cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gebeurtenissen waterwegen Vlaanderen: januari 2024
Creators: name: Hydrologisch Informatiecentrum
name: De Vlaamse Waterweg Nv
name: Boeckx, Leen
name: Geurts, K.
Publisher: name: Flanders Hydraulics
Year: 2024

description: Title : WL Rapporten. Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium: Antwerpen.
Volume : PA008_05
Issue :
Pagination : VII, 49
title: 02_1812
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: Microhydrological Niches in Soils : How Mucilage and EPS Alter the Biophysical Properties of the Rhizosphere and Other Biological Hotspots
Creators: name: Benard, Pascal
name: Zarebanadkouki, Mohsen
name: Brax, Mathilde
name: Kaltenbach, Robin
name: Jerjen, Iwan
name: Marone, Federica
name: Couradeau, Estelle
name: Felde, J. M. N. L.
name: Kaestner, Anders
name: Carminati, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 500

description: Plant roots and bacteria are capable of buffering erratic fluctuations of water content in their local soil environment by releasing a diverse, highly polymeric blend of substances (e.g. extracellular polymeric substances [EPS] and mucilage). Although this concept is well accepted, the physical mechanisms by which EPS and mucilage interact with the soil matrix and determine the soil water dynamics remain unclear. High-resolution X-ray computed tomography revealed that upon drying in porous media, mucilage (from maize [Zea mays L.] roots) and EPS (from intact biocrusts) form filaments and two-dimensional interconnected structures spanning across multiple pores. Unlike water, these mucilage and EPS structures connecting soil particles did not break up upon drying, which is explained by the high viscosity and low surface tension of EPS and mucilage. Measurements of water retention and evaporation with soils mixed with seed mucilage show how these one- and two-dimensional pore-scale structures affect macroscopic hydraulic properties (i.e., they enhance water retention, preserve the continuity of the liquid phase in drying soils, and decrease vapor diffusivity and local drying rates). In conclusion, we propose that the release of viscous polymeric substances and the consequent creation of a network bridging the soil pore space represent a universal strategy of plants and bacteria to engineer their own soil microhydrological niches where stable conditions for life are preserved.
title: Evaluation needs and temporal performance differences of gridded precipitation products in peripheral mountain regions
Creators: name: Zandler, Harald
name: Haag, Isabell
name: Samimi, Cyrus
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 500
subject: 550
subject: 900

description: Gridded datasets are of paramount importance to globally derive precipitation quantities for a multitude of scientific and practical applications. However, as most studies do not consider the impacts of temporal and spatial variations of included measurements in the utilized datasets, we conducted a quantitative assessment of the ability of several state of the art gridded precipitation products (CRU, GPCC Full Data Product, GPCC Monitoring Product, ERA-interim, ERA5, MERRA-2, MERRA-2 bias corrected, PERSIANN-CDR) to reproduce monthly precipitation values at climate stations in the Pamir mountains during two 15 year periods (1980–1994, 1998–2012) that are characterized by considerable differences in incorporated observation data. Results regarding the GPCC products illustrated a substantial and significant performance decrease with up to four times higher errors during periods with low observation inputs (1998–2012 with 2 stations on average per 124,000 km2) compared to periods with high quantities of regionally incorporated station data (1980–1994 with 14 stations on average per 124,000 km2). If independent stations were considered, the coefficient of efficiency indicated that only three of the gridded datasets (MERRA–2 bias corrected, GPCC, GPCC MP) performed better than the long term station mean for characterizing surface precipitation. Error patterns and magnitudes show that in complex terrain, evaluation of temporal and spatial variations of included observations is a prerequisite for using gridded precipitation products for scientific applications and to avoid overly optimistic performance assessments.
title: Review of Thermophysical Property Data of Octadecane for Phase-Change Studies
Creators: name: Faden, Moritz
name: Höhlein, Stephan
name: Wanner, Joschka
name: König-Haagen, Andreas
name: Brüggemann, Dieter
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 620

description: In this work we derive temperature-dependent functions for the most important material properties needed for phase change studies with octadecane. Over 80 references are reviewed in which at least one thermophysical property of octadecane is measured. The functions are valid ±40 K around the melting temperature and are surrounded by their confidence interval. It turns out that the values for the solid phase have much broader confidence intervals than the ones of the liquid phase. Hence, more accurate measurements are particularly desirable for the solid state material properties.
Efficient Deep Learning Based Detector for Electricity Theft Generation System Attacks in Smart Grid
Creators: name: Eddin, Maymouna Ez
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: This thesis investigates the problem of electricity theft attacks in the generation domain. In this attack, the adversaries manipulate readings to claim higher energy injected into the grid for overcharging utility companies by hacking smart meters monitoring renewable-based Distributed Generation (DG). In prior research, deep learning (DL) based detectors were developed to detect such behavior, though they relied on different data sources and overlooked the critical impact of small perturbations which an attacker could integrate into its reported energy. This thesis takes advantage of addressing this gap by proposing an efficient DL-based detector that can offer higher accuracy and detection rate using only a single source of data by adding two features to enhance the performance. Subsequently, the proposed detector is further extended to deal with the small perturbations that attackers can add. We carry out extensive simulation designing two different detectors, one for solar DG units electricity theft issue, and the other for multiple fuel types (i.e., solar, and wind). We use a realistic dataset, and the results show that the proposed models detect the adversaries with higher rate detection even with small perturbations.
Characteristic chromatographic fingerprint study of short-chain fatty acids in human milk, infant formula, pure milk and fermented milk by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Zhenzuo Jiang
name: Yanan Liu
name: Zhu, Yan
name: Yang, Jing
name: Sun, Lili
name: Chai, Xin
name: Yuefei Wang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Human milk, infant formula, pure milk and fermented milk as food products or dietary supplements provide a range of nutrients required to both infants and adults. Recently, a growing body of evidence has revealed the beneficial roles of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), a subset of fatty acids produced from the fermentation of dietary fibers by gut microbiota. The objective of this study was to establish a chromatographic fingerprint technique to investigate SCFAs in human milk and dairy products by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The multivariate method for principal component analysis assessed differences between milk types. Human milk, infant formula, pure milk and fermented milk were grouped independently, mainly because of differences in formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid and hexanoic acid levels. This method will be important for the assessment of SCFAs in human milk and various dairy products.
title: “um von deinem toten Körper etwas zu stibitzen”
Creators: name: Zgodzay, Michael
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst Slavistik
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Eugeniusz
subject: Polnisch
subject: Lyriker
subject: 491.8

description: Der Dichter Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki ist in Polen ein Kultautor und gleichzeitig ein literarischer Einzelgänger. Er lässt sich keiner Gruppe oder Richtung zuordnen. Legendär sind seine Autorenlesungen, bei denen er in die Rolle eines alterslosen Greises schlüpft, um die Hörer in eine sehr dunkle Welt der Doppeldeutigkeit zu entführen.
description: novinkivorgestellt
The Urbanonto System. User Guide
Creators: name: Paweł Garbacz
name: Przemysław Grądzki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Urbanonto Ontology is an OWL ontology stored in Turtle serialization. It is a domain ontology, which aims to conceptualize the history of the topographic objects which make up an urban centre, as depicted in traditional topographic maps. It is a result of the Historical Ontology of Urban Space project urbanonto.ihpan.edu.pl In the Urbanonto system, ontology serves a two-fold, purpose. It serves as: a glossary of terms connected with urban representation a resource containing the data used in the database: list of topographic object types list of functions The Urbanonto Ontology makes direct use (meaning owl:import) of two additional ontologies: BDOT10k ontology ontohgis ontology. More: github.com/urbanonto
BioExcel Webinar #41 - GROMACS mdp options walkthrough
Creators: name: Blau, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: molecular dynamics
gromacs
webinar

description: Setting up biomolecular simulations with GROMACS requires a number of parameter choices. While some of them, like the number of simulation steps, are obvious, other options have less obvious meanings, yet impact simulation results or performance. In this webinar, we will look at the simulation parameters that are set in .mdp one by one, see how they are connect and how they affect scientific correctness and simulations performance.
Right hemisphere dominance for language in a woman with schizophrenia and a porencephalic cyst of the left hemisphere
Creators: name: Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo De
name: Monteiro, Myriam
name: Pacheco, Paula
name: Tovar-Moll, Fernanda
name: Mattos, Paulo
name: Moll, Jorge
name: Nazar, Bruno Palazzo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A large left hemisphere porencephalic cyst was incidentally found in a 48-year-old woman (MS) with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia. The encephaloclastic characteristics of the cyst indicated that it was acquired between the 22nd and 24th gestational weeks, after the major waves of neuronal migration had tapered off. The cyst destroyed the left temporal and occipital lobes, and the inferior parietal lobule. Surprisingly, MS had no evidence of aphasia, alexia, agraphia, or ideational apraxia; in contrast, cognitive functions dependent on the integrity of the right hemisphere were severely impaired. To test the hypothesis that the development of language in MS took place at the expense of functions that are normally carried out by the right hemisphere, we investigated MS’s correlates of oral comprehension with fMRI as a proxy for auditory comprehension and other cognitive functions strongly lateralized to the posterior left hemisphere, such as ideational praxis and reading. Comprehension of spoken language engaged the homologous of Wernicke’s area in the right planum temporale. Porencephaly may represent a natural model of neuroplasticity supervening at predictable epochs of prenatal development.
Transdiagnostic Insights into Psychopathology Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Creators: name: CARMICHAEL, JAI JASON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology

description: Mental health difficulties are common among individuals who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. In recent years, transdiagnostic approaches, which move beyond the boundaries of traditional psychiatric diagnoses, have emerged to better understand mental health difficulties in the general population. However, the application of these approaches to individuals with traumatic brain injury has remained uncertain. This thesis applied transdiagnostic approaches to gain new insights into the mental health difficulties faced by individuals with traumatic brain injury.
Preface
Creators: Pollack, Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Since 1999 the Center for the Study of Science and Religion has been, within the Earth Institute at Columbia University, a small novelty in the larger structures of this place, but one that has proven remarkably effective at nurturing new ideas that otherwise would not easily have found a place to be thought through, in the various communities that make up our departments, schools, institutes, and campuses. One of the most radical of these new ideas is the notion that love might have a specific, significant, even central role in the operations and purposes of the university; and that in particular, love might be necessary precisely for the protection of new ideas, if that is indeed the university's core mission.
Exploring the distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's ‘fail-safe’ number of unpublished studies in meta-analysis
Creators: name: Fragkos, Konstantinos C.
name: Tsagris, Michail
name: Frangos, Christos C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: The present article discusses the statistical distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's ‘file-drawer’ number NR, which is an estimator of unpublished studies in meta-analysis. We calculate the probability distribution function of NR. This is achieved based on the central limit theorem and the proposition that certain components of the estimator NR follow a half-normal distribution, derived from the standard normal distribution. Our proposed distributions are supported by simulations and investigation of convergence.
Exploring the Distribution for the Estimator of Rosenthal's ‘Fail-Safe’ Number of Unpublished Studies in Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Fragkos, Konstantinos C.
name: Tsagris, Michail
name: Frangos, Christos C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: The present paper discusses the statistical distribution for the estimator of Rosenthal's ‘file drawer’ number NR, which is an estimator of unpublished studies in meta-analysis. We calculate the probability distribution function of NR. This is achieved based on the Central Limit Theorem and the proposition that certain components of the estimator NR follow a half normal distribution, derived from the standard normal distribution. Our proposed distributions are supported by simulations and investigation of convergence.
Statistical Design and Considerations of a Phase 3 Basket Trial for Simultaneous Investigation of Multiple Tumor Types in One Study
Creators: name: Chen, Cong
name: Xiaoyun (Nicole) Li
name: Shuai Yuan
name: Antonijevic, Zoran
name: Rasika Kalamegham
name: Beckman, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The discovery of numerous molecular subtypes of common cancers leads to the investigation of biomarkers potentially predictive of treatment effect of an experimental treatment in multiple histologies. However, the prevalence of a putative predictive biomarker within a histology is often low, which makes it challenging to enroll adequate number of patients in a conventional histology-based confirmatory trial. An alternative approach is to study patients with a common biomarker signature in a “basket” trial across multiple histologies. This study design has previously been used to explore experimental therapies with potentially transformative effects. We present a general design concept of a Phase 3 basket trial broadly applicable to any effective therapy. The trial is designed with scientific and statistical rigor to enable the approval of an experimental treatment in multiple tumor indications based on the outcome from a single study. Given the difficulty in indication selection, the basic idea is to prune the inactive indications at an interim analysis and pool the active indications in the final analysis. A critical statistical issue of the basket design is Type I error control for the pooled analysis after pruning. While pruning may be seen as cherry-picking which tends to inflate the Type I error, it also shares similarity with a binding futility analysis which tends to deflate the Type I error if all indications are pruned. The net impact of pruning is complicated. The use of different endpoints for pruning and pooling further complicates the issue. This paper will provide statistical details on Type I error control for the general basket design concept under three sample size adjustment strategies after pruning. Power and sample size calculations are also provided. Comparisons are made to a straightforward design without pruning. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Respiratory cancer mortality and incidence in an updated cohort of Canadian nickel production workers
Creators: name: Seilkop, Steven K.
name: Lightfoot, Nancy E.
name: Berriault, Colin J.
name: Conard, Bruce R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Respiratory cancer mortality and incidence were examined in an updated cohort of >56,000 Canadian nickel mining and refining workers. There was little evidence to suggest increased lung cancer risk in workers who had no experience in high-risk sintering operations that were closed by 1972, apart from that which would be expected from probable increased smoking prevalence relative to the comparison population. There was no substantive evidence of increased laryngeal cancer risk in the cohort, nor was there evidence of increased pharyngeal cancer risk in nonsinter workers. Nasal cancer incidence was elevated in nonsinter workers, but excess risks appeared to be confined to those hired prior to 1960. These findings lead us to tentatively conclude that occupationally-related respiratory risks in workers hired over the past 45 years are either very low or nonexistent.
Supplementary information from Phenological sensitivity and seasonal variability explain climate-driven trends in Mediterranean butterflies
Creators: name: Colom, Pau
name: Ninyerola, Miquel
name: Pons, Xavier
name: Traveset, Anna
name: Stefanescu, Constantí
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting information on ecological traits calculation, flight peak selection and data refinement and supplementary figures and tables
Tables S1 and S2 from For the road: calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission
Creators: name: Pons, Inès
name: González Porras, Miguel Ángel
name: Breitenbach, Noa
name: Berger, Jürgen
name: Hipp, Katharina
name: Salem, Hassan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Table S1: Effect of Stammera on larval survivorship in Chelymorpha alternans across treatments. β, estimated regression coefficient of Cox's proportional hazard model; Exp (β), hazard ratio; SE (β), coefficient standard error; z, z-test value; P, significance of the coefficient.; Table S2: Primers for diagnostic and quantitative PCR used in this study.
Local Genius In The Rural Area Of Bali: From ‘Menyama-Braya’ (Brotherhood) To Multiculturalism
Creators: name: Suwitha, I Putu Gede
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The multicultural life in the rural area of Bali has been the local genius which has become into existence from century to century. There is a cultural exchange and absorption in various activities of life involving heterogeneous societies. The collaborative and associative relations have involved different ethnic groups. This present study is intended to reveal why such good collaborative and associative relations have taken place among different ethnic groups. This present study was conducted using the descriptive qualitative method. The data were taken through an in-depth interview. The information which needed to be further explored was obtained using the interpretative approach. The result of the study shows that everything was good with the multicultural life. The new arrivals adapted themselves to the traditional or local value (local genius); they developed brotherhood and its derived values such as ‘ngejot’ (giving one another the foods particularly prepared for their respective feast days), ‘medelokan’ (visiting one another when someone is deceased or perform a religious ritual), and so forth. The result of the study also shows that the multicultural life which was shown through the traditional channels (local genius) had taken place since a long time ago. The new arrivals adapted and adjusted themselves to the local tradition such as brotherhood ‘menyama braya’ and its derived values
title: Autorisation de captation, utilisation, diffusion et conservation de la voix d'une personne
Creators: name: Bureau, Eve
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: T-4797
description: Source: C-4797
title: Efficient depletion of ribosomal RNA for RNA sequencing in planarians
Creators: name: Kim, Iana
name: Ross, Eric
name: Dietrich, Sascha
name: Döring, Kristina
name: Sánchez Alvarado, Alejandro
name: Kuhn, Claus-D.
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Background: The astounding regenerative abilities of planarian flatworms prompt steadily growing interest in examining their molecular foundation. Planarian regeneration was found to require hundreds of genes and is hence a complex process. Thus, RNA interference followed by transcriptome-wide gene expression analysis by RNA-seq is a popular technique to study the impact of any particular planarian gene on regeneration. Typically, the removal of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is the first step of all RNA-seq library preparation protocols. To date, rRNA removal in planarians was primarily achieved by the enrichment of polyadenylated (poly(A)) transcripts. However, to better reflect transcriptome dynamics and to cover also non-poly(A) transcripts, a procedure for the targeted removal of rRNA in planarians is needed. Results: In this study, we describe a workflow for the efficient depletion of rRNA in the planarian model species S. mediterranea. Our protocol is based on subtractive hybridization using organism-specific probes. Importantly, the designed probes also deplete rRNA of other freshwater triclad families, a fact that considerably broadens the applicability of our protocol. We tested our approach on total RNA isolated from stem cells (termed neoblasts) of S. mediterranea and compared ribodepleted libraries with publicly available poly(A)-enriched ones. Overall, mRNA levels after ribodepletion were consisted with poly(A) libraries. However, ribodepleted libraries revealed higher transcript levels for transposable elements and histone mRNAs that remained underrepresented in poly(A) libraries. As neoblasts experience high transposon activity this suggests that ribodepleted libraries better reflect the transcriptional dynamics of planarian stem cells. Furthermore, the presented ribodepletion procedure was successfully expanded to the removal of ribosomal RNA from the gram-negative bacterium Salmonella typhimurium. Conclusions: The ribodepletion protocol presented here ensures the efficient rRNA removal from low input total planarian RNA, which can be further processed for RNA-seq applications. Resulting libraries contain less than 2% rRNA. Moreover, for a cost-effective and efficient removal of rRNA prior to sequencing applications our procedure might be adapted to any prokaryotic or eukaryotic species of choice.
Fatal overdose from synthetic cannabinoids and cathinones in Japan: demographics and autopsy findings
Creators: name: Ezaki, Jiro
name: Ro, Ayako
name: Hasegawa, Masayuki
name: Kibayashi, Kazuhiko
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Background: Sixty-one autopsy cases involving cathinones and/or cannabinoids (synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids) use have been reported. However, little is known about the demographics and autopsy findings in fatal synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids users. Objectives: To elucidate demographic and autopsy findings (i.e. major organ pathology and causes of death) in synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids cases. Methods: We reviewed forensic autopsy reports in Department of Legal Medicine of Tokyo Women’s Medical University (Tokyo, Japan) between 2011 and 2015 (a total of 359). We compared demographic and autopsy findings between synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids and methamphetamine cases (as control subjects). Results: There were 12 synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids cases and 10 methamphetamine cases. Synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids users were significantly younger than methamphetamine users (p < 0.01), and there were no cases that used both synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids and methamphetamine. Acute intoxication and cardiac ischemia were the two most prominent causes of death in both synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids users and methamphetamine users. Excited delirium syndrome and pulmonary aspiration were found only in synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids cases. Conclusions: The populations of synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids and methamphetamine users who died of an overdose are different in Japan. Acute intoxication, cardiac ischemia, excited delirium syndrome, pulmonary aspiration, and drowning are the major autopsy findings in synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids-related death. Clinicians shuld be aware of these potentially fatal complications in the medical management of synthetic cathinones/cannabinoids users.
Single crystal structure, vibrational study, and thermal behavior of a new rare earth diphosphate HYbP2O7·4H2O
Creators: name: F. Bousmina-Henchi
name: F. Chehimi-Moumen
name: D. Ben Hassen-Chehimi
name: M. Trabelsi-Ayadi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A new ytterbium diphosphate: HYbP2O7·4H2O was prepared via soft chemistry route from evaporation of aqueous solution. It was investigated by single crystal X-ray diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, and thermal analysis. The framework of the title compound consists in an assemblage of HP2O7 groups and [YbO5(H2O)2] polyhedra, giving rise to corrugated layers stacked along the b axis at y = 1/4 and y = 3/4. Between these layers are located two uncoordinated water molecules. The cohesion of this arrangement is well ensured by a three-dimensional network of water-layer and inter-layer hydrogen bonds of different strengths. Non-coincidences are observed between the majority of the IR and Raman bands and confirm a centrosymetric structure for this compound. Thermal analysis reveals the elimination of 4.5 water molecules per formula unit in three stages between 310 K and 1100 K, which correspond to the departure of the four crystallization water molecules and the OH group. A comparative study among hydrated lanthanide monohydrogendiphosphates known in the literature is presented.
Clinical perspectives on the identification of neurodevelopmental conditions in children and changes in referral pathways: qualitative interviews
Creators: name: Coughlan, Barry
name: Woolgar, Matt
name: Mann, Alissa
name: Duschinsky, Robbie
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mental health
1506
1712
Community child health
Developmental neurology & neurodisability
PRIMARY CARE
Child & adolescent psychiatry
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

description: Objective: Previous work has raised questions about the role of general practitioners (GPs) in the identification of neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorders (autism) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD). This study aimed to explore how GPs identify these conditions in practice and their perspectives on recent changes to local referral pathways that mean referrals to the neurodevelopmental team come through educational professionals and health visitors, rather than GPs. This study also aimed to explore Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) specialist’s perspectives on the role of GPs. Setting: GP practices, local neurodevelopmental services and specialist CAMHS services in the UK. Participants: semistructured interviews were conducted with GPs (n=8), specialists in local CAMHS (n=7), and professionals at national CAMHS services around the country (n=10). Interviews were conducted between January and May 2019. A framework approach informed by thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Results: GPs drew on various forms of tacit and explicit information including behavioural markers, parental report, prior knowledge of the family, expert and lay resources. Opinions varied between GPs regarding changes to the referral pathway, with some accepting the changes and others describing it as a ‘disaster’. CAMHS specialists tended to feel that GPs required more neurodevelopmental training and time to conduct consultations. Conclusion: This study adds to the literature showing that GPs use an array of information sources when making referral decisions for autism and ADHD. Further work is urgently required to evaluate the impact of reconfiguring neurodevelopmental referral pathways such that GPs have a diminished role in identification.
title: Detection of Urban Development in Uyo (Nigeria) Using Remote Sensing
Creators: name: Essien, Etido
name: Samimi, Cyrus
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 500
subject: 550
subject: 900

description: Uyo is one of the fastest-growing cities in Nigeria. In recent years, there has been a widespread change in land use, yet to date, there is no thorough mapping of vegetation change across the area. This study focuses on land use change, urban development, and the driving forces behind natural vegetation loss in Uyo. Based on time series Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM)/Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+)/Operational Land Imager (OLI) image data, the relationships between urban land development and its influencing factors from 1985 to 2018 were analyzed using remote sensing (RS) and time series data. The results show eight land use cover classes. Three of these (forest, swamp vegetation, and mixed vegetation) are related to natural vegetation, and three (sparse built-up, dense built-up, and borrow pit) are direct consequences of urban infrastructure development changes to the landscape. Swamp vegetation, mixed vegetation, and forest are the most affected land use classes. Thus, the rapid growth of infrastructure and industrial centers and the rural and urban mobility of labor have resulted in an increased growth of built-up land. Additionally, the growth pattern of built-up land in Uyo corresponds with socioeconomic interviews conducted in the area. Land use changes in Uyo could be attributed to changes in economic structure, urbanization through infrastructure development, and population growth. Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) analysis shows a trend of decreasing vegetation in Uyo, which suggests that changes in economic structure represent a key driver of vegetation loss. Furthermore, the implementation of scientific and national policies by government agencies directed at reducing the effects of urbanization growth should be strengthened, in order to calm the disagreement between urban developers and environmental managers and promote sustainable land use.
QADIMGI OʻZBEKISTONDA ILK SHAHARSOZLIK VA DAVLATCHILIK  TARAQQIYOTINING OʻZARO BOGʻLIQLIK JIHATLARI
Creators: name: Poyonov, Ixtiyor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada Qadimgi Oʻzbekiston hududida ilk shaharlar paydo boʻlishining ijtimoiy, iqtisodiy va siyosiy asoslari hamda boshqaruv tizimining shakllanishi haqida maʼlumotlar beriladi. Shuningdek, antik va oʻrta asrlar davridan boshlab shaharlarning kelib chiqishi toʻgʻrisida dastlabki qarashlar paydo boʻlgan. Ishlab chiqaruvchi xoʻjaliklardagi, yaʼni, dehqonchilikning chorvachilikdan ajralib chiqishi davrida urbanizatsiya jarayonlari boshlangan. Dastlab protoshahar, ilk shaharlar shakllanib, vaqt oʻtgan sayin jamiyat va shaharlar tuzilishi murakkablashib borgan. Bu jarayonlar asosan, shaharlarning geografik joylashuviga, ixtisoslashuviga, siyosiy maqomiga va aholining toʻplanishi jarayonlariga bogʻliq holda kechgan.
HAM-ART: An optimised culture-free Hi-C metagenomics pipeline for tracking antimicrobial resistance genes in complex microbial communities.
Creators: name: Kalmar, Lajos
name: Gupta, Srishti
name: Kean, Iain
name: Ba, Xiaoliang
name: Hadjirin, Nazreen
name: Lay, Elizabeth M
name: De Vries, Stefan PW
name: Bateman, Michael
name: Bartlet, Harriet
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Juan
name: Tucker, Alexander
name: Restif, Olivier
name: Stevens, Mark P
name: Wood, James
name: Maskell, Duncan J
name: Grant, Andrew
name: Holmes, Mark
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022

description: Shotgun metagenomics is a powerful tool to identify antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes in microbiomes but has the limitation that extrachromosomal DNA, such as plasmids, cannot be linked with the host bacterial chromosome. Here we present a comprehensive laboratory and bioinformatics pipeline HAM-ART (Hi-C Assisted Metagenomics for Antimicrobial Resistance Tracking) optimised for the generation of metagenome-assembled genomes including both chromosomal and extrachromosomal AMR genes. We demonstrate the performance of the pipeline in a study comparing 100 pig faecal microbiomes from low- and high-antimicrobial use pig farms (organic and conventional farms). We found significant differences in the distribution of AMR genes between low- and high-antimicrobial use farms including a plasmid-borne lincosamide resistance gene exclusive to high-antimicrobial use farms in three species of Lactobacilli. The bioinformatics pipeline code is available at https://github.com/lkalmar/HAM-ART.
Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) as indicators of habitat quality in Mediterranean streams and rivers in the province of Barcelona (Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula)
Creators: name: Martín, Ricard
name: Maynou, Xavier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: In a field study carried out in 2011 and 2014 adult dragonflies were identified as a rapid and easy-to-use means of assessing habitat quality and biological integrity of Mediterranean streams and rivers in the province of Barcelona (Region Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula). The study included sampling sites from five different river catchments: Besòs, Foix, Llobregat, Ter and Tordera. Multivariate statistical procedures and indicator species analysis were used to investigate the relationship between river ecological status, study sites and dragonfly species or species assemblages’ occurrence. The dragonfly association identified with western Mediterranean permanent streams, i.e. Cordulegaster boltonii, Boyeria irene, Onychogomphus uncatus and Calopteryx virgo meridionalis, was found only at the sites with the highest status. All these taxa were identified as indicator species of sites with the best scores for the macroinvertebrate based IBMWP index and for the combined IASPT index, which reflects the sensitivity of the macroinvertebrate families present to environmental changes; besides, B. irene and C. virgo meridionalis also proved to be indicator species of the riparian forest quality index and C. boltonii of the more inclusive ECOSTRIMED, which assesses the overall conservation status of the riverine habitats. The information obtained on habitat preferences and indicator value showed that adults of these taxa may constitute a valuable tool for preliminary or complementary cost-effective monitoring of river status and restoration practices as part of a broader set of indices reflecting biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.
Supplemental information document;Supplemental movie 1;Supplemental movie 2 from Auditory mechanics in the Grig (Cyphoderris monstrosa): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy
Creators: name: Woodrow, Charlie
name: Pulver, Christian
name: Song, Hojun
name: Montealegre-Z, Fernando
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Supplemental supporting information for the study, consisting of a further explanation of the methods and 2 figures;Displacement of the anterior tympanum of Cyphoderris monstrosa at 2 kHz;Displacement of the anterior tympanum of Cyphoderris monstrosa at 12.5 kHz
Disintossichiamoci. Sapere per il futuro: Una lettera aperta al presidente del consiglio professor Giuseppe Conte, al ministro dell'università e della ricerca professor Gaetano Manfredi e alla ministra dell'istruzione onorevole Lucia Azzolina
Creators: name: Bertoni, Federico
name: Borrelli, Davide
name: Pinto, Valeria
name: Pievatolo, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Open Science
proposta di legge Gallo
free software
Italy
e-learning
research assessment

description: An open letter to the Italian prime minister and to the ministers for university, research and education petitioning some emergency measures about research assessment, online learning and open science to counter the current Covid-19 crisis.
Improvements in fish polychlorinated biphenyl and other contaminant levels in response to remedial actions in Hamilton Harbour, Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Neff, Margaret R.
name: Stefanoff, Samantha
name: Satyendra P. Bhavsar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Hamilton Harbour, located in Ontario, Canada at the western end of Lake Ontario, is recognized as one of the most anthropogenically-impacted regions within the Great Lakes and is currently listed as an Area of Concern. One of the Beneficial Use Impairments for the harbour has been restrictions on fish consumption due to elevated contaminant levels. In this study, we examined past and recent fish contaminant data collected by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change in partnership with other agencies to evaluate temporal trends in fish contaminant concentrations. Measurements for both resident and migratory sport fish as well as juvenile/forage fish were considered, with analysis focused on polychlorinated biphenyls, the group of chemicals identified as the major contaminant of concern. Current contaminant levels were evaluated against fish consumption advisory benchmarks used by Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, and compared with corresponding observations for other locations across the Great Lakes, including other Areas of Concern. The results show statistically significant improvements in fish contaminant levels within Hamilton Harbour, with recent fish mercury concentrations below the first advisory benchmarks for all species included in this study. Polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations declined by 59–82% from historical levels, although this decline was not statistically significant in Brown Trout, Common Carp, Freshwater Drum and White Sucker. Further, all species exhibit recent polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations above the first consumption advisory benchmark of 105 ng g−1. Compared to other Great Lakes locations, including other areas of concern, Hamilton Harbour polychlorinated biphenyl concentrations remain amongst the highest. The results suggest that recovery of Hamilton Harbour is still on-going.
Exploring the utility and implementability of an innovative method to monitor tuberculosis treatment response in a resource limited high burden setting
Creators: name: Mtafya, Bariki Anyamkisye
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: RA644T7.M8
subject: Tuberculosis--Treatment

description: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health disease responsible for over 1 million death every year. Effective diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of treatment response are crucial for controlling TB. The gold standard culture does not provide real time results. Routine microscopy and Xpert MTB/RIF tests fail to differentiate viable from dead Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is crucial to clinicians and trialists for treatment monitoring. The TB-MBLA detects the 16S ribosomal RNA of M. tuberculosis as the maker of viability using a quantitative RT-PCR with a promising potential to replace routine culture and microscopy for monitoring. This thesis explored the utility of TB- MBLA for treatment monitoring compared routine methods. Our results show that treatment response measured by TB-MBLA is consistent with resolution of clinical signs and is rapid, accurate with shorter time to result than standard culture. A survey of the healthcare practitioners showed a high level of TB- MBLA acceptability. The NaOH-based decontamination is perquisite step in the processing of sputum for standard TB culture. This study revealed that NaOH reduces viable M. tuberculosis count by a magnitude of 0.66log₁₀ and 0.65log₁₀ eCFU/mL measured by TB-MBLA for H37Rv cultures and sputum samples, respectively. The time to MGIT culture positivity increased by 1.2 days after decontamination of H37Rv cultures. Reduction in viable count compromises the sensitivity of TB tests and may lead to false negative results in later stage of treatment when patient bacterial burden is low. We also show that using fluorescent microscopy (FM) increases the risk of false positive results since most FM positive samples in late-stage treatment were negative by tests of viability, MGIT and TB-MBLA. Results suggest that the TB-MBLA could be applied in high burden settings for monitoring and identifying patients failing TB therapy. Further work is required to develop point of care systems for this assay.