cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Exploring the potential of phytoconstituents from Phaseolus vulgaris L against C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4): a bioinformatic and molecular dynamic simulations approach
Creators: name: Wahono, Cesarius Singgih
name: Syaban, Mokhamad Fahmi Rizki
name: Pratama, Mirza Zaka
name: Rahman, Perdana Aditya
name: Erwan, Nabila Erina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. The result of protein-protein interaction by Ramachandran plot.
TENOVAGINOSCOPIC APPROACH TO THE COMMON DIGITAL FLEXOR TENDON SHEATH OF ADULT CATTLE: TECHNIQUE, NORMAL FINDINGS AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS IN FOUR CLINICAL CASES
Creators: name: BERTAGNOLI, ALBERTO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The aim of this study was to describe the tenovaginoscopic approach to the bovine common digital flexor tendon sheath (CDFTS). An anatomical, ultrasonographic and endoscopic study was undertaken using 27 healthy cadaver feet from 7 adult dairy cows. Tenovaginoscopy was performed using a rigid, 30� arthroscope (length 18 cm and outer diameter 4 mm), enabling a direct view of the synovial cavity and the following structures: digital flexor tendons, digital annular ligaments, lateral and medial pouches, 3 mesotendons, a vinculum tendinum and a slot-shaped opening in the manica flexoria of the hind feet. Additionally, four clinical cases of septic tenosynovitis treated with lavage under tenovaginoscopic control were examined. Tenovaginoscopy represents a minimally invasive method for diagnosis and treatment of septic tenosynovitis of the CDFTS, which allows the degree of alterations of the normal structures to be evaluated.
Additional file 9 of Retro-miRs: novel and functional miRNAs originating from mRNA retrotransposition
Creators: name: Mercuri, Rafael L. V.
name: Conceição, Helena B.
name: Guardia, Gabriela D. A.
name: Goldstein, Gabriel
name: Vibranovski, Maria D.
name: Hinske, Ludwig C.
name: Galante, Pedro A. F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Table S8. Targets of the retro-miRs.
sj-docx-1-anr-10.1177_20530196211044630 – Supplemental material for European colonization and the emergence of novel fire regimes in southeast Australia
Creators: name: Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya
name: Connor, Simon Edward
name: Haberle, Simon Graeme
name: Herbert, Annika
name: Brown, Josephine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-anr-10.1177_20530196211044630 for European colonization and the emergence of novel fire regimes in southeast Australia by Matthew Adesanya Adeleye, Simon Edward Connor, Simon Graeme Haberle, Annika Herbert and Josephine Brown in The Anthropocene Review
sj-docx-1-bbi-10.1177_11779322211043297 – Supplemental material for A Computational Approach to Modeling an Antagonistic Angiogenic VEGFR1-IL2 Fusion Protein for Cancer Therapy
Creators: name: Shafique, Qurrat ul Ain
name: Rehman, Hafiz Muzzammel
name: Zaheer, Tahreem
name: Tahir, Rana Adnan
name: Bhinder, Munir Ahmad
name: Gul, Roquyya
name: Saleem, Mahjabeen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-bbi-10.1177_11779322211043297 for A Computational Approach to Modeling an Antagonistic Angiogenic VEGFR1-IL2 Fusion Protein for Cancer Therapy by Qurrat ul Ain Shafique, Hafiz Muzzammel Rehman, Tahreem Zaheer, Rana Adnan Tahir, Munir Ahmad Bhinder, Roquyya Gul and Mahjabeen Saleem in Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
Additional file 2 of Supporting families and caregivers of children with disabilities through a parent peer mentor (PPM): experiences from a patient-oriented research network
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Sakiko
name: Costello, Carrie
name: Lalonde, Corinne
name: McCarry, Sharon
name: Majnemer, Annette
name: Shikako, Keiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Interview questions.
Neurophysiological study of epileptogenic networks in epilepsy
Creators: name: STRIGARO, Gionata
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2017

