cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gefangen zwischen Pflichten? Professionelles Handeln der Sozialen Arbeit im Strafvollzug zwischen Hilfe und Kontrolle
Creators: name: Köhl, Irina
name: Leonetti, Corinna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Die Soziale Arbeit spielt eine bedeutende Rolle im Strafvollzug. Sie agiert in diesem Feld in einem Zwangskontext und ist mit vielfältigen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Eine davon ist das doppelte Mandat, welches eine typische Grundstruktur der Sozialen Arbeit darstellt und seit langem Gegenstand des professionstheoretischen Diskurses ist. Es bedeutet, dass die Soziale Arbeit verschiedene Aufträge von einem oder mehreren Auftraggeber:innen erhält und sie, trotz manchmal daraus entstehender Widersprüche, angemessen damit umgehen muss. Im Kontext des Strafvollzugs bedeutet dies, dass die Soziale Arbeit einerseits als Unterstützung für Inhaftierte fungiert, aber gleichzeitig Teil des sanktionierenden Justizvollzugssystems ist. Die Arbeit der Sozialarbeitenden im Strafvollzug findet somit in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Hilfe und Kontrolle sowie Resozialisierung und Strafe statt. Die vorliegende Arbeit konzentriert sich auf den Strafvollzug und analysiert, wie dieser spezifische Arbeitskontext auf das professionelle Handeln der Sozialen Arbeit in Bezug auf das doppelte Mandat einwirkt. Dabei werden die Herausforderungen beleuchtet, mit denen Sozialarbeitende konfrontiert sind. Zudem wird der Einfluss des Sicherheitsdiskurses diskutiert, welcher Auswirkungen auf das Spannungsfeld des doppelten Mandats haben kann. Damit Sozialarbeitende im Strafvollzug erfolgreich agieren können, ist es von grosser Bedeutung, dass sie ihr professionelles Handeln kontinuierlich reflektieren. Diese Arbeit versucht aufzuzeigen, wie mit dieser herausfordernden Situation umgegangen werden kann und wie Sozialarbeitende ihre Rolle im Strafvollzug erfolgreich ausüben können.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit, 2023 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202309
New Halo White Dwarf Candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Dame, Kyra
name: Gianninas, A.
name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
name: Brown, Warren R.
name: Williams, Kurtis A.
name: von Hippel, Ted
name: Harris, Hugh C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical spectroscopy and near-infrared photometry of 57 faint ($g= 19-22$) high proper motion white dwarfs identified through repeat imaging of $\approx3100$ square degrees of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey footprint by Munn et al. (2014). We use $ugriz$ and $JH$ photometry to perform a model atmosphere analysis, and identify ten ultracool white dwarfs with $T_{\rm eff}<4000$ K, including the coolest pure H atmosphere white dwarf currently known, J1657+2638, with $T_{\rm eff}= 3550 \pm 100$K. The majority of the objects with cooling ages larger than 9 Gyr display thick disc kinematics and constrain the age of the thick disc to $\geq11$ Gyr. There are four white dwarfs in our sample with large tangential velocities ($v_{tan} > 120$ km $s^{-1}$) and UVW velocities that are more consistent with the halo than the Galactic disc. For typical $0.6 M_{\odot}$ white dwarfs, the cooling ages for these halo candidates range from 2.3 to 8.5 Gyr. However, the total main-sequence + white dwarf cooling ages of these stars would be consistent with the Galactic halo if they are slightly undermassive. Given the magnitude limits of the current large scale surveys, many of the coolest and oldest white dwarfs remain undiscovered in the solar neighborhood, but upcoming surveys such as GAIA and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) should find many of these elusive thick disc and halo white dwarfs.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Vergleich der Behandlung mittels DMEK gegenüber DSAEK in Augen mit Endothelversagen nach perforierender Keratoplastik
Creators: name: Kiel, Marian
name: Gericke, A.
name: Voßmerbäumer, U.
name: Schuster, A.K.
name: Pfeiffer, N.
name: Wasielica-Poslednik, J.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Für Patienten mit Endothelversagen nach perforierender Keratoplastik (pKPL) kann eine posteriore lamelläre Keratoplastik eine sinnvolle Alternative zur Re-pKPL sein, um eine schnellere Rekonvaleszenz bei geringerer Komplikationsrate und geringerer Astigmatismusinduktion zu ermöglichen.[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Note by Saul Holiff, 20 April 2000
Creators: name: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1958130
subject: Death
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/888613

description: A personal note about death. It begins with the Al-Ma'arri quote "Life is a malady whose one medicine is death" followed by a note about the approximate hours in one's life, and how many Holiff believed he had left.
title: C-Quant-Streulichtmessungen als quantitatives Verlaufskriterium bei Fuchs‘scher Hornhautendotheldystrophie vor und nach DMEK – eine prospektive Pilotstudie
Creators: name: Daas, Loay
name: Melane, C.
name: Langenbucher, A.
name: Seitz, B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Jedes operative Hornhautzentrum in Deutschland hat eigene Kriterien für die Indikationsstellung zu einer DMEK (Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty). Ein Bezug zwischen der Hornhautpachymetrie und der Bestimmung des bestkorrigierten Visus (cc-Visus) zur Verlaufskontrolle besteht[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Control and Local Measurement of the Spin Chemical Potential in a Magnetic Insulator
Creators: name: Du, Chunhui
name: Van der Sar, Toeno
name: Zhou, Tony X.
name: Upadhyaya, Pramey
name: Casola, Francesco
name: Zhang, Huiliang
name: Onbasli, Mehmet C.
name: Ross, Caroline A.
name: Walsworth, Ronald L.
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Yacoby, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin chemical potential characterizes the tendency of spins to diffuse. Probing the spin chemical potential could provide insight into materials such as magnetic insulators and spin liquids and aid optimization of spintronic devices. Here, we introduce single-spin magnetometry as a generic platform for non-perturbative, nanoscale characterization of spin chemical potentials. We use this platform to investigate magnons in a magnetic insulator, surprisingly finding that the magnon chemical potential can be efficiently controlled by driving the system's ferromagnetic resonance. We introduce a symmetry-based two-fluid theory describing the underlying magnon processes, realize the first experimental determination of the local thermomagnonic torque, and illustrate the detection sensitivity using electrically controlled spin injection. Our results open the way for nanoscale control and imaging of spin transport in mesoscopic spin systems.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
A germ-free humanized mouse model shows the contribution of resident microbiota to human-specific pathogen infection
Creators: name: Pagano, Joseph S.
name: Sartor, R. Balfour
name: Li, Fengling
name: McGowan, Ian
name: Liao, Baolin
name: Franks, Adrienne
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Ling, Lijun
name: Azcarate-Peril, M. Andrea
name: Garcia, J. Victor
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Richardson, Cara
name: Yao, Wenbo
name: Chateau, Morgan
name: Whitehurst, Christopher B.
name: Fletcher, Craig A.
name: Frost, Josh
name: Senthil, Krithika
name: Wahl, Angela
name: Rogala, Allison R.
name: Doyon, Genevieve
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: Germ-free (GF) mice, which are depleted of their resident microbiota, are the gold standard for exploring the role of the microbiome in health and disease; however, they are of limited value in the study of human-specific pathogens because they do not support their replication. Here, we develop GF mice systemically reconstituted with human immune cells and use them to evaluate the role of the resident microbiome in the acquisition, replication and pathogenesis of two human-specific pathogens, Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Comparison with conventional (CV) humanized mice showed that resident microbiota enhance the establishment of EBV infection and EBV-induced tumorigenesis and increase mucosal HIV acquisition and replication. HIV RNA levels were higher in plasma and tissues of CV humanized mice compared with GF humanized mice. The frequency of CCR5+ CD4+ T cells throughout the intestine was also higher in CV humanized mice, indicating that resident microbiota govern levels of HIV target cells. Thus, resident microbiota promote the acquisition and pathogenesis of two clinically relevant human-specific pathogens.
Hydroliquefaction of Victorian brown coal
Creators: name: Rogers., Donald Evan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Self-Knowledge Intervention for Meat Reduction Study 3
Creators: name: Hopwood, Christopher
name: Thielmann, Isabel
name: Stahlmann, Alexander
name: Bleidorn, Wiebke
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Animal Studies
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Food Studies
subject: diet
subject: intervention
subject: motives
subject: personality
subject: vegetarian

description: This is the third in this series of studies
Quantum to classical transition in the work distribution for chaotic systems
Creators: name: García-Mata, Ignacio
name: Roncaglia, Augusto J.
name: Wisniacki, Diego A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The work distribution is a fundamental quantity in nonequilibrium thermodynamics mainly due to its connection with fluctuations theorems. Here we develop a semiclassical approximation to the work distribution for a quench process in chaotic systems. The approach is based on the dephasing representation of the quantum Loschmidt echo and on the quantum ergodic conjecture, which states that the Wigner function of a typical eigenstate of a classically chaotic Hamiltonian is equidistributed on the energy shell. We show that our semiclassical approximation is accurate in describing the quantum distribution as we increase the temperature. Moreover, we also show that this semiclassical approximation provides a link between the quantum and classical work distributions.
