cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potencial do uso de termografia por infravermelho para investigação térmica do ambiente rural
Creators: name: Alves, Fabiana Villa
name: Barreto, Camilla Diniz
name: Ramos, Carlos Eduardo Crispim De Oliveira
name: Oliveira, Caroline Carvalho De
name: Nivaldo Karvatte Junior
name: Laudí Cunha Leite
name: Meiby Carneiro De Paula Leite
Publisher: name: CBBiomet 2017
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: O uso de tecnologias e ferramentas para estudos de ambiência no setor rural ganha impulso à medida que temas como bem-estar animal e conforto térmico despertam o interesse e necessidade de mudanças no setor produtivo. Neste contexto, a termografia por infravermelho surge como alternativa para se inferir sobre as modificações microclimáticas aportadas pelas espécies arbóreas em pastagens, com precisão e rapidez no processo. Objetivou-se neste trabalho avaliar o uso da câmera termográfica para mensuração da temperatura do ar e estimativa do conforto térmico proporcionado por diferentes espécies arbóreas. O experimento foi conduzido na Embrapa Gado de Corte, Campo Grande-MS, de junho a agosto de 2015. Foram avaliadas 4 espécies arbóreas nativas do Cerrado brasileiro quanto aos parâmetros microclimáticos e índices de conforto térmico proporcionados por suas sombras. Os dados coletados foram submetidos à análise fatorial múltipla. Foi observada correlação linear positiva e forte entre a termografia e medidas de temperatura (0,854), termografia e índices de conforto térmico (0,778) e termografia e radiação solar (0,768). A termografia por infravermelho mostrou-se um potencial preditor das variáveis microclimáticas e de conforto térmico proporcionado por espécies arbóreas.
Effet du sable sur les CBR des argiles gonflantes de l'extrême Nord Cameroun
Creators: name: Abouar, Baana
name: Mpélé, Mamba
name: Raïdandi, Danwé
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: L’indice CBR est un paramètre fondamental utilisé dans la construction des ouvrages en terre ou des assises de chaussées. Les mesures réalisées sur les sols argileux gonflants montrent qu’il demeure très faible. Les essais des mesures de CBR réalisés sur les mélanges de l’argile gonflante et du sable, dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, indiquent qu’avec une proportion de 40% de sable et une énergie de compactage de 25 coups, le CBR de l’argile gonflante de Maroua passe de 1,27 à 5,58 et celle de Fotokol de 2,18 à 5,26. Pour une proportion de 30% de sable (resp. 40%) et une énergie de compactage de 55 coups, l’argile gonflante de Maroua passe de 4,3 à 5,31 (resp. 4,3 à 7,9) et celle de Fotokol de 3,54 à 5,69 (resp. 3,4 à 7,59) pour des valeurs des teneurs en eau comprises entre 12,11% et 19,79%.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
Putin and Emptiness: The Place of Satire in the Contemporary Cult of Personality
Creators: Johnson, Emily D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Satire, Russian
Popular culture

description: Scholars of earlier Soviet-era Russian and East European cults of personality have tended to understand these complex cultural structures as the result of the confluence of several distinct cultural trends: conscious top-down efforts to produce a new mythology of power and spontaneous expressions of reverence for Party leaders that are, even if self-interested, largely uncoached....I believe that, at least in the case of the Putin cult, but potentially also other cults that reached their zenith in the years following Khrushchev's secret speech, another factor may also be in play: the satiric impulse. What came first, the Putin cult per se or the scandalous accusation that such a cult might be in the process of emerging?
Détermination de la variation spatio-temporelle de la teneur en eau lors d'une infiltration verticale en utilisant la méthode TDR
Creators: name: Bouchemella, Salima
name: Alimi-Ichola, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Ce travail présente un essai d'infiltration verticale dans une colonne de limon de Florensac, effectué par la méthode TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry). Cette méthode consiste à mesurer le temps de parcours d'une onde EM dans un matériau qui dépend grandement de la teneur en eau, ce qui permet de déterminer la constante diélectrique ε. La teneur en eau volumique est déduite par la suite en utilisant une loi empirique générale θ=f(ε) établie par Topp et al. (1980). De cet essai d'infiltration, nous évaluons le taux et la vitesse d'infiltration, nous estimons la perméabilité du sol, la sorptivité et la diffusivité en utilisant le modèle de Philip. La détermination de la courbe de rétention par la méthode des papiers filtres et la méthode des solutions salines a permis de déduire, à chaque instant, les profils de succion à partir des profils hydriques mesurés. Le modèle de van Genuchten-Mualem (1980,1976) a été utilisé pour la modélisation de la courbe de rétention et de la courbe de conductivité hydraulique.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
RCRC Issue Briefs: Why Children Should Be the #1 Disaster Priority
Creators: Ratner, Jacqueline J.
Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
Samur Zúñiga, Antonia F.
Sury, Jonathan
Esposito, Lauren D.
Tolsdorf, Marjorie Rose
Marquez, Evelyn
Kamidola, Aizhan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Emergency management
Child disaster victims
Disaster relief--Planning
Disaster relief--Government policy

description: The Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Initiative (RCRC) Issue Briefs, in this document, are designed to be used by the RCRC communities and all other communities who are seeking to elevate children’s disaster resilience to the attention of local, state, and federal legislators or other decision-makers. These reports can also be used by legislators and decision–makers at all levels of government as informative briefs to better understand the issues faced by communities in disasters within the context of COVID-19 and other disasters. Readers are encouraged to explore topics and voices that most resonate with their own community. To access an online and interactive version of RCRC Issue Briefs, please visit https://rcrctoolbox.org/rcrc-issue-briefs.
Metal-free and metallo-porphyrazines with eight [5-thiopentyl 2-methoxy-4,6-bis (trifluoromethyl) benzoate] substituent
Creators: name: Gonca, Ergün
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The reaction of (5-hydroxypentylthio magnesium porphyrazine) with 2-methoxy-4,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzoic acid in DCCI and PTSA, esterified MgPz having [5-thiopentyl 2-methoxy-4,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzoate] substituent was obtained. Further reactions of the metal-free porphyrazine with M2+(Mg, Co, Cu, Zn, Fe) acetates have produced the metallo-porphyrazines. Finally, by the reaction of FePzCl with pyridine or pyrazine compounds, [FePz(py)2] and [FePz(pyz)]n complexes were prepared as the novel stable complexes, respectively. The target compounds have been characterized by using different spectroscopic methods such as FT-IR, UV-Vis, mass, 1H, 13C, and 19F NMR together with elemental analysis. The aggregation and the solubility features were indicated in various concentrations and solvents.
Reactions to Yeltsin
Creators: Lerner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Sovietologists
Cross-cultural studies
Russians--Political activity

description: Reactions from Padma Desai, Richard Ericson, John Hazard, Robert Legvold, Gur Ofer, Jutta Scherrer, Marshall Shulman, Mark von Hagen, and Richard Wortman.
MOESM4 of Twelve complete chloroplast genomes of wild peanuts: great genetic resources and a better understanding of Arachis phylogeny
Creators: name: Wang, Juan
name: Li, Yuan
name: Li, Chunjuan
name: Yan, Caixia
name: Zhao, Xiaobo
name: Yuan, Cuiling
name: Sun, Quanxi
name: Shi, Chengren
name: Shan, Shihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. A summary of earlier studies that have identified two major Sect. Arachis lineages.
Recent illicit drug use among psychiatric patients in Brazil: a national representative study
Creators: Almeida Nahas, Miriam
Melo, Ana Paula Souto
Cournos, Francine
McKinnon, Karen
Wainberg, Milton L.
Guimarães, Mark Drew Crosland
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Drug abuse
Psychotherapy patients

description: Objective: To estimate factors associated to illicit drug use among patients with mental illness in Brazil according to gender. Methods: A cross-sectional representative sample of psychiatric patients (2,475 individuals) was randomly selected from 11 hospitals and 15 public mental health outpatient clinics. Data on self-reported illicit drug use and sociodemographic, clinical and behavioral characteristics were obtained from face-to-face interviews. Logistic regression was used to estimate associations with recent illicit drug use. Results: The prevalence of any recent illicit drug use was 11.4%. Men had higher prevalence than women for all substances (17.5% and 5.6%, respectively). Lower education, history of physical violence, and history of homelessness were associated with drug use among men only; not professing a religion was associated with drug use in women only. For both men and women, younger age, current hospitalization, alcohol and tobacco use, history of incarceration, younger age at sexual debut, and more than one sexual partner were statistically associated with illicit drug use. Conclusions: Recent illicit drug use among psychiatric patients is higher than among the general Brazilian population and it is associated with multiple factors including markers of psychiatric severity. Our data indicate the need for the development of gender-based drug-use interventions among psychiatric patients in Brazil. Integration of substance use treatment strategies with mental health treatment should be a priority.
Reappraising the utility of Google Flu Trends
Creators: Kandula, Sasikiran
Shaman, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Influenza
Electronic data processing--Medicine

