cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Effect of Dioxin on Bone Cell Proteome
Creators: name: Carpi, Donatella
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is an endocrine disrupting environmental pollutant that affects bone tissue, although the mechanistic basis of such effect is far from clear.

In this study a proteomic approach has been adopted to investigate the disturbance of the osteogenic process evoked by TCDD in an in vitro osteoblast differentiation model of rat mesenchymal stem cells. Stem cells were isolated from bone marrow of femurs and tibias of rats. Progress of osteoblastic differentiation was monitored by measuring mRNA expression levels of differentiation markers from control and TCDD-treated cells after 3, 7 and 10 days of culture in presence and absence of TCDD using quantitative RT-PCR.

Analysis of differential protein expression in the total cell lysate of untreated and TCDD-treated cells was carried out over the same time points, using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, computerized gel image, univariate and multivariate statistical analysis, in-gel digestion and tandem mass spectrometry for protein identification. Expression of all measured markers characteristic for various stages of osteoblastic differentiation (Runx2, alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin) was dramatically reduced only after 10 days of TCDD exposure, indicating that TCDD significantly inhibits osteoblast differentiation in vitro.

Similarly, the most significant rearrangement of the proteome during osteoblast differentiation was observed following the 10 days of TCDD exposure, at which time the full progress of osteoblast differentiation should have occurred. Overall, 18 individual proteins showed a statistically significant change in abundance as a result of 10 days of TCDD exposure.

These proteins were mostly involved in cytoskeleton organization and biogenesis, actin filament-based processes, protein transport and folding. The alteration in cell architecture and increase in cell adhesion were confirmed by confocal microscopy. The TCDD-induced decrease in the expression of calcium binding proteins may interfere with osteoblast calcium deposition, which was in fact reduced by TCDD. Evidence from proteomics and Western blot analysis indicated a decreased apoptotic capability in TCDD-treated osteoblasts.

This is the first study investigating, at the protein expression level, the effect evoked by TCDD during osteoblastic differentiation. Interestingly, MetaCore pathway analysis grouped the majority of these proteins around two principal nodes (c-fos and c-myc) suggesting that they may participate in the transcriptional activation of key pathways in TCDD-driven inhibition of osteoblast differentiation. These findings provide clues to the complex interplay between TCDD's action and the regulatory molecules that alter signal-transduction pathways regulating osteoblast differentiation and indicate new molecular players in the effects of TCDD on bone development.
XXII NATIONAL CONGRESS ITALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CLINICAL AND DYNAMIC SECTION LECCE -SEPTEMBER 17-19 2021 - ARENA GRANTS
Creators: name: Bruschi, Karen
name: Gelo, Omar
name: Mazzeo, Oronzo
name: Venuleo, Claudia
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021

description: Arena Grants
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 2 Suppl. (2021)
Agrilus chrysifrons Kerremans 1896
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus chrysifrons

description: Agrilus chrysifrons Kerremans, 1896
 Agrilus chrysifrons Kerremans, 1896: 162.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Pará, Itacoatiara, 2 exs., XII.1965, Dirings leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 85, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Online support groups for young women with self-harming behaviours: understanding the elaborative functions of the experience
Creators: name: Gargiulo, Anna
name: Martorana, Giuseppe
name: Vozella, Andrea
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Self-harming behaviour; Group dynamics; Gender issue; Qualitative research.

description: Recent studies show an increase in self-harming behaviour among adolescents and young people, who often require online psychological support. This trend has produced an increase in studies and online psychological interventions. As of today, however, online support groups for self-harmers are still under-examined. Therefore, within a European project, we collected the discussions of four groups for young people with self-harming behaviours and analysed them by using a software for automatic qualitative text analysis. In particular, we focused on the themes discussed, and how these were discursively organized by the members in order to comprehend the psychodynamic functions promoted by each group. Four main themes and three sense vectors emerged. Online support groups with young women who self-harm produce some elaborative functions: the container of anguish, the emotion-regulation and the meaning-making. Clinical implications of online support groups for young people with self-harming behaviours will be discussed.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder Modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 Signaling With Sub-1 dB Phase-Shifter Loss
Creators: name: Kieninger, Clemens
name: Füllner, Christoph
name: Zwickel, Heiner
name: Kutuvantavida, Yasar
name: Kemal, Juned N.
name: Eschenbaum, Carsten
name: Elder, Delwin L.
name: Dalton, Larry R.
name: Freude, Wolfgang
name: Randel, Sebastian
name: Koos, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on compact and efficient silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) with low phase shifter insertion loss of 0.7 dB. The 280 $μ$m-long phase shifters feature a $π$-voltage-length product of 0.41 Vmm and a loss-efficiency product as small as $aU_πL = 1.0\space\rm{VdB}$. The device performance is demonstrated in a data transmission experiment, where we generate on-off-keying (OOK) and four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) signals at symbol rates of 100 GBd, resulting in line rates of up to 200 Gbit/s. Bit error ratios are below the threshold for hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) with 7 % coding overhead, leading to net data rates of 187 Gbit/s. This is the highest PAM4 data rate ever achieved for a sub-1 mm silicon photonic MZM.
CBO Baseline and the Potential for Conflicts by Expanding CRP
Creators: name: Coppess, Jonathan
name: Coppess, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Budget
subject: Conservation
subject: Farm Bill

