cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DNA Labels for Improved Detection and Capture with Solid-State Nanopores
Creators: name: Karau, Philipp
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Nanopores
Single-Molecule Detection
DNA structures
Controlled Breakdown

description: Nanopores have emerged as a simple but effective tool to investigate the behavior of polymers in solution. They have shown great potential to simplify expensive and time consuming procedures like DNA sequencing, protein detection, and disease biomarker detection. With the development of in situ fabrication of solid-state nanopores by controlled breakdown (CBD) of a dielectric material, nanomanufacturing of nanopore-based technologies became feasible. However, there are still a lot of challenges to overcome for these applications to become reality. One of the major problems with solid-state nanopores is the rapid passage time of analytes going through the pore, complicating detection and reliable identification of molecules. In this thesis molecular structures are proposed that increase passage times due to increased interactions between analyte and pore wall, and at the same time increase signal amplitude due to increased blockage of the pore. These structures are short, branched DNA molecules that were assembled with built-in modifications and matching sequences to assume their structure. Nanopore experiments reveal that these structurally defined DNA produce higher detection rates than their linear DNA counterparts, making them better candidates for labels in single-molecule sensing experiments.
Sozialpolitische Veränderungen Vor Dem Hintergrund Des Aktivierenden Sozialstaates: Auswirkungen Auf Fachkräfte Der Sozialen Arbeit Anhand Eines Fallbeispiels
Creators: name: Krug, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Keine Beschreibung.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Zürich, 2015
Evaluation of Stochastic Magnetic Tunnel Junctions as Building Blocks for Probabilistic Computing
Creators: name: Hassan, Orchi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nanoelectronics

