cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Neurodidaktik: Gehirngerecht Lehren und Lernen
title: Eine Einzelfallstudie zu Kindern mit einer erheblichen Lern- und Leistungsschwäche
titleType: Subtitle
title: Neurodidaktik: Gehirngerecht Lehren und Lernen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heldner, Laurene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Neurodidaktik
subject: Das bio-psycho-soziale Modell ICF
subject: Lernstrategien
subject: Lernorientierungen
subject: Lernstile
subject: Lerntypen
subject: Selbstkonzept

description: In jeder Klasse bringen Schülerinnen und Schüler unterschiedliche Lernvoraussetzungen mit. Bei den Kindern einer Schulklasse lässt sich eine grosse Vielfalt an Begabungen, Potentialen und Interessen beobachten. Lehrkräfte haben den pädagogischen Auftrag, alle Kinder optimal in ihrer individuellen Entwicklung zu unterstützen sowie zu fördern, um so die Bedingung für eine erfolgreiche Integration in die Gesellschaft zu bieten. Heterogenität soll in der heutigen Gesellschaft als Chance angesehen werden. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit soll zum besseren Verständnis für den Lernprozess bei Schülern mit erheblichen Lern- und Leistungsschwächen beitragen sowie deren Lernvorgang unterstützen. Der Fokus soll dabei auf dem gehirngerechten Lehren und Lernen und dessen Auswirkungen auf die Leistungen und die schulbezogene Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung bei solchen Schülern liegen. Theoretische Ausgangslage bildet das bio-psycho-soziale Modell ICF (Internationale Klassifikation der Funktionsfähigkeit, Behinderung und Gesundheit) sowie die 12 Lehr- und Lernprinzipien der Neurodidaktik von Renate Nummela Caine, welche durch pädagogische Anregungen von Arnold, Gasser und weitere Theorien untermauert werden. Weiter werden Theoriebezüge zu Lernschwierigkeiten, Lernstrategien, Lernorientierungen, Lernstilen, Lerntypen, kognitiven Stilen sowie zum Selbstkonzept hergestellt. Bei zwei Schülern der Primarstufe mit erheblichen Lern- und Leistungsschwächen wurde unter Berücksichtigung neurodidaktischer Prinzipien eine achtwöchige Intervention im integrativen Setting durchgeführt. Die Untersuchung ist eine Einzelfallstudie bzw. Fallstudie, die im Mixed- Methods-Design angelegt ist. Dabei werden qualitative und quantitative Forschungsparadigmen miteinander kombiniert. Bei der Datenerhebungen und -auswertung kamen schriftliche Befragungen, Beobachtungen sowie Tests zum Einsatz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass nach der Intervention bei beiden Schülern eine Verbesserung ihrer Leistungen zu verzeichnen war. Ebenfalls wirkte sich die Intervention positiv auf die schulische Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung aus. Die Masterarbeit richtet sich sowohl an schulische Heilpädagoginnen und Heilpädagogen, Lehrpersonen als auch an Lernende.
description: Codirigé par la Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais
Coronavirus Fiscal Policy in the United States: Lessons from Feminist Political Economy
Creators: name: Moos, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

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Using the U.S. fiscal response to Covid-19 in March and April 2020 as a case study, this paper explores the implications that the U.S. coronavirus legislation had on the societal distribution of responsibility for social reproduction among U.S. households, employers, and the U.S. federal government —and its effect on women and racialized minorities. It builds on feminist political economy research that argues that, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, economic crisis and stagnating conditions for workers in the United States had increased the role of households and the U.S. government in social reproduction, relative to the contribution of employers. This paper argues that the U.S. federal government has responded to the Covid-19 crisis through an infusion of income support, but has failed to increase its long-term socially-reproductive commitments, nor addressed the intensified socially-reproductive burden placed on households or the declining role of employers in working-class social reproduction.
Zombie Prevalence and Survival
Creators: name: Das, Debamanyu
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

