cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Jane McGonigal, La realtà in gioco. Perché i giochi ci rendono migliori e come possono cambiare il mondo. Milano: Apogeo (2011).
Creators: name: Bruni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Recensione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
Frangula plena Doweld 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rhamnaceae
Frangula
Frangula plena

description: 3.4. Frangula plena (MacGinitie) Doweld, comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Rhamnus plena MacGinitie (1937: 146, pl. 12: fig. 4) (‘ plenus ’).
Type:— UCMP 1053 (University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, USA).
Geography:—Redding Creek, Hay Fork, Trinity Co., California, USA.
Stratigraphy:—Oligocene.
Status:—Leaves.
IFPNI registration record:— 79FBCAFF-543D-4278-BB08-1EE8225E283D.
 Note:—The fossil-species is compared with extant Frangula crenata (Siebold & Zuccarini 1845: 146) Miquel (1867: 32).
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names of fossil Atadinus, Endotropis and Frangula (Rhamnaceae), pp. 194-200 in Phytotaxa 321 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.321.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13697436
New York Poll--New York City Regular Sample
Creators: name: New York Times
name: WCBS-TV
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Mayor Koch (3); Governor Mario Cuomo (2); Rev. Al Sharpton (3); Vernon Mason (3); Alton Maddox Jr. (3); Robert Abrams (2); Tawana Brawley (16); race relations (7); police/judges/courts treatment of blacks vs. whites (4).
WCBS-TV/New York Times General Election Poll: New York City
Creators: name: New York Times
name: WCBS-TV
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Mayor election (1); matters deciding vote (2); David Dinkins financial affair affecting vote (1); vote for comptroller (1); city council vote (1); Proposal #2 (1); Ed Koch job performance (1); race affecting vote (1); Rudolph Giuliani as mayor (1); David Dinkins job performance (1); describing mayoral choice (1); time of decision for vote (1); contact from campaigner (1); David Dinkins (1); Rudolph Giuliani (1); TV ads affecting vote (1); 1989 mayoral vote (1); labor union membership (1); city's future (1); religion (1); Ed Koch as mayor (1); dealing with city budget deficit (1).
Damiano Felini (a cura di), Video game education. Studi e percorsi di formazione. Milano: Unicopli (2012).
Creators: name: Bruni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Recensione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
Cultural differences in parenting styles and their effects on teens' self-esteem, perceived parental relationship satisfaction, and self-satisfaction
Creators: name: Chang, Mimi
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Developmental Psychology and Ageing

description: It is commonly understood that adolescence can be a time when teens attempt to reconcile their own desires and needs with the wishes of their parents. While some adolescents get through this period of time without many problems, others tend to experience many negative effects. It is possible that the parent’s role in the relationship may play a part in the development of teenager’s self-esteem and self-satisfaction. Cultural values such as the Asian American emphasis on interdependence and family harmony may influence the type of parenting style these parents may choose to adopt. A study was performed with 156 teenagers from central New Jersey to determine the effects of parenting styles on teenagers’ self-esteem and overall satisfaction with their parents and themselves. Results indicated that there were no significant differences between race and authoritative parenting style, however, significant differences were found in that Asian American parents tended to be more authoritarian than their Caucasian counterparts. Furthermore, authoritative parenting was found to be associated with higher self esteem and satisfaction. Findings from the study are discussed in terms of the impact of cultural expectations on adolescents’ satisfaction with self and with their parents.
Eigenvalue-based determinants for scalar products and form factors in Richardson-Gaudin integrable models coupled to a bosonic mode
Creators: name: Claeys, Pieter W.
name: De Baerdemacker, Stijn
name: Van Raemdonck, Mario
name: Van Neck, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from integrable $su(2)$ (quasi-)spin Richardson-Gaudin XXZ models we derive several properties of integrable spin models coupled to a bosonic mode. We focus on the Dicke-Jaynes-Cummings-Gaudin models and the two-channel $(p+ip)$-wave pairing Hamiltonian. The pseudo-deformation of the underlying $su(2)$ algebra is here introduced as a way to obtain these models in the contraction limit of different Richardson-Gaudin models. This allows for the construction of the full set of conserved charges, the Bethe Ansatz state, and the resulting Richardson-Gaudin equations. For these models an alternative and simpler set of quadratic equations can be found in terms of the eigenvalues of the conserved charges. Furthermore, the recently proposed eigenvalue-based determinant expressions for the overlaps and form factors of local operators are extended to these models, linking the results previously presented for the Dicke-Jaynes-Cummings-Gaudin models with the general results for Richardson-Gaudin XXZ models.
