cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Wasserpfeifenkonsum (Shisha-Rauchen) bei Jugendlichen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Kuntz, Benjamin
name: Lampert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Jugendliche
subject: Rauchen
subject: Wasserpfeife
subject: Shisha
subject: Tabak
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hintergrund: Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts hat sich das Rauchen von Wasserpfeifen (Shishas) weltweit zu einem neuen Jugendtrend entwickelt. Obwohl auch diese Art des Tabakkonsums der Gesundheit erheblich schadet, existieren in Deutschland nur wenige Studien hierzu. Ziel: Untersucht wird die Verbreitung des Wasserpfeifenkonsums bei 12- bis 17-jährigen Jugendlichen. Dabei soll neben möglichen Alters- und Geschlechtsunterschieden erstmals für Deutschland auch der Zusammenhang zwischen dem sozioökonomischen Status und dem Wasserpfeifenkonsum von Jugendlichen analysiert werden. Methodik: Die Daten stammen aus der ersten Folgebefragung der Studie zur Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland (KiGGS Welle 1), die im Zeitraum von 2009 bis 2012 durchgeführt wurde. Der Wasserpfeifenkonsum von Jugendlichen im Alter von 12 bis 17 Jahren wurde mit drei Fragen erhoben (n=4543). Berichtet werden Prävalenzen und altersadjustierte Odds Ratios (OR) mit 95 %-Konfidenzintervallen (95 %-KI). Ergebnisse: Die Lebenszeitprävalenz des Wasserpfeifenkonsums beträgt 28,9 % (95 %-KI: 26,9–31,0). Rund jeder fünfte Jugendliche hat innerhalb der vergangenen 12 Monate Wasserpfeife geraucht (20,6 %; 95 %-KI: 18,8–22,6), jeder zehnte innerhalb der letzten 30 Tage (10,0 %; 95 %-KI: 8,6–11,6). Mit zunehmendem Alter steigen die Prävalenzen bei beiden Geschlechtern an. Jungen greifen signifikant häufiger zur Wasserpfeife als Mädchen. Signifikante Unterschiede in Abhängigkeit vom sozioökonomischen Status der Jugendlichen bestehen nicht. Diskussion: Ein beträchtlicher Teil der Jugendlichen in Deutschland raucht zumindest gelegentlich Wasserpfeife. Aufgrund der häufig unterschätzten Gesundheits- und Suchtgefahren des Wasserpfeifenkonsums ist eine verstärkte Präventions- und Aufklärungsarbeit vonnöten.
Additional file 1 of Childhood adversity and psychopathology: the dimensions of timing, type and chronicity in a population-based sample of high-risk adolescents
Creators: name: Zarchev, Milan
name: Grootendorst-van Mil, Nina H.
name: Bouter, Diandra C.
name: Hoogendijk, Witte J. G.
name: Mulder, Cornelis L.
name: Kamperman, Astrid M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file1: Table S1. Psychometric properties of psychopathology problem scales in the current sample. Table S2. Non-response analysis between participants with missing ALE or YSR data and those with complete data on those variables. Table S3. Adverse life events (ALEs) counts according to the age period in which they occurred. Table S4. Comparison of Internalizing, externalizing problems scores and psychotic experiences between boys and girls. Table S5. Standardized semi-partial r coefficients from associations between ALEs and psychopathology outcomes presented according to the time period in which ALEs occurred and their type. Table S6. Standardized beta coefficients from interaction terms between ALEs and sex with psychopathology scores as outcome. Results presented according to when ALEs occurred and their type. Figure S1. Robustness to unmeasured confounding for observed associations between adverse life events and the psychopathology outcomes. The numbers correspond to how many times bigger a simulated unmeasured confounder has to be than a measured confounder (we used parental psychopathology) to remove the association of interest. A value of 1x indicates unmeasured confounder as big as parental psychopathology can remove the association, whereas 5x+ corresponds to 5 times or bigger. Figure S2. Estimated marginal means probing the moderating effect of sex on ALE associations.
Genetic Diversity and New Lineages of Dengue Virus Serotypes 3 and 4 in Returning Travelers, Germany, 2006–2015
Creators: name: Shihada, Sami
name: Emmerich, Petra
name: Thomé-Bolduan, Corinna
name: Jansen, Stephanie
name: Günther, Stephan
name: Frank, Christina
name: Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
name: Cadar, Daniel
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: During 2006–2015, we analyzed 70 dengue virus (DENV) strains isolated from febrile travelers returning to Germany. High genetic diversity, including multiple co-circulating DENV lineages and emerging new lineages of DENV-3 and DENV-4, was demonstrated. Our passive surveillance system based on returning travelers yielded substantial information on DENV diversity.
Prisoners' Rights Activism in the New Information Age
Creators: name: Henke, Jacqueline N
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sociology not elsewhere classified
Anthropology not elsewhere classified
Criminology not elsewhere classified
Courts and sentencing
Correctional theory, offender treatment and rehabilitation
Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Social change
Social and cultural anthropology

description: New information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as cell phones, email, and social media, have been transforming how social movements recruit, organize, participate in collective action, and experience repression. Yet, limited scholarship has addressed the uses of these technologies by social movements organizing within American prisons. Using a dialectical interpretive approach, I examine how a coalition of prisoners’ rights organizations uses ICTs to plan and participate in collective resistance across prison walls. The coalition, referred to here as the New Prisoners’ Rights Coalition (NPRC), organizes against low and no-wage prison labor, unhealthy and unsafe prison conditions, and inhumane prisoner treatment. The NPRC has a multi-platform public digital presence and mobilizes prisoner activists and free activists. Through narrative description, I summarize the ways NPRC activists use ICTs from December 2013 through September 2016, noting changes in ICT use over time and in response to movement repression. I find that new ICTs offer innovative ways for NPRC activists to record and document their environments, communicate privately, and communicate publicly. ICTs, however, do not remove all barriers to activism or ensure that activists’ concerns are resolved or even taken seriously. NPRC activists struggle to overcome stigma and mischaracterization online. They face physical repression, interpersonal hostilities, institutional sanctions, economic repression, legal sanctions, interpretive repression, surveillance, and monitoring. In different circumstances, the NPRC responds to repression by increasing ICT use, decreasing ICT use, going dark, migrating from one online platform to another, and shifting digital responsibilities from prisoner activists to free activists. I explain how, most of the time, the digital unreachability of the prison environment makes it difficult for NPRC activists to substantiate their claims of mistreatment, abuse, and injustice. Moreover, I consider how current prison technology policies may be inadvertently pushing NPRC activists into difficult-to-monitor online spaces and exacerbating safety concerns of corrections workers.
Targeting the latent cytomegalovirus reservoir with an antiviral fusion toxin protein
Creators: name: Krishna, B. A.
name: Spiess, K.
name: Poole, E. L.
name: Lau, B.
name: Voigt, Sebastian
name: Kledal, T. N.
name: Rosenkilde, M. M.
name: Sinclair, J. H.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Reactivation of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in transplant recipients can cause life-threatening disease. Consequently, for transplant recipients, killing latently infected cells could have far-reaching clinical benefits. In vivo, myeloid cells and their progenitors are an important site of HCMV latency, and one viral gene expressed by latently infected myeloid cells is US28. This viral gene encodes a cell surface G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that binds chemokines, triggering its endocytosis. We show that the expression of US28 on the surface of latently infected cells allows monocytes and their progenitor CD34+ cells to be targeted and killed by F49A-FTP, a highly specific fusion toxin protein that binds this viral GPCR. As expected, this specific targeting of latently infected cells by F49A-FTP also robustly reduces virus reactivation in vitro. Consequently, such specific fusion toxin proteins could form the basis of a therapeutic strategy for eliminating latently infected cells before haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
IMPLEMENTING SERVICE-LEARNING TO CHINESE LANGUAGE COURSES: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
Creators: name: Li, Bailu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Applied linguistics and educational linguistics
Chinese languages
Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

description: Service learning has been proposed as a widespread educational movement that merges academic work with real-life community service activities that encourages students to reflect and think critically about their experiences. As a pedagogical tool for second language acquisition, the greatest benefit of utilizing service learning activities results in the fact that it creates connections to the target language community and provides authentic experiences for target language use. Although service-learning has been extensively implemented into language programs such as Spanish and English as a Second Language (ESL), it is still in its infancy with Chinese second language learners.
 This dissertation examines the effects and outcomes of service-learning involvement on the advanced Chinese learners towards language acquisition, cultural understanding, and community engagement. The study was conducted in a Midwest university with 30 students from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds.The data was collected through pre-/post-survey, observation and reflective journals. Findings indicated that the service-learning experiences enhanced and enriched students' Chinese language learning. Additional benefits to the students included increasing their knowledge of Chinese culture and history, developing a higher motivation for community engagement and transformative learning, and forming connections to people and community beyond the classroom. However, differences were also found in students' service-learning experiences and outcomes based on gender, race, and cultural backgrounds. Future directions of Chinese service-learning in the emerging fields were discussed as promising avenues for future Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) research and practice.
CREATING AND ANALYZING VALUES, ETHICS, AND INCLUSIVE DESIGN IN ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING FOR VIDEO GAMES
Creators: name: Lukomski, Jordyn L
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Design not elsewhere classified
Entertainment and gaming
Applied ethics not elsewhere classified
Aesthetics
Computer graphics

description: Video game studies pertaining to representations of gender, race, culture, and sexuality are commonly discussed in relation to the characters, narrative, or gameplay mechanics. Video game environments are often left out of these discussions as most publications focus on how the environment was created and environmental storytelling. In this pilot study the researcher had participants analyze and discuss three futuristic, dystopian environments that contained alternative ways of representing gender, race, culture, and sexuality. The environments did not have gameplay or character interactions so that the player could focus on the environment. Results indicated that futuristic dystopian environments do not need to rely on stereotypes and harmful depictions to evoke core themes, even if they relate to violence, sex, oppression, or addiction. However, a lack of representation or a “neutral” take on representating gender, race, sexuality, and culture results in world that feels bland, isolated, and unnatural. Additionally, while participants disagreed on certain representations or noticed different aspects of the environments, the researcher found that focusing on “playtesting” just the environment can reveal how certain values, themes, and representations arise out of prop repetition, prop juxtaposition, and even how the player moves physically through the space.
La vanguardia en la arquitectura española (1920-1936): ¿proyecto inacabado o proyecto indefinido?
Creators: name: Larson, Susan
Publisher: name: Editorial Visor
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Civilization, Modern
subject: Spain
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Este ensayo entra en el debate en España sobre el alcance que tuvo, entre 1920 y 1239, una posible "vanguardia arquitectónica". Identificando "van­guardia" con "modernidad" y confundiendo lo que pudo ser un debate teórico con "signos" de los nuevos tiempos, la mayoría de lo que ya se ha escrito sobre el tema queda patente como fueron muchos templetes, gasolineras, cines, estaciones de autobuses, hipó­dromos, teatros, viviendas para la alta burguesía y para la clase media ... ig­norándose en el elenco presentado los dos temas que caracterizaron la expe­riencia europea: la vivienda social y el concepto mismo de ciudad.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with hospitalization in a pediatric population of rural Tanzania: findings from a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Mancini, Vincenzo
name: Borellini, Martina
name: Belardi, Paolo
name: Colucci, Maria Carolina
name: Kadinde, Emanuel Yuda
name: Mwibuka, Christina
name: Maziku, Donald
name: Parisi, Pasquale
name: Di Napoli, Anteo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-onc-10.1177_11795549211021667 – Supplemental material for Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma After Progression to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Retrospective Analysis by the Meet-Uro Group (Meet-URO 1 Study)
Creators: name: Bersanelli, Melissa
name: Buti, Sebastiano
name: Cortellini, Alessio
name: Bandini, Marco
name: Banna, Giuseppe Luigi
name: Pederzoli, Filippo
name: Farè, Elena
name: Raggi, Daniele
name: Giannatempo, Patrizia
name: De Giorgi, Ugo
name: Basso, Umberto
name: Losanno, Tania
name: Santini, Daniele
name: Mucciarini, Claudia
name: Tucci, Marcello
name: Tambaro, Rosa
name: Farnesi, Azzurra
name: Caffo, Orazio
name: Veccia, Antonello
name: Naglieri, Emanuele
name: Briganti, Alberto
name: Procopio, Giuseppe
name: Pignata, Sandro
name: Necchi, Andrea
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-onc-10.1177_11795549211021667 for Clinical Outcomes of Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma After Progression to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Retrospective Analysis by the Meet-Uro Group (Meet-URO 1 Study) by Melissa Bersanelli, Sebastiano Buti, Alessio Cortellini, Marco Bandini, Giuseppe Luigi Banna, Filippo Pederzoli, Elena Farè, Daniele Raggi, Patrizia Giannatempo, Ugo De Giorgi, Umberto Basso, Tania Losanno, Daniele Santini, Claudia Mucciarini, Marcello Tucci, Rosa Tambaro, Azzurra Farnesi, Orazio Caffo, Antonello Veccia, Emanuele Naglieri, Alberto Briganti, Giuseppe Procopio, Sandro Pignata and Andrea Necchi in Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology
Research into Virtual Reality and the Benefits it may have on Construction Safety Education
Creators: name: Kline, Bryan T
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Building construction management and project planning

description: The purpose of this study is to determine if Virtual Reality safety training is more effective at teaching fall protection safety than traditional methods of instruction. A literature review of previous research was conducted and a theoretical framework and methodology was developed to test the two groups for this study. The research design is a difference-in-differences method comparing the pre-test and post-test scores of the participants of each group. There will be other small pieces of analysis that will be done to further understand the results of the data collection. The data will be analyzed and interpreted to better understand how the research question was answered in comparison to previous work and the theoretical framework. Finally, other questions that arose during the process will be addressed and future areas for more research will be defined.
Type II singular perturbation approximation for linear systems with Lévy noise
Creators: name: Redmann, Martin
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: model order reduction
subject: singular perturbation approximation
subject: Gramians
subject: stochastic systems
subject: L{\'e}vy process
subject: 93A15
subject: 15A24

description: When solving linear stochastic partial differential equations numerically, usually a high order spatial discretisation is needed. Model order reduction (MOR) techniques are often used to reduce the order of spatially-discretised systems and hence reduce computational complexity. A particular MOR technique to obtain a reduced order model (ROM) is singular perturbation approximation (SPA), a method which has been extensively studied for deterministic systems. As so-called type I SPA it has already been extended to stochastic equations. We provide an alternative generalisation of the deterministic setting to linear systems with L{\'e}vy noise which is called type II SPA. It turns out that the ROM from applying type II SPA has better properties than the one of using type I SPA. In this paper, we provide new energy interpretations for stochastic reachability Gramians, show the preservation of mean square stability in the ROM by type II SPA and prove two different error bounds for type II SPA when applied to L{\'e}vy driven systems.
