cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monetizing ESG Impact – A CFO Imperative
Creators: name: Barsky, Adam
name: A Cockrell III, Sanford
name: Douglas, Elyse
name: Herz, Robert
name: Misser, Sunil
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: The role of CFOs has expanded significantly, with a focus on corporate resilience, sustainability, and integrated financial reporting. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors are now seen as integral to a company's financial performance, risk management, and long-term strategy. CFOs are tasked with not only ensuring accurate reporting but also driving outcomes that align with sustainability goals. As regulations evolve, sustainability reporting is expected to become mandatory, with integrated reporting on financial and non-financial data becoming the standard.
Tangibilidad, serialidad y diáspora en el terror del ISIS
Creators: name: López, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Estado Islámico (ISIS); Globalización; Thriller; Social Media; Islamic State (ISIS); Globalization; Thriller; Social Media

description: Reflexión sobre diversos aspectos semiológicos, discursivos y estéticos del terror ejercido por el grupo terrorista e insurgente autodenominado ‘Estado Islámico’ (IS o Daesh). En primer lugar, el artículo se ocupa de la reinvención mediática con la que esta organización incide en los contextos y las acciones comunicativas, poniéndola en relación con las referencias proporcionadas por Al Qaeda, con breves digresiones a otros terrorismos. En segundo lugar, el proselitismo y la propaganda que sus voluntarios practican en las redes sociales cibernéticas se equipara a las dinámicas y paradojas de la hiperconectividad global, concluyendo que este movimiento milenarista de retórica universalista no renuncia a reafirmaciones paralelas, particulares y locales de su identidad, especialmente en lo referido a su agenda de tangibilidad territorial.

This brief essay is related to some semiological, discursive and aesthetic aspects of the terror made by the terrorist and insurgent group self-declared ‘Islamic State’ (IS or Daesh). Firstly, the article explains why Daesh has rewritten the media rules of terror, and deals with the repercussions in both communicative contexts and actions, linking them with the references provided by Al Qada and with shorts digressions to other terrorisms. Secondly, proselytism and propaganda supplied by IS volunteers in social networks are reduced to the dynamics and paradoxes of global hyperconnectivity, concluding that this millennial movement, which is characterised by a universalistic rhetoric, does not renounce to parallel, individual and local restatemets, especially in regard to its agenda of territorial tangibility.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Identifying remains of extinct kangaroos in Late Pleistocene deposits using collagen fingerprinting
Creators: name: Buckley, Michael
name: Cosgrove, Richard
name: Garvey, Jillian
name: Prideaux, Gavin J
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 37
subject: Earth sciences
classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
classificationCode: 3709
subject: Physical geography and environmental geoscience
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology

description: Our knowledge of past animal populations, including the geographical ranges of extinct species, has largely been derived from morphological analyses of skeletal fossil remains. However, a major barrier to the identification of the remains of extinct megafaunal species in archaeological and palaeontological sites is the highly fragmented nature of the material, which often precludes confident taxonomic identifications based on morphology. Biomolecular techniques are able to go beyond these limitations and are increasingly being used to make such identifications. Protein analysis offers a promising alternative to DNA techniques because they can be much cheaper, more amenable to high-throughput processing and work on much older specimens. Here we demonstrate the potential of collagen fingerprinting in an Australian context by extracting collagen from 50-ka kangaroo fossils from two caves in Tasmania, and identify several species including the extinct short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis. Importantly, of the five fossil bones sampled that had hitherto been ascribed morphology-based identifications below the family level, three had been incorrectly identified during an initial assessment of photographs taken in the field. Our results highlight the utility of using protein-based methods for making genus-level identification of marsupial bone, especially those that may form a basis for broader arguments such as that of late-surviving megafaunal species.
A violência da linguagem: política do medo e falência da crítica
Creators: name: Gonçalves Peixoto, Maria Eduarda
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Linguagem; Violência; Ideologia; Crítica; Language; Violence; Ideology; Critical

description: Este artigo propõe uma leitura possível da violência a partir de uma crítica radical da linguagem. Para além da compreensão da violência ‘na’ linguagem, em referência a formas de ação violenta que os usos linguísticos podem assumir, há a violência ‘da’ linguagem, que sublinha a violência como constitutiva do ato mesmo de significação. Com base nisso, inicialmente, vinculam-se violência e processos discursivos de significação à luz da crítica radical de S. Zizek (2014) e E. Laclau (1985). A seguir, mostra-se como tal relação é articulada na mediação do escândalo político Novos aloprados (2010), através da análise dos recursos metafóricos empregados pelas esferas enunciativas de mídia, segundo a tipologia de Lakoff e M. Johnson (2002). Finalmente, argumentamos a favor de que a linguagem é, irremediavelmente, uma performance ideológica violenta.

This paper proposes a possible reading of violence from a radical criticism of language. In addition to the understanding of violence ‘in the’ language, in that violence is a form of action that the language can play, there is the violence ‘of the’ language, which emphasizes the violence as constitutive of the act of signification. Initially, it shows violence and discursive processes of signification from the criticism of radical of S. Zizek (2014) e E. Laclau (1985). Then, it shows how such a relationship is articulated in the mediation of brazilian political scandal Novos aloprados (2010), through the analysis of metaphors used in enunciations media, according to the typology of Lakoff e M. Johnson (2002). Finally, we argue that the language is, inevitably, a performance ideological violent.
description: Krypton, N. 5|6 (2015): Violenza
Fibre additions in clay: an alternative medium for studio ceramics
Creators: name: Ionascu, Adriana G.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 199999 Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: The objective of this research is to develop a hybrid material by integrating natural and artificial fibres into clay with the intention of changing its nature, structure and versatility. The project explores the properties of clay reinforced with natural fibres (cellulose) as a structural model and examines in parallel the possibility of introducing artificial fibres (refractory) into clay with the aim of maintaining its fired strength. Testing and experimenting has taken into account reviewed documented experience, technical information, expertise and knowledge of various artists. In addition, it made extensive use of Electron Microscopy, Thermal and Mechanical Analysis, thus generating a few fibre-clay composite solutions and deriving hypothesis on their fired and unfired structural viability. The practical results obtained in the present study became a base for the analysis of the influences produced by different fibres (cellulose, aramid, Nomex, Kevlar, Polyacrylonitril, Viscose, Ceramic and Saffil fibres) on the strength, plasticity, shrinkage and workability of clay. The research also reveals that a combination of materials developed and modified throughout the experimental process becomes a means in developing new media.
Genome-wide analysis of ivermectin response by Onchocerca volvulus reveals that genetic drift and soft selective sweeps contribute to loss of drug sensitivity
Creators: name: Doyle, Stephen R
name: Bourguinat, Catherine
name: Nana-Djeunga, Hugues C
name: Kengne-Ouafo, Jonas A
name: Pion, Sébastien DS
name: Bopda, Jean
name: Kamgno, Joseph
name: Wanji, Samuel
name: Che, Hua
name: Kuesel, Annette C
name: Walker, Martin
name: Basáñez, Maria-Gloria
name: Boakye, Daniel A
name: Osei-Atweneboana, Mike Y
name: Boussinesq, Michel
name: Prichard, Roger K
name: Grant, Warwick
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Treatment of onchocerciasis using mass ivermectin administration has reduced morbidity and transmission throughout Africa and Central/South America. Mass drug administration is likely to exert selection pressure on parasites, and phenotypic and genetic changes in several Onchocerca volvulus populations from Cameroon and Ghana—exposed to more than a decade of regular ivermectin treatment—have raised concern that sub-optimal responses to ivermectin's anti-fecundity effect are becoming more frequent and may spread. Methodology/Principal findings: Pooled next generation sequencing (Pool-seq) was used to characterise genetic diversity within and between 108 adult female worms differing in ivermectin treatment history and response. Genome-wide analyses revealed genetic variation that significantly differentiated good responder (GR) and sub-optimal responder (SOR) parasites. These variants were not randomly distributed but clustered in ~31 quantitative trait loci (QTLs), with little overlap in putative QTL position and gene content between the two countries. Published candidate ivermectin SOR genes were largely absent in these regions; QTLs differentiating GR and SOR worms were enriched for genes in molecular pathways associated with neurotransmission, development, and stress responses. Finally, single worm genotyping demonstrated that geographic isolation and genetic change over time (in the presence of drug exposure) had a significantly greater role in shaping genetic diversity than the evolution of SOR. Conclusions/Significance: This study is one of the first genome-wide association analyses in a parasitic nematode, and provides insight into the genomics of ivermectin response and population structure of O. volvulus. We argue that ivermectin response is a polygenically-determined quantitative trait (QT) whereby identical or related molecular pathways but not necessarily individual genes are likely to determine the extent of ivermectin response in different parasite populations. Furthermore, we propose that genetic drift rather than genetic selection of SOR is the underlying driver of population differentiation, which has significant implications for the emergence and potential spread of SOR within and between these parasite populations.
A checklist for reporting, reading and evaluating Artificial Intelligence Technology Enhanced Learning (AITEL) research in medical education
Creators: name: Masters, Ken
name: Salcedo, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to AI systems’ being used increasingly in medical education research. Current methods of reporting on the research, however, tend to follow patterns of describing an intervention and reporting on results, with little description of the AI in the system, or the many concerns about the use of AI. In essence, the readers do not actually know anything about the system itself. This paper proposes a checklist for reporting on AI systems, and covers the initial protocols and scoping, modelling and code, algorithm design, training data, testing and validation, usage, comparisons, real-world requirements, results and limitations, and ethical considerations. The aim is to have a systematic reporting process so that readers can have a comprehensive understanding of the AI system that was used in the research.
La relación entre Historia y Poesía en el último cuarto del siglo XVI (con especial atención al teatro cervantino de la ‘primera época’)
Creators: name: Antonucci, Fausta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Tragedia; Comedia; Historia; Cervantes; Teatro del último cuarto del siglo XVI; Tragedy; Comedy; History; Late XVIth Century theatre

