cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Design, synthesis, spectroscopic characterizations, in vitro pancreatic lipase as well as tyrosinase inhibition evaluations and in silico analysis of novel aryl sulfonate-naphthalene hybrids
Creators: name: Korkmaz, Adem
name: Kurtay, Gülbin
name: Kaya, Esin
name: Bursal, Ercan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: One of the primary purposes of this study is to synthesize new aryl sulfonate-naphthalene hybrid structures possessing divergent electron-withdrawing and electron-releasing functional groups. Following the improved reaction conditions, we successfully gathered ten distinct sulfonate derivatives (3a-j) with good yields. The synthesized naphthalene-based sulfonate derivatives were then characterized using appropriate analytical methods (FT-IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HRMS, and elemental analysis). Additionally, in vitro and in silico enzyme inhibitory properties of the prepared aryl sulfonate-naphthalene hybrid structures were evaluated against pancreatic lipase and tyrosinase enzymes. Corresponding in vitro enzyme activity investigations revealed that the produced compounds inhibit pancreatic lipase and tyrosinase enzymes significantly. According to the lowest IC50 values, 3h (95.3 ± 4.0 µM) demonstrated the most effective inhibition against pancreatic lipase, whereas 3a (40.8 ± 3.3 µM) was found as the most effective inhibition against the tyrosinase. According to in silico studies, 3a exhibited the highest affinity value (−9.9 kcal/mol) against pancreatic lipase, whereas 3f demonstrated the best affinity value (−8.7 kcal/mol) against tyrosinase. Furthermore, we investigated various structural and physicochemical properties of the target molecules, namely frontier orbital’ (HOMO, LUMO, and bandgap) energies (including their corresponding contour plots), global reactivity descriptors (ionization energy and electron affinity), and electronegativity values gathered from ground-state (GS) density functional theory (DFT) calculations. These investigations demonstrated that the observed electrostatic interactions effectively contributed to the studied molecules’ experimentally demonstrated enzyme inhibition potential. Also, ADMET studies were evaluated to enlighten the molecular interactions of the compounds with the enzymes. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Creators: name: Atkin, David
name: Chaudhry, Azam
name: Chaudry, Shamyla
name: Khandelwal, Amit K.
name: Verhoogen, Eric A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Labor economics
Commerce

description: This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. Our research team invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material. We allocated the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the technology for nearly all firms, after 15 months take-up remained puzzlingly low. We hypothesize that an important reason for the lack of adoption is a misalignment of incentives within firms: the key employees (cutters and printers) are typically paid piece rates, with no incentive to reduce waste, and the new technology slows them down, at least initially. Fearing reductions in their effective wage, employees resist adoption in various ways, including by misinforming owners about the value of the technology. To investigate this hypothesis, we implemented a second experiment among the firms to which we originally gave the technology: we offered one cutter and one printer per firm a lump-sum payment, approximately equal to a monthly wage, that was conditional on them demonstrating competence in using the technology in the presence of the owner. This incentive payment, small from the point of view of the firm, had a significant positive effect on adoption. We interpret the results as supportive of the hypothesis that misalignment of incentives within firms is an important barrier to technology adoption in our setting.
On propagators and vertices of Landau gauge Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Huber, Markus Q.
name: Blum, Adrian Lorenz
name: Mitter, Mario
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the three-point functions of pure Landau gauge QCD and investigate their influence on the propagators. As expected, the ghost-gluon vertex leads only to minor modifications, while the three-gluon vertex has a sizeable impact on the mid-momentum regime of the gluon propagator. We describe an effective model of the three-gluon vertex that includes contributions from the neglected two-loop diagrams and thus allows to obtain propagators in good agreement with lattice results. We also determine the three-gluon vertex from these propagators and find good agreement with lattice results as well. In turn, these results allow us to assess the effect of the missing two-loop diagrams in the gluon propagator equation. Finally, we present the first self-consistent calculation that includes all two-and three-point functions.
description: 12 pages, 10 figs., contribution to "QCD-TNT-III: From quarks and gluons to hadronic matter: A bridge too far?", 2-6 Sept 2013, ECT*, Trento, Italy
Elucidating structure and dynamics of glutathione S-transferase from Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
Creators: name: Rangubpit, Warin
name: Suwan, Eukote
name: Sangthong, Danai
name: Wongpanit, Kannika
name: Stich, Roger W.
