cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sexual Relationship Power and Semen Exposure Among Female Patients at a Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic in Kingston, Jamaica
Creators: name: Anderson, Clive
name: Legardy-Williams, Jennifer
name: Warner, Lee
name: Gallo, Maria F.
name: Hylton-Kong, Tina
name: Steiner, Markus J.
name: Macaluso, Maurizio
name: Carter, Marion
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
name: Costenbader, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: Women’s power in sexual relationships is thought to be an important predictor of condom use. However, research on correlates of condom use often relies on participant reporting of behavior, which has questionable validity. We evaluated the association between scores from the modified Sexual Relationship Power Scale (SRPS-M) and biological detection of semen exposure in a prospective study of adult women attending a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Kingston, Jamaica with cervicitis or abnormal vaginal discharge in 2010–2011. At enrollment, women were counseled to avoid sex while on treatment and were asked to return in 6 days for a follow-up visit. At both study visits, women were administered a questionnaire and had vaginal swabs collected to test for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a biological marker of recent semen exposure. We found no significant association at enrollment or follow-up between SRPS-M scores and semen exposure, as measured with either self-reported data or PSA positivity. Semen biomarkers could be used to develop and validate new scales on relationship power and self-efficacy related to condom use.
title: Powers of Persuasion: Incentives, Sanctions and Conditionality in Peacemaking
Creators: name: Griffiths, Aaron
name: Barnes, Catherine
Publisher: name: Conciliation Resources
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Peace processes; Bougainville; Cote d'Ivoire; Darfur; Georgia-Abkhazia; Israel-Palestine; Northern Ireland; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Uganda

description: This report is the result of a project that analyzed the use of sanctions, incentives and conditionality from the standpoint of whether they underpin or undermine peace processes (ie the formal and informal processes of dialogue and negotiation between the parties that aim to address their conflict). Used effectively, it seems that these policy tools can tip the balance towards settlement by increasing the costs of fighting and the rewards for making peace. There is often an assumption that such tools have the potential to induce parties to participate in negotiations and encourage them to reach and implement peace agreements. Yet many of the cases in this study reveal how these policy tools have been ineffective or even ‘done harm’ in exacerbating tensions and fueling conflict dynamics. Four overriding conclusions can be drawn from this study for how to enhance the effectiveness of external influence in support of peacemaking. (1) External actors need to prioritize support for sustainable peace as their primary goal in a conflict situation and craft their strategy to help achieve it – recognizing that this may, in turn, create the enabling conditions for achieving other foreign policy goals. (2) Sanctions, incentives and conditionality are most likely to be effective when they are responsive to the parties’ own motivational structures and support a pre-existing societal dynamic for conflict resolution. (3) They need to be designed and implemented in ways that help to create momentum in the resolution process, which (4) typically requires a degree of strategic coherence amongst external actors, necessitating mechanisms for coordination.
Supplementary document for Nonlinear optics in 2D materials: focus on the contributions from Latin America - 6324171.pdf
Creators: name: De Matos, Christiano
name: Rosa, Henrique
name: Zapata, Juan
name: Steinberg, David
name: Cantillo, Melissa Maldonado
name: De Souza, Thoroh
name: de Paula, Ana Maria
name: Malard, Leandro
name: Gomes, Anderson S.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document.
title: Towards Designing Reliable and Efficient Millimeter-Wave Wireless LANS
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Beamforming
subject: Millimeter-wave
subject: Wireless LAN
subject: Computer science

description: With the increasing amount of mobile data and the demand for high data rates, current 2.4GHz/5GHz wireless local area networks (WLANs) are facing the problem of limited capacity. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks with gigahertz of channel bandwidth can provide multi-gigabit per second data rates, making it possible to support novel applications such as augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), mobile offloading, high-resolution video streaming, etc. However, despite the potential, the directional nature of mmWave WLAN makes it prone to blockages and mobility. The dense deployment of Access Points (APs) brings unpredictable interference and non-negligible beamforming overhead. Moreover, current mmWave WLANs are application agnostic, resulting in inefficient usage of resources in supporting AR/VR type bandwidth-intensive applications. In this dissertation, I propose novel solutions to four key challenges, aiming to build practical, reliable, and efficient mmWave WLANs. Firstly, I explore a proactive blockage mitigation technique that utilizes joint transmissions of multiple APs to provide blockage resilience. Secondly, I characterize interference in dense mmWave WLANs and implement three interference mitigation techniques using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) devices. Thirdly, focusing on reducing the beamforming overhead, I propose a “Networked beamforming” model to reduce the number of APs that conduct beamforming in dense mmWave WLANs, resulting in significant improvements in network throughput. Lastly, I design novel solutions for blockage prediction and prefetching based on users’ six-degree-of-freedom (6DoF) position and orientation information to facilitate high-quality volumetric video streaming over mmWave WLANs.
Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Hormone-Targeted Cisplatin-Loaded Magnetite Nanoclusters for Simultaneous MR Imaging and Chemotherapy of Ovarian Cancer
Creators: name: Master, Alyssa M.
name: Zhou, Zhengyuan
name: Pothayee, Nikorn
name: Boska, Michael D.
name: Yuan, Dongfen
name: Liu, Xinming M.
name: Seo, Youn Gee
name: Kabanov, Alexander V.
name: Davis, Richey M.
name: Vishwasrao, Hemant M.
name: Riffle, Judy S.
name: Bronich, Tatiana K.
name: Sokolsky-Papkov, Marina
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Year: 2016

