cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Punitive Environments
title: the Differential Effects of School Discipline on Academic Achievement
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rakowski, Kyle Nolan
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Exclusionary Discipline
Network Analysis
Punitive Environments

description: This dissertation utilizes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to investigate the relationship between school discipline (specifically, suspension and expulsion) and the academic achievement of non-punished students. Previous sociological research has identified negative outcomes for students who face direct punishment in schools. Recent studies have also shown a similar relationship between school discipline and non-punished students. Scholars suggest that this association may be attributed to the broader social environment created by the use of punishment, leading to the establishment of a "punitive environment" within schools. Consequently, punitive environments could extend the detrimental effects of school discipline to all students. However, the dimensions of this relationship and the theory of punitive environments require further exploration.
description: This study aims to address this research gap by examining various measures that can better identify punitive environments and track the association between punishment and the educational outcomes of non-punished students. To achieve this goal, a combination of multilevel and social network analysis is employed, considering measures at the individual, school, and network levels. The analysis reveals that school-level measures reflecting actual disciplinary practices are more effective in describing punitive environments than measures based on disciplinary policies. Additionally, measures considering the relative exposure to punishment through peer networks offer valuable insights into punitive environments beyond school-level measures. Recommendations for future research includes replication with a more representative sample as well as further examination of network measures as they moderate the relationship between punishment and educational outcomes of all students.
Urban Symbiosis of Building Materials in Amsterdam
Creators: name: Data Steward
Publisher: name: AMS Knowledge portal of Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 90503 Construction Materials
subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: The large growth of cities over the years has led to a greater resource demand in urban areas. Subsequently, after usage, those resources end up in large waste flows to be transferred to the outskirts of the city and its hinterlands. Moreover, those resources put high pressure on existing urban systems which have to deal with more complexity. An integration of systems is needed to move towards more sustainable cities. The construction sector can be seen as one of the largest contributors to the problem. Although cities are aware of the urgency, their building plans often seem to be in tension with the environmental aims set. The city of Amsterdam has for example planned a significant number of new building projects in the coming years; however, it also has to comply with the national vision set which states the ambition to decrease the amount of raw materials that are used. In order to meet both aims, interventions have to be found for Amsterdam’s building projects in which raw materials can be substituted by reused materials.
DAILY LIFE OF INTELLECTUALS IN TEMURIDS
Creators: name: Abdunosirova, Ozodaxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article the intellectuals of the Temurid period and their composition and division into groups are studied on the basis of historical sources and literature. It deals with the intellectuals resettled in Maverannahr during the Temurid period and the attention paid to them by the state, as well as the patronage of the representatives of the dynasty. Such issues as their daily life, position in the palace, and material support are analysed.
Datacenters as residual heat source for district heating in residential neighbourhoods of Amsterdam
Creators: name: Data Steward
Publisher: name: AMS Knowledge portal of Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91505 Heat and Mass Transfer Operations
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 120507 Urban Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: District heating is considered as an alternative heating system for the natural gas heating systems forhouseholds. The ability to heat and supply hot water to buildings of households is essential in cities and thetransition to an alternative is necessary due to the depletion of fossil fuels and limits on carbon dioxide percountry and cities since the Paris Climate Agreement. Fundamental in district heating is the conscious choice forthe usage of local heat resources that would otherwise be wasted.

Datacenters are chosen as local heat source to investigate as heat supplying source for district heating due totheir constant production of residual heat, which is a result of the operation of the data servers. Datacentersare considered as a sustainable heat source for district heating when the electricity use of the DC is suppliedfrom renewable energy sources.

The relevance of this research on residual heat supply from datacenters for district heating for residentialneighbourhoods is based on:- Amount of heat supply from datacenters for a district heating operator to secure heat supply from thedistrict heating to residential neighbourhoods.- Datacenters are not necessarily integrated in the energy sector, which will imply a new role andresponsibilities for the datacenter operators and for the actors already integrated in district heating.

This has led to the following main research question:To what extent can heat residual heat from datacenters be integrated in district heating in terms of technicaland institutional feasibility and does a framework for institutional mapping contribute to finding the institutionalfeasibility?

The first part of the research question focuses on finding the extent of residual heat supply from datacentersand the feasibility of district heating systems and the involved actors that encompasses the integration ofdatacenters with district heating. The second part of the research question focuses on the effectiveness theapplication of a institutional mapping methodology to assess the institutional feasibility.

The city of Amsterdam is used as case for this research since a high amount of datacenters and are present inAmsterdam. Besides the datacenters, the actors that are involved with district heating are also included in thisresearch. Six actor groups were considered: datacenters, retailers and utility companies, technical consultancyand manufacturers for district heating, municipalities, grid operators, law and policy makers.
Additional file 1 of Disability reduction following a lumbar stabilization exercise program for low back pain: large vs. small improvement subgroup analyses of physical and psychological variables
Creators: name: Larivière, Christian
name: Preuss, Richard
name: Coutu, Marie-France
name: Sullivan, Michael J.
name: Roy, Nicolas
name: Henry, Sharon M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Galanura agnieskae Smolis 2000
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Galanura
Galanura agnieskae

description: G. agnieskae Smolis, 2000
– Galanura agnieskae Smolis, 2000: 414
QC Smolis & Kadej 2014
General distribution: probably Holarctic, although still known only from two discrete regions, Poland and QC.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Editorial do n.º normal de julho da Revista Online Indagatio Didactica
Creators: name: Marques, Margarida M.
name: Cabrita, Isabel
Publisher: name: Indagatio Didactica
Year: 2022

description: A revista online Indagatio Didactica publica um novo número com 11 textos dedicados à análise de reflexão de práticas profissionais de inovação em contextos educativos diversificados. Mais uma vez, contou-se com a participação de autores e revisores nacionais e internacionais, revigorando o seu cariz e interesse a nível internacional, com particular destaque para países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa. O presente número estrutura-se nas quatro secções principais da Revista: Desenvolvimento Curricular e Didática”, com cinco artigos; Tecnologias da informação em educação, com três artigos; Avaliação em educação, com um artigo; e Supervisão em Educação, com dois artigos.
description: Indagatio Didactica, vol. 14 n.º 1 (2022)
Protein-DNA Interactions Shape the Melanoma Genome by Modulating Rates of UV Photoproduct Formation
Creators: name: Stark, Bastian
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: CPD
subject: CTCF
subject: Melanoma
subject: Nucleosome
subject: Transcription Factor
subject: UV Damage
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cancer often develops from recurrent somatic mutations in coding regions of the genome, known as ‘driver’ mutations. It is becoming increasingly clear that recurrent mutations in non-coding DNA, such as transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs), are also abundant in skin cancer genomes. However, the molecular mechanism(s) that promote mutagenesis at TFBSs and other chromatin features (i.e. nucleosomes) in melanoma were previously unclear. Previous studies by our lab and others have suggested that molecular interactions between DNA-binding proteins and their binding sites may affect the rate of ultraviolet (UV) damage formation, resulting in recurrent damage ‘hotspots’. Other studies have suggested that the physical sequestration of the DNA by proteins inhibits accessibility to repair machinery, thereby increasing the lifespan of DNA damage and increasing the potential to induce mutations during replication. We show here that a TF known as CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) induces cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) hotspots within CTCF binding sites during binding. The major CPD hotspot correlates precisely with the major recurrent mutation hotspot observed at CTCF binding sites in skin cancers. We additionally show that inhibition of NER by CTCF binding occurs broadly throughout the CTCF binding site, and is not specific to the mutation hotspot. Finally, we elucidate the molecular mechanism by which CTCF binding causes CPDs to form at a higher rate at specific positions within the binding site. Likewise, nucleosomal DNA exhibits a pattern of recurrent mutagenesis with a precise periodicity in skin cancers, which correlates with positions with elevated UV damage, indicating that similar mechanisms may modulate UV damage formation at strongly positioned nucleosomes. Here, we investigate CPD formation rates at nucleosomes, and show that base flexibility correlates poorly with CPD enrichment, particularly in linker DNA. Finally, we show that nucleosomal CPD periodicity is induced by a molecular mechanism, in which the sharp twisting of the DNA around the histone octamer changes the structural conformation of the DNA in such a way that photochemistry becomes more favorable at positions where the minor groove of the DNA faces out from the histone octamer (minor-out position). Taken together, these studies reveal a molecular mechanism that can explain how protein binding modulates UV damage formation in cells, which can potentially account for a number of recurrent mutations in skin cancers such as melanoma.
A lezione con i task: fra teoria e operatività
Creators: name: Birello, Marilisa
name: Odelli, Enrico
name: Vilagrasa, Albert
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

This article aims to: present a literature review about Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) for practicing teachers and teachers in preparation; set up a link between TBLT and the guidelines of the Action-Oriented Approach described in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; and bring together current theory, research and practice. In this paper we define the notion of ‘task’ and we discuss the relationship between TBLT and a communicative language teaching. We also describe a TBLT syllabus, we analyse different instructional sequences, we outline our own framework according to the TBLT criteria and we argue which place the Focus on form must have in it. Additionally we explore which possibilities the Web 2.0 provides to this methodology. The text is illustrated with examples in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

description: EL.LE
Il task-based approach nella classe ad abilità differenziate
Creators: name: Caon, Fabio
name: Meneghetti, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

The aim of this article is to present the task as a strategic tool to manage multi-level and multi-cultural classes (CAD), in which recognising the differences (i.e. cognitive styles, multiple intelligences, personalities etc.) among students is the point of departure to devise a didactic plan. After an overview of what CAD and Task-Based Language Teaching are, we will try to adapt few strategies used in the CAD to the different task phases. In particular, we will look at ways to grade the input, what variables to take into consideration to grade the task and what types of tasks have been proposed, through the years, as useful in terms of differentiation. Finally, we will explore what grading the focus on form means.

description: EL.LE
(Re)imagining “Tamilness” within the postcolonial Sri Lankan neoliberal nation state
Creators: name: Daluwatte, Rashini  Shashikala
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Independence
Nation State
Neoliberalism
Tamil Subjectivity
Citizenship
Nationalism

description: The Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) is not simply an ahistorical and apolitical moment of violence rather, it is an extreme consequence of state-sponsored violence. In post-independent Sri Lanka, the escalation of ethnic conflicts between the Sinhala and Tamil people is what ultimately resulted in this bloodthirsty struggle for power and dominance. To navigate the politicized mechanisms behind the civil war and its serious impacts on Sri Lankan society, it is necessary to closely examine fictional work which were written against the violent turmoil of warfare. The novels, Traitor by Antonythasan Jesuthasan (Shobashakthi) and The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam, written against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009), unveil the macabre reality of the idealized conceptualizations of “independence”, “nationalism”, “citizenship”, and “nation-state”. In doing so, the narratives attempt to problematize and dismantle the utopian ideologies propagated by the Sri Lankan state which project their political ideologies as inclusive and beneficial to people in the country. Through the close analysis of these fictitious narratives and the sociopolitical moments that gave rise to this ethnic conflict, it needs to be closely examined how the conception of a “nation” or “homeland” became a politicized and monolithic ideal which excluded and privileged selected groups of people. The novels further foreground how neoliberalism plays a crucial role in essentializing postcolonial developmentalism and modernity. The novels’ references to environmental consequences of warfare will be analyzed with reference to how the neoliberal state deploys devious machinations to deprive people of their “natural” spaces and identities. Thus, the study is an inquiry into the way in which war recreates and reproduces the mainstream conception of the nation and nationalism which inadvertently seeks to produce an anti-nationalist discourse. In this study, I problematize the politicized process of homogenization which denies multiculturalism and linguistic diversity within the post-independent Sri Lankan context. The discussion further foregrounds how the so-called “minority” narratives weave in to construct a strong rhetoric of ethno-nationalism and how these narratives seek to reimagine the Tamil subjectivity within the modern Sri Lankan nation state.
North and South Rivers Basin: Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts River Basin Planning Program
Creators: name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: The North and South Rivers Basin is located about 15 miles south of Boston and is almost entirely within Plymouth County, Massachusetts. As indicated on the Location Map, the Basin includes major portions of eight towns and minor portions of an additional four communities. The Basin covers about 73,000 acres or 114 square miles. There are two major drainages in the study area; the North River that drains over 50 percent of the area and the South River that drains about 20 percent. Topography is flat and cranberry bogs are an interesting feature of the upper reaches of the Basin. For purposes of the River Basin Planning Program, the study area encompasses the towns of Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson, Marshfield, Norwell, Pembroke, Rockland, and Scituate. Resource inventories and evaluations were made for the entire area included within the boundaries of those eight towns. In June 1978, the Massachusetts Water Resource Commission requested the Soil Conservation Service to develop a Plan of Work for implementing the Massachusetts River Basin Planning Program. The intent of the Massachusetts River Basin Planning Program is to assist small groups of communities in working together to solve intertown or basinwide problems especially in the areas of flooding, water quality, water supply, land use, and recreation.
description: The study was conducted under authority of Section 6, Public Law 83-566. The Soil Conservation Service, the Economic Research Service, and the Forest Service are the United States Department of Agriculture agencies participating in the study in cooperation with the Massachusetts Water Resources Commission. The major state agency contributing to the study is the Massachusetts Division of Water Resources; others include the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Massachusetts Division of Forests & Parks, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering. In addition, many local officials and residents of the towns in the Basin actively participated in inventory and advisory activities throughout the planning process.
Sport e lingua italiana nella manualistica LS/L2
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Maria Carmela
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

In this paper the author considers some proposals from 5 textbooks for Italian as foreign language, concerning the subject of sport using different approaches, one of them being task-based language teaching. The activities shown in the textbooks, published between 1992 and 2014, are analysed and compared, and some final considerations are made.

description: EL.LE
Analisi del parlato faccia a faccia in un manuale di italiano lingua straniera orientato all'azione: verso nuove sfide?
Creators: name: Ferroni, Roberta
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

The objective of this article is to analyze the listening exercises in a textbook for foreigners learning Italian with an action-oriented approach. The analysis, based on a sample consisting of one authentic dialog and one semi-authentic one, on a domestic topic, was carried out using tools from conversation analysis. Although the authentic dialog, thanks to the presence of superposition, pauses and self-interruptions, is much richer on the conversational plane than the dialog constructed ad hoc, even the latter contains some pleasant surprises. In fact, as a freely performed dialog, at times it has elements of the spontaneity typical of face-to-face speech. As for the use of an authentic dialog, recorded with the consent of the speakers, this results, in our opinion, in a new scenario, as it legitimizes the possibility of using input from real life in the classroom, without having to renounce the spontaneity of spoken interactions, given that the presence of the observer does not create a false context, but simply creates a new context that must be studied as such.

description: EL.LE
Paranura sexpunctata Axelson 1902
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Paranura
Paranura sexpunctata

description: P. sexpunctata Axelson, 1902
– Paranura sexpunctata Axelson, 1902: 102
AK Fjellberg 1985; Skidmore 1995
ON James 1933; Skidmore 1995
Remarks: James’s record (1933) from ON probably needs confirmation.
General distribution: unclear; the species appears to be present in Europe, North America, and possibly Japan.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Creando si impara
Creators: name: Sciuti Russi, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

This contribution is part of research and teaching undertaken during the year 2015-16 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi) and follows the didactic approach used in the participatory creation of a comic book with a group of adult French students. The description of the various teaching phases – through alternating lesson format (presentation, group interaction, pair work) and the adoption of an approach to fit the task – is intended to show a more dynamic way of teaching/learning a Foreign Language. It is aimed at the development of the group’s oral output and a more active conversational interaction. The analysis shows how it is possible to encourage authentic communication in the classroom through explorative techniques with both an adult and senior public, little accustomed to modern teaching methods. One must be aware that this is an interplay between content and methodology, both traditional and innovative.

description: EL.LE
Analisi conversazionale e approccio orientato all'azione
Creators: name: Bada, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2018

description:

This article analyses the repair and/or correction forms that take place in the course of an oral interaction between some beginner learners of Italian as a foreign language (Italiano LS). This interaction was recorded during a task-based / action-oriented course. The task-based approach provides that students in the classroom use the target language to complete meaningful – from the point of view of message transmission – activities, similar to those that might take place out of the classroom. The repair and correction mechanisms are analysed as possible indicators of the alleged resemblance between the interactions taking place in the classroom and the spontaneous and naturally significant interactions that may occur in a non-institutional context. Forms of repair also seem to shed light on the acquisition potential of a task-based activity developed without the participation of the teacher.

description: EL.LE
USDA Procedures for Planning Water and Related Land Resources in Programs Administered by the Soil Conservation Service
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
name: Economic Research Service
name: Service, Forest
name: Soil Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report: Since May 1962, the foundation document for formulating and evaluating water and related land resource plans has been Senate Document 97. In the period since 1962, national interests and priorities have changed. It is in response to this changing emphasis towards water and land resources that the Water Resources Council and its member agencies direct the Principles and Standards for Water and Related Land Resources Planning. These Principles and Standards were published on September 10, 1973, in the Federal Register, Volume 3B, Number 174, Part III and became effective on October 25, 1973. The Principles provide the broad framework for planning activities and include the conceptual basis for planning. The Standards provide for uniformity and consistency in comparing, measuring, and judging beneficial and adverse effects of alternative plans. The Principles and Standards specify that the overall purpose of water and land resource planning will be directed toward improvement in the quality of life through contributions to the objectives of national economic development and environmental quality.
Hypogastrura oregonensis Smolis 2010
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Hypogastruridae
Hypogastrura
Hypogastrura oregonensis

description: S. oregonensis Smolis, 2010
– Stachia oregonensis Smolis, 2010: 40
BC Smolis 2010
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Programming in Natural Language with fuSE : Synthesizing Methods from Spoken Utterances Using Deep Natural Language Understanding
Creators: name: Weigelt, Sebastian
name: Steurer, Vanessa
name: Hey, Tobias
name: Tichy, Walter F.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2020

description: The key to effortless end-user programming is natural language. We examine how to teach intelligent systems new functions, expressed in natural language. As a first step, we collected 3168 samples of teaching efforts in plain English. Then we built fuSE, a novel system that translates English function descriptions into code. Our approach is three-tiered and each task is evaluated separately. We first classify whether an intent to teach new functionality is present in the utterance (accuracy: 97.7% using BERT). Then we analyze the linguistic structure and construct a semantic model (accuracy: 97.6% using a BiLSTM). Finally, we synthesize the signature of the method, map the intermediate steps (instructions in the method body) to API calls and inject control structures (F1: 67.0% with information retrieval and knowledge-based methods). In an end-to-end evaluation on an unseen dataset fuSE synthesized 84.6% of the method signatures and 79.2% of the API calls correctly.
Development of Eye Tracking System Via EOG and Eyes Image
Creators: name: Ban, Seunghyeb
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Recent wearable technologies advances have enabled ways for people to interact with external devices, known as human−machine interfaces (HMIs). Electrophysiology signals, such as electrooculography (EOG), electromyography (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), and electrocardiogram (ECG) from body movements, contain critical information regarding physical/psychological health, perception, intention, and preference. Among them, EOG, measured by wearable devices, is often used for eye movement-enabled HMI. However, most prior studies have utilized conventional gel electrodes for EOG recording. The gel is problematic due to skin irritation, while separate bulky electronics cause motion artifacts. Also, EOG signals are susceptible to the sensor's skin-contact quality, limiting the precise detection of eye angles and gaze. To solve these problems, this thesis presents two types of eye movements monitoring systems – 1) a soft wireless EOG Headband for persistent HMI and 2) a camera-based gaze and eye direction tracking system. The first part of this thesis presents a soft material-based, all-in-one headband EOG device, which can detect eye movements and use an HMI for RC car. The portable and wearable EOG system enables real-time, continuous, and long-term recording of EOG signals to classify eye movements. Various dry electrodes, such as carbon nanotube paper composite and fractal gold electrodes, have been characterized and used for detecting EOG. A set of signal processing data demonstrates successful real-time classification of eye motions via the convolutional neural network (CNN). The second part presents a two-camera eye-tracking system and a data classification method for HMI to compensate for the EOG device. This system integrates machine-learning technology for a continuous real-time classification of gaze and eye directions, which is used to precisely control a robotic arm.
Retracted article: Retinal photoreceptors targeting SA-g-AA coated multilamellar liposomes carrier system for cytotoxicity and cellular uptake evaluation
Creators: name: daisy, E.R. Anishiya chella
name: Rajendran, Naresh Kumar
name: Jeyaraj, Murugaraj
name: Ramu, Andy
name: Rajan, Mariappan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: We, the Editor and Publisher of the Journal of Liposome Research, have retracted the following article: E.R. Anishiya Chella Daisy, Naresh Kumar Rajendran, Murugaraj Jeyaraj, Andy Ramu, Mariappan Rajan (2021). Retinal photoreceptors targeting SA-g-AA coated multilamellar liposomes carrier system for cytotoxicity and cellular uptake evaluation. Journal of Liposome Research, 31: 2, 203–216, DOI: 10.1080/08982104.2020.1768111 After publication of this article, concerns about duplication of part of Figure 3B in Figure 3A were brought to the attention of the Editor and Publisher. The authors were contacted and while they did provide a replacement image, they were unable to provide the replacement image or the original images in a format that satisfies our requirements to confirm its authenticity. We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.
title: Brewing Nationalism
title: Plantation Tourism and Labor in Contemporary Sri Lanka
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fernando, Corita
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: neoliberalism
subject: Tea plantations
subject: Tea tourism
subject: Worlding
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Tea tourism brings together two of Sri Lanka’s biggest industries, the tea plantation and tourism industry, in the global production of locality. The intersection of the tea and tourism industry is also the intersection of the nation’s colonial history and its postcolonial investment in global capitalism and in the formation of a national identity. ‘Tea culture’ and the tourists’ enchantment with tea has gradually moved from the product to the producer. It is not merely the labor of the individual, but the worker itself that becomes profitable/exploitable. The cultural reproduction within tea tourism does not work in a universalizing prototype of globalization but is a sketching of the continuance of colonial dominations and postcolonial identity formation. This visibility of the tea estate worker as a symbol of Sri Lankan tourism and hospitality perpetuates the invisibility of their citizenship struggle, repatriation to India, ethnic violence, landlessness, and other harsh realities. Within tea tourism, the fetishization and the commodification of the ‘tea estate worker experience’ for the creation of postcolonial neoliberal profit and cultural value stems from the investment of the nation state in global modernity. The branding of the ‘stateless migrant’ tea estate worker as a national symbol and the restructuring of oppression in market spaces becomes a colonial epilogue in which postcolonial subjects continue to consume.
Additional file 1 of The relation of a cerebrospinal fluid profile associated with Alzheimer’s disease with cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Creators: name: De Kort, Anna M.
name: Kaushik, Kanishk
name: Kuiperij, H. Bea
name: Jäkel, Lieke
name: Li, Hao
name: Tuladhar, Anil M.
name: Terwindt, Gisela M.
name: Wermer, Marieke J. H.
name: Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.
name: Klijn, Catharina J. M.
name: Verbeek, Marcel M.
name: Kessels, Roy P. C.
name: Schreuder, Floris H. B. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material File 1.
Archisotoma besselsi
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Isotomidae
Archisotoma
Archisotoma besselsi

description: A. besselsi (Packard, 1877)
– Isotoma Besselsii Packard, 1877: 52
AK Essig 1926; MacLean et al. 1978; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Potapov 2001; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
NU McLachlan 1879; Brown 1932; Davis 1936; Hammer 1938, 1953, 1953a; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Danks 1981; Fjellberg 1986, 1994; Babenko 1993; Skidmore 1995; Potapov 2001; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
MB Hammer 1953; Skidmore 1995
QC Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999a
General distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Retinal photoreceptors targeting SA-g-AA coated multilamellar liposomes carrier system for cytotoxicity and cellular uptake evaluation
Creators: name: daisy, E.R. Anishiya chella
name: Rajendran, Naresh Kumar
name: Jeyaraj, Murugaraj
name: Ramu, Andy
name: Rajan, Mariappan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Here, the retinal targeting SA-g-AA coated multilamellar liposomes carrier synthesized to deliver the bioactive agents into the retinal region of the eye. The multilayered targeting macromolecules of liposomes prepared using a layer-by-layer assembly. The curcumin (CUR) and Rhodamine B (RhB) dyes loaded in a multilamellar vesicle (MLV) were synthesised by the lipid film hydration method. The sodium alginate grafted acrylic acid (SA-g-AA) conjugated with riboflavin (RB) was coated over MLV by O/W emulsion method followed by ionotropic gelation. FT-IR and 1H NMR spectroscopy techniques used to analyse the structural features of the MLV-SA-g-AA-RB. The results of DLS and TEM revealed that the carrier could be of uniform spheres, with a low polydispersity index, and outstanding performance in phrases of dye encapsulation and extended-release ability. An MTT assay investigated cell viability against Fibroblast WS1, and human embryonic stem cells-derived retinal pigment epithelial cells (hESC-RPE) implied that the carrier is of excellent biocompatibility. Retina targeting nature of the system confirmed via cellular uptake results revealed that the increases the dye concentration in the cells. Overall, the outcomes suggested that carriers could lead to the improvement of a feasible two photoreceptors targeting drug carriers, and it has the potential to deliver the multidrug in the retinal region of the eye.
Evaluation of Extracellular Genetic Material Sorption to Microplastics and Environmental Porous Media
Creators: name: Granja Villacis, Ana Isabel
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Microplastics
Silencing RNAs
Antibiotic Resistance Genes

description: The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and silencing RNAs (siRNAs) in the environment has increased for several decades and represents a growing threat to public health and the environment. While significant research has assessed the biological factors driving ARGs and siRNAs, few studies have evaluated how emerging contaminants like microplastics (MPs) can accelerate their spread. MPs are ubiquitous in wastewater treatment plants and can adsorb diverse compounds, which may be transported to aquatic environments in treated effluents and to soils in biosolids. Understanding how ARGs and siRNAs are carried on MPs requires characterizing MPs’ diversity and abundance in sewage sludge and treated effluents. The main purpose of this research is to determine MP adsorption capacity for extracellular ARGs and siRNAs using adsorption isotherms and the identification of sorbent physicochemical properties. The adsorption isotherm assays were evaluated on biosolids, soils, and MPs with DNA and RNA as adsorbate material. The data were analyzed by the Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherms and the best-fitting model was selected with the highest R2 obtained from the linearization. For this study, the best fitting model was the Freundlich which was applied to calculate the adsorption capacity between the adsorbent material (e.g., biosolids, soils, and MPs) and the adsorbate material (e.g., DNA and RNA). The higher adsorption of DNA and RNA into the adsorbent porous media was statically significant (P < .001) showing a higher adsorption capacity in biosolids > soils > MPs. The adsorption mechanisms for the porous media studied in this research are the hydrophobic interactions, van der Waals, electrostatic interactions, H-bonding, and π-π interactions. MPs’ adsorption capacity may be attributed to the small particle size ranging from 143.8 nm to 600 nm and the presence of numerous pore sites, observed throughout a Scanning Electron Microscope, which increased their surface area allowing them to adsorb more genetic material from the environment.
Ballistura libra
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Isotomidae
Ballistura
Ballistura libra

description: B. libra (Christiansen & Bellinger, 1980)
– Proisotoma (Ballistura) libra Christiansen & Bellinger, 1980: 588
BC Setälä & Marshall 1994; Setälä et al. 1995; Skidmore 1995; Cannings 2010
Remarks: The generic position of this species is unclear. Among genera recently erected within the Proisotoma complex, it resembles members of Scutisotoma more than Ballistura.
General distribution: Nearctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Ballistura tuberculata
Creators: name: Babenko, Anatoly
name: Stebaeva, Sophya
name: Turnbull, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Isotomidae
Ballistura
Ballistura tuberculata

description: B. tuberculata (Stach, 1947)
– Proisotoma tuberculata Stach, 1947: 218
NS Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995
Remarks: Published records of B. tuberculata are restricted to Europe and North America, but “the identity of these [American] specimens with the European species is uncertain” (Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, p. 599). Much more work is needed to establish a real relationship between Palaearctic and Nearctic forms.
General distribution: Holarctic.
description: Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929
Factors affecting the expression of female-biased power in Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) ; and, Monomorphism in mammals : a review of current hypotheses
Creators: name: Voyt, Rachel Anne
name: 0000-0002-5467-3556
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Female dominance
Female-biased power structures
Verreaux's sifaka
Monomorphism

description: The master’s report presented here is a compilation of two distinct papers. Their respective abstracts are presented below. Chapter 1. The development and maintenance of power structures are influenced by multiple interacting variables associated with fighting ability or leverage. However, the relative influence of these variables on the expression of female power within the female-biased power structures that characterize most lemur species is still not well understood. This study examines the potential influence of factors associated with female reproductive costs and leverage on the expression of female power over males in Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a combined test of the energy conservation, cost asymmetry, and leverage hypotheses. The leverage hypothesis, but not the energy conservation or cost asymmetry hypotheses, were fully supported. These results suggest that female-biased power structures in lemurs may depend upon female leverage, but not body mass differences or energy needs. Future studies incorporating physiological measures of female energetics and reproductive stages as well as additional sources of fighting ability other than body mass are necessary to validate this claim. Chapter 2. Monomorphism in mammals is relatively understudied despite characterizing numerous mammalian species. In this review, I reevaluate the extent of size monomorphism among mammals and examine the existing hypotheses put forward to explain this morphological pattern. I show that monomorphism is likely more common than is typically represented in the literature, while dimorphism is overestimated. Hypotheses explaining monomorphism specifically are rare, however, and must be extrapolated from hypotheses put forth to explain male-biased dimorphism. Monomorphism is thus expected when sexual selection on male body size is weak or is acting on traits related to speed or agility. Environmental constraints, habitat type, or predation pressure may contribute to the effects of sexual selection and/or place limitations on body size that are unrelated to sexual selection. Species-level comparative work focusing on monomorphic species specifically is necessary to resolve these broadscale trends associated with monomorphism
title: PIDs, Prague, and Participation:  Highlights from PIDfest 2024
Creators: name: Mejias, Gabriela
Publisher: name: DataCite
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04wxnsj81
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: PIDfest, jointly organized by NTK and ARDC, was held from June 11 -13 in Prague. The event brought together persistent identifier (PID) advocates, users, and leaders from around the world to solve real-world infrastructure challenges to accelerate research and innovation. DataCite was well represented during the event with presentations by our staff, members and partners. Here’s a brief recap of the highlights from the program.
Transgenerational Marking of Chinook Salmon Otoliths
Creators: name: Boehnke, Brandon Tyler
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023
Subjects: barium
chinook salmon
otoliths
transgenerational marking

description: Various tagging methods are currently applied in fisheries science for monitoring and managing fish populations worldwide. Tagging technology can often be limited by characteristics of the target species and can come with side effects such as lowering individual fitness. Otolith marking is a widely used alternative tagging technique that is effective in marking individual fish while not causing harmful side effects to the fish. An otolith mark will persist throughout the individual’s life, allowing for a permanent mark. A transgenerational isotopic otolith mark is the process of marking all offspring of a single individual by administering the mark to only the parent, with the mark transferring to one single generation, thus minimizing the handling of fish and other side effects of alternative tagging methods. This study explored a unique, transgenerational otolith mark in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). We explore marking a returned adult to discover if that mark can carry on one generation to its direct offspring. Adult Chinook Salmon were collected from Priest Rapids Hatchery in Mattawa, Washington, along the Columbia River. Pre-spawned adult female fish were injected with a stable isotope of Barium-137 for the mark both with a “High” (0.5mg/kg) and “Low” (0.05 mg/kg) dose. The adults were left until ready to spawn, after which eggs were collected, fertilized, and transported to a laboratory environment for incubation. Offspring were raised after hatch, and otoliths were then analyzed using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to verify the effectiveness of Barium-137 isotopic composition in the otoliths of the juvenile Chinook Salmon. Using a linear mixed effects model, a significant positive correlation was found between the post-mark holding time of the treatment fish and the level of enrichment in the offspring otolith. When isolating holding time as a variable, a categorical analysis of the treatment methods determined the “High” dose group to show a significant mark that was statistically larger than the control group. A trans-generational mark for management and research can be an inexpensive and effective method to reduce the direct handling of large numbers of fish while having the capability to mark significant percentages of populations, thus minimizing human intervention when monitoring managed populations of fish.