description: En el teatro del último cuarto del siglo XVI se observa un interés especial por la reutilización dramática de episodios históricos, tanto de la historia antigua como de la historia nacional, incluso la muy reciente. Si se mira bajo este prisma la producción teatral de ese periodo, se difuminan las diferencias artificiosas que cierta crítica quiso establecer entre unos dramaturgos interesados por la tragedia (cuyo argumento príncipe es la historia, según los gramáticos medievales) y unos dramaturgos más jóvenes, entre ellos Lope de Vega, que fraguan la fórmula de la Comedia Nueva. La producción teatral de Cervantes en su ‘primera época’ es un buen ejemplo de la constante experimentación que caracteriza el teatro del periodo, presentando un amplio abanico de dramatizaciones de la Historia, desde la más antigua a la más reciente, y de fórmulas dramáticas, desde la tragedia de tonos senequistas a la comedia de tema histórico pero con importantes componentes amorosas.
The late XVIth century theatre proves to be especially interested in dramatic use of historical episodes, both of ancient and national history. Looking at the theatrical production of the period from this angle, artificial differences between tragedians (interested in History) and younger dramatists that launch the Comedia Nueva formula will fade out. Cervantes’s ‘first period’ dramatic production is a good example of the continuous experimentation that is typical of the late XVIth century theatre: it presents a wide range of historical dramatizations, from ancient history to the very latest one, and of dramatic formulas, from senequian tragedy to historical comedy with an important love plot.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica
Linguistic Enfranchisement
Creators: name: Goebel, Zane
name: Jukes, Anthony
name: Morin, Izak
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4703
subject: Language studies
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Drawing on sociolinguistic research, this article introduces the concept of 'linguistic enfranchisement' (LE). Large one-to-many participation frameworks, such as schooling, mass media, and bureaucratic institutions, help populations to comprehend a particular variety of language by providing access to written and spoken forms of an emerging 'standard' language of the nation. We refer to this process as LE, while pointing out that LE can be seen as a product. This is so because LE also refers to the linguistic forms that are modelled as a language within these nation-building infrastructures. Nation-building infrastructures also engender LE in other languages, which can ultimately come into competition with the language of the nation-state. We refer to this as 'latent enfranchisement', with 'latent' being used to indicate potential LE. In theorizing LE, we focus on the languages used in political campaign posters from three parts of Indonesia: West Java, Papua, and Manado.
Buero Vallejo: teatro e historia
Creators: name: De Paco, Mariano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Buero Vallejo; Teatro histórico; Teatro español contemporáneo; Historical theatre; Spanish Contemporary Theatre

description: Antonio Buero Vallejo abrió con su teatro histórico un camino que, de modos diversos y con diferentes estéticas pero con una identidad de principio (enfoque crítico y relación con el presente), lo transitan autores de generaciones posteriores y distintas tendencias. En este artículo se examinan el sentido y los caracteres de ese teatro bueriano y su pervivencia.
Antonio Buero Vallejo, with his historical theatre, paved the way to the authors of the following generations which, although from different aesthetics, share the same basic identity (critical perspective and connection to the present). This article examines both the significance and the persistence of Buero’s historical theatre.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica
La práctica terrorista de ETA en el teatro español: la tetralogía de Koldo Barrena
Creators: name: Fox, Manuela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Koldo Barrena; Teatro español; Teatro contemporáneo; Terrorismo; ETA; Spanish theatre; Contemporary theatre; Terrorism

description: El terrorismo se ha convertido en los últimos años en una temática bastante fecunda entre los dramaturgos españoles. Por lo que se refiere a la dramatización del terrorismo vasco, destaca la actividad teatral de Koldo Barrena, seudónimo de un dramaturgo, actor, director y profesor español, que no quiere que su verdadero nombre se conozca por miedo a las represalias. Sus textos, Eusk (2002), Zulo (2004), Regreso (Itzultze) (2007), y Pintxos (2013), forman una admirable tetralogía sobre la violencia etarra. Mi intervención se propone dar a conocer la actividad de este dramaturgo, presentar su labor y analizar que dinámicas teatrales caracterizan textos que encaran argumentos muy emotivos y sufridos.
In the last decades, terrorism has become fertile ground for Spanish dramatists. Koldo Barrena is a playwright, an actor, a director and a professor, who uses a pseudonym due to the fear of ETA reprisals. His admirable tetralogy – Eusk (2002), Zulo (2004), Regreso (Itzultze) (2007), and Pintxos (2013) – focuses on Basque terrorism. The aim of this paper is to introduce this playwright, present his works and analyze the characteristics of his social commitment and particular theatrical style.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica
Measuring the Unmeasurable: An Accathon—Accounting Hackathon to Unpack Corporate Social Performance
Creators: name: Melloni, Gaia
name: Pisciella, Arianna
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Firms' activities significantly impact sustainable development, necessitating better sustainability accounting tools. Recent crises, such as COVID-19 and social washing scandals, have amplified the urgency to measure corporate social performance. This project aims to refine the "S" in ESG by critically reviewing existing frameworks, hosting an "Accathon" to co-develop solutions, and formulating a new measurement framework. The ultimate goal is to enhance transparency, accountability, and sustainability in corporate reporting.
Supplementary document for Dynamic dual-functional optical waveplate based on phase-change meta-molecules - 6433697.pdf
Creators: name: Cai, Ziru
name: Ding, Yingtao
name: Chen, Zhiming
name: Zheng, Zi-Wei
name: Ding, Fei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
DRYAD brochure FR
Creators: name: Rodríguez Silva, Tamara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: NbS
Nature-based solutions
DRYAD
Mediterranean ecosystems
Agro-silvo-pastoral

description: The DRYAD brochure serves as a concise and visually engaging document to communicate the project's key objectives, activities, and expected outcomes to stakeholders, partners, and the general public. It provides an overview of the project, its purpose, and its contributions to the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No GA 101156076
Immersive distance simulation: Exploring the educational impact of stereoscopic extended reality (XR) video in remote learning environments
Creators: name: Bailey, Shannon K. T.
name: Brannick, Michael T.
name: Reiner, Colleen C.
name: Rettig, Nicole
name: Dyer, Lauren M.
name: Okuda, Yasuharu
name: Llerena, Luis E.
name: McKenna, Ryan T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: What was the educational challenge? There is a growing need for healthcare simulation options when local expertise or resources are not available. To connect instructors with remote learners, current options for distance simulation are typically limited to videoconferencing on desktop computers or mobile devices, which may not fully capture the complexity of clinical scenarios. What was the solution? Extended reality (XR) technology may provide a more immersive and realistic distance healthcare simulation experience compared to traditional videoconferencing options. Unlike computer- or phone-based video calls, stereoscopic video in XR provides a sense of depth that may increase spatial understanding and engagement in distance simulation. How was the solution implemented? We investigated the impact of XR for synchronous distance simulation compared to traditional desktop-based videoconferencing in Emergency Medicine (EM) resident training for an obstetrical emergency. A randomized controlled experiment was conducted with half of the residents using XR and half using computers to participate in the simulation. What lessons were learned that are relevant to a wider global audience? There was an unanticipated interaction between postgraduate year and condition such that performance in the XR condition was superior for first year residents, while this was reversed for more experienced residents. This indicates that the benefits of XR might be dependent on participant characteristics, such as learner level. What are the next steps? We plan to extend this research to clarify characteristics of learners and tasks that are important determinants of differences in outcomes between stereoscopic XR versus traditional videoconference displays.
title: (K)eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit
Creators: name: Gaffron, Shari
name: Löbbert, Friederike
name: Schmidt, Lara
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
Towards a conceptual framework: Starting with our building blocks
Creators: name: Avelino, Flor
name: Hielscher, Sabine
name: Fraaije, Maria
name: Wittmayer, Julia M.
name: de Geus, Tessa
name: Winzer, Christian
name: Schmid, Benjamin
name: Dzukowski, Tim
name: Guetlein, Marie-Charlotte
name: Schleich, Joachim
name: Dütschke, Elisabeth
name: Stadler, Maria
name: Brugger, Heike
name: Strumińska-Kutra, Marta
name: Rogge, Karoline
name: Wemyss, Devon
name: Vernay, Anne-Lorène
name: Ranville, Adélie
name: Dembek, Agata
name: Stasik, Agata
name: Rok, Bolesław
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Overview SONNET Research Briefs: Research Brief #1: Avelino, Flor (2020) A transformative social innovation perspective on the diversity, contributions and processes of social innovation. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #2a: Hielscher, Sabine (2019) New institutionalism: Examining the processes of social innovation initiatives. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #2b: Hielscher, Sabine (2020) Possible ways to explore the processes and contributions of SIE-initiatives. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #3: Fraaije, M., Wittmayer, J.M. & T. de Geus (2020) The empirical diversity of social innovation in energy. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #4: Winzer, C., Schmid, B., Dzukowski, T. & D. Wemyss (2019) Defining the success of social innovation in energy. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #5: Marie-Charlotte Guetlein, Joachim Schleich (2019) Insights on the future potentials of social innovations in energy. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #6: Wittmayer, J.M., Dütschke, E., & M. Fraaije (2020) Research brief on sociocultural aspects of social innovation in energy – a first draft. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #7: Stadler, M., Avelino, F., Brugger, H., Strumińska-Kutra, M. and K. Rogge (2020) A socio-political focus on social innovation in energy: drivers, barriers and contributions. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #8: Wemyss, D., Hielscher, S., Vernay, Ranville, Struminska, M. & A. Dembek (2019) Research brief on socio-economic issues of social innovation in energy. SONNET Research Brief. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498 Research Brief #9: Struminska-Kutra, M., Dembek, A., Stasik, A. & B. Rok (2019) City Labs. SONNET: EU H2020 Grant Agreement 837498
title: Key informant interviews with Nordic gambling regulators
title: Asiantuntijahaastattelut pohjoismaisten rahapeliregulaattoreiden kanssa
Creators: name: Marionneau, Virve
Publisher: name: University of Helsinki
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: gambling
subject: measurement
subject: offshore
subject: key informant

