cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Truck Crop Production Practices, Imperial County, California: Labor, Power, and Materials by Operation
Creators: name: Gavett, Earle E.
name: Gavett, Earle E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: In 1962 U. S. production of truck crops for fresh market and processing occupied 3.4 million acres of cropland. These crops used slightly more than 1 percent of the total cropland. The farm value of truck crops harvested for sale exceeded $1.2 billion, or an average of $357 per acre harvested. This is the sixth in a group of 12 publications containing information on labor requirements, production practices, and costs involved in the production of truck crops for fresh market and processing. Information in this report was obtained from 108 producers in Imperial County, Calif.
description: Includes the following truck crops for fresh market: cantaloups, carrots, lettuce, squash, tomatoes (staked and unstaked), and watermelons.
My Body My Choice: The Hostile Appropriation of Feminist Cultural Memory in American Anti-vaccine Movements
Creators: name: Blom, Tashina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 449999
subject: Other human society not elsewhere classified

description: This article discusses how the reproductive rights slogan ‘my body my choice’ – which functions as a carrier of feminist cultural memory – was weaponised when it gained traction in anti-vaccine movements that appropriated it. During the global Covid-19 pandemic, transnationally coordinated groups associated with the far right and characterised by nationalist and pro-life values started using the protest slogan to politicise their resistance to local lockdown restrictions and vaccine and mask mandates. The article shows that their use of the slogan was a hostile form of mnemonic appropriation and analyses the discursive mechanisms used to discredit the reproductive rights movement. It demonstrates that when slogans become carriers of cultural memory, they can be used in claim-making by movements on opposing sides of the political spectrum. It concludes that protest memories can be used politically both in the advancement of social movement causes as well as in the backlash against those causes.
title:  Clostridioides difficile Spore Production in Response to Antibiotic and Immune Stress
Creators: name: Oludiran, Adenrele
name: Purcell, Erin B.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile, an anaerobic, spore-forming Gram-positive pathogenic bacterium, is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections and can persist as surface-attached biofilms for protection from antibiotic and immune stress. C. difficile can form biofilms as a single species or with other anaerobic intestinal bacteria. The environmental signals that cause individual cells to secrete toxins, form biofilms, or develop into spores that can spread the infection to new patients are unknown. In these studies, we investigate bacterial responses to different stress. Antimicrobial host-defense peptides (HDPs) produced by animal immune systems are promising candidates to develop novel therapies for bacterial infection because they cause oxidative stress that damages multiple targets in bacterial cells, so it is difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance to these attacks. We investigate antibiotic treatments, metal ions and sugars, and antimicrobial peptide treatments to determine how. C. difficile reacts to multiple environmental stresses like those from antibiotic treatment or the human immune system. In our investigation of C. difficile and HDPs in an anaerobic environment, we found that the interaction of piscidin and copper is different in different oxygen environments. Antibiotics and oxidative stresses from other sources cause the cells to form spores and/or biofilms to protect themselves, but piscidin kill vegetative C. difficile cells without triggering these protective responses. Piscidins are highly active against C. difficile and could be a good candidate for drug development.
IN03119 Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala Rock Inscription of Mahānāga
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03119
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala
Mahānāga

description: IN03119 Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala Rock Inscription of Mahānāga - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 12. Two Rock Inscriptions of Bhātika Abhaya and Mahānāga at Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 153-157.
Additional file 10 of Rbm10 facilitates heterochromatin assembly via the Clr6 HDAC complex
Creators: name: Weigt, Martina
name: Gao, Qingsong
name: Ban, Hyoju
name: He, Haijin
name: Mastrobuoni, Guido
name: Kempa, Stefan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10: Figure S3. Analysis of the association of Alp13-GFP with the rDNA region in the indicated strains by ChIP. ChIP assays were performed using an antibody against GFP. act1+ was used as a control.
Physical Activity and Public Health: Four Decades of Progress
Creators: name: Keadle, Sarah K
name: Bustamante, Eduardo
name: Buman, Matthew P
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past 40 years, physical activity (PA) and public health has been established as a field of study. A robust evidence base has emerged demonstrating that participation in recommended amounts of PA results in a wide array of physical and mental health benefits. This led to the establishment of federal and global PA guidelines and surveillance programs. Strong evidence supports the efficacy of individual-level (e.g., goal setting) and environmental (e.g., policies) interventions to promote PA. There has also been progress in establishing a skilled and diverse workforce to execute the work of PA and public health. Looking forward, major challenges include stemming the obesity and chronic disease epidemics, addressing health inequities, and diversifying the workforce. Given the known benefits of PA and the availability of evidence-based interventions, efforts now must focus on implementing this knowledge to improve population health and reduce inequities through PA.
