cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Image usefulness of compressed surveillance footage with different scene contents
Creators: name: Tsifouti, Anastasia
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The police use both subjective (i.e. police staff) and automated (e.g. face recognition systems) methods for the completion of visual tasks (e.g person identification). Image quality for police tasks has been defined as the image usefulness, or image suitability of the visual material to satisfy a visual task. It is not necessarily affected by any artefact that may affect the visual image quality (i.e. decrease fidelity), as long as these artefacts do not affect the relevant useful information for the task. The capture of useful information will be affected by the unconstrained conditions commonly encountered by CCTV systems such as variations in illumination and high compression levels. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate aspects of image quality and video compression that may affect the completion of police visual tasks/applications with respect to CCTV imagery. This is accomplished by investigating 3 specific police areas/tasks utilising: 1) the human visual system (HVS) for a face recognition task, 2) automated face recognition systems, and 3) automated human detection systems. These systems (HVS and automated) were assessed with defined scene content properties, and video compression, i.e. H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The performance of imaging systems/processes (e.g. subjective investigations, performance of compression algorithms) are affected by scene content properties. No other investigation has been identified that takes into consideration scene content properties to the same extend. Results have shown that the HVS is more sensitive to compression effects in comparison to the automated systems. In automated face recognition systems, `mixed lightness' scenes were the most affected and `low lightness' scenes were the least affected by compression. In contrast the HVS for the face recognition task, `low lightness' scenes were the most affected and `medium lightness' scenes the least affected. For the automated human detection systems, `close distance' and `run approach' are some of the most commonly affected scenes. Findings have the potential to broaden the methods used for testing imaging systems for security applications.
Distinguishing modified gravity models
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: Davis, Anne-Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modified gravity models with screening in local environments appear in three different guises: chameleon, K-mouflage and Vainshtein mechanisms. We propose to look for differences between these classes of models by considering cosmological observations at low redshift. In particular, we analyse the redshift dependence of the fine structure constant and the proton to electron mass ratio in each of these scenarios. When the absorption lines belong to unscreened regions of space such as dwarf galaxies, a time variation would be present for chameleons. For both K-mouflage and Vainshtein mechanisms, the cosmological time variation of the scalar field is not suppressed in both unscreened and screened environments, therefore enhancing the variation of constants and their detection prospect. We also consider the time variation of the redshift of distant objects using their spectrocopic velocities. We find that models of the K-mouflage and Vainshtein types have very different spectroscopic velocities as a function of redshift and that their differences with the $Λ$-CDM template should be within reach of the future ELT- HIRES observations.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
The Everyday Lives of Adults with Learning Disabilities who have Moved Out of Hospital through Transforming Care
Creators: name: Mitchell, Olivia
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Intellectual disability
Learning disability
Quality of life
Transforming Care
Hospital
Everyday life
Community
Mental health

description: The UK’s Transforming Care programme has aimed to reduce the number of people with intellectual disabilities being placed in mental health hospitals. However, a lack of good quality community provision has been linked to delays the discharge, as well as community placement breakdown and hospital readmission. Recent UK government plans recognise the importance of the perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities in developing better community support. However, the voices of people who have moved through Transforming Care are largely absent from the research being built around its long-term impacts. There is therefore limited in understanding on the factors that support this group of people to have a good quality of life in the community. The current study used a qualitative design to explore the everyday experiences of people with ID who have moved out of hospital through Transforming Care from their own perspective, in order to deepen the understanding of what enhances/undermines their QoL in the community. It had a secondary aim to understand the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on this group of people’s everyday lives. Data was used from the existing Making Positive Moves research programme (The University of Hertfordshire), including 19 semi-structured interviews from 10 people. Key Support People, who knew the person well, supported people in some of the interviews (n=7). Using thematic analysis, four main themes were developed in relation to how participants spent their everyday lives, including ‘Leisure’, ‘Work’, ‘Personal Development’, and ‘Connecting with Others’. In addition, six main themes were developed in relation to the more in-depth meaning given to everyday experiences: ‘The Value of Autonomy’, ‘The Continued Impact of Hospital’, ‘The Value of Supportive Relationships’, ‘Safety through Support’, ‘Being Included’, and ‘The Importance of Giving to Others’. A novel finding was that support (most notably from staff working with the individuals) was key in supporting people to be autonomous following a move from hospital. The Coronavirus pandemic was found to have a range of impacts of people’s activities and wellbeing and seemed to have a more neutral/less significant impact for some. A number of clinical implications are discussed, relevant for staff working with adults who have moved out of hospital through Transforming Care.
Some comments on the discussion at the Accademia dei Lincei
Creators: name: Ginzburg, Carlo
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Concluding remarks. Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013) [Selected papers from the first edition of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation) held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012.]
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
2013 AHA/ACC guideline on lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular risk: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: A healthy lifestyle is important in the prevention of CVD, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The intent of the Lifestyle Work Group (Work Group) was to evaluate evidence that particular dietary patterns, nutrient intake, and levels and types of physical activity can play a major role in CVD prevention and treatment through effects on modifiable CVD risk factors (ie, blood pressure [BP] and lipids). These ESs and recommendations may be used as appropriate in the management of hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. The target audience of the report is primary care providers.
The Experience of Trainee Clinical Psychologists from Chinese Cultural Backgrounds - a Discourse Analysis
Creators: name: Zhou, Zheng
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical psychology
Chinese
culture
cultural difference
training
trainee
psychologist
discourse analysis
system

