cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What is “Language Making”?
Creators: name: Krämer, Philipp
name: Vogl, Ulrike
name: Kolehmainen, Leena
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: agency
subject: language attitudes and ideologies
subject: language policy and planning
subject: linguistic norms and rules
subject: standardization
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: This article introduces a new concept called “Language Making”. The term covers all kinds of processes in which speakers or non-speakers collectively conceptualize linguistic entities. Such processes are usually perpetual, they operate based on language ideologies and attitudes, and they bring about functional and structural norms which determine the boundaries of linguistic entities such as languages, dialects or varieties. The article discusses the significance of standardization, language policy and planning, and of stakeholders and agency for processes of Language Making. Raising the question as to why a new concept is needed in the first place, the article concludes with a demarcation of Language Making from opposite processes which may be called “un-Making” of Languages.
Language Making of Creoles in multilingual postcolonial societies
Creators: name: Krämer, Philipp
name: Mijts, Eric
name: Bartens, Angela
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Creole languages
subject: decoloniality
subject: language policy and planning
subject: postcoloniality
subject: standardization
subject: 400 Sprache::490 Andere Sprachen::490 Andere Sprachen

description: This article investigates Language Making processes in multilingual postcolonial societies where Creole languages are spoken. It raises the question whether or not Language Making in these settings differs from other contexts given the historical preconditions and social, economic, or political inequalities which persist after the colonial period. The paper discusses the potentials of Language Making to support or impede efforts of decolonization. With the help of examples from several Creole-speaking societies, it shows different approaches to conceptualizing Creole languages as linguistic entities with the creation or emergence of norms, different naming strategies or through language policy and planning. It examines the potential contribution of different agents of Language Making and illustrates cases in which Language Making is countered or languages are un-made. As a conclusion, the article shows that the concept of Language Making may need further expansion or nuancing in order to avoid a “Northern” or “Western” bias.
Indigenous women and cervical screening in Queensland : the first comprehensive study on indigenous Australian women's inequalities in cervical screening; a Queensland record-linkage study
Creators: name: Whop, Lisa
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2016

description: Since the introduction of the Australian National Cervical Screening Program (NCSP) in 1991, cervical cancer incidence and mortality in Australia have decreased by over 50%. However, incidence and mortality for Indigenous women are two and four times higher respectively than for non-Indigenous women. The NCSP is unable to report on program performance indicators for Indigenous women because Indigenous status is not routinely collected by Pap Smear Registers (PSRs). This thesis linked data from the Queensland PSR with hospital inpatient and cancer registry data to investigate cervical screening participation, prevalence of cervical abnormalities and time to clinical investigation following a high-grade abnormality for Indigenous compared with non-Indigenous women. The main findings were: 1. Linking PSR to inpatient data was a feasible means to achieve reliable (but not perfect) identification of Indigenous women in cervical screening data. 2. Screening participation was considerably lower for Indigenous than non-Indigenous women in all categories of age-group, remoteness and socioeconomic disadvantage and has not improved over time. There was a large decline in participation among young Indigenous women. 3. Among screened women, Indigenous women had markedly higher prevalence of both cytology- and histology-confirmed cervical abnormalities than non-Indigenous women. The prevalence of cytology-detected high-grade abnormalities appeared to be increasing over time among Indigenous women only. 4. Indigenous women with a cytology-detected high-grade abnormality were less likely to receive clinical investigation within the recommended time frame of two months, but did eventually receive follow-up. This thesis reports the first population-based findings for Indigenous women in Queensland, highlighting the importance of including Indigenous status in administrative datasets. These findings are timely given the announcement of the Renewed NCSP to be introduced in 2017. These results can inform policy and practice in the prevention of cervical cancer amongst Indigenous women. Secondary Supervisor : Kamalini Lokuge Note: Please note that some published articles in the thesis are available in hard copy only.
Using repeated-prevalence data in multi-state modeling of renal replacement therapy
Creators: name: Dany, Antoine
name: Dantony, Emmanuelle
name: Mad-Hélénie Elsensohn
name: Villar, Emmanuel
name: Couchoud, Cécile
name: Ecochard, René
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: Medicine

description: Multi-state models help predict future numbers of patients requiring specific treatments but these models require exhaustive incidence data. Deriving reliable predictions from repeated-prevalence data would be helpful. A new method to model the number of patients that switch between therapeutic modalities using repeated-prevalence data is presented and illustrated. The parameters and goodness of fit obtained with the new method and repeated-prevalence data were compared to those obtained with the classical method and incidence data. The multi-state model parameters’ confidence intervals obtained with annually collected repeated-prevalence data were wider than those obtained with incidence data and six out of nine pairs of confidence intervals did not overlap. However, most parameters were of the same order of magnitude and the predicted patient distributions among various renal replacement therapies were similar regardless of the type of data used. In the absence of incidence data, a multi-state model can still be successfully built with annually collected repeated-prevalence data to predict the numbers of patients requiring specific treatments. This modeling technique can be extended to other chronic diseases.
