cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nosodendron baloghi HávA, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: HávA, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nosodendridae
Nosodendron
Nosodendron baloghi

description: Nosodendron baloghi sp. nov.
(Fig. 6)
Type material. Holotype (male): New Guinea (NE), Wau, Mt. Kaindi, Nami Creek, 22.viii.1968, No.NG-W.C.4, Dr. J. Balogh leg., (HNHM). Paratypes (5 males): the same data as Holotype, (4 HNHM, 1 JHAC).
Description. Measurements (in mm): total length 5.8-7.6; maximum elytral width 3.4-4.1. Cuticle black, shiny. Head very finely, but clearly punctate, with very short setation. Eyes large, black, visible from above. Antennae brown, with eleven segments, antennal club three-segmented, with yellow setae. Mentum with large punctures, with very short yellow setation, without impression. Pronotum punctate as head, with very short setae. Pronotal anterior angle with small groove. Scutellum triangular, finely punctate. Elytra with fine setation; each elytron with 11 striae with small simple punctures intermixed with small setigerous punctures. Mesosternum finely and regularly punctate. Metasternum without longitudinal carina, impunctate. Legs black, tibiae and femora finely punctate, with short brown setation. Abdominal ventrites dark brown. Longitudinal striation of the base of abdominal sternites very short. Male genitalia schematic dorsal view as in Fig. 6.
Females unknown.
Differential diagnosis. N. baloghi sp. nov. belongs to the nominotypical subgenus and differs from other Papuanense species by the characters mentioned in the table below. From all other known species it differs by the shape of its aedeagus. The new species is very similar to N. riedeli sp. nov. but differs from it by the form of aedeagus, black legs and black eyes.
Distribution. W Papua New Guinea: Manokwari Prov.
Name derivation. Patronymic, dedicated to the collector of the new species, Dr. J. Balogh, Hungary.
description: Published as part of HávA, Jiří, 2015, Distributional notes on some Nosodendridae (Coleoptera) - XI. Descriptions of six new species from Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea., pp. 131-136 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714435
Epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity requiring repeated episodes of infection
Creators: name: Chisholm, Rebecca
name: N Sonenberg
name: JA Lacey
name: MI McDonald
name: M Pandey
name: MR Davies
name: SYC Tong
name: J McVernon
name: N Geard
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Chisholm et al. Group A Streptococcus (GAS) skin infections are caused by a diverse array of strain types and are highly prevalent in disadvantaged populations. The role of strain-specific immunity in preventing GAS infections is poorly understood, representing a critical knowledge gap in vaccine development. A recent GAS murine challenge study showed evidence that sterilising strain-specific and enduring immunity required two skin infections by the same GAS strain within three weeks. This mechanism of developing enduring immunity may be a significant impediment to the accumulation of immunity in populations. We used an agent-based mathematical model of GAS transmission to investigate the epidemiological consequences of enduring strain-specific immunity developing only after two infections with the same strain within a specified interval. Accounting for uncertainty when correlating murine timeframes to humans, we varied this maximum inter-infection interval from 3 to 420 weeks to assess its impact on prevalence and strain diversity, and considered additional scenarios where no maximum inter-infection interval was specified. Model outputs were compared with longitudinal GAS surveillance observations from northern Australia, a region with endemic infection. We also assessed the likely impact of a targeted strain-specific multivalent vaccine in this context. Our model produced patterns of transmission consistent with observations when the maximum inter-infection interval for developing enduring immunity was 19 weeks. Our vaccine analysis suggests that the leading multivalent GAS vaccine may have limited impact on the prevalence of GAS in populations in northern Australia if strain-specific immunity requires repeated episodes of infection. Our results suggest that observed GAS epidemiology from disease endemic settings is consistent with enduring strain-specific immunity being dependent on repeated infections with the same strain, and provide additional motivation for relevant human studies to confirm the human immune response to GAS skin infection.
Probabilistic model-error assessment of deep learning proxies: an application to real-time inversion of borehole electromagnetic measurements
Creators: name: Rammay, Muzammil Hussain
name: Alyaev, Sergey
