cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Variability of Optical Depth and Effective Radius in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Creators: name: Szczodrak, Malgorzata
name: Austin, Philip H.
name: Krummel, P. B.
Publisher: name: American Meteorological Society
Year: 2016

description: Radiance measurements made by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) at 1-km (nadir) spatial resolution were used to retrieve cloud optical depth (τ) and cloud droplet effective radius (reff) for 31 marine boundary layer clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Southern Ocean near Tasmania. In the majority of these scenes (each roughly 256 × 256 km2 in extent) τ and reff are strongly correlated, with linear least squares yielding a regression curve of the form reff τ1/5. This relationship is consistent with an idealized model of a nonprecipitating layer cloud in which 1) the average cloud liquid water content increases linearly with height at some fraction of the adiabatic lapse rate in a 1 km2 vertical column, and 2) the normalized horizontal variability of the cloud liquid water path exceeds the variability of a scaled measure of the cloud droplet number concentration. In contrast, other scenes of similar horizontal extent show little or no correlation between retrieved values of τ and reff. These scenes include thicker clouds in which precipitation may be occurring, as well as cloud layers with spatially distinct regions of varying reff. In situ aircraft measurements were made simultaneously with six AVHRR overpasses as part of the Southern Ocean Cloud Experiment. The clouds sampled by these flights were significantly thicker than the typically 200-m-thick eastern Pacific stratocumulus, with large vertical and horizontal variability. On five of the six flights, aircraft measurements of the cloud-top effective radius were well matched by the satellite retrievals, and in two of these layers reff τ1/5. Copyright 2001American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or copyright@ametsoc.org.
Percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy treatment of chronic cervical pain following whiplash injury : reviewing evidence and needs
Creators: name: Bassett, Kenneth, 1952-
name: Sibley, Lyn M
name: Anton, Hugh
name: Harrison, Philip
name: Kazanjian, Arminée
Publisher: name: British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment (BCOHTA)
Year: 2014

description: This health technology assessment report critically examines the efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy (PRFN) treatment of chronic neck-pain following whiplash injury of the neck. The secondary purpose of this health technology assessment is to estimate the provincial population health impact of PRFN.
Computer Code for Materials Scientists: Igor Pro Procedures for Analyzing Dynamic Light Scattering, Rheology, and Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Data
Creators: name: Schmitt, Adam
name: Mahanthappa, Mahesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crystallography
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The development of modern tools for rapidly screening the structures and properties of designer materials for various technological applications mandates the development of new methods for quickly and conveniently reducing, analyzing, and visualizing complex data sets to enable their meaningful interpretation in multidimensional parameter spaces. Toward this end, procedures were written for use with Igor Pro (Wavemetrics, Inc.) that allow fast data reduction and analysis for common Materials Science characterization experiments. These techniques include dynamic light scattering (DLS), torsional rheology, and synchrotron small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS, respectively). For these experiments, the volume of data and complexity associated with its analysis in real-time are often cumbersome to researchers. These procedures were written to assist and to enable the loading, visualization, and analysis or interpretation of data in an effort to render tedious data analyses faster and more convenient.
title: Barrierefreie (wissenschaftliche) Poster
title: Eine Kooperation von degree 5.0 und dem Kompetenzzentrum digitale Barrierefreiheit.nrw
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lüttmann, Finnja
name: Pferderkämper-Schmidt, Anne
name: Wilkens, Leevke
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Barrierefreie Poster
subject: digitale Barrierefreiheit
subject: 370
subject: Barrierefreiheit

description: Diese Checkliste entstand aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Kompetenzzentrum digitale barrierefreiheit.nrw und dem Projekt degree 5.0, beide angesiedelt an der Technischen Universität Dortmund. In dieser Checkliste werden zwei Möglichkeiten präsentiert, wie Poster barrierefrei zur Verfügung gestellt werden können: Als barrierefreies PDF-Dokument, das die visuelle Gestaltung des Ausgangsdokuments beibehält sowie als barrierefreies, lineares Word-Dokument.
Determination of Cholesterol by Colorimetry and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Gold Nanoparticles Decorated with a Fe(III)-Tetra(4-Carboxyphenyl)-Porphine Metal-Organic Framework
Creators: name: Wang, Yutong
name: Zhao, Zhao
name: Yang, Dezhi
name: Zhong, Zitao
name: Yang, Yaling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Computational Biology

