cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Safety verification of model based reinforcement learning controllers using reachability analysis
Creators: name: Gupta, Akshita
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
Automation engineering
Control engineering

description: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a data-driven technique which is finding increasing application in the development of controllers for sequential decision making problems. Their wide adoption can be attributed to the fact that the development of these controllers is independent of theknowledge of the system and thus can be used even when the environment dynamics are unknown. Model-Based RL controllers explicitly model the system dynamics from the observed (training) data using a function approximator, followed by using a path planning algorithm to obtain the optimal control sequence. While these controllers have been proven to be successful in simulations, lack of strong safety guarantees in the presence of noise makes them ill-posed for deployment on hardware, specially in safety critical systems. The proposed work aims at bridging this gap by providing a verification framework to evaluate the safety guarantees for a Model-Based RL controller. Our method builds upon reachability analysis to determine if there is any action which can drive the system into a constrained (unsafe) region. Consequently, our method can provide a binary yes or no answer to whether all the initial set of states are (un)safe to propagate trajectories from in the presence of some bounded noise.
Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies
Creators: name: Fan, Yangliu
name: Ohme, Jakob
name: Neuberger, Christoph
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Recent years have seen a growing diversity in journalism studies, primarily ascribed to digital transformation in the contemporary context. Analyzing 6,770 publications from the five major journalism journals—Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism—between 1995 and 2022, we find new evidence that the digital turn is highly visible in journalism studies. Using document co-citation analysis, we first have identified distinct and coherent, yet loosely integrated, research clusters that focus on different journalistic topics, i.e., specialties. Second, we find that digital journalism has not only been integrated into the research agendas within the field but has also formed stand-alone and distinct research clusters. We further show that field structure has developed over the years in response to digital transformation. Yet, digital and computational methods remain in the stark minority compared with the more traditional methods. Our results suggest that journalism studies could benefit from novel inter-cluster communications and methodological innovations.
sj-docx-2-aut-10.1177_13623613211034375 – Supplemental material for Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies
Creators: name: John, Simon
name: Jaeggi, Adrian V
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-aut-10.1177_13623613211034375 for Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies by Simon John and Adrian V Jaeggi in Autism
Introduzione alla Fisica Ambientale
Creators: name: Vitali, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2017
Subjects: AGR/02 Agronomia e coltivazioni erbacee
FIS/07 Fisica applicata (a beni culturali, ambientali, biologia e medicina)

description: L'introduzione alla Fisica Ambientale è scritta per studenti dei primi anni di università,  scritto allo scopo di dare una linea di studio dei concetti chiave e cercando di stimolare approfondimenti.
Si affrontano a livello elementare i concetti di base della fisica dell'atmosfera, meteorologia e climatologia, idrologia e fisica del suolo, privilegiando la descrizione dei processi che caratterizzano gli ambienti terrestri.
Il testo inizia col descrivere gli aspetti strutturali dell'ambiente, diviso nei suoi elementi classici sole, aria, acqua e terra; nella seconda parte si affrontano gli aspetti dinamici e quindi i flussi all'interno e tra i vari comparti, assieme al fenomeno del trasporto; nella terza parte sono invece introdotti i concetti di base relativi alle principali trasformazioni fisiche e chimiche associate alle interazioni tra energia e materia; infine nella quarta parte si affrontano i processi associati agli organismi viventi, per concludere con una introduzione alla climatologia.
Studiare, documentarsi, incontrarsi: indagine sull'utenza delle Biblioteche universitarie dei Campus della Romagna (2016)
Creators: name: Semenzato, Chiara
name: Politi, Angela Maria
name: Collina, Elena
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2017
Subjects: M-STO/08 Archivistica, bibliografia e biblioteconomia

