cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Indicators for Healthy Ageing - A Debate
Creators: name: Fuchs, Judith
name: Scheidt-Nave, Christa
name: Hinrichs, Timo
name: Mergenthaler, Andreas
name: Stein, Janine
name: Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
name: Grill, Eva
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Germany
subject: health
subject: old age
subject: methodology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Definitions of healthy ageing include survival to a specific age, being free of chronic diseases, autonomy in activities of daily living, wellbeing, good quality of life, high social participation, only mild cognitive or functional impairment, and little or no disability. The working group Epidemiology of Ageing of the German Association of Epidemiology organized a workshop in 2012 with the aim to present different indicators used in German studies and to discuss their impact on health for an ageing middle-European population. Workshop presentations focused on prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity, development of healthy life expectancy at the transition to oldest-age, physical activity, assessment of cognitive capability, and functioning and disability in old age. The communication describes the results regarding specific indicators for Germany, and hereby contributes to the further development of a set of indicators for the assessment of healthy ageing.
Are Well-Connected Entrepreneurs More Successful? A Study of Start-up Founder LinkedIn Profiles and Their Role in Investor Decision-Making
Creators: name: Banerji, Devika
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Communication and media studies not elsewhere classified

description: Social capital through connections in networks has been argued to be important for startup enterprises. Founder human capital qualities like education, experience, skills have also been shown to be important predictors of startup success. However, does founder social capital matter for startup success beyond founder human capital? To answer this question, this project draws from the decision-making literature and uses five decision strategies to explore how founder human capital and social capital are associated with investment funds raised by startup companies.
Two studies were conducted. The first study investigated if a decision strategy that looks at founder social capital better predicts which company raises more investment funds than a decision strategy that only uses founder human capital. The second study investigated if actual investors and entrepreneurs, of varying expertise levels, integrate founder social capital variables while making investment decisions.
Both studies found that number of LinkedIn connections of founders of a company was the best predictor of investment funds raised by the company. The first study showed that decision strategies that use social capital cues are similar in predicting successful companies compared to strategies that use human capital cues. The next study showed that, contrary to our expectations, decision strategies that use social capital cues better predict investor choices than strategies that use only human capital cues. It was expected that models that used human capital cues would be better predictors of investor choice behavior than social capital cues. Therefore, the two studies show that founder social capital is associated with investment funds raised by a startup company and investors do take founder social capital into consideration while deciding which startup company to invest in. In doing so, the studies establish the importance of founder social capital in the entrepreneurial context.
Geschlechtsdifferenzen bei Mehrfacherkrankungen
Creators: name: Grimm, J.
name: Bittner, Edelgard
name: Wiesner, Gerd
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Die gesundheitliche Situation der männlichen Bevölkerung ist trotz insgesamt niedrigerer Prävalenzraten an multimorbiden Zuständen gegenüber der weiblichen Bevölkerung ungünstiger zu beurteilen: −Im jüngeren Erwachsenenalter haben die Männer höhere Prävalenzraten an multimorbiden Zuständen als die Frauen. −Die männliche multimorbide Population hat ein um 5,25 Jahre niedrigeres durchschnittliches Krankheitsalter als die weibliche Krankenpopulation. −Prognostisch ungünstigere multimorbide Profile kommen in der männlichen Krankenpopulation häufiger vor. Zu den Folgen der epidemiologischen Transition gehören u. a. ein sozialer Bedeutungswandel von Gesundheitsrisiken, eine Ausdehnung des Krankheitsbegriffs und eine zunehmende Differenzierung pathischer Zustände sowie ein Trend von der Heilung zur Verlängerung des Lebens mit der Krankheit. Eine positiv geleitete Explikation der höheren Morbiditätsraten bei der weiblichen Bevölkerung eröffnet einen inhaltlich konsistenten und logischen Zugang zur Erklärung der gesundheitsbezogenen geschlechtsdifferenten Kenngrößen wie Lebenserwartung und Sterblichkeit.
Writing Prompts to Facilitate Creativity and Interesting Texts
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: English language

description: Encouraging students’ creativity is helpful for students and teachers. Writing essays about “Driving Fast is Dangerous” leads to restless, inattentive students. It is also more difficult to try to explain grammar and composition rules with an unexciting model. But if you ask: “If you planted your heart, what would grow?” you can be sure to get paragraphs students will enjoy writing and you will be interested to read. My presentation will discuss how to motivate students with appealing writing prompts which jump-start creativity, as well as being increasing the chances that the students will do their own work. There are not many on-line samples of essays in answer to the question: “If you suddenly became an Omani animal, which animal would you change into?” I will give effective examples from my creative writing, drama, poetry and literature classes which have resulted in amusing, thoughtful and imaginative stories, poems and essays.
Writing Prompts to Facilitate Creativity and Interesting Texts
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: English language

description: Encouraging students' creativity is helpful for students and teachers. Writing essays about "Driving Fast is Dangerous" leads to restless, inattentive students. It is also more difficult to try to explain grammar and composition rules with an unexciting model. But if you ask: "If you planted your heart, what would grow?" you can be sure to get paragraphs students will enjoy writing and you will be interested to read. My presentation will discuss how to motivate students with appealing writing prompts which jump-start creativity, as well as being increasing the chances that the students will do their own work. There are not many on-line samples of essays in answer to the question: "If you suddenly became an Omani animal, which animal would you change into?" I will give effective examples from my creative writing, drama, poetry and literature classes which have resulted in amusing, thoughtful and imaginative stories, poems and essays.
Selecting the Right Literary Texts for Middle Eastern Students: Challenges and Reactions
Creators: name: Al-Mahrooqi, Rahma
name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: Sultan Qaboos University Press
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Language and languages--Study and teaching
subject: Middle Eastern literature
subject: Education

description: The benefits of using literature in teaching and learning a foreign language are numerous. It not only embodies contextualized language, but also portrays human experience in breadth and depth and hence, through it, learners can be exposed to different cultures, with shared or unique beliefs, traditions and life styles. Given these advantages, and if used appropriately, literature can be a rich source of communicative language as it depicts actual language use in real situations. It can also be an ideal forum in which to develop cross-cultural understanding and critical thinking (Al-Mahrooqi, 2011a, Al-Mahrooqi, 2012). This paper, however, asks if all literature is fit to be used in EFL contexts. In particular, it addresses the questions "What criteria can be used to select appropriate literature for Omani EFL students?" and "What literary texts are considered best by these students?" Further, the paper reports on an exercise in which Omani students reacted to some texts they had studied. The paper concludes by recommending fiction and non-fiction texts that have worked with students who are majoring in English at Dhofar University, Oman.
Additional file 1 of Weather, sex and body condition affect post-fledging migration behaviour of the greater flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus
Creators: name: Scridel, Davide
name: Pirrello, Simone
name: Imperio, Simona
name: Cecere, Jacopo G.
name: Albanese, Giuseppe
name: Andreotti, Alessandro
name: Arveda, Giovanni
name: Borghesi, Fabrizio
name: La Gioia, Giuseppe
name: Massa, Luisanna
name: Mengoni, Chiara
name: Micheloni, Pierfrancesco
name: Mucci, Nadia
name: Nardelli, Riccardo
name: Nissardi, Sergio
name: Volponi, Stefano
name: Zucca, Carla
name: Serra, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information file with background tables and figures. Table S1. Sample size used for each analysis according to colony, year and sex. Table S2. Summary table describing for each migrating juvenile flamingo (n = 32), date of migration departure and arrival destination, duration of the journey, distance travelled, average and max speed. Table S3. Linear model results assessing potential differences in biometrics (tarsus, body mass, wing length) and body condition (Scaled Mass Index) for individuals belonging to different colonies, sex and years. Figure S1. Plots of explanatory variables (colony, sex, and year) influencing tarsus length. Figure S2. Plots of explanatory variables influencing body mass. Figure S3. Plots of explanatory variables mostly influencing wing length. Figure S4. Plots of variables influencing Scaled Mass Index according to models shown in Table S2. Table S4. Summary results of the logistic regression model assessing effects of body condition (Scaled Mass Index) on the probability of migration. Table S5. Linear models assessing correlates of migration phenology for post-fledging flamingos with respect to biometrics, Scaled Mass Index, colony, migration distance, and sex. Figure S5. Most important variables predicting migration phenology. Table S6. Model summary on the probability of selecting tailwinds or headwinds when leaving the colony in relation to the migratory distance (interaction) accounting for colony, sex, and time of departure. Table S7. Model summary of the LMM evaluating sex-related differences in migration speed according to the interaction between sex and tailwind. Table S8. Summary of GLMs evaluating the relationship between departure direction of birds and the frequency of wind directions at each colony. Table S9. Linear model output evaluating correlates of post-fledging migration distance in greater flamingos. Figure S6. Fitted relationship for the most important variables predicting migration distance in post-fledging greater flamingos.
Do You know a Creon?: Making Literature Relevant in an Omani University
Creators: name: R. Risse, Marielle
Publisher: name: Sultan Qaboos University Press
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature
subject: Arabic language
subject: Middle Eastern literature
subject: Education

description: My paper explores how to choose literature texts which solve the dual purpose of teaching English skills (speaking, reading, writing and listening), as well as teaching students to look at poems, short stories, novels and dramas as relevant to their own life, full of characters who they already know and situations they recognize. I argue for the need of mixing Arabic literature in translation, canonical English texts and modern writers to created syllabi with texts that are both academically suitable and interesting for Middle Eastern students. To show the efficacy to this method, I will include examples of students' reaction to such syllabi. I will also include a brief review of articles about the challenges and benefits of using multi-cultural literature in the classroom. Providing texts that encourage students to notice universal human characteristics, whether fighting on a pirate ship in Peter Pan, dueling with a braggart in Cyrano De Bergerac or becoming, for ten minutes, the imperious Creon in Sophocles' Antigone, means that improvement in English language skills is matched by a wider understanding of humanity.
ADVANCEMENTS IN NEUROIMAGING FOR MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND MULTI-SITE RELIABILITY
Creators: name: Bari, Sumra
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Head injuries in collision sports have been linked to long-term neurological disorders. High school collision sport athletes, a population vulnerable to head injuries, are at a greater risk of chronic damage. Various studies have indicated significant deviations in brain function due to the accumulation of repetitive low-level subconcussive impacts to the head without externally observable cognitive symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate metabolic changes in asymptomatic collision sport athletes across time within their competition season and as a function of mechanical force to their head. For this purpose, Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) was used as a tool to detect altered brain metabolism in high school collision sport athletes (football and soccer) without diagnosed concussion. Also, sensors were attached to each athletes head to collect the count and magnitude of head impacts during their games and practices. Transient neurometabolic alterations along with prolonged recovery were observed in collision sport athletes.
Multi-site studies are becoming important to increase statistical power, enhance generalizability, and to improve the likelihood of pooling relevant subgroups together activities which are otherwise limited by the availability of patients or funds at a single site. Even with harmonized imaging sequences, site-dependent variability can mask the advantages of these multi-site studies. The aim of this study was to assess multi-site reproducibility in resting-state functional connectivity fingerprints, and to improve identifiability of obtained functional connectomes. We evaluated individual fingerprints in test- retest visit pairs within and across two sites and present a generalized framework based on principal component analysis (PCA) to improve identifiability. The optimally reconstructed functional connectomes using PCA showed a substantial improvement in individual fingerprinting of the subjects within and across the two sites and test-retest visit pairs relative to the original data. Results demonstrate that the data-driven method presented in the study can improve identifiability in resting-state functional connectomes in multi-site studies.
The Influence of Behavior on Active Subsidy Distribution
Creators: name: Bampoh, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation investigates the influence of spatially explicit animal behavior active subsidy distribution patterns. Active subsidies are animal-transported consumption and resources transfers from donor to recipient ecosystems. Active subsidies influence ecosystem structure, function and services in recipient ecosystems. Even though active subsidies affect ecosystem dynamics, most ecosystem models consider the influence of spatially-explicit animal behavior on active subsidy distributions, limiting the ability to predict corresponding spatial impacts across ecosystems. Spatial subsidy research documents the need for systematic models and analyses frameworks to provide generally insights into the relationship between animal space use behavior and active subsidy patterns, and advance knowledge of corresponding ecosystem impacts for a variety of taxa and ecological scenarios. To advance spatial subsidy research, this dissertation employs a combined individual-based and movement ecology approach in abstract modeling frameworks to systematically investigate the influence of 1) animal movement behavior given mortality (chapter 2), 2) animal sociality (chapter 3) and 3) landscape heterogeneity (chapter 4) on active subsidy distribution. This dissertation shows that animal movement behavior, sociality and landscape heterogeneity influence the extent and intensity of active distribution and impacts in recipient ecosystems. Insights from this dissertation demonstrate that accounting for these factors in the development of ecosystem models will consequentially enhance their utility for predicting active subsidy spatial patterns and impacts. This dissertation advances spatial subsidy research by providing a road map for developing a comprehensive, unifying framework of the relationship between animal behavior and active subsidy distributions.
The Urge to Tell vs. the Need to Conceal: Confession as Narrative Desire in Poe’s “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Imp of the Perverse”
Creators: name: Caraman, Lorelei
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: American literature
subject: Psychology and literature

description: Relying on Peter Brooks’ concept of “narrative desire," the paper seeks to identify and explore its applicability and manifestations in three of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories: namely, “The Black Cat,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Imp of the Perverse.” Focusing on the role and nature of the narrators’ confessions in these three tales, this article seeks to show how the need or the urge to tell, constituting a recurrent preoccupation in Poe, may be further integrated within a framework of psychoanalytic criticism in which the emphasis is shifted from either the author or the text toward critical reading itself. As a result, the paper draws attention to the fundamental ambivalence permeating the construction of these texts, between telling and concealing. These contradictory tendencies are placed within Brooks’ theory of “textual energetics” and discussed in relation to his formulations on initiatory desire as well as the desire for the end, concepts which Brooks further connects to Freud’s model of instinctual drives in the form of Eros and Thanatos.
Heteropathogenic virulence and phylogeny reveal phased pathogenic metamorphosis in Escherichia coli O2:H6
Creators: name: Bielaszewska, Martina
name: Schiller, Roswitha
name: Lammers, Lydia
name: Bauwens, Andreas
name: Fruth, Angelika
name: Middendorf, Barbara
name: Schmidt, Alexander
name: Tarr, Phillip I.
name: Dobrindt, Ulrich
name: Karch, Helge
name: Mellmann, Alexander
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: heteropathogenicity
subject: phased metamorphosis
subject: phylogeny
subject: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
subject: uropathogenic Escherichia coli
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Extraintestinal pathogenic and intestinal pathogenic (diarrheagenic) Escherichia coli differ phylogenetically and by virulence profiles. Classic theory teaches simple linear descent in this species, where non-pathogens acquire virulence traits and emerge as pathogens. However, diarrheagenic Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O2:H6 not only possess and express virulence factors associated with diarrheagenic and uropathogenic E. coli but also cause diarrhea and urinary tract infections. These organisms are phylogenetically positioned between members of an intestinal pathogenic group (STEC) and extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli. STEC O2:H6 is, therefore, a ‘heteropathogen,’ and the first such hybrid virulent E. coli identified. The phylogeny of these E. coli and the repertoire of virulence traits they possess compel consideration of an alternate view of pathogen emergence, whereby one pathogroup of E. coli undergoes phased metamorphosis into another. By understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of bacterial pathogens, rational strategies for counteracting their detrimental effects on humans can be developed.
Laboratory diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area: analysis of routine laboratory data, 2007 to 2011
Creators: name: Sanchini, Andrea
name: Fiebig, L
name: Drobniewski, F.
name: Haas, Walter
name: Richter, Elvira
name: Katalinic-Jankovic, V.
name: Pimkina, E.
name: Skenders, G.
name: Cirillo, D. M.
name: Balabanova, Yanina
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Algorithms
subject: Europe
subject: Child
subject: Sensitivity and Specificity
subject: Retrospective Studies
subject: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification
subject: Questionnaires
subject: Clinical Laboratory Techniques/methods
subject: European Union
subject: Laboratories
subject: Sputum/microbiology
subject: Tuberculin Test/methods
subject: Tuberculosis/diagnosis
subject: Tuberculosis/microbiology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Laboratory confirmation of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) is frequently lacking. We reviewed the range of routine laboratory tests and their performance in different biological samples used to diagnose active TB in children. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among the European Reference Laboratory Network for TB followed by collection of routine laboratory data on 10,549 paediatric samples tested in 2007 to 2011 at six reference laboratories (in Croatia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and the United Kingdom (UK)). The questionnaire showed that all laboratories used rapid assays. Non-respiratory samples were collected more often in Germany (135/275, 49.1%) and the UK (490/2,140, 22.9%) compared with Croatia (138/2,792, 4.9%), Latvia (222/2,401, 9.2%) and Lithuania (76/1,549, 4.9%). Overall laboratory positivity rates (isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and/or identification of its nucleic acids in a sample) were higher in lymph node and gastric aspirate samples (14/203 (6.9%) and 43/1,231 (3.5%)) than in sputum samples (89/4,684 (1.9%)). Pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values and accuracy of molecular assays assessed against solid or liquid culture were 79.2%, 93.6%, 67.1%, 96.5% and 91.6%, respectively. A more intensive approach in obtaining gastric aspirate and non-respiratory samples may increase laboratory confirmation of paediatric TB. Major effort is needed in optimisation and validation of molecular tests in these samples.
sj-pdf-1-aph-10.1177_10105395211022950 – Supplemental material for Use of Single, Dual, and Poly Tobacco Products in Korean Adolescents
Creators: name: Kwon, Min
name: Chung, Sophia J.
name: Lee, Jinhwa
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aph-10.1177_10105395211022950 for Use of Single, Dual, and Poly Tobacco Products in Korean Adolescents by Min Kwon, Sophia J. Chung and Jinhwa Lee in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese
Creators: name: Smith, Philip
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: American literature

description: This paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism has failed to take into account the rising presence of Asian and Asian American characters and creators in American comics.
Burke's McKeon Side: Burke's Pentad and McKeon's Quartet
Creators: name: Victor Wess, Robert
Publisher: name: Parlor Press
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Rhetoric
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Burke's pentad and McKeon's quartet both generate philosophical orientations. McKeon's quartet also distinguishes philosophical orientations characteristic of different historical periods, including the twentieth century's antifoundationalist "linguistic turn." This historical dimension provides the basis for a McKeonist defense of Burke's foundationalism in his "Our Attempt to Avoid Mere Relativism," the concluding section of his well known "Terministic Screens."
Results from the First 12 Months of the National Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Outbreaks in Germany, 2011/2012
Creators: name: Haller, Sebastian
name: Eckmanns, Tim
name: Benzler, Justus
name: Tolksdorf, Kristin
name: Claus, Hermann
name: Gilsdorf, Andreas
name: Sin, Muna Abu
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Time Factors
subject: Population Surveillance
subject: Seasons
subject: Cross Infection/microbiology
subject: Disease Outbreaks/history
subject: History 21st Century
subject: Cross Infection/epidemiology
subject: Communicable Disease Control/legislation & jurisprudence
subject: Cross Infection/history
subject: Disease Notification/history
subject: Disease Notification/legislation & jurisprudence
subject: Mandatory Reporting*/history
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: In August 2011, the German Protection against Infection Act was amended, mandating the reporting of healthcare associated infection (HAI) outbreak notifications by all healthcare workers in Germany via local public health authorities and federal states to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Objective: To describe the reported HAI-outbreaks and the surveillance system’s structure and capabilities. Methods: Information on each outbreak was collected using standard paper forms and notified to RKI. Notifications were screened daily and regularly analysed. Results: Between November 2011 and November 2012, 1,326 paper forms notified 578 HAI-outbreaks, between 7 and 116 outbreaks per month. The main causative agent was norovirus (n = 414/578; 72%). Among the 108 outbreaks caused by bacteria, the most frequent pathogens were Clostridium difficile (25%) Klebsiella spp. (19%) and Staphylococcus spp. (19%). Multidrug-resistant bacteria were responsible for 54/108 (50%) bacterial outbreaks. Hospitals were affected most frequently (485/578; 84%). Hospital outbreaks due to bacteria were mostly reported from intensive care units (ICUs) (45%), followed by internal medicine wards (16%). Conclusion: The mandatory HAI-outbreak surveillance system describes common outbreaks. Pathogens with a particular high potential to cause large or severe outbreaks may be identified, enabling us to further focus research and preventive measures. Increasing the sensitivity and reliability of the data collection further will facilitate identification of outbreaks able to increase in size and severity, and guide specific control measures to interrupt their propagation.
Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic
Creators: name: Hashmi, Aurangzeb Alamgir
Publisher: name: The Dublin Quarterly
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Translating and interpreting
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Literature
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: The article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
FUSION BONDING OF FIBER REINFORCED SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS IN EXTRUSION DEPOSITION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Creators: name: Barocio, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2020
Subjects: Composite and hybrid materials
Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
Materials engineering not elsewhere classified
Polymers and plastics

description: Extrusion deposition additive manufacturing (EDAM) has enabled upscaling the dimensions of the objects that can be additively manufactured from the desktop scale to the size of a full vehicle. The EDAM process consists of depositing beads of molten material in a layer-by-layer manner, thereby giving rise to temperature gradients during part manufacturing. To investigate the phenomena involved in EDAM, the Composites Additive Manufacturing Research Instrument (CAMRI) was developed as part of this project. CAMRI provided unparalleled flexibility for conducting controlled experiments with carbon fiber reinforced semi-crystalline polymers and served as a validation platform for the work presented in this dissertation. Since the EDAM process is highly non-isothermal, modeling heat transfer in EDAM is of paramount importance for predicting interlayer bonding and evolution of internal stresses during part manufacturing. Hence, local heat transfer mechanisms were characterized and implemented in a framework for EDAM process simulations. These include local convection conditions, heat losses in material compaction as well as heat of crystallization or melting. Numerical predictions of the temperature evolution during the printing process of a part were in great agreement with experimental measurements by only calibrating the radiation ambient temperature. In the absence of fibers reinforcing the interface between adjacent layers, the bond developed through the polymer is the primary mechanisms governing the interlayer fracture properties in printed parts. Hence, a fusion bonding model was extended to predict the evolution of interlayer fracture properties in EDAM with semi-crystalline polymer composites. The fusion bonding model was characterized and implemented in the framework for EDAM process simulation. Experimental verification of numerical predictions obtained with the fusion bonding model for interlayer fracture properties is provided. Finally, this fusion bonding model bridges the gap between processing conditions and interlayer fracture properties which is extremely valuable for predicting regions with frail interlayer bond within a part.
Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute
Creators: name: Helbing, Dirk
name: Brockmann, Dirk
name: Chadefaux, Thomas
name: Donnay, Karsten
name: Blanke, Ulf
name: Woolley-Meza, Olivia
name: Moussaid, Mehdi
name: Johansson, Anders
name: Krause, Jens
name: Schutte, Sebastian
name: Perc, Matjaž
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Crowd disasters
subject: Crime
subject: Terrorism
subject: War
subject: Disease spreading
subject: Complexity science
subject: 610 Medizin

description: We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective and sufficient to contain them. Many common approaches do not provide a good picture of the actual system behavior, because they neglect feedback loops, instabilities and cascade effects. The complex and often counter-intuitive behavior of social systems and their macro-level collective dynamics can be better understood by means of complexity science. We highlight that a suitable system design and management can help to stop undesirable cascade effects and to enable favorable kinds of self-organization in the system. In such a way, complexity science can help to save human lives.
Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic
Creators: name: Hashmi, Aurangzeb Alamgir
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Literature
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: Translating and interpreting

description: The article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
Selection and Characterization of Previously Plant-Variety-Protected Commercial Maize Inbreds
Creators: name: Beckett, Travis J.
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: Genetics not elsewhere classified
Agronomy
Agriculture, land and farm management not elsewhere classified

description: The use of genotypic markers in plant breeding has greatly increased in the last few decades. In this dissertation, I report on three topics that illustrate how genotypic marker information can be applied in maize breeding to increase genetic gain. In the fi rst chapter1, I describe how genotypic and phenotypic data can be used to predict the mean, variance, and superior progeny mean of virtual biparental populations. I use these predictions to identify optimal breeding crosses out of a commercially relevant collection of North American dent inbreds. In the second chapter, within the context of early generation maize inbred development, and using a hybrid testcross data set, I report on the change in genomic prediction accuracy as the size of the training set increases and compare the accuracy of different genomic selection models. In the third chapter2, I used a multi-variable linear regression approach known as genomewide association (GWA) analysis to identify particular genetic locations, known as quantitative trait loci (QTL), that are associated with maize in orescence traits.
sj-docx-1-mpp-10.1177_23814683211021380 – Supplemental material for Patient-Centered Identification of Meaningful Regulatory Endpoints for Medical Devices to Treat Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Benz, Heather L.
name: Caldwell, Brittany
name: Ruiz, John P.
name: Saha, Anindita
name: Ho, Martin
name: Christopher, Stephanie
name: Bardot, Dawn
name: Sheehan, Margaret
name: Donnelly, Anne
name: McLaughlin, Lauren
name: Mange, Brennan
name: Hauber, A. Brett
name: Gwinn, Katrina
name: Heetderks, William J.
name: Sheldon, Murray
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mpp-10.1177_23814683211021380 for Patient-Centered Identification of Meaningful Regulatory Endpoints for Medical Devices to Treat Parkinson’s Disease by Heather L. Benz, Brittany Caldwell, John P. Ruiz, Anindita Saha, Martin Ho, Stephanie Christopher, Dawn Bardot, Margaret Sheehan, Anne Donnelly, Lauren McLaughlin, Brennan Mange, A. Brett Hauber, Katrina Gwinn, William J. Heetderks and Murray Sheldon in MDM Policy & Practice
Systematic literature analysis and review of targeted preventive measures to limit healthcare-associated infections by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Köck, Robin
name: Becker, Karsten
name: Cookson, B.
name: Gemert-Pijnen, J. E. Van
name: Harbarth, S.
name: Kluytmans, J.
name: Mielke, Martin
name: Peters, Georg
name: Skov, R. L.
name: Struelens, Marc J.
name: Tacconelli, E.
name: Witte, Wolfgang
name: Friedrich, Alexander W.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Cross Infection/prevention & control
subject: Staphylococcal Infections/drug therapy
subject: Staphylococcal Infections/transmission
subject: Cross Infection/microbiology
subject: Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use
subject: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/isolation & purification
subject: Cross Infection/transmission
subject: Hand Disinfection
subject: Infection Control/methods
subject: Infection Control/standards
subject: Methicillin/therapeutic use
subject: Methicillin Resistance
subject: Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus/drug effects
subject: Staphylococcal Infections/prevention & control
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major cause of healthcare-associated infections in Europe. Many examples have demonstrated that the spread of MRSA within healthcare settings can be reduced by targeted infection control measures. The aim of this systematic literature analysis and review was to summarise the evidence for the use of bacterial cultures for active surveillance the benefit of rapid screening tests, as well as the use of decolonisation therapies and different types of isolation measures. We included 83 studies published between 2000 and 2012. Although the studies reported good evidence supporting the role of active surveillance followed by decolonisation therapy, the effectiveness of single-room isolation was mostly shown in non-controlled studies, which should inspire further research regarding this issue. Overall, this review highlighted that when planning the implementation of preventive interventions, there is a need to consider the prevalence of MRSA, the incidence of infections, the competing effect of standard control measures (e.g. hand hygiene) and the likelihood of transmission in the respective settings of implementation.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_0049124120986208 - Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse
Creators: name: Kalmijn, Matthijs
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Sociology

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_0049124120986208 for Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse by Matthijs Kalmijn in Sociological Methods & Research
Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom
Creators: name: Arteaga, Rachel
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Literature
subject: Teaching

description: These lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are designed both to support specific learning outcomes and to be adaptable for use with any course text. This curriculum is part of a project in public scholarship at the University of Washington titled "Spar: A Grays Harbor County K-12 & Higher Education Partnership."
sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_23998083211001840 - Supplemental material for Functional visibility graph analysis: Quantifying visuofunctional space with social media check-in data
Creators: name: Shen, Yao
name: Wu, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geography
Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_23998083211001840 for Functional visibility graph analysis: Quantifying visuofunctional space with social media check-in data by Yao Shen and Zhiqiang Wu in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Introductory Digital Humanities Curriculum for the High School English Classroom
Creators: name: Arteaga, Rachel
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: Literature
subject: Teaching

description: These lesson plans and corresponding handouts introduce students to methods in digital humanities (distant reading, narrative mapping, and sentiment analysis). They are aligned with the K-12 Common Core State Standards and informed by university-level DH discourses. Developed in collaboration with high school English teachers, these materials are designed both to support specific learning outcomes and to be adaptable for use with any course text. This curriculum is part of a project in public scholarship at the University of Washington titled "Spar: A Grays Harbor County K-12 & Higher Education Partnership."
Additional file 1 of Influence of prey availability on habitat selection during the non-breeding period in a resident bird of prey
Creators: name: Bühler, Roman
name: Schalcher, Kim
name: Séchaud, Robin
name: Michler, Stephanie
name: Apolloni, Nadine
name: Roulin, Alexandre
name: Almasi, Bettina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file1: S1.1: Small mammal sampling regions. S1.2: Small mammal sampling design visualization. S1.3: Information extraction from the federal layer TLM3D. S1.4: Information extraction from cantonal layers on agricultural fields. S1.5: Merged habitat types for habitat categories. S2.1: Model validations. S2.2: Small mammal activity density. S2.3: Vole activity density. S2.4: Models home range. S2.5: Model distance centroid nest box.
Incidence Patterns and Temporal Trends of Invasive Nonmelanotic Vulvar Tumors in Germany 1999-2011. A Population-Based Cancer Registry Analysis
Creators: name: Buttmann-Schweiger, Nina
name: Klug, Stefanie J.
name: Luyten, Alexander
name: Holleczek, Bernd
name: Heitz, Florian
name: Bois, Andreas Du
name: Kraywinkel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Adult
subject: Aged
subject: Middle Aged
subject: Incidence
subject: Retrospective Studies
subject: Registries
subject: Carcinoma Squamous Cell/epidemiology
subject: Carcinoma Squamous Cell/pathology
subject: Neoplasm Invasiveness
subject: Vulvar Neoplasms/epidemiology
subject: Vulvar Neoplasms/pathology
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objectives: Time trends on the incidence and characteristics of invasive vulvar cancer in Germany have so far been studied in few local population- and hospital based tumor registries. We aimed to provide an overview on recent developments of vulvar cancer in Germany, using population-based cancer registry data. Methods: We analyzed the data on vulvar cancer of eight population-based German cancer registries for the period 1999-2011. ICD-10 codes and ICD-O-3 morphology codes were used to select site and histologic types. The annual percentage change was calculated on age-adjusted incidence rates with a joinpoint regression model. Results: A total of 12,711 registered cases of invasive carcinoma of the vulva were included in the analyses, hereof were 12,205 of squamous cell origin. Age-standardized incidence rates of vulvar cancer annually increased by 6.7% (95% confidence limits: 5.6-7.9) from 1.7 per 100,000 women in 1999 to 3.6 per 100,000 women in 2011. An increase was observed among women of all ages, and especially between 30 and 69 years of age. Conclusion: The annual incidence of invasive carcinoma of the vulva nearly doubled in the past decade in Germany, considerably exceeding the rates observed in other Western European countries. A combination of changes in risk factors, and documentation practice might have contributed to the observed substantial increase in vulvar cancer incidence.
sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028211028215 – Supplemental material for Open versus Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in the Australian Private Sector Over Twenty Years
Creators: name: Qin, Kirby R.
name: Perera, Marlon
name: Papa, Nathan
name: Mitchell, David
name: Chuen, Jason
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jet-10.1177_15266028211028215 for Open versus Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in the Australian Private Sector Over Twenty Years by Kirby R. Qin, Marlon Perera, Nathan Papa, David Mitchell and Jason Chuen in Journal of Endovascular Therapy
Hepatitis C im Jahr 2016
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Ruth
name: Seidel, Juliane
name: Simeonova, Yanita
name: Schmidt, Daniel
name: Dudareva-Vizule, Sandra
name: Bremer, Viviane
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Infektionen mit Hepatitis-C-Viren gehören zu den häufigsten Infektionskrankheiten weltweit. Sie zählen zu den bedeutendsten Ursachen von Leberzirrhose und Leberzellkarzinom. Nach Schätzungen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) starben im Jahr 2015 etwa 399.000 Menschen an Hepatitis-C-bedingten Spätfolgen. Das Spektrum der antiviralen Behandlungsoptionen hat sich deutlich erweitert, so dass mittlerweile die meisten chronischen Infektionen durch eine effektive medikamentöse Therapie geheilt werden können und damit auch bei rechtzeitiger Behandlung Spätfolgen verhindert werden können. Da die Infektion häufig asymptomatisch verläuft, sollten Gruppen mit hohem Risiko und erhöhter Prävalenz gescreent und regelmäßig getestet werden. Für das Jahr 2016 wurden insgesamt 4.368 Fälle von erstdiagnostizierter Hepatitis C in Deutschland an das Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) übermittelt. Neben der individuellen Krankheitslast ergibt sich damit auch in Deutschland eine ökonomische und gesundheitspolitische Bedeutung von Hepatitis C.
Maragall a Itàlia al voltant de 1947
Creators: name: Ardolino, Francesco
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Catalan literature
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Italian literature
subject: Translating and interpreting

description: Just after the Second World War two Italian writers chose to look at the poetry of Joan Maragall. Montale’s version of the “Spiritual Canto” has led to a variety of debates and interpretations, while the publication of a modest anthology of Catalan poets by Pasolini remained unknown for a long time until rediscovered in the third millennium. The selection and the interests of both Italian authors was quite different, but, from our contemporary perspective, their choices are complementary, uniting to reopen a dialogue with Catalan literature. This study also takes a look, in a comparative sense, at other Italian versions of the “Spiritual canto”. Key words: Maragall — Poetic reception — Catalan/Italian translation — Montale — Pasolini — Cardó
sj-pdf-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683211029891 – Supplemental Material for Compensatory Effects of Sequential 4-Channel Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for the Treatment of Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Dysphagia in a Prospective, Double-Blinded Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Lee, So Young
name: Park, Donghwi
name: Jang, Joonyoung
name: Jang, Eun Gyeong
name: Lee, Jun Chang
name: Park, Yulhyun
name: Cho, Seon
name: Kim, Won-Seok
name: Park, Jihong
name: Kim, Bo Ryun
name: Seo, Kyoung-Ho
name: Park, Sungwon
name: Ryu, Ju Seok
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-nnr-10.1177_15459683211029891 for Compensatory Effects of Sequential 4-Channel Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for the Treatment of Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Dysphagia in a Prospective, Double-Blinded Randomized Clinical Trial by So Young Lee, Donghwi Park, Joonyoung Jang, Eun Gyeong Jang, Jun Chang Lee, Yulhyun Park, Seon Cho, Won-Seok Kim, Jihong Park, Bo Ryun Kim, Kyoung-Ho Seo, Sungwon Park and Ju Seok Ryu in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair