cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disaster Colonialism: The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
Creators: name: Erfani, Ava
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The international involvement in Kosovo since 1999 serves as a unique, contemporary case of
what I refer to as “disaster colonialism.” Disaster colonialism in Kosovo, I argue, was a project,
one which needed the fabrication of a “disaster,” (based on the historical event of the 1999 War of
Independence) in order for a series of international organizations to establish missions that would
proliferate following the end of the war. The conflict between Kosovo and Serbia over the
ownership of territory was seized by the international community as a “disaster,” catalyzing a selfjustifying
mechanism that foreclosed the expression of popular democratic will in post-conflict
Kosovo. Understood in this way, disaster colonialism is a programmatic, top-down method of
building a state following a crisis that undemocratically implements techniques of governance
imported by a colonizing power, bypassing the will or the consent of the populace. By
manufacturing a “disaster”—which declares a populace no longer capable of deciding the future
of their government or the shape of their own society––the international community was able to
format a legal, economic, and political system in Kosovo that served the interests of a Western,
liberal-democratic power structure. In this paper, I will trace the points in which the UN’s disaster
colonialism, administered by technocratic governance experts, reveals the costs of occupation, the
collateral damage that is part of the state-building mission, and the tensions between expert rule–
–even from a human rights-centered organization like the UN––and democracy.
British Universities and Research in the Era of Brexit
Creators: name: Fernandez, Lucas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union,
forever changing the course of both Britain and Europe’s futures. This unprecedented move,
known as Brexit, has become one of the most consequential political events in modern European
history. For the past few years, it has dominated European politics and thrown Britain into
complete disarray. After two general elections, three prime ministers, tense negotiations, countless
extensions, and 47 years of membership, the U.K. finally left the E.U. on January 31, 2020.
Two years ago, I was fortunate enough to obtain a research grant which I used to study a
question that was often overlooked: How Brexit would impact British universities and research?
Over the course of three weeks, I interviewed students, faculty, and administrators from
universities across the U.K., as well as the head of the European Commission’s directorate-general
for education, youth, sport and culture in Brussels, Belgium. I learned that Brexit will likely have
adverse effects on Britain’s researchers and universities. In this paper, I outline ways in which
Brexit can, and has, effected British research. Britain is known for its first-class universities and
research. But now, it is not clear if British academics will be able to collaborate with their European
colleagues in the same way, which could slow the progress of British research across all subjects
and disciplines.
In terms of evidence, I will rely on news articles, as well as scholarly publications on
Brexit. I will also incorporate some of the research I conducted during my time in Britain.
The rest of this paper is divided into six parts. In the first part, I sketch the history of Brexit.
Specifically, I consider why it came about, how it happened, and where things stand today. In the
second part, I dicuss Britain’s academic prowess and its reliance on research done by universities.
In the third and fourth part, I write about Brexit’s effects on British research funding. In the fifth,
sixth, and seventh sections, I write about how Brexit will affect the flow of researchers, faculty,
and students to British universities.
(103781) Michael Robert Hill
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Stable retrograde orbits around the triple system 2001 SN263
Creators: name: Araujo, R. A. N.
name: Winter, O. C.
name: Prado, A. F. B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NEA 2001 SN263 is the target of the ASTER MISSION - First Brazilian Deep Space Mission. Araujo et al. (2012), characterized the stable regions around the components of the triple system for the planar and prograde cases. Knowing that the retrograde orbits are expected to be more stable, here we present a complementary study. We now considered particles orbiting the components of the system, in the internal and external regions, with relative inclinations between $90^{\circ}< I \leqslant180^{\circ}$, i.e., particles with retrograde orbits. Our goal is to characterize the stable regions of the system for retrograde orbits, and then detach a preferred region to place the space probe. For a space mission, the most interesting regions would be those that are unstable for the prograde cases, but stable for the retrograde cases. Such configuration provide a stable region to place the mission probe with a relative retrograde orbit, and, at the same time, guarantees a region free of debris since they are expected to have prograde orbits. We found that in fact the internal and external stable regions significantly increase when compared to the prograde case. For particles with $e=0$ and $I=180^{\circ}$, we found that nearly the whole region around Alpha and Beta remain stable. We then identified three internal regions and one external region that are very interesting to place the space probe. We present the stable regions found for the retrograde case and a discussion on those preferred regions. We also discuss the effects of resonances of the particles with Beta and Gamma, and the role of the Kozai mechanism in this scenario. These results help us understand and characterize the stability of the triple system 2001 SN263 when retrograde orbits are considered, and provide important parameters to the design of the ASTER mission.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS - 2015 March 13
Combating an Ethnopopulist Takeover: Can Poland Return to a Liberal Democracy?