description: A simple and facile hydrothermal method was developed for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) adorned with two-dimensional (2D) heme-like Fe(III)-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)-porphine (TCPP-Fe) metal-organic framework (MOF) nanocomposite. Notably, the synthesized hybrid nanomaterial (AuNPs/TCPP-Fe hybrid nanosheets) exhibited excellent peroxidase (POD)-like nanoenzymes activity and Raman activity under ultrasound (US) and near-infrared (NIR) irradiation at physiological pH conditions. A cascade colorimetric-SERS dual-mode method was developed for sensitive and rapid cholesterol determination based on the excellent POD-like properties and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) activity of AuNPs/TCPP-Fe nanoenzymes. The TCPP-Fe nanoenzymes combined with cholesterol oxidase catalyze a cascade reaction to convert cholesterol to H2O2, which then oxidizes colorless, low Raman-activity 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to a blue, high-Raman-activity oxidation product (ox-TMB). The cholesterol in human serum of colorimetric-SERS was successfully assayed with good recovery from 97.8 to 103.7%. The study paves a new method for designing a nanocomposite-based SERS for biochemistry analysis.
title: 01_1977
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Re-thinking recreational fishing – how a natural disaster presents insights and opportunities :: Article in Marine Policy
Creators: name: Orchard, Shane
name: Gerrity, Shawn
name: Schiel, David R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300505
subject: Fisheries management
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: Abstract
Paua (abalone) are a treasured natural resource that supports a recreational fishery worth $2 million annually to the local economy of the Kaikoura district in New Zealand. From 2016, the fishery was closed for 5 years in response to widespread mortality caused by co-seismic uplift in the 7.8 Mw Kaikoura earthquake. The fishery re-opened in 2021 for three months with a recreational fishing allocation of 5 tonnes. We constructed scenario models informed by fishing pressure observations and show that this catch target was severely exceeded (by a factor of ~9). We then evaluated alternative management settings involving daily bag limit (DBL) adjustments and temporal controls on the open season. Only the most drastic modelled scenarios could achieve the 5 t allocation with similar levels of daily fishing effort showing the need for a greater focus on fishing effort to achieve sustainable management. Severely reduced DBLs (1–2 paua) were required in all scenarios suggesting a need for significant departure from this management focus since very low DBL settings force poor cost-return ratios on fishers. Instead, temporal controls that shift opening times away from high visitation periods provide a means of maintaining modest DBLs outside of longer-term protected areas. These seasonal timing strategies can also support a greater proportion of the harvest accruing to local fishers thereby influencing benefit-sharing aspects of the recreational fishery. We discuss insights for equitable solutions to potential influxes of fishing effort and highlight the opportune aspects of disaster recovery contexts for conceiving and implementing new policy directions.
Application of Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction (SPE) Based on Carbon S for the Determination of Multiple Residues of Diamine Pesticides in Vegetables
Creators: name: Wang, Shoumeng
name: Xie, Lanfen
name: Li, Dongzhi
name: Wu, Yanbing
name: Li, Xin’an
name: Yan, Zhenmin
name: Li, Guangling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Diamide insecticides represent a class of highly efficient compounds that have been widely employed in plant protection in recent years. The potential risk of exceeding residue limits in agricultural products should not be disregarded but the molecular structure of diamides dictates that the currently widely used QuEChERS cannot be extended to the analysis of their residues in food. The aim of this work is to develop a multi-residue method for diamides in vegetables using an alternative to traditional plant pigment removers. A modified QuEChERS based on the recently reported pigment remover Carbon S was established, and a multi-residue method for the determination of six diamide insecticides (flubendiamide, chlorantraniliprole, cyantraniliprole, tetrachlorantraniliprole, cyclaniliprole, and broflanilide) in melons and leafy vegetables using ultra-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detector (UPLC-PDA) was developed. The evaluation of this methodology showed the recoveries of the diamides in the vegetable matrices ranged from 80 to 107%, with intra- and inter-day relative standard deviations (RSDs) of less than 10%. The limits of quantification (LOQs) for these insecticides in vegetables were from 0.034 to 0.051 mg/kg. The modified QuEChERS employing carbon S exhibits environmental friendliness, high efficiency, and good reproducibility. The optimized methodology demonstrates accuracy, sensitivity, and reliability. Carbon S was used as a plant pigments remover, extending the application of QuEChERS to the determination of diamide residues in vegetables.
Introducing ELASTIC: A Project Overview Presentation
Creators: name: Ioannidis, Sotiris
name: Kopanaki, Despina
name: Chrysos, Grigorios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Wireless networks
6G
Service and resource orchestratio
WASM
WASI
FaaS
TEE
eBPF
FL

description: About ELASTIC: 

The next generation of wireless communication networks, 6G, is set to revolutionise the scope and potential of networked services by offering ultra-high data rates, ultra-low latency, ultra-reliability, and energy efficiency. However, to fully realise the benefits of 6G, it is crucial to ensure efficient and effective orchestration of its broad range of services and resources.

ELASTIC proposes a novel approach to 6G service orchestration that utilises cutting-edge technologies, including WebAssembly (Wasm), Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), and edge Internet of Things (IoT) orchestration, to enable flexible and efficient serverless deployment of services and functions, dynamic scaling and optimisation of service delivery, and collaborative processing of large datasets in a privacy-preserving manner.

ELASTIC's approach addresses the critical issue of security in 6G orchestration by leveraging Confidential Computing with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and by implementing security policies and service level agreements provided by verticals in edge cloud-native environments and enclaves. To support the development of this approach,

ELASTIC will conduct extensive research on executable isolation, early detection of security vulnerabilities, comparative study of Kubernetes eBPF solutions for observability, and assessment of WASM security properties. ELASTIC will also develop a comprehensive infrastructure that includes an open-source framework and interfaces for cross-platform and portable drivers, low-latency, real-time monitoring of cluster-distributed eBPF/XDP and WASM for security issues, high-speed, secure communication algorithms, distributed state synchronisation algorithms, and an observability framework for WebAssembly-based serverless/FaaS workloads in Kubernetes. The impact of the ELASTIC will be materialised within the active contribution of the project to referent open-source projects (Linux, Kubernetes, etc.), communities, and standards.

 

ELASTIC project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101139067.
Re-thinking recreational fishing – Article in Marine Policy
Creators: name: Orchard, Shane
name: Gerrity, Shawn
name: Schiel, David R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300505
subject: Fisheries management
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: Paua (abalone) are a treasured natural resource that supports a recreational fishery worth $2 million annually to the local economy of the Kaikoura district in New Zealand. From 2016, the fishery was closed for 5 years in response to widespread mortality caused by co-seismic uplift in the 7.8 Mw Kaikoura earthquake. The fishery re-opened in 2021 for three months with a recreational fishing allocation of 5 tonnes. We constructed scenario models informed by fishing pressure observations and show that this catch target was severely exceeded (by a factor of ~9). We then evaluated alternative management settings involving daily bag limit (DBL) adjustments and temporal controls on the open season. Only the most drastic modelled scenarios could achieve the 5 t allocation with similar levels of daily fishing effort showing the need for a greater focus on fishing effort to achieve sustainable management. Severely reduced DBLs (1–2 paua) were required in all scenarios suggesting a need for significant departure from this management focus since very low DBL settings force poor cost-return ratios on fishers. Instead, temporal controls that shift opening times away from high visitation periods provide a means of maintaining modest DBLs outside of longer-term protected areas. These seasonal timing strategies can also support a greater proportion of the harvest accruing to local fishers thereby influencing benefit-sharing aspects of the recreational fishery. We discuss insights for equitable solutions to potential influxes of fishing effort and highlight the opportune aspects of disaster recovery contexts for conceiving and implementing new policy directions.
Air Pollution and Retained Particles in the Lung
Creators: name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
name: Avila-Casado, Carmen
name: Fortoul, Teresa I.
name: Vedal, Sverre
name: Stevens, Bonnie
name: Churg, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Epidemiologic evidence associates particulate air pollution with cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. The biological mechanisms underlying these associations and the relationship between ambient levels and retained particles in the lung remain uncertain. We examined the parenchymal particle content of 11 autopsy lungs from never-smoking female residents of Mexico City, a region with high ambient particle levels [3-year mean PM₁₀ (particulate matter ≤ 10 μm in aerodynamic diameter)= 66 μg/m³], and 11 control residents of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a region with relatively low levels (3-year mean PM₁₀ = 14 μg/m³). Autopsy lungs were dissolved in bleach and particles were identified and counted by analytical electron microscopy. Total particle concentrations in the Mexico City lungs were significantly higher [geometric mean = 2,055 (geometric SD = 3.9) × 10⁶ particles/g dry lung vs. 279 (1.8) × 10⁶ particles/g dry lung] than in lungs from Vancouver residents. Lungs from Mexico City contained numerous chain aggregated masses of ultrafine carbonaceous spheres, some of which contained sulfur, and aggregates of ultrafine aluminum silicate. These aggregates made up an average of 25% of the total particles by count in the lungs from Mexico City, but were only rarely seen in lungs from Vancouver. These observations indicate for the first time that residence in a region with high levels of ambient particles results in pulmonary retention of large quantities of fine and ultrafine particle aggregates, some of which appear to be combustion products.
Overcoming the BSTFA: Study on Trimethylsilylation Derivatization Procedures for Chemical Weapons Convention-Related Alcohols in Field Analysis
Creators: name: Rozsypal, Tomas
name: Zitova, Kristyna
name: Mravcova, Ludmila
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: After the use of chemical weapons, there is a gradual spontaneous decomposition of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), and only degradation products can be present at the time of sample collection. Depending on the type of parent compound, these are most often acids, alcohols, or thiols. This article deals with the development and optimization of methods for the trimethylsilylation of controlled alcohols that outperforms the currently widely used method with N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA) prior to gas chromatographic identification. Thiodiglycol (TDG) was chosen as a model alcohol for the development and optimization of methods. Nine trimethylsilylating agents were tested as derivatization agents. For each reagent, the method was optimized in terms of reaction medium (seven tested solvents), reaction time, and temperature. The temporal stability of the resulting derivatives and the effect of the addition of the reaction catalyst were also monitored. Subsequently, optimal methods were applied in the derivatization of N-ethyldiethanolamine, N-methyldiethanolamine, triethanolamine, 2-diisopropylaminoethanol (DIAE), and 3-quinuclidinol. The developed methods were compared in all monitored properties with the standard BSTFA-method (in acetonitrile for 30 min at 60 °C). From the developed methods, three were selected that showed similar or better sensitivity parameters than BSTFA, and at the same time were less demanding to perform. Trimethylsilylation via trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMSCN) appears to be the most successful method. In conclusion, the selected methods were applied in the analysis of contaminated environmental and urban samples – sand, acrylic paint, asphalt-aluminum paint, and concrete. The samples were measured on both a benchtop and a field gas chromatograph.
A Tunable and Reversible Platform for the Formation of Genetically Engineered Protein Microdomains
Creators: name: Pastuszka, Martha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Genetic Engineering
Biophysics

