cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating the impact of changing inhaler color on perception of symptoms and disease burden in patients with asthma: the FEEL study
Creators: name: Blasi, Francesco
name: D’Amato, Maria
name: Patella, Vincenzo
name: Topole, Eva
name: Bucchioni, Enrica
name: Martini, Matteo
name: Geraci, Silvia
name: Grapin, Frédérique
name: Van der Deijl, Marielle
name: Colloca, Luana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Patient perception of treatment effectiveness is key to optimizing adherence. This is potentially impacted by color, yet no such studies have been conducted in asthma. This study assessed the influence of pink vs. white pressurized metered-dose inhaler (pMDI) actuators on asthma symptoms perception. In this double-blind, randomized, multicenter, crossover study, adults with moderate-to-severe asthma received extrafine formulation beclomethasone dipropionate/formoterol furoate (BDP/FF) pMDI for a 2-week run-in. During two, 2-week treatment periods they received BDP/FF pMDI, white in one, pink in the other, using an ‘authorized deception’ approach (patients were told the inhalers contained the same active ingredients, but device characteristics differed). Endpoints included patient-reported asthma symptoms and psychopharmacological aspects (prior to use: did patients expect an improvement; after use: did they think there had been an improvement; both on 100-point visual analog scales [VAS]). Of 74 patients analyzed, 72 completed the study. There were no statistically significant differences between inhalers for asthma symptoms, with minimal changes from baseline. Patients were numerically more likely to expect symptoms improvement with the white than pink inhaler (mean VAS 64.5 vs. 60.8). Perceived improvements were lower than expected with both, numerically favoring the pink inhaler (mean VAS 41.1 vs. 44.6); 46.6% believed a change had been made, 51.9% of whom believed this impacted symptoms. Changing inhaler color had no impact on asthma symptoms, but did have a numerical impact on patients’ expectations of subsequent treatment effect. This emphasizes the importance of communication between patients and healthcare practitioners when changing inhalers.
Migrant Remittances and Economic Growth: The Nigerian Perspective
Creators: name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: John, John
name: Udoka, Prof. Chris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Foreign workers
subject: Migrant remittances
subject: Economic development

description: This study focused on diaspora remittances and its effect on economic growth in Nigeria. It sought to assess the signification of diaspora remittances, and to suggest measures that could enhance its effectiveness and economic growth in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the research, some macroeconomic indicators in the Nigerian economy were evaluated using an ex-post facto research design. The data were collected, analyzed and tested using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple. From the analysis, it was revealed that there was a significant relationship between total remittances and gross domestic product in Nigeria. Furthermore, workers remittance was found to have an insignificant effect on gross domestic product in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that total remittance distribution should always be backed by predictable, sound, and proportionate regulatory framework, in order to stimulate the participation of reputable international financial organizations via risk management practices and good governance. Also, the government of Nigeria should work towards creating a conducive environment that will attract international remittances. Thus, the establishment of migrant office in the Federal and State Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with branches nation-wide, will be a good step in the right direction in boosting workers remittance.
Impact of Banking Sector Reforms on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Creators: name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: Ocheni, Stephen
name: Okoi, Innocent
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Corporations--Finance
subject: Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England)

description: The study empirically examined the impact of banking sector reforms on economic growth in Nigeria using the annual time series data for forty six years (1970-2015). The major objective of the study was to examine how banking sector reforms impact on economic growth in Nigeria. The design of the study was ex-post facto and desk research design. Data for the study were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin and International Monetary Fund (IMF) journals. The study was based on Financial Repression Hypothesis (FRH) by Mckinnon and Shaw (1973. The data  here analyzed using Johnansen cointegration test and Granger-causality test for the period 1970 – 2015. Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) test was adopted in the study. From the ARDL test results, it was found that interest rate spread (INRS) was correctly signed in the model and adequately predictive of economic growth indicator studied while other exogenous variables {exchange rate (EXR), bank capital base (BCAB) and corporate governance disclosure index (CGDI)} studied did not impact positively on gross domestic product growth in Nigeria. The ARDL bound test revealed the existence of a long-run relationship among these variables. The speed of adjustment parameter as indicated by the coefficient of the Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) was significant with appropriate negative sign. The study concluded by recommending that, the policy of deposit and lending rate should be made reasonable as smaller spread between savings and deposits rates influences efficient financial intermediation. Finally, since corporate governance disclosure is seen as an indicator of the company’s openness index, companies should always make full disclosure, thereby not withholding any relevant information to external stakeholders.
The Effect of External Debt on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Creators: name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: John, John
name: Okon, Effiong
name: Udoka, Prof Chris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Debts, External
subject: Endogenous growth (Economics)

description: This study focused on the effect of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria. It sought to assess the significance of external debt, and to suggest measures that could enhance its effectiveness and economic growth in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the research, some macroeconomic indicators in the Nigerian economy, using an ex-post facto research design were applied. The data were collected, analyzed and tested using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple. From the analysis, it was revealed that there is an insignificant relationship between external debt stock and gross domestic product in Nigeria. Furthermore, external debt service cost has a significant impact on gross domestic product in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended that external debt finance should be channeled to only projects with the highest priority. In doing so, defining the purpose, duration, moratorium requirements and commitments, negotiation fees, etc, including the conditions under which the government can approve and guarantee external loans. Also, one superior method of negotiation should be maintained by the government for varying amortization and fixed interest payment. Also, multi-year rescheduling should be adopted, rather than the year-by-year approach.
Leasing: A Critical Financing Option in the Nigerian Financial Arena
Creators: name: Agom, Theresa
name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: John, John
name: Udoka, Prof Chris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022

description: The study examined the effect of lease financing on the performance of quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria for the period - 2009 to 2018. Specifically, the study assesses the effect of finance or capital lease, leveraged lease and the moderating effect of firm size on lease financing and performance of consumer goods companies. It also employed historical research design in investigating cause and effect relationship among the variables. Using Desk Survey Method, data were collated from Annual Reports and Accounts of the companies. The Ordinary Least Square (OLS) Multiple Regression Technique, as well as descriptive statistics, was employed in the analysis of data. Pre-tests such as Panel Unit Root test and Johansen/Fisher combined co-integration were adopted to check the presence of non-stationary and long-run relationship respectively. Vector Auto Regressive Lag and Panel Vector Error Correction Model were also employed to address the issue of short-run and long-run dynamics. Estimated results showed that finance lease had a significant positive effect on the performance of quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria. Leveraged lease and firm size exerted a significant negative effect on the performance of quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria. Based on the results, it was recommended amongst other things that the amount of debt used in the firm capital mix should be proportionate to the size of the firm in terms of its assets and capacity to produce consumer goods. Also, firms should reduce the use of finance or capital lease as a financing option given the overall negative effect of lease financing on the performance of consumer goods companies in Nigeria; and rather adopt the use of operating lease which has an overall significant positive effect, especially in the short run.
Export-Import Misalignment and Gross Fixed Capital Formation in Nigeria
Creators: name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: John, John
name: Okon, Effiong
name: Udoka, Prof Chris
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Investments, Foreign

description: This study examines export-import misalignment and gross fixed capital formation in Nigeria. Three variables are used and myriad of control variables, spanning the period of 1981-2020. The model was tested with several econometrics and statistical instruments. The results from the findings indicates that, export-import misalignment has a negative and an insignificant impact on gross fixed capital formation, however, export and import impact gross fixed capital formation differently. There was a 30.3% threshold evidence as indicated in the F-statistics value in the model. We recommend that, the federal government of Nigeria should reprioritize her needs. They should spend more on capital expenditures as against the current trend of 68:32% allocations to recurrent and capital expenditures respectively. Efforts must be made to mobilize the desired level of gross national savings that could be big enough to attract foreign direct investments as FDI will help to complement our domestic savings. Government should work on her potentially exportable commodities. The proceeds should be utilized in the importation of needed technical tools and components. Basic infrastructures like good roads, electricity supply and security must be seen to be adequate. This will help to reduce the drudgeries currently being faced by manufacturers. Efforts should be geared towards a reduction in exchange rate distortion, volatility and general mismanagement. Policy formulators in Nigeria need to enact some investor friendly policies that will encourage, promote and attract more capital inflows (Be it official or private inflows) and provide a conducive and enabling environment for gross fixed capital formation to thrive. There is need to play down on speculative businesses and to invest into the real sectors of the economy.
lesser saints, on 24 January in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Neocaesarea, Africa, Ravenna, and elsewhere
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 24 January in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Neocaesarea, Africa, Ravenna, and elsewhere.
Discourse Analysis of Binary Thinking in Urdu Novel
Creators: name: Naeem, Muhammad
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Critical discourse analysis
subject: Novels

description: Binary thinking is a way of understanding the world around. It is used to oversimplify the complex situations and reality. Dichotomous way of thinking usually uses an innate hierarchy of the two objects or situations it makes binary of. Urdu Novel since its inception used binary opposites to foreground the characters it likes or dislikes. In this article Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used as a method to underscore the binary thinking in Urdu Novel. The article maps the social conditions of discourse and shows how these conditions were determining the discourse of Urdu Novel. Urdu Novel made many binaries of characters, social categories and race etc. Only two binaries, i.e. same gender and race are analyzed here
lesser saints, on 3 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Sicily, Nicomedia, Mysia (Asia Minor), and Tomis (Black Sea coast)
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 3 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Sicily, Nicomedia, Mysia (Asia Minor), and Tomis (Black Sea coast).
Caseyidae Verhoeff 1909
Creators: name: Shear, William A.
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Caseyidae

description: Family Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909
Caseyidae: Verhoeff 1909: 567; Cook & Collins 1895:68; Chamberlin, 1941a: 22, 1941b: 10, 1947: 9, 1951:8, 1952: 2; Causey, 1952: 113, 1954: 81, 1955: 90, 1963: 193; Loomis, 1966: 225; Shear, 1972: 258, 2011: 51, 2021: 109, Shear & Crawford, 2019: 575; Shear & Leonard, 2007: 24; Gardner & Shelley, 1989: 185; Shelley, 1993: 168; Shelley et al., 2007: 14.
description: Published as part of Shear, William A. & Marek, Paul E., 2025, Additions to the millipede family Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909. IV. Two new genera and three new species (Chordeumatida, Striarioidea, Caseyidae), pp. 533-547 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15371308
Additional file 5 of Identification and characterization of circular RNAs involved in the fertility stability of cotton CMS-D2 restorer line under heat stress
Creators: name: Wang, Ruijie
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Wang, Hui
name: Chen, Liangliang
name: Zhang, Xuexian
name: Guo, Liping
name: Qi, Tingxiang
name: Tang, Huini
name: Shahzad, Kashif
name: Wang, Hailin
name: Qiao, Xiuqin
name: Wu, Jianyong
name: Xing, Chaozhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S2. The qRT-PCR analysis of the relative expression levels of two exonic DECs and their corresponding parental genes in pollen of NH and SH under HT. (A) The relative expression levels of circRNA26 and its parental gene KMS1. (B) The relative expression levels of circRNA146 and its parental gene METE. GhActin is used as an internal reference gene for normalization. Values are shown as the means ± SD, and the error bars represent the SD of the mean of 2–ΔΔCt with three biological replicates, with NH pollen as a control. Asterisks indicate statistically significant differences between NH and SH (**P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001, Student t-test).
Honors Course Syllabus - St. Louis, MO: Gateway to Racial Inequality and Social Justice Activism
Creators: name: A. Hutchins, Ph.D., Jessica
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Universities and colleges--Honors courses
subject: Social justice--Study and teaching
subject: Missouri--Saint Louis
subject: Interdisciplinary approach in education
subject: Missouri--Ferguson
subject: Race discrimination
subject: African Americans--Civil rights
subject: Black lives matter movement
subject: Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014

description: This 1-credit short course examines social justice through the history of the “Gateway City” of St. Louis, MO. St. Louis ranks among the most segregated cities in the United States and has one of the highest rates of police shootings per capita. The city has also been a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, with the 2014 killing of Michael Brown igniting a wave of protests and activism. Consequently, “Ferguson” has become both synonym and symbol of entrenched racial injustice, as well as political and equity activism, in contemporary America. To better understand the structures of power and ideology that have led to these events, we will read The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by historian Walter Johnson. Through our reading of history and engagement with contemporary issues in the city, we will discuss the roots of American racial and economic injustice, questions of personal identity in relation to power structures, and options for dismantling structures of injustice and building a more equitable world.
Honors Course Syllabus - St. Louis, MO: Gateway to Racial Inequality and Social Justice Activism
Creators: name: A. Hutchins, Ph.D., Jessica
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Missouri--Ferguson
subject: Brown, Michael, Jr., 1996-2014
subject: Social justice--Study and teaching
subject: Missouri--Saint Louis
subject: African Americans--Civil rights
subject: Interdisciplinary approach in education
subject: Race discrimination
subject: Black lives matter movement
subject: Universities and colleges--Honors courses

description: This 1-credit short course examines social justice through the history of the "Gateway City" of St. Louis, MO. St. Louis ranks among the most segregated cities in the United States and has one of the highest rates of police shootings per capita. The city has also been a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, with the 2014 killing of Michael Brown igniting a wave of protests and activism. Consequently, "Ferguson" has become both synonym and symbol of entrenched racial injustice, as well as political and equity activism, in contemporary America. To better understand the structures of power and ideology that have led to these events, we will read The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by historian Walter Johnson. Through our reading of history and engagement with contemporary issues in the city, we will discuss the roots of American racial and economic injustice, questions of personal identity in relation to power structures, and options for dismantling structures of injustice and building a more equitable world.
lesser saints, on 6 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Nicomedia, Sirmium, Africa, Alexandria, Lybia superior (north Africa)
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 6 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Nicomedia, Sirmium, Africa, Alexandria, Lybia superior (north Africa).
Additional file 8 of Identification and characterization of circular RNAs involved in the fertility stability of cotton CMS-D2 restorer line under heat stress
Creators: name: Wang, Ruijie
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Wang, Hui
name: Chen, Liangliang
name: Zhang, Xuexian
name: Guo, Liping
name: Qi, Tingxiang
name: Tang, Huini
name: Shahzad, Kashif
name: Wang, Hailin
name: Qiao, Xiuqin
name: Wu, Jianyong
name: Xing, Chaozhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Original, unprocessed full-length gel and blot images used in this study.
Texaco Wiki - A Knowledge Base on the Novel Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Creators: HC User
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Postcolonialism in literature
subject: Francophone cultures and literatures
subject: Chamoiseau, Patrick
subject: Globalization
subject: Teaching--Aids and devices
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: This website provides contextual information and interpretations of the novel Texaco by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau. It was started in spring 2022 as a collaborative project by students in the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in conjunction with the course Honors 200-008: Caribbean Crucible of Globalization taught by Dr. Jessica Hutchins.  In this section of Honors 200, we examine the Caribbean as both an engine and test-bed of globalization, considering how the movement of people, goods, languages, and ideas have shaped the history and culture of this unique region. We analyze the tension—and interdependence—between the evolution of local creole culture and the globalizing forces of colonialism and capitalism. Our discussion centers on the novel Texaco, an epic narrative of the history, development of Afro-Caribbean culture, and struggles for freedom in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. In this way, we examine the world, its diversity and unevenness, providing a structure to link the local and the global. We work from the English translation of Texaco by Rose-Myriam Réjouis & Val Vinokurov (1997).  Students in the course conduct research and write wiki articles that interpret the novel Texaco from a variety of perspectives. These articles supplement the fictional text with contextual information from scholarly sources and real-world data. This knowledge base is intended to help readers of Texaco understand the world of the novel and engage with its formal and narrative complexities. The wiki format allows us to make visible the connections and tensions among the topics presented. It also demonstrates the evolving (and sometimes messy) process of knowledge production, which is dramatized in Texaco. As such, this website is a work-in-progress that invites our readers and writers into conversation.
Photonics4All - Summary Of Gained Collaborations With Local Authorities/Policy Makers And Sponsoring Companies
Creators: name: Haas, Dorothea
name: Pélisson-Schecker, Aude
name: Trog, Ulrich
name: John, Pearl
name: Bindig, Petra
name: Chorvat, Dusan
name: Bondani, Maria
name: Gerente, Fiona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Photonics
Light
public authorities
policy makers
sponsoring companies
EYEST
photonics stakeholders
outreach

description: This project deliverable summarizes gained collaborations with local authorities/policy makers and sponsoring companies in order to increase the impact of Photonics4All activities and tools. Thus this document gives an overview of important organisations in the field of Photonics in Europe.
Texaco Wiki - A Knowledge Base on the Novel Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
Creators: name: A. Hutchins, Ph.D., Jessica
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Chamoiseau, Patrick
subject: Teaching--Aids and devices
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Francophone cultures and literatures
subject: Postcolonialism in literature
subject: Globalization

description: This website provides contextual information and interpretations of the novel Texaco by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau. It was started in spring 2022 as a collaborative project by students in the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in conjunction with the course Honors 200-008: Caribbean Crucible of Globalization taught by Dr. Jessica Hutchins.

In this section of Honors 200, we examine the Caribbean as both an engine and test-bed of globalization, considering how the movement of people, goods, languages, and ideas have shaped the history and culture of this unique region. We analyze the tension—and interdependence—between the evolution of local creole culture and the globalizing forces of colonialism and capitalism. Our discussion centers on the novel Texaco, an epic narrative of the history, development of Afro-Caribbean culture, and struggles for freedom in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. In this way, we examine the world, its diversity and unevenness, providing a structure to link the local and the global. We work from the English translation of Texaco by Rose-Myriam Réjouis & Val Vinokurov (1997).

Students in the course conduct research and write wiki articles that interpret the novel Texaco from a variety of perspectives. These articles supplement the fictional text with contextual information from scholarly sources and real-world data. This knowledge base is intended to help readers of Texaco understand the world of the novel and engage with its formal and narrative complexities. The wiki format allows us to make visible the connections and tensions among the topics presented. It also demonstrates the evolving (and sometimes messy) process of knowledge production, which is dramatized in Texaco. As such, this website is a work-in-progress that invites our readers and writers into conversation.
Additional file 1 of Hypoxia-induced ZEB1 promotes cervical cancer immune evasion by strengthening the CD47-SIRPα axis
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Jing
name: Guo, Chu-Hong
name: Wang, Zi-Ci
name: Yang, Yang
name: Pan, Yu-Hua
name: Liang, Jie-Ying
name: Sun, Mei-Ge
name: Fan, Liang-Sheng
name: Liang, Li
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. ZEB1-overexpression sequence.
Additional file 2 of Hypoxia-induced ZEB1 promotes cervical cancer immune evasion by strengthening the CD47-SIRPα axis
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Jing
name: Guo, Chu-Hong
name: Wang, Zi-Ci
name: Yang, Yang
name: Pan, Yu-Hua
name: Liang, Jie-Ying
name: Sun, Mei-Ge
name: Fan, Liang-Sheng
name: Liang, Li
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Table 2. CD47 (NM_001777-promoter).
A Compassionate Correspondence: On the Humane Killing of Street Dogs in Istanbul
Creators: name: Yıldırım, Mine
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-animal relationships
subject: Animals and history
subject: Animal welfare

description: Located in the Istanbul Research Institute Library archives, this original autographed document is a typewritten letter from Nazım Kıbrızlı, the president of the Turkish Society for the Protection of Animals (Türkiye Hayvanları Koruma Cemiyeti) throughout the 1940s.1 It is a reader’s letter directly addressed to Fikret Adil (1901–1973), a prominent figure in Istanbul’s cultural milieu from the early republican period onward.
Additional file 3 of Hypoxia-induced ZEB1 promotes cervical cancer immune evasion by strengthening the CD47-SIRPα axis
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Jing
name: Guo, Chu-Hong
name: Wang, Zi-Ci
name: Yang, Yang
name: Pan, Yu-Hua
name: Liang, Jie-Ying
name: Sun, Mei-Ge
name: Fan, Liang-Sheng
name: Liang, Li
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Table 3. (Related to Figure 1). Clinical and pathological characteristics of CSCC samples used in this study.
Alchemy in an Age of Disclosure: The Case of an Arabic Pseudo-Aristotelian Treatise and its Syriac Christian “Translator”
Creators: name: Rassi, Salam
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Alchemy
subject: Arabic literature

description: This article examines a little-known and unstudied alchemical treatise, The Epistle on Alchemy (al-Risāla fī l-ṣināʿa) attributed to Aristotle, purportedly translated from Syriac into Arabic by the Nestorian bishop ʿAbdīshōʿ bar Brīkhā (d. 1318). In particular, I investigate the Epistle’s discourse on the concealment and revelation of alchemical knowledge. Like other occult sciences, alchemy was characterised by a marked concern for secrecy and frequently employed codes, or Decknamen, when discussing the “Noble Art.” Yet the author of the Epistle consciously avoids such conventions, choosing instead to disclose its mysteries in an open and accessible manner, while making clear that secrecy would otherwise be necessary were the reader deemed unworthy. By engaging with scholarship in Islamic and Jewish occult science and esotericism, I show that the author of the Epistle navigates the boundaries between concealment and disclosure by framing his treatise as a private exchange between two foundational figures of philosophy and kingship: Aristotle and Alexander the Great. Based on a study of the Epistle’s sources and genre, I consider it possible that the work was not a translation of any Syriac original but a composition by ʿAbdīshōʿ himself and a product of the Arabicspeaking, Islamicate environment in which he lived.
Opionoides Shear & Marek 2025, new genus
Creators: name: Shear, William A.
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Caseyidae
Opionoides

description: Opionoides Shear & Marek, new genus
Type species: Opionoides cataracta Shear & Marek, new species. Monotypic.
Diagnosis: Distinct in the form of the gonopods (Figs 24–27) from all other caseyid genera. The anterior angiocoxite is distally crowned with an array of stout cuticular spines (not setae) and the large posterior angiocoxites, which project anteriorly between the anterior angiocoxites bear a complex array of feathery, fimbriate processes.Large, poorly sclerotized colpocoxites are present, and a small, fimbriate branch may represent a vestigial telopodite.
Etymology. The genus name is a Greek neologism, “like Opiona ” and should be considered feminine in gender.
Description. As for the single known species, described below.
description: Published as part of Shear, William A. & Marek, Paul E., 2025, Additions to the millipede family Caseyidae Verhoeff, 1909. IV. Two new genera and three new species (Chordeumatida, Striarioidea, Caseyidae), pp. 533-547 in Zootaxa 5631 (3) on page 542, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15371308
Additional file 10 of Hypoxia-induced ZEB1 promotes cervical cancer immune evasion by strengthening the CD47-SIRPα axis
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Jing
name: Guo, Chu-Hong
name: Wang, Zi-Ci
name: Yang, Yang
name: Pan, Yu-Hua
name: Liang, Jie-Ying
name: Sun, Mei-Ge
name: Fan, Liang-Sheng
name: Liang, Li
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 10:
lesser saints, on 14 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Rome, Terni (Italy), Lyon (Gaul), and elsewhere
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 14 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Rome, Terni (Italy), Lyon (Gaul), and elsewhere.
Reproductive output in a small Mediterranean lizard, the western three-toed skinks Chalcides striatus
Creators: name: Deso, Gregory
name: Bonnet, Xavier
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: The Western Three-toed Skink (Chalcides striatus) is a viviparous species found in arid Mediterranean climates. Using artificial shelters, we captured five pregnant females (snout vent length = 139.2 ± 7.9 mm [SD], 131 to 150 mm; total length = 286.0 ± 9.6 mm, 275 to 292 mm [N = 3, two females with damaged tails]); body mass 15.72 ± 3.89 g, 11.55 to 19.88) and kept them in captivity until parturition. Mean litter size and litter mass were 6.2 ± 1.3 (5 to 8 neonates) and 3.85 ± 0.88g (2.99 to 5.13g), respectively. Mean neonatal size and mass were 81.2 ± 4.1 mm (total length = 70 to 90 mm, N = 26) and 0.62 ± 0.07 g (0.49 to 0.82 g, N = 31), respectively. On average, the relative litter mass represented 32 ± 3% (29% to 36%) of the postpartum female body mass. The estimated mass of water lost at birth (total mass loss at parturition minus litter mass) was 0.37± 0.39 g (0.00 to 0.98 g), representing 10 ± 8% (0 to 26%) of the individual neonate mass. This low value is in line with that expected for viviparous squamates from arid climates, which is much lower than that observed in oviparous or in viviparous squamates from temperate climates. These results help to fill a gap, as the reproductive output of Chalcides striatus has been poorly documented, but mostly because the importance of extraembryonic water mass has been neglected.
Additional file 1 of The association between body mass index and abdominal obesity with hypertension among South Asian population: findings from nationally representative surveys
Creators: name: Gupta, Rajat Das
name: Parray, Ateeb Ahmad
name: Kothadia, Rohan Jay
name: Pulock, Orindom Shing
name: Pinky, Susmita Dey
name: Haider, Shams Shabab
name: Akonde, Maxwell
name: Haider, Mohammad Rifat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Distribution of the background characteristics of the participants in Afghanistan (n= 3,351). Table 2. Distribution of the background characteristics of the participants in Bangladesh (n=6,847). Table 3. Distribution of the background characteristics of the participants in Bhutan (n=5,164). Table 4. Distribution of the background characteristics of the participants in Nepal (n=4,894). Table 5. Distribution of the background characteristics of the participants in Sri Lanka (n=4,158). Table 6. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Afghanistan. Table 7. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Bangladesh. Table 8. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Bhutan. Table 9. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Nepal. Table 10. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Sri Lanka. Table 11. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Afghanistan. Table 12. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Bangladesh. Table 13. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Bhutan. Table 14. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Nepal. Table 15. Findings from the logistic regression models showing factors associated with hypertension in Sri Lanka.
Ethics, citizenship education and development.
Creators: name: Helena Cosma da Graça Fonseca Veloso Helena Veloso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper deals with the relationship between ethics, citizenship training and development. The aim was to demonstrate that the moulding of character is now a prerequisite for the development of countries.   To do this, we used bibliographical research, drawing on authors from the fields of Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology and Management, to initially present the nature of the terms ethics, citizenship and development, and then relate the first two to formal education, and to the progress of societies in general and Angolan society in particular.
व्हाट्सएप विवाद: सूचना तकनीक और सूचना की पड़ताल
Creators: name: Ranjan, Pramod
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High technology industries--Political aspects
subject: Social media
subject: Social media and society

description: व्हाट्सएप ने 4 जनवरी, 2021 को अपनी नई सेवा शर्तें जारी की थी, जिसमें कहा गया था कि व्हाट्सएप का इस्तेमाल करने वालों का डेटा उसकी पैरेंट कंपनी फ़ेसबुक से संबद्ध पाँच कंपनियों को भी उपलब्ध कराया जाएगा और जो उपभोक्ता इन सेवा शर्तों के लिए 8 फरवरी तक सहमति नहीं देंगे, उनकी सेवाएँ बंद कर दी जाएँगी। इस सूचना के आते ही दुनिया भर में खलबली मच गयी थी।   इस आलेख में उन खबरों की पड़ताल की गई है।
lesser saints, on 15 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Picenum (Italy), Mesopotamia, Antioch (Syria), and Saragossa (Spain)
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 15 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Picenum (Italy), Mesopotamia, Antioch (Syria), and Saragossa (Spain).
Additional file 1 of Richer than Gold: the fungal biodiversity of Reserva Los Cedros, a threatened Andean cloud forest
Creators: name: Vandegrift, R.
name: Newman, D. S.
name: Dentinger, B. T. M.
name: Batallas-Molina, R.
name: Dueñas, N.
name: Flores, J.
name: Goyes, P.
name: Jenkinson, T. S.
name: McAlpine, J.
name: Navas, D.
name: Policha, T.
name: Thomas, D. C.
name: Roy, B. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 1: Taxonomic list, structured hierarchically, of all vouchered fungi and fungus-like organisms from Los Cedros.
हिंदी कविता में संताल परगना का चेहरा
Creators: name: Ranjan, Pramod
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Indigenous peoples--Ethnic identity
subject: Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs
subject: Hindi literature--Social aspects
subject: Poets, Hindi
subject: Hindi poetry
subject: Santali language
subject: India--Santhāl Pargana

description: यह लेख संथाली मूल की आदिवासी कवयित्री निर्मला पुतुल की कविताओं पर केंद्रित है।
Additional file 1 of Leveraging multisectoral approach to understand the determinants of childhood stunting in Rwanda: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kalinda, Chester
name: Qambayot, Maria Albin
name: Ishimwe, Sage Marie C.
name: Regnier, Denis
name: Bazimya, Darius
name: Uwizeyimana, Theogene
name: Desie, Samson
name: Rudert, Christiane
name: Gebremariam, Alemayehu
name: Brennan, Elizabeth
name: Karumba, Silver
name: Wong, Rex
name: Bekele, Abebe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary file 1. Use of the UNICEF framework in the context of child stunting in Rwanda.
Peter and Hermogenes, deacon and his servant, martyrs of Melitene in Roman Armenia (Asia Minor), 4th cent.
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to Peter and Hermogenes, deacon and his servant, martyrs of Melitene in Roman Armenia (Asia Minor), 4th cent..
The French constitution of 1958 and the Russian constitution of 1993: a comparison
Creators: name: Paccione, Peter
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: France
subject: Russia
subject: History

description: In December 1993, the Russian Federation adopted a new constitution. This was seen by many in the West as a development that would lead to a new, democratic, law-based political order in Russia. Instead, it resulted in the establishment of the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. I will attempt to explain some of the reasons I believe this happened. I will also consider the question of the similarities between the Russian constitution and the French constitution of 1958, especially the office of the presidency, with which it has often been compared.
Additional file 3 of Leveraging multisectoral approach to understand the determinants of childhood stunting in Rwanda: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kalinda, Chester
name: Qambayot, Maria Albin
name: Ishimwe, Sage Marie C.
name: Regnier, Denis
name: Bazimya, Darius
name: Uwizeyimana, Theogene
name: Desie, Samson
name: Rudert, Christiane
name: Gebremariam, Alemayehu
name: Brennan, Elizabeth
name: Karumba, Silver
name: Wong, Rex
name: Bekele, Abebe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary file 3. Studies analysed in the meta-analysis based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Additional file 2 of Leveraging multisectoral approach to understand the determinants of childhood stunting in Rwanda: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kalinda, Chester
name: Qambayot, Maria Albin
name: Ishimwe, Sage Marie C.
name: Regnier, Denis
name: Bazimya, Darius
name: Uwizeyimana, Theogene
name: Desie, Samson
name: Rudert, Christiane
name: Gebremariam, Alemayehu
name: Brennan, Elizabeth
name: Karumba, Silver
name: Wong, Rex
name: Bekele, Abebe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary file 2. Quality assessment of the studies included in the meta-analysis.
Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa
Creators: name: Rassi, Salam
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Printing

description: This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the intersections between their scribal and printing activities. I also discuss works of grammar, logic, and rhetoric in the NEST’s collection. Most of these are by late medieval and early modern authors and contain extensive commentaries and glosses. This commentary culture was a key site of learning throughout the early modern Ottoman Empire and endured among Christian as well as Muslim intellectuals of the nahḍa movement. The persistence of these scribal and intellectual traditions reveals a longue durée of Islamicate scholarly traditions that is only beginning to be understood by historians of Arab modernity.
Discovery of a Dense Association of Stars in the Vicinity of the Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*
Creators: name: Hosseini, S. Elaheh
name: Eckart, Andreas
name: Zajaček, Michal
name: Britzen, Silke
name: Bhat, Harshitha K.
name: Karas, Vladimír
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on a sample of 42 sources in the vicinity of the bow-shock source IRS 1W (N-sources), located at the distance of $6.05''$ north-east of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), within the radius of $1.35''$. We present the first proper motion measurements of N-sources and find that a larger subset of N-sources (28 sources) exhibit a north-westward flying angle. These sources can be bound by an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) or the concentration that we observe is due to a disk-like distribution projection along the line of sight. We detect the N-sources in $H$, $K_s$, and $L$' bands. The north-westward flying sources could be a bound collection of stars. We discuss a tentative existence of an IMBH or an inclined disk distribution to explain a significant overdensity of stars. The first scenario of having an IMBH implies the lower limit of $\sim 10^4~M_\odot$ for the putative IMBH. Our measurements for the first time reveal that the dense association of stars containing IRS 1W is a co-moving group of massive, young stars. This stellar association might be the remnant core of a massive stellar cluster that is currently being tidally stripped as it inspirals towards Sgr A*. The second scenario suggests that the appearance of the N-sources might be influenced by the projection of a disk-like distribution of younger He-stars and/or dust-enshrouded stars.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures; published in the Astrophysical Journal
Sustainable ground improvement and hybrid foundation for tank farm on liquefiable coastal deposit: Case study
Creators: name: Eslami, Abolfazl
name: Ebrahimipour, Amirhossein
name: Fattahi, Seyed Mohammad
name: Rekavandi, Amin Omrani
name: Moazzami, Alireza
name: Khoshbakhty, Kiarash
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Coastal deposits, often weak and young soils with high groundwater levels, pose significant geotechnical challenges, particularly under seismic loads that exacerbate liquefaction risks. This study examines a sustainability-driven approach to ground improvement and foundation design for a coastal tank farm. In-situ and laboratory tests identified the depth and extent of liquefiable layers, leading to the selection of deep dynamic compaction as the most sustainable technique, considering economic, environmental, and social criteria. Using tampers weighing 11 and 23 tons dropped from heights of 18–28 m in square patterns with 2 and 5 m spacing, the ground was successfully compacted. SPT, PLT, and field density tests demonstrated the method’s effectiveness, showing a 15% increase in dry unit weight, a 13% rise in relative density, and complete mitigation of liquefaction potential. Two foundation systems, a raft and a hybrid semi-deep ring foundation were evaluated. The hybrid foundation system proved superior in bearing capacity and settlement performance while reducing concrete usage by substituting confined natural geomaterials. This approach minimized the carbon footprint and advanced sustainability in geotechnical design.
lesser saints, on 18 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Salona (Dalmacia), Africa, and Rome
Creators: name: Admin, CSLA
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2018
Subjects: History

description: All evidence related to lesser saints, on 18 April in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum: in Salona (Dalmacia), Africa, and Rome .