description: The dataset consists of the transcript of a group interview with key informants (N=3 interviewees in total) and written responses of one key informant. The interviews focused on current approaches to measuring the offshore gambling market in different Nordic countries. The dataset is saved as a docx-file. The dataset is not open due to confidentiality.
Improved maternity care if midwives learn to perform ultrasound: a qualitative study of Rwandan midwives’ experiences and views of obstetric ultrasound
Creators: name: Holmlund, Sofia
name: Ntaganira, Joseph
name: Edvardsson, Kristina
name: Lan, Pham Thi
name: Sengoma, Jean Paul Semasaka
name: Åhman, Annika
name: Small, Rhonda
name: Mogren, Ingrid
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Background: Obstetric ultrasound has become an indispensable part of antenatal care worldwide. Although the use of ultrasound has shown benefits in the reduction of maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality, it has also raised many ethical challenges. Because of insufficient numbers of midwives in Rwanda, uncomplicated pregnancy care is usually provided by nurses in local health centres. Obstetric ultrasound is generally performed by physicians at higher levels of healthcare, where midwives are also more likely to be employed. Objectives: To explore Rwandan midwives' experiences and views of the role of obstetric ultrasound in relation to clinical management, including ethical aspects. Methods: A qualitative study design was employed. Six focus group discussions were held in 2015 with 23 midwives working in maternity care in rural and urban areas of Rwanda, as part of the CROss Country Ultrasound Study (CROCUS). Results: Obstetric ultrasound was experienced as playing a very important role in clinical management of pregnant women, but participants emphasised that it should not overshadow other clinical examinations. The unequal distribution of ultrasound services throughout Rwanda was considered a challenge, and access was described as low, especially in rural areas. To increase the quality of maternity care, some advocated strongly for midwives to be trained in ultrasound and for physicians to receive additional training. In general, pregnant women were perceived both as requesting more ultrasound examinations than they received, and as not being satisfied with an antenatal consultation if ultrasound was not performed. Conclusions: Obstetric ultrasound plays a significant role in maternity care in Rwanda. Increasing demand for ultrasound examinations from pregnant women needs to be balanced with medical indication and health benefits. Training of midwives to perform obstetric ultrasound and further training for physicians would help to address access to ultrasound for greater numbers of women across Rwanda.
Teatroxlaidentidad
Creators: name: Nanni, Susanna
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Teatroxolaidentidad; Teatro argentino contemporáneo; Teatro político; Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo; Contemporary Argentine Theatre; Political theatre

