cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mimosa tobatiensis Barneby & Fortunato
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mimosa
Mimosa tobatiensis

description: Mimosa tobatiensis Barneby & Fortunato
Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay.
 Source: Jørgensen et al. 2014.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Zwischen Aneignung und Subversion: La Malinche als Ort der Verschränkung von Sexualität und 'Rasse'
Creators: name: Bandau, Anja
Publisher: name: Köln ; Weimar ; Wien : Böhlau
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fremdheit
subject: Literatur
subject: Interkulturalität
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::400 | Sprache, Linguistik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: [No abstract available]
Magnetization relaxation, critical current density and vortex dynamics in a Ba$_{0.66}$K$_{0.32}$BiO$_{3+δ}$ single crystal
Creators: name: Tao, Jian
name: Deng, Qiang
name: Yang, Huan
name: Wang, Zhihe
name: Zhu, Xiyu
name: Wen, Hai-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have conducted extensive investigations on the magnetization and its dynamical relaxation on a Ba$_{0.66}$K$_{0.32}$BiO$_{3+δ}$ single crystal. It is found that the magnetization relaxation rate is rather weak compared with that in the cuprate superconductors, indicating a higher collective vortex pinning potential (or activation energy), although the intrinsic pinning potential $U_\mathrm{c}$ is weaker. Detailed analysis leads to the following discoveries: (1) A second-peak effect on the magnetization-hysteresis-loop was observed in a very wide temperature region, ranging from 2K to 24K. Its general behavior looks like that in YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$; (2) Associated with the second peak effect, the magnetization relaxation rate is inversely related to the transient superconducting current density $J_\mathrm{s}$ revealing a quite general and similar mechanism for the second peak effect in many high temperature superconductors; (3) A detailed analysis based on the collective creep model reveals a large glassy exponent $μ$ and a small intrinsic pinning potential $U_\mathrm{c}$; (4) Investigation on the volume pinning force density shows that the data can be scaled to the formula $F_{p}\propto b^p(1-b)^q$ with $p=2.79$ and $q=3.14$, here $b$ is the reduced magnetic field to the irreversible magnetic field. The maximum normalized pinning force density appears near $b\approx0.47$. Finally, a vortex phase diagram is drawn for showing the phase transitions or crossovers between different vortex phases.
description: 9 pages,10 figures
Acute Ozone-Induced Pulmonary and Systemic Metabolic Effects Are Diminished in Adrenalectomized Rats
Creators: name: Snow, Samantha J.
name: Schladweiler, Mette C.
name: Ledbetter, Allen D.
name: Richards, Judy E.
name: Ghio, Andrew J.
name: Kodavanti, Urmila P.
name: Miller, Desinia B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Acute ozone exposure increases circulating stress hormones and induces metabolic alterations in animals. We hypothesized that the increase of adrenal-derived stress hormones is necessary for both ozone-induced metabolic effects and lung injury. Male Wistar-Kyoto rats underwent bilateral adrenal demedullation (DEMED), total bilateral adrenalectomy (ADREX), or sham surgery (SHAM). After a 4 day recovery, rats were exposed to air or ozone (1 ppm), 4 h/day for 1 or 2 days and responses assessed immediately postexposure. Circulating adrenaline levels dropped to nearly zero in DEMED and ADREX rats relative to SHAM. Corticosterone tended to be low in DEMED rats and dropped to nearly zero in ADREX rats. Adrenalectomy in air-exposed rats caused modest changes in metabolites and lung toxicity parameters. Ozone-induced hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance were markedly attenuated in DEMED rats with nearly complete reversal in ADREX rats. Ozone increased circulating epinephrine and corticosterone in SHAM but not in DEMED or ADREX rats. Free fatty acids (P = .15) and branched-chain amino acids increased after ozone exposure in SHAM but not in DEMED or ADREX rats. Lung minute volume was not affected by surgery or ozone but ozone-induced labored breathing was less pronounced in ADREX rats. Ozone-induced increases in lung protein leakage and neutrophilic inflammation were markedly reduced in DEMED and ADREX rats (ADREX > DEMED). Ozone-mediated decreases in circulating white blood cells in SHAM were not observed in DEMED and ADREX rats. We demonstrate that ozone-induced peripheral metabolic effects and lung injury/inflammation are mediated through adrenal-derived stress hormones likely via the activation of stress response pathway.
Deep whole-genome sequencing of 90 Han Chinese genomes
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2017
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: We performed whole genome sequencing at high depth (~80X) of 90 unrelated individuals of Chinese ancestry, collected from the 1000 Genome Project samples, including 45 North Han Chinese and 45 South Han Chinese samples. 83 of these 90 have been sequenced by the 1000 Genomes Project. We have identified 12,568,804 single nucleotide polymorphisms and 2,074,210 short InDels from these 90 samples.
The whole genome re sequencing of Chinese indigenous dog
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2018
Subjects: Other
Monoisolate

description: Background:Domestic dog is the most popular pet in the world and becoming wildly used as a model animal in medical research. China is one of the place where dog first become domestic, and suppose to preserve a great deal of genetic diversity. Currently there is a lack of sequencing data of Chinese indigenous dog.Findings: This work presents a set of whole genome resequencing data from XXX dogs consisted of the Chinese country dog and a local breed known as Shaanxi thin dog. The sequencing depth of an average of 20-30X for each sample was finally generated. After alignments and variation calling, *** SNPs and *** small indels was uncovered. Besides the genomic data, we also supplied the corresponding phenotypical trait, such as weight, height and breed.Conclusion: The data described here will help reveal some mystery concerning the domestication process of dog, especially the Chinese indigenous dog. This data also enriches the population genetic statistic of dog, thus providing a useful resource for in-depth analysis in dog related study.
Byttneria stenophylla Cristobal
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Byttneria
Byttneria stenophylla

description: Byttneria stenophylla Cristóbal
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
Source: Cristóbal 2007.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Association Between Variants in Arsenic (+3 Oxidation State) Methyltranserase ( AS3MT ) and Urinary Metabolites of Inorganic Arsenic: Role of Exposure Level
Creators: name: Morales, Damián Viniegra
name: Sánchez-Ramírez, Blanca
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Ishida, María C.
name: Del Razo, Luz M.
name: Terrazas, Francisco A. Baeza
name: Loomis, Dana
name: Ballinas-Casarrubias, Lourdes
name: Gutiérrez-Torres, Daniela S.
name: Saunders, R. Jesse
name: Cerón, Roberto Hernández
name: Stỳblo, Miroslav
name: Voruganti, V. Saroja
name: Mendez, Michelle A.
name: Drobná, Zuzana
name: Xu, Xiaofan
name: Crandell, Jamie
name: García-Vargas, Gonzalo G.
name: Barron, Keri
name: González-Horta, Carmen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Variants in AS3MT, the gene encoding arsenic (+3 oxidation state) methyltranserase, have been shown to influence patterns of inorganic arsenic (iAs) metabolism. Several studies have suggested that capacity to metabolize iAs may vary depending on levels of iAs exposure. However, it is not known whether the influence of variants in AS3MT on iAs metabolism also vary by level of exposure. We investigated, in a population of Mexican adults exposed to drinking water As, whether associations between 7 candidate variants in AS3MT and urinary iAs metabolites were consistent with prior studies, and whether these associations varied depending on the level of exposure. Overall, associations between urinary iAs metabolites and AS3MT variants were consistent with the literature. Referent genotypes, defined as the genotype previously associated with a higher percentage of urinary dimethylated As (DMAs%), were associated with significant increases in the DMAs% and ratio of DMAs to monomethylated As (MAs), and significant reductions in MAs% and iAs%. For 3 variants, associations between genotypes and iAs metabolism were significantly stronger among subjects exposed to water As >50 versus ≤50 ppb (water As X genotype interaction P < .05). In contrast, for 1 variant (rs17881215), associations were significantly stronger at exposures ≤50 ppb. Results suggest that iAs exposure may influence the extent to which several AS3MT variants affect iAs metabolism. The variants most strongly associated with iAs metabolism—and perhaps with susceptibility to iAs-associated disease—may vary in settings with exposure level.
Uncertainties on $α_S$ in the MMHT2014 global PDF analysis and implications for SM predictions
Creators: name: Harland-Lang, L. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Motylinski, P.
name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the uncertainty in the value of the strong coupling $α_S(M_Z^2)$ when allowing it to be a free parameter in the recent MMHT global analyses of deep-inelastic and related hard scattering data that was undertaken to determine the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. The analysis uses the standard framework of leading twist fixed--order collinear factorisation in the ${\overline {\rm MS}}$ scheme. We study the constraints on the value of $α_S(M_Z^2)$ coming from the individual data sets by repeating the NNLO and NLO global analyses at various fixed values of $α_S(M_Z^2)$ about its optimum values, spanning the range $α_S(M_Z^2)=0.108$ to $0.128$ in units of $0.001$, and making all PDFs sets available. The inclusion of the measurements of the cross section for inclusive $t\bar{t}$ production in the global fit allows us to explore the correlation between the values taken for the mass $m_t$ of the top quark and $α_S(M_Z^2)$. We find that the best fit values are $α_S(M_Z^2)=0.1201\pm0.0015$ and $0.1172\pm 0.0013$ at NLO and NNLO respectively, with the central values changing to $α_S(M_Z^2)=0.1195$ and $0.1178$ when the world average of $α_S(M_Z^2)$ is used as a data point. We investigate the interplay between the uncertainties on $α_S(M_Z^2)$ and the uncertainties on the PDFs. In particular we calculate the cross sections for key processes at the LHC and show how the uncertainties coming from the standard MMHT2014 PDFs and from $α_S(M_Z^2)$ can be provided independently and can be combined.
description: 30 pages, 62 figures. Final version - minor corrections to text
Visualization for Text Mining in the Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Hocker, Julian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: visualization
subject: text mining
subject: usability
subject: digital humanities
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: In this PhD thesis, a visual interface for text analysis and text mining in the digital humanities (DH) will be developed. Text analysis is a crucial task in the DH, but advanced text mining technologies like topic modeling or clustering are difficult to use for most researchers. My work bridges this gap using visualizations. To ensure an adequate usability of visualizations for epistemological practices, the visualizations will be realized with researchers in an agile and participatory approach.
Why don't we share data and code?
Creators: name: Martinez, Paula Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SORTEE
Open
Reliable
Transparent
FAIR4RS
Communication

description: SORTEE Conf 2022 Why don’t we share data and code? July 11th, 15:00 AEST (GMT +10) Abstract: In support of research transparency and reproducibility we need to make our analytical code and data available, not only our results. A description of our methods is often not enough for others to be able to use and reuse our analysis and test our results, in particular when the code produced is an integral part of the research presented. The digital environment in which we live has rapidly developed our computational accessibility, storage options and online collaborations. Subsequently, the need to upskill digital literacy, in all fields of study, has increased. Learning to present, publish and cite data and the underlying analysis code is part of scientific integrity now more than ever. ------------------------------------- Intro: Thank you all for your attendance, and those watching the recording. I am honoured to be listed among the plenary speaker’s line-up of this conference. And I am excited to share work that I am passionate about. I believe that each of us can play a role in advocating for better science, and especially those of you who are taking the time to join me in this conversation. This is more than anything, a motivational talk, I am going to share some examples of collaborative work that I am part of. I’ll throw out a few tips that you can use in your journey to motivate others, to respond to negativity and to support others in doubt. My goal is to send a message by asking you to reflect on your practice, and maybe get everyone excited about code sharing at the end of this. I am going to pose a lot of questions, So, let’s start, shall we? ---------------------------------------------------- Video recording: https://youtu.be/75nIGS6VNSY Transcripts available in English,Spanish, French, Portuguese and Hindi: https://osf.io/a5m73/files/osfstorage ---------------------------------------------------- About the speaker/author: Paula Andrea Martinez is the Software Project Coordinator of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and Research Software Alliance (ReSA) Community Manager. She is leading projects of the Software Program to See, Shape and Sustain research software. She is a co-chair of the international FAIR4RS working group, co-host of the Visible Research Software interest group, and Steering Committee member of the Research Software Engineers RSE-AUNZ association. She has developed strategic planning and work packages to lead change in the recognition of research software as a first-class scholarly output of research. After completing a PhD in applied bioinformatics she transitioned from being a research software engineer to a trainer, then she became an advocate of research best practices, and now working on incentivising policy implementation to recognise authors of research software.
The orbital PDF: the dynamical state of Milky Way sized haloes and the intrinsic uncertainty in the determination of their masses
Creators: name: Han, Jiaxin
name: Wang, Wenting
name: Cole, Shaun
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using realistic cosmological simulations of Milky Way sized haloes, we study their dynamical state and the accuracy of inferring their mass profiles with steady-state models of dynamical tracers. We use a new method that describes the phase-space distribution of a steady-state tracer population in a spherical potential without any assumption regarding the distribution of their orbits. Applying the method to five haloes from the Aquarius $Λ$CDM N-body simulation, we find that dark matter particles are an accurate tracer that enables the halo mass and concentration parameters to be recovered with an accuracy of $5\%$. Assuming a potential profile of the NFW form does not significantly affect the fits in most cases, except for halo A whose density profile differs significantly from the NFW form, leading to a $30\%$ bias in the dynamically fitted parameters. The existence of substructures in the dark matter tracers only affects the fits by $\sim 1\%$. Applying the method to mock stellar haloes generated by a particle-tagging technique, we find the stars are farther from equilibrium than dark matter particles, yielding a systematic bias of $\sim 20\%$ in the inferred mass and concentration parameter. The level of systematic biases obtained from a conventional distribution function fit to stars is comparable to ours, while similar fits to DM tracers are significantly biased in contrast to our fits. In line with previous studies, the mass bias is much reduced near the tracer half-mass radius.
description: MNRAS accepted. minor changes to match published version
Sobolev spaces with respect to a weighted Gaussian measures in infinite dimensions
Creators: name: Ferrari, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be a separable Banach space endowed with a non-degenerate centered Gaussian measure $μ$ and let $w$ be a positive function on $X$ such that $w\in W^{1,s}(X,μ)$ and $\log w\in W^{1,t}(X,μ)$ for some $s>1$ and $t>s'$. In the present paper we introduce and study Sobolev spaces with respect to the weighted Gaussian measure $ν:=wμ$. We obtain results regarding the divergence operator (i.e. the adjoint in $L^2$ of the gradient operator along the Cameron--Martin space) and the trace of Sobolev functions on hypersurfaces $\{x\in X\,|\, G(x) = 0\}$, where $G$ is a suitable version of a Sobolev function.
Baseline Chromatin Modification Levels May Predict Interindividual Variability in Ozone-Induced Gene Expression
Creators: name: Devlin, Robert B.
name: McCullough, Shaun D.
name: Morgan, David S.
name: Hines, Ronald N.
name: Diaz-Sanchez, David
name: Dailey, Lisa A.
name: Bowers, Emma C.
name: On, Doan M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Traditional toxicological paradigms have relied on factors such as age, genotype, and disease status to explain variability in responsiveness to toxicant exposure; however, these are neither sufficient to faithfully identify differentially responsive individuals nor are they modifiable factors that can be leveraged to mitigate the exposure effects. Unlike these factors, the epigenome is dynamic and shaped by an individual’s environment. We sought to determine whether baseline levels of specific chromatin modifications correlated with the interindividual variability in their ozone (O3)-mediated induction in an air–liquid interface model using primary human bronchial epithelial cells from a panel of 11 donors. We characterized the relationship between the baseline abundance of 6 epigenetic markers with established roles as key regulators of gene expression—histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3), H3K27 acetylation (H3K27ac), pan-acetyl H4 (H4ac), histone H3K27 di/trimethylation (H3K27me2/3), unmodified H3, and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC)—and the variability in the O3-induced expression of IL-8, IL-6, COX2, and HMOX1. Baseline levels of H3K4me3, H3K27me2/3, and 5-hmC, but not H3K27ac, H4ac, and total H3, correlated with the interindividual variability in O3-mediated induction of HMOX1 and COX2. In contrast, none of the chromatin modifications that we examined correlated with the induction of IL-8 and IL-6. From these findings, we propose an “epigenetic seed and soil” model in which chromatin modification states between individuals differ in the relative abundance of specific modifications (the “soil”) that govern how receptive the gene is to toxicant-mediated cellular signals (the “seed”) and thus regulate the magnitude of exposure-related gene induction.
Open Pharma position statement on open access
Creators: name: Sabir, Sarah
name: Winchester, Chris
name: Skobe, Catherine
name: Rains, Chris
name: Newman, Julie
name: Baltzer, Lise
name: Philippon, Valerie
Publisher: name: Open Pharma
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 321403
subject: Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice
classificationCode: 350505
subject: Occupational and workplace health and safety
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration
classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: Open Pharma position statement on open access
The 2003-4 multisite photometric campaign for the Beta Cephei and eclipsing star 16 (EN) Lacertae with an Appendix on 2 Andromedae, the variable comparison star
Creators: name: Jerzykiewicz, M.
name: Handler, G.
name: Daszynska-Daszkiewicz, J.
name: Pigulski, A.
name: Poretti, E.
name: Rodriguez, E.
name: Amado, P. J.
name: Kolaczkowski, Z.
name: Uytterhoeven, K.
name: Dorokhova, T. N.
name: Dorokhov, N. I.
name: Lorenz, D.
name: Zsuffa, D.
name: Kim, S. -L.
name: Bourge, P. -O.
name: Acke, B.
name: De Ridder, J.
name: Verhoelst, T.
name: Drummond, R.
name: Movchan, A. I.
name: Lee, J. -A.
name: Steslicki, M.
name: Molenda-Zakowicz, J.
name: Garrido, R.
name: Kim, S. -H.
name: Michalska, G.
name: Paparo, M.
name: Antoci, V.
name: Aerts, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A multisite photometric campaign for the Beta Cephei and eclipsing variable 16 Lacertae is reported. 749 h of high-quality differential photoelectric Stromgren, Johnson and Geneva time-series photometry were obtained with ten telescopes during 185 nights. After removing the pulsation contribution, an attempt was made to solve the resulting eclipse light curve by means of the computer program EBOP. Although a unique solution was not obtained, the range of solutions could be constrained by comparing computed positions of the secondary component in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram with evolutionary tracks. For three high-amplitude pulsation modes, the uvy and the Geneva UBG amplitude ratios are derived and compared with the theoretical ones for spherical-harmonic degrees l <= 4. The highest degree, l = 4, is shown to be incompatible with the observations. One mode is found to be radial, one is l = 1, while in the remaining case l = 2 or 3. The present multisite observations are combined with the archival photometry in order to investigate the long-term variation of the amplitudes and phases of the three high-amplitude pulsation modes. The radial mode shows a non-sinusoidal variation on a time-scale of 73 yr. The l = 1 mode is a triplet with unequal frequency spacing, giving rise to two beat-periods, 720.7 d and 29.1 yr. The amplitude and phase of the l = 2 or 3 mode vary on time-scales of 380.5 d and 43 yr. The light variation of 2 And, one of the comparison stars, is discussed in the Appendix.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Mathematical derivations
Creators: name: Klaassen, F.
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social Science

description: Almost all mathematical results in Analyzing Wimbledon are derived in the book; almost all, but not all. There are five formulas, listed in Appendix C of the book, that are not fully derived. The derivations of these five formulas are provided in the current document.
A Political Sociology of European "Anti-Politics" and Dissent
Creators: name: Blokker, Paul
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The democratic nature of the European integration project is contested, and contestation and dissent seem to be on the increase, or at least becoming more visible, with the current economic crisis. A European project confined to transnational market-making is found wanting in terms of social competence as well as civic-democratic enablement. It seems undeniable that the attempts by the European Union (EU) to enhance its democratic standing have so far had limited success. For a political sociology of European democracy, an increasing gap between a European society and the formal-political world of the EU raises a host of significant and interesting questions. The article will tie in with some of the recent sociological studies that focus on European democracy, civil society, and social movements, and will contribute to the delineation of a specifically political-sociological approach to European democracy. The approach will link political theory with sociological insights, the latter in particular taken from the sociology of critical capacity as developed by Boltanski and Thévenot and others. Such an approach seems particularly useful in terms of the sociological exploration of different forms of critique and various repertoires of justification regarding the European polity, not least those expressed by “anti-political” and dissenting movements.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2012)
Editor’s Highlight: Lower Fractional Anisotropy in the Globus Pallidus of Asymptomatic Welders, a Marker for Long-Term Welding Exposure
Creators: name: Flynn, Michael R.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Du, Guangwei
name: Lee, Eun-Young
name: Huang, Xuemei
name: Lewis, Mechelle M.
name: Van Buren, Scott
name: Kong, Lan
name: Mailman, Richard B.
name: Van Buren, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Welding fumes contain several metals including manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), and copper (Cu) that at high exposure may co-influence welding-related neurotoxicity. The relationship between brain accumulation of these metals and neuropathology, especially in welders with subclinical exposure levels, is unclear. This study examined the microstructural integrity of basal ganglia (BG) regions in asymptomatic welders using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Methods: Subjects with (n = 43) and without (age- and gender-matched controls; n = 31) history of welding were studied. Occupational questionnaires estimated short-term (HrsW; welding hours and E90; cumulative exposure, past 90 days) and long-term (YrsW; total years welding and ELT; cumulative exposure, lifetime) exposure. Whole blood metal levels (Mn, Fe, and Cu) were obtained. Brain MRI pallidal index (PI), R1 (1/T1), and R2* (1/T2*) were measured to estimate Mn and Fe accumulation in BG [caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus (GP)]. DTI was used to assess BG microstructural differences, and related with exposure measurements. Results: When compared with controls, welders had significantly lower fractional anisotropy (FA) in the GP. In welders, GP FA values showed non-linear relationships to YrsW, blood Mn, and PI. GP FA decreased after a critical level of YrsW or Mn was reached, whereas it decreased with increasing PI values until plateauing at the highest PI values. GP FA, however, did not show any relationship with short-term exposure measurements (HrsW, E90), blood Cu and Fe, or R2* values. Conclusion: GP FA captured microstructural changes associated with chronic low-level Mn exposure, and may serve as a biomarker for neurotoxicity in asymptomatic welders.
1000 Genomes Project Pilot 3. Exon re-sequencing from 1,000 genes in 1,000 individuals.
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2008
Subjects: Variation
Multiisolate

description: 1000 Genomes third pilot study: Exon re-sequencing from 1000 genes in 1000 individuals.The data is accessible from two mirrored ftp sites at EBI and NCBI.
Membrane-mediated repulsion between gramicidin pores
Creators: name: Constantin, Doru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the X-ray scattering signal of highly aligned multilayers of the zwitterionic lipid 1,2-dilauroyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine containing pores formed by the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin as a function of the peptide/lipid ratio. We are able to obtain information on the structure factor of the pore fluid, which then yields the interaction potential between pores in the plane of the bilayers. Aside from a hard core with a radius close to the geometric radius of the pore, we find a repulsive exponential lipid-mediated interaction with a decay length of 2.5 Å and an amplitude that decreases with the pore concentration, in agreement with the hydrophobic matching hypothesis. In dilute systems, the contact value of this interaction is about 30 k$_B$T. Similar results are obtained for gramicidin pores inserted within bilayers formed by the nonionic surfactant pentaethylene glycol monododecyl ether.
Facilitators and Barriers to Nurses Screening for Frailty in Acute Care in a Provincial Health Care System: A Survey Study Guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework
Creators: name: France, Janessa
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: frailty
older adult
nurse
theoretical domains framework

description: Older adults living with frailty have increased healthcare needs, but require accurate identification for optimal care; nurses’ screening practice is unclear. This cross-sectional survey explored nurses’ frailty screening practices and barriers/facilitators in acute care. Descriptive statistics were generated from 5-point frequency and 101-point scales of frailty screening methods; practice areas were compared using linear regression. Means for barriers and facilitators were generated from a 43-item 6-point Likert-type Theoretical Domains Framework questionnaire. Respondents (n = 228) reported “usually” screening by clinical impression (median = 4, interquartile range = 4-5) and preferring it to formal frailty tools (M = 67.1, SD = 25.7). Practice area influenced general frailty screening (B = 0.81, r = .31, p < .001). The top barrier was belief conducting frailty screening was routine (M = 2.68, SD = 1.42, p > .05). Frailty screening tools supporting clinical judgement and embedded into routine have greater likelihood for uptake.
Critical Trust: Social Movements and Democracy in Times of Crisis
Creators: name: Della Porta, Donatella
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: The recent financial crisis and, especially, anti-austerity policies, reflects and, at the same time, contribute to a crisis of representative democracy. In this article, I discuss which different conceptions of trust (and relations to democracy) have been debated in the social sciences, and in public debates in recent time. The financial crisis has in fact stimulated a hot debate on “whose trust” is relevant for “whose democracy”. After locating the role of trust in democratic theory, I continue with some illustrations of a declining political trust in Europe, coming from my own research on social movements, but also of the emergence, in theory and practices, of other conceptions of democracy and democratic spaces, where critical trust develops. Indignados’ movements in Spain and Greece as well as the Occupying Wall Street protest in the US are just the most visible reaction of a widespread dissatisfaction with the declining quality of democratic regimes. They testify for the declining legitimacy of traditional conceptions of democracy, as well as for the declining trust in representative institutions. At the same time, however, these movements conceptualize and practice different democratic models that emphasize participation over delegation and deliberation over majority voting. In doing this, they present a potential for reconstructing social and political trust from below.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2012)
Esplorando l'identità europea, tra approcci teorici e ricerca empirica. Riflessioni sul dibattito in corso
Creators: name: Scalise, Gemma
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Since the start of the European integration, many theoretical and empirical approaches have focused on the intricate relationship between the European political project and the social and cultural changes within European borders. I begin recalling the academic debate on European identity and analyzing how the main theoretical perspectives deal with the study of the social dimension of Europe and the European identity construction process: Neofuntionalism, Institutionalism and Constructivism. I then delve into the sociological definition of identity explaining the concepts found in the scientific literature and the sociological contribution to the debate. In the final part I present some findings from empirical researches on this topic and the distinctive features of identity in a transnational context.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2012)
Editor’s Highlight: Modeling Compound-Induced Fibrogenesis In Vitro Using Three-Dimensional Bioprinted Human Liver Tissues
Creators: name: Gerber, David A.
name: LeCluyse, Edward L.
name: Presnell, Sharon C.
name: Norona, Leah M.
name: Nguyen, Deborah G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Compound-induced liver injury leading to fibrosis remains a challenge for the development of an Adverse Outcome Pathway useful for human risk assessment. Latency to detection and lack of early, systematically detectable biomarkers make it difficult to characterize the dynamic and complex intercellular interactions that occur during progressive liver injury. Here, we demonstrate the utility of bioprinted tissue constructs comprising primary hepatocytes, hepatic stellate cells, and endothelial cells to model methotrexate- and thioacetamide-induced liver injury leading to fibrosis. Repeated, low-concentration exposure to these compounds enabled the detection and differentiation of multiple modes of liver injury, including hepatocellular damage, and progressive fibrogenesis characterized by the deposition and accumulation of fibrillar collagens in patterns analogous to those described in clinical samples obtained from patients with fibrotic liver injury. Transient cytokine production and upregulation of fibrosis-associated genes ACTA2 and COL1A1 mimics hallmark features of a classic wound-healing response. A surge in proinflammatory cytokines (eg, IL-8, IL-1β) during the early culture time period is followed by concentration- and treatment-dependent alterations in immunomodulatory and chemotactic cytokines such as IL-13, IL-6, and MCP-1. These combined data provide strong proof-of-concept that 3D bioprinted liver tissues can recapitulate drug-, chemical-, and TGF-β1-induced fibrogenesis at the cellular, molecular, and histological levels and underscore the value of the model for further exploration of compound-specific fibrogenic responses. This novel system will enable a more comprehensive characterization of key attributes unique to fibrogenic agents during the onset and progression of liver injury as well as mechanistic insights, thus improving compound risk assessment.
Whole genome sequencing of (CHD) Chinese in metropolitan Denver, CO HapMap population
Creators: name: BGI
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2009
Subjects: Genome sequencing
Monoisolate

description: The purpose of the project is to support the discovery and understanding of genetic variants that influence human disease. Specifically defined goals are (a) the discovery of single nucleotide variants at frequencies of 1% or higher in diverse populations, (b) even more comprehensive discovery (variants down to frequencies of 0.1 - 0.5%) in functional gene regions, and (c) discovery of structural variants, such as copy number variants, other insertions and deletions, and inversions, including sequence-level understanding of breakpoints.The volume of data generated by 1000genomes project is unprecedented. The data is accessible from two mirrored ftp sites at EBI and NCBI.
Prunus oleifolia Koehne
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Prunus
Prunus oleifolia

description: Prunus oleifolia Koehne
Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay.
 Source: Jørgensen et al. 2014.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
From the Cover: Volatile Anesthetics Transiently Disrupt Neuronal Development in Neonatal Rats
Creators: name: Gan, Zoe S.
name: Eckenhoff, Maryellen F.
name: Cornfeld, Amanda D.
name: Drobish, Julie K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Volatile anesthetics can cause neuronal and glial toxicity in the developing mammalian brain, as well as long-term defects in learning and memory. The goals of this study were to compare anesthetics using a clinically relevant exposure paradigm, and to assess the anesthetic effects on hippocampal development and behavior. Our hypothesis was that volatile anesthetics disrupt hippocampal development, causing neurobehavioral defects later in life. Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) was administered to rats on postnatal day (P)1, and the rats were exposed to volatile anesthetics (isoflurane, sevoflurane, or desflurane) for 2 h on P2. On days P7 and P14, the BrdU-labeled cells were quantified in the hippocampal dentate gyrus using immunohistochemical assays and fluorescent microscopy. Caspase-3 positive cells were quantified on P2 to evaluate apoptosis. The remaining animals underwent behavioral testing at ages 6 weeks and 6 months, using the Morris Water Maze. Significantly fewer BrdU-positive cells were detected in the hippocampal dentate gyrus in both isoflurane and desflurane-treated animals compared with controls at P7, but there were no changes in cell numbers after sevoflurane exposure. Cell counts for all three anesthetics compared with controls were equivalent at P14. Isoflurane or desflurane exposure yielded slight differences in the behavioral tests at 6 weeks, but no differences at 6 months post-exposure. We conclude that a single 2-h exposure at P2 to either isoflurane or desflurane causes a transient disruption of hippocampal neuronal development with no significant detectable long-term effects on learning and memory, whereas the same exposure to sevoflurane has no effects.
Le trasformazioni dell'auto-mutuo aiuto in una prospettiva eliasiana. Alcune esperienze europee
Creators: name: Spina, Elena
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Using the Elias’ perspective and focusing on interdependencies between social actors and facts, the paper shows the process of transformation of self-help/mutual aid over time in some European Counties. It proposes a classification that identify three different phase, each of which characterized by a different configuration of the social system and where different level of interconnections and interdependencies between institutions regulated by different Polanyian modes of exchange can be observed. According to Freidson proposal, professionalism has been added to three traditional regulatory principles. We conclude the paper with two open questions: the first argues about the opportunity to modelize a model of self-help systems according to influences exerted by welfare regime and professional model prevailing in different contexts; the second concern the possibility to imagine a new historical phase characterized by a social configuration in which the reciprocity plays a dominant role on the social integration process.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2012)
Johan Goudsblom: About War, Elias And Nihilism
Creators: name: Van Voss, Daan Heerma
name: Van Der Meer, Daniël
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2012)
Increased R2* in the Caudate Nucleus of Asymptomatic Welders
Creators: name: Connor, James R.
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Mailman, Richard B.
name: Yang, Qing X.
name: Buren, Eric Van
name: Lewis, Mechelle M.
name: Snyder, Amanda M.
name: Flynn, Michael R.
name: Huang, Xuemei
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Buren, Scott Van
name: Du, Guangwei
name: Li, Yunqing
name: Kong, Lan
name: Lee, Eun-Young
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Welding has been associated with neurobehavioral disorders. Welding fumes contain several metals including copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), and iron (Fe) that may interact to influence welding-related neurotoxicity. Although welding-related airborne Fe levels are about 10-fold higher than Mn, previous studies have focused on Mn and its accumulation in the basal ganglia. This study examined differences in the apparent transverse relaxation rates [R2* (1/T2*), estimate of Fe accumulation] in the basal ganglia (caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus) between welders and controls, and the dose–response relationship between estimated Fe exposure and R2* values. Occupational questionnaires estimated recent and lifetime Fe exposure, and blood Fe levels and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were obtained. Complete exposure and MRI R2* and R1 (1/T1: measure to estimate Mn accumulation) data from 42 subjects with welding exposure and 29 controls were analyzed. Welders had significantly greater exposure metrics and higher whole-blood Fe levels compared with controls. R2* in the caudate nucleus was significantly higher in welders after controlling for age, body mass index, respirator use, caudate R1, and blood metals of Cu and Mn, whereas there was no difference in R1 values in the basal ganglia between groups. The R2* in the caudate nucleus was positively correlated with whole-blood Fe concentration. This study provides the first evidence of higher R2* in the caudate nucleus of welders, which is suggestive of increased Fe accumulation in this area. Further studies are needed to replicate the findings and determine the neurobehavioral relevance.
Margaritopsis hassleriana C. M. Taylor.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Margaritopsis
Margaritopsis hassleriana

description: Margaritopsis hassleriana (Chodat) C.M.Taylor.
Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay.
Source: Taylor 2015.
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Mercato del lavoro e immigrazione in Spagna: disuguaglianze di genere e di etnia
Creators: name: Torns, Teresa
name: Moreno, Sara
name: Borràs, Vicent
name: Carrasquer, Pilar
Publisher: name: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
Year: 2016

description: This article presents an analysis of the career paths of immigrant men and women in order to study the Spanish employment model. It takes into account the influence of changes in the sexual division of labour along the career paths. The main objective is to show the features of work and personal life of the immigrant population in the construction and care sectors. The results describe the impact that structural factors such as gender and ethnicity have on the career paths. The crossroads between gender and ethnicity creates a so-called “status inconsistency” defining in large part the career paths of immigrants. Work trajectories are characterized by a continuum transition between formal and informal sectors, becoming the social model of immigrant employment.
description: Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, Vol. 2 No. 3 (2012)
title: From the Subtle to the Hyperbolic: The Rise of Irony, Camp and Kitsch in 20th Century Photography
Creators: name: Mussallem, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Photography
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101206
subject: Photography, artistic
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101269
subject: Kitsch
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072585
subject: Nostalgia in art
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97000041
subject: Irony in art
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068255

description: I am an ironist, a lover and creator of ironies. In my photographic practice as well as my everyday life I embrace irony in all its forms. In my written thesis I will discuss irony, the different factors that relate to and lead us to irony: kitsch, camp, cliché, nostalgia and the celebration of the banal, leading this exploration with a discussion of my chosen media for delivery of irony, photography. In 20th century photography there has been a gradual progression in irony from a subtle hidden gesture that was there to be encoded by the intended learned audience of the art world to an eventual full out hyperbolic critique that leaves nothing for interpretation but irony. This irony that requires no interpretation is the ironic dialogue that exists in much of photography today. In discussing the different variations of ironic utterances and creations, there are three major variants that I wish to discuss that specifically relate to how irony is used in photography: the interpreted (which can be ironic to some), the pointed (irony with a victim) and the stated (this is ironic!). I will then discuss how these forms of irony specifically relate to selections of work from the photographers I have chosen. I will also refer to cultural and photographic theory as it relates to irony and its use in photography and postmodern culture – referring to the work of Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, Linda Hutcheon and Martha Rosler amongst others. I have chosen to discuss a selection of photographers that span the 20th century to illustrate my thesis point, I will discuss the photographers in chronological order to illustrate this evolution of irony in photography: Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Stephen Shore, Robert Adams, Bill Owens, William Eggleston and Martin Parr. This list of photographers is by no means representative of all of photography and photo-based art but a chronological selection of artists from the canon of mainstream photography. I will limit my discussion of artists to the boundaries of mainstream photography and the realist tradition within photography of the 20th century. In this discussion of irony’s development in 20th century photography I will also refer to my body of photographic work, how it uses irony and how it relates to the artists discussed in the history of photography. As a student of photography I am influenced by all the artists that I will discuss and I find parallels between their uses of irony and my own.