cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The complex and fugitive kind
Creators: name: Campbell, Brian Scott
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The Complex and Fugitive Kind is an exhibition of drawings comprised in two parts. The principal piece is a large-scale panoramic drawing entitled, The Complex. [Fig. 1,2]  This piece measures twenty feet in width and six feet in height.  The second component is a series of seven small drawings installed on the opposing two walls of the gallery space. The smaller drawings are titled Fugitive Kind. [Fig. 3, 4]  The Complex is a palatial, sprawling, yet isolated utopian city depicting a montage of architectural forms, exotic wilderness and the quiet stillness of an imagined civilization. The drawings emerge as a fever dream of cult film references, a myriad of pan-cultural, literary, historical and art historical references. With this work, I aim to present sympathy for the fundamentally human urges for the paradisal, for independence, shelter, innovation, and an existence within a free zone, yet at the same time, providing a critical model for the potentially sinister and disruptive urges for ownership, domain, occupation and totalizing control.  The artwork is not utopian, and does not propose to offer any form of utopian solution; yet, the work does take utopia as it's subject.  More specifically, I am speaking of the aesthetics of utopia: the spaces and forms, as well as the systems of propagation for these   aesthetics in contemporary life, ranging from film maquettes to corporate spaces. The work aims to contradict itself by taking on both the utopian imagination and critical utopias, as experienced through architecture and the landscape in art and culture.  It is through the mediation of contemporary art and culture that we experience the collective consciousness of our utopian longing.  The work reflects on the struggles to create a fair, pleasurable and self-sustaining society in the collective imagination, and political will, as well as the false appearances of these types of utopias through the economy of visual aesthetics. My drawings are a heterogeneous montage, which suggest that there is no singular vision for utopia (i.e. communism, hippie communes, corporate utopias, etc.) that dominates.  My aim is to intertwine the social and the aesthetic, offering both an escape from and a critique of our current conditions.
Vision is a creation
Creators: name: Marchand, Matthew R
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Painted abstraction should, within it's fundamental structure, respond both to the current speed of information as dictated and directed by digital technology as well as to the change this technology has wrought on the experiential. I feel that painting has a role in addressing issues of information and vision, that many of these ideas and issues are a matter of naming them and then investigating solutions. Our culture is unarguably a visual one presenting its ideas in images, colors, forms, and text individually, as a shorthand or substitute for more verbal communications. Every additional breakdown slightly changes the information that constitutes any knowledge. Painting, instead, presents vision as a readymade collection of ideas that are handled uncritically based on their effective employment in relation to the past; if the ideas worked then they will work now and at least the works will be recognizable as art through the redeployment of these familiar prepackaged ideas. Paintings lack of response to the changes in visual culture and the speed of information, the apparent lack of understanding about new knowledge related to vision leads to a delimitation of painting practice that assumes the past and, presumably is part of what gives rise to the alienation embedded in painting discourse. The Modernist insistence on the separation of representation and abstraction robbed painting of essential vitality."  Language that attempts to reinforce established ideas about painting, by reifying the familiar or recognizable in the ostensibly new closes the painting world down around what we know, devaluing the potential of the not known. A real dialogue about painting and abstraction would allow for ideas that may not already be part of the discourse, and allow for ideas that strive to break from established discussion as a means of expanding the practice.
HA N193D substitution in the HPAI H5N1 virus alters receptor binding affinity and enhances virulence in mammalian hosts
Creators: name: Jang, Seung-Gyu
name: Kim, Young-Il
name: Casel, Mark Anthony B
name: Choi, Jeong Ho
name: Gil, Ju Ryeon
name: Rollon, Rare
name: Kim, Eun-Ha
name: Kim, Se-Mi
name: Ji, Ho Young
name: Bin Park, Dong
name: Hwang, Jungwon
name: Ahn, Jae-Woo
name: Kim, Myung Hee
name: Song, Min-Suk
name: Choi, Young Ki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: During the 2021/2022 winter season, we isolated highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses harboring an amino acid substitution from Asparagine(N) to Aspartic acid (D) at residue 193 of the hemagglutinin (HA) receptor binding domain (RBD) from migratory birds in South Korea. Herein, we investigated the characteristics of the N193D HA-RBD substitution in the A/CommonTeal/Korea/W811/2021[CT/W811] virus by using recombinant viruses engineered via reverse genetics (RG). A receptor affinity assay revealed that the N193D HA-RBD substitution in CT/W811 increases α2,6 sialic acid receptor binding affinity. The rCT/W811-HA193N virus caused rapid lethality with high virus titers in chickens compared with the rCT/W811-HA193D virus, while the rCT/W811-HA193D virus exhibited enhanced virulence in mammalian hosts with multiple tissue tropism. Surprisingly, a ferret-to-ferret transmission assay revealed that rCT/W811-HA193D virus replicates well in the respiratory tract, at a rate about 10 times higher than that of rCT/W811-HA193N, and all rCT/W811-HA193D direct contact ferrets were seroconverted at 10 days post-contact. Further, competition transmission assay of the two viruses revealed that rCT/W811-HA193D has enhanced growth kinetics compared with the rCT/W811-HA193N, eventually becoming the dominant strain in nasal turbinates. Further, rCT/W811-HA193D exhibits high infectivity in primary human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells, suggesting the potential for human infection. Taken together, the HA-193D containing HPAI H5N1 virus from migratory birds showed enhanced virulence in mammalian hosts, but not in avian hosts, with multi-organ replication and ferret-to-ferret transmission. Thus, this suggests that HA-193D change increases the probability of HPAI H5N1 infection and transmission in humans.
Arothron stellatus Anonymous 1798
Creators: name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Alpermann, Tilman J.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
name: Gabr, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Tetraodontidae
Arothron
Arothron stellatus

description: Arothron stellatus (Anonymous, 1798)
Material examined. SMF 35109 (1: 11.0 cm).
description: Published as part of Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, pp. 401-437 in Zootaxa 3852 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225360
Mycoplasma pneumoniae at the rise not only in China: Rapid increase of Mycoplasma pneumoniae cases also in Spain.
Creators: name: Urbieta, Ana Dacosta
name: Castiñeiras, Gema Barbeito
name: Calle, Irene Rivero
name: Seco, Jacobo Pardo
name: Tenreiro, Carmen Rodríguez
name: Camacho, Ricardo Suárez
name: del Molino Bernal, María Luisa Pérez
name: Torres, Federico Martinón
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Mycoplasma pneumoniae at the rise not only in China: Rapid increase of Mycoplasma pneumoniae cases also in Spain.
MOESM3 of Using a genetic/clinical risk score to stop smoking (GeTSS): randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Nichols, John
name: Grob, Paul
name: Kite, Wendy
name: Williams, Peter
name: Lusignan, Simon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Appendix S3. Correction of confounding factors.
Targeting Ser78 phosphorylation of Hsp27 achieves potent antiviral effects against enterovirus A71 infection
Creators: name: Wu, Mandi
name: Wan, Qianya
name: Dan, Xuelian
name: Wang, Yiran
name: Chen, Peiran
name: Chen, Cien
name: Li, Yichen
name: Yao, Xi
name: He, Ming-Liang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: A positive-sense (+) single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) virus (e.g. enterovirus A71, EV-A71) depends on viral polypeptide translation for initiation of virus replication after entry. We reported that EV-A71 hijacks Hsp27 to induce hnRNP A1 cytosol redistribution to initiate viral protein translation, but the underlying mechanism is still elusive. Here, we show that phosphorylation-deficient Hsp27-3A (Hsp27S15/78/82A) and Hsp27S78A fail to translocate into the nucleus and induce hnRNP A1 cytosol redistribution, while Hsp27S15A and Hsp27S82A display similar effects to the wild type Hsp27. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the viral 2A protease (2Apro) activity is a key factor in regulating Hsp27/hnRNP A1 relocalization. Hsp27S78A dramatically decreases the IRES activity and viral replication, which are partially reduced by Hsp27S82A. However, Hsp27S15A displays the same activity as the wild-type Hsp27. Peptide S78 potently suppresses EV-A71 protein translation and reproduction through blockage of EV-A71-induced Hsp27 phosphorylation and Hsp27/hnRNP A1 relocalization. A point mutation (S78A) on S78 impairs its inhibitory functions on Hsp27/hnRNP A1 relocalization and viral replication. Taken together, we demonstrate the importance of Ser78 phosphorylation of Hsp27 regulated by virus infection in nuclear translocation, hnRNP A1 cytosol relocation, and viral replication, suggesting a new path (such as peptide S78) for target-based antiviral strategy.
