cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Atractogaster semisculptus Kriechbaumer 1872
Creators: name: Varga, O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Atractogaster
Atractogaster semisculptus

description: Atractogaster semisculptus Kriechbaumer, 1872 * M a t e r i a l. Switzerland: holotype female, Chur, 4.06.1851 (Kriechbaumer) (ZSSM). Ukraine: IF: Mochary, sweeping, 9.05.2011, 1 Ơ, 12.05.2011 2 Ơ, 31.05.2012, 2 ♀, TT, 11– 26.05.2014, 1 ♀; Dibrova, sweeping, 5.06.2011, 1 ♀, 26.05.2012, 1 ♀, 2.06.2012, 1 ♀, 14.06.2012, 1 ♀; Igrovets, sweeping, 8– 9.06.2012, 1 ♀ (Varga) (ZISK). Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the clypeus with apical tubercle, the yellow malar space and inner orbits, the simple fore tarsal claw (without basal lobe), the propodeum with a more-or-less well defined area superomedia and area apicalis (as on fig. 1, 3); the impunctate and somewhat aciculate and granulate (female) or smooth (male) metasoma, the middle tergites with deep basolateral grooves, and the ovipositor with undulate apex. Flight period in Carpathians. May to June (9.05–14.06).
description: Published as part of Varga, O., 2018, A Review Of The Tribe Delomeristini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) In The Ukrainian Carpathians, pp. 235-240 in Vestnik Zoologii 52 (3) on page 236, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0024, http://zenodo.org/record/6454724
Marianna Charitonidou, "Urban Mobility Patterns and Welfare Politics: Constructing Cities for the Space of Flows", in Rosa Tamborrino, ed., Città che si adattano?/Adaptive Cities? Volume 1 (Turin: AISU International, 2024), 678-690.
Creators: name: Charitonidou, Marianna
Publisher: name: AISU International
Year: 2024

description: The paper explores urban mobility patters in some characteristic New Towns in the UK, France and Sweden, such as Harlow and Cumbernauld in the UK, Toulouse-Le Mirail in France, and Vällingby in Sweden. To investigate the urban mobility patterns in these Welfare State contexts, the paper compares them, placing particular emphasis on the concepts of "Transit-oriented development" (TOD), space of flows as understood by Manuel Castells, and "Ecumenopolis" by Constantinos A. Doxiadis. At the center of the paper lie the imaginaries produced by architects and urban planners, and their vision for highways in different national contexts and for their role in the aforementioned New Towns.
Use of evolutionary algorithms to select filters for evoked potential enhancement
Creators: name: Turner, Scott
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 110999 Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 90304 Medical Devices
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 80108 Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Published in 2000
Evoked potentials are electrical signals produced by the nervous system in response to a stimulus. In general these signals are noisy with a low signal to noise ratio. The aim was to investigate ways of extracting the evoked response within an evoked potential recording, achieving a similar signal to noise ratio as conventional averaging but with less repetitions per average. In this thesis, evolutionary algorithms were used in three ways to extract the evoked potentials from a noisy background. First, evolutionary algorithms selected the cut-off frequencies for a set of filters. A different filter or filter bank was produced for each data set. The noisy signal was passed through each filter in a bank of filters; the filter bank output was a weighted sum of the individual filter outputs. The goal was to use three filters ideally one for each of the three regions (early, middle and late components), but the use of five filters was also investigated. Each signal was split into two time domains: the first 30ms of the signal; and the region 30 to 400ms. Filter banks were then developed for these regions separately. Secondly, instead of using a single set of filters applied to the whole signal, different filters (or combinations of filters) were applied at different times. Evolutionary algorithms are used to select the duration of each filter, as well as the frequency parameters and weightings of the filters. Three filtering approaches were investigated. Finally, wavelets in conjunction with an evolutionary algorithm were used to select particular wavelets and wavelet parameters. A comparison of these methods with optimal filtering methods and averaging was made. Averages of 10 signals were found suitable, and time-varying techniques were found to perform better than applying one filter to the whole signal.
Higher cost of living in urban areas? An AIDS-based analysis of food in Spain
Creators: name: Navamuel, Elena Lasarte
name: Vázquez, Esteban Fernández
name: Morollón, Fernando Rubiera
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Higher cost of living in urban areas? An AIDS-based analysis of food in Spain. Regional Studies. This article measures the urban–rural gap in the consumption costs for Spain in 2013, basing the comparisons on the estimation of an almost ideal demand system (AIDS) of food from data on the household budget survey. Besides an unconditional comparison, it models the costs of food consumption controlling for household and location characteristics. Quantile regressions are estimated in order to quantify differential effects across the distribution of the cost of food. The estimated differences in cost for consumers living in urban areas are significantly positive, especially in the upper quantiles of the distribution.
Thematic survey of subsurface drainage systems in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Tlapáková, Lenka
name: Jiří Žaloudík
name: Kolejka, Jaromír
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This paper demonstrates advantages of remote sensing (RS) technologies and methods for mapping subsurface drainage systems (DS) in the landscape. It describes a method of DS identification that is based on acquisition of multispectral data from several sources at various times in order to determine the relevant conditions and criteria for visualization of DS features in these images. Analysis of RS data is used to create thematic geodatabases and map layers of the DS, locations of their damage, or local soil waterlogging, providing up-to-date and precise digital records of the condition and location of DS in land parcels. This information is presented as map outputs for seven test localities in the Czech Republic with areas of 10–80 km2. Sample maps are processed in greater detail and at a larger scale to better illustrate the features.
Review: Drawing on Blue: European Drawings on Blue Paper, 1400s-1700s
Creators: name: Walton, Andrea
name: Walton, Andrea
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Drawing
subject: Blue
subject: Paper
subject: Art, European
subject: Art, Renaissance
subject: Art, Baroque

description: Book review of Drawing on Blue: European Drawings on Blue Paper, 1400s-1700s, edited by Edina Adam and . Getty Publications, February 2024. 160 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-868-7 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed September 2024 by Andrea Walton, MA, MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.
Securing data transmission by cryptography using Rohit integral transform
Creators: name: Gupta, Rohit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490199
subject: Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 490107
subject: Mathematical methods and special functions

description: The encryption and decryption processes to secure data transmission and protection in cryptography are very useful in a communication system for authentication and privacy. Recently, integral transform techniques have been used by many researchers to increase the strength of encryption and decryption processes in cryptography. In this paper, the ability of Rohit integral transform (RIT) is shown for the encryption and decryption processes in cryptography and in general, in the field of data security through practical application.
Dietary essential α-linolenic acid and linoleic acid differentially modulate TNFα-induced NFκB activity in FADS2-deficient HEK-293 cells
Creators: name: Schübel, Ruth
name: Jaudszus, Anke
name: Krüger, Ralf
name: Roth, Alexander
name: Klempt, Martin
name: Barth, Stephan Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: The pro- or anti-inflammatory bioactivity of dietary essential linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is mainly attributed to rate-limiting delta-6 desaturase (D6D) activity. The aim of this study was to analyze mechanisms of D6D-substrates ALA, LA and D6D-product gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) under D6D-deficient conditions. Fatty acid profiles (GC-MS), D6D gene expression (real-time RT-PCR) and NFκB activity (luciferase assay) were assessed in HEK293 cells. FADS2 gene expression was approved being marginal. Incubation with ALA or LA did not increase D6D products but their elongase products C20:3n-3 and C20:2n-6. Bypassing the D6D, GLA elevated C20:3n-6 and C20:4n-6. LA significantly increased (+18% at 60 μM; p p
Editorial
Creators: name: Whelan, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: V320 - Social history
V321 - Local history

description: This is the Editorial for the 2017 edition of Natalia, which addresses all things related to Natal Colony and the contemporary KwaZulu-Natal Province. This Journal has been published for 47 years (now in its 48th) and the author assumed Editorship in a much changed South Africa from when the Journal was originally started, reflecting an urgent need for change. This Editorial reflects the nature of changes made (although largely intended for the 48th volume) which are made in the interests of generational, gender and demographic transformation.
1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları
Creators: name: Duymus, Kerem
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024

