cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il tempo in una stanza
Creators: name: Camboni, Marina
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1990

description: Challenging its definition as roman à clef, Camboni reads H. D. 's Bid Me to Live as a "time" novel where Julia Ashton's war-and-love story is the "surface story" of a multi-layered narrative which has at its core the search of a woman writer for identity and recognition. The closed room where most of the story is set functions both as a metaphor of the mind and as the narrative transformation of the symbolic numbers 3 and 4, and their product, 12. In H. D.'s thought, the number 12 stands for cyclic time, which transforms everything and makes the experience of eternity accessible to the human mind. The title, a quotation from Herrick's madrigal "To Anthea," stands for a literary heritage where love and death are always connected, and women are assigned the place of the Muse. By the end of the story Julia, claiming for herself the place of subject and maker of works of art, envisages the possibility that the madrigal becomes the matrix of love and resurrection.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 1 (1990): Untitled
Describing image focused in cognitive and visual details for visually impaired people: An approach to generating inclusive paragraphs
Creators: name: Fernandes, Daniel Louzada
name: Ribeiro, Marcos Henrique Fonseca
name: Cerqueira, Fabio Ribeiro
name: Silva, Michel Melo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several services for people with visual disabilities have emerged recently due to achievements in Assistive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence areas. Despite the growth in assistive systems availability, there is a lack of services that support specific tasks, such as understanding the image context presented in online content, e.g., webinars. Image captioning techniques and their variants are limited as Assistive Technologies as they do not match the needs of visually impaired people when generating specific descriptions. We propose an approach for generating context of webinar images combining a dense captioning technique with a set of filters, to fit the captions in our domain, and a language model for the abstractive summary task. The results demonstrated that we can produce descriptions with higher interpretability and focused on the relevant information for that group of people by combining image analysis methods and neural language models.
description: Accepted in the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2022
The non-peculiar velocity dispersion profile of the stellar system omega Centauri
Creators: name: Sollima, A.
name: Bellazzini, M.
name: Smart, R. L.
name: Correnti, M.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
name: Romano, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a survey of radial velocities over a wide region extending from r~10 arcmin out to r~80 arcmin (~1.5 tidal radii) within the massive star cluster omega Centauri. The survey was performed with FLAMES@VLT, to study the velocity dispersion profile in the outer regions of this stellar system. We derived accurate radial velocities for a sample of 2557 newly observed stars, identifying 318 bona-fide cluster red giants. Merging our data with those provided by Pancino et al. (2007), we assembled a final homogeneous sample of 946 cluster members that allowed us to trace the velocity dispersion profile from the center out to r~32 arcmin. The velocity dispersion appears to decrease monotonically over this range, from a central value of sigma_{v}~17.2 Km/s down to a minimum value of sigma_{v}~5.2 Km/s. The observed surface brightness profile, rotation curve, velocity dispersion profile and ellipticity profile are simultaneously well reproduced by a simple dynamical model in which mass follows light, within the classical Newtonian theory of gravitation. The comparison with an N-body model of the evolution of a system mimicking omega Cen during the last 10 orbits into the Galactic potential suggests that (a) the rotation of stars lying in the inner ~20 arcmin of the clusters is not due to the effects of the tidal field of the Milky Way, as hypothized by other authors, and (b) the overall observational scenario is still compatible with the possibility that the outer regions of the cluster are subject to some tidal stirring.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
title: Associative Growth of Paired Lactic Streptococci in pH Controlled Whey-Based Media
Creators: name: Hansen, Carol Lee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: This study evaluated four lactic streptococcal pairs which had been used routinely in cheese plants to determine (1) if strain growth interactions would produce stimulated growth and acid production; (2) final percent strain ratios and generation times after 1/1 initial inocula volumes and (3) whether final strain ratios could be controlled through adjustment of initial inocula volumes. Strains were propagated in fortified and unmodified whey substrate under pH control at 27C for 12 hours. Cell number and acid activity were evaluated on single and paired strains. Phage typing was used to determine generation times and the percent of each strain in a pair.
Cell number increase was found in two of the four pairs grown in the unmodified whey substrate but in only one of the four pairs grown in the fortified medium. Acid production increase was observed in one pair when grown in the unmodified whey substrate, and in one other pair when grown in the fortified medium. Final strain percent ratios of the two of the four pairs (with initial inocula of a 1/1, v/v, ratio), demonstrated unbalanced growth, with one strain accounting for 76 to 92% of the final flora. Generation times of the dominant strain varied significantly with incocula ratios. Increasing the inocula volume ratio of the dominated strain of one pair from 1/1 to 19/1 dropped the final percent of the dominant strain from an average value of 83 to 66%. The dominant organism of this pair increased its doubling time when the inocula ratio was varied from 3/1 to 19/1 (dominated/dominant).
