cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pharmacokinetics and limited sampling strategies of mycophenolic acid in lung transplant recipients
Creators: name: Ting, Lillian S.L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Mycophenolic acid (MPA), the active metabolite of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), an immunosuppressive agent used in organ transplantation, exhibits wide inter-patient variability in its pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters in various transplant groups. However, there are few studies in the lung transplant population. The objectives of this study were to investigate the pharmacokinetics and limited sampling strategies (LSSs) of MPA in lung transplant recipients. Twenty-one lung transplant recipients on steady-state MPA therapy were recruited. Patients were also receiving either cyclosporine (CSA; n=11) or tacrolimus (TAC; n=9) as co-medications. Blood samples were collected at 0, 20, 40, 60, 90 minutes, and at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 hours post-dose. Concentrations of MPA, free MPA, 7-O-mycophenolate glucuronide (MPAG) and acyl mycophenolic acid glucuronide (AcMPAG) in the plasma samples were measured by a high performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection assay. Conventional PK parameters were determined using non-compartmental methods. There was large inter-patient variability in all PK parameters of MPA, MPAG and AcMPAG. Similar variability was observed after stratifying patients into concomitant medication groups, CSA and TAC. The CSA group had lower MPA, higher MPAG and AcMPAG levels than the TAC group. The mean MPA free fraction was 7.0%, more than twice the expected value. Nineteen of the twenty-one subjects were included in the LSS study. Multiple regression analysis was used to develop the LSSs. Subjects were randomly divided into the index (n=10) and the validation groups (n=9). Index group data were used to develop the LSSs, which were tested with the validation group data. Accuracy and precision of the LSSs were determined by calculating the mean prediction error and the root mean square error, respectively. Two single-concentration LSSs, eight 2-concentration LSSs, and eight 3-concentration LSSs met predetermined criteria. However, considering both cost and clinical feasibility, the recommended LSSs were: LogAUC=0.241 LogCO+0.406 LogC2+1.140; LogAUC=0.202 LogC0+0.411 LogC1.5+1.09 Because of the large inter-patient variability in the PK parameters of MPA, MPAG, and AcMPAG, therapeutic drug monitoring of MPA and its metabolites in lung transplant recipients may be beneficial. Adoption of the LSSs developed in this study should provide convenient and cost-effective estimation of MPA exposure in lung transplant recipients.
2481: Louis Kershaw
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Louis was born in Cleckheaton in 1894, the youngest of 5 children George Kershaw (an elementary school head teacher) and his wife Annie née Preston. He worked as a bank clerk before the war. He served firstly in 3/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment (Territorial Force) and passed a course as a platoon commander in March 1916. He was then seconded as an instructor at the Northern Army Grenade School at Mildenhall. He later served as a platoon commander in the 2/7th Battalion Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. This battalion went to France in January 1917 as part of 62nd West Riding Division. Following the 2nd Battle of Bullecourt (3rd May 1917) Louis was admitted to hospital in suffering from 'neurasthenia' (shell-shock) resulting from a 'mini explosion' (minenwerfer, German trench mortar). He returned to service in October, but it is not known whether he returned to the front in time for the Battle of Cambrai where his battalion was heavily engaged 20-25th. He later transferred to the R.A.F. and survived the war. His eldest brother Milton was killed in action in November 1914, while his other brother George Fitzer served as a Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment and was discharged in August 1918 (presumably disabled earlier that year). Louis's daughter Sally Dyer relates that not a lot is known about her father's war service as he never talked about it. The family believed that he was gassed. Of Fitzer even less is known - he was never spoken about as he lived with a married woman!
Quasi-2D Confinement of a BEC in a Combined Optical and Magnetic Potential
Creators: name: Smith, N. L.
name: Heathcote, W. H.
name: Hechenblaikner, G.
name: Nugent, E.
name: Foot, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have added an optical potential to a conventional Time-averaged Orbiting Potential (TOP) trap to create a highly anisotropic hybrid trap for ultracold atoms. Axial confinement is provided by the optical potential; the maximum frequency currently obtainable in this direction is 2.2 kHz for rubidium. The radial confinement is independently controlled by the magnetic trap and can be a factor of 700 times smaller than in the axial direction. This large anisotropy is more than sufficient to confine condensates with ~10^5 atoms in a Quasi-2D (Q2D) regime, and we have verified this by measuring a change in the free expansion of the condensate; our results agree with a variational model.
