotes non-small cell lung cancer progression and susceptibility to anti-PD-L1 therapy by modulating interactions between tumor and macrophages
Creators: name: Hua, Xin
name: Xu, Qiuli
name: Wu, Ranpu
name: Sun, Wei
name: Gu, Yanli
name: Zhu, Suhua
name: Liu, Xin
name: Lv, Tangfeng
name: Song, Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Antibody sources and dilutions.
Investigation and Evaluation of Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces for Use in Paper-based Liquid Packaging Materials
Creators: name: XUE ZHANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 30602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Super-hydrophobic surfaces are of great significance to a wide range of industrial and medical applications. This PhD thesis systematically investigates the engineering principles of applying super-hydrophobic surfaces to making paper-based liquid packaging; it clarifies the possibilities and restrictions of this potential application. This work addresses the significant research gaps in whether paper-based super-hydrophobic packaging materials is a feasible engineering concept and how to characterise super-hydrophobic papers to understand their properties as suitable materials for liquid packaging. The critical engineering requirement of the perceived super-hydrophobic paper-based liquid packaging materials is studied, identifying that super-hydrophobic papers are suitable for short-time contact applications.
Evolving strategies to overcome barriers in CAR-T cell therapy for acute myeloid leukemia
Creators: name: Colonne, Chanukya K.
name: Kimble, Erik L.
name: Turtle, Cameron J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex and heterogeneous disease characterized by an aggressive clinical course and limited efficacious treatment options in the relapsed/refractory (R/R) setting. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T (CAR-T) cell immunotherapy is an investigational treatment strategy for R/R AML that has shown some promise. However, obstacles to successful CAR-T cell immunotherapy for AML remain. In analyses of clinical trials of CAR-T cell therapy for R/R AML, complete responses without measurable residual disease have been reported, but the durability of those responses remains unclear. Significant barriers to successful CAR-T cell therapy in AML include the scarcity of suitable tumor-target antigens (TTA), inherent T cell functional deficits, and the immunoinhibitory and hostile tumor microenvironment (TME). This review will focus on these barriers to successful CAR-T cell therapy in AML, and discuss scientific advancements and evolving strategies to overcome them. Achieving durable remissions in R/R AML will likely require a multifaceted approach that integrates advancements in TTA selection, enhancement of the intrinsic quality of CAR-T cells, and development of strategies to overcome inhibitory mechanisms in the AML TME.
A puzzle piece
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A puzzle piece' is an integral element of stories-within-a-story comprising a creative part for a PhD in writing by artefact and exegesis through practice-led research. This story crosses borders of genre fiction by fitting the categories of literary fiction and speculative fiction, and by targeting young adults (aged 12 - 18), mature young adults or new adults (aged 17+, capped at 25) and adults (aged at least 18). As one story-within-stories, A puzzle piece is attentive to Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) resonating principles of the rhizome: connections, heterogeneity and interconnections.
Additional file 6 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. The comparison of ICU mortality (a) and VFDs (b) among four phenotypes in two datasets. IPTW: inverse probability of treatment weighting; MIMIC-IV: the Medical Information Market for Intensive Care IV; EICU-CRD: the eICU Collaborative Research Database.
Evolving strategies to overcome barriers in CAR-T cell therapy for acute myeloid leukemia
Creators: name: Colonne, Chanukya K
name: Kimble, Erik L
name: Turtle, Cameron J
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex and heterogeneous disease characterized by an aggressive clinical course and limited efficacious treatment options in the relapsed/refractory (R/R) setting. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T (CAR-T) cell immunotherapy is an investigational treatment strategy for R/R AML that has shown some promise. However, obstacles to successful CAR-T cell immunotherapy for AML remain. In analyses of clinical trials of CAR-T cell therapy for R/R AML, complete responses without measurable residual disease have been reported, but the durability of those responses remains unclear. Significant barriers to successful CAR-T cell therapy in AML include the scarcity of suitable tumor-target antigens (TTA), inherent T cell functional deficits, and the immunoinhibitory and hostile tumor microenvironment (TME). This review will focus on these barriers to successful CAR-T cell therapy in AML, and discuss scientific advancements and evolving strategies to overcome them. Achieving durable remissions in R/R AML will likely require a multifaceted approach that integrates advancements in TTA selection, enhancement of the intrinsic quality of CAR-T cells, and development of strategies to overcome inhibitory mechanisms in the AML TME.