description: The congressional budgeting process creates challenges for reauthorizing and revising mandatory programs. The potential for conflict arises as interests seek to increase any program; conservation programs in the farm bill are no exception. Adding acres to the Conservation Reserve Program has the potential to create such a conflict.
Mixtures of Bosonic and Fermionic Atoms in Optical Lattices
Creators: name: Albus, Alexander
name: Illuminati, Fabrizio
name: Eisert, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the theory of mixtures of Bosonic and Fermionic atoms in periodic potentials at zero temperature. We derive a general Bose--Fermi Hubbard Hamiltonian in a one--dimensional optical lattice with a superimposed harmonic trapping potential. We study the conditions for linear stability of the mixture and derive a mean field criterion for the onset of a Bosonic superfluid transition. We investigate the ground state properties of the mixture in the Gutzwiller formulation of mean field theory, and present numerical studies of finite systems. The Bosonic and Fermionic density distributions and the onset of quantum phase transitions to demixing and to a Bosonic Mott--insulator are studied as a function of the lattice potential strength. The existence is predicted of a disordered phase for mixtures loaded in very deep lattices. Such a disordered phase possessing many degenerate or quasi--degenerate ground states is related to a breaking of the mirror symmetry in the lattice.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures; added discussions; conclusions and references expanded
Table 4 and 5 supplement for HS paper.docx
Creators: name: Matthews, Michael
name: Jolly, Jennifer
name: Makel, Matthew
name: Almhawes, Ahmed
name: Kimberleigh Daniels
name: Hujar, Julia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130199 Education systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Tables containing themes and percentages from analysis of open-ended questions (Table 4) and representative examples of statements coded into first- and second-order themes and subthemes.
Analytic approach to the evolutionary effects of genetic exchange
Creators: name: Cohen, Elisheva
name: Kessler, David A.
name: Levine, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present an approximate analytic study of our previously introduced model of evolution including the effects of genetic exchange. This model is motivated by the process of bacterial transformation. We solve for the velocity, the rate of increase of fitness, as a function of the fixed population size, $N$. We find the velocity increases with $\ln N$, eventually saturated at an $N$ which depends on the strength of the recombination process. The analytical treatment is seen to agree well with direct numerical simulations of our model equations.
Agrilus clazon Obenberger 1933
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus clazon

description: Agrilus clazon Obenberger, 1933
 Agrilus clazon Obenberger, 1933b: 80.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Santa Catarina, São Bento do Sul (Rio Vermelho), 1 ex., III.1960, Dirings leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 85, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Carbon Neutral Business and Management Plans
Creators: name: Chiang, Amity
name: Chow, Winnie
name: Chen, Sherry
name: Wong, Calvin
name: Yeung, Dorothy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
AN ANALYSIS OF FLUCTUATIONS IN UNIT VALUES, QUANTUM AND EXPORT VALUES OF TEA
Creators: name: Mathur, V. C.
name: Vasisht, A. K.
name: Mathur, V. C.
name: Vasisht, A. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: Tea has traditionally been an important item in India's export basket of agricultural commodities, but India's share in world's tea exports has been declining. An attempt has been made to examine the trends in unit values, quantum and export • values of tea exports and to measure the extent Of fluctuations in these in relation to general exports, home production and wholesale prices of tea. Two distinct trends in tea exports - one pertaining to the period 1957-58 to 1973-74 and the other to 1974-75 to 1988-89 are observed. A comparison of the compound annual rates of growth of unit values, quantum and export values of tea and general exports revealed that share of tea exports to total exports in terms of both quantity and value declined between 1957-58 to 1988- 89. There is, however, a tendency for quantum of exports to increase in the recent period (1974-75 to 1988-89) though the growth rate is still negative. Production elasticities show a negative relationship between production and exports. The study reveals that increasing incomes, population and incieasing tea consumption at home adversely affect quantum of tea exports.
Policy Reforms Needed for Better Water Quality and Lower Pollution Control Costs
Creators: name: Shortle, James
name: Shortle, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agriculture
subject: Clean Water Act
subject: Nonpoint source pollution
subject: Stormwater
subject: Water quality
subject: Water quality trading

description: Agriculture is a leading cause of water quality problems. The existing policy architecture relies excessively on voluntary controls, focuses on effort rather than outcomes, and allocates scarce resources inefficiently across places and sectors. Policy reforms can improve water quality and reduce the social costs of water pollution control.
Assessment of suicide and self-harm risk in foreign offenders. Evaluating the use of tree-drawing test.
Creators: name: Sorge, Antonia
name: Saita, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Self-harm; Suicide; Risk Assessment; Prison; Tree-drawing test; Projective methods.

description: Background: Among foreigners, imprisonment is a potential traumatic event characterized by further afflictions due to language difficulties and cultural differences. For these reasons, the psychological diagnosis with this prison population, appears complicated and misleading, despite their tendency to engage in self-harm and suicidal behavior. However, an early and correct diagnosis process is at the core of prevention and reduction of suicides and self-harm. The clinical interview and specific rating scales are inefficient to achieve the diagnosis in foreign subjects because of poor education levels, linguistic barriers and cultural differences. The aim of this study is to explore the efficacy of the Tree-drawing test (Koch, 1958) evaluating the risk factors for suicide and self-harm. Methods: We administered to 100 inmates (34 Italians; 66 foreigners) of an Italian prison the Tree-drawing test in order to establish its effectiveness in identifying the subjects most at risk for suicide and self-harm. After developing a numerical score associated to the tree-drawing test we performed descriptive statistics and a binary logistic regression analysis to test the hypothesis. Results: The analysis, supported by the software SPSS, revealed how the Tree-drawing test is sensitive for identifying individuals with vulnerabilities compatible with the risk of self-harm. Conclusions: Our results represent a first step in guiding the choice of the most suitable tools to support self-harming and suicide risk assessment in foreign offenders.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Electromagnetic induction pump
Creators: name: Federyaeva, Valeriya
name: Vitkovskij, Ivan
name: Golovanov, Mikhail
name: Krizhanovskij, Sergej
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics
subject: 91401 Electrometallurgy
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Invention relates to an electrical engineering, to MHD-TECHNIQUE, inparticular to electromagnetic induction pumps for pumping of pool metals on atomic powerplants, in chemical and metallurgical industries. The electromagnetic induction pumpincludes the thermal screen located between inductor and channel. The pump has anaverage diameter D, longitudinal axis of the channel, inductor coil with active length,number of pairs of poles p, polar graduations τ. The thermal shield is made as a spiral withk turns, the split line of which an angle of inclination to the longitudinal axis of thechannel, where k - positive integer value.
Agrilus dioscorides Obenberger 1935
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus dioscorides

description: Agrilus dioscorides Obenberger, 1935
 Agrilus dioscorides Obenberger, 1935: 128.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Minas Gerais, Lambari, 15 exs., XI.1926, J. Halik leg. ; Pouso Alegre, XII.1966, Pereira leg.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 87, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Gender in psycho-oncology: focus on resilience and affective disorders among patients affected by lymphoma
Creators: name: Miraglia Raineri, Alessandra
name: Lauro Grotto, Rosapia
name: Fioravanti, Giulia
name: Rotella, Francesco
name: Alterini, Renato
name: Bosi, Alberto
name: Faravelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gender differences; Depression; Anxiety; Resilience; Lymphoma; Protective factors.