description: El movimiento teatral llamado Teatroxlaidentidad se constituyó como una forma más de lucha, uno de los brazos artísticos, de la asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, siendo su objetivo principal la búsqueda, a lo largo y a lo ancho del territorio argentino (y fuera del mismo), de unos cuatrocientos jóvenes que siguen viviendo bajo una gran mentira sobre su verdadera identidad. A veinte años del golpe, puesto que los nietos ya tenían la edad para ser partícipes de su propia búsqueda, el movimiento se propuso sacar la temática de la apropiación de niños del ámbito estrictamente político, para empezar a tratarla desde el teatro.
Teatroxlaidentidad was created as a new form of struggle, one of the artistic branches of the Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, aiming at the recovery, inside and outside Argentina, of 400 young people still living in a false identity. Twenty years after de golpe, as the nietos were yet able to participate directly in this search, the movement intended to extrapolate the topic of the embezzlement of children out of the strictly political scope, to begin treating it on stage.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica
DAVLAT XIZMATCHILARINING KORRUPSIYAVIY JINOYATLARI UCHUN JAZO CHORALARINING SAMARADORLIGI: XALQARO TAJRIBA
Creators: name: Saidabdullayev, Orzubek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqolada davlat xizmatchilari tomonidan sodir etiladigan korrupsiyaviy jinoyatlar uchun jazo choralarining samaradorligi tahlil qilinadi. Xalqaro tajribaga tayangan holda turli davlatlarning korrupsiyaga qarshi kurash strategiyalari, jazo tizimlari va ularning natijalari o‘rganiladi. Shuningdek, korrupsiyaning davlat boshqaruv tizimiga, iqtisodiyotga va jamiyatga ta’siri tahlil qilinib, samarali jazo choralarining asosiy mezonlari yoritiladi. Tadqiqotda BMT, Yevropa Ittifoqi, YeXHT va boshqa xalqaro tashkilotlarning korrupsiyaga qarshi kurash bo‘yicha tavsiyalari, shuningdek, rivojlangan davlatlar tajribasi asosida samarali chora-tadbirlarni ishlab chiqish bo‘yicha ilmiy xulosalar beriladi
Cooperative vehicles for robust traffic congestion reduction: An analysis based on algorithmic, environmental and agent behavioral factors
Creators: name: Desai, Prajakta
name: Loke, Seng W
name: Desai, Aniruddha
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 4005
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4602
subject: Artificial intelligence

description: Traffic congestion continues to be a persistent problem throughout the world. As vehicle-to-vehicle communication develops, there is an opportunity of using cooperation among close proximity vehicles to tackle the congestion problem. The intuition is that if vehicles could cooperate opportunistically when they come close enough to each other, they could, in effect, spread themselves out among alternative routes so that vehicles do not all jam up on the same roads. Our previous work proposed a decentralized multiagent based vehicular congestion management algorithm entitled Congestion Avoidance and Route Allocation using Virtual Agent Negotiation (CARAVAN), wherein the vehicles acting as intelligent agents perform cooperative route allocation using inter-vehicular communication. This paper focuses on evaluating the practical applicability of this approach by testing its robustness and performance (in terms of travel time reduction), across variations in: (a) environmental parameters such as road network topology and configuration; (b) algorithmic parameters such as vehicle agent preferences and route cost/preference multipliers; and (c) agent-related parameters such as equipped/non-equipped vehicles and compliant/non-compliant agents. Overall, the results demonstrate the adaptability and robustness of the decentralized cooperative vehicles approach to providing global travel time reduction using simple local coordination strategies.
Embodying performance excellence in medicine: Can The Six Viewpoints help?
Creators: name: Kurker, Kristina P.
name: Chen, Donna T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Performance excellence in healthcare relies on skilled situational awareness, but there is no comprehensive framework articulating what within a situation requires awareness. Envisioning medicine as a performing artform, we introduce Mary Overlie’s The Six Viewpoints—a comprehensive, yet flexible, conceptual framework used in the performing arts world, for teaching, learning, and creating, for over 50 years. We imagine The Viewpoints could serve as a framework to help improve verbal and non-verbal communication and collaboration on medical teams and between providers and their patients. We call on health professions educators to experiment with The Viewpoints to determine how they could be adapted to support performance excellence in the medical arena.
Reliability, validity and acceptability of an online clinical reasoning simulator for medical students: An international pilot
Creators: name: Hornos, Eduardo
name: Pleguezuelos, Eduardo
name: Bala, Laksha
name: Collares, Carlos Fernando
name: Freeman, Adrian
name: van der Vleuten, Cees
name: Murphy, Kevin G.
name: Sam, Amir H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Clinical reasoning skills are essential for decision-making. Current assessment methods are limited when testing clinical reasoning and management of uncertainty. This study evaluates the reliability, validity and acceptability of Practicum Script, an online simulation-based programme, for developing medical students’ clinical reasoning skills using real-life cases. In 2020, we conducted an international, multicentre pilot study using 20 clinical cases with 2457 final-year medical students from 21 schools worldwide. Psychometric analysis was performed (n = 1502 students completing at least 80% of cases). Classical estimates of reliability for three test domains (hypothesis generation, hypothesis argumentation and knowledge application) were calculated using Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega coefficients. Validity evidence was obtained by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and measurement alignment (MA). Items from the knowledge application domain were analysed using cognitive diagnostic modelling (CDM). Acceptability was evaluated by an anonymous student survey. Reliability estimates were high with narrow confidence intervals. CFA revealed acceptable goodness-of-fit indices for the proposed three-factor model. CDM analysis demonstrated good absolute test fit and high classification accuracy estimates. Student survey responses showed high levels of acceptability. Our findings suggest that Practicum Script is a useful resource for strengthening students’ clinical reasoning skills and ability to manage uncertainty.
D4.12 OPERAS data facility design and development description
Creators: name: Marras, Cristina
name: Mancini, Lorenzo
name: Reggiani, Lisa
name: Russo, Ada
name: Sichera, Pietro
name: Pasini, Enrico
name: Spagni, Pietro Rossano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Deliverable D4.12 OPERAS data facility design and development description illustrates the delivery and implementation of the Data Facility solutions for OPERAS, by examining the main features of the infrastructure and its essential components, the work plan for activating the service delivery and, finally, the next steps to be taken in the short term.

