cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SUOLI SEPOLTI OLOCENICI AL MARGINE APPENNINICO CENTRO-PADANO: ASPETTI GEOARCHEOLOGICI E PALEOAMBIENTALI
Creators: name: NICOSIA, CRISTIANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The Apennine foothills at the southern limit of the Po plain consist of a belt of coalescent, gravelly, alluvial fans, trending to the north, towards the depocenter of the plain. Their aggradation is generally considered to have been controlled by climate and linked to the glacial periods of the Middle and Upper Pleistocene. At the transition from the Upper Pleistocene to the Holocene, aggradation of most of the alluvial fans stopped and their surface was subject to weathering, which resulted in deep, rubified Alfisols. These developed mainly during the Boreal and Atlantic periods. Beginning in the Sub-Boreal period, fine-textured alluvial deposits buried the distal margin of the alluvial fans and the soils developed on them, constituting a fundamental change in the pedo-sedimentary processes. These deposits consist of fine-sized sediments of overbank facies, organized in fining upward sets and intercalated by buried Entisols, Inceptisols and Vertisols. The accumulation of floodplain sediments on the margin of the alluvial fans, after the prevailing weathering on their top, is related to the climatic change that occured between the end of the Postglacial Hypsithermal period and the beginning of the Neoglacial period.
The soils on top of the alluvial fans and in later alluvial deposits show intensive human use and occupation from the Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, and witness a significant change in land exploitation during the Atlantic/Sub-Boreal transition. During the Neolithic (Atlantic period), agricultural practices linked to shifting agriculture had minimal impact on the vegetation mantle and were limited to the plain areas. By contrast, during the Chalcolithic and the early Bronze Age (Sub-Boreal period), a rather different mode of land use was adopted, as the result of the newly introduced transhumant pastoralism. Deforestation through slash and burn techniques was very intense and widespread, extending far beyond the boundary of the plain, deep inside the mountain range, affecting the Po Plain and the adjoining Apennines and Alps. This case study presents an argument for seeing climate change and human activity ? deforestation by fire, agriculture and pastoralism ? as synergic phenomena that shaped the prehistoric landscape.
Contributo allo studio del filtro in appello
Creators: name: Dalla Bont�, Silvana
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2015

description: ?Il lavoro monografico muove dalla recente introduzione (con la l. n. 134/2012) dei nuovi artt. 348-bis e ter c.p.c. e dalla riformulazione degli artt. 342 c.p.c., dedicati alla previsione di un c.d. filtro all?accesso all?appello e alla forma dell?atto introduttivo del secondo grado di giudizio. Oggetto dell?indagine � la verifica della derivazione tedesca e/o inglese della nuova disciplina nazionale, s� da valutarne opportunit� e applicazione rispetto agli ordinamenti ?d?origine? del trapianto legislativo. In separato esame, si approfondisce lo studio comparato dell?accesso agli appeals inglesi e alla Berufung tedesca, per volgere all?analisi del dato normativo italiano vigente e alla prospettazione di sue ipotesi evolutive (auspicabilmente abrogative).
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211025367 - Supplemental material for Cefoperazone and sulbactam-related eosinophilic peritonitis: a case report and literature review
Creators: name: Wang, Zi
name: Li, Zhiying
name: Luo, Suping
name: Yang, Zhikai
name: Xing, Ying
name: Pu, Chengwei
name: Dong, Jie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Health and Community Services
subject: Cardiology
subject: Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Endocrinology
subject: Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Orthopaedics
subject: Sports Medicine
subject: Otorhinolaryngology
subject: Aged Health Care
subject: Paediatrics
subject: Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Respiratory Diseases
subject: Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211025367 for Cefoperazone and sulbactam-related eosinophilic peritonitis: a case report and literature review by Zi Wang, Zhiying Li, Suping Luo, Zhikai Yang, Ying Xing, Chengwei Pu and Jie Dong in Journal of International Medical Research
Grammars and Rhetorics
Creators: name: Cornelius, Ian
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Latin language
subject: Latin literature
subject: Education
subject: History
subject: England
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Rhetoric

description: A survey of the foundational disciplines of literate culture in the British isles, from the failure of the Roman imperial project in the fifth century to Henry VIII’s promulgation of uniform Latin grammars in 1540-42.   Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the Middle Ages, these disciplines served to maintain Latin as a language of culture, religion, and administration over much of Europe. Grammatical studies flourished in medieval England following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Subsequent developments in grammatical and rhetorical studies in Britain in the Middle Ages track deep changes in the social conditioning of literacy and social demands upon literacy. Among the medieval English innovations in these disciplines were the teaching of Latin as a foreign language, the cultural accommodation of grammar and rhetoric to Christianity, the creation of new genres of rhetorical textbooks, and the development of bilingual pedagogies that paired Latin with vernacular languages.
A study of stochastic processes in Banach spaces
Creators: name: Groves, James Stuart
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2000

description: The theory of 2-convex norms is applied to Banach space valued random
      vectors. Use is made of a norm on random vectors, introduced by Pisier,
      equal to the 2-absolutely summing norm on an associated space of
      operators.

      For Q the variance of some centred Gaussian random vector in a separable
      Banach space it is shown that, necessarily, Q factors through l2 as a
      product of 2-summing operators. This factorisation condition is sufficient
      when the Banach space is of Gaussian type 2. The stochastic integral of a
      family of operators with respect to a cylindrical Q-Wiener process is
      shown to exist under a Hölder continuity condition involving the 2-summing
      norm.

      A Langevin equation dZt + ΛZtdt = dBt with values in a separable Banach
      space is studied. The operator Λ is closed and densely defined. A weak
      solution (Zt ; Bt), where Zt is centred, Gaussian and stationary while Bt
      is a Q-Wiener process, is given when iΛ and iΛ* generate C0 groups and the
      resolvent of Λ is uniformly bounded on the imaginary axis. Both Zt and Bt
      are stochastic integrals with respect to a spectral Q-Wiener process.

      The convolution of two arcsine probability densities is shown to be an
      elliptic integral.

      Ensembles (Xn)n≥1 of random Hermitian matrices are considered. Each Xn is
      n by n with distribution invariant under unitary conjugation and induced
      by a positive weight function on R. New proofs are given of results, due
      to Boutet de Monvel, Pastur, Shcherbina and Sodin, on the behaviour of the
      empirical distribution of the eigenvalues of Xn as n tends to infinity.

      Results in analytic function theory are proved. An H∞ interpolating
      sequence in the disc D whose Horowitz product does not lie in the Bergman
      space L2a(D) is exhibited. A condition satisfied by Banach spaces of
      non-trivial analytic Lusin cotype is obtained.
SCREENING DEI GENI �PACEMAKER� IN PAZIENTI CON EPILESSIA IDIOPATICA GENERALIZZATA: IDENTIFICAZIONE DI UNA MUTAZIONE RECESSIVA NEL CANALE HHCN2
Creators: name: COCO, STEFANIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: It is well established that several forms of inheritable idiopathic epilepsy sindrome are ion channelopathies, that is pathologies associated with dysfunctional ion channels, even if the functional link between channel dysfunction and clinical phenotype is often unresolved.
Hyperpolarization-activated, Cyclic-Nucleotide gated (HCN) channels are a class of voltage- and cAMP-dependent channels. They mediate the hyperpolarization-activated Ih current, which control synaptic integration and intrinsic excitability in various brain areas. Ih is pathologically altered after experimentally-induced seizures and has been proposed to have a role in different forms of epileptogenesis. Hcn1 and Hcn2 genes variants have been identified in patients with febrile seizure or GEFS+. While existing data therefore clearly show a link between HCN channel dysfunction and epileptogenesis, no specific mutation-induced HCN channel modification has so far been correlated functionally with increased neuronal excitability. To investigate this we used a candidate gene approach and screened a panel of idiopathic generalized epilepsy patients and related families for mutations in the Hcn1 and Hcn2 genes.
We found a form of sporadic IGE associated with a recessive point mutation in the gene coding for the HCN2 channel. The protein mutation E515K is located in the C-linker region (exon 5 of the Hcn2 gene). Functional analysis revealed that homomeric mutant, but not heteromeric wild-type/E515K channels, have a negative shift in the activation kinetics. Furthermore, the time-constant curve for homomeric E515K channels was also shifted to the negative direction. Moreover, omomeric mutant, but not heteromeric wild type/mutant channels, showed a lowering of the threshold of action potential firing and a strongly increased cell excitability and firing frequency when compared to wild-type channels.
In conclusion, our results show that the homozygous E515K mutation in human HCN2 channels is a loss-of-function mutation causing a large negative shift of the activation curve and slowing of activation, and a consequent strong reduction of Ih availability near resting voltages. These changes cause a substantial increase of neuronal excitability, a condition predisposing to epileptogenesis, and are associated with a recessive type of inheritance compatible with the idiopathic generalized epilepsy of the proband in the family pedigree.
Additional file 1 of Not a passive learner but an active one: a focus on the efficacy of philosophy-based language instruction and its consequences on EFL learners’ critical thinking, engagement, and academic achievement
Creators: name: Li, Lingxi
name: Ismail, Sayed M.
name: Patra, Indrajit
name: Lami, Desta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Supplementary Material 1
Did the Sephardic Jews Speak Ladino?
Creators: name: Attig, Remy
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ladino (Latin American people)
subject: Philology
subject: Sephardim--Study and teaching

description: The term ‘Ladino’ has been used by some scholars in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews.  Sometimes it has been used in reference to the language spoken by the Jews in Medieval Spain while at other times scholars have used this term in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire in the centuries following their exile from Spain.  Both definitions are listed in the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, but is the term accurately defined?  This article examines modern and historic uses of the term ‘ladino’ and suggests amending the dictionary to better reflect the particular nuances of this term.  It also examines the differences between the terms ‘ladino’ and ‘judeoespañol’ (Judeo-Spanish) and clarifies their proper uses.
Scientific Knowledge Unchained: verso una policy dell?universit� italiana sull?Open Access
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento
Year: 2014

description: The aim of this paper is to explore the contribution of formal law to Open Access (OA). The main thesis is that formal law may be considered as an outstanding instrument to affirm the OA principle. However, the ultimate success of OA depends on a radical change of the informal rules that apply to scientific publishing practices. Such a variation must take into account the dynamics of power that govern academic-scientific publications, in which the interests of both scientists and publishers intersect. Moreover, a pivotal role is played by new upcoming actors that populate the system of scientific communication (repositories, search engines, scientific social networks etc.). Special attention is given to the normative change and the interaction that occurs among different types of rules (formal legal rules, informal rules and technology rules). This article focuses primarily on OA to publications and it does not discuss in details other related topics such as open research data. In the first paragraph, I briefly introduce the subject, explaining the methodology and the general framework of the paper. The second paragraph focuses on the presumption that scientific oligopoly depends on the perverse interaction between copyright and evaluation rules. In the third paragraph, I describe the legal kernel, as well as the scope, of OA. The fourth paragraph illustrates the main applicable policies and the fifth concentrates on the European Union policy on OA. Lastly, the sixth paragraph focuses on some development avenues for a normative policy that may contribute to a definitive affirmation of OA in Italian universities.
High Seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii Antibodies in Veterinarians Associated with Cattle Obstetrics, Bavaria, 2009
Creators: name: Bernard, Helen
name: Brockmann, Stefan
name: Kleinkauf, Niels
name: Klinc, Christina
name: Wagner-Wiening, Christiane
name: Stark, Klaus
name: Jansen, Andreas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Adolescent
subject: Adult
subject: Aged
subject: Cross-Sectional Studies
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Middle Aged
subject: Risk Factors
subject: Cattle
subject: Seroepidemiologic Studies
subject: Antibodies Bacterial/blood
subject: Coxiella burnetii/immunology
subject: Goats
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Occupational Diseases/epidemiology
subject: Occupational Diseases/immunology
subject: Occupational Diseases/microbiology
subject: Occupational Exposure
subject: Q Fever/epidemiology
subject: Q Fever/immunology
subject: Q Fever/microbiology
subject: Sheep
subject: Veterinarians
subject: Zoonoses/epidemiology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii. Infection can result in severe disease. However, little is known about the risk of infection in veterinarians. In a cross-sectional study among German veterinarians, participants provided sera and completed an exposure questionnaire. We investigated predictors for seropositivity using multivariable logistic regression modelling. The 424 participants' median age was 40 (18–74) years, and 276 (65%) were female. Sera of 162 (38%) were positive for Coxiella burnetii phase II IgG antibodies (by ELISA and IFAT). Predictors for seropositivity were occupational exposure to cattle (aOR 2.83, 95% CI 1.64–4.87), occupational exposure to sheep (2.09, 1.22–3.58), male sex (1.9, 1.15–3.13), and increasing age (30–39 years: 4.91, 2.00–12.04; 40-49 years: 5.32, 2.12–13.33; >50 years: 6.70, 2.60–17.25; compared with
Kardiorespiratorische Fitness bei Erwachsenen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Finger, Jonas
name: Krug, Susanne
name: Gößwald, Antje
name: Härtel, Sascha
name: Bös, Klaus
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fahrradergometrie
subject: Gesundheitssurvey
subject: Erwachsene
subject: Kardiorespiratorische Fitness
subject: PWC
subject: Health survey
subject: Adults
subject: Cardiorespiratory fitness
subject: Cycle ergometry
