cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relapse prevention in remote indigenous mental health
Creators: name: Nagel, Tricia
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2008

description: This study was designed to provide important new information about relapse prevention in Indigenous1 people with chronic mental illness. A key cause of the burden of disease of mental illness is the high frequency of relapse of common mental disorders. National and international best practice guidelines recommend a range of biological and psychological strategies to prevent recurrence of mental illness. There is good evidence that many of these relapse prevention strategies improve outcomes, but there has been a paucity of clinical research into Indigenous-specific interventions. The study was conducted in two remote Indigenous communities in the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT). It targeted Indigenous clients, carers, and Aboriginal Mental Health Workers (AMHWs) and sought to answer two questions as follows: ‘can a culturally appropriate brief intervention be developed which incorporates local Indigenous perspectives of mental health and mental illness?’ and ‘does the brief intervention improve client mental health outcomes compared with treatment as usual’? Assessment, psychoeducation, and care-planning resources were developed with local AMHWs in the two communities. These were gathered into a focused brief intervention. The study then implemented a randomised trial of the intervention compared with ‘treatment as usual’. Clients were randomised to an ‘early treatment’ group, which received the intervention at baseline, and a ‘late treatment’ group, which received the intervention six months later. Client outcomes were assessed six monthly for eighteen months. Participants showed significant reductions in emotional distress and substance use and significant improvements in self-management. The results confirm that promotion of selfmanagement through psychoeducation and goal-setting is an effective relapse prevention strategy. The study contributes important new information about cross-cultural perspectives of mental health, and provides a strategy to deliver treatment in the remote setting that is brief and effective.
3D Freehand Ultrasound using Visual Inertial and Deep Inertial Odometry for Measuring Patellar Tracking
Creators: name: Buchanan, Russell
name: Tu, S. Jack
name: Camurri, Marco
name: Mellon, Stephen J.
name: Fallon, Maurice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Patellofemoral joint (PFJ) issues affect one in four people, with 20% experiencing chronic knee pain despite treatment. Poor outcomes and pain after knee replacement surgery are often linked to patellar mal-tracking. Traditional imaging methods like CT and MRI face challenges, including cost and metal artefacts, and there's currently no ideal way to observe joint motion without issues such as soft tissue artefacts or radiation exposure. A new system to monitor joint motion could significantly improve understanding of PFJ dynamics, aiding in better patient care and outcomes. Combining 2D ultrasound with motion tracking for 3D reconstruction of the joint using semantic segmentation and position registration can be a solution. However, the need for expensive external infrastructure to estimate the trajectories of the scanner remains the main limitation to implementing 3D bone reconstruction from handheld ultrasound scanning clinically. We proposed the Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) and the deep learning-based inertial-only odometry methods as alternatives to motion capture for tracking a handheld ultrasound scanner. The 3D reconstruction generated by these methods has demonstrated potential for assessing the PFJ and for further measurements from free-hand ultrasound scans. The results show that the VIO method performs as well as the motion capture method, with average reconstruction errors of 1.25 mm and 1.21 mm, respectively. The VIO method is the first infrastructure-free method for 3D reconstruction of bone from wireless handheld ultrasound scanning with an accuracy comparable to methods that require external infrastructure.
description: Accepted to IEEE Medical Measurements & Applications (MeMeA) 2024
The efficacy of foot orthoses in individuals with patellofemoral osteoarthritis: a randomised feasibility trial
Creators: name: Tan, Jade
name: Menz, Hylton
name: Crossley, Kay
name: Munteanu, Shannon
name: Harvi Hart
name: Middleton, Kane
name: Smith, Anne J
name: Collins, Natalie J
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © The Author(s). 2018. Background: Foot orthoses have the potential to be an efficacious treatment for patellofemoral osteoarthritis (PFOA) but have not been evaluated in clinical trials in this population. This study aimed to determine the: (i) feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigating the efficacy of foot orthoses in individuals with PFOA; and (ii) effects of foot orthoses versus flat shoe inserts on pain, function, and knee-related quality of life (QOL). Methods: This 6-week, single-blinded pilot RCT randomly allocated participants with PFOA to receive foot orthoses or flat inserts. The primary outcome of feasibility was determined via the following parameters: one participant recruited per week, 20% (35 h/week) adherence to the intervention, 50% log book completion rate, and < 20% drop-out, with results reported using descriptive statistics. Secondary outcomes included average and maximum pain severity (100mm visual analogue scale), Anterior Knee Pain Scale, and Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score, analysed using analysis of covariance. Results: Twenty-six participants (16 women; mean (SD) age of 60 (8) years) with PFOA were recruited. All feasibility parameters were exceeded, with three participants recruited per week, > 20% (37.2 [9.8] hours/week) adherence to the intervention, 69.2% (18/26) log-book completion, and 3.8% (1/26) drop-outs. The most common adverse events were arch irritation and shoe fit issues, which were more common in the foot orthoses group (67.9% versus 32.1%). There was a trend for the foot orthoses group to report larger improvements in average and maximum pain than the flat insert group, with the mean difference for maximum knee pain severity (21.9mm, 95% CI - 2.1 to 46.0) exceeding the minimal clinically important difference (15mm). The estimated sample size for a full-scale RCT is 160 participants. Suggestions to improve study design include a greater number of face-to-face follow-up appointments, a larger variety of foot orthoses to reduce rates of adverse events, and increasing follow-up time to determine long-term efficacy. Conclusion: This study supports the feasibility of a full-scale RCT to determine the efficacy of foot orthoses versus flat inserts in individuals with PFOA. Trial registration: The trial protocol was retrospectively registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR number: 12616001287426).
BCL-2 family protein BOK is a positive regulator of uridine metabolism in mammals
Creators: name: Srivastava, Rahul
name: Cao, Zhipeng
name: Nedeva, Christina
name: Naim, Samara
name: Bachmann, Daniel
name: Rabachini, Tatiana
name: Gangoda, Lahiru
name: Shahi, Sanjay
name: Glab, Jason
name: Menassa, Joseph
name: Murray-Rust, Laura
name: Nelson, Tao
name: Fernandez-Marrero, Yuniel
name: Brown, Fiona
name: Wei, Andrew
name: Ke, Francine
name: O'Reilly, Lorraine
name: Doerflinger, Marcel
name: Allison, Cody
name: Kueh, Andrew
name: Ramsay, Rob
name: Smith, Brian
name: Mathivanan, Suresh
name: Kaufmann, Thomas
name: Puthalakath, Hamsa
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: BCL-2 family proteins regulate the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. BOK a multidomain BCL-2 family protein is generally believed to be an adaptor protein similar to BAK and BAX regulating the mitochondrial permeability transition during apoptosis. Here we report that BOK is a positive regulator of a key enzyme involved in uridine biosynthesis; namely uridine monophosphate synthetase (UMPS). Our data suggest that BOK expression enhances UMPS activity cell proliferation and chemosensitivity. Genetic deletion of Bok results in chemoresistance to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in different cell lines and in mice. Conversely cancer cells and primary tissues that acquire resistance to 5-FU down-regulate BOK expression. Furthermore we also provide evidence for a role for BOK in nucleotide metabolism and cell cycle regulation. Our results have implications in developing BOK as a biomarker for 5-FU resistance and have the potential for the development of BOK-mimetics for sensitizing 5-FU-resistant cancers.
Hyperbolicity of the ballistic-conductive model of heat conduction: the reverse side of the coin
Creators: name: Rukolaine, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The heat equation, based on Fourier's law, is commonly used for description of heat conduction. However, Fourier's law is valid under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium, which is violated in very small dimensions and short timescales, and at low temperatures. In the paper R. Kovacs and P. Van, Generalized heat conduction in heat pulse experiments, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf., 83:613-620, 2015, a ballistic-conductive (BC) model of heat conduction was developed. In this paper, we study the behavior of solutions to an initial value problem (IVP) in 1D in the framework of the linearized ballistic-conductive (BC) model. As a result of the study, an unphysical effect has been found when part of the initial thermal energy does not spread anywhere.
TURINEX - A Social Science Tool To Help Understand and Predict Sustainable Consumption
Creators: name: Berardy, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This paper presents a software tool designed to asses a previously untested level of expertise in between no expertise and interactional expertise. It is referred to as intermediate interactional expertise. The methods of the software tool and results from preliminary tests are presented.
Commonalities Between the Aesthetic Judgements of Web Users
Creators: name: # Web Ergonomics Laboratory
name: Mbipom, Grace
name: Harper, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Two studies, a lab-based and an on-line experiment were conducted to investigate the commonalities between the aesthetic judgements of 180 Web users. We were particularly interested in the Web page features which moderate these judgements. Participants made aesthetic judgements based on visual design dimensions selected from Lavie and Tractinsky’s classical and expressive Web aesthetics framework. The adjectives clean, pleasing and fascinating, creative were chosen to represent the two dimensions respectively. Overall judgements were collected under the term aesthetic. Our findings confirm that there are several factors which influence the way users judge the visual quality of Web pages. Depending on the design dimension being evaluated, there were certain indicator properties possessed by Web pages which users relied upon to make their aesthetic judgements. For example, the presence of one main image, a mostly white background and a less dense compositional structure were important for rating a Web page as being clean (classical aesthetics), while the use of animations was more important for rating a Web page as being fascinating or creative (expressive aesthetics). These indicator properties could be used to define more objective metrics for discriminating between Web designs.
Semiquantitative Proteomics Enables Mapping of Murine Neutrophil Dynamics following Lethal Influenza Virus Infection
Creators: name: Liu, Chuanxin
name: Oveissi, Sara
name: Downs, Rachael
name: Kirby, Jason
name: Nedeva, Christina
name: Puthalakath, Hamsa
name: Faou, Pierre
name: Duan, Mubing
name: Chen, Weisan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3204
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3207
subject: Medical microbiology

description: No description supplied
Beamforming Inferring by Conditional WGAN-GP for Holographic Antenna Arrays
Creators: name: Zhu, Fenghao
name: Wang, Xinquan
name: Huang, Chongwen
name: Alhammadi, Ahmed
name: Chen, Hui
name: Zhang, Zhaoyang
name: Yuen, Chau
name: Debbah, Mérouane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The beamforming technology with large holographic antenna arrays is one of the key enablers for the next generation of wireless systems, which can significantly improve the spectral efficiency. However, the deployment of large antenna arrays implies high algorithm complexity and resource overhead at both receiver and transmitter ends. To address this issue, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence have been developed to reduce beamforming overhead. Intuitively, if we can implement the near-optimal beamforming only using a tiny subset of the all channel information, the overhead for channel estimation and beamforming would be reduced significantly compared with the traditional beamforming methods that usually need full channel information and the inversion of large dimensional matrix. In light of this idea, we propose a novel scheme that utilizes Wasserstein generative adversarial network with gradient penalty to infer the full beamforming matrices based on very little of channel information. Simulation results confirm that it can accomplish comparable performance with the weighted minimum mean-square error algorithm, while reducing the overhead by over 50%.
Américo da Costa Ramalho, Para a história do humanismo em Portugal (IV). Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 2000, 370 pp.
Creators: name: Torrão, João Manuel Nunes
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Paulo Sérgio Margarido Ferreira, Os elementos paródicos no Satyricon de Petrónio e o seu significado, Lisboa, Edições Colibri – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 2000 (163 pp.).
Creators: name: Mora, Carlos De Miguel
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Santo Agostinho, Confissões. Tradução e notas de Arnaldo Espírito Santo, João Beato e Maria Cristina de Castro-Maia de Sousa Pimentel. Introdução de Manuel Barbosa de Costa Freitas.
Creators: name: Mora, Carlos De Miguel
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Simulation-based Inference of Developmental EEG Maturation with the Spectral Graph Model
Creators: name: Bernardo, Danilo
name: Xie, Xihe
name: Verma, Parul
name: Kim, Jonathan
name: Liu, Virginia
name: Numis, Adam L.
name: Wu, Ye
name: Glass, Hannah C.
name: Yap, Pew-Thian
name: Nagarajan, Srikantan S.
name: Raj, Ashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The spectral content of macroscopic neural activity evolves throughout development, yet how this maturation relates to underlying brain network formation and dynamics remains unknown. Here, we assess the developmental maturation of electroencephalogram spectra via Bayesian model inversion of the spectral graph model, a parsimonious whole-brain model of spatiospectral neural activity derived from linearized neural field models coupled by the structural connectome. Simulation-based inference was used to estimate age-varying spectral graph model parameter posterior distributions from electroencephalogram spectra spanning the developmental period. This model-fitting approach accurately captures observed developmental electroencephalogram spectral maturation via a neurobiologically consistent progression of key neural parameters: long-range coupling, axonal conduction speed, and excitatory:inhibitory balance. These results suggest that the spectral maturation of macroscopic neural activity observed during typical development is supported by age-dependent functional adaptations in localized neural dynamics and their long-range coupling across the macroscopic structural network.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures, 19 supplementary figures
PSYCHOSOMATIC CONSEQUENCES OF TEACHERS’ OCUPPATIONAL STRESS
Creators: name: Romanowska-Tolloczko, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: The need to adapt to the ever-increasing socio-professional requirements carries many risks to human health, both in somatic and psychological aspects. Strong stress associated with work leads to the occurrence of burnout syndrome. Persons performing so called aid professions, where teachers belong to a special group, are usually vulnerable to this syndrome. The aim of this paper is to present the causes, course and consequences of teacher burnout and to highlight the multidimensional nature of the phenomenon, indicating possible corrective and preventive actions. Among the that contribute to burnout important are environmental , organizational and subjective factors. Subjective factors like professional training and personality dispositions, are treated as the primary determinants of resistance or susceptibility of individuals to stress. They can intensify or protect against burning out. The lack of ability to counter stress is considered crucial in the formation and accumulation of burnout symptoms.
Maria Teresa Schiappa de Azevedo, Rostos de Pessoa, Coimbra, Minerva, 2000, 141 pp. [ISBN: 972-798-004-X].
Creators: name: Ferreira, António Manuel
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva (coord.), Representações de Teatro Clássico no Portugal Contemporâneo, vol. II (Estudos da FLUC, n.º 35), Lisboa, Edições Colibri / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 2001, 441 pp. [ISBN: 972-772-227-X].
Creators: name: Morais, Carlos
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Carlota Maria Lopes de Miranda Urbano, A Oração de Sapiência do P. Francisco Machado S.J. – Coimbra 1629 – Estudo. Tradução. Comentário, (Estudos da FLUC, n.º 33), Lisboa, Edições Colibri / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, 2001
Creators: name: Andrade, António
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
CAN POLISH UNIVERSITY FEMALE STUDENTS SWIM?
Creators: name: Podstawski, Robert
name: BoraczyńskaSandra
name: Skibniewska Krystyna
name: Kolankowska Ewelina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: Background and aim of the work: There are only few studies in Polish and foreign literature providing solid information on swimming skills of university students. The aim of the study carried out at the University of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn was to determine swimming skills of Polish university female students starting their studies. Material and methods: The study was conducted in 2012 on 298 female students of the 1st year course, at the age of 19 – 20. Anonymous questionnaire was used in the research. Results: It has been shown that almost 72% of the women could not swim at all, and 26% swam poorly. Within the group of women able to swim, the greatest percentage was set by women using classical style (49%) and “their own” one (27%) and only 13% of the students used crawl, 9% - back stroke and 2% - butterfly style. Of all the women declaring swimming abilities, the biggest percentage (16%) could cover the distance of only 20 – 50 m; fewer students (6%) covered the distance of 50 – 100 m; and 5% could swim only 20 m. Only a marginal number of students (2%) could cover the distance from 100 to 1000 m; none could swim more than 1000 m. Conclusions: The study showed a very pessimistic picture of swimming skills of Polish university female students in respect of the number of women able to swim, their knowledge of swimming styles, and the length of the covered distance.
Delfim Ferreira Leão, Sólon, Ética e Política, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001, 522 pp. [ISBN: 972-31-0935-2]
Creators: name: Mendes, António M. Gonçalves
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Aristófanes, As mulheres que celebram as Tesmofórias. Introdução, versão e notas de Maria de Fátima Silva. Lisboa, Edições 70, 2001.
Creators: name: Oliveira, Emília
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
EFFECTS OF TWO DIFFERENT DOSAGE OF BCAA SUPPLEMENTATION ON SERUM INDICES OF MUSCLE DAMAGE AND SORENESS IN SOCCER PLAYERS
Creators: name: Bolboli Lotfali
name: Mohamad-Panahi, Payam
name: Soran Aminiaghdam
name: Khaidan Hatami
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Education

description: The purpose of this study was to investigation of the effects of two different dose of BCAA supplementation on serum indices of muscle damage and soreness in soccer players. 30 male soccer players (age: 20.2±0.6 yr) participated as subjects in this study. Subjects were randomly divided into three groups (double-blind design). All subjects performed lower- body resistance exercise (6 sets, 10 repetitions, 70% 1RM). The BCAA was given at doses of 200 and 450 mg.kg-1 BW for supplemental groups 1 and 2, respectively, 30 minutes before and after to exercise tests and carbohydrate was given at dose of 200 mg.kg-1 BW for placebo group. To identify enzymes activity (IU/L), venous blood samples were collected 30 min prior to exercise and at 24 and 48 hrs post exercise. Data were statistically analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA and Bonfferoni test. Baseline CK, CK-MB and muscle soreness were determined 30 minutes before the exercise test. Baseline serum values for CK, CK-MB and baseline muscle soreness were not different between groups in the 30 minutes before the exercise test (p>0/05). However, there were significant increases between the pre-exercise and post-exercise values for CK, CK-MB and muscle soreness from 24 hrs to 48 hrs post-test (p<0/05), but there were no significant differences between two groups (p< 0.05(. These results suggested that two different dosages of BCAA supplementation did not affect muscle damage and muscle sureness during resistance exercise bout in soccer players.
Gravity Rainbow Effects on Higher Curvature Modification of R2 inflation
Creators: name: Yuennan, Jureeporn
name: Channuie, Phongpichit
name: Momeni, Davood
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study several extensions of the higher curvature modification of $R^{2}$ inflation in the context of gravity's rainbow. We modify the $(R+R^{2})$ model by adding an $f_{1}R^3$-term, an $f_{2}R^4$-term, and an $f_{3}R^{3/2}$-term to the original model. We calculate the inflationary observables and confront them using the latest observational bounds from Planck 2018 data. We assume the rainbow function of the form $\tilde{f}=1+\left(\frac{H}{M}\right)^{λ}$ with $λ$ being a rainbow parameter and $M$ a mass-dimensional parameter. We demonstrate that the power spectrum of curvature perturbation relies on the dimensionless coefficient $f_{i},\,i=1,2,3$, a rainbow parameter $λ$ and a ratio $H/M$. Likewise, the scalar spectral index $n_s$ is affected by both $f_{i}$ and the rainbow parameter. Moreover, the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ is solely determined by the rainbow parameter. Interestingly, by ensuring that $n_s$ aligns with the Planck collaboration's findings at the $1σ$ confidence level, the tensor-to-scalar ratio could reach up to $r\sim 0.01$, which is possibly measurable for detection in forthcoming Stage IV CMB ground experiments and is certainly feasible for future dedicated space missions.
description: v3: 21 pages, 4 figures. references added, texts modified, results unchanged. Version published in EPJC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2404.14766
Becoming an intercultural teacher of Japanese in Australia
Creators: name: Nakahara, Masumi
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2010

description: This project explores what it means to be a native teacher of Japanese in an Australian classroom and how best to balance the need to adjust to Australian student expectations with the goal of helping these students become familiar with Japanese culture. Apart from improving my own performance as a teacher, this project sheds light on the cultural adjustments that overseas educated teachers experience in Australia, as well as on the related problem of familiarising Australian students with other cultures. To do this I undertook an analysis of my own personal background, recorded some of my classes and to enable me to reflect on my teaching practices and to study my students’ views on culture, interviewed students, and also interviewed other Japanese language teachers in order to compare their views with mine.
title: The German Federal Court of Justice’s (Mis-) Use of Effet Utile to Override International Law in Mainstream v. Germany: Shaking the Foundations of the ICSID Convention?
Creators: name: Rauschning, Tim
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Triple decomposition and sparse representation for noisy pressure-sensitive paint data
Creators: name: Kubota, Koyo
name: Takagi, Makoto
name: Ikami, Tsubasa
name: Egami, Yasuhiro
name: Nagai, Hiroki
name: Kashikawa, Takahiro
name: Kimura, Koichi
name: Matsuda, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Triple decomposition is a useful analytical method for extracting the mean value, organized coherent motion, and stochastic part from a fluctuating quantity. Although the pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) method is widely used to measure the pressure distribution on a surface, the PSP data measuring near atmospheric pressure contain significant noise. Here, we perform triple decomposition of noisy PSP data. To construct phase-averaged data representing an organized coherent motion, we propose a relatively simple method based on a multi-dimensional scaling plot of the cosine similarity between each PSP datum. Then, the stochastic part is extracted by selecting phase-averaged data with an appropriate phase angle based on the similarity between the measurement and phase-averaged data. As a data-driven approach, we also reconstruct the pressure distribution based on the triple decomposition and the pressure data at sparse optimal sensor positions determined from the proper orthogonal decomposition modes of the stochastic part. The optimal sensor positions are determined as a combinatorial optimization problem and are estimated using Fujitsu computing as a service digital annealer. Based on the results obtained, the root mean square error between the pressure measured by a pressure transducer and the reconstructed pressure obtained by the proposed method is small, even when the number of modes and sensor points is small. The application of PSP measurement is expected to expand further, and the framework for calculating triple decomposition and sparse representation based on the decomposition will be useful for flow analysis.
description: 18 pages
L'échange des armures entre Diomède et Glaucos, (Iliade VI, 232-236)
Creators: name: Assunção, Teodoro Rennó
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Commentaire d’une scène énigmatique du chant VI de l’Iliade: l’échange de l’armure d’or de Glaucos contre l’armure de bronze de Diomède. Discussion de ce type de don et contre-don (entre xeínoi) dans ce poème homérique, ainsi que des motifs invoqués par Zeus pour “ravir la raison à Glaucos”, le poussant à accepter un échange aussi défavorable et disproportionné.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
title: Las narrativas de las comunidades indígenas recuperan sus territorios sagrados
Creators: name: Londoño, Marcelo
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 340

description: En Colombia, las narrativas de las comunidades indígenas emergen como elementos cruciales en los procesos judiciales, siendo un ejemplo de simetría entre diferentes formas de conocimiento. Estos sistemas de creencias ejercen una influencia significativa en su percepción de la tierra y en su esfuerzo por la restitución de sus territorios sagrados. Se destaca la contribución del gobierno actual para saldar deudas históricas, mediante el cumplimiento de normativas como la Ley 1500.
description: Legal History Insights
Maternal and child health nurses’ experiences of implementing two community-based breastfeeding interventions in Victoria, Australia: A mixed methods process evaluation
Creators: name: Cramer, Rhian
name: McLachlan, Helen
name: Touran Shafiei
name: Amir, Lisa
name: Meabh Cullinane
name: Small, Rhonda
name: Forster, Della
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite high rates of breastfeeding initiation in Australia, there is a significant drop in breastfeeding rates in the early postpartum period, and Australian government breastfeeding targets are not being met. The Supporting breastfeeding In Local Communities (SILC) trial was a three-arm cluster randomised trial implemented in 10 Victorian local government areas (LGAs). It aimed to determine whether early home-based breastfeeding support by a maternal and child health nurse (MCH nurse) with or without access to a community-based breastfeeding drop-in centre increased the proportion of infants receiving ‘any’ breast milk at four months. Focus groups, a written questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were undertaken to explore the interventions from the perspective of the SILC-MCH nurses (n=13) and coordinators (n=6), who established and implemented the interventions. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify themes, then findings further examined using Diffusion of Innovations Theory as a framework. SILC-MCH nurses and coordinators reported high levels of satisfaction, valuing the opportunity to improve breastfeeding in our community; and having focused breastfeeding time with women in their own homes. They felt the SILC interventions offered benefits to women, nurses and the MCH service. Implementing new interventions into existing, complex community health services presented unforeseen challenges, which were different in each LGA and were in part due to the complexity of the individual LGAs and not the interventions themselves. These findings will help inform the planning and development of future programs aimed at improving breastfeeding and other interventions in MCH.
Jet Quenching of the Heavy Quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and the Nonadditive Statistics
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Trambak
name: Megias, Eugenio
name: Deppman, Airton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Plastino-Plastino (PP) equation, we calculate transport coefficients of the heavy-quarks traversing inside the quark-gluon plasma, and generalize their relationship with differential energy loss. The PP equation indicates anomalous diffusion of the probe particles and yields a quasi-exponential stationary distribution obtained also from the nonadditive statistics proposed by C. Tsallis. We estimate energy loss in a nonadditive quark-gluon medium, and calculate the jet-quenching parameter ($\hat{q}$) for the PP dynamics. With the help of the estimate of $\hat{q}$, we calculate the nuclear suppression factor ($R_{\text{AA}}$) of the heavy-quarks passing through a nonadditive quark-gluon plasma using the model proposed by Dokshitzer and Kharzeev. In many a case, the parameters in the analysis are fixed from the experimental results to minimize arbitrariness. There is a good agreement between the theoretical calculation and experimental $R_{\text{AA}}$ data, indicating that fast heavy-quarks may be subjected to anomalous diffusion inside the QGP.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Sólon e a lei sobre a neutralidade em tempo de stasis
Creators: name: Leão, Delfim F.
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Neste estudo, o autor discute os testimonia relativos à lei sobre a neutralidade, procurando sustentar que não há objecções de peso que impeçam a sua atribuição a Sólon. Analisa, ainda, o enquadramento desta polémica lei no corpo da actividade legislativa e poética de Sólon.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Deep learning insights into non-universality in the halo mass function
Creators: name: Guo, Ningyuan
name: Lucie-Smith, Luisa
name: Peiris, Hiranya V.
name: Pontzen, Andrew
name: Piras, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The abundance of dark matter haloes is a key cosmological probe in forthcoming galaxy surveys. The theoretical understanding of the halo mass function (HMF) is limited by our incomplete knowledge of the origin of non-universality and its cosmological parameter dependence. We present a deep learning model which compresses the linear matter power spectrum into three independent factors which are necessary and sufficient to describe the $z=0$ HMF from the state-of-the-art AEMULUS emulator to sub-per cent accuracy in a $w$CDM$+N_\mathrm{eff}$ parameter space. Additional information about growth history does not improve the accuracy of HMF predictions if the matter power spectrum is already provided as input, because required aspects of the former can be inferred from the latter. The three factors carry information about the universal and non-universal aspects of the HMF, which we interrogate via the information-theoretic measure of mutual information. We find that non-universality is captured by recent growth history after matter-dark-energy equality and $N_\mathrm{eff}$ for $M\sim 10^{13} \, \mathrm{M_\odot}\, h^{-1}$ haloes, and by $Ω_{\rm m}$ for $M\sim 10^{15} \, \mathrm{M_\odot}\, h^{-1}$. The compact representation learnt by our model can inform the design of emulator training sets to achieve high emulator accuracy with fewer simulations.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures. Minor changes to match version accepted for publication in MNRAS
O códice 2437 do Novo Testamento grego. (Evangelho Grego da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro)
Creators: name: Brandão, Jacyntho Lins
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Este artigo procede à descrição do ms. 2437 do Novo Testamento, códice em minúsculas, de procedência bizantina, datado no século XI ou XII, o qual integra o acerbo de manuscritos da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. Além de aspectos codicológicos, concentra-se na organização do volume, detalhando e corrigindo as descrições anteriormente publicadas por Bruce Metzger e Kurt Aland.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
As elegias de Sulpícia: uma voz feminina num mundo de homens
Creators: name: Filipe, Raquel Teixeira
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: As elegias de Sulpícia revestem-se de especial interesse, dada a forma original como a poetisa abordou tópicos literários recorrentes na elegia amorosa latina, subvertendo inclusivamente algumas convenções temáticas.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
As imagens náuticas na poesia amorosa e na poesia de exílio de Ovídio: a propósito dos Amores e dos Tristia
Creators: name: Abreu, Dina Maria Baptista
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: Cronológica e tematicamente afastados, os Amores e os Tristia de Ovídio comungam de uma mesma riqueza poética que assenta no uso de imagens náuticas. A nau, a tempestade e os ventos são algumas das imagens que reflectem o estado de alma e a vivência de um poeta que fez da poesia a sua principal companhia.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Global optimization in variational quantum algorithms via dynamic tunneling method
Creators: name: Park, Seung
name: Baek, Kyunghyun
name: Lee, Seungjin
name: Choi, Mahn-Soo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a global optimization routine for the variational quantum algorithms, which utilizes the dynamic tunneling flow. Originally designed to leverage information gathered by a gradient-based optimizer around local minima, we adapt the conventional dynamic tunneling flow to exploit the distance measure of quantum states, resolving issues of extrinsic degeneracy arising from the parametrization of quantum states. Our global optimization algorithm is applied to the variational quantum eigensolver for the transverse-field Ising model to demonstrate the performance of our routine while comparing it with the conventional dynamic tunneling method, which is based on the Euclidean distance measure on the parameter space.
description: 12 pages; 6 figures
O mistério do exílio ovidiano
Creators: name: Mora, Carlos De Miguel
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: As causas obscuras do exílio ovidiano têm provocado um sem-fim de explicações por parte dos estudiosos da antiguidade. Uma teoria que tem tido pouco apoio e que tem sido, regra geral, tratada com desprezo é a invenção do exílio por parte do Sulmonense. O autor tenta, neste artigo, acrescentar algumas razões que sustentam esta teoria, com o intuito de demonstrar que é uma explicação tão válida e satisfatória como qualquer outra.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
On equivalence of two formulas of orbital magnetic susceptibility for tight-binding models
Creators: name: Mizoguchi, Tomonari
name: Okuma, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that two formulas of the orbital magnetic susceptibility, namely, Koshino-Ando's formula and Gómez-Santos and Stauber's formula, are equivalent for the tight-binding models. The difference between these two formulas can be written in a form containing the surface terms arising from the momentum-space integration, and we show that the surface terms are exactly vanishing although the primitive functions are seemingly non-periodic with respect to the translation by the reciprocal lattice vector.
description: 2 pages
«VENCESTE, Ó GALILEU!» Memória do último imperador pagão
Creators: name: Medeiros, Walter De
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: O assassínio de grande parte da família, o confinamento (durante a infância e a adolescência) em uma prisão dourada e o espectáculo das querelas no seio da Igreja tornaram Juliano um idealista revoltado e inconsequente que tentou, após a morte de Constâncio, restaurar o paganismo no Império e opor-se, desta sorte, à marcha da história. As resistências que encontrou, os erros que cometeu em dezanove meses de governo e uma campanha precipitada contra os Persas, em que perdeu a vida, mostram a inanidade do projecto e a vitória do Galileu que tenazmente perseguia.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
La Fábula de Narciso de Gregorio Silvestre
Creators: name: Solís Perales, María Dolores
Publisher: name: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate
Year: 2002

description: La fábula de Narciso es una muestra de la obra poética del portugués Gregorio Silvestre y hemos tratado de demostrar que en algunos aspectos el texto se vincula con el ideario poético del Renacimiento, pero en otros casos respeta escrupulosamente el ideario lingüístico de los poetas del siglo XV. Es una muestra elegante y conseguida de la importancia que los temas mitológicos iban adquiriendo en la conciencia de los escritores.
description: Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate, No 4 (2002)
Simultaneous spectropolarimetric observations in the H$α$ and Ca II 8662 Å lines of an active region
Creators: name: Mathur, Harsh
name: Nagaraju, K.
name: Yadav, Rahul
name: Joshi, Jayant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectropolarimetric observations of an active region recorded simultaneously in the H$α$ Ca II 8662 Å lines. The sunspot exhibits multiple structures, including a lightbridge and a region where Ca II 8662 Å line core is in emission. Correspondingly, the H$α$ line core image displays brightening in the emission region, with the spectral profiles showing elevated line cores. The stratification of the line-of-sight magnetic field is inferred through non-LTE multiline inversions of the Ca II 8662 Å line and the weak field approximation over the H$α$ line. The field strength inferred from the H$α$ line core is consistently smaller than that inferred from inversions at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$4.5. However, the study finds no correlation between the WFA over the core of the H$α$ line and that inferred from inversions at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$4.5. In regions exhibiting emission features, the morphology of the magnetic field at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$4.5 resembles that at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$1, with slightly higher or comparable field strengths. The magnetic field morphology inferred from the core of the H$α$ line is also similar to that inferred from the full spectral range of the H$α$ line in the emission region. The field strength inferred in the lightbridge at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$1 is smaller than the surrounding umbral regions and comparable at $\log τ_{500}$ = $-$4.5. Similarly, the field strength inferred in the lightbridge from the WFA over the H$α$ line appears lower compared to the surrounding umbral regions.
description: accepted to be published in ApJ on 4th June, 2024, 14 pages, 7 figures
title: Wann wird das Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz erwachsen?
Creators: name: Kramp, Kajo
name: Valdivia, Laura
name: Steffen, Mette
name: Drescher, Moritz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Visualization and measurement of the local absorption coefficients of single bilayer phospholipid membranes using scanning near-field optical microscopy
Creators: name: Siddiquee, Arif
name: Hasan, Imad Younus
name: Shibiao Wei
name: Langley, Daniel
name: Balaur, Eugeniu
name: Liu, Chen
name: Lin, Jiao
name: Abbey, Brian
name: Mechler, Adam
name: Shanshan Kou
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement Here we report the results of shear-mode thicknesses and absorption coefficient measurements made on neat membranes using scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM). Biomimic neat membranes composed of two different types of phoshpholipid molecules: 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and 1,2- dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) were found to exhibit different absorption coefficients under the SNOM. The localization of the lipids could be identified and correlated to the morphology of the membrane domains indicating that SNOM can be an effective and accurate approach for the label-free characterization of the structure-function relationships in cell membranes.
An approach to “Filamento®”, an Internet of Things [IOT] framework devoted to link a grid of cultural digital smart-items
Creators: name: Laquidara, Giuseppe
name: Boém, Marika Mazzi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics
subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Education
subject: Performing Arts
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: Applied Computer Science

description: Filamento® is an original engine, currently under patent procedure on behalf of the inventors of ThePrimate®, devoted to link and reference the places of cultural heritage, through a logic-physical lattice of points traced both in the real world and virtual, self-transmitting position and poly-dimensional open data through the Internet, thus building a “talking-” or “smart-objects" grid.
Black hole in a generalized Chaplygin-Jacobi dark fluid: shadow and light deflection angle
Creators: name: Fathi, Mohsen
name: Villanueva, J. R.
name: Aguilar-Pérez, Gilberto
name: Cruz, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a generalized Chaplygin-like gas with an anisotropic equation of state, characterizing a dark fluid within which a static spherically symmetric black hole is assumed. By solving the Einstein equations for this black hole spacetime, we explicitly derive the metric function. The spacetime is parametrized by two critical parameters, $\mathcal{B}$ and $α$, which measure the deviation from the Schwarzschild black hole and the extent of the dark fluid's anisotropy, respectively. We explore the behavior of light rays in the vicinity of the black hole by calculating its shadow and comparing our results with the Event Horizon Telescope observations. This comparison constrains the parameters to $0 \leq \mathcal{B} < 0.03$ and $0 < α< 0.1$. Additionally, we calculate the deflection angles to determine the extent to which light is bent by the black hole. These calculations are further utilized to formulate possible Einstein rings, estimating the angular radius of the rings to be approximately $37.6\,\mathrm{μas}$. Throughout this work, we present analytical solutions wherever feasible, and employ reliable approximations where necessary to provide comprehensive insights into the spacetime characteristics and their observable effects.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables