cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The assessment of students' social-emotional competencies and academic achievement
Creators: name: Moceri, Dominic C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In order to reduce the burden of mental illness a major shift in intervention research and clinical practice must occur (Kazdin & Blase, 2011). One way to create a major shift in the mental health well-being of youth is through universal school-based prevention and promotion interventions, such as social-emotional learning (SEL). The five core SEL competencies are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making (CASEL, 2005). A recent meta-analysis revealed that universal school-based SEL interventions lead to increases in social emotional skills, positive attitudes towards oneself and others, positive social behaviors, and academic performance, as well as decreases in conduct problems and emotional distress (Durlak et al., 2011). While there is currently no recognized feasible, scalable assessment system for SEL, there is an assessment system in educational practice already utilized in the vast majority of schools: the report card, which contains not only letter grades but also comments on student behavior. This dissertation is the first study to systematically and empirically study how the behavioral ratings and comments sections of the report card relate to SEL, academic grades, and standardized tests in a manner consistent with SEL theory. Over 1,000 report cards from an ethnically diverse, large high school were chosen as a case study. Ten report card comment categories were created using grounded theory; this included a partial representation of the presence and absence of SEL skills/behaviors as well as non-SEL skills/behaviors. Overall, concurrent analyses revealed that report card comments had a small effect size on attendance and a large effect size on letter grades. Comments partially explained academic disparities for gender and ethnicity for these analyses. These findings applied to both "subjective" (i.e., language) and "objective" (i.e., mathematics) academic areas. Additionally, the effects of demographics, attendance, comments, and letter grades on standardized test scores were examined. Finally, the predictive validity of the comments were examined, after controlling for prior academic success. Implications, limitations and future directions for creating individualized, sustainable, and scalable SEL assessments using report card comments are discussed.
Evaluation of features and quantitative assessment of hemiparetic upper-limb movement through phase plane analysis
Creators: name: Moradi, Minoosh K.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Neurological disorders or cerebrovascular accidents can affect one’s ability to perform activities of daily living, requiring a team of specialists to assess the condition and plan proper treatment.  However, current methods used to evaluate aspects of motor impairment are subjective, which may lead to inconsistent and inaccurate assessments and ultimately affect the therapy protocol.  Herein, focus was directed toward the development of an objective, reliable metric based on quantification of motion presented in the phase domain.  To begin, representations of single-joint extension-flexion were examined to assess graphing features that become more prominent with impaired motion.  From this work, it was shown that alternative methods of displaying movement data retain features that distinguish impaired movement, while providing a distinct visual record for quick comparison.  Further work focused on the development of a novel scheme—based on computational geometry—for quantifying the area enclosed by complex phase portraits, validation of its performance (accuracy, sensitivity, specificity > 96%), and application in a metric of motor performance, the Phase Area Ratio (PAR).  The final focus demonstrated the use of PAR to track progression of SPMS subjects, receiving anti-spasticity drug treatment.  PAR did not improve significantly in the upper extremities between the baseline test session and the one-month follow up test session, but it was revealed that scores were significantly dependent on the movement pace.  It is concluded that phase portraits provide a viable means to capture and quantify the idiosyncrasies of human movement and are a useful tool for tracking progression of hemiparetic individuals through treatment.
The m6A RNA modification sustains neuroblastoma tumour aggressiveness
Creators: name: Montuori, Giulia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: The N6-methyladenosine, also known as m6A, is the most common post-transcriptional modification in mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs and that profoundly influences mRNA biology, from early processing in the nucleus to final steps of translation and decay in the cytoplasm. Taking into consideration the importance of RNA in shaping cell fate, m6A is widely recognized as an additional layer in the regulation of gene expression, also thanks to its dynamic and reversible nature. Therefore, it is not surprising that any misregulation in m6A content might lead to the loss of cellular homeostasis. This effect is particularly evident when it comes to stem cells differentiation, embryo development and cancer. In a tumorigenic context, the m6A could affect the development, progression, cancer stem cells (CSCs) renewal and drug resistance of solid and liquid tumours. So, the m6A is consistently becoming a new attractive pharmacological target.
