cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Islamic finance, Sharia non-compliance and the standardisation of Sharia governance
Creators: name: Alaydan, Sultan
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The research presented in this thesis examines the questions of (i) why the prevailing form of Islamic finance has tended to only textually comply with Sharia law while breaching principles underlying; and (ii) how Sharia governance could be standardised in order to ensure that Islamic finance reliably provides a genuinely Islamic alternative to conventional finance so as to engender market trust in the Islamic finance industry. The primary methodologies applied in this thesis are a text-based analysis and a qualitative interview study. A thorough text-based analysis of the religious and academic thinking around Islamic finance serves as a useful starting point for the design of the qualitative semi-structured interviews of a sample of 20 academics with experience of Islamic finance in practice across three culturally distinct jurisdictions (namely, the UK, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia). This paper finds that the existing models of Sharia governance across and within jurisdictions allow for a variety of interpretations, leading, in turn, to the inconsistent issuance of fatwas, thereby undermining the credibility of Islamic finance as genuinely compliant with Sharia principles. A lack of standardisation permits the coexistence of Sharia boards operating at different levels of Sharia supervision. This provides banks with the opportunity to seek to obtain a competitive financial advantage by utilising a less rigorous standard of Sharia governance. In order to counter the logics of neoliberal capitalism which result in banks ‘shopping around’ for favourable interpretations, this thesis concludes that Sharia governance should be part of an integrated and standardised system of Islamic corporate governance.
2007 Focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Late-breaking clinical trials presented at the 2005 and 2006 annual scientific meetings of the ACC, AHA, and European Society of Cardiology, as well as selected other data, were reviewed by the standing guideline writing committee along with the parent Task Force and other experts to identify those trials and other key data that might impact guidelines recommendations. On the basis of the criteria/considerations noted above, recent trial data and other clinical information were considered important enough to prompt a focused update of the 2004 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Sleep, rest-activity rhythms and white matter in older adults at risk for cognitive decline and dementia
Creators: name: Palmer, Jake
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: There is a significant body of evidence demonstrating alterations in sleep and circadian rhythms in ageing, with more prominent changes seen in older adults who are at risk for cognitive decline. White matter alterations have also been implicated in ageing with more pronounced and widespread changes seen in this at-risk cohort. Despite the convergence of evidence, there is currently limited understanding of the relationship between sleep-wake functioning, white matter alterations and risk factors for cognitive decline. This thesis aims to address this limitation investigating relationships between these factors using objective measures of sleep-wake functioning and advanced white matter analysis methods. A systematic review of the literature revealed a small number of studies investigating associations between objective sleep-wake measures and white matter. There was significant variation in the sleep-wake measures assessed and importantly, no previous studies included participants experiencing subjective or objective cognitive decline. The next study investigated associations between non-parametric actigraphy measures and tract-specific white matter lesions (WMLs), revealing novel associations between regional WML burden 24-hour rhythm stability, overnight activity and onset time of the least active period. Following this, advanced analysis of diffusion weighted imaging was used to assess relationship between rest-activity rhythms and white matter micro-architecture beyond discrete WMLs. This study not only demonstrated associations between restactivity rhythms and properties of major cortico-subcortical and association white matter tracts, but also revealed moderating effects of clinical risk factors for cognitive decline on the relationship between rest-activity rhythms and white matter micro-architecture. The final empirical study shifted focus from rest-activity rhythms to overnight sleep microarchitecture to determine whether sleep spindle and slow-wave activity were related to white matter connectivity derived from state-of-the-art white matter fibre tracking and tractogram optimisation methods. This study revealed, for the first time, that white matter connectivity of select white matter tracts was associated with sleep spindle activity, with differential relationships identi?ed between clinical syndromes and specific white matter tracts. The findings reported in this study advance understanding of the relationship between sleep-wake functioning and white matter properties in older adults at risk for cognitive decline. Taken together, they demonstrate that white matter may represent a common neurobiological substrate that underpins sleep-wake alterations in this population.