Análise dos Planos de Intervenção da Psicomotricidade Relacional no Centro de apoio Psicossocial Infantil en Natal-RN
Creators: name: Maryana Pryscilla Silva De Morais
name: Coquerel, Patrick Ramon Stafin
name: Barros, Carla Silva De
name: Oliveira, Débora Lima De
name: Jônatas De França Barros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Trabalho apresentado em Congresso.
Thermal plasma treatment of stormwater sediments: comparison between DC non-transferred and partially transferred arc plasma
Creators: name: O.L. Li
name: Y. Guo
name: J.S. Chang
name: N. Saito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The disposal of enormous amount of stormwater sediments becomes an emerging worldwide problem. Stormwater sediments are contaminated by heavy metals, phosphorus, trace organic and hydrocarbons, and cannot be disposed without treatment. Thermal plasma decontamination technology offers a high decomposition rate in a wide range of toxic organic compound and immobilization of heavy metal. In this study, we compared the treatment results between two different modes of thermal plasma: (1) a non-transferred direct current (DC) mode and (2) a partial DC-transferred mode. The reductions of total organic carbon (TOC) were, respectively, 25% and 80% for non-transferred and partially transferred plasma, respectively. Most of the toxic organic compounds were converted majorly to CxHy. In the gaseous emission, the accumulated CxHy, CO, NO and H2S were significantly higher in partially transferred mode than in non-transferred mode. The solid analysis demonstrated that the concentrations of Ca and Fe were enriched by 500% and 40%, respectively. New chemical compositions such as KAlSi3O8, Fe3O4, NaCl and CaSO4 were formed after treatment in partially DC-transferred mode. The power inputs were 1 and 10 kW, respectively, for non-transferred DC mode and a partially DC-transferred mode. With a lower energy input, non-transferred plasma treatment can be used for decontamination of sediments with low TOC and metal concentration. Meanwhile, partially transferred thermal plasma with higher energy input is suitable for treating sediments with high TOC percentage and volatile metal concentration. The organic compounds are converted into valuable gaseous products which can be recycled as an energy source.
A pair of rational double sequences
Creators: name: Altynbek, Serik
name: Begehr, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Two-sided sequences
subject: natural numbers sequences
subject: complex sequences
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::510 Mathematik::510 Mathematik

description: Double sequences appear in a natural way in cases of iteratively given sequences if the iteration allows to determine besides the successors from the predecessors also the predecessors from their followers. A particular pair of double sequences is considered which appears in a parqueting-reflection process of the complex plane. While one end of each sequence is a natural number sequence, the other consists of rational numbers. The natural numbers sequences are not yet listed in OEIS Wiki. Complex versions from the double sequences are provided.
Prevalence of chronic urticaria in children and adults across the globe: Systematic review with meta‐analysis
Creators: name: Fricke, Julia
name: Ávila, Gabriela
name: Keller, Theresa
name: Weller, Karsten
name: Lau, Susanne
name: Maurer, Marcus
name: Zuberbier, Torsten
name: Keil, Thomas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: chronic urticaria
subject: meta-analysis
subject: prevalence
subject: sex differences
subject: systematic review
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background and objectives: Urticaria is a frequent skin condition, but reliable prevalence estimates from population studies particularly of the chronic form are scarce. The objective of this study was to systematically evaluate and summarize the prevalence of chronic urticaria by evaluating population-based studies worldwide. Methods: We performed a systematic search in PUBMED and EMBASE for population-based studies of cross-sectional or cohort design and studies based on health insurance/system databases. Risk of bias was assessed using a specific tool for prevalence studies. For meta-analysis, we used a random effects model. Results: Eighteen studies were included in the systematic evaluation and 11 in the meta-analysis including data from over 86 000 000 participants. Risk of bias was mainly moderate, whereas the statistical heterogeneity (I-2) between the studies was high. Asian studies combined showed a higher point prevalence of chronic urticaria (1.4%, 95%-CI 0.5-2.9) than those from Europe (0.5%, 0.2-1.0) and Northern American (0.1%, 0.1-0.1). Women were slightly more affected than men, whereas in children < 15 years we did not find a sex-specific difference in the prevalence. The four studies that examined time trends indicated an increasing prevalence of chronic urticaria over time. Conclusions: On a global level, the prevalence of chronic urticaria showed considerable regional differences. There is a need to obtain more sex-specific population-based and standardized international data particularly for children and adolescents, different chronic urticaria subtypes and potential risk and protective factors.
