cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Figures illustrating unpublished material or modified versions of published figures from Benefits and limitations of drug studies in temperament research: biochemical responses as indicators of temperament
Creators: name: Netter, Petra
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: This paper presents a discussion of principles and problems of neurotransmitter challenge tests using examples of experiments, most of which were performed in the author's laboratory. Drugs targeting synthesis, release, receptors or reuptake of dopamine, serotonin and noradrenergic transmitter systems were used for characterizing or discriminating certain temperament or personality traits and their sub-factors. Any personality or temperament trait is characterized by multiple transmitter responses, thus constellations of hormone responses to drugs acting on different transmitter systems or on different sources of transmitter activity were investigated within individuals in crossover designs. The major conclusions are: (i) intra-individual patterns of hormone responses to different transmitter related drugs, or to agonists and antagonists, can help to discriminate subtypes of temperament dimensions and (ii) the latency and shape of response curves may help specify processes of biological responses related to psychological dimensions and reveal common transmitter sensitivities in clusters of traits. Transmitter sensitivity, defined by hormone responses, does not always corresponds to accompanying behavioural indicators, but may provide more specific information on underlying mechanisms. Additional consideration of drug doses and experimental induction of stressors may serve to identify temperament related susceptibilities to certain drugs. Limitations of the challenge approach and recommendations for future research are discussed.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences’.
Additional file 2 of Developing a framework for identifying risk factors and estimating direct economic disease burden attributable to healthcare-associated infections: a case study of a Chinese Tuberculosis hospital
Creators: name: Ren, Nili
name: Liu, Xinliang
name: Luo, Yi
name: Li, Guofei
name: Huang, Ying
name: Ji, Desheng
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Sun, Jing
name: Li, Hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Codes for conducting univariate analysis in STATA software. Codes for conducting multiple logistic regression analysis in STATA software. Codes for performing PSM analysis in STATA software. Codes for conducting Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank tests in STATA software. Codes for conducting Rosenbaum bounds for robust test in STATA software.
(103771) Roderick Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Electronic supplementary materials from Social cues trigger differential immune investment strategies in a non-social insect, Tenebrio molitor.
Creators: name: Gallagher, Joe D.
name: Siva-Jothy, Michael T.
name: Evison, Sophie E. F.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary methods and data to accompany main document
A Bound on the Pseudospectrum of the Harmonic Oscillator with Imaginary Cubic Potential
Creators: name: Dondl, Patrick W.
name: Dorey, Patrick
name: Rösler, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35P99, 47B44

description: We are concerned with the non-normal Schrödinger operator $$ H=-Δ+V $$ on $ L^2(\mathbb R^n)$, where $V\in W^{1,\infty}_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $\operatorname{Re} (V(x))\ge c|x|^2-d$ for some $c,d>0$. The spectrum of this operator is discrete and contained in the positive half plane. In general, the $\varepsilon$-pseudospectrum of $H$ will have an unbounded component for any $\varepsilon>0$ and thus will not approximate the spectrum in a global sense. By exploiting the fact that the semigroup $e^{-tH}$ is immediately compact, we show a complementary result, namely that for every $δ>0$, $R>0$ there exists an $\varepsilon>0$ such that the $\varepsilon$-pseudospectrum $$ σ_\varepsilon(H)\subset \{z:\operatorname{Re}(z) \geq R\}\cup\bigcup_{λ\inσ(H)}\{z:|z-λ|
description: Appl. Math. Res. Express (2016)
Additional file 1 of The development of a set of key points to aid clinicians and researchers in designing and conducting n-of-1 trials
Creators: name: Chatters, Robin
name: Hawksworth, Olivia
name: Julious, Steven
name: Cook, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Supporting Information from Shark skin-inspired designs that improve aerodynamic performance.
Creators: name: Domel, August G.
name: Saadat, Mehdi
name: Weaver, James C.
name: Haj-Hariri, Hossein
name: Bertoldi, Katia
name: Lauder, George V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: All additional information in regards to the methods, airfoil designs, and data of this study.
Spectra from Synergistic effect of natural chickpea leaf exudates acids in heterocyclization: a greener protocol for benzopyran synthesis
Creators: name: Snehali Mali
name: Shinde, Sachin
name: Shashikant Damte
name: Patil, Suresh
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry

description: FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR
Magnetotransport of single crystalline NbAs
Creators: name: Ghimire, N. J.
name: Luo, Yongkang
name: Neupane, M.
name: Williams, D. J.
name: Bauer, E. D.
name: Ronning, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report transport measurement in zero and applied magnetic field on a single crystal of NbAs. Transverse and longitudinal magnetoresistance in the plane of this tetragonal structure does not saturate up to 9 T. In the transverse configuration ($H \parallel c$, $I \perp c$) it is 230,000 \% at 2 K. The Hall coefficient changes sign from hole-like at room temperature to electron-like below $\sim$ 150 K. The electron carrier density and mobility calculated at 2 K based on a single band approximation are 1.8 x 10$^{19}$ cm$^{-3}$ and 3.5 x 10$^{5}$ cm$^2$/Vs, respectively. These values are similar to reported values for TaAs and NbP, and further emphasize that this class of noncentrosymmetric, transition-metal monopnictides is a promising family to explore the properties of Weyl semimetals and the consequences of their novel electronic structure.
description: accepted in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter
(103772) Edward Connor Lysaght
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The Father, his Land, Children:
title: A Focus on Media Coverage of Farm Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rafaely, Daniella
name: weNkosi, uMbuso
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Post-Apartheid South Africa
Farm Violence
Media
Media in South Africa

description: In this paper, we explore media accounts of farm killings, paying attention to public discourses of race, class, land ownership and violence. Using archival data of news reports of farm killings from 1998 until 2020, we utilize a discourse analysis to write a history of the present that explores farm violence as a symbolic act. Our data consist of 55 news articles published in English language newspapers, between 8 and 16 every ﬁve years, including 1998, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020. Using this data, we argue that farm murders in South Africa between 1998 and 2020 are fundamentally tied to the unspoken contested meaning of land. It is precisely the farm as the site of this violence that provides the ever-shifting meanings attached to these acts.
Electronic supplementary materials from Social cues trigger differential immune investment strategies in a non-social insect, Tenebrio molitor
Creators: name: Gallagher, Joe D.
name: Siva-Jothy, Michael T.
name: Evison, Sophie E. F.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary methods and data to accompany main document
Anglo-French Partition of Northern Togo and the Creation of Unequal Ethnic Power Relations, 1914 – 1932
Creators: name: Kachim, Joseph
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Konkomba
Togoland
First World War
Position
Colonialism
Ethic Relations

description: This article explores the Anglo-French partition of northern Togoland (former German Togo) after the First World War and its implication for ethnic power relations. Using mostly British archival records, the paper examines the manner in which the British acquired territories in northern Togoland during the Anglo-French partition and argues that the way the British executed the war in northern Togo left them in a disadvantaged position in territorial terms forcing them to ally themselves with the Dagomba to acquire territories. The British used oral narratives of the Dagomba chiefs of Demon, Sunson and Gushiegu to obtain Konkomba villages, which had come under the French by conquest. After acquiring these villages through Dagomba traditions, the British proceeded to re-engineer the entire political and territorial landscape of the area in order to put the Dagomba in a privileged position. This action by the British left the Konkomba landless and politically subordinated to Dagomba rule throughout the colonial and postcolonial period. In general, the article provides insights into how the convergence of European and local interests shaped not only colonial boundaries but also ethnic power relations in Africa.
Additional file 3 of The development of a set of key points to aid clinicians and researchers in designing and conducting n-of-1 trials
Creators: name: Chatters, Robin
name: Hawksworth, Olivia
name: Julious, Steven
name: Cook, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Localization of secretory mucins MUC5AC and MUC5B in normal/healthy human airways
Creators: name: Wolf, M.
name: Chen, G.
name: Subramani, D.B.
name: Radicioni, G.
name: Randell, S.H.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: O'Neal, W.K.
name: Kato, T.
name: Doerschuk, C.M.
name: Livraghi-Butrico, A.
name: Gilmore, R.C.
name: Matsui, H.
name: Dang, H.
name: Ehre, C.
name: Kesimer, M.
name: Chua, M.
name: Okuda, K.
name: Nagase, T.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2019

