cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of a Locally-developed Zero Waste Management Curriculum for Primary School Pupils in KhonKaen Municipality Schools, KhonKaen Province, Thailand
Creators: name: Thinadda Pimpuang
name: Pattapong Kessomboon
Publisher: name: The Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cognitive
Affective
Psychomotor
Zero waste management
Curriculum

description: EnvironmentAsia, 11, 2, 118-127
American Tars in Barbary: Realizing American Independence on the World Stage, 1784-1816
Creators: name: Chamberlin, John McLain
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Historical studies not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation provides the first examination of American interaction with the North African polities known as the Barbary States and with European countries on Barbary issues from the perspective of United States’ efforts to assert viability and reliability as a sovereign nation within the European nation-state system. This project shows the significance of these interactions in answering the question of how the United States became a player on the international stage. Barbary issues were influential in terms of the United States moving from Europe’s periphery to becoming a power within the European international system of sovereign nations bound together by the law of nations and networks of treaties. Independent America’s initial interactions with North African powers were generally either ineffective or dependent on the intervention of one or more European states. By the time of the Tripolitan War (1801-1805), the United States was both acting and being treated as a minor power within the “republic of nations.” By the time of the so-called Second Barbary War campaign of 1815, the United States was able to act as a significant player within that system.
sj-docx-2-tag-10.1177_17562848211041004 – Supplemental material for Systematic review with meta-analysis: encapsulated faecal microbiota transplantation – evidence for clinical efficacy
Creators: name: Cold, Frederik
name: Baunwall, Simon Mark Dahl
name: Dahlerup, Jens Frederik
name: Petersen, Andreas Munk
name: Hvas, Christian Lodberg
name: Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-tag-10.1177_17562848211041004 for Systematic review with meta-analysis: encapsulated faecal microbiota transplantation – evidence for clinical efficacy by Frederik Cold, Simon Mark Dahl Baunwall, Jens Frederik Dahlerup, Andreas Munk Petersen, Christian Lodberg Hvas and Lars Hestbjerg Hansen in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology
FROM LABSCALED PROCESSING TO CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF CELLULOSE NANOFIBRIL (CNF) SHEETS FOR STRUCTURAL AND PACKAGING APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: El Awad Azrak, Sami
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified

description: First reported in the early 1980s, cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs) like cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) have become a very attractive option to reinforce, replace, or reduce the need of oil-derived synthetic polymers. This is largely due to their inherent sustainability, abundance in nature, high crystalline contents, and ample surface chemistries possible (e.g., carboxylic acid, hydroxyls, esters, acetyls). Over the years, improved mechanical isolation processes (e.g., disk refining for isolation of the fibril-like CNFs) and acid hydrolysis processes (e.g., improved acid recovery for isolation of the rod-like cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)) have increased industrial production capacity and allowed for CNMs to be readily accessible in both academic and industrial research settings. This, in turn, has accelerated research efforts regarding their processing into usable forms (e.g., films, fibers, coatings, etc.) which attain significantly higher properties when compared to synthetic polymer analogs. Although the reported CNM processing efforts are promising, further advances are still needed in order to galvanize the current polymer industry into processing CNMs and possibly ease their adoption in major markets like food packaging and construction.

Out of the different CNM types, this work focuses specifically on CNFs and encompasses four main projects, each targeted at solving a different CNF processing related challenge or limitation. The first project addresses the challenge of processing thick CNF sheets (thickness > 100 um) through the development of a wet-stacking lamination technique. The results showed that high-strength multi-layer CNF structures with a thickness of up to ~1.7 mm can be produced. The second project addresses the challenge of bulk continuous processing of CNF sheets through conventional single-screw extrusion. The results showed that near pure CNF sheets (comprised of ~91 wt.% CNFs and ≤ ~9 wt.% of a processing aid like carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)) can be continuously extruded and calendered, and that traditional polymer compounders (e.g., Banbury mixer) can be used to prepare highly loaded CNF pastes (~25 wt.% solids) for extrusion. The third project addresses the susceptibility of CNFs to humid conditions through the use of different chemical treatments. The results showed that the redispersion and setting behavior of CNF with adsorbed CMC can be controlled and that new crosslinks were effectively formed due to the chemical treatment. Lastly, in hopes of further improving the mechanical performance and expand the possible end uses for CNFs and other CNMs, the fourth project presents preliminary research efforts into processing fiber reinforced CNF composites (FR-CNF).
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211043411 - Patient perspectives of coping with automated peritoneal dialysis
Creators: name: Duncanson, Emily
name: Chur-Hansen, Anna
name: Jesudason, Shilpanjali
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ptd-10.1177_08968608211043411 for Patient perspectives of coping with automated peritoneal dialysis by Emily Duncanson, Anna Chur-Hansen and Shilpanjali Jesudason in Peritoneal Dialysis International
Additional file 5 of COVID-19 in the homeless population: a scoping review and meta-analysis examining differences in prevalence, presentation, vaccine hesitancy and government response in the first year of the pandemic
Creators: name: Ahillan, Tharanika
name: Emmerson, Matthew
name: Swift, Bethan
name: Golamgouse, Hadiya
name: Song, Kaiyang
name: Roxas, Angela
name: Mendha, Sakina Bano
name: Avramović, Elena
name: Rastogi, Jatin
name: Sultan, Binta
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 5. Characteristics of studies describing policies (non-pharmaceutical interventions).
Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Rice Cultivation among Untreated andTreated Pesticide Application in Rice Field, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand
Creators: name: Supaporn Chaigarun
name: Sungwarl Somboon
name: Patcharee Jaigarun
Publisher: name: The Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cost effectiveness analysis
Pesticide
Rice field

description: EnvironmentAsia, 11, 2, 128-139
Masked Capsule Autoencoders
Creators: name: Everett, Miles
name: Zhong, Mingjun
name: Leontidis, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose Masked Capsule Autoencoders (MCAE), the first Capsule Network that utilises pretraining in a modern self-supervised paradigm, specifically the masked image modelling framework. Capsule Networks have emerged as a powerful alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). They have shown favourable properties when compared to Vision Transformers (ViT), but have struggled to effectively learn when presented with more complex data. This has led to Capsule Network models that do not scale to modern tasks. Our proposed MCAE model alleviates this issue by reformulating the Capsule Network to use masked image modelling as a pretraining stage before finetuning in a supervised manner. Across several experiments and ablations studies we demonstrate that similarly to CNNs and ViTs, Capsule Networks can also benefit from self-supervised pretraining, paving the way for further advancements in this neural network domain. For instance, by pretraining on the Imagenette dataset-consisting of 10 classes of Imagenet-sized images-we achieve state-of-the-art results for Capsule Networks, demonstrating a 9% improvement compared to our baseline model. Thus, we propose that Capsule Networks benefit from and should be trained within a masked image modelling framework, using a novel capsule decoder, to enhance a Capsule Network's performance on realistically sized images.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables - accepted at TMLR
ศักยภาพของพื้นที่สำหรับการปลูกข้าวและการปรับตัวของชาวนาจากปัญหาอุทกภัย ตำบลขนาบนาก อำเภอปากพนัง จังหวัดนครศรีธรรมราช
Creators: name: จันทิรา รัตนรัตน์
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2561
Subjects: ข้าว
ระบบสารสนเทศภูมิศาสตร์
การปรับตัวของชาวนา
อุทกภัย

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 26, 4, 551-562
สมบัติทางเคมีกายภาพของแป้งข้าวโพดบดหยาบดัดแปรด้วยกระบวนการเอกซ์ทรูชัน
Creators: name: นิพัฒน์ ลิ้มสงวน
name: จุฬาลักษณ์ จารุนุช
name: วายุห์ สนเทศ
name: พิศมัย ศรีชาเยช
name: กัษมาพร ปัญต๊ะบุตร
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2561
Subjects: ข้าวโพดบดหยาบ
แป้งดัดแปร
เอกซ์ทรูชัน
สมบัติทางกายภาพ
สมบัติทางเคมี

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 26, 4, 563-574
Counting Electrons in Electrides
Creators: name: McRae, Lauren M.
name: Slamowitz, Connor C.
name: Warren, Scott C.
name: Weaver, Samuel M.
name: Radomsky, Rebecca C.
name: Lanetti, Matthew G.
name: Sundberg, Jack D.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Year: 2023

description: The selection and design of charge integration methods remain an outstanding challenge in materials chemistry. In complex materials like electrides, this challenge is amplified by the small charge and complex shape of electride wave functions. For these reasons, popular integration methods, such as the Bader method, usually fail to assign any charge to the bare electrons in an electride. To address this challenge, we developed an algorithm that instead partitions the charge based on the electron localization function (ELF), a popular scheme for visualizing chemically important features in molecules and solids. The algorithm uses Bader segmentation of the ELF to find the electride electrons and Voronoi segmentation of the ELF to identify atoms. We apply this method, "BadELF", to the quantification of atomic radii and oxidation states in both ionic compounds and electrides. For ionic compounds, we find that the BadELF method yields radii that agree closely with Shannon crystal radii, while the oxidation states agree closely with the Bader method. When they are applied to electrides, however, only the BadELF algorithm yields chemically meaningful charges. We argue that the BadELF method provides a useful strategy to identify electrides and obtain new insight into their most essential property: the quantity of electrons within them.
EQUITABLY IDENTIFYING GIFTED STUDENTS FROM LOW-INCOME AND/OR MULTICULTURAL BACKGROUNDS: INVESTIGATION OF THE HOPE TEACHER RATING SCALE
Creators: name: Lee, Hyeseong
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Since teachers’ referrals involve evaluation of students through sustained observation, comprehensive features of giftedness can be identified. In 2007, a project called Having Opportunities Promotes Excellence (HOPE) was launched at Purdue University with funds from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (Gentry et al., 2015). This 3-year project aimed to help identify giftedness among low-income and ethnically diverse students and serve these students in advanced programs. To do so, the project team created the HOPE Scale (Gentry et al., 2015), an instrument used by teachers to assess the academic and socioemotional characteristics of gifted students. Previous results from Project HOPE served as the foundation for the current studies. This dissertation is comprised of three related research papers investigating the HOPE Scale as an equitable measure for identifying underrepresented students for the gifted services. Following are the purpose and research questions for each of these related studies.Study 1: Validity Evidence for the HOPE Scale to Identify Gifted Students from Low-Income and Multicultural Families in Korea Study 2: Exploring Individual and Classroom Characteristics on Students’ Outcome Scores from the HOPE Teacher Rating ScaleStudy 3: The Relationship between Students’ Academic Achievement and the HOPE Teacher-rating Scale: Exploration to Equitably Identify Underrepresented Gifted Students
Additional file 1 of Adaptation and qualitative evaluation of the BETTER intervention for chronic disease prevention and screening by public health nurses in low income neighbourhoods: views of community residents
Creators: name: O’Brien, Mary Ann
name: Lofters, Aisha
name: Wall, Becky
name: Elliott, Regina
name: Makuwaza, Tutsirai
name: Pietrusiak, Mary-Anne
name: Grunfeld, Eva
name: Riordan, Bernadette
name: Snider, Cathie
name: Pinto, Andrew D.
name: Manca, Donna
name: Sopcak, Nicolette
name: Cornacchi, Sylvie D.
name: Huizinga, Joanne
name: Sivayoganathan, Kawsika
name: Donnelly, Peter D.
name: Selby, Peter
name: Kyle, Robert
name: Rabeneck, Linda
name: Baxter, Nancy N.
name: Tinmouth, Jill
name: Paszat, Lawrence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
LeOCLR: Leveraging Original Images for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations
Creators: name: Alkhalefi, Mohammad
name: Leontidis, Georgios
name: Zhong, Mingjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contrastive instance discrimination methods outperform supervised learning in downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection. However, these methods rely heavily on data augmentation during representation learning, which can lead to suboptimal results if not implemented carefully. A common augmentation technique in contrastive learning is random cropping followed by resizing. This can degrade the quality of representation learning when the two random crops contain distinct semantic content. To tackle this issue, we introduce LeOCLR (Leveraging Original Images for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations), a framework that employs a novel instance discrimination approach and an adapted loss function. This method prevents the loss of important semantic features caused by mapping different object parts during representation learning. Our experiments demonstrate that LeOCLR consistently improves representation learning across various datasets, outperforming baseline models. For instance, LeOCLR surpasses MoCo-v2 by 5.1% on ImageNet-1K in linear evaluation and outperforms several other methods on transfer learning and object detection tasks.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables - accepted at TMLR 10/2024; V4 corrected some typos in the references
Distributed Optimization Algorithms for Inter-regional Coordination of Electricity Markets
Creators: name: Bosquezfoti, Veronica R
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In the US, seven regional transmission organizations (RTOs) operate wholesale electricity markets within three largely independent transmission systems, the largest of which includes five RTO regions and many vertically integrated utilities. RTOs operate a day-ahead and a real-time market. In the day-ahead market, generation and demand-side resources are optimally scheduled based on bids and offers for the next day. Those schedules are adjusted according to actual operating conditions in the real-time market. Both markets involve a unit commitment calculation, a mixed integer program that determines which generators will be online, and an economic dispatch calculation, an optimization determines the output of each online generator for every interval and calculates locational marginal prices (LMPs). The use of LMPs for the management of congestion in RTO transmission systems has brought efficiency and transparency to the operation of electric power systems and provides price signals that highlight the need for investment in transmission and generation. Through this work, we aim to extend these efficiency and transparency gains to the coordination across RTOs. Existing market-based inter-regional coordination schemes are limited to incremental changes in real-time markets. We propose a multi-regional unit-commitment that enables coordination in the day-ahead timeframe by applying a distributed approach to approximate a system-wide optimal commitment and dispatch while allowing each region to largely maintain their own rules, model only internal transmission up to the boundary, and keep sensitive financial information confidential. A heuristic algorithm based on an extension of the alternating directions method of multipliers (ADMM) for the mixed integer program is applied to the unit commitment. The proposed coordinated solution was simulated and compared to the ideal single-market scenario and to a representation of the current uncoordinated solution, achieving at least 58% of the maximum potential savings, which, in terms of the annual cost of electric generation in the US, could add up to nearly $7 billion per year. In addition to the coordinated day-ahead solution, we develop a distributed solution for financial transmission rights (FTR) auctions with minimal information sharing across RTOs that constitutes the first known work to provide a viable option for market participants to seamlessly hedge price variability exposure on cross-border transactions.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-2-tih-10.1177_07482337211011008 - Toxicity assessment of metallic nickel nanoparticles in various biological models: An interplay of reactive oxygen species, oxidative stress, and apoptosis
Creators: name: Iqbal, Shabnoor
name: Jabeen, Farhat
name: Chaudhry, Abdul Shakoor
name: Shah, Muhammad Ajmal
name: Batiha, Gaber El-Saber
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-2-tih-10.1177_07482337211011008 for Toxicity assessment of metallic nickel nanoparticles in various biological models: An interplay of reactive oxygen species, oxidative stress, and apoptosis by Shabnoor Iqbal, Farhat Jabeen, Abdul Shakoor Chaudhry, Muhammad Ajmal Shah and Gaber El-Saber Batiha in Toxicology and Industrial Health
Additional file 2 of Adaptation and qualitative evaluation of the BETTER intervention for chronic disease prevention and screening by public health nurses in low income neighbourhoods: views of community residents
Creators: name: O’Brien, Mary Ann
name: Lofters, Aisha
name: Wall, Becky
name: Elliott, Regina
name: Makuwaza, Tutsirai
name: Pietrusiak, Mary-Anne
name: Grunfeld, Eva
name: Riordan, Bernadette
name: Snider, Cathie
name: Pinto, Andrew D.
name: Manca, Donna
name: Sopcak, Nicolette
name: Cornacchi, Sylvie D.
name: Huizinga, Joanne
name: Sivayoganathan, Kawsika
name: Donnelly, Peter D.
name: Selby, Peter
name: Kyle, Robert
name: Rabeneck, Linda
name: Baxter, Nancy N.
name: Tinmouth, Jill
name: Paszat, Lawrence
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163211042530 – Supplemental material for Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning: A mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework
Creators: name: Martina, Diah
name: Geerse, Olaf P
name: Lin, Cheng-Pei
name: Kristanti, Martina S
name: Bramer, Wichor M
name: Mori, Masanori
name: Korfage, Ida J
name: van der Heide, Agnes
name: Rietjens, Judith AC
name: van der Rijt, Carin CD
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163211042530 for Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning: A mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework by Diah Martina, Olaf P Geerse, Cheng-Pei Lin, Martina S Kristanti, Wichor M Bramer, Masanori Mori, Ida J Korfage, Agnes van der Heide, Judith AC Rietjens and Carin CD van der Rijt in Palliative Medicine
Assessment of P-Glycoprotein Expression in Canine Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Creators: name: Hohlman, Caroline
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: ABCB1
MDR1
P-glycoprotein
P-gp
Soft tissue sarcoma
Western blot

description: Objective: Determine the level of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) expression via Western blots of protein extracts of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) in chemotherapy-naïve dogs sampled at the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital from July 2021 until October 2022.
description: Procedures: STS samples were obtained via excisional biopsy performed by the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital Surgery service on 22 cases. Samples were selected based on the following criteria: 1) pre-operative diagnosis or suspicion of STS 2) adequate tumor volume and 3) clients willing to pursue attempted surgical excision or surgical biopsy for definitive diagnosis of an STS and thus P-gp testing. Information regarding histopathologic grade was obtained in all 22 of the excisional biopsy samples. All samples were obtained fresh at the time of surgery and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen for 20 minutes prior to being stored in an –80°C freezer until Western blot processing. Western blots on protein extracts from STS samples were run in conjunction with beta actin Western blots to confirm consistent loading of the wells. This project utilized tissue samples obtained in the clinical staging or treatment of the affected patient, so interventions solely to acquire samples for this study were not needed.
description: Results: Twenty-two canine patients met the inclusion criteria with one patient having had two tumors removed from different locations in a single surgery. Histopathologic evaluation was available for 22/23 tissue samples with the 23rd having been lost post-operatively. However, this sample was consistent with a spindle cell neoplasia on cytology prior to removal and thus was still included in this study. Histologic grade within the STS umbrella included 9 grade 1 tumors, 7 grade 2 tumors, and 4 grade 3 tumors. Two tumors were classified as oral fibrosarcomas and one sample classified as a spindle cell neoplasm via two cytology reports. The remaining samples were STS under the umbrella use of the term STS (n = 16) without a diagnosis of specific type of STS, and 4 samples were given a diagnosis of a specific tumor type under the STS umbrella: hemangiopericytoma (n=2), liposarcoma (n=1) and myxosarcoma (n=1). Western blots identified P-gp expression in samples from 7 STS with the remaining 16 having no visible P-gp expression.
description: Conclusions and clinical relevance: These results indicate that a subset of chemotherapy-naïve canine STS constitutively express P-gp prior to chemotherapy administration. The clinical significance of this finding should be explored further to determine if P-gp expression by STS correlates with inherent chemotherapy resistance of STS, particularly regarding P-gp substrates (e.g. doxorubicin) or if P-gp expression correlates with prognosis.
sj-pdf-2-jao-10.1177_03913988211040530 – Supplemental material for Comparison of Impella 5.0 and extracorporeal left ventricular assist device in patients with cardiogenic shock
Creators: name: Kondo, Toru
name: Morimoto, Ryota
name: Mutsuga, Masato
name: Fujimoto, Kazuro
name: Okumura, Takahiro
name: Shibata, Naoki
name: Kazama, Shingo
name: Kimira, Yuki
name: Oishi, Hideo
name: Kuwayama, Tasuku
name: Hiraiwa, Hiroaki
name: Usui, Akihiko
name: Murohara, Toyoaki
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-jao-10.1177_03913988211040530 for Comparison of Impella 5.0 and extracorporeal left ventricular assist device in patients with cardiogenic shock by Toru Kondo, Ryota Morimoto, Masato Mutsuga, Kazuro Fujimoto, Takahiro Okumura, Naoki Shibata, Shingo Kazama, Yuki Kimira, Hideo Oishi, Tasuku Kuwayama, Hiroaki Hiraiwa, Akihiko Usui and Toyoaki Murohara in The International Journal of Artificial Organs
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-vet-10.1177_03009858211043088 - Pathologic characterization of canine multiple system degeneration in the Ibizan hound
Creators: name: St. Jean, Samantha C.
name: Jortner, Bernard S.
name: Doan, Ryan N.
name: Dindot, Scott V.
name: Johnson, Gary S.
name: Bullock, Garrett
name: Whitley, Derick B.
name: Levine, Jonathan M.
name: Hancock, Sandra K.
name: Ambrus, Andy
name: Porter, Brian F.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-vet-10.1177_03009858211043088 for Pathologic characterization of canine multiple system degeneration in the Ibizan hound by Samantha C. St. Jean, Bernard S. Jortner, Ryan N. Doan, Scott V. Dindot, Gary S. Johnson, Garrett Bullock, Derick B. Whitley, Jonathan M. Levine, Sandra K. Hancock, Andy Ambrus and Brian F. Porter in Veterinary Pathology
On HRTF Notch Frequency Prediction Using Anthropometric Features and Neural Networks
Creators: name: Arbel, Lior
name: Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya
name: Ben-Hur, Zamir
name: Alon, David Lou
name: Rafaely, Boaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: High fidelity spatial audio often performs better when produced using a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF). However, the direct acquisition of HRTFs is cumbersome and requires specialized equipment. Thus, many personalization methods estimate HRTF features from easily obtained anthropometric features of the pinna, head, and torso. The first HRTF notch frequency (N1) is known to be a dominant feature in elevation localization, and thus a useful feature for HRTF personalization. This paper describes the prediction of N1 frequency from pinna anthropometry using a neural model. Prediction is performed separately on three databases, both simulated and measured, and then by domain mixing in-between the databases. The model successfully predicts N1 frequency for individual databases and by domain mixing between some databases. Prediction errors are better or comparable to those previously reported, showing significant improvement when acquired over a large database and with a larger output range.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506211041830 - The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Zhou, Xinyue
name: Sedikides, Constantine
name: Mo, Tiantian
name: Li, Wanyue
name: Hong, Emily K.
name: Wildschut, Tim
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-spp-10.1177_19485506211041830 for The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Xinyue Zhou, Constantine Sedikides, Tiantian Mo, Wanyue Li, Emily K. Hong and Tim Wildschut in Social Psychological and Personality Science
Additional file 1 of Brachyspira in dogs: risk factors of shedding in central Germany and longitudinal study of an infected kennel
Creators: name: Gothe, Julia
name: Pfetzing, Sarah
name: Ulrich, Reiner
name: Schrödl, Wieland
name: Baums, Christoph G.
name: Heilmann, Romy M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_0003134820956299 – Supplemental Material for Three Risk Stratification Tools and Postoperative Pneumonia After Noncardiothoracic Surgery
Creators: name: Laporta, Mariana L.
name: Kruthiventi, S. Chandralekha
name: Mantilla, Carlos B.
name: Johnson, Rebecca L.
name: Sprung, Juraj
name: Portner, Erica R.
name: Schroeder, Darrell R.
name: Weingarten, Toby N.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_0003134820956299 for Three Risk Stratification Tools and Postoperative Pneumonia After Noncardiothoracic Surgery by Mariana L. Laporta, S. Chandralekha Kruthiventi, Carlos B. Mantilla, Rebecca L. Johnson, Juraj Sprung, Erica R. Portner, Darrell R. Schroeder and Toby N. Weingarten in The American Surgeon
Student-only synchronous oral practice sessions in an online course: Implementation and examination of their efficacy
Creators: name: Naganuma, Rena
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Japanese language

description: Due to a devastating effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020, a great number of educational institutions including higher education were forced to stop in-person instruction and shift to remote instruction. In response to this global situation, investigation and development of effective online language learning have accelerated across the world. At Purdue University, Japanese online courses have been offered for four different levels since they were developed in 2014. The previous curriculum contained weekly real-time sessions (RTSs) with two students under the supervision of an instructor. This 30-minute RTS was designed to facilitate interactions among students. Students could practice speaking with an instructor and a partner, but interaction among students were limited because the sessions were always led by the instructor. In addition, because the instructor needed to supervise all RTSs, the number of students in an online course was capped at 12.In this study, the researcher revised the previous curriculum in order to expand spontaneous interactions among students during RTS. Specifically, this study designed and added instructor-less RTSs in addition to the instructor-led RTSs and examined the efficacy of the new curriculum. The statistical results showed that the new curriculum which contained the instructor-less RTSs was as effective as the previous curriculum. A post-experimental survey was also conducted to investigate students’ perceptions of the instructor-less RTSs. This study found that the instructor-less RTSs encouraged them to become independent learners. Additionally, students could feel a sense of community while working on tasks with a partner during the instructor-less RTSs. Moreover, an analysis of recorded videos found students spoke Japanese more in the instructor-less RTSs than the instructor-led RTSs.
title: Aural Auras and Haunting Echoes: Places with complex biographies
Creators: name: Antoniou, Antonis
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aural Aura, Place, Non-place, Fictional place, Place-specific, Atmosphere, Background noise, Ambience, Silence, Imagination, Absence/Presence, Sound Installation, Border art, Walking art, Guerrilla art

description: The aim of the thesis is to explore the distinct identities of places with complex biographies. In particular, it investigates the processes through which sound can enact dialogues between places and people, thus exposing these identities. Place, and more specifically the history of place, is understood as a field that is involved in a process of continuous negotiation and performance. Throughout the thesis, it is contended that the identities of "charged places" can be experienced similarly to how we experience ambience or background noise. Through the ostensible silence that characterises the places under study – a silence not necessarily acoustic, but rather one that relates to the absence of what was or what should have been there – a noisy narrative may develop in our mental realm. Imagination and daydream is the ultimate condition for creating what Gaston Bachelard (1958) terms the "poetic image", which will enable us to "listen" to the place through its histories and to delve into its "aural aura".

The specific topic of investigation is how a sound artist, following a place-specific trajectory, may foster a meaningful conversation between the audience and the place, thus exposing the place's biographical essences, and furthermore how they may "orchestrate" an aural aura in order to establish this communication. 

The four works presented in the portfolio constitute a practical approach through which a response is given to the above inquiries. Each of the four works addresses fields that involve socio-political, philosophical, cultural and aesthetic concerns relevant to the island of Cyprus, as well as more practical artistic matters, such as interactivity, collaboration and ephemerality.

The thesis concludes that place-specific sound art with a guerrilla-art style, can be an effective way of expressing and communicating nuances and concepts that relate to the biography of places.
Onset Tensification in Contemporary Korean: Novel Pronunciations as Evidence of Continuing Historical Phonological Pressures
Creators: name: Clare, Roderick G
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Linguistics not elsewhere classified

description: Korean phonology features a cross-linguistically rare tripartite contrast in its stop series between lax, tense, and aspirated segments. Extant evidence suggests this contrast is the result of a fifteenth-century phonological restructuring wherein tense segments, previously an allophone of lax sounds, achieved distinct phonemic status. However, the historical record suggests that almost immediately a pattern of lax segments ‘tensifying’ began, with words featuring lax onset sounds being realized increasingly with tense sounds until the novel pronunciation was universal. While the action of these shifts is sporadic throughout the lexicon, the resulting changes are unidirectional, with the domain of tense segments expanding at the cost of lax sounds. It has been posited in previous research that such sound changes may suggest a rebalancing of functional load across underutilized segments. A similar phenomenon in contemporary Korean where speakers exhibit differing pronunciations of onset segments in a number of lexical items is analyzed herein, with the argument that it is best understood as the continuation of these historical processes. Far from an idiosyncratic speaker habit or dialectal quirk, these unexpected tense segments can be interpreted as surface evidence of phonological pressures active since late Middle Korean. The present study explored novel tensified onset pronunciations from a demographic standpoint, aiming to clarify which speaker populations have adopted new variant forms through two experiments. The first featured the elicitation of ‘tensification-prone’ items by native speakers in a production task, while the second used a combination of acceptability judgments of tensified items and attitudinal surveys regarding the use of novel tense pronunciations. The results confirm that tensification is active in contemporary Korean, but that a decisive conclusion as to its demographic associations remains elusive. The acceptability judgment experiment suggests that younger speakers and self-affirmed dialect users are more likely to prefer tensified variants, while the production task revealed no significant relationship between these factors and actual pronunciation behavior. Finally, the findings are considered in context of deeper changes in Korean phonology whereby tense and lax segments are increasingly associated with word onset and medial/final position, respectively.
THEVENIN EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS FOR MODELING COMMON-MODE BEHAVIOR IN POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Donnelly, Timothy J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The high-frequency switching of transistors in power electronic (PE) converters is known to cause unintended common-mode (CM) current that flows through parasitically-coupled ground paths. One way to model these currents is to utilize time-domain simulations that capture switching dynamics and the corresponding parasitic response. Although potentially useful, the small time steps required can create a computational burden and limit the usefulness of the approach. In addition, access to internal hardware needed to characterize parasitic parameters is often limited.
In this thesis, frequency-domain Thevenin equivalent circuits (TECs) are derived to model the CM behavior of PE converters. To do so, periodic linear time-varying (PLTV) analysis is used to develop Thevenin-like models that account for switching behavior of PE circuits. Subsequently, it is shown that in many applications these PLTV TECs can be reduced to traditional linear time-invariant (LTI) forms. Methods to experimentally characterize LTI TEC parameters and couple multiple TECs together for system-level analysis are then established. Finally, the TEC approach is extended to model converters in which common- and differential-mode (CM/DM) behavior are strongly coupled. Simulation and experimental results are used to validate the proposed TEC techniques.
title: Social  Media  After  the Revolution:  New Political
Realities  and Everyday  Network  Practices  in the
Context  of Tunisia  (2011-2013)
Creators: name: Amor, Cyrine
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social Media, Social Networking Sites (Sns), Participation, News Distribution, Revolution, Media Practice, Middle East And North Africa (Mena), Arab Media, Arab Spring

description: This research examines issues raised by social media's depiction, over recent years, as source of civic empowerment and radical socio-political change. The intensely publicized role of social networking sites at the onset of the 2011 Arab uprisings has served to support at times overly linear perspectives on the relationship between new media technologies and socio­ political change. Debates in the field have been limited by an over-emphasis on strategic and instrumental use of social media by political and cyber-activists to achieve pre-determined political outcomes. Less is currently known about the perspectives, experiences and   motivations of more ordinary users as they learn to navigate politicised online spaces and to participate in the production, mediation and dissemination of content on social media. This research revisits Tunisia, the country where the Arab uprisings first started, to provide an inter-disciplinary exploration and contextualization of these  questions,  and  of  how  everyday social media  practices  may  relate to  users'  knowledge  of, engagement  with, and  participation in a shared public and political world. The study focuses on developments in the country between January 2011 and December 2013, with specific focus on the social networking site Facebook, as it dominates social media use in Tunisia during this transitional period. By juxtaposing qualitative analysis, quantitative elements,  and  a  chronological  dimension, research findings highlight the  complexity  of  social  media's  rapidly  evolving  role,  from perceived source of civic empowerment, to contributor to social tensions  and  political polarization in the country. The  research  argues that the  communicative  conditions  provided by social media, in this context, facilitates civic encounters and  political  communication,  but equally that, by making individual and collective socio-political identities and positions more publicly visible and fixed, social media use also reinforces differences and undermines sociality, engendering complex negotiation processes  and  adaptive  participative  practices over  time.
title: The Feet at the Foot of the Curtain: The Individual Subject in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel, Arthur Schopenhauer and Max Stirner
Creators: name: Campbell, Simon
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Schopenhauer, Stirner, Schlegel, individuality

description: The present thesis does not, following the cautionary example of Dupuis and Cotonet, seek to define romanticism. The fatuity of their lexigraphical project, in light of Friedrich Schlegel’s expansive ‘theory’ of ‘romantic poetry’, soon becomes clear. Schlegel’s ‘theory’ aspired to elude categorisation and exceed definitive bounds. Dupuis and Cotonet had set out, to their foolish credit, to define the indefinable. However, it is possible to identify a characteristic motif of romanticism from Schlegel’s ‘inceptive’ theory. The critic extended his vision, somewhat fastidiously, to nature itself. His subject, the poet, was privy to its inestimable beauty; he shared a common delitescent principle, its ‘inmost’ being. The poet, like nature, was infinite and universal in scope and, ultimately, indefinable. Schlegel was not alone. Schopenhauer identified a similar quality, nature’s will; it was no less universal, infinite or explicable than that which resided in the ‘heart’ of Schlegel’s poet. It differed in one dramatic respect: it was loathsome. Nonetheless, Schlegel and Schopenhauer shared a common interest; it was of a decidedly visceral order. The value accorded to their respective subjects was determined by a universal force of nature which lurked about ‘within’ him. It bore little resemblance to anything remotely human. The question of romanticism was not, as Dupuis and Cotonet believed, purely a lexigraphical concern; it strayed into the realms of ontology. Schlegel and Schopenhauer’s spectral account, prioritising as they did, the subject’s mysterious ‘inmost nature’ did a disservice to the singular, bodily person. Max Stirner, on the other hand, abhorred all general notions and all talk of ‘universal natures’; nevertheless, he also regarded the subject as the wellspring of infinite potential. Unlike Schlegel and Schopenhauer, Stirner emphasised the subject’s determinate and definitive standing as a singular, egocentric ‘personality’. What, then, can one ascertain about the ‘true’ nature of the individual subject?
Additional file 2 of Brachyspira in dogs: risk factors of shedding in central Germany and longitudinal study of an infected kennel
Creators: name: Gothe, Julia
name: Pfetzing, Sarah
name: Ulrich, Reiner
name: Schrödl, Wieland
name: Baums, Christoph G.
name: Heilmann, Romy M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
sj-pdf-2-pic-10.1177_09544062211042052 - Supplemental material for Optimal design of helical flute of irregular tooth end milling cutter based on particle swarm optimization algorithm
Creators: name: Yu, Haibin
name: Zheng, Minli
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Nie, Wanying
name: Bian, Tianchen
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-pic-10.1177_09544062211042052 for Optimal design of helical flute of irregular tooth end milling cutter based on particle swarm optimization algorithm by Haibin Yu, Minli Zheng, Wei Zhang, Wanying Nie and Tianchen Bian in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Fungus mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their effect on pathogenicity of Candida albicans
Creators: name: Fatima, Huma
name: Maseet, Mohsin
name: Naureen Khan
name: Khan, Luqman A.
name: Seemi Farhat Basir
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2018

description: Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus that causes mucosal and systemic infections with high mortality. Ergosterol is a useful fungal membrane component and an important target for antifungal drugs. In this study, biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been evaluated for their effect on ergosterol biosynthesis and various pathogenicity markers of Candida albicans. Clinical and standard Candida albicans strains, in presence of their corresponding minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of AgNPs, showed 75% and 45% reduction in ergosterol biosynthesis respectively. Growth curve studies of Candida albicans exhibited no growth at MIC and delayed exponential phase at MIC/2 of AgNPs for both the strains. Candida pathogenicity tools central for virulence, like hydrolytic enzymes (proteinase and phospholipase) secretion and transition from a yeast from to filamentous hyphae form, were also challenged with inhibitory and sub inhibitory concentrations of AgNPs. AgNPs reduced proteinase secretion by nearly 65% and 44% in standard and clinical strain of Candida albicans, respectively. Morphogenesis is an essential attribute of Candida albicans with direct implication for tissue invasion and virulence. MIC of AgNPs was found very effective in inhibiting yeast to hyphae transition. Hemolysis test, performed as a measure of toxicity of AgNPs demonstrated 4.8% and 11.68% lysis at MIC of standard and clinical strain of Candida albicans respectively. This indicates that silver nanoparticles have low cytotoxic activity on host cell. Biosynthesized AgNPs are seen to be very effective against pathogenicity markers and ergosterol biosynthesis inhibition in Candida albicans with low cytotoxic effect on host cell. On this account, biosynthesized AgNPs can be suggested as a promising antifungal agent.