cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Innate antiviral defense demonstrates high energetic efficiency in a bony fish
Creators: name: Polinski, Mark P.
name: Zhang, Yangfan
name: Morrison, Phillip
name: Marty, Gary D.
name: Farrell, Anthony Peter, 1952-
name: Garver, Kyle A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Viruses can impose energetic demands on organisms they infect, in part by hosts mounting resistance. Recognizing that oxygen uptake reliably indicates steady-state energy consumption in all vertebrates, we comprehensively evaluated oxygen uptake and select transcriptomic messaging in sockeye salmon challenged with either a virulent rhabdovirus (IHNV) or a low-virulent reovirus (PRV). We tested three hypotheses relating to the energetic costs of viral resistance and tolerance in this vertebrate system: (1) mounting resistance incurs a metabolic cost or limitation, (2) induction of the innate antiviral interferon system compromises homeostasis, and (3) antiviral defenses are weakened by acute stress. Results IHNV infections either produced mortality within 1–4 weeks or the survivors cleared infections within 1–9 weeks. Transcription of three interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) was strongly correlated with IHNV load but not respiratory performance. Instead, early IHNV resistance was associated with a mean 19% (95% CI = 7–31%; p = 0.003) reduction in standard metabolic rate. The stress of exhaustive exercise did not increase IHNV transcript loads, but elevated host inflammatory transcriptional signaling up to sevenfold. For PRV, sockeye tolerated high-load systemic PRV blood infections. ISG transcription was transiently induced at peak PRV loads without associated morbidity, microscopic lesions, or major changes in aerobic or anaerobic respiratory performance, but some individuals with high-load blood infections experienced a transient, minor reduction in hemoglobin concentration and increased duration of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. Conclusions Contrary to our first hypothesis, effective resistance against life-threatening rhabdovirus infections or tolerance to high-load reovirus infections incurred minimal metabolic costs to salmon. Even robust systemic activation of the interferon system did not levy an allostatic load sufficient to compromise host homeostasis or respiratory performance, rejecting our second hypothesis that this ancient innate vertebrate antiviral defense is itself energetically expensive. Lastly, an acute stress experienced during testing did not weaken host antiviral defenses sufficiently to promote viral replication; however, a possibility for disease intensification contingent upon underlying inflammation was indicated. These data cumulatively demonstrate that fundamental innate vertebrate defense strategies against potentially life-threatening viral exposure impose limited putative costs on concurrent aerobic or energetic demands of the organism.
La Medicina Generale del futuro: aspettative e timori dei colleghi in formazione - Ricerca qualitativa
Creators: name: Milano, Maria
name: Araldi, Marco
name: Perini, Mario
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2020

description: RIASSUNTO La Medicina Generale è in evoluzione: team multi-professionali, studi informatizzati con diagnostica avanzata, utenza in inarrestabile transizione demografica e epidemiologica, quadro socio- economico critico. Quali sono le attese e i timori dei colleghi che si affacciano alla MG? A106 colleghi del 2° anno del CFSMG Piemonte: ‘Immaginate di aprire fra 2 mesi il vostro studio in convenzione SSN. Cosa sogno: quale MMG vorrei essere? E cosa temo e proprio non vorrei’, risposte in 10 min., anonime. Analisi con la Content Analysis (Convenzionale) in triangolazione tra due autori. Le aspettative e i timori si modulano in 5 temi: Spazio Professionale e quello Personale, Comunicazione e Relazione, Collaborazione con gli altri Professionisti. Emerge una visione idealistica e idilliaca della professione e l’aspirazione a una netta demarcazione tra tempi e spazi della professione e della vita privata. Traspaiono ombre che fanno presagire dubbi e paure rispetto alle proprie capacità professionali anche nel lavorare da soli fino al timore del burn-out. Ci preoccupa l’assenza di un sano pessimismo della ragione per il rischio di amara delusione di fronte alle difficoltà quotidiane. Diviene indispensabile allora anche aiutare a restare in contatto con le zone d'ombra, i dubbi e le insicurezze, senza voler cercare subito spiegazioni rassicuranti e rimedi immediati: 75 la consapevolezza dei problemi è il primo fondamentale presidio alla prevenzione del burn-out e all’organizzazione di proprie personali strategie di resilienza.
description: Tutor, Vol 20 No 2 (2020)
Predictors of wellbeing, adaptation and help-seeking for mental health problems in young Hazaras from refugee backgrounds: a mixed methods project
Creators: name: Copolov, Carly Sarah
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia has an emerging population of Hazaras, an ethnic group from Afghanistan, who have arrived on humanitarian visas and are of a refugee background. This thesis explores mental health and settlement for young adult Hazaras, including wellbeing, coping and help-seeking. Results show young Hazaras with family have positive wellbeing and resilience and were adapting to life in Australia. Relationships with family, friends and teachers suggest the importance of promoting social networks by educational settings, services and programs. Participants were not focusing on their past traumas, instead planning for, their futures in Australia, suggesting an avenue to explore with young Hazaras.
Stictoleptura (Stictoleptura) fontenayi
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Stictoleptura
Stictoleptura fontenayi

