cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Explorations in the phonological reconstruction of proto-qiandong-hmongic onsets
Creators: name: Carveth, Vincent
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 110-117
description: This thesis concerns itself with the reconstruction of Proto-Qiandong-Hmongic onsets. It compares fieldwork data from two sources and 24 dialects of the Qian dong subgroup, spoken in China's Guizhou province, in order to synthesize a set of onsets for their common ancestor. The reconstruction has twofold relevance, in terms of both elucidating Hmong-Mien language history and bettering understanding of the typology of diachronic development of aspirated spirants, the most distinctive feature of the Qiandong dialects. 34 onsets are reconstructed at the Proto-Qiandong-Hmongic level, including aspirated spirants, five distinct liquids, and prenasalized stops. The typology of fricative development is expanded by determining sources for multiple different aspiration contrasts in spirants, namely a reductive chain shift for the aspirated alveolars and palatals, palatalized bilabials for the aspirated labiodentals, and spirantizing aspirated liquids for the aspirated lateral fricative. Those developments are determined to have occuned prior to Proto-Qiandong-Hmongic in at least two prior stages.
title: Increased antioxidant capacity in the plasma of dogs after a single oral dosage of tocotrienols
Creators: name: Raila, Jens
name: Rohn, Sascha
name: Schweigert, Florian J.
name: Abraham, Getu
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: The intestinal absorption of tocotrienols (TCT) in dogs is, to our knowledge, so far unknown. Adult Beagle dogs (n 8) were administered a single oral dosage of a TCT-rich fraction (TRF; 40 mg/kg body weight) containing 32 % a-TCT, 2 % b-TCT, 27 % g-TCT, 14 % d-TCT and 25 % a-tocopherol (a-TCP). Blood was sampled at baseline (fasted), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 12 h after supplementation. Plasma and chylomicron concentrations of TCT and a-TCP were measured at each time point. Plasma TAG were measured enzymatically, and plasma antioxidant capacity was assessed by the Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity assay. In fasted dogs, levels of TCT were 0·07 ( SD 0·03) mmol/l. Following the administration of the TRF, total plasma TCT peaked at 2 h (7·16 ( SD 3·88) mmol/l; P, 0·01) and remained above baseline levels (0·67 ( SD 0·44) mmol/l; P, 0·01) at 12 h. The TCT response in chylomicrons paralleled the increase in TCT in plasma with a maximum peak (3·49 ( SD 2·06) mmol/l; P, 0·01) at 2 h post-dosage. a-TCP was the major vitamin E detected in plasma and unaffected by TRF supplementation. The Trolox equivalent values increased from 2 h (776 ( SD 51·2) mmol/l) to a maximum at 12 h (1130 ( SD 7·72) mmol/l; P,0·01). The results show that TCT are detected in postprandial plasma of dogs. The increase in antioxidant capacity suggests a potential beneficial role of TCT supplementation in the prevention or treatment of several diseases in dogs.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 571
Nutrition in Relation to Farm Income, Home-Production, and Land Use
Creators: name: Stiebeling, Hazel K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1939
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use

description: Excerpts: According to our studies at the Bureau of Home Economics, farm families as a whole appear to be the best fed population group in this country and village families, the poorest. The diets of 60 percent of farm families we have studied met or exceeded average minimum requirements in every nutrient. (See chart, Diet Rating and Income, p. 3). Only 40 percent of the village families fared as well, and in some sections of the country only 40 percent of city families. Gratifying though it is to know that farm families have the lowest proportion of poor diets of any population group, we must remember that 40 percent of the farm families studied had diets that failed in one or more respects to meet average minimum requirements, and hence those families are handicapped for vigorous living. We cannot be satisfied until 100 percent of farm families have diets that can be rated fair or good. It may help us solve the problem to ask how it happens that farm families fare better than village families in the proportion of diets that can be graded good or fair.
description: Presented March 3, 1939, at the Regional Extension Conference for Northeastern States, New York, N. Y.
title: Hydrodynamics of Saturn’s dense rings
Creators: name: Seiß, Martin
name: Spahn, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: The space missions Voyager and Cassini together with earthbound observations re-vealed a wealth of structures in Saturn’s rings. There are, for example, waves being excited at ring positions which are in orbital resonance with Saturn’s moons. Other structures can be assigned to embedded moons like empty gaps, moon induced wakes or S-shaped propeller features. Further-more, irregular radial structures are observed in the range from 10 meters until kilometers. Here some of these structures will be discussed in the frame of hydrodynamical modeling of Saturn’s dense rings. For this purpose we will characterize the physical properties of the ring particle en-
semble by mean field quantities and point to the special behavior of the transport coefficients. We show that unperturbed rings can become unstable and how diffusion acts in the rings. Additionally,
the alternative streamline formalism is introduced to describe perturbed regions of dense rings with applications to the wake damping and the dispersion relation of the density waves.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 574
Fuller et al Supplementary Data and references from Commensal domestication pathways amongst plants: Exploring segetal and ruderal crops origins
Creators: name: Fuller, Dorian Q
name: Denham, Tim
name: McClatchie, Meriel
name: Wu, Xiaodi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310899
subject: Plant biology not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary text, data and references
The Failure of Macroeconomics in America
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Economics

description: On 18 March 2011, the China Association for World Economics hosted "The Presentation of the 2010 Pushan Award for Excellent Papers on International Economics" at the China Central University of Finance and Economics. Over 700 scholars and students from home and abroad attended the ceremony. Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, presented the awards and gave a speech on "The Failure of Economics in America." The following speech transcript has been approved and edited kindly by Professor Stiglitz.
Causality and the AdS Dirichlet problem
Creators: name: Marolf, Donald
name: Rangamani, Mukund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The (planar) AdS Dirichlet problem has previously been shown to exhibit superluminal hydrodynamic sound modes. This problem is defined by bulk gravitational dynamics with Dirichlet boundary conditions imposed on a rigid timelike cut-off surface. We undertake a careful examination of this set-up and argue that, in most cases, the propagation of information between points on the Dirichlet hypersurface is nevertheless causal with respect to the induced light cones. In particular, the high-frequency dynamics is causal in this sense. There are however two exceptions and both involve boundary gravitons whose propagation is not constrained by the Einstein equations. These occur in i) AdS$_3$, where the boundary gravitons generally do not respect the induced light cones on the boundary, and ii) Rindler space, where they are related to the infinite speed of sound in incompressible fluids. We discuss implications for the fluid/gravity correspondence with rigid Dirichlet boundaries and for the black hole membrane paradigm.
description: 29 pages, 5 figures. v2: added refs. v3: minor clarifications
Resilience assessment of current farming systems across the European Union
Creators: name: Reidsma, Pytrik
name: Spiegel, Alisa
name: Paas, Wim
name: Accatino, Francesco
name: Antonioli, Federico
name: Appel, Franziska
name: Bardají, Isabel
name: Berry, Robert
name: Bertolozzi-Caredio, Daniele
name: Bilttebier, Jo
name: Black, Jasmine
name: Buitenhuis, Yannick
name: Coopmans, Isabeau
name: Courtney, Paul
name: Feindt, Peter
name: Gavrilescu, Camelia
name: Hansson, Helena
name: Jendrzejewski, Błażej
name: Kahfagy, Amr
name: Krupin, Vitalyi
name: Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan
name: Larson, Sara
name: Lievens, Eowoud
name: Mathijs, Erik
name: Manevska-Tasevska, Gordana
name: Maye, Damian
name: Ollendorf, Franziska
name: Peneva, Mariya
name: Petitt, Andrea
name: Pinsard, Corentin
name: Rommel, Jens
name: Senni, Saverio
name: Severini, Simone
name: Slijper, Thomas
name: Soriano, Bárbara
name: Urquhart, Julie
name: Valchovska, Stela
name: Vigani, Mauro
name: Wauters, Erwin
name: Zawalińska, Katarzyna
name: Meuwissen, Miranda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: For improving sustainability and resilience of EU farming system, the current state needs to be assessed, before being able to move on to future scenarios. Assessing sustainability and resilience of farming systems is a multi-faceted research challenge in terms of the scientific domains and scales of integration (farm, household, farming system level) that need to be covered. Hence, in SURE-Farm, multiple approaches are used to evaluate current sustainability and resilience and its underlying structures and drivers. To maintain consistency across the different approaches, all approaches are connected to a resilience framework which was developed for the unique purposes of SURE-Farm. Results of the different methods were compared and synthesized per step of the resilience framework. Synthesized results were used to determine the position of the farming system in the adaptive cycle, i.e. in the exploitation, conservation, release, or reorganization phase. Results were synthesized around the three aspects characterizing the SURE-Farm framework, i.e. (i) it studies resilience at the farming system level, (ii) considers three resilience capacities, and (iii) assesses resilience in the context of the (changing) functions of the system.