description: Estimation of influenza-like illness (ILI) using search trends activity was intended to supplement traditional surveillance systems, and was a motivation behind the development of Google Flu Trends (GFT). However, several studies have previously reported large errors in GFT estimates of ILI in the US. Following recent release of time-stamped surveillance data, which better reflects real-time operational scenarios, we reanalyzed GFT errors. Using three data sources—GFT: an archive of weekly ILI estimates from Google Flu Trends; ILIf: fully-observed ILI rates from ILINet; and, ILIp: ILI rates available in real-time based on partial reporting—five influenza seasons were analyzed and mean square errors (MSE) of GFT and ILIp as estimates of ILIf were computed. To correct GFT errors, a random forest regression model was built with ILI and GFT rates from the previous three weeks as predictors. An overall reduction in error of 44% was observed and the errors of the corrected GFT are lower than those of ILIp. An 80% reduction in error during 2012/13, when GFT had large errors, shows that extreme failures of GFT could have been avoided. Using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, one- to four-week ahead forecasts were generated with two separate data streams: ILIp alone, and with both ILIp and corrected GFT. At all forecast targets and seasons, and for all but two regions, inclusion of GFT lowered MSE. Results from two alternative error measures, mean absolute error and mean absolute proportional error, were largely consistent with results from MSE. Taken together these findings provide an error profile of GFT in the US, establish strong evidence for the adoption of search trends based 'nowcasts' in influenza forecast systems, and encourage reevaluation of the utility of this data source in diverse domains.
Reflections on the Influence of the Current Political Development in Russia on Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights
Creators: Sulyandziga, Rodion
Berezhkov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Human rights
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples--Land tenure
Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

description: The framework of cultural, territorial and political rights of Indigenous Peoples and their communities in Russia consists of the articles of the Constitution together with three federal framework laws: “On the Guarantees of the Rights of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian Federation” (1999); “On General Principles of the Organization of Communities [Obshinas] of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation” (2000); “On Territories of Traditional Nature Use of the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation” (2001). There are also some relevant provisions in articles of other federal and regional laws. Observers have noted that this web of legislation suffers from a lack of consistency and stability, greatly inhibiting effective protection of Indigenous rights. First of all, there are substantive deficiencies in legislation, including its incompleteness and lack of robustness with regard to the protection of Indigenous rights set out in the UNDRIP, and also its partial incompatibility with these rights. Secondly, there is a poorly working legislative process often resulting in poorly crafted and contradictory regulations. Thirdly, there is an implementation gap. Many positive-sounding regulations remain on paper only, allowing Russia to cite them before international human rights bodies without actually giving effect to them on the ground. Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their traditional territories and livelihoods are still not effectively protected. Crucially, legislation does not acknowledge Indigenous Peoples’ inherent right to their ancestral territories. Indigenous Peoples are not regarded as the owners of their ancestral lands. Based on their traditional occupancy, they are merely granted usufruct rights to hunt, fish, to herd their reindeer on the land, etc.
Synthesis of imine-ester-linked benzothiazole mesogen containing liquid crystalline monomers with different terminal substituents
Creators: name: Dzulkharnien, Nur Syafiqah Farhanah
name: Noordini M. Salleh
name: Rosiyah Yahya
name: Md. Rabiul Karim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A series of imine-ester-linked benzothiazole mesogen-based liquid crystalline (LC) monomers (M1–M4) having polymerizable methacrylate functional group as the terminal were designed and synthesized. These monomers were differentiated from each other by varying the terminal substituents (-H, -CH3, -OCH3, and -OCH2CH3) at the sixth position on the benzothiazole moiety. The chemical structures of the synthesized monomers were characterized and confirmed by spectroscopic techniques such as FTIR, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to study the thermal properties of the investigated monomers. The ethoxy substituted monomer (M4) showed higher thermal stability compared with the other monomers. The mesomorphic behavior of all the monomers was studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM). DSC and POM studies revealed that the monomer (M1) having no substituent at the sixth position on the benzothiazole ring exhibited both smectic and nematic mesophases, whereas -CH3-, -OCH3-, and -OCH2CH3-substituted compounds revealed only nematic mesophase.
Quel est le rôle du discernement dans l'évaluation de la qualité perçue des services fournis par les établissements d'enseignement supérieur au Maroc ?
Creators: name: Imane achhibat
name: Bouchra Lebzar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Within the context of dynamic transformations of higher education institutions in Morocco, student expectations seem very high vis-a-vis the educational service quality, a qualitative investigation on how discernment correlates with exploration of perceived service quality, as conceived by the stakeholders themselves. The semi-structured interviews that were engaged in were analyzed; the dimensions that characterized the different satisfaction levels included the pedagogic skill competencies of teachers and instructors, programs lucidity aspects with the labor market applicability, effective infrastructural availability, and overall administrative competencies.