El Salvador, 1983: Marianela Garcia Villas n. 43.337 nell’elenco delle vittime civili
Creators: name: Forneris, Chiara
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: The article is focused on a specific case study of “a human rights woman activist” in El Salvador during the last authoritarian government (1976-1992): the lawyer Marianela García Villas. Marianela’s history, as human rights (HRs) activist, raises a fundamental question on how a woman could relate with a death scenario and a death context in her HRs political care. In her activity of reconstruction of death bodies of people who did not even have the dignity of death, Marianela has always worked with a HRs approach and for the positive statement of the right to life “as right of piece of bread, a roof and a book”, and so anticipating the HRs interdependence and interconnection interpretation. Her potential motherhood, as a woman, was projected over a private sphere towards the promotion of social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 4 (2008): «Correrò questo rischio» Sacrificio, sfida, resistenza
Phase evolution of the two-dimensional Kondo lattice model near half-filling
Creators: name: Li, Huan
name: Liu, Yu
name: Zhang, Guangming
name: Yu, Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a mean-field approximation, the ground state and finite temperature phase diagrams of the two-dimensional Kondo lattice model have been carefully studied as functions of the Kondo coupling $J$ and the conduction electron concentration $n_{c}$. In addition to the conventional hybridization between local moments and itinerant electrons, a staggered hybridization is proposed to characterize the interplay between the antiferromagnetism and the Kondo screening effect. As a result, a heavy fermion antiferromagnetic phase is obtained and separated from the pure antiferromagnetic ordered phase by a first-order Lifshitz phase transition, while a continuous phase transition exists between the heavy fermion antiferromagnetic phase and the Kondo paramagnetic phase. We have developed a efficient theory to calculate these phase boundaries. As $n_{c}$ decreases from the half-filling, the region of the heavy fermion antiferromagnetic phase shrinks and finally disappears at a critical point $n_{c}^{*}=0.8228$, leaving a first-order critical line between the pure antiferromagnetic phase and the Kondo paramagnetic phase for $n_{c}
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Megachile ligniseca
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile ligniseca

description: Megachile ligniseca (Kirby, 1802)
 18.VII.2013, Cirsium arvense, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Lo sguardo di Briseide. La schiava il testimone/narratore e “noi”
Creators: name: Pinotti, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: The essay addresses, by analyzing and comparing three examples of literary, journalistic and cinematic narratives, the relationship among the phenomenon of modern slavery, sexual female exploitation through deception and force, its representations and the ambiguities of the response to them; the difficulties associated with its legal definition, and the conflicting views of the relationship between trafficking in persons, irregular immigration and prostitution; the ways in which slavery has been explored, discussed, interpreted and narrated in the last twenty years; the impact of reportages and stories focusing on the links between legal economy, global crime and exploitation through coercion of socially and economically vulnerable persons. Keywords: schiava, testimone, narratore, schiavitù moderna, economia globale, trafficking, clandestinità, prostituzione, violenza, viaggio; slave, witness, teller, slavery, global economy, trafficking, clandestinity, prostitution, rape, travel.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
La schiava del filosofo: sventure dell’anima e della giustizia. Apuleio, Platone, Sade
Creators: name: Stella, Massimo
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2009

description: In this paper I try to point out and to investigate the relationship between the narrative archetype of the chased maiden, starting from Apuleius’ literary codification of this motif in Cupid and Psyche’s myth, and the representation of justice/injustice in Plato’s (Republic) and Sade’s (Justine, Juliette) political philosophy. This inquiry leads us to the embarassing conclusion that political philosophy, in its theoretical and perpetual effort to reshape the concepts of justice and injustice, has never focused (or is it a case of voluntary obliteration?) on the real matter of the whole question: the story and the rights of the innocent victim. Keywords: fanciulla, schiava, puttana, prigione, stupro, anima, giustizia, filosofo, libertino; maiden, slave, whore, prison, rape, soul, justice, philosopher, libertine.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 5 (2009): Schiave
Festa Barocca L’effimero in Sicilia è cosa seria
Creators: name: Latina, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Baroque
Festival
Theatricality
Rite
Emotional
Participation

description: The fashion show in Piazza Duomo in Syracuse on July the 9th 2022 by Dolce e Gabbana was a great media success. The fashion designers were inspired by an Opera by Pietro Mascagni, “La Cavalleria Rusticana” imagined as if it were also a Baroque festival. There were many types of Baroque celebrations and Festivals in the past, and each had its own distinct character, a peculiar rituality. The typical features were partially revived in the Fashion Show, however the Baroque Festivals were very different; in what way, although successful, the recent experimentation differs from those of the past? Perhaps the visionary, the excitement of the out of scale, the displacement effect, the mythological idealization recall more the Venetian Carnival than the Festivals they were inspired by and, not having actively involved people, the collective meaning, characteristic of ancient rituals, it is lost. The Festivals have always marked the human relationships of entire communities that found themselves in the theatricality of the rite, of the physical and emotional celebration.
Electromotive force due to magnetohydrodynamic fluctuations in sheared rotating turbulence
Creators: name: Squire, Jonathan
name: Bhattacharjee, Amitava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents a calculation of the mean electromotive force arising from general small-scale magnetohydrodynamical turbulence, within the framework of the second-order correlation approximation. With the goal of improving understanding of the accretion disk dynamo, effects arising through small-scale magnetic fluctuations, velocity gradients, density and turbulence stratification, and rotation, are included. The primary result, which supplements numerical findings, is that an off-diagonal turbulent resistivity due to magnetic fluctuations can produce large-scale dynamo action -- the magnetic analogue of the "shear-current" effect. In addition, consideration of $α$ effects in the stratified regions of disks gives the puzzling result that there is no strong prediction for a sign of $α$, since the effects due to kinetic and magnetic fluctuations, as well as those due to shear and rotation, are each of opposing signs and tend to cancel each other.
ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease. A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: "The ACC and the AHA have long been involved in the joint development of practice guidelines designed to assist healthcare providers in the management of selected cardiovascular disorders or the selection of certain cardiovascular procedures. The determination of the disorders or procedures to develop guidelines for is based on several factors, including importance to healthcare providers and whether there are sufficient data from which to derive accepted guidelines. One important category of cardiac disorders that affect a large number of patients who require diagnostic procedures and decisions regarding long-term management is valvular heart disease. During the past 2 decades, major advances have occurred in diagnostic techniques, the understanding of natural history, and interventional cardiology and surgical procedures for patients with valvular heart disease. These advances have resulted in enhanced diagnosis, more scientific selection of patients for surgery or catheter-based intervention versus medical management, and increased survival of patients with these disorders. The information base from which to make clinical management decisions has greatly expanded in recent years, yet in many situations, management issues remain controversial or uncertain. Unlike many other forms of cardiovascular disease, there is a scarcity of large-scale multicenter trials addressing the diagnosis and treatment of patients with valvular disease from which to derive definitive conclusions, and the information available in the literature represents primarily the experiences reported by single institutions in relatively small numbers of patients."
Joint compensation of I/Q impairments and PA nonlinearity in mobile broadband wireless transmitters
Creators: name: Bozic, Milica
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: The main focus of this thesis is to develop and investigate a new possible solution for compensation of in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) impairments and power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity in wireless transmitters using accurate, low complexity digital predistortion (DPD) technique. After analysing the distortion created by I/Q modulators and PAs together with nonlinear crosstalk effects in multi-branch multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless transmitters, a novel two-box model is proposed for eliminating those effects. The model is realised by implementing two phases which provide an optimisation of the identification of any system. Another improvement is the capability of higher performance of the system without increasing the computational complexity. Compared with conventional and recently proposed models, the approach developed in this thesis shows promising results in the linearisation of wireless transmitters. Furthermore, the two-box model is extended for concurrent dual-band wireless transmitters and it takes into account cross-modulation (CM) products. Besides, it uses independent processing blocks for both frequency bands and reduces the sampling rate requirements of converters (digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital). By using two phases for the implementation, the model enables a scaling down of the nonlinear order and the memory depth of the applied mathematical functions. This leads to a reduced computational complexity in comparison with recently developed models. The thesis provides experimental verification of the two-box model for multi-branch MIMO and concurrent dual-band wireless transmitters. Accordingly, the results ensure both the compensation of distortion and the performance evaluation of modern broadband wireless transmitters in terms of accuracy and complexity.
Le virtù del pettegolezzo
Creators: name: Conte, Rosaria
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2011

description: In this work a theory of gossip as a means for social control is proposed. Exercising social control roughly means to isolate and/or to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and it inevitably implies the problem of second-order cooperation. Moving from a cognitive model of social control and gossip, data from ethnographic studies and agent-based simulations are reported on to support the claim that gossip reduces the costs of social control without lowering its efficacy. Considerations about the enticement of gossip, and the contribution of the two genders to its provision are included.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol 6 - 7 (2011) Fama e infamia
Megachile willughbiella
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile willughbiella

description: Megachile willughbiella (Kirby, 1802)
 26.VI.2004, percée vers bassin d'orage, Cirsium sp., 1♀; 18.VII.2013, Lathyrus sylvestris, 2J, Medicago falcata, 1J, Galega officinalis, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Climate change, livelihood, and sustainable rural community development: A Systematic review of cutting-edge social work interventions
Creators: name: Greig, Meredith
name: Wu, Haorui
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Clinical and Medical Social Work
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Health and Protection
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: agricultural-based livelihood
subject: climate change
subject: disaster risk reduction
subject: rural
subject: rural community
subject: social work
subject: sustainable development

description: This research aims to address agriculture, rural communities, and climate change in relation to social work.
La fama nell’ordinamento romano. I casi di Afrania e di Lucrezia
Creators: name: Chiusi, Tiziana J.
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2011

description: The article starts from an examination of statutory and pretorian law on the legal elements of infamia and ignominia. In this context it sheds light on the influence of the censor’s control activity on the social and legal phenomenon of fama. The results thus obtained are verified by the analysis of two types of women, Afrania and Lucretia, both actors and, although in different ways, “victims” of their own fama. However, while Afrania remains a prisoner of the mechanism of fama, Lucretia is able to use it successfully.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol 6 - 7 (2011) Fama e infamia
Galois Connections for Generalized Functions and Relational Constraints
Creators: name: Couceiro, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we focus on functions of the form $A^n\rightarrow \mathcal{P}(B)$, for possibly different arbitrary non-empty sets $A$ and $B$, and where $\mathcal{P}(B)$ denotes the set of all subsets of $B$. These mappings are called \emph{multivalued functions}, and they generalize total and partial functions. We study Galois connections between these generalized functions and ordered pairs $(R,S)$ of relations on $A$ and $B$, respectively, called \emph{constraints}. We describe the Galois closed sets, and decompose the associated Galois operators, by means of necessary and sufficient conditions which specialize, in the total single-valued case, to those given in the author's previous work [M. Couceiro, S. Foldes. On closed sets of relational constraints and classes of functions closed under variable substitutions, Algebra Universalis 54 (2005) 149-165].
Effect of 6-hydroxydopamine on brain norepinephrine and dopamine evidence for selective degeneration of catecholamine neurons.
Creators: name: Breese, George R.
name: Traylor, Dennis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1970

description: After the intracisternal administration of 6-hydroxydopamine, brain levels of norepinephrine were reduced significantly with or without pargyline pretreatment. Depletion of dopamine in the central nervous system was found to be enhanced markedly by pargyline administration at higher dose levels of 6-hydroxydopamine. Brain serotonin concentrations were not altered. The effects of 6-hydroxydopamine were long-lasting with the depletion of brain amines persisting at 78 days. After norepinephrine-H3 intracisternally to animals treated with 6-hydroxydopamine, labeled norepinephrine uptake was diminished with a corresponding reduction of deaminated catechols and a marked increased in methylated amines. Tyrosine hydroxylase activity was found to be reduced in brainstem, caudate nucleus and whole brain in 6-hydroxydopamine-treated animals. Conversion of tyrosine-H3 to labeled norepinephrine and dopamine was also markedly diminished. The results support the view that 6-hydroxydopamine produces a "central sympathectomy" when introduced into cerebrospinal fluid.
Symptoms and oxylipins in plasma before and after exposure to rooms in which individuals have both experienced and not experienced building-related symptoms – an exploratory study
Creators: name: Claeson, Anna-Sara
name: Sommar, Johan
name: Liljelind, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The aim of this study was to investigate if there are differences in symptom ratings and plasma concentrations of oxylipins as a measure of acute inflammation between individuals with building-related symptoms (BRS) and referents during exposure to rooms where people experienced BRS and rooms where they did not experience BRS. Medically examined individuals with BRS and healthy, age and sex matched referents working in the same building were exposed for 60 min. Ratings of symptoms and collection of blood to measure oxylipins in plasma were performed before and after each exposure. Individuals with BRS reported more symptoms (mostly mucosal) than the referents in the problem rooms and there was a tendency towards a difference between the groups in concentration of metabolites from the cyclooxygenase pathway (COX). The mean reported intensity of symptoms among all participants was also found to be positively correlated with both COX and lipoxygenase (LOX-15) oxylipins in problem rooms.
Il commercio dei captivi nel Mediterraneo di età moderna (secc. XVI - XVIII). Orientamenti e prospettive attuali di ricerca
Creators: name: Bosco, Michele
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Da oltre un ventennio, il tema della guerra da corsa e quello del commercio dei captivi nel Mediterraneo di età moderna, ad esso strettamente connesso, sono oggetto di rinnovato interesse da parte della storiografia internazionale. Soprattutto in Italia, Spagna e Francia, ricerche sistematiche hanno permesso di ricostruire diversi aspetti della schiavitù nel Mediterraneo di età moderna: modalità della cattura, condizioni di vita dei prigionieri, riscatti, conversioni. Non solo storici, ma anche antropologi, economisti, storici delle religioni e del diritto hanno dato il loro contributo alla ricerca, tradottosi in raccolte di saggi o in volumi monografici; tale abbondante produzione ha innanzitutto mostrato chiaramente come la guerra da corsa e il commercio dei captivi abbiano rappresentato a lungo un elemento cruciale della storia dei paesi che si affacciano sul Mediterraneo, dal medioevo all’età moderna, giungendo fino ai primi decenni del secolo XIX. Il saggio ripercorre l’evoluzione del dibattito storiografico sull’argomento.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
title: Process Mining and Machine Learning for Intrusion Detection
Creators: name: Zhong, Yinzheng
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: With the increasing volume of internet traffic and the growth of the variety of internet services, the amount of cyber-attacks has increased vastly in recent years. Methods used to detect and prevent cyber-attacks are called intrusion detection systems. These systems prevent damage or compromise to the integrity, availability and confidentiality of infrastructures. However, the continuously increasing amount of data poses problems to the current intrusion detection methods. An intrusion detection system may suffer from a lack of efficiency, a lack of the ability to work with encrypted data and unable to find causal relationships between the cyber-attack and concurrent internet connections. The thesis introduces a novel algorithm that is developed to address some of the existing issues of current intrusion detection systems. This technique takes advantage of process mining in the encoding of event data. Process mining is designed to discover the process model from the event log automatically and analyse the generated model. The performance of using process mining for intrusion detection has been verified and analysed at the early stage of this research. Then the process mining algorithm was modified with the combination of online processing capabilities. The resulting algorithm is a feature generator that takes the event log as the input and outputs a sequence of matrices that is suitable for machine learning and other processing. The performance and efficiency of the feature generator have been verified with different datasets and machine learning algorithms. Results show that all the machine-learning algorithms that have been tested in classification yield accuracy that proves the generated feature can be used for intrusion detection. Verification has also been taken on anomaly detection approaches with various unsupervised machine learning algorithms, which further illustrate that the generated feature contains a higher abstraction of information of intrusions. The generation processing is efficient, and the processing speed is able to handle bandwidth in practical use.
A SWOT analysis of contemporary gaps and a possible diagnostic tool for environmental health in an upper-middle income country: a case study of South Africa
Creators: name: Mbazima, Setlamorago Jackson
name: Mbonane, Thokozani Patrick
name: Masekameni, Masilu Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study evaluated the state of environmental health in the Republic of South Africa using the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis framework. The internal and external factor evaluations were conducted by reviewing existing literature searched using a combination of keywords and boolean functions. The weighted score for the strengths and weaknesses was 0.79 and 1.04, respectively. The external factor evaluations findings revealed that environmental health has an equal amount of threats and opportunities, however, the threats outweigh the opportunities. The total weighted score for the internal and external factor evaluations was 1.83 and 2.25, respectively, which were below the average value of 2.5. The internal-external factors matrix indicated that environmental health in the Republic of South Africa needs to be refocused and re-aligned to public health protection. Failure to address the weaknesses and threats and optimise the strengths and opportunities may further weaken the provision of environmental health services.
Audiology learning with computer simulation (de Araújo et al., 2023)
Creators: name: de Araujo, Deuzimar Pires
name: Duarte, Josilene Luciene
name: Araújo, Eliene Silva
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify users’ satisfaction with the interface of an audiometric simulator and self-perception of the computer simulation impact on practical acting in audiology, allowing the identification of problems and possibilities for improvement.Method: A prospective, observational study was divided into two phases: The first is evaluating the student’s satisfaction, using the simulator in the theoretical and practical learning of audiology, and the second one is assessing the selfperception of the simulator’s impact on the practical performance of audiology. The sample comprised 35 students from two Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology courses, in Brazil, selected by convenience, who answered the questionnaire after completing the theoretical module, using Google Forms, without any identification.Results: In the first phase of the study, students positively evaluated the use of the simulator as an auxiliary tool for audiology learning, and in the second one, they also positively assessed the impact of training with the simulator in audiological practice.Conclusion: The analyzed audiometric simulator proved to be an interactive system with high acceptability, level of satisfaction, and potential impact on practical performance in audiology.Supplemental Material S1. Detailed algorithm description – speech audiometry.de Araújo, D. P., Duarte, J. L., Araújo, E. S. (2023). Virtual patients: Impact of computer simulation on audiology learning and practice. American Journal of Audiology, 32(3), 604–613. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJA-22-00242
The Library of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), Dutch physician, traveller, and Latin poet
Creators: name: Tarantino, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: The very extensive library collection of Gerard Nicholas Heerkens (1726–1801), the cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet, was sold at auction between 23 and 28 September and between 14 and 21 October 1805 at the University of Groningen. The auction was organized by the antiquarian and book dealer Jan Hendrik Bolt (active 1779–1845), who prepared the catalogue. The article presents for the first time a description of Heerkens’ book collection.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
Investigation of Geant4 Simulation of Electron Backscattering
Creators: name: Basaglia, Tullio
name: Han, Min Cheol
name: Hoff, Gabriela
name: Kim, Chan Hyeong
name: Kim, Sung Hun
name: Pia, Maria Grazia
name: Saracco, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A test of Geant4 simulation of electron backscattering recently published in this journal prompted further investigation into the causes of the observed behaviour. An interplay between features of geometry and physics algorithms implemented in Geant4 is found to significantly affect the accuracy of backscattering simulation in some physics configurations.
Isotope shifts and hyperfine structure of the laser cooling Fe I 358-nm line
Creators: name: Huet, N.
name: Pettens, M.
name: Bastin, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the measurement of the isotope shifts of the $3d^74s \,\, a \, {}^5\!F_5 - 3d^74p \,\, z \, {}^5\!G^o_6$ Fe~I line at 358~nm between all four stable isotopes ${}^{54}$Fe, ${}^{56}$Fe, ${}^{57}$Fe and ${}^{58}$Fe, as well as the hyperfine structure of that line for ${}^{57}$Fe, the only stable isotope having a nonzero nuclear spin. This line is of primary importance for laser cooling applications. In addition, an experimental value of the field and specific mass shift coefficients of the transition is reported as well as the hyperfine structure magnetic dipole coupling constant $A$ of the transition excited state in $^{57}$Fe, namely $A(3d^74p \,\, z \, {}^5\!G^o_6)=31.241(48)$ MHz. The measurements were carried out by means of laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy performed on an isotope-enriched iron atomic beam. All measured frequency shifts are reported with uncertainties below the third percent level.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Anthophora plumipes
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Anthophora
Anthophora plumipes

description: Anthophora plumipes (Pallas, 1772)
 16.V.2004, lisière friche calcaire, Lamium album, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
On Galois Connections between External Operations and Relational Constraints: Arity Restrictions and Operator Decompositions
Creators: name: Couceiro, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the basic Galois connection induced by the "satisfaction" relation between external operations $A^n\rightarrow B$ defined on a set $A$ and valued in a possibly different set $B$ on the one hand, and ordered pairs $(R,S)$ of relations $R\subseteq A^m$ and $S\subseteq B^m$, called relational constraints, on the other hand. We decompose the closure maps associated with this Galois connection, in terms of closure operators corresponding to simple closure conditions describing the corresponding Galois closed sets of functions and constraints. We consider further Galois correspondences by restricting the sets of primal and dual objects to fixed arities. We describe the restricted Galois closure systems by means of parametrized analogues of the simpler closure conditions, and present factorizations of the corresponding Galois closure maps, similar to those provided in the unrestricted case.
Spatial and temporal variations of PM2.5 concentrations in Chinese cities during 2015-2019
Creators: name: Shi, Guiqian
name: Liu, Jiaxiu
name: Zhong, Xiaoni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: The study analyzed the current status and changing trends of PM2.5 pollution, and used Kriging spatial interpolation, spatial autocorrelation analysis, and scan statistics to explore the spatiotemporal characteristics and identify hotspots. The results showed that PM2.5 pollution during 2015–2019 displayed a downward trend year by year, with a pronounced seasonal difference of higher concentrations in winter and lower concentrations in summer. By 2019, there were still 110 cities (n = 194) failed to meet China’s annual grade II air quality standard (35 μg/m3). The spatial distribution of PM2.5 was characterized by marked heterogeneity, with a significant spatial dependence and clustering characteristics. The pollution hotspots of PM2.5 were mainly concentrated in eastern and central China, especially in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and its surrounding area. The results of this study will assist Chinese authorities in developing strategies for preventing and controlling air pollution, especially in hotspot regions and during peak periods.
Evidence-based guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention in women: 2007 Update
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Worldwide, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the largest single cause of death among women, accounting for one third of all deaths.1 In many countries, including the United States, more women than men die every year of CVD, a fact largely unknown by physicians.2,3 The public health impact of CVD in women is not related solely to the mortality rate, given that advances in science and medicine allow many women to survive heart disease. For example, in the United States, 38.2 million women (34%) are living with CVD, and the population at risk is even larger.2 In China, a country with a population of approximately 1.3 billion, the age-standardized prevalence rates of dyslipidemia and hypertension in women 35 to 74 years of age are 53% and 25%, respectively, which underscores the enormity of CVD as a global health issue and the need for prevention of risk factors in the first place.4 As life expectancy continues to increase and economies become more industrialized, the burden of CVD on women and the global economy will continue to increase.5
Intelligent thermal cloak-concentrators
Creators: name: Shen, Xiangying
name: Li, Ying
name: Huang, Jiping
name: Ni, Yushan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How to macroscopically control the flow of heat at will is up to now a challenge, which, however, is very important for human life since heat flow is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature. Inspired by intelligent electronic components or intelligent materials, here we demonstrate, analytically and numerically, a unique class of intelligent bifunctional thermal metamaterials called thermal cloak-concentrators, which can automatically change from a cloak (concentrator) to a concentrator (cloak) when the applied temperature field decreases (increases). For future experimental realization, the behavior is also confirmed by assembling homogeneous isotropic materials according to the effective medium theory. The underlying mechanism originates from the effect of nonlinearity in thermal conduction. This work not only makes it possible to achieve a switchable Seebeck effect, but also offers guidance both for macroscopic manipulation of heat flow at will and for the design of similar intelligent multifunctional metamaterials in optics, electromagnetics, acoustics, or elastodynamics.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Payment Methods and RIsk Neglect
Creators: name: Onuklu, Nese Nur
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This research examines the effect of the two dominant payment methods, credit card and cash, on consumers’ risk taking and thus product preferences. Labeled “risk neglect,” we demonstrate that consumers exhibit risk neglect and prefer a riskier product when paying by credit card than cash.
Introduction
Creators: name: Quadrio Curzio, Alberto
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Introductory piece outlining the aims of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation, held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012). Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013).
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
Latent classes of criminal careers: A systematic review
Creators: name: Frith, Michael
name: Skardhamar, Torbjørn
name: Andersen, Synøve
name: Gerell, Manne
name: Allvin, Annica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: crime
subject: criminal careers
subject: criminology
subject: latent class
subject: trajectories

description: This registration contains the protocol for an intended systematic qualitative review of the literature on group-based (latent class) modelling of criminal career trajectories and longitudinal offending intensities. More specifically, to investigate the extent to which findings from latent class models of criminal career trajectories are replicated across analyses?
Clinical Characteristics of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Creators: name: Watts, Rosie
name: Hübel, Christopher
name: Breen, Gerome
name: Bryant-Waugh, Rachel
name: Munuve, Alfonce
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: MSc Dissertation Thesis: Clinical descriptive study to explore and evaluate the clinical characteristics of children and adolescent ARFID patients.
One year into the pandemic: the impacts of social vulnerability on COVID-19 outcomes and urban–rural differences in the conterminous United States
Creators: name: Al Rifat, Shaikh Abdullah
name: Liu, Weibo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: This paper first explores spatial distributions and patterns of COVID-19 case rates (cases/100,000 people) and mortality rates (deaths/100,000 people) and their disparities between urban and rural counties in the contiguous US. A county-level social vulnerability index was created using principal component analysis. Social vulnerability components were regressed against both county case and mortality rates. Results suggest that hotspots of case and mortality rates are clustered in Midwest and Upper-Midwest US. We found substantial disparities in case and mortality rates between urban and rural counties. County social vulnerability was positively correlated with both case and mortality rates suggesting counties with higher social vulnerability had higher case and mortality rates. Relationships between social vulnerability components and case and mortality rates vary across the conterminous US. Additionally, counties with increased racial and ethnic minorities, higher percentages of minors, and lower median household income are associated with higher COVID-19 case and mortality rates.
On “Coherence” and “Heterogeneity” in the Work of Carlo Ginzburg
Creators: name: Bolzoni, Lina
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2014

description: Selected paper from the first edition of IinteR-La+b (the International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and the Balzan Foundation) held in Rome, at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 12–13 November 2012. Published in Giovanni Tarantino (ed.), “Our words, and theirs:” A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg on the historian’s craft, Cromohs 18 (2013).
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, Vol. 18 (2013)
Kiš’s vigilance: ethics as aesthetics in the prose of Danilo Kiš
Creators: name: Nedeljkovic, Marijana
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: This thesis offers a reading of the late Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš by looking at how a particular tradition of European aesthetics and ethical philosophy (namely Levinas and Blanchot) can be compared to Danilo Kiš’s poetics. Beyond critically evaluating Kiš, I am to make connections between ethics, literature and philosophy. The major objective of my thesis is to argue that ethical is embedded as aesthetical in Kiš’s poetics as both Blanchotian and Levinasian understanding of ethics, i.e. as a non-dialectical and non-intentional movement from ‘I’ to the ‘other’ in the midst of passivity of dying (which is for both Blanchot and Levinas ‘other’ death). The thesis demonstrates that there are a number of strands in Levinas’s and Blanchot’s thought that, while differently expressed, can also be traced at work in Kiš’s writing, and which can, as such, help to elucidate certain crucial aspects of the latter. Taking into consideration Kiš’s obsessive writing on the violence of the last century – both left and right – I argue that what permeates his prose is death as both possibility and a radical impossibility consequent upon the il y a, a crucial philosophical concept in Levinas’s ethical philosophy and Blanchot’s literary ‘theory’. For this reason, the thesis aims to assert that what permeates Kiš’s prose is what Critchley terms ‘atheist transcendence’: the burden of responsibility for the death of the other human radically excludes theodicy. My research is significant in so far as conceptualisations of death to be found in continental European philosophy have hardly been directly juxtaposed with those found in Kiš’s prose. Since according to Blanchot, literature’s demand is always ambiguous and as such it exposes us to the question of being, in my thesis I analyse how this refusal of language to cease the tension of pluralism operates in Kiš’s prose as the ethical.