Neuroblastoma (NB) is a neuroendocrine tumour of early childhood that derives from undifferentiated cells of the sympathoadrenal lineage of the neural crest. About 50% of patients have a very aggressive form of NB, with an overall survival rate of less than 30% despite heavy treatments. Moreover, NB is a challenging druggable tumour due to a low rate of somatic mutations. Somatic mutations at significant frequency have been identified in only five genes that also show detectable expression. Among these, only one is currently a directly validated druggable target.
Two m6A regulators (METTL14 and ALKBH5) are aberrantly expressed in high-risk NB patients, and their alteration in NB cell lines affects tumour aggressiveness. Specifically, the overexpression of the methyltransferase METTL14 increases cell proliferation and invasion in vitro and tumour growth in mice acting as an oncogene, while ALKBH5 restoration affects cell proliferation, apoptosis and invasion in an opposite fashion. Importantly, the demethylase ALKBH5 impaired tumour formation in vivo when costitutively expressed and dramatically slows down tumor progression in mice when is induced by causing massive apoptosis. These data suggest that ALKBH5 acts as a potent tumour suppressor in NB.
We discovered that METTL14 and ALKBH5 exert their effect on different levels by affecting mRNA stability or translation, respectively. Although the contribution to NB of the altered stability of transcripts related to mRNA processing in METTL14-overexpressing cells is less understand, the increase translation of pro-apoptotic genes in the ALKBH5-overexpression condition leaves little doubts.
Our results unveil the m6A and its regulators as potential therapeutic targets for treating NB. Indeed, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Genomic Screening of Professor Alessandro Provenzani, we presented an encouraging proof-of-concept of the reader YTHDF1 as a possible pharmacological target.
Application of the discrete moment problem for numerical integration and solution of a special type of moment problems
Creators: name: Naumova, Mariya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: We present a brief survey of some of the basic results related to the classical continuous  moment problems (CMP) and the recently developed discrete moment problems  (DMP), clarifying their relationship. We also introduce a new numerical integration  method, based on DMP and termed Discrete Moment Method (DMM), that can be  used for univariate piecewise higher order convex functions. This means that the interval  where the function is defined can be subdivided into non-overlapping subintervals  such that in each interval all divided differences of given orders, do not change the sign.  The new method uses piecewise polynomial lower and upper bounds on the function,  created in connection with suitable dual feasible bases in the univariate discrete moment  problem and the integral of the function is approximated by tight lower and upper  bounds on them. Numerical illustrations are presented for the cases of the normal, exponential,  gamma and Weibull probability density functions. We show how a similar  approach can be applied for solving the problems of a special structure, namely the discrete  conditional moment problems and present the corresponding numerical results.  Finally, we present novel applications to valuations of financial instruments.
Zotalemimon procerum
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Zotalemimon
Zotalemimon procerum

description: 43. Zotalemimon procerum (Pascoe, 1859)
Thailand: Chiangmai, Chingdao Hill Resort, 26.10.2018 (1, V. Ustinov leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Chlorippe wilmattae
Creators: name: Jong, Rienk De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Chlorippe
Chlorippe wilmattae

description: wilmattae. Chlorippe wilmattae Cockerell, 1907
Nymphalidae: "nymphalines" (Nymphalinae + Biblidinae + Cyrestinae + Apaturinae).
USA, Colorado, Teller County, Florissant; late Priabonian, late Eocene.
Depositories: MCZH (holotype, no. B602) and USNM (one specimen, no. 58682).
Published figures: Cockerell (1907: Pl. 10); Emmel et al. (1992: Fig. 1 /11).
The original description does not provide structural details except for “The venation agrees with that of Chlorippe, with the same open cell.” The remainder of the almost three pages of description concerns wing pattern, which is compared to that of extant species of Chlorippe, now split into Asterocampa in North America and Doxocopa in Central and South America. It is unknown if there is a significant phylogenetic signal in the pattern, the pattern itself amenable to convergence and mimicry. An open forewing cell is found in several subfamilies, ostensibly in the Nymphalinae, Biblidinae, Cyrestinae and Apaturinae of the informal section “nymphalines” (Wahlberg et al. 2009) and, although not universal in these subfamilies, this feature can be considered an apomorphy of this grouping. For calibration purposes the taxonomic position of the fossil should be placed at the stem of this group.