description: 4+ pages, 4 figures. 2+ pages Sup. Mat
COMPUTATIONALLY AIDED RATIONAL DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF PFKFB3 LIGANDS FOR ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE STABILISATION
Creators: name: CRISTOFORI, VIRGINIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Several types of cells actively involved in atherosclerosis undergo a metabolic reprogramming that comprises an accelerated glycolytic flux to the detriment of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. This phenomenon, known as the Warburg effect, allows cells to produce ample energy and biomass with negligible oxygen consumption, resulting in uncontrolled high-speed proliferation. This phenotypic dysfunction underlies both inflammation and angiogenesis, two processes that are foundation of the pathological behaviour of the plaque and promote its destabilisation. The preponderant kinase domain of inducible PFKFB3 enzyme catalyses the synthesis of F2,6P, which simultaneously promotes glycolysis and inhibits gluconeogenesis. PFKFB3 has been found to be one of the most abundant and overly expressed isoenzymes in the Warburg effect, suggesting its key role in the pathology. From a clinical perspective, PFKFB3 represents an emerging biological target, and its inhibition would be an innovative therapeutic strategy for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions. Our study revolves around the identification of new PFKFB3 kinase inhibitors. The rational design was carried out with the aid of computational methods, based on the 3D-structures of both PFKFB3 protein and known active ligands. In particular, two classes of inhibitors were used as reference ligands for the development of two distinct virtual screening workflows that led to the identification of two generations of candidate inhibitors. The first hierarchical workflow consisted of a pharmacophore-based library filtration, followed by molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulations, whereas the second consisted of a ligand- optimisation process based on the design of a focussed synthesisable library of analogues that were submitted to molecular docking along with a concomitant similarity search for scaffold hopping. The first- and the second-generation candidate compounds, which were predicted to have good in silico affinity towards PFKFB3, were synthesised and biologically evaluated through kinase assay, providing further insights about these selected drug-like molecules and new structure-activity relationship information.
Biaxial Prestress and Waveguide Effects in Optical-Based Dynamic Elastography of Corneal Phantoms
Creators: name: Dore, Marta
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: An ongoing challenge is to increase the scientific knowledge about the relationship between mechanical and structural changes in the cornea, improving those clinically measured optical modifications in pathological conditions and track their development over time. In particular, this is crucial to enhance the detection and management of glaucoma and ectatic corneal disorders such as keratoconus and to comprehend the effects of surgeries like corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL), excimer laser refractive surgery. Hence, advances in this area have the potential to improve diagnosis, enable tailored risk assessment and optimize treatment and surgical planning. Recently, elastography-based imaging methods provided encouraging results, being able to measure non invasively in vivo corneal biomechanical properties. These techniques detect the mechanical wave behavior in soft biological tissues to build back the shear viscoelastic properties that are affected by diseases, injuries or treatments. However, the reconstruction strategies that have been developed so far neglect boundary conditions that characterize the corneal tissue, even if they affect the mechanical wave motion and represent an important confounding factor. To improve current methods, this work collected experimental and computational data using Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry (SLDV) as imaging technique and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The comparison between experiments and simulations helped to better understand the waveguide and prestress effects on complex shear modulus estimates of corneal phantoms. In particular, a new approach called Transformation Acousto Elastography (TAE) was introduced to account for the prestress effect without the need to know its value for the shear modulus calculation. Also, it allows assessing the stress magnitude once the stress-induced deformation and the shear storage modulus are known. Results obtained say that the mechanical properties predictions stay close to each other and within 10% of the expected value taken from the rheological model derived from previous experimental measurements on Ecoflex 00-30. While stress predictions are accurate only if considering an in-plane, biaxial and homogeneous stress field. Given the interesting outcome, this research has been published in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, having as authors: Marta Dore, Aime Luna and Dr.Thomas Royston. Some suggestions for the writing of this document have been taken from the above mentioned publication. Elastography-based methods are not yet applied in clinic except for certain liver diseases; but the promising results obtained paved the way to more studies, to iteratively get closer to the real cornea condition proving the efficacy of this method for clinical translation.
