cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Composably secure device-independent encryption with certified deletion
Creators: name: Kundu, Srijita
name: Tan, Ernest Y. -Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the task of encryption with certified deletion (ECD) introduced by Broadbent and Islam (2020), but in a device-independent setting: we show that it is possible to achieve this task even when the honest parties do not trust their quantum devices. Moreover, we define security for the ECD task in a composable manner and show that our ECD protocol satisfies conditions that lead to composable security. Our protocol is based on device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD), and in particular the parallel DIQKD protocol based on the magic square non-local game, given by Jain, Miller and Shi (2020). To achieve certified deletion, we use a property of the magic square game observed by Fu and Miller (2018), namely that a two-round variant of the game can be used to certify deletion of a single random bit. In order to achieve certified deletion security for arbitrarily long messages from this property, we prove a parallel repetition theorem for two-round non-local games, which may be of independent interest.
description: Accepted for publication in Quantum. Added alternative security definition more similar to previous works; significantly expanded exposition and proof details in various sections
Modelling and simulation of phase transformations in elasto-plastic polycrystals
Creators: name: Ostwald, Richard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Phasentransformationen
subject: Plastizität
subject: SMA
subject: TRIP
subject: Microsphere
subject: FEM
subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Phasenumwandlung
subject: Memory-Legierung
subject: TRIP-Stahl
subject: Polykristall
subject: Extended Finite-Elemente-Methode

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt einen neuartigen Modellierungsrahmen zur Simulation von austenitisch-martensitischen Phasentransformationen in Formgedächtnislegierungen (SMA) und TRIP-Stählen. Das Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung und Ausarbeitung eines generalisierten Modells, welches das charakteristische makroskopische Verhalten sowohl von SMA als auch von TRIP-Stahl abbildet. Als Basis für die Formulierung dient ein skalarwertiges, thermodynamisch konsistentes, auf statistischer Physik basierendes Modell für die Simulation von SMA. Im Verlauf dieser Arbeit wird das Modell in affine und nicht-affine Microsphere-Formulierungen eingebettet um das polykristalline Materialverhalten abzubilden und um die Simulation dreidimensionaler Randwertprobleme zu ermöglichen. Darüberhinaus wird eine Kopplung an Plastizität vorgestellt, welche zusätzlich die Abbildung des Verhaltens von TRIP-Stahl ermöglicht. Abschließend wird die Implementierung eines dreidimensionalen Phasentransformationsmodells für finite Deformationen mit dem Fokus auf repräsentative Transformationsrichtungen in einem thermo-elastoplastischen Framework gezeigt.
description: In this work, a new framework for the simulation of shape memory alloys (SMA) and TRIP steels undergoing martensite-austenite phase-transformations is introduced. The goal is the derivation and elaboration of a generalised model which facilitates the reflection of the characteristic macroscopic behaviour of SMA as well as of TRIP steels. The foundation of the overall formulation is a scalar-valued, thermodynamically consistent, statistical physics based model for the simulation of SMA. As this work proceeds, the model is implemented in affine and non-affine micro-sphere formulations in order to capture polycrystalline behaviour and to simulate three-dimensional boundary value problems. Moreover, a coupling to plasticity is introduced, additionally enabling the capturing of the macroscopic behaviour of TRIP steels. Finally, the implementation of a three-dimensional finite-deformation phase-transformation model that focuses on representative transformation directions is elaborated in a thermo-elastoplastic framework.
Multiscale interpretation of taut string estimation and its connection to Unbalanced Haar wavelets
Creators: name: Cho, Haeran
name: Fryzlewicz, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We compare two state-of-the-art non-linear techniques for nonparametric function estimation via piecewise constant approximation: the taut string and the Unbalanced Haar methods. While it is well-known that the latter is multiscale, it is not obvious that the former can also be interpreted as multiscale. We provide a unified multiscale representation for both methods, which offers an insight into the relationship between them as well as suggesting lessons both methods can learn from each other.
Effect of Planned Teaching on Essential Newborn Care Practice and Identification of Neonatal Danger Signs among Mothers in Chewaka Resettlement Area
Creators: name: Adem, Hasen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: Every year over 130 million babies are born and 40 million women give birth at home globally. About 2.6 million births take place in Ethiopia and 2.34 million (90%) births per year occur in home without the help of a skilled birth attendant. Home delivery and newborn care provided by non-skilled personnel has not yet been evaluated whether the skills women have and the extent of newborn care they could provide is up to the world health organization definitions of essential newborn care. Therefore, this study was carried out to evaluate how far essential newborn care was being practiced in home delivery at Chewaka resettlement area. Objective: The main objective of this study was to evaluate effect of planned teaching on essential newborn care practice and knowledge of neonatal danger signs among mothers in Chewaka resettlement area. Methods: The study was employed by using community based a pre-experimental one-shot design was conducted among women who gave birth at home during the one year preceding the study. A total of 238 study subjects were involved in the study. Result: Newborn care practices like bathing the baby immediately after birth 38.7%, giving pre-lacteals 40.8%, late initiation of breast feeding 37%, and application of substances on umbilical cord 102 42.9% were common. The study finding shows that a low level of use of the combined newborn care indicators: good thermal care 38 (16%), safe cord care practice 64 (26.9%), good neonatal feeding 16.8% and it found that poor thermal care was driven mainly by early bathing; poor cord care by putting substances on the cord; and poor breastfeeding by giving feeds other than breast milk. Mother's knowledge of newborn danger signs was good. In the present study the knowledge scores of mothers revealed that 64.3% of the respondents had good knowledge. Conclusion Even after years of efforts by government to reduce unhealthy newborn care practices are highly prevalent in this setting. But some of the newborn care practices may have been influenced by the health education interventions. Recommendation: The study suggests that effort should be made to stop unhealthy newborn care practice particularly, applying substances on the stump of umbilical cord, discarding colostrum, and pre lacteal feeding, and bathing the baby immediately after birth, and should be replaced by recommended practices. Keywords: Home deliveries, Essential newborn care practice, Chewaka resettlement are
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 10
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 27-28*: Chapter 27: Samuel Weller makes a pilgrimage to Dorking, and beholds his mother-in-law Chapter 28: A good-humoured Christmas chapter, containing an account of a wedding, and some other sports beside, which, although in their way even as good customs as marriage itself, are not quite so religiously kept up, in these degenerate times Chapter 28*: The story of the goblins who stole a sexton
Phytosterols and phytostanols and the hallmarks of cancer in model organisms: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cioccoloni, Giorgia
name: Soteriou, Chrysa
name: Websdale, Alex
name: Wallis, Lewis
name: Zulyniak, Michael A.
name: Thorne, James L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Phytosterols and phytostanols are natural products present in vegetable oils, nuts, and seeds, or added to consumer food products whose intake is inversely associated with incidence and prognosis of several cancers. Randomized cancer prevention trials in humans are unfeasible due to time and cost yet the cellular processes and signaling cascades that underpin anti-cancer effects of these phytochemicals have been explored extensively in vitro and in preclinical in vivo models. Here we have performed an original systematic review, meta-analysis, and qualitative interpretation of literature published up to June 2020. MEDLINE, Scopus, and hand-searching identified 408 unique records that were screened leading to 32 original articles that had investigated the effects of phytosterols or phytostanols on cancer biology in preclinical models. Data was extracted from 22 publications for meta-analysis. Phytosterols were most commonly studied and found to reduce primary and metastatic tumor burden in all cancer sites evaluated. Expression of pAKT, and markers of metastasis (alkaline phosphatase, matrix metalloproteases, epithelial to mesenchymal transcription factors, lung and brain colonization), angiogenesis (vascular endothelial growth factor, CD31), and proliferation (Ki67, proliferating cell nuclear antigen) were consistently reduced by phytosterol treatment in breast and colorectal cancer. Very high dose treatment (equivalent to 0.2–1 g/kg body weight not easily achievable through diet or supplementation in humans) was associated with adverse events including poor gut health and intestinal adenoma development. Phytosterols and phytostanols are already clinically recommended for cardiovascular disease risk reduction, and represent promising anti-cancer agents that could be delivered in clinic and to the general population at low cost, with a well understood safety profile, and now with a robust understanding of mechanism-of-action.
The impact of dialect differences on spoken language comprehension
Creators: name: Byrd, Arynn S.
name: Huang, Yi Ting
name: Edwards, Jan
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: listening comprehension
linguistic diversity
African American English
subject-verb agreement

description: Research has suggested that children who speak African American English (AAE) have difficulty using features produced in Mainstream American English (MAE) but not AAE, to comprehend sentences in MAE. However, past studies mainly examined dialect features, such as verbal -s, that are produced as final consonants with shorter durations when produced in conversation which impacts their phonetic saliency. Therefore, it is unclear if previous results are due to the phonetic saliency of the feature or how AAE speakers process MAE dialect features more generally. This study evaluated if there were group differences in how AAE- and MAE-speaking children used the auxiliary verbs was and were, a dialect feature with increased phonetic saliency but produced differently between the dialects, to interpret sentences in MAE. Participants aged 6, 5–10, and 0 years, who spoke MAE or AAE, completed the DELV-ST, a vocabulary measure (PVT), and a sentence comprehension task. In the sentence comprehension task, participants heard sentences in MAE that had either unambiguous or ambiguous subjects. Sentences with ambiguous subjects were used to evaluate group differences in sentence comprehension. AAE-speaking children were less likely than MAE-speaking children to use the auxiliary verbs was and were to interpret sentences in MAE. Furthermore, dialect density was predictive of Black participant’s sensitivity to the auxiliary verb. This finding is consistent with how the auxiliary verb is produced between the two dialects: was is used to mark both singular and plural subjects in AAE, while MAE uses was for singular and were for plural subjects. This study demonstrated that even when the dialect feature is more phonetically salient, differences between how verb morphology is produced in AAE and MAE impact how AAE-speaking children comprehend MAE sentences.
Synthetic and mercury 199 nuclear magnetic resonance studies in organomercury chemistry
Creators: name: Stretton., Geoffrey Norman
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Biorthogonal decomposition of the disturbance flow field generated by particle impingement on a hypersonic boundary layer
Creators: name: A. Al Hasnine, S.
name: Russo, V.
name: Tumin, A.
name: Brehm, C.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: boundary layer receptivity
particle/fluid flow
hypersonic flow

description: The disturbance flow field in a hypersonic boundary layer excited by particle impingement was investigated with a focus on the first stage of the laminar-to-turbulent transition process, namely the receptivity process. A previously validated direct numerical simulation approach adopting disturbance flow tracking is used to simulate the particle-induced transition process. Particle impingement generates a highly complex disturbance flow field that can be characterised by a wide range of frequencies and wavenumbers. After providing some insight about the spectral characteristics of the disturbance flow field in the frequency and wavenumber domains, biorthogonal decomposition is employed to reveal the composition of the disturbance flow field consisting of different continuous and discrete eigenmodes that are triggered through particle impingement. The disturbance flow characteristics for different frequency and wavenumber pairs are discussed where large contributions in the disturbance flow spectrum are observed in the vicinity of the impingement location. A significant amount of the disturbance energy is diverted into the free stream leading to large coefficients of projection for the slow and fast acoustic branches while contributions to the entropy and vorticity branches are negligible. In addition to the continuous acoustic spectra, the first-, second- and other higher-order Mack modes are activated and provide large contributions to the disturbance flow field inside the boundary layer. Finally, it is demonstrated that the disturbance flow field in the vicinity of the impingement location can be reconstructed with a maximum relative error of 2.3 % by employing a theoretical biorthogonal eigenfunction system expansion and by considering contributions from fast and slow acoustic waves and at most four discrete modes only.
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 17
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 46-48: Chapter 46: Is chiefly devoted to matters of business, and the temporal advantage of Dodson and Fogg -- Mr. Winkle re-appears under extraordinary circumstances; and Mr. Pickwick's benevolence proves stronger than his obstinacy Chapter 47: Relates how Mr. Pickwick, with the assistance of Samuel Weller, essayed to soften the heart of Mr. Benjamin Allen, and to mollify the wrath of Mr. Robert Sawyer Chapter 48: Containing the story of the bagman's uncle
Οράματα και διαπραγματεύσεις του χώρου της Αθήνας (1833-1835): πρωτεύουσα-πολεοδομία-αρχαιότητες
Creators: name: Κουτσού, Παγώνα Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Πρόσληψη του κλασικού
Αποικιοποίηση
Ιστορία των ιδεών
Classical reception
Colonization
History of ideas

description: Στη μελέτη διερευνάται η πρόσληψη του κλασικού στην Αθήνα και τα έτη 1833-1835 στα πεδία του ορισμού της σε πρωτεύουσα του νεοελληνικού κράτους, της παραγωγή του χώρου της ως πρωτεύουσας και της συγκρότησης μίας αλληλοπροσδιοριστικής σχέσης μεταξύ της Αθήνας και των κλασικών αρχαιοτήτων. Κέντρο αποτελεί η έννοια της «παραγωγής του χώρου» (Lefebvre) σύμφωνα με την οποία ο χώρος αποτελεί συνεχώς διακύβευμα σχέσεων εξουσίας. Η υπόθεση ότι η διαμόρφωση του χώρου της Αθήνας την περίοδο 1833-1835 είναι έκφραση της διαπραγμάτευσης (negotiation) διακριτών συμφερόντων και οραμάτων για τον αθηναϊκό τόπο διερευνάται μέσα από πρωτογενή κείμενα της περιόδου (Τύπος, «αρχιτεκτονικοί λόγοι» των Κλεάνθη και Schaubert και του Klenze που συνοδεύουν τα πολεοδομικά τους οράματα, περιηγητική λογοτεχνία, νόμοι κ.λπ.). Αναζητούμε στις κειμενικές αναπαραστάσεις του χώρου της Αθήνας ιδεολογίες και αντιπαραθέσεις που εμπεριέχονται στον χώρο ως μνημεία και πολεοδομικές διαμορφώσεις και αφορούν τη σχέση της πόλης με το κλασικό παρελθόν, το οθωμανικό παρόν και το μέλλον της. Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, χρησιμοποιούμε τη μεταφορά του παλίμψηστου για να «διαβάσουμε» πώς η βαυαρική νεοκλασική παρέμβαση επιχειρεί να σβήσει τον οθωμανικό πολεοδομικό χαρακτήρα, και αυτή με τη σειρά της αναδιαμορφώνεται από τα συμφέροντα των ιδιοκτητών και τοπικές ιδιομορφίες. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι η αλληλεπίδραση μεταξύ των διαφορετικών γραφών και η ανάγνωσή τους στην πόλη-παλίμψηστο.
description: The study investigates the reception of the classic in Athens and the years 1833-1835 in the fields of its definition as the capital of the modern Greek state, the production of its space as the capital and the establishment of a mutually defining relationship between Athens and classical antiquities. The theoretical key is the concept of "production of space" (Lefebvre) according to which space is constantly at stake in power relations. The hypothesis that the configuration of Athens in the period 1833-1835 is an expression of the negotiation of distinct interests and visions for the Athenian place is explored through primary texts of the period (press, "architectural discourse" by Cleanthes and Schaubert and Klenze which accompanying their urban visions, travel literature, laws, etc.). We explore in the textual representations of the space of Athens ideologies and controversies that are contained in the space as monuments and urban planning and concern the relationship of the city with its classic past, the Ottoman present and its future. In this context, we use the metaphor of the palimpsest to "read" how the Bavarian neoclassical intervention attempts to erase the Ottoman urban character, and this in turn is reshaped by the interests of the owners and local peculiarities. The result is the interaction between the different scriptures and their reading in the city-palimpsest.
Reactions of coal and model compounds with carbon monoxide and water
Creators: name: Stray., Gavan Joseph
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Routh reduction and Cartan mechanics
Creators: name: Capriotti, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D20, 37J35, 37J15, 70H33

description: In the present work a Cartan mechanics version for Routh reduction is considered, as an intermediate step toward Routh reduction in field theory. Motivation for this generalization comes from an scheme for integrable systems [12], used for understanding the occurrence of Toda field theories in so called Hamiltonian reduction of WZNW field theories [11]. As a way to accomplish with this intermediate aim, this article also contains a formulation of the Lagrangian Adler-Kostant-Symes systems discussed in [12] in terms of Routh reduction.
description: 46 pages, comments are welcome. Version 2 contains an additional section concerning reduced equations of motion in quasicoordinates
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 12
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 32-33: Chapter 32: Mr. Weller the elder delivers some critical sentiments respecting literary composition; and, assisted by his son Samuel, pays a small installment of retaliation to the account of the Reverend gentleman with the red nose Chapter 33: Is wholly devoted to a full and faithful report of the memorable trial of Bardell against Pickwick
Computational complexity of evolutionary algorithms, hybridizations, and swarm intelligence
Creators: name: Sudholt, Dirk
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computational complexity
subject: theory
subject: probabilistic analysis
subject: evolutionary algorithms
subject: hybridization
subject: swarm intelligence
subject: 004

description: Bio-inspired randomized search heuristics such as evolutionary algorithms, hybridizations with local search, and swarm intelligence are very popular among practitioners as they can be applied in case the problem is not well understood or when there is not enough knowledge, time, or expertise to design problem-specific algorithms. Evolutionary algorithms simulate the natural evolution of species by iteratively applying evolutionary operators such as mutation, recombination, and selection to a set of solutions for a given problem. A recent trend is to hybridize evolutionary algorithms with local search to refine newly constructed solutions by hill climbing. Swarm intelligence comprises ant colony optimization as well as particle swarm optimization. These modern search paradigms rely on the collective intelligence of many single agents to find good solutions for the problem at hand. Many empirical studies demonstrate the usefulness of these heuristics for a large variety of problems, but a thorough understanding is still far away. We regard these algorithms from the perspective of theoretical computer science and analyze the random time these heuristics need to optimize pseudo-Boolean problems. This is done in a mathematically rigorous sense, using tools known from the analysis of randomized algorithms, and it leads to asymptotic bounds on their computational complexity. This approach has been followed successfully for evolutionary algorithms, but the theory of hybrid algorithms and swarm intelligence is still in its very infancy. Our results shed light on the asymptotic performance of these heuristics, increase our understanding of their dynamic behavior, and contribute to a rigorous theoretical foundation of randomized search heuristics.
Biologisch aktive Heterozyklen
Creators: name: Buchgraber, Philipp
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Heterocyclen
subject: Niedervalentes Titan
subject: Berkelic Acid
subject: Berkelsäure
subject: Naturstoffsynthese
subject: Strukturaufklärung
subject: 540

description: Low-valent titanium reagents, [Ti], have proven to be useful for heterocycle synthesis. In this thesis a [Ti] induced cascade reaction for the construction of biologically interesting [2,3]- annulated carbazole derivatives from polycarbonyl compounds is described. Furthermore, the reaction of 2,2´-biaryl ketoesters to form 9-phenanthrenol derivatives is reported. This transformation, however, is limited to aryl ketones to ensure high yields. Besides 2,2´-biaryl ketoesters, ketoacids, -amides, -cyanides and a -phthalimide reacted readily to the desired phenanthrene derivatives. Only an acid fluoride derivative reacted to afford a phenanthrenol rather than the desired 9-fluorophenanthrene. The second part focuses on the total synthesis of berkelic acid, a tetracyclic spiroketal natural product from an antropogenic source. A convergent synthesis furnished the tetracyclic core of berkelic acid via a 1,4-addition / thermodynamic acetalization cascade, thereby demonstrating the thermodynamic lability of this spiroketal. Careful analysis of NMR data, and the unexpected acid lability, led to the preparation of a diastereomer of the proposed structure. This stable diastereomer confirms the revision of relative configuration of the tetracyclic core of berkelic acid.
Dietary intake of total, animal and plant proteins and the risk of coronary heart disease and hypertension: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
Creators: name: Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad
name: Jayedi, Ahmad
name: Jalilpiran, Yahya
name: Hajishafiee, Maryam
name: Aminianfar, Azadeh
name: Esmaillzadeh, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous findings assessing the association between long-term protein intake and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are inconsistent. This study aimed to summarize previous investigations on the association between total, animal and plant proteins intake and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and hypertension (HTN) in adults. Related papers were found by searching through PubMed/Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar up to April 2020. Prospective cohort studies examined the association between consumption of the dietary protein from different sources and the risk of CHD and HTN in general population, were included. The random-effects model was used to pool the reported relative risks (RR). Dose-response associations were modeled by restricted cubic splines. Thirteen prospective studies, in total, including 547,303 participants- 11,590 cases with total CHD and 5,620 with HTN- were included. Dietary intake of total protein was not significantly associated with the risk of total CHD (RR: 0.97; 95%CI: 0.90-1.05) and HTN (RR: 1.01; 95% CI: 0.90-1.14). Moreover, consumption of both dietary plant and animal protein was not related to the risk of total CHD and HTN. Dose-response analysis indicated that the risk of CHD and HTN did not change significantly with increasing dietary total protein intake from 10% to 25% of total calorie intake. Dietary protein intake from different sources had no significant association with risk of CHD and HTN. Further high-quality research is needed to examine the potential mechanistic links between dietary protein intake and health outcomes.
Bloch-Lorentz magnetoresistance oscillations in delafossites
Creators: name: Vilkelis, Kostas
name: Wang, Lin
name: Akhmerov, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements of the out-of-plane magnetoresistance of delafossites (PdCoO$_2$ and PtCoO$_2$) observed oscillations closely resembling the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Here, we show that the magnetoresistance oscillations are explained by the Bloch-like oscillations of the out-of-plane electron trajectories. We develop a semiclassical theory of these Bloch-Lorentz oscillations and show that they are a consequence of the ballistic motion and quasi-2D dispersion of delafossites. Our model identifies the sample wall scattering to be the most likely factor limiting the visibility of these Bloch-Lorentz oscillations in existing experiments.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield, the younger, no. 15
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Issued monthly from May, 1849 to November 1850 in blue paper wrappers. Chapters 44-46: Chapter 44. Our housekeeping -- Chapter 45. Mr. Dick fulfills my aunt's prediction -- Chapter 46. Intelligence
Geant4 simulation of the moderating neutrons spectrum
Creators: name: Smolyar, V. P.
name: Tarasov, V. A.
name: Mileva, A. O.
name: Tykhonov, A. V.
name: Rusov, V. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we deal with the problem of predicting a steady-state neutron spectrum in media of arbitrary composition and geometry. The analytical calculations of such spectrum are often too complex, if at all possible. We describe a method of Geant4-based Monte Carlo calculation of the steady-state neutron spectrum in a medium containing a fixed neutron source. In addition to the steady-state spectrum, we obtain the snapshots of the neutron spectrum evolution in time, which may be thought of as the non-equilibrium neutron spectra, and their form is of considerable interest for further studies.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures; v2: Revised and extended, 23 pages, 13 figures; v3: more concise and focused revision, 22 pages, 13 figures; v4: revised text, new comparison added to Fig.13, 24 pages, 13 figures
Agreement and Concordance Regarding Fertility Intention and Family Planning Utilization Between Married Couples in Dukem Town,Oromia Special Zone.
Creators: name: Wegi, Chala
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: Background Traditionally, women have been the main respondents for the most of knowledge, attitude and practice survey related to family planning, contraceptive prevalence, demographic and health surveys and the like. The role of men has been limited especially in Africa where as men are the primary decision-makers of most reproductive issues including family planning. However, it has been now realized that programs that exclusively focus on either men or women may fail because most sexual, family planning, and child bearing decision are made or may potentially be able to be made by both partners together. Thus it is important to interview both husband and wives when ascertaining family planning attitudes and most other reproductive health research. Objective To assess the level of agreement and concordance regarding fertility intention and contraceptive use between married couples. Methodology A community based cross sectional survey was conducted on 422 married couple"s in Dukem town which were selected by using systematic random sampling method. Both quantitative and qualitative method was employed. Data pertaining to fertility intentions and contraception was collected and the level of agreement (kappa statistics) between husbands and wives was computed. Result The observed concordance was 71.6% for ideal family size, 94.9% for contraceptive attitude, 95.9% for fertility desire, and 99.7% for report of number of currently living children. The unadjusted kappa statistic varied from a relatively low of 0.61(p<=0.000) for contraceptive attitude to high of 0.99(P<=0.000) for number of living children, for ideal family size 0.63(P<=0.000), fertility desire 0.91(P<=0.000), ever use of contraceptive 0.84(P<=0.000) and current use of contraceptive 0.87(P<=0.000) having kappa values in between. Overall greater degree of agreement was observed for reproductive health events as compared to family planning attitudes and intentions. Conclusion Overall, a greater degree of agreement was observed for reproductive health events as compared to family planning attitudes and intentions. The latter are more subjective outcomes and can be expected to vary among spouses. Thus, we can infer that for reproductive health events, wives responses can be taken as proxy for the couple"s response but for family planning attitudes and intentions there is a need to collect information both from husbands and wives.
Scale Invariant Dynamics and Universal Quantum Beats in Bose Gases
Creators: name: Maki, Jeff
name: Jiang, Shao-Jian
name: Zhou, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the signature of scale invariance in the far-from-equilibrium quantum dynamics of two dimensional Bose gases. We show that the density profile displays a scale invariant logarithmic singularity near the center. In addition, the density oscillates due to quantum beats with universal structures. Namely, the frequencies of the beats can be connected with one another by a universal discrete scale transformation induced by the scale invariance. The experimental applicability of these results is then discussed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, no. 05
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Men--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1016037
subject: Manners and customs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1007815

description: Tells the story of Samuel Pickwick, a good natured elderly gentleman, president of the Pickwick Club. With three other members of the club, Pickwick travels around the English countryside, where he becomes caught up in a series of comic adventures, and romantic and legal misunderstandings. Although light in tone, the novel foreshadows the social concerns that would emerge in Dickens' later work. Issued monthly from April 1836 to November 1837. Chapters 12-14: Chapter 12: Descriptive of a very important proceeding on the part of Mr. Pickwick; no less an epoch in his life than in this history Chapter 13: Some account of Eatanswill; of the state of parties therein; and of the election of a member to serve in parliament for that ancient, loyal, and patriotic borough Chapter 14: Comprising a brief description of the company at the Peacock assembled; and a tale told by a bagman
Reactions of some [alpha]-carbonyl [pi]-allylpalladium complexes with nucleopiles
Creators: name: Strauss., Jürgen Ulrich Günther
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield, the younger, no. 09
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Issued monthly from May, 1849 to November 1850 in blue paper wrappers. Chapters 25-27: Chapter 25. Good and bad angels -- Chapter 26. I fall into captivity -- Chapter 27. Tommy Traddles
Hierarchy of Influences on Tanzanian Journalists’ Ethical Orientation
Creators: name: Bilau, Olaolu Ismael Moshood
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Αντιληπτές επιρροές
Ιεραρχία επιρροής
Ηθικός προσανατολισμός·
Perceived influences
Hierarchy of influence
Ethical orientation

description: This study draws attention to the influences on African journalists. It identifies the dominant influences on journalistic work in Tanzania and attempts to understand how these forces shape the ethical orientation of Tanzanian journalists. Using secondary data from the Media Ownership Study in Tanzania and the Worlds of Journalism survey of 272 Tanzanian journalists, the study adopts a content analysis approach to examine the hierarchical structure of the influences Tanzanian journalists perceive. It also evaluates how these influences impact journalism practice in the country. Organizational and procedural influences proved the strongest. The political influence exerted moderate impact while personal and economic factors were less influential. Big, private, commercial media organizations and state-run media hinder journalists’ independence and seem to be working against the public interest. There is a need for fundamental changes to the approaches and underlying assumptions about media ownership and financing in Africa. Tanzanian journalists and their counterparts in other African countries could achieve more by cultivating a higher sense of personal and social responsibility.
description: Αυτή η μελέτη επικεντρώνεται στις επιρροές των Αφρικανών δημοσιογράφων. Προσδιορίζει τις κυρίαρχες επιρροές στο δημοσιογραφικό έργο στην Τανζανία και επιχειρεί να κατανοήσει πώς αυτές οι δυνάμεις διαμορφώνουν τον ηθικό προσανατολισμό των Τανζανών δημοσιογράφων. Χρησιμοποιώντας δευτερεύοντα δεδομένα από τη Μελέτη Ιδιοκτησίας Μέσων στην Τανζανία και την έρευνα Worlds of Journalism σε 272 Τανζανούς δημοσιογράφους, η μελέτη υιοθετεί μια προσέγγιση ανάλυσης περιεχομένου για να εξετάσει την ιεραρχική δομή των επιρροών που αντιλαμβάνονται οι δημοσιογράφοι της Τανζανίας. Αξιολογεί επίσης πώς αυτές οι επιρροές επηρεάζουν τη δημοσιογραφική πρακτική στη χώρα. Οι οργανωτικές και διαδικαστικές επιρροές αποδείχθηκαν οι ισχυρότερες. Η πολιτική επιρροή άσκησε μέτριο αντίκτυπο ενώ προσωπικοί και οικονομικοί παράγοντες είχαν μικρότερη επιρροή. Μεγάλοι, ιδιωτικοί, εμπορικοί οργανισμοί μέσων ενημέρωσης και κρατικά μέσα ενημέρωσης εμποδίζουν την ανεξαρτησία των δημοσιογράφων και φαίνεται να λειτουργούν ενάντια στο δημόσιο συμφέρον. Υπάρχει ανάγκη για θεμελιώδεις αλλαγές στις προσεγγίσεις και τις υποκείμενες υποθέσεις σχετικά με την ιδιοκτησία των μέσων ενημέρωσης και χρηματοδότησης στην Αφρική. Οι δημοσιογράφοι της Τανζανίας και οι ομόλογοί τους σε άλλες Αφρικανικές χώρες θα μπορούσαν να επιτύχουν περισσότερα καλλιεργώντας ένα υψηλότερο αίσθημα προσωπικής και κοινωνικής ευθύνης.
Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Emergency Contraception Among Secondary, Preparatory and Technical & Vocational School Female Students in Maichew Town, Southern Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kebede, Abebe
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2009

description: Background: Emergency contraception refers to type of contraception that is used as an emergency procedure to prevent unintended pregnancy following an unprotected act of sexual intercourse. Every year, unintended pregnancies lead to at least 20 million unsafe abortions, resulting in the death of some 70,000 women. There is low utilization of emergency contraception, while awareness is relatively high. Objective: To assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on emergency contraception and factors influencing knowledge, attitude and practice. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from February to March 2009. There were a total of 1091 Eligible female students (age 18 & above) in the three schools of Maichew town. Six hundred twenty three of them were sampled for the study. Self administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Result: About 15.7 % of respondents are sexually active. Forty eight percent of them were faced forced sex and unwanted pregnancy was 38.1% for those who practiced sex. From 623 respondents 285 (45.8%) have knowledge about emergency contraception; Correct timing of emergency contraception was reported only by 85 (13.6%) and 18 (2.8%) of them had ever used emergency contraception. Health professionals were main source of information 228 (80.0%) and About 178 (62.4%) of the respondents had favorable attitude towards the use of emergency contraception. Conclusion: There is high rate of unintended (forced) sex; low knowledge, attitude and utilization of emergency contraceptives among Secondary, Preparatory and TVET school female students and no favorable access to the service. Hence there is a need for collaborated effort to improve knowledge, Attitude and utilization of contraceptive methods including emergency contraception to prevent female students from life threatening behaviors and strengthening the schools reproductive health clubs by the school & the woreda health office jointly.
Das kulturelle Bild türkischer Migranten in der schulischen Literaturreflexion der Primarstufe betrachtet auf der Folie morgenländischer Imagination
Creators: name: Kalkavan, Zeynep
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Türkische Kultur
subject: Türkei
subject: Migranten
subject: Märchen
subject: Kurzgeschichten
subject: Deutsch als Zweitsprache
subject: Interkulturalität
subject: Grundschule
subject: Islam
subject: Literaturdidaktik
subject: Linguistik
subject: Primarstufe
subject: Literaturwissenschaft
subject: 430

description: Die Dissertation wurde nachträglich im Verlag Dr. Kovac unter dem Titel "Spuren türkischer Kultur in Texten für die Primarstufe" unter der ISBN 978-3-8300-4048-4 veröffentlicht.
H παραβίαση εμπάργκο ως οικονομικό έγκλημα. Θεωρία και πράξη
Creators: name: Ζούνης, Κωνσταντίνος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εμπάργκο
Oικονομικό-οργανωμένο έγκλημα
Τρομοκρατία
Embargo
Εconomic-organized crime
Terrorism

description: Διεθνείς Οργανισμοί και κράτη επιβάλλουν για πολιτικοοικονομικές σκοπιμότητες εμπάργκο, στο πλαίσιο των οποίων ανθεί το διασυνοριακό, οργανωμένο, οικονομικό έγκλημα σε συρροή πολλάκις με τη διαφθορά, το λαθρεμπόριο, την τρομοκρατία και εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας. Η παρούσα μελέτη αποσκοπεί στο να εξετάσει την νομιμότητα των εμπάργκο υπό το πρίσμα του διεθνούς δικαίου, την ατομική ποινική ευθύνη που επιφέρει η παραβίασή τους και τους μηχανισμούς που αναπτύσσει η διεθνής κοινότητα για την πάταξη της σχετικής παραβατικότητας για την οποία οι εμπλεκόμενοι παίκτες χρησιμοποιούν διαρκώς εξελισσόμενες μεθόδους, με το δίδυμο πάντως αποτελεσματικότητα των εμπάργκο-προστασία των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων διαρκώς να τελεί σε συγκρουσιακή σχέση.
description: International Organizations and states impose embargoes for politico-economic expediencies in the framework of which flourishes cross-border, organized, economic crime often in conjunction with smuggling, corruption, terrorism and, crimes against humanity. The current study aims to examine the legitimacy of embargoes in the light of international law, the individual criminal liability that brings their violation and the mechanisms implemented by the international community to combat the relevant delinquency for which the players involved use constantly sophisticated methods with the duality however effectiveness of embargos-protection of human rights constantly being in a conflictual relationship
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Νομικής (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης)
Ein Aufbau für Röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung an Protein-Lösungen an der Synchrotronstrahlungsquelle DELTA
Creators: name: Krywka, Christina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: SAXS
subject: Protein
subject: Synchrotron
subject: Hochdruck
subject: Denaturierung
subject: Lysozym
subject: Insulin
subject: Staphylokokken Nuclease
subject: 530

description: AAn der Vielzweck-Beamline BL9 der Dortmunder Elektronenspeicherringanlage DELTA wurde ein neuer Aufbau zur Messung der Röntgenkleinwinkelstreuung (Small Angle X-Ray Scattering, SAXS) an flüssigen Proben entwickelt und aufgebaut. Dieser ermöglicht Messungen sowohl unter Normalbedingungen als auch unter für biologische Systeme extremen Bedingungen, wie unter erhöhter oder erniedrigter Temperatur (-15°C bis +100°C), sowie unter Hochdruck von bis zu 7000 bar. Mit Hilfe des neuen Aufbaus wurden Messungen an wässrigen Lösungen der Proteine Lysozym, Insulin und Staphylokokken Nuclease (SNase) durchgeführt und um zusätzliche Messungen an externen Strahlungsquellen ergänzt. Die an Lysozym- und Insulinlösungen durchgeführten Messungen ermöglichten eine ausführliche Charakterisierung der Lösungsstruktur der jeweiligen Proteine. Darüber hinaus erfolgte eine Analyse der intermolekularen Wechselwirkungen zwischen den gelösten Proteinmolekülen, sowohl in puren Lösungen als auch in Anwesenheit von Cosolventien (Natriumchlorid, Trifluoroethanol, Glyzerin und Ethanol). Die Messungen an Lösungen des Proteins SNase wurden mit dem Ziel durchgeführt, die Einflüsse von Cosolventien (Urea, Sorbitol, Glyzerin, Kaliumsulfat, Trifluoroethanol und Trimethylamin-N-oxid) auf die druck- und temperaturinduzierte Denaturierung des Proteins zu bestimmen.
New chromophoric systems based on 2H̲-pyrrole 1-oxides
Creators: name: Strauch., Richard John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Variational principles and symmetries on fibered multisymplectic manifolds
Creators: name: Gaset, Jordi
name: Prieto-Martínez, Pedro D.
name: Román-Roy, Narciso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70S10, 70S05, 70H50, 49S05, 53D42, 55R10

description: The standard techniques of variational calculus are geometrically stated in the ambient of fiber bundles endowed with a (pre)multisymplectic structure. Then, for the corresponding variational equations, conserved quantities (or, what is equivalent, conservation laws), symmetries, Cartan (Noether) symmetries, gauge symmetries and different versions of Noether's theorem are studied in this ambient. In this way, this constitutes a general geometric framework for all these topics that includes, as special cases, first and higher order field theories and (non-autonomous) mechanics.
description: 16 pp. Some (minor) mistakes and misprints have been corrected, mainly on pages 3, 12, and 14