cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Revisiting level II sleep studies in the era of COVID-19: a theoretical economic decision model in patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea
Creators: name: Ayas, Najib
name: Jen, Rachel
name: Baumann, Brett
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background The recent pandemic has made it more challenging to assess patients with suspected obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with in laboratory polysomnography (PSG) due to concerns of patient and staff safety. The purpose of this study was to assess how Level II sleep studies (LII, full PSG in the home) might be utilized in diagnostic algorithms of suspected OSA using a theoretical decision model. Methods We examined four diagnostic algorithms for suspected OSA: an initial PSG approach, an initial LII approach, an initial Level III approach (LIII, limited channel home sleep study) followed by PSG if needed, and an initial LIII approach followed by LII if needed. Costs per patient assessed was calculated as a function of pretest OSA probability and a variety of other variables (e.g. costs of tests, failure rate of LIII/LII, sensitivity/specificity of LIII). The situation in British Columbia was used as a case study. Results The variation in cost per test was calculated for each algorithm as a function of the above variables. For British Columbia, initial LII was the least costly across a broad range of pretest OSA probabilities (< 0.80) while initial LIII followed by LII as needed was least costly at very high pretest probability (> 0.8). In patients with a pretest OSA probability of 0.5, costs per patient for initial PSG, initial LII, initial LIII followed by PSG, and initial LIII followed by LII were: $588, $417, $607, and $481 respectively. Conclusions Using a theoretical decision model, we developed a preliminary cost framework to assess the potential role of LII studies in OSA assessment. Across a broad range of patient pretest probabilities, initial LII studies may provide substantial cost advantages. LII studies might be especially useful during pandemics as they combine the extensive physiologic information characteristic of PSG with the ability to avoid in-laboratory stays. More empiric studies need to be done to test these different algorithms.
Rhagium (Hagrium) bifasciatum Fabricius 1775
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Rhagium
Rhagium bifasciatum

description: 30. Rhagium (Hagrium) bifasciatum Fabricius, 1775 31. Rhagium (Rhagium) inquisitor inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Can Achilles tendon xanthoma be distinguished from Achilles tendinopathy using Dixon method MRI? A cross-sectional exploratory study
Creators: name: Zahradnik, Thomas M.
name: Cresswell, Mark
name: Squier, Kip
name: Waugh, Charlotte
name: Brunham, Liam
name: Screen, Hazel
name: Scott, Alexander
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Familial hypercholesterolemia is a genetic condition characterized by life-long elevations of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. In addition to life-threatening cardiovascular complications, intratendinous cholesterol deposits (xanthomas) can lead to pain and tendon thickening, particularly in the Achilles. Clinical detection of xanthomas currently relies upon visual assessment and palpation, or ultrasound-based measures of tendon thickening or echotexture. Misdiagnosis of xanthoma can delay the commencement of potentially life-saving lipid-lowering therapy. Our primary purpose was to determine whether analysis of separated fat and water magnetic resonance images may be able to differentiate between xanthomatic and nonxanthomatic Achilles tendons through quantification of intratendinous fat content. The main hypothesis was that Achilles tendon xanthomas will demonstrate greater lipid content than Achilles tendinopathy or healthy control tendons. Methods Bilateral MRI scans of Achilles tendons from 30 participants (n = 10 Achilles tendon xanthoma, n = 10 Achilles overuse tendinopathy, n = 10 healthy controls) were analyzed for total lipid content using the Dixon method of fat and water signal separation. Secondary outcome measures included tendon water content, as well as ultrasound characterization of tendon tissue organization and thickness. Results Fat content was greater in Achilles tendon xanthomas compared to the tendinopathy (p < 0.0001) and control groups (p < 0.0001). Water content was also greater in Achilles tendon xanthomas compared to the tendinopathy (p < 0.0001) and control groups (p = 0.0002). Ultrasound tissue characterization revealed worse tissue organization in Achilles tendon xanthoma tendons compared to Achilles tendinopathy (p < 0.05) but demonstrated largely overlapping distributions. Achilles tendon xanthoma tendons were, on average, significantly thicker than the tendons of the other two groups (p < 0.01 and p < 0.001, respectively). Conclusion MRI-derived measures of Achilles tendon fat content may be able to distinguish xanthomas from control and tendinopathic tissue. Dixon method MRI warrants further evaluation in an adequately powered study to develop and test clinically relevant diagnostic thresholds.
The chloroplast genomes of Sanicula (Apiaceae): plastome structure, comparative analyses, and phylogenetic relationships
Creators: name: Yang, Chen
name: Yao, Xue-Ying
name: Chen, Zhi-Xiang
name: Downie, Stephen R.
name: Wang, Qi-Zhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Apiaceae
Sanicula
chloroplast genome
comparative analysis
Phylogeny

description: Sanicula (Apiaceae subfamily Saniculoideae) is a taxonomically difficult genus of medicinal value. Its distribution center is in China, where there are 18 species (11 of which are endemic). To provide plastid genome resources, whole chloroplast genomes of five Sanicula species (S. flavovirens, S. giraldii, S. lamelligera, S. odorata, and S. rubriflora) were sequenced and compared to the previously published S. orthacantha plastome. These genomes exhibit a typical quadripartite structure. All contain 129 different genes, including 84 protein-coding, 37 tRNA, and 8 rRNA genes. Loci rpl2, matK, psbA, and ycf1 are the most variable. Results of maximum likelihood analysis of 90 whole plastome sequences from Apioideae and Saniculoideae and the outgroup Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae) reveal sectional relationships in Sanicula different from the traditional classification system, support the monophyly of Apioideae and its sister group relationship to Saniculoideae, and show concordant topologies to nrDNA ITS and other plastome-based phylogenies. Sanicula orthacantha and S. chinensis form a clade sister group to S. lamelligera and S. odorata, consecutively. These four species comprise a clade sister group to the clade of S. rubriflora and S. flavovirens, with this entire group sister to S. giraldii. The plastid genome resources provided herein will be important for future systematic, evolutionary, phylogenomic, and population-level studies of Sanicula.
description: Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 31500162Funding provided by: Specimen Platform of China, Teaching Specimens Sub-platform*
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Award Number: 2005DKA21403-JKFunding provided by: Sub-topics on the construction of Chinese university campus plant websites*
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Award Number: K Longitudinal 20180947Funding provided by: National Special Fund for Chinese medicine resources Research in the public Interest of China*
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Award Number: 2018-43Funding provided by: General Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province*
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Award Number: 2020J01078
Finding and tracking local communities in social networks using differential geometry
Creators: name: Rigi, Mohammad Amin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Community detection methods in networks can be classified into two domains, global methods and local methods. Many networks are typically very large, making the global community detection methods impractical due to the computational expense. In addition, the constant stream of changes in the structure of networks makes it impossible for anyone to know the structure of the network fully. Therefore, local community detection algorithms, which do not need full knowledge of the structures of the network, have met with renewed interest. This thesis focuses on the problem of finding local communities and tracking them in dynamic networks using derivative-based geometric features by mapping the concepts of derivatives into graph space.
Agapanthia (Agapanthia) cardui
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Agapanthia
Agapanthia cardui

description: 32. Agapanthia (Agapanthia) cardui (Linnaeus, 1767)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Calamobius filum
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Calamobius
Calamobius filum

description: 33. Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Pogonocherus (Pogonocherus) hispidulus
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pogonocherus
Pogonocherus hispidulus

description: 34. Pogonocherus (Pogonocherus) hispidulus (Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Towards an alternative approach to policy design to empower Indigenous Australians in the upcoming green economy: a cross-cultural service design-thinking framework
Creators: name: Fiocco, Paul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The research in this thesis focused on 1) policy design in Indigenous Affairs and how best to enable Indigenous Australian policy recipients to design their own outcomes using a framework that places Indigenous values at its core; 2) how the emerging low-carbon (“green”) economy can generate meaningful (culturally fulfilling) employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians (renewable energy social enterprises) and how the above framework can help facilitate this from the ground up. It benefits society by enhancing Indigenous cultural health and wellbeing and economic independence and responds positively to the pressing climate crisis by providing Australian households with clean, renewable energy.
Anaesthetis testacea subsp. testacea
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anaesthetis
Anaesthetis testacea
Anaesthetis testacea testacea (fabricius, 1781)

description: 35. Anaesthetis testacea testacea (Fabricius, 1781)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Regional Input-Output Analysis: An Appraisal of an Imperfect World
Creators: name: Lahr, Michael L.
Publisher: name: University of Guadalajara";"University of Guadalajara
Year: 2016
Subjects: Input-output analysis
Regional science
Regional Economics

description: In the last retrospective on regional input-output analysis, Hewings and Jensen (1988) set out a set of emerging challenges. This paper generally examines how those challenges have been met in the intervening 25 years (plus some). A feature of this endeavor is to help young scholars identify research directions. In this vein, along the way I point out avenues that could be pursued. I conclude by identifying topics in input-output analysis that are currently hot and those that are not.
Individual project on theme "Epeorus E." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Shipunov Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Шипунова Петра по теме "Epeorus E." в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Oberea (Oberea) oculata
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oberea
Oberea oculata

description: 36. Oberea (Oberea) oculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Large-Scale Reassessment of In-Vineyard Smoke-Taint Grapevine Protection Strategies and the Development of Predictive Off-Vine Models
Creators: name: Favell, James W.
name: Fordwour, Osei Boakye
name: Morgan, Sydney C.
name: Zigg, Ieva
name: Zandberg, Wesley F.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Smoke taint in wine is thought to be caused by smoke-derived volatile phenols (VPs) that are absorbed into grape tissues, trapped as conjugates that are imperceptible by smell, and subsequently released into wines as their free odor-active forms via metabolism by yeasts during fermentation. Blocking VP uptake into grapes would, therefore, be an effective way for vineyards to protect ripening grape crops exposed to smoke. Here, we re-evaluated a biofilm that had previously shown promise in pilot studies in reducing levels of smoke-derived VPs. A suite of nine free and acid-labile VPs were quantitated in Pinot Noir grapes that had been exposed to smoke after being coated with the biofilm one, seven or 14 days earlier. In contrast with earlier studies, our results demonstrated that in all cases, the biofilm treatments led to increased concentrations of both free and total VPs in smoke-exposed grapes, with earlier applications elevating concentrations of some VPs more than the later time points. Tracking VP concentrations through the grape ripening process demonstrated that some (phenol, p/m-cresol, and guaiacol) were not entirely sequestered in grapes as acid-labile conjugates, suggesting the presence of VP storage forms beyond simple glycosides. Free VPs in grapes, though a minor portion of the total, most clearly correlated with concentrations present in the resulting wines. Finally, red table grapes, available year round, were observed to replicate the effects of the biofilm treatments and were capable of transforming most VPs into acid-labile conjugates in under 24 h, indicating that they might be an effective model for rapidly assessing smoke-taint prophylactic products in the laboratory.
Energieerzeugung aus Abfällen
Creators: name: Flamme, Sabine
name: Hanewinkel, Jörg
name: Quicker, Peter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Abfall
subject: Abfallverwertung
subject: Abfallprognose
subject: Abfallbehandlung
subject: Abfallverbrennung
subject: Energie aus Abfall
subject: Thermische Abfallbehandlung
subject: Müllverbrennung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Die europäische Abfallrahmenrichtlinie ordnet die energetische Verwertung von Abfällen in die vierte Stufe der Hierarchie, unterhalb der stofflichen Verwertung, ein. Dennoch wird eine große Menge an Abfällen der energetischen Verwertung zugeführt. Diese Abfälle leisten inzwischen einen relevanten Beitrag zur Strom-, Wärme- und Prozessenergieversorgung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Im Fokus dieser Studie stand die Ermittlung der aktuellen Abfallpotenziale zur Energieerzeugung in Deutschland und die Quantifizierung der verfügbaren Anlagenkapazitäten zu deren Nutzung. Auf dieser Basis wurde eine ⁠Prognose⁠ zur Situation im Jahr 2030 abgeleitet. Für beide Szenarien (Ist-Zustand und Prognose) wurden die ⁠CO2⁠-Reduktionspotenziale durch die energetische Nutzung der Abfälle bestimmt.
title: Influence of the manufacturing sequence on the microstructure and mechanical properties of hybrid 316L and 17-4 PH walls manufactured with DED-Arc/M
Creators: name: Faßhauer, M.
name: Maier, H.
name: Hassel, T.
Publisher: name: TU Clausthal
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: The DED-Arc/M (DED: direct energy deposition; Arc: arc as energy source; M: metallic material) process utilises the arc welding process for the additive manufacturing (AM) of components. This offers the possibility of producing so-called functionally graded additive manufacturing (FGAM) structures. The aim of the present study is to illustrate the dependence of microstructural and mechanical properties on the manufacturing sequence of hybrid materials made from the high-alloy stainless steels 316L and 17-4 PH. For this purpose, GMAW-DED-Arc/M was used to produce vertical multilayer walls consisting of monomaterial 316L, a resulting transition zone and monomaterial 17-4 PH in the build-up direction. Micrographs and EDX analysis show a transition zone over three consecutive layers, when the respective filler material is exchanged. Microhardness tests of the transition zone show an abrupt change for both production sequences, whereby the hardness is similar to that of 316L or 17-4 PH. Tensile tests were used to determine the mechanical properties of the materials in the build-up direction. In the test, the hybrid components each failed in the region that consists of the material 316L, whereby the strengths are in the range of previous literature data and are not dependent on the manufacturing sequence.
description: Tagungsband 6. Symposium Materialtechnik: 20. bis 21. Februar 2025
Phytoecia (Opsilia) coerulescens subsp. coerulescens
Creators: name: Torrella, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 37. Phytoecia (Opsilia) coerulescens coerulescens (Scopoli, 1763)
description: Published as part of Torrella, Pablo, 2023, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) de Galicia en la colección entomológica del Museo de Historia Natural de la SGHN (Ferrol, Galicia, España), pp. 219-244 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 26 on page 244, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13245598
Knowledge based learning, an example
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Chitoor V.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1980

description: Domain knowledge is viewed here as consisting of two parts: A domain theory, TH[D], for a domain D, which can be used to decide whether a given instance, S,belongs to the domain D or not, and domain heuristics, H[D], which can be used by a machine to solve problems in the domain D using the theory TH[D]. A machine that can build theories TH[D] and learn H[D] from experience of using TH[D] to solve problems in D is called a Knowledge Based Learning machine. The theory formation aspects of a knowledge based learning machine are illustrated here with a simple example. It is argued that such a machine should be endowed with the right kinds of a priori "biases" in order to be able to examine given instances of a domain and formulate domain theories. The example is used here to present a typical set of generally applicable "biases" of a knowledge based learning machine.
Providing Quality of Service Guarantees Using Only Edge Routers
Creators: name: Bhatnagar, Sudeept
name: Vickers, Brett J.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Quality of service (Computer networks)
Computer network architectures
Core-stateless networking
Route pinning
Bandwidth guarantees

description: Providing strict bandwidth guarantees to packet flows in the Internet is an inherently challenging task. It requires signaling mechanisms, policing mechanisms, accurate and rapid accounting of network resources, and call admission control. We present a novel protocol that provides bandwidth guarantees to Internet packet flows. This protocol, called the Edge-assisted Quality of Service (EQOS) protocol, requires modifications to only a subset of an administrative domain’s routers, namely the edge routers on the domain’s periphery. Legacy routers within the core of the domain require no modifications. We present the results of several simulation experiments showing that EQOS is able to provide bandwidth guarantees to competing flows.
Supplementary Figures from Global biogeography of warning coloration in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus
Creators: name: Liu, Wanzhen
name: Smith, David A. S.
name: Raina, Gayatri
name: Stanforth, Rowan
name: Ng'Iru, Ivy
name: Ireri, Piera
name: Martins, Dino J.
name: Gordon, Ian J.
name: Martin, Simon H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figures S1-S11 (.pdf)
Orchestrating On-Chip Memory Resources for Throughput-Oriented Compilation
Creators: name: Ames, Jeff
name: Zhan, Ying
name: Zhang, Eddy Z.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2012

description: A key factor in GPU performance efficiency is the number of active threads that can run simultaneously on each streaming multi-processor. The active threads have their states saved on fast memory devices and can quickly be scheduled to run if the set of running threads stalls due to memory latency. The greater number of active threads we have, the higher utilization we can obtain from many-core processor pipelines. To achieve optimal utilization, we typically need many more active threads than the number of physical cores. Due to limited on-chip memory resources including registers and scratch-pad memory, and the fact that every thread gets a equal partition of on-chip memory resource, the number of active threads depends on the characteristics of a given program and the back-end compilation efficiency in resource allocation. When a large and complicated program requires more registers per thread, the program performance may degrade significantly due to the decrease in the total number of active threads. In this paper, we propose a novel resource allocation approach for back-end compilation of throughput GPU processors. This approach leverages on-chip scratch-pad memory to reduce register pressure and increase GPU processor occupancy for maximum throughput. The scratch-pad memory serves as middle layer between register and long-latency off-chip memory. On one hand, it reduces register usage per-thread. On the other hand, it can serve as a caching layer for variables that need to be staged into registers from global memory. We have formulated the resource allocation problem for optimal utilization and throughput of many-core processors, and proposed efficient models and techniques. We implemented these techniques in a binary optimizer, and evaluated it on a set of realistic benchmarks on real GPUs. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our techniques by achieving up to 1.65 times speedup compared to the programs compiled by nvcc with highest optimization flag.
Demographic characteristics associated with food allergy in a Nationwide Canadian Study
Creators: name: Clarke, Ann E.
name: Elliott, Susan J.
name: St. Pierre, Yvan
name: Soller, Lianne
name: La Vieille, Sebastien
name: Ben-Shoshan, Moshe
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Introduction We conducted a nationwide Canadian telephone survey on food allergy prevalence between February 2016 and January 2017, targeting vulnerable populations (New, Indigenous, and lower-income Canadians). Objective To examine the independent effect of demographic characteristics on food allergy. Methods Canadian households with vulnerable populations were targeted using Canadian Census data and the household respondent reported whether each household member had a perceived (self-reported) or probable (self-report of a convincing history or physician diagnosis) food allergy. The association between perceived and probable food allergy and demographic characteristics was assessed through weighted multivariable random effects logistic regressions. Results Children, females, Canadian-born participants, adults with post-secondary education, and those residing in smaller households were more likely to report perceived or probable food allergy. Although immigrant parents self-reported less food allergy, Canadian-born children of Southeast/East Asian immigrant versus other immigrant or Canadian-born parents reported more food allergy. Conclusion We have demonstrated clear associations between demographic characteristics and food allergy, which may provide important clues to the environmental determinants of food allergy.
Clustering and Domination in Perfect Graphs
Creators: name: Corneil, D. G.
name: Perl, Yehoshua
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1983

description: A K-Cluster in a graph is an induced sub graph on k-vertices, which maximizes the number of edges. Both the K-Cluster problem and the K-dominating set problem are NP-complete for graphs in general. In this paper we investigate the complexity status of these problems on various subclasses of perfect graphs. In particular, we examine comparability graphs, chordal graphs, bipartite graphs, split graphs, co graphs and K-trees. For example, it is shown that the K-Cluster problem is NP-complete for both bipartite and chordal graphs and the independent K-dominating set problem is NP-complete for bipartite graphs. Furthermore, where the Kcluster problem is polynomial we study the weighted and connected versions as well. Similarly we also look at the minimum K-dominating set problem on families, which have polynomial K-dominating set algorithms.
การบรรเลงกู่เจิงเพลงไทยแบบแผน: บริบททางวัฒนธรรมและความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคม
Creators: name: อธิพัชร์ สุวรรณวัฒนะ
Publisher: name: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์ โครงการบัณฑิตศึกษา สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนศิลป์
Year: 2022
Subjects: กู่เจิง
วัฒนธรรม
ความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคม
เพลงไทยแบบแผน

description: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์, 2, 1, 1-14
Transnational Migration and the Commodification of Elder Care in Urban Ghana
Creators: name: Coe, Cati
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Transnational migration
Elder care
Markets
Social remittances
Ghana

description: Over the past twenty years, organizations to provide commercial nursing services, mainly to the sick and debilitated elderly, have sprung up in Accra, Ghana. This article assesses the degree to which transnational migration has generated social changes in aging at the level of everyday practices. It argues that a range of social actors differently involved in transnational migration has created and sustained a market for home nursing agencies in Ghana through diverse processes involving the imagination of care work abroad, complex negotiations between the elderly at home and their anxious children abroad, increased financial resources among the middle class, and the evaluations of Western elder care services by return and current migrants. These dynamics illustrate the complexity of the role of transnational migration in generating social change and highlight the significance of the needs of local families and the role of the imagination in shaping social remittances from abroad.
การศึกษาประสิทธิภาพการกรองของหน้ากากทางการแพทย์ N95 หลังจากผ่านการฆ่าเชื้อด้วยต้นแบบเครื่องฆ่าเชื้อไวรัสโคโรน่าแบบอัตโนมัติ
Creators: name: อภิชาติ สังข์ทอง
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลธัญบุรี
Year: 2022
Subjects: เครื่องฆ่าเชื้อโรคด้วยแสงยูวีซี
หน้ากากแบบใช้ซ้ำได้
อัลตราไวโอเลต
การฆ่าเชื้อโรค

description: Journal of Applied Research on Science and Technology (JARST), 21, 1, 1-10
Informal employment and the earnings of home-based home care workers in the United States
Creators: name: Kim, Jeounghee
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Home care workers
Household employees
Independent contractors
State minimum wages
Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
United States

description: Informal employment continues to exist in parallel with formal employment among the U.S. home-based home care workers and undermines the workers’ economic security. This study examines the extent to which the earnings of the U.S. home-based home care workers are affected by informal employment arrangements and state labor policies designed to benefit low-wage home care workers. Using a sample of 1,318 home-based home care workers from the 2017 and 2018 Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey, this study found that (1) informally employed home-based home care workers had a 9% reduction in annual earnings and that (2) their earnings were not improved by generous state minimum wages and Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights while the earnings of agency employees were. The findings highlight the importance of strong enforcement of labor standards for informally employed home care workers in the United States.
การปรับปรุงคุณสมบัติกระดาษจากเยื่อกล้วยด้วยคาร์บอกซิเมทิลเซลลูโลส
Creators: name: อัครเดช ทองสว่าง
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลธัญบุรี
Year: 2022
Subjects: กระดาษเชิงหัตถกรรม
สมบัติกระดาษ
คาร์บอกซิเมทิลเซลลูโลส

description: Journal of Applied Research on Science and Technology (JARST), 21, 1, 11-21
Wither law student information literacy?
Creators: name: Kim-Prieto, Dennis C
Publisher: name: DIPF
Year: 2021
Subjects: Rechtswissenschaft
USA
Studium
Informationskompetenz
Student
Recherche
Recht
Law Student Information Literacy

description: Information Literacy has only recently been applied to instructional frameworks and benchmarking assessment for legal research skills in the United States. This paper seeks to answer two simple questions: what has IL done for legal research since AALL has adopted Legal Research Competencies and Standards for Law Student Information Literacy, and what is the future of IL in legal research classrooms and the practice of law around the world? (DIPF/Orig.)
Tipping Point Konzeptionen im Kontext eines nachhaltigen gesellschaftlichen Wandels
Creators: name: Brohmann, Bettina
name: David, Martin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sozialer Wandel
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Soziale Innovation
subject: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel
subject: transformation
subject: Transition Management
subject: Pioniere des Wandels
subject: Models of change
subject: Gesellschaftliche Transformation
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: Eingebettet in die übergeordneten Fragestellungen des Projekts „Transformationsstrategien und Models of Change für nachhaltigen gesellschaftlichen Wandel“ vertieft der vorliegende Bericht (AP 3) die Aspekte und die Bedeutung von Tipping Points wenn gesellschaftlicher  Wandel in Richtung ⁠Nachhaltigkeit⁠ ausgelöst oder gestaltet werden soll. Zur Analyse und Bewertung der verschiedenen angewandten Konzepte und Elemente von Tipping Points werden – nach einer umfassenden Literaturanalyse - empirisch fundierte Ansätze aus neun verschiedenen  disziplinären und interdisziplinären  Zusammenhängen, wie Soziologie, Epidemiologie, Erdsystemwissenschaften oder Klinische Forschung diskutiert. Um die verschiedenen Phasen des Tipping in diesen unterschiedlichen Feldern vergleichen zu können, wurde eine eigene Typologie entwickelt. Aufbauend auf dieser Typologie und einem weitergehenden Kriterienset (mit den Kategorien Kausalität, Zeit, Wirkmechanismen, Stabilität und Instabilität sowie Prozesssteuerung) wird geprüft, ob Hinweise auf die Gestaltbarkeit des Tipping Prozesses (im Gesamtsystem oder in Teilsystemen) gegeben werden. Die Diskussion der hier entwickelten Typologie - der die relevanten Forschungsdiskurse zugeordnet wurden - zeigt ein Gestaltungspotenzial in Teilsystemen. Im Anschluss werden die Übertragbarkeit und Anwendbarkeit für eine Governance (Auslösung, Unterstützung oder Vermeidung von Tipping) zur Nachhaltigkeit diskutiert. Die Übertragbarkeit von Prozessabläufen des Tippings in Teilsystemen auf andere (Gesamt-)Systeme muss jeweils kritisch reflektiert werden – von einer Verallgemeinerbarkeit kann zunächst nicht ausgegangen werden. Abschließend werden Forschungsempfehlungen sowie Schlussfolgerungen für die Politik formuliert.
Influences of risk tolerance, perception and safety climate on unsafe behaviors in construction: workers and managers
Creators: name: Li, Pengpeng
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite improvements made in construction safety over the last few decades, injuries and fatalities still occur on a regular basis. So, how to prevent unsafe behaviors on site for both workers and managers is an important issue. This research tries to understand how construction practitioners process safety risk information from the perspective of how people perceive and tolerate safety risks under certain safety climate. Based on these behavior analyses, it provides valuable practical insights for better and more effective construction safety management.
Describing Sources of Uncertainty in Cancer Drug Formulary Priority Setting across Canada
Creators: name: Jenei, Kristina
name: Peacock, Stuart
name: Burgess, Michael M.
name: Mitton, Craig, 1972-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Over the years, there have been significant advances in oncology. However, the rate that therapeutics come to market has increased, while the strength of evidence has decreased. Currently, there is limited understanding about how these uncertainties are managed in provincial funding decisions for cancer therapeutics. We conducted qualitative interviews with six senior officials from four different Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario) and a document review of the uncertainties found in submissions to the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review (pCODR). Participants reported considerable uncertainty related to a lack of solid clinical evidence (early-phase clinical trials: generalizability, immature data, and the use of unvalidated surrogate outcomes). Proposed strategies to deal with the uncertainty included risk-sharing agreements, collection of real-world evidence (RWE), and ongoing collaboration between federal groups and provinces. The document review added to the reported uncertainties by classifying them into five main categories: trial validity, population, comparators, outcomes, and intervention. This study highlights how decision makers must deal with significant amounts of uncertainty in funding decisions for cancer drugs, most of which stems from methodological limitations in clinical trials. There is a critical need for transparent priority-setting processes and mechanisms to reevaluate drugs to ensure benefit given the high level of uncertainty of novel therapeutics.
Deliverable 5.1 - project E³UDRES² Ent-r-e-novators
Creators: name: de Conninck, Sarah
name: Reulens, Ann
name: Jorge, Adriana
name: Ruivo, Alice
name: Czedik-Eysenberg, Angelika
name: Garamvolgyi, Judit
name: Vert, Silviu
name: Dumitrel, Alina
name: Veliverronena, Linda
name: Locmele, Liene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Models of engagement guide
Mapping properties to individuals in language acquisition
Creators: name: Syrett, Kristen
Publisher: name: Cascadilla Press";"Cascadilla Press
Year: 2014
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
Language Acquisition

description: In this research, I investigate the onset of children’s recognition that certain predicates -- predicates that are frequent and/or familiar to young children -- obligatorily apply at the individual level. The findings demonstrate that this knowledge is nascent at least by 3 years of age, and that it applies to groups of individuals referred to not only by count nouns, which have overt plural morphology, but also by object mass nouns, which lack it. Thus, I argue that children are driven by their conceptualization of the mereology of groups, rather than surface morphosyntax, and are sensitive to the fact that the lexical semantic representations of predicates may also tap into this structure.
Equity of access to Uber's wheelchair accessible service
Creators: name: Hassanpour, Amir
name: Bigazzi, Alexander York
name: MacKenzie, Don
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Ridesourcing service providers have expanded rapidly in recent years, but accessibility for people with disabilities is an ongoing issue. UberWAV was launched in September 2015, providing wheelchair accessible vehicles equipped with a rear-entry ramp, winch, and restraints for riders who travel with a wheeled mobility aid. The objectives of this study were 1) to assess the equity performance of UberWAV by itself and in comparison to UberX by investigating the temporal and spatial distributions of the availability and accessibility of each service, and 2) to compare the availability, wait time, and price of UberWAV in Portland to the requirements in the city code. Demand-weighted probability of availability (WPA) and demand-weighted estimated time of arrival (WETA) were calculated for each service using Application Programming Interface (API) data extracted at 71 gridded locations in Portland, Oregon in 2018 and U.S. National Household Travel Survey data. WPA and WETA were then regressed over sociodemographic variables, controlling for spatial correlation, to investigate systematic patterns in access by neighborhood. Results indicate large disparities in availability between the WAV and standard Uber services. WPA of UberX was consistently over 99%, while WPA for UberWAV averaged 62% with substantial fluctuations by time of day. Average WETA for UberWAV was 18.8 min, 4.5 times higher than for UberX, and again had greater temporal variability. UberWAV met the service requirements in the Portland city code for availability and wait time under 30 min just 58% of the time (demand-weighted). While UberWAV access was substantially poorer than for UberX, the access was not inequitably distributed with regard to neighborhood income or racial composition. UberWAV was more accessible in areas where a higher percentage of people with ambulatory disabilities lived. A larger fleet of UberWAV vehicles would be needed, particularly through the middle of the day, if Uber is to provide equal access for people using a wheelchair and to meet the requirements in the Portland city code.
title: On strong separations from AC0
title: On strong separations from AC0
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Allender, Eric
name: Gore, Vivek
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1992

description: As part of a study of almost-everywhere complex sets, we investigate sets that are immune to AC0; that is, sets with no infinite subset in AC0. We show that such sets exist in PPP and in DSPACE(log n log n). Our main result is an oracle construction indicating that any improvement in these immunity results will represent a significant advance, in that we show that any answer to the question: Are there sets in NP that are immune to AC0? will provide non-relativizable proof techniques suitable for attacking the Ntime vs Dtime question. That is, we show that the existence or nonexistence of AC0-immune sets in NP has consequences concerning the complexity of sets indeterministic and nondeterministic exponential time.
Do the fundamental constants of nature vary in spacetime?
Creators: name: Kotus, Srdan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the limitations of currently accepted physical theory, the Standard model of particle physics, arises due to our lack of understanding of the fundamental constants. The purpose of this thesis is to test the variability of one such constant, the fine-structure constant α, by measuring its relative deviation, ∆α/α, from the current value on Earth. For this purpose ∆α/α was measured in a total of 23 absorption systems, towards four quasars, using UVES/VLT and HIRES/Keck spectra. This almost doubled the number of reliable measurements and almost tripled the precision in the weighted mean result −1.0 ± 0.4stat ± 0.4sys parts per million.
A research guide on the Indonesian economy
Creators: name: Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen
Publisher: name: Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research
Year: 1994
Subjects: macroeconomy
research
Indonesia

description: Indonesia's non-oil export success in the 1980s has helped the country to lessen its dependence on a non-renewable natural resource as the main source of foreign exchange. The country ranks among the world's highest debtors and requires stable foreign exchange inflows from non-oil exports to maintain its perfect debt repayment record. Non-oil export earnings also allow Indonesia to import more capital goods for investment, intermediate inputs for manufacturing and agriculture, and a greater variety of consumer goods. With the world's fourth largest population and almost 60 percent of the population under the age of 25, a prospering labor-intensive manufacturing sector offers new employment opportunities. Rapid expansion of Indonesia's non-oil exports contributed to an average real GDP growth rate of 5.5 percent annually during the 1980s, compared to 0.5 percent for the Middle East and North African countries and 1.7 percent for severely indebted countries. However, particularly rapid import growth after 1986, combined with Indonesia's rising debt indicators, may form a less enviable aspect of Indonesia's macroeconomic and trade experience. Indonesia's accelerated debt accumulation after 1986 reflects higher dollar debt values following world exchange rate realignments, the need to offset oil revenue shortfalls, and a jump in short-term borrowing as domestic investment opportunities proliferated following deregulation. A surge in private savings after 1986 contributed to strong investment growth and improvements in the current account. Direct foreign investment also responded favorably to deregula­tion in the financial and industrial sectors. This cursory account cannot do justice to the tremendous changes which have taken place in Indonesia's policy environment and economic performance. However, the development and international economics literature provides ample description of Indonesia's economic policies and trends. The following research guide organizes much of that literature into sections on policy and performance across sectors. The guide includes citations for 119 journal articles, 58 books, 24 book chapters, 21 working paper series, 9 data sources, and 7 mimeographs.
High-Intensity Interval Training in Older Adults: a Scoping Review
Creators: name: Marriott, Catherine F. S.
name: Petrella, Andrea F. M.
name: Marriott, Emily C. S.
name: Boa Sorte Silva, Narlon Cassio
name: Petrella, Robert J.
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2021

description: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is an increasingly popular form of aerobic exercise which includes bouts of high-intensity exercise interspersed with periods of rest. The health benefits, risks, and optimal design of HIIT are still unclear. Further, most research on HIIT has been done in young and middle-aged adults, and as such, the tolerability and effects in senior populations are less well-known. The purpose of this scoping review was to characterize HIIT research that has been done in older adults including protocols, feasibility, and safety and to identify gaps in the current knowledge. Five databases were searched with variations of the terms, “high-intensity interval training” and “older adults” for experimental or quasi-experimental studies published in or after 2009. Studies were included if they had a treatment group with a mean age of 65 years or older who did HIIT, exclusively. Of 4644 papers identified, 69 met the inclusion criteria. The average duration of training was 7.9 (7.0) weeks (mean [SD]) and protocols ranged widely. The average sample size was 47.0 (65.2) subjects (mean [SD]). Healthy populations were the most studied group (n = 30), followed by subjects with cardiovascular (n = 12) or cardiac disease (n = 9), metabolic dysfunction (n = 8), and others (n = 10). The most common primary outcomes included changes in cardiorespiratory fitness (such as VO2peak) as well as feasibility and safety of the protocols as measured by the number of participant dropouts, adverse events, and compliance rate. HIIT protocols were diverse but were generally well-tolerated and may confer many health advantages to older adults. Larger studies and more research in clinical populations most representative of older adults are needed to further evaluate the clinical effects of HIIT in these groups.
title: The Expressive Dimension of the Union Citizenship Expulsion Regime: Joined Cases C-331/16 and C-366/16, K and HF
Creators: name: Coutts, Stephen
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geneva Convention Art. 1F
subject: public policy and public security
subject: expulsion
subject: fundamental interests of Member States
subject: Arts 2 and 3 TEU
subject: EU citizenship

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(2), 833-841
description: European Forum Insight of 10 October 2018
description: I. Introduction. - II. Facts/Context. - II.1. Case C-331/16, K. - II.2. Case C-366/16, HF. - III. Opinion of AG Saugmandsgaard Øe. - IV. Judgment of the Court of Justice. - V. Comment.
description: The case of in K and HF (Court of Justice, judgment of 2 May 2018, joined cases C-331/16 and C-366/16) turns on a very specific set of facts, namely the restriction of Union citizen's residence rights on the basis of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Nonetheless, in its judgment the Court of Justice continues its development of the expulsion regime for Union citizens to incorporate an offence based, moralised interpretation of public policy and public security. In doing so, it develops an expressive dimension to the expulsion regime, using it to express the values of the Member States and the Union legal orders.
Crossing the Boundaries: STEM Students in Four-Year and Community Colleges
Creators: name: Salzman, Hal
name: Van Noy, Michelle
Publisher: name: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Year: 2014
Subjects: STEM
Reverse transfer
Science--Study and teaching
Technology--Study and teaching
Engineering--Study and teaching
Mathematics--Study and teaching
Community Colleges
Transfer Students

description: In this paper we consider the role of community colleges for four-year STEM students as they move through their educational careers. We examine a student cohort who began their freshman year at a four-year college and the pathways that lead them to coursetaking or degrees at a community college. We identify three distinct roles of community colleges as used by four-year college students: (1) reverse transfer; (2) supplemental course taking while pursuing a four-year degree; (3) post-graduate community college coursetaking and/or enrollment. There are other variations on these three basic patterns but limited data and sample size constrain our analysis to these broader patterns