cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Race and right hemisphere damage (Fannin et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Fannin, Danai Kasambira
name: Elleby, Jada
name: Tackett, Maria
name: Minga, Jamila
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)

description: Purpose: Atypical pragmatic language can impede quality health care access. Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) results in changes in pragmatic language use; however, little is known about whether there are racial/ethnic influences. Recent research indicated differences in question-asking when RHD survivors were compared with healthy controls, prompting the current examination of question production in women by race/ethnicity and the presence of RHD. Method: Participants were eight Black and eight White women who sustained a single right hemisphere stroke at least 6 months prior to data collection (2016–2020), and eight Black and eight White control participants from the Right Hemisphere Damage Bank (https://rhd.talkbank.org). Videos of informal, first-encounter conversational discourse tasks were transcribed and coded. Analyses were conducted for frequency of questions and question type. Results: Race/ethnicity had a statistically significant effect on the total number of questions and number of content and polar questions. The mean total of questions, number of content questions, and mean number of polar questions for Black participants was significantly less than White participants. There was less variability in question type for Black participants than White participants, and a tendency for Black participants to ask fewer questions regardless of RHD or control status. Conclusions: Acquisition of health information and ensuing health care might be less fruitful for Black women communicating with someone who may not know to conduct comprehension checks and be proactive in provision of information. To be culturally responsive to Black patients with communication disorders, providers might apply this awareness of reduced question-asking to their strategies to improve patient–provider communication. Supplemental Material S1. Sample transcripts from survivors of right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Fannin, D. K., Elleby, J., Tackett, M., & Minga, J. (2023). Intersectionality of race and question-asking in women after right hemisphere brain damage. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(1), 314–324. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00327
Ultra-narrow ionization resonances in a quantum dot under broadband excitation
Creators: name: Gustavsson, Simon
name: Rudner, Mark S.
name: Levitov, Leonid S.
name: Leturcq, Renaud
name: Studer, Matthias
name: Ihn, Thomas
name: Ensslin, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Semiconductor quantum dots driven by the broadband radiation fields of nearby quantum point contacts provide an exciting new setting for probing dynamics in driven quantum systems at the nanoscale. We report on real-time charge-sensing measurements of the dot occupation, which reveal sharp resonances in the ionization rate as a function of gate voltage and applied magnetic field. Despite the broadband nature of excitation, the resonance widths are much smaller than the scale of thermal broadening. We show that such resonant enhancement of ionization is not accounted for by conventional approaches relying on elastic scattering processes, but can be explained via a mechanism based on a bottleneck process that is relieved near excited state level crossings. The experiment thus reveals a new regime of a strongly driven quantum dynamics in few-electron systems. The theoretical results are in good agreement with observations.
Additional file 2 of Do calorie labels change energy purchased in a simulated online food delivery platform? A multi-arm randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Luick, Madison
name: Bianchi, Filippo
name: Bain, Francis
name: Bandy, Lauren
name: Doshi, Parita
name: Hilliard, Darren
name: Leung, Jovita
name: Mottershaw, Abigail
name: Stuijfzand, Bobby
name: Whitwell-Mak, Jordan
name: Jebb, Susan A.
name: Harper, Hugo
name: Pechey, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Th��tre - Teatro: Tout mon amour - Tutto il mio amore, Une l�g�re blessure - Una ferita leggera
Creators: name: Dufiet, Jean Paul
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Trento - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Year: 2021

description: L?obiettivo di quest?opera � far conoscere al pubblico italiano la scrittura teatrale di Laurent Mauvignier, proponendo i testi originali di Tout mon amour e Une l�g�re blessure con traduzione a fronte. Completano il volume sei studi in lingua francese che approfondiscono la riflessione sulla drammaturgia di Laurent Mauvignier e sulla dimensione di teatralit� che permea anche la sua produzione romanzesca.
A afetividade como um instrumento mediador entre professor e aluno nos anos iniciais
Creators: name: Silva, Ellen Kelly Barbosa da
name: Menezes, Aurelania Maria de Carvalho
Publisher: name: Id on Line Rev. Mult. Psic
Year: 2023
Subjects: Afetividade
Aprendizagem
Desenvolvimento Saudável
Motivação

description: Esta pesquisa fala sobre a afetividade como fator importante no processo de ensino/aprendizagem, pois age de forma positiva na vida educacional. Através do afeto, o aluno passa a sentir-se seguro e protegido. O trabalho apresenta as contribuições da relação afetiva para o processo de aprendizagem, compreendendo como acontece a relação afetiva entre professor e aluno na educação infantil. Objetiva em buscar nas principais obras educacionais e pedagógicas referência sobre a afetividade no processo de aprendizagem, elencando pesquisas contemporâneas que refletem sobre as contribuições da relação entre professor e aluno para o processo de aprendizagem escolar. Para esse estudo realizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica, de caráter qualitativo e descritivo. A escola deve proporcionar um espaço de reflexões sobre a vida do aluno como um todo, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento de uma consciência crítica e transformadora, na qual esse processo não deveria dissociar-se da afetividade. Sendo que o professor é fundamental para a aprendizagem dos alunos, tornando a afetividade um dos elementos que influenciam esse processo. A afetividade é essencial para o desempenho educacional, uma vez que o comportamento das crianças deixa claro que a afetividade representa um aspecto importante no processo de aprendizagem, que tem como base o respeito mútuo, o diálogo e, principalmente o carinho recíproco.
