cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of biopolymer film with different ratios of gelatine to chitosan reinforced with zinc oxide nanoparticles for food covering/preservation
Creators: name: Yi, D. Y.
name: Siddique, B. M.
name: Lai, J. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this research project, gelatine and chitosan have been chosen to form a composite film and the zinc oxide nanoparticles have been used to increase the properties of the composite film. In the experiment, the ratio of gelatine to chitosan as well as the amount of zinc oxide nanoparticles have been manipulated. These composite film with the gelatine (G) to chitosan (Ch) ratio of 40G:60Ch, 50G:50Ch, 60G:40Ch have incorporated with 0 mg, 1 mg and 10 mg of ZnO NP in each film. A layer of smooth film with 30 μm thickness were produced. From the experiment, the higher the ratio of chitosan in the composite have resulted a stronger adhesive properties of the film. Due to the high adhesive properties, ratio of 50G:50Ch and 60G:40Ch composite films were not able to be peeled off from the dish. Hence, only ratio of 40G:60Ch composite film with different amount of zinc oxide nanoparticles were evaluated. The transparency of the film decreased while increasing the amount of zinc oxide nanoparticles. Despite that, 10 mg zinc oxide loaded film has 10 % decrease in its water solubility as compared to the film that without loaded with nanoparticles. Moreover, the film loaded with 10 mg zinc oxide have a better ability to withstand in an acidic condition. When contact with 1 % acetic acid solution, the film could maintain its original shape but for the film loaded with 0 mg and 1 mg nanoparticles have rolled up when contacted with the acid solution. All the test samples were dissolved completely in acid solution after 24 hours.
The Meaning of Rye
Creators: name: Valli, Laura
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: assemblages
subject: biodiversity
subject: crops
subject: food systems
subject: grains
subject: rye
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Positive scientific literature on the agronomical characteristics of rye and the health implications of ingesting rye abounds. To better understand why people choose to engage with certain crops and not others, scientific facts do not always suffice. It is helpful to have some insights into the practical knowledge that people possess and that might guide their action. Rye as a food crop necessitates the coming together of people with different skillsets and tools to make it from the seed depositories to people’s tables. Positioned at the intersection of agriculture and anthropology, this dissertation investigates the meaning of rye for the different actors who have chosen to engage with it. In-depth interviews with breeders, farmers, millers, bakers, eaters and learners as well as numerous farm, mill and bakery visits in the U.S., UK and Estonia combined with digital ethnography and field and baking trials inform the discussion. This dissertation attends to people’s rye-related ideas and opinions and looks at how that knowledge informs and is informed by action. The emphasis is on the contextualization of knowledge and the interconnectedness of different actors through rye, whilst being attentive to the fluid materiality of rye. Drawing on multi-species ethnography theories, the concept of assemblage is applied in explaining how the meaning of rye comes into being through the joint yet separate action of individuals. These observations about the motivations of different actors could be valuable in contemplating the possibility of change in our food system and moving the focus away from the global to the local where the connections between the different actors are both more accessible and more meaningful. It is the very marginality of rye in the U.S. food system that makes it a suitable conceptual as well as a practical tool for reconsidering priorities in food production and envisioning a different way of growing, processing and utilizing grains that is focused on relationality and connectedness.
Vocational identity, stress, coping, and social support as determinants of attrition, attendance, number of credits completed, and grades when returning to high school.
Creators: name: Schmidt, Douglas Derlin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to review research on predictors of success when students return to high school, and to investigate the power of several risk and protective factors as predictors of success of students returning to school. Research findings regarding factors associated with initial departure from high school, returning to school, and repeated departure from high school are reviewed. Theories regarding departure from school are presented. A developmental psychopathology approach to predicting repeated departure from high school programs is presented which integrates cognitive, behavioural, social, and developmental theories. Findings are presented from a study on students returning to school who responded to questionnaires about demographics, vocational identity, stress level, coping style, and perceived social support. A total of 453 students participated who were returning to four types of academic environments: alternative outreach high schools (n = 267), a school for mothers (n = 46), a fourth year high school (n = 42), and college high school upgrading and completion programs (n = 98). The participants included 288 females (79 mothers and 209 nonmothers) and 165 males. The primary analyses were focused on how vocational identity, stress, coping behaviours, and social support predicted the outcome variables of attrition, attendance, number of credits completed, and grades at the end of the students' first 4 to 6 month term back in high school programs. Age, SES, and achievement were not found to be consistently predictive of outcomes. Males were more likely to leave school again, although no specific psychological variables were found to predict their departure. Females were found to be more likely to leave school again if they had a lower level of vocational identity, and if they had experienced a greater number of stressful life events in the year prior to returning to school. Gender, vocational identity, and life stress were not found to interact as moderators on outcomes. The results of this empirical study are believed to enrich theoretical understanding of success in returning to high school and will enable teachers and other professionals to more effectively evaluate and counsel students returning to school.
Super Natural II - a database of natural products
Creators: name: Banerjee, Priyanka
name: Erehman, Jevgeni
name: Gohlke, Björn-Oliver
name: Wilhelm, Thomas
name: Preissner, Robert
name: Dunkel, Mathias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

description: Natural products play a significant role in drug discovery and development. Many topological pharmacophore patterns are common between natural products and commercial drugs. A better understanding of the specific physicochemical and structural features of natural products is important for corresponding drug development. Several encyclopedias of natural compounds have been composed, but the information remains scattered or not freely available. The first version of the Supernatural database containing ∼50 000 compounds was published in 2006 to face these challenges. Here we present a new, updated and expanded version of natural product database, Super Natural II (http://bioinformatics.charite.de/supernatural), comprising ∼326 000 molecules. It provides all corresponding 2D structures, the most important structural and physicochemical properties, the predicted toxicity class for ∼170 000 compounds and the vendor information for the vast majority of compounds. The new version allows a template-based search for similar compounds as well as a search for compound names, vendors, specific physical properties or any substructures. Super Natural II also provides information about the pathways associated with synthesis and degradation of the natural products, as well as their mechanism of action with respect to structurally similar drugs and their target proteins.
Electrical conductivity measurements on ice cores from the Canadian Arctic: An analysis of signal variation within and between ice cores.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jiancheng.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: Two ice cores, A93.1 and A93.2, drilled two meters apart at the Agassiz Ice Cap in May of 1993, had on site electrical conductivity measurements (ECM) carried out to determine the confidence limits of the ECM method for chronological and stratigraphic control. Four ECM profiles have been produced from the two cores, one directly on unprepared surfaces of A93.1 and A93.2 and two on a prepared surface of the A93.1 made by a band saw and subsequently planed by a clean microtome knife. The correlation analysis between the two ECM series of whole length ice core on A93.1 prepared and unprepared surfaces gives a correlation coefficient of 0.842. The correlation analysis of whole length of A93.1 and A93.2 cores on the unprepared surfaces gives a coefficient of 0.644. Review of multi-ice core records including $\delta{\sp }$O, ECM and melt percentage, shows that ice on the Agassiz Ice Cap of Canadian High Arctic is continuous from present to the earlier Holocene. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Implications of Data Limited Versus Resource Limited Processing for Cochlear Implant Users Explored Through Recall and Pupillometry
Creators: name: O'Leary, Ryan Micheal
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cognitive Effort
Discourse
Processing Speed
Pupillometry
Speech Processing
Behavioral or Experimental Psychology
Cochlear Implants

description: Cochlear Implants (CIs) have seen increasing use among older adults with severe to profound hearing loss who can no longer benefit from conventional hearing aids. Although the sounds produced by CIs are severely degraded as compared with natural speech, under ideal circumstances many post-lingually deafened young and older adult CI users can perform quite well on clinical tests of sentence comprehension and recall. A notable deficit appears, however, when CI users hear especially rapid speech, as in the case of artificially time-compressed speech. This may be in part due to a loss of acoustic richness in the time-compressed speech. Combined with the spectrally degraded nature of the CI signal,this would represent a data-limited situation, in the sense that no amount of effort, or allocation of resources, will improve performance. In part there is also a loss of ordinarily available processing time at the linguistic-cognitive level. In this case, performance may be improved by listeners allocating greater effort, hence resources, to the task. This may be referred to as a situation that is resource-limited. In this thesis young adults with age-normal hearing heard and recalled spoken narratives presented under three conditions: (1) Narratives that have been time-compressed, (2) time-compressed narratives with the lost time restored to the original playing time by inserting silent periods at linguistically salient points to allow listeners’ processing time to “catch up”, and (3) compressed and restored narratives processed with noise-band vocoding to simulate the sound produced by a CI. The data-limited versus resource-limited distinction is explored in both cases via a continuous measure of pupil dilation as an index of processing effort. Data from a small sample of CI users are also offered.
