cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Origin of XMRV and its Demise as a Human Pathogen Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Creators: name: Hohn, Oliver
name: Bannert, Norbert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: XMRV
subject: CFS
subject: origin
subject: recombination
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Retroviruses are well known pathogens of mammals, birds and fish. Their potential to induce cancer in chickens was already described almost 100 years ago and murine retroviruses have been a subject of study for 50 years. The first human retroviruses, HTLV and HIV, were discovered more than 30 years ago, surprising researchers and physicians by the profound differences in the diseases they cause. HTLV-1 is able to induce, after decades of infection, lymphomas/leukemia or neuroimmune disorders whereas untreated HIV infection leads almost inevitably to AIDS. The recently described XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus) appeared to possess many of the features known for HTLV and was regarded by some to be the third human retrovirus. However, recent publications by Knox et al. [1] and Paprotka et al. [2] have shed new light on this gammaretrovirus. Knox and colleagues clearly demonstrate that XMRV is absent in patients belonging to a chronic fatigue syndrome cohort who had previously been reported to be XMRV-positive [3]. This supports the growing suspicion that laboratory contamination was responsible for the postulated link between XMRV and the disease. Furthermore, Paprotka et al’s identification of XMRV’s origin and the phylogenetic analysis of known XMRV sequences are further nails in the coffin to the notion that XMRV is a clinically relevant infectious human retrovirus.
Mutations in the M112/M113-coding region facilitate murine cytomegalovirus replication in human cells.
Creators: name: Schumacher, Uwe
name: Handke, Wiebke
name: Jurak, Igor
name: Brune, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Mice
subject: Virus Replication
subject: Mutation
subject: Viral Load
subject: Muromegalovirus/genetics
subject: Immediate-Early Proteins/genetics
subject: Sequence Analysis DNA
subject: DNA Viral/genetics
subject: Cells Cultured
subject: Antigens Viral/genetics
subject: Cell Survival
subject: DNA Mutational Analysis DNA Viral/chemistry
subject: Muromegalovirus/growth & development
subject: Missense
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Cytomegaloviruses, representatives of the Betaherpesvirinae, cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. They infect various cells and tissues in their natural host but are highly species specific. For instance, human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) does not replicate in mouse cells, and human cells are not permissive for murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) infection. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms are so far poorly understood. In the present study we isolated and characterized a spontaneously occurring MCMV mutant that has gained the capacity to replicate rapidly and to high titers in human cells. Compared to the parental wild-type (wt) virus, this mutant formed larger nuclear replication compartments and replicated viral DNA more efficiently. It also disrupted promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein nuclear domains with greater efficiency but caused less apoptosis than did wt MCMV. Sequence analysis of the mutant virus genome revealed mutations in the M112/M113-coding region. This region is homologous to the HCMV UL112-113 region and encodes the viral early 1 (E1) proteins, which are known to play an important role in viral DNA replication. By introducing the M112/M113 mutations into wt MCMV, we demonstrated that they are sufficient to facilitate MCMV replication in human cells and are, at least in part, responsible for the efficient replication capability of the spontaneously adapted virus. However, additional mutations probably contribute as well. These results reveal a previously unrecognized role of the viral E1 proteins in regulating viral replication in different cells and provide new insights into the mechanisms of the species specificity of cytomegaloviruses.
La regolazione europea dei brevetti essenziali nel bilanciamento tra tutela antitrust e propriet� intellettuale
Creators: name: SCARAMUZZINO, GIANLUCA
Publisher: name: Luiss Guido Carli
Year: 2020

description: Diritto della concorrenza e propriet� intellettuale nel processo di standardizzazione e nei brevetti essenziali. Accordi di standardizzazione e patent pools: ambiti di applicazione dell?art. 101 TFUE. Le condotte abusive dei titolari di brevetti essenziali: quale ruolo per l?antitrust?
Determinants of agreement between self-reported and parent-assessed quality of life for children in Germany - Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)
Creators: name: Ellert, Ute
name: Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike
name: Erhart, Michael
name: Kurth, Bärbel-Maria
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Adolescent
subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Germany
subject: Male
subject: Child
subject: Adult
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Logistic Models
subject: Quality of Life
subject: Socioeconomic Factors
subject: Interviews as Topic
subject: Health Status
subject: Parent-Child Relations
subject: Parents/psychology
subject: Self Report
subject: Family/psychology
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Proxy/psychology
subject: Self Concept
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The aim of this study is to quantify the level of agreement between self-reporting and proxy-assessment of children's health-related quality of life using KINDL-R in a large population based study in Germany and to identify factors which are associated with agreement. Methods: The German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents included the KINDL-R questionnaire on health-related quality of life. 6388 children and adolescents filled in the questionnaire while their parents answered the proxy version. Means and standard deviation for the self- and proxy ratings, and also the Pearson und Intra-Class correlation coefficients for the absolute agreement were calculated. The relationship between other variables and parent-child agreement were determined by means of logistic regression. Results: In the 'Physical', 'Self-esteem' and 'School' dimension and for the 'Total' score, the parents significantly overestimated the quality of life of their child. In contrast, the quality of life of the children in the dimensions 'Psychological well-being' and 'Family' were considerably underestimated by the parents. The proportion of parent-child ratings in agreement (difference < 0.5 standard deviations) ranges from 34.9% for the 'Self-esteem' scale to 51.9% in the 'Psychological' scale. The most important factor explaining parents rating was the level of the child's self-assessment followed by the parent's assessment of the subjective health, or reported emotional abnormalities. Conclusions: Our study shows that parental reports cannot adequately replace self-assessment for 11-17 year olds. In view of the different underlying perspectives, the parental assessments should where possible only be regarded as providing supplementary information.
sj-pdf-5-trc-10.1177_19400829211028127 - Supplemental material for Balancing Bees and Livestock: Pastoralist Knowledge, Perceptions and Implications for Pollinator Conservation in Rangelands, Northern Tanzania
Creators: name: Mpondo, Faith Thomas
name: Ndakidemi, Patrick A.
name: Treydte, Anna C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geography
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-trc-10.1177_19400829211028127 for Balancing Bees and Livestock: Pastoralist Knowledge, Perceptions and Implications for Pollinator Conservation in Rangelands, Northern Tanzania by Faith Thomas Mpondo, Patrick A. Ndakidemi and Anna C. Treydte in Tropical Conservation Science
It’s not magic!: instructional practices that cultivate positive mathematics identity in middle school Black girls
Creators: name: Marshall, Brittany L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: As a racially and gendered organizational space (Hottinger, 2016, Martin, 2007), mathematics education in the United States places African American girls as "outsiders” to mathematics learning and knowledge production (Gholson & Martin, 2014). We need to comprehend the mathematics and pedagogical communications Black girls are receiving and how these messages affect their development in order to construct supportive classroom environments for these and students. A technique to evaluate and explain how mathematics education serves as an exclusionary gatekeeper to STEM disciplines is traditional mathematical logics (Battey & Marshall, 2024). This three-paper dissertation first looks at how mathematics has been used as a tool to further Western imperialism and perpetuated antiBlackness in schools, then uses Joseph's Black Feminist Mathematics Pedagogies (2021) theoretical framework to directly challenge these traditional mathematics logics and shed light on the teaching strategies and relational interactions (Battey, 2013) that create safe spaces for Black girls to cultivate strong positive mathematics identities. Chapter 3 focuses on two teachers who navigated the structural constraints of a Title I school district to look for ways to open up access and opportunities and enriched learning experiences for their Black girl students. Although they reinforced several traditional math logics, these teachers still believed in their students’ ability and provided words of affirmation and humor that encouraged Black girls in their classrooms. In chapter 4, a very successful STEM teacher delivered rigorous and engaging real-world lessons and created a sense of community that encouraged Black girl students, while disrupting several traditional mathematics logics. Both schools served as case-studies to understand the affordances and constraints of enacting BlackFMP pedagogical approaches in traditional public middle school settings. This work contributes to Black Girlhood Studies and Mathematics Education by foregrounding how teachers' instructional practices and intentions help cultivate positive mathematics identities for middle school Black girls.
Tourism and Corporate Sustainability: Fads or Facts? Institutions, Strategies, Activities and Performance in the Hospitality Industry
Creators: name: Franco, Stefano
Publisher: name: Luiss Guido Carli
Year: 2020

description: Are You Good Enough? CSR, Quality Management and Corporate Financial Performance in the Hospitality Industry. The Transfer of CS Practices within MNEs in the Hotel Sector: Do Institutions Matter? Hotels? sustainability commitment and materiality: a cluster analysis of hotels belonging to international chains.
Bargaining with confirmed proposals: an experimental analysis of tacit collusion in Cournot and Bertrand duopolies
Creators: name: Attanasi, Giuseppe
name: Chessa, Michela
name: Gil-Gallen, Sara
name: MANZONI, Elena
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we investigate theoretically and experimentally the performances of a bargaining over strategies protocol with confirmed proposal, with either symmetric or asymmetric power of confirmation. We apply it both on a Bertrand duopoly market, in which competition is in prices, and on a Cournot duopoly market, in which players compete on the amount of output they will produce. We show that bargaining over strategies of price- or quantity-setting acts as a communication device in competitive environments, capable of increasing the level of collusion and of reducing the bargaining length. In particular, we report experimental evidence of an overall better performance of a Bertrand duopoly market in reaching an equitable, welfare-maximizing and Pareto-efficient agreement. However, competing in price rather than in quantity setting reduces the bargaining length only under an asymmetric proposal protocol, while under a symmetric proposal protocol price setting only has a second-order effect on reducing the bargaining length.
Intend Project D 2.1 Transport Projects & Future Technologies Synopses Handbook
Creators: name: Alkiviadis Tromaras, Aggelos Aggelakakis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Future transport technologies, technology trends