Executive self-remedy and the crisis of the rule agaist "patto commissorio": a comparison with the english legal system. From the doctrine of clogs to the new "marciani"
Creators: name: CORSI, GIORGIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: Executive self-remedy and the crisis of the rule agaist "patto commissorio": a comparison with the english legal system. From the doctrine of clogs to the new "marciani"
How Do Gender Norms Shape Education and Domestic Work Outcomes? The Case of Syrian Refugee Adolescents in Jordan
Creators: name: Krafft, Caroline
name: Assaad, Ragui
name: Pastoor, Isabel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Forced displacement has disrupted Syrian refugees’ lives and exposed them to new communities and norms. This paper assesses how gender norms shape the lives of Syrian refugee adolescent girls in Jordan, using nationally representative data. We use factor analysis to summarise a variety of beliefs and behavioural aspects of norms: gender role attitudes, justification of domestic violence, decision-making, and mobility. We compare these outcomes by sex, nationality, and for adolescents versus adults. We complement our data on individual beliefs and behaviours with family and community beliefs and behaviours as proxies for others’ expectations and behaviours. We then examine how own, family, and community gender norms relate to two key adolescent outcomes: domestic work and enrolment in school. We find that while gender role attitudes are similar across generations and nationalities, Syrian adolescent girls are particularly restricted in their mobility. Nonetheless, they have similar educational outcomes as boys and, after accounting for differences in socioeconomic status, as Jordanian girls. While gender inequality in domestic work is substantial, higher levels of own and mother’s decision-making predict lower domestic workloads, illustrating the linkages between different dimensions of gender norms and economic outcomes.
I migranti all'interno dei movimenti di lotta per la casa romani. Analisi delle relazioni e delle identit� socio-politiche che nascono tra i membri di una comunit� che si autodefinisce ?meticcia?
Creators: name: MUGNANI, LAURA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: I migranti all'interno dei movimenti di lotta per la casa romani. Analisi delle relazioni e delle identit� socio-politiche che nascono tra i membri di una comunit� che si autodefinisce ?meticcia?
Nickel laterites part I: microstructure and phase characterisation during reduction roast and leaching processes
Creators: name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
name: Hayes, P. C.
name: Jak, E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Detailed microstructure and phase characterisations of processed nickel laterite ore feed, reduced ore and leached ore have been carried out using scanning electron microscope, synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction and electron probe X-ray microanalysis as a part of study aimed to increase Ni recovery from the laterite ores. The majority of the nickel in the ore feed were found to be associated with fine grained goethite (Fe rich matrix of limonite composite) and serpentine particles. These phases were transformed to magnetite and olivine respectively upon reduction roasting. Nanosize metallic particles were also observed on the free surface of limonite composite particles following reduction roasting. Upon leaching, >90% of the nickel in the Fe rich matrix was leached out, while <50% was removed from the olivine and its composites. The characterisation results from this study were used to assist the analysis of thermodynamic and phase changes during reduction roasting and leaching described in Part 2 of the paper.
The Double Burden of Female Protracted Displacement: Survey Evidence on Gendered Livelihoods in El Fasher, Darfur
Creators: name: Stojetz, Wolfgang
name: Brück, Tilman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: During protracted displacement, women and girls often face serious gender-specific challenges and vulnerabilities, including adverse norms and institutional barriers. Using survey data from 18,533 displaced and non-displaced individuals in El Fasher, Sudan, we document that livelihoods are significantly shaped by a strong and complex intersectionality between long-term displacement and gender. IDP women work more (including paid labour, on- and off-farm self-employment) than non-IDP women but are poorer, on average. For men, there is no such difference in employment between IDPs and non-IDPs. These outcomes are the result of the ‘double burden of female protracted displacement’. First, norms and institutions at the destination create access barriers to decent employment (due to women’s displacement status). Second, norms and institutions at the place of origin create endowment barriers to decent employment (due to their gender). The double burden is strongest for older displaced women. By contrast, protracted displacement can be an (educational) opportunity for girls who grow up in displacement. Future policies should address the challenges stemming from the intersectionality of gender and protracted displacement by reducing past and contemporary institutional barriers and market asymmetries facing IDP women and by targeting the particular vulnerabilities older IDP women carry, enabling better education and training.
Finite element modeling of soft soil treated with prefabricated vertical drains
Creators: name: Arulrajah, Arul
name: Bo, M. W.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Changi East Reclamation Project in Singapore consists of land reclamation and ground improvement works of the foreshore for the future expansion of the Changi International airport. Modeling of the deformation behavior of marine clay under reclamation fills and surcharge was carried out by the finite element method with the Plaxis 2 dimensional numerical modeling software. The analyses included the modeling of the consolidation behavior of marine clay under reclamation fills with and without prefabricated vertical drains. Modeling of the marine clay with vertical drains was carried out by both the axi-symmetric unit cell and full-scale analysis methods. Modeling of marine clay which was not treated with prefabricated vertical drains was carried out by means of full-scale analysis. The numerical analysis of marine clay deformation with and without vertical drain was carried out at two case study locations namely the Pilot Test Site and In situ Test Site. The test sites comprise of vertical drain treated sub-areas and untreated sub-areas which were reclaimed and preloaded under the same conditions. The results of the finite element modeling analysis was compared with that obtained by means of observational methods. Reasonable agreements were obtained from the finite element modeling analysis as compared to the actual field settlements for both the vertical drain treated embankments as well as the untreated control embankments at both the In situ Test Site and Pilot Test Site. The axi-symmetric unit cell and the full scale analysis of vertical drains were found to be in excellent agreement with each other and with the actual field settlement results. Ultimate settlement and degree of consolidation assessed by using Asaoka, Hyperbolic, piezometer and finite element modeling methods have also been compared for each of the sites and are also found to be in good agreement.
58479: Notification of wounding and hospitalisation of Pte John Peace, Seaforth Highlanders
Creators: name: Project Team, Great War Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Orkney Archive ref. D1/979 Notification from the Infantry Record Office, Perth to the family of Pte John Peace, Clay Loan, Kirkwall, that he had suffered a gunshot wound and was in No 18 (Chicago) USA hospital, France. 3rd September 1918
Molecular-level characterization of the interaction between monolayer-protected Au nanoparticles and model lipid membranes and proteins
Creators: name: SIMONELLI, FEDERICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: In this thesis we study the interactions of monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles with proteins and model lipid membranes. Gold nanoparticles are a paradigm in biological applications of nanomaterials, thanks to their peculiar physico-chemical properties; among these, the possibility to bind different kinds of molecules (ligands) to gold atoms in clusters via thiol bonds is particularly important for biomedical use of nanoparticles. In fact, the ligand shell is what nanoparticles expose to the biological environment in which they are used. In in vivo applications, nanoparticles come in contact with many biological molecules before being delivered to cells, which are the target of most of biological applications of nanoparticles. Among them, proteins are particularly relevant since they can irreversibly bind to nanoparticles, thus changing the surface they expose to the biological environment.
In this thesis we use molecular dynamics simulations to study how different ligands can influence the interaction of nanoparticles with the most abundant protein in blood, human serum albumin. We test two zwitterionic ligands with
different hydrophobic content and we find that ligand conformation, which is affected by hydrophobicity, promotes different adhesion strengths between nanoparticles and albumin. We then study the interaction of nanoparticles with a model cell membrane, the first barrier they encounter in cell-targeted applications. We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the mechanism of interaction between a negatively charged nanoparticle and a neutral lipid membrane. We find that the process develops in three stages which involves the adsorption on the membrane surface and the progressive penetration in
the membrane core of the nanoparticle. Finally, we study the influence of the sign of the charge on nanoparticles on their interaction with a model membrane.
We use experiments of fluorescent dye-leakage from neutral liposomes to probe the effect of positively and negatively charged nanoparticles on the model membrane of the lipid vesicles. In particular, we find that both anionic and cationic nanoparticles behave similarly in the interaction with a zwitterionic lipid membrane. We use molecular dynamics simulations to support
the experimental findings and observe that anionic and cationic nanoparticles share similar interaction processes and energetics.
From a Competition for Self-Driving Miniature Cars to a Standardized Experimental Platform: Concept, Models, Architecture and Evaluation
Creators: name: Berger, Christian
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2014

description: Context: Competitions for self-driving cars facilitated the development and research in the domain of autonomous vehicles towards interconnected future mobility solutions.

Objective: Miniature vehicles can bridge the gap between simulation-based evaluations of algorithms relying on simplified models, and those time-consuming vehicle test on real-scale proving grounds.

Method: This article combines findings from a systematic literature review, an in-depth analysis of results and technical concepts from contestants in a competition for self-driving miniature cars, and experiences of participating in the 2013 competition for self-driving cars.

Results: A simulation-based development platform for real-scale vehicles has been adapted to support the development of a self-driving miniature car. Furthermore, a standardized platform was designed and realized to enable research and experiments in the context of future mobility solutions.

Conclusion: A clear separation between algorithm conceptualization and validation in a model-based simulation environment enabled efficient and riskless experiments and validation. The design of a reusable, low-cost, and energy-efficient hardware architecture utilizing a standardized software/hardware interface enables experiments, which would otherwise require resources like a large real-scale test track.
Additional file 1 of Transcriptomics analyses reveal the key genes involved in stamen petaloid formation in Alcea rosea L.
Creators: name: Luo, Yuanzhi
name: Li, Yifeng
name: Yin, Xiancai
name: Deng, Wanqing
name: Liao, Jianwei
name: Pan, Yuanzhi
name: Jiang, Beibei
name: Yang, Hongchen
name: Ding, Keying
name: Jia, Yin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 7 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S6. The Kaplan–Meier survival curve of 21d-mortality in crude data. The survival rate of patients in group 4 (high-level stable) were significantly lower than other groups.
How fast does water flow in carbon nanotubes?
Creators: name: Kannam, Sridhar
name: Todd, Billy
name: Hansen, J. S.
name: Daivis, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we review the existing literature on flow rates of water in carbon nanotubes. Data for the slip length which characterizes the flow rate are scattered over 5 orders of magnitude for nanotubes of diameter 0.81-10 nm. Second, we precisely compute the slip length using equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations, from which the interfacial friction between water and carbon nanotubes can be found, and also via external field driven non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations (NEMD). We discuss some of the issues in simulation studies which may be reasons for the large disagreements reported. By using the EMD method friction coefficient to determine the slip length, we overcome the limitations of NEMD simulations. In NEMD simulations, for each tube we apply a range of external fields to check the linear response of the fluid to the field and reliably extrapolate the results for the slip length to values of the field corresponding to experimentally accessible pressure gradients. Finally, we comment on several issues concerning water flow rates in carbon nanotubes which may lead to some future research directions in this area.
Angels and Aliens: First-Year Seminar
Creators: name: Dillon, M.
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Religions
subject: Angels
subject: Science in popular culture
subject: Popular culture
subject: Science--Social aspects

description: Throughout recorded history, human beings have claimed to make contact with supernatural powers from beyond this world. In the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions these beings are known as angels. Angels play an enormously important role in these traditions. They help create the first human beings. They reveal sacred scriptures and help found religions. They procreate with women. They transport prophets and seers, like Muhammad or Enoch, through the heavens to receive secret wisdom. And these angels become warriors in the apocalypse, battling demons and helping to create a new earth.

