cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34318-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN 10M-WINDSPEED

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34319-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN 2M-DEW-POINT-TEMPERATURE

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34320-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN 2M-RELATIVE-HUMIDITY

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34321-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN 2M-TEMPERATURE

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34322-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN CONSECUTIVE-DRY-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34323-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN CONSECUTIVE-FROST-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1334
title: The frequency domain noise reduction techniques for digital hearing aids

description: The overall performance of digital hearing aids can be degraded by some disturbing sources such as acoustic feedback signal, interfering signal, and background noise, etc. This dissertation focuses on the Noise Reduction (NR) techniques, especially for additive background noise in digital hearing aids. A proposed NR technique demonstrates an improved scheme based on the hybrid structure between two existing NR techniques, to reduce the noise efficiently, while preserving the speech spectral components. The Spectral Subtraction (SS) method that employs the two-channel Generalized Sidelobe Canceller (2chGSC+SS) is suggested to be employed by the proposed technique for processing the signal in the low frequency region where the dominant cues of the speech signals locate. For the high frequency region, the two-sensor NR technique based on the modified Cross-Spectral Subtraction (2chCSS) is employed. Simulation results in the one-noise-source and multiple-noise-source environments are undertaken, while objective and subjective performance measures are used to confirm the potential of the proposed method. In addition, two approaches are proposed in order to control the noise subtraction parameter to be variable and frequency-dependent so that the amount of noise reduction and speech distortion can be managed for the SS-based NR methods. Simulation results are demonstrated where the SS method that employs these proposed variable parameters can sufficiently reduce the additive background noise while the ability to preserve speech quality is superior to the other investigated NR techniques.
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34324-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN CONSECUTIVE-SUMMER-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34325-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN CONSECUTIVE-WET-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34326-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN EVAPORATION

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34327-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN FROST-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34328-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN HEAVY-PREIPITATION-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34329-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN ICE-COVER

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34330-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN ICE-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34331-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN LATENT-HEAT-FLUX

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34332-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN MEAN-SEA-LEVEL-PRESSURE

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34333-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SENSIBLE-HEAT-FLUX

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.4119/unibi/2937781
title: Moral Foundations and Perceptions of Rape in Colombia: Supplementary Material

description: This supplement contains study materials and their English translations related to the paper Moral Foundations and Perceptions of Rape in Colombia by Laura Saldarriaga, Antonio Olivera-La Rosa, and Gerd Bohner
DOI: 10.4119/unibi/2937786
title: Moral Foundations and Perceptions of Rape in Colombia: Dataset Study 1

description: This file contains the data of Study 1 reported in the paper "Moral Foundations and Perceptions of Rape in Colombia" by Laura Saldarriaga, Antonio Olivera-La Rosa, and Gerd Bohner
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1335
title: Theoretical analysis of a multi-stage membrane reactor for oxidative coupling of methane

description: Oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) is a promising route for the production of ethylene by fully utilizing the abundance of methane feedstock. However, this process suffers from the relatively low selectivity and yield of ethylene at a higher methane conversion due to the complete oxidation of methane and ethylene products. To overcome this limitation, the application of a membrane reactor in which oxygen selective membrane is used to prevent the deep oxidation of a desirable ethylene product is a potential alternative. In this study, a multi-stage dense tubular membrane reactor is proposed to improve the performance of the oxidative coupling of methane. Mathematic model of the membrane reactor based on conservative equations and detailed OCM kinetic model is employed to analyze the effect of key operating parameters such as temperature, methane-to-oxygen feed ratio and methane flow rate, on the efficiency of the OCM process in terms of CH4 conversion, C2 selectivity and C2 yield. Adjustment of feed distributions at each membrane stage under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions is also studied. The performance of the multi-stage membrane reactor is compared with a single stage membrane reactor. The result shows that the distributed feeding policy improves the performance of the OCM process. A surface response technique is further employed to determine the optimal operating condition of the OCM process with the aim to maximize the C2 products.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1336
title: Expression and characterization of a serine proteinase inhibitors PmSerpin8 from the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

description: SERPIN is a serine proteinase inhibitor found ubiquitously in various organisms including the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon. Research studies in Drosophila melanogaster and Manduca sexta revealed that the SERPINs inhibit microbial proteinases and control the proteinase cascades in prophenol oxidase system and blood coagulation. In this study, the PmSERPIN8 from the black tiger shrimp was investigated. The structure of PmSERPIN8 genomic gene was found to have 5 exons and 4 introns. The PmSERPIN8 gene was expressed in shrimp at all developmental stages but highest in nauplii. The PmSERPIN8 gene was expressed mainly in the hemocyte and lesser in gill, lymphoid organ, stomach and epipodite. The PmSERPIN8 expression is up-regulated at 24 and 48 h after V. harveyi and YHV injection, respectively. Using technique in immunocytochemistry, the PmSERPIN8 protein was found in hyaline, semi-granular and granular cells. The expression of PmSERPIN8 protein in the hemocytes was up regulated at 48 h after V. harveyi infection. An open reading frame of PmSERPIN8 gene of 1,254 bp encoding a mature protein of 417 amino acid residues was cloned into the pVR600 expression vector and expressed the rPmSERPIN8 in Escherichia coli BL21(DE3). The recombinant protein (rPmSERPIN8) whose size approximately 43 kDa was expressed as inclusion bodies. The purified rPmSERPIN8 exhibited inhibitory activity against subtilisin and α-chymotrypsin, and the inhibitory activity against subtilisin is not enhanced by heparin. The rPmSERPIN8 was able to inhibit the growth of Bacillus sublilis but not Vibrio harveyi 639. The rPmSERPIN8 was unable to prevent blood coagulation but could impede the proPO activating system. It was most likely that the PmSERPIN8 functioned to control the proPO activating system.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1337
title: Knowledge, attitude and practice about exclusive breastfeeding among women in Chililab in Chi Linh Town, Hai Duong Province, Vietnam

description: This study was conducted to identify the level of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) during the first 6 months after birth among mothers of babies aged 6-18 months in CHILILAB, Chi Linh town, Hai Duong province, Vietnam. There were 223 participants selected to join this study by simple random sampling from the CHILILAB office database. In this cross-sectional study, all participants were interviewed face to face, using a standardized questionnaire with 55 questions. 48% of participant reported that they breastfed exclusively during the first 6 months after birth, but only 29% did so under a strict definition of exclusive breastfeeding. Prevalence of high knowledge and positive attitude were 51.1% and 20.2% respectively. The high education participants intended to have more knowledge about EBF than the low education participants and the participants who work for government or services or trading also had more knowledge about EBF than others jobs (Chi – square test, p=0.002 and 0.038 respectively) while the 26 – 30 age group intended to be more positive attitude with EBF than others age groups (Chi – square test, p=0.012). The lower education participants and the famer both intended to self – reported EBF more than the higher education participants and others jobs (Chi – square test, p&lt;0.05). Knowledge was not significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding. There was highly significant association between the participants who were not enough breast milk for the baby with both self-reported EBF and strict practice EBF (Chi – square test, p&lt;0.001). Lastly, recommendations are given to help improve practice of exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months after birth in this study area.
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34334-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SIMPLE-DAILY-INTENSITY

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34335-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SNOW-DEPTH

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34336-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SNOW-FALL

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34337-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SUMMER-DAYS

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34338-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SURFACE-ALBEDO

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34339-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN SURFACE-PRESSURE

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.17171/1-13-34340-1
title: WORLD GRIDDED-DATASET ECHAM5 6000BP MULTI-YEAR-SEASONAL-VALUES MEAN TOTAL-CLOUD-COVER

description: Climate Models
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1338
title: Detection of beneficial bacteria in breast milk and assessment of their antagonistic activity against bacterial pathogens

description: Breast milk is an important nutrient for neonates and plays role in the initiation of the neonatal gut microbiota. This study aimed to isolate beneficial bacteria including lactobacilli, bifidobacteria and streptococci from breast milk and assess their antagonistic activity against bacterial pathogens including enterotoxigenic E .coli (ETEC), enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), Salmonella Typhimurium, Shigella flexneri, Vibrio cholerae, Helicobacter pylori and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Breast milk samples were collected from Thai healthy mothers (n=102) lactating at range 15-60 days. Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus species were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and tested for their antagonistic activity against bacterial pathogens by agar spot method. Forty isolates of Lactobacillus which were L. gasseri, L. salivarius, L. fermentum, L. mucosae, L. rhamnosus, L. casei, L. plantarum and L. oris were recovered from 37 (36.27%) milk samples. Thirty-three isolates of Bifidobacterium including B. longum, B. breve, B. psedocatenulatum, B. dentium and B. bifidum were recovered from 31 (30.39%) milk samples. Twenty-six isolates of Streptococcus including S. salivarius, S. lactarius, Streptococcus sp., Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus parasangius were presented from 17 (16.67%) milk samples. PCR assay demonstrated that DNAs of lactobacilli, bifidobacteria and streptococci were detected in 94 (92.16%), 60 (58.82%) and 56 (54.90%) of 102 breast milk samples, respectively. Antagonistic activity assay demonstrated that all Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus isolates had weak, partial as microcolony and no inhibition against ETEC, EIEC, EPEC, EHEC and S. Typhimurium, respectively. Thirteen Lactobacillus isolates (Lac43, Lac44, Lac45, NL1, NL3, NL5, NL6, NL7, NL8, NL10, NL18, NL26 and NL50) and 11 Bifidobacterium isolates (Bif29, NB4, NB11, NB13, NB14, NB15, NB16, NB17, NB28, NB31 and NB40) had strong inhibitory activities against V. cholerae and S. flexneri. Furthermore, six Lactobacillus isolates (Lac 40, Lac41, NL26 NL50, NL52 and NL53) and 5 Streptococcus isolates (St10, St11, NL4, NL9 and St27) weakly inhibited the growth of MRSA. In addition, 5 Bifidobacterium isolates (NB6, NB8, NB14, NB28 and NB31) had strong inhibitory activities against H. pylori. These Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus with antagonistic activity had potential for use as probiotics against bacterial pathogens.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1339
title: Autologous foot and ankle stem cell applications for lower extremity reconstruction surgery

description: The objectives of this study were to examine the novel applications of stem cells for lower extremity reconstructive surgeries. This innovative modern new approach has little to scarce findings in literature. Even the available scarce results that have been shown on stem cells lack evidence in the surgical treatment for lower extremity reconstruction surgery. A comparative review reveals that an external fixation device may be needed to determine if stem cells may be of benefit for lower extremity reconstruction surgery. A comprehensive review of past literature is provided with extensive background in the stem cell applications for lower extremity reconstruction surgery.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1340
title: Identification of RNAa characteristics using gene expression ominibus

description: RNA activation (RNAa) is a biological process characterized by miRNAs (microRNAs) binding to gene promoters and resulting in up regulation. RNAa is a key to cure virus infection and metabolic diseases such as HIV and cancer. However, the role of RNAa remains largely unknown. Very few cases have been reported in the past decade. In contrast to wet-lab approach which is costly and time consuming, we have performed a computer-based analysis to identify miRNAs that may activate transcription through Argonaute2 (Ago2). All microarray data are collected from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). We aim to find the genes that are commonly 1) up-regulated in a miRNA transfection experiment and 2) down-regulated in an Ago2 knockdown experiment. Finally we have performed local sequence alignment between the transfected miRNA and the gene promoters. Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is employed to find the best alignment score. Our findings show at least 6 miRNAs that could bind on promoters and may activate transcription.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1341
title: Technical and scale efficiency of traditional medicine hospitals and general hospitals in inner Mongolia, China

description: The purpose of this study was to measure the technical and scale efficiency of 128 general hospitals and 69 traditional medicine hospitals and to estimate the possible factors influencing on the efficiency of both general hospitals and traditional hospitals in Inner Mongolia, China. In first part, Input-orientation Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was employed to compute technical efficiency and scale efficiency of both general hospital and traditional medicine hospital.In second part, ordinary least square (OLS) was used to determine the factors that affect the efficiency. The DEA analysis showed 86.7% of general hospitals and 66.7% of traditional medicine hospitals were run inefficiency in 2011.Both the two types of hospital, the average variable return to scale (VRS) technical efficiency scores were about50%and 60%, respectively. Thepattern of most general and traditional medicine hospitals scale inefficiency was increasing return to scale. The result of OLS revealed that other personal-physician ratio had a positive relationship with both types of hospital technical efficiency, bed physician ratio;number of doctor in the form of square had a positive relationship with the general hospital technical efficiency score, nurse physician ratio had a negative relationship with the general hospital technical efficiency score. However, all above three variables were insignificant for the traditional medicine hospital technical efficiency scores. Bed occupancy and geographic were insignificant for two types of hospitals’ technical efficiency. For scale efficiency scores, if outpatient visits-physician ratio increase, both two types of hospital scale efficiency were influenced positively, on the contrary, number of beds was found negatively significant. Average of bed day had a negative relationship with the efficiency and significant for the general hospital scale efficiency, but insignificant for the traditional medicine hospital. Traditional medicine hospital in other region were less scale efficient than in the city area.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1342
title: Occupational characteristics and factor associated with prevention practices related to HIV/AIDS among alcohol factory male workers in industrial zone (1), Pyi Gyi Tagon Township, Mandalay, Myanmar

description: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to indentify the occupational characteristics and to find factors associated with prevention practices related to HIV/AIDS among alcohol factory male workers in IZ (1), Pyi Gyi Tagon Township and Mandalay, Union of Myanmar. This study was conducted with 219 samples by using a structured interview questionnaire and data was collected in March 2012. There were 14 independent variables and 2 dependent variables for respondents in this study. Workers’ sex practices and prevalence of condom use were assessed in relation with the 14 independent variables. In a bivariate analysis, each independent variable was assessed separately in relation to their sex practices and consistent condom used.For respondents, semifinal multiple logistic regression models were then constructed for all dependent variables for which p =&lt; 0.15 for all independent variables. Final logistic regressions were then constructed and all variables for which p =&lt; 0.15 in semifinal models were entered. Some of the respondents are married but they are living with friends, relatives or living alone instead of living with families for their jobs and this factor tended to the extramarital sex(OR= 0.220, 95% CI= 0.063, 0.767, p-value= 0.017). One of the occupational characteristics, travelling for jobs, was significantly associated with sex practices: sex after drinking alcohol (OR= 26.696, 95% CI= 8.846, 80.551, p-value= &lt;0.001), extramarital sex (OR= 9.509, 95% CI= 3.099, 29.182, p-value= &lt;0.001), casual sex practices(OR= 14.571, 95% CI= 7.124, 29.802, p-value= &lt;0.001), sex practices for having sex with female sex workers(OR= 12.238, 95% CI= 6.120, 24.470, p-value= &lt;0.001) and having homo sex(OR= 12.768, 95% CI= 5.695, 28.628, p-value= &lt;0.001). This result strongly suggest that occupational characteristics is one of the associated factor in this study, but do not prove causality. The observed association should be investigated further and the further study should not only focus on descriptive study but also point out for action research for prevention and control of it.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.1343
title: Survey of medicine prices, availability and affordability in Mandalay, Myanmar

description: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 6 townships of Mandalay, Myanmar, in March, 2012. The main purposes of this study were to identify the price, availability and affordability of selected medicines. Methodology developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI) was used. Price and availability data for 30 medicines were collected from 20 dispensing doctors (DD), 10 drug stores in public hospitals (PH), 30 drug stores in private hospitals (PP), 30 private sector retail pharmacies, and 3 private wholesale pharmacies in Mandalay District. Medicine prices were compared with international reference prices (IRPs) to obtain medicine price ratios (MPRs). The daily wage of the lowest paid unskilled government worker was used to gauge the affordability of medicines.In all sectors, prices of both lowest and highest priced generics were lower than the price of originator brand name products. Availability of the originator brand was extremely low (&lt;4%). Overall, availability of the generics was moderate (50-66%). MPR of the originator brand ranged from 2.9 for salbutamol in private wholesale to 55.1 in drug stores in private hospital for atorvastatin. Median MPR of the highest priced generic ranged from 3.2 in private wholesale and 7.5 in private retail to 9.5 in DDs. Median MPR of the lowest priced generic ranged from 1.6 and 2.0 in the private wholesale and private retail respectively to 3.1 in DD. Lowest price and highest priced were differed with greater variations. Overall, highest priced generic was 2.5 times and 3.5-4times more expensive than lowest priced generic in private wholesale and other sectors respectively. People can afford lowest priced generic more than the highest priced generic in all the sectors. Two-way analysis of variance showed that mean absolute and proportional price differences between lowest and highest priced generics did not differ statistically significantly by sector, but did differ by drug class (p=0.004 and p&lt;0.001, respectively). Sector-class interactions were also significant (p&lt;0.001 and p=0.044, respectively). Absolute differences were highest for antibiotics, and proportional differences were lowest for respiratory medicines.