cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Overcoming Obstacles to Develop High-Performance Teams Involving Physician in Health Care Organizations
Creators: name: Frein, Mark
name: Rabkin, Simon
name: Frein, Mark
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Many health care organizations struggle and often do not succeed to be high-performance organizations that are not only efficient and effective but also enjoyable places to work. This review focuses on the physician and organizational roles in limiting achievement of a high-performance team in health care organizations. Ten dimensions were constructed and a number of competencies and metrics were highlighted to overcome the failures to: (i) Ensure that the goals, purpose, mission and vision are clearly defined; (ii) establish a supportive organizational structure that encourages high performance of teams; (iii) ensure outstanding physician leadership, performance, goal attainment; and (iv) recognize that medical team leaders are vulnerable to the abuses of personal power or may create a culture of intimidation/fear and a toxic work culture; (v) select a good team and team members—team members who like to work in teams or are willing and able to learn how to work in a team and ensure a well-balanced team composition; (vi) establish optimal team composition, individual roles and dynamics, and clear roles for members of the team; (vii) establish psychological safe environment for team members; (viii) address and resolve interpersonal conflicts in teams; (xi) ensure good health and well-being of the medical staff; (x) ensure physician engagement with the organization. Addressing each of these dimensions with the specific solutions outlined should overcome the constraints to achieving high-performance teams for physicians in health care organizations.
Secret extraction attacks against obfuscated IQP circuits
Creators: name: Gross, David
name: Hangleiter, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computing devices can now perform sampling tasks which, according to complexity-theoretic and numerical evidence, are beyond the reach of classical computers. This raises the question of how one can efficiently verify that a quantum computer operating in this regime works as intended. In 2008, Shepherd and Bremner proposed a protocol in which a verifier constructs a unitary from the comparatively easy-to-implement family of so-called IQP circuits, and challenges a prover to execute it on a quantum computer. The challenge problem is designed to contain an obfuscated secret, which can be turned into a statistical test that accepts samples from a correct quantum implementation. It was conjectured that extracting the secret from the challenge problem is NP-hard, so that the ability to pass the test constitutes strong evidence that the prover possesses a quantum device and that it works as claimed. Unfortunately, about a decade later, Kahanamoku-Meyer found an efficient classical secret extraction attack. Bremner, Cheng, and Ji very recently followed up by constructing a wide-ranging generalization of the original protocol. Their IQP Stabilizer Scheme has been explicitly designed to circumvent the known weakness. They also suggested that the original construction can be made secure by adjusting the problem parameters. In this work, we develop a number of secret extraction attacks which are effective against both new approaches in a wide range of problem parameters. In particular, we find multiple ways to recover the 300-bit secret hidden in a challenge data set published by Bremner, Cheng, and Ji. The important problem of finding an efficient and reliable verification protocol for sampling-based proofs of quantum supremacy thus remains open.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
OER zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und Forschungsmethoden für Studierende und Schüler:innen. 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Version, März 2025
Creators: name: Schön, Sandra
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2025

description: Diese Broschüre bietet eine umfassende Zusammenstellung offener Bildungsressourcen (OER) zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und zu Forschungsmethoden für Schüler:innen und Studierende. Die Inhalte wurden im Rahmen des Hochschullehrgangs T3C entwickelt und erweitert. Die Broschüre enthält praxisnahe Materialien, darunter Leitfäden, MOOC-Empfehlungen, Arbeitsblätter und interaktive Lerneinheiten zu Themen wie akademisches Schreiben, Datenanalyse, Forschungsmethoden und Statistik.Version 1: Sandra Schön, Roman Brabec, Christian Groß, Tamara Haim, Bernhard Kitzmüller, Irene Kompaß, Heike Marie Krause, Georg Lehrmayer, Elisabeth Nuart, Gabriele Pließnig, Frank Telsnig, Barbara Wachter, Stephan Walch und Anna WeißVersion 2: Martin Ebner, Helga Grascher, Martin Grogger, Theresa Hahn, David Lechner, Johann Schiestl und Nina TschabrunMit einem Vorwort von Peter Harrich und Johannes Maurek und einer Einführung von Martin EbnerHerausgegeben von Sandra SchönZitationsvorschlag: Schön, S., Brabec, R., Ebner, M., Grascher, H., Groß, C., Grogger, M., Hahn, T., Haim, T., Harrich, P., Kitzmüller, B., Kompaß, I., Krause, H. M., Lehrmayer, G., Lechner, D., Maurek, J., Nuart, E., Pließnig, G., Schiestl, J., Telsnig, F., Tschabrun, N., Wachter, B., Walch, S. & Weiß, A. (2025). OER zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und Forschungsmethoden für Studierende und Schüler:innen. Zweite Auflage, März 2025.DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3217/ee5q5-hnz17
Siccia pectinata
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Siccia
Siccia pectinata

description: Siccia pectinata (Fang, 2000)
(Figs 20–22, 45, 46, 60)
 Hyposiccia pectinata Fang, 2000, Fauna Sinica. Insecta, 19: 146 (in Chinese), 538 (in English), pl. IX, fig. 8 (adult) (Type locality: [China] “ Guangxi Maoershan ”).
 Aemene punctigera Leech, 1899: Dubatolov et al. (2012: 49, figs 41, 85).
 Material examined. CHINA: 1 male, 1 female, W Sichuan, road Yaan / Kangding, Erlang Shan Mt., 2000m, 29°87.340'N 102°30.970'E, 8.VII.2019, Butvila & Saldaitis leg., gen. prep. Nos.: AV5859 ♂, AV5860 ♀ (ASV); 1 male, Guangdong, Shaoguan, Nanling, 22–27.VII.2008, Y. Kishida leg., gen. prep. No.: AV2447 ♂ (SZMN); 4 males, 1 female, Guangdong, Shaoguan, Nanling, 900–1400m, 16–20. V.2009, Y. Kishida & M. Wang leg., gen. prep. Nos.: AV2448 ♂, AV2449 ♀ (SZMN); VIETNAM: 1 male, 1600m, [border of Lai Châu and Lào Cai Provinces] Mt. Fan-si-pan (north), Cha-pa, primary forest, 22°17'N 103°44'E, 20– 30.IV.1995, V. Sinyaev & local collector leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2019-089 ♂ (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM); 1 male, 1600–1800m [Lai Châu Prov.] Mt. Fan-si-pan (west), Cha-pa (= Sapa), sec. forest/agricultural landscape, 22°20'N 103°40'E, 10. VI.–6.VII.1994, Sinyaev & local collectors leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2019-090 ♂ (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM); 1 male, [border of Lai Châu and Lào Cai Provinces] Mt. Fan-si-pan, N side, Cha-pa (Sapa), 2000m, 22°17'N 103°44'E, 6.VII.1994, Brechlin & Schintlmeister leg., gen. prep. No.: AV3975 ♂ (CKC).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 11.0– 11.5 mm in males and 11.5–12.0 mm in females. The detailed comparison with S. suffusa sp. n. and S. punctigera is provided above in the diagnoses of those species.
 Distribution. China: Guangxi (Fang 2000), Guangdong (Dubatolov et al. 2012, as Aemene punctigera), Sichuan (new record), Northern Vietnam (Lai Châu and Lào Cai Provinces) (new record).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Eight new species of the genus Siccia Walker from the Oriental realm (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 36-57 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13245602
Siccia spinifera Volynkin, 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Siccia
Siccia spinifera

description: Siccia spinifera sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 441961D7-0C99-44C3-A42A-6EBCCB124FE1
(Figs 27, 49)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 27, 49): male, “ Nord-Vietnam | [Hòa Bình Province] Mai-chau 25 km S | Moc-chau, 1400m | 20.50’N/104.40’E [20°50'N 104°40'E] | 14.–18.XI.1994 | leg. V. Sinjaev [recte: Sinyaev] | Sekundärwald [secondary forest] | Museum Witt” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 2019-084 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM / ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 8.0 mm in the male holotype. Siccia spinifera sp. n. is externally vaguely reminiscent of S. micromesozona (Holloway, 2001) (Fig. 28) but can easily be distinguished by its smaller size, the more rounded forewing apex, the thinner discal spot of the forewing, the more diffuse spots of the medial and antemedial lines at anal margins, and the somewhat paler hindwing. In the male genital capsule, the new species differs clearly from S. micromesozona (Fig. 50) in the distally thicker uncus, the Ushaped saccus (it is rectangular with convex lateral margins in the congener), the basally broader valva with a broader, rather bird head-shaped cucullus bearing a substantially larger apical thorn, and the markedly longer distal saccular process. The phallus of S. spinifera sp. n. is considerably longer and broader than in the similar congener. In the vesica, the new species has a substantially larger subapical diverticulum stretching laterally and bearing a cluster of numerous short but robust cornuti whereas it bears a cluster of robust graniculi in S. micromesozona.
The female is unknown.
 Distribution. Northern Vietnam (Hòa Bình Province).
 Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin ‘spinifer’ meaning ‘thorny’ and refers to the thorn-like distal process of the cucullus of the new species. The name is an adjective in apposition to the generic name.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Eight new species of the genus Siccia Walker from the Oriental realm (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 36-57 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on pages 51-55, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13245602
Siccia megala Volynkin, 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Siccia
Siccia megala

