cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aulacomnium palustre
Creators: name: Maier, Eva
name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Aulacomniaceae
Aulacomnium
Aulacomnium palustre

description: Aulacomnium palustre. A wall with sixteen very large peristome cells each situated above the gap between the outer capsule wall and the spore sac appears here as well. The membranes, orientated towards the outer side of the capsule, show a partly, very strongly thickened cord, which is, as it is visible in the transverse section Tab. LXII. Fig. 23, built of the thickening of the outer membrane of the peristome cells themselves and at the same time of the thickenings of the outer neighbouring cells, thus consisting (in transverse section) of three parts. The wall of the peristome cells orientated towards the inside is delicately plicate and quite regular and not strongly thickened. The thickening of the outer membrane follows, partly, the horizontal separating walls of the peristome cells thus creating a saw-like notched aspect on the inner side of the outer thickening cords. [original page 581] Towards the apex of the capsule the peristome cells and, moreover, the cells of the inner tissue become smaller and their thickenings become weaker. Extremely delicate is the formation of the annulus of Aulacomnium palustre consisting of relatively big, horizontally flattened and inwardly thin-walled cells, that are mostly empty of a granulose content, thus differing from other cells of the exterior membrane, see Tab. LXII. Fig. 22. a. After the deterioration of the capsule the outer peristome are maintained as sixteen outer strong thickening cords, the thickened spots of the plicate inner membrane as the inner peristome, whilst all other un-thickened parts of the peristome cells as well as the neighbouring cells deteriorate and mostly entirely disappear. By the destruction of the thin delicate horizontal separating walls of the peristome cells, the circle of the outer thickening cords, or the outer peristome, will be separated from the inner, plicate, partly thickened membrane –the inner peristome; this membrane remains mostly completely joined together in the lower part up to about the median height (at least it is in the corners or the plicae that it separates); above the median height and further up the thickenings become weaker and appear in places, more or less distinct, to be formed from small delicate cords, the reason why the disintegration in inner teeth and cilia takes place here. The same is the structure of the capsule and the peristome in all species of Bryum and in closely related genera which I could examine. I name as more exactly examined:  Bryum turbinatum, capillare, crudum, cuspidatum, Pohlia elongata and so on.*)
description: Published as part of Maier, Eva & Price, Michelle J., 2014, Georg Bojung " Scato " Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts, pp. 1-79 in Boissiera 67 on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Implementation Challenges of ERP Project a Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Creators: name: TSEDALE AKALE H/GIORGIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The objective of this study is to identify challenges facing the implementation of enterprise resource planning at commercial bank of Ethiopia. As result, the researcher has identifying the implementation challenges by selecting organizational, technological and individual variables and other related concepts. To address this study, descriptive research method was employed and both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. Accordingly questionnaires, interview and document analysis were used as data collection instrument. The data obtained through questionnaire has been analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics: frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation through SPSS version 21.00 software. Moreover, the data obtained using interviews has been analyzed qualitatively. Total population used to collect data was manager, team leaders and team members of the project which is a total of 150. The sampling design that was employed for this study was purposive sampling. The findings of the research revealed that major challenges facing the implementation of ERP were lack of formal communication with end users, problems of quality training facility and coordination, poor conceptual knowledge of consultant, poor technological infrastructure, lack of user involvement and addressing adequate training, problems of standardization, problems of integration among modules, data inaccuracy, lack of time management problem in users adaptability and lack of physical equipment.
Connecting marginally large tableaux and rigged configurations via crystals
Creators: name: Salisbury, Ben
name: Scrimshaw, Travis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10, 17B37

description: We show that the bijection from rigged configurations to tensor products of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals extends to a crystal isomorphism between the $B(\infty)$ models given by rigged configurations and marginally large tableaux.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Behavior in Isolated Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Heveling, Robin
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Non-Equilibrium Physics
subject: Statistical Physics
subject: Quantum Mechanics
subject: 530 - Physik
subject: 33.28 - Transportvorgänge, irreversible Thermodynamik
subject: 33.23 - Quantenphysik
subject: 33.25 - Thermodynamik, statistische Physik
subject: M50 - Physics. Astronomy. Technology. Engineering. Computer science. Earth sciences
subject: 05.70.Ln - Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics

description: Based on the publications [P1–P6], the cumulative dissertation at hand addresses quite diverse aspects of non-equilibrium behavior in isolated quantum systems. The works presented in publications [P1, P2] concern the issue of finding generally valid upper bounds on equilibration times, which ensure the eventual occurrence of equilibration in isolated quantum systems. Recently, a particularly compelling bound for physically relevant observables has been proposed. Said bound is examined analytically as well as numerically. It is found that the bound fails to give meaningful results in a number of standard physical scenarios. Continuing, publication [P4] examines a particular integral fluctuation theorem (IFT) for the total entropy production of a small system coupled to a substantially larger but finite bath. While said IFT is known to hold for canonical states, it is shown to be valid for microcanonical and even pure energy eigenstates as well by invoking the physically natural conditions of “stiffness” and “smoothness” of transition probabilities. The validity of the IFT and the existence of stiffness and smoothness are numerically investigated for various lattice models. Furthermore, this dissertation puts emphasis on the issue of the route to equilibrium, i.e., to explain the omnipresence of certain relaxation dynamics in nature, while other, more exotic relaxation patterns are practically never observed, even though they are a priori not disfavored by the microscopic laws of motion. Regarding this question, the existence of stability in a larger class of dynamics consisting of exponentially damped oscillations is corroborated in publication [P6]. In the same vein, existing theories on the ubiquity of certain dynamics are numerically scrutinized in publication [P3]. Finally, in publication [P5], the recently proposed “universal operator growth hypothesis”, which characterizes the complexity growth of operators during unitary time evolution, is numerically probed for various spin-based systems in the thermodynamic limit. The hypothesis is found to be valid within the limits of the numerical approach.
MultisegPipeline: Automatic tissue segmentation of brain MR images with subject-specific atlases
Creators: name: Prieto, J.C.
name: Niethammer, M.
name: Styner, M.
name: Yang, X.
name: Pham, K.
Publisher: name: SPIE
Year: 2019

description: Automated segmentation and labeling of individual brain anatomical regions is challenging due to individual structural variability. Although, atlas-based segmentation has shown its potential for both tissue and structure segmentation, the inherent natural variability as well as disease-related changes in MR appearance is often inappropriately represented by a single atlas image. In order to have a more accurate representation, several atlases may be used for the segmentation task in a given neuroimaging study. In this paper, we present the MultisegPipeline, it uses multiple atlases that have been visually inspected and capture the expected variability in a neonatal population. The MultisegPipeline transfers the labeled regions from each atlas to the target image using deformable registration (ANTs or QuickSilver is available for this task). Additionally, the set of labels are merged using a label fusion technique that reduces the errors produced by the registration. The final output is a single label map that combines the results produced by all atlases into a consensus solution. In our study, the MultisegPipeline is used to segment brain MR images from 31 infants, a leave-one-out strategy was used to test our framework. The average dice score coefficient was 0.89.
A systematic Review of the Toxic Potentials of Parabens in Fish
Creators: name: Dasmahapatra, Asok
name: Chatterjee, Joydeep
name: Tchounwou, Paul B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310403
subject: Biological adaptation
classificationCode: 310303
subject: Ecological physiology
classificationCode: 300502
subject: Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
classificationCode: 300504
subject: Fish physiology and genetics

description: The antimicrobial, and yeast inhibitory activities, and the unique physicochemical properties, such as absence of color, odor, taste and good stability with other components, parabens are the most prevalent ingredients in cosmetics and personnel care products (PCPs). Due to their extensive use, parabens have contaminated several environmental matrices, including aquatic environments, and induced potential threats to aquatic lives, including fish. We conducted an electronic search in PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed) using the search term parabens, and fish, and sorted 93 articles consisting methyl- (MTP), ethyl- (ETP), propyl- (PPP), butyl- (BTP), and benzyl-parabens (BNP) in several fish species. Further we confined our search to six fish species (common carp, Cyprinus carpio; fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas; Japanese medaka, Oryzias latipes; rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss; Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus; and zebrafish, Danio rerio) and four parabens (MTP, ETP, PPP, BTP) and sorted 48 articles for review. Our search indicated that among all six fish, zebrafish is the most studied fish and MTP is the most studied paraben in fish. Moreover, depending on the alkyl chain length and linearity, long-chained parabens were more toxic than short-chained parabens. Parabens can be considered as endocrine disruptors (EDs), targeting estrogen-androgen-thyroid-steroidogenesis (EATS) pathways. Parabens can transmit to the next generations and disrupt embryonic development in fish. The behavioral patterns and the nervous system disorders were also induced in fish by paraben exposure. Although USEPA and EU limit the use of parabens in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, their prolonged persistence in the environment can put an additional health risk to humans.
Funaria hygrometrica
Creators: name: Maier, Eva
name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Funariales
Funariaceae
Funaria
Funaria hygrometrica