description: 11 pages, 10 figure
The Globular Cluster Systems of Five Nearby Spiral Galaxies: New Insights from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
Creators: name: Chandar, Rupali
name: Whitmore, Bradley
name: Lee, Myung Gyoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use available multifilter Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFPC2 imaging of five (M81, M83, NGC 6946, M101, and M51) low inclination, nearby spiral galaxies to study ancient star cluster populations. M81 globular clusters (GC) have an intrinsic color distribution which is very similar to those in the Milky Way and M31, with ~40% of the clusters having colors expected for a metal-rich population. On the other hand, the GC system in M51 appears almost exclusively blue and metal poor. This lack of metal-rich GCs associated with the M51 bulge indicates that the bulge formation history of this Sbc galaxy may have differed significantly from that of our own. Ancient clusters in M101, and possibly in NGC 6946, appear to have luminosity distributions which continue to rise to our detection limit (M_V ~ -6.0), well beyond the expected turnover (M_V ~ -7.4) in the luminosity function. This is reminiscent of the situation in M33, a Local Group galaxy of similar Hubble type. The faint ancient cluster candidates in M101 and NGC 6946 have colors and radii similar to their more luminous counterparts, and we suggest that these are either intermediate age (3-9 Gyr) disk clusters or the low mass end of the original GC population. If the faint, excess GC candidates are excluded, we find that the specific frequency (S_N) of ancient clusters formed in later-type spirals is roughly constant, with S_N=0.5 +- 0.2. By combining the results of this study with literature values for other systems, we find that the total GC specific frequencies in spirals appear to correlate best with Hubble type and bulge/total ratio, rather than with galaxy luminosity or galaxy mass (abridged).
description: 31 pages, 11 tables, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Measuring upper limb function and patient reported outcomes after major breast cancer surgery: a pilot study in an Asian cohort
Creators: name: Chan, Kai Siang
name: Zeng, Ding
name: Leung, Joelle Hoi Ting
name: Ooi, Belinda Si Yin
name: Kong, Kit Teng
name: Yeo, Yi Heng
name: Goo, Jerry Tiong Thye
name: Chia, Clement Luck Khng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix A. Measurement of shoulder range of motion. Figure A.1. Pictorial representation of measurement of shoulder range of motion using a goniometer. Written consent has been obtained from both of the people included in the figure. Table A.1. Measurement of shoulder range of motion using a goniometer. Appendix B: Details of the QuickDASH Questionnaire. Table B.1. Components of the QuickDASH Questionnaire. Table B.2. Breakdown of components of the QuickDASH questionnaire. Appendix C: Physiotherapy exercises. Table C.1. List of physiotherapy exercises prescribed for patients post-major breast surgery. Table C.2. Post-operative rehabilitation protocol
Excited states in hydrogenated single-layer MoS$_2$
Creators: name: Din, Naseem Ud
name: Turkowski, Volodymyr
name: Rahman, Talat S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the excitation spectrum of single-layer MoS$_2$ at several hydrogen coverages by using a method based on first-principles Density-Matrix Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (TDDFT). Our results show that the fully hydrogenated system is metallic, while in the low-coverage limit the spectrum of single-layer MoS$_2$ includes spin-polarized partially filled localized mid-gap states. These states arise from s-orbitals of H atoms which make a tilted bond with the surface S atoms. The calculated absorption spectrum of the system reveals standard excitonic peaks, which correspond to the bound valence-band hole and conduction-band electron, as well as excitonic peaks that involve the mid-gap charges. As in the case of pristine single-layer MoS$_2$, binding energies of the excitons of the hydrogenated system are found to be relatively large (few tens of meV), making their experimental detection facile and suggesting hydrogenation as a knob for tuning the optical properties of single-layer MoS$_2$. Importantly, we find hydrogenation to suppress visible light photoluminescence, in agreement with experimental observations. As an aside, we contrast the effects of hydrogen coverage to that of the next two elements in the same column of the periodic table (the lightest metals), Li and Na, on the spectral properties of single-layer MoS$_2$ which lead instead to the formation of n-doped non-magnetic semiconductors that do not allow excitonic states.