description: Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve 2023 yılında bölgeye yapılan gezi sonucu toplanan yerel sözlü anlatılar, Osmanlılar’ın 1850 sonrasında nasıl Tanzimat reformlarıyla Sahra bölgesinin yerel koşulları arasında bir denge kurmaya çalıştıklarını ve bölgeye ne tür siyasi ve ekonomik yenilikler getirdiklerini göstermektedir. Osmanlı’nın Sahra politikaları çoğulcu ve bazen paradoksal bir karaktere sahipti, birçok yerel ve merkezi aktörün dahliyle birlikte oldukça kapsamlı ve bazen Osmanlı’nın bile ötesine uzanan diplomatik ve ekonomik ilişkiler ortaya çıkmıştı. Dolayısıyla Osmanlı’nın Sahra politikaları, ayrıca Merkezi Sudan’daki diğer yönetimlerin ve devletlerin de bu politikaları kendi ilgileri çerçevesinde değerlendirmelerine ön ayak olmuş ve Avrupa devletlerinin kolonyalist işgallerinin başladığı bir dönemde bölgede yeni bir siyasi perspektif açmış fakat nihayetinde amaçlanan başarıya ulaşamamıştı. Osmanlılar’ın Sahra politikaları, imparatorluğun en uç bölgelerinde, diğer Afrikalı Müslüman yönetici ve hükümdarlarla kurulan ilişkileri anlamak açısından da tarihçilere yeni bir perspektif açmaktadır.
Editorial
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: V320 - Social history
V321 - Local history

description: This is the Editorial for the 2017 edition of Natalia, which addresses all things related to Natal Colony and the contemporary KwaZulu-Natal Province. This Journal has been published for 47 years (now in its 48th) and the author assumed Editorship in a much changed South Africa from when the Journal was originally started, reflecting an urgent need for change. This Editorial reflects the nature of changes made (although largely intended for the 48th volume) which are made in the interests of generational, gender and demographic transformation.
Enriching E-Participation through Augmented Reality: First Results of a Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Fegert, Jonas
name: Pfeiffer, Jella
name: Peukert, Christian
name: Weinhardt, Christof
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Government
E-Participation
Qualitative Research
Augmented Reality

description: Recent disputes over public construction projects show that the public is interested in urban development. When construction projects lack communication about its impact, agenda and costs, citizens might feel overheard and protests may arise. As a consequence, trust in public administration and politics could suffer serious damage. Following the idea of digital government, it is crucial not only to replicate and digitize established participation procedures, but rather to include new possibilities that e-participation offers. In this article, we present preliminary results of a qualitative study on using augmented reality for e-participation. Based on the study’s results, we derive metarequirements for an e-participation application employing this technology. Interestingly, our empirical findings suggest that users only seek information via the application up to a certain level of participation.
Macrophages Aggravate Hypoxia-Induced Cardiac Microvascular Endothelial Cell Injury via Peroxynitrite: Protection by Tongxinluo
Creators: name: Xiujuan Wang
name: Liu, Kun
name: Li, Bin
name: Yanning Li
name: Kaiwei Ye
name: Jinsheng Qi
name: Wang, Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Activated macrophages contribute to endothelial dysfunction; however, it is unclear how peroxynitrite contributes to macrophage-mediated human cardiac microvascular endothelial cell (HCMEC) injury in hypoxia. In macrophage-HCMEC co-cultures subjected to hypoxia, there was an increase in hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α, HIF-2α, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), endothelin-converting enzyme (ECE)-1 and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and concomitant decrease in prostacyclin synthase (PGIS). This was mimicked by a peroxynitrite donor and attenuated by its decomposition catalyst. Tongxinluo (TXL) could decrease HIF-2α, iNOS, ECE-1 and COX-2 and increase PGIS in a dose-dependent manner, with increase of vascular endothelial growth factor. The protein alterations verified the remarkably affected mRNAs, indicating that the effects of TXL were similar to but better than that of peroxynitrite decomposition catalyst. Furthermore, TXL inhibited macrophage-mediated nitrotyrosine accumulation and attenuated HCMEC injury. The results suggest that peroxynitrite contributes to macrophage-mediated HCMEC injury in hypoxia, and TXL attenuates HCMEC injury mainly by inhibiting peroxynitrite.
Review: Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces
Creators: name: Koopmans, Heather
name: Koopmans, Heather
name: Koopmans, Heather
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Visual literacy
subject: Education
subject: Information literacy
subject: Academic libraries

description: Book review of Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces, edited by Maggie Murphy et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, February 2024. 452 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-8389-3991-8 (pbk.), $120.00. Reviewed September 2024 by Heather Koopmans, Fine Arts Librarian, Milner Library, Illinois State University, hrkoopm@ilstu.edu.
Macrophages Aggravate Hypoxia-Induced Cardiac Microvascular Endothelial Cell Injury via Peroxynitrite: Protection by Tongxinluo
Creators: name: Xiujuan Wang
name: Liu, Kun
name: Li, Bin
name: Yanning Li
name: Kaiwei Ye
name: Jinsheng Qi
name: Wang, Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Activated macrophages contribute to endothelial dysfunction; however, it is unclear how peroxynitrite contributes to macrophage-mediated human cardiac microvascular endothelial cell (HCMEC) injury in hypoxia. In macrophage-HCMEC co-cultures subjected to hypoxia, there was an increase in hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1α, HIF-2α, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), endothelin-converting enzyme (ECE)-1 and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and concomitant decrease in prostacyclin synthase (PGIS). This was mimicked by a peroxynitrite donor and attenuated by its decomposition catalyst. Tongxinluo (TXL) could decrease HIF-2α, iNOS, ECE-1 and COX-2 and increase PGIS in a dose-dependent manner, with increase of vascular endothelial growth factor. The protein alterations verified the remarkably affected mRNAs, indicating that the effects of TXL were similar to but better than that of peroxynitrite decomposition catalyst. Furthermore, TXL inhibited macrophage-mediated nitrotyrosine accumulation and attenuated HCMEC injury. The results suggest that peroxynitrite contributes to macrophage-mediated HCMEC injury in hypoxia, and TXL attenuates HCMEC injury mainly by inhibiting peroxynitrite.
The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics
Creators: name: Duymus, Kerem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and disconnected specificities. In doing so, the complex dynamics and functions of the Caliphate's decentral political economy were analyzed within its intricate form, and the research perspective attentively oscillated between the global and local scale by traversing various disciplines. Thus, it was tried to combine all different case studies concerning the political economy of the various parts of the Caliphate into a political-economic model not by reductionism and generalization but by following the overlapped patterns. Besides, this model was further tested and improved with the deep analysis of the primary sources, such as archival reports and letters, traveler accounts, oral collections, and juristical texts.
Antioxidant activities of young apple polyphenols and its preservative effects on lipids and proteins in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) fillets
Creators: name: Jiaojiao Sun
name: Lijun Sun
name: Yonghong Meng
name: Xingbin Yang
name: Yurong Guo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: The aim of this study was to study the antioxidant and antibacterial activities of young apple polyphenols (YAP) and to investigate the application of YAP in grass carp fillets (GCF) stored at 4°C for retarding lipid and protein degradation. The results indicated that YAP had high antioxidant activities in vitro, and the addition of YAP to GCF during low-temperature storage could significantly inhibit the microbial growth; retard the decrease in contents of fatty acids for both unsaturated and saturated ones; and minimize the degradation of salt-soluble myofibrillar protein and sulfhydryl group. The profiles of GCF in the presence and absence of YAP under a scanning electron microscope indicated that YAP could protect GCF from destruction that was resulted from fish deterioration. Therefore, YAP may be developed as natural antioxidants to control lipid and protein degradation and to extend shelf life of freshwater fish fillets.
Controlling chain flexibility in collagen networks to produce hydrogels with distinct properties
Creators: name: Jiaxin Lian
name: Mansel, Bradley W.
name: Ingham, Bridget
name: Sujay Prabakar
name: Williams, Martin A. K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The structure, mechanical properties, and optical density of gels prepared from collagen in a manner that induces the dynamical arrest of the constituent polymers before substantial fibrillogenesis can take place have been investigated. Small angle X-ray scattering and confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy reveal that these gels exhibit substantially different network structures, over length scales ranging from a few nanometers to many microns, when compared with traditional collagen networks in which fibrillogenesis is intentionally induced. The highly associated arrangements of the more flexible structural components found in the arrested network yield a considerably lower optical density and higher viscoelastic storage modulus when compared to a “conventional” collagen gel; while the small amount of fibrils that do manage to form still yield strain stiffening and account for the fact that at high strains, moduli from both systems fall onto the same master curve.
Victorian Valentines: From Sentiment to Satire
Creators: name: Crossley, Alice
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: Q320 - English literature
Q321 - English literature by period
Q323 - English literature by topic
V100 - History by period
V144 - Modern history 1800-1899
V210 - British history
V300 - History by topic
V320 - Social history

