cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Report on the evaluation of energy efficiency measures addressing the needs of energy poor households in rural areas: Deliverable 4.1 RENOVERTY project
Creators: name: Apostoliotis, Akis
name: Papantonis, Dimitris
name: Flamos, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Energy poverty
Energy efficiency
Energy savings
Climate neutrality
Energy modelling
Residential sector
Energy policy
Rural development

description: The purpose of the European Commission-funded LIFE Programme RENOVERTY project is to increase energy efficiency address and energy poverty in vulnerable rural districts in Central Eastern, Southern Eastern and Southern Europe. The latter will be achieved by setting the methodological and practical framework for the co-development of individual tailor-made Renovation Energy Efficiency Roadmaps to address the needs of energy poor households in the regions under study, with the contribution of all actors involved in the energy efficiency value chain.

This report aims to contribute to this objective by expanding RENOVERTY activities, coupling the strengths of energy system modelling with qualitative and semi-quantitative techniques guiding us from the (i). updated framework of energy efficiency and energy poverty in rural areas, the (ii). stakeholders need assessment, and the (iii). RENOVERTY fieldwork (i.e., energy audits), as derived from the previous RENOVERTY report: “Updating the energy poverty and energy efficiency framework in rural areas across the EU”), to the application of the modelling assessment framework in real-life pilots (the rural region of Osona in Spain, the rural region of Parma in Italy, Bükk and SMB in Hungary, Sveta Nedelja and Žumberak in Croatia, Tartu in Estonia, Zasavje in Slovenia, and Coimbra in Portugal), allowing for the evaluation of several Energy Efficiency Measures based on their impact in households’ energy profiles and technoeconomic viability.

To do so, we employ and present the results from the Dynamic high-Resolution dE-mand-sidE Management (DREEM) model. DREEM is employed to apply an evaluation framework that will determine the most suitable Energy Efficiency Measures in each case study.

Modelling results provide detailed information on the energy-saving potential, CO2 emissions, and technoeconomic viability of different energy efficiency measures, indicating diverse results across the different case studies.

Overall, our analysis includes findings and recommendations, which if considered could support stakeholders and end-users to recognise and address the specificities of rural areas when it comes to the implementation of Energy Efficiency Measures, while contributing to the effective design and implementation of energy efficiency policies to address energy poverty in rural contexts.
Supplementary document for Opto-Ultrasound Biosensor for Wearable and Mobile Devices: Realization with Transparent Ultrasound Transducer - 5984098.pdf
Creators: name: Park, Jeongwoo
name: Park, Byullee
name: Ahn, Joongho
name: Kim, Donggyu
name: Kim, Jin
name: Kim, Hyung Ham
name: Kim, Chulhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental document
The chemical space spanned by manually curated datasets of natural and synthetic compounds with activities against SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Betow, Jude Y.
name: Turon, Gemma
name: Metuge, Clovis S.
name: Akame, Simeon
name: Shu, Vanessa A.
name: Ebob, Oyere T.
name: Duran, Miquel
name: Ntie-Kang, Fidele
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 615

description: Diseases caused by viruses are challenging to contain, as their outbreak and spread could be very sudden, compounded by rapid mutations, making the development of drugs and vaccines a continued endeavour that requires fast discovery and preparedness. Targeting viral infections with small molecules remains one of the treatment options to reduce transmission and the disease burden. A lesson learned from the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is to collect ready-to-screen small molecule libraries in preparation for the next viral outbreak, and potentially find a clinical candidate before it becomes a pandemic. Public availability of diverse compound libraries, well annotated in terms of chemical structures and scaffolds, modes of action, and bioactivities are, therefore, crucial to ensure the participation of academic laboratories in these screening efforts, especially in resource-limited settings where synthesis, testing and computing capacity are scarce. Here, we demonstrate a low-resource approach to populate the chemical space of naturally occurring and synthetic small molecules that have shown in vitro and/or in vivo activities against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its target proteins. We have manually curated two datasets of small molecules (naturally occurring and synthetically derived) by reading and collecting (hand-curating) the published literature. Information from the literature reveals that a majority of the reported SARS-CoV-2 compounds act by inhibiting the main protease, while 25% of the compounds currently have no known target. Scaffold analysis and principal component analysis revealed that the most common scaffolds in the datasets are quite distinct. We then expanded the initially manually curated dataset of over 1200 compounds via an ultra-large scale 2D and 3D similarity search, obtaining an expanded collection of over 150 k purchasable compounds. The spanned chemical space significantly extends beyond that of a commercially available coronavirus library of more than 20 k small molecules and constitutes a good starting collection for virtual screening campaigns given its manageable size and proximity to hand-curated compounds.
Halal Tourism in West Java: Behavior and Preferences of Non-Muslims Based on TPB Theory in Indonesia
Creators: name: Hilda Monoarfa*
name: Bambang Widjajanta
name: Meta Arief
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Halal tourism subjective norms, halal tourism perceived behavioral control, halal tourism attitude, halal tourism visit intention, non-muslim, west Java.

description: Abstract:

Research Objectives:

This study aims to investigate the behavior and preferences of non-Muslim tourists towards halal tourism offerings in West Java using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a theoretical framework. The objectives include understanding the attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control influencing non-Muslim tourists' intentions and behaviors related to halal tourism in the region.

Methodology:

A sample of 116 non-Muslim respondents will be surveyed to assess their attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control towards halal tourism in West Java. Data will be analyzed using SPSS 20.0 and Smart-PLS 3.0 software to evaluate the relationships between these variables and non-Muslim tourists' intentions and behaviors towards halal tourism offerings.

Finding:

The study will analyze the data to determine the impact of Halal Tourism's subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and Attitude on non-Muslim tourists' preferences and behaviors regarding Halal tourism in West Java. As a result, Halal Tourism's subjective norms do not affect Halal Tourism Visit Intention, while Halal Tourism's subjective norms and attitudes affect Halal Tourism's visit intention.

Practical Implications:

The findings of this research will offer valuable insights for tourism stakeholders and destination managers in West Java to tailor their offerings to better cater to the needs and preferences of non-Muslim tourists. By understanding the factors that drive non-Muslim tourists' intentions and behaviors towards halal tourism, stakeholders can enhance the overall tourism experience for this segment of visitors, ultimately contributing to developing more inclusive and appealing halal tourism products in West Java.

Originality:

The novelty of this research lies in several aspects, namely: New focus: Most similar research focuses on Muslim tourists. This research shifts to a non-Muslim perspective.

West Java was chosen as a case study location because of its significant potential in halal tourism, although there is still minimal research. This study will explore how non-Muslim tourists respond to the integration of cultural and Islamic religious elements in halal tourism.

Motivational factors: This research will identify the elements that encourage non-Muslim tourists to choose halal tourist destinations.
QISHLOQ XO'JALIGI MAHSULOTLARINI EKSPORT QILISH: JAHON IQTISODIYOTINING STRATEGIK OMILI
Creators: name: Togʻoyev, Abubakir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada qishloq xo‘jaligi mahsulotlarini eksport qilishning jahon iqtisodiyotidagi strategik ahamiyati, asosiy ko‘rsatkichlari va tahlillari yoritilgan. Unda global oziq-ovqat xavfsizligini ta’minlash, tashqi savdo siyosatini rivojlantirish va agrar tarmoqni texnologik modernizatsiya qilish borasida eksportning tutgan o‘rni keng qamrovli misollar orqali tahlil qilinadi. Shuningdek, dunyo va yirik 15 ta davlatning eksport salohiyati, o‘sish dinamikasi, savdo hamkorlari soni, diversifikatsiya darajasi, mahsulot tuzilishi kabi omillarga e’tibor qaratilib, qiyosiy ko‘rsatkichlar jadval shaklida beriladi. Maqola yakunida mahsulot tarkibida xomashyo va tayyor mahsulotlar nisbatining global raqobatbardoshlikka ta’siri hamda diversifikatsiya siyosatining ahamiyati xulosa sifatida keltiriladi
Learning management guidelines for social studies: Historical substance in creating thai-ness consciousness
Creators: name: Phinla, Wipapan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: Guidelines for learning management in social studies, as historical substance in creating Thai-ness consciousness require teachers to promote the skills needed in managing learning historical substance where learners gain knowledge, process skill, positive attitudes and good values. In order to achieve these aims, the teacher must serve to stimulate learning in the students to practice on their own in the pursuit of knowledge. Teachers are only required to give advice in organizing learning activities. This can be conducted by the historical method in order for students to gather information, search for data, make connection, analyze, synthesize and interpret, describe and outline the knowledge acquired from activities interested by students. Activities organized include exhibition of student’s work, writing about the process concept and results of the project or piece of work for others to understand. The teachers need to promote desirable characteristics of the learners by making them appreciate the values of and cooperation in the conservation of wisdom, cultural and local traditional heritage, as well as linking the knowledge gained and utilizing historical study methods in their daily life with sustainable stability.
Quality of single-cone obturation using different sizes of matching Gutta-Percha Points of two reciprocating single-file systems in curved and straight root canals
Creators: name: Arvaneh, Shakiba
name: Schwesig, René
name: Haghighat, Shahpar
name: Gernhardt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background and Objectives: Endodontic success depends on eliminating infection and creating a durable seal to prevent recontamination. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of different ISO sizes on the obturation quality using two reciprocating single-file systems, WaveOne® Gold and Procodile®, in two different canal morphologies. Material and Methods: Overall, 140 root canals from human permanent teeth were randomly assigned to 14 groups based on selected ISO sizes and straight and curved canal curvatures, and the two file systems, WaveOne® Gold files in ISO sizes 20, 25, and 45, and Procodile® files in ISO sizes 20, 25, 40, and 45, were employed for canal preparation. These 140 canals were obturated using corresponding gutta-percha points and AH-Plus sealer and the quality of the obturation was assessed after sectioning the roots (apical, middle, coronal third) by evaluating the resulting 420 sections under a digital fluorescence microscope with regard to the proportion of gutta-percha, sealer, and unfilled areas. The results were analyzed using nonparametric tests. Results: For both systems, there was a significant difference in the percentage of gutta-percha-filled areas (PGFA, p < 0.001) and sealer-filled areas (PSFA, p < 0.001 among the different ISO sizes). However, no significant difference was observed in the percentage of unfilled areas (PUA, p = 0.354). ISO 40 demonstrated the best results, with the highest percentage of gutta-percha-filled areas (87%) and the lowest percentages of sealer-filled areas (13%) and voids (0.5%). In contrast, the lowest percentages of gutta-percha filled areas were observed in root canal fillings with ISO 20 (81%) and ISO 25 (81%). Regarding both reciprocating file system sizes, ISO 45 in WaveOne® Gold and ISO 40 in Procodile® demonstrated significantly improved (p < 0.05) filling quality, with PGFA of 85% and 87%, respectively. The differences between both systems were not significant. Conclusions: The results presented suggest that larger sizes provide better filling results, especially in the apical region. These results underline the importance of selecting appropriate preparation sizes adjusted to the initial anatomical specifications to optimize root canal obturation and ensure a high quality and durable seal.
Ocular Toxoplasmosis in HIV patients- MRI findings
Creators: name: Solomou, Ekaterini
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 42 years
description: Clinical History: The patient without receiving antiretroviral therapy presented sudden unilateral optical impairment of the left eye lasted 3 days without signs of infection. Toxo IgM, Toxo IgG were positive, whereas CMV, EBV, Leptospira, Borrelia, RPR, HSV, VZV antibodie... Final Diagnosis: Laboratory tests and MRI confirmed Toxoplasmosis of the optic nerve.
Congregation of Savigny also known as “Savigniacs”, “Savigniac Order”
Creators: name: Doss, Jacob
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2022