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Ein guter Fitnesszustand ist ein Indikator für einen positiven Gesundheitszustand. Daher wurde in der „Studie zur Gesundheit Erwachsener in Deutschland“ (DEGS1) die kardiorespiratorische Fitness im Querschnitt untersucht. Es wurden Daten von 3030 testtauglichen Erwachsenen im Alter von 18 bis 64 Jahren mittels eines submaximalen Fahrradergometertests erhoben. Testtaugliche Teilnehmende sind signifikant jünger, häufiger männlich, weniger häufig adipös und weisen einen besseren Gesundheitszustand auf als testuntaugliche Personen. Die berechnete pulsbezogene Leistung bei 75% der maximalen Herzfrequenz (PWC75%) in Watt pro kg Körpergewicht beträgt bei Männern 1,52 und bei Frauen 1,15. Die PWC75% nimmt pro Altersdekade um 4,2% bei Männern und um 4,8% bei Frauen ab. Bei Frauen ist ein höherer Sozialstatus (SES) mit einer besseren kardiorespiratorischen Fitness assoziiert. Bei Männern ist dagegen kein statistisch signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen dem SES und der Fitness nachweisbar. Diese Erkenntnisse können genutzt werden, um zielgruppenspezifische Gesundheitsförderungsprogramme zur Steigerung der kardiorespiratorischen Fitness zu entwickeln. Es ist geplant auf Basis der DEGS1-Daten aktuelle PWC-Normwerte zu erstellen.
description: A high level of fitness is an indicator for a good health state. Therefore, cardiorespiratory fitness was examined in the cross-sectional German Health Interview Survey for Adults (DEGS1). Data from 3,030 test-qualified adults between 18 and 64 years old were assessed by means of a standardized submaximal cycle ergometer test. Test-qualified participants were significantly younger, more often men, less often obese and showed a better health state than those who were not test-qualified. The calculated physical work capacity at 75% of the age-predicted maximum heart rate (PWC75%) in watts per kg bodyweight was among men 1.52 and among women 1.15. PWC75% declines by 4.2% per age decade for men and 4.8% for women. A higher socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with better fitness among women. No significant association was observed between SES and fitness among men. These findings can be used to develop target-group specific health-promotion interventions in order to enhance cardiorespiratory fitness. It is planned to calculate updated PWC reference values based on the DEGS1 data. An English full-text version of this article is available at SpringerLink as supplemental.
Antimicrobial Peptide Adsorption and Storage on Oxidized Metal Surfaces to Mitigate Bacterial Attachment
Creators: name: Morales Espejo, Jesus Hector
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2018
Subjects: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In the pursuit to create more natural, chemical-free antibacterial surfaces, fracture mechanics and the ability of laser-modified surfaces to store an antimicrobial agent have been investigated through the combination of scanning electron microscopy coupled with focused ion beam, infrared spectroscopy, bactericidal tests and a colorimetric method. It was found that the irradiation of a nanosecond pulsed laser on Ti-6Al-4V and 304L stainless steel surfaces creates colored oxide layers with 100-150 nm in thickness and, by using the adequate parameters, it is possible to obtain surfaces with cracks of 1-6 μm deep that not only penetrate the film but also the substrate. Physisorption was used to immobilize nisin, an antimicrobial agent, to the walls of those cracks. Antibacterial tests show that nisin-coated oxide layers exhibit antibacterial activity against Listeria monocytogenes even after immersion in water or the application of mechanical scrubbing, and release kinetics tests demonstrated that nisin desorption is promoted by acidic pH and that nisin is effectively stored into the cracks of stainless steel. The immobilization into the cracks of the titanium oxide layer seem to reveal that there is an excellent anchor between the peptide and the crack walls, but future research is still required.
sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621993111 – Supplemental material for The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning
Creators: name: Wiley, Robert W.
name: Rapp, Brenda
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621993111 for The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning by Robert W. Wiley and Brenda Rapp in Psychological Science
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211026117 - Supplemental material for High-dose diquat poisoning: a case report
Creators: name: Huang, Yanxia
name: Zhang, Renjing
name: Meng, Mei
name: Chen, Dechang
name: Deng, Yunxin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cardiology
subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: 110315 Otorhinolaryngology
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211026117 for High-dose diquat poisoning: a case report by Yanxia Huang, Renjing Zhang, Mei Meng, Dechang Chen and Yunxin Deng in Journal of International Medical Research
Additional file 3 of ClpP protease modulates bacterial growth, stress response, and bacterial virulence in Brucella abortus
Creators: name: Sun, Dongjie
name: Liu, Yufu
name: Peng, Xiaowei
name: Dong, Hao
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Fan, Xuezheng
name: Feng, Yu
name: Sun, Jiali
name: Han, Kun
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Niu, Jianrui
name: Ding, Jiabo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Transcriptional level of 36 selected genes by RNA-seq and RT-qPCR.
Prevalence and temporal trend of known diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Heidemann, Christin
name: Du, Yong
name: Schubert, Ingrid
name: Rathmann, Wolfgang
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: Prevalence
subject: Health survey
subject: Adults
subject: Diabetes mellitus
subject: 610 Medizin

description: The first wave of the “German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults” (DEGS1, 2008–2011) allows for up-to-date, representative prevalence estimates of known diabetes amongst the 18- to 79-year-old resident population of Germany. Temporal trends can be shown by comparing the survey findings with those of the “German National Health Interview and Examination Survey 1998” (GNHIES98). The definition of known diabetes was based on self-reports in physician-administered interviews that asked respondents if they had ever been diagnosed with diabetes by a doctor or were on anti-diabetic medication. Overall, diabetes had been diagnosed in 7.2% of the adults (7.4% of the women; 7.0% of the men). The prevalence increased substantially with advancing age and was higher in persons of low than of high socioeconomic status. Prevalence varied depending on the type of health insurance held and was highest amongst those insured with AOK health insurance funds. In comparison with GNHIES98, there was a 38% increase in prevalence, of which approximately one third is to be attributed to demographic ageing. In the context of other nationwide studies, the results indicate a figure of at least 4.6 million 18- to 79-year-olds having been diagnosed with diabetes at some point. Planned analyses of undiagnosed diabetes will contribute to the interpretation of the observed increase in the prevalence of known diabetes.
L?evoluzione della presenza femminile nell?agricoltura italiana ed i nuovi tratti dell?imprenditoria delle donne
Creators: name: BERTOLINI, Paola
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi - Universit� di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Year: 2014

description: This paper analyses the evolution of the women work in agriculture, focusing on the development of female entrepreneurship. Agriculture Census data and other statistical sources allow to underline the relevant transformation of female presence in agriculture: from a total submission to the male direction up to the ?50, the industrial transformation of the Italian economy, including agriculture, promoted a progressive emerging of women relevance in agriculture also as entrepreneurs. Further, the paper underlines the increasing importance of the females among the new multidimensional forms of entrepreneurship. This modern and dynamic trait of female enterprises is driven and supported by the new direction of EU agricultural policy. However, the paper stresses also the weakness of women enterprises. Indeed, a comparison of the female and male enterprises highlights a weaker performance of the first ones in term of dimension of enterprises, revenues and education.
Composition effects of public investment on private investment in WAEMU
Creators: name: Pierre GUEI
name: Siriki COULIBALY
name: Kadidiatou Tenin BAKAYOKO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the extent to which private investment is affected by public investment, depending on whether the latter is financed by external or internal resources, in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Using a panel data model, estimated according to the procedure of Driscoll and Kraay (1998), the study concludes that the crowding-out effect occurs when public investment is financed from external resources. When public investment is financed from internal resources, it is the crowding-in effect that expresses itself, supporting the implementation of the golden rule for public finances. In addition, foreign direct investment appears to be one of the determinants of private investment.
Robust Process Monitoring for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Creators: name: Moreno, Mariana
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Robust process monitoring in real-time is a challenge for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. Sensors and models have been developed to help to make process monitoring more robust, but they still need to be integrated in real-time to produce reliable estimates of the true state of the process. Dealing with random and gross errors in the process measurements in a systematic way is a potential solution. In this work, we present such a systematic framework, which for a given sensor network and measurement uncertainties will predict the most likely state of the process. As a result, real-time process decisions, whether for process control, exceptional events management or process optimization can be based on the most reliable estimate of the process state.
Data reconciliation (DR) and gross error detection (GED) have been developed to accomplish robust process monitoring. DR and GED mitigate the effects of random measurement errors and non-random sensor malfunctions. This methodology has been used for decades in other industries (i.e., Oil and Gas), but it has yet to be applied to the Pharmaceutical Industry. Steady-state data reconciliation (SSDR) is the simplest forms of DR but offers the benefits of short computational times. However, it requires the sensor network to be redundant (i.e., the number of measurements has to be greater than the degrees of freedom).
In this dissertation, the SSDR framework is defined and implemented it in two different continuous tableting lines: direct compression and dry granulation. The results for two pilot plant scales via continuous direct compression tableting line are reported in this work. The two pilot plants had different equipment and sensor configurations. The results for the dry granulation continuous tableting line studies were also reported on a pilot-plant scale in an end-to-end operation. New measurements for the dry granulation continuous tableting line are also proposed in this work.
A comparison is made for the model-based DR approach (SSDR-M) and the purely data-driven approach (SSDR-D) based on the use of principal component constructions. If the process is linear or mildly nonlinear, SSDR-M and SSDR-D give comparable results for the variables estimation and GED. The reconciled measurement values generate using SSDR-M satisfy the model equations and can be used together with the model to estimate unmeasured variables. However, in the presence of nonlinearities, the SSDR-M and SSDR-D will differ. SSDR successfully estimates the real state of the process in the presence of gross errors, as long as steady-state is maintained and the redundancy requirement is met. Gross errors are also detected whether using SSDR-M or SSDR-D.
Imputation of missing expenditure information in standard household income surveys
Creators: name: BALDINI, Massimo
name: PACIFICO, Daniele
name: Termini, F.
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi - Universit� di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Year: 2015

description: The aim of this paper is to present a new methodology for dealing with missing expenditure information in standard income surveys. Under given conditions, typical imputation procedures, such as statistical matching or regression-based models, can replicate well in the income survey both the unconditional density of household expenditure and its joint density with a set of socio-demographic variables that the two surveys have in common. However, standard imputation procedures may fail in capturing the overall relation between income and expenditure, especially if the common control variables used for the imputation have a weak correlation with the missing information. The paper suggests a two-step imputation procedure that allows reproducing the joint relation between income and expenditure observed from external sources, while maintaining the advantages of traditional imputation methods. The proposed methodology suits well for any empirical analysis that needs to relate income and consumption, such as the estimation of Engel curves or the evaluation of consumption taxes through micro-simulation models. An empirical application shows the makings of such a technique for the evaluation of the distributive effects of consumption taxes and proves that common imputation methods may produce significantly biased results in terms of policy recommendations when the control variables used for the imputation procedure are weakly correlated with the missing variable.
Playing Hell in Charleston. Daniel Payne, Clementa Pinckney and the Struggle Against White Supremacy
Creators: name: Ashton, Susanna Margaret
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Terrorism--Social aspects
subject: African Americans
subject: History
subject: Education

description: The men and women massacred while studying the Bible the other night in the Emanuel A. M. E. Church were, in their own way, raising hell. That phrase might seem ill conceived or even disrespectful but it can be invoked here to honor their courage and the A. M. E Church’s long tradition of challenging white supremacy. Their private prayer this week was political simply because their mere existence challenged racial power. There is a long contextual history of race violence in America which gives ustools to see this event clearly but even more than that, there is a history that is deeply specific to both place and to that phrase. Daniel Payne was a young free man of color in Charleston who quietly started a school with three free black children during the day and, even more quietly, with three enslaved adultsin the evening. His school grew to more than 60 students by 1834 and included classes in mathematics, geography, history, grammar, drawing, and physical education.Payne sought to teach the natural sciences and encouraged children to collect and dissect small creatures under his guidance. With singularly bad luck, some of his young students were noticed wandering onto a snake-infested plantation owned by the Kennedy family. Young Dr. Lionel C. Kennedy and his father, Judge Lionel H. Kennedy, interrogated thechildren not only about their snake hunt but also about what they were taught in school.As Payne recounted in his memoir, Recollections of Seventy Years, upon hearing their answers, the young Dr. Kennedy remarked, “Why, pa, Payne is playing hell in Charleston." . . . .
sj-pdf-1-jsa-10.1177_14696053211016628 - Supplemental material for Esparto crafting under empire: Local technology and imperial industry in Roman Iberia
Creators: name: Gosner, Linda R
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jsa-10.1177_14696053211016628 for Esparto crafting under empire: Local technology and imperial industry in Roman Iberia by Linda R Gosner in Journal of Social Archaeology
Politica e religione nella Polonia tardo medioevale
Creators: name: Wos, Jan Wladyslaw
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento. Dipartimento di scienze filologiche e storiche
Year: 2000

