cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sox2gene experssion on mouse embryonic stem cells in the neural diffrentiation
Creators: name: Mukhtar, Khalid
name: Abdalmuolh, Almahdi Matuq
name: Abdaltef, Fojeha Ahamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Regenerative medicine (incl. stem cells)

description: Stem cells (SCs) are important cells for replacement therapy diseases.The interest in the potential of neural stem cells (NSCs) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and brain injuries has substantially promoted research on neural stem cell self-renewal and differentiation.The geneissry?box containing gene 2 (Sox2) has been associated with a SC phenotype that predicts for poor outcomes. Sox2 is a transcription factor that regulates embryonic stem cell pluripotency and drives commitment of airway precursor cells to basal-type and neuroendocrine cells in the developing lung. Sox2gene involved will be investigated in practical pirogue according to the expression patterns.Sox2 has been associated with a SC phenotype that predicts for poor outcomes. Subsequently, information has been compiled on the question how Sox2 in neural differentiation is controlled on the molecular level, and controlled in vivo.
Topological Spin Hall Effect due to Magnetic Skyrmions
Creators: name: Yin, Gen
name: Liu, Yizhou
name: Barlas, Yafis
name: Zang, Jiadong
name: Lake, Roger K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) originates from the topology of the Bloch bands in momentum space. The duality between real space and momentum space calls for a spin Hall effect induced from a real space topology in analogy to the topological Hall effect (THE) of skyrmions. We theoretically demonstrate the topological spin Hall effect (TSHE) in which a pure transverse spin current is generated from a skyrmion spin texture.
FOREU2 Coordination: Setup of thematic sub groups
Creators: name: RI4C2 project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The 24 alliances from the second Erasmus+ Pilot call (ATHENA, AURORA Alliance, Circle U, E3UDRES2, EC2U, EELISA, ENGAGE.EU, ENHANCE, ENLIGHT, ERUA, EUNICE, EUNIWell, EURECA-PRO, EuroTeQ, Eut, FILMEU, INVEST, NeurotechEU, RUN-EU, T4E, ULYSSEUS, UNIC, UNITA, UNIVERSEH) have agreed, in their SwafS application documents, that they would ensure joint collaboration across their SwafS projects by creating a “Forum of European Universities 2 – FOREU2” where they would discuss and share good practices concerning R&I. The EC2U Alliance is the coordinator of FOREU2, and also ensures the dialogue with the Alliance in charge of the FOREU1 (ECIU). This report presents the thematic sub-groups that were created according to the topics of interest discussed during consultation among the 24 Alliances.
Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Potential Complication of Treatment With Sodium–Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibition
Creators: name: Buschur, Elizabeth O.
name: Cohan, Pejman
name: Peters, Anne L.
name: Diner, Jamie C.
name: Buse, John B.
name: Hirsch, Irl B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors are the most recently approved antihyperglycemic medications. We sought to describe their association with euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (euDKA) in hopes that it will enhance recognition of this potentially life-threatening complication.
Insulin Dose and Cardiovascular Mortality in the ACCORD Trial
Creators: name: Solomon, Sol
name: O'Connor, Patrick J.
name: Ambrosius, Walter T.
name: Riddle, Matthew C.
name: Rubin, Daniel J.
name: Bestermann, William
name: Joyce, Carol
name: Buse, John B.
name: Miller, Michael E.
name: Thomas, Abraham
name: Hsu, Fang-Chi
name: Chen, Shyh-Huei
name: Genuth, Saul
name: Kovacs, Christopher S.
name: Ismail-Beigi, Faramarz
name: Siraj, Elias S.
name: Sigal, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In the ACCORD trial, intensive treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular (CV) risk was associated with higher all-cause and CV mortality. Post hoc analyses have failed to implicate rapid reduction of glucose, hypoglycemia, or specific drugs as the causes of this finding. We hypothesized that exposure to injected insulin was quantitatively associated with increased CV mortality.