description: This study aimed to explore how trainee clinical psychologists from Chinese cultural backgrounds make sense of their Doctorate Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) training. By attending to this under-explored topic, this research hopes to elucidate the influence of potential taken-for-granted training structures and possible power dynamic on Chinese trainees within a profession lacking cultural diversity. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with Chinese trainee clinical psychologists. Embracing a social constructionist epistemological paradigm, the collected data were analysed using a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) (Foucault, 1984), guided by Willig’s framework of FDA (Willig, 2008). The findings revealed five major discursive constructions. These include: “competency in expressing oneself”, “challenges in maintaining social connection”, “problems arising from being the cultural other”, “issues with being given a ‘BAME’ label” and “the symbolic capital”. This research explored the shape these discursive constructions take; and offered initiatives that could be needed to raise cultural humility and sensitivity towards Chinese culture within the clinical psychology profession.
The Spatially-Resolved Star Formation History of the M31 Outer Disc
Creators: name: Bernard, Edouard J.
name: Ferguson, Annette M. N.
name: Chapman, Scott C.
name: Ibata, Rodrigo A.
name: Irwin, Mike J.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: McConnachie, Alan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys observations of the stellar populations in two fields lying at 20 and 23 kpc from the centre of M31 along the south-west semi-major axis. These data enable the construction of colour-magnitude diagrams reaching the oldest main-sequence turn-offs (~13 Gyr) which, when combined with another field at 25 kpc from our previous work, we use to derive the first precision constraints on the spatially-resolved star formation history of the M31 disc. The star formation rates exhibit temporal as well as field-to-field variations, but are generally always within a factor of two of their time average. There is no evidence of inside-out growth over the radial range probed. We find a median age of ~7.5 Gyr, indicating that roughly half of the stellar mass in the M31 outer disc was formed before z ~ 1. We also find that the age-metallicity relations (AMRs) are smoothly increasing from [Fe/H]~-0.4 to solar metallicity between 10 and 3 Gyr ago, contrary to the flat AMR of the Milky Way disc at a similar number of scale lengths. Our findings provide insight on the roles of stellar feedback and radial migration in the formation and evolution of large disc galaxies.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Re-submitted to MNRAS after addressing the referee's comments
Michael Curtis, "Orientalism and Islam. European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India", Cambridge University Press, 2009, 382 pages
Creators: name: Minuti, Rolando
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
"The Faustian Century. German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus". Laan, J.M. van der and Weeks, Andrew, eds. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013
Creators: name: Hessayon, Ariel
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
MaCH: Using sequence and genotype data to estimate haplotypes and unobserved genotypes
Creators: name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) can identify common alleles that contribute to complex disease susceptibility. Despite the large number of SNPs assessed in each study, the effects of most common SNPs must be evaluated indirectly using either genotyped markers or haplotypes thereof as proxies. We have previously implemented a computationally efficient Markov Chain framework for genotype imputation and haplotyping in the freely available MaCH software package. The approach describes sampled chromosomes as mosaics of each other and uses available genotype and shotgun sequence data to estimate unobserved genotypes and haplotypes, together with useful measures of the quality of these estimates. Our approach is already widely used to facilitate comparison of results across studies as well as meta‐analyses of GWAS. Here, we use simulations and experimental genotypes to evaluate its accuracy and utility, considering choices of genotyping panels, reference panel configurations, and designs where genotyping is replaced with shotgun sequencing. Importantly, we show that genotype imputation not only facilitates cross study analyses but also increases power of genetic association studies. We show that genotype imputation of common variants using HapMap haplotypes as a reference is very accurate using either genome‐wide SNP data or smaller amounts of data typical in fine‐mapping studies. Furthermore, we show the approach is applicable in a variety of populations. Finally, we illustrate how association analyses of unobserved variants will benefit from ongoing advances such as larger HapMap reference panels and whole genome shotgun sequencing technologies.
Implementation of molecular techniques in the diagnosis of legionnaires’ disease and in the investigation of legionella outbreaks
Creators: name: Mentasti, Massimo
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: Background. Legionnaires’ Disease (LD) is a mild to severe, potentially lethal, respiratory syndrome caused by members of the Legionella genus, in particular L. pneumophila serogroup (sg) 1 alone causes about 95% of culture confirmed cases. The infection is usually acquired by inhalation of aerosols originating from contaminated fresh water sources, consequently typing of both clinical and environmental isolates is crucial to rapidly identify the possible source and prevent further cases. Legionellae are difficult to isolate by culture, moreover as respiratory samples are not available for up to 65% patients, alternative techniques are needed to diagnose LD and maximise the amount of typing data that can be obtained to aid investigations. Urinary antigen detection and serology provide very limited information regarding the infecting strain, while the advent of PCR and Sanger sequencing has allowed reliable diagnostic and typing methods to be introduced. Objectives. The aim of this study was to improve existing diagnostic and typing molecular assays, and to develop new ones to further standardise diagnostic and typing procedures across members of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group for Legionella Infections (ESGLI). Utility of the assays was assessed in both routine and outbreak scenarios. Methods. A wide range of both in silico and in vitro experiments were used to design and validate specific oligonucleotides to improve detection and typing of L. pneumophila. Genomic DNA was manually extracted and prepared for Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) using Illumina platforms. A bioinformatic approach was used to design a WGS based typing scheme and decipher the evolution of L. pneumophila sg1 Sequence Type (ST) 47, a major disease-causing strain. Results. A real-time PCR detecting L. pneumophila and sg1 specific targets was validated with international colleagues and made available to ESGLI members. Sequence based typing was improved and expanded, and specific typing guidelines produced. A 50 gene core-genome MLST was identified as the best approach to improve the current typing method. ST47 was shown to be a ‘chimera’ between ST109 and ST62, and a specific real-time PCR was designed to detect this strain. Conclusions. The results of this study allowed researchers to obtain faster and more accurate diagnosis of LD, and L. pneumophila typing data from both isolates and primary samples. A metagenomics approach is presently under evaluation to obtain typing results by WGS directly from clinical and environmental samples.
Heriades truncorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Heriades
Heriades truncorum