Religiosity & Science 1
Creators: name: Price, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Data will be collected via Amazon MTurk, using Qualtrics software. Main purpose of this study is to investigate links between religious/scientific worldviews and optimism. I've been developing measures of religious beliefs (RB), scientific beliefs (SB), current optimism (CO), and redemptive thinking (RT). I will be checking these measures for internal consistency and other psychometric properties. The study has an experimental design; measures of RB and SB are meant to serve as primes (by evoking either a religious or scientific mindset). In C1, participants will fill out RB first, whereas in C2, participants will fill out SB first. In both conditions, participants will fill out CO immediately after filling out either RB or SB. Prediction 1: CO will be higher among C1 participants who score highly in RB (an interaction effect between condition and RB), than among C1 participants who score low in RB and C2 participants. Prediction 2: Positive correlation between RB and CO. I'm also interested in exploring the relationship between SB and CO, and possible interaction effect between condition and SB score. It could be the case that higher scores in either RB or SB are associated with higher CO; that is, maybe it's not just religious beliefs per se, but 'beliefs' more generally (either religious or scientific) that associate positively with optimism. Finally, I'm interested in extent to which RB's relationship with CO is mediated by its relationship with RT. Sample size (N = 1,000) is based on prior research of a similar nature, and expectation that an N of this size may be necessary to detect weak experimental effects, and possible interaction effects with RB/SB scores and participant sex.
Lasianthus phamhoangii V. S. Dang & Naiki 2021
Creators: name: Dang, Van-Son
name: Naiki, Akiyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Lasianthus
Lasianthus phamhoangii

description: 55. Lasianthus phamhoangii V.S.Dang & Naiki (2021: 28) — Fig. 83 (plate), Fig. 84 (map) Type: — VIETNAM. Khanh Hoa Province, Hon Ba Nature Reserve, 617 m elev., 22 November 2014, Toyama H., Tagane S., Dang V.S., Nagamasu H., Naiki A., Tran H., Yang C.J. with Hieu H.N.P. V1962 (holotype VNM! [VNM00042929]; isotypes FU!, VNM! [VNM00042930, VNM00042931], the herbarium of Iriomote Station (Japan)). Specimens examined: — VIETNAM. Central: Khanh Hoa Province, Hon Ba Nature Reserve, 617 m elev., 12°06’39.77’’N, 108°58’59.23’’E, in evergreen forests, 22 November 2014, Toyama H., Tagane S., Dang V.S., Nagamasu H., Naiki A., Tran H., Yang C.J. with Hieu H.N.P. V1962 (FU, VNM, the herbarium of Iriomote Station (Japan)); in the same location, 919 m elev., 12°06’46.88’’N, 108°58’14.43’’E, in evergreen forests, 21 February 2014, Toyama H., Dang V.S., Tagane S., Fuse K., Yahara T., Nagamasu H., Tran H. with Ngoc N.V., Cuong N.Q., Thach N.D., Hieu H.N.P. V 846 (FU, VNM, the herbarium of Iriomote Station (Japan)). Distribution: —Endemic to Vietnam (known only from the Hon Ba Nature Reserve, Khanh Hoa Province). Habitat & Ecology: —Primary or secondary forests at elevations between 600–1000 m. Phenology: —Flowering and fruiting from April to September. Vernacular name: —Xú hưƠng phạm hoàng hộ. Notes: — Lasianthus phamhoangii is similar to L. hirsutus (Roxb.) Merr. (1924: 382) in having rusty hirsute on branches and branchlets, the shape of leaves, inflorescences and fruit color but distinguished by its secondary veins (12–16 on each side of midrib vs. 7–10 on each side of midrib), shorter stipules (6–7.5 mm long vs. 8–10 mm long), calyx and corolla lobes 4 (vs. 5), larger calyx (2.5–3.5 mm long vs. 1 mm long for tubes and 1.5–2 mm long vs. 2.5 mm long for lobes) and corolla (12–15 mm long vs. 10–12 mm long for tubes and 3–5 mm long vs. 3 mm long for lobes) and fruits with 4 (vs. 5) pyrenes.
description: Published as part of Dang, Van-Son & Naiki, Akiyo, 2023, A revision of the genus Lasianthus Jack (Rubiaceae) from Vietnam, pp. 1921-1935 in Phytotaxa 581 (1) on pages 1921-1935, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.581.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7571550
A note on closedness of the sum of two closed subspaces in a Banach space
Creators: name: Zheng, Zhe-Ming
name: Ding, Hui-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X$ be a Banach space, and $M,N$ be two closed subspaces of $X$. We present several necessary and sufficient conditions for the closedness of $M+N$ ($M+N$ is not necessarily direct sum).
Open Access – Das sind Ihre Möglichkeiten für die Publikation von Artikeln
Creators: name: Brinken, Helene
name: Rücknagel, Jessika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open access

description: Das Flow Chart "Open Access – Das sind Ihre Möglichkeiten für die Publikation von Artikeln" wurde im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network erstellt. Es liegt als PDF- und PPTX-Datei zur einfachen Nachnutzung vor.