description: Probabilistic computing has been proposed as an attractive alternative for bridging the computational gap between the classical computers of today and the quantum computers of tomorrow. It offers to accelerate the solution to many combinatorial optimization and machine learning problems of interest today, motivating the development of dedicated hardware. Similar to the ‘bit’ of classical computing or ‘q-bit’ of quantum computing, probabilistic bit or ‘p-bit’ serve as a fundamental building-block for probabilistic hardware. p-bits are robust classical quantities, fluctuating rapidly between its two states, envisioned as three-terminal devices with a stochastic output controlled by its input. It is possible to implement fast and efficient hardware p-bits by modifying the present day magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology. In this dissertation, we evaluate the design and performance of low-barrier magnet (LBM) based p-bit realizations.
 LBMs can be realized from perpendicular magnets designed to be close to the in-plane transition or from circular in-plane magnets. Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) built using these LBMs as free layers can be integrated with standard transistors to implement the three-terminal p-bit units. A crucial parameter that determines the response of these devices is the correlation-time of magnetization. We show that for magnets with low energy barriers (Δ ≤ kBT) the circular disk magnets with in-plane magnetic anisotropy (IMA) can lead to correlation-times in sub-ns timescales; two orders of magnitude smaller compared to magnets having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). We show that this striking difference is due to a novel precession-like fluctuation mechanism that is enabled by the large demagnetization field in mono-domain circular disk magnets. Our predictions on fast fluctuations in LBM magnets have recently received experimental confirmation as well.
 We provide a detailed energy-delay performance evaluation of the stochastic MTJ (s-MTJ) based p-bit hardware. We analyze the hardware using benchmarked SPICE multi-physics modules and classify the necessary and sufficient conditions for designing them. We connect our device performance analysis to systems-level metrics by emphasizing problem and substrate independent figures-of-merit such as flips per second and dissipated energy per flip that can be used to classify probabilistic hardware.
EARLY DETECTION OF INTRUSIONS AND MALWARE FOR LINUX BASED SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinrun
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The system call based research for host intrusion detection systems (HIDSs) and Android malware detection systems (AMDSs) have been conducted over the past several years. Several HIDS and AMDS frameworks have been proposed using different intrusion and malware datasets. Security researchers have used several machine learning (ML) techniques to improve the classification performance with high accuracy and low false-alarm rate. However, the emphasis on real-world deployment of HIDS and AMDS for intrusion and malware detection is limited. To address this issue, we propose a system call traces processing framework with the ability to perform early detection of intrusions and malware. In the proposed framework, a limited number of system calls are analyzed which are invoked by the processes/applications during their early execution. To verify the efficiency, we perform the experiments on a publicly available intrusion dataset known as ADFA-LD dataset and a self-constructed dataset for Android environment. We analyze both the datasets with statistical methods, and process the selected traces with 2-4 gram model and Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) model during the extraction of features. We train six ML classifiers using the datasets including Decision Tree, Random Forest, Multi-layer Perceptron, K-nearest-neighbor, Multi-variable Naive Bayesian, and Support Vector Machine. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of proposed HIDS and AMDS are similar to the approaches that used all the system calls invoked during the full execution of applications. We also develop a client-server architecture based Android app for our Android malware detection system.
Additional file 1 of Engineering Streptomyces albulus to enhance ε-poly-L-lysine production by introducing a polyphosphate kinase-mediated ATP regeneration system
Creators: name: Yang, Hao
name: Zhu, Daojun
name: Kai, Lang
name: Wang, Liang
name: Zhang, Hongjian
name: Zhang, Jianhua
name: Chen, Xusheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in this study. Fig. S1. Fed-batch fermentation processes of strain PL05 with different polyP6 addition strategies. A: S. albulus WG608 without polyP6 addition. B: strain PL05 without polyP6 addition. C: strain PL05 with polyP6 addition at the final concentration of 1 g/L every 48 h. D: strain PL05 with polyP6 addition at the final concentration of 1 g/L at 0 h and 108 h. The data are presented as averages, and the error bars represent standard deviations (n = 3 independent experiments). Fig. S2. Batch-fermentation of ppk heterologous expression strains with 1 g/L polyP6 addition in 1-L fermenters. The data are presented as averages, and the error bars represent standard deviations (n = 3 independent experiments). * 0.01 < P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.
THREE PROBLEMS IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING: ALIGNMENT OF DATA-BEARING HALFTONE IMAGES, SURFACE CODING, AND MATCHING CONSUMER PHOTOS OF FASHION ITEMS WITH ON-LINE IMAGES
Creators: name: Zhao, Ziyi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Digital image processing techniques have many significant applications in industry. In this thesis, we focus on three problems in digital image processing. These three problems involve halftone images, information encoding and decoding, image alignment, and deep learning.Specifically, the first problem is based on data-bearing halftone images, which are an aesthetically pleasing alternative to barcodes. We address the issues generated in the camera captured image alignment process. We perform some theoretical analysis and validate it by simulation. We also provide an optimal solution to the problem.The second problem is about the alignment technique on a 3D surface. We develop a pipeline of surfaces coding to solve the alignment issues on 3D surfaces, which includes oblique surfaces and cylindrical surfaces.The third problem is related to image retrieval. We propose a deep learning based solution to the fashion image retrieval task. Fashion image retrieval is significant to improve the customers’ experience in online shopping. A fast, accurate shopping item information retrieval system based on the customers’ uploaded image has been built by us. A novel solution is provided, and it achieves state-of-art accuracy in shopping items’ information retrieval.
Additional file 1 of Effects of dietary diversity on frailty in Chinese older adults: a 3-year cohort study
Creators: name: Duan, Ying
name: Qi, Qi
name: Cui, Yan
name: Yang, Ling
name: Zhang, Min
name: Liu, Huaqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics of lost sample and final sample. Table S2. Scoring criteria for frailty. Table S3. Scoringcriteria for dietary diversity. Table S4. Changes in dietary diversity. Table S5. Association between dietary diversity and frailty after retaining participants with some health defect absence value (≤5). Table S6. Association between dietary diversity and frailty after excluding participants with pre-frailty in 2011.
Temporal Field Framework for Mass Emergence and Cosmological Redshift
Creators: name: Anwar, Morgan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study presents a theoretical perspective based on a scalar temporal field , offering an additional way to understand the relationships between mass, redshift, and cosmic expansion. In this framework, mass is viewed as a result of intrinsic temporal oscillations, while redshift is interpreted as a gradual shift in the temporal field over cosmic time. The model aims to provide a coherent mathematical structure that aligns with known observational data, including supernova distributions and fundamental mass ratios.