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We document the rise in the share of zombie firms starting from the late 1990s in the US economy across various sectors. We compare multiple definitions used in literature to identify zombies and discuss how they continue to survive. We find zombies issue more debt compared to non-zombies. A subset of zombies defined as growing zombies are able to raise equity too.
Physics, scientific investigation and society in Argentina, 1930-1940
Creators: name: Gangui, Alejandro
name: Ortiz, Eduardo L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we continue our study of the scientific research carried out at the Institute of Physics of the National University of La Plata during the first half of the 20th century, and of the important role played by the physicist Ramon G. Loyarte. Based on his studies, alone or in collaboration with members of the Institute, towards the end of the 1920s Loyarte proposed the possible existence of a new quantum of rotational energy in the mercury atom. This idea raised criticism and generated a fierce scientific controversy that reached the national and international academic media. We analyse this controversy by studying the comments that appeared in international review journals. We also study Loyarte's activities in politics and science policy in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s, where he was responsible for interesting political and scientific initiatives.
description: Article in Spanish, PDF document. Other related documents available at https://www.universoeinstein.com.ar/einsteinargentina.htm
title: Entwicklung und Optimierung einer Methode zur Bestimmung der antioxidativen Aktivität von Kraft- und Organosolv-Lignin via Folin- Ciocalteu-Assay
Creators: name: Rumpf, Jessica
Publisher: name: Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Year: 2019
Subjects: classificationCode: 540
subject: Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
classificationCode: 1.4
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Entwicklung und Optimierung einer Methode zur Bestimmung der antioxidativen Aktivität von Kraft- und Organosolv-Lignin via Folin- Ciocalteu-Assay
Deindustrialization and Deaths of Despair: Mapping the Impact of Industrial Decline on Ill Health
Creators: name: Scheiring, Gabor
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

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A growing literature on deaths of despair has argued that workers’ declining life expectancy in deindustrialized rustbelt areas in the U.S. and the associated deepening of health inequalities signal the profound existential crisis of contemporary capitalism. Competing explanations downplay the negative consequences of “creative destruction” and focus instead on unhealthy lifestyles. This article contributes to this debate by presenting the first empirical analysis of the role of deindustrialization in the deaths of despair epidemic that hit Eastern Europe in the 1990s. Drawing on the thematic analysis of 82 semi-structured interviews in four deindustrialized towns in Hungary, the article constructs a general sociological framework for analyzing deaths of despair applicable to other rustbelt areas. Deindustrialization engenders individual and social processes that affect health by increasing stress and eroding coping resources. By conceptualizing deindustrialization as a fundamental cause of ill health, sociology has great potential to contribute to understanding the root causes of deaths of despair.
Looming Debt Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Drivers, Implications and Policy Options
Creators: name: Ndikumana, Léonce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description:
This study explores the trends, patterns and drivers of recent debt accumulation in Sub-Saharan African countries with a view to sheding light on possible strategies to minimize adverse effects on the economies and ensure sustainable development financing. This is in light of concerns about a possible ‘looming debt crisis’ in the developing world, which have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis in this study is based on existing data, supplemented by detailed information obtained from government sources for the cases of Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. The evidence shows that Sub-Saharan African countries have experienced rapid accumulation of both domestic and external public debt since the 2008 global financial crisis. Governments have resorted increasingly to non-concessional borrowing and high-cost private short-term loans including Eurobonds, which has contributed to increasing the overall cost of debt servicing. The debt sustainability analysis by the IMF/World Bank completed before the Coronavirus pandemic suggested that debt ratios in SSA would stabilize or decline by 2023, assuming that appropriate fiscal consolidation plans are implemented and that most drivers of the debt acceleration dissipate in the medium term. With the Covid-19 pandemic, debt ratios in SSA are likely to rise and would only stabilize at a much later period if African economies are hit with a full-blown crisis as witnessed by advanced economies. Most importantly, the coronavirus crisis will exacerbate debt distress in countries that were already in weak conditions. It is imperative for Africa’s creditors and the donor community in general to assist African countries in combatting the pandemic and minimizing its impact on the economies by alleviating the debt burden through an expanded debt relief and a robust debt restructuring program. Going forward, given that African countries need high levels of financing to reach sustainable development goals, they must devise a strategy for ‘growing with debt’ in the post-crisis period. The paper offers some suggestions to achieve this goal.
Study 1
Creators: name: Rae, James R.
name: Reimer, Nils Karl
name: Lai, Calvin K.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is the preregistration for a correlational study examining the relationship between implicit bias feedback (about oneself) and implicit bias attribution (to others).
Should Economists Deceive? Prosocial Lying, Paternalism, and the ‘Ben Bernanke Problem’
Creators: name: DeMartino, George
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: 



A widely held principle in professional ethics, across the professions, is the duty to speak truthfully when engaging in professional activity. Expert truth-telling has come to be recognized as vital to the Kantian respect that is due to clients and others who must act based on professional advice; and to the imperative to sustain trust. It is therefore notable that economics does not generally require truth telling among its members. Against truth telling, in cases where what an economist says can impact social welfare, the profession tends toward “prosocial lying”—lying that is thought to be in society’s best interests. The case of central banker statements is paradigmatic. Would economists have preferred that Ben Bernanke tell the truth about the threats to the US and world economy in the early days of the crisis of 2008, when doing so might have destabilized financial markets further? But prosocial lying comes at a cost to the profession, and to society. Not least, prosocial lying reflects a paternalistic ethos that has by now been challenged in other professions; and the prevalence of prosocial lying may undermine trust—both among economists, and between economists and those economists purport to serve.
Privatization and the Postsocialist Fertility Decline
Creators: name: Scheiring, Gabor
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description:
In this article, we analyze the privatization of companies as a potential but so far neglected factor behind the postsocialist fertility decline. We test this hypothesis using a novel database comprising information on the demographic and enterprise trajectories of 52 Hungarian towns between 1989-2006 and a cross-country dataset of 28 countries in Eastern Europe. We fit fixed and random-effects models adjusting for potential confounding factors and control for time-variant factors and common trends. We find that privatization is significantly associated with fertility decline, explaining approximately half of the overall fertility decline across the 52 towns and the 28 countries.
Caregiver-Child Communication Following Child Sexual Abuse: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Project Support Module
Creators: name: Rancher, Caitlin
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This preregistration is for a small efficacy trial of the listening and comforting Project Support module in a sample of nonoffending caregivers and their children who have been sexually abused.
Struggle For Survival In Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
Creators: name: Sheokand, Anu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Literature

description: :Many writers who have come up to talk about the predicament of black people in America Toni
Morrison's name is of great significance. In her fictional world, the black community attempts to compensate for the
decision fracturing American society by carrying out various functions aimed at achieving survival. In Tar Baby
ecological concerns are intricately woven into the story of survival showing different modes of survival in the racist
and capitalistic system. She foregrounds the issue of black, man-woman relationship and under its aegis she
continues to explore the issue of survival as a complex socio-economic and psychological phenomenon under
centuries long white dominance. The paper explores how black accept subordination to whites for their economic
survival and is a further exploration of survival through assimilation. Very openly she has raised the issue of survival
of Nature besides the issue of survival of black culture. The paper is an analysis of issue of survival clearly in the
backdrop of the insurgence of various movements of the 1960's and 1970s. Tar Baby can be clearly read as a
response of various species/groups who survive in the light of 'women's liberation', 'Black is Beautiful' and ecofeminism.
South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes Between 1950 and 2020
Creators: name: Vakulabharanam, Vamsi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

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This chapter discusses the evolution of post-colonial South Asian economies using the triad of dominant classes, state and imperialism. Two key insights help us make sense of this evolution. First, the dominant classes such as landed interests, private capital and government bureaucrats in South Asia were able to prevent a radical/progressive restructuring of the economies from the very outset. Any deep crisis that threatened to radically transform the existing social order was solved through an ‘imperialist fix’, whereby the dominant classes in conjunction with the state sought external help (e.g. ‘Green Revolution’ in the wake of food crises of 1960s). On the other hand, imperialist countries, when they needed the cooperation of South Asia in their strategic endeavors or when they underwent capitalist crises, used the region (along with the larger developing world that possesses labor reserves, minerals, and serves as a final market), as a ‘spatial fix’ to solve their crises. It is the coming together of these two processes/fixes that defines the mutual engagement of imperialism and South Asian economies during this period that contained two imperialist orders, one that lasted from 1950 until 1980, and a second one that came into being after 1980.
ANTHROPONYMS AND THEIR LINGUACULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS.
Creators: name: Akbarova, Dilafruz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The semantics of phraseological units, namely antroponyms, is the focus of this article. It is well known that the greatest lexical-semantic group of onomastic units consists of antroponyms. As a result, this article uses multiple instances to study proper nouns in the English and Uzbek languages from a linguacultural perspective.
National Policy Space: Reframing the Political Economy of Globalization and Its Implications for National Sovereignty and Democracy
Creators: name: Palley, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



This paper critiques the trilemma framing of the political economy of globalization, and offers an alternative framing rooted in the construct of national policy space. Globalization causes changes in policy space which have drop-down implications for national sovereignty and democratic politics. Globalization involves choices regarding the “degree”, “type”, and “dimensions” of international economic integration. Contrary to the trilemma, the multi-faceted nature of the choices means there are no inevitable implications for sovereignty or democracy. Globalization is an intrinsically political project. To the extent it is now driving a nationalistic anti-democratic turn in politics, responsibility lies with political elites.
Prevalence of asymptomatic shoulder findings on magnetic resonance imaging - a scoping review
Creators: name: Hølmich, Per
name: Thorborg, Anne
name: Witten, Adam
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Orthopedics
subject: Anatomy
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties

description: A protocol for a scoping review that will investigate the literature on the prevalence of asymptomatic findings on shoulder MRI.
Work and Social Reproduction in Rural India: Lessons from Time-Use Data
Creators: name: Rao, Smriti
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



Even as the literature on work in the Global South acknowledges the importance of forms of non-waged work, it has not sufficiently incorporated consideration of the labor of social reproduction. We propose understanding work through four conceptual dyads: waged productive labor, non-waged productive labor, waged reproductive labor, and non-waged reproductive labor. Through an in-depth description of three specific cases from a Time Use Survey we conducted in rural Punjab, India, we argue not only that all four dyads are required to encompass the world of work, but that this more expansive conceptualization can help us produce richer analyses of the intersections of class, caste and gender.
title: Le sentiment de participation sociale et scolaire d'élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers étant en fin de scolarité en contextes d'intégration ou d'institution
title: Le sentiment de participation sociale et scolaire d'élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers étant en fin de scolarité en contextes d'intégration ou d'institution
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Crettenand, Célia
name: Trachsel, Yasmine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: participation sociale
subject: intégration scolaire
subject: élèves à besoins éducatifs particuliers
subject: mesures renforcées
subject: école ordinaire
subject: école spécialisée

description: La participation sociale est un domaine vaste qui touche tous les individus. Pour les personnes à besoins particuliers, cette notion reste un sujet de réflexion, cependant elle a évolué aux cours du siècle passé. Grâce à différents intervenants dans le domaine social, la vision restreinte de la personne en situation de handicap a progressé ; elle a obtenu un statut de sujet ayant les mêmes droits que les autres membres de la société. L’intégration scolaire d’élèves à besoins spécifiques a également été réfléchie et précisée durant le siècle dernier. Ces bénéfices ont également été démontrés ; perception positive de leurs camarades de classe, valorisation et respect des différences ainsi que les avantages des adaptations pédagogiques dans la classe pour la totalité des élèves. Dans cette recherche, ces deux domaines sont imbriqués et questionnés. Nous voulons comparer la participation sociale et scolaire d’élèves ayant des mesures renforcées intégrés dans une école spécialisée à ceux qui sont intégrés dans une école ordinaire. Pour ce faire, nous avons sélectionné plusieurs thèmes que nous voulions aborder avec les élèves, comme : le sentiment de participation à l’école, la collaboration entre la famille et les enseignants ainsi que leur participation dans un contexte hors scolaire. Les résultats obtenus ont démontré des différences de résultats entre les élèves des deux groupes, dont : le sentiment envers l’école ; la fréquence des échanges entre leur parents et l’école ; les relations avec leurs voisins, ainsi que dans le domaine des loisirs. Une découverte significative est la faible compréhension des objectifs personnels. Notre champ de réflexion a également été étendu. En effet, les élèves nous ont communiqué des éléments nouveaux, dont : un vécu de la marginalisation ; les causes de leurs mesures renforcées selon eux, ainsi que des parcours scolaires emprunts de changements.
description: Codirigé par la Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais
Pintos
Creators: name: Chughtai, Jawad
name: Wiqar, Raja Salis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This document provides an overview of Pintos Operating
System. Starting from the brief introduction of Pintos and it's directory structure1, this document describes the phases from pintos download to successful installation, rounded by a code example.
Post-American Moments in Contemporary Global Financial Governance
Creators: name: Grabel, Ilene
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



It is difficult to find much to celebrate about the current conjuncture, marked as it is by deeply destructive incoherence. The best that can be said is that we are in an interregnum. But I suggest that today’s incoherence also includes productive and even transformative moments. I argue that incoherence in global financial governance should be understood as productive in several respects. It is creating and widening alternative spaces in which some of the values, practices, tools, objectives, and goals associated with embedded liberalism can be rearticulated in a world in which there is no “order,” American-led or otherwise. The silver lining of incoherence is that it creates space for experimentation and innovation unconstrained by an overarching “ism.” Incoherence is creating exits or leakages from noxious national and global policy environments, rendering it less poisonous than it would be in the absence of ideational aperture and contestation, competing policies, institutions, networks, and poles of power. The abdication by the US of its traditional role of global coordination and discipline, as exerted under the post-war embedded liberal or the neoliberal American-led orders, is creating opportunities for more permissive and varied “reembededness” and diverse forms of economic integration. The emerging regime reflects neither your grandmother’s American-led order 1.0 or 2.0. In this morbid post- American interregnum there is no singular “ism” or “alternative order,” a fact that I do not mourn.
Moral Language
Creators: name: Inbar, Yoel
name: Éloïse Côté
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We describe a study in which we use computer-aided natural language analyses to uncover the issues that are discussed by U.S. Members of Congress on Twitter between 2018 and 2023. We examine which issues are the most moralized by Republicans and Democrats within each of the moral foundations.
The Public Banking Movement in the United States: Networks, Agenda, Initiatives, and Challenges
Creators: name: Ugurlu, Esra Nur
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



In this paper, we analyze the contemporary public banking initiatives in the US. We first provide a brief historical account of public-oriented banking in the US. We then map out the central nodes in the contemporary public banking advocacy networks. Based on an online questionnaire and semi-structured interviews we held with public banking organizers and experts across the country, we provide an overview of the achievements of this growing movement, describe the central socio- economic issues they organize around, and examine the challenges they face. We demonstrate that the interest in public banking is a reaction to a number of socio-economic and ecological issues the US faces, including the infrastructure crisis, ecological crisis, financial exclusion, and problems stemming from the management of state and local government resources. We argue that public banking can be an important tool in addressing these problems and suggest how the federal government, through the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, can support these initiatives.
Notes on Covid-19, Potential GDP, and Hysteresis
Creators: name: Michl, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



This note provides a model framework for thinking about stabilization policies in the presence of hysteresis after a negative shock like the Covid-19 pandemic. Headline measures of so-called potential GDP published by the Congressional Budget Office represent only one of many possible inflation- neutral trajectories for output. The term potential GDP is misleading since potential implies a unique limit on output. It is much more accurate to consider a range of possible trajectories or multiple equilibria. Repairing the damages from a shock will require overshooting the inflation target and running the economy above its inflation-neutral equilibrium in order to re- store the status quo ante level of output and employment. The model assumes constant trend growth so that path dependence takes the form of pure output-level effects.
Deindustrialization and the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis
Creators: name: Scheiring, Gabor
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



An unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the transition from socialism to capitalism. Working-class men without a college degree suffered the most. Some argue that economic dislocation caused stress and despair, leading to adverse health behavior and ill health (dislocation-despair approach). Others suggest that hazardous drinking inherited as part of a dysfunctional working-class culture and populist alcohol policy were the key determinants (supply-culture approach). We enter this debate by performing the first quantitative analysis of the association between economic dislocation in the form of industrial employment decline and mortality in postsocialist Eastern Europe. We rely on a novel multilevel dataset, fitting survival and panel models covering 52 towns and 42,800 people in 1989-1995 in Hungary and 514 medium-sized towns in the European part of Russia. The results show that deindustrialization was significantly associated with male mortality in both countries directly and indirectly mediated by adverse health behavior as a dysfunctional coping strategy. Both countries experienced severe deindustrialization, but social and economic policies seem to have offset Hungary’s more immense industrial employment loss. The policy implication is that social and economic policies addressing the underlying causes of stress and despair can improve health.
Improving function in people with hip-related pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physiotherapist-led interventions for hip-related pain
Creators: name: Kemp, Joanne
name: Mosler, Andrea
name: Hart, Harvi
name: Bizzini, Mario
name: Chang, Steven
name: Scholes, Mark
name: Semciw, Adam
name: Crossley, Kay
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420106
subject: Physiotherapy

description: ObjectiveTo report the effectiveness of physiotherapist-led interventions in improving pain and function in young and middle-aged adults with hip-related pain.DesignSystematic review and meta-analysis.Data sourcesA comprehensive, reproducible search strategy was performed on five databases in May 2019. Reference lists and grey literature were also searched.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesPopulation: people aged ≥18 years with hip-related pain (with or without a diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome). Intervention(s): physiotherapist-led interventions for hip pain. Comparators: sham treatment, no treatment or other treatment (eg, hip arthroscopic surgery). Outcomes: primary outcomes included patient-reported hip pain and function. Secondary outcomes included physical function measures.Results1722 papers were identified. After exclusion criteria were applied, 14 studies were included for analysis. They had varied risk of bias. There were no full-scale placebo-controlled randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of physiotherapist-led treatment. Pooled effects ranged from moderate effects (0.67 (95% CI 0.07 to 1.26)) favouring physiotherapist-led intervention over no treatment post-arthroscopy, to weak effects (−0.32 (95% CI 0.57 to 0.07)) favouring hip arthroscopy over physiotherapist-led treatment.ConclusionPhysiotherapist-led interventions might improve pain and function in young and middle-aged adults with hip-related pain, however full-scale high-quality RCT studies are required.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42018089088.
NO alleviates salt stress through regulating SlDML2-mediated DNA demethylation in tomato seedlings
Creators: name: 王春蕾(Chunlei Wang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Agricultural

description: The fresh leaves form wild-type and sldml2-1 seedlings treated with Control, NaCl and NaCl + GSNO were harvested to extract genomic DNA for conducting MethylC-seq libraries. The MethylC-seq was performed with HiSeq 2000 (Illumina) after bisulfite treatment and Illumina library construction.
Improving function in people with hip-related pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physiotherapist-led interventions for hip-related pain
Creators: name: Kemp, Joanne
name: Mosler, Andrea
name: Harvi Hart
name: Bizzini, Mario
name: Chang, Steven
name: Scholes, Mark
name: Semciw, Adam
name: Crossley, Kay
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110317 Physiotherapy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: ObjectiveTo report the effectiveness of physiotherapist-led interventions in improving pain and function in young and middle-aged adults with hip-related pain.DesignSystematic review and meta-analysis.Data sourcesA comprehensive, reproducible search strategy was performed on five databases in May 2019. Reference lists and grey literature were also searched.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesPopulation: people aged ≥18 years with hip-related pain (with or without a diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome). Intervention(s): physiotherapist-led interventions for hip pain. Comparators: sham treatment, no treatment or other treatment (eg, hip arthroscopic surgery). Outcomes: primary outcomes included patient-reported hip pain and function. Secondary outcomes included physical function measures.Results1722 papers were identified. After exclusion criteria were applied, 14 studies were included for analysis. They had varied risk of bias. There were no full-scale placebo-controlled randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of physiotherapist-led treatment. Pooled effects ranged from moderate effects (0.67 (95% CI 0.07 to 1.26)) favouring physiotherapist-led intervention over no treatment post-arthroscopy, to weak effects (−0.32 (95% CI 0.57 to 0.07)) favouring hip arthroscopy over physiotherapist-led treatment.ConclusionPhysiotherapist-led interventions might improve pain and function in young and middle-aged adults with hip-related pain, however full-scale high-quality RCT studies are required.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42018089088.
Long-read genome assemblies reveals a cis-regulatory landscape associated with phenotypic divergence in sister Siniperca fishes
Creators: name: 涂光宪(Tuguangxian)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2024
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Raw sequence reads
Epigenomics
Transcriptome or Gene expression
Multispecies
Evolution

description: We assembled and annotated a high-quality genome of S.chuatsi and S.scherzeri by long-reads data. Based on this, this project will use the methods of comparative genomics to obtain the structural variations related to the trait differentiation of S.chuatsi and S.scherzeri. Through epigenomics analysis, differentially cis-regulatory elements were identified in S.chuatsi and S.scherzeri. Finally, combining the results of multiple omics to obtain the structural variations of the cis-regulatory elements, and obtain the candidate genes for the differentiation of mandarin fish species. Through the analysis and verification of the candidate genes, it is fully revealed that the mechanism of cis-regulatory elements variation in regulating the traits differentiation of S.chuatsi and S.scherzeri.
Did Alcohol Policy Really Cause the Postsocialist Mortality Crisis? Revisiting the Rebound and Affordability Hypotheses
Creators: name: Azarova, Aytalina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: 



This article reexamines the argument that alcohol policies were the major factor behind the mortality crisis in postsocialist Russia. We show that the correlation between the Gorbachev anti-alcohol campaign (rebound hypothesis), alcohol prices in the 1990s (affordability hypothesis), and mortality reported in previous analyses is not robust to splitting oblasts into Far- East and the rest of Russia. Our analysis conducted on a sample of 534 towns in the European part of Russia also finds no robust evidence supporting the two hypotheses. In contrast, findings linking privatization to mortality are robust to controlling for the anti-alcohol campaign and the affordability of alcohol.
Technological Perspectives in Phylogeny Research: Revisiting Comparative Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes for Time-Extended Lineages
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Tommy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Comparative methods involving DNA-DNA hybridization are thought to be reliable in terms of phylogeny reconstruction, but also weigh heavy on computational resources. Processing large-scale genomic datasets can have potentially unfavorable drawbacks in computing, which can result in poor analysis leading to erroneous conclusions. Slim genomic datasets, such as those found in entire sets of complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are lucrative options for researchers seeking complete genomic datasets that fit the criteria of a computationally light model. Yet, a handful of incorrect conclusions in molecular phylogenetics have also raised questions about its reliability. This article seeks to emphasize a simplified approach to phylogeny research using complete mitochondrial genomes alone, while touching upon a number of technological perspectives, such as algorithmic selection, which can help improve accuracy and performance in comparative analysis. Moreover, my results will show that reliable estimations can be obtained by using mitochondrial markers, even among time-extended taxonomical rankings; although, admittedly, precise taxonomical boundaries for accurate resolution using complete sequences of mtDNA remain unclear, and it should be explored further. Six distinct mammalian groups of taxa were selected for comparison. In all cases, mtDNA models generated reliable phylogeny approximations when compared against other independent data, while rendering exceptional computational performance.
Protein Denaturation in Complex Solvents: Using FTIR Spectroscopy to Understand Cryopreservation
Creators: name: Rajesh, Kavya
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Protein
IR Spectroscopy
Denaturation
DMSO
Lysozyme

description: protectants are commonly used to stop ice formation in biological systems, allowing for long term preservation and storage. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is a commonly used cryoprotectant, however; it can also be toxic to cells which limits the use of DMSO in organs. Modulating the toxicity of DMSO could aid in long term organ storage and cryopreservation, creating organ banks and dramatically reducing the size of the organ donation waitlist. Cryoprotectant toxicity neutralizers, including formamide, have been shown to aid in neutralizing the toxicity of cryoprotectants such as DMSO. However, organs are large and multifaceted which presents a host of experimental challenges. Simple proteins like lysozyme can be used to model complex organ systems. Here we use amide I infrared spectroscopy to measure thermal denaturation curves of lysozyme in ternary mixtures of DMSO, water, and formamide or dimethylformamide. We show that formamide increases the stability of lysozyme in DMSO/water mixtures, suggesting that it protects against DMSO denaturation. We also show the effects of other amides like N-methylacetamide and N-methylformamide on lysozyme. The structures of these co-solvents are shown in Figure 1. Based on their differing structures and hydrogen bonding capabilities, these amides modulate the toxicity of DMSO in different ways. This information can be used to create mixtures of co-solvents to mitigate DMSO toxicity and eventually cryopreserve biological systems.
A Scoping Review of Factors Influencing Nurses’ Participation Intention in “Internet Plus Nursing Services”: Protocol
Creators: name: Yuan, Ting
name: Zhou, Fen
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Internet Plus Nursing Services
subject: Nurses’ Participation Intention

description: A protocol of a scoping review of factors influencing nurses’ participation intention in “Internet Plus Nursing Services”.
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Xu, Zhun
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: One of the two components of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 is “economic growth”, a term which people in the 21st century are quite familiar with. The question of growth, or the lack thereof, has often featured prominently in political debates, scholarly writings, as well as popular media. Nevertheless, sustained economic growth was only a recent phenomenon in human history. The world economy remained stagnant throughout the first 1800 years in the Common Era and started to grow exponentially after that. 1Measured by international dollars in 1990, the world has seen more than 5 times increase in population in the last two centuries, but the real GDP has increased by more than 700 times.
Technological Perspectives in Phylogeny Research: Revisiting Comparative Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial Genomes for Time-Extended Lineages
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Tommy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Comparative methods involving DNA-DNA hybridization are thought to be reliable in terms of phylogeny reconstruction, but also weigh heavy on computational resources. Processing large-scale genomic datasets can have potentially unfavorable drawbacks in computing, which can result in poor analysis leading to erroneous conclusions. Slim genomic datasets, such as those found in entire sets of complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are lucrative options for researchers seeking complete genomic datasets that fit the criteria of a computationally light model. Yet, a handful of incorrect conclusions in phylogeny have also raised questions about its reliability. This article seeks to emphasize a simplified approach to phylogeny research using complete mitochondrial genomes alone, while touching upon a number of technological perspectives, such as algorithmic selection, which can help improve accuracy and performance in comparative analysis. Moreover, my results will show that reliable estimations can be obtained by using mitochondrial markers, even among time-extended taxonomical rankings; although, admittedly, precise taxonomical boundaries for accurate resolution using complete sequences of mtDNA remain unclear, and it should be explored further. Six distinct mammalian groups of taxa were selected for comparison. In all cases, mtDNA models generated reliable phylogeny approximations when compared against other independent data, while rendering exceptional computational performance.
Is There a Case for National Development Banks in Africa? Conceptual Rationale and Empirical Evidence
Creators: name: Ndikumana, Léonce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description:
National development banks remain an important part of modern financial systems in developed as well as developing countries. The attention to the role of national development banks was reinvigorated in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, and their potential role in promoting access to finance and providing counter-cyclical financing is better appreciated today than in the structural adjustment era of the 1980s and 1990s. In this context, this study examines the landscape of national development banks in Africa and provides empirical evidence of their role in complementing commercial banks to meet the financing needs of the real sector using bank- level data from selected countries and the BankFocus database. The empirical results show that while national development banks do not lend more relative to commercial banks, they tend to focus more on medium-term and long-term lending as prescribed by their mandate. Interestingly, medium-term and long-term lending is associated with lower non-performing loan ratios as well as higher returns on assets. The results are similar for public banks. The evidence suggests that empowering national development banks with enhanced lending capacity and operational autonomy would significantly help alleviate the shortage of medium-term and long-term credit in African economies. The paper includes suggested avenues for further research.
Financialization and Militarization: An Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Akçagün, Pelin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

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Based on Arrighi (1994), we empirically investigate whether financialization and militarization are mutually reinforcing phenomena in the US during the post-WW II period. Military spending during the 1950s and 1960s in the US, along with other external stimuli, such as a rising sales effort and expansion in finance, insurance, and real estate, counteracted the stagnation of the monopolistic stage of capitalism. Monopoly capital was transformed into finance monopoly capital as the intensity of financial capital increased during the late 1970s in response to stagnation. Considering alternative financialization variables commonly used in the literature and the profit rate in the financial sector, and using several parametric and non-parametric methods, we found a significant relationship between financialization and militarization in the US for 1949-2019. The findings show that the decline in the profit rates lead to a decline in military expenditure. The overall results suggest that the rise in financialization is parallel to the decline in the profit rates, leading to larger military expenditure in total, but with relatively smaller share in GDP.
The Flimsy Foundations of Neoliberal Macroeconomics: David Gordon on Saving, Investment, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Creators: name: Pollin, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

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David Gordon was, at once, a highly creative economist with an enormous range of interests, while also uncompromising in maintaining rigorous research standards. He was focused equally on hard-core academic research and pressing policy issues. He was also openly committed to the political left, with this commitment animating all his work. One distinctive feature of Gordon’s work was his keenness to dive into the most important topics engaging mainstream economists and to inject explicitly left political economy perspectives into these mainstream debates. This paper focuses on two important examples of Gordon’s contributions that examine front-and-center mainstream macroeconomics questions. The first is the relationship between aggregate saving and investment. The second is the development of the concept of the ‘natural rate of unemployment.’ The evolution of mainstream research on these two questions played a critical role in overturning what had been, over the first two post-World War II decades, a prevailing Keynesian/social democratic consensus, at both the levels of analytic economics as well as economic policy. As the paper reviews, Gordon challenges the analytic findings and policy implications of these perspectives at their core. Gordon’s own basic premises and results are straightforward. He argues that, in fact, investment decisions, not saving rates, are the main driver of economic activity in capitalist economies and that operating capitalist economies at something akin to genuine full employment—i.e. in the range of 2 – 3 percent official unemployment—is a realistic goal. As such, these papers by Gordon contribute significantly toward envisioning a post-neoliberal social structure of accumulation that is committed to the egalitarian principles that were central to Gordon’s life work.
Predicting Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Policy Incidence
Creators: name: Hsu, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

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In this exploratory research, we examine the effect of economic and noneconomic indicators on the creation of Chinese state-owned enterprise policies. Using a VAR model, we find indicators that explain state-owned enterprise policy creation variance, which means that we can explain, to some extent, the incidence of state-owned enterprise policies. This reduces economic policy uncertainty, thereby having the potential to increase economic activity and reduce costs.
Financialization, Deindustrialization and Instability in Latin America
Creators: name: Pérez Caldentey, Esteban
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

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The paper analyzes the relation between premature deindustrialization in Latin America with what is termed premature financialization. Premature financialization is defined as a turn to finance, organized as an industrial concern, which is a vehicle for accumulation before the process of industrialization has reached maturity. This contrasts with developed countries where financialization occurs after an advanced stage of economic and social development is reached, and where the growth of the financial sector, beyond a certain threshold, can be detrimental to economic activity. The paper examines the consequences of premature financialization for investment, growth, and financial stability.