Outcomes Following Surgical Fixation of Upper Extremity Fractures in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
Creators: name: Draeger, Reid W.
name: Chen, Andrew T.
name: Allen, Andrew D.
name: Jeffs, Alexander D.
name: Koutlas, Nathaniel T.
name: Wellborn, Patricia K.
name: Patterson, J. Megan M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Purpose: Moderate to severe (stage III-IV) chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) have been shown to be independent risk factors for sustaining a fragility fracture. High rates of complications and mortality are associated with fracture fixation in patients with CKD, but existing literature is limited. It is unknown how CKD stage III-IV or ESRD affects outcomes in upper-extremity fractures. We hypothesize that patients with CKD stage III-IV or ESRD will have high complication rates after surgical fixation of upper extremity fractures.
Methods: We identified all patients between 2008 and 2018 who underwent operative fixation of an upper extremity fracture proximal to the distal radius with a diagnosis of CKD stage III-IV or ESRD at the time of injury. Those with an acute kidney injury at the time of injury or a history of a kidney transplant were excluded. Demographics, medical complications, and surgical complications were collected retrospectively. Data on readmissions within 90 days and mortality within 1 year were also collected.
Results: Thirty-five patients were identified. Three patients had ESRD. Fractures included two clavicle, twelve proximal humerus, one humeral shaft, ten distal humerus, five olecranon, two ulnar shaft, one radial shaft, and two both-bone forearm fractures. In total, 91.4% of fractures were closed injuries. Surgical complications occurred in 40% of patients. The reoperation rate was 11.4%, and all cases of reoperation involved hardware removal. The all-cause 90-day readmission rate was 34.3%. The 1-year mortality rate was 8.6%.
Conclusions: Surgical complications occurred in 40% of patients with CKD stage III-IV or ESRD who underwent fixation for an upper extremity fracture. It is important to counsel these patients regarding their high risk for complications. Further research is needed to investigate and identify how to mitigate risk.
Type of study/level of evidence: Prognostic IV.
Конструирование украинской фальсификации истории Великой Отечественной войны в школьных учебниках
Creators: name: Жиряков Александр Юрьевич
name: Москалёва Людмила Юрьевна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Великая Отечественная война
фальсификация
украинские учебники истории
Great Patriotic War
falsification
Ukrainian school history textbooks

description: Аннотация. В статье изучено создание массового фальсифицированного представления о Великой Отечественной войне в системе школьного образования Украины. Кратко изложены основные принципы написания фальсифицированной истории Великой Отечественной войны в школьных учебниках, схемы украинских школьных учебников истории, посвященных Великой Отечественной войне, их генезис.

Abstract. The article deals with the creation of a massive, falsified view of the Great Patriotic War in the school education system of Ukraine. The basic principles of writing falsified history of the Great Patriotic War are outlined and the schemes of Ukrainian school history textbooks devoted to the Great Patriotic War and their genesis are described.
title: Comparison of Growth in Preterm, Low-Birth-Weight Infants Fed Human Milk Versus Standard Infant Formula from 40-56 Weeks Postconceptual Age
Creators: name: Moyer, Laurie Jean
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: The purpose of this study was to compare growth following hospitalization in preterm, low birth weight infants fed their own mother's milk versus preterm, low birth weight infants of similar weight and gestational age given standard infant formula upon demand. Growth measurements were taken 40, 42, 48 and 56 weeks postconceptual age.
A total of 28 healthy, preterm, low birth weight infants completed the study. Seventeen infants received standard infant formula (Similac) and 11 were breast-fed upon demand. Introduction of solid foods was delayed until the infant was greater than 56 weeks postconceptual age. Weight, length, occiptial frontal circumference, mid-upper arm circumference, triceps and subscapular skinfold measurements were obtained at 40, 42, 48 and 56 weeks postconceptual age in our nutrition follow-up clinic.
Analysis of variance with feeding as well as age, sex, gestational age at birth, birth weight, birth length and birth head circumference as factors was performed utilizing Duncan's Multiple Range Test. Weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and triceps and subscapular skinfold measurements were shown to be significantly greater in infants fed formula versus human milk from birth to 40 weeks postconceptual age. Gestational age at birth and increasing chronological age was also shown to influence these measures. Statistical significance was less than the one percent level. However, no statistical or clinical differences were found in rates of growth preterm, low birth weight infants fed either human milk or standard infant formula from 40 to 56 weeks postconceptual age. Both feeding groups experienced growth within the 10 to 90th percentiles of accepted infant norms for all parameters.