Additional file 1 of Unveiling heterogeneity of hysteresis in perovskite thin films
Creators: name: Zou, Zhouyiao
name: Qiu, Haian
name: Shao, Zhibin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The J–V curves of the fully assembled perovskite solar cell with architecture ITO/PEDOT: PSS/MAPbI3/PC61BM/Au. The voltage scan rate is 20 V/s and voltage scan range is from + 1.5 to − 1.5 V. The red curve represents reverse scan and blue curve represents forward scan.
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES CONTROLLING THE ALKALI SPREADING PHENOTYPE IN SORGHUM AND THEIR IMPACT ON STARCH QUALITY
Creators: name: Griebel, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agronomy

description: Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a staple food for millions of people in Africa and South Asia. It is mainly consumed for its starch. The starch composition and structure in the seed endosperm determines cooking properties, processing quality, and starch digestibility. An assay to measure the alkali spreading value (ASV) of sorghum is described. The assay was used to identify sorghum EMS mutants with variation in starch composition. The ASV mutants (ASV+) exhibited a range of starch thermal properties with starch gelatinization temperatures (GT) being lower or higher than samples from Tx623 or Sepon82. The ASV+ phenotypes were found to be correlated with starch related traits such as enthalpy (r = −0.53) and range of starch GT (Tc-To) (r = 0.60). Genes controling the ASV phenotype of sorghum and their impact on starch quality traits are described. Whole genome re-sequencing of sorghum EMS mutants exhibiting an ASV+ phenotype was used to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes Sobic.004G163700 and Sobic.010G093400. The two genes were identified as a SbeIIb, a putative sorghum homolog of amylose extender, and as a SSIIa, respectively. Linkage analysis showed that the mutations in Sobic.010G093400 and Sobic.004G163700 co-segregated with the ASV phenotype. The ssIIa-mutants exhibited normal amylose values, lower starch GT and lower final viscosity than the wild type. The sbeIIb-mutants exhibited higher amylose content, higher starch GT and lower peak and final viscosity with poor gel consistency compared to the wild type and ssIIa-mutants. An allele dosage test indicated that the sbeIIb-mutants had an allele dosage dependent effect on amylose content. Double mutants of sbeIIb and ssIIa showed that amylose content, starch thermal properties and paste viscosity profiles resemble the sbeIIb parent. A study of ASV phenotypes in a panel of more than 750 sorghum conversion lines revealed genetic variation for the ASV phenotype. A few SC-lines exhibiting stable expression of the ASV+ phenotype over two growing seasons. Most of these lines were described as belonging to the working group Nandyal, durra types from India described as producing ‘glutinous grains’. Whole genome resequencing discovered common SNPs in genes associated with starch biosynthesis. A genome wide association study (GWAS) identified a significant SNP that could be associated with the starch biosynthesis gene Sobic.010G273800, and with candidate genes Sobic.010G274800 and Sobic.010G275001 both annotated as glucosyltransferases. Grain samples from SC489, SC491, SC587 and SC589 exhibited a consistent ASV+ phenotype with lower or similar starch GT, similar amylose content, and similar high viscosity and gel consistency compared to controls.
title: Business Model
title: Arbeitshilfe zur Definition Eures Geschäftsmodells
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Goers, Jana
name: Horton, Graham
name: Kaemerer, Nance
name: Knoll, Stefan Werner
Publisher: name: Otto von Guericke University Library, Magdeburg, Germany
Year: 2017
Subjects: Founders Playbook
Arbeitshilfe
Business Model
Business Model Canvas

description: Diese Arbeitshilfe richtet sich an Gründungsinteressierte in der Anfangsphase, die neben ihrer Produktidee auch erste Vorstellungen von Customer Needs, Solution Concept und Target Market haben. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeitshilfe ist eine Skizze eines Geschäftsmodells nach der Schablone des Business Model Canvas. Damit können Gründer beginnen, sich um die weiteren Bausteine ihres zukünftigen Unternehmens Gedanken zu machen. Diese Arbeitshilfe baut auf dem Kapitel 1.4 Business Model des Founder‘s Playbook (www.founders-playbook.de) auf.
La necrópolis de Los Collados de Almedinilla (Córdoba). Historiografía de un cementerio complejo
Creators: name: Abelleira Durán, Manuel
name: Adroher Auroux, Andrés María
name: Caballero Cobos, Alejandro
name: Condom Bayarri, Jesús
name: Draguet, Elodie
name: Fernández Montoro, José Luis
name: García-López, Arturo
name: Macías Fernández, Ismael
name: Matas Adamuz, Francisco Javier
name: Moreno Rodríguez, Daniel
name: Mosquera Moreno, Luis
name: Muñiz Jaén, Ignacio
name: Ortiz Núñez, Belén
name: Pelado Pérez, Isabel
name: Roldán Díaz, Andrés
name: Tinoco Domínguez, Lucía
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: History
subject: Antiquities, Prehistoric
subject: Historiography

description: The excavations in the Necropolis of Los Collados, carried out by Luis Maraver y Alfaro in the second half of the 19th century, and afterwards, those done by Pierre Paris and Arthur Engels at the beginning of the 20th century, serve to define archeologically that which would be considered Iberian culture. Since then, apart from a few reviews of materials, this site has been forgotten to the point that its exact location was unknown to researchers. It was because of this that prospecting  work and excavation were carried out in May and July 2019 that allowed archeologists to locate the necropolis and recover  various tombs and ritual deposits. In this work we present the preliminary results of both interventions.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380211030250 - Epidemiology of Homicide in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Kennedy, Briohny
name: Bugeja, Lyndal
name: Olivier, Jake
name: Johnson, Marilyn
name: Hua, Phuong
name: Koppel, Sjaan
name: Ibrahim, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-tva-10.1177_15248380211030250 for Epidemiology of Homicide in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Briohny Kennedy, Lyndal Bugeja, Jake Olivier, Marilyn Johnson, Phuong Hua, Sjaan Koppel and Joseph E. Ibrahim in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
Moving Object Detection And Tracking With Doppler LiDAR
Creators: name: Ma, Yuchi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Geomatic engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Perceiving the dynamics of moving objects in complex scenarios is crucial for smart monitoring and safe navigation, thus a key enabler for intelligent supervision and autonomous driving. A variety of research has been developed to detect and track moving objects from data collected by optical sensors and/or laser scanners while most of them concentrate on certain type of objects or face the problem of lacking motion cues. In this thesis, we present a data-driven, model-free detection-based tracking approach for tracking moving objects in urban scenes from time sequential point clouds obtained via state-of-art Doppler LiDAR, which can not only collect spatial information (e.g. point clouds) but also Doppler images by using Doppler-shifted frequencies. In our approach, we first use Doppler images to detect moving points and determine the number of moving objects, which are then completely segmented via a region growing technique. The detected objects are then input to the tracking session which is based on Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) with two innovative extensions. One extension is that a new point cloud descriptor, Oriented Ensemble of Shape Function (OESF), is proposed to evaluate the structure similarity when doing object-to-track association in MHT. Another extension is that speed information from Doppler images is used to predict the dynamic state of the moving objects, which is integrated into MHT to improve the estimation of dynamic state of moving objects. The proposed approach has been tested on datasets collected by a terrestrial Doppler LiDAR and a mobile Doppler LiDAR separately. The quantitative evaluation of detection and tracking results shows the unique advantages of the Doppler LiDAR and the effectiveness of the proposed detection and tracking approach.
Additional file 1 of Modelling social networks for children of parents with severe and enduring mental illness: an evidence based modification to the network episode model
Creators: name: Nevard, Imogen
name: Brooks, Helen
name: Gellatly, Judith
name: Bee, Penny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Abstracts for MLA 2022 Session 410V, "Bad Revivals"
Creators: name: Arjomand, Minou
name: Kastleman, Rebecca
name: Shermeyer, Kelli
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022

description: This file contains abstracts for the papers presented by Minou Arjomand, Rebecca Kastleman, and Kelli Shermeyer in MLA 2022 special session 410V, "Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition."
Prevalence of dyslipidemia among adults in Germany
Creators: name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
name: Du, Yong
name: Knopf, Hildtraud
name: Schienkiewitz, Anja
name: Ziese, Thomas
name: Nowossadeck, Enno
name: Gößwald, Antje
name: Busch, Markus
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: Prevalence
subject: Health
subject: Adults
subject: Dyslipidemia
subject: survey
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Interview and laboratory data from the first wave of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults (DEGS1) from 2008–2011 were used to provide current estimates of the prevalence of dyslipidemia which are representative of the population in Germany 18–79 years of age. A total of 56.6% of men and 60.5% of women 18–79 years have elevated serum total cholesterol concentrations in excess of the currently recommended threshold of 190 mg/dL; 17.9% of men and 20.3% of women have highly elevated total cholesterol concentrations ≥240 mg/dL. A total of 19.3% of men and 3.6% of women have high density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations below 40 mg/dL. The overall prevalence of dyslipidemia (total cholesterol ≥190 mg/dL or medical diagnosis of dyslipidemia) is 64.5% for men and 65.7% for women. Of these, more than half of both men and women have previously undiagnosed dyslipidemia. Among persons with known dyslipidemia, 30.8% take lipid-lowering medication. Dyslipidemia is widely prevalent among adults in Germany. More in-depth analyses will examine time trends in the prevalence of dyslipidemia in Germany and in an international comparison.
Abstracts for MLA 2022 Session 410V, "Bad Revivals"
Creators: HC User
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022

description: This file contains abstracts for the papers presented by Minou Arjomand, Rebecca Kastleman, and Kelli Shermeyer in MLA 2022 special session 410V, "Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition."
sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_13684302211020108 – Supplemental material for Love thy (partisan) neighbor: Brief befriending meditation reduces affective polarization
Creators: name: Simonsson, Otto
name: Narayanan, Jayanth
name: Marks, Joseph
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-gpi-10.1177_13684302211020108 for Love thy (partisan) neighbor: Brief befriending meditation reduces affective polarization by Otto Simonsson, Jayanth Narayanan and Joseph Marks in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
The durability of examination gloves used on intensive care units
Creators: name: Hübner, Nils-Olaf
name: Goerdt, Anna-Maria
name: Mannerow, Axel
name: Pohrt, Ute
name: Heidecke, Claus-Dieter
name: Kramer, Axel
name: Partecke, Lars I.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hand hygiene
subject: Examination gloves
subject: Micro perforation
subject: Glove change
subject: Intensive care unit
subject: Disinfection
subject: Multi-barrier strategy
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The use of examination gloves is part of the standard precautions to prevent medical staff from transmission of infectious agents between patients. Gloves also protect the staff from infectious agents originating from patients. Adequate protection, however, depends on intact gloves. The risk of perforation of examination gloves is thought to correlate with duration of wearing, yet, only very few prospective studies have been performed on this issue. Methods: A total number of 1500 consecutively used pairs of examination gloves of two different brands and materials (latex and nitrile) were collected over a period of two months on two ICU’s. Used gloves were examined for micro perforations using the “water-proof-test” according to EN 455–1. Cox-regression for both glove types was used to estimate optimal changing intervals. Results: Only 26% of gloves were worn longer than 15 min. The total perforation rate was 10.3% with significant differences and deterioration of integrity of gloves between brands (p
Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana
Creators: name: L. Leavitt IV, Charles
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Italian literature
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Literature, Modern
subject: Civil rights
subject: World War (1939-1945)

description: In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that postwar Italian intellectual impegno – defined as the effort to remake Italian culture and to guide Italian social reform – was united with a significant investment in the African-American cause. The author terms this tendency impegno nero and traces its development in the critical reception of African-American writers including W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. Impegno nero revived and revised the celebrated “myth of America” that had developed in Italy between the world wars. Advancing a new, postwar myth, Italian intellectuals adopted the African-American struggle in order to reinforce their own efforts in the ongoing struggle for justice in Italy.
Lebensmittelassoziierte Virusinfektionen
Creators: name: Höhne, Marina
name: Schreier, Eckart
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Hepatitis-A-Virus
subject: Hepatitis-E-Virus
subject: Rotavirus
subject: Gastroenteritisviren
subject: infektiöse Diarrhö
subject: lebensmittelübertragende Viren
subject: Norwalk/Norwalk-like Viren
subject: Virusübertragung
subject: Gastroenteritis viruses
subject: Hepatitis A virus
subject: Hepatitis E virus
subject: Infectious diarrhoea
subject: Foodborne viruses
subject: Norwalk/Norwalk-like viruses
subject: Virus transmission
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Bis in die 70er Jahre war die Diagnostik von infektiösen Diarrhöen auf den Nachweis von Bakterien und Parasiten beschränkt, und auslösende Erreger konnten nur in einigen Fällen ermittelt werden. Verbesserte Nachweismethoden zeigten, dass Lebensmittelinfektionen neben Bakterien und Parasiten zu einem großen Teil durch virale Erreger hervorgerufen werden können. Im Gegensatz zu den Bakterien können sich Viren nicht außerhalb eines lebenden Wirtes vermehren, bleiben aber besonders unter gekühlter Lagerhaltung lange Zeit infektiös. Zu den Lebensmittel-übertragbaren Viren gehören das Hepatitis A- und E-Virus, Gastroenteritisviren wie die Norwalk/Norwalk-like, Rota- und Astroviren, aber auch Adenoviren sowie einige Enteroviren. Ihre Verbreitung erfolgt auf fäkal-oralem bzw. aerogen-oralem Weg. Aufgrund ihrer hohen Infektiosität kann es besonders in Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen wie Schulen, Kindertagesstätten, in Alten- und Pflegeheimen sowie in Krankenhäusern zu Massenausbrüchen kommen. Um eine fäkale Verunreinigung von Lebensmitteln zu vermeiden, ist die exakte Einhaltung von Hygienevorschriften und der Ausschluss von erkrankten Personen von der Lebensmittelbereitung besonders wichtig.
description: Until the 1970s, diagnostic methods for infectious diarrhoea were limited to bacteria and parasites, and the causative agent could be identified only in a few cases. But the causes of major foodborne diseases include bacteria, parasites and viruses as well. Unlike bacteria, viruses cannot multiply outside of their specific host. They remain infectious especially in conditions, such as refrigeration, designed to maintain good food quality. Viruses transmitted via food include the hepatitis-inducing viruses A and E, the gastroenteritis viruses e. g. Norwalk and Norwalk-like viruses, Rota- and Astrovirus, Adenovirus and some of the Enteroviruses. Foodborne viruses are transmitted enterically. They are shed by faeces or during vomiting and infect by being ingested (faecal-oral, aerogene-oral). Due to the very high infectivity most of the outbreaks were reported for institutional settings like schools, children's day-care and geriatric facilities and hospitals. Proper conditions of hygiene, and exclusion of sick persons from handling food are important preventive measures to avoid faecal contamination of food.
Additional file 1 of The IMPROVE trial: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of using lay health workers to improve uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Gilworth, Gill
name: Harris, Katherine
name: Morgan, Toby L.
name: Ayis, Salma
name: Fox-Rushby, Julia
name: Godfrey, Emma
name: Hopkinson, Nicholas S.
name: Lewin, Simon
name: Lim, Ka Keat
name: Spinou, Arietta
name: Taylor, Stephanie J. C.
name: White, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Beginn der Routinephase
Creators: name: Ziese, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Gesundheitsberichterstattung
subject: GBE
subject: Gesundheitsdaten
subject: Indikatoren
subject: Health monitoring
subject: Health reporting
subject: Indicators
subject: Health data
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die Gesundheitsberichterstattung (GBE) des Bundes hat als Ziel, ein Bild vom Gesundheitszustand der Bevölkerung, ihrem Gesundheitsverhalten, der Verbreitung von Risikofaktoren, der Inanspruchnahme von Leistungen sowie der Kosten und Ressourcen des Gesundheitswesens zu zeichnen. Die Finanzierung erfolgt durch das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit. Die Gesundheitsberichterstattung informiert maßnahmenorientiert über gesundheitsrelevante Themen und liefert so wissenschaftliche Grundlagen für rationale gesundheitspolitische Weichenstellungen. Es wird ein kurzer Überblick über die aktuellen GBE-Themen sowie über die organisatorische Implementierung der Bundes-GBE durch das Robert Koch-Institut gegeben. Neben ihren unmittelbaren Aufgaben beim Monitoring auf nationaler Ebene erfüllt die Bundes-GBE auch Aufgaben als Schnittstelle im vertikalen GBE-System der regionalen Ebenen, insbesondere bei der Zusammenarbeit mit der GBE der Bundesländer und auf internationaler Ebene.
description: The federal German health reporting system, financed by the Federal Ministry of Health, is monitoring the status of health, health behaviour, risk factors, health care utilisation, costs and resources of the health care system on the national level. The health reports offer action-oriented information on health related topics and provide a scientific basis for health policy decisions. This paper gives an overview on upcoming topics of the health report and briefly describes how the health reporting system is organised by the Robert Koch-Institute. Beside the health monitoring on national level the federal health reporting system co-operates with other health reporting systems on sub- and international level.
sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862211029681 – Supplemental material for Giftedness, Gender Identities, and Self-Acceptance: A Retrospective Study on LGBTQ+ Postsecondary Students
Creators: name: Lo, C. Owen
name: Hu, Shun-Fu
name: Sungur, Hasan
name: Lin, Ching-Hui
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-gcq-10.1177_00169862211029681 for Giftedness, Gender Identities, and Self-Acceptance: A Retrospective Study on LGBTQ+ Postsecondary Students by C. Owen Lo, Shun-Fu Hu, Hasan Sungur and Ching-Hui Lin in Gifted Child Quarterly
Novel Polyomaviruses of Nonhuman Primates: Genetic and Serological Predictors for the Existence of Multiple Unknown Polyomaviruses within the Human Population
Creators: name: Scuda, Nelly
name: Madinda, Nadege Freda
name: Akoua-Koffi, Chantal
name: Adjogoua, Edgard Valerie
name: Wevers, Diana
name: Hofmann, Jörg
name: Cameron, Kenneth N.
name: Leendertz, Siv Aina J.
name: Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel
name: Robbins, Martha
name: Boesch, Christophe
name: Jarvis, Michael A.
name: Moens, Ugo
name: Mugisha, Lawrence
name: Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien
name: Leendertz, Fabian
name: Ehlers, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Phylogeny
subject: Monkey Diseases/blood
subject: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
subject: Polyomavirus/genetics
subject: Antibodies Viral/blood
subject: Capsid Proteins/blood
subject: Capsid Proteins/genetics
subject: Monkey Diseases/genetics
subject: Platyrrhini/blood
subject: Platyrrhini/virology
subject: Polyomavirus/metabolism
subject: Polyomavirus Infections/blood
subject: Polyomavirus Infections/genetics
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Polyomaviruses are a family of small non-enveloped DNA viruses that encode oncogenes and have been associated, to greater or lesser extent, with human disease and cancer. Currently, twelve polyomaviruses are known to circulate within the human population. To further examine the diversity of human polyomaviruses, we have utilized a combinatorial approach comprised of initial degenerate primer-based PCR identification and phylogenetic analysis of nonhuman primate (NHP) polyomavirus species, followed by polyomavirus-specific serological analysis of human sera. Using this approach we identified twenty novel NHP polyomaviruses: nine in great apes (six in chimpanzees, two in gorillas and one in orangutan), five in Old World monkeys and six in New World monkeys. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that only four of the nine chimpanzee polyomaviruses (six novel and three previously identified) had known close human counterparts. To determine whether the remaining chimpanzee polyomaviruses had potential human counterparts, the major viral capsid proteins (VP1) of four chimpanzee polyomaviruses were expressed in E. coli for use as antigens in enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA). Human serum/plasma samples from both Côte d'Ivoire and Germany showed frequent seropositivity for the four viruses. Antibody pre-adsorption-based ELISA excluded the possibility that reactivities resulted from binding to known human polyomaviruses. Together, these results support the existence of additional polyomaviruses circulating within the human population that are genetically and serologically related to existing chimpanzee polyomaviruses.
Skin Lesions in European Hibernating Bats Associated with Geomyces destructans, the Etiologic Agent of White-Nose Syndrome
Creators: name: Wibbelt, Gudrun
name: Puechmaille, Sébastien J.
name: Ohlendorf, Bernd
name: Mühldorfer, Kristin
name: Bosch, Thijs
name: Görföl, Tamás
name: Passior, Karsten
name: Kurth, Andreas
name: Lacremans, Daniel
name: Forget, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: White-nose syndrome (WNS) has claimed the lives of millions of hibernating insectivorous bats in North America. Its etiologic agent, the psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans, causes skin lesions that are the hallmark of the disease. The fungal infection is characterized by a white powdery growth on muzzle, ears and wing membranes. While WNS may threaten some species of North American bats with regional extinction, infection in hibernating bats in Europe seems not to be associated with significant mortality. We performed histopathological investigations on biopsy samples of 11 hibernating European bats, originating from 4 different countries, colonized by G. destructans. One additional bat was euthanized to allow thorough examination of multiple strips of its wing membranes. Molecular analyses of touch imprints, swabs and skin samples confirmed that fungal structures were G. destructans. Additionally, archived field notes on hibernacula monitoring data in the Harz Mountains, Germany, over an 11-year period (2000–2011) revealed multiple capture-recapture events of 8 banded bats repeatedly displaying characteristic fungal colonization. Skin lesions of G. destructans-affected hibernating European bats are intriguingly similar to the epidermal lesions described in North American bats. Nevertheless, deep invasion of fungal hyphae into the dermal connective tissue with resulting ulceration like in North American bats was not observed in the biopsy samples of European bats; all lesions found were restricted to the layers of the epidermis and its adnexae. Two bats had mild epidermal cupping erosions as described for North American bats. The possible mechanisms for any difference in outcomes of G. destructans infection in European and North American bats still need to be elucidated.
First report of a Chinese strain of coxsackie B3 virus infection in a newborn in Germany in 2011: a case report
Creators: name: Ronellenfitsch, Sebastian
name: Tabatabai, Julia
name: Böttcher, Sindy
name: Diedrich, Sabine
name: Frommhold, David
name: Schubert-Bast, Susanne
name: Poeschl, Johannes
name: Schnitzler, Paul
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: PCR
subject: Coxsackievirus B3
subject: Enterovirus
subject: Viremia
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Introduction: Enteroviruses commonly encounter babies and children and infections present in a wide variety of symptoms ranging from asymptomatic infection, benign illness, and aseptic meningitis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease to severe life-threatening disease. Some newborns develop severe disease in the first 2 weeks of life and long-term sequelae may occur among survivors. Case presentation: We present a case report of a Caucasian newborn baby boy with severe encephalitis and systemic coxsackievirus B3 infection. The coincidence of maternal infection as well as previous mild respiratory illness in his sister suggests either prenatal or horizontal postnatal transmission. An electroencephalogram showed a severe pathologic pattern with theta-delta-rhythm and spike-wave complexes on both hemispheres. We also observed an unusual prolonged viremia for a period of 6 weeks. Due to the lack of specific antiviral treatment options, the supportive management included ventilation and medical treatment of seizures. Phylogenetic analysis revealed a genogroup D2 virus previously exclusively detected in China and now described in Europe for the first time. Conclusions: Enteroviral infection is an important differential diagnosis in neonatal encephalitis. Prolonged viremia must be taken into account and might correlate with disease severity. The newly observed enterovirus genotype D2 is spreading from Asia to other continents.