description: Objective: Evaluating gender differences in resilience, depression, and anxiety levels in patients suffering from lymphoma and exploring possible association between constructs. Method: The study enrolled a consecutive series of 110 patients suffering from lymphoma compared with 140 controls matched for age, gender, and education. Several validated instruments were used: to measure resilience, anxious and depressive symptoms. Comparisons between groups were performed using a one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Pearson Correlation’s was used to investigate the associations between constructs. Results: Significant gender differences between female and male patients with lymphoma were found for all the explored dimensions. Psychological constructs seemed to be more compromised in the patients’ group than in the control group and specifically more in women than in men. This finding underlines higher sensitiveness for women affected by lymphoma. Resilience (i.e., SOC and SOM scores) and level of depression and anxiety are more strongly associated among female patients than among male patients. Conclusion: The main finding of the present study is that for patients suffering from lymphoma, resilience and psychopathology have a different pathway based on gender. These gender differences can be considered to prompt appropriate tailored psychological treatments for depressive and anxious symptoms in onco- hematology. Women with lymphomas displayed lower mean in resilience score (SOC and SOM), and greater level of depression and anxiety than women in the control group. The comparisons between men with lymphomas and men in the control group point out significant differences only for the level of depression and anxiety which was higher in male patients than in male controls. On the other hand, women with lymphoma displayed poorer level of Resilience (SOC and SOM) and higher level of depression and anxiety than men affected by Lymphoma.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Brainspotting reduces disturbance and increases Heart Rate Variability linked to distressing memories: A pilot study
Creators: name: D'Antoni, Fabio
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Brainspotting; Psychotherapy; Mindfulness; Interoceptive Awareness; Personality; Attachment.

description: Brainspotting (BSP) is a relatively new type of brain-body psychotherapeutic approach discovered and developed by David Grand (2003) that accesses the client’s innate self-observing and self-healing capacities in the frame of a neurobiologically attuned clinical relationship. Despite it being increasingly growing in popularity among therapists, there is still a paucity of literature on its effectiveness. The aim of the study was to explore the efficacy of BSP in treating distressing (not necessarily traumatic) memories in a non-clinical sample of adults. A within-subjects design was employed for the Brainspotting effectiveness analysis, with two within-subjects factors (treatment, time). The treatment factor had two levels: Brainspotting, and a control condition (Body Scan Meditation). Both objective (Heart Rate Variability - HRV parameters) and subjective (self-report) measures were used in the study. Results showed that, after about 40 minutes of treatment, Brainspotting significantly reduced memory-related distress in comparison with Body Scan Meditation control condition (p = .028). Additionally, the participants had better HRV than before the treatment (all Time Domain parameters p .05). Participants’ Interoceptive Awareness dimensions and dispositional traits such as attachment style, temperament and character were also examined and discussed within the Brainspotting theoretical frame. These findings, more broadly, highlighted the key role of interoceptive awareness in the processing of distressing memories.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Conservation Programs Can Accomplish More with Less by Improving Cost-Effectiveness
Creators: name: Ribaudo, Marc O.
name: Ribaudo, Marc O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Conservation
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Targeting
subject: Voluntary

description: Cost-effective conservation programs provide the most environmental benefit for a given budget. Designing cost-effective programs that rely on voluntary participation can be challenging. A number of design features could improve the economic performance of current conservation programs.
Nonlinear Coherent States of the Fokas-Lagerstrom Potential
Creators: name: Ashrafi, Mehdi
name: Mahdifar, Ali
name: Amooghorban, Ehsan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce an algebraic approach to construct Fokas-Lagerstrom coherent states. To do so, we define deformed creation and annihilation operators associated to this system and investigate their algebra. We show that these operators satisfy the $f$-deformed Weyl-Heisenberg algebra. Then, we propose a theoretical scheme to generate the aforementioned coherent states. The present contribution shows that the Fokas-Lagerstrom nonlinear coherent states possess some non-classical features.
description: 5 figures
Psychometric properties of Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) in Colombia and Peru
Creators: name: Ortiz, Eliana
name: Meneses Báez, Alba Lucía
name: Trujillo, Adriana
name: Núñez, César
name: Acevedo Rodríguez, Magda Yaneth
name: Albarracín Rodríguez, Ángela Pilar
name: Dominguez-Lara, Sergio
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: CORE-OM, psychometric properties; outcome measure; Latin-America