Creators: name: Habegger, Luke
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: I argue that liberal democracy is still achievable in Poland for three reasons. First, the success of
President Duda and PiS was a product of specific conditions existing in 2015. By utilizing their
nationalist, populist platform and the lack of EU action to prevent the PiS government’s
replacement of independent judges with party loyalists, PiS took advantage of the existing political
environment in a way that will not be as easily replicated in the future. With increased pressure
from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and lost majority in the Polish Senate in 2019, the PiS
government will have a weaker capacity to systematically undermine democratic norms and
principles. Second, PiS’s influence over other democratic institutions is not as deeply-rooted as it
is in the judiciary. The senate, media, electoral framework, and mass protests in Poland are largely
independent and provide opposition groups with useful platforms to express discontent and even
stop authoritarian legislation from passing, despite disadvantageous shifts in the playing field.
Third, I argue that public opinion polls reveal that PiS is losing popular support and effective
methods of appealing to Poles, suggesting cooperative opposition parties will become more
competitive in future elections despite a somewhat polarized political environment.
Weak Emission Line Quasars in the Context of a Modified Baldwin Effect
Creators: name: Shemmer, Ohad
name: Lieber, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relationship between the rest-frame equivalent width (EW) of the C IV \lambda1549 broad-emission line, monochromatic luminosity at rest-frame 5100 A, and the Hbeta-based Eddington ratio in a sample of 99 ordinary quasars across the widest possible ranges of redshift (0 < z < 3.5) and bolometric luminosity (10^{44} ~3 σ level, by exhibiting C IV lines much weaker than predicted from their Hbeta-based Eddington ratios. Assuming the supermassive black-hole masses in all quasars can be determined reliably using the single-epoch Hbeta-method, our results indicate that EW(C IV) cannot depend solely on the Eddington ratio. We briefly discuss a strategy for further investigation into the roles that basic physical properties play in controlling the relative strengths of broad-emission lines in quasars.
description: 7 pages (emulateapj), 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Figures illustrating unpublished material or modified versions of published figures from Benefits and limitations of drug studies in temperament research: biochemical responses as indicators of temperament.
Creators: name: Netter, Petra
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: This paper presents a discussion of principles and problems of neurotransmitter challenge tests using examples of experiments, most of which were performed in the author's laboratory. Drugs targeting synthesis, release, receptors or reuptake of dopamine, serotonin and noradrenergic transmitter (TM) systems were used for characterizing or discriminating certain temperament or personality traits and their sub-factors. Any personality or temperament trait is characterized by multiple TM responses, thus constellations of hormone responses to drugs acting on different TM systems or on different sources of TM activity were investigated within individuals in crossover designs. The major conclusions are: (i) intra-individual patterns of hormone responses to different TM-related drugs, or to agonists and antagonists, can help to discriminate subtypes of temperament dimensions and (ii) the latency and shape of response curves may help specify processes of biological responses related to psychological dimensions and reveal common TM sensitivities in clusters of traits. TM sensitivity, defined by hormone responses, does not always correspond to accompanying behavioural indicators, but may provide more specific information on underlying mechanisms. Additional consideration of drug doses and experimental induction of stressors may serve to identify temperament-related susceptibilities to certain drugs. Limitations of the challenge approach and recommendations for future research are discussed.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences’.
Additional file 2 of Improving access to tuberculosis preventive treatment for children in Ethiopia: designing a home-based contact management intervention for the CHIP-TB trial through formative research
Creators: name: Salazar-Austin, Nicole
name: Bergman, Alanna J.
name: Mulder, Christiaan
name: Tudor, Carrie
name: Mulatu, Fiseha
name: Conradie, Gidea
name: Chaisson, Richard E.
name: Golub, Jonathan E.
name: Churchyard, Gavin
name: Bedru, Ahmed
name: Kerrigan, Deanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Poster Coffee Lectures Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM), WiSe 2020/21
Creators: name: Strauch, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FDM
Forschungsdatenmanagement
RDM
Research Data Management

description: Poster Coffee Lectures Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM), WiSe 2020/21.
The Connection Between British Exceptionalism and Brexit
Creators: name: Macejka, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This paper aims to ascertain the direct role of historical British exceptionalism in enabling and
galvanizing Brexit. In aiming to answer the question - why did Brexit occur? - it becomes vital to
undertake a historical perspective to grasp insight into the mentality underlying the distinctly British
claim that Britain is better off without the EU. The answer is unique to the accustomed historical
excellence of Great Britain throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Britain’s isolated geography
reveals the roots of its early exceptionalism and its inherent connection with isolation.
Meanwhile, a pair of World War victories and the antagonistic actions of modern contemporaries
during each once more affirmed British exceptionalism. Finally, this paper considers the formation
of Britain’s placement in Europe’s new world order in the post-war period, reflecting upon each
in coalition with modern British perspectives to offer a unique historical explanation for the occurrence
of Brexit.
(103777) Susan Risdale
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Figure S2 from The chronology of reindeer hunting on Norway's highest ice patches
Creators: name: Pilø, Lars
name: Finstad, Espen
name: Ramsey, Christopher Bronk
name: Martinsen, Julian Robert Post
name: Nesje, Atle
name: Solli, Brit
name: Wangen, Vivian
name: Callanan, Martin
name: Barrett, James H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: Plot of the elevation of ice-patch artefacts from Oppland by uncalibrated radiocarbon date. The key indicates the direction of solar exposure or discovery in a canyon.
New insights into the evolution of the FR I radio galaxy 3C 270 (NGC 4261) from VLA and GMRT radio observations
Creators: name: Kolokythas, Konstantinos
name: O'Sullivan, Ewan
name: Giacintucci, Simona
name: Raychaudhury, Somak
name: Ishwara-Chandra, C. H.
name: Worrall, Diana M.
name: Birkinshaw, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 240 MHz observations of the nearby luminous FR I radio source 3C 270, in the group-central elliptical NGC 4261. Combining these data with reprocessed Very Large Array (VLA) 1.55 and 4.8 GHz observations, we produce spectral index maps that reveal a constant spectral index along the jets and a gradual steepening from the ends of the jets through the lobes towards the nucleus. A Jaffe & Perola (JP) model fitted to the integrated spectrum of the source gives an asymptotic low-frequency index of $α_{inj}=0.53_{-0.02}^{+0.01}$, while JP models fitted to the observed spectral index trend along the lobes allow us to estimate radiative ages of $\sim29$ Myr and $\sim37$ Myr for the west and east lobes respectively. Our age estimates are a factor of two lower than the 75-Myr upper limit derived from X-ray data (O'Sullivan et al. 2011). We find unlikely the scenario of an early supersonic phase in which the lobe expanded into the ISM at approximately Mach 6 (3500 km s$^{-1}$), and suggest that either the source underwent multiple AGN outbursts with possible large changes in jet power, or possibly that the source age that we find is due to a backflow that transports young electrons from the jet tips through the lobes toward the nucleus relatively quickly. We calculate that in the lobes the energy ratio of non-radiating to radiating particles is $\sim4-24$ indicating significant gas entrainment. If the lobes are in pressure balance with their surroundings, the total energy required to heat the entrained material is $10^{58}$ erg, $\sim$40% of the total enthalpy of the lobes.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication by MNRAS. Revised throughout in response to referee's comments
Figure S1 from The chronology of reindeer hunting on Norway's highest ice patches.
Creators: name: Pilø, Lars
name: Finstad, Espen
name: Ramsey, Christopher Bronk
name: Martinsen, Julian Robert Post
name: Nesje, Atle
name: Solli, Brit
name: Wangen, Vivian
name: Callanan, Martin
name: Barrett, James H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: A comparison of the kernel density model and summed probability density plots of hunting-related and all ice patch finds. Each plot shows in light grey the sum of the calibrated date distributions, and in dark grey an estimate of the underlying distribution of events using a kernel density model, taking into account the number (n) of dated events [12]. The blue band is a ±1σ estimate of the uncertainty in the KDE model, estimated by comparison of multiple possible scenarios. Individual panels show (a) dates associated with hunting with a low risk of the old-wood effect (n=80); (b) dates associated with hunting with a high risk of the old-wood effect (n=25); (c) all dates with a low risk of the old-wood effect (n=121); (d) all dates with a high risk of the old-wood effect (n=32).
