cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Untersuchungen zum Einfluss der Überexpression der Proteinphosphatasen 2A und 2C auf die kardiale Funktion in transgenen Mäusen
Creators: name: Jaron, Marko Andreas
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Die Kontraktilität des Herzens hängt im Wesentlichen von der Verfügbarkeit von freien Kalziumionen in den Herzmuskelzellen ab. Eine zentrale Rolle in der Steuerung der Kalziumhomöostase spielt der Phosphorylierungszustand von regulierenden Proteinen. In dieser Arbeit sollte der Einfluss der Überexpression zweier Proteinphosphatasen auf die kardiale Funktion untersucht werden. Es wurden Mausmodelle verwendet, welche die katalytische Untereinheit der PP 2A und 2C herzspezifisch überexprimieren. Die hämodynamische Funktion wurde mittels Echokardiografie beurteilt. Es zeigten sich u.a. eine verringerte Kontraktilität, vergrößerte Herzhöhlen sowie eine gestörte linksventrikuläre Relaxation. Ein erhöhtes relatives Herzgewicht konnte festgestellt werden. Auf Proteinebene konnte eine Verminderung der Gesamtmenge an Phospholamban, einem zentralen Regulatorprotein des intrazellulären Kalziumhaushaltes, nachgewiesen werden. Die Inhibition von Proteinphosphatasen kann ein Ansatz in der Therapie von Herzinsuffizienz und Kardiomyopathien sein.
description: The contractility of the heart essentially depends on the availability of free calcium ions in the heart muscle cells. The phosphorylation state of regulatory proteins plays a central role in controlling calcium homeostasis.In this work, the influence of overexpression of two protein phosphatases on cardiac function should be investigated. Mouse models overexpressing the catalytic subunit of PP 2A and 2C in a heart-specific manner were used. Hemodynamic function was assessed by echocardiography. Among other things, reduced contractility, enlarged heart cavities and impaired left ventricular relaxation were found. An increased relative heart weight could be determined. At the protein level, a reduction in the total amount of phospholamban, a central regulatory protein of the intracellular calcium balance, could be demonstrated. The inhibition of protein phosphatases can be an approach in the therapy of heart failure and cardiomyopathies.
Default and Renegotiation of Latin American Foreign Bonds in the Interwar Period
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Erika
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Finance
Latin Americans

description: This paper examines the patterns of defaults, renegotiations, and final settlements on foreign borrowing of several Latin American governments in the interwar period. One goal of the paper is to provide a detailed historical account of the borrowing and renegotiation experience of five Latin borrowers (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Peru). Another goal is to provide a quantitative assessment of the amount of debt relief that was implicit in the negotiated settlements of the defaults that were reached in the 1930s and 1940s. In general, the pattern of default and renegotiation resulted in substantial, though not complete, debt relief, in the sense of reducing the present value of debt repayments from the sovereign borrower to the bondholders.
Aging of rotational diffusion in colloidal gels and glasses
Creators: name: Jabbari-Farouji, S.
name: Wegdam, G. H.
name: Bonn, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the rotational diffusion of aging Laponite suspensions for a wide range of concentrations using depolarized dynamic light scattering. The measured orientational correlation functions undergo an ergodic to non-ergodic transition that is characterized by a concentration-dependent ergodicity-breaking time. We find that the relaxation times associated with rotational degree of freedom as a function of waiting time, when scaled with their ergodicity-breaking time, collapse on two distinct master curves. These master curves are similar to those previously found for the translational dynamics; The two different classes of behavior were attributed to colloidal gels and glasses. Therefore, the aging dynamics of rotational degree of freedom provides another signature of the distinct dynamical behavior of colloidal gels and glasses.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
title: Occupation during and after the War (Ottoman Empire)
title: Occupation during and after the War (Ottoman Empire)
Creators: name: Criss, Nur Bilge
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Osmanisches Reich
subject: Besetzung
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Territorial questions
subject: Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

description: Memories of occupation by foreign forces are not usually articulated except when prisoners of war speak of their experiences when debriefed. These are usually shameful episodes in the lives of those who survived. Collaboration with the enemy often overwhelms the saga of resistance, especially when examining World War I. Yet combined with the struggle to defy the “peace treaties”, Turkey was a unique example, however unexpected, of a country that reversed the partition plans of its heartland, not its defunct empire. This essay addresses the existential struggle of those Turks who defied the age-old Eastern Question and analyzes the conjunctures that made this success possible.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Civilian Morale
title: Civilian Morale
Creators: name: Ermacora, Matteo
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Frankreich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Öffentliche Meinung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--France
subject: Public opinion

description: This article deals with civilian morale during the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918, governments “discovered” the importance of civilian morale and developed vast systems of surveillance to scrutinize the general mood and shape public opinion. Morale declined progressively from the second half of 1916. This paper discusses the main changes in maintaining morale, the key factors that influenced it (perceptions, shortages, war-weariness, internal divisions, political issues), the national cases, and the state attempts to remobilize war-wearied societies until the end of the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Person Identification From Audio and Visual Aesthetics
Creators: name: Sieu, Brandon
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning
subject: Deep Learning
subject: Behavioral Biometrics
subject: Biometric Security
subject: Visual Aesthetics
subject: Audio Aesthetics
subject: Pattern Recognition
subject: Computer Science

description: In recent years, the trend that allowed for person identiﬁcation based on behavior rather than physical traits to emerge as a growing research domain. Its application spans areas such as online education, e-commerce, e-communication, human-computer interaction, robotics, and biometric security. The expression of opinions is an example of online behavior, that is commonly shared through the liking of images or music. A person's aesthetic preference involves using a person's sense of fondness to experienced stimulus. This thesis examines for the first time aesthetic preference as a biometric trait. It then establishes the efficacy of a combined multi-modal approach to person identification using aesthetic preference. The potency of this approach is tested on a proprietary dataset.
Microscopic Evidence of Direct Coupling between Magnetic and Superconducting Order Parameters in BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$
Creators: name: Iye, T.
name: Nakai, Y.
name: Kitagawa, S.
name: Ishida, K.
name: Kasahara, S.
name: Shibauchi, T.
name: Matsuda, Y.
name: Terashima, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in the isovalent-P-substituted BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$ has been investigated microscopically by $^{31}$P-NMR measurements. We found that superconducting (SC) transition occurs in a magnetic region with static ordered moments and that the moments are reduced below the SC transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ in the samples near the phase boundary of magnetism and superconductivity. Our results indicate that magnetism and superconductivity coexist spatially but compete with each other on the same Fermi surfaces. The coexistence state is qualitatively different from that observed in other unconventional superconductors and gives a strict constraint on the theoretical model for superconductivity in BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Stability of Majorana Fermions in Proximity-Coupled Topological Insulator Nanowires
Creators: name: Cook, A. M.
name: Vazifeh, M. M.
name: Franz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown previously that a finite-length topological insulator nanowire, proximity-coupled to an ordinary bulk s-wave superconductor and subject to a longitudinal applied magnetic field, realizes a one-dimensional topological superconductor with an unpaired Majorana fermion (MF) localized at each end of the nanowire. Here, we study the stability of these MFs with respect to various perturbations that are likely to occur in a physical realization of the proposed device. We show that the unpaired Majorana fermions persist in this system for any value of the chemical potential inside the bulk band gap of order 300 meV in Bi$_2$Se$_3$ by computing the Majorana number. From this calculation, we also show that the unpaired Majorana fermions persist when the magnetic flux through the nanowire cross-section deviates significantly from half flux quantum. Lastly, we demonstrate that the unpaired Majorana fermions persist in strongly disordered wires with fluctuations in the on-site potential ranging in magnitude up to several times the size of the bulk band gap. These results suggest this solid-state system should exhibit unpaired Majorana fermions under accessible conditions likely important for experimental study or future applications.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
Macroeconomic Interdependence of Japan and the United States: Some Simulation Results
Creators: name: Ishii, Naoko
name: McKibbin, Warwick J.
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: In this paper we examine the macroeconomic interdependence of Japan and the U.S. using a medium-scale simulation model of the world economy. Our goal is to determine how shifts in macroeconomic policies in the U.S. or Japan affect the other country as well as the rest of the world. In particular we examine the following three issues: (1) the likely macroeconomic ramifications for the U.S., Europe and Japan of significant budget cuts in the U.S.; (2) the macroeconomic implications of a protectionist tariff imposed by the U.S.; and (3) the scope for policy coordination among the U.S., Japan and Europe.
Gluodissociation and Screening of Upsilon States in PbPb Collisions at sqrt (s_NN) = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: Brezinski, Felix
name: Wolschin, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest that gluon-induced dissociation and screening of the Y(nS) states explain the suppression of the Y(2S+3S) states relative to the Y(1S) ground state that has been observed by CMS in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 2.76 TeV at the CERN LHC. The minimum-bias gluodissociation cross sections of the 1S-3S states are calculated using a screened Cornell potential and a thermal gluon distribution. The 3S state dissolves due to screening before sizeable gluodissociation occurs, but for the 2S and 1S states there is an interplay between screening, gluodissociation, and feed-down from the chi_b(2P) and chi_b(1P) states. Based on a schematic approach, we find that the calculated suppression of the Y(2S) and Y(3S) states relative to Y(1S) is consistent with the CMS result, but allows for additional suppression mechanisms. The Y(1S) suppression through gluodissociation is, however, in good agreement with the CMS data.
description: Fig.3 added; text, references and Fig.2 updated. Physics Letters B, accepted
Interrogating protein-ligand interactions through structural mass spectrometry, computational simulations and biophysical techniques
Creators: name: Bender, Julian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 572

description: This thesis explores protein-lipid interactions of the regulatory protein Synaptotagmin-1 (Syt-1) and protein-ribonucleic acid (RNA) interactions of the turnip crinkle virus (TCV) coat protein p38. Lipid preferences and membrane interactions of Syt-1 were characterised using native mass spectrometry (MS), biophysical techniques and molecular dynamics simulations. The results suggest a significant role of negatively charged phospholipids for Syt-1 membrane interactions and reveal molecular details of lipid interactions of the Syt-1 C2A and C2B domains in the presence and absence of calcium. The structure of soluble p38 in the presence and absence of RNA was investigated using native MS, chemical cross-linking MS and computational docking. The results indicate that RNA binding prevents p38 subunit exchange and suggest a structural model. Overall, this thesis highlights the use of structural MS and computational simulations for characterising protein interactions.
description: Diese Arbeit betrachtet Protein-Lipid-Interaktionen des regulatorischen Proteins Synaptotagmin-1 (Syt-1) und Protein-Ribonukleinsäure (RNS)-Interaktionen des Turnip Crinkle Virus (TCV) Hüllproteins p38. Lipidpräferenzen und Membraninteraktionen von Syt-1 wurden mittels nativer Massenspektrometrie (MS), biophysikalischer Techniken und Molekulardynamik-Simulationen charakterisiert. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf eine wichtige Rolle negativ geladener Phospholipide hin und zeigen molekulare Details von Interaktionen der C2 Domänen von Syt-1 mit verschiedenen Membranen in An- und Abwesenheit von Calciumionen. Die RNA-Abhängigkeit der Struktur von p38 wurde mittels nativer MS, chemischem cross-linking gekoppelt mit MS und computergestütztem Docking untersucht. Es wurde gezeigt, dass RNSBindung den Austausch von p38-Untereinheiten verhindert und ein Strukturmodell vorgeschlagen. Insgesamt zeigt diese Arbeit den Nutzen von MS und Computersimulationen zur Charakterisierung von Proteininteraktionen.
Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: The Lessons from 1995
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Tornell, Aaron
name: Velasco, Andrés
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics
Finance

description: In this paper we examine closely the financial events following the Mexican peso devaluation to uncover new lessons about the nature of financial crises. We explore the question of why, during 1995, some emerging markets were hit by financial crises while others were not. To this end, we ask whether there are some fundamentals that help explain the variation in financial crises across countries or whether the variation just reflects contagion. We present a simple model identifying three factors that determine whether a country is more vulnerable to suffer a financial crisis: a high real exchange rate appreciation, a recent lending boom, and low reserves. We find that for a set of 20 emerging markets, differences in these fundamentals go far in explaining why during 1995 some emerging markets were hit by financial crises while others were not. We also find that alternative hypotheses that have been put forth to explain such crises often do not seem to be supported by the data, such as high current account deficits, excessive capital inflows and loose fiscal policies.
The Use of Telepathology in Veterinary Medicine: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Rogers, Lindsay
name: Ganshorn, Heather
name: Galezowski, Angelica
name: Goldsmith, Dayna
name: Legge, Carolyn
name: Davies, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Other
Year: 2021
Subjects: Telepathology
Veterinary medicine
Scoping review
Protocol

description: Scoping review protocol
description: Background: Telepathology, as a subset of teleconsulting, is pathological interpretation performed at a distance. Diagnostics can be difficult to access by rural veterinary practices yet are vital to the health of production animal herds often serviced by these practices. The technology and availability of telepathology services has not been assessed to identify gaps in the literature and means of improving diagnostics services to rural veterinary clinics. Objectives: The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of how telepathology is being used in veterinary medicine. Eligibility criteria: Peer reviewed journal articles and grey literature in the English language and published after 2000 will be included in the study. It must be relevant to performing pathological interpretation at a distance in veterinary medicine. Literature about radiology, bacteriology, and relevant to human medicine will be excluded. Sources of evidence: Searches will be conducted in CAB Abstracts and MEDLINE. Websites from national veterinary medical associations, veterinary pathologist membership organizations, and international animal health organizations will be searched for grey literature. Charting methods: Data charting will include study characteristics, sector of pathology, technology used for communication, technology used for pathological interpretation, and a summary of the literature objectives and conclusions.
Häufigkeit von Schwannomen des 8. Hirnnerven mit intralabyrinthärer Beteiligung : eine retrospektive Analyse von MRT-Untersuchungen
Creators: name: Tilgner, Philipp Michael
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Intralabyrinthäre Tumorausdehnungen eines klassischen Vestibularisschwannom sind selten. Dessen vorliegen ist therapierelevant bei multifaktoriellen Behandlungsstrategien. Eine retrospektive MRT-Analyse von operierten Patienten aufgrund eines Akustikusneurinoms sollte Aufschluss darüber geben, ob eine Ausdehnung klassischer VS ins Labyrinth vorlag und ob die vorliegende Bildqualität adäquat war, diese zu detektieren. Es zeigte sich eine große Bildqualitätsheterogenität, zum Teil war die Bildqualität einzelner MRT unzureichend und diese Tumorausdehnung nicht beurteilbar. Eine zuvor unbekannte intralabyrinthäre Beteiligung konnte detektiert werden. Eine Modiolusinfiltrate war nur einmal zu beobachten. Häufig war eine Aussage zu Tumorwachstumsverhalten möglich. Die Ausdehnung klassischer VS ins Labyrinth bzw. in die Apertura cochleae ist selten und muss ins primäre Therapiekonzept einbezogen werden. Ihre Aufdeckung erfordert eine optimierte MRT-Untersuchung.
description: Intralabyrinthine tumor extension of a classic vestibular schwannoma is rare. Its presence is treatment-relevant in multifactorial treatment strategies. A retrospective MRI analysis was performed of patients who underwent surgery for acoustic neuroma to determine whether extension of classic VS into the labyrinth was present and whether the available image quality was adequate to detect it. A large image quality heterogeneity was found, in some cases the image quality of individual MRI was inadequate and this tumor extension could not be assessed. A previously unknown intralabyrinthine involvement was detected. A modiolus infiltrate was observed only once. In many cases was a statement on tumor growth possible. Extension of classic VS into the labyrinth or apertura cochleae is rare and must be included in the primary therapy concept. Their detection requires an optimized MRI examination.
Real Exchange Rate Effects of Fiscal Policy
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Wyplosz, Charles
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1984
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: This paper develops a framework for analyzing the effects of fiscal policy on the real exchange rate. The short-run impact of various types of fiscal measures are considered as well as the dynamics of adjustment to long-run steady states. The analysis and related simulations suggest that the effect of fiscal policy changes on the real exchange rate can vary widely and will depend closely on a number of structural features, including the degree of asset substitutability, the composition of government spending, and the initial size of the public debt and net external position.
title: Film/Cinema
title: Film/Cinema
Creators: name: Smither, Roger
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Film
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war

description: The First World War played a significant role in the evolution of film both as a medium for reporting war and as a tool for the propagandist manipulation of public opinion to support the war effort. It affected the perception of cinema as a socially acceptable medium, influenced the development of certain genres of film, and affected patterns of cinema attendance and film distribution around the world.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
On Rigorous Derivation of the Enskog Kinetic Equation
Creators: name: Gapyak, I. V.
name: Gerasimenko, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q20, 35Q82, 47J35, 82C05, 82C40

description: We develop a rigorous formalism for the description of the kinetic evolution of infinitely many hard spheres. On the basis of the kinetic cluster expansions of cumulants of groups of operators of finitely many hard spheres the nonlinear kinetic Enskog equation and its generalizations are justified. It is established that for initial states which are specified in terms of one-particle distribution functions the description of the evolution by the Cauchy problem of the BBGKY hierarchy and by the Cauchy problem of the generalized Enskog kinetic equation together with a sequence of explicitly defined functionals of a solution of stated kinetic equation is an equivalent. For the initial-value problem of the generalized Enskog equation the existence theorem is proved in the space of integrable functions.
description: 28 pages
title: Léger, Fernand
title: Léger, Fernand
Creators: name: Becker, Annette
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Léger, Fernand
subject: o.P. Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955

description: Léger was fascinated by the front, but barely ever depicted what he saw in his work. His correspondence, however, offers a remarkable descent into the abyss of the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
"Screening und Charakterisierung D-Aminosäure-spezifischer hydrolytischer Enzyme"
Creators: name: Simon, Andreas H.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Im Konzept der Substratmimetika-assistierten Semisynthese von all-L-Peptiden und all-L-Proteinen besitzen D-Aminosäure-spezifische Peptidasen aufgrund der ausbleibenden Sekun-därhydrolyse ihrer Reaktionsprodukte ein hohes biotechnologisches Potential. Allein die Verfüg-barkeit dieser Peptidasen limitiert hierbei ihre Anwendung. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein Screening-System auf Basis des intern gequenchten fluorogenen Substrats Abz-D-Arg-D-Ala-pNA entwickelt und etabliert. Es wurde genutzt, um zum einen im Organismus B. thuringiensis und zum anderen in einem evolutiven Ansatz zur Konversion der Stereospezifität von Trypsin nach D-Aminosäure-spezifischen Enzymspezies zu screenen. Die so gewonnen putativ D-stereospezifischen Peptidasen und -varianten wurden folgend mittels einer Aminosäuremethylesterbibliothek bzw. einer Pentapeptidbibliothek hinsichtlich ihrer Spezifität und ihres synthetischen Potentials charakterisiert. Darüber hinaus konnte die Struktur der D-Arginin-spezifischen D-stereospezifischen Hydrolase aus B. thuringiensis gelöst werden.
description: Within the concept of substrate mimetic-assisted semisynthesis of all-L-peptides and all-L-proteins, D-amino acid-specific peptidases have a high biotechnological potential due to the non-existing secondary hydrolysis of the products. However, the availability of these peptidases limits their application. In the present work, a screening system based on the internally quenched fluorogenic substrate Abz-D-Arg-D-Ala-pNA was developed and subsequently used to screen d-amino acid-specific enzyme species in the organism B. thuringiensis as well as in an evolutionary approach for the conversion of the stereospecificity of trypsin. The putative D-stereospecific peptidases and variants thus obtained were then characterized for their specificity and synthetic potential using an amino acid methyl ester library and a pentapeptide library, respectively. Furthermore, the structure of the D-arginine-specific D-stereospecific hydrolase from B. thuringiensis was solved.
Nanotherapeutics: Challenge Accepted
Creators: name: Agnes, Marco
name: Pancani, Elisabetta
name: Manet, Ilse
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: VERSIONE IN ITALIANO (see below for the English Version)
 Il progetto "Nanomedicina: Sistemi nanostrutturati per il trasporto di farmaci" nasce nell'ambito dei Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e per l’Orientamento (PCTO, ex Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro) in collaborazione fra l'Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività (ISOF) del CNR di Bologna e il Liceo Scientifico Internazionale "Galvani" di Bologna (https://www.liceogalvani.edu.it/). L'obiettivo è quello di promuovere, attraverso un'azione congiunta fra l'ente di ricerca e l'istituto scolastico, la divulgazione degli strumenti e degli esiti della ricerca in biomedicina e nel settore delle nanotecnologie utilizzati ed ottenuti durante lo svolgimento dei progetti finanziati dalla Commissione Europea CyclonHit, PolarStar e HypoCyclo. Gli studenti, dopo opportune ore di formazione didattica e aver svolto delle attività laboratoriali studiate ad hoc per il progetto, hanno progettato e realizzato un sito web (in italiano e inglese) per divulgare i principali contenuti appresi durante il percorso e anche un gioco di società a tema "Nanomedicine", scaricabile dal sito:
 https://sites.google.com/galvaniedu.it/nanomedicines/home?authuser=0 ENGLISH VERSION
 In collaboration with Liceo Scientifico Internazionale "Galvani" in Bologna (https://www.liceogalvani.edu.it/) the project was meant to introduce the most recent applications of nanotechnologies to medical, pharmaceutical and biological sectors. Students from the high school have learnt many details about the EU-funded projects targeting Novel Therapies for Cancer Treatments and the Fight against Antimicrobial Resistance. Students performed experiments related to the preparation and characterization of nanoparticles and studied their applications. The overall result of this project has been published online on a private website created by the students together with a board game which amis to "Defeat Cancer": https://sites.google.com/galvaniedu.it/nanomedicines/home?authuser=0
Input Price Shocks and the Slowdown in Economic Growth: The Case of U.K. Manufacturing
Creators: name: Bruno, Michael
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Managerial economics
Economics

description: This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of input price shocks on economic growth, with a focus on United Kingdom manufacturing in the 1970s. The theoretical model predicts a discrete decline in out- put and productivity after an input price rise, and a longer-run slowdown in productivity growth, real wage growth, and capital accumulation. These features characterize the United Kingdom and most other OECD economies after 1973. The empirical results confirm the important role of input prices in recent U.K. adjustment, but also point to an important role for other supply and demand factors.
title: Shaw, George Bernard
title: Shaw, George Bernard
Creators: name: McKee, Adam R.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Shaw, Bernard
subject: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

description: An Irish-born writer and critic, best known as a playwright, George Bernard Shaw was an ardent opponent to World War I. Already in his fifties at the start of the war, Shaw was outspoken in his antiwar speeches and also published a pamphlet entitled ''Common Sense about the War'' which greatly altered the public’s opinions of Shaw during and after the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Scheloribates fimbriatus Thor 1930
Creators: name: Ordouni, Fatemeh
name: Ramroodi, Sara
name: Akrami, Mohammad Ali
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Scheloribatidae
Scheloribates
Scheloribates fimbriatus

description: Scheloribates fimbriatus Thor, 1930
 Material examined – 53 ♀♀, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Taftan mountain, Khash county (28° 57' 58" N, 61° 02' 36" E, 3941 m a.s.l.), 24 August 2019; Mohtaram-Abad village, Fanouj county (26° 70' 71" N, 59° 24' 40" E, 185 m a.s.l.), Nerium oleander L., 22 June 2018, leg.: F. Ordouni; Ramin village (25° 27' 27" N, 60° 74' 76" E, 7 m a.s.l.), Ficus religiosa L., Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh., 28 February 2019 and Mangrove forest, Chabahar county (25° 03' 33" N, 62° 31' 66" E, 7 m a.s.l.), 30 February 2019, respectively; leg.: A. Arjmandi-Nezhad.
 Distribution in Iran – Yazd, West Azerbaijan, Mazandaran, Guilan, Fars, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Razavi Khorasan and Khuzestan provinces (Akrami 2015).
 Zoogeographical distribution – Pantropical and Subtropical.
description: Published as part of Ordouni, Fatemeh, Ramroodi, Sara, Akrami, Mohammad Ali & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2023, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from southeastern Iran, with supplementary description of Verachthonius cf. laticeps (Brachychthoniidae), pp. 173-188 in Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (2) on page 180, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v12i2.75578, http://zenodo.org/record/10268285
Spectral analysis and Allan variance calculation in the case of phase noise
Creators: name: Georgakaki, Dimitra
name: Mitsas, Chris
name: Polatoglou, Hariton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, time series analysis techniques are used to analyze sequential, equispaced mass measurements of a Si density artifact, collected from an electromechanical transducer. Specifically, techniques such as Power Spectral Density, Bretthorst periodogram, Allan variance and Modified Allan variance can provide much insight regarding the stochastic correlations that are induced on the outcome of an experiment by the measurement system and establish criteria for the limited use of the classical variance in metrology. These techniques are used in conjunction with power law models of stochastic noise in order to characterize time or frequency regimes by pointing out the different types of frequency modulated (FM) or phase modulated (PM) noise. In the case of phase noise, only Modified Allan variance can tell between white PM and flicker PM noise. Oscillations in the system can be detected accurately with the Bretthorst periodogram. Through the detection of colored noise, which is expected to appear in almost all electronic devices, a lower threshold of measurement uncertainty is obtained and the white noise model of statistical independence can no longer provide accurate results for the examined data set.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Seasonal dynamics of methanotrophic bacteria in a boreal oil sands end-pit lake
Creators: name: Albakistani, Emad
name: Nwosu, Felix
name: Furgason, Chantel
name: Haupt, Evan
name: Smirnova, Angela
name: Verbeke, Tobin
name: Lee, Eun-Suk
name: Kim, Joong-Jae
name: Chan, Amelia
name: Ruhl, Ilona
name: Sheremet, Andriy
name: Rudderham, Sarah
name: Lindsay, Matthew
name: Dunfield, Peter
Publisher: name: Biological Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: methane
methanotroph
stratified lake
dimictic lake
land reclaimation

description: Base Mine Lake (BML) is the first full-scale demonstration end pit lake for the oil sands mining industry in Canada. We examined aerobic methanotrophic bacteria over all seasons for five years in this dimictic lake. Methanotrophs comprised up to 58% of all bacterial reads in 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing analyses (median 2.8%), and up to 2.7 × 104 cells mL−1 of water (median 0.5 × 103) based on qPCR of pmoA genes. Methanotrophic activity and populations in the lake water were highest during fall turnover, and remained high through the winter ice-covered period into spring turnover. They declined during summer stratification, especially in the epilimnion. Three methanotroph genera (Methylobacter, Methylovulum, and Methyloparacoccus) cycled seasonally, based on both relative and absolute abundance measurements. Methylobacter and Methylovulum populations peaked in winter/spring, when methane oxidation activity was psychrophilic. Methyloparacoccus populations increased in the water column through summer and fall, when methane oxidation was mesophilic, and also predominated in the underlying tailings sediment. Other, less abundant genera grew primarily during summer, possibly due to distinct CH4/O2 microniches created during thermal stratification. These data are consistent with temporal and spatial niche differentiation based on temperature, CH4 and O2. This pit lake displays methane cycling and methanotroph population dynamics similar to natural boreal lakes. Importance statement: The study examined methanotrophic bacteria in an industrial end pit lake, combining molecular DNA methods (both quantitative and descriptive) with biogeochemical measurements. The lake was sampled over 5 years, in all four seasons, as often as weekly, and included sub-ice samples. The resulting multi-season and multi-year dataset is unique in its size and intensity, and allowed us to document clear and consistent seasonal patterns of growth and decline of three methanotroph genera (Methylobacter, Methylovulum, and Methyloparacoccus). Laboratory experiments suggested that one major control of this succession was niche partitioning based on temperature. The study helps to understand microbial dynamics in engineered end-pit lakes, but we propose that the dynamics are typical of boreal stratified lakes, and widely applicable in microbial ecology and limnology. Methane oxidising bacteria are important model organisms in microbial ecology, and have implications for global climate change.
title: Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Indochina)
title: Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Indochina)
Creators: name: Jennings, Eric Thomas
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Indochina
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegerdenkmal
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: Indochina
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Monuments

description: Memorials designed to commemorate Indochina’s war dead were generally spearheaded by French agencies and commissions. The act of commemoration was laden with a variety of meanings. The question of who would be commemorated and according to which faith and cultural practices led to considerable tensions. The grandest memorial ensemble of all was erected in Nogent-sur-Marne, outside of Paris. There, plaques, temples and monuments were devoted to subsets of the fallen such as Laotians and Cambodians and Vietnamese Christians.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Africa)
title: Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Africa)
Creators: name: Ginio, Ruth
name: Chetty, Suryakanthie
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Afrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegerdenkmal
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Monuments
subject: Africa

description: Commemoration in the form of ceremonies and monuments was for the most part alien to African cultures and was largely a part of the European colonial project. As such, its main aim was to glorify colonialism. This article focuses on the commemoration of World War I in both French West Africa and major portions of British Africa. The war laid bare the tensions and contradictions of colonialism and racial subjugation in some parts of Africa, evident since commemoration and memorialisation functioned as a process of both inclusion and exclusion. And in both French and British African possessions, the frequent and widespread participation of African soldiers in the war led to projects of commemoration which in various ways demonstrated conflicts between the perspectives of civil and military authorities.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Supply vs. Demand Approaches to the Problem of Stagflation
Creators: name: Bruno, Michael
name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1979
Subjects: Managerial economics
Finance
Economics

description: We develop a model of aggregate supply and demand in the open economy to explain the important characteristics of international macroeconomic adjustment in the 1970s. Traditional demand-oriented models cannot account for the worldwide phenomenon of rising inflation and unemployment in the mid-70s, or for the failure of most industrialized economies to recover from the deep recession of 1974-75. When aggregate supply is carefully treated, it is found that much of the inflation and sluggish output performance may be attributed to the jump in the real costs of intermediate inputs and the failure of real wages to adjust downward after the input price shock. A simulation model shows that fuel inputs are sufficiently important in production that a large part of the worldwide recession may be attributed to the change in the relative price of oil, since 1973. In an empirical section, it is suggested that countries differ in their response to supply shocks and macro-policies because of differences in key structural relationships, particularly in wage determination.
Exponentially Localized Wannier Functions in Periodic Zero Flux Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: De Nittis, Giuseppe
name: Lein, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35P05, 53C80, 57R22, 81Q10

description: In this work, we investigate conditions which ensure the existence of an exponentially localized Wannier basis for a given periodic hamiltonian. We extend previous results in [Pan07] to include periodic zero flux magnetic fields which is the setting also investigated in [Kuc09]. The new notion of magnetic symmetry plays a crucial role; to a large class of symmetries for a non-magnetic system, one can associate "magnetic" symmetries of the related magnetic system. Observing that the existence of an exponentially localized Wannier basis is equivalent to the triviality of the so-called Bloch bundle, a rank m hermitian vector bundle over the Brillouin zone, we prove that magnetic time-reversal symmetry is sufficient to ensure the triviality of the Bloch bundle in spatial dimension d=1,2,3. For d=4, an exponentially localized Wannier basis exists provided that the trace per unit volume of a suitable function of the Fermi projection vanishes. For d>4 and d \leq 2m (stable rank regime) only the exponential localization of a subset of Wannier functions is shown; this improves part of the analysis of [Kuc09]. Finally, for d>4 and d>2m (unstable rank regime) we show that the mere analysis of Chern classes does not suffice in order to prove trivility and thus exponential localization.
description: 48 pages, updated introduction and bibliography
Structural investigation of gelsolin superfamily members
Creators: name: Jiang, Chenguang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: We expressed three recombinant proteins in E. coli and purified them for analysis. Human gelsolin fragment G2-G3 retains the ability of intact gelsolin to bind to and co-sediment with filamentous actin. Tryptophan fluorescence intensity from G2-G3 is Ca²⁺-sensitive, increasing with Ca²⁺ concentration in two steps, suggesting that the binding of Ca²⁺ at two sites induces a structural change that reduces the solvent exposure of tryptophan side chains. Iodide quenching studies of tryptophan fluorescence from the fragment indicate reduced effectiveness of the quencher when G2-G3 is in the presence of excess free Ca²⁺, consistent with the above conclusion. Screening of crystallization conditions for G2-G3 on its own and in complexes with actin yielded only small crystals of G2-G3 that did not diffract X-rays sufficiently well to yield structural information. Human CapG possesses three domains, C1-C3, that closely resemble the three N-terminal domains of gelsolin. We show CapG to exhibit both actin filament nucleation and severing activities in light scattering and total internal reflection fluorescence assays. Crystallization screens yielded crystals of CapG suitable for X-ray diffraction analysis, which resulted in a 1.5 Å resolution model for the C2-C3 fragment of CapG. The structure reveals a very different packing of C2-C3 in comparison to that observed previously in a mutant, CapG-sev, that had been engineered to resemble gelsolin G1 in portions of C1 and in the linking peptide between C1 and C2 [Zhang et al. (2006) EMBO J 25, 4458-4467]. We conclude that these structures represent analogues of the two different activated forms of the N-terminal half of gelsolin bound to actin [Wang (2008) Ph.D. thesis, UBC]. Finally, human villin-6M consists of villin domains V4-V6 without headpiece, which closely resemble gelsolin G4-G6. Screening of crystallization conditions produced crystals from which X-ray diffraction data generated a 1.9 Å resolution model for villin domain V6. Although grown by a different procedure, the crystals yielded a structure for V6 that is identical to that reported previously [Wang et al.,2009].
The "dependence-reliance-pattern" and Lithuania's energy policy : tracing the "securitisation-induced Europeanisation" causal mechanism
Creators: name: Budginaitė-Froehly, Justina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 333.7

description: Even though having become a member of the EU and NATO in 2004, Lithuania remained highly dependent on Russia in terms of energy supply, energy infrastructure and obscure business relations prevailing in its energy sector and hindering reform attempts. Lithuania as a small state had a limited room of manoeuvre to change this vulnerable situation. However, Lithuania managed liberalising its national energy market, diversifying supply routes and becoming a host country for NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence. Lithuania’s interactions with the EU, NATO and Russia within a complex "dependence-reliance-pattern" is analysed in this dissertation allowing to reveal the strategy that Lithuania used to achieve its ambitious energy policy goals. The research leads to the general conclusion stating that the key to Lithuania’s success was its productive exploitation of securitisation and Europeanisation processes within the EU and NATO.
description: Obwohl Litauen im Jahre 2004 der EU und NATO beigetreten ist, blieb es mit Blick auf Energieversorgung, Energieinfrastruktur und die intransparenten Geschäftsbeziehungen im Energiesektor stark von Russland abhängig. Als kleines Land hatte Litauen nur einen begrenzten Handlungsspielraum, um diese fragile Situation zu verändern. Es gelang Litauen jedoch, seinen Energiemarkt zu liberalisieren, die Versorgungswege zu diversifizieren, sowie Sitzstaat für das NATO-Exzellenzzentrum für Energiesicherheit zu werden. In dieser Dissertation werden die Interaktionen Litauens mit der EU, NATO und Russland im Rahmen eines komplexen "Abhängigkeit-Angewiesensein-Musters" analysiert, um die Strategie aufzuzeigen, die Litauen zur Erreichung seiner energiepolitischen Ziele eingesetzt hat. Die Untersuchung führt zu der allgemeinen Schlussfolgerung, dass der Schlüssel zum Erfolg Litauens in der produktiven Nutzung von Versicherheitlichungs- und Europäisierungsprozessen innerhalb der EU und NATO lag.
title: War Losses (Africa)
title: War Losses (Africa)
Creators: name: Lunn, Joe
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Afrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsverlust
subject: o.P. Africa
subject: World War, 1914-1918
subject: War casualties

description: Human resources in Africa were exploited during the First World War for imperial ends. Men were sent to Europe to augment the manpower of the combatants, and soldiers and labourers were mobilized to aid in the conquest or defense of Germany’s colonies. In all about 2,350,000 Africans were mobilized between 1914 and 1918 to secure these respective ends, while over 250,000 soldiers and carriers, as well as approximately 750,000 civilians perished in this effort. The transfer of German colonial territories in Africa that resulted from this conflict ultimately depended on the outcome of the fighting in Europe and would likely have taken place even had the war in Africa never been fought.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War