It was concluded that preterm, low birth weight infants allowed to be breast-fed upon demand post-hospitalization experienced acceptable rates of gains from 40 to 56 weeks postconceptual age. Use of commercial formula was not found to be more advantageous than breast feeding.
Metamorphosis of the layered motifs : self-portraiture and the metamorphosis of the pattern/grid in printmaking
Creators: name: Ky, Marine
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Through the medium of etching, \The Metamorphosis of the Layered Motifs\" investigates the use of Chinese calligraphy and second-hand fabrics as indexed motifs to convey personal memories and states of mind. The transposed motifs bring together heterogeneous cultural fragments into what Mallarme describes as \"modern ideograms\". By \"modern ideograms\" Mallanne refers to poetic signs that transcend their hieroglyphic form. The prints which have been created as a result of this translate into images of my memory of growing up between two cultures ‚ÄövÑvÆ the Chinese and the French. The prints are composed of collages of texts and stitched garments and document many of the characteristics of my \"hybrid\" and \"exotic\" experiences. The process of etching is an important and integral part of my project because I use the analogy of the memory of the plate with my own memory. Chinese texts and second hand fabrics are used for their familiar associations with my childhood in Asia and in France. Chinese was the first language I learnt to write in Macao. Fabrics were the materials I worked most closely with for many years first in helping my mother's family in Macao and then in helping my mother in Paris. The two elements echo both the enriching discovery and unprecedented loss that I experienced in my adjustments to my successive displacements from Cambodia to Australia. The result has been a series of etchings and sculptural works which chart this investigation."
Une grammaire formelle du créole martiniquais pour la génération automatique
Creators: name: Vaillant, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: In this article, some first elements of a computational modelling of the grammar of the Martiniquese French Creole dialect are presented. The sources of inspiration for the modelling is the functional description given by Damoiseau (1984), and Pinalie's & Bernabe's (1999) grammar manual. Based on earlier works in text generation (Vaillant, 1997), a unification grammar formalism, namely Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAG), and a modelling of lexical functional categories based on syntactic and semantic properties, are used to implement a grammar of Martiniquese Creole which is used in a prototype of text generation system. One of the main applications of the system could be its use as a tool software supporting the task of learning Creole as a second language. -- Nous présenterons dans cette communication les premiers travaux de modélisation informatique d'une grammaire de la langue créole martiniquaise, en nous inspirant des descriptions fonctionnelles de Damoiseau (1984) ainsi que du manuel de Pinalie & Bernabé (1999). Prenant appui sur des travaux antérieurs en génération de texte (Vaillant, 1997), nous utilisons un formalisme de grammaires d'unification, les grammaires d'adjonction d'arbres (TAG d'après l'acronyme anglais), ainsi qu'une modélisation de catégories lexicales fonctionnelles à base syntaxico-sémantique, pour mettre en oeuvre une grammaire du créole martiniquais utilisable dans une maquette de système de génération automatique. L'un des intérêts principaux de ce système pourrait être son utilisation comme logiciel outil pour l'aide à l'apprentissage du créole en tant que langue seconde.
description: In French. 10 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX 2e using EPSF and custom package Taln2003.sty (JC/PZ, ATALA). Proceedings of the 10th annual French-speaking conference on Natural Language Processing: `Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles' (TALN 2003), Batz-sur-mer, France, 10-14 June 2003
Galois Theory: Fifth-Degree Polynomials and Some Ruler-and-Compass Problems
Creators: name: Loehr, Gabriel Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Galois Theory
Ruler-and-Compass Problems
Galois Groups
Insolvability of fifth-degree polynomials

description: Évariste Galois was a French mathematician in the beginning of the 19th century. Unfortunately, his story is a tragic one. Unappreciated by his contemporaries, he struggled to gain recognition for his work and was denied entry into the top Parisian University to study math. Relegated to a second-tier school and feeling like he would never succeed, he lost his life in a duel at the age of 20. However, the night before his duel, he scribbled notes furiously and sketched out a solution to a central problem in mathematics. It would take more than a decade for his work to come to light, but he had actually managed to prove the non-existence of a general radical solution for fifth-order polynomial equations, a problem that had plagued mathematicians for centuries. Perhaps the most beautiful part of his work was its success in demonstrating the unity of different fields of math. His solution answered three seemingly unrelated problems in geometry that had remained unsolved since the time of the ancient Greeks: the duplication of the cube, trisection of the angle, and quadrature of the circle, which asked respectively for a cube whose volume is twice the volume of a given cube, an angle one-third the size of a given angle, and a square of area equal to the area of a given circle. These three problems, like fifth-order polynomials, were incredibly simple to formulate but impossible to solve. Galois’ work that settled these questions for good. In this paper, I sketch the outline of Galois’ work and show how it led to these unexpected results.
