cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intercomparison of spatiotemporal variability in severe weather environmental proxies and tornado activity over the United States
Creators: name: Simmons, Shawn W.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Tornadoes cause numerous deaths and significant property damage each year, yet how tornado activity varies across climate states, particularly under global warming, remains poorly understood. Importantly, severe weather events arise during transient periods of extreme thermodynamic environments whose variability may differ from that of the environmental mean state. This study analyzes the climatological relationships between commonly-used severe weather environmental proxies (the product of convective available potential energy and bulk vertical wind shear, energy-helicity index, and the significant tornado parameter) and tornado density on three dominant timescales of climate forcing: diurnal, seasonal, and interannual. We utilize reanalysis data to calculate the spatial distributions of the mean, median, and a range of extreme percentiles of these proxies across each timescale as well as for the full climatology. We then test the extent to which each measure captures the spatiotemporal variability of tornado density over the continental United States. Results indicate that the mean is a suitable statistic when used with the full climatology of the energy-helicity index and the significant tornado parameter without using convective inhibition in calculations, the diurnal cycle for convective available potential energy and the product of convective available potential energy and bulk vertical wind shear, and the interannual variations for all proxies except convective available potential energy. The mean is outperformed by extreme percentiles otherwise. This understanding of climatological relationships between tornadoes and the large scale environments can improve prediction of tornado frequency and provides a foundation for understanding how changes in the statistics of large-scale environments may affect tornado activity in a future warmer climate state.
Additional file 1 of Does aligner refinement have the same efficiency in deep bite correction?: A retrospective study
Creators: name: Kang, Jessica
name: Jeon, Hyeran Helen
name: Shahabuddin, Nishat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Predicted and achieved changes in the movements of maxillary central incisors and canines during 1st – 5th aligner sets.
Shared Decision-Making and Collaborative Care Models for Pain Management: A Scoping Review of Existing Evidence
Creators: name: Omaki, Elise
name: Fitzgerald, Megan
name: Iyer, Diksha
name: Shields, Wendy
name: Castillo, Renan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: This article aims to summarize the existing evidence on shared decision-making and collaborative care models for acute and chronic pain management. We searched the PubMed database for articles published between 1980 and 2023 and scanned included articles’ references to identify additional sources. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts. Studies met inclusion criteria if they implemented or evaluated shared decision-making or collaborative care interventions in patients with acute or chronic pain. A total of 690 articles were reviewed, with 32 full text articles meeting inclusion criteria. Most studies assessed changes in prescription opioid quantities and patient-reported pain levels. Secondary measures generally included patient satisfaction, 30-day refill rate, and use of non-opioid analgesics. Shared decision-making and collaborative care models are promising interventions to improve pain management. These interventions are effective at reducing opioid consumption among acute and chronic pain patients without compromising patient-reported pain levels. There is further research needed to evaluate how shared decision-making and collaborative care interventions impact patient-centered outcomes such as patient satisfaction, quality of life, and patient-provider communication.
Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work
Creators: name: Senchyne, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Periodicals--Study and teaching
subject: Slavery
subject: Books
subject: History

description: From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes the exclusion of enslaved people from the study of the history of the book, and theorizes a method of reading non-alphabetic marks in the material texts through which we encounter the presence of figures like Primus Fowle.
Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Prostitution
subject: Twentieth century
subject: History
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Italian literature
subject: Literature, Modern

description: In composing The Woman of Rome (La Romana, 1948), I argue in this chapter, Moravia was attempting to redress the twinned traumas of national history and personal memory. The novel's protagonist, a Roman prostitute, serves as the symbolic incarnation of-as well as the developing resistance to-bourgeois corruption and Fascist coercion. An intricate intertextuality facilitates this social critique, allowing Moravia not only to reclaim his repressed memory but also to redeem it, reexamining his own experience from the prostitute's perspective. Moravia imbued his protagonist with a host of figurative associations that lent her narrative-and her narrating voice-a profoundly transformative significance. Through her, he not only reclaimed his repressed memory but also revealed the structures of bourgeois social domination and bourgeois morality. More significantly, he explored the power of literary symbolism to transcend those structures, and to dismantle them. As the subjective center of his fiction, and as the symbolic embodiment of the confluence between his remembered encounter and his intertextual exploration, the protagonist of The Woman of Rome can be said to signify Moravia's renewed commitment to unseating the established order through the unfettered representation of uncensored reality.
sj-pdf-5-han-10.1177_15589447211028925 – Supplemental material for Versatility of the Posterior Interosseous Artery Flap: Emphasis on Powering Up the Toe Transfer
Creators: name: Lee, GiJun
name: Kim, BumSik
name: Jeon, Neunghan
name: Yoon, JungSoo
name: Hong, Ki Yong
name: Lim, SooA
name: Eo, SuRak
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-5-han-10.1177_15589447211028925 for Versatility of the Posterior Interosseous Artery Flap: Emphasis on Powering Up the Toe Transfer by GiJun Lee, BumSik Kim, Neunghan Jeon, JungSoo Yoon, Ki Yong Hong, SooA Lim and SuRak Eo in HAND
Rapid and reliable detection of bacterial endospores in environmental samples by diagnostic electron microscopy combined with X-ray microanalysis
Creators: name: Laue, Michael
name: Fulda, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Biologische Sicherheit
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Microbiology
subject: Bacillus/chemistry
subject: Bacillus/isolation & purification
subject: Bacillus/ultrastructure
subject: Bacteriological Techniques/methods
subject: Biological Markers/analysis
subject: Calcium/analysis
subject: Clostridium/chemistry
subject: Clostridium/isolation & purification
subject: Clostridium/ultrastructure
subject: Electron Probe Microanalysis/methods
subject: Microscopy Electron/methods
subject: Phosphorus/analysis
subject: Spores Bacterial/chemistry
subject: Spores Bacterial/isolation & purification
subject: Spores Bacterial/ultrastructure
subject: Sulfur/analysis
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Diagnostic negative staining electron microscopy is a front-line method for the rapid investigation of environmental and clinical samples in emergency situations caused by bioterrorism or outbreaks of an infectious disease. Spores of anthrax are one of the diagnostic targets in case of bioterrorism, because they have been used as a bio-weapon in the past and their production and transmission are rather simple. With negative staining electron microscopy bacterial spores can be identified based on their morphology at the single cell level. However, because of their particular density, no internal structures are visible which sometimes makes it difficult to distinguish spores from particles with a similar size and shape that are frequently present in environmental samples. Spores contain a high concentration of calcium ions besides other elements, which may allow a proper discrimination of spores from other suspicious particles. To investigate this hypothesis, negative staining electron microscopy, using either transmission or scanning electron microscopes, was combined with energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis, which reveals the element content of individual nanoparticles. A peak pattern consisting of calcium, sulphur and phosphorus was found as a typical signature within the X-ray spectrum of spores in various Clostridium and Bacillus species, including all strains of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) tested. Moreover, spores could be reliably identified by this combined approach in environmental samples, like household products, soil or various presumed bioterrorist samples. In summary, the use of X-ray spectroscopy, either directly in the transmission electron microscope, or in a correlative approach by using scanning electron microscopy, improves the emergency diagnostics of suspicious environmental samples.
On the Translation of Literary Terms: Neorealismo and Neue Sachlichkeit
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: German literature
subject: Twentieth century

description: This essay examines the cultural practices and prejudices that shaped the Italian reception of German Neue Sachlichkeit in the 1920s and explores their role in the development of Italian Neorealism in the 1940s. I argue that, precisely because Italian critics approached the German critical category – and indeed all critical categorisation – with scepticism, they facilitated the more indiscriminate use in Italian of the term «neorealismo», which originated, at least in part, as a calque for the German «Neue Sachlichkeit», but which came eventually to constitute a distinct – and distinctly Italian – critical category. Focusing in particular on Giovanni Necco’s 1933 essay Neorealismo made in Germany, I argue that, in the Italian context, questions of classification and definition were deemed peripheral to the critic’s task, meaning that references to « neorealismo », while customary, remained largely heuristic. As a result, Italian « neorealismo » was free gradually to shift and to expand towards its current definitions.
Piezoelectric Inkjet Printed Aluminum Bismuth (III) Oxide: The Effects of Printing Parameters on Burning Rate
Creators: name: Son, Forrest J.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents work on the deposition of nanothermite using a piezoelectric inkjet printer, focusing on the effects of printing parameters and sample geometry on burning rate. The ability of the printer to produce consistent droplet size and spacing was shown to have repeatable droplet size and sub-millimeter precision in droplet spacing. The droplet-droplet interaction of the nanothermite ink was examined, and a printing frequency of 10 Hz was shown to produce smooth and consistent geometry in the printed samples. The primary printing parameter varied in this study was the pixel pitch (i.e., the distance between printed droplets). As pixel pitch decreased (i.e., the droplets are printed closer together) in both directions (x- and y-directions), the burning rate increased, and as sample width increased the burning rate increased. A significant number of samples (476) were printed and demonstrated consistent, energetic performance; this indicated favorable high-volume production capabilities. A thermal model was developed based on an energy balance for the printed nanothermite samples. The model accurately predicted the burning rate trends observed in the experimental results. This result indicated that the increase in heat generation in both the thicker (pixel-pitch studies) and wider samples decreased the significance of heat loss to the environment. The statistically significant results presented in this work, along with a descriptive thermal model, increase the fundamental understanding of the effects of printed geometry and droplet spacing on nanothermite energetic performance.
Psychosis, social cognition and glutamatergic transmission - characteristics of deficits and opportunities for treatment
Creators: name: Wasserthal, Sven Christian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soziale Kognition
subject: Schizophrenie
subject: Ketamin
subject: N-Acetylcystein
subject: Theory of Mind
subject: Social Cognition
subject: Schizophrenia
subject: Ketamine
subject: N-Acetylcysteine
subject: ddc:150

description: People affected by psychotic disorders often experience severe impairments in social cognition (SC) that correlate highly with deficits in community functioning and are thus an important potential treatment target. Because deterioration of social cognitive capabilities often persists throughout treatment with dopamine-receptor affine antipsychotics, altered glutamatergic transmission, a second possible pathway in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, might partly explain these deficits. To test this hypothesis, studies 1 + 2 of this thesis investigated whether SC deficits can be temporarily induced by altering glutamatergic transmission. To this end, healthy participants received placebo or ketamine, which non-competitively antagonizes the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, thus altering glutamatergic transmission. In study 1, participants completed a video-based mentalizing task during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Behavioral data showed more answers not pertaining to any mentalizing capacity in the ketamine group. Functional imaging data showed hyperactivity of a cluster in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus in these participants. This cluster showed increased functional task-based connectivity with precuneus, potentially indicating that a dysfunctional shift of attention might partly be responsible for SC deficits. In study 2, participants were asked to encode and retrieve words in an episodic memory task and to make metacognitive confidence judgments about their performance. While showing no changes in episodic memory, participants receiving ketamine tended to be overconfident about their performance during the task. In the brain, this was accompanied by higher activity in the right superior-posterior parietal cortex during metacognitive judgments. This suggests that metacognition of memory, a process relevant in SC, might also be affected by disturbances of the glutamatergic pathway. In study 3, an experimental therapy targeting the glutamate pathway was given to patients at high risk for psychosis to reduce transition to schizophrenia and improve SC. They received either N-Acetyl-Cysteine or a placebo for 26 weeks. Additionally, they received either a specialized psychological intervention or stress-management training. Even though this multicentric clinical trial ultimately failed to sufficiently recruit patients, a tendency towards less transitions and improved SC in the treatment groups was apparent. In conclusion, the presented results indicate an important relationship between glutamatergic transmission and SC and their role as potential treatment target in early schizophrenia or clinical high risk for psychosis.
Cryo FIB-SEM: Volume imaging of cellular ultrastructure in native frozen specimens
Creators: name: Schertel, Andreas
name: Snaidero, Nicolas
name: Han, Hong-Mei
name: Ruhwedel, Torben
name: Laue, Michael
name: Grabenbauer, Markus
name: Möbius, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Biologische Sicherheit
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Mice
subject: Spores Bacterial/ultrastructure
subject: Bacillus subtilis/ultrastructure
subject: Cryoelectron Microscopy
subject: Frozen Sections
subject: Imaging Three-Dimensional
subject: Microscopy
subject: Electron Scanning
subject: Optic Nerve/ultrastructure
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Volume microscopy at high resolution is increasingly required to better understand cellular functions in the context of three-dimensional assemblies. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling for serial block face imaging in the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is an efficient and fast method to generate such volume data for 3D analysis. Here, we apply this technique at cryo-conditions to image fully hydrated frozen specimen of mouse optic nerves and Bacillus subtilis spores obtained by high-pressure freezing (HPF). We established imaging conditions to directly visualize the ultrastructure in the block face at −150 °C by using an in-lens secondary electron (SE) detector. By serial sectioning with a focused ion beam and block face imaging of the optic nerve we obtained a volume as large as X = 7.72 μm, Y = 5.79 μm and Z = 3.81 μm with a lateral pixel size of 7.5 nm and a slice thickness of 30 nm in Z. The intrinsic contrast of membranes was sufficient to distinguish structures like Golgi cisternae, vesicles, endoplasmic reticulum and cristae within mitochondria and allowed for a three-dimensional reconstruction of different types of mitochondria within an oligodendrocyte and an astrocytic process. Applying this technique to dormant B. subtilis spores we obtained volumes containing numerous spores and discovered a bright signal in the core, which cannot be related to any known structure so far. In summary, we describe the use of cryo FIB-SEM as a tool for direct and fast 3D cryo-imaging of large native frozen samples including tissues.
Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic
Creators: name: Saéz, Almudena Marí
name: Weiss, Sabrina
name: Nowak, Kathrin
name: Lapeyre, Vincent
name: Zimmermann, Fee
name: Düx, Ariane
name: Kühl, Hjalmar S.
name: Kaba, Moussa
name: Regnaut, Sebastien
name: Merkel, Kevin
name: Sachse, Andreas
name: Thiesen, Ulla
name: Villányi, Lili
name: Boesch, Christophe
name: Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek
name: Radonić, Aleksandar
name: Nitsche, Andreas
name: Leendertz, Siv Aina J.
name: Petterson, Stefan
name: Becker, Stephan
name: Schaade, Lars
name: Fahr, Jakob
name: Gogarten, Jan F.
name: Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien
name: Leendertz, Fabian
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: zoonosis
subject: bat
subject: Ebola
subject: West Africa
subject: wildlife
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea. We investigated the zoonotic origins of the epidemic using wildlife surveys, interviews, and molecular analyses of bat and environmental samples. We found no evidence for a concurrent outbreak in larger wildlife. Exposure to fruit bats is common in the region, but the index case may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of insectivorous free‐tailed bats (Mops condylurus). Bats in this family have previously been discussed as potential sources for Ebola virus outbreaks, and experimental data have shown that this species can survive experimental infection. These analyses expand the range of possible Ebola virus sources to include insectivorous bats and reiterate the importance of broader sampling efforts for understanding Ebola virus ecology.
Notes on the End of Rome, Open City
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Motion pictures
subject: Motion pictures, Italian
subject: History

description: Among the most iconic images in world cinema, the final shot of Rossellini's Rome Open City has inspired an effusion of critical commentary but little critical consensus, instead giving rise to opposing interpretations. I argue that the shot, in which the camera pans to follow a band of children as they march on a hillside overlooking the city of Rome, was shaped by a post-war dispute over the fate of Italian children after Fascism. Re-educating and re-claiming these children was felt to be one of the most pressing tasks facing Italy after the war, and I argue that it was this task that Rossellini and his collaborators sought to represent and even to undertake in their film. Thanks to their efforts, the final shot of Rome Open City facilitated both a compelling confrontation with Italy's Fascist past and a convincing-if far from straightforward-vision of its post-war future.
Equalizing, Complementary, Heuristic Orientation of Situated Agents
Creators: name: Smith, Eunsun C.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Networking and communications

description: Cognitive agent architectures embed social learning algorithms and normative frameworks for adopting others’ influenced goals. However, there exists inefficiency in providing continuous, situational decision-making to emerge social, altruistic norms. The thesis reconstructs social-ecological learning mechanisms to functionally and efficiently internalize situational cooperation. By orienting agents to be self-aware of their three-dimensional vectors, i.e., physical, emotional and intellectual in graphical representations, this thesis hypothesizes the parsimonious, action-predictive four emotions that not only link perceptions, action, and cognition by events but also the emotional continuity functional to social-ecological rationality of agents in continuum. Twelve Meridian system is employed to conceptualize the equalizing, complementary, heuristic orientation (ECHO) model. ECHO simulates “naturalistic” cooperation to model embodied, social-ecological orientations by self-organizing emotions to emerge functional social network formations. ECHO delineates the soma links to perceptions, namely Twelve Meridian channels as “direct pipes” that initiates and conduct emotions and consciousness of three dimensional agenthood: physical, emotional, and intellectual desires. ECHO reconstructs emotions as entities to induce systemic, self-organized rule of delegation by integrating agents’ percepts and actuations. By modeling constitutional emotions and consciousness of eight entities, emotions within entities as “individualized emotional processors,” are constructing and integrating purposeful social, altruistic events for the efficacy of situated agents.
