cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Men cannot be raped : the systematic silencing of male victims of sexual violence in conflict
Creators: name: Lawrence, Meg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: male rape
sexual abuse of men
conflict
masculinity

description: Second semester University: Åbo Akademi University
description: There is an unwritten myth, an assumption, that men cannot be victims of sexual violence in conflict. Socially ascribed traits of masculinity do not leave space for men to assume the role of the victim - they are strong, indestructible; the perpetrators of this kind of abuse, not the sufferers. But in every conflict that women are raped, men are also victims of sexual violence. In fact, it has been estimated that as many as one in three victims of rape in conflict are men. As long as gender is used to define whether or not an individual can or should fall victim to an attack, those who experience sexual violence in conflict will not have the platform to seek reparations. This thesis uncovers the attitudes towards male victims of sexual violence that make it impossible for them to speak out about the violations they have experienced. Local, national and international perspectives will be drawn upon, uncovering the stigmatisation of male victims, the lack of awareness of their existence, and their ultimate omission from the international treaties and declarations that are supposed to protect them. This thesis argues for a universally accepted definition of gender-based violence that does not only address women, but all victims of sexual violence in conflict. Men are raped in conflict because they are perceived to be the strongest members of a community - their destruction means the destruction of all. Sexual violence against men is undoubtably a crime of gender-based violence deserving of international attention. Widespread and wholly destructive in its nature, it is time to break the silence on this taboo.
Elaphoglossum horridulum J. Sm., Bot. Voy. Herald
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum horridulum

description: Elaphoglossum horridulum (Kaulf.) J.Sm., Bot. Voy. Herald [Seemann] 6: 232. 1854. (Fig. 18A–E)
 Range: —Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia (CO, LP, SC); Brazil.
 Ecology: —Rare; saxicolous (rarely terrestrial) and rheophytic, usually on rocks of riverbeds or steep banks, in humid forests; 200–1500 m.
 Notes: —Both this species and E. piloselloides have indistinct hydathodes and capitate-glandular hairs on the blades, but the latter are sparse and hard to find in E. horridulum.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Fear and Mistrust of the Health Care System among Undocumented Residents of North Carolina: Does Fear of Deportation Contribute to Underutilization of Care? An Investigative Study
Creators: name: Blanchard, Gabriel John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Introduction: North Carolina is home to a significant number of undocumented immigrants. These undocumented residents (URs) do not seek health care services at the same rate as the general population and this underutilization has serious implications not only for the health of those residents themselves but for the general population because transmission of communicable diseases is increased when a large segment of a population goes untreated. Several impediments contribute to these underutilization patterns and perhaps the most significant factor is fear of detection and deportation.
Methods: In this investigation, patterns of utilization are presented along with findings from interviews with key informants.
Results: Access to adequate health care services for URs is impeded by several factors. Deportation is a rare but powerful event that has far-reaching and long-lasting impact on the attitudes and behaviors of URs. Organizational policies around service delivery to, and confidential treatment of, URs are often unwritten and fluid.
Conclusion: Policies and practices around health care delivery to URs are continuing to evolve. Clear, consistent, explicit and compassionate policies would likely help to dispel fears and increase UR utilization of health care services. Those policies cannot be put in place until the state of North Carolina and the country as a whole establish consistent approaches to the compassionate care and treatment of our undocumented residents.
The protection of vulnerable individuals in the context of EU policies on border checks, asylum and immigration
Creators: name: Mustaniemi-Laakso, Maija
name: Heikkilä, Mikaela
name: Del Gaudio, Eleonora
name: Konstantis, Sotiris
name: Nagore Casas, María
name: Morondo, Dolores
name: Hegde, Venkatachala G.
name: Finlay, Graham
Publisher: name: FRAME
Year: 2016

