cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Extracellular matrices of stromal cell subtypes regulate phenotype and contribute to the stromal microenvironment in vivo
Creators: name: Stone, Andrew P.
name: Rand, Emma
name: Thornes, Gabriel
name: Kay, Alasdair G.
name: Barnes, Amanda L.
name: Hitchcock, Ian S.
name: Genever, Paul G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Table 1: Antibodies used for all immunofluorescence assays.
Ethiopia Geographic Base Map: WLRC Land Use/Land Cover 2016 (Overview Map Series) Scale: 1:250,000
Creators: name: Krauer, Jürg
name: Gämperli, Ursula
name: Hurni, Kaspar
name: Fries, Matthias
name: Würsch, Lukas
name: Zeleke, Gete
name: Kassawmar, Tibebu
name: Aragie, Yohannes
Publisher: name: Centre for Development and Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: 550 Earth sciences & geology

description: The main methodological approach implemented to map the complex landscapes of Ethiopia at the required scales for the MapServer series was the majority and minority concept of landscape segregation that translated into the HICU-based mapping (Homogenous Image Classification Units). The employ ment of such an ‘exclusion-based’ approach (e.g. sub-setting of the Landsat imagery and gradually reducing the minorities/majorities) can be considered as a breakthrough in deriving important land cover information in heterogeneous landscapes, such as the rainfed agricultural area of Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the final land cover was mapped using an approach that combined the automated HICU approach with expert knowledge and visual delimination of units. This approach made it possible to distinguish cultivated land from other land use or land cover classes. Unsurprisingly, the actual amount of cultivated land is considerably larger than that indicated by official statistics in use since the mid-1980s, when the rural population was half its current size. The team also mapped large-scale land use sy stems, inclusive of any foreign direct investments. Results of the study show there has been a considerable expansion and intensification of farming in the past three decades, unfortunately leading to more soil erosion.
[Sammlung von Nachrichten zur Zeitgeschichte aus den Jahren 1560-87 (mit älteren Stücken)]
Creators: name: Wick, Johann Jakob
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1560

description: Band 2: Meist vor 1560
description: Johann Jacob Wick
description: Grossenteils Drucke, daneben 8 Federzeichnungen
12th International Smartphone Film Festival Program: The MINA and SF3 Smartphone Film Festival at ACMI, 'MINA2023', 24 November 2023, Melbourne, Australia
Creators: name: Schleser, Max
name: Davis, Therese
name: Cammaer, Gerda
name: Blake, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: No description supplied
title: A flexible model for scheduling building processes based on graph theory and fuzzy numbers
Creators: name: Freundt, Martin
name: Beucke, Karl
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Baubetrieb
subject: Computerunterstütztes Verfahren
subject: Scheduling
subject: Fuzzy-Logik
subject: 620

description: The methods currently used for scheduling building processes have some major advantages as well as disadvantages. The main advantages are the arrangement of the tasks of a project in a clear, easily readable form and the calculation of valuable information like critical paths. The main disadvantage on the other hand is the inflexibility of the model caused by the modeling paradigms. Small changes of the modeled information strongly influence the whole model and lead to the need to change many more details in the plan. In this article an approach is introduced allowing the creation of more flexible schedules. It aims towards a more robust model that lowers the need to change more than a few information while being able to calculate the important propositions of the known models and leading to further valuable conclusions.
description: X. International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering: proceedings ; [ICCCBE], Weimar, June 02-04, 2004, vol. 2004
Aufgaben zur Mechanik (weiteres Heft), Vorlesung von Albin Herzog.
Aufgabenheft, ausgearbeitet von Carl Gruber
Creators: name: Gruber, Carl
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1895

description: Aufgaben zu den Vorlesungen Mechanik I. und II. Teil, vorgetragen im Sommersemester 1895 sowie Wintersemester 1895/96 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum in Zürich.
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Additional file 1 of LncRNA SNHG1 enhances cartilage regeneration by modulating chondrogenic differentiation and angiogenesis potentials of JBMMSCs via mitochondrial function regulation
Creators: name: Liu, Hua
name: Liu, Huina
name: Yang, Qiubo
name: Fan, Zhipeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Brückenbau: Steinerne Brücken (Fortsetzung). Hölzerne und eiserne Brücken, Vorlesung von Karl Wilhelm Ritter.
Vorlesungsnachschrift, 2. Heft, ausgearbeitet von Carl Gruber
Creators: name: Gruber, Carl
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1897

description: Nachschrift der Vorlesung, vorgetragen im Sommersemester 1897 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum in Zürich.
Text mit Figuren
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Flusskorrektionen und Schiffbarmachung der Flüsse, Bericht über die ausgeführte Flusskorrektion.
Bericht, ausgearbeitet von Carl Gruber
Creators: name: Gruber, Carl
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1898

description: Bericht, vermutlich zur Vorlesung Flusskorrektion und Schiffbarmachung der Flüsse von Conradin Zschokke, bearbeitet im Sommersemester 1898 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum in Zürich.
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Kirchenpaueria halecioides Alder 1859
Creators: name: Galea, Horia R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Kirchenpaueriidae
Kirchenpaueria
Kirchenpaueria halecioides

description: Kirchenpaueria halecioides (Alder, 1859)
(fig. 9G–H)
Plumularia halecioides Alder, 1859: 353, pl. 12 figs 1–5.
Ventromma halecioides – Hirohito, 1974: 45, fig. 20.— Cornelius, 1995b: 172, fig. 41.— Medel & Vervoort, 1995: 45, fig. 19.— Migotto, 1996: 51, fig. 10A–C.— Calder, 1997: 4, fig. 1.— Ansín Agís et al., 2001: 179, fig. 73.— Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 108, fig. 20D–E.
Material examined. Stn. 1: 20.03.2008 —a few sterile colonies, 7–8 mm high, on Thalassia testudinum; 21.03.2008 —a few, sterile colones, 7–8 mm high, on T. testudinum. Stn. 2: 26.01.2008 —several sterile stems, up to 6 mm high, some polysiphonic, on algae. Stn. 3: 26.01.2008 —several sterile plumes, up to 8 mm high, on algae; 01.04.2008 —several sterile stems, 0.5–1.0 cm high, on algae and concretions. Stn. 6: 23.03.2008 — numerous colonies, up to 6 mm high, gonothecae rare, on Halimeda sp.; 28.03.2008 —several sterile colonies, 8–9 mm high, on sponge. Stn. 7: 25.03.2008 —several small, sterile stems, up to 6 mm high, on various algae; 27.03.2008 —several sterile stems, ca. 7 mm high, polysiphonic basally, on Halimeda sp. and other algae.
TABLE 14. Measurements of Halopteris vervoorti sp. nov., in µm. (1)Lateral view.
TABLE 15. Summary of characters allonwing to distinguish H. vervoorti sp. nov., H. polymorpha (Billard, 1913), and H. liechtensternii (Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890). The measurements are given in µm. (1)Data from Schuchert (1997). (2)Galea, unpublished results from observations made on Mediterranean material from La Ciotat, France.
Type locality. Northeast England.
Remarks. For a detailed description of this well-known species and a discussion of its synonymy, see Calder (1997).
Distribution. Widely spread in all tropical to temperate seas (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005).
description: Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1878 on pages 44-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184149
CODE rapid product series for the IGS
Creators: name: Dach, Rolf
name: Schaer, Stefan
name: Arnold, Daniel
name: Kalarus, Maciej Sebastian
name: Prange, Lars
name: Stebler, Pascal
name: Villiger, Arturo
name: Jäggi, Adrian
Publisher: name: Astronomical Institute, University of Bern
Year: 2019
Subjects: 520 Astronomy

description: CODE, the Center for Orbit Determination in Europe, is a joint venture of the following four institutions: Astronomical Institute, University of Bern (AIUB), Bern, Switzerland;Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern, Switzerland; Federal Agency of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Frankfurt a. M., Germany; Institut für Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie, Technische Universität München (IAPG, TUM), Munich, Germany. It acts as a global analysis center of the International GNSS Service (IGS). The operational computations are performed at AIUB using the latest development version of the Bernese GNSS Software (Dach et al., 2015). In this context a rapid solution series is generated considering all active GPS, GLONASS and Galileo satellites. It contains 24 hours of observed orbits and published at the day after the observations.
Berechnung einer eisernen Brücke. Kontinuierlicher Balken.
Berechnung, ausgearbeitet von Carl Gruber
Creators: name: Gruber, Carl
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1897

description: Berechnung, vermutlich zur Vorlesung Baukunst: Eiserne Brücken von Karl Wilhelm Ritter, vorgetragen im Sommersemester 1898 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum in Zürich.
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Aufgaben zur Theoretischen Maschinenlehre (Abt. II), Vorlesung von Albert Fliegner.
Aufgabenheft, ausgearbeitet von Carl Gruber
Creators: name: Gruber, Carl
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1896

description: Aufgaben zur Theoretischen Maschinenlehre, Lösungen von 6 Übungen, bearbeitet im Wintersemester 1896/97 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum in Zürich.
Text mit Figuren, mit Bleistift gegengezeichnete Übungen.
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Additional file 2 of LncRNA SNHG1 enhances cartilage regeneration by modulating chondrogenic differentiation and angiogenesis potentials of JBMMSCs via mitochondrial function regulation
Creators: name: Liu, Hua
name: Liu, Huina
name: Yang, Qiubo
name: Fan, Zhipeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Analytische Geometrie, Vorlesung von Johannes von Orelli am Mathematischen Vorkurs.
Vorlesungsnachschrift, ausgearbeitet von Heinrich Berchtold
Creators: name: Berchtold, Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1860

description: Nachschrift der Vorlesung, vorgetragen im Schuljahre 1860/61, vom 17.4.1860 bis 15.8.1861, am Mathematischen Vorkurs des Eidgenössischen Polytechnikums in Zürich.
Text mit Figuren, datiert September 1861 als Abschluss der Bearbeitung.
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Die Rolle des Staates als Transaktionskostenfunktion - wie verändert die Digitalisierung den Wirkungsbereich des öffentlichen Rechts? Skizze einer Forschungsagenda jenseits von technologischem Determinismus und der Sehnsucht nach dem Primat der Politik
Creators: name: Schlegel, Stefan
name: Schuppli, Benedikt
Publisher: name: Dike Verlag
Year: 2019
Subjects: 340 Law
320 Political science
330 Economics

description: Der Artikel skizziert eine Forschungsagenda für die Folgenabschätzung der Digitalisierung auf das Öffentliche Recht. Er schlägt vor, den Staat als Instrument zum Umgang mit Transaktionskosten zu verstehen und technologische Disruption als strukturelle Veränderung von Transaktionskosten.
Phortica Schiner 1862
Creators: name: Toda, Masanori J.
name: Bänziger, Hans
name: Sati, Pradeep C.
name: Fartyal, Rajendra S.
name: Suwito, Awit
name: Katoh, Toru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Phortica

description: Genus Phortica Schiner, 1862
Phortica Schiner, 1862: 433 (as genus); Máca, 2003: 251; Bächli et al., 2004: 70; Chen et al., 2005a: 3953. Type species: Drosophila variegata Fallén, 1823.
Phortica (as subgenus of Amiota Loew): Wheeler, 1952: 167; Okada, 1971: 96; Máca, 1977: 116.
Diagnosis. Ocellar tubercle with additional pair of setulae below ocellar setae; proclinate orbital seta nearer to inner vertical seta than to ptilinal fissure; palpus with hollow-shaped or depressed sense organ (modified from Chen et al. 2005a).
Characters commonly seen across the genus were described by Chen et al. (2005a), and therefore are not repeated here.
description: Published as part of Toda, Masanori J., Bänziger, Hans, Sati, Pradeep C., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Suwito, Awit & Katoh, Toru, 2020, Taxonomy and evolution of asymmetric male genitalia in the subgenus Ashima Chen (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Phortica Schiner), with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3884610
Phortica (Ashima) Chen 2011
Creators: name: Toda, Masanori J.
name: Bänziger, Hans
name: Sati, Pradeep C.
name: Fartyal, Rajendra S.
name: Suwito, Awit
name: Katoh, Toru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Phortica

description: Subgenus Ashima Chen, 2011
Ashima Chen in Cao et al., 2011: 682 (as subgenus of Phortica); Gong et al., 2018: 438. Type species: Phortica xyleboriphaga Senior-White, 1921.
Diagnosis. Projections at anterolateral corners of the cibarium longer than 1/2 width of cibarial, anterior margin (ch.10-1; Fig. 2C); mid-dorsally constricted epandrium (ch.29-1; Figs 3B,D, 4B, 6D, 7E, 8G, 9F); less sclerotized, broad lobe-like surstylus (ch.34-1; Figs 3E, 4B, 5C, 6D, 7E, 9F); hypandrium with a pair of anterolateral, inward extensions articulated to base of pregonite (ch.42-1; Figs 3C,F, 4D, 5E, 6G, 7F, 8J, 9I).
Shared characters. Characters described as commonly seen across this subgenus (the Phortica foliiseta species complex at that time) by Chen et al. (2005b) are not repeated here. Occipital setae on lower portion shorter than postocular setae (ch.2-0; Figs 7A, 9A). Pedicel with only 1 thick seta (ch.4-0; Figs 2A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7C, 8A, 9B). Clypeus medially pale (ch.8-1; Fig. 8F). Lateral membrane of proboscis scale-like patterned (ch.13-1; Fig. 2D). Prominent postpronotal seta 1. Epandrium not extended at anteroventral corner (ch.30-1; Figs 3D, 4B, 6D, 7E, 8G, 9F). Surstylus completely or largely covered with epandrium (ch.36-1; Figs 4B, 7E, 8G, 9F), with pubescence (ch.38-0; Figs 3E, 4B, 5C, 6D, 7E). Cercus longer than twice of width (ch.39-0; Figs 3B,D, 4B, 5C, 6D, 7E, 8G, 9F). Pregonite articulated to tip of aedeagal guide (ch.54-1; Figs 3G, 4I, 5G, 6E, 7G, 8D, 9C), without sensilla on apical portion (ch.51-0; Figs 3G,H, 4C, 5D, 6E, 7G, 8I, 9G). Phallapodeme vertically flat plate, with posterior, rod-like process apically articulated to aedeagal median rod (ch.60,61-1; Figs 3G,H, 4C, 5D, 6E, 7G, 8I). Aedeagal sheath with more or less sclerotized postgonite(s) (ch.64-1; Figs 3 F–H, 4D, 5D,E, 6F,H, 7F, 8I–K, 9G–I).
Key. The digital, multiple-entry key “ Ashima (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Phortica)” to all species of this subgenus has been constructed largely based on the character matrix of Appendix 1, and its database package including software instructions is available from the following website: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10ht68FhP1DJDg h2T33kZn7I2ro8YGGX0.
description: Published as part of Toda, Masanori J., Bänziger, Hans, Sati, Pradeep C., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Suwito, Awit & Katoh, Toru, 2020, Taxonomy and evolution of asymmetric male genitalia in the subgenus Ashima Chen (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Phortica Schiner), with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3884610
Use of Overlapping Group LASSO Sparse Deep Belief Network to Discriminate Parkinson's Disease and Normal Control
Creators: name: Shen, Ting
name: Jiang, Jiehui
name: Lin, Wei
name: Ge, Jingjie
name: Wu, Ping
name: Zhou, Yongjin
name: Zuo, Chuantao
name: Wang, Jian
name: Yan, Zhuangzhi
name: Shi, Kuangyu
Publisher: name: Frontiers Research Foundation
Year: 2019
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health

description: As a medical imaging technology which can show the metabolism of the brain, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET) is of great value for the diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease (PD). With the development of pattern recognition technology, analysis of brain images using deep learning are becoming more and more popular. However, existing computer-aided-diagnosis technologies often over fit and have poor generalizability. Therefore, we aimed to improve a framework based on Group Lasso Sparse Deep Belief Network (GLS-DBN) for discriminating PD and normal control (NC) subjects based on FDG-PET imaging. In this study, 225 NC and 125 PD cohorts from Huashan and Wuxi 904 hospitals were selected. They were divided into the training & validation dataset and 2 test datasets. First, in the training & validation set, subjects were randomly partitioned 80:20, with multiple training iterations for the deep learning model. Next, Locally Linear Embedding was used as a dimension reduction algorithm. Then, GLS-DBN was used for feature learning and classification. Different sparse DBN models were used to compare datasets to evaluate the effectiveness of our framework. Accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were examined to validate the results. Output variables of the network were also correlated with longitudinal changes of rating scales about movement disorders (UPDRS, H&Y). As a result, accuracy of prediction (90% in Test 1, 86% in Test 2) for classification of PD and NC patients outperformed conventional approaches. Output scores of the network were strongly correlated with UPDRS and H&Y (R = 0.705, p < 0.001; R = 0.697, p < 0.001 in Test 1; R = 0.592, p = 0.0018, R = 0.528, p = 0.0067 in Test 2). These results show the GLS-DBN is feasible method for early diagnosis of PD.
Additional file 1 of Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study
Creators: name: Dörr, Tamara
name: Güsewell, Sabine
name: Flury, Domenica
name: Süveges, Maria
name: Gaza Valera, Camille Beatrice
name: Botero-Mesa, Sara
name: Zanella, Marie-Céline
name: Iten, Anne
name: Balmelli, Carlo
name: Troillet, Nicolas
name: Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah
name: W Schreiber, Peter
name: Jent, Philipp
name: Damonti, Lauro
name: Sommerstein, Rami
name: Portmann, Lea
name: Vuichard-Gysin, Danielle
name: Cusini, Alexia
name: Nussbaumer-Ochsner, Yvonne
name: Heininger, Ulrich
name: Berger, Christoph
name: Zimmermann, Petra
name: Gardiol, Céline
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Schlegel, Matthias
name: Kohler, Philipp
name: P Kuster, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Meaningful and Measurable Health Domains in Huntington's Disease: Large-Scale Validation of the Huntington's Disease Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire Across Severity Stages.
Creators: name: Ho, Aileen K
name: Horton, Mike C
name: Landwehrmeyer, G Bernhard
name: Burgunder, Jean-Marc
name: Tennant, Alan
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2019
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health

description: BACKGROUND Although health-related quality of life is key for patients with long-term neurodegenerative conditions, measuring this is less straightforward and complex in Huntington's disease (HD). OBJECTIVES To refine and validate a fully patient-derived instrument, the Huntington's Disease health-related Quality of Life questionnaire (HDQoL), and to elucidate health domains that are meaningful to patients' lived experience. METHODS Five-hundred forty-one participants, from premanifest to end-stage disease, completed the HDQoL, together with generic quality-of-life measures and in-person motor, cognitive, and behavioral assessments. The psychometric properties of the HDQoL were examined using factor analysis and Rasch analysis. RESULTS Four HDQoL domains emerged, reflecting the classical triad of HD features; they were Physical-Functional, Cognitive, and 2 different behavioral aspects, that is, the Mood-Self domain and a distinct Worries domain. These domains clarify the behavioral sequelae as experienced by patients, and all showed good to excellent internal consistency. Known-groups analyses illustrated significant and graded changes in clinical assessments and corresponding HDQoL domains across disease severity levels. Convergent and discriminant validity was demonstrated by the expected pattern of correlations between specific HDQoL domains and corresponding domain-relevant clinical assessments as well as patient-reported measures. The data demonstrate robust support for the refined HDQoL across disease stages. CONCLUSIONS The HDQoL, with its 2 distinct behavioral domains of Mood-Self and Worries as well as the Physical-Functional and Cognitive domains, is a relevant, reliable, and valid patient-derived instrument to measure the impact of HD across all severity stages.
Additional file 2 of Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study
Creators: name: Dörr, Tamara
name: Güsewell, Sabine
name: Flury, Domenica
name: Süveges, Maria
name: Gaza Valera, Camille Beatrice
name: Botero-Mesa, Sara
name: Zanella, Marie-Céline
name: Iten, Anne
name: Balmelli, Carlo
name: Troillet, Nicolas
name: Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah
name: W Schreiber, Peter
name: Jent, Philipp
name: Damonti, Lauro
name: Sommerstein, Rami
name: Portmann, Lea
name: Vuichard-Gysin, Danielle
name: Cusini, Alexia
name: Nussbaumer-Ochsner, Yvonne
name: Heininger, Ulrich
name: Berger, Christoph
name: Zimmermann, Petra
name: Gardiol, Céline
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Schlegel, Matthias
name: Kohler, Philipp
name: P Kuster, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Additional file 1 of Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital
Creators: name: Liu, Lihua
name: Zhao, Mingqi
name: Tang, Yanhua
name: Shen, Aihua
name: Yang, Xiao
name: Yao, Li
name: Tian, Dongxing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Blood pressure in relation to frailty in older adults: A population-based study.
Creators: name: Anker, Daniela
name: Santos-Eggimann, Brigitte
name: Zwahlen, Marcel
name: Santschi, Valérie
name: Rodondi, Nicolas
name: Wolfson, Christina
name: Chiolero, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2019
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health
360 Social problems & social services

description: In frail older adults, low blood pressure (BP) might be associated with worse health outcomes and hypertension management in this population is highly debated. Using data from a population-based study of older adults, we assessed the association between frailty and BP. We used data collected between 2014 and 2016 from 3157 participants aged between 67 and 80 years in the Lausanne cohort Lc65+. BP was measured three times at one visit, and frailty status was assessed based on Fried's phenotype model. We analyzed the cross-sectional association between BP and frailty by computing mean systolic and diastolic BP stratified by sex, age, and frailty and by fitting regression models. The average age of the participants was 73.3 (standard deviation [SD]: 4.1) years, and 59.1% were women. 34.1% were pre-frail, and 3.3% were frail. Mean BP was 135.1/76.3 mm Hg (SD 18.5/11.0). Age- and sex-adjusted systolic BP was on average lower by 2.8 mm Hg (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.4-4.2) and 6.7 mm Hg (95% CI: 3.2-10.3) among pre-frail and frail compared to non-frail participants. Similar differences in mean diastolic BP across frailty status were found. Upon adjustment for antihypertensive treatment, the associations between frailty status and BP did not change substantially. Frail individuals had a substantially lower BP compared with non-frail older adults. Because low BP could be detrimental among frail older patients, our findings raise questions about hypertension management in this population and stress the need for additional evidence.
Open-Access-Monitoring Zwischen Wunsch Und Wirklichkeit
Creators: name: Tullney, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Open Access
Open-Access-Monitoring
Tools
open access monitoring
open access transition
Open-Access-Transformation

description: Open-Access-Monitoring ist ein vage definiertes, aber immer wichtiger werdendes Tätigkeitsfeld im Open-Access-Kontext. Es korrespondiert mit Open-Access-Strategien und -Vorgaben und dient sowohl der Planung von Open-Access-Aktivitäten als auch der Messung von deren Erfolg. Unter Zeitdruck werden Open-Access-Kriterien nicht immer sauber ausdefiniert, und pragmatische und interessengeleitete Abkürzungen tauchen auf. Im Zuge der Open-Access-Transformation wird es mehr denn je wichtig sein, transparente und vergleichbare Messungen von Open Access vornehmen zu können. Transparenz im Hinblick auf verwandte Definitionen, Daten und Instrumente ist dabei ebenso wichtig wie der Zugriff auf standardisierbare und stabile Informationen zum Publikationsoutput.
Pensée Africaine : Sortir De L'Aliénation Épistémique !
Creators: name: Mboa Nkoudou Thomas Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Decolonising technology
Projet SOHA

description: Université populaire

UQAM – 19 août

Atelier Décoloniser la pensée critique
Conservation Limnogeology and Benthic Habitat Mapping in Central Lake Tanganyika (Tanzania)
Creators: name: Lucas, Joseph S.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Abstract:
Small scale protected zones are valuable for helping the health and productivity of fisheries at Lake Tanganyika (East Africa). Spatial placement of protected areas relies on accurate maps of benthic habitats, consisting of detailed bathymetry data and information on lake-floor substrates. This information is unknown for most of Lake Tanganyika. Fish diversity is known to correlate with rocky substrates in ≤ 30 m water depth, which provide spawning grounds for littoral and pelagic species. These benthic habitats form important targets for protected areas, if they can be precisely located.
At the NMVA, echosounding defined the position of the 30-m isobath and side-scan sonar successfully discriminated among crystalline basement, CaCO3-cemented sandstones, mixed sediment, and shell bed substrates. Total area encompassed from the shoreline to 30 m water depth is ~21 km2 and the distance to the 30-m isobath varies with proximity to deltas and rift-related faults. Total benthic area defined by crystalline basement is ~1.6 km2, whereas the total area of CaCO3-cemented sandstone is 0.2 km2. Crystalline basement was present in all water depths (0-30 m), whereas CaCO3-cemented sandstones were usually encountered in water ≤ 5 m deep. Spatial organization of rocky substrates is chiefly controlled by basin structure and lake level history.
Copyright: © Joseph Lucas 2018
Funding information: This research was funded by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Geoscientists Without Borders Program (Award #201401005 to MM) and supplemented by small grants from the University of Kentucky to JL.
Phortica (Ashima) afoliolata Chen & Toda 2005
Creators: name: Toda, Masanori J.
name: Bänziger, Hans
name: Sati, Pradeep C.
name: Fartyal, Rajendra S.
name: Suwito, Awit
name: Katoh, Toru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Phortica
Phortica afoliolata

description: 1) Phortica (Ashima) afoliolata Chen & Toda, 2005
(Fig. 3H)
Phortica afoliolata Chen & Toda in Chen et al., 2005b: 421.
Phortica (Ashima) afoliolata: Chen & Máca, 2012: 507.
Diagnosis. Aedeagal sheath ventro-apically with a pair of strongly sclerotized postgonites much shorter than bifurcated pieces of aedeagal median rod (Fig. 3H); aedeagus with free sclerite within outer membrane (ch.59-1; Fig. 3H).
Supplementary description. Supracervical setae 18–20. Dorsomedial, tentorial apodeme slightly longer than 1/2 basal, parallel portion of dorsolateral, tentorial apodeme. Arista with arb (dorsal/ventral branches of arista) = 7–9/4–7. Palpus with hollow-shaped sense organ. Cibarial, medial sensilla 7–8 per side; posterior sensilla 6–7 per side. All tarsi entirely yellow.
Specimens examined. China: 1♂ paratype, 4♂, Jianfeng, Ledong County, Hainan, 21.ix.1993, M.J. Toda leg. (SEHU); 1♂, ditto, except 22.ix.1993 (SEHU); 5♂ paratypes, ditto, except 25.ix.1993 (SEHU). Myanmar: 1♂ paratype, Yangon, 14.i.1982, M.J. Toda leg. (SEHU). Laos: 2♂, near Vang Vieng, 27.vii.2009, H. Bänziger leg. (SEHU).
Distribution. China (Yunnan, Hainan), Myanmar, Laos *. * New record.
description: Published as part of Toda, Masanori J., Bänziger, Hans, Sati, Pradeep C., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Suwito, Awit & Katoh, Toru, 2020, Taxonomy and evolution of asymmetric male genitalia in the subgenus Ashima Chen (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Phortica Schiner), with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3884610
The Use Of Tympanic Arena As An Alternative For Behavioral Vibroacoustic Essays In Termites (Blattodea: Isoptera) Lívia Nunes, Federal University Of Viçosa
Creators: name: Nunes, Lívia
name: Roxinol, José Augusto
name: Marinho, Renan
name: Cristaldo, Paulo
name: DeSouza, Og
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: mechanical communication
methods
cheap apparatus

description: In termites, substrate-borne vibrations play an important role in communication among nestmates. The adaptive significance of such an ability has led to an ever increasing number of studies aimed at improving knowledge on vibroacoustic communication in these insects. Such studies are commonly carried out in laboratory arenas consisting of Petri dishes made of plastic or glass. However, the rigidness of such materials may limit the transmission of vibrational waves impairing accurate records of the feeble vibrations produced by termites. This is one the reasons why such experiments must be carried out under strictly controlled conditions, using extremely sensitive equipment, usually connected to amplifiers. If, instead, arenas bear a flexible floor (hence simulating a tympanum), vibrations might be not dampened or even easily amplified, thereby overcoming the need for such a specialized setup. Here we test such a hypothesis, using an accelerometer to measure and record vibrations whose intensity was tailored to mimic the feeble vibrations of a small termite species, Constrictormes cyphergaster. Results support the notion that tympanic arenas portray such vibrations far more accurately than arenas made of plastic or glass. This type of arena as a cheap, albeit accurate, alternative in studies of vibroacoustic behaviors of termites and other insects of comparable size especially in situations where noise is minimally controlled. These arenas, then, can be useful in conducting such studies just after termite collection in remote regions where well-equipped labs are not available. In doing so, we minimize the stress involved in transporting termites over long distances. Funding: CNPq.
An der Töne Perlenbänder : [Gedicht]
Creators: name: Keller, Gottfried
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1865

description: Gottfried Keller
description: Reg.-Nr. 1382: „Die Damen des Gemischten Chors Zürich haben dieses Gedicht bei Gottfried Keller als Dank an H. für dessen Ablehnung eines Rufes nach Frankfurt a/M bestellt.“
Control of cardiovascular risk factors and health behaviors in patients post acute coronary syndromes eligible for protein convertase subtilisin/kexin-9 inhibitors.
Creators: name: Butty, Audrey
name: Gencer, Baris
name: Koskinas, Konstantinos C
name: Carballo, David
name: Räber, Lorenz
name: Klingenberg, Roland
name: Matter, Christian M
name: Lüscher, Thomas F
name: Windecker, Stephan
name: Muller, Olivier
name: Rodondi, Nicolas
name: Mach, François
name: Nanchen, David
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2020
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health
360 Social problems & social services

description: BACKGROUND We aimed to examine cardiovascular risk factors and health behaviors in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) according to potential extension of eligibility criteria for protein convertase subtilisin/kexin-9 inhibitors (PCSK9i) to all patients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) equal or above 1.8 mmol/l. METHODS In this prospective cross-sectional study, patients with ACS between 2009 and 2016 and with available LDL-c at one year were considered. We defined three mutually exclusive groups of patients according to eligibility for PCSK9i: "not eligible", "currently eligible", and "newly eligible". We explored the control of cardiovascular risk factors and health behaviors. RESULTS Out of 3025 patients who had an ACS one year ago, 1071 (35.4%) were not eligible for PCSK9i, 415 (13.7%) were currently eligible, and 1539 (50.9%) were newly eligible. The proportion of patients with uncontrolled hypertension in the not eligible group was lower than in the group currently eligible (27.6% vs 33.6%, p = 0.02), but similar to the group newly eligible (27.6% vs 28.2%, p = 0.73). The proportion of smokers in the not eligible group was lower than in the group currently eligible (21.2% vs 28.0%, p = 0.02), but similar to the group newly eligible (21.2% vs 22.5%, p = 0.51). CONCLUSIONS More than half of patients with ACS would be additionally eligible for PCSK9i if prescription is extended from current guidelines to all patients with LDL-c equal or above 1.8 mmol/l. Patients currently eligible for PCSK9i one year after an ACS had a worst control of cardiovascular risk factors than patients potentially newly eligible.
Apathy in Parkinson's disease with REM sleep behavior disorder.
Creators: name: Bargiotas, Panagiotis
name: Ntafouli, Maria
name: Lachenmayer, Lenard
name: Krack, Paul
name: Schüpbach, Michael
name: Bassetti, Claudio
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2019
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health