Since 1947, a new extra-terrestrial power has appeared in literature, film, comics and religious scripture: the alien. Abductees, artists, and religious visionaries claim that aliens perform all of the same actions historically attributed to angels. Aliens today found religions, transport humans to distant worlds, conduct genetic experiments, and, in films such as Independence Day, attempt to destroy human civilization.

How do we make sense of these uncanny parallels? In this writing-intensive course, we will use the tools of comparative religions to understand the puzzling parallels between angels and aliens. Students will conduct close readings of scriptures from the ancient world and compare them with contemporary depictions of aliens in film, literature, and abductee reports. We will utilize historical, philosophical, and sociological methods to analyze this material.
sj-docx-1-joo-10.1177_14653125221085983 – Supplemental material for Laypeople’s interpretation of, and preference for, orthodontic images
Creators: name: Berry, Lauren
name: Jones, Adam
name: Barber, Sophy
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-joo-10.1177_14653125221085983 for Laypeople’s interpretation of, and preference for, orthodontic images by Lauren Berry, Adam Jones and Sophy Barber in Journal of Orthodontics
Additional file 8 of Prognostic value of oxygen saturation index trajectory phenotypes on ICU mortality in mechanically ventilated patients: a multi-database retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shi, Xiawei
name: Shi, Yangyang
name: Fan, Liming
name: Yang, Jia
name: Chen, Hao
name: Ni, Kaiwen
name: Yang, Junchao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Figure S7. The Kaplan–Meier survival curve of 21d-mortality using IPTW method by multinomial logistic regression. The survival rate of patients in group 4 (high-level stable) were significantly lower than other groups.
Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924
Creators: name: Badagarov, Jargal
name: Sablin, Ivan
name: Sodnomova, Irina
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Intellectual life
subject: Soviet Union
subject: Socialism
subject: History
subject: China
subject: Mongolia

description: The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural ("assembly"), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the extraconstitutional party authorities. The establishment of this sham and nominal parliamentary system was a consequence of the Bolshevik new imperialism, the inclusion of the Mongolian People's Republic into the informal Soviet empire, which occurred through both military control and structural adjustments under the supervision of the Communist International. The 1924 Mongolian Constitution, however, was not a mere copy of its Soviet 1918 and 1924 counterparts but a transimperial document. In its text and especially in the history of its making, it reflected the entangled imperial transformations of the Russian and Qing empires and featured both indigenous (Khalkha and Buryad-Mongol) agency and vernacular political discourses. Khural existed as a nonrepresentative yet deliberative consultative assembly in 1914–1919, while Tsebeen Jamtsarano attempted to make a Mongolian khural one of the world's many parliaments, even though his draft constitution was affected by the practices of revolutionary Russia.
sj-docx-2-smo-10.1177_20503121221085843 – for Pregnant mothers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and its predictors towards nutrition in public hospitals of Southern Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Gezimu, Wubishet
name: Bekele, Firomsa
name: Habte, Getu
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-smo-10.1177_20503121221085843 for Pregnant mothers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and its predictors towards nutrition in public hospitals of Southern Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study by Wubishet Gezimu, Firomsa Bekele and Getu Habte in SAGE Open Medicine
Lifestyle medicine for depression
Creators: name: Sarris, Jerome
name: O'Neil, Adrienne
name: Coulson, Carolyn E.
name: Schweitzer, Isaac
name: Berk, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The prevalence of depression appears to have increased over the past three decades. While this may be an artefact of diagnostic practices, it is likely that there are factors about modernity that are contributing to this rise. There is now compelling evidence that a range of lifestyle factors are involved in the pathogenesis of depression. Many of these factors can potentially be modified, yet they receive little consideration in the contemporary treatment of depression, where medication and psychological intervention remain the first line treatments. ' Lifestyle Medicine' provides a nexus between public health promotion and clinical treatments, involving the application of environmental, behavioural, and psychological principles to enhance physical and mental wellbeing. This may also provide opportunities for general health promotion and potential prevention of depression. In this paper we provide a narrative discussion of the major components of Lifestyle Medicine, consisting of the evidence-based adoption of physical activity or exercise, dietary modification, adequate relaxation/sleep and social interaction, use of mindfulness-based meditation techniques, and the reduction of recreational substances such as nicotine, drugs, and alcohol. We also discuss other potential lifestyle factors that have a more nascent evidence base, such as environmental issues (e.g. urbanisation, and exposure to air, water, noise, and chemical pollution), and the increasing human interface with technology. Clinical considerations are also outlined. While data supports that some of these individual elements are modifiers of overall mental health, and in many cases depression, rigorous research needs to address the long-term application of Lifestyle Medicine for depression prevention and management. Critically, studies exploring lifestyle modification involving multiple lifestyle elements are needed. While the judicious use of medication and psychological techniques are still advocated, due to the complexity of human illness/wellbeing, the emerging evidence encourages a more integrative approach for depression, and an acknowledgment that lifestyle modification should be a routine part of treatment and preventative efforts.
VALIDATION OF THE POOLED COHORT RISK SCORE AND THE THAI CV RISK SCORE FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS-CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (ASCVD) RISK PREDICTION AT WARINCHAMRAB HOSPITAL
Creators: name: Peerawat Jinatongthai
Publisher: name: Faculty of pharmacy, Silpakorn University
Year: 2021
Subjects: risk score
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Pooled cohort risk score
Thai CV risk score
Thailand