description: Heriades truncorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 26.VI.2004, percée vers bassin d'orage, Cirsium sp., 2J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Dirigere, riformare, educare: pratiche femminili nella diffusione delle tradizioni dionisiache
Creators: name: Massa, Francesco
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2012

description: The article aims to analyze the educational function of women in the dionysiac rituals in the Greek and Roman world, concentrating on literary, epigraphic and iconographic sources. Through this investigation, the research underlines three different feminine functions inside the dionysiac practices: 1. the role in the institution or reformation of bacchic ceremonies; 2. the leadership of associations in the honour of Dionysus; 3. the transmission of dionysiac rituals and traditions.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 8 (2012): «Scuola. Riforme, sistemi educativi, insegnamento»
Trainees’ Experiences of Transition from Maternity Leave back into Clinical Psychology Training
Creators: name: Selema, Laura
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Return to work
Trainee experiences
Maternity Leave
Clinical psychology training

description: Women encounter many transitions following the birth of a child and on return to work. Whilst there have been studies exploring women’s return into the workplace, a literature review revealed limited research into trainee clinical psychologists’ experiences of transitioning. This study aimed to explore trainees’ transition from maternity leave back into clinical psychology training. A qualitative design using thematic analysis was employed. Twenty trainee clinical psychologists who had returned from maternity leave and were currently studying on a doctoral clinical psychology course were recruited. Three primary themes emerged from the data: (1) Weathering the storm: motherhood and work, (2) Learning through the experiences of motherhood, and (3) Fighting injustice. The findings highlight a need for increased provisions to support a smooth transition back into clinical psychology training. Provisions include providing a strong support framework, better return to work practices, and tackling cultural and systemic barriers impacting trainees’ return process. Clinical implications and specific recommendations are drawn from the findings with suggestions made for future research.
ESM - preregistration of data collection procedure and methods
Creators: name: Anvari, Farid
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a preregistration of the data collection protocol and the measures that are included as part of the protocol. All details are contained in the attached microsoft word document with navigable headings. The preregistration here has been copy and pasted from that document.
The lattice Boltzmann method for isothermal micro-gaseous flow and its application in shale gas flow: a review
Creators: name: Wang, Junjian
name: Chen, Li
name: Kang, Qinjun
name: Rahman, Sheik S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has experienced tremendous advances and been well accepted as a popular method of simulation of various fluid flow mechanisms on pore scale in tight formations. With the introduction of an effective relaxation time and slip boundary conditions, the LBM has been successfully extended to solve micro-gaseous related transport and phenomena. As gas flow in shale matrix is mostly in the slip flow and transition flow regimes, given the difficulties of experimental techniques to determine extremely low permeability, it appears that the computational methods especially the LBM can be an attractive choice for simulation of these micro-gaseous flows. In this paper an extensive overview on a number of relaxation time and boundary conditions used in LBM-like models for micro-gaseous flow are carried out and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Furthermore, potential application of the LBM in flow simulation in shale gas reservoirs on pore scale and representative elementary volume(REV) scale is evaluated and summarised. Our review indicates that the LBM is capable of capturing gas flow in continuum to slip flow regimes which cover significant proportion of the pores in shale gas reservoirs and identifies opportunities for future research.
Mobility of Knowledge Work and Affordances of Digital Technologies
Creators: name: Nelson, Sarah Beth
name: Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein
name: Thomson, Leslie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Information communication technologies (ICTs) enable mobile knowledge workers to conduct information practices.These practices ensure access, keep social cohesion, maintain acuity, uphold work rhythm, and enact work-life balance.Mobile knowledge workers mobilize their work practices across space, time, social situations, and contexts.Mobile knowledge workers employ personalized assemblages of ICTs to best achieve mobilization across different boundaries. The focus of this work arises from two needs within information science literature: (1) to understand more, from an empirically driven perspective, about the increasingly visible yet understudied mobile work population, and (2) to address more clearly, from a theoretical standpoint, the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) mediate the work practices of these mobile workers. Drawing on the affordance perspective, this research goes beyond simplistic conceptualizations of technological effects to explore the roles of multiple ICTs in enabling mobile knowledge work. In this paper, the use of ICTs in mobilizing information practices and the ways in which ICTs generate affordances along different mobility dimensions (spatial, temporal, contextual, and social) are examined. The empirical base of this research is a field of study of 33 mobile knowledge workers (MKWs); broadly, it focuses on the ways they employ ICTs to accomplish work in dynamic and unpredictable work conditions.
Donne in architettura: Sophia Gregoria Hayden, quando “tutto” non basta
Creators: name: Bianco, Alessia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2012

description: Feminine presence in technical professions, during the last thirty years, has had a remarkable development; however its relevance, especially in terms of ability to access decision-making roles, is still limited and the profession of architect and engineer are an eloquent example. The article deals with the Sophia Gregoria Hayden’s professional career, the first woman architect, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston Massachusetts in 1890 and with the professional context of the first decades of the twentieth century in the United States. This vicissitude represents an episode of how emancipative processes don’t follow, over time, a linear route, but they constitute a sinusoidal phenomenon, where statement phases alternate with regression ones; this is the reason why feminine achievements in technical professions, as in many other contexts, require continuous practice and constant commitment.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 8 (2012): «Scuola. Riforme, sistemi educativi, insegnamento»
Multilayer graphene condenser microphone
Creators: name: Todorović, Dejan
name: Matković, Aleksandar
name: Milićević, Marijana
name: Jovanović, Đorđe
name: Gajić, Radoš
name: Salom, Iva
name: Spasenović, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vibrating membranes are the cornerstone of acoustic technology, forming the backbone of modern loudspeakers and microphones. Acoustic performance of condenser microphone is derived mainly from the membrane's size and achievable static tension. The widely studied and available nickel has been the one of dominant membrane material for several decades. In this paper we introduce multilayer graphene as membrane material for a condenser microphone. The graphene device outperforms a high end commercial nickel-based microphone over a significant part of the acoustic spectrum, with a larger than 10 dB enhancement of sensitivity. Our experimental results are supported with numerical simulations, which show that a 300 layer thick graphene membrane under maximum tension would offer excellent extension of the frequency range, up to 1 MHz, with similar sensitivity as commercial condenser microphones.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
“Asincronie del femminismo”
Creators: name: Maldini, Daniela
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2012

description: This contribution offers a careful reading of the book Asincronie del femminismo, by Paola Di Cori. Articulating its thematic points, Maldini builds a “dialogue” with the Author, which is deepened by mutual evaluation of Hannah Arendt’s, Maria Zamnrano’s and Natalie Zemon Davis’ thoughts. Asincronie del femminismo appears as a sort of intellectual autobiography by a Feminist woman who considers a past where she was actively involved and participating. She tries now to investigate that past and share it with her readers/partners, in order to focus its peculiarities. Di Cori’s analysis is —together with Maldini’s reading of it— a subtle and thorough observation on Feminism, History, Biography/Autobiography, Gender e Gender History, Women and the University, Teaching of History and much more.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 8 (2012): «Scuola. Riforme, sistemi educativi, insegnamento»
The Impact of Flash Glucose Monitoring on Adults with Type 1 Diabetes with Respect to Their Eating Behaviour and Their Relationship with Food
Creators: name: Wallace, Tamara
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2022
Subjects: type 1 diabetes
FreeStyle Libre
diabetes technology
disordered eating
food and eating
diabulimia

description: The FreeStyle Libre (FSL) Flash Glucose Monitor is a device worn by individuals with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels, designed largely to replace finger-prick testing. Research on the FSL has primarily focused on the utility of the device in aiding self-management of diabetes, rather than its psychological impact. As diet is a key component of diabetes self-management, focusing on an individual’s relationship with food whilst using the FSL is important. This sequential mixed methods study explored adults with type 1 diabetes’ experiences of the FSL in relation to its impact on their eating behaviour and relationship with food. Fifteen FSL users participated in semi-structured interviews. Four main themes were constructed from Reflexive Thematic Analysis: Personal Food Story, New Opportunities, Body as a Machine and Re-evaluating Diabetes. A quantitative analysis of Problem Areas in Diabetes (PAID) questionnaire data was conducted, followed by reflections on the questionnaire items in light of the constructed themes, highlighting the ways in which standardised measures of diabetes-related distress do and do not capture patients’ relationship with food in the context of FSL use. The findings are discussed with reference to previous theory and research, highlighting the implications for future research and clinical practice.
Selecting Steady and Transient Photocurrent Response in BaTiO3 Films
Creators: name: Liu, Fanmao
name: Fina, Ignasi
name: Gutiérrez, Diego
name: Radaelli, Greta
name: Bertacco, Riccardo
name: Fontcuberta, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ferroelectric polarization and short-circuit photocurrent in BaTiO3 thin films have been studied for different contact configurations that allow to measure the photoresponse and polarization under the presence of large or negligible imprint field. It is found that in all cases, the direction of the photocurrent is dictated by the depolarizing field and ultimately by the film polarization, with a negligible contribution of the imprint electric field. However, dramatic differences are found in their time-dependent photoresponse. Whereas in presence of imprint, steady photocurrents are observed under suitable illumination, transient photocurrents are generated in absence of imprint. It is argued that this distinct behavior is determined by the different Schottky barrier height at electrodes which thus offers a simple way to tune the film photoresponse. These findings could be exploited for electro-optic read-out and writing of ferroelectric memories.
Barriers to graduate applications (Lugo et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Lugo, Victor A.
name: Wood, Carla
name: Torres-Chavarro, Michelle
name: Garcia-Salas, Miguel
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470208
subject: Culture, representation and identity
classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 470101
subject: Communication studies

description: Purpose: The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the perspectives of students from underrepresented backgrounds on the graduate school application process and identify ways to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in communication science and disorders.Method: A novel 15-item survey was used to solicit information about the experiences and perspectives of the graduate application process from 39 senior undergraduate students in a communication science and disorders program. Semistructured interviews were then conducted with seven students from underrepresented backgrounds to further explore perceived barriers to graduate applications and potential resources and supports.Results: Results demonstrated a variety of factors, including financial demands, Graduate Record Examinations requirements, and program location and prestige, that influenced student decision making during the application process. Students from underrepresented backgrounds reported applying to more programs on average but engaged in numerically fewer hours of research and practicum experiences than peers from majority backgrounds. The most significant barriers to the graduate application process included learning and mentorship challenges during COVID-19, limited experiential learning opportunities, and difficulties forming social connections. Departmental support, application assistance, and mentorship initiatives were highlighted as potential levers of change.Conclusions: Based on reported barriers to the graduate application process, more research is necessary to further investigate the extent these factors influence achievement, retention, and overall success of students from underrepresented backgrounds. Additional resources and supports, especially those recommended by students in this study, may serve as potential action steps to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in communication science and disorders programs.Supplemental Material S1. Full survey.Supplemental Material S2. Semistructured interview questions.Supplemental Material S3. Leximancer concept maps of barriers and resources.Lugo, V. A., Wood, C., Torres-Chavarro, M., & Garcia-Salas, M. (2023). Barriers to graduate applications: Perspectives of undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in communication science and disorders. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8(4), 729–740. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-22-00142
Un tiempo de añoranza y aprendizaje: María de Castilla y sus primeros años en la Corona de Aragón
Creators: name: García Herrero, María Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2014

description: This article deals with the first years of María of Castile as the new queen of the Crown of Aragon, in the period between the deceases of Fernando of Antequera (April, 1416) and Catalina of Lancaster (June, 1418). In the course of this period, the young queen will insist on joining the queenship tradition of the previous Aragonese queens and she will be involved in an intense process of adaptation, learning and enculturation. This work considers the relations maintained by María with her mother-in-law, the queen mother of Aragon, Leonor of Alburquerque, and with her mother, the queen of Castile, Catalina of Lancaster. With Catalina of Lancaster, the young Aragonese queen acted as political intermediary between both Crowns, and both of them showed repeatedly the strong and reciprocal affective link that joined them.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 9 (2013): Fuori luogo. Cultural transfer, migrazioni, straniamenti
Childhood Cancer Diagnosis During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Parent Perspective of the Impact on the Family
Creators: name: Jones, Anna
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Paediatric cancer
family resilience
COVID-19 pandemic

description: Paediatric cancer is rare, however, the significant impact on the whole family system is widely acknowledged. The COVID-19 pandemic posed many additional challenges for families, including fear of infection and social disruption caused by imposed restrictions. This study aimed to explore parents’ perception of the impact of a paediatric cancer diagnosis during the pandemic on the family. Walsh’s (2003, 2016) socio-ecological family resilience framework was used to highlight family processes, as well as to consider the broader influences on the family system, such as communication with healthcare professionals. Six parents of children undergoing cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, took part in semi-structured interviews. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, three General Experiential Themes (GET) were identified. These themes simultaneously capture the stress that families experienced, while also describing family processes that buffered against the stress. GET 1: ‘Isolation versus Connection’, describes feeling isolated from support networks, as well as building and strengthening connections. GET 2: ‘Managing Uncertainty’, encapsulates parents’ frustrations and fears related to information gaps linked to cancer treatment and COVID-19. GET 3: ‘Loss versus Solace’, describes lockdown-related loss of routine and experience, and also positive factors to the imposed restrictions. The study findings emphasise the dynamic relational aspects of resilience, where relationships and communication with other parents, children with cancer, and hospital staff, were important in fostering family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Areas where structural and relational resources could be better promoted are also highlighted. The project’s socio-ecological lens drew attention to the impact of other extrafamilial factors, such as organisational constraints and the impact of policy on single parents. The findings have applied implications for supporting family resilience in the aftermath of the pandemic, planning for future disaster situations, as well as relevance to paediatric cancer more broadly.
Lo specchio e il ritratto. Scansioni dell’età, topoi e modelli femminili fra paganesimo e cristianesimo
Creators: name: Giannarelli, Elena
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2006

description: The mythical Helen at the mirrow crying her lost beauty and youth, the old courtesan Laide vowing her mirrow to Aphrodite as she needs it no more, introduce to the problem of gradus aetatum (the ages of life) for women in Greek and Latin literature, both pagan and Christian. The second part of the research deals with the common places of puer senex, puer maior sua aetate as used by ancient writers for a girl. Physical and spiritual age were considered in opposition in a philosophical and religious perspective. The transformation of a young girl into an old woman is strictly linked to the transformation of a woman into a man, according to the typology of mulier virilis. So on a spiritual level young women may become models for old men; however women have no age as their social role prevails. The last part focuses on the problem of old women in antiquity. Youth and beauty, positive values in pagan texts, were considered as belonging to the earthly life in Christian works and had to be overcome. Holy beauty is the only recognized form of beauty for ascetic women and they acquired it after death. In late antiquity ideal women had no sex and no age, no mirrow and no physical portrait.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 2 (2006): Invecchiare. Donne epoche culture
Megachile centuncularis
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile centuncularis

description: Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
 26.VI.2004, friche chemin de fer, Centaurea sp., 1J; 18.VII.2013, Lathyrus sylvestris, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Impact of Virtual Working on Perceived Team Effectiveness in Secondary Mental Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Saghari, Ladan
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Virtual working
Online working
Remote working
Telemedicine
Team work
Team effectiveness
Covid-19
COVID

description: Introduction: Working as a team is the desired approach by many industries because of the benefits it provides for service users, team members, and services. However, to make a team work, many factors must be considered. One framework that can support this process is the Input-Process-Output framework which represents the various, non-linear factors that can contribute to a team’s outcomes. For example, virtual working (VW) has been found to be a factor that can negatively impact team processes (e.g., trust, cohesion, communication) and team outputs (e.g., team effectiveness and satisfaction). With the pandemic enforcing VW, many spoke about its impact for clients using mental health services. However, little is known about the impact of VW during the pandemic on the teams providing the service. Aims: Therefore, this study aimed to explore the impact of VW during the pandemic on perceived team cohesion, trust, communication, perceived team effectiveness and job satisfaction. It also aimed to examine whether previously found correlations between these team processes and outputs could be generalised to teams who became virtual during the pandemic. Methodology: A quantitative online survey was completed by 57 NHS secondary community mental health workers. This survey consisting of six sections included variety of measures, testing team processes and outcomes. Results: There was a significant decline on perceived team cohesion, trust, and satisfaction. However, there was no statistically significant decline on team effectiveness during the pandemic. Results also confirmed previous findings regarding correlations between team processes and outcomes. Conclusion: Virtual working may have had a negative impact on secondary mental health teams during the pandemic. However, despite this, team members have expressed wishes to maintain some aspects of VW. This study adds to our growing examination of the true impact of the pandemic and provides clinical and research recommendations that could support team effectiveness, especially as hybrid ways of working are becoming the norm for many.
Investigation of a quorum sensing peptide in bacillus licheniformis and its novel antifungal property
Creators: name: Esmaeilishirazifard, Elham
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: Quorum sensing molecules (QSMs) are involved in the regulation of complicated processes helping bacterial population benefit from their cell-density. This phenomenon has been recently studied in some fungal populations. Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes’ co-evolution raises the prospect of the existence of inter-kingdom signalling pathways. The involvement of hormone-like molecules such as QSMs in microbial cells communication promise potential role of QS process in inter-kingdom cross-talk. Bacterial antagonistic activity against fungi is considered as an important bio-control opportunity to control fungal invasion of plants. Several bacterial species such as Bacillus spp. have shown the ability to inhibit fungal growth. During the screening of antagonistic bacteria against Aspergillus flavus (A. flavus), Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) was identified as having high antifungal activity. The bacterium, Bacillus licheniformis (B. licheniformis) is related to B. subtilis genetically and is used at industrial-scale for production of the antimicrobial compound bacitracin. Although the comQXPA cluster involved in QS development has been identified in the genome sequence of B. subtilis and different B. licheniformis strains, the QS system in B. licheniformis was not previously investigated in detail, and its QSM (ComX pheromone) was not identified. In this context, and given the importance of this antagonistic bacterium as an industrial workhorse, this study was aimed to use B. licheniformis NCIMB-8874 as a model antagonistic bacterium to investigate its effect, and the effect of its ComX pheromone on potential inhibition of fungal growth. The results obtained from bioinformatics studies on B. licheniformis NCIMB 8874 genome sequence presented in this project confirmed the presence of essential quorum sensing-related genes, such as the comQXPA gene cluster. The cell-cell communication of B. licheniformis NCIMB-8874 was investigated through further elucidation of QS process in this bacterium. The detection of the QSM, ComX pheromone, was achieved through molecular biology and biochemical studies including over-production, purification and partial identification. Subsequently, the potential influence of ComX pheromone and Bacillus cells on the growth of A. flavus was examined and concluded that the QSM could cause a significant reduction in the growth of A. flavus strains (NRRL 3357 and ESP 15). This work reports for the first time the amino acid sequence of the purified ComX pheromone and its novel antifungal property. Pheromone as a QSM is a potential signal for communication of cells between kingdoms and could be applied for bio-control purposes. Identification of new antifungal peptides against A. flavus could lead to the development of biotechnological strategies which facilitate control of aflatoxin contamination.
Inner-shell photoionization and core-hole decay of Xe and XeF$_2$
Creators: name: Southworth, Stephen H.
name: Wehlitz, Ralf
name: Picón, Antonio
name: Lehmann, C. Stefan
name: Cheng, Lan
name: Stanton, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoionization cross sections and partial ion yields of Xe and XeF$_2$ from Xe 3d$_{5/2}$, Xe 3d$_{3/2}$, and F 1s subshells in the 660--740 eV range are compared to explore effects of the F ligands. The Xe 3d - $ε$f continuum shape resonances dominate the photoionization cross sections of both the atom and molecule, but prominent resonances appear in the XeF$_2$ cross section due to nominal excitation of Xe 3d and F 1s electrons to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), a delocalized anti-bonding MO. The subshell ionization thresholds, the LUMO resonance energies and their oscillator strengths are calculated by relativistic coupled-cluster methods. Several charge states and fragment ions are produced from the atom and molecule due to alternative decay pathways from the inner-shell holes. Total and partial ion yields vary in response to the shape resonances and LUMO resonances. Previous calculations and measurements of atomic Xe 3d core-hole decay channels and our calculated results for XeF$_2$ guide interpretations of the molecular ion products. The partial ion yields of XeF$_2$ are dominated by Xe 3d core-hole decays, but distinct ion products are measured at the F 1s - LUMO resonance. Xe 3d core-hole decays from XeF$_2$ produce lower charge states in comparison with atomic Xe, and energetic F ions are produced by Coulomb explosions of the molecular ions. The measurements support a model of molecular core-hole decay that begins with a localized hole, stepwise Auger electron emission spreads charge across neighboring atoms, and the system fragments energetically.
Ai margini della cittadinanza: le detenute dopo l’Unità italiana (1860-1915)
Creators: name: Gibson, Mary
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2007

description: This article explores the gendered nature of the Italian prison system after unification in 1860. Despite its liberal and secular principles, the new Italian parliamentary state left penal institutions for women and girls in the control of religious orders of nuns. While the state instituted a series of reforms for male prisons during the first fifty years after unification, it ignored the deplorable conditions for female inmates. This failure to secularize female prisons denied women the “negative right” to equal punishment and constituted one of the many ways in which women were denied full citizenship in united Italy.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 3 (2007): Soglie e finestre
Megachile ericetorum Lepeletier 1841
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile ericetorum

description: Megachile ericetorum Lepeletier, 1841
 18.VI.2013, Lathyrus sylvestris, 1J, 6♀, Galega officinalis, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631