description: The present report discusses the protection of particularly vulnerable individuals in the context of EU policies on border checks, asylum and immigration. With a view to evaluate human rights integration in the external and internal EU policies in the field, the report studies how the protection of vulnerable individuals is ensured in, for example, border control procedures, asylum qualification, reception conditions and immigrant integration. Based on a critical analysis of relevant literature and reports by non-governmental and international organisations, the report formulates policy recommendations to further enhance the protection of vulnerable groups and individuals in the area of EU border checks, asylum and immigration policies. The report builds upon earlier research conducted within the FRAME project, in particular the report ‘Fundamental Rights in the Institutions and Instruments of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’ (2014) and the report ‘Critically Assessing Human Rights Integration in AFSJ Policies’ (2016). In these reports, concern was expressed over the fact that security considerations increasingly trump protection concerns in the EU’s policies on border checks, asylum and immigration. Attention was also drawn to the lack of coherence in the integration of human rights in the EU’s policy responses in this field. The present report deepens the analysis by focusing on particularly vulnerable individuals. In the introductory chapter it is noted that vulnerability in today’s human rights rhetoric is typically portrayed in collective terms: vulnerable groups are to be provided with special protection, as their human rights are at a particular risk of being violated. While such a group-based approach to vulnerabilities is often essential it may sometimes, however, be counterproductive. It has been noted that labelling all individuals deemed to belong to a specific group as vulnerable may be (further) disempowering. An overly strong reliance on the group-based notion of vulnerability may also overshadow other sources of vulnerability. The report therefore emphasises the fact that vulnerability is not a static state of affairs attached only to particular groups, but fluctuates with situations and contexts. By looking at the concept in this dynamic and contextual way, and as socially embedded, the report analyses vulnerability as relational to the institutional and societal contexts where it is produced. This approach also entails that the eradication of societal practices and structures that maintain disadvantages or indirect discrimination is seen as especially important.
Thermodynamics of a two-dimensional dipolar Bose gas with correlated disorder in the roton regime
Creators: name: Boudjemaa, Abdelaali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We sudy the impact of a weak random potential with a Gaussian correlation function on the thermodynamics of a two-dimensional (2D) dipolar bosonic gas. Analytical expressions for the quantum depletion, anomalous density, the ground state energy, the equation of state and the sound velocity are derived in the roton regime within the framework of the Bogoliubov theory. Surprisingly, we find that the condensate depletion and the anomalous density are comparable. The structure factor and the superfluid fraction are also obtained analytically and numerically. We show that these quantities acquire dramatically modified profiles when the roton is close to zero yielding the transition to an unusual quantum state.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.07758
The ‘C’ in the Name: Religion and Student Activism in the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1930-1990
Creators: name: Bezanson, Sydney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores the relationship between religion and student activism, focusing on the Campus Y's social justice projects from 1930 to 1990. It reveals that Christian student activism at UNC often reflected trends nationally while responding to crises specific to the university community. It shows secularization of the Campus Y by the late 1980s was a gradual and sometimes incomplete process that resulted in new possibilities for social justice.
Gene expression modelling across multiple cell-lines with MapReduce
Creators: name: Budden, David M.
name: Crampin, Edmund J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the wealth of high-throughput sequencing data generated by recent large-scale consortia, predictive gene expression modelling has become an important tool for integrative analysis of transcriptomic and epigenetic data. However, sequencing data-sets are characteristically large, and previously modelling frameworks are typically inefficient and unable to leverage multi-core or distributed processing architectures. In this study, we detail an efficient and parallelised MapReduce implementation of gene expression modelling. We leverage the computational efficiency of this framework to provide an integrative analysis of over fifty histone modification data-sets across a variety of cancerous and non-cancerous cell-lines. Our results demonstrate that the genome-wide relationships between histone modifications and mRNA transcription are lineage, tissue and karyotype-invariant, and that models trained on matched epigenetic/transcriptomic data from non-cancerous cell-lines are able to predict cancerous expression with equivalent genome-wide fidelity.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Quantum radiation produced by a uniformly accelerating charged particle in thermal random motion
Creators: name: Oshita, Naritaka
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
name: Zhang, Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of quantum radiation produced by a uniformly accelerating charged particle undergoing thermal random motions, which originates from the coupling to the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Because the thermal random motions are regarded to result from the Unruh effect, this quantum radiation is termed Unruh radiation. The energy flux of Unruh radiation is negative and smaller than that of Larmor radiation by one order in a/m, where a is the constant acceleration and m is the mass of the particle. Thus, the Unruh radiation appears to be a suppression of the classical Larmor radiation. The quantum interference effect plays an important role in this unique signature. The results is consistent with the predictions of a model consisting of a particle coupled to a massless scalar field as well as those of the previous studies on the quantum effect on the Larmor radiation.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Physical Review D, in press
mRNA Synthesis and Encapsulation in Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles
Creators: name: McKenzie, Rebecca Elizabeth
name: Minnell, Jordan James
name: Ganley, Mitch
name: Painter, Gavin Frank
name: Draper, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3206
subject: Medical biotechnology
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: AbstractmRNA vaccines have recently generated significant interest due to their success during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Their success is due to advances in mRNA design and encapsulation into ionizable lipid nanoparticles (iLNPs). This has highlighted the potential for the use of mRNA‐iLNPs in other settings such as cancer, gene therapy, or vaccines for different infectious diseases. Here, we describe the production of mRNA‐iLNPs using commercially available reagents that are suitable for use as vaccines and therapeutics. This article contains detailed protocols for the synthesis of mRNA by in vitro transcription with enzymatic capping and tailing and the encapsulation of the mRNA into iLNPs using the ionizable lipid DLin‐MC3‐DMA. DLin‐MC3‐DMA is often used as a benchmark for new formulations and provides an efficient delivery vehicle for screening mRNA design. The protocol also describes how the formulation can be adapted to other lipids. Finally, a stepwise methodology is presented for the characterization and quality control of mRNA‐iLNPs, including measuring mRNA concentration and encapsulation efficiency, particle size, and zeta potential. © 2023 The Authors. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.Basic Protocol 1: Synthesis of mRNA by in vitro transcription and enzymatic capping and tailingBasic Protocol 2: Encapsulation of mRNA into ionizable lipid nanoparticlesAlternate Protocol: Small‐scale encapsulation of mRNA using preformed vesiclesBasic Protocol 3: Characterization and quality control of mRNA ionizable lipid nanoparticles
Initial emergency department vital signs may predict PICU admission in pediatric patients presenting with asthma exacerbation
Creators: name: Freedman, Michael S.
name: Forno, Erick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Severe asthma exacerbations account for a large share of asthma morbidity, mortality, and costs. Here, we aim to identify early predictive factors associated with pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. We performed a retrospective observational study of 5,185 emergency department (ED) encounters at a large children’s hospital, including 86 (1.7%) resulting in PICU admission between 10/1/2015 and 8/7/2018 with ICD9/ICD10 codes for “asthma,” “bronchospasm,” or “wheezing.” Vital signs and demographic information were obtained from electronic health record data and analyzed for each encounter. Predictive factors were identified using adjusted regression models, and our primary outcome was PICU admission. Higher mean heart rates (HRs) and respiratory rates (RRs), and lower SpO2 within the first hour of ED presentation were independently associated with PICU admission. Odds of PICU admission increased 70% for each 10 beats/min higher HR, 125% for each 10 breaths/min higher RR, and 34% for each 5% lower SpO2. A binary predictive index using 1-h vitals yielded OR 13.4 (95% CI 8.1–22.1) for PICU admission, area under receiver operator characteristic (AUROC) curve 0.84 and overall accuracy of 80.1%. Results were largely unchanged (AUROC 0.84–0.88) after adjusting for surrogates of asthma severity and initial ED management. In combination with a secondary standardized clinical asthma distress score, positive predictive value increased by sevenfold (6.1%–46%). A predictive index using HR, RR, and SpO2 within the first hour of ED presentation accurately predicted PICU admission in this cohort. Automated vital signs trend analysis may help identify vulnerable patients quickly upon presentation.
L'enfer des autres : cosmopolitan memory and gross human rights violations in the world
Creators: name: Roux, Camille
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: collective memory
cosmopolitanism
history
human rights violations
memory