description: This study attempts to adapt and validate the Spanish version of The Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation–Outcome Measure CORE-OM questionnaire for Colombian and Peruvian populations. A linguistic and cultural adaptation of the CORE-OM Spanish version was created via cognitive interviews of potential users (Colombians n=28; Peruvians n=8). Then the questionnaire was applied along with the SOS and OQ-45 tests to 270 participants, divided in clinical (n=60), and non-clinical (n=210) samples, from three Colombian cities and one city in Peru. Some students made a retest application (n=26) 15 to 30 days after the first one. The CFA conducted showed a four-factor structure (χ2/df=2.09; RMSEA=0.064; RMR=.069) that included well-being, problems/symptoms, general functioning, and risk. The Spanish version of CORE-OM showed excellent acceptability (96%; omission rate 0.14%), good internal consistency (α .70 in most of the scales and samples), acceptable test-retest reliability (Spearman rho0.70; p.001) and convergent validity (all domains r .4; p 0.01, except subjective well-being) in both populations. Significant differences were found in the scores between the clinical and non-clinical sample; although, the clinical sample presented higher scores. These results validate the 1-point cut-off score of between clinical and non-clinical populations.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Masers and Outflows in the W3(OH)/W3(H2O) region
Creators: name: Sobolev, A. M.
name: Sutton, E. C.
name: Cragg, D. M.
name: Ellingsen, S. P.
name: Mehringer, D. M.
name: Zinchenko, I. I.
name: Ostrovskii, A. B.
name: Godfrey, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Methanol masers and molecular shock tracers were observed in the W3(OH)/W3(H$_2$O) region with the BIMA array and the Onsala 20m radiotelescope. Characteristics of the outflows in the region are discussed. A model of the W3(OH) methanol maser formation region is constructed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, numerous journal misprints are corrected
Optical control of the charge state of color centers in hexagonal boron nitride
Creators: name: Khatri, Prince
name: Ramsay, Andrew J.
name: Malein, Ralph N. E.
name: Chong, Harold M. H.
name: Luxmoore, Isaac J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on multicolor excitation experiments with color centers in hexagonal boron nitride at cryogenic temperatures. We demonstrate controllable optical switching between bright and dark states of color centers emitting around 2eV. Resonant, or quasi-resonant excitation also pumps the color center, via a two-photon process, into a dark state, where it becomes trapped. Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy reveals a defect dependent energy threshold for repumping the color center into the bright state of between 2.2 and 2.6eV. Photoionization and photocharging of the defect is the most plausible explanation for this behaviour, with the negative and neutral charge states of the boron vacancy potential candidates for the bright and dark states, respectively. Furthermore, a second zero phonon line, detuned by +0.4eV, is observed in absorption with orthogonal polarization to the emission, evidencing an additional energy level in the color center.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES IN RANKING PERFORMANCE: AN APPLICATION TO THE WORKING OF PCARDBS IN KARNATAKA
Creators: name: Reddy, D. R. Babu
name: Chengappa, P. G.
name: Achoth, Lalith
name: Reddy, D. R. Babu
name: Chengappa, P. G.
name: Achoth, Lalith
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Financial Economics
Productivity Analysis

description: The performance of PCARDB's in the districts of Karnataka were ranked by applying the principal component analysis on selected performance indicators. Further, using discriminant analysis the factors contributing to the disparity between the districts where the PCARDB's were performing well from those where they were not, was quantified. The discriminant function revealed that growth in working capital, deposits and overdue loans distinguished high performing banks from low performing banks.
Trends and correlates of the time spent playing videogames in Italian children and adolescents
Creators: name: Amendola, Simone
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Videogame use; Sedentary behaviour; Screen-time behaviour; Adolescence; Time trends.

description: Background: The use of electronic devices and screen-time behaviours among young people have increased in the last two decades. However, empirical evidence on trends in time spent playing videogames among Italian youths is lacking. The present study examined trends and correlates of the time spent by children and adolescents playing videogames in Italy between 2006 and 2014. Methods: Data from the cross-sectional Italian Health School-aged Children (2006-2010-2014) study was used. The sample comprised 12,748 children and adolescents (Mage = 13.63, SD = 1.66; 50.2% males, n = 6,398). Ordinal regression models were used to analyse the data and odds ratios were reported. Results: The time spent playing videogames increased significantly between 2006 and 2014. In particular, children and adolescents who played videogames three hours a day or more consistently increased over time (boys: from 16.6% in 2006 to 25.8% in 2014; girls: from 3.6% in 2006 to 20.8% in 2014). The results of the analyses showed associations between time spent playing videogames and sociodemographic and school characteristics, such as, age, gender, family socio-economic status, physical activity and body mass index, poor school engagement and students’ acceptance. Furthermore, bullying episodes, psychological and somatic complaints were associated with the time that children and adolescents spent playing videogames. Conclusion: From a public health perspective, the results highlight the need to monitor the increasing excessive videogame use among young people in Italy.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Supplementary Material for Pfizer’s Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Pipeline
Creators: name: Fadel, Suki
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of February 2025.
Agrilus deliciosus Kerremans 1897
Creators: name: Curletti, Gianfranco
name: Migliore, Letizia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus deliciosus

description: Agrilus deliciosus Kerremans, 1897
 Agrilus deliciosus Kerremans, 1897: 81.
 Material examinado: BRASIL, Paraná, Curitiba, 1 ex., II.1938, Dirings leg. Nick. det. ; São Paulo, São Paulo (Cantareira), 1 ex., III.1939, Dirings leg., Nick. det.
description: Published as part of Curletti, Gianfranco & Migliore, Letizia, 2014, O gênero Agrilus Curtis, 1829 nas coleções do Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), pp. 81-106 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (8) on page 102, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.08, http://zenodo.org/record/4656297
Correlation between floppy to rigid transitions and non-Arrhenius conductivity in glasses
Creators: name: Malki, M.
name: micoulaut, M.
name: Chaimbault, F.
name: vaills, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Arrhenius behaviour and fast increase of the ionic conductivity is observed for a number of potassium silicate glasses $(1-x)SiO_2-xK_2O$ with potassium oxide concentration larger than a certain value $x=x_c=0.14$. Recovering of Arrhenius behaviour is provided by the annealing that enhances densification. Conductivity furthermore obeys a percolation law with the same critical concentration $x_c$. These various results are the manifestation of the floppy or rigid nature of the network and can be analyzed with constraint theory. They underscore the key role played by network rigidity for the understanding of conduction and saturation effects in glassy electrolytes.
description: 4 pages, 4 EPS figures
Cross-cultural correlates of homophobia: comparison of Italian and Spanish attitudes towards homosexuals
Creators: name: Perilli, Enrico
name: Scosta, Eleonora
name: Perazzini, Matteo
name: Di Giacomo, Dina
name: Ciuffini, Roberta
name: Bontempo, Danilo
name: Marcotullio, Simona
name: Cobianchi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Homophobia; Gay; Lesbian; Homosexual; Stereotypes.

description: Background: Homophobia or the reaction against homosexuals could be based on the structural ideology of the society, on its institutions or on power relationships, which can incite contempt, sometimes even to deadly violence, regarding those not complying the national culture reference model. Such behaviors are born from the belief that homosexuality must be fought against and opposed as it threatens social order, and could be increased augmented by the campaigns of politicians spread in the mass media. Methods: The aim of this study is to investigate and compare homophobia in Italy and Spain, two Mediterranean countries related from a cultural and traditional background and for general acceptance of homosexuals, and to verify the role of current national culture on recently rising homophobic attitude. Italian and Spanish subjects were studied by means of self-administered questionnaires consisting of: Modern Homophobia Scale to evaluate homophobic attitudes, Homophobia Scale to evaluate the affective, cognitive and behavioral components towards homosexuality, Stereotype Content Model to identify stereotypes about homosexuality, the scale of 11 Emotions and the subscale of Prejudice Attitude Test assessing the social distance, to assess the prejudicial behavior across the two countries. Results: Results showed that despite homophobia levels are low for both populations, with positive emotion and stereotype, Italians showed a greater social distance and a lower quantity and quality of contacts with homosexuals than Spanish. Comparing for political orientation, ideological right-flaw Italians resulted in significantly higher personal discomfort, aggressiveness and cognitive negativism, and lower quantity of contacts than Spanish. Social distance was higher scored in right-flaw than left-flaw oriented subjects from both Italy and Spain, with Italians scoring higher than Spanish. An alternative interpretation of homophobic attitude in Italy, known for recently rising attempts to homosexuals, was provided in comparison with Spain. Political orientation could provide for the differences observed in social distance in each country, but not between them. Specifically, this study’s results indicate that genderist and homophobic campaigns from the Italian right parties could have transmitted values and attitudes of greater prejudice and rejection towards homosexuals. Conclusions: This research contributes to the objective of raising awareness about the mechanisms underlying the homophobic matrix conveyed from national culture, politics and mass media, and its consequences on psycho-social disease.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 9, No 3 (2021)
Production of $f_{0}(980)$ meson at the LHC: Color evaporation versus color-singlet gluon-gluon fusion
Creators: name: Lebiedowicz, Piotr
name: Maciuła, Rafał
name: Szczurek, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of the $f_{0}(980)$ meson at high energies is not well understood. We investigate two different potential mechanisms for inclusive scalar meson production in the $k_t$-factorization approach: color-singlet gluon-gluon fusion and color evaporation model. The $γ^* γ^* \to f_0(980)$ form factor(s) can be constraint from the $f_0(980)$ radiative decay width. The $g^* g^* \to f_0(980)$ form factors are obtained by a replacement of $α_{\rm{em}}$ electromagnetic coupling constant by $α_{\rm{s}}$ strong coupling constant and appropriate color factors. The form factors for the two couplings are parametrized with a function motivated by recent results for scalar quarkonia. The differential cross sections are calculated in the $k_t$-factorization approach with modern unintegrated gluon distributions. Unlike for quarkonia it seems rather difficult to describe a preliminary ALICE data for inclusive production of $f_0(980)$ exclusively by the color singlet gluon-gluon fusion mechanism. Two different scenarios for flavor structure of $f_0(980)$ are considered in this context. We consider also mechanism of fusion of quark-antiquark associated with soft gluon emission in a phenomenological color evaporation model (CEM) used sometimes for quarkonium production. Here we use $k_t$-factorization version of CEM to include higher-order contributions. In addition, for comparison we consider also NLO collinear approach with $q \bar{q} q$ and $q \bar{q} g$ color octet partonic final states. Both approaches lead to a similar result. However, very large probabilities are required to describe the preliminary ALICE data. The pomeron-pomeron fusion mechanism is also discussed and results are quantified.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures
Free energy calculations of elemental sulphur crystals via molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Pastorino, C.
name: Gamba, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Free energy calculations of two crystalline phases of the molecular compound S8 were performed via molecular dynamics simulations of these crystals. The elemental sulphur S8 molecule model used in our MD calculations consists of a semi-flexible closed chain, with fixed bond lengths and intra-molecular potentials for its bending and torsional angles. The intermolecular potential is of the atom-atom Lennard-Jones type. Two free energy calculation methods were implemented: the accurate thermodynamic integration method proposed by Frenkel and Ladd and an estimation that takes into account the contribution of the zero point energy and the entropy of the crystalline vibrational modes to the free energy of the crystal. The last estimation has the enormous advantage of being easily obtained from a single MD simulation. Here we compare both free energy calculation methods and analyze the reliability of the fast estimation via the vibrational density of states obtained from constrained MD simulations. New results on alpha- and alpha'- S8 crystals are discussed
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
The role of mobile technologies in promoting sustainable delivery of livestock insurance in the East African Drylands: Towards sustainable Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) for pastoralists
Creators: name: Mude, Andrew
name: Mude, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) together with its partners launched a pilot index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product in January 2010 in the Marsabit District of northern Kenya. It has since been scaled across the drylands of Kenya, and is also gaining momentum in Ethiopia where a pilot insurance project was launched in 2012. One problem inspired ILRI’s IBLI agenda: finding a sustainable way to help pastoralists to recover quickly from the considerable losses they incur during severe droughts. Over the years, evidence of IBLI impact and value for money, and continued research and development on product design, as well as innovations along the service delivery chain, have helped with uptake, in convincing governments and development partners of its importance as a risk management tool, and have won IBLI a plethora of international awards.Briefly describing the key elements of the IBLI agenda, this presentation focuses on how the IBLI team leveraged a suite of digital technologies – largely mobile based – to help surmount some of the main obstacles to the provision of IBLI. Even in the sparsely populated drylands of northern Kenya, which the IBLI product targets, socioeconomic evolution has resulted in a growing density of mobile network coverage and a proliferation of mobile phone ownership, and use. Exploiting this trend, the IBLI team and partners have developed mobile applications for offline sales transactions and drastically reduced the cost and time to delivery of indemnity payments, as well as a whole host of other applications in information exchange and knowledge dissemination.
Multiscaling at Point J: Jamming is a Critical Phenomenon
Creators: name: Drocco, J. A.
name: Hastings, M. B.
name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
name: Reichhardt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the jamming transition that occurs as a function of increasing packing density in a disordered two-dimensional assembly of disks at zero temperature for ``Point J'' of the recently proposed jamming phase diagram. We measure the total number of moving disks and the transverse length of the moving region, and find a power law divergence as the packing density increases toward a critical jamming density. This provides evidence that the T = 0 jamming transition as a function of packing density is a {\it second order} phase transition. Additionally we find evidence for multiscaling, indicating the importance of long tails in the velocity fluctuations.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures; extensive new numerical data; final version in press at PRL
title: A Study of the Interactors of Eps15 Homology Domain and the Role of the EH Network in the Model System of Caenohabditis elegans
Creators: name: Tsushima, Hanako
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: Eps15 homology (EH) domain-containing proteins have been implicated in diverse intracellular signalling pathways, such as endocytosis, actin cytoskeleton organization, nucleo-cytosolic shuttling and mitogenic signalling. However, the extent of the protein-protein interactions mediated by the EH domain at the level of a whole organism has not yet been addressed. This project aims to gain an overview of the EH network in a model system, C. elegans , by identifying interactors of all EH-domain containing proteins present in C. elegans . Five genes encode EH proteins in the C. elegans  genome and the isolated EH domains were used to screen a C. elegans  cDNA library using the Yeast Two Hybrid system. The validation of the putative interactions was carried out by in vitro pull-down assays. The biological relevance of the interactions was tested genetically using C. elegans  as a model system. The genetic interactions were monitored using available mutants for four of the five EH encoding genes, in which the genes of the putative interactors were knocked-down by RNA interference. A total of 26 proteins were found to interact physically and genetically with at least one EH protein. Most of the interactions identified are novel and highlight new pathways in which the EH network is involved. The results of this study indicate that the EH complexes can be found in various intracellular compartments, holding together a network of adaptor proteins involved in all the major processes of the protein sorting events during intracellular signalling.
Nonminimally Coupled Boltzmann Equation I: Foundations
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
name: Gomes, Cláudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the Boltzmann equation in the context of a gravity theory with non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. We show that as the energy-momentum tensor is not conserved in these theories, it follows a condition on the normalisation of an homogeneous distribution function. The Boltzmann H-theorem is preserved such that the entropy vector flux is still a non-decreasing function in these theories. The case of an homogeneous and isotropic Universe is analysed.
description: 9 pages
31 de julho de 1933: Sanfins do Douro em recolher  obrigatório após inauguração tumultuosa
Creators: name: Joaquim Grácio
Publisher: name: Revista Memória Rural
Year: 2023

