cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of Hydrogen-Based Portable Power Systems for Defense Applications
Creators: name: Groom, Taylor B
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: This dissertation describes the design and characterization of a lightweight hydrogen reactor coupled to a proton exchange membrane fuel cell for portable power delivery. The system is intended to recharge portable batteries in the absence of an established electrical power supply. The presented work can be divided into two endeavors; the first being an investigation of various hydrogen generation pathways and the second being the design, fabrication, and testing of a system to house hydrogen generation and deliver electrical power. Two hydrogen storage materials are considered for this work: ammonia borane and sodium borohydride. Organic acids are investigated for their ability to accelerate the hydrolysis of either material and generate hydrogen on-demand. In the case of ammonia borane, organic acids are investigated for a secondary role beyond reaction acceleration, serving also to purify the gas stream by capturing the ammonia that is produced during hydrolysis. Organic acids are found to accelerate the hydrolysis of ammonia borane and sodium borohydride with relative indifference towards the purity of water being used. This is advantageous as it allows the user to collect water at the point of use rather than transport highly pure water for use as a reactant. Collecting water at the point of use increases system energy density as only ammonia borane or sodium borohydride and an organic acid are transported with the system hardware. A custom hydrogen reactor is developed to facilitate hydrolysis of ammonia borane or sodium borohydride. The reactor is paired with a fuel cell to generate electrical power. The rate of hydrogen being generated by the system is modulated to match the fuel cell’s consumption rate and maintain a relatively constant pressure inside the reactor. This allows the system to satisfy a wide range of hydrogen consumption rates without risking over pressurization. The system is shown to produce up to 0.5 sLpm of hydrogen without exceeding 30 psia of hydrogen pressure or a temperature rise greater than 35°C.The envisioned use for this system is portable battery charging for expeditionary forces within the United States military. This application informed several design choices and is considered when evaluating technological maturation. It is also used to compare the designed system to existing energy storage technologies.
B�chner artista politico
Creators: name: Piergiacomi, Enrico
name: Pietrini, Sandra
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Year: 2015

description: La breve ma intensa vita di Georg B�chner cominci� da aspirante rivoluzionario della Societ� per i diritti dell?uomo per concludersi con la scrittura di tre drammi (La morte di Danton, Leonce e Lena, Woyzeck) e di una novella incompiuta (Lenz). Questa svolta estetica � forse da interpretare come un abbandono delle originarie istanze politiche? O la si deve invece concepire come un modo per continuare la lotta rivoluzionaria? Il presente volume pone all?attenzione del lettore la questione, raccogliendo alcune considerazioni sul pensiero politico dell?autore e sulle sue ricadute estetiche. Frutto di una giornata di studi dedicata all?argomento e di una convergenza di competenze, il volume affianca ai saggi di studiosi internazionali alcuni interventi di artisti teatrali. Al di l� delle articolate sfaccettature del pensiero politico di B�chner, associato a una provocatoria originalit� drammatica e in precario equilibrio fra pessimismo e determinazione, ci� che emerge � soprattutto la sua appassionata sincerit� e combattivit�. Come si evince dal suo epistolario privato, B�chner concepiva la sua attivit� di scrittore come un modo per combattere �con le parole e con gli atti� i nemici �del diritto e della sana ragione�, ovunque ci� fosse possibile. Teatro, vita sociale e politica si intrecciano dunque nelle sue opere drammatiche, offrendoci spunti di riflessioni che illuminano anche il presente.
sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916211039018 – Supplemental material for Delta-volume radiomics of induction chemotherapy to predict outcome of subsequent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced hypopharyngeal cancer
Creators: name: Su, Che-Wei
name: Lee, Jehn-Chuan
name: Chang, Yi-Fang
name: Su, Nai-Wen
name: Lee, Pei-Hsuan
name: Dai, Kun-Yao
name: Tai, Hung-Chi
name: Leu, Yi-Shing
name: Chen, Yu-Jen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tmj-10.1177_03008916211039018 for Delta-volume radiomics of induction chemotherapy to predict outcome of subsequent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced hypopharyngeal cancer by Che-Wei Su, Jehn-Chuan Lee, Yi-Fang Chang, Nai-Wen Su, Pei-Hsuan Lee, Kun-Yao Dai, Hung-Chi Tai, Yi-Shing Leu and Yu-Jen Chen in Tumori Journal
Mechanistic insights into epigenetic silencing of the innate immune system network by high-risk human papillomavirus
Creators: name: CALATI, Federica
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2018

description: Identification of novel mechanistic insights into high-risk human papillomavirus (hr HPV) immune evasion is critical for understanding how these viruses can persistently infect steadily unreactive cells and promote cancer. In a recent report, we demonstrated that downregulation of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), mainly cGAS-STING pathway, in HPV18 harboring cells create an unreactive cellular milieu suitable for viral persistence, replication and tumorigenesis. Herein, we show that HPV18 persistence in keratinocytes leads to the inhibition of both type I and type III IFNs in response to DNA ligands, and this effect is mainly due to the suppression of cGAS-STING and RIG-I pathways by epigenetic modifications. We have identified Suv39h1 as the principal enzyme responsible for the accumulation of histone H3 containing a trimethyl group at its lysine 9 position (H3K9me3) at the promoter regions of the aforementioned genes in NIKSmcHPV18 and HeLa cells. Using both pharmacological inhibitor (namely chaetocin) and siRNA technology against Suv39h1, we demonstrate chromatin remodeling at the promoters of cGAS, RIG-I, and STING genes alongside with recovery of both type I and type III IFN production upon exogenous DNA stimulation in Suv39h1-depleted-HeLa cells. Overall, our findings provide a new mechanistic understanding of virus-induced immune evasion that contributes to cancer progression.
Additional file 1 of Development of machine learning models for the detection of surgical site infections following total hip and knee arthroplasty: a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Wu, Guosong
name: Cheligeer, Cheligeer
name: Southern, Danielle A.
name: Martin, Elliot A.
name: Xu, Yuan
name: Leal, Jenine
name: Ellison, Jennifer
name: Bush, Kathryn
name: Williamson, Tyler
name: Quan, Hude
name: Eastwood, Cathy A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Details of Machine Learning Model Development for SSI Detection.
sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217211033230 – Supplemental material for The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism
Creators: name: Bennett, Andrew
name: Seyis, Didem
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217211033230 for The Online Market’s Invisible Hand: Internet Media and Rising Populism by Andrew Bennett and Didem Seyis in Political Studies
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of feline heartworm disease based on gross necropsy, serology, pulmonary histopathology, and radiographic evidence in adult shelter cats in northeastern Alabama
Creators: name: Nelson, C. Thomas
name: Johnson, Calvin M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Raw data from necropsy, serology, histopathology, and radiographs.
sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X211039597 - Supplemental material for Evaluation of single bolus, dual-echo dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI protocols in brain tumor patients
Creators: name: Stokes, Ashley M
name: Bergamino, Maurizio
name: Alhilali, Lea
name: Hu, Leland S
name: Karis, John P
name: Baxter, Leslie C
name: Bell, Laura C
name: Quarles, C Chad
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 110320 Radiology and Organ Imaging
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcb-10.1177_0271678X211039597 for Evaluation of single bolus, dual-echo dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI protocols in brain tumor patients by Ashley M Stokes, Maurizio Bergamino, Lea Alhilali, Leland S Hu, John P Karis, Leslie C Baxter, Laura C Bell and C Chad Quarles in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Additional file 1 of GPS tracking analyses reveal finely-tuned shorebird space use and movement patterns throughout the non-breeding season in high-latitude austral intertidal areas
Creators: name: Basso, Enzo
name: Horstmann, Johannes
name: Rakhimberdiev, Eldar
name: Abad-Gómez, José M.
name: Masero, José A.
name: Gutiérrez, Jorge S.
name: Valenzuela, Jorge
name: Ruiz, Jorge
name: Navedo, Juan G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary results for “GPS tracking analyses reveal finely-tuned shorebird space use and movement patterns throughout the non-breeding season in high-latitude austral intertidal areas”. Table and figures that complement the results of the main text.
sj-pdf-1-neu-10.1177_19714009211036689 - Supplemental material for Directed stimulation of the dentato-rubro-thalamic tract for deep brain stimulation in essential tremor: a blinded clinical trial
Creators: name: Middlebrooks, Erik H
name: Okromelidze, Lela
name: Carter, Rickey E
name: Jain, Ayushi
name: Lin, Chen
name: Westerhold, Erin
name: Peña, Ashley B
name: Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
name: Uitti, Ryan J
name: Grewal, Sanjeet S
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-neu-10.1177_19714009211036689 for Directed stimulation of the dentato-rubro-thalamic tract for deep brain stimulation in essential tremor: a blinded clinical trial by Erik H Middlebrooks, Lela Okromelidze, Rickey E Carter, Ayushi Jain, Chen Lin, Erin Westerhold, Ashley B Peña, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Ryan J Uitti and Sanjeet S Grewal in The Neuroradiology Journal
Thin(g)king Outside of the Box: How Person-Thing Orientation Affects Categorization Processes
Creators: name: Henares, Regina Marie Dominique R
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Forensic psychology
Personality and individual differences
Social psychology

