cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An evaluation of the effectiveness of Rockfish Conservation Areas in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Haggarty, Dana Rochelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Networks of Marine Protected Areas are implemented to conserve fish populations, yet their effectiveness is rarely comprehensively examined or adaptively managed. In this dissertation, I evaluate a network of Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCAs) implemented to reverse population declines of inshore Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.). First, I used SCUBA surveys to examine patterns of Black Rockfish abundance compared to spatial and temporal variability in recruitment to determine how recruitment influences population density in and around a RCA. Habitat variables such as complexity and rocky substrate predicted adult Black Rockfish abundance while recruitment did not. Next, I surveyed the fish communities of 35 RCAs and adjacent unprotected areas using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). Habitat features such as percent rocky substrates and depth influenced the density of Quillback (S. maliger), Yelloweye (S. ruberrimus), Greenstriped Rockfishes (S. elongatus), Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus), Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) and all inshore rockfishes combined, while reserve status did not. The results give little indication that demersal fish populations have recovered inside the RCA system. I used aerial observations of recreational fishing from surveys before, during and after 77 RCAs were established and found there was no evidence of a change in fishing effort in 83% of the RCAs. Compliance was related to the level of fishing effort around the RCA, the size and perimeter-to-area ratio of RCAs, proximity to fishing lodges and the level of enforcement. Non-compliance in RCAs may be hampering their effectiveness and impeding rockfish recovery. Lastly, I modeled rocky reef habitat using Random Forest Classification to assess habitat in the RCAs. I combined three habitat metrics with data on compliance, RCA size, rockfish bycatch, and connectivity into a single Conservation Score. The Conservation Score is related to the log reserve ratio, a measure of relative abundance, for Quillback Rockfish. RCAs with low Conservation Scores are not likely to be effective and managers should evaluate the reasons for low scores and address reserve shortcomings in an adaptive spatial management framework. Education and enforcement efforts are critical to the recovery of depleted fish stocks. Continued monitoring and evaluation of the RCAs is essential to rockfish conservation.
Generalized L/'evy Stochastic Areas and Selfdecomposability
Creators: name: Jurek, Zbigniew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that a conditional characteristic function of generalized Lévy stochastic areas can be viewed as a product a selfdecomposable distribution (i.e., Lévy class L distribution) and its background driving characteristic function. This provides a stochastic interpretation for a ratio of some Bessel functions as well as examples of characteristic functions from van Dantzig class.
Instructions pour la planification participative d’une Journée de la démocratie
Creators: name: Busch, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Unterrichtsmethode
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078637-7
subject: Politischer Unterricht
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076231-2
subject: Demokratische Erziehung
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4149063-0

description: Afin que les Journées de la démocratie produisent pleinement leurs effets, une préparation et une sensibilisation à long terme sont nécessaires. Si possible, tout le personnel de l’école doit être impliqué dans ce processus.
Uma utopia católica sob suspeita: censura romana à Clavis Prophetarum do Padre António Vieira, SJ
Creators: name: Franco, José Eduardo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: A Clavis Prophetarum (Chaves dos Profetas) do Padre António Vieira foi considerada pelo próprio autor como a grande obra da sua vida. Esta obra profética deixada manuscrita por este pregador jesuíta célebre foi objeto de apreciações censórias divergentes após a sua morte. Este estudo pretende analisar e comparar os diferentes pareceres dos censores e avanças pistas explicativas para o facto de a obra ter acabado por ficar nos arquivos sem ter sido dada ao prelo durante três séculos.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Effect of magnetic disorder and strong electron correlations on the thermodynamics of CrN
Creators: name: Alling, B.
name: Marten, T.
name: Abrikosov, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use first-principles calculations to study the effect of magnetic disorder and electron correlations on the structural and thermodynamic properties of CrN. We illustrate the usability of a special quasirandom structure supercell treatment of the magnetic disorder by comparing with coherent potential approximation calculations and with a complementary magnetic sampling method. The need of a treatment of electron correlations effects beyond the local density approximation is proven by a comparison of LDA+U calculations of structural and electronic properties with experimental results. When magnetic disorder and strong electron correlations are taken into account simultaneously, pressure and temperature induced structural and magnetic transitions in CrN can be understood.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 4 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Immunoglobulin levels in vaginal fluid over time. Unbound immunoglobulins were measured menstrual bleeding; time point 1 (T = 1), 7-11 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 2 (T = 2) and 17-25 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 3 (T = 3). The level of (A) unbound IgA1, (B) unbound IgA2 and (C) unbound SIgA over time. All data visualized as 10log of the unbound immunoglobulin concentration corrected for total protein. Red line represents the mean. * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01.