description: From mitochondria to the nuclear envelope, the controlled assembly of micro- and nanostructures is essential for life; however, the level at which we can deliberately engineer the assembly of microstructures within intracellular environments remains primitive. To overcome this obstacle, we present a platform to reversibly assemble genetically engineered protein microdomains (GEPMs) on the time scale of minutes within living cells. Biologically inspired from the human protein tropoelastin, these protein polymers form a secondary aqueous phase above a tunable transition temperature. This assembly process is easily manipulated to occur at or near physiological temperature by adjusting molecular weight and hydrophobicity. We fused protein polymers to green fluorescent protein (GFP) to visualize their behavior within the cytoplasm. While soluble, these polymers have a similar intracellular diffusion constant as cytosolic proteins at 7.4 μm(2)/s; however, above their phase transition temperature, the proteins form distinct microdomains (0.1-2 μm) with a reduced diffusion coefficient of 1.1 μm(2)/s. Microdomain assembly and disassembly are both rapid processes with half-lives of 3.8 and 1.0 min, respectively. Via selection of the protein polymer, the assembly temperature is tunable between 20 and 40 °C. This approach may be useful to control intracellular formation of genetically engineered proteins and protein complexes into concentrated microdomains.
Modeling the distribution and abundance of boreal waterfowl
Creators: name: Börger, Luca
name: Barker, Nicole
name: Cumming, Steven
name: Nudds, Tom
name: Darveau, Marcel
name: Imbeau, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Workshop report: An international workshop on modeling the distribution and abundance of boreal waterfowl
was held during the 5th North American Duck Symposium in Toronto, Canada, 17-18 August 2009.
The workshop brought together Canadian and American researchers andmanagers with an interest
in waterfowl habitat and population modeling and/or in biomonitoring over large spatial extents.
Serious Adverse Event Analysis : Lipid-Lowering Therapy Revisited
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 42 explores the reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) using examples from lipid-lowering trials. Conclusions: Total %SAEs is an important measure of the health impact of a drug. Total %SAEs is often not reported in published RCTs, including lipid-lowering trials. Mortality analysis supports the use of statins for secondary prevention. Analysis of SAEs and mortality does not support the use of statins for primary prevention or the use of fibrates for primary or secondary prevention.
title: The Data Act: First Assessments
Creators: name: Sattler, Andreas
name: Zech, Herbert
Publisher: name: Trier University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02778hg05
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In June 2023 the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Center for Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Law (CIPLITEC) held a workshop on the – then just politically agreed – Data Act (DA). This volume contains the contributions based on the presentations by international experts, who participated in this workshop.
 The EU Data Act: First Assessments sheds light on the interfaces between the DA and important other fields of law that the DA will have a great impact on. The First Assessments in this volume show that there are still various open questions and conflicts with different legal areas, posing fundamental challenges to achieving the objectives envisioned by the European legislator. This volume demonstrates that it will largely be up to the CJEU to successfully synchronise these legal interfaces, on which the DA so heavily depends.
Highly Compact Transformerless Universal Power-Flow and Quality Control Circuit
Creators: name: Lu, M
name: Goetz, SM
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2022
Subjects: 40 Engineering
4008 Electrical Engineering
4009 Electronics, Sensors and Digital Hardware
7 Affordable and Clean Energy