(103778) Joseph Went
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dual Pairs of Gauged Linear Sigma Models and Derived Equivalences of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Creators: name: Gerhardus, Andreas
name: Jockers, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we study the phase structure of skew symplectic sigma models, which are a certain class of two-dimensional N = (2,2) non-Abelian gauged linear sigma models. At low energies some of them flow to non-linear sigma models with Calabi-Yau target spaces, which emerge from non-Abelian strong coupling dynamics. The observed phase structure results in a non-trivial duality proposal among skew symplectic sigma models and connects non-complete intersection Calabi-Yau threefolds, that are non-birational among another, in a common quantum Kahler moduli space. As a consequence we find non-trivial identifications of spectra of topological B-branes, which from a modern algebraic geometry perspective imply derived equivalences among Calabi-Yau varieties. To further support our proposals, we calculate the two sphere partition function of skew symplectic sigma models to determine geometric invariants, which confirm the anticipated Calabi-Yau threefold phases. We show that the two sphere partition functions of a pair of dual skew symplectic sigma models agree in a non-trivial fashion. To carry out these calculations, we develop a systematic approach to study higher-dimensional Mellin-Barnes type integrals. In particular, these techniques admit the evaluation of two sphere partition functions for gauged linear sigma models with higher rank gauge groups, but are applicable in other contexts as well.
description: 66 pages, 3 figures; v2: refs. added; v3: minor changes and corrections -- version published in J.Geom.Phys
Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality
Creators: name: Hartmann, D.
name: Guevara, M. R.
name: Jara-Figueroa, C.
name: Aristaran, M.
name: Hidalgo, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A country's mix of products predicts its subsequent pattern of diversification and economic growth. But does this product mix also predict income inequality? Here we combine methods from econometrics, network science, and economic complexity to show that countries exporting complex products (as measured by the Economic Complexity Index) have lower levels of income inequality than countries exporting simpler products. Using multivariate regression analysis, we show that economic complexity is a significant and negative predictor of income inequality and that this relationship is robust to controlling for aggregate measures of income, institutions, export concentration, and human capital. Moreover, we introduce a measure that associates a product to a level of income inequality equal to the average GINI of the countries exporting that product (weighted by the share the product represents in that country's export basket). We use this measure together with the network of related products (or product space) to illustrate how the development of new products is associated with changes in income inequality. These findings show that economic complexity captures information about an economy's level of development that is relevant to the ways an economy generates and distributes its income. Moreover, these findings suggest that a country's productive structure may limit its range of income inequality. Finally, we make our results available through an online resource that allows for its users to visualize the structural transformation of over 150 countries and their associated changes in income inequality between 1963 and 2008.
Supplement to Gfrerer & Taborsky Working dogs transfer different tasks in reciprocal cooperation.
Creators: name: Nastassja Gfrerer
name: Taborsky, Michael
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Direct reciprocity can establish stable cooperation among unrelated individuals. It is a common assumption of direct reciprocity models that agents exchange like with like, but this is not necessarily true for natural interactions. It is yet unclear whether animals apply direct reciprocity rules when successive altruistic help involves different tasks. Here, we tested whether working dogs transfer help from one to another cooperative task in an iterated prisoner's dilemma paradigm. In our experiment, individual dogs received help to obtain food from a conspecific, which involved a specific task. Subsequently, the focal subject could return received favour by using a different task. Working dogs transferred the cooperative experience received through one task by applying an alternative task when they helped a previously cooperative partner. By contrast, they refrained from helping previously defecting partners. This suggests that dogs realize the cooperative act of a conspecific, which changes their propensity to provide help to that partner by different means. The ability of animals to transfer different tasks when helping a social partner by satisfying the criteria of direct reciprocity might explain the frequent occurrence of reciprocal cooperation in nature.
Additional file 2 of The development of a set of key points to aid clinicians and researchers in designing and conducting n-of-1 trials
Creators: name: Chatters, Robin
name: Hawksworth, Olivia
name: Julious, Steven
name: Cook, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Spectra from Synergistic effect of natural chickpea leaf exudates acids in heterocyclization: a greener protocol for benzopyran synthesis.
Creators: name: Snehali Mali
name: Shinde, Sachin
name: Shashikant Damte
name: Patil, Suresh
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30203 Inorganic Green Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry

description: FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR
Figure S1 from The chronology of reindeer hunting on Norway's highest ice patches
Creators: name: Pilø, Lars
name: Finstad, Espen
name: Ramsey, Christopher Bronk
name: Martinsen, Julian Robert Post
name: Nesje, Atle
name: Solli, Brit
name: Wangen, Vivian
name: Callanan, Martin
name: Barrett, James H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: A comparison of the kernel density model and summed probability density plots of hunting-related and all ice patch finds. Each plot shows in light grey the sum of the calibrated date distributions, and in dark grey an estimate of the underlying distribution of events using a kernel density model, taking into account the number (n) of dated events [12]. The blue band is a ±1σ estimate of the uncertainty in the KDE model, estimated by comparison of multiple possible scenarios. Individual panels show (a) dates associated with hunting with a low risk of the old-wood effect (n=80); (b) dates associated with hunting with a high risk of the old-wood effect (n=25); (c) all dates with a low risk of the old-wood effect (n=121); (d) all dates with a high risk of the old-wood effect (n=32).
(103773) Geoffrey Arnold James
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Reinhart Ceulemans – Barbara Crostini(eds), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium.
Creators: name: Albrecht, Felix
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bible
manuscript studies
reception studies

description: Reinhart Ceulemans – Barbara Crostini(eds), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 20). Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet 2021. XX, 534 pp. – ISBN: 978-91-513-1017-6.
description: The Byzantine Review, Vol. 5 (2023)
Psychological impact of COVID-related disruptions on young adults: examination of social and family relationships
Creators: name: Pedroza, Melissa
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought about widespread disruptions in everyday routines (e.g., universal closures, social isolation) and had a profound impact on the socio-emotional functioning of young adults. Preliminary research has explored the moderate to severe psychological effects of pandemic related stressors, which include depression, anxiety, and severe stress. However, few studies have examined how these unprecedented restrictions of interpersonal and social activities mediate the relationship between pandemic-related stressors and mental health outcomes in young adults, both during and after acute phases of COVID. Additionally, little research has explored the protective function of positive family relationships during and after acute health crises. Therefore, the current study aims to 1) examine the degree to which disruptions in school-related routines predict depressive and anxiety symptoms in young adults, 2) investigate the mediating role of decreased relationship quality in peer and romantic relationships in explaining the impact of school disruptions on depression and anxiety, and 3) explore the buffering (moderating) role of positive family relationships in the association between worsened relationship quality and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Participants were college students recruited to complete a battery of online self-report questionnaires in Spring 2020 (N=4377) and in Fall 2020 (N=1122). Measures included assessments of demographics, COVID-related disruptions, changes in relationship quality, and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Regression analyses were used to examine the proposed moderated mediation model, which seeks to investigate the mediating role of changes in peer and romantic relationship quality as well as the moderating effect of changes in family relationship quality. Findings provide evidence supporting the acute impact of COVID-related disruptions on mental health outcomes as well as revealing important direct and indirect relationships between routine disruptions, key mediators, and depression and anxiety symptoms. Results of the moderated mediation analyses proved less robust, but important implications surrounding the role of family relationships remain.
Digital und divers : das Bewerbungsverfahren der ZHAW neu denken
Creators: name: Menzi, Chantal
name: Fischer, Damaris
name: Frau, Daniela
name: Cuadra, Noemi
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: Literaturanalyse
Bewerbung
ZHAW
Recruiting
Prozess
Hiring
Anstellungsverfahren
Künstliche Intelligenz, KI
Digitale Transformation
658.3: Personalmanagement

description: Das Ziel des Projekts «Digital und divers. Das Bewerbungsverfahren an der ZHAW neu denken» ist es, eine Potential- und Machbarkeitsabklärung für die Einführung von Blind Hiring an der ZHAW durchzuführen. Unter Blind Hiring, Blind Recruiting oder Anonymous Hiring/Recruiting wird ein Recruiting verstanden, in welchem keine oder weniger Informationen zu persönlichem Merkmalen von Kandidat:innen sichtbar sind. Dies führt gemäss wissenschaftlichen Studien zu diverseren und dadurch innovativeren Teams.

Das Projekt war in zwei Teile gegliedert. Im ersten Teil wurde eine Literaturanalyse Blind Hiring durchgeführt und Praxisbeispiele aufgezeigt, bei denen Blind Hiring zum Einsatz kommt. Der zweite Teil umfasste einen Workshop mit Vertreterinnen des HR der ZHAW, bei dem Möglichkeiten und Risiken bei einer potentiellen Einführung von Blind Hiring an der ZHAW diskutiert wurden.

Die Literaturanalyse zeigte, dass insbesondere die Rekrutierung von Führungspositionen fokussiert werden muss, da hier die grösste Chancenungleichheit besteht. Wissenschaftliche Studien kommen zudem zum Schluss, dass ein standardisierter Prozess, welcher beispielsweise Bewertungs-Checklisten beinhaltet, wichtig ist, damit Blind Hiring funktioniert. Ein weiterer zwingender Erfolgsfaktor ist die Sensibilisierung von Führungskräften bezüglich Diversity-Themen.

Wenige Hochschulen setzen bereits auf anonymisierte Bewerbungsverfahren. So zum Beispiel die Universität Helsinki, welche 2018 ein entsprechendes Pilotprojekt durchführte, oder das Departement für Molekularbiologie und Biochemie (MB&B) der Universität Yale. Am MB&B wurden 2020 erste Versuche mit Blind Hiring durchgeführt und auch 2023 soll wieder ein anonymer Bewerbungsprozess stattfinden.

Das Fazit zum Workshop mit Vertreterinnen des ZHAW-HR lautet, dass Blind Hiring an der ZHAW möglich wäre. Allerdings würde eine Umsetzung grosse Veränderungen mit sich bringen. Beispielsweise könnte keine gezielte Förderung von Frauen in Führungspersonen mehr stattfinden und es müsste mit KI gearbeitet werden, um einem hohen Mehraufwand und einem längeren Bewerbungsprozess vorzubeugen. Auch Interviews müssten anonymisiert online durchgeführt werden, unter Umständen mit Avataren.
Golgi localization of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and interaction with furin in cerebral COVID-19 microangiopathy: a clue to the central nervous system involvement?
Creators: name: Boluda, Susana
name: Mokhtari, Karima
name: Mégarbane, Bruno
name: Annane, Djillali
name: Mathon, Bertrand
name: Cao, Albert
name: Adam, Clovis
name: Androuin, Alexandre
name: Bielle, Franck
name: Brochier, Guy
name: Charlotte, Frédéric
name: Chougar, Lydia
name: El Hachimi, Khalid Hamid
name: Eloit, Marc
name: Haïk, Stéphane
name: Hervé, Dominique
name: Kasri, Amal
name: Leducq, Valentin
name: Lehéricy, Stéphane
name: Levavasseur, Etienne
name: Lobsiger, Christian
name: Lorin De La Grandmaison, Geoffroy
name: Malet, Isabelle
name: Malissin, Isabelle
name: Marot, Stéphane
name: Marty, Serge
name: Pérot, Philippe
name: Plu, Isabelle
name: Prigent, Annick
name: Stimmer, Lev
name: Potier, Marie-Claude
name: Marcelin, Anne-Geneviève
name: Delatour, Benoît
name: Duyckaerts, Charles
name: Seilhean, Danielle
Publisher: name: Free Neuropathology
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19
Neuro-COVID
Microangiopathy
Furin
Blood-brain barrier (BBB)

description: In a neuropathological series of 20 COVID-19 cases, we analyzed six cases (three biopsies and three autopsies) with multiple foci predominantly affecting the white matter as shown by MRI. The cases presented with microhemorrhages evocative of small artery diseases. This COVID-19 associated cerebral microangiopathy (CCM) was characterized by perivascular changes: arterioles were surrounded by vacuolized tissue, clustered macrophages, large axonal swellings and a crown arrangement of aquaporin-4 immunoreactivity. There was evidence of blood-brain-barrier leakage. Fibrinoid necrosis, vascular occlusion, perivascular cuffing and demyelination were absent. While no viral particle or viral RNA was found in the brain, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was detected in the Golgi apparatus of brain endothelial cells where it closely associated with furin, a host protease known to play a key role in virus replication. Endothelial cells in culture were not permissive to SARS-CoV-2 replication. The distribution of the spike protein in brain endothelial cells differed from that observed in pneumocytes. In the latter, the diffuse cytoplasmic labeling suggested a complete replication cycle with viral release, notably through the lysosomal pathway. In contrast, in cerebral endothelial cells the excretion cycle was blocked in the Golgi apparatus. Interruption of the excretion cycle could explain the difficulty of SARS-CoV-2 to infect endothelial cells in vitro and to produce viral RNA in the brain. Specific metabolism of the virus in brain endothelial cells could weaken the cell walls and eventually lead to the characteristic lesions of COVID-19 associated cerebral microangiopathy. Furin as a modulator of vascular permeability could provide some clues for the control of late effects of microangiopathy.
