cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A One Health approach to bovine coronavirus vaccine development, using LSDV as a live virus vector
Creators: name: Chineka, Nicole
name: Whittle, Leah
name: Douglass, Nicola
name: Williamson, Anna-Lise
name: Chapman, Ros
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) causes significant pneumo-enteric infections in cattle and other ruminants. A BCoV-like coronavirus was previously found in a symptomatic human child and shares 97.1% sequence identity with one of the more prevalent human coronaviruses, HCoV-OC43. Zoonosis of a virulent BCoV from livestock is a feasible threat. Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) is a poxvirus that can be used as a live attenuated dual vaccine vector in cattle and potentially as a replication-deficient vaccine vector, in humans. This paper explores the development of a vaccine, considering the increasingly significant One Health approach, which recognizes the importance of curbing disease at the animal-human interface to prevent future epizootics and pandemics. A recombinant LSDV (LSDV-BCoV-K1L) was developed to express the spike and nucleocapsid proteins of BCoV. The spike and nucleocapsid antigens used in this vaccine were derived from consensus sequences of 38 spike and 24 nucleocapsid amino acid sequences, encompassing multiple BCoV genotypes. The insertion of the foreign gene cassette between LSDV open reading frames 49 and 50 was verified using polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing. Furthermore, western blot analysis confirmed the expression of BCoV spike and nucleocapsid proteins in cells infected with LSDV-BCoV-K1L. The immunogenicity of LSDV-BCoV-K1L was evaluated in mice and compared to the parent virus, nLSDVSODis-UCT. Mice immunized with LSDV-BCoV-K1L produced nucleocapsid-specific T-cells and high levels of spike-specific antibodies. This combined vaccine targeting both lumpy skin disease virus and BCoV requires further evaluation.
Assessment of recall error in self-reported food consumption histories among adults—Particularly delay of interviews decrease completeness of food histories—Germany, 2013
Creators: name: Gertler, Maximilian
name: Czogiel, Irina
name: Stark, Klaus
name: Wilking, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: Poor recall during investigations of foodborne outbreaks may lead to misclassifications in exposure ascertainment. We conducted a simulation study to assess the frequency and determinants of recall errors. Methods Lunch visitors in a cafeteria using exclusively cashless payment reported their consumption of 13 food servings available daily in the three preceding weeks using a self-administered paper-questionnaire. We validated this information using electronic payment information. We calculated associated factors on misclassification of recall according to time, age, sex, education level, dietary habits and type of servings. Results: We included 145/226 (64%) respondents who reported 27,095 consumed food items. Sensitivity of recall was 73%, specificity 96%. In multivariable analysis, for each additional day of recall period, the adjusted chance for false-negative recall increased by 8% (OR: 1.1;95%-CI: 1.06, 1.1), for false-positive recall by 3% (OR: 1.03;95%-CI: 1.02, 1.05), for indecisive recall by 12% (OR: 1.1;95%-CI: 1.08, 1.15). Sex and education-level had minor effects. Discussion: Forgetting to report consumed foods is more frequent than reporting food-items actually not consumed. Bad recall is strongly enhanced by delay of interviews and may make hypothesis generation and testing very challenging. Side dishes are more easily missed than main courses. If available, electronic payment data can improve food-history information.
The Impact of Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund on Agricultural Sector Development in Nigeria
Creators: name: Ayim, Sunday
name: Orok, Akaninyene
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Finance, Public
subject: Banks and banking
subject: Agriculture--Economic aspects
subject: Economic development

description: The study portrayed the impact of Agricultural credit Guarantee scheme fund (ACGSF) on Agricultural Sector Development in Nigeria. Specific objectives were to ascertain the relationship between the ACGSF and the output of the crop sector in Nigeria, to examine the relationship between ACGSF and the output of the livestock sector in Nigeria, and to determine the relationship between ACGSF and the output of the fishery sector in Nigeria measured by respective gross domestic product (GDP). Secondary data were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria Publications and Statistical Bulletin. Multiple linear regression of ordinary least square (OLS) model was adopted to establish the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Findings revealed a positive and significant relationship between ACGSF and the agricultural sector development evaluated by the sustained rise in its contribution to GDP. The study also revealed that the scheme had given more funds and impacted more on the crop sector over the livestock and fishery sector. The study recommends among others that the scheme should be sustained and the government should invest more in Agricultural development, and measures should be put in place by the management of the scheme to reduce default in payment arising from borrowers.
High variability of TB, HIV, hepatitis C treatment and opioid substitution therapy among prisoners in Germany
Creators: name: Müller, Jana
name: Schmidt, Daniel
name: Kollan, Christian
name: Lehmann, Marc
name: Bremer, Viviane
name: Zimmermann, Ruth
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: HIV
subject: HCV
subject: TB
subject: OST
subject: Treatment
subject: Prison health
subject: Intramural
subject: Secondary data
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: In Germany, medical care of prisoners is completely separated from extramural health care. The extent and quality of medical care among prisoners in Germany are therefore largely unknown. We performed a secondary data analysis of pharmacy sales data for tuberculosis (TB), HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and opioid substitution treatment (OST) delivered to prisons in 11 federal states (FS) in Germany between 01/2012 and 03/2013. The aims of this study were to assess (i) the treatment availability for the selected diseases and OST in German prisons, (ii) the proportion of prisoners treated per FS and overall for TB, HIV, HCV and OST during the study period. Methods: Substances unique to or typically used for the treatment of each disease were defined as marker substances with defined daily doses (DDD). For each marker substance we assessed the cumulative number of DDD, the average daily number of DDD (DDDd) and average treatment prevalence per day in percent (adTP). Accordingly, the DDDd represents one person treated per day and the adTP means the proportion of prisoners treated per day. We compared the adTP of the diseases with previously measured prevalences. Results: We obtained data from pharmacies supplying prisons in 11 of 16 German FS. Of the included prisons, 41% were supplied with medicines for TB, 71% for HIV and 58% for HCV and OST. Twice as many delivered marker substances for TB were indicated for the continuation phase and chemoprevention than the intensive phase. The HIV adTP ranged from 0.06% to 0.94%, HCV adTP ranged from 0.03% to 0.59% and OST adTP ranged from 0% to 7.90%. The overall adTP for the respective treatment was 0.39% for HIV, 0.12% for HCV and 2.18% for OST. Conclusions: According to our findings treatment rates for TB were consistent with the expected TB prevalence, at least in Berlin. HIV treatment seems to be offered to an adequate proportion of estimated infected prisoners. In contrast, the HCV treatment prevalence was low. High variation among FS in provision of all treatments, particularly of OST, point to inconsistent treatment practices, although nationwide extramural treatment guidelines for Germany exist.
Post-millennial trends of socioeconomic inequalities in chronic illness among adults in Germany
Creators: name: Hoebel, Jens
name: Kuntz, Benjamin
name: Moor, Irene
name: Kroll, Lars Eric
name: Lampert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objective: Time trends in health inequalities have scarcely been studied in Germany as only few national data have been available. In this paper, we explore trends in socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of chronic illness using Germany-wide data from four cross-sectional health surveys conducted between 2003 and 2012 (n = 54,197; ages 25–69 years). We thereby expand a prior analysis on post-millennial inequality trends in behavioural risk factors by turning the focus to chronic illness as the outcome measure. The regression-based slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) were calculated to estimate the extent of absolute and relative socioeconomic inequalities in chronic illness, respectively. Results: The results for men revealed a significant increase in the extent of socioeconomic inequalities in chronic illness between 2003 and 2012 on both the absolute and relative scales (SII2003 = 0.06, SII2012 = 0.17, p-trend = 0.013; RII2003 = 1.18, RII2012 = 1.57, p-trend = 0.013). In women, similar increases in socioeconomic inequalities in chronic illness were found (SII2003 = 0.05, SII2012 = 0.14, p-trend = 0.022; RII2003 = 1.14, RII2012 = 1.40, p-trend = 0.021). Whereas in men this trend was driven by an increasing prevalence of chronic illness in the low socioeconomic group, the trend in women was predominantly the result of a declining prevalence in the high socioeconomic group.
Entrepreneurship Orientation and Entrepreneurship Culture and the Performance of Small and Medium-scale Enterprises in Calabar Metropolis - Nigeria
Creators: name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: Akaninyene Orok, Dr.
name: okoi, innocent
name: Okoi, Comfort
name: Okoi, Comfort
name: Takon, Samuel
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2021

description: The study empirically examined entrepreneurship orientation, entrepreneurship culture and performance of small and medium-scale enterprises in Calabar Metropolis. The major objective of the paper was to explore how strategic entrepreneurship practices affect the accomplishment  of SMEs goals in Cross River State. The study was anchored on Resource-based theory (RBT). The study used survey research design. Survey research design was employed, and a population of one thousand, two hundred and ninety-four (1294) employees were involved. The study utilized Taro Yamane formula to determine the sample size of 400 employees. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling method. The paper used multiple linear regression technique in testing the two hypotheses. The study revealed a positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and growth of SMEs. Furthermore, it was found that entrepreneurial culture has a negative effect on profitability of SMEs. Also, it was found that strategic resource management has significant effect on the quality of products of SMEs. The researcher supported various findings with suggestions among other things that the managers should continuously incorporate new decision-making strategies, procedures and behaviour that will put the organization into an advantageous position into entering new or established markets with new or existing goods or services. It was also recommended among others that entrepreneurial culture should be strengthened by managers of SMEs in Cross River State in  pursuit of firm’s performance as well as yielding to the economic growth of Nigeria.
Transients From Rare, Violent Stellar Deaths
Creators: name: Kathirgamaraju, Adithan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: High energy astrophysics and galactic cosmic rays
Astroparticle physics and particle cosmology
General relativity and gravitational waves
Stellar astronomy and planetary systems

description: Some of the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe are associated with the death of stars. These stellar deaths power transient electromagnetic emission which are routinely observed on Earth. This dissertation presents our research on various such transients. Its topics includes, supernova remnants, kilonovae, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): The "long'' type produced from core-collapse supernovae and the "short'' type associated with neutron star merger events. It also focuses on the disruption of stars by the tidal forces of supermassive black holes i.e., tidal disruption events (TDEs). We model the emission from these transients and compare them to observations in order to draw a number of conclusions and make predictions for future detections. For example, we find that the non-thermal emission from supernovae and kilonovae associated with GRBs can produce long term emission which may be detected as a re-brightening in the overall emission. The sharp cut off observed in some TDE flares can be caused by a pre-existing accretion disk present around a supermassive black hole, which is expected in active galactic nuclei. Our work successfully predicted the nature of the very first electromagnetic detection from a neutron star merger, and was able to reproduce the emission that had been observed for more than one hundred days after the merger. This dissertation also provides frameworks on how the observable features of these transients can be leveraged to probe the properties of the progenitor system and their environment.
Erweiterte Patientenverfügung zur selbstbestimmten Sterbehilfe bei späterer Urteilsunfähigkeit
Creators: name: Giger, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Die Schweizer Bevölkerung wird zunehmend älter, wodurch auch die Häufigkeit demenzieller Erkrankungen stark ansteigt. Zurzeit leiden rund 156'900 Personen an Demenz. Gemäss Schätzungen von Alzheimer Schweiz werden es im Jahr 2050 rund 315'400 Personen sein. Vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Zugang von Demenzpatientinnen und -patienten zu lebensbeendenden Massnahmen.

Will eine Person nach heutiger Rechtslage legale Beihilfe zum Suizid in Anspruch nehmen, muss sie dies tun, solange sie urteilsfähig ist. Das führt bei Demenzpatientinnen und -patienten zur paradoxen Situation, dass die Beihilfe zum Suizid zwingend in Anspruch genommen werden muss, solange das Leben noch lebenswert erscheint, mithin viel zu früh.

Diesem Dilemma, man könnte es einen Missstand nennen, kann mit einer rechtsstaatlich geordneten Lösung entgegengetreten werden: Jede urteilsfähige Person sollte freiwillig, frühzeitig und selbstbestimmt festlegen dürfen, unter welchen Voraussetzungen sie bei späterer Urteilsunfähigkeit Sterbehilfe in Anspruch nehmen möchte. Die vorliegende Arbeit führt dazu den Begriff der «antizipierten Sterbehilfe» ein. Nahezu unbemerkt von der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung in der Schweiz haben die Niederlande, Belgien, Luxemburg und Spanien, teils unlängst, solche Gesetze erlassen.

Eine gesetzliche Regelung ermöglicht es, den daran interessierten, urteilsfähigen Menschen die Sorge und Angst zu nehmen, später über lange Zeit in einem hilf- und willenlosen Zustand leben zu müssen. Auch wäre es nicht mehr nötig, die Sterbehilfe viel zu früh in Anspruch zu nehmen. So betrachtet wirkt die Zulässigkeit der antizipierten Sterbehilfe lebensverlängernd und schützt nicht zuletzt auch vor alternativen strafbaren Lösungsansätzen.