description: Person-thing orientation (PTO) describes how interests in people (person orientation; PO) and things (thing orientation; TO) motivate behavior. These orientations have been shown to be predictive of important outcomes, but little is known about how these orientations work as motivational systems for behavior. The current paper explored whether different levels of PO and TO among participants affect individual categorizations of stimuli as “person-like” or “thing-like.” Participants (N = 170) were asked to rate how person-like and thing-like they perceived 100 individual stimulus items to be, and their PO and TO scores were measured. I hypothesized that TO would predict higher ratings of stimuli as thing-like, especially when PO levels were lower, and that PO would predict higher ratings of stimuli as person-like, especially when TO levels were lower. I predicted that this pattern of results would be stronger among stimuli categorized as ambiguous than among stimuli categorized as an unambiguous person or thing. The findings did not support the main hypotheses. Instead, the person category stimuli showed the hypothesized pattern of results. Among these stimuli, PO predicted person ratings and TO predicted thing ratings (but in the negative direction). The results and implications of these findings were discussed.
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of feline heartworm disease based on gross necropsy, serology, pulmonary histopathology, and radiographic evidence in adult shelter cats in northeastern Alabama
Creators: name: Nelson, C. Thomas
name: Johnson, Calvin M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Statistical calculations.
sj-docx-1-elr-10.1177_10353046211037095 – Supplemental material for Rethinking the measurement of occupational task content
Creators: name: Haslberger, Matthias
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Economics

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-elr-10.1177_10353046211037095 for Rethinking the measurement of occupational task content by Matthias Haslberger in The Economic and Labour Relations Review
How Scale and Scope of Ecosystem Markets Impact Permit Trading: Evidence from Partial Equilibrium Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Creators: name: Loduca, Natalie R
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: This study uses the Simplified International Model of agricultural Prices, Land use and the Environment, on a Grid (SIMPLE-G­), a partial equilibrium model of agricultural production, to explore how the scale and scope of environmental quality markets influence farm-level production decisions and market performance. I simulate how permit trading affects producers’ input use decisions, and ultimately pollution emissions, by modifying the supply nest structure of the model to include water quality permits as an additional output from agricultural production. Conservation practices improving water quality may also result in ecosystem co-benefits (e.g., reduced greenhouse gas emissions and habitat provision). Hence, I extend SIMPLE-G to quantify these co-benefits and simulate the effects of allowing conservationist producers to “stack” permits (i.e., to supply multiple permit types for each co-benefit). I find that, overall, permit production increases with the scale and scope of the markets. At the smallest market size—which allows trading only within 8-digit hydrological unit code watersheds—unintended policy implications arise as the stacked markets cause one conservation practice to crowd out the other. Meanwhile, the largest market—which allows trading across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed—produces nitrogen permits more efficiently which may lead to less of the secondary permits in comparison to other market configurations. The results of this study support the Environmental Protection Agency’s urging of the expansion of the scale and scope of ecosystem markets.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586721991113 - Influence of Nature at the Time of the Pandemic: An Experience-Based Survey at the Time of SARS-CoV-2 to Demonstrate How Even a Short Break in Nature Can Reduce Stress for Healthcare Staff
Creators: name: Gola, Marco
name: Botta, Monica
name: D’Aniello, Anna Lisa
name: Capolongo, Stefano
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586721991113 for Influence of Nature at the Time of the Pandemic: An Experience-Based Survey at the Time of SARS-CoV-2 to Demonstrate How Even a Short Break in Nature Can Reduce Stress for Healthcare Staff by Marco Gola, Monica Botta, Anna Lisa D’Aniello and Stefano Capolongo in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal
The Android English Teacher: Writing Education in the Age of Automation
Creators: name: Ernst, Daniel C
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
Education assessment and evaluation
Educational technology and computing
English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Other education not elsewhere classified
English language

