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On Bodies, Transformations, and Becomings in Contemporary Feminist Science Fiction
Creators: name: Pacheco Padilla, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research is to analyse, from a feminist perspective, how Science Fiction texts that come from English- and Spanish-speaking traditions of Feminist Science Fiction and were written in the last twenty years explore specific gender constructs and anxieties regarding the body, its transformations, and becomings. The analysis focuses on how feminist sf exposes patriarchal configurations, power relations, and gender issues throughout different representations of the body. A close reading of the different texts determines whether sf texts that come from English- and Spanish-speaking countries share a common tradition regarding feminist sf and the portrayal of gender issues such as the body, motherhood, identity, violence, roles, inequality, and sexuality. The first two chapters explore social/political/cultural bodies in utopia and dystopia. The analysis focuses on intersections between power and violence—or the lack of—and representations of the body and its transformations, including masculinised and feminised female bodies. Chapters III and IV analyse posthuman bodies in dystopian/post-apocalyptic spaces. The focal point of analysis is the intersections between power and violence—or the threat of it—and bodily transformations that reverse gender roles. The last chapter examines multi-bodied bodies that challenge notions of corporeality and gender. The analysis addresses the concept of embodiment through a religious lens and the possibilities this offers. The comparative nature of this study–beyond the Anglophone tradition–offers a fresh perspective on how Feminist sf that comes from different traditions depict gender issues, particularly regarding the body and its transformations. This research will enrich the current field of literary criticism from an interdisciplinary perspective. By expanding and providing new light on the issues portrayed in the texts written by sf contemporary writers from diverse countries, and thus, diverse social and cultural contexts, the current discussion on gender issues in sf can be strengthened.
Novel fiber-based probe for localised optical stimulation and electrophysiological recording in optogenetics
Creators: name: Petrovic, Jelena
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 600 Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Optrodes usually represent a combination of optical fiber or waveguide and single or multiple microelectrodes. This thesis explaines fabrication process of fiber-based optrode consisting of tapered optical fiber with two deposited gold electrodes on its surface. Furthermore, design and construction of custom mechanical grinding setup, that enables fabrication of tapered fiber tips of good optical quality with various cone angles, represents an important part of this thesis. Detailed optical and electrical characterization of fabricated optrodes is also presented.
On rotating jets, plumes and wakes
Creators: name: Ross., Donald G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Proceedings of the 4th and 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education
Creators: name: Jeuring, Johan
name: McCarthy, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Workshops on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2015 and TFPIE 2016, which were held on June 2, 2015 in Sophia-Antipolis, France, and on June 7, 2016 at the University of Maryland College Park in the USA, respectively.
Nonlinear interactions of dipolar excitons and polaritons in MoS2 bilayers
Creators: name: Louca, Charalambos
name: Genco, Armando
name: Chiavazzo, Salvatore
name: Lyons, Thomas P.
name: Randerson, Sam
name: Trovatello, Chiara
name: Claronino, Peter
name: Jayaprakash, Rahul
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Conte, Stefano Dal
name: Lidzey, David G.
name: Cerullo, Giulio
name: Kyriienko, Oleksandr
name: Tartakovskii, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear interactions between excitons strongly coupled to light are key for accessing quantum many-body phenomena in polariton systems. Atomically-thin two-dimensional semiconductors provide an attractive platform for strong light-matter coupling owing to many controllable excitonic degrees of freedom. Among these, the recently emerged exciton hybridization opens access to unexplored excitonic species, with a promise of enhanced interactions. Here, we employ hybridized interlayer excitons (hIX) in bilayer MoS2 to achieve highly nonlinear excitonic and polaritonic effects. Such interlayer excitons possess an out-of-plane electric dipole as well as an unusually large oscillator strength allowing observation of dipolar polaritons(dipolaritons) in bilayers in optical microcavities. Compared to excitons and polaritons in MoS2 monolayers, both hIX and dipolaritons exhibit about 8 times higher nonlinearity, which is further strongly enhanced when hIX and intralayer excitons, sharing the same valence band, are excited simultaneously. This gives rise to a highly nonlinear regime which we describe theoretically by introducing a concept of hole crowding. The presented insight into many-body interactions provides new tools for accessing few-polariton quantum correlations.
Minimalinvasive Therapie der Mitralklappeninsuffizienz
Creators: name: Ott, Robert
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 600 Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Die Versorgung der Mitralklappeninsuffizienz mithilfe der minimalinvasiven Mitralklappenreparatur ist von erheblicher Bedeutung für die Erhaltung bzw. Wiederherstellung der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität von Patientinnen und Patienten weltweit. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit sind sowohl fluidmechanische Prüfmethoden als auch numerische Fluid-Struktur-Interaktionsmodelle für die Beurteilung aktueller und die Konzeptionierung neuer Clipimplantatdesigns und Implantationsstrategien entwickelt worden.