description: Funaria hygrometrica. The formation of the capsule of this interesting moss deviates only a little in not very important factors from the foregoing described. [original page 583] As is known, in the lower part of the capsule is as a connection between the columella and the seta formed of a delicate tissue that consists of conferve-like, branched filaments, as I described and drew above under Gymnostomum pyriforme. In the upper part appear also sixteen peristome cells, their outer membranes, however, are not as strongly thickened as in Aulacomnium, but their horizontal separating walls show, by a relatively strong and elongate thickening on the inner side, broad lamellae or projections (Tab. LXII. Fig. 24). The inner wall of the peristome cells below show a fairly regular thickening, above they constrict to a nearly cylindrical, terete cord, in juxtaposition to the cord on the outer wall (Tab. LXIII. Fig. 25, 26, 27. tt.). The cells of the annulus are very large and are similar to that of Aulacomnium palustre. [original page 584] Particularly remarkable is a ring-like structure consisting of two layers of cells each composed of horizontally somewhat flattened cells, and connecting the base of the peristome with the outer capsule wall; the cells are dotted, rough, and at the maturity of the capsule coloured brownish-yellow; the wart-like knobs are arranged in regular rows thus, at a low magnification, appearing as spiral thickenings, see Tab. LXII. Fig. 24. y.
description: Published as part of Maier, Eva & Price, Michelle J., 2014, Georg Bojung " Scato " Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts, pp. 1-79 in Boissiera 67 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Switching power of the rising Chinese private media companies : a case study of Dalian Wanda Group
Creators: name: Zhen, Lichen
name: 0000-0002-5495-6302
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Media ownership
Networks
Wanda Group
Wang Jianlin
Chinese media industry

description: This thesis examines how Dalian Wanda Group (Wanda) builds and exercises its switching power in the network society (Castells, 2010). This thesis argues that although Wanda is able to connect with different networks (and is thus identified as a “switcher”), Wanda faces specific constraints to its switching power. This thesis dissects the strategies Wanda took to develop/exercise its switching power. Specifically, within China, Wanda 1) maintained a hierarchical management inside the company and achieved vertical control within the Chinese film industry; 2) managed to connect with leading companies in the media, the financial, and the sports industry; 3) kept its business plans aligned with Chinese government’s policies; and 4) self-propagated across different media platforms. On the other hand, internationally, Wanda tried to leverage its domestic switching power in the global communications networks through 1) aggressive mergers and acquisitions; and 2) producing and exporting China- foreign co-production films. This thesis argues that the main constraints on Wanda’s switching power are twofold. First, the power of the Chinese government is such that Wanda’s business plans are subject to the state administration’s decision for approval. Second, Wanda still lacks the economic and political power to successfully coordinate between Wanda’s business goals, the Chinese state’s soft power pursuits, and other top media companies’ business plans. In the case of the co-production film, The Great Wall, Wanda’s lack of successful coordination resulted in its failure to produce a successful global cultural product, which casts doubt on Wanda’s potential to switch into the global communications networks. This thesis has two main contributions: 1) it argues that Castells’ network framework cannot be fully applied to the Chinese scenario; 2) it proposes a combination of network theory and the political economy approach to examine cases such as Wanda
Nature or nurture? Clues from the distribution of specific star formation rates in SDSS galaxies
Creators: name: Casado, Javier
name: Ascasibar, Yago
name: Gavilán, Marta
name: Terlevich, Roberto
name: Terlevich, Elena
name: Hoyos, Carlos
name: Díaz, Ángeles I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work investigates the main mechanism(s) that regulate the specific star formation rate (SSFR) in nearby galaxies, cross-correlating two proxies of this quantity -- the equivalent width of the \Ha\ line and the $(u-r)$ colour -- with other physical properties (mass, metallicity, environment, morphology, and the presence of close companions) in a sample of $\sim82500$ galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The existence of a relatively tight `ageing sequence' in the colour-equivalent width plane favours a scenario where the secular conversion of gas into stars (i.e. `nature') is the main physical driver of the instantaneous SSFR and the gradual transition from a `chemically primitive' (metal-poor and intensely star-forming) state to a `chemically evolved' (metal-rich and passively evolving) system. Nevertheless, environmental factors (i.e. `nurture') are also important. In the field, galaxies may be temporarily affected by discrete `quenching' and `rejuvenation' episodes, but such events show little statistical significance in a probabilistic sense, and we find no evidence that galaxy interactions are, on average, a dominant driver of star formation. Although visually classified mergers tend to display systematically higher EW(H$α$) and bluer $(u-r)$ colours for a given luminosity, most galaxies with high SSFR have uncertain morphologies, which could be due to either internal or external processes. Field galaxies of early and late morphological types are consistent with the gradual `ageing' scenario, with no obvious signatures of a sudden decrease in their SSFR. In contrast, star formation is significantly reduced and sometimes completely quenched on a short time scale in dense environments, where many objects are found on a `quenched sequence' in the colour-equivalent width plane.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Assessment of prevalence and determinants of needle stick injuries among health professionals in Addis Ababa Public Hospital.
Creators: name: Daniel Nadew Holana (BSC)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Back ground Needle Stick Injuries resulted from accidental piercing of the skin and/ or muco-cutaneous membranes of health profession. It also caused from suturing needles and other sharps used during clinical care. It is an occupational hazard in health care sector. Needle stick injuries expose health care workers to blood and body fluids which may be infected and can be transmited to them. Unsafe injections and procedures, injection over usage, difficult working condition harming and inviting risks to the health care workers. Adequate knowledge and adherence to safety of practices could prevent the occurrence of NSI and related consequences.
eXtended CASA Line Analysis Software Suite (XCLASS)
Creators: name: Möller, T.
name: Endres, C.
name: Schilke, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eXtended CASA Line Analysis Software Suite (XCLASS) is a toolbox for the Common Astronomy Software Applications package (CASA) containing new functions for modeling interferometric and single dish data. Among the tools is the myXCLASS program which calculates synthetic spectra by solving the radiative transfer equation for an isothermal object in one dimension, whereas the finite source size and dust attenuation are considered as well. Molecular data required by the myXCLASS program are taken from an embedded SQLite3 database containing entries from the Cologne Database for Molecular Spectroscopy CDMS) and JPL using the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center (VAMDC) portal. Additionally, the toolbox provides an interface for the model optimizer package Modeling and Analysis Generic Interface for eXternal numerical codes (MAGIX), which helps to find the best description of observational data using myXCLASS (or another external model program), i.e., finding the parameter set that most closely reproduces the data.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Gut microbiome and brain functional connectivity in infants-a preliminary study focusing on the amygdala
Creators: name: Xia, K.
name: Styner, M.A.
name: Gao, W.
name: Salzwedel, A.P.
name: Thompson, A.L.
name: Geng, X.
name: Knickmeyer, R.C.
name: Azcarate-Peril, M.A.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Carlson, A.L.
name: Goldman, B.D.
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2019