Additional file 11 of Rbm10 facilitates heterochromatin assembly via the Clr6 HDAC complex
Creators: name: Weigt, Martina
name: Gao, Qingsong
name: Ban, Hyoju
name: He, Haijin
name: Mastrobuoni, Guido
name: Kempa, Stefan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Table S8. Strains used in this study.
Additional file 1 of Rbm10 facilitates heterochromatin assembly via the Clr6 HDAC complex
Creators: name: Weigt, Martina
name: Gao, Qingsong
name: Ban, Hyoju
name: He, Haijin
name: Mastrobuoni, Guido
name: Kempa, Stefan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Sequence alignment of fission yeast Rbm10 (YDMD_SCHPO) with Rbm10 orthologs in Callithrix jacchus, human, Macaca mulatta, mouse and rat.
IPBES VA Call for Contributions on Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK)
Creators: name: Sais, Ana Sofia Monroy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
ILK
Chapter 1

description: IPBES Call for Contributions on Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) Code: VA_1.1_Ch1 Version: 01 (22.12.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4390418 Description: The IPBES Plenary, in decision IPBES-5/1, approved an approach to recognizing and working with indigenous and local knowledge in IPBES, giving IPBES an ambitious and ground-breaking process for bringing indigenous and local knowledge to the core of large-scale assessments. On June 12, 2020, a global “call for contributions on Indigenous and Local Knowledge” was launched, in 5 different languages (Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish) to Invite Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) from all over the world to support the three ongoing IPBES assessments: The assessment of the sustainable use of wild species The assessment on diverse conceptualisations of multiple values of nature The assessment of invasive alien species
พันธมิตรธุรกิจวิสาหกิจชุมชนของแม่บ้านทหารบกในจังหวัดชายแดนภาคใต้
Creators: name: ชมพูนุท ศรีพงษ์
name: สันติ อารักษ์คุณากร
name: กนกวรรณ กาญจนธานี
name: ปิยะดา มณีนิล
name: สัสดี กำแพงดี
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: พันธมิตรธุรกิจ
วิสาหกิจชุมชน
แม่บ้านทหารบก

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 159-174
Velmans, Tania, (Dir.), El mundo del ícono desde los orígenes hasta la caída de Bizancio, San Pablo, Madrid, 2003
Creators: name: Sousa, Pio G. Alves De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2004

description: Theologica, v. 39 n. 2 (2004): Europa e cristianismo | No 1.º centenário do nascimento de Karl Rahner
ATLAS Deliverable 9.4: ATLAS outreach educational portfolio
Creators: name: Paterson, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The ATLAS outreach educational portfolio has been developed to facilitate the promotion of the ATLAS project and disseminate the project’s objectives and findings to a variety of stakeholders and possible end-users, especially educators. It will contribute to the Atlantic Action Plan initiatives on Ocean Literacy with new exciting and dynamic outreach resources based on the project activities. The intended use of the portfolio is to encourage and support citizen-focused outreach activities which ensure engagement with European Citizens. Dissemination of the portfolio to other outreach organisations will ensure maximum uptake and impact. See also https://zenodo.org/record/2652408#.Xk-tkGj7Q2y
Enjoyment of Physical Activity—Not MVPA during Physical Education—Predicts Future MVPA Participation and Sport Self-Concept
Creators: name: Ramer, Jared D
name: Houser, Natalie E
name: Duncan, Robert J
name: Bustamante, Eduardo
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There exists a general understanding that physical education (PE) is a means to create a physically healthy population. However, disagreements arise over primary practices within PE to achieve this end. The primary divergence is whether PE facilitators should primarily ensure participants exert a specific level of energy during class or develop their confidence, competence, knowledge, and motivation for meaningful physical activity (PA) participation outside of the PE classroom (referred to as physical literacy (PL)). This study uses structural equation modeling to examine associations between enjoyment of PA and minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in PE class in grade 5 (mean age = 10) and participation in PA and feelings about PA 1 year later, in grade 6 (mean age = 11), in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD, N = 1364). Enjoyment of PA in grade 5 predicted sport self-concept (β = 0.347, p ≤ 0.001), MVPA (β = 0.12, p ≤ 0.001), and enjoyment of PA (β = 0.538, p ≤ 0.001) in grade 6. These associations remained when including weekday MVPA performed in grade 5 as an indirect effect (β = 0.058, p ≤ 0.001). MVPA performed during PE in grade 5 was not associated with any PA outcomes in grade 6. Findings suggest PE instructors should prioritize PL development over maintenance of high energy expenditure during PE class for long-term MVPA.