 

Rather than replacing existing models, this approach seeks to contribute an alternative viewpoint that may complement current cosmological understanding and stimulate further investigation into the role of time in physical law..
title: Rose Valley Creek Restoration Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for the Rose Valley Creek Restoration Project on the Ojai Ranger District
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2024

description: WCRO-2023-03076
The 90% effective dose of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine for Cesarean delivery under combined spinal–epidural anesthesia in parturients with super obesity: an up-down sequential allocation study
Creators: name: Barney, Emily Z.
name: Rubright, Samantha M.
name: Landreth, Riley A.
name: Pham, Trung
name: Tan, Hon Sen
name: Habib, Ashraf S.
name: Fuller, Matthew E.
name: Ernst, Liliane
name: Diomede, Olga I.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: Purpose To determine the 90% effective dose (ED90) of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine for Cesarean delivery under combined spinal–epidural anesthesia (CSE) in parturients with super obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 50 kg·m−2). Methods We enrolled parturients with BMI ≥ 50 kg·m−2 with term, singleton vertex pregnancies undergoing elective Cesarean delivery under CSE. An independent statistician generated the 0.75% hyperbaric bupivacaine dosing regimen in increments of 0.75 mg using a biased-coin up-down sequential allocation technique. This was combined with 15 μg fentanyl, 150 μg morphine, and normal saline to a volume of 2.05 mL. The initial and maximum doses were 9.75 mg and 12 mg, respectively. Participants, clinical team, and outcome assessors were blinded to the dose. The primary outcome was block success, defined as T6 block to pinprick within ten minutes and no intraoperative analgesic supplementation within 90 min of spinal injection. We determined the ED90 using logistic regression. Results We enrolled 45 parturients and included 42 in the analysis. All doses achieved a T6 level within ten minutes, and the primary outcome occurred in 0/1 (0%) of the 9.75-mg doses, 2/3 (67%) of the 10.5-mg doses, 21/27 (78%) of the 11.25-mg doses, and 11/11 (100%) of the 12-mg doses. The ED90 of hyperbaric bupivacaine was 11.56 mg (95% confidence interval, 11.16 to 11.99). Four parturients (9.5%) had sensory level higher than T2, but none was symptomatic or required general anesthesia. Conclusion The estimated ED90 of hyperbaric bupivacaine with fentanyl and morphine in parturients with super obesity undergoing Cesarean delivery under CSE was approximately 11.5 mg.Study registration ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03781388); first submitted 18 December 2018.
Paper as a simple tool to study bacterial ecology
Creators: name: Revuru, Sainitya
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Community interactions based on various parameters in defined niches have been studied to understand their influence on bacterial life. Yet there currently are no models that can depict how spatial interactions control the complex combinatorics of different microbial communities. Biodiversity influences the ecosystem properties of bacterial communities, but the relationship between bacterial biodiversity and function remains to be understood entirely. Here, the focus is on developing a simple and effective platform to study neighborhood interactions between different species of lactic acid bacteria by controlling two metrics – distance and composition. Using this simple platform, I explore 1) how spatial and temporal arrangement between different bacteria affect their interaction in a high throughput manner, 2) how biodiversity can be manipulated in terms of its starting population, the number of species, and species identity.
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis of proteomic adaptations in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium after long term bile acid exposure
Creators: name: Dreyer, Annika
name: Lenz, Christof
name: Groß, Uwe
name: Bohne, Wolfgang
name: Zautner, Andreas Erich
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Iron(III)-complexes as MRI Contrast Agents
Creators: name: Nucera, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2023

description: In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Gd(III)-based contrast agents (GBCAs) have proven to be ofgreat help for the diagnosis of various pathologies and for improving image quality. Although suchcompounds are generally considered safe, in response to concerns about patients who cannot toleratesome Gd(III) contrast agents as well as more recent reports of Gd(III) retention in the body, there hasbeen a renewed interest in finding alternatives to using Gd(III) for MR contrast. In this regard,complexes based on endogenous ions such as Fe(III) and Mn(II) may be a viable option. Some recentresults indicate that Fe(III) chelates administered at higher doses than GBCAs have achieved similarresults in typical clinical applications. Despite these important initial contributions, the mechanismsresponsible for the increase in water proton relaxation induced by Fe(III) complexes and therelationships between the molecular parameters governing their efficacy and chemical structure havenot yet been well elucidated, thus preventing the development of systems with optimal propertiesthrough rational ligand design. This dissertation reports the combined 1H and 17O NMR relaxometricstudy of a series of Fe(III)-based complexes in order to evaluate their effectiveness as reliablecandidates for designing potentially safer MRI contrast agents, particularly for use at the highmagnetic fields of modern clinical scanners. These measurements are also supported by DFTcalculation. Furthermore, the thermodynamic stabilities and kinetic inertias of these complexes arealso evaluated by potentiometry and UV-Vis spectrophotometry. The combined application of thesetechniques allows to thoroughly characterize these compounds so that the design of this emergingclass of contrast agents can be optimized.
Additional file 1 of Core genome sequencing and genotyping of Leptospira interrogans in clinical samples by target capture sequencing
Creators: name: Grillova, Linda
name: Cokelaer, Thomas
name: Mariet, Jean-François
name: da Fonseca, Juliana Pipoli
name: Picardeau, Mathieu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Proportion of reads of the 20 samples assigned to bacteria genomes (blue bars) and proportion of reads assigned specifically to the Leptospiraceae family (orange bars). Fig S2 Taxonomic assignation of the reads of the 20 samples by Kraken2. Fig. S3 Coverage depth of the L. interrogans core genome across samples. The coverage depth on average for all samples is above 50X (top dashed red line) in most samples (sample 3 coverage equal 42X). Sample 5 and 6 have low coverage of 28X and 8X. Sample 18 coverage is below 1X. Black bars give the ±1 standard deviation. Fig. S4 Depth coverage of the 20 samples across the L. interrogans core genome. Fig. S5 Histogram of SNP counts found in the 20 samples across all 273 genomes. For each of the 20 samples, we called variants using the 273 references of Leptospira (Additional file 2: Table S2) independently. For each genome, we obtained a set of SNPs that were filtered out to remove low quality variants (frequency below 10, uneven strand balance). Reference genomes distant from a sample led to thousands of SNPs while closely-related genomes led to less than 10 SNPs. Minimizing the count gives the closet genome to a given sample. Number of SNPs found in the 20 samples across all 273 genomes. Most genomes have more than 10,000 SNPs while only a few exhibit SNPs below 100.
Membrane Fouling Mitigation in Water Filtration Using Piezoelectrics
Creators: name: Aronu, Obinna K
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The clogging of filtration membrane by particles otherwise known as fouling is a major concern in membrane filtration technology due reduction of flux, membrane lifespan and system performance, with an associated increase in process and operating costs in industries that utilize membrane in their production process. Cleaning or replacement of a fouled membrane requires production to be interrupted or the entire system to be shut down. This is because the cleaning or replacement of the fouled membrane requires production to be interrupted for the cleaning process or the entire system to be shut down for the replacement process to take place, leading to great losses to the industries involved. Many approaches have been devised over the years to tackle this problem, of which not only undermine the performance of the filtration membrane but also contribute to great losses to industries that apply them. Cheaper and more efficient means of fouling control remains the key to solving this problem. A water filtration system is proposed that uses piezoelectric crystals attached on a tubular polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane to increase flux and delay the clogging of the pores of the filtration membrane (by particles). Filtration tests with mud solution showed that the membrane vibrated with piezoelectrics reduced the clogging of the pores and increased permeate flux of the filtration process as compared to the non-vibrated membrane. To optimize the permeate flux production of the system and fouling reduction, the effects of voltage, concentration and location of piezoelectric crystals were investigated. An equation to best fit the experimental data was developed which can help in the optimization of the variables.
How the CC BY License for Preprints Impacts Generative AI Training: A Guide For Researchers (Arabic version)
Creators: name: Creative Commons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: طبعات قبلية
ترخيص
حقوق الطبع والنشر
وصول مفتوح
علوم المفتوحة
بحوث مفتوحة
بحوث
علوم

description: ما مدى تأثير رخصة CC BY  الخاصة بالطبعات القبلية على عملية تدريب الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي؟

دليل للباحثين والباحثات الذين يخوضون غمار اتخاذ قرارات بشأن ترخيص طبعاتهم القبلية بشكل مفتوح وذلك في ضوء التطورات الحالية المحيطة بأدوات الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي والتدريب.

 

 A guide for researchers navigating open licensing decisions for their preprints in light of current developments around generative AI tools and training.

