cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adaptation and validation of a Korean-language version of the revised hospital survey on patient safety culture (K-HSOPSC 2.0)
Creators: name: Lee, Seung E.
name: Dahinten, V. Susan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background To date, there has been no universal and validated tool for measuring safety culture in Korea. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC), version 2.0 was released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2019, but it had not yet been translated and assessed for use in Korea. The aim of this study was to assess the content validity and other psychometric properties of the Korean-language version of the HSOPSC 2.0. Methods Instrument adaptation was performed using a committee-based translation, cognitive interviews, and expert panel reviews. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on data obtained through an online survey from 526 registered nurses who worked on medical-surgical units in three teaching hospitals in South Korea. Results One item was dropped during the translation and adaption phase of the study as being a poor fit for the Korean healthcare context, resulting in excellent content validity. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the factorial structure of the K-HSOPSC 2.0. Correlations with an overall measure of patient safety provided further evidence of construct validity. Additionally, in comparing the results of this current study to those from U.S. research using the HSOPSC 2.0, it was found that Korean nurses assigned less positive scores to all dimensions of patient safety culture. Conclusion Our findings provide evidence of the content validity, reliability, and construct validity of the K-HOSPSC 2.0 for measuring patient safety culture in South Korean hospitals. Hospital administrators can use this tool to assess safety culture and identify areas for improvement to enhance patient safety and quality of care.
(Women) business angels in Germany: an exploratory study within an international context
Creators: name: Volkmann, Christine
name: Tokarski, Kim Oliver
name: Gunter, Ute
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The focus of this study is the role of women in the business angel market and gender-based differences in access to finance. Most of the current research is focused on access to debt finance. This paper extends this research because there has been very little consideration of women's access to venture capital, (esp. to angel financing). 'Missing from research is an understanding about the interaction between the demand and the supply side for equity capital'. (Brush et al. 2004---DIANA Project) The business angel market can typically be described as an informal venture capital market, because business angels are normally not classified within official structures. They act as direct, informal and private investors. Despite that theoretical classification numerous business angel networks were set up the last years around the world such as in Germany. Business angel networks intend e.g. to get in contact with a business angel and they organize the individual business angels within a formal network. Therefore these networks can help to transform the business angel market partially into a small formal market. Within these networks and network meetings there are predominantly male business angels listed. The key issues of this exploratory study are to identify female business angels and spotlight their investment behavior (in comparison to their male counterparts). The study should generate some basic information in this context. This data can on the one hand be used to generate recommended courses of action and on the other hand create awareness of women business angels.
title: A Preliminary Analysis of the Fluid History of a Normal Fault in the Keno Pit, Alligator Ridge Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada
Creators: name: Solum, John G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The flow of oil along faults is only poorly understood. In many cases a fault is the only means of transportation for the oil from its area of deposition to its current location. This assumption is reasonable due to chemical fingerprinting of oil. In some cases the oil in a reservoir and the oil in a fault zone have been analyzed chemically and found to be the same. The problem is this; early in a fault's history it produces a thin layer of fine-grained material between its fault surfaces. This condition is not conductive to fluid flow. Therefore another mechanism must have acted on the system to facilitate fluid flow. A likely mechanism is fluid pressure. A likely hypothesis is that when the fluid pressure in a system reaches a critical point, the fault surfaces are forced apart, and fluid can flow along the fault. This continues until the pressure drops below the critical point (due to the removal of the oil that has been removed from the system) and the fault closes. This allows the pressure to build up once again, and so oil flows along the fault in a cyclic fashion.
Additional file 1 of Disparities in neighborhood food environment and cognitive decline among US older adults: a cohort study
Creators: name: Kim, Boeun
name: Thorpe, Roland J.
name: Szanton, Sarah L.
name: Adkins-Jackson, Paris B.
name: Samuel, Laura J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Tables 1–3. Table 1 Association between low-income neighborhoods and low food access neighborhoods. Table 2 Association between living in low food access and low-income neighborhoods and cognitive function: additive effects model. Table 3 Association between living in low food access and low-income neighborhoods and cognitive function: multiplicative effects model.
Trends in Pediatric Palliative Care Research (TPPCR) 2024; Issue #4: Commentary on Bollig et al.
Creators: name: Humphreys, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: TPPCR
Last Aid Courses
Grief
Children
Teens
Pediatric palliative care

description: This TPPCR commentary discusses the 2024 paper by Bollig et al., “We Want to Talk about Death, Dying and Grief and to Learn about End-of-Life Care’-Lessons Learned from a Multi-Center Mixed-Methods Study on Last Aid Courses for Kids and Teens.” published in Children.
Understanding the key processes of excellence as a prerequisite to establishing academic centres of excellence in Africa
Creators: name: Fekadu, Abebaw
name: Oppenheim, Claire
name: Manyazewal, Tsegahun
name: Nislow, Corey
name: Woldeamanuel, Yimtubezinash
name: Hailu, Asrat
name: Belete, Anteneh
name: Wondimagegn, Dawit
name: Hanlon, Charlotte
name: Gebremariam, Tsige
name: Collins, Asha
name: Larson, Christopher J.
name: Gebreyes, Wondwossen
name: Aklillu, Eleni
name: Muula, Adamson S.
name: Mugus, Sabina
name: Caffery, Connor
name: Giday, Mirutse
name: Yimer, Getnet
name: Davey, Gail
name: Medhin, Girmay
name: Makonnen, Eyasu
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Africa’s economic transformation relies on a radical transformation of its higher education institutions. The establishment of regional higher education Centres of Excellence (CoE) across Africa through a World Bank support aims to stimulate the needed transformation in education and research. However, excellence is a vague, and often indiscriminately used concept in academic circles. More importantly, the manner in which aspiring institutions can achieve academic excellence is described inadequately. The main objective of this paper is to describe the core processes of excellence as a prerequisite to establishing academic CoE in Africa. Methods The paper relies on our collaborative discussions and real-world insight into the pursuit of academic excellence, a narrative review using Pubmed search for a contextual understanding of CoEs in Africa supplemented by a Google search for definitions of CoEs in academic contexts. Results We identified three key, synergistic processes of excellence central to institutionalizing academic CoEs: participatory leadership, knowledge management, and inter-disciplinary collaboration. (1) Participatory leadership encourages innovations to originate from the different parts of the organization, and facilitates ownership as well as a culture of excellence. (2) Centers of Excellence are future-oriented in that they are constantly seeking to achieve best practices, informed by the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research and information available. As such, the process by which centres facilitate the flow of knowledge within and outside the organization, or knowledge management, is critical to their success. (3) Such centres also rely on expertise from different disciplines and ‘engaged’ scholarship. This multidisciplinarity leads to improved research productivity and enhances the production of problem-solving innovations. Conclusion Participatory leadership, knowledge management, and inter-disciplinary collaborations are prerequisites to establishing academic CoEs in Africa. Future studies need to extend our findings to understand the processes key to productivity, competitiveness, institutionalization, and sustainability of academic CoEs in Africa.
title: Syndrome X: A Review of the Cluster of Abnormalities, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Creators: name: Gurney, Kathryn Lundgren
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Syndrome X is a cluster of abnormalities including insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, upper-body obesity, increased levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1, decreased levels of tissue plasminogen activator, and hyperuricemia. The combined effect of these abnormalities greatly increases risk for Type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. Individuals at risk for Syndrome X are those with any of the abnormalities (not necessarily all) or with a family history of diabetes, hypertension, or early-onset coronary artery disease. Treatment of Syndrome X should be early and aggressive, starting with lifestyle changes. Exercise, proper diet, and weight loss all improve insulin resistance and thereby decrease health risks. Pharmacological treatment for obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes may become necessary. Clinicians should focus on prevention of the disease through advocating an appropriate diet and exercise plan to maintain or obtain ideal body weight and keep lipids, blood pressure, and glucose at normal levels.
ФИЗИЧЕСКИЕ СВОЙСТВА БИТУМОВ
Creators: name: Махмудов, М.Ж.
name: Салойдинов, А.А.
name: Абдуллаева, Ш.Ш.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Физические свойства характеризуют состояние материалов, определяют его отношение к физическим воздействиям окружающей среды. К физическим свойствам относят плотность, объёмную массу, водостойкость, а также теплофизические, электрические, магнитные, оптические и поверхностные свойства. Магнитные и оптические свойства позволяют судить о строении молекул, входящих в состав материала, а диэлектрические – о его структуре. Поверхностные свойства предопределяют адгезионные характеристики и водоустойчивость материала. Физические свойства в определённой мере определяют поведение материала под воздействием механических нагрузок.
title: Characterization of the Prion Protein (PRP) Gene in Ten Breeds of Sheep
Creators: name: Stephens, A. R.
name: Wang, S.
name: Holyoak, G. R.
name: Timofeevskaia, O. G.
name: Shay, T. L.
name: Vernon, W.
name: Ellis, S.
name: Beever, J.
name: Cockett, N. E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE's) are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by a long generation time, spongy degeneration in the cerebral gray matter, neuronal loss and proliferation and hypertrophy of glial cells. An abnormal form of the prion protein (PrP) plays a major part in TSE pathogenesis and has been hypothesized to be the only component of the infectious agent. Some animals exposed to scrapie, the TSE affecting sheep and goats, seem to be resistant to development of the disease. Alleles encoding amino acid substitutions at codons 136 (A/V) and 171 (Q/R/H) have been associated with scrapie resistance. Other amino acid substitutions at codons 112 (M/T), 137 (M/T), 141 (L/F), 154 (R/H), and 211 (R/Q) have been reported but not associated with scrapie resistance. It may be possible to reduce the incidence of ovine scrapie by increasing the frequency of resistant genotypes (AA-136, RR-171, or QR-171). Thus, an important consideration is the frequency of these genotypes in different breeds of sheep. In this study, the genetic sequence for codons 104-175 was determined for at least ten animals of ten sheep breeds (n=207). Genotypes at codons 112, 136, 154, and 171 were determined. For codon 136, the frequency of the susceptible allele (V) was less than 0.20 in all breeds. In contrast, the frequency of the susceptible allele (Q) at codon 171 ranged from 0.27 (St. Croix) to 0.96 (Hampshire). In addition, a previously unreported substitution was found at codon 143 (H/R), with frequencies as high as 0.40.
Estimating fundamental site frequency and soil thickness using the HVSR method on Wolfe Island, Ontario
Creators: name: Bucciarelli, Dean R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio
Fundamental site frequency
Soil thickness
Depth to bedrock
Shear wave velocity
Microtremor signal

description: This research was done for an undergraduate thesis project in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's University in Kingston. It covers the application of the passive seismic HVSR method on Wolfe Island to estimate fundamental site frequencies and soil thicknesses.
Additional file 1 of Health leaders’ perspectives and attitudes on medical assistance in dying and its legalization: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Yee, Amanda
name: Tong, Eryn
name: Nissim, Rinat
name: Zimmermann, Camilla
name: Allin, Sara
name: Gibson, Jennifer L.
name: Li, Madeline
name: Rodin, Gary
name: Shapiro, Gilla K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Begleitung und Evaluierung der Umsetzung von EU-Versteigerungsverfahren für die Handelsperiode 2013-2020 bzw. 2012-2020 im Luftverkehr aus ökonomischer Perspektive
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Anlagenbetreiber
subject: EU-Versteigerungsverfahren
subject: EU-Emissionshandel
subject: Handelsperiode
subject: Auktionen
subject: Sekundärmarkt
subject: Spotmarkt
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Der vorliegende Bericht ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts "Begleitung und Evaluierung der Umsetzung derEU-Versteigerungsverfahren für die Handelsperiode 2013-2020 bzw. 2012-2020 im Luftverkehr aus ökonomischer Perspektive". Im ersten Teil des Berichtes "Zugangsbedingungen an den wichtigsten EU Sekundärmärkten" wird eine Analyse der Zugangsbedingungen an den wichtigsten europäischen Handelsplätzen für Emissionsberechtigungen in London (ICE), Leipzig (EEX) und Paris (BlueNext) vorgenommen. Somit entsteht ein Benchmark für den direkten Zugang an den Auktionsplattformen im Primärmarkt. Die Auswertung orientiert sich am jeweils niederschwelligsten Zugang zum Spotmarkt der drei genannten Handelsplätze, d.h. dem Zugang mit den geringsten Transaktionskosten. Der zweite Teil des Berichtes "Strategische Auswertung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Auktionen und Sekundärmarkt im europäischenCO2-Emissionshandelssystem" untersucht mögliche Wechselwirkungen zwischen Primär- und Sekundärmärkten für Emissionsberechtigungen.Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Der vorliegende Bericht ist Teil des Forschungsprojekts „Begleitung und Evaluierung der Umsetzung der EU-Versteigerungsverfahren für die Handelsperiode 2013-2020 bzw. 2012-2020 im Luftverkehr aus ökonomischer Perspektive“. Im ersten Teil des Berichtes „Zugangsbedingungen an den wichtigsten EU Sekundärmärkten“ wird eine Analyse der Zugangsbedingungen an den wichtigsten europäischen Handelsplätzen für Emissionsberechtigungen in London (ICE), Leipzig (EEX) und Paris (BlueNext) vorgenommen. Somit entsteht ein Benchmark für den direkten Zugang an den Auktionsplattformen im Primärmarkt. Die Auswertung orientiert sich am jeweils niederschwelligsten Zugang zum Spotmarkt der drei genannten Handelsplätze, d.h. dem Zugang mit den geringsten Transaktionskosten. Der zweite Teil des Berichtes „Strategische Auswertung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Auktionen und Sekundärmarkt im europäischen ⁠CO2⁠-Emissionshandelssystem“ untersucht mögliche Wechselwirkungen zwischen Primär- und Sekundärmärkten für Emissionsberechtigungen.
title: Refeeding Syndrome
Creators: name: Sperry, Christina H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Refeeding syndrome is a syndrome of electrolyte abnormalities, which occurs in patients who are fed orally, enterally, or parenterally (1). Patients at high risk of getting refeeding syndrome include people with chronic malnutrition-underfeeding, classic kwashiorkor, classic marasmus, anorexia nervosa, chronic alcoholism, morbid obesity with massive weight loss, patients unfed in 7-10 days with evidence of stress and depletion, patients with prolonged fasting, and patients with prolonged intravenous hydration (1,2). Characteristics or complications of refeeding syndrome include congestive heart failure, hypercapnia, hyperglycemia, rebound hypoglycemia, hypophosphatemia, hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, and hypocalcemia. Prevention is the key in refeeding syndrome and it can be done by remembering "to start low and go slow"(1). Another important part of prevention is monitoring and supplementing electrolytes if necessary before and during refeeding.
Additional file 1 of Prediction of blood–brain barrier and Caco-2 permeability through the Enalos Cloud Platform: combining contrastive learning and atom-attention message passing neural networks
Creators: name: Koutroumpa, Nikoletta-Maria
name: Tsoumanis, Andreas
name: Sarimveis, Haralambos
name: Lynch, Iseult
name: Melagraki, Georgia
name: Afantitis, Antreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary material 1.
title: Vegetarianism
Creators: name: Folkman, Kimberly A
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Although vegetarian eating has been around throughout recorded history, in recent years, interest in this eating style has gone up dramatically. As the number of individuals adopting vegetarian dietary practices increases, healthcare professionals are called upon to provide guidance and advice. It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, are nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Both vegetarian and nonvegetarian eating patterns can be healthful-or detrimental to your health. Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates from several chronic degenerative diseases than do nonvegetarians. These include coronary artery disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, gallstones, kidney stones, and digestive system disorders. Although nondietary factors, including physical activity and abstinence from smoking and alcohol, may play a role, diet is clearly a contributing factor. Nutrients that may be of concern for vegetarians include protein, vitamin B 12, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and zinc (1,4). However, with careful planning vegetarians diets can be adequate in all of these nutrients. Appropriately planned vegetarian diets can also meet the needs of pregnant or lactating women; infants; and children.
Estimating fundamental site frequency and soil thickness using the HVSR method on Wolfe Island, Ontario
Creators: name: Bucciarelli, Dean R
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Horizontal to vertical spectral ratio
Fundamental site frequency
Soil thickness
Depth to bedrock
Shear wave velocity
Microtremor signal

description: This research was done for an undergraduate thesis project in the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering at Queen's University in Kingston. It covers the application of the passive seismic HVSR method on Wolfe Island to estimate fundamental site frequencies and soil thickness. Detailed summary of data files and map shapefiles can be found on Github at: https://github.com/deanbucc/Wolfe-Island-HVSR-data
title: Plant-Availability Fractionation of Nickel for Bioremediation
Creators: name: Henrie, Jason
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The bioremediation of contaminated soils or the biomining of waste tillings has been explored through the use of hyperaccumulating plants such as S. polygaloides which is a nickel hyperaccumulator. However, it is important to discover which soils are well-suited for this type of process by determining the plant-availability of the nickel. By extracting the nickel sequentially with increasing severity it is possible to determine the chemical distribution, or fractionation, of nickel in a soil. One fraction is already suspected to be plant-available and correlates very well with the results of a previous plant-availability study. A calcareous Millville silt loam which was artificially contaminated with nickel was compared to a serpentine soil which is naturally high in nickel. It was discovered that 39% of the nickel in the silt loam was in a readily plant-available fraction as opposed to only 2% in the serpentine soil.
title: Determination of Intracellular Glutathione Concentration Using Monobromobimane
Creators: name: Owens, Ryan R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Asbestos is a general term for a group of fibrous silicates. Diseases such as asbestosis, bronchogenic carcinoma, and mesothelioma have been linked to asbestos exposure (1,2). The 1 two classes of asbestos, serpentine and amphibole, are distinguished by differences in structure and chemical composition (3). The amphibole crocidolite contains 27% iron while the serpentine chrysotile contains only 2-3% iron. The higher iron content of crocidolite is proposed to be a contributing factor for a much higher incidence of cancer with crocidolite exposure compared with chrysotile exposure ( 4). Iron mobilized intracellularly from asbestos fibers may participate in the formation of reactive oxygen species that can cause DNA damage (5,6).