The Drunken Scheherazade
Creators: name: Poole, Gordon
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1990

description: Poole's reading of the London works chosen for their autobiographical interest brings out a complex conflict: hard drinking encroaches more and more on London's workaholic writing, the obsessive 5,000 words a day. The nihilistic and pessimistic truths revealed in his alcoholic stupor give the lie to the false ideals and illusions, such as Socialism, he believes himself to be peddling in his writings. Paradoxically, these falsities, related to female nurture, are life-sustaining, whereas boozing, associated with male camaraderie, expresses a deep death-wish.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 1 (1990): Untitled
Fundamental times, lengths and physical constants: some unknown contributions by Ettore Majorana
Creators: name: Esposito, S.
name: Salesi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the introduction in physics of the concepts of an elementary space length and of a fundamental time scale, analyzing some related unknown contributions by Ettore Majorana. In particular, we discuss the quasi-Coulombian scattering in presence of a finite length scale, as well as the introduction of an intrinsic (universal) time delay in the expressions for the retarded electromagnetic potentials. Finally, we also review a special model considered by Majorana in order to deduce the value of the elementary charge, in such a way anticipating key ideas later introduced in quantum electrodynamics.
description: 10 pages
title: Evaluation of Heme and Free Iron Binding Agents As Substitutes for Sodium Nitrite in Cured Meat
Creators: name: Vahabzadeh, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO) gases, alone or with oxalate, phytate, or ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) were tested for antibotulinal activity as substitutes for sodium nitrite in ground pork inoculated with spores of Clostridium botulinum, then abused by storage at 277°C. Nitric oxide with 250 ppm oxalate or phytate was most inhibitory, while NO alone was as effective as 156 ppm sodium nitrite for inhibition of gas and botulinal toxin production in the meat system. All swollen samples contained very low levels of residual nitrite, but nitroso heme and soluble iron content did not change compared with unswollen samples of the same treatment while total heme content decreased slightly. Binding iron in the meat system did not appear to be sufficient for botulinal inhibition. Apparently, residual nitrite must be present to react directly with the botulinal cell, inhibiting growth. NO gas would not be a practical subsitute for sodium nitrite in curing, since nitrite itself is formed when meat is blended in the presence of this gas. Neither could CO be used in meat curing, since the pink color of raw, CO-treated meat disappeared after cooking. More importantly, all samples treated with CO swelled rapidly and contained botulinal toxin.
Knot-isomers of Moebius Cyclacene: How Does the Number of Knots Influence the Structure and First Hyperpolarizability?
Creators: name: Xu, Hong-Liang
name: Li, Zhi-Ru
name: Su, Zhong-Min
name: Gu, Feng Long
name: Harigaya, Kikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four large ring molecules composed by 15 nitrogen-substituted benzene rings, named as "knot-isomers of Moebius cyclacene", i.e. non-Moebius cyclacenes without a knot (0), Moebius cyclacenes with a knot (1), non-Moebius cyclacenes with two knots (2), and Moebius cyclacenes with three knots (3), are systematically studied for their structures and nonlinear optical properties. The first hyperpolarizability (beta_0) values of these four knot-isomers structures are 4693 (0) < 10484 (2) < 25419 (3) < 60846 au (1). The beta_0 values (60846 for 1, 10484 for 2 and 25419 au for 3) of the knot-isomers with knot(s) are larger than that (4693 au for 0) of the knot-isomer without a knot. It shows that the beta_0 value can be dramatically increases (13 times) by introducing the knot(s) to the cyclacenes structures. It is found that introducing knots to cyclacenes is a new means to enhance the first hyperpolarizability.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
DNA evolution in krill : molecular phylogenetics and population genetics of Euphausiacea (Crustacea: Malacostraca) and their close relatives
Creators: name: Jarman, Simon Neil
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The evolutionary history of krill (Euphausiacea: Crustacea) was studied through information held in their DNA. The earliest events in the evolution of this group were investigated by phylogenetic analysis of slowly evolving nuclear DNA sequences of krill and their near relatives. These analyses established the sister taxon of krill to be the Mysida. Molecular dating techniques suggested that krill diverged from the Mysida in the upper Carboniferous, two lineages of krill survived the end Cretaceous extinctions, and the extant genera of Euphausiidae radiated during the early Palaeogene. More recent speciation events in the krill genus Euphausia were studied by phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences. A comparison between the speciation history of Euphausia and that of freshwater crustaceans in the Anaspididae was made because the Anaspididae are close relatives of krill and have undisputable barriers to migration between populations that are not present for krill. This comparison suggests that genetic differentiation in Euphausia may involve parapatric or even sympatric processes. Microevolution in the krill species Euphausia crystallorophias was studied by comparing allele frequencies between populations of krill from different parts of its range. Features of the genome of Euphausia superba were characterized in order to compare its qualities with the genomes of other metazoans.
title: Integration of high-resolution micro-computed tomography in the quality control of 3D-printed scaffolds.