description: Given the superior soft tissue contrasts obtained by MRI and the long residence times of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) in soft tissues, MNP-based theranostic systems are being developed for simultaneous imaging and treatment. However, development of such theranostic nanoformulations presents significant challenges of balancing the therapeutic and diagnostic functionalities in order to achieve optimum effect from both. Here we developed a simple theranostic nanoformulation based on magnetic nanoclusters (MNCs) stabilized by a bisphosphonate-modified poly(glutamic acid)-b-(ethylene glycol) block copolymer and complexed with cisplatin. The MNCs were decorated with luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) to target LHRH receptors (LHRHr) overexpressed in ovarian cancer cells. The targeted MNCs significantly improved the uptake of the drug in cancer cells and decreased its IC50 compared to the nontargeted formulations. Also, the enhanced LHRHr-mediated uptake of the targeted MNCs resulted in enhancement in the T2-weighted negative contrast in cellular phantom gels. Taken together, the LHRH-conjugated MNCs show good potential as ovarian cancer theranostics.
title: Policy Watch: Russia, Algeria and Europe
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: European Union
subject: Natural gas

description: © 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: In 2006, Russian-Algerian relations expanded markedly, fueling European fears that Russia and Algeria -- two of the European Union's three principal gas suppliers -- will collude to raise the price which EU countries must pay for natural gas. Yet while the improvement in bilateral ties has been dramatic, there appear to be limits on the extent to which they can collaborate in the natural gas sphere where their interests appear to be more competitive than cooperative.
Equestrian Empire: Japan’s Horse Improvement Projects in Korea and Manchuria
Creators: name: Suen, Eric Senkit
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Equine imperialism of Japan
Multi-breed empire
Animal biopower
Horse improvement
Settler colonialism

description: Japan’s modern history witnessed the increasing involvement of horses on the battlefield and in the colonies. The wars against Qing China and Tsarist Russia at the turn of the twentieth century made Japan realize the importance of horses in land-based warfare and its horse deficiency. The subsequent outbreak of World War I further revealed horses’ indispensable role in battlefield logistics, given their ability to adapt to varying terrains and their reliability in times of fuel shortages. The Japanese government and its army consequently carried out two horse improvement plans to transform its frail native horses into effective weapons, assistants, and tools. 
Japan’s occupation of Korea and Manchuria gave it access to the diverse and superior breeds of the East Asian continent. Its colonial governments and agencies eagerly crossbred local breeds with the improved Japanese horses to produce better hybrids, and developed horse racing industries in the colonies to finance their horse improvement projects. This thesis argues about Japan’s equine imperialism. It refers to the use of veterinary and eugenic methods to enhance the quality and quantity of horses for warfare and imperial expansion. Through hybridizing and producing horses, Japan had sufficient horse resources to help carry weapons and provisions to the front, make profits at racetracks, and plow newly acquired land for agrarian settlers, fueling the empire’s territorial and economic expansion. Horses were also subject to the empire’s biopolitics. Through crossbreeding, regulated mating, and stud castration, Japanese technocrats allowed hybridization between valuable strains while eliminating native breeds they deemed undesirable, transforming the equine landscape of East Asia.
Supplementary document for High-performance, on-chip speckle spectrometer using two-dimensional silicon photonic disordered microring lattice - 6324573.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, Zhongjin
name: Yu, Shangxuan
name: Chen, Yuxuan
name: Cai, Wangning
name: Lin, Becky
name: Song, Jinxiang
name: MITCHELL, MATTHEW
name: Hammood, Mustafa
name: Jhoja, Jaspreet
name: Jaeger, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental
Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data
Creators: name: Warren, Rene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Data and scripts in support of "Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data" by 

René L Warren, Lauren Coombe, Johnathan Wong, Parham Kazemi, Inanc Birol

 

This Zenodo release (v4) includes:

1) An updated compressed ntRoot GitHub archive for : https://github.com/bcgsc/ntroot

2) The ntRoot code version (v1.0.0) corresponding to our research manuscript

3) The most recent (v1.1.5; October 2024) ntRoot code version 

4) An updated supplementary data supporting the ntRoot manuscript, and provided with previous Zenodo versions (fixed the source of the 1kGP integrated variant call set in ./data/readme)

 

preprint:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586646
Reliability of grading of vesicoureteral reflux and other findings on voiding cystourethrography
Creators: name: Ivanova, Anastasia
name: Cui, Gang
name: Nelson, Caleb P.
name: Hoberman, Alejandro
name: Mathews, Ranjiv I.
name: Greenfield, Saul P.
name: Schaeffer, Anthony J.
name: Chesney, Russell W.
name: Moxey-Mims, Marva
name: Zerin, J. Michael
name: Chow, Jeanne S.
name: Mattoo, Tej K.
name: Carpenter, Myra A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: Voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is the modality of choice to diagnose vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Although grading of VUR is essential for prognosis and clinical decision-making, the inter-observer reliability for grading has been shown to vary substantially. The Randomized Intervention for Children with VesicoUreteral Reflux (RIVUR) trial provides a large cohort of children with VUR to better understand the reliability of VCUG findings.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the inter-observer consistency of the grade of VUR and other VCUG findings in a large cohort of children with VUR.
STUDY DESIGN: The RIVUR trial is a randomized controlled trial of antimicrobial prophylaxis in children with VUR diagnosed after UTI. Each enrollment VCUG was read by a local clinical (i.e. non-reference) radiologist, and independently by two blinded RIVUR reference radiologists. Reference radiologists' disagreements were adjudicated for trial purposes. The grade of VUR and other VCUG findings were extracted from the local clinical radiologist's report. The unit of analysis included individual ureters and individual participants. We compared the three interpretations for grading of VUR and other VCUG findings to determine the inter-observer reliability.
RESULTS: Six-hundred and two non-reference radiology reports from 90 institutions were reviewed and yielded the grade of VUR for 560 left and 524 right ureters. All three radiologists agreed on VUR grade in only 59% of ureters; two of three agreed on 39% of ureters; and all three disagreed on 2% of ureters (Table). Agreement was better (≥92%) for other VCUG findings (e.g. bladder shape "normal"). The non-reference radiologists' grade of VUR differed from the reference radiologists' adjudicated grade by exactly one grade level in 19% of ureters, and by two or more grade levels in 2.2% of ureters. When the participant was the unit of analysis, all three radiologists agreed on the grade of VUR in both ureters in just 43% of cases.
DISCUSSION: Our study shows considerable and clinically relevant variability in grading VUR by VCUG. This variability was consistent when comparing non-reference to the adjudicated reference radiologists' assessment and the reference radiologists to each other. This study was limited to children with a history of UTI and grade I-IV VUR and may not be generalizable to all children who have a VCUG.
CONCLUSION: The considerable inter-observer variability in VUR grading has both research and clinical implications, as study design, risk stratification, and clinical decision-making rely heavily on grades of VUR.
Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data
Creators: name: Warren, Rene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Data and scripts in support of "Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data" by 

René L Warren, Lauren Coombe, Johnathan Wong, Parham Kazemi, Inanc Birol

 

preprint:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586646
title: NCAA Soccer Champions Howard University: The Triumphs and Tribulations of Reclaiming a Historic National Title
Creators: name: Seium, Michael
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Howard University Soccer
subject: 1971 NCAA Soccer
subject: 1974 NCAA Soccer Champions
subject: Lincoln Phillips
subject: Soccer
subject: National Soccer Champions

description: This thesis looks into Howard University’s 1971 and 1974 NCAA soccer championships under the leadership of Coach Lincoln Phillips in a sport traditionally not popular among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The collegiate soccer world was shocked when Howard University won the 1971 NCAA title by defeating a privileged powerhouse, Saint Louis University. Filled with principally European descendant players, the Billikens of Saint Louis had dominated college soccer since official NCAA records began to be managed for the sport in the mid-1960s. Howard’s struggles were not on the soccer field alone, but also confronting the NCAA’s sometimes unchallenged behavior during the height of the civil rights movement. Coached by Lincoln Phillips, the former goalkeeper for the Trinidad and Tobago national soccer team, the Howard University Bison were composed of players from the Caribbean, Africa, and the Americas. Their ability to perform at high levels became a symbol of unity during a time when racial tensions made news headlines. This historical study explores how the NCAA, through its Committee on Infractions, used its power to target Howard University and take away a hard-earned national soccer title in 1971. The Howard University men’s soccer team regrouped and proved that they could achieve the impossible once again in 1974. This study also examines the influence that Coach Phillips had in the success of Howard’s soccer program. Through primary documents, articles, books, magazines, newspapers, and interviews, this thesis shares the strong human spirit that transformed a HBCU institution into a soccer champion. The study also provides a historical example of how soccer at the intercollegiate level of competition could be traced back to the time when many universities across America evoked bigotry and indifference. While volumes of documents are filled with facts about the success of soccer in America, Howard University’s obtaining of a second NCAA soccer title in 1974 has received little scholarly attention. This study looks into this critical comeback story.
Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data
Creators: name: Warren, Rene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Data and scripts in support of "Human ancestry inference at scale, from genomic data" by 

René L Warren, Lauren Coombe, Johnathan Wong, Parham Kazemi, Inanc Birol

 

This Zenodo release (v4) includes:

1) The compressed ntRoot GitHub archive for : https://github.com/bcgsc/ntroot

2) The ntRoot code version (v1.0.0) corresponding to our research manuscript

3) The most recent (v1.1.5; October 2024) ntRoot code version 

4) The same supplementary data supporting the ntRoot manuscript, and provided with previous Zenodo versions

 

preprint:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.26.586646
Neurosyphilis- Clinically dementia and radiologically meningoencephalitis.
Creators: name: Nizamani, Waseem Mehmood
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Infection

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 32 years
description: Clinical History: 32 year old gentleman with progressive cognitive decline and memory impairment for 2 years. Final Diagnosis: Temporal lobe atrophy and meningoencephalitis secondary to neurosyphilis
Supplementary document for Image-free active autofocusing with dual modulation and its application to autofocusing Fourier single-pixel imaging - 6325405.pdf
Creators: name: qi, shaoting
name: Deng, Zilin
name: Qi, Pan
name: Liao, Jun
name: Zhang, Zibang
name: Zheng, Guoan
name: Zhong, Jingang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: This document includes the approaches to determining the spatial frequency of the largest Fourier coefficient in the first-order component. The document also includes the demonstration of the necessity of static modulation for the proposed method.
Physicochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Yeast Extract Powder After the Biofield Energy Treatment
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: Yeast extract powder (YE powder) is particularly used in culture media for the cultivation of microorganisms found in milk or other dairy products. The present study was intended to explore the influence of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectral properties of YE powder. The study was accomplished in two groups; first group was remained as control, while another was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment and termed as the treated group. Afterward, both the samples were evaluated using several analytical techniques. The X-ray diffractometry (XRD) study showed the halo patterns of XRD peaks in both the samples. This indicated the amorphous nature of the samples. The particle size study revealed the 4.77% and 26.28% increase d50 (in the average particle size) and d99 (particle size below that 99% particles are present), respectively of treated YE powder with respect to the control. The surface area analysis showed the 14.06% increase in the specific surface area of treated sample with respect to the control. The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis exhibited the 41.64% increase in the melting temperature of treated YE powder sample as compared to the control. The TGA/DTG analysis exhibited the increase in Tonset (onset temperature of thermal degradation) by 7.51% and 12.45% in first and second step of thermal degradation, respectively in the treated sample as compared to the control. Furthermore, the Tmax (maximum thermal degradation temperature) was increased by 4.16% and 24.79% in first and second step of thermal degradation, respectively in the treated sample with respect to the control. The Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) study revealed the changes in the wavenumber of functional groups such as C-H (stretching) from 2895→2883 cm-1 and 2815→2831 cm-1, respectively; C-N from 1230→1242 cm-1; and C-O stretching from 1062-1147 cm-1→1072-1149 cm-1 of treated YE powder sample as compared to the control. The UV-vis spectroscopy showed the similar patterns of absorbance maxima (λmax) in both the control and treated samples. Therefore, the analytical results suggested the considerable impact of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment on physicochemical and spectral properties of YE powder. The increase in Tonset and Tmax after the biofield treatment suggests that the treated YE powder might be more effective in culture medium than the control YE powder.
Implementation and Operational Research
Creators: name: Clark, Tamara D.
name: Petersen, Maya
name: Kahn, James G.
name: Chang, Wei
name: Havlir, Diane V.
name: Ssemmondo, Emmanuel
name: Kadede, Kevin
name: Charlebois, Edwin D.
name: Kamya, Moses
name: Kwarisiima, Dalsone
name: Mwai, Daniel
name: Kabami, Jane
name: Sang, Norton
name: Chamie, Gabriel
name: Cohen, Craig R.
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: In 2013-2014, we achieved 89% adult HIV testing coverage using a hybrid testing approach in 32 communities in Uganda and Kenya (SEARCH: NCT01864603). To inform scalability, we sought to determine: (1) overall cost and efficiency of this approach; and (2) costs associated with point-of-care (POC) CD4 testing, multidisease services, and community mobilization.
METHODS: We applied microcosting methods to estimate costs of population-wide HIV testing in 12 SEARCH trial communities. Main intervention components of the hybrid approach are census, multidisease community health campaigns (CHC), and home-based testing for CHC nonattendees. POC CD4 tests were provided for all HIV-infected participants. Data were extracted from expenditure records, activity registers, staff interviews, and time and motion logs.
RESULTS: The mean cost per adult tested for HIV was $20.5 (range: $17.1-$32.1) (2014 US$), including a POC CD4 test at $16 per HIV+ person identified. Cost per adult tested for HIV was $13.8 at CHC vs. $31.7 by home-based testing. The cost per HIV+ adult identified was $231 ($87-$1245), with variability due mainly to HIV prevalence among persons tested (ie, HIV positivity rate). The marginal costs of multidisease testing at CHCs were $1.16/person for hypertension and diabetes, and $0.90 for malaria. Community mobilization constituted 15.3% of total costs.
CONCLUSIONS: The hybrid testing approach achieved very high HIV testing coverage, with POC CD4, at costs similar to previously reported mobile, home-based, or venue-based HIV testing approaches in sub-Saharan Africa. By leveraging HIV infrastructure, multidisease services were offered at low marginal costs.
Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Project Leadership App
Creators: name: Mehrotra, Dr
name: Mulcahy, Mary
name: Sollberger, Derek
name: Goller, Carlos
name: Lorenz, Laurel
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: Project Leadership is a web-based application which empowers the STEM participants to take up leadership roles to develop diverse leadership skills. Implementing Project Leadership (PL) provides opportunities for students to provide peer and self-assessment of diverse leadership skills. By integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools with PL, students co-create leadership roles and skills that are suitable for a particular task or project. After students work in different roles, they use PL to give feedback.
title: Fresh Insights on the Quantity and Quality of Women's Inclusion in Peace Processes
Creators: name: Paffenholz, Thania
name: Prentice, Antonia Potter
name: Buchanan, Cate
Publisher: name: Crisis Management Initiative and The Graduate Institute Geneva
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Gender
subject: Peace Process
subject: Mediation

description: This policy brief resulted from a meeting of policy analysts, practitioners, and academic involved in the women, peace and security agenda to review, analyze and frame key findings from research related to women's participation and gendered approaches to inclusive peace processes. The brief was intended to contribute to the UNSCR 1325 high-level review process. The focus is on understanding why there is a persistent lack of women's direct participation in peace processes and the connection to the political economy of power as well as ways technical packages for women's participation can be strengthened and increased. Mediators play a key role in increasing women's meaningful participation. In addition, the complexity of women's multiple identities and roles needs to be better reflected in peace process design. Interspersed in the brief are both examples of women's participation in peace processes as well as recommendations for ways to strengthen women's participation.
Supplementary document for Image-free active autofocusing with dual modulation and its application to autofocusing Fourier single-pixel imaging - 6325405.pdf
Creators: name: qi, shaoting
name: Deng, Zilin
name: Qi, Pan
name: Liao, Jun
name: Zhang, Zibang
name: Zheng, Guoan
name: Zhong, Jingang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics

description: This document includes the approaches to determining the spatial frequency of the largest Fourier coefficient in the first-order component. The document also includes the demonstration of the necessity of static modulation for the proposed method.
Supplementary document for Periodontal disease in chronic kidney disease patients: salivomics by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy - 6325665.pdf
Creators: name: Nepomuceno, Gabrielle Jimenez Teodoro
name: dos Santos, Raquel Silva Neres
name: Pavese, Larissa Avance
name: Parize, Graziele
name: Pallos, Debora
name: Carneiro-Ramos, Marcela Sorelli
name: Martinho, Herculano
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Suplementary figures for PLS-DA Analisis
Physicochemical Characterization of Biofield Energy Treated Hi VegTM Acid Hydrolysate
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: The hydrolysed vegetable proteins are acidic or enzymatic hydrolytic product of proteins derived from various sources such as milk, meat or vegetables. The current study was designed to evaluate the impact of biofield energy treatment on the various physicochemical and spectra properties of Hi vegTM acid hydrolysate i.e. a hydrolysed vegetable protein. The Hi vegTM acid hydrolysate sample was divided into two parts that served as control and treated sample. The treated sample was subjected to the biofield energy treatment and its properties were analysed using particle size analyser, X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface area analyser, UV-visible and infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis. The results of various parameters were compared with the control (untreated) part. The XRD data showed the decrease in crystallite size of treated sample from 110.27 nm (control) to 79.26 nm. The particle size was also reduced in treated sample as 162.13 μm as compared to the control sample (168.27 μm). Moreover, the surface area analysis revealed the 63.79% increase in the surface area of the biofield treated sample as compared to the control. The UV-Vis spectra of both samples i.e. control and treated showed the absorbance at same wavelength. However, the FT-IR spectroscopy revealed the shifting in peaks corresponding to N-H, C-H, C=O, C-N, and C-S functional groups in the treated sample with respect to the control. The thermal analysis also revealed the alteration in degradation pattern along with increase in onset temperature of degradation and maximum degradation temperature in the treated sample as compared to the control. The overall data showed the impact of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectroscopic properties of the treated sample of Hi vegTM acid hydrolysate. The biofield treated sample might show the improved solubility, wettability and thermal stability profile as compared to the control sample.
title: Direct instruction in mathematics for youth with learning disabilities in middle school
Creators: name: Gagnon, Joseph Calvin
name: Maccini, Paula
Publisher: name: The Access Center
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Instruction
subject: Learning disabilities
subject: Middle school

description: This brief focuses on the use of direct instruction with middle school students with LD. Specific components of direct instruction and examples are included.
Synthesis and dephosphorylation of MARCKS in the late stages of megakaryocyte maturation drive proplatelet formation
Creators: name: Stumpo, Deborah J
name: Blackshear, Perry J
name: Italiano, Joseph E
name: Wu, Stephen K
name: Soussou, Thomas S
name: Campbell, Robert A
name: Michel, Thomas
name: Hartwig, John H
name: Kalwa, Hermann
name: Bergmeier, Wolfgang
name: Machlus, Kellie R
name: Paul, David S
name: Weyrich, Andrew S
Publisher: name: American Society of Hematology
Year: 2016

description: Platelets are essential for hemostasis, and thrombocytopenia is a major clinical problem. Megakaryocytes (MKs) generate platelets by extending long processes, proplatelets, into sinusoidal blood vessels. However, very little is known about what regulates proplatelet formation. To uncover which proteins were dynamically changing during this process, we compared the proteome and transcriptome of round vs proplatelet-producing MKs by 2D difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE) and polysome profiling, respectively. Our data revealed a significant increase in a poorly-characterized MK protein, myristoylated alanine-rich C-kinase substrate (MARCKS), which was upregulated 3.4- and 5.7-fold in proplatelet-producing MKs in 2D DIGE and polysome profiling analyses, respectively. MARCKS is a protein kinase C (PKC) substrate that binds PIP2. In MKs, it localized to both the plasma and demarcation membranes. MARCKS inhibition by peptide significantly decreased proplatelet formation 53%. To examine the role of MARCKS in the PKC pathway, we treated MKs with polymethacrylate (PMA), which markedly increased MARCKS phosphorylation while significantly inhibiting proplatelet formation 84%, suggesting that MARCKS phosphorylation reduces proplatelet formation. We hypothesized that MARCKS phosphorylation promotes Arp2/3 phosphorylation, which subsequently downregulates proplatelet formation; both MARCKS and Arp2 were dephosphorylated in MKs making proplatelets, and Arp2 inhibition enhanced proplatelet formation. Finally, we used MARCKS knockout (KO) mice to probe the direct role of MARCKS in proplatelet formation; MARCKS KO MKs displayed significantly decreased proplatelet levels. MARCKS expression and signaling in primary MKs is a novel finding. We propose that MARCKS acts as a "molecular switch," binding to and regulating PIP2 signaling to regulate processes like proplatelet extension (microtubule-driven) vs proplatelet branching (Arp2/3 and actin polymerization-driven).
КЛИНИКО-ФУНКЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ИНФАРКТА МИОКАРДА У ЛИЦ МОЛОДОГО ВОЗРАСТА
Creators: name: Ахунбабаева, Мухтасар
name: Максудова, Малика
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Инфаркт миокарда (ИМ) традиционно рассматривается как заболевание пожилых людей. Однако последние исследования выявляют значительный рост заболеваемости ИМ у лиц молодого возраста (до 45 лет), что требует пристального внимания к особенностям его патогенеза, клинической картине, диагностике и тактике лечения. Обзор направлен на выявление специфических факторов риска, генетических особенностей, клинических проявлений и функциональных нарушений, способствующих развитию ИМ у молодых пациентов.
Supplementary document for 65536-ary orbital angular momentum - shift keying free-space optical communication based on few-shot learning - 6325766.pdf
Creators: name: Wenhui, Chen
name: Chen, Weicheng
name: Lin, Qian
name: Zhang, Zhishen
name: Zhuang, Zikuan
name: Su, Zhikun
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: experimental details and numerical simulation
Examining IT Infrastructures for Learning and Teaching in the European University Alliance Unite!
Creators: name: Ebner, Martin
name: Schön, Sandra
name: Alcober, Jesus
name: Bertonasco, Roberto
name: Gasplmayr, Katharina
name: Herczak-Ciara, Agnieszka
name: Hoppe, Christian
name: Langevin, Etienne
name: Laurent, Romain
name: Leitner, Philipp
name: Martikainen, Juha
name: Petersson, Joakim
name: Reignier-Tayar, Nina
name: da Silva, Fernando M.
name: Steitz, Klaus
name: Taraghi, Behnam
name: Würz, Astrid
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2024

description: Martin Ebner, Sandra Schön, Jesus Alcober, Roberto Bertonasco, Katharina Gasplmayr, Agnieszka Herczak-Ciara, Christian Hoppe, Etienne Langevin, Romain Laurent, Philipp Leitner, Juha Martikainen, Joakim Petersson, Nina Reignier-Tayar, Fernando M. da Silva, Klaus Steitz, Behnam Taraghi, and Astrid Würz (2024). Examining IT Infrastructures for Learning and Teaching in the European University Alliance Unite!. Presentation for EUNIS 2024, presented by Nina Reignier-Tayar, June 7, 2024. 

In the digital era, European University Alliances like "Unite!" work to reshape tertiary education by bridging nine prominent universities to champion regional integration, technology transfer, and quality science and engineering education. This paper delineates the methodologies used to harmonize varied IT infrastructures visualizations and descriptions across partner institutions, fostering knowledge sharing and facilitating standardized IT landscape comparisons. The absence of a general universal approach in representing teaching-related IT systems in higher education propelled the development of a unique, synchronized representation methodology. The paper offers a look at TU Graz's digital infrastructure as an illustrative example. Through iterative collaboration, the alliance will develop a comprehensive IT infrastructure report, aiming to serve as a valuable blueprint for other educational entities.
title: Report: RHOA and RCA Land Use Committee, "Final Report of the RHOA and RCA Land Use Committee," May 1984
Creators: name: RHOA And RCA Land Use Committee
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Report, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report from RHOA and RCA Land Use Committee entitled "Final Report of the RHOA and RCA Land Use Committee" dated May 1984. This report, submitted to the boards of the Reston Home Owners Association and the Reston Association, discusses the open spaces of Reston, Virginia. The report analyzes current use of the open space and makes recommendations about future use and enhancements of open space. Planned Community Archives Collection, 638.03.08
The Girl Who Went Away
Creators: name: Gwin, Minrose
Publisher: name: Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2016

description: After I came home from going away and the Russians decided not bomb us into
smithereens, Dad said it was time for me to go back to school. I didn’t need urging.
My old life, BC, Before Child, my humdrum, what-are-
we-
going-
to-
have-
for-
supper
life, had begun to seem like a pair of serviceable shoes that had been
stolen by a thief in the night. Now that they had magically reappeared on the
floor of my closet, I was eager to step back into them, not because I was preparing
to have a good life, a regular life; I’d long ago lost any hope of that when my
mother went and did what she did, leaving her dead and us high and dry. (This,
I will add, was why I didn’t go out into the county and get some backwoods “chiropractor”
to hack up my insides the way she’d done.) But now that I was home
and had to stare at what had been Daniel’s house across the street every day, I felt
even worse than I had when I was mopping floors at the Virginia Spenser School
for Girls. At Virginia Spenser, I’d been lost in a fog, everything gray and indistinct;
at home, the sun came out and I saw what I had lost. I needed to get busy,
I needed to get moving.
Variation in the level of detail in pediatric voiding cystourethrogram reports
Creators: name: Zerin, J. Michael
name: Schaeffer, Anthony J.
name: Carpenter, Myra A.
name: Chesney, Russell W.
name: Hoberman, Alejandro
name: Chow, Jeanne S.
name: Mattoo, Tej K.
name: Mathews, Ranjiv I.
name: Nelson, Caleb P.
name: Ivanova, Anastasia
name: Greenfield, Saul P.
name: Moxey-Mims, Marva
name: Cui, Gang
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: Voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) provides a wealth of data on urinary tract function and anatomy, but few standards exist for reporting VCUG findings.
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess variability in VCUG reports and to test our hypothesis that VCUG reports from pediatric facilities and pediatric radiologists are more complete than those performed at other facilities or by non-pediatric radiologists.
STUDY DESIGN: We analyzed original VCUG reports from children enrolled in the Randomized Intervention for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux (RIVUR) trial. A 23-item checklist was created and used to evaluate reporting of technical (e.g. catheter size), anatomic (e.g. vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) presence and grade, bladder shape), and functional information (e.g. bladder emptying). Radiologists were classified as pediatric or non-pediatric radiologists. Facilities were categorized as to whether they were a free-standing pediatric hospital (FSPH), a pediatric "hospital within a hospital" (PHWH), a non-pediatric hospital (NPH), or an outpatient radiology facility (ORF). Multivariate linear regression was used to analyze factors associated with the completeness of the VCUG reports (percent of items reported from the 23-item checklist).
RESULTS: Six-hundred and two VCUGs were performed at 90 institutions. Of those, 76% were read by a pediatric radiologist, and 49% were performed at a FSPH (Table). On average, less than half of the 23 items in our standardized assessment tool were included in VCUG reports (mean 48%, SD 12). The completeness of reports varied by facility type: 51% complete at FSPH (SD 11), 50% at PHWH (SD 10), 36% at NPH (SD 11), and 43% at ORF (SD 8) (p < 0.0001). In multivariate analysis, VCUG reports generated at NPH or ORF had 8% fewer items included (95% CI 3.0-12.8, p < 0.01), and those generated at PHWH did not differ from those generated at FSPH. Reports read by a non-pediatric radiologist had 6% fewer items included (95% CI 3-9.7; p < 0.01) compared with those read by a pediatric radiologist.
DISCUSSION: There is substantial underreporting of findings in VCUG reports when assessing a widely represented sample of routine, community-generated reports using an idealized standard. Although VUR was often reported, other crucial anatomic and functional findings of the VCUG were consistently underreported across all facility types.
CONCLUSION: Although pediatric radiologist and pediatric hospitals generated more complete VCUG reports compared with those having non-pediatric origins, the differences are small when considering the substantial underreporting of VCUG findings in general. This underscores the opportunities for improvement in reporting of VCUG findings.
title: Lesson Study: Teacher Support and Implementation
Creators: name: Stokes, Laura
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Lesson study
subject: Teacher professional development
subject: Teacher education
subject: Teacher support
subject: Teacher learning community
subject: Teacher collaboration

description: Lesson Study is an emerging professional development program in the US which engages teachers in a collaborative and long-term lesson planning process. Lesson study may be effective because of the supports it offers teachers. This study aims to explore three main components: teacher social, emotional, and instructional supports received during Lesson Study, barriers to Lesson Study implementation, and in-person and video-based modalities of Lesson Study. Sixty classroom teachers, ELL teachers, special educators, math coaches, and specialists from within the Northern Virginia area were asked to participate in an online 40-question survey. Findings from this survey revealed that teachers and coaches did feel socially, emotionally and instructionally supported during Lesson Study. Participants also experienced higher levels of social, emotional, and instructional support during in-person Lesson Study, in comparison to a video-based Lesson Study iteration. Additionally, this study’s results suggest that teachers from varying schools can join Lesson Study teams and still perceive similar levels of support as those who joined a Lesson Study team with a colleague from their own school. This study’s findings also suggest that time is the most frequently cited barrier to implementing Lesson Study.
title: Le pari opportunità in Regione Emilia-Romagna nella prospettiva dell’ECG
Creators: name: Capelli, Manuela
name: Renda, Elisa
Publisher: name: Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies
Year: 2024

description: Questo breve saggio è l’esito del corso di Alta Formazione in “Sviluppo di Competenze di Governance per l’Educazione alla Cittadinanza globale” svolto presso l’Università di Bologna nel semestre ottobre 2023 – marzo 2024 e della visita esplorativa realizzata il 31 gennaio 2024 da parte di due funzionarie della Regione Emilia-Romagna, presso l’Area dedicata alle Pari Opportunità, impegnata in attività di Educazione alla Cittadinanza globale. La visita ha permesso di sviluppare utili considerazioni su elementi chiave per costruire percorsi di Educazione alla Cittadinanza globale, con implicazioni anche sul piano organizzativo.
Summary of the 2015 University of Michigan Sport Concussion Summit
Creators: name: Chrisman, Sara PD
name: Duma, Stefan
name: McLeod, Tamara C Valovich
name: Castellani, Rudy J
name: Baldwin, Grant
name: Randolph, Christopher
name: Broglio, Steven P
name: Pachman, Steven
name: McCrea, Michael
name: Kutcher, Jeffrey
name: Lamba, Adria
name: Guskiewicz, Kevin
name: Gerstner, Joanne C
name: Hainline, Brian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016

description: Discussions surrounding concussion have made their way into the public sphere over the previous decade with media attention and coverage of the injury fueling public debate. These conversations have devolved into discussions on banning contact and collision sports and raised legal questions surrounding injury management. Questions raised about concussion eclipse what science can answer, but the University of Michigan Injury Center (MI, USA) hosted a Concussion Summit in September 2015 as a means to condense, solidify and disseminate what is currently known on the topic. Areas for discussion included concussion incidence and prevention, diagnosis and management, legislation and education, legal and social aspects and future directions. A summary of those presentations are included within.
title: Le Marche e la cittadinanza globale: verso il Piano di Azione Regionale. Un’esperienza etnografica in divenire
Creators: name: Barbizzi, Natalino
name: Blasi Toccaceli, Arianna
name: Sandroni, Giulia
Publisher: name: Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies
Year: 2024

description: Il paper traccia la rotta marchigiana per l’Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale a partire dalla descrizione del percorso internazionale e nazionale e dei processi di Educazione alla Cittadinanza Globale nelle Marche. Inoltre, approfondisce gli strumenti esistenti (Legge ECG e Strategia Regionale di Sviluppo Sostenibile) e sistematizza la strategia “per progetti” adottata. Nella seconda parte il paper declina l’esperienza del CAF ECG rivolto a 7 regioni italiane, le lezioni apprese a partire dai 4 idealtipi di ECG, i riscontri dell’esperienza della visita etnografica sviluppata ed infine esamina come il processo di apprendimento avviato influenzerà le prospettive future di lavoro in vista dell’elaborazione del piano di azione territoriale sull’ECG.
[Letter from Liao Chongdiao to Hu Shiding]
[廖崇調致胡世定的信]
Creators: name: Liao, Chongdiao
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Liao Chongdiao tells Hu Shiding he has arrived in San Francisco. He also provides an update on the recipient's family in China.
title: Project: Promoting Locally – Driven Transformation and Collaborative Action in Burundi
Creators: name: Bigirimana, Sylvestre
Publisher: name: Search for Common Ground
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dialogue
subject: Internally Displaced Persons/Refugees
subject: Communications: Media Strategies

description: This evaluation report showcases evidence of what works in terms of conflict mitigation considering refugees returns, and how media and broadcasting activities can play a role in building transparency and communication between local communities and national representatives. The evaluation report features useful indicators that could be of value for organizations looking to implement similar projects.
Supplementary document for Highly efficient waveguide emission in asymmetrically deformed square cavity microlasers - 6326251.pdf
Creators: name: Bai, Huayu
name: hao, you-zeng
name: shi, yang
name: Li, Yali
name: Xiao, Jin-Long
name: Yang, Yue-De
name: Huang, Yong-Zhen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document