description: Today, the rituals of St. Valentineâ€™s Day, often marked by romantic meals a deux, dozens of red roses, and garish greeting cards, are heavily commercialised. Some might suppose that little of the nineteenth-century quaint ritual and whimsy remains visible in the modern-day marking of this date. In fact, it was the Victorians who initiated the mass production of valentines. Their promotion of increasingly innovative paper and lace fabrications were a visible and fashionable aspect of the periodâ€™s maturing commodity culture. Sending a valentine on the 14th February became a popular and widespread custom from the 1830s. Rather then being dismissed as innocent, pretty nonsense in the period, valentines played a role in the developing cultural life of the Victorian era. By the end of the century, anxieties were emerging that sincerity, authenticity and self-expression were being eroded through the mass production of valentines. As an increasingly commercial object, the valentineâ€™s ability to convey emotion waned.
MPEC 2025-H187 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2025 April 28)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Victorian Valentines: From Sentiment to Satire
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: Q320 - English literature
Q321 - English literature by period
Q323 - English literature by topic
V100 - History by period
V144 - Modern history 1800-1899
V210 - British history
V300 - History by topic
V320 - Social history

description: Today, the rituals of St. ValentineÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Day, often marked by romantic meals a deux, dozens of red roses, and garish greeting cards, are heavily commercialised. Some might suppose that little of the nineteenth-century quaint ritual and whimsy remains visible in the modern-day marking of this date. In fact, it was the Victorians who initiated the mass production of valentines. Their promotion of increasingly innovative paper and lace fabrications were a visible and fashionable aspect of the periodÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s maturing commodity culture. Sending a valentine on the 14th February became a popular and widespread custom from the 1830s. Rather then being dismissed as innocent, pretty nonsense in the period, valentines played a role in the developing cultural life of the Victorian era. By the end of the century, anxieties were emerging that sincerity, authenticity and self-expression were being eroded through the mass production of valentines. As an increasingly commercial object, the valentineÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s ability to convey emotion waned.
Controlling Chain Flexibility in Collagen Networks to Produce Hydrogels with Distinct Properties
Creators: name: Jiaxin Lian
name: Mansel, Bradley W.
name: Ingham, Bridget
name: Sujay Prabakar
name: Williams, Martin A.K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The structure, mechanical properties, and optical density, of gels prepared from collagen in a manner that induces the dynamical arrest of the constituent polymers before substantial fibrillogenesis can take place have been investigated. Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy (CLSM) reveal that these gels exhibit substantially different network structures, over length-scales ranging from a few nanometers to many microns, when compared with traditional collagen networks in which fibrillogenesis is intentionally induced. The highly associated arrangements of the more flexible structural components found in the arrested network yield a considerably lower optical density and higher viscoelastic storage modulus when compared to a “conventional” collagen gel; while the small amount of fibrils that do manage to form still yield strain stiffening and account for the fact that at high strains, moduli from both systems fall onto the same master curve.
"The Movement Never Came Here": Civil Rights Organizational Presence and Southern Racial Inequality
Creators: name: Williams, Dana
Publisher: name: Emerald Publishing Limited
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Racial justice
subject: Employees
subject: Equality
subject: Social movements
subject: Civil rights
subject: Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Race

description: Scholars typically assume that rights-based movements have generalizable impacts upon social inequalities; yet inequality reduction may be unequally distributed across space. By focusing on the American civil rights movement – a movement oriented toward achieving equal opportunity for people of color, especially Black Americans in the US South – this research evaluates whether reductions in racial inequality were contingent upon an active local movement presence or if all areas benefited equally. Census data from periods before and after the civil rights movement (1950 and 1980) are utilized to construct a measure of racial inequality change, focused upon high school graduation and management occupation employment rates. The presence of "the Big Four" civil rights organizations (the Congress of Racial Equality [CORE], the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], the Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC], and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]) in Southern counties helps to explain this change in racial inequality. Counties which had certain civil rights organizations were more likely to experience a greater reduction in racial inequality than counties that didn't have such organizations. Education equity improved in counties that were less Black, more urban, had HBCUs, and CORE or SNCC organizational presence.
Review of Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Creators: name: Bertolotti, Silvia
name: Ruffino, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: P300 - Media studies

description: This text is part of the Goldsmiths Press/Future Media series, encouraging authors to offer a relatively short, sharp intervention in response to actual or potential short-term, utilitarian and instrumentalist thinking about a particular scenario or performance of media and technological futurism. Our emphasis on feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist and/or speculative approaches to media and technological futures calls for alternatives to TED thinking.
It might look pretty but how does it feel? The importance of need for touch in online retailing for produce: Videos Study 3
Creators: name: Lichters, Marcel
name: Kühn, Frauke
name: Krey, Nina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Applied Behavior Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: E-Commerce
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Experimental Analysis of Behavior
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Food Studies

description: How consumers' need for touch (NFT) influences their behavior in online produce retailing
Effects of two new siderophore-producing rhizobacteria on growth and iron content of maize and canola plants
Creators: name: Ghavami, Nazanin
name: Alikhani, Hossein Ali
name: Pourbabaei, Ahmad Ali
name: Besharati, Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Siderophore-producing rhizobacteria beneficially affect plant growth by providing available iron to plants. In this study, bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere of canola (Brassica napus L.) plants grown in the central fields in Iran, for the presence of siderophore-producing bacteria. A total of 45 distinct isolates were found to produce siderophore using qualitative chrome azurol sulfonate (CAS)-agar assay. Of them, ten isolates, based on the highest halo diameter/colony diameter ratios, were selected to quantify the rate of siderophore production using CAS-liquid assay. A variety of biochemical assays was used to determine the type(s) of siderophores produced by each of the ten isolates. The best isolates, based on production of the highest rates of either hydroxamates or carboxylates, were identified and used in further studies. Based on 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) sequence analysis and a variety of phenotypic properties, the isolates were identified as Micrococcus yunnanensis YIM 65004 (T) and Stenotrophomonas chelatiphaga LPM-5 (T). We also studied the plant growth-promoting effect of the most promising isolates (YIM 65004 and LPM-5) on canola and maize plants under greenhouse conditions. The results of this study showed that M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga increased gain weight and iron (Fe) content of roots and shoots significantly, in comparison with control, indicating beneficial effects of these rhizobacteria on plant growth and development. This study reports M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga, as new records for Iran. The latter is reported for the first time from plant (canola) rhizosphere. Besides, the ability of both M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga to produce siderophores is documented for the first time.
Review of Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture
Creators: name: Author, Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: P300 - Media studies

description: This text is part of the Goldsmiths Press/Future Media series, encouraging authors to offer a relatively short, sharp intervention in response to actual or potential short-term, utilitarian and instrumentalist thinking about a particular scenario or performance of media and technological futurism. Our emphasis on feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist and/or speculative approaches to media and technological futures calls for alternatives to TED thinking.
Effects of Two New Siderophore Producing Rhizobacteria on Growth and Iron Content of Maize and Canola Plants
Creators: name: Ghavami, Nazanin
name: Alikhani, Hossein Ali
name: Pourbabaei, Ahmad Ali
name: Besharati, Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Siderophore producing rhizobacteria beneficially affect plant growth by providing available iron to plants. In this study, bacteria were isolated from the rhizosphere of canola (Brassica napus L.) plants grown in the central fields in Iran, for presence of siderophore-producing bacteria. A total of 45 distinct isolates were found to produce siderophore using qualitative Chrome-Azurol S (CAS)-agar assay. Of them, ten isolates, based on the highest halo diameter/colony diameter ratios were selected to quantify the rate of siderophore production using chrome azurol sulfonate (CAS)-liquid assay. A variety of biochemical assays was used to determine the type(s) of siderophores produced by each of the ten isolates. The best isolates, based on production of the highest rates of either hydroxamates or carboxylates, were identified and used in further studies. Based on 16 S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) sequence analysis and a variety of phenotypic properties, the isolates were identified as Micrococcus yunnanensis YIM 65004 (T) and Stenotrophomonas chelatiphaga LPM-5 (T). We also studied the plant growth promoting effect of the most promising isolates (YIM 65004 and LPM-5) on canola and maize plants under greenhouse conditions. The results of this study showed M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga increased gain weight and iron (Fe) content of roots and shoots significantly, in comparison with control indicating beneficial effects of these rhizobacteria on plant growth and development. This study reports M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga, as new records for Iran. The latter is reported for the first time from plant (canola) rhizosphere. Besides, the ability of both M. yunnanensis and S. chelatiphaga to produce siderophores is documented for the first time.
Call for Papers/Special Issue: Agile beyond software - In search of flexibility in a wide range of innovation projects and industries
Creators: name: Bianchi, Mattia
name: Marzi, Giacomo
name: Dabic, Marina
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: N213 - Project management

description: â€œAt its heart, an agile approach has little to do with software; it's all about recognizing and applying feedback.â€ These are the words of Andrew Hunt, one of 17 authors of the Agile manifesto, which in 2001 initiated revolutionary changes in the way new software is developed and delivered. Yet, the large majority of empirical studies on the effective use of Agile principles and methods has exclusively focused on the IT industry. Thus, the aim of this special issue is to spur and develop high-quality research in the emerging field of Agile management beyond software development. The special issue intends to offer an holistic and rigorous assessment of the current state of the art in the application of Agile principles to project management, innovation management, new product development, entrepreneurship, software engineering and design.
Review: Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism
Creators: name: Opar, Barbara Ann
name: Opar, Barbara Ann
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Orientalism in art
subject: Exhibition catalogs
subject: West United States
subject: Imperialism
subject: Settler colonialism
subject: Art, French
subject: Art, American

description: Book eview of Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism, edited by Jennifer R. Henneman. Western Passages 11. Denver Art Museum, March 2023. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26604-7 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed September 2024 Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.
Review: Who Was Who Was Who in Canadian Contemporary Art
Creators: name: Dufour, Jenna
name: Dufour, Jenna
name: Dufour, Jenna
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Art, Canadian
subject: Artists
subject: Biographies
subject: Indexes

description: Book review of Who Was Who Was Who in Canadian Contemporary Art by John Latour. Éditions Artexte, September 2023. 115 p. ill. ISBN 978-2-923045-48-1 (pbk.), $40.00. https://artexte.ca/en/editions/who-was-who-was-who-in-canadian-contemporary-art-by-john-latour/. Reviewed September 2024 by Jenna Dufour, Research Librarian for Visual Arts, UCI Libraries, University of California Irvine, dufourj@uci.edu.
Grout or mortar removal by lasers
Creators: name: Li, Lin
name: Lawrence, Jonathan
name: TA Spencer, Julian
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: H680 - Optoelectronic engineering
H700 - Production & manufacturing engineering

description: The method comprises the steps of directing the beam of a portable laser device (40) onto grout (14) at a power level to cause removal of the grout; causing mutual relative movement between said laser beam and said grout; and, providing removal means (30, 32) for debris resulting from said grout removal. The laser beam (16) is transmitted to the grout (14) via optical fibre. The laser is selected from the group comprising: Nd-YAG laser; semi-conductor laser; and, diode pumped fibre laser, and may also include a low-power visible aiming laser. An area of grout being treated is surrounded by an enclosure (22) to prevent escape of laser light. The enclosure is transparent to optical light and opaque to laser light of the wavelength, e.g. 0.4 to 10.6 $g(m)m, in use. The laser beam spot (18) size being commensurate with the grout width. Debris removal means, possibly assisted with a gas jet (42), comprises suction removal (44) at a position adjacent the grout laser treatment area. The method may include the step of applying additional water to the grout.
Review: The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
Creators: name: Selby, Devin
name: Selby, Devin
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Art, African
subject: Photography
subject: Motion pictures
subject: History, Modern, in art
subject: Twentieth century
subject: Political sociology

description: Book review: The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power by Amy Sall et al. Thames & Hudson Inc, September 2024. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02539-0 (h/c), $65.00. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-african-gaze-photography-cinema-and-power-hardcover. Reviewed September 2024 by Devin Selby, Assistant Librarian, Kimbell Art Museum, dselby@kimbellmuseum.org.
Grout or mortar removal by lasers
Creators: name: Li, Lin
name: Lawrence, Jonathan
name: Spencer, Julian T.
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: H680 - Optoelectronic engineering
H700 - Production & manufacturing engineering

description: The method comprises the steps of directing the beam of a portable laser device (40) onto grout (14) at a power level to cause removal of the grout; causing mutual relative movement between said laser beam and said grout; and, providing removal means (30, 32) for debris resulting from said grout removal. The laser beam (16) is transmitted to the grout (14) via optical fibre. The laser is selected from the group comprising: Nd-YAG laser; semi-conductor laser; and, diode pumped fibre laser, and may also include a low-power visible aiming laser. An area of grout being treated is surrounded by an enclosure (22) to prevent escape of laser light. The enclosure is transparent to optical light and opaque to laser light of the wavelength, e.g. 0.4 to 10.6 $g(m)m, in use. The laser beam spot (18) size being commensurate with the grout width. Debris removal means, possibly assisted with a gas jet (42), comprises suction removal (44) at a position adjacent the grout laser treatment area. The method may include the step of applying additional water to the grout.
Use of thermobalancing therapy in ageing male with benign prostatic hyperplasia with a focus on etiology and pathophysiology
Creators: name: Allen, Simon
name: Aghajanyan, Ivan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Introduction: We investigated if “thermobalancing” therapy (TT), using Dr Allen’s therapeutic device (DATD) in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), can aid in understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of BPH. Methods: We compared urinary and other parameters of BPH patients who received TT over 6 months (treatment group) with those of healthy volunteers who had not received the treatment (control group). Dynamics of symptoms and indicators in each group were evaluated in comparison with their data at the beginning and end of the study. Parameters were the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) for urinary symptoms and quality of life (QoL), ultrasound measurement of prostate volume (PV) and uroflowmetry (maximum flow rate, Qmax). TT effectiveness was examined in 124 men with BPH and PV <60 mL. We also investigated the data of five patients with BPH and PV >60 mL. Results: TT decreased urinary symptoms and PV, increased Qmax and improved QoL in men with BPH, PV <60 mL, and in men with BPH, PV >60 mL. Conclusions: The present study demonstrated that TT is effective for BPH, suggesting that blood circulation plays a crucial role in its cause. The continuous heat exposure that does not exceed the normal body temperature terminates the trigger of BPH development, “micro-focus” of hypothermia, and the following spontaneous expansion of capillaries. TT could be considered to be a useful tool in BPH treatment.
Lee Brosan, An Introduction to Coping With Stress (2018)
Creators: name: Akyildiz, Sevket
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Job stress
subject: Well-being

description: Stress is something we deal with daily and can be manageable; however, when we experience bouts of too much stress that negatively affect our lives, it can affect our social relations, friendships and physical and mental health. Lee Brosan’s An Introduction to Coping With Stress (2018) is a handy pocket-sized guide to help us (re-)think and reflect on our emotional and mental health condition. The book is important because it explains how we might better cope with stress in the present and future.
Protein corona modulation of hepatocyte uptake and molecular mechanisms of gold nanoparticle toxicity
Creators: name: Kyoungju Choi
name: Riviere, Jim E.
name: Monteiro-Riviere, Nancy A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Protein corona formation over gold nanoparticles (AuNP) can modulate cellular responses by altering AuNP physicochemical properties. The liver plays an essential role in metabolism, detoxification and elimination of xenobiotics and drugs as well as circulating NP clearance. We investigated human hepatic uptake of 40 and 80 nm AuNP with branched polyethylenimine (BPEI), lipoic acid (LA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) coatings as well as human plasma protein (HP) and human serum albumin (HSA) coronas. AuNP-mediated cytotoxicity, reactive oxygen/reactive nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), and CYP activity in human hepatocytes as well as molecular mechanisms with 40 nm bare and HP BPEI–AuNP were investigated. Time-dependent increase in uptake occurred for all bare AuNP but HP and HSA decreased uptake except for 40 nm HP PEG–AuNP. BPEI–AuNP showed time-and concentration-dependent increase in ROS/RNS which correlated with cytotoxicity at 24 h. HP corona substantially reduced ROS/RNS. The 40 and 80 nm bare, HP or HSA LA- and PEG–AuNP were not toxic but HP was as cytotoxic as bare BPEI–AuNP. All bare and HP BPEI–AuNP, except for HP 80 nm BPEI–AuNP toward CYP1A2, inhibited CYP1A2, CYP2C9 and CYP3A4 activity. Transcriptional profiling was dose-dependent with 40 nm bare BPEI–AuNP (1.9% genes at IC10 and 18.9% at LC50) and HP (23.5% at LC50). Differentially expressed genes at LC50 were mainly involved in phase I metabolism and phospholipidosis pathways. Cytotoxicity of bare BPEI–AuNP caused an upregulation of antioxidant and pro-apoptotic genes. These studies contribute to a better understanding of the dramatic effect of protein coronas (PC) on AuNP cellular uptake, cytotoxicity and their underlying molecular mechanisms of action.
The historical significance of the forges in the â€˜Old Smithyâ€ , South Street, St Neots
Creators: name: Hunt, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: K100 - Architecture
V320 - Social history
V321 - Local history
V400 - Archaeology

description: The historical significance of the forges in the â€˜Old Smithyâ€ , South Street, St Neots for Crestel Partnerships Ltd