cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adding nanofillers in polymeric insulating materials: so far so good? The case of polypropylene for DC cables
Creators: name: Montanari, Gian Carlo
name: Seri, Paolo
name: Naderiallaf, Hadi
name: Blume, Anke
name: Mahtabani, Amirhossein
name: He, Xiaozhen
name: Perego, Gabriele
name: Mazel, Christelle
name: Paajanen, Mika
name: Karttunen, Mikko
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2019
Subjects: ING-IND/33 Sistemi elettrici per l'energia

description: This paper has the purpose to point at the weaknesses implicit in nanostructuration of insulating polymers for cable insulation, with reference to polypropylene and nanosilica. It also tries to single out which types of properties would be more or less affected by nanofiller introduction, and if in a positive or negative way, depending on nanofiller functionalization process. It is shown, for example, that nanofiller might increase, rather than decrease, space charge and conduction current, as an effect of functionalization, and that a decrease of space charge is not necessarily correlated to an increase of life.
title: Carte pluviométrique des Abda - Doukkala
title: Carte pluviométrique des Abda - Doukkala
Creators: name: :Unkn
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Pluviométrie

description: Cartographie
description: BESM-carto_1954-63-p360_63-01
description: 360
description: 63
description: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc
description: Source: Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM) > BESM (Cartographie)
description: Relation: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/idurl/1/81704
description: Coverage: Maroc
description: Coverage: Doukkala
description: Coverage: Abda
description: Coverage: XXe siècle
description: Temporal: XXe siècle
description: Bibliographic citation: « Carte pluviométrique des Abda - Doukkala », In Bulletin économique et social du Maroc (BESM), n° 63, 1954
description: Provenance: Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), Bibliothèque nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM)
description: Provenance: https://cinumed.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/
Microvascular Complications of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in an Adolescent: Case Report
Creators: name: H, Akil
name: Bulus AD
name: Andiran N
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus is a common chronic health problem with microvascular complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy in the pediatric population throughout the life. Screening of these complications should be done regularly, and appropriate preventive strategies should be followed. We present a 17 year old Type 1 diabetic patient who admitted to the hospital with the complaint of unhealed wound of his toe. An integrated and personal care of his clinical status revealed that he had diabetic microvascular complications including diabetic foot, neurogenic bladder, retinopathy, cataract and nephropathy.
Pressure-Temperature Phase Diagram of Vanadium Dioxide
Creators: name: Chen, Yabin
name: Zhang, Shuai
name: Ke, Feng
name: Ko, Changhyun
name: Lee, Sangwook
name: Liu, Kai
name: Chen, Bin
name: Ager, Joel W.
name: Jeanloz, Raymond
name: Eyert, Volker
name: Wu, Junqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complexity of strongly correlated electron physics in vanadium dioxide is exemplified as its rich phase diagrams of all kinds, which in turn shed light on the mechanisms behind its various phase transitions. In this work, we map out the hydrostatic pressure - temperature phase diagram of vanadium dioxide nanobeams by independently varying pressure and temperature with a diamond anvil cell. In addition to the well-known insulating M1 (monoclinic) and metallic R (tetragonal) phases, the diagram identifies the existence at high pressures of the insulating M1' (monoclinic, more conductive than M1) phase, and two metallic phases of X (monoclinic) and O (orthorhombic, at high temperature only). Systematic optical and electrical measurements combined with density functional calculations allow us to delineate their phase boundaries as well as reveal some basic features of the transitions.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Gravitational Repulsion in an Expanding Ball of Dust
Creators: name: Bragança, Diogo P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In general relativity, there is a velocity dependent term in the gravitational acceleration of a test particle for an observer at infinity. Depending on the direction of motion and the speed, that term can be repulsive. We show that this is also the case in the Parametrized Post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism. We compute the magnitude of that repulsive term for an expanding sphere of dust observed at infinity, and find that it could mimic the effect of a cosmological constant. The time evolution of such an expanding ball of dust for an observer at infinity is calculated, and compared with the standard $Λ$CDM model. We find that the so-called coincidence problem does not exist for such a model as the energy density attributed to the expansion is always of the same order as the matter energy density.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav
Generating Code with Polymorphic let: A Ballad of Value Restriction, Copying and Sharing
Creators: name: Kiselyov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.3;D.3.4;F.3.3

description: Getting polymorphism and effects such as mutation to live together in the same language is a tale worth telling, under the recurring refrain of copying vs. sharing. We add new stanzas to the tale, about the ordeal to generate code with polymorphism and effects, and be sure it type-checks. Generating well-typed-by-construction polymorphic let-expressions is impossible in the Hindley-Milner type system: even the author believed that. The polymorphic-let generator turns out to exist. We present its derivation and the application for the lightweight implementation of quotation via a novel and unexpectedly simple source-to-source transformation to code-generating combinators. However, generating let-expressions with polymorphic functions demands more than even the relaxed value restriction can deliver. We need a new deal for let-polymorphism in ML. We conjecture the weaker restriction and implement it in a practically-useful code-generation library. Its formal justification is formulated as the research program.