Additional file 3 of Do calorie labels change energy purchased in a simulated online food delivery platform? A multi-arm randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Luick, Madison
name: Bianchi, Filippo
name: Bain, Francis
name: Bandy, Lauren
name: Doshi, Parita
name: Hilliard, Darren
name: Leung, Jovita
name: Mottershaw, Abigail
name: Stuijfzand, Bobby
name: Whitwell-Mak, Jordan
name: Jebb, Susan A.
name: Harper, Hugo
name: Pechey, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
Transonic Galactic Outflows and Their Influences to the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies and Intergalactic Space
Creators: name: Igarashi, Asuka
name: Mori, Masao
name: Nitta, Shin-ya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have categorized possible transonic solutions of galactic outflows in the gravitational potential of DMH and SMBH using the isothermal, spherically symmetric and steady model. We conclude that the gravitational potential of SMBH generates a new transonic branch while Tsuchiya et al. (2013) concluded that the gravitational potential of DMH forms one transonic solution. Because these two transonic solutions have different mass fluxes and starting points, these solutions will make different influences to the star formation rate, the evolution of galaxies, and the chemical evolution of the intergalactic medium. Therefore, we conclude that the influence of galactic outflows to the intergalactic medium depends not only on the mass distribution but also on the selected transonic solution. In addition, we have estimated range of parameters (KDMH; KBH) for actual galaxies. Moreover, it may be possible to estimate the galactic mass distributions of DMH and SMBH applying the model to the observed profile of the outflow velocity. Although it is difficult to determine the velocity of hot gas in the galactic halos from the current X-ray observations, but the next-generation X-ray observatory will be able to detect the detailed profiles of outflow velocities.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in AIP Conference Proceedings
Torque reversals and pulse profile of the pulsar 4U 1626-67
Creators: name: Beri, Aru
name: Jain, Chetana
name: Paul, Biswajit
name: Raichur, Harsha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the pulse profile evolution of the unique accretion powered X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 over the last 40 years since its discovery. This pulsar showed two distinct eras of steady spin-up separated by a steady spin-down episode for about 18 years. In the present work, using data from different observatories active during each phase of spin-up and spin-down we establish a clear correlation between the accretion torque acting on this pulsar and its pulse profile. The energy resolved pulse profiles are identical in both the spin-up eras and quite different in the spin-down era, especially in the low energy band. This correlation, along with the already known feature of strong Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPO) that was present only in the spin-down era, clearly establish two different accretion modes onto the neutron star which produce different pulse profiles and only one of which produces the QPOs.
description: 17 pages
Additional file 1 of Do calorie labels change energy purchased in a simulated online food delivery platform? A multi-arm randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Luick, Madison
name: Bianchi, Filippo
name: Bain, Francis
name: Bandy, Lauren
name: Doshi, Parita
name: Hilliard, Darren
name: Leung, Jovita
name: Mottershaw, Abigail
name: Stuijfzand, Bobby
name: Whitwell-Mak, Jordan
name: Jebb, Susan A.
name: Harper, Hugo
name: Pechey, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Gamma-ray Pulsar Revolution
Creators: name: Caraveo, Patrizia A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) were the first sources identified in the field of high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. At first, in the 70s, there were only two identified sources, the Crab and Vela pulsars. However, although few in number, these objects were crucial in establishing the very concept of a gamma-ray source. Moreover, they opened up significant discovery space both in the theoretical and phenomenological fronts. The need to explain the copious gamma-ray emission of these pulsars led to breakthrough developments in understanding the structure and physics of neutron star magnetospheres. In parallel, the 20-year-long chase to understand the nature of Geminga unveiled the existence of a radio-quiet, gamma-ray-emitting, INS, adding a new dimension to the INS family. Today we are living through an extraordinary time of discovery. The current generation of gamma-ray detectors has vastly increased the population of known of gamma-ray-emitting neutron stars. The 100 mark was crossed in 2011 and we are now approaching 150. The gamma-ray-emitting neutron star population exhibits roughly equal numbers of radio-loud and radio-quiet young INSs, plus an astonishing, and unexpected, group of isolated and binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The number of MSPs is growing so rapidly that they are on their way to becoming the most numerous members of the family of gamma-ray-emitting Neutron Stars (NSs) . Even as these findings have set the stage for a revolution in our understanding of gamma-ray-emitting neutron stars, long term monitoring of the gamma-ray sky has revealed evidence of flux variability in the Crab Nebula as well as in the pulsed emission from PSR J2021+4026, challenging a four-decade-old, constant-emission paradigm. Now we know that both pulsars and their nebulae can, indeed, display variable emission.