description: Thai Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 16, 2(July-December)2021, 71-81
Investigations on the flow inside pumps by means of 2D particle image velocimetry
Creators: name: MIORINI, Rinaldo Luigi
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2010

description: This work is concerned with the sampling, evaluating and critically interpreting of fuid dynamics phenomena inside two radically different pumps. Large scale flow structures are investigated in the vaned diffuser of a centrifugal pump and in the rotor passage of a water jet axial pump by means of two-dimensional particle image velocimetry (2DPIV).
In the first part of the work, a centrifugal pump is run at various capacities to derive information about the flow around the diffuser vanes. Preliminarily, time resolved pressure measurements have indicated the presence of very large scale non-periodic flow instability at very low flow-rates. Phase-averaged PIV measurements are performed at midspan over the blade to blade plane in the diffuser to describe both the channel flow and the wakes, which indeed dominate the flow in the diffuser. The flow is separated at the convex side of the diffuser vanes at reduced capacities, i.e. below the best effciency point
(BEP). Wakes shed from the impeller are convected in the di user passages and distorted because of the different transport velocity at the convex and concave sides of the vane. The measurements have been performed at Laboratorio di Fluidodinamica delle Macchine (LFM) at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
In the second part, the tip leakage flow (TLF), tip leakage vortex (TLV) and the vorticity shed by the blade tip are investigated in the meridional plane of an axial pump to shed light over the inner structure of the vortices that develop in the passage, as well as the production of vorticity at the casing end-wall, induced by the presence of the TLV. Turbulence inside the TLV is also investigated. The rolling up of the TLV induces the detachment of the end-wall boundary layer vorticity, the detached flow rearranges in vortices - counter rotating respect with the TLV - that orbit around the TLV centerline and are interlaced with the TLV vorticity until its bursting. The detachment of the end-wall vorticity is unsteady and high level of in plane production of turbulent kinetic energy is found there. The vorticity layer that connects the blade and the TLV is also unsteady and source of large scale unsteadiness; the core of the TLV is unsteady but in plane production of turbulence is almost absent there. The experiments have been
performed at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, MD, USA.
Turning Online Ciphers Off
Creators: name: Andreeva, Elena
name: Barwell, Guy
name: Bhaumik, Ritam
name: Nandi, Mridul
name: Page, Dan
name: Stam, Martijn
Publisher: name: International Association for Cryptologic Research
Year: 2017
Subjects: beyond birthday bound; online ciphers; modes of operation; provable security; pseudorandom permutation; tweakable blockcipher