description: Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the possibility that microbial communities inhabiting the human gut could affect cognitive development and increase risk for mental illness via the “microbiome-gut-brain axis.” Infancy likely represents a critical period for the establishment of these relationships, as it is the most dynamic stage of postnatal brain development and a key period in the maturation of the microbiome. Indeed, recent reports indicate that characteristics of the infant gut microbiome are associated with both temperament and cognitive performance. The neural circuits underlying these relationships have not yet been delineated. To address this gap, resting-state fMRI scans were acquired from 39 1-year-old human infants who had provided fecal samples for identification and relative quantification of bacterial taxa. Measures of alpha diversity were generated and tested for associations with measures of functional connectivity. Primary analyses focused on the amygdala as manipulation of the gut microbiota in animal models alters the structure and neurochemistry of this brain region. Secondary analyses explored functional connectivity of nine canonical resting-state functional networks. Alpha diversity was significantly associated with functional connectivity between the amygdala and thalamus and between the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula. These regions play an important role in processing/responding to threat. Alpha diversity was also associated with functional connectivity between the supplementary motor area (SMA, representing the sensorimotor network) and the inferior parietal lobule (IPL). Importantly, SMA-IPL connectivity also related to cognitive outcomes at 2 years of age, suggesting a potential pathway linking gut microbiome diversity and cognitive outcomes during infancy. These results provide exciting new insights into the gut-brain axis during early human development and should stimulate further studies into whether microbiome-associated changes in brain circuitry influence later risk for psychopathology.
Bartramia (Philonotis) fontana
Creators: name: Maier, Eva
name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bartramiaceae
Bartramia
Bartramia fontana

