cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Copyright, Copyleft, and Shakespeare After Shakespeare
Creators: name: Iyengar, Sujata
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Creative ability
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Art criticism

description: Much critical ink has been spilled in defining and establishing the terms of discussion: appropriation, adaptation, off-shoot, recontextualization, riff, reworking, and so on have been used interchangeably or under erasure. This paper both examines the utility of such nice distinctions, and critiques existing taxonomies. It takes as its starting point the premise that scholars must carefully articulate our reasons for deploying particular terms, so that Shakespearean thinkers, readers, writers, and performers can develop a shared, even if contested, discourse. Ultimately, however, it suggests a new rubric or heading under which to consider Shakespearean appropriations: as transformations. In a US context, to evoke either "adaptation" or "appropriation" is to evoke copyright law. I suggest that Shakespearean appropriations potentially metamorphose or mutate culture, literary form, creativity, pedagogy, and, most provocatively, the market economy, in part because Shakespearean texts antedate current US copyright law and thus any use we make of them is already “transformative.” In particular, Shakespearean appropriations transform creative production and intervene in contemporary commodity culture or the hypermediatized, monetized creative self. Shakespearean transformations in both legacy and emerging media also offer models for the new hybrid creative economies predicted ten years ago by Lawrence Lessig in part because of Shakespeare's "spreadability" (Jenkins', Ford, and Green's term for content that can be remixed, shared, grabbed and so on) and its "stickiness" (a marketing term popularized by Grant Leboff meaning the power to draw repeat users who forge a lasting connection with the source material).
sj-pdf-1-cps-10.1177_00104140211024293 – Supplemental Material for Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility?
Creators: name: Portmann, Lea
name: Stojanović, Nenad
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-cps-10.1177_00104140211024293 for Are Immigrant-Origin Candidates Penalized Due to Ingroup Favoritism or Outgroup Hostility? by Lea Portmann and Nenad Stojanović in Comparative Political Studies
Healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities (HALT)
Creators: name: Wischnewski, Nicoletta
name: Mielke, Martin
name: Wendt, Constanze
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Prävalenz
subject: Antibiotika
subject: Heim
subject: Infektion
subject: Alte Menschen
subject: Prevalence
subject: Long-term care
subject: Infection
subject: Antibiotics
subject: Elderly
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die Ursachen für die Entstehung von Infektionen bei alten Menschen, die in Heimen leben, sind vielfältig. Die oftmals daraus resultierende Antibiotikatherapie kann zudem zu einer Selektion multiresistenter Erreger führen und damit ein zusätzliches Risiko darstellen. Für Deutschland und die meisten europäischen Länder existieren nur einige wenige Prävalenzstudien zu sogenannten healthcare associated infections (HCAI) in Altenpflegeheimen, und eine fortlaufende Dokumentation und Bewertung von HCAI und Antibiotikagaben in Altenpflegeheimen ist nicht etabliert. Daher wurde die europäische Prävalenzstudie HALT (healthcare associated infections in long-term care) entwickelt, die als Ziel hatte, sowohl HCAI als auch den Antibiotikagebrauch und die Antibiotikaresistenz von Erregern in Altenpflegeheimen zu erfassen. Insgesamt haben 73 Einrichtungen aus Deutschland am HALT-Projekt teilgenommen. Die HCAI-Prävalenz für eine wahrscheinliche Infektion (mindestens ein Symptom) lag bei 1,6 (CI 1,09–2,03), für eine gesicherte Infektion gemäß der modifizierten McGeer-Kriterien bei 0,79 (CI 0,62–1,04). Insgesamt wurde eine Antibiotikaprävalenz von 1,15 (CI 0,73–1,57) erfasst. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die für Deutschland erhobenen Daten aus dem HALT-Projekt vorgestellt.
description: The development of infections in elderly people living in long-term care facilities may have manifold causes. Infections are often treated with an antibiotic which can trigger the selection of multirestistant microorganisms and, therefore, represents an additional risk factor. In Germany as well as in other European countries, only a few prevalence studies on healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) in long-term care facilities have been performed and there is no continuous surveillance established for HCAI and antibiotic treatment. Therefore, the European prevalence study HALT (healthcare-associated infections in long-term care) was initiated to collect data of HCAI, antibiotic use, and the antibiotic resistance of microorganisms in long-term care facilities. From Germany, 73 institutions participated in the HALT project. The overall prevalence for an optional HCAI (at least one symptom) was 1.6 (CI 1.09–2.03) and for HCAI identified by the modified McGeer criteria 0.79 (CI 0.62–1.04). The overall prevalence for antibiotic use was 1.15 (CI 0.73–1.57). In the present paper, the German results of the HALT project are presented.
Additional file 2 of Development of a habit-based intervention to support healthy eating and physical activity behaviours for pregnant women with overweight or obesity: Healthy Habits in Pregnancy and Beyond (HHIPBe)
Creators: name: McClelland, Julia
name: Gallagher, Dunla
name: Moore, Sarah E
name: McGirr, Caroline
name: Beeken, Rebecca J
name: Croker, Helen
name: Eastwood, Kelly-Ann
name: O’Neill, Roisin F
name: Woodside, Jayne V
name: McGowan, Laura
name: McKinley, Michelle C
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Intermediating the Book Beautiful: Shakespeare at the Doves Press
Creators: name: Iyengar, Sujata
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Artists' books
subject: Arts
subject: Printing
subject: Books
subject: History

description: Published in #Bard, special issue of _Shakespeare Quarterly_ edited by Douglas Lanier, this essay combines the arguments of present-day neuroscience about “hard-wired” letter-recognition in the brain and theories of “intermediality” or movement between or among aesthetic methods of sensory communication with the mystical early twentieth-century theories of bookness, reading, and vision propounded by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, co-founder and co-director of the Doves Press. Specifically, it argues for the early twentieth-century fine press edition as a critical, as well as an aesthetic, intervention that intermediates public play-going and private reading. Moreover, it identifies the specific qualities of bookness, and the particular quiddities of type, that enable this intermediality. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/663526/summary
Test of Decay Rate Parameter Variation due to Antineutrino Interactions
Creators: name: Liu, Shih-Chieh
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nuclear physics

description: High precision measurements of a weak interaction decay were conducted to search for possible variation of the decay rate parameter caused by an antineutrino flux. The experiment searched for variation of the 54Mn electron capture decay rate parameter to a level of precision of 1 part in ∼105 by comparing the difference between the decay rate in the presence of an antineutrino flux ∼3×1012 cm-2sec-1 and no flux measurements. The experiment is located 6.5 meters from the reactor core of the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A measurement to this level of precision requires a detailed understanding of both systematic and statistical errors. Otherwise, systematic errors in the measurement may mimic fundamental interactions.
The gamma spectrum has been collected from the electron capture decay of 54Mn. What differs in this experiment compared to previous experiments are, (1) a strong, uniform, highly controlled, and repeatable source of antineutrino flux, using a reactor, nearly 50 times higher than the solar neutrino flux on the Earth, (2) the variation of the antineutrino flux from HFIR is 600 times higher than the variation in the solar neutrino flux on the Earth, (3) the extensive use of neutron and gamma-ray shielding around the detectors, (4) a controlled environment for the detector including a fixed temperature, a nitrogen atmosphere, and stable power supplies, (5) the use of precision High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors and finally, (6) accurate time stamping of all experimental runs. By using accurate detector energy calibrations, electronic dead time corrections, background corrections, and pile-up corrections, the measured variation in the 54Mn decay rate parameter is found to be δλ/λ=(0.034±1.38)×10-5. This measurement in the presence of the HFIR flux is equivalent to a cross-section of σ=(0.097±1.24)×10-25 cm2. These results are consistent with no measurable decay rate parameter variation due to an antineutrino flux, yielding a 68% confidence level upper limit sensitivity in δλ/λ <= 1.43×10-5 or σ<=1.34×10-25 cm2 in cross-section. The cross-section upper limit obtained in this null or no observable effect experiment is ∼104 times more sensitive than past experiments reporting positive results in 54Mn.
Gegenüberstellung von Morbiditätsindikatoren Ausgewählte Ergebnisse des Bundes-Gesundheitssurveys im Vergleich zu Ergebnissen aus einer Panelerhebung in der primärärztlichen Betreuung
Creators: name: Gaber, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Gesundheitssurvey
subject: Morbidität
subject: Panelergebnisse
subject: Indikatorenvergleich
subject: Muster von Alters- und Geschlechtsunterschieden
subject: Morbidity
subject: Health Survey
subject: Panel-Results
subject: Indicator-Comparison
subject: Patterns of age and gender differences
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Ein Kernaspekt der Gesundheitsberichterstattung sind Aussagen zur Verbreitung von Krankheiten in der Bevölkerung. Um ein möglichst valides und differenziertes Bild zu erhalten, und um möglichst viele Aspekte darstellen zu können, ist die Gesundheitsberichterstattung daran interessiert, Ergebnisse aus verschiedenen Datenquellen mit unterschiedlichen methodischen Zugängen zu kombinieren gegenüberzustellen und zu verbinden. Im Rahmen des Bundes-Gesundheitssurveys 1997/98 wurden u.a. durch eine ärztliche Befragung der Teilnehmer Angaben zu bestehenden bzw. früheren Krankheiten erfasst. Aus diesen Angaben ergeben sich Indikatoren für Lebenszeitprävalenzen. Aus einer umfangreichen Datenquelle zu ambulanten Diagnosen im primärärztlichen Bereich (I+G Gesundheitsforschung: Ärzte-Panel ACUT), die in einem Ausschnitt für 1993 dem Robert Koch-Institut für Auswertungen zur Verfügung steht (ca. 224000 Patienten), lassen sich Indikatoren für 1-Jahres-Betreuungsprävalenzen ableiten. Für einige ausgewählte Krankheiten bzw. Diagnosen werden die jeweiligen alters- und geschlechtsspezifischen Prävalenzen aus den beiden Datenquellen gegenübergestellt und die Muster der Alters- und Geschlechtsunterschiede verglichen. Trotz des unterschiedlichen methodischen Zugangs ergeben sich vergleichbare Muster und teilweise sogar ähnliche Werte.
description: Statements on the distribution of diseases in the population are a basic aspect of health reporting. To get a valid and varied picture, and to be able to present several aspects, health reporting is interested to combine, to compare and to connect results from different data-sources with different methodological access. In the framework of the German Health Survey 1997/98 the participants had to fill out a questionnaire and in addition they were asked by physicians about existing as well as former illnesses. Indicators for lifetime-prevalence of specific diseases and health conditions can be deduced from these responses. Indicators for 1-year-prevalences can be derived from an extensive data-source on out-patient diagnoses in primary health care settings (I+G Gesundheitsforschung, panel “ACUT”). The Robert Koch-Institut can partly use excerpted data for 1993 from this data-source. Age- and sex-specific prevalence from the two data-sources are compared for some selected diseases and the patterns of the age- and sex-differences will be discussed. Comparable patterns and partially even similar values emerge despite the different methodological access.
sj-pdf-1-cps-10.1177_00104140211024302 – Supplemental Material for Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together
Creators: name: Leemann, Lucas
name: Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-cps-10.1177_00104140211024302 for Satisfaction With Democracy: When Government by the People Brings Electoral Losers and Winners Together by Lucas Leemann and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen in Comparative Political Studies
Risiken und Wege der HIV-Übertragung
Creators: name: Marcus, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Infektionswahrscheinlichkeit
subject: Infektiosität
subject: Suszeptibilität
subject: Einflussfaktoren auf die Dynamik der Epidemie
subject: Infection probability
subject: Infectivity
subject: Susceptibility
subject: Factors determining epidemic spread
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Zur Frage der Infektionswahrscheinlichkeit bei bestimmten Risikokontakten liegen Daten unterschiedlicher Qualität vor. Am schwierigsten einzuschätzen, obgleich am häufigsten, ist das Übertragungsrisiko bei sexueller Exposition. Extrapolationen von Infektionswahrscheinlichkeiten, die in Langzeitstudien bei diskordanten Paaren oder in Seroinzidenzstudien in den USA erhoben werden, können nicht ohne weiteres verallgemeinert oder auf deutsche Verhältnisse übertragen werden. Bei der Abschätzung von Infektionsrisiken muss mit hoher inter- und intraindividueller Heterogenität von Infektionswahrscheinlichkeiten/ Kontakt gerechnet werden, da die Infektiosität HIV-positiver Personen durch Faktoren wie begleitende virale und bakterielle STDs, aber vermutlich auch durch antiretrovirale Therapien verändert werden und auch die Suszeptibilität des exponierten Partners eine erhebliche Bandbreite aufweisen kann. Unterschiede bei den Faktoren, die die Übertragungswahrscheinlichkeit beeinflussen, spielen für die Dynamik der HIV-Epidemie eine größere Rolle als Unterschiede im Sexualverhalten.
description: Data for HIV infection on transmission probabilities per contact are of widely differing quality. Estimates of infection probabilities after sexual exposures are the most problematic, even though sexual exposure is the most frequent transmission risk. Extrapolations of data from discordant couple cohort studies and from US seroincidence studies may be seriously biased. Infectivity of and susceptibility to HIV may be influenced by concomitant STDs, antiretroviral therapy, alloimmunization and/or subinfectious virus exposures and thus may show a wide range of inter- and intraindividual variability. Differences in factors influencing transmission probability of HIV most likely outweigh differences in sexual behaviour in explaining the differences in epidemic spread of HIV.
Lebensmittelbedingte Infektionskrankheiten durch Bakterien
Creators: name: Tschäpe, Helmut
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Surveillance
subject: Lebensmittelvergiftungen
subject: Gastroenteritiden
subject: Bakterien
subject: Lebensmittelverursachte Erkrankungen
subject: Bacteria
subject: Foodborne diseases
subject: Food poisoning
subject: Gastroenteritis
subject: surveillance
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Lebensmittelbedingte Infektionskrankheiten durch Bakterien rufen immer noch eine große öffentliche und gesundheitspolitische Resonanz hervor. Ihre besondere seuchenhygienische Bedeutung ergibt sich daraus, dass sie sich im Lebensmittel rasch vermehren und aus sehr geringen, meist nicht zu entdeckenden Keimzahlen zu klinisch relevanten Zell- oder Toxinkonzentrationen “hoch entwickeln” können. Außerdem verursachen die meisten bakteriellen Erreger wie Salmonellen, Shigellen, Campylobacter, Listerien, EHEC etc. klinisch besonders schwerwiegende Krankheitsbilder. Obwohl entsprechende Ausbrüche meist sehr spektakulär erscheinen, bleiben mit 85% die sporadischen Fälle von lebensmittelbedingten Infektionskrankheiten epidemiologisch viel wichtiger. Daher müssen die präventiven Maßnahmen auf die Vermeidung der hausgemachten küchenhygienischen Fehler, auf die Reduktion der Erregerlast in den landwirtschaftlichen Tierbeständen sowie auf eine bundesweite Surveillance zur Erfassung überregionaler Ausbrüche gerichtet sein.
description: Foodborne diseases by bacterial pathogens are of considerable public health concern world-wide. This is supported by their property to propagate in food environments from very small, nearly undetectable numbers to high concentrations of cells or toxins. Moreover, bacterial pathogens such as Salmonellae, Shigellae, Listeriae, or EHEC used to induce serious often also life-threatening illnesses. Although outbreaks of foodborne diseases will always find great public health awareness, sporadic cases remain with 85% among all foodborne diseases of great epidemiological importance. Therefore, control measures should be directed to establishing a nation wide surveillance system for foodborne infections and to educate peoples with regard to prevention of foodborne diseases.
Additional file 3 of Development of a habit-based intervention to support healthy eating and physical activity behaviours for pregnant women with overweight or obesity: Healthy Habits in Pregnancy and Beyond (HHIPBe)
Creators: name: McClelland, Julia
name: Gallagher, Dunla
name: Moore, Sarah E
name: McGirr, Caroline
name: Beeken, Rebecca J
name: Croker, Helen
name: Eastwood, Kelly-Ann
name: O’Neill, Roisin F
name: Woodside, Jayne V
name: McGowan, Laura
name: McKinley, Michelle C
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Why Ganymede Faints and the Duke of York Weeps: Passion Plays in Shakespeare
Creators: name: Iyengar, Sujata
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Emotions (Philosophy)
subject: Medicine
subject: History
subject: Books

description: This article revisits contemporary critical debates surrounding the presence of cross-dressed boys as women on the early modern stage – in particular the question of whether or to what extent boy-actors could or should be said to represent ‘women’ or ‘femininity’ – through the Shakespearian emblem of the bloody rag or handkercher. In all but one instance, these soiled napkins appear alongside what the plays call ‘passion’ of various kinds. I examine bloody rags on Shakespeare’s stage in the light of early modern anti-theatrical polemics, medical disputes about sex-difference and the conflicted cultural status of printed paper in order to argue that these besmirched tokens bring together early modern ‘passions’ in multiple senses: strong or overpowering, embodied feeling; the fluid dynamics of early modern bodies; the Passion of Christ; erotic suffering; and, crucially, the performance on stage of all of the above.
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus responsible for human colonization and infection in an area of Italy with high density of pig farming
Creators: name: Monaco, Monica
name: Pedroni, Palmino
name: Sanchini, Andrea
name: Bonomini, Annalisa
name: Indelicato, Annamaria
name: Pantosti, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock-associated (LA)-MRSA
subject: Colonization
subject: Community-acquired infections
subject: Pigs
subject: ST398
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Livestock-Associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) belonging to ST398 lineage, common among pigs and other animals, emerged in Central and Northern Europe, becoming a new risk factor for MRSA among farm workers. Strains belonging to ST398 can be responsible for human colonization and infection, mainly in areas with high livestock-farming. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) human colonization and infections in an area of the Lombardy Region (Italy), the Italian region with the highest density of pig farming. Methods: In the period March-April 2010, 879 nasal swabs were taken from subjects at admission to a local hospital serving an area of the Lombardy Region devoted to agriculture and farming. In the period March 2010-February 2011, all MRSA strains from community-acquired infection (CAI) observed in the same hospital, were collected. Molecular characterization of the isolates included SCCmec typing, spa typing and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Results: Out of 879 nasal swabs examined, 9 (1%) yielded MRSA. Five strains were assigned to sequence type (ST)398 (spa t899, 3 isolates; t108 and t2922, 1 isolate each) and were therefore categorized as LA-MRSA. The other 4 isolates were likely of hospital origin. No strains were positive for Panton-Valentine Leukocidin genes. Twenty MRSA isolates were detected from CAI, 17 were from skin and soft-tissue infections and 3 from other infections. An MRSA isolate from otitis externa was t899/ST398 and PVL-negative, hence categorized as LA-MRSA. Four isolates were assigned to t127/ST1. Eight strains were PVL-positive community acquired (CA)-MRSA and belonged to different clones, the most frequent being ST8. Conclusions: In an area of Italy with high density of pig farming, LA-MRSA is able to colonize the population and rarely to produce infections. Typical CA-MRSA is more common than LA-MRSA among CAI.
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children
Creators: name: Davy, Gemma
name: Barbaro, Josephine
name: Unwin, Katy
name: Clark, Megan
name: Jellett, Rachel
name: Date, Perrin
name: Muniandy, Melanie
name: Dissanayake, Cheryl
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420303
subject: Family care
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology

description: Engaging in meaningful activities (e.g., leisure, spiritual, fitness) significantly affects caregivers' quality of life (QoL), yet the determinants of participation in caregivers of Autistic children remain largely unknown. The current study examined child and caregiver correlates of primary caregiver participation in meaningful activities. One hundred and six primary caregivers of Autistic children (7–12 years) were recruited from three unique cohorts of Autistic children in this cross-sectional study. Primary caregivers completed online questionnaires measuring occupational gaps (i.e., desired activities caregivers are not participating in), QoL, parenting stress, perceived family outcomes, and social support. In addition to undertaking direct assessments of children's cognition and language, primary caregivers also reported on their child's adaptive behavior, social–emotional skills, and participation. Caregivers reporting fewer occupational gaps (i.e., ≤2 desired activities) were more likely to have Autistic children with no co-occurring conditions, who were older, and with better adaptive behaviors, social–emotional skills, and more frequent home and school participation, compared to caregivers reporting many gaps (i.e., ≥3 desired activities). Caregivers with fewer occupational gaps also reported improved QoL, parenting stress, social support, perceived community inclusiveness, and family outcomes. Logistic regression analysis identified child age, child adaptive behavior, social–emotional skills, home participation, and the caregivers' perceived family outcomes and QoL as important predictors of their occupational gaps. The findings demonstrate that caregiver participation in desired activities was associated with increased functional ability and independence of the child, as well as their perceived capacity to meet their child's needs. Supporting parents' sense of efficacy in meeting their children's needs and building their skills and knowledge will serve to improve both caregiver and child outcomes.
Three problems in imaging systems: texture re-rendering in online decoration design, a novel monochrome halftoning algorithm, and face set recognition with convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Liu, Tongyang
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In this thesis, studies on three problems in imaging systems will be discussed. The first problem deals with re-rendering segments of online indoor room images with preferred textures through websites to try new decoration ideas. Previous methods need too much manual positioning and alignment. In the thesis, a novel approach is presented to automatically achieve a natural outcome with respect to indoor room geometry layout. For the second problem, the laser electrophotographic system is eagerly looking for a digital halftoning algorithm that can deal with unequal printing resolution, since most halftoning algorithms are focused on equal resolution. In the thesis, a novel monochrome halftoning algorithm is presented to render continuous tone images with limited numbers of tone levels for laser printers with unequal printing resolution. For the third problem, a novel face set recognition method is presented. Face set recognition is important for face video analysis and face clustering in multiple imaging systems. And it is very challenging considering the variation of image sharpness, face directions and illuminations for different frames, as well as the number and the order of images in the face set. To tackle the problem, a novel convolutional neural network system is presented to generate a fixed-dimensional compact feature representation for the face set. The system collects information from all the images in the set while having emphasis on more frontal and sharper face images, and it is regardless of the number and the order of images. The generated feature representations allow direct, immediate similarity computation for face sets, thus can be directly used for recognition. The experiment result shows that our method outperforms other state of-the-art methods on the public test dataset.
Little-Known Documents: George Moses Horton's 'Individual Influence'
Creators: name: Senchyne, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Slavery
subject: History
subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature
subject: Religious thought
subject: United States

description: An 1856 essay by George Moses Horton. Survives in manuscript in his own hand. Held in the collections of the NYPL manuscripts and archives division within the papers of Henry Harrisse. Published in PMLA with an introduction by Jonathan Senchyne
BOMBI, Raffaella / FUSCO, Raffaella (a cura di), Citt� plurilingui. Lingue e culture a confronto in situazioni urbane/Multilingual Cities. Perspectives and Insights on Languages and Cultures in Urban Areas (Atti del III Convegno del Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo, Udine, 5-7 dicembre 2002), Forum, Udine 2004
Creators: name: VALENTINI, Ada
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2007

description: :unkn
PIRAMIDANING GEOMETRIYANING UCHBURCHAK VA TO'RTBURCHAKLAR ORQALI IFODALANISHI
Creators: name: 1-son kasb hunar maktabi  matematika fani o'qtuvchisi    Ibragimov O'lmas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description:    Piramida (qadimgi yunoncha: πυραμίς - pyramidos) - bitta koʻpburchak (asos) va umumiy beshburchakka ega boʻlgan uchburchaklar (yon yoqlar) bilan chegaralangan jism. Asosining shakliga koʻra, uch burchakli Piramida, toʻrt burchakli Piramida va boshqa deb yuritiladi. Piramida uchi (R)sj asos tekisligiga tushirilgan perpendikulyar Piramidaning balandligi deyiladi. Asosi muntazam koʻpburchak boʻlib, balandligi asos markaziga tushadigan Piramida muntazam Piramida deb ataladi. Muntazam Piramidaning yon yoqlari bir xil teng uchburchaklardan iborat, ularning balandligi Piramidaning apofemasi deyiladi. Piramidaformula bilan topiladi; bunda, S — asosi yuzi; h  balandligi.
Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolate from a Wild Chimpanzee
Creators: name: Coscolla, Mireia
name: Lewin, Astrid
name: Metzger, Sonja
name: Mätz-Rennsing, Kerstin
name: Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien
name: Nitsche, Andreas
name: Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek
name: Radonić, Aleksandar
name: Niemann, Stefan
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel
name: Feldman, Julia
name: Comas, Iñaki
name: Boesch, Christophe
name: Gagneux, Sebastien
name: Leendertz, Fabian
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Female
subject: Phylogeny
subject: Sequence Analysis DNA
subject: Genome Bacterial
subject: Polymorphism Single Nucleotide
subject: Ape Diseases/microbiology
subject: Ape Diseases/pathology
subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/classification
subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification
subject: Pan troglodytes/microbiology
subject: Tuberculosis/veterinary
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by gram-positive bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). MTBC include several human-associated lineages and several variants adapted to domestic and, more rarely, wild animal species. We report an M. tuberculosis strain isolated from a wild chimpanzee in Côte d’Ivoire that was shown by comparative genomic and phylogenomic analyses to belong to a new lineage of MTBC, closer to the human-associated lineage 6 (also known as M. africanum West Africa 2) than to the other classical animal-associated MTBC strains. These results show that the general view of the genetic diversity of MTBC is limited and support the possibility that other MTBC variants exist, particularly in wild mammals in Africa. Exploring this diversity is crucial to the understanding of the biology and evolutionary history of this widespread infectious disease.
Increased expression of sAnk1.5 does not predispose to Type 2 Diabetes in transgenic mice
Creators: name: RAUCCI, LUISA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Siena
Year: 2020

description: Skeletal muscle represents about 40% of the body mass and is the site where the
major part of blood glucose is disposed following insulin stimulation. Due to
this critical role, skeletal muscle dysfunctions often result in the development of
systemic metabolic diseases. Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is the most common
chronic metabolic disorder, representing nearly 90% of the overall diabetes
cases. T2D is characterized by insulin resistance followed by reduced insulin
release from pancreatic b-cells, resulting in high glucose concentration in
bloodstream and glucose intolerance. T2D is a multifactorial disorder, as its
onset has both genetic and environmental origins.
Genome Wide Association Studies have identified hundreds of single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated to T2D susceptibility, in the human genome.
Interestingly, several of these SNPs were identified in the ANK1 locus, although
these SNPs were found in regions neither coding nor endowed with a regulatory
activity. However, two recent independent studies identified a novel SNP in the
internal promoter of the ANK1 gene, which drives the expression of sAnk1.5, a
striated muscle-specific small ANK1 isoform. The sAnk1.5 protein is localized
on the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membrane, in skeletal muscle fibers, and
interacts with Obscurin, a giant protein of the sarcomere. This interaction
stabilizes the SR and guarantees the close apposition of this organelle around the
contractile apparatus. The ANK1 internal promoter carrying the C/C variant
displays higher transcriptional activity with respect to the T/T variant.
Accordingly, skeletal muscle biopsies of individuals carrying the C/C genotype
showed higher levels of both sAnk1.5 mRNA and protein compared to those
carrying the T/T genotype.
The aim of this thesis was to investigate whether sAnk1.5 overexpression in
skeletal muscle might predispose to T2D susceptibility. Accordingly, we
generated a transgenic mouse model with the coding sequence of the murine
sAnk1.5 under the transcriptional control of the skeletal muscle-specific rat
myosin light chain promoter. In these transgenic mice, protein levels of sAnk1.5
were increased up to 50% in skeletal muscles with respect to wild type mice.
Basal glucose levels, glucose and insulin tolerance were monitored over a period
of 12-months. In addition, 2-months old mice were fed with a high fat diet for
twelve weeks. The results obtained did not reveal significant differences in
glucose and insulin disposal between transgenic and wild type mice.
In conclusion, our results, show that sAnk1.5 overexpression does not appear
to predispose to a pre-diabetic or diabetic condition.