description: CAESAR has caused a heated discussion regarding the merits of one-pass encryption and online ciphers. The latter is a keyed, length preserving function which outputs ciphertext blocks as soon as the respective plaintext block is available as input. The immediacy of an online cipher affords a clear performance advantage, but it comes at a price: ciphertext blocks cannot depend on later plaintext blocks, limiting diffusion and hence security. We show how one can attain the best of both worlds by providing provably secure constructions, achieving full cipher security, based on applications of an online cipher around blockwise reordering layers. Explicitly, we show that with just two calls to the online cipher, prp security up to the birthday bound is both attainable and maximal. Moreover, we demonstrate that three calls to the online cipher suffice to obtain beyond birthday bound security. We provide a full proof of this for a prp construction, and, in the ±prp setting, security against adversaries who make queries of any single length. As part of our investigation, we extend an observation by Rogaway and Zhang by further highlighting the close relationship between online ciphers and tweakable blockciphers with variable-length tweaks.
description: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Volume 2017, Issue 2
Financial markets: the recent experience of a developing economy
Creators: name: ADAM, MUSTAFA HASSAN MOHAMMAD
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2009

description: The financial sector plays a crucial role in economic growth; it allows an efficient transfer of resources from those who save to those who invest. This sector comprises financial institutions, markets and instruments. This study highlights the fact that change has always been the hallmark of financial markets and the regulatory board of the Sudanese financial market. The Sudanese capital market, although an infant, could follow the route of other well-established capital markets of developing countries, keeping in view the so called globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation phenomena of the Sudanese corporate sector and securities market. There is a need for a more responsive and effective regulator to guide primary as well as secondary securities markets. This paper seeks to extend the literature by exploring the issue related to a small emerging capital market; the paper examines the current practices of Khartoum Stock Exchange (KSE) in trading of shares and evaluates the efficiency of the capital market in Sudan, as this area is still virgin in the Sudanese context, since financial markets are not generally the object of such scrutiny.
Understanding RUP Integrity of COLM
Creators: name: Datta, Nilanjan
name: Luykx, Atul
name: Mennink, Bart
name: Nandi, Mridu
Publisher: name: International Association for Cryptologic Research
Year: 2017
Subjects: Integrity; Release of unverified plaintext; COLM; COPA; ELmD; ELmE