description: 25. Stictoleptura (Stictoleptura) fontenayi (Mulsant, 1839)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Documenting the Hungarian Heritage of the US: Efforts at Home and Abroad
Creators: name: Niessen, James P.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hungarian
Hungarica
Emigré
Collections
Libraries
Archives
Collaboration
Cooperation
Hungary
United States

description: Resources on the history of Hungarians the US have been an object of extraordinary interest among information professionals in Hungarian in recent years. The article describes the creation of the major US Hungarica collections and efforts to document Hungarica in the United States.
Crossover: alimentare la riflessione sui saperi pratici
Creators: name: Alastra, Vincenzo
name: Marazzato, Alice
name: Menegon, Francesca
Publisher: name: Tutor
Year: 2020

description: In questo contributo viene presentato il progetto Crossover, una particolare metodica formativa sostanziatasi nell’organizzazione di brevi stage centrati sul confronto fra “pari” in maniera “incrociata” - analogamente a quanto accade in biologia con il meccanismo di crossing over - sulle pratiche in uso nelle diverse sedi della Rete Oncologica del Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta della Rete. Con quali particolari dispositivi narrativo-riflessivi possono essere condotti questi brevi stage al fine di far emergere e accrescere il sapere pratico dei professionisti in essi coinvolti? Come favorire la “circolazione” di buone pratiche, il rinforzo di quelle positive già in atto, ma anche una rivisitazione critica e riflessiva sulla propria esperienza professionale? A questi e ad altri interrogativi hanno inteso fornire alcune prime risposte le azioni di formazione e ricerca, qui richiamate, condotte in accompagnamento al progetto
description: Tutor, Vol 20 No 2 (2020)
Obtaining a grammar from a less formal language description
Creators: name: Paull, Marvin C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1971

description: In this paper, we will try to show how CF-grammars can be constructed to describe sets of strings;* each string being of a type which is commonly found in programming languages. We will require that these grammars not only describe the syntax of such sets of strings, but also more importantly, reflect unambiguously in the derivation of these strings, the ordering or sequencing conventions commonly imposed on such strings. We will show how these grammars can be used to formally describe, at least in part, two aspects of programming language-operations operations. We will also be concerned with the case in which the grammars can be used to determine this ordering. The grammars we develop will be one of a number of possible grammars, each different in non-superficial ways, and each adequate to express the class of languages we will discuss. A large part of the material presented here is tutorial. The material on constructing a grammar to satisfy a set of precedence relations constitutes the main contribution reported here. We start by considering a non-CFG way of describing ordering conventions in an algebraic expression involving a number of appearances of a group of binary infix operations. This technique - precedence - has immediate appeal because of its familiarity as much, perhaps, because of its simplicity. After discussing precedence in some detail, we will show how some of the same effects can be-obtained with CFG's. Precedence is a common device for describing the order in which operations are to be performed in expressions of the form: a + b * c ** b + c * e...
EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ADOPTION ON TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF QUALITY FINANCIAL REPORTING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: JOEL GUSAR SABO
name: OFILI UGWUDIOHA
name: JIM PAM WAYAS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: IPSAS Adoption, Quality financial reporting, Accounting, Transparency.

description: Abstract

The implementation of IPSAS seeks to improve the quality and comparability of financial reports in the public sector. Notwithstanding these objectives, the adoption of IPSAS in Nigeria has encountered several obstacles, including accountability and transparency, which may affect the quality of financial reports generated by the public sector. The research examined the effect of the adoption of IPSAS on the quality of financial reports in Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Finance. The variables employed are accountability and transparency as proxies for IPSAS adoption, while relevance, comparability, and full representation serve as proxies for quality financial reporting. The study population consisted of accountants, auditors, and finance managers inside the Ministry of Finance agencies in Nigeria. The Yamane method was employed to determine a total of 394 respondents. The primary data source was utilized alongside a structured questionnaire as the data gathering instrument. Factor analysis was employed to process the data, and multiple regression was utilized to evaluate the hypotheses. The results indicated that the accountability and openness of IPSAS considerably influence the comparability of high-quality financial reporting in the Federal Ministry of Finance at a 5% significance level. The transparency and accountability of IPSAS greatly influence the full representation of quality financial reporting in the Federal Ministry of Finance at a 5% significance level. The transparency and accountability of IPSAS significantly influence the relevance of quality financial reporting in the Federal Ministry of Finance at a 5% significance level.  The study recommends the Federal Ministry of Finance to establish and execute explicit accountability frameworks delineating the roles and duties of different persons in the financial reporting process. This will guarantee that all individuals comprehend their responsibility to uphold the quality and integrity of financial reports.
Nustera distigma
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Nustera
Nustera distigma

description: 24. Nustera distigma (Charpentier, 1825)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Metabolites produced by heat-tolerant endophytic fungi associated with Nepenthes ampullaria
Creators: name: Chung, Fiona Yi Li
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Nepenthes species (commonly known as pitcher plant) can be found in Sarawak with several species endemic to the state. This plant can be divided into two groups, the highland and the lowland species. Climate change is one of the treats that are affecting the population of these plants especially the highland species as the lowland species are more adaptable to a warmer environment. This is due to the presence of endophytic fungi and their ability in producing metabolites which assist the plant's adaptation. This study can serve as a baseline study on the relationship between the endophytic fungi and Nepenthes.
title: The employer size effect on wages and tenure in Korea
title: implications for expanding and redesigning the unemployment insurance system
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rodgers, Yana V.
name: Tzannatos, P. Zafiris
name: Zveglich, Joseph E.
name: Mutter, Ryan L.
Publisher: name: Korea Labor Institute
Year: 2000
Subjects: Korea
wages
tenure
labor market
employer size

description: This analysis seeks to establish the effect of employer size on hourly wages and tenure in Korea' s labor market. A large body of evidence, particularly for the industrialized countries, links higher pay and longer tenure with larger firms. The empirical analysis . utilizes an extremely rich individual-level data set for 1971 to 1996. The data contain a wide range of worker productivity characteristics, thus permitting controls for observable productivity differences in the wage and tenure regressions. The study finds strong evidence of a considerable employer-size wage premium throughout the period, with most of the premium occurring at the firm level (multiple establishments) rather than establishment level. Results also indicate that the employer-size premium is larger for wages that include overtime wages, compared to the regular wage alone. The employer-size effect is most pronounced in such heavy service industries as . construction and transport, and least pronounced in such light manufacturing industries as textiles and apparel. The dramatic increase in union activity after 1987 appears to explain very little of these firm-size wage effects. Estimations of the impact of employer-size on tenure indicates tremendous firm-size effects. The premium for workers employed in the largest firms averages over 2 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, even after controlling for all observed productivity characteristics. Union membership again explains surprisingly little of these premiums.
Error waves in finite element and finite difference methods for hyperbolic equations
Creators: name: Peiffer, B.
name: Vichnevetsky, Robert
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1975

description: When hyperbolic partial differential equations are replaced by numerical finite-difference or finite element approximations, one of the spurious effects is where to introduce errors in the characteristic velocities of these equations. If solutions are locally considered as the superposition of sinusoidal components of different spatial frequency w, then, assuming linearity, the numerical approximation generally preserves the sinusoidal nature of each component, but affects the velocity by an error, which varies with w. This frequency dependence of the velocity results in spurious dispersion phenomena, which are most apparent for solutions, which contain sharp spatial variations. Under certain conditions the presence of such sharp variations creates spurious oscillations of wavelength. Such spurious oscillations may then be observed to propagate as "packets"; with a group velocity which may be predicted by a theoretical analysis of the numerical algorithms. One area where these phenomena are particularly apparent is in geophysical fluid dynamics equations, in which natural dissipation is small, and, as a result spurious oscillations in numerical solutions are likely to persist over long periods of time. The mathematics, which describes those spurious phenomena together with numerical experiments, which verify the theory, are given in this paper.*
Allergic reactions to emerging food allergens in Canadian children
Creators: name: Soller, Lianne
name: La Vieille, Sebastien
name: Cameron, Scott B.
name: Mak, Raymond
name: Cook, Victoria E.
name: Gerdts, Jennifer
name: Chan, Edmond S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Most Canadian food allergy data has focused on Health Canada’s priority food allergens. This study describes which non-priority (emerging) food allergens were most commonly reported by Canadian parents and categorized/confirmed by allergists. A secondary aim was to describe severity of allergic reactions to emerging allergens. Parents reported allergic reactions to emerging food allergens experienced by their child (< 18 years) which occurred in the past 12 months, and allergists categorized/confirmed them according to likelihood of IgE-mediated food allergy. Of 68 eligible patients completing the survey, the most commonly reported emerging allergens were fruits/vegetables (58.8%), seeds (22.1%), legumes (19.1%) and other (11.8%). Median allergist ranking for legumes was ‘probable’ IgE-mediated food allergy, ‘possible’ for seeds and fruits/vegetables, and ‘unlikely’ for other. Median reaction severity was mild for legumes, and moderate for seeds, fruits/vegetables, and other. Our study highlights that non-priority food allergens, namely legumes and seeds, can lead to probable/likely allergic reactions in Canadian children. These food allergens are increasing in popularity in the Canadian diet, which could lead to increasing reports of allergic reactions. More research is needed to confirm reports of reactions to emerging allergens, and to document their inclusion as ingredients in packaged foods.
Lesions of the Rectovaginal Septum: A Review
Creators: name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Vaginal diseases
Vaginal neoplasms
Rectal diseases
Rectal neoplasms

description: Background: The female rectovaginal septum may become involved by a variety of mass-like lesions, which may be challenging to providers who treat women. Objectives: To review the scope of lesions affecting the rectovaginal septum. Methods: A literature review was conducted. A Medline search was used, using the terms Vaginal diseases, Vaginal neoplasms, Rectal diseases, rectal neoplasms Results: Reported lesions of the rectovaginal were reviewed. Many of these lesions can be mistaken for each other clinically. Conclusions: A review of the scope of rectovaginal lesions is presented to assist in developing a differential diagnosis if a patient with such a lesion is encountered.
A mechanism for resolution refinements based on back substitutions
Creators: name: Sandford, David M.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1980

description: Many of the known refinements of the first order resolution rule of J. A. Robinson suffer from various redundancies, which have a common underlying cause, which we identify as "lack of ground faithfulness". We say a refinement is ground faithful if for each deduction, D, in the refinement, there exists at least one "ground instance" of D, which is also in the refinement. In this report it is shown how certain refinements which are not ground faithful can be modified, both in a theoretical and an implementation sense, into ground faithful versions. This modification yields a stronger refinement than refinement. In practice Ground faithfulness can be achieved for many refinements by the addition to each clause of a notational device, called the constraint of the clause. The approach emphasizes that resolution clauses are the result of deductions, and the notational device constrains clauses based on information contained in the deductions of the individual clauses. Also presented are some overall characteristics and properties both of refinements, and of the methods of defining refinements, which provides a common qualitative framework for understanding the various specific refinements presented.
A Vision for the Future: New Roles for Academic Librarians
Creators: name: Jantz, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Rowman & Littlefield
Year: 2018
Subjects: Academic libraries
Vision
Mission
New roles
Leadership
Management

description: Academic library leaders have long acknowledged the need for the library to transform itself in order to meet the needs of the 21st century University. The transformation implies a major change in form and function, suggesting that library organizational structures and functions will change along with how professional librarians conduct the work of the library. Today, academic librarianship is overburdened and preoccupied with attending to the details of providing traditional services to students and faculty. For library leaders and librarians it is a time for independent thinking, innovation, and the courage to undertake risk and embrace major change. Library professionals will not only look forward but, according to John M. Budd, will also need to step back and examine the profession – “purpose, ethos and the world we live in.” In the end, courageous leadership and management will be required, as Jordan M. Scepanski affirms, “to abandon what has worked and often worked well, to strike off on a new and perhaps perilous course.”
title: Feeding Students? Examining Views of Parents, Students and Teachers on the World Food Program’s School Feeding Initiatives in Chamwino District in Tanzania
Creators: name: OGANGA, BENJAMIN NGAJI
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: World Food Program
subject: WFP
subject: Barriers
subject: Student Enrollment
subject: Retention
subject: Hunger
subject: Low Income
subject: School-Feeding Program
subject: Case study
subject: Chamwino district
subject: Outcomes
subject: Tanzania
subject: Perceptions
subject: Parents
subject: Students
subject: Teachers
subject: Primary school
subject: Developing Countries
subject: Policy Options
subject: Accessibility
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Disability and Equity in Education
subject: Education
subject: Education Economics
subject: International and Comparative Education
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: School feeding programs have become a worldwide phenomenon and an agenda pushed by the International Development Agencies such as the World Food Program (WFP) with the assumption that it may contribute towards addressing barriers to poor students’ enrollment and retention in primary schools in developing countries. The assumption is that, because of hunger and low income, parents are mostly likely not motivated to send their children to school; and on the other hand, children too may not effectively concentrate in learning and therefore are likely to drop out of schools. Different studies have shown the effectiveness of the school-feeding program in increasing students’ enrollments, reducing students’ dropout and improving students’ health. However, most available studies do not show how the parents, teachers and students who are the key stakeholders of the program perceive the school feeding program in increasing students’ enrolment and reducing students drop out rate in developing countries. Using school feeding program implemented by WFP in Chamwino district (in Dodoma Tanzania) as a case study, this study investigated the perceptions of parents, teachers and students on the contribution of school feeding program to increasing students’ enrollment and reducing students’ dropout rate. Sustainability of the school feeding program was also part of this study. The study used mixed methods of data collection, including focus group discussions, informal interviews and questionnaires to unveil the parents’, teachers’ and students’ perceptions towards the school feeding program. The collected data (qualitative and quantitative) were then tabulated, transcribed and analyzed using SPSS. While results on one hand show that parents and teachers considers school feeding as an effective tool to make students enroll in primary school; students’ perception is that school feeding is not an effective factor to make them enroll or to prevent dropout. The study recommends policy options and more areas that need further research.
title: Bread or roses
title: how economic inequality affects regime support in China?
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Huang, Xian
name: Zuo, Cai
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2021
Subjects: economic inequality
regime support
authoritarian values
redistribution
Asian Barometer Survey
China

description: Much comparative politics scholarship has examined whether economic inequality affects democratic values or political support in democracies. What is lacking is a close examination of the political effects of economic inequality and, more importantly, how economic inequality shapes political support in non-democracies. We provide an empirical test of the effect of economic inequality on regime support using the China data from the Asian Barometer Survey between 2002 and 2015. We argue and demonstrate that perceived economic inequality significantly reduces regime support in China. Moreover, using a causal mediation analysis, we find that the detrimental effect of perceived economic inequality on regime support is not driven by demands for redistribution; rather, political value orientation plays an important mediating role between perceived economic inequality and regime support. These findings advance our understanding of the connection between economic inequality and political values and the economic base of political legitimacy in authoritarian countries.
'Cradle-to-grave' assessment of existing lignocellulose pretreatment technologies
Creators: name: Sousa, Leonardo
name: Chundawat, Shishir P. S.
name: Balan, Venkatesh
name: Dale, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biorefinery
Environmental considerations
Lignocellulose
Biomass
Pretreatment
Unit process
Technologies
Bioconversion

description: Pretreatment is considered to be a central unit process in a biorefinery to convert lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals, affecting all other operations in the process. A variety of technologies to pretreat lignocellulosic biomass are available today, which encompass a wide range of physical, chemical, and biological based processes. Among these, chemical based pretreatments are considered to be the most promising for future biorefineries. However, several key criteria regarding technical, economical, and environmental considerations should be critically analyzed when adapting these technologies for the nascent biorefinery industry. This review will discuss the most important pretreatment methods available today and will highlight key criteria for the development of a future ideal pretreatment.
title: A view from the top
title: library leaders' predictions for the future of science liaison librarianship
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Palumbo, Laura Bolton
name: Bussmann, Jeffra D.
name: Kern, Barbara
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2022
Subjects: science librarianship
liaison librarianship
library personnel
organizational structure
Library Science

description: Library leaders at academic institutions in the United States at the level of University Librarians, Library Directors, and Library Deans were surveyed about their predictions for the future of science liaison librarianship and the importance of science subject specialization. Responses from seventy-one library leaders at institutions ranging from community colleges through large, research intensive universities provide insight into evolving roles for academic science librarians. Key findings include that library leaders perceive functional roles such as data management and scholarly communication growing in importance, yet they are rarely seen as replacing traditional subject-based ones. Subject specialization is still seen by many as a desirable qualification for science librarians, even though smaller institutional size and budget constraints may necessitate a more generalist approach. While there was no consensus on the necessity of science subject specialization, and whether or not science liaison librarianship would retain this characteristic in the future, there was a widespread acknowledgement of the value of liaison relationships with science faculty and others at their institutions.
Gender and the accumulation of prestige in Australian book publishing
Creators: name: Dane, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores the relationship between gender and 'agents of consecration' that create prestige in Australian book publishing. Drawing on 50 years of data from Australian book reviews, prizes, literary festivals and high school reading lists, this study uses an adapted Bourdieusian framework to interrogate the values and perceptions of gender and literary worth that pervade the Australian field. It finds that while the representation of women within consecratory institutions has increased since the mid-1960s, in a number of sectors progress toward parity with male authors has plateaued. Moreover, it appears these agents - prescribed text lists, pook reviews, literary festivals and literary prizes - have an increasingly overlapping relationship; today there is greater interaction between agents of consecrations than ever before.
Pachytodes cerambyciformis
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pachytodes
Pachytodes cerambyciformis