Secondary prevention measures in anaphylaxis patients: Data from the anaphylaxis registry
Creators: name: Kraft, Magdalena
name: Knop, Macarena Pia
name: Renaudin, Jean‐Marie
name: Scherer Hofmeier, Kathrin
name: Pföhler, Claudia
name: Bilò, Maria Beatrice
name: Lang, Roland
name: Treudler, Regina
name: Wagner, Nicola
name: Spindler, Thomas
name: Hourihane, Jonathan O'B
name: Maris, Ioana
name: Koehli, Alice
name: Bauer, Andrea
name: Lange, Lars
name: Müller, Sabine
name: Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G.
name: Wedi, Bettina
name: Moeser, Anne
name: Ensina, Luis F.
name: Fernandez‐Rivas, Montserrat
name: Cichocka‐Jarosz, Ewa
name: Christoff, George
name: Garcia, Blanca E.
name: Poziomkowska‐Gęsicka, Iwona
name: Cardona, Victoria
name: Mustakov, Tihomir B.
name: Rabe, Uta
name: Mahler, Vera
name: Grabenhenrich, Linus
name: Dölle‐Bierke, Sabine
name: Worm, Margitta
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: adrenaline autoinjector
subject: anaphylactic reaction
subject: anaphylaxis
subject: epinephrine autoinjector
subject: secondary prevention
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Patients with a history of anaphylaxis are at risk of future anaphylactic reactions. Thus, secondary prevention measures are recommended for these patients to prevent or attenuate the next reaction. Methods: Data from the Anaphylaxis Registry were analyzed to identify secondary prevention measures offered to patients who experienced anaphylaxis. Our analysis included 7788 cases from 10 European countries and Brazil. Results: The secondary prevention measures offered varied across the elicitors. A remarkable discrepancy was observed between prevention measures offered in specialized allergy centers (84% of patients were prescribed adrenaline autoinjectors following EAACI guidelines) and outside the centers: Here, EAACI guideline adherence was only 37%. In the multivariate analysis, the elicitor of the reaction, age of the patient, mastocytosis as comorbidity, severity of the reaction, and reimbursement/availability of the autoinjector influence physician's decision to prescribe one. Conclusions: Based on the low implementation of guidelines concerning secondary prevention measures outside of specialized allergy centers, our findings highlight the importance of these specialized centers and the requirement of better education for primary healthcare and emergency physicians.
Wi-Fi router
Creators: name: Healy, Terry
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Even the cheapest laptop no longer needs a cable to access the internet; you just walk into a place and, somehow, magically, the device you are carrying connects automatically with a Wi-Fi hot spot. This happens in cafes, at home, on a train, on a plane. Wi-Fi routers are everywhere, to the point where it feels odd when you find a spot where you actually can't find a Wi-Fi hot spot to watch movies, stream music, search the internet, or do emails. The name "Wi-Fi" is the trademarkpopularized by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe radio systems used to access the internet, with billions of devices now connected and growing. Wi-Fi uses a set of industry standards adopted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or "IEEE"” a body that not only promulgates standards, but also records patents relevant to Wi-Fi. By now Wi-Fi-related patent families number a few hundred; but one stands out. This is the story of the core patent, the one that showed how to make fast and efficient Wi-Fi. The patent journey took 25 years, and it took many twists and turns. In the end, it is a tale about how much hard work is involved in taking a great idea to market, how long it takes, and how, often, obtaining a patent may be merely the first salvo in a long war of attrition. The story began with a small group of scientists in Australia, working in the esoteric field of radio astronomy. They were searching for gravitational waves associated with exploding black holes. That research lead to the filing in August 1987 of a patent application for "A Transform Processing Circuit," for a semiconductor chip that could perform two types of signal processing on data streams: Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) and Inverse Fast Fourier Transforms (IFFT). The inventors were employees of CSIRO, Australia's primary scientific research body. It's not clear whether the researchers who were named on the patent ever thought that the invention would be significant in communications, but a few years later one ofthose researchers, John O'Sullivan, was involved in a commercialization project at CSIRO.
Scholars and their metaphors: on Language Making in linguistics
Creators: name: Jakobs, Marlena
name: Hüning, Matthias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: concepts of language
subject: discourse metaphor
subject: language maps
subject: language and evolution
subject: language trees
subject: 400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik

description: This article deals with the powerful role of metaphors in the process of Language Making throughout the history of linguistics. It departs from the assumption that metaphors play an essential role both in the formation of scientific theories and in common conceptions of language. We want to illuminate to what extent metaphors are involved in language ideologies, and we investigate their role in linguistic theory formation. After introducing different approaches to metaphor theory, we show how metaphorization in linguistics can lead to biological, territorial and liquid concepts of language. Finally, we discuss the need for a re-evaluation of language concepts within the discipline.
Superfood for thought: celebrating and preserving Aboriginal Intangible Heritage
Creators: name: Mora, Alice
name: Griffin, Darren
name: Clarke, Daniel
name: Muir, Ben
name: Campanelli, Maurizio
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores how stratigraphic reconstruction of the archaeological record, experimental archaeology and community engagement came together to successfully revitalise the traditional way of cooking one of the most symbolic and nutritionally important Aboriginal tubers. It is highlighted the significance of cooperatively practising earth-oven cooking and experiencing the familial taste of Murnong in reconnecting people to Country. Moreover, it is described how the re-empowered feeling of identity fostered the creation of an annual festival event celebrating traditional earth-oven cooking and the continuity of its knowledge.
Surgery in intractable epilepsy - physicians' recommendations and patients' decisions
Creators: name: Davids, Roman
name: Kowski, Alexander B.
name: Meencke, Hans‐Joachim
name: Oltmanns, Frank
name: Dehnicke, Christoph
name: Schneider, Ulf C.
name: Holtkamp, Martin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: intracranial EEG
subject: postoperative outcome
subject: presurgical evaluation
subject: seizure focus resection
subject: video-EEG monitoring
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives: To identify demographic and clinical variables independently associated with patients' decisions against their physicians' recommendations for resective epilepsy surgery or further scalp video-EEG monitoring (sca-VEM), semi-invasive (sem-)VEM with foramen ovale and/or peg electrodes, and invasive (in-)VEM. Methods: Consecutive patients, who underwent presurgical assessment with at least one sca-VEM between 2010 and 2014, were included into this retrospective analysis. Multivariate analysis was used to identify independent variables associated with patients' decisions. Results: Within the study period, 352 patients underwent 544 VEM sessions comprising 451 sca-, 36 sem-, and 57 in-VEMs. Eventually, 96 patients were recommended resective surgery, and 106 were ineligible candidates; 149 patients denied further necessary VEMs; thus, no decision could be made. After sca- or additional sem-VEM, nine out of 51 eligible patients (17.6%) rejected resection. One hundred and ten patients were recommended in-VEM, 52 of those (47.2%) declined. Variables independently associated with rejection of in-VEM comprised intellectual disability (OR 4.721, 95% CI 1.047-21.284), extratemporal focal aware non-motor seizures ("aura") vs. no "aura" (OR 0.338, 95% CI 0.124-0.923), and unilateral or bilateral vs. no MRI lesion (OR 0.248, 95% CI 0.100-0.614 and 0.149, 95% CI 0.027-0.829, respectively). Conclusions: During and after presurgical evaluation, patients with intractable focal epilepsy declined resections and intracranial EEGs, as recommended by their epileptologists, in almost 20% and 50% of cases. This calls for early and thorough counseling of patients on risks and benefits of epilepsy surgery. Future prospective studies should ask patients in depth for specific reasons why they decline their physicians' recommendations.
The formation and evolution of bulges as traced by globular cluster systems
Creators: name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Spitler, Lee
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Globular Clusters provide a unique method for tracing the formation and evolution of their host galaxies. As single stellar populations they are far easier to interpret than the multi-population complexity of galaxy field stars. The scaling properties of globular clusters provide important constraints on the hierarchical assembly history of galaxies. Here we briefly review recent progress using the Hubble Space Telescope for imaging and the Keck plus Gemini telescopes for spectroscopy. We argue that the red, or metal-rich, subpopulation of GCs is associated with the bulge/spheroid component of galaxies. As one of the oldest stellar systems available for study, we discuss how globular clusters can be used to constrain the formation of galaxy bulges, in particular the role of mergers vs secular evolution. We conclude that metal-rich GCs, and hence bulges, formed very early in the Universe with more recent mergers having a small effect at most.
Ferromagnetic copper(II)–copper(II) interaction in a single chlorido and dicyanamido bridged mixed–valence copper(I/II) 2D polymer generated by in situ partial reduction of copper(II)
Creators: name: Madhusudan Nandy
name: Shit, Shyamapada
name: Piu Dhal
name: Rizzoli, Corrado
name: Gómez–García, Carlos J.
name: Samiran Mitra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A mixed–valence 2–D Cu(I/II) complex, [{Cu(II)(dmen)(μ–Cl)(μ1,5–dca)}{Cu(I)(μ1,5–dca)}]n (1) (dmen = N,N–dimethylethylenediamine, dca = dicyanamide = [N(CN)2]–), has been synthesized by in situ partial reduction of Cu(II) to Cu(I) using benzoin (2–hydroxy–1,2–di(phenyl)ethanone) as reductant. Complex 1 was characterized by spectroscopic techniques, single crystal X-ray diffraction and low temperature magnetic measurements. Structural investigation reveals that 1 represents a mixed-valence 2–D coordination formed by parallel 1–D [Cu(II)(dmen)(Cl)Cu(I)(μ1,5-dca)2]n chains running along the b axis where chloride at Cu(II) bridges Cu(II) ions of adjacent polymers through long connections (2.8401(1) Å) to form a 2–D network. The metal centers have two different geometrical environments (distorted square pyramidal and distorted trigonal planar geometries for Cu(II) and Cu(I), respectively). The Cu(II) ions in [Cu(II)(dmen)(μ–Cl)(dca)]n are inter–connected through single chloride bridges while within the [Cu(I)(μ1,5–dca)]n units, the dca connects adjacent Cu(I) ions through μ1,5–dca bridges. Magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal weak ferromagnetic interactions (J = +0.3 cm–1) within the chlorido–bridged Cu(II) regular chain present in 1. Simultaneous presence of μ1,5–dca and single chlorido bridges with ferromagnetic coupling is believed to be unique in mixed valence Cu(I)/Cu(II) complexes.
Memo from Bernard A. Shaw to T. Bayles Minuse about Rosenberg and Guber Proposal, November 25, 1955
Creators: name: Shaw, Bernard A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Correspondence
Stony Brook

description: This memo is written by Bernard A. Shaw to T. Bayles Minuse on November 25, 1955, in regards to a proposal with Mr. Melville from Rosenberg & Guber.
Investigating the effectiveness of an authentic learning task: A classroom-based simulation in finance education
Creators: name: Henry, Darren
name: McCormack, Silvia
name: Saeed, Nauman
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 390103
subject: Economics, business and management curriculum and pedagogy

description: Title on conference site page for paper differs "The power of a university classroom-based simulation learning task" from PDF title "Investigating the effectiveness of an authentic learning task: A classroom-based simulation in finance education". 
Investigating the effectiveness of an authentic learning task: A classroom-based simulation in finance education
Creators: name: Henry, Darren
name: McCormack, Silvia
name: Nauman Saeed
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy

description: Original paper entitled 'The power of a university classroom-based simulation learning task'.
Characterization of the lipA gene encoding the major lipase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain IGB83
Creators: name: Martínez-Antonio, Agustino
name: Soberón-Chávez, Gloria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The lipases produced by Pseudomonas have a wide range of potential biotechnological applications. Pseudomonas aeruginosa IGB83 was isolated as a highly lipolytic strain which produced a thermotolerant and alkaline lipase. In the present work, we have characterized the P. aeruginosa IGB83 gene (lipA) encoding this enzyme. We describe the construction of a lipA mutant and report the effect of two carbon sources on lipase expression.
Stimulating the Growth of Technology-Based Incubators: Government as Enabler
Creators: name: Kennett, Geraldine
name: Sun, He
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores the comparative role of governments in fostering the advancement of technology through business incubation in Australia and China. It suggests an enabling-oriented approach to government policy and service delivery may stimulate and sustain incubatees’ growth via the development of social capital. Government may also play a critical role in policy programs that foster learning, research and innovation.
Thermal Plasma Treatment of Stormwater Sediments: Comparison between DC Non-Transferred and Partial Transferred Arc Plasma
Creators: name: O.L. Li
name: Y. Guo
name: J.S. Chang
name: N. Saito
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hematology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The disposal of enormous amount of stormwater sediments becomes an emerging worldwide problem. Stormwater sediments are contaminated by heavy metals, phosphorus, trace organic and hydrocarbons and cannot be disposed without treatment. Thermal plasma decontamination technology offers high decomposition rate in a wide range of toxic organic and immobilization of heavy metal. In this study, we compared the treatment results between two different modes of thermal plasma: (1) a non-transferred Direct Current (DC) mode and (2) a partial Direct Current (DC)-transferred mode. The reductions of TOC were, respectively, 25 and 80% for non-transferred and partial transferred plasma. Most of the toxic organic compounds were converted majorly to CxHy. In the gaseous emission, the accumulated CxHy, CO, NO and H2S were significantly higher in partial transferred mode than that of non-transferred mode. The solid analysis demonstrated that the concentration of Ca and Fe enriched by 500 and 40%, respectively. New chemical compositions such as KAlSi3O8, Fe3O4, NaCl and CaSO4 were formed after treatment in partial DC-transferred mode. The power inputs were 1 and 10 kW, respectively, for non-transferred Direct Current (DC) mode and a partial Direct Current (DC)-transferred mode. With a lower energy input, non-transferred plasma treatment can be used for decontamination of sediments with low TOC and metal concentration. Meanwhile, partial transferred thermal plasma with higher energy input is suitable for treating sediments with high TOC percentage and volatile metal concentration. The organic compounds are converted into valuable gaseous products which can be recycled as energy source.Supplementary material
Alloying effects and the development of Co-Ni superalloys
Creators: name: Mulvey, Paul