description: INTEND Deliverable D 2.1 main is to provide a transport projects and future technologies synopses handbook. The overall aim is to gather, review and analyse relevant research documents from the European and international literature that has been produced through sponsored research projects, scientific publications, forward looking exercises, industry studies and strategic research agendas, with emphasis on transport. The aforementioned combination of research projects and pertinent literature has been reviewed with the purpose of identifying technologies that require advancing or future technologies that will be used by the transport sector within a time horizon of 2020- 2035 thus enabling the sector to meet future demand and needs within the future context. The transport modes that were covered include road, aviation, rail, and maritime while transport systems and infrastructure are treated horizontally across the four modes.
Additional file 1 of A review of the current status and progress in difficult airway assessment research
Creators: name: Chen, Haoming
name: Zheng, Yuqi
name: Fu, Qiang
name: Li, Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Simple bedside assessment to differentiate difficult airway. Table S2. Comprehensive index assessment to differentiate difficult airway. Figure S1. The operation interface of Airway Triage (version 6.1, created by St Mobile Anesthesiology Service Holland). Figure S2.The operation interface of DI DETECTION (created by Khon Kaen University). Figure S3. Flow diagram of determining difficult airway in actual clinical work.
sj-pdf-1-tia-10.1177_23312165211013242 - Supplemental material for Unilateral Acoustic Degradation Delays Attentional Separation of Competing Speech
Creators: name: Kraus, Frauke
name: Tune, Sarah
name: Ruhe, Anna
name: Obleser, Jonas
name: Wöstmann, Malte
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tia-10.1177_23312165211013242 for Unilateral Acoustic Degradation Delays Attentional Separation of Competing Speech by Frauke Kraus, Sarah Tune, Anna Ruhe, Jonas Obleser and Malte Wöstmann in Trends in Hearing
The Lulav: Early Modern Polemical Ethnographies and the Art of Fencing
Creators: name: Goren, Ahuvia
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, scholars have devoted a great deal of attention to the history of scholarship in general and, more specifically, to the emergence of critical historical and anthropological literature from and within ecclesiastical scholarship. However, few studies have discussed the Jewish figures who took part in this process. This paper analyzes the role played by historiographical and ethnographical writing in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian Jewish–Christian polemics. Tracing various Christian polemical ethnographical depictions of the Jewish rite of shaking the lulav (sacramental palm leaves used by Jews during the festival of Sukkot), it discusses the variety of ways in which Jewish scholars responded to these depictions or circumvented them. These responses reflect the Jewish scholars’ familiarity with prevailing contemporary scholarship and the key role of translation and cultural transfers in their own attempts to create parallel works. Furthermore, this paper presents new Jewish polemical manuscript material within the relevant contexts, examines Jewish attempts to compose polemical and apologetic ethnographies, and argues that Jewish engagement with critical scholarship began earlier than scholars of this period usually suggest
The Scientific Method, the Atomist Theory, and the Bible Commentary of Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (1664-1712)”, in: Zion 88a 2022 (Hebrew)
Creators: name: Goren, Ahuvia
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Common scholarly notions describe the reception of early modern scientific ideas in Jewish thought as enabled by a novel general attitude demanding the separation of the spheres of natural philosophy and theology. According to this view, the syncretism between Jewish sources and Aristotelian and Platonic sources offered by the medieval Jewish philosophers had collapsed, and early modern Jewish thinkers, like many protestant thinkers realized these bodies of knowledge should be handled separately - with scripture conceived as describing matters concerning the spiritual realms and natural philosophy describing the experienced world. This essay argues that the moment of 'separation' in the reception histories of early modern ideas in Jewish thought was far less central than frequently described. Through a study of the thought of rabbi Moshe Chefetz and some of his contemporaries, it is shown that the 'Separation Thesis' does not explain notable acts of translation and knowledge transfer of early modern scientific knowledge into Jewish works. Early modern scholars in England and Italy were much interested in Physico-Theology, an early modern synthesis between biblical interpretation and philosophy of the natural world. Similarly, and with familiarity with some of their world and ideas, Chefetz's work is shown to be an attempt to introduce the Jewish reader to Gassendian atomism, Cartesian optics, and new theories about the tides. He did so  through the presentation of these ideas as the genuine meaning of biblical verses and a solution to many burning philosophical question of the time, raised by contemporary skeptics. This work and its influence show that the path of interpretation, the reading scientific ideas into the religious sources and vice versa was a prevailing source for the embracement of early modern scientific ideas into Jewish theological works.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-cat-10.1177_10760296211021171 - Genetic and Clinical Predictors of Left Atrial Thrombus: A Single Center Case-Control Study
Creators: name: Springer, Adrian
name: Schleberger, Ruben
name: Oyen, Florian
name: Hoffmann, Boris A.
name: Willems, Stephan
name: Meyer, Christian
name: Langer, Florian
name: Schnabel, Renate B.
name: Kirchhof, Paulus
name: Schneppenheim, Reinhard
name: Lemoine, Marc D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cardiology
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-cat-10.1177_10760296211021171 for Genetic and Clinical Predictors of Left Atrial Thrombus: A Single Center Case-Control Study by Adrian Springer, Ruben Schleberger, Florian Oyen, Boris A. Hoffmann, Stephan Willems, Christian Meyer, Florian Langer, Renate B. Schnabel, Paulus Kirchhof, Reinhard Schneppenheim and Marc D. Lemoine in Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
Measurements of electroweak $W^{\pm}Z$ boson pair production in association with two jets in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of integrated and differential cross-sections for electroweak $W^{\pm}Z$ production in association with two jets ($W^{\pm}Zjj$) in proton$-$proton collisions are presented. The data collected by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider from $2015$ to $2018$ at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $140$ fb$^{-1}$. The $W^{\pm}Zjj$ candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons. Events containing three identified leptons, either electrons or muons, and two jets are selected. Processes involving pure electroweak $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production at Born level are separated from $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production involving a strong coupling. The measured integrated fiducial cross-section of electroweak $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production per lepton flavour is $σ_{WZjj\mathrm{-EW} \rightarrow \ell^{'} ν\ell \ell jj} = 0.368 \; \pm 0.037 \,(\mathrm{stat.}) \; \pm 0.059 \,(\mathrm{syst.}) \; \pm 0.003 \,(\mathrm{lumi.}) \; \mathrm{fb}$, where $\ell$ and $\ell^{'}$ are either an electron or a muon. Respective cross-sections of electroweak and strong $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production are measured separately for events with exactly two jets or with more than two jets, and in three bins of the invariant mass of the two jets. The inclusive $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production cross-section, without separating electroweak and strong production, is also measured to be $σ_{WZjj \rightarrow \ell^{'} ν\ell \ell jj} = 1.462 \; \pm 0.063 \,(\mathrm{stat.}) \; \pm 0.118 \,(\mathrm{syst.}) \; \pm 0.012 \,(\mathrm{lumi.}) \; \mathrm{fb}$, per lepton flavour. The inclusive $W^{\pm}Zjj$ production cross-section is measured differentially for several kinematic observables. Finally, the measurements are used to constrain anomalous quartic gauge couplings by extracting 95% confidence level intervals on dimension-$8$ operators.
description: 54 pages in total, author list starting page 37, 13 figures, 5 tables, published in JHEP 06 (2024) 192. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2018-35/
Of Wombs and Words: Migrating Misogynies in Early Modern Medical Literature in Latin and Hebrew
Creators: name: Idelson-Shein, Iris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022