Creators: name: Stadelmann, Vincent A
name: Geven, Mike A
name: Grijpma, Dirk W
name: Richards, Geoff R
name: Eglin, David
name: Guillaume, Olivier
Publisher: name: Journal of Medical Materials and Technologies
Year: 2017

description: Additive manufacturing, and among all stereolithography, has shown great potential in the field of biomedical science. This technology offers a relatively simple means to manufacture objects with complex external and internal features and high spatial resolution, compared to more traditional manufacturing methods. Successful clinical reports of patient specific implants manufactured using 3D printing foster great promises, particularly in the field of craniomaxillofacial reconstruction. However, along with the ability to produce highly defined prostheses, the community still needs tools to ensure the quality of the final products. In this study, we demonstrate that high-resolution micro-computed tomography is an efficient system to control the quality of a 3D-printed structure. As a proof of concept, using stereolithography-printed macroporous scaffolds with various mineral content, we showed that micro-computed tomography allows quantification of shape and morphometry of the specimens; it allows mapping differences between the 3D-printed scaffolds and their original Computer-Aided Design models, and can quantify the influence of the mineral content on the structures. As perspective, the development of micro-computed tomography quality control routines would help ensuring the quality of implants preoperatively, and as such, has the potential to improve surgical outcomes.
description: Journal of Medical Materials and Technologies, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2017): Proceedings of Euro BioMAT
“Daisy Miller” e il discorso dell’ideologia
Creators: name: Izzo, Donatella
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1990

description: The narrative situation in Henry James's "Daisy Miller" is one that is basic to patriarchal culture: a woman, allowed no voice and point of view of her own, is seen, interpreted, and judged by a male eye and voice placed in an authoritative position. This essay analyses the ways in which textual strategies deconstruct rather than endorse such a situation, by foregrounding the workings of ideology and by undermining Winterbourne's textual authority and, as a consequence, the patriarchal and logocentric thinking of which he is made a representative. In its refusal to provide an authoritative last word on Daisy, the text alligns itself with her active rebellion against that mode of thinking, and with her choice of openness and différence.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 1 (1990): Untitled
“Silence – A Fable” di Edgar Allan Poe
Creators: name: Zaccaria, Paola
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1990

description: There is no doubt that Poe's writing bears the traces of an excessive compulsion for repetition. The essay analyses "Silence," a short 'fable' written in 1833-35, in which the over-recurrence of repetition mirrors pain, anxiety, awe, and death by dramatizing the conflict between representational and metanarrative concerns. The split between the descriptive and the narrative modes is traced back to the opposition between sight and hearing—an opposition that results in near silence.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 1 (1990): Untitled
title: The Relative Roles of Initial and Residual Sodium Nitrite on Germination of Clostridium botulinum Spores in Meat
Creators: name: Mettanant, Orchid
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Four levels of NaNO2 (0 ppm, 50 ppm, 100 ppm, and 156 ppm) were tested for antibotulinal activity in ground pork inoculated with spores of Clostridium botulinum either at the time of formulation or after cooking. Samples formulated with less than 156 ppm sodium nitrite received additional nitrite to adjust the residual nitrite equal to that found after cooking in samples formulated with 156 ppm nitrite. All samples were subjected to abusive storage at 27 C. Inoculating the spores at the time of formulation resulted in a faster rate of swelling. Heating C. botulinum spores for 30 min. at 77 C before addition to cooked meat also resulted in rapid germination. Total botulinal counts were significantly higher (p=0.05) in these samples, compared with similarly treated samples formulated with unheated spores.
Samples formulated with 50 ppm initial sodium nitrite and with 78 ppm additional NaNO2 after cooking were the most inhibitory. Initial nitrite concentration was shown to be important for inhibition of C. botulinum growth, probably because of the inhibitory carryover effects of protein-bound nitrite formed during cooing, as well as influencing the concentration of residual nitrite.
Association between Resting-state fMRI and Inhibitory Control among Psychosis Patients and Healthy Controls
Creators: name: Wu, Zhennuo
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Brain Imaging
subject: Inhibition
subject: Resting-state fMRI
subject: Psychosis

description: The ability to inhibit behavior is essential for achieving one's goals and being flexible in response to changing situations. Prior resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) studies in healthy people have shed light on key brain regions for inhibition performance (Lee & Hsieh, 2017; Tian et al., 2012). It is possible, but untested, that the association between RS-fMRI and inhibition performance seen in healthy controls extends to psychosis and helps predict the range of performance observed. Therefore, we are interested in the question of how inhibition performance is associated with spontaneous brain activity among psychosis patients and healthy people. We will also investigate how different the associations are between these two populations, and within psychosis patients. In this thesis, we expect that positive correlations exist between inhibition performance and spontaneous brain activity represented by RS-fMRI in specific brain regions of interestincluding default mode network and bilateral inferior frontal cortex. We also hypothesize that these correlations will be significantly weaker for some psychosis subgroups with greater inhibition response impairments. My thesis will fill in the gap in the literature and help characterize neural system alterations in psychosis, which are likely to be heterogeneous between different subgroups. An understanding of the difference in the associations may also help us better explain the decreased inhibition performance previously seen among psychosis patients (Ethridge et al., 2014). Comparison of the association between subgroups of psychosis patients may also illicit explanations for the different inhibition performances between these subgroups that have been previously identified (Clementz et al., 2016).
“The Coquette” or the Ambiguities
Creators: name: Fabi, Maria Giulia
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1990

description: In The Coquette (1797), Hannah Foster creates the first female individualist in American literature, Eliza Wharton, but places her within the restrictive and punitive confines of a conventional seduction narrative. The heroine's covert manipulation of sexual double-standards emerges as an ill-fated, single-handed fight against larger socio-biological forces, and results in ruin and death. The rhetoric of renunciation in which Eliza's doubtful redemption narrative is couched barely disguises the innovative and disturbing quality of her story.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 1 (1990): Untitled
Investigating wildlife crop pests and farmers' willingness to pay for pest management in the Batang Toru Forest, Indonesia
Creators: name: Harahap, Hamid Arrum
name: Yonariza
name: Ridwan, Endrizal
name: Yuerlita
Publisher: name: Visions for Sustainability
Year: 2023

description: Effective pest regulation is crucial for sustainable agriculture and livelihoods in agricultural landscapes. This study aims to understand the challenges faced by farmers, the strategies they employ, and their willingness to contribute to managing pest-related issues in the Batang Toru region. A quantitative research design was employed, and data were collected through face-to-face interviews with 125 randomly selected respondents from five villages between 2020 and 2022. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to analyze the survey data, and farmers' willingness to pay (WTP) was assessed using a choice experiment method. The findings reveal the diverse range of challenges and strategies associated with pest regulation in various crops, including peanuts, paddy, durian, banana, and bitter bean farming. Wildlife pests such as wild boars, non-human primates, and birds were identified as significant contributors to crop damages and losses. Farmers employed physical barriers, scare tactics, repellents and deterrents, traps, and lethal means to mitigate these challenges. Most farmers expressed their readiness to contribute financially, with a preference for in-kind rewards such as paddy and benzoin over cash payments. The findings highlight the complex and context-specific nature of pest management strategies, emphasizing the importance of understanding local ecological dynamics and cultural factors when designing interventions.  
description: Visions for Sustainability, NEW Visions online
Hydrodynamic phase-locking of swimming microorganisms
Creators: name: Elfring, Gwynn J.
name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some microorganisms, such as spermatozoa, synchronize their flagella when swimming in close proximity. Using a simplified model (two infinite, parallel, two-dimensional waving sheets), we show that phase-locking arises from hydrodynamics forces alone, and has its origin in the front-back asymmetry of the geometry of their flagellar waveform. The time-evolution of the phase difference between co-swimming cells depends only on the nature of this geometrical asymmetry, and microorganisms can phase-lock into conformations which minimize or maximize energy dissipation.
Piezoprobe measurements in pulsed discharges
Creators: name: Ardila, Ricardo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Piezoprobes of design Phillips-Curzon 1 mm in diameter have been calibrated in the pressure range 0.2 to 35 atm. Step pressure pulses for the calibration were produced with plane shock waves in the range 0.2-1 atm, and with plane detonations in Acetylene-Oxygen in the range 2-35 atm. The calibrated probes were used to measure the space-time pressure profiles in I) concentric detonations II) radiation fronts behind windows and III) pressure waves induced by an intense light source. The measurements supported existing models of the dynamics of these pulsed discharges.
title: Pharmacokinetic Assessment of the Influence of Dietary Fiber on the Absorption and Disposition of Selected Model Xenobiotics as it Relates to Colon Cancer
Creators: name: deBethizy, Joseph Donald
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Selected drugs are being utilized as models of putative colon carcinogens in a study of the influence of major types of dietary fiber upon drug pharmacokinetics. Adult, male Wistar rats were pretreated with standardized, isocaloric hydrated gelatin diets containing no fiber or 15% (w/w) cellulose, lignin, hemicellulose (metamucil), or pectin for 30 days. An additional group was fed lab chow ad libitum as a reference control.
The pharmacokinetics of acetaminophen, FD & C Red No. 2 and mirex were examined following oral administration in three separate experiments. Among fiber types, pectin and hemicellulose (Metamucil) caused higher peak plasma concentrations of acetaminophen and faster rates of absorption. There was no effect of fiber type on the rate of acetaminophen elimination as determined by the interpretation of the plasma data using the computer programs AUTOAN2 and NONLIN69. Minimal quantities of Red No. 2 were absorbed from the rat intestinal tract, but its microbial metabolite, naphtionic acid, was readily taken up. Pectin produced a 5-fold higher peak plasma concentration of naphthionic acid than control animals on fiber free diet. Cellulose feeding lowered peak plasma concentration of naphthionic acid compared to the fiber control animals. Lack of any fiber in the diet produced a prolonged peak plasma concentration of napthionic acid. The metabolism of Red No. 2 to naphtionic acid by rat cecal contents was augmented by pectin feeding, alone among fiber types. Red No. 2 decreased intestinal transit times in all diet groups, including controls, with there being no difference in transit times between fiber-fed and control animals. Hemicellulose and pectin feeding lowered peak plasma concentrations of mirex compared to control and cellulose fed animals. Lignin, however produced higher peak plasma concentrations of mirex and a 4-fold higher rate of mirex elimination when compared to the fiber-free control group.
These differential effects of specific fiber types upon the absorption and disposition of acetaminophen, Red No. 2 and mirex were not consistantly related to the chemical binding-capacities of the fibers of their water-holding capacities.
Filling gaps of cartographic polylines by using an encoder–decoder model
Creators: name: Yu, Wenhao
name: Chen, Yujie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Geospatial studies must address spatial data quality, especially in data-driven research. An essential concern is how to fill spatial data gaps (missing data), such as for cartographic polylines. Recent advances in deep learning have shown promise in filling holes in images with semantically plausible and context-aware details. In this paper, we propose an effective framework for vector-structured polyline completion using a generative model. The model is trained to generate the contents of missing polylines of different sizes and shapes conditioned on the contexts. Specifically, the generator can compute the content of the entire polyline sample globally and produce a plausible prediction for local gaps. The proposed model was applied to contour data for validation. The experiments generated gaps of random sizes at random locations along with the polyline samples. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that our model can fill missing points with high perceptual quality and adaptively handle a range of gaps. In addition to the simulation experiment, two case studies with map vectorization and trajectory filling illustrate the application prospects of our model.
Learner perspectives on foreign language knowledge, interaction and motivation in a computer assisted language learning environment
Creators: name: Mahnken, PA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Even as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) expands, the study of Foreign languages (FL) in Australia continually fails to achieve the goals described in policy or recommended in empirical, speculative and evaluative research. At a time when active, experiential and learner-centred education is valorised, a major gap in FL discourse is the near-total absence of learner voices. This educational study used ethnographic methods including an open-ended questionnaire to investigate university learner perceptions of i) H knowledge; ii) interactions meant to promote FL knowledge construction; and iii) issues of motivation and connectedness. The paradigm swings and oscillations in foreign language teaching methodology - from the Grammar Translation Method to the communicative era - have collided with the advent of learner-centred constructivism and a rethinking of the significance of intercultural learning. At the same time, networked multimedia computers have sponsored expansion of Computer Assisted Language Learning. In this exploratory study in 1997, learners were introduced to a web-based component in their second semester Indonesian language studies. Learner perspectives on what knowledge construction may be mediated using this limited computer interactivity and what impact this has on motivation and sense of connectedness were gathered for interpretive analysis. Among findings are a clarification of the core mission of language teaching as promoting the communicative power of learners, the role of FL teachers as negotiators of the curriculum, and development of the emerging paradigm of Experiential, Intercultural Foreign Language Learning. The interpretation also treats the significance of the personal and interpersonal in Foreign Language Learning.
title: Use and Evaluation of the Nutrient Density Concept for Assessing the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Nutritional Quality of Diets
Creators: name: Windham, Carol Thompson
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Data from 7285 individual participants in the USDA Spring Nationwide Food Consumption Survey were analyzed using the nutrient density concept and multiple regression procedures to evaluate the impact of socioeconomic status on the nutritional quality of foods consumed. For each socioeconomic group the average daily amount of nutrients consumed per 1000 kcal of food consumed were computed and compared with the Recommended Dietary Allowances which had been converted to single-value nutrient allowances per 1000 kcal. This nutrient density approach identified qualitative patterns of food consumption for selected income, region, urbanization, household size, race, employment and education groups as well as indicating the degree to which these groups met the RDA.
Results demonstrated that socioeconomic status had relatively little impact upon the average nutrient density of diets consumed by the population. Income level had no statistically significant effect upon the nutritional quality of diets for any of the fourteen nutrients studied. Household size affected nutrient density consumption of fat, carbohydrate, vitamin s6 and vitamin C. Race affected calcium, magnesium, vitamin A and thiamin density of diets. Other socioeconomic factors were significantly related to only one or two nutrients. The differences in average nutrient density of diets resulted from differences in the quality of foods consumed from the Basic Four (nutrient-dense) Plus One (calorie-dense) food groups and not from differences in the percent contribution of these two food groups to nutrient intake per 1000 kcal.
Average diets for all socioeconomic groups were below nutrient density standards for calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamin B6 and carbohydrate. There was also a high frequency of individuals with vitamins A and vitamin C intakes below nutrient density standards despite adequate group mean intakes per 1000 kcal for these nutrients.
Results supported the hypothesis that, regardless of socioeconomic status, Americans consume diets that average very similar nutrient content per energy unit. This type of information contributes to a better understanding of dietary habits of Americans and provides a meaningful framework from which to establish guidelines for government agencies, nutrition educators and the food industry.
Additional file 1 of Azithromycin ameliorated cigarette smoke-induced airway epithelial barrier dysfunction by activating Nrf2/GCL/GSH signaling pathway
Creators: name: Song, Yun
name: Fu, Wenhuan
name: Zhang, Youzhi
name: Huang, Doudou
name: Wu, Jian
name: Tong, Shuangmei
name: Zhong, Mingkang
name: Cao, Huifang
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Identification of primary bronchial epithelial cells primary bronchial epithelial cells (PBECs).
title: Energetics of Home Dehydration; The Effect on Product Cost and Quality
Creators: name: Willis, Crystal Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to compare different home dehydrators and determine if the operation and design of the home dehydrators affected the color, cost, nutrient content, acceptability or flavor of the resulting products and (2) to determine the effect of physical parameters on product color, nutrient content, acceptability and flavor. The physical parameters that were measured during the dehydration process were temperature, relative humidity, and mass flow rate of air. Two products, Daucus carota var sativa (carrot) and juice of Lycopersicon sp. (tomato), were dried in each of six dehydrators (treatments). A sensory panel was used to determine the color, acceptability and flavor differences in dehydrated carrots and tomato juice form the different treatments. Carotene and ascorbic acid content were determined in the carrots and tomato juice, respectively. The total cost of dehydration was calculated by summing the fresh produce cost, energy costs, equipment and cost of labor.
The design and operation of the five dehydrators designated for home use had significantly different effects on the cost, color, flavor, and acceptability of both carrots and tomato juice. Ascorbic acid content in dehydrated tomato juice production from the six dehydrators differed significantly, but, the carotene content of dehydrated carrots did not differ statistically between treatments.
Bidirectional cooperative motion of myosin-II motors on actin tracks with randomly alternating polarities
Creators: name: Gilboa, Barak
name: Gillo, David
name: Farago, Oded
name: Bernheim-Groswasser, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The cooperative action of many molecular motors is essential for dynamic processes such as cell motility and mitosis. This action can be studied by using motility assays in which the motion of cytoskeletal filaments over a surface coated with motor proteins is tracked. In previous studies of actin-myosin II systems, fast directional motion was observed, reflecting the tendency of myosin II motors to propagate unidirectionally along actin filaments. Here, we present a motility assay with actin bundles consisting of short filamentous segments with randomly alternating polarities. These actin tracks exhibit bidirectional motion with macroscopically large time intervals (of the order of several seconds) between direction reversals. Analysis of this bidirectional motion reveals that the characteristic reversal time, $τ_{rev}$, does not depend on the size of the moving bundle or on the number of motors, $N$. This observation contradicts previous theoretical calculations based on a two-state ratchet model [Badoual et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 99, p. 6696 (2002)], predicting an exponential increase of $τ_{rev}$ with $N$. We present a modified version of this model that takes into account the elastic energy due to the stretching of the actin track by the myosin II motors. The new model yields a very good quantitative agreement with the experimental results.
description: A slightly revised version. Figures 2 and 7 were modified. Accepted for publication in "Soft Matter"
title: La Grange Sluice and Tailrace Channel Improvement Project
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the La Grange Sluice and Tailrace Channel Improvement Project
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2021-00619