description: OBJECTIVES Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with increased risk of non-motor symptoms. However, the association between RBD and apathy in PD remains unclear. AIMS To compare the prevalence and severity of apathy symptoms in PD patients with RBD (PD-RBD+) and without (PD-RBD-). In addition, we explored the association between apathy, depressive symptoms and RBD, taking into consideration the concomitant influence of demographic, disease- and therapy-associated variables. METHODS Sixty-four PD patients were evaluated with systematic motor (unified Parkinson's disease rating scale, UPDRS-III) and non-motor assessments. The diagnosis of RBD was based on the international consensus criteria using video-polysomnography. Apathy, sleepiness, depressive symptoms and cognitive performance were assessed using the Starkstein apathy (SAS, cut-off = 14), the Epworth sleepiness (ESS), the Hamilton depression (HAM-D, cut-off = 9) scales and the mini-mental state examination (MMSE), respectively. RESULTS Among 64 patients, 26 (40%) had RBD. In the PD-RBD+ group, apathy symptoms were more frequent (52% vs 42%) and more severe (14.3 ± 5.8 vs 11.2 ± 4.9, p
Etliche schöne Sprüch aus heiliger Geschrifft, den Propheten und Psalmen Davids gezogen : gesangs-wyss gestelt mit 4 Stimmen
Creators: name: Diebolt, Kaspar
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1600

description: Signatur: AMG I 500 & a-b; Bassus: Ms Q 905
description: durch Caspar Diebolt
description: Enthält 68 Nummern: Psalm 40, V 5, Esaia 54, Ezech. 33, Tob. 13, Esaia 43, Miche: 7, Jeremia 46, Jesaia 49, Jeremja 31, Jesaia 12, Psalm 85, Psalm 6, Psalm 6. V 5, Psalm 31, V 20, Psalm 32, V 11, Psalm 7, V 18, Psalm 13, V 6, Psalm 14, V 7, Psalm 19, V. 10, Psalm 34, V 4, Psalm 19, V 15, Psalm 32, V 30, "Des gerechten mund", Psalm 55, V 23, Psalm 38, V 22, 23, Psalm 130, Psalm 128, Psalm 113, V 9, Jsa. 49, Psalm 22, V 23, Psalm 34, Psalm 9, Psalm 117, Psalm 121, Psalm 123, Psalm 18, Jsa. 54, Miche 7, Psalm 86, V 15, 16, Psalm 86, V 11, Psalm 27, V 4, Psalm 18, Psalm 16, V 11, Psalm 33, Jeremija 31, Psalm 95, Psalm 122, Psalm 92, Psalm 51, "Jm 30 psalm", "Jm 71 Psalm", Psalm 84, "Psalm im 31", Jesaia 9, Jesaia 11, "Danket dem Herrn"
description: Altus: Nr. 67 und 68 fehlen
description: Gemäss Walter Autograph, gemäss RISM Abschrift
Intensified lipid lowering using ezetimibe after publication of the IMPROVE-IT trial: A contemporary analysis from the SPUM-ACS cohort.
Creators: name: Gencer, Baris
name: Carballo, David
name: Nanchen, David
name: Koskinas, Konstantinos C.
name: Klingenberg, Roland
name: Räber, Lorenz
name: Auer, Reto
name: Carballo, Sebastian
name: Heg, Dik
name: Windecker, Stephan
name: Lüscher, Thomas Felix
name: Matter, Christian M
name: Rodondi, Nicolas
name: Mach, François
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2020
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health
360 Social problems & social services

description: BACKGROUND The relevance of the IMPROVE-IT trial on real-life practice has not been explored in patients with ACS. METHODS A prospective Swiss cohort of 6266 patients hospitalized for ACS between 2009 and 2017 with a one-year follow-up. The primary endpoints were the ezetimibe use overall or in combination with high-intensity statin at discharge and at one year after ACS. Secondary endpoint was LDL-C target achievement at one year in a subsample of 2984 patients. Relative Ratios (RR) were used to assess changes in primary endpoints before and after the publication of IMPROVE-IT, adjusting for age, sex, diabetes, prior myocardial infarction, LDL-C and attendance to cardiac rehabilitation. RESULTS The period following the publication of the IMPROVE-IT trial was associated with a steady increase in the use of ezetimibe at discharge (from 1.8% to 3.8%, P
Population biomonitoring of micronutrient intakes in children using urinary spot samples.
Creators: name: Rios-Leyvraz, Magali
name: Bochud, Murielle
name: Benzi Schmid, Clara
name: Haldimann, Max
name: Bovet, Pascal
name: Chiolero, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 0
Subjects: 610 Medicine & health
360 Social problems & social services

description: PURPOSE Urinary spot samples are a promising method for the biomonitoring of micronutrient intake in children. Our aim was to assess whether urinary spot samples could be used to estimate the 24-h urinary excretion of potassium, phosphate, and iodine at the population level. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 101 children between 6 and 16 years of age was conducted. Each child collected a 24-h urine collection and three urinary spot samples (evening, overnight, and morning). Several equations were used to estimate 24-h excretion based on the urinary concentrations of each micronutrient in the three spot samples. Various equations and spot combinations were compared using several statistics and plots. RESULTS Ninety-four children were included in the analysis (mean age: 10.5 years). The mean measured 24-h urinary excretions of potassium, phosphate, and iodine were 1.76 g, 0.61 g, and 95 µg, respectively. For potassium, the best 24-h estimates were obtained with the Mage equation and morning spot (mean bias: 0.2 g, correlation: 0.27, precision: 56%, and misclassification: 10%). For phosphate, the best 24-h estimates were obtained with the Mage equation and overnight spot (mean bias: - 0.03 g, correlation: 0.54, precision: 72%, and misclassification: 10%). For iodine, the best 24-h estimates were obtained with the Remer equation and overnight spot (mean bias: - 8 µg, correlation: 0.58, precision: 86%, misclassification: 16%). CONCLUSIONS Urinary spot samples could be a good alternative to 24-h urine collection for the population biomonitoring of iodine and phosphate intakes in children. For potassium, spot samples were less reliable.
On the Quotients of the Maximal Unramified 2-Extension of a Number Field
Creators: name: , Maire
Publisher: name: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
Year: 2018

description: Let $K$ be a totally imaginary number field. Denote by $G_K(2)$ the Galois group of the maximal unramified pro-$2$ extension of $K$. By using cup-products in étale cohomology of $Spec O_K$ we study situations where $G_K(2)$ has no quotient of cohomological dimension~$2$. For example, in the family of imaginary quadratic fields $K$, the group $G_K(2)$ almost never has a quotient of cohomological dimension~$2$ and of maximal~$2$-rank. We also give a relation between this question and that of the $4$-rank of the class group of~$K$, showing in particular that when ordered by absolute value of the discriminant, more than 99 % of imaginary (respectively, real) quadratic fields satisfy an alternative (but equivalent) form of the unramified Fontaine-Mazur conjecture (at $p=2$)
description: Documenta Mathematica, 2018, vol. 23, p. 1263-1290, 1431-0643
Additional file 6 of The CDK9 inhibitor enitociclib overcomes resistance to BTK inhibition and CAR-T therapy in mantle cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Jiang, Vivian
name: Lee, William
name: Zhang, Tianci
name: Jordan, Alexa
name: Yan, Fangfang
name: Cai, Qingsong
name: McIntosh, Joseph
name: Vargas, Jovanny
name: Liu, Yang
name: Wang, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 6
Additional file 1 of Tissue- and time-dependent metabolite profiles during early grain development under normal and high night-time temperature conditions
Creators: name: Abshire, Nathan
name: Hauck, Andrew L.
name: Walia, Harkamal
name: Obata, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Additional file 2 of Tissue- and time-dependent metabolite profiles during early grain development under normal and high night-time temperature conditions
Creators: name: Abshire, Nathan
name: Hauck, Andrew L.
name: Walia, Harkamal
name: Obata, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Angélica Mateus Mora, Universidad de Tours; Christian León, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar y Valeria Manzano, Universidad de San Martín
Creators: name: Müller, Andrea
name: Oehri, Noah
name: Piniella, Isabel
Publisher: name: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Year: 2019
Subjects: 980 History of South America

description: Entrevista
A biased adenosine A1R agonist elicits analgesia without cardiorespiratory depression
Creators: name: Wall, Mark J.
name: Hill, Emily
name: Huckstepp, Robert
name: Barkan, Kerry
name: Deganutti, Giuseppe
name: Leuenberger, Michele
name: Preti, Barbara
name: Winfield, Ian
name: Wei, Haifeng
name: Imlach, Wendy
name: Dean, Eve
name: Hume, Cherise
name: Hayward, Stephanie
name: Oliver, Jess
name: Zhao, Fei-Yue
name: Spanswick, David
name: Reynolds, Christopher A.
name: Lochner, Martin
name: Ladds, Graham
name: Frenguelli, Bruno G.
Publisher: name: bioRxiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: 570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health
540 Chemistry

description: The development of therapeutic agonists for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is hampered by the propensity of GPCRs to couple to multiple signalling pathways. This promiscuous coupling leads to numerous downstream cellular effects, some of which are therapeutically undesirable. This is especially the case for adenosine A1 receptors (A1Rs) whose clinical potential is undermined by the sedation and cardiorespiratory depression caused by conventional agonists. We have discovered that the A1R-selective agonist, BnOCPA, is a potent and powerful analgesic but does not cause sedation, bradycardia, hypotension or respiratory depression. This unprecedented discrimination between native A1Rs arises from BnOCPA’s unique and exquisitely biased activation of Gob among the six Gαi/o subtypes, and in the absence of β-arrestin recruitment. BnOCPA thus demonstrates a hitherto unknown Gα-selective activation of the native A1R, sheds new light on the fundamentals of GPCR signalling, and reveals new possibilities for the development of novel therapeutics based on the far-reaching concept of biased agonism.
description: Short summary: We describe the selective activation of an adenosine A1 receptor-mediated intracellular pathway that provides potent analgesia in the absence of sedation or cardiorespiratory depression, paving the way for novel medicines based on the far-reaching concept of biased agonism.
’It’s a Silent Trade’: Female Same-Sex Intimacies in Postcolonial Ghana
Creators: name: Dankwa, Serena Owusua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2009
Subjects: 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

description: While in many places same-sex cultures revolve around politically charged subcultural understandings, this paper explores conceptualizations of female same-sex desire beyond constructions of lesbian identity. It looks at a set of practices forged by women who are involved in intimate same-sex relationships in southern Ghana and examines how their self-understandings resist and intersect with the derogatory media representations that frame them. A key term to these representations is the term supi. It implies a close friendship between two adolescent girls, whether or not their relationship has a sexual dimension. In spite of rising tides of homophobia that impact such female intimacies, two factors still allow for the creation of niches for same-sex intimacy: first, southern Ghanaian cultures draw on norms of verbal indirection and discretion, which allow for the concealment of non-normative sexual conduct. Secondly, homosocial spaces of intimacy provide an environment in which female same-sex bonds are expressed through a language of allusion rather than a specialist, subcultural vocabulary. Erotic context is formed through practice and performance and is not discursively named or understood as a social identity. Rather, these understandings of female same-sex passions revolve around the notion of secrecy and are based on tacit but vibrant forms of knowledge.