Metagenomic Profiling of Known and Unknown Microbes with MicrobeGPS
Creators: name: Lindner, Martin S.
name: Renard, Bernhard Y.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Reference Standards
subject: Intestines/microbiology
subject: Georgia
subject: Lakes/microbiology
subject: Metagenomics/methods
subject: Metagenomics/standards
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Microbial community profiling identifies and quantifies organisms in metagenomic sequencing data using either reference based or unsupervised approaches. However, current reference based profiling methods only report the presence and abundance of single reference genomes that are available in databases. Since only a small fraction of environmental genomes is represented in genomic databases, these approaches entail the risk of false identifications and often suggest a higher precision than justified by the data. Therefore, we developed MicrobeGPS, a novel metagenomic profiling approach that overcomes these limitations. MicrobeGPS is the first method that identifies microbiota in the sample and estimates their genomic distances to known reference genomes. With this strategy, MicrobeGPS identifies organisms down to the strain level and highlights possibly inaccurate identifications when the correct reference genome is missing. We demonstrate on three metagenomic datasets with different origin that our approach successfully avoids misleading interpretation of results and additionally provides more accurate results than current profiling methods. Our results indicate that MicrobeGPS can enable reference based taxonomic profiling of complex and less characterized microbial communities. MicrobeGPS is open source and available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/microbe​gps/ as source code and binary distribution for Windows and Linux operating systems.
Vaccines for the prevention of seasonal influenza in patients with diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Remschmidt, Cornelius
name: Wichmann, Ole
name: Harder, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Influenza
subject: Diabetes
subject: Vaccine
subject: Effectiveness
subject: Systematic review
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of severe influenza disease; influenza vaccination for these patients is therefore recommended by the World Health Organization and several National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups. However, no systematic review has evaluated the effects of influenza vaccines for patients with diabetes. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis by searching Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and ClinicalTrials.gov from inception until November 2014. We included all types of studies reporting on the efficacy, effectiveness, and/or safety of influenza vaccination in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes of all ages. We used the Newcastle-Ottawa scale to assess risk of bias in observational studies. Residual confounding was addressed by comparing estimates of vaccine effectiveness (VE) during influenza seasons to those obtained during off-seasons. Quality of the evidence for each outcome was assessed using the GRADE methodology. Results: Following review of 1,444 articles, 11 observational studies with a total of 170,924 participants were included. In diabetic patients of working-age (18–64 years), influenza vaccination prevented all-cause hospitalization with a pooled VE of 58% (95% CI, 6–81%) and hospitalization due to influenza or pneumonia (VE 43%; 95% CI, 28–54%), whereas no effects on all-cause mortality and influenza-like illness (ILI) were observed. In the elderly (65+), influenza vaccination prevented all-cause mortality (VE 38%; 95% CI, 32–43%), all-cause hospitalization (VE 23%; 95% CI, 1–40%), hospitalization due to influenza or pneumonia (VE 45%; 95% CI, 34–53%), and ILI (VE 13%; 95% CI, 10–16%). However, significant off-season estimates for several outcomes indicated residual confounding, particularly in elderly patients. Quality of the evidence was low to very low for all outcomes. Laboratory-confirmed influenza infections were not reported. Conclusions: Due to strong residual confounding in most of the identified studies, the available evidence is insufficient to determine the magnitude of benefit that diabetic people derive from seasonal influenza vaccination. Adequately powered randomized controlled trials or quasi-experimental studies using laboratory-confirmed influenza-specific outcomes are urgently needed.
Weltliteratur as Anti-Fascism: Philology and Politics in Luigi Foscolo Benedetto’s “Letteratura mondiale’”
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Twentieth century
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Philology
subject: Italian literature

description: The search for a methodology for reading world literature largely entails the development of new critical paradigms, but it has also occasioned a re-examination and rehabilitation of world literature's historical formulations. This essay reclaims a forgotten milestone, the 1946 essay "La 'letteratura mondiale'" by the eminent Italian philologist and comparatist Luigi Foscolo Benedetto. What Benedetto's "letteratura mondiale" theorized, and what his critical and philological writings put into practice, was a mode of oppositional reading in which cultural, historical, and ideological difference would counteract the consensus of the present in order to engender a more cosmopolitan and open society. Benedetto's work was founded upon the belief that informed engagement with the literary text-attentive to its linguistic, thematic, and cultural alterity-can produce and support a burgeoning internationalism that will be social and political as well as literary. As I read him, Benedetto contributed two central insights to the historical development of world literature, insights that remain valuable to the contemporary desire for a truly global approach to literary study. First, Benedetto was more sensitive than virtually any other theorist to the difficulties inherent in the attempt to foster an egalitarian, comprehensive, and trans-national literary methodology. Second, he was more attentive to the power dynamics of literary study than were many of his contemporaries and predecessors, and thus offers a methodology to overcome the cultural prejudices and nationalist ambitions that tend to manipulate textual analyses and literary historiographies. Benedetto's insight into the necessity for a textual engagement that is also a social engagement has become all the more relevant today as scholars work to develop new, ethical approaches to world literature, and new methodologies for reading globally.
sj-pdf-1-nms-10.1177_14614448211026580 – Supplemental material for Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda
Creators: name: Bastos, Marco
name: Mercea, Dan
name: Goveia, Fábio
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-nms-10.1177_14614448211026580 for Guy next door and implausibly attractive young women: The visual frames of social media propaganda by Marco Bastos, Dan Mercea and Fábio Goveia in New Media & Society
International external quality control assessment for the serological diagnosis of dengue infections
Creators: name: Domingo, Cristina
name: Alves, María Joao
name: Ory, Fernando De
name: Teichmann, Anette
name: Schmitz, Herbert
name: Müller, Rolf
name: Niedrig, Matthias
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Biologische Sicherheit
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Serology
subject: Dengue
subject: External quality assessment
subject: Dengue IgM
subject: Dengue IgG
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Dengue is endemic to the tropics and subtropics, and the most frequent of arthropod-borne viral diseases. Reliable diagnosis of dengue infection is important not only in clinical care but also in disease surveillance, the control of outbreaks, and the development of new vaccines. The diagnosis of dengue infection is usually established by a variety of commercial or in-house serological protocols. The European Network for the Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases (ENIVD) recognized the need to survey the accuracy of dengue serological diagnostics in current use, and organized an external quality assurance (EQA) study of dengue serological practice in diagnostic laboratories. Methods: A 15-sample panel, consisting of sera reactive against dengue plus specificity and negative controls, was sent to 48 laboratories for serological testing. The results returned by the participating laboratories were anonymized, scored, and subjected to comparison and statistical analysis. Results: Ten laboratories rated all samples correctly with regard to IgM, and only three achieved the full score for IgG detection. The main handicaps in assay performance were suboptimal sensitivity of in-house IgM detection protocols by comparison with better-performing commercial ELISA tests, and the presence of IgG cross-reactivity with heterologous flaviviruses. Differences of detail in the methodology of dengue IgG antibody detection appear to underlie the disparities in accuracy observed between laboratories. Conclusion: This EQA study demonstrates that there is room for many laboratories to improve sensitivity in the detection of anti-dengue virus IgM antibodies, against the benchmark set by commercial antibody capture ELISA tests. The EQA shows also that cross-reactivity is a continuing issue, and IgG detection protocols must be optimized to increase their specificity.
Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: Literature, Modern
subject: Twentieth century
subject: American literature--African American authors

description: In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture, including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that Italian intellectual impegno—defined as the effort to remake Italian culture and to guide Italian social reform—was united with a significant investment in the African-American cause. The author terms this tendency impegno nero and traces its development in the critical reception of African-American writers including W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. Postwar impegno nero is then contrasted with the treatment of African-American themes under Fascism, when commentators had likewise condemned American racism, but had paradoxically linked their laments for the plight of African Americans with defenses of the racial policies of the Fascist regime. Indeed, Fascist colonialism and anti-Semitism were both justified through references to what Fascist intellectuals believed to be America’s greater injustices. After 1945, in contrast, Italian intellectuals advocated an international, interdependent campaign for justice, symbolizing national reforms by projecting them onto an emblematic America. In this way, impegno nero revived and revised the celebrated "myth of America" that had developed in Italy between the world wars. Advancing a new, postwar myth, Italian intellectuals adopted the African-American struggle in order to reinforce their own efforts in the ongoing struggle for justice in Italy.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211023268 - Effect of social deprivation on peritoneal dialysis uptake: A mediation analysis with the data of the REIN registry
Creators: name: Beaumier, Mathilde
name: Calvar, Eve
name: Launay, Ludivine
name: Béchade, Clémence
name: Lanot, Antoine
name: Schauder, Nicole
name: Touré, Fatouma
name: Lassalle, Mathilde
name: Couchoud, Cécile
name: Châtelet, Valérie
name: Lobbedez, Thierry
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211023268 for Effect of social deprivation on peritoneal dialysis uptake: A mediation analysis with the data of the REIN registry by Mathilde Beaumier, Eve Calvar, Ludivine Launay, Clémence Béchade, Antoine Lanot, Nicole Schauder, Fatouma Touré, Mathilde Lassalle, Cécile Couchoud, Valérie Châtelet, Thierry Lobbedez and on behalf of the REIN registry in Peritoneal Dialysis International
Abdominal Wall Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis
Creators: name: Ferreira, Natalia
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdominal wall
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 31 years
description: Clinical History: A 31-year-old female presented with a painless, slow growth mass in the right abdominal wall. A palpable fixed and firm tumor in the right middle third of the lateral abdominal wall was noticed. The patient had no history of trauma, surgery or childbearin... Final Diagnosis: The definite histologic diagnosis was of dermoid-type fibromatosis.