description: In the decades surrounding the end of the seventeenth century, new ideas about women’s bodies migrated from Latin medical texts to Hebrew ones. This article follows the journey of one particular idea, that there exists a unique kind of feminine madness, termed furor uterinus in Latin, which originates in the womb, and expresses itself in excessive sexual desire and uncontrollable speech. The article offers a comparative reading of Hebrew depictions of furor uterinus, locating them within their wider cultural context. It reveals the dynamic ways in which early modern Hebrew authors actively participated in contemporary scientific discussions, importing them back into the Jewish community. The intense (albeit often unacknowledged) dialogue which took place between Hebrew medical texts and their source texts offers a valuable lesson on forms of cultural transfer, authorship, and translation, as well as on competing notions of feminine sickness and sexuality in early modern Europe.
Hydrodynamic fluctuations and topological susceptibility in chiral magnetohydrodynamics
Creators: name: Das, Arpit
name: Iqbal, Nabil
name: Poovuttikul, Napat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral magnetohydrodynamics is devoted to understanding the late-time and long-distance behavior of a system with an Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly at finite temperatures. The non-conservation of the axial charge is determined by the topological density $\vec{E} \cdot \vec{B}$; in a classical hydrodynamic description this decay rate can be suppressed by tuning the background magnetic field to zero. However it is in principle possible for thermal fluctuations of $\vec{E} \cdot \vec{B}$ to result in a non-conservation of the charge even at vanishing $B$-field; this would invalidate the classical hydrodynamic effective theory. We investigate this by computing the real-time susceptibility of the topological density at one-loop level in magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations, relating its low-frequency limit to the decay rate of the axial charge. We find that the frequency-dependence of this susceptibility is sufficiently soft as to leave the axial decay rate unaffected, validating the classical hydrodynamic description. We show that the susceptibility contains non-analytic frequency-dependence which is universally determined by hydrodynamic data. We comment briefly on possible connections to the recent formulation of the ABJ anomaly in terms of non-invertible symmetry.
description: revtex, 21+3 pages and 1 figure
Rabbis of the (Scientific) Revolution: Revealing the Hidden Corpus of Early Modern Translations Produced by Jewish Religious Thinkers
Creators: name: Idelson-Shein, Iris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Judaism--Medieval and early modern period
subject: Jewish literature
subject: Translation studies