In addition, the deliverable highlights the importance of the combination of advanced software solutions and hardware infrastructure, and the direction towards the full integration of the OPERAS Data Facility into the H2IOSC system.
Negative faculty role modelling – is it a reflection of deteriorating societal values?
Creators: name: Bashir, Adeela
name: McTaggart, Irene Janette
name: Tufail, Shazia
name: Mustafa, Nilofar
name: Rauf, Ayesha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Negative faculty role modelling is an area of growing concern especially due to its implications on medical professionalism. The study aims to explore the impacts of negative role modelling on professionalism of medical students in the context of Pakistan. This qualitative study is part of a larger study exploring impacts of role modelling on professionalism of students. It is based on Constructivist Grounded Theory involving six semi-structured interviews with clinical faculty and three focus group discussions with 22 students. Initial, focused, selective coding and thematic analysis was used to find the core category. Three overarching categories were developed: traits observed with negative role models; impact of negative role modelling; factors promoting negative role modelling. Subcategories of impacts included negative impact on professionalism, emotional impact, and its paradoxical positive impact. Negative role modelling, a manifestation of declining professionalism, was attributed to deteriorating societal values; further compounded by the lack of required mechanisms by institutions and the regulatory authority at their respective levels. In the absence of a strong moral platform at societal level, the burden of responsibility rests with the faculty and more importantly with institutions and regulatory bodies to discourage negative role modelling and educate students to recognize, reflect on and avoid negative behaviours and adopt strong professional values.
The effect of sex and mating opportunity on ecological immunity in Brood X cicadas
Creators: name: Hord, Catherine M.
name: Cummings, Caleb C.
name: Anagbonu, Frances
name: Gershman, Susan N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Seventeen-year periodical cicadas represent an extreme life history, with individuals spending 17 years as juveniles and less than 45 days as adults. The implications of this life history on investment in immunity are unknown. Using monofilament implants, we examined sex differences in melanization and encapsulation-based immunity in Brood X Magicicada septendecim and M. cassini periodical cicadas. In many insects, females devote more effort to immunity than males which allows females additional time to lay eggs before death. In 17-year cicadas, the functional difference in lifespan between males and females is trivial as compared to their total lifespan. However, we found that in both species, adult females had better immunity (encapsulation response) than males. In both species, male immunity (melanization and encapsulation) declined as they aged, as did female encapsulation. However, female immunity (melanization) either did not decline or improved with age. We conclude that although male immunosenescence resembles that of shorter-lived insects, for females, melanization-based immunity is preserved as they age, potentially due to their unique life history. We also examined whether being housed in mixed-sex versus single-sex enclosures affected immunity but did not find an effect of reproductive opportunity on either melanization or encapsulation in males or females of either species. This is the first study to assay melanization or encapsulation in a cicada, so our results provide a first look at sex- and age-based immunity in this group.
title: Responsive not strategic: The EU’s policy towards Mercosur
Creators: name: Gomez Arana, Arantza
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: EU, Mercosur, association agreement, strategic actor, international trade.