description: I risultati dell'edizione del 2016 della rilevazione triennale della soddisfazione degli utilizzatori delle Biblioteche dei Campus della Romagna.
Additional file 1 of Enhancing feedback by health coaching: the effectiveness of mixed methods approach to long-term physical activity changes in nurses. An intervention study
Creators: name: Nerek, Agnieszka
name: Wesołowska-Górniak, Katarzyna
name: Czarkowska-Pączek, Bożena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Supplemental Material, sj-doc-2-gsj-10.1177_21925682211031190 - Direct Cost of Illness for Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Malekzadeh, Hamid
name: Golpayegani, Mahdi
name: Ghodsi, Zahra
name: Sadeghi-Naini, Mohsen
name: Asgardoon, Mohammadhossein
name: Baigi, Vali
name: Vaccaro, Alexander R.
name: Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material, sj-doc-2-gsj-10.1177_21925682211031190 for Direct Cost of Illness for Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review by Hamid Malekzadeh, Mahdi Golpayegani, Zahra Ghodsi, Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini, Mohammadhossein Asgardoon, Vali Baigi, Alexander R. Vaccaro and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar in Global Spine Journal
An Ecosystem of Collective Futures: How Journalists and Experts Co-Construct Projections in Hybrid Media Environments
Creators: name: Amit-Danhi, Eedan R.
name: Aharoni, Tali
name: Overbeck, Maximilian
name: Baden, Christian
name: Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Journalists and experts play a pivotal role in communicating risks and helping the public navigate uncertain futures. This study examines the co-construction of projections by journalists and experts across news and social media during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike traditional news production, where journalists exercise agency by transforming expert knowledge into news narratives, hybrid media environments involve multi-platform, multi-directional, and non-linear processes of knowledge production. In light of these characteristics, we introduce and develop the concept of “predictive agency,” referring to an actor’s active participation in predictive knowledge-making and encompassing journalistic, civic, and epistemic forms of agency in shaping and navigating future-oriented knowledge. We analyse the trajectories of 400 projections in Israel and the US, tracing the interactional and informational dynamics between journalists and experts. Through qualitative textual analysis of the various iterations of each projection, four types of co-constructed projection systems emerge: Amplify, Distill, Elaborate, and Contest. We explore the complexities of predictive agency and accountability in these systems, shedding light on how collective futures are contested and co-constructed in hybrid media environments.
THE ILLUSIONS OF PHALLIC AGENCY Invisible Man, Totem and Taboo, and the Santa Claus Surprise
Creators: name: Steward, Doug
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2003

description: For the narrator of Invisible Man, the abjection of women and homosexuals operates at first as a discursive strategy for making the black male’s position more subjectively endurable, but the narrator must eventually confront this discursive strategy as an illusion of hetero-phallic agency, since he continually fails to acquire the sorts of instrumentalities of power associated with directly political speech. In the end, he recognizes possession of the phallus as a myth on the order of Santa Claus and opts for a more obviously representational, but less obviously political, discourse: his narrative. If we are to take the novel itself as the evidence of the invisible man’s agency, though, then this agency is entirely representational: it acts in and on the world only as a shifty fiction, a tricky Word.
Time series segmentation for recognition of epileptiform patterns recorded via Microelectrode Arrays in vitro
Creators: name: Galeote Checa, Gabriel
name: Panuccio, Gabriella
name: Linares-Barranco, Bernabe
name: Serrano Gotarredona, María Teresa
name: Canal-Alonso, Ángel
Publisher: name: Plos One
Year: 2024
Subjects: neuroscience
algorithms
semantic segmentation

description: This repository contains the data for all recording sessions, for both test and validation.

The following information is added:

File with the results from the training experiments.

File with the results from the validation experiments.

dataset containing the LFP recording and the annotations for the interictal and ictal events.
"Pericles’ "rough and woeful music”'
Creators: name: Lopez, Alan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher
subject: British literature
subject: Literature and medicine
subject: Literature--Philosophy
subject: Romance-language literature

description: In this essay, I argue for the benefits of Suzanne Gossett’s reading of Pericles over the Oxford’s 1986 reconstructed Pericles, looking specifically at Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2. Gossett argues that Cerimon’s “rough and woeful music” is not a scribal error in the quarto, a doubling of Cerimon’s “rough” in 3.2.78-79, but perhaps intentional on Shakespeare’s part. If we side with Oxford’s emendations of these scenes, Cerimon’s call for “rough and woeful music” becomes a call for “still and woeful music”; his admonishment, that Pericles was “too rough” when he “threw her in the sea” becomes the insistence that he was “too rash” when he “threw her in the sea.” In accepting Oxford’s emendation, we lose the repetition in Cerimon’s earlier admonishment. More importantly, we miss the fact that Thaisa’s recovery by Cerimon turns as much on Pericles’ rough handling as the rough notes he places on her coffined body.
Effects of Problematic Smartphone Use, Smartphone Interference in Parenting, and Parental Attachment to Their Young Child
Creators: name: Johnson, Chanelle M
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Family and household studies