name: Elsheikh, Ahmed H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The advent of fast sensing technologies allows for real-time model updates in many applications where the model parameters are uncertain. Bayesian algorithms, such as ensemble smoothers, offer a real-time probabilistic inversion accounting for uncertainties. However, they rely on the repeated evaluation of the computational models, and deep neural network (DNN) based proxies can be useful to address this computational bottleneck. This paper studies the effects of the approximate nature of the deep learned models and associated model errors during the inversion of extra-deep borehole electromagnetic (EM) measurements, which are critical for geosteering. Using a deep neural network (DNN) as a forward model allows us to perform thousands of model evaluations within seconds, which is very useful for quantifying uncertainties and non-uniqueness in real-time. While significant efforts are usually made to ensure the accuracy of the DNN models, it is known that they contain unknown model errors in the regions not covered by the training data. When DNNs are utilized during inversion of EM measurements, the effects of the model errors could manifest themselves as a bias in the estimated input parameters and, consequently, might result in a low-quality geosteering decision. We present numerical results highlighting the challenges associated with the inversion of EM measurements while neglecting model error. We further demonstrate the utility of a recently proposed flexible iterative ensemble smoother in reducing the effect of model bias by capturing the unknown model errors, thus improving the quality of the estimated subsurface properties for geosteering operation. Moreover, we describe a procedure for identifying inversion multimodality and propose possible solutions to alleviate it in real-time.
Local transformation of the Electronic Structure and Generation of Free Carriers in Cuprates and Ferropnictides under Heterovalent and Isovalent Doping
Creators: name: Mitsen, Kirill
name: Ivanenko, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have previously shown that most of the anomalies in the superconducting characteristics of cuprates and ferropnictides observed at dopant concentrations within the superconducting dome, as well as the position of the domes in the phase diagrams, do not require knowledge of the details of their electronic structure for explanation, but can be understood and calculated with high accuracy within the framework of a simple model describing the cluster structure of the superconducting phase. This fact suggests a change in the paradigm that forms our understanding of HTSC. In this paper, we propose a unified view on the transformation of the electronic structure of cuprates and ferropnictides upon heterovalent and isovalent doping, based on the assumption of self-localization of doped carriers. In this representation, in undoped cuprates and ferropnictides, which initially have different electronic structures (Mott insulator and semimetal), local doping forms percolation clusters with the same electronic structure of a self-doped excitonic insulator where a specific mechanism of superconducting pairing is implemented, which is genetically inherent in such a system. The proposed model includes a mechanism for generating additional free carriers under heterovalent and isovalent doping and makes it possible to predict their sign, which, in the general case, does not coincide with the sign of doped carriers.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
title: Dietary fibre fermentability quantitatively modulates faecal bacterial pathogens in sows and their offspring
Creators: name: Grześkowiak, Łukasz
name: Vahjen, Wilfried
name: Zentek, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: QPCR
subject: Clostridioides difficile
subject: Segmented filamentous bacteria
subject: Streptococcus suis
classificationCode: 630
subject: Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Dietary fibre is essential in shaping the gut microbiota of pigs, affecting their health. We hypothesised that different fibre fermentability in diets could impact the faecal microbiota and pathogen levels in pigs. The sows were fed diets supplemented with sugar beet pulp (SBP) or lignocellulose (LNC). Faecal samples from sows during gestation and lactation and from their piglets were subjected to DNA extraction, 16SrDNA sequencing and qPCR. In sows, Clostridium perfringens concentration was higher in LNC vs. SBP group at baseline. Seven days ante-partum, Escherichia coli-Hafnia-Shigella and segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) were higher in LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.015, p = 0.005, respectively), while Clostridioides difficile was higher in sows fed SBP vs. LNC (p = 0.029). One week post-partum, E. coli-Hafnia-Shigella and SFB were higher in LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.035, p = 0.032, respectively). Microbiota sequencing analysis showed age-based clustering of the piglets. In one-week-old piglets, the counts of C. difficile and TcdA were higher in LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively). In 21-day-old piglets, C. perfringens was higher in LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.018). At weaning, E. coli-Hafnia-Shigella and C. perfringens were higher in piglets from LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.004 and p = 0.037, respectively). Two days post-weaning, C. perfringens was higher in piglets from LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.034). One week postweaning, Streptococcus suis was higher in piglets from SBP vs. LNC (p = 0.002). Two weeks post-weaning, E. coli-Hafnia-Shigella was higher in piglets from LNC vs. SBP (p = 0.048). Maternal dietary fibre influences early microbial programming in piglets, potentially affecting their susceptibility to gut pathogens. These findings highlight the importance of sow nutrition in shaping offspring resilience to infections and health.
title: (In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside
Creators: name: Reiher, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Urban-rural migrants
subject: Foreign workers
subject: Countryside
subject: Japan
subject: Invisibilization
subject: Internal migration
subject: Transnational migration
subject: Labor shortage
subject: Rural revitalization
classificationCode: 300
subject: Sozialwissenschaften