description: This paper presents a novel, highly compact direct- injection modular universal power flow and quality control topology exclusively using lower power components. In addition to conventional high-voltage applications, it is particularly attractive for the distribution grid down to low voltage as it can exploit the latest developments in low-voltage high-current semiconductors. The distribution grid is under immense pressure due to rapid growth of high-power loads and sources, such as vehicle chargers and photovoltaic installations, which can locally overload lines and generate both over- and under-voltage conditions in the same grid section so that conventional voltage adjustment through transformer tap changers fails. In contrast to conventional universal power flow and/or quality controllers (UPFC, UPQC) or soft-open point (SOP) circuits, the concept both eliminates any injection transformer, which is large, costly, and limited in dynamics and the need to convert the full grid power. The presented direct-injection circuit exploits the recent developments in high-current low-voltage transistors. The centre piece is a low-voltage module connected in series with each phase, which is floating with the grid voltage so that it only needs to deal with a small voltage difference between its outputs and can maintain that condition also under fault currents of several kiloampères. Due to the low-impedance of the distribution grid, only a few volts are sufficient to control several hundred ampères in active and reactive current in a loop. In contrast to commercially available transformer-injection-based SOP solutions with often considerable additional loss, the injection modules have almost negligible additional impedance (< 4 mΩ).
An efficient method for the preparative isolation and purification of alkaloids from Gelsemium by using high speed counter-current chromatography and preparative HPLC
Creators: name: Liang, Ling-Ling
name: Zhao, Xue-Jiao
name: Lu, Ying
name: Zhu, Shi-Hao
name: Tang, Qi
name: Zuo, Meng-Ting
name: Liu, Zhao-Ying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: We established an efficient method using high-speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) combined with preparative high-performance liquid chromatography (prep-HPLC) for isolating and purifying Gelsemium elegans (G. elegans) alkaloids. First, the two-phase solvent system composed of 1% triethylamine aqueous solution/n-hexane/ethyl acetate/ethanol (volume ratio 4:2:3:2) was employed to separate the crude extract (350 mg) using HSCCC. Subsequently, the mixture that resulted from HSCCC was further separated by Prep-HPLC, resulting in seven pure compounds including: 14-hydroxygelsenicine (1, 12.1 mg), sempervirine (2, 20.8 mg), 19-(R)-hydroxydihydrogelelsevirine (3, 10.1 mg), koumine (4, 50.5 mg), gelsemine (5, 32.2 mg), gelselvirine (6, 50.5 mg), and 11-hydroxyhumanmantenine (7, 12.5 mg). The purity of these seven compounds were 97.4, 98.9, 98.5, 99, 99.5, 96.8, and 85.5%, as determined by HPLC. The chemical structures of the seven compounds were analyzed and confirmed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR), and 13 C-nuclear magnetic resonance (13 C NMR) spectra. The results indicate that the HSCCC-prep-HPLC method can effectively separate the major alkaloids from the purified G. elegans, holding promising prospects for potential applications in the separation and identification of other traditional Chinese medicines.
Price and productivity measurement in a pharmaceutical sector sub-market : the real cost of treating hypertension
Creators: name: Morgan, Steve
Publisher: name: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
Year: 2014

description: This study investigates potential information problems in pharmaceutical price and productivity measurement in the sub-market pertaining to drugs used in the treatment of hypertension. Pharmacological treatment of hypertension offers a particularly clear illustration of the distinction between scientific information, which might be considered measurable and socially valuable, and the unmeasurable influences (or “information”) affecting doctors preferences for certain drugs. This treatment category is relatively old and well studied. It is also of enormous importance given the incidence of hypertension and the steadily growing expenditures on drugs to treat it.
HIKOYALARDA HAYOT HAQIQATI
Creators: name: Ergasheva, Aziza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada hikoya janri a uning xususiyatlari haiqda fikr yuritilgan. Ulug’bek Hamdamning “Gardkam”, va “Malol” hikoyalarida yozuvchi ideali ramziy obrazlarda o’ziga xos yoritilgan.
Effects of de-industrialization on unemployment, re-employment, and work conditions in a manufacturing workforce
Creators: name: Ostry, Aleck S.
name: Hershler, Ruth
name: Kelly, Shona
name: Demers, Paul
name: Teschke, Kay
name: Hertzman, Clyde
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a 20-year process of de-industrialization in the British Columbia (BC) sawmill industry on labour force trajectories, unemployment history, and physical and psychosocial work conditions as these are important determinants of health in workforces. Methods The study is based on a sample of 1,885 respondents all of whom were sawmill workers in 1979, a year prior to commencement of de-industrialization and who were followed up and interviewed approximately 20 years later. Results Forty percent of workers, 64 years and under, were employed outside the sawmill sector at time of interview. Approximately one third of workers, aged 64 and under, experienced 25 months of more of unemployment during the study period. Only, 1.5% of workers were identified as a "hard core" group of long-term unemployed. Workers re-employed outside the sawmill sector experienced improved physical and psychosocial work conditions relative to those employed in sawmills during the study period. This benefit was greatest for workers originally in unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in sawmills. Conclusions This study shows that future health studies should pay particular attention to long-term employees in manufacturing who may have gone through de-industrialization resulting in exposures to a combination of sustained job insecurity, cyclical unemployment, and adverse physical and psychosocial work conditions.
INTERVENÇÃO FISIOTERAPÊUTICA NO ACIDENTE VASCULAR ENCEFÁLICO: RELATO DE CASO
Creators: name: Pereira, Maria Isabel
name: Fischer, Natani Raquel
name: Bernardes Junior, Luciano
name: Pereira Junior, Altair Argentino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: fisioterapia
acidente vascular encefalico
intervencao

description: O objetivo deste estudo é relatar o efeito/influência da intervenção fisioterapêutica em paciente acometido com acidente vascular encefálico hemorrágico na fase subaguda.
Nutrient-dependent / Pheromone–controlled thermodynamics and thermoregulation
Creators: name: Kohl, James V
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Physics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Entropy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Behavioral Neuroscience