Biomimetic enzyme inhibitors
Creators: name: Abdo, Mohannad
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Synthetic biomimetic compounds play crucial roles in virtually all aspects of biology and medicine. Their continual development contributes towards understanding and manipulating the normal action of enzymes and other proteins as well as in the development of new drugs. Herein, the novel synthesis of biomimetic enzyme inhibitors, including GlcNAc-thiazolines, GlcNAc-thiolsulfonates, and seleninates, selenonates, and various other organoselenium compounds, is reported. Evaluation of these biomimetics against N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidases, protein tyrosine phosphatases, and some nucleoside processing enzymes is described. Evidence toward elucidation of several reaction mechanisms linked to the synthesis and inhibition of these compounds is also presented.
Implicit and explicit predictors of smoking cessation behavior
Creators: name: Al-Otaiba, Zayed
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The current study drew on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to model self-change behavior in a sample of self-defined smokers over a 6 month follow-up period. The study tested the validity of the TPB model and the validity of the Expanded Model which proposed the addition of Impulsivity and Implicit Smoking Self-Identity as predictors of smoking outcome. The sample was recruited via an online advertisement and consisted of current smokers over18 years of age reporting no terminal illness. The baseline sample consisted of 81female and 49 male participants and the follow-up sample consisted of 28 female and 14 male participants. The study was administered online. Data consisted of demographic variables, dependence severity, and perceived stress.  The TPB model variables were Smoking Attitude, as measured by Semantic Differential scales, Social Norm and Intent to Quit, measured using item ratings, and Self-Efficacy. Smoking outcome was measured as time to first quit attempt, number of quit attempts in the last 6 months, and longest period of abstinence in the last 6 months (dichotomized into high and low abstinence groups because of severe skew). A linear regression was run to test the first step of the TPB, predicting Intent to Quit from Personal Attitude, Social Norm, and Self-Efficacy. The current study found support for the first step of the TPB model- Personal Attitude and Social Norm predicted Intent to Quit. A series of regressions were performed to test the second step of the model, predicting Smoking Outcome from Intent to Quit, Self-Efficacy, Impulsivity, and Smoking Self-Concept.  Partial support was found for the second step of the model, with Intent to Quit and Impulsivity predicting smoking outcome. Smoking Self-Concept was found to be predictive at a trend. Self-efficacy was not found to be predictive of either Intent to Quit or smoking outcome.  An attrition analysis was performed to investigate predictors of study participation at follow-up. Support for the construct validity of the Smoking Self-Identity IAT was found; it was uncorrelated with Explicit Attitude and Social Desirability Bias and negatively correlated with smoking outcome. Limitations of the sample and implications for future research are discussed.
Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro 1915
Creators: name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Alpermann, Tilman J.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
name: Gabr, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Tetraodontidae
Lagocephalus
Lagocephalus guentheri

description: Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915
Material examined. SMF 35110 (1: 8.5 cm); SMF 35111 (1: 8.4 cm); KAUMM 153 (1: 6.2 cm); KAUMM 154 (1: 9.7 cm).
description: Published as part of Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, pp. 401-437 in Zootaxa 3852 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225360
Effect of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on the plastic and elastic deformation of gold (111) films
Creators: name: Aponte, Milca I.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Surface chemistry is known to affect the elastic deformation of nanocontacts, but its role in plastic deformation is less clear. Alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) were used to modify the surface energy and surface stress of Au(111) films. The chemical effect of this nanometer scale film on elastic and plastic deformation was investigated using nanoindentation combined with atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging of indents. A range of maximum indentation displacements and SAM chain lengths were used. Comparisons were made between the mechanical response of the gold substrate alone and the gold modified with the different SAMs.  The nanoindentation load-displacement curves and the mechanical properties were found to be dependent on the presence of the SAM. A decrease in the reduced elastic modulus was observed when indenting the SAM systems. The work of indentation and the hardness showed a similar effect with the SAM layer lowering hardness in both cases. Remarkably, the SAM was found to affect hardness, and hence plasticity, at indentation depths over 100 times the SAM thickness. Comparisons were made between the projected contact areas approximated using the Oliver and Pharr method with the actual areas directly measured by AFM analysis. This accounts for underestimation of the contact area due to pileup of gold around the indent. AFM characterization of the residual nanoindentation impressions showed substantial differences between the indent shape and pileup when comparing the gold to the gold plus SAM surfaces. The differences are more pronounced for the longer chain length SAM and as the indents become deeper.  The SAM reduces the adhesion force between the indenter tip and surface which may affect the observed mechanical properties for shallow indents. For the deeper indentations the exothermic reaction of the alkanethiol molecules chemisorbed on the gold surface reduces the surface free energy of the gold substrate which favors the creation of new surface (pileup). In addition, surface stress which is compressive when a SAM is present, but tensile otherwise, appears to modify the behavior of dislocations and strain hardening in the Au films. This is the most likely cause of the dramatic change in hardness and pileup.