Supplementary Informations for Soil microbial mechanisms promoting ultrahigh rice yield in mBio review
Creators: name: Yangquanwei Zhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This is the Supplementary Informations for "Soil microbial mechanisms promoting ultrahigh rice yield" in mBio review
Critical behaviors and phase transitions of black holes in higher order gravities and extended phase spaces
Creators: name: Sherkatghanad, Zeinab
name: Mirza, Behrouz
name: Mirzaeyan, Zahra
name: Mansoori, Seyed Ali Hosseini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the critical behaviors and phase transitions of Gauss Bonnet-Born Infeld-AdS black holes (GB-BI-AdS) for $d=5,6$ and the extended phase space. We assume the cosmological constant, $Λ$, the coupling coefficient $α$, and the BI parameter $β$ to be thermodynamic pressures of the system. Having made these assumptions, the critical behaviors are then studied in the two canonical and grand canonical ensembles. We find "reentrant and triple point phase transitions" (RPT-TP) and "multiple reentrant phase transitions" (multiple RPT) with increasing pressure of the system for specific values of the coupling coefficient $α$ in the canonical ensemble. Also, we observe a reentrant phase transition (RPT) of GB-BI-AdS black holes in the grand canonical ensemble and for $d=6$. These calculations are then expanded to the critical behavior of Born-Infeld-AdS (BI-AdS) black holes in the third order of Lovelock gravity and in the grand canonical ensemble to find a Van der Waals behavior for $d=7$ and a reentrant phase transition for $d=8$ for specific values of potential $ϕ$ in the grand canonical ensemble. Furthermore, we obtain a similar behavior for the limit of $β\to \infty$, i.e charged-AdS black holes in the third order of the Lovelock gravity. Thus, it is shown that the critical behaviors of these black holes are independent of the parameter $β$ in the grand canonical ensemble.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Expanded Optimization for Discovering Optimal Lateral Handling Bicycles
Creators: name: Moore, Jason K.
name: Mont Hubbard
Publisher: name: Symposium on the Dynamics and Control of Single Track Vehicles
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91106 Special Vehicles
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This paper is part of the Proceedings of the 2019 Bicycle and Motorcycle Dynamics Conference: A Symposium on the Dynamics and Control of Single Track Vehicles held in Padova, Italy September 9th through 11th in the year 2019.

Artifact ID: 30
Mild Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Long-Term Child Health
Creators: name: Landon, Mark B.
name: Chien, Edward K.
name: Saade, George
name: Reddy, Uma M.
name: VanDorsten, J. Peter
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Biggio, Joseph R.
name: Rice, Madeline Murguia
name: Varner, Michael W.
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: Casey, Brian M.
name: Blackwell, Sean C.
name: Peaceman, Alan M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: OBJECTIVETo evaluate whether treatment of mild gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) confers sustained offspring health benefits, including a lower frequency of obesity.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSFollow-up study of children (ages 5–10) of women enrolled in a multicenter trial of treatment versus no treatment of mild GDM. Height, weight, blood pressure, waist circumference, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, triglycerides, and HDL cholesterol were measured.RESULTSFive hundred of 905 eligible offspring (55%) were enrolled. Maternal baseline characteristics were similar between the follow-up treated and untreated groups. The frequencies of BMI ≥95th (20.8% and 22.9%) and 85th (32.6% and 38.6%) percentiles were not significantly different in treated versus untreated offspring (P = 0.69 and P = 0.26). No associations were observed for BMI z score, log waist circumference, log triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, or log HOMA-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR). The effect of treatment was different by sex for fasting glucose and log HOMA-IR (P for interaction = 0.002 and 0.02, respectively) but not by age-group (5–6 and 7–10 years) for any outcomes. Female offspring of treated women had significantly lower fasting glucose levels.CONCLUSIONSAlthough treatment for mild GDM has been associated with neonatal benefits, no reduction in childhood obesity or metabolic dysfunction in the offspring of treated women was found. However, only female offspring of women treated for mild GDM had lower fasting glucose.
The most important tests that help diagnose joint patientssuch as the rheumatoid Arthritis
Creators: name: Mukhtar, Khalid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Autoimmunity

description: Rheumatoid arthritis is the autoimmune diseases, occurs, when the body fail to differentiate between the itself and non-self-tissue, immune system which causes attack to own body tissue, and the most important signs and symptoms are Joint pain, swelling, fatigue, warmth around a join and in the laboratory diagnosis purification of anemia, about 0.5-1% of the population world-wide by effected rheumatoid arthritis, with peak prevalence between the ages of 30 and 50 years, the most commonly diagnosed systemic rheumatoid arthritis, in women ratio 3:1 men, the likelihood of a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis increases with the number of small joints involved synovial joint with progressive to several joints, there are a number of possible that may increases your risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, including smoking, genetics and hormones, diagnosis include having at least one joint with definite swelling that is not explained by another disease, in a patient with inflammatory arthritis, the presence of a rheumatoid factor or anti-citrullinated protein antibody, or elevated C-reactive protein level or erythrocyte sedimentation rate suggests a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, initial laboratory evaluation should also include complete blood count with differential combinations of treatment are often used to control the disease, included medical therapy, diet therapy and surgical therapy.
RI4C2 Sessions M18-M24-M30-M36
Creators: name: RI4C2 project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The “Research & Innovation For Cities & Citizens – RI4C2” project aims to extend the activities of the EC2U Alliance to the Research and Innovation fields. The RI4C2 Management Committee (MaCo), the primary governance body, decided to present specific RI4C2 sessions during each EC2U Forum. As presented in the proposal, this session must give a general overview of the project, present the results, and provide key facts and figures on the Partner universities within the Alliance. This session aims to strengthen the links between the two projects and highlight potential collaborations. Minutes from sessions that took place at M18, M24, M30 and M36 of the RI4C2 project are presented in this report.
A Practice Based Methodology for Research in the Archive
Creators: name: Pierce, Gina
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Short paper presented at the Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) conference Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, University of Bolton, UK, 23rd-24th January 2019.
Futurescan 4: Valuing PracticeEdited by: Helena Britt, Kevin Almond, Laura MorganISBN: 978-1-5272-4969-1
title: Direct Laser Deposition of Quasi-Hollow Metallic Components
Creators: name: James Davis, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The work in this thesis is concerned with the deposition of quasi-hollow components fabricated using the additive manufacturing technique Direct Laser Deposition (DLD). Solid metallic layers are deposited onto the surface of a substrate via the introduction of metallic powder material into a melt pool created by the intensity of a laser beam. Successive deposition of tracks in a layer by layer fashion leads to the ability to build functional components. Presented in this thesis is an analytical approach to predicting the minimum power required to clad single tracks with minimal dilution into the substrate using an energy balance and conservation of mass equation. To help determine the minimum power required to deposit continuous, , well bonded clad tracks a simple geometric model was created that describes the change in cross-sectional area of a deposited clad track as its height and width increases. The results of this work produced curves which enabled the minimum power to be predicted for certain combinations of processing speed and powder mass flow rates. Abstract ii Abstract Stephen J. Davis The maximum overhang capable of being achieved using the 3-Axis DLD system described in this work was determined for different combinations of process parameters. Multiple clad tracks were deposited in layers to create solid, thin walls built at an incline to the vertical axis. The effects of the process parameters and clad track cross-sectional profile were investigated to examine the limits of the process when depositing un-supported overhang builds. It was found that a maximum overhang angle of _600 to the vertical could be deposited without the need of build supports. This greatly improves the flexibility of the process 10 terms of fabrication time and the complexity of the components capable of being built. Abstract Stephen J. Davis iii \Vith the ability to deposit non-vertical walls novel internal component geometries were deposited using the DLD process. Components with novel internal geometries, such as enclosed voids, are termed quasihollow components. The response of these components to axial compression and external pressure was investigated with the aid of finite element analysis and mechanical testing. It was found that components of equivalent mass having solid sections performed better at resisting the external loads compared to the quasi-hollow components. Upon collapse of the quasi-hollow components it was noticed that the orientation of the internal support structures influenced the location at which collapse occurred. Comparisons between the FE analysis and mechanical results ', showed that for a large quasi-hollow thin walled cylinder FE analysis underestimated the collapse load by 8.3%. For the case of the solid section thin wall cylinder the FE results underestimated the collapse load by 12.6%.
Novel Metabolic Markers for the Risk of Diabetes Development in American Indians
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinying
name: Lee, Elisa T.
name: Tran, ViLinh T.
name: Hyun, Noorie
name: Yu, Tianwei
name: Zhu, Yun
name: Jones, Dean
name: Zeng, Donglin
name: Howard, Barbara V.
name: He, Jiang
name: Uppal, Karan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: OBJECTIVETo identify novel metabolic markers for diabetes development in American Indians.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSUsing an untargeted high-resolution liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry, we conducted metabolomics analysis of study participants who developed incident diabetes (n = 133) and those who did not (n = 298) from 2,117 normoglycemic American Indians followed for an average of 5.5 years in the Strong Heart Family Study. Relative abundances of metabolites were quantified in baseline fasting plasma of all 431 participants. Prospective association of each metabolite with risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) was examined using logistic regression adjusting for established diabetes risk factors.RESULTSSeven metabolites (five known and two unknown) significantly predict the risk of T2D. Notably, one metabolite matching 2-hydroxybiphenyl was significantly associated with an increased risk of diabetes, whereas four metabolites matching PC (22:6/20:4), (3S)-7-hydroxy-2′,3′,4′,5′,8-pentamethoxyisoflavan, or tetrapeptides were significantly associated with decreased risk of diabetes. A multimarker score comprising all seven metabolites significantly improved risk prediction beyond established diabetes risk factors including BMI, fasting glucose, and insulin resistance.CONCLUSIONSThe findings suggest that these newly detected metabolites may represent novel prognostic markers of T2D in American Indians, a group suffering from a disproportionately high rate of T2D.