The reproductive tracts of two malaria vectors are populated by a core microbiome and by gender- and swarm-enriched microbial biomarkers
Creators: name: Segata, Nicola
name: Baldini, Francesco
name: Pompon, Julien
name: Garrett, Wendy S.
name: Truong, Duy Tin
name: Dabire, Roch K.
name: Diabate, Abdoulaye
name: Levashina, Elena A.
name: Catteruccia, Flaminia
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Microbes play key roles in shaping the physiology of insects and can influence behavior, reproduction and susceptibility to pathogens. In Sub-Saharan Africa, two major malaria vectors, Anopheles gambiae and An. coluzzii, breed in distinct larval habitats characterized by different microorganisms that might affect their adult physiology and possibly Plasmodium transmission. We analyzed the reproductive microbiomes of male and female An. gambiae and An. coluzzii couples collected from natural mating swarms in Burkina Faso. 16S rRNA sequencing on dissected tissues revealed that the reproductive tracts harbor a complex microbiome characterized by a large core group of bacteria shared by both species and all reproductive tissues. Interestingly, we detected a significant enrichment of several gender-associated microbial biomarkers in specific tissues, and surprisingly, similar classes of bacteria in males captured from one mating swarm, suggesting that these males originated from the same larval breeding site. Finally, we identified several endosymbiotic bacteria, including Spiroplasma, which have the ability to manipulate insect reproductive success. Our study provides a comprehensive analysis of the reproductive microbiome of important human disease vectors, and identifies a panel of core and endosymbiotic bacteria that can be potentially exploited to interfere with the transmission of malaria parasites by the Anopheles mosquito.
An Examination of the Intersection of the Opioid Epidemic and COVID-19 Pandemic for Incarcerated Patients in Washington State
Creators: name: Neill-Gubitz, Hannah Suzanne
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: Incarcerated
Patients
Carceral facilities
Opioid epidemic
Covid-19 Pandemic

description: Over 2 million adults are currently incarcerated in jail and prison facilities across the United States. Incarcerated patients are disproportionately impacted by chronic medical conditions, mental health conditions, and opioid use disorder. Historically, incarcerated patients have been considered high risk during public health emergencies, a classification that carried into the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, incarcerated patients were considered particularly high-risk for severe infection and outcomes due to their complex health histories, inability to physically distance, reduced access to personal protective equipment, variable carceral facility-based healthcare services, and inability to self-admit to community-based healthcare facilities for treatment. The existing impact of the opioid epidemic on these patients placed them at even higher risk for severe infection and outcomes.
description: The overall objective of this dissertation was to examine the impact of both the opioid epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic on incarcerated patients in Washington State. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts examining the availability of healthcare services and treatment options for opioid use disorder in carceral facilities as well as the clinical outcomes of incarcerated patients and patients with opioid use disorder who were hospitalized with COVID-19. Manuscript 1 reports results of a three-state survey of jail and prison facilities regarding healthcare services and opioid use disorder treatment. Manuscript 2 reports an analysis of clinical characteristics and outcomes for incarcerated patients in Washington State who were hospitalized in a statewide health system and tested positive for COVID-19. Manuscript 3 reports an analysis of clinical outcomes and characteristics of patients with opioid use disorder in Washington State who were hospitalized in a statewide health system and tested positive for COVID-19.
description: This dissertation fills a gap in literature, expanding knowledge regarding the availability of healthcare services and treatment for opioid use disorder in carceral facilities. It adds to the body of research regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on both incarcerated patients and patients with opioid use disorder. Additionally, this study highlights the need for further research into the relationship between the opioid epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic for incarcerated patients.
Design of sialyl Lewisx glycomimetics: A novel approach towards the synthesis of sugar-coated anti-inflammatory drugs.
Creators: name: Smith, Cindy Jane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Pharmaceutical.

description: The tetrasaccharide sialyl Lewisx (SLex) is the smallest recognizable ligand for selectins. The binding of SLe x to the selectins triggers the inflammatory cascade and recruits leukocytes to the injured cells. Chronic and acute inflammatory diseases result from the over-recruitment of leukocytes leading to damage of normal cells. Carbohydrate-based mimetics, maintaining functionality while improving stability, binding affinity and structural simplicity, are ideal candidates for anti-inflammatory drugs. Sialyl Lewisx glycomimetics were synthesized using two different convergent approaches. Each synthesis used an enzyme-resistant alpha-carbon-linked fucosyl moiety (C-glycoside) to replace the unstable anomeric oxygen linkage of the natural ligand. One synthetic route coupled a rigid proline ring to the fucosyl carboxylic acid derivative made from L-fucose to form one branch of the mimetic. The second branch was synthesized by coupling modified amines to form functionalized peptide chains of various lengths. The second convergent approach used novel olefin metathesis chemistry in the preparation to orchestrate a stereoselective cis-alkene bond formation extending from the fucosyl branch of the synthetic pathway. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Perspectives of health care professionals on the facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a stroke rehabilitation guidelines cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Munce, Sarah E P
name: Graham, Ian D
name: Salbach, Nancy M
name: Jaglal, Susan B
name: Richards, Carol L
name: Eng, Janice
name: Desrosiers, Johanne
name: MacKay-Lyons, Marilyn
name: Wood-Dauphinee, Sharon
name: Korner-Bitensky, Nicol
name: Mayo, Nancy E
name: Teasell, Robert W
name: Zwarenstein, Merrick
name: Mokry, Jennifer
name: Black, Sandra
name: Bayley, Mark T
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: The Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence Implementation Trial (SCORE-IT) was a cluster randomized controlled trial that evaluated two knowledge translation (KT) interventions for the promotion of the uptake of best practice recommendations for interventions targeting upper and lower extremity function, postural control, and mobility. Twenty rehabilitation centers across Canada were randomly assigned to either the facilitated or passive KT intervention. The objective of the current study was to understand the factors influencing the implementation of the recommended treatments and KT interventions from the perspective of nurses, occupational therapists and physical therapists, and clinical managers following completion of the trial. Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach involving focus groups was used. Thematic analysis was used to understand the factors influencing the implementation of the recommended treatments and KT interventions. The Clinical Practice Guidelines Framework for Improvement guided the analysis. Results: Thirty-three participants were interviewed from 11 of the 20 study sites (6 sites from the facilitated KT arm and 5 sites from the passive KT arm). The following factors influencing the implementation of the recommended treatments and KT interventions emerged: facilitation, agreement with the intervention – practical, familiarity with the recommended treatments, and environmental factors, including time and resources. Each of these themes includes the sub-themes of facilitator and/or barrier. Improved team communication and interdisciplinary collaboration emerged as an unintended outcome of the trial across both arms in addition to a facilitator to the implementation of the treatment recommendations. Facilitation was identified as a facilitator to implementation of the KT interventions in the passive KT intervention arm despite the lack of formally instituted facilitators in this arm of the trial. Conclusions: This is one of the first studies to examine the factors influencing the implementation of stroke recommendations and associated KT interventions within the context of a trial. Findings highlight the important role of self-selected facilitators to implementation efforts. Future research should seek to better understand the specific characteristics of facilitators that are associated with successful implementation and clinical outcomes, especially within the context of stroke rehabilitation.
Access protocols and network architectures for very high-speed optical fiber local area networks.
Creators: name: Ganti, Sudhakar N. M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The single mode optical fiber possesses an enormous bandwidth of more than 30 THz in the low-loss optical region of 1.3 $\mu$m and 1.5 $\mu$m. Through Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), the optical fiber bandwidth can be divided into a set of high-speed channels, where each channnel is assigned its own unique wavelength. An M x M passive optical star coupler is a simple broadcast medium, in which light energy incident at any input is uniformly coupled (or distributed) to all the outputs. Thus, a passive star along with the WDM channels can be used to configure a Local Area Network (LAN). In this LAN, users require tunable devices to access a complete or a partial set of the WDM channels. Due to these multiple channels, many concurrent packet transmissions corresponding to different user pairs are possible and thus the total system throughput can be much higher than the data rates of each individual channel. To fairly arbitrate the data channels among the users, media access protocols are needed. Depending upon the number of data channels and the number of users, two possible situations arise. In the first case, the number of users is much larger than the number of data channels and in the second, the number of users equals to the the number of channels. In both cases, data channel contention may arise if multiple users access the same given channel and must be resolved. This thesis proposes media access protocols for passive optical star networks. All the proposed protocols are slotted in nature, i.e., the time axis on each channel is divided into slots. The well known Slotted-ALOHA and Reservation ALOHA protocols are extended to the multi channel network environment. The thesis also proposes switching protocols (equal number of channels and users), contention-based reservation protocols for this network architecture. To interconnect these star networks, a multi-control channel protocol is also proposed along with two interconnecting techniques. Since there are multiple data channels, the data packets on different channels may be destined to the same user. However, if the user is equipped with only one receiver, the user can receive only one packet and ignores others. This is called a 'receiver collision' and the thesis also studies the effect of these receiver collisions on the data channels. Two network architectures, one for a packet circulating ring network and the other for a circuit switched application are described. Finally, the thesis studies some implementation considerations for these protocols.
Drug Misuse Among Pediatric Patients: Encounters in the Prehospital Field
Creators: name: Ahmad, Hussein
name: Cecil, A. Kyle
name: Brice, Jane H.
name: Requarth, Alexander B.
name: Strain, Angela
name: Cyr, Julianne M.
