cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L - P : Archaeology East of England Office Post Excavation
Creators: name: L-P : Archaeology East Of England Office
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Old, Rich, and Eccentric: Two Jovian Planets Orbiting Evolved Metal-Rich Stars
Creators: name: Peek, Kathryn M. G.
name: Johnson, John Asher
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Wright, Jason T.
name: Lowe, Thomas B.
name: Reffert, Sabine
name: Schwab, Christian
name: Williams, Peter K. G.
name: Isaacson, Howard
name: Giguere, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radial velocity measurements of two stars observed as part of the Lick Subgiants Planet Search and the Keck N2K survey. Variations in the radial velocities of both stars reveal the presence of Jupiter-mass exoplanets in highly eccentric orbits. HD 16175 is a G0 subgiant from the Lick Subgiants Planet Search, orbited by a planet having a minimum mass of 4.4 M_Jup, in an eccentric (e = 0.59), 2.71 yr orbit. HD 96167 is a G5 subgiant from the N2K ("Next 2000") program at Keck Observatory, orbited by a planet having a minimum mass of 0.68 M_Jup, in an eccentric (e = 0.71), 1.366 yr orbit. Both stars are relatively massive (M_star = 1.3 M_sun) and are very metal rich ([Fe/H] > +0.3). We describe our methods for measuring the stars' radial velocity variations and photometric stability.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
The Spanish-Cuban-American War: the archaeology before archaeology
Creators: name: Hernandez De Lara, Odlanyer
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Tokophrya Butschli 1889
Creators: name: Chаtterjee, Tаpаs
name: Dovgаl, Igor
name: Pešić, Vlаdimir
name: Zаwаl, Аndrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Kinetofragminophora
Suctorida
Tokophryidae
Tokophrya

description: Genus Tokophrya Bütschli, 1889
 Tokophrya quadripartita (Claparède & Lachmann, 1859)
 = Podophrya quadripartita Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
 = Acineta quadriloba Stein, 1859
 = Acineta quadripartita (Claparède & Lachmann) Stein, 1867
 =Tokophryopsis (Epitokophrya) quadripartita (cf. Jankowski, 1978)
 = Brachyonus tuberosus Pallas, 1766
 = Volverella astoma Bory, 1824
 = Megatricha partita Badcock, 1880
 = Tokophrya trionixa Bovee, 1981
 = Tokophrya mutica Bovee, 1981
 Record on hydrachnid mites: Ramadan (2004) reported Tokophrya quadripartita on adult mites Unionicola tetrafurcatus Ramadan & Аboul-Dahab, 2002 associated with the mussel Caelatura aegyptiaca Cailliaud, 1827 collected from a site on the eastern bank of the River Nile, north of Sohag University Campus, Egypt. The highest mean density of ciliates was recorded on the fourth leg of the mite and declined gradually towards the first leg, which recorded the lowest mean number and attached to the bases of the setae on the legs of the mite (Ramadan 2004).
 Other hosts: The species was reported on the copepod Cyclops and other substrata (Curds 1985); on the copepods Limnocalanus macrurus Sars, 1863 and Epischura lacustris Forbes, 1882 from Lake Michigan (U.S.А.) (Evans et al. 1979, 1981). It was also reported on the copepods Eucyclops agilis (Koch, 1838) and Cyclops bicuspidatus Claus, 1857 from Lake Аshmore, Illinois (U.S.А.) (Henebry & Ridgeway 1979); on the uropods of the European crayfish Astacus leptodactylus (cf. Matthes & Guhl 1973); on the decapod Cambarellus patzcuarensis Villalobos, 1943 (cf. Mayen-Estrada & Аladro-Lubel 1998) and on Lethocerus sp. from Mexico near Grutas de la Estrella, Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico (Mariño-Pérez et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of Chаtterjee, Tаpаs, Dovgаl, Igor, Pešić, Vlаdimir & Zаwаl, Аndrzej, 2018, A checklist of epibiont suctorian and peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora) on halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia), pp. 415-430 in Zootaxa 4457 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1457915
Ministerio público : el dilema del derecho disciplinario en el caso Petro Urrego vs Colombia
Creators: name: Ávila Hernández, Jaime Domingo De
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Colombia - Derecho constitucional
subject: Proceso disciplinario - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Derecho público - Legislación
subject: Decisiones
subject: Procuraduría General de la Nación
subject: Alcalde
subject: Acciones legales
subject: Dechos convencionales

description: Debido la sanción disciplinaria que le impuesta al señor alcalde mayor de la ciudad Bogotá, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, la cual fue proferida por la Procuraduría General de la Nación, sanción que limitó la continuidad del periodo constitucional de gobierno para el cual fue electo Gustavo Petro. La presente sanción dio origen a un sin número de acciones legales y constitucionales, de índole nacional e internacional, en procura de la defensa de los derechos convencionales del señor alcalde mayor de los capitalinos. Los efectos de esta sanción fueron el pilar fundamental para la estructuración y desarrollo del presente trabajo de investigación, el cual fue denominado. El Ministerio Público: El Dilema del Derecho Disciplinario en el caso Petro Urrego vs Colombia. El presente trabajo de investigación se desarrolló sobre la base de resaltar la inconvecionalidad del régimen disciplinario en Colombia, esto en el sentido de indicar la incompetencia de la Procuraduría General de la Nación para disciplinar a los servidores públicos elegidos popularmente. Igualmente, mediante el presente trabajo de investigación se planteó una posible salida o alternativa, del como puede el Estado colombiano dar cumplimiento al fallo de la Corte IDH, como también a lo dispuesto en el precepto normativo del artículo 23.2 de la CADH.
description: Due to the disciplinary punishment that was imposed on the mayor of the city of Bogota, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, which was issued by the Attorney General's Office, a sanction that limited the continuity of the constitutional period of government for which Gustavo Petro was elected. This punishment gave rise to a countless of legal and constitutional actions, of a national and international nature, in search of the defense of the conventional rights of the principal mayor of the capital residents. The effects of this punishment were the fundamental column for the structuring and development of this research work, which was named. The Public Ministry: The Dilemma of Disciplinary Law in the case of Petro Urrego vs. Colombia. This research work was developed on the basis of emphasize the unconventionality of the disciplinary regime in Colombia, this in the sense of indicating the incompetence of the Attorney General's Office to discipline the public servants popularly elected. Likewise, through this research work, a possible solution or alternative was proposed as how the Colombian State can comply with the ruling of the Inter-American Court, as well as the provisions of the normative precept of article 23.2 of the ACHR.
Recursive estimation in time-varying communication systems
Creators: name: Nicholson, Grant
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis considers applications of minimum mean-square error, recursive estimators to equalization of time-varying digital communication channels. The equalization of the channel is framed as a linear state estimation problem to which the discrete Kalman filter is applied. The resultant equalizer, called the message estimator, yields an unbiased, linear, minimum mean-square error estimate of the message sequence. The message estimator models the channel as a vector, whose elements are the sampled channel impulse response. An adaptive Kalman filter is used in a decision feedback arrangement to estimate on line the channel vector, and so adapt the message estimator to a time-varying channel. A tapped-delay-line equalizer is also investigated for minimum mean-square error estimation of the message sequence. Recursive least squares is modified to adaptively estimate the tap weights of the equalizer on a time-varying channel. Recursive estimators are considered for minimum variance of the tap weights. The recursive least-squares equalizer, as well as a conventional steepest-descent tapped-delay-line equalizer, are compared with the adaptive message estimator. The message estimator and tapped-delay-line equalizer are two different equalization approaches for a minimum mean-square error estimate. The relation between mean-square error and error rate at typical signal-to-noise ratios is discussed. Expressions are developed to describe the amplitude probability distribution of the message estimates for each scheme. The distributions are shown to have similar properties of bias and residual intersymbol interference, yet different error rates. The error rate of the message estimator compares favourably with a transversal equalizer, but is significantly higher than for a decision feedback equalizer of similar complexity. An upper bound on the error rate for the message estimator is derived which is simple to apply. Computer simulation is used to test the proposed adaptive equalizers on a time-varying channel. The convergence of the adaptive message estimator is significantly quicker than for the recursive least-squares equalizer, and an order of magnitude faster than for the steepest-descent equalizer. The degradation in steady-state performance from making the message estimator adaptive is small. The adaptive message estimator should be particularly effective when the channel is rapidly time-varying or the training period is restricted.
Cows Ankles and Urchin Spines: A Day of Zooarchaeology at Tel Akko
Creators: name: Holt, Emily
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
title: Establishing a Kinetic Assessment of Reactive Strength
Creators: name: Louder, Talin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The reactive strength index (RSI) is the current “gold standard” assessment of reactive strength. Traditional measures of reactive strength, including the RSI, are not strength-based and are founded using untested theoretical assumptions. The purpose of this study was to develop two versions of a kinetic-based paradigm of reactive strength (New and AdjNew) and compare them against the Coefficient of Reactivity (CoR) and the RSI. Twenty one NCAA Division I basketball players and 59 young adults from the general population performed two reactive strength protocols: Progressive drop jumping and repetitive countermovement jumping. For every jump, the CoR, RSI, New, and AdjNew were computed. Measure agreeability was assessed using the Bland-Altman approach and linear regressions. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) assessed the effect of sport participation, age, and sex on the four measures of reactive strength. Lastly, effects of self-reported physical activity levels were assessed using stepwise linear regressions. The strongest association was observed between AdjNew and the RSI (R2= 0.636). All NCAA > young adults). The RSI, New, and AdjNew were sensitive to effects of sex and sport participation in repetitive countermovement jumping (males > females; NCAA > young adults). There are theoretical issues with the computation and implementation of the CoR and RSI. For example, the CoR and RSI are non-strength based measures that attempt to measure a strength construct. Further, the CoR, RSI, and New make the theoretical assumption that no biological variability exists in human movement. The AdjNew paradigm addresses and solves the theoretical issues with the CoR, RSI, and New. Therefore it may be argued that the AdjNew paradigm improves the theoretical validity of reactive strength assessment and is preferred over the RSI. The AdjNew is kinetic based, comprised of only measured component variables, and is not founded in assumptions of theory. This dissertation provides objective theoretical evidence to suggest that the AdjNew paradigm is an improvement over the RSI as a model of reactive strength.
Potters leaving their mark (fixing the past)
Creators: name: Coto, Maria
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Soil fungi invest into asexual sporulation under resource scarcity, but trait spaces of individual isolates are unique
Creators: name: Camenzind, Tessa
name: Weimershaus, Paul
name: Lehmann, Anika
name: Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.
name: Rillig, Matthias C.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: soil fungi
subject: fungal community composition
subject: fungal spread
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: During the last few decades, a plethora of sequencing studies provided insight into fungal community composition under various environmental conditions. Still, the mechanisms of species assembly and fungal spread in soil remain largely unknown. While mycelial growth patterns are studied extensively, the abundant formation of asexual spores is often overlooked, though representing a substantial part of the fungal life cycle relevant for survival and dispersal. Here, we explore asexual sporulation (spore abundance, size and shape) in 32 co-occurring soil fungal isolates under varying resource conditions, to answer the question whether resource limitation triggers or inhibits fungal investment into reproduction. We further hypothesized that trade-offs exist in fungal investment towards growth, spore production and size. The results revealed overall increased fungal investment into spore production under resource limitations; however, effect sizes and response types varied strongly among fungal isolates. Such isolate-specific effects were apparent in all measured traits, resulting in unique trait spaces of individual isolates. This comprehensive dataset also elucidated variability in sporulation strategies and trade-offs with fungal growth and reproduction under resource scarcity, as only predicted by theoretical models before. The observed isolate-specific strategies likely underpin mechanisms of co-existence in this diverse group of saprobic soil fungi.
title: The Use of High School Paraprofessional Tutors With Programmed Tutorial Materials to Instruct Elementary Learners with Handicaps
Creators: name: Wingert, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: This investigation focused on the examination of the effectiveness and costs of instructional delivery in using programmed tutorial materials by trained high school paraprofessionals to instruct learners attending the elementary self-contained and resource rooms. Forty tutees, divided equally into experimental and control groups, were administered two pre and posttest measures, the E-B Beginning Reading Placement Test and the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test (WRMT) . Tutees in experimental groups received tutorial instruction from the paraprofessional tutors 25 minutes daily over the ten-week treatment period. An analysis of covariance was computed on the two measures to compare the academic performance between the experimental and control groups. Though no statistical differences were found between the groups on WRMT, statistical differences were indicated on the E-B Beginning Reading Placement Test for both School Districts A and B, favoring the groups receiving treatment. Significant increases in both Subtest A scores, one subtest of the E-B Placement Test, and the total reading scores of this measure were evidenced in the groups receiving treatment. Results also indicated that the percent of mastery for both School Districts A and B tutees that received treatment mastered at least 84% of all the skills taught by the high school paraprofessional tutors. These tutors mastered 77% of the instructional procedures used in the first part of the tutorial session and 47% in the second part of the session.