description: Second semester University: Université du Luxembourg.
description: This study marks a first attempt to investigate on the relation between memory and Human Rights. More specifically it aims to find out more about the relation between cosmopolitan memory and Gross Human Rights Violations (GHRV). As such, this thesis‘ purpose is to build a basis to the understanding of how the dynamic of cosmopolitan memorialisation works, when it comes to remembering GHRV. GHRV are seen here as the negative representation of the concept of HR. They are tangible realities, which make the study of their memorialisation process more concrete. The present work is divided in three theoretical parts. The first one is dedicated to draw the lines of the different concepts used in the subject and their special relation. The second one is dedicated to the exploration of the effects of a GHRV at the national scale, in order to clear the path to fully understand the dynamics of cosmopolitan memorialisation. The last part is devoted to the explanation of the different factors influencing the process of cosmopolitan memorialisation after a GHRV. These analysis and findings relied on an extended literature research, aiming at scanning different fields of research in order to articulate them in a coherent framework to explain the dynamics. It was concluded that three main factors play a role in the dynamic of cosmopolitan memorialisation: the cognitive, the operative and the emotional factor. These three elements of the dynamics are of equal importance, and have, if they enter in action all together, the power to extract the memory from its geographical and temporal bound to bring it into the cosmopolitan community. These memories are a support to foster HR in different part of the world, using a common set of references.
Elaphoglossum poeppigianum T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum poeppigianum

description: Elaphoglossum poeppigianum (Fée) T.Moore, Index Fil. 13. 1857. (Fig. 36A–E)
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (CO, LP, SC, TA).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests; 1000–2200(–3200) m.
 Notes: —The sterile leaves with narrowly oblanceolate blades, long-decurrent blade bases, and petioles nearly lacking are similar to those of E. brachyneuron (Fée) T.Moore, a species from the Antilles and northern South America. That species differs from E. poeppigianum, however, by having long, piliform scales on the petioles and blades (vs. broad, lanceolate scales in E. brachyneuron). The fertile leaves are also distinct, with elliptic blades totally covered by sporangia, cuneate blade bases, and long petioles in E. poeppigianum (vs. linear-oblanceolate blades with sporangia often limited to the distal half of blades, long-decurrent blade bases, and petioles nearly lacking in E. brachyneuron).
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The Interaction Between Ranked-Choice Voting and Minority Voter Turnout in California  Mayoral Elections
Creators: name: Hall, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This study analyzes the potential effect of certain electoral systems – more specifically, ranked-choice voting – on the proportion of racial minority candidates on a mayoral ballot. In particular, I am focusing my analysis on two cities in California – San Francisco and Oakland – that have implemented the ranked-choice voting system into their local elections during the early 21st century. I seek to answer the question: Comparing the various systems, how do different electoral systems explain the varying levels of racial minority descriptive representation? I am looking to investigate whether the evidence supports the FairVote campaign’s claim that ranked-choice voting will inherently lead to a larger proportion of minority candidates on the ballot, subsequently motivating more voters to turn out. While the study is directly measuring the proportion of minorities on the ballot as the dependent variable, my goal is to further discuss implications on voter behavior if significant conclusions from my study were to come to fruition. To answer the research question, I conduct a comparative study in which I match both San Francisco and Oakland to a city that utilizes a two-round system in order to demonstrate the expected outcome of proportion of minority candidates had San Francisco and Oakland not adopted ranked-choice voting. I then conduct two longitudinal studies: one for San Francisco and one for Oakland. The purpose of these longitudinal studies is to develop a trend in the increase or decrease of the proportion of minority candidates before and after implementation of ranked-choice voting. The chief finding of my study is relatively inconclusive; while San Francisco supported my hypothesis, Oakland contradicted my hypothesis.
On Products of Fourier Coefficients of Cusp Forms
Creators: name: Hofmann, Eric
name: Kohnen, Winfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F12, 11F30

description: The purpose of this paper is to study products of Fourier coefficients of an elliptic cusp form, $a(n)a(n + r)$ $(n \geq 1)$ for a fixed positive integer $r$, concerning both non-vanishing and non-negativity.
description: Minor revision: Several typos fixed, notation made more consistent. To appear in Forum Math
Flow Assurance Assessment for Arctic Conditions
Creators: name: Azubuike, Nyeso Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Flow assuracne
Arctic
Hydrate formation

description: The flow assurance of produced reservoir fluids from the wellhead to the processing facility is important to the success and cost-effective operation of production systems, especially under Arctic conditions. The technical challenges and huge developmental/operational cost of Arctic field operations necessitated a flow assurance assessment to investigate the Arctic specific flow assurance concerns such as gas hydrates, long tiebacks and low temperature in order to find a best-suit solution approach. In this study, PIPESIM simulator was used to model the thermal-hydraulic properties of the fluid along a 120 km Arctic subsea to onshore Ormen Lange pipeline. Three techniques for gas hydrate and low-temperature management were assessed, these include thermal insulation, direct electric heating (DEH) and thermodynamic inhibitors (methanol and mono-ethylene glycol (MEG)). The hydrate formation temperature (HFT) was determined from the model as 21ºC and the thermal insulation thickness that gave a steady state operating temperature outside the HFT was 180mm.
From militants to mothers? A feminist inquiry into the implications of gender-aware disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes in the case of female FARC combatants in Colombia
Creators: name: Wüstner, Isabella
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: women soldiers
Colombia
peace
feminism
reintegration
disarmament

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University
description: This study is a feminist critical inquiry of international gender-specific disarmament, demobilization and reintegration standards that focuses on the example of female FARC fighters in Colombia. In the light of discrepancies between the application of those international standards and the challenges faced by female FARC members in the transition to civilian life, the study relies on post-modern feminist approaches to discuss the issue of ‘normalization’ and its impact on female combatants. Methods of deconstruction are used to identify underlying gender relations. An inter-disciplinary methodology combines legal, political and ethnographic research in order to analyse the match between the Colombian DDR framework under the 2016 Peace Agreement and standards enshrined in international hard and soft law, on the one hand, and evidence collected by means of qualitative interviews in the field, on the other. The Colombian programme is generally considered an example of best practice due to its differential approach for female combatants, its compliance with international standards and its success in addressing many challenges voiced by the combatants. Nevertheless, the research also identifies some shortcomings in international standards in terms of gendered contexts of normality and subconscious roles that ultimately inhibit transformation. By laying bare these unspoken gendered assumptions, the study aims to contribute to their disruption and to the advancement of more durable and inclusive solutions. KEYWORDS: female combatants; DDR; Colombia; FARC; reintegration; feminist theory; peace-building
Competitive advantage on differentiate from strategic planning and creating learning organization of a mobile phone network business in Thailand
Creators: name: Chairit Thongrawd
Publisher: name: Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Competitive Advantage, Differentiate, Strategic Planning, Building of learning organization of mobile phone network business

description: Journal of Thai Interdisciplinary Research, 13, 4, 13
Development of Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations with Localized Nodal Surfaces for Second-Row Elements
Creators: name: Militzer, Burkhard
name: Driver, Kevin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the applicability range of fermionic path integral Monte Carlo simulations to heavier elements and lower temperatures by introducing various localized nodal surfaces. Hartree-Fock nodes yield the most accurate prediction for pressure and internal energy that we combine with the results from density functional molecular dynamics simulations to obtain a consistent equation of state for hot, dense silicon under plasma conditions and in the regime of warm dense matter (2.3-18.6 g/cm, 5.0*10^5 - 1.3*10^8 K). The shock Hugoniot curve is derived and the structure of the fluid is characterized with various pair correlation functions.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 long EOS table
Investing in culturally inspired education : a chance for Roma and non-Roma children to celebrate diversity and equality
Creators: name: Iliadou, Athina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: culture
education
integration
pluralism
Romanies

description: Second semester University: University of Padua.
description: This research is grounded on the problem of Roma people’s ostracism within the European social borders. Whilst Roma communities’ marginalization in the receptive European countries is a discourse that has been raised time and again, Roma’s social image rather worsens than improves. In this context both Roma and non-Roma communities are trapped in a circle which regenerates discrimination and distrust, impeding them from a sincere social interaction. The paper pursues alternative solutions, arguing that, what has been done so far is either dysfunctional or superficially effective. It seeks for more radical and genuine social processes of engagement and it presents three key components whose dynamics, if combined, are likely to bring auspicious responses: Culture, Children and Education. After showing that mutually driven social integration means recognition of the respective cultural identities, the paper explores the issue of cultural pluralism in education, suggesting that the latter is still the most powerful mechanism to strengthen human rights-based social behaviors. Eventually, it engages Roma and non-Roma children into a project of educational cultural interaction, expected to build cultural bridges between them and create a strong foundation for the future generations’ peaceful living together.
Transition readiness in middle and older adolescents with asthma and associated factors: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Rhee, Hyekyun
name: Choi, Yuri
name: Tumiel-Berhalter, Laurene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Asthma is the leading chronic health condition in adolescents, yet little is known about adolescents’ readiness to transition into adult-focused care. This study examines transition readiness in middle and late adolescents with asthma. This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2019 with 41 adolescents (16–20 years old) with asthma. Transition readiness was measured with the 20-item Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ), which comprises five subscales. Slight majorities of the sample comprised females (58.5%) and minority adolescents (56%). The sample’s overall mean score on the TRAQ was 3.89 (±0.63; possible range 1–5). Managing daily activities was associated with talking with providers subscale (r = 0.36; p < 0.01), but not with other TRAQ subscales. Females reported greater scores for managing medications than did males, with mean = 4.2 vs. 3.6 (t = −2.15, p = 0.04). Transition readiness did not differ by race or health insurance type. However, scores on arranging transportation to medical appointments were lower among minority adolescents than whites (4.17 vs. 4.8, t = 2.56, p = 0.01). Better asthma control was associated with higher scores on talking with providers (r = –0.42; p < 0.01), but not with other subscale domains. Overall transition readiness is suboptimal in middle to late adolescents with asthma. Adolescents’ capacity to manage daily activities is not a valid indicator of transition readiness in disease self-management. It is important to consider gender, race, and asthma control in understanding transition readiness in adolescents with asthma.
Experience across disciplines: Exploring panel-to-panel narrative series with the Scrovegni Chapel and Little Nemo in Slumberland
Creators: name: Han, Grace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: I draw from two veins of interpretive literature - of art historical and comic theoretical - to engage in a cross-disciplinary, experiential analysis of panel-to-panel narrative series. To make my case, I use two unrelated samples, the Scrovegni Chapel fresco cycles (c. 1305-1310) and the New York Herald's Little Nemo in Slumberland series (c. 1905-1906), and explore how the fresco and comic-strip may be mediated and serialized.
Elaphoglossum rosettum R. C. Moran & Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum rosettum

description: Elaphoglossum rosettum R.C.Moran & Mickel, Brittonia 56(3): 201. 2004. (Fig. 50A–E)
 Range: — Endemic to Bolivia (LP); known only from the type collection, made in 1926.
 Ecology: —Rare; saxicolous in humid forests; 2400 m.
 Notes: —Resembling E. beaurepairei but differing by shorter leaves, blades widest below the middle, shorter fertile fronds, and the abaxial blade surfaces with at least a few subulate scales mixed with flattish, circular ones only about 0.2 mm wide. Probably has a rosette-like growth habit, with the sterile fronds spreading and forming a loose rosette around the centrally attached erect fertile ones.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Spatial network surrogates for disentangling complex system structure from spatial embedding of nodes
Creators: name: Wiedermann, Marc
name: Donges, Jonathan F.
name: Kurths, Jürgen
name: Donner, Reik V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Networks with nodes embedded in a metric space have gained increasing interest in recent years. The effects of spatial embedding on the networks' structural characteristics, however, are rarely taken into account when studying their macroscopic properties. Here, we propose a hierarchy of null models to generate random surrogates from a given spatially embedded network that can preserve global and local statistics associated with the nodes' embedding in a metric space. Comparing the original network's and the resulting surrogates' global characteristics allows to quantify to what extent these characteristics are already predetermined by the spatial embedding of the nodes and links. We apply our framework to various real-world spatial networks and show that the proposed models capture macroscopic properties of the networks under study much better than standard random network models that do not account for the nodes' spatial embedding. Depending on the actual performance of the proposed null models, the networks are categorized into different classes. Since many real-world complex networks are in fact spatial networks, the proposed approach is relevant for disentangling underlying complex system structure from spatial embedding of nodes in many fields, ranging from social systems over infrastructure and neurophysiology to climatology.
Pacing glucagon-induced slow wave dysrhythmia
Creators: name: Nagahawatte, Nipuni
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400399
subject: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320899
subject: Medical physiology not elsewhere classified

description: This file contains the raw data, quantifications and figures corresponding to the following journal article:N. D. Nagahawatte, R. Avci, N. Paskaranandavadivel, and L. K. Cheng, “Modulating glucagon-induced slow wave dysrhythmias in the small intestine through pacing,” Am. J. Physiol, vol. Under revi, 2023.
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, am I only a terrorist after all?” The impact of social categorization of children associated with terrorist groups on their legal treatment in the Lebanese judicial process
Creators: name: Bockstael, Cassandra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: terrorism
children
Lebanon
children rights
Syria
imprisonment
judicial process