description: Rationale: MUC5AC and MUC5B are the predominant gel-forming mucins in the mucus layer of human airways. Each mucin has distinct functions and site-specific expression. However, the regional distribution of expression and cell types that secrete each mucin in normal/healthy human airways are not fully understood. Objectives: To characterize the regional distribution of MUC5B and MUC5AC in normal/healthy human airways and assess which cell types produce these mucins, referenced to the club cell secretory protein (CCSP). Methods: Multiple airway regions from 16 nonsmoker lungs without a history of lung disease were studied. MUC5AC, MUC5B, and CCSP expression/colocalization were assessed by RNA in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in five lungs with histologically healthy airways. Droplet digital PCR and cell cultures were performed for absolute quantification of MUC5AC/5B ratios and protein secretion, respectively. Measurements and Main Results: Submucosal glands expressed MUC5B, but not MUC5AC. However, MUC5B was also extensively expressed in superficial epithelia throughout the airways except for the terminal bronchioles. Morphometric calculations revealed that the distal airway superficial epithelium was the predominant site for MUC5B expression, whereas MUC5AC expression was concentrated in proximal, cartilaginous airways. RNA in situ hybridization revealed MUC5AC and MUC5B were colocalized with CCSP-positive secretory cells in proximal superficial epithelia, whereas MUC5B and CCSP-copositive cells dominated distal regions. Conclusions: In normal/healthy human airways, MUC5B is the dominant secretory mucin in the superficial epithelium and glands, with distal airways being a major site of expression. MUC5B and MUC5AC expression is a property of CCSP-positive secretory cells in superficial airway epithelia.
title: Mouvements Afrocentricitaires pour la Décolonisation des Musées en France et en Allemagne:
title: Entre Mobilisation de la Société Civile, Revendications de Restitution et Construction d’une Nouvelle Relation Postcoloniale
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Auer, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
no Humboldt 21!
CRAN
décolonisation des musées
resitution partenaride
duopole historique

description: Le discours du président Macron à Ouagadougou le 28 novembre 2017 a créé un moment de bascule historique dans le sens des conséquences liées à la colonisation, mettant ainsi en avant la restitution des objets d’art comme moyen de gestion des réminiscences de celle-ci. Dans cette porte ouverte, des organisations militant pour la prise en compte des droits et du discours africain se sont engouﬀrées. Le mouvement No Humboldt 21 !, en Allemagne, et le Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires de France (CRAN) s’appuyant sur cette prise de position de haut niveau sont désormais au frontispice du combat pour la restitution dans leurs pays respectifs, bien que souvent leur lutte ait précédé le discours de Ouagadougou. Ces organisations militent pour une approche décoloniale des musées et une gestion partenariale de la restitution qui intègrerait et tiendrait compte des communautés originaires des objets d’art conservés dans leurs musées. Un lobbying constant est exercé sur les politiques de ces deux pays, mais également auprès de gouvernements africains, à l’instar de celui du Bénin, pour des demandes formelles de restitution.
Analysis of Coincidence-Time Loopholes in Experimental Bell Tests
Creators: name: Christensen, B. G.
name: Hill, A.
name: Kwiat, P. G.
name: Knill, E.
name: Nam, S. W.
name: Coakley, K.
name: Glancy, S.
name: Shalm, L. K.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a distance-based Bell-test analysis method [E. Knill et al., Phys. Rev. A. 91, 032105 (2015)] to three experimental data sets where conventional analyses failed or required additional assumptions. The first is produced from a new classical source exploiting a "coincidence-time loophole" for which standard analysis falsely shows a Bell violation. The second is from a source previously shown to violate a Bell inequality; the distance-based analysis agrees with the previous results but with fewer assumptions. The third data set does not show a violation with standard analysis despite the high source quality, but is shown to have a strong violation with the distance-based analysis method.
description: 7 pages with 6 pages of supplementary information
Arresting bubble coarsening: A two-bubble experiment to investigate grain growth in presence of surface elasticity
Creators: name: Salonen, Anniina
name: Gay, Cyprien
name: Maestro, Armando
name: Drenckhan, Wiebke
name: Rio, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many two-phase materials suffer from grain-growth due to the energy cost which is associated with the interface that separates both phases. While our understanding of the driving forces and the dynamics of grain growth in different materials is well advanced by now, current research efforts address the question of how this process may be slowed down, or, ideally, arrested. We use a model system of two bubbles to explore how the presence of a finite surface elasticity may interfere with the coarsening process and the final grain size distribution. Combining experiments and modelling in the analysis of the evolution of two bubbles, we show that clear relationships can be predicted between the surface tension, the surface elasticity and the initial/final size ratio of the bubbles. We rationalise these relationships by the introduction of a modified Gibbs criterion. Besides their general interest, the present results have direct implications for our understanding of foam stability.
Supporting Information from Shark skin-inspired designs that improve aerodynamic performance
Creators: name: Domel, August G.
name: Saadat, Mehdi
name: Weaver, James C.
name: Haj-Hariri, Hossein
name: Bertoldi, Katia
name: Lauder, George V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: All additional information in regards to the methods, airfoil designs, and data of this study.
title: She must be Stripped Naked:
title: Female Criminality and Mob Encounters in Lagos (Nigeria) from the Neo-Liberal Era
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Omotoso, Sharon Adetutu
name: Oladejo, Mutiat Titilope
name: Bello, Temitope Yetunde
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Lagos
mob encounter
female criminality

description: Gendered violence in African cities occur in various dimensions. It became rampant in the 1980s due to neo-liberal reforms. Imposing mob sanctions by denuding female suspects of crimes is a phenomenal manifestation of contemporary and urban Africa. The work uses qualitative method to analyse issues of female criminality and naked stripping of women in the cosmopolitan city of Lagos, Nigeria. With evidences of women being stripped by mobs, this study focuses on the trajectories of mob attacks and body-shaming. Stripping women naked and body-shaming feature as an expres‐ sion of power over the female victim in mob encounters. Deviance and social control theories are used to examine the relationship between female criminality and nudity. Although largely deployed to deter crime, this study establishes denuding of women during mob justice is under-researched and consequently, a signiﬁcant context to study the dynamics of gendered violence.
(103775) Gwynned Margaret Griffith
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Developing a process for assessing the safety of a digital mental health intervention and gaining regulatory approval: a case study and academic’s guide
Creators: name: Taher, Rayan
name: Hall, Charlotte L.
name: Bergin, Aislinn D Gomez
name: Gupta, Neha
name: Heaysman, Clare
name: Jacobsen, Pamela
name: Kabir, Thomas
name: Kalnad, Nayan
name: Keppens, Jeroen
name: Hsu, Che-Wei
name: McGuire, Philip
name: Peters, Emmanuelle
name: Shergill, Sukhi
name: Stahl, Daniel
name: Stock, Ben Wensley
name: Yiend, Jenny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
(103770) Jessie Martin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Kakeya-Type Sets in Local Fields with Finite Residue Field
Creators: name: Fraser, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75

description: We present a construction of a measure-zero Kakeya-type set in a finite-dimensional space $K^d$ over a local field with finite residue field. The construction is an adaptation of the ideas appearing in [12] and [13]. The existence of measure-zero Kakeya-type sets over discrete valuation rings is also discussed, giving an alternative construction to the one presented in [4] over $\mathbb{F}_q[[t]]$.
description: 15 pages
title: Higher Education in British and French Mandated Cameroon:
title: Implementation and Impact on Human Resource Development, 1922-1961
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ndille, Roland N.
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Higher Education
TC
Mandated Territories
PMC
French Cameroons
Human Resource Department
Trust Territories
British Cameroons

description: In this paper, I discuss the development of higher education in the former League of Nations Mandate Territories (1922-1946) and the United Nations Trust Territories (1946-1961) in Africa, with a particular focus on British and French Cameroon. In contrast to some British and French colonies where higher education institutions were established in preparation for self-government and independence, I question why higher education institutions did not exist in any of the six mandate territories in Africa until independence. I examine the extent to which the approach taken by Britain and France to meet the territories' need for higher education matched the territories' need for a skilled workforce. I argue that both the Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) and the Trusteeship Council (TC) saw the establishment of higher education institu‐ tions in the administered territories as an urgent need for the development of the mandates, but implementation was thwarted by the administrative authorities who rejected the proposals and instead recommended a scholarship system that yielded limited returns to education in the territories. In both British Cameroon and French Cameroon, this policy resulted in poorly developed human capital and weak political and economic leadership. The paper draws on critical analysis of primary historical documents as methodology and decoloniality as theoretical foundation. I consider the LoN and the UN as complicit with Britain and France (the administrators) in the underdevelopment of higher education in the two mandates because they often endorsed their views on issues or failed as oversight bodies in ensuring that decisions on higher education in the case were rationally implemented – what Ndlovu-Gatsheni has called “a common agenda of Euro-North American hegemony of exploitation and subjugation.”
Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Risk-Taking in Social Decisions
Creators: name: Wardan, Lily Joy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: A cross-sectional study run via Prolific Academic. There were 220 participants and ethicality was confirmed through the 'University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Panel'. Hypothesis: An increase in an individuals' socially prescribed perfectionism (MPS) score, has a negative relation to their risk-taking in social decisions (DOSPERT) score.
Bridging African Studies and Mobility Studies – Considerations on Transdisciplinarity and Positionality
Creators: name: Englert, Birgit
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
African Studies
Mobility Studies
Transdisciplinarity
Positionality

description: In this article, I reﬂect on approaches to African Studies and to Mobility Studies with the intention of elaborating on possible ways to bridge these two transdisciplinary ﬁelds. Thereby, I draw on published research in both ﬁelds as well as on my own research projects located at the junction of African Studies and Mobility Studies. An earlier version of this text has originally served as part of the introduction to my cumulative habilitation thesis (Englert 2022a). It does not aim at a comprehensive overview of those two ﬁelds but rather highlights how subjective trajectories shape the way in which research ﬁelds are being approached.1 Several earlier issues of Stich‐ proben, have engaged with notions of mobility and contributed to the increasing literature on Africa-related mobilities research.2 This essay aims at raising some more general questions concerning the way these two ﬁelds take note of each other. In doing so, I touch upon debates on positionality, knowledge production, representation as well as the possibilities and limits of transdisciplinarity and argue for an approach that centres mobilities in, from and to Africa without separating them from ongoing debates.
On the existence of optical vortex solitons propagating in saturable nonlinear media
Creators: name: Medina, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a nonlinear Schrödinger type equation. A variational principle and constrained minimization approach is used to prove the existence of positive solutions for an undetermined wave propagation constant. We provide a series of explicit estimates related to the wave propagation constant, a prescribed energy flux, and vortex winding number. Further, on a Nehari manifold, the existence of positive solutions for a wide range of parameter values is proved. We also provide numerical analysis to illustrate the behavior of the soliton's amplitude and wave propagation constant with respect to a prescribed energy flux and vortex winding number.
description: Errors have been corrected from a previous version
Review of: Fritsch, Katharina. 2022. The Diaspora of the Comoros in France. Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation.
Creators: name: Hasenöhrl, Syntia
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Diaspora
Comoros in France
(Post)Colonial Racism
Racialised Communities
Intersectional Power Relations
Racism in France
Racist-Colonial Structures
Dispositif of Communitarisation

description: Rezension von Fritsch, Katharina. 2022. The Diaspora of the Comoros in France.Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation. Abindgon/ New York: Routledge. 236 pages. ISBN 978-0-3676-2794-2
An improved inhaled mucolytic to treat airway muco-obstructive diseases
Creators: name: Hothem, L.N.
name: Villalon, D.
name: Grubb, B.R.
name: Fontana, N.C.
name: Wang, B.
name: Hill, D.B.
name: Donaldson, S.H.
name: Ehre, C.
name: Esther, C.R., Jr.
name: Kato, T.
name: Markovetz, M.R.
name: Livraghi-Butrico, A.
name: Morrison, C.B.
name: Thelin, W.R.
name: Delion, M.F.
name: Rushton, Z.L.
name: Boucher, R.C.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2019

description: Rationale: Airways obstruction with thick, adherent mucus is a pathophysiologic and clinical feature of muco-obstructive respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and cystic fibrosis (CF). Mucins, the dominant biopolymer in mucus, organize into complex polymeric networks via the formation of covalent disulfide bonds, which govern the viscoelastic properties of the mucus gel. For decades, inhaled N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been used as a mucolytic to reduce mucin disulfide bonds with little, if any, therapeutic effects. Improvement of mucolytic therapy requires the identification of NAC deficiencies and the development of compounds that overcome them. Objectives: Elucidate the pharmacological limitations of NAC and test a novel mucin-reducing agent, P3001, in preclinical settings. Methods: The study used biochemical (e.g., Western blotting, mass spectrometry) and biophysical assays (e.g., microrheology/macrorheology, spinnability, mucus velocity measurements) to test compound efficacy and toxicity in in vitro and in vivo models and patient sputa. Measurements and Main Results: Dithiothreitol and P3001 were directly compared with NAC in vitro and both exhibited superior reducing activities. In vivo, P3001 significantly decreased lung mucus burden in bENaC-overexpressing mice, whereas NAC did not (n = 6–24 mice per group). In NAC-treated CF subjects (n = 5), aerosolized NAC was rapidly cleared from the lungs and did not alter sputum biophysical properties. In contrast, P3001 acted faster and at lower concentrations than did NAC, and it was more effective than DNase in CF sputum ex vivo. Conclusions: These results suggest that reducing the viscoelasticity of airway mucus is an achievable therapeutic goal with P3001 class mucolytic agents.
Additional file 2 of Developing a process for assessing the safety of a digital mental health intervention and gaining regulatory approval: a case study and academic’s guide
Creators: name: Taher, Rayan
name: Hall, Charlotte L.
name: Bergin, Aislinn D Gomez
name: Gupta, Neha
name: Heaysman, Clare
name: Jacobsen, Pamela
name: Kabir, Thomas
name: Kalnad, Nayan
name: Keppens, Jeroen
name: Hsu, Che-Wei
name: McGuire, Philip
name: Peters, Emmanuelle
name: Shergill, Sukhi
name: Stahl, Daniel
name: Stock, Ben Wensley
name: Yiend, Jenny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Supplemental Information from Realizing ‘integral control’ in living cells: how to overcome leaky integration due to dilution?.
Creators: name: Yili Qian
name: Vecchio, Domitilla Del
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60113 Synthetic Biology

description: Supplemental information that contains additional technical details and simulation data.
Inadequate Literacy Skills in the Italian Regions in the Period 2018-2022
Creators: name: Leogrande, Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Istat calculates the alphabetic competence as inadequate. The variable considers students in classes III of lower secondary school. The value is calculated as the percentage of students in classes III of lower secondary school who do not reach a sufficient level (Level I + Level II of 5 levels) of alphabetic competence. Invalsi provides the data as part of the national learning surveys. The data refers to the period between 2018 and 2022. Data relating to the 2020 financial year is missing. The reference to Trentino Alto Adige is also absent in the dataset.
Characterization of Low-mass, Wide-separation Substellar Companions to Stars in Upper Scorpius: Near-infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Lachapelle, François-René
name: Lafrenière, David
name: Gagné, Jonathan
name: Jayawardhana, Ray
name: Janson, Markus
name: Helling, Christiane
name: Witte, Soeren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new 0.9-2.45 $μ$m spectroscopy ($R \sim 1000$), and $Y$, $J$, $H$, $K_s$, $L^\prime$ photometry, obtained at Gemini North, of three low-mass brown dwarf companions on wide orbits around young stars of the Upper Scorpius OB association: HIP 78530 B, [PGZ2001] J161031.9-191305 B, and GSC 06214-00210 B. We use these data to assess the companions' spectral type, temperature, surface gravity and mass, as well as the ability of the BT-Settl and Drift-Phoenix atmosphere models to reproduce the spectral features of young substellar objects. For completeness, we also analyze the archival spectroscopy and photometry of the Upper Scorpius planetary mass companion 1RXS J160929.1-210524 b. Based on a comparison with model spectra we find that the companions, in the above order, have effective temperatures of 2700, 2500, 2300 and 1700 K. These temperatures are consistent with our inferred spectral types, respectively M7 $β$, M9 $γ$, M9 $γ$, and L4 $γ$. From bolometric luminosities estimated from atmosphere model spectra adjusted to our photometry, and using evolution models at 5-10 Myr, we estimate masses of 21-25, 28-70, 14-17 and 7-12 $M_{\rm Jup}$, respectively. J1610-1913 B appears significantly over-luminous for its inferred temperature, which explains its higher mass estimate. Synthetic spectra based on the BT-Settl and Drift-Phoenix atmosphere models generally offer a good fit to our observed spectra, although our analysis has highlighted a few problems. For example, the best fits in the individual near-infrared bands occur at different model temperatures. Also, temperature estimates based on a comparison of the broadband magnitudes and colors of the companions to synthetic magnitudes from the models are systematically lower than the temperature estimates based on a comparison with synthetic spectra.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, published in the Astrophysical Journal
Rezension von: WIEDEMANN, Charlotte. 2022. Den Schmerz der Anderen Begreifen. Holocaust und Weltgedächtnis.
Creators: name: Englert, Birgit
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Nationalsozialismus
Holocaust
Weltgedächtnis
Erinnerungskultur
Restitution
deutsche Kolonialherrschaft
Palästina-Solidarität

description: WIEDEMANN, Charlotte. 2022. Den Schmerz der Anderen Begreifen. Holocaust und Weltgedächtnis. Berlin: Propyläen, 288 Seiten. ISBN: 978-3-549-10049-3 „Mehr Respekt. Mehr Oﬀenheit. Mehr Zuhören. Das neue Erinnern“ – dieser Appell auf der Rückseite des Buchcovers zieht sich durch das neueste Buch der deutschen Publizistin und Auslandsreporterin Charlotte Wiedemann. Sie nimmt ihre Leser:innen auf eine sehr persönliche Reise durch die Welt und Welt‐ geschichte mit und lässt sie an ihren klugen Beobachtungen und Erkenntnissen teilhaben. Von Beginn weg benennt Wiedemann eigene vormals blinde Flecken, die ihr im Lauf von Jahrzehnten intensiver Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte und Gesellschaften in unterschiedlichen Weltgegenden mehr und mehr bewusst wurden.
(103767) Elwy Davies Symond
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Digitale Hassrede in der Schweiz : Ausmass und sozialstrukturelle Einflussfaktoren
Creators: name: Stahel, Lea
name: Weingartner, Sebastian
name: Lobinger, Katharina
name: Baier, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universität Zürich
Year: 2022
Subjects: 302.2: Kommunikation
302.23: Medien

description: Das vorliegende Projekt hatte zum Hauptziel, erstmals in einer repräsentativen Befragung die Verbreitung von digitaler Hassrede für viktimisierte Personen und Täter/innen unter Internetnutzenden in der Schweiz zu bestimmen. Diese Verbreitung wurde zudem differenziert für verschiedene sozialstrukturelle Gruppen betrachtet. Es interessierte konkret, in welchen soziodemografischen und sozioökonomischen Gruppen diese Personen besonders häufig respektive selten vertreten sind. Zu diesem Zweck wurde ein differenziertes Erhebungsinstrument für digitale Hassrede für Befragungsstudien entwickelt. Es wurde eine Umfrage mit 2'400 Befragten in allen drei grossen Sprachregionen der Schweiz durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse können als Grundlage für die Entwicklung zielgruppenspezifischer Gegenmassnahmen dienen. Zur Wissenschaft tragen wir ein elaboriertes Messinstrument für digitale Hassrede bei.
Additional file 1 of The association between cumulative exposure to PM2.5 and DNA methylation measured using methyl-capture sequencing among COPD patients
Creators: name: Ji, Hyun Woo
name: Kang, Jieun
name: Kim, Hwan-Cheol
name: Jung, Junghee
name: Lee, Seon-Jin
name: Jung, Ji Ye
name: Lee, Sei Won
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
XBP1s regulates MUC5B in a promoter variant-dependent pathway in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis airway epithelia
Creators: name: Chen, G.
name: Boucher, R.C.
name: Stripp, B.R.
name: Sun, L.
name: Volmer, A.S.
name: Dang, H.
name: Ribeiro, C.M.P.
name: Gilmore, R.C.
name: Martino, M.B.
name: Okuda, K.
name: Scherer, P.E.
name: Randell, S.H.
name: Livraghi-Butrico, A.
name: Deng, Y.
name: O'Neal, W.K.
name: Kato, T.
name: Abzhanova, A.
name: Lin, J.M.
name: Hull-Ryde, E.A.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2019

description: Rationale: The goal was to connect elements of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) pathogenesis, including chronic endoplasmic reticulum stress in respiratory epithelia associated with injury/inflammation and remodeling, distal airway mucus obstruction and honeycomb cyst formation with accumulation of MUC5B (mucin 5B), and associations between IPF risk and polymorphisms in the MUC5B promoter. Objectives: To test whether the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensor protein ERN2 (ER-to-nucleus signaling 2) and its downstream effector, the spliced form of XBP1S (X-box-binding protein 1), regulate MUC5B expression and differentially activate the MUC5B promoter variant in respiratory epithelia. Methods: Primary human airway epithelial (HAE) cells, transgenic mouse models, human IPF lung tissues, and cell lines expressing XBP1S and MUC5B promoters were used to explore relationships between the ERN2/XBP1S pathway and MUC5B. An inhibitor of the pathway, KIRA6, and XBP1 CRISPR-Cas9 were used in HAE cells to explore therapeutic potential. Measurements and Main Results: ERN2 regulated MUC5B and MUC5AC mRNAs. Downstream XBP1S selectively promoted MUC5B expression in vitro and in distal murine airway epithelia in vivo. XBP1S bound to the proximal region of the MUC5B promoter and differentially upregulated MUC5B expression in the context of the MUC5B promoter rs35705950 variant. High levels of ERN2 and XBP1S were associated with excessive MUC5B mRNAs in distal airways of human IPF lungs. Cytokine-induced MUC5B expression in HAE cells was inhibited by KIRA6 and XBP1 CRISPR-Cas9. Conclusions: A positive feedback bistable ERN2-XBP1S pathway regulates MUC5B-dominated mucus obstruction in IPF, providing an unfolded protein response-dependent mechanism linking the MUC5B promoter rs35705950 polymorphism with IPF pathogenesis. Inhibiting ERN2-dependent pathways/elements may provide a therapeutic option for IPF.
Self-Interacting Dark Matter Scattering Rates Through Cosmic Time
Creators: name: Robertson, Andrew
name: Massey, Richard
name: Eke, Vincent
name: Bower, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the rate of dark matter scattering in collapsed structures throughout the history of the Universe. If the scattering cross-section is velocity-independent, then the canonical picture is correct that scatterings occur mainly at late times. The scattering rate peaks slightly at redshift z~6, and remains significant today. Half the scatterings occur after z~1, in structures more massive than 10^12 M_sun. Within a factor of two, these numbers are robust to changes in the assumed astrophysics, and the scatterings would be captured in cosmological simulations. However, for particle physics models with a velocity-dependent cross-section (as for Yukawa potential interactions via a massive mediator), the scattering rate peaks before z~20, in objects with mass less than 10^4 M_sun. These precise values are sensitive to the redshift-dependent mass-concentration relation and the small-scale cutoff in the matter power spectrum. In extreme cases, the qualitative effect of early interactions may be reminiscent of warm dark matter and strongly affect the subsequent growth of structure. However, these scatterings are being missed in existing cosmological simulations with limited mass resolution.
description: v2 matches accepted MNRAS version
Rezension von TÁÍWÒ, Olúfẹmi. 2022. Against Decolonisation. Taking African Agency Seriously
Creators: name: Spörker, Dominik
Publisher: name: Stichproben. Verein zur Förderung und Publikation afrikawissenschaftlicher Arbeiten aus den Afrikawissenschaften
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afrikanistik
African studies
ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)
Dekolonisierung
Dekolonisierungsdebatte
Projekt der Moderne
Kolonialismus
afrikanische Geschichtsschreibung
Wissensproduktion in und über Afrika

description: TÁÍWÒ, Olúfẹmi. 2022. Against Decolonisation. Taking African Agency Seriously. London: C. Hurst & Co. 270 Seiten. ISBN: 9781787386921. Mit „Against Decolonisation. Taking African Agency Seriously” veröﬀentlichte der nigerianische Philosoph Olúfẹmi Táíwò 2022 eine Intervention gegen das aktuell allumfassende Narrativ der Dekolonisierung. Die Motivation für Táíwò, der aktuell am Africana Studies & Research Center der Cornell University (USA) unterrichtet, dieses Buch zu schreiben, liegt darin begründet, dass in seiner Wahrnehmung zentrale Werke afrikanischer Denker*innen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart nicht wahrgenommen beziehungsweise von Vertreter*innen der aktuellen Dekolonisierungsdebatte bewusst ignoriert werden.