description: Bartramia (Philonotis) fontana Tab. LXIII. Fig. 28. The capsule resembles in some aspects of the inner and the outer structure that of Funaria, but agrees nearly completely with Aulacomnium in that which concerns the upper part. The outer side of the peristome cells is, relatively, not so strongly thickened as in Funaria, but the outer wall is nearly completely regularly thickened, the cells of the ring-like structure are horizontally flattened and relatively small (Fig. 28. a); the gap between the outer capsule wall and the spore sac is very large and interwoven by numerous dainty filaments. Peculiar is a strong layer of small coarse cells as a connection between the layer of peristome cells and the ring-like structure or of the outer capsule wall, Fig. 28. y, and besides this, connections between lamellae, built by the partly thickening of the horizontal separating walls of the peristome cells, and rounded deposits of thickening substance in the upper parts of the peristomes, see Fig. 28. z.
description: Published as part of Maier, Eva & Price, Michelle J., 2014, Georg Bojung " Scato " Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts, pp. 1-79 in Boissiera 67 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Thermal conductivity through the quantum critical point in YbRh2Si2 at very low temperature
Creators: name: Taupin, M.
name: Knebel, G.
name: Matsuda, T. D.
name: Lapertot, G.
name: Machida, Y.
name: Izawa, K.
name: Brison, J. -P.
name: Flouquet, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of YbRh2Si2 has been measured down to very low temperatures under field in the basal plane. An additional channel for heat transport appears below 30 mK, both in the antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic states, respectively below and above the critical field suppressing the magnetic order. This excludes antiferromagnetic magnons as the origin of this additional contribution to thermal conductivity. Moreover, this low temperature contribution prevails a definite conclusion on the validity or violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law at the field-induced quantum critical point. At high temperature in the paramagnetic state, the thermal conductivity is sensitive to ferromagnetic fluctuations, previously observed by NMR or neutron scattering and required for the occurrence of the sharp electronic spin resonance fracture.
description: 11 pages + Supplementary Materials
The New Numerical Galaxy Catalog ($ν^2$GC): An Updated Semi-analytic Model of Galaxy and AGN with Large Cosmological N-body Simulation
Creators: name: Makiya, Ryu
name: Enoki, Motohiro
name: Ishiyama, Tomoaki
name: Kobayashi, Masakazu A. R.
name: Nagashima, Masahiro
name: Okamoto, Takashi
name: Okoshi, Katsuya
name: Oogi, Taira
name: Shirakata, Hikari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new cosmological galaxy formation model, $ν^2$GC, as an updated version of our previous model $ν$GC. We adopt the so-called "semi-analytic" approach, in which the formation history of dark matter halos is computed by ${\it N}$-body simulations, while the baryon physics such as gas cooling, star formation and supernova feedback are simply modeled by phenomenological equations. Major updates of the model are as follows: (1) the merger trees of dark matter halos are constructed in state-of-the-art ${\it N}$-body simulations, (2) we introduce the formation and evolution process of supermassive black holes and the suppression of gas cooling due to active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, (3) we include heating of the intergalactic gas by the cosmic UV background, and (4) we tune some free parameters related to the astrophysical processes using a Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Our ${\it N}$-body simulations of dark matter halos have unprecedented box size and mass resolution (the largest simulation contains 550 billion particles in a 1.12 Gpc/h box), enabling the study of much smaller and rarer objects. The model was tuned to fit the luminosity functions of local galaxies and mass function of neutral hydrogen. Local observations, such as the Tully-Fisher relation, size-magnitude relation of spiral galaxies and scaling relation between the bulge mass and black hole mass were well reproduced by the model. Moreover, the model also well reproduced the cosmic star formation history and the redshift evolution of rest-frame ${\it K}$-band luminosity functions. The numerical catalog of the simulated galaxies and AGNs is publicly available on the web.
description: 25 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables, accepted to PASJ. The numerical catalog of galaxies and AGNs are available at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/VizieR?-source=J/PASJ/68/25
Insegnanti consapevoli e critici dell’azione didattica attraverso l’analisi SWOT
Creators: name: Anello, Francesca
Publisher: name: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education
Year: 2020
Subjects: internship; SWOT analysis; educational planning; critical awareness; evaluation

description: The present contribution aims at collecting the outcomes achieved by 211 subjects, who are going to teach in primary and children’s school, who used the SWOT Analysis as a context investigation tool to plan, implement and evaluate classroom interventions. In particular, this paper analyzes and discusses the effectiveness of a training program for future teachers, attending the 3rd year of university internship, able to strengthen their critical awareness through a functional knowledge of the school environment and of pupils. The pre-experimental research, which covered nine months in the Academic Year 2017-2018, has actually increased the performance of the sample group, consisting of undergraduate students attending the degree course in Primary Education Sciences of the University of Palermo. Although the findings concern only one experimental situation, that cannot be generalized, the results showed an appreciable increase in the critical awareness of the group of trainee teachers, who have made a careful diagnosis of the educational situation functional to their teaching planning.
description: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, Vol 15, No 1 (2020)
White matter development in infants at risk for schizophrenia
Creators: name: Ahn, S.J.
name: Jarskog, L.F.
name: Styner, M.
name: Murphy, V.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Cornea, E.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2019

description: Background: Schizophrenia is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder with a pathophysiology that likely begins long before the onset of clinical symptoms. White matter abnormalities have been observed in schizophrenia and we hypothesized that the first 2 years of life is a period in which white matter abnormalities associated with schizophrenia risk may emerge. Methods: 38 infants at high risk for schizophrenia and 202 healthy controls underwent diffusion tensor MRIs after birth and at 1 and 2 years of age. Quantitative tractography was used to determine diffusion properties (fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD)) of 18 white matter tracts and a general linear model was used to analyze group differences at each age. Results: Adjusting gestational age at birth, postnatal age at MRI, gender, MRI scanner type, and maternal education, neonates at high risk had significantly lower FA (p = 0.02) and AD (p = 0.03) in the superior segment of the left cingulate, and higher RD in the hippocampal segment of the left cingulate (p = 0.04). High risk one year olds had significantly lower FA (p < 0.01) and AD (p = 0.02) in the hippocampal segment of the left cingulate. High risk two year olds had significantly lower FA in the left prefrontal cortico-thalamic tract (p = 0.04) and higher RD in the right uncinate fasciculus (p = 0.04). None of the tract differences remained significant after correction for multiple comparisons. Conclusions: There is evidence of abnormal white matter development in young children at risk for schizophrenia, especially in the hippocampal segment of left cingulum. These results support the neurodevelopmental theory of schizophrenia and indicate that impaired white matter may be present in early childhood.
Infant Gut Microbiome Associated With Cognitive Development
Creators: name: Carlson, A.L.
name: Knickmeyer, R.C.
name: Thompson, A.L.
name: Goldman, B.D.
name: Azcarate-Peril, M.A.
name: Styner, M.A.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Ahn, M.
name: Geng, X.
name: Xia, K.
Publisher: name: Elsevier USA
Year: 2018

description: Background Studies in rodents provide compelling evidence that microorganisms inhabiting the gut influence neurodevelopment. In particular, experimental manipulations that alter intestinal microbiota impact exploratory and communicative behaviors and cognitive performance. In humans, the first years of life are a dynamic time in gut colonization and brain development, but little is known about the relationship between these two processes. Methods We tested whether microbial composition at 1 year of age is associated with cognitive outcomes using the Mullen Scales of Early Learning and with global and regional brain volumes using structural magnetic resonance imaging at 1 and 2 years of age. Fecal samples were collected from 89 typically developing 1-year-olds. 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing was used for identification and relative quantification of bacterial taxa. Results Cluster analysis identified 3 groups of infants defined by their bacterial composition. Mullen scores at 2 years of age differed significantly between clusters. In addition, higher alpha diversity was associated with lower scores on the overall composite score, visual reception scale, and expressive language scale at 2 years of age. Exploratory analyses of neuroimaging data suggest the gut microbiome has minimal effects on regional brain volumes at 1 and 2 years of age. Conclusions This is the first study to demonstrate associations between the gut microbiota and cognition in human infants. As such, it represents an essential first step in translating animal data into the clinic.
Maternal Systemic Interleukin-6 During Pregnancy Is Associated With Newborn Amygdala Phenotypes and Subsequent Behavior at 2 Years of Age
Creators: name: Wadhwa, P.D.
name: Potkin, S.G.
name: Rasmussen, J.M.
name: Graham, A.M.
name: Heim, C.M.
name: Styner, M.
name: Buss, C.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Rudolph, M.D.
name: Fair, D.A.
name: Entringer, S.
Publisher: name: Elsevier USA
Year: 2018

description: Background Maternal inflammation during pregnancy increases the risk for offspring psychiatric disorders and other adverse long-term health outcomes. The influence of inflammation on the developing fetal brain is hypothesized as one potential mechanism but has not been examined in humans. Methods Participants were adult women (N = 86) who were recruited during early pregnancy and whose offspring were born after 34 weeks’ gestation. A biological indicator of maternal inflammation (interleukin-6) that has been shown to influence fetal brain development in animal models was quantified serially in early, mid-, and late pregnancy. Structural and functional brain magnetic resonance imaging scans were acquired in neonates shortly after birth. Infants’ amygdalae were individually segmented for measures of volume and as seeds for resting state functional connectivity. At 24 months of age, children completed a snack delay task to assess impulse control. Results Higher average maternal interleukin-6 concentration during pregnancy was prospectively associated with larger right amygdala volume and stronger bilateral amygdala connectivity to brain regions involved in sensory processing and integration (fusiform, somatosensory cortex, and thalamus), salience detection (anterior insula), and learning and memory (caudate and parahippocampal gyrus). Larger newborn right amygdala volume and stronger left amygdala connectivity were in turn associated with lower impulse control at 24 months of age, and mediated the association between higher maternal interleukin-6 concentrations and lower impulse control. Conclusions These findings provide new evidence in humans linking maternal inflammation during pregnancy with newborn brain and emerging behavioral phenotypes relevant for psychiatric disorders. A better understanding of intrauterine conditions that influence offspring disease susceptibility is warranted to inform targeted early intervention and prevention efforts.
(103904) Henry Pinniger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A biocompatible chitosan-ionic liquid hybrid catalyst for regioselective synthesis of 1,2,3-triazols
Creators: name: Heravi, Majid Mommahed
name: Daraie, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: 30205 Non-metal Chemistry
subject: Nuclear Chemistry
subject: 30303 Optical Properties of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis

description: A new type of quadruple hybrid system was prepared containing chitosan (CS), folic acid (FA), Poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) [SMA] and ionic liquid (IL). This nanocatalyst was synthesized by the functionalization of SMA with folic acid and then polymerization with chitosan in the presence of DCC and NHS. CuI was immobilized onto this support to provide Cu@SMA-FA-CS-IL. The catalyst was fully characterized by using different characterization techniques such as FTIR, 1H NMR, ICP, SEM, EDX, TGA, and XRD. This Cu (I) heterogeneous species was successfully applied in the reaction of sodium azide, terminal alkynes, and alkyl halides or α-haloketones in water to afford 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazoles within relatively short reaction times. Moreover, the catalyst is recyclable for five reaction cycles with minor CuI leaching and slight drop of the catalytic activity
Hypnum
Creators: name: Maier, Eva
name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Hypnaceae
Hypnum

description: HYPNUM. The lower and the median part of the capsules of Hypnum and its closer relatives resemble the moss species described since Phascum so much that nothing special must be noted. The upper part of the capsule agrees with the inner structure, the [original page 585] peristome with the outer one of Aulacomnium, Bryum and so on, and differs more or less at the most in the structure of the annulus cells. I examined the young capsules of  Hypnum commutatum, cuspidatum, stramineum, syl- vaticum and so on, and I add as representative for the construction of this large group of mosses the figures of parts of a longitudinal and a transverse section of a capsule of  Hypnum sylvaticum in Fig. 29 and 30 on Tab. LXIII.*).
description: Published as part of Maier, Eva & Price, Michelle J., 2014, Georg Bojung " Scato " Lantzius-Beninga and his contributions on the anatomy of moss capsules: a transliteration from the original German texts, pp. 1-79 in Boissiera 67 on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10.5281/zenodo.5729519
Dimensional Crossover in a Spin-imbalanced Fermi gas
Creators: name: Dutta, Shovan
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the one-dimension (1D) to three-dimension (3D) crossover in a cylindrically trapped Fermi gas with attractive interactions and spin-imbalance. We calculate the mean-field phase diagram, and study the relative stability of exotic superfluid phases as a function of interaction strength and temperature. For weak interactions and low density, we find 1D-like behavior, which repeats as a function of the chemical potential as new channels open. For strong interactions, mixing of single-particle levels gives 3D-like behavior at all densities. Furthermore, we map the system to an effective 1D model, finding significant density dependence of the effective 1D scattering length.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Intergenerational Effect of Maternal Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment on Newborn Brain Anatomy
Creators: name: Entringer, S.
name: Wadhwa, P.D.
name: Buss, C.
name: Heim, C.M.
name: Styner, M.
name: Moog, N.K.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Kathmann, N.
name: Rasmussen, J.M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier USA
Year: 2018

description: Background Childhood maltreatment (CM) confers deleterious long-term consequences, and growing evidence suggests some of these effects may be transmitted across generations. We examined the intergenerational effect of maternal CM exposure on child brain structure and also addressed the hypothesis that this effect may start during the child's intrauterine period of life. Methods A prospective longitudinal study was conducted in a clinical convenience sample of 80 mother-child dyads. Maternal CM exposure was assessed using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Structural magnetic resonance imaging was employed to characterize newborn global and regional brain (tissue) volumes near the time of birth. Results CM exposure was reported by 35% of the women. Maternal CM exposure was associated with lower child intracranial volume (F1,70 = 6.84, p =.011), which was primarily due to a global difference in cortical gray matter (F1,70 = 9.10, p =.004). The effect was independent of potential confounding variables, including maternal socioeconomic status, obstetric complications, obesity, recent interpersonal violence, pre- and early postpartum stress, gestational age at birth, infant sex, and postnatal age at magnetic resonance imaging scan. The observed group difference between offspring of CM-exposed mothers versus nonexposed mothers was 6%. Conclusions These findings represent the first report to date associating maternal CM exposure with variation in newborn brain structure. These observations support our hypothesis of intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal CM exposure on child brain development and suggest this effect may originate during the child's intrauterine period of life, which may have downstream neurodevelopmental consequences.
Walking, Gross Motor Development, and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers
Creators: name: Styner, M.A.
name: Gerig, G.
name: Klohr, C.L.
name: Dager, S.R.
name: Schultz, R.T.
name: McKinstry, R.C.
name: Emerson, R.W.
name: Adams, C.M.
name: Pandey, J.
name: Constantino, J.N.
name: Wolff, J.J.
name: Estes, A.M.
name: Botteron, K.N.
name: Shen, M.D.
name: Paterson, S.J.
name: Eggebrecht, A.T.
name: Marrus, N.
name: Hazlett, H.C.
name: Todorov, A.
name: Swanson, M.R.
name: Pruett, J.R.
name: Gao, W.
name: Schlaggar, B.L.
name: Piven, J.
name: Elison, J.T.
name: Cole, L.
name: Zwaigenbaum, L.
name: Evans, A.C.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Infant gross motor development is vital to adaptive function and predictive of both cognitive outcomes and neurodevelopmental disorders. However, little is known about neural systems underlying the emergence of walking and general gross motor abilities. Using resting state fcMRI, we identified functional brain networks associated with walking and gross motor scores in a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort of infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder, who represent a dimensionally distributed range of motor function. At age 12 months, functional connectivity of motor and default mode networks was correlated with walking, whereas dorsal attention and posterior cingulo-opercular networks were implicated at age 24 months. Analyses of general gross motor function also revealed involvement of motor and default mode networks at 12 and 24 months, with dorsal attention, cingulo-opercular, frontoparietal, and subcortical networks additionally implicated at 24 months. These findings suggest that changes in network-level brain-behavior relationships underlie the emergence and consolidation of walking and gross motor abilities in the toddler period. This initial description of network substrates of early gross motor development may inform hypotheses regarding neural systems contributing to typical and atypical motor outcomes, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders associated with motor dysfunction.
Anna Grazia Lopez, Pedagogia delle differenze. Intersezioni tra genere ed etnia. ETS, Pisa, 2018
Creators: name: Di Grigoli, Antonio Raimondo
Publisher: name: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education
Year: 2020

description: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, Vol 15, No 1 (2020)
(503250) John Sutcliffe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A web-based system for neural network based classification in temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Ruellas, A.
name: Shoukri, B.
name: Styner, M.
name: de Dumast, P.
name: Pieper, S.
name: Cevidanes, L.
name: Vimort, J.-B.
name: Mirabel, C.
name: Michoud, L.
name: Budin, F.
name: Pascal, L.
name: Ribera, N.T.
name: Prieto, J.C.
name: Gomes, L.
name: Yatabe, M.
name: Zhu, H.
name: Paniagua, B.
name: Muniz, L.
name: Huang, C.
name: Ioshida, M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Objective: The purpose of this study is to describe the methodological innovations of a web-based system for storage, integration and computation of biomedical data, using a training imaging dataset to remotely compute a deep neural network classifier of temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJOA). Methods: This study imaging dataset consisted of three-dimensional (3D) surface meshes of mandibular condyles constructed from cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans. The training dataset consisted of 259 condyles, 105 from control subjects and 154 from patients with diagnosis of TMJ OA. For the image analysis classification, 34 right and left condyles from 17 patients (39.9 ± 11.7 years), who experienced signs and symptoms of the disease for less than 5 years, were included as the testing dataset. For the integrative statistical model of clinical, biological and imaging markers, the sample consisted of the same 17 test OA subjects and 17 age and sex matched control subjects (39.4 ± 15.4 years), who did not show any sign or symptom of OA. For these 34 subjects, a standardized clinical questionnaire, blood and saliva samples were also collected. The technological methodologies in this study include a deep neural network classifier of 3D condylar morphology (ShapeVariationAnalyzer, SVA), and a flexible web-based system for data storage, computation and integration (DSCI) of high dimensional imaging, clinical, and biological data. Results: The DSCI system trained and tested the neural network, indicating 5 stages of structural degenerative changes in condylar morphology in the TMJ with 91% close agreement between the clinician consensus and the SVA classifier. The DSCI remotely ran with a novel application of a statistical analysis, the Multivariate Functional Shape Data Analysis, that computed high dimensional correlations between shape 3D coordinates, clinical pain levels and levels of biological markers, and then graphically displayed the computation results. Conclusions: The findings of this study demonstrate a comprehensive phenotypic characterization of TMJ health and disease at clinical, imaging and biological levels, using novel flexible and versatile open-source tools for a web-based system that provides advanced shape statistical analysis and a neural network based classification of temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis.