cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
'You really can practice English in real life': mediating culture and language learning in a rest home
Creators: name: Andrew, Martin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Our society abounds with underutilised human resources for mediating linguistic practice and cultural learning resulting in agency. Learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) whether migrants or international students frequently report difficulties in finding contexts to practice English outside the classroom (Wright, 2006). Using a framework based around language socialisation, this paper reports on a case study identifying what learners gain linguistically, culturally and ontologically from prolonged interaction with the elderly at a rest home in Auckland. Four Chinese women who had undertaken a 10-hour community placement as part of a BA programme were asked to live onsite as caregivers as a result of their successful work as volunteers during their community placements. This project uses these students’ reflective diaries from their first placement, plus the transcript of a focus group interview conducted during the time they were living onsite, to address key questions about how the rest home and the volunteer sector in general, impact on actuating practice into social learning. To “really practice” allowed the four to apply linguistic strategies taught in the abstract context of the classroom; to observe firsthand aspects of culture that resonated with the elderly; to report on what sort of language was used in the homes and for what purposes, and to emerge with the feeling that even they could “make a difference”.
Simultaneously solving process selection, machining parameter optimization and tolerance design problems: A bi-criterion approach
Creators: name: Wang, Pei
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Industrial.
subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The selection of right process, use of optimal machining parameters and specification of best tolerance parameters have been recognized by industry as key issues to ensure product quality and reduce production cost. The three issues have thus attracted a great deal of attention over last several decades. However, they are often addressed separately in existing publications. In reality, the three issues are closely interrelated. Analyzing the three issues in isolation will inevitably lead to inconsistent, infeasible, or conflicting decisions. To avoid the drawbacks, an integrated approach is proposed to jointly solve process selection, machining parameter optimization, and tolerance design problems. The integrated problem is formulated as a bi-criterion model to handle both tangible and intangible costs. The model is solved using a modified Chebyshev goal programming method to achieve a preferred compromise between the two conflicting criteria. The application of the proposed bi-criterion approach has been demonstrated by first using the single component single part feature case. The integrated approach is then extended to the multiple components multiple part features case (the assembly case). Examples are provided to illustrate the application of the two models and the solution procedure. The results have shown that the decisions on process selection, machining parameter selection and tolerance design can be made simultaneously using the models.
title: Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals but not basic calcium phosphate (BCP) crystals induce Syndecan-4 expression in cartilage
Creators: name: Nasi, Sonia
name: Bertrand, Jessica
name: Bollmann, Miriam
name: Stange, Richard
name: Pap, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Chondrocalcinosis is a rheumatic condition caused by the deposition of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystals (CPPD) in joint tissues. It is known that CPPD crystals cause inflammation and degenerative changes in joint, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In particular,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Supplementary document for Uncertainty assessment of unattended above-water radiometric data collection from research vessels with the Dynamic Above-Water Radiance (L) and Irradiance (E) Collector (DALEC) - 4986829.pdf
Creators: name: Antoine, David
name: Slivkoff, Matthew
name: Klonowski, Wojciech
name: Kovach, Charles
name: ondrusek, michael
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional figures
title: Checklisten für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen
title: Anlagenbezogener Gewässerschutz: Checkliste 16: dauerh. Stillleg.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: anlagenbezogen
subject: Wasserverschmutzung
subject: Wasserschadstoffe
subject: Checkliste
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Basierend auf den Empfehlungen der internationalen Flussgebiets- und Gewässerkommissionen wurde ein Checklisten-Konzept entwickelt, welches eine effiziente Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen ermöglicht. Es enthält eine Übersicht  über potentielle Handlungsfelder sowie spezielle Checklisten, welche nach Funktionseinheiten, Branchen und Risikobereichen aufgeteilt sind.
title: Die Rolle von wnt5a und sFRP5 in der Pathogenese verschiedener chronisch entzündlicher Erkrankungen
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Ruben
name: Knappe, Carina
name: Hartmann, Katharina
name: Lieb, Wolfgang
name: Schulte, Dominik
name: Relling, Isabelle
name: Laudes, Matthias
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Das Zytokinsystem bestehend aus dem proinflammatorisch wirkenden Glykopeptid wnt5a und seinem antiinflammatorisch wirkenden löslichen wnt5a-Rezeptor sFRP5 ist bei Erkrankungen, die mit Entzündung assoziiert sind, dysreguliert. Das konnte bereits bei Adipositas, Sepsis und Parodontitis[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Combination of ketamine and xylazine with opioids and acepromazine in rats: Physiological changes and their analgesic effect analysed by ultrasonic vocalization
Creators: name: Alemán-Laporte, Jilma
name: Bandini, Luciana A
name: Garcia-Gomes, Mariana SA
name: Zanatto, Dennis A
name: Fantoni, Denise T
name: Amador Pereira, Marco A
name: Navas-Suárez, Pedro E
name: Kirsten, Thiago Berti
name: Jimenez, Randall R.
name: Alvarado, Gilbert
name: Mori, Claudia Cabrera
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anaesthetic protocol
subject: ultrasonic vocalization
subject: physiological measures
subject: refinement
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Analgesia
subject: Analgesie
subject: Verfeinerung

description: In this study, the effect of four anaesthetic protocols that included the combination of xylazine (X) and ketamine (K) with acepromazine (A) and opioids (methadone (Me), morphine (Mo) or tramadol (T)) was evaluated in laboratory rats of both sexes. Ultrasonic vocalization (USV) was used as an indicator of pain during the recovery period. The objective was to evaluate the physiological parameters and the analgesic effect of each protocol to determine which protocol was the safest and fulfil the requirements of a balanced anaesthesia. The better protocols were the XKA protocol for both sexes and the XKMe protocol for females because the combinations achieve surgical plane of anaesthesia in rats. However, pain assessment during the formalin test revealed that rats anaesthetized with XKA produced more numbers of USV, suggesting that it is not a good protocol for the control of immediate postoperative pain. All protocols produced depression in body temperature and respiratory and heart rates, and had important effects, such as micturition and maintenance of open eyes. Only rats anaesthetized with XKA protocol did not present piloerection. These results demonstrated that good monitoring and care during anaesthesia must be included to prevent complications that compromise the life of the animal and to ensure a good recovery. The inclusion of analgesia in anaesthesia protocols must be used routinely, ensuring minimal presence of pain and thus more reliable results in the experimental procedures.
title: Inhibition of Tyrosine Kinase 2 (TYK2) Improves Molecular, Cellular, and Clinical Biomarkers Associated with Efficacy in Psoriasis Without Impacting Janus Kinase (JAK) 1–3 Pathways
Creators: name: Catlett, Ian M.
name: Hu, Sarah
name: Banerjee, Subhashis
name: Gordon, Kenneth
name: Krüger, James
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: BMS-986165 is an oral inhibitor of TYK2, a kinase that activates cytokine signalling pathways involved in immune-mediated disease pathophysiology, such as in psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). BMS-986165 binds to the regulatory domain of TYK2, which [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Cdx-Hox protein interactions
Creators: name: Weber, Christine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Cdx and Hox gene families both code for homeodomain-containing transcription factors and both are required for proper patterning of the anterior-posterior axis. Although Cdx is known to be upstream of certain Hox genes, preliminary data indicated Cdx1 interacts in vitro with Hoxd4 but not Hoxa9, and that this interaction is localized to the C-terminal region of both proteins. GST-pulldown assays with in vitro radiolabelled proteins or transfected cell lysates were used to investigate the extent of the Cdx-Hox interactions. The interaction was narrowed down to specific residues in the first half of the homeodomain, but an inhibitory N-terminus can abrogate interaction in vitro. A larger group of Hox proteins interact with GST-Cdx when they are expressed in a cellular environment. This could mean that the interaction requires other cofactors, such as Hox cofactors Pbx and Meis that also interact with GST-Cdx1 in vitro. This study is the first example of Cdx-Hox protein interactions and suggests that the Cdx-Hox complex could be involved in the regulation of downstream Hox target genes.
In principio era il suono. La lingua perduta delle madri nella narrativa di Toni Morrison
Creators: name: Spallino, Chiara
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019
Subjects: American literature, translation, Toni Morrison

description: The essay aims to analyze Toni Morrison’s daring linguistic experimentation through her narrative use of sound, accurately chosen as a strategy to explore and possibly re-discuss, the concepts of race and gender at the core of her narratives. Specific attention will be drawn to the language of the mothers and their consequent use of sounds and words, filled with multiple meanings, seen as a fundamental tool capable of healing and reaffirming, to a certain extent, an African-American identity. By way of conclusion, the essay will mostly consider the figure of the mother in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Beloved (1987) through Morrison’s attention to the sounds of language.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
title: Utilidad de la RM en la estadificación local del cáncer de recto
Creators: name: Fernandez Lopez, Isabel Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Evaluar la utilidad de la resonancia magnética (RM) en la estadificación local del cáncer de recto,
correlacionando sus hallazgos con los de la anatomía patológica postquirúrgica: Establecer localización del tumor y tamaño Estadiaje T y N...
title: Hallazgos por imagen tras la reconstrucción mamaria mediante células madre de grasa autóloga.
Creators: name: Buitrago Weiland, Guadalupe
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
- Describir las diferentes alteraciones mamarias que pueden producirse tras la cirugía reconstructiva mediante la inyección de células madre derivadas de tejido adiposo autólogo. - Describir los hallazgos radiológicos de las mismas tras su...
title: Estudio del suelo pélvico femenino con RM.
Creators: name: Garcia del Salto Lorente, Laura
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Repasar la anatomía normal del suelo pélvico femenino. Describir la técnica deRM empleada ennuestro hospitalpara la valoracióndel suelo pélvico,
en especial la secuencia dinámica. Repasar las mediciones más empleadas en la evalución de la...
title: Visfatin alters lncRNA H19 and micro RNA 675-3p during osteogenesis
Creators: name: Küppers, Dennis
name: Tsiklauri, Lali
name: Frommer, Klaus
name: Rehart, Stefan
name: Ospelt, Caroline
name: Neumann, Elena
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Long non-coding (lnc-)RNA transcribed from DNA similar to mRNA are able to interact directly with DNA, RNA and proteins. Several lncRNAs contain micro (mi-)RNAs that can be released by splicing. lncRNA H19 includes two miRNAs 675-3p and -5p. Adipose tissue derived adipokines are involved[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 258 (33. Jg.), Januar 2003
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
title: IgG from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and systemic sclerosis have an influence on coagulation factors in human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells in-vitro
Creators: name: Hasseli, Rebecca
name: Singh, Pratibha
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
name: Kaps, Manfred
name: Blaes, Franz
name: Gerriets, Tibo
name: Tschernatsch-Gerriets, Marlene
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or systemic sclerosis (SSc) can show various symptoms of the central nervous system. Both disease entities are characterised by distinct autoantibodies and endothelial damage, especially in microvessels. Anti-endothelial cell autoantibodies[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Who can speak that language? Eleven-month-old infants have language-dependent expectations regarding speaker ethnicity
Creators: name: May, Lillian Anne
name: Baron, Andrew S.
name: Werker, Janet Feldman, 1951-
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2020

description: Research demonstrates that young infants attend to the indexical characteristics of speakers, including age, gender, and ethnicity, and that the relationship between language and ethnicity is intuitive among older children. However, little research has examined whether infants, within the first year, are sensitive to the co-occurrences of ethnicity and language. In this paper, we demonstrate that by 11 months of age, infants hold language-dependent expectations regarding speaker ethnicity. Specifically, 11-month-old English-learning Caucasian infants looked more to Asian versus Caucasian faces when hearing Cantonese versus English (Studies 1 & 3), but did not look more to Asian versus Caucasian faces when paired with Spanish (Study 2), making it unlikely that they held a general expectation that unfamiliar languages pair with unfamiliar faces. Moreover, infants who had regular exposure to one or more significant non-Caucasian individuals showed this pattern more strongly (Study 3). Given that infants tested were raised in a multilingual metropolitan area – which includes a Caucasian population speaking many languages, but seldom Cantonese, as well as a sizeable Asian population speaking both Cantonese and English – these results are most parsimoniously explained by infants having learned specific language-ethnicity associations based on those individuals they encountered in their environment.
The probability of self-employment exit: an event history analysis
Creators: name: Debrulle, Jonas
name: Maes, Johan
name: Sels, Luc
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines demographic and career related determinants of the probability of selfemployment survival and exit, separately for prior unemployed and prior employed individuals. Using data from a longitudinal panel of Belgian men and women for the period 1998 Q2 – 2007 Q4, we estimate discrete single and competing risks models. Our results indicate that 48% of the prior unemployed exit self-employment before the end of data collection, compared to 36% of the prior employed. Furthermore, we find that depending on the interest group different variables are strong predictors of self-employment tenure. Additionally, evidence is provided on the conditional probability of leaving self-employment for employment, unemployment and partial self-employment.
Scaling up “nano” Li4Ti5O12 for high-power lithium-ion anodes using large scale flame spray pyrolysis
Creators: name: Birrozzi, Agnese
name: Copley, Mark
name: Von Zamory, Jan
name: Pasqualini, Marta
name: Calcaterra, Silvia
name: Nobili, Francesco
name: Cicco, Andrea Di
name: Rajantie, Hanna
name: Briceno, Martha
name: Bilbé, Edward
name: Cabo-Fernandez, Laura
name: Hardwick, Laurence J.
name: Bresser, Dominic
name: Passerini, Stefano
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: battery
subject: binder
subject: flame spray pyrolysis
subject: Li4Ti5O12
subject: lithium-ion anode
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Electric batteries
subject: Flame spraying
subject: Lithium ion batteries
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Akkumulator
subject: Nanopartikel

description: Herein, we present the upscaled synthesis of nanoparticulate Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) by means of flame spray pyrolysis (FSP), yielding high phase purity and appropriate morphology for application as high-power lithium-ion anode material. Electrodes based on this optimized LTO nanopowder, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as binder, and copper as current collector revealed excellent rate performance, providing specific capacities of 133, 131, 129, 127, 124, and 115 mAh g−1 when applying C rates of 1C, 2C, 5C, 10C, 20C, and 50C, respectively. Targeting the commercial application of thus synthesized nanoparticles, we optimized also the electrode composition, comparing three different binding agents (CMC, PVdF, and poly(acrylic acid), PAA) and substituting the copper current collector by aluminum. The results of this comparative analysis show, that the combination of nanoparticulate LTO, CMC, and an aluminum current collector appears most suitable toward the realization of environmentally friendly and cost-efficient lithium-ion anodes, presenting very stable cycling performance for more than 1000 cycles at 10C without substantial capacity decay.
Supplementary document for Single-photon imaging over 200 km - 4987032.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Zheng-Ping
name: Ye, Juntian
name: Huang, Xin
name: Jiang, Peng-Yu
name: Cao, Yuan
name: Hong, Yu
name: Yu, Chao
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Peng, Cheng-Zhi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document provides supplementary information to “Single-photon imaging over 200 km".
Mennonite women's societies in Canada: A historical case study.
Creators: name: Redekop, Gloria L. Neufeld.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Religion, History of.

description: This study is a social history of Canadian Mennonite women's societies in the two largest Russian Mennonite denominations in Canada--the Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC) and the Mennonite Brethren (MB). Using archival materials and information generated by the author's survey, the thesis traces the growth and decline of Mennonite women's societies in Canada within CMC and MB churches established during the three periods of Russian immigration to Canada. Set within the historical context of the role of Mennonite women from the time of Anabaptism in the Netherlands, and through subsequent migrations to Prussia and Russia, it explores the development of Mennonite women's societies in Canada in the light of the changing role of Mennonite women both in the church and in society. It suggests that, in the early years, Mennonite women's societies gave Mennonite women an opportunity to serve God and fully participate in worship at a time when their roles were restricted in the church. In later years, interest in Mennonite women's societies declined. This thesis argues that Mennonite women's societies became a context for women's service to God. Motivated by the call of God through the biblical text, it was here that they organized for the support of missions as they raised money in their own creative ways. It was a context as well for fellowship and mutual support as women. For Mennonite women, their societies were also an avenue for spiritual growth. In their regular meetings they developed a worship ritual that was so strikingly similar to the components of the Sunday morning worship service in the church that we could say Mennonite women's societies functioned as a parallel church for Mennonite women. The decline of Mennonite women's societies occurred along with other trends in the church and society. Women were gradually being included within the official church structure. First they were granted the vote at church business meetings. Then their role was enlarged and they were able to take positions on church boards and committees. Not only were women becoming more involved in the church, they were also becoming more integrated into Canadian society. The women's movement did not leave Mennonite women untouched. From the late 1960s, they began to pursue higher education and employment outside the home. Concurrent with the changes in women's roles in church and society came a self-questioning of the usefulness of Mennonite women's societies as interest in membership was declining.
HIV leadership programming attendance is associated with PrEP and PEP awareness among young, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Closson, K.
name: Chown, Sarah
name: Armstrong, Heather L.
name: Wang, Lu
name: Bacani, Nicanor
name: Ho, Darren
name: Jollimore, Jody
name: Olarewaju, Gbolahan
name: Moore, David M.
name: Roth, Eric A.
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Lachowsky, Nathan J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (YGBM) may have reduced engagement and knowledge of HIV care and biomedical HIV prevention strategies, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), and Treatment as Prevention (TasP), compared with adult GBM. We sought to understand differences in HIV prevention awareness, health care access, and service utilization between youth (16–29 years) and adult (≥30 year) GBM, as well as factors associated with attendance in HIV leadership programming among YGBM living in the publicly funded PrEP setting of Vancouver, Canada. Methods: Sexually-active GBM were recruited using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) from February 2012 to February 2015. Participants completed an in-person computer-assisted self-interview every 6 months, up to February 2017, with questions on sociodemographic factors, awareness of biomedical HIV prevention strategies, and an HIV treatment optimism-skepticism scale. Participants were asked if they had ever attended either of two HIV-leadership programs designed for YGBM. Both programs involve multiple GBM-led education and social networking sessions operated by community-based organizations in Vancouver. Multivariable Glimmix confounder models assessed differences between youth and adult GBM. Among younger men, bivariate analyses examined factors associated with HIV-leadership program attendance. Results: Of 698 GBM who enrolled in the longitudinal study, 36.8% were less than 30 years old at the first study visit. After controlling for gender identification, sexual orientation, HIV status, and income in the past 6 months, younger GBM (n = 257/698) had lower awareness of biomedical HIV prevention strategies and less HIV treatment optimism compared with older GBM (n = 441/698). Among younger GBM who attended HIV-leadership programs (n = 50), greater awareness of biomedical HIV prevention strategies and higher HIV treatment optimism were reported, compared with non-attendees. Conclusion: Younger GBM, who are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, are less aware of new prevention technologies than older GBM, but attending peer-based HIV-leadership programs ameliorates age-disparities in HIV-prevention knowledge and treatment optimism.
Supplementary document for Single-photon imaging over 200 km - 4987032.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Zheng-Ping
name: Ye, Juntian
name: Huang, Xin
name: Jiang, Peng-Yu
name: Cao, Yuan
name: Hong, Yu
name: Yu, Chao
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Peng, Cheng-Zhi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document provides supplementary information to “Single-photon imaging over 200 km".
What matters 2015 - Annual Report of the German Environment Agency
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Umweltbundesamt
subject: annual report
subject: The UBA
subject: German Environment Agency
subject: The UBA

description: Nitrogen. Too much of a good thing?Useful or harmful? A substance with many facetsThe element nitrogen is essential for all life on earth. In order to act as a building block of life however, it must form chemical compounds with other elements and thus be converted into its reactive state. Despite being the principle component of our atmosphere, molecular atmospheric nitrogen cannot be used directly by most living organisms.Waste not, want notHow the modern circular economy worksThe growing level of global consumption requires us to rethink how we deal with natural resources. A circular economy – one which fully integrates all aspects ranging from product design, sustainable production methods and patterns of consumption to recycling – makes significant contributions to resource conservation.Mobility of the futureThe (energy) transition in the transport sectorThe transport sector, especially road transport, is responsible for around 18 percent of German greenhouse gases – and is, unfortunately, the only area that has not been able to reduce its emissions since 1990. To change this situation, a large part of the traffic must be avoided in the first place and low-emission modes must become more widely implemented. In addition, we need a significantly more climate-friendly energy supply for the traffic.
Spaghetti blackface. Pratiche performative al di là della linea del colore
Creators: name: De Franceschi, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In the Italian box office top list of the season 2014-15, two titles emerge, sharing the choice of blackface as the performing strategy of one or more characters, Il ricco, il povero e il maggiordomo (The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler, by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, and Giacomo Bertacca, 2014) and La scuola più bella del mondo (The Most Beautiful School in the World, by Luca Miniero, 2014). The good result at the box office of comedies like these, aiming at a broad, mainstream audience, may tell us something substantial on the image in which a consistent segment of the Italian society identifies with. Furthermore, it revives a spectre, that of the performative embodiment of the Other, more specifically of the Black-as-Other, that for a long time has haunted the acting experience and the image of Italian XXth Century, through plays, films, picture books, commercials. In this article I try to sketch a history of blackface in Italian film, exploring the theoretical and transcultural/translational issues evoked by this tradition of performing rhetoric through a film studies approach oriented by questions of race, gender and class. If historically blackface re-emerges as white dominant groups consider at risk their privilege status and feel the urge to use stereotypes to reinforce it, it is even more threatening to experience this resurgence in Italy, a former minor colonial power, where migrant and postmigrant groups are still fighting to obtain a basic level of civil and social rights.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Sensitivity and specificity of loss of heterozygosity analysis for the classification of rare germline variants in BRCA1/2: results of the observational AGO-TR1 study (NCT02222883)
Creators: name: Hauke, Jan
name: Harter, Philipp
name: Ernst, Corinna
name: Burges, Alexander
name: Schmidt, Sandra
name: Reuss, Alexander
name: Borde, Julika
name: De Gregorio, Nikolaus
name: Dietrich, Dimo
name: El-Balat, Ahmed
name: Kayali, Mohamad
name: Gevensleben, Heidrun
name: Hilpert, Felix
name: Altmüller, Janine
name: Heimbach, André
name: Meier, Werner
name: Schoemig-Markiefka, Birgid
name: Thiele, Holger
name: Kimmig, Rainer
name: Nürnberg, Peter
name: Kast, Karin
name: Richters, Lisa
name: Sehouli, Jalid
name: Schmutzler, Rita K
name: Hahnen, Eric
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Genetic predisposition to disease
subject: Genetic testing
subject: Genetic research
subject: Germ-line mutation
subject: Humangenetik
subject: Prädisposition
subject: Keimbahn
subject: Mutation

description: Variant-specific loss of heterozygosity (LOH) analyses may be useful to classify BRCA1/2 germline variants of unknown significance (VUS). The sensitivity and specificity of this approach, however, remains unknown. We performed comparative next-generation sequencing analyses of the BRCA1/2 genes using blood-derived and tumour-derived DNA of 488 patients with ovarian cancer enrolled in the observational AGO-TR1 trial (NCT02222883). Overall, 94 pathogenic, 90 benign and 24 VUS were identified in the germline. A significantly increased variant fraction (VF) of a germline variant in the tumour indicates loss of the wild-type allele; a decreased VF indicates loss of the variant allele. We demonstrate that significantly increased VFs predict pathogenicity with high sensitivity (0.84, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.91), poor specificity (0.63, 95% CI 0.53 to 0.73) and poor positive predictive value (PPV; 0.71, 95% CI 0.62 to 0.79). Significantly decreased VFs predict benignity with low sensitivity (0.26, 95% CI 0.17 to 0.35), high specificity (1.0, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.00) and PPV (1.0, 95% CI 0.85 to 1.00). Variant classification based on significantly increased VFs results in an unacceptable proportion of false-positive results. A significantly decreased VF in the tumour may be exploited as a reliable predictor for benignity, with no false-negative result observed. When applying the latter approach, VUS identified in four patients can now be considered benign. Trial registration number NCT02222883.
Politiche della razza all'opera. L'Aida in Egitto come caso studio
Creators: name: Paniconi, Maria Elena
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: In this article I emphasize the key-role played by the representation of a racial hierarchy in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, showing how, in its fortunate Egyptian re-edition, this Opera is still represented as a perpetual mise en scène of a racial stereotype. After tracing the genesis of Aida I explain how, since its première in Cairo in 1871, this magnificent opera has become representative of a whole set of modern symbolic values for the Egyptian ruling élite, being able of representing their own colonial project on Sudan on the one side, and evoking - through the clashes between Egyptians and Ethiopians - a modern extra-European and colonial context on the other. Although I move from Said's understanding of Aida as "aesthetic of separation", I show how the character of Aida herself escapes from the rigid color division mainly proposed in the scene by virtue of her liminal nature. The last part of my article shows some examples of a series of highly racialized scenes, thanks to a selection of photos by the Cairo Opera House Archives (1999 - 2011).
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Supplementary document for Crossed optical cavities with large mode diameters - 4987115.pdf
Creators: name: Heinz, André
name: Trautmann, Jan
name: Santic, Neven
name: Park, Annie
name: Bloch, Immanuel
name: Blatt, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1 containing a derivation of Eqn. (3) in the main text.
Added value and determinants of the effectiveness of business incubation programs to incubators' clients: an Australian experience
Creators: name: Abduh, Muhamad
name: D'Souza, Clare
name: Burley, Harry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper has two main purposes: to investigate value added contributions of business incubation programs (BIPs) from the perspective of incubator and to assess the effectiveness of BIPs by exploring circumstances (factors) where the BIPs are perceived as adding greater value and benefit to the incubator clients. Based on the previous research, this study developed a conceptual framework and several measures to assess the value added contributions and effectiveness of BIPs to incubator clients. It is conceptualized that while the value added contribution of the programs provide perceived clients’ benefits, effectiveness results in a higher level of benefits to clients. The effectiveness of BIPs was assessed by examining the factors affecting the variance of the value added contribution using a stepwise regression analysis. The proposed conceptual framework was tested using responses of 111 clients located in 24 business incubators in Australia. The results indicate that BIPs have resulted in significant value added contributions as perceived by the incubator clients. These include: reducing operational costs, enhancing business image, shortening learning curve, helping to solve business problems faster, increasing confidence, and accelerating overall business development. However, the perceived added value contributions varied among clients and the effectiveness of BIPs was found to be affected by seven factors: perceived usefulness of assistance services, intervention competence of incubator management, client age, client previous entrepreneurial experience in similar business area, length of clients’ tenancy in an incubator, business size and incubator age.
Metacognitive knowledge and skilled sport performance.
Creators: name: Toward, Jeffrey Ian.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Education, Physical.

description: This investigation sought to examine expert-novice differences in metacognitive knowledge about action and metacognitive skill functioning, as they relate to the performance of the basketball foul shot. Twenty-four female undergraduate students served as subjects in this investigation. Twelve of the 24 subjects were classified as basketball experts (Group one) and 12 as basketball novices (Group two). Classification as either an expert or novice was dependent upon the total number of seasons having played competitive basketball. Both groups of subjects performed three tasks, each designed to assess a different aspect of their metacognitive functioning. Task one sought to identify group differences in the declarative component of metacognitive knowledge about action through the collection and comparison of instructional verbal protocols. Task two sought to identify both between group differences and the within group relationship between one's actions and the corresponding verbal description of those actions through the collection and comparison of verbal and visual protocols. It was believed that such a comparison would serve to identify group differences in the procedural component of metacognitive knowledge about action. Finally, Task three sought to identify group differences in metacognitive skill functioning as determined through each subject's ability to monitor her performance, predict performance outcomes, and explain the predictions made. When combined, the results obtained at these three tasks suggested that, specific to performance of the basketball foul shot, the level of metacognitive knowledge about action and metacognitive skill possessed by the subject within this investigation was a function of their level of expertise. The 'expert' subjects within Group one were seen to provide complete and accurate instruction in the proper execution of a basketball foul shot. Their ability to accurately describe the actions produced at Task two indicated that they possessed higher levels of the procedural component of metacognitive knowledge about action when compared to Group two subjects. Group one subjects were seen to make significantly more fouls hosts than Group two subjects at Task three and were also significantly better than Group two subjects with respect to their ability to monitor and successfully predict their performance outcomes. The results obtained at this investigation served to highlight the important, yet often overlooked, association between action and cognition.
title: Modified endothelial cells and rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts interactions via activin A andfollistatin
Creators: name: Aykara, Iris
name: Diller, Magnus
name: Rehart, Stefan
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
name: Neumann, Elena
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: The autoregulatory antiinflammatory activin/follistatin-cycle is known from the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have elevated activin A levels in synovial fluid and tissue. Activin A is released during inflammation then inducing its antagonist[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Ibridità (im)possibili. Discorso coloniale e meticciato in Mal d'Africa di Bacchelli e Sambadù, amore negro di Mura
Creators: name: Derobertis, Roberto
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: This essay aims at exploring, connecting and understanding historical events such as the official beginning of Fascist antisemitism and its colonial racist roots, Italian colonial War on Ethiopia, racial laws, and cultural artifacts (mainly the novels Mal d'Africa by Riccardo Bacchelli and Sambadù, amore negro by Maria Volpi Nannipieri), which happened and circulated in Italy around 1934 and 1938. At this specific conjuncture, an internationally isolated Fascist Italy was going to conquer Ethiopia, while African people were arriving from its long term colonies (such as Eritrea), jazz music was played and consumed in the urban nightlife of the country and literature – but also periodicals, advertising, popular culture and common sense – were contributing to the clash of and the coexistence between colonial anti-African racism, sexism and the disturbing/seducing appeal of racial hybridity, which was one of the long term effects of the colonial encounter. At the same time, the foundational racism based on the anthropological, cultural and political discrimination of southern Italians was being temporarily hidden under wider race relations and different color lines. Finally, the essay ties and interprets the connections between specific phenomena concerning race in the Thirties with the haunting ghosts of race in contemporary Italy (anti-migrant racism and the presence of second generation migrants), thus trying to untangle some of the relations that, in Italian colonial modernity, live in that confusing location where hybridity shows that similarities are stronger than differences and whiteness is mainly the effect of white washing processes.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
title: A non-naïve and autoimmune prone IgD+ B cell pool is selectively supported by fibroblast like synoviocytes (FLS)
Creators: name: Bleck, Dennis
name: Schneider, Matthias
name: Pongratz, Georg
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: IgD+ B cells show increased autoimmune potential compared to other subpopulations and serum IgD levels are increased in autoimmune disease [ref:1], [ref:2]. We investigated B cell-FLS co-cultures because FLS might be an essential factor in promoting the IgD+[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Tammurriata Nera. Sessualità interrazziale nel secondo dopoguerra italiano
Creators: name: Perilli, Vincenza
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2020

description: Since the liberal era, “half-breeds” have been one of the greatest problems Italian colonial racism had to face. From the initial absence of explicit prohibitions to useless and confused attempts to stop “interracial sexual unions” (long tolerated only in the form of the “madamato”), to the Empire’s final prohibition of “unions of conjugal nature” between “nationals” and “subjects” (which introduced the asymmetry of the entwined relationship of race and gender; see Sòrgoni 1998), the “miscegenation” problem was continuously short circuited by the popular image that the racist discourse had helped construct. After WorldWar II, while the new republic attempted to put the ugliness of colonialism behind as the mere product of fascist barbarism, a heavy silence fell around the issue of the “mixed” children who were abandoned by their Italian fathers in Africa, while the birth of “mulatto” children by “Italian” women and non white allied soldiers, reintroduced the “problem” in the heart of the metropolis. In this paper , using archival documents, and iconographic, literary and cine-matographic sources, I analyze the strategies empluyed to conceal the unions and births of those who would represent, to cite an Italian deputy during a Constituent Assembly session in 1947) “the […] Nation’s abjection” because of the “Italian-black colour of their cheeks.” The analysis reveals the persistence of violent relationships of domination after the war, simultaneously “racial- ized” and “gendered”, which are still affecting our postcolonial present.
description: Iperstoria, No 6 (2015): La 'realtà' trasnazionale della razza. Dinamiche di razzializzazione in prospettiva comparata
Réception en diversité d'espace avec combinaison de signaux sélectionnés pour la radiocommunication intérieure de 20 à 60 GHz.
Creators: name: Roy, Yves.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: Cette these explore la possibilite de doter de plusieurs antennes des recepteurs portables operant a l'interieur des edifices dans la bande des frequences allant de 20 a 60 GHz. Elle presente d'abord un modele a deux rayons de la propagation des ondes millimetriques a l'interieur des edifices et des resultats experimentaux qui valident les hypotheses qui sous-tendent ce modele. Vient ensuite la description de trois techniques nouvelles d'exploitation de la diversite qui proviendrait de l'emploi de plusieurs antennes de reception. Ces techniques impliquent la combinaison coherente ou non coherente d'un nombre restreint de signaux captes selectionnes a cause de la grandeur de leur valeur presentee de rapport signal sur bruit. La comparaison des risques d'erreurs de demodulation associes a l'emploi de ces techniques lorsqu'il y a modulation binaire de la phase des signaux transmis revele que des trois techniques, c'est la technique dite de "combinaison non coherente avec selection par groupe" qui est la plus prometteuse.
title: Lokale Produktion von Interleukin-26 in ankylosierender Spondylitis und Psoriasisarthritis
Creators: name: Hammitzsch, Ariane
name: Ossadnik, Andreas
name: Merwald-Fraenk, Helga
name: Witt, Matthias
name: Wiesent, Franziska
name: Mühlhofer, Heinrich
name: Bowness, Paul
name: Arbogast, Martin
name: Schmaderer, Christoph
name: Moog, Philipp
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Interleukin-26 (IL-26), ein proinflammatorisches und antimikrobielles Zytokin, wird hauptsächlich von Interleukin-1-Rezeptor-I-positiven (IL-1R1) T-Helferzellen Typ 17 (Th17-Zellen) produziert. Th17-Zellen spielen eine wichtige Rolle in der Pathogenese der Spondylarthritiden (SPA). [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)