Publisher: name: North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Year: 2024

description:  Background Few data describing prehospital pediatric substance misuse exist. The objective of this study was to characterize substance misuse in North Carolina pediatric patients receiving emergency medical services (EMS) care.   Methods We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of patients aged < 16 years transported by EMS for substance misuse. Data were obtained from a statewide repository including patients treated for confirmed or suspected misuse of marijuana, alcohol, benzodiazepines, opioids, stimulants, acetaminophen, antidepressants, or other drugs.   Results Of 45,855 EMS encounters, 448 patients misused drugs. Most patients were female (56.7%), White (50.9%), adolescent (73.8%), and resided in Central North Carolina (54.0%). A plurality of cases was rural (46.2%), followed by urban (27.9%) and regional city/suburban counties (25.7%). Calls most often originated in residential locations (68.5%). Drugs identified during EMS calls included alcohol (24.2%), marijuana (24.2%), benzodiazepines (8.8%), antidepressants (8.8%), stimulants (6.8%), opioids (5.9%), and other medications (17.6%). Motivations for drug use were recreational (58.4%), self-harm (24.6%), and accidental (17.0%).   Limitations Due to insufficient data documentation, one EMS system was removed from analysis. Additionally, misclassification of type of drug or intention of drug use is possible due to the use of free-text patient narratives.   Conclusions EMS responded to a vast variety of drug misuse among pediatric patients including prescription medications, alcohol, marijuana, and illicit drugs. Accidental ingestions occurred exclusively in infant/preschool ages and intent for recreation or self-harm primarily occurred in adolescents. By increasing awareness of the more common pediatric patient characteristics associated with the type and reason for drug use, EMS agencies can improve pediatric readiness among prehospital clinicians.
Ten-year immune persistence and safety of the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine in females vaccinated at 15–55 years of age
Creators: name: Schwarz, Tino F.
name: Galaj, Andrzej
name: Spaczynski, Marek
name: Wysocki, Jacek
name: Kaufmann, Andreas M.
name: Poncelet, Sylviane [U.A.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Women remain at risk of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection for most of their lives. The duration of protection against HPV-16/18 from prophylactic vaccination remains unknown. We investigated the 10-year immune response and long-term safety profile of the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine (AS04-HPV-16/18 vaccine) in females aged between 15 and 55 years at first vaccination. Females who received primary vaccination with three doses of AS04-HPV-16/18 vaccine in the primary phase-III study (NCT00196937) were invited to attend annual evaluations for long-term immunogenicity and safety. Anti-HPV-16/18 antibodies in serum and cervico-vaginal secretions (CVS) were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Serious adverse events (SAEs) were recorded throughout the follow-up period. Seropositivity rates for anti-HPV-16 remained high (≥96.3%) in all age groups 10 years after first vaccination. It was found that 99.2% of 15–25-year olds remained seropositive for anti-HPV-18 compared to 93.7% and 83.8% of 26–45-year olds and 45–55-year olds, respectively. Geometric mean titers (GMT) remained above natural infection levels in all age groups. Anti-HPV-16 and anti-HPV-18 titers were at least 5.3-fold and 3.1-fold higher than titers observed after natural infection, respectively, and were predicted to persist above natural infection levels for ≥30 years in all age groups. At Year 10, anti-HPV-16/18 antibody titers in subjects aged 15–25 years remained above plateau levels observed in previous studies. Correlation coefficients for antibody titers in serum and CVS were 0.64 (anti-HPV-16) and 0.38 (anti-HPV-18). This study concluded that vaccinated females aged 15–55 years elicited sustained immunogenicity with an acceptable safety profile up to 10 years after primary vaccination, suggesting long-term protection against HPV.
Engineering TGF-B proteins to restore tissue homeostasis
Creators: name: Johnson, Katharine Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily is a large family of proteins that are master regulators of tissue homeostasis. Their deregulated activities are associated with various human diseases. While numerous therapeutic agents have been developed for reducing supra-physiological levels of these proteins, progress toward therapeutics to restore protein levels has been less successful. This research demonstrates that by making targeted modifications to the amino acid sequences of selected TGF-β ligands, their half-lives, bioactivity, and activation status can be improved. Taken together, these approaches form a blueprint that will aid further research into TGF-β therapeutics.
Essays in Macroeconomics
Creators: name: Yang, Mingyi
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Path Integrals
Macroeconomics

description: The dissertation contains four chapters. First chapter is a paper studying inflation dynamics of sticky prices and macroeconomics by using a new mathematical tool called Path Integrals in which a contribution on analytical exploration of macroeconomic dynamics of sticky prices with time-varying inflation dynamics has been made. Second chapter serves as additional applications to the first chapter where we have changed the initial steady state of the first chapter model to an arbitrary steady state which is different from the one in first chapter.
description: By this change, more explicit analytical results of macroeconomic dynamics of sticky prices with zero inflation could be obtained at the cost of normalization though. The third chapter is an application of path integrals as a mathematical tool to derive the eigenvalues and
description: eigenfunctions of the sticky price model with quadratic generalized hazard function and zero inflation in macroeconomics. The concluding chapter is a short paper studying how financial frictions (i.e., the collateral constraint for entrepreneurs) affect wealth distributions of the
description: entrepreneurs analytically by using mean field game in macroeconomics.
Note Illustrative della Carta geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000, F. 291 Pergola
Creators: name: Martelli, G.
name: Chiocchini, M.
name: Centamore, E.
name: Chiocchini, U.
name: Catenacci, V.
name: Jacobacci, A.
name: Micarelli, N.
name: Valletta, M.
Publisher: name: sdalpra
Year: 1975

description: Note illustrative redatte per il Foglio geologico n. 291 Pergola della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1:50.000. 22 pp.
Cultivating Trust: The Tapestry of Federal Reserve Credibility and Inflation Expectations
Creators: name: Goloborodsky, Jacklyn Sofia
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Inflation
Inflation expectations
Trust
Credibility
The Federal Reserve
Macroeconomics

description: This paper analyzes the relationship between trust, credibility, the Federal Reserve (“Fed”), and inflation expectations in the United States. The analysis uses data from a new, representative survey. I show that perceptions of the Federal Reserve’s performance and reliability contribute to general trust in the Fed while perceptions of the institution's representation and transparency exhibit comparatively weaker effects. Economic and financial knowledge, gauged by familiarity with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the Fed’s status as independent, also emerges as a crucial determinant of trust. My findings suggest that trust in the Fed is a significant predictor of anchored inflation expectations thus the Federal Reserve must focus on improving the public's perceptions of its performance and reliability, as well as work on expanding knowledge of the institution through non-traditional channels.
Functional Annotation of All Salmonid Genomes (FAASG) : an international initiative supporting future salmonid research, conservation and aquaculture
Creators: name: Macqueen, Daniel J
name: Primmer, Craig R
name: Houston, Ross D
name: Nowak, Barbara F
name: Bernatchez, Louis
name: Bergseth, Steinar
name: Davidson, William S
name: Gallardo-Escárate, Cristian
name: Goldammer, Tom
name: Guiguen, Yann
name: Iturra, Patricia
name: Kijas, James W
name: Koop, Ben F
name: Lien, Sigbjørn
name: Maass, Alejandro
name: Martin, Samuel A
name: McGinnity, Philip
name: Montecino, Martin
name: Naish, Kerry A
name: Nichols, Krista M
name: Ólafsson, Kristinn
name: Omholt, Stig W
name: Palti, Yniv
name: Plastow, Graham S
name: Rexroad, Caird E
name: Rise, Matthew L
name: Ritchie, Rachael J
name: Sandve, Simen R
name: Schulte, Patricia M
name: Tello, Alfredo
name: Vidal, Rodrigo
name: Vik, Jon O
name: Wargelius, Anna
name: Yáñez, José M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: We describe an emerging initiative - the ‘Functional Annotation of All Salmonid Genomes’ (FAASG), which will leverage the extensive trait diversity that has evolved since a whole genome duplication event in the salmonid ancestor, to develop an integrative understanding of the functional genomic basis of phenotypic variation. The outcomes of FAASG will have diverse applications, ranging from improved understanding of genome evolution, to improving the efficiency and sustainability of aquaculture production, supporting the future of fundamental and applied research in an iconic fish lineage of major societal importance.
The moderating effect of cultural differences in the relationship between social media use and internalizing disorders
Creators: name: Liu, Jinlin
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cultural orientations
Internalizing disorders
Social media use

description: Social media provides college students an information platform for learning, communicating, sharing their opinions, and other facets. However, while gaining the perks of such accessibility, social media has also aggravated mental health issues among young adults. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between different types of social media use and internalizing disorders (anxiety/depression) among college students and the moderation effects of cultural orientation in this correlation. A sample of 203 students from colleges in the U.S. was analyzed. Bivariate correlation and structural equations modeling analysis showed that passive social media use was positively correlated with anxiety and depression. Horizontal collectivism and vertical collectivism moderate the relationship between passive social media use and depression. This study partially supported previous understandings of passive social media use among college students. One reason is that, social media can expose college students to unconstructive information, leading to misconceptions that may prompt negative psychological consequences, including low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy. Thus, it is important to investigate the psychological effects of social media on college students. Furthermore, this study extends past research by demonstrating the particular sensitivity individuals with collectivist social identities may have to social media use. Future work in this field can explore possible mechanisms of this relationship, to better inform interventions that address internalizing symptoms among college students of all cultural identities.
title: VESTIGE OF THE PRESENT
title: SOCIO-TECHNICAL FACTORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LEGACY PERCEPTIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARTIFACTS
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stachofsky, Julia
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: IT Artifact Characteristics
Legacy Systems
Representation Theory
System Replacement

description: Legacy systems are formerly adequate incumbent information systems perceived as insufficient through a combination of social and technical factors. Legacy systems continue to be an expensive and challenging information technology asset for organizations to manage. However, much of the existing information systems literature does not focus on end-of-life information systems phenomena. This dissertation responds to this need for research on end-of-life information systems phenomena from a behavioral perspective by reviewing the information systems literature on legacy systems, developing a definition of legacy systems as a socio-technical construction, creating a scale for measuring a legacy perception of a system, and developing four additional scales for measuring the characteristics of information technology artifacts. New scales and statistical models were tested through a survey of IT managers in the United States.
description: Findings from this research provide support for legacy perception as a new construct. Results also suggest that system age is not a key influencer of legacy perception, but system capability shortcomings and a lack of system support availability are key influences. This research also models interactions of the physical structures of legacy systems, finding that integration and complexity positively influence the adaptability of legacy system artifacts. As well as the adaptability of an artifact and state tracking abilities have a positive influence on representational fidelity. This study also finds that a legacy perception of a system positively influences both system investment behaviors and intentions to replace a system. Implications for theory and practice and opportunities for future research are discussed.
Pathways to Biological Health Risk in the United States and Japan: The Role of Psychosocial Factors
Creators: name: Zhang, Ruoying
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological Health Risk
Healthy Behaviors
Sense of Control
Culture

description: The dynamics of aging vary across cultures, with Japan showing a more benign picture of aging compared to the United States. While Japanese longevity and healthier older adulthood are well known, of interest is what mechanisms lead to such results. In American society, there is a strong emphasis on being independent, while Japanese society focuses on interdependence and social harmony. This study explored possible behavioral mechanisms linking these psychosocial factors to health and examined whether the pathways differ by culture. We used the second wave (2004) of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) (N = 1045) and the second wave (2012) of the Midlife Development in Japan (MIDJA) studies (N = 317). Participants’ ages ranged from 30 to 83. Behavioral mechanisms were operationalized as diet, smoking, and exercise. Psychosocial factors included sense of control, positive relations with others, independence, and interdependence. We computed a health measure by combining two inflammation biomarkers (IL-6 and CRP) and two cardiovascular biomarkers (systolic blood pressure and the ratio of total-to-HDL cholesterol). We expected sense of control and independence would make significant contributions to Americans’ health while positive relations with others and interdependence would be significant for Japanese’s health. The results supported the predictions, confirming different psychosocial pathways to health for the two samples, with diet and exercise as behavioral mechanisms in both cultures. The results provide new insights into the mechanisms for healthy aging in different cultures, and offer a deeper understanding of the cultural impacts on healthy behaviors and the aging process.
title: Theory and practice
title: Exploring an evidence-based framework for CALL and language teacher education
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Asiri, Ali Omar
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2026
Subjects: computer-assisted language learning
educational escape rooms
English
Professional Development

description: This comprehensive overview synthesizes findings from two studies that explored English language education and teacher preparation through evidence-based approaches. The first study addresses the challenge of effectively integrating up-to-date technology into language classrooms, mainly focusing on computer-assisted language learning (CALL) professional development (PD) for English language teachers in Saudi Arabia. This theory-to-practice paper reviews existing literature on teacher PD and CALL PD, culminating in the proposal of a CALL PD framework tailored to the Saudi context. This framework incorporates elements identified as effective in improving current and future CALL PD initiatives.
description: The second study explores the integration of educational escape rooms (EERs) as a novel strategy within teacher preparation programs. While EERs have proven effective in supporting learners across various disciplines, the study addresses the gap in research regarding their application in teacher preparation. The investigation incorporates four evidence-based theoretical elements (content authenticity, active learning, modeling effective instruction, and providing ongoing experiences) into the design of EERs for 45 pre-service teachers. The results highlight key themes in participant interactions during escape room experiences, shedding light on teamwork dynamics and communication. Moreover, participants reported enhanced learning experiences, emphasizing elements such as authenticity, active learning, 21st-century skills, modeling, challenge, and technology use. The findings suggest that designing learning experiences based on these elements can significantly benefit pre-service teachers, offering meaningful insights for teaching and future research directions.
Measuring Gaze: Women’s Visual Processing of Empowerment and Objectification Messages in Empowerment-Themed Advertisements
Creators: name: Harrison, Kristen
name: Bue, Amelia C. Couture
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: Empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair ostensibly empowering narratives with objectification imagery. Existing research demonstrates that women do not report feeling empowered after viewing ETAs but cannot confirm why. In this study, 186 female participants were randomly assigned to view captions and/or photos from ETAs while their eye movements were recorded. The empowerment-themed captions increased women’s felt empowerment when presented alone but failed to empower when paired with photos. However, captioning photos with empowerment-themed text did lead to lower self-objectification than captioning them with objectification-themed text. Thus, while the visuals used in ETAs limit their effectiveness, self-objectification may not be responsible.
Malleable Prejudice Belief and Its Effect on Motivation of Intergroup Contact
Creators: name: Storer, Kritika
Publisher: name: Brandeis University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Intergroup contact
Belief or Knowledge Systems

description: With almost half of the US population’s race and ethnicity being non-white (census.gov, 2019), intergroup contact between White and Non-White individuals is bound to happen. Nevertheless, people still tend to self-segregate into their own mono-racial or mono-ethnic social groups because intergroup interactions are often stressful (Richeson & Shelton, 2007; Richeson & Shelton, 2003; Murphy et al., 2011). One way to reduce distress and anxiety around intergroup contact is to promote the belief that prejudice is malleable and that people can work on reducing their biases. Therefore, we primed participants with a prejudice belief (fixed or malleable) and measured their motivation. An independent-samples t-test was run to determine if there were differences in dependent variables between participants primed with either a fixed or malleable prejudice belief. However, we did not find any statistically significant differences in any of our analyses, most likely due to it being underpowered. While the current research did not find any statistically significant difference in all of our analyses, previous studies (i.e., Halperin et al., 2012, and Neel and Shaprio, 2012) have demonstrated that there is a connection between individuals’ malleable prejudice belief and motivation to engage in intergroup contact. Because this connection is important, as it could be an effective tool to use in reducing individuals’ biases against out-group members, a future investigation with stronger power is necessary. Thus, we will continue to collect data and will run the analysis again once we have reached the calculated sample size for adequate power of at least 102.
Behavior of high-strength concrete-filled circular steel tube beam-columns.
Creators: name: Alfawakhiri, Farid.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: High strength concrete filled tube (HSCFT) columns have been used in several high-rise building projects around the world in the last decade. With very few reported experimental results on the performance of such members, this is clearly an aspect of structural engineering where practice is far ahead of the research. A limited study on circular HSCFT beam-columns, presented in this thesis, was conducted to obtain additional experimental data on the behavior of these structural elements and assess recent design code provisions with regard to circular concrete filled tube (CFT) columns. Three long beam-columns $(L/D=13.5)$ were tested under constant axial compression and incrementally increasing lateral displacement reversals. The level of the axial load was the main parameter investigated in this experiment. In addition, one short column was tested in concentric compression. All specimens had the same cross-sectional geometry to allow for direct comparison. Both strength and deformability issues were addressed. Various aspects of concrete confinement in circular CFTs were analyzed. A comparative study of North American and European design code provisions was carried out. The experimental results were compared with theoretical predictions of strength. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Heritability and responses to high fat diet of plasma lipidomics in a twin study
Creators: name: Frahnow, Turid
name: Osterhoff, Martin A.
name: Hornemann, Silke
name: Kruse, Michael
name: Surma, Michal A.
name: Klose, Christian
name: Simons, Kai
name: Pfeiffer, Andreas F. H.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational models
subject: Endocrine system and metabolic diseases
subject: Nutrition
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Lipidomics have a great potential as clinical tool for monitoring metabolic changes in health and disease. Nevertheless hardly anything is known about the heritability of lipids. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify how and how much we can affect these progresses in individuals. In our interventional twin study (46 healthy, non-obese twin pairs) we investigated the lipid profile in plasma samples after switching from a low fat diet to an isocaloric high fat diet (HFD) to characterize the metabolic adaptation. Additionally we used the ACE model for Additive genetics, Common and unique Environment as well as linear mixed modelling to analyse the heritability of lipids. The heritability of lipids varied between 0–62% and applied to lipid species rather than to lipid classes. Phospholipids showed the highest inheritance. In addition, sex, body mass index (BMI) and age were important modifiers. The lipid profile changed already after one week of HFD and diverged further after 5 weeks of additional HFD. Basal concentrations of specific lipids within phospholipids are strongly inherited and are likely to be associated with heritable disease risks. BMI, sex and age were major modifiers. Nutrition strongly alters specific lipid classes, and has to be controlled in clinical association studies.