cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Melanin distribution from the dermal–epidermal junction to the stratum corneum: non-invasive in vivo assessment by fluorescence and Raman microspectroscopy
Creators: name: Yakimov, Boris P.
name: Shirshin, Evgeny A.
name: Schleusener, Johannes
name: Allenova, Anastasiia S.
name: Fadeev, Victor V.
name: Darvin, Maxim E.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Epidermis
subject: Healthy Volunteers
subject: Melanins
subject: Spectrometry, Fluorescence
subject: Spectrum Analysis, Raman
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The fate of melanin in the epidermis is of great interest due to its involvement in numerous physiological and pathological processes in the skin. Melanin localization can be assessed ex vivo and in vivo using its distinctive optical properties. Melanin exhibits a characteristic Raman spectrum band shape and discernible near-infrared excited (NIR) fluorescence. However, a detailed analysis of the capabilities of depth-resolved confocal Raman and fluorescence microspectroscopy in the evaluation of melanin distribution in the human skin is lacking. Here we demonstrate how the fraction of melanin at different depths in the human skin in vivo can be estimated from its Raman spectra (bands at 1,380 and 1,570 cm−1) using several procedures including a simple ratiometric approach, spectral decomposition and non-negative matrix factorization. The depth profiles of matrix factorization components specific to melanin, collagen and natural moisturizing factor provide information about their localization in the skin. The depth profile of the collagen-related matrix factorization component allows for precise determination of the dermal–epidermal junction, i.e. the epidermal thickness. Spectral features of fluorescence background originating from melanin were found to correlate with relative intensities of the melanin Raman bands. We also hypothesized that NIR fluorescence in the skin is not originated solely from melanin, and the possible impact of oxidized species should be taken into account. The ratio of melanin-related Raman bands at 1,380 and 1,570 cm−1 could be related to melanin molecular organization. The proposed combined analysis of the Raman scattering signal and NIR fluorescence could be a useful tool for rapid non-invasive in vivo diagnostics of melanin-related processes in the human skin.
title: Action Research Package (ARP) for Teacher Educators LTD Program
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Center for International Education, UMass. Amherst
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Palestine, Action Research, Learning Circles, Theory of Action
subject: Teacher training,