description: Sullo sfondo di un panorama storico che ricostruisce il generale contesto dell?Est europeo tra la fine del XIV e l?inizio del XV secolo, il volume fa luce su alcuni temi cruciali della storia polacca, con particolare riferimento al conflitto con l?Ordine Teutonico e alla vivace polemica che contrappose le due parti durante il Concilio di Costanza. Ad essa si legarono il tema della guerra giusta, dell?attivit� missionaria e del diritto dei popoli all?autodeterminazione. In quell?occasione vennero presentati scritti di alcuni illustri maestri dell?Universit� di Cracovia, che con le loro opere difesero la causa polacca e contribuirono alla riforma della Chiesa �in capite et in membris�.
Additional file 4 of ClpP protease modulates bacterial growth, stress response, and bacterial virulence in Brucella abortus
Creators: name: Sun, Dongjie
name: Liu, Yufu
name: Peng, Xiaowei
name: Dong, Hao
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Fan, Xuezheng
name: Feng, Yu
name: Sun, Jiali
name: Han, Kun
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Niu, Jianrui
name: Ding, Jiabo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Primers used in this study.
Jackson Unchained: Reclaiming a Fugitive Landscape
Creators: name: Ashton, Susanna Margaret
name: Hepworth, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: African Americans
subject: History

description: Slaves were allowed three day's holiday at Christmas time, and so it was over Christmas that John Andrew Jackson decided to escape.   The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I did not even dare to tell my father or mother that I was going, lest for joy they should tell some one else.  Early next morning, I left them playing their "fandango" play.  I wept as I looked at them enjoying their innocent pay, and thought it was the last time I should ever see them, for I was determined never to return alive.   To run by day or by night?  To flee on a road or in the woods?  To rely upon subterfuge or unadulterated boldness?  These were life-or-death decisions for a fugitive slave.  When John Andrew Jackson fled a Sumter District plantation in South Carolina, he made strategic choices for his survival.  he had a pony and rode mostly on roads, talking his way out of confrontations.  Jackson gambled on his plausibility and charm.  Most of all, he clung to a faith in his ability to mislead others with his own imagination.  He crafted his own terrain.
sj-pdf-1-tab-10.1177_1759720X211027712 – Supplemental material for Association of C-reactive protein and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with cardiovascular events in patients with psoriatic arthritis: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis
Creators: name: Lam, Steven H.
name: So, Ho
name: Cheng, Isaac T.
name: Li, Edmund K.
name: Wong, Priscilla
name: Li, Tena K.
name: Lee, Alex Pui-Wai
name: Tam, Lai-Shan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-tab-10.1177_1759720X211027712 for Association of C-reactive protein and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with cardiovascular events in patients with psoriatic arthritis: a time-dependent Cox regression analysis by Steven H. Lam, Ho So, Isaac T. Cheng, Edmund K. Li, Priscilla Wong, Tena K. Li, Alex Pui-Wai Lee and Lai-Shan Tam in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
Exploring Organizational Structures for Women in Academe: A Feminist Exploration of Career and Care
Creators: name: Mouton, Ashton M.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Higher education
Feminist theory
Gender studies not elsewhere classified
Communication studies

description: In 2008, Women’s Studies in Communication released a special issue entitled “Conversations and Commentary on Redefining the Professor(iate): Valuing Commitments to Care and Career in Academe” where the authors discussed how a lack of support for multiple and competing roles related to care and career responsibilities negatively impacted the careers of women faculty members. Today, women faculty members still experience more challenges associated with advancement, tenure, and promotion compared to their male counterparts and are also more likely to leave academia as leaks in the pipeline. Previous research has demonstrated that these challenges are due to organizational barriers rather than individual choices and abilities (McMurtrie, 2013; Slaughter, 2012). As such, this study employs two theoretical frameworks to explore career challenges in more detail: structuration theory (Giddens 1979; 1984) and feminist intersectional theory (Crenshaw, 1988; 1989/1993; 1991). Coupled together, structuration theory and feminist intersectional theory enable the researcher to understand what structures enable and constrain tenure/promotion and care needs/responsibilities and to be critical of those structures and who they privilege along the way. Semi-structured interviews (n=49), in combination with document collection (n=433) and logging, were used to assess the organizational structure and the movement of participants through the structure. Analysis of the documents and interviews illustrate rules and resources that both enable and constrain tenure, promotion, and care work for female faculty.
Additional file 1 of Community case management of malaria in Western Kenya: performance of community health volunteers in active malaria case surveillance
Creators: name: Otambo, Wilfred Ouma
name: Ochwedo, Kevin O.
name: Omondi, Collince J.
name: Lee, Ming-Chieh
name: Wang, Chloe
name: Atieli, Harrysone
name: Githeko, Andew K.
name: Zhou, Guofa
name: Kazura, James
name: Githure, John
name: Yan, Guiyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Categorization of Community health volunteers (CHVs) and febrile residents’ demographic information. Table S2. Association of CHVs demographics and quality of service.
Increased expression of CD25, CD83, and CD86, and secretion of IL-12, IL-23, and IL-10 by human dendritic cells incubated in the presence of Toll-like receptor 2 ligands and Giardia duodenalis
Creators: name: Obendorf, Janine
name: Viveros, Pablo Renner
name: Fehlings, Michael
name: Klotz, Christian
name: Aebischer, Toni
name: Ignatius, Ralf
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dendritic cells
subject: Giardia duodenalis
subject: Toll-like receptors
subject: CD25
subject: CD83
subject: CD86
subject: IL-12
subject: IL-23
subject: IL-10
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Effects of Giardia duodenalis on dendritic cell (DC) functions may contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic giardiasis. G. duodenalis lysate has been shown to inhibit the activation of murine DCs through the ligands of various Toll-like receptors (TLRs), including TLR2 and TLR4. Our study aimed at translating these findings to human DCs. Findings: As described previously for murine DCs, also human DCs were only weakly activated by the parasite itself. LPS-stimulated DCs incubated in the presence of G. duodenalis lysate produced less IL-12/23p40 (p = 0.002), IL-12p70 (p = 0.011), and IL-23 (p = 0.004), but more IL-10 (p = 0.006) than cells incubated in the absence of the parasite. Concomitantly, the expression of CD25, CD83, CD86, and HLA-DR was reduced on G. duodenalis-incubated DCs as compared to control cells. In contrast, human DCs stimulated through TLR2 in combination with TLR1 or TLR6 and G. duodenalis lysate secreted significantly more IL-12/23p40 (p = 0.006), IL-23 (p = 0.002), and IL-10 (p = 0.014) than cells stimulated through TLR2 ligands alone. Ligands for TLR2/TLR1 or TLR2/TLR6 also induced enhanced extracellular expression of CD25, CD83, and CD86 (p
A Re-Reanalysis of the Eötvös Experiment and Time-Variation of Nuclear Decay Rates
Creators: name: Mueterthies, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Particle physics

description: We consider the existence of a force that could produce a non-null result in the Eötvös experiment while producing a null result in the Eöt-Wash experiment. We introduce a general force, in the form of its Taylor series expansion, and determine the response of each experiment to that force. We can then determine which terms of the expansion are important to each experiment. A trial force, in the form of a mixed vector-scalar interaction is introduced and we analyze the resulting Eötvös parameters for various values of the strengths and ranges of the interactions. We find that under certain conditions the Eötvös parameter for the Eöt-Wash experiment can be made zero while the Eötvös parameter for the Eötvös experiment is nonzero.
 Next, we examine the possibility of a wind force appearing in the MICROSCOPE experiment. This wind would be due to the satellite's motion through a particle background which couples to the differential accelerometer through a baryon-number dependent interaction. We determine the signal that would be measured by MICROSCOPE satellite and compare the power spectrum density of this signal to the published power spectrum density of the experiment.
 Additionally, we present a new theoretical framework for the time-variation of nuclear decay rates. This new framework is motivated by the results of numerous experiments which show a periodicity of one year. The fractional decay rate of these experiments are constant, regardless of isotope. We find that a novel neutrino interaction, in the form of an index of refraction, successfully generates the constant fractional decay rates. Using the optical theorem and the relativistic Breit-Wigner distribution makes the index of refraction consistent with neutrino speed measurements. We conclude by describing other systems where the index of refraction could create observable oscillations.
 Finally, we consider the suppression of beta decay rates through the Pauli exclusion principle due to the presence of background cosmic and solar neutrinos. We derive the suppression factor for both thermalized and non-thermalized neutrinos.
WPTIP 1993-2017: a longitudinal analysis of issues, connections and impact of the discussion on technology and innovation policy at Oecd
Creators: name: RUSSO, Margherita
name: PAVONE, PASQUALE
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi - Universit� di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Year: 2017

description: The occasion of the 50th plenary meeting of the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technolo-gy Policy (TIP) is being taken to elaborate a reflexive analysis of the WPTIP activity to ground a discussion for future activities, particularly in view of the discussion of the next budget plan and for a future mandate after that of 2014-2019. This analysis aims at providing an overview of the theo-ries and analyses grounding the recommendations proposed by WPTIP on technology and innova-tion policy, in a period in which 'innovation' has become the catchword for any discussion on poli-cies to support economic development and social inclusion. To place this analysis in a historical perspective, this paper adopts a systematic automatic text analysis to organize figures and facts over 25 years. The analysis considers text documents on WPTIP events (such as conferences, workshops, plenary meetings) and activities (such as reports on specific topics).