description: Smartphones have become more and more integrated into not only society, but also parents' lives, causing interruptions and dysfunction amongst families. This study aimed to understand the relationship between problematic smartphone use, smartphone interference in parenting, and parental attachment to child among a sample of 132 parents (n = 132) between the ages of 18 and 29 years. It was hypothesized that smartphone interference in various areas of parenting would mediate the relationship between problematic smartphone use and parents' perceived attachment to child. The results of this study found that problematic smartphone use was positively and significantly associated with smartphone interference in parenting and negatively significantly associated with parental attachment to child. However, smartphone interference and parental attachment to child did not have a significant relationship and did not mediate the relationship between problematic smartphone use and parental attachment to child. Control variables of parents' perceived stress, income, and anxiety were significantly correlated with parental attachment to child. Clinical implications, limitations, and future directions for research are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Biodistribution and dosimetry of 177Lu-DOTA-IBA for therapy of bone metastases
Creators: name: Li, Hongmei
name: Pei, Wenjie
name: Yang, Xiqun
name: Qu, Gengcuo
name: Hua, Qingchu
name: Liu, Lin
name: Wang, Yudi
name: Xu, Tingting
name: Chen, Yue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental material.
Supplemental Material, sj-doc-1-gsj-10.1177_21925682211031190 - Direct Cost of Illness for Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Malekzadeh, Hamid
name: Golpayegani, Mahdi
name: Ghodsi, Zahra
name: Sadeghi-Naini, Mohsen
name: Asgardoon, Mohammadhossein
name: Baigi, Vali
name: Vaccaro, Alexander R.
name: Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental Material, sj-doc-1-gsj-10.1177_21925682211031190 for Direct Cost of Illness for Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review by Hamid Malekzadeh, Mahdi Golpayegani, Zahra Ghodsi, Mohsen Sadeghi-Naini, Mohammadhossein Asgardoon, Vali Baigi, Alexander R. Vaccaro and Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar in Global Spine Journal
Online supplementary file 1 - Supplemental material for Electrodessication Matricectomy With Modified Hyfrecator Tip: Case Series and Literature Review
Creators: name: Chan, Janet
name: Pehr, Kevin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, Online supplementary file 1, for Electrodessication Matricectomy With Modified Hyfrecator Tip: Case Series and Literature Review by Janet Chan and Kevin Pehr in Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
sj-pdf-1-pil-10.1177_14644207211034527 - Supplemental material for Estimation of mechanical properties of friction stir processed Al 6061/Al2O3-Tib2 hybrid metal matrix composite layer via artificial neural network and response surface methodology
Creators: name: Khojastehnezhad, Vahid M
name: Pourasl, Hamed H
name: Bahrami, Arian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pil-10.1177_14644207211034527 for Estimation of mechanical properties of friction stir processed Al 6061/Al2O3-Tib2 hybrid metal matrix composite layer via artificial neural network and response surface methodology by Vahid M Khojastehnezhad, Hamed H Pourasl and Arian Bahrami in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
Genome sequence of OXA-23 producing Acinetobacter baumannii IHIT7853, a carbapenem-resistant strain from a cat belonging to international clone IC1
Creators: name: Ewers, Christa
name: Klotz, Peter
name: Scheufen, Sandra
name: Leidner, Ursula
name: Göttig, Stephan
name: Semmler, Torsten
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Animal
subject: OXA-23
subject: Acinetobacter
subject: Carbapenemase
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Multidrug resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii has dramatically increased in recent years worldwide. Thus, last-line antibiotics like carbapenems are increasingly being used which in turn further augments selection pressure for resistant strains. Resistance to carbapenems in A. baumannii is frequently mediated by carbapenemases, particularly OXA-23 and OXA-58. Carbapenemase-producing bacteria are mainly described in human patients and the intestinal tract represents a common source for such pathogens. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the genome of A. baumannii IHIT7853, a carbapenem-resistant, OXA-23 producing strain isolated from cystitis in a cat in 2000 in Germany. Results: Phylogenetic analysis revealed that IHIT7853 belonged to the globally distributed international clone IC1 and MLST type ST1/ST231 (Pasteur/Oxford MLST scheme). A phylogenetic tree based on the maximum common genome of 18 A. baumannii isolates placed IHIT7853 close to human clinical isolates, such as the multidrug-resistant (MDR) outbreak strain AYE that was isolated from a patient with pneumonia and cystitis in 2001 in France. The OXA-23 plasmid sequence could be determined as 53,995 bp in size, possessing resistance genes strA and strB in addition to bla OXA-23. Conclusions: The analysis of the genome of IHIT7853 reveals that companion animals carry MDR A. baumannii that resemble relevant clonal lineages involved in severe infections in humans. As urinary tract infections are often caused by bacteria that reside in the intestinal tract, future studies should unveil, if the animal gut serves as a source for MDR A. baumannii.
Additional file 1 of Improving somatic exome sequencing performance by biological replicates
Creators: name: Cebeci, Yunus Emre
name: Erturk, Rumeysa Aslihan
name: Ergun, Mehmet Arif
name: Baysan, Mehmet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Contains detailed performance scores of all pipelines, approaches, and machine learning methods used in the study in Fig. S1 and Tables S1–S7. It also contains Venn diagrams of the somatic variants detected by the pipelines (Fig. S2) and the results of the pairwise analyses (Figs. S3 & S4).
“When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey
Creators: name: Swamidoss, Hannah
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: American literature
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Literature