The investigation of costs indicated that total cost expenditures in the Maximum Cost Model were $2,418.69, a per learner cost of $60.46, and continuing costs per learner of $13.72. Total purchases using the Moderate Cost Model were $1,298.69, a per learner cost of $32.46, and a continuing cost per learner of $13.72. The Minimum Cost Model indicated total expenditures of $163.69, a per learner cost of $4.09, and continuing costs per learner of $1.35. These cost models provided evidence that the costs of using high school paraprofessional tutors with programmed tutorial materials to instruct handicapped learners can be minimal in return for academic gains in beginning reading skills.
Rare Books from the National Museum Wales Library
Creators: name: Knight, Matt
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Aerial photographs (or those magnificent men in their flying machines!)
Creators: name: Wells, Helen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Critical Opalescence around the QCD Critical Point and Second-order Relativistic Hydrodynamic Equations Compatible with Boltzmann Equation
Creators: name: Kunihiro, Teiji
name: Minami, Yuki
name: Tsumura, Kyosuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical density fluctuations around QCD critical point (CP) are analyzed using relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics, and we show that the sound mode around the QCD CP is strongly attenuated whereas the thermal fluctuation stands out there. We speculate that if possible suppression or disappearance of a Mach cone, which seems to be created by the partonic jets at RHIC, is observed as the incident energy of the heavyion collisions is decreased, it can be a signal of the existence of the QCD CP. We have presented the Israel-Stewart type fluid dynamic equations that are derived rigorously on the basis of the (dynamical) renormalization group method in the second part of the talk, which we omit here because of a lack of space.
description: Typos are corrected. Figures are replaced with the correct ones, and the figure captions are rewritten accordingly. 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee
Assessment of Physiological Rat Kidney Ageing—Implications for the Evaluation of Allograft Quality Prior to Renal Transplantation
Creators: name: Baumgartner, Andreas
name: Reichelt-Wurm, Simone
name: Gronwald, Wolfram
name: Samol, Claudia
name: Schröder, Josef A.
name: Fellner, Claudia
name: Holler, Kathrin
name: Steege, Andreas
name: Putz, Franz Josef
name: Oefner, Peter J.
name: Banas, Bernhard
name: Banas, Miriam C.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: kidney; ageing; transplantation; inflammation; urinary metabolites
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Due to organ shortage and rising life expectancy the age of organ donors and recipients is increasing. Reliable biomarkers of organ quality that predict successful long-term transplantation outcomes are poorly defined. The aim of this study was the identification of age-related markers of kidney function that might accurately reflect donor organ quality. Histomorphometric, biochemical and molecular parameters were measured in young (3-month-old) and old (24-month-old) male Sprague Dawley rats. In addition to conventional methods, we used urine metabolomics by NMR spectroscopy and gene expression analysis by quantitative RT-PCR to identify markers of ageing relevant to allograft survival. Beside known markers of kidney ageing like albuminuria, changes in the concentration of urine metabolites such as trimethylamine-N-oxide, trigonelline, 2-oxoglutarate, citrate, hippurate, glutamine, acetoacetate, valine and 1-methyl-histidine were identified in association with ageing. In addition, expression of several genes of the toll-like receptor (TLR) pathway, known for their implication in inflammaging, were upregulated in the kidneys of old rats. This study led to the identification of age-related markers of biological allograft age potentially relevant for allograft survival in the future. Among those, urine metabolites and markers of immunity and inflammation, which are highly relevant to immunosuppression in transplant recipients, are promising and deserve further investigation in humans.
The trispecific DARPin ensovibep inhibits diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants
Creators: name: Rothenberger, Sylvia
name: Hurdiss, Daniel L.
name: Adler, Julia Maria
name: Eschke, Kathrin
name: Nascimento, Mariana
name: Abdelgawad, Azza
name: Gruber, Achim D.
name: Bushe, Judith
name: Kershaw, Olivia
name: Trimpert, Jakob
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antiviral agents
subject: Cryoelectron microscopy
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants with potential resistance to existing drugs emphasizes the need for new therapeutic modalities with broad variant activity. Here we show that ensovibep, a trispecific DARPin (designed ankyrin repeat protein) clinical candidate, can engage the three units of the spike protein trimer of SARS-CoV-2 and inhibit ACE2 binding with high potency, as revealed by cryo-electron microscopy analysis. The cooperative binding together with the complementarity of the three DARPin modules enable ensovibep to inhibit frequent SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron sublineages BA.1 and BA.2. In Roborovski dwarf hamsters infected with SARS-CoV-2, ensovibep reduced fatality similarly to a standard-of-care monoclonal antibody (mAb) cocktail. When used as a single agent in viral passaging experiments in vitro, ensovibep reduced the emergence of escape mutations in a similar fashion to the same mAb cocktail. These results support further clinical evaluation of ensovibep as a broad variant alternative to existing targeted therapies for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
title: Measuring the Effectiveness of Salespeople: Evidence from a Cold-Drink Market
Creators: name: Jin, Haofeng
name: Lu, Zhentong
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2021

description: "Salespeople are widely employed in many industries. Zoltners, Sinha and Lorimer (2008) conservatively estimate that US companies spend $800 billion on salespeople each year—close to three times the amount spent on advertising. However, due to lack of field data, direct empirical evidence on the effectiveness of salespeople is scarce.

We leverage a unique data set on retail sales from a leading Chinese cold-drink manufacturer and information on the firm’s salespeople assignment rule to measure the causal effect of salespeople on product revenue. Our empirical approach exploits the manufacturer’s internal allocation rules to measure the benefits of salespeople. We find that the marginal effect of the first salesperson is 16.2 percent and that of the second is 10.6 percent. We provide some evidence on the incentive issues caused by the manufacturer's compensation plan as a possible explanation for the decreasing effect of an additional salesperson."

description: "De nombreux secteurs emploient couramment du personnel de vente. Selon l’estimation prudente de Zoltners, Sinha et Lorimer (2008), les entreprises américaines dépensent 800 milliards de dollars par année pour leur force de vente, soit presque trois fois plus que pour la publicité. Toutefois, en raison du manque de données de terrain, il y a peu de preuves empiriques directes de l’efficacité de cette force de vente.

À partir d’un ensemble de données unique provenant d’un grand fabricant de boissons froides chinois, de même que de renseignements sur les règles d’affectation des vendeurs de l’entreprise, nous mesurons le lien de causalité entre le personnel de vente et les revenus tirés de la vente de produits. Notre méthode empirique s’appuie sur les règles d’affectation internes du fabricant pour quantifier la valeur ajoutée du personnel de vente. Nous constatons que le premier vendeur a un effet marginal de 16,2 %, et le deuxième, de 10,6 %. Enfin, nous montrons en quoi les problèmes de motivation dus à la structure de rémunération du fabricant pourraient possiblement expliquer l’effet dégressif de l’ajout de vendeurs supplémentaires."
An intranasal live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine limits virus transmission
Creators: name: Adler, Julia Maria
name: Martin Vidal, Ricardo
name: Langner, Christine
name: Vladimirova, Daria
name: Abdelgawad, Azza
name: Kunecova, Daniela
name: Lin, Xiaoyuan
name: Voss, Anne
name: Kunder, Sandra
name: Gruber, Achim D.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Hamster
subject: Live attenuated vaccines
subject: Preclinical research
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik

description: The development of effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines has been essential to control COVID-19, but significant challenges remain. One problem is intramuscular administration, which does not induce robust mucosal immune responses in the upper airways—the primary site of infection and virus shedding. Here we compare the efficacy of a mucosal, replication-competent yet fully attenuated virus vaccine, sCPD9-ΔFCS, and the monovalent mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 in preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1 and Omicron BA.5 in two scenarios. Firstly, we assessed the protective efficacy of the vaccines by exposing vaccinated male Syrian hamsters to infected counterparts. Secondly, we evaluated transmission of the challenge virus from vaccinated and subsequently challenged male hamsters to naïve contacts. Our findings demonstrate that the live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) sCPD9-ΔFCS significantly outperformed the mRNA vaccine in preventing virus transmission in both scenarios. Our results provide evidence for the advantages of locally administered LAVs over intramuscularly administered mRNA vaccines in preventing infection and reducing virus transmission.
Relation between field independence and open - closed skills
Creators: name: Thorsen, Ronald Albert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The problem of this study was to determine if athletes representative of open skills differ from athletes representative of closed skills in the perceptual style of field independence. It was hypothesized that differences in perceptual style exist between athletes of open and closed skills, and between athletes and non-athletes. This study also investigated perceptual differences: between advanced athletes and less-advanced athletes; between basketball positional groups; and between different sports of hockey, basketball, swimming, and gymnastics. A total of sixty-one male university students were tested for field independence by use of the rod and frame test (RFT) and the group embedded figures test (GEFT), as well as tested on a visual search test (VST). Scores from the tests were placed into groups, each group having a mean and standard deviation score for each of the tests. RFT mean scores were computed for absolute error (AE), variable error (VE), and constant error (CE). Correct numbers identified and numbers missed were analyzed from the VST. The GEFT score was the number of correctly identified figures. F-ratios for multivariate tests of equality of mean vectors were computed for the groups: Open-Closed; Athlete-Non-athlete; Advanced-Less-advanced; Outside-Inside basketball positional groups; Hockey-Basketball; and Gymnastic-Swimming. Results from this study showed:(1)Open skill athletes (Hockey and Basketball players) do not differ in perceptual style from closed skill athletes (Gymnasts and Swimmers); (2) athletes do not differ significantly from non-athletes in measures of field independence; (3) individual univariate tests between the variables from the GEFT and RFT (AE, VE) showed that the basketball group was more field independent than the hockey group; and (4) the amount of shared variance between the two tests of field independence (RFT and GEFT) was low (less than 1270) and limits the above conclusions.
title: Predictors of Change for Parents Who Perceive Improvement in Their Family Functioning Following a Parent-Training Program
Creators: name: Moore, Linda Gayle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: The purpose of the present study was to determine if perceptions of improved family functioning following a behavioral parenting program could be predicted by educational background, income, and pretest knowledge of behavioral principles. Subjects for the study were parents of elementary-school-aged children who volunteered for the parenting classes. Parents who perceived their families as dysfunctional, as measured by the pretest FACES II, were selected as subjects for the study. Parents whose perceptions of their families improved after the parenting class were then compared with parents who did not perceive improvement in their families on the predictor variables.
The results demonstrated that parents whose perceptions of their families improved were not significantly differentiated by income, education, or their knowledge of behavioral principles. These variables were not found to be as predictors to determine which parents would be positively impacted by the parenting program.
The majority of parents did increase their knowledge of behavioral principles from pretest to posttest; however, this was not related to improvement in perceptions of family functioning. Further research is recommended to ascertain what characteristics of parents predict change following parent training.
My day of Archaeology in the Prehistoric Lab of AUTH!
Creators: name: Theodoroudi, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
La incertidumbre científica como eximente de responsabilidad. Una crítica al modelo de responsabilidad por productos defectuosos en Colombia
Creators: name: Diazgranados De Pablo, Alvaro Efraín
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Responsabilidad extracontractual - Legislación
subject: Manufacturas - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: M anufacturas - Defectos
subject: Incertidumbre científica
subject: Riesgo desarrollo
subject: Productos defectuosos
subject: Adelantos científicos

description: La tesis hace un análisis de la responsabilidad por productos defectuosos, en donde se cuestiona si un bien o servicio que causa un daño derivado de un defecto o peligro que no pudo ser previsto por la ciencia al momento de su fabricación, el fabricante debe responder bajo los parámetros de la responsabilidad objetiva por el riesgo que representa el producto, o por el contrario, si se debe analizar imputación del daño desde la falla o culpa del productor al momento de su fabricación, en atención a que la ciencia no contempló la existencia de ningún riesgo en su proceso de elaboración. La propuesta del escrito se encamina a demostrar el por qué la responsabilidad del productor en los eventos de incertidumbre científica no puede ser analizada desde los postulados del riesgo y para ello toma como referente normas del derecho norteamericano que por décadas han planteado la necesidad que en los eventos de incertidumbre o desconocimiento de efectos adversos de determinado producto, al fabricante se le impone la carga de demostrar extrema diligencia y cuidado.
description: The thesis analyzes the liability for defective products, where it is questioned whether a good or service that causes damage derived from a defect or danger that could not be foreseen by science at the time of its manufacture, the manufacturer must respond under the parameters of strict liability for the risk represented by the product, or on the contrary, if the damage imputation must be analyzed from the failure or the fault of the producer at the time of its manufacture, since science did not contemplate existence of any risk in its elaboration process. The brief proposal is aimed at demonstrating why the liability of the producer in the events of scientific uncertainty cannot be analyzed from the postulates of risk and for this purpose it takes as a reference norms of American law that for decades have raised the need that in uncertainty or ignorance events related toadverse effects of a certain product, the manufacturer is imposed the burden of demonstrating extreme diligence and care.
Live-attenuated vaccine sCPD9 elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants in hamsters
Creators: name: Adler, Julia Maria
name: Bushe, Judith
name: Voss, Anne
name: Langenhagen, Alina
name: Langner, Christine
name: Vidal, Ricardo Martin
name: Xing, Na
name: Abdelgawad, Azza
name: Gruber, Achim D.
name: Osterrieder, Nikolaus
name: Kunec, Dusan
name: Trimpert, Jakob
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Live attenuated vaccines
subject: Mucosal immunology
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Vaccines play a critical role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Future control of the pandemic requires improved vaccines with high efficacy against newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants and the ability to reduce virus transmission. Here we compare immune responses and preclinical efficacy of the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2, the adenovirus-vectored spike vaccine Ad2-spike and the live-attenuated virus vaccine candidate sCPD9 in Syrian hamsters, using both homogeneous and heterologous vaccination regimens. Comparative vaccine efficacy was assessed by employing readouts from virus titrations to single-cell RNA sequencing. Our results show that sCPD9 vaccination elicited the most robust immunity, including rapid viral clearance, reduced tissue damage, fast differentiation of pre-plasmablasts, strong systemic and mucosal humoral responses, and rapid recall of memory T cells from lung tissue after challenge with heterologous SARS-CoV-2. Overall, our results demonstrate that live-attenuated vaccines offer advantages over currently available COVID-19 vaccines.
Meghan French: The Student Perspective
Creators: name: Oxford Archaeology
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Diastereoselective Dearomatizing Cyclizations of 5-Arylpentan-2-ones by Samarium Diiodide – A Computational Analysis
Creators: name: Steiner, Luca
name: Achazi, Andreas Johannes
name: Kelterer, Anne-Marie
name: Paulus, Beate
name: Reissig, Hans-Ulrich
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: dearomatization reaction
subject: Density Functional Theory
subject: electron transfer
subject: hexamethylphosphortriamide
subject: samarium
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: This study analyzes the samarium diiodide-promoted cyclizations of 5-arylpentan-2-ones to dearomatized bicyclic products utilizing density functional theory. The reaction involves a single electron transfer to the carbonyl group, which occurs synchronously with the rate determining cyclization event, and a second subsequent proton-coupled electron transfer. These redox reactions are accurately computed employing small core pseudo potentials explicitly involving all f-electrons of samarium. Comparison of the energies of the possible final products rules out thermodynamic control of the observed regio- and diastereoselectivities. Kinetic control via appropriate transition states is correctly predicted, but to obtain reasonable energy levels the influence of the co-solvent hexamethylphosphortriamide has to be estimated by using a correction term. The steric effect of the bulky samarium ligands is decisive for the observed stereoselectivity. Carbonyl groups in para-position of the aryl group change the regioselectivity of the cyclization and lead to spiro compounds. The computations suggest again kinetic control of this deviating outcome. However, the standard mechanism has to be modified and the involvement of a complex activated by two SmI2 moieties is proposed in which two electrons are transferred simultaneously to form the new C–C bond. Computation of model intermediates show the feasibility of this alternative mechanism.
title: Assessment-Based Treatment for Physically Abusive Parents: An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Blickenstaff, Scott E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: Literature on child abuse supports the conception that physical abuse is a multidetermined behavior. Multifaceted treatment programs have shown some promise in dealing with the heterogeneity of abusive parents. Most of the reported comprehensive intervention programs have provided predetermined doses of a variety of treatment components to each subject. The intent of this study was two-fold: (a) to provide treatment components based on assessment of the parent and (b) to train the parent to a specified level of competency. A multiple baseline design was used in this clinical study of six agency-referred, physically abusive parents. Based on initial assessment and ongoing observation, subject parents were provided with one or two of four available parent-training components (child behavior management, cognitive modification, relaxation, and systematic desensitization). Treatment effects on 16 dependent variables were measured by self-report, coded audiotape, coded observation, physiological measures, and reports of abuse to public agencies. Results indicated improvement by all the subjects on most of the dependent variables (i.e., 77 of 90 comparisons). However, only three of the six subjects met all of the predetermined criteria for termination of all intervention. Subjects met 15 of 22 training competency criteria. Reductions in abuse indicators were maintained on most of the dependent measures during 30- and 90-day follow-up probes. Only one subject was re-reported for child abuse during the year following treatment. The low attrition rate was seen as a function of assessment.