 

This text was translated into Arabic by Thalia Rahme.
Additional file 1 of Nutritional support during the first week for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia and respiratory distress: a multicenter cohort study in China
Creators: name: Lin, Huijia
name: Bai, Guannan
name: Ge, Jiajing
name: Chen, Xuefeng
name: He, Xinyu
name: Ma, Xiaolu
name: Shi, Liping
name: Du, Lizhong
name: Chen, Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 – Supplemental material for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report
Creators: name: Perez, Alberto A.
name: Yoon, Edward S.
name: Iyer, Sravisht
name: Lafage, Virginie
name: Sandhu, Harvinder
name: Schwab, Frank
name: Albert, Todd J.
name: Qureshi, Sheeraz
name: Kim, Han Jo
name: Katsuura, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-hss-10.1177_15563316211039509 for Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overlay in the Spine for Surgical Planning: A Technical Report by Alberto A. Perez, Edward S. Yoon, Sravisht Iyer, Virginie Lafage, Harvinder Sandhu, Frank Schwab, Todd J. Albert, Sheeraz Qureshi, Han Jo Kim and Yoshihiro Katsuura in HSS Journal®: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery
title: Essays on the political economy of employment polarisation:
title: global forces and domestic institutions
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Martelli, Angelo
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform

description: This thesis investigates the political economy of employment polarization focusing on the implications of this phenomenon along three main research fronts. The first paper follows a methodology which resembles closely the one adopted by Goos, Manning and Salomons (2014), however it further extends this framework by testing the joint effect of routinization and labour market institutions on employment structures. The evidence provided suggests that the claim of a pervasive technology-induced polarization should be revised in order to comprise a role for the institutional component. The second paper explores whether job polarization has a feedback effect on labour market institutions and policies, so that different degrees of polarization lead to different articulations of institutions at the domestic level, thus reinforcing or altering differences in national models across the European space. The analysis finds that the job polarization experienced by a particular country in the 5 years before a reform instance is consistently among the strongest predictors of reform activity, as significant as other drivers such as GDP growth and government net debt. Moreover, a higher degree of polarization tends to be associated with more deregulation and a decrease in the generosity of the policy measure. The empirical framework is also tested against more conventional taxonomies of welfare capitalism revealing that LMEs tend to harness job polarization dynamics whereas CMEs are incompatible with job polarization which destabilizes the system leading to an increased need for reforms. The final paper asks whether the U-shaped impact on the wage distribution predicted by the job polarization literature has actually materialized in Europe. The findings show that job polarization increased upper-tail inequality (90/50) and decreased lower-tail (50/10) inequality but that employment protection legislation restrained the wage effects.
Suizidbeihilfe Aus Sicht Der Sozialen Arbeit: Eine Ethische Auseinandersetzung Basierend Auf Dem Reflexiven Begründungsverfahren
Creators: name: Trost, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: Keine Beschreibung.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Zürich, 2012
Do It Yourself - Do It Together: Repair Cafés Als Lernfelder Für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Creators: name: Friz, Annina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Keine Beschreibung.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, Zürich, 2015
Additional file 1 of Outreach work in Belgian primary care practices during COVID-19: results from the cross-sectional PRICOV-19 study
Creators: name: Vanden Bossche, Dorien
name: Van Poel, Esther
name: Vanden Bussche, Pierre
name: Petré, Benoit
name: Ponsar, Cécile
name: Decat, Peter
name: Willems, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. BMC PC - Supplementary tables.
sj-pdf-1-ijq-10.1177_16094069211038853 – Supplemental Material for Using Online Self-Management Diaries for Qualitative Research
Creators: name: Saeidzadeh, Seyedehtanaz
name: Gilbertson-White, Stephanie
name: Kwekkeboom, Kristine L.
name: Babaieasl, Faezeh
name: Seaman, Aaron T.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ijq-10.1177_16094069211038853 for Using Online Self-Management Diaries for Qualitative Research by Seyedehtanaz Saeidzadeh, Stephanie Gilbertson-White, Kristine L. Kwekkeboom, Faezeh Babaieasl and Aaron T. Seaman in International Journal of Qualitative Methods
title: An investigation into the role of the motor cortex during early motor learning in adults with Developmental Coordination Disorder
Creators: name: Brady, Daniel
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: EEG, TMS, DCD, motor learning

description: Motor learning is a process that continues throughout an individual’s lifespan and has a significant impact on their general well-being. The role of the primary motor cortex in motor learning has been well established over the last few decades, with converging streams of evidence reporting electro- and neurophysiological changes during the early stages of learning. However, there is evidence that these changes are not uniform across the general population and that this variability may underlie the differences observed in motor learning ability. At the same time, the literature reports a neurodevelopmental disorder called Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) that has a significant negative impact upon motor control and learning. There is little research into the neural correlates of DCD, particularly with adults. As a result, the aim of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate whether the aforementioned variability in the changes occurring in the motor cortex during the early stages of motor learning plays a role in DCD.

The experiments reported examine the neural correlates of the early stages of motor learning in adults with and without DCD. The first experiment described aimed to establish a task that produces changes in motor performance within a single session. The second experiment described was concerned with electrophysiological changes produced by the task. The final experiment examined neurophysiological changes produced by the task. While the motor task was able to successfully produce changes in motor performance; neither of the latter two experiments found motor cortical changes associated with practice of the task.

However, due to methodological challenges reported in these experiments, the conclusions that can be drawn from the results are somewhat limited. The results of these experiments are evaluated and discussed within the context of the broader DCD literature and suggestions for future research directions are made.
The Role of BDNF/TrkB in Odontoblastic DPSC Differentiation and In Vivo Dentin Regeneration
Creators: name: Kim, Ji Hyun
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This study investigates the intricate roles of Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), its receptor TrkB, and their possible downstream molecule Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) in dentinogenesis, particularly in the context of inflammation. It addresses the link between inflammation and dental tissue regeneration, highlighting enhanced dental pulp stem cell (DPSC)-mediated odontoblastic differentiation under inflammatory conditions induced by lipoteichoic acid (LTA) or tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα). While the role of BDNF in neural tissue repair is well-known, its involvement in dentinogenesis, especially within inflammatory pathways, remains unexplored.
The experimental methods involved culturing human DPSCs under odontogenic differentiation conditions treated with BDNF, TrkB agonist (LM22A-4), and/or antagonist (CTX-B), along with TNFα and CaMKII inhibition strategies using siRNA and inhibitors. Immunofluorescence, mineralization assay, ELISA, and quantitative PCR techniques were used to assess the expression of odontogenic markers. The results showed that modulations of BDNF and TrkB significantly influenced early and late stages of odontogenic differentiation, enhancing the expression of key markers involved in dentin matrix formation. TNFα further amplified these effects, with BDNF potentiating its influence, thereby elucidating a regulatory role for BDNF-TrkB signaling in inflammation-induced dentinogenesis. Additionally, the study utilized CRISPR-engineered hDPSCs with enhanced BDNF expression in a pulp-capping mouse model. Western blot analysis and micro-CT imaging confirmed substantial improvements in dentin formation at injury sites. Histological analyses corroborated these findings, confirming the potent role of BDNF-TrkB signaling in promoting odontogenic differentiation and dentinogenesis in vivo. Transcriptomic profiling of TNFα-treated hDPSCs, with and without CTX-B treatment, revealed significant alterations in gene expression profiles associated with immune response, cytokine signaling, and extracellular matrix interactions. This comprehensive analysis unveiled complex regulatory networks modulated by BDNF-TrkB mediated by CaMKII in response to inflammatory stimuli, suggesting potential targets for future therapeutic interventions aimed at enhancing dental tissue repair and regeneration.
In conclusion, this study provides novel insights into the synergistic roles of BDNF-TrkB signaling and CaMKII pathways in inflammation-induced dentinogenesis. By elucidating these molecular mechanisms, the research advances our understanding of dental tissue engineering using hDPSCs and identifies potential therapeutic avenues for improving dental tissue repair and regeneration strategies.
COVER CROPPING FOR SUSTAINABLE CO-PRODUCTION OF BIOENERGY, FOOD, FEED (BFF) AND ENHANCEMENT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (ES)
Creators: name: Deno, Brodrick L
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agronomy

description: Increasing food, feed, fiber, biofuel production on decreasing amounts of arable land while simultaneously enhancing ecosystem services is challenging. Strategic inclusion of winter rye (Secale cereale) for biomass, silage, grain and Kura clover (Trifolium ambiguum) living mulch into existing Midwestern cropping systems may offer alternative economic income for farmers without displacing or reducing yields of primary crops. Research was conducted at the Purdue Water Quality Field Station (WQFS) where net balances of water, carbon, nitrogen, and radiation can be measured, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are monitored. The agronomic performance of a corn-soybean rotation and continuous corn (controls) were compared to novel systems that included the use of rye cover cropping and Kura clover co-cropping. Rye was harvested for biomass/silage at heading immediately followed by corn or soybean planting. Continuous corn receiving 69 kg N ha-1 was planted into an establishment of Kura clover sod. Controls included these same systems without the rye or clover. GHG samples were taken via the static chamber method and tile-drained water sub-samples were collected, analyzed for nitrate, and load losses calculated. Biomass composition was determined and used to calculate herbage theoretical ethanol (EtOH) yields. Cereal rye did not significantly decrease corn or soybean grain yield. Averaged across years, Kura clover significantly depressed corn grain yields by nearly 70%. Kura clover significantly reduced flow-weighted tile drainage nitrate (NO3-) concentrations, however cereal rye did not. Reductions in flow-weighted tile drainage nitrate (NO3-) concentrations were found to largely occur during Quarter two (April, May, June). Cover crops did not significantly reduce annual tile drained NO3- load losses in most cases, however, they did significantly reduce annual N2O emissions. Cumulative annual CH4 emissions were not significantly altered. Annual CO2emissions were higher after the introduction of Kura clover and not significantly altered following the introduction of cereal rye. Averaged across years, theoretical ethanol yields in the Kura clover system produced 2,752 L EtOH ha-1, whereas EtOH production in cereal rye systems ranged from 3,245 to 4,210 L EtOH ha-1. Theoretical ethanol yields of continuous corn and rotational controls ranged from 2,982 to 3505 L EtOH ha-1 for these same systems without the cereal rye of Kura clover. These data suggest that a multipurpose approach to cover crop inclusion can provide both environmental and economic advantages worthy of consideration.
title: Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood
Creators: name: Bright, Susan
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Motherhood, Photography, Ambivience, Mothering, Self Portrait, Selfie, Curating, Social Networking, Life Narrative, Autobiography, Home Truths

description: Home Truths is a curatorial project that examines photographic artworks depicting the experience and symbolism of motherhood in contemporary Western culture. Favouring autobiographical and documentary approaches in art photography of the 2000s, my curatorial practice draws on feminist precedents in art making and writing. There are four main outcomes to this project: an exhibition; an edited book; public programmes and a digital display titled Motherlode. In its entirety Home Truths negotiates what it means to be a mother in the twenty-first century, grappling with stereotypes, personal expectations and cultural constraints, revealing the maternal self to have both agency and power. The artists featured include: Janine Antoni, Elina Brotherus, Elinor Carucci, Ana Casas Broda, Fred Hüning, Leigh Ledare, Hanna Putz, Katie Murray, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Tierney Gearon, Miyako Ishuichi and Ann Fessler.
 
In this thesis I investigate contemporary ‘maternal ambivalence’, which I identify as a response to social norms, expectations and the cultural conditions of mothering. I use the frame of ‘life narrative’ to examine maternal ambivalence in the artworks I have curated, contextualizing these within depictions of mothering in the larger photographic culture of motherhood.
 
This thesis outlines the emergence and contextualization of the curated project and takes an expanded view of the possibilities of curating. I examine how Home Truths functioned in relation to institutions, audiences, aesthetics and display culture through the conditions (institutional, economic, aesthetic and theoretical) in which it existed. Crucially, I ask how one experiences the photography in Home Truths. Rather than viewing the different iterations of maternal life narratives examined here (literature, art photography and social networking) in contradistinction, I argue for them to be seen as productive expressions of self whose invocation of maternal subjectivities are reinforced and sustained by their relationship to one another.
sj-docx-1-ras-10.1177_00208523211033236 - Supplemental material for Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Can
name: Ganapati, Sukumar
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: International Relations
Public Administration

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ras-10.1177_00208523211033236 for Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis by Can Chen and Sukumar Ganapati in International Review of Administrative Sciences
Radon transforms of twisted D-modules on partial flag varieties
Creators: name: Yahiro, Kohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B10

