cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
QCD Lambda parameter from Landau-gauge gluon and ghost correlations
Creators: name: Sternbeck, A.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Maltman, K.
name: Mueller-Preussker, M.
name: von Smekal, L.
name: Williams, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We utilise a recently developed minimal MOM scheme to determine the QCD Lambda parameter from the gluon and ghost propagators in lattice Landau gauge. We discuss uncertainties in the analysis and report our preliminary zero and two flavour results, which are r_0*LambdaMS^{(0)}=0.62(1) and r_0*LambdaMS^{(2)}=0.60(3)(2), with the second error due to an extrapolation uncertainty.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Interventions for the Prevention of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Diseases
Creators: name: ESTIFANOS YALEW BAYE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111716 Preventive Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111104 Public Nutrition Intervention
subject: 111706 Epidemiology

description: Cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, exert a substantial burden on the global health care system. My thesis focuses on investigating the potential implications of diets low in advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and carnosine supplementation for the prevention of cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases. I show that consumption of diets low in AGEs improves insulin resistance, lipid and inflammatory profiles in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes. I also present the beneficial effects of carnosine supplementation on mediators of cardiometabolic diseases including adipokines, lipids, and iron metabolism in overweight and obese individuals.
A ciência cidadã e o design thinking: uma proposta embrionária de um sistema de gestão social (governing the commons) em uma comunidade ribeirinha no Amazonas, Brasil
Creators: name: Fonseca, Diego Leonardo de Souza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão O meu Póster num minuto da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 13 a 15 de outubro de 2021.
Drug-eluting stent utilization and impact in contemporary Australian interventional cardiology practice: insights from the Melbourne Interventional Group Registry
Creators: name: BRYAN PING-YEN YAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine

description: This thesis consist of a selection of published work based on prospectively collected data from the Melbourne Interventional Group Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) registry to evaluate (i) pattern of drug-eluting stent (DES) use in “real-world” contemporary PCI practice in Australia; (ii) long-term safety of DES; (iii) efficacy and safety of DES in clinical circumstances and populations where evidence is lacking; (iv) compare risk profile and outcomes of PCI with coronary artery bypass grafting; and (v) comparison with other Asia-Pacific countries to investigate regional differences in clinical characteristics and PCI outcomes.
Stellar Masses of Lyman Break Galaxies, Lyman Alpha Emitters and Radio Galaxies in Overdense Regions at z=4-6
Creators: name: Overzier, R. A.
name: Shu, X.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Rettura, A.
name: Zirm, A.
name: Bouwens, R. J.
name: Ford, H.
name: Illingworth, G. D.
name: Miley, G. K.
name: Venemans, B.
name: White, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new information on galaxies in the vicinity of luminous radio galaxies and quasars at z=4,5,6. These fields were previously found to contain overdensities of Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) or spectroscopic Lyman alpha emitters. We use HST and Spitzer data to infer stellar masses, and contrast our results with large samples of LBGs in more average environments as probed by the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS). The following results were obtained. First, LBGs in both overdense regions and in the field at z=4-5 lie on a very similar sequence in a z'-[3.6] versus [3.6] color-magnitude diagram. This is interpreted as a sequence in stellar mass (log[M*/Msun] = 9-11) in which galaxies become increasingly red due to dust and age as their star formation rate (SFR) increases. Second, the two radio galaxies are among the most massive objects (log[M*/Msun]~11) known to exist at z~4-5, and are extremely rare based on the low number density of such objects as estimated from the ~25x larger area GOODS survey. We suggest that the presence of these massive galaxies and supermassive black holes has been boosted through rapid accretion of gas or merging inside overdense regions. Third, the total stellar mass found in the z=4 ``proto-cluster'' TN1338 accounts for <30% of the stellar mass on the cluster red sequence expected to have formed at z>4, based on a comparison with the massive X-ray cluster Cl1252 at z=1.2. Although future near-infrared observations should determine whether any massive galaxies are currently being missed, one possible explanation for this mass difference is that TN1338 evolves into a smaller cluster than Cl1252. This raises the interesting question of whether the most massive protocluster regions at z>4 remain yet to be discovered.
description: The Astrophysical Journal, In Press (17 pages, 7 figures)
Exploring electric fields around molecular based CO₂ reduction catalysts via the vibrational Stark effect
Creators: name: Pankratz, Jasper
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Rising levels of atmospheric CO₂ have urged scientists to search for new methods of obtaining chemical feedstocks and solar fuels that are both sustainable and carbon neutral. The electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to value added products serves as a promising solution. Porphyrins are a well-studied class of electrocatalysts capable of reducing CO₂ and offer a privileged platform for evaluating structure-activity relationships. Herein, a novel series of nitrile functionalized porphyrins varying in the identity of the metal center (iron, cobalt, or zinc) and the position of the nitrile (ortho, meta, and para) were synthesized to serve as molecular probes in an effort to quantify the electric field around the active site. The nitrile porphyrins were characterized through a variety of spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) was used to characterize the electronics at the metal center under inert conditions to obtain E₁/₂ reduction potentials at relevant oxidation states. We also collected CVs under CO₂ reduction conditions to extract kinetic parameters. All Fe-, Co-, and Zn- nitriles displayed a current increase at sufficiently reductive potentials, with the Fe-nitriles showing the greatest current enhancements. Catalytic rate constants were extracted for the Fe-nitriles, and we found that the Fe-m-CN displayed a higher kcat than Fe-o-CN and Fe-p-CN. We then designed a cell capable of performing FTIR measurements in tandem with electrochemical methods. We used this cell to monitor the vibrational frequency of our nitrile probe while applying a potential to bias different oxidation states. We relied heavily on a concept called The Vibrational Stark Effect which describes the linear relationship between local electric fields and vibrational frequency. Using this method, we estimated the relative difference in electric field between formal M(II) and M(0) oxidation states for Fe-o-CN, Co-o-CN, and Zn-o-CN, however the electric field at discrete oxidation states was unable to be accurately determined. We found that Zn-o-CN experiences a difference in electric field between the divalent and fully reduced species that is approximately 4x larger than Fe- and Co-o-CN, which might be attributed to the degree of electron density on the ligand at the formal M(0) oxidation state.
The effect of critical illness on bone metabolism and bone mineral density
Creators: name: Orford, Neil
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110310 Intensive Care

description: In the years after critical illness, survivors are more likely to experience disability and disease. The recognition, prevention and treatment of this is evolving. Loss of bone mass after critical illness may contribute to disability, because of an increased risk of fracture and death. This thesis investigates the relationship between critical illness, bone loss, and fracture, and proposes a study to prevent this from occurring.
Quantum field theory with a fundamental length: A general mathematical framework
Creators: name: Soloviev, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T05, 81T10, 46N50, 46F15, 32C81

description: We review and develop a mathematical framework for nonlocal quantum field theory (QFT) with a fundamental length. As an instructive example, we reexamine the normal ordered Gaussian function of a free field and find the primitive analyticity domain of its n-point vacuum expectation values. This domain is smaller than the usual future tube of local QFT, but we prove that in difference variables, it has the same structure of a tube whose base is the (n-1)-fold product of a Lorentz invariant region. It follows that this model satisfies Wightman-type axioms with an exponential high-energy bound which does not depend on n, contrary to the claims in the literature. In our setting, the Wightman generalized functions are defined on test functions analytic in the complex l-neighborhood of the real space, where l is an n-independent constant playing the role of a fundamental length, and the causality condition is formulated with the use of an analogous function space associated with the light cone. In contrast to the scheme proposed by Bruning and Nagamachi [J. Math. Phys. 45 (2004) 2199] in terms of ultra-hyperfunctions, the presented theory obviously becomes local as l tends to zero.
description: 25 pages, v2: updated to match J. Math. Phys. version
Evaluation of the impact, data collection and feedback mechanisms of clinical registries in Australia
Creators: name: DEWAN MD EMDADUL HOQUE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 111706 Epidemiology

description: This thesis examines the impact of clinical quality registries (CQRs) on quality of care and health outcomes; attributes of Australian CQRs; and the most effective method of collecting patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The systematic review identified 16 of 17 registry intervention studies demonstrating a positive impact on patient care and outcomes. The cross sectional survey identified that the duration of registry operation and consent process most significantly impact the quality of data collected by registries. The randomised controlled trial demonstrated equivalence in data completeness between email, postal and telephone PRO approaches but that email provided the most efficient data collection approach.
Supplementary data for "A multiscale model of the cardiovascular system that incorporates baroreflex control of chronotropism, cell-level contractility, and vascular tone"
Creators: name: Sharifi, Hossein
name: Mann, Charles K.
name: Wenk, Jonathan F.
name: Campbell, Kenneth S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Supplementary data for "A multiscale model of the cardiovascular system that incorporates baroreflex control of chronotropism, cell-level contractility, and vascular tone"
Mortality risk change as a measure of perioperative quality of care in cardiac surgery
Creators: name: TIMOTHY COULSON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110201 Cardiology (incl. Cardiovascular Diseases)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: 110301 Anaesthesiology

description: Heart surgery carries a risk of death that can be calculated before the operation. This risk is dependent on patient factors (such as age and illnesses) and the operation itself. After heart surgery, all patients go to the intensive care unit (ICU). Events that occur intraoperatively affect how unwell they are in ICU, and their postoperative risk of death. If the risk goes up, this suggests performance may have been poorer in the operation. In this thesis we develop and validate risk change as a quality measure.
title: So near, so far, so what is social distancing? A fundamental ontological account of a mobile place brand
Creators: name: Rossolatos, George
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: social distancing
subject: place branding
subject: experiential consumption
subject: Covid-19
subject: social phenomenology
subject: fundamental ontology
subject: rhetoric
subject: 300
subject: Soziale Distanz
subject: Regionales Marketing
subject: Verbrauch
subject: COVID-19
subject: Phänomenologische Soziologie
subject: Fundamentalontologie
subject: Rhetorik

description: The article “So near, so far, so what is social distancing? A fundamental ontological account of a mobile place brand”, written by George Rossolatos, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 30 September 2020 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 20 May 2021 to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Offensive Caricatures and Freedom of Speech and Charlie Hebdo: A Discourse Analysis of Turkish News Agency
Creators: name: Muhammad Mudassar Riaz, Cheng Yuru
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Freedom of expression
Freedom of the press
Offensive caricatures
Holy Prophet Muhammad
Charlie Hebdo
Western media
Global Reaction
Religion
Human right
Western press
Islamophobia.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 2, 12A2D: 1-12
Clinical and molecular characteristics and metastatic pathways of patients with primary cutaneous melanoma
Creators: name: NIKKI RAE ADLER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110304 Dermatology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine

description: This thesis examines the sequence of events from melanoma diagnosis to disease progression. Different diagnostic aids to facilitate early detection are evaluated. Characteristics and prognosis of melanomas that arise as new lesions compared to those that arise within a pre-existing mole are investigated. Patient, pathological and mutational factors related to the pathways of disease spread are explored. Patients with tumours harbouring certain mutations were associated with particular sites of spread. A role for heightened surveillance may be warranted in these patients. The characteristics and mutational profile of patients with multiple melanomas and of patients with clinically atypical melanomas are investigated.
The Role of Gas In Maintaining Quasi-Steady Spiral Structure In Stellar Disks
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Sukanya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical evolution of spiral structure in the stellar disks of isolated galaxies using high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations that treat the evolution of gas, stars, and dark matter self-consistently. We focus this study on the question of self-excited spiral structure in the stellar disk and investigate the dynamical coupling between the cold, dissipative gaseous component and the stellar component. We find that angular momentum transport from the gas to the stars inside of corotation leads to a roughly time-steady spiral structure in the stellar disk. To make this point clear, we contrast these results with otherwise identical simulations that do not include a cold gaseous component that is able to cool radiatively and dissipate energy, and find that spiral structure, when it is incipient, dies out more rapidly in simulations that do not include gas. We also employ a standard star formation prescription to convert gas into stars and find that our results hold for typical gas consumption time scales that are in accord with the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation. We therefore attribute the long-lived roughly time steady spiral structure in the stellar disk to the dynamical coupling between the gas and the stars and the resultant torques that the self-gravitating gaseous disk is able to exert on the stars due to an azimuthal phase shift between the collisionless and dissipative components.
description: 14 pages, 28 figures, submitted to MNRAS, higher resolution images can be found at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~schakrab/Spiral/spiral_submit.ps
A Biblioteca Digital de Cerrado: espaço virtual para os registros digitais da biodiversidade
Creators: name: Tavares, Maria de Fátima Duarte
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão O meu Póster num minuto da 12ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 13 a 15 de outubro de 2021.
Satellites in the field and lens galaxies: SDSS/COSMOS vs. SLACS/CLASS
Creators: name: Jackson, N.
name: Bryan, S. E.
name: Mao, S.
name: Li, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The incidence of sub-galactic level substructures is an important quantity, as it is a generic prediction of high-resolution Cold Dark Matter (CDM) models which is susceptible to observational test. Confrontation of theory with observations is currently in an uncertain state. In particular, gravitational lens systems appear to show evidence for flux ratio anomalies, which are expected from CDM substructures although not necessarily in the same range of radius as observed. However, the current small samples of lenses suggest that the lens galaxies in these systems are unusually often accompanied by luminous galaxies. Here we investigate a large sample of unlensed elliptical galaxies from the COSMOS survey, and determine the fraction of objects with satellites, in excess of background counts, as a function of satellite brightness and separation from the primary object. We find that the incidence of luminous satellites within 20 kpc is typically a few tenths of one percent for satellites of a few tenths of the primary flux, comparable to what is observed for the wider but shallower SDSS survey. Although the environments of lenses in the SLACS survey are compatible with this observation, the CLASS radio survey lenses are significantly in excess of this.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures. Accepted by MNRAS. Some references corrected/updated
Nonlinear interpolation inequalities with fractional Sobolev norms and pattern formation in biomembranes
Creators: name: Ginster, Janusz
name: Pešić, Anastasija
name: Zwicknagl, Barbara
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Scaling law
subject: interpolation inequalities
subject: fractional Sobolev norms
subject: biomembranes
subject: nonlocal energy
subject: pattern formation
subject: 46E35
subject: 47J20
subject: 49S05
subject: 74K15

description: We consider a one-dimensional version of a variational model for pattern formation in biological membranes. The driving term in the energy is a coupling between the order parameter and the local curvature of the membrane. We derive scaling laws for the minimal energy. As a main tool we present new nonlinear interpolation inequalities that bound fractional Sobolev seminorms in terms of a Cahn--Hillard/Modica--Mortola energy.
Economic Implications of Non-communicable Diseases in Mongolia
Creators: name: OTGONTUYA DUGEE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Despite high health burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Mongolia, little is known about the financial implications of NCDs for the health sector and household economic wellbeing. The study found that NCDs place a significant economic burden on health systems in Mongolia. Public spending on NCDs is low. Healthcare payments by households with members affected by chronic diseases increases their likelihood of becoming impoverished. The primary healthcare services are inadequate and lack critical inputs to provide needed NCD prevention and control services. This jeopardizes the sustainability of health system response to tackle the high burden of NCDs faced by Mongolia.
Reservation for Other Backward Classes in Indian Central Government Institutions like IITs, IIMs and AIIMs- A Study of the Role of Media using Fuzzy Super FRM models
Creators: name: Kandasamy, W. B. Vasantha
name: Smarandache, Florentin
name: Kandasamy, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E72; 03E70

description: In this book the authors introduce three new types of fuzzy model called the super column Fuzzy Relational Model using super column matrices, super row fuzzy relational model using super row matrices and super mixed fuzzy relational model using supermatrices. These new models are used to study the role of media on 27 percent reservation for the other backward classes in the educational institutions run by the Indian central Government. This book has four chapters. Chapter one introduces the new notion of super fuzzy relational models using supermatrices. In chapter two these new models are used to study the problem. Conclusions and opinions are given in chapters four and three respectively.
description: 455 pages
Psychological stress: attitudes and practices of general practitioners
Creators: name: Cendana-Paiva, Maria Elizabeth V.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The management of the whole person is an important approach to patient case in modern medicine. By taking into account not only the diagnosed disease but also the mind's effect on the body, doctors and other allied health practitioners can improve their patients' quality of life. [...]
Weakly countably determined spaces of high complexity
Creators: name: Avilés, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B26

description: We prove that there exist weakly countably determined spaces of complexity higher than coanalytic. On the other hand, we also show that coanalytic sets can be characterized by the existence of a cofinal adequate family of closed sets. Therefore the Banach spaces constructed by means of these families have at most coanalytic complexity.
description: This version differs from the published in Studia Mathematica in that there is a short correction to a mistake discovered by the MR reviewer
Rileggere Antigone. Per un’etica della tragedia
Creators: name: Sili, Gioia
Publisher: name: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience.
Year: 2020

description: This paper deals with the interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone as developed by Jacques Lacan in the Book VII of the Seminar. In contrast with traditional ethical analyses from Aristotle to Kant, the author emphasizes the absolute and radical desire of Antigone, whose fulfillment leads to the ultimate limit of life. In spite of her extreme rigidity, Antigone represents the possibility of assuming ethically one’s own desire, accepting its paradoxical dimension. Therefore, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedy Antigone leads to accept desire’s destabilizing force. From this point of view, the practice of analysis finds an effective contribution in the experience of tragedy: in this sense, it is possible to highlight the relationship between an action and the desire that inhabits it. Through the contrasting readings given by Slavoj Žižek and Massimo Recalcati, this paper is aimed to show how the ethical dimension of Sophocles’ Antigone does not match with the ideals of traditional ethics, but allows us to explore the limit of human desire.
description: Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience., N. 16 (2020)
title: Interaction in reinforcement learning reduces the need for finely tuned hyperparameters in complex tasks
Creators: name: Stahlhut, Chris
name: Navarro-Guerrero, Nicolás
name: Weber, Cornelius
name: Wermter, Stefan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2016

description: Giving interactive feedback, other than well done / badly done alone, can speed up reinforcement learning. However, the amount of feedback needed to improve the learning speed and performance has not been thoroughly investigated. To narrow this gap, we study the effects of one type of interaction: we allow the learner to ask a teacher whether the last performed action was good or not and if not, the learner can undo that action and choose another one; hence the learner avoids bad action sequences. This allows the interactive learner to reduce the overall number of steps necessary to reach its goal and learn faster than a non-interactive learner. Our results show that while interaction does not increase the learning speed in a simple task with 1 degree of freedom, it does speed up learning significantly in more complex tasks with 2 or 3 degrees of freedom.
Exploring Theories and Applications of Business Economics and Management
Creators: name: Demartini, Chiara
Publisher: name: Economia Aziendale Online
Year: 2019

description: SPECIAL ISSUE - The multidimensional content of Economia Aziendale [1 of 3]
Special Issue Guest Editors:
• Professor Massimo Bianchi, Università di Bologna
• Professor Patrizia Gazzola, Università dell’Insubria
• Professor Anna Moisello, Università di Pavia
• Professor Michela Pellicelli, Università di Pavia
description: Economia Aziendale Online, Vol 10, No 1 (2019): SPECIAL ISSUE - The multidimensional content of Economia Aziendale [1 of 3]
Il giovane "riformato". Note sull'immagine divistica di Adriano Celentano 1962-1965
Creators: name: Zecca, Federico
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: Drawing loosely on Richard Dyer’s approach to the study of film stardom, this article aims to reconstruct the complex discursive articulation that characterizes the star image of Adriano Celentano between 1962 and 1965. During this period, the Milanese singer shifts definitively from the model of the “urlatore” to the new and more layered image of the good, hard- working and successful young man. Specific focus is dedicated to the relationship between this new image of Celentano and the processes of “reformation” of traditional masculinity that mark the Italian society of the Sixties.
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 8 (2020)
Emys (Lutremys) europaea L.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Testudines
Chelonia
Emydidae
Emys
Emys europaea

description: Emys (Lutremys) europaea L.
Schlierenbachtobel bei Alpnach v. H. Dr. Etlin.
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 716, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Moving NRQCD for heavy-to-light form factors on the lattice
Creators: name: Horgan, R. R.
name: Khomskii, L.
name: Meinel, S.
name: Wingate, M.
name: Foley, K. M.
name: Lepage, G. P.
name: von Hippel, G. M.
name: Hart, A.
name: Müller, E. H.
name: Davies, C. T. H.
name: Dougall, A.
name: Wong, K. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics (NRQCD) on a lattice which is boosted relative to the usual discretization frame. Moving NRQCD (mNRQCD) allows us to treat the momentum for the heavy quark arising from the frame choice exactly. We derive mNRQCD through O(1/m^2,v^4), as accurate as the NRQCD action in present use, both in the continuum and on the lattice with O(a^4) improvements. We have carried out extensive tests of the formalism through calculations of two-point correlators for both heavy-heavy (bottomonium) and heavy-light (B_s) mesons in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD and obtained nonperturbative determinations of energy shift and external momentum renormalization. Comparison to perturbation theory at O(α_s) is also made. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of mNRQCD. In particular we show that the decay constants of heavy-light and heavy-heavy mesons can be calculated with small systematic errors up to much larger momenta than with standard NRQCD.
description: 34 pages. v2: accepted version, updated tables and figures, conclusions unchanged
Policy and behavioural interventions on child health in South Asia: Essays from Nepal and India
Creators: name: PRABHAT LAMICHHANE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111704 Community Child Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Three policy and behavioural interventions implemented to improve child health were evaluated that consisted of 1) exemption of user-fees for delivery services on maternal and child health in Nepal 2) access to improved sanitation and disposal of child faeces in improved sanitation on diarrhoea in Nepal; and 3) household use of cleaner fuel and improved stove on Acute Respiratory Infections among under-five year children in India. Removal of user-fees improved neonatal health and increased maternal service utilisation. Behavioural interventions - safe disposal of child faeces, use of improved stoves and cleaner fuel reduced likelihood of childhood morbidity namely, diarrhoea and Acute Respiratory Infections.
Twist Deformations of the Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Castro, P. G.
name: Chakraborty, B.
name: Kuznetsova, Z.
name: Toppan, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The N-extended Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics is deformed via an abelian twist which preserves the super-Hopf algebra structure of its Universal Enveloping Superalgebra. Two constructions are possible. For even N one can identify the 1D N-extended superalgebra with the fermionic Heisenberg algebra. Alternatively, supersymmetry generators can be realized as operators belonging to the Universal Enveloping Superalgebra of one bosonic and several fermionic oscillators. The deformed system is described in terms of twisted operators satisfying twist-deformed (anti)commutators. The main differences between an abelian twist defined in terms of fermionic operators and an abelian twist defined in terms of bosonic operators are discussed.
description: 18 pages; two references added
Additional file 3 of Evolution of different rice ecotypes and genetic basis of flooding adaptability in Deepwater rice by GWAS
Creators: name: Wang, Xueqiang
name: Zhao, Yan
name: Jiang, Conghui
name: Wang, Libing
name: Chen, Lei
name: Li, Fengmei
name: Zhang, Yanhong
name: Pan, Yinghua
name: Zhang, Tianzhen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3 Fig. S1 PCA plot of the first two eigenvectors (a) and two and three eigenvectors (b) of rice accessions. Additional file 2. Fig. S2 Maximum-likelihood tree of rice assuming 0 to 3 migration edges. Additional file 2. Fig. S3 Corresponding residual of rice assuming 0 to 10 migration edges. Additional file 2. Fig. S4 Genome-wide detection of positive selection in different rice ecotypes. Additional file 2. Fig. S5 Selective sweep regions identified by the greatest reduction of diversity (ROD) of UP-GJ. Additional file 2. Fig. S6 Selective sweep regions identified by the greatest reduction of diversity (ROD) of IR-XI. Additional file 2. Fig. S7 Selective sweep regions identified by the greatest reduction of diversity (ROD) of IR-GJ. Additional file 2. Fig. S8 Genomic differentiation regions identified by the greatest relative divergence (FST) between IR-XI and UP-XI populations. Additional file 2. Fig. S9 Genomic differentiation regions identified by the greatest relative divergence (FST) between IR-GJ and UP-GJ populations. Additional file 2. Fig. S10 Quantile-quantile plots and Manhattan plots for the GWAS in the full populations using FaST-LMM.
Optimising Use of Evidence-Based Pharmacological Therapy in Heart Failure
Creators: name: KEN LEE CHIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Heart failure remains a major clinical and public health problem, but the optimal use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments in patients with heart failure can further reduce mortality and morbidity. This doctoral thesis i) highlighted the 'treatment gap' in patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, ii) demonstrated that aspirin does not reduce the beneficial effects of eplerenone in patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction, iii) provided evidence that clinical outcomes among patients with heart failure undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention have not improved over the last decade, and iv) that in this subgroup, statin therapy may provide no significant benefits. This body of research offers important insights into contemporary issues regarding the management of patients with heart failure.
Magnetic trapping of ultracold Rydberg atoms in low angular momentum states
Creators: name: Mayle, Michael
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Schmelcher, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the quantum properties of nS, nP, and nD Rydberg atoms in a magnetic Ioffe-Pritchard trap. In particular, it is demonstrated that the two-body character of Rydberg atoms significantly alters the trapping properties opposed to point-like particles with identical magnetic moment. Approximate analytical expressions describing the resulting Rydberg trapping potentials are derived and their validity is confirmed for experimentally relevant field strengths by comparisons to numerical solutions of the underlying Schroedinger equation. In addition to the electronic properties, the center of mass dynamics of trapped Rydberg atoms is studied. In particular, we analyze the influence of a short-time Rydberg excitation, as required by certain quantum-information protocols, on the center of mass dynamics of trapped ground state atoms. A corresponding heating rate is derived and the implications for the purity of the density matrix of an encoded qubit are investigated.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
«Risponde Giulietta Masina»: discorso sessuale, corpo attoriale, contesto mediale attraverso la rubrica di posta
Creators: name: Comand, Mariapia
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: The essay sets out to explore the intersections and connections between cinematographic and sexual discourse starting from a specific point of observation: Giulietta Masina’s readers’ mail column in “La Stampa” from 1968 to 1976. The corpus of letters to the actor is studied in three directions: the first focuses on the senders and intends to reconstruct the typologies, priorities and interests of the (male and female) writers; the second looks at the recipient and asks about the relationship between the epistolary corpus and the actor’s star personality (compound result of the transformation of her public image between the Fifties and Sixties marked by autobiographical characteristics and persistent references to her role as Fellini’s wife); the final aim of this case study is to draw more general cues on the sex storytelling strategies used by the cinema in a particular phase of Italy’s history.
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 8 (2020)
The chemical characterisation of young stars
Creators: name: Baratella, Martina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The determination of the detailed chemical composition of stars is critical in many astrophysical fields, including (but not limited to) the characterisation of planetary systems. Previous studies seem to indicate an anomalous chemical pattern of the young(est) stellar populations in the solar vicinity. The chemical peculiarities include sub-solar [Fe/H] ratios, over-abundances of ionised atoms, and the Ba puzzle. Our investigation suggests that these effects are related to abundance analysis techniques, which have important limitations when applied to young stars. The main role is played by the intense stellar activity, although a comprehensive understanding of this complex behaviour is still wanting. It shapes the spectral lines, altering the derivation of the stellar parameters (and also the chemical abundances) when derived in a standard way. For these reasons, new spectroscopic techniques are needed especially to analyse young stars.
Claudia Cardinale sfidanzata d’Italia
Creators: name: Jandelli, Cristina
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: The year 1967 constitutes a turning point for the public image of Claudia Cardinale. Shortly before the tabloid press finds the birth certificate of her illegitimate child in London, the producer Franco Cristaldi hurries to marry her in the United States and soon he will affiliate the child: but the divistic construct of the “fiancée of Italy” has been shattered. This article aims to reconstruct not what actually happened but what the tabloid press almost destroyed. In 1962, in fact, an impressive international image operation, called by the producer Franco Cristaldi and Fabio Rinaudo, the star’s press agent, “SuperCardinale”, had conceived a star system product resulting from a detailed image strategy. Even if the public story of the diva had been overwhelmed by the revelations of the tabloid press, her career did not break into pieces. A new story was already in place. The Vides star shows off in the pages of the popular magazines along with other single mothers of the Italian show business. On May 6, 1967 she takes part to an audience with the Pope Paul VI wearing a miniskirt: in so doing, she exploits the character of the penitent Magdalene to promote her role as an ex prostitute in “Once Upon a Time in the West” by Sergio Leone. The text is divided into two parts. The first section highlights a number of new archival findings on the image operation created by Vides, while the second is dedicated to the retrospective story of the star.
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 8 (2020)
A comparison of costs and effectiveness of coronary revascularisation strategies in the Australian context
Creators: name: THATHYA VENU ARIYARATNE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 10402 Biostatistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The cost-effectiveness of high-cost drug-eluting stents (DES) when compared with surgery, and bare metal stents (BMS), is unknown among Australian patients. This thesis addressed this gap through economic evaluations using data collected from real-world clinical practice for high-risk patients. At early follow-up, coronary bypass surgery was cost-effective when compared with stents among multivessel coronary artery disease patients with diabetes, acute coronary syndrome, left-main disease, or heart failure. The use of DES compared with BMS was associated with cost savings to the healthcare payer if patients had ≥3 indications for a DES. These results may inform payers and evidence-based clinical practice.
Sirena, Cenerentola e Pigmalione. L’immagine divistica di Sophia Loren, 1951-1968
Creators: name: Tognolotti, Chiara
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: This contribution aims at exploring Sophia Loren’s “star persona” in the years between 1951, when the actress signs her first contract with Carlo Ponti, and 1968, when she has her first baby with the producer, who she had married in 1957 by proxy in Messico. By examining the roles she embodies on the big screen as well as her public image, I will try to unfold Loren’s complex star image, where the recurring motifs – narrative as well as iconographic – of the siren, Cinderella and Pygmalion are interwoven to a multifaceted idea of femininity, uncertain between tradition and transgression.
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 8 (2020)
“Una donna dongiovanni”. Deformazioni grottesche del corpo erotico di Sandra Milo nel cinema italiano dei primi anni Sessanta
Creators: name: Saponari, Angela Bianca
Publisher: name: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia
Year: 2020

description: In the Sixties, many times the cinematographic representation focused on male grotesque masks, which contributed to the representation of the malaise of a society populated by weak individuals. This article proposes the analysis of a tragic female mask, the one embodied by Sandra Milo, whose grotesque image, in the films interpreted in the early Sixties, is an irreverent testimony of an upside down world in which sexual hierarchies are overturned and social rules are contradicted. At the same time, through the eroticization of her actress body, primordial desires and sexual instincts emerge in stark contrast to social conventions and public morals, but they are, however, quite far from any form of emancipation.
description: Schermi. Storie e culture del cinema e dei media in Italia, V. 4 N. 8 (2020)
Additional file 2 of MYC promotes fibroblast osteogenesis by regulating ALP and BMP2 to participate in ectopic ossification of ankylosing spondylitis
Creators: name: Jin, Qianmei
name: Liu, Yaoyang
name: Zhang, Zhiguo
name: Wen, Xingzhu
name: Chen, Ziqiang
name: Tian, Haijun
name: Kang, Zijian
name: Wu, Xin
name: Xu, Huji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2:Supplementary file 2.
The role of emerging bipoles in the formation of a sunspot penumbra
Creators: name: Schlichenmaier, R.
name: Gonzalez, N. Bello
name: Rezaei, R.
name: Waldmann, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of magnetic flux in the solar interior and its transport from the convection zone into the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona will be in the focus of solar physics research for the next decades. With 4m class telescopes, one plans to measure essential processes of radiative magneto-hydrodynamics that are needed to understand the nature of solar magnetic fields. One key-ingredient to understand the behavior of solar magnetic field is the process of flux emergence into the solar photosphere, and how the magnetic flux reorganizes to form the magnetic phenomena of active regions like sunspots and pores. Here, we present a spectropolarimetric and imaging data set from a region of emerging magnetic flux, in which a proto-spot without penumbra forms a penumbra. During the formation of the penumbra the area and the magnetic flux of the spot increases. First results of our data analysis demonstrate that the additional magnetic flux, which contributes to the increasing area of the penumbra, is supplied by the region of emerging magnetic flux. We observe emerging bipoles that are aligned such that the spot polarity is closer to the spot. As an emerging bipole separates, the pole of the spot polarity migrates towards the spot, and finally merges with it. We speculate that this is a fundamental process, which makes the sunspot accumulate magnetic flux. As more and more flux is accumulated a penumbra forms and transforms the proto-spot into a fully-fledged sunspot.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomische Nachrichten
The role of illness perceptions in mental health treatment-seeking and outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Otamendi, Thalia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Mental health complications are common but undertreated after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Patient-related barriers to the use of mental health treatment after mTBI are unclear. According to the Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation, how individuals understand their health condition (i.e., illness perceptions) influences their coping strategies (e.g., treatment-seeking), and in turn, clinical outcomes. This research program had three objectives: 1) To understand the association between patients’ illness perceptions (e.g., about the cause, prognosis, consequences of their symptoms) and their perceived need for mental health care after mTBI; 2) To determine if the influence of illness perceptions on mTBI clinical outcomes is mediated by individuals’ access to mental health treatment; 3) To develop an explanatory model, rooted in the lived experiences of people with persistent symptoms after mTBI, that describes treatment-seeking decisions, including for mental health. The first two objectives were addressed with secondary analyses of a prospective inception cohort of adults with mTBI (N = 308 to 506) and the third objective with qualitative interviews (N = 17). Participants who believed their symptoms were threatening (OR = 1.16; 95% CI: 1.02 – 1.31) and caused by mental health difficulties (OR = 1.04; 95% CI: 1.02 – 1.05) were more likely to perceive the need for mental health care. Perceived threat (B = 0.02; 95% CI: 0.01- 0.03) and poor mental health as a cause for symptoms (B = 0.19; 95% CI: 0.09 – 0.29) were also associated with subsequent access to mental health treatment. Accessing mental health treatment did not mediate the relationship between illness perceptions and subsequent symptoms, likely due to a study design that did not allow sufficient time to capture treatment benefits. Qualitative data suggested that people can view mental health problems as a consequence, rather than a potential cause of ongoing mTBI symptoms, which might dissuade them from prioritizing mental health treatment. This research program demonstrates the relevance of illness perceptions on treatment-seeking after mTBI. Findings point to a potential barrier to the recommended use of mental health care when it does not align with patients’ beliefs about what is causing their symptoms.