cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of random group assignment on intergroup responses (Study 2)
Creators: name: Hong, Youngki
name: Auten, Allison
name: Ratner, Kyle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Confirmatory replication study of the preregistration "Effects of random group assignment on intergroup responses"
title: Gedenkfeier anlässlich der Bestattung von Carl Paul Schurr-Ammeter, Freitag, den 13. Januar 1956 im Krematorium in Zürich
title: Carl Paul Schurr-Ammeter, 1889-1956
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Reimann, Hans
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1956
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Bischofszell
subject: Zürich
subject: Schurr, Paul

description: Enthält: Abdankungsansprache von Pfarrer Hans Reimann; Ansprache von Dr. Hans Wyss
title: Synthese von Polymethin-carbonium-Salzen
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Pelster, H.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: Wir berichteten über die Darstellung von 1- bzw. 3-Alkylidenazulenium- Salzen¹) durch Umsatz von 1- bzw. 3-α-Hydroxy-alkylazulenen mit einer 54-proz. Lösung von HBF₄ in Äther (aus BF₃- Ätherat und wasserfreier Flußsäure).
Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith 1842
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus hyalinatus

description: Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith, 1842
 25.VI.2014, prairie fleurie du mess, Centaurea sp., 1J; 25.VI.2014, prairie fleurie du parc, fauchoir, 1♀; 5.VIII.2015, prairie fleurie du parc, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Non-minimal derivative couplings of the composite metric
Creators: name: Heisenberg, Lavinia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of massive gravity, bi-gravity and multi-gravity non-minimal matter couplings via a specific composite effective metric were investigated recently. Even if these couplings generically reintroduce the Boulware-Deser ghost, this composite metric is unique in the sense that the ghost reemerges only beyond the decoupling limit and the matter quantum loop corrections do not detune the potential interactions. We consider non-minimal {\it derivative} couplings of the composite metric to matter fields for a specific subclass of Horndeski scalar-tensor interactions. We first explore these couplings in the mini-superspace and investigate in which scenario the ghost remains absent. We further study these non-minimal derivative couplings in the decoupling-limit of the theory and show that the equation of motion for the helicity-0 mode remains second order in derivatives. Finally, we discuss preliminary implications for cosmology.
description: 17 pages
The Constitutionality of the Administrative Border and Identity Commission
Creators: name: Kitaw, Tgegne Zergaw
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: In Ethiopia, in the past years, many questions have been raised in relation to claims of identity, self-administration, and administrative border that have led the country to a bloody conflict, instability, disruption of peace and security, and anarchy. As part of a solution for these problems, the federal government has enacted a law that established the Administrative Border and Identity Commission. Following the enactments of the establishment proclamation, there is strong opposition against the establishment of the commission by claiming that is not constitutional to establish such kinds of commission in the presence of other duly and constitutionally established institutions. Even one region of the country has passed a decision that makes the proclamation non-effective in that particular region claiming that it conflicts with the constitution. Therefore this study aims at assessing the constitutionality of the Administrative Border and Identity Commission and to evaluate the critics against it. To do this the researcher examined and analyzed the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, other relevant laws of the country and the existing institutional practice. Accordingly, the findings of the study revealed that the critic against establishing the commission that solely bases on its conflict with the Constitution is unacceptable and baseless. It is because of the fact that the commission does not have the effect of replacing the existing duly established constitutional institution as long as such constitutional the House of Federation, the institution constitutionally mandated with the issues in discussion, has still the final say over the recommendation of the Commission. Except for few gaps and some minor problems, the establishment of the Commission is not in conflict with the Constitution rather than supporting and strengthening the constitutional mechanisms. Hence, if properly utilized and duly constituted, the Commission will play enormous roles in the national efforts to find a lasting solution for those questions and conflicts by investigating the root causes of the problem and providing research based recommendations.


