cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding the mechanisms of learning: findings from behavioural and psychometric studies
Creators: name: Kang, Weixi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Intentional learning refers to goal-directed or motivated acquisition of knowledge, skills, or understanding, which plays an important role in people’s daily life. However, much less is understood about the psychometric properties of finer grained factors such as the type and complexity of intentional learning. Moreover, it also remains unclear about the role of personality and other cognitive abilities in intentional learning. Thus, I first reviewed relevant literature in intentional learning, and then built conceptual models about intentional learning, highlighted the theorical reasoning regarding why personality and cognitive performance are related to intentional learning, and proposed hypotheses in Chapter 1. Then I validated a short version of the Big Five and applied them in people with psychiatric and neurological conditions in Chapter 2. Next, I developed nine internet-based intentional learning tasks that can capture factors including the type (i.e., instruction-based, observational, and model-based) and the complexity (i.e., easy, complex, and model-based) of intentional learning in Chapter 3. Finally, I investigated how personality and cognitive performance are related to intentional learning. I identified the gap in the literature and the need for psychometric and behavioural investigations of intentional learning in Chapter 1. I found that the short form of the Big Five is a valid measure of personality and can applied to psychiatric and neurological conditions with it being more sensitive to psychiatric conditions comparing to neurological conditions in Chapter 2. In addition, all nine intentional learning tasks I developed has psychometric properties that can be differentiated according to what and how people learn in Chapter 3. Finally, personality and cognitive performance are related to intentional learning, However, these associations were small and diverse, which may indicate that intentional learning should be treated as a separate set of constructs. These studies provide psychiatric and behavioral insights into the mechanisms of intentional learning and suggested that intentional learning is not a unitary concept but is consisted of many factors.
Considerable enhancement of the critical current in a superconducting film by magnetized magnetic strip
Creators: name: Vodolazov, D. Y.
name: Gribkov, B. A.
name: Gusev, S. A.
name: Klimov, A. Yu.
name: Nozdrin, Yu. N.
name: Rogov, V. V.
name: Vdovichev, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a magnetic strip on top of a superconducting strip magnetized in a specified direction may considerably enhance the critical current in the sample. At fixed magnetization of the magnet we observed diode effect - the value of the critical current depends on the direction of the transport current. We explain these effects by a influence of the nonuniform magnetic field induced by the magnet on the current distribution in the superconducting strip. The experiment on a hybrid Nb/Co structure confirmed the predicted variation of the critical current with a changing value of magnetization and direction of the transport current.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of A new nucleosomic-based model to identify and diagnose SSc-ILD
Creators: name: Guiot, Julien
name: Henket, Monique
name: Andre, Béatrice
name: Herzog, Marielle
name: Hardat, Nathalie
name: Makon-Sebastien Njock
name: Moermans, Catherine
name: Malaise, Michel
name: Louis, Renaud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Correlation between biomarkers and pulmonary function tests. Correlation of each individual biomarkers: H3.1, IGFBP-1 and MMP-9 at the baseline level of biomarkers T1 and at T2 (between 6 and 18 months after T1) and pulmonary functions tests.
Risk Sharing in Broiler Contracts: A Welfare Comparison of Payment Mechanisms
Creators: name: Hegde, S. Aaron
name: Vukina, Tomislav
name: Hegde, S. Aaron
name: Vukina, Tomislav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Previous research has found that a significant part of risk from poultry grow-out farm operations is due to market price of broilers. This risk is transferred to the integrator when the grower enters a production contract with the integrator. This follows from the absence of a market price variable in determining compensation in such contracts. In more recent contracts a market price clause is included in calculating compensation. We conduct welfare comparison of the old and new contracts and find that while including the market price clause increases the variability of grower income, it also raises grower expected return. Overall, under assumptions of fixed flock size and constant percentage mortality, which enables payment per-pound comparison, new contracts are welfare superior relative to the old contracts. However, when analysis is conducted on a total per-flock payment rather than on a per-pound payment, we find that welfare superiority of new contracts depends on the grower attitude towards risk. It turns out that with higher measures of risk aversion, growers prefer the old contracts relative to the new contracts, while those with lower measures of risk aversion prefer the new contracts.