Nach einer Darstellung der grundsätzlichen Problemstellung wird im Rahmen dieser Arbeit zunächst die rechtliche Ausgangslage abgesteckt. Dabei sind insbesondere der Vorsorgeauftrag, die Patientenverfügung sowie die Sterbehilfe auszuleuchten. In einem weiteren Schritt wird an einem ausformulierten Vorschlag einer Gesetzesnovelle die mögliche Ausgestaltung eines neuen rechtlichen Instituts vorgestellt, das eine rechtsstaatlich geordnete, selbstbestimmte, antizipierte Entscheidung über die Sterbehilfe für den allfälligen, späteren Zustand der Urteilsunfähigkeit erlauben würde.
Additional file 5 of Cannulated screws versus dynamic hip screw versus hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty in patients with displaced and non-displaced femoral neck fractures: a systematic review and frequentist network meta-analysis of 5703 patients
Creators: name: Ramadanov, Nikolai
name: Jóźwiak, Katarzyna
name: Hauptmann, Michael
name: Lazaru, Philip
name: Marinova-Kichikova, Polina
name: Dimitrov, Dobromir
name: Becker, Roland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Forest plot of EQ 5D 3-4 months postoperatively (displaced femoral neck fractures only). CS, cannulated screw; HA, hemiarthroplasty; THA, total hip arthroplasty; SD, standard deviation; MD, mean difference; CI, confidence interval.
DIAGNÓSTICO LABORATORIAL DE CRIPTOSPORIDIOSE EM LABORATÓRIOS DE ANÁLISES CLÍNICAS DE PEQUENO A MÉDIO PORTE
Creators: name: Bonfim, Milena Lucia
name: Branco, Jhennifer Mara
name: Milarch, Carine de Freitas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A criptosporidiose é uma doença infecciosa causada pelo parasita Cryptosporidium, responsável por

gastroenterites. Sendo o diagnóstico laboratorial uma das formas de profilaxia da parasitose. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar a importância do diagnóstico laboratorial de Criptosporidiose e, revisar dentre os ensaios disponíveis qual terá uma aplicabilidade na prática de parasitologia para laboratórios de análises clínicas de pequeno a médio porte por meio de revisão de literatura. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizadas as seguintes bases de dados: PubMed (NIH-National Library of Medicine), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), ScienceDirect e LILACS (Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde). Foram selecionados artigos publicados no período entre 2013 e 2023. Foram localizados 156 artigos científicos nas plataformas, após aplicados os procedimentos metodológicos e critérios de inclusão, 23 artigos foram considerados potencialmente elegíveis, os quais foram lidos na íntegra. Após a seleção, foram incluídos 09 artigos no estudo. Após a análise e discussão dos

resultados, foi possível concluir que a técnica de coloração de Ziehl-Neelsen, mostra ser a metodologia

viável para a pesquisa rotineira de Cryptosporidium em pacientes sintomáticos, devido seu baixo custo e por já estar disponíveis nos laboratórios de análises clínicas.
Influenza vaccination hesitancy and related factors among pregnant and breastfeeding women: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Comparcini, Dania
name: Cicolini, Giancarlo
name: Totaro, Melania
name: Governatori, Letizia
name: Pastore, Francesco
name: Miniscalco, Daniela
name: Flacco, Maria Elena
name: Cuscianna, Eustachio
name: Tafuri, Silvio
name: Simonetti, Valentina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Achieving safe influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant and breastfeeding women is a global health goal due to the potential risks of serious influenza for both mother and child. However, vaccine hesitancy remains a significant barrier to vaccination uptake. Since anxiety represents a determinant in vaccine decision-making, this study aimed to assess influenza vaccination hesitancy and anxiety levels in this population and to explore the association between women’s characteristics, their reluctance, and anxiety levels. A multicentre, cross-sectional study was conducted between February and June 2022 using structured phone interviews to assess: (1) socio-demographics and clinical history; (2) anti-flu vaccination status, previous anti-flu vaccination, and Sars-CoV-2 infection history; (3) insights into influenza vaccination during pregnancy; (4) attitudes toward anti-flu vaccination, using the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale; (5) anxiety levels, measured by the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). Among the 387 participants, 22.8% were already vaccinated or expressed willingness to be vaccinated against influenza, and 54% had an anxiety disorder. While anxiety was not significantly associated with vaccine hesitancy, ongoing pregnancy emerged as an independent predictor of anxiety. Higher educational levels, ongoing pregnancy, already being vaccinated or willingness to get vaccinated, and being employed were associated with reduced vaccine hesitancy, while prior SARS-CoV-2 infection with increased hesitancy. Fear of unpredictable events and lack of healthcare professionals’ recommendations emerged as reasons for vaccine reluctance. Given the low coverage rates, these findings highlight the need for health services to enhance vaccination efforts and provide clear recommendations to counter misinformation and ensure accurate vaccine safety information.
ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap
Creators: name: Walsh, Caitilin
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023

description: The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.
Spectral methods for boundary value problems in complex domains
Creators: name: Gu, Yiqi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Numerical solution of differential and integral equations
Numerical analysis

description: Spectral methods for partial differential equations with boundary conditions in complex domains are developed with the help of a fictitious domain approach. For rectangular embedding, spectral-Galerkin formulations with special trial and test functions are presented and discussed, as well as the well-posedness and the error analysis. For circular and annular embedding, dimension reduction is applied and a sequence of 1-D problems with artificial boundary values are solved. Applications of our methods include the fractional Laplace problem and the Helmholtz equations. In numerical examples, our methods show good performance on the boundary value problems in both smooth and polygonal complex domains, and the L2 errors decay exponentially for smooth solutions. For singular problems, high-order convergence rates can also be obtained.
Retrospective Analysis of Bacterial Cultures Sampled in German Chicken-Fattening Farms During the Years 2011–2012 Revealed Additional VIM-1 Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli and a Serologically Rough Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis
Creators: name: Roschanski, Nicole
name: Fischer, Jennie
name: Falgenhauer, Linda
name: Pietsch, Michael
name: Guenther, Sebastian
name: Kreienbrock, Lothar
name: Chakraborty, Trinad
name: Pfeifer, Yvonne
name: Guerra, Beatriz
name: Roesler, Uwe H.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: livestock
subject: antimicrobial resistance
subject: plasmids
subject: carbapenems
subject: VIM-1 producing Enterobacteriaceae
subject: broiler
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics used in human medicine. The increased detection of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is therefore worrying. In 2011 we reported the first livestock-associated VIM-1-producing Salmonella (S.) enterica serovar Infantis (R3) isolate from dust, sampled in a German chicken fattening farm. Due to this observation we retrospectively investigated more than 536 stored bacterial cultures, isolated from 45 chicken fattening farms during the years 2011 and 2012. After a non-selective overnight incubation, the bacteria were transferred to selective media. Escherichia (E.) coli and Salmonella growing on these media were further investigated, including antibiotic susceptibility testing, carbapenemase gene screening and whole genome sequencing (WGS). In total, four CRE were found in three out of 45 investigated farms: Besides R3, one additional Salmonella (G-336-1a) as well as two E. coli isolates (G-336-2, G-268-2). All but G-268-2 harbored the blaVIM-1 gene. Salmonella isolates R3 and G-336-1 were closely related although derived from two different farms. All three blaVIM-1-encoding isolates possessed identical plasmids and the blaVIM-1- containing transposon showed mobility at least in vitro. In isolate G-268-2, the AmpC beta-lactamase gene blaCMY-2 but no known carbapenemase gene was identified. However, a transfer of the phenotypic resistance was possible. Furthermore, G-268-2 contained the mcr-1 gene, combining phenotypical carbapenem- as well as colistin resistance in one isolate. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have been found in three out of 45 investigated chicken flocks. This finding is alarming and emphasizes the importance of intervention strategies to contain the environmental spread of resistant bacteria in animals and humans.
Additional file 10 of Cannulated screws versus dynamic hip screw versus hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty in patients with displaced and non-displaced femoral neck fractures: a systematic review and frequentist network meta-analysis of 5703 patients
Creators: name: Ramadanov, Nikolai
name: Jóźwiak, Katarzyna
name: Hauptmann, Michael
name: Lazaru, Philip
name: Marinova-Kichikova, Polina
name: Dimitrov, Dobromir
name: Becker, Roland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 10: Forest plot of Harris Hip Score 2 years postoperatively (displaced femoral neck fractures only). CS, cannulated screw; DHS, dynamic hip screw; HA, hemiarthroplasty; THA, total hip arthroplasty; SD, standard deviation; MD, mean difference; CI, confidence interval.
The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination
Creators: name: Hammill, Faye
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ocean liners
subject: Books and reading
subject: Transatlantic voyages