description: This essay discusses the corpus of translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages, which emerged during the early modern period. Particular attention is given to Hebrew translations produced by members of the Jewish religious elite during the long eighteenth century, which have hitherto been viewed as original Jewish works. The article argues that translation was perfectly suited to the combination of attraction and anxiety with which many early modern Jews, particularly members of the Jewish religious elite, observed the cultural developments of their time. These authors acknowledged (what they viewed as) their own cultural inferiority, but feared the potential hazards of direct exposure to non-Jewish texts and ideas. Jewish translators thus became cultural gatekeepers rather than passive recipients of non-Jewish culture. They mistranslated both deliberately and accidentally, added and omitted, gave new meanings to texts and ideas, and harnessed their sources to meet their own agendas. The works of these translators reveal a form of cultural transfer that relied on the mindful adaptation and reformulation of new ideas by discreet, almost inadvertent innovators.
Cosmic Inflation From Fluctuating Baby-Skyrme Brane
Creators: name: Fadhilla, Emir Syahreza
name: Gunara, Bobby Eka
name: Suroso, Agus
name: Atmaja, Ardian Nata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we explore the inflationary dynamics induced by small fluctuations on the Skyrme brane, characterized by a time-dependent perturbative function $\tildeϕ$. In the low-energy regime, the model successfully reproduces standard inflation, with a potential term dictated by the Skyrmion at the brane. Gravity localization is achieved at the brane, and the lowest energy scale is established at the asymptotic boundary. The model demonstrates the capability to emulate standard inflation dynamics, resembling $\tildeϕ^4$ potential characteristics under certain conditions. At higher energy levels, the behaviour of $\tildeϕ$ is contingent upon the Skyrme term coupling constant $λ$, influencing reheating phases. The wave-like nature of fluctuations allows for energy transfer, resulting in a possibly lower reheating temperature. We also discuss the prospect of $λ$ changing sign during inflation, presenting a non-standard coupling dependent on the matter field.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, single column format, the analysis of dynamical system are revised for both high and low energy cases, accepted in Annals of Physics
Permitless Crossing and Tourism: Construction Border Regimes in the Drakensberg Mountains, 1950s-Present
Creators: name: Aerni-Flessner, John
Publisher: name: Lexington Books
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Apartheid
subject: Borderlands
subject: Africa--Drakensberg Mountains
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Subsistence economy
subject: South Africa
subject: Lesotho

description: The chapters examines the ways that governments in Lesotho and South Africa looked on ordinary Basotho borderlands residents as threats to the established border regimes, whereas they saw those working with valid papers or tourists as desired crossers. In examining these stories over the decades we see the negative impact this has on subsistence residents of the Lesotho borderlands.
Intrinsic/extrinsic unfamiliarity on the telecommunications convergence usage : the true usefulness of the technology
Creators: name: MONTERO ARRUDA, FILHO EMILIO JOSE'
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2009