description: EU; en; contact: pytrik.reidsma@wur.nl
Private lands for public access: the Sutter Buttes of California
Creators: name: Anderson, Walt
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: The Sutter Buttes, the only mountain range in California's Central Valley, rise from an intensely cultivated, highly altered landscape. Fences divide the land by property ownership, keeping livestock in and trespassers out. It was inevitable in urbanizing California that the general public would want to get beyond fences to hike, explore, and take photographs. Pressure for a state park mounted, creating a polarized division between private landowners and access-demanding public. Out of conflict arose innovation: a program of public access and interpretation was developed on one ranch property; later the author expanded the concept to about 40 properties in the range. Landowners were compensated for public access, allowing traditional uses (cattle and sheep ranching) to co-exist with hikes and workshops covering geology, natural and cultural history, and environmental education. At the same time, sensitive areas (e.g., eagle eyries, bat colonies) could be protected. From a private enterprise company (Sutter Buttes Naturalists) evolved the Middle Mountain Foundation, now the Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust. Landowners and "outsiders" together are active in land management, conservation, and education issues, demonstrating that local communities can achieve desired goals without the need for government involvement. The evolving model met its founder's goals of achieving a "positive spirit of constructive collaboration"; new issues are dealt with as they arise. Non-destructive public use has led to economic development, conservation of natural resources, and changes in attitudes and cultural perceptions. Thousands are exposed to the model and landscape at an Oakland Museum exhibit.
title: Pattern formation induced by time-dependent advection
Creators: name: Straube, Arthur V.
name: Pikovsky, Arkady S.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially homogeneous state. We deal with the flows periodic in space that may have arbitrary time dependence. We propose a discrete in time model, where reaction, advection, and diffusion act as successive operators, and show that a mixing advection can lead to a pattern-forming instability in a two-component system where only one of the species is advected. Physically, this can be explained as crossing a threshold of Turing instability due to effective increase of one of the diffusion constants.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 575
Ethical challenges in developing drugs for psychiatric disorders
Creators: name: Carrier, F
name: Banayan, D
name: Boley, R
name: Karnik, Niranjan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As the classification of mental disorders advances towards a disease model as promoted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), there is hope that a more thorough neurobiological understanding of mental illness may allow clinicians and researchers to determine treatment efficacy with less diagnostic variability. This paradigm shift has presented a variety of ethical issues to be considered in the development of psychiatric drugs. These challenges are not limited to informed consent practices, industry funding, and placebo use. The consideration for alternative research models and quality of research design also present ethical challenges in the development of psychiatric drugs. The imperatives to create valid and sound research that justify the human time, cost, risk and use of limited resources must also be considered. Clinical innovation, and consideration for special populations are also important aspects to take into account. Based on the breadth of these ethical concerns, it is particularly important that scientific questions regarding the development of psychiatric drugs be answered collaboratively by a variety of stakeholders. As the field expands, new ethical considerations will be raised with increased focus on genetic markers, personalized medicine, patient-centered outcomes research, and tension over funding. We suggest that innovation in trial design is necessary to better reflect practices in clinical settings and that there must be an emphasized focus on expanding the transparency of consent processes, regard for suicidality, and care in working with special populations to support the goal of developing sound psychiatric drug therapies.
AIDS Prevention Strategies for Ethnic-Racial Minority Substance Users
Creators: name: Schilling, Robert F.