Assessing Image Quality Impact of View Bypass in Cloud Rendering
Creators: name: Stamm, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Networking and communications
Communications engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The accessibility and flexibility of mobile devices make them an advantageous platform for gaming, but there are hardware limitations that impede the rendering of high-quality graphics. Rendering complex graphics on a mobile device typically results in a delayed image, also known as latency, and is a great discomfort for users of any real-time rendering experience. This study tests the image stream optimization View Bypass within a cloud gaming architecture, surpassing this imposing limitation by processing the high-quality game render on a remote computational server. A two sample for means test is performed to determine significance between two treatments: the control group without the View Bypass algorithm and the experimental group rendering with the View Bypass algorithm. A SSIM index score is calculated comparing the disparity between the remote server image output and the final mobile device image output after optimizations have been performed. This score indicates the overall image structural integrity difference between the two treatments and determines the quality and effectiveness of the tested algorithm.
An Entirely New Land? Italy's Post-War Culture and its Fascist Past
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: Literature, Modern
subject: Twentieth century
subject: Metaphor

description: Scholarship has for decades emphasized the significant continuities in Italian culture and society after Fascism, calling into question the rhetoric of post-war renewal. This article proposes a reassessment of that rhetoric through the analysis of five key metaphors with which Italian intellectuals represented national recovery after 1945: parenthesis, disease, flood, childhood and discovery. While the current critical consensus would lead us to expect a cultural conversation characterized by repression and evasion, an analysis of these five post-war metaphors instead reveals both a penetrating reassessment of Italian culture after Fascism and an earnest adherence to the cause of national revitalization. Foregrounding the interrelation of Italy’s prospects for change and its continuities with Fascism, these metaphors suggest that post-war Italian intellectuals conceived of their country’s hopes for renewal, as well as its connections to the recent past, in terms that transcend the binary division favoured in many historical accounts.
sj-pdf-1-jee-10.1177_10538259211027595 – Supplemental material for The Benefits of Longitudinal Data and Multilevel Modeling to Measure Change in Adventure Education Research
Creators: name: Shirilla, Paul
name: Solid, Craig
name: Graham, Suzanne E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jee-10.1177_10538259211027595 for The Benefits of Longitudinal Data and Multilevel Modeling to Measure Change in Adventure Education Research by Paul Shirilla, Craig Solid and Suzanne E. Graham in Journal of Experiential Education
Additional file 2 of Novel QTL for Lateral Root Density and Length Improve Phosphorus Uptake in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Creators: name: Dinh, Lam Thi
name: Ueda, Yoshiaki
name: Gonzalez, Daniel
name: Tanaka, Juan Pariasca
name: Takanashi, Hideki
name: Wissuwa, Matthias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table S1. Genotypic differences in lateral root traits under normal input (+P) and low input (−P) field conditions grown in Ishigaki in 2021.
sj-pdf-1-smm-10.1177_09622802211025989 - Supplemental material for Estimation of ordinal population with multi-observer ranked set samples using ties information
Creators: name: Alvandi, Amirhossein
name: Hatefi, Armin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-smm-10.1177_09622802211025989 for Estimation of ordinal population with multi-observer ranked set samples using ties information by Amirhossein Alvandi and Armin Hatefi in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Il realismo di un nuovissimo Medio Evo: Boccaccio in the Age of Neorealism
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: Italy
subject: Area studies
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
subject: Motion pictures, Italian

description: In this essay, I argue that the post-war critical re-interpretation of Boccaccio's oeuvre was central to the theory and practice of Italian Neorealism. What is more, I maintain that Neorealism significantly influenced Boccaccio studies, shaping critical approaches to Boccaccio for decades after 1945. Reading scholarly and critical studies of Boccaccio alongside the Neorealist debates, I assert that throughout the second half of the twentieth century Boccaccio's poetics were frequently discussed in a language borrowed from Neorealism, with his corpus evaluated by means of the standards endorsed by Neorealist critics. Just as Boccaccio's poetics exerted an influence on the proponents of Neorealism, therefore, so too did Neorealism exert a lasting influence on Boccaccio scholarship, whose notions of Boccaccio's  'medieval realism' should be seen as an outgrowth of the Neorealist poetics advocated by post-war Italian artists and intellectuals.
Automated Pipeline for Purification, Biophysical and X-Ray Analysis of Biomacromolecular Solutions
Creators: name: Graewert, Melissa A.
name: Franke, Daniel
name: Jeffries, Cy M.
name: Blanchet, Clement E.
name: Ruskule, Darja
name: Kuhle, Katja
name: Flieger, Antje
name: Schäfer, Bernd
name: Tartsch, Bernd
name: Meijers, Rob
name: Svergun, Dmitri I.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Scattering Small Angle
subject: Biophysics/methods
subject: Macromolecular Substances/chemistry
subject: Macromolecular Substances/isolation & purification
subject: Solutions/chemistry
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), an increasingly popular method for structural analysis of biological macromolecules in solution, is often hampered by inherent sample polydispersity. We developed an all-in-one system combining in-line sample component separation with parallel biophysical and SAXS characterization of the separated components. The system coupled to an automated data analysis pipeline provides a novel tool to study difficult samples at the P12 synchrotron beamline (PETRA-3, EMBL/DESY, Hamburg).
Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in adults aged 40–79 years in Germany with and without prior coronary heart disease or stroke
Creators: name: Truthmann, Julia
name: Busch, Markus A.
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
name: Mensink, Gert
name: Gößwald, Antje
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Neuhauser, Hannelore
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Prevention
subject: Risk factors
subject: Coronary heart disease
subject: Stroke
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Control of modifiable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has substantially reduced CVD mortality, but risk factor levels in populations may change and need continuous monitoring. This study aims to provide current estimates of the prevalence of these risk factors in Germany according to sex and history of coronary heart disease (CHD) or stroke. Methods: The analyses were based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1; age 40–79 years, n = 5101), which is a cross-sectional population-based examination survey. CVD risk factors were defined according to recommendations in the European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice 2012. Results: The mean age was 57 years and 52 % were female; 493 participants had prior CHD and 163 participants a prior stroke. The overall prevalence of behavioural risk factors ranged from 17.9 % for high risk alcohol consumption to 90 % for low vegetable intake. Blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg was found in 21 % and 69 % had total cholesterol ≥ 5.0 mmol/l. Only 16 % met the targets for five behavioural factors combined (smoking, physical activity, fruit intake, alcohol intake and obesity), 13 % of those with and 16 % of those without CHD or stroke. The prevalences of most behavioural risk factors were higher among men compared to women. Conclusions: There is a high prevention potential from modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in the general population aged 40–79 years in Germany and among those with prior CHD or stroke. Risk factors are often co-occurring, are interrelated and require combined educational, behavioral, medical and policy approaches.
sj-docx-2-psp-10.1177_01461672211025433 – Supplemental material for Moral Judgments of COVID-19 Social Distancing Violations: The Roles of Perceived Harm and Impurity
Creators: name: Rosenfeld, Daniel L.
name: Tomiyama, A. Janet
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-psp-10.1177_01461672211025433 for Moral Judgments of COVID-19 Social Distancing Violations: The Roles of Perceived Harm and Impurity by Daniel L. Rosenfeld and A. Janet Tomiyama in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Hearing the Crackles in the Background: Listening and Female Intimacy in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Creators: name: Fox, Albertine
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Gender identity--Political aspects
subject: Sound
subject: Motion pictures--Political aspects
subject: Motion pictures, French
subject: France
subject: Design
subject: Area studies

description: Online at: https://screen-queens.com/2020/04/14/listening-and-female-intimacy-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/
Hearing the Crackles in the Background: Listening and Female Intimacy in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'
Creators: name: Fox, Albertine
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Motion pictures, French
subject: France
subject: Area studies
subject: Gender identity--Political aspects
subject: Sound
subject: Design
subject: Motion pictures--Political aspects

description: Online at: https://screen-queens.com/2020/04/14/listening-and-female-intimacy-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/