description: The research objective of this dissertation is to develop and validate a comprehensive usage of the telecommunications products/services. Based on preference and usage literature it has been defined that companies and consumers use technology for different reasons but both spend more than necessary for the same situation. They don?t have enough knowledge to define the best convergence usage because of the systems integration existent in the market. Analyzing different kinds of studies and scenarios, this dissertation evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively the entrepreneurial and residential technology usage comparing all results with the literature to demonstrate that even the best integration developed by providers are not sufficient to guarantee an optimum solution. Telecommunications providers, industry and government don?t provide an optimized solution for our current consumers whether they are individual or enterprises. Some services or products are good for one use but bad for others, so the solution to integrate the technology is not used by consumers. However, it is used by providers that save some infrastructure costs without any transference of savings for their consumers. Concerning this problematic and lack in the market, different modeling and solutions were proposed for each kind of usage analyzed and different warnings were presented proposing new studies and values in our daily need for new technologies.
sj-pdf-1-chl-10.1177_17475198211027328 – Supplemental material for Synthesis, cytotoxicity, and molecular docking of methylated (–)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate-4β-triazolopodophyllotoxin derivatives as novel antitumor agents
Creators: name: Zi, Cheng-Ting
name: Wang, Ze-Hao
name: Shi, Jing
name: Shi, Bo-Ya
name: Zhang, Ning
name: Wu, Yi-Long
name: Xie, Yin-Rong
name: Zhou, Lu
name: Xiao, Chun
name: Wang, Xuan-Jun
name: Sheng, Jun
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-chl-10.1177_17475198211027328 for Synthesis, cytotoxicity, and molecular docking of methylated (–)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate-4β-triazolopodophyllotoxin derivatives as novel antitumor agents by Cheng-Ting Zi, Ze-Hao Wang, Jing Shi, Bo-Ya Shi, Ning Zhang, Yi-Long Wu, Yin-Rong Xie, Lu Zhou, Chun Xiao, Xuan-Jun Wang and Jun Sheng in Journal of Chemical Research
Introduction: Migration, Borders, and Borderlands in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective
Creators: name: Aerni-Flessner, John
name: Magaiza, Grey
name: Mushonga, Munyaradzi
name: Twala, Chitja
Publisher: name: Lexington Books
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Informal sector (Economics)
subject: Borderlands
subject: History
subject: Smuggling
subject: Southern African Development Community
subject: Emigration and immigration

description: An overview of borders in the SADC region and of the role of borders and border regimes for individual citizens in the region.
Archive 1962-2009
Creators: name: Autori Vari | Various Authors
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

An index of all articles, divided by subject areas with titles, keywords and link to their full text, is now available at the following digital archive: http://lear.unive.it/jspui/handle/11707/2360. All texts can be easily searched for, retrieved and downloaded and we warmly invite scholars and students alike to visit our archive of Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale and make the best use of it.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Door to door waste collection: indirizzi valoriali dei cittadini
Creators: name: FERRAMOSCA, Irene Sabrina
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: L?interesse per i problemi di natura ambientale e la scarsit� di discariche hanno spinto verso la necessit� di creare nuove leggi anche in Europa per la salvaguardia del Pianeta. Ci� ha indirizzato verso il riciclaggio come alternativa ai metodi tradizionali di smaltimento dei rifiuti. L?introduzione del servizio di differenziazione porta a porta a Lecce, una citt� del sud Italia, ha mosso la curiosit� di indagare sulle relazioni tra cittadini e ambiente, attraverso l?individuazione dei valori personali che incidono sulle predisposizioni personali e che possono trasformare gli atteggiamenti in comportamenti di riciclaggio e pi� in generale in favore dell?ambiente. Come cornice concettuale di riferimento si sono presi in considerazione i principali contributi degli studi sul comportamento di riciclaggio integrandoli con una prospettiva socio psicologica. Il presente case study, attraverso una metodologia mista, sfrutta ampiamente le tecniche di elaborazione statistica per testare la riproposizione del Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) di S.Schwartz e le sposa con le informazioni che i cittadini hanno fornito liberamente in merito a quelli che possono essere considerati aspetti cruciali della separazione domestica dei rifiuti da parte delle famiglie. Oltre ad esaminare le caratteristiche socio demografiche del campione di coloro che partecipano alla raccolta differenziata, si � effettuata l?analisi fattoriale confermativa (CFA) e si � effettuata una ulteriore analisi esplorativa per individuare due variabili latenti alle dieci dimensioni del modello quasi circomplesso postulato da Schwartz emerse dal campione oggetto di indagine. Lo scopo del lavoro � comprendere quali sono i valori posseduti dai cittadini e come questi possano fornire un?utile base informativa per creare un ponte nella comunicazione tra azienda che eroga il servizio di igiene pubblica e per migliorare il servizio nel suo complesso. I risultati di questa ricerca possono essere un? utile base per future indagini e per scopi manageriali, di interesse anche per il management delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni.
Space of initial conditions for the four-dimensional Garnier system revisited
Creators: name: Takenawa, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 34M55, 14E07

description: A geometric study is given for the 4-dimensional Garnier system. By the resolution of indeterminacy, the group of its Bäklund transformations is lifted to a group of pseudo-isomorphisms between rational varieties obtained from ${\mathbb P}^2 \times {\mathbb P}^2$ by 10 or 21 blow-ups. The root basis is discussed in the Néron-Severi bilattices for the space with 10 blow-ups.
description: 13 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2011.06271
Modeling the flow over superhydrophobic and liquid-impregnated surfaces
Creators: name: ALINOVI, EDOARDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: Superhydrophobic (SH) and liquid-impregnated surfaces (LIS) represent an interesting technique for the possible reduction of drag in applications involving the flow of liquids over solid surfaces, for a wide range of Reynolds number, from laminar to turbulent conditions. Such coatings work by the interposition of a gas/oil layer between the liquid and the solid wall, trapped by distributed microscopic roughness elements present at the wall; over the gas layer the liquid can flow with negligible friction. The present activity is focused on the numerical modeling of the slippage over such coatings and on their drag reduction performance in the turbulent regime.
The problem is subdivided into two parts: a microscopic problem, accounting for the flow in the proximity of the roughness elements and a macroscopic problem, accounting for the turbulent flow over SHS/LIS, where the effect of the slippage at the wall is modeled through a proper boundary condition. The near-wall, microscopic problem, governed by the Stokes equation, is recast into an integral form and then solved using a boundary element method. The aim of the microscopic calculations, performed by varying the viscosity ratio between the fluids, is to obtain the values of the slip lengths, used to quantify slippage. The slip length are then used in the definition of Navier boundary condition, applied at the walls of a turbulent channel flow at moderate Reynolds number, solved by direct numerical simulations. The results are in excellent agreement with a theoretical model available in the literature.
A lattice Boltzmann approach for acoustic manipulation
Creators: name: Castro-Avila, E.
name: Malgaretti, P.
name: Harting, J.
name: Muñoz, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ a lattice Boltzmann method to compute the acoustic radiation force produced by standing waves on a compressible object. Instead of simulating the fluid mechanics equations directly, the proposed method uses a lattice Boltzmann model that reproduces the wave equation, together with a kernel interpolation scheme, to compute the first order perturbations of the pressure and velocity fields on the object's surface and, from them, the acoustic radiation force. The procedure reproduces with excellent accuracy the theoretical expressions by Gor'kov and Wei for the sphere and the disk, respectively, even with a modest number of lattice Boltzmann cells. The proposed method shows to be a promising tool for simulating phenomena where the acoustic radiation force plays a relevant role, like acoustic tweezers or the acoustic manipulation of microswimmers, with applications in medicine and engineering.
Scenario Planning Workbook: Urban Agriculture in Lansing
Creators: name: Hodbod, Jennifer
name: Lembi, Rafael
name: Wentworth, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Food habits
subject: Food
subject: Michigan--Lansing
subject: Participant observation
subject: Sustainability
subject: Environmental justice
subject: Social justice
subject: Action research
subject: Action research--Methodology

description: We held workshops in 2019 and 2020 with stakeholders involved in urban agriculture in Lansing. At these workshops, researchers and community members identified multiple features of the urban agriculture system in Lansing that support resilience, such as strong organizations that support participation and learning, and that could be improved, such as increasing the diversity of individuals in leadership positions.  The workshops resulted in a visions for a sustainable and resilient urban agriculture system in Lansing. The next step was to operationalize this visions by co-creating scenarios. These scenarios help identify actionable pathways that would achieve our vision of the future twenty years from now. This workbook provides a guide for the scenario-building process.
Scenario Planning Workbook: Urban Agriculture in Lansing
Creators: name: Hodbod, Jennifer
name: Lembi, Rafael
name: Wentworth, Chelsea
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Action research
subject: Sustainability
subject: Social justice
subject: Action research--Methodology
subject: Participant observation
subject: Food habits
subject: Food
subject: Michigan--Lansing
subject: Environmental justice

description: We held workshops in 2019 and 2020 with stakeholders involved in urban agriculture in Lansing. At these workshops, researchers and community members identified multiple features of the urban agriculture system in Lansing that support resilience, such as strong organizations that support participation and learning, and that could be improved, such as increasing the diversity of individuals in leadership positions.

The workshops resulted in a visions for a sustainable and resilient urban agriculture system in Lansing. The next step was to operationalize this visions by co-creating scenarios. These scenarios help identify actionable pathways that would achieve our vision of the future twenty years from now. This workbook provides a guide for the scenario-building process.
Additional file 1 of Global and regional estimates of tuberculosis burden attributed to high fasting plasma glucose from 1990 to 2019: emphasis on earlier glycemic control
Creators: name: Bian, Qin
name: Zhang, Yanjun
name: Xue, Chen
name: Lu, Wenjing
name: Li, Wei
name: Pan, Fanqi
name: Li, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-jvd-10.1177_10406387211022467 – Supplemental material for After nasopharyngeal infection, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype A RNA is shed in bovine milk without associated mastitis
Creators: name: Suchowski, Marcel
name: Eschbaumer, Michael
name: Teifke, Jens P.
name: Ulrich, Reiner
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jvd-10.1177_10406387211022467 for After nasopharyngeal infection, foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype A RNA is shed in bovine milk without associated mastitis by Marcel Suchowski, Michael Eschbaumer, Jens P. Teifke and Reiner Ulrich in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
Performance of microfinance: the role of subsidies
Creators: name: NAWAZ, AHMAD
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2010