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
name: Serrano, Yolanda
name: Wallace, Barbara C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Social psychology
Public health

description: African Americans and Latinos, respectively, account for 29% and 16% of persons with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, yet collectively represent less than 20% of the US population (Centers for Disease Control 1990) Although rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission have slowed among gay Anglo men there is less evidence to indicate that patterns of transmission have been altered among Black and Hispanic intravenous drug users. In this article, risk factors for HIV transmission among drug users are described, and sociocultural aspects of these risk behaviors are discussed Next, the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to reducing the spread of  HIV among drug users and their associates are considered, particularly as they apply to ethnic-racial minorities Finally, brief examples are provided of how existing theories of behavior change can be applied in Hispanic and African-American communities and suggestions are offered for further research
The curvaton scenario in the MSSM and predictions for non-Gaussianity
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Nadathur, Seshadri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a model in which both the inflaton and the curvaton are obtained from within the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, with known gauge and Yukawa interactions. Since now both the inflaton and curvaton fields are successfully embedded within the same sector, their decay products thermalize very quickly before the electroweak scale. This results in two important features of the model: firstly, there will be no residual isocurvature perturbations, and secondly, observable non-Gaussianities can be generated with the non-Gaussianity parameter $f_\mathrm{NL}\sim {\cal O}(5-1000)$ being determined solely by the combination of weak-scale physics and the Standard Model Yukawas.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Impression management in the interview: an investigation of personality, impression management, interview structure, and interview performance
Creators: name: Bourdage, Joshua
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 111-122
description: The present study investigated the antecedents and consequences of impression management (IM) in the employment interview. Classes of IM behaviors include ingratiation (e.g., using flattery and opinion conformity) and self-promotion (e.g., playing up or exaggerating one's accomplishments and qualifications). The sample consisted of 158 undergraduate management students participating in high fidelity mock interviews with 43 experienced interviewers from local organizations. Using this sample, the present study examined the influence of demographic variables, personality variables, and the level of interview structure on IM use in the interview. Although personality was measured using self-reports, we gathered peer-reports of personality for a subset of these participants (N = 100). In addition, the impact of different IM behaviors on interview performance was analyzed, as well as the extent to which the level of interview structure moderated the effectiveness of IM. Findings indicated that commonly used IM scales can be broken down into smaller components. Namely, ingratiation can be broken down into "subtle" versus "explicit" ingratiation, while self-promotion can be broken down into "legitimate" versus "deceptive" forms of this IM behavior. Moreover, a number of personality variables predicted IM use in the interview. The primary personality predictor of all IM use in the interview appears to be low Honesty-Humility. Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotionality also demonstrated meaningful relationships with IM behaviors. The use of Rapport Building and Behavioral Questions also influenced IM use. Further, IM tactics differentially influenced interview performance, with subtle ingratiation and legitimate self-promotion positively influencing interview performance, and explicit ingratiation and deceptive self-promotion tactics negatively influencing interview performance. Interview structure did not moderate the effectiveness of IM. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
title: Frequency selection by feedback control in a turbulent shear flow
Creators: name: Parezanović, Vladimir
name: Cordier, Laurent
name: Spohn, Andreas
name: Duriez, Thomas
name: Noack, Bernd R.
name: Bonnet, Jean-Paul
name: Segond, Marc
name: Abel, Markus
name: Brunton, Steven L.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: Many previous studies have shown that the turbulent mixing layer under periodic forcing tends to adopt a lock-on state, where the major portion of the fluctuations in the flow are synchronized at the forcing frequency. The goal of this experimental study is to apply closed-loop control in order to provoke the lock-on state, using information from the flow itself. We aim to determine the range of frequencies for which the closed-loop control can establish the lock-on, and what mechanisms are contributing to the selection of a feedback frequency. In order to expand the solution space for optimal closed-loop control laws, we use the genetic programming control (CPC) framework. The best closed-loop control laws obtained by CPC are analysed along with the associated physical mechanisms in the mixing layer flow. The resulting closed-loop control significantly outperforms open-loop forcing in terms of robustness to changes in the free-stream velocities. In addition, the selection of feedback frequencies is not locked to the most amplified local mode, but rather a range of frequencies around it.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 572
title: The comparative value of X-ray and CT in the diagnosis of suspected lung diseases in elderly and senile patients with comorbid pathology
Creators: name: Strutynskiy, Vladislav
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Geriatrics
subject: Education and training
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Screening
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To compare the informative value of the chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of lung diseases in elderly and senile patients with severe comorbid pathology of internal...
Number-theoretic expressions obtained through analogy between prime factorization and optical interferometry
Creators: name: Seiden, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prime factorization is an outstanding problem in arithmetic, with important consequences in a variety of fields, most notably cryptography. Here we employ the intriguing analogy between prime factorization and optical interferometry in order to obtain, for the first time, analytic expressions for closely related functions, including the number of distinct prime factors.
Behavior of Lithium Oxide at Superionic Transition: First Principles and Molecular Dynamics Studies
Creators: name: Gupta, M. K.
name: Goel, Prabhatasree
name: Mittal, R.
name: Choudhury, N.
name: Chaplot, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report studies on the vibrational and elastic behavior of lithium oxide, Li2O around its superionic transition temperature. Phonon frequencies calculated using the ab-initio and empirical potential model are in excellent agreement with the reported experimental data. Further, volume dependence of phonon dispersion relation has been calculated, which indicates softening of zone boundary transverse acoustic phonon mode along [110] at volume corresponding to the superionic transition in Li2O. The instability of phonon mode could be a precursor leading to the dynamical disorder of the lithium sub lattice. Empirical potential model calculations have been carried out to deduce the probable direction of lithium diffusion by constructing a super cell consisting of 12000 atoms. The barrier energy for lithium ion diffusion from one lattice site to another at ambient and elevated temperature has been computed. Barrier energy considerations along various symmetry directions indicate that [001] is the most favourable direction for lithium diffusion in the fast ion phase. This result corroborates our observation of dynamical instability in the transverse mode along (110) wave vector. Using molecular dynamics simulations we have studied the temperature variation of elastic constants, which are important to the high-temperature stability of lithium oxide.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: Extending a Gradient Symbolic approach to the native versus non-native contrast
title: the case of plurals in compounds
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Verissimo, João
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: The Gradient Symbolic Computation (GSC) model presented in the keynote article (Goldrick, Putnam & Schwarz) constitutes a significant theoretical development, not only as a model of bilingual code-mixing, but also as a general framework that brings together symbolic grammars and graded representations. The authors are to be commended for successfully integrating a theory of grammatical knowledge with the voluminous research on lexical co-activation in bilinguals. It is, however, unfortunate that a certain conception of bilingualism was inherited from this latter research tradition, one in which the contrast between native and non-native language takes a back seat.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 518
title: MRI of rectal cancer: key features for a structured, complete report
Creators: name: Bajenaru, Alexandru
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Staging
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Colon
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: In this paper we review the current role of MRI in the diagnosing and management of rectal cancer in order to provide a structured and complete radiological report. At the end of it, the reader should be able to: 1.Recognize the important anatomic...
title: Basic aspects of interventional radiology that all radiologists must know
Creators: name: Alhambra, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Pathology
subject: Education and training
subject: Abscess
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Drainage
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional Radiology
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The objective of this study is that general radiologists and residents know the most common basic techniques of interventional radiology and that they can perform...
4th International Research Symposium Proceeding
Creators: name: Journal, Ejssd
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Science and Sustainable Development
Year: 2023

description: ASTU’s development into a full-fledged science and technology university has helped it to forge strong linkage, cooperation, and partnership with various national and international universities, development sectors, stakeholders, and relevant personalities. To showcase its all-around efforts, ASTU has organized its fourth international research symposium on “Promoting Digital Economy through Research and Innovation”. This is a timely and broad agenda that is seen as a part of the national plan of the transformation of the country. Thus, this research symposium aims to further strengthen the contribution of ASTU in the development endeavors of the country at large.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, 2023: Special Issue_4th International Research Symposium Proceeding
IMPROVING COMPETENCY LEVEL AMONG NURSES IN EMERGENCY BURN UNIT
Creators: name: LATIFA HUSSEIN ABDELHADY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Competency, Burn, Nurses, Emergency.

description: Abstract
Background:  Burns are one of the common causes of injury with which patients present to emergency units. Much of the damage caused by burns can be prevented or reversed with appropriate emergency management in the emergency unit. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the program about improving competency level among nurses in emergency burn units. Research Design: A quasi – experimental research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at two settings, in Emergency burn units of Hehya hospital at Sharkia governate, and El Ahrar hospital at Sharkia. Subjects: The subjects for the study included all available nurses working in the previous mentioned two settings and their number were (50) nurses in Hehya hospital and (30) nurses in El Ahrar hospital. The convenient sample design was utilized in conducting of this study. Tools: Data were collected by using two tools: (I) interview questionnaire aimed to assess   nurses' knowledge regarding in emergency burn units, (II) observatioal check list aimed to assess nurse's practices in burn units. Results: clarify that, nurses knowledge about burn characters were improved at the post-intervention phase, Where, the percent of improvement of knowledge  about sign of burn infection was 14.9% the percent of improvement of knowledge about burn severity was 39.02%. , the percent of improvement of knowledge about burn complication was 40.13%. The percent of improvement of knowledge about prevention of burn 33.25 %, In generally   the improvements were highly statistically significant (p<0.001). Moreover, the percent of improvement of competent skill score was 58.3%. These improvements were highly statistically significant (p<0.001). Conclusion: there was statistically significant correlation between  nurses' knowledge score and  nurses' competence skill score at pre & Post intervention phase. Recommendations: provision of in-service training on regular basis in order to improve competency level of nurses related to nursing care of burned patients should be conducted in all burn services units
title: Understanding the limits of power
title: America’s Middle East experience
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Terhalle, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: The main thread of this review article is to identify the reasons of how to account for the trajectory of American power in the region. Leaving behind the vast amount of highly politicised and hastily compiled volumes of recent years (notwithstanding valuable exceptions), the monographs composed by Lawrence Freedman, Trita Parsi and Oliver Roy attempt to subtly disentangle the intricacies of US involvement in the region from highly distinct perspectives. One caveat for International Relations theorists is that none of the 
aforementioned authors intends to provide theoretical frameworks for his examination. However, since IR theory has damagingly neglected history in the last decades, the works under review here, at least in part, compensate for this disciplinary and intellectual failure. In conclusion, Freedman’s in-depth approach as a diplomatic historian, with its under-lying reference to the various traditions in US foreign policy thinking, is most illuminating, while Parsi’s contestable account focuses too narrowly on the Iran-Israel relationship. Roy’s explications fail to show how and why the ‘ideological’ element in US foreign policy came to carry exceedingly more weight after 2001 than it did in the 1990s.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe, 102
title: Clumped stellar winds in supergiant high-mass X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Oskinova, Lidia M.
name: Feldmeier, Achim
name: Kretschmar, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: The clumping of massive star winds is an established paradigm, which is confirmed by multiple lines of evidence and is supported by stellar wind theory. We use the results from time-dependent hydrodynamical models of the instability in the line-driven wind of a massive supergiant star to derive the time-dependent accretion rate on to a compact object in the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton approximation. The strong density and velocity fluctuations in the wind result in strong variability of the synthetic X-ray light curves. Photoionization of inhomogeneous winds is different from the photoinization of smooth winds. The degree of ionization is affected by the wind clumping. The wind clumping must also be taken into account when comparing the observed and model spectra of the photoionized stellar wind.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 573
title: Surviving the spleen challenge: a systematic approach to non-traumatic focal lesions.
Creators: name: MANDACEN, Micaela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Infection
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Spleen
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Systematize the approach of non-traumatic focal lesions of the spleen to narrow the differential diagnosis through main and ancillary findings. 2. Briefly and deeply review the main focal lesions in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients and some...
Genetic evidence for parthenogenesis in the small carpenter bee Ceratina dallatoreana (Apidae, Ceratinini) in its native distribution range
Creators: name: Mikát, Michael
name: Straka, Jakub
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 595

description: Arrhenotoky is the typical mode of reproduction in Hymenoptera. Diploid females develop from fertilized eggs, whereas haploid males originate from unfertilized eggs. However, some taxa of Hymenoptera have evolved thelytoky, in which diploid females originate parthenogenetically from unfertilized diploid eggs. In contrast to some other hymenopteran lineages, like ants and parasitic wasps, thelytoky is generally very rare in bees. Here, we evaluated the frequency of thelytoky in the small carpenter bee Ceratina dallatoreana, which was previously assumed to be thelytokous. By comparing genotypes of microsatellite loci between mothers and their offspring, we found that all female offspring were genetically identical to their mothers. We conclude that parthenogenesis is the prevailing and perhaps obligate mode of reproduction in C. dallatoreana. We also classify the cytological mode of this parthenogenesis as apomixis, or automictic parthenogenesis with central fusion and extremely reduced or non-existing recombination, because offspring showed no decrease of heterozygosity. Because sociality is influenced by relatedness and Ceratina are ancestrally facultatively social, the high relatedness afforded by parthenogenesis should associate with social living in the nest. In accordance with previous work, however, we found no social nests of C. dallatoreana.
title: Spectrum of complications in patients with spontaneous cholecystoduodenal fistula
Creators: name: Šaponjski, Dušan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GI Tract
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Emergency
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Digital radiography
subject: MR
subject: Barium meal
subject: Complications
subject: Education
subject: Acute
subject: Fistula
subject: Retrospective
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Spontaneous cholecystoduodenal fistula is a rear complication of a calculous gallbladder that can lead to the stone migration to the...
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally
Creators: name: Engel, Thore
name: Bruelheide, Helge
name: Sabatini, Francesco M.
name: Jandt, Ute
name: [Und Viele Weitere]
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 580

description: Aim: Theoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non-exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (which relates to the traits of the dominant species); and (2) the niche partitioning effect [which relates to functional diversity (FD)]. Although both mechanisms have been studied in plant communities and experiments at small spatial extents, it remains unclear whether evidence from small-extent case studies translates into a generalizable macroecological pattern. Here, we evaluate dominance and niche partitioning effects simultaneously in grassland systems world-wide. Location: Two thousand nine hundred and forty-one grassland plots globally. Time period: 2000–2014. Major taxa studied: Vascular plants. Methods: We obtained plot-based data on functional community structure from the global vegetation plot database “sPlot”, which combines species composition with plant trait data from the “TRY” database. We used data on the community-weighted mean (CWM) and FD for 18 ecologically relevant plant traits. As an indicator of primary productivity, we extracted the satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from MODIS. Using generalized additive models and deviation partitioning, we estimated the contributions of trait CWM and FD to the variation in annual maximum NDVI, while controlling for climatic variables and spatial structure. Results: Grassland communities dominated by relatively tall species with acquisitive traits had higher NDVI values, suggesting the prevalence of dominance effects for BEF relationships. We found no support for niche partitioning for the functional traits analysed, because NDVI remained unaffected by FD. Most of the predictive power of traits was shared by climatic predictors and spatial coordinates. This highlights the importance of community assembly processes for BEF relationships in natural communities. Main conclusions: Our analysis provides empirical evidence that plant functional community structure and global patterns in primary productivity are linked through the resource economics and size traits of the dominant species. This is an important test of the hypotheses underlying BEF relationships at the global scale.
title: Cross-sectional and functional imaging in guiding withdrawal of immunosuppression after auxiliary liver transplantation for acute liver failure.
Creators: name: Shankar, Abhinaya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Transplantation
subject: Pathology
subject: Acute
subject: Surgery
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To highlight the role of auxiliary liver transplantation as a bridge to native liver regeneration in treatment of acute liver failure. To emphasize the role of CT volumetry and functional imaging (Hepatobiliary Imino diacetic acid (HIDA) scan) in...
Mixed sneutrino dark matter in light of the 2011 XENON and LHC results
Creators: name: Dumont, Beranger
name: Belanger, Genevieve
name: Fichet, Sylvain
name: Kraml, Sabine
name: Schwetz, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of supersymmetric models in which small Dirac neutrino masses are generated by supersymmetry breaking, a mainly right-handed (RH) mixed sneutrino can be an excellent cold dark matter (DM) candidate. We perform a global analysis of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM)+RH neutrino parameter space by means of Markov Chain Monte Carlo scans. We include all relevant constraints from collider and dark matter searches, paying particular attention to nuclear and astrophysical uncertainties. Two distinct cases can satisfy all constraints: heavy sneutrino DM with mass of order 100 GeV, as well as light sneutrino DM with mass of about 3-6 GeV. We discuss the implications for direct and indirect dark matter searches, as well as for SUSY and Higgs searches at the LHC for both, the light and the heavy sneutrino dark matter case. The light sneutrino case is excluded by the 125-126 GeV Higgs signal.
description: 38 pages, 13 figures; v3: appendix added, minor corrections, note added on the 2012 XENON100 results; matches version accepted by JCAP
title: Hochzyklisch beanspruchte Gründungen von Offshore-Windenergieanlagen. Nachweise der Gebrauchstauglichkeit
Creators: name: Zachert, Hauke
name: Wichtmann, Torsten
name: Kudella, Peter
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2013

description: Gründungen für Offshore-Windenergieanlagen sind einer hochzyklischen Belastung aus Wind und Wellen ausgesetzt. Es gibt aber derzeit noch keine abgesicherten oder genormten Prognosemodelle, welche die aus dieser Belastung resultierenden akkumulierten Verformungen im Boden und die sich daraus ergebenden Schiefstellungen der Offshore-Windenergieanlagen beschreiben könnten. Am Institut für Bodenmechanik und Felsmechanik (IBF) wird an solchen Modellen zur Prognose der Gebrauchstauglichkeit gearbeitet. Ein auf Laborversuchen basierendes hochzyklisches Akkumulationsmodell wurde entwickelt und es wurden Modellversuche an Flach- und Monopilegründungen durchgeführt. Ergänzt durch numerische Berechnungen sollen diese Untersuchungen die Entwicklung vereinfachter Ingenieurmodelle ermöglichen, welche eine Prognose der Verformungen von Flachgründungen und Monopiles infolge zyklischer Belastung erlauben. Diese Modelle sollen dann ebenso wie die numerischen Berechnungen anhand von Messdaten von In-Situ-Großversuchen validiert werden.
Key Questions for a Theology of Religions
Creators: name: Knitter, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Theology
Religions
Christianity
Religious pluralism

description: Given the spate of studies seeking to elaborate a theology of religions that have appeared over the last five years, it is evident that the question of the "many religions," like that of the "many poor," is one of the issues that most disturb, and therefore can most invigorate, Christian consciousness. In what follows, I would like to review and analyze what I think are some of the pivotal issues in Christian efforts to come to a clearer, more adequate and coherent, understanding of other religions and of Christianity in the light of other faiths.
title: Transaction cost measurement for the evaluation of the regulation of live wildlife trade in South Africa
title: Transaction cost measurement for the regulations of live wildlife trade in South Africa
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dry, Gert C.
name: Van Hoven, Wouter
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: Wouter van Hoven
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Although South Africa has in theory, an economic comparative advantage in the production of indigenous wildlife, the ability to capitalize on this advantage was originally initiated by an incisive policy that entrusted ownership of wildlife to private landowners. Since 1991, wildlife ranchers have continued to transform marginal land into thriving operations despite a largely unreceptive policy environment. Discrepancies that exist between provincial permit-award procedures, the conservation status of many indigenous species, and the degree to which translocation can occur not only generates uncertainty; it also raises concerns amongst wildlife ranchers with regards to the cost of doing business. This status quo suggests that the current regulatory environment is not organized in such a way that transaction cost are minimized. Hence, the regulatory environment is not an efficiency-inducing administrative instrument that facilitates exchanges between economic agents. The paper addresses the latter; revewing policy-induced transaction cost associated with the live trade of wildlife species. It is argued that the implicit costs force consideration of externalities that would otherwise be ignored when market forced act in their own best interest. Results revealed significant implicit cost which confirms that the current regulatory environment is not efficient. This research not only indicates the need for legislation that is standardized across provinces, it also reveals the importance of transaction cost considerations when biodiversity or environmental policies are developed or amended.
title: Digitization of  Spörer’s sunspot drawings
Creators: name: Diercke, Andrea
name: Arlt, Rainer
name: Denker, Carsten
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: Much of our knowledge about the solar dynamo is based on sunspot observations. It is thus desirable to extend the set of positional and morphological data of sunspots into the past. Gustav Spörer observed in Germany from Anklam (1861–1873) and Potsdam (1874–1894). He left detailed prints of sunspot groups, which we digitized and processed to mitigate artifacts left in the print by the passage of time. After careful geometrical correction, the sunspot data are now available as synoptic charts for almost 450 solar rotation periods. Individual sunspot positions can thus be precisely determined and spot areas can be accurately measured using morphological image processing techniques. These methods also allow us to determine tilt angles of active regions (Joy’s law) and to assess the complexity of an active region.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 577