description: To increase understanding into the specific networks involved in the pathophysiology of different types of epilepsy, we proposed extensive neurophysiological studies. First, we studied patients with photosensitive epilepsy since they represent a ?model? of system epilepsy. Then, we focused on patients with focal (FE) and generalized epilepsies (GE) to unravel the neurophysiological basis of seizure generalization. Finally, we explored the motor cortex plasticity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), the most common subtype of GE in adults.
We used the paired transcranial magnetic stimulation (paired-TMS) to investigate the time related changes in functional connectivity between visual and primary motor cortex in healthy subjects and in patients with photosensitivity to study the visuomotor integration. We also studied the interhemispheric connection involved in seizure generalization in FE and GE; to explore the motor cortex synaptic plasticity in patients with JME we used the paired associative stimulation.The findings support a physiologically relevant visuomotor functional connectivity, which likely contributes to visuomotor integration. Substantial physiologic changes in this network underlie the photosensitivity, which may justify the origin of epileptic motor phenomena (i.e. myoclonus).
We found significant differences in the interhemispheric connection of drug-treated patients with FE and those with IGE. Whilst interhemispheric inhibition changes would not be crucial for the IGE pathophysiology, they may represent one key factor for the contralateral spread of focal discharges, and seizure generalization.
As to the patients with JME, we provided evidence of a defective long term potentiation-like plasticity, which may be primarily involved in the pathogenesis of myoclonus.
In conclusion, we documented substantial changes in the epileptogenic networks involved in different types of epilepsy.
V3CMM: a 3-View Component Meta-Model for Model-Driven Robotic Software Development
Creators: name: Alonso, Diego
name: Chicote, Cristina Vicente
name: Ortiz, Francisco
name: Juan Pastor
name: B�Rbara �Lvarez
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2010

description: There are many voices in the robotics community demanding a qualitative improvement in the robotics software development process and tools, in order to increase product flexibility, adaptability, and overall quality, while reducing its cost and time-to-market. This article describes a first step towards a model-driven approach to robotics software development, based on the
definition of highly reusable and platform-independent component-based design models. The proposed approach revolves around the V3CMM modeling language and the definition of different model transformations for deriving both special purpose models (e.g., models
suited for analysis or simulation purposes) and lower-level design models, in which platform-specific and application-dependent details can be progressively included. The article describes the tool chain implemented to support the different stages of the proposed modeldriven
process, including (1) the definition of component-based architectural models, defined using the V3CMM platform-independent modeling language, (2) the automatic transformation of the V3CMM component-based models into equivalent object-oriented designs, described in terms of the UML standard, and (3) the transformation of the UML models into the Ada 2005 object-oriented programming language. In order to show the feasibility and the benefits of the proposal, a simple (yet complete) case study regarding the design of a Cartesian robot is presented.
sj-docx-1-tar-10.1177_17534666211046774 – Supplemental material for The short-term effects of ORKAMBI (lumacaftor/ivacaftor) on regional and distal lung structures using functional respiratory imaging
Creators: name: Lauwers, Eline
name: Belmans, Dennis
name: Mignot, Benjamin
name: Ides, Kris
name: Van Hoorenbeeck, Kim
name: Snoeckx, Annemiek
name: Van Holsbeke, Cedric
name: Nowé, Vicky
name: Van Braeckel, Eva
name: De Backer, Wilfried
name: De Backer, Jan
name: Verhulst, Stijn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-tar-10.1177_17534666211046774 for The short-term effects of ORKAMBI (lumacaftor/ivacaftor) on regional and distal lung structures using functional respiratory imaging by Eline Lauwers, Dennis Belmans, Benjamin Mignot, Kris Ides, Kim Van Hoorenbeeck, Annemiek Snoeckx, Cedric Van Holsbeke, Vicky Nowé, Eva Van Braeckel, Wilfried De Backer, Jan De Backer and Stijn Verhulst in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
Towards optimal measurement and theoretical grounding of L2 English elicited imitation: Examining scales, (mis)fits, and prompt features from item response theory and random forest approaches
Creators: name: Shin, Ji-young
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

description: The present dissertation investigated the impact of scales / scoring methods and prompt linguistic features on the meausrement quality of L2 English elicited imitation (EI). Scales / scoring methods are an important feature for the validity and reliabilty of L2 EI test, but less is known (Yan et al., 2016). Prompt linguistic features are also known to influence EI test quaity, particularly item difficulty, but item discrimination or corpus-based, fine-grained meausres have rarely been incorporated into examining the contribution of prompt linguistic features. The current study addressed the research needs, using item response theory (IRT) and random forest modeling.Data consisted of 9,348 oral responses to forty-eight items, including EI prompts, item scores, and rater comments, which were collected from 779 examinees of an L2 English EI test at Purdue Universtiy. First, the study explored the current and alternative EI scales / scoring methods that measure grammatical / semantic accuracy, focusing on optimal IRT-based measurement qualities (RQ1 through RQ4 in Phase Ⅰ). Next, the project identified important prompt linguistic features that predict EI item difficulty and discrimination across different scales / scoring methods and proficiency, using multi-level modeling and random forest regression (RQ5 and RQ6 in Phase Ⅱ).The main findings were (although not limited to): 1) collapsing exact repetition and paraphrase categories led to more optimal measurement (i.e., adequacy of item parameter values, category functioning, and model / item / person fit) (RQ1); there were fewer misfitting persons with lower proficiency and higher frequency of unexpected responses in the extreme categories (RQ2); the inconsistency of qualitatively distinguishing semantic errors and the wide range of grammatical accuracy in the minor error category contributed to misfit (RQ3); a quantity-based, 4-category ordinal scale outperformed quality-based or binary scales (RQ4); sentence length significantly explained item difficulty only, with small variance explained (RQ5); Corpus-based lexical measures and phrase-level syntactic complexity were important to predicting item difficulty, particularly for the higher ability level. The findings made implications for EI scale / item development in human and automatic scoring settings and L2 English proficiency development.
An interdisciplinary study of sustainable electronics in reliability, recycling, and STEM education
Creators: name: Wang, Congying
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Metals and alloy materials

