cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gsx1 promotes neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation in vitro
Creators: name: Skinner, Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Spinal cord injury affects over 300,000 people in the U.S. and the prevalence increases each year by 17,000 cases. SCI causes the formation of a complex injury environment due to the initial impact and secondary signaling cascades. Currently, there are no cures for SCI and treatments focus on decreasing inflammation and using surgical decompression to limit the spread of injury. The loss of neuron function in the spinal cord causes paralysis and highlights neurogenesis as a key factor in promoting recovery. Endogenous cell responses during SCI have suggested various cell populations as potential targets for new therapeutics. The recent advances in gene therapy are promising for introducing transcription factors into the cells after SCI to promote growth and recovery. Transcription factors Gsx1 and Nkx6.1 have been used in previous studies by our lab due to their role in spinal cord development. Lentivirus mediated Gsx1 expression in mouse models of SCI has been shown to promote functional recovery, while Nkx6.1 did not promote functional recovery. In this thesis work, a neural stem cell culture model was used to further determine the effect of Gsx1 on a neural stem cell population. Gsx1 transduction was performed using both the conventional and a TetON inducible lentivirus vector in mouse and human stem cells in vitro. Lentivirus mediated transduction of Gsx1 increased the expression of proliferation marker Ki67 in both mouse and human neural stem cells while Nkx6.1 did not significantly alter proliferation in either cell line 48 hours after doxycycline induction. In addition, an increased percentage of Map2 positive neurons and a decreased percentage of GFAP positive astrocytes was observed 14 days after induction in these cultured neural stem cell lines. The inducible lentivirus allowed for easier transduction and selection of cells in culture and created stable transduced cell lines for future studies. This study supports the role of Gsx1 in promoting neuronal cell fate and the potential for Gsx1 gene therapy for spinal cord injury.
Gender Role Attitude of University Students: A Comparison of Implicit and Explicit Measures
Creators: name: Alemu, Yirgalem
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of the study was to examine gender role attitude of university students who are studying in fields that are traditional to women (social science) and nontraditional to women (mathematics and physics). Specifically, the study tried to examine the influences of variables like sex, fields of study and years spent at university on gender role attitude. A cross-sectional survey was used as a research design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 130 students from the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) and College of Natural and Computational Sciences (CNCS) located at Haramaya University main campus. Implicit and explicit measures were used to examine traditional gender role attitude. Percentage, Chi-Square test, one-sample t-test, independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA were employed as data analysis techniques. Contrary to what has been hypothesized, the results of the study revealed that participants had a traditional gender role attitude. The implicit test result also showed that a significantly higher number of participants (more than 90%) associated men to Doctor and Engineer than associating women to these professions. As hypothesized, female participants had significantly lower traditional gender role attitude mean score compared to their male counterparts. Moreover, the result showed no statistically significant differences among groups’ means for the first year, third year, and students from CNCS as determined by one-way ANOVA. It is concluded that college education in general and training in Gender and Development (GAD) field, in particular, had little influence in changing traditional gender role attitude of the participants.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
ω structure in steel: a first-principles study
Creators: name: Ikeda, Yuji
name: Tanaka, Isao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental works reported observation of the ω structure in steel. Here, stability of the ω structure in steel is investigated based on first-principles with special interests in effects of interstitial C atoms. The interstitial C atoms increase the energy of the ω structure compared with the ferromagnetic (FM) BCC. The ω structure incorporating C atoms is also mechanically unstable unless the C concentration is 25 at.%. It is concluded that the ω structure is mostly unstable in steel, and the ω structure in steel may be formed under special atomic constraints at twin boundaries or other interfaces.
Entrapment of liposomes within silica hydrogels for the development of biosensing platforms
Creators: name: Wong, Siu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Urban Public-space Utilization and Management in the Metropolis: The Case of Meskel-Square and Jan-Meda, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wakuma, Abenezer
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2019

description: Public-spaces are the mainstay of the urban settlements. Recently, more attentions were given to the expansion of buildings, industries, business centers, companies and institutions than preserving public-spaces. This study examined the utilizations and management of public-spaces of Addis Ababa; the case of Meskel-square and Jan-meda. To this end, the study involved 120 sample respondents using a random sampling method; and employed descriptive and explanatory type of research designs. Data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. For the analysis, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The results showed that the current state and management of the public-spaces is poor. The spaces are not attractive, not comfortable, not accessible, and lack services. The major factors that thwart users from visiting the spaces were absence of natural and artificial landscapes, absence of adequate services, and less attractiveness. Unpleasant and illegal activities, lack of shelters, and congestions were other problems. The multiple regression output suggested that the frequency of using public-space is influenced by the socio-economic and space related factors. Similarly, the spearman rho’s correlation coefficient, independent samples t-test, and the multinomial regression model produced important results. The city government faced challenges including weakness of the public actors, lack of planning and policy direction, weak regulatory and legislative frameworks, and vulnerability of many public-spaces to improper uses. Therefore, this study recommends that the city administration should consider the planning, preservation, expansion, and management of the public-spaces to enhance the quality of life of the residents and aesthetic value of the city.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Instructional Practices and Challenges in Inclusion of Students with Visual Impairment in Selected Government Secondary Schools in Harari Region
Creators: name: Dea, Paulos
name: Negassa, Dawit
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional practices and challenges teachers face in teaching students with visual impairment in the government secondary schools of Harari regional state. A mixed methods approach with convergent design was employed. The sample consisted of 118 participants selected using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Data was collected using questionnaire, semi-structured interview and focus group discussion. Mean, standard deviation and one sample t-test were used to analyze quantitative data and thematic analysis was used to analyze qualitative data from interview and FGD. The study revealed that teachers’ collaboration with other professionals, classroom supplies and equipment, and teaching strategies used by teachers were lower than the expected level for successful inclusion of SVI in the selected schools. Moreover, deficits in knowledge and skills, lack of training and budget constraints were found to be the major challenges that prevent teachers from the successful implementation of inclusive education for SVI. The study concluded that the identified instructional practices of SVI were not found at the expected level (average population mean). In addition, the study concluded that professional and logistical gaps were the major challenges for the inclusion of SVI in the government preparatory and secondary schools of Harari regional state. Arranging consultation sessions for collaborative work, strengthening the resource centers, providing professional support for teachers and seeking additional fund from donors were the recommended issues for the successful inclusion of students with visual impairment.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Correlation networks from flows. The case of forced and time-dependent advection-diffusion dynamics
Creators: name: Tupikina, Liubov
name: Molkenthin, Nora
name: López, Cristóbal
name: Hernández-García, Emilio
name: Marwan, Norbert
name: Kurths, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex network theory provides an elegant and powerful framework to statistically investigate different types of systems such as society, brain or the structure of local and long-range dynamical interrelationships in the climate system. Network links in climate networks typically imply information, mass or energy exchange. However, the specific connection between oceanic or atmospheric flows and the climate network's structure is still unclear. We propose a theoretical approach for verifying relations between the correlation matrix and the climate network measures, generalizing previous studies and overcoming the restriction to stationary flows. Our methods are developed for correlations of a scalar quantity (temperature, for example) which satisfies an advection-diffusion dynamics in the presence of forcing and dissipation. Our approach reveals that correlation networks are not sensitive to steady sources and sinks and the profound impact of the signal decay rate on the network topology. We illustrate our results with calculations of degree and clustering for a meandering flow resembling a geophysical ocean jet.
Challenges in Practicing Objectivity and other Ethical Issues in News Reporting: The Case of Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN)
Creators: name: Chala, Geremew
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2019