description: Siccia megala sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 148883C7-477A-46AD-A671-49B62C92673E
(Figs 29, 30, 51, 63)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 29, 51): male, “N-Vietnam 1400m | [Hòa Bình Province] Mai-chau, Urwald [jungle] | 40km SE Moc-chau | 20.50’N 104.50’E [20°50'N 104°50'E] | 07.–15.IV.1995 leg. | Sinjaev [recte: Sinyaev] & Einh[eimische]Samml[er] [local colectors] | Museum Witt” / “Slide | ZSM Arct. | 2019-050 ♂ | A. Volynkin ” (MWM / ZSM).
 Paratypes. VIETNAM: 10 males, 1 female, the same data as in the holotype, gen. prep. Nos.: ZSM Arct. 2019-051 ♀, ZSM Arct. 2019-052 ♂ (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM / ZSM).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 14.0– 14.5 mm in males and 14.5 mm in the female paratype. Siccia megala sp. n. is externally largely reminiscent of S. altaica (Lederer, 1855) (illustrated, e.g., by Kishida (2018)) but differs from it in its larger size and the fundamentally different genitalia structures, which are most similar to S. maculifascia (Moore, 1878). In the male genital capsule, S. megala sp. n. is distinguished from the latter species by the distally strongly downcurved uncus, the apically elongate juxta (it is short in the congener), the narrower saccus, the basally wider but distally narrower valva with a broader costal protrusion, and the longer and distally upcurved sacculus with a short triangular process, which is elongate and tooth-shaped in S. maculifascia. The phallus of the new species is considerably longer than in S. maculifascia. The vesica of S. megala sp. n. is broader than in S. maculifascia, has a broader and semiglobular subbasal dorsal diverticulum (it is bilobate in the congener), and an elongate and utricular dorsal diverticulum apically bearing a cluster of spines whereas it is short, bilobate and membranous in S. maculifascia. The female genitalia of the new species can easily be distinguished from S. maculifascia in the substantially longer ductus bursae with a longer antrum, the longer and broader corpus bursae bearing two signa: an elliptical and an elongate ribbon-like ones (whereas S. maculifascia has a single elliptical signum), and the narrow and conical appendix bursae, which is proximally dilated and medially twisted in the similar congener.
 Distribution. Northern Vietnam (Hòa Bình Province).
 Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Greek ‘μεγάλος’ meaning ‘large’ and refers to the large size of the new species in comparison to other congeners. The name is a noun in nominative singular in apposition to the generic name.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Eight new species of the genus Siccia Walker from the Oriental realm (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 36-57 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on page 55, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13245602
The Relationship between Counselor Trainee Perfectionism and Working Alliance with Supervisor and Client
Creators: name: Ganske, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Perfectionism in the counselor trainee has the potential to undermine counseling self-efficacy and relationships with client and supervisor (Arkowitz, 1990). Perfectionism is defined as ?a predilection for setting extremely high standards and being displeased with anything less? (Webster?s II New College Dictionary, 1995, p. 816). In this study, 143 counselor trainees and 46 supervisors (46 supervisor-trainee dyads) completed surveys designed to assess the relationships between adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism and counseling self-efficacy, the working alliance between supervisor and trainee, as well as the working alliance between trainee and client. Trainee participants completed the Almost Perfect Scale ? Revised (Slaney, Rice, Mobley, Trippi, & Ashby, 2001), the Self-Efficacy Inventory (Friedlander & Snyder, 1983), the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory ? Trainee Version (Efstation, Patton & Kardash, 1990) and the Working Alliance Inventory ? Short Form Therapist Version (Horvath, 1991). Supervisor participants completed the Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory ? Supervisor Version (Efstation, Patton & Kardash, 1990). Results indicated that maladaptive perfectionism was positively correlated with working alliance between trainee and client (r = -.261, p = .002) and positively correlated with the working alliance between supervisor and trainee (from the perspective of the supervisor, r = -.345, p = .019). Results also demonstrated evidence for counseling  self-efficacy as a significant moderator between adaptive perfectionism and the supervisory working alliance (from the perspective of the trainee) and between maladaptive perfectionism and the supervisory working alliance (from the perspective of the supervisor). Supervisors should consider perfectionism in counselor trainees as this may affect counseling self-efficacy and working alliances between supervisor and trainee as well as between trainee and client.
Use of Indigenous African Healing Practices as a Mental Health Intervention
Creators: name: Ojelade, Ifetayo
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the ways in which Ors… priests and their clients conceptualize issues and concerns described by Western based approaches as mental health problems. The two research questions guiding this inquiry included: (a) how do Ors… priests and their clients conceptualize issues and concerns associated with mental health problems in Western psychology and (b) what methods and techniques do Ors… priests and their clients use to address issues or concerns associated with mental health problems in Western psychology? This study was grounded in African-centered theory by providing a cultural lens to guide the research design, data collection, and analysis.

Data were collected during semi-structured individual interviews with four Orisa priests in a three phase model, for a total of 12 interviews. The study also included three focus groups (six informants per group), who did not participate in the individual interviews. Each group met for two sessions, for a total of six focus groups. Bracketing of assumptions by research team members and use of a reflexive journal was used to ensure credibility and dependability of the data (Creswell, 1998). Data analysis consisted of a recursive process divided into multiple steps, to help strengthen methodological rigor and verification of study procedures. The three part process included codebook development, code application, and data analysis. Three major themes emerged from the data. The first theme, The Conceptualization of Mental Health Problems as Spiritual Matters included one subtheme, Transgenerational Transmission. The second theme, Origins of Mental Health Problems, included three subthemes (Western Socialization, Spiritual Forces, and Ifa as a Healing System). The final theme, Addressing Mental Health Problems, included three subthemes (The Divination Process, Referrals, and Western Therapy). Results of this study indicate that respondents primarily conceptualize mental health problems as spiritual matters and seek to address these problems with the help of an Ors… priest. In addition, some respondents sought the services of a Western trained therapist for the same issue. Practice and research implications are discussed.
Parathelphusidae Alcock 1910
Creators: name: Ng, Oliver K. S. Chia Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Parathelphusidae

description: PARATHELPHUSIDAE Alcock, 1910  Paratelphusinae Alcock, 1910: 70.
Parathelphusini Colosi, 1920: 9.
Parathelphusidae Bott, 1968: 403; 1969a: 363; 1970a: 628; 1970b: 337; 1970c: 95; Ng, 1995: 131
Sundathelphusidae Bott, 1969a: 362; 1969b: 275; 1970a: 628, 638; 1970b: 332, 337; 1970c: 62.
description: Published as part of Ng, Oliver K. S. Chia Peter K. L., 2006, The Freshwater Crabs Of Sulawesi, With Descriptions Of Two New Genera And Four New Species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae), pp. 381-428 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2) on page 384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245646
title: Regelungen der Bundesländer auf dem Gebiet der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung
title: Regelungen der Bundesländer auf dem Gebiet der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schneider, Thomas
name: Schmidt, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Umweltfreundliche Beschaffung
subject: Bundesländer
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum

description: Im Fokus der Untersuchung standen rechtliche Vorgaben auf Landesebene (sowohl auf Gesetzes- und Verordnungsebene als auch verwaltungsinterne Vorschriften), die dazu beitragen, dass umweltfreundliche Waren und Dienstleistungen beschafft werden. Darüber hinaus waren Projekte und Initiativen, die von den Landesregierungen als wesentlicher Bestandteil einer Politik der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung angesehen werden, von Interesse. Von einer Darstellung einzelner Beschaffungsvorgänge bzw. bestehender Rahmenvereinbarungen etc. wird in dieser Untersuchung abgesehen. Die Untersuchung konzentriert sich auf Maßnahmen, die aufgrund ihrer Steuerungswirkung zu einer Verstetigung einer umweltfreundlichen Beschaffungspraxis beitragen. Ziel der Untersuchung war nicht, die Landesregelungen rechtlich zu prüfen. Vielmehr ging es darum, mit der Übersicht einen Beitrag zur Beschreibung des Status quo der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung in Deutschland zu leisten und gegebenenfalls die Identifizierung von guten Beispielen zu ermöglichen. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The focus of the study was on regulations at state level (of laws and ordinances as well as internal administrative regulations) that contribute to the procurement of environmentally friendly goods and services. In addition, projects and initiatives considered by the state governments to be an integral part of a green procurement policy were of interest. This study does not describe individual procurement processes or existing framework agreements etc. The study concentrates on measures that, due to their steering effect, contribute to the consolidation of green public procurement practice. It was not the goal of the investigation to examine the national regulations legally. It is rather an overview of the status quo of the green public procurement in Germany on state level. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Die Publikation ist ein Teilergebnis des Forschungsvorhabens „Profilierung der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung durch Integration des modernisierten Vergaberechts in die Praxis“. Im Fokus der Untersuchung stehen rechtliche Vorgaben, Initiativen und Projekte auf Landesebene, die dazu beitragen, dass umweltfreundliche Waren und Dienstleistungen beschafft werden. Sie konzentriert sich auf Maßnahmen, die aufgrund ihrer Steuerungswirkung zu einer Verstetigung einer umweltfreundlichen Beschaffungspraxis beitragen. Ziel ist es einen Beitrag zur Beschreibung des Status quo der umweltfreundlichen Beschaffung in Deutschland zu leisten und ggf. die Identifizierung von guten Beispielen zu ermöglichen.
DEVELOPING A STUDENT NURSE ANESTHETIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Creators: name: Amanda Blanco
name: Leeshy Levi
name: Frances Stauber
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Student registered nurse anesthetist
SRNA
well-being
mentorship
resilience

description: Student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) experience significant anxiety and stress during their three years of doctoral education. As a result, SRNAs may display burnout and fatigue, resulting in program attrition, poor mental health and well-being, and suicidal ideation (Mesisca & Mainwaring, 2021). A review of the literature suggests that medical students and other allied health professionals receiving mentorship have decreased stress, increased resilience, and may experience less distressing periods of transition between didactic and clinical demands (Akinla et al., 2018; Etzel et al., 2018; Nakhostin-Ansari et al., 2021). Although the benefits of mentorship have been studied in the medical school student and physician resident population, a gap exists in research that establishes the benefits of implementing evidence-based mentorship programs for SRNAs. This paper investigates evidence on peer mentorship in health professions and makes evidence-based recommendations for the creation of a tailored mentorship program to meet the needs of Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia (KPSA) students. This program does not currently have a formalized student mentorship program. Baseline mentorship satisfaction and perceived stress of current KPSA students were collected via an electronic survey using established research tools. Additionally, a needs assessment was conducted to establish themes among students’ mentorship wants and needs. Recommendations for an evidence-based mentorship program have been devised for future implementation at KPSA to meet the needs of students, as revealed by their responses. Significant barriers to successful mentorship program implementation and future evaluation metrics of the mentorship program post-implementation are also discussed.
Effects of Mindfulness Meditation and Distraction on Mood and Attention in Veterans with PTSD
Creators: name: Omonishi, Megumi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the usefulness of a 20-minute brief mindfulness meditation in positively affecting mood and attention. Its effects were compared with the effects from a period of distraction and a control condition. The sample consisted of 63 veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Pre-post test of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule were used to assess levels of state anxiety and mood. The Stroop Task was employed as a measure of selective attention. A one-way analysis of variance and split-plot analysis of variance were conducted. To control high comorbidity within this sample, sub-analyses were conducted excluding participants with other psychological or physical conditions. The results revealed that meditators without sleep problems indicated greater selective attention levels. A negative mood decrease was found in all participants regardless of the intervention group assignment. Implications for research and practice were discussed.
Impact of Maternal Intrapartum Antibiotics, and Caesarean Section with and without Labour on Bifidobacterium and Other Infant Gut Microbiota
Creators: name: Chen, Yuan Yao
name: Zhao, Xin
name: Moeder, Wolfgang
name: Tun, Hein M.
name: Simons, Elinor
name: Mandhane, Piushkumar J.
name: Moraes, Theo J.
name: Turvey, Stuart E.
name: Subbarao, Padmaja
name: Scott, James A.
name: Kozyrskyj, Anita L.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Background and Aims: Few studies consider the joint effect of multiple factors related to birth, delivery mode, intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis and the onset of labour, on the abundance of Bifidobacterium and the quantity of this genus and its species Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis in the infant gut microbiota. We implemented such a study. Methods: Among 1654 Canadian full-term infants, the gut microbiota of faecal samples collected at 3 months were profiled by 16S rRNA sequencing; the genus Bifidobacterium and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis were quantified by qPCR. Associations between Bifidobacterium and other gut microbiota were examined by Spearman’s rank correlation. Results: Following vaginal birth, maternal IAP exposure was associated with reduced absolute quantities of bifidobacteria among vaginally delivered infants (6.80 vs. 7.14 log10 (gene-copies/g faeces), p < 0.05), as well as their lowered abundance relative to other gut microbiota. IAP differences in infant gut bifidobacterial quantity were independent of maternal pre-pregnancy body-mass-index (BMI), and remarkably, they were limited to breastfed infants. Pre-pregnancy BMI adjustment revealed negative associations between absolute quantities of bifidobacteria and CS with or without labour in non-breastfed infants, and CS with labour in exclusively breastfed infants. Significant correlations between Bifidobacterium abundance and other microbial taxa were observed. Conclusions: This study documented the impact of the birth mode and feeding status on the abundance of gut Bifidobacterium, and pointed to the important ecological role of the genus Bifidobacterium in gut microbiota due to its strong interaction with other gut microbiota in early infancy.
Sundathelphusa Bott 1969
Creators: name: Ng, Oliver K. S. Chia Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Gecarcinucidae
Sundathelphusa

description: Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969
 Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969a: 363.
 Archipelothelphusa Bott, 1969a: 363.
 Type species. – Potamon (Geothelphusa) cassiope De Man, 1902, by original designation.
 Remarks. – The genus Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969, currently contains some 28 species from Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas and eastern Borneo (Ng & Stuebing, 1989; Ng, 1991b; Ng & Sket, 1996; Takeda & Ng, 2001). Although Bott (1969a, 1970c) regarded Archipelothelphusa Bott, 1969 (type species Thelphusa grapsoides H. Milne Edwards, 1853) as distinct from Sundathelphusa Bott, 1969 (type species Potamon (Geothelphusa) cassiope De Man, 1902), Ng & Sket (1996) argued that there are no clear differences which can be used to distinguish the two and consequently synonymised them. Most of the known species are from the Philippines, although there are still a good number of undescribed species from there (unpublished data). There are only two known species from northeastern Borneo (S. aspera Ng & Stuebing, 1989, S. tenebrosa Holthuis, 1979), with two others from the Moluccas (S. aruana (Roux, 1911), S. halmaherensis (De Man, 1902)). Sulawesi has only three known species thus far, viz. S. cassiope (De Man, 1902), S. minahassae (Schenkel, 1902), and S. rubra (Schenkel, 1902). A fourth species is now being described from Lake Poso (Schubart & Ng, in press).
The present exercise provides just a synopsis of the three species now known from Sulawesi, which will help workers identify the species there. A more detailed study and analysis is not done now as this will be conducted at a later date when the whole genus is revised and reappraised to assess its composition and homogeneity. Since the bulk of the species are from the Philippines, this can only be done after the fauna there is better understood.
description: Published as part of Ng, Oliver K. S. Chia Peter K. L., 2006, The Freshwater Crabs Of Sulawesi, With Descriptions Of Two New Genera And Four New Species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae), pp. 381-428 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2) on page 418, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245646
A second-order operator for horizontal quasiconvexity in the Heisenberg group and application to convexity preserving for horizontal curvature flow
Creators: name: Kijowski, Antoni
name: Liu, Qing
name: Zhang, Ye
name: Zhou, Xiaodan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R03, 35D40, 52A30, 53E10

description: This paper is concerned with a PDE approach to horizontally quasiconvex (h-quasiconvex) functions in the Heisenberg group based on a nonlinear second order elliptic operator. We discuss sufficient conditions and necessary conditions for upper semicontinuous, h-quasiconvex functions in terms of the viscosity subsolution to the associated elliptic equation. Since the notion of h-quasiconvexity is equivalent to the horizontal convexity (h-convexity) of the function's sublevel sets, we further adopt these conditions to study the h-convexity preserving property for horizontal curvature flow in the Heisenberg group. Under the comparison principle, we show that the curvature flow starting from a star-shaped h-convex set preserves the h-convexity during the evolution.
title: Pseudo-haptic feedback in medical teleoperation
Creators: name: Neupert, Carsten
name: Matich, Sebastian
name: Pott, Peter P.
name: Hatzfeld, Christian
name: Werthschützky, Roland
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2025

description: Pseudo-haptic feedback is a haptic illusion based on a mismatch of haptic and visual perception. It is well known from applications in virtual environments. In this work, we discuss the usabiliy of the principle of pseudo-haptic feedback for teleoperation. Using pseudo-haptic feedback can ease the design of haptic medical tele-operation systems.

Thereby a user’s grasping force at an isometric user interface is used to control the closing angle of an end effector of a surgical robot. To provide a realistic haptic feedback, the coupling characteristic of grasping force and end effector closing angle is changed depending on acting end effector interaction forces.

With an experiment, we show the usability of pseudo-haptic feedback for discriminating compliances, comparable to the mechanical characteristic of muscles relaxed and contracted. The provided results base upon the data of 10 subjects, and 300 trails.
Knowledge frame translator.
Creators: name: Wang, Wenshao
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Expert Systems
Medical Informatics Applications
Software

description: Building an expert system in certain domain area involves knowledge acquisition, knowledge programming and knowledge refinement --- the tasks of transforming the experts' knowledge into the system.  Therefore, appropriate and efficient tools, which may include high-level languages, debugging aids, and friendly editing facilities and so on, to facilitate these tasks, are very essential to an expert system.  The Translator is such a tool developed in the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Utah.  It has been designed to aid the knowledge programming and refinement for a medial expert system named Iliad.  It provides users a very friendly high level language, allows user to create, review or modify knowledge frames in nearly free test form and translates them into a computer readable from of another language.  The Translator is a compiler-like software tool built on the Macintosh.  Developing such a tool involves language translation knowledge, compiler construction techniques and software engineering concept.  The successful implementation of this tool will make knowledge programming and knowledge refinement for the Iliad system much easier and fast than before, accelerate the process of building, updating and maintaining medical knowledge in Iliad, and make the Iliad a complete, and stand-alone expert system.
An attempted predation on a Four-lined snake Elaphe quatuorlineata (Lacépède, 1789) by a Common Buzzard Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Creators: name: Aloise, Gaetano
name: Mazzei, Antonio
name: Brandmayr, Pietro
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: The authors report on a case of attempted predation on a sub-adult Four-lined snake by a Common Buzzard observed in Calabria region (Southern Italy).
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Potential new therapeutic approaches to treat nasopharyngeal cancers
Creators: name: Linton, Reagan Entigu Anak
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Nasopharyngeal cancer, NPC is a cancer that commonly affects the Chinese population and the ethnic group, Bidayuh from Sarawak. The study screened and combined new treatment drugs that were developed for other cancers against NPC cells. The study discovered a potential combination treatment that was able to negatively affect the growth and survival of NPC cells. The mechanism of action was investigated yet it warrants further exploration to fully understand the effects caused by the combined drugs. The findings would allow better treatment strategies in the future for NPC and other types of cancers.
What’s New in the Lower Digestive Tract?
Creators: name: Whitlock, Robert H.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1971

description: There are four syndromes associated with abomasal ulcers (1). The first type is that of slight ulceration or erosion with only mild or no clinical signs. The second syndrome is that of marked hemorrhage or anemia. The third syndrome is that of abomasal perforation with acute circumscribed peritonitis. The causative factors related to cecal torsion are very similar to those of abomasal displacement.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1971
Imposte indirette sul commercio elettronico
Indirect taxes on e-commerce
Creators: name: Correia, Claudia Cristina <1976>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: IUS/12 Diritto tributario

description: In questo lavoro si analizza l’imposizione indiretta nel commercio elettronico; l’analisi si è basata sullo studio della normativa Comunitaria (Direttive Europee ) e la legislazione e Italiana, esponendo anche le differenze con il profilo legislativo brasiliano (softwares e libri).Esposti i contributi delle istituzione internazionali (conferenze ed/o proposte della Unione Europea) per l’inquadramento tipologico e fiscale del commercio elettronico, sono stati analizzati i profili generali dell’istituto della stabile organizzazione ai fini dell’imposizione dell’IVA e al commercio elettronico, distinguendo anche tra le transazioni elettroniche considerabili come cessione di beni e quelle considerabili prestazioni di servizi, in base alla materialità o alla dematerializzazione del bene scambiato. Anche il principio di territorialità nelle prestazioni di servizi è stato analizzato tramite analisi dei regimi ordinario e speciale riguardanti gli operatori extracomunitari.
description: In this work we analyze the indirect taxation in e-commerce, the analysis was based on the study of EC regulations (EU Directives) and the Italian legislation and, exposing the differences with the legislative Brazilian (softwares and books). Exposed the contributions of the international institution (conferences and / or proposals by the European Union) for the classification of types of e-commerce and taxation, we have analyzed the general aspects of the institute of the permanent establishment for tax purposes of VAT and e-commerce , distinguishing between electronic transactions also consider them as sale of goods and the considerable services, according to the material or the dematerialization of the exchanged item. The principle of territoriality in the provision of services was analyzed by analysis of ordinary and special regimes relating to non-EU operators
Rethinking Medication Adherence
Creators: name: Therapeutics Initiative (University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Therapeutics Letter 132 explores the role of shared decision-making when considering the appropriateness of medication adherence. Conclusions: Non-adherence offers clinicians an opportunity to learn about patient goals and what makes treatment worthwhile for an individual. A shared decision-making framework or structured questioning can facilitate meaningful dialogue and help clinicians understand patient preferences. Informed non-adherence is an acceptable choice compatible with personal autonomy. Documenting patient preferences can improve communication between clinicians and reduce confusion during transitions in care.
Development of Analytical Strategies to Measure Radioisotopes of Tin in the Environment
Creators: name: Majibur Rahman, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tin isotopes
Radioisotopes

description: Quantification of tin isotopes in environmental samples, particularly the radioactive 126Sn, is important for processes such as the biomonitoring of organotin species, long-term nuclear waste storage and treatment planning. The detection of 126Sn by mass spectrometric methods is, however, hampered by the presence of the stable 126Te isotope. Therefore, separation of tin from tellurium is crucial to minimize isobaric interferences that limit the quantification of 126Sn by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) and other instrumental techniques. In the present study, three major accomplishments are discussed: i) development of an analytical strategy to separate tin from tellurium, ii) monitoring of anionic interferences in the separation of tin from tellurium, and iii) suppression of 126Te background to allow the detection of 126Sn by AMS.
What killed Australian cinema & why is the bloody corpse still moving?
Creators: name: Zvi, Jacob
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australians love cinema, but consistently refrain from watching their own native films, why? During its golden period, 1970-1988, Australian cinema was renowned for its ingenuity and responsible for critical and commercial successes. Over the past thirty years, 1988-2018, due to the detrimental role of government funding agencies, Australian films are perceived as under-developed, low budget, and depressing. By separately analyzing each concept: Australian, national and cinema, the thesis demonstrates how the false ‘national’ discourse helped consolidate government funding bodies’ power, and contests its validity. Consequently, Australian cinema is declared dead. Avenues for future research are offered to remedy this situation.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MORPHEME AWARENESS IN UNDERSTANDING ACADEMIC LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Ergashev, Rasulbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this research is to examine the role of morpheme awareness in enhancing students' understanding of academic language. Morpheme awareness, or the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest units of meaning within words, is a key factor in vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, particularly in academic contexts where complex words are common. This study uses a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and practical activities to evaluate how morpheme awareness influences students' ability to decode and comprehend academic vocabulary. Results indicate that morpheme-based strategies significantly aid in understanding specialized vocabulary, with students showing improved confidence and comprehension when encountering morphologically complex words. These findings support the integration of morphological instruction in educational settings to promote independent learning and academic literacy.
A retrospective study of the impact of health worker strikes on maternal and child health care utilization in western Kenya
Creators: name: Scanlon, Michael L.
name: Maldonado, Lauren Y.
name: Ikemeri, Justus E.
name: Jumah, Anjellah
name: Anusu, Getrude
name: Bone, Jeffrey N.
name: Chelagat, Sheilah
name: Keter, Joann C.
name: Ruhl, Laura
name: Songok, Julia
name: Christoffersen-Deb, Astrid
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background There have been dozens of strikes by health workers in Kenya in the past decade, but there are few studies of their impact on maternal and child health services and outcomes. We conducted a retrospective survey study to assess the impact of nationwide strikes by health workers in 2017 on utilization of maternal and child health services in western Kenya. Methods We utilized a parent study to enroll women who were pregnant in 2017 when there were prolonged strikes by health workers (“strike group”) and women who were pregnant in 2018 when there were no major strikes (“control group”). Trained research assistants administered a close-ended survey to retrospectively collect demographic and pregnancy-related health utilization and outcomes data. Data were collected between March and July 2019. The primary outcomes of interest were antenatal care (ANC) visits, delivery location, and early child immunizations. Generalized estimating equations were used to estimate risk ratios between the strike and control groups, adjusting for socioeconomic status, health insurance status, and clustering. Adjusted risk ratios (ARR) were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Results Of 1341 women recruited in the parent study in 2017 (strike group), we re-consented 843 women (63%) to participate. Of 924 women recruited in the control arm of the parent study in 2018 (control group), we re-consented 728 women (79%). Women in the strike group were 17% less likely to attend at least four ANC visits during their pregnancy (ARR 0.83, 95%CI 0.74, 0.94) and 16% less likely to deliver in a health facility (ARR 0.84, 95%CI 0.76, 0.92) compared to women in the control group. Whether a child received their first oral polio vaccine did not differ significantly between groups, but children of women in the strike group received their vaccine significantly longer after birth (13 days versus 7 days, p = 0.002). Conclusion We found that women who were pregnant during nationwide strikes by health workers in 2017 were less likely to receive WHO-recommended maternal child health services. Strategies to maintain these services during strikes are urgently needed.
title: Analyzing the Effect of Age and Gender on the Blink Reflex using MediaPipe
Creators: name: Güney, Gökhan
name: Jansen, Talisa S.
name: Braczynski, Anne K.
name: Rohr, Maurice
name: Dill, Sebastian
name: Hoog Antink, Christoph
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2025

description: The glabellar tapping reflex (GTR) is a sign related to brain conditions and can be analyzed by clinicians for diagnostic purposes. To facilitate the quantitative analysis of this reflex, we developed a video-based tool using the MediaPipe framework. We tested our approach on healthy subjects to assess the effect of age and gender on reaction time and blinking duration. The reaction time results show that the young group has a mean value (±standard deviation) of 0.091 (±0.066) seconds and the old group has 0.085 (±0.052) seconds, while female and male subjects have 0.097 (±0.053) seconds and 0.080 (±0.064) seconds respectively. For blinking duration, males have a mean value of 0.216 (±0.077) seconds and, females have 0.189 (±0.115) seconds, while old and young groups have 0.132 (±0.039) seconds 0.267(±0.084) seconds respectively.
Consultation with Performance Feedback to Increase Phonological Awareness in Preschool Age Children
Creators: name: Albritton, Kizzy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Although a growing body of literature indicates that preschool and/or prekindergarten programs can improve child outcomes, research evidence suggests that some preschool teachers may not have the prerequisite content and pedagogical knowledge needed to effectively teach young children critical emergent language and literacy skills. While there a number of factors impacting emergent literacy, phonological awareness has been shown to be highly predictive of later reading achievement. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of consultation model with performance feedback on teacher?s implementation of a targeted phonological awareness intervention. A single subject multiple baseline across group design was used to determine if a functional relation exist between teachers? implementation of targeted small group instruction and student performance on measures of phonological awareness skills and between performance feedback and teacher adherence to curriculum implementation. While a functional relation could not be confirmed, the findings from this study provide initial support for the use of consultation with performance feedback in preschool classrooms to improve academic skills. Additionally, the findings from this study suggest that the use of performance feedback along with a targeted phonological awareness intervention may be an effective method of improving phonological awareness skills in for students who may be at-risk of reading failure. The results of the study also suggest that teachers were satisfied with the consultation with performance feedback process and found the phonological awareness intervention to be acceptable and socially valid.