cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluating patters of treatment access and interest in parents and typically developing siblings of individuals with ASD
Creators: name: Pepa, Lauren A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a significant and pervasive effect on the family unit. Research on parents suggests that both mothers and fathers experience more stress than parents of typically developing individuals and those with other developmental disabilities. This places parents at risk for negative psychosocial outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and marital dissatisfaction. Research on typically developing siblings is much more mixed, however the literature converges to suggest that siblings experience multiple stressors that can place them at risk for a negative outcome as well. Together, these findings indicate that families require high quality support services to address their needs. Over the past several decades, researchers and clinicians have investigated several support options for families, however there have been significant limitations in the ability to disseminate these valuable services to families in need. As such, it is important to measure service access and interest in families of individuals with ASD, and to investigate the factors that facilitate and limit engagement. The present study used an online survey to access 158 families from across the United States who had a child with ASD as well as one typically developing child. The questionnaires included information about family demographics, service engagement variables for parents and siblings, as well as    psychosocial variables about the parent and the child with ASD. Parent psychosocial variables included measures of parent stress, psychiatric symptoms, and social support. Symptom severity for the child with ASD was also measured. Results indicated that service engagement varied considerably by demographic variables, including parent and child gender, race, parent education, and child age. Parent interest and perception of services did not correspond to service engagement in this sample. Instead, high ratings of perceived ASD symptom severity, higher levels of parent stress, greater social support, lower endorsement of psychiatric symptoms, and greater perception of parent finances all predicted engagement for both parents and siblings. This study yielded important information about the service needs of families of individuals with ASD, and factors that may contribute to their decision making. The implications of the present findings, limitations, and future directions are also discussed.
Anepitacta (Teratacta) nigerica Beier 1965
Creators: name: Naskrecki, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Anepitacta
Anepitacta nigerica

description: Anepitacta (Teratacta) nigerica Beier, 1965
Reported from western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria (Beier, 1965). Material examined. NIGERIA: Minna (9°36'50''N, 6°33'25''E), xi.1954 – ix.1955, coll. R.W. & M.E. Crosskey – 1 female (paratype), 1 male (holotype) (BMNH).
Xiphidiola Bolivar, 1906
Type species: Xiphidiola nigrospinosa Bolivar, 1906: 364 (= Anepitacta aliquantula Karsch, 1893). = Amyttina Beier, 1965
Xiphidiola is diagnosed by the combination of relatively simple cerci as well as unmodified 10th tergite and the epiproct in the male, and the presence of distinct dentition in the apical part of the ovipositor. A constant element of the coloration of species of this genus is the presence of dark patches on the anterior genicular lobes of the front femora. Eleven species of Xiphidiola have been described from an area extending from Côte d’Ivoire to Democratic Republic of Congo to Angola, and two additional species from Ghana are described below.
description: Published as part of Naskrecki, Piotr, 2008, New species of arboreal predatory katydids from West Africa (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1732 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181351
Hycleus lavaterae
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus lavaterae

description: Cd) Hycleus lavaterae species group
This group is composed by a few large-sized southern African species with mesosternum of Mesoscutatus - type, five basal antennomeres black and maxillary stipes not greatly modified. It includes at least H. haemactus (Fairmaire, 1888), H. lavaterae (Fabricius, 1801), H. plagiatus (Pallas, 1782), H. testudo (Marseul, 1872), and perhaps H. capeneri (Pardo Alcaide, 1963) and H. tettensis (Gerstäcker, 1854). The possible conspecificity of some of these species must be tested.
Hycleus haemactus (Fairmaire, 1888) (Fig. 4S)
Mylabris haemacta Fairmaire, 1888
Distribution. Southwestern Namibia and northwestern South Africa.
Material examined and literature records. [Erongo] Walvis Bay Rural: Kuiseb Canyon, 23.3667°S 15.6667°E (SMWN). [Karas] Lüderitz: Plateau 38, 26.6667°S 16.5333°E (SMWN); Aar 16, 26.7167°S 16.4667°E (SMWN); Skorpion area, 27.8167°S 16.6000°E (SMWN). Karasburg: Nukois 269, Warmbad, 27.3833°S 18.9667°E (SMWN); Hobas 374, 27.6167°S 17.7167°E (SMWN). Oranjemund: Ai-Ais Warmbad, 27.9167°S 17.4833°E (SMWN); Fish River Canyon (CB); Orange River, 28.0333°S 17.0667°E (SMWN).
Other records: Namibia (Bologna 2000a); Namib Sand Sea desert (Seely 2012).
Remarks. Types of this species were examined at MNHN.
This species is strictly related to H. lavaterae and H. testudo, and differs from both at least because of the antennomeres VI–XI distinctly orange and not infuscate. The study of types is necessary to confirm the validity of this complex.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Sex differences in social support and substance use disorders
Creators: name: Peyser Faleck, Deena
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) often draw on support from their social networks to perpetuate gains made during addiction treatment. Sex differences exist in the function of social networks, the ways in which individuals are influenced by their network members, and in substance use behaviors. We examined whether treatment-seeking men and women differed in the nature of their social support at treatment entry and whether individuals with abstinence versus substance using social support networks differed in substance use and work status at 12 months follow-up. This study included 469 women and 1,379 men from the combined Project MATCH (Matching Alcoholism Treatments to Client Heterogeneity) and Project ARC (Rutgers Alcohol Research Center) samples. Latent class analysis was used to identify unique groups of individuals based on the nature of social support for abstinence or use at treatment entry and the frequency of contact with network members. Individuals were then classified based on the probability of their network membership. Regression analyses were used to determine the relationship of social support class membership and sex to substance use and work status at follow-up. Men and women differed in the makeup of their social support networks and all subsequent analyses were therefore performed separately for each. Men and women were classified separately into four and five social networks, respectively, based on the statistical and conceptual meaningfulness of the models. There was a significant difference in the substance using patterns at follow-up among men between the Limited Negative (LN) class and all other classes, with members of this class reporting the fewest days abstinent. Among women, no significant differences between classes in days abstinent were detected. Furthermore, the difference between classes in the quality of life (QOL) outcome measure, work status, was not statistically significant. The results highlight the impact of negative social support on substance use behaviors, particularly among men, and the potential importance of addressing the makeup of social networks in an effort to improve outcomes. Future studies should investigate further sex differences in the impact of social support for abstinence and substance use. This knowledge may offer providers insight into the development and maintenance of the disorders and the most beneficial treatment approaches.
Architectural support for efficient virtual memory on big-memory systems
Creators: name: Pham, Binh Quang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Virtual memory is a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction for managing memory. How- ever, virtual memory suffers a performance penalty for these benefits, namely when translating program virtual addresses to system physical addresses. This overhead had been limited to 5-15% of system runtime by using a set of sophisticated hardware so- lutions, but has increased to 20-50% for many scenarios, including running workloads with large memory footprints and poor access locality or using deeper software stacks.  My thesis aims to solve this problem so that the memory systems can continue to scale without being hamstrung by the virtual memory system. We observe that while operating systems (OS) and hypervisors have a rich set of components in allocating memory, the hardware address translation unit only maintains a rigid and limited view of this ecosystem. Therefore, we seek for patterns inherently present in the memory allocation mechanisms to guide us in designing a more intelligent address translation unit.  First, we realize that OS memory allocators and program faulting sequence tend to produce contiguous or nearby mappings between virtual and physical pages. We propose Coalesced TLB and Clustered TLB designs to exploit these patterns accordingly. Once detected, the related mappings are stored in a single TLB entry to increase the TLB's reach. Our designs help reduce TLB misses substantially and improve performance as a result.  Second, we see that there are often tradeoffs between reducing address translation overheard and improving resource consolidation in virtualized environments. For exam- ple, large pages are often used to mitigate the high cost of two-dimensional page walks, but hypervisors usually break large pages into small pages for easier sharing guests memory. When that happens, the majority of those small pages still remain aligned. Based on this observation, we propose a speculative TLB technique to regain almost all performance loss caused by breaking large pages while running highly consolidated virtualized systems.
Microbial degradation of three novel bisphenol compounds
Creators: name: Polanco, Kennida
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Bisphenol A, 2-2-bis (4 hydroxypenyl propane) (BPA) is a synthetic compound used in the production of polycarbonate, epoxy resins and in the synthesis of the flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol A. It is found in everyday products such as plastic water bottles, food containers, furniture and textiles. The discovery of its endocrine disrupting properties in animals, as well as its persistence in anaerobic environments has motivated an active search for alternative compounds to substitute BPA in the production of food and water containers. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential for biodegradation of three novel bisphenol analogs, which show chemical proprieties that made them suitable for substituting BPA in industrial usage. These compounds are 2-6’-dimethyl, 4-4’-dimethoxy bisphenol; 1-1’-ethyl, 2-6-dimethyl, 4-4-dimethoxy bisphenol; and 1-1’-propyl, 2-6-dimethyl, 4-4-dimethoxy bisphenol. Enrichment cultures using Arthur Kill sediment as inoculum were set under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Analytical methods based in liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLC and GC- MS) were developed. Primary enrichment cultures degraded the three test  compounds under methanogenic (after 15 days), sulfate reducing (after 44 days) and aerobic conditions (after 52 days). No substrate loss was observed after 60 days under nitrate reducing conditions or in sterile controls. With transfer of the primary cultures to fresh medium (50% or 10% of the active culture) degradation continued at a higher rate. There was no loss of bisphenol A under anaerobic conditions over an incubation period of 6 months. These data suggest that the new bisphenol analogs are biodegradable under anoxic and oxic conditions where BPA is recalcitrant.
Home style in the 21st century
Creators: name: Radezky, Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation is a replication study of the pioneering work of Richard F. Fenno’s Home Style, originally published in 1978.  In that study, Fenno observed the behavior of members of the House of Representatives when interacting with constituents in their home districts.  This work gave congressional scholars new concepts that have since become part of the discipline’s lexicon, including concentric circles of a constituency, constituency careers, and running for Congress by running against Congress.      But few scholars have continued this ethnographic research tradition, what Fenno calls “soaking and poking.”  It has been nearly 40 years since the publication of Home Style, so naturally we might wonder what has changed in that time.  If someone traveled with members in their districts today, what differences and what similarities would he find compared to Fenno’s study?    The findings presented here are based on time spent with seven sitting members of the House as they traveled about their districts in 2013 and 2014.  Some of Fenno’s conclusions are remarkably stable over time, particularly the importance of member fit with the district as well as the personal touch that gives each member a unique home style.  But American politics today is characterized by partisanship in a way that it was not in the 1970s, and some, but not all, representatives base their presentational style on partisan expressions meant to foster a bond between constituents and representative.  In addition, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is a particularly polarizing issue, especially for Republican members.    Overall, the research presented here shows the need for additional ethnographic research of members in their districts in order for congressional scholars to better understand how the concepts presented in Home Style have evolved since the 1970s.
Evaluation of cannula flow dynamics during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Creators: name: Wickramarachchi, Avishka Shimal
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400303
subject: Biomechanical engineering
classificationCode: 400399
subject: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401204
subject: Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)

description: This thesis evaluates the fluid dynamics created by small tubes called cannulae used during artificial heart-lung therapy for end-stage heart and lung failure patients. Cannulae are associated with complex flow characteristics that can instigate life-threatening complications during treatment, thus worsening patient outcomes. However, there is lack of understanding on how aspects such as cannula design and cannula position, impact flow dynamics and subsequent risk of complications. To address this gap, this thesis details the intricate flow characteristics produced by cannulae and develops improved designs and strategies that may translate towards a reduced complication risk and improved patient outcomes.
pH sensitive liposomes for targeted delivery of antibiotics to localized internal bacterial infection sites
Creators: name: Rane, Varsha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes a myriad of infections ranging from mild skin-infection to more serious infections affecting internal organs. A glycopeptide, Vancomycin, remains the last line of defense against MRSA. The aim of this study is to investigate whether liposomal encapsulated Vancomycin had a better antimicrobial action than free Vancomycin in terms of infection-specific targeting and circulation time. For the same, encapsulation efficiency and release kinetics of the liposomes was evaluated along with Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC) of the liposomal preparations. The liposomes showcased a 12-15% encapsulation efficiency. Sustained release at pH 6.0 as compared to little to no release at pH 7.4 was demonstrated by the pH sensitive liposomes. Also, in acidic pH, an increase in efficacy was observed with a greater decrease in the MIC of the pH responsive liposomes as compared to the lower decrease in MIC of the non pH-responsive liposomes and increase in MIC of free Vancomycin.  Thus, from the results it can be concluded that environmentally sensitive liposomes could be developed as a successful carrier of antimicrobial drugs demonstrating effective antimicrobial action.
Multiscale modeling of interwoven kevlar fibers based on random walk to predict yarn structural response
Creators: name: Recchia, Stephen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Kevlar is the most common high-end plastic filament yarn used in body armor, tire reinforcement, and wear resistant applications. Kevlar is a trade name for an aramid fiber. These are fibers in which the chain molecules are highly oriented along the fiber axis, so the strength of the chemical bond can be exploited. The bulk material is extruded into filaments that are bound together into yarn, which may be chorded with other materials as in car tires, woven into a fabric, or layered in an epoxy to make composite panels. The high tensile strength to low weight ratio makes this material ideal for designs that decrease weight and inertia, such as automobile tires, body panels, and body armor. For designs that use Kevlar, increasing the strength, or tenacity, to weight ratio would improve performance or reduce cost of all products that are based on this material.   This thesis computationally and experimentally investigates the tenacity and stiffness of Kevlar yarns with varying twist ratios. The test boundary conditions were replicated with a geometrically accurate finite element model, resulting in a customized code that can reproduce tortuous filaments in a yarn was developed. The solid model geometry capturing filament tortuosity was implemented through a random walk method of axial geometry creation. A finite element analysis successfully recreated the yarn strength and stiffness dependency observed during the tests. The physics applied in the finite element model was reproduced in an analytical equation that was able to predict the failure strength and strain dependency of twist ratio. The analytical solution can be employed to optimize yarn design for high strength applications.
Hycleus plagiatus Bologna & Amore & Pitzalis 2018, comb. n.
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus plagiatus

description: Hycleus plagiatus (Pallas, 1782) comb. n. (Fig. 4T)
Meloe plagiatus Pallas, 1782
Types. Types of this species are lost.
Distribution. Namibia (new species record for this country) and western South Africa.
Material examined and literature records. [Erongo] Karibib: D1935, 30 km NNW Usakos, 21.7833°S 15.5000°E (CB). [Khomas] Windhoek Rural: Windhoek, 22.3400°S 17.0500°E (CB, RMCA). [Hardap] Mariental Urban: C19, 11 km W Mariental, 24.6167°S 17.8500°E (CB). Rehoboth Rural: D1206, 10 km NE Bullsport, 24.10313°S 16.4456°E (CB).
Remarks. This species is related to H. haemactus and it was sometimes confused with H. tricolor because of its very similar elytral pattern, which has the middle black fascia dark reddish on the sutural sides. Distinctive characters vs. H. tricolor are: (a) five basal antennomeres black (sometimes V dark yellow); (b) male labial palpi not so widened and without large depression; (c) male maxillary stipe slender; (d) lateral setae of genae silver and very long; (e) male protibiae and protarsomeres with very long black setae; (f) aedeagus shape.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Memory and prediction in a changing environment
Creators: name: Robbins, Talia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: This study aims to understand the effect of changes in the environment on memory and prediction. Previous work has suggested that when recalling events from memory, people use the entire distribution of information they have seen, and not a more recent set. However this work has only tested situations in which the distribution changes slowly, not those in which people encounter larger, more distinct changes in the stimulus distribution. Using an established experimental paradigm in categorical perception, I test memory and prediction in order to quantify performance changes with delineated temporal changes to the distribution of stimuli. I assess whether people use multiple belief distributions for decision making regarding the likely occurrence of future stimuli. I use a Bayesian approach to model how people update their beliefs, and the influence of changing beliefs on memory. This framework assumes that beliefs are a weighted combination of a prior belief and new evidence. Specifically, I will fit three models and discuss the qualitative fit to data. I will conclude with the use of a mixture model—which combines information from an overall distribution and a current distribution—and find that it provides a good explanation of participant behavior in this paradigm.
Additional file 1: of Effects of regional perfusion block in healthy and injured lungs
Creators: name: Cambiaghi, Barbara
name: Vasques, Francesco
name: MĂśrer, Onnen
name: Ritter, Christian
name: Mauri, Tommaso
name: Kunze-Szikszay, Nils
name: Holke, Karin
name: Collino, Francesca
name: Maiolo, Giorgia
name: Rapetti, Francesca
name: Schulze-Kalthoff, Elias
name: Tonetti, Tommaso
name: GĂźnter Hahn
name: Quintel, Michael
name: Gattinoni, Luciano
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional methods. (PDF 1619Â kb)
Hycleus lactimalus
Creators: name: Bologna, Marco A.
name: Amore, Valentina
name: Pitzalis, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Hycleus
Hycleus lactimalus

description: Ce) Hycleus lactimalus species group
This group is not well defined and could be an artificial assemblage of species with mesosternum of Mesoscutatus - type and yellow, modified male maxiillary stipes. We grouped tentatively in this unit three species: H. lactimalus (Marseul, 1879), from Angola and Namibia, H. maculicornis (Voigts, 1902), from southern and eastern Africa (we examined specimens from Zimbabwe and Tanzania, CB; and from southwestern R.D. Congo, RMCA), and H. maxillaris (Kaszab, 1956) from Tanzania. We suspect that H. maxillaris could be a synonym of H. maculicornis, because of the same antennal colouration (antennomere I and II black, and apex of XI with black spots) and the similarly modified shape of male maxillary stipes.
Hycleus lactimalus (Marseul, 1879) (Fig. 4U)
Mylabris lactimala Marseul, 1879
Mylabris (Gorrizia) lactimala, Pardo Alcaide 1963
Distribution. Southwestern Angola, western Namibia.
Material examined and literature records. [Kunene] Opuwo: Kaokoveld, Anabib (Orupembe), 100 miles W Ohopoho, 18.1833°S 12.5167°E (Kaszab, 1956). [Erongo]: Dâures: Brandberg (MSNF); Arandis: C14, Kuiseb River, 23.3046°S 15.7718°E (CB).
Other records: Namibia (Bologna, 2000a).
Remarks. Types of this species was examined at MNHN.
The male of this species is easily distinguishable by the maxillary stipes yellow, inflated and with a middle keel. The colour of this mouth parts were described as white by Marseul (1879), but, as evidenced by Pardo Alcaide (1963), actually it is yellow. Females are more difficult to distinguish from the species of the group of H. dicinctus, because they have the same size and elytral pattern, but in both sexes the pronotum is slender, parallel in the basal half and narrowed in front, and the antennomere III is slightly longer than IV; in male temples are slightly convergent posteriorly.
Hycleus lactimalus differs from H. maculicornis-maxillaris (see above) because of the colour of antennomeres (I–II completely black and XI orange) and the male maxillary stipes more widened ventrally.
description: Published as part of Bologna, Marco A., Amore, Valentina & Pitzalis, Monica, 2018, Meloidae of Namibia (Coleoptera): taxonomy and faunistics with biogeographic and ecological notes, pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 4373 (1) on pages 73-74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1151722
Assessment of CFD capability for hypersonic shock wave laminar boundary layer interactions using perfect gas Navier-Stokes equations
Creators: name: Rouhi Youssefi, Mehrnaz
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The goal of this study is to assess CFD capability for prediction of laminar shock wave/  boundary layer interactions at hypersonic velocities. More speci cally, the   ow eld over  a double cone con guration is simulated using perfect gas assumptions and Navier-  Stokes equations. Computations are compared with experimental data obtained from  measurements conducted in the LENS XX shock tunnel at CUBRC. Four separate  cases of freestream conditions are simulated to examine the numerical methods in a  wide range of enthalpies. The results of this investigation can provide factors for design  optimization of hypersonic air vehicles.  ii
title:  Prepayment, salience, and welfare
Creators: name: Imelda
name: Abatayo, Anna Lou
name: Resusodarmo, Budy
Publisher: name: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/007ygn379
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper ; no. 22/2024
Additional file 12: of Individual signatures and environmental factors shape skin microbiota in healthy dogs
Creators: name: Cuscó, Anna
name: Belanger, Janelle
name: Gershony, Liza
name: Islas-Trejo, Alma
name: Kerinne Levy
name: Medrano, Juan
name: Sánchez, Armand
name: Oberbauer, Anita
name: Francino, Olga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Geographical origin effect on beta diversity for back and abdomen samples. Samples from this study (USA) were merged with previous samples (Spain) [9] as well as two other unpublished individuals. Unweighted UniFrac beta diversity plots of (A) dorsal back and (B) abdomen samples colored by geographical origin with their associated ANOSIM and adonis values. (DOCX 191 kb)
Additional file 3: of Renal manifestations of HIV during the antiretroviral era in South Africa: a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Shirelle Assaram
name: Nombulelo Magula
name: Kinoo, Suman Mewa
name: Tivani Mashamba-Thompson
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Quality Appraisal tool. Two reviewers used the MMAT format to assess the quality of the content of the included studies. (DOCX 15Â kb)
Network modeling approach to energy-performance optimization in industrial systems
Creators: name: Salahi, Niloofar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: With approximately 95 quadrillion Btu, the United States accounts for nearly 18% of the world’s total energy demand, and industrial sector within U.S. consumes as much as 34% of this energy intake. Growing energy demands, continuous worldwide depletion of natural resources and environmental regulations, have become a strong factor in the industrial sector for reducing energy consumption in the recent years. However, manufacturing facilities are often complex systems consisting of different components that have strict requirements in terms of productivity and throughput, making it particularly challenging to achieve ambitious energy reduction targets. Moreover, owners of such manufacturing enterprises are reluctant to make changes in their processes to avoid jeopardizing performance optimality; prompted by the aforementioned, the following questions arise:  (1) How to simultaneously account for energy reduction goals and performance requirements in an industrial facility?  (2) How to incorporate the existing infrastructure and practices in an industrial facility to reduce the energy consumption and expenditure without sacrificing the productivity?  (3) How to incorporate the dynamic interdependencies inherent in the components of a manufacturing environment to achieve optimal energy efficiency?    This work aims at providing the owner of a manufacturing enterprise with a modeling framework to achieve cost effective energy reduction while maintaining productivity and profitability. We provide a stochastic energy-aware production planning optimization based on a two-dimensional measure, “Energy-Performance”, and propose a scenario generation approach to solve the planning problem. At the building level, we propose a “business value-driven” energy asset management to achieve energy reduction at the building level while assuring business objective and occupant productivity requirements are maintained. Using a network modeling approach, we provide a framework to calculate the dynamic interdependencies between the components of an industrial facility and define the optimal share of energy reduction for each such component, given a set of alternative solutions. Finally, since most of the underlying Energy-Performance analysis and optimization models are highly data-intensive, we provide a data and metering infrastructure to support the proposed modeling approaches.
Exploration of Chufa (Cyperus esculentus L. var. sativus Boeck) as a novel specialty crop for the Northeastern United States
Creators: name: Satch, Christopher Steven
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Cyperus esculentus L. var. sativus (Boeck) is a globally-distributed sedge that produces edible tubers, commonly called nuts.  The tubers are prized as a delicacy in parts of Nigeria and North Africa.  This plant is known by many names, but is most commonly referred to as Chufa or Tiger Nuts.  Chufa has been foraged as a part of the human diet during the Paleolithic Era, and has been cultivated in Egypt and North Africa for over 6000 years.  We wanted to explore the potential of this specialty crop that is high in all 20 amino acids, in vitamins C and E, and in minerals, to evaluate the potential for growing it in the Northeastern United States.  We also wanted to explore the optimal conditions for production for anyone who wishes to utilize this crop.  We have evaluated the effects of potassium, iron, water, and growth media on the productivity of Chufa.  We have chosen potassium to increase tuber size, iron for overall plant productivity, water for drought tolerance, and growth media for overall plant productivity.  We have found that increasing potassium with nitrogen and phosphorus increases overall plant productivity, but increased potassium alone does not significantly increase tuber size.  We have found that iron has no effect on plant productivity.  We have found that the productivity of Chufa increases significantly with increasing water.  We have found that professional growing medium is best for overall plant production, followed by organically fertilized organic soil.  We hope that our findings help to make Chufa more accessible and enticing to the Western World as a health food crop.
The photography of absence
Creators: name: Scott, Mary Kate
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: It is a paradox that postmodern photographic theory—so thoroughly obsessed with death—rarely addresses intimate scenes of explicit death or mortality. Rather, it applies these themes to photographs of living subjects or empty spaces, laying upon each image a blanket of pain, loss, or critical dissatisfaction. Postmodern theorists such as Rosalind Krauss and Geoffrey Batchen root their work in the writings of Roland Barthes, which privilege a photograph’s viewer over its subject or maker. To Barthes’ followers in the 1980s and 1990s, the experiences depicted within the photograph were not as important as our own relationships with it, in the present. The photographers of the Pictures Generation produced groundbreaking imagery that encouraged the viewer to question authority, and even originality itself. Little was said, though, about intimacy, beauty, the actual fact of death, or the author’s individual experience.   However, a significant group of American art photographers at the end of the twentieth century began making works directly featuring their own personal experiences with mortality. This dissertation examines the motivations and strategies of four such photographers: Robert Mapplethorpe, JoAnn Verburg, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann. Additionally, it addresses the social environment that gave rise to these artists’ reflections, such as the AIDS crisis and the aging Baby Boomer population. The photographers discussed here share not only social context, but also values and aesthetic concerns. Included on this list are the embrace of unironic emotional expression, the co-option of beauty as an aesthetic and emotional tool, emphasis on the photograph as a physical object, and a desire to convey to the viewer what it is like to be them—a unique person existing in a particular space and time, feeling specific joys and losses.   It is impossible to fully understand the subsequent photographic work of the twenty-first century without considering these artists’ influence alongside that of the Pictures Generation. Doing so allows a deeper, more subtle analysis of contemporary photography’s engagement with time, mortality, intimacy, and beauty, as well as irony, critique, trauma, and appropriation. It enables us to see the true hybrid of influences that have created twenty-first century photography.
The relationship between poverty and social determinants of growth in low-income Brazilian children
Creators: name: Simplicio Lemos, Thaisa Maria
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Stunting affects 159 million children under the age of five, while 41 million children are overweight. In general, poorer nutritional and health outcomes are associated with poverty. Poverty has several dimensions and can be defined in several ways, not only as monetary (income) poverty, and sociodemographic characteristics should also be taken into consideration when investigating the influence of poverty on health and nutrition of individuals. The objective of this dissertation was to determine how social and parental characteristics influence nutritional status of children relative to (income) poverty, using longitudinal data from about nutrition education intervention conducted with 500 low-income Brazilian children followed from birth to 7 years. Children living below the poverty line (BPL) had higher prevalence of stunting at 7y compared to children living above the poverty line (APL). Prevalence of overweight did not differ between groups. BPL was associated with increased odds of short exclusive breastfeeding, and participation in a nutritional intervention did not reduce the gap between infants ABL or BPL, indicating poorer children continue to be more vulnerable. More than income, living conditions of poor families could have been associated with the poorer nutritional outcomes of the BPL. We found that paternal education was associated with lower odds of stunting at 1, 4 and 7y, and infants who lived in extended families grew more from birth to 12 months, but had worst breastfeeding practices. Traditionally, nutritional interventions target lower income individuals, to alleviate nutritional and health gaps between lower and higher income individuals. Indeed, children living under extreme poverty had worse linear growth, noticeable at 7y, and traditional nutritional education interventions might not be enough to reduce the gap between the poorest and the better-off individuals. Nutritional status during infancy was a strong predictor of nutritional status during childhood, suggesting the potential of early interventions to avoid both stunting and overweight during childhood. Finally, more educated fathers had lower odds of having stunted children. Future studies should investigate the effectiveness of nutritional education programs targeting not only mothers, but also fathers.
FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND CORPORATE STRATEGY: THE IMPACT OF SHORT INTEREST RATIOS
Creators: name: James Michael, Harrington
Publisher: name: keith journal
Year: 2025
Subjects: Stock market rationality, classical view, behavioral view, investor sentiment, corporate investment.

description: The perpetual debate regarding the rationality of stock markets remains a captivating and ongoing topic of inquiry. Existing literature broadly approaches this issue through two distinct frameworks: the classical and the behavioral perspectives. In the classical view, market efficiency prevails, where stock prices faithfully reflect changes in anticipated future cash flows or discount rates. Consequently, there should be no discernible relationship between share prices and corporate investment, provided that firms' fundamentals are sound. In stark contrast, the behavioral viewpoint posits that managers strategically time their equity issuances to capitalize on moments when stock prices become disconnected from underlying fundamentals, as exemplified by studies like Loughran and Ritter (1995) and Baker and Wurgler (2000). This study builds upon the works of De Long, Shleifer, Summers, Waldmann (1990) and Stein (1996) and the subsequent challenges posed by Baker, Stein, and Wurgler (2003 to challenge the classical perspective. Their theoretical and empirical framework introduces two investor categories: sophisticated informed investors and uninformed noise traders. Noise traders, influenced by biased beliefs, because stock prices to diverge from their intrinsic values. Stein (1996) asserts that investment decisions become contingent on investor sentiment if the required return on a share is a result of investor overestimation of future payoffs rather than the share's inherent risk. For instance, an overly optimistic investor climate may lead a manager to adopt an aggressive investment strategy to maximize the current share price.
Reliability analysis and maintenance modeling of multi-component systems subject to multiple dependent competing failure processes
Creators: name: Song, Sanling
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: System reliability analyses, involving multiple failure processes, are important and challenging research topics, particularly when failure processes, such as degradation processes and random shocks, are competing and dependent. When component degradation models are extended to complex systems with multiple components, different perspectives of dependency should be considered in system reliability modeling. In this research, potential dependence patterns are investigated among multiple failure processes within and among components in systems and probabilistic models are developed to assess system reliability performance. For the reliability modeling of complex systems, if one component in the system degrades or fails prematurely, it is possible that other components will also degrade or fail prematurely given the shared working environment, which means component failure times are dependent. Furthermore, if a shock arrives to the system, and its impact on one component is large, it is likely that the shock impact on other components is also large. Therefore, the models are extended to perform quantitative analyses for system reliability considering that the damages to the two failure processes caused by shocks are dependent. From a multi-component system level perspective, the dependent characteristics from shocks are complex and detailed, so the research is organized into several scenarios, i.e., dependent failure processes are considered in different ways. Stochastically dependent component degradation processes are also studied, and extended gamma process models are used to model the dependent degradation process. Based on these new reliability models, different maintenance policies are derived to provide cost effective maintenance plans. Different maintenance policies are investigated, including: (1) age replacement policies; (2) periodic inspection maintenance policies; (3) Condition-based maintenance policies; and (4) Individual component maintenance policy. This research has many meaningful research contributions. The dependent scenarios described above for shocks are studied for the first time in system reliability modeling, and it is also the initial system model based on stochastically dependent component degradation using the gamma process. Additionally, the on-condition maintenance plans and the individual component maintenance based on steady state system behavior are investigated for the first time. They represent more practical and cost effective policies for many engineering applications.
ANALISIS HUKUM PRAPERADILAN SEBAGAI FUNGSI KONTROL PENYIDIKAN
Creators: name: Yayan Irwansyah
Publisher: name: Magister Hukum Unihaz
Year: 2025

description: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis Landasan Hukum Tentang Praperadilan Berdasarkan Hukum di Indonesia dan praktik Praperadilan Berkaitan Dengan Fungsi Penyidik. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian normatif dengan pendekatan perundang-undangan, pendekatan konseptual dan pendekatan analitis, dengan menggunakan data sekunder yang berupa bahan hukum primer, sekunder dan tersier. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa praperadilan di Indonesia berdasarkan hukum memiliki landasan hukum yang terdiri dari KUHAP dan beberapa putusan MK. Praperadilan berfungsi sebagai upaya perlindungan hak asasi manusia dalam proses pidana dan membatasi kekuasaan penyidik agar tidak sewenang-wenang. Praktik praperadilan terkait dengan fungsi penyidik sebagai alat kontrol terhadap penyidik dari penyalahgunaan wewenang dan sesuai dengan ketentuan hukum. Pengawasan terhadap penyidikan dilakukan dengan cara yang sesuai dengan ketentuan hukum dan tidak sewenang-wenang. Tersangka berhak mengajukan praperadilan mengenai sah atau tidaknya tindakan penegak hukum, seperti penangkapan, penggeledahan dan penahanan. Praperadilan juga mempertimbangkan kewenangan Penyidik KPK yang diatur dalam UU 30/2002.

 

Kata Kunci : Landasan Hukum Praperadilan, Praktik Praperadilan, Fungsi Penyidik
Catalytic dehydroaromatization of alkanes by pincer-ligated iridium complexes
Creators: name: Steffens, Andrew Murray
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Further understanding of the activation of small molecules by metal complexes is an ongoing goal in organometallic chemistry, and expansion on previously reported reactions is of particular interest. This thesis will discuss expansion of transfer dehydrogenation reactions, specifically multiple transfer dehydrogenation reactions of alkanes leading to aromatic products in one pot.    The synthesis of the pincer catalyst used for dehydroaromatization reactions is presented along with full characterization of each step. Optimization of dehydroaromatization reactions was performed on a variety of n-alkane starting materials to maximize yield of alkylbenzene products. Kinetics and concentrations for each starting material are presented to highlight the complexity of these reactions.   Despite a mechanism that would suggest otherwise, dehydroaromatization reactions surprisingly yield benzene regardless of the starting n-alkane. This interesting appearance of benzene is discussed along with yields of benzene for various n-alkanes. Mechanistic studies and DFT calculations were performed to elucidate the mechanism through which benzene is formed, and these studies show that benzene forms though a retro-ene mechanism. Attempts to limit or maximize benzene formation were performed by utilizing the information gained through the retro-ene mechanism.   Expansion of dehydroaromatization reactions is discussed through multiple dehydroaromatization reactions on the same starting material. Of particular emphasis was the formation of 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene, which is a precursor to the desirable polymer polyethylene naphthalate. 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene was observed as a product from dehydroaromatization reactions, and mechanistic studies were performed to understand the mechanism for the second dehydroaromatization reaction. Attempts to maximize yield of 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene and o-pentyltoluene, which is a precursor to 1,5-dimethylnaphthalene, were performed.   Further expansion of dehydroaromatization reactions is discussed through dehydroaromatization of branched alkanes to yield products not obtainable through dehydroaromatization of n-alkanes. Of particular focus is accessing p-xylene and m-xylene via dehydroaromatization. A new synthesis of p-xylene is presented using ethylene as a starting material and utilizing dehydroaromatization of 2-ethyl-1-hexene. Optimization of these reactions is also discussed.
Additional file 1: of Individual signatures and environmental factors shape skin microbiota in healthy dogs
Creators: name: Cuscó, Anna
name: Belanger, Janelle
name: Gershony, Liza
name: Islas-Trejo, Alma
name: Kerinne Levy
name: Medrano, Juan
name: Sánchez, Armand
name: Oberbauer, Anita
name: Francino, Olga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Pedigree chart of the dogs included in this study. Circles represent female, and rectangles represent male. In blue are dogs born from January to May that had spent at least 5.5 months in the kennel (T1 group), and in red are dogs born from June to September that had spent 2.5 months in the kennel (T2 group). (DOCX 275 kb)