Unveiling pure-metal ejecta X-ray emission in supernova remnants through their radiative recombination continuum
Creators: name: Greco, Emanuele
name: Vink, Jacco
name: Miceli, Marco
name: Orlando, Salvatore
name: Domcek, Vladimir
name: Zhou, Ping
name: Bocchino, Fabrizio
name: Peres, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectral analysis of X-ray emission from ejecta in supernova remnants (SNRs) is hampered by the low spectral resolution of CCD cameras, which creates a degeneracy between the best-fit values of abundances and emission measure. The combined contribution of shocked ambient medium and ejecta to the X-ray emission complicates the determination of the ejecta mass and chemical composition, leading to big uncertainties in mass estimates and it can introduce a bias in the comparison between the observed ejecta composition and the yields predicted by explosive nucleosynthesis. We explore the capabilities of present and future spectral instruments with the aim of identifying a spectral feature which may allow us to discriminate between metal-rich and pure-metal plasmas in X-ray spectra of SNRs. We studied the behavior of the most common X-ray emission processes of an optically thin plasma in the high-abundance regime. We investigated spectral features of bremsstrahlung, radiative recombination continua (RRC) and line emission, by exploring a wide range of chemical abundances, temperatures and ionization parameters. We synthesized X-ray spectra from a 3D hydrodynamic (HD) simulation of Cas A, by using the response matrix from the Chandra/ACIS-S CCD detector and that of the XRISM/Resolve X-ray calorimeter. We found that a bright RRC shows up when the plasma is made of pure-metal ejecta, and a high spectral resolution is needed to identify this ejecta signature. We verified the applicability of our novel diagnostic tool and we propose a promising target for the future detection of such spectral feature: the southeastern Fe-rich clump of Cas A. While there is no way to unambiguously reveal pure-metal ejecta emission with CCD detectors, X-ray calorimeters will be able to pinpoint the presence of pure-metal RRC and to recover correctly absolute mass and the chemical composition of the ejecta.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Time-dependent coupled cluster theory for ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Skeidsvoll, Andreas S.
name: Balbi, Alice
name: Koch, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spin-adapted time-dependent coupled cluster singles and doubles model for the molecular response to a sequence of ultrashort laser pulses. The implementation is used to calculate the electronic response to a valence-exciting pump pulse, and a subsequent core-exciting probe pulse. We assess the accuracy of the integration procedures used in solving the dynamic coupled cluster equations, in order to find a compromise between computational cost and accuracy. The transient absorption spectrum of lithium fluoride is calculated for various delays of the probe pulse with respect to the pump pulse. We observe that the transient probe absorption oscillates with the pump-probe delay, an effect that is attributed to the interference of states in the pump-induced superposition.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Efeitos das Variações Cambiais sobre os Preços da Carne de Frango no Brasil entre 2008 e 2012
Creators: name: Caldarelli, Carlos Eduardo
name: Camara, Marcia Regina Gabardo Da
name: Caldarelli, Carlos Eduardo
name: Camara, Marcia Regina Gabardo Da
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Exchange rate
subject: commodities prices
subject: poultry
subject: Granger causality
subject: VECM.

description: This paper investigates the ratio between real exchange rate and chicken meat prices in Brazil, from 2008 to 2012. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was applied. The results show a long-run ratio between the real exchange rate and the frozen broiler price – cointegration. However, evidences of the chicken meat price sensibility to the exchange rate are weak for the analyzed period. On the other hand, the paper suggests the evidence of the commodity currency. The paper highlights the importance of analyzing effects of the frozen chick meat on exchange rate in Brazil in the recent period.
Determinantes dos Preços de Terras no Brasil: uma análise de região de fronteira agrícola e áreas tradicionais
Creators: name: Ferro, Aline Barrozo
name: Castro, Eduardo Rodrigues De
name: Ferro, Aline Barrozo
name: Castro, Eduardo Rodrigues De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land market
subject: agricultural frontier
subject: panel data.

description: The objective of this research is to analyze the impact of variables in the agricultural land price formation between 2000 and 2010 in three different regions in Brazil : the most recent agricultural frontier (southern Maranhão, southern Piauí, southeastern Tocantins and western Bahia), the transition area (which has a relatively recent exploration, but the agricultural exploitation has already been established, such as the Central-Western region in Brazil) and the traditional area (with established agricultural activities, as the Southern). The variables used were soybean price, productivity, cultivated area, rural credit, investments in transportation, capacity of storage and land price in previous periods. The analysis is carried out with a panel data model, and it was observed that soybean price, which represents land revenue, has the major influence in the land price. In the agricultural and transition areas, increases in land demand have negative impact in the land price, due to the increase in the land supply. On the other hand, in the traditional area, increases in the demand push up the land price, due to the inelastic land supply. The speculation variable was not important in the transition and traditional areas, but it has an important contribution to land prices formation in the agricultural frontier.
Práticas e Contradições: um estudo de caso sobre camponeses assentados no Médio São Francisco
Creators: name: Cardel, Lidia Maria Pires Soares
name: Oliveira, Rejane Alves De
name: Cardel, Lidia Maria Pires Soares
name: Oliveira, Rejane Alves De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Peasantry
subject: settlement
subject: identity
subject: family farming
subject: mediators.

description: This work aims to present the way of life of a peasant social group and its history of constant government interventions. This community, called Canudos, is located in Bahia State, in the Médio São Francisco area. The social actors to which we refer move within pluriactive activities (farm work and small-scale fishing are the most important), and present unique sociabilities, familistic and identitary relations. We have verified that this distinctiveness, which is based mainly on the precedence of the several family groups, generate internal conflicts that become powerful and make it difficult for the government to implement intervention projects. This article intends to analyze this practice and contradictions of this social process. Data were collected from a methodological fusion between the technique of in-depth case study and diagnosis analysis of the land systems.
Single diffractive production of open heavy flavor mesons
Creators: name: Siddikov, Marat
name: Schmidt, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss the single diffractive production of open heavy flavor mesons and non-prompt charmonia in $pp$ collisions. Using the color dipole approach, we found that the single diffractive production constitutes 0.5-2 per cent of the inclusive production of the same mesons. In Tevatron kinematics our theoretical results are in reasonable agreement with the available experimental data. In LHC kinematics we found that the cross-section is sufficiently large and could be accessed experimentally. We also analyzed the dependence on multiplicity of co-produced hadrons and found that it is significantly slower than that of inclusive production of the same heavy mesons.
description: 21 pages, 15 Figures. This paper is a sequel to our earlier publication arXiv:2003.13768 dedicated to open heavy flavour meson production
Conditioning and initial enlargement of filtration on a Riemannian manifold
Creators: name: Baudoin, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58G32, 60J60, 60H10 (Primary)

description: We extend to Riemannian manifolds the theory of conditioned stochastic differential equations. We also provide some enlargement formulas for the Brownian filtration in this nonflat setting.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000126
Additional file 9 of Development of an intervention to facilitate implementation and uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening
Creators: name: Riordan, Fiona
name: Racine, Emmy
name: Phillip, Eunice T.
name: Bradley, Colin
name: Lorencatto, Fabiana
name: Murphy, Mark
name: Murphy, Aileen
name: Browne, John
name: Smith, Susan M.
name: Kearney, Patricia M.
name: McHugh, Sheena M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S1. a Ways to encourage patients to attend (practice led). b Ways to encourage patients to attend (narrative led). c Ways to encourage patients to attend (other ideas). d Ways to encourage professionals to prompt patients about screening (feedback). e Ways to encourage professionals to prompt patients about screening (feedback). f Ways to encourage professionals to prompt patients about screening (other ideas).
A Construção do Discurso Agroecológico no Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST)
Creators: name: Borsatto, Ricardo Serra
name: Carmo, Maristela Simões Do
name: Borsatto, Ricardo Serra
name: Carmo, Maristela Simões Do
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agroecology
subject: MST
subject: peasant movements
subject: Marxism.

description: In the last decade, the Landless Workers Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra, in Portuguese), which fights for land reform in Brazil, has radically changed its speech towards guidelines recommended by the agroecology. The aim of this study was to understand, from a theoretical-historical approach, the appropriation of the concept agroecology as a motto in the struggle for agrarian reform holded by the MST. Classic conceptions concerning the role of the peasantry in contemporary societies and attempts to make “theoretical bridges” with the speeches and the actions taken by the MST in its history, based in a documental analysis were conducted. The conclusion is that the defense of agroecology in the MST, based on a chayanovian speech, is on an upward curve, in contrast to the previous prevailing speech of collectivization and promotion of specialized large farm units inspired in the orthodox Marxism. It also points out that the agroecology, for the MST, goes far beyond the productive dimension, adding significant political questions.
