cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detection and functional characterization of angiotensin receptor Type 1 autoantibodies: establishment and clinical translation
Creators: name: Boivin-Jahns, Valérie
name: Zechmeister, Chistina
name: Schuetz, Claudia
name: Lohse, Martin J.
name: Jahns, Roland
name: Yu, Xinhua
name: Petersen, Frank
name: Hahner, Stefanie
name: Fassnacht, Martin
Publisher: name: Advances in RAB Research
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: Circulating AT1R autoantibodies (AT1R-aabs) directed against the ECL2 of the AT1R with agonist-like activity are supposed to play a pathophysiological role in diseases associated with vascular and renal damage, such as preeclampsia and malignant hypertension (HT), but they are also thought to be involved in heart failure and primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA).
Methods: High-throughput screening assays aiming at a reliable detection of AT1R-aabs in sera from patients with HT and PHA were established. The agonist-like activity of AT1R-aabs was assessed by changes in intracellular calcium levels using Fura2-QBT dye and AlphaLISA SureFire Ultra Assay was used to assess induction of ERK1/2 phosphorylation in stably transfected AT1R-HEK-cells.
Results: IgG purified from sera of n=60 patients with PHA and n=97 with hypertensive heart disease (HT) were screened for their capacity to increase [Ca2+]i or to activate ERK1/2. Ten out of 60 PHA patients increased [Ca2+]i compared to none of the HT-patients, whereas in both disease-entities we detected AT1R-aabs inducing ERK1/2 activation with similar prevalence (PHA: 38%, HT: 31%), indicating the existence of differentially acting AT1R-aabs. PHA-patients positive for ERK1/2 activating AT1R-aabs have lower serum potassium- and renin-levels together with an increased aldosterone concentration concordant with the disease phenotype. Similarly, higher BP values (syst/diast) are observed in AT1R-aab positive HT patients. In addition, ERK1/2-activation induced by either angiotensin II, a mouse AT1R-Mab, or by IgG isolated from patients with PHA or HT could be differentially blocked by the use of various signaling inhibitors. Whereas clinically used AT1R-blockers as e.g. Losartan, Olmesartan, or Candesartan fully block Ang II-mediated ERK activation, they are less efficient in blocking the effects of human AT1R-aabs, with Losartan having almost no effect.
Conclusion: As hypothesized, the detection of AT1R-aabs directed against the native AT1R based on antigen binding only results in a high number of misleading results. By contrast, functional assays based on AT1R-activation ([Ca2+]i & ERK1/2-phosphorylation) are able to detect AT1R-aabs in 31% or 38% of patients with HT or PHA, respectively.
description: Advances in RAB Research, Vol 1 No 1 (2018)
PiCoGen: Generate Piano Covers with a Two-stage Approach
Creators: name: Tan, Chih-Pin
name: Guan, Shuen-Huei
name: Yang, Yi-Hsuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Cover song generation stands out as a popular way of music making in the music-creative community. In this study, we introduce Piano Cover Generation (PiCoGen), a two-stage approach for automatic cover song generation that transcribes the melody line and chord progression of a song given its audio recording, and then uses the resulting lead sheet as the condition to generate a piano cover in the symbolic domain. This approach is advantageous in that it does not required paired data of covers and their original songs for training. Compared to an existing approach that demands such paired data, our evaluation shows that PiCoGen demonstrates competitive or even superior performance across songs of different musical genres.
description: Published at ICMR 2024 (project page: https://tanchihpin0517.github.io/PiCoGen/)
title: Актуальные проблемы международного права
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Международный университет Кыргызстана
Year: 2022

description: Данное учебное пособие представляет собой совокупность лекций, предназначенных для обеспечения учебного процесса. Практическая ценность данного пособия состоит в том, что в нем содержатся все необходимые для изучения и преподавания материалы по курсу «Актуальные проблемы международного права». Подготовлено для преподавателей и магистрантов, обучающихся по направлению «Юриспруденция», а также работников государственных органов, интересующихся npo6лемами современного международного права.
Additional file 6 of Insights into physical activity promotion among Australian chiropractors: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Fernandez, Matthew
name: de Luca, Katie
name: Moore, Craig
name: French, Simon D.
name: Ferreira, Paulo
name: Swain, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 6
Bombus (Thoracobombus) deuteronymus Schulz
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus deuteronymus

description: 24. Bombus (Thoracobombus) deuteronymus Schulz
(Figs 50, 51)
Bombus senilis Smith, 1879:131 (not of Fabricius, 1775:382, = B. pascuorum (Scopoli)). Bombus deuteronymus Schulz, 1906:267, replacement name for senilis Smith, 1879:131. Agrobombus superequester Skorikov, 1926:116, by indication of Skorikov, 1914:405.
Material examined. 1 queen, 75 workers, 12 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Primarily on the Bashang plateau, the northeastern Neimenggu, and the edge of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Common at low to medium elevations of the Bashang plateau in northern Hebei, at low elevations of the Nenjiang river valley in northeastern Neimenggu, and at medium to high elevations of edge of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in Gansu. Rare at medium elevations of the Taihangshan mountains in Hebei and Shanxi, at medium elevations of the Huanggangliang forest park of the southernmost of the Great Khingan mountains, at low elevations of the Hulunbeir grasslands in northeastern Neimenggu, and at medium elevations of the Maijishan forest park in Gansu. 24 localities (Fig. 50) between 215–2872 m (IAB).
Similar species in North China. This species is very similar in its grey colour pattern to B. humilis and B. pseudobaicalensis (see the key; Figs 51, 53, 61).
Distribution in China. Hebei, Shanxi, Neimenggu, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Qinghai (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Cirsium leo, Helianthus annuus, Saussurea sp., Sinacalia tangutica; CAMPANULACEAE: Adenophora potaninii; FABACEAE: Astragalus bhotanensis, Lespedeza bicolor, L. floribunda, Melilotus officinalis; LAMIACEAE: Caryopteris tangutica, Dracocephalum heterophyllum; RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum gymnandrum; SCROPHULARIACEAE: Pedicularis semitorta.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
Additional file 7 of Insights into physical activity promotion among Australian chiropractors: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Fernandez, Matthew
name: de Luca, Katie
name: Moore, Craig
name: French, Simon D.
name: Ferreira, Paulo
name: Swain, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 7
East Benue-Congo Noun Classes, With A Focus On Morphological Behavior
Creators: name: Good, Jeff
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Comparative studies of noun class systems in East Benue-Congo languages go back

at least as far as the mid-nineteenth century work on comparative Bantu undertaken by Wilhelm Bleek. In the wider Benue-Congo context, the most significant

work is de Wolf (1971), which reconstructs a noun class system for Proto-Benue-

Congo and remains the most detailed study on the topic available today. This paper summarizes the results of De Wolf and also looks at various morphosyntactic

aspects of Benue-Congo noun class systems en route to consideration of the possibilities for reconstruction of abstract features of the noun class system of the

proto-language. These include patterns of change in the structure of these systems,

the fact that both prefixing and suffixing noun class systems are attested in the

family, domains of noun class concord, different series of noun class markers appearing on different morphological hosts, and the issue of how attested classes can

be linked to reconstructed classes.
Bombus (Thoracobombus) humilis Illiger
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus humilis

description: 25. Bombus (Thoracobombus) humilis Illiger
(Figs 52, 53)
Apis fulve ∫cens [fulvescens] Schrank, 1802:367. Nomen oblitum (Williams et al., 2009). Bombus humilis Illiger, 1806:171. Nomen protectum (Williams et al., 2009).
Bombus (Agrobombus) helferanus var. subbaicalensis Vogt, 1911:42, 54.
Material examined. 3 queens, 137 workers, 12 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Primarily in northeastern Neimenggu, on the loess plateau and the west Qinling mountains. Common at low elevations of the Nenjiang river valley in northeastern Neimenggu, at medium elevations of the Kongdongshan nature reserve and the Maijishan forest park in Gansu, at medium elevations of the Liupanshan nature reserve in southern Ningxia, and the west Qinling mountains in Shaanxi. Rare at medium elevations of the Baihuashan nature reserve and the Lingshan nature reserve in Beijing, at medium elevations of the Xiaowutaishan nature reserve in Hebei, at medium elevations of the Taihangshan mountains and Lvlaingshan mountains in Shanxi, and at medium to high elevations on the edge of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in Gansu. 51 localities (Fig. 52) between 315–3130 m (IAB).
Variation in North China. This species shows strong variation in the colour pattern of the hair across its global distribution but shows little variation in North China (Fig. 53).
Similar species in North China. This species is very similar in its grey colour pattern to B. deuteronymus and B. pseudobaicalensis (see the key; Figs 51, 53, 61).
Distribution in China. Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Neimenggu, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Xizang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Cirsium leo, C. monocephalum, C. setosum, Cosmos bipinnatus, Helianthus annuus; CAMPANULACEAE: Adenophora divaricata; CONVOLVULACEAE: Calystegia hederacea; FABACEAE: Astragalus bhotanensis, Trifolium pratense, Trifolium repens; LAMIACEAE: Caryopteris tangutica, Dracocephalum heterophyllum, Elsholtzia densa, Mentha canadensis; MALVACEAE: Hibiscus trionum, RANUNCULACEAE: Clematis tangutica; TILIACEAE: Grewia biloba.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
Bombus (Thoracobombus) pascuorum Scopoli
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pascuorum

description: 26. Bombus (Thoracobombus) pascuorum (Scopoli)
(Figs 54, 55)
APIS Pa ∫cuorum [pascuorum] Scopoli, 1763:306.
Apis ∫enilis [senilis] Fabricius, 1775:382.
Apis agrorum Fabricius, 1787:301 (not of Schrank, 1781:397 = B. mesomelas Gerstaecker).
Material examined. 8 workers, 20 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Only in northeastern Neimenggu. Common at low elevations of the Moerdaoga forest park, in the transition zone between the Hulunbeir grasslands and the Great Khingan mountains forests in northeastern Neimenggu. Rare at low elevations of the Nenjiang river valley in Elunchun, northeastern Neimenggu, and at medium elevations of the Huanggangliang forest park of the southernmost of the Great Khingan mountains in Neimenggu. 4 localities (Fig. 54) between 395–1665 m (IAB).
Variation in North China. This species shows strong variation in the colour pattern of the hair across its global distribution. In North China it shows only a small part of this variation (see the key).
Similar species in North China. This species is similar in its brown colour pattern to B. schrencki, B. hedini, B. tricornis and B. atripes (see the key; Figs 55, 57, 59, 69, 71).
Distribution in China. Neimenggu, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Achillea millefolium, Hieracium umbellatum, Saussurea sp., Serratula coronata; CRASSULACEAE: Orostachys fimbriata, O. malacophylla; ONAGRACEAE: Chamerion angustifolium; RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum kusnezoffii; SCROPHULARIACEAE: Pseudolysimachion linariifolium.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
Enseignement supérieur et développement durable au Mali
Creators: name: Daman-Guilé DIAWARA
name: Amadou THIAM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: L’enseignement supérieur est l’élément central de tout processus de développement durable. Car un lieu de formation du capital humain ; c’est à ce niveau qu’il y a développement du savoir. La relation entre l’enseignement supérieur et le développement durable permet de mettre l’accent sur la qualité et l’accès, à l’enseignement supérieur pour former les cadres et décideurs indispensable au développement durable. Dans le système éducatif, l’enseignement supérieur reste comme facteur incontournable de l’indice de développement humain (IDH). Et à travers l’analyse économique, en utilisant les outils mathématiques, de la statistique descriptive; les résultats traduisent, un accès très limité à l’enseignement supérieur, avec un taux brut de scolarisation de 5% environs. Donc le faible niveau dans l’enseignement engendre un niveau d’indice de développement humain, pas significatif. C’est à dire avec un IDH de 0,434 classé 184e rang sur 189 pays, met ce dernier parmi les pays à développement humain-faible. Par conséquent, loin des objectifs du développement durable prévus. Bref, le Mali fait des efforts pour améliorer son enseignement supérieur et promouvoir un développement durable, mais doit relever beaucoup d’obstacle pour y parvenir. Cette relation entre l’enseignement supérieur et développement durable est primordiale, mais demande des transformations réelles dans le contexte du Mali, afin de former les compétences et leaders nécessaires à un futur durable.
title: The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate
Creators: name: Sly, Jordan S.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Samuel Morland
subject: Oliver Cromwell
subject: Cromwellian Protectorate
subject: Seventeenth-Century
subject: Waldensians
subject: Waldenses
subject: Valdesi
subject: Vaudois

description: The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance, and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate In 1655, the Duke of Savoy ordered the violent removal of Protestants from his territory in Northern Italy in the basin of the Italian Alps. The horrific massacre that resulted provided vivid evidence of the arbitrary cruelty of Catholic European powers in the development of mid-seventeenth-century polemic literature. Specifically, it provided the Cromwellian Protectorate a useful tragedy in conceptualizing and actuating long-standing threads of religious history that provided the backbone justification of military action against their enemies. This presentation focuses on the book commissioned by the Protectorate and compiled by Sir Samuel Morland titled The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont and the complex composition of this book in terms of its religious and political uses. This talk will include descriptions of extant copies of the book in addition to its contents and some history of its use, dissemination, and idiosyncratic elements of specific copies. Content warning: This presentation will contain images from Morland’s work which graphically depict atrocious imagery of extreme violence against men, women, and children.
Bombus (Thoracobombus) schrencki Morawitz
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus schrencki

description: 27. Bombus (Thoracobombus) schrencki Morawitz
(Figs 56, 57)
Bombus Schrencki Morawitz, 1881:250.
Material examined. 1 queen, 39 workers, 24 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Primarily on the Bashang plateau, the Taihangshan mountains, and the Great Khingan mountains. Common at medium to high elevations of the Wutaishan forest park in Shanxi, at medium elevations of the Huanggangliang forest park of the southernmost Great Khingan mountains in Keshiketeng, Neimenggu, and at low elevations of the northernmost Great Khingan mountains in Genhe, Neimenggu. Rare at medium elevations of the Bashang plateau in northern Hebei, at medium elevations of the Pangquangou nature reserve of the Lvliangshan mountains in northern Shanxi, at medium elevations of the loess plateau in southern Ningxia, and at low elevations of the Moerdaoga forest park, the transition zone between the Hulunbeir grasslands and the Great Khingan mountains forests in northeastern Neimenggu. 19 localities (Fig. 56) between 593–3056 m (IAB).
Similar species in North China. This species is similar in its brown colour pattern to B. pascuorum, B. hedini, B. tricornis and B. atripes (see the key; Figs 55, 57, 59, 69, 71).
Distribution in China. Hebei, Shanxi, Neimenggu, Jinling, Heilongjiang, Ningxia, Xinjiang (IAB). Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Chrysanthemum chanetii, Cirsium leo, Helianthus annuus, Ixeris polycephala, Leontopodium omeiense, Saussurea purpurascens, Serratula coronata; CAMPANULACEAE: Adenophora wawreana; CRASSULACEAE: Orostachys fimbriata; DIPSACACEAE: Scabiosa comosa; FABACEAE: Vicia unijuga; LAMIACEAE: Elsholtzia densa, E. stauntonii; ROSACEAE: Potentilla fruticosa.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
Additional file 8 of Insights into physical activity promotion among Australian chiropractors: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Fernandez, Matthew
name: de Luca, Katie
name: Moore, Craig
name: French, Simon D.
name: Ferreira, Paulo
name: Swain, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 8
Welcome to Volume 6 of Narrative & Conflict
Creators: name: Winslade, John M
name: Cobb, Sara
Publisher: name: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice
Year: 2018

description: The journal Narrative & Conflict is pleased to present our newest volume. We are excited to feature scholarship from Matthew Levinger on the rise of nationalist narratives, from John Winslade and Michael Williams discussing an innovative restorative narrative practice for working with students returning after a school suspension, and from Diana Anders who critically engages the therapeutic turn in International Humanitarian Law from a narrative perspective.

Volume 6 also includes a thought-provoking book review by Solon Simmons which brings The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (Lilla 2017) and White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Williams 2017) in conversation with one another, using a narrative lens to shed light on the current U.S. political moment.

Finally, we are proud to debut our newest journal section Narrative & Conflict: Notes from the Field. This section will feature thought provoking reflections from scholars and practitioners working on issues related to narrative and conflict, beginning with an interview of Stephen Madigan by John Winslade on the practice of relational interviewing.

We hope you enjoy this volume! In case you missed Volume 5, released Spring 2017 it is available here.

As always, we kindly ask that you keep Narrative & Conflict in mind when thinking of publishing your work in the broader field of narrative in conflict analysis and resolution, and hope you will continue to invite colleagues, collaborators and associates to also consider us for future submissions of articles, monographs, book reviews, or notes from the field (for more information, please visit us at journals.gmu.edu/NandC).

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Cordially,

Sara Cobb & John Winslade, Editors
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 6 No 1
Amor, Miedo, Ira: El Arco Emocional de la Retórica Populista (Resumen)
Creators: name: Levinger, Matthew
Publisher: name: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice
Year: 2018

description: ¿Por qué, en este momento histórico, las narrativas nacionalistas separatistas son más ponderosas que aquellas inclusivas que favorecen la integración transnacional? Este ensayo examina cuatro casos de “relatos nacionalistas”: la retórica del Partido Independiente del Reino Unido (UKIP) de Nigel Farage durante la campaña de “separarse” (de la UE) en Gran Bretaña, de la campaña presidencial de Donald Trump en los Estados Unidos en 2016, de la campaña del Partido de la Libertad de Geert Wilders en Holanda en 2017, y de la campaña del Frente Nacional de Marine Le Pen en Francia en 2017. En cada uno de esos países los líderes populistas han desplegado retoricas que trazan un arco emocional en tres partes, enfatizando el amor a la patria, el miedo a los extranjeros, y la indignación moralista en contra de las elites corruptas que han puesto en peligro el bienestar de la nación. La poderosa respuesta emocional que engendra esa retórica ha sido un factor central en los éxitos electorales recientes de esos movimientos.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 6 No 1
Additional file 1 of Integration analysis of transcriptome and proteome profiles brings new insights of somatic embryogenesis of two eucalyptus species
Creators: name: Chen, Shengkan
name: Guo, Dongqiang
name: Deng, Ziyu
name: Tang, Qinglan
name: Li, Changrong
name: Xiao, Yufei
name: Zhong, Lianxiang
name: Chen, Bowen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF PREGNANCY ON HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE
Creators: name: Aylin, M. Öztürk
name: Elif, N. Arslan
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pregnancy, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL), SF-36 scale, well-being, trimesters

description: Pregnancy is a transformative period characterized by various physiological, physical, and emotional changes that impact a woman's well-being. As these changes evolve over time, they exert significant effects on the physical, mental, and social aspects of a pregnant woman's life. For example, the increasing size of the uterus can restrict movement and lead to respiratory difficulties. Healthcare professionals, particularly gynecologists and obstetricians, should systematically assess these aspects at different stages of pregnancy using precise measurement tools and observation methods.

Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) serves as a valuable indicator of an individual's mental and physical well-being, reflecting their overall health status, mental and physical functioning, and behavior. The SF-36 quality of life scale, which assesses HRQoL, is a well-established tool developed by Rand Corporation and adapted for the Turkish population. It measures eight dimensions of health-related quality of life, making it a widely used instrument to evaluate the well-being of individuals.

This study aims to investigate the changes in HRQoL among pregnant women across different trimesters. By utilizing the SF-36 scale, we will provide valuable insights into how pregnancy-related physiological and emotional changes impact the overall quality of life of expectant mothers
Conversaciones de Reentrada: Una Práctica Narrativa Restaurativa para la Reintegración de Estudiantes (Resumen)
Creators: name: Winslade, John M
name: Williams, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice
Year: 2018

description: Cuando un estudiante que ha sido suspendido retorna a la escuela, con frecuencia lo hace volviendo a la clase como si nada hubiera pasado. La expectativa es que el estudiante ha aprendido de la experiencia y cambiará su comportamiento de la manera esperada… pero ese proceso suele ser dejado al azar. Las conversaciones de reentrada se dirigen a que ese aprender de la experiencia sea menos aleatorio. Este articulo ofrece un mapa para dirigir ese tipo de conversación, facilitada por consejeros escolares, e incluye una viñeta que ilustra este enfoque en acción, en una conversación que subraya una exploración de las esperanzas del estudiante en lugar de patologizarlo o exigir que se acomode a las esperanzas de la escuela.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 6 No 1
¿Resolución Simbólica de Traumas? Tribunales de Crímenes de Guerra, Violencia Sexual, y la Performance Jurídica de la Curación (Resumen)
Creators: name: Anders, Diana
Publisher: name: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice
Year: 2018

description: La tendencia cada vez más notoria de considerar a los tribunales internacionales centrados en crímenes de guerra como instituciones que no solo proveen justicia sino también constituyen unos vehículos para la resolución del sufrimiento de las víctimas de la violencia de guerra marca un cambio notable en la Legislación Humanitaria Internacional (LHI). Este “giro terapéutico” de la LHI aparece claramente expresada en los procedimientos del Tribunal Internacional de Crímenes en la ex Yugoeslavia (1993) y el Tribunal Internacional para Ruanda (1994). Ambos tribunales lanzaron lo que ha sido llamada la “era de los tribunales”[1], poniendo un énfasis sin precedentes en las victimas de atrocidades. Este artículo provee una exploración crítica de la adjudicación de la violencia sexual como crimen de guerra en el contexto de este giro terapéutico.


Usando como lente la concepción de tribunales históricos propuesta por la experta en traumas Shoshana Felman, intento subrayar de qué manera estos tribunales pueden bloquear o hacer imposible el tipo de catarsis que esta autora presupone. He elegido dos casos para ilustrar algunos de los costos imprevisibles que derivan de la promesa de una resolución o cura legal: En primer lugar, el discurso mismo que promete una resolución o alivio a las mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual de hecho las reduce a una condición de víctima. En segundo lugar, las “otras” víctimas de la violencia sexual de guerra (en este caso, los varones), suelen no ser reconocidas o vueltas invisibles en este paradigma de “cura” legal.  Mi análisis de esos casos explora cómo las intervenciones terapéuticas-jurídicas pueden socavar los objetivos que se proponen, a la vez que ocultar las relaciones de poder en las que se basan y que contribuyen a perpetuar.


[1] Scheffer (2012), 4.
description: Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Vol 6 No 1
Additional file 2 of Integration analysis of transcriptome and proteome profiles brings new insights of somatic embryogenesis of two eucalyptus species
Creators: name: Chen, Shengkan
name: Guo, Dongqiang
name: Deng, Ziyu
name: Tang, Qinglan
name: Li, Changrong
name: Xiao, Yufei
name: Zhong, Lianxiang
name: Chen, Bowen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Veridicality of self-concept of strengths in male adolescents
Creators: name: Conzelmann, Achim
name: Schmidt, Mirko
name: Valkanover, Stefan
Publisher: name: Ammons Scientific
Year: 2013
Subjects: 790 Sports, games & entertainment
150 Psychology

description: Changes in physical self-concept and veridicality (i.e., the appropriateness of one’s self-perceptions to reality) during childhood and adolescence are related to performance in physical fi tness, exercise, and global self-esteem, particularly in male adolescents. This cross-sectional study examined the relation between the self-concept of strength and actual strength in groups of male adolescents ages 12 to 15 years. For this purpose, 889 male adolescents (M age = 13.2 yr., SD = 1.0) were questioned about their self-concept of strength, after which a test of strength was carried out. The results showed that the correlation between self- concept of strength and actual strength was higher in older (14- and 15-year-old) than younger (12- and 13-year-old) adolescents. There was a statistically signifi cant association between age group and veridicality, indicating that realistic self-concept is underrepresented among younger, but overrepresented among older adolescents. No association was found between the adolescents’ physical activity and veridicality. The consequences for further research on the development of veridicality in the physical domain are discussed.
Bombus (Thoracobombus) pseudobaicalensis Vogt
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pseudobaicalensis