How are automated tools for systematic reviews being evaluated? A methodological review
Creators: name: Aliani, Razia
name: Pitcher, Nicole
name: Boutron, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Systematic Reviews (SRs) are highly demanded in healthcare but are extremely resource-intensive and time-consuming. One of the solutions put forward to support reviewers in conducting SRs is automation. Several automated tools have been developed, but it is currently unclear 1) whether such tools have been evaluated, and 2) if so, how have they been evaluated. To remedy this gap, we undertook a methodological systematic review.
Project CAPE: Effect of a Simulation-based Educational Intervention on Provider Comfort
Creators: name: Shaikh, Sophie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: The challenges of maintaining preparedness for pediatric emergency resuscitations are amplified in small rural hospitals where providers have little opportunity to practice their skills. Educational interventions including patient simulations can be used to allow the practice of skills, and their use has been shown to improve both provider comfort and patient outcomes. Objective: This study analyses the results from a 1-year pilot project of Project CAPE, an educational intervention incorporating simulated pediatric resuscitation scenarios and TeamSTEPPS training. We aimed to determine whether participation in Project CAPE improves the comfort level of ED medical providers with certain key skills during pediatric emergencies. Methods: Five small rural critical access hospitals took part, receiving TeamSTEPPS training and participating in regular simulated pediatric resuscitation scenarios. The scenarios were “scored” using a standardized checklist. ED staff completed an iterative survey at several points throughout the year, with the first, baseline survey completed before the first intervention. The survey was designed to assess their comfort level with various life-saving pediatric procedures, and a focus group completed an additional debrief survey at the completion of the pilot project. Results: Baseline data suggest provider experience with key procedures is low, and their comfort performing these procedures is also low. Forty out of 42 different comfort measures increased over baseline after a year of Project CAPE. Several of these changes were statistically significant. Conclusions: This study adds to the growing body of literature suggesting that educational interventions incorporating simulated resuscitation scenarios improve provider comfort, and supports the recommendation that such educational interventions should be implemented in emergency departments.
Chiapas Peasant Uprising Survey: February, 1994
Creators: name: Office Of The Technical Advisor To The President Of Mexico
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Vote in presidential elections(3); situation of the Chiapas uprising(2); Salinas approval(2); main responsibility of the uprising(3); level of support for the uprising(3), popularity of Manuel Camacho(3); popularity of Luis D. Colosio(1); evaluation of government during the uprising(3); Salinas evaluation during the uprising(2); perception of strength of the uprising(4); expectations of the end of the peasant uprising(1); level of awareness of events related to the uprising(2); perception of danger due to the uprising(1); level of support for the government(1); evaluation of the mass media(2); demographics(7).
Frangula precalifornica Doweld 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Doweld, Alexander B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rhamnaceae
Frangula
Frangula precalifornica

description: 3.5. Frangula precalifornica (Axelrod) Doweld, comb. nov.
 Basionym:— Rhamnus precalifornica Axelrod (1939: 122).
Type (lectotype designated here):— UCMP 1504 (University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, USA) – figured by Axelrod (1939: pl. 11, fig. 1).
Geography:—Tehachapi, Kern Co., California, USA.
Stratigraphy:—Miocene.
Status:—Leaves.
IFPNI registration record:— D17E7200-E503-4786-84EE-8EBC0DB40689.
 Note:—The fossil-species is compared with extant Frangula californica (Eschscholtz 1826: 285) Gray (1849: 178). A lectotype of Rhamnus precalifornica, leaf imprint showing venation, is designated from the collected specimens of Miocene sediments (Tehachapi, Kern Co., California, USA).