description: In Proceedings ML/OCaml 2015, arXiv:1702.01872
Ethical aspects of gender selection for non-medical reasons
Creators: name: Hendl, Tereza
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The thesis investigates the ethical implications of gender selection for non-medical reasons (GSFNMR) with a focus on countries without specific son‐preference. I first analyse and critique prominent libertarian accounts of reproductive autonomy which offer justifications for GSFNMR. I then investigate important distinctions that occur within debates about GSFNMR; including that between medical/non‐medical reasons for embryo discard; and between sex and gender. The relevance of disability rights scholarship for gender selection is also explored. My analysis draws upon a small empirical study interviewing Australian women who have undertaken or considered GSFNMR. This work fills a gap in empirical data and contributes to a better understanding of the complex, ethical issues raised by GSFNMR.
Discerning the $γ$-ray emitting region in the flat spectrum radio quasars
Creators: name: Zheng, Y. G.
name: Yang, C. Y.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Wang, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model-dependent method is proposed to determine the location of the $γ$-ray emitting region for a given flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ). In the model, the extra-relativistic electrons are injected at the base of the jet and non-thermal photons are produced by both synchrotron radiation and inverse-Comtpon (IC) scattering in the energy dissipation region. The target photons dominating inverse-Comtpon scattering originate from both synchrotron photons and external ambient photon fields, and the energy density of external radiation field is a function of the distance between the position of dissipation region and a central super-massive black hole, and their spectra are seen in the comoving frame. Moreover, the energy dissipation region could be determined by the model parameter through reproducing the $γ$-ray spectra. Such a model is applied to reproduce the quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength observed data for 36 FSRQs. In order to define the width of the broad-line region shell and dusty molecular torus shell, a simple numerical constraint is used to determine the outer boundary of the broad-line region and dusty molecular torus. Our results show that 1) the $γ$-ray emitting regions are located at the range from 0.1 pc to 10 pc; 2) the $γ$-ray emitting regions are located outside the broad-line regions and within the dusty molecular tori; and 3) the $γ$-ray emitting region are located closer to the dusty molecular torus ranges than the broad-line regions. Therefore, it may concluded that a direct evidence for the \emph{far site} scenario could be obtained on the basis of the model results.
description: 11 pages, 42 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS
Modified Osteo Odonto Keratoprosthesis (MOOKP) - "Tooth For An Eye"
Creators: name: Manikandan.G.R
name: Presanthila J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) (also known as "tooth in eye" surgery is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or a donor. After removal, a lamina of tissue cut from the tooth is drilled and the hole is fitted with optics. The lamina is grown in the patients' cheek for a period of months and then is implanted upon the eye. This is an excellent innovative technique blending the ophthalmology and dentistry.
Responsabilidad, Apertura y Ciencia
Creators: name: Bezuidenhout, Louise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Responsabilidad
Apertura
Ciencia

description: Traducción al español de la charla Responsabilidad, Apertura y Ciencia.
description: Agradecimientos y colaboraciones de la versión en español: Andrea Méndez Solano (Universidad Técnica Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica), Naomy Víquez Mora (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica), Andrea Mora Campos (Universidad Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica) Viviana Salgado Silva (Universidad Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica) Federico Cetrángolo (LA Referencia)
A study of 10 Rotating Radio Transients using Parkes radio telescope
Creators: name: Ren, Xinhui
name: Wang, Jingbo
name: Yan, Wenming
name: Xie, Jintao
name: Wang, Shuangqiang
name: Wen, Yirong
name: Xia, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) are a relatively new subclass of pulsars that emit detectable radio bursts sporadically. We conducted an analysis of 10 RRATs observed using the Parkes telescope, with 8 of these observed via the Ultra-Wideband Receiver. We measured the burst rate and produced integrated profiles spanning multiple frequency bands for 3 RRATs. We also conducted a spectral analysis on both integrated pulses and individual pulses of 3 RRATs. All of their integrated pulses follow a simple power law, consistent with the known range of pulsar spectral indices. Their average spectral indices of single pulses are -0.9, -1.2, and -1.0 respectively, which are within the known range of pulsar spectral indices. Additionally, we find that the spreads of single-pulse spectral indices for these RRATs (ranging from -3.5 to +0.5) are narrower compared to what has been observed in other RRATs (Shapiro-Albert et al. 2018; Xie et al. 2022). It is notable that the average spectral index and scatter of single pulses are both relatively small. For the remaining 5 RRATs observed at the UWL receiver, we also provided the upper limits on fluence and flux density. In addition, we obtained the timing solution of PSR J1709-43. Our analysis shows that PSRs J1919+1745, J1709-43 and J1649-4653 are potentially nulling pulsars or weak pulsars with sparse strong pulses.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, RAA accepted
Flat borophene films as anode materials for Mg, Na or Li-ion batteries with ultra high capacities: A first-principles study
Creators: name: Mortazavi, Bohayra
name: Rahaman, Obaidur
name: Ahzi, Said
name: Rabczuk, Timon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most recent exciting experimental advances introduced buckled and flat borophene nanomembranes as new members to the advancing family of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Borophene, is the boron atom analogue of graphene with interesting properties suitable for a wide variety of applications. In this investigation, we conducted extensive first-principles density functional theory simulations to explore the application of four different flat borophene films as anode materials for Al, Mg, Na or Li-ion batteries. In our modelling, first the strongest binding sites were predicted and next we gradually increased the adatoms coverage until the maximum capacity was reached. Bader charge analysis was employed to evaluate the charge transfer between the adatoms and the borophene films. Nudged elastic band method was also utilized to probe the ions diffusions. We calculated the average atom adsorption energies and open-circuit voltage profiles as a function of adatoms coverage. Our findings propose the flat borophene films as electrically conductive and thermally stable anode materials with ultra high capacities of 2480 mAh/g, 1640 mAh/g and 2040 mAh/g for Mg, Na or Li-ion batteries, respectively, which distinctly outperform not only the buckled borophene but also all other 2D materials. Our study may provide useful viewpoint with respect to the possible application of flat borophene films for the design of high capacity and light weight advanced rechargeable ion batteries.
description: Applied Materials Today 2017
Principios del manejo de Datos de Investigación y la Investigación Abierta
Creators: name: Shanmugasundaram, Venkataraman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: datos de investigación, investigación abierta

description: Traducción al español de la presentación Principios del manejo de Datos de Investigación y la Investigación Abierta
description: Agradecimientos y colaboraciones de la versión en español: Andrea Méndez Solano (Universidad Técnica Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica), Naomy Víquez Mora (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica), Andrea Mora Campos (Universidad Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica) Viviana Salgado Silva (Universidad Nacional y CONARE, Costa Rica) Federico Cetrángolo (LA Referencia)
Photoacoustic Imaging in Ophthalmology
Creators: name: Z, Hu
name: X, Wang
name: Q, Liu
name: YM, Paulus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a rapidly developing new biomedical imaging modality. Unlike existing ophthalmic imaging technology such as fundus photography, optical coherence tomography, fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography, and ultrasound, photoacoustic imaging combines the advantages of optical excitation and acoustic detection. The lightabsorbing hemoglobin and melanin can be detected noninvasively and sensitively by photoacoustic imaging. This paper reviews recent developments of photoacoustic imaging in ophthalmological research, from basic principles to applications. Emphasis is given to the photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy and its multimodal imaging capability.
title: 03_0145
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Affiliation Homogeneity Index
Creators: name: Habermann, Ted
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Organizational Identifiers
Affiliations
DataCite

description: The nature of affiliations in DataCite repositories varies significantly... Can we predict ease of ROR adoption? This presentation describes an index for measuring affiliation homogeneity and shows some examples. Some DataCite Repositories have very homogeneous affiliations and adopting RORs for these repositories is relatively easy… If affiliations are there…!
GADTs and Exhaustiveness: Looking for the Impossible
Creators: name: Garrigue, Jacques
name: Normand, Jacques Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sound exhaustiveness checking of pattern-matching is an essential feature of functional programming languages, and OCaml supports it for GADTs. However this check is incomplete, in that it may fail to detect that a pattern can match no concrete value. In this paper we show that this problem is actually undecidable, but that we can strengthen the exhaustiveness and redundancy checks so that they cover more practical cases. The new algorithm relies on a clever modification of type inference for patterns.
description: In Proceedings ML/OCaml 2015, arXiv:1702.01872
Database Engines: Evolution of Greenness
Creators: name: Miranskyy, Andriy V.
name: Al-zanbouri, Zainab
name: Godwin, David
name: Bener, Ayse Basar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Context: Information Technology consumes up to 10\% of the world's electricity generation, contributing to CO2 emissions and high energy costs. Data centers, particularly databases, use up to 23% of this energy. Therefore, building an energy-efficient (green) database engine could reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Goal: To understand the factors driving databases' energy consumption and execution time throughout their evolution. Method: We conducted an empirical case study of energy consumption by two MySQL database engines, InnoDB and MyISAM, across 40 releases. We examined the relationships of four software metrics to energy consumption and execution time to determine which metrics reflect the greenness and performance of a database. Results: Our analysis shows that database engines' energy consumption and execution time increase as databases evolve. Moreover, the Lines of Code metric is correlated moderately to strongly with energy consumption and execution time in 88% of cases. Conclusions: Our findings provide insights to both practitioners and researchers. Database administrators may use them to select a fast, green release of the MySQL database engine. MySQL database-engine developers may use the software metric to assess products' greenness and performance. Researchers may use our findings to further develop new hypotheses or build models to predict greenness and performance of databases.
Interpretable Multimodal Out-of-context Detection with Soft Logic Regularization
Creators: name: Ma, Huanhuan
name: Zhang, Jinghao
name: Liu, Qiang
name: Wu, Shu
name: Wang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid spread of information through mobile devices and media has led to the widespread of false or deceptive news, causing significant concerns in society. Among different types of misinformation, image repurposing, also known as out-of-context misinformation, remains highly prevalent and effective. However, current approaches for detecting out-of-context misinformation often lack interpretability and offer limited explanations. In this study, we propose a logic regularization approach for out-of-context detection called LOGRAN (LOGic Regularization for out-of-context ANalysis). The primary objective of LOGRAN is to decompose the out-of-context detection at the phrase level. By employing latent variables for phrase-level predictions, the final prediction of the image-caption pair can be aggregated using logical rules. The latent variables also provide an explanation for how the final result is derived, making this fine-grained detection method inherently explanatory. We evaluate the performance of LOGRAN on the NewsCLIPpings dataset, showcasing competitive overall results. Visualized examples also reveal faithful phrase-level predictions of out-of-context images, accompanied by explanations. This highlights the effectiveness of our approach in addressing out-of-context detection and enhancing interpretability.
description: ICASSP 2024 lecture paper
SFTformer: A Spatial-Frequency-Temporal Correlation-Decoupling Transformer for Radar Echo Extrapolation
Creators: name: Xu, Liangyu
name: Lu, Wanxuan
name: Yu, Hongfeng
name: Yao, Fanglong
name: Sun, Xian
name: Fu, Kun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Extrapolating future weather radar echoes from past observations is a complex task vital for precipitation nowcasting. The spatial morphology and temporal evolution of radar echoes exhibit a certain degree of correlation, yet they also possess independent characteristics. {Existing methods learn unified spatial and temporal representations in a highly coupled feature space, emphasizing the correlation between spatial and temporal features but neglecting the explicit modeling of their independent characteristics, which may result in mutual interference between them.} To effectively model the spatiotemporal dynamics of radar echoes, we propose a Spatial-Frequency-Temporal correlation-decoupling Transformer (SFTformer). The model leverages stacked multiple SFT-Blocks to not only mine the correlation of the spatiotemporal dynamics of echo cells but also avoid the mutual interference between the temporal modeling and the spatial morphology refinement by decoupling them. Furthermore, inspired by the practice that weather forecast experts effectively review historical echo evolution to make accurate predictions, SFTfomer incorporates a joint training paradigm for historical echo sequence reconstruction and future echo sequence prediction. Experimental results on the HKO-7 dataset and ChinaNorth-2021 dataset demonstrate the superior performance of SFTfomer in short(1h), mid(2h), and long-term(3h) precipitation nowcasting.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, TGRS
An extension of Yuan's Lemma and its applications in optimization
Creators: name: Haeser, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C30, 90C46

description: We prove an extension of Yuan's Lemma to more than two matrices, as long as the set of matrices has rank at most 2. This is used to generalize the main result of [A. Baccari and A. Trad. On the classical necessary second-order optimality conditions in the presence of equality and inequality constraints. SIAM J. Opt., 15(2):394--408, 2005], where the classical necessary second-order optimality condition is proved under the assumption that the set of Lagrange multipliers is a bounded line segment. We prove the result under the more general assumption that the hessian of the Lagrangian evaluated at the vertices of the Lagrange multiplier set is a matrix set with at most rank 2. We apply the results to prove the classical second-order optimality condition to problems with quadratic constraints and without constant rank of the jacobian matrix.
The effect of government funding on IVF demand: Evidence from regional data in the UK
Creators: name: Bruckamp, Luzia
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: IVF
subject: IVF funding
subject: Postcode lottery

description: Birth rates are falling all over the world and especially in high-income countries. One factor contributing to this is the fact that childbearing is increasingly postponed to later ages in life. Given a natural fall in fecundity for older women, technologies like in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) play an increasingly important role in helping people have the number of children they desire. Governments may want to consider increased funding of IVF to support this and to counteract the trend in falling birth rates. This research project aims to contribute to such policy decisions by assessing the impact of NHS funding availability on IVF demand and its subsequent contribution to completed cohort fertility over the next decade. It provides policy guidance by simulating the impact of a change in government funding for IVF. The study primarily uses the dataset on IVF cycles in the UK compiled by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Additionally, public data on UK female population and fertility is used as well as information on regional funding rules for IVF in the UK. As a first step, the project uses descriptive statistics to characterise treatment, success, and birth rates for IVF in different UK regions for age groups over time. The main analysis is to estimate the effect of funding availability on demand leveraging the differences in funding rules set by integrated care boards (ICBs) across the UK. This involves using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy exploiting differences in eligibility criteria and number of cycles funded as well as changes to those rules over time. The resulting estimate will then be used to simulate future demand for IVF based on the current policies as well as a potential shift to more generous funding rules. A cost-effectiveness estimate will be provided that can inform policy making.
SIG-MSP spring meeting 2024: GÉANT TCS certificate service - risks and challenges
Creators: name: GÉANT
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: SIG-MSP
challenges
risks
GÉANT
TCS certificate service

description: This presentation was delivered at the meeting of the Special Interest Group on Management of Service Portfolios (SIG-MSP) on March 13, 2024 hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark by DeiC.

Harri Kuusisto from CSC presented an overview of the risks and challenges in regard to GÉANT's TCS certificate service.
Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 2 in Human Tears and Blood during Pregnancy
Creators: name: Steiber Z
name: Tozser J
name: DM, Silver
name: A, Jakab
name: Németh G
name: A, Berta
name: Csutak A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: During pregnancy, systemic blood levels of plasminogen activator inhibitors (PAIs), estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) are expected to rise with gestational age. This work examines whether a corresponding rise in PAIs occurs in tears. Methods: Tear and blood samples were collected opportunistically from women during pregnancy: PAI-2 and PAI-1 levels were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests. Blood levels of E2 and P4 were measured using chemiluminescence immunoassays. Results: Levels of PAI-2 from tears of pregnant women did not increase and did not correlate with gestation. Levels of PAI-2, E2 and P4 in blood significantly increased over gestation. Tear PAI-2 levels did not correlate with blood levels of PAI-2, E2 or P4. Although blood levels of PAI-1 increased with gestation, tear levels of PAI-1 were below the ELISA detection limit, similar to the situation for non-pregnant subjects. Conclusions: Tear PAI-2 levels are dissociated from the progression of pregnancy and the concomitant elevated systemic blood PAI-2, E2 and P4 levels, indicating the possibility of local control of proteolysis in the eye during pregnancy in the absence of wounding or surgery on the eye.
The extrapolated explicit midpoint scheme for variable order and step size controlled integration of the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert equation
Creators: name: Exl, Lukas
name: Mauser, Norbert J.
name: Schrefl, Thomas
name: Suess, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A practical and efficient scheme for the higher order integration of the Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation is presented. The method is based on extrapolation of the two-step explicit midpoint rule and incorporates adaptive time step and order selection. We make use of a piecewise time-linear stray field approximation to reduce the necessary work per time step. The approximation to the interpolated operator is embedded into the extrapolation process to keep in step with the hierarchic order structure of the scheme. We verify the approach by means of numerical experiments on a standardized NIST problem and compare with a higher order embedded Runge-Kutta formula. The efficiency of the presented approach increases when the stray field computation takes a larger portion of the costs for the effective field evaluation.
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0388
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0388, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0388, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
The Na I and Sr II Resonance Lines in Solar Prominences
Creators: name: Stellmacher, Goetz
name: Wiehr, Eberhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the electron density, n_e, and its spatial variation in quiescent prominences from the observed emission ratio of the resonance lines Na I 5890 (D2) and Sr II 4078. For a bright prominence (tau_alpha ~ 25) we obtain a mean n_e ~ 2*10^10 /cm^3; for a faint one (tau_alpha ~ 4) n_e ~ 4*10^10 /cm^3 on two consecutive days with moderate internal fluctuation and no systematic variation with height above the solar limb. The thermal and non-thermal contributions to the line broadening, T_kin and V_nth, required to deduce n_e from the emission ratio NaI/SrII cannot be unambiguously determined from observed widths of lines from atoms of different mass. The reduced widths, Delta-lambda_D / lambda_0, of Sr II 4078 show an excess over those from NaD2 and H-delta, assuming the same T_kin and V_nth. We attribute this excess broadening to higher non-thermal broadening induced by interaction of ions with the prominence magnetic field. This is suggested by the finding of higher macro-shifts of SrII4078 as compared to those from NaD2.
description: Solar Physics (in press)
Understanding FAIR Data Principles for Open Science
Creators: name: Das, Anup Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Open Data
FAIR Data
India
Asia
South Asia
Research Data
Scientific Data
STIP2020
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

description: The presentation titled "Understanding FAIR Data Principles for Open Science" was delivered in the Refresher Course in Changing Role of Use of ICT, Open Distance Learning, Open Source Resources and Online Support System in Higher Education and Research; virtually held at HRDC, NBU, India from 22.09.2021 to 07.10.2021.