description: Prepared by the Center for International Education University of Massachusetts Amherst under contract to AMIDEAST with funding from USAID/West Bank & Gaza. No official endorsement should be inferred. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO ACTION RESEARCH THEORY OF ACTION What is Action Research (AR)? What are the goals of AR? Who will participate in the AR process? Where will I conduct my AR projects? CONDUCTING MY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECTS How will I conduct my AR projects? What tool can I use to guide the AR Inquiry process? (AR Tool) What are the AR steps? (AR Checklist) LEARNING CIRCLES – THE ENVIRONMENT FOR MY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECTS What are Learning Circles? Why should I participate in Learning Circles? Where will LCs take place? Who will participate in LCs? Participant Roles Facilitator Roles How and When will I participate in LCs? Face-to-Face Learning Circle Template Virtual Learning Circle Template (under development)
Facing Crises of Unsustainability: Creating and Holding Safe Enough Spaces for Transformative Learning in Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Singer-Brodowski, Mandy
name: Forster, Ruth
name: Eschenbacher, Saskia
name: Biberhofer, Petra
name: Getzin, Sofia
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: transformative learning
subject: safe space
subject: emotions
subject: higher education
subject: sustainable development
subject: critical thinking
subject: climate crisis
subject: stress
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::370 Bildung und Erziehung::370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: The multiple crises of unsustainability are provoking increasing stress and unpleasant emotions among students. If higher education is to fulfill its mission to support transformation processes toward sustainable development, it must adapt its pedagogical approaches to help students deepen their critical thinking and empower them to engage in these transformation processes. For this reason, emotions – which can also prevent critical thinking – should be carefully addressed within transformative learning journeys. However, these journeys are themselves challenging for learners and educators. They push them to abandon stable meaning perspectives, causing feelings of incoherence and tension. Learners need safe enough spaces to navigate these situations of uncertainty. The central questions of this manuscript are: What is meant by safe enough spaces? How can learners, educators, and higher education institutions create and hold such spaces? These questions are explored on three different levels: (1) the intrapersonal level, (2) the interpersonal level, and (3) the organizational and systemic level of discourses in higher education. For the intrapersonal level, perspectives inspired by neurobiology are used to discuss reaction patterns of our autonomous nervous system and present insights into stress development. Learners should feel bodily safe when engaging in transformative learning processes. This is supported by balancing the challenges learners face with the resources they have. For the interpersonal level, the manuscript argues that focusing solely on rational discourse is insufficient to support safe enough spaces for transformative learning. We call for a culture of edifying conversations supported by respectful relationships among learners, as they are more adequate for regaining self-direction. For the organizational and intertwined systemic level, the ambition is followed to make higher education institutions offer learning environments that feel safe enough for all involved. However, as these institutions are strongly influenced by dynamics of economization and competition, they do not necessarily empower learners to challenge and disrupt unsustainable and neoliberal discourses. The manuscript explores how learners and educators can cultivate engaged critique by acknowledging their own embeddedness in neoliberal dynamics and opening up so-called transformative spaces for institutional change. Finally, recommendations for educational practices in higher education for sustainable development are offered.
Influence of interapplicator distance on multibipolar radiofrequency ablation during physiological and interrupted liver perfusion in an in vivo porcine model
Creators: name: Poch, Franz G. M.
name: Neizert, Christina A.
name: Geyer, Beatrice
name: Gemeinhardt, Ole
name: Bruder, Leon
name: Niehues, Stefan M.
name: Vahldiek, Janis L.
name: Bressem, Keno K.
name: Kreis, Martin E.
name: Lehmann, Kai S.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Liver
subject: Models, Biological
subject: Perfusion
subject: Portal Vein
subject: Radiofrequency Ablation
subject: Regional Blood Flow
subject: Swine
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a curative treatment option for early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Vascular inflow occlusion to the liver (Pringle manoeuvre) and multibipolar RFA (mbRFA) represent possibilities to generate large ablations. This study evaluated the impact of different interapplicator distances and a Pringle manoeuvre on ablation area and geometry of mbRFA. 24 mbRFA were planned in porcine livers in vivo. Test series with continuous blood flow had an interapplicator distance of 20 mm and 15 mm, respectively. For a Pringle manoeuvre, interapplicator distance was predefined at 20 mm. After liver dissection, ablation area and geometry were analysed macroscopically and histologically. Confluent and homogenous ablations could be achieved with a Pringle manoeuvre and an interapplicator distance of 15 mm with sustained hepatic blood flow. Ablation geometry was inhomogeneous with an applicator distance of 20 mm with physiological liver perfusion. A Pringle manoeuvre led to a fourfold increase in ablation area in comparison to sustained hepatic blood flow (p
title: Bridging science and industry: Next-generation multi-function trawl system for NOAA’s fisheries research
Creators: name: Shaughnessy, Greg
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/022d75229
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SWFSC ; 722
description: This report covers the industry-partner perspective of the development and preliminary testing of a multi-function research trawl-net system. This net system supports two of NOAA’s mission critical acoustic-trawl fisheries surveys within the California Current Ecosystem (CCE).
title: Signal distortions in ECG caused by linear digital filtering
Creators: name: Hülsmann, Andreas
name: Husar, Peter
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, Posterausstellung P141-P167, p. art. P160
title: A novel, inexpensive electrode and cap system for dry multichannel EEG
Creators: name: Fiedler, Patrique
name: Strohmeier, Daniel
name: Griebel, Stefan
name: Zanow, Frank
name: Haueisen, Jens
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, J, p. 7
title: Dutch Harbor Light Cargo Dock Screeding
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Conference Opinion and Concurrence Dutch Harbor Light Cargo Dock Screeding, Unalaska, AK
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2025

description: AKRO-2024-03069
Single-cell mass cytometry reveals complex myeloid cell composition in active lesions of progressive multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Böttcher, Chotima
name: Van Der Poel, Marlijn
name: Fernández-Zapata, Camila
name: Schlickeiser, Stephan
name: Leman, Julia K. H.
name: Hsiao, Cheng-Chih
name: Mizee, Mark R.
name: , Adelia
name: Vincenten, Maria C. J.
name: Kunkel, Desiree
name: Huitinga, Inge
name: Hamann, Jörg
name: Priller, Josef
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Progressive multiple sclerosis
subject: Mass cytometry
subject: Microglia
subject: Myeloid cells
subject: Active lesion
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Myeloid cells contribute to inflammation and demyelination in the early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), but it is still unclear to what extent these cells are involved in active lesion formation in progressive MS (PMS). Here, we have harnessed the power of single-cell mass cytometry (CyTOF) to compare myeloid cell phenotypes in active lesions of PMS donors with those in normal-appearing white matter from the same donors and control white matter from non-MS donors. CyTOF measurements of a total of 74 targeted proteins revealed a decreased abundance of homeostatic and TNFhi microglia, and an increase in highly phagocytic and activated microglia states in active lesions of PMS donors. Interestingly, in contrast to results obtained from studies of the inflammatory early disease stages of MS, infiltrating monocyte-derived macrophages were scarce in active lesions of PMS, suggesting fundamental differences of myeloid cell composition in advanced stages of PMS.
title: Eareckson Air Station Fuel Pier
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Reinitiation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for Eareckson Air Station Long-term Fuel Pier Repairs, Shemya Island, Alaska
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2025