description: 55 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables Accepted for publication
Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the black hole GX 339-4 II. The spectrocopic content in the low/hard and high/soft states
Creators: name: Rahoui, Farid
name: Coriat, Mickael
name: Lee, Julia C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a complement to our optical and near-infrared study of the continuum properties of GX 339-4 in the two hard and one soft state observations made by the ESO/VLT FORS2 and ISAAC in early 2010, we report here on the results of our spectral line analysis for the same observations. In the soft state, the presence of strong Balmer, Paschen and Brackett emission lines points to the optical and near-infrared spectra stemming from the irradiated chromosphere of the optically thick and geometrically thin accretion disc. Most of these HI features are still detected in emission in both hard states but are veiled by the compact jets continuum. We also confirm the presence of a broad Hbeta absorption feature, prominent in the soft state and shallower in the first hard state, which we argue forms in the deep layers of the optically thick accretion disc. However, this trough is absent in the second hard state, a likely consequence of the formation of a geometrically thick extended envelope that arises above the disc plane and eventually enshrouds the region where the Hbeta absorption feature forms. We detect this envelope through the presence of a broad Pabeta emission line, which is constant during the first hard state but correlates with the underlying continuum during the second hard state, pointing to changing physical properties. We consider that this behaviour may be consistent with the launch of a thermally-driven accretion disc wind during the second hard state.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Sensory-processing sensitivity predicts fatigue (McGarrigle & Mattys, 2023)
Creators: name: McGarrigle, Ronan
name: Mattys, Sven
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)
Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: Purpose: Listening-related fatigue is a potential negative consequence of challenges experienced during everyday listening and may disproportionately affect older adults. Contrary to expectation, we recently found that increased reports of listening-related fatigue were associated with better performance on a dichotic listening task. However, this link was found only in individuals who reported heightened sensitivity to a variety of physical, social, and emotional stimuli (i.e., increased “sensory-processing sensitivity” [SPS]). This study examined whether perceived effort may underlie the link between performance and fatigue. Method: Two hundred six young adults, aged 18–30 years (Experiment 1), and 122 older adults, aged 60–80 years (Experiment 2), performed a dichotic listening task and were administered a series of questionnaires including the NASA Task Load Index of perceived effort, the Vanderbilt Fatigue Scale (measuring daily life listening-related fatigue), and the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (measuring SPS). Both experiments were completed online. Results: SPS predicted listening-related fatigue, but perceived effort during the listening task was not associated with SPS or listening-related fatigue in either age group. We were also unable to replicate the interaction between dichotic listening performance and SPS in either group. Exploratory analyses revealed contrasting effects of age; older adults found the dichotic listening task more effortful but indicated lower overall fatigue. Conclusions: These findings suggest that SPS is a better predictor of listening-related fatigue than performance or effort ratings on a dichotic listening task. SPS may be an important factor in determining an individual’s likelihood of experiencing listening-related fatigue irrespective of hearing or cognitive ability. Supplemental Material S1. Deviations from preregistration. McGarrigle, R., & Mattys, S. (2023). Sensory-processing sensitivity predicts fatigue from listening, but not perceived effort, in young and older adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(2), 444–460. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00374
SPARCO : a semi-parametric approach for image reconstruction of chromatic objects
Creators: name: Kluska, J.
name: Malbet, F.
name: Berger, J. -P.
name: Baron, F.
name: Lazareff, B.
name: Bouquin, J. -B. Le
name: Monnier, J. D.
name: Soulez, F.