description: The authenticated encryption scheme COLM is a third-round candidate in the CAESAR competition. Much like its antecedents COPA, ELmE, and ELmD, COLM consists of two parallelizable encryption layers connected by a linear mixing function. While COPA uses plain XOR mixing, ELmE, ELmD, and COLM use a more involved invertible mixing function. In this work, we investigate the integrity of the COLM structure when unverified plaintext is released, and demonstrate that its security highly depends on the choice of mixing function. Our results are threefold. First, we discuss the practical nonce-respecting forgery by Andreeva et al. (ASIACRYPT 2014) against COPA’s XOR mixing. Then we present a noncemisusing forgery against arbitrary mixing functions with practical time complexity. Finally, by using significantly larger queries, we can extend the previous forgery to be nonce-respecting.
description: IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Volume 2017, Issue 2
A policy for sustainability of low volume traffic roads in an Australian context
Creators: name: McManus, Kerry John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Low volume traffic (LVT) roads make up the vast bulk of the Australian road network. The network ranges from tracks joining farms to sealed roads linking the major country centres. The problem for a country, which has a vast geographical area with a relatively small population, is to maintain this system of roads with the minimum practical investment, in a sustainable manner. The unusual circumstances of the Australian environment of the driest continent on earth, a geologically old continent and a weather pattern that regularly produces prolonged drought and periods of heavy rainfall in parts of the country, all impinge on the performance of pavements, influencing their lifecycle. The deep weathering of the surface rocks has limited the availability of high quality gravels. The relative dryness of subgrades allows the use of marginal pavement materials, thinner pavements and thin non-structural seals. The depletion of the best sources of pavement materials since the First Fleet arrived from England in 1788 has caused problems for road construction. This has forced consideration of the use of lower quality materials and the incorporation of recycled materials in the construction of the elements that make up the road reserve. The outcome of the combination of circumstances is a road network that can be regarded as fragile, particularly under increasing traffic and axle load. This paper addresses the issues of pavement lifecycle management and resource conservation as approaches towards providing sustainable LVT roads, under the influence of these many factors.
Synthesis of properly substituted pyridine and pyrimidine derivatives and their biological evaluation as potential antiviral agents
Creators: name: GIACCHELLO, ILARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Influenza A viruses (IAVs) belong to the Orthomixoviridae, a family of enveloped viruses with a single-stranded negative-sense and eight-segmented RNA genome. They are the most prevalent pathogens for both humans and animals, causing the so-called seasonal flu and widespread pandemics. A part from the use of vaccines, viral infections can be inhibited at several crucial steps by the use of antiviral agents. It is possible to have an antiviral effect both targeting important proteins for the virus life cycle and targeting host proteins that play crucial roles during influenza virus infection. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a heterotrimeric complex of about 250 kDa, essential for the life cycle of the virus. It is composed of three different subunits: PA (polymerase acidic protein), PB1 and PB2 (polymerase basic proteins 1 and 2). Each of them is essential for the activity of the enzyme. Playing a critical role during the life cycle of the virus, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase has become a promising target for the development of anti-influenza drugs in recent years. Based on the mechanism of the interactions between inhibitor and polymerase, compounds targeting RNA-dependent RNA polymerase can be subdivided into four subtypes: PA endonuclease inhibitors, PB1 inhibitors, PB2 cap-binding inhibitors and RdRp disrupting compounds. The PA-PB1 interaction, probably the most interesting one for the development of new inhibitors, is well characterized as is known to occur between the C-terminal region of PA (PA-C) and the N-terminal region of PB1 (PB1-N). The research doctorate activity was focused on the synthesis and biological evaluation of novel anti-influenza agents acting as PPI inhibitors, in particular, disrupting the PA-PB1 interaction. A library of molecules characterized by a hybrid structure constituted by the 3-cyano-4,6-diphenylpyridinic core, previously identified with an high-throughput screening, together with an aminoacidic side chain in C2 was synthesized. Then, since SAR and molecular dynamic simulation studies seem to show that the cyano group is not essential for the antiviral activity, and considering that it is often related to potential cytotoxicity, it was decided to remove the CN group in C3 position, synthesizing a series of pyrimidine and pyridine derivatives having the 2-mercapto-N-(m-tolyl)acetamide chain in C2 position and different aromatic substituents in C4 and C6 positions of the pyrimidine or pyridine ring.
Another part of the PhD work was devoted to the synthesis of two series of substituted pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines active as A1 adenosine antagonists and to enantioselective Pd(0)-catalyzed C-H activation reactions and related topics, such as the development of new chiral bifunctional phosphine/carboxylate ligands to employ in these reactions.
The Creative Commons Card Game (2021)
Creators: name: Sewell, Claire
name: Theobald, Amy
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Copyright

description: UPDATED FOR 2021: This simple card game allows you to introduce the concept of building a Creative Commons license to learners. It also offers them a chance to think about what the different components mean and how they can be used to create a bespoke license.
Additional file 1 of Simulation of gravity field estimation of Phobos for Martian Moon eXploration (MMX)
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Keiko
name: Matsumoto, Koji
name: Ikeda, Hitoshi
name: Senshu, Hiroki
name: Willner, Konrad
name: Ziese, Ramona
name: Oberst, Jürgen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Model-Based Techiniques for the Design of Modern Software Systems
Creators: name: CAPELLI, Steven
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2017

description: THE Thesis reports on the work done for the definition of several techniques
to support the design of modern systems. SCA-PatternBox is a
framework for modeling service-oriented applications with design patterns
that also permits the validation and verification of their behavior. Security
Enhanced Docker study improves the use of SELinux in Docker. Two techniques
are presented: Docker Policy Module (DPM) improves the use of the
SELinux Type Enforcement (TE) model and Category minimization problem
improves the use of the SELinux Multi Category Security (MCS) model. J-CO
query language devised to query heterogeneous collections of JSON objects
stored in a NoSQL document DBMS such as MongoDB.