cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Development of the Digital Signal Processing for the Space Weather Probes Version 2 Sensor Using the MATLAB/Simulink Environment
Creators: name: Lewis, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Space Weather Probes (SWP) is an instrument that provides measurements of the plasma environment of the ionosphere. SWP was flown on the Scintillation Prediction Observation Task (SPORT) mission, a joint mission between the United States of America and Brazil. This thesis will develop the digital signal processing (DSP) hardware design for the Space Weather Probes version 2 (SWP2). The data from these instruments will be used to determine the density and temperature of the local plasma, as well as the electric field in the local plasma. This thesis presents the design and testing of the DSP designs for all of the different probes in SWP2. All design and testing was done in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.
Poincaré duality for spaces with isolated singularities
Creators: name: Klimczak, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57P10, 55N33, 55P62

description: In this paper we assign, under reasonable hypothesis, to each pseudomanifold with isolated singularities a rational Poincaré duality space. These spaces are constructed with the formalism of intersections spaces defined by Markus Banagl and are indeed related to them in the even dimensional case.
description: New version of the paper formerly known as "Spatialization of self dual complexes for spaces with isolated singularities". Final version to appear in manuscripta mathematica
title: Der Effekt aktiven Kunstschaffens auf die Gesundheit
Creators: name: Lange, Gudrun
name: Koch, Sabine C.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Aktive Gestaltung
subject: Wirkfaktoren
subject: Selbstwirksamkeit
subject: Wohlbefinden
subject: Mediationsanalyse
subject: kunstbasierte Forschung
subject: mixed methods
subject: Verkörperte Ästhetik
subject: Künstlerische Therapien
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Die künstlerische Gestaltung (Kreation/Schöpfung) ist ein wichtiger Teil vieler Interventionen in den Künstlerischen Therapien (Kunst-, Musik-, Tanz- und Theatertherapie). Dieser aktive Teil des Kunstschaffens ist jedoch in Hinblick auf seine Wirkfaktoren noch wenig untersucht. Die[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
Three topics on Hilbert functions: Froberg's Conjecture, Hilbert coefficients and deformations of local rings
Creators: name: VAN, DUC TRUNG
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: In this thesis, we present three topics concerning the study of Hilbert function. In the first topic, we obtained a partial solution to Froberg's conjecture. In the second topic, we gave the bounds for the second Hilbert coefficients of filtered modules. In the third part, we study the preservation of Hilbert function under small perturbations.
title: Die Förderung von Empathie in musiktherapeutischen Gruppen
Creators: name: Liebich, Dorothee
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Empathie
subject: Musiktherapie
subject: Gruppentherapie
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Empathie ist ein zentraler Wirkfaktor psychotherapeutischer Gruppen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie wird ein musiktherapeutischer Interventionskatalog zur Förderung von Empathie in Gruppen entwickelt. Dazu werden vier Musiktherapeutinnen mit einer Berufserfahrung von 9–29 Jahren interviewt.[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
Clinical indicators for diabetic eyecare delivered by optometrists in Australia: a Delphi study
Creators: name: Gyawali, Rajendra
name: Toomey, Melinda
name: Stapleton, Fiona
name: Ho, Kam Chun
name: Keay, Lisa
name: Pye, David C
name: Katalinic, Paula
name: Liew, Gerald
name: Hsing, Yan Inez
name: Ramke, Jacqueline
name: Gentle, Alex
name: Webber, Ann L
name: Schmid, Katrina L
name: Bentley, Sharon
name: Hibbert, Peter
name: Wiles, Louise
name: Jalbert, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Valid and updated clinical indicators can serve as important tools in assessing and improving eyecare delivery. Indicators for diabetic eyecare in Australia were previously developed from guidelines published before 2013 and then used to assess the appropriateness of care delivery through a nationwide patient record card audit (the iCareTrack study). To reflect emerging evidence and contemporary practice, this study aimed to update clinical indicators for optometric care for people with type 2 diabetes in Australia. Forty-five candidate indicators, including existing iCareTrack and new indicators derived from nine high-quality evidence-based guidelines, were generated. A two-round modified Delphi process where expert panel members rated the impact, acceptability, and feasibility of the indicators on a 9-point scale and voted for inclusion or exclusion of the candidate indicators was used. Consensus on inclusion was reached when the median scores for impact, acceptability, and feasibility were ≥7 and >75% of experts voted for inclusion. Thirty-two clinical indicators with high acceptability, impact and feasibility ratings (all median scores: 9) were developed. The final indicators were related to history taking (n = 12), physical examination (n = 8), recall period (n = 5), referral (n = 5), and patient education/communication (n = 2). Most (14 of 15) iCareTrack indicators were retained either in the original format or with modifications. New indicators included documenting the type of diabetes, serum lipid level, pregnancy, systemic medications, nephropathy, Indigenous status, general practitioner details, pupil examination, intraocular pressure, optical coherence tomography, diabetic retinopathy grading, recall period for high-risk diabetic patients without retinopathy, referral of high-risk proliferative retinopathy, communication with the general practitioner, and patient education. A set of 32 updated diabetic eyecare clinical indicators was developed based on contemporary evidence and expert consensus. These updated indicators inform the development of programs to assess and enhance the eyecare delivery for people with diabetes in Australia.
title: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Discrimination, & Adulthood Health Outcomes: Impacts of Protective and Compensatory Experiences in Childhood
Creators: name: Mack, Sallie A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Adversity encompasses a wide range of stress-inducing experiences that are often prolonged and/or recurring in nature. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) capture adversity experienced before the age of 18, including abuse, neglect, and general household dysfunction. ACEs are widely linked to physical and mental health outcomes across the lifespan. Racial/ethnic discrimination, a form of adversity that can occur across the lifespan, has also been linked to many negative health outcomes. Protective and compensatory experiences in childhood (PACEs) are a relatively newer conceptualization of early-life resiliency factors. Early life resiliency is linked to positive health outcomes later in life. Our studies investigated relations among adversity (ACEs and discrimination), resiliency (PACEs), and health outcomes (depressive symptoms, mental health diagnoses, physical health diagnoses, and self-related health). We used a longitudinal study, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ("Add Health"), which contains data from adolescent years to middle adulthood. In Study 1, we investigated the relations among ACEs, PACEs, and adult health outcomes, specifically exploring if PACEs interact with the effect of ACEs on adult health outcomes. In Study 2, we utilized a sample of racial/ethnic minority participants to investigate relations among racial discrimination, PACEs, and adult health outcomes, specifically looking to see if PACEs interact with the effect of discrimination on adult health outcomes. We found that ACEs predicted depressive symptoms and mental health diagnoses in adulthood. Discrimination was predictive of depressive symptoms and mental health diagnoses. PACEs predicted self-rated health. PACEs did not serve as a moderator for any of the relations between adversity variables (ACEs and discrimination) and health outcomes. PACEs did not influence the relations between adversity variables (ACEs and discrimination) and any health outcomes. We discuss what these research findings mean and what they imply for future research.
Functional Materials for Active and Intelligent Food Packaging Applications
Creators: name: ZIA, JASIM
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2020

description: Food products undergo numerous spoilage processes due to their highly perishable nature. Decreased food quality causes food borne diseases that affect the public health and well-being of the society. Therefore, manufacturers, retailers, consumers and regulatory agencies demand higher quality standards, and the adoption of strategies that enable the real time monitoring/traceability of the food quality throughout the supply chain. Recently the advances in the food packaging led to the development of active, intelligent and smart packaging materials able to improve the food quality, to increase the shelf life and to provide real time information about the condition of the food products. Although in the field numerous studies are continuously reported, there is still the need for the development of biocompatible, cost effective and highly performant systems easily scalable and applicable in everyday life. This thesis is focused on the development of active, and intelligent packaging biocomposite materials by utilizing functional fillers of natural origin, following cost effective, and easily scalable methods. Specifically, the first part of this study is focused on the modification of an already widely used polymer in food packaging, the low-density polyethylene, in order to improve its water vapor barrier properties and to transform it to a functional material with antioxidant properties, expanding thus its use in active packaging. This is succeeded by introducing into the polymer curcumin powder as filler, following the most common method for polyethylene processing used in industry, the melt processing. The developed composite shows excellent water vapor barrier and antioxidant properties making thus possible its use in active packaging for the shelf life increase of food products. In the second part of this study, an intelligent packaging porous indicator is developed by the combination of polyvinyl alcohol, microcrystalline cellulose and anthocyanins extracted from red cabbage. The specific material is able to indicate the food spoilage through a distinct color change that can be perceived by the naked eye and by non-expert users. In the third part of the present study, an smart packaging material is developed based on red cabbage powder and chitosan that combines the properties of both the active and intelligent packaging materials in a single system. The developed bioplastic presents excellent antioxidant activity, biodegradability and rapid color changes to the food?s pH fluctuations during the spoilage process indicating thus its quality deterioration.
GATE: Greening At The Edge
Creators: name: Ansari, Nirwan
name: Han, Tao
name: Taheri, Mina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dramatic data traffic growth, especially wireless data, is driving a significant surge in energy consumption in the last mile access of the telecommunications infrastructure. The growing energy consumption not only escalates the operators' operational expenditures (OPEX) but also leads to a significant rise of carbon footprints. Therefore, enhancing the energy efficiency of broadband access networks is becoming a necessity to bolster social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This article provides an overview on the design and optimization of energy efficient broadband access networks, analyzes the energy efficient design of passive optical networks, discusses the enabling technologies for next generation broadband wireless access networks, and elicits the emerging technologies for enhancing the energy efficiency of the last mile access of the network infrastructure.
description: 7 Pages, 12 Figures, Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications
Sh-I-048A, an in vitro non-selective super-agonist at the benzodiazepine site of GABAA receptors: The approximated activation of receptor subtypes may explain behavioral effects
Creators: name: Radulović, Tamara
name: Marković, Bojan
name: Varagic, Zdravko
name: Sieghart, Werner
name: Cook, James M.
name: Roth, Brian L.
name: Savić, Miroslav M.
name: Obradović, Aleksandar Lj
name: Poe, Michael M.
name: Batinić, Bojan
name: Joksimović, Srcrossed D.Signan
name: Namjoshi, Ojas
name: Ramerstorfer, Joachim
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Enormous progress in understanding the role of four populations of benzodiazepine-sensitive GABAA receptors was paralleled by the puzzling findings suggesting that substantial separation of behavioral effects may be accomplished by apparently non-selective modulators. We report on SH-I-048A, a newly-synthesized chiral positive modulator of GABAA receptors characterized by exceptional subnanomolar affinity, high efficacy and non-selectivity. Its influence on behavior was assessed in Wistar rats and contrasted to that obtained with 2 mg/kg diazepam. SH-I-048A reached micromolar concentrations in brain tissue, while the unbound fraction in brain homogenate was around 1.5%. The approximated electrophysiological responses, which estimated free concentrations of SH-I-048A or diazepam are able to elicit, suggested a similarity between the 10 mg/kg dose of the novel ligand and 2 mg/kg diazepam; however, SH-I-048A was relatively more active at α1- and α5-containing GABAA receptors. Behaviorally, SH-I-048A induced sedative, muscle relaxant and ataxic effects, reversed mechanical hyperalgesia 24 hours after injury, while it was devoid of clear anxiolytic actions and did not affect water-maze performance. While lack of clear anxiolytic actions may be connected with an enhanced potentiation at α1-containing GABAA receptors, the observed behavior in the rotarod, water maze and peripheral nerve injury tests was possibly affected by its prominent action at receptors containing the α5 subunit. The current results encourage further innovative approaches aimed at linking in vitro and in vivo data in order to help define fine-tuning mechanisms at four sensitive receptor populations that underlie subtle differences in behavioral profiles of benzodiazepine site ligands.
Acoustofluidic interferometric device for optomechanical cytometry
Creators: name: MEJIA MORALES, JULIAN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2021

description: In the past years, growing demand for label-free cell analysis has emerged. This demand answers the need for cell analysis in its developing stages and, perhaps more importantly, to study physiological cell states in a simpler way than using fluorescence-based analyses. Mechanical and optical properties of cells are emerging as powerful biomarkers to discriminate cells. The cell deformation induced by acoustic pressure is measured with the Acoustofluidic Interferometric Device, developed in this thesis. It allows for studying the deformability of the cell in a way similar to what is done for the analysis of the Young modulus. Deformability is an integral biomarker that summarizes cell gene expression, and the cell refractive index is related to the density of proteins in the cytoskeleton. The Acoustofluidic Interferometric Device, developed for the measurement of optomechanical cell properties on a cytometric basis. The device is thoroughly described and characterized in this thesis. The device enables the assessment of size, deformability, and refractive index (or a combination of them) of non-adherent cells utilizing a low finesse Fabry-Perot resonator and acoustic manipulation. When an acoustically focussed cell (or another micro-sized particle) crosses the Fabry-Perot cavity axis, it will perturb the resonator?s fringe pattern governed by the Airy?s transmission function. Such perturbation can be characterized and analyzed by means of the parameters ? (radii of the circular interference fringes), Full Width at Half Maximum of the individual fringe, and by the distance between fringes (Free Spectral Range). The analysis of the perturbation enables the assessment of the cell?s optomechanical properties. Measurement of Algae and Yeast cells? deformability has been carried out to test the instrument?s performance and compared to the equivalent perturbation introduced by Microgel beads and Polystyrene spheres as controls. The experiment is based on the cell-induced fringe pattern perturbation analysis. Images of the perturbation are acquired under two different conditions; 1) acoustic focussing and 2) acoustically induced deformation. 180 independent intensity profiles are retrieved and analyzed for each image, allowing for statistical analysis of the parameters: cell focal length and perturbed resonator Finesse. The results show a change in the optomechanical properties of the Algae, Yeast, and Microgel. Notoriously, the Polystyrene sample remains virtually unchanged, as expected since Polystyrene is much stiffer than a cell and cannot be deformed by the instrument?s pressure field. These results show that the acoustofluidic technique presented here is useful to detect and measure different optomechanical properties which, potentially, can be used as label-free biomarkers in clinical diagnosis.
title: Schizophrenia and the Moving Body: Socio-Motor Markers of Disembodiment and the Definition of a Motor Domain
Creators: name: Martin, Lily
name: Koch, Sabine C.
name: Fuchs, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: schizophrenia
subject: (dis-)embodiment
subject: movement characteristics
subject: motion capture (MoCap)
subject: EASE
subject: NSS
subject: PANSS
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: We have diagnosed and treated schizophrenia for over a century but have not come very far in alleviating its burden. This may be due to a simple, but essential aspect, widely ignored in conventional diagnostics, treatment and research: the moving body. The phenomenology-based embodiment [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS UREASE ACTIVITY: PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE AND TECHNOLOGICAL RELEVANCE IN DAIRY AND NON-DAIRY APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: DELLA SCALA, GIULIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: The aim of this Ph.D. work was to investigate the physiological role and the technological relevance of the urease activity of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus. It has been achieved a deeper comprehension of this peculiar enzymatic activity following different approaches. A milk-based medium that allows the discrimination between urease-positive S. thermophilus strains and urease-negative ones based on the colonies morphology had been developed; it was used as screening method looking for urease-defective mutants after UV mutagenesis of urease-positive strains of industrial interest. Moreover, a cytofluorimetric protocol for the evaluation of urease activity of various samples containing S. thermophilus was developed: the proposed applications are related to the evaluation of the urease activity of starter culture biomasses of S. thermophilus and to the enumeration of the S. thermophilus population in probiotic products containing this species, among others. We propose that the cytofluorimetric method should be seen as an innovative tool to put besides the standard ones to evaluate the quality of the products previously mentioned. The investigation of the physiological role of urease of S. thermophilus cells growing in milk highlighted that in presence of this enzymatic activity the overall metabolism of the species is boosted. Moreover, the cooperative role of urease, previously described for the yogurt consortium, has been extended also to the cooperation between a urease-positive S. thermophilus strain and a urease-negative one, supporting the proposal of the urease activity as an altruistic cooperative trait, which is costly for urease-positive species but provides a local benefit to the urease-negative species sharing the same environment, which can take advantage of the release of ammonia. At industrial level, urease activity is still considered more for its detrimental effects than for the positive effects exerted on S. thermophilus: we proposed different strategies to overcome this industrial problem. Firstly, we produced mutants of urease-positive strains of industrial interest, but they showed lower acidification rate compared to their wild types. So, we proposed to modify the production process of the biomasses with the aim of obtaining cells which carry a lower urease activity compared to those currently produced. In conclusion, the present work gives new insight in the comprehension of the urease activity of the dairy bacterium S. thermophilus, on how it can be exploited to improve the acidification performances of the strains and how it cannot, so far, be controlled during the milk acidification processes.
title: Eurythmietherapie bei arterieller Hypertonie
Creators: name: Schapink, Rob
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Eurythmietherapie
subject: Eurythmie
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: In dieser qualitativen Einzelfallstudie (im Rahmen der CBM nach Kiene/Kienle), wird die Wirkung der Eurythmietherapie bei einer 66-jährigen Patientin (Pt) mit arterieller Hypertonie untersucht. Neben den physiologischen Messungen (Blutdruck-/ Pulswerte, VNS-Analysen), wurden auch psychologische[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
title: Mobile Device Background Sensors: Authentication vs Privacy
Creators: name: Delgado de Santos, Paula
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2024

description: The increasing number of mobile devices in recent years has caused the collection of a large amount of personal information that needs to be protected. To this aim, behavioural biometrics has become very popular. But, what is the discriminative power of mobile behavioural biometrics in real scenarios? With the success of Deep Learning (DL), architectures based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), have shown improvements compared to traditional machine learning methods. However, these DL architectures still have limitations that need to be addressed. In response, new DL architectures like Transformers have emerged. The question is, can these new Transformers outperform previous biometric approaches? To answers to these questions, this thesis focuses on behavioural biometric authentication with data acquired from mobile background sensors (i.e., accelerometers and gyroscopes). In addition, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first thesis that explores and proposes novel behavioural biometric systems based on Transformers, achieving state-of-the-art results in gait, swipe, and keystroke biometrics. The adoption of biometrics requires a balance between security and privacy. Biometric modalities provide a unique and inherently personal approach for authentication. Nevertheless, biometrics also give rise to concerns regarding the invasion of personal privacy. According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced by the European Union, personal data such as biometric data are sensitive and must be used and protected properly. This thesis analyses the impact of sensitive data in the performance of biometric systems and proposes a novel unsupervised privacy-preserving approach. The research conducted in this thesis makes significant contributions, including: i) a comprehensive review of the privacy vulnerabilities of mobile device sensors, covering metrics for quantifying privacy in relation to sensitive data, along with protection methods for safeguarding sensitive information; ii) an analysis of authentication systems for behavioural biometrics on mobile devices (i.e., gait, swipe, and keystroke), being the first thesis that explores the potential of Transformers for behavioural biometrics, introducing novel architectures that outperform the state of the art; and iii) a novel privacy-preserving approach for mobile biometric gait verification using unsupervised learning techniques, ensuring the protection of sensitive data during the verification process.
title: From Flames to Forage: How Wildfire Affects Elk Behavior and Abundance
Creators: name: Whetzel, Megan M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: The Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) is an ecologically and culturally important wildlife species in the Intermountain West, but it is facing habitat changes caused by increasing fire activity. Wildfire frequency is projected to continue to change into the future, yet increases in annual area burned and increases in area burned at high severity may actually represent opportunities for some species. Large herbivores like elk may benefit from increased access to regenerating areas where forage abundance and quality are often elevated. Therefore, effective management of wildlife populations may depend on quantifying how large ungulates, like elk, alter their behavior in the context of rapidly shifting fire regimes. In order to evaluate elk foraging activity in previously burned areas, my research examined differences in severity and habitat types. I used two sampling methods to understand elk behavior and habitat selection post-fire. First, I ran a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) on GPS collar data to assign one of three behavioral states (‘resting’, ‘foraging’, or ‘commuting’) to each of the approximately 730,000 elk positions located in a previously burned fire perimeter. I statistically tested whether the probability of an elk position being assigned a ‘foraging’ state depended on fire severity and time since fire, while controlling for other potential behavioral drivers (remote-sensed vegetation type, cover, and productivity). I then used camera data from 40 camera traps, stratified by fire severity (unburned, low, moderate, and high severity), to monitor elk use of burned areas. Results suggest that elk probability of foraging in burned areas peaks 3-4 years post-fire in conifers, but peaks between 7-9 years in aspen. Also, elk have higher probabilities of being in a foraging state in areas where aspen is burned at high severity. From camera data, I found that the post-fire abundance of herbaceous biomass is the strongest driver of elk abundance, and abundance is highest at higher burn severity. Combined, this research provides information on wildfire’s influence on elk behavior and abundance and can help inform management decisions for elk on increasing fiery landscapes in the western United States.
Frequency-band signatures of visual responses to naturalistic input in ferret primary visual cortex during free viewing
Creators: name: Fröhlich, Flavio
name: Sellers, Kristin K.
name: Bennett, Davis V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Neuronal firing responses reflect the statistics of visual input and emerge from the interaction with endogenous network dynamics. Artificial visual stimuli presented to animals in which the network dynamics were constrained by anesthetic agents or trained behavioral tasks have provided fundamental understanding of how individual neurons in primary visual cortex respond to input. In contrast, very little is known about the mesoscale network dynamics and their relationship to microscopic spiking activity in the awake animal during free viewing of naturalistic visual input. To address this gap in knowledge, we recorded local field potential (LFP) and multiunit activity (MUA) in all layers of primary visual cortex (V1) of awake, freely viewing ferrets presented with naturalistic visual input (nature movie clips). We found that naturalistic visual stimuli modulated the entire oscillation spectrum; low frequency oscillations were mostly suppressed whereas higher frequency oscillations were enhanced. In average across all cortical layers, stimulus-induced change in delta and alpha power negatively correlated with the MUA responses, whereas sensory-evoked increases in gamma power positively correlated with MUA responses. The time-course of the band-limited power in these frequency bands provided evidence for a model in which naturalistic visual input switched V1 between two distinct, endogenously present activity states defined by the power of low (delta, alpha) and high (gamma) frequency oscillatory activity. Therefore, the two mesoscale activity states delineated in this study may define the engagement of the circuit with processing sensory input at the level of spiking activity.
DISSECTION OF THE MECHANISMS CONTROLLING HIGH CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVITY OF HOUSEKEEPING AND TISSUE-SPECIFIC CIS-REGULATORY ELEMENTS
Creators: name: CURINA, ALESSIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: The genetic information is identical within the organism but the mechanisms by which different cell types achieve specialized functions interpreting the same set of instructions is not completely understood. It is now increasingly accepted that the combination of different genomic elements, both promoters and enhancers, favors the recruitment of different TFs, which in turn promotes the assembly of different pre-initiation complexes, guaranteeing heterogeneity in transcriptional outputs across different tissues. Nevertheless, the cis-regulatory elements and the transcriptional rules that control and maintain the expression of constitutively active genes are still poorly characterized. Specifically, whether the constitutive activity of promoters and enhancers relies on entirely distinct or instead shared regulators is unknown. By dissecting the cis-regulatory repertoire of macrophages, we found that the ELF subfamily of ETS proteins selectively bound within 60 bp from the transcription start sites of highly active housekeeping genes. ELFs also bound constitutively active, but not poised macrophage-specific enhancers and promoters. The role of ELFs in promoting constitutive transcription is suggested by multiple evidences: ELF sites enabled transcriptional activation by endogenous and minimal synthetic promoters; ELF recruitment was stabilized by the transcriptional machinery, and ELF proteins mediated recruitment of transcriptional and chromatin regulators to core promoters. These data indicate that a distinct subfamily of ETS proteins imparts high transcriptional activity to a broad range of housekeeping and tissue-specific cis-regulatory elements, which is consistent with the role of an ETS family ancestor in core promoter regulation in a lower eukaryote.
Partnering with AI: the case of digital productivity assistants
Creators: name: Cranefield, Jocelyn
name: Winikoff, Michael
name: Chiu, Yi-Te
name: Li, Yevgeniya
name: Doyle, Cathal
name: Richter, Alex
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

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title: Der Baumtest nach Karl Koch – seine diagnostische Relevant im klinisch-therapeutischen Kontext. Ein systematischer Review
Creators: name: Schneider, Shiva
name: Niedermann, Christina
name: Troche, Stefan
name: Ostermann, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Baumtest
subject: projektive Verfahren
subject: computerbasierte Auswertungsverfahren
subject: Diagnostik
subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Der Baumtest (TDT) nach Karl Koch wird im klinisch-therapeutischen Kontext oft ergänzend zur Erfassung der Persönlichkeit eingesetzt. Er wurde ursprünglich von Karl Koch (1949) als projektives Verfahren vorgestellt. Die Aufgabenstellung „Zeichne einen Obstbaum“ ist niederschwellig[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
title: The Longitudinal Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: In Search of Demographic Disparities
Creators: name: Navarro Flores, Cynthia M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Children experience high rates of emotional problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and behavioral problems (e.g., defiance, aggression) that can have long-lasting detrimental effects. Emotional/behavioral problems have been found to relate to exposure to adversity during childhood (i.e., adverse childhood experiences [ACEs]). Studies have found that rates of exposure to ACEs and emotional/behavioral problems may vary depending on one’s race/ethnicity, sex, and income. Research has not yet looked at how emotional/behavioral problems develop throughout childhood in conjunction to exposure to ACEs. The current two-paper dissertation focused on examining the individual and conjointly developing trajectories of ACEs, and emotional (i.e., internalizing problems) and behavioral problems (i.e., externalizing problems) across the ages of 3, 5, and 9 on 4,655 at-risk diverse youth. ACEs measured included emotional and physical abuse, physical and emotional neglect, parental domestic violence, parental mental health problems, parental substance use, parental incarceration, and parental divorce/separation. We examined if differences existed on the trajectories youth were placed into depending on their race/ethnicity, parent’s income, and sex. The first paper focused on ACEs and emotional problems, and the second on ACEs and behavioral problems. Findings from both studies showed that youth experienced the same number of adversities at each age, with youth experiencing from nine to eighteen ACEs across the three years. Findings show that trajectories of emotional problems were mostly stable or increasing, and of externalizing problem decreasing with one increasing trajectory across childhood. Lower income and Black youth were found to have trajectories with higher ACEs and emotional/behavioral problems. Hispanic youth had trajectories with higher levels of emotional problems and boys with behavioral problems. For most youth, higher exposure to ACEs related to higher emotional/behavioral problems, but some youth with fewer ACEs had the highest levels of emotional/behavioral problems. We did not find that exposure ACEs at a specific age made children more susceptible to experiencing emotional/behavioral problems. We recommend that future research focus on looking at the severity, frequency, and individual impact of ACEs. We suggest that interventions are sensitive to one’s culture and exposure to adversity, as well as the need for social policy changes to target inequities.
Bedrock and climate jointly control microbial necromass along a subtropical elevational gradient(data).xlsx
Creators: name: Zeng, Lian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Soil Science

description: Past studies did not have examined the influence of climate and bedrock on microbial necromass cabon (MNC） simultaneously. The degree to which bedrock variation influences the elevational pattern of MNC remains unclear. The aim of our study is to examine the effects of climate and bedrock on elevational pattern of MNC. The experiment was conducted at the Jinfo Mountain Nature Reserve in the Nanchuan District of Chongqing, southwest China (106°54’-107°27’ E, 28°46’-29°38’ N). The data includes climate factor, bedrock, soil physicochemical properties, plant properties, microbial PLFAs and MNC. The aim of our study is to examine the effects of climate and bedrock on elevational pattern of MNC.
Knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds and stabilizations
Creators: name: Baykur, R. Inanc
name: Sunukjian, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study stable equivalence of exotically knotted surfaces in 4-manifolds, surfaces that are topologically isotopic but not smoothly isotopic. We prove that any pair of embedded surfaces in the same homology class become smoothly isotopic after stabilizing them by handle additions in the ambient 4-manifold, which can moreover assumed to be attached in a standard way (locally and unknottedly) in many favorable situations. In particular, any exotically knotted pair of surfaces with cyclic fundamental group complements become smoothly isotopic after a same number of standard stabilizations - analogous to C.T.C. Wall's celebrated result on the stable equivalence of simply-connected 4-manifolds. We moreover show that all constructions of exotic knottings of surfaces we are aware of, which display a good variety of techniques and ideas, produce surfaces that become smoothly isotopic after a single stabilization.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures
title: Empirische Bildanalyse: Validierung von RizbA an bildnerischen Arbeiten erwachsener Laien
Creators: name: Schoch, Kerstin
name: Ostermann, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Wirksamkeitsforschung in den Künstlerischen Therapien konzentriert sich häufig auf Prätest-Posttest-Designs, in denen eine spezifische psychologische Variable erfasst wird. Das künstlerische Medium an sich findet dabei oft keine Berücksichtigung. Ein Grund hierfür ist, [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
The sea urchin embryo, an invertebrate model for mammalian developmental neurotoxicity, reveals multiple neurotransmitter mechanisms for effects of chlorpyrifos: Therapeutic interventions and a comparison with the monoamine depleter, reserpine
Creators: name: Milošević, Ivan
name: Rakić, Ljubiša M.
name: Lauder, Jean M.
name: Slotkin, Theodore A.
name: Nikitina, Lyudmila A.
name: Buznikov, Gennady A.
name: Bezuglov, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Lower organisms show promise for the screening of neurotoxicants that might target mammalian brain development. Sea urchins use neurotransmitters as embryonic growth regulatory signals, so that adverse effects on neural substrates for mammalian brain development can be studied in this simple organism. We compared the effects of the organophosphate insecticide, chlorpyrifos in sea urchin embryos with those of the monoamine depleter, reserpine, so as to investigate multiple neurotransmitter mechanisms involved in developmental toxicity and to evaluate different therapeutic interventions corresponding to each neurotransmitter system. Whereas reserpine interfered with all stages of embryonic development, the effects of chlorpyrifos did not emerge until the mid-blastula stage. After that point, the effects of the two agents were similar. Treatment with membrane permeable analogs of the monoamine neurotransmitters, serotonin and dopamine, prevented the adverse effects of either chlorpyrifos or reserpine, despite the fact that chlorpyrifos works simultaneously through actions on acetylcholine, monoamines and other neurotransmitter pathways. This suggests that different neurotransmitters, converging on the same downstream signaling events, could work together or in parallel to offset the developmental disruption caused by exposure to disparate agents. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating membrane permeable analogs of acetylcholine and cannabinoids, both of which proved effective against chlorpyrifos- or reserpine-induced teratogenesis. Invertebrate test systems can provide both a screening procedure for mammalian neuroteratogenesis and may uncover novel mechanisms underlying developmental vulnerability as well as possible therapeutic approaches to prevent teratogenesis.
Environmental and economic assessment of agricultural systems at crop, field, farm, and regional scale : Application of agro-ecological and economic indicators in northern Italy
Creators: name: CASTOLDI, NICOLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2008

description: Castoldi, N, 2007. Environmental and economic assessment of agricultural systems at crop, field, farm, and regional scale. Application of agro-ecological and economic indicators in Northern Italy. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Milan, Italy, 335 pp, 25 figures, 45 tables, 243 references, 4 annexes. In the last decades, the perception of relations between agriculture and environment has remarkably changed and concerns have been raised about the sustainability of agricultural production systems, involving consumers, citizens, policy makers and farmers. As direct measurements are too expensive and time consuming, agricultural indicator should be applied for the evaluation of a large number of farms, because they are based on data already available or easy to collect. In this work, agro-ecological and economic indicators were selected and applied at different scale (crop, field, farm, and regional) using data available in public agricultural databases or collected by farmer interviews. Indicators synthesize the management effects on the environment and the state of the farming system. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the tool used, the uncertainty of a single input variable was tested to quantify the corresponding uncertainty of the indicator.
title: Tanz in Resonanz – Emotionale Resonanz als Hauptwirkfaktor im Therapeutischen Prozess?
Creators: name: Schuster, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Ausgangspunkt der tanztherapeutischen Abschlussarbeit sind meine Erfahrungen in der tanztherapeutischen Praxis in einer psychiatrischen Tagesklinik und einer psychosomatischen Rehaklinik. Besonders auffallend war für mich, dass die meisten PatientInnen in kürzester Zeit ein sehr intensives[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Forschungstagung der Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft für Künstlerische Therapien (WFKT) 2019
title: The Intersections of Payments for Ecosystem Services, Gender, and Conditionality in a Bolivian Case Study
Creators: name: Potter, Alicia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) have gained traction since the 1990s and are designed to provide cash or in-kind incentives to natural resource managers who alter land management behavior to protect ecosystem services. Conservation programs generally are known to interact with household and community gender dynamics. For other types of cash transfers, recent literature has noted that presence of conditionality (a key aspect of PES) may create or reinforce gender inequalities, which often manifest in household divisions of labor and decision-making where women may be obligated to complete more unpaid work or experience less control over resources.
Based on a Fundación Natura Bolivia (FNB) PES scheme in the lowlands of Bolivia, this thesis examines women’s participation, including barriers to and possible impacts of household participation, gendered incentive choice and reported benefit, and also focuses on conditionality as it relates to intra-household gender relations and equity. Research was carried out together with a larger project using a random control trial (RCT) and household survey (n = 1004) to determine impact of PES conditionality on social equity and conservation. Some landowners were offered standard conditional PES contracts, while others were offered “unconditional” contracts with compensation no longer conditional on desired behaviors. PES participating and nonparticipating households were surveyed.
Results show that knowledge of the PES scheme did appear to be a barrier to participation, with non-participating household respondents, and more specifically, females from non-participating households, significantly less likely to report knowledge of the scheme than their counterparts. Additionally, community meetings were the primary way of dispersing information about the scheme, and females from non-participating households were less likely than males from non-participating households to report having attended the last community meeting. While differences were not identified between participating and non-participating households for almost all of the labor and decision-making variables, some differences were identified when comparing households with conditional and unconditional PES contracts, particularly those variables related to labor allocation. We aim to add to a sparse literature that discusses PES and gender. Improving understanding of PES as gendered is critical, as policy and funding decisions about conservation have undeniable impacts on gender equality.
title: Towards Neuromorphic Gradient Descent: Exact Gradients and Low-Variance Online Estimates for Spiking Neural Networks
Creators: name: Bacho, Florian
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2024

description: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically-plausible models that can run on low-powered non-Von Neumann neuromorphic hardware, positioning them as promising alternatives to conventional Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for energy-efficient edge computing and robotics. Over the past few years, the Gradient Descent (GD) and Error Backpropagation (BP) algorithms used in DNNs have inspired various training methods for SNNs. However, the non-local and the reverse nature of BP, combined with the inherent non-differentiability of spikes, represent fundamental obstacles to computing gradients with SNNs directly on neuromorphic hardware. Therefore, novel approaches are required to overcome the limitations of GD and BP and enable online gradient computation on neuromorphic hardware.
In this thesis, I address the limitations of GD and BP with SNNs by proposing three algorithms. First, I extend a recent method that computes exact gradients with temporally-coded SNNs by relaxing the firing constraint of temporal coding and allowing multiple spikes per neuron. My proposed method generalizes the computation of exact gradients with SNNs and enhances the tradeoffs between performance and various other aspects of spiking neurons. Next, I introduce a novel alternative to BP that computes low-variance gradient estimates in a local and online manner. Compared to other alternatives to BP, the proposed method demonstrates an improved convergence rate and increased performance with DNNs. Finally, I combine these two methods and propose an algorithm that estimates gradients with SNNs in a manner that is compatible with the constraints of neuromorphic hardware. My empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the resulting algorithm in training SNNs without performing BP.