description: Second semester University: Ca' Foscari University of Venice; Saint Joseph University, Beirut
description: With the rise of terrorist organisation such as Daesh, the number of children involved in terrorist activities has increased. This phenomenon was particularly prominent in Lebanon following the outbreak of the Syrian conflict. Between 2012 and 2018, 139 children have been imprisoned for terrorism. A primary investigation on the subject demonstrated flagrant differences of treatment at different stages of the judicial procedure. The present research attempts to explain these contrasts since it has repercussion on the respect or violations of the rights of the child. Using interviews of various relevant actors of the Lebanese judicial system and complementary academic literature, the research draws on social categorization and intergroup relations theories as theoretical framework. Observations show that when the child is more categorized as a victim there is a greater respect for his rights, whereas there are more rights violations when he is perceived as criminal, delinquent or terrorist. In conclusion, social categorization might be considered as a factor explaining the differences of treatment along the judicial process.
Light in the shadows? : the promise of the ‘right to truth’ for victims of extraordinary renditions in the European Court of Human Rights
Creators: name: Rodríguez Vidosa, Miguel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: European Court of Human Rights
human rights violations
international law
reparations

description: Second semester University: Université Libre de Bruxelles.
description: The analysis discusses the case of El-Masri, where the European Court of Human Rights for the first time delivers a judgment concerning a victim of the ‘Global Rendition Programme’. It focus on a particular element of the judgment: the right to truth. It analyses the claims made by a number of international actors towards the recognition of this right, partially supported by a minority opinion in the court. It then assess whether it is feasible to expect such recognition to take place in the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the impact it would have on the concrete case, and other victims of the extraordinary renditions in Europe. It suggests that the right to truth is an especially compelling norm to face the challenge posed by the War on Terrorism, in the way it became recognised by other human rights bodies and it is advocated by these actors. However, it contends that the European system of human rights possesses its own features, which will shape the way, and the extent, in which the right to truth might achieve recognition by the European Court of Human Rights
Transitions between spatial attractors in place-cell networks
Creators: name: Monasson, R
name: Rosay, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spontaneous transitions between D-dimensional spatial maps in an attractor neural network are studied. Two scenarios for the transition from on map to another are found, depending on the level of noise: (1) through a mixed state, partly localized in both maps around positions where the maps are most similar; (2) through a weakly localized state in one of the two maps, followed by a condensation in the arrival map. Our predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations, and qualitatively compared to recent recordings of hippocampal place cells during quick-environment-changing experiments in rats.
description: to appear in Physical Review Letters; Supplemental Material available from the author's web page
The ships of state and the shipwrecked : the (il)legality for states to create statelessness under international law
Creators: name: Keeman, Martijn Jurgen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: human rights
international law
national law
right to a nationality
statelessness

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki.
description: This thesis carried out a study into the (il)legality of creating statelessness under international (human rights) law. The UNHCR most recently launched a global campaign to eradicate statelessness, given the widespread recognition of the harmful impact it has on the full realisation and enjoyment of human rights. However, while subscribing to this view, many states are simultaneously undermining the campaign by seeking the removal of nationality in response to terrorism. This risks creating statelessness at best, and in some cases directly creates it at worst. The study shows that the sovereign title states still hold over nationality matters, despite the rise of human rights, means that they in principle can indeed strip people’s nationality even if this creates statelessness. However, human rights have been successful in securing a more circumspect control via modifying principles for state action as non-discrimination and proportionality. Depriving nationality for convicts or suspects of terrorism sacrifices a significant deal of human rights at the altar of (perceived) security, which probably could be dealt with via ordinary criminal proceedings. It will therefore not likely meet the standards of proportionality. Keywords: statelessness, deprivation of nationality, international human rights law
Star formation in the S233 region
Creators: name: Ladeyschikov, D. A.
name: Sobolev, A. M.
name: Parfenov, S. Yu.
name: Alexeeva, S. A.
name: Bieging, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main objective of this paper is to study the possibility of triggered star formation on the border of the HII region S233, which is formed by a B-star. Using high-resolution spectra we determine the spectral class of the ionizing star as B0.5 V and the radial velocity of the star to be -17.5(1.4) km/s. This value is consistent with the velocity of gas in a wide field across the S233 region, suggesting that the ionizing star was formed from a parent cloud belonging to the S233 region. By studying spatial-kinematic structure of the molecular cloud in the S233 region, we detected an isolated clump of gas producing CO emission red-shifted relative to the parent cloud. In the UKIDSS and WISE images, the clump of gas coincides with the infrared source containing a compact object and bright-rimmed structure. The bright-rimmed structure is perpendicular to the direction of the ionizing star. The compact source coincides in position with IRAS source 05351+3549. All these features indicate a possibility of triggering formation of a next-generation star in the S233 region. Within the framework of a theoretical one-dimensional model we conclude that the "collect-and-collapse" process is not likely to take place in the S233 region. The presence of the bright-rimmed structure and the compact infrared source suggest that the "collapse of the pre-existing clump" process is taking place.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
An ontology-based knowledge management for organic and good agricultural practice agriculture: A case study of Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand
Creators: name: Udsanee Pakdeetrakulwong
Publisher: name: Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: organic and GAP agriculture, ontology, knowledge management

description: Journal of Thai Interdisciplinary Research, 13, 4, 26
Elaphoglossum setigerum Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum setigerum

description: Elaphoglossum setigerum (Sodiro) Diels, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1(4): 333. 1899. (Fig. 35A–E)
 Range: — Mexico to Bolivia; Hispaniola.
 Ecology: —Fairly common; epiphytic in humid forests; 2000–3000 m.
 Notes: —In many specimens, the blade margins have shallow emarginations (use magnification) usually between the vein apices. In some specimens, the emarginations are so deep that the blades are crenulate. The scales on the abaxial blade surfaces are often reduced to ca. 0.3 mm wide and appear rounded—an unusual characteristic among the subulate-scaled species.
 Elaphoglossum smithii (Baker) Christ, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 36(1): 106. 1899. (Fig. 18M–P)
 Range: —Hispaniola, Lesser Antilles, Costa Rica, Panama, Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests; 1000–2600 m.
 Notes: —This is one of the few subulate-scaled species of Elaphoglossum that sometimes, but not always, has glabrous blade surfaces. When fresh, the blades are thick and shiny. Other distinctive characteristics are the stramineous petioles and lanceolate blades (vs. linear-lanceolate in related species). It is uncertain if the Bolivian specimens belong to the same species as those from the Caribbean region.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Photoproduction total cross section and shower development
Creators: name: Cornet, F.
name: Canal, C. A. Garcia
name: Grau, A.
name: Pancheri, G.
name: Sciutto, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total photoproduction cross section at ultra-high energies is obtained using a model based on QCD minijets and soft-gluon resummation and the ansatz that infrared gluons limit the rise of total cross sections. This cross section is introduced into the Monte Carlo system AIRES to simulate extended air-showers initiated by cosmic ray photons. The impact of the new photoproduction cross section on common shower observables, especially those related to muon production, is compared with previous results.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Physical Review D
A Hybrid High-Order method for the Cahn-Hilliard problem in mixed form
Creators: name: Chave, Florent
name: Di Pietro, Daniele A.
name: Marche, Fabien
name: Pigeonneau, Franck
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N08, 65N30, 65N12

description: In this work, we develop a fully implicit Hybrid High-Order algorithm for the Cahn-Hilliard problem in mixed form. The space discretization hinges on local reconstruction operators from hybrid polynomial unknowns at elements and faces. The proposed method has several assets: (i) It supports fairly general meshes possibly containing polygonal elements and nonmatching interfaces, (ii) it allows arbitrary approximation orders, (iii) it has a moderate computational cost thanks to the possibility of locally eliminating element-based unknowns by static condensation. We perform a detailed stability and convergence study, proving optimal convergence rates in energy-like norms. Numerical validation is also provided using some of the most common tests in the literature.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2016
Elaphoglossum solomonii A. Rojas, Revista Biol. Trop.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum solomonii

description: Elaphoglossum solomonii A.Rojas, Revista Biol. Trop. 50(3–4): 983. 2002. (Fig. 49H–M)
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; saxicolous in humid forests; 1800–2500 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233