cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nasal colonization by Staphylococcus aureus in Health Sciences students and analysis of risk factors under a One Health perspective
Creators: name: Gomes-Sampaio, L. M.
name: Cláudia-Ferreira, A.
name: Prata, J. C.
name: Azevedo, R. M. S.
name: Pacheco, P.
name: Campos, C.
name: Novais, C.
name: Peixe, L.
name: Dinis-Oliveira, R. J.
name: Coelho, C.
name: Miranda, C.
name: Quinteira, S.
name: Freitas, A. R.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: Staphylococcus aureus is the leading bacterial cause of death globally [1]. Nasal carriage of S. aureus increases the risk of invasive infections, including by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains, but studies including Portuguese university students (PUS) are scarce. Objective: To analyse the prevalence of methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) and MRSA among PUS enrolled in different courses/years (1st-4th) at IUCS-CESPU, characterize their antibiotic resistance profiles, and assess the potential risk factors. Methods: Swabs collected during March-December 2022 from anterior nares of 156 volunteers (median 22-years) were processed in mannitol-salt agar and, in parallel, enriched in brain-heart broth with NaCl 6.5% further plated onto ChromID® MRSA SMART. Typical colonies were stored for species identification (MALDITOF-MS) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (disk diffusion; EUCAST/CLSI guidelines). Each student completed a questionnaire comprising demographic/clinical/social parameters. Statistical analysis was conducted in IBM-SPSS Statistics 26 using binary logistic regression applying a backward stepwise (likelihood ratio) method, with α=0.05, selecting variables using Chi-square tests and Mann-Whitney U tests for which p≤0.20, >10 occurrences, not biologically correlated [2]. Results: Prevalence of MSSA and MRSA (cefoxitin screening) were 28.8% and 1.9%, respectively. From the 45 positive samples, 9% were multidrug-resistant, 38% were resistant to penicillin, 40% to erythromycin, 40% to clindamycin (inducible), 7% to cefoxitin, 2% to tetracycline, and 2% to rifampicin. Self-reported frequent contact with animals (OR=3.44, CI 95%: 1.10–10.66) were positively associated with S. aureus, while regular sports participation presented a negative association (OR=0.36, CI 95%: 0.17–0.77). Sports participation was not correlated with self-reported excellent health (χ2=0.680, p=0.409). Conclusions: This is one of the first studies assessing MSSA/MRSA rates in PUS after the COVID-19 pandemics imposing higher self-protection/hygienization. While PUS-MSSA rates are similar to that previously observed, PUS-MRSA rates are slightly higher. Additional samples are being processed to explore future trends and other potential One Health factors influencing MSSA/MRSA colonization.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
The Merger Rate of Binary White Dwarfs in the Galactic Disk
Creators: name: Badenes, Carles
name: Maoz, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use multi-epoch spectroscopy of about 4000 white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to constrain the properties of the Galactic population of binary white dwarf systems and calculate their merger rate. With a Monte Carlo code, we model the distribution of DRVmax, the maximum radial velocity shift between exposures of the same star, as a function of the binary fraction within 0.05 AU, fbin, and the power-law index in the separation distribution at the end of the common envelope phase, alpha. Although there is some degeneracy between fbin and alpha, the the fifteen high DRVmax systems that we find constrain the combination of these parameters, which determines a white dwarf merger rate per unit stellar mass of 1.4(+3.4,-1.0)e-13 /yr/Msun (1-sigma limits). This is remarkably similar to the measured rate of Type Ia supernovae per unit stellar mass in Milky-Way-like Sbc galaxies. The rate of super-Chandrasekhar mergers is only 1.0(+1.6,-0.6)e-14 /yr/Msun. We conclude that there are not enough close binary white dwarf systems to reproduce the observed Type Ia SN rate in the 'classic' double degenerate super-Chandrasekhar scenario. On the other hand, if sub-Chandrasekhar mergers can lead to Type Ia SNe, as recently suggested by some studies, they could make a major contribution to the overall Type Ia SN rate. Although unlikely, we cannot rule out contamination of our sample by M-dwarf binaries or non-Gaussian errors. These issues will be clarified in the near future by completing the follow-up of all 15 high DRVmax systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, ApJL, accepted (modified abstract, this version should match the published one)
Learning Non-Homogenous Textures and the Unlearning Problem with Application to Drusen Detection in Retinal Images
Creators: name: Lee, Noah
name: Laine, Andrew F.
name: Smith, R. Theodore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biomedical engineering

description: In this work we present a novel approach for learning non- homogenous textures without facing the unlearning problem. Our learning method mimics the human behavior of selective learning in the sense of fast memory renewal. We perform probabilistic boosting and structural similarity clustering for fast selective learning in a large knowledge domain acquired over different time steps. Applied to non- homogenous texture discrimination, our learning method is the first approach that deals with the unlearning problem applied to the task of drusen segmentation in retinal imagery, which itself is a challenging problem due to high variability of non-homogenous texture appearance. We present preliminary results.
title: Realisierung und Implementierung einer zentralen, funkgestützten Steuerung der Rollladen eines Einfamilienhauses
Creators: name: Borgmann, Frank
name: Möllers, Michael
Publisher: name: FH Münster
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten

description: Die hier vorliegende Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema "Realisierung und Implementierung einer zentralen, funkgestützten Steuerung der Rollladen eines Einfamilienhauses". Die entworfene Schaltung ist kompatibel zu einem bestehenden Funkschaltsystem für Steckdosen und Dimmer. Ein weiterer Zielpunkt dieser Diplomarbeit war, dass die neue Schaltung günstiger herzustellen ist, als schon existierende Systeme. Die Funktionalität eine Rolllade per Taster oder durch eine Funkfernbedienung, auf 433MHz Basis, zu bedienen bzw. zu steuern ist auch gegeben. Durch eine Verkleinerung der Platine bzw. eine Optimierung der Programmierung ist eine Verbesserung der Schaltung möglich. Weitere Funktionen können durch Ergänzung der Hard- und Software hinzugefügt werden.
Are We Failing FAmILy?: A Situational Analysis of Family Perspectives on Functioning While in Out-of-home Care
Creators: name: Westelmajer, Chloe
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: family functioning
subject: out-of-home care
subject: residential care
subject: task accomplishment
subject: core competencies
subject: functioning-with
subject: functioning-within
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Individual and Family Studies
subject: Public and Social Welfare
subject: Mental Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Psychology--Social

description: Despite Canada having the highest rate of children living in out-of-home care throughout the world (Brownell & McMurtry, 2015; Gilbert et al., 2012; Thoburn, 2007) there is scant Canadian data or research pertaining to these children and their families. Research has shown that a child’s family functioning level is highly correlated with successful out-of-home mental health care treatment outcomes, discharge, behavioural improvement, and stability (Sunseri, 2004, 2019). Family functioning models and assessments that have not been normed upon Canadian families, or that organise family functioning related to task accomplishment, are being utilised to make life-changing decisions within out-of-home care settings. Harnessing my experiences as a front-line counsellor, family therapist, manager, administrator, and passionate out-of-home care advocate I set about asking the research question “What aspects of functioning as a family unit are most important and most immediate to families with a child in out-of-home mental health care?” in order to create theory that could provide better comprehension of what functioning means for these families. I utilised Adele Clarke’s (Clarke, 2005, 2007, 2009; Clarke et al., 2015, 2018) methodological extension of Situational Analysis, Kathy Charmaz’s (2014) Constructivist Grounded Theory Coding structure, and Nora Bateson’s (2016) concept of “warm” and contextualised data to get as close as possible to the situated knowledge of family functioning with a child in out-of-home care. Following maximum variation theoretical sampling, 13 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 families and 42 individual family members engaging in out-of-home mental health care. Through my analysis 72 family functioning tasks, or core competencies, practiced by families arose and were categorised within five core areas: coping with disconnected systems, managing stigma and blame, attending to the emotional needs of the whole family, living through and living with mental health issues, and creating togetherness through separation. The resulting theory is that families, as the unacknowledged and silenced front-line workers, have to function with, and within, the many elements that surround the reality of living with a family member in out-of-home mental health care.
Heat Transfer Characteristics of NanofluidDue to a Permeable Rotating Disk withSlip Effect and Thermophoresis
Creators: name: Rahman, Mohammad Mahabubur
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2019
Subjects: Phosphorus
Particulate inorganic phosphorus
Particulate organic Phosphorus
Mae Klong River

description: Science & Technology Asia, 24, 1, 1-13
DNA metabarcoding reveals dietary niche partitioning in a community of small petrels breeding in the subtropical North Atlantic
Creators: name: Waap, Silke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The data generated from the manuscript "DNA metabarcoding reveals dietary niche partitioning in a community of small petrels breeding in the subtropical North Atlantic" :

Raw data file with demultiplexed sequences (paper.qza)
Metadata file (metadata.xls) with the information of each sample, including sampling code and the species to which each belongs.
Feature-table after filtering for frequency and taxonomy as explained in the Methods section contains the counts of unique features in each sample and map a feature identifier to each sequence. Contains the taxonomical classification for each feature using LCA, Best-Hit and EPA assignments.
Data file containing the prey-species identified in each sample using LCA, Best-Hit and EPA assignments. The higher taxonomic and ecological groups to which each prey-species was assigned are shown.  
Codes used to generate the data of this study
EPA-nt placement output files
Genetic counselling implications for intermediate allele predictive test results for Huntington disease
Creators: name: Semaka, Alicia Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Intermediate alleles (IAs) for Huntington disease (HD) have between 27–35 CAG repeats. While they usually do not confer the HD phenotype, they are prone to germline CAG repeat instability. Consequently, offspring are at-risk of inheriting an expanded allele in the HD range (≥36 CAG). Currently there are numerous gaps in our molecular and clinical knowledge on IAs despite their characterization almost 20 years ago. This thesis utilized a unique mixed-method design of molecular and qualitative techniques in order to generate new knowledge on the frequency, haplotype, and CAG repeat instability of IAs and explored current genetic counselling practices and patient understanding and interpretation of an IA predictive test results (PTR). In the Huntington Disease Biobank at the University of British Columbia, 30% (n=54/181) of IA familial transmissions demonstrated intergenerational CAG repeat instability. Of these unstable transmissions, 14% were repeat expansions into the disease-associated range. In a sample of British Columbia’s general population, with no known association to HD, 5.8% (n=92/1594) of individuals were found to have an IA. Of the IAs ascertained in this general population sample, 60% were on haplotypes associated with a high-risk of CAG repeat instability. Paternal CAG-size specific risk estimates for repeat instability, including repeat expansion into the HD range, were established using sperm (n=18763) from 31 males with an IA. Alleles at the upper limits of the intermediate CAG size range (34-35 CAG) had the most significant risk (i.e. 2.5-21.0%) of expanding into the disease range. Interviews with medical genetics service providers and individuals who received an IA-PTR revealed pre-test genetic counselling practices vary based on the individuals’ family history and that clients struggled to understand the clinical implications and significance of their IA-PTR. This thesis substantially contributes to our knowledge of IAs for HD. Collectively the comprehensive findings have important implications for genetic counselling and will help ensure individuals undergoing predictive testing receive appropriate support, education, and counselling on IAs.
Affleck-Dine baryogenesis in inflating curvaton scenario with O($10-10^2$TeV) mass moduli curvaton
Creators: name: Furuuchi, Kazuyuki
name: Lin, Chia-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis in the inflating curvaton scenario, when the curvaton is a moduli field with O($10-10^2$TeV) mass. A moduli field with such mass is known to be free from the Polonyi problem, and furthermore its decay products can explain the present cold dark matter abundance. In our scenario, it further explains the primordial curvature perturbation and the present baryon density all together. The current observational bound on the baryon isocurvature perturbation, which severely constrains the AD baryogenesis with the original oscillating moduli curvaton scenario, is shown to put practically negligible constraint if we replace the oscillating curvaton with the inflating curvaton.
description: 1+21pages v2: minor correction v3: included short reviews, added refs, fixed typos
Extraction and Determination of Anthraquinone from Herbal Plant as Bird Repellent
Creators: name: Ruchira Khoomsab
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2019
Subjects: Extraction
Anthraquinone
Cassod Tree Leaves
Golden Shower Pods
Noni Roots

description: Science & Technology Asia, 24, 1, 14-20
Residual Graph Convolutional Neural Network for Gait Recognition across Various Walking Conditions
Creators: name: Shopon, Md
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Gait Recognition, Graph Convolutional Neural Network, Residual Connection
subject: Artificial Intelligence

description: Over the years, extensive attention was given to a person identification task to prevent fraudulent activities. Several techniques have been developed for verifying persons from video or image by considering biometrics such as face, palm print, iris, and gait. Among all the traits mentioned above, gait is an unobtrusive and easily collectible biometric that can be observed without hindrance to the subject's activity. However, gait recognition performance can deteriorate under challenging conditions, including unconstrained path, bulky clothing, and different viewing angles. To provide an effective solution to gait recognition under these conditions, this thesis pioneers developing the Residual Connection-based Graph Convolutional Neural Network architecture for robust and reliable gait recognition. The proposed methodology incorporates residual connections for gait recognition from videos. Furthermore, the proposed system is lightweight in terms of computational cost, making the model deployable in practice. CASIA-B and AVA multi-view Gait datasets are used to evaluate the efficacy of the proposed method. The developed system attained 97.03% mean accuracy under normal walking conditions, 90.77% mean accuracy under bag carrying conditions, 89.90% mean accuracy under bulky clothes wearing conditions on CASIA-B gait dataset, and 98.85% mean accuracy for unconstrained gaits on AVA multi-view Gait dataset. The findings demonstrate that the proposed methodology outperformed other state-of-the-art gait recognition systems under challenging walking conditions.
Real-Time Segmentation of 4D Ultrasound by Active Geometric Functions
Creators: name: Duan, Qi
name: Angelini, Elsa D.
name: Homma, Shunichi
name: Laine, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biomedical engineering

description: Four-dimensional ultrasound based on matrix phased array transducers can capture the complex 4D cardiac motion in a complete and real-time fashion. However, the large amount of information residing in 4D ultrasound scans and novel applications under interventional settings pose a big challenge in efficiency for workflow and computer-aided diagnostic algorithms such as segmentation. In this context, a novel formulation framework of the minimal surface problem, called active geometric functions (AGF), is proposed to reach truly real-time performance in segmenting 4D ultrasound data. A specific instance of AGF based on finite element modeling and Hermite surface descriptors was implemented and evaluated on 35 4D ultrasound data sets with a total of 425 time frames. Quantitative comparison to manual tracing showed that the proposed method provides LV contours close to manual segmentation and that the discrepancy was comparable to inter-observer tracing variability. The ability of such realtime segmentation will not only facilitate the diagnoses and workflow, but also enables novel applications such as interventional guidance and interactive image acquisition with online segmentation.
Fundamentals of Oil Sloughing during SAGD Production in Reservoirs with Bottom Water
Creators: name: Butron, Jessica Bayocot
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Oil Sloughing
subject: Water Coning
subject: Water Cresting
subject: SAGD with Bottom Water
subject: Bottom Water
subject: Oil Sands with Bottom Water
subject: SAGD Oil Recovery
subject: Capillary Pressure in Oil Sands
subject: Steam Oil Ratio (SOR)
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: SAGD production from reservoirs with bottom water leads to several challenges. Most commonly, the bottom water is treated as a heat loss zone, leading to high steam-oil-ratios (SOR’s). A traditional approach to these systems is to optimize well placement, trying to balance low SOR’s with loss of recoverable oil below the producer well. However, bottom water can lead to another complication: a further loss of oil resource due to oil invasion into the bottom water. Oil sloughing, as it is called in this thesis, is a novel phenomenon and not much is known about its underlying mechanisms. Previous work suggested that oil sloughing could be harnessed to improve the oil recovery and SOR during SAGD production in reservoirs with bottom water, but the numerical simulation results and field pilot testing appeared to be contradictory. This study aims to prove the existence of oil sloughing, investigate the underlying mechanisms, and evaluate whether it can be mitigated or harnessed to improve the oil recovery and SOR. Due to the novelty of oil sloughing, and its preliminary discovery through numerical simulations, physical visual experiments were conducted to prove its existence and explore its potential mechanisms (a pseudo-2D-model, a mini-2D-model inside a CT scanner, and capillary equilibrium tubes). A numerical simulation study was then conducted to assess and compare the proposed mechanisms. This study is phenomenological in nature; the numbers obtained herein are not scalable but are designed to shed light into the mechanisms that can result in oil sloughing. The results indicate that oil sloughing is a real phenomenon. It is an oil drainage process, i.e., oil pressure must first overcome the water and capillary pressure before it can invade the water zone. In this manner, oil sloughing can be accelerated by conditions such as bottom water cresting and the fact that the fluid displaced down into the bottom water is not just oil but a mixture of oil and condensed steam. Oil sloughing can be harnessed to improve oil recovery and SOR, but the production well must be placed within the minimum distance for oil sloughing to occur. If fluid redistribution happens, sloughing can also potentially block off water cresting and keep production SOR’s low. Bottom water SAGD can be economical if oil sloughing is harnessed properly in conjunction with water cresting to enhance oil recovery during SAGD production in reservoirs with bottom water.
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium circulating in a Portuguese hospital (2009-2021) challenges classical infection control
Creators: name: Almeida-Santos, A. C.
name: Duarte, B.
name: Tedim, A. P.
name: Fernández-De-Bobadilla, M. D.
name: Silva, L. M.
name: Ramos, H.
name: Coque, T. M.
name: Novais, C.
name: Freitas, A. R.
name: Peixe, L.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) prevalence greatly varies in European countries yet continues to rise [1]. We aimed to characterize clinical-VREfm from a local hospital (800-beds) during 2009-2021. Methods: VREfm [n=175; mostly from urine (40%)] were collected from medical-47% and surgical-32% wards. Antibiotic-resistance (ABR) and occurrence of vanA/vanB, plasmids [rep-pLG1/rep-pRUM/rep-Inc18(rep1/rep2)] and virulence genes were screened by disk-diffusion/broth-microdilution (EUCAST/CLSI) and PCR, respectively. Representative VREfm/year (n=81) were selected for MLST+WGS (Illumina-NovaSeq) and analysed through CGE-tools (homemade virulence and bacteriocins(bac) databases) and cgMLST/Ridom-SeqSphere+. Results: All isolates were resistant to glycopeptides [98%-vanA;2%-vanB], ampicillin, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin [erm(B)/msr(C)], less to gentamicin (49%;aac(6’)-Ie-aph(2’’)-Ia), tetracycline [27%; tet(M)/tet(L)], quinupristin-dalfopristin (5%) and/or linezolid (2%;GT2576 mutation). VREfm were oligoclonal (until 7 STs/year), mostly clustering into ST117-31%, ST78-19% and ST80-12%. For each ST, different complex-types (CT) were detected each year, but some were identified in different wards from 3-months (ST412-CT258/ST117-CT4659) to 2-4-years (ST117-CT24/CT6602/CT6603; ST78-CT330). Sequenced VREfm showed slight overlap (ST117-CT24 and ST78-CT230) with other global Efm. Recent years (>2019) concentrated the majority of novel CTs, without common clones over time, and ST494 (associated with a German outbreak) was introduced. ABR and virulence patterns were similar throughout the years. Bac-profiles (13 patterns) were similar between common STs/CTs. One new bacteriocin was detected >2017, Bac43 increased over time and BacAS9 was exclusively detected in ST117. The typical VREfm plasmidome [RepA_N-pRUM/pLG1-like, Inc18, Rep3-pB82/pEF418, Rep_Trans-pEFNP1/pRI1] was observed across the years however, Rep-pRUM decreased. A novel RepA_N-replicase (69% nucleotide identity with pRUM) was identified in most VREfm during 2009-2021. In silico analysis showed its occurrence in ~100 Efm-genomes/GenBank from different countries after 2000. Conclusion: Current clinical VREfm display a strong oligoclonal nature. Nosocomial transmission events and/or import of VREfm from colonized patients may explain the long-term persistence of particular clones. The continuous flux between community and hospital clones may feed the emergence of new lineages/opportunities for adaption hampering classical infection control interventions.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
Promoting resilience in post-secondary students: A case study
Creators: name: Bello, Jhonattan
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Resilience
subject: Education
subject: Post-secondary education
subject: Instructors
subject: Ecological resilience
subject: success
subject: Resilience promotion
subject: Students support
subject: Education
subject: Education--Adult and Continuing
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education--Secondary
subject: Education--Teacher Training
subject: Literature--Canadian (English)
subject: Human Development
subject: Mental Health

description: In post-secondary education, students face a variety of risks and challenges, including intensive workload, higher levels of stress, withdrawal from their programs, and emerging substance use disorders. Developing resilience is essential for undergraduate students to navigate through these challenges. It also prepares students to face difficulties in their future professional lives. Empirical evidence indicates that the development of resilience is associated with the living environment and depends on mentors or figures who model the characteristics of resilience. The relationship between instructors and undergraduate students may be particularly important due to the role modelling of the instructors. However, we still do not know the specific ways in which educators develop resilience in post-secondary students. Using a case study methodology, this research aimed to better understand the ways in which instructors promoted resilience in undergraduate students. Interviews, document analysis, and scenario analysis were conducted in an undergraduate faculty in a large university in Western Canada. The findings suggested that creating a safe and trusting environment, focusing on a meaningful goal, clarifying expectations, modeling flexible thinking, and finding the right stories to tell, are specific ways in which instructors promote resilience in their students. This study emphasizes the importance of instructors in the development of resilience. Instructors’ ecological perspective of resilience is embedded in the different strategies used to promote resilience in the classroom. The themes of this study formed the foundation of a novel framework for the development of resilience presented at the conclusion chapter of the present thesis. Key terms: Resilience, Education, Post-secondary education, Instructors, Ecological resilience, Resilience promotion, Students support.
High occurrence of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from Holstein-Friesian cattle in Northern Portugal: a One Health challenge
Creators: name: Quinteira, S.
name: Dias, A. B.
name: Pinho, L.
name: Brito, N. V.
name: Campos, C.
name: Freitas, A. R.
name: Miranda, C.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: Escherichia coli is currently a leading pathogen for deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) [1]. AMR related to food-producing animals is a public health risk requiring a One Health approach [1,2]. Animals are major reservoirs of antibiotic resistant E. coli which can easily reach humans through the food chain, direct contact, or the environment [3]. Objective: To analyze the AMR profiles of E. coli in fecal samples from Holstein-Friesian cattle, as information on AMR from dairy farming in Portugal is scarce. Methods: Samples (n=112) collected from 7 different farms at Northern Portugal were pooled during February-March 2023 based on age group (8 calves and 8 cows per farm). Characteristic E. coli colonies were selected from MacConkey Agar supplemented with or without antibiotics (4 µg/ml cefotaxime; 3 µg/ml colistin), for confirmation by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), according to EUCAST/CLSI guidelines. ESBL phenotype were searched using the Double-Disk Synergy Test. Results: Presumptive E. coli isolates (n=110) representing different farming production systems were obtained and 51 representatives were identified by MALDI-TOF and tested by AST. From both calves and cows, 95% and 63% of the E. coli isolates exhibited resistance to ≥1 antimicrobial classes and multidrug resistance (MDR, resistance to ≥3 antimicrobial classes), respectively. Isolates were mostly resistant to gentamycin (88%), ampicillin (72%), amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid (63%), tetracycline (63%) and cefotaxime (53%). Only two isolates showed susceptibility two all tested antibiotics. ESBL activity was observed in 21% of E. coli isolates. All analyzed pools were classified as MDR. Conclusions: This is one of the first studies on AMR rates of E. coli from dairy cattle in Northern Portugal. It reveals a high prevalence of MDR E. coli, which is a worrying finding and emphasize the need of a multisectoral One Health approach to minimize its impact.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
The Impact of Language on Law-Making and Norm-Making
Creators: name: Trklja, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: International Language and Law Association (ILLA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Language, law, law-making, norms, norm-making, norm-generation, legisprudence
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences: Linguistics: Computational Linguistics; Law: Legal Writing and Research; Law: Jurisprudence

description: The constitutive role of language in law-making and norm-making has been largely neglected in previous legal studies. Many of these studies were concerned with the legal and historical aspects of law-making and norm-making, and regarded language mainly as an assisting device or a neutral medium of communication, rather than as a mechanism that can influence the production of law and norms and thus shape the content of jurisprudence. The present issue of JLL aims to address the latter issue. We welcome papers that investigate empirically or theoretically the impact of language on the law-making process and the development of norms. This call for papers is open until 31 July 2019 (extensions possible upon request), authors should submit through the journal website at languageandlaw.eu/jll/login, or send an electronic copy of their submission to editor@languageandlaw.eu.

Cite as: Trklja, JLL 8 (2019), 9–11, DOI: 10.14762/jll.2019.009
description: International Journal of Language & Law (JLL), Vol 8: (2019)
Phenomenology of high gluon density QCD and heavy-ion physics at ISMD 2011: x smaller than ever !
Creators: name: Dumitru, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I provide a brief summary of the theory presentations at ISMD 2011 related to the phenomenology of small-x QCD evolution and its application to particle production and fluctuations in high-energy hadron and heavy-ion collisions. I also mention some challenges for quantitative phenomenology which emerged from the LHC, such as understanding the long-range "ridge" in high-multiplicity p+p collisions, the transverse momentum distributions in p+p at semi-hard pT, and the origin and scale of density fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions.
description: 10 pages; contribution to proceedings of ISMD 2011, Sept. 26-30, Miyajima Island, Hiroshima; v2: minor modifications to the text, added two references; to be published in Progr. Theor. Phys. Suppl
Segmentation of 4D MR Renography Images Using Temporal Dynamics in a Level Set Framework
Creators: name: Song, Ting
name: Lee, Vivian S.
name: Rusinek, Henry
name: Chen, Qun
name: Bokacheva, Louisa
name: Laine, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Kidney--Radiography
Image segmentation

description: A novel 4D level set framework was developed to segment dynamic MR images into the cortex, medulla and collecting system. The novelty of the method is that it combines information from spatial anatomical structures and temporal dynamics. The accuracy of the fully automatic 4D level set algorithm was found to be comparable to manual segmentation performed by experts on renal anatomy. The algorithm requires less than one minute to automatically segment a single kidney 4D patient data set with more than 40 time points.
Vanishing Meissner effect as a hallmark of in-plane FFLO instability in superconductor - ferromagnet layered systems
Creators: name: Mironov, S.
name: Mel'nikov, A.
name: Buzdin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that in a wide class of multilayered superconductor - ferromagnet structures (e.g., S/F, S/F/N and S/F/F') the vanishing Meissner effect signals the appearance of the in-plane Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) modulated superconducting phase. In contrast to the bulk superconductors the FFLO instability in these systems can emerge at temperatures close to the critical one and is effectively controlled by the S layer thickness and the angle between magnetization vectors in the F/F' bilayers. The predicted FFLO state reveals through the critical temperature oscillations vs the perpendicular magnetic field component.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Siderophore-antimicrobial adjuvant conjugates as a strategy to fight antibacterial resistance
Creators: name: Almeida, M. C.
name: Da Costa, P. M.
name: Sousa, E.
name: Resende, D. I. S. P.
Publisher: name: Scientific Letters
Year: 2023

description: Background: The levels of drug resistance to traditional antibiotics have been dramatically increasing constituting a threat to global health.[1] For this reason, the pursuit of alternative strategies to the discovery of novel antibacterial agents is a priority.[2] Emerging approaches include the development of target-directed compounds through the conjugation of antibiotics with moieties that will improve antibacterial activity.[2] A promising example is the conjugation of antibiotics with siderophores/siderophore mimetics able to highjack iron transport systems of bacteria acting as “Trojan Horses” [3, 4]. Objective: In this work, we aimed to synthesize conjugated molecules between siderophores/siderophore mimetics and antimicrobial adjuvants to obtain dual action compounds. Future goals also include the evaluation of the antibacterial activity and synergism potential of the compounds as well as the assessment of their effect on common resistant models. Methods/Results: Siderophore mimetics were synthesized through a variety of synthetic pathways. Then, two sequential coupling reactions were performed to connect the antibacterial adjuvant, the linker moiety and the siderophore or the siderophore mimetic. Structural elucidation of the compounds was obtained by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques (NMR). Conclusions: Siderophore-antimicrobial adjuvant conjugates described in this work were successfully synthetized and are expected to reveal potential as a novel approach to fight antimicrobial resistance.
description: Scientific Letters, Vol. 1 No. Sup 1 (2023)
Tangential curved planar reformation for topological and orientation invariant visualization of vascular trees
Creators: name: Lee, Noah
name: Rasch, Matthias
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biomedical engineering

description: Recently, extensions to curved planar reformation (CPR) were proposed to improve vascular visualization of medical images. While these projective transformations provide enhanced visualization of vascular trees, non-planar alignment and arbitrary topology can cause visualization artifacts. Vascular trees in medical images are not aligned to planar cross-sections of volumetric image slices and thus aggravate simultaneous visualization of diagnostic features. Complex tree topology and non-planar alignment requires the need for an adaptive projection scheme to prevent visualization artifacts while preserving correctness of anatomical information. In this paper, we present algorithmic details for topological and orientation invariant visualization of vascular trees. Vascular high-level description of the medial axis guides the reformation process by flattening the vascular tree interior to successive image planes for respective radial sampling angles. Tree orientations are estimated from intrinsic shape properties of the vascular tree for rotation invariant projection. Radial sampling planes perpendicular to the medial axis tangents are the basis for topological invariant visualization of complete vascular interiors. We present experimental results on two different vascular tree topologies and demonstrate that our method is able to produce artifact free visualization of vascular interiors.
The role of Community Health Navigators in the creation of plans to support patients with chronic conditions: A sub study of the ENCOMPASS trial
Creators: name: Leong, Michelle
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Patient navigation
subject: Barriers to care
subject: Patient navigators
subject: Primary care
subject: Community Health Navigators
subject: Multiple chronic conditions
subject: Chronic disease management
subject: Public Health

description: Background: Patients with chronic conditions implement care plans in the community but barriers to care, such as financial constraints, may hinder their abilities to do so. Support from patient navigators has been shown to improve health disparities associated with socioeconomic barriers and increase patient adherence with care plans. However, the role of patient navigators in providing individualized support to address unique patient needs is not well defined in the literature. The ENhancing COMmunity health through Patient navigation, Advocacy and Social Support (ENCOMPASS) research program in Calgary is testing a patient navigation program to address patient barriers and build self-efficacy. Non-clinically trained Community Health Navigators (CHNs) are paired with patients diagnosed with two or more (of a set of six) common chronic conditions and provide support by helping patients set and meet priorities. Purpose: To explore if and how CHNs tailor their plans of support to address patient social and/or health-related needs in the ENCOMPASS program of research. Methods: A multimethod qualitative description approach was used. Case notes completed by CHNs documenting information on patient barriers, priorities, and the CHN’s support plan for each patient priority were analyzed. Two reviewers subjectively assessed Priority-CHN plans to determine the appropriateness of the plan. Patient priorities and CHN plans of support were coded separately using thematic codebook analysis, with codes being subsequently linked and quantitized to show percent correlation. Descriptive statistics was used to summarize findings. Results: 86 patients were included in the analysis. A total of 179 patient priorities were evaluated and 157 priorities (88%) were assessed as having CHN support plans that had a reasonable link to addressing the priority. The strongest correlations between a priority and support plan were found for: medication adherence and CHN verifying adherence to care plan (100%); transportation and CHN facilitating transportation (90%); increasing knowledge about medical information and CHN gathering and sharing information (60%). Conclusion: CHNs planned diverse and appropriate supports to help address patient priorities. Future work should consider linking the supports provided by CHNs during the intervention to patient priorities and barriers to further understand how CHNs provide tailored support.
Pentachordal configurations in two late works by Leoš Janáček
Creators: name: Easey, Jonathan Norman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Modern research on the work of Leoš Janáček is often focused on elements that are explored in Janáček’s own theoretical writing: techniques of text-setting, speech rhythm, organicism, and narration. This scholarly preponderance is important, because it brings Janáček’s own work in music theory to the fore, but it has also become prohibitive because Janáček’s theories have drawn scholars’ attention away from more focused, detailed analysis of his music. This study represents a refocusing of the analytical lens. In it I examine the pitch materials of two of Janáček’s works from the 1920s: the first movement of String Quartet no. 1 and an aria from Z Mrtveho Domu (From the House of the Dead). My examinations show that Janáček, in addition to being in the vanguard of developments in text-setting and speech rhythm, was also innovative in his deployment of pitch collections and his manipulation of standard tonal procedures. Indeed, my examination aims to show that Janáček’s use of pitch collections itself represents a skillful manipulation of tonality. By isolating and reflecting on the properties of particular intervals and groups of intervals, Janáček is able to craft his own unique brand of tonality that eschews many of the characteristics and hierarchies of standard practice. In the quartet we see Janáček developing motivic material based on a pentachord formed by the motives of the opening bars. This pentachord and its intervallic subsets have interesting properties which Janáček then illustrates through the motives’ deployment in the movement. The tonal allusions in the piece are all drawn from triadic relationships contained in the pentachord and its derivations. In the opera aria Janáček utilizes pentatonicism to establish a juxtaposition of semitones and perfect fifths – the only two intervals that can generate the totality of twelve-tone pitch space. Because both of these intervals generate pitch spaces which utilize all of the twelve pitch classes, they share a unique isomorphism which emerges from Janáček’s deployment of pentatonic pitch collections and which is explored here from both analytical and theoretical perspectives.
Making metadata inclusive: content development in the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST)
Creators: name: Bolton, Sharon
name: Balkan, Lorna
name: Beeken, Jeannine
name: Bornatici, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Partnerships And Collaborations

description: Developing and updating thesaurus content in ELSST is crucial to ensure that it remains a current and relevant resource for data providers, distributors, archives and researchers. The process of content development is an ongoing, cross-national, collaborative enterprise undertaken by ELSST partners drawn from CESSDA’s Service Provider organisations. Together, we work to ensure that ELSST remains internationally recognisable and relevant. As a case study, this presentation will focus on a recent update to the ELSST concept hierarchy covering sexuality and gender, completed for the 2022 thesaurus release. It will cover the consultation and research process we undertook to ensure that the updated hierarchy was made as inclusive and comprehensive as possible. It will also describe how this experience has informed our practice for future updates to other potentially sensitive concept hierarchies. Making ELSST content inclusive not only reflects our duty to enable social justice by recognising diversity but also provides better and more precise keyword coverage for research resources. Consistent search results provided by ELSST’s comprehensive controlled vocabulary will allow researchers across the community to share and find useful data more easily, as social research evolves in a changing society.
Relationship Between Intelligence and Adaptive Skills while Considering Diagnostic Status
Creators: name: Henezi, Nicole
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Intelligence
subject: Adaptive Skills
subject: Children
subject: Assessment
subject: Educational Psychology

description: The current study explored the relationship between intelligence and adaptive skills in children without a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or intellectual disability (ID) using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-fifth edition (WISC-V) and Behaviour Assessment System for Children-third edition (BASC-3). Current research has suggested that in children with ASD and/or ID there is commonly a relationship between their cognitive performance and their ability to complete daily living skills. However, little research has been conducted in a population without one of these diagnoses. From the small amount of research that has been investigated with children who do not have an ASD and/or ID diagnosis, the results are inconclusive. This study analyzed the relationship between intelligence and adaptive skills for children who do not have a diagnosis of ASD and/or ID. Then, the relationship between intelligence and adaptive skills was standardized and analyzed in children based on the number of mental health diagnoses they have. There was no significant relationship found between intelligence and adaptive skills in children who did not have a current diagnosis of ASD and/or ID. Contrary to what was hypothesized, when the number of other diagnoses was considered, the current study did not find differences in the relationship between these variables dependent on the number of diagnoses they had. This study did not find significant relationships between intelligence and adaptive skills there was no relationship found between these variables in children who had one diagnosis. Psychologists do not always use an adaptive measure in their assessments for all children. This research emphasizes, that assessing adaptive skills in assessments may provide useful information regarding individual student functioning, as intelligence and adaptive skills were found to not have a relationship. Children may have intact intellectual functioning but have deficits in their adaptive skills, and vis versa. By understanding how children function in their daily lives, intervention can be used to target areas of deficit to improve how children function daily within their environment.
title: Optimierung und Implementierung eines Systems zur Unterdrückung von Werbeblöcken bei Aufzeichnungen mit dem Videorecorder
Creators: name: Janke, Thorsten
name: Koppers, Markus
Publisher: name: FH Münster
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik

description: Diese Diplomarbeit befaßt sich mit den Möglichkeiten Fernsehsendungen ohne Werbung mit dem Videorecorder aufzuzeichnen. Zur Erkennung von Werbeblöcken werden verschiedene Algorithmen, die auf einer optischen Detektion des Logos basieren, vorgestellt, in einer Softwarelösung implementiert, getestet und bewertet.
Pressure Tuned Insulator to Metal Transition in Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Tafti, F. F.
name: Ishikawa, J. J.
name: McCollam, A.
name: Nakatsuji, S.
name: Julian, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the effect of pressure on the pyrochlore iridate Eu$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$, which at ambient pressure has a thermally driven insulator to metal transition at $T_{MI}\sim120$\,K. As a function of pressure the insulating gap closes, apparently continuously, near $P \sim 6$\,GPa. However, rather than $T_{MI}$ going to zero as expected, the insulating ground state crosses over to a metallic state with a negative temperature coefficient of resistivity, calling into question the true nature of both ground states. The high temperature state also crosses over near 6 GPa, from an incoherent to a conventional metal, suggesting a connection between the high and the low temperature states.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, updated after publication in Physical Review B