Eine Aufgabe für die Lehre: Analyse der machtvollen Konstruktion von Nicht_behinderung
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Marianne
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Inklusive Bildung
subject: Disability Studies
subject: Nichtbehinderung
subject: 300
subject: 360
subject: 370
subject: Inklusive Pädagogik
subject: Disability Studies
subject: Nichtbehinderung

description: This text was published in Cordula Nolte (Hrsg.), Dis/ability History Goes Public - Praktiken und Perspektiven der Wissensvermittlung , Bielefeld: transcript 2020. It is posted here by permission of transcript Verlag for personal use only, not for redistribution.
EXPLORING THE SPACE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN - MODULATOR DESIGNS TARGETING PFKFB3 AND COMPUTATIONAL WORKFLOW DEVELOPMENTS
Creators: name: HU, XIAO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: This thesis involves works relating to the application and development steps within the computer-aided drug design (CADD) process. Tackling atherosclerosis via the path of metabolism modulation by targeting PFKFB3 is a novel idea regarding atherosclerosis treatment. The disease has been connected to abnormal up-regulation in the cellular metabolism process, predominantly through an elevation in glycolysis. Part of the work elucidated here applied a multi-strategy approach targeting an important bifunctional enzyme, PFKFB3, which regulates the glycolysis process. With the object of modulating PFKFB3 activity, multiple strategies have been attempted, resulting in several potential hit compounds for further testing and developments. Moreover, a virtual screening workflow was developed and tested. This workflow incorporated an additional rescoring procedure to re-evaluate the screening outcome. A series of test sets were generated and used for benchmark study. The rescoring procedure was further dissected, and statistical analyses were performed. Furthermore, it was suggested that water molecules play important roles in bridging ligand-receptor interactions. A C++ program was developed to select important binding site water positions in both holo and apo protein structures. The program can be easily incorporated into a virtual screening process and initial testing has shown promising performance. Additionally, the applicability of network analysis in biomarker detection was also preliminarily investigated. The early stage of a network analysis workflow development was carried out and was demonstrated with promising results. This thesis can provide further insights into, and also showed bright future prospects of, CADD studies.
Probing the hardest branching of jets in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Chien, Yang-Ting
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first calculation of the momentum sharing and angular separation distributions between the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet in heavy ion collisions. These observables are directly sensitive to the hardest branching in the process of jet formation and are, therefore, ideal for studying the early stage of the in-medium parton shower evolution. The modification of the momentum sharing and angular separation distributions in lead-lead relative to proton-proton collisions is evaluated using the leading-order medium-induced splitting functions obtained in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory with Glauber gluon interactions. Qualitative and in most cases quantitative agreement between theory and preliminary CMS measurements suggests that the parton shower in heavy ion collisions can be dramatically modified early in the branching history. We propose a new measurement which will illuminate the angular distribution of the hardest branching within jets in heavy ion collisions.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
title: Keratokonus-Diagnostik: was gehört heute dazu?
Creators: name: Taneri, Suphi
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Die Optionen zur Therapie eines Keratokonus haben sich in den letzten Jahren verändert. Wurde vor 20 Jahren noch so spät wie möglich eine perforierende Hornhauttransplantation durchgeführt, ist nun möglichst früh die Hornhautstabilisierung mittels Crosslinking sinnvoll.[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Electronic properties in a quantum well structure of Weyl semimetal
Creators: name: You, Wen-Long
name: Wang, Xue-Feng
name: Oleś, Andrzej M.
name: Zhou, Jiao-Jiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the confined states and transport of three-dimensional Weyl electrons around a one-dimensional external rectangular electrostatic potential. Confined states with finite transverse wave vector exist at energies higher than the half well depth or lower than the half barrier height. The rectangular potential appears completely transparent to normal incident electrons but not otherwise. The tunneling transmission coefficient is sensitive to their incident angle and shows resonant peaks when their energy coincides with the confined spectra. In addition, for electrons in the conduction (valence) band through a potential barrier (well), the transmission spectrum has a gap of width increasing with the incident angle. Interestingly, the electron linear zero-temperature conductance over the potential can approach zero when the Fermi energy is aligned to the top and bottom energies of the potential, when only electron beams normal to the potential interfaces can pass through. The considered structure can be used to collimate Weyl electron beams.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
I was, I am, I will be: Identity and time perspective before and during COVID‐19
Creators: name: Bobba, Beatrice
name: Sugimura, Kazumi
name: Lynch, Lucia Stella
name: Crocetti, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: The ways in which youth reach a stable identity, a core developmental task of emerging adulthood, are intertwined with their perceptions of the past, present, and future. Additionally, these dynamics are embedded in and are strongly influenced by the socio-historical context and concurrent events, such as COVID-19. This study examines how different groups of emerging adults (university students and workers) engage in identity processes in educational/vocational and interpersonal domains and frame their perspective of time before (N = 299, M age  = 21.90; 51.4% females) and during the pandemic (N = 497; M age = 23.11; 68.2% females). Significant differences in identity processes and time perspective emerged between the two cohorts. Moreover, significant associations between identity and time perspective were found to be similar across different identity domains and cohorts.
