cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Asymptotic behaviour of estimation equations with functional nuisance or working parameter
Creators: name: Pruscha, H.
name: Wellisch, U.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 510

description: We are concerned with the asymptotic theory of semiparametric estimation equations. We are dealing with estimation equations which have a parametric component of interest and a functional (nonparametric) nuisance component. We give sufficient conditions for the existence and the asymptotic normality of a consistent estimation equation estimator for the parameter of interest. These conditions concern the asymptotic distribution of the estimation function and of its derivative as well as the effect of the functional nuisance part in the estimation equation. In order to treat the nonparametric component we introduce a general differential calculus and a general mean value theorem. For the nonparametric part in the estimation equation we distinguish two cases: the situation of a (classical) nuisance parameter and the case of a so called working parameter. As a special case we get regularity conditions for estimation equations with finite dimensional nuisance or working parameter. As an example we present the semiparametric linear regression model.
Labor Productivity in Food Distribution
Creators: name: Gale, Hazen F.
name: Van Horn, Thomas R.
name: Gale, Hazen F.
name: Van Horn, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis

description: Labor productivity--output per man-hour--in food distribution increased about 2.7 percent per year during 1948-63. This was about the same as the increase for the private nonfarm sector of the economy, but less than for the farm sector. The increase for food distribution was the result of a 2.4 percent per year increase in net output and a small decrease in man-hours. Distribution costs per unit of net output increased 52 percent from 1948 to 1963; unit labor costs rose 23 percent; and unit nonlabor costs increased 97 percent. The implicit price deflator for the private economy increased 30 percent.
description: Reprinted from the Marketing and Transportation Situation February 1968
title: Analyse zeitveraenderlicher Kovariablen und rekurrenter Ereignisse am Beispiel einer Studie zur prophylaktischen Behandlung von Oesophagusvarizen
Creators: name: Aydemir, Sibel
name: Hornsteiner, U.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 510

description: To assess the effect of prophylactic sclerotherapy on variceal hemorrhage and survival of patients with liver cirrhosis and esophageal varices, a randomized study had been carried out. We analysed the data from different points of view. The time-dependent Cox model and the linear counting process of Aalen are applied allowing for the time-dependent covariate ``variceal bleeding`` -- that switches up to three times -- in a multivariate analysis of the remaining life time. A model for the times to and between the recurrent events of bleeding including unobserved heterogeneity is estimated by a distribution-free and by a parametric method where the latter also admits time-dependent covariates such as repeated measurements of laboratory data. We find that high age, high Child-Pugh score and especially the first occurence of variceal bleeding have a statistically significant negative effect on survival whereas patients with fundic varices and/or alcoholic cirrhosis have a significant higher risk of bleeding. In both analyses, inclusion of time-dependent covariates does not change the estimation substantially. In particular, prophylactic sclerotherapy is not shown to reduce the risk of bleeding nor dying significantly.
DESIRABLE FEATURES OF SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)
Creators: name: Utley, Caroline B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Software Quality Assurance (QA) is becoming a paraprofessional group attached to computer software development organizations. Increasingly, software QA is a requirement of Department of Defense software development contracts. This thesis investigates how this requirement is being or has been met by two major defense contractors. The investigation uses a case study approach to analyze five software QA units, each organized under a separate defense contract. Each unit is designated a case for purposes of the study. The five cases are shown to have certain tasks, functions, and organizational interfaces in common. The tasks, functions, and interfaces are isolated and compared. The conclusions present optimum use or practice of each task, function, and interface based on practices observed among the five cases.
title: An application of isotonic longitudinal marginal regression to monitoring the healing process
Creators: name: Fahrmeir, Ludwig
name: Gieger, Christian
name: Heumann, Christian
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 510

description: This paper discusses marginal regression for repeated ordinal measurements that are isotonic over time. Such data are often observed in longitudinal studies on healing processes where, due to recovery, the status of patients only improves or stays the same. We show how this prior information can be used to construct appropriate and parsimoniously parametrized marginal models. As a second aspect, we also incorporate nonparametric fitting of covariate effects via a penalized quasi-likelihood or GEE approach. We illustrate our methods by an application to injuries from sporting activities.
Boreal Forest Fire Causes Daytime Surface Warming During Summer to Exceed Surface Cooling During Winter in North America
Creators: name: Helbig, Manuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This publication contains code and data to reproduce figures for the article: "Boreal Forest Fire Causes Daytime Surface Warming During Summer to Exceed Surface Cooling During Winter in North America" submitted to AGU Advances.
title: C++ Utilities zur Implementierung statistischer Verfahren unter Berücksichtigung fehlender Werte
Creators: name: Heumann, Christian
name: Fieger, A.
name: Kastner, C.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Die hier vorgestellten Erweiterungen der bereits bestehenden generischen Bibliothek zur linearen Algebra  (Fieger, A., Heumann, C., Kastner, C., Watzka, K., 1997:(Discussion Paper 63) stellen Funktionen bereit, die bei der Implementierung statistischer Verfahren benötigt werden. Besondere Beachtung findet der Umgang mit fehlenden Daten.
title: Der Einfluss von Dysphorie auf selektive Aufmerksamkeitsprozesse
Creators: name: Kral, Sophia Nalumu
Year: 2013