description: AKRO-2024-02611
title: Maintenance Dredging (NWS-2022-00276 Weyerhaeuser Company)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Maintenance Dredging for Weyerhaeuser Company’s Log Export Dock Project in Longview, Washington (NWS-2022-00276)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2025

description: WCRO-2022-02168
Gaussian processes and statistical decision-making in non-Euclidean spaces
Creators: name: Terenin, Alexander
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Bayesian learning using Gaussian processes provides a foundational framework for making decisions in a manner that balances what is known with what could be learned by gathering data. In this dissertation, we develop techniques for broadening the applicability of Gaussian processes. This is done in two ways. Firstly, we develop pathwise conditioning techniques for Gaussian processes, which allow one to express posterior random functions as prior random functions plus a dependent update term. We introduce a wide class of efficient approximations built from this viewpoint, which can be randomly sampled once in advance, and evaluated at arbitrary locations without any subsequent stochasticity. This key property improves efficiency and makes it simpler to deploy Gaussian process models in decision-making settings. Secondly, we develop a collection of Gaussian process models over non-Euclidean spaces, including Riemannian manifolds and graphs. We derive fully constructive expressions for the covariance kernels of scalar-valued Gaussian processes on Riemannian manifolds and graphs. Building on these ideas, we describe a formalism for defining vector-valued Gaussian processes on Riemannian manifolds. The introduced techniques allow all of these models to be trained using standard computational methods. In total, these contributions make Gaussian processes easier to work with and allow them to be used within a wider class of domains in an effective and principled manner. This, in turn, makes it possible to potentially apply Gaussian processes to novel decision-making settings.
title: Oceanography Branch CTD Data Report CTD_REPORT_2025001PC
Creators: name: Holzwarth-Davis, Tamara Joan
Publisher: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02nc0ck44
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: This report presents a summary of surface and bottom temperature and salinity data collected during the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s PC2501 AMAPPS Survey aboard the NOAA FSV Pisces.
title: Environmental Assessment for North Central Gulf of America (Gulf) Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) Demonstration, Research, Training, and Outreach
Creators: name: NOAA Office of Aquaculture
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Aquaculture
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Aquaculture

description: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, the United States (U.S.) Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS or Fisheries) has prepared an EA to describe and analyze the potential environmental effects related to the potential funding of the North Central Gulf of America (Gulf), Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) Demonstration, Research, Training, and Outreach pilot project (hereinafter referred as the “Gulf IMTA”). NOAA Fisheries’ proposed action is to provide funding to install, operate, monitor, decommission and remove an IMTA system in the north central Gulf. The proposed action would fund the establishment of an IMTA system, including: 1) the siting of the IMTA demonstration project; 2) construction and deployment of the AquaFort platform; 3) larval rearing and cage stocking; 4) grow-out operations of selected marine species; 5) harvesting of product; 6) decommissioning of the AquaFort platform; 7) environmental monitoring; and 8) training and outreach. This EA describes and analyzes the potential environmental effects related to the potential funding of the Gulf IMTA as required under NEPA and NOAA Administrative Order 216-6A. Two alternatives were considered: Alternative 1, the proposed action for the funding, and subsequent deployment and operation of the IMTA at Site 3B, including monitoring (i.e., the Preferred Alternative), and the No Action (Alternative 2). NOAA Fisheries considered a range of potential environmental impacts associated with funding the IMTA project. The proposed action would have no impact on: climate and air quality, closed areas, marine protected areas, national marine sanctuaries and artificial reefs, military activities and cultural and historic resources. The proposed action is not expected to have disproportionately high or adverse environmental or human health effects on particular communities. The proposed action could have adverse, but not significant or cumulative, potential effects to some physical and biological resources. No federally listed species or critical habitat would be adversely affected by the project. The proposed action could have beneficial, direct and indirect, short and long-term, impacts on social and economic resources. Under the No Action alternative, NOAA Fisheries would not fund the Gulf IMTA project, resulting in none of the activities detailed in the proposed action. The No Action alternative would result in no change to resources in the physical and biological environment. The No Action alternative could have an adverse, direct and indirect, short and long-term, negligible to minor effect to social and economic resources by hindering the growth and development of the marine economy in the region.
title: Balancing the Quality of Public Good within the Dynamics  of Urban Form. Experiences from the redevelopment of residential areas in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Zlatinova-Pavlova, Veneta
Publisher: name: Conference Proceedings XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation A Multidisciplinary Perspective/Lodz University of Technology Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: Public good, Dynamics of urban form, Transformation, Flexibility, Residential areas.