name: Pongprayoon, Prapasiri
name: Jittapalapong, Sathaporn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus is tick parasite that affects the cattle industry worldwide. In R. (B.) microplus, acaricide resistance develops rapidly against many commercial acaricides. One of main resistance strategies is to enhance the metabolic detoxification mediated by R. (B.) microplus glutathione-S-transferase (RmGST). RmGST detoxifies acaricides by catalyzing the conjugation of glutathione to acaricides. Although structural and dynamic details of RmGST are expected to elucidate the biologic activity of this molecule, these data have not been available to date. Thus, Molecular Dynamics simulations were employed to study ligand-free RmGST at an atomic level. Like other m-class GSTs, the flexible m loop (m1) of RmGST was observed. M1 seems to shield the active sites from the bulk. A RmGST dimer is stabilized by the lock-and-key motif (F57 as “key”) and hydrogen bonds of R82-E91 and R82-D98 at the dimer interface. Without substrates, conserved catalytic Y116 and N209 can interact with V112, G210 (for Y116) and F215 (for N209). Overall, most residues involving in RmGST function and stability are similar to other m-class GSTs. This implies similar structural stability and catalytic activity of RmGST to other GSTs. An insight obtained here will be useful for management of acaricide resistance and tick control. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
title: R/V NATSUSHIMA Cruise report NT07-20 Leg1/NT07-20 Leg2
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Ryo
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-20 Leg1 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-09-28 to 2007-10-06 and NT07-20 Leg2 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-10-07 to 2007-10-15.
The HST view of the broad line region in low luminosity AGN
Creators: name: Balmaverde, B.
name: Capetti, A.
name: di Torino, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the properties of the broad line region (BLR) in low luminosity AGN by using HST/STIS spectra. We consider a sample of 24 nearby galaxies in which the presence of a BLR has been reported from their Palomar ground-based spectra. Following a widely used strategy, we used the [SII] doublet to subtract the contribution of the narrow emission lines to the H-alpha+[NII] complex and to isolate the BLR emission. Significant residuals that suggest a BLR, are present. However, the results change substantially when the [OI] doublet is used. Furthermore, the spectra are also reproduced well by just including a wing in the narrow H-alpha and [NII] lines, thus not requiring the presence of a BLR. We conclude that complex structure of the narrow line region (NLR) is not captured with this approach and that it does not lead to general robust constraints on the properties of the BLR in these low luminosity AGN. Nonetheless, the existence of a BLR is firmly established in 5 Seyferts, and 5 LINERs. However, the measured BLR fluxes and widths in the 5 LINERs differ substantially with respect to the ground-based data. The BLR sizes in LINERs, which are estimated by using the virial formula from the line widths and the black hole mass, are about 1 order of magnitude greater than the extrapolation to low luminosities of the relation between the BLR radius and AGN luminosity observed in more powerful active nuclei. We ascribe the larger BLR radius to the lower accretion rate in LINERs when compared to the Seyfert, which causes the formation of an inner region dominated by an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF). The estimated BLR sizes in LINERs are comparable to the radius where the transition between the ADAF and the standard thin disk occurs due to disk evaporation.
description: 16 pages. Accepted for publication in A&A
title: R/V NATSUSHIMA Cruise report NT07-19
Creators: name: Oguri, Kazumasa
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-19 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-09-15 to 2007-09-18.
EUROPA NACH 1945 – ZUR SITUATION NACH DEM ZWEITEN WELTKRIEG
Creators: name: Cerqueira Mendes Furtado, Marco António
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: Bevor man „Europa“ als politisches Konzept in zahlreichen theoretischen Texten erörterte, ist in der deutschen Literatur der Gedanke eines vereinten Europas schon seit dem 16. Jahrhundert thematisiert worden. Im folgenden Aufsatz sollen Texte der Essayisten Ernst Jünger, Frank Thiess, Werner Bergengruen und Klaus Mann (20. Jahrhundert), in denen ihr Standpunkt bezüglich des Europa-Gedanken, d.h. ein vereintes Europa zur Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zum Ausdruck gebracht wird. Dabei sind hauptsächlich Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen zwischen den Autoren unter geistigen und historischen Gesichtspunkten zu ziehen.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
title: R/V NATSUSHIMA Cruise report NT07-18
Creators: name: Kawaguchi, Katsuyoshi
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-18 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-09-03 to 2007-09-13.
EL CONCEPTO DE TEXTO PARALELO: ALGUNAS CONSIDERACIONES PARA LA TRADUCCIÓN ESPECIALIZADA
Creators: name: Acuyo Verdejo, Mari Carmen
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: Es de sobra conocida la importancia que reviste para el traductor profesional la adquisición de una competencia traductora que le permita afrontar la tarea de traducir cualquier tipo de texto y hacerlo, además, de la manera más eficaz. Considerando que el conocimiento textual en dos o más culturas resulta esencial para el traductor profesional, nos proponemos en este artículo hacer, en primer lugar, un recorrido por las aportaciones más significativas, que desde el ámbito de la competencia traductora se han venido realizando en torno a dicha subcompetencia textual. En este sentido, se analizarán las aportaciones de autores tales como Bell, 1991; Hewson y Martin, 1991; Nord, 1991; Kiraly, 1995 y Hurtado, 1996, o Kelly, 2002, entre otros. A partir de aquí, la autora llevará a cabo un análisis de las principales ventajas que, desde el punto de vista de la formación y la práctica profesional, reportan al traductor especializado la utilización de textos paralelos bilingües y multilingües como herramienta clave de documentación y de análisis. En la discusión de nuestro análisis se realizará una revisión de algunos conceptos tan tradicionales en el ámbito de los estudios de traducción como los de texto paralelo, texto origen y texto meta o el de cultura de origen y cultura meta.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
What Influences Principals' Perceptions of Academic Climate? A Nationally Representative Study of the Direct Effects of Perception on Climate
Creators: name: Urick, Angela
name: Bowers, Alex J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: High school principals
Educational leadership
Education--Administration
School management and organization
Education, Secondary

description: Using a nationally representative sample of public high schools (N = 439), we examined the extent to which the principal's perception of their influence over instruction, the evaluation of nonacademic related tasks as well as academic related tasks, and their relationship with the school district relates to their perception of academic climate while controlling for school-level covariates. Little attention has been given to date to the principal's perception of their responsibilities and how it relates to their view of academic climate. The findings link academic climate with direct effects from principal perceptions of support and evaluation from the district.
CONTRASTIVE TERMINOLOGY: SEMITIC, ANGLO-GERMANIC AND LATIN CONCEPT BUILDING THROUGH COMPLEX TERMS. (AVOIDING ONE-WAY METHOD PROCEDURES IN TRANSLATION)
Creators: name: Aguilar-Amat, Anna
name: Neunzig, Willy
name: Sánchez-Gijón, Pilar
name: Touhami, Ouissem
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: This paper aims to present a contrastive approach between three different ways of building concepts after proving the similar syntactic possibilities that coexist in terms. However, from the semantic point of view we can see that each language family has a different distribution in meaning. But the most important point we try to show is that the differences found in the psychological process when communicating concepts should guide the translator and the terminologist in the target text production and the terminology planning process. Differences between languages in the information transmission process are due to the different roles the different types of knowledge play. We distinguish here the analytic-descriptive knowledge and the analogical knowledge among others. We also state that none of them is the best when determining the correctness of a term, but there has to be adequacy criteria in the selection process. This concept building or term building success is important when looking at the linguistic map of the information society.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
title: NT07-E01 Cruise Report
Creators: name: Morita, Sumito
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-E01 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-08-07 to 2007-08-11.
Antiviral activity of Cenostigma pluviosum var. peltophoroides extract and fractions against SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Pattaro-Júnior, José Renato
name: Araújo, Ingrid Garcia
name: Moraes, Carolina Borsoi
name: Barbosa, Cecilia Gomes
name: Philippsen, Gisele Strieder
name: Freitas-Junior, Lúcio Holanda
name: Guidi, Ana Carolina
name: de Mello, João Carlos Palazzo
name: Peralta, Rosane Marina
name: Fernandez, Maria Aparecida
name: Teixeira, Róbson Ricardo
name: Seixas, Flavio Augusto Vicente
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: Few extracts of plant species from the Brazilian flora have been validated from a pharmacological and clinical point of view, and it is important to determine whether their traditional use is proven by pharmacological effects. Cenostigma pluviosum var. peltophoroides is one of those plants, which belongs to the Fabaceae family that is widely used in traditional medicine and is very rich in tannins. Due to the lack of effective drugs to treat severe cases of Covid-19, the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 (Mpro) becomes an attractive target in the research for new antivirals since this enzyme is crucial for virus replication and does not have homologs in humans. This study aimed to prospect inhibitor candidates among the compounds from C. pluviosum extract, by virtual screening simulations using SARS-CoV-2 Mpro as target. Experimental validation was made by inhibitory proteolytic assays of recombinant Mpro and by antiviral activity with infected Vero cells. Docking simulations identify four compounds with potential inhibitory activity of Mpro present in the extract. The compound pentagalloylglucose showed the best result in proteolytic kinetics experiments, with suppression of recombinant Mpro activity by approximately 60%. However, in experiments with infected cells ethyl acetate fraction and sub-fractions, F2 and F4 of C. pluviosum extract performed better than pentagalloylglucose, reaching close to 100% of antiviral activity. The prominent activity of the extract fractions in infected cells may be a result of a synergistic effect from the different hydrolyzable tannins present, performing simultaneous action on Mpro and other targets from SARS-CoV-2 and host. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Inferring HIV escape rates from multi-locus genotype data
Creators: name: Kessinger, Taylor A.
name: Perelson, Alan S.
name: Neher, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTLs) recognize viral protein fragments displayed by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of virally infected cells and generate an anti-viral response that can kill the infected cells. Virus variants whose protein fragments are not efficiently presented on infected cells or whose fragments are presented but not recognized by CTLs therefore have a competitive advantage and spread rapidly through the population. We present a method that allows a more robust estimation of these escape rates from serially sampled sequence data. The proposed method accounts for competition between multiple escapes by explicitly modeling the accumulation of escape mutations and the stochastic effects of rare multiple mutants. Applying our method to serially sampled HIV sequence data, we estimate rates of HIV escape that are substantially larger than those previously reported. The method can be extended to complex escapes that require compensatory mutations. We expect our method to be applicable in other contexts such as cancer evolution where time series data is also available.
title: Cruise Report R/V NATSUSHIMA + ROV Hyper-Dolphin NT07-15
Creators: name: Tani, Kenichiro
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-15 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-07-13 to 2007-07-31.
SOBRE A ‘TRADUÇÃO’ OU NÃO ‘TRADUÇÃO’ DE NOMES PRÓPRIOS
Creators: name: Lopes, Dalila
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: No conjunto dos vários tipos de designadores, os nomes próprios ocupam um lugar à parte. A particularidade dos nomes próprios advém do facto de funcionarem como designadores não por via de qualquer conteúdo semântico que eventualmente possam ter, mas pela associação única e arbitrária entre um nome próprio e o seu portador (Lyons, 1980: 176). É esta particularidade que leva a maior parte dos autores a advogar que os nomes próprios não são traduzíveis, com a ressalva de poderem, em certos casos, figurar no texto de chegada, não na sua forma original, mas na forma de um equivalente comummente aceite. Uma análise dos nomes próprios revela, no entanto, que eles não constituem uma categoria uniforme, sendo antes classificáveis em vários tipos. Essa classificação acaba por levar o tradutor a adoptar procedimentos diversificados, conforme o tipo de nome próprio a transpor para o texto de chegada. Neste artigo centramo-nos, por isso, na apresentação de uma tipologia de nomes próprios, discutimos as questões que se prendem com a sua traduzibilidade e exemplificamos os procedimentos tradutivos possíveis com base na tipologia apresentada.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
LITERATURA ESPIRITUAL ALTOMODERNA: A "ARS MORIENDI"
Creators: name: Cerqueira Pascoal, Sara
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: O presente artigo consagra-se à redescoberta de alguns dos textos que, na Europa do passado, foram fazendo a pedagogia da morte cristã, propondo atitudes normativas, morais como orações, culpas e arrependimentos, asceses como espiritualidades, ensinando verdadeiramente a bem morrer. Conhecidos desde o período medieval, alguns desses textos mais frequentados haveriam de cristalizar-se numa ars moriendi em que se oferecia, desde o período quatrocentista, um texto muitas vezes procurado, compulsado e copiado, mas intimamente ligado a uma iconografia que parecia mesmo sobrepujar essas lições fixadas pela “arte de morrer”.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
O USO DE CORPORA NA ANÁLISE DA REPRESENTAÇÃO DO DISCURSO EM TRADUÇÃO
Creators: name: De Jesus, Silvana Maria
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa sobre a representação do discurso ficcional embasado na gramática sistêmico - funcional proposta por Halliday e na Lingüística de Corpus, utilizando-se o software WordSmith Tools. A análise focaliza a metafunção ideacional, realizada pelo sistema de transitividade, focalizando os processos mentais e a relação lógico - semântica da projeção. O objetivo da pesquisa foi observar como os pensamentos das personagens de um corpus ficcional são representados através dos verbos de elocução THINK e PENSAR, buscando descrever padrões textuais nos três romances que compõem o corpus.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
Creators: name: Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
name: Burks, Stephen V.
name: Verhoogen, Eric A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Labor economics

description: The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the attractiveness of the wage paid by the firm relative to employees’ options in the outside labor market. The authors find robust associations between the wage-fairness perceptions of employees in the firm and two indicators of local conditions—the rate of unemployment and the wages of similar workers in the outside market. They argue that these correlations reflect a causal relationship: an increase in unemployment or a decrease in outside wages led workers to perceive their wage to be more fair.
Individual project on theme "Centaurea" (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Viktorina, Olesia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Викториной Олеси по теме "Centaurea" в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
A PREPOSIÇÃO "EM" NA OBRA DE LUÍS DE STTAU MONTEIRO «ANGÚSTIA PARA O JANTAR» E NA SUA TRADUÇÃO INGLESA, «THE RULES OF THE GAME»
Creators: name: Azevedo Pataco, Teresa Alexandra
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: A análise linguística é determinante para a compreensão cabal dos mecanismos gramaticais de qualquer língua e, consequentemente, é fundamental para quem lida com a disciplina da Tradução, quer na sua vertente prática, quer na sua vertente teórica. Logo, a perspectiva gramatical é peça central no ensino e na aprendizagem, quer de um falante nativo, quer de um falante não-nativo. A descrição estratificada (bem como a simplificação que daí advém) de uma linguagem segundo áreas específicas é muito eficaz em termos pedagógicos, sobretudo porque as gramáticas evoluíram muito no sentido de utilizarem textos reais, de funcionalidade prática. Este trabalho assentou, num primeiro momento, numa teorização normativa tradicional das preposições de lugar e tempo que permitiu, depois, evoluir para uma análise conceptual dos exemplos retirados de Angústia para o Jantar e da sua tradução inglesa, The Rules of the Game. Ficou, por fim, claro que as regras gramaticais podem explicar o pensamento humano, o que enfatizou o papel central que a linguagem desempenha na relação Mente/Cérebro.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)
Disturbance has lasting effects on functional traits and diversity of grassland plant communities
Creators: Ellen A Smith
Emily M Holden
Charlotte Brown
James F Cahill Jr
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Background

Localized disturbances within grasslands alter biological properties and may shift species composition. For example, rare species in established communities may become dominant in successional communities if they exhibit traits well-suited to disturbance conditions. Although the idea that plant species exhibit different trait ‘strategies’ is well established, it is unclear how ecological selection for specific traits may change as a function of disturbance. Further, there is little data available testing whether disturbances select for single trait-characters within communities (homogenization), or allow multiple trait-types to persist (diversification). We investigated how (a) traits and (b) functional diversity of post-disturbance gap communities compared to those in adjacent undisturbed grasslands, and (c) if altered functional diversity resulted in the homogenization or diversification of functional traits.

Methods

Here we emulate the impacts of an extreme disturbance in a native grassland site. We measured plant community composition of twelve paired 50 × 50 cm plots (24 total) in Alberta, Canada. Each pair consisted of one undisturbed plot and one which had all plants terminated 2 years prior. We used species abundances and a local trait database to calculate community weighted means for maximum height, specific leaf area, specific root length, leaf nitrogen percent, and root nitrogen percent. To test the impacts of disturbance on community functional traits, we calculated functional diversity measures and compared them between disturbed and undisturbed communities.

Results

Within 2 years, species richness and evenness in disturbed communities had recovered and was equivalent to undisturbed communities. However, disturbed and undisturbed communities had distinct community compositions, resulting in lower functional divergence in disturbed plots. Further, disturbance was linked to increases in community-weighted mean trait values for resource-acquisitive traits, such as specific leaf area, and leaf and root nitrogen.

Discussion

Disturbance had lasting effects on the functional traits and diversity of communities, despite traditional biodiversity measures such as richness and evenness recovering within 2 years. The trait space of gap communities shifted compared to undisturbed communities such that gap communities were dominated by traits enhancing resource uptake and growth rates. Overall, these results show that short-term disturbance fundamentally changes the functional character of early-successional communities, even if they superficially appear recovered.
title: R/V NATSUSHIMA Cruise report NT07-14
Creators: name: Goto, Tadanori
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-14 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-07-11 to 2007-07-12.
Quantum chemical studies on the binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 S-protein: human ACE2 interface complex
Creators: name: Haritha, Mambatta
name: Suresh, Cherumuttathu H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: A two-layer ONIOM(B3LYP/6-31G*:PM7) method is used to model the binding of several drug/drug-like molecules (L) at the SARS-CoV-2 S-protein: human ACE2 protein interface cavity. The selected molecules include a set of thirty-five ligands from the study of Smith and Smith which showed a high docking score in the range of −7.0 to −7.7 kcal/mol and another set of seven repurposing drugs, viz. favipiravir, remdesivir, EIDD, galidesivir, triazavirin, ruxolitinib, and baricitinib. The ONIOM model of the cavity (M) showed a highly polarized electron distribution along its top-to-bottom direction while Ls with lengths in the range 1.0 − 1.5 nm fitted well inside the cavity in a head-to-tail fashion to yield ML complexes. The ligands showed a large variation in the ONIOM-level binding energy (Eb), in the range −2.7 to −85.4 kcal/mol. The Eb of ML complexes better than −40.0 kcal/mol is observed for myricetin, fidarestat, protirelin, m-digallic acid, glucogallin, benserazide hydrochlorideseradie, remdesivir, tazobactum, sapropterin, nitrofurantoin, quinonoid, pyruvic acid calcium isoniazid, and aspartame, and among them the highest Eb −85.4 kcal/mol is observed for myricetin. A hydroxy substitution is suggested for the phenyl ring of aspartame to improve its binding behavior at the cavity, and the resulting ligand 43 showed the best Eb −84.5 kcal/mol. The ONIOM-level study is found to be effective for the interpretation of the noncovalent interactions resulting from residues such as arginine, histidine, tyrosine, lysine, carboxylate, and amide moieties in the active site and suggests rational design strategies for COVID-19 drug development. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma A quantum chemical treatment of the noncovalently-bonded drug and drug-like molecules at the interface of SARS-CoV2: human ACE2 receptor is described. It predicts that myricetin, fidarestat, protirelin, m-digallic acid, glucogallin, benserazide hydrochlorideseradie, remdesivir, tazobactum, sapropterin, nitrofurantoin, quinonoid, pyruvic acid calcium isoniazid, and aspartame have high binding affinity at the interface and also suggests a design strategy to modify aspartame for improved binding affinity.
Edge detection of binary images using the method of masks
Creators: name: Bahaa-Eldeen, Ayman M
name: Wahdan, Abdel-Moneim A.
name: Mahdi, Hani M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work the method of masks, creating and using of inverted image masks, together with binary operation of image data are used in edge detection of binary images, monochrome images, which yields about 300 times faster than ordinary methods. The method is divided into three stages: Mask construction, Fundamental edge detection, and Edge Construction Comparison with an ordinary method and a fuzzy based method is carried out.
title: NT07-13 Cruise Report
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Satoshi
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-13 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-07-03 to 2007-07-09.
Properties of subentropy
Creators: name: Datta, Nilanjana
name: Dorlas, Tony
name: Jozsa, Richard
name: Benatti, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Subentropy is an entropy-like quantity that arises in quantum information theory; for example, it provides a tight lower bound on the accessible information for pure state ensembles, dual to the von Neumann entropy upper bound in Holevo's theorem. Here we establish a series of properties of subentropy, paralleling the well-developed analogous theory for von Neumann entropy. Further, we show that subentropy is a lower bound for min-entropy. We introduce a notion of conditional subentropy and show that it can be used to provide an upper bound for the guessing probability of any classical-quantum state of two qubits; we conjecture that the bound applies also in higher dimensions. Finally we give an operational interpretation of subentropy within classical information theory.
description: 15 pages
title: Μελέτη του φαινομένου της θερμής αστικής νησίδας στην ευρύτερη περιοχή των Αθηνών
title: Investigation of the urban heat island effect in the greater Athens area
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Τόλιας, Νικόλαος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αθήνα
Αστική θερμική νησίδα
Climate change
Heat island effect

description: Έρευνες των τελευταίων ετών κατέστησαν την ανατολική Μεσόγειο ως μια από τις πιο θερμές και ευάλωτες στην κλιματική αλλαγή περιοχές. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, στην Αθήνα παρατηρείται μια σταδιακή αύξηση των θερμοκρασιών τα τελευταία χρόνια που παράλληλα με την εμφάνιση ιδιαίτερα θερμών ημέρων ανά περιοχές , κάνει ενδιαφέρουσα την περαιτέρω αναζήτηση του συμβάντος αυτού. Μέσω αυτής της διπλωματικής εργασίας θα γίνει ανάλυση του φαινομένου της θερμής αστικής νησίδας και θα εξεταστεί εάν αυτό το φαινόμενο αποτυπώνεται και στην περίπτωση της πόλης των Αθηνών . Για να επιτευχθεί ο στόχος της εργασίας συλλέχθηκαν δεδομένα από την ιστοσελίδα του Εθνικού Αστεροσκοπείου Αθηνών από μία σειρά από σταθερούς σταθμούς στην ευρύτερη περιοχή, τα οποία υποβλήθηκαν σε επεξεργασία και τροποποιήθηκαν έτσι ώστε να γίνουν εύχρηστα σε μεταγενέστερες μελέτες. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται μια εισαγωγή στην ιστορία του φαινομένου και αναλύεται ο ορισμός του. Έπειτα αιτιολογούνται οι λόγοι εμφάνισης της θερμής αστικής νησίδας σε μια περιοχή όπως αυτή της Αθήνας και παρουσιάζονται οι επιπτώσεις. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο επεξηγείται η συλλογή και η επεξεργασία των δεδομένων που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν από το Αστεροσκοπείο . Στη συνέχεια , στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο γίνεται η γραφική απεικόνιση των μετρήσεων διαφοράς θερμοκρασίας και παρουσιάζονται αποτελέσματα ανά περιοχή και μήνα. Τέλος , στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο ακολουθούν οι σχολιασμοί των γραφημάτων , τα συμπεράσματα της έρευνας , τεχνικές αντιμετώπισης καθώς και στοιχεία της βιβλιογραφίας και των πηγών που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν.
title: CRUISE REPORT OF NT07-12 OM HATOMA KNOLL
Creators: name: Takemura, Akihiro
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-12 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-06-28 to 2007-07-02.
Synthesis, antimicrobial properties and in silico studies of aryloxyacetic acid derivatives with hydrazone or thiazolidine-4-one scaffold
Creators: name: Şenkardeş, Sevil
name: Kart, Didem
name: Bebek, Bilge
name: Gündüz, Miyase Gözde
name: Küçükgüzel, Ş Güniz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this work, twenty hydrazide-hydrazone and 4-thiazolidinone derivatives were synthesized starting from m-cresol. Antimicrobial evaluation was carried out by microdilution method against Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus as Gram-positive bacteria and Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as Gram-negative bacteria, and three pathogenic fungi Candida albicans, Candida parapsilosis and Candida krusei. Some compounds possessed considerable antimicrobial properties against the tested microorganisms, particularly against E. coli. 4-Thiazolidinones containing 3-methoxyphenyl and 3,5-dichlorophenyl moieties (4h and 4i) were found to be the most active derivatives with MICs of 2 μg/mL against E. coli. N'-[(3,5-dichlorophenyl)methylidene]-2-(3-methylphenoxy)acetohydrazide (3i) also displayed antifungal activity against Candida krusei that was comparable to fluconazole. Calculated drug-likeness and ADMET parameters of the most active compounds confirmed their potential as antimicrobial drug candidates. Molecular docking investigations were carried out in the thiamine diphosphate-binding site of pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex E1 component (PDHc-E1) to clarify the potential antibacterial mechanism against E. coli. The results showed the potential and importance of developing new hydrazones and 4-thiazolidinones that would be effective against microbial strains. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
title: NT07-11 Cruise Report
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Satoshi
Publisher: name: JAMSTEC
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Cruise report
subject: R/V NATSUSHIMA
subject: oceans

description: [CRUISE REPORT] This document is a preliminary report of NT07-11 on R/V NATSUSHIMA from 2007-06-13 to 2007-06-25.
Function identification and characterization of Oryza sativa ZRT and IRT-like proteins computationally for nutrition and biofortification in rice
Creators: name: Mohammed, Khaled Fathy Abdelmotelb
name: Kaul, Tanushri
name: Agrawal, Pawan Kumar
name: Thangaraj, Arulprakash
name: Kaul, Rashmi
name: Sopory, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Zinc plays a very critical role and function in all organisms. Its deficiency can cause a serious issue. In Oryza sativa, the ZRT/IRT transporter-like proteins play a role in the zinc metal uptake and transport. Few OsZIPs genes have been validated and characterized for their biological functions and most of OsZIPs are not well physiologically, biochemically and phenotypically characterized. In the current study, they analyzed for their function through subcellular localization, phylogenetic analysis, homology modeling, expression analysis, protein-protein interaction (PPI) network prediction, and prediction of their binding sites. Hierarchical clustering of OsZIP genes based on different anatomical parts and developmental stages also orthologs prediction was identified. The presence of SNPs, SSRs, ESTs, FSTs, MPSS, and SAGE tags were analyzed for useful development of markers. SNPs were identified in all OsZIPs genes and each gene was further classified based on their number and position in the 3'UTR and 5'UTR regions of the gene-specific sequences. Binding clusters and their location on the protein sequences were predicted. We found Changing in residues number and position which were due to partial overlapping and sequence alignment, but they share the same mechanism of binding and transporting Zinc. A wide range of CRISPR Cas9 gRNAs was designed based on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) for each OsZIP transporter gene for well-function identification and characterization with genome-wide association studies. Hence this study would provide useful information, understanding, and predicting molecular insights for the future studies that will help for improvement of nutritional quality of rice varieties. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
The solar-type eclipsing binary system LL Aquarii
Creators: name: Southworth, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eclipsing binary LL Aqr consists of two late-type stars in an eccentric orbit with a period of 20.17 d. We use an extensive light curve from the SuperWASP survey augmented by published radial velocities and UBV light curves to measure the physical properties of the system. The primary star has a mass of 1.167 +/- 0.009 Msun and a radius of 1.305 +/- 0.007 Rsun. The secondary star is an analogue of the Sun, with a mass and radius of 1.014 +/- 0.006 Msun and 0.990 +/- 0.008 Rsun respectively. The system shows no signs of stellar activity: the upper limit on spot-induced rotational modulation is 3 mmag, it is slowly rotating, has not been detected at X-ray wavelengths, and the calcium H and K lines exhibit no emission. Theoretical stellar models provide a good match to its properties for a sub-solar metal abundance of Z = 0.008 and an age of 2.5 Gyr. Most low-mass eclipsing binary systems are found to have radii larger than expected from theoretical predictions, blamed on tidally-enhanced magnetic fields in these short-period systems. The properties of LL Aqr support this scenario: it exhibits negligible tidal effects, shows no signs of magnetic activity, and matches theoretical models well.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 8 pages, 5 figures (3 reduced in size), 7 tables. A full-size preprint, the data, and a catalogue of well-studied detached eclipsing binary star systems can found at http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/
title: Η ατμοσφαιρική ρύπανση στην ευρύτερη περιοχή των Αθηνών κατά τη διάρκεια της περιόδου εγκλεισμού λόγω COVID-19
title: Air pollution in the greater Athens area during the COVID-19 lockdown period
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Φωτιάδης, Γρηγόριος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ατμοσφαιρική ρύπανση
Εγκλεισμός
Κορονοϊός
Ιός
Covid-19

description: Τη σύγχρονη εποχή στην οποία ζει η ανθρωπότητα, οι αλλαγές στο περιβάλλον είναι όλο και εντονότερες με έναν από τους κυριότερους παράγοντες να αποτελεί η ατμοσφαιρική ρύπανση. Ως ατμοσφαιρική ρύπανση ορίζεται κάθε είδους ουσία σε συγκέντρωση που μπορεί να προκαλέσει αρνητικές επιπτώσεις στο περιβάλλον αλλά και σε όλους τους ζωντανούς οργανισμούς. Οι πράξεις των ανθρώπων καθώς και το ίδιο το περιβάλλον δημιουργούν ποικίλους ρύπους. Οι ρύποι όμως αυτοί επηρεάζουν αρνητικά εξίσου και την καθημερινότητα του ανθρώπου όσο και το περιβάλλον, καταστρέφοντας το δεύτερο και δημιουργώντας κυρίως αναπνευστικά προβλήματα στην υγεία μας. Οι κύροι ρύποι με τους οποίους ασχολήθηκε η συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική μελέτη είναι οι Ο3, ΝΟ2, CΟ, SO2 και ΡΜ10. Τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια, ενσωματώθηκε στη ζωή των ανθρώπων ένας ιός ονομαζόμενος κορονοϊός ή Covid-19 αρκετά θανατηφόρος , επιδρώντας κυρίως στο αναπνευστικό σύστημα. Με στόχο την αποφυγή των κρουσμάτων, όλα τα κράτη ακολούθησαν κάποια μέτρα εγκλεισμού- καραντίνας σε ορισμένες πόλεις ή ακόμη και σε ολόκληρες χώρες. Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να διαπιστωθεί κατά πόσο ο εγκλεισμός επηρέασε θετικά ή αρνητικά τα ποσοστά των ατμοσφαιρικών ρύπων. Έπειτα από μετρήσεις που πάρθηκαν από το Υπουργείο Περιβάλλοντος, σχεδιάστηκαν γραφήματα από τα οποία λήφθηκαν τα εξής συμπεράσματα. Παρατηρήθηκε ότι πέρα από ορισμένες εξαιρέσεις, κυρίως του όζοντος (Ο3), οι τιμές μέτρησης των ρύπων έχουν μειωθεί ή παραμείνει σταθερές. Το φαινόμενο αυτό οφείλεται στο γεγονός πως ο εγκλεισμός βοήθησε στη μείωση της ρύπανσης. Είναι όμως απαραίτητο κάθε κράτος να πραγματοποιήσει ενέργειες και να βρεί μεθόδους για περεταίρω μείωση. Τέτοιες ενέργειες είναι η μείωση χρήσης αυτοκινήτων ΙΧ και η προσπάθεια για κυκλοφορία με τα μέσα μαζικής μεταφοράς, ο έλεγχος των καυσίμων και η χρήση φιλικότερων προς το περιβάλλον,ο έλεγχος των βιομηχανιών και ο περιορισμός των εκπομπών ρύπων, η αποκέντρωση του πληθυσμού από τις μεγάλες πόλεις. Γενικότερα όμως για να πραγματοποιηθούν όλα αυτά η κυριότερη αλλαγή που πρέπει να πραγματοποιηθεί είναι στις αντιλήψεις και τις συνήθειες των ανθρώπων.
Genetic Algorithms and its use with back-propagation network
Creators: name: Bahaa-Eldin, Ayman M.
name: Wahdan, A. M. A.
name: Mahdi, H. M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Genetic algorithms are considered as one of the most efficient search techniques. Although they do not offer an optimal solution, their ability to reach a suitable solution in considerably short time gives them their respectable role in many AI techniques. This work introduces genetic algorithms and describes their characteristics. Then a novel method using genetic algorithm in best training set generation and selection for a back-propagation network is proposed. This work also offers a new extension to the original genetic algorithms
VERBOS PREFIXADOS ALEMÃES E A SUA TRADUÇÃO PARA PORTUGUÊS
Creators: name: Ferreira Da Mota, Eduarda Maria
Publisher: name: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP
Year: 2019

description: Este artigo analisa os verbos prefixados alemães e a sua tradução para português através da análise contrastiva do conto Mein Onkel Fred, de Heinrich Böll, e a sua respectiva tradução para português. Começa-se por um enquadramento teórico onde se revê a formação dos verbos prefixados alemães nos seus aspectos morfo-estruturais e léxico-semânticos, seguindo-se uma análise contrastiva da Derivação Prefixal na Língua Portuguesa com a Derivação Prefixal em Língua Alemã, acompanhada por um levantamento dos Verbos Prefixados e Tipos Tradutivos, nomeadamente, das Formações Prefixais, Simplizia e Paráfrases. Por último, ilustram-se estes tipos tradutivos através da análise de verbos prefixados alemães e respectivas traduções para a língua portuguesa com base no conto já referenciado anteriormente.
description: POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP, No. 5 (2005)