description: The Congregation of Savigny grew out of Vital of Mortain's (c. 1060-1122 CE) foundation of a monastery at Savigny in 1113 CE. Vital of Mortain was an itinerant preacher and hermit who retired into the forest near Savigny around 1109 and by 1113 had established a monastery there for his followers. Under Savigny's second abbot, Geoffrey, the congregation experienced rapid expansion and notoriety. In 1147 abbot Serlo of Savigny oversaw the incorporation of the congregation into the Cistercian order.
Τεχνολογία και ανώτατη εκπαίδευση στη γεωπολιτική στρατηγική της Κίνας
Creators: name: Διακουμάκου, Φωτεινή
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Τεχνολογία
subject: Ανώτατη εκπαίδευση
subject: Τεχνητή νοημοσύνη
subject: Ε&Κ
subject: Ε&Α
subject: Ε&Τ

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τη γεωπολιτική διάσταση της τεχνολογικής ανάπτυξης, της ανώτατης εκπαίδευσης και της καινοτομικής ικανότητας. Μελετάται η περίπτωση της ΛΔΚ, μιας και η ταχύτατη άνοδος και εξάπλωση του εν λόγω κράτους, αποτελεί «πονοκέφαλο» για τις βιομηχανικές χώρες της Δύσης. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, στα επόμενα κεφάλαια αναλύονται δύο κινεζικές στρατηγικές πρωτοβουλίες με γεωπολιτικές και γεωοικονομικές διαστάσεις. Τα έργα Belt and Road Initiative καθώς και Made in China 2025 μελετώνται υπό το πρίσμα της τεχνολογίας, της ερευνητικής δραστηριότητας και της καινοτομίας. Οι πανεπιστημιακές συνεργασίες στα πλαίσια του BRI, η σχέση εκπαίδευσης και επιχειρηματικότητας, οι κινεζικοί τεχνολογικοί κολοσσοί, η ανάγκη για κωδικοποίηση των προτύπων της ΤΝ καθώς και η ραγδαία άνοδος της Κίνας έναντι των ΗΠΑ και των κρατών της ΕΕ, είναι τα βασικά σημεία που θα αναλυθούν στις επόμενες σελίδες.
Η ανάγκη συνεργασίας και δικτύωσης των φορέων στα Προ-αναχωρησιακά Κέντρα Κράτησης Αλλοδαπών (Προ.Κε.Κ.Α.).
Creators: name: Δημητριάδη, Χαρίκλεια
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Μετανάστες -- Ελλάδα -- Κοινωνικές συνθήκες
subject: Πρόσφυγες -- Ελλάδα -- Κοινωνικές συνθήκες
subject: Παράνομοι αλλοδαποί -- Ελλάδα
subject: Μετανάστες -- Υπηρεσίες για -- Ελλάδα
subject: Πρόσφυγες -- Υπηρεσίες για -- Ελλάδα
subject: Ελλάδα -- Αποδημία και εποίκηση -- Κυβερνητική πολιτική
subject: Μη κυβερνητικοί οργανισμοί -- Ελλάδα
subject: Παράτυπος μετανάστης
subject: Οργανώσεις που μαθαίνουν μέσα από τα λάθη τους
subject: Προ-αναχωρησιακό Κέντρο Κράτησης Αλλοδαπών
subject: Οργανισμοί που μαθαίνουν
subject: Irregular immigrant
subject: Training learning organization
subject: Detention center
subject: Learning organization
subject: Μη κυβερνητικές οργανώσεις

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013321 cd
description: Σκοπός της παρούσης εργασίας αποτελεί η διερεύνηση της ύπαρξης ή της ελλιπούς συνεργασίας φορέων στα Προαναχωρησιακά Κέντρα Κράτησης Αλλοδαπών. Η εργασία εστιάζει στην πραγμάτωση των δικτυώσεων και των συνεργασιών των οργανισμών/φορέων με τα Προ.Κε.Κ.Α. . Επιπρόσθετα, εξετάζοντας εκτενέστερα το πλαίσιο των κέντρων κράτησης, αναλύεται ο θεσμός της συνεργασίας αλλά και η σημαντικότητα αυτής, με σκοπό την επίτευξη των στόχων που ορίζονται από τους επαγγελματίες για το βέλτιστο συμφέρον των ωφελούμενων. Το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο της εργασίας στηρίζεται στη συλλογή δευτερογενών δεδομένων, τα οποία συλλέχθηκαν μέσα από βιβλία, άρθρα σε περιοδικά αλλά και μέσα από επίσημους διαδικτυακούς τόπους. Για τους σκοπούς της έρευνας χρησιμοποιήθηκε η μέθοδος της ημιδομημένης συνέντευξης σε επαγγελματίες κοινωνικούς επιστήμονες κυρίως, και σε επαγγελματίες άλλων ειδικοτήτων που εργάζονται σε φορείς που έχουν άμεση συνεργασία με τα Προ.Κε.Κ.Α. . Σύμφωνα με τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας, διαπιστώθηκε πως σε θεωρητικό επίπεδο υφίσταται επικοινωνία, χωρίς όμως αυτή, να εξασφαλίζει μια ουσιαστική συνεργασία μεταξύ των φορέων και των Προ.Κε.Κ.Α., όσον αφορά το πρακτικό επίπεδο. Καθώς, παρατηρείται να προκύπτουν σημαντικά κενά ως προς την επίτευξη των στόχων που έχουν τεθεί λόγω της ανύπαρκτης επικοινωνίας, παρότι η παρουσία των οργανώσεων στα κέντρα κράτησης μπορεί να χαρακτηριστεί συχνή.
Οι αντιλήψεις των εκπαιδευτικών πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης για τον ρόλο του κοινωνικού λειτουργού σχετικά με την διαχείριση των ειδικών μαθησιακών δυσκολιών
Creators: name: Αβραάμ, Στυλιανή
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Κοινωνικοί λειτουργοί -- Ελλάδα
subject: Δάσκαλοι -- Ελλάδα
subject: Μαθησιακές δυσκολίες -- Εκπαίδευση -- Ελλάδα
subject: Παιδιά με μαθησιακές δυσκολίες -- Εκπαίδευση -- Ελλάδα
subject: Ενταξιακή εκπαίδευση -- Ελλάδα
subject: Ενσωμάτωση στην εκπαίδευση -- Ελλάδα
subject: Προβλήματα μάθησης
subject: Κοινωνικός λειτουργός
subject: Εκπαιδευτικοί
subject: Learning problems
subject: Social worker
subject: Primary school teachers

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013294 cd
description: Σύμφωνα με τα τελευταία δεδομένα το ποσοστό των μαθητών που εμφανίζουν προβλήματα μάθησης αυξάνεται συνεχώς με αποτέλεσμα να φτάνει να αγγίζει το 40%. Οι μαθητές παρουσιάζουν μεγάλες δυσκολίες στην έκφραση και κατανόηση του λόγου, γεγονός που οδηγεί σε χαμηλή σχολική επίδοση και κοινωνική απομόνωση των μαθητών.Η έρευνα είχε ως στόχο να διερευνήσει τις απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, σχετικά με τον ρόλο του κοινωνικού λειτουργού στην διαχείριση μαθητών με προβλήματα μάθησης.Τα ερευνητικά ερωτήματα που τέθηκαν αφορούσαν τα κυριότερα προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν οι μαθητές με προβλήματα μάθησης, τον ρόλο του κοινωνικού λειτουργού στην αντιμετώπιση και διαχείριση των προβλημάτων των συγκεκριμένων μαθητών καθώς και τις προτάσεις των εκπαιδευτικών για την καλύτερη διαχείριση των ζητημάτων ένταξης και διαχείρισης των μαθησιακών δυσκολιών. Το είδος της έρευνας ήταν η ποιοτική προσέγγιση και το μεθοδολογικό εργαλείο που χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την συλλογή των δεδομένων ήταν η ημιδομημένη συνέντευξη. Το δείγμα μας αποτέλεσαν 10 εκπαιδευτικοί πρωτοβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης και οι συνεντεύξεις πραγματοποιήθηκαν μέσω skype, μέσα στον μήνα Δεκέμβριο του 2021.Σύμφωνα με τις απαντήσεις των εκπαιδευτικών οι περισσότεροι είναι κάτοχοι μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου σπουδών στον τομέα της ειδικής αγωγής και έχουν όλοι παρακολουθήσει σεμινάρια ειδικής αγωγής. Μάλιστα κάποιοι από αυτούς έχουν παρακολουθήσει και σεμινάρια σχετικά με τις μαθησιακές δυσκολίες. Επίσης από τις απαντήσεις τους όλοι αναγνωρίζουν τα κύρια ζητήματα με τα οποία έρχονται αντιμέτωποι οι μαθητές με μαθησιακά προβλήματα και είναι ενημερωμένοι για τον ρόλο που αναλαμβάνει ο κοινωνικός λειτουργός ώστε να διαχειριστεί και να αντιμετωπίσει άμεσα όλες τις δυσκολίες των μαθητών.
Druggability Predictions of Ribonucleic Acid Crystal Structures
Creators: name: Rekand, Illimar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Druggability
subject: Medicinal chemistry
subject: Structural biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Machine learning
subject: XGBoost
subject: Nucleic acids
subject: Ribonucleic acids
subject: RNA
subject: Crystallography
subject: X-ray crystallography
subject: Binding sites
subject: RDKit
subject: Software

description: Presentation held at 2020 MMWS, where I presented our DrugPred-predictor software which was modified to predict the druggability of both RNA and protein binding sites from crystal structures using a machine learning model (XGBoost). 

The work presented herein culminated later into this publication: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00155
SHAHARLARDA ATROF-MUHITNI MUHOFAZA QILISHGA OID XALQARO HUJJATLAR VA ULARNING ASOSIY MAZMUN-MOHIYATI
Creators: name: Normatov, Ermamat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Tadqiqot predmeti shaharlarda atrof-muhitni muhofaza qilishga oid xalqaro hujjatlar va ularning asosiy mazmun-mohiyati yoritilgan bo‘lib, hozirgi glabal iqlim o‘zgarishida yuzaga kelayotgan muammolarni xalqar hujjatlar va normalar bilan hal qilish tartibi va ushbu normalarni asosiy mazmuni yoritib berilgan.
title: Education Policy Formation in Africa: A Comparative Study of Five Countries. Technical Paper No. 12
Creators: name: Evans, David R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This publication contains a set of five case studies and two analytical overview chapters that lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of the process of educational policy formation in Africa. Reflecting developments until late 1992, the cases include Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, Mali, and Senegal. The articles describe and analyze current approaches to educational policy formation. Specifically, the case studies examine the policy-making process, the policy product, and the policy environment. Each of the cases contains a summary table of key policy events and a detailed bibliography of the major educational policy documents. Most cases provide a more detailed description of policy making in recent years, including an analysis of the role of major donors, the influences of political and economic events at the national level, and the extent that external factors have driven internal policy making. The contents are: (1) "Introduction and Overview" (David R. Evans); (2) "Case Summaries" (Jeanne Moulton); (3) "Education Policy Formation in Anglophone Africa: The Work of Education Commissions" (Ash Hartwell); (4) "Education Policy Formation in Botswana: The Transformation of Traditional Politics" (Jakes Swartland and Ash Hartwell); (5) "Education Policy in Tanzania: Self-Reliance and Dependence" (Joel Samoff); (6) "Education Policy Formation in Uganda: Continuity Amid Change" (David R. Evans and W. Senteza Kajubi); (7) "Education Policy Formation in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa" (Francois Orivel and Christopher Shaw); (8) "Education Policy Formation in Mali: As a Response to Political Crisis" (Mamadou Bagayoko and Jeff Hittenberger); and (9) "Education Policy Formation in Senegal: Evolutionary Not Revolutionary" (William M. Rideout, Jr. and Mamadou Bagayoko). References accompany each chapter.
Supplementary document for Encoding information in the mutual coherence of spatially separated light beams - 5984586.pdf
Creators: name: Nardi, Alfonso
name: Divitt, Shawn
name: Rossi, Massimiliano
name: Tebbenjohanns, Felix
name: Militaru, Andrei
name: Frimmer, Martin
name: Novotny, Lukas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Additional Information
O'G'RILIK JINOYATLARINING SODIR ETILISH SABABLARI VA ULARGA IMKON BERGAN SHART-SHAROITLAR VA UNING OLDINI OLISH BO'YICHA AYRIM MULOHAZALAR
Creators: name: Matnazarov, Hikmat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mamlakatimizda mulk huquqi daxlsizligi kafolatlanadi. Jumladan, Konstitutsiyamizga muvofiq, bozor munosabatlarini rivojlantirishga qaratilgan O‘zbekiston iqtisodiyotining negizini xilma-xil shakllardagi mulk tashkil etishi, barcha mulk shakllarining tengligi va davlat himoyasida ekanligi, unga nisbatan har qanday tajovuz qonun bilan ta'qib etilishi belgilangan
Supplementary document for Opto-Ultrasound Biosensor for Wearable and Mobile Devices: Realization with Transparent Ultrasound Transducer - 5984098.pdf
Creators: name: Park, Jeongwoo
name: Park, Byullee
name: Ahn, Joongho
name: Kim, Donggyu
name: Kim, Jin
name: Kim, Hyung Ham
name: Kim, Chulhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental document
Interactions, Iteration and Early Institutionalization : Competing Lessons of GLOBALGAP’s Legitimation
Creators: name: Casey, Donal
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Since its inception, GLOBALGAP has transformed from an informal grouping of retailers into a highly elaborate regulatory organisation. This chapter critically examines GLOBALGAP’s development. I argue that, through an iterative process of legitimation, actual and anticipated interactions with state, market and civil society actors led GLOBALGAP to develop structures, practices and processes that sought to enhance representation and participation of structurally weaker parties such as smallholders, whilst also addressing concerns relating to the exclusionary effect of its standards. I tease out how, as non-state regulatory organisations emerge and develop, they respond to actual and anticipated governance interactions in order to build, maintain and repair their legitimacy. Crucially however, early institutionalisation confers power upon particular actors, crystallises an organisation’s identify and lays the foundations for the achievement of its goals. Consequently, the enduring nature of early this institutionalisation can temper the potential for governance interactions to advance democracy, justice and fairness within non-state regulatory organisations.
Carney triad (ECR 2016 Case of the Day)
Creators: name: Alcala-Galiano, Andrea
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Lung
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 24 years
description: Clinical History: A 24-year-old woman was referred for CT evaluation of an epigastric mass detected at sonography performed for vague epigastric discomfort. She was otherwise asymptomatic. Laboratory studies were unremarkable. Final Diagnosis: Carney triad
Report: Grapes Household Simulation Model. Domestic Food and Packaging Waste Insights from UK Households
Creators: name: Martin Torrejon, Virginia
name: Rees, Deborah
name: Pickering, Jack
name: Devine, Rachel
name: Young, Stephen
name: Fisher, Lorraine
name: Guo, Rui
name: Greenwood, Sarah
name: Koh, Lenny
name: Fayad, Ramzi
name: Kandemir, Cansu
name: Quested, Tom
name: Reynolds, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 419999
subject: Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This report presents the findings from research using the Household Simulation Model (HHSM), focusing on the domestic waste produced from table grape consumption. The study employed a multidisciplinary approach, blending Discrete Event Simulation (DES) with empirical data on grape preservation under various temperatures and packaging conditions (open vs. sealed). In addition, the study is sourced from qualitative research on consumer behaviour. Key outcomes revealed that optimal storage conditions can significantly decrease grape waste. For instance, full utilisation of refrigeration decreased waste by 15.7%. The investigation further identified the impact of grape pack sizes on waste production, highlighting that smaller packs can reduce waste, whereas larger packs often result in excess due to over-purchasing. The report underscores the necessity for consumer education on proper storage methods, the adaptation of packaging size to align with consumption patterns and the design of sustainable packaging to reduce household waste. These insights are instrumental for stakeholders to design domestic waste reduction strategies.
Psychophysical evaluation of saliency algorithms
Creators: name: Calden Wloka
name: Yoo, Sang-Ah
name: Sengupta, Rakesh
name: Kunic, Toni
name: Tsotsos, John
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: A great deal of effort has been spent evaluating the performance of saliency algorithms at predicting human fixations in natural images. However, many other aspects of human visual attention have received relatively little focus in the saliency literature but have been richly characterized by psychophysical investigations. Bruce et al. have recommended the development of an axiomatic set of model constraints grounded in this body of psychophysical knowledge. We aim to provide a step towards this goal by linking human visual search response time to saliency algorithm output. Duncan and Humphreys theorized that subject response time in visual search tasks is correlated with similarity between search items (with search time increasing both as targets become more similar to distractors and the heterogeneity of distractors increases). This result fits well with the widely held notion in the saliency model literature that saliency is largely driven by stimulus uniqueness, but has not been explicitly tested against the performance of saliency algorithms. To do so systematically, we need a well-characterized human performance curve for a given set of visual search stimuli.