sj-pdf-3-tab-10.1177_1759720X211015006 – Supplemental material for Body composition in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a narrative literature review
Creators: name: Letarouilly, Jean-Guillaume
name: Flipo, René-Marc
name: Cortet, Bernard
name: Tournadre, Anne
name: Paccou, Julien
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-tab-10.1177_1759720X211015006 for Body composition in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a narrative literature review by Jean-Guillaume Letarouilly, René-Marc Flipo, Bernard Cortet, Anne Tournadre and Julien Paccou in Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
MODULATION OF HOST ACTIN CYTOSKELETON BY A LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA EFFECTOR
Creators: name: Liu, Yao
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Legionella pneumophila, the etiological agent of Legionnaires’ disease, replicates intracellularly in protozoan and human hosts. Successful colonization and replication of this pathogen in host cells requires the Dot/Icm type IVB secretion system, which translocates over 330 effector proteins into the host cell to modulate various cellular processes. In this study, we identified RavK (Lpg0969) as a Dot/Icm substrate that targets the host cytoskeleton and reduces actin filament abundance in mammalian cells upon ectopic expression. RavK harbors an H95EXXH99 (x, any amino acid) motif associated with diverse metalloproteases, which is essential for the inhibition of yeast growth and for the induction of cell rounding in HEK293T cells. We demonstrate that the actin is the cellular target of RavK and that this effector cleaves actin at a site between residues Thr351 and Phe352. Importantly, RavK-mediated actin cleavage occurs during L. pneumophila infection. Cleavage by RavK abolishes the ability of actin to form polymers. Furthermore, an F352A mutation renders actin resistant to RavK-mediated cleavage; expression of the mutant in mammalian cells suppresses the cell rounding phenotype caused by RavK, further establishing that actin is the physiological substrate of RavK. Thus, L. pneumophila exploits components of the host cytoskeleton by multiple effectors with distinct mechanisms, highlighting the importance of modulating cellular processes governed by the actin cytoskeleton in the intracellular life cycle of this pathogen.
Online supplementary file 2 - Supplemental material for Rapid Implementation of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve HIV Health Outcomes Among Priority Populations: The E2i Initiative
Creators: name: Marc, Linda G.
name: Goldhammer, Hilary
name: Mayer, Kenneth A.
name: Cahill, Sean
name: Massaquoi, Massah
name: Nortrup, Erin
name: Cohen, Stacy M.
name: Psihopaidas, Demetrios A.
name: Carney, Jhetari T.
name: Keuroghlian, Alex S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, Online supplementary file 2, for Rapid Implementation of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve HIV Health Outcomes Among Priority Populations: The E2i Initiative by Linda G. Marc, Hilary Goldhammer, Kenneth A. Mayer, Sean Cahill, Massah Massaquoi, Erin Nortrup, Stacy M. Cohen, Demetrios A. Psihopaidas, Jhetari T. Carney and Alex S. Keuroghlian in Public Health Reports
Risk Factors Associated with the Community-Acquired Colonization of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) Positive Escherichia Coli. An Exploratory Case-Control Study
Creators: name: Leistner, Rasmus
name: Meyer, Elisabeth
name: Gastmeier, Petra
name: Pfeifer, Yvonne
name: Eller, Christoph
name: Dem, Petra
name: Schwab, Frank
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Aged
subject: Middle Aged
subject: Risk Factors
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology
subject: beta-Lactamases/genetics
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Escherichia coli/isolation & purification
subject: Gene Expression
subject: Case-Control Studies
subject: Multivariate Analysis
subject: Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use
subject: Asian Continental Ancestry Group
subject: Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy
subject: Community-Acquired Infections/ethnology
subject: Community-Acquired Infections/microbiology
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/drug therapy
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/ethnology
subject: European Continental Ancestry Group
subject: Meat
subject: Swine
subject: beta-Lactam Resistance/genetics
subject: beta-Lactamases/classification
subject: beta-Lactamases/metabolism
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The number of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) positive (+) Escherichia coli is increasing worldwide. In contrast with many other multidrug-resistant bacteria, it is suspected that they predominantly spread within the community. The objective of this study was to assess factors associated with community-acquired colonization of ESBL (+) E. coli. Methods: We performed a matched case-control study at the Charité University Hospital Berlin between May 2011 and January 2012. Cases were defined as patients colonized with community-acquired ESBL (+) E. coli identified
Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates  (1100-1600)
Creators: name: Wacks, David
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Textbooks
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Teaching
subject: Spanish literature
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Latin American literature
subject: Latin Americans--Social life and customs
subject: Sixteenth century
subject: Seventeenth century
subject: Eighteenth century

description: Syllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)  Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600 through discussions of current day social and political issues. The course is organized in a series of polemics (debates) on key issues raised by literary texts. Students will prepare both sides of the debate based on literary evidence, stage debates, and write on the socio-political significance of the issues and their representation.
Additional file 3 of Changes in body mass index and behavioral health among adolescents in military families during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Koehlmoos, Tracey Pérez
name: Madsen, Cathaleen
name: Banaag, Amanda
name: Adirim, Terry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Demographics of Adolescents by Underweight and Obese BMI Recorded in FY 2020 to June 2021.
A joint cross-border investigation of a cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Austria, Romania and Germany in 2014 using classic, genotyping and whole genome sequencing methods: lessons learnt
Creators: name: Fiebig, Lena
name: Kohl, Thomas A.
name: Popovici, O.
name: Mühlenfeld, M.
name: Indra, A.
name: Homorodean, D.
name: Chiotan, D.
name: Richter, E.
name: Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine
name: Schmidgruber, B.
name: Beckert, P.
name: Hauer, Barbara
name: Niemann, Stefan
name: Allerberger, Franz
name: Haas, Walter
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Molecular surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) using 24-loci MIRU-VNTR in the European Union suggests the occurrence of international transmission. In early 2014, Austria detected a molecular MDR-TB cluster of five isolates. Links to Romania and Germany prompted the three countries to investigate possible cross-border MDR-TB transmission jointly. We searched genotyping databases, genotyped additional isolates from Romania, used whole genome sequencing (WGS) to infer putative transmission links, and investigated pairwise epidemiological links and patient mobility. Ten isolates from 10 patients shared the same 24-loci MIRU-VNTR pattern. Within this cluster, WGS defined two subgroups of four patients each. The first comprised an MDR-TB patient from Romania who had sought medical care in Austria and two patients from Austria. The second comprised patients, two of them epidemiologically linked, who lived in three different countries but had the same city of provenance in Romania. Our findings strongly suggested that the two cases in Austrian citizens resulted from a newly introduced MDR-TB strain, followed by domestic transmission. For the other cases, transmission probably occurred in the same city of provenance. To prevent further MDR-TB transmission, we need to ensure universal access to early and adequate therapy and collaborate closely in tuberculosis care beyond administrative borders.
STUDY ON THE PREPARATION OF NANO-TIB2 REINFORCED AL MATRIX COMPOSITES
Creators: name: Liu, Yanfei
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: TiB2 particulate reinforced aluminum matrix composites (TiB2/Al-MMCs) have received extensive attention due to a great potential in a wide variety of applications. Nano-TiB2/Al-MMCs have also received attention from scholars with the development of nanotechnology in recent years. However, obstacles like agglomeration of nanoparticles in the matrix, and the difficulty of preparation of nanoparticulate reinforced metal matrix composites (PRMMNCs) still need to be resolved. This study summarizes the research progress of Al-matrix composites (Al-MMCs) in recent years and exemplifies the common preparation methods. Experiments were designed to study the common problems in the preparation of composite materials. Two experiments were designed and completed in this study. First, TiB2/Al-4.5Cu composites were synthesized through a mixed salt reaction method. The distribution of reinforcing particle in the aluminum matrix was observed. The predictive model of particle behavior in Al-4.5wt. %Cu matrix based on thermodynamic laws was re-examined. The experiment results are inconsistent with the prediction from a classic prediction model. Regardless of the rate of solidification and critical velocity (VC), the most of the particles are rejected by advancing solid-liquid interface. Through review of classic particle pushing theory, this study attempts to derive a new boundary condition used to predict the behavior of reinforcing particles in a metal matrix during solidification based on the diffusion convection equations. Second, nano-TiB2/Al composites with a variety of volume fractions were synthesized by ultrasound assistance in a stirring method. The research has focused on optimization and improvement of preparation methods. High-energy ball milling (HEBM) and high-intensity ultrasound (HIU) were introduced into the fabrication process. Furthermore, a forging post-treatment process is used to process as-cast samples prepared by the experiment, so that the reinforcing particles in the composite material can be redistributed. The experiment results show that HEBM facilitates the mixing of nano-TiB2 particles with salts. HIU helps distribute particles evenly throughout the matrix. The Vickers hardness and tensile strength of the composites were tested. The results indicated that the forging treatment has great influence on the mechanical properties of composite materials.
Feature Extraction and Image Analysis with the Applications to Print Quality Assessment, Streak Detection, and Pedestrian Detection
Creators: name: Liu, Xing
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Feature extraction is the main driving force behind the advancement of the image processing techniques inﬁelds suchas image quality assessment, objectdetection, and object recognition. In this work, we perform a comprehensive and in-depth study on feature extraction for the following applications: image macro-uniformity assessment, 2.5D printing quality assessment, streak defect detection, and pedestrian detection. Firstly, a set of multi-scale wavelet-based features is proposed, and a quality predictor is trained to predict the perceived macro-uniformity. Secondly, the 2.5D printing quality is characterized by a set of merits that focus on the surface structure.Thirdly, a set of features is proposed to describe the streaks, based on which two detectors are developed: the ﬁrst one uses Support Vector Machine (SVM) to train a binary classiﬁer to detect the streak; the second one adopts Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to incorporates the row dependency information within a single streak. Finally, a novel set of pixel-diﬀerence features is proposed to develop a computationally eﬃcient feature extraction method for pedestrian detection.
Graphical model selection for air quality time series
Creators: name: Paci, L.
name: Consonni, G.
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2019

description: We propose an objective Bayes approach based on graphical models for learning dependencies among multiple air quality time series within the framework of Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models. Using a fractional Bayes factor approach, we obtain the marginal likelihood in closed form and construct an MCMC algorithm for Bayesian graphical model determination with limited computational burden. We apply our method to study the interactions between four air pollutants over the municipality of Milan (Italy).