The total synthesis of mycothiol and new inhibitors of carbohydrate processing enzymes
Creators: name: Ajayi, Kehinde
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The work described in this dissertation covers a wide range of disciplines within organic chemistry, with the common goal of obtaining more information about various carbohydrate-processing enzymes. Carbohydrate-processing enzymes are garnering an increasing amount of attention relative to their more well-studied protein-processing counterparts, as they are ubiquitous and implicated in various regulatory, signaling and metabolic processes in eukaryotic cells.   Chapter 1 involves the synthesis of anomeric phosphothioates as possible O-GlcNAc transferase inhibitors, and a mechanistic study on the anomeric Pudovik rearrangement of thiophosphites to thiophosphonates is described. Chapter 2 is an account of the development of a facile method for functionalizing 2-methyl thiazoline rings, and several selective GlcNAc-thiazoline-based O-GlcNAcase inhibitors were synthesized by this method. Chapter 3 details the 16-step total synthesis of the M. tuberculosis antioxidant carbohydrate mycothiol by a new intramolecular glycosylation method. The method is amenable to glycosylations of 2-deoxy-2-aminoglyosides, a unique aspect among such reactions. The efficiency of the synthetic route to mycothiol makes it attractive as a template from which to design analogs as potential inhibitors of enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of mycothiol. An apparently unprecedented 1,9-hydride shift is also described in the third chapter. Chapter 4 describes a tripartate prolonged-release drug delivery system, in which the drug of interest (ethynyl estradiol in this study) is coupled, through a variable linker, to another carrier drug with a long half-life and a relatively high inhibitory concentration. The effect of steric bulk on the in vitro release of ethynyl estradiol was evaluated, showing a direct relationship between steric bulk around the ester linkage and ethynyl estradiol release time.  In vivo data from pigs also seemed to point to an increase in drug bioavailability with the 3-part system. Finally, chapter 5 describes early efforts to synthesize boronic acid analogs of folic acid and antifolates.
Epimeria (Metepimeria) intermedia Schellenberg 1931
Creators: name: d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem
name: Verheye, Marie L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Epimeriidae
Epimeria
Epimeria intermedia

description: Epimeria (Metepimeria) intermedia Schellenberg, 1931 forma A
Epimeria intermedia Schellenberg, 1931: 161, fig. 84, pl. 1 fig. F.
Epimeria intermedia – Gurjanova 1955: 197. — J.L. Barnard 1961: 103 (key). — De Broyer & Klages 1991: 165 (key). — Wakabara & Serejo 1999: 642 (key, in part). — Coleman 2007: 42 (in part), fig. 20a–b, map 10 (circle, in part).
non Epimeria intermedia – K.H. Barnard, 1932: 177, figs 104c, 109 (= Epimeria (Metepimeria) intermedia Schellenberg, 1931 forma B).
Body length
18 mm (Schellenberg 1931).
Distribution
South Georgia: Cumberland Bay, 75 m (Schellenberg 1931).
Remarks
See notes on Epimeria (Metepimeria) intermedia forma B.