Determination of the muonic branching ratio of the W boson and its total width via cross-section measurements at the Tevatron and LHC
Creators: name: Camarda, Stefano
name: Cuth, Jakub
name: Schott, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total $W$-boson decay width $Γ_W$ is an important observable which allows testing of the standard model. The current world average value is based on direct measurements of final state kinematic properties of $W$-boson decays, and has a relative uncertainty of 2%. The indirect determination of $Γ_W$ via the cross-section measurements of vector-boson production can lead to a similar accuracy. The same methodology leads also to a determination of the leptonic branching ratio. This approach has been successfully pursued by the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron collider, as well as by the CMS collaboration at the LHC. In this paper we present for the first time a combination of the available measurements at hadron colliders, accounting for the correlations of the associated systematic uncertainties. Our combination leads to values of $\textrm{BR}(W\rightarrowμν)=(10.72 \pm 0.16)\%$ and $Γ_W = 2113 \pm 31$ MeV, respectively, both compatible with the current world averages.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
On the design of a biologically inspired hexapod robot
Creators: name: Rode., Noel J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Activity indicators and stellar parameters of the Kepler targets. An application of the ROTFIT pipeline to LAMOST-Kepler stellar spectra
Creators: name: Frasca, A.
name: Molenda-Zakowicz, J.
name: De Cat, P.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Fu, J. N.
name: Ren, A. B.
name: Luo, A. L.
name: Shi, J. R.
name: Wu, Y.
name: Zhang, H. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LAMOST-Kepler survey, whose spectra are analyzed in the present paper, is the first large spectroscopic project aimed at characterizing these sources. Our work is focused at selecting emission-line objects and chromospherically active stars and on the evaluation of the atmospheric parameters. We have used a version of the code ROTFIT that exploits a wide and homogeneous collection of real star spectra, i.e. the Indo US library. We provide a catalog with the atmospheric parameters (Teff, logg, [Fe/H]), the radial velocity (RV) and an estimate of the projected rotation velocity (vsini). For cool stars (Teff<6000 K) we have also calculated the H-alpha and CaII-IRT chromospheric fluxes. We have derived the RV and the atmospheric parameters for 61,753 spectra of 51,385 stars. Literature data for a few hundred stars have been used to do a quality control of our results. The final accuracy of RV, Teff, logg, and [Fe/H] measurements is about 14 km/s, 3.5%, 0.3 dex, and 0.2 dex, respectively. However, while the Teff values are in very good agreement with the literature, we noted some issues with the determination of [Fe/H] of metal poor stars and the tendency, for logg, to cluster around the values typical for main sequence and red giant stars. We propose correction relations based on these comparison. The RV distribution is asymmetric and shows an excess of stars with negative RVs which is larger at low metallicities. We could identify stars with variable RV, ultrafast rotators, and emission-line objects. Based on the H-alpha and CaII-IRT fluxes, we have found 442 chromospherically active stars, one of which is a likely accreting object. The availability of precise rotation periods from the Kepler photometry has allowed us to study the dependency of the chromospheric fluxes on the rotation rate for a quite large sample of field stars.
description: A&A accepted, 16 pages, 18 figures, 3 appendices
Digital Literacies Diagnostic (DLD) Tool
Creators: name: Tour, Katrina
name: Creely, Edwin
name: Waterhouse, Peter
name: Henderson, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy

description: This diagnostic tool is a form of diagnostic assessment that enables teachers to gather important information about the current digital literacy practices of learners and assess their strengths, needs and aspirations related to digital literacies. This information can then be used to guide subsequent planning for the effective teaching of digital literacies. At the heart of the tool is a process of teachers knowing their learners to enable best practice planning for teaching.
Construction of Maximally Localized Wannier Functions
Creators: name: Zhu, Junbo
name: Chen, Zhu
name: Wu, Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general method of constructing maximally localized Wannier functions. It consists of three steps: (1) picking a localized trial wave function, (2) performing a full band projection, and (3) orthonormalizing with the Lowdin method. Our method is capable of producing maximally localized Wannier functions without further minimization, and it can be applied straightforwardly to random potentials without using supercells. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated for both simple bands and composite bands.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Änderungen der biomechanischen Eigenschaften der Keratokonus-Hornhaut nach Implantation Intracornealer Ringsegmente (ICRS)
Creators: name: Hamon, Loïc
name: Daas, L.
name: Szentmáry, N.
name: Langenbucher, A.
name: Reisdorf, S.
name: Seitz, B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die Implantation von Intracornealen Ringsegmenten (ICRS) mittels Femtosekundenlaser-gestützter Technik ist eine verlässliche Therapiemöglichkeit bei Keratokonus-Patienten mit Kontaktlinsenintoleranz, post-LASIK-Keratektasie oder pellucider marginaler Degeneration. Ziel der[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Take it or leave it? Investigating the ambivalence and willingness to pay for suboptimal fruits and vegetables among organic consumers in Germany
Creators: name: Puteri, Berlianti
name: Buttlar, Benjamin
name: Jahnke, Benedikt
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ambivalence
subject: attitude
subject: food waste
subject: mouse-tracking experiment
subject: organic consumers
subject: suboptimal food
subject: willingness to pay
subject: environmental concerns
subject: 580
subject: 630
subject: Deutschland
subject: Biologische Landwirtschaft
subject: Lebensmittelabfall
subject: Abfallvermeidung
subject: Verbraucherverhalten
subject: Online-Befragung
subject: Kaufverhalten

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Cloud correction of Sentinel-2 NDVI using S2cloudless package
Creators: name: Saxena, Akarsh
name: Dash, Madhumita
name: Verma, Ananda Prakash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Optical satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is by far the most commonly used vegetation index value for crop monitoring. However, it is quite sensitive to the cloud, and cloud shadows and significantly decreases its usability, especially in agricultural applications. Therefore, an accurate and reliable cloud correction method is mandatory for its effective application. To address this issue, we have developed an approach to correct the NDVI values of each and every pixel of the image captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite of the European Space Agency's Copernicus Program. The Chhattisgarh region of India was selected to analyze the variation in NDVI value. The NDVI value of each pixel shows a slight decrease in the value because of clouds. Cloud probability was calculated using the S2cloudless package provided by Sentinel Hub. The cloud probability of a pixel implies how densely the cloud is present over that pixel, thus inversely affecting the NDVI values. To understand the relationship between cloud probability and NDVI, we did a pixel-to-pixel (>25 million pixels) comparison between clouded and non-clouded NDVI Images on two consecutive dates in June 2021. Our analysis shows that an increase in 0.1 Units of cloud probability corresponds to a decrease in 0.2668 units of NDVI value. We further validated this finding on images captured during the months of August and September 2021. The validation was done on more than 35k square meters of actual farm fields and the results indicate that the proposed method shows more than 60% improvement in the cloud-affected NDVI images.
Isolation and Screening of Keratinolytic Protease-Producing Bacteria from Soil in Abattoir Waste Disposal Area, Dessie, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Seid, Muhammed
Publisher: name: Abyssinia Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2022

description: Management of keratin wastes with the help of microorganisms is a biotechnological alternative for recycling and valorization of these biomaterials. Keratinase belongs to a class of proteases that can serve as an important tool to convert keratin-rich wastes into diverse value-added products that are used for many applications. Therefore, the aim of this study was to isolate and screen keratinolytic bacteria from soil in abattoir waste disposal area. Screening of protease-producing isolates was performed on the medium containing 1% skim milk powder and 1.5% agar at 37ºC. A total of 34 isolates were selected after growth on nutrient agar media. Among 34 isolates, 17 were showing proteolytic activity on the skim milk agar medium and 3 isolates (MD1, MD4 and MD10) showed a clear zone greater than 25 mm. These isolates were again subjected to secondary screening for sheep hair degradation, and all showed complete degradation of sheep hair between 204 h and 360 h. Isolate MD4 was selected as the potent bacterium because it can degrade sheep hair within 204 h and produced maximum level of keratinase (899.30U/ml). Based on its morphological and biochemical characteristics, MD4 was tentatively identified as Bacillus sp. The results of this study revealed that isolate MD4 might have potential biotechnological applications that involve hydrolysis of keratin. It can be also used to manage keratin wastes and produce value-added products from these wastes. If further research such as enzyme characterization and genetic improvement of the organism is conducted, the isolate would be a good source of keratinolytic protease.
description: Abyssinia Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)
Emotional Dysregulation: The Effect of Fear and Anxiety on Self-Management Behaviors in Adults with T1DM
Creators: name: Marcili, Mariza
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: ABSTRACT Background: People with T1DM experience high levels of fear of hypoglycemia, fear of complications as well as other types of anxiety. These high levels of fear and anxiety adversely affect self-management behaviors and long-term mental health. This study asked two main questions; to what extent do negative emotions such as fear, and anxiety impact the self-management behaviors of people with T1DM. And, more generally, whether the physiological effects of T1DM and the chronic stress of managing the disease cause unique negative emotions. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was completed on 25 adults between the ages of 18 and 55 years who had been diagnosed with T1DM at least a year prior and who had no previous diagnosis of Major Depression, anxiety disorders, or any other mental disorder. Information for the study was obtained through semi-structured interviews, completion of six psychological questionnaires and finger-stick blood draw for glucose control. The six psychological questionnaires included the Hypoglycemia Fear Survey II (HFS-II), the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Fear of Complications Questionnaire (FCQ), Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ), and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale 12 short version (IUS-12). Results: Participants had a high level of fear of hypoglycemia (HFS -II, worry subscale =42.46), normal levels of fear of complications (RFCQ=20.560, normal levels of anxiety (STAI trait=38.96, state=36.4, HADS anxiety=6.96, IUS12 prospective= 17.84 and Inhibitory= 8.52). Regression analysis indicates that here is negative relationship between anxiety measured by the IUS12 and self-management behaviors (DSMQ physical activity t=-0.093 p<.005, healthcare t=-2.396 p<.025). Results from semi-structured interviews identified three main content themes; 1. Fear of hypoglycemia, 2. Fear of complications, 3. Burden of diabetes. Conclusions: Fear of hypoglycemia as well as fear of complications are the main threats that elicit fear and anxiety in people with T1DM more than any other stress they experience in their life. This study indicates that the main focus of their self-management behaviors is glucose control while self-management behaviors related to physical activity and healthcare behaviors are sub-optimal.
Postpartum Anestrous and Risk Factors in Crossbreed Dairy Cows in Northern Central Highland of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bereded*, Tewodros Eshete
name: Demisse, Tilaye
name: Yilma, Tefera
name: Tamir, Berhan
Publisher: name: Abyssinia Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2022

description: The study was carried out to determine the prevalence and incidence of postpartum anestrous problems and its associated risk factors in crossbred dairy cows in northern central highland of Ethiopia. Retrospective and longitudinal study was used to gather data on the occurrence of postpartum anestrus and the associated risk factors in crossbred cows. The prevalence and incidence of postpartum anestrous were 39.7% and 40.95%, respectively. Risk factors such as age, parity, body condition, milk yield, management condition, herd size, heat detection practices and predisposing reproductive problems had significant influence on the prevalence and incidence of postpartum anestrous in crossbred dairy cows. Postpartum anestrous was significantly aggravated as the age, parity and milk yield of dairy cows increased. The highest occurrences of postpartum anestrous was identified in crossbred dairy cows with poor body condition score, large herd size, poor management condition, inaccurate heat detection practice and in crossbred dairy cows that had a history of reproductive problems during the previous calving. Maintaining optimal body condition score of cows, farmers’ awareness creation on management condition, i.e., how to improve their farm hygiene, feed and feeding dairy cow, and health care and handling animals during and after parturition would increase the number of cows ready for breeding by 60 days postpartum.
description: Abyssinia Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)
Access to COVID-19 testing by individuals with housing insecurity during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: a scoping review
Creators: name: Johannesson, Jon M.
name: Tsalik, Ephraim L.
name: Woods, Christopher W.
name: Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael
name: Kibbe, Warren A.
name: Glover, William A.
name: Tillekeratne, L. Gayani
name: Petti, Cathy A.
name: Neighbors, Coralei E.
name: Kennedy, Scott W.
name: Corbie, Giselle
name: Hendren, Stephanie
name: Veldman, Timothy H.
name: Taylor, Donald H.
name: Lee, Mark J.
name: Harper, Barrie
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic focused attention on healthcare disparities and inequities faced by individuals within marginalized and structurally disadvantaged groups in the United States. These individuals bore the heaviest burden across this pandemic as they faced increased risk of infection and difficulty in accessing testing and medical care. Individuals experiencing housing insecurity are a particularly vulnerable population given the additional barriers they face. In this scoping review, we identify some of the barriers this high-risk group experienced during the early days of the pandemic and assess novel solutions to overcome these barriers.
Methods: A scoping review was performed following PRISMA-Sc guidelines looking for studies focusing on COVID-19 testing among individuals experiencing housing insecurity. Barriers as well as solutions to barriers were identified as applicable and summarized using qualitative methods, highlighting particular ways that proved effective in facilitating access to testing access and delivery.
Results: Ultimately, 42 studies were included in the scoping review, with 143 barriers grouped into four categories: lack of cultural understanding, systemic racism, and stigma; medical care cost, insurance, and logistics; immigration policies, language, and fear of deportation; and other. Out of these 42 studies, 30 of these studies also suggested solutions to address them.
Conclusion: A paucity of studies have analyzed COVID-19 testing barriers among those experiencing housing insecurity, and this is even more pronounced in terms of solutions to address those barriers. Expanding resources and supporting investigators within this space is necessary to ensure equitable healthcare delivery.
X-ray and infrared diagnostics of nearby active galactic nuclei with MAXI and AKARI
Creators: name: Isobe, Naoki
name: Kawamuro, Taiki
name: Oyabu, Shinki
name: Nakagawa, Takao
name: Baba, Shunsuke
name: Yano, Kenichi
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Toba, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nearby active galactic nuclei were diagnosed in the X-ray and mid-to-far infrared wavelengths, with Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) and the Japanese infrared observatory AKARI, respectively. Among the X-ray sources listed in the second release of the MAXI all-sky X-ray source catalog, 100 ones are currently identified as a non-blazar-type active galactic nucleus. These include 95 Seyfert galaxies and 5 quasars, and they are composed of 73 type-1 and 27 type-2 objects. The AKARI all-sky survey point source catalog was searched for their mid- and far-infrared counterparts at 9, 18, and 90 $μ$m. As a result, 69 Seyfert galaxies in the MAXI catalog (48 type-1 and 21 type-2 ones) were found to be detected with AKARI. The X-ray (3-4 keV and 4-10 keV) and infrared luminosities of these objects were investigated, together with their color information. Adopting the canonical photon index, $Γ= 1.9$, of the intrinsic X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert galaxies, the X-ray hardness ratio between the 3-4 and 4-10 keV ranges derived with MAXI was roughly converted into the absorption column density. After the X-ray luminosity was corrected for absorption from the estimated column density, the well-known X-ray-to-infrared luminosity correlation was confirmed at least in the Compton-thin regime. In contrast, NGC 1365, only one Compton-thick object in the MAXI catalog, was found to deviate from the correlation toward a significantly lower X-ray luminosity by nearly an order of magnitude. It was verified that the relation between the X-ray hardness below 10 keV and X-ray-to-infrared color acts as an effective tool to pick up Compton-thick objects. The difference in the infrared colors between the type-1 and type-2 Seyfert galaxies and its physical implication on the classification and unification of active galactic nuclei were briefly discussed.
description: Accepted for PASJ, 10 figures, 3 tables
The Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 for Internal Migration
Creators: name: Páez-Bernal, Camila
name: Mueller, Valerie
name: Gray, Clark
name: Grépin, Karen
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: Scant evidence exists to identify the effects of the pandemic on migrant women and the unique barriers on employment they endure. We merge longitudinal data from mobile phone surveys with subnational data on COVID cases to examine whether women were left more immobile and vulnerable to health risks, relative to men, during the pandemic in Kenya and Nigeria. Each survey interviewed approximately 2000 men and women over three rounds (November 2020–January 2021, March–April 2021, November 2021–January 2022). Linear regression analysis reveals internal migrants are no more vulnerable to knowing someone in their network with COVID. Rather, rural migrant women in Kenya and Nigeria were less vulnerable to transmission through their network, perhaps related to the possible wealth accumulation from migration or acquired knowledge of averting health risks from previous destinations. Per capita exposure to COVID cases hinders the inter-regional migration of women in both countries. Exposure to an additional COVID case per 10,000 people resulted in a decline in women’s interregional migration by 6 and 2 percentage points in Kenya and Nigeria, respectively.
title: Beschleunigtes Cross-Linking für die Behandlung der infektiösen Keratitis beim Tier
Creators: name: Kindler, Stefan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Die infektiöse Keratitis ist eine häufige Erblindungsursache weltweit – sowohl beim Menschen als auch beim Tier. Bakterielle und Mykotische Kollagenasen und Matrix-Metalloproteinasen können zum kompletten Einschmelzen der Hornhaut, und damit zum Verlust des Auges führen. Neben[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Obituary of Saul Holiff in The Globe and Mail
Creators: name: Hawthorn, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Concert agents
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/872987
subject: Music trade--Management
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030650
subject: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1958130
subject: Death
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/888613

description: Obituary of Saul Holiff in The Globe and Mail titled: Saul Holiff, Agent and Manager 1925-2005.
Atomic and magnetic correlations in transition metal alloys
Creators: name: Robinson., David Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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