Polarization in Gamma-Ray Bursts Produced by Pinch Discharge
Creators: name: Wu, Mei
name: Chen, Li
name: Li, Ti-pei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-voltage and high-temperature plasma columns produced by pinch discharge can generate gamma-ray flashes with energy spectra and spectral evolution consistent with that observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The inverse Compton scattering (ICS) during the discharge process can produce high linear polarization. The calculation indicates that the observed polarization depends on the angle between the observer's line-of-sight to the GRB and the direction of the pinch discharge, but only weakly depends on observed gamma-ray energy.
description: ChJAA accepted. 8 pages, 5 Postscript figures, uses cjaa-1.cls
EFFECTS OF TRADE BARRIERS ON U.S. APPLE EXPORTS
Creators: name: Sreedharan, Prasanna
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Stodick, Leroy
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
name: Sreedharan, Prasanna
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Stodick, Leroy
name: Wahl, Thomas I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: apples
subject: spatial equilibrium model
subject: trade barriers

description: We build a spatial equilibrium trade model for apples using demand and supply relations for each importing and exporting country. The model maximizes welfare subject to demand and production constraints. A trade barrier (free trade) scenario which incorporates (removes) import quotas and tariffs is run. Comparison of the solutions of the two scenarios quantifies the impacts of trade barriers on US apple exports.
Characterization of nucleopolyhedroviruses infecting western (Malacosoma californicum pluviale) and forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria) in British Columbia, and detection of sublethal infection in field populations of forest tent caterpillars
Creators: name: Cooper, Dawn M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Viral diseases are an important feature of fluctuating lepidopteran populations. Epizootics of baculovirus disease can kill large numbers of hosts, making them attractive agents or biological control. The drive to improve virus efficacy by genetic manipulation has focused attention on the behaviour of baculoviruses in nature. I examined the genetic diversity present in nucleopolyherovirus (NPV) populations infecting tent caterpillars in British Columbia. Natural baculovirus isolates are genetically diverse in many different lepidopteran systems. I used REN analysis to survey genetic diversity in six different NPV populations infecting the western tent caterpillar, Malacosoma californicum pluviale (Dyar). In total, 14 genetic variants were found among the six populations sampled. Genetic variation was structured at the population level. Bioassays detected subtle differences in pathogenecity associated with different NPV populations, suggesting that local genetic variation in NPV could influence local host dynamics. The use of baculoviruses as biopesticides has emphasized a need to determine host range for a number of different viruses. I characterized the NPVs infecting two closely related host species, the western tent caterpillar, Malacosoma californicum pluviale (Dyar), and the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria (Hiibner), and determined the cross infective potential of each virus. M.c. pluviale NPV (McplNPV) and M.-disstria NPV (MadiNPV) were genetically distinct. Cross infection bioassays demonstrated that 3rd instar M.c. pluviale larvae were not susceptible MadiNPV. In the reciprocal cross infection, only a small proportion of M. disstria larvae was susceptible to McplNPV. The majority of mortalities were the result of an unexpected MadiNPV infection. PCR failed to detect MadiNPV contamination in the McplNPV stock. Laboratory contamination and contamination of egg mass surfaces were unlikely. I suggest the virus was present as either a latent or sublethal infection that was vertically transmitted from females to larvae within the eggs themselves. These findings suggest that NPV may influence host dynamics. First, genetic variability may be associated with life history traits important for virus survival and may therefore influence local host dynamics. Second, the detection of a latent or sublethal infections provides a mechanism for both enhancing virus dispersal and maintaining virus during low host densities.
Additional file 2 of A new nucleosomic-based model to identify and diagnose SSc-ILD
Creators: name: Guiot, Julien
name: Henket, Monique
name: Andre, Béatrice
name: Herzog, Marielle
name: Hardat, Nathalie
name: Makon-Sebastien Njock
name: Moermans, Catherine
name: Malaise, Michel
name: Louis, Renaud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Sensitivity at 90% specificity of the individual biomarkers: Nu.Q™ H3.1, IGFBP-1, MMP-9.
On the Origin of Sulfur
Creators: name: Ryde, Nils
name: Lambert, David L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our work on the halo evolution of sulfur, based on observations of the S I lines around 9220 A for ten stars for which the S abundance was obtained previously from much weaker S I lines at 8694 A. We cannot confirm the rise and the high [S/Fe] abundances for low [Fe/H], as claimed in the literature from analysis of the 8694 A lines. The reasons for claims of an increase in [S/Fe] with decreasing [Fe/H] are probably twofold: uncertainties in the measurements of the weak 8694 A lines, and systematic errors in metallicity determinations from Fe I lines. The near-infrared sulfur triplet at 9212.9, 9228.1, and 9237.5 A are preferred for an abundance analysis of sulfur for metal-poor stars. Our work was presented in full by Ryde & Lambert (2004).
description: In conference proceedings: Cosmic Abundances as Records of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in honor of David L. Lambert
Additional file 3 of A new nucleosomic-based model to identify and diagnose SSc-ILD
Creators: name: Guiot, Julien
name: Henket, Monique
name: Andre, Béatrice
name: Herzog, Marielle
name: Hardat, Nathalie
name: Makon-Sebastien Njock
name: Moermans, Catherine
name: Malaise, Michel
name: Louis, Renaud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Figure 1. ROC curve for the discrimination of SSc vs. SSc-ILD. The area under the curve (AUC) reached 0.68 for H3.1 with a diagnostic sensitivity of 32% at 90% specificity.
Two-dimensional cylindrical electrostatic particle-in-cell simulation of a Halo Thruster
Creators: name: Liu, Junjie
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The Halo Thruster is a new type of electrostatic plasma thruster having the innovative feature of a magnetic null region near its anode. In order to assess the influence of this magnetic cancellation region on the physics of operation, a new 2D cylindrical electrostatic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) model was developed from the ground up in which electrons, ions and neutral particles were represented as super-particles. The plasma inside the Halo Thruster acceleration channel was investigated at 100V, 150V and 200V anode voltages. At 100V anode voltage, thrust T , specific impulse Isp, electric potential ϕ, ion density ni, and electron temperature Te were measured experimentally using a thrust stand and a Langmuir probe by a previous Ph.D. student. The simulation was able to capture some features of the discharge measured experimentally including the ϕ distribution, ion collision with outer dielectric wall, distribution of ni and increase of Te with anode voltage. However, some departures between the simulations and experiments were noted. Most significantly an under estimate of the electron temperature Te .
Vocabulary for participant demographic information
Creators: name: Spreadborough, Kristal
name: Marsavelski, Aleksandar
name: NIKHIL VARMA GOTTIMUKKALA
name: ZAHER JOUKHADAR
name: Schultz, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University of Melbourne
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80403 Data Structures
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This table contains vocabulary and descriptions for a set of participant demographic information. It relates to code and a journal article which is currently in preparation. These will be linked when the journal article is published.
On electrons and hydrogen-bond connectivity in liquid water
Creators: name: Fernandez-Serra, M. V.
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The network connectivity in liquid water is revised in terms of electronic signatures of hydrogen bonds (HBs) instead of geometric criteria, in view of recent X-ray absorption studies. The analysis is based on ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations at ambient conditions. Even if instantaneous thread-like structures are observed in the electronic network, they continuously reshape in oscillations reminiscent of the r and t modes in ice (tau~170 fs). However, two water molecules initially joint by a HB remain effectively bound over many periods regardless of its electronic signature.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Dissipative Diamagnetism -- A Case Study for Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Mesoscopic Systems
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Malay
name: Dattagupta, Sushanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the path integral approach to equilibrium statistical physics the effect of dissipation on Landau diamagnetism is calculated. The calculation clarifies the essential role of the boundary of the container in which the electrons move. Further, the derived result for diamagnetization also matches with the expression obtained from a time-dependent quantum Langevin equation in the asymptotic limit, provided a certain order is maintained in taking limits. This identification then unifies equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical physics for a phenomenon like diamagnetism, which is inherently quantum and strongly dependent on boundary effects.
description: 4 pages, no figures
Inland Pilbara archaeology: A study of variation in Aboriginal occupation over time and space on the Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia
Creators: name: Marwick, Ben
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: archaeology
Australia

description: In this thesis I describe the results of my analysis of archaeological material and sediments excavated from four rockshelters on the northeast Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia and synthesise previously reported archaeological evidence from the inland Pilbara to answer two questions about Aboriginal occupation. The first question asks how humans in the inland Pilbara responded to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and compares their response to those of people in surrounding areas. Archaeological evidence from areas surrounding the inland Pilbara, such as the northwest coast, the interior and the Kimberley, indicate that people abandoned sites or used them less frequently during the LGM. A unique and significant feature of the inland Pilbara is the Hamersley Plateau, a massive plateau and escarpment feature that concentrates plateau runoff into long and deep gorges with aquifer-fed pools. Previously reported sites in the inland Pilbara are not near the escarpment and suggest abandonment or reduced frequency of use during the LGM, but I present new evidence from Milly's Cave, located near the escarpment, that indicates increased use during the LGM. This evidence indicates that the pliancy of hunter-gatherer adaptive systems during the LGM may have been underestimated and the local as well as regional environments are significant in understanding hunter-gatherer adaptations to climate change. The second question asks what technological, economic and demographic changes occurred in the inland Pilbara during the middle and late Holocene and how these changes relate to those in surrounding areas. Located between the northwest coast and the interior, the inland Pilbara has been suggested to be a bridge for populations or ideas moving between the coast and the interior. New Holocene stone technologies appear at similar times in the Pilbara, northwest coast and interior, suggesting the three areas were part of regional systems of technological and economic change. Cultural changes associated with the new technologies are suggested by ethnographic information from the inland Pilbara that links the new technological types to ceremonial activities and gender-specific tasks. Archaeological evidence suggests that late Holocene increases in population dynamics in the inland Pilbara may be related to similar increases in the interior. This evidence suggests that there is a relationship between cultural, technological and economic change and population dynamics in hunter-gatherer populations.
description: This thesis was submitted to the University of Western Australia in 2002 to fulfil the requirement of the degree of Master of Arts
Darwin-Vlasov Simulations of magnetized Plasmas
Creators: name: Schmitz, H.
name: Grauer, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new Vlasov code for collisionless plasmas in the nonrelativistic regime. A Darwin approximation is used for suppressing electromagnetic vacuum modes. The spatial integration is based on an extension of the flux-conservative scheme, introduced by Filbet et al. [J. Comp. Phys. Vol. 172 (2001) 166]. Performance and accuracy is demonstrated by comparing it to a standard finite differences scheme for two test cases, including a Harris sheet magnetic reconnection scenario. This comparison suggests that the presented scheme is a promising alternative to finite difference schemes.
description: to appear in J. Comp. Phys
DOES THE STOLPER-SAMUELSON THEOREM HOLD WITH LESS TRADE DISTORTION?: A COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
Creators: name: Bittencourt, Maurício Vaz Lobo
name: Bittencourt, Maurício Vaz Lobo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Stolper-Samuelson theorem
subject: CGE model
subject: trade distortion
subject: Brazilian agriculture.

description: This paper examines the effects of agricultural trade policy changes in the Brazilian agriculture using CGE model. An extended Salter-Swan model is employed to verify if the Stolper-Samuelson theorem holds and the consequences in terms of prices, production and resources allocation. Results show that the Stolper-Samuelson hypothesis is reversed when imports and domestic goods are poor substitutes. The reduction in the import tariff increases national income, implying that inappropriate trade policy adjustments can stand in the way of promoting rapid and equitable growth of the economy.
Additional file 2 of A systematic review of studies that measure parental vaccine attitudes and beliefs in childhood vaccination
Creators: name: Dyda, Amalie
name: King, Catherine
name: Dey, Aditi
name: Leask, Julie
name: Dunn, Adam G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table 1. Summary of included studies. Summary table of each included study with details about study characteristics.
SOCIAL NETWORKS, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIC GROWTH
Creators: name: Shideler, David W.
name: Kraybill, David S.
name: Shideler, David W.
name: Kraybill, David S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: We assess empirically whether social capital affects economic growth in selected United States communities. Social network measures, computed from survey data, are used as proxies for social capital. These measures are used in a conditional convergence growth model to explain the variation of per capita income in the communities.
On the determination of low-energy constants for $ΔS=1$ transitions
Creators: name: Giusti, L.
name: Hernandez, P.
name: Laine, M.
name: Pena, C.
name: Wennekers, J.
name: Wittig, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our preliminary results for three-point correlation functions involving the operators entering the $Δ{S}=1$ effective Hamiltonian with an active charm quark, obtained using overlap fermions in the quenched approximation. This is the first computation carried out for valence quark masses small enough so as to permit a matching to Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory in the $ε$-regime. The commonly observed large statistical fluctuations are tamed by means of low-mode averaging techniques, combined with restrictions to individual topological sectors. We also discuss the matching of the resulting hadronic matrix elements to the effective low-energy constants for $Δ{S}=1$ transitions. This involves (a) finite-volume corrections which can be evaluated at NLO in Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory, and (b) the short-distance renormalization of the relevant four-quark operators in discretizations based on the overlap operator. We discuss perturbative estimates for the renormalization factors and possible strategies for their non-perturbative evaluation. Our results can be used to isolate the long-distance contributions to the $ΔI=1/2$ rule, coming from physics effects around the intrinsic QCD scale.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, talks presented at Lattice 2005 (Weak matrix elements)
Constraining the dense matter equation-of-state with radio pulsars
Creators: name: Hu, Huanchen
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Wex, Norbert
name: Champion, David J.
name: Kehl, Marcel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio pulsars provide some of the most important constraints for our understanding of matter at supranuclear densities. So far, these constraints are mostly given by precision mass measurements of neutron stars (NS). By combining single measurements of the two most massive pulsars, J0348$+$0432 and J0740$+$6620, the resulting lower limit of 1.98 $M_\odot$ (99% confidence) of the maximum NS mass, excludes a large number of equations of state (EOSs). Further EOS constraints, complementary to other methods, are likely to come from the measurement of the moment of inertia (MOI) of binary pulsars in relativistic orbits. The Double Pulsar, PSR J0737$-$3039A/B, is the most promising system for the first measurement of the MOI via pulsar timing. Reviewing this method, based in particular on the first MeerKAT observations of the Double Pulsar, we provide well-founded projections into the future by simulating timing observations with MeerKAT and the SKA. For the first time, we account for the spin-down mass loss in the analysis. Our results suggest that an MOI measurement with 11% accuracy (68% confidence) is possible by 2030. If by 2030 the EOS is sufficiently well known, however, we find that the Double Pulsar will allow for a 7% test of Lense-Thirring precession, or alternatively provide a $\sim3σ$-measurement of the next-to-leading order gravitational wave damping in GR. Finally, we demonstrate that potential new discoveries of double NS systems with orbital periods shorter than that of the Double Pulsar promise significant improvements in these measurements and the constraints on NS matter.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
THE IMPORTANCE OF INCOME RISK IN LABOR ALLOCATION DECISIONS
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
name: O'Donoghue, Erik J.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
name: O'Donoghue, Erik J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: Previous research has found that on-farm income variability helps determine off-farm labor supply. However, unobserved heterogeneity of farms or regions may have biased earlier results. In this study, we use an exogenous increase in Federal crop insurance subsidies as a natural experiment to identify the importance of risk in off-farm labor supply. The subsidy increases induced greater participation in crop insurance programs and thereby reduced farmers' financial risks. By merging county-level crop insurance participation data with farm-level Agricultural Census data from 1992 and 1997 we can compare the off-farm labor decisions of individual farms before and after the subsidy and thereby control for unobserved heterogeneity. Unlike previous studies, we find that on-farm risk does not affect the labor allocation decisions of farm households.
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE MOTIVES FOR MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN EIGHT FOOD INDUSTRIES
Creators: name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Nguyen, Sang V.
name: Ollinger, Michael
name: Nguyen, Sang V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food product industries
subject: mergers and acquisitions
subject: labor productivity.

description: This paper investigates the motives for mergers and acquisitions in eight U.S. food products industries from1977-92. Results show that acquired plants were highly productive before mergers and realized an increase in productivity growth in the post-merger period.
Development of an electrochemical sensor for measuring haemolysis products in urine
Creators: name: Griffiths, Owen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Haemolysis is often seen in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and recent literature has demonstrated an inverse association between high levels of haemolysis and positive post-operative outcomes. Therefore, sensitive methods for the early detection of haemolysis may allow for rapid clinical intervention to limit or prevent adverse outcomes in these patients. However, current methods for the detection of haemolysis are laborious, slow, and expensive to the extent that they are not routinely undertaken in clinical practice. This thesis describes the development of a low-cost, rapid, and sensitive haemolysis sensor for point-of-care (PoC) detection. The sensor measures cell free haemoglobin (cfHb) in urine which is released from red blood cells (RBCs) during haemolysis and is an accepted biomarker for haemolysis. Chapter one of this thesis introduces the key concepts related to the project and provides background information for the thesis. The second chapter describes the materials and methods that were used to carry out the research. The third chapter characterises the screen-printed electrodes that were manufactured for the development of the sensor. The fourth chapter evaluates the sensor’s capacity to detect cfHb and compares the performance of four sensor variants that were developed. The fifth chapter presents the results from the clinical studies that were used to evaluate the application of the sensor as a haemolysis diagnostic device. The sixth chapter provides a summary of the project and discusses future commercialisation opportunities as well as future research and development possibilities. The original contributions to science are as follows: • The development of a low-cost, rapid, and non-invasive sensor for the detection of haemolysis that can be used at the patient’s bedside or similar PoC. • A highly scalable, low-cost, and reproducible sensor manufacturing process was developed that can be applied to a variety of other sensors. • A study demonstrating the sensor’s application with clinical urine samples which shows the device can be used to diagnose haemolysis caused by surgery.
Documents
Creators: name: K R, Vipul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320222
subject: Radiology and organ imaging
classificationCode: 320206
subject: Diagnostic radiography

description: The study aims to identify early normal fetal cerebral sulci appearance and development patterns through prenatal ultrasound before 32 weeks gestation, as well as to detect in utero cortical malformations.
MARKET STRUCTURE AND CONSUMER VALUATION IN THE RBST-FREE AND ORGANIC MILK MARKETS
Creators: name: Dhar, Tirtha Pratim
name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
name: Dhar, Tirtha Pratim
name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Industrial Organization

description: This study uses revealed preferences of consumers to study the consumer valuations of rBST-free and organic milk. The study specifies and estimates a quadratic AIDS model for different milk types using US supermarket scanner data. The introduction of rBST-free and organic milk is used to estimate both competitive and variety effects as measures of consumer valuations. Results show significant consumer valuations for organic milk and to a lesser extent rBST-free milk.
Fidelity and quantum chaos in the mesoscopic device for the Josephson flux qubit
Creators: name: Pozzo, Ezequiel N.
name: Dominguez, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the three-junction SQUID device designed for the Josephson flux qubit can be used to study the dynamics of quantum chaos when operated at high energies. We determine the parameter region where the system is classically chaotic. We calculate numerically the fidelity or Loschmidt echo (LE) in the quantum dynamics under perturbations in the magnetic field and in the critical currents, and study different regimes of the LE. We discuss how the LE could be observed experimentally considering both the preparation of the initial state and the measurement procedure.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. (4 pages, 4 figures, final version.)
Additional file 1 of A systematic review of studies that measure parental vaccine attitudes and beliefs in childhood vaccination
Creators: name: Dyda, Amalie
name: King, Catherine
name: Dey, Aditi
name: Leask, Julie
name: Dunn, Adam G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy. Detailed description of search strategy used for review.
OPTIMAL SPATIAL ALLOCATION OF WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TO REDUCE PHOSPHORUS POLLUTION IN A WATERSHED
Creators: name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Storm, Daniel E.
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Storm, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Phosphorus pollution from excessive litter application and municipal discharges causes eutorphication of lakes in the Eucha-Spavinaw watershed in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. Consequent algae blooms impair the taste of drinking water supply drawn from the watershed and reduce the recreational values of the lakes. The paper shows how GIS data based biophysical modeling can be used to derive spatially optimal, least-cost allocation of agricultural management practices to be combined with optimal wastewater treatment activity from the point source in order to achieve socially optimal phosphorus load in the watershed. The optimal level of phosphorus load is determined by equating marginal abatement with marginal damage cost. Transportation activities in the model allow for transportation of litter within and out of the watershed. Results show uniform regulation of litter application is excessively costly relative to measures that encourage adoption of management practices that equate marginal abatement costs across pollution sources. The results also show that change in the land use patterns in a long-run and using alum based litter additives in short-run are economically efficient management options.
95. Our Galaxy's tumbling motion
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: I look at two large-scale dynamical phenomena which are, today, believed to affect the bulk motion of our Galaxy's disk with respect to its dark matter halo. The first is a tumbling motion tied to their primordial origin, while the other is related to the orbit of our neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud.
Brunotte, Heinz (Hrsg.) / Weber, Otto (Hrsg.), Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon
Creators: name: Menn, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 4 Nr. 4 (1955): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 4, Heft 4
Carcharias Rafinesque 1810
Creators: name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
name: Starnes, James E.
name: Phillips, George E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Lamniformes
Odontaspididae
Carcharias

description: Genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Carcharias tauras Rafinesque, 1810, Extant.
description: Published as part of Cicimurri, David J., Ebersole, Jun A., Stringer, Gary L., Starnes, James E. & Phillips, George E., 2025, Late Oligocene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi, USA, pp. 1-131 in European Journal of Taxonomy 984 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.984.2851, http://zenodo.org/record/15126034
Impact of noise on domain growth in electroconvection
Creators: name: Griffith, Mary
name: Dennin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growth and ordering of striped domains has recently received renewed attention due in part to experimental studies in diblock copolymers and electroconvection. One surprising result has been the relative slow dynamics associated with the growth of striped domains. One potential source of the slow dynamics is the pinning of defects in the periodic potential of the stripes. Of interest is whether or not external noise will have a significant impact on the domain ordering, perhaps by reducing the pinning and increasing the rate of ordering. In contrast, we present experiments using electroconvection in which we show that a particular type of external noise decreases the rate of domain ordering.
Comment on "Bidimensional bound states for charged polar nanoparticles''
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
name: Fernández, Francisco M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper Castellanos-Jaramillo and Castellanos-Moreno proposed a simple quantum-mechanical model for an electron in the vicinity of an ionized nanostructure with a permanent electric dipole. They chose the interaction of the electron with the charge and the dipole in such a way that the resulting Schrödinger equation is separable into radial and angular parts. In this comment we show that those authors did not solve the angular eigenvalue equation with proper periodic boundary conditions and that they also made a mistake in the elimination of the first derivative in the radial equation. Such errors invalidate their results of the Einstein coefficients for the $\left( GaAs\right)_{3}$ system considered.
High energy scattering in QCD as a statistical process
Creators: name: Munier, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering of two hadronic objects at high energy is similar to a reaction-diffusion process described by the stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov equation. This basic observation enables us to derive universal properties of the scattering amplitudes in a straightforward way, by borrowing some general results from statistical physics.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; talk presented at Baryons 2004, Palaiseau, France, October 2004
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Bøgh, Wilhelm F.C.
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1859

description: Kommenterer utgiftene til sørgefesten
description: Brevet er undertegnet også av Mosling, Sven. Polydoc nr. 1: 4274. Polydoc nr. 2: 3370.
Control of decoherence in the generation of photon pairs from atomic ensembles
Creators: name: Felinto, D.
name: Chou, C. W.
name: de Riedmatten, H.
name: Polyakov, S. V.
name: Kimble, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an investigation to establish the physical mechanisms responsible for decoherence in the generation of photon pairs from atomic ensembles, via the protocol of Duan et. al for long distance quantum communication [Nature (London) 414, 413 (2001)] and present the experimental techniques necessary to properly control the process. We develop a theory to model in detail the decoherence process in experiments with magneto-optical traps. The inhomogeneous broadening of the ground state by the trap magnetic field is identified as the principal mechanism for decoherence. In conjunction with our theoretical analysis, we report a series of measurements to characterize and control the coherence time in our experimental setup. We use copropagating stimulated Raman spectroscopy to access directly the ground state energy distribution of the ensemble. These spectroscopic measurements allow us to switch off the trap magnetic field in a controlled way, optimizing the repetition rate for single-photon measurements. With the magnetic field off, we then measure nonclassical correlations for pairs of photons generated by the ensemble as a function of the storage time of the single collective atomic excitation. We report coherence times longer than 10 microseconds, corresponding to an increase of two orders of magnitude compared to previous results in cold ensembles. The coherence time is now two orders of magnitude longer than the duration of the excitation pulses. The comparison between these experimental results and the theory shows good agreement. Finally, we employ our theory to devise ways to improve the experiment by optical pumping to specific initial states.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted for publication
Charge qubit entanglement in double quantum dots
Creators: name: Weiss, S.
name: Thorwart, M.
name: Egger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study entanglement of charge qubits in a vertical tunnel-coupled double quantum dot containing two interacting electrons. Exact diagonalization is used to compute the negativity characterizing entanglement. We find that entanglement can be efficiently generated and controlled by sidegate voltages, and describe how it can be detected. For large enough tunnel coupling, the negativity shows a pronounced maximum at an intermediate interaction strength within the Wigner molecule regime.
description: revised version of the manuscript, as published in EPL, 7 pages, 4 figures
Compactifications of conformal gravity
Creators: name: Navarro, Ignacio
name: Van Acoleyen, Karel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study conformal theories of gravity, i.e. those whose action is invariant under the local transformation g_{μν} -> ω^2 (x) g_{μν}. As is well known, in order to obtain Einstein gravity in 4D it is necessary to introduce a scalar compensator with a VEV that spontaneously breaks the conformal invariance and generates the Planck mass. We show that the compactification of extra dimensions in a higher dimensional conformal theory of gravity also yields Einstein gravity in lower dimensions, without the need to introduce the scalar compensator. It is the field associated with the size of the extra dimensions (the radion) who takes the role of the scalar compensator in 4D. The radion has in this case no physical excitations since they are gauged away in the Einstein frame for the metric. In these models the stabilization of the size of the extra dimensions is therefore automatic.
description: 13 pages
A PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY FOR ESTABLISHING A MULTI-SPECIES MEAT PROCESSING PLANT IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA
Creators: name: Nudell, Daniel J.
name: Kraenzel, David G.
name: Petry, Timothy A.
name: Faller, Timothy
name: Hughes, Harlan G.
name: Brown, Erin
name: Nudell, Daniel J.
name: Kraenzel, David G.
name: Petry, Timothy A.
name: Faller, Timothy
name: Hughes, Harlan G.
name: Brown, Erin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Agribusiness
subject: multi-species
subject: specialty meats
subject: specialty livestock
subject: alternative livestock
subject: economies of scale
subject: HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points)
subject: slaughter plants
subject: processing plants

description: The number of small commodity livestock slaughter plants in the Upper Northern Plains region continues to decline. Significant factors contributing to this decline include: 1) pressure to consolidate, thereby capturing economies of scale; 2) relatively stringent federal inspection specifications, along with; 3) HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) requirements. At the same time, consumer demand (markets) for specialty, selected, and exotic meats appears to be growing. For example, the recent market successes in Europe evidenced by the North American Bison Cooperative based in New Rockford, North Dakota. Several alternative livestock producer groups have emerged which include lamb, ratite, elk, deer, goat, poultry, rabbit, specialty beef, and organic livestock. These groups have expressed a need for slaughter and processing facilities to meet market demand. The economic question which then becomes foremost to developing a viable business enterprise is: "What is the critical threshold volume (CTV) of product required to succeed in terms of economic profit?" Specialty livestock is relatively new and production volume small in comparison to established commodity livestock such as cattle or hogs. This fact led researchers to consider the preliminary feasibility of a multi-species processing facility as a means of addressing the expressed need.
Additional file 9 of Chronological set of E. coli O157:H7 bovine strains establishes a role for repeat sequences and mobile genetic elements in genome diversification
Creators: name: Stanton, Eliot
name: Wahlig, Taylor A.
name: Dongjin Park
name: Kaspar, Charles W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Table S6. Locations of IS629 elements in FRIK804 and Sakai chromosomes.
Radiative Hydrodynamic Models of the Optical and Ultraviolet Emission from Solar Flares
Creators: name: Allred, J. C.
name: Hawley, S. L.
name: Abbett, W. P.
name: Carlsson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on radiative hydrodynamic simulations of moderate and strong solar flares. The flares were simulated by calculating the atmospheric response to a beam of non-thermal electrons injected at the apex of a one-dimensional closed coronal loop, and include heating from thermal soft X-ray, extreme ultraviolet and ultraviolet (XEUV) emission. The equations of radiative transfer and statistical equilibrium were treated in non-LTE and solved for numerous transitions of hydrogen, helium, and Ca II allowing the calculation of detailed line profiles and continuum emission. This work improves upon previous simulations by incorporating more realistic non-thermal electron beam models and includes a more rigorous model of thermal XEUV heating. We find XEUV backwarming contributes less than 10% of the heating, even in strong flares. The simulations show elevated coronal and transition region densities resulting in dramatic increases in line and continuum emission in both the UV and optical regions. The optical continuum reaches a peak increase of several percent which is consistent with enhancements observed in solar white light flares. For a moderate flare (~M-class), the dynamics are characterized by a long gentle phase of near balance between flare heating and radiative cooling, followed by an explosive phase with beam heating dominating over cooling and characterized by strong hydrodynamic waves. For a strong flare (~X-class), the gentle phase is much shorter, and we speculate that for even stronger flares the gentle phase may be essentially non-existent. During the explosive phase, synthetic profiles for lines formed in the upper chromosphere and transition region show blue shifts corresponding to a plasma velocity of ~120 km/s, and lines formed in the lower chromosphere show red shifts of ~40 km/s.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures. Will appear in 2005 September 1 issue of the ApJ
Quantum Cryptography
Creators: name: Dusek, Miloslav
name: Lutkenhaus, Norbert
name: Hendrych, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elementary review article on quantum cryptography.
description: 61 pages, To appear in Progress in Optics, vol. 49, Edt. E. Wolf (Elsevier)