description: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) strive for financial sustainability, but also for the empowerment of the poor. The social nature of MFIs is mainly financed by subsidies. This paper measures the sustainability of microfinance, employing Yaron?s Subsidy Dependence Index (SDI) which measures the social cost of subsidized MFIs. Generating the data set directly from the audit reports of the 204 MFIs with 23 million borrowers in 54 Countries, the results show that microfinance sector is highly subsidized. Moreover, once subsidies are accounted for, MFIs financial performance declines substantially. Further, the paper also highlights the factors which contribute to and decrease the sustainability of microfinance.
Teachers' Supervisory Preference: Basis for Rethinking  Instructional Supervision Practice (Abstract)
Creators: name: Bada Basilio, Manolito
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: School supervision
subject: Education
subject: Mentoring
subject: Classroom management
subject: Teaching
subject: Teachers
subject: Perspective--Study and teaching
subject: Research
subject: Supervisors
subject: Teacher development

description: This paper aimed to find out the preferences of teachers in terms of instructional supervision types, thus serving as the basis for rethinking instructional supervision practice by all concerned. This descriptive research involved 17 teachers of a national high school in Botolan, Zambales, Philippines. The data were gathered through a survey questionnaire. Teachers’ most preferred type of supervision is mentoring, followed by peer coaching or collegial consultation, directed or clinical supervision, and administrative monitoring or walkthroughs. Teachers acknowledge that their supervisory preference helps them improve their classroom instructional practice. Responses disclose that teachers become “better” by learning from the sharing of other teachers’ perceptions, experiences, and ideas, as well as by being open to understanding and knowing more about the teaching and learning process. Teachers want to be treated as "professionals,” and they need to be appreciated, as this boosts their morale and encourages them to even do better and strive for the attainment of their best potential as classroom managers. In light of the conclusions of the study, recommendations, implications, and suggestions for further research are given.   Keywords: supervisory preference, teachers, descriptive research, mentoring, improved instruction
Trnsys integrated modeling support tool for a fast building-plant system design
Creators: name: BELTRAMI, Alberto
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2016

description: The present thesis stems from the benefits of the application of energy analysis in any stage of building-plant system design. The research highlights the barriers that prevent this integration and finally proposes the development of a dynamic modeling support tool able to simulate, with a reasonable workload, a very large number of integrated building-plant systems with different scales and resolutions, in order to have a guided design support for architects and HVAC designers/engineers, reducing their modeling effort and errors. The starting point is represented by a flexible and detailed model created with the calculation engine TRNSYS, which allow for the dynamic and integrated simulation of the building envelope, all the heating plant subsystems, and all the plant components related to the production of domestic hot water.
The research explores then strategies and simplifications that can considerably reduce the number of necessary inputs for the simulations, thus minimizing the modeling, implementation and simulation runtime of the model, while still maintaining an acceptable degree of accuracy with respect to the computational results and real energy consumptions. Those results are achieved by defining a methodology, which consists in developing a sizing protocol and a simplification protocol and applying them to real life, complex case studies, first modeling detailed models and progressively enhancing the level of simplification. At each progressive simplification step, the comparison with the detailed model results is given in terms of building energy needs, power curves, efficiencies, modeling and simulation workloads. In particular results show that the accuracy of the most simplified model is always below the 16% with respect to the most detailed model, with a 90% modeling and simulation workload reductions, able to make the tool easy to be adopted at every stage of building-plant system design.
Simulating Holographic Conformal Field Theories on Hyperbolic Lattices
Creators: name: Dey, Santanu
name: Chen, Anffany
name: Basteiro, Pablo
name: Fritzsche, Alexander
name: Greiter, Martin
name: Kaminski, Matthias
name: Lenggenhager, Patrick M.
name: Meyer, Rene
name: Sorbello, Riccardo
name: Stegmaier, Alexander
name: Thomale, Ronny
name: Erdmenger, Johanna
name: Boettcher, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how table-top settings combining hyperbolic lattices with nonlinear dynamics universally encode aspects of the bulk-boundary-correspondence between gravity in anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space and conformal field theory (CFT). Our concrete and broadly applicable holographic toy model simulates gravitational self-interactions in the bulk and features an emergent CFT with nontrivial correlations on the boundary. We measure the CFT data contained in the two- and three-point functions and clarify how a thermal CFT is simulated through an effective black hole geometry. As a concrete example, we propose and simulate an experimentally feasible protocol to measure the holographic CFT using electrical circuits.
description: 5 pages, published version