Validation of the IUATLD Bronchial Symptoms Questionnaire in Butajira, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Denboba, Wubshet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2007

description: Background: A number of epidemiological research conducted on asthma obtained increase in prevalence of wheeze over time and generally varying results. However most epidemiological studies on asthma have used symptom questionnaires as their primary markers of disease, it is therefore not clear whether the observed differences in symptom prevalence reflect true differences in underlying disease, or is due to reporting, labeling or ascertainment bias. The main objective of this study was to determine the validity and repeatability of the IUATLD questionnaire measure of self-reported wheeze in Butajira, southern Ethiopia. Method: To validate the questionnaire 200 individuals with wheeze and 200 with non wheeze aged 8-40 years were randomly selected from a study done in 2003 in Butajira. IUATLD questionnaire was administered twice to obtain data on wheeze and asthma and then these subjects undergone either a standardized exercise challenge test or took bronchodilator. For the analysis of the asthma question, a subset of wheezers with self-reported asthma and a control group of non-wheezers plus a random sample of the wheezing non-asthmatics proportionate to that in the original random sample was used. Result: The question wheeze in the last twelve months respectively achieved a Kappa value of 61.3% over the four weeks period and 19.1% over the three years period. Its PPV in the two cases of analysis were 7.34% and 8.6% while the NPV were 97.0% and 96.6%. The four-week and three year Kappa value for the question, "Have you ever had asthma?" were respectively 74.9% and 46.2%. Its PPV in the two cases of analysis were 12.1% and 25.0% while NPV were 97.2% and 97.1%. Conclusion: To conclude, the IUATLD wheeze and asthma questions appeared more repeatable in the short term, but don't seem to identify the same disease entity as that identified by an exercise challenge test. Before this questionnaire is used further in epidemiological studies in Ethiopia, it is important to validate it against other reference tests, including physician diagnosis and possibly one of the non-invasive measures of airway of inflammation such as fractional expired nitric oxide (FENO Key words: Validity, repeatability, exercise challenge test and asthma questionnaire
Architecture and emplacement origin of an Archaean komatiitic dunite and associated NiS mineralisation : Mt Keith, Agnew-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Creators: name: Rosengren., Nicolas McKenzie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Konsequenzen psychosozialer Belastungen im postnatalen Zeitraum auf die Mutter-Kind-Beziehung und die Entwicklung neuroendokriner und immunologischer Anpassungsmechanismen der Nachkommen beim Schwein
Creators: name: Brückmann, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 570 Life science
subject: 590 Zoological sciences

description: In dieser Arbeit wurde gezeigt, dass eine wiederholte mütterliche Deprivation das Verhalten sowie physiologische und immunologische Parameter bei Schweinen beeinflusst. Darüber hinaus legen die Ergebnisse nahe, dass psychosozialer Stress die Krankheitsanfälligkeit von Ferkeln langfristig erhöhen kann, und dass das Geschlecht bereits eine entscheidende Rolle für die Adaptationsmechanismen der Jungtiere spielt. Es zeigte sich jedoch auch, dass die negativen Auswirkungen von Stress durch die Anwesenheit von Wurfgeschwistern gemildert werden können.
Search for resonant and nonresonant production of pairs of dijet resonances in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
dijet: mass
p p: scattering
resonance: production
resonance: hadronic decay
dijet: pair production
top: pair production
resonance: pair production
diquark: mass
jet: pair production
final state: ((n)jet)
intermediate state: mass
quark: vector particle
quark: pair production
squark: pair production
stop: pair production
stop: mass: lower limit
R parity: violation
CERN LHC Coll
supersymmetry
background
CMS
resonance: mass: lower limit
channel cross section: upper limit
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search for pairs of dijet resonances with the same mass is conducted in final states with at least four jets. Results are presented separately for the case where the four jet production proceeds via an intermediate resonant state and for nonresonant production. The search uses a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the CMS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ =13 TeV. Model-independent limits, at 95% confidence level, are reported on the production cross section of four-jet and dijet resonances. These first LHC limits on resonant pair production of dijet resonances via high mass intermediate states are applied to a signal model of diquarks that decay into pairs of vector-like quarks, excluding diquark masses below 7.6 TeV for a particular model scenario. There are two events in the tails of the distributions, each with a four-jet mass of 8 TeV and an average dijet mass of 2 TeV, resulting in local and global significances of 3.9 and 1.6 standard deviations, respectively, if interpreted as a signal. The nonresonant search excludes pair production of top squarks with masses between 0.50 TeV to 0.77 TeV, with the exception of a small interval between 0.52 and 0.58 TeV, for supersymmetric $R$-parity-violating decays to quark pairs, significantly extending previous limits. Here, the most significant excess above the predicted background occurs at an average dijet mass of 0.95 TeV, for which the local and global significances are 3.6 and 2.5 standard deviations, respectively.
Cored Dark Matter halos in the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Creators: name: Cho, Wonsub
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Kim, Hee Jung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of the interaction between DM and the cosmic neutrino background on the evolution of galactic dark matter halos. The energy transfer from the neutrinos to the dark matter can heat the center of the galaxy and make it cored. This effect is efficient for the small galaxies such as the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and we can put conservative constraint on the non-relativistic elastic scattering cross section as $σ_{χν}\lesssim 10^{-31} {\rm cm}^2$ for 0.1 keV dark matter and 0.1 eV neutrino.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Untersuchungen zur diagnostischen Präzision prädiktiver Biomarker in der Risikoevaluation der drohenden Frühgeburt
Creators: name: Gründler, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: An einem Risikokollektiv von Schwangeren mit Zeichen einer drohenden Frühgeburt zwischen 20 0/7 und 31 6/7 SSW wurden der zervikouterine Winkel (ZUW) und die Biomarker Thrombospondin-1, Stratifin, Desmoplakin im Zervikovaginalsekret als Prädiktoren einer Frühgeburt untersucht. Dabei waren der ZUW, Stratifin als auch Desmoplakin nicht prädiktiv für die Vorhersage eine Frühgeburt. Thrombospondin-1 zeigte sich als guter Prädiktor, welcher die langfristige Risikoabschätzung für eine spontane Frühgeburt über 8 Wochen erlaubt.
Synthesis of model synthetic antigens using a porphyrin template
Creators: name: Rose., Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Search for nonresonant pair production of highly energetic Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quarks
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
Higgs particle: pair production
boosted particle
CERN LHC Coll
vector boson: fusion
gluon gluon: fusion
Higgs particle: coupling
CMS
coupling constant: upper limit
neural network
statistical analysis
data analysis method
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search for nonresonant Higgs boson (H) pair production via gluon and vector boson (V) fusion is performed in the four-bottom-quark final state, using proton-proton collision data at 13 TeV corresponding to 138 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analysis targets Lorentz-boosted H pairs identified using a graph neural network. It constrains the strengths relative to the standard model of the H self-coupling and the quartic VVHH couplings, $\kappa_{2V}$, excluding $\kappa_{2V}$ = 0 for the first time, with a significance of 6.3 standard deviations when other H couplings are fixed to their standard model values.
Observation of broad p-wave Feshbach resonances in ultracold $^{85}$Rb-$^{87}$Rb mixtures
Creators: name: Dong, Shen
name: Cui, Yue
name: Shen, Chuyang
name: Wu, Yewei
name: Tey, Meng Khoon
name: You, Li
name: Gao, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe new Feshbach resonances in ultracold mixtures of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb atoms in the $^{85}$Rb$|2, +2\rangle$+$^{87}$Rb$|1, +1\rangle$ and $^{85}$Rb$|2, -2\rangle$+$^{87}$Rb$|1, -1\rangle$ scattering channels. The positions and properties of the resonances are predicted and characterized using the semi-analytic multichannel quantum-defect theory by Gao. Of particular interest, a number of broad entrance-channel dominated p-wave resonances are identified, implicating exciting opportunities for studying a variety of p-wave interaction dominated physics.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Systematische Evaluation klinischer Methoden zur Vermessung der humanen Cochlea anhand präoperativer Schnittbildgebung vor Cochlea-Implantation
Creators: name: Breitsprecher, Tabita Mirjam
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Cochlea-Implantationen stellen derzeit eine bedeutende Therapieoption bei der hochgradigen Schwerhörigkeit oder Taubheit dar. Bei Cochlea-Implantation mit dem Ziel des Restgehörerhalts kann die präoperative Kenntnis über die Länge des Ductus cochlearis (engl. cochlear duct length, "CDL") bei der Wahl einer geeigneten CI-Elektrode hilfreich sein. Ziel dieser Dissertation war es, die geeignetste Kombination aus klinisch angewandter präoperativer Bildgebung und -verarbeitungssoftware für die präoperative CDL-Bestimmung zu ermitteln. Als Referenz dienten postoperativ bestimmte Insertionswinkel.
Fusion for the Yang-Baxter equation and the braid group
Creators: name: d'Andecy, L. Poulain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These are the extended notes of a mini-course given at the school WinterBraids X. We discuss algebras simultaneously related to: the braid group, the Yang-Baxter equation and the representation theory of quantum groups. The main goal is to explain the idea of the fusion procedure for the Yang-Baxter equation and to show how it leads to new examples of such algebras: the fused Hecke algebras.
Search for heavy resonances and quantum black holes in e$\mu$, e$\tau$, and $\mu\tau$ final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
new physics: search for
lepton: flavor: violation
black hole: quantum
space-time: higher-dimensional
resonance: heavy
resonance: decay modes
rare decay
flavor: violation
p p: scattering
sneutrino: production
parity: violation
black hole: production
particle: heavy
mass: threshold
dilepton: final state
benchmark
channel cross section: branching ratio: upper limit
CERN Lab
CERN LHC Coll
supersymmetry: parameter space
R parity: violation
Z': production
Z': decay modes
dilepton: mass spectrum
mass spectrum: (electron muon)
mass spectrum: (electron tau)
mass spectrum: (muon tau)
gauge boson
neutrino: mass: lower limit
Z': mass: lower limit
CMS
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search is reported for heavy resonances and quantum black holes decaying into e$\mu$, e$\tau$, and $\mu\tau$ final states in proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC during 2016-2018 at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. The e$\mu$, e$\tau$, and $\mu\tau$ invariant mass spectra are reconstructed, and no evidence is found for physics beyond the standard model. Upper limits are set at 95% confidence level on the product of the cross section and branching fraction for lepton flavor violating signals. Three benchmark signals are studied: resonant $\tau$ sneutrino production in $R$ parity violating supersymmetric models, heavy Z' gauge bosons with lepton flavor violating decays, and nonresonant quantum black hole production in models with extra spatial dimensions. Resonant $\tau$ sneutrinos are excluded for masses up to 4.2 TeV in the e$\mu$ channel, 3.7 TeV in the e$\tau$ channel, and 3.6 TeV in the $\mu\tau$ channel. A Z' boson with lepton flavor violating couplings is excluded up to a mass of 5.0 TeV in the e$\mu$ channel, up to 4.3 TeV in the e$\tau$ channel, and up to 4.1 TeV in the $\mu\tau$ channel. Quantum black holes in the benchmark model are excluded up to the threshold mass of 5.6 TeV in the e$\mu$ channel, 5.2 TeV in the e$\tau$ channel, and 5.0 TeV in the $\mu\tau$ channel. In addition, model-independent limits are extracted to allow comparisons with other models for the same final states and similar event selection requirements. The results of these searches provide the most stringent limits available from collider experiments for heavy particles that undergo lepton flavor violating decays.
Προκαταρκτική εξέταση και αυτεπάγγελτη προανάκριση στο πλαίσιο των εγκλημάτων του Ν. 4139/2013
Creators: name: Μπάντη, Ειρήνη Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ναρκωτικά
Προκαταρκτική εξέταση
Αυτεπάγγελτη Προανάκριση
Drugs
Preliminary examination
ex-officio preliminary investigation

description: Σύμφωνα με τον Μανωλεδάκη, δύο είναι τα σύγχρονα προβλήματα που οι κοινωνίες μας καλούνται επιτακτικά να αντιμετωπίσουν: η μόλυνση του περιβάλλοντος και η χρήση ναρκωτικών ουσιών, συνέπεια δε αμφοτέρων είναι η αυτοκαταστροφή και η ουσιαστική υποβάθμιση της αξίας της ανθρώπινης ζωής. Σε πρακτικό επίπεδο, η παραγωγή, διακίνηση και προώθηση των ουσιών αυτών έχει δημιουργήσει ολόκληρα κυκλώματα που δραστηριοποιούνται στην παραοικονομία και αποκομίζουν τεράστια ποσά. Παράλληλα βέβαια, παρατηρείται και αυξημένη ζήτηση από επίδοξους αγοραστές, άλλοτε λιγότερο κι άλλοτε περισσότερο εξαρτημένους. Οι δύο αυτές κατηγορίες ατόμων σχετίζονται με το φαινόμενο των ναρκωτικών, το οποίο αντιμετωπίζεται από το νομοθέτη ξεχωριστά σε σχέση με τα άλλα αδικήματα, σε ειδικό νομοθέτημα. Αυτή τη διαφορετική μεταχείριση θα εξετάσουμε στο πλαίσιο της προκαταρκτικής εξέτασης και της αυτεπάγγελτης προανάκρισης.
description: According to Manoledakis, there are two modern problems that our societies are urgently faced with: environmental pollution and drug abuse, and the consequence of both is self-destruction and the substantial degradation of the value of human life. On a practical level, the production, distribution and promotion of these substances has created entire crime rings that are active in the informal economy and earn huge sums. At the same time, of course, there is an increased demand from would-be buyers, sometimes less and sometimes more addicted to drugs. These two categories of persons are related to the drug phenomenon, which is treated by the legislator separately in relation to the other offenses, in a special legislation. Τhis differentiated treatment are we going to be studying in the context of the preliminary examination and the ex-officio preliminary investigation.
Qué estamos haciendo y qué necesitamos hacer: la hoja de ruta del Acceso Abierto en las Editoriales Universitarias Españolas
Creators: name: De Páiz, María Isabel
name: López-Carreño, Rosana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Acceso Abierto Diamante
Editoriales Universitarias Españolas
Revistas científicas

description: Este póster muestra con datos contrastados el liderazgo y la fortaleza de España en la publicación de revistas científicas de Acceso Abierto Diamante gracias al trabajo de las Editoriales Universitarias Españolas. Y que para soportar y hacer este modelo sostenible se requiere elaborar, aplicar y supervisar políticas y estrategias, así como dotar de financiación y reconocimiento a las Editoriales Universitarias. Contiene el Mapeo de las infraestructuras y revistas OA Diamante de las Editoriales Universitarias Españolas
description: Tiene una versión en inglés
Revealing A Trans-Planckian World Solves The Cosmological Constant Problem
Creators: name: Hamada, Ken-ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Planck scale is usually believed to be an unpassable wall. Putting a cutoff there and thinking of it as a quantized spacetime entity shows that. However, this is exactly the cause of many problems in quantum gravity. The cosmological constant problem also comes down to the problem of how to describe a trans-Planckian world by a continuum theory that shall be renormalizable and background free. Here, we show that when quantizing gravity in a diffeomorphism-invariant method, in which background freedom arises asymptotically as an exact conformal symmetry, the zero-point energy vanishes identically. Thus, there is no problem with the cosmological constant, which is a physical constant, namely a renormalization group invariant. We also argue that new quanta based on the background freedom emerge and spacetime is discretized dynamically. Primordial fluctuations will originate from such quanta.
description: 18 pages, typos in appendix corrected
Bentho-pelagic transport of methanotrophs at methane gas seep sites
Creators: name: Jordan, Sebastian Friedrich Alfons
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Life science

description: The presented work contributes to the overall understanding of the bubble-mediated transport process, by defining the parameters controlling the transport efficiency and identifying the methanotrophic bacteria transported into the water column via the gas bubbles. Further, it highlights the importance of bentho-pelagic transport processes at seep sites and their positive feedback on the pelagic methane sink.
Evolution of an Accretion Disk in Binary Black Hole Systems
Creators: name: Kimura, Shigeo S.
name: Takahashi, Sanemichi Z.
name: Toma, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate evolution of an accretion disc in binary black hole (BBH) systems and possible electromagnetic counterparts of the gravitational waves from mergers of BBHs. Perna et al. (2016) proposed a novel evolutionary scenario of an accretion disc in BBHs in which a disc eventually becomes "dead", i.e., the magnetorotational instability (MRI) becomes inactive. In their scenario, the dead disc survives until {\it a few seconds before} the merger event. We improve the dead disc model and propose another scenario, taking account of effects of the tidal torque from the companion and the critical ionization degree for MRI activation more carefully. We find that the mass of the dead disc is much lower than that in the Perna's scenario. When the binary separation sufficiently becomes small, the mass inflow induced by the tidal torque reactivates MRI, restarting mass accretion onto the black hole. We also find that this disc "revival" happens {\it more than thousands of years before} the merger. The mass accretion induced by the tidal torque increases as the separation decreases, and a relativistic jet could be launched before the merger. The emissions from these jets are too faint compared to GRBs, but detectable if the merger events happen within $\lesssim 10$ Mpc or if the masses of the black holes are as massive as $\sim 10^5 M_{\odot}$.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Lifecycles of concentrated atmospheric vortices
Creators: name: Roff., Gregory Lance
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Behavioral and sero prevalence survey of HIV 1 infection in Asosa, Benishangul –Gumuz national Regional state
Creators: name: Eshetu, Mesfin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2001

description: Measuring the occurrence of HIV infection is insufficient to make useful recommendations on health education strategies for the population. We assessed high-risk behaviors for HIV transmission in the general population and female sex workers, willingness for voluntary counseling and testing and HIV prevalence among pregnant mothers. A cross-sectional study on high-risk behavior among commercial sex workers and a random selection of the general male and female population was conducted from March to April 2001 in Asossa town. Simultaneously, anonymous unlinked surveillance for HIV was conducted in Asossa and Bambasi town. Mean age at first marriage for the general population and commercial sex workers was 18.9 and 15.2 years, respectively. [t=4.93; 95 % CI of 2.58-5.08]. Of 527 adults 67 (12.7%) engaged in commercial sex and 88 (16.7%) had non-regular sexual contacts in the 12 months prior to the survey. Mean age at which female sex workers first received money for sexual intercourse was 18.4 years. Persistent use of condoms by female sex workers with paying and non-paying client was 74% and 64.9% respectively. Knowledge on HIV prevention and willingness to receive voluntary counseling and testing was very low in both commercial sex workers and general population. HIV prevalence in Asossa town was 19.3% (34/176) and outside of Asossa (including Bambasi) was 4.7% (4/85). For urban residence, highest HIV prevalence was found in pregnant mothers of 15-19 years of age and only low income (
Analytical and structural applications of microwave spectroscopy
Creators: name: Rodgers., F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Characterizing (non-)Markovianity through Fisher Information
Creators: name: Abiuso, Paolo
name: Scandi, Matteo
name: De Santis, Dario
name: Surace, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A non-isolated physical system typically loses information to its environment, and when such loss is irreversible the evolution is said to be Markovian. Non-Markovian effects are studied by monitoring how information quantifiers, such as the distance between physical states, evolve in time. Here we show that the Fisher information metric emerges as a natural object to study in this context; we fully characterize the relation between its contractivity properties and Markovianity, both from the mathematical and operational point of view. We prove, both for classical and quantum dynamics, that Markovianity is equivalent to the monotonous contraction of the Fisher metric at all points of the set of states. At the same time, operational witnesses of non-Markovianity based on the dilation of the Fisher distance cannot, in general, detect all non-Markovian evolutions, unless specific physical postprocessing is applied to the dynamics. Finally, we show for the first time that non-Markovian dilations of Fisher distance between states at any time correspond to backflow of information about the initial state of the dynamics at time 0, via Bayesian retrodiction.
Η Ψυχιατρική προσέγγιση του ζητήματος της ευθανασίας
Creators: name: Ευαγγελάτος, Νικόλαος Χαρίλαου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ευθανασία
Ψυχιατρική προσέγγιση
Ψυχίατρος
Euthanasia
Psychiatric approach
Psychiatrist

description: Η ευθανασία αποτελεί ένα πολύπλοκο και αμφιλεγόμενο ζήτημα με κοινωνικές, ιατρικές και νομικές προεκτάσεις. Ο όρος υποδηλώνει ένα ανακουφιστικό θάνατο σε πάσχοντες από χρόνια νοσήματα, εφαρμόζεται σε ορισμένες χώρες κυρίως με τη μορφή της εκούσιας ενεργούς ευθανασίας και της υποβοηθούμενης αυτοκτονίας. Στο ζήτημα αυτό εμπλέκονται αρχές βιοηθικής, κώδικες δεοντολογίας και το δικαίωμα στη ζωή το θάνατο και την αυτονομία. Χρόνια ανίατα ,τελικού σταδίου καθώς και ψυχιατρικά νοσήματα οδηγούν συνηθέστερα σε αίτημα για ευθανασία. Ο ψυχίατρος συμμετέχει κυρίως σε αιτήματα από ψυχιατρικούς ασθενείς και επιβλέπει την εκπλήρωση των προϋποθέσεων για την εφαρμογή της ευθανασίας είτε την διενεργεί. Η αξιολόγηση των αιτημάτων από ψυχιατρικούς πάσχοντες χρήζει ιδιαίτερης προσοχής καθώς τα αιτήματα για ευθανασία μπορεί να συνιστούν και μια έκκληση για βοήθεια .
description: Euthanasia is a complex and controversial issue with social, medical and legal implications. The term notes a relieving death of patients suffering from chronic diseases it is applied in several countries with the forms of voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted dying. Principles of bioethics, medical ethics codes and the right to life and autonomy are intertwined with this topic. People suffering from chronic, incurable, terminal stage or psychiatric diseases frequently request euthanasia or assisted suicide. The psychiatrist is involved in the euthanasia procedure mainly in requests from psychiatric patients having the role of gatekeeper giving a formal advice regarding the fulfillment of procedural due care criteria or performing euthanasia herself. The assessment of euthanasia requests from psychiatric patients requires extreme care as these requests could be submitted by people who are actually seeking help.
Phosphorus speciation in soil and sediment indicating transformation processes from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems
Creators: name: Prüter, Julia
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 333.7 Natural resources, energy and environment
subject: 570 Life science
subject: 630 Agriculture

description: Phosphorus (P) is indispensable for organisms but also contributes to eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems. The objective of the work was to characterize P speciation and transformation at boundaries between land and sea. Samples were analyzed by sequential P fractionation, P X-ray absoprtion near edge structure spectroscopy and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Results confirmed a transition from labile Fe- and Al P in terrestrial soils towards stable Ca-P in aquatic sediments. To protect aquatic ecosystems from further P inputs, sinks for P have to be preserved.
Superconformal SU(1,1|n) mechanics
Creators: name: Galajinsky, Anton
name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in dynamical realizations of the superconformal group SU(1,1|2) in mechanics. Remarking that SU(1,1|2) is a particular member of a chain of supergroups SU(1,1|n) parametrized by an integer n, here we begin a systematic study of SU(1,1|n) multi-particle mechanics. A representation of the superconformal algebra su(1,1|n) is constructed on the phase space spanned by m copies of the (1,2n,2n-1) supermultiplet. We show that the dynamics is governed by two prepotentials V and F, and the Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde equation for F shows up as a consequence of a more general fourth-order equation. All solutions to the latter in terms of root systems reveal decoupled models only. An extension of the dynamical content of the (1,2n,2n-1) supermultiplet by angular variables in a way similar to the SU(1,1|2) case is problematic.
description: 1+8 pages; v2: eq.(14) corrected, one ref. added, published version
Experimental Investigation of Vacuum Breakdown Triggering Mechanisms in a DC Electrode System
Creators: name: Peacock, Ruth
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis describes the testing and results of the two pulsed DC large electrode systems at CERN, as part of a collaborations with the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) and Linear Accelerator 4 (Linac 4) projects. The pulsed DC systems consist of two precision machined electrodes placed parallel to one another, with a gap between 60 μm and 100 μm, under high vacuum to observe vacuum breakdown triggering mechanisms and conditioning. Descriptions of the setup with be given, as well as changes to the electrode drawings to improve reliability of machining with a reduced electric field enhancement. Additionally, a description of a new method of conditioning through pulses rather than breakdowns will be discussed. The new conditioning method was used to condition several different materials, including, TiAl6V4, CuCr1Zr, Nb, Cu OFE, Ta, and AlMgSi1, and observations of the characteristics observed are given. This is followed by the same materials except AlMgSi1 being irradiated by a H- beam, to observe the effects of irradiation on the electric field holding capabilities and breakdown locations throughout conditioning. Measurements of the field emission current for each pair of electrodes tested was conducted, using a constant DC supply. Analysis of the results gives the field enhancement factor, as well as comparisons between materials, polarity, and irradiation effects. During field emission measurements an optical spectrometer was attached to one window. The results are presented for the materials that produced light, showing the correlation between the light intensity at different wavelengths, with the voltage and field emission current. This can also be correlated with possible causes of light that would occur during field emission. Additionally fast fluctuations in the field emission current were measured and possible interpretations with respect to mobile dislocations are given.
Enhancing Sustainability: The Role of Crop Residue in Modern Agriculture
Creators: name: Bharat Malunjkar* and Nilesh Magar
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: In the quest for sustainable agriculture, effective management of crop residues has emerged as a critical factor in enhancing soil health, improving crop yields, and reducing environmental impact. Crop residue management in modern farming practices can increase organic matter, enhance nutrient availability, and improve soil structure, which collectively contributes to more resilient and productive agricultural systems. Additionally, the article discusses innovative techniques such as resource conservation technology, residue recycling, its utilization and alternative uses like composting, bio fuels, bio gas/energy and mulching. On the other hand, burning of crop residue increases greenhouse gas emissions and environment pollution. By adopting effective crop residue management practices, farmers can significantly achieve sustainability goals, ensuring long-term agricultural viability and environmental stewardship.
Characterization of two electronic subsystems in cuprates through optical conductivity
Creators: name: Kumar, C. M. N.
name: Akrap, Ana
name: Homes, Chris C.
name: Martino, Edoardo
name: Klebel-Knobloch, Benjamin
name: Tabis, Wojciech
name: Barišić, Osor S.
name: Sunko, Denis K.
name: Barišić, Neven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the physical properties of unconventional superconductors as well as of other correlated materials presents a formidable challenge. Their unusual evolution with doping, frequency, and temperature has frequently led to non-Fermi-liquid (non-FL) interpretations. Optical conductivity is a major challenge in this context. Here, the optical spectra of two archetypal cuprates, underdoped HgBa$_2$CuO$_{4+δ}$ and optimally-doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$, are interpreted based on the standard Fermi liquid (FL) paradigm. At both dopings, perfect frequency-temperature FL scaling is found to be modified by the presence of a second, gapped electronic subsystem. This non-FL component emerges as a well-defined mid-infrared spectral feature after the FL contribution -- determined independently by transport -- is subtracted. Temperature, frequency, and doping evolution of the MIR feature identify a gapped rather than dissipative response. In contrast, the dissipative response is found to be relevant for pnictides and ruthenates. Such an unbiased FL/non-FL separation is extended across the cuprate phase diagram, capturing all the key features of the normal state and providing a natural explanation why the superfluid density is attenuated on the overdoped side. Thus, we obtain a unified interpretation of optical responses and transport measurements in all analyzed physical regimes and all analyzed compounds.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures
In vitro characterisation of factors controlling the innate immune response in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Creators: name: Sarais, Fabio
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 570 Life science
subject: 590 Zoological sciences

description: In terms of traits and components, the innate immune system of teleost fish is similar to that of mammals. Despite the fact that gene or protein orthology and conservation allow for function similarity, the Whole Genome Duplication (WGD) that occurred early in the life of ray-finned fishes permitted the formation of paralog genes with novel functions in fish. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was focused towards the characterisation of selected factors able to regulate the innate immune response of rainbow trout and in salmonid cell models.
Wolfgang Schroeder, Bernhard Weßels (Hg.): Die Gewerkschaften in Politik und Gesellschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Ein Handbuch. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag 2003, ISBN: 3-531-13587-2, 725 Seiten, 42,90 Euro.
Creators: name: Martens, Helmut
Publisher: name: Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Arbeit
Prevalence of Hypertension and Its Determinants in Ethiopian Adult population
Creators: name: G.Hiwot, Mismay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1992

description: A community based cross sectional survey was conducted from October 15/1991 to December 31g 1991, to measure the prevalence of hypertension and its determinants in Wonchi Awraja. From 9 urban kebeles and 184 rural kebeles in the Awraja 24 kebeles were selected by mUltistage sampling from which a total of 2,745 individuals who are 15 years old or abcive were included in the study. Relevant measurements of-blood pressure, pulse rate count, body weight, height, waist girth, and hip girth of the study subjects were taken and a pretested questionnaire was filled to assess some of the other determinants of hypertension. It was found that the prevalence of hypertension in the Awraja is 8.3t. The urban population has a higher prevalence of hypertension 11. 8t, than that of the rural population, 7. 5t, (P
Assessment of Status of Long Acting and Permanent Family Planning Services in Mekelle Town, Tigray Regional State
Creators: name: Gebrekidan, Kidane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: Despite the reality of a high unmet need, Contraceptive prevalence in the country is very low with only 15% of married women using any type of contraception. Besides to this, the knowledge and practice of family planning is limited to the usage of short- term contraceptive methods. So the objective of this study is to assess the status of long acting and permanent family planning services provision. A cross-sectional descriptive study that involved exit interviews with clients, health care providers, observations on clients-provider interactions, assessment of the availability of necessary resources for provision of LAPMs, and service statistics review was conducted from April to June 2008 in six health service delivery points in Tigray regional state of Mekelle town. Four hundred twenty two FP clients and ten health care providers were interviewed while observation on 481 client-health care provider interactions was conducted. About 269(92.4%) clients wanted their next birth after two to six years. currently 392(92.9%) and 30(7.1%) of clients are using injectable and pill respectively. Of the total clients 312 (73.9%) and 99(23.5%) were using the method for spacing and limiting respectively. About 10(20.4%), 3 (6.1%), 2 (4%) and 1 (2%) of new clients were informed about implants, IUCD, and female and male sterilization respectively. about 183(87.6%) of the clients stated the provider let them ask the questions and among these 175(95.6%) the providers responded to their questions satisfactorily. Of the 10 health care providers interviewed six had received training in counseling and providing implants with in the last five years. Four of the providers did not feel that they had knowledge and skills necessary to do LAPM services. Four and five facilities reported running out of pills and implants in last six months respectively. Several constraints in the provision of LAPM service are identified and needs to be improving through training, coordination and maintaining adequate resources.