description: Published as part of Doweld, Alexander B., 2017, New names of fossil Atadinus, Endotropis and Frangula (Rhamnaceae), pp. 194-200 in Phytotaxa 321 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.321.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13697436
Factors determining Gekkotan (Reptilia, Sauria) distribution in Tunisia (North Africa)
Creators: name: Tlili, Wided
name: Nefla, Aymen
name: Delaugerre, Michel
name: Ouni, Ridha
name: Nouira, Saïd
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Tunisian geckos count nine species (1 is insular relict, 1 is endemic, 2 are ubiquitous and 5 are enfeoffed). We aim to determine factors influencing their distributions. Surveys were founded on environmental divisions. Presence/absence data for 113 grids were analyzed using multivariate tools. 18 environmental variables were revealed and clustered into five factors to model species distributions. Established models were further projected on non-explored areas within Tunisian territory. The distribution of continental geckos follows an indirect bidirectional gradient; the South-northward one is physiologically stressful and the North-southward one is biologically stressful. Five biogeographic regions were established showing concordance with climatic and vegetation regionalization. The distribution of non-anthropophilic species is positively correlated to thermal amplitudes gradient. The distribution of anthropophilic taxa is positively correlated to agricultural land-use. Oasis, sebkhas and chotts are particular landscapes that disturb both distributions. Predicted areas follow the yielded distribution patterns despite some discrepancy for S. sthenodactylus. The niche characterizing shows that land use and altitude increase the probability of occurrence of H. turcicus and T. mauritanica. Alternatively, they decrease the probability of the presence of T. deserti, T. neglecta, T. tripolitanus and S. petrii. Models could also show that the absence of S. sthenodactylus in northern regions is attributed to high altitudes and cereal land-use. As to T. fascicularis, the displacement of the northern limits of its range is mostly attributed to an improvement of field investigations. Established model of its distribution shows a restricted area of probable occurrence in central Tunisia confirming its endemism.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Strong-coupling corrections to spin susceptibility in the BCS-BEC crossover regime of a superfluid Fermi gas
Creators: name: Tajima, H.
name: Hanai, R.
name: Ohashi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the uniform spin susceptibility $χ$ in the superfluid phase of an ultracold Fermi gas in the BCS (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer)-BEC (Bose-Einstein condensation) crossover region. In our previous paper [H. Tajima, {\it et. al.}, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 89}, 033617 (2014)], including pairing fluctuations within an extended $T$-matrix approximation (ETMA), we showed that strong pairing fluctuations cause the so-called spin-gap phenomenon, where $χ$ is anomalously suppressed even in the normal state near the superfluid phase transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$. In this paper, we extend this work to the superfluid phase below $T_{\rm c}$, to clarify how this many-body phenomenon is affected by the superfluid order. From the comparison of the ETMA $χ$ with the Yosida function describing the spin susceptibility in a weak-coupling BCS superfluid, we identify the region where pairing fluctuations crucially affect this magnetic quantity below $T_{\rm c}$ in the phase diagram with respect to the strength of a pairing interaction and the temperature. This spin-gap regime is found to be consistent with the previous pseudogap regime determined from the pseudogapped density of states. We also compare our results with a recent experiment on a $^6$Li Fermi gas. Since the spin susceptibility is sensitive to the formation of spin-singlet preformed pairs, our results would be useful for the study of pseudogap physics in an ultracold Fermi gas on the viewpoint of the spin degrees of freedom.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures
A Case for Revising OSHA's Respiratory Protection Standard
Creators: name: Walker, Lance
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Management of occupational respiratory hazards is integral to workplace health and safety. At workplaces where airborne particulates and toxic vapors are present, a key part of the overall plan to protect the workers is the use of respirators. Over 5 million workers at 1.3 million workplaces in the United States use respirators (Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], n.d.). While respirators are effective in preventing inhalation of particulates and dangerous vapors, the devices place a physiological and psychological burden on users ("Respiratory protection," 1998, pp. 1159-1160). Because of the stresses respirators create, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has published detailed regulations governing the medical clearance of workers for respirator use. The regulations, however, are unwieldy, and they do not set objective medical standards for respirator clearance. Specifically, the regulations, last revised in 1998, do not differentiate between workers who are at high risk and those at low risk for respirator use. Nor do the regulations delineate the risk levels of the different conditions under which workers use respirators. The failure of the federal regulations to address risk levels has led to confusion among employees, employers, and health professionals as to the requirements workers must meet to be approved for respirator use. The lack of objective standards is a serious deficiency of the regulations in light of the importance of accurately assessing workers for respirator use. Workers who are denied respirator clearance can lose their jobs, and employers can incur unnecessary costs when workers undergo needless testing. Additionally, because health professionals have no objective standards for determining respirator clearance, they are placed in legal jeopardy when making decisions. Despite the physiological and psychological burdens that respirators place on users, recent research has shown that wearing a respirator is remarkably benign. In view of this finding, and because of the importance of assessing workers against objective standards, the OSHA regulations governing medical clearance for respirator use need to be revised.
In vitro temperature dependent activation of T-lymphocytes in Common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) in response to PHA stimulation
Creators: name: Sacchi, Roberto
name: Capelli, Enrica
name: Scali, Stefano
name: Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele
name: Ghitti, Michele
name: Acerbi, Emanuele
name: Pingitore, Elena
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Ecological immunology attempts to explain the variability of immune response among individuals by invoking costs and trade-offs, which may optimize the immune defence against pathogens. In ectotherms body temperature is correlated to that of the surrounding environment, so that their entire physiology, including immune functions, is influenced by the environmental temperature. We used in vitro phytohaemoagglutinin (PHA) stimulation in order to assess the effects of temperature on cell mediated adaptive response in male and female Common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis). Cell cultures were prepared from blood samples, inoculated with PHA and incubated at 22°C, 25°C, 32°C, and 38°C for three days. PHA stimulation caused proliferation of T-lymphocytes, but the effect depended on the incubation temperature. Lymphocyte proliferation was significantly impaired at both 22°C and 38°C compared to 32°C, which represented the highest levels of activation. Furthermore, lymphocyte activation was more variable in males while females were less immune suppressed than males at low temperatures. Differences between sexes suggest a possible influence of steroid hormones.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Event patterns extracted from transverse momentum and rapidity spectra of Z bosons and quarkonium states produced in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC
Creators: name: Chen, Ya-Hui
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
name: Lacey, Roy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transverse momentum ($p_T$) and rapidity ($y$) spectra of $Z$ bosons and quarkonium states (some charmonium $c\bar c$ mesons such as $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$, and some bottomonium $b\bar b$ mesons such as $Υ(1S)$, $Υ(2S)$, and $Υ(3S)$) produced in proton-proton ($pp$) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at the large hadron collider (LHC) are uniformly described by a hybrid model of two-component Erlang distribution for $p_T$ spectrum and two-component Gaussian distribution for $y$ spectrum. The former distribution results from a multisource thermal model, and the latter one results from the revised Landau hydrodynamic model. The modelling results are in agreement with the experimental data measured in $pp$ collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ and 7 TeV, and in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV. Based on the parameter values extracted from $p_T$ and $y$ spectra, the event patterns (particle scatter plots) in two-dimensional $p_T$-$y$ space and in three-dimensional velocity space are obtained.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures. Advances in High Energy Physics, accepted
Chiapas Peasant Uprising Survey: March, 1994
Creators: name: Office Of The Technical Advisor To The President Of Mexico
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Situation of the Chiapas uprising(3); expectations on the end of the peasant uprising(1); national political situation(2); level of awareness of recent events related to the uprising(6); Catholic Church evaluation during the uprising(7); popularity of Samuel Ruiz(6); government evaluation during the uprising(4); Salinas evaluation during the uprising(2); religion(1); level of religiosity(1); Salinas approval(1); popularity of Manuel Camacho(3); popularity of Jaime Serra(3); demographics(7).
Presence of chitinase enzymes in crocodilians
Creators: name: Siroski, Pablo
name: Poletta, Gisela
name: Parachú Marcó, María
name: Ortega, Hugo
name: Merchant, Mark
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Chitin is an abundant bio-polymer present as a structural component of many organisms such as arthropods, nematodes, mollusks, insects, and fungi, among others. Chitinolytic enzymes are synthesized for organisms to defend themselves against chitin-containing pathogens. Chitotriosidase (CHT) is a chitinase enzyme and one of the main proteins secreted by activated macrophages. It plays an important role in mechanisms of immunity by hydrolyzing chitin, thus protecting against chitin-containing pathogens. In this study, CHT was detected in Caiman latirostris plasma, and characterized under laboratory controlled conditions of temperature, reaction time, plasma concentration, pH and salinity. The results complement other immunological studies performed in caimans and demonstrate that they possess an efficient and well-developed immune system that resists the attack of some pathogens. Based on the current knowledge of the properties and homologies of CHT, it would be highly valuable to evaluate its possible therapeutic application in the veterinary clinical setting.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
DataFolha Survey: Evaluation of President Fleury
Creators: name: DataFolha Institute Of Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Fernando Collor (1); 1989 Presidential election (1); candidate to vote for (1); federal government (1); finances (2); inflation (1); opinion on certain statements (2); census (1); important problems (2); handling problems (2); vote for governor (2); vote for mayor (1); Antonio Fleury (2); City Hall (1).
Multidomain switching in the ferroelectric nanodots
Creators: name: Martelli, Pierre-William
name: Mefire, Séraphin M.
name: Luk'yanchuk, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the polarization switching in the ferroelectric nanocrystals, nanowires and nanodots has an inherent specificity related to the emergence of depolarization field that is associated with the spontaneous polarization. This field splits the finite-size ferroelectric sample into polarization domains. Here, based on 3D numerical simulations, we study the formation of 180$^{\circ }$ polarization domains in a nanoplatelet, made of uniaxial ferroelectric material, and show that in addition to the polarized monodomain state, the multidomain structures, notably of stripe and cylindrical shapes, can arise and compete during the switching process. The multibit switching protocol between these configurations may be realized by temperature and field variations.
DataFolha Survey #1993-00328
Creators: name: DataFolha Institute Of Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Itmar Franco job performance (4); Collor job performance (1); Jose Sarney job performance (1); Senator/representative job performance (1); Fernando Henrique Cardoso vs. Elizeu Rezende (4); Romildo Canhin vs. Luiza Erundina (2); 1994 presidential vote (4); Lula vs. Maluf (1); wouldn't support for President (10); ideology (1); good qualities (10); bad qualities (10); opinions of certain politicians (18); 1989 Presidential election (1).