Cockerell (1913) recorded a second specimen of which the preservation was poorer. The fossil was mentioned by Howe (1975) under Apaturinae and by Emmel et al. (1992) under Nymphalinae, in which they included Apaturinae, both without further comment.
description: Published as part of Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4270 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583183
Towards novel, objective, behavioral analyses in the basic sciences and clinical research
Creators: name: Nguyen, Jillian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Movement variability is inherently present in natural behaviors. In recent years, this source of information has been of great interest to motor control physiologists as it constitutes a physical, quantifiable form of sensory feedback to aid in the planning and execution of complex actions. In marked contrast, the psychological and psychiatric arenas mainly rely on verbal descriptions and interpretations of behavior through observation. Whether in the laboratory setting conducting basic science research, or in the clinic diagnosing and evaluating patients, behavior has not been physically quantified using proper statistical methods. Consequently, a large gap exists between the body’s manifestations of mental states (whether normative or pathological) and their descriptions (through observational inventories). This disconnect is partly responsible for a disembodied approach in the psychological and neural sciences, whereby contributions of the peripheral nervous system to central control, executive functions, and decision making processes are poorly understood.      Furthermore, the present gap between mind and body interactions severely impedes progress in translating basic scientific outcomes into clinical applications. How can we transition from a psychological theorizing approach to better understand complex behaviors in a more objective manner?    This dissertation introduces a novel, objective, statistical framework and motor control paradigm that characterizes the stochastic signatures of movement variability present in the continuous stream of natural behaviors. We characterize a new class of movements that occurs largely beneath conscious awareness but are interminably present in all complex behaviors. The moment-by-moment assessment of the continuous flow of sensory-motor fluctuations is possible for goal-directed segments of complex actions, (which researchers have focused on for decades), and this newly introduced class of supplementary, goal-less movements. To illustrate these points, we present the application of our statistical framework to perceptual tasks involving visual illusions, as well as to the automatic detection of sensory-motor disruptions in individuals with schizophrenia. Lastly, we discuss the potential impact our discoveries have on translating basic science research into practical, societal applications. We conclude that analyses of motor output variability can transform the way in which we currently conduct research, determine clinical diagnoses, and administer therapeutic interventions in the social, health, and neural sciences.
Supplementary Figs and Tables
Creators: name: Nakamura, Keiko
name: Okamoto, Mariko
name: Mada, Takashi
name: Harada, Mariko
name: Okumura, Kayo
name: Takamatsu, Daisuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300903
subject: Veterinary bacteriology

description: Supplementary figures and tables for the article entitled, “Honey-derived Paenibacillus spp. with potential to affect bee brood development in Apis mellifera: Are they a new threat to honey bees?”, by Keiko Nakamura, Mariko Okamoto, Takashi Mada, Mariko Harada, Kayo Okumura, and Daisuke Takamatsu
Flexible modeling framework for gas transport and reaction
Creators: name: Pantina, Joseph Albert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Many non-oxide ceramics are produced through the densification of a non-oxide powder compact by sintering. A pervasive problem when processing non-oxide powders is the growth of a native oxide layer on the powder surface due to oxidation. Non-oxide powders sinter poorly without the addition of sintering additives to aid in the removal of surface oxide and lower grain boundary energies. Reducing agents, such as C, remove the oxide layer at hold temperatures much below the sintering temperature, forming a significant amount of gas (mainly CO(g)) to be removed. However, sintering additives to enhance densification at the sintering temperature can also form gas at the lower temperature, depleting the additive before reaching the sintering temperature.  In this work, we have developed an analytical modeling framework to simulate gas transport and reaction in a porous medium comprised of an arbitrary collection of chemical species. This modeling framework automatically generates the necessary conditions to calculate the thermodynamic equilibrium composition at a given temperature and uses the Dusty Gas Model (DGM) to predict the gas transport. This model accounts for processing parameters including the initial powder composition, sample thickness, porosity, pore radius, and tortuosity of the powder compact, plus the furnace pressure and heating cycle.  This model was used to predict the time for complete oxide removal (t_c) and residual composition for three material systems. The C/SiC/SiO2 and B4C/B2O3/C systems were studied to identify the functional dependence of t_c with respect to each processing parameter. Additionally, the C/SiC/SiO2 system was studied to determine optimal heating cycles to control the rate of CO(g) effusion into the furnace while reduce heating times. The C/SiC/SiO2/B4C system was studied to quantify the amount B4C depleted and redistributed during SiO2 removal for samples of varying thicknesses, initial SiO2 content, and holding temperature. B4C was depleted from the center of the samples and re-deposited at the edges; the most drastic compositional variations occurred at higher temperatures and greater SiO2 content.  This modeling framework can be applied to other material systems to optimize heating cycles, control gas removal rates and residual sintering additive distributions, and predict t_c due to process variations.