Hysteresis in the quantum Hall regimes in electron double quantum well structures
Creators: name: Pan, W.
name: Reno, J. L.
name: Simmons, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in this paper experimental results on the transport hysteresis in electron double quantum well structures. Exploring the measurement technique of fixing the magnetic field and sweeping a front gate voltage (Vg), we are able to study the hysteresis by varying the top layer Landau level fillings while maintaining a relatively constant filling factor in the bottom layer, allowing us to tackle the question of the sign of Rxx(up)-Rxx(down), where Rxx(up) is the magnetoresistance when Vg is swept up and Rxx(down) when Vg swept down. Furthermore, we observe that hysteresis is generally stronger in the even integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) regime than in the odd-IQHE regime. This, we argue, is due to a larger energy gap for an even-IQHE state, determined by the Landau level separation, than that for an odd-IQHE state, determined by the Zeeman splitting.
Produtividade Agrícola e Segurança Alimentar dos Domicílios das Regiões Metropolitanas Brasileiras
Creators: name: Costa, Lorena Vieira
name: Gomes, Marília Fernandes Maciel
name: Lirio, Viviani Silva
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
name: Costa, Lorena Vieira
name: Gomes, Marília Fernandes Maciel
name: Lirio, Viviani Silva
name: Braga, Marcelo Jose
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food security
subject: food expenditures
subject: agricultural productivity.

description: One of the principal means by which agricultural growth affects the level of welfare of the population is the possibility of increasing the food supply, which generally reflects in lower food prices, with important implications on people’s diet. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the agricultural productivity of the main items of people’s diet and food security of households in metropolitan regions. We used a qualitative choice model, the probit, and data from the Household Budget Surveys (POF, in Portuguese) of 1995-1996, 2002-2003 and 2008-2009 and research Municipal Agricultural Production. There were significant relationships between the level of education of the household head, the presence of persons under 18 years-old in the family and the fact that the per capita income household earning is less than minimum wage and food security. Moreover, the productivity growth of grains, vegetables and fruits was associated with greater likelihood of food security in at least one of the periods analyzed. We conclude that productivity gains are associated with greater household food security, but in low proportions, due to the high influence of particular characteristics, such as education and income.
Additional file 2 of Radiotherapy for nonagenarians: the value of biological versus chronological age
Creators: name: Sprave, Tanja
name: Rühle, Alexander
name: Stoian, Raluca
name: Weber, Alina
name: Constantinos Zamboglou
name: Nieder, Carsten
name: Anca-Ligia Grosu
name: Nicolay, Nils H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Acute toxicity results consisting several radiotherapy-related side reactions according to CTCAE. 1 e.g. diarrhea, rectal bleeding. 2 e.g. dysuria, hematuria, pollakiuri
Clients’ and counsellors’ perceptions of helpful and hindering events in outpatient drug addiction counselling
Creators: name: Gatt, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The aim of the study was to compare clients' and counsellors' perceptions of helpful and hindering events in outpatient drug addiction counselling. It attempted to answer the following questions: what do clients and counsellors consider as helpful events in drug addiction counselling? What do clients and counsellors consider as hindrances in counselling? How similar are these perceptions for clients and their counsellors? Comparisons between clients and counsellors in fields other than the addictions, have in general demonstrated differences in perceptions. While clients tend to give more importance to factors related to the counselling relationship and the feeling of relief from problems as a channel for change, counsellors have emphasized the use of techniques and cognitions as important ingredients for change. In the addictions field, studies comparing clients' and counsellors' are lacking. The study set out to undertake this comparison. Seven clients recovering from a drug addiction and their counsellors were interviewed separately within a year of ending their participation in counselling. The Critical Incident Technique, (Flanagan, 1954) and time-line methodology (Chell 1998) were used as a means to identify helpful and hindering incidents in the therapy process. Helpful and hindering incidents were extracted from the transcribed interviews for both clients and their counsellors separately and than compared. General agreement between clients and counsellors was observed in this study. The agreement was explained in terms of the special characteristics of the sample and the successful nature of the counselling experience. Although some interesting differences were uncovered, the general congruence in the comparison between clients and counsellors challenged some developing notions about disparities between the two parties.
Self-Interactions in the Spacetime of a Scalar-Tensor Cosmic String
Creators: name: Costa, I. V. L.
name: Oliveira, F. A.
name: Guimaraes, M. E. X.
name: Moraes, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of the geometry and topology of a scalar-tensor cosmic string space-time on the electric and magnetic fields of line sources. It is shown that the dilatonic coupling of the gravity induces effects along the string comparable to a current flow allowing for forbidden regions near the string.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Revised version to appear in the Phys. Lett. A
How to restart? An agent-based simulation model towards the definition of strategies for COVID-19 "second phase" in public buildings
Creators: name: D'Orazio, Marco
name: Bernardini, Gabriele
name: Quagliarini, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.2; J.3; J.4; I.6.5; I.6.8

description: Restarting public buildings activities in the "second phase" of COVID-19 emergency should be supported by operational measures to avoid a second virus spreading. Buildings hosting the continuous presence of the same users and significant overcrowd conditions over space/time (e.g. large offices, universities) are critical scenarios due to the prolonged contact with infectors. Beside individual's risk-mitigation strategies performed (facial masks), stakeholders should promote additional strategies, i.e. occupants' load limitation (towards "social distancing") and access control. Simulators could support the measures effectiveness evaluation. This work provides an Agent-Based Model to estimate the virus spreading in the closed built environment. The model adopts a probabilistic approach to jointly simulate occupants' movement and virus transmission according to proximity-based and exposure-time-based rules proposed by international health organizations. Scenarios can be defined in terms of building occupancy, mitigation strategies and virus-related aspects. The model is calibrated on experimental data ("Diamond Princess" cruise) and then applied to a relevant case-study (a part of a university campus). Results demonstrate the model capabilities. Concerning the case-study, adopting facial masks seems to be a paramount strategy to reduce virus spreading in each initial condition, by maintaining an acceptable infected people's number. The building capacity limitation could support such measure by potentially moving from FFPk masks to surgical masks use by occupants (thus improving users' comfort issues). A preliminary model to combine acceptable mask filters-occupants' density combination is proposed. The model could be modified to consider other recurring scenarios in other public buildings (e.g. tourist facilities, cultural buildings).
description: 21 pages, 16 figures; submitted to Building and Environment
Lorentz-Violating Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
Creators: name: Bailey, Quentin G.
name: Kostelecky, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The static limit of Lorentz-violating electrodynamics in vacuum and in media is investigated. Features of the general solutions include the need for unconventional boundary conditions and the mixing of electrostatic and magnetostatic effects. Explicit solutions are provided for some simple cases. Electromagnetostatics experiments show promise for improving existing sensitivities to parity-odd coefficients for Lorentz violation in the photon sector.
description: 9 pages
2474: Second Lieutenant Milton Kershaw (Part 2)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: When Kershaw joined his battalion on 4th August, he started to keep a diary in a notebook (probably given him by his father or sister Blanche) which records his experiences on active service up to 16th October 1914. He was killed in action three weeks later.
Holography at string field theory level: Conformal three point functions of BMN operators
Creators: name: Shimada, Hidehiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general framework for applying the pp-wave approximation to holographic calculations in the AdS/CFT correspondence is proposed. By assuming the existence and some properties of string field theory (SFT) on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ background, we extend the holographic ansatz proposed by Gubser, Klebanov, Polyakov and Witten to SFT level. We extract relevant information of assumed SFT on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ from its approximation, pp-wave SFT. As an explicit example, we perform string theoretic calculations of the conformal three point functions of the BMN operators. The results agree with the previous calculations in gauge theory. We identify a broad class of field redefinitions, including known ambiguities of the interaction Hamiltonian, which does not affect the results.
description: 1+12 pages
QutNocturnal@HASOC'19: CNN for Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Hindi Language
Creators: name: Bashar, Md Abul
name: Nayak, Richi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe our top-team solution to Task 1 for Hindi in the HASOC contest organised by FIRE 2019. The task is to identify hate speech and offensive language in Hindi. More specifically, it is a binary classification problem where a system is required to classify tweets into two classes: (a) \emph{Hate and Offensive (HOF)} and (b) \emph{Not Hate or Offensive (NOT)}. In contrast to the popular idea of pretraining word vectors (a.k.a. word embedding) with a large corpus from a general domain such as Wikipedia, we used a relatively small collection of relevant tweets (i.e. random and sarcasm tweets in Hindi and Hinglish) for pretraining. We trained a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on top of the pretrained word vectors. This approach allowed us to be ranked first for this task out of all teams. Our approach could easily be adapted to other applications where the goal is to predict class of a text when the provided context is limited.
PAREMIOLOGICAL TEXTS AND THE LINGUO-COGNITIVEANALYSIS OF ZOONYMIC COMPONENTS.
Creators: name: Egamberdiyeva, Yulduz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the role of zoonymic components (animal-related terms) in paremiological texts (proverbs, sayings, and idiomatic expressions) through the lens of linguo-cognitive analysis. Proverbs serve as linguistic repositories of cultural wisdom, and zoonymic elements often encode metaphorical and cognitive meanings. By analyzing a selected corpus of proverbs across multiple languages, this research uncovers how animal references shape human perception, conceptual metaphors, and cultural attitudes toward animals. The findings contribute to cognitive linguistics, paremiology, and cross-cultural studies, highlighting the universal and culture-specific aspects of zoonymic proverbs.
D6-brane Splitting on Type IIA Orientifolds
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Langacker, Paul
name: Li, Tianjun
name: Liu, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the open-string moduli of supersymmetric D6-branes, addressing both the string and field theory aspects of D6-brane splitting on Type IIA orientifolds induced by open-string moduli Higgsing (i.e., their obtaining VEVs). Specifically, we focus on the Z_2 x Z_2 orientifolds and address the symmetry breaking pattern for D6-branes parallel with the orientifold 6-planes as well as those positioned at angles. We demonstrate that the string theory results, i.e., D6-brane splitting and relocating in internal space, are in one to one correspondence with the field theory results associated with the Higgsing of moduli in the antisymmetric representation of Sp(2N) gauge symmetry (for branes parallel with orientifold planes) or adjoint representation of U(N) (for branes at general angles). In particular, the moduli Higgsing in the open-string sector results in the change of the gauge structure of D6-branes and thus changes the chiral spectrum and family number as well. As a by-product, we provide the new examples of the supersymmetric Standard-like models with the electroweak sector arising from Sp(2N)_L x Sp(2N)_R gauge symmetry; and one four-family example is free of chiral Standard Model exotics.
description: 44 pages, 7 figures; The anomaly-free models in Subsections 4.2 and 4.3 presented, references added, typos fixed
Additional file 8 of Development of an intervention to facilitate implementation and uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening
Creators: name: Riordan, Fiona
name: Racine, Emmy
name: Phillip, Eunice T.
name: Bradley, Colin
name: Lorencatto, Fabiana
name: Murphy, Mark
name: Murphy, Aileen
name: Browne, John
name: Smith, Susan M.
name: Kearney, Patricia M.
name: McHugh, Sheena M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S5. a Patient-level barriers or enablers mapped to TDF, BCT and operationalisation. b Professional-level barriers or enablers mapped to TDF, BCT and operationalisation. c. Organisational level barriers or enablers mapped to TDF, BCT and operationalisation.
2407: Dobson brothers
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Fred Dobson was born in 1882 and enlisted in 1915. He served in the 6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. He fought at the Somme. He survived the war. James (Jim) Dobson was born in 1894. He volunteered with his brother and was in 8th Battalion KOYLI. On 8th July he was at La Bosille and was injured while waiting 'to go over the top'. Jim acted as a runner to Lt Nelson. He was shot in the legs at the point of getting near to the German trench. He was treated at the dressing station Crucifix Corner. By 1917 he had recovered and was playing football for West Yorkshire Regiment. The postcard on cloth depicts the words of Edith Cavell-not sure why it was in the possession of the family. The photo shows 3 generations of the Dobson family: Fred Sr on the right; His nephew Fred Jnr in the sea cadet uniform. The 2 photos show Fred Jnr in army uniform. The figurine was (looted?) brought back from Germany whilst part of army of occupation.
A Criação de Conhecimento para a Gestão de Propriedades Rurais no Brasil e na Austrália
Creators: name: Binotto, Erlaine
name: Nakayama, Marina Keiko
name: Siqueira, Elisabete Stradiotto
name: Binotto, Erlaine
name: Nakayama, Marina Keiko
name: Siqueira, Elisabete Stradiotto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Knowledge creation
subject: cooperative
subject: rural producers.

description: This article aims to investigate how the Nonaka and Takeuchi’s five stages of knowledge creation model can contribute for the rural properties’ management. This study analyzes case studies of farmers in Brazil and Australia using various data types, including document related to farm producers, on-site observation, questionnaire, semi-structured interview and focus groups. It was found that, in a property where people sought to socialize, question, and innovate constantly, there was more space to create tacit knowledge and transform it to explicit. Farmers who were innovated and more critical about their practices have shown a greater chance in order to create a field of knowledge interaction. In the context of rural farmers, knowledge, experiences and information could be found and shared among them. However, it is more important that they use the information practically in order to produce an effective outcome.
Elasticidade-preço da Demanda por Etanol no Brasil: como renda e preços relativos explicam diferenças entre estados
Creators: name: Orellano, Veronica Fernandez
name: Souza, Alberto De Nes De
name: Azevedo, Paulo Furquim De
name: Orellano, Veronica Fernandez
name: Souza, Alberto De Nes De
name: Azevedo, Paulo Furquim De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand elasticity
subject: ethanol
subject: income effect
subject: regional differences.

description: This article analyzes the demand for ethanol in Brazil, from 2001 to 2009, taking into account regional differences in regard of relative price and per capita income. These elements explain significant variability of demand elasticities across regions, a result not yet addressed by the related literature. By means of a panel with monthly data at the state level, we estimate an econometric model with instrumental variables to control endogeneity. We found that the demand is more elastic in poorer states and in regions whose relative price is closer to 70%, the technical rate of substitution between ethanol and gasoline, which is expected to trigger the demand decision of owners of flex-fuel vehicles. Those regions present higher demand price-elasticity, for ultimately logistic and tributary reasons, that determines relative prices. Results differ from those from Salvo and Huse (2013), since our model explain regional differences that do not need to rely on consumer preference heterogeneity, but occur because of logistics and income regional distribution. Our findings suggest implications for taxation and logistic infrastructure policies, which directly affect the relative prices of ethanol and gasoline, and, therefore, indirectly influence the demand elasticity.
title: Electrotactile Haptic Feedback for use with Remote Surgery Robots
Creators: name: Hill, Joseph William
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2025

description: This thesis documents the research, design, implementation and experimental testing of a prototype electrotactile haptic feedback for remote surgery applications, using a 3D-printed electrode array. A literature review was conducted to investigate the current knowledge surrounding the anatomy of the fingertip, electrical characteristics of the skin, somatosensory perception and current electrical stimulation and haptic feedback techniques. Following this, the design methodology was then presented to show the steps taken to achieve the final electrotactile haptic feedback device along with explanations of decisions made. Using the Voltera V-One PCB 3D printer, an electrode array was printed and designed to fit the average index fingertip. This process of printing required a high level of configuration to achieve the levels of accuracy required. This electrode array was connected to an electrical stimulation device capable of electronically controlling the polarity of each electrode. Finally, this device was connected to a VR environment. Following a Current Perception Threshold (CPT) test and a training period, participants were asked to determine the shape presented to them using only their tactile perception within a VR environment. In this single-blind experiment, the presented shape was obscured from the user's view while their fingertip was stimulated using electrotactile haptic feedback. Each of the five participants in this experiment were asked to determine five times what the randomized shape was. These participants correctly identified the shape in 56% of cases overall. When broken down by shape, the percentages were 100%, 40% and 50% for the triangle, square and circle respectively. The triangle is thought to have been identified more consistently due to its unique geometry. The square and circle were identified correctly less consistently; however, they were often mistaken for each other which can be seen in that 77.5% of non-triangle shapes were correctly identified as non-triangle shapes. There appeared to be some correlation between amplitude and the number of shapes correctly identified. Future works should investigate using a larger sample size to improve the reliability of the results across a broader demographic. In these works, it is suggested that a more intricate processing algorithm could be used to investigate creating spatial tactile cues on the fingertip as opposed to the temporal effects presented in this research. Research could also be directed at creating different textures using electrical stimulation rather than edge detection.
title: Synthesis and characterisation of redox-active conjugated macrocycles
Creators: name: Rimmele, Martina
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Organic Electronics
subject: Organic Photodetectors

description: Fully conjugated macrocycles have attracted much interest during the past few years, as the demand for new materials in nanotechnology is continuously rising. Due to the variety of excellent properties that they can show, they are most suitable for application in the area of organic electronics. However, they are surprisingly underexplored regarding various state-of-the-art applications in this area. This may be due to the lack of straightforward syntheses and the often low yields of cyclisation reactions. In the course of this work macrocycles with four different cavity sizes were synthesised. Furthermore, the effect of different alkyl chain lengths on the properties of the macrocycles were investigated. The macrocycles were prepared via Perkin cyclisation of diacetic acid and diglyoxylic acid precursors, for which synthetic routes had to be developed. The obtained molecules were characterised by absorption and photoluminescence measurements. Moreover, in collaboration with the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences, the redox properties of the macrocycles were analysed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) measurements. Further conversion of the ester groups to other functional groups, such as cyano groups, was tested using model compounds designed specifically for this purpose. Model compounds for an alternative approach to conjugated macrocycles with cyano groups via Benzoin condensation and further conversion were also prepared. First attempts to convert these model compounds were carried out.