description: The escalating speed of economic and technological development since the beginning of the 21st century is evident in the transformations of urban form and tissue worldwide taking the forms of both land-take and densification. The drivers behind these processes in Bulgaria have been the dynamics of political and economic contexts and the rearrangements of the legal framework since the fall of the Iron curtain. Being one of the most significant changes in spatial planning, the reframed balance between public and private has dominated the redevelopment and restructuring of urban tissue in Bulgaria for the last three decades.
This paper relates the quality of public good in residential areas to their morphological characteristics through a diachronic comparative study of the development of two generic forms of residential areas in Bulgaria – the traditional housing neighbourhoods from the first half of the 20th century and the mass housing residential areas, called complexes, from the second half. It reflects on the morphological and structural changes from the perspective of quality of living and public good and evaluates the flexibility and adaptability of the typologies. It finally outlines the key relations between national context and city management that shape the streetscapes of the neighbourhoods.
title: 5-Year Review of the Smoothback Angelshark (Squatina oculata)
Creators: name: Parsons, Edward Christien Michael
name: Schultz, Jennifer
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Protected Resources
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03fy33a80
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: As required under 50 CFR 424.21, we announced the initiation of the 5-year review in the Federal Register (FR) and solicited relevant information (89 FR 90266; November 15, 2024). We specifically requested data available since the publication of the  status review (Miller 2016). We received comments from the Angel Shark Conservation Network (E. Meyers, I. Giovos, and C. Bousquet) and incorporated that information into this review. We also received one comment supporting the continued listing of the smoothback angelshark.
Numerical modelling of wave-structure interaction with rubble-mound breakwaters and dynamic mesh optimisation
Creators: name: Via-Estrem, Lluis
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: The coastal engineering community has historically relied on physical experiments for developing analytical methods and validating the design of coastal structures. However, the scale effects and costs associated with physical modelling have limited the progress in some key areas such as the design of rubble mounds. These structures are commonly used as breakwaters for harbours and coastal protection, the latter becoming more important in the recent years due to sea level rise. Computational modelling has become a realistic alternative over the past two decades with the increase of computer power and can already simulate many of the processes involved in wave-structure interaction at a low cost and without scale effects. While numerical modelling of structural responses such as wave opertopping are already accepted methods by the coastal engineering community for designing and evaluating new and existing structures, the assumptions and approaches taken for obtaining such responses cast aside the potential capabilities of evaluating rubble mounds stability. Over the past few years new developments in the Applied Modelling & Computation Group (AMCG) at Imperial College on the FDEM model Solidity (www.Solidityproject.com) have lead to the implementation of different tools for building and analysing numerical rubble mound structures. In the meantime, great progress has been made on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) FEM AMCG codes, implementing new approaches for highly accurate interface capture and tracking and mesh optimisation with a reduced computational cost. The purpose of this research is to further develop, optimise and validate AMCG FEM codes for simulations of Numerical Wave Tanks (NWT) and Wave-Structure Ineraction (WSI) with rubble mounds, to develop numerical rock armour layer building capabilities, and finally to provide a few application cases such as measuring scale effects or the impact of sea level rise. Once ready and fully validated, such technologies have the potential to become a more accurate and cheaper alternative for rubble mound breakwaters design than physical modelling.
title: MEG/EEG source localization based on structured sparsity in the time-frequency domain
Creators: name: Strohmeier, Daniel
name: Gramfort, Alexandre
name: Haueisen, Jens
name: Hämäläinen, Matti S.
name: Kowalski, Matthieu
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, K, p. 6
title: Cruise Report: Canyons, Vents, and Seeps of the Chile Margin
Creators: name: Beeson, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xqpda80
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: The primary goal of the R/V Falkor (too) expedition along the Chilean margin was to investigate deep-sea methane seep systems and their interactions with tectonic, climatic, and oceanographic processes.
title: Triatomic Hydrogen (draft of write-up sent to "Research News")
Creators: name: Herzberg, Gerhard
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Herzberg, Gerhard
subject: Triatomic hydrogen
subject: hydrogène triatomique

description: Some edits in pencil
description: Quelques modifications au crayon
BindingDB Entry 12495: Hypoxanthine compounds
Creators: name: BindingDB
Publisher: name: BindingDB
Year: 2025
Subjects: Egl nine homolog 1 [184-418], Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Affinity

description: Small molecule binding data for protein Egl nine homolog 1 [184-418], Uniprot Q9GZT9
Kongzhai Shrine of the Robe and Cap of Confucius in Shanghai, also known as “孔宅衣冠祠墓”
Creators: name: Murray, Julia K.
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2023

description: A place called Kongzhai (Kong Residence), located in a once-rural area that is now within the borders of metropolitan Shanghai, formerly had a shrine for venerating Confucius (Kongzi / Master Kong) that was premised on the belief that a much later descendant had buried the ancient master's robe, cap, and jade ornaments there. Far from the region in North China where Confucius had lived or traveled and over 1000 years after his death, the alleged burial of these relics inspired local late Ming literati to construct a temple complex, centered on an above-ground "Tomb of the Robe and Cap" and a sacrificial hall with sculptural icons. At its height in the early Qing period, Kongzhai's structures, assorted visual images, and ritual artifacts supported its claim to be “Little Queli,” a surrogate for the primordial temple, cemetery, and mansion of Confucius's Kong descendants in Qufu, Shandong. Scholars gathered there to experience his beneficent aura, and sacrifices to Confucius were performed with the same liturgy as in the official Confucian temples attached to government schools. Ambitious officials and local literati used their patronage and interactions with Kongzhai to enhance their own prestige and that of the humble locality. Eventually a line of Kong descendants was designated to take charge of sacrifices, as at other places where descendants had settled. Kongzhai's fortunes declined in the 19th century, and the fall of the Qing dynasty delegitimized Confucian ritualism. In the 20th century, Kongzhai became a target of Maoist campaigns against feudalism, superstition, and undesirable social classes, and it was conclusively destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. One building was later reconstructed in a park several miles away. All that remains on the former site itself are two very old ginkgo trees.
คนแคระ
Creators: name: ประสพสุข ฤทธิเดช
name: ปวีณา แก้วอาจ
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2557
Subjects: นวนิยาย,คนแคระ

description: No.1, Vol.1, วารสารวิจัยเพื่อพัฒนาสังคมและชุมชน มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
การจัดการศึกษาแบบภควันตภาพ
Creators: name: ปัณญาพัฒน์ ขันทอง
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2557
Subjects: การจัดการศึกษา,ภควันตภาพ

description: No.1, Vol.1, วารสารวิจัยเพื่อพัฒนาสังคมและชุมชน มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
A basal forebrain to midbrain circuit drives exploratory locomotion
Creators: name: Mocellin, Petra
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ddc:610
subject: ddc:570

description: Locomotion is a fundamental behavior that comprises different specialized neuronal networks. In the basal forebrain, the glutamatergic neurons of the medial septum and diagonal band of Broca (MSDBglu) can initiate locomotion and control its speed when optogenetically stimulated. MSDBglu neuronal activity is also linked to hippocampal theta oscillations and codes for aversive salient stimuli. This work aims at investigating the downstream target of the MSDBglu neurons responsible for the locomotor effect, and the underlying motivation that brings animals to move upon the activation of this circuit. Tracing studies identified the ventral tegmental area (VTA) as a candidate region receiving MSDBglu inputs. Combining retrograde tracing, slice electrophysiology, in vivo fiberphotometry, pharmacology, and optogenetics, my aim was to understand the role of MSDBglu projections to VTA during rodents’ behavior in both head-fixed and freely moving tasks. Unsupervised machine learning methods allowed me to extract the animal’s pose dynamics and quantify the effect of the network manipulation on behavior at a sub-second time scale.
 Tracing and in vitro patch-clamp data confirmed the existence of a monosynaptic glutamatergic connection between MSDB and VTA, and highlighted how MSDBglu inputs target a heterogeneous population of VTA neurons. Optogenetic activation of MSDBglu axons in VTA was sufficient to induce locomotion and to control its speed in a frequency-dependent manner. Lidocaine infusion in the MSDB did not affect the results of the optogenetic stimulation, thus identifying the VTA as a downstream region in the locomotor circuit initiated in the MSDB. These findings were further supported by the increase in calcium signals of MSDBglu axons in VTA when animals were spontaneously moving. I found that MSDBglu-VTA circuit activation causes an increase of sniffing and whisking prior to locomotion initiation on the treadmill, and leads to a higher representation of rearing motifs in the open field, all actions classically linked to exploration.
 Taken together, in the present work I investigated the MSDBglu neurons and their projections to VTA, and unveiled a new role for this subcortical network in promoting exploratory and information-seeking behavior.
title: End-to-end clinical process monitoring based on event logs
Creators: name: Gattnar, Eva
name: Ekinci, Okan
name: Detschew, Vesselin
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, M, p. 3
title: Radio frequency identification (RFID) in medical environment: a novel modulation technique with minimal interference properties
Creators: name: Rieche, Marie
name: Komenský, Tomas
name: Husar, Peter
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, M, p. 6
Woman and Dance in Kuwaiti Cinema
Creators: name: Alsheridah, Najat
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis uses ideas of the male gaze, as defined in the feminist film theory of Laura Mulvey, and dance theory to explore the representation of women and the use of dance in Kuwaiti cinema. The male gaze theory was coined by Mulvey in her 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, in which she focused on the various situations where females are asymmetrically and unequally portrayed in film. Erin Brannigan’s dance theory, as used here, focuses on the communicative, emotional, physical and artistic aspects of the medium of dance in film as a forum for human interaction and expression within specific oeuvres. The interrelationship of film and dance theories is paramount to this study as these theories help to identify and understand the representation of women and the use of dance in Kuwaiti cinema. This thesis argues that the correlation between the male gaze theory and dance theories provides a significant strategy for highlighting the portrayal of women and the use of dance in Kuwaiti cinema.
This thesis consists of a written and a practice component. The first acts as a guide to the latter. The written component maps the historical background of Kuwaiti cinema in relation to the representation of women and their dances. It also offers an outline of the feminist film and dance theories of Mulvey and Brannigan that I have used with the aim of investigating how women are represented and how dance by women functions in Kuwaiti cinema.
The practical component is a documentary film about dance in Kuwaiti cinema. The film comprises archives, commentary and interviews that state the point of view of the interviewees as they discuss the reality of female representation and dance in Kuwaiti cinema. Furthermore, the documentary also establishes how Kuwaiti film censorship policy affects these elements.
The argument discussed in this thesis is that the Kuwaiti films analysed here deploy the male gaze, as defined by Laura Mulvey and other feminist film theorists, but, because of the strict film censorship policy in Kuwait and the country’s traditional and religious outlook, this male gaze has been adjusted to historically specific parameters so as to ensure that the representation of women and dance in Kuwaiti cinema is appropriate to Islamic culture and the customs and traditions of Kuwaiti society.
title: Novel concept of a dynamically adaptive EEG cap for dry electrodes
Creators: name: Griebel, Stefan
name: Fiedler, Patrique
name: Klee, Sascha
name: Bessler, Patrick
name: Zentner, Lena
name: Haueisen, Jens
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Biomedical engineering: joint journal of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in VDE and the Austrian and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, 2011, no. Suppl. 1, J, p. 6
BindingDB Entry 12493: KRAS Modulating Compounds
Creators: name: BindingDB
Publisher: name: BindingDB
Year: 2025
Subjects: GTPase KRas, GTPase KRas [G12C], GTPase KRas [G12D], and GTPase KRas [G12V], Gilead Sciences, Affinity

description: Small molecule binding data for protein GTPase KRas, GTPase KRas [G12C], GTPase KRas [G12D], and GTPase KRas [G12V], Uniprot P01116
Supplementary document for Space-variant Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing based on affine transformation estimation - 6077218.pdf
Creators: name: Feng, Fan
name: Liang, Chen
name: Chen, Dongdong
name: Du, Ke
name: Yang, Runjia
name: Lu, Chang
name: Chen, Shumin
name: Chen, Liangyi
name: Tao, Louis
name: Mao, Heng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Simulations with light sources, such as squares, circles, ellipses, octagons, and peaks, are presented.
Religion of Roman Palmyra
Creators: name: KubiakSchneider, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2023

description: Tadmor-Palmyra, an ancient city located in an oasis in the middle of Syrian dry steppe (commonly known as Syrian Desert), has a long occupation history from the Bronze Age to modern times. Double naming shows the city’s multicultural background. Tadmor is the original Aramaic name of the place, while Palmyra was used by Greeks and Romans. These two names are not exactly a translation. Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis described Palmyra, that it was situated between two empires: Roman and Parthian and grew up on the rich soil. Being between two empires required great diplomatic skills, which the Palmyrenes mastered in their long distance trade, sending caravans to Spasinou-Charax, ships to India and Arabia, etc. The trade and particular situation of Palmyra on the geopolitical arena, being long independent, resulted in urban development and the appearance of monumental architecture: columned streets, theater, monumental tombs (tower-tombs, hypogeas and funerary temples) and temples. Palmyra also had an advanced epigraphic culture. The city provides about 3000 inscriptions of different sorts: honorific, funerary, religious, etc. written mostly in the local dialect of Aramaic, but also many texts in Greek and only a few in Latin. The city provides an important material culture: epigraphical, iconographical and archaeological remains concerning the gods and their worship. About 40 divine names and titles are known through the written sources from Palmyra. Palmyrenes show themselves in the sources as multicultural society worshipping the deities of various origins: Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Aramaic, and Arabic. The divine protector of Palmyra was Bel, the Lord of Universe and Fate (of Mesopotamian origins), having the largest temple in the city, the ruins of which were destroyed in 2015 by terrorists. It hosted not only a temple devoted to Palmyrene gods, as it was labelled in the inscriptions, but later also a church and a mosque. The temenos was until 1930’ literally a house of Tadmoreans, where a modern village was located. Second in size, was the temple of Ba’alshamin, the storm god. Beside these two, there were also temples of the goddess Allat, of the god Nabu (or Nebo), of Arsu, of Belhammon and Manawat, of Rabbaseire, of Yarhibol, of Aglibol and Malakbel (so-called Sacred Garden) and of Atargatis. However, the latter was never discovered and is only attested in the inscriptions. In the Late Antiquity, Palmyra was a bishop's seat and had at least 6 churches.
Essays on the impact of the environment on healthcare & health
Creators: name: Rizmie, Dheeya Ahamed
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Climate change poses one of the biggest threats to global health and economic growth in this century. Amongst a host of issues, it will perpetuate and amplify the volatility of weather-related disasters whilst jeopardising the availability of clean air. Therefore, countries have begun to increase their investments and preparations for the diverse consequences of these environmental changes. Due to the unpredictability of extreme weather events, health policymakers require accurate estimates of how hospitalisations are influenced by sudden changes demand for care. I first investigate the role of extreme temperatures across population subgroups in England between 2001 and 2012. I find evidence of heterogeneous effects of extreme temperatures across disease, age, and socioeconomic status. The ramifications of a changing environment continues beyond its interactions with the health system. So I extend my analysis to begin exploring how a transport policy and, by extension, pollution influence individuals' sleep quantity and quality in Paris. This chapter illustrates that traffic-related policies have the potential to reduce traffic whilst increasing the number of minutes individuals sleep. It exploits a quasi-experimental design, as a common obstacle in social science research is ascertaining the level of air pollution observed at a certain point. Therefore, my final chapter presents a modified, yet accessible, approach to the exposure assignment of air pollution to enable better identification of pollution impacts. This approach is compared against a standard exposure assessment technique, inverse distance weighting, to understand the consequent repercussions of exposure misassignment on downstream health analysis. I find evidence that the impacts of the technique used are sensitive to the air pollutant considered and can influence the statistical significance and effect estimate of downstream analysis. This thesis, thus, contributes to the evidence on the influence of climate change-related environmental shocks on health, health aspects, and health systems. The results presented here can help inform mitigation strategies and help policymakers design future health interventions.
INTEREST-BASED EXPLANATIONS OF THE STRINGENCY OF CARBON-PRICING POLICIES: THREE ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
Creators: name: Stevens León, Laura Daniela
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 440708
subject: Public administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Putting a price on emissions is one of the most efficient ways to fight climate change. However, in spite of the international community’s efforts, most carbon-pricing policies (CPPs) fall short of the stringency needed to reach the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Given that abating emissions imposes costs on specific actors within a national economy, the policy design and implementation of mitigation policies are still in the realm of domestic decision-making. This dissertation investigates the political economy determinants of the stringency of CPPs. It argues that specific constituencies –the emission-intensive trade exposed sectors and the fossil fuel industry– influence the policymaking process to lower CPP stringency because they would pay the cost of commodifying emissions.
Chapter 1 uses a non-traditional instrumental variable and finds negative and statistically significant associations between industrial output size and the CPP stringency in 34 countries from 1990 to 2015. Chapter 2 develops an argument that follows from the findings in chapter 1, using process-tracing to assess the “who and how” of stakeholder influence in three Mexican policies, the carbon tax, the Law for Energy Transition and the pilot cap-and-trade. Chapter 3 uses a qualitative comparative analysis to analyze subnational CPPs in North America. It includes 45 cases in which states and provinces in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, have sought to implement these policies.
Overall, the chapters find that regardless of the levels of economic development, ideological orientation, institutional design, and other conventional wisdom variables, interest-based considerations influence CPP stringency the most. The dissertation uses three different methods –deductive statistical inferences, process-tracing, and qualitative comparative analysis– to demonstrate how calculations of costs and benefits shape the current landscape of national and subnational CPPs. The work closes with policy recommendations that acknowledge that policymakers must consider political economy forces and engage with powerful stakeholders in the design of these policies.
Peacemaker in the Cold War: Norman Cousins and the Making of a Citizen Diplomat in the Atomic Age
Creators: name: Pietrobon, Allen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: This dissertation serves as the first academic study of the life and work of Norman Cousins. Although most widely known as the prominent editor of the weekly literary review The Saturday Review of Literature for 34 years (1940-1972/74-76), Cousins’s deep impact on post-war international humanitarian aid and Cold War diplomacy has been previously unexplored.
This dissertation argues that Cousins was among the vanguard of what is now often called Track-II Diplomacy — efforts by individual citizens who maneuver within the state system to influence the behavior of states from outside the diplomatic corps, often compensating for government inaction.
Cousins’s progressive, non-partisan editorials in Saturday Review earned him the respect of the public and U.S. government officials alike, allowing him to transition from editorial voice into the role of unofficial advisor and diplomatic messenger to three successive U.S. presidents and other prominent foreign figures such as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Pope John XXIII. In a number of cases that this study explores, Cousins undertook efforts to personally lobby or pressure American and foreign governments to take action on long-ignored humanitarian issues, ultimately succeeding in changing government policies as a result of his citizen diplomacy.
This dissertation aims to not only shed new light on the important but overlooked political activities of Norman Cousins, but to contribute to the field of New Diplomacy by showing how citizen diplomacy played a role in some of the Cold War’s pivotal turning points.
Workshop: (LIRA2024) Uspešni projekti – od ideje do realizacije
Creators: name: Žeželj, Iris
name: Lazić, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: REPOPSI
Reason4Health
project proposals
grant applications

description: Slajdovi radionice o osmišljavanju, pisanju i sprovođenju naučnih projekata, kao i prijavljivanju za bespovratna sredstva (grantove), koju su održale Iris Žeželj i Aleksandra Lazić u okviru Programa za mlade Laboratorije za istraživanje individualnih razlika (LIRA Lab) 10. aprila 2024. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu. Na radionici su predstavljeni i projekti Reason4Health (jan 2022 – jan 2025; podržan od strane Fonda za nauku Republike Srbije) i REPOPSI (okt 2022 – jul 2023; podržanog od strane EOSC Future kroz otvoreni poziv organizacije Research Data Alliance).

[Slides of the workshop titled "Successful Projects: From Idea To Execution" on scientific project design, writing, and realization, as well as applying for grants, held by Iris Žeželj and Aleksandra Lazić as part of the Work With Young Researchers Program at the Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences (LIRA Lab). The workshop was held on April 10, 2024 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The workshop included a presentation of the Reason4Health project (Jan 2022 – Jan 2025; funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia) and the REPOPSI project (Oct 2022 – Jul 2023; funded by the EOSC Future through the Research Data Alliance Open Call mechanism).]
Temple-Church of Aphrodisias, also known as “Basilica of Aphrodisias”
Creators: name: Davis, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Database of Religious History (DRH)
Year: 2023

description: Aphrodisias is a UNESCO World Heritage site located near modern Geyre in southwestern Turkey. Although prehistoric human activity is attested at the site, the city proper was founded in the late 2nd or early 1st century BCE, rising up around the sanctuary of Aphrodite, the city's namesake goddess. Aphrodisias became part of the Roman Empire in the late 1st century BCE and enjoyed a period of growth and prosperity. In the 3rd century CE, the city became capital of the province of Caria, which was followed by a building boom. A small Christian presence existed in Aphrodisias by the end of the 3rd century CE, as a number of martyrs are attested from around the year 300. By 325, the city had its own bishop. Around the year 500 (dated from coins excavated from the foundation of the outer narthex), the temple of Aphrodite was converted into a Christian church. The temple was essentially turned 'inside out': the cella walls were dismantled and rebuilt as the outer walls of the church, supplemented with spolia from elsewhere in the city. The columns from the eastern and western colonnades were moved to align with the north and south rows, creating a large tripartite church with an apse to the east and narthexes at the west. This conversion was a massive physical and logistical effort, undertaken in a systematic, strategic, and precise manner-- column drums from the east and west colonnades were labeled for their exact re-erection. In the 10th or 11th century, the church was renovated: new floors were laid, a small chapel was constructed in the north aisle, a new sanctuary barrier was installed, and new paintings of Christ, Mary, archangels, saints/martyrs, and crosses were added in the synthronon passageway. The church was ultimately destroyed by fire in the late 12th century, likely a casualty of ongoing Seljuk raids in the Maeander valley. The archaeological evidence indicates that it remained in use until its destruction.