Cylindrepomus nigrofasciatus Blanchard
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cylindrepomus
Cylindrepomus nigrofasciatus

description: 44. Cylindrepomus nigrofasciatus Blanchard,
1853 (Fig. 10)
Indonesia: Papua, Jayapura reg., Puai vill., 105 m, 17.04.2009 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Observations
Creators: name: Hermes, Claudia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Observations of El Oro parakeets, raw data
ERA-interrim reanalysis temperature and precipitation anomalies (1988-2015)
CMIP5 temperature anomalies (2016-2100)
The emotional and cognitive functions of comfort eating
Creators: name: Panza, Emily
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: “Comfort eating” involves consuming highly palatable food in an effort to decrease negative emotion (Gibson, 2012). Despite existing empirical work demonstrating that comfort eating reduces negative emotion (Macht, 2008), recent research challenges these findings (Wagner et al., 2014) and raises questions about the functions of this behavior. To refine our understanding of comfort eating, the current study examined the functional impact of palatable food consumption on negative and positive emotion following stress, compared these effects to those produced by alternative coping behaviors, and examined the functional role of rumination. A community sample of 119 healthy men and women aged 18-31 years old underwent a 15-minute stress induction (Trier Social Stress Test; Kirschbaum et al., 1993), then engaged in 1 of 3 emotion regulation tasks: eating comfort food (M&Ms), using a stress relief ball, or sitting quietly. State emotion and rumination were assessed before stress, after stress, and after the randomized task. Repeated-measures MANCOVA analyses revealed that, while comfort eating significantly reduced negative emotion as expected, it was no more effective than doing nothing or using an alternative emotion regulation strategy. More promisingly, findings examining positive emotion demonstrated potential positive reinforcement functions of comfort eating. While both participants who used a stress ball and those who sat quietly experienced significant declines in positive emotion throughout the experiment, comfort eaters displayed steady levels of positive emotion. Findings also shed light on the role of rumination in comfort eating, as all emotion regulation tasks in this experiment were more negatively reinforcing and less positively reinforcing for high versus low state ruminators. Collectively, these findings suggest that comfort eating may be complexly reinforced through multiple pathways, including both positive reinforcement and, particularly among high state ruminators, negative reinforcement. Given this, future research on comfort eating should examine the roles of positive emotion and rumination in understanding and treating comfort eating.
Microlenecamptus albonotatus
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Microlenecamptus
Microlenecamptus albonotatus

description: 45. Microlenecamptus albonotatus (Pic, 1925)
China: Guangdong, Wenyuan Park, 06.2017 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Eunidia lateralis Gahan 1893
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eunidia
Eunidia lateralis

description: 46. Eunidia lateralis Gahan, 1893
India: Assam, Umrongso vill., 700 m, 05.2002 (1, local collector leg.); Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Dao distr., Chiang Dao Hill Resort, 01.- 15.07.2019 (1, V. Ustinov leg.), 29.10.- 08.11.2019 (1, A.Vshnyakov leg.); Vietnam: Dong Tien, Binh Thuan, 04.2019 (1, local collector leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 238, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Additional file 1: of Risk factors of chronic periodontitis on healing response: a multilevel modelling analysis
Creators: name: J. Song
name: H. Zhao
name: C. Pan
name: C. Li
name: J. Liu
name: Y. Pan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Periodontal risk factors. (DOC 30 kb)
Classical and quantum properties of variable-coordination number Josephson junction arrays
Creators: name: Paramanandam, Joshua
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Josephson junction arrays are a quintessential platform which has been widely used in  the study a wide range of problems in classical and quantum dynamics. In this thesis,  we introduce a Josephson lattice with a new topology which allows the adjustment of the  coordination number. For large coordination numbers, the lattice is amenable to mean field  predictions. We have employed this lattice to study classical phase transitions. The lattice  has been studied by Monte-Carlo simulations to determine TC. The experimental deter  mination of TC agrees with numerical studies and are close to the mean field predictions.  We have also studied the magnetic field dependence of the transition temperatures using a  tight-binding model. The experimental results agree fairly well with the results of numerical  calculations. The classical dynamics of this lattice has been simulated with RCSJ model  and are compared with the switching dynamics of the array.    We have studied both zero field and field-tuned quantum phase transitions the VZN  lattice. The zero-field transition occurs at a critical value of the control parameter g smaller  than the disorder-free case. When frustrated by the magnetic field, the arrays demonstrated  several quantum phase transitions at different critical values of the resistance between RC = 3 − 10kΩ, which is in line with earlier observations. In particular, with increasing B we  observed transitions between three states: a) the superconducting state with zero R, b)  the metallic state with a weak R dependence on T in the range 0.05K
Additional file 1: of Risk factors of chronic periodontitis on healing response: a multilevel modelling analysis
Creators: name: J. Song
name: H. Zhao
name: C. Pan
name: C. Li
name: J. Liu
name: Y. Pan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Periodontal risk factors. (DOC 30 kb)
Eunidia nigroapicalis
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eunidia
Eunidia nigroapicalis

description: 47. Eunidia nigroapicalis (Pic, 1925)
Vietnam: Dong Tien, Binh Thuan, 05.2020 (1, local collector leg.).
New species for the fauna of Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on pages 238-239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
La lettera in versi: Canoni, variabili, funzioni
Creators: name: Taravacci, Pietro
name: Zambon, Francesco
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Year: 2020

description: Il IV Convegno Internazionale del Seminario Permanente di Poesia, svoltosi tra l?8 e il 9 novembre del 2016 presso il Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia dell?Universit� di Trento, ha avuto a tema La lettera in versi. Canoni, variabili, funzioni.
Solo apparentemente di limitata diffusione, la lettera in versi � sempre stata presente nella lirica occidentale. A partire dalla poesia latina (da Lucilio a Orazio) essa � divenuta un genere poetico suo iure. Nelle letterature medievali si contano le epistole poetiche dei trovatori, ma anche le lettere in versi di personaggi romanzeschi nonch� la corrispondenza poetica del Duecento italiano. Tra XV e XVII secolo il modello oraziano � stato molto vitale, mentre nello stesso periodo, in Italia, anche le Heroides ovidiane hanno costituito un esempio assai diffuso. Nei secoli successivi i casi sono stati numerosi, spesso con funzione di poesia ?militante?, di argomento letterario, morale, politico.
Il Novecento offre un panorama vario e complesso. Alle tipologie e funzioni tradizionali si sono aggiunte quelle legate alla riflessione su comunicazione e incomunicabilit� poetiche. La lettera in versi contemporanea ha quindi invitato il soggetto lirico a uscire da se stesso, a tendere verso un tu concreto o generico sviluppando, in particolare, una forte, costante tensione tra presenza e assenza dell?interlocutore-destinatario.
OPTIONS FOR DIAGNOSTICS AND CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
Creators: name: Iskandarova, Shokhina
name: Oydinova, Fotima
name: Toshtemorova, Fotima
name: Khushvakova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article discusses the diagnosis and conservative treatment of chronic otitis media in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. It provides information on the interaction of the disease, early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and otitis media in the initial mild form, treatment based on specific approaches in conservative treatment, and the results achieved, based on analyses and examples.
NanoScript
Creators: name: Patel, Sahishnu V.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Stem cell engineering for regenerative medicine offers new hope for treating many ailments and injuries. Hence, there is an urgent demand by stem cell scientists for an alternative platform that induces stem cell differentiation in a safe and efficient manner. Stem cell differentiation is inherently regulated by transcription factors (TFs), which are multi-domain proteins that interact with DNA to control expression of target genes, and thus, TFs are master regulators of gene expression and cellular behavior. Recently, scientists have developed synthetic transcription factors (STFs), which are small molecules that mimic the function of the individual domains on TF proteins.    This work presents the development a novel bio-inspired platform called NanoScript, which is an alternative approach for safe stem cell differentiation. NanoScript is a nanoparticle-based artificial TF protein because it is designed to replicate the function and structure of natural TF proteins. NanoScript was constructed by assembling STFs onto multifunctional nanoparticles. We first demonstrate that NanoScript localizes within the nucleus of cells, initiates transcription of a reporter plasmid by over 15-fold in cancer cells, and transcribes endogenous genes.    The tunable and interchangeable components of NanoScript can easily be modified to either activate or deactivate any gene of interest. As a result, NanoScript was then demonstrated for three stem cell-based applications: 1) NanoScript targets myogenic genes to differentiate adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSCs) into muscle cells, 2) NanoScript modified with an epigenetic modulator, CTB, increases transcriptional potency and enhances differentiation of ADMACs into chondrocytes, and 3) NanoScript redesigned with gene repression molecules acts a transcriptional repressor protein because it downregulates gene expression to induce differentiation of neural stem cells into functional neurons.    Because of its robust tunability and biocompatibility, the patented NanoScript platform is a promising alternative tool for research scientists for applications involving gene manipulation such as stem cell differentiation, cancer therapy, and cellular reprogramming. Moreover, the ability of NanoScript to induce stem cell differentiation in a non-viral and footprint-free manner is highly desired by stem cell clinicians, and hence, holds potential for use in stem cell-based therapies.
Additional file 1: of Polytechnic engineering mathematics: assessing its relevance to the productivity of industries in Uganda
Creators: name: Jehopio, Peter
name: Wesonga, Ronald
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Data collection questionnaire for the study. (DOCX 18Â kb)
Eunidia savioi
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eunidia
Eunidia savioi

description: 48. Eunidia savioi (Pic, 1925)
Vietnam: Dong Tien, Binh Thuan, 05.2020 (1, local collector leg.).
New species for the fauna of Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Decoding brain states using functional brain imaging techniques
Creators: name: Peifer, Maria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Non-invasive neuroimaging techniques provide safe methods for investigating the func-  tionality of the brain. Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non invasive  brain imaging method, which uses light in the near infrared range to measure the  changes in concentration of cerebral hemoglobin. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a  noninvasive brain imaging technique that measures regional cortical activity by mea-  suring the potential difference at various points on the surface of the scalp. In this work  the two brain imaging techniques are used to decode brain states, using a paradigm for  three conditions: rest, motor and motor imagery.  The first part of the study attempts the classification of motor and motor imagery  by using least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) with a radial basis function  kernel. The data was recorded using functional near infrared spectroscopy. All pre-  processing methods are selected to be possible for execution in a real-time setting.  The first goal was to determine the optimal window length and starting point for the  extraction of features. Once the optimal window length was established, two feature  selection methods were compared: Fisher discriminant ratio (FDR) and the combined  method, which uses FDR and K-means. Reducing the number of features improved the  classification time with negligible impact on the classification accuracy.  The second part of the study uses a LS-SVM with a linear kernel to perform two  classifications on EEG data: rest and motor imagery, and rest and motor. The average  power of the frequency band between 10 Hz − 14 Hz was used to extract features from  each channel. The two feature selection methods previously mentioned w
Agnia rita Barsevskis 2018
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Agnia
Agnia rita

description: 49. Agnia rita Barševskis, 2018 (Fig. 11)
Philippines: Panay isl, Central Panay Mountain Range, Sibalom Natural Park, 10.1999 (1, local collector leg.).
This is the first faunistic data for this species in Panay Island (the Philippines) and the second known locality.
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 239, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Using data analytics for reliability and autonomic management of large-scale systems
Creators: name: Pelaez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Large-scale clusters are growing at a rapid pace, and the resulting amount of monitoring data produced in these systems is also increasing. The goal of this research is to investigate tools that improve the reliability and help manage such systems using this wealth of data. This is a challenging problem as the scale of these machines increases the complexity, the amount of monitored data, and amount of interactions between different nodes, making the system much harder to manage and also resulting in high failure frequency. In this thesis we focus on online failure prediction and policy based management as mechanisms that can help address these issues. First, in case of failure prediction we focus on achieving an acceptable accuracy that is comparable other algorithms, but with the objective of being able to scale to thousands of nodes (given that typical centralized solutions suffer from high transmission and processing overheads at very large scales). Our solution to this problem is based on a decentralized online clustering algorithm (DOC) to detect anomalies in resource usage logs. We show that we can in fact achieve a similar accuracy as other algorithms while scaling to thousands of nodes with less than 2% overhead. Second, high level policies are an attractive option for managing complex systems and ensuring that they run within certain restrictions, as policies can be specified in terms of business goals and do not require low level knowledge of the machines. In order to enable this, we need a way of dynamically mapping the state of the system to the high level policies. We consequently propose a machine learning solution based on monitoring data, wherein we make predictions of the high- level indicators of the state of a system in order to determine what actions have to be taken to satisfy a given policy. We evaluate our approach using a sample system, and demonstrate that neural networks do an excellent job at predicting the required state, only incurring an error of at most 8.78%, 98% of the time.
Le (in)certezze del diritto: atti delle giornate di studio 17-18 gennaio 2019
Creators: name: Piciocchi, Cinzia
name: Fasan, Marta
name: Reale, Carla Maria
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Le riflessioni raccolte in questo volume indagano i margini a cavallo fra certezza e incertezza del diritto. Questa relazione si � a lungo configurata in maniera dicotomica e risolta a favore del principio della certezza del diritto, come elemento imprescindibile per una convivenza sociale ordinata. Ad oggi questo rapporto viene sfidato dalla crescente complessit� della societ� contemporanea, dalla sfiducia nello strumento legislativo e da un nuovo ruolo del potere giurisdizionale, dai mutamenti della compagine sociale, dall?affermazione di un maggiore pluralismo di soggetti e fonti del diritto, dalle nuove tecnologie. Queste le problematiche con cui autori/autrici si confrontano in prospettiva interdisciplinare per cercare di risignificare il senso odierno dell?(in)certezza giuridica.
Satyrites incertus
Creators: name: Jong, Rienk De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Satyrites
Satyrites incertus

description: incertus. Satyrites incertus Daudet, 1876
Daudet (1876) described and depicted a supposed fossil caterpillar (France, Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence; early Oligocene), with a bifid tail. For this reason, he described it as belonging to Nymphalidae: Satyrinae, although this character occurs in some other subfamilies of the Nymphalidae as well (Ackery et al. 1999), and even assigned it to a fossil genus described by Scudder (1872). Nel & Nel (1985) found many similar fossils at the same locality and concluded that they were not caterpillars, but conifer catkins, that with some fantasy are reminiscent of caterpillars.
description: Published as part of Jong, Rienk De, 2017, Fossil butterflies, calibration points and the molecular clock (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 4270 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583183
MOESM1 of Evolution and bad prognostic value of advanced glycation end products after acute heart failure: relation with body composition
Creators: name: Paradela-Dobarro, Beatriz
name: Fernández-Trasancos, Ángel
name: Bou-Teen, Diana
name: Eiras, Sonia
name: González-Ferreiro, Rocío
name: Agra, Rosa
name: Varela-Román, Alfonso
name: Castro-Pais, Ana
name: Carreira, Marcos
name: Casanueva, Felipe
name: Álvarez, Ezequiel
name: González-Juanatey, José
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Basal levels of biochemical parameters analysed. Data are presented as median [interquartile range] for the total population and grouped by the presence of events (death or HF hospitalization). Table S2. Basal levels of biochemical parameters analysed. Data are presented as median [interquartile range] for the total population and grouped by the levels of AGE1m and by sRAGE0. Figure S1. Influence of previous heart failure (HF, a, b), previous acute myocardial infarct (AMI, c, d) or incidence of cardiovascular events (death or HF hospitalization, e, f) in the plasma levels of AGEs (a, c and e) and sRAGE (b, d and f) at time of discharge and after 1 or 6 months. Boxes represent interquartile ranges with median as horizontal line. Vertical bars demarcate the maximum to minimum range. *p
Increased visible-light photocatalytic activity of TiO2 via band gap manipulation
Creators: name: Pennington, Ashley M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Hydrogen gas is a clean burning fuel that has potential applications in stationary and mobile power generation and energy storage, but is commercially produced from non-renewable fossil natural gas. Using renewable biomass as the hydrocarbon feed instead could provide sustainable and carbon-neutral hydrogen. We focus on photocatalytic oxidation and reforming of methanol over modified titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles to produce hydrogen gas. Methanol is used as a model for biomass sugars. By using a photocatalyst, we aim to circumvent the high energy cost of carrying out endothermic reactions at commercial scale.   TiO2 is a semiconductor metal oxide of particular interest in photocatalysis due to its photoactivity under ultraviolet illumination and its stability under catalytic reaction conditions. However, TiO2 primarily absorbs ultraviolet light, with little absorption of visible light. While an effective band gap for absorbance of photons from visible light is 1.7 eV, TiO2 polymorphs rutile and anatase, have band gaps of 3.03 eV and 3.20 eV respectively, which indicate ultraviolet light.  As most of incident solar radiation is visible light, we hypothesize that decreasing the band gap of TiO2 will increase the efficiency of TiO2 as a visible-light active photocatalyst. We propose to modify the band gap of TiO2 by manipulating the catalyst structure and composition via metal nanoparticle deposition and heteroatom doping in order to more efficiently utilize solar radiation. Of the metal-modified Degussa P25 TiO2 samples (P25), the copper and nickel modified samples, 1%Cu/P25 and 1%Ni/P25 yielded the lowest band gap of 3.05 eV each. A difference of 0.22 eV from the unmodified P25. Under visible light illumination 1%Ni/P25 and 1%Pt/P25 had the highest conversion of methanol of 9.9% and 9.6%, respectively.
Putting secure computation to work
Creators: name: Perry, Jason M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The demand for solutions that enable secure computation in  distributed systems is only increasing. However, the current state of  secure computation "in the wild'' is highly unsatisfactory: provably  secure solutions receive little attention, while untested security  technologies with questionable security claims are being broadly  marketed and deployed.    The classical approach to secure computation is secure multi-party  computation (MPC) protocols, which allow a set of parties to jointly  compute any given function while provably preserving the privacy of  inputs and correctness of the output. Due to their generality, MPC  protocols subsume a wide range of secure computation scenarios.  However, MPC's adoption rate in the real world is extremely low. One  reason is that MPC protocols have complex and differing security  definitions; another is that MPC protocols typically do not map  cleanly onto existing network application architectures.    Another promising research direction is secure protocols tailored for  specific types of computations, such as text search and database  access control. Such protocols attempt to strike a balance between  efficiency and security, often by allowing a quantified amount of  leakage. However, the practical security level of many of these  protocols is not well understood.    Our research aims to make secure computation more deployable and  trustworthy by bridging the gap between theoretical and applied  secure computation. This dissertation presents 1) a systematization of  MPC protocols that helps clarify their security and efficiency  properties, 2) new, efficient protocols for access control in private  databases, and 3) new security analyses, including statistical  attacks, for currently used searchable encryption technologies.
Role of GCN2 in guiding the cellular and molecular response to asparaginase in the pancreas
Creators: name: Phillipson-Weiner, Lindsey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Asparaginase is a chemotherapy agent used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  Asparaginase can cause severe pancreatitis but the molecular basis is unknown. In liver of mice, the eIF2 kinase GCN2 is essential for mitigating metabolic stress caused by asparaginase. This study examined the role of GCN2 in the pancreas of mice treated with asparaginase. Eight week old wild type or GCN2 KO mice were injected once daily for 8 d with either 3 IU/g BW of saline or asparaginase. Eight hours after final injection, mice were sacrificed and pancreata were weighed and harvested. In GCN2 KO mice treated with asparaginase, pancreas weights were significantly increased (P<0.05) and the organs visibly enlarged. Histological examination revealed ductal dilatation and swollen acinar cells in GCN2 KO only. Oil red O staining and measurement of pancreas triglycerides ruled out lipid accumulation as a contributing factor. No signs of cell death by TUNEL stain were detected in the pancreas, and serum amylase activity did not differ among treatment groups. However, Pancreatitis Associated Protein (PAP) mRNA expression was elevated in livers of asparaginase-treated GCN2 KO mice only. Phosphorylation of eIF2 and pancreatic expression of asparagine synthetase were similar among treatment groups, but mTORC1 signaling was decreased to the greatest extent in the pancreata of asparaginase-treated GCN2 KO mice. Additionally, transmission electron microscopy revealed evidence of ER stress in GCN2 KO mice treated with asparaginase. These data suggest that loss of GCN2 predisposes the pancreas toward the development of asparaginase-associated pancreatitis. NIH HD070487
Additional file 1: of Effect of a motherâ  s recorded voice on emergence from general anesthesia in pediatric patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Song, Seok
name: Kwak, Sang
name: Kim, Eugene
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

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