Journées thématiques de la démocratie : débattre des défis sociaux et démocratiques
Creators: name: Busch, Matthias
name: Keuler, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Unterrichtsmethode
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4078637-7
subject: Politischer Unterricht
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4076231-2
subject: Demokratische Erziehung
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4149063-0

description: Les Journées de la démocratie offrent l’opportunité de discuter des défis sociaux actuels et des bases du vivre-ensemble démocratique en dehors de la classe, tout en impliquant plusieurs disciplines et différents groupes d’apprentissage. Cela s’applique tout autant aux écoles primaires que secondaires.
Force-induced topological changes of proteins studied at the single-molecule level
Creators: name: He, Chengzhi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The knotted polypeptide chain is one of the most surprising topological features found in certain proteins. Understanding how knotted proteins overcome the topological difficulty during the folding process has become a challenging problem. Theoretical studies suggest that a slipknotted structure can serve as an important intermediate in the transformation from unknotted structure to a knotted structure. This thesis mainly focuses on the mechanical folding/unfolding of a slipknotted protein, the ORF109 of the Acidianus Filamentous Virus 3 (AFV3-109), using single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS). To show the power of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in the study of SMFS, an α/β protein, NuG2, is stretched and relaxed at a single-molecule level using AFM and the mechanical unfolding and folding events are directly observed. By applying force onto AFV3-109 in different directions, we are able to untie the slipknot to a linear polypeptide chain, as well as tighten it into a trefoil knot involving ∼ 13 amino acid residues. Multiple pathways of untying and tightening are found by both SMFS experiments and Steered Molecular Dynamics (SMD) simulations, revealing that the kinetic partitioning mechanism governs the unfolding of the slipknotted protein. In addition, SMD simulations provide detailed molecular mechanisms of the unfolding of the protein and the topological changes from a slipknot to a linear chain, as well as from a slipknot to a trefoil knot. Moreover, the mechanical folding of AFV3-109 is directly observed using optical tweezers, providing new insight into the folding mechanism of knotted/slipknotted proteins.
Additional file 5 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. The ratio between bound and unbound immunoglobulins. Bound and unbound immunoglobulins were measured during menstrual bleeding; time point 1 (T = 1), 7-11 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 2 (T = 2) and 17-25 days after onset of menstrual bleeding; time point 3 (T = 3). Bound immunoglobulins (coating index) were divided by unbound immunoglobulins (concentration) to calculate the ratio. Red line represents the mean.
A New Factorization Property of the Selfdecomposable Probability Measures
Creators: name: Iksanov, A. M.
name: Jurek, Z. J.
name: Schreiber, B. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60E07, 60B12, secondary 60G51, 60H05

description: We prove that the convolution of a selfdecomposable distribution with its background driving law is again selfdecomposable if and only if the background driving law is s-selfdecomposable. We will refer to this as the \textit{factorization property} of a selfdecomposable distribution; let $L^f$ denote the set of all these distributions. The algebraic structure and various characterizations of $L^f$ are studied. Some examples are discussed, the most interesting one being given by the Lévy stochastic area integral. A nested family of subclasses $L^{f}_n, n\ge 0,$ (or a filtration) of the class $L^f$ is given.
A retrospective cohort study on the primary care service delivery to men and women diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and depression using the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
Creators: name: Singian, Kimberly Rose Pineda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: PURPOSE Parkinson’s disease is a complex neurodegenerative disease with depression as a common comorbidity known to negatively affect quality of life. Yet, limited evidence exists on how the two chronic conditions are treated simultaneously in Canadian primary care. This study aimed to describe the demographic and health characteristics of men and women with Parkinson’s disease and examine the differences in the number and type of medications for depression between men and women with Parkinson’s disease and depression. METHODS This retrospective cohort study analyzed available electronic medical records of patients with Parkinson’s disease who had at least one encounter with a primary care provider between September 30, 2012 and 2014 from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN). In addition to descriptive statistics, Poisson and logistic regression were conducted to examine gender differences in depression treatments. An advisory group comprised of five primary care providers provided additional interpretation of the results. RESULTS A total of 1,815 patients (54.9% male) with Parkinson’s disease were found to be older, living in urban areas, overweight, non-smokers, and had an average of 15.5 encounters with a primary care provider over a two-year period. About 83.6% had at least one comorbidity with hypertension (64.1%) and depression (38.1%) as the most common. Of those who also had depression, 86.2% had at least one medication prescribed for depression; no significant difference was found in the number of medications prescribed by gender. The most frequently prescribed antidepressants were selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (52.2%). CONCLUSIONS This study is unique in its reporting of antidepressant medication management for those with concurrent diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease and depression in primary care. It is the first pan-Canadian study to examine clinical electronic medical record data. The comorbidity of depression in those with Parkinson’s disease needs to be routinely assessed in primary care. Findings highlight the possible need for better decision-support tools consistent with Canadian guidelines to appropriately manage comorbid depression. While more population-level research is warranted, this study provided theoretical and practical knowledge for health care providers to holistically care and positively influence the quality of life of people with Parkinson’s disease.
O “parto místico”: uma abordagem indiciária
Creators: name: Ribeiro, António
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Este artigo pretende analisar o nascimento e evolução de casos de falsa santidade em Portugal nos séculos XVII-XVIII, em que o suposto santo, normalmente uma mulher, se considera escolhido por Deus para dar à luz o Redentor do Mundo. Através de uma análise às fontes inquisitoriais, pretende-se estabelecer limites cronológicos para o fenómeno, determinando-lhe os ritmos de desenvolvimento e relacionando cada caso com o ambiente político, económico, social e religioso que o enforma. Tem ainda como objetivo integrar estes casos num horizonte mais alargado a nível europeu, no sentido de determinar até que ponto estamos perante uma situação de importação de um fenómeno cultural externo, originário de regiões onde a tradição mística era mais forte, como Espanha ou Itália ou, um pouco mais longínquo no tempo, os movimentos heréticos tardo-medievais do norte da Europa. Finalmente, pretende-se de igual forma estabelecer o peso da cultura popular em cada um dos casos compulsados.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
An Improved Dilaton Background in Soft-Wall Model
Creators: name: Jin, Hongying
name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We adopted the form of v.e.v. of the bulk scalar field proposed by P.Zhang in this paper, and changed the dilaton background from $e^{-κ^2z^2}$ to $e^{-κ^2z^2+αz}$ accordingly. The calculation shows that, as if we choose proper parameters, we can get a better result than both the present soft-wall models and the hard-wall model while keeping Regge behavior unchanged.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
Finding small-scale sport spots in suburban areas using QGIS
Creators: name: Schüller, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Finding small-scale sport spots in sub urban areas with the graphic modelation feature using diffrent buffers, attribute table calculations and vector overlay features. The goal of this search is to find/identify spots which are possible places to creat small-scale sport offer especially for teenagers and young adults in an reasonable distance for both: a good reachability but also far away enough to avoid noise pollution for the residential areas.
Entropy in the Mass-Energy Gravity Model: Energy Redistribution, Equilibrium, and the Nature of Disorder
Creators: name: Shreenan-Dyck, Chris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 490204
subject: Mathematical aspects of general relativity

description: This paper extends the Mass-Energy Gravity (MEG) model by redefining entropy as a process of energy redistribution rather than a universal increase in disorder. In MEG, entropy is not driven by an absolute arrow of time but emerges from the way energy-density gradients (EDGs) dissipate over cosmic scales. This perspective challenges traditional thermodynamic interpretations by suggesting that entropy evolution depends on local energy conditions rather than a fixed time progression.We explore how entropy influences cosmic structure formation, its role in black hole dynamics, and whether mass-energy can ever reach true equilibrium. Unlike conventional models predicting inevitable heat death, MEG suggests that entropy’s behavior is shaped by the interaction between cosmic expansion and EDGs, which influence the persistence of large-scale structures over cosmic timescales. However, this does not imply that heat death is categorically avoided—rather, it suggests that the redistribution of energy through EDGs could delay or alter the conventional thermodynamic trajectory on cosmological scales.Finally, we propose observational tests to distinguish MEG’s entropy framework from standard thermodynamic models, including studies of black hole entropy limits, cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations, and energy redistribution in large-scale structures.This work provides a novel perspective on entropy’s role in the universe, bridging gravitational dynamics, cosmology, and thermodynamics under a single, unified framework.

For inquiries, please contact me at: chris.sd.mail@gmail.com
O Regimento do Coro da Sé de Braga de 1506
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Ana Maria S. A.
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Publica-se, em transcrição, o Regimento do Coro promulgado pelo arcebispo de Braga D. Diogo de Sousa em 1506. O Regimento representa uma das acções de reforma da solenidade do culto e da moralização da vida do clero bracarense por parte do prelado, que assumira a responsabilidade da diocese no ano de 1505.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
The pattern and pathways of infectious morbidity in South African HIV exposed uninfected infants
Creators: name: Slogrove, Amy L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Universal infant morbidity risk factors (poor birth outcomes, suboptimal breastfeeding, poverty) occur more frequently in HIV exposed uninfected (HEU) than HIV unexposed uninfected (HUU) infants. HEU infants’ unique exposures, including in utero exposure to HIV products and maternal immune compromise, may potentiate HEU infants’ infectious morbidity risk. The primary objective was to determine whether HEU infants experience greater infectious morbidity than HUU infants through HIV exposure-specific pathways beyond universal infant morbidity risk factors. Methods: This prospective cohort study identified low risk HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected mothers and their term newborns from a single community midwife unit in Kraaifontein, South Africa. The primary outcome, at least one infectious cause hospitalization or death before six months of age, was classified according to modified WHO case-definitions and compared between HEU and HUU infants. Complete outcome determination on all infants was possible through linkage with the electronic provincial hospital administration system and mortality registry. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) were calculated by multivariable logistic regression including stratified analyses conditioned on breastfeeding. Results: One hundred and seventy six (94 HEU, 82 HUU) mother-infant pairs were included. HIV-infected mothers were older (median 27.8 vs. 24.7 years, p<0.01) and HEU infants less often breastfed (35/94 (37%) vs. 81/82 (99%), p<0.001). The groups were similar on maternal education, antenatal course, household characteristics, birth weight, gestational age and immunizations. Incidence rate ratio of all-cause sick clinic visits in HEU compared to HUU infants was 0.82 (95% CI 0.58,1.16). The primary outcome occurred in 17 (18%) HEU and 10 (12%) HUU infants (p=0.38), giving an aOR of 1.45 (95% CI 0.44,4.55). In stratified analysis comparing only infants with any breastfeeding, HEU infants had an aOR for a very severe infectious cause hospitalization or death of 4.2 (95% CI 1.00,19.2, p=0.05). Seven of 17(41%) HEU and 1/10 (10%) HUU primary outcome events occurred after 90 days of age (p=0.07). Conclusion: Amongst term infants with similar social circumstances, a higher probability of very severe infectious morbidity was observed in breastfed HEU compared to breastfed HUU infants. HEU infant risk may be driven through HIV exposure-specific pathways unrelated to universal infant morbidity risk factors.
A Congregação Cisterciense de Santa Maria de Alcobaça nos séculos XVI e XVII: elementos para o seu conhecimento
Creators: name: Gomes, Saul António
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: O autor analisa, neste estudo, as condições históricas que conduziram ao estabelecimento, em 1567, da Congregação de Santa Maria de Alcobaça, procurando avaliar a situação das abadias cistercienses nos alvores de Quinhentos, o papel dos grandes-comendatários à frente dos destinos dos monges alcobacenses, com especial incidência sobre a acção do Cardeal D. Henrique, finalizando com algumas considerações em torno da “nova imagem” observante e maior vocação pastoral ad gentes que a Ordem assume no Portugal dos Séculos XVI e XVII.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
title: Translation and Intercultural Awareness
title: Translation and Intercultural Awareness
Creators: name: Sidiropoulou, Maria
Publisher: name: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mετάφραση
Διαπολιτισμικά ταυτότητα
Ελληνική-αγγλική
Translation
Cross-cultural identities
Greek-English

description: It is widely acknowledged that discoursal features within a language vary with respect to genre, let alone across cultures. The book confirms the significance of genre in shaping discourse and agrees that communities of practice may display variability in the use of discourse phenomena. However, it intends to examine the use of pragmatic features across genres (through translation) to show that certain discourse preferences are so strongly rooted in a cultural context that permeate the discourse of quite a few genres in present day translated communication practice. This positioning may seem to contradict the theoretical significance of the notion of ‘community of practice’ and to point towards a holistic perception of culture. However, it only aims at creating awareness of discoursal preferences which permeate genres cross-culturally and are manifested through translation. The book analyses the use of certain pragmatic phenomena across as many genres as possible, through translated material where the difference in the use of the phenomena becomes tangible.
description: It is widely acknowledged that discoursal features within a language vary with respect to genre, let alone across cultures. The book confirms the significance of genre in shaping discourse and agrees that communities of practice may display variability in the use of discourse phenomena. However, it intends to examine the use of pragmatic features across genres (through translation) to show that certain discourse preferences are so strongly rooted in a cultural context that permeate the discourse of quite a few genres in present day translated communication practice. This positioning may seem to contradict the theoretical significance of the notion of ‘community of practice’ and to point towards a holistic perception of culture. However, it only aims at creating awareness of discoursal preferences which permeate genres cross-culturally and are manifested through translation. The book analyses the use of certain pragmatic phenomena across as many genres as possible, through translated material where the difference in the use of the phenomena becomes tangible.
Comment on "Resilience of gated avalanche photodiodes against bright illumination attacks in quantum cryptography"
Creators: name: Lydersen, Lars
name: Makarov, Vadim
name: Skaar, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a comment on the publication by Yuan et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 231104 (2011); arXiv:1106.2675v1 [quant-ph]].
description: 2 pages
Emergência do temporal no sagrado: a Analyse da Profissão de Fé do Santo Padre Pio IV, de Pereira de Figueiredo
Creators: name: Castro, Zília Osório De
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: O artigo apresenta uma investigação em torno do conteúdo da obra Analyse da Profissão da Fé de Pio IV, do Oratoriano António Pereira de Figueiredo, publicada em 1791, e das reações à publicação, integrando-a no debate cultural que opunha ultramontanos a regalistas, jansenistas e galicanos. Participado no processo de secularização, a obra em questão assinala a emergência do temporal no âmbito do sagrado, isto é, distingue o que era matéria de fé – dogmático, imutável e atemporal – daquilo que se ficava pelo campo das opiniões – temporal, histórico e transfinito. O impacto da Analyse suscitou diversas e vivas reações entre os pensadores da época, tal como aqui se assinala.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Mroczny Rycerz Gotham – szkice z kultury popularnej
Creators: name: Chudoliński, Michał
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Visual cultures
Art history
Art criticism

description: The Dark Knight of Gotham is a collection of essays, from which you will learn about the genesis of the creation of the icon of American pop culture - Batman, as well as the most important texts related to the area of DC Comics mythology. In the book, both comic books and films are subjected to an in-depth analysis, conducted especially through the prism of the cognitive apparatus of deviant sociology. It's also a look at the Batman character in the age of political correctness, allowing us to discover how progressivism is changing the pronunciation of one of the most famous literary and transmedia heroes.
 "[The book] has immeasurably enriched my knowledge of a figure symbolic not only to the world of comics, pop culture, or culture in general. (...) a study dedicated not so much to Batman, but - in its essence - to the modern man who, like a hooded avenger, hides his multidimensional identity under the mask of a mystery waiting to be uncovered." Dr. Piotr Kletowski, Prof. UJ, Institute of the Near and Far East
 "Mr. Michal Chudolinski is an excellent expert on popular culture, including comics. He captivated me with his diligence and knowledge of the subject. Culture-related media and universities should take advantage of this." Prof. Jacek Dabala, media scholar, Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at Jagiellonian University
 Michal Chudolinski (born 1988) - comics and film critic. He teaches classes at Collegium Civitas on American mass culture, with a special focus on comic books. Originator and managing editor of the blog "Gotham in the Rain". Polish correspondent of the worldwide magazine "The Comics Journal". Co-founder and member of the supervisory board of the Polish Science Fiction Foundation. He has written for academic journals such as Popular Culture, Literature and Popular Culture and the International Journal of Comic Art.
Additional file 6 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Microbiota composition over time. Heat map depicting the top 20 most abundant species among the 25 study participants during menstrual bleeding (1), time point 2 (2) and time point 3 (3). Colors reflect the relative abundance.
Spread and impact of an eruptive herbivore in a novel habitat : consequences of climate change-induced range expansion
Creators: name: Robinson, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) has now affected more than 16 million hectares of forest in western Canada causing significant economic, social and ecological impact to the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Recent findings suggest that pine trees lacking historical exposure to MPB impacts are evolutionary naive, resulting in unprecedented impacts in previously unoccupied areas. MPB can also reproduce successfully in jack pine, the most abundant species of Pinus in the boreal forest which provides a potential conduit for further range expansion eastwards. Current understanding of MPB outbreak dynamics is based largely on research from its original habitat in lodgepole pine. As MPB expand their range, population dynamics are expected to differ from that of the originating habitat due to novel trophic interactions. I assessed the speculation that tree depletion by MPB in novel pine habitat is more severe than in evolutionarily experienced habitat. I utilized a landscape-level analysis of MPB infestation data across BC in relation to forest characteristics and climatic suitability. This required the use of several different data sources including a climate suitability model, province wide vegetation inventory and annual aerial overview survey data. Additionally I evaluated how potential host availability varies across the boreal forest of Canada and how this affects rates of spread under varying levels of climatic suitability and host susceptibility. Habitats only recently invaded by the MPB experienced impacts that were 1.7 to 3.9 times greater than those with long-term exposure to MPB impacts. Predicted MPB spread was rapid under conditions of high climatic suitability. Only under conditions of both low climate suitability and low host susceptibility did host availability limit spread. The challenge to forest management is large given the recently documented changes to insect population dynamics in naive environments. Priority should be given to the development of predictive tools supporting strategic landscape planning intent on minimizing additional impacts to naive ecosystems into the future. Despite continued uncertainty as to community and ecosystem trajectories under global change, this thesis exposes a coherent pattern of ecological change across a broad system at two distinct spatial scales.
O “terremoto” provocado por Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo na América Portuguesa
Creators: name: Assunção, Paulo De
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Este artigo visa a apresentar e discutir algumas ações empreendidas por Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo na América Portuguesa. Procuramos abordar este período, considerando as permanências e mudanças ocorridas, em especial na educação, que sofreu um forte impacto com a expulsão dos jesuítas de Portugal e do império e a reformulação do ensino sob o controlo do Estado. Além disso, enfocamos a questão do Tratado de Limites e os projetos que o primeiro-ministro do monarca D. José I tinha a intenção de implementar, para corrigir a desfasagem do reino em relação às outras cortes europeias.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Genetic Classification of Populations using Supervised Learning
Creators: name: Bridges, M.
name: Heron, E. A.
name: O'Dushlaine, C.
name: Segurado, R.
name: Consortium, The International Schizophrenia
name: Morris, D.
name: Corvin, A.
name: Gill, M.
name: Pinto, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: There are many instances in genetics in which we wish to determine whether two candidate populations are distinguishable on the basis of their genetic structure. Examples include populations which are geographically separated, case--control studies and quality control (when participants in a study have been genotyped at different laboratories). This latter application is of particular importance in the era of large scale genome wide association studies, when collections of individuals genotyped at different locations are being merged to provide increased power. The traditional method for detecting structure within a population is some form of exploratory technique such as principal components analysis. Such methods, which do not utilise our prior knowledge of the membership of the candidate populations. are termed \emph{unsupervised}. Supervised methods, on the other hand are able to utilise this prior knowledge when it is available. In this paper we demonstrate that in such cases modern supervised approaches are a more appropriate tool for detecting genetic differences between populations. We apply two such methods, (neural networks and support vector machines) to the classification of three populations (two from Scotland and one from Bulgaria). The sensitivity exhibited by both these methods is considerably higher than that attained by principal components analysis and in fact comfortably exceeds a recently conjectured theoretical limit on the sensitivity of unsupervised methods. In particular, our methods can distinguish between the two Scottish populations, where principal components analysis cannot. We suggest, on the basis of our results that a supervised learning approach should be the method of choice when classifying individuals into pre-defined populations, particularly in quality control for large scale genome wide association studies.
description: Accepted PLOS One
A acção da Igreja no terramoto de Lisboa de 1755: ministério espiritual e pregação
Creators: name: Marques, João Francisco
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: O grande terramoto de Lisboa de 1755 – catástrofe de proporções apocalípticas para os contemporâneos – deu lugar a reações imediatas da parte do poder civil e eclesiástico que mobilizaram o reino, sobretudo nos espaços mais afetados pelo sinistro. As atividades religiosas ditadas pelas circunstâncias traduziram-se por um largo efeito positivo que se repercutiu no controle psicológico das populações, no recobro do ritmo das tarefas quotidianas e na recuperação da esperança abalada no futuro imediato. A pregação oral, muito densa por todo o lado, e os espécimes de imediato impressos permitem sondar o teor e a casuística que importavam mobilizar, consentâneos com o momento vivido, o que permite avaliar, ao tempo, o poderosíssimo alcance desse meio de comunicação social.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Additional file 7 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. Bacteria with bound IgG, IgG bound to bacteria and IgG Median Fluorescence Intensity (MFI) per bacterium in women with L. crispatus dominated and non-L. crispatus dominated microbiota over time. The (A) percentage of bacteria with bound IgG, (B) coating index of IgG bound to bacteria and (C) IgG MFI per bacterium in women with L. crispatus dominated vaginal microbiota compared to women having non-L. crispatus dominated vaginal microbiota over time. Red line represents the mean.
Targeted lentiviral-mediated delivery of progranulin cDNA in a genetic model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Zwiegers, Pierre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatally progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of motor neurons in both the brain and spinal cord. Neuronal cell death leads to a lack of muscle innervation which eventually gives rise to paralysis. Patients typically survive less than five years following the initial onset; with respiratory complications ultimately causal in death. The majority of ALS cases are of unknown etiology, with around 5% linked to aberrant genetic mutations. The most well characterized mutations account for approximately 1-2% of all ALS cases, and are linked to the genetic locus for superoxide dismutase-1 (SOD1). The severity of disease and the concomitant lack of effective therapeutic options necessitate significant research efforts in search of viable treatment options that would significantly impede and/or reverse the ultimate loss of motor neurons. Progranulin (PGRN) may be one such an option since the protein is a secreted growth factor that has demonstrated neuroprotective outcomes in models of Alzheimer’s- and Parkinson’s disease and may generally be important in the long term survival of neurons. Employing a lentiviral-mediated delivery mechanism at a stage prior to disease onset, we set out to assess the potential neurotrophic properties of exogenously delivered PGRN cDNA when targeted to neuronal subsets within the lumbar spinal cord of mice expressing mutant SOD1. The resultant outcomes at both the behavioural and neuropathological levels did not demonstrate any significant protective effect from the lentiviral delivery of exogenous PGRN. PGRN-treated cohorts did not exhibit an increase in overall survival, a decrease in gliosis, or an increase in neuronal viability when compared to the GFP-lentiviral-injected control groups. This study suggests that PGRN delivery at an early stage of ALS neurodegeneration preceding the phenotypic expression of disease may not be a viable therapeutic option in ameliorating the ALS degenerative cascade. Technical caveats to this interpretation are discussed. One of these includes the unexpected reduction in the copy number of the mSOD1 gene in transgenic mice, which ultimately presenting with a protracted progression of the disease. The present study thus additionally underscores some of the challenges faced in pre-clinical therapeutic development using murine ALS models.
ارزشگذاری شبکه اجتماعی اینستاگرام با رویکرد ارزشگذاری  مشروط (مطالعه موردی کاربران در شهر تهران)
Publisher: name: دانشگاه کردستان
Year: 2022

description: در دنیای کنونی سیاست گذاران در تلاش اند که به منظور دستیابی به اهداف سیاست های اقتصادی خود، در فرآیند تصمیم گیری و اجرای سیاست های مذکور، ترجیحات و تمایلات جامعه را به عنوان یک رکن مدنظر قرار دهند. سیاست گذاری در حوزه شبکه های اجتماعی نیز از این امر مستثنی نیست، لذا شناخت رفتار مصرف کننده و کاربران شبکه های اجتماعی، امکان موفقیت سیاست ها را بیش از پیش فراهم می کند. در این پژوهش با استفاده از روش یک و نیم بعدی ، ارزش غیر بازاری و میزان تمایل به دریافت کاربران جهت عدم استفاده از اینستاگرام برآورد شده است. مبالغ پیشنهادی ارائه شده در پرسشنامه به روش کوپر طراحی شده است. حجم کل نمونه از طریق فرمول میشل و کارسون به میزان 781 کاربر تعیین شده است. تابع مربوطه با روش حداکثر درست نمایی تخمین زده شد. نتایج حاصل نشان می دهد، که حداقل تمایل به دریافت کاربران برای عدم استفاده از اینستاگرام به مدت یک ماه ، 379578 تومان است، که به طور تقریبی ماهانه مازاد رفاهی معادل، 989 میلیارد تومان خواهد بود. متغیرهای درآمد خانوار، تحصیلات، بودجه اختصاصی خانوار جهت دسترسی به اینترنت و زمان استفاده از اینستاگرام اثر مثبت و معنادار و سن، جنسیت، تاهل و سرپرست خانوار بودن اثر منفی و معناداری بر میزان تمایل به دریافت کاربران جهت عدم استفاده از اینستاگرام دارد. نتایج تحقیق نشان داد که از بین کاربران، بالاترین تمایل به دریافت مذکور مربوط به گروه کارمندان و بعد از آن به مربوط به ترتیب دانشجویان و دانش آموزان، زنان خانه دار، مشاغل آزاد، بیکاران و بازنشستگان است
O “terramoto” pombalino e a campanha de “desjesuitização” de Portugal
Creators: name: Franco, José Eduardo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Este artigo pretende compreender o processo de expulsão dos jesuítas pela mão política do Marquês de Pombal, problematizando as suas motivações e analisando o processo subsequente de desjesuitização de Portugal.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Anaqueles de sacra erudición: libros y lecturas de un predicador en el Portugal de mediados del siglo XVII
Creators: name: Palomo, Federico
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: Com base nas perspetivas de análise que têm vindo a ser definidas no âmbito da história cultural, nomeadamente nos estudos em torno da história do livro e da leitura na época moderna, o presente ensaio visa contribuir para o conhecimento do que foi e significou a presença e circulação dos escritos de natureza religiosa na sociedade portuguesa de Antigo Regime, nomeadamente (mas não apenas) entre os próprios membros do clero. A fim de sublinhar o carácter diferenciado que marcou a cultura literária destes últimos, o estudo aproxima-se ao que, no contexto português do século XVII, constituía o acervo de livros que habitualmente reunia um pregador. A partir da análise da biblioteca de um anónimo religioso da Companhia de Jesus, são considerados os vários tipos de escritos que este, enquanto orador sagrado, acumulou no seu cubículo. São ainda analisadas as práticas de leitura que tais textos podiam suscitar com vista à realização das próprias operações retóricas que exigia o ofício do púlpito.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
Finite difference schemes for elliptic partial differential equations requiring a non-uniform mesh
Creators: name: Huber, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A variety of finite difference schemes are explored for the numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations, specifically the Poisson and convection-diffusion equations. Problems are investigated that require the use of a non-uniform or non-square mesh. This may be due to a non-square domain or a problem with a singularity. We explore the properties of the linear operators in the resulting systems of linear equations. In particular, we investigate the conditioning and eigenvalues of these operators, both numerically and in search of an approximation of these eigenvalues. We also investigate the choice of finite difference scheme with respect to accuracy and cost.
Additional file 8 of Enhanced IgA coating of bacteria in women with Lactobacillus crispatus-dominated vaginal microbiota
Creators: name: Breedveld, Annelot C.
name: Schuster, Heleen J.
name: van Houdt, Robin
name: Painter, Rebecca C.
name: Mebius, Reina E.
name: van der Veer, Charlotte
name: Bruisten, Sylvia M.
name: Savelkoul, Paul H. M.
name: van Egmond, Marjolein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S7. Immunoglobulin levels in vaginal fluid from women with L. crispatus dominated and non-L. crispatus dominated microbiota over time. Unbound IgA, IgG, IgA1, IgA2 and SIgA in women with L. crispatus dominated vaginal microbiota compared to women having non-L. crispatus dominated vaginal microbiota over time. Data visualized as 10log of the unbound immunoglobulin concentration corrected for total protein. Red line represents the mean.
Itinerários franciscanos na Índia seiscentista, e algumas questões de história e de método
Creators: name: Xavier, Ângela Barreto
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2006

description: A literatura sobre o papel das ordens religiosas na experiência imperial portuguesa incide, sobretudo, sobre a presença dos Jesuítas. A meu ver, esta hegemonia inaciana deve-se, em boa medida, às rotinas do métier de l’historien, demasiado dependente das fontes escritas, privilegiando, por conseguinte, os agentes e os processos que deixaram vestígios escritos. Um dos efeitos destas práticas do historiador é a construção de uma paisagem histórica que, a muitos níveis, é distorcida, e onde – por exemplo –, a experiência de outras ordens religiosas se torna praticamente invisível. Neste artigo, apresento alguns exemplos franciscanos com o intuito de defender a necessidade de alternativas metodológicas que nos permitam oferecer, no futuro, uma visão mais rica sobre a presença de outros agentes religiosos na construção do império português, mas também das cristandades indianas.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 18 (2006): Catolicismo e Sociedade na Época Moderna: o Terramoto de 1755
An $L^{0}({\cal F},R)-$valued function's intermediate value theorem and its applications to random uniform convexity
Creators: name: TieXin, Guo
name: XiaoLin, Zeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46A22, 46B20, 46E30

description: Let $(Ω,{\cal F},P)$ be a probability space and $L^{0}({\cal F},R)$ the algebra of equivalence classes of real-valued random variables on $(Ω,{\cal F},P)$. When $L^{0}({\cal F},R)$ is endowed with the topology of convergence in probability, we prove an intermediate value theorem for a continuous local function from $L^{0}({\cal F},R)$ to $L^{0}({\cal F},R)$. As applications of this theorem, we first give several useful expressions for modulus of random convexity, then we prove that a complete random normed module $(S,\|\cdot\|)$ is random uniformly convex iff $L^{p}(S)$ is uniformly convex for each fixed positive number $p$ such that $1
description: 14pages