cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Targeting Predictors via Partial Distance Correlation with Applications to Financial Forecasting*
Creators: name: Yousuf, Kashif
name: Feng, Yang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: High dimensional time series data sets are becoming increasingly common in various fields of economics and finance. Given the ubiquity of time series data, it is crucial to develop efficient variable screening methods that utilize the unique features of time series. This paper introduces several model-free screening methods based on partial distance correlation and developed specifically to deal with time-dependent data. Methods are developed both for univariate models, such as nonlinear autoregressive models with exogenous predictors (NARX), and multivariate models such as linear or nonlinear VAR models. Sure screening properties are proved for our methods, which depend on the moment conditions, and the strength of dependence in the response and covariate processes, amongst other factors. We show the effectiveness of our methods via extensive simulation studies and an application on forecasting US market returns.
Table S2.doc from Seeds integrate biological information about conspecific and allospecific neighbours
Creators: name: Yamawo, Akira
name: Mukai, Hiromi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous organisms integrate information from multiple sources and express adaptive behaviours, but how they do so at different developmental stages remains to be identified. Seeds, which are the embryonic stage of plants, need to make decisions about the timing of emergence in response to environmental cues related to survival. We investigated the timing of emergence of Plantago asiatica (Plantaginaceae) seed while manipulating the presence of Trifolium repens seed and the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed. The relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed and the presence of seeds of T. repens did not on their own influence the timing of P. asiatica emergence. However, when encountering a T. repens seed, a P. asiatica seed emerged faster in the presence of a sibling seed than in the presence of a non-sibling seed. Water extracts of seeds gave the same result. We show that P. asiatica seeds integrate information about the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seeds and the presence of seeds of a different species via water-soluble chemicals and adjust their emergence behaviour in response. These findings suggest the presence of kin-dependent interspecific interactions.
Fig. S4.docx from Seeds integrate biological information about conspecific and allospecific neighbours
Creators: name: Yamawo, Akira
name: Mukai, Hiromi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous organisms integrate information from multiple sources and express adaptive behaviours, but how they do so at different developmental stages remains to be identified. Seeds, which are the embryonic stage of plants, need to make decisions about the timing of emergence in response to environmental cues related to survival. We investigated the timing of emergence of Plantago asiatica (Plantaginaceae) seed while manipulating the presence of Trifolium repens seed and the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed. The relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed and the presence of seeds of T. repens did not on their own influence the timing of P. asiatica emergence. However, when encountering a T. repens seed, a P. asiatica seed emerged faster in the presence of a sibling seed than in the presence of a non-sibling seed. Water extracts of seeds gave the same result. We show that P. asiatica seeds integrate information about the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seeds and the presence of seeds of a different species via water-soluble chemicals and adjust their emergence behaviour in response. These findings suggest the presence of kin-dependent interspecific interactions.
Fig. S5.docx from Seeds integrate biological information about conspecific and allospecific neighbours
Creators: name: Yamawo, Akira
name: Mukai, Hiromi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous organisms integrate information from multiple sources and express adaptive behaviours, but how they do so at different developmental stages remains to be identified. Seeds, which are the embryonic stage of plants, need to make decisions about the timing of emergence in response to environmental cues related to survival. We investigated the timing of emergence of Plantago asiatica (Plantaginaceae) seed while manipulating the presence of Trifolium repens seed and the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed. The relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed and the presence of seeds of T. repens did not on their own influence the timing of P. asiatica emergence. However, when encountering a T. repens seed, a P. asiatica seed emerged faster in the presence of a sibling seed than in the presence of a non-sibling seed. Water extracts of seeds gave the same result. We show that P. asiatica seeds integrate information about the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seeds and the presence of seeds of a different species via water-soluble chemicals and adjust their emergence behaviour in response. These findings suggest the presence of kin-dependent interspecific interactions.
Table S1.docx from Seeds integrate biological information about conspecific and allospecific neighbours
Creators: name: Yamawo, Akira
name: Mukai, Hiromi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous organisms integrate information from multiple sources and express adaptive behaviours, but how they do so at different developmental stages remains to be identified. Seeds, which are the embryonic stage of plants, need to make decisions about the timing of emergence in response to environmental cues related to survival. We investigated the timing of emergence of Plantago asiatica (Plantaginaceae) seed while manipulating the presence of Trifolium repens seed and the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed. The relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed and the presence of seeds of T. repens did not on their own influence the timing of P. asiatica emergence. However, when encountering a T. repens seed, a P. asiatica seed emerged faster in the presence of a sibling seed than in the presence of a non-sibling seed. Water extracts of seeds gave the same result. We show that P. asiatica seeds integrate information about the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seeds and the presence of seeds of a different species via water-soluble chemicals and adjust their emergence behaviour in response. These findings suggest the presence of kin-dependent interspecific interactions.
Stockletal2017_expProcedures_Figures_Data_ESM from Higher-order neural processing tunes motion neurons to visual ecology in three species of hawkmoths
Creators: name: L. Stöckl
name: D. O'Carroll
name: E. J. Warrant
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Supplementary Figures, Experimental Procedures and Supporting Data
The Responsibility for Child and Aged Care: Shaping Policies for the Future
Creators: name: Fine, Michael
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1999

description: This paper considers the effect of ageing on the future balance of responsibilities for providing care to older people and younger children. The age of the recipient is an important indicator of the need for care of both groups, so as the Australian population ages, changes may be expected in the total amount of care required.
description: SPRC Discussion Paper; 105
Table S1 from How to get the most bang for your buck: the evolution and physiology of nutrition-dependent resource allocation strategies
Creators: name: Ng'oma, Enoch
name: Perinchery, Anna M.
name: King, Elizabeth G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Examples of the diversity of resource allocation strategies in some life history traits across the animal kingdom.
Fig. S2.docx from Seeds integrate biological information about conspecific and allospecific neighbours
Creators: name: Yamawo, Akira
name: Mukai, Hiromi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Numerous organisms integrate information from multiple sources and express adaptive behaviours, but how they do so at different developmental stages remains to be identified. Seeds, which are the embryonic stage of plants, need to make decisions about the timing of emergence in response to environmental cues related to survival. We investigated the timing of emergence of Plantago asiatica (Plantaginaceae) seed while manipulating the presence of Trifolium repens seed and the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed. The relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seed and the presence of seeds of T. repens did not on their own influence the timing of P. asiatica emergence. However, when encountering a T. repens seed, a P. asiatica seed emerged faster in the presence of a sibling seed than in the presence of a non-sibling seed. Water extracts of seeds gave the same result. We show that P. asiatica seeds integrate information about the relatedness of neighbouring P. asiatica seeds and the presence of seeds of a different species via water-soluble chemicals and adjust their emergence behaviour in response. These findings suggest the presence of kin-dependent interspecific interactions.
Poulat, Émile, Le désir de voir Dieu et sa signification pour la théologie française contamporaine, suivi d’un entretien avec Yvon Tranvouez et François Trémolières, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Supplementary methods and results from Trophic state changes can affect the importance of methane-derived carbon in aquatic food webs
Creators: name: Schilder, Jos
name: Hardenbroek, Maarten Van
name: Bodelier, Paul
name: Kirilova, Emiliya P.
name: Leuenberger, Markus
name: Lotter, André F.
name: Heiri, Oliver
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional details on methods and results (as referred to in the main article) and a semi-colon delimited table with downcore isotope and TP records
Puig i Tàrrech, Armand (a cura de), Relectures de l’Escriptura a la llum del Concili Vaticà II (1): «La vinya», col. «Scripta Biblica», Associació Bíblica de Catalunya / Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya / Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2015
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 2 (2015): Theologica: 50 anos (1966-2015) – Índices
Additional file 2 of PSAT1 is regulated by ATF4 and enhances cell proliferation via the GSK3β/β-catenin/cyclin D1 signaling pathway in ER-negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Gao, Song
name: Ge, Anqi
name: Xu, Shouping
name: You, Zilong
name: Ning, Shipeng
name: Zhao, Yashuang
name: Pang, Da
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Effects of PSAT1 on the migration, invasion and apoptosis of ER-negative breast cancer cells. (A) Transwell assays were used to investigate changes in cell migration and invasion. **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001. (B) Apoptosis assay based on flow cytometry shows that the suppression of PSAT1 increased the proportion of early apoptotic cells. (PDF 84 kb)
Attitudes to State and Private Welfare: Analysis of Results from a National Survey
Creators: name: Papadakis, Elim
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1990
Subjects: Public Welfare
Private welfare
Survey
Australia

description: This report presents the major findings of the most detailed investigation of the attitudes of a cross-section of the Australian population and their attitudes to state and private welfare provisions. The survey, which was sponsored by the Social Policy Research Centre, was conducted in 1988-89 and based on a sample of 3507 people covering all States and Territories. The report addresses many of the issues raised in debates over the past two decades about the future of the welfare state in Australia and overseas. The release of the report is particularly timely since it coincides with arguments between the major political parties over the reform of statutory provision for health care, education and pensions. The Federal Opposition has placed on the agenda the notion of much greater involvement by the private sector and by charitable and voluntary organizations in all these spheres. The apparent justification for these suggestions has been to reduce government spending, to address the problem of an apparent decline in the work ethic among sections of the population, and to challenge the power of interest groups that are associated with the existing government welfare provisions. The Federal Government has been swift to condemn some of these proposals but has also continued to review existing welfare state provisions and arrangements. This report examines public attitudes relevant to some of these debates. Dr Papadakis has emphasised that the focus on public attitudes can easily be misinterpreted to mean that public opinion shapes public policy. In reality, the picture is more complex. Political parties, the media and interest groups are constantly attempting to shape public opinion about the welfare state, though not necessarily with great success. Dr Papadakis does, however, point out that it is possible to create radically different platforms for reform in social policy by being highly selective in the use of evidence from survey research.
description: Reports and Proceedings; 88
Integrating VR tours in online language learning:A design-based research study
Creators: name: Figueroa, Roberto B.
name: Jung, Insung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents an investigation into the integration of virtual reality (VR) tours in online English lessons tailored for adult learners. The study utilised a design-based research approach to evaluate the effectiveness of VR tours in this context. It specifically examined the responses of adult learners to this instructional strategy by collecting data through surveys, observation notes and interviews with four learners in Japan and five learners in France, most of whom completed 10 lessons over 4 months. The research findings highlight the effectiveness of VR tours in enhancing learner motivation. Additionally, they demonstrate that perceived learning outcomes are influenced not only by the immersive experience of spatial presence but also by the novelty of technological and scenery-related aspects within the VR environment, as well as factors related to lesson design and individual learner characteristics.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Gallagher, Michael Paul, Mapas de Fé. Dez exploradores religiosos, de Newman a Joseph Ratzinger, Braga: Frente e Verso, 2015
Creators: name: Rodrigues, L. M. Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2016

description: Theologica, v. 51 n. 1 (2016): Ecologia integral: XXIV Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Pinto, Juan Carlos, Iglesi@ Digital. Propuestas para una estratégia pastoral, San Pablo, Madrid 2014
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Luís Miguel Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2014

description: Theologica, v. 49 n. 2 (2014): A família: entre o plano de Deus e as condições hodiernas
The Costs of Sole Parenthood
Creators: name: Whiteford, Peter
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1991
Subjects: Sole Parents
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Social Security

description: This paper has been prepared for the Department of Social Security. Its purpose is to review available evidence on the costs of sole parenthood, with particular reference to the implications of this research for the structure and level of social security payments. Put simply, the paper seeks to answer a number of apparently straightforward questions: Do sole parents have 'extra' costs not faced by two parent families with children? If so, what is the nature of these costs, and can they be quantified with any precision? Is it appropriate to meet all or part of these costs through income support arrangements, or would other policy instruments be more suitable? In this Report, Peter Whiteford approaches this issue from a number of different directions. The Report begins with a review of evidence on poverty among sole parent families in Australia and several other advanced nations, using results derived from the Luxembourg Income Study. Forms of financial assistance for sole parents in New Zealand and the United Kingdom are then compared in greater detail with those available in Australia. After a discussion of conceptual issues, the Report then considers housing arrangements and costs, expenditure patterns and living standards. Finally the available evidence on equivalence scales is reviewed and what these imply for relative needs is discussed. This analysis utilises the latest available data on the incomes and expenditure of sole parent families and others in the Australian population.
description: Reports and Proceedings; 95
Energy-based Analysis of Biomolecular Pathways: Supplementary Material from Energy-based analysis of biomolecular pathways
Creators: name: Gawthrop, Peter J.
name: Crampin, Edmund J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Energy-based Analysis of Biomolecular Pathways: Supplementary Material
Supplementary Information from Soiled adhesive pads shear clean by slipping: a robust self-cleaning mechanism in climbing beetles
Creators: name: Amador, Guillermo J.
name: Endlein, Thomas
name: Sitti, Metin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Tables S1-S2 and Figure S1
Amorth, Padre, Dios es más atrayente que el diablo, Entrevista de Angelo De Simone, col. «Testigos», San Pablo
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Chantre, Benoît, Riquier, Camille, et Worms, Frédéric (dir.), Pensée de Péguy, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2015
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
An efficient phosphorus scavenging from aqueous solution using magnesiothermally modified bio-calcite
Creators: name: Ahmad, Munir
name: Ahmad, Mahtab
name: Usman, Adel R. A.
name: Al-Faraj, Abdullah S.
name: Ok, Yong Sik
name: Qaiser Hussain
name: Abduljabbar, Adel S.
name: Al-Wabel, Mohammad I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Bio-calcite (BC) derived from waste hen eggshell was subjected to thermal treatments (calcined bio-calcite (CBC)). The BC and CBC were further modified via magnesiothermal treatments to produce modified bio-calcite (MBC) and modified calcined bio-calcite (MCBC), respectively, and evaluated as a novel green sorbent for P removal from aqueous solutions in the batch experiments. Modified BC exhibited improved structural and chemical properties, such as porosity, surface area, thermal stability, mineralogy and functional groups, than pristine material. Langmuir and Freundlich models well described the P sorption onto both thermally and magnesiothermally sorbents, respectively, suggesting mono- and multi-layer sorption. Langmuir predicted highest P sorption capacities were in the order of: MCBC (43.33 mg g−1) > MBC (35.63 mg g−1) > CBC (34.38 mg g−1) > BC (30.68 mg g−1). The MBC and MCBC removed 100% P up to 50 mg P L−1, which reduced to 35.43 and 39.96%, respectively, when P concentration was increased up to 1000 mg L−1. Dynamics of P sorption was well explained by the pseudo-second-order rate equation, with the highest sorption rate of 4.32 mg g−1 min−1 for the MCBC. Hydroxylapatite [Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2] and brushite [CaH(PO4)·2H2O] were detected after P sorption onto the modified sorbents by X-ray diffraction analysis, suggesting chemisorption as the operating sorption mechanism.
Metropolitan Strategies in Australia
Creators: name: Bunker, Raymond
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 2008

description: A continuing issue in metropolitan strategic plans is how much of them will be implemented. This appears to depend on how far planners are able to understand and shape the future of the city; whether appropriate planning and decision-making frameworks and mechanisms exist or can be put in place for making proposals happen; and what kind of methodology, content and process is used in preparing a plan. These themes are employed to analyse the way four of the major issues attending the future of Sydney are dealt with in the recently released metropolitan strategy ‘City of Cities’, and in subsequent statements and plans. These are economic development and its spatial representation, housing, water management and use, and transportation. The first two of these represent innovative exercises in the linking of economic activity and living with land use, density and location. The second two reflect more abstract challenges in framing proposals to acknowledge the increasing constraints of natural resources upon which the city depends. The review ends by suggesting that changes to the planning process would improve the chances of implementation, and the effectiveness of the outcomes.
description: City Futures Research Centre Research Paper No. 9
Naturbetesmarkernas framtid i Sverige. Rapport, Symposium och workshop i Jönköping 8-9 mars 2017.
Creators: name: Waldén, Emelie
name: Jakobsson, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 160605 Environmental Politics
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Denna rapport sammanfattar symposiet och workshopen Natubetesmarkernas framtid i Sverige, som hölls i Jönköping 8-9 mars 2017.

Första dagen bestod av ett symposium där presentationer och efterföljande diskussioner utgick från tre huvudfrågor:
- Vilka motiv finns det för ett fortsatt brukande?
- Vad finns det för attityder till dessa motiv och till jordbruksersättningar hos olika aktörer?
- Vilka åtgärder behövs för att lösa ett framtida hållbart brukande av naturbetesmarker?

Andra dagen fortsatte arbetet i parallella workshopsessioner indelade i tre teman:
1. Utformning av framtida ersättningssystem
2. Framtida och alternativa skötselmetoder
3. Information och kommunikation

Syftet med rapporten är att sammanställa första dagens presentationer men framförallt de tankar, idéer och förslag som framkom gällande potentiella åtgärder för att säkerställa ett framtida hållbart brukande av naturbetesmarker i Sverige.

För mer information, presentationer från symposiet och bilder: https://sites.google.com/view/naturbete2017

This report has also been translated into English (DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5097319)
Is neoplasm a special, yet unknown form of life?--a conjecture on the nature of neoplasms
Creators: name: Zhijian Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Neoplasms are generally considered to be caused by abnormal proliferation of cells. By an in-depth and logical analysis of his interesting, personal experience, the author puts forward a new view: neoplasms (including malignant neoplasms or cancers) might not be caused by the abnormal proliferation of cells; it is probably a special, yet unknown form of life. This form of life is unusual. Its tangible parts are the Origin and Derivatives, and the intangible parts being the different human systems, such as the circulatory, immune and endocrine systems for the growth and development of its Origin and Derivatives. This form of life is not a part of the body of the neoplasm patient but it has to live on it. It is obvious that the view here does not conform to the traditional understanding of the nature of neoplasms, but it may provide a scientific perspective toward the understanding and study of neoplasms.
Tarneaud, Jocelyne, La Bible pas à pas: Tome 3: Moïse et l’Exode, Éditions Lethielleux, Paris 2015
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 2 (2015): Theologica: 50 anos (1966-2015) – Índices
The Evaluation of Community Options in New South Wales
Creators: name: Graham, Sara
name: Ross, Russell
name: Payne, Toni
name: Matheson, George
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1992
Subjects: Evaluation
Community Care
New South Wales

description: The Community Options Program, initiated by the Federal Government in 1986, is an innovative approach to the care of dependent frail elderly people and people with complex care needs. It aims to plan services around the needs of clients rather than expecting individuals to fit into established service patterns. The opportunity to take part in a national evaluation of the program (by carrying out the evaluation in New South Wales) was welcomed by the Centre which is becoming increasingly involved in research in the area• of community care as well as developing its skills in the growing field of evaluative studies. The evaluation discussed in this Report was wide ranging, not only in terms of the geographical area and the number of projects involved but also in the number of issues addressed. The evaluation considered Community Options in New South Wales from three perspectives: that of people working in the projects as service coordinators or case managers; that of the clients or consumers of the services provided by Community Options; and that of other local providers of community services with whom Community Options interacts.
description: Reports and Proceedings; 103
Translated article:Theory-Practice Networks for Training in Behavioral Therapy: Training, Self-Discovery and Integration into Treatment Using Mindfulness as an Example
Creators: name: Mander, Johannes
name: Kröger, Paula
name: Blanck, Paul
name: Call, Manuela
name: Bents, Hinrich
name: Heidenreich, Thomas
Publisher: name: Karger Publishers
Year: 2017
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background: The modules that make up theoretical and practicaltraining in behavioral therapy often bear little relationship toone another. Training, practice intervals, and integration into relevanttherapeutic interventions need to be interlinked moreclosely. This manuscript describes an attempt to address thistopic by investigating mindfulness interventions. Method: Mindfulnessworkshops with intervals for self-discovery were facilitatedby 27 therapy instructors. Building on this, standardized session-introducing interventions with mindfulness elements wereintegrated into the training therapy in 36 patients. The programwas analyzed in terms of acceptance, feasibility, and effectiveness.Analyses of variance were used to compare the symptomreduction (Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Brief Symptom Inventory(BSI)) achieved between the first session and the 15thsession against that of a control group consisting of patients receivingstandard treatment. Results: Positive experiences ofmindfulness were disclosed during qualitative interviews. In general,the acceptance and feasibility of the theory-practice networkwas rated as high. According to statements made by the therapyinstructors, meaningful interfaces were established between theoreticaland practical training. In terms of symptom reduction,patients in the mindfulness group and the group receiving standardtreatment showed similar results; there were no significantvariances in this respect. Conclusion: The combination of mindfulnessworkshops and opening exercises building on these wasfound to be meaningful, but the effects were not clinically strongerthan those achieved by standard treatment. Future researchshould aim to investigate theory-practice networks in other areas(e.g., Progressive Muscle Relaxation, compassion). Here, clinicallyrelevant effects may be identified in addition to the positivefindings on acceptance and feasibility.
Granados García, José, Théologie de la chair. Le corps à la charnière de l’histoire du salut, Parole et Silence, Paris, 2014
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2014

description: Theologica, v. 49 n. 2 (2014): A família: entre o plano de Deus e as condições hodiernas
Bergoglio, Jorge Mario, s.j. (Pape François), Sortez à la recherche des coeurs! Messages aux catéchistes et aux pèlerins, Parole et Silence, Paris, 2014
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2014

description: Theologica, v. 49 n. 2 (2014): A família: entre o plano de Deus e as condições hodiernas
Poulat, Émile, Notre laïcité ou les religions dans l’espace public. Entretiens avec Olivier Bobineau et Bernadette Sauvaget, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2014
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Vieitas, Daniela (texto) e Ramos, Margarida (ilustração), O lugar, Edições Frente e Verso, Braga, 2014
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2014

description: Theologica, v. 49 n. 2 (2014): A família: entre o plano de Deus e as condições hodiernas
Silva, Álvaro Cruz da, O Homem nos escritos de São Francisco de Assis. Uma reflexão no âmbito da Antropologia Teológica, Editorial Franciscana, Braga, 2014
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Lima, José da Silva, Sabores à Mesa da Palavra – Ano C, Edições Salesianas, Porto, 2015
Creators: name: Rodrigues, L. M. Figueiredo
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 2 (2015): Theologica: 50 anos (1966-2015) – Índices
Rodríguez, José Vicente (org.), Miguel de Unamuno, profeta y apóstol. Antología de sus textos, col. «Monumenta», San Pablo, Madrid, 2014
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2014

description: Theologica, v. 49 n. 2 (2014): A família: entre o plano de Deus e as condições hodiernas
Maia, Américo Paulo dos Santos Freitas, A in-habitação de Deus na alma em graça nos escritos teológicos de João de S. Tomás, O.P. (1589-1644), col. «Tesi gregoriana – Serie Teologia», Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma, 2014
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Extracting regular mobility patterns from sparse CDR data without a priori assumptions
Creators: name: Burkhard, Oliver
name: Ahas, Rein
name: Saluveer, Erki
name: Weibel, Robert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we present two methods that can extract habitual movement patterns and reconstruct the underlying movement of users from their call detail records (CDR) in a way that works for users with only moderate numbers of CDRs and that does not make any prior assumptions on the behaviour of the users. The methods allow for a more comprehensive user base in large-scale studies due to the fact that users that might otherwise have to be discarded can also be analysed. The first one is computationally not overly intense and is based on association mining. The second one, which we named DAMOCLES, is based on extracting idiosyncratic daily patterns from clustered daily activities. The methods are evaluated on real data of 140 users over an average of 200 days against benchmarks using assumptions commonly found in the literature such as a work week from Monday to Friday on GPS ground truth. Both methods clearly outperform the benchmarks and for many users retrieve similar regularities. Additionally a simulation study is performed that allows to evaluate the methods in a more controlled environment.
Vasto, Lanza del, Commentaire de l’Évangile (nouvelle édition), Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2015
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2015

description: Theologica, v. 50 n. 1 (2015): Tópicos de Doutrina Social da Igreja para os dias de hoje
Application of the ICRP respiratory tract model to estimate pulmonary retention of industrially sampled indium-containing dusts
Creators: name: Stefaniak, Aleksandr B.
name: M. Abbas Virji
name: Badding, Melissa A.
name: Cummings, Kristin J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Inhalation of indium-containing dusts is associated with the development of indium lung disease. Workers may be exposed to several different chemical forms of indium; however, their lung dosimetry is not fully understood. We characterized the physicochemical properties and measured the lung dissolution kinetics of eight indium-containing dusts. Indium dissolution rates in artificial lung fluids spanned two orders of magnitude. We used the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) human respiratory model (HRTM) to estimate pulmonary indium deposition, retention and biokinetic clearance to blood. For a two-year (median workforce tenure at facility) exposure to respirable-sized particles of the indium materials, modeled indium clearance (>99.99% removed) from the alveolar-interstitial compartment was slow for all dusts; salts would clear in 4 years, sintered indium–tin oxide (ITO) would clear in 9 years, and indium oxide would require 48 years. For this scenario, the ICRP HRTM predicted that indium translocated to blood would be present in that compartment for 3.5–18 years after cessation of exposure, depending on the chemical form. For a 40-year exposure (working lifetime), clearance from the alveolar–interstitial compartment would require 5, 10 and 60 years for indium salts, sintered ITO and indium oxide, respectively and indium would be present in blood for 5–53 years after exposure. Consideration of differences in chemical forms of indium, dissolution rates, alveolar clearance and residence time in blood should be included in exposure assessment and epidemiological studies that rely on measures of total indium in air or blood to derive risk estimates.
Modelling intense rainfall in a changing climate
Creators: name: Cross, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Anthropogenic climate change is unequivocal, with serious implications for society. Decades of atmospheric pollution have precipitated rapid non-stationarity in the hydrosphere, changing the frequency and intensity of storms in space and time. Utilities and civil infrastructure span generations, requiring practitioners to assess the local impacts of hydro-meteorological change. Rainfall simulation and extreme value theory are necessary for water resources planning and hazard mitigation. However, purely statistical techniques lack physical realism and the estimation of larger extremes can be highly uncertain. This thesis presents a new approach for estimating short duration rainfall extremes in a changing climate with mechanistic stochastic rainfall models. Mechanistic stochastic models simulate rainfall with rectangular pulses which conceptualise the phenomenology of rainfall generation in storms. But, since their inception over 30 years ago, they have tended to under estimate rainfall extremes at fine temporal scales. Motivated by industry to improve the physical realism of extreme rainfall estimation at sub-hourly scales, a censored modelling approach is presented with Bartlett-Lewis rectangular pulse models to simulate the intense rainfall profile. With censored rainfall simulation, intense storm profiles are constructed from the superposition of cells, from which extremes are sampled. The approach is applied to two test sites in the UK and Germany and used to estimate rainfall extremes in the present and hypothesised future climates at the end of this century. A new downscaling methodology is developed in which the rainfall models are conditioned on an ensemble of CMIP5 climate model outputs for moderate and severe climate forcing. Using K-nearest neighbour sampling to identify the training data for calibration, model parameter estimators are approximated using multivariate linear regression to enable estimation outside the covariate range. The approach is introduced with conditioning on mean monthly near surface air temperature and verified with further conditioning on relative humidity.
The effects of baroreflex activation therapy on blood pressure and sympathetic function in patients with refractory hypertension: the rationale and design of the Nordic BAT study*
Creators: name: Gordin, Daniel
name: Elmula, Fadl Elmula M. Fadl
name: Andersson, Bert
name: Gottsäter, Anders
name: Elf, Johan
name: Kahan, Thomas
name: Christensen, Kent Lodberg
name: Pirkka Vikatmaa
name: Vikatmaa, Leena
name: Olesen, Thomas Bastholm
name: Per-Henrik Groop
name: Olsen, Michael Hecht
name: Tikkanen, Ilkka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: To explore the effects of baroreflex activation therapy (BAT) on hypertension in patients with treatment resistant or refractory hypertension. Methods: This investigator-initiated randomized, double-blind, 1:1 parallel-design clinical trial will include 100 patients with refractory hypertension from 6 tertiary referral hypertension centers in the Nordic countries. A Barostim Neo System will be implanted and after 1 month patients will be randomized to either BAT for 16 months or continuous pharmacotherapy (BAT off) for 8 months followed by BAT for 8 months. A second randomization will take place after 16 months to BAT or BAT off for 3 months. Eligible patients have a daytime systolic ambulatory blood pressure (ABPM) of ≥145 mm Hg, and/or a daytime diastolic ABPM of ≥95 mm Hg after witnessed drug intake (including ≥3 antihypertensive drugs, preferably including a diuretic). Results: The primary end point is the reduction in 24-hour systolic ABPM by BAT at 8 months, as compared to pharmacotherapy. Secondary and tertiary endpoints are effects of BAT on home and office blood pressures, measures of indices of cardiac and vascular structure and function during follow-up, and safety. Conclusions: This academic initiative will increase the understanding of mechanisms and role of BAT in the refractory hypertension.
Gender, Social Policy Regimes and the Welfare State
Creators: name: Shaver, Sheila
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1990
Subjects: Gender
Social Policy
Welfare State

description: Contemporary scholarship of the welfare state is turning strongly comparative, yielding among other fruits an increasingly rigorous comparative history. The 'social policy regime' is an analytic concept being developed to compare welfare states across time, place and types of political system. Usages to date have centred primarily on state/economy relations, giving little specific attention to gender. This paper attempts to extend the concept, identifying basic components of gender in the social policy regimes of the welfare state. Using examples from the Australian state, it suggests there are key dimensions of state/gender relations in such a regime. One dimension concerns the gender basis of legal personhood in the liberal democratic welfare state, including equality and difference in both legal authority over self and body and gender parities in obligation to contribute and right to claim the benefits of social citizenship. A second dimension concerns labour and the relation between state and economy: the key question here concerns how the sexual division of labour is institutionalised in paid employment and closely associated social policy fields such as education and child care. The third dimension of family and reproduction is already widely recognised as a strongly gendered area of social policy. Central issues in this area concern the institutionalisation of dependency in the rights and obligations of citizen entitlements and the privileging of heterosexuality over other forms of sexual relation. An adequate development of the concept of the social policy regime must also identify regimes of race and ethnicity in the institutional structures and social provisions of the welfare state. The paper concludes with discussion of some of the points of connection between class, gender and race and ethnic relations in social policy.
description: SPRC Discussion Paper; 26
Noncash Income, Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
Creators: name: Saunders, Peter
name: Smeeding, Timothy M.
name: Coder, John
name: Jenkins, Stephen
name: Fritzell, Johan
name: Hagenaars, Aldi M.
name: Hauser, Richard
name: Wolfson, Michael
Publisher: name: UNSW Sydney
Year: 1992
Subjects: Noncash income
Inequality
Living standards
Poverty

description: Noncash income is defined in this paper to include the net value to individuals and families of education, health and housing benefits provided to them on a subsidised basis. These benefits may be provided by government, by employers or - in the case of imputed rental income on owner-occupied housing - by the household itself. This study estimates the value of these noncash benefits for seven countries (including Australia) using identical methods, and as far as practical, the same data sources. The estimates are then added to comparative measures of cash income produced as part of the Luxembourg Income Study (US) data base. Analysis is undertaken of the impact of noncash income on the relative living standards of different family types in each country, on the distribution of income and on the size and structure of relative poverty in each country. Sensitivity analysis is also undertaken in which the level of the poverty line is varied and its impact on poverty rates across families and across countries is ascertained. The main results of the study are summarised in a series of tables which detail its main finding that the impact of noncash income is best viewed in a life-cycle context, being greatest for families with children and for the elderly. The main groups whose relative position is worsened by the inclusion of noncash income are nonelderly single people and non-aged families without children.
description: SPRC Discussion Paper; 35
Synthesis, X-ray crystal structure and DFT studies of two octahedral cobalt(II) complexes with N,N,N-tridentate triazine-type ligand
Creators: name: Soliman, Saied M.
name: El-Faham, Ayman
name: Albering, Jörg H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Two new Co(II) complexes, [CoL2]X2∙2H2O, with N,N,N-tridentate triazine type ligand (L) and X = Cl− (1) or NO3− (2) are synthesized and characterized using elemental analysis, FTIR spectra, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Complexes 1 and 2 are crystallized in the centrosymmetric space groups P-1 and C2/c, respectively. The Co atoms are surrounded by two neutral tridentate ligands coordinated via nitrogen atoms, thus forming a distorted octahedral coordination sphere. Hirshfeld topology analyses of the molecular packing revealed that the polar Cl⋯H, O⋯H and N⋯H contacts are the most important intermolecular interactions while the nonpolar C⋯H and C⋯C (π–π stacking) contacts are weak and insignificant, respectively. DFT calculations indicated that the high-spin state is energetically more favored than the low-spin case. The Co(II) center transfers its spin density to the ligand donor atoms via the spin delocalization mechanism. Based on the atoms in molecules (AIM) results, all Co–N interactions have a predominant covalent character. The strength of the Co–N interactions decreases in the order Co–N(hydrazone) > Co–N(triazine) > Co–N(amine). The metal anti-bonding natural orbitals involved in the Co–N interactions have high and s-orbital characters. Both complexes showed good thermal stability up to 276°C and 250°C for complexes 1 and 2, respectively.