description: Natural selection for nutrients results in their metabolism to pheromones that control reproduction in species from microbes to man. In some species, sex differences in pheromones enable sexual selection. Using what is known about the molecular mechanisms common to species from microbes to man, an argument can be made from biological facts that extends to non-random nutrient-dependent pheromone-controlled adaptive evolution. This biological-based argument can be compared to arguments that might be made to support a cosmological / mathematical argument for random mutations theory.
Encapsulation of alkenyl succinic anhydride oil droplets in emulsions: Preparation, characterization, stability properties and application in papermaking
Creators: name: Zhou, Tongxin
name: Han, Qian
name: Yu, Dehai
name: Liu, Wenxia
name: Wang, Huili
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper aimed to explore the influence of the guar and xanthan gum complex (GG/XG) on the physicochemical properties, microstructure, and sizing efficiency of alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA) loaded emulsions. The centrifugal stability of the emulsions was measured using a Turbiscan equipment, the droplets morphology through an optical microscopy, the size of droplets and its distribution through a Mastersizer, and the sizing efficiency through the penetration method. Furthermore, Cryo-SEM and CLSM were used to elucidate the adsorption mechanism of polysaccharides at the ASA-water interface. When the concentration of GG/XG exceeded 0.35%, the ASA emulsions displayed excellent stability and low viscosity, and no water separation was observed even after high-speed centrifugation. By absorbing GG/XG at the oil-water interface, a dense interfacial film was formed, which blocked any interaction between the oil and water, thus hindering the hydrolysis of ASA. The sizing degree of the paper sized by ASA emulsion stored for 2 h was still higher than 88 s. By encapsulating ASA in emulsions that are stabilized exclusively by natural polysaccharides, the need for surfactants is eliminated, which in turn decreases the amount of foam present in the papermaking process, thus making it a more environmentally friendly production method.
Novel lipid-based nanocarrier of nitrofurantoin for improved oral bioavailability and reduced variability in absorption
Creators: name: Nanda, Gouri Prasad
name: Patel, Mrunali
name: Dua, Kamal
name: Singh, Sachin Kumar
name: Patel, Rashmin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: The current research aims to improve oral bioavailability, reduce the variability in absorption, and decrease GI intolerance of Nitrofurantoin (NFT) by presenting in a lipid-based liquid self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (L-SNEDDS). L-SNEDDS formulations were developed using a thermosolvency technique. Physicochemical properties including in-vitro drug diffusion were exercised to optimize the formula, further, comparative ex-vivo permeability, in-vitro cell line, in-vitro anti-microbial, and in-vivo pharmacokinetic evaluation of optimized formulation was carried out. Based on the highest saturation solubility, soybean oil, oleoyl polyoxyl-6-glycerides, and diethylene glycol monoethyl ether were selected as oil, surfactant, and co-surfactant, respectively. A Smix ratio of 1:2 was selected based on pseudoternary phase diagrams. The formulation prepared with an equal ratio of oil and Smix exhibited the lowest globule size (59.4 ± 0.8 nm), optimum zeta potential (−21.3 ± 1.1 mV), and faster drug release (95.4 ± 4.2 % in 30 min), and hence was selected for further evaluation. Optimized formulation (SF5) was found stable and showed improved membrane permeability against pure drug suspension (1.84 times) and marketed suspension formulation (1.15 times). SF5 exhibited similar % cell viability and % cell toxicity in Caco-2 cell lines compared to the marketed suspension. However, it showed the highest zone of inhibition against both the gram-negative and gram-positive organisms. The relative bioavailability of NFT-loaded L-SNEDDS was enhanced by 1.46 and 1.55 times compared to the marketed and pure drug, respectively. Thus, it can be concluded that the variability of oral absorption is minimized, and oral bioavailability is improved by the novel lipid-based nanocarrier system of NFT.
Designing command-line interfaces (CLIs) for scientific software
Creators: name: Standage, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tutorial on "Designing command-line interfaces (CLIs) for scientific software" intended for scientists with beginner-level skills in programming and UNIX/Linux.
Abstract Normal Form for Grammars in a Broad Sense
Creators: name: Zaytsev, Vadim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Theoretical Computer Science

description: A normal form is proposed for abstract grammars in a broad sense (abstract syntaxes, algebraic signatures, algebraic data types, object models, XML schemata, software metamodels, etc). An equivalence relation based on this normal form drastically simplifies the process of matching such grammars modulo their constructor and argument names, as well as matching abstract and concrete definitions of the same intended software language. This paper is submitted to IPL and is currently under review.
Do UK audiologists feel able to address the hearing, social and emotional needs of their adult patients with hearing loss
Creators: name: Woodward, Ella
name: Saunders, Gabrielle H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The aim of this project was to investigate the provision of counselling in adult audiological rehabilitation and to highlight training barriers and needs. A service evaluation in which respondents completed a survey in which they rated their knowledge, confidence and competence in addressing the hearing, social and emotional needs of their patients. They were also asked to define counselling. 64 UK practising audiologists in adult audiological rehabilitation, aged 20–>60 years (84% females, 16% males), with a range of years in clinical practice. Counselling definitions fell into three main categories: the audiologist as the doer, the audiologist as the facilitator, and the audiologist and patient as partners. Respondents reported feeling more able to counsel the hearing related needs of their patients, than emotional or social needs. There were significant positive statistical associations between counselling training completed and self-rated counselling abilities for managing emotional needs. Clinical experience was not associated with self-rated counselling. Lack of supervision and training were identified as some of the main barriers to providing emotional support. Almost all respondents reported a desire for further training in delivering emotional support, with the belief that this would improve services and patient outcomes. UK audiologists demonstrated person-centred thinking through their definitions of counselling. However, they reported significant barriers in being able to support the needs of adults with hearing loss. Training needs around emotional support in audiology counselling are not currently being met. It is important for clinical training programmes to address this gap by incorporating more counselling courses into their curricula.
Camelina microcarpa subsp. sylvestris (Brassicaceae)in Lower Silesia - distribution and current state [in Polish with English summary]
Creators: name: Reczyńska, Kamila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Botany