description: 29. Bombus (Thoracobombus) pseudobaicalensis Vogt
(Figs 60, 61)
Bombus (Agrobombus) Pseudobaicalensis Vogt, 1911:43, 53. Agrobombus gilvus Skorikov, 1926:117.
Material examined. 27 workers, 44 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Only in the northeast of Neimenggu. Common at low elevations of the northernmost Great Khingan mountains in Genhe, and the Nenjiang river valley in Elunchun, northeastern Neimenggu. Rare at low elevations of the south Great Khingan mountains in Eerguna, Yakeshi and Aershan in northeastern Neimenggu, and at low elevations of the Bashang plateau in Kalaqinqi, Neimenggu. 17 localities (Fig. 60) between 215–855 m (IAB).
Similar species in North China. This species is very similar in its grey colour pattern to B. deuteronymus and B. humilis (see the key; Figs 51, 53, 61).
Distribution in China. Neimenggu, Jilin, Heilongjiang (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Cirsium setosum, Cosmos bipinnatus, Helianthus annuus, H. tuberosus, Serratula coronata; FABACEAE: Vicia cracca; LAMIACEAE: Elsholtzia densa; ONAGRACEAE: Chamerion angustifolium; POLYGONACEAE: Fagopyrum esculentum; RANUNCULACEAE: Aconitum kusnezoffii; ROSACEAE: Sorbaria sorbifolia, Spiraea salicifolia; TROPAEOLACEAE: Tropaeolum majus.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
Network-based analysis reveals signatures of IgG autoantibodies targeting G protein-coupled receptors in health and disease
Creators: name: Cabral-Marques, Otavio
name: Marques, Alexandre
name: Giilb, Lasse Melvær
name: De Vito, Roberta
name: Engelhardt, Barbara Elizabeth
name: Sehouli, Jalid
name: Heidecke, Harald
name: Riemekasten, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Advances in RAB Research
Year: 2018

description: Background: Functional antibodies (ab) against G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) were found in various diseases and partially in healthy individuals. Their role in physiology and in pathophysiology remains to be identified.
Methods: Sera from 952 patients with different rheumatic diseases were analyzed for the presence of ten different anti-GPCR ab by ELISAs. For deeper ab phenotyping, ab levels against 30 different autoantigens including GPCR, growth factors, and growth factor receptors were studied in sera from 491 healthy controls (HC), 84 patients with systemic sclerosis, 91 with Alzheimer's disease, and 207 with ovarian cancer by ELISAs. Spearman's rank correlation coefficients, hierarchical cluster analyses, network mapping and target interactions using STRING and gene ontology (GO) analyses were performed as well as transwell migration assays.
Results: Specific signatures were identified in different autoimmune diseases and in HC. Ab correlations and clusters of correlations were identified in HC, which were specifically affected by age, sex, and autoimmune and non-autoimmune diseases. Network mapping and GO analysis of ab targets displayed multiple associations and a central role of the endothelin receptor type-A (ETAR) in cell migration and chemoattraction. Indeed, the ab were chemoattractive for immune cells, which could be ameliorated by ETAR blockers.
Conclusions: Our data indicate a functional ab network, which is affected by age, sex, and diseases. The network could affect receptor functions and could guide immune cells or their targets via chemoattraction to organs.
description: Advances in RAB Research, Vol 1 No 1 (2018)
Foxo-mediated Bim transcription is dispensable for the apoptosis of hematopoietic cells that is mediated by this BH3-only protein
Creators: name: Herold, Marco J.
name: Rohrbeck, Leona
name: Lang, Mathias J.
name: Grumont, Raelene
name: Gerondakis, Steve
name: Tai, Lin
name: Bouillet, Philippe
name: Kaufmann, Thomas
name: Strasser, Andreas
Publisher: name: Nature
Year: 2013
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health

description: The BH3-only protein Bim is a critical initiator of apoptosis in hematopoietic cells. Bim is upregulated in response to growth factor withdrawal and in vitro studies have implicated the transcription factor Foxo3a as a critical inducer. To test the importance of this regulation in vivo, we generated mice with mutated Foxo-binding sites within the Bim promoters (Bim(ΔFoxo/ΔFoxo)). Contrary to Bim-deficient mice, Bim(ΔFoxo/ΔFoxo) mice had a normal hematopoietic system. Moreover, cytokine-dependent haematopoietic cells from Bim(ΔFoxo/ΔFoxo) and wt mice died at similar rates. These results indicate that regulation of Bim by Foxo transcription factors is not critical for the killing of hematopoietic cells.
Additional file 1 of Trigonelline hydrochloride attenuates silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis by orchestrating fibroblast to myofibroblast differentiation
Creators: name: Zhang, Fengqin
name: Yue, Huihui
name: Dong, Ruihan
name: He, Jianhan
name: Zhou, Ling
name: Dou, Xinran
name: Wang, lingling
name: Zheng, Pengdou
name: Mao, Zhenyu
name: Zhu, Xiaoyan
name: Wang, Yi
name: Liu, Huiguo
name: Zhang, Huilan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Bombus (Thoracobombus) remotus Tkalcu
Creators: name: An, Jiandong
name: Huang, Jiaxing
name: Shao, Youquan
name: Zhang, Shiwen
name: Wang, Biao
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Wu, Jie
name: Williams, Paul H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus remotus