name: Thiébaut, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of optical interferometers with three and more telescopes allows image reconstruction of astronomical objects at the milliarcsecond scale. However, some objects contain components with very different spectral energy distributions (SED; i.e. different temperatures), which produces strong chromatic effects on the interferograms that have to be managed with care by image reconstruction algorithms. For example, the gray approximation for the image reconstruction process results in a degraded image if the total (u, v)-coverage given by the spectral supersynthesis is used. The relative flux contribution of the central object and an extended structure changes with wavelength for different temperatures. For young stellar objects, the known characteristics of the central object (i.e., stellar SED), or even the fit of the spectral index and the relative flux ratio, can be used to model the central star while reconstructing the image of the extended structure separately. Methods. We present a new method, called SPARCO (semi-parametric algorithm for the image reconstruction of chromatic objects), which describes the spectral characteristics of both the central object and the extended structure to consider them properly when reconstructing the image of the surrounding environment. We adapted two image-reconstruction codes (Macim, Squeeze, and MiRA) to implement this new prescription. SPARCO is applied using Macim, Squeeze and MiRA on a young stellar object model and also on literature data on HR5999 in the near-infrared with the VLTI. This method paves the way to improved aperture-synthesis imaging of several young stellar objects with existing datasets. More generally, the approach can be used on astrophysical sources with similar features such as active galactic nuclei, planetary nebulae, and asymptotic giant branch stars.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted in A&A
Nanostructured thermoelectric kesterite Cu2ZnSnS4
Creators: name: Isotta, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: To support the growing global demand for energy, new sustainable solutions are needed both economically and environmentally. Thermoelectric waste heat recovery and energy harvesting could contribute by increasing industrial process efficiency, as well as powering stand-alone devices, microgenerators, and small body appliances.The structural complexity of quaternary chalcogenide materials provides an opportunity for engineering defects and disorder, to modify and possibly improve specific properties. Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS, often kesterite), valued for the abundance and non-toxicity of the raw materials, seems particularly suited to explore these possibilities, as it presents several structural defects and polymorphic phase transformations. The aim of this doctoral work is to systematically investigate the effects of structural polymorphism, disorder, and defects on the thermoelectric properties of CZTS, with particular emphasis to their physical origin. A remarkable case is the order-disorder transition of tetragonal CZTS, which is found responsible for a sharp enhancement in the Seebeck coefficient due to a flattening and degeneracy of the electronic energy bands. This effect, involving a randomization of Cu and Zn cations in certain crystallographic planes, is verified in bulk and thin film samples, and applications are proposed to exploit the reversible dependence of electronic properties on disorder. Low-temperature mechanical alloying is instead discovered stabilizing a novel polymorph of CZTS, which disordered cubic structure is studied in detail, and proposed deriving from sphalerite-ZnS. The total cation disorder in this compound provides an uncommon occurrence in thermoelectricity: a concurrent optimization of Seebeck coefficient, electrical and thermal conductivity. These findings, besides providing new and general understanding of CZTS, can cast light on profitable mechanisms to enhance the thermoelectric performance of semiconducting chalcogenides, as well as delineate alternative and fruitful applications.
Effect of acorn feeding on quality and aromatic profile of dry sausages produced from Turopolje pigs
Creators: name: Karolyi, D
name: Radovčić, N. Marušić
name: Medić, H
name: Luković, Z
name: Tomažin, U
name: Škrlep, M
name: Čandek Potokar, M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Turopolje pig (TP) is an endangered Croatian autochthonous breed typically reared in an outdoor production system linked to local oak forests and marsh meadows in Turopolje region in Central Croatia. To self-sustain TP breed the utilization of meat products with added value has recently been proposed in TREASURE project. So far little information is available on the quality attributes of TP meat products, including the effect of locally available feeding resources. Hence present study aimed to examine the quality and aromatic profile of dry-fermented sausages of TP that were reared in similar conditions but fed either conventional (CF) or acorn supplemented (AF) finishing diet. The quality of end product, pH and aw values, moisture, fat and protein content, fatty acid (FA) profile, oxidative stability, texture profile analysis (TPA), sensory evaluation and aromatic profile were determined. Data were analysed by TTEST or NPAR1WAY (for sensory data) procedure at an alpha level of 0.05. Compared to CF, AF sausages tended (P<0.1) to have higher moisture content and TPA chewiness, but generally had similar physicochemical, rheological and sensorial traits and FA composition, except for higher share of C14:0. Lipid oxidation, measured as 2-thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances, was more pronounced in AF than CF sausages. Aromagram showed terpenes as the most abundant volatiles (around 52% of the total area) in both types of sausages, followed by aldehydes (11-14%), aromatic hydrocarbons (6-10%), phenols (6-7%), alcohols (5-6%), acids (4-6%), Sulphur compounds (2- 5%), ketones (around 3%), esters (less than 2%) and aliphatic hydrocarbons (less than 1%). Compared to CF, AF sausages had less aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons and sulphur compounds, and more esters. These results suggest that acorn feeding may affect some properties of TP dry-fermented sausages but more research is needed. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (grant agreement no. 634476).
A survey of methods to ease the development of highly multilingual text mining applications
Creators: name: Steinberger, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; H.3.1; H.3.3; H.3.6

description: Multilingual text processing is useful because the information content found in different languages is complementary, both regarding facts and opinions. While Information Extraction and other text mining software can, in principle, be developed for many languages, most text analysis tools have only been applied to small sets of languages because the development effort per language is large. Self-training tools obviously alleviate the problem, but even the effort of providing training data and of manually tuning the results is usually considerable. In this paper, we gather insights by various multilingual system developers on how to minimise the effort of developing natural language processing applications for many languages. We also explain the main guidelines underlying our own effort to develop complex text mining software for tens of languages. While these guidelines - most of all: extreme simplicity - can be very restrictive and limiting, we believe to have shown the feasibility of the approach through the development of the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) family of applications (http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html). EMM is a set of complex media monitoring tools that process and analyse up to 100,000 online news articles per day in between twenty and fifty languages. We will also touch upon the kind of language resources that would make it easier for all to develop highly multilingual text mining applications. We will argue that - to achieve this - the most needed resources would be freely available, simple, parallel and uniform multilingual dictionaries, corpora and software tools.