title: Ailing Hearts, Go Home: Ethnographic Storytelling and the Levels of Experience
Creators: name: Tilt, Bryan D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: I visited Primary Children's Medical Center on a fresh snow morning near the beginning of last winter. The hospital was not where it had been in my childhood, a quiet neighborhood in "the avenues" section of Salt Lake City; several years ago the hospital moved to a new location farther east on the Wasatch Mountain foothills, near the University of Utah Medical Center. The old brick building now sits sedate and empty at the top of a shaded hill. My memory of the old hospital is as a bright and oppressive place, full of the stuff of life and death. There had been a giant aquarium in the middle of the foyer back then, full of bizarre salt-water fish. Some had spiky fins and tails the color of fireworks; others were black and white, like zebras; still others were the kind that would puff up when you put your face against the glass or your finger in the water. This had occupied most of my attention; I was six years old.
title: A Parent's Guide to Assisting Learning Disabled Children at Home
Creators: name: Baker, Sandra Elaine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Our schools are overcrowded, teachers are spread too thin, and often children with learning disabilities are left alone to get by in school (Rosner, 1993). Many of them end up falling through the cracks in the floor by middle school. Learning disabilities are not manifest in physical ways necessarily and many times go unnoticed and/or untreated (Bloom, 1996). This can be very damaging to a child both in an academic sense and in an affective sense. Self-esteem is lowered and sometimes continued failure in one scholastic area can mean failure in other areas such as reading which in tum affects how a student performs in social studies or even math (Bartoli, 1998). Sometimes a child has a learning disability in more than one academic subject. Constant failure or falling behind can result in a "no care" attitude as well (Finlan, 1994).
title: Cut to the Quick: Lorena Bobbitt and America Gender Ideology
Creators: name: Staheli, Jessica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: On the morning of June 23rd, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis with a kitchen carving knife, literally enacting the old myth of women as castrators. America reacted to Lorena's and her husband John's situation first with horror and then with humor. Soon after the attack was made public, jokes and commentaries proliferated on television and in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Because Americans were so shocked by Lorena's action, they scrambled to represent and explain it in a manner that made the act morally comprehensible. Looking at interviews, jokes, commentaries, and John's subsequent career in pornography reveals the specific ideological beliefs America relied upon as it reacted to and managed the situation presented by Lorena and John Bobbitt. Although Lorena's action was unusual and brutal, the gender ideology employed to make sense of the Bobbitts' situation was surprisingly traditional. To understand Americans' reaction to Lorena's and John's situations, we must understand the ideological perspective from which America's reaction sprung.
title: The Influence of Connective Tissue in Meat Tenderness (A Histological and Comparative Study)
Creators: name: Adams, Rachael Anne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: There are several means of determining the tenderness of meat. Recently, a great deal of effort has been focused on connective tissue, or collagen, as a measure of tenderness. These foci have included biochemical determination of collagen types, the ratios of soluble and insoluble collagen, changes of collagen with age, and abundance of collagen.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the abundance of collage as a means of differentiating levels of tenderness , using histology. Steaks taken from the bovine tenderloin, inside round, and bottom round (eye) were observed histologically using special stains for connective tissue. This method, compared with accepted methods of measuring tenderness, showed similar trends, but its use is limited.
Additional file 1 of Sex-specific association between atherogenic index of plasma and risk of newly diagnosed abdominal aortic aneurysm: a large population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Qiu, Peng
name: Guo, Hongbin
name: Zhu, Chao
name: Liu, Yijun
name: Zheng, Jiazhen
name: Pu, Hongji
name: Lu, Xinwu
name: Huang, Qun
name: Liu, Guang
name: Ye, Kaichuang
name: Zhou, Zhen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
How do inner and outer settings affect implementation of a community-based innovation for older adults with a serious illness: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Warner, Grace
name: Kervin, Emily
name: Pesut, Barbara
name: Urquhart, Robin
name: Duggleby, Wendy
name: Hill, Taylor
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Implementing community-based innovations for older adults with serious illness, who are appropriate for a palliative approach to care, requires developing partnerships between health and community. Nav-CARE is an evidence-based innovation wherein trained volunteer navigators advocate, facilitate community connections, coordinate access to resources, and promote active engagement of older adults within their communities. Acknowledging the importance of partnerships between organizations, the aim of our study was to use the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to explore organizational (Inner Setting) and community or health system level (Outer Setting) barriers and facilitators to Nav-CARE implementation. Methods Guided by CFIR, qualitative individual and group interviews were conducted to examine the implementation of Nav-CARE in a Canadian community. Participants were individuals who delivered or managed Nav-CARE research, and stakeholders who provided services in the community. The Framework Method was used to analyse the data. Particular attention was paid to the host organization’s external network and community context. Results Implementation was affected by several inter-related CFIR domains, making it difficult to meaningfully separate key findings by only inner and outer settings. Thus, findings were organized into themes informed by CFIR, that cut across other domains and incorporated inductive findings: intraorganizational perceptions of Nav-CARE; public and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of palliative care; interorganizational partnerships and relationships; community and national-level factors that should have facilitated Nav-CARE implementation; and suggested changes to Nav-CARE. Themes demonstrated barriers to implementing Nav-CARE, such as poor organizational readiness for implementation, and public and health provider perceptions palliative care was synonymous with fast-approaching death. Conclusions Implementation science frameworks and theories commonly focus on assessing implementation of innovations within facilities and changing behaviours of individuals within that organizational structure. Implementation frameworks need to be adapted to better assess Outer Setting factors that affect implementation of community-based programs. Although applying the CFIR helped uncover critical elements in the Inner and Outer Settings that affected implementation of Nav-CARE. Our study suggests that the CFIR could expand the Outer Setting to acknowledge and assess organizational structures and beliefs of individuals within organizations external to the host organization who impact successful implementation of community-based innovations.
title: Protein-Based Diets: Fact or Fiction?
Creators: name: Douglass, Melanie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Protein-based diets are once again popular among the those vulnerable to quick weight loss schemes. Advocates for these diets claim quick, permanent weight loss, disease prevention, improved physical performance, and even enhanced mental productivity. It is claimed that a diet high in carbohydrate contributes to hyperinsulinemia, fat storage, and "bad" eicosanoid production among other things. However, the detrimental effect of a low carbohydrate, high protein diet is rarely discussed. Subjects who follow protein-based diets are prone to a state of ketosis, which causes them to lose an unhealthy amount of nutrients and water. In general the protein-based diets are a confusing blend of science and nonsense.
Additional file 1 of The value of subcutaneous tissue closure and drain in obese women undergo elective caesarean section: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Shalaby, Mohamed A.
name: Metwally, Hanan H. M.
name: Maged, Ahmed M.
name: Bayoumi, Yomna A.
name: Salah, Noha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Matching intrepreneurs, culture and HR practices in entrepreneurial organisations: a key to building intrepreneurial human capital
Creators: name: Burchell, Noel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There much been much research into the characteristics of entrepreneurs and the commonality of the findings suggests these people are definitely different from the general population. There are many instruments for measuring the entrepreneurial profile or tendencies of individuals. This paper will examine the characteristics of students enrolled in a post graduate qualification in innovation and entrepreneurship using Team Management Profile Quotient (TMPQ) developed by Margersion and McCann. While many entrepreneurs establish new firms in order to commercialise an idea or innovation, there are those who conduct the entrepreneurial process within an existing organisation, and often called intrapreneurs. Such individuals are likely to thrive in some organisations, but not in others. The entrepreneurial human capital in a firm is better likely to be developed when the intrapreneur operates within an organisational culture that is supportive of his/her entrepreneurial aspirations and where the cultural characteristics bear some similarity to the profile of the individual themselves. Culture tacitly guides the thinking, feelings perceptions and behaviours of many organisational members in similar ways. Organisational culture has long been reported as being a critical factor in promoting innovation within organisations, a prerequisite to supporting an entrepreneurial economy. High levels of innovation are often associated with a change promoting culture. Three cultural typologies will be explored that enable a firm to be profiled in a manner that highlights characteristics associated with innovative behaviour of entrepreneurs. Organisations with an established entrepreneurial orientation are likely to have HR policies and practices that support innovative and entrepreneurial activity and in particular enhancing the performance of the entrepreneurs themselves.
title: Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis in Four Male Adolescent Sex Offenders
Creators: name: Johnson, DeLoy Herman
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Over the three months of this study, the subjects were detained 24 hours per day, every day at a residential center for sex offenders. Of the four subjects, three received medications for nocturnal enuresis while the other one received medication for hyperactive behavior. The time interval between nocturnal events increased for the recipients of sensitivity training. This study was a three-month study without follow up. The increased interval may be explained by two other confounds that were not measured: 1) the clients who had the longer intervals at the end of the study were also on medication, which possibly contributed to the increased interval. 2) Activity in the detrussor muscle and the bladder-neck-sphincter could not be measured therefore; it's questionable whether the deliberate contractions of the bladder-neck-sphincter were responsible for the inhibiting effects on the detrussor muscle. Sensitivity training may have contributed to the increased time interval between nocturnal enuresis events.
Additional file 1 of Structural insights into thraustochytrid-specific lipases using alphafold to identify the role of GXSXG motif
Creators: name: Mariam, Iqra
name: Rova, Ulrika
name: Christakopoulos, Paul
name: Matsakas, Leonidas
name: Patel, Alok
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
КЛАССИФИКАЦИЯ, СОСТАВ И СТРОЕНИЕ БИТУМОВ
Creators: name: Махмудов, М.Ж.
name: Салойдинов, А.А.
name: Хасанов, С.К.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Битумы относятся к наиболее распространённым органическим вяжущим веществам и представляют собой сложную смесь из многочисленных и разнообразных по химическому строению жидких и твёрдых углеродов и их производных, богатых кислородом, не растворяемых в воде, но растворяемых в сероуглероде, хлороформе и других органических растворителях.
title: Bird Studies of the Bear River Marshes
Creators: name: Parkinson, Ernest W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1933

description: The establishment of the Bear River Bay Bird Refuge has created for the state of Utah an immense and valuable biological field, a veritable paradise for naturalist and sportsman alike. The naturalist wants a place to study wild life and the sportsman desires game. With the proper control of open seasons on wild fowl the hunting instinct and incentive for the sport should be satisfied for the sportsman. To the naturalist this region will open up bountiful treasures of knowledge that is to be gained only by intense and prolonged scientific study.
title: Home Automation System
Creators: name: Earl, Joshua James
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The home is the place where people should feel the most comfortable. Considerable technological development is dedicated to making the home more comfortable; smart appliances are a good example of this. There is always a market for products that provide easier control of home appliances and electrical devices. With this in mind, I have designed and implemented a PC-controlled Home Automation System (HAS). This HAS allows complete control of home appliances and electrical devices from the homeowner's IBM-compatible PC. make use of advanced technology in the transmission of the control signals by way of power-lines already present in the home. The HAS greatly increases the comfort of the home.
title: Local Teacher Suggestions and Evaluations of the Allen and Alice Stokes Nature Center School Group Programs
Creators: name: DeSarro, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: Environmental education is becoming more prevalent in school curriculums. The Tbilisi Declaration of 1977 defines environmental education as:
A process aimed at developing a world population that is aware of, and concerned about, the total environment and its associated problems, and which has the knowledge, attitudes, skills, motivation, and commitment to work individually and collectively toward solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones (Braus and Wood, p.6).
By incorporating more environmental education into elementary and middle school curriculums, the students are becoming more prepared to deal with problems and make educated choices affecting their futures.
title: Ability of a Specific Nuclear Transport Protein Complexed to the pEGFP Reporter Gene to Increase the Efficiency of Transgenic Blastocyst Production
Creators: name: Swank, Emily
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: In the production of transgenic animals, one of the most common methods employed is the microinjection of DNA into the pronucleus of the embryo. This method was used to produce the first transgenic animal, a mouse (Gordon et al., 1981). Five years later, the first transgenic farm animal experiments were conducted. These studies involved the insertion of genes into pigs and sheep to increase growth (Hammer et al., 1985). Since that time many other transgenic animals including rabbits, sheep, pigs, and cattle have been produced.
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on posture, movement planning, and execution during standing voluntary reach following stroke
Creators: name: Yang, Chieh-Ling
name: Gad, Alon
name: Creath, Robert A
name: Magder, Laurence
name: Rogers, Mark W
name: Waller, Sandy M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Impaired movement preparation of both anticipatory postural adjustments and goal directed movement as shown by a marked reduction in the incidence of StartReact responses during a standing reaching task was reported in individuals with stroke. We tested how transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied over the region of premotor areas (PMAs) and primary motor area (M1) affect movement planning and preparation of a standing reaching task in individuals with stroke. Methods Each subject performed two sessions of tDCS over the lesioned hemisphere on two different days: cathodal tDCS over PMAs and anodal tDCS over M1. Movement planning and preparation of anticipatory postural adjustment-reach sequence was examined by startReact responses elicited by a loud acoustic stimulus of 123 dB. Kinetic, kinematic, and electromyography data were recorded to characterize anticipatory postural adjustment-reach movement response. Results Anodal tDCS over M1 led to significant increase of startReact responses incidence at loud acoustic stimulus time point − 500 ms. Increased trunk involvement during movement execution was found after anodal M1 stimulation compared to PMAs stimulation. Conclusions The findings provide novel evidence that impairments in movement planning and preparation as measured by startReact responses for a standing reaching task can be mitigated in individuals with stroke by the application of anodal tDCS over lesioned M1 but not cathodal tDCS over PMAs. This is the first study to show that stroke-related deficits in movement planning and preparation can be improved by application of anodal tDCS over lesioned M1. Trial registration ClinicalTrial.gov, NCT04308629, Registered 16 March 2020—Retrospectively registered, https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04308629
title: The Beneficial Effects of Supplemental Vitamins C and E in Diabetic Subjects
Creators: name: Gibbons, Jessica Rupp
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: Few reviews have been written related to the benefits of supplementing vitamin C and E in diabetic individuals. Excessive protein glycosylation is seen in persons with diabetes, and vitamin E and C have been shown to be beneficial in decreasing the glycosylation of proteins. In addition, vitamins E and Care potent antioxidants and actively reduce oxidation, triglycerides, and free fatty acid levels in diabetics. Diabetics may benefit from supplementing vitamins E and C.
title: Childhood Choice Making Patterns as a Function of Contingency Shaping Versus Instructional Control
Creators: name: Call, Nathan Atkin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The term contingency shaped refers to any response class governed by its direct consequences (Catania, 1973). In a theoretical paper on problem solving Skinner (1966) discriminated between contingency shaped and rule-governed behavior by stating that no matter how similar in form they may appear each have independent controlling variables and functional properties. In a later analysis (Skinner, 1974) he elaborated on rule-governed behavior by pointing out that one distinct form of rule-governed behavior is instruction following. An instructional episode, however, consists of more than any verbal or non-verbal statement of contingencies, but includes the consequences in question as well (Cerutti, 1989). Given this definition, it is apparent that humans are constantly encountering instructional episodes. As a result, all verbal humans clearly have a socially reinforced repertoire of behavior that is under instructional control by the time they reach an early age. As a distinct class of behavior, instruction following often comes to be highly reinforcing as instructions serve to expedite reinforcement or escape from punishment.
title: Parameter Estimation of the Mountain Pine Beetle-Host Tree System
Creators: name: Biesinger, Zy Frederick
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1998

description: The spatial redistribution of organisms in an ecosystem is often a complex process. Many ecosystems exhibit spatial complexity on a broad range of scales, driven by the physical environment and biotic interactions [1]. As different species aggregate and disperse in spatially complex ways, even an initially uniform environment will soon evolve spatial heterogeneity.
title: Implicit Cost of Retaliatory Tariffs by Mexico on U.S. Cheese Export
Creators: name: Sun, Pengyan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. cheeses ranging from 20 to 25 percent in July 2018. In order to provide valuable information for the government and farmers, my research estimated the implicit cost of retaliatory tariffs by Mexico on U.S. cheese exports. In particular, I estimate the difference between the forecasted value of cheese exported to Mexico and the actual value of cheese exported to Mexico using four different models. The total impact to the U.S. economy from the losses due to retaliatory tariffs was assessed by IMPLAN, an input/output model. The results showed that Mexican tariffs decreased U.S. industry output by 354 million, value-added by 112 million, labor income by 68 million, and job by 1074 jobs respectively, on average. Decreasing exports in the long run is expected to decrease labor income and increase job losses in the U.S. which can increase social instability. Therefore, Mexico's retaliatory tariffs triggered by the U.S. trade war have had a great negative impact on the U.S.
Sex Workers’ Access to Police Assistance in Safety Emergencies and Means of Escape from Situations of Violence and Confinement under an “End Demand” Criminalization Model: A Five City Study in Canada
Creators: name: Crago, Anna-Louise
name: Bruckert, Chris
name: Braschel, Melissa
name: Shannon, K.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: There is limited available evidence on sex workers (SW) ability to access police protection or means of escaping situations of violence and confinement under an “end demand” criminalization model. Of 200 SW in five cities in Canada, 62 (31.0%) reported being unable to call 911 if they or another SW were in a safety emergency due to fear of police detection (of themselves, their colleagues or their management). In multivariate logistic regression, police harassment–linked to social and racial profiling in the past 12 months (being carded or asked for ID documents, followed by police or detained without arrest) (Adjusted Odd Ratio (AOR): 5.225, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 2.199–12.417), being Indigenous (AOR: 2.078, 95% CI: 0.849–5.084) or being in Ottawa (AOR: 2.317, 95% CI: 0.865–6.209) were associated with higher odds of being unable to call 911, while older age was associated with lower odds (AOR: 0.941 per year older, 95% CI: 0.901–0.982). In descriptive statistics, of 115 SW who had experienced violence or confinement at work in the past 12 months, 19 (16.52%) reported the incident to police. Other sex workers with shared expenses were the most commonly reported group to have assisted sex workers to escape situations of violence or confinement in the past 12 months (n = 13, 35.14%). One of the least commonly reported groups to have assisted sex workers to escape situations of violence or confinement in the past 12 months were police (n = 2, 5.41%). The findings of this study illustrate how the current “end demand” criminalization framework compromises sex workers’ access to assistance in safety emergencies.