description: In der vorgestellten Studie wird der Zusammenhang von Stimmung, spezifisch gedrückter Stimmung und Aufmerksamkeitsprozessen untersucht. Unter Aufmerksamkeitsverzerrungen werden Fehler in der Informationsverarbeitung bei psychischen Störungen verstanden, welche dazu führen, dass normalerweise wenig beachteten Reizen vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit zugewendet wird. Bei Angststörungen sind es meist Reize, die einen bedrohlichen Charakter besitzen, während es sich bei Depression um traurige Stimuli handelt. Obwohl diese Verzerrung für störungsspezifische Stimuli besonders ausgeprägt sind, können sie auch bei negativen Stimuli generell beobachtet werden. Aufmerksamkeitsverzerrungen werden als wesentlich in der Aufrechterhaltung von psychischen Störungen abgesehen, weswegen ein ausgeprägtes Verständnis für die Behandlung wichtig ist. Zur Erforschung solcher Verzerrungen werden unterschiedliche Methoden verwendet, unter anderem auch der in dieser Studie verwendete Dot-probe Task. Bei dem Task wurden den Testpersonen zwei Bilder präsentiert, von welchen eines eine emotionale Szene zeigte und das andere eine neutrale Szene (z.B. Büroarbeit). Anschließend wurden beide Bilder wieder ausgeblendet und eines durch einen Punkt ersetzt. Die Bilder wurden entweder für 100ms oder 500ms dargeboten. Die Testperson musste mittels Tastendruck möglichst schnell angegeben, welches Bild durch den Punkt ersetzt wurde. Die Stichprobe der Studie bestand aus 48 Frauen, bei denen eine Hälfte mittels eines traurigen Filmausschnitts aus dem Film „The Champ“ in eine gedrückte Stimmung versetzt wurde. Der Kontrollgruppe wurde ein Filmausschnitt aus der Dokumentation „Wildnis am Strom – Nationalpark Donau-Au“ gezeigt. Um Veränderungen in der Stimmung zu erfassen, wurde die Positive und Negative Affekt-Skala (PANAS) (Krohne et al., 1996) vorgegeben. Weitere verwendete Verfahren waren das Beck Depressions-Inventar (BDI-II) (Hautzinger et al., 1995), der Trail Making Test (TMT) ((Reitan, 1955) und ein Screening für psychiatrische Erkrankungen basierend auf dem SKID. Die Stimmungsinduktion kann als erfolgreich angesehen werden, da der positive Affekt der Versuchsgruppe gegenüber der Kontrollgruppe, bei gleichzeitigem Anstieg des negativen Affekts, gesunken ist. Die Versuchsgruppe reagierte schneller bei positiven Bildern in inkongruenten Durchgängen, während sich das gleiche Muster für negative Reize in der Kontrollgruppe zeigte. Aus den Reaktionszeiten wurden der Bias-Index, als generelles Maß für eine Aufmerksamkeitsverzerrung, der Orienting-Index, als Maß der Zuwendung zu einem Reiz, und der Disengaging-Index, als Maß von Problemen in der Abwendung, berechnet. Diese zeigten, dass die Versuchsgruppe größere Probleme hatte, sich von negativen Reizen zu lösen und positive Reize mieden. Die Kontrollgruppe hingegen vermied negative Reize.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 6155.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.12.1911, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1911

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
THE EFFECT OF THE IN VITRO COMBINATION OF CEFOXITIN AND CLAVULANIC ACID AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACILLI
Creators: name: Biescas, Olga
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology

description: One mechanism by which bacteria are resistant to antibiotics is the production of $\beta$-lactamase. Clavulanic acid, a $\beta$-lactamase inhibitor, has been used in combination with $\beta$-lactamase susceptible penicillins against Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. In this study, the effect of the combination of cefoxitin and clavulanic acid was assayed using the checkerboard titration method. Twenty clinical isolates were tested. Two criteria were used to evaluate the results: the fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) index, and the reduction factor. An FIC index of $\leq$0.5 and a reduction in the MIC of both drugs of $\geq$4 times indicated synergy. No organism tested showed a synergistic reaction. Moreover, inconsistencies were found in the results when applying these criteria. No characterization of the $\beta$-lactamase was attempted. A reason for the absence of synergism in this study might be that these organisms produced Class I $\beta$-lactamase, which is not inhibited by clavulanic acid.
THE EFFECT OF THE IN VITRO COMBINATION OF CEFOXITIN AND CLAVULANIC ACID AGAINST GRAM-NEGATIVE BACILLI
Creators: name: Biescas, Olga
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: One mechanism by which bacteria are resistant to antibiotics is the production of $\beta$-lactamase. Clavulanic acid, a $\beta$-lactamase inhibitor, has been used in combination with $\beta$-lactamase susceptible penicillins against Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. In this study, the effect of the combination of cefoxitin and clavulanic acid was assayed using the checkerboard titration method. Twenty clinical isolates were tested. Two criteria were used to evaluate the results: the fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) index, and the reduction factor. An FIC index of $\leq$0.5 and a reduction in the MIC of both drugs of $\geq$4 times indicated synergy. No organism tested showed a synergistic reaction. Moreover, inconsistencies were found in the results when applying these criteria. No characterization of the $\beta$-lactamase was attempted. A reason for the absence of synergism in this study might be that these organisms produced Class I $\beta$-lactamase, which is not inhibited by clavulanic acid.
SYNTHESIS OF CHROMIUM(III) COMPLEXES WITH NUCLEOTIDE, AMINO ACID AND PEPTIDE
Creators: name: Weng, Weiqing
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The biologically damaging species in chromium(VI) toxicity are believed to be DNA-chromium(III)-protein crosslinks. Attempts have been made to model these crosslinks by synthesizing Cr(III)-nucleotide and Cr(III)-amino acid complexes. A Cr(III)-AMP (Adenosine 5$\sp\prime$-monophosphate) complex has been made using a heating method. Two Cr(III)-aspartic acid complexes have been synthesized. To model the complex formation with chromium(III) and the aspartic acid side chain in a protein or peptide, two chromium(III) complexes with aspartame (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester) have been made. All these complexes have been analyzed with chemical analysis and characterized by spectrophotometry. The details of synthesis and separation, as well as the data from the characterization of these complexes, are presented.
SYNTHESIS OF CHROMIUM(III) COMPLEXES WITH NUCLEOTIDE, AMINO ACID AND PEPTIDE
Creators: name: Weng, Weiqing
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3402
subject: Inorganic chemistry

description: The biologically damaging species in chromium(VI) toxicity are believed to be DNA-chromium(III)-protein crosslinks. Attempts have been made to model these crosslinks by synthesizing Cr(III)-nucleotide and Cr(III)-amino acid complexes. A Cr(III)-AMP (Adenosine 5$\sp\prime$-monophosphate) complex has been made using a heating method. Two Cr(III)-aspartic acid complexes have been synthesized. To model the complex formation with chromium(III) and the aspartic acid side chain in a protein or peptide, two chromium(III) complexes with aspartame (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester) have been made. All these complexes have been analyzed with chemical analysis and characterized by spectrophotometry. The details of synthesis and separation, as well as the data from the characterization of these complexes, are presented.
Improving the workflow of real-time fMRI Neurofeedback experiments
Creators: name: Lührs, Michael
name: Krause, Florian
name: Benjamins, Caroline
name: Brunheim, Sascha
name: Eck, Judith
name: Noirhomome, Quentin
name: Rosenke, Mona
name: Goebel, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: real-time, BCI, fMRI, Neurofeedback

description: We showed that standardizing the procedure of rtfMRI NF experiments is important to decrease the probability of errors while at the same time reducing the difficulty to perform an fMRI NF experiment. Additionally, we showed that the connection-oriented data transfer procedures of fMRI images lead to a decrease in transfer time variability.
INTERLOCKED. (ORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION)
Creators: name: Cavelos, Jeanne M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: In the year 2009, a group of thieves takes on a job for the Zuckerman Corporation: go into Albany, which has been contaminated by a spill of the Zuckerman-produced chemical PDX, to the Zuckerman facility there, and erase the computer files outlining the production of PDX before they are taken by terrorists or another company. PDX is lethal for five to seven days, then decays, causing only insanity. When the thieves arrive in Albany, they must face the insane survivors of the spill. They discover that the computer files have already been erased, and in the basement, they find Chris Heisenberg, an ex-employee of Zuckerman's on whom the company experimented. During their attempt to recover--with Chris's help--the stolen files, the thieves are contaminated with PDX and go insane. As they struggle to finish their job, Zuckerman plans to withhold their payment and send them to an asylum.
INTERLOCKED. (ORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION)
Creators: name: Cavelos, Jeanne M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In the year 2009, a group of thieves takes on a job for the Zuckerman Corporation: go into Albany, which has been contaminated by a spill of the Zuckerman-produced chemical PDX, to the Zuckerman facility there, and erase the computer files outlining the production of PDX before they are taken by terrorists or another company. PDX is lethal for five to seven days, then decays, causing only insanity. When the thieves arrive in Albany, they must face the insane survivors of the spill. They discover that the computer files have already been erased, and in the basement, they find Chris Heisenberg, an ex-employee of Zuckerman's on whom the company experimented. During their attempt to recover--with Chris's help--the stolen files, the thieves are contaminated with PDX and go insane. As they struggle to finish their job, Zuckerman plans to withhold their payment and send them to an asylum.
ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE IN CHILDREN AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN PEER RELATIONSHIPS
Creators: name: Dixon, J. Faye
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: The present study explored the relationship among attributional style, current level of self-reported feelings of depression, and perceived social competence. Interaction effects of age, sex, and level of depression were examined for the dimensions of attributional style and perceived social competence. In addition, the study assessed the relationship between the child's self-reported competence and ratings from peers and adults of the child's behavior. Ninety-nine low- and middle-income children (57 girls and 42 boys) participated in this study. The results of the data analyses supported the hypotheses of relationship among attributional style, level of depression, and self-perceived social competency. These findings suggest that cognitive style as well as mood state impact upon ratings of self-efficacy in peer relationships. However, the results did not support the hypotheses that a child's self-ratings of perceived competency are positively correlated with external ratings of social competency from peers and counselors.
title: Allelic variation in HLA-B and HLA-C sequences and the evolution of the HLA-B alleles
Creators: name: Pohla, Heike
name: Kuon, W.
name: Tabaczewski, P.
name: Doerner, C.
name: Weiss, Elisabeth H.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Several new HLA-B (B8, B51, Bw62)- andHLA-C (Cw6, Cw7)-specific genes were isolated either asgenomic cosmid or cDNA clones to study the diversityof HLA antigens. The allele specificities were identifiedby sequence analysis in comparison with published HLABand -C sequences, by transfection experiments, andSouthern and northern blot analysis using oligonucleotideprobes. Comparison of the classical HLA-A, -B, and -Csequences reveals that allele-specific substitutions seemto be rare events. HLA-B51 codes only for one allelespecificresidue: arginine at position 81 located on the cdhelix, pointing toward the antigen binding site. HLA-B8contains an acidic substitution in amino acid position 9on the first central/3 sheet which might affect antigen bindingcapacity, perhaps in combination with the rarereplacement at position 67 (F) on the Alpha-l helix. HLA-B8shows greatest homology to HLA-Bw42, -Bw41, -B7, and-Bw60 antigens, all of which lack the conserved restrictionsites Pst I at position 180 and Sac I at position 131.Both sites associated with amino acid replacements seemto be genetic markers of an evolutionary split of the HLA-Balleles, which is also observed in the leader sequences.HLA-Cw7 shows 98% sequence identity to the JY328gene. In general, the HLA-C alleles display lower levelsof variability in the highly polymorphic regions of the Alpha 1and Alpha 2 domains, and have more distinct patterns of locusspecificresidues in the transmembrane and cytoplasmicdomains. Thus we propose a more recent origin for theHLA-C locus.
ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE IN CHILDREN AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE IN PEER RELATIONSHIPS
Creators: name: Dixon, J. Faye
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present study explored the relationship among attributional style, current level of self-reported feelings of depression, and perceived social competence. Interaction effects of age, sex, and level of depression were examined for the dimensions of attributional style and perceived social competence. In addition, the study assessed the relationship between the child's self-reported competence and ratings from peers and adults of the child's behavior. Ninety-nine low- and middle-income children (57 girls and 42 boys) participated in this study. The results of the data analyses supported the hypotheses of relationship among attributional style, level of depression, and self-perceived social competency. These findings suggest that cognitive style as well as mood state impact upon ratings of self-efficacy in peer relationships. However, the results did not support the hypotheses that a child's self-ratings of perceived competency are positively correlated with external ratings of social competency from peers and counselors.
SECRETed H2020 project - 1st Press Release
Creators: name: EXELISIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: dissemination
Press release
SECRETed
surfactants
siderophores
biology
compounds
encapsulation
cosmetics
biotechnology
agrochemicals
pharmaceuticals
nutraceuticals
food supplements
antitumor
diagnostics
ophthalmology
industry

description: The SECRETed project aims to fully exploit aquatic biotechnology for the development of biosurfactants and siderophores with tailor-made properties based on marine and extremophilic microorganisms. Systems and Synthetic Biology toolboxes and methods are employed to reverse engineer and combine biosynthetic pathways for the production of new-to-nature compounds for multiple sectors including agrochemical, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and chemistry.
Carebarella Emery 1906
Creators: name: Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes
name: Brandão, Carlos R. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Carebarella

description: Genus Carebarella Emery, 1906: 137
 Carebarella alvarengai Kempf, 1975a: 352. Holotype: 1G [Brazil], MT [Mato Grosso], Vila Vera, [55°30’W 12°46’S], x.1973, M. Alvarenga [leg., Coll. Kempf] #10135. Disarticulated head, M1, A2 funiculus, W1/W2 and L6 glued on a paper triangle, and W3/W4 trapped in a pin. Comment: Body parts in two pins.
 Carebarella condei Borgmeier, 1937: 236. Type[Syntype]: 1M [Brazil], Espírito Santo, S[anta] Teresa, [26.vi.1928, O. Conde leg.], Coll. Borgm. #4292, [com rede]. Missing W 3, A1/A2 last segment of the funiculus, disarticulated head glued on a paper triangle. Type[Syntype]: 1G [Brazil, Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa, 26.vi.1928, O. Conde leg.], Coll. Borgm. #4292, [entomological net].
description: Published as part of Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes & Brandão, Carlos R. F., 2013, Catalogue Of Dacetini And Solenopsidini Ant Type Specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) Deposited In The Museu De Zoologia Da Universidade De São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 187-209 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (14) on page 193, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492013001400001, http://zenodo.org/record/13174603
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS: IS THERE A PRICE TO PAY?
Creators: name: Graage, France Kupper
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: With government in the United States having recently (1965) made the transition from catalyst in the support of the arts to patron, it is important to examine the consequences of this change. In this thesis, the United States provides a perspective of both the recent past and the present, and Europe provides a glimpse into the future. The method used has been to examine and analyze a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, supplemented by interviews with professionals in political science, art advocates, and art bureaucrats. The most surprising finding of this study has been that financial support for the nonprofit arts in the United States far exceeds that in Western Europe. Less surprising has been the discovery of a correlation between direct government support and government control. The conclusion reached is that the best arts support is provided by a prosperous, pluralistic, and well educated private patronage.
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS: IS THERE A PRICE TO PAY?
Creators: name: Graage, France Kupper
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: With government in the United States having recently (1965) made the transition from catalyst in the support of the arts to patron, it is important to examine the consequences of this change. In this thesis, the United States provides a perspective of both the recent past and the present, and Europe provides a glimpse into the future. The method used has been to examine and analyze a wide range of historical and contemporary sources, supplemented by interviews with professionals in political science, art advocates, and art bureaucrats. The most surprising finding of this study has been that financial support for the nonprofit arts in the United States far exceeds that in Western Europe. Less surprising has been the discovery of a correlation between direct government support and government control. The conclusion reached is that the best arts support is provided by a prosperous, pluralistic, and well educated private patronage.
FARM CRISIS AND SUICIDE: DYING ON THE VINE?
Creators: name: Ragland, John Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study investigated the recent concern that economic crisis has led to increased suicide rates among farmers. The number of suicides for farmers and two control occupations (forestry and transportation workers) from 1980-1985 were obtained from 15 states in the U. S. Suicide frequencies were converted into rates using occupational population data from the 1980 U. S. Census. To answer: (a) whether suicide rates were greater for farm than for control occupations, and (b) whether there was a relationship between fluctuations in farm economy and suicide rates over time, an analysis of covariance was performed. The rate of suicide for farmers was found to be greater than that of truck drivers, but no different than forestry rates. It was also found that a declining farm economy corresponded to increasing state suicide rates (i.e., positive correlation). Suicides for all occupations were found to be predominantly male and predominantly white.
Tropidomyrmex Silva, Feitosa, Brandao & Diniz 2009
Creators: name: Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes
name: Brandão, Carlos R. F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Tropidomyrmex

description: Genus Tropidomyrmex Silva, Feitosa,   Brandão & Diniz, 2009: 34
 Tropiomyrmex elianae Silva, Feitosa, Brandão & Diniz, 2009: 39. Holotype: 1W, Paratypes: 3W 3G 5M Brasil, MG [Minas Gerais], Tiradentes, Serra de São José, 21°05’30”S 44°10’36”, 1267 m, [in ground nest of Anoplotermes pacificus Mueller, 1873 (Isoptera, Apicotermitinae)], 12.iv.2007, E.M. Cancello & M.A. Menezes cols. One gyne and one male, both dealate, were coated with gold for SEM examination.
description: Published as part of Ulysséa, Mônica Antunes & Brandão, Carlos R. F., 2013, Catalogue Of Dacetini And Solenopsidini Ant Type Specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) Deposited In The Museu De Zoologia Da Universidade De São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 187-209 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53 (14) on page 203, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492013001400001, http://zenodo.org/record/13174603
The Italian jukebox
Creators: name: Ghirardini, Cristina
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2017

description: The paper gives a short historical survey of ethnomusicological sound archives in Italy and proposes a few remarks on the accessibility of music through them. It also deals with the role that has normally been given to sound archives and with the concept of source, questioning the common idea that the main purpose of a sound archive is the creation and preservation of good historical sources. Moreover, it addresses the concepts of patrimonialisation and intangible heritage, wondering if the heritage of sound archives is really intangible or not. Finally, it discusses the relationship between the activity of local sound archives and the ethnomusicological work, especially focusing on my experience at the Centro per il dialetto romagnolo, in Ravenna. This paper tries to understand whether in contemporary Italy sound archives may have a fruitful role inside local communities by allowing the access to a critical repository of recordings.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 16, N° 1 (2017): Making music in the time of YouTube
FARM CRISIS AND SUICIDE: DYING ON THE VINE?
Creators: name: Ragland, John Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the recent concern that economic crisis has led to increased suicide rates among farmers. The number of suicides for farmers and two control occupations (forestry and transportation workers) from 1980-1985 were obtained from 15 states in the U. S. Suicide frequencies were converted into rates using occupational population data from the 1980 U. S. Census. To answer: (a) whether suicide rates were greater for farm than for control occupations, and (b) whether there was a relationship between fluctuations in farm economy and suicide rates over time, an analysis of covariance was performed. The rate of suicide for farmers was found to be greater than that of truck drivers, but no different than forestry rates. It was also found that a declining farm economy corresponded to increasing state suicide rates (i.e., positive correlation). Suicides for all occupations were found to be predominantly male and predominantly white.
SECRETed H2020 project - Poster
Creators: name: EXELISIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: dissemination
Poster
SECRETed
surfactants
siderophores
biology
compounds
encapsulation
cosmetics
biotechnology
agrochemicals
pharmaceuticals
nutraceuticals
food supplements
antitumor
diagnostics
ophthalmology
industry

description: Poster of the H2020 EU Funded project SECRETed - Sustainable Exploitation of bio-based Compounds Revealed and Engineered from naTural sources. The SECRETed project proposes the development of novel molecules with tailor-made properties by the combination of biosynthetic genes of amphiphilic compounds (biosurfactants and siderophores) produced by marine and extremophilic microorganisms
From the manuscript to YouTube Liturgical and paraliturgical chants on the Web
Creators: name: Giordano, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2017

description: Over the last few years, ethnomusicological research in Italy has, just like elsewhere, increasingly become the subject of collective discussion and reflection by scholars of the sector. This has resulted from a sharp change in methodological approach, which was also a consequence of the mutation that interested the very way in which music is written and the benefits deriving from this, including the one that – conventionally – we have always defined as ‘traditional’. A crucial effect of this change came with the advent of the Internet and particularly of some virtual spaces dedicated to music. The article first focuses on the phenomenon of the documentation and the on-line fruition of traditional music, especially liturgical and paraliturgical chants. Thanks to some examples, the paper also offers some reflections on the possibility of considering these virtual fieldworks as new areas of research in ethnomusicology.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 16, N° 1 (2017): Making music in the time of YouTube
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 5330.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.10.1908, erstellt von Alfred Wolfer
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1908

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zugeordnete numerische Werte wurden in einer separat geführten, chronologischen Tabelle erfasst. Unter Umständen sind tabellarisch notierte Werte, die für Protuberanzen mit rot geschrieben wurden, direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung vermerkt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Media, virtual communities, and musics of oral tradition in contemporary Sardinia
Creators: name: Lutzu, Marco
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2017

description: This article focuses on some Facebook groups centred on Sardinian traditional music, analysing the dynamics of interaction amongst the members, the contents they share and, more generally, the use they make of the Internet. Using the methodology of the virtual ethnography, the research reflects on the impact that Internet has had on both the music diffusion and the related information, especially on musical practices which, until recently, were mainly based on face-to-face relationships. By proposing the concept of a ‘Virtual Sound Group’, the work analyses the deep impact Facebook and other digital platforms have had on the way the music is diffused, on the variety of sound documents available to the users, on how live events are advertised, and their use as tools for the self-promotion of both the musicians and the aficionados.
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 16, N° 1 (2017): Making music in the time of YouTube
CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK) POTENTIATES THE RATE-DECREASING EFFECTS OF MORPHINEON SCHEDULE-CONTROLLED BEHAVIOR IN RATS
Creators: name: Winsauer, Peter John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cholecystokinin (CCK), a brain-gut peptide, has been shown to antagonize the effects of morphine on a variety of measures, but similar effects have not been demonstrated on schedule-controlled responding. The present research examined the interaction of CCK with cumulative doses of morphine on operant licking in rats. In general, as the dose of morphine increased (3.2-18 mg/kg) the overall response rate decreased. In two of three subjects, CCK alone (10-32 $\mu$g/kg) produced little or no effect. When these doses of CCK were given in combination with morphine, however, the morphine dose-effect curve tended to shift to the left. In contrast, after pretreatment with maltrexone (1 mg/kg), the same doses of morphine produced little or no effect, i.e., the curve shifted to the right. Accordingly, these results would indicate that not only does CCK interact with morphine differently on differently types of behavior, but also different from naltrexone.
SECRETed H2020 project - Rollup
Creators: name: EXELISIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: dissemination
Rollup
SECRETed
surfactants
siderophores
biology
compounds
encapsulation
cosmetics
biotechnology
agrochemicals
pharmaceuticals
nutraceuticals
food supplements
antitumor
diagnostics
ophthalmology
industry

description: Dissemintation material (Rollup) of the SECRETed project - Sustainable Exploitation of bio-based Compounds Revealed and Engineered from naTural sources
title: Verordenbarkeit von Psychopharmaka in der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie
Creators: name: Wicke, Johanna Sophie
Year: 2013

description: Diese Arbeit setzt sich mit der Verordenbarkeit von Psychopharmaka in der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie auseinander. Aus Mangel an offiziellen Daten kommt auf kinder- und jugendpsychitatrischen Stationen häufig der Off-Label-Use, unter welchem man die Verwendung eines Arzneimittels außerhalb seiner Zulassung versteht, zur Anwendung. Da Kinder nicht mit kleinen Erwachsenen gleichzusetzen sind, ist es oft nicht möglich, die therapeutische Dosis zu extrapolieren. Die Pharmakokinetik verändert sich vor allem in den ersten 16 Lebensjahren stark, sodass es auch nicht möglich ist, eine einheitliche ,,Kinderdosierung” zu definieren; eine weitere Einteilung in mehrere Untergruppen ist notwendig. Sowohl in Hinblick auf Absorbtion, Verteilung, Metabolisierung sowie Elimination von Arzneistoffen kommt es zu Unterschieden im Vergleich zu erwachsenen Patienten. Studien an Kindern stellen allerdings ein ethisches Problem dar, weil sich einerseits aufgrund des geringen Probandenkollektivs wenig Studienteilnehmer finden, andererseits Eltern ungern ihre Kinder als Partizipanten zur Verfügung stellen. Des Weiteren ist es Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme an einer klinischen Studie, dass der Teilnehmer derart aufgeklärt wurde, dass er sich den Folgen und Risiken einer Behandlung bewusst ist, was bei Kindern mitunter nicht gegeben ist, sodass auch Erziehungsberechtigte miteinbezogen werden müssen. Mittlerweile ist man zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass es im Allgemeinen gefährlicher ist, keine gesicherten Daten zu haben, als wenn Kinder unter kontrollierten Bedingungen im Rahmen einer Studie behandelt werden. Daher wurde von der Europäischen Union eine 2006 in Kraft getretene Verordnung über Kinderarzneimittel (EG 1901/ 2006) erlassen, welche von Unternehmen bei Beantragung beziehungsweise Änderung einer Zulassung für Medikamente, die im pädiatrischen Bereich eingesetzt werden können, fordert, auch pädiatrische Studien vorzuweisen. Wider der allgemeinen Annahme, dass es kaum an Kindern erfasste Daten gibt, wurden auch über 18.000 pädiatrische Studien für mehr als 1000 Wirkstoffe nachgereicht, was laut Artikel 45 der Verordnung über Kinderarzneimittel gefordert wurde. Da der Off-Label-Use an den kinder- und jugendpsychiatrischen Stationen C1 und C2 des Neurologischen Zentrum Rosenhügel an der Tagesordnung steht, und Zulassungen länderspezifisch variieren können, sowie Dosierungsempfehlungen aus dem Ausland hilfreich sein können, befasst sich der empirische Teil dieser Arbeit damit, welchen Zulassungsstatus die auf C1 und C2 verwendeten Medikamente im deutschsprachigen Raum (Österreich Deutschland, Schweiz) haben, sowie welche Dosierungsempfehlungen aus dem anglo-amerikanischen Raum vorhanden sind.
CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK) POTENTIATES THE RATE-DECREASING EFFECTS OF MORPHINEON SCHEDULE-CONTROLLED BEHAVIOR IN RATS
Creators: name: Winsauer, Peter John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5299
subject: Other psychology

description: Cholecystokinin (CCK), a brain-gut peptide, has been shown to antagonize the effects of morphine on a variety of measures, but similar effects have not been demonstrated on schedule-controlled responding. The present research examined the interaction of CCK with cumulative doses of morphine on operant licking in rats. In general, as the dose of morphine increased (3.2-18 mg/kg) the overall response rate decreased. In two of three subjects, CCK alone (10-32 $\mu$g/kg) produced little or no effect. When these doses of CCK were given in combination with morphine, however, the morphine dose-effect curve tended to shift to the left. In contrast, after pretreatment with maltrexone (1 mg/kg), the same doses of morphine produced little or no effect, i.e., the curve shifted to the right. Accordingly, these results would indicate that not only does CCK interact with morphine differently on differently types of behavior, but also different from naltrexone.
MOTHER-INFANT AND FATHER-INFANT INTERACTION BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Miller, Carol Jennifer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: This study focused on reciprocal parent-infant behavior, an important factor in the cognitive and emotional development of the infant. Twenty 8-month-old children were videotaped alone with each parent for 10 minutes of free play in a laboratory setting. Questionnaire data on caretaking involvement were also collected. Mothers and fathers did not differ on the dimensions of contingent behavior, anti-contingent behavior, initiation behavior, "maternal" (social, toy-oriented) play style or "paternal" (physical) play style. However, caretaking involvement, as measured by the amount of time parents spent alone with their infants, was negatively related to mothers' paternal play style and positively related to fathers' paternal play style. In addition, male infants were the objects of more contingent, less initiating and less paternal behavior. The study points out the importance of focusing on similarities between maternal and paternal behavior and reveals precursors in infancy of sex-role socialization.
SECRETed H2020 project - 2nd Press Release
Creators: name: EXELISIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: dissemination
Press release
SECRETed
surfactants
siderophores
biology
compounds
encapsulation
cosmetics
biotechnology
agrochemicals
pharmaceuticals
nutraceuticals
food supplements
antitumor
diagnostics
ophthalmology
industry

description: SECRETed is a founding member of the Cluster of Projects funded under the same topic FNR-11-2020: Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds. The activities of the cluster inaugurated on 25th May 2022 through a virtual workshop hosted and co-organized by EXELISIS and IDENER R&D (coordinator) of the SECRETed project. The cluster of Algae4IBD, InnCoCells, MARBLES and SECRETed H2020 projects aims to address common challenges and follow joint dissemination and communication activities adding value to each project individually and the cluster as a whole.
MOTHER-INFANT AND FATHER-INFANT INTERACTION BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Miller, Carol Jennifer
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study focused on reciprocal parent-infant behavior, an important factor in the cognitive and emotional development of the infant. Twenty 8-month-old children were videotaped alone with each parent for 10 minutes of free play in a laboratory setting. Questionnaire data on caretaking involvement were also collected. Mothers and fathers did not differ on the dimensions of contingent behavior, anti-contingent behavior, initiation behavior, "maternal" (social, toy-oriented) play style or "paternal" (physical) play style. However, caretaking involvement, as measured by the amount of time parents spent alone with their infants, was negatively related to mothers' paternal play style and positively related to fathers' paternal play style. In addition, male infants were the objects of more contingent, less initiating and less paternal behavior. The study points out the importance of focusing on similarities between maternal and paternal behavior and reveals precursors in infancy of sex-role socialization.
TWINSHIP AS THEME AND STRUCTURE IN THE FICTION OF MICHEL TOURNIER
Creators: name: Price, David Walter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Tournier's fiction contains an abundance of twins and dual images, and in his critical writings he often discusses gemellite as a concept. This study examines l'idee gemellaire, the conceptual framework within which Tournier creates his narratives. Tournier uses twins and recurrent images as structural devices that give his texts coherence and symmetry. A detailed analysis of Le Roi des Aulnes reveals how Tournier uses twin narrative story lines such that a familiar fable or myth provides a structural scaffolding for the novel that illuminates the foregrounded story. An analysis of La Goutte d'Or demonstrates how Tournier uses twin images as the cornerstone of this critique of Western society's obsession with images and its subsequent loss of spiritual values. Tournier's constant use of twins and dual oppositions indicates his fascination with a concept of unity that he tries to achieve structurally and thematically in each of his novels.
title: Ökonomische Perspektiven eines "Electronic Data Interchange"
Creators: name: Neuburger, Rahild
name: Picot, Arnold
name: Niggl, Johann
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Kein Inhaltsverzeichnis.
Japan Fact Sheet
Creators: name: Economic Research Service
name: Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1968
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Relations/Trade

description: Excerpts from the report: Japan has been the U.S. farmer's top dollar customer abroad since 1961. Agricultural imports from the United States, on a c.i.f. basis, passed the billion dollar mark in 1966—and are still on the rise. The Japanese economy has grown at an average rate of about 10 percent annually since 1952—making it one of the fastest expanding economies in the world. Japan is the top dollar market abroad for many U.S. farm commodities. In 1966, the country took more than one-fourth of our exports of soybeans, cotton, grain sorghum, cattle hides, and raisins; more than a fifth of our exports of inedible tallow, nonfat dry milk, and fresh lemons. Japan also was our biggest cash customer abroad for baby chicks, sweet shelled almonds, vegetable oil extracts, and natural orange oils.
description: Reprinted from The Farm Index, March 1968
TWINSHIP AS THEME AND STRUCTURE IN THE FICTION OF MICHEL TOURNIER
Creators: name: Price, David Walter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: Tournier's fiction contains an abundance of twins and dual images, and in his critical writings he often discusses gemellite as a concept. This study examines l'idee gemellaire, the conceptual framework within which Tournier creates his narratives. Tournier uses twins and recurrent images as structural devices that give his texts coherence and symmetry. A detailed analysis of Le Roi des Aulnes reveals how Tournier uses twin narrative story lines such that a familiar fable or myth provides a structural scaffolding for the novel that illuminates the foregrounded story. An analysis of La Goutte d'Or demonstrates how Tournier uses twin images as the cornerstone of this critique of Western society's obsession with images and its subsequent loss of spiritual values. Tournier's constant use of twins and dual oppositions indicates his fascination with a concept of unity that he tries to achieve structurally and thematically in each of his novels.