Department of Veterans Affairs: Moving Towards Telehealth
Creators: name: Rhodes, Donald D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: As the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed over time, its healthcare model has evolved from a largely inpatient treatment setting in large regional hospitals to providing outpatient community-based care closer to the veteran's home. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has taken the lead in the development of data based programs using electronic information and communications technology to ensure excellence in healthcare services delivery. The growing number of telehealth programs in the VHA is the result of administrative and clinical collaboration to develop pathways to separate distance from those receiving services and those providing services. The VHA has long used available public health best practice modalities in providing leadership and enthusiasm to coordinate the development of new programs to ensure the veteran is not denied treatment because of geographic barriers. Many of the current telehealth programs are based on the guidelines of assertive case management and intensive case management existing in VA mental health care. Additional research and information has been garnered from other countries that provide services to large rural populations and from the extensive research done in prison-based psychiatry. How to deliver these services within clinical and ethical guidelines, the issues of informed consent and confidentiality, and the assurance of continuing patient-clinician alliance have posed dilemmas now being addressed by professional mental health organizations.
BIPO Survey # 133, May, 1946
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Entitled to Defense Medal (2); government popularity after beer cut (1); belief in superstitions (5); items owned at home (3); renting vs buying home (2); taxing racing bets (1); approval of further food restrictions (3); Hugh Dalton job performance (1); removing troops from Egypt (1); atomic energy as harmful or good (1); general election party preference (2).
Magnetization process of spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets on a layered triangular lattice
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Daisuke
name: Marmorini, Giacomo
name: Danshita, Ippei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetization process of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a layered triangular lattice by means of a numerical cluster mean-field method with a scaling scheme (CMF+S). It has been known that antiferromagnetic spins on a two-dimensional (2D) triangular lattice with quantum fluctuations exhibit a one-third magnetization plateau in the magnetization curve under magnetic field. We demonstrate that the CMF+S quantitatively reproduces the magnetization curve including the stabilization of the plateau. {We also discuss the effects of a finite interlayer coupling, which is unavoidable in real quasi-2D materials. It has been recently argued for a model of the layered-triangular-lattice compound Ba3CoSb2O9 that such interlayer coupling can induce an additional first-order transition at a strong field. We present the detailed CMF+S results for the magnetization and susceptibility curves of the fundamental Heisenberg Hamiltonian in the presence of magnetic field and weak antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. The extra first-order transition appears as a quite small jump in the magnetization curve and a divergence in the susceptibility at a strong magnetic field ~ 0.712 of the saturation field.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Comparative morphology of Liolaemus lizards precloacal glands
Creators: name: Valdecantos, Soledad
name: Martínez, Virginia
name: Labra, Antonieta
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Liolaemid lizards and amphisbaenids have precloacal pores in the anterior border of the cloaca, where epidermal glands drain and expel pheromonal secretions. Precloacal glands occur usually only in males, but in those few species where both sexes have precloacal glands, these are larger in males. Only the morphology and/or histology of precloacal glands of amphisbaenids have been described, and it is unknown whether in lizards these glands differ across ages, sexes and/or species, and if the lack of pores is associated with a lack of glands. We investigated for the first time the morphology and histology of lizard precloacal glands, by studying three Liolaemus species that differ in the presence of pores in their cloaca: L. irregularis, in which adults and juveniles of both sexes have pores; L. poecilochromus, in which only adult males have pores, and L. neuquensis, in which the adults of both sexes lack pores. Results show that the number of pores varies among species and sexes, but not between ages of a species. Adults, but not juveniles, of L. irregularis have sexual dimorphism in pore sizes; these are larger in males than in females. In addition, pores are larger in adult males of L. irregularis than in L. poecilochromus. Glands are tubuloalveolar with holocrine secretion, having similar structure across individuals, although adult males have larger glands than females and juveniles. Finally, the structure of Liolaemus precloacal glands is very similar to those of the amphisbaenid precloacal glands and the femoral glands of other lizard species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
USIA Poll # 1990-I90053: Post Washington Summit
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev (2); George Bush protecting Britain (1); Soviet/American relations (1); George Bush job performance (1); Mikhail Gorbachev job performance (3); Helmut Kohl (1); Francois Mitterand (1); eastern Europe (5); nuclear weapons (4); chemical weapons (1).
Entanglement entropies of the $J_1 - J_2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice
Creators: name: Laflorencie, Nicolas
name: Luitz, David J.
name: Alet, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a modified spin-wave theory which artificially restores zero sublattice magnetization on finite lattices, we investigate the entanglement properties of the Néel ordered $J_1 - J_2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice. Different kinds of subsystem geometries are studied, either corner-free (line, strip) or with sharp corners (square). Contributions from the $n_G=2$ Nambu-Goldstone modes give additive logarithmic corrections with a prefactor ${n_G}/{2}$ independent of the Rényi index. On the other hand, corners lead to additional (negative) logarithmic corrections with a prefactor $l^{c}_q$ which does depend on both $n_G$ and the Rényi index $q$, in good agreement with scalar field theory predictions. By varying the second neighbor coupling $J_2$ we also explore universality across the Néel ordered side of the phase diagram of the $J_1 - J_2$ antiferromagnet, from the frustrated side $0
description: 14 pages, 18 figures
A Longitudinal Medical Spanish Program at One US Medical School and Accuracy of Self-assessed Spanish Fluency among Medical Students
Creators: name: Reuland, Daniel S., MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Introduction: Policymakers have recommended recruiting and/or training more US physicians who can provide care in Spanish. Few longitudinal medical Spanish programs have been described and evaluated. Aim: To describe development and evaluation of the preclinical phase of a fouryear program designed to graduate physicians who can provide languageconcordant care in Spanish. Setting: One public medical school in southeastern US. Program description: The program targeted intermediate/advanced Spanish speakers. Standardized fluency assessments were used to determine eligibility and evaluate participants' progress. Curriculum included didactic coursework, simulated patients, socio-cultural seminars, clinical skills rotations at sites serving Latinos, service-learning, and international immersion. Program evaluation: For the first two cohorts (n=45) qualitative evaluation identified program improvement opportunities and found participants believed the program helped them maintain their Spanish skills. Mean interim (two-year) speaking proficiency scores were unchanged from baseline: 9.0 versus 8.7 at baseline on 12-point scale (p=.15). Mean interim listening comprehension scores (second cohort only, n=25) increased from a baseline of 77% to 86% (p=.003). Proportions passing the listening comprehension test increased from 72% to 92% (p=0.06). Discussion: We describe development of a longitudinal Spanish program within a medical school. Participation was associated with improved Spanish listening comprehension and no change in speaking proficiency.
title: Analyzing the implications of organic standardization and certification in alternative food networks: The capability approach
Creators: name: Alexandre De Lima, Felipe
name: Mülling Neutzling, Daiane
name: Seuring, Stefan
name: Kumar, Vikas
name: Bossle, Marilia Bonzanini
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: alternative food networks
subject: certification
subject: human capabilities
subject: standards
subject: 330
subject: Biologisches Lebensmittel
subject: Zertifizierung
subject: Standardisierung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Capability Approach

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
New insights into the taxonomy of the skittering frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis complex (Schneider, 1799) (Amphibia: Dicroglossidae) based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences in southern Asia
Creators: name: Khajeh, Asghar
name: Mohammadi, Zeinolabedin
name: Ghorbani, Fatemeh
name: Meshkani, Javad
name: Rastegar Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Torkamanzehi, Adam
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The Skittering frog (Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis) is considered to be a species complex distributed in southern and southeastern Asia. Genetic diversity and taxonomic status of populations across their ranges is unclear and existence of several cryptic species is expected. In this study we used sequence variation in the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene to elucidate the taxonomic status of Iranian populations of E. cyanophlyctis and compare their genetic diversity and divergence to populations from the Indian subcontinent. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the populations of E. cyanophlyctis from Iran, Bangladesh-Assam (northeastern India), southern India, and Sri Lanka are partitioned into different clades. At least four different haplogroups were detected which are here proposed to be considered as allopatric cryptic species. The sedimentation of the Helmand River into the Sistan depression during the Neogene and subsequent formation of dry land barriers are proposed to have caused the Iranian populations of skittering frogs to be disconnected from those of the Indian subcontinent, resulting in differentiation of these lineages. In addition, some populations from southern India and those from Sri Lanka that were previously recognized as E. cyanophlyctis belong to E. mudigere. A preliminary investigation on the genetic diversity of the populations from southeastern Iran highlights the low genetic diversity among these populations.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Relaxation of a highly deformed elastic filament at a fluid interface
Creators: name: Prasath, S Ganga
name: Marthelot, Joel
name: Govindarajan, Rama
name: Menon, Narayanan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform experiments to investigate the relaxation of a highly deformed elastic filament at a liquid-air interface. The dynamics for filaments of differing length, diameter and elastic modulus collapse to a single curve when the time-dependence is scaled by a time scale $τ= 8 πμL_o^4/B$. The relaxation, however, is completed in a very small fraction of the time $τ$. Even though the time scale $τ$ can be obtained by balancing the linear bending and viscous forces, it appears to control the highly nonlinear regime of our experiments. Nonlinear numerical simulations show that the force due to tension along the filament is comparable to the bending force, producing a net elastic restoring force that is much smaller than either term. We perform particle image velocimetry at the liquid-air interface to support the results of the numerics. Finally, we find that when the filament is initialized in asymmetric shapes, it rapidly goes to a shape with symmetric stresses. This symmetrisation process is entirely non-linear; we show that the symmetric curvature state minimizes energy at arbitrarily large deformation.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: 1996 Election/Entertainment Industry
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1995

description: Clinton job performance(7); Gingrich job performance(6); 1996 election(5); Clinton versus Republican leaders in 1996 election(10); immigration(4); entertainment industry(8); government spending(3); Bosnia(9); OJ Simpson(3); confidence in the criminal justice system(9).
The compensatory effect of tail regeneration on swimming speed in larval Hoplobatrachus chinensis Osbeck, 1765 (Anura: Ranidae) after tail removal
Creators: name: Ding, Guo-Hua
name: Lin, Zhi-Hua
name: Wei, Li
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: We used Hoplobatrachus chinensis tadpoles as a model species to evaluate if the locomotor costs of tail loss could be compensated by tail regeneration. Different proportion (0%, 20%, 40% and 60%) of tail segment were removed in four experimental groups and the tadpoles were reared for 7 days. Swimming speed was measured three times for each experimental tadpole: before tail removal, after tail removal, and 7 days from tail removal. Gosner’s stage, body length, tail length and survival rate were measured for each experimental tadpole before tail removal and at 7 days from tail removal. We daily measured the length of the regenerative tail and of the remaining tail in 20% to 60% tail removal treatments. Overall, our results suggest that (1) tail removal affects final tail length and swimming speed, but not body length, developmental stage and survival rate in captive H. chinensis tadpoles; (2) tadpoles with more serious tail injuries have faster tail regeneration rate; (3) swimming speed can be compensated with tail regeneration after tail removal.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
A Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality Associated with Tuberculosis in North Carolina, 1993-2003
Creators: name: Nguyen, Lisa T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Introduction Previously reported predictors of mortality have focused on mortality during TB treatment. We propose instead to examine TB deaths relative to TB treatment. We predict that different characteristics will predict death before TB treatment, early in TB treatment and later in TB treatment. Methods A retrospective cohort study was performed using data collected on all patients reported to the North Carolina TB Control Program in conjunction with data obtained from the U.S. National Death Index. Bivariate, multivariate and survival analyses were performed to examine relationships between patient characteristics and time of death relative to treatment. Results Age (adjusted OR=l.04 per year of age, 95%CI 1.03-1.05, HIV/TB coinfection (adjusted OR=3.44, 95%CI 2.04-5.79) and being an American Indian (adjusted OR=4.00, 95%CI 1.47-10.93) were predictors of death before initiation of TB treatment. Age (adjusted HR=1.06 each year of age, 95%CI 1.05-1.07), black race (adjusted HR=l.35, 95%CI 1.05-1.75), HIV/TB co-infection (adjusted HR=1.66, 95%CI 0.99-2.76), history of alcohol abuse (adjusted HR=1.68, 95%CI 1.17-2.41) and residence in a long-term care facility (adjusted HR=1.70, 95%CI 1.23-2.34) were predictors of death in the first 8 weeks of treatment. After the initial 8 weeks, only age (adjusted HR=1.05 for each year of age, 95%CI 1.04- 1.06) and HIV/TB co-infection (adjusted HR=5.53, 95%CI 3.65-8.44) continued to be predictors of mortality. Discussion Overall, increasing age and HIV/TB co-infection were predictors of death prior to starting TB therapy and during all stages of TB therapy. Additional TB patient characteristics also existed that predict death specifically before treatment or in the early weeks of treatment.
Age structure of a population of Barbarophryne brongersmai (Hoogmoed 1972) (Anura, Bufonidae) inhabiting an arid environment in the Central Jbilets (West-Morocco)
Creators: name: Fattah, Abderrazzak
name: Slimani, Tahar
name: El Mouden, El Hassan
name: Grolet, Odile
name: Joly, Pierre
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: We estimated age structure and some life-history traits in a population of Barbarophryne brongersmai at the northern border of the distribution area of this species by using skeletochronology to establish individual age and age at sexual maturity. Maturity was reached at 2-4 years in males and 3-5 years in females, which was late relatively to small body size. Longevity was estimated to be 12 and 8 years for males and females, respectively, whereas mean body size is 45.6 mm in both sexes. However, this estimate suffers from small sample size in females. We did not detect a positive relationship between age and size, suggesting that adult individuals cease growing after maturity. Conversely, body size varied within an age class, suggesting great variability of growth rate among individuals during the juvenile stage. Collectively, these traits characterize a life history strategy that could be an evolutionary response to habitat unpredictability in arid regions.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)