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: This thesis presents the development of cobalt/nickel-based polycrystalline superalloys for gas turbine applications. The optimisation of the hot isostatic pressing (HIP) process and subsequent heat treatments has been investigated. Additionally, two powder alloys V208E and V208F have been characterised and investigated to determine the effects of 1.5at% titanium and 1at% niobium substitutions. Finally six alloys based on V208C, developed by M. Knop [113], were developed and characterised. Additions of 1at% chromium, 1at% aluminium, 1 and 2at% molybdenum, 0.5at% niobium and a swap in the carbon and boron level (0.20 and 0.15at% respectively) were investigated. Introducing a lower temperature stage of 950°C during the HIP process caused the carbides that form to reduce in size from approximately 1μm to 80-150nm, as well as confining them to grain boundaries. STEM-EDS confirmed that the small carbides formed are rich in tantalum and zirconium. Upon cooling from above the γ’ solvus, cooling rates below 0.5°C/s were found to cause grain boundary serration, which resulted in an increase in room temperature strength of approximately 100MPa. Titanium was found to increase the γ’ solvus by around 30°C, whereas niobium had little effect. Both alloys had an acceptable low cycle fatigue (LCF) strength with a life of over 0.25 million cycles at 650°C and 774MPa, which was above the yield stress. Titanium was detrimental to oxidation performance, with a damage depth of 4.7μm, compared to niobium with 1.1μm. Both titanium and niobium improved creep strength compared to Knop’s alloy V208C. In the V208C-based alloy series, niobium and aluminium were found to increase the γ’ fraction and solvus, with molybdenum and chromium reducing them. All additions improved oxidation performance except niobium. Molybdenum and niobium were found to be particularly beneficial to high temperature strength. Substitution of carbon for boron significantly improved both high temperature strength and oxidation performance.
Histone methylation patterns in astrocytes are influenced by age following ischemia
Creators: name: Nioka C Chisholm
name: Henderson, Michael L
name: Amutha Selvamani
name: Park, Min Jung
name: Dindot, Scott
name: Miranda, Rajesh C
name: Sohrabji, Farida
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: In animal models, middle-aged females sustain greater ischemia-induced infarction as compared to adult females. This age difference in infarct severity is associated with reduced functional capacity of astrocytes, a critical neural support cell. The impaired response of astrocytes following stroke in middle-aged females may be related to epigenetic alterations, including histone acetylation or methylation. The present study measured the activity of enzymes that regulate histone acetylation and methylation in cerebral cortical astrocytes of adult (6 month) and middle-aged (11+ month) female rats 48 h following middle cerebral artery occlusion. H3K4 histone methyltransferase activity was decreased in astrocytes from middle-aged females. The next experiment therefore examined H3K4me3 (transcriptional enhancer) and H3K9me3 (transcriptional repressor) in astrocytes from adult and middle-aged females using ChIP-seq analysis. Adult females had more enriched H3K4me3 peaks (304 vs. 26) at transcriptional start sites and fewer H3K9me3 enriched peaks than middle-aged females (4 vs. 22), indicating a pattern of less active chromatin in astrocytes in the older group following ischemia. DAVID clustering analysis of H3K4me3 enriched genes found several functional categories, including cell motility, regulation of apoptosis and the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway. H3K4me3 was enriched at the miR-17-20 cluster and VEGFa, and analysis of a separate set of astrocytes confirmed that VEGF protein expression and miR-20 mRNA expression were significantly greater following ischemia in adult females compared to middle-aged females. These data indicate that astrocytes display less active chromatin with aging and provide new insight into possible mechanisms for differences in stroke severity observed during aging.
Deregulation, Uncertainty, and Information Technology in the Electric Utility Industry:  A Transaction Cost Interpretation of the Drivers and Consequences of Vertical Disintegration
Creators: name: McNaughton, Maurice
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2005

description: The choice of firm boundaries is one of the most fundamental elements of organizational strategy. It determines industry positioning, enables the development and leverage of distinctive capabilities, and ultimately establishes the basis for sustainable competitive advantage. In the modern economy, organizational unbundling and vertical disintegration has become a recurrent theme across many industries, reflecting a major transformation in industrial organization and firm strategy. What are the drivers of this modern trend of vertical disintegration? How do we reconcile this modern phenomenon with the vertical integration logic of previous decades?   Beginning with Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) as the underlying framework, we draw from the Information Processing, Coordination and Capabilities literatures to develop an integrated theoretical framework for examining and rationalizing the determinants of vertical disintegration. The recent restructuring of the US electric utility industry provides a suitable empirical context to undertake a rigorous examination of this theoretical framework: a context that manifests institutional heterogeneity, high levels of uncertainty, intense coordination requirements, and a variety of competing market and organizational institutions in transition. We employ multi-level modeling techniques, to account for firm heterogeneity and time-variant institutional parameters in our longitudinal panel data, thus allowing for a richer analysis of institutional effects.  The results show that there has been systematic vertical disintegration in the electric utility industry over the period of study, 1994-2002, influenced by both firm-level and state/federal-level institutional factors as well as structural market attributes, which serve as proxies for demand and supply uncertainty. Using IT investment intensity as a proxy for firm-level IT Capability, we also established an overall significant negative effect of IT on vertical integration, consistent with previous studies about the effects of IT on firm size.  The main findings confirmed several standard TCE propositions, and also address several known shortcomings, most notably the ambiguity in the treatment of uncertainty. In addition, the robust examination of the empirical evidence associated with the restructuring of the Electric Utility industry allowed us to isolate the relative effects of various institutional mechanisms and structural market attributes. These findings help to illuminate the understanding and ultimately the programming of deregulation effects.
An Examination of Linkages between Personality, Leader-Member Exchange, and the Psychological Contract
Creators: name: Kunze, Mark
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: While previous research has focused mainly on relationships between various personality variables and either leader-member exchange or psychological contract violation, none has yet to examine how these constructs are linked.  A model of these proposed relationships is developed based on theory drawn from literature in the areas of social psychology, leader-member exchange, and psychological contracts.  The present research used structural equation modeling to examine the strength of the relationship between the personality variables of negative affect, positive affect, self-monitoring, and trait cynicism with respect to leader-member exchange and perceptions of psychological contract violation.  Positive affect and negative affect were found to significantly relate to both LMX and the perception of psychological contract violation.  Trait cynicism was not significantly related to LMX and only weakly related to perceptions of psychological contract violation.  It was hypothesized that LMX would partially mediate the relationships between the individual personality factors and perceptions of psychological contract violation; however, the data did not support this hypothesis.  While self-monitoring was hypothesized to moderate the relationship of positive affect, negative affect, and trait cynicism with LMX, the moderating effect was found to be significant only for the negative affect/LMX relationship.
A High Spatial Resolution FBG Sensor Array for Measuring Ocean Temperature and Depth.
Creators: name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Yongjie
name: Wang, Jianfeng
name: Li, Fang
Publisher: name: UNESCO/IOC
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fiber Bragg grating
subject: Temperature-depth profile
subject: Cross-sensitivity
subject: Seaborne test verification
subject: Parameter Discipline::Physical oceanography::Water column temperature and salinity

description: Exploring and understanding the ocean is an important field of scientific study. Acquiring accurate and high-resolution temperature and depth profiles of the oceans over relatively short periods of time is an important basis for understanding ocean currents and other associated physical parameters. Traditional measuring instruments based on piezoelectric ceramics have a low spatial resolution and are not inherently waterproof. Meanwhile, sensing systems based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) have the advantage of facilitating continuous measurements and allow multi-sensor distributed measurements. Therefore, in this paper, an all-fiber seawater temperature and depth-sensing array is used to obtain seawater temperature and depth profiles. In addition, by studying the encapsulation structure of the FBG sensors, this paper also solves the problem of the measurement error present in traditional FBG sensors when measuring seawater temperature. Through a theoretical analysis and seaborne test in the Yellow Sea of China, the sampling frequency of the all-fiber seawater temperature and depth profile measurement system is 1 Hz, the accuracy of the FBG sensors reaches 0.01 ℃, and the accuracy of the FBG depth sensors reaches 0.1 % of the full scale. The resulting parameters for these sensors are therefore considered to be acceptable for most survey requirements in physical oceanography.
Network Effects on New Venture Internationalization: A Network-Knowledge Framework
Creators: name: Yu, Jifeng
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: This study was designed to explore the research question: How do alliance networks of a new venture affect the venture?s speed of internationalization? To address this question, this paper builds a theoretical framework, from the network perspective, to systematically examine the effects of multiple network constructs. The constructs included in the paper represent two different approaches in the network literature, the network content approach and the network structure approach. A set of longitudinal data of new ventures in the U.S. biotechnology industry was collected and employed for data analysis. The results show that both network content (number and features of alliances and characteristics of partners) and network structure (network density) are important to new ventures? speed of internationalization. As an important finding of this study, the moderating role of network density in new ventures? speed of internationalization is contingent on the type of knowledge transferred in the network.
DNA methylation analysis of Homeobox genes implicates HOXB7 hypomethylation as risk factor for neural tube defects
Creators: name: Rochtus, Anne
name: Izzi, Benedetta
name: Vangeel, Elise
name: Louwette, Sophie
name: Wittevrongel, Christine
name: Lambrechts, Diether
name: Moreau, Yves
name: Raf Winand
name: Verpoorten, Carla
name: Jansen, Katrien
name: Geet, Chris Van
name: Freson, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are common birth defects of complex etiology. Though family- and population-based studies have confirmed a genetic component, the responsible genes for NTDs are still largely unknown. Based on the hypothesis that folic acid prevents NTDs by stimulating methylation reactions, epigenetic factors, such as DNA methylation, are predicted to be involved in NTDs. Homeobox (HOX) genes play a role in spinal cord development and are tightly regulated in a spatiotemporal and collinear manner, partly by epigenetic modifications. We have quantified DNA methylation for the different HOX genes by subtracting values from a genome-wide methylation analysis using leukocyte DNA from 10 myelomeningocele (MMC) patients and 6 healthy controls. From the 1575 CpGs profiled for the 4 HOX clusters, 26 CpGs were differentially methylated (P-value < 0.05; β-difference > 0.05) between MMC patients and controls. Seventy-seven percent of these CpGs were located in the HOXA and HOXB clusters, with the most profound difference for 3 CpGs within the HOXB7 gene body. A validation case-control study including 83 MMC patients and 30 unrelated healthy controls confirmed a significant association between MMC and HOXB7 hypomethylation (-14.4%; 95% CI: 11.9–16.9%; P-value < 0.0001) independent of the MTHFR 667C>T genotype. Significant HOXB7 hypomethylation was also present in 12 unaffected siblings, each related to a MMC patient, suggestive of an epigenetic change induced by the mother. The inclusion of a neural tube formation model using zebrafish showed that Hoxb7a overexpression but not depletion resulted in deformed body axes with dysmorphic neural tube formation. Our results implicate HOXB7 hypomethylation as risk factor for NTDs and highlight the importance for future genome-wide DNA methylation analyses without preselecting candidate pathways.
Avaliação do efeito analgésico da estimulação transcraniana por corrente contínua durante o processo de dor muscular de início tardio
Creators: name: Queiroz, Tatiana Valeria Da Silva
name: Richardson Correia Marinheiro
name: Jônatas De França Barros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Trabalho apresentado em Congresso
Perceived Organizational Support: Self-Interested or Other-Interested?
Creators: name: Dookeran, Debra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2006

description: A new research model of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) was proposed and tested. This model proposed that moral reasoning would moderate the relationships between six justice constructs and POS. The six justice constructs were distributive justice for self, coworkers, and employees in general as well as procedural justice for self, coworkers, and employees in general. The model was tested using two studies. Study 1 consisted of 284 students at a large southeastern university, while Study 2 was comprised of 215 employees from multiple organizations. The hypothesized relationships of the model were tested using hierarchical moderated regression analysis. Overall, while the results were consistent with most prior research, there was no support for the moderating role of moral reasoning that was proposed. The findings and implications of both Study 1 and 2 are discussed. Directions for future research are also suggested.
Development of the autonomy of child with autism of a session of symbolic play in setting the relational psychomotricity
Creators: name: Coquerel, Patrick Ramon Stafin
name: Ferreira, Ana Charline Dantas
name: Barros, Carla Silvana De
name: Oliveira, Débora Lima De
name: Everton José Barbosa De Oliveira
name: Fábio Henrique Costa De Oliveira
name: Morais, Mariana Pryscyla Silva De
name: Jônatas De França Barros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Trabalho apresentado em Congresso
Pushing the envelope for estimating poses and actions via full 3D reconstruction
Creators: name: Baek, Seungryul
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Estimating poses and actions of human bodies and hands is an important task in the computer vision community due to its vast applications, including human computer interaction, virtual reality and augmented reality, medical image analysis. Challenges: There are many in-the-wild challenges in this task (see chapter 1). Among them, in this thesis, we focused on two challenges which could be relieved by incorporating the 3D geometry: (1) inherent 2D-to-3D ambiguity driven by the non-linear 2D projection process when capturing 3D objects. (2) lack of sufficient and quality annotated datasets due to the high-dimensionality of subjects' attribute space and inherent difficulty in annotating 3D coordinate values. Contributions: We first tried to jointly tackle the 2D-to-3D ambiguity and insufficient data issues by (1) explicitly reconstructing 2.5D and 3D samples and use them as new training data to train a pose estimator. Next, we tried to (2) encode 3D geometry in the training process of the action recognizer to reduce the 2D-to-3D ambiguity. In appendix, we proposed a (3) new hand pose synthetic dataset that can be used for more complete attribute changes and multi-modal experiments in the future. Experiments: Throughout experiments, we found interesting facts: (1) 2.5D depth map reconstruction and data augmentation can improve the accuracy of the depth-based hand pose estimation algorithm, (2) 3D mesh reconstruction can be used to generate a new RGB data and it improves the accuracy of RGB-based dense hand pose estimation algorithm, (3) 3D geometry from 3D poses and scene layouts could be successfully utilized to reduce the 2D-to-3D ambiguity in the action recognition problem.