cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beilschmiedia Nees
Creators: name: Werff, Henk van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Laurales
Lauraceae
Beilschmiedia

description: BEILSCHMIEDIA Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiaticae Rar. 2: 69 (1831). Bernieria Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 434 (1884). — Type: Bernieria madagascariensis Baill. Thouvenotia Danguy, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 26: 652 (1920). — Type: Thouvenotia madagascariensis Danguy. Apollonias sensu Kosterm., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 8: 67 (1939); Fl. Madagascar, Fam. 81: 2 (1950). TYPE. — Beilschmiedia roxburghiana Nees. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or subopposite, sometimes grouped at tips of branches, pinnately veined, entire, petiolate, domatia lacking. Inflorescences axillary, few-to many-flowered, paniculate, the flowers cymosely or racemosely arranged along the ultimate branchlets. Flowers bisexual, small, greenish, the tepals frequently incurved and flowers thus globose or depressed globose; rarely tepals spreading and flowers disclike; tepals 6, in 2 series of 3, very rarely 4, in 2 series of 2, fertile stamens usually 9, in 3 whorls of 3, very rarely 6, in 3 whorls of 2, filaments variously developed, all anthers 2-celled, the outer 6 with cells introrse or rarely lateral, the inner 3 with cells extrorse or latrorse, and with 2 glands attached at or near the base; staminodia 3, usually well-developed. Floral tube short or lacking. Pistil ovoid, glabrous or pubescent, style and stigma variously developed. Fruit seated on the pedicel with tepals sometimes persisting at the base. In the wide sense employed here, Beilschmiedia is a pantropical genus, well represented in Africa, with possibly 250 species. Nine species are recognized from Madagascar, all endemic.
description: Published as part of Werff, Henk van der, 2003, A synopsis of the genus Beilschmiedia (Lauraceae) in Madagascar, pp. 77-92 in Adansonia (3) (3) 25 (1) on page 79, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5180979
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering study of intra-band charge excitations in hole-doped high-Tc cuprates
Creators: name: Wakimoto, S.
name: Ishii, K.
name: Kimura, H.
name: Ikeuchi, K.
name: Yoshida, M.
name: Adachi, T.
name: Casa, D.
name: Fujita, M.
name: Fukunaga, Y.
name: Gog, T.
name: Koike, Y.
name: Mizuki, J.
name: Yamada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) near the Cu-K edge on cuprate superconductors La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO(4), La(2-x)Ba(x)CuO(4), La(2-x)Sr(x)Cu(1-y)Fe(y)O(4) and Bi(1.76)Pb(0.35)Sr(1.89)CuO(6+d), covering underdoped to heavily overdoped regime and focusing on charge excitations inside the charge-transfer gap. RIXS measurements of the 214 systems with Ei = 8.993 keV have revealed that the RIXS intensity at 1 eV energy transfer has a minimum at (0,0) and maxima at (0.4pi, 0) and $(0, 0.4pi) for all doping points regardless of the stripe ordered state, suggesting that the corresponding structure is not directly related to stripe order. Measurements with Ei = 9.003 keV on metallic La(1.7)Sr(0.3)CuO(4) and Bi(1.76)Pb(0.35)Sr(1.89)CuO(6+d) exhibit a dispersive intra-band excitation below 4 eV, similar to that observed in the electron-doped Nd(1.85)Ce(0.15)CuO(4). This is the first observation of a dispersive intra-band excitation in a hole doped system, evidencing that both electron and hole doped systems have a similar dynamical charge correlation function.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
title: ОЦЕНКА «ВЕНГЕРСКОЙ ХРОНИКИ» В ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКЕ ВЕНГРИИ XX ВЕКА
Creators: name: Ильинский, Артем
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: Хроника Антонио Бонфини вызывает неподдельный интерес исследователей Венгрии благодаря тому, что это первое полное описание истории Венгрии с X по XV века. Но, несмотря на богатое историописание, данная хроника подвергалась жесткой критике со стороны венгерских исследователей, некоторые из которых называли хронику скорее художественным памятником, чем историческим. В результате во второй половине XX века в венгерской исторической науке сформировались две позиции по отношению к Венгерской Хронике Антонио Бонфини, каждая из которых опиралась на свои определения ценности хроники для исторической науки.
Ge/Si ratios in hydrous minerals and their role in igneous processes
Creators: name: Phillips, Matthew
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Germanium/Silicon (Ge/Si) ratios provide an insight into magma differentiation, early Earth crustal development and potential sources of economically important mineralisation. Ge/Si ratios, whilst important, are understudied, partly due to undeveloped analytical methods. This study improves the methodology for measuring Ge and was specifically designed to reduce interferences whilst improving precision, and sensitivity to Ge/Si ratios. Measuring oxide shifted 74Ge (mass 90) with the use of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Triple Quadrupole-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-QQQ-MS) using N2O as a reaction gas is shown here to improve sensitivity, precision and accuracy compared to the research-standard LA-ICP-MS method. The new method was utilised to measure Ge concentrations and Ge/Si ratios of natural samples from the Bilibin and Inagli Massifs: ultramafic alkaline ring structures in the Aldan Shield, Siberia. This study shows higher Ge/Si ratios in phlogopites and lower ratios in clinopyroxenes from Inagli compared to the Bilibin Massif. When compared to a collated global dataset of available Ge/Si values, both the Bilibin and Inagli samples show lower values for mica and amphiboles, but higher values for clinopyroxene. This complicates the predictions from previous studies, showing that further work is needed to fully understand the role of Ge/Si ratios as a potential tracer for magma sources.
Beilschmiedia obovata Kosterm.
Creators: name: Werff, Henk van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Laurales
Lauraceae
Beilschmiedia
Beilschmiedia obovata

description: Beilschmiedia obovata Kosterm. Comm. Forest Res. Inst. 56: 6 (1957). — Type: Service Forestier 13509, Madagascar, Ft. Dauphin, forêt d'Androgoly (holo-, P!; iso-, TEF). The type collection of this species is sterile and cannot be identified to genus (or even to family) with certainty. The second collection cited by KOSTERMANS (Service Forestier 13561, P) consists of three elements: a twig with 3 leaves of B. obovata, a small twig with one leaf and two detached fruits of B. velutina (this is a fragment of Service Forestier Capuron 18492) and a small twig with 3 leaves identified as Ravensara (= Cryptocarya).
description: Published as part of Werff, Henk van der, 2003, A synopsis of the genus Beilschmiedia (Lauraceae) in Madagascar, pp. 77-92 in Adansonia (3) (3) 25 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5180979
title: Χαρακτηρισμός της βραχομάζας κατά την εξόρυξη δίδυμων σηράγγων
Creators: name: Προεστακης Αριστειδης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: Η διπλωματική εργασία που ακολουθεί έχει στόχο την σύγκριση της ποιότητας της βραχομάζας κατά μήκος της σχεδιασμένης χάραξης διδύμων σηράγγων η οποία προέκυψε (α) από την ανάλυση και παρεμβολή δεδομένων από πυρηνοληπτικές γεωτρήσεις στην φάση της έρευνας, (β) από σχετικά πυκνές αποτυπώσεις των μετώπων κατά την εκσκαφή της σήραγγας και τέλος (γ) από ανάδρομη ανάλυση των καταγραφών του ΤΒΜ. Για τον σκοπό αυτό περισυλλέχθηκαν τα απαραίτητα δεδομένα για την παρούσα εργασία που προέκυψαν κατά την  διάνοιξη των δίδυμων σηράγγων Kwai Tsing στο Χονγκ Κονγκ και συγκεκριμένα της δίδυμης σήραγγας Tsing Tsuen. Η γεωτεχνική ταξινόμηση της ποιότητας  βραχομάζας έγινε  χρησιμοποιώντας το σύστημα (Rock Mass Rating) που προτάθηκε από τον BieniawskiI το 1989. Η εκτίμηση του RMR σε όλο το μήκος της σήραγγας έγινε με χρήση κατάλληλης μεθόδου παρεμβολής δεδομένων. Η αξιοπιστία των προβλέψεων από της γεωτρήσεις ελέγχθηκε με την σύγκριση των επί τόπου αποτυπώσεων των μετώπων κατά την εκσκαφή των σηράγγων.  Κατόπιν έγινε υπολογισμός των παραμέτρων λειτουργίας του Μηχανήματος Ολομέτωπης Κοπής (Tunnel Boring Machine) και κατόπιν της ειδικής ενέργειας (Specific Energy) που καταναλώνεται για τη θραύση του πετρώματος. Η ειδική ενέργεια χρησιμοποιήθηκε στην συνέχεια για την ανάδρομη ανάλυση των καταγραφών του TBM για την πρόβλεψη του δείκτη ποιότητας της βραχομάζας RMR κατά μήκος της σήραγγας. Τέλος γίνεται η σύγκριση των προβλέψεων του RMR κατά μήκος της σήραγγας που προέκυψαν και από τις τρεις διαφορετικές πηγές δεδομένων.
Thermodynamics of discrete quantum processes
Creators: name: Anders, Janet
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define thermodynamic configurations and identify two primitives of discrete quantum processes between configurations for which heat and work can be defined in a natural way. This allows us to uncover a general second law for any discrete trajectory that consists of a sequence of these primitives, linking both equilibrium and non-equilibrium configurations. Moreover, in the limit of a discrete trajectory that passes through an infinite number of configurations, i.e. in the reversible limit, we recover the saturation of the second law. Finally, we show that for a discrete Carnot cycle operating between four configurations one recovers Carnot's thermal efficiency.
description: 14pages, 9 figures
Binary Formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster: Investigating the Low-mass Stellar and Sub-Stellar Population
Creators: name: De Furio, Matthew
name: Meyer, Michael R
name: Reiter, Megan
name: Kraus, Adam
name: Dupuy, Trent
name: Liu, Christopher
name: Monnier, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Low-mass Stars
Brown Dwarfs
Star formation
Star clusters
Multiplicity
Binary Stars
Hubble Space Telescope

description: We present results from a series of three papers exploring the multiplicity of the Orion Nebula Cluster using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We developed a double point spread function (PSF) fitting routine using empirically derived PSFs that is sensitive to companions at separations beyond 0.025" (0.5λ/D at 555nm, 10 au at 400 pc). We found: 1) the companion frequency (CF) of low-mass stars in the ONC is consistent with the Galactic field over all mass ratios and orbital separations of 10-200 au, in contrast to the higher CF found in low-density regions like Taurus, 2) the power-law fit to the mass ratio distribution of low-mass primaries in the ONC is consistent with that in the field and Taurus, and 3) the CF to brown dwarfs with separations > 20 au in the ONC is in excess of the field, requiring further dynamical evolution destroying binaries with low binding energy to resemble the field.