description: This article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
Supplementary Table 2
Creators: name: Siewert, Jacob
name: Pellin, MacKenzie A
name: Husbands, Brian D
name: Curran, Kaitlin M
name: Scavelli, Diane
name: Sampene, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Treated patients with known immunophenotype
sj-pdf-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211033573 – Supplemental material for What Promotes Post-Earthquake Economic Recovery: The Role of Counterpart Assistance Policy After the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 Earthquake, China
Creators: name: Peng, Li
name: Li, Qianyu
name: Deng, Wei
name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: Education
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440211033573 for What Promotes Post-Earthquake Economic Recovery: The Role of Counterpart Assistance Policy After the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 Earthquake, China by Li Peng, Qianyu Li, Wei Deng and Ying Liu in SAGE Open
sj-pdf-1-ijd-10.1177_10567895211033974 - Supplemental material for A novel synergistic multi-scale modeling framework to predict micro- and meso-scale damage behaviors of 2D triaxially braided composite
Creators: name: Jiang, Hongyong
name: Ren, Yiru
name: Jin, Qiduo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ijd-10.1177_10567895211033974 for A novel synergistic multi-scale modeling framework to predict micro- and meso-scale damage behaviors of 2D triaxially braided composite by Hongyong Jiang, Yiru Ren and Qiduo Jin in International Journal of Damage Mechanics
sj-pdf-1-jsm-10.1177_10996362211035421 - Supplemental material for Effect of temperature on the low-velocity impact response of environmentally friendly cork sandwich structures
Creators: name: Sergi, Claudia
name: Sarasini, Fabrizio
name: Russo, Pietro
name: Vitiello, Libera
name: Barbero, Enrique
name: Sanchez-Saez, Sonia
name: Tirillò, Jacopo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jsm-10.1177_10996362211035421 for Effect of temperature on the low-velocity impact response of environmentally friendly cork sandwich structures by Claudia Sergi, Fabrizio Sarasini, Pietro Russo, Libera Vitiello, Enrique Barbero, Sonia Sanchez-Saez and Jacopo Tirillò in Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials
sj-docx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585211030647 – Supplemental material for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Uhr, Lauren
name: Mateen, Farrah J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-msj-10.1177_13524585211030647 for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional survey by Lauren Uhr and Farrah J Mateen in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
In vivo evidence for ribavirin-induced mutagenesis of the hepatitis E virus genome
Creators: name: Todt, Daniel
name: Gisa, Anett
name: Radonic, Aleksandar
name: Nitsche, Andreas
name: Behrendt, Patrick
name: Suneetha, Pothakamuri Venkata
name: Pischke, Sven
name: Bremer, Birgit
name: Brown, Richard J. P.
name: Manns, Michael P.
name: Cornberg, Markus
name: Bock, Thomas
name: Steinmann, Eike
name: Wedemeyer, Heiner
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Biologische Sicherheit
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: ANTIVIRAL THERAPY
subject: CHRONIC HEPATITIS
subject: HEPATITIS E
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objective: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection can take chronic courses in immunocompromised patients potentially leading to liver cirrhosis and liver failure. Ribavirin (RBV) is currently the only treatment option for many patients, but treatment failure can occur which has been associated with the appearance of a distinct HEV polymerase mutant (G1634R). Here, we performed a detailed analysis of HEV viral intrahost evolution during chronic hepatitis E infections. Design: Illumina deep sequencing was performed for the detection of intrahost variation in the HEV genome of chronically infected patients. Novel polymerase mutants were investigated in vitro using state-of-the-art HEV cell culture models. Results: Together, these data revealed that (1) viral diversity differed markedly between patients but did not show major intraindividual short-term variations in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis E, (2) RBV therapy was associated with an increase in viral heterogeneity which was reversible when treatment was stopped, (3) the G1634R mutant was detectable as a minor population prior to therapy in patients who subsequently failed to achieve a sustained virological response to RBV therapy and (4) in addition to G1634R further dominant variants in the polymerase region emerged, impacting HEV replication efficiency in vitro. Conclusions: In summary, this first investigation of intrahost HEV population evolution indicates that RBV causes HEV mutagenesis in treated patients and that an emergence of distinct mutants within the viral population occurs during RBV therapy. We also suggest that next-generation sequencing could be useful to guide personalised antiviral strategies.
Additional file 1 of Transurethral surgical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia with detrusor underactivity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zou, Peilin
name: Liu, Chang
name: Zhang, Yucong
name: Wei, Chao
name: Liu, Xiaming
name: Xu, Shengfei
name: Ling, Qing
name: Chen, Zhong
name: Du, Guanghui
name: Yuan, Xiaoyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Quality assessment of Cohort studies by Newcastle–Ottawa Scale. Supplementary Table 2. Exclusion criteria and definition of DU of the eligible studies.
Regionale Unterschiede in der Prävalenz kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen
Creators: name: Dornquast, Christina
name: Kroll, Lars E.
name: Neuhauser, Hannelore
name: Willich, Stefan N.
name: Reinhold, Thomas
name: Busch, Markus
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hintergrund: Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen stehen unverändert an der Spitze der Todesursachenstatistik und verursachen den größten Anteil aller Behandlungskosten in Deutschland. Die Kenntnis regionaler Unterschiede in der Häufigkeit kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen ist für die Planung zielgerichteter Versorgungsstrukturen und Präventionsmaßnahmen wichtig. Methode: Anhand gepoolter Daten des bundesweiten telefonischen Gesundheitssurveys Gesundheit in Deutschland aktuell (GEDA) 2009, 2010 und 2012 (n = 62 214) wurde die Lebenszeitprävalenz einer bedeutsamen kardiovaskulären Erkrankung (selbst berichtete ärztliche Diagnose von Herzinfarkt, anderer koronarer Herzkrankheit, Schlaganfall oder Herzinsuffizienz) auf Ebene der Bundesländer geschätzt. Der Einfluss soziodemografischer Merkmale auf bundeslandbezogene Prävalenzunterschiede wurde in adjustierten logistischen Regressionsanalysen untersucht. Die Prävalenzen wurden den Mortalitätsraten durch kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen aus der Todesursachenstatistik gegenübergestellt. Ergebnisse: Die Lebenszeitprävalenz kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen in Deutschland variierte zwischen 10,0 % in Baden-Württemberg und 15,8 % in Sachsen-Anhalt. Nach Adjustierung für Alter, Geschlecht, Sozialstatus und Gemeindegröße wiesen neun der 15 übrigen Bundesländer mit Odds Ratios zwischen 1,26 (Hessen) und 1,55 (Sachsen-Anhalt) weiterhin signifikant höhere Prävalenzen als Baden-Württemberg auf. Überdurchschnittlich hohe Werte von Prävalenz und Mortalität lagen in vier der fünf neuen Bundesländer vor. Schlussfolgerung: Es existieren relevante Bundeslandunterschiede in der Lebenszeitprävalenz bedeutsamer kardiovaskulärer Erkrankungen in Deutschland. Diese können nur teilweise durch Variationen in Alter, Geschlecht, Sozialstatus und Gemeindegröße erklärt werden.
THE INFLUENCE OF CONFORMITY TO MASCULINE NORMS ON RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION: AN EXAMINATION OF RUMINATION, EMOTIONAL INHIBITION, AND GENDER DIFFERENCES
Creators: name: Brown, Micah E
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gender, sexuality and education

description: Previous research has connected masculine gender norms to having adverse effects on health and relationships. The present study examined conformity to masculine norms and relationship satisfaction with emotional inhibition/rumination as a mediator. Data were collected from adults who identified as men or women with a current, opposite sex partner via Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk). Male participants reported their own experiences. Female participants reported on their experience of their male partners’ masculine norms and emotional inhibition/rumination, then reported their own relationship satisfaction. It was hypothesized that masculine norms would be a negative predictor of relationship satisfaction and that emotional inhibition/rumination would mediate this relationship. The results indicated that higher degrees of masculine norms significantly predicted lower relationship satisfaction among the male and female participants. Masculine norms also predicted higher levels of emotional inhibition/rumination in both groups. No mediation effect was observed with emotional inhibition/rumination. Clinical implications and potential directions for future research are discussed. Previous research has connected masculine gender norms to having adverse effects on health and relationships. The present study examined conformity to masculine norms and relationship satisfaction with emotional inhibition/rumination as a mediator. Data were collected from adults who identified as men or women with a current, opposite sex partner via Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk). Male participants reported their own experiences. Female participants reported on their experience of their male partners’ masculine norms and emotional inhibition/rumination, then reported their own relationship satisfaction. It was hypothesized that masculine norms would be a negative predictor of relationship satisfaction and that emotional inhibition/rumination would mediate this relationship. The results indicated that higher degrees of masculine norms significantly predicted lower relationship satisfaction among the male and female participants. Masculine norms also predicted higher levels of emotional inhibition/rumination in both groups. No mediation effect was observed with emotional inhibition/rumination. Clinical implications and potential directions for future research are discussed.
Nudging News Readers: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding When and How Interface Nudges Affect News Selection
Creators: name: Mattis, Nicolas
name: Kormelink, Tim Groot
name: Masur, Philipp K.
name: Moeller, Judith
name: van Atteveldt, Wouter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Building on research on nudging as well as democratic news recommender design, this preregistered study employed a mixed-methods design to explore how interface nudges and article positioning affect news selection. Specifically, we tested whether a position nudge as well as three different types of interface nudges (e.g., popularity cues and social norm interventions) can facilitate readers’ engagement with current affairs news over other genres. To better understand how users processed and perceived the nudges, we further substantiated the experimental results with qualitative insights from a think-aloud protocol and semi-structured interviews. Our experimental results revealed strong effects of the position nudge, but no significant effects of interface nudges. Exploratory analyses indicated that interface nudges must be noticed to affect news selection, while our qualitative insights point to considerable individual-level differences in how nudges are perceived and evaluated. Thus, our study suggests that effective nudging requires carefully pre-tested design and a nuanced understanding of individual preferences.
PROTOTYPING A LOW-COST VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) ROBOTIC SURGICAL TRAINER
Creators: name: Ajith, Abhinav
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400308
subject: Medical devices
classificationCode: 460708
subject: Virtual and mixed reality
classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision

description: Robotic surgery has transformed the landscape of minimally invasive procedures, offering unmatched precision and quicker patient recovery times. Despite all these advancements, training surgeons to use these sophisticated surgical systems effectively remains a daunting challenge, primarily due to high costs, limited accessibility, increased learning curve, and inconsistent training quality. Existing training modalities are limited by the high costs of original training robots, logistical challenges, lack of emphasis on hand movements, the necessity of expert presence, and limited scalability and effectiveness. This thesis introduces TrainVR, a low-cost based training system designed to overcome these hurdles and enhance the skillset of surgical trainees. TrainVR integrates affordable Virtual Reality (VR) technology with enhanced fidelity, creating an engaging and realistic training environment. TrainVR is designed to simulate realistic surgical environments and procedures, focusing on the development of motor, cognitive, and spatial skills for tasks required for robotic surgery through computer vision algorithms, gamified environments, performance analytics, and supporting both asynchronous and remote expert-led training scenarios. This system features customizable training modules, enabling trainees to practice a wide array of surgical procedures in a safe, virtual setting. The device also focuses on the importance of user’s hand, clutch, and ergonomics during surgical training which is crucial based on feedback from surgeons. The development of TrainVR involved crafting detailed 3D models of surgical instruments and anatomical structures, by integrating hardware, software and designing a user-friendly interface. We conducted testing with different game environments which compare the performance of the users and provide insights to improve the learning. The thesis concludes by experimenting and proposing new configurations to improve the fidelity and hand tracking which should closely match with the experience provided by the present training simulators at a substantially lower cost. TrainVR’s scalable design and compatibility with standard VR hardware make it accessible to a wide range of institutions, including those with limited resources. By offering a cost-effective, immersive, and adaptive training solution, TrainVR aims to enhance surgical education and ultimately improve patient care outcomes.
LEGENDS NEVER DIE: HOW JAMES BOND BECAME IAN FLEMING’S COLD WAR ALLEGORY FOR THE BRITISH FORTITUDE SHOWN IN WORLD WAR II
Creators: name: Rosary, Edward Michael
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Historical studies not elsewhere classified
British history
North American history

description: Through the devastation of World War II and the potential destruction at the hands of the Soviet Union, Ian Fleming’s imagination gave the West a hero; that hero was found in the form of literary hero James Bond. Though works of fiction, the James Bond novels were based largely upon both real people and historical events. Ian Fleming masterfully created a world that combined fiction and history to deliver a powerful Cold War allegory. That Cold War allegory placed James Bond as the representative of the British fortitude showcased by the British people and their leader Sir Winston Churchill during the Second World War.
 This writing will focus on four periods of Fleming’s life; 1) his early life in the shadow of his late father, 2) his time as an amateur spy during the buildup to World War II, 3) his imaginative plots during World War II, 4) Fleming’s impact on Cold War culture. These periods of his life will all be examined to showcase the impacts they had on the creation of James Bond, and the impact James Bond had on the Cold War. This work will also offer a look into Fleming’s gluttonous lifestyle, legends credited to him, the impact of World War II and the Cold War on the James Bond novels, and the British resolve that encapsulated the will of 007.
Scarless deletion of up to seven methyl-accepting chemotaxis genes with an optimized method highlights key function of CheM in Salmonella Typhimurium
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Stefanie
name: Schmidt, Christiane
name: Walter, Steffi
name: Bender, Jennifer K.
name: Gerlach, Roman G.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Site-directed scarless mutagenesis is an essential tool of modern pathogenesis research. We describe an optimized two-step protocol for genome editing in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to enable multiple sequential mutagenesis steps in a single strain. The system is based on the λ Red recombinase-catalyzed integration of a selectable antibiotics resistance marker followed by replacement of this cassette. Markerless mutants are selected by expressing the meganuclease I-SceI which induces double-strand breaks in bacteria still harboring the resistance locus. Our new dual-functional plasmid pWRG730 allows for heat-inducible expression of the λ Red recombinase and tet-inducible production of I-SceI. Methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCP) are transmembrane chemoreceptors for a vast set of environmental signals including amino acids, sugars, ions and oxygen. Based on the sensory input of MCPs, chemotaxis is a key component for Salmonella virulence. To determine the contribution of individual MCPs we sequentially deleted seven MCP genes. The individual mutations were validated by PCR and genetic integrity of the final seven MCP mutant WRG279 was confirmed by whole genome sequencing. The successive MCP mutants were functionally tested in a HeLa cell infection model which revealed increased invasion rates for non-chemotactic mutants and strains lacking the MCP CheM (Tar). The phenotype of WRG279 was reversed with plasmid-based expression of CheM. The complemented WRG279 mutant showed also partially restored chemotaxis in swarming assays on semi-solid agar. Our optimized scarless deletion protocol enables efficient and precise manipulation of the Salmonella genome. As demonstrated with whole genome sequencing, multiple subsequent mutagenesis steps can be realized without the introduction of unwanted mutations. The sequential deletion of seven MCP genes revealed a significant role of CheM for the interaction of S. Typhimurium with host cells which might give new insights into mechanisms of Salmonella host cell sensing.
Waste Not! Community Actions for Cleaner and Greener Environs
Creators: name: Reyes, Mario R. Delos
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Thailand
Year: 2017
Subjects: Philippines, Barangay Holy Spirit, Recycle, Solid Waste, Local Governance

description: SOCIAL SCIENCE ASIA : Official Journal of National Research Council of Thailand in conjunction with the College of Local Administration Khon Kaen University, 3, 2
Structural and functional dissection reveals distinct roles of Ca2+-binding sites in the giant adhesin SiiE of Salmonella enterica
Creators: name: Peters, Britta
name: Stein, Johanna
name: Klingl, Stefan
name: Sander, Nathalie
name: Sandmann, Achim
name: Taccardi, Nicola
name: Sticht, Heinrich
name: Gerlach, Roman G.
name: Muller, Yves A.
name: Hensel, Michael
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: The giant non-fimbrial adhesin SiiE of Salmonella enterica mediates the first contact to the apical site of epithelial cells and enables subsequent invasion. SiiE is a 595 kDa protein composed of 53 repetitive bacterial immunoglobulin (BIg) domains and the only known substrate of the SPI4-encoded type 1 secretion system (T1SS). The crystal structure of BIg50-52 of SiiE revealed two distinct Ca2+-binding sites per BIg domain formed by conserved aspartate or glutamate residues. In a mutational analysis Ca2+-binding sites were disrupted by aspartate to serine exchange at various positions in the BIg domains of SiiE. Amounts of secreted SiiE diminish with a decreasing number of intact Ca2+-binding sites. BIg domains of SiiE contain distinct Ca2+-binding sites, with type I sites being similar to other T1SS-secreted proteins and type II sites newly identified in SiiE. We functionally and structurally dissected the roles of type I and type II Ca2+-binding sites in SiiE, as well as the importance of Ca2+-binding sites in various positions of SiiE. Type I Ca2+-binding sites were critical for efficient secretion of SiiE and a decreasing number of type I sites correlated with reduced secretion. Type II sites were less important for secretion, stability and surface expression of SiiE, however integrity of type II sites in the C-terminal portion was required for the function of SiiE in mediating adhesion and invasion.
9,999,999 Trees: A Comprehensive Approach to Sustainable Rural Development
Creators: name: Tantip Thamrongwaranggoon
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Thailand
Year: 2017
Subjects: Thailand, Ubonrat, Environment, Public Participation

description: SOCIAL SCIENCE ASIA : Official Journal of National Research Council of Thailand in conjunction with the College of Local Administration Khon Kaen University, 3, 2
sj-pdf-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211032548 – Supplemental material for The role of contingency and correlation in the Stroop task
Creators: name: Hasshim, Nabil
name: Parris, Benjamin A
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218211032548 for The role of contingency and correlation in the Stroop task by Nabil Hasshim and Benjamin A Parris in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Bønnelycke, E-M. S., Giacon, T. A., Bosco, G., Kainerstorfer, J. M., Paganini, M., Ruesch, A., Wu, J., McKnight, J. C. "Cerebral hemodynamic and systemic physiological changes in trained freedivers completing sled-assisted dives to two different depths"- Supplemental Material
Creators: name: Bonnelycke, Eva-Maria
name: Antonio Giacon, Tommaso
name: Bosco, Gerardo
name: M. Kainerstorfer, Jana
name: Paganini, Matteo
name: Ruesch, Alexander
name: Wu, Jingyi
name: McKnight, J. Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420702
subject: Exercise physiology

description: Supplemental Figures S1-S6 and Supplemental Tables S1-S7 for the following paper:Bønnelycke, E-M. S., Giacon, T. A., Bosco, G., Kainerstorfer, J. M., Paganini, M., Ruesch, A., Wu, J., McKnight, J. C. "Cerebral hemodynamic and systemic physiological changes in trained freedivers completing sled-assisted dives to two different depths"
Additional file 2 of Depletion of lamins B1 and B2 promotes chromatin mobility and induces differential gene expression by a mesoscale-motion-dependent mechanism
Creators: name: Pujadas Liwag, Emily M.
name: Wei, Xiaolong
name: Acosta, Nicolas
name: Carter, Lucas M.
name: Yang, Jiekun
name: Almassalha, Luay M.
name: Jain, Surbhi
name: Daneshkhah, Ali
name: Rao, Suhas S. P.
name: Seker-Polat, Fidan
name: MacQuarrie, Kyle L.
name: Ibarra, Joe
name: Agrawal, Vasundhara
name: Aiden, Erez Lieberman
name: Kanemaki, Masato T.
name: Backman, Vadim
name: Adli, Mazhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figures [91]. Fig. S1. Degradation of B-type lamins increases nuclear area but does not induce apoptosis. Fig. S2. The mesoscale structure of chromatin is overall preserved upon B-type lamin degradation. Fig. S3. Chromosome occupancy is shifted upon the addition of auxin. Fig. S4. Dual-PWS reveals differential higher-order chromatin structure and dynamics upon B-type lamin loss. Fig. S5. Chromatin decompaction promotes redistribution of heterochromatic marks. Fig. S6. SMLM allows sub-diffraction resolution to assess heterochromatin redistribution without perturbing B-type lamins. Fig. S7. Degradation of B-type lamins promotes differential gene expression near LAD boundaries. Fig. S8. Degradation of B-type lamins promotes differential gene expression near LAD boundaries. Fig. S9. Chromosomes with decreased interaction frequencies had more DEGs outside LADs.
Post-traumatic Growth in Sexual Minority Latinas: An Intersectional Exploration of Cumulative and Systemic Stress and Trauma Exposures
Creators: name: Garcia, Erica S
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Other psychology not elsewhere classified
Mental health services
Gender psychology

description: There is a limited amount of research that explores the potential growth and experiences of sexual minority Latinas (SMLs). Using an intersectionality informed framework, this study explored SMLs post-traumatic growth (PTG) process following systemic traumas/stressors such as heterosexism and racial/ethnic discrimination, and cumulative stressors and traumas. A survey with both qualitative and quantitative questions was administered to 171 participants. It was hypothesized that cumulative trauma, socio-demographic characteristics, outness, and family acceptance would be positively related to higher PTG, while heterosexism and the intersection of both heterosexism and racial/ethnic discrimination would be related to lower PTG. A hierarchical regression was used and found that the post-traumatic growth inventory (PTGI) was a valid measure for Latina/Chicana sexual minorities and that SMLs experienced above moderate levels of PTG. Religion, age, outness, and heterosexism was positively associated with higher self-reported PTG, while family rejection and the intersection of heterosexism and racial/ethnic discrimination lowered PTG. Three qualitative themes emerged providing insights on SMLs self-defined growth. Clinical implications for marriage and family therapists and areas for future research are discussed.
The Relationship Between Incidental News Exposure and Political Participation: A Cross-Country, Multilevel Analysis
Creators: name: Matthes, Jörg
name: Zoizner, Alon
name: Nanz, Andreas
name: Hopmann, David Nicolas
name: Theocharis, Yannis
name: Noetzel, Selina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: In the modern, networked information environment, incidental exposure (IE) to political news is often theorized to benefit democracy, particularly by fueling political participation. Using cross-national survey data with more than 28,000 respondents from seventeen countries, we distinguished between first-level IE (i.e., the mere scanning of incidentally encountered information) and second-level IE (i.e., effortful processing of incidentally encountered information). We found that first-level IE was negatively related to political participation carried out through social media, while second-level IE was positively associated to both social media-based and offline participation. Furthermore, we found that the association between first-level IE and offline participation turned significantly positive for the healthiest democracies. Overall, findings suggest that the participatory role of first-level IE depend on the current quality state of a democracy.