description: Published as part of d'Acoz, Cédric d'Udekem & Verheye, Marie L., 2017, Epimeria of the Southern Ocean with notes on their relatives (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Eusiroidea), pp. 1-553 in European Journal of Taxonomy 359 on page 118, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.359, http://zenodo.org/record/3855694
Additional file 3: of Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a school-based physical activity policy in Canada: application of the theoretical domains framework
Creators: name: Weatherson, Katie
name: Rhyann McKay
name: Gainforth, Heather
name: Jung, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Interview guide. Interview guide organized by TDF domain (DOCX 120 kb)
Effect of pozzolanic material on the restrained shrinkage behavior of self-consolidating concrete
Creators: name: Ates, Ufuk
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) has been the subject of various research projects, and its use has been a source of increasing interest in industry. The very early phase of SCC research mainly focused on mechanical and fresh concrete properties. The area of SCC research was then enlarged with the inclusion of shrinkage behavior. This was necessary because SCC as a concrete type was always presumed to exhibit higher levels of free and restrained shrinkage due to its higher cementitious material content. Given that concrete in general has very low tensile strength capacity, especially the deformations caused by restrained shrinkage behavior are among the primary concerns related to SCC. Restrained shrinkage behavior of SCC is investigated in this study, with the emphasis on cracking ages and patterns. The AASHTO-T334 test setup is used to evaluate the cracking potential of the SCC mixes. In addition to the steel ring data collection method of AASHTO-T334, Vibrating Wire Sensor Gages (VWSG) were also implemented to collect concrete strain measurements. Many other laboratory tests such as the compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and free shrinkage were performed in companion with the restrained shrinkage test. The resistance to restrained shrinkage cracking of the SCC was found to be weak since all the SCC mixes cracked under restrained shrinkage before day 56 after casting. Moreover, except for one SCC mix, the cracking was observed only between day 19 and 31 after casting. Amount of total cementitious material was found to have the greatest effect on the restrained and free shrinkage performance of the SCC mixes.  Partial replacement of Portland cement with high percentages of fly ash was found to have the potential to increase the elapsed time until cracking. If silica fume was used as a replacement, the cracking performance was slightly worse whereas the free shrinkage strain increased 10 % at day 56 after casting.
MOESM4 of Using a genetic/clinical risk score to stop smoking (GeTSS): randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Nichols, John
name: Grob, Paul
name: Kite, Wendy
name: Williams, Peter
name: Lusignan, Simon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Appendix S4. Full data set for trial.
Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar 1953
Creators: name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Alpermann, Tilman J.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
name: Gabr, Mohamed H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Tetraodontidae
Lagocephalus
Lagocephalus suezensis

description: Lagocephalus suezensis Clark & Gohar, 1953
Material examined. SMF 35112 (1: 8.5 cm); SMF 35113 (1: 7.8 cm); KAUMM 155 (1: 8.4 cm).
Remarks. Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) is a similar species characterized by the presence of small Black blotchs dorsally and more rays in dorsal (11–13), anal (9–12), and pectoral fins (16–18) (Randall 1995). Trawled specimens have dorsal-fin rays 10 or 11 (10: 2, 11: 1), anal-fin rays 8 or 9 (8: 1; 9: 2), and pectoral-fin rays 16, and brown blotches and spots dorsally.
description: Published as part of Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Alpermann, Tilman J., Mal, Ahmad O. & Gabr, Mohamed H., 2014, Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea, pp. 401-437 in Zootaxa 3852 (4) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225360
Individual responsibility for collectively committed harms
Creators: name: Bazargan, Saba
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: I develop an account that addresses the moral permissibility of and responsibility for participating in cooperative ventures in which each member contributes marginally to a substantial, aggregate harm. I argue that a basis for assessing the morally permissibility of and responsibility for participation in such collectives should not be limited to the intentions and the causal contributions of the participant, but should also include the purpose – what I call the ‘functional role’ of the individual in the collective venture. This account has the benefit of grounding a reductionist metaphysical analysis of cooperative collective action. After developing such an account, I apply it to a particular type of cooperative, collective activity, viz., warfare. The account of contributory moral responsibility I develop provides a basis by which to ascertain moral responsibility for marginal contributions by combatants participating in an unjust war.
Development of a dual channel detection system for pan-genotypic simultaneous quantification of hepatitis B and delta viruses
Creators: name: Liu, Yongzhen
name: Maya, Stephanie
name: Carver, Sebastian
name: O’Connell, Aoife K.
name: Tseng, Anna E.
name: Gertje, Hans P.
name: Seneca, Kathleen
name: Nahass, Ronald G.
name: Crossland, Nicholas A.
name: Ploss, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health problem and, in associated co-infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV), causes the most severe viral hepatitis and accelerated liver disease progression. As a defective satellite RNA virus, HDV can only propagate in the presence of HBV infection, which makes HBV DNA and HDV RNA the standard biomarkers for monitoring the virological response upon antiviral therapy, in co-infected patients. Although assays have been described to quantify these viral nucleic acids in circulation independently, a method for monitoring both viruses simultaneously is not available, thus hampering characterization of their complex dynamic interactions. Here, we describe the development of a dual fluorescence channel detection system for pan-genotypic, simultaneous quantification of HBV DNA and HDV RNA through a one-step quantitative PCR. The sensitivity for both HBV and HDV is about 10 copies per microliter without significant interference between these two detection targets. This assay provides reliable detection for HBV and HDV basic research in vitro and in human liver chimeric mice. Preclinical validation of this system on serum samples from patients on or off antiviral therapy also illustrates a promising application that is rapid and cost-effective in monitoring HBV and HDV viral loads simultaneously.
Inorganic polymer fiber composites for protection of structures
Creators: name: Brownstein, Jeremy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The primary focus of this thesis is to demonstrate the suitability of an inorganic polymer composite for transportation structures. The three major themes are: field application, graffiti resistance, and evaluation of self-cleaning and de-pollution properties. Previous Studies have demonstrated the potential of the composite made of alumino-silicate polymer and carbon fibers for field applications. This thesis presents results of three field applications, evaluation of graffiti resistance including removal techniques and documentation for self-cleaning and de-pollution properties. For field application, pigment combinations were developed to match the colors of existing structures or to blend with the surrounding areas. Two field applications were done primarily by the author and the third one was completed with the help of daily laborers supplied by a contractor. In all three cases the applications were completed without encountering any technical problems.  In the area of graffiti resistance, commercially available products are reviewed. After evaluation of various removal techniques the author recommends the use of citric-based cleaner with high pressure washer or high pressure water with baking soda. For self cleaning, both laboratory and filed tests were conducted. The results show that the coating effectively cleans organic pollutants and the results compare well with those reported for anatase Titanium Dioxide containing concrete and mortar. Performance in the field can be simulated in the laboratory by using UV lamps. The results of the de-pollution study also shows that the results are comparable to the results reported in the European PICADA study where they used concrete or concrete mortar containing Titanium Dioxide. Based on the results obtained it can be concluded that the composite is ready for large scale field applications.
The making of Gertrude Stein
Creators: name: Brazier, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation proposes three interwoven arguments concerning Gertrude Stein’s undergraduate education at Radcliffe College in the late 19th century. First, that Stein’s Sophomore writing course in 1894-1895 – English 22, Daily Themes – played a larger rolein the course of her writing life than has been understood in the fields of Modernism andAmerican literature. Second, that the first women of Radcliffe College, and before Radcliffe’s founding, of the Harvard Annex, were more integral to late 19th century growth in English and Composition at Harvard College than has been understood in the fields ofRhetoric and Composition. Finally, that we cannot understand the expansion of Harvard College to Harvard University, the implementation of the elective system, or the founding of Radcliffe without integrating the various roles of Special Students – of which Gertrude Stein was one – in the broadening mission of the Cambridge institution. Following these threads, and focusing on Stein as an emblematic – thoughidiosyncratic – student, I provide a history of Harvard-Radcliffe during the 1870s-1890s, a period of unprecedented change, the decades before and during Stein’s attendance from 1893-1898. I examine the role of female students in the origins of English Composition, a history which has previously focused heavily on male education as it emanated from Harvard and reverberated throughout higher education into the 20th century. I focus on Stein as a student of the pedagogy of Daily Themes practiced by Barrett Wendell. In providing these institutional, historical, and pedagogical contexts, I aim to connect Stein,the student writer, to the adult innovator, to form a trajectory from her English 22 course into her adult writing life. My goal is for us to understand “The Making of Gertrude Stein” as a consequence, in part, of her reading and writing at Radcliffe. This is an educationalhistory of one of America’s great modernist writers embedded in the institutional history of her alma mater.In order to help further research on Gertrude Stein’s undergraduate writing, my dissertation includes in its appendices the digitized images of Stein’s Daily Themes for English 22 at Radcliffe and my annotated transcription of the Themes including professorial comments.
Platyrhina sinensis Bloch & Schneider 1801
Creators: name: Ye, Enqi
name: Xing, Yingchun
name: Zhang, Chunguang
name: Zhao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Rajiformes
Rhinobatidae
Platyrhina
Platyrhina sinensis

description: Platyrhina sinensis (Bloch & Schneider), 1801 (Fig. 1)
Neotype. 47094 (S65-105), Shati fishing port, Shangchuan Island, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, Mar. 10, 1965.
description: Published as part of Ye, Enqi, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Chunguang & Zhao, Yahui, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, pp. 10-113 in Zootaxa 3962 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/233837
Intentions of healthcare seeking and self-isolation for MPOX among men who have sex with men in China: a national cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Chen, Fangfang
name: Li, Peilong
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Chen, Huaijin
name: Zhang, Jinrui
name: Qin, Qianqian
name: Jin, Yichen
name: Ge, Lin
name: Yang, Jie
name: Li, Dongmin
name: Lv, Fan
name: Tang, Houlin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Linking identified MPOX cases to care is essential for MPOX control. This study aims to investigate the intentions of healthcare seeking and self-isolation for MPOX among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in early August 2023 in China. Respondents were recruited by community-based organizations (CBOs), collecting information on demographics, health status, behavioural and psychological characteristics. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the predictors of intentions to seek healthcare and self-isolate for MPOX within the MSM population. A total of 7725 participants were recruited, with a median age of 30 years. 92.21% of the participants would seek healthcare for MPOX-like symptoms, but only 52.50% intended to self-isolate if diagnosed. Intentions to seek healthcare were lower among those with MPOX-like symptoms in the past 3 months (standardized prevalence ratio (SPRs) = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.74–0.89) and the willingness to self-isolate was reduced among those diagnosed with MPOX in the past 3 months (SPRs = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.48–0.87). Participants free of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and those aware of their HIV status were more likely to seek healthcare and self-isolate than those with STIs or unaware of their HIV status. Regular followers of MPOX information and those perceiving a low risk of infection were more inclined to take preventive measures. These findings highlight the need for targeted MPOX prevention strategies for high-risk groups and the importance of addressing barriers in infectious disease prevention response.
MOESM4 of Using a genetic/clinical risk score to stop smoking (GeTSS): randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Nichols, John
name: Grob, Paul
name: Kite, Wendy
name: Williams, Peter
name: Lusignan, Simon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4: Appendix S4. Full data set for trial.
Long-term memory for preconditioned associations at 6 and 9 months of age
Creators: name: Bullman, Amy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Recently, researchers found that immature human infants can form an association between two stimuli that were simultaneously preexposed in the initial phase of a sensory preconditioning (SPC) paradigm.  How long such an association can remain latent before being successfully retrieved and used is still unknown.  Because infants’ new associations can be directly or indirectly linked with existing associations (Cuevas, Rovee-Collier, and Learmonth, 2006; Townsend, 2007) as well as with subsequent stimuli or events (Barr, Vieira, amd Rovee-Collier, 2001, 2002), how long a new association can remain latent but accessible defines the period in which it can be incorporated into the infant's expanding network of associations. In the present experiments with 6- and 9-month-old infants, the duration for which the memory of a simultaneous association between two preexposed hand puppets can remain latent before being forgotten was examined. The results indicated that, at both ages, the association can remain latent for as long as 2 to 3 weeks, but the length of this interval is determined by the preexposure regimen—in particular, by the number of sessions.
Responses of young-of-the-year bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, exposed to contaminants from an urban estuary
Creators: name: Candelmo, Allison C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Certain populations of young-of-the-year (YOY) bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, reside in contaminated estuaries of the mid-Atlantic bight during periods of rapid growth and development.  YOY bluefish from the Tuckerton, NJ area of Great Bay (TK) were fed daily in a laboratory with common prey fish, menhaden and mummichog, from two sites: TK (reference) or Hackensack River (HR) (contaminated).  Bluefish were also collected from the HR and TK site for analysis. HR-fed and field-caught bluefish and HR prey fish and stomach contents contained significantly elevated concentrations of PCBs, DDTs, and mercury. HR bluefish had reduced growth, feeding, and activity. tPCB and tDDT concentrations in prey in the stomachs of HR bluefish were higher than those in the field-caught specimens. Prey with higher body burdens may become slower and easier to capture. If bluefish are preferentially foraging on such prey, greater amounts of contaminants can be trophically transferred. PCB congeners accumulated at different concentrations creating PCB fingerprints which correlated with feeding ecology of the fish. PCB fingerprints in the HR-fed bluefish were nearly identical to each other and closest to that of the mummichog, their sole prey during the last month of the feeding experiment. PCB fingerprints of field-caught bluefish were similar to menhaden, the dominant prey in HR field bluefish stomachs. In contaminated marine systems PCB fingerprints can be utilized to establish trophic levels and possibly prey preference in individual fish. In addition to altered behavior and growth, the HR-fed and field bluefish had significantly enlarged, irregular thyroid follicles, lined with thickened epithelial cells compared to the TK fish. The mean concentration of dopamine metabolites and the dopaminergic activity levels were significantly lower in HR field fish than in TK field.  In contrast the mean concentrations of dopamine and serotonin and their metabolites and norepinephrine were significantly greater in the HR-fed bluefish compared the TK-fed. Overall the exposed fish displayed neurological and hormonal disruptions that may be responsible for their altered behavior and growth. In conclusion, the altered growth, feeding, activity and physiology of YOY bluefish exposed to these contaminated regimes may have detrimental effects on migration fitness and recruitment success.
Gabriela Mistral
Creators: name: Cabello Hutt, Claudia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Chilean writer and educator Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is widely known across Latin America for being a poet laureate  who wrote children’s rhymes and poems to lost lovers. The present doctoral dissertation, will permit a broad readership to think about Gabriela Mistral as a major intellectual, who not only reflected on Latin America and its relations with the world but who had an active role in political and transnational debates of the first half of the twentieth century. By tracing Mistral’s trajectory from being a woman born in a poor and rural area to achieving unique creative and professional goals, I have questioned the notion that her poetry is the decisive factor of her becoming an influential public figure in order to assert  the central role of her essays in the press, her visual representations and her public performance in her construction as a Latin American woman intellectual.   My theoretical approach draws on gender and visual theory as well as on theory and history of the intellectual. Working from ideas on the modern intellectual in Latin America, its relationship with the state, the cultural industries and  discourses on modernity, nationalism and Latinoamericanism, I critically address gender performance and representation in the public sphere, paying particular attention to the intersections between the lettered, the popular and the mass media. This project is ultimately about how Gabriela Mistral became a modern and transnational intellectual by activating a set of identifiable and previously unrecognized strategies and negotiations with regard to the cultural and political establishment. Those negotiations led, in turn, to the contradictory facets of her public image, enabling a very wide range of political, intellectual and social sectors to read and re-write her work and figure.
Additional file 4: of Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a school-based physical activity policy in Canada: application of the theoretical domains framework
Creators: name: Weatherson, Katie
name: Rhyann McKay
name: Gainforth, Heather
name: Jung, Mary
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: TDF coding manual. TDF domain definitions and coding notes used to code barriers and facilitators (DOCX 100 kb)
A statistical forecast model of weather-related damage to a major electric utility
Creators: name: Cerruti, Brian John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: A model has been developed to relate meteorological conditions to damages incurred by the outdoor electrical equipment (plant) of Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G), the largest public utility in New Jersey. Utilizing a perfect prognosis approach, the model consists of equations derived from a backwards eliminated  multiple linear regression analysis of observed damage (the predictand) and corresponding surface observations from a variety of sources including local storm reports (the predictors). The analysis gives a different equation for each combination of plant damage element (e.g., poles down, transformers blown), the four PSE&G service territories, and objectively defined storm modes (e.g., Thunderstorm, Heat Wave, None). The predictors used most often were found to be products of maximum wind gust with maximum temperature, daily liquid water equivalent precipitation, and ten day accumulated liquid equivalent precipitation, and were often found to be significant (p-value less than 0.05). The number of severe weather reports provided significant predictors for the Thunderstorm storm mode. The resulting regression equations produced coefficients of determination ranging from 0.032 to 0.697 with the lowest values for the None and Cold storm modes, and the highest values for the Thunderstorm and Mix storm modes. The appropriate model equations were applied to an independent verification dataset and the verification standard deviations were compared to the model derived standard errors which revealed heteroscedasticity (predictand error variance is proportional to the predictand itself) in the model. Both error measurements are calculated assuming independence, and they represent a lower-bound on the error estimation because the training dataset was not transformed into a normal distribution and the use of count data for damaged elements yields a non-independent dataset. Two case studies analyzed to critique model performance yielded insight into model shortcomings where lightning information and wind duration were found to be important missing predictors.  The case studies were also used to develop guidelines for applying the model in an operational setting. The development of a damage model for other utility companies in other contexts is discussed.
Additional file 1: of Computer-controlled closed-loop drug infusion system for automated hemodynamic resuscitation in endotoxin-induced shock
Creators: name: Uemura, Kazunori
name: Kawada, Toru
name: Zheng, Can
name: Meihua Li
name: Sugimachi, Masaru
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Calculation of hemodynamic variables and parameters. (DOCX 29Â kb)