cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trade-offs in stakeholder theory : an ordonomic perspective
Creators: name: Pies, Ingo
name: Valentinov, Vladislav
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Purpose – Stakeholder theory understands business in terms of relationships among stakeholders whose interests are mainly joint but may be occasionally conflicting. In the latter case, managers may need to make trade-offs between these interests. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of managerial decision-making about these trade-offs. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on the ordonomic approach which sees business life to be rife with social dilemmas and locates the role of stakeholders in harnessing or resolving these dilemmas through engagement in rule-finding and rule-setting processes. Findings – The ordonomic approach suggests that stakeholder interests trade-offs ought to be neither ignored nor avoided, but rather embraced and welcomed as an opportunity for bringing to fruition the joint interest of stakeholders in playing a better game of business. Stakeholders are shown to bear responsibility for overcoming the perceived trade-offs through the institutional management of social dilemmas. Originality/value – For many stakeholder theorists, the nature of managerial decision-making about trade-offs between conflicting stakeholder interests and the nature of trade-offs themselves have been a long-standing point of contention. The paper shows that trade-offs may be useful for the value creation process and explicitly discusses managerial strategies for dealing with them.
Haptic Data Reduction and Protection in Multimodal Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Sakr, Nizar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The emerging field of haptics, which enables the sensing and manipulation of virtual environments through touch, is recognized as an important element in the area of human computer interaction. Many of its applications, including medical training, rehabilitation, security, entertainment, etc. involve the transmission, storage, protection, and analysis of haptic information. However, the multi-dimensional and time-varying nature of haptic data along with the fact that high sampling frequencies are required when generating haptic signals, motivate the research of haptic data reduction. This thesis discusses two important and related topics: data reduction and protection in multimodal visual-haptic virtual environments. The focus of the first topic is on the design, evaluation, and analysis of haptic data reduction techniques in order to: (1) Improve packet transmission in telehaptic systems, and (2) reduce the dimensionality of the inherently large haptic datasets. In the former case, robust perception-based data reduction methods in 3- and 6-degree-of-freedom telehaptic systems are derived. The proposed techniques are evaluated in different experimental settings, including a haptic-enabled telesurgery simulation, and demonstrate a significant reduction in haptic data traffic while maintaining a high-quality telehaptic experience. In the latter case, data reduction in haptic information analysis problems is investigated. Specifically, data reduction methods are presented within the context of haptic data mining and knowledge discovery to help facilitate the analysis of the inherently high-dimensional haptic datasets. Experiments using datasets of haptic-based handwritten signatures demonstrate the accuracy of the techniques in reducing the high dimensionality of haptic feature spaces. The protection of haptic information through digital watermarking is also investigated in this thesis due to its conceptual similarity to haptic data reduction and compression. A foundational study is conducted to examine the role of multisensory feedback in the perception of a watermark embedded in a haptic-enabled 3D virtual surface. In particular, the analysis aims to answer numerous important questions in this brand-new research area, including: Do watermarks inspected using multimodal feedback (vision + haptic) result in very different detection thresholds from those detected using a single sensory modality; or more importantly, whether multimodal visual-haptic feedback improves the perception of watermarks embedded in 3D meshes.
Fruit production in coffee (Coffea arabica L.) crops is enhanced by the behaviour of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Creators: name: Escobar-González, Denisse
name: Landaverde-González, Patricia
name: Casiá-Ajché, Quebin Bosbely
name: Morales-Siná, Javier
name: Cardona, Edson
name: Mejía-Coroy, Alfredo
name: Enríquez, Eunice
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 580

description: Changes in floral visitors' diversity and community composition have been reported to affect coffee production, which optimal growing conditions are cool to warm tropical climates found in the coffee belt. However, few studies have focused on understanding how insects' foraging behaviour (e.g., contact with floral reproductive organs) relates with coffee production. Thus, it is important to consider floral visitors' foraging behaviour, as this can influence the transfer of conspecific pollen required for plant fertilisation, the efficiency of floral visitors and improve the pollination service provided. Here, we assessed how foraging behaviour of honeybees and stingless bees affects coffee fruit set and fruit weight in conventional and agroecological managed crops. We quantified local floral resources and recorded diversity, abundance and behaviour of floral visitors at eight pairs of sites with agroecological and conventional management systems to assess how foraging behaviour of honeybees and stingless bees affects coffee fruit set and fruit weight in both types of managed crops. We found that the managed honeybee Apis mellifera and three wild bees Tetragonisca angustula, Scaptotrigona mexicana and Partamona bilineata are the principal floral visitors of coffee crops in Guatemala, whose total abundance but not richness was higher in agroecological areas. Regarding their behaviours, we observed that the average number of flowers visited by P. bilineata and its behaviour of touching the nectaries of coffee flowers were positively related to fruit set, while only the percentage of A. mellifera carrying pollen was positively related with fruit weight, suggesting that although A. mellifera is found in large quantities, wild bees are also efficient pollinators of coffee in the region. Our findings also suggest that in other tropical regions where coffee is grown and honeybees have been observed as a primary pollinator, wild bees may play an important role when considering their behaviour. In the same way, coffee farms in Guatemala are a representation of the diversity of agroecosystems found worldwide, and thus, the study of foraging behaviour of managed and wild bees and the conservation of wild bee species in different coffee agroecosystems should be emphasised to improve the production of coffee and other cash crops.
Volker Grabowsky: Bevölkerung und Staat in Lan Na. Ein Beitrag zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte Südostasiens
Creators: name: Horstmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Case Study: Learning Network Biobuilders
Creators: name: LOBA - Customer Experience Design
name: Avans University of Applied Sciences
name: FVA New Media Research (Italy)
name: University of Bologna
name: Q PLAN International (Greece)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Explore this case study collected by BioGov.net partners in the Netherlands! This valuable resource provides a quick and comprehensive understanding of the Learning Network Biobuilders case study.
Nadja-Christina Schneider: Zur Darstellung von 'Kultur' und 'kultureller Differenz' im indischen Mediensystem. Die indische Presse und die Representation des Islams im Rahmen der Zivilrechtsdebatte, 1985-87 und 2003
Creators: name: Rao, Ursula
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Evidence for converging pathophysiology in complex regional pain-syndrome and primary headache disorders : results from a case–control study
Creators: name: Wiemann, Matthias
name: Zimowski, Nikolas
name: Blendow, Sarah-Luis
name: Krumova, Elena K.
name: Naegel, Steffen
name: Fleischmann, Robert
name: Strauß, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background: Neuroinflammation and maladaptive neuroplasticity play pivotal roles in migraine (MIG), trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TAC), and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Notably, CRPS shares connections with calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in its pathophysiology. This study aims to assess if the documented links between CRPS and MIG/TAC in literature align with clinical phenotypes and disease progressions. This assessment may bolster the hypothesis of shared pathophysiological mechanisms. Methods: Patients with CRPS (n = 184) and an age-/gender-matched control group with trauma but without CRPS (n = 148) participated in this case–control study. Participant answered well-established questionnaires for the definition of CRPS symptoms, any headache complaints, headache entity, and clinical management. Results: Patients with CRPS were significantly more likely to suffer from migraine (OR: 3.23, 95% CI 1.82–5.85), TAC (OR: 8.07, 95% CI 1.33–154.79), or non-classified headaches (OR: 3.68, 95% CI 1.88–7.49) compared to the control group. Patients with MIG/TAC developed CRPS earlier in life (37.2 ± 11.1 vs 46.8 ± 13.5 years), had more often a central CRPS phenotype (60.6% vs. 37.0% overall) and were three times more likely to report allodynia compared to CRPS patients with other types of headaches. Additionally, these patients experienced higher pain levels and more severe CRPS, which intensified with an increasing number of headache days. Patients receiving monoclonal antibody treatment targeting the CGRP pathway for headaches reported positive effects on CRPS symptoms. Conclusion: This study identified clinically relevant associations of MIG/TAC and CRPS not explained by chance. Further longitudinal investigations exploring potentially mutual pathomechanisms may improve the clinical management of both CRPS and primary headache disorders.
Additional file 2 of Article 3: 1-year impact of supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS) on prescribing and dispensing quality in Ugandan health facilities
Creators: name: Trap, Birna
name: Sembatya, Moses N.
name: Imi, Monica
name: Morries Seru
name: Wagner, Anita K.
name: Ross-Degnan, Dennis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. SPARS dispensing and prescribing indicators, associated measures, and definitions
Investigation of vertical displacement thermal actuators
Creators: name: Dhaubanjar, Naresh
name: Rao, Smitha M. N.
name: Hsu, Lun-Chen
name: Luquire, Matthew
name: Popa, Dan
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Stephanou, Harry
name: Chiao, J.-C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: In this paper, we present design, modeling, fabrication, testing techniques and experimental verification for a bi-directional thermal actuator. The actuation principle is based on the asymmetrical thermal expansion of pseudo-bimorph microstructures due to the difference in the electrical resistance of two stacked poly-silicon layers. Bi-directional actuation is achieved depending upon the application of currents on either the top or bottom layers. Various designs were fabricated using the commercial foundry process PolyMUMPS and characterized with a reflective microscope and an optical profiler. Previous demonstrated designs had a limited vertical displacement due to the mechanical limitation imposed by the flexural lengths of the actuator arms. We proposed a new design allowing an increase of the maximum displacement by 85% with the same input voltage of 7V. The flexure arm is incorporated in the top silicon layer such that the torsion forces on the flexural arms are minimized. This enables larger deflection of the actuator arm without significant increase in the temperature. Different device configurations have been designed and tested. The temperature distributions on the actuator arms and displacements of the actuators at various conditions were analyzed using finite-element analysis and verified experimentally. We will discuss the design configuration, testing techniques and practical issues. The potential applications of the out-of-plane actuators include flow sensors, variable capacitors, resistive sensors, optical switches and RF switches. Copyright 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Rank tests for interaction in two-way layouts with application in genetic analysis
Creators: name: Gao, Xin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistics.

description: To fully dissect complex traits, it is desirable to have methods able to test gene-gene interaction for human genetic data. This thesis provides a framework to process human quantitative trait data such that the problem becomes a hypothesis test of interaction for a two-way layout design with unequal replicates. Three new nonparametric rank tests are proposed. Their limiting distributions under Pitman alternatives and asymptotic relative efficiencies are studied. The tests are extended to unbalanced designs. We also introduce the notion of composite linear rank statistics and prove asymptotic normality under mild conditions. Consistent estimators are provided for the limiting variance-covariance matrix of arbitrary linear rank statistics.
Outcomes of mechanical thrombectomy in acute stroke patients with atrial fibrillation detected after stroke versus known atrial fibrillation
Creators: name: D'Anna, Lucio
name: Abu Rumeileh, Samir
name: [Und Viele Weitere]
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610

description: We aim to compare the outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation detected after stroke (AFDAS) and their counterparts with known AF (KAF) presenting with large vessel occlusion (LVO) treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT). This observational, prospective study included consecutive patients with acute LVO ischemic stroke of the anterior circulation with AFDAS, KAF and without AF. The primary study outcome was functional independence at 90 days after stroke. The secondary study outcomes were variation of the NIHSS score at 24 h, rate of successful reperfusion, death at 90 days and rate of immediate complications post-procedure. Overall, our cohort included 518 patients with acute ischemic stroke and LVO treated with MT, with 289 (56.8%) without a diagnosis of AF; 107 (21%) with AFDAS; 122 (22.2%) with KAF. There was no significant difference in terms of functional independence at 90 days after stroke between the three groups. Regarding the secondary study outcome, the rate of symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage (sICH) and/or parenchymal hematoma (PH) were significantly higher in the group of patients without AF (respectively, P = 0.030 and  < 0.010). Logistic regression analysis showed that the subtypes of AF were not statistically significantly associated with functional independence at 90 days after stroke and with the likelihood of any ICH. Our results suggest that the subtypes of AF are not associated with clinical and safety outcomes of MT in patients with acute stroke and LVO. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings.
A cantilever-type electrostatic zipping actuator
Creators: name: Dhaubanjar, Naresh
name: Rao, Smitha M. N.
name: Cai, Ying
name: Popa, Dan
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Chiao, J.-C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: This paper discussed modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new cantilever-type electrostatic zipping actuator. The actuator was designed to achieve high displacements and fabricated using multi-layer polysilicon foundry fabrication process PolyMUMPS. The high out-of-plane displacement is to satisfy the requirements in specific optical applications. In this paper we presented the design considerations in displacement, electrostatic forces and electrostatic stability. The electrostatic force between the curved cantilever and the bottom electrode on the substrate pulls the cantilever down. With a warped cantilever, the force closes the gap from the anchor end and gradually the zipping effect actuates the entire cantilever without increasing the biasing voltages. Previous electrostatic zipper actuators require a thin layer of dielectric material on top of the bottom electrode to prevent electrical shorting. They may have an issue with electrical breakdown of the thin dielectric layer due to the film quality. We designed a new mechanical structure to avoid the electrical shorting problem without a layer of dielectric material. Our analysis and experimental results demonstrated that the proposed design can withstand high voltages without shorting and is capable of high deflection. The vertical displacements of different device configurations were found ranging from 30.4μm to 450μm while the actuation voltages varied in the range from 12V to 45.3V for complete actuation. The pull-in voltages for various configurations were analyzed and presented. Copyright 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Human isogenic cells of the neurovascular unit exert transcriptomic cell type-specific effects on a blood-brain barrier in vitro model of late-onset Alzheimer disease
Creators: name: Haferkamp, Undine
name: Hartmann, Carla
name: Brachner, Andreas
name: Höchner, Alevtina
name: Gerhartl, Anna
name: Harwardt, Bernadette
name: Leckzik, Selin
name: Leu, Jennifer
name: Metzger, Marco
name: Nastainczyk-Wulf, Marina
name: Neuhaus, Winfried
name: Oerter, Sabrina
name: Pleß, Ole
name: Rujescu, Dan
name: Jung, Matthias
name: Appelt-Menzel, Antje
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background: The function of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is impaired in late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD), but the associated molecular mechanisms, particularly with respect to the high-risk APOE4/4 genotype, are not well understood. For this purpose, we developed a multicellular isogenic model of the neurovascular unit (NVU) based on human induced pluripotent stem cells. Methods: The human NVU was modeled in vitro using isogenic co-cultures of astrocytes, brain capillary endothelial-like cells (BCECs), microglia-like cells, neural stem cells (NSCs), and pericytes. Physiological and pathophysiological properties were investigated as well as the influence of each single cell type on the characteristics and function of BCECs. The barriers established by BCECs were analyzed for specific gene transcription using high-throughput quantitative PCR. Results: Co-cultures were found to tighten the barrier of BCECs and alter its transcriptomic profile under both healthy and disease conditions. In vitro differentiation of brain cell types that constitute the NVU was not affected by the LOAD background. The supportive effect of NSCs on the barrier established by BCECs was diminished under LOAD conditions. Transcriptomes of LOAD BCECs were modulated by different brain cell types. NSCs were found to have the strongest effect on BCEC gene regulation and maintenance of the BBB. Co-cultures showed cell type-specific functional contributions to BBB integrity under healthy and LOAD conditions. Conclusions: Cell type-dependent transcriptional effects on LOAD BCECs were identified. Our study suggests that different brain cell types of the NVU have unique roles in maintaining barrier integrity that vary under healthy and LOAD conditions.
Additional file 1 of Annual dialysis data report for 2018, JSDT Renal Data Registry: survey methods, facility data, incidence, prevalence, and mortality
Creators: name: Nitta, Kosaku
name: Goto, Shunsuke
name: Ikuto Masakane
name: Hanafusa, Norio
name: Taniguchi, Masatomo
name: Hasegawa, Takeshi
name: Nakai, Shigeru
name: Wada, Atsushi
name: Hamano, Takayuki
name: Hoshino, Junichi
name: Joki, Nobuhiko
name: Abe, Masanori
name: Yamamoto, Keiichi
name: Hidetomo Nakamoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Trends in the prevalent dialysis patient count for 1968-2018, and the adjusted prevalent dialysis patient count (pmp) for 1983-2018.
A model of depressive symptoms in gay men
Creators: name: Josephson, Gordon J
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: Existing research suggests that gay men may be more vulnerable to depression than are heterosexual men, and that gender-related personality traits may be important in understanding this vulnerability. In the present study the association between two gender-related personality traits (agency and unmitigated communion) and depressive symptoms was examined in an Internet sample of 510 gay identified men, aged 18 years or older. Potential mediators of this association were also examined including: recalled peer harassment, interpersonal behavior, and self-discrepancies in the gender-related personality trait of agency. Participants completed the Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ), the Unmitigated Communion Scale, the victim subscale from the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire Revised (worded retrospectively), the Checklist of Interpersonal Transactions Revised, and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Self-discrepancy was calculated by repeating the agency subscale of the EPAQ from the perspective of ideal self and subtracting the actual score from the ideal score. Zero-order correlations indicated that among gay men who were less agentic than their ideal, the gender-related personality traits of agency and unmitigated communion were associated with depressive symptoms, as were recalled peer harassment, interpersonal behavior characterized as unassured and submissive, and self-discrepancies in agency. Two models were tested with half the sample and a respecified model was validated with the second half. The final model indicated that when all variables were considered jointly, agency and unmitigated communion were not directly related to depressive symptoms but rather, the effects of agency and unmitigated communion were mediated by unassured and submissive interpersonal behavior, and the effect of agency was also mediated by self-discrepancies in agency (p < .05). Thus, how the participants interacted with close others, and the extent that they were not as agentic as they wished, were more important in predicting their depressive symptoms than were the gender-related personality traits of agency and unmitigated communion. The final model also indicated that recalled peer harassment has both a direct impact on depressive symptoms and an indirect impact on depressive symptoms through unassured and submissive interpersonal behavior. Implications for future research, anti-bullying initiatives, and interventions with depressed gay men are discussed.
Staatsstreich mit Ansage? Zur gegenwartigen Krise auf Fiji und ihrer Geschichte
Creators: name: Holtz, Andreas
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Fijis Staatsstreiche haben kulturelle, politische und wirtschaftliche Gründe. Der Hauptgrund indes dürfte in der Diskriminierungspolitik liegen, die in Fiji praktiziert wird. Die ethnische Fijian Supremacy, ausgedrückt im Landeigentum, basiert auf traditionellen Gesellschaftsstrukturen und -vorstellungen. Land und die Eigentumsrechte an demselben sind als solche in einer monetarisierten Gesellschaft relativ unbedeutend. Die Signifikanz von Land drückt sich eher in dem Mehrwert aus, der sich mittels einer produktiven Nutzung geldwert erzeugen lässt. Die Nutzer des fijianischen Landes sind aber in der Überzahl Inder. Reiche, mit wirtschaftlicher Macht versehene Inder treffen hier auf arme, aber politisch mächtige Fijianer. Dies ist ein Konfliktpunkt.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Houghton, Raynham and Wolterton Halls on Thomas Ripley's major works in Norfolk - architectural success amidst political tensions
Creators: name: Klausmeier, Axel
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 43 (4), 607-629
description: Largely historical. Discusses architect Ripley's architectural work in the county, particularly focuses on the three early-eighteenth-century country estates.
Schatten der Vergangenheit
Creators: name: Fleschenberg, Andrea
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Vom 28.-29. August 2006 fand in Phnom Penh die internationale Konferenz "Dealing with a Past Holocaust and National Reconciliation: Learning from Experiences" statt, die vom Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace und der Friedrich- Ebert- Stiftung organisiert wurde.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Exploring the mechanisms that lead to delayed CD8+ T cell response against Salmonella Typhimurium
Creators: name: Ashick-Stinson, Chloe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.
subject: Health Sciences, Immunology.

description: Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) infection of murine hosts results in a critical delay in CD8+ T cell expansion, and survival is therefore solely dependent on the alternate, innate immune system. A compromised innate immune system is therefore catastrophic for the host. The mechanism of delayed CD8+ T cell response was therefore explored. Results indicate that the delay in CD8+ T cell activation is related to the inefficient interaction of antigen-presenting cells with ST: ST is not readily taken up by antigen-presenting cells, a significant fraction of ST escapes into the extracellular niches to avoid detection, and within the infected cell ST resides within phagosomes which does not lead to antigen-processing through the direct antigen-processing pathway. All these mechanisms lead to activation of CD8+ T cells by the alternate, cross-presentation pathway, which does not operate efficiently in all the strains of mice.
China als Motor der asiatischen Integration?
Creators: name: Hilpert, Hanns Günther
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Along with the economic rise of China, Asia's regional economic interdependence is also increasing. This article identifies four structural components inherent in this process: firstly, the increasing economic weight of China; secondly, the deterioration of China's terms of trade favouring countries with a (China) complementary supply structure; thirdly, an emerging spatial core-periphery structure in Asia; and fourthly, the increasing divergence between Asia's advanced and developing countries, thereby making it more difficult for the latter group of countries to catch up industrially. Overall, China's rise is having an ambivalent effect on Asia's economic integration. On the one hand China is driving trade and FDI integration, while on the other China is spurring on economic divergence in Asia. The article concludes that China is fairly unlikely to play a leading political role in Asia's regionalism for various reasons. Firstly, a coherent regional cohesion policy countering the divergence trends is missing, and secondly, widespread security reservations induce hedging activities directed against China. Thirdly, a reliable institutional framework for integration is lacking.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Stabilitätsdefizite der philippinischen Demokratie unter Arroyo
Creators: name: Loewen, Howard
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: The political system of the Philippines has long been regarded as the most advanced democracy in Southeast Asia. This view definitely belongs to the past, however: ineffective policies, corruption, political violence, coup d’etats and popular uprisings that even topple democratically elected leaders like Estrada constantly threaten democracy in the Philippines. How can this instability be explained? This paper argues that stability is not primarily eroded by fragile political structures and institutions; it is the actors that matter in Filipino politics. Representatives of economic and political elites, the middle class and actors like the military constantly weaken the efficiency and overall legitimacy of democratic structures and processes. Yet, systemic breakdown is rather unlikely to occur due to a lean yet basic acceptance of democracy and its institutions. This especially holds true for the Supreme Court and its widely accepted judgements on the controversial cases of impeachment and tax reforms.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Fabrication processes of MEMS phase shifters on polymer-based substrates
Creators: name: Wang, Jianqun
name: Ativanichayaphong, Thermpon
name: Cai, Ying
name: Huang, Wen-Ding
name: Hsu, Lun-Chen
name: Davis, W. Alan
name: Chiao, Mu
name: Chiao, J.-C.
Publisher: name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Year: 2011

description: RF phase shifters find wide applications in telecommunications, satellite systems, personal wireless communication systems, radar systems, tracking systems, and sensors. They have been conventionally manufactured by semiconductor technologies which suffer from high insertion losses due to high RF series resistances. They are expensive due to fabrication and assembly costs. The RF MEMS phase shifters provide low insertion losses, low fabrication costs and high linearity compared with the semiconductor ones. Furthermore, polymer materials have demonstrated low material costs and low RF attenuations. In this work, we proposed to build RF MEMS phase shifters on polymer substrates. The proposed devices were successfully manufactured and tested from DC to 26 GHz. Our experimental results indicated more than 35 degrees phase shifts and low insertion losses. Copyright 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.
Middleton Mount: excavations in an around the eastern bailey of Middleton Castle by Andrew Rogerson, 1987
Creators: name: Ashwin, Trevor M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 43 (4), 645-656
description: Trial excavation in the area immediately to the east of the castle at Middleton, Norfolk examined a small bailey ditch. This feature had been levelled, with pottery from its fills suggesting a twelfth century date. A fragment of post-in-trench structure was recorded within the northern part of the bailey. Trenching also examined a large double-ditched crop mark boundary feature, apparently sealed by the northern edge of the motte, but failed to clarify its date or function.
Effects on infants of an intervention aimed at reducing night waking and signaling in 6-to-12 month old infants
Creators: name: Hall, Wendy A.
name: Saunders, R. A.
name: Clauson, Marion Isobelle
name: Carty, E. M.
name: Janssen, Patricia A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2013

description: This quasi-experimental one group pre and post-test pilot study evaluated an intervention aimed at reducing night waking and signaling for infants between 6 and 12 months of age. Thirty-nine healthy infants and their parents were recruited. Thirty-five infants completed the intervention and data collection. Both parents participated in a group teaching session with telephone follow-up for 2 weeks. Actigraphy and sleep diary data were collected at baseline and 6 and 16 weeks post-intervention. We hypothesized a decrease in length and number of infant waking and crying periods and an increase in longest night sleep and nap time. Following the intervention, infants had significantly reduced length of night crying and number of wakes and longer night sleep periods. The intervention warrants evaluation with a randomized controlled design.
Design and transition metal-mediated synthesis of multivalent neoglycoconjugates bearing terminal galactosides with various valency and structural features
Creators: name: Liu, Bingcan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: In the past ten years, with the emergency of multivalent neoglycoconjugates such as glycopolymers, glycodendrimers, and glycoclusters, carbohydrates have gained a lot of attention in the hope of developing potent carbohydrate-based therapeutics, as well as the opportunities to investigate glycobiology. So far many strategies have been explored to effectively assemble multivalent neoglycoconjugates. This work contains a discussion of the design and transition metal-mediated synthesis of terminal galactoside-carrying glycoclusters and glycodendrimers in detail. Propargyl alpha-galactoside antigen monomer was synthesized using conventional glycosidation methods. Then analogues of alpha-galactoside antigen clusters were prepared utilizing the Sonogashira reaction as the key step. Various conditions for the Sonogashira have been investigated and an interesting finding is that this reaction does occur with Cu (I). These synthetic alpha-galactoside antigens have shown enhanced binding affinity toward human anti-alpha-galactoside antigen antibodies in biochemical assays. Likewise, galactoclusters were prepared as potential galectin inhibitors. However, these fully deprotected compounds were barely soluble in aqueous conditions. To solve this problem, analogues of lactoclusters, having an extra glucosyl residue, with various valencies and structural features were synthesized. Kinetic precipitation tests demonstrated that most lactoclusters cross-linked with galectin-3 formed insoluble complexes quickly and this phenomenon was observed for the first time, thus suggesting the clustering of the receptors upon contact. A sequence of olefin cross-metathesis, Sonogashira reaction, and cyclotrimerization was performed to assemble a hexameric C-linked glycopeptidomemetic. Olefin cross-metathesis mediated by the second generation Grubbs catalyst was successfully effected to prepare extended glycoallyl halides and unnatural amino acids. These glycoallyl halides were proven to be useful in the synthesis of high order glycoclusters.
Right to Food, Food Security and Discrimination in the Indian Context
Creators: name: Dohrmann, Jona Aravind
name: Thorat, Sukhadeo
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: The right to food is a much-debated issue throughout the world. This paper shows how India has accepted the concept of a right to food through its constitution, its legislation and court decisions that give the broadest legal meaning to this indispensable human right. At the practical level, India has achieved independence regarding its food supply and is even able to export excess food grain today. Debatable policies have led to the accumulation of food stock, while at the same time most of the undernourished in the world live in India. Another aspect aggravates the situation of the needy: discrimination against certain sections of society. Part of this paper is based on a survey conducted by the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies that highlights the specific discrimination Dalits have to face when trying to avail themselves of government schemes such as the “mid-day meal scheme” or the public distribution system. The discrimination of Dalits varies from region to region. In a nutshell, the paper suggests that even though the legal framework and the means of producing sufficient food may be available, this does not mean that food is actually secured for everyone. It requires the political and societal will of various stakeholders to overcome the discriminatory situation in order to give the right to food a real meaning. NGOs may play a vital role in this process to abolish “hunger amidst plenty".
description: Asien, Nr. 102 (2007): ASIEN (Januar)
Additional file 1 of Homozygous expression of the myofibrillar myopathy-associated p.W2710X filamin C variant reveals major pathomechanisms of sarcomeric lesion formation
Creators: name: Schuld, Julia
name: Orfanos, Zacharias
name: Chevessier, Frédéric
name: Eggers, Britta
name: Heil, Lorena
name: Uszkoreit, Julian
name: Unger, Andreas
name: Kirfel, Gregor
name: Ven, Peter F. M. Van Der
name: Marcus, Katrin
name: Linke, Wolfgang A.
name: Clemen, Christoph S.
name: Schröder, Rolf
name: Fürst, Dieter O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Histochemistry performed on 8-month-old wild type (WT) and mutant (Hom) mouse soleus muscles. Figure S2. Analysis of fibre types in soleus muscle of adult and aged wildtype and Hom mice. Figure S3. Distribution of filamin C and vinculin in myotendinous junctions. Table S1. Specification of primary antibodies used in this study. Table S2. Sequence of oligonucleotides used for quantitative real time PCR.
Accumulation of an Antidepressant in Vesiculogenic Membranes of Yeast Cells Triggers Autophagy
Creators: name: Jingqiu Chen
name: Korostyshevsky, Daniel
name: Lee, Sean
name: Perlstein, Ethan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pharmacology
Molecular Biology
Medicine

description: This is the pdf file of the original paper that is corresponding to the datasets uploaded by Ethan Perlstein.
The Antidepressant Sertraline Targets Intracellular Vesiculogenic Membranes in Yeast
Creators: name: Korostyshevsky, Daniel
name: Lee, Sean
name: Rainey, Meredith M.
name: Perlstein, Ethan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: This is our prevous paper on sertraline's (Zoloft) effects on yeast cells. Published in Genetics May, 2010.
title: Markups and Inflation in Oligopolistic Markets: Evidence from Wholesale Price Data
Creators: name: Alexander, Patrick
name: Han, Lu
name: Kryvtsov, Oleksiy
name: Tomlin, Ben
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We study how the interaction of market power and nominal price rigidity influences inflation dynamics. We formulate a tractable model of oligopolistic competition and sticky prices and derive closed-form expressions for the pass-through of idiosyncratic and common cost shocks to firms’ prices. Using unpublished micro data for Canadian wholesale firms, we estimate that the pass-through of idiosyncratic costs is incomplete at 70% and independent of the degree of sector-price-stickiness. The pass-through of common costs declines with price stickiness, from nearly complete in flexible-price sectors to below 70% in sectors with the stickiest prices. An increase in the degree of sector or firm market power reduces the pass-through of both types of cost shocks. These estimates imply a degree of strategic complementarity that lowers the slope of the New Keynesian Phillips curve by 30% in a one-sector model and by 74% in a multi-sector model.
description: Nous étudions comment l’interaction entre le pouvoir de marché et la rigidité des prix nominaux influe sur la dynamique de l’inflation. Nous élaborons un modèle maniable à concurrence oligopolistique et à prix rigides, et dérivons des équations de forme fermée pour évaluer le degré de répercussion des chocs de coûts idiosyncrasiques et des chocs de coûts communs sur les prix affichés par les entreprises. En utilisant des microdonnées non publiées concernant des grossistes canadiens, nous estimons que les coûts idiosyncrasiques se répercutent à hauteur de 70 % – c’est-à-dire pas complètement – et déterminons que cette transmission des variations de coûts ne dépend pas du degré de rigidité des prix sectoriels. Par ailleurs, plus les prix sont rigides, moins les coûts communs se répercutent. En effet, dans les secteurs où les prix ne sont pas rigides, ces variations de coûts se répercutent presque entièrement sur les prix, tandis que dans les secteurs où les prix sont les plus rigides, elles se répercutent dans une proportion inférieure à 70 %. Une augmentation du pouvoir de marché d’une entreprise ou au sein d’un secteur fait baisser le degré de répercussion des deux types de chocs de coûts. Ces estimations impliquent une certaine complémentarité stratégique qui fait baisser la pente de la courbe de Phillips des nouveaux keynésiens, de 30 % dans un modèle monosectoriel et de 74 % dans un modèle multisectoriel.
Thetford Cluniac Priory excavations 1971-4
Creators: name: Wilcox, Ronald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2020

description: Norfolk Archaeology, 40 (1), 1-18
description: Limited excavation of the Prior's Lodging produced evidence of five building phases: a probable two-storey building, with an undercroft, of between 1150 and 1250 was reconstructed and extended in further phases of the late 13th to 14th centuries to form the basis of an early 16th century Lodging. Modifications of the 17th century included the insertion of Romanesque portals from elsewhere on the site. Au (abr)
ENHANCING LEARNING OUTCOMES: EFFECTIVE SPEAKING TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING  IT STUDENTS
Creators: name: Jambulova, Ayimxan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the importance of effective speaking techniques in teaching IT students and explores various strategies to enhance learning outcomes in this context. With the rapid evolution of technology and the growing demand for IT professionals, educators must employ innovative methods to engage and educate students effectively. The paper discusses the significance of clear communication, active listening, visual aids, interactive discussions, and real-world examples in teaching IT concepts. Additionally, it highlights the role of feedback, assessment, and continuous improvement in refining speaking techniques for optimal student comprehension and retention. Drawing on research findings and practical experiences, this article provides valuable insights for educators seeking to optimize their teaching methods and foster student success in IT education.
Automatically generated lower bounds for search
Creators: name: Hernadvolgyi, Istvan T
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Heuristic search algorithms (eg. A* and IDA*) with accurate lower bounds can solve impressively large problems optimally. Most lower bounds, such as the well known Manhattan Distance heuristic for the sliding-tile puzzles or the Assignment Problem lower bound for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman problem, are the products of human ingenuity and insight. An alternative approach to obtain lower bounds is to precalculate shortest distances in an abstraction of the original search space which is derived automatically and store the bounds in pattern databases (look-up tables). This latter technique, based on the ideas of Culberson and Schaeffer, gained popularity when Korf for the first time solved random instances of Rubik's Cube using pattern databases. While researchers were pushing for solving larger and larger problems, the fact that there exist a very large number of abstract spaces that can provide lower bounds was overlooked. This thesis fills this gap in research by investigating the search performance of lower bounds derived from abstractions. We also use the results of this analysis to automatically derive high performance pattern databases. First, we establish a very predictable trade-off between search speed and the number of entries in the pattern database. Second, we derive simple statistics that can predict the search performance of pattern databases without performing actual searches in the original state space. Using these results, we derive high performance pattern databases to search for macro-operators and to solve challenging instances of the well known Sequential Ordering Problem (SOP). Macro-search is a good candidate to showcase automatically derived lower bounds since there are many search spaces and each needs a different lower bound. The SOP is an NP-hard optimization problem. We were able to solve an unsolved instance from the TSPLIB. This required a greedy search in the space of abstractions to find a sufficiently accurate lower bound and several novel enhancements to the basic branch and bound algorithm.
Additional file 1 of Interconnectivity between molecular subtypes and tumor stage in colorectal cancer
Creators: name: R. R. J. Coebergh Van Den Braak
name: S. Ten Hoorn
name: A. M. Sieuwerts
name: J. B. Tuynman
name: M. Smid
name: S. M. Wilting
name: J. W. M. Martens
name: C. J. A. Punt
name: J. A. Foekens
name: J. P. Medema
name: J. N. M. IJzermans
name: Vermeulen, L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Distribution of CMS per tumor stage in the total and individual cohorts. Supplementary Figure S1. Distribution of the molecular subtypes per tumor stage in the individual cohorts. Supplementary Figure S2. Random sampling all subtypes n = 130. Supplementary Figure S3. Heatmap of the differentially expressed genes between tumor stages. Supplementary Table S2. Distribution of the molecular subtypes in high and low risk stage II CRC patients. Supplementary Figure S4. Disease-free survival in patients with ≥ 10 lymph nodes assessed. Supplementary Table S3. Multivariate analysis of CMS and disease free survival for total stage II cohort. Supplementary Table S4. Characteristics extended GSE33113 cohort.