description: Our next-generation engineers must be able to design technologies and create partnerships for broad applications that sustain the environment and protect human health. This dissertation reports on technologies and partnerships that support sustainable electronics by (1) improving the reliability of Sn-alloys in electronics by understanding the formation of whiskers in Sn thin films under thermomechanical stresses, (2) assessing the social, political, and economic determinants of a town's transition to cleaner recycling of e-waste, and (3) establishing a framework highlighting the contextualization and shared value to integrate sustainability in STEM education.
sj-docx-1-hea-10.1177_13634593211038533 – Supplemental material for “Writing nutritionistically”: A critical discourse analysis of lay people’s digital correspondence with the Swedish Food Agency
Creators: name: Bergman, Karolin
name: Nowicka, Paulina
name: Eli, Karin
name: Lövestam, Elin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hea-10.1177_13634593211038533 for “Writing nutritionistically”: A critical discourse analysis of lay people’s digital correspondence with the Swedish Food Agency by Karolin Bergman, Paulina Nowicka, Karin Eli and Elin Lövestam in Health:
Synthesis, in silico and pharmacological evaluation of 2-pyridin-acetamides as tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Creators: name: CONTINI, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2003

description: A new synthesis of 2-pyridineacetamides was developed starting from pyran-2-one N-functionalized amidines.
Secondary amines reacted in a sealed tube with the above-mentioned amidines and, by nucleophilic attack on
pyran-2-one nucleus and thermal rearrangement, afforded exclusively the desired 2-pyridineacetamide derivatives.
Such compounds have been pharmacologically tested on smooth muscular cells proliferation and resulted active
with an IC50 ranging from 40 to 0.7 �M. With the aid of molecular modeling tools a potential mechanism of action
has been proposed. The pharmacological activity seems to be due to tyrosine kinase receptors inhibition.
In silico experiments shows a notable selectivity toward the epidermal derived growth factor receptor kinase (EGFRK)
and the platelet derived growth factor receptor kinase (PDGFRK) if compared with the vascular endothelial
derived growth factor receptor kinase (VEGFRK) and the fibroblast derived growth factor receptor kinase (FGFRK).
The predicted potency of the 2-pyridineacetamides described in the present study is comparable to that of known
EGFRK inhibitor TarcevaTM. Preliminary pharmacological experiments conducted on rat's aorta smooth muscular cells
confirm the observed computational results.
A Synthesis of Second Language Writing Studies in the People's Republic of China (1949-2018)
Creators: name: Chen, Yue
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: English as a second language

description: Although L2W practice has been present in China for a long time, limited existing research has investigated its origin and development. My study aims at reviewing and synthesizing L2W articles published in major linguistic/foreign language journals in the People’s Republic of China in the past seven decades (1949-2018). By collecting and analyzing the 1,340 articles, I identified four developmental periods in China’s L2W history, nine major topics covered in the scholarship. Features in research methods and article contexts are also discussed. I conclude that L2W in China emerged from the pedagogical practices and that its development has been heavily influenced by the country’s social and political movements. After seventy years of development, L2W in China has become a promising field of study with an increased number of journals articles, investigating diverse topics related to L2W, with various research methods, in rich contexts.
Additional file 3 of Supporting families and caregivers of children with disabilities through a parent peer mentor (PPM): experiences from a patient-oriented research network
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Sakiko
name: Costello, Carrie
name: Lalonde, Corinne
name: McCarry, Sharon
name: Majnemer, Annette
name: Shikako, Keiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. CHILD-BRIGHT Guidelines for Patient-Partner Compensation and Recognition.
Statistical Estimation of Crop Management Zones from Multi-Year Yield Data and The OADA API Framework
Creators: name: Layton, Alexander William
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Signal processing

description: Precision agriculture equipment enables treating different areas of a field differently (i.e., site-specific management). The first part of this work presents an algorithm for inferring the management zones of fields based on multiple years' yield data. It seeks regions that correspond to the same underlying yield distribution. Zones are assumed to be the same each year, but their distributions are allowed to change year-to-year to account for variability. Zones are estimated using stochastic expectation maximization and maximization of the posterior marginals. The underlying assumption is that the yields corresponding to a given zone will behave similarly, and are drawn from the same distribution. This requires only the yield data automatically collected during harvest. This method requires no crop-specific calibration.
 The second part of this work presents the Open Ag Data Alliance (OADA) Application Programming Interface (API) framework. It is a generic specification that can be used by third parties’ APIs to reduce the complexity of interoperating with multiple entities. This is especially useful in intercloud scenarios, for example, moving data between a farmer, a processor, and a distributor. Several existing standards that were leveraged are identified, the graph-based data representation is illustrated, and key API specifications and features are highlighted. Some of the contributions of OADA include user-centric Representational State Transfer (REST) so users can select API clients, resource meta-data stored externally to the resource, live data graphs via change feeds, intercloud data push, and format indifference. A reference implementation is presented and use cases are demonstrated.
A Linear Free-Energy Approach to the Study of Substituted Phenoxazines as a Potent Family of Radical Trapping Antioxidants
Creators: name: Farmer, Luke
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: antioxidant
phenoxazine

description: Radical mediated autoxidation is a pervasive phenomenon in commercial (i.e. rubbers, fuels, lubricants, etc.) and biological contexts (i.e. lipid peroxidation associated with neurodegeneration, cancer, and aging), which can be strategically managed with radical-trapping antioxidants (RTAs). While various phenol and polyphenol RTAs have enjoyed much academic fanfare, particularly in biochemical circles, there are other RTA scaffolds that tend to be overlooked despite possessing rather promising activity. Among these seldom studied RTA scaffolds is that of the tricyclic aromatic amine phenoxazine. The inherent reactivity of phenoxazines as RTAs was explored using a quantitative linear free energy approach. A library of phenoxazines was synthesized and Hammett correlations developed between BDE/(log 𝑘𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑃ℎ𝐶𝑙)/Eo and the electrophilicity substituent parameters (Σ 𝜎𝑝+) served to unambiguously demonstrate that phenoxazine RTAs collectively represent the most reactive family of RTAs yet reported. The high inherent reactivity of phenoxazine RTAs towards peroxyl radicals necessitated the co- development of an approach to enable the accurate prediction of 𝑘𝑖𝑛ℎ𝑃ℎ𝐶𝑙 based on the inhibition rate constants measured in hydrogen-bond accepting solvent mixtures containing chlorobenzene, 1,4-dioxane, and/or dimethylsulfoxide. The catalytic antioxidant activity of phenoxazines was established in hexadecane autoxidations at elevated temperatures, where they demonstrated superior activity to industry standard alkylated diphenylamine (ADPA), but also an inferiority to phenothiazine. These results combined with amine/nitroxide monitoring experiments serve to re-emphasize some current design considerations for high-temperature RTAs while challenging others. Lastly the activity of these as inhibitors of lipid peroxidation was assessed in liposomes and mammalian cell culture. The kinetics of peroxyl radical-trapping of the various phenoxazines in phosphatidylcholine liposomes enabled the quantitation of H- bonding interactions to the phosphate head groups of the phospholipids on RTA activity – which diminish the kinetics by up to two orders of magnitude relative to non-H- bonding hydrocarbons. The potency of these phenoxazines to subvert ferroptosis corresponds well with their inhibition activity in liposomes which further affirms the role that non-enzymatic autoxidation plays in this form of cell death.
Cell membrane interactions with 3D multifunctional nanostructures
Creators: name: CAPRETTINI, VALERIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Genova
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, cells studies are often carried out with the help of three-dimensional (3D) nanostructured substrates. These kind of substrates can be useful in assisting the access in to the intracellular compartment and the delivery of molecules through holes or nanochannels, as well as in increasing the contact area of a cell with an electrode during electrical recordings.
Uncited online supplementary file 1. - Supplemental material for Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Refugees in the United States
Creators: name: Zhang, Mengxi
name: Gurung, Ashok
name: Anglewicz, Philip
name: Subedi, Parangkush
name: Payton, Colleen
name: Ali, Ahmed
name: Ibrahim, Anisa
name: Haider, Mahri
name: Hamidi, Navid
name: Atem, Jacob
name: Thang, Jenni
name: Wang, Siqin
name: Kim, Curi
name: Kimball, Sarah L.
name: Karaki, Fatima
name: Nazhat, Najib
name: Abouagila, Mouammar
name: Yun, Katherine
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Uncited online supplementary file 1., for Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Refugees in the United States by Mengxi Zhang, Ashok Gurung, Philip Anglewicz, Parangkush Subedi, Colleen Payton, Ahmed Ali, Anisa Ibrahim, Mahri Haider, Navid Hamidi, Jacob Atem, Jenni Thang, Siqin Wang, Curi Kim, Sarah L. Kimball, Fatima Karaki, Najib Nazhat, Mouammar Abouagila and Katherine Yun in Public Health Reports
Becoming the Teacher I Never Had: An Investigation of Identity, Motivation, and Belief Systems in Preservice and Inservice Teachers’ with a Desire to Teach Students with Gifts and Talents
Creators: name: Martinez, Fabio Andres A Parra
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education assessment and evaluation
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Content about learners with gifts and talents is not necessarily a part of most teacher education programs. Without high quality training and professional development opportunities, preservice and inservice teachers are left with no tools to identify and serve the students with gifts and talents. However, adding more content is not enough. The successful translation of training and professional development into effective practice depends on understanding teacher motivation, debunking misconceptions, building adequate knowledge base, and building teacher identity. I adopted several theoretical perspectives in this study: teacher identity formation (Gardner & Kaplan, 2018), Teacher Efficacy (Tschannen-Moran et al., 1998), Teacher Goal Orientations (Butler, 2007), beliefs about gifted learners and gifted education (Gagne & Nadeau, 1991; McCoach & Siegle, 2007), desire to teach (Watt & Richardson, 2007). My participants were 236 preservice teachers who desire to teach learners with gifts and talents and inservice teachers in gifted education.The objectives of this mixed-methods investigation were: (1) identifying the differences between preservice and inservice teachers in measures of identity, beliefs, motivation, and desire to teach learners with gifts and talents, (2) modeling the structural relationships among dimensions of identity, motivation, beliefs, and desire to teach, and (3) understanding how participants experiences and perceptions inform their identity, motivation, and belief systems. I used a combination of Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and qualitative thematic analysis to answer my research questions.Findings revealed inservice teachers (n=155) have high levels of relational goals, instructional efficacy, positive beliefs, and teacher identity, while preservice teachers (n=81) have high levels of intrinsic motivation and social value for gifted education. SEM showed that teacher identity, mastery goals, influenced positive beliefs; teacher identity was influenced by efficacy, mastery and relational goals. The strongest predictors of desire to teach learners with gifts and talents were teacher identity, teacher efficacy, and relational goals. Qualitative findings indicated that self-perceptions as gifted played a meaningful role in participants deciding to become teachers, understanding the needs of gifted learners, and advocating for gifted education.
Ecotoxicological effects of Atmospheric particulate on aquatic And edaphic organisms
Creators: name: VOLTA, ANNA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Year: 2020

description: The continuous increase of human activities produced new sources of pollution. The increase in specific contaminants bound to atmospheric PM involves a serious risk factor influencing the ecosystems global balance. The question arises about what can happen when well-known ubiquitous pollutants interact with emerging ones, and considering as a reference matrix the PM generated by the abrasion of the brake systems. The focus was paid of the effects of air pollution on aquatic and edaphic ecosystems, identifying the biological effects by developing biomarkers at different levels of functional complexity, suitable in monitoring the stress syndrome evolution from sub-cellular levels up to organism/population dysfunctions. First, the cytotoxic effects of b[a]p and fullerene-C60 were evaluated in relation to the triggering of autophagic pathways on M. galloprovincialis. The lysosomal membrane stability, the increase in the lysosome/cytoplasm ratio, the production of lipofuscins and neutral lipids have been verified. The results were used for immunohistochemical investigations to detect alterations in the mTOR kinase complex pathway, strictly related to autophagy. The possibility that co-exposure of b[a]p and fullerenec60 could generate a "Trojan Horse effect" was also evaluated. Subsequent investigations of a more holistic nature were carried out to study the environmental impact of the brake wear's nano-micro PM that directly affect the quality of the air but, following transport and deposition phenomena, it can determining risks for edaphic and aquatic ecosystems. An industrial research to obtain more eco-friendly braking systems served as a contour to the present study. To assess the impact of the commercial/experimental technology employed, a battery of ecotoxicological assays has been prepared with model organisms of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at different trophic levels, evaluating lethal and sublethal endpoints and the possible onset of genotoxicity.
Comparison of nearest-neighbor-search strategies and implementations for efficient shape registration
Creators: name: Elseberg, Jan
name: Magnenat, Stephane
name: Siegwart, Roland
name: Nuechter, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2012

description: The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) Algorithm is one of the most popular approaches to shape registration currently in use. At the core of ICP is the computationally-intensive determination of nearest neighbors (NN). As of now there has been no comprehensive analysis of competing search strategies for NN. This paper compares several libraries for nearest neighbor search (NNS) on both simulated and real data with a focus on shape registration. In addition, we present a novel efficient implementation of NNS via k-d trees as well as a novel algorithm for NNS in octrees.
Andromaca. Indagine filologica, storica e culturale di un mito letterario
Creators: name: SPADARO, CARMEN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2018

description: Andromache. Philological, historical and cultural survey of a literary myth.
The survey is based on a game of mirrors, that examines a series of similarities and/ or oppositions between Andromache and female characters (Elena, Briseis, Hecuba, Teti, Hermione, Penelope) and male ( Hector, Achilles, Priam, Aeneas, Agamemnon, Ulysses, Helenus). It has investigated the topos of motherhood, proceeding with a comparison between he eroine and the other mothers of Euripides? tragedies (Teti, Medea, Alcestis, Hecuba, Megara, Etra, Creusa, Jocasta, Clytemnestra, Agave). Studying the situation of women in ancient Greece, it was possible to draw a profile that you set up as an ideal wife Andromache, comparing, by affinity or contrast, other famous wife (Clytemnestra, Medea, Teti, Elena). The psicological examination was based mainly on some keywords, which are spies for the caracterization of the character. The work focoused on themes (war, sacrifice, maenadism, water and rock, love and death, ) relating to the character of Andromache, of some reference zoomorphic (heifer, bee, mare) in connection with the bride of Hector and the elements that involve references to the warlike character of heroine. Sometimes, for the purpose of clarity, it has been provided a brief classification of works and authors in their literary, social and cultural context. Building on the influential works of literary critics who have offered valuable contributions to the understanding of literary myths, the work goes on a journey in time and space, to retrace the history of this heroine, and to try to lighten, from the philological, historical and cultural standpoint, the most remote and unknown aspects, analyzing even the less known variants of the myth and offering a portrait in the round of the character. The survey is based on documents of the classical authors ( Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Propertius, Seneca), in which the figure of Andromache has a considerable significance (a total of four chapters). The attention, in the appendix, is placed on the sporadic survivals of the myth of this heroine in the Second Sophistic (Quintus Smyrnaeus, Ditti Cretan, Dares Phrygius) and modernity (Racine, Baudelaire, De Sanctis, Saponaro).
Incubi americani: la distopia nella narrativa statunitense del ventunesimo secolo
Creators: name: ROMANZI, Valentina
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2021

description: Questa tesi indaga la produzione distopica nella narrativa statunitense del ventunesimo secolo. Utilizzando un impianto metodologico derivante dalla sociologia, si teorizza una correlazione tra la crisi del mito della Frontiera e dell'Eccezionalismo americano e il rinnovato interesse per i mondi distopici.
La prima parte � dedicata alla definizione e all'inquadramento del concetto di distopia e alla descrizione dello status dei miti americani. La seconda parte si concentra sulle analisi testuali: i tre capitoli che la compongono riflettono i sottogeneri della distopia politica, tecnologica ed ecologica.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211045272 - Changes of antibiotic resistance over time among Escherichia coli peritonitis in Southern China
Creators: name: Wu, Haishan
name: Yi, Chunyan
name: Zhang, Dihua
name: Guo, Qunying
name: Lin, Jianxiong
name: Mao, Haiping
name: Huang, Fengxian
name: Yu, Xueqing
name: Yang, Xiao
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211045272 for Changes of antibiotic resistance over time among Escherichia coli peritonitis in Southern China by Haishan Wu, Chunyan Yi, Dihua Zhang, Qunying Guo, Jianxiong Lin, Haiping Mao, Fengxian Huang, Xueqing Yu and Xiao Yang in Peritoneal Dialysis International
sj-pdf-3-ejo-10.1177_11206721211044328 – Supplemental material for Cataract extraction and intraocular pressure-lowering agents delivery: A nationwide French study between 2005 and 2017
Creators: name: Chamard, Chloé
name: Huguet, Héléna
name: Bron, Alain M
name: Creuzot-Garcher, Catherine
name: Nogue, Erika
name: Villain, Max
name: Nagot, Nicolas
name: Carrière, Isabelle
name: Mura, Thibault
name: Daien, Vincent
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-ejo-10.1177_11206721211044328 for Cataract extraction and intraocular pressure-lowering agents delivery: A nationwide French study between 2005 and 2017 by Chloé Chamard, Héléna Huguet, Alain M Bron, Catherine Creuzot-Garcher, Erika Nogue, Max Villain, Nicolas Nagot, Isabelle Carrière, Thibault Mura and Vincent Daien in European Journal of Ophthalmology
title: Exploratory Interaction and Extended Cognition: Redesigning Decision-making Support in Healthcare
Creators: name: Feuz, Martin
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Decision-Support, Evidence-based medicine, extended mind, design research, epistemic action, research through design, cancer screening, practice-based research, preventive healthcare

description: This thesis presents practice-based research on redesigning decision support within the area of prostate cancer screening. More fundamentally, this research is specifically interested in a politics and practice of supporting exploratory interactivity in healthcare decision-making by non-experts. The motivation for this research stems partly from insights gained from my own empirical research into algorithmic web-search results personalisation as well as issues underlying the biopolitical logic of cancer screening practices, the individualisation of risk and the profound uncertainties inherent in evidencebased medicine which are largely underarticulated in the design of decisionsupport tools for individuals. Taking these conditions as the driver for this research, the first and theoretical part of the thesis analyses models of interactivity and the politics of statistically-derived medical knowledge in evidence-based medicine as well as problematising dominant but narrow conceptions of human decision-making. Following such analysis are the insights that the statistical nature of epidemiological risk information is of limited applicability for individual decision-making and, thus, patient preferences matter to guide decision-making under uncertainty. By introducing cognition understood as socially distributed and extended into and performed
through the environment, this research proposes to rethink how to design for exploratory information interaction in medical decision support. Following a research-through-design method and developing a minimal reserved design approach, a number of prototypes were developed to investigate the potentials
hypothesised in the theoretical part of the thesis. The prototypes assumed a probing function in shedding further light on the thinking and practices of medical professionals, which leads me to suggest repositioning them as probotypes, occupying a middle ground between prototypes and cultural probes. Ultimately, the contribution of this research lies in critically and practically exploring conceptual and methodological potentials for redesigning exploratory interactions in shared medical decision-making processes.
Additional file 1 of The burden of hospital admissions for skeletal dysplasias in Sri Lanka: a population-based study
Creators: name: Kolambage, Yasas D.
name: Walpita, Yasaswi N.
name: Liyanage, Udari A.
name: Dayaratne, Buddika M.K.D.R.
name: Dissanayake, Vajira H.W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Table S1 Number of eIMMR records, total hospitalization episodes and the eIMMR coverage in Sri Lanka during 2017-2020.
Supplementary Material- Effect of vitamin D3, omega-3 fatty acids, and exercise on serum sclerostin levels and bone turnover markers: a 3-year report of the DO-HEALTH trial
Creators: name: Tsourdi, Elena
name: Gaengler, Stephanie
name: Kistler-Fischbacher, Melanie
name: Rauner, Martina
name: Dawson-Hughes, Bess
name: Orav, E. John
name: Tsai, Li-Tang
name: Lang, Wei
name: Kanis, John A.
name: Theiler, Robert
name: Egli, Andreas
name: Bischoff-Ferrari, Heike A.
name: C. Hofbauer, Lorenz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321001
subject: Clinical nutrition
classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: Context: Sclerostin inhibits canonical Wnt signaling, a pathway promoting bone formation. The effects of vitamin D3, omega-3 fatty acids (omega-3s), and exercise on serum sclerostin levels and bone metabolism are unclear.Objective: To investigate the effects of 2000 IU/d vitamin D3, 1g/d omega-3s, and a simple home-based strength exercise program (SHEP), alone or in combination, on serum sclerostin and bone turnover marker levels.Design, setting and participants: Sclerostin, procollagen type 1 N propeptide (P1NP) and β-C-terminal telopeptide (β-CTX) levels were pre-defined secondary outcomes of DO-HEALTH, a double blind, randomized controlled trial in healthy physically active older adults in five European countries.Outcome Measures: Changes in yearly serum sclerostin, P1NP and β-CTX levels over 3 years, adjusted for age, sex, prior falls, study site, baseline BMI, and baseline level of the respective outcome.
title: Black Rams and Extravagant Strangers: Shakespeare’s Othello and its Rewritings, from Nineteenth-Century Burlesque to Post-Colonial Tragedy
Creators: name: Rosario, Catherine
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Shakespeare, Othello, post-colonial, burlesque, tragedy, comedy, Iago, Desdemona

description: The labyrinthine levels through which Othello moves, as Shakespeare draws on myriad theatrical forms in adapting a bald little tale, gives his characters a scintillating energy, a refusal to be domesticated in language. They remain as Derridian monsters, evading any enclosures, with the tragedy teetering perilously close to farce. Because of this fragility of identity, and Shakespeare’s radical decision to have a black tragic protagonist, Othello has attracted subsequent dramatists caught in their own identity struggles. Nineteenth-century white burlesquers, anxious to bolster their sense of themselves as superior human beings in the face of abolitionist movements that insist on the inhumanity of enslaving Africans, forced the play into the shape of an unambiguous farce, where Othello is an absurd and foolish minstrel, denied the gravitas of death. Since the 1960s, writers throughout Britain’s former empire have, in contrast, retrieved the play’s tragic energy, as part of instating themselves into a history from which they have been excluded. In these later rewritings, a fault-line emerges between ‘race’ and gender, since in Othello a zero sum game operates, where increasing the empathy for Desdemona as a woman cruelly treated undermines the focus on Othello as a tragic black hero. 
Tragedy distances its characters from what makes us animal, and comedy delights in it, with those who are marginalised traditionally thrust into a comedic identity, while white, male abstract thought is seen as providing transcendence from our bestial state. Hence, the desire for post-colonial writers to adopt the masculine form of tragedy. However, as the value of this form of thinking has been progressively questioned, so this is changing how Othello is approached, which I reflect in my own practice: I explore, in The Turn, how tragedy gives a protagonist pathos through its aesthetic structure, but I then write a form of what I would call tragi-burlesque, Ponte Dell Tette, where I let go a little of the hegemony of the word, push against the borders of logic and linearity, try to keep the characters as untamed monsters. It is my goal to use my research and practice to help me further to walk this tightrope between the power of tragedy and the animal freedom of absurdist comedy.
sj-docx-2-sgo-10.1177_21582440211046942 – Supplemental material for Interventions Targeting the Wellbeing of Migrant Youths: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Creators: name: Heyeres, Marion
name: Perera, Nirukshi
name: Udah, Hyacinth
name: Attakey, Akpene
name: Whiteside, Mary
name: Tsey, Komla
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-sgo-10.1177_21582440211046942 for Interventions Targeting the Wellbeing of Migrant Youths: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Marion Heyeres, Nirukshi Perera, Hyacinth Udah, Akpene Attakey, Mary Whiteside and Komla Tsey in SAGE Open
title: Who Do You Love? The Novel of my Life (Creative Writing thesis) and Building Beauty: the Role of Aesthetic Education in my Teaching and Writing Lives (commentary on the Creative Writing thesis)
Creators: name: Gilbert, Francis
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Creative Writing PhD, novel, autobiographical fiction, educational research, aesthetic education

description: The first part of the thesis is the autobiographical novel, Who Do You Love? It is narrated in the first person by Francis, a fictionalised representation of the author. The novel tells the story of how Francis is sacked as a journalist and then a little later learns that his former-lover, Ellida, has died. These traumatic events prompt Francis to remember his past life with Ellida and induce, in the present day, a crisis in his marriage to Hadley, a school teacher. His failure to get a new job and his grief at Ellida’s death result in a crisis of confidence which is exacerbated when Hadley becomes interested in another man. As he discovers more about Ellida’s family, his situation grows even more complex and conflicted. Throughout the novel, all the main characters have to address the question posed in its title. 

The novel is accompanied by an educational commentary which reflects deeply upon the author’s writing processes and the possible application of the lessons learnt in the author’s teaching and writing careers. The commentary shows how the author has found it helpful to think of himself primarily as an “aesthetic learner” rather than a writer or teacher. The commentary discusses various issues connected with aesthetic education and then shows what happened when the author put the principles of aesthetic education into practice in his own classroom teaching. Four case studies – the author’s own pupils -- are analysed in detail: two eleven-year-olds and two fifteen-year-olds. They were asked to write their own “aesthetic autobiographies” – autobiographical accounts which deploy the devices of fiction – and then were interviewed regarding their thoughts and feelings about this project. The commentary suggests that the case studies reveal some important things about their lives and situations, and shows that there are possible educational and therapeutic benefits in projects such as these.
title: In Situ Listening:Soundscape, Site and Transphonia
Creators: name: Leadley, Marcus
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Listening, acoustic ecology, soundscape studies, transphonia, sound art, Installation, schizophonia, uncanny, coincidence, disorientation, synchronicity, time, space, place, site, Leicester, Whitstable, KIngcombe, West Bay, Bournemouth, Brighton, Wolverhampton, New Cross, Corfu, Chatham Historic Dockyards

description: This enquiry represents an exploration of environmental sound and artistic practice from the perspectives of in situ listening and transphonia. The initial term, in situ listening, has been coined by the author in order to constellate a group of intellectual trajectories and artists’ practices that engage with recorded sound and share a common theme: that the listening context, the relationship between mediated sound and site, is an integral part of the engagement process. Heikki Uimonen (2005, p.63) defines transphonia as the, “mechanical, electroacoustical or digital recording, reproduction and relocating of sounds.” The term applies to sound that is relocated from one location to another, or sound that is recorded at a site and then mixed with the sound of the prevailing environment. The experience of the latter, which is a key concern for this thesis, may be encountered during the field recording process when one ‘listens back’ to recordings while on site or during the presentation of site-specific sound art work.  

Twelve sound installations, each based on field recordings, were produced in order to progress the investigation. Installations were created using a personally devised approach that was rigorous, informed, and iterative. Each installation explored a different environment. These installations, and their related environmental studies, form the core content of this enquiry. 

In the first part of this thesis the installations are used to explore observations of transphonic audio content in relation to a number of subjective, surprising and intangible phenomena: disorientation, uncanny sensations or even the awareness of coincidence. These observations are supported and contextualised in relation to a wide range of historic and contemporary sources. 

Works in the second part of the thesis are used to motivate a meditation on the relationship between soundscape, site and time, which was proposed by the initial phase of the research.