 
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 8 No 1 (2017): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Skidmore College
Creators: name: Berta, Margaret
name: Lieberman, Marya
name: Salazar, Laura
name: Hall, Bonnie
name: Zea, Corbin
name: St. Clair, Martin
name: Bliese, Sarah
name: Mang, Stephen
name: Lockwood, Tracy-Lynn
name: brown, Corina
name: McDonnell, Claire
name: Behan, Patrice
name: Grochowski, Laura
name: Turner, Mary
name: Robinson, Jill
name: Mielke, Levi
name: Muna, Grace
name: Shaner, Sarah
name: Howard, Maury
name: Taylor, Jason
name: Easter, Joyce
name: Wilson, Erin
name: Esson, Joan
name: Sinville, Rondedrick
name: Georgiadis, Rosina
name: Williams, Ursula
name: Doolittle, Pamela
name: Austin, Rodney
name: Loman, Jacob
name: Huschka, Ryan
name: Fletcher, Heidi
name: Khalafi, Lida
name: Knust, Kyle
name: Styers-Barnett, David
name: Smith, Madeline
name: Ashenef, Ayenew
name: Hollis, Gary
name: Sisk, Matthew
name: Oberhof, Nils
name: Puccio, Maria
name: Wilson, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: DPAL Data and Information for Skidmore College
Evolution and Dynamics of a Solar Active Prominence
Creators: name: Magara, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The life of a solar active prominence, one of the most remarkable objects on the Sun, is full of dynamics; after first appearing on the Sun the prominence continuously evolves with various internal motions and eventually produces a global eruption toward the interplane- tary space. Here we report that the whole life of an active prominence is successfully re- produced by performing as long-term a magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a magnetized prominence plasma as was ever done. The simulation reveals underlying dynamic processes that give rise to observed properties of an active prominence: invisible subsurface flows self- consistently produce the cancellation of magnetic flux observed at the photosphere, while observed and somewhat counterintuitive strong upflows are driven against gravity by en- hanced gas pressure gradient force along a magnetic field line locally standing vertical. The most highlighted dynamic event, transition into an eruptive phase, occurs as a natural con- sequence of the self-consistent evolution of a prominence plasma interacting with a magnetic field, which is obtained by seamlessly reproducing dynamic processes involved in the forma- tion and eruption of an active prominence.
description: 9 papges including 3 figures
Cinematic infernos: Digital technologies and the remediation of Dante’s Infernal imagery through the cinematic screen (2005-2015)
Creators: name: Signorelli, Valentina
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: In 2015 we celebrated the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s birth. In light of the popularity of Dante’s imagery, channelled through a variety of the arts and across national contexts for more than seven centuries, this study explores practices of adaptation and remediation of Dante’s Inferno through the cinematic screen in 2005-2015 as well as its relationship with digital technologies. Despite our understanding of Dante and the screen being enriched by the contribution of several scholars such as Antonella Braida, Luisa Calé, Dennis Looney and Nick Havely, amongst others, very little has been written about the aesthetic, social and political impact of digital technologies on cinematic adaptations of the infernal imagery. In order to fill this gap in knowledge, this study investigates the remediate power of digital technology by simultaneously exploring its involvement and its impact. This includes an examination of film production, conservation, circulation and reception. In order to do so, I scrutinise the following three key case studies: Milano Film’s Inferno (ITA,1911), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò – 120 Days of Sodom (ITA, 1975) and David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (CAN, FR, ITA, POR, 2012). This multi-disciplinary approach offers a theoretical revision of the theory of adaptation, shifting from the enduring centrality of the ‘reference text’ to a more intermedial awareness of the pivotal role played by the cinematic screen. This enables an exploration of the cultural, political and social impact of Dante’s inspired infernal imagery in the 21st century.
On the $Φ$-variation of stochastic processes with exponential moments
Creators: name: Basse-O'Connor, Andreas
name: Weber, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60G17, 60G15, secondary 60G18, 60G22

description: We obtain sharp sufficient conditions for exponentially integrable stochastic processes $X=\{X(t)\!\!: t\in [0,1]\}$, to have sample paths with bounded $Φ$-variation. When $X$ is moreover Gaussian, we also provide a bound of the expectation of the associated $Φ$-variation norm of $X$. For an Hermite process $X$ of order $m\in \N$ and of Hurst index $H\in (1/2,1)$, we show that $X$ is of bounded $Φ$-variation where $Φ(x)=x^{1/H}(\log(\log 1/x))^{-m/(2H)}$, and that this $Φ$ is optimal. This shows that in terms of $Φ$-variation, the Rosenblatt process (corresponding to $m=2$) has more rough sample paths than the fractional Brownian motion (corresponding to $m=1$).
description: 24 pages
Characterization of Taxable Units and Tax Bases under the Income Tax Schedules of Schedule ‘A’ and ‘B’ of the Federal Income Tax Proclamation of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Addis, Belete
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: The income tax structure of Ethiopia is substantively schedular. The Federal Income Tax Proclamation incorporates five income tax Schedules (Schedule ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ and ‘E’). The first four provide their own taxable unit and tax base, the basic two elements which determine the scope of any income tax schedule. The last Schedule, on the other hand, is all about exemptions. This paper aims to briefly overview the income tax schedules and most importantly to examine how taxable units and tax bases are characterized under the first two Schedules. In doing so, an assessment is also made on the developments and gaps of the current income tax regime. The paper uses a doctrinal legal research method and based on the critical analysis of relevant legislations and literatures, it is found that the current income tax regime unveils some developments such as incorporating informative definitional provisions. However, the regime still suffers from shortcomings, such as characterization overlaps and clarity problems with potential administrative difficulties. To curb these, the paper among other things, calls for the enactment of directives or advance rulings.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 8 No 1 (2017): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Within-person associations between psychological and contextual factors and momentary lapse incidence in smokers attempting to stop: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies
Creators: name: Perski, Olga
name: Kale, Dimitra
name: Szinay, Dorothy
name: ten Hoor, Gill
name: Kwasnicka, Dominika
name: Schneider, Verena
name: Asare, Bernard
name: Verboon, Peter
name: Powell, Daniel
name: Naughton, Felix
name: Keller, Jan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Ecological Momentary Assessment
subject: meta-analysis
subject: smoking lapse
subject: systematic review
subject: within-person

description: We aim to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies to examine within-person associations between psychological and contextual factors and momentary lapse incidence in smokers attempting to stop.
Confined helium on Lagrange meshes
Creators: name: Baye, Daniel
name: Dohet-Eraly, Jérémy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lagrange-mesh method has the simplicity of a calculation on a mesh and can have the accuracy of a variational method. It is applied to the study of a confined helium atom. Two types of confinement are considered. Soft confinements by potentials are studied in perimetric coordinates. Hard confinement in impenetrable spherical cavities is studied in a system of rescaled perimetric coordinates varying in [0,1] intervals. Energies and mean values of the distances between electrons and between an electron and the helium nucleus are calculated. A high accuracy of 11 to 15 significant figures is obtained with small computing times. Pressures acting on the confined atom are also computed. For sphere radii smaller than 1, their relative accuracies are better than $10^{-10}$. For larger radii up to 10, they progressively decrease to $10^{-3}$, still improving the best literature results.
description: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015
Protection of Tenure Security in Private Renting under Ethiopian Residential Lease Law
Creators: name: Zeleke, Mihret Alemayehu
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Rental tenure or residential lease is the most common residential tenure in urban centers in Ethiopia. Despite its dynamic nature, the sector is still regulated by the Civil Code, enacted six decades ago. This article aims to review the protection of tenure security of lessees in private rental housing in the Ethiopian residential lease law. The experience of some jurisdictions in the protection of tenure security is also reviewed. The article finds that Ethiopian law lacks minimum rules on a number of factors that safeguard security of tenure including minimum lease term, rent increment, lease renewal, notice period and forced eviction. Accordingly, the lessor can give
 short-term leases and then terminate it upon expiration, increase rent anytime and by any percentage, terminate the lease and evict the lessee at any time for no cause. The lessor is also not required to give notice regarding the various measures he/she takes. Thus, safeguards that are necessary to protect tenure security are either non-existent or poorly utilized. Hence, lessees are left largely unprotected, which makes life in rental units insecure and unstable. The study recommends urgent revision of the residential lease law to incorporate minimum rules that are necessary to protect security of tenure and bring security and stability to millions of lessees in the country, and thereby meet the country's human rights obligations in relation to the right to adequate housing.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 8 No 1 (2017): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Spectral properties of magnetic chain graphs
Creators: name: Exner, Pavel
name: Manko, Stepan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Q35, 81Q15, 47B39

description: We discuss spectral properties of a charged quantum particle confined to a chain graph consisting of an infinite array of rings under influence of a magnetic field assuming a $δ$-coupling at the points where the rings touch. We start with the situation when the system has a translational symmetry and analyze spectral consequences of perturbations of various kind, such as a local change of the magnetic field, of the coupling constant, or of a ring circumference. A particular attention is paid to weak perturbations, both local and periodic; for the latter we prove a version of Saxon-Hutner conjecture.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.6089
IMPROVING FOOD ACCESS FOR BLACK RESIDENTS IN UNDERINVESTED AREAS OF GRANVILLE AND VANCE COUNTIES
Creators: name: Wilkins, Adaliah; Butler, Renee; Carter, Rachel; Mortensen, Nathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
Food insecurity is a systemic issue within the built environment of Granville and Vance (GV) counties, North Carolina (NC), that has pervasive negative effects on residents’ health outcomes. Analysis of GV counties’ built environment identified food insecurity as a priority to address. The team performed contextual analyses to gain comprehensive understanding of the impact food access has on residents, and what factors influence that relationship. As a result, the team identified several recommendations to reduce food insecurity while prioritizing equity-centered, community-driven solutions. Through establishment of a food resource directory, expansion of the NC Department of Transportation’s Microtransit program, and creation of a food insecurity steering committee, access to adequate nutrition would improve for GV counties’ residents. These efforts, in combination with local partnerships and stakeholder collaboration, can reduce barriers to food access and assistance programs. Additionally, these recommendations form a strong foundation for future improvements to be made.   
Cost of Care Associated with BMI in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
Creators: name: Richards, Eleanor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) incur greater medical expenditures than children without SCD. The prevalence of overweight has risen among children with SCD in recent years, but the impact of excess weight on both the disease burden and economic burden of SCD has not been determined. PROCEDURE: A convenience sample of patients with SCD under 18 years of age were asked to participate during a routine medical check-up. All participants were from one SCD clinic in North Carolina. Annual cost of care (CoC) in United States dollars (USD) was measured during four stages of adolescence (pre, early, middle, and late) for two groups of patients with SCD who were either above or below an age- and sex-specific 50th percentile for body mass index (BMI). RESULTS: A total of 33 African-American patients (mean age at enrollment 11.76 ± 3.13, 15 (45.5%) female) recorded 914 medical encounters spanning 306 patient-years. For patients over the 50th BMI percentile, CoC was estimated to increase by an additional $1,006 (p<0.001) per year. The estimated difference in annual CoC became most pronounced in late adolescence, wherein patients in the higher percentile group incurred an additional annual CoC of $11,695 (p=0.019). CONCLUSIONS: The differences we measured in cost of care for patients with SCD gives weight to the hypothesis that economic burden is exacerbated by excess bodyweight. Differences in the domain of healthcare costs also suggest potential benefits of weight-management interventions. Further studies implementing such interventions may provide insights for strategically managing SCD, reducing economic burden and improving patient outcomes.
title: Applications in 3D Geological Modelling
Creators: name:   Lehné , Rouwen Johannes
name:   Baumberger , Roland
name:   Steuer , Stephan
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Over the last decades, 3D geological modelling has become a standard in hydrocarbon exploration and production, has been adopted and is developing towards a systematic effort by geological surveys, and is on the verge of being able to properly handle the structurally complex settings in which the mining sector operates. New, exciting possibilities are arising and new application domains are opening up, which challenges geomodellers to integrate data and methods from different domains (e.g. remote-sensed and subsurface data), and to deliver integrated content (e.g. urban underground infrastructure and geology). In this process, several hurdles must be overcome, i.e., developing standards, harmonization, integration of data, storing and sharing content in a structured manner, and developing services. In the process challenges are manifold, and so are the solutions. This session therefore is looking for contributions addressing the wide field of geological 3D-modelling and associated topics such as data modelling & data storage and sharing systems. We especially encourage the younger generation to present and are glad to announce a special block within the session that is dedicated to honor selected student degree theses and reward them with a cash prize. For more details please visit the website of the section Geoinformatics (www.fgi-dggv.de)
Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data : two sides to every story
Creators: name: Hubertus, Lena
name: Groth, Juliane
name: Teucher, Mike
name: Hermans, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 550

description: Subsistence farmers with high dependency on natural resources are exceptionally vulnerable to rainfall changes. Besides, they are in the front row when it comes to observing these changes. Studies that systematically investigate similarities and differences between measured and perceived rainfall changes are typically limited to trends in rainfall amounts, thereby disregarding changes in extreme events, rainy season durations, and timing. We address this gap by contrasting rainfall changes perceived by subsistence farmers in the Ethiopian highlands with meteorological daily rainfall data derived from the Climate Hazards Group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS). We applied nine distinct metrics for rainfall dynamics, accounting for rainfall variability, including extreme events and changes in the onset and cessation of the two rainy seasons. Farmers perceived increasingly unreliable rainfall for both the short and the long rainy seasons, with later onset and earlier cessation, increasing rainfall intensity, and increasing occurrence of untimely rainfall and droughts. This partially disagrees with the CHIRPS data that indicate most significant rainfall changes for the short rainy season only. Since the early 1980s, this season has been experiencing decreasing rainfall amounts, with high variability between years and an increasingly uncertain – yet delayed – onset. In contrast, the long rainy season experienced little changes in rainfall. Our results point towards changing farmers' water availability and water demand as an explanation for the perceived deteriorating rainfall conditions. As farmers’ perceptions partly diverge from meteorological observations, both data sources should be used complementarily to improve our understanding of climatic change.
Global Mg/Si and Al/Si Distributions on Lunar Surface Derived from Chang'E-2 X-ray Spectrometer
Creators: name: Dong, Wu-Dong
name: Zhang, Xiaoping
name: Zhu, Meng-Hua
name: Xu, Aoao
name: Tang, Zesheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray fluorescence remote sensing technique plays a significant role in the chemical compositions research of the Moon. Here we describe the data analysis method for China's Chang'E-2 X-ray spectrometer (CE2XRS) in detail and present the preliminary results: the first global Mg/Si and Al/Si maps on the lunar surface. Our results show that the distributions of Mg/Si and Al/Si correlate well with the terrains of the Moon. The higher Mg/Si ratio corresponding to the mare regions while the lower value corresponding to the highland terrains. The map of Al/Si ratio shows a reverse relationship with the map of Mg/Si ratio.
The Integration of Preconception Health into Public Health Practice: An Evidence Map
Creators: name: Zabala, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Objectives: In 2006, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Select Panel on Preconception Care published ten recommendations to improve preconception health and healthcare in the United States. Since then, there have been numerous publications supporting preconception health's integration into public health practice. There now exists a need to summarize the extent and distribution of that research to ascertain where efforts are being focused and to determine the gaps in the literature. Methods: An 'evidence mapping' methodology was used to systematically search for peer reviewed articles pertaining to this field of inquiry. Results: We identified and mapped 144 published articles according to the three core functions of public health and their corresponding essential public health services (EPHS). Each core function was equally represented, though the distribution of literature varied among the EPHS. Overall, literature describing and evaluating preconception health data, services, and programs were well represented, though the literature was limited in some domains. Conclusions: Evidence mapping is useful and practical for characterizing the extent and distribution of the research pertaining to preconception heath in public health practice. The results of the evidence map suggest that there is a need for further development of public health efforts to ensure the health of all women before, between, and beyond pregnancy.
Andrena flavipes Panzer 1799
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena flavipes

description: Andrena flavipes Panzer, 1799
 24.IV.2013, au sol, 1J; 25.VI.2014, prairie fleurie du mess, Centaurea sp., 4♀, Centaurea cyanus, 6♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Structural assessment of the full-length wild-type tumor suppressor protein p53 by mass spectrometry-guided computational modeling
Creators: name: Ianni, Alessio
name: Tüting, Christian
name: Kipping, Marc
name: Ihling, Christian H.
name: Köppen, Janett
name: Iacobucci, Claudio
name: Arlt, Christian
name: Kastritis, Panagiotis L.
name: Sinz, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 615

description: The tetrameric tumor suppressor p53 represents a great challenge for 3D-structural analysis due to its high degree of intrinsic disorder (ca. 40%). We aim to shed light on the structural and functional roles of p53’s C-terminal region in full-length, wild-type human p53 tetramer and their importance for DNA binding. For this, we employed complementary techniques of structural mass spectrometry (MS) in an integrated approach with computational modeling. Our results show no major conformational differences in p53 between DNA-bound and DNA-free states, but reveal a substantial compaction of p53’s C-terminal region. This supports the proposed mechanism of unspecific DNA binding to the C-terminal region of p53 prior to transcription initiation by specific DNA binding to the core domain of p53. The synergies between complementary structural MS techniques and computational modeling as pursued in our integrative approach is envisioned to serve as general strategy for studying intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered region (IDRs).
3D‐Printed Bioreactor with Integrated Impedance Spectroscopy for Cell Barrier Monitoring
Creators: name: Linz, Georg
name: Rauer, Sebastian Bernhard
name: Kuhn, Yasmin
name: Wennemaring, Simon
name: Siedler, Laura
name: Singh, Smriti
name: Wessling, Matthias
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 3D-printing
subject: Caco-2
subject: electrical impedance spectroscopy
subject: organ-on-a chip
subject: transepithelial electrical resistance
subject: 600

description: Cell culture experiments often suffer from limited commercial availability of laboratory-scale bioreactors, which allow experiments to be conducted under flow conditions and additional online monitoring techniques. A novel 3D-printed bioreactor with a homogeneously distributed flow field enabling epithelial cell culture experiments and online barrier monitoring by integrated electrodes through electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is presented. Transparent and conductive indium tin oxide glass as current-injecting electrodes allows direct visualization of the cells, while measuring EIS simultaneously. The bioreactor's design considers the importance of a homogeneous electric field by placing the voltage pick-up electrodes in the electrical field. The device's functionality is demonstrated by the cultivation of the epithelial cell line Caco-2 under continuous flow and monitoring of the cell layer by online EIS. The collected EIS data were fitted by an equivalent electric circuit, resulting in the cell layer's resistance and capacitance. This data is used to monitor the cell layer's reaction to ethylene glycol-bis-(2-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N′,N′-tetraacetic acid and forskolin. These two model substances show the power of impedance spectroscopy as a non-invasive way to characterize cell barriers. In addition, the bioreactor design is available as a print-ready file in the Appendix, enabling its use for other scientific institutions.
A scoping review protocol of the use of co-design methods in stroke intervention development
Creators: name: Singh, Hardeep
name: LA Nelson, Michelle
name: Martyniuk, Julia
name: Colquhoun, Heather
name: Munce, Sarah
name: Cameron, Jill
name: Kokorelias, Kristina
name: Pakkal, Oya
name: Kuluski, Kerry
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This is a pre-registration for a scoping review protocol.
Consumers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Creative Advertising
Creators: name: Demir, Pinar
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2017

description: This study examined the way consumers perceive and respond to creative advertising, advertising that is judged by experts (usually senior practitioners) to be creative, to see if consumers reacted in the way that could reasonably be expected of them. It offers a conceptualisation of creative ads, from the perspective of consumers, with their perceptions as antecedents and responses as outcomes. It starts with a review of the literature on creativity and advertising, the various definitions and dimensions of advertising creativity, and the approaches to measuring it. Consumer responses to advertising are discussed with definitions, importance, and measurements of each response. A research framework is developed, using a structural model that specifies the hypothesised relationships between the advertising creativity dimensions and responses. A quantitative research methodology was employed with an online survey of approximately 300 consumers, to explore whether practitioners’ perceptions of creative ads were congruent with those of consumers. Structural equation modelling was employed for data analysis and it was found that there was incongruency between the perceptions of practitioners and those of consumers. The results showed that ads that were judged to be creative by practitioners were not perceived as such by consumers. Consumers did, however, perceive particular individual dimensions of advertising creativity. Through their perceptions of these dimensions consumers responded to this creative advertising by paying attention to, liking, and, ultimately, engaging with the ads, even though they did not recognise them as creative. The results indicated that creativity as judged by practitioners is of no significance in consumers’ creativity perceptions - it is the particular dimensions of advertising creativity that consumers perceived that gave rise to their responses and engaged them. Unlike practitioners who praise creativity, consumers are neutral towards it whilst at the same time being able to perceive divergent and clever advertisement elements. Practitioners should emphasise these elements in their designs rather than concentrate on what they think might be ‘creative’.
Network growth with preferential attachment and without "rich get richer" mechanism
Creators: name: Lachgar, A.
name: Achahbar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a simple preferential attachment model of growing network using the complementary probability of Barabási-Albert (BA) model, i.e., $Π(k_i) \propto 1-\frac{k_i}{\sum_j k_j}$. In this network, new nodes are preferentially attached to not well connected nodes. Numerical simulations, in perfect agreement with the master equation solution, give an exponential degree distribution. This suggests that the power law degree distribution is a consequence of preferential attachment probability together with "rich get richer" phenomena. We also calculate the average degree of a target node at time t $()$ and its fluctuations, to have a better view of the microscopic evolution of the network, and we also compare the results with BA model.
Teaching Legal Research Methods in the LL.B. Programme of Ethiopian Law Schools
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Nega Ewunetie
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: After completing the LL.B. programme, graduates are expected to have acquired the skill and competence, among other things, to render high quality research service to organizations, undertake independent research in areas of law, and research and publish to reinforce the Ethiopian legal jurisprudence. To acquire these skills, competence, and knowledge the teaching of legal research methods should be revisited so that students will receive quality education and skill training. Three changes in particular would, in the opinion of this writer, make significant positive differences. First, large class sizes should be reduced to enable more active participation of students and to reduce the heavy teaching load imposed on instructors. Here, it is possible to think of having two small classes instead of one large class. Second, the existing curriculum and the course breakdown should be restructured. Specifically, it would be helpful if Legal Research Methods is offered as a three-semester introductory, core, and advanced course that follows the established substantive and doctrinal knowledge of students. It has been suggested that the Utrecht model might be one to emulate. Finally, it appears that the teaching, research and publication experiences of most of the instructors currently teaching legal research methods at Ethiopian law schools hampers the quality of education and the skill training that they can offer to LL.B. students. With that in mind, law schools should employ and assign competent and qualified senior instructors who have extensive teaching, research, and publication experiences to teach courses in legal research methods. If these three changes are made, it is the opinion of this writer that legal research methods courses can be more fruitfully integrated into the LL.B. programmes of Ethiopian law schools, to the benefit of both students and instructors.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Identifying Early Symptoms of Autism in a Childcare Setting – The Development of the 360 Assessment of Child Development: Why autism should be a Maternal and Child Health priority
Creators: name: Suzanne RaftermanDerby
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Autism is a neurological disorder that affects at least 1 in every 110 children. These children deserve every chance at living their lives to their fullest potential and in order to do so require intensive early intervention services. Early intervention is a crucial part of reducing the severity of autistic symptoms and helping children to overcome many of the obstacles that their diagnosis can place in front of them. To date there are many assessment and diagnostic tools that have been designed to diagnose autism and to try and identify children as young as 12-months-old who may be at risk for autism. Current recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that developmental screening be done by pediatricians during a child’s well-child visit.
Combining Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Materials in 3D Printing for Fabricating Microfluidic Devices with Spatial Wettability
Creators: name: Männel, Max J.
name: Weigel, Niclas
name: Hauck, Nicolas
name: Heida, Thomas
name: Thiele, Julian
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: emulsion formation
subject: hydrophilic-hydrophobic
subject: micro-stereolithography
subject: microfluidics
subject: multi-material
subject: wettability
subject: 600

description: The fabrication of microfluidic flow cells via projection micro-stereolithography (PμSL) has excited researchers in recent years. However, due to the inherent process properties of most commercial PμSL, microfluidic devices are fabricated in a monolithic fashion with uniform material properties across a flow cell. Yet, the large surface-to-volume ratio in microfluidics demands to tailor microchannel surface properties—particularly in planar microchannel arrangements—with spatial control and micron-scale resolution to form a desired flow profile, e.g., emulsion droplets. Here, the fabrication of planar microfluidic devices by PμSLbased 3D printing with spatial control over surface properties is presented. For that, homemade photopolymer formulations being either hydrophilic or hydrophobic are designed. Adding acrylic acid to a resin containing poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate lowers the contact angle down to 0° against water creating a superhydrophilic surface. By utilizing 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyl acrylate, a photopolymer formulation allowing for 3D-printing a hydrophobic microchannel surface with a contact angle >120° against water is obtained. Combining these two materials, microfluidic flow cells with spatially defined wettability are 3D-printed for emulsion formation. Finally, the resin vat of the commercial PμSL printer is switched during the printing process for fabricating multimaterial geometries, as exemplarily applied for realizing a hydrophobic-hydrophilic-hydrophobic device for forming O/W/O double emulsions.
Mitigating Water Crossover by Crosslinked Coating of Cation‐Exchange Membranes for Brine Concentration
Creators: name: Rommerskirchen, Alexandra
name: Roth, Hannah
name: Linnartz, Christian J.
name: Egidi, Franziska
name: Kneppeck, Christian
name: Roghmans, Florian
name: Wessling, Matthias
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: brine concentration
subject: flow-electrode capacitive deionization
subject: ion-exchange membranes
subject: selective coating
subject: water desalination
subject: 600

description: Undesired water crossover through ion-exchange membranes is a significant limitation in electrically driven desalination processes. The effect of mitigating water crossover is twofold: 1) The desalination degree is less reduced due to the unwanted removal of water, and 2) the brine concentration is increased due to decreased dilution by an unwanted crossover of water molecules. Hence, water crossover limits the desalination and concentration efficiency of the processes, while the energy demand to achieve a certain level of desalination or concentration increases. This effect is especially pronounced when treating high salinity solutions, which goes hand in hand with the crossover of many ions through the ion-exchange membranes. A crosslinked coating for cation-exchange membranes (CEMs) is presented in this work, which can significantly mitigate such undesired water crossover. The efficacy is demonstrated using the flow-electrode capacitive deionization process applied for desalination and concentration of saline brines at feed concentrations of 60 and 120 g L−1 NaCl. With just a single coated CEM, the water crossover was reduced by up to 54%.
Andrena fulva
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena fulva

description: Andrena fulva (Müller, 1776)
 26.III.2010, Salix sp., 1J, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 88, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Objectives of Sharia Law (Maqasid Al-Shariah)
Creators: name: Yimam, Alyu Abate
Publisher: name: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
Year: 2023

description: Pluralism is one of the essential features of the Ethiopian legal system. It is enunciated in the FDRE Constitution that religious and customary systems of dispute resolution are officially allowed to play their part on personal and family matters alongside the regular justice system. This pluralistic aspect of the Constitution has been officially reduced into reality by Sharia Courts of the Country that have been in operation since the time before Haile silassie; and with the adoption of the FDRE Constitution, their parallel operation is guaranteed and made mandatory for recognition by the legislative organs of the country. Accordingly, Sharia courts have been restructured along federal structure and a three-tiered Sharia court levels are adopted both at the federal and regional levels. It is stated in the Federal Sharia Courts Consolidation Proclamation that Sharia courts shall apply Islamic law to adjudicate cases falling under their material jurisdiction (Art. 6). One of foundational concepts and currently reviving theme of Islamic jurisprudence is Maqasid Al-Sharia (the Purpose and Goals of Islamic Law). This work introduces the methodologies employed in identification of Maqasid, and the goals the Sharia aims to achieve through its diverse legal frameworks It is pointed out by the classical and contemporary Sharia literature and Maqasid jurists that different branches of Islamic law including its personal and family framework have objectives to realize which falls in either of one or more of the three cardinal goals i.e. Consideration of public interest (Maslahah), establishing Justice (Adl) and Educating an Individual (Tahdhib al-Fard). This paper presents an introductory analysis in the methodological exposition of Maqasid so as to tackle the difficulties arising from literalistic understanding of Sharia rules in general, and ensure correct and acceptable interpretation and enforcement of Islamic personal and family laws by the Ethiopian Sharia courts.
description: Bahir Dar University Journal of Law, Vol 7 No 2 (2017): Bahir Dar University Journal of Law
A unifying E2-quasi-exactly solvable model
Creators: name: Fring, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new non-Hermitian E2-quasi-exactly solvable model is constructed containing two previously known models of this type as limits in one of its three parameters. We identify the optimal finite approximation to the double scaling limit to the complex Mathieu Hamiltonian. A detailed analysis of the vicinity of the exceptional points in the parameter space is provided by discussing the branch cut structures responsible for the chirality when exceptional points are surrounded and the structure of the corresponding energy eigenvalue loops stretching over several Riemann sheets. We compute the Stieltjes measure and momentum functionals for the coefficient functions that are univariate weakly orthogonal polynomials in the energy obeying three-term recurrence relations.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, prepared for Selected Contributions in Springer Proceedings in Physics