Aspirin and its Metabolites Enhance the Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell Cultures – Implications in the Pathophysiology of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Creators: name: O, Iqbal
name: Brambl W
name: Ottman A
name: O'Malley P
name: Gaynes J
name: F, De Alba
name: Gaynes B
name: Fareed J
name: Bouchard CS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: An estimated 19.3% of adults, especially the elderly in the United States regularly use Aspirin for cardioprotection. Recently, multiple cohort studies have concluded that regular aspirin use for 10-15 years was associated with a statistically significant increase in the risk of incident age-related and neovascular acute macular degeneration. It has been hypothesized that aspirin or its metabolites induce the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Materials & Methods: Retinal pigment epithelial cells, ARPE-19 (ATCC®CRL-2302™) were cultured. The cells were grown to achieve 95% confluence and then the media was changed. Cells cultured under blue light, red light, or darkness were subjected to a challenge with high dose aspirin (0.925 mg/dL), low dose aspirin (0.325 mg/dL), or hippuric acid (0.325 mg/dL). Light was generated using 2 red or blue LEDs powered by 3v CR2032 batteries. The 24-well plate was incubated with or without drugs in blue light, red light or darkness at 37C for 16 hours. The supernatants were harvested, and VEGF was quantified. One-way ANOVA using Dunnett’s multiple comparison test was performed to analyze statistical significance. Results: Cells exposed to blue light or darkness and hippuric acid showed a statistically significant increase in VEGF secretion (P=0.0012). However, cells exposed to red light with hippuric acid challenge showed no significant difference from the mean of cells exposed to darkness and sham control. Conclusions: Retinal pigment epithelial cells challenged with oxidative stress provided by blue light or darkness in the presence of hippuric acid increased VEGF secretion, suggesting a possible cause for neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration. RPE cells exposed to red light, known to abrogate oxidative stress, had decreased levels of VEGF induction by hippuric acid.
Gender roles and healing: exploring the complexities of Roman health care
Creators: name: Dean, Peter John
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: While there has been an increase in scholarship in the field of gender studies in the ancient world this has not adequately considered these roles in relation to Roman medicine. The role of females as healers has been under-considered compared to men and existing studies tend to understate the role of these women as midwives. This thesis will examine these neglected areas and position Roman medicine in a nuanced cultural and social context. In addition to surveys of relevant ancient sources it applies contemporary methodologies and approaches from the social sciences in order to provide new insight from these texts. The nature of professional healers in Rome is explored and considered particularly in relation the duties of both men and women. By using Soranus as a known source for female healers and comparing this to the works of Pliny and Dioscorides this thesis is able to identify trends in medical treatment applied by men and women and from this information gain a better understanding of gender roles in Roman society. From this survey it was also possible to identify and categorise the particular pharmaceuticals used by male and female healers and ascertain their significance from a Roman perspective.
Dependent Types for Multi-Rate Flows in Synchronous Programming
Creators: name: Blair, William
name: Xi, Hongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.3; D.4.7; F.3.1; F.3.3

description: Synchronous programming languages emerged in the 1980s as tools for implementing reactive systems, which interact with events from physical environments and often must do so under strict timing constraints. In this report, we encode inside ATS various real-time primitives in an experimental synchronous language called Prelude, where ATS is a statically typed language with an ML-like functional core that supports both dependent types (of DML-style) and linear types. We show that the verification requirements imposed on these primitives can be formally expressed in terms of dependent types in ATS. Moreover, we modify the Prelude compiler to automatically generate ATS code from Prelude source. This modified compiler allows us to solely rely on typechecking in ATS to discharge proof obligations originating from the need to typecheck Prelude code. Whereas ATS is typically used as a general purpose programming language, we hereby demonstrate that it can also be conveniently used to support some forms of advanced static checking in languages equipped with less expressive types.
description: In Proceedings ML/OCaml 2015, arXiv:1702.01872
Challenges in addressing student difficulties with time-development of two-state quantum systems using a multiple-choice question sequence in virtual and in-person classes
Creators: name: Hu, Peter
name: Li, Yangqiuting
name: Singh, Chandralekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Research-validated clicker questions as instructional tools for formative assessment are relatively easy to implement and can provide effective scaffolding when developed and implemented in a sequence. We present findings from the implementation of a research-validated clicker question sequence (CQS) on student understanding of the time-development of two-state quantum systems. This study was conducted in an advanced undergraduate quantum mechanics course for two consecutive years in virtual and in-person classes. The effectiveness of the CQS discussed here in both modes of instruction was determined by evaluating students' performance after traditional lecture-based instruction and comparing it to their performance after engaging with the CQS.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
Introduction to Research Data Management and Open Research
Creators: name: , Shanmugasundaram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: research data management
open research
open science
FAIR principles
data management plans

description: Introduction to RDM primarily for researchers. Can be seen as primer to all other materials in this catalogue. This presentation was delivered virtually for Universidad Nacional Costa Rica on 7th Dec 2020 as part of a Foundational Data Stewardship Workshop. It is primarily aimed at data stewards but can also be useful to researchers and RDM service providers and should be viewed in conjunction with these two other presentations that were part of the same workshop: DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4665390 (Open and Responsible Research: Roles and Responsibilities for Data Stewards) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4561728 (Developing and Implementing a Research Data Policy) Learning outcomes of this presentation: Be familiar with the curation lifecycle. Understand the standardisation methods and principles available to add value to your data. Learn about resources to aid your workflows. Increase/encourage your level of openness. Learn about data management plans and the value in implementing them. Understand how data stewards integrate this knowledge
Majorana Fermions in Particle Physics, Solid State and Quantum Information
Creators: name: Borsten, L.
name: Duff, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V70, 81V15, 17A75, 13D15, 81T45

description: This review is based on lectures given by M. J. Duff summarising the far reaching contributions of Ettore Majorana to fundamental physics, with special focus on Majorana fermions in all their guises. The theoretical discovery of the eponymous fermion in 1937 has since had profound implications for particle physics, solid state and quantum computation. The breadth of these disciplines is testimony to Majorana's genius, which continues to permeate physics today. These lectures offer a whistle-stop tour through some limited subset of the key ideas. In addition to touching on these various applications, we will draw out some fascinating relations connecting the normed division algebras $\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{C}, \mathbb{H}, \mathbb{O}$ to spinors, trialities, $K$-theory and the classification of stable topological states of symmetry-protected gapped free-fermion systems.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of the Erice International School of Subnuclear Physics, 53rd Course: "The Future of Our Physics Including New Frontiers", and Celebration of the Triumph of Ettore Majorana, Erice, 24 June-3 July 2015
Self - Induced Bilateral Giant Retinal Tears
Creators: name: Potter, Stephen
name: Gibran Khurshid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: A giant retinal tear (GRT) is defined as a full-thickness neurosensory retinal break extending circumferentially around the fundus for 90 degrees (or three or more clock hours) in the presence of detached vitreous. They most often occur spontaneously (idiopathic 70%) but are associated with direct trauma in 20-25% of cases. Other etiologies include high myopia, post-surgical, and hereditary vitreoretinopathies, amongst others. According to large population-based studies, GRTs incidence has been estimated as approximately 1.5% of all rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. In addition, GRTs have been found to have significant male preponderance and roughly 12.8% are bilateral.
Specialization of Generic Array Accesses After Inlining
Creators: name: Tokuda, Ryohei
name: Sumii, Eijiro
name: Abe, Akinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We have implemented an optimization that specializes type-generic array accesses after inlining of polymorphic functions in the native-code OCaml compiler. Polymorphic array operations (read and write) in OCaml require runtime type dispatch because of ad hoc memory representations of integer and float arrays. It cannot be removed even after being monomorphized by inlining because the intermediate language is mostly untyped. We therefore extended it with explicit type application like System F (while keeping implicit type abstraction by means of unique identifiers for type variables). Our optimization has achieved up to 21% speed-up of numerical programs.
description: In Proceedings ML/OCaml 2015, arXiv:1702.01872