Additional file 1 of Correcting batch effects in large-scale multiomics studies using a reference-material-based ratio method
Creators: name: Yu, Ying
name: Zhang, Naixin
name: Mai, Yuanbang
name: Ren, Luyao
name: Chen, Qiaochu
name: Cao, Zehui
name: Chen, Qingwang
name: Liu, Yaqing
name: Hou, Wanwan
name: Yang, Jingcheng
name: Hong, Huixiao
name: Xu, Joshua
name: Tong, Weida
name: Dong, Lianhua
name: Shi, Leming
name: Fang, Xiang
name: Zheng, Yuanting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Diversity of quality of original datasets. Fig. S2. tSNE plots based on different batch-effect correction methods. Fig. S3. Workflow of construction of reference fold change and reference differentially expressed features. Fig. S4. Evaluation of the performances of BECAs using sensitivity, specificity, precision, and Jaccard Index of identification of differentially expressed features. Fig. S5. Matthews Correlation Coefficient of identification of differentially expressed features using with or without controlling multi-testing methods. Fig. S6. Evaluation of the performances of BECAs based on model prediction results. Fig. S7. SNR of the ratio-based method under different data quality scenarios by introducing different levels of noise to the reference samples. Fig. S8. SNR of the ratio-based method under different data quality scenarios by artificially reducing expression level of some genes in the reference samples.
A word in the hand: Live audience demonstration of lexical priming using finger clicking (DIY Guide)
Creators: name: Styles, Suzy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The topic of this DIY Guide is Lexical Priming: A method in psycholinguistics that shows relationships between words in the mental lexicon. Follow the instructions and you can demonstrate the phenomenon to a live audience.

This demonstration was created by Developmental Psycholinguist Suzy J Styles when she was a Career Development Fellow at the Department of experimental Psychology and St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. She has been using the demo for around 10 years, in undergraduate lectures, as well as public science demonstration for adults and high-school students. It always works so long as there are at least 10 willing participants in the room. There is always much laughter.
title: A Pathway to Solving the Structure of cl-Par-4 Tumor Suppressor Protein: Challenges & Findings
Creators: name: Raut, Krishna
name: Pandey, Samjhana
name: Clark, Andrea M.
name: Ponniah, Komala
name: Pascal, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Prostate apoptosis response-4 (Par-4) is a pro-apoptotic tumor suppressor protein. Down-regulation of this protein has been reported in a myriad of cancers. Conversely, up-regulation of Par-4 is found to be associated with several neurodegenerative disorders. Par-4 is unique in the sense it can selectively induce apoptosis in cancer cells. For this, caspase-dependent intracellular cleavage of Par-4 is essential to produce the functionally active fragment, cl-Par-4 (caspase-cleaved Par-4). The cl-Par-4 protein inhibits the NF-κB-mediated cell survival pathway and causes selective apoptosis in various tumor cells.

Our laboratory is interested in determining the structure of cl-Par-4 and understanding it’s interaction with various proteins. Currently, we are using biophysical techniques such as circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering (DLS), and SDS-PAGE to characterize the structure of cl-Par-4 in the presence of various concentrations of monovalent and divalent ions, in order to shed light on the possible ion-specific role of cl-Par-4 in inducing structure and self-association of this protein. Results show that effects on cl-Par-4 conformation are ion-specific, and effects of divalent cations are considerably more pronounced than effects from monovalent cations. We have also found that the cl-Par-4 shows a better stability in presence of Cl- ions than in presence of SO42- ions. Further, with the help of D313K mutant of cl-Par-4, we investigated that charge-charge repulsion between similar charged amino acid residues in leucine zipper is responsible for high salt at neutral pH or low salt at low pH requirement of cl-Par-4. All these findings will be helpful in getting the structured conformation of cl-Par-4 and, therefore, determining the structure of this protein via X-ray crystallography or via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
การพัฒนาการท่องเที่ยวเชิงนิเวศศูนย์ศึกษาเรียนรู้ระบบนิเวศ ป่าชายเลนสิรินาถราชินี อำเภอปราณบุรี จังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์
Creators: name: อุมาพร บุญเพชรแก้ว
name: อิสระพงษ์ พลธานี
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: การท่องเที่ยวเชิงนิเวศ
ศูนย์ศึกษาเรียนรู้ระบบนิเวศป่าชายเลนสิรินาถราชินี
ปราณบุรี
จังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 175-193
Additional file 9 of Rbm10 facilitates heterochromatin assembly via the Clr6 HDAC complex
Creators: name: Weigt, Martina
name: Gao, Qingsong
name: Ban, Hyoju
name: He, Haijin
name: Mastrobuoni, Guido
name: Kempa, Stefan
name: Chen, Wei
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S2. Western blot analysis of indicated cells expressing Alp13-GFP using an anti-GFP antibody. Ponceau staining was used as a loading control.
title: The OMC Processes in the Health Care Field: What Does Coordination Really Mean?
Creators: name: De La Rosa, Stéphane
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: open method of coordination
subject: health policies
subject: new modes of governance
subject: policy coordination
subject: economic governance
subject: soft law

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 215-234
description: I. Introduction. - II. General challenges for legal analysis of the Open Method of Coordination. - II.1. The OMC and the specificities of EU legal system. - II.2. A trend toward fewer OMC references.- III. The evolution of OMC in the European legal system: From light to shadow. - III.1. Recognition of a legal basis for the OMC in the field of health care. - III.2. Dilution of the OMC in the context of deepening European economic governance. - IV. The revival of the OMC in health care. - IV.1. Endorsement of common indicators. - IV.2. Incorporation of OMC features within secondary law. - IV.3. The OMC's rationale within partnership programs. - V. Conclusion.
description: More than fifteen years after the introduction of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), it is necessary to assess the practical implementation of this tool. It is a subject of major interest that has inspired numerous studies in the framework of the Lisbon Strategy, but the attention focused on the OMC has diminished during the past few years, particularly with the deepening of the economic governance of the EU. This trend needs to be addressed in order to understand the actual meaning of the OMC and its relationship to the main features of EU law. The policy field of public health is an appropriate approach for a retrospective assessment of the OMC. Originally conceived as a single method, designed to promote flexible convergence on general objectives concerning the sustainability and quality of care, policy coordination in the health care field has gradually become more complex. It has now become more appropriate to consider several processes of coordination, each one with its own rationale, rather than a single method which can be qualified as an "OMC". This Article discusses this evolution.
Test battery for measuring the perception and recognition of facial expressions of emotion
Creators: name: Wilhelm, Oliver
name: Hildebrandt, Andrea
name: Manske, Karsten
name: Schacht, Annekathrin
name: Sommer, Werner
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: emotion perception
subject: emotion recognition
subject: individual differences
subject: psychometrics
subject: facial expression
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Despite the importance of perceiving and recognizing facial expressions in everyday life, there is no comprehensive test battery for the multivariate assessment of these abilities. As a first step toward such a compilation, we present 16 tasks that measure the perception and recognition of facial emotion expressions, and data illustrating each task's difficulty and reliability. The scoring of these tasks focuses on either the speed or accuracy of performance. A sample of 269 healthy young adults completed all tasks. In general, accuracy and reaction time measures for emotion-general scores showed acceptable and high estimates of internal consistency and factor reliability. Emotion-specific scores yielded lower reliabilities, yet high enough to encourage further studies with such measures. Analyses of task difficulty revealed that all tasks are suitable for measuring emotion perception and emotion recognition related abilities in normal populations.
title: The Iran Nuclear Deal and the Future of the European Foreign Policy
Creators: name: Cannizzaro, Enzo
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: nuclear deal
subject: non-binding agreements
subject: EU foreign policy
subject: treaty termination
subject: Iran
subject: values of the EU

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 3-5
description: Among the reactions to the decision of the US Presidency to withdraw from the Joint and Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a declaration by the High Representative released on 8 May 2018 stands out for its legal and political relevance. The High Representative went on by saying: "the nuclear deal is not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to terminate it unilaterally". In these sentences, the High Representative distilled some basic assumptions on the nature and effect of the Deal. First, this document has the nature of an agreement governed by international law; second, it is a multilateral agreement designed to pursue collective objectives; third, the EU has a legal interest in its implementation and is entitled to claim compliance with it. These assumptions shape the direction of EU foreign policy vis-à-vis the divergent course of the US administration. More generally, they unveil the determination of the EU to play an active role in the troubled context of the Middle East, in accordance with the principles and values that inspire its external action under the founding treaties. Although sometimes presented as a mere political understanding, the Nuclear Deal appears rather to be a legal document. It is based on the common consent of its parties and formulates reciprocal commitments aimed at settling a long dispute on the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program. As pointed out by the High Representative, only a breach of its commitments by Iran may justify a corresponding breach by the other parties. Beyond this political paradox, the idea that the legal nature of an agreement in international law depends upon the domestic procedure followed for its conclusion appears to be misplaced. The multilateral character of the Deal makes it difficult for the US to justify its unilateral repudiation. By pointing out the illegality of the repudiation of the Nuclear Deal by the US, the declaration of the High Representative seems to announce a confrontation with the Trump administration to be held on the legal terrain. For a number of reasons, this appears to be a felicitous decision.
title: Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses: The Court of Justice and Athena's Dilemma
Creators: name: Krajewski, Michał
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: rule of law
subject: effective judicial protection
subject: judicial system
subject: national courts
subject: judicial independence
subject: the Court of Justice

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 395-407
description: European Forum Insight of 30 May 2018
description: I. Athena's dilemma. - II. The case of Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses. - II.1. The facts and the preliminary reference. - II.2. The opinion of Advocate General. - II.3. The judgment of the Court. - III. Analysis: The relationship between Art. 19, para. 1, TEU and Art. 47 of the Charter. - III.1. The enforceable rule of law clause in the EU Treaties. - III.2. The objective principle of judicial independence and the subjective right to an independent judge. - IV. Enforcing the rule of law towards EU Member States.
description: This Insight comments on the recent judgment of the Court of Justice in Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses (judgment of 27 February 2018, case C-64/16). The Court took advantage of this case to emphasise the potential of EU law to consolidate and defend the rule of law structures in the Member States. The Court discovered a justiciable rule of law clause in Art. 19, para. 1, TEU, which enshrines the principle of effective judicial protection before national courts. This provision makes the enforcement of rule of law standards vis-à-vis the Member States more straightforward as compared to the enforcement of Art. 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. In the future, Art. 19, para. 1, TEU could be enforced by means of infringement proceedings under Art. 268 TFEU to counteract the undermining of judicial independence at the national level.
Essential Self-adjointness of Symmetric First-Order Differential Systems and Confinement of Dirac Particles on Bounded Domains in Rd
Creators: name: Nenciu, Gheorghe
name: Nenciu, Irina
name: Obermeyer, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Quantum Mechanics

description: We prove essential self-adjointness of Dirac operators with Lorentz scalar potentials which grow sufficiently fast near the boundary ∂Ω of the spatial domain Ω ⊂ Rd. On the way, we first consider general symmetric first order differential systems, for which we identify a new, large class of potentials, called scalar potentials, ensuring essential self-adjointness. Furthermore, using the supersymmetric structure of the Dirac operator in the two dimensional case, we prove confinement of Dirac particles, i.e. essential self-adjointness of the operator, solely by magnetic fields B assumed to grow, near ∂Ω , faster than 1 / (2 dist (x, ∂Ω) 2).
New complexes of Zn(II) with the anti-inflammatory non-steroidal drug, ibuprofen and nitrogen donor ligands. Synthesis, characterization and biological activity
Creators: name: Omar, Suhad N.
name: Hijazi Abu Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Complexes of [Zn(ibup)2(4,4′-bipy)]n 1, [Zn(ibup)2(phen)] 2, [Zn(ibup)2(2,9-dmphen)] 3, [Zn(ibup)2(1,2-dmimidazole)2] 4, and [Zn(ibup)2(2-am-6-picoline)2] 5 (ibu = ibuprofen, 4,4′-bipy = 4,4′-bipypyridine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, 2,9-dmephen = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline, 1,2-dmimidazole = 1,2-dimethylimidazole, and 2-am-6-picoline = 2-amino-6-picoline) were prepared and characterized. The crystal structure of 1 was determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The in vitro anti-bacterial activities for the complexes against Gram-positive (Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis) and Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia and Proteus mirabilis) bacteria were done using the agar well-diffusion method. Complexes 1–3 showed anti-bacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria, while 4 and 5 did not exhibit anti-bacterial activity. Complexes 2 and 3 were selected for further studies. Complexation of zinc-ibuprofen with phen as in 2 decreased the anti-bacterial activity against most of the bacteria used. The complexation in 3 decreased the anti-bacterial activity in Gram-positive bacteria but for Gram-negative bacteria, the overall anti-bacterial activity of uncoordinated 2,9-dmphen was enhanced upon coordination with zinc ibuprofen.
Additional file 3 of Time-dependent effect of 1,6-hexanediol on biomolecular condensates and 3D chromatin organization
Creators: name: Liu, Xinyi
name: Jiang, Shaoshuai
name: Ma, Lin
name: Qu, Jiale
name: Zhao, Longying
name: Zhu, Xing
name: Ding, Junjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 3:. Review history.
Influence of roasting on the chemopreventive potential of in vitro fermented almonds in LT97 colon adenoma cells
Creators: name: Schlörmann, Wiebke
name: Fischer, Sonja
name: Saupe, Christian
name: Dinc, Tülin
name: Lorkowski, Stefan
name: Glei, Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The consumption of almonds may contribute to the prevention of colon cancer due to their unique composition of health promoting compounds. Since almonds are often consumed roasted, the impact of different roasting (R) conditions (R1 = 139.2 °C/25 min, R2 = 161.5 °C/20 min and R3 = 170.8 °C/15 min) on chemopreventive effects of in vitro-fermented almonds was analysed in LT97 colon adenoma cells. Fermentation supernatants (FS) of raw and roasted almonds had no genotoxic effects. FS obtained from raw or mildly roasted almonds (R1) significantly increased mRNA levels of CAT (4.6-fold), SOD2 (5.6-fold) and GSTP1 (3.9-fold) but not of GPx1. FS of almonds significantly reduced the growth of LT97 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. Treatment with 5% almonds FS increased the number of early apoptotic cells (17.4%, on average) and caspase-3 activity (4.9-fold, on average). The results indicate a chemopreventive potential of in vitro-fermented almonds which is largely independent of the roasting process.
Tax Evasion in a Corrupt Economy
Creators: name: Ginting, Edimon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Tax evasion has been studied intensively in the context of developed countries in which the institutional environment assumes a pervasive respect for the rule of law. In many developing nations such an assumption is not warranted. The objective of this paper is to develop a model of tax evasion apposite to an institutional set up in which corruption is endemic. The services of corrupt intermediaries are required by otherwise legitimate producers in order to navigate the informal 'laws' put in place by rent seekers with good connections. The model developed here posits a service providing industry which produces legitimate public services and corrupt intermediation as joint products which exploit economies of scope available to senior bureaucrats. The model can be used in various ways; in this paper a cut in the tax rate on income from capital is examined. Under certain conditions such a cut can lead to increased government revenue, giving a new explanation of how a kind of Laffer curve may operate in economies with endemic corruption.
title: Regulation of Sport Activities and Right to Respect to Private Life Under the European Convention on Human Rights
Creators: name: Bestagno, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: sport activities
subject: European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
subject: right to respect for private life
subject: anti-doping controls
subject: sport professional activities
subject: sport professionals' right

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 327-336
description: European Forum Insight of 30 May 2018
description: I. Introduction. - II. The FNASS and others v. France case. - III. The European Court's case-law on sport activities. - III.1. Regulation of sport events and sport professionals' right to respect for private life. - III.2. Sport activities as a means to express one's own personal identity. - IV. Concluding remarks: the relevance of the leisure nature of sport activities in the European Court's approach.
description: In Fédération Nationale des Syndicats Sportifs (FNASS) and others v. France (judgment of 18 January 2018, no. 48151/11 and 77769/13), the European Court of Human Rights assessed the compatibility between the right to private and family life and a French Order regulating unannounced anti-doping controls for sport professionals. According to the European Court of Human Rights, the impact of the disputed regulation on sport professionals' right to private life is not disproportionate with respect to the legitimate necessity to protect public health and assure fairness and equality of opportunities among sport competitors. This decision confirms a specific approach characterising the, albeit limited, case-law elaborated by the European Court of Human Rights on the interplay between sport activities, on one hand, and the right to respect for private and family life, on the other. The European Court of Human Rights tends to highlight the leisure nature of sport activities more than the interests on the part of sport professionals. In relation to professional sport activities, the balancing test seems to place emphasis on public interest linked with the regulation of sport competitions more than on the right to privacy of sport professionals. Instead, when sport activities come into play in relation to their leisure nature, the European Court of Human Rights deeply stresses their importance as a means allowing persons to develop social relations and express personal identity.
MCMC diagnostics for higher dimensions using Kullback Leibler divergence
Creators: name: Dixit, Anand
name: Vivekananda Roy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: In the existing literature of MCMC diagnostics, we have identified two areas for improvement. Firstly, the density-based diagnostic tools currently available in the literature are not equipped to assess the joint convergence of multiple variables. Secondly, in case of multi-modal target distribution if the MCMC sampler gets stuck in one of the modes, then the current diagnostic tools may falsely detect convergence. The Tool 1 proposed in this article makes use of adaptive kernel density estimation, symmetric Kullback Leibler divergence and a testing of hypothesis framework to assess the joint convergence of multiple variables. In cases where Tool 1 detects divergence of multiple chains, started at distinct initial values, we propose a visualization tool that can help to investigate reasons behind their divergence. The Tool 2 proposed in this article makes a novel use of the target distribution (known up till the unknown normalizing constant), to detect divergence when an MCMC sampler gets stuck in one of the modes of a multi-modal target distribution. The usefulness of the tools proposed in this article is illustrated using a multi-modal distribution, a mixture of bivariate normal distribution and a Bayesian logit model example.
Additional file 2 of Correcting batch effects in large-scale multiomics studies using a reference-material-based ratio method
Creators: name: Yu, Ying
name: Zhang, Naixin
name: Mai, Yuanbang
name: Ren, Luyao
name: Chen, Qiaochu
name: Cao, Zehui
name: Chen, Qingwang
name: Liu, Yaqing
name: Hou, Wanwan
name: Yang, Jingcheng
name: Hong, Huixiao
name: Xu, Joshua
name: Tong, Weida
name: Dong, Lianhua
name: Shi, Leming
name: Fang, Xiang
name: Zheng, Yuanting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Review history.
title: It Is not Just About Investor-State Arbitration: A Look at Case C-284/16, Achmea BV
Creators: name: Gáspár-Szilágyi, Szilárd
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Court of Justice
subject: intra-EU BIT
subject: investor-state arbitration
subject: Art. 344 TFEU
subject: Art. 267 TFEU
subject: Multilateral Investment Court

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(1), 357-373
description: European Forum Insight of 30 May 2018
description: I. The "context". - II. The background of the case. - III. The Court of Justice sticks to its case law. - IV. Achmea and the court's case law on other international tribunals. - IV.1. A real risk of interpreting and applying EU law. - IV.2. Setting new limits for Art. 344 TFEU. - IV.3. Not a "court or tribunal of a Member State" under Art. 267 TFEU. - IV.4. Nothing on Art. 18 TFEU. - V. Achmea and its implications for the EU's investment law and policy. - V.1. What about ISTs with Third Countries? - V.2. What about pending and future arbitral proceedings? - VI. Conclusions.
description: In the much-awaited Achmea judgment (of 6 March 2018, case C-284/16 [GC]), the Court of Justice held that investor-state tribunals (ISTs), "such as" the one under the Netherlands-Slovakia intra-EU bilateral investment treaty (BIT) are incompatible with EU law. In this arguably short judgment, the Court of Justice consolidated its attitude towards the relationship between other international courts and the EU legal order; it set new limits to Art. 344 TFEU; and, it expanded its list of tribunals that do not qualify as Member State courts or tribunals under Art. 267 TFEU. Nonetheless, whilst the Commission can rejoice that it can now clearly oblige Member States to terminate their intra-EU BITs, Achmea sends some worrying signals. The future of ISTs under Member State BITs with third countries is uncertain; so is the viability of the Investment Court System under the agreements with Canada and Vietnam, the future of the Multilateral Investment Court, and the overall coherence of the EU's international investment law and policy.
Supplementary Material from Microbiome transfer from native to invasive species may increase invasion risk
Creators: name: Martignoni, Maria M.
name: kolodny, oren
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Martignoni_and_Kolodny_PRSB_2024_ESM.pdf
Environment, Trade and Sustainable Agriculture: Policy Issues
Creators: name: Pillarisetti, J. Ram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The growing environmental, health and ethical concerns associated with chemical-intensive and genetically modified food and agriculture have enhanced the importance of sustainable agriculture. This paper examines the growth in sustainable agriculture and changes in consumer attitudes and government policies towards sustainable production worldwide. Data on several indicators reflect that Australia is lagging behind many OECD countries in developing sustainable agriculture. This paper argues that Australia should aggressively promote itself as 'eco-nation' with strong emphasis on sustainable technologies. This paper also proposes several policies relevant for Australia in developing production and trade in this growth sector.
The Role of Ranking and the Technical Efficiency of Singapore Secondary Schools in the GCE `O' level exam: Using a Distance Function Approach
Creators: name: San, Roland Cheo Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigates two common lines of debate concerning secondary school education in Singapore. The first is whether ranking data released for the top 50 performing secondary schools since 1991 is a true reflection of actual performance by schools. The second is the debate about whether the use of ranking data has actually improved technical efficiency among schools, ie. reducing the variation between schools, due to the transparency of the assessment criteria. Twenty-one secondary schools are evaluated over a rolling four year assessment period from 1991-2001 on their performance in the GCE 'O' level examination.
Relational dynamism: a new entrepreneurial orientation dimension to mesure business performance?
Creators: name: Coulthard, Max
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines the usefulness of Lumpkin and Dess' (1996) Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) construct in measuring performance. A review of four previous exploratory research projects covering different industries in Australia found that the importance of EO dimensions and their relationship with business performance varied between industries. There was a positive correlation between business performance and the dimensions of innovation and proactiveness in all studies. However, the dimensions competitive aggression, risk taking and autonomy varied in importance and over time. The variation in results was partly attributed to the researchers using different definitions for each EO dimension. There was also some contextual bias in dealing with entrepreneurial terms that appeared industry based. All projects identified some limitations in using the EO construct to explain business performance and highlighted issues outside the current dimensions. This review identified another possible EO dimension, which as been defined in the current paper as Relational Dynamism. It is argued that this dimension incorporates issues related to internal and external networks, particularly in regard to building trust and establishing effective contacts.
title: Optical absorption in donor-acceptor polymers : alternating vs. random
Creators: name: Karolewski, Andreas
name: Neubig, Anne
name: Thelakkat, Mukundan
name: Kümmel, Stephan
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 540

description: We investigate in a combined theoretical and experimental study the influence that the specific arrangement, e.g., alternating or random, of donor and acceptor units has on the optical absorption of extended molecules. Because of its important role in low gap polymers we discuss in particular the energetic position of the first electronic transition. We theoretically determine the excitations in extended oligomers with thiophene as the donor and 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole as the acceptor component by using time-dependent density functional theory based on non-empirically tuned range separated hybrid functionals. Corresponding systems are synthesized and theoretical and experimental data are critically compared to each other. We conclude that the influence of the specific arrangement of donor and acceptor monomers on the optical gap is limited and that effects beyond the single molecule level effectively limit the size of the experimentally observed optical gap.
Additional file 10 of Single-cell analysis reveals HBV-specific PD-1+CD8+ TRM cells in tumor borders are associated with HBV-related hepatic damage and fibrosis in HCC patients
Creators: name: Liu, Lulu
name: Liu, Junwei
name: Li, Pan
name: Luo, Jijun
name: Qin, Rui
name: Peng, Qiao
name: Li, Bin
name: Wei, Xuyong
name: Wang, Tian
name: Shi, Hongyu
name: Wang, Ming-Da
name: Li, Chao
name: Fang, Weijia
name: Chen, Wei
name: Xu, Xiao
name: Yang, Tian
name: Yin, Weiwei
name: Zeng, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 10: FigureS3.Correlation of HBV clinical features with immune features. (A) Comparisons ofthe frequencies of major immune subsets across HBV infection and HCC tissues.(B and C) Comparisons of the frequencies of selected meta-clusters between HBV+and HBV- samples in INT (B) and TB (C) tissues. (D) The heatmap of the Spearmancorrelation coefficients between HBV clinical features and immune features inTB tissues, colored by correlation coefficients and for pairs with p-value morethan 0.1 were set to zero. E, The correlation plots between selected HBVclinical features and immune features as in (D). Two-way ANOVA test was used in(A), with *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001.
Endogenous Power, Household Expenditure Patterns and Gender Bias
Creators: name: Lancaster, Geoffrey
name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Ray, Ranjan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The collective approach to household behaviour models the household utility function as the weighted average of the utilities of the individual members of the household. These weights, which measure the relative bargaining power of males and females within the household, are generally regarded as fixed and exogenous. The paper extends the collective approach and estimates a model where the weights are endogenously determined. Estimation is conducted using two different data sets from three Indian states. The paper presents evidence on the key determinants of relative power within the household. We find that relative bargaining power has a statistically significant effect on the budget share of an item and that the effects are typically nonlinear and vary significantly across items. We also find evidence of significant gender bias in educational attainment with the bias running in favour of boys in rural Bihar (indicative of active gender differentiation against girls in that parents are unwilling to spend as much on educating girls as they are for boys). The gender bias actually runs the other way in rural Kerala. There is no gender difference in education expenditure in urban samples. This paper departs from the previous literature in being one of the first to find, using household budget data, significant evidence of gender bias in household spending on education.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ANTI-CORRUPTION "COMPLIANCE-CONTROL" SYSTEM IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR
Creators: name: Nabiyev, Bexruz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A number of standards and recommendations have been adopted to regulate the “compliance-control” system in the field of combating corruption in the private sector from an international legal perspective. These standards focus primarily on the timely identification of corruption risks in the private sector, and then on the activities of state agencies and organizations, their prevention, ensuring openness and transparency, and timely elimination of corruption-related offenses by improving internal departmental control mechanisms.