Beilschmiedia cryptocaryoides Kosterm.
Creators: name: Werff, Henk van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Laurales
Lauraceae
Beilschmiedia
Beilschmiedia cryptocaryoides

description: Beilschmiedia cryptocaryoides Kosterm. Comm. Forest, Res. Inst. 56: 3 (1957). — Type: Service Forestier (Capuron) 8985, Madagascar, massif de l'Androrona (holo-, P!). The type specimen is in fruit and, as KOSTERMANS (1957c) already indicated, it is either a Beilschmiedia or a Potameia. No other collections with similar characters (minutely, but densely tomentellous twigs and petioles; leaves 13 × 9 cm) have been found. Until flowers are available, it seems best to include this under the imperfectly known species.
description: Published as part of Werff, Henk van der, 2003, A synopsis of the genus Beilschmiedia (Lauraceae) in Madagascar, pp. 77-92 in Adansonia (3) (3) 25 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5180979
description: {"references": ["KOSTERMANS A. J. G. H. 1957 c. - Le genre Beilschmiedia Nees (Lauracees) a Madagascar. Commun. Forest Res. Inst. 56: 1 - 12."]}
title: Εκτίμηση αποθεμάτων και σχεδιασμός έργων προσπέλασης - προπαρασκευής βωξιτικού κοιτάσματος στη θέση Μουκιχρί από γεωλογικά - τοπογραφικά δεδομένα και δεδομένα δειγματοληπτικών γεωτρήσεων
Creators: name: Νικοληας Ευσταθιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2014

description: Σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η εκτίμηση των γεωλογικών και μεταλλευτικών αποθεμάτων ομάδος φακοειδών κοιτασμάτων βωξίτη της περιοχής «Μουκιχρί» από γεωλογικά - τοπογραφικά δεδομένα και δεδομένα δειγματοληπτικών γεωτρήσεων, και εν τέλει ο σχεδιασμός των υπόγειων έργων προσπέλασης - προπαρασκευής της εκμετάλλευσης. Καταρχήν εξετάζεται η γεωλογία και κοιτασματολογία της περιοχής. Στη συνέχεια σχεδιάζεται η γεωμετρία του κοιτάσματος στο τρισδιάστατο χώρο από τα δεδομένα των δειγματοληπτικών γεωτρήσεων, κατασκευάζεται το μοντέλο ισοπαχών του βωξίτη και στη συνέχεια εκτιμώνται τα Γεωλογικά Αποθέματα. Κατόπιν σχεδιάζονται τα υπόγεια έργα προσπέλασης προς τους φακούς με ελάχιστο πάχος 2-3 m. Με βάση την «γεωγραφία» του κοιτάσματος γίνεται κατόπιν η επιλογή της μεθόδου εκμετάλλευσης και με βάση αυτή σχεδιάζονται τα έργα προπαρασκευής. Η τρισδιάστατη μοντελοποίηση της τοπογραφίας της περιοχής, το κοίτασμα, και τα έργα προσπέλασης και  περιχάραξης ή προπαρασκευής έγινε με τη βοήθεια των σχεδιαστικών προγραμμάτων AutoCAD® 3d civil 2006 και AutoCAD® 2012. Τέλος προτείνεται η μέθοδος εκμετάλλευσης και εκτιμώνται τα μεταλλευτικά αποθέματα.
Additional file 1 of Rice husk hydrochars from metal chloride-assisted hydrothermal carbonization as biosorbents of organics from aqueous solution
Creators: name: Li, Yin
name: Hagos, Fana Mulugeta
name: Chen, Rongrong
name: Qian, Hanxin
name: Mo, Chengxing
name: Di, Jing
name: Gai, Xikun
name: Yang, Ruiqin
name: Pan, Genxing
name: Shan, Shengdao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material.
title: Mensch und Technik in der digitalen Transformation
title: Theoretische und empirische Analyse der Wahrnehmung, Nutzung und Wirkung digitaler Technik in soziotechnischen Systemen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hellmann, Marco
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Digitale Transformation
subject: Big Data
subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Technikakzeptanz
subject: Arbeitsfähigkeit
subject: Gestaltung soziotechnischer Systeme
subject: 330
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Arbeitsfähigkeit
subject: Arbeitszufriedenheit
subject: Arbeitsbedingungen
subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Big Data
subject: Logistik
subject: Informationstechnik

description: Die digitale Transformation gilt als zentraler gesellschaftlicher Megatrend. Unklar ist jedoch, welche Veränderungen konkreter Arbeitsmerkmale mit der Digitalisierung einhergehen und welche Bedingungen für Beschäftigte belastend oder unterstützend wirken können. Darüber hinaus wird die Technikakzeptanz aufseiten der Beschäftigten bisher kaum empirisch adressiert. Hier knüpft die vorliegende Forschung an und verfolgt folgende Forschungsfrage: Wie bewerten Beschäftigte die Veränderungen am Arbeitsplatz, die mit der Digitalisierung einhergehen in Bezug auf die Förderung und Belastung ihrer Arbeitsfähigkeit und welche Bedeutung hat dabei die Bewertung der digitalen Technik? Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zeigen deutlich die Effekte der Digitalisierung auf: Über die Veränderung der Arbeitsbedingungen steigert die Digitalisierung die Arbeitszufriedneheit und die Motivation. Gleichzeitig werden höhere Anforderungen zur Komplexitätsbewältigung und Leistungsdruck erzeugt. Die positiven und negativen Effekte der Digitalisierung gleichen sich aus. Voraussetzung dazu ist jedoch eine adäquate Gestaltung des soziotechnischen Systems. Der Vergleich zwischen den beiden Fallbeispielen Logistik und IT deutet zudem darauf hin, dass sich die Gesamteffekte der Digitalisierung verstärken, wenn die digitale Transformation voranschreitet.
Additional file 1 of “They are gaining experience; we are gaining extra hands”: a mixed methods study to assess healthcare worker perceptions of a novel strategy to strengthen human resources for HIV in South Africa
Creators: name: Tollefson, Deanna
name: Ntombela, Nasiphi
name: Reeves, Sarah
name: Charalambous, Salome
name: O’Malley, Gabrielle
name: Setswe, Geoffrey
name: Duerr, Ann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplement 1. Description of interns and healthcare workers engaged in the YHA program.
Interregional Connectivity among Indian Immigrants: A Series of Protests against Exclusion from Canada, the US Mainland and Manila in the Early 20th Century
Creators: name: Mizukami, Kaori
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This paper examines a series of refusals to admit Indian immigrants into North America in the early twentieth century and the resulting protest movements in Canada, the US mainland and the Philippines. By examining these events, the study aims to enhance our comprehension of Indian immigrants’ agency in shaping their interregional mobility and connectivity. Indians repeatedly faced de facto exclusion from these places, but they devised strategies to facilitate migration, and in response, Canadian and US authorities tightened control, leading to further resistance. Throughout these cycles of restriction and resistance, Indian migrants combined the knowledge and experiences acquired in Manila and North America, countering immigration policies and strengthening interregional connectivity. Understanding the interregional connectivity among Indian immigrants is key to understanding why Indians from different regions were actively involved in the anti-British Ghadar movement and the Komagata Maru incident. This paper focuses on the agency of Indians in Manila and examines the reasons behind their engagement in these events.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 54 No. 3 (2023): Knowledge on the Move, Part II
Integrability of Nonholonomically Coupled Oscillators
Creators: name: Modin, Klas
name: Verdier, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70H08, 70F25, 37J60

description: We study a family of nonholonomic mechanical systems. These systems consist of harmonic oscillators coupled through nonholonomic constraints. In particular, the family includes the so called contact oscillator, which has been used as a test problem for numerical methods for nonholonomic mechanics. Furthermore, the systems under study constitute simple models for continuously variable transmission gearboxes. The main result is that each system in the family is integrable reversible with respect to the canonical reversibility map on the cotangent bundle. This result may explain previous numerical observations, that some discretisations of the contact oscillator have favourable structure preserving properties.
Coping with Discourses on Minority Populations among the Rang of Far Western Nepal: Nation, Scheduled Tribe, Janajāti, and Indigeneity
Creators: name: Nawa, Katsuo
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The main inhabitants of Byans, Chaudans, and Darma, three adjacent Himalayan valleys in the Mahakali (Kali) drainage system, call themselves ‘Rang’ in their own languages. Their homeland, which has long constituted part of the extensive frontier between South Asia and Tibet, has been politically divided between Nepal and India for nearly two centuries. Even though the Rang have maintained their socio-cultural unity across the international border, the Rang in India and the Rang in Nepal have had to deal with different minority policies and discourses, coping with various ‘foreign’ ethnonyms as well as meta-level categories like ‘scheduled tribe’, ‘jan(a)jāti’, and ‘indigenous people,’ as most Rangs live as citizens of either one of the two states. Primarily based on my ethnographic fieldwork in Darchula district in Far Western Nepal and elsewhere, I discuss in this paper how Rang in Nepal have coped with changing institutional frameworks and discourses on minority populations on both sides of the Mahakali or Kali River.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 54 No. 3 (2023): Knowledge on the Move, Part II
title: Environmental scatter radio sensors with RF energy harvesting
title: Περιβαλλοντικοί αισθητήρες οπισθοσκέδασης με συγκομιδή ενέργειας από ηλεκτρομαγνητική ακτινοβολία.
Creators: name: Δασκαλακης Σπυριδων-Νεκταριος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Real-time monitoring of environmental parameters, such as soil moisture, with wireless sensor networks (WSN), is invaluable for precision agriculture. However, conventional radios in large-scale deployments are limited by power consumption, cost and complexity constraints. Scatter-radio, a promising technology, allows the development of large-scale and low-cost WSN. In this work, the development of an analog scatter-radio WSN for soil moisture is presented. The WSN consists of low-cost (6 Euro per sensor), low-power (in the order of 200 W per sensor) soil moisture scatter radio sensors, with high communication range (up to 250 m). The WSN utilizes analog frequency modulation (FM) in a bistatic network architecture, while the sensors operate simultaneously, using frequency division multiple access (FDMA). The network utilizes an ultra-low cost software-defined radio reader and proposes a custom microstrip capacitive sensor with a simple calibration methodology. Overall root mean squared error (RMSE) below 1% is observed, even for ranges of 250 m. In order to supply the sensor with energy, a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting supply system is also presented. The system collects the unused ambient RF energy from scatter radio emitters and from one FM station. The design consists of a double diode rectifier with operation in the two frequencies of 900 MHz and 97,5 MHz, simultaneously, utilizing a low-cost, lossy FR-4 substrate and a low-complexity rectifier circuit. The achieved RF-to-DC rectification efficiency was 14,49% and 27,44% at 868 MHz and 97,5 MHz, respectively, and 20 dBm input power. The rectifier was connected to a commercial boost converter in order to manage and improve the output power of the rectifier. Finally, the end-to-end efficiency of the system was 21%, at 97,5 MHz and 15 dBm input power. This work offers a concrete example of ultra-low power and cost wireless sensor networking with (unconventional) novel scatter radio technology.
Hilsenbergia Tausch ex Meisn.
Creators: name: Miller, James S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Boraginales
Ehretiaceae
Hilsenbergia

description: HILSENBERGIA Tausch ex Meisn. Pl. Vasc. Gen. Comment.: 198 (1840); Reichenbach, Consp. Reg. Veg.: 117 (1828); De Candolle, Prodr. 13: 478 (1852). Trees or shrubs, often multi-stemmed; glabrous or with an indument of simple hairs. Leaves alternate, or clustered near the apices of short lateral branches, the margin entire, sometimes revolute, the venation pinnate, brochididromous, petiolate, the petioles generally adaxially canaliculate. Inflorescences terminal, cymose to paniculate, occasionally nearly racemose or reduced to 1-3 flowers. Flowers bisexual, or possible unisexual and the plants dioecious in H. capuronii and H. lyciacea; calyx 5-lobed, valvate in bud, pubescent inside; corolla white, urceolate with 5 spreading to reflexed lobes, these much shorter than the tube; stamens 5, included or slightly exserted, the filaments glabrous or pubescent at the point of insertion the anthers oblong to ellipsoid; ovary ovoid, 4-locular, the style 1, terminal, bifid, the stigmas 2, clavate to capitate. Fruits drupaceous, ovoid to nearly spherical, the exocarp thin to leathery, mesocarp usually sparse, fleshy, the endocarp separating into 4, 1- seeded pyrenes, these winged or ridged on the exterior surface. TYPE. — Hilsenbergia ehretia Tausch ex Meisn. The genus Hilsenbergia consists of 18 species from east Africa, Madagascar, the Comores, and the Mascarenes.
description: Published as part of Miller, James S., 2003, Classification of Boraginaceae subfam. Ehretioideae: Resurrection of the genus Hilsenbergia Tausch ex Meisn., pp. 151-189 in Adansonia (3) (3) 25 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5181019
Cost-effectiveness of camrelizumab plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone as first-line therapy in advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Gong, Jinhong
name: Shang, Jingjing
name: Su, Dan
name: Qian, Xiaodan
name: Liu, Guangjun
name: Sun, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Camrelizumab combination therapy for advanced or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has considerable survival benefits. This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of camrelizumab combination therapy versus chemotherapy alone as a first-line treatment for patients with ESCC from the perspective of the Chinese healthcare system. A three-state partitioned survival model was developed to estimate total costs, life years (LYs), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) and incremental net health benefits (INHBs) over a 20-year time horizon. Sensitivity and scenario analyses were also performed. Camrelizumab plus chemotherapy increased QALYs by 0.30 (0.43 LYs), with an incremental cost of $9,272. The ICERs for camrelizumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone was $31,062/QALY ($21,599/LY), and the INHB was 0.05 QALY at the cost-effective threshold of $37,653/QALY (3 times China’s GDP per capita). One-way sensitivity analyses showed that the ICER was the most sensitive to utility values in the PFS state. Probabilistic sensitivity analyses suggested that camrelizumab combination therapy had a probability of 74.04% cost-effectiveness at a threshold of $37,653/QALY. Scenario analyses confirmed that the findings were robust. Camrelizumab combination therapy is likely to have a cost-effectiveness advantage over chemotherapy alone for previously untreated advanced or metastatic ESCC in China.
title: Distributed sliding-window matrix sketching
Creators: name: Αστερη Ειρηνη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Streaming sketching algorithms are data-processing algorithms for the summarization of an input data stream under memory and computational constraints. Their input is a long or potentially unbounded sequence of items that can be parsed a single (or a limited number of times), and the objective is to construct a concise summary of the data – a sketch – which can be later used to approximate a quantity of interest. In this work, we focus on streaming matrix sketching methods: the input is a sequence of vectors which can be regarded as the rows of a large matrix. We briefly survey matrix sketching methods for generating various kinds of sketches. We will mostly focus on the problem of approximating the principal subspace of a large matrix under the streaming model and we will describe the state-of-the-art “Frequent Directions” method of Liberty. We will further review very recent extensions of this work to monitoring the principal subspace of a stream over a sliding time window. Here, the objective is to maintain a sketch that approximates the desired quantity for the most recent segment of the input. Finally, we conclude with a novel result on the distributed construction of sketches for the sliding window model and some future directions.
Real-world healthcare costs and resource utilization in patients with von Willebrand disease and angiodysplasia
Creators: name: Connell, NT
name: Caicedo, J
name: Nieto, N
name: Chatterjee, S
name: Hait, A
name: Gupta, AK
name: Bullano, M
name: Schultz, BG
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: To describe the economic burden among VWD patients with angiodysplasia compared to VWD patients without angiodysplasia and the general population. This was a retrospective analysis using the Merative MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Databases® (January 2011-September 2020). Selected patients had ≥1 medical claim for VWD or low VWF, ≥1 medical claim for AGD, and ≥3 GI-related bleeding episodes within a year. HCRU and all-cause costs were compared with the VWD (only) and the general cohorts. The mean total all-cause costs were $150,101 among patients with VWD and angiodysplasia (n = 34), higher compared to $48,249 among matched VWD patients without angiodysplasia (n = 136) and $31,029 among matched individuals of the general population [n = 136; p-value < 0.0001]. The differences in costs between groups were primarily due to inpatient care. During the 12-month follow-up, VWD patients with symptomatic (n = 35), asymptomatic (n = 81), and suspected (n = 378) angiodysplasia had an average of 4.1, 0.6, and 3.8 gastrointestinal (GI) bleeds, respectively. Desmopressin, VWF concentrates, and aminocaproic acid were the most frequent treatments used. The most frequent procedures to treat GI-related bleeding and underlying lesions were blood transfusion and laser therapy. Despite recent therapeutic advances, there is room for considerable reduction of the disease burden in patients with VWD and angiodysplasia.
Reissner-Nordström Black Holes on a Codimension-2 Brane
Creators: name: Kiley, Derrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we derive the exact Reissner-Nordström black hole solution on a tensional codimension-2 brane, generalizing earlier Schwarzschild and Kerr results. We begin by briefly reviewing various aspects of codimension-2 branes that will be important for our analysis, including the mechanism of "offloading" of brane tension into the bulk that is unique to these branes, as well as the explicit construction of the codimension-2 Schwarzschild black hole as a warm-up exercise. We then show that the same methods can be used to find the metric describing the spacetime surrounding an electrically-charged point source threaded by a codimension-2 brane. The presence of the brane tension leads to an amplification of the apparent strength of gravity, as is well-known, and we further find exactly the same enhancement for the apparent strength of the electric field.
description: Fixes typos in paper; conclusions unchanged
title: Streaming, high performance support vector methods
title: Υψηλής απόδοσης μέθοδοι διανυσμάτων υποστήριξης σε ροές δεδομένων
Creators: name: Χρυσογελος Περικλης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: We are in an era where data are constantly being generated and machine learning can benefit from this to produce better models. Support vector machines are a popular machine learning model, which can be adapted and used for various tasks, such as classification, regression and clustering. We study the problem of continuously updating L2 Support Vector Machines in a distributed environment where new data constantly arrive in remote sites. We approach this as the problem of tracking a convex function’s minimum over the convex hull of the union of fully dynamic sets, each one located in one of the sites. We give communication efficient solutions for both the exact and approximate variants of the problem and show that they are applicable in the case of a kernelized SVM trained in an explicit feature space. In our proposed methods, the sites communicate only when it is necessary, that is, every time the model has been truly outdated. Also, in case the sites are forced to communicate, we propose two algorithms, one iterative and one with a single stage of communication.
description: Ζούμε σε μια εποχή όπου δεδομένα δημιουργούνται συνεχώς και η μηχανική μάθηση μπορεί να τα χρησιμοποιήσει για να παράγει καλύτερα μοντέλα. Οι μηχανές διανυσμάτων υποστήριξης (SVMs) είναι ένα δημοφιλές μοντέλο το οποίο μπορεί να προσαρμοστεί και να χρησιμοποιηθεί για διάφορες χρήσεις, όπως για ταξινόμηση, παρεµβολή και ομαδοποίηση. Μελετάμε το πρόβλημα ταυ να ενημερώνουμε συνεχόμενα L2 SVMS σε ένα κατανεμημένο περιβάλλον όπου νέα δεδομένα φτάνουν συνεχώς σε απομακρυσμένους κόμβους. Προσεγγίζουμε το πρόβλημα ως παρακολούθηση του ελαχίστου μίας κυρτής συνάρτησης πάνω στην κυρτή θήκη της ένωσης πλήρως δυναμικών συνόλων, που κάθε ένα από τα οποία βρίσκεται σε έναν από τους κόμβους. Δίνουμε επικοινωνιακά αποτελεσματικές λύσεις για την ακριβή και την προσεγγιστική λύση του προβλήματος και δείχνουμε ότι είναι εφαρμόσημες στην περίπτωση που οι SVM με πυρήνα και εκπαιδεύονται σε έναν υπονοούμενο χώρο. Οι μέθοδοι μας, επικοινωνούν μόνο όταν είναι απαραίτητο, δηλαδή κάθε φορά που το μοντέλο είναι πραγματικά μη ενημερωμένο. Επίσης, στην περίπτωση που χρειάζεται να επικοινωνήσουν, προτείνουμε δυο αλγόριθμους, ένα επαναληπτικό και με ένα στάδιο επικοινωνίας.
The Language of Ethnicity: Indigenous Narratives in Nepal soon after the Peoples’ War (1996–2006)
Creators: name: Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This text examines how ethnic activism in Nepal developed a political language that stressed local particularities and engaged in politics of difference while seeking to address audiences across the globe. It is argued that a language of ethnicity evolved in a series of translation acts. Looking back at long histories of oppression and marginalisation, members of ethnic groups – in Nepal as elsewhere – seek to reassert themselves by engaging in public representations and by creating a common ground in the framework of global ethnic activism and hence global normative horizons. While moving between local, national and global audiences, ethnic activists transport and mould meanings, creating a common denominator for a semantic field that is intelligible to the widest possible diverse audience. Translation is viewed here as a complex exercise: moving back and forth between local, national and global forums of communication and engagement while adopting, rejecting and shaping the means of expression and the related knowledge repertoires. These acts can engage with and react to meanings created within fields of power seen as oppressive or enabling. By deploying a wide-ranging repertoire of narrative figures, such political communication aims at capturing, channelling and expanding public attention.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 54 No. 3 (2023): Knowledge on the Move, Part II
Additional file 2 of “They are gaining experience; we are gaining extra hands”: a mixed methods study to assess healthcare worker perceptions of a novel strategy to strengthen human resources for HIV in South Africa
Creators: name: Tollefson, Deanna
name: Ntombela, Nasiphi
name: Reeves, Sarah
name: Charalambous, Salome
name: O’Malley, Gabrielle
name: Setswe, Geoffrey
name: Duerr, Ann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplement 2. Logistic regression results (survey analysis).
title: Ανάπτυξη κωνικού οδοντωτού τροχού με σπειροειδή οδόντωση

title: Development of spiral bevel gear
Creators: name: Κουβελης Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μελετάται η διαδικασία ανάπτυξης ενός προϊόντος πολύπλοκης γεωμετρίας κάνοντας χρήση προγραμματιζόμενων εργαλειομηχανών (CNC). Συγκεκριμένα εξετάζεται η κατασκευή ενός κωνικού οδοντωτού τροχού με σπειροειδή οδόντωση για συστήματα κορώνα-πηνιόν, τα οποία απαιτούν σημαντικό χρόνο προγραμματισμού και κατεργασίας. Αρχικά, χρησιμοποιείται εξειδικευμένο λογισμικό τρισδιάστατης μοντελοποίησης (CAD) για τη σχεδίαση του προϊόντος και εν συνεχεία λογισμικό κατεργασίας (CAM) για τη δημιουργία/παραμετροποίηση των διαφορετικών κατεργασιών που απαιτούνται. Επιπλέον πραγματοποιείται μελέτη σχετικά με τη χρήση διαφορετικών κοπτικών εργαλείων ώστε να υπολογιστεί η καλύτερη δυνατή στρατηγική κατεργασίας, με στόχο την ελαχιστοποίηση του χρόνου. Κατασκευάζονται δύο δοκίμια από διαφορετικά υλικά και πραγματοποιούνται μετρήσεις διαστασιολόγησης για να εντοπιστούν τυχόν αποκλίσεις ανάμεσα στα ψηφιακά μοντέλα και τα δοκίμια που κατασκευάστηκαν. Η κατασκευή υλοποιείται στο κέντρο κατεργασίας (CNC) του Διατμηματικού Εργαστηρίου Εργαλειομηχανών. Εξετάζεται επίσης η δυνατότητα θερμικής επεξεργασίας (βαφή) των δοκιμίων καθώς και η δυνατότητα μέτρησης των παραμορφώσεων που έχουν υποστεί οι οδοντώσεις κατά τη θερμική επεξεργασία.
description: The main scope of this diploma thesis is the development of a complex geometrical product by using computer numerical control machine (CNC). Specifically the construction of spiral bevel gear for crown pinion systems is being studied, which require time consuming processes as computer programming and machining. Initially, a dedicated 3D modeling software is used to design the product and then a computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software is used in order to setup and simulate the different machining processes. Furthermore, the use of different cutting tools is explored, in order to select the optimal machining strategy targeting time reduction. Two helical bevel gear workpieces are developed from different materials and dimension measurements are executed to identify any differences between the digital models and the real parts. The construction of the parts is carried out in the machining center (CNC) of the Machine Tools Laboratory. Finally, the possibility of heat treatment (quenching) on the workpieces is examined, as also the ability of measuring thermal deformations –as a change in dimensions- after this process.
Burden of disease of spinal muscular atrophy linked to chromosome 5q (5q-SMA) in Colombia
Creators: name: Gil-Rojas, Yaneth
name: Suárez-Obando, Fernando
name: Amaya-Granados, Devi
name: Prieto-Pinto, Laura
name: Samacá-Samacá, Daniel
name: Ortiz, Blair
name: Hernández, Fabián
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This article estimates the disease burden of 5q-SMA in Colombia by using the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) metric. Epidemiological data were obtained from local databases and medical literature and were adjusted in the DisMod II tool. DALYs were obtained by adding years of life lost due to premature death (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD). The modeled prevalence of 5q-SMA in Colombia was 0.74 per 100,000 population. The fatality rate for all types was 14.1%. The disease burden of 5q-SMA was estimated at 4,421 DALYs (8.6 DALYs/100,000), corresponding to 4,214 (95.3%) YLLs and 207 (4.7%) YLDs. Most of the DALYs were accounted in the 2–17 age group. Of the total burden, 78% correspond to SMA type 1, 18% to type 2, and 4% to type 3. Although 5q-SMA is a rare disease, it is linked to a significant disease burden due to premature mortality and severe sequelae. The estimates shown in this article are important inputs to inform public policy decisions on how to ensure adequate health service provision for patients with 5q-SMA.
title: Multiway data analysis: nonnegative tensor factorization algorithms and parallel implementations
title: Ανάλυση πολυδιάστατων δεδομένων: αλγόριθμοι μη αρνητικής παραγοντοποίησης τανιστών και παράλληλες υλοποιήσεις
Creators: name: Κωστουλας Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: We consider the problem of nonnegative tensor factorization. Our aim is to derive an efficient algorithm that is also suitable for parallel implementation. We adopt the alternating optimization (AO) framework and solve each matrix nonnegative least-squares problem via a Nesterov-type algorithm for strongly convex problems. We describe two parallel implementations of the algorithm, with and without data replication. We test the efficiency of the algorithm in extensive numerical experiments and measure the attained speedup in a parallel computing environment. It turns out that the derived algorithm is a competitive candidate for the solution of very large-scale dense nonnegative tensor factorization problems.
Metallicity gradients through disk Instability: A simple model for the Milky Way's boxy bulge
Creators: name: Martinez-Valpuesta, Inma
name: Gerhard, Ortwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations show a clear vertical metallicity gradient in the Galactic bulge, which is often taken as a signature of dissipative processes in the formation of a classical bulge. Various evidence shows, however, that the Milky Way is a barred galaxy with a boxy bulge representing the inner three-dimensional part of the bar. Here we show with a secular evolution N-body model that a boxy bulge formed through bar and buckling instabilities can show vertical metallicity gradients similar to the observed gradient, if the initial axisymmetric disk had a comparable radial metallicity gradient. In this framework the range of metallicities in bulge fields constrains the chemical structure of the Galactic disk at early times, before bar formation. Our secular evolution model was previously shown to reproduce inner Galaxy star counts and we show here that it also has cylindrical rotation. We use it to predict a full mean metallicity map across the Galactic bulge from a simple metallicity model for the initial disk. This map shows a general outward gradient on the sky as well as longitudinal perspective asymmetries. We also briefly comment on interpreting metallicity gradient observations in external boxy bulges.
description: Accepted to ApJ Letters
title: РАЗВЁРНУТЫЕ МЕТАФОРЫ В РАССКАЗЕ Е. И. ЗАМЯТИНА «ОДИН»
Creators: name: Калянин, Геннадий
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассматриваются особенности развёрнутой метафоры в рассказе Е. И. Замятина «Один». Развернутая метафора – многофокусное метафорическое выражение – описана как способ изображения трёх состояний главного персонажа – страха, одиночества и отчаяния. Выделены тематические группы слов, которыми
выражены фокусы развернутых метафор. Большинство приведенных контекстов сопровождаются перечислением фокусов, а также описанием семантических эффектов, производимых элементами развернутых метафор, изображающих отрицательные эмоции главного героя.
ПРОКУРАТУРА ОРГАНЛАРИНИНГ КОРРУПЦИЯГА ҚАРШИ КУРАШИШ ФАОЛИЯТИНИНГ ТАШКИЛИЙ-ҲУҚУҚИЙ АСОСЛАРИНИ ТАКОМИЛЛАШТИРИШ
Creators: name: Самадов, С.И.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ўзбекистон Республикаси Президенти Ш.М.Мирзиёев 2020 йил 29 декабрдаги Олий Мажлисга Мурожаатномасида коррупциянинг ҳар қандай кўринишига муросасиз бўлиш кундалик ҳаёт тарзимизга айланиши шартлиги, бу иллатга қарши курашишга барча давлат органлари, сиёсий партиялар, жамоат ташкилотлари, оммавий ахборот воситалари, умуман, ҳар бир фуқаро сафарбар этилиши зарур,[1] деган фикрларни илгари сурган эди.
Testing the interaction model with cosmological data and gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Pan, Yu
name: Cao, Shuo
name: Gong, Yungui
name: Liao, Kai
name: Zhu, Zong-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the new gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) data, combined with the baryon acoustic oscillation(BAO) observation from the spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release, the newly obtained $A$ parameter at $z=0.6$ from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations from the 7-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP7) results, and the type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) from Union2 set, to constrain a phenomenological model describing possible interactions between dark energy and dark matter, which was proposed to alleviate the coincidence problem of the standard $Λ$CDM model. By using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, we obtain the marginalized $1σ$ constraints $Ω_{m}=0.2886\pm{0.0135}$, $r_m=-0.0047\pm{0.0046}$, and $w_X=-1.0658\pm{0.0564}$. We also consider other combinations of these data for comparison. These results show that: (1) the energy of dark matter is slightly transferring to that of dark energy; (2) even though the GRBs+BAO+CMB data present less stringent constraints than SNe+BAO+CMB data do, the GRBs can help eliminate the degeneracies among parameters.
description: 3 figures, 9 pages, accepted for publication in PLB
How do patients value features of biological medicine in rheumatoid arthritis? A discrete choice experiment
Creators: name: Zartab, Saman
name: Nikfar, Shekoufeh
name: Jamshidi, Ahmadreza
name: Toroski, Mahdi
name: Varahrami, Vida
name: Fatemi, Behzad
name: Kebriaeezadeh, Abbas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The aim of this study was to quantify the preference of the patients regarding biological DMARDs. Patients’ preferences were assessed using a discrete choice experiment. Eighteen different surveys describing eight attributes were designed using experimental design methods. Each survey presented eight choice tasks with two options for patients to choose one. A conditional logit model was used to calculate relative importance and willingness to pay. Subgroup analysis was conducted to evaluate the effect of the patients’ characteristic on their preferences. A total of 306 patients were included in the study. All attributes had significant effects on the patients’ choices. The most important feature was the ability to preserve physical function. The least important feature was the route of administration. Surprisingly, the out-of-pocket cost was one of the last priorities for respondents. According to the relative importance calculations, 80% of the patients’ preferences can be obtained by clinical attributes. Based on subgroup analysis, the most important patient characteristic that affected their choices was the monthly out-of-pocket history. Different features of treatment had different effects on the patients’ preferences. Quantification of the impact of each attribute not only revealed their relative importance but also determined the trade-off rate among them.