description: Rural Japan is facing a severe population decline and labor shortage. Japanese central and local governments are trying to revitalize rural areas by attracting new residents to live and work in the countryside. However, support for migrants and their experiences varies greatly depending on their nationality. While a complex support system for internal urban-rural migrants exists, most migrants from Southeast Asia are mostly invisible because they do not have the same resources as internal Japanese migrants. This paper compares two programs that hire people to temporarily work in Japan's countryside to find out why some migrants are more visible than others and what this means for rural communities. The Community-building Support Staff Program aims at attracting people from Japan's urban areas to move to the countryside and work there for three years to revitalize the region. The Technical Intern Training Program is a labor rotation system for temporary workers from East and Southeast Asia. I argue that the hierarchization of different groups of migrants results in the invisibility and the marginalization of foreign workers in rural areas, making them more vulnerable than migrant workers in cities.
title: Effect of frequency-dependent shear and volume viscosities on molecular friction in liquids
Creators: name: Kiefer, Henrik
name: Vitali, Domenico
name: Dalton, Benjamin A.
name: Scalfi, Laura
name: Netz, Roland R.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Non-Newtonian fluids
subject: Viscoelasticity
subject: Molecular dynamics
classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: The relation between the frequency-dependent friction of a molecule in a liquid and the hydrodynamic properties of the liquid is fundamental for molecular dynamics. We investigate this connection for a water molecule moving in liquid water using all-atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and linear hydrodynamic theory. We analytically calculate the frequency-dependent friction of a sphere with finite surface slip moving in a viscoelastic compressible fluid by solving the linear transient Stokes equation, including frequency-dependent shear and volume viscosities, both determined from MD simulations of bulk liquid water. From MD simulation trajectories, we also determine the frequency-dependent friction of a single water molecule moving in liquid water, as defined by the generalized Langevin equation. The frequency dependence of the shear viscosity of liquid water requires careful consideration of hydrodynamic finite-size effects to observe the asymptotic hydrodynamic power-law tail. By fitting the effective sphere radius and the slip length, the frequency-dependent friction and velocity autocorrelation function from the transient Stokes equation and simulations quantitatively agree. This shows that the transient Stokes equation accurately describes the important features of the frequency-dependent friction of a single water molecule in liquid water and thus applies down to molecular length and time scales, provided accurate frequency-dependent viscosities are used. In contrast, for a methane molecule moving in water, the frequency-dependent friction cannot be predicted based on a homogeneous model, which, supported by the extraction of the frequency-dependent surface slip, suggests that a methane molecule is surrounded by a finite-thickness hydration layer with viscoelastic properties that differ significantly from those of bulk water.
Human MAIT cell cytolytic effector proteins synergize to overcome carbapenem resistance in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Boulouis, Caroline
name: Sia, Wan Rong
name: Gulam, Muhammad Yaaseen
name: Teo, Jocelyn Qi Min
name: Phan, Thanh
name: Mak, Jeffrey YW
name: Fairlie, David P
name: Poon, Ivan
name: Tse Hsien Koh
name: Bergman, Peter
name: Wang, Lin-Fa
name: Kwa, Andrea Lay Hoon
name: Sandberg, Johan K
name: Leeansyah, Edwin
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Copyright: © 2020 Boulouis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Mucosa-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are abundant antimicrobial T cells in humans and recognize antigens derived from the microbial riboflavin biosynthetic pathway presented by the MHC-Ib-related protein (MR1). However, the mechanisms responsible for MAIT cell antimicrobial activity are not fully understood, and the efficacy of these mechanisms against antibiotic resistant bacteria has not been explored. Here, we show that MAIT cells mediate MR1-restricted antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli clinical strains in a manner dependent on the activity of cytolytic proteins but independent of production of pro-inflammatory cytokines or induction of apoptosis in infected cells. The combined action of the pore-forming antimicrobial protein granulysin and the serine protease granzyme B released in response to T cell receptor (TCR)-mediated recognition of MR1-presented antigen is essential to mediate control against both cell-associated and free-living, extracellular forms of E. coli. Furthermore, MAIT cell-mediated bacterial control extends to multidrug-resistant E. coli primary clinical isolates additionally resistant to carbapenems, a class of last resort antibiotics. Notably, high levels of granulysin and granzyme B in the MAIT cell secretomes directly damage bacterial cells by increasing their permeability, rendering initially resistant E. coli susceptible to the bactericidal activity of carbapenems. These findings define the role of cytolytic effector proteins in MAIT cell-mediated antimicrobial activity and indicate that granulysin and granzyme B synergize to restore carbapenem bactericidal activity and overcome carbapenem resistance in E. coli.
title: Herbicide glyphosate efficiently inhibits growth of pathogenic Prototheca algae species, suggesting the presence of novel pathways for the development of anti-algal drugs
Creators: name: Makarova, Olga
name: Steinke, Diana
name: Roesler, Uwe
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Prototheca species
subject: protothecosis
subject: fungal-like pathogens
subject: anti-algal
subject: glyphosate
subject: shikimate pathway
classificationCode: 630
subject: Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Prototheca are ubiquitous algae and occasional pathogens of humans and animals. While rare, the infection is often fatal and treatment options are limited to antifungals with low efficiency. Here, using growth curve assays, we demonstrate that five pathogenic species of Prototheca (P. blaschkeae, P. wickerhamii, P. cutis, P. ciferrii, P. bovis) were fully inhibited by 50–100 μg/mL of herbicide glyphosate, suggesting novel pathways that can be considered for anti-algal drug development.
An Effect of Biofield Treatment on Multidrug-resistant Burkholderia Cepacia: A Multihost Pathogen
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia) is an opportunistic, Gram negative pathogen which causes infection mainly in immunocompromised population and associated with high rate of morbidity and mortality in cystic fibrosis patients. Aim of the present study was to analyze the impact of biofield treatment on multidrug resistant B. cepacia. Clinical sample of B. cepacia was divided into two groups i.e. control and biofield treated. The analysis was done after 10 days of treatment and compared with control group. Control and treated group were analyzed for susceptibility pattern, MIC value, biochemical studies and biotype number using MicroScan Walk-Away® system.Sensitivity assay results showed a change in pattern from resistant to intermediate in aztreonam, intermediate to resistant in ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, and levofloxacin while sensitive to resistant in meropenem and piperacillin/ tazobactam.The biofield treatment showed an alteration in MIC values of aztreonam, ceftazidime, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, levofloxacin, meropenem, piperacillin/tazobactam and tetracycline. Biochemical reactions of treated group showed negative reaction in colistin, lysine, and ornithine while positive reactions to acetamide,arginine, and malonate as compared to control. Overall results showed an alteration of 38.9% in susceptibility pattern, 30% in MIC values of tested antimicrobials and 18.2% change in biochemical reaction after biofield treatment. A significant change in biotype number (02063736) was reported with green pigment as special characteristics after biofield treatment as compared to control (05041776) group with yellow pigment. In treated group, a new species was identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as compared to control. Study findings suggest that biofield treatment has a significant effect on the phenotypic character and biotype number of multidrug resistant strain of B. cepacia.
Understanding the evolutionary history and dynamics of the gut bacteria Helicobacter pylori in Cape Verde
Creators: name: Cave, Ebony
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2025

description: Helicobacter pylori is a gut bacteria which has co-evolved with humans since the modern human expansion out of Africa and is associated with an increased risk of gastric diseases, including gastric cancer. The migration of humans around the world has resulted in the bacteria diverging, leading to phylogeographical differentiation. The native human host population of Cape Verde is unique, they have an approximately even admixed African-European ancestry as the result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Americas were also involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade leading to several admixed host populations, as well as admixed Helicobacter pylori subpopulations. I hypothesise that Helicobacter pylori isolated from Cape Verdeans will also have an admixed African-European ancestry. This thesis will focus on the evolutionary history and dynamics of Helicobacter pylori isolated from Cape Verde.An investigation into the population structure of Helicobacter pylori in Cape Verde confirmed previous findings of four unique subpopulation groups, two of which have recently emerged and are undergoing clonal expansion. The ancestry proportions of Helicobacter pylori from Cape Verde, as well as the Americas, were quantified. Helicobacter pylori in the Americas contained significantly more South African ancestry than Helicobacter pylori from Cape Verde, where one of the Cape Verde subpopulations contained the most West African ancestry.Differences between the Cape Verde subpopulations of Helicobacter pylori were characterised in terms of genes associated with: virulence, antibiotic resistance, restriction-modification systems and phase variable genes. There were distinct differences in the presence of virulence genes across the subpopulations of Helicobacter pylori. A previously uncharacterised phase variation system, the ArsS family sensor histidine kinase, was identified in all Cape Verde subpopulations of Helicobacter pylori.Class Caudoviricetes bacteriophages were identified within Helicobacter pylori in Cape Verde; although, the prophages identified in this work were different to the prophages identified in previous studies.
Supplementary files for "The Phylogeny and the Evolution of Parasitic Strategies in Trematoda"
Creators: name: Xiang, Chuanyu
name: Jakovlic, Ivan
name: Ye, Tong
name: Song, Rui
name: Zou, Hong
name: Wang, Gui-Tang
name: Li, Wen-Xiang
name: Zhang, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310408
subject: Life histories
classificationCode: 310510
subject: Molecular evolution