description: In an era of widespread automation—from grocery store self-checkout machines to self-driving cars—it is not outrageous to wonder: can teachers be automated? And more specifically, can automated computer teachers instruct students how to write? Automated computer programs have long been used in summative writing evaluation efforts, such as scoring standardized essay exams, ranking placement essays, or facilitating programmatic outcomes assessments. However, new claims about automated writing evaluation’s (AWE) formative educational potential mark a significant shift. My project questions the effectiveness of using AWE technology for formative educational efforts such as improving and teaching writing. Taken seriously, these efforts portend a future embrace of semi, or even fully, automated writing classes, an unprecedented development in writing pedagogy.Supported by a summer-long grant from the Purdue Research Foundation, I conducted a small-n quasi-experiment to test claims by online college tutoring site Chegg.com that its EasyBib Plus AWE tool can improve both writing and writers. The experiment involved four college English instructors reading pairs of essays comprising one AWE-treated and untreated version per pair. Using a comparative judgment model, a rubric-free method of writing assessment based on Thurstone’s law, raters read and designated one of each pair “better.” Across four raters and 160 essays, I found that AWE-treated essays were designated better only 30% of the time (95% confidence interval: 20-40%), a statistically significant difference from the null hypothesis of 50%. The results suggest that Chegg’s EasyBib Plus tool offers no discernible improvement to student writing, and potentially even worsens it.Finally, I analyze Chegg’s recent partnership with the Purdue Writing Lab and Online Writing Lab (OWL). The Purdue-Chegg partnership offers a useful test case for anticipating the effects of higher education’s embrace of automated educational technology going forward. Drawing on the history of writing assessment and the results of the experiment, I argue against using AWE for formative writing instruction. In an era of growing automation, I maintain that a human-centered pedagogy remains one of the most durable, important, effective, and transformative ingredients of a quality education.
Modeling, Optimization and Control of Hybrid Powertrains
Creators: name: De Pascali, Luca
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2019

description: To cope with the increasing demand of a more sustainable mobility, the main Original Equipment Manufacturers are producing vehicles equipped with hybrid propulsion systems that increase the overall vehicle efficiency and mitigate the emission problem at a local level. The newly gained degrees of freedom of the hybrid powertrain need to be handled by advanced energy management techniques that allow to fully exploit the system capabilities.
In this thesis we propose an optimal control approach to the solution of the energy management problem, putting emphasis on the importance of accurate models for the reliability of the optimization solution.
In the first part of the thesis we address the energy management problem for a hybrid electric vehicle, including the mitigation of the battery aging mechanisms. We show that, with an optimal management strategy, we could extend the battery life up to 25% for some driving cycles while keeping the fuel savings performance substantially unaltered.
In the second part of the thesis we focus on the hydrostatic hybrid transmission, a different hybridization solution that is able to fulfill the high power demand of heavy duty off-highway vehicles. Also in this case, we formulate the energy management problem as an optimal control problem, dealing with the complexity introduced by the discrete valve actuations in the framework of mixed-integer optimal control. We show that, using hydraulic accumulators to recover energy from the regenerative braking, we could reduce fuel consumption up to 13% for a typical driving cycle.
In the third and last part of the thesis we show how the optimization approach can be used to systematically design and calibrate control algorithms, casting the calibration problem into a Linear Matrix Inequality. We first develop a non-overshooting closed-loop control for the actuation pressure of a wet clutch, proving the effectiveness of the control on an experimental setup.
Finally, we focus on the design of a dead-zone based kinematic observer for the estimation of the lateral velocity of a road vehicle. The structure of the observer presents good noise rejection performance, allowing for the selection of a higher observer gain that improves the estimation accuracy.
Learning Multi-step Dual-arm Tasks From Demonstrations
Creators: name: Tamayo, Natalia S Sanchez
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics not elsewhere classified
Knowledge representation and reasoning

description: Surgeon expertise can be difficult to capture through direct robot programming. Deep imitation learning (DIL) is a popular method for teaching robots to autonomously execute tasks through learning from demonstrations. DIL approaches have been previously applied to surgical automation. However, previous approaches do not consider the full range of robot dexterous motion required in general surgical task, by leaving out tooltip rotation changes or modeling one robotic arm only. Hence, they are not directly applicable for tasks that require rotation and dual-arm collaboration such as debridement. We propose to address this limitation by formulating a DIL approach for the execution of dual-arm surgical tasks including changes in tooltip orientation, position and gripper actions.

In this thesis, a framework for multi-step surgical task automation is designed and implemented by leveraging deep imitation learning. The framework optimizes Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for the execution of the whole surgical tasks while considering tooltip translations, rotations as well as gripper actions. The network architecture proposed implicitly optimizes for the interaction between two robotic arms as opposed to modeling each arm independently. The networks were trained directly from the human demonstrations and do not require to create task specific hand-crafted models or to manually segment the demonstrations.

The proposed framework was implemented and evaluated in simulation for two relevant surgical tasks, the peg transfer task and the surgical debridement. The tasks were tested under random initial conditions to challenge the robustness of the networks to generalize to variable settings. The performance of the framework was assessed using task and subtask success as well as a set of quantitative metrics. Experimental evaluation showed favorable results for automating surgical tasks under variable conditions for the surgical debridement, which obtained a task success rate comparable to the human task success. For the peg transfer task, the framework displayed moderate overall task success. Quantitative metrics indicate that the robot generated trajectories possess similar or better motion economy that the human demonstrations.
Additional file 1 of The link between cognitive health and neighbourhood: perceptions of the public, and of policy-makers, about problems and solutions
Creators: name: Stevens, Madeleine
name: Matosevic, Tihana
name: Suarez-Pinilla, Marta
name: Pais, Sarah
name: Rossor, Martin
name: Knapp, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix I. Composition of phase one and phase two focus groups. Appendix II. Main questions asked in Phase one topic guide. Appendix III. Main questions included in Phase two topic guide.
Determinants of renal function in preterm newborns
Creators: name: MONZANI, ALICE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2018

description: Background: Little is known about potential endogenous biomarkers of renal function other than serum creatinine (sCr). Aims: to evaluate cystatine C (CysC) and beta-trace protein (BTP) levels in preterm newborns and to assess the impact of kidney-detrimental factors on kidney function. Methods: newborns with GA<32 weeks (wks) were enrolled. Blood samples were obtained on the 3rd day of life (T0) and when they reached a GA of 36wks (T36), and sCr, CysC, BTP and urea levels were measured. eGFR was calculated according to 9 existing formulas at T36. Pre-natal and postnatal kidney injury risk scores were calculated by the number of potentially kidney-detrimental factors. Results: We collected data from 71 newborns at T0 (31 with GA 28 wks) and from 53 subjects at T36 (25 with GA 28wks). At T0, newborns with GA�28 weeks had higher sCr levels than those with GA>28wks (p=0.016). At T0, sCr was negatively correlated with GA (R= -0.315, p=0.009), whereas CysC and BTP were not influenced by GA. At T36, newborns with GA 28 wks had lower sCr, BTP and higher urea levels (p=0.007, p=0.005 and p=0.029, respectively). At T36 eGFR values calculated by the four formulas using only CysC were not different in newborns with GA 28 and >28wks. eGFR values estimated by other formulas were higher in subjects born at a
lower GA. We found a direct correlation between the post-natal score and eGFR estimated according to the sCr-based formulas by Schwartz2009 (R=0.345, p=0.027) and Brion (R=0.312, p=0.044), not persisting after adjustment for urea levels at T36 and GA. No correlations were found between the scores and eGFR according to the other formulas. Conclusions: eGFR formulas using CysC are not influenced by GA. Post-natal score shows a direct correlation with eGFR according to sCr-based formulas, which does not persist after adjustment for GA and urea levels, showing that the underlying confounder may be the nutritional status of preterm newborns, as suggested by the higher urea levels in newborn with GA 28wks at T36.
Nutrition and dietary intake and their association with mortality and hospitalization in adults with chronic kidney disease treated with hemodialysis
Creators: name: RUOSPO, MARINELLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2018

description: Adults receiving hemodialysis still experience high mortality rates. Several interventions that address the typical cardiovascular risk factors which are almost universally present in people with ESKD have been introduced. These interventions unfortunately do not significantly improve health outcomes in such populations. Nutrition and dietary patterns are potential factors influencing health in other health settings but poorly explored in the setting of ESKD. The aim of this body of work was to evaluate the association between exposure to different nutrients and dietary patterns and the risk of mortality (all-cause and cause-specific) and hospital admissions (any, and cause-specific) in adults with chronic kidney disease and specifically those with or end stage kidney disease receiving hemodialysis for renal replacement therapy.
This project focused on understanding the impact of diet and nutrient intake, on CKD and ESKD through a comprehensive and systematic series of literature reviews and the design and conduct of the first large scale multinational primary cohort study to explore the association between nutrition (dietary intake) and clinical adverse events in the setting of hemodialysis.
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Numerical and Experimental Approaches
Creators: name: CONTI, BRUNO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2019

description: Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a promising electrochemical technology that can produce electrical and thermal power with outstanding efficiencies. A systematic synergetic approach between experimental measurements and modelling theory has proved to be instrumental to evaluate performance and correct behaviour of a chemical process, like the ones occurring in SOFC. For this purpose, starting from SIMFC (SIMulation of Fuel Cells) code set-up by PERT-UNIGE (Process Engineering Research Group) for Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells [1], a new code has been set-up for SOFCs based on local mass, energy, charge and momentum balances. This code takes into account the proper reactions occurring in the SOFC as well as new geometries and kinetics thanks to experiments carried out on single cells and stack in ENEA laboratories of C.R. Casaccia and VTT Fuel Cell Lab in Finland. In particular using an innovative experimental setup it has been possible to study experimentally the influence of a multicomponent mixtures on the performance of SOFC and also validate locally a 2-D model developed starting from SIMFC code. The results obtained are good, showing a good agreement between experimental and numerical results. The obtained results are encouraging further studies which allow the model validation on a greater quantity of data and under a wider range of operating conditions.
Additional file 1 of Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward weight management among diabetic patients in Qidong City, Jiangsu Province
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofeng
name: Shi, Yu
name: Wei, Dongqin
name: Gong, Yan
name: Yan, Xinyi
name: Cai, Shengnan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward weight management among diabetic patients in Qidong City, Jiangsu Province
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofeng
name: Shi, Yu
name: Wei, Dongqin
name: Gong, Yan
name: Yan, Xinyi
name: Cai, Shengnan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Evaluation of Small-Scale Extrusion for Aflatoxin Decontamination of Maize in Kenya
Creators: name: Hegwood, Margaret Leah
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Food packaging, preservation and processing

description: Aflatoxins, secondary metabolites produced by the molds Aspergilllus flavus and A. parasiticus, are estimated to affect upwards of 25% of the world’s global food supply. For Low and Middle-Income Countries like Kenya, a combination of trade, economic, and health challenges related to aflatoxin contamination present a serious threat to food and national security. One option for reducing aflatoxin risks in countries like Kenya is deploying small-scale, reprocessing technologies that degrade aflatoxin in contaminated food products. One potential technology for reprocessing is small-scale extrusion (60 pph) like the TechnoChem Mini-Extruder™. First, to understand the extent of aflatoxin contamination in Kenyan maize, two field work trials were conducted in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Aflatoxin levels from each sample were analyzed and compared to a variety of agro-economic variables (e.g. farm size) using a stepwise multiple linear regression. Upon analysis, only 5% of maize samples collected during field work tested positive for unsafe levels of aflatoxin ( >10 ppb). Thus, the resulting regression model is highly biased towards predicting low aflatoxin levels. Such bias makes any inferences to predict high aflatoxin levels in maize largely inconclusive. The inherent heterogeneity of aflatoxin and the history of wide-spread contamination in Kenya further supports the conclusion that more studies are needed to understand the true extent of aflatoxin contamination in Uasin Gishu maize. Second, to test the effectiveness of small-scale extrusion on aflatoxin degradation in maize, contaminated samples were processed at varying motor frequencies (15, 38, and 50 hz) and moisture contents (35, 40, 45 %wb). Moisture content is significant (p-value < 0.05) in aflatoxin degradation. Total aflatoxin degradation varied between 11 and 83% depending on processing conditions. Maximum degradation occurred at 40 %wb product moisture with a residence time of 265.1 s and an effective shear rate of 56.5 1/s. Thermal degradation is considered negligible due to low temperature increases. Consequently, all degradation is attributed to shear forces inside the extruder. Shear rates were approximated using the Harper model with moisture content and residence time being the most significant factors affecting shear effects on aflatoxin degradation. Although significant aflatoxin degradation occurred in the extruder, further studies are necessary to understand the role of processing parameters on aflatoxin degradation before small-scale extrusion can be confirmed as a viable reprocessing technology.
title: Subjectility : On Reading Artaud
Creators: name: Shaw, Jonathan Keith
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artaud, Deleuze, Derrida, Lucidity, Materialism, Lucid Materialism, Experimental Literacy, Subjectile, Subjectility, Body without Organs, Drawings, Cahiers

description: The notebooks in which Artaud constantly worked in the final years of his life (1946–48) bring together writing, drawing and attacks on the very materiality of the paper. In bringing together these three regimes – visual, textual, material – the notebooks represent the culmination of Artaud’s complex ontology. They also continue to pose a unique set of problems for his readers.

These three regimes come together on what Artaud calls the “subjectile”, yet as he uses this word only three times, approaching it asks that we traverse his entire oeuvre. Framing this thesis is the question of how reading Artaud, especially the notebooks, might engage we readers as ourselves subjectiles; how “reading” must be understood in an expanded sense to take in textual, drawn and material elements at once.

Artaud’s writings have an unparalleled importance in continental philosophy of the “long twentieth century”: perhaps most inalienably in Deleuze & Guattari’s appropriation of the figure of the “Body without Organs”, and in Derrida’s career spanning interest in Artaud’s writing and drawing. This thesis will forge critical responses to how these writers accommodate and appropriate Artaud into their systems. 

What is at stake in responding to their highly original literary philosophical readings is not merely a philological pedantry concerning Artaud. Rather, I propose to both examine elements of these philosophies in order to scrutinise, appropriate and respond
to the modes of reading Artaud which underlie their projects, and to trace how the themes which they identify are taken up within Artaud’s own oeuvre: to find both critical responses to and productive lines from their work. On the one hand, this concerns the aleatory formation of subjectivities in Deleuze and Guattari, through which they imbricate Artaud in a Spinozist project; on the other hand, Artaud’s own ideas on ontological anteriority and the methodology of case-studies runs against Derrida’s deconstruction. As such, rather than using Artaud to illustrate a philosopher’s ontology,

I will engage with Artaud as a metaphysician and metontologist in his own right – one whose project is deeply embedded in materiality, thought and causation. Central to this proposition is close examination of Artaud’s articulation of the “subjectile” in relation to matter, in particular following his journeys to Mexico and Ireland, and his development of what I will call his lucid materialism.
Additional file 1 of Stakeholder perspectives on social screening in US healthcare settings
Creators: name: Aceves, Benjamín
name: De Marchis, Emilia
name: Loomba, Vishalli
name: Brown, Erika M.
name: Gottlieb, Laura M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1
XPO1 mutations are a novel predictor of shorter time to first treatment in early stage CLL patients
Creators: name: KODIPAD, Ahad Ahmed
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2021

description: In approximately 70% of newly diagnosed cases, CLL presents at an early clinical stage and is managed with a watch & wait strategy. Until now, few clinical and molecular inform on the risk of treatment requirement. On these grounds, we aimed at identifying new molecular markers that may predict early treatment requirement and may help clinicians to better plan the watch & wait strategy in asymptomatic early stage CLL patients. 295 Binet A CLL patients who referred to our institution were subjected to next-generation-sequencing (NGS) in a panel of recurrently mutated genes in CLL. Two validation multicenter cohorts of 402 treatment na�ve Binet A CLL patients (Binet A validation cohort) and 395 untreated Rai 0 CLL patients (Rai 0 validation cohort) were also included and analyzed for XP01 mutations. The primary endpoint was time to first treatment (TTFT). In the training cohort, NGS mutational analysis showed that XP01 was mutated in 7 (2.4%) patients. In univariate analysis, trisomy 12 (p=0.001), unmutated IGHV genes (p<0.0001) and mutations of XP01 (p<0.0001), NOTCHI (p<0.001) and SF3B1 (p=0.022) were associated with a shorter TTFT. By multivariate analysis, XPOI mutations (p=0.002) and unmutated IGHV genes (p<0.0001) maintained an independent association with a shorter TTFT. XPO1 mutational analysis was subsequently investigated in 2 independent multicenter cohorts of early stage CLL
patients. In the Binet A validation cohort (N=402 patients), XPO1 was mutated in 15 (3.7%) patients and was associated with a shorter TTFT (p=0.004). Similarly, also in the Rai 0 validation cohort, (N=395 patients), XP01 was mutated in 8 (2.0%) patients and was associated with a shorter TTFT (p<0.001). By combining the training and the validation cohorts (N=1092 patients), a total of 30 somatically acquired XP01 mutations were identified (2.7% of patients). More precisely, 27
(90.0%) mutations affected XP01 codon E571 and 3 (10.0%) codon D624. From a clinical perspective, patients carrying either XPO1 E571 or D624 mutations showed superimposable outcome in terms of TTFT (p=0.345). Based on these results, XP01 mutational analysis might be incorporated in other prognostic scores and help clinicians to refine the management of the watch and wait strategy for early stage CLL.
Project 2: Quantum Control 101
Creators: name: Nykänen, Juuso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Quantum control

description: Includes modified quantum_dynamics package. Package has been modified to suit the needs of Project 2: Quantum control 101 at course FYS-4096 computational physics at Tampere University of Technology in Spring

2018. Package contains tools for computing population of electrons on first excited state after laser pulse and tools for optimizing laser pulse parameters. Repository also contains report final_report describing workflow to use added features and discussing the results obtained with modified package.
sj-pdf-2-msj-10.1177_13524585211032801 – Supplemental material for Impaired motion perception is associated with functional and structural visual pathway damage in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Ayadi, Noah
name: Oertel, Frederike C
name: Asseyer, Susanna
name: Rust, Rebekka
name: Duchow, Ankelien
name: Kuchling, Joseph
name: Bellmann-Strobl, Judith
name: Ruprecht, Klemens
name: Klistorner, Alexander
name: Brandt, Alexander U
name: Paul, Friedemann
name: Zimmermann, Hanna G
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-msj-10.1177_13524585211032801 for Impaired motion perception is associated with functional and structural visual pathway damage in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders by Noah Ayadi, Frederike C Oertel, Susanna Asseyer, Rebekka Rust, Ankelien Duchow, Joseph Kuchling, Judith Bellmann-Strobl, Klemens Ruprecht, Alexander Klistorner, Alexander U Brandt, Friedemann Paul and Hanna G Zimmermann in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Additional file 1 of Electron microprobe dating of lunar zirconolite
Creators: name: Park, Changkun
name: Kim, Hwayoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geochemistry

description: Additional file 1 Fig. S1 Monte Carlo simulation of the X-ray generation volume in zirconolite at 15 keV accelerating voltage.
The Impacts of Domestication on Symbiosis
Creators: name: Wilson, Zoë Lorraine
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Crops
domestication
symbiotic nitrogen fixation
Genes

description: The enhancement of crop traits that support sustainable agriculture, such as traits enhancing the mutualism between legumes and rhizobia, is critical for continued food security while mitigating environmental costs levied by intensive agriculture. However, little is known about how anthropogenic influences have altered symbiosis. In particular, we lack a population genetic perspective on how domestication has impacted loci and traits related to symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF). While some existing studies show how shifts in traits and loci over the course of crop domestication have disrupted SNF, other studies find no change or even enhancement of SNF over the course of domestication. Our analysis of genetic variants across the genomes of many wild, landrace, and modern cultivar genotypes of soybean indicate that domestication has decreased the prevalence of deleterious substitutions in modern cultivars compared to their wild progenitors. Additionally, we highlight specific genes and functions impacted in different ways by domestication, which should be further examined and experimentally validated for use in continued cultivar development.
Taking a Break: Participatory Game Design
Creators: name: Virothaisakun, Joel
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2017
Subjects: Game Design
Participatory Design
Anxiety
Mobile

description: Anxiety is an issue that the majority of people have struggled with in their lives. While there are many different types of treatment for anxiety, not all of them are effective. As a society we have come to rely more on technology and our smartphones. Combining the issues of health and technology is a new way to attempt to help alleviate stressors that could potentially cause anxiety. This paper shows the result of a participatory design research project aimed at creating a solution for anxiety. The finished product being a working prototype of a game based off the research.
description: http://jviro.com/livingcolor.html
Additional file 3 of Electron microprobe dating of lunar zirconolite
Creators: name: Park, Changkun
name: Kim, Hwayoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geochemistry

description: Additional file 3 Fig. S3 Secondary fluorescence simulation results. The secondary fluorescence effects for Si and K concentrations in the zirconolite from the boundary to the interior (a). Si and K concentration in zirconolite by the secondary fluorescence effects from both silica and K-feldspar (b), assuming that the zirconolite is a plate of 3 µm diameter completely surrounded by silica and K-feldspar. The apparent concentrations of Si and K in (b) are the sum of the fluorescent Si and K in (a) when the zirconolite plate is influenced by the adjacent silica and K-feldspar on both sides.
SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF END-AROUND TAXIWAY OPERATIONS
Creators: name: Feng, Yilin
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Modelling and simulation

description: Runway and taxiway configuration could affect airport capacity and safety, and airline taxiing time and fuel consumption. In this study, a discrete-event stochastic simulation model is created to explore the impact of four different runway and taxiway choices on a fictional airport with parallel runways that have End-Around Taxiways (EAT) at each end. Scenario 1 represent the conventional runway and taxiway choices used in parallel runway systems, while Scenarios 2, 3, and 4 mimic three new choices that become possible because of the usage of the EAT. Three designed experiments are used to explore the influence of the four scenarios in terms of taxi time, fuel consumption, and number of runway crossings during high traffic periods, as well as the ability to cope with increases in the load level. Some main findings are: 1) using the outboard runway to land and the EAT as the taxi-in path would yield the shortest average taxi-out time, while the average taxi-in time is similar or longer than that in the conventional choice; 2) if arrival aircraft are allowed to land over an active EAT, using the outboard runway to take off and the EAT as the taxi-out path would show advantages in both the average taxi-in time and the average taxi-out time; 3) if the EAT is operated under current FAA regulation, using the outboard runway to take off and the EAT as the taxi-out path could still show advantages in the average taxi-in time, while the average taxi-out time is the longest during high arrival period; 4) the results of the average fuel consumption indicate similar trends with the results of the average taxi time; 5) using the EATs could either eliminate the number of runway crossings or reduce it significantly; 6) the taxi times with the use of EATs are more stable against the increases in the load level in comparison with the conventional choice. Safety and human factor issues related to allowing arrival aircraft to land over an active EAT are discussed, as well as some future research topics. This study may encourage airport operators and researchers to explore how to make full use of existing EATs. This study, along with future cost-benefit analyses based on the results of this research, would be a valuable reference for airports that consider constructing EATs in the future.