description: This study explores journalists’ view on factors that affect their implementation of objectivity and other ethical issues in the context of the Oromia Broadcasting Network. The study was conducted based on qualitative data produced through in-depth-interview. The data used for the study were gathered from 17 purposely selected practitioners of OBN based on their experiences in the organization. The analysis wasestablished through social responsibility theoretical model which implicates to the loss of audiences as a result of the lack of objectivity and other ethical issues. The findings revealed that objectivity and other ethical issues in the OBN were given less attention in the news gathering, processing and reporting because of three major factors. The first one is professional issues that emanate from the shortage of journalistic trained manpower and lack of journalists’ independence. The other one is pressure groups that directly or indirectly affect objectivity and other ethical issues. The final one is the issues of news verification and selection of credible sources. Hence, practicing objectivity and other ethical issues have been challenges due to the various factors that influence their implementation.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
Towards the characterisation of the transplasma membrane oxidoreductase(s) of human erythrocytes
Creators: name: Chang, Po-Hua.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Assessment of the Implementation of Workers' Occupational Safety and Health Standards in Building Construction: The Case of West Shoa Zone
Creators: name: Abebe, Abdata
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2019

description: Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) laws in construction should be an essential part of any successful construction project, in much the same way as the designs, equipment and materials for the construction. However, there is lack of enforcement of laws by stakeholders in practice. Disregarding OSH in the construction sector entails adverse consequences on the workers, the employers and the society in general. This paper has analyzed qualitative data collected mainly through a review of relevant government policies, legislations, secondary materials, personal observations, and interviews with key informants. The objective of the study was to examine what OSH standards are incorporated in the different laws and policies of Ethiopia, how effectively the laws and policies are implemented in West Shoa Zone, and why the OSH standards are neglected/violated? The finding of the research reveals that the relevant laws on OSH in Ethiopia are less developed, less comprehensive and scattered in different pieces of legislations. In practice, the implementation of OSH in (building) construction in the study area is low. Hence, the research suggests that the stakeholders in the study area should act to effectively implement OSH laws in the building construction sector. Besides, Ethiopia should develop the system of recording and analyzing occupational injuries at work places that helps it to identify risky occupations and give an appropriate policy and legal solutions accordingly.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019)
Identity at Risk: The Case of Zay Community on the Islands of Lake Ziway
Creators: name: Midakso, Birhanu
name: Imana, Gutema
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2017

description: Identity is a dynamic concept that changes following the changes in the social and physical environments. It is one of the things that people value. The study examines the challenges and risks posed to the identity of Zay community of Lake Ziway islands. For this study, descriptive cross-sectional qualitative research design was used and a thematic approach to data analysis was employed. Data were gathered using key informant interview, in-depth interview, focus group discussions, and non-participatory observation. Data were sorted out, categorized, and analyzed thematically. The findings of the study revealed that the identity of Zay community is presently at a greater risk of extinction as an ethnic group due to socio-economic, environmental, and political factors. It was discovered that continued migration of Zay community members to the nearby and faraway places mainly for economic survival, among others, takes the lion’s share in endangering their identity. Migration exposed them to intermixing with other ethnic groups, particularly the Oromo. Those who left home due to migration to other places were not only influenced by others’ cultures but also in turn influenced those left behind at home. Migration of its members in large number contributed not only to the diminishing number of Zay community on the islands but also to the erosion of its culture and traditions. To save the identity of the community from gradual extinction, the study suggests the need for social, economic, cultural, and environmental protection and legal recognition for the community by all concerned stakeholders.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Do Non‑responders to exercise exist—and if so, what should we do about them?
Creators: name: Pickering, Craig
name: Kiely, John
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: It is well established that exercise is an important component in the maintenance of good health, and yet recent studies have demonstrated that a sub-section of individuals experience no significant improvements following an exercise training intervention. Such individuals are commonly termed “non-responders”. However, recently a number of researchers have taken a skeptical view as to whether exercise non-response either exists, or is clinically relevant. Here, we explore the research underpinning exercise response, to determine whether non-response to exercise actually exists. We discuss the impact of measurement error and assessment type on the identification of “non-responders”, and whether such non-response is global or modality-specific. Additionally, we discuss whether, if non-response to an exercise intervention is meaningful and relevant, certain additional interventions—in the form of increasing exercise intensity, volume, or duration—could be made in order to enhance training adaptations. Consequently, based on our interpretations of the available evidence, we suggest that it is unlikely that global non-responders to exercise exist. Furthermore, we suggest this realization effectively counters the perception that some individuals will not positively respond to exercise, and that in turn, this insight serves to encourage health professionals to create more nuanced, efficacious, and individually-focused exercise prescriptions designed to circumvent and overcome apparent non-responsiveness. Adopting a more individually-adaptive approach to exercise prescription could, subsequently, prove a powerful tool in promoting population health.
The Genealogy and Ethnic Identity of Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Al-Gazi (Gragn) of Ethiopia: A Historiographical Reappraisal
Creators: name: Hassen, Mohammed
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2017

