cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Early perioperative versus postoperative meloxicam for pain control in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery: a systematic review and Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Abdelrahman
name: Abuelazm, Mohamed
name: Ahmed, Ali Ashraf Salah
name: Elshinawy, Mahmoud
name: Ashour, Toka
name: Abugdida, Mohamed
name: Abdelazeem, Basel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Post-orthopaedic operative pain is a serious concern that often requires the administration of analgesics; however, the optimal time of analgesic administration is still inconclusive. Perioperative analgesia is administrating pre-emptive analgesia before and during the surgery followed by postoperative analgesia to decrease the procedure associated nociceptive response. We aim to assess perioperative meloxicam versus postoperative meloxicam for pain control after orthopaedic operations. A systematic review and meta-analysis involving randomized controlled trials from PubMed, Embase, Scopus, WOS, and Cochrane until 28th May 2022. We pooled dichotomous outcomes using risk ratio (RR) presented with a 95% confidence interval (CI) and continuous outcomes using mean difference (MD) with 95% CI. We registered our protocol in PROSPERO with ID: CRD42022336046. We included five RCTs with 964 patients. All the included trials showed high risk of performance and detection biases because of lack of blinding. Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in reducing pain score after six hours (MD: −0.42 with 95% CI [−0.63, −0.21], p = .0001), 12 h (MD: −0.54 with 95% CI [−0.69, −0.39], p = .00001), and 24 h (MD: −0.23 with 95% CI [−0.36, −0.10]. Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in improving patient global assessment scale after 12 h (MD: −0.66 with 95% CI [−0.86, −0.46], p = .00001), 24 h (MD: −0.30 with 95% CI [−0.49, −0.11, p = .002), and 48 h (MD: −0.17 with 95% CI [−0.33, −0.01], p = .04). Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in reducing patient-controlled analgesia (MD: −4.25 with 95% CI [−5.96, −2.54], p = .00001). Short-term pain management after orthopaedic procedures is better accomplished with perioperative meloxicam than postoperative meloxicam. Before recommending perioperative meloxicam for pain control following orthopaedic surgeries, further multicentre trials are still warranted to examine the impact of perioperative meloxicam in different orthopaedic procedures.
Beam test of CSES silicon strip detector module
Creators: name: Zhang, Da-Li
name: Lu, Hong
name: Wang, Huan-Yu
name: Li, Xin-Qiao
name: Xu, Yan-Bing
name: An, heng-Hua
name: Yu, Xiao-xia
name: Wang, Hui
name: Shi, Feng
name: Wang, Ping
name: Zhao, Xiao-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The silicon-strip tracker of the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) consists of two double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs) which provide incident particle tracking information. The low-noise analog ASIC VA140 was used in this study for DSSD signal readout. A beam test on the DSSD module was performed at the Beijing Test Beam Facility of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) using a 400~800 MeV/c proton beam. The pedestal analysis results, RMSE noise, gain correction, and particle incident position reconstruction of the DSSD module are presented.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures. This article is submitted to Chinese Physics C
Criteria for extensional necking instability in complex fluids and soft solids. Part II imposed tensile stress and force protocols
Creators: name: Hoyle, David M.
name: Fielding, Suzanne M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the necking of a filament of complex fluid or soft solid subject to uniaxial tensile stretching, under conditions of constant imposed stress and force, by means of linear stability analysis and nonlinear simulations. We demonstrate necking to be a flow instability that is an unavoidable consequence of the constitutive behaviour of essentially any viscoelastic material. We derive criteria for the onset of necking that can be reported in terms of characteristic signatures in the shapes of the experimentally measured material functions, and that should therefore apply universally to all materials. To confirm their generality, we show them to hold numerically in six constitutive models. Under conditions of constant stress, we find two distinct dynamical regimes as a function of time. In the first regime the strain rate quickly attains a value prescribed by the fluid's underlying homogeneous constitutive curve, at the given stress. In this first regime, no appreciable necking arises. A second regime then ensues in which the homogeneous flow destabilises to form a neck. This necking instability can occur via two distinct modes. The first mode is relatively gentle and arises in any regime where the slope of the constitutive curve is positive. It has a rate of necking per accumulated strain unit set by the inverse of the slope of the constitutive curve. The second mode sets in when a carefully defined `elastic derivative' of the tensile force first slopes down as a function of the time. We discuss the way in which these modes of instability manifest themselves in entangled polymeric fluids, demonstrating four distinct regimes of necking behaviour as a function of stress. Under conditions of constant imposed force, typically the flow sweeps up the underlying constitutive curve of the fluid in question, with instability to necking in any regime where that curve is positively sloping.
description: article with 22 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.05081; v2 has some minor corrections
Lewis Arundel, or The railroad of life, no. 09
Creators: name: Smedley, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1818-1864
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Conduct of life
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/874563
subject: Social conflict
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122378
subject: Railroad travel
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1088689

description: Chapter one the train starts and the reader is introduced to three first class passengers. It proceeds to the Life and Times of Lewis Arundel. Illustrated by Charles Dicken's usual illustrator Hablot Knight Browne (also known as "Phiz").
Coherent ranging with Envisat radar altimeter: a new perspective in analyzing altimeter data using Doppler Processing
Creators: name: Abileah, R.
name: Gomez-Enri, J.
name: Scozzari, A.
name: Vignudelli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ESA's Envisat mission carried a RA-2 radar altimeter since its launch in 2002 to sense sea state and especially measure sea surface height (SSH). The onboard processing combined multiple echoes incoherently to reduce Speckle noise and benefit from data compression. In fact, according to past literature the amplitudes were generally expected to be independent. Nevertheless, samples of complex data time series of individual echoes (IE) were down-linked and archived since 2004 for research studies. In this note we demonstrate that there is sufficient inter-pulse coherence for Doppler processing and we suggest that the archived data can be re-processed into improved SSH. This is of particular interest in challenging domains (e.g., coastal zone) where coherent processing can mitigate errors from ocean surface backscatter inhomogeneity and nearby land backscatter. A new method called zero-Doppler to process IEs is thus proposed and discussed.
An evaluation of the use of non-professional welfare workers with aboriginal welfare clients
Creators: name: Park, Noel Roy.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Meraki
Creators: name: Eotvos, Melody
Publisher: name: University of Melbourne
Year: 2023
Subjects: Music composition and improvisation
Music not elsewhere classified

description: Meraki: This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love -- when you put "something of yourself" into what you're doing, whatever it may be. Work Details Year: 2020 Instrumentation: String orchestra - 3.3.2.2.1 Duration: 6 min.
Early perioperative versus postoperative meloxicam for pain control in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Mahmoud, Abdelrahman
name: Abuelazm, Mohamed
name: Ahmed, Ali Ashraf Salah
name: Elshinawy, Mahmoud
name: Ashour, Toka
name: Abugdida, Mohamed
name: Abdelazeem, Basel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Post-orthopaedic operative pain is a serious concern that often requires the administration of analgesics; however, the optimal time of analgesic administration is still inconclusive. Perioperative analgesia is administrating pre-emptive analgesia before and during the surgery followed by postoperative analgesia to decrease the procedure associated nociceptive response. We aim to assess perioperative meloxicam versus postoperative meloxicam for pain control after orthopaedic operations. A systematic review and meta-analysis involving randomized controlled trials from PubMed, Embase, Scopus, WOS, and CENTAL until May 28th, 2022. We pooled dichotomous outcomes using risk ratio (RR) presented with a 95% confidence interval (CI) and continuous outcomes using mean difference (MD) with 95% CI. We registered our protocol in PROSPERO with ID: CRD42022336046. We included five RCTs with 964 patients. All the included trials showed high risk of performance and detection biases because of lack of blinding. Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in reducing pain score after six hours (MD: -0.42 with 95% CI [-0.63, -0.21], p = 0.0001), 12 hours (MD: -0.54 with 95% CI [-0.69, -0.39], p = 0.00001), and 24 hours (MD: -0.23 with 95% CI [-0.36, -0.10]. Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in improving patient global assessment scale after 12 hours (MD: -0.66 with 95% CI [-0.86, -0.46], p = 0.00001), 24 hours (MD: -0.30 with 95% CI [-0.49, -0.11, p = 0.002), and 48 hours (MD: -0.17 with 95% CI [-0.33, -0.01], p = 0.04). Pooled analysis favored perioperative meloxicam in reducing patient-controlled analgesia (MD: -4.25 with 95% CI [-5.96, -2.54], p = 0.00001). Short-term pain management after orthopaedic procedures is better accomplished with perioperative meloxicam than postoperative meloxicam. Before recommending perioperative meloxicam for pain control following orthopaedic surgeries, further multicentre trials are still warranted to examine the impact of perioperative meloxicam in different orthopaedic procedures.
title: Exponentielle Prozesse und Daten
title: didaktische Komplexität einer einfachen Idee
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Prömmel, Andreas
name: Biehler, Rolf
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Leitideen bilden den Orientierungsrahmen für mathematische Bildung in der Schule. Wesentlich ist, dass die Leitideen nicht isoliert nebeneinander stehen, sondern miteinander im Kontext des Mathematikunterrichts vernetzt werden. Bei einem Thema, dass sich mit Daten und Funktionen beschäftigt, sind dies naturgemäß die Leitideen "Daten und Zufall" und "Funktionaler Zusammenhang", deren zentrale Ideen so in idealer Weise in einem Unterrichtskonzept zusammenfließen können.
Updated results from a matching-adjusted indirect comparison of efficacy outcomes for ciltacabtagene autoleucel in CARTITUDE-1 versus idecabtagene vicleucel in KarMMa for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Martin, Tom
name: Usmani, Saad Z.
name: Schecter, Jordan M.
name: Roccia, Tito
name: Jackson, Carolyn C.
name: Deraedt, William
name: Yeh, Tzu-min
name: Banerjee, Arnob
name: Pacaud, Lida
name: Garrett, Ashraf
name: Bartlett, Meaghan
name: Haltner, Anja
name: Van Sanden, Suzy
name: Diels, Joris
name: Valluri, Satish
name: Samjoo, Imtiaz A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study used the latest available data cuts from the CARTITUDE-1 and KarMMa clinical trials to update previously published matching-adjusted indirect treatment comparisons (MAICs) assessing the comparative efficacy of ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel) versus the FDA-approved idecabtagene vicleucel (ide-cel) dose range of 300 to 450 × 106 CAR-positive T-cells in the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) who were previously treated with a proteasome inhibitor, an immunomodulatory drug, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody (i.e. triple-class exposed). MAICs were performed with the latest available individual patient data for cilta-cel (CARTITUDE-1) and published summary-level data for ide-cel (KarMMa). The analyses included treated patients from CARTITUDE-1 who satisfied the eligibility criteria for KarMMa. The MAIC adjusted for unbalanced baseline covariates of prognostic significance identified in the literature and by clinical expertise. Comparative efficacy was assessed for overall response rate (ORR), complete response or better (≥CR) rate, duration of response (DoR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS). Cilta-cel was associated with statistically significantly improved ORR (odds ratio [OR]: 94.93 [95% confidence interval [CI]: 21.86, 412.25; p < .0001]; relative risk [RR]: 1.34), ≥CR rate (OR: 5.65 [95% CI: 2.51, 12.69; p < .0001]; RR: 2.23), DoR (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.52 [95% CI: 0.30, 0.88; p = .0152]), PFS, (HR: 0.38 [95% CI: 0.24, 0.62; p < .0001]), and OS (HR: 0.43 [95% CI: 0.22, 0.88; p = .0200]) compared with ide-cel. These analyses demonstrate improved efficacy with cilta-cel versus ide-cel for all outcomes over longer follow-up and highlight its therapeutic potential in triple-class exposed RRMM patients.
Project Implementation challenges of setting up Kidney Transplant Service in Ethiopia. The Case of St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
Creators: name: Getachew, Abrham
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The main objective of the present research was to assess the project implementation challenges of kidney transplant project in Ethiopia by considering the only project being implemented nationally, in the case of St. Paul's hospital millennium Medical College. With this objective in mind this research assessed the four project implementation challenges related to project team, resource, top management support, risk identification and management. Therefore people working in the different level of the project after identifying the work flow of the project activities were contacted; including top managers, surgeons, clinicians and support staffs involved in pre, during and post kidney transplant activities were contacted. Using a convenient sample a total of 21 quantitative questionnaires were collected supported with ten in-depth interviews with key respondents. The data collection was conducted after checking for validity and reliability of the questionnaire. SPSS version 20 was employed for the data analysis process and a narrative analysis of in-depth interviews was done. The descriptive statistics was used to describe the general result of the variables. The mean average scores were presented in a table by considering the four project implementation challenges considered in the study. In the project team challenges adequacy of team number was the highest score and provision of on job training was with the lowest mean score of 2.52 in which more than 47% of the respondents complain about. Regarding the project resource challenges the highest mean score was on the allocation of appropriate budget where as on time delivery of purchase orders was the lowest mean showing more than 76% proportion of respondents complain. Similarly demand for project implementation progress reports was observed as a contributor for top management support challenge. The result also shows highest mean score of possible risk identification at the early phases of the project. Similarly the in-depth interview findings indicate lack of on job training as a project team challenge. Delayed request of purchase order and delay in obtaining purchased supplies were a major challenge in resource related factor. It is recommended that a continuous top management support is required to alleviate project implementation challenges and project team training is necessary for improving project performance and to manage challenges appropriately.
Factors Affecting Adaptive Selling Behavior: Empirical Evidences From The Pharmaceutical Industry In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tassew, Anania
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The effects of different factors on adaptive selling behavior of salespersons have been frequently studied in the marketing literature. However, most of the studies were conducted in the developed world. Given the role that different cultural environments may play, the assumed relationships among the constructs need to be studied in different cultural contexts. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of pharmaceutical salespersons' knowledge structure, sales experience, emphatic ability, cue perception ability, learning orientation and intrinsic motivation on their adaptive selling behavior in a different cultural environment from prior studies. Using structured questionnaire, data were collected from Ethiopian pharmaceutical sales representatives, specifically in Addis Ababa city, to examine the hypothesized relationships. For the purpose of analyzing the obtained data inferential statistics were used. Results indicated that emphatic ability has the most positive significant effect on ASB among other variables. Also Cue perception ability, knowledge structure and learning orientation found to have significant positive effect on adaptive selling behavior. The result also indicated that sales experience was insignificant with respect to adaptive selling behavior. The researcher also finds the combined effect of these variables on ASB for the first time. Among factors affecting ASB emphatic ability, cue perception ability, learning orientation, knowledge structure and sales experience explain 66.8% the variance in ASB. Based on findings the researcher suggested that pharmaceutical companies likewise should consider ongoing strategies that enhance emphatic ability, cue perception ability, knowledge structure and learning orientation of their salespersons to enhance ASB of their salespersons
Waiting list as a measure of need for hostel care : municipal perspective
Creators: name: Wise, John R. C. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Problems and Prospects of Result Oriented Performance Appraisal: the Case of National Metrology Institute of Ethiopia.
Creators: name: Ali, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this research was to explore problems and prospects of result based performance appraisal practice. It focused on the general understanding of employees about performance appraisal, the feedback practice and its impact, the occurrence of appropriate training, clarity of the criteria, fairness of the process, level of communication between employees, contribution of performance appraisal for employee's motivation, satisfaction, performance improvement and organisational efficiency and effectiveness. Descriptive method has been chosen as a proper research method for this study. The data collection was made through questionnaire and interview of employees' in the organization of National Metrology Institute of Ethiopia using qualitative and quantitative method of research. Major findings of the research are interpreted and analysed in comparison with findings of existing literatures. The key findings of the research indicate clarity of purposes, practice of feedback system, and attachment of performance appraisal with the organisational strategic priorities, creation of moderately motivated and satisfied employees by applying fair and useful performance appraisal, using performance appraisal evaluation for administrative decision. In addition to these positive achievements of performance appraisal practice in the institute the study also capture some gaps like insufficient training about the process before application, less performance in matching of performance appraisal with employee's expectation, which have negative influence on proper implementation of performance appraisal. Finally, the study concludes that the institute can build successful performance appraisal system if the gaps mentioned are properly improved
Fluoroquinolone antibacterial drugs: Review of physicochemical problems, analysis techniques, and solutions
Creators: name: Ainurofiq, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fluoroquinolone, Physicochemical property, Photostability, Hygroscopicity, Incompatibility, Interaction

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 27, 6, 10
Quantum non-Markovianity induced by Anderson localization
Creators: name: Lorenzo, Salvatore
name: Lombardo, Federico
name: Ciccarello, Francesco
name: Palma, G. Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As discovered by P. W. Anderson, excitations do not propagate freely in a disordered lattice, but, due to destructive interference, they localise. As a consequence when an atom interacts with a disordered lattice one indeed observes, a non-trivial excitation exchange between atom and lattice. Such non-trivial atomic dynamics will in general be characterised also by a non-trivial quantum information backflow, a clear signature of non-Markovian dynamics. To investigate the above scenario we consider a quantum emitter, or atom, weakly coupled to a uniform coupled-cavity array (CCA). If initially excited, in the absence of disorder, the emitter undergoes a Markovian spontaneous emission by releasing all its excitation into the CCA (initially in its vacuum state). By introducing static disorder in the CCA the field normal modes become Anderson-localized, giving rise to a non-Markovian atomic dynamics. We show the existence of a functional relationship between a rigorous measure of quantum non-Markovianity and the CCA localization. We furthermore show that the average non-Markovianity of the atomic dynamics is well-described by a phenomenological model in which the atom is coupled, at the same time, to a single mode and to a standard - Markovian - dissipative bath.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Genomic medicine in Africa: a need for molecular genetics and pharmacogenomics experts
Creators: name: Oluwole, Oluwafemi G.
name: Henry, Marc
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The large-scale implementation of genomic medicine in Africa has not been actualized. This overview describes how routine molecular genetics and advanced protein engineering/structural biotechnology could accelerate the implementation of genomic medicine. By using data-mining and analysis approaches, we analyzed relevant information obtained from public genomic databases on pharmacogenomics biomarkers and reviewed published studies to discuss the ideas. The results showed that only 68 very important pharmacogenes currently exist, while 867 drug label annotations, 201 curated functional pathways, and 746 annotated drugs have been catalogued on the largest pharmacogenomics database (PharmGKB). Only about 5009 variants of the reported ∼25,000 have been clinically annotated. Predominantly, the genetic variants were derived from 43 genes that contribute to 2318 clinically relevant variations in 57 diseases. Majority (∼60%) of the clinically relevant genetic variations in the pharmacogenes are missense variants (1390). The enrichment analysis showed that 15 pharmacogenes are connected biologically and are involved in the metabolism of cardiovascular and cancer drugs. The review of studies showed that cardiovascular diseases are the most frequent non-communicable diseases responsible for approximately 13% of all deaths in Africa. Also, warfarin pharmacogenomics is the most studied drug on the continent, while CYP2D6, CYP2C9, DPD, and TPMT are the most investigated pharmacogenes with allele activities indicated in African and considered to be intermediate metaboliser for DPD and TPMT (8.4% and 11%). In summary, we highlighted a framework for implementing genomic medicine starting from the available resources on ground.
Instabilities in tensorial nonlocal gravity
Creators: name: Nersisyan, Henrik
name: Akrami, Yashar
name: Amendola, Luca
name: Koivisto, Tomi S.
name: Rubio, Javier
name: Solomon, Adam R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the cosmological implications of nonlocal modifications of general relativity containing tensorial structures. Assuming the presence of standard radiation- and matter-dominated eras, we show that, except in very particular cases, the nonlocal terms contribute a rapidly growing energy density. These models therefore generically do not have a stable cosmological evolution.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. v2: version published in PRD
Dynamical formation of Black Hole Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries in the field - an alternative to common envelope
Creators: name: Klencki, Jakub
name: Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz
name: Gładysz, Wojciech
name: Belczynski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very wide binaries (> 500 AU) are subject to numerous encounters with flying-by stars in the Galactic field and can be perturbated into highly eccentric orbits (e ~ 0.99). For such systems tidal interactions at close pericenter passages can lead to orbit circularization and possibly mass transfer, consequently producing X-Ray binaries without the need for common envelope. We test this scenario for the case of Black Hole Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries (BH LMXBs) by performing a population synthesis from primordial binaries with numerical treatment of random stellar encounters. We test various models for the threshold pericenter distance under which tidal forces cause circularization. We estimate that fly-by interactions can produce a current population of ~ 60$-$220 BH LMXBs in the Galactic field. The results are sensitive to the assumption on tidal circularization efficiency and zero to very small BH natal kicks of a few km/s are required. We show that the most likely donors are low-mass stars (< 1 Msun; at the onset of mass transfer) as observed in the population of known sources (~ 20). However, the low number of systems formed along this route is in tension with most recent observational estimate of the number of dormant BH LMXBs in the Galaxy 10$^4-$10$^8$ (Tetarenko et al. 2016). If indeed the numbers are so high, alternative formation channels of BHs with low-mass donors need to be identified.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
A social policy analysis : the case of early childhood services
Creators: name: Fisher, Barbara E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title:  Voce di donne del Mediterraneo. Perchè Colei per la quale si scrive è una Donna del e per il Mediterraneo, così come colei che scrive
Creators: name: Fiocca  ,  Francesca
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: Parte tutto da un incontro. Un incontro è quel frammento spazio-temporale, emozionale ed energetico in cui due o più "umanità" entrano in contatto tra loro.  Anche questo saggio parte da un incontro, un incontro tra due donne che, grazie a dei comun denominatori, hanno realizzato, anzi, continuano a realizzare un pezzetto di cammino professionale e amicale insieme. Due donne del e per il Mediterraneo.  Con il presente saggio, si intende dar voce ad una riflessione sociologica incentrata, per l'appunto, sul tema  dell' "incontro" tra identità culturali femminili differenti e sul significato e sul valore del        "dialogo" tra voci di donne "coinquiline” del luogo par excellance di "incontri di civiltà"  e di dialogo tra Culture:  il Mediterraneo (Canta, Pepe 2007).  D'altro canto, cos'è la vita se non il "Panta Rei dell'incontrarsi", un incessante divenire di attimi in cui gli uomini, animali sociali come asseriva Aristotele, realizzano la propria natura entrando in contatto l'un l'altro, scoprendo nell'alterità, quell'infinito sorprendente che permette di risalire alla vera essenza ?

Everything starts from an encounter. An encounter is that emotional and energetic  spatio-temporal fragment in which two or more "human beings" come into contact with each other.  Indeed this essay starts from an encounter, an encounter between two women who have realized a professional and friendly path together. Two women from and for the Mediterranean Area. This essay  intend to give voice to a sociological reflection focused, in fact, on the theme of the "encounter" between different female cultural identities and on the meaning and on the value of the "dialogue" between women who are “roommates” in the same territory: the Mediterranean Area, famous for being the place par excellance of "civilization encounter"  and of the dialogue amoung cultures:  (Canta, Pepe 2007).  Actually, what is life but the "Panta Rei of encounters” when the human beings, the social animals, as Aristotele said, realize their nature by coming into contact with each other, discovering in diversity, that surprising infinity that allows  everybody to return to the true essence ?
description: Una sociologia aperta al cambiamento. I percorsi di studio e di ricerca di Carmelina Chiara Canta
Precise and Fast Phase Wraps Reduction in Fringe Projection Profilometry
Creators: name: Wang, Minmin
name: Du, Guangliang
name: Zhou, Canlin
name: Si, Shuchun
name: Lei, Zhenkun
name: Li, XiaoLei
name: Li, YanJie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The number of phase wraps in 2D wrapped phase map can be completely eliminated, or greatly reduced by frequency shifting. But the wraps usually cannot be optimally reduced using the conventional fast Fourier transform (FFT) because the spectrum can be shifted only by an integer number in the frequency domain. In order to completely eliminate the phase wraps or achieve a significant phase wrap reduction, in this paper, we propose a fast and precise two-step method for phase wraps reduction, which uses the iterative local discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to determine the sub-pixel spectral peak location and the frequency shifting algorithm that operates in spatial domain to reduce the number of phase wraps. Firstly, an initial estimate of the frequency peak is obtain by FFT, then the sub-pixel spectral peak with high resolution is determined by iteratively upsampling the local DFT around the initial spectral peak location, further the non-integer frequency shifting in spatial domain is realized to eliminate or reduce the number of phase wraps. Finally, simulations and experiments are conducted to prove the validity of the proposed method. The results demonstrate the proposed method's superb computing efficiency, high resolution and overall performance.
description: 12 pages,27 figures
Silicon tracker array for RIB experiments at SAMURAI
Creators: name: Stefanescu, A. I.
name: Panin, V.
name: Trache, L.
name: Motobayashi, T.
name: Otsu, H.
name: Saastamoinen, A.
name: Uesaka, T.
name: Stuhl, L.
name: Tanaka, J.
name: Tudor, D.
name: Stefanescu, I. C.
name: Spiridon, A. E.
name: Yoneda, K.
name: Baba, H.
name: Kurokawa, M.
name: Togano, Y.
name: Halasz, Z.
name: Sasano, M.
name: Ota, S.
name: Kubota, Y.
name: Ahn, D. S.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Elekes, Z.
name: Fukuda, N.
name: Takeda, H.
name: Kim, D.
name: Takada, E.
name: Suzuki, H.
name: Yoshida, K.
name: Shimizu, Y.
name: Liu, H. N.
name: Sun, Y. L.
name: Isobe, T.
name: Gibelin, J.
name: Li, P. J.
name: Zenihiro, J.
name: Marqués, F. M.
name: Harakeh, M. N.
name: Kiss, G. G.
name: Kurihara, A.
name: Yasuda, M.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Park, S.
name: Yang, Z.
name: Harada, T.
name: Nishimura, M.
name: Sato, H.
name: Hahn, I. S.
name: Chae, K. Y.
name: Elson, J. M.
name: Sobotka, L. G.
name: Bertulani, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work describes a silicon tracker system developed for experiments with proton-rich radioactive ion beams at the SAMURAI superconducting spectrometer of RIBF at RIKEN. The system is designed for accurate angular reconstruction and atomic number identification of relativistic heavy ions and protons which are simultaneously produced in reactions motivated by studies of proton capture reactions of interest for nuclear astrophysics. The technical characteristics of the tracking array are described in detail as are its performance in two pilot experiments. The physics justification for such a system is also presented.
Pure circular polarization electroluminescence at room temperature with spin-polarized light-emitting diodes
Creators: name: Nishizawa, N.
name: Nishibayashi, K.
name: Munekata, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the room-temperature electroluminescence (EL) with nearly pure circular polarization (CP) from GaAs-based spin-polarized light-emitting diodes (spin-LEDs). External magnetic fields are not used during device operation. There are two small schemes in the tested spin-LEDs: firstly, the stripe-laser-like structure that helps intensifying the EL light at the cleaved side walls below the spin injector Fe slab, and secondly, the crystalline AlOx spin tunnel barrier that ensures electrically stable device operation. The purity of CP is depressively low in the low current density (J) region, whereas it increases steeply and reaches close to the pure CP when J = 100 A/cm2. There, either right- or left-handed CP component is significantly suppressed depending on the direction of magnetization of the spin injector. Spin-dependent re-absorption, spin-induced birefringence and optical spin-axis conversion are suggested to account for the observed experimental results.
Adult's and children's views and perceptions of access arrangements
Creators: name: Worth, Carolyn.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title:  ‘Camminare liberi sotto il sole’. Il profumo della cultura e delle donne
Creators: name: Canta  ,  Alba Francesca
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2023

description: «Costruire una società che sta cambiando è come cambiare le ruote di un treno in corsa, piuttosto che ricostruire una casa su nuove fondamenta»: così scriveva Karl Mannheim nel 1972. Allo stesso modo, a più di un secolo di distanza, la Professoressa Canta riprende le parole dell’Autore per spiegare i processi di cambiamento che caratterizzano la nostra società ancora oggi. Il contributo scientifico della Professoressa ha rappresentato un tentativo di sagomare queste trasformazioni velocissime per costruire una società rigenerata. In particolar modo, i processi culturali e la questione di genere hanno rappresentato due temi essenziali nelle ricerche della Professoressa Canta, oltre che un punto di incontro con gli studi di scrive, seppur nati in ambiti disciplinari differenti. Nel presente saggio si cercherà di raccontare e intrecciare i punti comuni della ricerca della Professoressa e di chi scrive.

«Building a changing society is like changing the wheels of a running train, rather than rebuilding a house on a new foundation», said Karl Mannheim in 1972. Similarly, more than a century later, Professor Canta takes up the words of the author to explain the processes of change that characterize our society even today. The Professor’s scientific contribution was an attempt to shape these rapid transformations to build a regenerated society. In particular, cultural processes and the issue of gender have represented two essential themes in the research of Professor Canta, as well as a meeting point with the studies of writers, albeit born in different disciplinary fields. In this essay we will try to narrate and intertwine the common points of the research of the Professor and the writer.
description: Una sociologia aperta al cambiamento. I percorsi di studio e di ricerca di Carmelina Chiara Canta
Physical restrictions on the choice of electromagnetic gauge and their practical consequences
Creators: name: Reiss, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that electromagnetic potentials convey physical information beyond that supplied by electric and magnetic fields alone, and are thus more fundamental. Observable physical properties can impose conditions on the selection of electromagnetic gauge (i.e. sets of potentials) that are explicit and restrictive. This is true both classically and quantum mechanically. The implication that the choice of gauge carries physical information is confirmed by exhibiting a set of potentials that describes fields correctly, but that violates physical constraints. The basic conclusions are that physical requirements place limits on acceptable gauges; and that potentials are more fundamental than fields in both classical and quantum physics, representing a major generalization of the quantum-only Aharonov-Bohm effect. These important properties are obscured if the dipole approximation is employed. The properties demonstrated here relate directly to conditions that exist in strong-field laser applications.
The relevance of youth services and hostels as alternatives to institutional care in Victoria : a study of the congruity between client need and service provision
Creators: name: Edwards, John Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Thomas Manz: Innovationsprozesse in Klein- und Mittelbetrieben. Soziale Prozesse bei der Einführung neuer Technologien. Reihe: Sozialverträgliche Technikgestaltung, Bd. 14, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-531-12238-X, 224 S., DM 34,-
Creators: name: Pöhler, Willi
Publisher: name: Westdeutscher Verlag
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 650

description: Arbeit
On the frequency distribution of neutral particles from low-energy strong interactions
Creators: name: Colecchia, Federico
name: Khan, Akram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rejection of the contamination, or background, from low-energy strong interactions at hadron collider experiments is a topic that has received significant attention in the field of particle physics. This article builds on a particle-level view of collision events, in line with recently-proposed subtraction methods. While conventional techniques in the field usually concentrate on probability distributions, our study is, to our knowledge, the first attempt at estimating the frequency distribution of background particles across the kinematic space inside individual collision events. In fact, while the probability distribution can generally be estimated given a model of low-energy strong interactions, the corresponding frequency distribution inside a single event typically deviates from the average and cannot be predicted a priori. We present preliminary results in this direction, and establish a connection between our technique and the particle weighting methods that have been the subject of recent investigation at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.1989
Open Cluster of Solar Neighborhood (OCSN)
Creators: name: Songmei, Qin
name: Jing, Zhong
name: Tong, Tang
name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Galaxy: open clusters and associations — stars: kinematics and dynamics — methods: data analysis

description: We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on Gaia DR3. Taking into consideration that the physical size for most open clusters is less than 50 pc, we adopted a slicing approach for different distance shells and identified 324 neighboring open clusters, including 223 reported open clusters and 101 newly discovered open clusters (named as OCSN, Open Cluster of Solar Neighborhood). Our discovery has increased the number of open clusters in the solar neighborhood by about 45%. In this work, larger spatial extents and more member stars were attained for our cluster sample. We performed membership determination with the pyUPMASK algorithm and then derived the mean position, proper motion, radial velocity, parallax and structural parameters for each cluster. Through isochrone fitting we obtained ages, distance modulus and reddening parameters for the clusters. The cluster catalog and the list of member stars with membership probabilities greater than 0.5 have been made publicly available. For our hunted OC samples, more detailed analyses are needed to further investigate their properties, such as the mass function and the dynamical states. Especially more spectroscopic data for the member stars will be of prime importance to determine the dynamical and chemical evolution of these clusters.
Superfluid hydrodynamics in the inner crust of neutron stars
Creators: name: Martin, Noël
name: Urban, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inner crust of neutron stars is supposed to be inhomogeneous and composed of dense structures (clusters) that are immersed in a dilute gas of unbound neutrons. Here we consider spherical clusters forming a BCC crystal and cylindrical rods arranged in a hexagonal lattice. We study the relative motion of these dense structures and the neutron gas using superfluid hydrodynamics. Within this approach, which relies on the assumption that Cooper pairs are small compared to the crystalline structures, we find that the entrainment of neutrons by the clusters is very weak since neutrons of the gas can flow through the clusters. Consequently, we obtain a low effective mass of the clusters and a superfluid density that is even higher than the density of unbound neutrons. Consequences for the constraints from glitch observations are discussed.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, figures and discussions added. Accepted in Phys. Rev. C
Quercygale Kretzoi 1945
Creators: name: Wesley-Hunt, Gina D.
name: Werdelin, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Miacidae
Quercygale

description: Genus Quercygale Kretzoi, 1945
 Humbertia de Beaumont, 1965
 Type and only species: Quercygale angustidens (Filhol, 1872).
description: Published as part of Wesley-Hunt, Gina D. & Werdelin, Lars, 2005, Basicranial morphology and phylogenetic position of the upper Eocene carnivoramorphan Quercygale, pp. 837-846 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 (4) on page 838, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13625323
Waves on accelerating dodecahedral universes
Creators: name: Bachelot-Motet, Agnes
name: Bachelot, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q75, 58J45, 65M60

description: We investigate the wave propagation on a compact 3-manifold of constant positive curvature with a non trivial topology, the Poincaré dodecahedral space, when the scale factor is exponentially increasing. We prove the existence of a limit state as t tends to infinity and we get its analytic expression. The deep sky is described by this asymptotic profile thanks to the Sachs-Wolfe formula. We transform the Cauchy problem into a mixed problem posed on a fundamental domain determined by the quaternionic calculus. We perform an accurate scheme of computation: we employ a variational method using a space of second order finite elements that is invariant under the action of the binary icosahedral group.
description: 36 pages, 20 figures