description: Em 1933, Sanfins do Douro, com os seus cerca de 2.500 habitantes, era a mais populosa e uma das mais ricas freguesias do concelho de Alijó, produzindo muito e bom vinho, azeite em abundância e grande quantidade de cereais. No dia 30 de julho desse ano, a sua laboriosa população aprestava-se para celebrar, com toda a pompa e circunstância, a inauguração da luz elétrica, efeméride cujas repercussões estava longe de antever. Um comício mais ou menos improvisado, realizado na sala de teatro imediatamente antes da récita com que se encerrariam as celebrações da inauguração, acabaria por desencadear um conjunto de equívocos, de provocações e de desacatos que culminaram com a prisão e a fuga de várias pessoas e a instauração do recolher obrigatório na povoação.
Taking the hope and fear out of agricultural service innovation
Creators: name: Briers, Mike
name: Briers, Mike
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Agriculture lags other sectors in the development and uptake of digital services needed for safe and sustainable food production. Challenges to digital readiness include Internet connectivity in rural areas. Whilst connectivity solutions are emerging, two key enablers of digital service innovation are lacking and often overlooked. The first is the absence of reliable underpinning information systems calibrated for decision-making (knowledge infrastructure) to enable services to be scaled and repurposed for different use-cases. Progress is being made in the development of such systems which will attract new investment and open many transformational opportunities across the food and agriculture ecosystem. The second relates to the maturity of contemporary lean startup approaches to iterative co-design and market validation prevalent in the sector. These methods place the customer or service consumer at the centre of a co-creation process to ensure that value is delivered and ultimately adoption is maximised. This is particularly relevant for agriculture in both advanced economies and developing countries characterised by a highly complex and volatile decision-making context. Designed and executed well, this approach to deliberate service innovation removes the hope and fear elements more commonly experienced.