Internationalisation versus Securitisation: Nation-building through Higher Education in post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Ubaydullaeva, Dilnoza
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: Internationalisation of higher education - which entails recruitment of international students and staff, development of joint programs and branch campuses, and other research and education partnerships - has become an indispensable part of higher education (HE) worldwide. While most post-Soviet states liberalised their HE systems shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan chose a peculiar way of developing a national tertiary education system. The authoritarian regime's politics of ideological compliance during the period of 1991-2016 supplanted the genuine functions of HE institutions as places of education and research. Therefore, Uzbekistan's HE system remained largely isolated, although there was a strong demand for alternative, international providers of HE. This thesis explains why there was such a cautious approach to internationalisation of the university system in Uzbekistan under President Islam Karimov and how it was implemented. This research shows that Uzbekistan's use of HE to promote national ideology of the country played a role in decisions concerning internationalisation of the university sector. It argues that during Karimov's presidency, Uzbekistan securitised the internationalisation of its HE system as a threat to national ideology and the national model of education centred around this ideology. Excessive utilisation of the tertiary education sector as a platform for ideology-based education led to the absence of internationalisation of HE in the country. The thesis explains the restricted internationalisation in the HE sector through the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory. It presents several theoretical assumptions that can help analyse how and why authoritarian political orders treat internationalisation of HE as a security threat.
title: Estimating the distribution of the mass component of sea level trends using tide gauges, altimetry and steric reconstructions
Creators: name: Bellingham, Clare
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The recent global mean sea level rise is dominated by the addition of water to the oceans, accounting for around two thirds of the increase. In contrast, altimetry trends from 1993 to 2010 reveal that the local trends are dominated by the steric contribution, involving density expansion from warming and freshening. We explore an intermediate view between the global and local reconstructions based upon zonal averaging. By combining altimetry or tide gauges along with steric reconstructions, we provide two independent estimates of the zonal average of the mass component of sea level trends. We find that the trend in the increase of mass is spatially dependent and can be partly explained using mass redistribution predictions from gravitational fingerprints. Our two estimates, though, have different zonally averaged patterns. We find that the mass contribution implied by altimetry results in a higher rate of sea level rise in the southern hemisphere and the tropics, while the tide gauges imply a higher rate of rise within the tropics. These different views can be reconciled by the sparse tide gauge data in the southern hemisphere and the tropics. We show that while various land movement corrections at each gauge can alter the magnitude of the trend, this does not impact on the general shape of their latitudinal distributions.
Sub-exponential tail bounds for conditioned stable Bienaymé-Galton-Watson trees
Creators: name: Kortchemski, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish uniform sub-exponential tail bounds for the width, height and maximal outdegree of critical Bienaymé-Galton-Watson trees conditioned on having a large fixed size, whose offspring distribution belongs to the domain of attraction of a stable law. This extends results obtained for the height and width by Addario-Berry, Devroye & Janson in the finite variance case.
description: 34 pages, 1 figure. Final version: to appear in Probab. Theory Related Fields
title: Unicycling and identity : narratives of motivation in young riders
Creators: name: Bignold, Wendy
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This ethnographic study explores the unusual, lifestyle sport of unicycling with a particular focus on young riders. It arises from the author's own immersion in a unicycling culture over some 8 years, and from answers to the 3, primarily educational, questions which this involvement prompted; these concern concepts of motivation; identity; and ach/evemenf. The questions themselves provide the basis tor tne design oT tne study ana tne consequent analysis or data.
Calabi-Yau manifolds realizing symplectically rigid monodromy tuples
Creators: name: Doran, Charles F.
name: Malmendier, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D0x, 14J32, 32G20, 33Cxx

description: We define an iterative construction that produces a family of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau $n$-folds with section from a family of elliptic Calabi-Yau varieties of one dimension lower. Parallel to the geometric construction, we iteratively obtain for each family with a point of maximal unipotent monodromy, normalized to be at t=0, its Picard-Fuchs operator and a closed-form expression for the period holomorphic at t=0, through a generalization of the classical Euler transform for hypergeometric functions. In particular, our construction yields one-parameter families of elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds with section whose Picard-Fuchs operators realize all symplectically rigid Calabi-Yau differential operators with three regular singular points classified by Bogner and Reiter, but also non-rigid operators with four singular points.
description: 65 pages
Sickle Cell Trait Worsens Oxidative Stress, Abnormal Blood Rheology, and Vascular Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Diop, Saïd-Norou
name: Pialoux, Vincent
name: Sall Diop, Niama
name: Diaw, Mor
name: Martin, Cyril
name: Mbaye, Maïmouna Ndour
name: Diop, Saliou
name: Mury, Pauline
name: Samb, Abdoulaye
name: Ranque, Brigitte
name: Faes, Camille
name: Key, Nigel S.
name: Connes, Philippe
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: It is predicted that Africa will have the greatest increase in the number of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) within the next decade. T2DM patients are at risk for cardiovascular disorders. In Sub-Saharan African countries, sickle cell trait (SCT) is frequent. Despite the presence of modest abnormalities in hemorheology and oxidative stress, SCT is generally considered a benign condition. Little is known about vascular function in SCT, although recent studies demonstrated an increased risk of cardiovascular disorders, including venous thromboembolism, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. We hypothesized that SCT could accentuate the vascular dysfunction observed in T2DM.
title: Micro Heat Exchangers by Selective Laser Melting
Creators: name: Tsopanos, Sozon
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Selective Laser Melting (SLM), a layer-based Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) process, was used to fabricate micro cross-flow heat exchangers from 316L stainless steel, bronze (Cu 90%, Sn 10%) and Inconel 718 powder. Their mechanical and thermal properties were determined using solid blocks of SLM material prior to the fabrication of the micro cross flow heat exchangers. Initially the process parameters for the fabrication of high density (>97%) parts for the different materials were defined. The mechanical and thermal properties of SLM parts were then measured. The tensile test results exhibited yield strength values superior to the parent metals, but also showed low tensile strength and ductility as a result of the inherent residual porosity (2-4%). Results obtained from the thermal conductivity of the stainless steel material system were in good agreement with the bulk material values. The heat transfer performance of the heat exchangers with either micro channels or lattice structures as heat exchange surfaces was investigated experimentally and the results were evaluated in terms of geometry and materials. The performance of the micro heat exchangers was found to be dependent not only on the choice of material but also on the heat exchanger media geometry.
Sotagliflozin, a Dual SGLT1 and SGLT2 Inhibitor, as Adjunct Therapy to Insulin in Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: Rosenstock, Julio
name: Sands, Arthur T.
name: Banks, Phillip
name: Strumph, Paul
name: Bode, Bruce W.
name: Buse, John B.
name: Rendell, Marc
name: Lapuerta, Pablo
name: Cefalu, William T.
name: Heptulla, Rubina
name: Zambrowicz, Brian P.
name: Garg, Satish K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To assess the safety and efficacy of dual sodium–glucose cotransporter (SGLT) 1 and SGLT2 inhibition with sotagliflozin as adjunct therapy to insulin in type 1 diabetes.
Integration of principles from the study of the diffusion of innovations into the Systems Engineering Approach
Creators: name: Mazengarb, Michael
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: engineering
systems engineering
industrial design
diffusion of innovations

description: To address the challenges of disproportional wealth, health and productive capacity between developed and developing nations, it is important to instigate a process of active technology transfer to bridge the growing technological divide. Renewable Energy technologies represent a key candidate for technology transfer, used to build the economies of developing nations on a foundation of sustainable and equitable energy supplies. To assist in this process of technology transfer, an expanded systems engineering approach is proposed, inclusive of a “Design for Diffusion” approach, built on an understanding of the dynamics of the diffusion of innovations and the diffusion experiences of earlier technologies. This refined approach is applied to the specific case of the Kathmandu Alternative Power and Energy Group, for which a set of recommendations for potential project improvements has been provided.
The hemoglobin glycation index identifies subpopulations with harms or benefits from intensive treatment in the ACCORD Trial. Diabetes care 2015;38:1067-1074
Creators: name: Buse, John B.
name: Fonseca, Vivian
name: Hempe, James M.
name: Liu, Shuqian
name: Myers, Leann
name: McCarter, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This study tested the hypothesis that intensive treatment in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial disproportionately produced adverse outcomes in patients with diabetes with a high hemoglobin glycation index (HGI = observed HbA1c − predicted HbA1c).
Coupled Free Fermion Conformal Field Theory and Representations
Creators: name: Han, Ameilia
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: Conformal field theory (CFT) has become an active area of research beyond its origins in statistical physics and attracted much attention due to its intrinsic mathematical interest, which reveals deep connections with other diverse branches of mathematics. We study a specific subclass of CFTs that involve either uncoupled or coupled free fermions. Coupled free fermion CFTs arise from parafermion CFTs and lattice constructions. We analyse their representation spaces and reveal the exclusion statistics of coupled free fermions with universal chiral partition functions under specific bases. We explicitly decompose their modules into Virasoro modules of minimal models. We reveal an unexpected connection that integrates the coset construction, lattice construction, and orbifold construction, which is supported by proving a range of character identities within the context of coupled free fermions. Simultaneously, we obtain explicit expressions of certain string functions in terms of Dedekind eta functions.
Rotation curves of ultralight BEC dark matter halos with rotation
Creators: name: Guzman, F. S.
name: Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the rotation curves of ultralight BEC dark matter halos. These halos are long lived solutions of initially rotating BEC fluctuations. In order to study the implications of the rotation characterizing these long-lived configurations we consider the particular case of a boson mass $m=10^{-23}\mathrm{eV/c}^2$ and no self-interaction. We find that these halos successfully fit samples of rotation curves (RCs) of LSB galaxies.
description: 7 pages, 10 eps figures, 1 tables. Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
title: Sound metaphor : functions of wordplays in ancient Egypt
Creators: name: Shirakawa, Emi
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The nature of the Egyptian texts has been understood as pure written compositions - written to be read privately or quietly such as novels in modern societies - for many years. They, however, seem to contain an oral context, which appeal as a verbal art. The relationship between an action (performance) and speech was fundamental in culture, where literature was orally performed. Words can be an action in themselves during performance.
A compact, large-aperture tunable lens with adaptive spherical correction
Creators: name: Wapler, Matthias C.
name: Stürmer, Moritz
name: Wallrabe, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present the proof of concept of a very fast adaptive glass membrane lens with a large aperture/diameter ratio, spherical aberration correction and integrated actuation. The membrane is directly deformed using two piezo actuators that can tune the focal length and the conical parameter. This operating principle allows for a usable aperture of the whole membrane diameter. Together with the efficient actuation mechanism, the aperture is around 2/3 of the total system diameter - at a thickness of less than 2mm. The response time is a few milliseconds at 12mm aperture, which is fast compared to similar systems.
description: Presented at the IEEE 2014 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT 2014), 4 pages PDF
The relationship between Yorkshire fashion consumers and their clothing in the 20th Century
Creators: name: Evans, Elaine
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Short paper presented at the Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) conference Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, University of Bolton, UK, 23rd-24th January 2019.
Futurescan 4: Valuing PracticeEdited by: Helena Britt, Kevin Almond, Laura MorganISBN: 978-1-5272-4969-1
title: Novel, induced flow, centrifugal water pumping system for off grid application
Creators: name: Davies, Neale
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Water provision in rural areas represents a significant challenge, especially within the context of resource and sanitation in developing countries. High set-up costs, lack of installation expertise and reliability issues, arising from fluctuating operational conditions, have prevented many people from receiving the full benefit of automated pumping systems. The specific aim of this thesis is to assess the feasibility of using a tunable, induced flow subsystem as a means of optimising the power utilization and performance of a centrifugal pump over a wider range of operating conditions than typically expected. More generally, the research presented is undertaken to reduce the high implementation costs and localised limitations of rural water pumps by developing the theory towards a ‘’one-size-fits-all’’ pumping system. The theoretical analysis of an induced flow centrifugal pumping system is presented, coupled with the analogous electrical system. The results of simulations performed using both systems are compared to experimental results, obtained using an induced flow subsystem (IFS) test rig constructed at the University of Liverpool. All sets of results demonstrate consistent IFS characteristics, identifying its capability to maintain maximum power point (MPP) operation of the centrifugal pump irrespective of load. Further, the experimental results reveal a boost in output pressure which enables the pump to achieve an improved hydraulic power and increased operating range over the same system without an IFS. It is concluded that, through the addition of an IFS, the performance of a centrifugal pump may be decoupled from its operating head, expanding its range of serviceable conditions and demonstrating potential to develop a ‘’one-size-fits-all’’ system. Ultimately, this could offer a cheaper and more reliable supply of a resource which is vital to life in any rural location: clean water.
RI4C2 Sessions M6-M12
Creators: name: RI4C2 project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The “Research & Innovation For Cities & Citizens – RI4C2” project aims to extend the activities of the EC2U Alliance to the Research and Innovation fields. The RI4C2 Management Committee (MaCo), the primary governance body, decided to present specific RI4C2 sessions during each EC2U Forum. As presented in the proposal, this session must give a general overview of the project, present the results, and provide key facts and figures on the Partner universities within the Alliance. This session aims to strengthen the links between the two projects and highlight potential collaborations. Minutes from sessions that took place between M6 and M12 of the RI4C2 project are presented in this report.
title: Crowsdsourcing semantic web
Creators: name: Minnion, Anton
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Finding easier and less resource-intensive ways of building knowledge resources is neces- sary to help broaden the coverage and use of semantic web technologies. Crowdsourcing presents a means through which knowledge can be efficiently acquired to build semantic resources. Crowds can be identified that represent communities whose knowledge could be used to build domain ontologies. This work presents a knowledge acquisition approach aimed at incorporating ontology engineering tasks into community crowd activity. The success of this approach is evaluated by the degree to which a crowd consensus is reached regarding the description of the target domain. Two experiments are described which test the effectiveness of the approach. The first experiment tests the approach by using a crowd that is aware of the knowledge acquisition task. In the second experiment, the crowd is unaware of the knowledge acquisition task and is motivated to contribute through the use of an interactive map. The results of these two experiments show that a similar consensus is reached from both experiments, suggesting that the approach offered provides a valid mechanism for incorporating knowledge acquisition tasks into routine crowd activity.
The association of retinopathy and low GFR in type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Kshirsagar, A.V.
name: Klein, R.
name: Kwon, K.S.
name: Garg, S.
name: Mottl, A.K.
name: Mayer-Davis, E.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: We sought to determine characteristics which strengthen the association between markers of diabetic kidney disease and retinopathy.
Fructose intake and cardiovascular risk factors in youth with type 1 diabetes: SEARCH for diabetes in youth study
Creators: name: Liese, Angela D.
name: Crandell, Jamie L.
name: Dolan, Lawrence M.
name: Lawrence, Jean M.
name: Shah, Amy S.
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
name: Couch, Sarah C.
name: Merchant, Anwar T.
name: Pihoker, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: High consumption of dietary fructose has been shown to contribute to dyslipidemia and elevated blood pressure in adults, but there are few data in youth, particularly those at greater risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study was to examine the association between fructose intake and CVD risk factors in a diverse population of youth with type 1diabetes (T1D).
Trusting Technê: An exploration into the creative value of learning through doing
Creators: name: Tweddle, Janie
name: Knight, Nicola
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Short paper presented at the Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) conference Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, University of Bolton, UK, 23rd-24th January 2019.
Futurescan 4: Valuing PracticeEdited by: Helena Britt, Kevin Almond, Laura MorganISBN: 978-1-5272-4969-1
Assembling a ring-shaped crystal in a microfabricated surface ion trap
Creators: name: Tabakov, Boyan
name: Benito, Francisco
name: Blain, Matthew
name: Clark, Craig R.
name: Clark, Susan
name: Haltli, Raymond A.
name: Maunz, Peter
name: Sterk, Jonathan D.
name: Tigges, Chris
name: Stick, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on experiments with a microfabricated surface trap designed for trapping a chain of ions in a ring. Uniform ion separation over most of the ring is achieved with a rotationally symmetric design and by measuring and suppressing undesired electric fields. After minimizing these fields the ions are confined primarily by an rf trapping pseudo-potential and their mutual Coulomb repulsion. The ring-shaped crystal consists of approximately 400 Ca$^+$ ions with an estimated average separation of 9 $μm$.
Effects of Sensor-Augmented Pump Therapy on Glycemic Variability in Well-Controlled Type 1 Diabetes in the STAR 3 Study
Creators: name: Welsh, John B.
name: Davis, Stephen N.
name: Shin, John
name: Kudva, Yogish C.
name: Battelino, Tadej
name: Buse, John B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Compared with multiple daily injections (MDI), sensor-augmented pump (SAP) insulin therapy may reduce glycemic variability and oxidative stress in type 1 diabetes in a glycosylated hemoglobin (A1C)-independent manner.
title: The energy-absorbing characteristics of Novel tube-reinforced sandwich structures
Creators: name: Aziz, Alia Ruzanna
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: This thesis presents the findings of a research study investigating the energy-absorbing characteristics of the foam sandwich cores reinforced with aluminium, steel and carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) cylindrical tubes under quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions. Initial testing focused on establishing the influence of the length and inner diameter to thickness ratio (D/t) of the tubes on their specific energy absorption (SEA) characteristics. Following this, individual aluminium, steel and CFRP tubes were embedded in a range of foams with varying densities and the SEA was determined. The effect of increasing the number of tubes on the energy-absorbing response was also studied. In addition, preliminary blast tests were conducted on a limited number of sandwich panels. It has been shown that the stiffness of the foam does not significantly enhance the energy-absorbing behaviour of the metal tubes, suggesting that the density of the foam should be as low as possible, whilst maintaining the structural integrity of the part. Tests on the CFRP tube-reinforced foams have shown that the tubes absorb greater levels of energy with increasing foam density, due to increased levels of fragmentation. Values of SEA as high as 86 kJ/kg can be achieved using a low density foam in conjunction with dense packing of tubes. The SEA values of these structures compare very favourably with data from tests on a wide range of honeycombs, foams and foldcore structures. The crushing responses of the structures were predicted using the finite element method Abaqus and the predictions of the load–displacement responses and the associated failure modes are compared to experimental results. It is proposed that these models can be used for further parametric studies to assist in designing and optimising the structural behaviour of tube-reinforced sandwich structures.
Outpatient Assessment of Determinants of Glucose Excursions in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Proof of Concept
Creators: name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth
name: Wang, Lily
name: Maahs, David M.
name: McMurray, Robert G.
name: Bishop, Franziska K.
name: Mangan, Meg
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Controlled inpatient studies on the effects of food, physical activity (PA), and insulin dosing on glucose excursions exist, but such outpatient data are limited. We report here outpatient data on glucose excursions and its key determinants over 5 days in 30 adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) as a proof-of-principle pilot study.
title: A Framework for the Planning and Deployment of International Outsourcing
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: In the twenty-first century, globalisation is changing and widening the basis of competition. The trend in international outsourcing continues to grow, both in the number and value of transactions, as well as the variety of services outsourced. International outsourcing has been emerged as an important solution to improve the supply chain and achieve comparative advantages. More SMEs are involved with the outsourcing strategy now. Key to the planning and deploying a successful international outsourcing project is the methodology throughout the project lifecycle. For SMEs in particular, they need a practical framework to sustain success. This research gives new insight into how outsourcing delivers supply chain integration in the global context and proposes a framework for SMEs to facilitate their outsourcing planning and deployment, in particular for the aerospace manufacturers. The literature investigated considers the areas of supply chain management, SMEs and outsourcing strategy. This identifies the research gap between the existing literature and the practical demand from SMEs, therefore the necessity of this research has been shown. Action research is an important part of the research methodology, as well as case study because the framework is formulated via literature and a case study, then further developed and improved by two case studies. The outputs from the research activities provide the foundation for the framework. The proposed framework contains a workbook which configures SMEs' requirements and describes the necessary stages and steps in the outsourcing process. Industrial case studies are applied to develop, deduce and demonstrate the proposed framework. The future work is planned to enhance the performance of the outsourcing applications.
title: Evolutionary Mechanism Design
Creators: name: George Phelps, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of all of the components of the system in advance. Rather, we attempt to design infrastructure, such as network protocols, in such a way that the overall system is robust despite the fact that numerous arbitrary, non-certified, third-party components can connect to our system. Economists have long understood this issue, since it is analogous to the design of the rules governing auctions and other marketplaces, in which we attempt to achieve sociallydesirable outcomes despite the impossibility of prescribing the exact behaviour of the market participants, who may attempt to subvert the market for their own personal gain. This field is known as 'mechanism design': the science of designing rules of a game to achieve a specific outcome, even though each participant may be self-interested. Although it originated in economics, mechanism design has become an important foundation of multi-agent systems (MAS) research. In many scenarios mechanism design and auction theory yield clear-cut results; however, there are many situations in which the underlying assumptions of the theory are violated due to the messiness of the real-world. In this thesis I introduce an evolutionary methodology for mechanism design, which is able to incorporate arbitrary design objectives and domain assumptions, and I validate the methodology using empirical techniques.