cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chain Failure and Chain Goods: Re-thinking Value Chain Upgrading and Promotion in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Griffith, Garry
name: Baker, Derek
name: Fleming, Euan
name: Mounter, Stuart
name: Malcolm, Bill
name: Umberger, Wendy
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: chain upgrading; chain failure; chain goods; chain governance

description: The concept of value chain upgrading and promotion has been proposed as a vehicle for small-holder farmers in developing countries to gain access to higher value markets and thus generate greater income for their families and communities. However, there are many instances where investments in upgrading have not generated the expected outcomes. One of the contributing factors has been that existing approaches focus more on who does what rather than the real problem to be addressed. A chain failure framework on the other hand focuses attention on the core problem and the appropriate response, rather than on who does what. It takes a system view rather than a function or component view, and it starts from the supposition that the only reason for intervening in a value chain is to increase chain surplus, where chain surplus is properly measured to include any chain or social externalities. In this paper we review some of the existing literature on value chain upgrading and promotion as proposed for developing country situations, outline the essential elements of the chain failure/chain good theory and its relationship to the club goods literature, and then assess whether the chain upgrading and promotion literature can be reconfigured as a chain failure/chain good problem, using a number of published case studies. Finally, we discuss various types of governance models used in agricultural value chains in developing countries and suggest how well they might align with the chain failure/chain good approach.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 2 (2017)
sj-pdf-2-jet-10.1177_15266028231210480 – Supplemental material for First-in-Human Clinical Trial of the WeFlow-JAAA Endograft System in Patients With Juxtarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Creators: name: Gao, Jiang-Ping
name: Zhang, Hong-Peng
name: Xiong, Jiang
name: Jia, Xin
name: MA, Xiao-Hui
name: Wang, Li-Jun
name: Xu, Yong-Le
name: Zhang, Min-Hong
name: Guo, Wei
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology
Medicine
Surgery

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-jet-10.1177_15266028231210480 for First-in-Human Clinical Trial of the WeFlow-JAAA Endograft System in Patients With Juxtarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms by Jiang-Ping Gao, Hong-Peng Zhang, Jiang Xiong, Xin Jia, Xiao-Hui MA, Li-Jun Wang, Yong-Le Xu, Min-Hong Zhang and Wei Guo in Journal of Endovascular Therapy
Nova Literaria Helvetica : [pro anno 1701-1714]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: Apud Davidem Gessnerum
Year: 1702

description: collecta à Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, Med. D.
description: [1701]-1714.
description: Titelvignetten
description: Jg. 1702 erschien bei Rudolf Simmler, 1703 bei David Gessner, 1704 bei J.J. Scheuchzer, 1705-1710 bei Schaufelberger und Hardmeier, 1711-1714 bei Hardmeier
Additional file 1 of Medical students’ career preferences in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Iktidar, Mohammad Azmain
name: Sakib, Md Muid
name: Munni, Ummi Rukaiya
name: Rimti, Fahmida Hoque
name: Yousuf, Renessa
name: Majumder, Koushik
name: Saha, Tirtha
name: Golpo, Farhat Lamisa
name: Sayed, Md Samee U
name: Monsur, Sabrina
name: Al Galib, Asadul
name: Hossain, Md Kamran
name: Shupti, Sigma Alam
name: Nawar, Noshin
name: Mazumder, Sudeshna
name: Hasan, M. Tasdik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Food Scares: Reflections and Reactions
Creators: name: Veflen, Nina
name: Storstad, Oddveig
name: Samuelsen, Benedik
name: Langsrud, Solveig
name: Hagtvedt, Therese
name: Ueland, Oydis
name: Gregersen, Fredrik
name: Scholderer, Joachim
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: Food Scare; Consumer Behavior; Antibiotic resistance; Reflections; Emotions

description: The aim of this study is to investigate consumers’ reflections and reactions to a food scare news story. Previous studies indicate that risk communication not always is able to influence people’s behavior and that pre-existing attitudes may influence people’s reactions and reflections. In this study, we investigate how consumers critically reflect and emotionally react to a food scare, here defined as risk communication that spirals public anxiety over food safety incidents, and leads to an unwanted escalation in media attention.
Fall 2014, a researcher from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said in a newspaper interview that she never touched chicken with her bare hands. This interview was the beginning of a media storm, which resulted in a dramatic drop in sales of chicken. In this study, we explore a small group of consumers’ reflections and reactions to this news article. Data from five focus group interviews with Norwegian consumers of chicken were transcribed, content analyzed, and coded, before we conducted a multiple correspondence analysis and a hierarchical cluster analysis in JMP Pro 12. The findings indicate that consumers do reflect when confronted with a food scare story. Some question the research behind the news, others compare the food scare’s danger to other risks. Even though consumers do reflect around the facts in the food scare article, their emotions seem to affect their behavior more systematic than their reflections.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 2 (2017)
sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231213156 – Supplemental material for Effects of Mobile Stroke Unit dispatch on blood pressure management and outcomes in patients with intracerebral haematoma: Results from the Berlin_Prehospital Or Usual Care Delivery in acute Stroke (B_PROUD) controlled intervention study
Creators: name: Schwabauer, Eugen
name: Piccininni, Marco
name: Freitag, Erik
name: Ebinger, Martin
name: Geisler, Frederik
name: Harmel, Peter
name: Hille, Annegret
name: Lorenz-Meyer, Irina
name: Rohrpasser-Napierkowski, Ira
name: Kurth, Tobias
name: Rohmann, Jessica L
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Schlunk, Frieder
name: Weber, Joachim
name: Wendt, Matthias
name: Audebert, Heinrich J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-eso-10.1177_23969873231213156 for Effects of Mobile Stroke Unit dispatch on blood pressure management and outcomes in patients with intracerebral haematoma: Results from the Berlin_Prehospital Or Usual Care Delivery in acute Stroke (B_PROUD) controlled intervention study by Eugen Schwabauer, Marco Piccininni, Erik Freitag, Martin Ebinger, Frederik Geisler, Peter Harmel, Annegret Hille, Irina Lorenz-Meyer, Ira Rohrpasser-Napierkowski, Tobias Kurth, Jessica L Rohmann, Matthias Endres, Frieder Schlunk, Joachim Weber, Matthias Wendt and Heinrich J Audebert in European Stroke Journal
Análisis de las afecciones de las urbanizaciones ilegales sobre espacios de alto valor patrimonial: el caso de la sierra del municipio de Córdoba
Creators: name: López-Casado, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Urbanizaciones ilegales
Parcelaciones ilegales
Córdoba

description: Pese a las implicaciones espaciales, ambientales, paisajísticas y sociales que tienen las urbanizaciones ilegales para las estructuras territoriales en las que están presentes, su estudio en profundidad no ha despertado un gran interés en la comunidad científica, si bien ha cobrado cierta actualidad en los últimos años. En este contexto, la comunicación se plantea como objetivo abordar la afección de este tipo de fenómenos sobre los recursos patrimoniales de gran valor ambiental, territorial y paisajístico. Para ello, la propuesta se centra en el análisis de un estudio de caso: el de las urbanizaciones ilegales localizadas en el sector serrano del municipio de Córdoba. La metodología seguida parte de una revisión bibliográfica con objeto de definir el marco teórico. Seguidamente, se hace un análisis de las fuentes documentales disponibles, a las que se añaden los instrumentos de planeamiento urbanístico, territorial y sectorial para establecer el alcance espacial del proceso, sus afecciones territoriales y urbanísticas, así como el tratamiento dado por dichos instrumentos. Por último, se acude al trabajo de campo como técnica ineludible con la que complementar y cualificar la información accesible a través de otras fuentes. Los principales resultados apuntan a que el desarrollo temprano de las urbanizaciones ilegales sobre amplios sectores de la sierra cordobesa derivó en que los suelos afectados por éstas fueran excluidos de las figuras de protección del Plan Especial de Protección del Medio Físico de la Provincia de Córdoba. Ello, supone, entre otras cuestiones, limitar las posibilidades de acción de las administraciones concernidas contra este tipo de fenómenos tan nocivos para unos espacios ambiental y paisajísticamente muy sensibles.
title: Gesichtsästhetik
Creators: name: Babonich, Barbara
Year: 2008

description: Die Fragestellung nach den Einflussfaktoren von Gesichtsattributen auf die Anziehungskraft von Gesichtern wird mittels Vorlage von jeweils 100 weiblichen sowie 100 männlichen Stimuli an einer Stichprobe von 100 studentischen Versuchspersonen (n1 = 62 Frauen, n2 = 38 Männer) untersucht. Zusammenhänge zwischen Attraktivitätsbeurteilung und Selbstwert werden mittels zweier Fragebögen (Multidimensionale Selbstwertskala–MSWS und Rosenberg–Selbstwertskala) geprüft. Gegengeschlechtliche Reizvorgaben bedingen umgekehrt u-förmige Verläufe bei der Attraktivitätsbeurteilung und dem Grad der Homogenität der Übereinstimmung. Bei gleichgeschlechtlicher Konstellation reagieren Frauen bei Frauen-Stimuli im unteren Attraktivitätsbereich homogen, im oberen Bereich mit einem Deckeneffekt, während Männer bei Männerstimuli deutlich linear ansteigend reagieren. Bis auf die Tendenz, dass Männer mit einer höheren Selbstwerteinschätzung weibliche, aber auch männliche Gesichtsstimuli negativer beurteilen, sind keine deutlichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Attraktivitätsbeurteilungen und Selbstwerteinschätzungen erkennbar. Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern werden bei der Bewertung der Hautreinheit, bei der Frauen sowohl bei Frauen- als auch bei Männerstimuli weniger kritisch als Männer bewerten, beobachtet. Frauen sind bei der Bewertung von Gewöhnlichkeit nur bei Frauenbildern kritischer als Männer.
description: For this thesis a study was conducted in order to describe whether and how face attributes influence the perception of face attractiveness. Therefore 100 students (n1 = 62 women, n2 = 38 men) were asked to rank the attractiveness of 100 pictures of women and 100 pictures of men. The correlation between attractiveness rating and self-esteem rating was studied by using two standardised questionnaires, the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Scale and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Opposite-sex-stimuli were found to produce an inverse u-effect on attractiveness ratings and the level of correlation homogeneity. In the case of same sex ratings women respond homogeneously by placing female stimuli into the lower range of attractiveness. Women’s high ratings of female stimuli cause a “ceiling effect”. Men’s ratings show a considerably increasing arithmetic progression. Apart from the tendency that men with high self-esteem rank female and male face stimuli lower, there is no clear connection between self-esteem ratings and attractiveness ratings. Differences between women and men can be found in rating skin. For, women are less critical than men when rating both female and male face stimuli. Women, however, are more critical when judging female usualness.
Implementing Sustainable Business Models in the Hospitality Sector with the Help of a Mission Statement
Creators: name: Goebel, Christine
name: Teitscheid, Petra
name: Friedrich, Silke
name: Langen, Nina
name: Speck, Melanie
name: Engelmann, Tobias
name: Rohn, Holger
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: sustainable nutrition; mission statement; sustainable management; participation procedure

description: The article gives insights into the implementation process of sustainable management strategies in the food service sector. Furthermore, the normative requirements for sustainability in form of a mission statement, called “sustainable food services” are presented. The authors perceive this mission statement as a means to transfer current political demands (as in the SDG of the UN) into the sector. It could serve as a model for the entire food service sector to support and facilitate implementing aspects of sustainability into business practices with the help of sustainable management tools.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 2 (2017)
SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM: THE INITIAL CONDITIONS AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE HISTORICAL PHENOMENON
Creators: name: Bahodir Bobir ugli Sattorov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article explores the doctrinal foundations and historical prerequisites of the "Social Credit System" (SCS), a project implemented in the People's Republic of China since the early 2000s and currently being "exported" to other countries. The study analyzes both specifically national, Chinese sources and the prerequisites for the formation of the modern social credit and control system, as well as external influences, particularly from the history of Western European political and legal thought and Western social institutions. By examining the Social Credit System as a technology for societal surveillance and control, the authors trace its roots to Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon" project, Taylorist management philosophy, Confucian and Legalist traditions of imperial China, ideas and institutions from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and American financial scoring systems. The research employs historical, systematic, comparative legal methods, deconstruction methods, and socio-philosophical and political analysis. The article incorporates the latest publications on the subject. It critically analyzes doctrinal sources such as works by J. Bentham, F. Taylor, and other authors. This study represents the first examination in domestic literature of the historical and doctrinal prerequisites of China's Social Credit System. It builds on the work of foreign scholars who have explored the history of the SCS. For the first time, Confucian ideas and Legalist school ideas are interpreted as complementary sources of the contemporary social control system deployed in China. The article details the process by which the Chinese leadership recognized the need for the SCS, analyzing the goals of this technology. As noted by the authors, the Chinese SCS and related control technologies form a unique "bridge" linking the "Western" development of social institutions with typically "Eastern" political and socio-cultural traditions. The conclusion highlights both the positive aspects of SCS implementation and the "shadow" side of this process, including its reverse and all associated challenges.
sj-docx-3-sgo-10.1177_21582440231212757 – Supplemental material for Day Scholars Food Insecurity Experience Scale-Survey Module (DSFIES-SM): Psychometric Analysis
Creators: name: Kasujja, Ibrahim
name: Melgar-Quinonez, Hugo
name: Nambooze, Joweria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: Education
subject: Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-sgo-10.1177_21582440231212757 for Day Scholars Food Insecurity Experience Scale-Survey Module (DSFIES-SM): Psychometric Analysis by Ibrahim Kasujja, Hugo Melgar-Quinonez and Joweria Nambooze in SAGE Open
Análisis de las afecciones de las urbanizaciones ilegales sobre espacios de alto valor patrimonial: el caso de la sierra del municipio de Córdoba
Creators: name: López-Casado, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: FACTIBLES
Espacio público
Procesos participativos

description: Vídeo del Seminario "Arte, participación y espacio público", organizado en el contexto del Proyecto de Investigación FACTIBLES "Prácticas artísticas participativas para la apropiación del espacio público y el desarrollo de la calidad de vida urbana" (PID2020‑118221RB‑I00).

El vídeo presenta el desarrollo de la Mesa 4: Experiencias en el ámbito local. Aprendizajes. El objetivo de esta cuarta y última mesa ha sido conocer el resultado de algunas de las experiencias analizadas en el proyecto.
Norberg, Johan (2016). Progress. Ten reasons to look forward to the future
Creators: name: Mueller, Rolf A.E.
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017

description: Book review of
Norberg, Johan (2016). Progress. Ten reasons to look forward to the future. London: Oneworld Publications. Hardcover
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 2 (2017)
On Complexity, Ecosystems, and Sustainability in Local Food Supply: A Case Study on Fresh Seafood Supply
Creators: name: Engelseth, Per
name: Sandvik, Marius
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: Local foods network; Supply chains; Interdependencies; Complexity; Ecosystems; Fresh seafood

description: The research question considers how local foods as networked food production may be studied from an ecosystem’s perspective, being explicitly sensitive to process complexity. This implies integrating complex-process thinking with ecosystems thinking in cases of managing in local foods networks. First, the paper discusses what differentiates this form of food production based on features of interdependencies, information technology, traceability, and complex ecosystems. Supply chain management is expanded to conceptually model local food supply as complex ecosystems. The single case study provides a detailed description of the local foods network of a small Norwegian fresh seafood retailer and wholesaler. Findings include demonstrating the importance of complexity in achieving the sustainable production of local foods, and that this implies management following a paradoxical frame, as opposed to a business model frame. The conceptual model describes how food supply may be considered as an ecosystem mainly driven by economic concerns that are not in conflict with environmental and societal concerns. Since management in food chains is engulfed in a deterministic discourse on how to supply, the model also includes the role of paradoxical framing in managing networked food production operations. This model represents the basis for further investigation on local foods networks as complex ecosystems.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
title: Die Humorauffassung bei sprachentwicklungsverzögerten Kindern
Creators: name: Schalkhammer, Florentine
Year: 2008

description: In der vorliegenden Studie wird die Humorauffassung bei sprachentwicklungsverzögerten Kindern unter der Berücksichtigung der Variablen verbale Intelligenz, nonverbale Intelligenz, Alter und Geschlecht, untersucht. An dieser Untersuchung nahmen insgesamt 273 Kinder aus 15 Wiener Bezirken im Alter von 6,4 bis 10,11 Jahren teil. Die Kinder besuchten die erste bis zur vierten Klasse Volksschule und wurden während der Unterrichtszeit in 100 Minuten dauernden Einzeltestungen befragt. Die Stichprobe setzt sich aus 152 Mädchen und 121 Buben zusammen. Um die intellektuellen verbalen und nonverbalen Fähigkeiten der Kinder zu erfassen, wurde neben dem Verbalteil des Hamburg Wechsler Intelligenztests (Tewes et al., 2000) die „Coloured Progressive Matrices“ (Raven, 2002) vorgegeben. Auskünfte über das vorliegen einer rezeptiven oder expressiven Sprachstörung lieferten die eingesetzten Untertests „Verstehen grammatischer Strukturformen“ und „Korrektur semantisch inkonsistenter Sätze“ des Heidelberger Sprachentwicklungstest (HSET) von Grimm und Schöler (1991). Die 15 Items der Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale for school-aged children von Dowling & Fain (1999) wurde zur Erfassung des Sinn für Humor eingesetzt. Um Rückschlüsse auf die humorale Tätigkeit und die sprachlichen Fähigkeiten der Kinder ziehen zu können, wurden den Kinder 12 lexikalisch mehrdeutige und 12 gegengeschlechtlich aggressive Witze vorgegeben Anhand der Ergebnisse der Tests wurden die Kinder in eine sprachauffällige Gruppe (rezeptive und expressive Sprachstörung laut ICD-10, Dilling et al., 2008) und in eine sprachunauffällige Gruppe eingeteilt.Die Ergebnisse spiegeln einen signifikanten Einfluss der Variablen Alter und verbale Intelligenz auf das lexikalisch mehrdeutige und das gegengeschlechtlich aggressive Witzverständnis. Bei genauerer Betrachtung der Ergebnisse zeigen sich zudem Einflüsse der nonverbalen Intelligenz auf die Witzbewertung beider Witzarten. Unterschiede zwischen der sprachauffälligen und der sprachunauffälligen Gruppe im lexikalisch mehrdeutigen und gegengeschlechtlich aggressiven Witzverständnis lassen sich feststellen. Die sprachgestörten Kinder verstanden signifikant weniger Witze.
PACAP and VIP counteract glioblastoma cells invasiveness
Creators: name: Maugeri, Grazia
name: Reitano, Rita
name: Cavallaro, Sebastiano
name: D’Agata, Velia
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: PACAP; VIP; glioblastoma multiforme invasiveness; hypoxia; HIFs; EGFR

description: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive brain tumor characterized by hypoxic areas. The low oxygen supply induces expression of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) leading to overexpression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) [1]. It is well known that pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) are involved in human tumors, however, their role on GBM invasiveness has not been well elucidated [2]. To this end, we have investigated, for the first time, the anti-invasive effect of PACAP or VIP on GBM cells following exposure to hypoxia, by using desferrioxamine mesylate salt (DFX), an hypoxia-mimetic agent.The results have shown that under low oxygen tension, both PACAP and VIP reduce cells migration by modulating HIFs and EGFR expression. This effect is mediated through the inhibition of phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt and mammalian mitogen activated protein kinase/Erk kinase (MAPK/ERK) signaling cascades, which, as previously demonstrated, interfere with HIF-1 α and HIF-2α expression. In conclusion, our data suggest that PACAP and VIP might be good candidates to modulate GBM invasiveness exacerbated by hypoxic microenvironment.This work was supported by grants from MIUR FIRB 2010 and MIUR PRIN-2009.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Relationship Management and Lean Analysis in Maintaining Horticulture Supply Chains with Micro-businesses in Wales
Creators: name: Simons, David
name: Skydmore, David
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: lean; power; business relationships; food supply systems; horticulture

description: The horticulture sector is characterised by variability in production volumes and quality, fluctuating prices and goods of short shelf life. ‘Lean’ analysis is used to identify strengths and weaknesses in relationships between micro-businesses in horticulture. Three case studies of small horticultural enterprises, a scale prevalent in the sector in Wales, describe relationships and supply structures.
A model for the generic application of relationship management to smaller enterprises is proposed in which the effects of continued adherence in inter-company relationships, and supply system configuration, are examined in relation to the effectiveness of collaborations. Relationship management needs to be a priority in these small enterprises. Buyer dominance over suppliers may decrease the effectiveness of relationships in small and micro-enterprises in Welsh horticulture.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
Additional file 1 of Medical students’ career preferences in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Iktidar, Mohammad Azmain
name: Sakib, Md Muid
name: Munni, Ummi Rukaiya
name: Rimti, Fahmida Hoque
name: Yousuf, Renessa
name: Majumder, Koushik
name: Saha, Tirtha
name: Golpo, Farhat Lamisa
name: Sayed, Md Samee U
name: Monsur, Sabrina
name: Al Galib, Asadul
name: Hossain, Md Kamran
name: Shupti, Sigma Alam
name: Nawar, Noshin
name: Majumder, Sudeshna
name: Hasan, M. Tasdik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Possible interactions between HDACs and TGF-beta/Smads pathway in Glioblastoma
Creators: name: Vetuschi, Antonella
name: Pompili, Simona
name: Cicchinelli, Sara
name: Colapietro, Alessandro
name: Gallone, Anna
name: Sabetta, Giulia
name: Conversi, Francesco
name: Sferra, Roberta
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: GBM; HDAC; Tgfβ; Smad

description: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive tumor of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Unfortunately, patients afflicted with this disease have a very poor prognosis, due to high level of invasiveness and resistance to standard therapies (1). Although the molecular profile of GBM has been extensively investigated, the events responsible for its pathogenesis and progression remain largely unknown. Reports have indicated that HDAC (Histone deacetylases) dependent epigenetic modifications (2) and the Tgfβ/Smad pathway (3) play roles in GBM tumorigenesis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the involvement and the possible interaction between these two molecular cascades in the pathogenesis, therapeutic responsiveness and prognosis of GBM. Immunohistochemestry (IHC) was performed on microdissected GBM samples, collected from 14 patients (n.8 men and n.6 women) ranging in age from 43 to 74 years. The patients were previously divided, on the basis of their overall survival (OS), into three groups: low, intermediate and high OS. Patients with poor prognosis showed hyperexpression of HDAC4 and HDAC6, an activation of the Tgfβ/Smad pathway, with high levels of IL-13, Smad2, PDGF and MMP3 expression, compared to the intermediate and high OS groups, whereas the expression of Smad7 was reduced. The high OS group also exhibits an increase in p21 immunostaining, which represents a common target of the two cascades. The IHC data was confirmed by Immunoblotting. Our results suggest that both HDAC4 and HDAC6 together with the Tgfβ/Smad pathway are involved in progression of GBM and could be a useful prognostic markers and may predict responsive to therapy.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
The Cashew Value Chain in Mozambique: Analysis of Performance and Suggestions for Improvement
Creators: name: Antonio, Lucia
name: Griffith, Garry
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: Mozambique; Cashew; Value Chain; Food Security; Sustainable Development

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore opportunities to improve cashew value chain performance in Mozambique in ways that create income for smallholders and small and large scale processors. Considering the importance of the cashew industry for the national economy and for poverty reduction, the suggested improvements can be used by policy makers, investors, and donors to re-examine policy strategies, resource reallocation and the development of infrastructure. It may also trigger the interest of the private sector to develop new marketing strategies. The paper commences by giving the background to the cashew industry and its impact on rural development, followed by policy interventions and major activities. Then, a SWOT analysis, value chain mapping, strategic fit and drivers of profit are outlined. The Sunshine Nut company is presented as an example of an innovative business model in the cashew Industry. It is concluded that investment in market research, domestic value adding and balancing customer requirements may potentially enhance competitiveness and efficiency in the cashew value chain in Mozambique.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
The original slides of Camillo Golgi
Creators: name: Bentivoglio, Marina
name: Ferrari, Sergio
name: Laperchia, Claudia
name: Fabene, Paolo F.
name: Berzero, Antonella
name: Mazzarello, Paolo
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: History of neuroscience; Camillo Golgi; Golgi staining

description: As it is well known, Camillo Golgi (1843-1926) reported in 1873 his discovery of the black reaction (reazione nera), based on nervous tissue hardening in potassium dichromate and impregnation with silver nitrate. This method first revealed neurons, including their processes, in their entirety, thus providing the tool for a breakthrough in the knowledge on the structure of the nervous system. Professor of Histology and of General Pathology, Camillo Golgi worked for decades at the University of Pavia, leading a very active laboratory. Most of the original histological preparations of Golgi’s laboratory have unfortunately been lost. However, some slides are still kept at the Museum of the University of Pavia (“Sistema Museale di Ateneo”) but they have not been examined in detail until now. This presentation will provide an account of Golgi’s original slides available nowadays. Images from these preparations (e.g. from the hippocampus, cerebellum, and spinal cord), mostly based on Golgi impregnation, will be shown and compared with Golgi’s drawings and his descriptions of neuronal wiring. The presentation is thus aimed at showing, for the first time, the images which have led to the pioneering observations made by Camillo Golgi, which have opened the field of neurohistology and neuroanatomy and have contributed to the foundations of modern neuroscience.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Additional file 1 of Exploring effective implementation pathways to become an excellent chief financial officer in public hospital: a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) from China
Creators: name: Wang, Hongzhi
name: Li, Junjun
name: Xiang, Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Identifying Socioeconomic Characteristics Defining Consumers’ Acceptance for Main Organoleptic Attributes of an Iron-biofortified Bean Variety in Guatemala
Creators: name: Pérez, Salomón
name: Buriticab, Alexander
name: Oparinde, Adewale
name: Birol, Ekin
name: Gonzalez, Carolina
name: Zeller, Manfred
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: biofortification; iron; bean; sensory evaluation; consumer acceptance; cluster analysis

description: The success of biofortification, the process of generating new staple crops varieties with higher micronutrient content, depends on whether those biofortified cultivars are accepted by target populations. Consumer behavior economics argues that socioeconomic, cultural and biological characteristics define consumer preferences for specific product attribute. This study aims to establish which socio-demographic characteristics predict respondents’ preferences for the main sensory attributes of an iron bean variety. A home use testing approach and sensory evaluation was applied to 360 families in northwest Guatemala. We found that revealed preferences are mostly culturally formed and market related, more than influenced by socio-demographic characteristics.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
Organisational Challenges of Moroccan Dairy Cooperatives and the Institutional Environment
Creators: name: Haddad, Nora Ourabah
name: Ton, Giel
name: Sraïri, Mohamed Taher
name: Bijman, Jos
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: Institutional environment; dairy cooperatives; policy dialogue platforms; organizational challenges; collective marketing capacity

description: Marketing cooperatives in developing and transition countries face challenges when they aim to strengthen their competitiveness. One of these challenges relates to improving the quality of the products delivered by their members. Another challenge relates to the financial sustainability of the cooperative, as cooperatives have to choose between paying out a surplus to members and retaining it in the organisation. As these problems are not specific to one organisation, and public policies often affect the scope for individual cooperatives, we explore how the institutional environment helps in reducing those challenges. We present a case study of the Moroccan dairy industry, exploring how the institutional environment has affected the development and performance of dairy cooperatives. The methods used were in-depth semi-structured interviews within six dairy cooperatives. Findings point to the weak coordination between the main value chain actors. We also found a lack of financial instruments to facilitate investments in adequate quality assurance equipment and capacity development programs. Finally, we found a perceived lack of support from state policies vis-as-vis smallholders and their cooperatives.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
Functional anatomy of cortical areas characterized by Von Economo neurons
Creators: name: Vercelli, Alessandro
name: Cauda, Franco
Publisher: name: Firenze University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: Von Economo neurons; insula; frontotemporal cortex

description: Von Economo’s neurons (VENs) are large, bipolar or corkscrew-shaped neurons located in layers III and V of the frontoinsular and the anterior cingulate cortices. VENs are reported to be altered in pathologies such as frontotemporal dementia and autism, in which the individual’s self control is seriously compromised. We have recently reviewed the evolutionary appearance of VENs and we are currently studying their distribution in different neurodegenerative diseases. To investigate the role of VENs in the active human brain, we have explored the functional connectivity of brain areas containing VENs by analyzing resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) in 20 healthy volunteers. Our results show that cortical areas containing VENs form a network of frontoparietal functional connectivity. With the use of fuzzy clustering techniques, we find that this network comprises four sub-networks: the first network cluster resembles a “saliency detection” attentional network, which includes superior frontal cortex (Brodmann’s Area, BA 10), inferior parietal lobe, anterior insula, and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; the second cluster, part of a “sensory-motor network”, comprises the superior temporal, precentral and postcentral areas; the third cluster consists of frontal ventromedial and ventrodorsal areas constituted by parts of the “anterior default mode network”; and the fourth cluster encompasses dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal, and superior frontal (BA 10) areas, resembling the anterior part of the “dorsal attentional network”. Thus, the network that emerges from analyzing functional connectivity among areas that are known to contain VENs is primarily involved in functions of saliency detection and self-regulation. In addition, parts of this network constitute sub-networks that partially overlap with the default mode, the sensory-motor and the dorsal attentional networks.This work was supported by grants from PROGETTO TRASLAZIONALE, Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino.
description: Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Supplement) 2016
Propagation of Nonlinear Waves in Multi-Component Pair Plasmas and Electron-Positron-Ion Plasmas
Creators: name: Rajib, Tanvir I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of small amplitude stationary profile nonlinear solitary waves in a pair plasma is investigated employing the reductive perturbation technique via well-known Korteweg de Vries (KdV) and modified KdV (mKdV) equations, we tend to derive the exact form of nonlinear solutions, and study their characteristics. Two distinct pair ion species are considered of opposite polarity and same mass, additionally to a massive charged background species, that is assumed to be stationary, given the frequency scale of interest within the pair ion context, the third species is thought of as a background defect (e.g. charged dust) component. On the opposite hand, the model conjointly applies formally to electron positron ion (epi) plasmas, if one neglects electron positron annihilation. A parametric analysis is carried out, as regards the impact of the dusty plasma composition (background number density), species temperature(s) and background species. It is seen that distinguishable solitary profiles are observed for KdV and mKdV equations. The results are of connection in pair ion (fullerene) experiments and additionally potentially in astrophysical environments, e.g. in pulsars.
description: 7 Pages and 8 Figures
Manning, L. & Monaghan, J. (2024) Measuring and improving good agricultural practices (GAP) related to safety of fresh produce: the case of controlled environment agriculture. Manning L. (ed.), Improving standards and certification in agri-food supply chains: Ensuring safety, sustainability and social responsibility Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2024, (ISBN: 978 1 80146 451 2;
Creators: name: Manning, Louise
name: Monaghan, Jim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 300299
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management not elsewhere classified

description:
Abstract: Measuring and improving good agricultural practices (GAP) related to food safety of fresh produce is important, especially as many crops, such as leafy vegetables, are sold as ‘ready to eat’ at the point of purchase. Controlled environment agriculture (CEA), especially emergent systems such as vertical farming, are of interest in terms of promoting more sustainable practices and reducing land use for food production. Indeed, framing GAP will vary from the field to controlled environments and so defining GAP from a food safety and sustainability perspective is important in both contexts, and then to operationalise these practices effectively in both environments. Previous approaches to food safety-related hazard analysis and risk assessment for fresh produce GAP frameworks are being revisited and repositioned which has given rise to debate. This chapter considers the emergent aspects of GAP in the context of CEA and how performance criterion and monitoring programmes can be developed as part of an effective food safety control programme.
Timestamp Boson Sampling
Creators: name: Zhou, Wen-Hao
name: Gao, Jun
name: Jiao, Zhi-Qiang
name: Wang, Xiao-Wei
name: Ren, Ruo-Jing
name: Pang, Xiao-Ling
name: Qiao, Lu-Feng
name: Zhang, Chao-Ni
name: Yang, Tian-Huai
name: Jin, Xian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum advantage, benchmarking the computational power of quantum machines outperforming all classical computers in a specific task, represents a crucial milestone in developing quantum computers and has been driving different physical implementations since the concept was proposed. Boson sampling machine, an analog quantum computer that only requires multiphoton interference and single-photon detection, is considered to be a promising candidate to reach this goal. However, the probabilistic nature of photon sources and inevitable loss in evolution network make the execution time exponentially increasing with the problem size. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a timestamp boson sampling that can reduce the execution time by 2 orders of magnitude for any problem size. We theoretically show that the registration time of sampling events can be retrieved to reconstruct the probability distribution at an extremely low-flux rate. By developing a time-of-flight storage technique with a precision up to picosecond level, we are able to detect and record the complete time information of 30 individual modes out of a large-scale 3D photonic chip. We successfully validate boson sampling with only one registered event. We show that it is promptly applicable to fill the remained gap of realizing quantum advantage by timestamp boson sampling. The approach associated with newly exploited resource from time information can boost all the count-rate-limited experiments, suggesting an emerging field of timestamp quantum optics.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures, 4 supplementary figures
Additional file 2 of Exploring effective implementation pathways to become an excellent chief financial officer in public hospital: a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) from China
Creators: name: Wang, Hongzhi
name: Li, Junjun
name: Xiang, Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
The quantum Ising chain for beginners
Creators: name: Mbeng, Glen Bigan
name: Russomanno, Angelo
name: Santoro, Giuseppe E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here various techniques to work with clean and disordered quantum Ising chains, for the benefit of students and non-experts. Starting from the Jordan-Wigner transformation, which maps spin-1/2 systems into fermionic ones, we review some of the basic approaches to deal with the superconducting correlations that naturally emerge in this context. In particular, we analyse the form of the ground state and excitations of the model, relating them to the symmetry-breaking physics, and illustrate aspects connected to calculating dynamical quantities, thermal averages, correlation functions and entanglement entropy. A few problems provide simple applications of the techniques.
Correcting Deviations from Normality: A Reformulated Diffusion Model for Multi-Class Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Creators: name: Beizaee, Farzad
name: Lodygensky, Gregory A.
name: Desrosiers, Christian
name: Dolz, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the anomaly-free content of abnormal regions, especially in multi-class scenarios. Furthermore, diffusion models are inherently designed to generate images from pure noise and struggle to selectively alter anomalous regions of an image while preserving normal ones. This leads to potential degradation of normal regions during reconstruction, hampering the effectiveness of anomaly detection. This paper introduces a reformulation of the standard diffusion model geared toward selective region alteration, allowing the accurate identification of anomalies. By modeling anomalies as noise in the latent space, our proposed Deviation correction diffusion (DeCo-Diff) model preserves the normal regions and encourages transformations exclusively on anomalous areas. This selective approach enhances the reconstruction quality, facilitating effective unsupervised detection and localization of anomaly regions. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the superiority of our method in accurately identifying and localizing anomalies in complex images, with pixel-level AUPRC improvements of 11-14% over state-of-the-art models on well known anomaly detection datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/farzad-bz/DeCo-Diff
The Pet Food Industry: An innovative Distribution Channel for Marketing Feed Products from Welfare Friendly Production to Consumers?
Creators: name: Pirsich, Wiebke
name: Von Hardenberg, Louisa Marie
name: Theuvsen, Ludwig
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2017
Subjects: companion animals; consumers; pet food; pet owners; slaughter by-products; welfare friendly production

description: This paper represents the starting point of the notion of launching an innovative pet food segment labelled “made from welfare friendly production (WFP)” to achieve an added value for slaughter by-products that accrue in the production of animal welfare meat and to allocate the additional costs of higher animal welfare standards to a broader range of products. Since the pet food market is characterized by a large premium segment and pet owners are generally believed to be interested in the welfare of animals, the idea seems promising at first sight, but there is a lack of reliable evidence. Thus, the main objective of this investigation was to determine the particular interest of pet owners in the welfare of farm animals. It aims to provide decision support whether further cost-intensive economic analyses on the size and the potential of the market for pet food made from WFP should be developed and conducted. Therefore, a comparison of pet owners’ and non–pet owners’ attitudes to the issue of animal welfare in livestock farming was conducted and revealed highly significant differences. Pet owners not only have a more critical attitude towards intensive livestock farming but are also very interested in animal welfare meat and show a significantly higher willingness-to-pay for welfare friendly meat products. On the basis of these findings, specific analyses of the market potential and the feasibility of pet food made from WFP meat are highly recommended.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 8, No 3 (2017)
Additional file 1 of What can we learn from general practitioners who left Spain? A mixed methods international study
Creators: name: Calderón-Larrañaga, Sara
name: González-De-La-Fuente, Ángel
name: Espinosa-González, Ana Belén
name: Casado-Vicente, Verónica
name: Brito-Fernandes, Óscar
name: Klazinga, Niek
name: Kringos, Dionne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire (in Spanish).