description: 22 pages. Published online on 12 October 2011
Correcting nonsquare pixels (Larsen et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Larsen, Deirdre
name: Ikuma, Takeshi
name: Neubig, Luisa
name: Kist, Andreas
name: Leonard, Rebecca
name: McWhorter, Andrew J.
name: Kunduk, Melda
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biomedical instrumentation
Medical biotechnology diagnostics (incl. biosensors)
Video processing

description: Purpose: This research note illustrates the effects of video data with nonsquare pixels on the pixel-based measures obtained from videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS). Method: Six pixel-based distance and area measures were obtained from two different videoflouroscopic study units; both yielding videos with nonsquare pixels with different pixel aspect ratios (PARs). The swallowing measures were obtained from the original VFSS videos and from the videos after their pixels were squared. Results: The results demonstrated significant multivariate effects both in video type (original vs. squared) and in the interaction between video type and sample (two video recordings of different patients, different PARs, and opposing tilt angles of the external reference). A wide range of variabilities was observed on the pixel-based measures between original and squared videos with the percent deviation ranging from 0.1% to 9.1% with the maximum effect size of 7.43. Conclusions: This research note demonstrates the effect of disregarding PAR to distance and area pixel-based parameters. In addition, we present a multilevel roadmap to prevent possible measurement errors that could occur. At the planning stage, the PAR of video source should be identified, and, at the analyses stage, video data should be prescaled prior to analysis with PAR-unaware software. No methodology in prior absolute or relative pixel-based studies reports adjustment to the PAR prior to measurements nor identify the PAR as a possible source of variation within the literature. Addressing PAR will improve the precision and stability of pixel-based VFSS findings and improve comparability within and across clinical and research settings. Supplemental Material S1. Obtain pixel aspect ratio (PAR) using MediaInfo (v22.03). Supplemental Material S2. Estimating pixel aspect ratio (PAR) using ImageJ (v1.53p). Supplemental Material S3. Setting up video scaling to square pixels in HandBrake (v1.5.1). Supplemental Material S4. Premeasurement image scaling in ImageJ (v1.53p). Larsen, D., Ikuma, T., Neubig, L., Kist, A. M., Leonard, R., McWhorter, A. J., & Kunduk, M. (2023). Pixel-based swallow measurements: Correcting nonsquare pixels. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(2), 565–572. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00306
Additional file 1 of Real-world experience with circulating tumor DNA in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with central nervous system tumors
Creators: name: Hickman, Richard A.
name: Miller, Alexandra M.
name: Holle, Bridget M.
name: Jee, Justin
name: Liu, Si-Yang
name: Ross, Dara
name: Yu, Helena
name: Riely, Gregory J.
name: Ombres, Christina
name: Gewirtz, Alexandra N.
name: Reiner, Anne S.
name: Nandakumar, Subhiksha
name: Price, Adam
name: Kaley, Thomas J.
name: Graham, Maya S.
name: Vanderbilt, Chad
name: Rana, Satshil
name: Hill, Katherine
name: Chabot, Kiana
name: Campos, Carl
name: Nafa, Khedoudja
name: Shukla, Neerav
name: Karajannis, Matthias
name: Li, Bob
name: Berger, Michael
name: Ladanyi, Marc
name: Pentsova, Elena
name: Boire, Adrienne
name: Brannon, A. Rose
name: Bale, Tejus
name: Mellinghoff, Ingo K.
name: Arcila, Maria E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Study Overview.Summary of the MSK-IMPACT™ workflow for tumor matched normal sequencing of ctDNA from CSF. cfDNA from CSF and genomic DNA from normal blood are extracted and sequenced as Tumor:Normal pairs to facilitate the analysis of somatic variants including mutations, somatic copy number alterations and structural rearrangements.CONSORT diagram showing samples excluded from pre-analytic and genomic/clinical analyses in this study.Distribution of samples per patient across the overall cohort
Consumers' acceptance of health-related innovations in dry-cured ham from Turopolje pig breed
Creators: name: Karolyi, D
name: Cerjak, M
name: Oliver, MA
name: Dilme, J
name: Vitale, M
name: Kallas, Z
name: Gil, JM
name: Čandek Potokar, M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Turopolje pig (TP) is a local Croatian breed which nearly extinct in the second half of the 20th century. Currently, despite the state support, the TP is still endangered and to self-sustain the breed a new marketing strategy, based on the meat products with an extra added value, is needed. As consumers nowadays increasingly demand for more convenient and healthier types of products, in present work (within TREASURE project) we investigated consumers’ acceptance of health-related innovations associated with the reduction of salting or smoking of TP dry-cured ham. A consumer (n=120) sensory test was carried out in Zagreb city area with the three types of TP hams (typically salted and smoked, less salted or less smoked) and two types of standard hams (conventional and premium) from modern pig breeds. Effect of information on innovation and/or breed on ham preferences was tested using three-step procedures as blind, expected and actual (informed) test on liking scale from 1 (dislike extremely) to 9 (like extremely). Data were analysed by GLM procedures at 0.05 α-level. In the blind test, in the absence of information, no significant differences between ham liking scores were found. In the expectancy test, when only information is given, all types of TP ham were more preferred than conventional ham, but only typical TP ham was preferred over the premium ham. Finally, when tasting is repeated with the information, all TP hams were scored higher than premium ham, while innovative TP hams were scored similar as conventional ham. This results suggest the preference of TP hams over the standard hams and a good acceptance of health-related innovations in TP ham by Croatian consumers. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (grant agreement no. 634476).
Optimale Vermögensaufteilung von Schweizer Pensionskassen unter Einbezug ihrer Immobilienanlagen und Verpflichtungen. Eine empirische Analyse mit Quartalsdaten der Periode 1996 – 2020
Creators: name: Marty, Rudolf
name: Ilg, Peter
Publisher: name: HWZ Working Paper Series
Year: 2023
Subjects: Real Estate
Asset Liability Management
Asset Allocation
HWZ Working Paper Series

description: In dieser Studie werden mittels des von Sharpe und Tint (1990) modifizierten Mittelwert-Varianz-Modells von Markowitz (1952) effiziente Portfolios für Schweizer Pensionskassen berechnet. Dabei wird angenommen, dass mit Ausnahme von Gold nur in inländische Finanz- und Immobilienanlagen investiert wird. Die effizienten Portfolios werden für eine reine Rentner- und eine reine Beitragszahlerkasse berechnet. Es zeigt sich erstens, dass im Bereich risikoarmer bis moderat risikobehafteter Portfolios (d. h. annualisierte Volatilitäten bis 4 %) die Geldmarktanlagen und die Rendite-Wohnimmobilien die dominierenden Anlageklassen sind (maximaler Portfolioanteil unter fünf Anlageklassen). Aufgrund der vorteilhaften Diversifikationseigenschaften von Renditeimmobilien resultieren zudem effiziente Portfolios mit für Rentner- und für Beitragszahlerkassen – gemessen an den BVV2-Richtlinien – zu «hohen» optimalen Immobilienquoten. Dieser Befund ist robust in Bezug auf den Rentneranteil und das Optimierungsverfahren (MV vs. S&T).
An Exploration of Pupil Voice Practice in a Virtual School, Using an Appreciative Inquiry Approach.
Creators: name: Manktelow, Christina
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2023
Subjects: virtual school
pupil voice
child voice
pupil views
looked-after children
Appreciative Inquiry Organisation Chane

description: Virtual Schools are teams within the local authority, who advocate for education matters for children with a social worker (CWSW). These children historically experience significantly poorer educational outcomes than many other cohorts. A key part of the role of the Virtual School is to listen and act upon pupil views. This research is conducted through a positive psychology lens, adopting an ecosystemic approach to organisational change. The systematic literature review critically appraises current research across primary, secondary and specialist provisions, as well as professionals who support children and young people systemically. It revealed a distinct lack of research with Virtual Schools and how pupil views are acted upon. This research uses Appreciative Inquiry (AI) within a qualitative methodology to explore how a Virtual School team conceptualise, obtain, and hear pupils’ views. It also evaluates the usefulness of using AI as a tool for promoting change within a team in a local authority. The research involved team members of a Virtual School interviewing each other to explore pupil voice, then taking part in a focus group to make an action plan for the team to further develop their pupil voice practice. Through the AI process, the research identified how the Virtual School work systemically to hear pupil views and how they support other professionals. The data was analysed using Thematic Analysis (TA). The findings were applied to eco systemic theory, highlighting how the role of the Virtual School permeates each system around the child. Key findings were around the importance of sharing practice; relationships; prioritising authenticity; the power of systemic working. Some barriers were also highlighted by the team. The team found the experience to be beneficial and wished for more time on the project with further opportunities to share practice. The thesis concludes presenting implications of the findings for future practice for Educational Psychologists who work with Virtual Schools and vulnerable children. It also reflects on the researcher’s journey and directions for further research.
La rappresentazione della relazione fra corpo e mente nei racconti Der Magnetiseur, Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht e Die Automate di E.T.A. Hoffmann
Creators: name: Abramo, Federica Claudia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: Nel 1818 E.T.A Hoffmann (1776-1822), celebre e prolifico autore tedesco, chiamato dal tribunale di Berlino a redigere una perizia giudiziaria conosciuta in seguito come Gutachtens �ber die Mordtat des Tabakspinnergesellen Daniel Schmolling, cos� scriveva: �all?uomo, prigioniero della sua vita terrena, non � dato di esplorare le profondit� della propria natura�. Eppure, nonostante la rassegnazione che emerge da queste parole, l?autore esplor� ininterrottamente gli abissi dell?essere umano. A partire da questa riflessione e dal quadro epistemologico delle teorie mediche e filosofiche di met� Settecento e inizio Ottocento, il presente studio analizza alcune modalit� di raffigurazione poetica del rapporto corpo-mente del periodo meta-rappresentate da E.T.A. Hoffmann. Animato da un profondo scetticismo, mai scevro da una grande fascinazione per il sapere del suo tempo, l?autore sviluppa una poetica che concepisce l?opera come un esperimento mentale sulle pi� complesse questioni irrisolte, nel tentativo di comprendere l?essere umano nella sua complessit�. In tale contesto alcuni racconti, quali Der Magnetiseur (1814), Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht (1815) e Die Automate (1814), tematizzano lo spinoso, e al tempo cruciale, rapporto fra corpo e mente, in vista di un miglioramento dell?essere umano che passi attraverso la conoscenza, sebbene l?intervento umano si rilevi fallimentare e controproducente nella ricostituzione di un equilibrio psico-fisico, poich� ancora non si � raggiunto un rapporto armonico tra soggetto e mondo. Dimostrando come la medicina abbia fallito nel presupposto di un intervento unilaterale e parziale, come la stessa creazione umana, se deconnessa dai rapporti di relazione con la totalit� dell?esistente sia fallimentare, e come il progresso non riconduca l?uomo alla totalit� smarrita della natura, ma anzi lo allontani, i racconti di E.T.A. Hoffmann confermano, ex-negativo, l?indissolubile nesso fra corpo e mente e la necessit�, per l?uomo scisso della modernit�, di comprenderne il profondo legame e di armonizzare la propria enthelechia rispetto a un mondo esterno che appare inconciliabile con le forze interiori dell?essere umano.
Additional file 2 of Real-world experience with circulating tumor DNA in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with central nervous system tumors
Creators: name: Hickman, Richard A.
name: Miller, Alexandra M.
name: Holle, Bridget M.
name: Jee, Justin
name: Liu, Si-Yang
name: Ross, Dara
name: Yu, Helena
name: Riely, Gregory J.
name: Ombres, Christina
name: Gewirtz, Alexandra N.
name: Reiner, Anne S.
name: Nandakumar, Subhiksha
name: Price, Adam
name: Kaley, Thomas J.
name: Graham, Maya S.
name: Vanderbilt, Chad
name: Rana, Satshil
name: Hill, Katherine
name: Chabot, Kiana
name: Campos, Carl
name: Nafa, Khedoudja
name: Shukla, Neerav
name: Karajannis, Matthias
name: Li, Bob
name: Berger, Michael
name: Ladanyi, Marc
name: Pentsova, Elena
name: Boire, Adrienne
name: Brannon, A. Rose
name: Bale, Tejus
name: Mellinghoff, Ingo K.
name: Arcila, Maria E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary Figure 2. Variability of ctDNA-positivity and VAF across tumor types.Proportion of samples that are ctDNA+ by tumor type.Boxplots showing the distribution of VAFs across tumor types. Boxplots display the median, quartiles and range of values by tumor type
Per una critica della ragion sacra. La vita e la filosofia di Pietro Prini
Creators: name: Loffi, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2021

description: L'oggetto della tesi � Pietro Prini, filosofo cattolico italiano del Novecento. La prima parte della tesi ne presenta la biografia intellettuale ripercorrendo la vita del filosofo e scandendo le tappe del suo pensiero; la seconda parte propone una ricostruzione sistematica della sua filosofia e la terza analizza la sua filosofia della religione e il rapporto di Prini col cattolicesimo. Nelle conclusioni viene proposto un bilancio critico complessivo.
Lexical characteristic influences on word learning (Peters-Sanders et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Peters-Sanders, Lindsey
name: Sanders, Houston
name: Goldstein, Howard
name: Ramachandran, Kandethody
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Child language acquisition
Speech pathology

description: Purpose: Identifying appropriate targets for vocabulary instruction and determining the optimal sequence for instruction continue to be a challenge. The purpose of this study is to investigate how previously studied lexical characteristics collectively influence children’s word learning. Method: A secondary data analysis was conducted using the word learning results of 350 first-, second-, and third-grade students who participated in an investigation examining the effects of a supplemental vocabulary intervention. We investigated the influence of the following lexical characteristics on the learning of 377 words: word frequency, level of concreteness, phonotactic probabilities, neighborhood density, and age of acquisition using multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS). Results: MARS modeled the influence lexical characteristics had on word learning and determined the relative importance of each variable for each grade-level model. Results revealed age of acquisition was the most important factor related to word learning in all grades, but contributions of other lexical characteristics and their level of importance differed across models. All respective models fit well, with root-mean-square error values ranging from 0.11 to 0.15 and generalized cross validation scores of 0.01 and 0.03. Conclusions: Nuanced information from the MARS analysis provides insights into how lexical characteristics affect word learning differently for children in different grade levels. This information is key to understanding the vocabulary acquisition of school-aged children. The findings from this research have the potential to inform the development of a word selection framework that will organize vocabulary targets into an appropriate sequence based on relevant predictors. Supplemental Material S1. Sample vocabulary instructional script. Peters-Sanders, L., Sanders, H., Goldstein, H., & Ramachandran, K. (2023). Using multivariate adaptive regression splines to predict lexical characteristics’ influence on word learning in first through third graders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(2), 589–604. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00165
Abstraction, retrieval, and perceptual learning in the integrated processing of linguistic and talker-related information
Creators: name: Di Dona, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: During speech perception listeners receive both linguistic information about the speech content as well as information regarding the identity of the talker. While these two aspects have been traditionally studied in isolation, with a dominant interest for linguistic information over talker identity, it is now a widely accepted notion that these two kinds of information are processed in an integrated way. The inclusion of talker-related information in the domain of speech perception highlighted both benefits and challenges for listeners. On the one hand, linguistic and talker-identity information appear to be mutually beneficial for the extraction of both kinds of information from the speech signal. On the other hand, listeners must take care of the great acoustic variability that characterizes the physical dimensions linked to the two kinds of information. The aim of the present dissertation is to study three specific cognitive mechanisms that listeners can use to access the benefits of the integrated processing of linguistic and talker-related information as well as to deal with their intrinsic variability. Three empirical studies employing both behavioural and neurophysiological techniques highlight peculiar aspects of abstraction, memory retrieval and perceptual learning mechanisms in relation to the consequences of including the talker in the study of speech perception.
Majorcan Black Pig carcass, meat and fat quality parameters assessed by a standardised toolbox
Creators: name: Gonzalez, J
name: Gil, M
name: Oliver, MA
name: Jaume, J
name: Lebret, B
name: Díaz, I
name: Tibau, J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: TREASURE project aims to develop sustainable pork chains based on European local pig breeds. The Porc Negre Mallorquí (Majorcan Black Pig, MBP) is an untapped pig breed from Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, included in the project due its high rusticity, adaptation to the environment and meat quality differentiation. Particularities of MBP are mostly unknown out from Mallorca, with only one representative meat product, the ‘sobrassada de Mallorca de Porc Negre’, a fatrich cured sausage owning a PGI trademark. Carcass, meat and fat quality of MBP was evaluated, according to a standardised toolbox of parameters. The toolbox aimed for a harmonised knowledge of untapped breeds, made from the contribution of researcher’s expertise and the literature. The mean values and standard deviation for carcass traits (n=29) were: 156.8±11.8 kg for live weight, 125.3±12.9 kg for carcass weight, 75.1±3.2% for carcass dressing, 88.7±3.7 cm for carcass length and 55.2±10.1 mm for ZP fat. The most remarkable results for the meat quality parameters toolbox (n=58) were an ultimate pH of 5.58±0.12 and electrical conductivity of 6.99±3.44 mS, a lightness value (L*) of 44.10±3.59, a drip loss of 1.49±1.46%, a shear force of 3.46±1.07 kg, and an intramuscular fat (IMF) content of 6.11±3.09%. The maximum value of IMF was 19%, a hint of the wide variability within this untapped breed, representing a disadvantage for the product standardisation in case of fresh meat, but not for ‘sobrassada’, mainly made of grounded ham, shoulder and loin. The results for the major fatty acid (FA) groups in back fat (n=48) samples were 41.00±1.42% of saturated FA, 51.27±1.64% monounsaturated FA and 6.88±0.71% polyunsaturated FA. ‘Sobrassada’ includes 40-50% of back fat, thus the FA composition is critical for product quality. The FA composition, with a high proportion of MUFA and low of PUFA contributes to an optimal technological quality of MBP back fat. Funded by European Union’s H2020 RIA program (grant agreement no. 634476).
An Overview of Transience Bounds in Max-Plus Algebra
Creators: name: Nowak, Thomas
name: Charron-Bost, Bernadette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 15A80 (Primary) 05C20, 05C22, 05C50 (Secondary)

description: We survey and discuss upper bounds on the length of the transient phase of max-plus linear systems and sequences of max-plus matrix powers. In particular, we explain how to extend a result by Nachtigall to yield a new approach for proving such bounds and we state an asymptotic tightness result by using an example given by Hartmann and Arguelles.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures