cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Apostolepis ammodites Ferrarezzi 2005
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis ammodites

description: Apostolepis ammodites Ferrarezzi et al., 2005
Type locality. Luís Eduardo Magalhães hydroelectric power plant, Palmas, state of Tocantins, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 230A), restricted to the eastern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 230A), mostly from mid to high elevations (Plt. 230B). Observed in the field in grassland and savanna on sandy soil (Ferrarezzi et al., 2005; Nogueira et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 29, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Supplementary results, figures, and tables from Genetic evidence for serum amyloid P component as a drug target in neurodegenerative disorders
Creators: name: Schmidt, A. Floriaan
name: Finan, Chris
name: Chopade, Sandesh
name: Ellmerich, Stephan
name: Rossor, Martin N.
name: Hingorani, Aroon D.
name: Pepys, Mark B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: The mechanisms responsible for neuronal death causing cognitive loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and many other dementias are not known. Serum amyloid P component (SAP) is a constitutive plasma protein, which is cytotoxic for cerebral neurones and also promotes formation and persistence of cerebral Aβ amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles. Circulating SAP, which is produced exclusively by the liver, is normally almost completely excluded from the brain. Conditions increasing brain exposure to SAP increase dementia risk, consistent with a causative role in neurodegeneration. Furthermore, neocortex content of SAP is strongly and independently associated with dementia at death. Here, seeking genomic evidence for a causal link of SAP with neurodegeneration, we meta-analysed three genome-wide association studies of 44 288 participants, then conducted cis-Mendelian randomization assessment of associations with neurodegenerative diseases. Higher genetically instrumented plasma SAP concentrations were associated with AD (odds ratio 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02; 1.11, p = 1.8 × 10−3), Lewy body dementia (odds ratio 1.37, 95%CI 1.19; 1.59, p = 1.5 × 10−5) and plasma tau concentration (0.06 log2(ng l−1) 95%CI 0.03; 0.08, p = 4.55 × 10⁻⁶). These genetic findings are consistent with neuropathogenicity of SAP. Depletion of SAP from the blood and the brain, by the safe, well tolerated, experimental drug, miridesap, may thus be neuroprotective.
Apostolepis albicollaris Lema 2002
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis albicollaris

description: Apostolepis albicollaris Lema, 2002
Type locality. Parque Zoológico de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 228A), restricted to the central portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 228A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 228B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Nogueira et al. (2012). Observed in the field in open interfluvial savannas (Nogueira et al., 2012).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 29, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
title: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol 6 Nr 1 (2018): Facade Design and Engineering
title: Facade Design and Engineering
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Journal Of Facade Design And Engineering
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2018

description: Thermal, Energy and Daylight Analysis of Different Types of Double Skin Facades in Various Climates
 Integrated Facades as a Product-Service System: Business process innovation to accelerate integral product implementation
 Numerical Investigation of Capabilities for Solar Irradiance Control through Shape Changing Building Surface Tiles
 Cladding Materials in Non-Residential Construction: Consideration Criteria for Stakeholder in the Province of Quebec...1-18
Manifest V3 Unveiled: Navigating the New Era of Browser Extensions
Creators: name: Pantelaios, Nikolaos
name: Kapravelos, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Introduced over a decade ago, Chrome extensions now exceed 200,000 in number. In 2020, Google announced a shift in extension development with Manifest Version 3 (V3), aiming to replace the previous Version 2 (V2) by January 2023. This deadline was later extended to January 2025. The company's decision is grounded in enhancing three main pillars: privacy, security, and performance. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the Manifest V3 ecosystem. We start by investigating the adoption rate of V3, detailing the percentage of adoption from its announcement up until 2024. Our findings indicate, prior to the 2023 pause, less than 5% of all extensions had transitioned to V3, despite the looming deadline for the complete removal of V2, while currently nine out of ten new extensions are being uploaded in Manifest V3. Furthermore, we compare the security and privacy enhancements between V2 and V3 and we evaluate the improved security attributable to V3's safer APIs, examining how certain APIs, which were vulnerable or facilitated malicious behavior, have been deprecated or removed in V3. We dynamically execute 517 confirmed malicious extensions and we see a 87.8% removal of APIs related to malicious behavior due to the improvements of V3. We discover that only 154 (29.8%) of these extensions remain functional post-conversion. This analysis leads to the conclusion that V3 reduces the avenues for abuse of such APIs. However, despite the reduction in APIs associated with malicious activities, the new Manifest V3 protocol is not immune to such behavior. Our research demonstrates, through a proof of concept, the adaptability of malicious activities to V3. After the proof of concept changes are applied, we showcase 290 (56%) of the examined malicious extensions retain their capability to conduct harmful activities within the V3 framework.
Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues 1993
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis arenaria

description: Apostolepis arenaria Rodrigues, 1993
Type locality. Village of Alagoado, Casa Nova, left margin of the São Francisco River, state of Bahia, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 231A). Known only from the type locality in the Caatinga (Plt. 231A) at low elevations of the São Francisco River depression (Plt. 231B). Observed in the field in xeric scrubland on sandy soil (Rodrigues, 1993).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 29, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Magnetically propagating Hund's exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3
Creators: name: He, W.
name: Shen, Y.
name: Wohlfeld, K.
name: Sears, J.
name: Li, J.
name: Pelliciari, J.
name: Walicki, M.
name: Johnston, S.
name: Baldini, E.
name: Bisogni, V.
name: Mitrano, M.
name: Dean, M. P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials have opened new frontiers for realizing novel many-body phenomena. Recently NiPS3 has received intense interest since it hosts an excitonic quasiparticle whose properties appear to be intimately linked to the magnetic state of the lattice. Despite extensive studies, the electronic character, mobility, and magnetic interactions of the exciton remain unresolved. Here we address these issues by measuring NiPS3 with ultra-high energy resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). We find that Hund's exchange interactions are primarily responsible for the energy of formation of the exciton. Measuring the dispersion of the Hund's exciton reveals that it propagates in a way that is analogous to a double-magnon. We trace this unique behavior to fundamental similarities between the NiPS3 exciton hopping and spin exchange processes, underlining the unique magnetic characteristics of this novel quasiparticle.
description: 11 pages accepted in Nature Communications
Opencba - A Step Towards Management Metadata And Paradata
Creators: name: Barkow, Ingo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: DDI
NADDI2018

description: Data collection of large scale studies present a variety of different problems. Currently most vendors tackle problems in delivery while the institutions involved in data collection have massive management problems (e.g. interviewer control, proceedings in the household, sampling, weighting, quality control). OpenCBA is a new project for a metadata-based computer-based assessment platform derived from the remains of Rogatus, but heading more into handling the processes around data collection while using standardized process metadata or paradata.
Apostolepis assimilis
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis assimilis

description: Apostolepis assimilis (Reinhardt, 1861)
Type locality. Fazenda Capão do Porcos, near Brumado, “Campos region,” west of Serra do EspinhaÇo, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (Plt. 232A), recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado and its contact areas with the Atlantic Forest, with marginal records in the Pantanal and Caatinga (Plt. 232A), mostly at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 232B). Observed in the field in open areas, forest border and disturbed areas (Giraudo and Scrocchi, 1998; Giraudo and Scrocchi,2002; Marques et al., 2009; Moreira et al., 2009; Sousa et al., 2010).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 29, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
title: Bluetongue virus non-structural protein 1: virus-host interactions
Creators: name: Ward, R
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2006

description: Bluetongue virus (BTY) is an orbivirus of the Reoviridae family that infects sheep and other ruminants. BTY has three non-structural proteins, NS I, NS2 and NS3/3A. NS I forms tubular structures and its function is currently unknown. To investigate the role of NS I in BTY infection, the interactions of NS I with mammalian and insect cellular proteins, and BTY viral proteins, were examined. BTY NS I was identi tied as interacting with aldolase A, NUBP 1, Pyruvate kinase M2, cathespin B, SUM 0-1 and peptide TY7 using the yeast two-hybrid system, ELISA and immunofluorescence analysis. TY7 and NS I caused extensive cell death within 24h of co-expression; this cell death was not apoptosis and reduced BTY yield by 37%. The interaction of NS I with SUMO-I and its importance in BTY infection was confinned using siRNA to knockdown SUMO-I during BTY-IO infection. Knockdown of SUMO-I elicited a dramatic reduction in virus yield by 73%. NS I interactions with proteins of the insect vector Culicoides were also examined. A putative interaction between NS 1 and the ubiquitin activating enzyme El (UBA EI) ofCulicoides was identified during screening of a phage library, this has not been confirmed by other means. NS 1 interactions with other BTY proteins were analysed using immunoprecipitation and a strong interaction between NS 1 and YP7 was identified; this was confim1ed using the yeast two-hybrid system and immunoflourescence. Two main roles have been hypothesised for NS I from this data; firstly it is likely that NS I interaction with SUMO-I and UBA E I allows the targeting of specific proteins for sumoylation and ubiquitination allowing NS 1 to modify the host response to BTY infection. Secondly it is possible that NS I serves as an anchor for YP7 and virus cores allowing the build up of cores at the cytoskeleton in close proximity to YP2 for subsequent assembly and release. RNAi against NS J eliminated tubule formation but did not affect virus yield or YP7 and SUMO-J distribution and expression. It is therefore likely that the function of NS I does not rely on tubule fom1ation and that tubules are a form of storage for the active monomer of NSI.
Amygdala Self-Neuromodulation Capacity as a Window for Process-Related Network Recruitment
Creators: name: Gurevitch, Guy
name: Hendler, Talma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Processed data used for analysis and figure creation in the manuscript titled "Amygdala Self-Neuromodulation Capacity as a Window for Process-Related Network Recruitment"
FedTrans: Efficient Federated Learning via Multi-Model Transformation
Creators: name: Zhu, Yuxuan
name: Liu, Jiachen
name: Chowdhury, Mosharaf
name: Lai, Fan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning (FL) aims to train machine learning (ML) models across potentially millions of edge client devices. Yet, training and customizing models for FL clients is notoriously challenging due to the heterogeneity of client data, device capabilities, and the massive scale of clients, making individualized model exploration prohibitively expensive. State-of-the-art FL solutions personalize a globally trained model or concurrently train multiple models, but they often incur suboptimal model accuracy and huge training costs.
 In this paper, we introduce FedTrans, a multi-model FL training framework that automatically produces and trains high-accuracy, hardware-compatible models for individual clients at scale. FedTrans begins with a basic global model, identifies accuracy bottlenecks in model architectures during training, and then employs model transformation to derive new models for heterogeneous clients on the fly. It judiciously assigns models to individual clients while performing soft aggregation on multi-model updates to minimize total training costs. Our evaluations using realistic settings show that FedTrans improves individual client model accuracy by 14% - 72% while slashing training costs by 1.6X - 20X over state-of-the-art solutions.
title: Health Care Financing for the Poor in Lao PDR
Creators: name: Patcharanarumol, W
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2008

description: As in many other developing countries, an official policy of user fees was adopted for the Lao health system in the 1990s. In principle, the poor were to be exempted from paying user fees at public health providers. This study aimed to contribute to policy on financial protection of the poor by (1) improving understanding of health care utilization and strategies adopted by households to deal with costs of Illness; (2) examining attitudes of policy makers and actual practice of public health care providers on fee exemptions of the poor; and (3) proposing better ways of protecting the poor.
Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed. Data were collected from 172 households of 4 villages in Savannakhet Province; 26 public providers in Savannakhet Province and 3 public providers in Vientiane capital; and 22 policy makers in Vientiane capital, between October 2005 and July 2006.
The exemption policy has been ineffectively implemented. In practice, criteria for identifying the poor were not specified and no budget was provided to hospitals to finance exemptions. Providers preserved exemptions for 'the destitute'. The payment of user fees could be delayed without interest when 'the poor' had insufficient cash. Villagers strongly believed in the principle of paying user fees to providers either at the point of service or through delayed payment, even though they lived In difficult conditions and their average consumption was below $US1.00 a day. Importantly, they did not perceive exemption from fees to be possible for 'the poor'. The majority of households did not access health care services when III for reasons such as financial and geographical barriers; some of them suffered adverse health consequences as a result such as death or disability. The better the socio-economic group, the better was access to health care services. Among a total of 172 sampled households, twelve households were faced with catastrophic health expenditure, most from the middle and poorest socio-economic group. The villagers managed health crises themselves mainly through drawing on social networks within the community in order to sell assets, borrow, and get other forms of support from neighbours. Although the study of households was small in scale, it was likely to echo households' difficulties elsewhere as the studied villages were similar to other rural areas without roads of Lao PDR.
This study suggests that there is an urgent need for the government to improve two main areas: accessibility to adequate health care for everyone, everywhere; and reform of the nationwide policy on health financial risk protection for the poor and the less-poor in order to reduce catastrophic health expenditure.
Bt-GAN: Generating Fair Synthetic Healthdata via Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Ramachandranpillai, Resmi
name: Sikder, Md Fahim
name: Bergström, David
name: Heintz, Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to enhance the usefulness of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) by generating realistic de-identified data. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on the quality of synthetic health data, neglecting the crucial aspect of fairness in downstream predictions. Consequently, models trained on synthetic EHR have faced criticism for producing biased outcomes in target tasks. These biases can arise from either spurious correlations between features or the failure of models to accurately represent sub-groups. To address these concerns, we present Bias-transforming Generative Adversarial Networks (Bt-GAN), a GAN-based synthetic data generator specifically designed for the healthcare domain. In order to tackle spurious correlations (i), we propose an information-constrained Data Generation Process that enables the generator to learn a fair deterministic transformation based on a well-defined notion of algorithmic fairness. To overcome the challenge of capturing exact sub-group representations (ii), we incentivize the generator to preserve sub-group densities through score-based weighted sampling. This approach compels the generator to learn from underrepresented regions of the data manifold. We conduct extensive experiments using the MIMIC-III database. Our results demonstrate that Bt-GAN achieves SOTA accuracy while significantly improving fairness and minimizing bias amplification. We also perform an in-depth explainability analysis to provide additional evidence supporting the validity of our study. In conclusion, our research introduces a novel and professional approach to addressing the limitations of synthetic data generation in the healthcare domain. By incorporating fairness considerations and leveraging advanced techniques such as GANs, we pave the way for more reliable and unbiased predictions in healthcare applications.
title: Gendering post-harvest loss research: responsibilities of women and men to manage maize after harvest in southwestern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Lelea, Margareta Amy
name: Garbaba, Chemeda Abedeta
name: Guluma, Abera
name: Hensel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: food security
subject: food system
subject: gender
subject: gendered division of labor
subject: post-harvest losses
subject: post-harvest management
subject: 630
subject: Äthiopien
subject: Ernte
subject: Ertragssteigerung
subject: Arbeitsteilung
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: Ernährungssicherung
subject: Ernteverlust

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
description: Through an initiative for research on the Global Food Supply (GlobE) by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for the project: Reduction of Post-Harvest Losses and Value Addition in East African Food Value Chains (RELOAD) (Grant Number 031A247D)
Forests Are Us - Save Lake Balkhash International Research Project
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Aizhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410401
subject: Conservation and biodiversity
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410405
subject: Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
classificationCode: 410406
subject: Natural resource management
classificationCode: 410407
subject: Wildlife and habitat management

description: In continuation of my global research I share additional mangroves' research update with regards to my current participation in the Sheikh Zayed Sustainability Prize contest.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WOUND BOOK METHODS, ONLINE LEARNING (VIRTUAL LEARNING) AND DEMONSTRATION OF MODERN WOUND CARE ON THE SKILL COMPETENCE OF NURSES IN THE MEDICAL SURGICAL ROOM GAMBIRAN HOSPITAL KEDIRI CITY
Creators: name: Ary Dwi Wuryani
name: Novita Ana
name: Yenny Puspitasari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Wound Book Method, Virtual Learning, Demonstration, Care Competency Skills, Modern Wound Care.

description: Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Cases of amputation as a result of complications of diabetic gangrene in Indonesia experience a significant increase every year. The important role of nurses in care is still not optimal because they still use conventional wound care. This happens because not many nurses have received training in modern wound care.  Our research aims to determine the effectiveness of the wound book method, virtual learning and modern wound care demonstrations on nurse competency skills MATERIALS AND METHODS:  This research is a quantitative research that uses an observational analytical survey with a pre post test one design design which was carried out at the Gambiran Regional Hospital, Kediri City using a validated questionnaire. The areas evaluated include nurse competency skills before and after providing the wound book method, virtual learning and modern wound care demonstration methods.. RESULTS: Of the 110 nurses who were eligible for this study, only 105 participants answered the questionnaire.  Our research shows that there is a difference in nurse competency skills before and after giving the wound book method of modern wound care with a p value of 0.00, there is a difference in nurse competency skill before and after giving the virtual learning method of modern wound care with a p value of 0.00, there is a difference in skill nurse competency before and after providing the modern wound care demonstration method with a p value of 0.00, there is a significant difference in providing the wound book method, virtual learning and modern wound care demonstration on the competency skills of nurses with the most effective using the demonstration method with a p value of 0, 00 and F 30.574. CONCLUTION Our research shows that the modern wound care demonstration method is more effective in increasing nurses' competency skills in modern wound care. A more comprehensive and strategic modern wound care training program for all nurses needs to be carried out to help improve nurse competency skills in modern wound care.
Apostolepis barrioi Lema 1987
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis barrioi

description: Apostolepis barrioi Lema, 1987
Type locality. Cororó, Río Ypané, province of Concepción, Paraguay.
Distribution. Known from Brazil and Paraguay (Plt.233A). In Brazil, recorded in the southern portion of the Cerrado and contact areas with the Atlantic Forest (Plt. 233A), mostly at intermediate elevations (Fig. 233B). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 29, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
title: Antiretroviral treatment roll-out in Zambia and South Africa - a policy analysis to sub-national policy implementation processes
Creators: name: Hanefeld, J
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2010

description: From 2002 international and national policies transformed the availability of antiretroviral medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. By the end of 2008 an estimated 42 percent of people requiring such treatment were accessing medication and anti-retroviral treatment (ART) programmes had been rolled out in many countries (UNAIDS and WHO 2009). However, this expansion was implemented unevenly across and within different countries raising questions about the gap between policy intention and execution.
This thesis addresses this gap. It examines the processes of implementation, comparing rapid ART roll-out in Zambia with South Africa where implementation was initially much slower. It draws on both top-down and bottom-up perspectives to better understand factors hindering and enabling implementation. The focus is on actors and their networks and how they were able to exert power on the implementation of policy. It is a qualitative study that relies on document review and over 150 interviews conducted with actors in the policy processes in both countries, during field work in 2007 and 2008.
Findings confirmed the importance of communication, resources and structures in determining implementation, but the comparative analysis indicated their influence varied considerably according to context. The findings also offer new insights into how contrasting networks of actors affected implementation. A broad range of actors made it possible to roll-out ART in South Africa despite a hostile policy environment, by drawing on diverse sets of skills and ties that dated back to the anti-apartheid struggle.
In Zambia the network which most influenced ART roll-out was an epistemic community of clinicians, which, by forging alliances with PEPFAR implementing agencies was able to rapidly scale up access to treatment in spite of health systems constraints. The economic capital of donors allowed them to shape policy and blur boundaries between state and non-state actors in Zambia while social capital of networks was important in South Africa. Findings suggest that focusing on the sources of power of networks in implementation enriches the understanding of health policy processes.
Codata-Rda Research Data Science  School Curriculum
Creators: name: Shanahan, Hugh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Science
subject: Training
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This a short talk and poster on the curriculum of the CODATA-RDA schools given to Elixir in Amsterdam on April 5th 2018.
The Effects of Watching Sports on Social Motivation
Creators: name: Atias, Yonatan
name: Shussman, Ori
name: Shahak, Inbar
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is Pre-Registraion for our study in Experimental Psychology class in TLV University.
title: The assessment of frailty in community dwelling older people
Creators: name: Kamaruzzaman, S
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2010

description: Background: This thesis explores the concept of frailty, as a latent vulnerability in older people, with the aim of refining its measurement by generating a new measure of frailty - the British Frailty Index (FI). This index was developed and validated in a cohort of community-dwelling older women, the British Women's Heart and Health Study (BWHHS), in 23 towns in Britain. Findings were replicated in another large Medical Research Council (MRC) Assessment of Older People study

Methods: A systematic literature review examined the evolution of the concept and definitions of frailty. A meta-analysis on the prognostic value of current frailty measures confirmed extensive heterogeneity in the prediction of all-cause mortality despite consideration of age, sex, type of measure and duration of follow up. A 'General Specific' model of frailty was derived from factor analysis in the BWHHS population and replicated in the MRC cohort. Construct, external criterion and predictive validity of the British FI were assessed and its performance compared to another widely used index - the Canadian Frailty Index - with single indicators of frailty.

Results: Frailty was explained by seven factors; physical ability, cardiovascular and respiratory disease and symptoms, visual impairments, other comorbidities, psychological problems and physiological measures. Associations with frailty included increased age, female sex, smoking, living alone, not living in own home, poor social contact and low socioeconomic position. Frailty was an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in both cohorts and predicted hospitalization and institutionalization in the MRC study, performing better than the Canadian Index.

Conclusion: This thesis provides better understanding of the multi-dimensional domains of frailty in older people. The British FI demonstrates validity in relation to adverse outcomes, provides a more reliable measurement tool and its application offers further opportunities for the prevention, detection and treatment of frailty at a clinical level.
title: An evaluation of the performance and usage of ICT Pf malaria rapid diagnostic test, in the Limopo South Africa
Creators: name: Moonasar, D
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2009

description: Aim: This thesis aimed to evaluate the performance and usage of ICT Pf Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test (MRDT), in an operational setting in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Methods: Four studies were conducted to: assess factors affecting MRDT use (exploratory study- conducted as part of formative work); determine ICT Pf accuracy (cross-sectional study amongst 405 patients with prospective observational cohort component for follow-up); determine the performance of MRDT end-users (crosssectional observational study) and assess the suitability of using positive control antigen wells (PCWs) for routine quality control.
Results: Key informants reported that MRDT accuracy, end-user proficiency and MRDT quality affect MRDT use and impact. The accuracy study found that sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of ICT Pf test were 99.48% (99% Cl; 96.17-100.00%), 96.26% (99% Cl; 94.7-100%) 98.48 (99% Cl 98.41 -100.00%) and 96.26% (99% Cl 91.53-98.79%) respectively. Febrile patients with 'sweating' were 5 times more likely to be ICT Pf positive than those without sweating. Among the 68 patients who returned for day-seven follow up 23 (33%) were ICT Pf positive; however all were microscopy-negative. End-user proficiency: of the 15 recommended steps for MRDT use, 50% of end-users performed 11 or more steps correctly; 50% of end-users interpreted 90% of pre-prepared tests correctly. The false negative interpretation rate was 15%. The quality control study revealed that diluting PCWs with MRDT-negative blood gave better signals than diluting with citrate buffer. PCWs maintain signal strength when stored up to 30 days at 25°C at rural health clinics.
Conclusions: Although ICT Pf MRDT can be used for malaria diagnosis in Limpopo, test sensitivity at low level parasitaemias in field settings need to be established. The ICT Pf test should not be used for assessing cure post-treatment. End-user proficiency needs improvement. PCWs can be used to monitor MRDT quality at PHC level.
title: Gabriel Riesser und die Emanzipationsdebatte in Hamburg
Creators: name: Herzig, Arno
Publisher: name: Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Recht und Politik
subject: Wirtschaft und Berufsstruktur

description: Nach mehreren antijüdischen Ausschreitungen in Hamburg verfasste 1834
der dortige jüdische Jurist Gabriel Riesser im Auftrag des Comités
zur Verbesserung der bürgerlichen Verhältnisse der Israeliten die
„Denkschrift über die bürgerlichen Verhältnisse der Hamburgischen
Israeliten“, die dem Hamburger Rat als Supplik übergeben wurde. In
dieser 120 Seiten umfassenden Schrift, die als Manuskript gedruckt
wurde, brachte der Verfasser verschiedene Probleme, die im
Zusammenhang mit dem Bürgerrecht Recht der Selbstverwaltung;
Voraussetzungen für die Erlangung des Bürgerrechts waren frei
vererbbarer Grundbesitz, das Leisten eines Bürgereides und die
Zahlung eines Bürgergeldes; Adlige waren davon ausgeschlossenen; bis
1814 war es Angehörigen der lutherischen Kirche vorbehalten. [nach:
Helmut Stubbe-da Luz, Bürgerrecht, in: Franklin Kopitzsch / Daniel
Tilgner (Hrsg.), Hamburg Lexikon, Hamburg 1998, S. 92f.] standen, zur
Sprache, die er mit einem historischen Rückblick verband. Der hier
ausgewählte Text aus der Denkschrift umreißt in knapper Form
Riessers Argumentation für die Gleichstellung der Juden. Er fordert
hier die „volle rechtliche Gleichstellung aller Staatsbürger ohne
Unterschied des Glaubens" als wichtige Voraussetzung für das Wohl des
Staates.
Moderators of the Relationship Between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Externalizing Problems
Creators: name: Batky, Blair
name: Tackett, Jennifer L
name: Shields, Allison
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The current study aims to examine moderators of the relationships between Callous-Unemotional (CU) traits and externalizing psychopathology in youth. This study will investigate whether variables related to parenting, internalizing problems, and five-factor model personality traits may moderate the associations between CU traits and externalizing behavior problems.
Integrated Functional Adult Education in Afar Pastoralist Community in Ethiopia: Practices and Prospects
Creators: name: Engidasew, Ziyn
Publisher: name: The Ethiopian Journal of Education
Year: 2022

description: The major objective of this study is to examine the status of implementations of Integrated functional Adult Education (IFAE) program and analyze peculiar and context specific challenges in the Afar transhumant pastoralist community. To serve this purpose, a descriptive survey research method and mixed explanatory approach are employed. Simple random sampling and available sampling techniques are used to select key informants. Focus Group Discussion(FGD), interview and questionnaire are instruments of data collection.The qualitative data are organized based on dominant views, whereas the quantitative data are analyzed using descriptive inferential statistics.The analysis result indicate that the participation of transhumant pastorallist Afar adults in IFAE programe is abysmally low because of inproper planning of the programe in the context of transhumant pastoralism (dominant ways of livilihoods of Afar community) irrelevance of curriculum contents, lack of awareness of the purpose of Integrated Functional Adult Education, and sentiments that education brings less return compared with livestock rearing.The challenges in the proper implementation of IFAE in the region is found to be demand-side and supply-side, hence the study recommends both supply-side and demand-side intervention strategic options so as to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for transhumant pastoralist Afar community in Ethiopia.
description: The Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): The Ethiopian Journal of Education
Practices and Prospects of Enhancing Employability of Addis Ababa University Engineering Graduates
Creators: name: Shimeket, Tesfamariam
name: Oumer, Jeilu
Publisher: name: The Ethiopian Journal of Education
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the practice and prospects of graduate employability at the Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University. The study employed a mixed approach in which the quantitative aspect was a descriptive survey design. Four departments from three schools were purposively selected and included in the study. A total of 161 final-year (graduate class) students were selected by using a simple random sampling and all their respective instructors (i.e., 64) were consulted. Furthermore, two career center heads, two department heads, and three professional association heads were purposively selected and included. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire, interview, and document review. The collected data were analyzed through quantitative analysis techniques: mean percentage, independent sample t-test, principal components analysis and one way ANOVA. The qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The result of the study indicated that out of 29 employability enhancement factors, 17 factors were identified as significant factors by the principal factor analysis technique and used for further parametric tests. The study results also showed that instructors and students had similar awareness about graduate employability. Besides, one-way ANOVA signified that there were no statistically significant differences among departments in employability enhancement practices in three sets of employability enhancement practices out of four. Finally, the study concluded that the employability enhancement practices do not give adequate support to help students enhance their employability possibilities in the current and future labor market. The study recommended that the university needs to promote employability pedagogy that includes the practice-based and work-based teaching-learning process.
description: The Ethiopian Journal of Education, Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): The Ethiopian Journal of Education
title: Gabriel Riesser and the Emancipation Debate in Hamburg
Creators: name: Herzig, Arno
Publisher: name: Institute for the History of the German Jews
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Economy and Occupational Composition
subject: Law and Politics

description: In 1834, following several anti-Jewish excesses in Hamburg, the Jewish
jurist and native, Gabriel Riesser, commissioned by the Committee for
the Improvement of the Civil Conditions of Israelites  Comité zur
Verbesserung der bürgerlichen Verhältnisse der Israeliten, wrote
“Denkschrift über die bürgerlichen Verhältnisse der Hamburgischen
Israeliten” [“A Memorandum Concerning the Civil Conditions of the
Israelites of Hamburg”], which was presented to the Council as a
petition. In this document, comprising 120 printed pages, the author
raised various problems in connection to the citizenship right
 Bürgerrecht [citizenship right in the city]: The right of
self-government; the precondition for acquiring civil rights was
inherited real property, the swearing of a citizen’s oath, and the
one-time payment of “Bürgergeld” [citizenship fee]; members of
the nobility were excluded from this; until 1814 citizenship was
granted exclusively to members of the Lutheran church [see: Helmut
Stubbe-da Luz, “Bürgerrecht,” in: Franklin Kopitzsch / Daniel
Tilger (eds.), Hamburg Lexikon, Hamburg 1998, p. 92.], which he linked
to a historical survey. The present excerpted text from the memorandum
summarizes the essence of Riesser’s argument on behalf of equality
of status for Jews. He here advocates the “full legal equality of
all citizens, without distinction of faith” as an important
prerequisite for the well-being of the state.