description: In Ethiopia, legend and folklore-based claims always confuse with historical fact. Until more primary sources are found, read and interpreted, uncertainties will remain. One of such historical controversies is the ethnic and social origins of Imam Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Al-Gazi. Both Muslim and Christian sources forward their case/argument in order to support contemporary popular views. The objective of this paper is to weave available primary and secondary sources, which are pertinent to the genealogy of Imam Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Al-Gazi. It is based on published and unpublished materials from the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) library. Accordingly, the existing sources are put together and critically reviewed, crosschecked and historically narrated. The paper offers interpretation that takes a different line of argument from the existing paradigm on the subject. Based on the analysis of the evidences, the paper argues that Imam Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Al-Gazi has more of a Balaw and Afar ethnic background paternally and maternally respectively. What has been commonly argued as a Somali, Harla, a Harari or even an Oromo background are more of idea and claim than reality.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Mid-J CO shock tracing observations of infrared dark clouds II Low-J CO constraints on excitation, depletion, and kinematics
Creators: name: Pon, A.
name: Johnstone, D.
name: Caselli, P.
name: Fontani, F.
name: Palau, A.
name: Butler, M. J.
name: Kaufman, M.
name: Jiménez-Serra, I.
name: Tan, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared dark clouds are kinematically complex molecular structures in the interstellar medium that can host sites of massive star formation. We present 4 square arcminute maps of the 12CO, 13CO, and C18O J = 3 to 2 lines from selected locations within the C and F (G028.37+00.07 and G034.43+00.24) infrared dark clouds (IRDCs), as well as single pointing observations of the 13CO and C18O J = 2 to 1 lines towards three cores within these clouds. We derive CO gas temperatures throughout the maps and find that CO is significantly frozen out within these IRDCs. We find that the CO depletion tends to be the highest near column density peaks, with maximum depletion factors between 5 and 9 in IRDC F and between 16 and 31 in IRDC C. We also detect multiple velocity components and complex kinematic structure in both IRDCs. Therefore, the kinematics of IRDCs seem to point to dynamically evolving structures yielding dense cores with considerable depletion factors.
description: 23 pages, 20 figures, accepted by A&A
Modern Family Planning Utilization among Married Rural Women in Ethiopia: The Case of Sululta Woreda, Oromia Special Zone
Creators: name: Girma, Siyoum
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2017

description: Ethiopia is one of the most populous Sub-Saharan countries characterized by high population growth rate where only 27% of women in the reproductive age group are currently using modern family planning methods. Hence, this study aimed to assess the utilization of modern family planning among married rural women in Sululta woreda of Oromia special zone. A descriptive research design was used, whereby a community based cross-sectional study was conducted among married rural women in the study area. A structured questionnaire was developed and administered to 115 randomly selected married rural women. The collected data were statistically analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics. There is a high degree of awareness about family planning (88.7%) while 13.9% of the sample respondents practiced modern family planning. Injectable contraceptive was the most frequently used method (62.5%), followed by oral pills (25%). The multivariate regression analysis shows that couple’s discussion about family planning (OR = 21.472) and a large number of alive children (OR = 1.588) were found to have statistically a significant relationship with the use of modern family planning. The study revealed that modern family planning utilization was low in the study area and significantly associated with low educational status, the absence of couple’s discussion and the number of alive children. Therefore, the concerned stakeholders should encourage couples to talk freely about family planning, provide information on the benefit of birth spacing, possible side effects of contraception and encourage positive attitudes towards modern family planning use.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)
Cellular energisation and proliferation in neuroblastoma cells of varying malignancy
Creators: name: Cossins, Luke R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Resistance against Women’s Oppression to Achieve Equal Recognition with Men in Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs of a Woman Doctor
Creators: name: Hinika, Gemechu
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2017

description: This article deals with Nawal El Saadawi’s strategies of resistance to achieve altered representation whereby woman attains potent agency of resistance through dismantled gender hierarchy in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. The paper examines El Saadawi’s presentation of resistance through which she suggests a peaceful coexistence where partners view each other as equals. Feminist theoretical perspective is employed to examine the meaning and condition of resistance. Women have been subjected to complex systems of oppression and exclusion in many African cultures. However, one hardly finds a system of gender oppression and exclusion in which women have not participated. The most important step in the resistance against gender-based oppression is creating understanding on how the system of oppression works and the link between the structures and processes of oppression. The narrative is relayed in the first-person point of view unfolding the evolving character who eventually accepts living with a partner. The article argues that El Saadawi’s version of resistance is intended to bring about representation of harmonious coexistence of both sexes in which woman is guaranteed due recognition, love and equality.
description: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)
D7.2 - Sonification Platform and Training Courses v2
Creators: name: Garcia, Beatriz
name: Bertaina, Natasha
name: Casado, Johana
name: Chanial, Pierre
name: De La Vega, Gonzalo
name: Merced, Wanda Diaz
name: Hettlage, Christian
name: Hemming, Gary
name: Katsanevas, Stavros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Multi-modal approaches to data analysis in astronomy have become more common with the recent development of sonification techniques and multi-modal interfaces. There are now several examples of data-sonification in astrophysics. A sonification tool that brings together both sonification and visualisation aspects, which can be used with different datasets and that allows users to configure and adjust how they see, hear and understand data, is fundamental to the multi-modal study of nature. The design and
 implementation of tools such as these involves exchanging ideas with users, evaluating progress and iterating code to create a user-centered design framework, gradually improving the original idea and opening an interesting window on possible new functionality developments. In this deliverable, the latest version of the sonoUno web user interface is described. Special features, such as a flip axis, the possibility to enter specific values to resize plots, possible deployment to mobile devices; and examples of use with real datasets from different scientific facilities are all presented, with an emphasis on novel applications, such as the REINFORCE project demonstrators, which are available on the Zooniverse platform. In addition, each demonstrator data-script for sonification and visualisation is detailed, covering, among others, the sonification of images, data from the Large Hadron Collidor and muon data. In addition, advances in the area of a unified sonoUno version are reported. Finally, with all these tools, some training in the use of the sonification techniques and the tools is needed. So, a workshop with training activities is presented. All of the tools and material presented here were designed and developed, from the beginning, with a user-centered approach, taking functionally diverse people into consideration.
Berry phase of light Bragg-reflected by chiral liquid crystal media
Creators: name: Barboza, Raouf
name: Bortolozzo, Umberto
name: Residori, Stefania
name: Clerc, Marcel G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78Axx, 81Qxx

description: Berry phase is revealed for circularly polarized light when it is Bragg-reflected by a chiral liquid crystal medium of the same handedness. By using a chiral nematic layer we demonstrate that if the input plane of the layer is rotated with respect to a fixed reference frame, then, a geometric phase effect occurs for the circularly polarized light reflected by the periodic helical structure of the medium. Theory and numerical simulations are supported by an experimental observation, disclosing novel applications in the field of optical manipulation and fundamental optical phenomena.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
The complete $D=11$ embedding of SO(8) supergravity
Creators: name: Varela, Oscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The truncation formulae of $D=11$ supergravity on $S^7$ to $D=4$ ${\cal N} =8$ SO(8)-gauged supergravity are completed to include the full non-linear dependence of the $D=11$ three-form potential $\hat A_{(3)}$ on the $D=4$ fields, and their consistency is shown. The full embedding into $\hat A_{(3)}$ is naturally expressed in terms of a restricted version, still ${\cal N} =8$ but only SL(8)--covariant, of the $D=4$ tensor hierarchy. The redundancies introduced by this approach are removed at the level of the field strength $\hat F_{(4)}$ by exploiting $D=4$ duality relations. Finally, new expressions for the full consistent truncation formulae are given that are, for the first time, explicit in all $D=4$ fields.
description: 10 pages
A linear complementarity based characterization of the weighted independence number and the independent domination number in graphs
Creators: name: Pandit, Parthe
name: Kulkarni, Ankur A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 68R10, 90C33, 90C27, 90C26

description: The linear complementarity problem is a continuous optimization problem that generalizes convex quadratic programming, Nash equilibria of bimatrix games and several such problems. This paper presents a continuous optimization formulation for the weighted independence number of a graph by characterizing it as the maximum weighted $\ell_1$ norm over the solution set of a linear complementarity problem (LCP). The minimum $\ell_1$ norm of solutions of this LCP is a lower bound on the independent domination number of the graph. Unlike the case of the maximum $\ell_1$ norm, this lower bound is in general weak, but we show it to be tight if the graph is a forest. Using methods from the theory of LCPs, we obtain a few graph theoretic results. In particular, we provide a stronger variant of the Lovász theta of a graph. We then provide sufficient conditions for a graph to be well-covered, i.e., for all maximal independent sets to also be maximum. This condition is also shown to be necessary for well-coveredness if the graph is a forest. Finally, the reduction of the maximum independent set problem to a linear program with (linear) complementarity constraints (LPCC) shows that LPCCs are hard to approximate.
description: 16 pages
The differential effects of distinct oligomeric populations of Aβ on neuronal viability
Creators: name: Ahlfeldt, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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UMA INVESTIGAÇÃO SOBRE A RELAÇÃO ENTRE SATISFAÇÃO COM A VIDA E TRAÇOS DE PERSONALIDADE: o caso da Irlanda
Creators: name: Alves de Castro, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 520503
subject: Personality and individual differences

description: Este estudo investigou a relação entre os seis fatores de personalidade HEXACO e a Escala Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) durante a pandemia da COVID-19. Os seis fatores de personalidade HEXACO, ou dimensões, incluem Honestidade-Humildade (H), Emocionalidade (E), Extroversão (X), Amabilidade (A), Conscienciosidade (C) e Abertura à Experiência (O). Nesta pesquisa, o grau de Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) foi a variável dependente. A população amostral deste estudo é representada por (N=343) participantes, nos quais a maioria dos sujeitos, 28,9%, possui entre 30 e 39 anos de idade, 32,7% são do sexo masculino, 67,1% do sexo feminino e 3% outros. Os resultados confirmaram correlações positivas entre a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) e a Extroversão (X) (p<.001) e a Conscienciosidade (C) (p<.01); houve uma correlação negativa entre a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) e a Emocionalidade (E) (p < .05). Além disso, houve uma relação negativa entre a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) e o impacto da COVID (p < .001), o que apoiou nossa hipótese de que haveria uma relação positiva entre ESV, Extroversão (X) e Conscienciosidade (C), haveria uma relação negativa entre a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) e a Emocionalidade (E), e haveria uma relação negativa entre o impacto da COVID e a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV). No entanto, não houve relações estatisticamente significativas entre a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV) e a Honestidade-Humildade (H), a Abertura à Experiência (O) ou a Amabilidade (A). Em geral, os resultados apoiam os fatores de personalidade HEXACO para prever a Satisfação com a Vida (ESV), embora houvesse algumas limitações no contexto irlandês. Recomenda-se mais pesquisas utilizando os 200 itens HEXACO e uma amostra maior.
APOGEE Kinematics I: Overview of the Kinematics of the Galactic Bulge as Mapped by APOGEE
Creators: name: Ness, M.
name: Zasowski, G.
name: Johnson, J. A.
name: Athanassoula, E.
name: Majewski, S. R.
name: Perez, A. E. Garcia
name: Bird, J.
name: Nidever, D.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Sobeck, J.
name: Frinchaboy, P.
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Oravetz, Daniel
name: Simmons, Audrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the stellar kinematics across the Galactic bulge and into the disk at positive longitudes from the SDSS-III APOGEE spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way. APOGEE includes extensive coverage of the stellar populations of the bulge along the mid-plane and near-plane regions. From these data, we have produced kinematic maps of 10,000 stars across longitudes 0 deg < l < 65 deg, and primarily across latitudes of |b| < 5 deg in the bulge region. The APOGEE data reveal that the bulge is cylindrically rotating across all latitudes and is kinematically hottest at the very centre of the bulge, with the smallest gradients in both kinematic and chemical space inside the inner-most region (l,|b|) < (5,5) deg. The results from APOGEE show good agreement with data from other surveys at higher latitudes and a remarkable similarity to the rotation and dispersion maps of barred galaxies viewed edge on. The thin bar that is reported to be present in the inner disk within a narrow latitude range of |b| < 2 deg appears to have a corresponding signature in [Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe]. Stars with [Fe/H] > -0.5 have dispersion and rotation profiles that are similar to that of N-body models of boxy/peanut bulges. There is a smooth kinematic transition from the thin bar and boxy bulge (l,|b|) < (15,12) deg out into the disk for stars with [Fe/H] > -1.0, and the chemodynamics across (l,b) suggests the stars in the inner Galaxy with [Fe/H] > -1.0 have an origin in the disk.
description: Accepted by ApJ 15 December 2015
ELN-DIY-Meta: Creating Interoperability for ELNs
Creators: name: Eschke, Catriona
name: Kirchner, Fabian
name: Sahim, Sayed Ahmad
name: Held, Martin
name: Jung, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Electronic Lab Notebook
Membrane

description: Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) serve as means to gather analog metadata, e.g. experimental parameters, that would otherwise be hard to digitalize. However, different systems are often used within the same research institution or community, especially when covering a long, interdisciplinary process chain. The use of different systems in the same institution - each addressing distinct requirements for discipline-specific needs - enables the availability of a broad functionality but results in challenges due to an often missing interoperability of the metadata. We are addressing this lack of interoperability for the two ELNs Herbie and Chemotion with an API-based data exchange. A specific use-case in membrane research is treated as a starting point. As a first step, the necessary metadata for the use case were defined in both ELNs and their data fields implemented. A mapping of the corresponding data fields and the adaptation of general metadata schemes lead to a discipline-specific metadata exchange format being processed via the ELNs’ APIs. The entire process will be generalized in a guideline, motivating other ELN developers to implement interconnections for metadata transfer. The envisaged reduction of boundaries between different disciplines will enable the creation of large and coherent data sets in experimental research.
POMAS-FR: Misspellings in French elementary school (Joye et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Joye, Nelly
name: Broc, Lucie
name: Marshall, Chloë Ruth
name: Dockrell, Julie Elizabeth
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Child language acquisition
French language
Speech pathology

description: Purpose: This study offers the first description of misspellings across elementary school using the Phonological, Orthographic and Morphological Assessment of Spelling (POMAS), a linguistic framework based on Triple Word Form theory, adapted for French (POMAS-FR). It aims to test the “universality” of POMAS and its suitability to track development in French spelling. Method: One hundred ninety-four typically developing French children (Grades 1–5) produced a written narrative and words-to-dictation. These were analyzed for productivity and accuracy. Misspellings were then analyzed using POMAS-FR. Results: Productivity and accuracy were better in the later grades. POMAS-FR provided a novel framework for tracking error types in our French sample. The data showed a linear trend for text production, whereby the proportion of phonological errors decreased rapidly in the early grades, while orthographic errors decreased and morphological errors increased throughout elementary school. Words-to-dictation showed a more stable pattern, with a steady decrease in phonological errors, and a stable proportion of orthographic and morphological errors. The specific error types found within each linguistic category are described for both tasks. Conclusions: The POMAS-FR allowed for the characterization of linguistic knowledge involved in learning to spell French across elementary school. Interplays between different types of linguistic knowledge were evident at all grades. In comparison with other writing systems, French text spelling competence relied heavily on morphological knowledge. These results suggest POMAS may be applied to other orthographic systems. It also highlights the importance of task and word selection for the qualitative evaluation of spelling.
 Supplemental Material S1. Characteristics of the 17 words used from the WIAT dictation task.
 Supplemental Material S2. POMAS-FR coding scheme.
 Supplemental Material S3. Frequency table for the number and proportion of each fine-grained spelling error type across grades in text production.
 Supplemental Material S4. Frequency table for the number and proportion of each fine-grained spelling error type across grades in dictation.
 Joye, N., Broc, L., Marshall, C. R., & Dockrell, J. E. (2022). Spelling errors in French elementary school students: A linguistic analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00507
East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2022

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East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2021)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2021

description: Prevalence and Severity of Domestic Violence against Women and Girls during COVID-19 Pandemic in Selected Urban Areas of Harari Region and East Hararghe Zone...187-206 Perceived Causes of Academic Failure among Undergraduate Female Students in Haramaya University...173-186 Validation of Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES-IV) in Afan Oromo Contexts for Measuring Family Functioning...149-172 The Baaroo Hymn: A Unique Arsi Oromo Oral Genre and Its Major Features and Functions...133-148 Back to or Away from the Glorious Past: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Abiy Ahmed’s Political Talk...115-132 The Attitude of Married Men towards Gender Division of Labor and their Experiences in Sharing Household Tasks with their Marital Spouses in Southern Ethiopia...101-114 Children and Screen Media Effects: Theoretical Underpinnings, Empirical Observations and Policy Implications...83-100 An Investigation on the Perspectives of Political Economy: The Case of Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC)...67-82 Family Health Intervention for Improving Family Relationships among Selected Destitute Families in Ambo Town...53-66 Teachers’ Conceptions of Teaching English: Implications and Applications for EFL Policy and Practice...39-52 The Association of Multilingualism with English Language Proficiency: The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness...19-38 The Relationship between EFL Students' Speaking Strategies Use and their Speaking Proficiency: A Study on Wolaita Sodo University English Major Students...1-18
The role of activin A in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia
Creators: name: Mandang, Stephen Vanny.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2021

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East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

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East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

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East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019)
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2020

description: Education for Pastoralist Community Children in Ethiopia: Where the Opportunity Cost Defines It All...63-82 Investigating Reflective Contents and Tools Utilized for the Preparation of Critically Reflective English Language Teachers in the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching (PGDT): The Case of Three Universities of Ethiopia...47-62 The Socio-Economic Status of Pottery Making Women among Hararge Oromo...29-46 Roles of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in Promoting Sustainable Development: The Case of Environmental Protection among the Hararghe Oromo...13-28 Assessment of the Implementation of Workers' Occupational Safety and Health Standards in Building Construction: The Case of West Shoa Zone...1-12