One of the conclusions that can be drawn from this study is that the notion of discernment allows for much more thorough understanding of academic services and their perceived item and quality. This investigation leads to further conclusions for practical exploitation with regards to augmenting service quality in Moroccan academic institutions and making recommendations concerning student encounters with current emerging issues.
How the Gaokao Reform Affected Education Expenditure and Student Wellness
Creators: name: Hu, Wenyang
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Education Expenditure
subject: Tutoring Expenses
subject: Student’s Stress
subject: College Entrance Examination
subject: High School Education

description: In 2014, China embarked on its most comprehensive, systematic, and profound round of Gaokao reform since the restoration of the national college entrance examination in 1977. The objective of this reform was to provide students with the flexibility to choose Gaokao subjects based on their interests as well as more examination opportunities annually. Although many scholars have explored its positive impact on helping students develop interest in studying, our research indicates that the reform has also led to an increase in the average tutoring expenses of students and failed to alleviate their stress.
Comparison of the release of microRNAs and extracellular vesicles from platelets in response to different agonists
Creators: name: Ambrose, Ashley R.
name: Alsahli, Mohammed A.
name: Kurmani, Sameer A.
name: Goodall, Alison H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: On activation platelets release microRNAs and extracellular vesicles (EV) into circulation. The release of EV from platelets has been shown to be dependent on the agonist; in this study, we investigated whether the microRNA profile or EV released from platelets was also agonist specific. Washed platelets from healthy subjects were maximally stimulated with agonists specific for the receptors for collagen (Glycoprotein VI (GPVI)), thrombin (PAR1/PAR4), or ADP (P2Y1/P2Y12) with/without inhibiting secondary mediators, using aspirin to block cyclooxygenase-1 and apyrase to remove ADP. The released microRNAs were profiled using TaqMan microRNA microarray cards. Platelet-derived EV (pdEV) were characterized by size (Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA), for procoagulant activity (Annexin-V binding and support of thrombin generation), and for the EV markers CD63 and HSP70. Platelet activation triggered the release of 57–79 different microRNAs, dependent upon agonist, with a core of 46 microRNAs observed with all agonists. There was a high level of correlation between agonists (r2 > 0.98; p r2 > 0.98; p These data suggest that all tested agonists trigger the release of a similar microRNA profile while the procoagulant activity of the pdEV was agonist dependent. ADP was shown to play an important role in the release of both microRNAs and pdEV.
MOESM1 of Comparison of Apolipoprotein B/A1 ratio, Framingham risk score and TC/HDL-c for predicting clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
Creators: name: Tian, Min
name: Li, Rui
name: Shan, Zhilei
name: Wang, Dao
name: Jiang, Jiangang
name: Cui, Guanglin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.â€‰Table S1. ApoB/A1 ratio with demographic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors within CHD patients. Table S2. Multiple linear regression analysis of the apoB/A1 ratios as for important covariates. Figure S1. Histogram distribution of ApoB/A1 ratio in our population. Figure S2. Association between ApoB/A1 ratio and total cholesterol/HDL and Framingham Risk Score. Figure S3. Associations Between Tertiles of ApoB/A1 ratio and LDL and TG levels. Figure S4. Adjusted odds ratios [95% confidence interval (CI)] for coronary artery disease patients with the diagnosis determined by angiography according to quartiles of ApoB/A1 ratios in subgroups. Figure S5. Associations between tertiles of ApoB/A1 ratio and CHD diseas severity.
Relative Importance of Greenhouse Gases, Sulfate, Organic Carbon, and Black Carbon Aerosol for South Asian Monsoon Rainfall Changes
Creators: Westervelt, Daniel M.
You, Yujia
Li, Xiaoqiong
Ting, Mingfang
Lee, Dong Eun
Ming, Yi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Climatology
Monsoons
Aerosols
Greenhouse gases

description: The contribution of individual aerosol species and greenhouse gases to precipitation changes during the South Asian summer monsoon is uncertain. Mechanisms driving responses to anthropogenic forcings need further characterization. We use an atmosphere-only climate model to simulate the fast response of the summer monsoon to different anthropogenic aerosol types and to anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Without normalization, sulfate is the largest driver of precipitation change between 1850 and 2000, followed by black carbon and greenhouse gases. Normalized by radiative forcing, the most effective driver is black carbon. The precipitation and moisture budget responses to combinations of aerosol species perturbed together scale as a linear superposition of their individual responses. We use both a circulation-based and moisture budget-based argument to identify mechanisms of aerosol and greenhouse gas induced changes to precipitation and find that in all cases the dynamic contribution is the dominant driver to precipitation change in the monsoon region.
Sibilant production in Hebrew-speaking adults: Apical versus laminal
Creators: name: Icht, Michal
name: Ben-David, Boaz M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The Hebrew IPA charts describe the sibilants /s, z/ as ‘alveolar fricatives’, where the place of articulation on the palate is the alveolar ridge. The point of constriction on the tongue is not defined – apical (tip) or laminal (blade). Usually, speech and language pathologists (SLPs) use the apical placement in Hebrew articulation therapy. Some researchers and SLPs suggested that acceptable /s, z/ could be also produced with the laminal placement (i.e. the tip of the tongue approximating the lower incisors). The present study focused at the clinical level, attempting to determine the prevalence of these alternative points of constriction on the tongue for /s/ and /z/ in three different samples of Hebrew-speaking young adults (total n = 242), with typical articulation. Around 60% of the participants reported using the laminal position, regardless of several speaker-related variables (e.g. tongue-thrust swallowing, gender). Laminal production was more common in /s/ (than /z/), coda (than onset) position of the sibilant, mono- (than di-) syllabic words, and with non-alveolar (than alveolar) adjacent consonants. Experiment 3 revealed no acoustical differences between apical and laminal productions of /s/ and of /z/. From a clinical perspective, we wish to raise the awareness of SLPs to the prevalence of the two placements when treating Hebrew speakers, noting that tongue placements were highly correlated across sibilants. Finally, we recommend adopting a client-centred practice, where tongue placement is matched to the client. We further recommend selecting targets for intervention based on our findings, and separating between different prosodic positions in treatment.
Évaluation des réparations en béton et identification des principaux facteurs d’influence
Creators: name: Bissonnette, B.
name: Courard, L.
name: Garbacz, A.
name: Jolin, M.
name: Vaysburd, A.
name: V, K.F.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: La réparation et le renforcement des structures existantes en béton comptent parmi les plus importants défis auxquels les ingénieurs civils sont confrontés aujourd’hui et qu’ils devront relever dans les années à venir. Les préoccupations actuelles concernant le développement durable favorisent la réfection au détriment de la construction neuve et ne peuvent que renforcer cette tendance. Des efforts concertés de la part des scientifiques et ingénieurs sont encore nécessaires afin d’améliorer la conception des réparations en béton et d’en assurer la qualité et la fiabilité attendues. L’un des aspects essentiels de la durabilité des réparations en béton et des revêtements ou traitements de surface est la qualité de l’adhérence entre le matériau de réparation et le béton existant. Le présent article résume les principales conclusions de travaux réalisés en collaboration en vue d’identifier les facteurs influençant l’adhérence des réparations (la rugosité, le degré de saturation et la carbonatation du substrat) et l’évaluation de celle-ci en conditions in situ (type de chargement, alignement de l’appareil). Sur la base des résultats recueillis, des recommandations ont été émises dans un guide du USBR.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
Remembering Yalta: The Politics of International History
Creators: Plokhy, Serhii
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Yalta Conference
Collective memory
International relations

description: In the opinion of the Polish historian Jerzy Jedlicki, the twentieth-century history of Eastern Europe is “a perfect laboratory to observe how the genuine or apparent remembrances of the past may aggravate current conflicts and how they themselves are modified in the process.” According to Jedlicki, the most intriguing question that the study of Eastern Europe can help answer is: “What factors activate historical reminiscences, and what circumstances would rather allow them to remain dormant and apparently forgotten. In other words, collective ‘memories' may become ‘hot' or ‘cooled,'and the course of events may often depend on their emotional temperature.” I propose to examine patterns of collective remembrance and forgetting of historical events of international importance by analyzing public debates on the legacy of the Yalta Conference in Russia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. I consider the interrelations between politics and historical representations in each of these countries, and the impact of the changing international situation on the ways in which intellectual and political elites interpret the importance of the Yalta agreements. In conclusion, I analyze the narrative strategies employed by the “winners” and “losers” of Yalta in representing their vision of the past.
Remembering Chornobyl
Creators: Kuchynskyi, Valerii
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobylʹ, Ukraine : 1986)
Nuclear power plants--Accidents
Nuclear power plants--Accidents--Government policy

description: T Twenty-six years ago, Saturday, April 26, 1986, was a warm, sunny day in Kyiv. Early in the morning, as I was passing through the Ministry for Foreign Affairs building, where I worked at the time, the guard, a non-commissioned officer on permanent service with the Ministry and a friend, greeted me warmly and informed me, confidentially, that something unusual was going on: “dozens of trucks, loaded with soldiers wearing special uniforms, rushed in the early hours towards the nuclear power plant at Chornobyl. Something serious must have happened there,” he cautioned. That was the first time I heard about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster that to this day remains the worst nuclear catastrophe in contemporary history. The nuclear plant is situated a mere 60 miles from Ukraine's capital.
Synthesis of imine-ester linked benzothiazole mesogen containing liquid crystalline monomers with different terminal substituents
Creators: name: Dzulkharnien, Nur Syafiqah Farhanah
name: Noordini M. Salleh
name: Rosiyah Yahya
name: M. Rabiul Karim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A series of imine-ester linked benzothiazole mesogen based liquid crystalline monomers (M1 - M4) having polymerizable methacrylate functional group as terminal were designed and synthesized. These monomers were differentiated from each other by varying the terminal substituents (-H, -CH3, -OCH3 and -OCH2CH3) at the sixth position on the benzothiazole moiety. The chemical structures of the synthesized monomers were characterized and confirmed by spectroscopic techniques such as FTIR, 1H NMR and 13C NMR. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was used to study the thermal properties of the investigated monomers. The ethoxy substituted monomer (M4) showed higher thermal stability compared to other monomers. The mesomorphic behavior of all the monomers was studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM). DSC and POM studies revealed that monomer (M1) having no substituent at the sixth position on benzothiazole ring exhibited both smectic and nematic mesophases, whereas -CH3, -OCH3 and -OCH2CH3 substituted compounds revealed only nematic mesophase.
DIREITO FUNDAMENTAL À EDUCAÇÃO E INCLUSÃO SOCIAL DE PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA
Creators: name: ANDERSON VICHINKESKI TEIXEIRA
name: BRUNO COZZA SARAIVA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article has as main objective to analyze, initially, how happened the legal regulation of social inclusion of people with disabilities in ordinary education, searching, then, to specify the questioning on the issue regarding the access to higher education. Therefore, a possible concept of inclusion will be studied, especially from a Habermasian perspective. Finally, there will be argued the thesis that the inclusion of people with disabilities in higher education demands more for new educational and pedagogical policies, than for new normative documents. Methodologically, the research makes a survey of the laws on the subject in Brazil, from an analytical-descriptive methodology, in a way to allow us to move to a criticalhermeneutic method when analyzing the idea of inclusion in higher education.
Supplementary document for High diffraction efficiency varied-line-space concave gratings for Lyman ultraviolet explorer - 6733117.pdf
Creators: name: Ren, Tao
name: Li, Angran
name: Huan, Shuhu
name: Qiu, Keqiang
name: Lou, Zheng
name: Ji, Li
name: Li, ShuangYing
name: Hong, Yilin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Sentencing Your Darlings: Appraisal and Disposal in Research Data Management at Monash University
Creators: name: Hayes-Brady, Ali
name: Nicholls, Catherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Monash University has been actively sentencing legacy electronic research data since 2017.
 In 2018 we had $AUD413 million in research income and it has become obvious that while “data storage is cheap”, it is not unlimited. However, there is still a mentality of “keep everything” in our research data space and we need to address this idea head-on to effect any change. Keeping everything is not only not an option but is detrimental to the discoverability, accessibility and reusability of research data.
 To date we have been using traditional corporate records management practices to sentence
 research data. We are now looking at the value of incorporating traditional archival principles into Research Data Management as well - with regards to appraisal and collection management.
 This lightning talk will look at: What the Research Data Culture looks like at Monash University The value of sentencing data Case studies we have undertaken with different sets of electronic research data Pros and cons of what we have discovered during these case studies The creation of a specific item type for research data in our current -RMS and the benefits of including research data metadata in a recordkeeping system Communicating to our stakeholders about the changes needed in our current research data culture - especially the researchers and IT professionals The questions we are asking (and attempting to answer) are: When we appraise, what do we look for? How do we identify what to keep and what to dispose of? How can we foster a cultural shift in the way research data is created and sustained - how do we make it “naturally FAIR”? Who is responsible for what actions, and when do we need to collaborate? How can we articulate our storage and sentencing needs to those without archival or records management experience? What is next?
Russia's Systemic Transformations since Perestroika: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism to Democracy—to Fascism?
Creators: Motyl, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Fascism

description: All the post-Communist states of the former Soviet empire have experienced significant change in the last twenty years, but Russia's systemic transformations since Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika may be most dramatic....Russia passed from totalitarianism to several years of both authoritarianism and democracy—only to abandon democracy completely and embark on a transition to what is arguably fascism. In using this term, I am suggesting both the magnitude of Russia's change in recent years and the direction in which it has changed. No less important, I am also suggesting that the terms scholars have developed for Russia— such as patrimonial or tsarist—are inadequate, primarily because they fail to place Russia on a spectrum of comparative political-system types. This paper therefore examines fascism as a system type within a typology of political systems. It also suggests why Vladimir Putin's Russia has enough of the defining characteristics of fascism to qualify as fascistoid—that is, as moving toward fascism—and why Russia alone moved along so exceptionally turbulent a systemic path. Finally, the paper examines whether a fascistoid or fascist Russia is likely to be stable.
MOESM1 of Bleeding in cardiac patients prescribed antithrombotic drugs: electronic health record phenotyping algorithms, incidence, trends and prognosis
Creators: name: Pasea, Laura
name: Chung, Sheng-Chia
name: Pujades-Rodriguez, Mar
name: Shah, Anoop
name: Alvarez-Madrazo, Samantha
name: Allan, Victoria
name: Teo, James
name: Bean, Daniel
name: Sofat, Reecha
name: Dobson, Richard
name: Banerjee, Amitava
name: Patel, Riyaz
name: Timmis, Adam
name: Denaxas, Spiros
name: Hemingway, Harry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary methods, figures and tables.
Seasonal Climatology and Dynamical Mechanisms of Rainfall in the Caribbean
Creators: Martinez, Carlos Javier
Goddard, Lisa M.
Kushnir, Yochanan
Ting, Mingfang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Precipitation (Meteorology)
Large scale systems

description: The Caribbean is a complex region that heavily relies on its rainfall cycle for its economic and societal needs. This makes the Caribbean especially susceptible to hydro-meteorological disasters (i.e. droughts and floods). Previous studies have investigated the seasonal cycle of rainfall in the Caribbean with monthly or longer resolutions that often mask the seasonal transitions and regional differences of rainfall. This has resulted in inconsistent findings on the seasonal cycle. In addition, the mechanisms that shape the climatological rainfall cycle in the region are not fully understood. To address these problems, this study conducts: (i) a principal component analysis of the annual cycle of precipitation across 38 Caribbean stations using daily observed precipitation data; and, (ii) a moisture budget analysis for the Caribbean, using the ERA-Interim Reanalysis. This study finds that the seasonal cycle of rainfall in the Caribbean hinges on three main facilitators of moisture convergence: the Eastern Pacific ITCZ, the Atlantic ITCZ, and the western flank of the North Atlantic Subtropical High (NASH). The Atlantic Warm Pool and Caribbean Low-Level Jet modify the extent of moisture provided by these main facilitators. The expansion and contraction of the western flank of NASH generate the bimodal pattern of the precipitation annual cycle in the northwestern Caribbean, central Caribbean, and with the Eastern Pacific ITCZ the western Caribbean. This study identifies the Atlantic ITCZ as the major source of precipitation for the central and southern Lesser Antilles, which is responsible for their unimodal rainfall pattern. Convergence by sub-monthly transients contributes little to Caribbean rainfall.
Antibacterial activity of extract and fractions from branches of Protium spruceanum and cytotoxicity on fibroblasts
Creators: name: Tatiane Roquete Amparo
name: Ivanildes Vasconcelos Rodrigues
name: Janaína Brandão Seibert
name: Rafaella Hilda Zaniti Souza
name: Oliveira, Amanda Ribeiro De
name: Cabral, Vivette Appolinário Rodrigues
name: Vieira, Paula Melo De Abreu
name: Brandão, Geraldo Célio
name: Okuma, Adriana Akemi
name: Filho, Sidney Augusto Vieira
name: Luiz Fernando Medeiros Teixeira
name: Souza, Gustavo Henrique Bianco De
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The crude ethanol extract (CEE) and fractions from branches of Protium spruceanum were subjected to antibacterial and cytotoxicity assays. Compounds of the most active fraction were identified by GC-MS and LC-MS. CEE was active against 19 bacteria and the ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) showed the lowest minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC 0.3–80.0 mg/mL). Through time-kill assay was observed that EAF induced rapid bactericidal effect against Staphylococcus saprophyticus. The cytotoxicity tests against L929 fibroblasts showed great potential of EAF on the treatment of infections caused by five bacteria (MBC 50). The results provide in vitro scientific support to the possible application of branches of P. spruceanum as antimicrobial agent that may contribute for treatment of infections.
Schooling in Sickness and in Health: The Effects of Epidemic Disease on Gender Inequality
Creators: Archibong, Belinda
Annan, Francis
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Climatic changes--Health aspects
Epidemics
Equality--Health aspects
Women--Education
Sex differences in education
Marriage age--Economic aspects

description: Epidemics can worsen social inequality by increasing gender gaps in educational attainment through raising the direct and opportunity costs of investing in girls, particularly in poorer countries. We investigate this hypothesis by examining the effects of sudden exposure to the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger on the gender gap in education. We document a significant reduction in years of education for school-aged girls relative to boys following the epidemic. We explore several channels underlying the results and find evidence highlighting income effects of epidemics on households and increased early marriage of girls.
Evidence-based co-creation of solutions for psychosocial genetics: The project PLAY-THE-ODDS
Creators: name: Sales, Célia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Workshop "Health Literacy: The need for transdisciplinary reflection to foster knowledge and envision new tools", at the University of Porto Rectory, Council Room

Health literacy (HL) is one of the core issues in the contemporary world that closely associates with sustainability and human development goals. HL is part of the complex relationships between individuals (e.g. lay people, health and social professionals), institutions (e.g. governments, health system institutions, universities) and societies (e.g. sociocultural and economic environments for inclusion and citizenship). This is something the pandemic has made quite clear: the existence of multiple gaps and the need for transversal bridges (and bonds). This workshop joined researchers from different disciplines and contexts that will share their experiences and results, to run a creative and fruitful debate with the audience, that hopefully will contribute to new routes on health literacy theories and practices. 

Professor Célia presented the PLAY-THE-ODDS project to the group.
Friction behaviour of polymeric material
Creators: name: Vilhena, Luís
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: The understanding of the friction behaviour of the human skin is indispensable in order to optimize surfaces and materials in contact with the skin. The coefficient of friction for different materials contacting against the skin is mainly influenced by the nature of the materials, mechanical contact parameters and physiological skin conditions. The aim of the present research work was to study the grip effect of two different polymeric materials by producing different textured patterns using a 3D printing micro-fabrication technique. It was found that a difference in friction amplitude exists between the two different polymeric materials and that positive texturing showed higher coefficient of friction than negative texturing (that decreases as the textured pattern area density increases).
Additional file 1 of The composite risk index based on frailty predicts postoperative complications in older patients recovering from elective digestive tract surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Li, Chun-Qing
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Yu, Fan
name: Li, Xue-Ying
name: Wang, Dong-Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1 Composition of Modified Frailty Index.
पशु चिकित्सा निदान के लिए रक्त के नमूनों के संग्रह, संरक्षण और प्रयोगशाला में भेजने की देखभाल
Creators: name: डॉ. पार्थ बी. राठोड*., डॉ.  एन.बी. भाटी., डॉ. पी.पी. मकवाना ण., डॉ. एफ. एम. कापड़िया
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: भारत एक कृषि प्रधान देश है और कृषि के साथ-साथ पशुपालन में भी इसका अद्वितीय स्थान है। पशुधन की संख्या में भी भारत प्रथम स्थान पर है। इसके अलावा, देश की कुल आय में पशुधन और पशुधन उत्पादों का महत्वपूर्ण योगदान है। इन पशुधन उत्पादों में दूध एक महत्वपूर्ण उत्पाद है। दूध उत्पादन के लिए पशुओं का स्वास्थ्य बनाए रखना बहुत जरूरी है और इसके लिए उनके स्वास्थ्य और दूध की गुणवत्ता को प्रभावित करने वाली बीमारियों का समय रहते निदान करना बहुत जरूरी है।
Chemical profile and antihyperlipidemic effect of Portulaca oleracea L. seeds in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Creators: name: Jilan A. Nazeam
name: El-Hefnawy, Hala M.
name: Omran, Gamal
name: Abdel-Naser Singab
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Hypolipidemic effect of Portulaca oleracea L. seed extract and its fractions have been studied on streptozotocin (STZ) at dose 75 mg/kg b.wt. After fractionation of the alcoholic extract; petroleum ether fraction was the most active fraction that decreased different hyperlipidemia biochemical parameters. After chromatographic analysis; oleamide, ethylpalmitate, β-amyrin, stigmasterol and β-sitosterol were identified. The GLC analysis of unsaponifiable matter revealed the presence of; lignoceric acid as a major constituent in the most bioactive fraction. In conclusion, petroleum ether fraction possessed a hypolipidemic effect in STZ-induced diabetic rats, which may be attributed to its phytosterols, fatty acid and amide compounds. The finding of the present investigation strongly demonstrates the potential of non-polar fraction of P. oleracea L. seed in combating hyperlipidemia in diabetic condition. So the petroleum ether fractions and its constituents can be used as hypolipdemic supplement in the developing countries towards the development of new therapeutic agents.