description: 25. Pachytodes cerambyciformis (Schrank, 1781)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
GPS-based addressing and routing
Creators: name: Imieliński, Tomasz
name: Navas, Julio C.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1996

description: In the near future GPS will be widely used, thus allowing a broad variety of location dependent services such as direction giving, navigation, etc. In this document we propose a family of protocols and addressing methods to integrate GPS into the Internet Protocol to enable the creation of location dependent services. The solutions which we present are flexible (scalable) in terms of the target accuracy of the GPS. The main challenge is to integrate the concept of physical location into the current design of the Internet which relies on logical addressing. Two solutions are presented in this draft and a third solution is sketched.
Bel Jour: a discipline-specific portal to periodicals
Creators: name: Womack, Ryan
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Online catalogs
Periodicals
Journals
Databases
Portals
Online library catalogs
Web portals

description: Convenient, subject-based access to current periodicals can be difficult to achieve in today’s mixed and changing journals environment. This paper describes the creation of a web-accessible database of journals in business and economics, using Microsoft Access and ColdFusion. Bel Jour, the Business and Economics Locator for Journals at Rutgers, provides value-added descriptive information about a specific subject-based journal collection, along with convenient access to content from this collection. Although the actual journal collection is dispersed among many physical and online locations, Bel Jour provides a single, virtual point of access for researchers in the discipline.
Comparison of mesenchymal stromal cells from peritoneal dialysis effluent with those from umbilical cords: characteristics and therapeutic effects on chronic peritoneal dialysis in uremic rats
Creators: name: Du, Yangchun
name: Zong, Ming
name: Guan, Qiunong
name: Huang, Zhongli
name: Zhou, Lan
name: Cai, Jing
name: Da Roza, Gerald
name: Wang, Hao
name: Qi, Hualin
name: Lu, Yiping
name: Du, Caigan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background A long-term of peritoneal dialysis (PD) using a hypertonic PD solution (PDS) leads to patient’s peritoneal membrane (PM) injury, resulting in ultrafiltration failure (UFF) and PD drop-out. Our previous study shows that PD effluent-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (pMSCs) prevent the PM injury in normal rats after repeated exposure of the peritoneal cavity to a PDS. This study was designed to compare the cytoprotection between pMSCs and umbilical cord-derived MSCs (UC-MSCs) in the treatment of both PM and kidney injury in uremic rats with chronic PD. Methods 5/6 nephrectomized (5/6Nx) Sprague Dawley rats were intraperitoneally (IP) injected Dianeal (4.25% dextrose, 10 mL/rat/day) and were treated with pMSCs or umbilical cord (UC)-MSCs (approximately 2 × 106/rat/week, IP). Ultrafiltration was determined by IP injection of 30 mL of Dianeal (4.25% dextrose) with 1.5-h dewell time, and kidney failure by serum creatinine (SCr) and blood urea nitrogen (BUN). The structure of the PM and kidneys was assessed using histology. Gene expression was examined using quantitative reverse transcription PCR, and protein levels using flow cytometric and Western blot analyses. Results We showed a slight difference in the morphology between pMSCs and UC-MSCs in plastic dishes, and significantly higher expression levels of stemness-related genes (NANOG, OCT4, SOX2, CCNA2, RAD21, and EXO1) and MSCs surface markers (CD29, CD44, CD90 and CD105) in UC-MSCs than those in pMSCs, but no difference in the differentiation to chondrocytes, osteocytes or adipocytes. pMSC treatment was more effective than UC-MSCs in the protection of the MP and remnant kidneys in 5/6Nx rats from PDS-induced injury, which was associated with higher resistance of pMSCs than UC-MSCs to uremic toxins in culture, and more reduction of peritoneal mesothelial cell death by the secretome from pMSCs than from UC-MSCs in response to PDS exposure. The secretome from both pMSCs and UC-MSCs similarly inactivated NOS2 in activated THP1 cells. Conclusions As compared to UC-MSCs, pMSCs may more potently prevent PDS-induced PM and remnant kidney injury in this uremic rat model of chronic PD, suggesting that autotransplantation of ex vivo-expanded pMSCs may become a promising therapy for UFF and deterioration of remnant kidney function in PD patients.
Shorten’s plan to lower the voting age could help increase political engagement
Creators: name: Chou, Mark
name: Hartung, Catherine
name: Gagnon, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Speaking at a NSW Young Labor conference over the weekend, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten called for Australia’s voting age to be lowered to 16. In a bid to “tackle the apathy and cynicism of young people towards politics”, Shorten said politicians must find ways to re-engage a generation of citizens who no longer seem interested in government affairs.
Though Liberal MPs were quick to dismiss Shorten’s announcement as a political gimmick to help Labor win votes, recent research shows that lowering the voting age to 16 can positively boost voter turnout.
Mapping Techniques And Performance Analysis For An Interconnection Cached Multiprocessor Network
Creators: name: Gupta, Vipul
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Many parallel applications exhibit a behavior in which each computation entity communicates with a small set of other entities and the communication pattern changes slowly with respect to time. We call this phenomenon switching locality. The Interconnection Cached Network (ICN) is a reconfigurable network suitable for exploiting such locality. The ICN contains a number of small crossbar switches that connect clusters of processing elements to the input/output ports of a single large crossbar. Technology restrictions impose a trade-o between the size of a switch and its switching speed. By using a large crossbar for topology configuration, and small crossbars for the more frequent task of message switching, the ICN effectively combines the connectivity of the large switch with the speed of the smaller switches. This is analogous to the concept of memory caching. Embedding communication patterns efficiently in an ICN requires finding a special kind of partitioning, called a bounded l-contraction, of the corresponding communication graph. The problem of identifying whether a graph has a bounded l-contraction for a given integer l is NP-complete for l > 2. We extend the class of classical communication graphs that are known to have efficient embeddings in the ICN. For general graphs, we develop a heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing to solve this partitioning problem. In addition to providing a mapping strategy for assigning processes to processing elements, this partitioning also generates the topology to which the ICN must be configured. For applications with sufficient switching locality, good mappings combined with topology reconfiguration in the ICN ensure that communication path lengths are uniformly short. Conventional networks are less successful in meeting these objectives. Using both analysis and simulations, we show that the ICN outperforms other networks, such as multistage interconnection networks and low degree k-ary n-cubes, in terms of message latency, highest sustainable throughput, processor utilization and application scalability.
Mobile Wireless Computing: Solutions and Challenges in Data Management
Creators: name: Imieliński, Tomasz
name: Badrinath, B. R.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1993

description: Mobile computing is a new emerging computing paradigm posing many challenging data management problems. We identify these new challenges and investigate their technical significance. New research problems include management of location dependent data, frequent disconnections, structuring distributed algorithms for mobile hosts, wireless data broadcasting, and energy efficient data access.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Creators: name: สมชาย ศุภธาดา
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2022
Subjects: The New Science of Cause and Effect

description: วารสารวิชาชีพบัญชี JAP, 18, 57 (มีนาคม 65), 96
Female partner experiences of prostate cancer patients’ engagement with a community-based football intervention: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Midtgaard, Julie
name: Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Tine
name: Rørth, Mette
name: Kronborg, Malene
name: Bjerre, Eik D.
name: Oliffe, John Lindsay
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Prostate cancer is often labelled a couple’s disease wherein the partner plays an important role in the man’s illness management and related health promotion activities. The aim of this study was to explore partner experiences of prostate cancer patients’ engagement with a community-based football program. Methods Eight audio-visual recorded semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 39 female partners of men with prostate cancer who participated in a community-based football program as part of the nationwide FC Prostate Community Trial (NCT02430792). Data was managed with the software program Nvivo 11 and analysed inductively to derive thematic findings. Results The four thematic findings were: 1) ‘Hope of a new beginning’ which included stories of hope that football would mitigate the negative effects of men’s prostate cancer treatment [s]; 2) ‘My new partner’ was characterized by attributing connections between physical activity and elevated mood as a by-product of men’s involvement in the program; 3) ‘Football first’ included assertions of the couples mutual commitment to the football program; and 4) ‘Invisible needs’ contrasted insecurity, and unforeseen challenges for partners feeling somewhat neglected. Overall, the results confirm the need for cohesion and flexibility amongst couple-dyads to ensure partners and men with prostate cancer benefit from their involvement in football programs. Conclusions This study indicates that partners of prostate cancer survivors’ engaging with community-based football align to idealized gender relations, roles and identities. In many instances, these gendered dimensions aided positive dyadic coping and long-term exercise adherence.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Creators: name: นภดล ร่มโพธิ์
Publisher: name: คณะพาณิชยศาสตร์และการบัญชี มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2022
Subjects: The Minimalist Entrepreneur

description: วารสารบริหารธุรกิจ JBA, 45, 173 (ม.ค.-มี.ค. 65), 118
Developing an emotional competence program for preschools in Singapore
Creators: name: Thia, Liza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis focuses on developing a preschool emotional competence program that takes into consideration theoretical underpinnings, educators' needs and the Singaporean context. Two studies were undertaken. Study 1 surveyed the current practices and challenges faced by educators when developing children's emotional competence. These insights and a review of existing programs informed the development of the "I Feel..." program. Study 2 was a preliminary examination of the program's effectiveness and usefulness. Results indicate positive program impact on both children and educators. It was also well received by the children, educators and parents, and showed considerable promise for further interventions.
ASAP Discovery: A Community Blind Challenge for Open Source Structure-enabled Drug Discovery for Pandemic Preparedness
Creators: name: Scheen, Jenke
Publisher: name: Conscience
Year: 2025

description: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the COVID Moonshot consortium demonstrated the feasibility of developing a straight-to-generics Mpro inhibitor in record time. Building on this success, the ASAP Discovery Consortium was launched as an AViDD center that leverages structure-enabled and artificial-intelligence approaches together with a global team to tackle structural biology, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry and (pre-)clinical trials for antiviral drug discovery.

With over three years of drug discovery under its belt, ASAP Discovery hosted a community blind challenge using the Polaris platform in collaboration with Valence Labs and OpenADMET. The challenge consisted of several sub-challenges (ligand potency, pose and ADMET predictions) designed to be closely analogous to the challenges that ASAP Discovery faced during these campaigns. During this talk, the background to the data will be outlined as well as the challenge outcomes and the practical processes considered during the design of this challenge.
CEE2ACT Report on sustainability assessment of the bioeoconomy concepts
Creators: name: BOKU University
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: To maximize the bioeconomy’s potential, all sectors—including agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, and biotechnology—must be equally considered, along with their respective products such as food, feed, wood, and biobased goods. Evaluations of bioeconomy strategies must align with national frameworks and account for diverse stakeholder interests.

A collaborative approach was adopted to assess relevant options and indicators, identifying challenges and potentials in each of the 10 target countries through a baseline assessment. Feasibility and sustainability of options were evaluated using nine indicators covering environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Environmental indicators utilized Life Cycle Assessments, while quantitative assessments analyzed renewable energy and biomass production. Social indicators like consumer acceptance and economic factors like willingness to pay were gauged through surveys.

Key findings highlighted that locally tailored solutions yield varying results. On average, the most sustainable options included central and small-scale heating plants, food waste reduction, sustainable diets, and nature tourism. Options like insect farming and inland aquaculture had lower feasibility due to limited acceptance or biomass yield.
Aredolpona fontenayi
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Aredolpona
Aredolpona fontenayi

description: 26. Aredolpona fontenayi (Mulsant, 1839)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Paracorymbia fulva
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 27. Paracorymbia fulva (DeGeer, 1775)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Test cases for NPARC
Creators: name: Gao, Sam
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1995

description: In order to insure efficient and accurate utilization of the NPARC2D code, test computations for a supersonic adiabatic turbulent boundary layer have been performed. The computations have been compared with results obtained using the EDDYBL code of Wilcox which employs the same turbulence model.
Technological entrepreneurship in India
Creators: name: Meil, Pamela
name: Salzman, Hal
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Development
Emerging economies
Organizational structures
Multinationals
Entrepreneurialism
Software
India

description: Is the rise of the Indian software industry simply another Asian state-dominated industrial growth story or is India distinctive, an economy where small technology entrepreneurs also find niches for development and can be drivers of innovation? Research has focused on the large integrated Indian and international service providers. This study examines the opportunity for growth among smaller innovative technology entrepreneurial firms. Two areas of inquiry are: What factors have been responsible for spurring growth in the Indian IT industry? What type of work is being carried out at Indian firms and is this profile changing? This paper aims to examine the emergence of technology entrepreneurs, particularly in terms of their links to multinational firms and their role and position in global value chains. The paper takes a multi-level approach to understanding development trajectories in the IT sector in India: a global value chain approach to the extent that company processes are seen in their larger networked context across organizations and an institutional approach in terms of state policies that influence the creation of infrastructure that, in turn, shapes organizational development trajectories. Additionally, it examines the role of the various actors within IT sector organizations – the workers, the managers and, in the case of the small companies in our sample, the owners – on the outcome of growth trajectories in the Indian IT sector. We find that the various levels of change and policy all contribute to the outcome in company trajectories: the dominance of multinational enterprises on the market, the entrepreneurial vision and survival strategies of returned technology expatriates, and the changing policies of the government in promoting indigenous business.