cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effectiveness in routine care: trauma-focused treatment for PTSD
Creators: name: Krüger-Gottschalk, Antje
name: Kuck, Sascha T.
name: Dyer, Anne
name: Alpers, Georg W.
name: Pittig, Andre
name: Morina, Nexhmedin
name: Ehring, Thomas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Science Policy
Virology

description: Objective: The efficacy of trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy (tf-CBT) has been well established in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). More research is needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of tf-CBT in routine clinical care settings. Method: Eighty-five patients (68 female) with a primary diagnosis of PTSD received tf-CBT at two German outpatient centres (Münster and Mannheim) between 2014 and 2016. Treatment was delivered mainly by therapists in training and treatment duration was based on symptom course. The treatment consisted of a preparation phase, a trauma-focused phase (comprising imaginal exposure, discrimination training, changing dysfunctional appraisals) and a phase of reclaiming-your-life assignments, and relapse prevention. In an intent-to-treat-analysis (ITT), linear mixed effects models were fitted for self-assessments of traumatic symptom severity using the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) and the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM–5 (CAPS-5). Potential moderators for treatment outcome, e.g. number of suicide attempts, were investigated. Results: The observed treatment effect was large for both the CAPS-5 (ITT: Cohen’s d = 2.07, CI [1.62, 2.51]; completers d = 2.34, CI [1.84, 2.83]) and PCL-5 respectively (ITT: d = 2.02, CI [1.56, 2.48]; completers d = 2.15, CI [1.66, 2.64]), and remained stable six months and one-year post-treatment. N = 27 patients (31.48%) were defined as study dropout and of these, n = 12 (14.12%) dropped out of the study but completed treatment. None of the fixed-effect estimates for treatment predictors interacted significantly with the effect of time. Conclusions: Tf-CBT is well-tolerated and it can be effectively delivered in routine clinical care. Its large treatment effects underline the practicability and benefits of the approach. This trial demonstrates its broad applicability among individuals with diverse patterns of clinical characteristics and comorbidities. In our phase-IV trial we tested the effectiveness of trauma-focused CBT in routine clinical care.The results demonstrate high effect sizes.No adverse events like suicide attempts were observed.Predictor analysis revealed no significant interaction with the effect of time. In our phase-IV trial we tested the effectiveness of trauma-focused CBT in routine clinical care. The results demonstrate high effect sizes. No adverse events like suicide attempts were observed. Predictor analysis revealed no significant interaction with the effect of time.
Simultaneous photometric and spectral analysis of a new outburst of V1686 Cyg
Creators: name: Andreasyan, Hasmik
name: Magakian, Tigran
name: Movsessian, Tigran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the optical observations of Herbig AeBe star V1686 Cyg, which is associated with a small isolated star-forming region around HAeBe star BD+40$^{\circ}$4124. We observed this star as a part of our project of young eruptive stars investigation. Observations were held on 2.6m telescope of Byurakan Observatory from 2015 to 2017. For this period we obtained V1686 Cyg direct images and 14 medium- and low-resolution spectra. In the course of observations we noticed that this star underwent a not-typical brightness outburst. After data reduction we found that the full rise and decline of V1686 Cyg brightness had almost 3 magnitudes amplitude and lasted about 3 months. We were also able to trace the changes of the stellar spectrum during the outburst, which are correlated with the photometric variations.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Alcathousites asperipennis
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Alcathousites
Alcathousites asperipennis

description: 1. Alcathousites asperipennis (Fairmaire & Germain, 1859)
Type locality — Chile. (MNHN). Distribution — Peru, northern Chile.
 Leiopus asperipennis Fairmaire & Germain, 1859: 513; Bosq, 1949b: 80 (hosts., distr.); Barriga et al., 1993: 83 (hosts); Monné, 2001b: 16 (cat. hosts).
 Alcathousites asperipennis; Monné, 2004: 32, fig. 2. (syn.).
 Alcathousites chaclacayoi Gilmour, 1962c: 267, pl. 2, fig. 3; Monné, 2001b: 5 (cat. hosts).
Type locality — Peru, Lima: Chaclacayo. (AMNH).
 Amniscus polyrhaphoides; Wille, 1943: 255 (hosts); 1952: 297 (not White, 1855).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Transient Electronic Phase Separation During Metal-Insulator Transitions
Creators: name: Shi, Yin
name: Chen, Long-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From thermodynamic analysis we demonstrate that during metal-insulator transitions in pure matters, a nonequilibrium homogeneous state may be unstable against charge density modulations with certain wavelengths, and thus evolves to the equilibrium phase through transient electronic phase separation. This phase instability occurs as two inequalities between the first and the second derivatives of the free energy with respect to the order parameter are fulfilled. The dominant wavelength of the modulated phase is also derived. The computer simulation further confirms the theoretical derivation. Employing the pre-established phase-field model of VO$_2$, we show that this transient electronic phase separation may take place in VO$_2$ upon photoexcitation.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Critical level spacing distribution in long-range hopping Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Cuevas, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nearest level spacing distribution $P_c(s)$ of $d$-dimensional disordered models ($d=1$ and 2) with long-range random hopping amplitudes is investigated numerically at criticality. We focus on both the weak ($b^d \gg 1$) and the strong ($b^d \ll 1$) coupling regime, where the parameter $b^{-d}$ plays the role of the coupling constant of the model. It is found that $P_c(s)$ has the asymptotic form $P_c(s)\sim\exp [-A_ds^α]$ for $s\gg 1$, with the critical exponent $α=2-a_d/b^d$ in the weak coupling limit and $α=1+c_d b^d$ in the case of strong coupling.
description: EPL style, 7 pages, 4 .eps figures, to be published in Europhys. Lett
Play Roulette Game Online & Real Cash
Creators: name: Matka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: ♥️🎲♥️Play Roulette Game Online & Real Cash♥️🎲♥️ ♥️डाउनलोड प्लेमटकाअप्प 💰👉https://www.indiasatta.co/web/play_Matka.apk 👉24/7 Service 👉 India satta is the world's most popular bookmaker 👉Super speedy payments
Modernity and Identity: The National Gallery of Modern Art Lagos (NGMAL) and the Politics of Nation Making
Creators: name: Barber, Olatunde O.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates the dynamics, debates, and contexts of the performances of the National Gallery of Modern art Lagos (NGMAL) in the postcolonial nation-making process of Nigeria. It is a cultural and historical investigation into the assignation of modern art in Nigeria as a means for the communication of national identity politics. It highlights the role of modern art and artists in the negotiations of national identity politics in Nigeria from the 1920s through activism in the nation during the colonial era, to the independence and the postcolonial negotiations of the Nigerian nation. It examines the dialogues between agents that guided developments, influenced revolutions, and negotiated the forms and operations of modern art in Nigeria against a background of socio-political change. It reveals the influence of the theories of Pan-Africanism and the négritude movement as key factors in the analysis of the acts of nation making through Nigerian art by Nigerian artists and the National Gallery of Modern Art Lagos. This research has been necessitated by the fact that this type of research on national art institutions is rare, and very little research has been done in this area in Africa. The thesis illuminates several associated factors, such as trends in art production, the transition of Nigerian art from traditional to the modern, political changes in the nation, effects of the Nigerian Civil War, regional as well as geographical negotiations of the Nigerian national identity, and so on. It reveals the dynamic nature of the Nigerian identity which has been shaped by its constant negotiation. Thus, the thesis illuminates the circumstances and associated agents that continually organise and reconfigure the country’s identity through its art, art practices, canons and discourses.
von Neumann entropy and the entropy production of a damped harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Weiderpass, G. A.
name: Caldeira, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we analyze the entropy and entropy production of a non-isolated quantum system described within the quantum Brownian motion framework. This is a very general and paradigmatic framework for describing non-isolated quantum systems and can be used in any kind of coupling regime. We start by considering the application of von Neumann entropy to an arbitrarily damped quantum system making use of its reduced density operator. We argue that this application is formally valid and develop a path integral method to evaluate that quantity analytically. We apply this technique to a harmonic oscillator in contact with a heat bath and obtain an exact form for its entropy. Then we study the entropy production of this system and enlighten important characteristics of its thermodynamical behavior on the pure quantum realm and also address their transition to the classical limit.
description: Main text: 7 pages, 2 figures. Supplementary material: 5 pages
The size of chi = arg (-Vts Vtb* Vcs* Vcb) and physics beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
name: Botella, F. J.
name: Branco, G. C.
name: Nebot, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the allowed range of values of chi, both in the Standard Model and in models with New Physics, pointing out that a relatively large value of chi, e.g. of order lambda, is only possible in models where the unitarity of the 3x3 Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is violated through the introduction of extra Q=2/3 quarks. We study the interesting case where the extra quark is an isosinglet, determining the allowed range for chi and the effect of a large chi on various low-energy observables, such as CP asymmetries in B meson decays. We also discuss the correlated effects which would be observable at high energy colliders, like decays t -> cZ, modifications of the cross section and forward-backward asymmetry in e+ e- -> ttbar and the direct production of a new quark.
description: LaTeX, 19 pages, 6 PS figures. Section 3 expanded. Version to be published in NPB
Alcathousites senticosus Monne & Martins 1976
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Alcathousites
Alcathousites senticosus

description: 2. Alcathousites senticosus Monné & Martins, 1976
Type locality — Peru, Junin: Satipo. (MNRJ). Distribution — Peru.
 Alcathousites senticosus Monné & Martins, 1976: 46, fig. 10; Julio et al., 2000: 31 (holotype).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Association between methylmalonic acid and prevalence of depression in US adults: evidence from NHANES 2011–2014
Creators: name: Li, Siqi
name: Nan, Wenbin
name: Peng, Zhenyu
name: Huang, Qiong
name: Chen, Qiong
name: He, Baimei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Background: Depression is a prevalent mental disorder with high morbidity and mortality globally. Methylmalonic acid (MMA) is involved in the pathogenesis of numerous diseases. However, it is unclear whether there is an association between MMA and the prevalence of depression. Methods: This study enrolled 7866 US adults from the 2011–2014 survey of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Individuals were categorized into depression group and non-depression group based on Patient’s Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score. The association between MMA concentrations and prevalence of depression was analysed by multivariate logistic and linear regression, restricted cubic spline regression, and subgroup analysis. Mediation analysis was used to explore the role of inflammation in the relationship between MMA and depression. Results: MMA concentrations were higher in participants with depression than those without depression. There was a positive and linear relationship of MMA concentrations with PHQ-9 score and depression risk, respectively. Moreover, the association was stable in most subgroups. Furthermore, inflammatory factors were positively correlated to MMA concentrations and prevalence of depression. In addition, white blood cell, neutrophil and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) mediated the relationship between MMA and depression. Conclusion: Our findings revealed that there was a linear and positive correlation between MMA and the prevalence of depression in US adults, which might be mediated by inflammation. MMA was higher in participants with depression than those without depression.There was a linear and positive relationship between MMA and depression prevalence.Inflammatory factors mediated the association of MMA with depression prevalence. MMA was higher in participants with depression than those without depression. There was a linear and positive relationship between MMA and depression prevalence. Inflammatory factors mediated the association of MMA with depression prevalence.
Vector-valued Hausdorff-Young inequality on compact groups
Creators: name: García-Cuerva, José
name: Parcet, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 43A77; 46L07

description: The main purpose of this paper is to study the validity of the Hausdorff-Young inequality for vector-valued functions defined on a non-commutative compact group. The natural context for this research is that of operator spaces. This leads us to formulate a whole new theory of Fourier type and cotype for the category of operator spaces. The present paper is the first step in this program, where the basic theory is presented, the main examples are analyzed and some questions are posed.
description: To appear in Proc. London. Math. Soc. 30 pages
Crystallization of the inner crust of a neutron star and the influence of shell effects
Creators: name: Carreau, T.
name: Gulminelli, F.
name: Chamel, N.
name: Fantina, A. F.
name: Pearson, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. In the cooling process of a non-accreting neutron star, the composition and properties of the crust are thought to be fixed at the finite temperature where nuclear reactions fall out of equilibrium. A lower estimation for this temperature is given by the crystallization temperature, which can be as high as $\approx 7\times 10^9$ K in the inner crust, potentially leading to sizeable differences with respect to the simplifying cold-catalyzed matter hypothesis. Aims. We extend the recent work by Fantina et al. (2019) on the outer crust, to the study of the crystallization of the inner crust and the associated composition in the one-component plasma approximation. Methods. The finite temperature variational equations for non-uniform matter in both the liquid and the solid phases are solved using a compressible liquid-drop approach with parameters optimized on four different microscopic models which cover the present uncertainties in nuclear modeling. Results. We consider separately the effect of the different nuclear ingredients with their associated uncertainties, namely the nuclear equation of state, the surface properties in the presence of a uniform gas of dripped neutrons, and the proton shell effects arising from the ion single-particle structure. Our results suggest that the highest source of model dependence comes from the smooth part of the nuclear functional. Conclusions. We show that shell effects play an important role at the lowest densities close to the outer crust, but the most important physical ingredient to be settled for a quantitative prediction of the inner crust properties is the surface tension at extreme isospin values.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Yang-Baxter equation for the asymmetric eight-vertex model
Creators: name: Galleas, W.
name: Martins, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we study `a la Baxter [1] the possible integrable manifolds of the asymmetric eight-vertex model. As expected they occur when the Boltzmann weights are either symmetric or satisfy the free-fermion condition but our analysis clarify the reason both manifolds need to share a universal invariant. We also show that the free-fermion condition implies three distinct classes of integrable models.
description: Latex, 12 pages, 1 figure
Alcathousites superstes
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Alcathousites
Alcathousites superstes

description: 3. Alcathousites superstes (Erichson, 1847)
Type locality — Peru. (ZMHB). Distribution — Ecuador, Peru.
 Leiopus superstes Erichson, 1847: 146; White, 1855: 385; Gara & Onore, 1989: 194, fig. 92­A (biol., hosts).
 Alcathousites superstes; Monné & Giesbert, 1992: 253; Monné, 2001b: 5 (cat. hosts).
  Alcidion Sturm, 1843
 Alcidion Surm, 1843: 254; Monné, 1977: 698 (syn.).
 Type­species — Acanthocinus humeralis Perty, 1832 (monotypy).
 Probatius White, 1855: 389; Thomson, 1860: 16; 1864: 27, 355; Bates, 1864: 47; Lacordaire, 1872: 781; Bates, 1881a: 175; Dillon, 1962: 32 (syn.); Zayas, 1975: 271; Linsley & Chemsak, 1995: 5.
 Type­species — Acanthocinus humeralis Perty, 1832 (Monné designation, 1977: 698). Hirsutographis Dillon, 1956b: 207; Arnett, 1962: 872, 890.
 Type­species — Hirsutographis pulchra Dillon, 1956 (monotypy and original designation).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Achieving Minimal Heat Conductivity by Ballistic Confinement in Phononic Metalattices
Creators: name: Chen, Weinan
name: Talreja, Disha
name: Eichfeld, Devon
name: Mahale, Pratibha
name: Nova, Nabila Nabi
name: Cheng, Hiu Y.
name: Russell, Jennifer L.
name: Yu, Shih-Ying
name: Poilvert, Nicolas
name: Mahan, Gerald
name: Mohney, Suzanne E.
name: Crespi, Vincent H.
name: Mallouk, Thomas E
name: Badding, John V.
name: Foley, Brian
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
name: Dabo, Ismaila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling the thermal conductivity of semiconductors is of practical interest in optimizing the performance of thermoelectric and phononic devices. The insertion of inclusions of nanometer size in a semiconductor is an effective means of achieving such control; it has been proposed that the thermal conductivity of silicon could be reduced to 1 W/m/K using this approach and that a minimum in the heat conductivity would be reached for some optimal size of the inclusions. Yet the practical verification of this design rule has been limited. In this work, we address this question by studying the thermal properties of silicon metalattices that consist of a periodic distribution of spherical inclusions with radii from 7 to 30 nm, embedded into silicon. Experimental measurements confirm that the thermal conductivity of silicon metalattices is as low as 1 W/m/K for silica inclusions, and that this value can be further reduced to 0.16 W/m/K for silicon metalattices with empty pores. A detailed model of ballistic phonon transport suggests that this thermal conductivity is close to the lowest achievable by tuning the radius and spacing of the periodic inhomogeneities. This study is a significant step in elucidating the scaling laws that dictate ballistic heat transport at the nanoscale in silicon and other semiconductors.
FARMER COOPERATIVE STATISTICS, 2004
Creators: name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jacqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jacqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: cooperatives
subject: statistics
subject: business volume
subject: employees
subject: memberships
subject: balance sheet
subject: net income
subject: financial ratios

description: A survey of 2,983 U.S. farmer-owned cooperatives ending their business year during calendar year 2004 showed a net business volume of $107.9 billion with a net income of $2.3 billion. These cooperatives had assets totaling $47 billion, about $27 billion of liabilities, and $20 billion in equity. Cooperatives were a major employer in rural areas, with 150,000 full-time workers, but this was about 15,000 fewer employees than in 2003 due to the bankruptcy of two large cooperatives. Business volume by commodity is reported for all cooperatives. Number of cooperatives, cooperative memberships, and number of employees are classified according to whether the business is a marketing, farm supply, or service cooperative. Trends in cooperative numbers, memberships, employees, business size, sales volume, net income, assets, liabilities, and net worth are reported.
FARMER COOPERATIVE STATISTICS, 2006
Creators: name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jaqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jaqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: cooperatives
subject: statistics
subject: business volume
subject: employees
subject: memberships
subject: balance sheet
subject: net income
subject: financial ratios

description: A survey of 2,675 U.S. farmer-owned cooperatives ending their business year during calendar year 2006 showed a net business volume of $110.5 billion with a net income of $3.2 billion. These cooperatives had assets totaling $48 billion, about $28 billion of liabilities, and $20 billion in equity. Cooperatives were a major employer in rural areas, with 123,000 full-time workers and 57,000 part-time or seasonal employees. Business volume by commodity is reported for all cooperatives. Number of cooperatives, cooperative memberships, and number of employees are classified according to whether the business is a marketing, farm supply, or service cooperative. Trends in cooperative numbers, memberships, employees, business size, sales volume, net income, assets, liabilities, and net worth are reported.
Kinks in the relativistic model with logarithmic nonlinearity
Creators: name: Belendryasova, Ekaterina
name: Gani, Vakhid A.
name: Zloshchastiev, Konstantin G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of a relativistic model with logarithmic nonlinearity. We show that such model allows two types of solutions: topologically trivial (gaussons) and topologically non-trivial (kinks), depending on a sign of the nonlinear coupling. We focus primarily on the kinks' case and study their scattering properties. For the kink-antikink scattering, we have found a critical value of the initial velocity, which separates two different scenarios of scattering. For the initial velocities below this critical value, the kinks form a bound state, which then decays slowly. If the initial velocities are above the critical value, the kinks collide, bounce and eventually escape to infinities. During this process, the higher initial velocity is, the greater is the elasticity of the collision. We also study excitation spectrum of the kink solution.
description: 4 pages; Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA-2018), Moscow, 22-26 October 2018
The Effects of Yoga on People with Arthritis: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Giesbrecht, Alana
name: Macri, Erin
name: Newman, Gabe
name: Werner, Laura
name: Westby, Marie
Publisher: name: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Year: 2006

description: Systematic Review Presentations - Master of Physical Therapy Graduating Students, University of British Columbia - 2006, Presented on September 14-15, 2006 , Vancouver, BC, Canada. MPT Systematic Reviews and Research Projects.
COOPERATIVE STATISTICS, 2007
Creators: name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jaqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jaqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: cooperatives
subject: statistics
subject: business volume
subject: employees
subject: memberships
subject: balance sheet
subject: income statement
subject: financial ratios

description: A survey of 2,594 U.S. farmer, rancher, and fishery cooperatives ending their business year during calendar year 2007 showed a net business volume of $127.8 billion with a net income of $3.8 billion. These cooperatives had assets totaling $57 billion, $36 billion of liabilities, and $21 billion in equity. Cooperatives were a major employer in rural areas, with 125,000 full-time workers, and 56,000 part-time or seasonal employees. Business volume by commodity is reported for all cooperatives. Number of cooperatives, cooperative memberships, and number of employees are classified according to whether the business is a marketing, supply, or service cooperative. Trends in cooperative numbers, memberships, employees, business size, sales volume, net income, assets, liabilities, and net worth are reported.
Narrative Threads: Written Textiles in Old Norse Prose and Poetry
Creators: name: Balchin, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis explores the function and significance of written textiles in the Íslendingasögur and a selection of poems from The Poetic Edda. This thesis defines ‘written textiles’ as written representations of textile-making processes, such as spinning, weaving and embroidery, and the material results of those processes, such as clothing. The term ‘written textiles’ is not an oxymoron: this thesis will show that the etymological and cultural relationship between ‘text’ and ‘textile’ is fundamental to our understanding of both. In contrast to much of the scholarship on Old Norse literature so far, this thesis focuses on the importance of textile terminology in a variety of narrative contexts. It argues that a more nuanced understanding of textiles reveals their function as powerful literary devices that paratactically convey social, cultural, and even emotional significances. This thesis questions a number of cultural assumptions regarding the value of textiles as a practice and how this reflects on those who create them – namely women. It demonstrates how this wider cultural devaluation influences both popular and scholarly reception of medieval women and, furthermore, illustrates how other avenues of meaning have been obscured as a result. As a countermeasure, it suggests that a systematic understanding of textile terminology is required, and explores the potential usefulness of an ‘Old Norse vestementary code’. It demonstrates how the Old Norse vestementary code can be used to read the written textiles of the Íslendingasögur, while emphasising the importance of narrative context: ultimately, it advocates for an attentive and holistic approach to Old Norse written textiles. The main contribution of this thesis is the ‘stitch act’, a new approach to the function of written textiles that draws on the linguistic phenomenon of the speech act. The stitch act is a formalised or ritualistic act of textile-creation – a ‘stitch’ – that impacts the saga narrative.
An IFC-Based BIPV Digital Product Model to Facilitate Information Exchange in the BIM Environment
Creators: name: Zhang, Chaoxiang
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330204
subject: Building information modelling and management
classificationCode: 330206
subject: Building science, technologies and systems

description: Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) play a critical role in the development of nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) by enabling energy generation through photovoltaic systems integrated into building components. However, the widespread adoption of BIPV is hindered by the lack of comprehensive digital models that facilitate the seamless exchange of information within Building Information Modelling (BIM) environments. This research aims to address this gap by developing a BIPV digital product model based on the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) schema, focusing on the Australian context.

The study begins by identifying key BIPV product attributes and use cases across the project lifecycle, including conceptual design, detailed design, construction, operation, and decommissioning phases. Through expert interviews and case study validation, this research compiles a comprehensive list of product attributes required to support BIPV design, implementation, and lifecycle management. An Information Delivery Manual (IDM) is developed to map BIPV digital product requirements against process maps and exchange requirements, ensuring effective information exchange across BIM platforms.

To integrate BIPV products into the IFC schema, this research evaluates multiple extension options for representing BIPV elements within the existing IFC framework. The study proposes the most suitable BIPV extension method, ensuring compatibility with IFC standards. A validation process, involving industry professionals and real-world case studies, confirms the effectiveness of the proposed IFC extensions in supporting BIPV applications. The findings indicate that the enhanced IFC schema can accurately represent BIPV product information, improving accessibility and data exchange in BIM environments.

This research contributes to advancing the digitalization of BIPV products in BIM, facilitating their adoption in Australia’s building sector, and providing a foundation for future research on sustainable building technologies.
COOPERATIVE STATISTICS, 2008
Creators: name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jacqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: DeVille, Katherine C.
name: Penn, Jacqueline E.
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: cooperatives
subject: statistics
subject: business volume
subject: employees
subject: memberships
subject: balance sheet
subject: income statement
subject: financial ratios

description: A survey of 2,473 U.S. farmer, rancher, and fishery cooperatives ending their business year during calendar year 2008 showed a net business volume of $191.9 billion with a net income of $4.8 billion. These cooperatives had assets totaling $69 billion, $46 billion of liabilities, and $23 billion in equity. Cooperatives were a major employer in rural areas, with 124,000 full-time workers and 54,000 parttime or seasonal employees. Business volume by commodity is reported for all cooperatives. Number of cooperatives, cooperative memberships, and number of employees are classified according to whether the business is a marketing, supply, or service cooperative. Trends in cooperative numbers, memberships, employees, business size, sales volume, net income, assets, liabilities, and net worth are reported.
Deciphering the conformational stability of MazE7 antitoxin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from molecular dynamics simulation study
Creators: name: Saha, Rituparna
name: Bhattacharje, Gourab
name: De, Soumya
name: Das, Amit Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: MazEF Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are associated with the persistent phenotype of the pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), aiding their survival. Though extensively studied, the mode of action between the antitoxin-toxin and DNA of this family remains largely unclear. Here, the important interactions between MazF7 toxin and MazE7 antitoxin, and how MazE7 binds its promoter/operator region have been studied. To elucidate this, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been performed on MazE7, MazF7, MazEF7, MazEF7-DNA, and MazE7-DNA complexes to investigate how MazF7 and DNA affect the conformational change and dynamics of MazE7 antitoxin. This study demonstrated that the MazE7 dimer is disordered and one monomer (Chain C) attains stability after binding to the MazF7 toxin. Both the monomers (Chain C and Chain D) however are stabilized when MazE7 binds to DNA. MazE7 is also observed to sterically inhibit tRNA from binding to MazF7, thus suppressing its toxic activity. Comparative structural analysis performed on all the available antitoxins/antitoxin-toxin-DNA structures revealed MazEF7-DNA mechanism was similar to another TA system, AtaRT_E.coli. Simulation performed on the crystal structures of AtaR, AtaT, AtaRT, AtaRT-DNA, and AtaR-DNA showed that the disordered AtaR antitoxin attains stability by AtaT and DNA binding similar to MazE7. Based on these analyses it can thus be hypothesized that the disordered antitoxins enable tighter toxin and DNA binding thus preventing accidental toxin activation. Overall, this study provides crucial structural and dynamic insights into the MazEF7 toxin-antitoxin system and should provide a basis for targeting this TA system in combating Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Phenomenological parameterization of quintessence
Creators: name: Wetterich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple phenomenological parameterization of quintessence with a time-varying equation of state. In particular, it accounts for the possibility of early dark energy. The quintessence potential can be reconstructed in terms of the present fraction in dark energy, the present equation of state and the amount of early dark energy.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX
Rogue Waves and Periodic Solutions of a Nonlocal Nonlinear Schrödinger Model
Creators: name: Ward, C. B.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Horikis, T. P.
name: Frantzeskakis, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, a nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) model is studied by means of a recent technique that identifies solutions of partial differential equations, by considering them as fixed points in {\it space-time}. This methodology allows to perform a continuation of well-known solutions of the local NLS model to the nonlocal case. Four different examples of this type are presented, namely (a) the rogue wave in the form of the Peregrine soliton, (b) the generalization thereof in the form of the Kuznetsov-Ma breather, as well as two spatio-temporally periodic solutions in the form of elliptic functions. Importantly, all four waveforms can be continued in intervals of the parameter controlling the nonlocality of the model. The first two can be continued in a narrower interval, while the periodic ones can be extended to arbitrary nonlocalities and, in fact, present an intriguing bifurcation whereby they merge with (only) spatially periodic structures. The results suggest the generic relevance of rogue waves and related structures, as well as periodic solutions, in nonlocal NLS models.
Alcidion albosparsus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Alcidion
Alcidion albosparsus

description: 2. Alcidion albosparsus (Melzer, 1934)
Type locality — Brazil, Espírito Santo: Alegre (Fazenda Jerusalem). (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Argentina (Misiones).
 Probatius albosparsus Melzer, 1934b: 236, pl. 19, fig. 36; Bosq, 1944: 202 (distr.); Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 64 (type); Buck, 1959: 606 (distr.); Viana, 1972: 386 (distr.); Zajciw, 1974a: 74 (distr.).
 Alcidion albosparsus; Monné, 1977: 698.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Alcidion alienum
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Alcidion
Alcidion alienum

description: 3. Alcidion alienum (Melzer, 1932)
Type locality — Brazil, Minas Gerais: Passa Quatro. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Minas Gerais to São Paulo).
 Probatius alienus Melzer, 1932b: 431, pl. 6, fig. 4; Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 64 (type); Zajciw & Seabra, 1968: 72 (distr.); Bachmann & Di Iorio, 2002: (cotype).
 Probatiomimus alienus; Zikán & Zikán, 1944: 38 (distr.).
 Alcidion alienum; Monné, 1977: 698.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Insight into the effect of ibuprofen on the permeability of the membrane: a molecular dynamic simulation study
Creators: name: Ghorbani, Mohammad
name: Dehghan, Gholamreza
name: Allahverdi, Abdollah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Studying interactions between drugs and cell membranes is of great interest to designing novel drugs, optimizing drug delivery, and discerning drug mechanism action. In this study, we investigated the physical properties of the bilayer membrane model of POPC upon interaction with ibuprofen (IBU) using molecular dynamics simulations. The area per lipid (APL) was calculated to describe the effect of ibuprofen on the packing properties of the lipid bilayer. The APL was 0.58 nm2 and 0.63 nm2 for the membrane in low and high IBU respectively, and 0.57 nm2 for the membrane without IBU. Our finding showed that the mean square deviation (MSD) increased with increased ibuprofen content. In addition, the order parameter for the hydrocarbon chain of lipids increased with increased ibuprofen content. There was an increment in the transfer free energy after the head group region while it was maximum in the hydrophobic core for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) (∼6.2 kcal.mol−1) and H2O (∼3.4 kcal.mol−1) which then decreased to respective values of (∼4.6 kcal.mol−1), and (∼2.3 kcal.mol−1) at the center of the bilayer in the presence of IBU. It seems that in the presence of ibuprofen, the free energy profile of the permeability of water and H2O2 significantly decreased. These findings show that ibuprofen significantly influences the physical properties of the bilayer by decreasing the packing and intermolecular interaction in the hydrocarbon chain region and increasing the water permeability of the bilayer. These results may provide insights into the local cytotoxic side effects of ibuprofen and its underlying molecular mechanisms. Ibuprofen changes the physical properties of the membrane.Ibuprofen decreases the packing and intermolecular interaction at the hydrocarbon chain of lipids.Ibuprofen increases the permeability of water and hydrogen peroxide as reactive oxygen species (ROS).Results may shed light on the local cytotoxic side effects of ibuprofen. Ibuprofen changes the physical properties of the membrane. Ibuprofen decreases the packing and intermolecular interaction at the hydrocarbon chain of lipids. Ibuprofen increases the permeability of water and hydrogen peroxide as reactive oxygen species (ROS). Results may shed light on the local cytotoxic side effects of ibuprofen.
USIA Poll # 1982-I82018: 1982 Economic Summit
Creators: name: USIA
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Government job performance (1); Prime Minister Thatcher job performance (1); Foot job performance (1); Steel job performance (1); political party vote for in general election (2); vote in 1979 general election (1); political party (1); economy (3); most important problem facing the country (1); unemployment (2); inflation (1); economic policies of other countries (2); strength of the American dollar (3); free trade (15); national security (2); NATO (2); confidence in United States handling world problems (1); Great Britain-US relations (2); Great Britain-Russia relations (2); confidence in US defending Britain (1); nuclear missiles (9); US vs. Russia behavior on international affairs (1).
Current-Driven Switching in Magnetic Multilayer Nanopillars
Creators: name: Urazhdin, S.
name: Birge, Norman O.
name: Pratt, W. P.
name: Bass, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize our recent findings on how the current-driven magnetization switching in nanofabricated magnetic multilayers is affected by an applied magnetic field, changes of temperature, magnetic coupling between the ferromagnetic layers, variations in the multilayer structure, and the relative rotation of the layers' magnetizations. We show how these results can be interpreted with a model describing current-driven excitations as an effective current-dependent magnetic temperature.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures To be published in JAP, MMM'04 proceedings
Effectiveness of Different Therapeutic Interventions on the Gait of Children with Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Boetz, Lucia
name: Graetz, Stephanie
name: McDonald, Colleen
name: Notooulos, Maria
name: Harris, Susan
name: Virji-Babul, Naznin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2007

description: MPT Systematic Reviews and Research Projects.
ElecSim: Monte-Carlo Open-Source Agent-Based Model to Inform Policy for Long-Term Electricity Planning
Creators: name: Kell, Alexander J. M.
name: Forshaw, Matthew
name: McGough, A. Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Due to the threat of climate change, a transition from a fossil-fuel based system to one based on zero-carbon is required. However, this is not as simple as instantaneously closing down all fossil fuel energy generation and replacing them with renewable sources -- careful decisions need to be taken to ensure rapid but stable progress. To aid decision makers, we present a new tool, ElecSim, which is an open-sourced agent-based modelling framework used to examine the effect of policy on long-term investment decisions in electricity generation. ElecSim allows non-experts to rapidly prototype new ideas. Different techniques to model long-term electricity decisions are reviewed and used to motivate why agent-based models will become an important strategic tool for policy. We motivate why an open-source toolkit is required for long-term electricity planning. Actual electricity prices are compared with our model and we demonstrate that the use of a Monte-Carlo simulation in the system improves performance by $52.5\%$. Further, using ElecSim we demonstrate the effect of a carbon tax to encourage a low-carbon electricity supply. We show how a £40 ($\$50$) per tonne of CO2 emitted would lead to 70% renewable electricity by 2050.
description: e-Energy '19 Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems
Effect of multielectron polarization in strong-field ionization of the oriented CO molecule
Creators: name: Abu-samha, Mahmoud
name: Madsen, Lars B
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the mechanism by which the inclusion of multielectron polarization improves the solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) for the oriented CO molecule in a strong external laser pulse within the single-active-electron (SAE) approximation. A challenging problem of using the SAE approximation is that the active electron, instead of undergoing ionization, may be driven by the external field to lower-lying orbitals. For the oriented CO molecule, dipole coupling to the lower-lying bound states of the potential depends on the orientation angle, thereby affecting the orientation-dependent ionization dynamics. By including multielectron polarization, the external field is turned off within the molecular radius, thereby minimizing dipole coupling of the highest occupied molecular orbital to the lower-lying states of the potential. We discuss how turning off the external field within an appropriate molecular radius without accounting for the induced dipole term in the effective potential beyond this radial cut-off distance, constitutes an effective and accurate approach to describe strong-field ionization of CO and to minimize dipole coupling to lower-lying bound states.
description: 6 figures