cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects
Creators: name: Pouwels, J. Loes
name: Araujo, Theo
name: Atteveldt, Wouter Van
name: Bachl, Marko
name: Valkenburg, Patti M.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: social media use
subject: cognitions
subject: emotions
subject: behaviors
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: A pressing societal and scientific question is how social media use affects our cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. To answer this question, fine-grained insight into the content of individuals’ social media use is needed. It is difficult to study content-based social media effects with traditional survey methods because such methods are incapable of capturing the extreme volume and variety of social media content that is shared and received. Therefore, this special issue aims to illustrate how content-based social media effects could be examined by integrating communication sciences and computational methods. We describe a three-step method to investigate content-based media effects, which involves (a) collecting digital trace data, (b) performing automated textual and visual content analysis, and (c) conducting linkage analysis. This Special Issue zooms in on these steps and describes the strengths and weaknesses of different computational methods. We conclude with some challenges that need to be addressed in future research.
sj-pdf-1-qhr-10.1177_1049732320931430 – Supplemental material for Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond
Creators: name: Hamed, Sarah
name: Thapar-Björkert, Suruchi
name: Bradby, Hannah
name: Ahlberg, Beth Maina
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-qhr-10.1177_1049732320931430 for Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond by Sarah Hamed, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Hannah Bradby and Beth Maina Ahlberg in Qualitative Health Research
title: Caste, rituals and strategies.
Creators: name: Nayar, Rina
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1976

description: This thesis focusses attention on two institutions in a caste oriented society at variance with the established pattern of behaviour between members of different castes. These are Ritual Kinship and Spirit Possession among ritual specialists. The study was carried out in Dharnu, a village in Himachal Pradesh, India. The first chapter outlines the accepted pattern of inter-caste behaviour and draws attention to the flexibility with which it operates in practice. Their appear to exist in all cases, regularized mechanisms for circumventing caste rules, which axe ritually legitimised. The second chapter provides a general background into the study and describes the peoples in that area and their customs. The third chapter analyses the caste hierarchy in the village with special emphasis on commensal behaviour as the clearest index of ranking. The fourth chapter begins with a discussion of the nature of ritual kinship and presents data on this institution in Dharnu. The data are analysed in terms of the strategic value for individuals and their integrative value for the community. The fifth chapter deals with spirit possession among ritual specialists and examines the institution as a means of different kinds of status achievement by both high and low castes. The concluding chapter contains a summary of the different ways in which individuals manipulate these two institutions and attempts to relate them to the social structure in which they obtain. Probably all societies contain institutions at variance with their basic values. In this thesis I have examined two such institutions in a hierarchical society in order to show that other principles of organization exist in addition to the dominant stress on hierarchy and to analyse the ways in which they are accommodated within the structured relationships which form the basis of the society.
World association for the advancement of veterinary parasitology (WAAVP): Third edition of guideline for evaluating the efficacy of equine anthelmintics
Creators: name: Nielsen, Martin K.
name: Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg Von
name: Kuzmina, Tetiana A.
name: Doorn, Deborah C. K. Van
name: Meana, Aranzazu
name: Rehbein, Steffen
name: Elliott, Timothy
name: Reinemeyer, Craig R.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Equine
subject: Anthelmintics
subject: Efficacy
subject: Gastrointestinal parasites
subject: Controlled test
subject: Critical test
subject: Guidelines
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: This guideline have been developed to assist in the design, execution, and interpretation of studies to assess the efficacy of anthelmintic drugs against internal parasites of equines, including nematodes, cestodes, and larval instars of Gasterophilus spp. The design and execution of critical and controlled studies are outlined, and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Unique considerations for specific target parasites are included. Information is also provided on selection of animals, procedures for randomization, housing, feeding, dosage titration, dosage confirmation and field studies, record keeping and necropsy procedures. Finally, this document includes guidance for group size determination and statistical analysis of study results. This guideline should assist investigators in the evaluation of anthelmintic drugs in horses by using comparable and standardized procedures in studies with appropriate numbers of animals.
Impacts of climate, CO2 levels and human activity on the spatial distribution of global fire regimes
Creators: name: Haas, Olivia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2024

description: Wildfires are fundamental to the distribution of vegetation on Earth. Wildfires vary in size, frequency, and intensity and are controlled by climate, vegetation, and human activity. A fire regime refers to the long-term, repeated patterns of wildfires under a given set of conditions. Shifts in global fire regimes in response to changing environmental conditions are a growing concern. Many global vegetation models include wildfire but struggle to predict fire properties beyond the first-order patterns of burnt area and disagree on its environmental responses and historical trends. This thesis develops robust empirical models of burnt area, fire size and a measure of intensity and uses them to explore the global sensitivity of fire regimes to changes in climate, atmospheric CO2 and human activity. Simulation of fire regimes under the very different conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum predicts reduced fire activity consistent with evidence from sedimentary charcoal records, while allowing for the separation of CO2 and climate change effects (both significant). Simulation of future fire regimes under low- and high-mitigation scenarios indicates a global shift in wildfire patterns by 2100 CE with burning reduced in tropical regions but larger and more intense wildfires in extra-tropical regions. Under low mitigation, increases in burnt area worldwide overwhelm the current human-driven declining trend, with fire size and intensity increasingly limited by dryness and vegetation fragmentation. These model experiments highlight the distinct controls of different fire properties. Whilst burnt area is driven by fuel availability and dryness, fire intensity is limited by fuel build-up, and fire size by fuel continuity. This decoupling occurs because of the different temporal and spatial scales on which the controls 6 of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity operate. These findings have immediate implications for the improvement of process-based fire models, which currently do not take these distinctions into account.
title: Zoroastrianism in Armenia.
Creators: name: Russell, James R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1982

description: From the time of the conquest of Assyria and Urartu by the Medes to the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Muslim Arabs some thirteen centuries later, Armenian culture developed under the religious, political and linguistic influence of various Iranian empires. For most of this period the dominant religion of the Iranians was Zoroastrianism, and there exists abundant evidence to show that this religion was practised also by the Armenians from the time of the Achaemenians. The religion waned in Armenia following the conversion of the Armenian Arsacid king Tiridates III to Christianity early in the fourth century, and most information on the earlier faith must be culled from hostile Armenian Christian texts of the fifth century and later. Like the Zoroastrians of Iran, the ancient Armenians believed in a supreme God, Ahura Mazda (Arm. Aramazd), the Creator of all that is good, who is assisted by supernatural beings of His own creation, by good men and by His good creatures against the separate, uncreated Evil Spirit (Av. Angra Mainyu, Arm. Arhmn, Haramani) and its demonic hosts and destructive assaults. Armenian texts contain names, theological terms and references to rituals and usages, most often loan-words from Middle Iranian, which enable us to reconstruct a picture of pre-Christian Armenian religious life and thought similar to that provided by Zoroastrian sources in Iran. Non-Zoroastrian customs and divinities from ancient Urartu, Asia Minor and the Semitic world may also be found in Armenia, but frequently such elements were also incorporated into Iranian Zoroastrianism. It is argued that the prevailing view of Armenian religion before Christianity as merely syncretistic is therefore inaccurate, and that the Armenians practised a form of Zoroastrianism that differed from that of Pars or other Iranian lands, only in as much as the various national Churches of Christianity today maintain divers local traditions. The Armenians opposed the iconoclastic and other reforms instituted by Ardesir I and his successors; and the Armenian Zoroastrians, isolated from the great mass of their co-religionists, suffered further setbacks with the conversion of their countrymen to Christianity. Yet the ancient religion survived in folk custom, in certain celebrations of the Armenian Church, and through the sect of the Children of the Sun, down to recent times.
Supplemental Material, 20200503_JM.18.0506.R3_web_appendix - A Meta-Analysis of When and How Advertising Creativity Works
Creators: name: Rosengren, Sara
name: Eisend, Martin
name: Koslow, Scott
name: Dahlen, Micael
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental Material, 20200503_JM.18.0506.R3_web_appendix for A Meta-Analysis of When and How Advertising Creativity Works by Sara Rosengren, Martin Eisend, Scott Koslow and Micael Dahlen in Journal of Marketing
MSJ926869_supplementary_appendix – Supplemental material for Real-world disability improvement in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab in the Tysabri Observational Program
Creators: name: Wiendl, Heinz
name: Spelman, Tim
name: Butzkueven, Helmut
name: Kappos, Ludwig
name: Trojano, Maria
name: Su, Ray
name: Campbell, Nolan
name: Ho, Pei-Ran
name: Licata, Stephanie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ926869_supplementary_appendix for Real-world disability improvement in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab in the Tysabri Observational Program by Heinz Wiendl, Tim Spelman, Helmut Butzkueven, Ludwig Kappos, Maria Trojano, Ray Su, Nolan Campbell, Pei-Ran Ho and Stephanie Licata in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
title: Prototype theory and the meaning of verbs, with special reference to modern Greek verbs of motion.
Creators: name: Antonopoulou, Eleni
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1987

description: The present study tests the applicability of Prototype theory, selected among competing theoretical frameworks, to a lexical semantic analysis of verbs, with particular reference to the previously uncharted domain of Modern Greek verbs of motion. A number of the characteristics which Prototype theory established in connection with certain types of nouns are demonstrated to pertain to verbs: their meaning is not a matter of necessary and sufficient conditions, but rather a matter of gradation; their attributes combine in non-arbitrary ways to form categories with fuzzy boundaries the members of which are non-equivalent. Two categorizations of motion verbs according to 'major classificatory properties' are discussed at length. First, 'states', 'processes' and 'events' are shown to constitute a continuum, the focal points of which are identifiable on the basis of the interaction of factors such as spatio-temporal specifications, aspect, inherent semantic properties of individual verbs and the nature of the 'theme' (moving object). Second, 'causativity' and 'agentivity' are understood as distinct, to some extent, clusters of scalar properties and different Modern Greek motion verbs are shown to exhibit these properties to a greater or lesser degree. In seeking to determine which factors may be responsible for the formation of verb categories, it is recalled that the validity of the principle of 'family resemblance' and the method for identifying the 'basic' level of abstraction cannot be tested in the case of verbs. It is suggested that other factors may be operative, such as the relative 'salience' of certain combinations of properties, 'linguistic markedness', familiarity and frequency. This tentative conclusion is reinforced with respect to Modern Greek verbs of motion by the results of specific tests.
MSJ926869_supplementary_supplementary_table_1 – Supplemental material for Real-world disability improvement in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab in the Tysabri Observational Program
Creators: name: Wiendl, Heinz
name: Spelman, Tim
name: Butzkueven, Helmut
name: Kappos, Ludwig
name: Trojano, Maria
name: Su, Ray
name: Campbell, Nolan
name: Ho, Pei-Ran
name: Licata, Stephanie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, MSJ926869_supplementary_supplementary_table_1 for Real-world disability improvement in patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis treated with natalizumab in the Tysabri Observational Program by Heinz Wiendl, Tim Spelman, Helmut Butzkueven, Ludwig Kappos, Maria Trojano, Ray Su, Nolan Campbell, Pei-Ran Ho and Stephanie Licata in Multiple Sclerosis Journal
Evaluation of modelled LOTOS-EUROS with observational based PM10 source attribution
Creators: name: Timmermans, R.
name: Pinxteren, D. Van
name: Kranenburg, R.
name: Hendriks, C.
name: Fomba, K. W.
name: Herrmann, H.
name: Schaap, Martijn
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Source attribution
subject: Air pollution
subject: Chemistry transport model
subject: Germany
subject: Particulate matter
subject: PMF
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Due to its serious health impact particulate matter is one of the air pollutants subject to abatement policies. Information on the main sources responsible for high concentrations of pollutants is therefore crucial to enable effective policy measures. In this study we compared two different methods for attribution of particulate matter concentrations to different sources: A tagging approach within the regional chemistry transport model LOTOS-EUROS and an observational method using speciated particulate matter observations and Positive Matrix Factorisation (PMF). The methods have been applied for winter 2016/2017 over Eastern Germany where in wintertime high woodburning emissions, cold temperatures and regular easterly winds can lead to a build-up of pollutant concentrations. The comparison allows the validation of the modelled source attribution for a selection of source categories. The contributions for biomass and total combustion compare well between both methods providing trust in the determined contributions, applied emissions including their timing. The total contribution from combustion is estimated between 3.3-7.7 μg/m3 (PMF) and 3.3-7.2 μg/m3 (LOTOS-EUROS) for the 9 stations incorporated in the study. The temporal Pearson correlation coefficient ranges between 0.3-0.64 for total combustion and 0.34 and 0.7 for biomass combustion. The mean absolute contributions for traffic at background stations also compare well with most values between 1.5-2.0 μg/m3 for PMF and 1–1.6 μg/m3 for LOTOS-EUROS. A lack of correlation for this contribution however suggests that the model has difficulty in representing the source category traffic in a time consistent manner and developments are needed to improve the temporal distribution of the traffic emissions within the model. The modelled particulate matter concentrations displayed a 20–40% underestimation of the observed concentrations with an increasing bias during high pollution events. The underestimation showed a high correlation with the observed contribution from combustion and secondary particulate matter including ammonium sulfate and organic carbon suggesting that at least a part of the missing mass in LOTOS-EUROS is related to transformation of volatile combustion emissions, likely from solid fuels, to secondary particle mass and missing enhanced formation of sulfate. Implementation of these missing processes would help to improve the source attribution of particulate matter with the LOTOS-EUROS model.
Leveraging joint sparsity in hierarchical Bayesian learning
Creators: name: Glaubitz, Jan
name: Gelb, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F22, 62F15, 65K10, 68U10

description: We present a hierarchical Bayesian learning approach to infer jointly sparse parameter vectors from multiple measurement vectors. Our model uses separate conditionally Gaussian priors for each parameter vector and common gamma-distributed hyper-parameters to enforce joint sparsity. The resulting joint-sparsity-promoting priors are combined with existing Bayesian inference methods to generate a new family of algorithms. Our numerical experiments, which include a multi-coil magnetic resonance imaging application, demonstrate that our new approach consistently outperforms commonly used hierarchical Bayesian methods.
description: 30 pages, 15 figures
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on implementation of novel guideline-directed medical therapies for heart failure in Germany: a nationwide retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Kerwagen, Fabian
name: Riemer, Uwe
name: Wachter, Rolf
name: Haehling, Stephan Von
name: Abdin, Amr
name: Böhm, Michael
name: Schulz, Martin
name: Störk, Stefan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Heart failure
subject: COVID-19
subject: Sacubitril-valsartan
subject: Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors
subject: Guideline-directed medical therapy
subject: Evidence-based practice
subject: Real-world
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik

description: Background Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is the cornerstone in the treatment of patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and novel substances such as sacubitril/valsartan (S/V) and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) have demonstrated marked clinical benefits. We investigated their implementation into real-world HF care in Germany before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic period. Methods The IQVIA LRx data set is based on ∼80% of 73 million people covered by the German statutory health insurance. Prescriptions of S/V were used as a proxy for HFrEF. Time trends were analysed between Q1/2016 and Q2/2023 for prescriptions for S/V alone and in combination therapy with SGLT2i. Findings The number of patients treated with S/V increased from 5260 in Q1/2016 to 351,262 in Q2/2023. The share of patients with combination therapy grew from 0.6% (29 of 5260) to 14.2% (31,128 of 219,762) in Q2/2021, and then showed a steep surge up to 54.8% (192,429 of 351,262) in Q2/2023, coinciding with the release of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines for HF in Q3/2021. Women and patients aged >80 years were treated less often with combined therapy than men and younger patients. With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients with new S/V prescriptions dropped by 17.5% within one quarter, i.e., from 26,855 in Q1/2020 to 22,145 in Q2/2020, and returned to pre-pandemic levels only in Q1/2021. Interpretation The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a 12-month deceleration of S/V uptake in Germany. Following the release of the ESC HF guidelines, the combined prescription of S/V and SGLT2i was readily adopted. Further efforts are needed to fully implement GDMT and strengthen the resilience of healthcare systems during public health crises.
title: Israeli strategic policy in Central Asia, 1991-2001: Constructive engagement in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Creators: name: Boucek, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2006

description: The collapse of the Soviet Union created a new region of instability. The former republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are situated in a strategic region that has garnered the attention of numerous actors in a competition for influence in Central Asia. It also saw the entrance of a most unlikely player; Israel. Since 1948, Israeli foreign policy has been directed at guaranteeing the security of the nation. Israel responded to the emergence of an independent Central Asia by evaluating the region's potential to impact its security and engaging the region to prevent the emergence of hostile regimes. Israel's strategic objectives in the region were to block Iranian inroads and to expand Israel's sphere of influence in order to secure the survival of the Israeli state. By constructively engaging Central Asia in diplomatic, economic, and security relations, Israel exerted its influence over the region. In the first ten years of independence, Israel achieved all its objectives. This thesis examines the reasons behind Israel's interests and evaluates its successes. It will explain what threat perceptions drove Israel's relationship with these states and evaluate these possible threats. This will be accomplished through an examination of the relationship and an evaluation of its successes in the advancement of Israeli national security interests. The focus of this study will be on the complex and multifaceted relations between Israel and the republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This study will examine Israel's multifaceted relationship with these two republics within the framework of Israel's overall nation security policy and foreign policy objectives. This thesis will explore and evaluate Israel's principal relations with these states, including diplomatic relations, development assistance, commercial relations, and security cooperation. These aspects of the relationship will be explored in order to trace Israel's interest and exposure.
Kothamachu_et_al_SI – Supplemental material for Role of Digital Microfluidics in Enabling Access to Laboratory Automation and Making Biology Programmable
Creators: name: Varun B. Kothamachu
name: Zaini, Sabrina
name: Muffatto, Federico
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Kothamachu_et_al_SI for Role of Digital Microfluidics in Enabling Access to Laboratory Automation and Making Biology Programmable by Varun B. Kothamachu, Sabrina Zaini and Federico Muffatto in SLAS Technology
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : cintrage de l'instrument au fer à souder
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
CO2 Gas Temperature Sensing near Room Temperature by a Quantum Cascade Laser in Inter Pulse Mode
Creators: name: Herklotz, Frank
name: Rubin, Tom
name: Haimberger, Theodore Von
name: Heyne, Karsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: optical sensing
subject: quantum cascade laser
subject: laser absorptions spectroscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: A non-invasive CO2 gas temperature sensing technique at or close to the room temperature range based on quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy is presented. The method probes thermally populated ground state and hot-band rotational-vibrational transitions of CO2 in the frequency range from 2349 to 2351 cm−1 from which the gas temperature is obtained from Boltzmann statistics. Transmission spectra are recorded by injection-current driven frequency-scans, the so-called inter pulse mode, of a pulsed distributed feedback quantum cascade laser. The statistical uncertainty (1σ) in temperature for single frequency scans with time resolution of 10 ms is 4 K and can be further reduced down to ∼50 mK by long-time averaging of about 1 min. The technique is evaluated with particular emphasis on implementation, data acquisition, data analysis and potential improvements.
title: Refugee status in the Arab and Islamic tradition: A comparative study of Jiwar, Aman and the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees.
Creators: name: Shoukri, Arafat Madi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2008

description: The essence of this study is to clarify the position of the Islamic tradition with regard to refugees based on the main Islamic Sunni sources and to examine the interface between this tradition and the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees. This study is the first that carries such examination since the endorsement of the 1951 Convention. This study is composed of four chapters with an introduction and a conclusion. The first chapter explains the concept of jiwar (protection), which was a governing custom in the Arabs' life in the jahiliyya, while the second chapter traces the concept of jiwar after the advent of Islam in Mecca. The purpose of the two chapters is to establish how the Prophet and his followers dealt with the jiwar custom when they were oppressed and sought jiwar the non-Muslims and also when they were able to offer jiwar to fleeing non-Muslims in Medina. The third chapter deals mainly with aman (safe conduct) in the Islamic tradition. It also defines several relevant terms, such as dar al-harb, dar al-Islam, mustajir, muhajir, musta'min and dhimmi, in order to put the concept of aman in context. Due to its particular significance, the study undertakes an extensive examination of the different interpretations of the verse (9:6) which is considered the cornerstone in legalising, by analogy, the concept of refuge in the Qur'an. The fourth and final chapter comprises a comparison between the Islamic tradition relating to the laws of aman and the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees. The conclusion however, highlights the close similarities between the Islamic tradition and the Geneva Convention and therefore recommends the Arab and Islamic governments to endorse the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees. And if necessary to make reservations concerning certain Articles taking account of the internal circumstances of each state.
sj-pdf-1-scm-10.1177_0036933020936274 - Supplemental material for The value of non-invasive computed tomography coronary angiography in imaging patients with coronary artery bypass grafts
Creators: name: T Krysztofiak
name: F Ahmad
name: J Adams
name: DB Stobo
name: R Good
name: J Byrne
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-scm-10.1177_0036933020936274 for The value of non-invasive computed tomography coronary angiography in imaging patients with coronary artery bypass grafts by T Krysztofiak, F Ahmad, J Adams, DB Stobo, R Good and J Byrne in Scottish Medical Journal
Pediatric_Botox_Paper_Supplemental_Table_1 - The Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin in Pediatric Chronic Migraine: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Raymundo Marcelo
name: Brin Freund
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: Neuroscience

description: Pediatric_Botox_Paper_Supplemental_Table_1 for The Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin in Pediatric Chronic Migraine: A Literature Review by Raymundo Marcelo and Brin Freund in Journal of Child Neurology
Pediatric_Botox_Paper_Supplemental_Table_2 - The Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin in Pediatric Chronic Migraine: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Raymundo Marcelo
name: Brin Freund
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: Neuroscience

description: Pediatric_Botox_Paper_Supplemental_Table_2 for The Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin in Pediatric Chronic Migraine: A Literature Review by Raymundo Marcelo and Brin Freund in Journal of Child Neurology
sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320928419 - Supplemental material for Immunotherapeutic effects of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells on systemic lupus erythematosus
Creators: name: Liu, Fang
name: Chen, Hui
name: Chen, Tao
name: Lau, Chak-sing
name: Yu, Fu-xun
name: Chen, Kun
name: Chen, Hou-ping
name: Pan, Run-sang
name: Chan, Godfrey Chi-Fung
name: Zhang, Xiang-yan
name: Nie, Ying-jie
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320928419 for Immunotherapeutic effects of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells on systemic lupus erythematosus by Fang Liu, Hui Chen, Tao Chen, Chak-sing Lau, Fu-xun Yu, Kun Chen, Hou-ping Chen, Run-sang Pan, Godfrey Chi-Fung Chan, Xiang-yan Zhang and Ying-jie Nie in Lupus
Simple design for membrane-free microphysiological systems to model the blood-tissue barriers
Creators: name: Deal, Halston
name: Daniele, Michael
name: Pozdin, Vladimir A.
name: Young, By Ashlyn T.
name: Brown, Ashley C.
name: Rusch, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description:
Microphysiological systems (MPS) incorporate physiologically relevant microanatomy, mechanics, and cells to mimic tissue function. Reproducible and standardized in vitro models of tissue barriers, such as the blood-tissue interface (BTI), are critical for next-generation MPS applications in research and industry. Many models of the BTI are limited by the need for semipermeable membranes, use of homogenous cell populations, or 2D culture. These factors limit the relevant endothelial-epithelial contact and 3D transport, which would best mimic the BTI. Current models are also difficult to assemble, requiring precise alignment and layering of components. The work reported herein details the engineering of a BTI-on-a-chip (BTI Chip) that addresses current disadvantages by demonstrating a single layer, membrane-free design. Laminar flow profiles, photocurable hydrogel scaffolds, and human cell lines were used to construct a BTI Chip that juxtaposes an endothelium in direct contact with a 3D engineered tissue. A biomaterial composite, gelatin methacryloyl and 8-arm polyethylene glycol thiol, was used for in situ fabrication of a tissue structure within a Y-shaped microfluidic device. To produce the BTI, a laminar flow profile was achieved by flowing a photocurable precursor solution alongside phosphate buffered saline. Immediately after stopping flow, the scaffold underwent polymerization through a rapid exposure to UV light (<300 mJ/cm2). After scaffold formation, blood vessel endothelial cells were introduced and allowed to adhere directly to the 3D tissue scaffold, without barriers or phase guides. Fabrication of the BTI Chip was demonstrated in both an epithelial tissue model and blood-brain barrier (BBB) model. In the epithelial model, scaffolds were seeded with human dermal fibroblasts. For the BBB models, scaffolds were seeded with the immortalized glial cell line, SVGP12. The BTI Chip microanatomy was analyzed post facto by immunohistochemistry, showing the uniform production of a patent endothelium juxtaposed with a 3D engineered tissue. Fluorescent tracer molecules were used to characterize the permeability of the BTI Chip. The BTI Chips were challenged with an efflux pump inhibitor, cyclosporine A, to assess physiological function and endothelial cell activation. Operation of physiologically relevant BTI Chips and a novel means for high-throughput MPS generation was demonstrated, enabling future development for drug candidate screening and fundamental biological investigations.
Combined impacts of climate and air pollution on human health and agricultural productivity
Creators: name: Sillmann, Jana
name: Aunan, Kristin
name: Emberson, Lisa
name: Büker, Patrick
name: Oort, Bob Van
name: O'Neill, Connie
name: Otero, Noelia
name: Pandey, Divya
name: Brisebois, Anouk
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: climate
subject: air pollution
subject: modeling
subject: agriculture
subject: health
subject: risk assessment
subject: impacts
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: Climate change and air pollution can interact to amplify risks to human health and crop production. This has significant implications for our ability to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. SDGs 2, 3, 13, 15) and for the design of effective mitigation and adaptation policies and risk management. To be able to achieve the SDG targets, closer integration of climate change and air pollution both in terms of impact assessment for human health and agricultural productivity and respective policy development is needed. Currently, studies estimating the impacts of climate and air pollutants on human health and crops mostly treat these stressors separately, and the methods used by the health and agricultural science communities differ. Better insights into the methods applied in the different communities can help to improve existing and develop new methods to advance our knowledge about the combined impacts of climate change and air pollution on human health and crops. This topical review provides an overview of current methodologies applied in the two fields of human health and agricultural crop impact studies, ranging from empirical regression-based and experimental methods to more complex process-based models. The latter are reasonably well developed for estimating impacts on agricultural crops, but not for health impacts. We review available literature addressing the combined effects of climate and air pollution on human health or agricultural productivity to provide insights regarding state-of-the-art knowledge and currently available methods in the two fields. Challenges to assess the combined effect of climate and air pollution on human health and crops, and opportunities for both fields to learn from each other, are discussed.
High-throughput quantum photonic devices emitting indistinguishable photons in the telecom C-band
Creators: name: Holewa, Paweł
name: Vajner, Daniel A.
name: Zięba-Ostój, Emilia
name: Wasiluk, Maja
name: Gaál, Benedek
name: Sakanas, Aurimas
name: Burakowski, Marek
name: Mrowiński, Paweł
name: Krajnik, Bartosz
name: Xiong, Meng
name: Yvind, Kresten
name: Gregersen, Niels
name: Musiał, Anna
name: Huck, Alexander
name: Heindel, Tobias
name: Syperek, Marcin
name: Semenova, Elizaveta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single indistinguishable photons at telecom C-band wavelengths are essential for quantum networks and the future quantum internet. However, high-throughput technology for single-photon generation at 1550 nm remained a missing building block to overcome present limitations in quantum communication and information technologies. Here, we demonstrate the high-throughput fabrication of quantum-photonic integrated devices operating at C-band wavelengths based on epitaxial semiconductor quantum dots. Our technique enables the deterministic integration of single pre-selected quantum emitters into microcavities based on circular Bragg gratings. Respective devices feature the triggered generation of single photons with ultra-high purity and record-high photon indistinguishability. Further improvements in yield and coherence properties will pave the way for implementing single-photon non-linear devices and advanced quantum networks at telecom wavelengths.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material: 23 pages, 21 figures
Fast Simultaneous CO2 Gas Temperature and Concentration Measurements by Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Herklotz, Frank
name: Rubin, Tom
name: Sinnreich, Malte
name: Helmke, Alexander
name: Haimberger, Theodore Von
name: Heyne, Karsten
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: optical sensing
subject: quantum cascade laser
subject: laser absorptions spectroscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: A quantum cascade laser-based sensing technique is presented which allows for in situ high-precision temperature and/or CO2 concentration measurements of gases in the room temperature regime with sampling rates up to about 40 kHz. The method is based on Boltzmann-like thermally populated fundamental and hot-band rovibrational transitions of CO2 with opposite temperature dependence. Single absorption spectra at about 2350 to 2352 cm−1 are recorded by a nanosecond frequency down chirped IR pulse of a pulsed distributed feedback quantum cascade laser (intrapulse mode). The statistical uncertainty (1σ) in the temperature measurement within one laser pulse is about 1 K and can be further reduced down to about 0.1 K by time averaging over 100 ms. Online temperature and CO2 concentration measurements on a breath simulator controlled gas flow were performed to demonstrate response-time and sensitivity for an application-driven test system.
title: Animacy, agency and causality in Korean voice and diathesis: A cognitive-semiotic usage-based perspective.
Creators: name: Knoob, Stefan L.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2007

description: Adopting a usage-based construction grammar approach, the thesis proposes a radically revised account of the Korean voice system with two main oppositions: ACTIVE ~ INACTIVE and ENDOACTIVE ~ EXOACTIVE. These are marked on the verb, but voice categories are primarily semantic and equally basic. The attendant clause structures are only weakly determined by the predicate's voice status and instead inherited from a systemically independent diathesis system. The thesis first demonstrates the inherent Indoeuropean biases and asymmetries in the Standard Voice Model that underlies the traditional active-passive-causative account. It then turns to the Korean system and its central features: inchoative-passive conflation in a single INACTIVE voice, voice-marking paradigm proliferation with equipollency and complex correspondences to voice categories, causative and passive usage of unmarked basic verbs, and animacy, agency and causality differentiation in the diathesis system. The thesis then details animacy-related effects in the oblique argument system. The choice of Inanimate and Animate Locational patterns is conditioned not by ontological animacy but by utterance-specific situational animacy and agency. And the variety of Korean agent-phrase-like patterns reflects differentiations along the situational animacy, agency and causality dimensions that correlate with animacy and agency constraints on diathesis selection. Finally, the thesis investigates the lexical spread and usage of 'morphological' and 'analytic passive' verbs. It shows that inchoative usage and inchoative-passive ambivalences are so widespread that they must be considered a central feature of a single INACTIVE category. And animacy and agency differentiation drives a systemic alignment of non-interpersonal actions, weakly agentive situations and inanimate causation with spontaneous situations. In conclusion, the thesis proposes that inchoative-passive conflation may be due to the fact that the ANIMATE ~ INANIMATE and AGENTIVE ~ NON-AGENTIVE dichotomies push the organisation and frequency distribution in the Korean diathesis system towards alignment of non-agentive causation with spontaneous situation-dynamics.
A Data Driven Approach to Quantify the Impact of Crashes
Creators: name: Kazi, Obaidur Rahman
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The growth of data has begun to transform the transportation research and policy, and open a new window for analyzing the impact of crashes. Currently for the crash impact analysis, researchers tend to rely on reported incident duration, which may not always be accurate. Further, impact of the crashes could linger a much longer time at upstream, even if the records are correct for the crash spot and it is a challenge to quantify the impact of a crash from the complex dynamics of the recurrent and non-recurrent congested condition. Therefore, a difference-in-speed approach is developed in this research to estimate the true crash impact duration using stationary sensor data and incident logs. The proposed method used the Kalman filter algorithm to establish traveler’s anticipated travel speed under incident-free condition and then employ the difference-in-speed approach to quantify the temporal and spatial extent of the crash. Moreover, potential applications such as statistical models for predicting the impact duration and total delay were developed in this research. Later, an analysis on distribution of travel rate was performed to describe and numerically show to what extent crashes influenced travel rates compared with the normal conditions at different periods of the day and by the crash types. This study can help to shape incident management policies for different types of crashes at different periods and illustrates the usages of data to improve the understanding of crashes, their impact, and their distribution in a spatial-temporal domain.
Sup_1_Questionnaire_used_for_the_study_xyz3230633628d42 – Supplemental material for Risk factors for women’s non-utilization of decentralized primary health care facilities for postnatal care in rural western Ethiopia
Creators: name: Habtamu Tolera
name: Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher
name: Kloos, Helmut
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111402 Obstetrics and Gynaecology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, Sup_1_Questionnaire_used_for_the_study_xyz3230633628d42 for Risk factors for women’s non-utilization of decentralized primary health care facilities for postnatal care in rural western Ethiopia by Habtamu Tolera, Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher and Helmut Kloos in Therapeutic Advances in Reproductive Health
Avoiding the news to participate in society? The longitudinal relationship between news avoidance and civic engagement
Creators: name: Ohme, Jakob
name: Bruin, Kiki De
name: Haan, Yael De
name: Kruikemeier, Sanne
name: Meer, Toni G. L. A. Van Der
name: Vliegenthart, Rens
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: news avoidance
subject: civic engagement
subject: media effects
subject: panel survey
subject: Covid-19
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen

description: Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic engagement in society, a void this study has set out to fill. Based on a four-wave general population panel survey in the Netherlands, conducted between April and July 2020 (N = 1,084) during a crisis situation, this research-in-brief investigates the development of news avoidance and pro-social civic engagement over time. Results suggest that higher news topic avoidance results in higher levels of civic engagement. The study discusses different explanations for why less news can mean more engagement.
title: Organizing global civil society: The World Social Forum 2004.
Creators: name: Caruso, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2007

description: The World Social Forum (WSF) was started in Brazil in 2001 to challenge the World Economic Forum. It has since generated a number of regional to local forums, and become the most conspicuous expression of global civil society (GCS). The WSF has been characterised as a space that facilitates the gathering of people with the objective to create alternatives to neoliberalism. The aim of this thesis is to assess the nature and viability of the vision of the WSF. I identify its ideological contours, the immediate political objectives of its activists and the instruments they devised to achieve their goals. In order to do so, I studied the organisational process that led to the WSF annual event held in India in 2004 (WSF2004). By focusing on a specific national expression of the WSF I question some of the analytical tenets of the WSF discourse. In particular I assess the claims that it is a global "public sphere" or a global "open space" as defined in its Charter of Principles (Charter). Rather, I claim, the WSF, both as local instantiation and as global projection, is an expression of conflicting interests and ideological aspirations generated by specific social structures that shape it in ways that do not immediately fulfil the ideals defined in its Charter. The findings of my research do not argue against the global scope of the WSF and for a national approach to the concept of civil society. Rather they show how the global dimension attributed to the WSF is outcome of a recursively constitutive process involving, on one side, ideological aspirations and, on the other, actual social and political relations performed on multiple stages (from the local to the transnational). On the basis of the findings of this thesis, I claim that interests, power dynamics and social structures (considered in this thesis as the specific conditions of existence of the Indian WSF) can assume new shapes in the wider space of GCS. This makes GCS, and the WSF in particular, the privileged arena where the economic, the political, the social, the cultural and the personal can be peacefully and democratically exposed, negotiated, contested and challenged.