description: Our study offers first insights into the evolution of intermediate host number in Trematoda. We based the analyses on both mitogenomic and nuclear genomic topologies. For this, we sequenced mitogenomes of first two aspidogastrean species and applied various strategies to tackle the topological instability hampering the phylogenetic reconstruction in trematodes. The constraint trees with Cestoda as the outgroup were identified as the optimal topologies for ancestral state reconstruction analyses. These revealed that a direct life cycle, devoid of intermediate hosts, was probably the ancestral state for both Trematoda and Aspidogastrea, whereas the ancestor of Digenea likely utilized two intermediate hosts. Additionally, we propose a timeline outlining these evolutionary shifts and the different evolutionary pathways of intermediate host number in Aspidogastrea and Digenea. Finally, our analyses indicate that host strategies are relatively plastic among trematodes, putatively comprising several independent host gains, and multiple host losses.
MPEC 2025-J73 : COMET P/2018 L1 = P/2011 F2 = P/2025 F3 (PANSTARRS)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: COMET P/2018 L1 = P/2011 F2 = P/2025 F3 (PANSTARRS)

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Smooth leaflets with curved belly and attachment edge profiles promote adaptive remodeling in tissue-engineered heart valves: an in-silico study
Creators: name: Visser, Valery
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: tissue engineering
computational modeling
tissue engineered heart valve
remodeling

description: This code belongs to the publication : Smooth leaflets with curved belly and attachment edge profiles promote adaptive remodeling in tissue-engineered heart valves: an in silico study.

Valery L. Visser, Sarah E. Motta, Simon P. Hoerstrup, Frank P. T. Baaijens, Sandra Loerakker and Maximilian Y. Emmert. 

Published in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 

DOI: 10.1007/s10237-025-01937-8

 

This folder contains two zip-folders with code and description for the generation of the variations of the 2 parametrized designs as used in the publication. The Simulation Example contains code for the UMATs and includes an example input file to perform the simulations in the Abaqus software. 

Full code, datasets and output are available upon request to one of the authors: 

Prof. S. Loearkker - s.loerakker@tue.nl 

Prof. M. Y. Emmert - maximilian.emmert@access.uzh.ch

Dr. V. L. Visser - valeryvisser@hotmail.com
Free to become martyrs? The right to refuse medical treatment on religious grounds in a comparative perspective
Creators: name: Pacillo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Obiezioni di coscienza

description: Article peer reviewed
SUMMARY: 1. Aim of the study - 2. Defining medical treatment- 3. Treatment, consent and “religious grounds” - 4. The right to express one’s religion and medical consent - 5. The legitimate limitations on the right to refuse a treatment on religious grounds - 6. Capacity to refuse a treatment - 7. The genuineness of consent - 8. Refusal and children’s best interest – 9. Conclusive remarks.
 ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the right of patients to refuse medical treatments on religious grounds and on the (supposed) right to the parents to refuse medical treatments on behalf of their children, emphasizing the links and connections between the freedom of religion, the right to self-determination and the right to refuse medical treatment based on religious motivations. After a comparison between the norms devoted to rule the exercise of these rights in the English (and Welsh) and Italian legal systems, the article suggests that the approach of medical staff towards a Refusal of Medical Treatment on Religious Grounds ought to start an intercultural process. This process ought to be a cross-cultural dialogue devoted not only to translate medical language in a language which can be fully understood by the patient, but also to create a reciprocal comprehension between the (mainstream) ethnocultural communication codes and instances of the staff and the (nondominant) ethnocultural (and religious) communication codes and instances of the patient (or of his/her parents).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2016: 26 settembre
Il dubbio di una “velata” discriminazione: il diritto di indossare l’hijab sul luogo di lavoro privato nei pareri resi dall’Avvocato generale alla Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea
Creators: name: Licastro, Angelo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Unione europea e Consiglio d'Europa