description: This thesis seeks to examine the motivations for the European Union’s (EU) policy towards the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), the EU’s most important relationship with another regional economic integration organisation. As such, the EUMercosur relationship has a prominent place in the literature on the EU as a global actor. This thesis argues that the dominant explanations in the literature -- balancing the US, global aspirations, being an external federator, long-standing economic and cultural ties, economic interdependence, and the Europeanization of Spanish and Portuguese national foreign policies – fail to adequately explain the EU’s policy. In particular, these accounts tend to infer the EU’s motives from its activity. Drawing extensive primary documents, this thesis argues that the major developments in the relationship -- the 1992 Interinstitutional Agreement and the 1995 Europe Mercosur Inter-regional Framework Cooperation Agreement – were initiated by Mercosur. Moreover, a free trade agreement was included in the latter agreement which negotiations finally started in 1999 due to the insistence of Mercosur. This means that rather than the EU pursuing a strategy, as impliedby most of the existing literature, the EU was largely responsive. How it responded to Mercosur’s overtures, however, has been influenced by some of the factors highlighted in the literature, most notably the Europeanisation of Portuguese and, particularly, Spanish foreign policies. Also the Commission’s role as external federator has influenced as well, although to a lesser extent. Overall, however, these supposedly causal factors have provided only a very weak impetus for EU policy, which explains in large part why the relationship is much less developed than the EU’s relations with other parts of the world. Beyond providing a distinctive and empirically rich account of the EU’s relationship with Mercosur, this thesis contributes to the literature on the EU as a global actor, particularly the extent to which it is a strategic actor, and to the literature on Europeanization of national foreign policies of member states from a bottom-up perspective with the case of Spain and Portugal.
La Fura dels Baus, Agrupación Sr. Serrano, La Tristura: el reflejo de la sociedad en el teatro español contemporáneo
Creators: name: Orazi, Veronica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: La fura dels Baus; Agrupación Sr. Serrano; La Tristura; Dramaturgia española contemporánea; Teatro y sociedad; Spanish Contemporary Drama; Theatre and Society

description: En la sociedad actual el ciudadano juega un papel fundamental: el entorno local donde vive se proyecta en una macro-dimensión en que la sostenibilidad depende tanto de la acción del individuo como de la colectividad, en la que recaen las consecuencias de ese mecanismo recíproco. En la reciente producción dramatúrgica española tres obras resultan especialmente sugerentes desde esta perspectiva: MURS (2014) de La Fura dels Baus, el primer smartshow de la historia del teatro, con uso de tecnologías y aplicaciones para smartphone, sobre las smartcities, las ciudades del futuro; Katastrophe (2011) de la Agrupación Señor Serrano, sobre catástrofe natural, catástrofe natural provocada por el hombre y catástrofe humana; Materia prima (2011) de La Tristura, donde la concepción del niño como ciudadano y sujeto comprometido renueva la misma idea de dramaturgia infantil-juvenil. El artículo enfoca el tema a través del análisis de estas tres obras representativas de tendencias en fase de consolidación.
In present societies, the citizen plays an essential role: his local environment projects itself in a macro-dimension in which sustainability depends by both the action of individuals and the community, and this undergoes the consequences of such mutual mechanisms. In the recent Spanish drama production, three works turn out to be especially suggestive by this point of view: MURS (2014) by La Fura dels Baus, the first smartshow ever on stage, with the use of technologies and applications for smartphones, on smartcities, the cities of the future; Katastrophe (2011) by the Agrupación Señor Serrano, on natural catastrophe, natural catastrophe caused by man and human catastrophe; Materia prima (2011) by La Tristura, in which the idea of the child as a citizen and an involved individual renovates the idea itself of children’s/youth theatre. The article focuses on the topic through the analysis of these three works representing new trends.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica
Teatro y música en el siglo XXI: sobre musicales en Madrid
Creators: name: Romera Castillo, José
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi RomaTre
Year: 2016
Subjects: Teatro; Música; Musicales; Teatro en Madrid; Theatre; Music; Musical; Theatre in Madrid

description: El artículo presenta algunas de las relaciones del teatro con la música en los inicios del siglo XXI. Tras una relación de la trayectoria del grupo de investigación SELITEN@T, la atención se centra en el examen del teatro musical en Madrid, sucintamente a través de la ópera y la zarzuela y, más detenidamente, de los musicales.
The article presents some of the relationships between theatre and music in the beginnings of the XXIst century. After presenting the path of the research group SELITEN@T, it focus its attention on the analysis of the presence of musical theatre in Madrid, taking into account, synthetically, the opera and the zarzuela and, more in detail, the musical.
description: Krypton, N. 7 (2016): Teatro, politica