description: Camelina microcarpa subsp. sylvestris was common in Poland. It was observed in lowlands and highlands to a height of 400 m a.s.l. In Lower Silesia, it was noticed in 26 ATPOL squares 10.x.10 km. Currently it occurs in 5 squares in 14 locations. Mostly it grows in dry swards and number of its stands decrease because of disappearing of this habitat. The species is critically endangered of extinction.
Evaluating the binding ability of promethazine hydrochloride drug with sodium dodecylsulphate/sodium lauroylsarcosinate/sodium cholate in the company of uridine biomolecules: experimental and theoretical approach
Creators: name: Sharma, Jyoti
name: Singh, Manpreet
name: Banipal, Tarlok Singh
name: Kang, Tejwant Singh
name: Banipal, Parampaul Kaur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The appraisal of drug–surfactant binding interactions is pharmacologically and pharmaceutically noteworthy. The simple model compounds of nucleic acids such as nucleic acid bases/nucleosides are key biologically active molecules useful for studying interactions of nucleic acids with other components in bio-fluids. Therefore, the binding studies of promethazine hydrochloride (PMT) drug with individual surfactants such as sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS, anionic surfactant), sodium lauroylsarcosinate (SLS, amino based-surfactant), and sodium cholate (NaC, trihydroxy bile salt), and their mixed systems (PMT + SDS/SLS/NaC) at mole fractions, αPMT = 0.02, 0.04, 0.06, and 0.08 have been accomplished in water and 0.025 mol kg−1 aqueous uridine (nucleoside) solutions at temperatures (298.15, 308.15, and 318.15) K. Thermodynamic characteristics of micellization have been obtained from the conductivity studies. Binding constants (Kb, Kf) and standard Gibbs free energies of binding (ΔGοb, ΔGοf) for pure PMT drug and its mixed systems with anionic surfactants were evaluated from UV–visible absorption and fluorescence emission studies. Further, the density functional theory (DFT) calculations for studied systems were carried out to get net stabilization energies for the drug–surfactant complexes. NBO and HOMO–LUMO analyses were also carried out in the absence/presence of uridine. Dynamic light scattering study was used to measure the hydrodynamic diameters in micellar systems. The major influences of hydrophobic–hydrophobic interactions among the hydrophobic groups and electrostatic (ionic and H-bond) interactions among the hydrophilic/ionic groups of PMT drug, SDS/SLS/NaC, and uridine have been depicted from the present investigations.
Ruth Cremerius, Doris Fischer und Peter Schier: Studentenprotest und Repression in China, April-Juni 1989. Analyse, Chronologie, Dokumente
Creators: name: Schütte, Hans-Wilm
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2022

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 37 (1990): ASIEN (Oktober)
Vestibular function and balance performance in children with sensorineural hearing loss
Creators: name: Chisari, Donella
name: Vitkovic, Jessica
name: Clark, Ross
name: Rance, Gary
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Balance difficulties are common in children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). For some of these children, concomitant vestibular deficits may impact postural control. This study aimed to explore vestibular function, functional balance and postural control, and the relationship between these measures in children with SNHL. Cross-sectional study quantifying peripheral vestibular function (vestibular evoked myogenic potentials [VEMP], video head impulse test), functional balance (Bruininks–Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency [BOT]) and postural control (static posturography with modified sensory inputs). The relationship between the degree of vestibular impairment, functional balance and postural control was explored. Eleven with SNHL, and 11 with normal sound detection (NSD) between 5 and 12 years of age. Children with SNHL had varying degrees of vestibular dysfunction and differences in overall balance performance. Across all children, greater degrees of vestibular impairment were associated with significantly poorer functional balance and postural control performance for complex standing conditions (BOT percentile rank p = 0.001; compliant surface eyes open [EO]: p = 0.027; compliant surface eyes closed: p = 0.048). Vestibular dysfunction in children with SNHL was variable. Vestibular impairment predicted poorer functional balance performance and postural control abilities, including differences in postural sway patterns.