description: Free Neuropathology, Vol. 4 (2023)
The Moments of the Hydrogen Atom by the Method of Brackets
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Ivan
name: Kohl, Karen T.
name: Kondrashuk, Igor
name: Moll, Victor H.
name: Salinas, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expectation values of powers of the radial coordinate in arbitrary hydrogen states are given, in the quantum case, by an integral involving the associated Laguerre function. The method of brackets is used to evaluate the integral in closed-form and to produce an expression for this average value as a finite sum.
(103774) Elizabeth Gwenfron Higgon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Developing a framework for identifying risk factors and estimating direct economic disease burden attributable to healthcare-associated infections: a case study of a Chinese Tuberculosis hospital
Creators: name: Ren, Nili
name: Liu, Xinliang
name: Luo, Yi
name: Li, Guofei
name: Huang, Ying
name: Ji, Desheng
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Sun, Jing
name: Li, Hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for TB hospitalized patients with and without HAIs. Table S2. Description and assigned values of the potential risk factors associated with HAIs among TB hospitalized patients. Table S3. Summaries of medical expenditures and hospitalization days among TB hospitalized patients with HAIs from 2018 to 2019. Table S4. Comparisons of covariates between TB hospitalized patients with and without HAIs before and after performing PSM. Table S5. Rosenbaum bounds for robust test on the additional direct economic disease burden attributable to HAIs in 2018 and 2019. Table S6. Sensitivity analysis using different matching methods in 2018 and 2019. Table S7. Rosenbaum bounds for robust test across different PSM matching methods in 2018 and 2019.
Observations from the Eichmann Trial: The Democratic Necessity of Deliberation and Cognitive Diversity
Creators: name: Schubart, Emma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Hannah Arendt’s characterization of Adolf Eichmann in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A
Report on the Banality of Evil has significant ramifications for contemporary democratic theory,
namely that articulated by Sayla Benhabib who advocates for inclusive deliberative processes and
Hélène Landemore who emphasizes the necessity of cognitive diversity. This paper applies
Benhabib’s and Landemore’s democratic theories to Arendt’s characterization and diagnosis of
Adolf Eichmann as an individual who was fundamentally incapable of thinking from the
standpoint of others. In so doing, this paper seeks to emphasize the necessity of inclusive
deliberation and cognitive diversity for healthy democratic processes.
Supplement to Gfrerer & Taborsky Working dogs transfer different tasks in reciprocal cooperation
Creators: name: Nastassja Gfrerer
name: Taborsky, Michael
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Direct reciprocity can establish stable cooperation among unrelated individuals. It is a common assumption of direct reciprocity models that agents exchange like with like, but this is not necessarily true for natural interactions. It is yet unclear whether animals apply direct reciprocity rules when successive altruistic help involves different tasks. Here, we tested whether working dogs transfer help from one to another cooperative task in an iterated prisoner's dilemma paradigm. In our experiment, individual dogs received help to obtain food from a conspecific, which involved a specific task. Subsequently, the focal subject could return received favour by using a different task. Working dogs transferred the cooperative experience received through one task by applying an alternative task when they helped a previously cooperative partner. By contrast, they refrained from helping previously defecting partners. This suggests that dogs realize the cooperative act of a conspecific, which changes their propensity to provide help to that partner by different means. The ability of animals to transfer different tasks when helping a social partner by satisfying the criteria of direct reciprocity might explain the frequent occurrence of reciprocal cooperation in nature.
Precipitation extremes under climate change
Creators: name: O'Gorman, Paul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The response of precipitation extremes to climate change is considered using results from theory, modeling, and observations, with a focus on the physical factors that control the response. Observations and simulations with climate models show that precipitation extremes intensify in response to a warming climate. However, the sensitivity of precipitation extremes to warming remains uncertain when convection is important, and it may be higher in the tropics than the extratropics. Several physical contributions govern the response of precipitation extremes. The thermodynamic contribution is robust and well understood, but theoretical understanding of the microphysical and dynamical contributions is still being developed. Orographic precipitation extremes and snowfall extremes respond differently from other precipitation extremes and require particular attention. Outstanding research challenges include the influence of mesoscale convective organization, the dependence on the duration considered, and the need to better constrain the sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to warming.
description: Accepted in Current Climate Change Reports
The State of Populism in the Post-Industrial Democracies of the Global North: Fading Out, Growing Ever Stronger, or Preparing to Unveil a New Face?
Creators: name: Trivanovic, Aleksander V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: As it is new to the political realm, there are still a lot of questions to be asked and research to do
with regards to right wing populism: how it functions, why it exists, what it is, and where we go
from here. This essay will answer these questions, as well as investigate recent wins and losses for
major far-right parties and movements across the globe. In seeking to answer these questions, I
find that right-populism is not, in fact, the political fad many expect it to be and if it is to ever lose
popularity, will likely only be pushed into obscurity by a major large-scale global event, or eclipsed
by a more powerful political movement. In the short term, the COVID-19 pandemic and left-wing
populism are right-wing populism’s biggest challengers, but neither have seemed to make a big
enough dent in the power of right-populism for it to be considered a loss for the far-right just yet.
Mice with a deletion of Rsph1 exhibit a low level of mucociliary clearance and develop a primary ciliary dyskinesia phenotype
Creators: name: Sears, P.R.
name: Rogers, T.D.
name: Yin, W.
name: Burns, K.A.
name: Livraghi-Butrico, A.
name: Grubb, B.R.
name: Ostrowski, L.E.
Publisher: name: American Thoracic Society
Year: 2019

description: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disease caused by mutations in over 40 different genes. Individuals with PCD caused by mutations in RSPH1 (radial spoke head 1 homolog) have been reported to have a milder phenotype than other individuals with PCD, as evidenced by a lower incidence of neonatal respiratory distress, higher nasal nitric oxide concentrations, and better lung function. To better understand genotype-phenotype relationships in PCD, we have characterized a mutant mouse model with a deletion of Rsph1. Approximately 50% of cilia from Rsph1-/- cells appeared normal by transmission EM, whereas the remaining cilia revealed a range of defects, primarily transpositions or a missing central pair. Ciliary beat frequency in Rsph1-/- cells was significantly lower than in control cells (20.2±0.8 vs. 25.0±0.9 Hz), and the cilia exhibited an aberrant rotational waveform. Young Rsph1-/- animals demonstrated a low rate of mucociliary clearance in the nasopharynx that was reduced to zero by about 1 month of age. Rsph1-/- animals accumulated mucus in the nasal cavity but had a lower bacterial burden than animals with a deletion of dynein axonemal intermediate chain 1 (Dnaic1-/-). Thus, Rsph1-/- mice display a PCD phenotype similar to but less severe than that observed in Dnaic1-/- mice, similar to what has been observed inhumans. The results suggest that some individuals with PCD may not have a complete loss of mucociliary clearance and further suggest that early diagnosis and intervention may be important to maintain this low amount of clearance.
Revolutionizing Medical Research in the Life Sciences With Chemical Biology
Creators: name: Müller, Sebastian
name: Cañeque, Tatiana
name: Gaillet, Christine
name: Solier, Stéphanie
name: Colombeau, Ludovic
name: Sindikubwabo, Fabien
name: Rodríguez, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical Research

description: Over the recent years Institut Curie has built a strong chemical biology research initiative and structure, recruiting chemists to work side by side with biologists to tackle challenging biological questions. This unique and growing research environment has the potential to revolutionize fundamental biological & medical research with new discoveries and applications in the waiting.