description: 30. Bombus (Thoracobombus) remotus (Tkalců)
(Figs 62, 63)
Megabombus (Agrobombus) remotus Tkalců, 1968:45.
Material examined. 6 queens, 444 workers, 61 males (IAB).
Distribution in North China. Primarily on the southern loess plateau, the Qin-Ba mountains in southern Gansu and southern Shaanxi. Abundant at medium elevations of the Maijishan forest park, the Xiaolongshan nature reserve and the Baishuijiang nature reserve in southern Gansu. Common at medium elevations of the Liupanshan nature reserve in southern Ningxia and the Qinling mountains in southern Shaanxi. Rare at medium elevations of the Taihangshan mountains in Shanxi, the Dabashan mountains in Shaanxi, and the Zhagana nature reserve of the edge of the east Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in Gansu. 49 localities (Fig. 62) between 885–2766 m (IAB).
Similar species in North China. This species is similar in its yellow-grey colour pattern to some, B. picipes, B. infrequens and B. wangae (see the key; Figs 63, 109, 111, 117).
Distribution in China. Shanxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia (IAB).
Forage plants. ASTERACEAE: Arctium lappa, Cirsium leo, C. monocephalum, Erigeron annuus, Tagetes patula; BUDDLEJACEAE: Buddleja officinalis; CLUSIACEAE: Hypericum perforatum; FABACEAE: Campylotropis macrocarpa, Lespedeza bicolor, Melilotus albus, Trifolium pratense, T. repens, Vicia cracca; LAMIACEAE: Nepeta cataria, Phlomis umbrosa, Verbena officinalis; RANUNCULACEAE: Anemone tomentosa.
description: Published as part of An, Jiandong, Huang, Jiaxing, Shao, Youquan, Zhang, Shiwen, Wang, Biao, Liu, Xinyu, Wu, Jie & Williams, Paul H., 2014, The bumblebees of North China (Apidae, Bombus Latreille), pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 3830 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286560
title: Balance as a Result of the Interaction Between Order and Disorder
title: The Dynamic Relationship Between Order and Disorder in Achieving Equilibrium
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Farzad Akbari Dezdarani, 0009-0006-2878-8196
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Physics
subject: Mathematical physics
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Plasma physics
subject: Theoretical physics
subject: فیزیک بنیادی
subject: نظم
subject: order
subject: disorder
subject: Balance
subject: entropy
subject: complex systems
subject: General theory

description: This article explores a new hypothesis: that balance in natural systems arises from the dynamic interplay between order and disorder. Instead of treating these two concepts as separate or opposing, the author suggests that order (low entropy, structured behavior) and disorder (high entropy, randomness) are two sides of the same coin. A general equation is proposed—B = f(T, S)—where balance (B) is a function of absolute order (T) and entropy (S). A physical example involving inelastic collisions demonstrates the model’s consistency. The paper invites researchers from physics, biology, chemistry, and complex systems to explore this unified view of equilibrium and to contribute toward discovering the precise mathematical form of this relationship.
Old captains at the helm: chairman age and firm performance
Creators: name: Wälchli, Urs
name: Zeller, Jonas
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2013
Subjects: 650 Management & public relations
330 Economics

description: This paper examines whether the chairmen of the boards (COBs) impose their life cycles on the firms over which they preside. Using a large sample of unlisted firms, we find a robust negative relation between COB age and firm performance. COBs age much like ‘ordinary’ people. Their cognitive abilities deteriorate, and they experience significant shifts in motivation. Deteriorating cognitive abilities are the main driver of the performance effect that we observe. The results imply that succession planning problems in unlisted firms are real. Mandatory retirement age clauses cannot solve these problems.
To smell the SLE-CNS involvement
Creators: name: Shoenfeld, Yehuda
Publisher: name: Advances in RAB Research
Year: 2018

description: mon and ranges between 20% – 70% of the patients. The CNS involvement is listed in the ARA criteria for SLE diagnosis.
CNS-SLE is associated with more than 20 different autoantibodies (1). Yet, remarkable among them are the anti-P-ribosomal antibodies (anti-PR) (2). These autoantibodies directed mainly against the carboxy 22 amino acids of the PO, P1 P2 ribosomal phosphoproteins. They are capable of penetrating lived cells and inducing apoptotic changes as well as leading to inhibi-tion of specific cytokine secretion (3-5). The titer of the autoantibodies correlates with disease activity, kidney involvement and hepatitis (6-8).
Anti-PR were first reported to associate and correlate with CNS-SLE and especially psychosis in 1987(9). Subsequent analyses could only partially repeat Bonfa's conclusions (2-3). The con-tradictory results may stem from technical discrepancies (2-3), multiplicity of autoantibodies causing CNS-SLE (1,10), and differences in the time of drawing the blood in relation to the time when the patient had the CNS involvement.
We employed affinity purified anti-PR on a PR column and injected them directly into the brain ventricles of Balb/c mice. Irrelevant Igs were employed as controls. The analyses entailed a variety of neurological tests known to evaluate cognitive impairment, anxiety states, depres-sive conditions and motor competence of the mice.
Mice injected with anti-PR clearly expressed depressive behavior, characterized mainly by floating pattern rather than swimming in an enforced swimming tests. These floating pattern could be reversed by a specific therapy with monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibody to anti-PR (11), by IVIG as well as Fluoxetine (Prozac) an anti-depression drug. No response was achieved with anti-psychotic drug. The control mice were not affected in their behavior following the injection of the irrelevant Ig (12).
The human purified anti-P-R, were shown to bind to CNS structures consisting with the smell apparatus (i.e. amygdale, hypocampus and other parts of the limbic systems).
Smell defects characterize bulbectomized (cutting the olfactory nerves) depressive mice (13), as well as depressive women (14). Such depression can be overcome by exposing mice and humans to citrus fragrance (15).
Our studies show for the first time the active induction of a psychiatric condition (i.e. depres-sion) with a specific autoantibody, i.e. anti-PR (16). Furthermore, the results allude to a novel mechanism to explain the induction of CNS-SLE depression (i.e. involvement of the smell ap-paratus).
These data may pave the road to a novel approach to depression in CNS-SLE and its therapy as well as in other CNS conditions (12,17,18-21).
description: Advances in RAB Research, Vol 1 No 1 (2018)
Lessons From Anti-TSH-Receptor Autoantibodies: Challenges And Pitfalls In Diagnostics
Creators: name: Banga, Paul J.
name: Lytton, Simon D.
Publisher: name: Advances in RAB Research
Year: 2018

description: Objective: Autoantibodies to the thyrotropin hormone receptor (TSH-R) directly mediate Graves’ disease (GD) and orbital manifestations of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO). To explore their heterogeneous function, TSH-R autoantibody binding in immunoassays (TRAb) versus their functional activity; stimulators of cAMP in bioassay (TSIs or TSAbs) or inhibitors of the thyrotropic hormone (TSH) binding to TSH-R, detected by decreased cAMP in bioassay (TBAbs), is assessed.
Methods: TRAb measurements by automated electrochemical luminescence immunoassays (ECLIA) and stimulating and blocking activity on Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO) Mc4 bioassays (Thyretain ®, Quidel). The activity of patient immunoglobulins on ECLIA; M22 Mab competition (cobas elecsys, Roche) or TSH-R bridge assay (Immulite,Siemens) versus Mc4 TSI bioassay were correlated with GO clinical activity by meta-analysis of complete Pubmed-published data sets (n=5).
Results: The automated ECLIA show less sensitivity than cell-based bioassay for detection of TRAbs (Fig 1A and 1B) and do not distinguish between stimulator MAbs; M22 and KSAb (Fig 1A and 1B) versus the blocker MAb K1-70 (Fig 1C). In contrast, Mc4 TSAb bioassay of K1-70 detected null stimulatory activity (Fig 1C), in contrast to strong cAMP inhibition in Mc4 TBAb blocker reporter bioassay (Fig 1D). Diagnostic performances of Mc4 TSAb bioassay and automated TRAb ECLIA in untreated GD show high sensitivities 97% (95-100) and specificities 98% (96-100%). Meta-analysis of GD and/or GO undergoing treatment reveal lower percent positive on Mc4 TSI Bioassay (56%, range 13-87%) than ECLIA TRAb immunoassays (98.5%, range 98-99%; OR=2.76, p=0.09). The Forest plot total random effects of correlation coefficients of autoantibody activity with GO clinical activity were greater on Mc4 bioassay (r=0.4, I2 =92% (95% CI 89-95), p<0.0.001) versus TRAb immunoassay (r=0.2, I2 =39% (95% CI 0-70%), p=0.0.8).
Conclusion: Diagnostic distinction of TSAbs and TBAbs is of paramount clinical importance. Cell-based bioassays are the only method to distinguish between TSAbs and TBAbs. To avoid the pitfall of incorrect reporting on automated TRAb binding assays, TSI or TSAb is strongly recommended for results of bioassays; whereas the results of automated ECLIA should be reported as TRAbs (of undetermined functional significance).
description: Advances in RAB Research, Vol 1 No 1 (2018)