description: Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships' libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the active role of shipping lines in the transatlantic print marketplace. The shops, whose staff were themselves writers, promoted new American and British publications, as well as providing spaces for literary networking. Increasing numbers of authors and journalists travelled on the Atlantic during the interwar years, and many found material for their writing in these journeys.  This essay connects the practical and semantic aspects of the liner's role in interwar literary culture. It investigates what reading and writing practices the transatlantic steamship enabled, and what kinds of meanings were invested in it by authors of the period. Interwar texts refer back to 19th-century traditions of nautical fiction, yet there is a distinctively modern literature of the ocean liner because there was a specific set of social, economic and technological conditions which, around the turn of the century, produced a new kind of vessel and new possibilities in overseas travel. The first section of the essay offers a concise explanation of the liner as technological, cultural and design object. The second section explores literary responses to the steamship as an emblem of modernity, of social mobility, and of transatlantic style, focusing on Osbert and Sacheverel Sitwell's collaborative play All at Sea (1927) and  Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925). The third section considers the steamship as a space for literary activity and an agent of print culture, drawing on a range of mostly non-fictional sources. My aim is to analyse the role of the ocean liner in inspiring and enacting transatlantic literary exchange.
Immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability of a β-glucan-CpG-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in Japanese healthy participants aged 60 to 80 years: A phase 2, randomized, double-blind, dose-finding study
Creators: name: Nakayama, Tetsuo
name: Iwanami, Makoto
name: Sakakibara, Sachiko
name: Mukasa, Ryuta
name: Ota, Aisaku
name: Furihata, Kei
name: Honda, Yuko
name: Ishii, Ken J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: VN-0200 is an investigational β-glucan-CpG-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine (antigen: VAGA-9001a [RSV F glycoprotein], adjuvant: MABH-9002b). This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, dose-finding phase 2 study explored the optimal VN-0200 dose and confirmed its humoral and cellular immunity and safety. In total, 342 healthy Japanese participants aged 60 to 80 years were randomized to one of 10 vaccination groups, each receiving a different combination of VAGA-9001a and MABH-9002a. VN-0200 was administered intramuscularly on Day 1 and Day 29. Geometric mean titer (GMT) and geometric mean fold rise (GMFR) of neutralization activity for anti-RSV subgroups A (RSV/A) and B (RSV/B), anti-VAGA-9001a antibody titer, and VAGA-9001a-specific interferon (IFN)-γ response were evaluated. Safety was monitored throughout the study. GMTs of serum anti-RSV/A neutralization activity increased from baseline to Day 57 and lower limits of the 95% confidence intervals of the corresponding GMFRs were >1.0 relative to baseline in all treatment groups (primary endpoint). Findings were similar for anti-RSV/A (Day 29) and anti-RSV/B (Day 29 and Day 57) neutralization activity, anti-VAGA-9001a antibody titer (Day 29 and Day 57), and VAGA-9001a-specific IFN-γ response (Day 29 and Day 57) (secondary endpoints). There was no clear influence of adjuvant or dose – response relationship of the antigen or adjuvant for any of the study endpoints. There were no serious vaccine-related treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) or vaccine-related TEAEs leading to death. All antigen/adjuvant dose combinations of VN-0200 were well tolerated and elicited an increase in anti-RSV/A and anti-RSV/B neutralization activity from baseline to Day 29 and Day 57.
The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims
Creators: name: Rabbi, Shakil
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Folklore
subject: Bengali literature
subject: Islam
subject: Literary form
subject: Popular culture--Study and teaching
subject: South Asia
subject: Conversion
subject: Language and languages

description: This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a "mixed language mode" (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit vocabulary – tatsamas – with Persian and Arabic. Such replacement creates heteroglossic utterances indexing its Islamic character and popularizing purpose. Sanskrit lexicon and the tatsama register are eschewed in the genre, I argue, because of rhetorical and religious reasons even though they represent the sadhu bhasa – the literate register – associated with local literary tradition. The heteroglossic feature of this genre functions to constitute the umma – the Islamic community of believers – and to communicate an Islamic cosmology to the converted Muslim population. The chapter ends with an argument of what can be learned about language as a social and rhetorical resource from this premodern tradition of global translinguistics practiced in Asia.
The Perceptions of Flight Instructors Regarding the Application of Multiple Intelligences Theory in Flight Training
Creators: name: Wulle, Bernard W
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: For several decades, educators have used Howard Gardner’s (1983) Multiple Intelligences Theory in a variety of ways to make teaching and learning more effective. However, within flight instruction, little or no attention has been focused on the concept of Multiple Intelligences and their impacts on student learning and retention. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to determine if Certified Flight Instructors (CFI) who have been provided with information about Multiple Intelligences perceived a positive relationship between their new knowledge about Multiple Intelligences and their instructional effectiveness. The study used participant journals, focus groups, and individual interviews to determine if CFIs perceived Multiple Intelligences Theory to be valuable when applied to flight instruction. The results indicated that the participants believed Multiple Intelligences Theory added value to their flight instruction. Implications for practice and directions for future research are provided.
The Affordances of the Book: A Case Study of the Glastonbury Miscellany (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.9.38) and its Digital Remediation
Creators: name: White, Tom
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Manuscripts
subject: Archives
subject: Transmission of texts
subject: Digital humanities
subject: World politics

description: [Article draft from Summer 2021; very unlikely to be revisiting/revising this, so here it is!]  This essay argues that recent work on affordances provides a potentially valuable theoretical tool for thinking across the history of the medieval manuscript, from the making and remaking of the codex to the intricacies of its digital remediation. It does so via a discussion of the origins and eventful life of the Glastonbury Miscellany (Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.9.38). Originally compiled at Glastonbury Abbey, the manuscript was transported to London after the Reformation, where it became part of a new network of reading and use. In the first part of the discussion, I frame the varied additions to the manuscript in the sixteenth century by way of recent work on affordances by scholars in the field of communication studies. The second half of the discussion turns to the history of the digital Glastonbury Miscellany and to the affordances of the interface through which users now read and study it. Following some of the threads from this part of the discussion, I close by reflecting on how scholarly resources and activities are nested—or perhaps more accurately, entrapped—within large corporations’ attempts to capitalise users’ behavioural data and to enclose and monopolise digital space.
Additional file 9 of Cannulated screws versus dynamic hip screw versus hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty in patients with displaced and non-displaced femoral neck fractures: a systematic review and frequentist network meta-analysis of 5703 patients
Creators: name: Ramadanov, Nikolai
name: Jóźwiak, Katarzyna
name: Hauptmann, Michael
name: Lazaru, Philip
name: Marinova-Kichikova, Polina
name: Dimitrov, Dobromir
name: Becker, Roland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9: Forest plot of Harris Hip Score 12 months postoperatively (displaced femoral neck fractures only). CS, cannulated screw; DHS, dynamic hip screw; HA, hemiarthroplasty; THA, total hip arthroplasty; SD, standard deviation; MD, mean difference; CI, confidence interval.
Considering the impact of vaccine communication in the COVID-19 pandemic among adults in Canada: A qualitative study of lessons learned for future vaccine campaigns
Creators: name: Leigh, Jeanna Parsons
name: Moss, Stephana Julia
name: MacDonald, Jade
name: Cherak, Michal S.
name: Stelfox, Henry T.
name: Dubé, Ève
name: Fiest, Kirsten M.
name: Halperin, Donna M.
name: Ahmed, Sofia B.
name: MacDonald, Shannon E.
name: Straus, Sharon E.
name: Manca, Terra
name: Kamstra, Josh Ng
name: Soo, Andrea
name: Halperin, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: We aimed to understand how experiences with vaccine-related information and communication challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted motivations and behaviors among Canadian adults regarding future vaccines. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants purposively selected to ensure diversity in age, sex at birth, self-identified gender, and region. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis; findings were mapped to the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model focusing on factors affecting vaccine hesitancy and uptake. Of 62 interviews completed, most were with woman (n = 32, 51.6%) and residents of Ontario (n = 36, 58.1%); the median age was 43.5 yr (interquartile range 23.3 yr). Themes included: 1) accessibility of information, 2) ability to assess information accuracy and validity, 3) trust in communications from practitioners and decision-makers, and 4) information seeking behaviors. Participants expressed various concerns about vaccines, including fears about potential side effects, particularly regarding the long-term effects of novel vaccinations. These concerns may reflect broader societal anxieties, which have been intensified by widespread misinformation and an overload of vaccine information. Moreover, participants highlighted a lack of trust in the information provided by government agencies and pharmaceutical companies, primarily driven by concerns regarding their underlying motives. Concerns about COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness negatively impacted future vaccine attitudes and behaviors. Vaccine hesitancy studies should consider how individuals receive, perceive, and seek information within social contexts and risk profiles.
Segmentation and Deconvolution of Fluorescence Microscopy Volumes
Creators: name: Lee, Soonam
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digital processor architectures
Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified
Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified
Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Recent advances in optical microscopy have enabled biologists collect fluorescence microscopy volumes cellular and subcellular structures of living tissue. This results in collecting large datasets of microscopy volume and needs image processing aided automated quantification method. To quantify biological structures a first and fundamental step is segmentation. Yet, the quantitative analysis of the microscopy volume is hampered by light diffraction, distortion created by lens aberrations in different directions, complex variation of biological structures. This thesis describes several proposed segmentation methods to identify various biological structures such as nuclei or tubules observed in fluorescence microscopy volumes. To achieve nuclei segmentation, multiscale edge detection method and 3D active contours with inhomogeneity correction method are used for segmenting nuclei. Our proposed 3D active contours with inhomogeneity correction method utilizes 3D microscopy volume information while addressing intensity inhomogeneity across vertical and horizontal directions. To achieve tubules segmentation, ellipse model fitting to tubule boundary method and convolutional neural networks with inhomogeneity correction method are performed. More specifically, ellipse fitting method utilizes a combination of adaptive and global thresholding, potentials, z direction refinement, branch pruning, end point matching, and boundary fitting steps to delineate tubular objects. Also, the deep learning based method combines intensity inhomogeneity correction, data augmentation, followed by convolutional neural networks architecture. Moreover, this thesis demonstrates a new deconvolution method to improve microscopy image quality without knowing the 3D point spread function using a spatially constrained cycle-consistent adversarial networks. The results of proposed methods are visually and numerically compared with other methods. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed methods achieve better performance than other methods for nuclei/tubules segmentation as well as deconvolution.
A Working History of Digital Zoom, Medieval to Modern
Creators: name: White, Tom
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Manuscripts
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Knowledge workers
subject: User interfaces (Computer systems)

description: [Article draft from 2020: very of its mid-lockdown moment, but unlikely to be revisiting this, so here it is!] This article examines one of the most familiar elements of digital interfaces: the zoom tool. By tracing the conceptual, technical, and material histories of zooming from the late Middle Ages to the present day, it demonstrates how historians of the medieval book might turn their attention to the digital tools on which we increasingly depend not just in our academic work, but in all areas of life. It also considers some of the broader ramifications of looking beneath the screens of our smart devices: the complex and often discontinuous histories of information technologies, the hollowness of powerful corporations’ claims of “innovation” and “disruption,” the various forms of extractivism on which the digital realm depends, and the modern regimes of worker “flexibility” and “knowledge work.”
Additional file 6 of Cannulated screws versus dynamic hip screw versus hemiarthroplasty versus total hip arthroplasty in patients with displaced and non-displaced femoral neck fractures: a systematic review and frequentist network meta-analysis of 5703 patients
Creators: name: Ramadanov, Nikolai
name: Jóźwiak, Katarzyna
name: Hauptmann, Michael
name: Lazaru, Philip
name: Marinova-Kichikova, Polina
name: Dimitrov, Dobromir
name: Becker, Roland
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6: Forest plot of EQ 5D 12 months postoperatively (displaced femoral neck fractures only). CS, cannulated screw; HA, hemiarthroplasty; THA, total hip arthroplasty; SD, standard deviation; MD, mean difference; CI, confidence interval.
Electron Correlation and Field Pulse Ionization in Atoms
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Atomic and molecular physics

description: Quantum mechanics and atomic, molecular, optical (AMO) physics have been widely studied in the past century. This dissertation covers several topics in the field of AMO physics that were the focus of my Ph.D. studies, both theoretical and computational.
The first topic is related to trapping of Rydberg atoms inside an optical trap. The study focuses on the trapping energy and state mixing of Rydberg atoms based on different angular momentum state and spin-orbit coupling of the Rydberg electron.
The second topic is the two-electron correlations in an atom, especially double Rydberg wave packets. We have focused on the rapid autoionization and angular momentum exchanges between the double Rydberg wave packets. Then, the study of two-electron correlation is extended to the post-collision interaction (PCI) in Auger decay and a sequential ionization model. Quantum interference patterns can be found in the final correlated distributions. In the PCI study, quantum calculations and semiclassical calculations are performed to interpret the interference patterns.
The last topic is the ionization behavior of one-electron Rydberg atoms from a terahertz single-cycle pulse. We investigate and compare the different ionization probabilities of a Rydberg electron from an initial stationary state and a wave packet. Also, studies of the ionization behavior are extended to scaled parameters, where all physical parameters of the electron and field pulses are scaled.
VIDEO-BASED STANDOFF HEALTH MEASUREMENTS
Creators: name: Choe, Jeehyun
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Image processing

description: We addressed two interesting video-based health measurements. First is video-based Heart Rate (HR) estimation, known as video-based Photoplethysmography (PPG) or videoplethysmography (VHR). We adapted an existing video-based HR estimation method to produce more robust and accurate results. Specifically, we removed periodic signals from the recording environment by identifying (and removing) frequency clusters that are present the face region and background. This adaptive passband filter generated more accurate HR estimates and allowed other applied filters to work more effectively. Measuring HR at the presence of motions is one of the most challenging problems in recent VHR studies. We investigated and described the motion effects in VHR in terms of the angle change of the subject’s skin surface in relation to the light source. Based on this understanding, we discussed the future work on how we can compensate for the motion artifacts. Another important health information addressed in this thesis is Videosomnography (VSG), a range of video-based methods used to record and assess sleep vs. wake states in humans. Traditional behavioral-VSG (B-VSG) labeling requires visual inspection of the video by a trained technician to determine whether a subject is asleep or awake. We proposed an automated VSG sleep detection system (auto-VSG) which employs motion analysis to determine sleep vs. wake states in young children. The analyses revealed that estimates generated from the proposed Long Short-term Memory (LSTM)-based method with long-term temporal dependency are suitable for automated sleep or awake labeling.
title: Narcissi (including Daffodils) :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: Narcissi
Group identity.
New Varieties of Plants

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.