description: In this paper we study intertwining functors (Radon transforms) for twisted D-modules on partial flag varieties and their relation to the representations of semisimple Lie algebras. We show that certain intertwining functors give equivalences of derived categories of twisted D-modules. This is a generalization of a result by Marastoni. We also show that these intertwining functors from dominant to antidominant direction are compatible with taking global sections.
Additional file 1 of Heavy metal association with chronic kidney disease of unknown cause in central India-results from a case-control study
Creators: name: Atlani, Mahendra
name: Kumar, Ashok
name: Ahirwar, Rajesh
name: Meenu, M. N.
name: Goel, Sudhir K.
name: Kumari, Ravita
name: Anirudhan, Athira
name: Vallamshetla, Saikrishna
name: Reddy, G. Sai Tharun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Sustainable Routing Guidance for a Road Network with Work Zones During the Connected and Automated Vehicles Era
Creators: name: Radvand, Tara
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Emerging technologies in transportation engineering including connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) exhibit much potential to solve a variety of persistent problems that have impaired the safety and mobility performance of transportation systems. A well-known context of such problems is the construction work zone where agencies have grappled with solutions that range from no closure, partial closure to full closure of road sections during construction, rehabilitation, or maintenance work. Road agencies also seek to develop and implement such workzone plans in a manner that does not unduly jeopardize the economic, social and environmental resources of the road users and the community where the workzone is located. In order to ensure that these three components of sustainable development are attained during road construction workzone management, road agencies seek to develop and implement tools that they can use to guide road users in a network to minimize overall delay, emissions, and fuel consumption. This thesis examines this specific context of highway administration. The thesis developed detour routing guidance for the road users in a road network with work zones in case of full closure, in a manner that is consistent with sustainable development. The research did this for the Automated vehicles (this unlikely scenario is merely considered to demonstrate the potential of connectivity in the network) and the era of connected and automated vehicles. In doing this, the thesis identified the potential benefits that CAV technology can offer in sustainable systemwide management of road work zones. The thesis considered the following sustainability-related evaluation criteria: economic (accessibility to businesses, user costs of fuel consumption, and user costs of travel delay; social (rapid access by emergency services such as ambulance); and environmental (noise pollution and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions). The routing optimization was modeled as a linear programming problem and numerical experiments were carried out. The road network of Sioux Falls city was used to demonstrate the study results. The results suggest that the developed optimal sustainable routing scheme yielded significant improvement in terms of the sustainability criteria while maintaining the acceptable levels of service The results also provided insights on the prospective benefits of routing schemes developed via system optimal management (achieved through centrally-guided detour movements that is facilitated by CAV technology) vis-à-vis user equilibrium management, specifically, Nash Equilibrium.
title: Harborview Rd from Melbourne St to I-75
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Harborview Road widening from Melbourne Street to I-75
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2024

description: SERO-2024-00355
Online supplementary file 1 - Supplemental material for Current State of Knowledge on the Antioxidant Effects and Mechanisms of Action of Polyphenolic Compounds
Creators: name: Lv, Qi-zhuang
name: Long, Jin-tao
name: Gong, Zi-feng
name: Nong, Ke-yi
name: Liang, Xiao-mei
name: Qin, Ting
name: Huang, Wei
name: Yang, Lei
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Online supplementary file 1, for Current State of Knowledge on the Antioxidant Effects and Mechanisms of Action of Polyphenolic Compounds by Qi-zhuang Lv, Jin-tao Long, Zi-feng Gong, Ke-yi Nong, Xiao-mei Liang, Ting Qin, Wei Huang and Lei Yang in Natural Product Communications
Image Processing, Image Analysis, and Data Science Applied to Problems in Printing and Semantic Understanding of Images Containing Fashion Items
Creators: name: Huang, Wan-Eih
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis aims to address problems in printing and semantic understanding of images. The first one is developing a halftoning algorithm for multilevel output with unequal resolution printing pixels. We proposed a design method and implemented several versions of halftone screens. They all show good visual results in a real, low-cost electrophotographic printer. The second problem is related to printing quality and self-diagnosis. Firstly, we incorporated logistic regression for classification of visible and invisible bands defects in the detection pipeline. In addition, we also proposed a new cost-function based algorithm with synthetic missing bands to estimate the repetitive interval of periodic bands for self-diagnosing the failing component. It is much more accurate than the previous method. Second, we addressed this problem with acoustic signals. Due to the scarcity of printer sounds, an acoustic signal augmentation method is needed to help a classifier perform better. The key idea is to mimic the situation that occurs when a component begins to fail. The third problem deals with recommendation systems. We explored the similarity metrics in the loss function for a neural matrix factorization network. The last problem is about image understanding of fashion items. We proposed a weakly supervised framework that includes mask-guided teacher network training and attention-based transfer learning to mitigate the domain gap in datasets and acquire a new dataset with rich annotations.