Wolfe provides a list of features which can, given sufficient target-distractor differences, elicit efficient search for singleton targets. These features therefore provide a strong candidate set upon which to test saliency algorithm performance. Arun produced a well-characterized performance curve for the first such feature, orientation, by testing humans over a broad range of target-distractor orientation differences ranging from 7 − 60°. Here we replicate Arun’s experiment, showing that saliency algorithm performance falls into three broad categories: those which cannot consistently find the target, those which consistently find the target but have no differentiated performance with target-distractor difference, and those which are able to fit a human performance-like curve. We can use these results to guide future saliency model development.
Transnational Social Justice and the Forest Stewardship Council’s Endorsement of Free, Prior and Informed Consent
Creators: name: Oman, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This chapter analyzes the adoption, development and promotion of the emerging customary international legal norm of indigenous peoples’ free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). This case reveals how transnational business governance interactions can offer an avenue to develop, import and apply elements of the powerful international discourse of human rights inside states, with the potential of strengthening domestic standards and advancing marginalized actors. It also offers insight into the influential role that can be played in these interactions by a class of non‐state actor often neglected in accounts of transnational governance: the transnational indigenous peoples’ movement. Indigenous representatives and their allies leveraged FSC’s inclusive governance structures, the moral force of international human rights law, and interactions between FSC International and FSC Canada to strengthen the FPIC norm in FSC standards. This has led to the FSC’s advocacy of a strengthened and enriched version of FPIC that compares favorably with the most robust readings of FPIC by international organizations and states, situates FSC Canada at the leading edge of indigenous rights norm development in transnational governance, and opens an avenue toward a de facto requirement for ongoing indigenous consent to forestry operations in Canada. [Note: Title revised to "Transnational Social Justice and the Forest Stewardship Council’s Endorsement of Free, Prior and Informed Consent" on 2019-10-23]
Blocking substance P-signalling inhibits the IL-6 transcription induced by a single dwell in a rat model of PD
Creators: name: Braide, Magnus
name: Nilsson, Daniel
name: Cavallini, Nicola
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We studied the transcription and release into the dialysate of specific cytokines and the effects of substance P receptor (NK1) blockade during a single peritoneal dialysis (PD) dwell. Blocking NK1 reduced the transcription and release of IL-6 in this rat model of PD.
Issue Control in Transnational Business Governance Interactions
Creators: name: Henriksen, Lasse Folke
name: Seabrooke, Leonard
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This chapter argues that two-level networks of issue professionals and organizations create the obstacles to better regulation and advancement of marginalized interests revealed by other chapters in the book. It identifies four such obstacles: gaps between policy design and implementation; competing interests within standard-setting bodies; power asymmetries in standards adoption; and professionals’ desire for autonomy and issue control. It argues that these obstacles are outcomes of strategic behaviour by issue professionals who network to ensure they control governance of important issues. The chapter analyzes these interactions as a two-level network, comprised of inter-personal and inter-organizational networks. This analysis helps explain how regulatory capacities are developed and distributed, and why efforts to harness transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) often falter.
The development and use of population reference ranges as a tool to interpret antipsychotic plasma concentrations
Creators: name: Vermeulen, An
name: Remmerie, Bart
name: Green, Bruce
name: Korell, Julia
name: Savitz, Adam
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Medication adherence of psychiatric patients is a challenge and remains an important factor for treatment success. There is a need to design an approach that can indicate either adherence or potential lack of it based on antipsychotic drug levels.

The objective of this study was to develop an integrated population pharmacokinetic (PK) model for risperidone and its active metabolite paliperidone that describes the PK of both in a representative patient population taking risperidone; and to provide an easy-to-use graphical tool to help interpret results from individual plasma concentration measurements, in combination with a full clinical assessment of the patient.
title: Essays in development economics, environmental economics and international trade
Creators: name: Kuroishi, Yusuke
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: This thesis consists of three chapters on international trade and environmental economics in developing countries. The first chapter examines trademarks in developing countries. I introduce a trademark as a technology to mitigate information frictions in a general equilibrium setting with firm heterogeneity. In my model, highly productive firms are more likely to use a trademark, since the revenue increase outweighs the trademark cost only for these firms. I test my theoretical predictions using Chinese exports to Africa in the tire industry. By exploiting a staggered ratification of the international trademark agreement in Africa, I find evidence of reallocation away from less productive firms. I also show that trademarks are welfare-enhancing technology in Africa. The second chapter investigates the effects of corporate environmental responsibility in global supply chains on environmental pollution by exploiting a change in an environmental tax policy in China. First, I find that Chinese firms that participate in global supply chains respond to the tax change by reducing the amount and intensity of water pollution with an increase in revenues. Second, the response to the tax is concentrated among tier 2 suppliers. Finally, the result shows that the new tax policy has a larger effect on Chinese suppliers linked to global buyers that have higher corporate environmental responsibility. These results are consistent with the notion that corporate environmental responsibility is associated with higher environmental standards, both through selection and treatment effects and potentially playing a significant role in complementing host countries' policies aimed at curbing pollution. The third chapter studies how infrastructural instability affects export practices of sellers in developing countries. By leveraging order-level export data and exploiting seasonal power outages in Myanmar, I find that exporters decrease their exports in seasons of frequent power outages. I also show that the effect is heterogeneous across orders for buyers adopting different sourcing strategies. The results suggest that infrastructural instability in developing countries is of crucial concern for linking domestic firms with foreign buyers.
MIKROQARZLAR TIZIMINI RIVOJLANTIRISH XALQARO TAJRIBALAR TAHLILI
Creators: name: Ravshanova, Sevara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada mikroqarzlar tizimining xalqaro amaliyotdagi o‘rni, turli davlatlar (Tanzaniya, Hindiston, Keniya, Marokash, Indoneziya, Vetnam, Boliviya, Braziliya) tajribalari hamda O‘zbekiston sharoitida joriy etilishi mumkin bo‘lgan yo‘nalishlar tahlil qilinadi. Xususan, moliyaviy savodxonlikni oshirish, mobil texnologiyalarni qo‘llash, islomiy moliya prinsiplari, ayollar jamg‘arma-guruhlarini rivojlantirish va agrar sohaga yo‘naltirilgan mikroqarz siyosati kabi dolzarb masalalar ko‘rib chiqiladi. Shuningdek, mikroqarzlar ijtimoiy dasturlar bilan integratsiyalash orqali kambag‘allikni kamaytirish, iqtisodiy faollikni kuchaytirish va moliyaviy inklyuziyani ta’minlashdagi afzalliklari hamda bu jarayonlardagi xavf-xatarlar yoritiladi.
Dharna Politics in Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis of PTI (2014) and JUI-F (2019) Dharnas
Creators: name: Asadullah Mahesar
Publisher: name: Language in India
Year: 2023

description: The protests and demonstrations are the basic platforms to talk about the fundamental rights in a democratic society. It is the only way through which people can accomplish their legitimate rights. Pakistan has experienced small or large protests and demonstrations in both civilian and military regimes since its inception. The recent political dharnas (sit-ins) of 2014 and 2019 are observed by the PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) and PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) governments respectively. Both dharnas were launched on the same grounds of accusation of rigging in the elections. This study will focus on the causes and features of PTI (2014) and JUI-F (Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal) (2019) dharnas in Islamabad. How these political exigencies affect the political stability in Pakistan as well as their repercussions on democracy. Moreover, the military establishment has played a key role in the political history of Pakistan. Thus, this paper will try to find out the response of the military establishment towards these political unrests.
Supplementary document for Opto-thermal dynamics of thin-film optical limiters based on the VO₂ phase transition - 5984860.pdf
Creators: name: Tognazzi, Andrea
name: gandolfi, marco
name: Li, Bohan
name: Ambrosio, Gina
name: Franceschini, Paolo
name: Camacho-Morales, Rocio
name: Cino, Alfonso
name: Baratto, Camilla
name: de Ceglia, Domenico
name: Neshev, Dragomir
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Electric field enhancement (Fig. S1)
The number of arterial territories with atheroma plaque predicts the time free from cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease. Analysis of the nefrona study after 36 months of follow-up
Creators: name: Valdivielso, Jose
name: Martínez-Alonso, Montserrat
name: Angels Betriu
name: Gracia, Marta
name: Arroyo, David
name: Abajo, María
name: Salgueira, Mercedes
name: Gorriz, José Luis
name: Fernández, Elvira
name: NEFRONA Investigators
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The NEFRONA study enrolled 2445 patients in different stages of CKD during the years 2009-2011 to assess the value of ultrasound detection of subclinical atherosclerosis in the prediction of cardiovascular risk. This study shows the data of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events (CVE) with a minimum follow-up time of three years, and the COX regression analysis of factors predicting them.

There have been 67 fatal and 152 nonfatal CVE. In addition there have been 113 deaths from other causes. The number of missing patients is 648 (593 renal transplants, 1 no renal transplant and 67 changes of center). The cumulative incidence of CVE is of 8.96% with a median of follow-up of 42.09 months (stage 3: 6.95% (48 months), stage 4-5: 9.29% (42.8 months) and dialysis: 11.34% (23.1 months)). Kaplan Meier curves of survival free from CVE show that it decreases gradually and progressively with increases in the number of territories with plaque. The COX regression analysis shows that the factors significantly predicting event-free survival time are the number of territories with plaque, being on dialysis, smoking, diabetes, high levels of phosphorus and low albumin and 25OH vitamin D as well as having 1,25 (OH) 2 vitamin D below 14 pg/dl.

Conclusions: The severity of arterial atheromatosis estimated by ultrasound predicts the time free from CVE in CKD. Arterial ultrasound is a useful tool to predict cardiovascular risk in CKD patients.
Transnational Governance of Innovation in Payment Services : A Case Study of the Single European Payment Area
Creators: name: Winn, Jane K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This chapter examines the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) as a case study of the role transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) might play at the frontier of innovation in financial services. In 1999, when the EU asked European banks to eliminate barriers to cross-border electronic fund transfers in euros in time for the official launch of the euro in 2001, neither regulators nor banks could have imagined that SEPA would not be completed until 2016. While EU regulators blamed the delay on industry recalcitrance, this chapter explains it as a failure to mobilize TBGIs. EU regulators failed to recognize the public good characteristics of proprietary payment systems, while regulators and banks alike systematically underestimated the difficulty and cost of modernizing banks’ legacy computer systems and re-engineering their business processes. As a result, the emergence of a productive co-regulatory relationship in which the EU would catalyze market-driven technical and regulatory innovation was frustrated. The EU became increasingly heavy-handed, rejecting the banks’ cost-recovery proposals, countermanding industry consensus and ultimately stripping the self-regulatory European Payments Council (EPC) of policy-making authority. Without a cost recovery mechanism to incentivize participation, the EPC made glacial progress and could not convince many banks to join SEPA even after it was in place. The chapter suggests that constructive TBGIs can be achieved by treating proprietary market infrastructures as partial public goods and establishing consensus-based co-regulatory processes, but warns that future EU-bank interactions may suffer from the same downward spiral of frustration due to regulators’ unwillingness or inability to factor commercial realities into their policy calculus.
Cultural Sites Distribution based on Heritages Status as a Tourism Destination in Indonesia and Japan
Creators: name: Ajar, Seno Budhi
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2024

description: Japan and Indonesia have culture as a tourism sector because both countries have old cultural civilizations. Japanese and Indonesian culture has existed since before the common era. It makes Japan and Indonesia have a lot of cultural heritage especially architecture because not only trade but also the spread of religion on the maritime silk route. The research of cultural heritage in the realm of geography is always related to the spatial distribution of heritage, but they have specific indicators that are different from others. The research purposes are to identify the distribution structure of heritage sites at the inter-city level (province or prefecture) and compare between 2 inter-city regions in Indonesia and Japan and their relation to the tourism destination. The objects of this research are heritage and Historic objects in Yogyakarta Province and Nara Prefecture. Research Methodology used Analytical Methods. The results of this study indicate that status granting in Indonesia based on the determination of the world heritage level, national, Province, and regency makes Indonesia evenly distributed compared to the granting of Nara status based on designation, selection and registration because the designation process in Indonesia can be done at the local level so that local governments try to conduct an inventory of cultural heritage sites. In contrast, the granting of heritage site status in Japan is concentrated on the central government which makes the distribution more concentrated in one region.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 45 (2024)
SNF472 pharmocokinetics-pharmacodynamics in a vitamin D-induced calcification rat model
Creators: name: Perelló, Joan
name: Pérez, Maria Del M.
name: Lazo, Marta
name: Bañón, Elisenda
name: Campistol, Josep M.
name: Salcedo, Carolina
name: Ferrer, Miguel D.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: SNF472, an intravenous (i.v.) formulation of phytate, exhibits beneficial properties in calcium related diseases by binding and blocking the growing sites of the hydroxyapatite (HAP) crystal. This formulation is currently being developed as a treatment for cardiovascular calcification (CVC) in hemodialysis patients. In this study we evaluated the efficacy and the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) relationship of the i.v. infusion of SNF472 in a vitamin D rat model.

Conclusion: SNF472 i.v. infusion dose-dependently inhibits CVC induced by vitamin D in rats reaching a maximum of 80% inhibition with doses of 10 mg/kg or higher. A PK/PD relationship is observed as the presence of SNF472 in plasma in the micromolar range decreases plasma crystallization potential and correlates with CVC inhibition. Thus, the presented results show that PK/PD measurements predict CVC inhibition and the PD assay is suggested as a valuable tool to evaluate the effect of CVC inhibitors in clinical trials with hemodialysis patients.