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. La novità e la rilevanza della questione pregiudiziale relativa all’uso del velo islamico in azienda sollevata davanti alla Corte di giustizia – 2. I termini della vicenda esaminata dalla Cassazione belga – 3. Il rinvio operato dalla pronunzia “gemella” della Cassazione francese – 4. Il profilarsi della questione pregiudiziale in controversie riguardanti lavoratori del settore pubblico – 5. Le conclusioni dell’Avvocato generale nella causa C-157/15: a) l’approccio “onnicomprensivo” nell’analisi della fattispecie – 6. (segue): b) discriminazione diretta o indiretta? – 7. (segue): c) la giustificazione del trattamento differenziato – 8. (segue): d) la salvaguardia dell’”identità nazionale” degli Stati – 9. Le conclusioni dell’Avvocato generale nella causa C-188/15 – 10. La querellesulla mise da spiaggia per le donne islamiche (breve divagazione, in attesa della decisione della Corte di giustizia).

The doubt on a “veiled” discrimination: the right to wear an Islamic headscarf at work in the opinions given by the Advocate General to the European Court of Justice
ABSTRACT: The paper critically analyzes the opinions given by the Advocate General to the European Court of Justice in case C-157/15 and in case C-188/15. Should Article 2(2)(a) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation be interpreted as meaning that the prohibition on wearing, as a female Muslim, a headscarf at the workplace does not constitute direct discrimination where the employer’s rule prohibits all employees from wearing outward signs of political, philosophical and religious beliefs at the workplace? (case C-157/15). Must Article 4(1) of the same Council Directive be interpreted as meaning that the wish of a customer of an information technology consulting company no longer to have the information technology services of that company provided by an employee, a design engineer, wearing an Islamic headscarf, is a genuine and determining occupational requirement, by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out? (case C-188/15).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2016: 26 settembre
Libera scelta del Governo l’avvio di trattative finalizzate alla stipulazione di intesa con confessione religiosa ai sensi dell’art. 8, terzo comma, Cost.
Creators: name: Canonico, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Concordati e intese

description: contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Le vicende precedenti - 2. La sentenza della Corte costituzionale 10 marzo 2016 n. 52 - 3. Considerazioni a margine della decisione.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2016: 26 settembre
Shellfish resilience to prehistoric human consumption in the southern Red Sea: Variability in Conomurex fasciatus across time and space
Creators: name: N Hausmann
name: Meredith-Williams, Matthew
name: E Laurie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA
Intertidal environments have been the main source for mollusc gathering and consumption for at least the last 164,000 years. However, our knowledge of long-term trends is compromised by the fact that the majority of Pleistocene and early Holocene shorelines, and in turn their archaeological sites, are either currently submerged under water or have long been destroyed by sea-level change. Ecological information on the resilience of intertidal resources is crucial in assessing how attractive they were to past humans as a long-term source of food. Of particular interest is the southern Red Sea and its function as the southern gateway out of Africa into Arabia during a period of aridity. The role that marine food sources likely played in this dispersal is underplayed and largely ignored when interpreting periods of terrestrial aridity. Here we analyse the resilience of Conomurex fasciatus and report size measurements of over 15,000 specimens from the Holocene shell middens on the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia, as an ecological baseline for prehistoric shellfish exploitation to determine the long-term sustainability of shellfish harvesting in an arid environment. Changes in shell-size and relative abundance can indicate whether a species was subjected to changes in the intensity of human harvests and we use this dataset to reconstruct how the species was affected by a known intense exploitation period between 7360 and 4780 cal BP. Our results indicate no signs of resource depletion throughout the occupation period and add to the growing body of evidence that marine resources along arid shorelines are an important part of a mixed diet. Further, by measuring size changes occurring during early life stages of C. fasciatus we were able to reveal changes in size that were unaffected by human harvesting pressure and instead suggest patch-selection as the main control. These results have implications for the interpretation of shellfish harvesting during periods of terrestrial aridity and specifically the potential of shellfish as a reliable food source during Palaeolithic migrations out of Africa.
Chinese Philosophy and Universal Values in Contemporary China
Creators: name: Makeham, John
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2020, Ljubljana University Press.
Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations. This aspiration is complicated by the fact that Chinese political leaders and intellectuals continue to strug-gle with how “Chinese values” fit with “universal values”, and whether there is a single global modernity or whether there are multiple modernities and multiple—perhaps com-peting—universal values. In this paper I examine how some prominent Chinese philoso-phers are engaging with these issues, despite the fact that in 2013 the topic of “universal values” was prohibited as a discussion topic in universities on the mainland.
Curioso romance, donde se da cuenta de la horrible pendencia, que pelearon cuatro valerosos soldados: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Spanish literature
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description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool eScriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Curioso romance, donde se da cuenta de la horrible pendencia, que pelearon cuatro valerosos soldados: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool e-Scriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Supplementary document for Higher order wavefront correction and axial scanning in a single fast and compact piezo-driven adaptive lens - 6459294.pdf
Creators: name: Gowda, Hitesh Gowda Bettaswamy
name: Wallrabe, Ulrike
name: Wapler, Matthias
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Full response tensors
Evaluation of Biofield Modality on Viral Load of Hepatitis B and C Viruses
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Nowadays, hepatitis is a major challenge for clinical research, regulatory bodies, and clinicians who are trying to assess the more effectiveness of antiviral therapy against patients. Viral load count is the amount of particular viral DNA or RNA in a blood samples. It is one of the surrogate biomarker of hepatitis. High viral load indicates that the immune system is failed to fight against viruses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of biofield modality on hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in terms of viral load as surrogate marker.
 Altogether, data suggest that biofield treatment has significantly alteration in HBV and reduced the viral load count in HCV infected plasma samples and could be a suitable alternative treatment strategy for hepatitis patients in near future.
As Much As I Can – Utilizing Immersive Theatre to Reduce HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination Toward Black Sexual Minority Men
Creators: name: Bender, Melverta
name: Poteat, Tonia
name: Sims-Gomillia, Courtney
name: Burns, Paul A.
name: Klukas, Emily
name: Omondi, Angela
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2022

description:
BACKGROUND: Despite advances in biomedical HIV prevention modalities such as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the transmission of HIV, racial/ethnic and sexual/gender minority populations are disproportionately impacted by HIV epidemic. Alarming rates of HIV have persisted among Black gay and bisexual men, particularly in Southern states. METHODS: Utilizing data from the ViiV ACCELERATE! initiative, we explored the impact of As Much As I Can, an immersive theatre production, on HIV-related stigma behaviors. A self-administered post-performance survey was conducted with a cohort (n = 322) of randomly selected audience members. RESULTS: Overall, the results showed participants had a highly favorable experience, rating the performance with a mean score of 9.77/10. Respondents indicated they intended to change behaviors to promote HIV prevention education and to reduce stigma and discrimination including: (1) Say something if I hear stigmatizing language against people living with HIV (75.4%), (2) Say something if I hear anti-gay language (69.7%) and (3) Tell others about HIV prevention options (e.g., PrEP, PEP, condoms (64.1%). The findings show there is an association between HIV-related behavior intention and linkage to HIV care. Respondents who reported they were more likely to say something about HIV stigma were almost three times (O.R. 2.77; 95% C.I. 0.98-7.8) more likely to indicate they would follow up with a healthcare professional. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that immersive theatre is an effective method for communicating HIV prevention education and reducing HIV-related structural stigma and discrimination that increases HIV vulnerability for Black sexual minority men.
Carpathian treeline samples, shapefile
Creators: name: Mkrtchian, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Attribute data (columns):

Region: 1 north-western, 2 - eastern, 3 - southern;

Countries: SK - Slovakia, PL - Poland, UA - Ukraine, RO - Romania;

Area: sq. mOther columns - elevation (AMSL) statistics
title: Proposition 12 and U.S. Pork: Implications for the U.S. Industry and Trade
Creators: name: Ha, Kim
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023

description: In 2018, Californians passed a ballot measure (“Prop 12”) which regulates housing standards for certain farm
animals, including breeding pigs. Although other U.S. states have similar laws, Prop 12 goes further, including
banning the sale of pork that does not meet the standards. Since California accounts for about 15 percent of
the U.S. pork market and 99.8 percent of the pork consumed in California originates outside the state, Prop
12 could have a large impact on pork producers across the United States. A pending lawsuit in opposition to
the measure, initiated by the U.S. pork industry, awaits resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court later this year.
This EBOT discusses the details of California’s farm animal housing law, opposition to it, and possible
implications for the U.S. industry as well as international trade.
THE ROLE OF ENGLISH IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN UZBEKISTAN: A STUDY ON ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE NEEDS AMONG MA STUDENTS AT KARSHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Creators: name: Hayitova, Shirinoy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: English has emerged as a global lingua franca, serving as the primary medium for communication, academic exchange, and professional advancement in a variety of fields. This role of English is especially pronounced in higher education, where proficiency in the language can open doors to international research collaborations, scholarly publications, and career opportunities. For students pursuing advanced degrees, particularly at the master’s level, strong English language skills are crucial not only for academic success but also for achieving professional goals.
‘Just because one has attended a special class does not mean that one isn’t capable’: the experiences of becoming and being not involved in traditional occupations for young people with intellectual disability
Creators: name: Luthra, Renee
name: Westberg, Niklas
name: Högdin, Sara
name: Tideman, Carl
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4409
subject: Social work
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Young adults with intellectual disability face challenges in securing post-secondary school occupations. This can result in being Not in Employment, Education, or Daily activity (NEED). This qualitative interview study analyzes the subjective experiences of the process to becoming and being NEED. The analysis focuses on individual as well as structural factors, and how these are experienced in different arenas in society and in interactions with agencies. Interviews with 10 participants followed by thematic analysis were conducted. The results indicate that the process from secondary school to being outside of traditional occupations is not linear. Individual factors such as desires, abilities, and health problems, combined with structural factors of limited or unsuitable post-school occupations and challenges with formal support contribute to understanding people with intellectual disability who are NEED. The experiences of being NEED relate to social exclusion underlined with notions of normality and stigmatization of having an intellectual disability.
Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 (Fgf1) Transfected Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Ad-Mscs Fgf1) Promote Angiogenic Proliferation
Creators: name: Sadeghnia, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell (AD-MSC); Fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1); Cell proliferation; Tube formation
Angiogenesis

description: To investigate the effects of fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) transfected rat adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AD-MSCs FGF1), for the first time, on ?broblast (NIH-3T3 cells) proliferation and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) tube formation to provide a theoretical evidence of mutual benefits of an episomal plasmid FGF1 vector combined with AD-MSCs. Rat AD-MSCs were isolated and characterized by flow cytometry which were positive for mesenchymal (CD29, CD90) and negative for hematopoietic (CD34, CD45) surface CD markers. Adipogenic and osteogenic differentiations of AD-MSCs were both positive. AD-MSCs were transfected by pCMV6-Entry plasmid vector for rat FGF1. The presence of FGF1 in the conditioned medium from the AD-MSCs FGF1 was confirmed by Western blotting on the sixth day post-transfection. Following treatment with the AD-MSCs FGF1 conditioned medium, the NIH-3T3 cells proliferation and HUVECs tube formation were significantly increased as compared to conditioned medium from non-transfected AD-MSCs (p < 0.001 for both). In conclusion, rat AD-MSCs transfected with FGF1 were efficient in secreting functional FGF1 which promotes ?broblast proliferation and HUVECs tube formation. AD-MSCs FGF1 may provide a useful strategy in cell therapy which can merge the beneficial effects of stem cells with the positive biological effects of FGF1 in some circumstances including cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disorders.
Co-occurring Epidemic Conditions Among Southern U.S. Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in an Online eHealth Intervention
Creators: name: Muessig, Kathryn E.
name: Bauermeister, Jose A.
name: Meanley, Steven P.
name: Choi, Seul Ki
name: Kafka, Julie M.
name: Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B.
name: Houang, Steven T.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) face disproportionately higher risks for adverse sexual health outcomes compared to their non-Hispanic White counterparts. This disparity can be attributable to overlapping and intersecting risk factors at the individual and structural levels and can be understood through syndemic theory. Using longitudinal data from the HealthMPowerment trial (n = 363), six conditions related to stigma syndemics were indexed as a cumulative risk score: high alcohol use, polydrug use, depression and anxiety symptomology, and experiences of racism and sexual minority stigma. Using Poisson regression, we found a positive association between baseline risk scores and sexual risk behavior (b: 0.32, SE: 0.03, p < 0.001). Using a Generalized Estimating Equation, we also found a 0.23 decrease in the within-participant risk scores at 3-month follow-up (SE: 0.10, p < 0.020). Future work examining how care and prevention trials improve health outcomes in this population is needed.
What Does Food Retail Research Tell Us About the Implications of Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Grocery Purchasing Habits?
Creators: name: Martin-Neuninger, R
name: Ruby, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

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