cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extraction and Characterization of Chitin and Chitosan from Invasive Alien Swimming Crab Charybdis longicollis
Creators: name: Doğdu, Servet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Chitosan is a biocompatible, biodegradable, non-toxic, antibacterial, antioxidant, and antifungal natural polymer. In this study, chitin was chemically isolated from the exoskeleton of invasive swimming crab Charybdis longicollis. Demineralization, deproteinization, and decolourization steps were applied to the samples to obtain chitin. Chitosan was prepared from the isolated chitin by deacetylation at high temperatures. The chemical composition of crab skeleton, from which chitin and chitosan were extracted, was characterized with FTIR analysis. The yield of chitin extraction from dry crab shells was 25.78 %. The yield of chitosan produced from extracted chitin was 80.23 %. Solubility, water uptake, and oil uptake analyses were performed to determine the physicochemical and functional properties of the produced chitosan. The experimental analyses revealed that the obtained chitosan can be used as a biomaterial in tissue engineering applications.
Semantic Pyramid for Image Generation
Creators: name: Shocher, Assaf
name: Gandelsman, Yossi
name: Mosseri, Inbar
name: Yarom, Michal
name: Irani, Michal
name: Freeman, William T.
name: Dekel, Tali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel GAN-based model that utilizes the space of deep features learned by a pre-trained classification model. Inspired by classical image pyramid representations, we construct our model as a Semantic Generation Pyramid -- a hierarchical framework which leverages the continuum of semantic information encapsulated in such deep features; this ranges from low level information contained in fine features to high level, semantic information contained in deeper features. More specifically, given a set of features extracted from a reference image, our model generates diverse image samples, each with matching features at each semantic level of the classification model. We demonstrate that our model results in a versatile and flexible framework that can be used in various classic and novel image generation tasks. These include: generating images with a controllable extent of semantic similarity to a reference image, and different manipulation tasks such as semantically-controlled inpainting and compositing; all achieved with the same model, with no further training.
د. علي عماد محمد ازهر
Creators: name: imad, drali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150203 Financial Institutions (incl. Banking)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150307 Innovation and Technology Management

description: علي عماد محمد ازهر - جامعة الشرق الاوكرانية فلاديمير دالرسالة الماجستير - قسم المحاسبة 2007
Innowacyjność turystyki wiejskiej na przykładzie kantonu Ticino w Szwajcarii
INNOVATION OF RURAL TOURISM ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TICINO CANTON IN SWITZERLAND
Creators: name: Roman, Michał
name: Roman, Michał
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Szwajcaria
subject: Ticino

description: The aim of the paper was to present innovative solutions in rural tourism, including agritourism in the Switzerland – Canton of Ticino. The attractiveness of sustainable tourism was highlighted in the context of regional development and socio-cultural values of rural areas. The study used the data from Travel Market Switzerland and the information collected during a study trip in May 2015 to the Canton of Ticino in Switzerland from workers Unione Contadini Ticinesi. Innovation of rural tourism in the region of Ticino depends on creation of offers that the prospective client can choose from, for example: rural museums, craft museums, occupational therapy services including ippotherapy, apitherapy, herbal medicine, special diets for tourists, beauty farm as well as a mini-spa, nature trails, agrizoo/agrisafari.
To detect the looped Bloch bands of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Creators: name: Choi, Dae-Il
name: Wu, Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A loop structure was predicted to exist in the Bloch bands of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices recently in [{\it Wu and Niu, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 61}, 023402 (2000)}]. We discuss how to detect experimentally the looped band with an accelerating optical lattice through extensive and realistic numerical simulations. We find that the loop can be detected through observing either nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling or destruction of Bloch oscillations.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Physics Letters A
Disentangling the Cosmic Web Towards FRB 190608
Creators: name: Simha, Sunil
name: Burchett, Joseph N.
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Chittidi, Jay S.
name: Elek, Oskar
name: Tejos, Nicolas
name: Jorgenson, Regina
name: Bannister, Keith W.
name: Bhandari, Shivani
name: Day, Cherie K.
name: Deller, Adam T.
name: Forbes, Angus G.
name: Macquart, Jean-Pierre
name: Ryder, Stuart D.
name: Shannon, Ryan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FRB 190608 was detected by ASKAP and localized to a spiral galaxy at $z_{host}=0.11778$ in the SDSS footprint. The burst has a large dispersion measure ($DM_{FRB}=339.8$ $pc/cm^3$) compared to the expected cosmic average at its redshift. It also has a large rotation measure ($RM_{FRB}=353$ $rad/m^2$) and scattering timescale ($τ=3.3$ $ms$ at $1.28$ $GHz$). Chittidi et al (2020) perform a detailed analysis of the ultraviolet and optical emission of the host galaxy and estimate the host DM contribution to be $110\pm 37$ $pc/cm^3$. This work complements theirs and reports the analysis of the optical data of galaxies in the foreground of FRB 190608 to explore their contributions to the FRB signal. Together, the two manuscripts delineate an observationally driven, end-to-end study of matter distribution along an FRB sightline; the first study of its kind. Combining KCWI observations and public SDSS data, we estimate the expected cosmic dispersion measure $DM_{cosmic}$ along the sightline to FRB 190608. We first estimate the contribution of hot, ionized gas in intervening virialized halos ($DM_{halos} \approx 7-28$ $pc/cm^3$). Then, using the Monte Carlo Physarum Machine (MCPM) methodology, we produce a 3D map of ionized gas in cosmic web filaments and compute the DM contribution from matter outside halos ($DM_{IGM} \approx 91-126$ $pc/cm^3$). This implies a greater fraction of ionized gas along this sightline is extant outside virialized halos. We also investigate whether the intervening halos can account for the large FRB rotation measure and pulse width and conclude that it is implausible. Both the pulse broadening and the large Faraday rotation likely arise from the progenitor environment or the host galaxy.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. The full version of Table 1 is available as a LaTeX file. Only the first 10 entries are present in the print version. Submitted to ApJ
title: Gorodetzky, Charles interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Charles W. Gorodetzky, M.D., Ph.D., conducted clinical research in drug metabolism and kinetics at the Lexington Narcotics Hospital for more than twenty years. Arriving at Lexington in 1963 after graduating from medical school, Gorodetzky then pursued a Ph.D. in pharmacology at the University of Kentucky, with William (Bill) Martin serving as his dissertation advisor. In his interview, Gorodetzky reflects on the intellectual climate at Lexington, the wide range of research conducted, the ethical questions involved, and the Lexington Narcotics Hospital within the nexus of government, industry, and academia. Among his many contributions was the development of innovative experimental designs for clinical research. As deputy director and then scientific director of the Addiction Research Center, he oversaw the conclusion of the research program at Lexington during the early 1980s. He served on the FDA’s Drug Abuse Advisory Committee from 1978-83. Dr. Gorodetzky then worked as an external consultant for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and took a series of positions in industry, where he continued his research in substance abuse treatment and smoking cessation. Dr. Gorodetzky is now retired. Source: Transcript
Continuous averaging in dynamical systems
Creators: name: Treschev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58F

description: The method of continuous averaging can be regarded as a combination of the Lie method, where a change of coordinates is constructed as a shift along solutions of a differential equation and the Neishtadt method, well-known in perturbation theory for ODE in the presence of exponentially small effects. This method turns out to be very effective in the analysis of one- and multi-frequency averaging, exponentially small separatrix splitting and in the problem of an inclusion of an analytic diffeomorphism into an analytic flow. We discuss general features of the method as well as the applications.
A Longitudinal Assessment of Head Injuries as a Source of Acquired Neuropsychological Deficits and the Implications for Criminal Persistence
Creators: name: Schwartz, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Few studies have identified factors that may promote criminal persistence. One such influence may be acquired neuropsychological deficits, or subtle changes to brain structure or functioning stemming from detrimental experiences. Head injuries represent one source of acquired neuropsychological deficits that have been linked to increased levels of offending and are differentially concentrated within justice involved populations. Making use of the Pathways to Desistance study (1,336 individuals across 84 months), this study examines the impact of head injuries on criminal persistence. The results of multilevel longitudinal models revealed that within-individual changes in head injury were associated with increases in self-reported offending, and violent offending in particular. A less consistent pattern was observed for arrest and nonviolent offending, indicating that head injury may differentially impact specific forms of criminal persistence. These results provide preliminary evidence suggesting acquired neuropsychological deficits, and head injuries more directly, result in prolonged periods of criminal persistence.
Polskie rodzinne gospodarstwa rolne jako podmioty biogospodarki
POLISH FAMILY FARMS AS THE SUBJECTS OF BIOECONOMY
Creators: name: Ryś-Jurek, Roma
name: Ryś-Jurek, Roma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: rodzinne gospodarstwo rolne
subject: biogospodarka

description: The objective of this research was to determine the role of the Polish family farms as active entities of the bioeconomy sector, which eliminates the negative effects of production on the environment. Farms seems to be those entities, that for a long time practise these assumptions by a close relationship with nature, working with living organisms, etc. The condition of the continuation of their business is getting a positive family farm income and keeping the profitable production. The study was based on FADN data and calculations were made according to the criterion of economic size and production type in Poland on the background of the EU average in the years 2004-2013. Studies have shown, that in Poland the medium and large farms, regardless of the type of production, have the best conditions for the conducting of the bioeconomy.
The role of relaxin in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Thompson, Vanessa Camille
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer in men, and there is currently a lack of novel treatment options for this disease. Relaxin, part of the insulin superfamily, is a potent peptide hormone normally produced and secreted by the human prostate. cDNA and tissue microarray analyses, indicated that relaxin is highly overexpressed in prostate cancer progression to androgen independence (AI), and is negatively regulated by androgens. Characterization of the relaxin receptor, LGR7, in xenografts and human patient tissue microarrays (TMAs) indicated that LGR7 is expressed in the stroma and epithelia, suggesting that relaxin may act in an autocrine and/or paracrine fashion. Relaxin is known to increase angiogenesis through upregulation of vascular endothelial growth factor, and matrix metalloproteases. To elucidate novel pathways that may be upregulated by relaxin in prostate cancer, the effects of relaxin overexpression in the LNCaP prostate cancer xenograft model were analysed by gene expression microarrays. A novel discovery is that the protocadherinY (PCDHY)/Wnt pathway is upregulated by relaxin, resulting in β-catenin translocation from the cell membrane to the cytoplasm and upregulation of Wnt11, which can stimulate proliferation, transformation, and migration. Relaxin is well characterized in the uterus and ovary to increase insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I); relaxin may also increase IGF-I in prostate cancer. Since IGF-I and various other growth factor signaling is mediated by insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS-2), and IGF-I signaling is important in prostate cancer progression to AI, we investigated the role of IRS-2 in LNCaP cells. IRS-2 mRNA is dramatically upregulated by androgens, and decreased by IGF-I in androgen treated cells. IRS-2 was knocked down using IRS-2 siRNA to explore the interaction between the IGF axis and androgen signalling. Combined IGF-I and androgen treatment reduced transcription of androgen regulated genes, prostate specific antigen, insulin degrading enzyme, vascular endothelial growth factor, and clusterin. This indicates that in the presence of IGF-I treatment, IRS-2 mRNA is required for normal androgen mediated transcription. Due to the potential for relaxin to induce proliferation and metastases, and the necessity of IRS-2 to mediate androgen action, relaxin and IRS-2 are intriguing targets for novel, targeted therapeutics for prostate cancer.
Purity estimation with separable measurements
Creators: name: Bagan, E.
name: Ballester, M. A.
name: Munoz-Tapia, R.
name: Romero-Isart, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a large number N of copies of a qubit state of which we wish to estimate its purity, we prove that separable-measurement protocols can be as efficient as the optimal joint-measurement one if classical communication is used. This shows that the optimal estimation of the entanglement of a two-qubit state can also be achieved asymptotically with fully separable measurements. Thus, quantum memories provide no advantage in this situation. The relationship between our global Bayesian approach and the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is discussed.
description: Abridged version of quant-ph/0505083, to appear in PRL
title: Sexual behaviour and sexual selection in newts
Creators: name: Verrell, Paul A.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1983

description: This thesis reports an investigation of the influence of sexual selection on the sexual behaviour of the European smooth newt, Triturus vulgaris, and of the North American red-spotted newt, Notophthalmus Viridescens. Both belong to the family Salamandridae of the amphibian order Urodela. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of sexual selection, and those aspects of competition and mate choice relevant to newt sexual behaviour are discussed. In Chapter 2, observations and experiments are described which demonstrate inter male competition and mate choice in the smooth newt. Males interfere with one another's attempts to inseminate females, a form of competition known as sexual interference. Under certain conditions, males choose larger, more fecund females as mates, whereas females seem to prefer males reasonably well matched to themselves in body length. The extent to which females mate repeatedly is investigated. In Chapter 3, the sexual behaviour of the red-spotted newt in encounters between single males and females is described. Males adopt one of two types of courtship, depending on the initial responsiveness of the female partner. Using a form of sequence analysis, the male's behaviour is described, and aspects of it are interpreted in causal and functional terms. Data on the various costs and benefits associated with each type of courtship are presented. Chapter 4 investigates the influence of sexual selection on the behaviour of the red-spotted newt. The male is sensitive to the ambient sex ratio in his vicinity, and this ratio influences which type of courtship he undertakes. In competitive situations, males interfere with one another, sometimes in a manner similar to that observed in the smooth newt. In laboratory experiments, it is shown that males prefer larger, more fecund females as mates, and that females will mate with more than one male. Chapter 5 adopts a comparative approach. The results presented in this thesis are discussed in the context of other urodele amphibians and other animals with similarly complex sexual behaviour. The various types of sexual behaviour in both species of newt are considered as alternative mating strategies, and an attempt is made to classify them in terms of contemporary ideas concerning behavioural strategies. References are listed in Chapter 6.
The Volume Source Technique for flavor singlets: a second look
Creators: name: Farchioni, F.
name: Münster, G.
name: Peetz, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the Volume Source Technique (VST) for the determination of flavor singlet quantities on the lattice. We point out a difficulty arising in the case of fermions in real representations of the gauge group and propose an improved version of the method (IVST) based on random gauge transformations of the background configuration. We compare the performance of IVST with the method based on stochastic estimators (SET). We consider the case of the N=1 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory (SYM), where just one fermionic flavor is present, the gluino in the adjoint representation, and only flavor singlet states are possible. The work is part of an inclusive analysis of the spectrum of the lightest particles of the theory, based on the simulation of the model on a $16^3\cdot32$ lattice with dynamical gluinos in the Wilson scheme.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, some formulations changed
title: Griffiths, Roland interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His broad clinical and preclinical expertise is the application of behavioral pharmacology and behavioral analysis to a scientific investigation of mood-altering drugs. Areas of specialization include psychedelics and novel “club drugs”, caffeine self-administration, withdrawal and addiction, sedative self-administration and sedative effects, cigarette smoking and nicotine self-administration, alcohol self-administration, and baboon drug self-administration and drug discrimination. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. His research has been largely supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and he is author of over 400 journal articles and book chapters, and has trained more than 50 postdoctoral research fellows. He has been a consultant to the NIH, to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs, and as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. He has conducted extensive research with sedative-hypnotics, caffeine, and novel mood-altering drugs. In 1999 he initiated a research program investigating the effects of the classic psychedelic psilocybin that includes studies in healthy volunteers, in beginning and long-term meditators, and in religious leaders. Therapeutic studies with psilocybin include treatment of psychological distress in cancer patients, treatment of cigarette smoking cessation, and psilocybin treatment of major depression. Other studies have examined the effects of salvinorin A, dextromethorphan, and ketamine which produce altered states of consciousness having some similarities to psilocybin. Drug interaction studies and brain imaging studies (fMRI and PET) are examining pharmacological and neural mechanisms of action. The Hopkins laboratory has also conducted a series of internet survey studies characterizing various psychedelic experiences including those associated with acute and enduring adverse effects, mystical-type effects, entity and God-encounter experiences, and alleged positive changes in mental health. Source: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/roland-griffiths Accessed 07 June 2023. The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D. Professorship Fund https://griffithsfund.org/founder/ Accessed 07 June 2023.
Estimation of the Laser Frequency Nosie Spectrum by Continuous Dynamical Decoupling
Creators: name: Zhang, Manchao
name: Xie, Yi
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Wang, Weichen
name: Wu, Chunwang
name: Chen, Ting
name: Wu, Wei
name: Chen, Pingxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decoherence induced by the laser frequency noise is one of the most important obstacles in the quantum information processing. In order to suppress this decoherence, the noise power spectral density needs to be accurately characterized. In particular, the noise spectrum measurement based on the coherence characteristics of qubits would be a meaningful and still challenging method. Here, we theoretically analyze and experimentally obtain the spectrum of laser frequency noise based on the continuous dynamical decoupling technique. We first estimate the mixture-noise (including laser and magnetic noises) spectrum up to $(2π)$530 kHz by monitoring the transverse relaxation from an initial state $+X$, followed by a gradient descent data process protocol. Then the contribution from the laser noise is extracted by enconding the qubits on different Zeeman sublevels. We also investigate two sufficiently strong noise components by making an analogy between these noises and driving lasers whose linewidth assumed to be negligible. This method is verified experimentally and finally helps to characterize the noise.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Dinizia excelsa Ducke
Creators: name: Gorgens, Eric Bastos
name: Guedes, Marcelino
name: Da Silva, Diego Armando Silva
name: Robson Borges LIma
name: Machado, Evandro Luiz Mendonça
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: angelim
árvore gigante
amazônia

description: Dinizia excelsa Ducke (Fabaceae). Chega a medir 60 metros de altura, com até 3 metros de diâmetro. Tronco retilíneo com presença de sapopemas. A copa emergente acima do dossel da floresta. Na expedição Cupuxi, realizada em 2021, foi mapeada o maior indivíduo, com 85 metros. É a maior árvore do Brasil.
Mathematical results inspired by physics
Creators: name: Liu, Kefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D30, 57R91, 81T13, 81T30

description: I will discuss results of three different types in geometry and topology. (1) General vanishing and rigidity theorems of elliptic genera proved by using modular forms, Kac-Moody algebras and vertex operator algebras. (2) The computations of intersection numbers of the moduli spaces of flat connections on a Riemann surface by using heat kernels. (3) The mirror principle about counting curves in Calabi-Yau and general projective manifolds by using hypergeometric series.
title: The role of error factors in teaching
Creators: name: Pickthorne, Brian
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1979

description: This thesis describes a wide-ranging enquiry into the nature, identification and treatment of pupil error. It takes, as its main point of departure, the work of Harlow on the role of 'error factors' in learning and it was undertaken in the belief that educators could considerably enhance the effectiveness of their teaching by making more insightful appraisals of the learning obstacles, (or error factors) of their pupils. Harlow first introduced the concept of error factors following his research into 'learning set' formation. Lewis and Pask subsequently incorporated Harlow's ideas in their own work, 'and laid particular stress on the significance of error factors which give rise to whole classes of errors. The concept of error factors and the role of error factors in teaching, is examined in this thesis in both psychological and philosophical terms, because the two approaches are mutually illuminating. Despite scant literature in this sphere the entire topic is opened up to systematic examination. Hypotheses are presented concerning the role and nature of error factors, and novel strategies are proposed for treating them. A special diagnostic framework for error factors has been formulated, an. 1 its effectiveness investigated in a series of Case Studies and pilot experiments, culminating in a major experimental investigation concerning the overall role of error factors in teaching. Strategies for error factor prediction and prevention are presented and examined, including the use of algorithms. Major consideration is given to the exploitation of error factors as powerful tools to enhance learning. There is a detailed theoretical discussion at each stage, so that the full significance of the findings can be assessed. Inferences concerning the role of error factors in teaching are examined in conjunction with methodological and other implications arising from the experimental findings. A number of weaknesses of current teaching strategies are identified, and the thesis concludes with various speculations (e. g. to do with the use of computer assisted instruction in this context) which have been prompted by this investigation.
title: Harris, Louis interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Louis S. Harris, PhD, served on the faculty of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine for 44 years, died on June 10. During his tenure, Harris helped lead the rise of the VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology into national prominence. He served as department chair for two decades and oversaw National Institutes of Health grants focused on research in drug abuse from the earliest days of his time at VCU. As a professor, Dr. Harris was a prolific researcher, publishing in high-profile scholarly journals nearly 300 times, up to his retirement from VCU in 2016, when he was named professor emeritus. For a generation, he was a leader in opioid and cannabinoid pharmacology as well as pain management, areas in which VCU continues to advance his profound national legacy. Among multiple honors presented by his peers, he won the most prestigious award given by The College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Dr. Harris died on June 10, 2019. Source: https://news.vcu.edu/article/Louis_S_Harris_longtime_School_of_Medicine_professor Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
Formy organizacyjno-prawne podmiotów wykonujących zadania z zakresu gospodarki komunalnej (na przykładzie województwa małopolskiego)
ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS OF ENTITIES PERFORMING MUNICIPAL ECONOMY TASKS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MAŁOPOLSKA PROVINCE)
Creators: name: Satoła, Łukasz
name: Satoła, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: gospodarka komunalna
subject: samorząd terytorialny
subject: usługi publiczne

description: The aim of the study was to recognize the organizational and legal forms of entities providing municipal services and to identify the relationships between the different characteristics of local government units, and the use of a particular model of implementation of the public service tasks. The research material consisted results of surveys carried out in 48 municipalities of the Małopolska province. The results indicate the existence of a large variation organizational forms of municipal entities used by local government units. The companies occurred more frequently in larger municipalities, especially urban areas, while the formulation of the budgetary unit were used the mostly in rural communities.
Extreme and periodic $L_2$ discrepancy of plane point sets
Creators: name: Hinrichs, Aicke
name: Kritzinger, Ralph
name: Pillichshammer, Friedrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11K38, 11K36

description: In this paper we study the extreme and the periodic $L_2$ discrepancy of plane point sets. The extreme discrepancy is based on arbitrary rectangles as test sets whereas the periodic discrepancy uses "periodic intervals", which can be seen as intervals on the torus. The periodic $L_2$ discrepancy is, up to a multiplicative factor, also known as diaphony. The main results are exact formulas for these kinds of discrepancies for the Hammersley point set and for rational lattices. In order to value the obtained results we also prove a general lower bound on the extreme $L_2$ discrepancy for arbitrary point sets in dimension $d$, which is of order of magnitude $(\log N)^{(d-1)/2}$, like the standard and periodic $L_2$ discrepancies, respectively. Our results confirm that the extreme and periodic $L_2$ discrepancies of the Hammersley point set are of best possible asymptotic order of magnitude. This is in contrast to the standard $L_2$ discrepancy of the Hammersley point set. Furthermore our exact formulas show that also the $L_2$ discrepancies of the Fibonacci lattice are of the optimal order. We also prove that the extreme $L_2$ discrepancy is always dominated by the standard $L_2$ discrepancy, a result that was already conjectured by Morokoff and Caflisch when they introduced the notion of extreme $L_2$ discrepancy in the year 1994.
Porównanie emisji N2O z uprawy pszenicy ozimej w Polsce przy wykorzystaniu metodologii IPCC (Tier 1) i modelu DNDC
COMPARISON OF N2O EMISSIONS FROM WINTER WHEAT CULTIVATION IN POLAND APPLYING IPCC (TIER 1) METHOD AND DNDC MODEL
Creators: name: Syp, Alina
name: Faber, Antoni
name: Syp, Alina
name: Faber, Antoni
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: denitrification-decomposition (DNDC) model
subject: IPCC - Tier 1
subject: gazy cieplarniane (GHG)
subject: emisja podtlenku azotu (N2O)
subject: pszenica ozima

description: The aim of this study was to compare nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions using the IPCC methods - first (Tier 1) and third level (Tier 3). Simulation on third level was performed using a Denitrification-Decomposition (DNDC) model. The simulations showed that based on the Tier 1 methodology average N2O emissions for Poland were 3.51 kg N/ha, whereas for the DNDC model - 1.86 kg N/ha. According to the DNDC model simulated N2O emissions for the entire territory of the Poland constitute 54% of the emissions calculated according to Tier 1 method. The obtained results indicate that the use of biogeochemical model which takes into account environmental conditions allow for accurate estimations of N2O emissions when drawing up reports in accordance with the commitments on reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Additional file 1 of A modular cloning toolkit for genome editing in plants
Creators: name: Hahn, Florian
name: Korolev, Andrey
name: Loures, Laura Sanjurjo
name: Nekrasov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary methods and protocols. Figure S1. A timeline for assembly of a level 2 CRISPR/Cas construct. Table S1. A list of modules encoding guide RNA backbones with matching CRISPR/Cas nucleases and Pol III promoters. Table S2. Primer design for inserting guide sequences into respective guide RNA backbone modules. Table S3. Pol III promoter modules and matching position 1 modules in the tRNA-sgRNA array. Table S4. Primers used in this study.
Prośrodowiskowe działania banków spółdzielczych w ramach strategii społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu na przykładzie województwa małopolskiego
PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF COOPERATIVE BANKS WITHIN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON THE BASIS OF THE MAŁOPOLSKIE PROVINCE
Creators: name: Szafrańska, Monika
name: Szafrańska, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: bank spółdzielczy
subject: ochrona środowiska
subject: strategia społecznej odpowiedzialności biznesu

description: The aim of the work is to identify and characterise selected initiatives of cooperative banks in terms of nature conservation realised within the strategy of corporate social responsibility as well as to determine the recognition degree of those activities by potential recipients. The analysis encompassed cooperative banks running their activities in the Malopolskie province (41 banks). The evaluation covered the initiatives undertaken in 2015. In order to determine the recognition degree of banks activities by consumers field studies were simultaneously carried out on a group of 350 dwellers of the Malopolskie Province. In compiling empirical material structure indicators as well as nonparametric chi-square test (?2) were applied. On the basis of the conducted analysis it might be ascertained that the sector of cooperative banks in Poland is undertaking various actions in nature conservation. The initiatives are connected mainly with internal banks economy and offering banks products which enable to finance environmental initiatives. The highest recognition degree of the activities undertaken by cooperative banks within nature conservation was represented by bank-conscious people as well as villagers.
Theory of Flux-Flow Resistivity near $H_{c2}$ for s-wave Type-II Superconductors
Creators: name: Kita, Takafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a microscopic calculation of the flux-flow resistivity $ρ_{f}$ for s-wave type-II superconductors with arbitrary impurity concentrations near the upper critical field $H_{c2}$. It is found that, as the mean free path $l$ becomes longer, $ρ_{f}$ increases gradually from the dirty-limit result of Thompson [Phys. Rev. B{\bf 1}, 327 (1970)] and Takayama and Ebisawa [Prog. Theor. Phys. {\bf 44}, 1450 (1970)]. The limiting behaviors suggest that $ρ_{f}(H)$ at low temperatures may change from convex downward to upward as $l$ increases, thus deviating substantially from the linear dependence $ρ_{f}\propto H/H_{c2}$ predicted by the Bardeen-Stephen theory [Phys. Rev. {\bf 140}, A1197 (1965)].
Regionalne inteligentne specjalizacje szansą rozwoju sektora rolno-spożywczego w województwie podlaskim
THE REGIONAL SMART AS AN SPECIALIZATION OPPORTUNITY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AGRI-FOOD IN PODLASKIE PROVINCE
Creators: name: Szwacka-Mokrzycka, Joanna
name: Miara, Adam
name: Szwacka-Mokrzycka, Joanna
name: Miara, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: inteligentne specjalizacje
subject: innowacje
subject: rozwój

description: The development of companies in the agri-food sector depends on their competitiveness and innovation, which is largely conditioned by the work of research and development. In the new EU financial perspective for 2014-2020, the funding of R & D is conditioned by the planned compatibility research with regional smart specializations. The article is a synthesis of the research literature on the directions of making innovation and assumptions of smart specialization in Podlaskie province. Guiding objective of this article is to present the role and importance of smart specialization in shaping the development of the agri-food sector Podlaskie. Analysis of dense material in the article leads to the conclusion that in the coming years, regional intelligent specialization „agri food” will be the basis for development of this sector, based on knowledge.
The ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey. XII. The mass and mass-to-light-ratio profiles of rich clusters
Creators: name: Katgert, Peter
name: Biviano, Andrea
name: Mazure, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the mass profile of an ensemble cluster built from 3056 galaxies in 59 nearby clusters observed in the ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey. The mass profile is derived from the distribution and kinematics of the Early-type (elliptical and S0) galaxies only, which are most likely to meet the conditions for the application of the Jeans equation. We assume that the Early-type galaxies have isotropic orbits, as supported by the shape of their velocity distribution. The brightest ellipticals (with M_R < -22+5 log h), and the Early-type galaxies in subclusters are excluded from the sample. Application of the Jeans equation yields a non-parametric estimate of the cumulative mass profile M(
description: ApJ, accepted
Rozwój rachunkowości rolnej na ziemiach polskich od XVI do XIX wieku w świetle badań instruktarzy ekonomicznych
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ACCOUNTING IN THE POLISH TERRITORIES FROM XVI TO XIX CENTURY IN THE LIGHT OF ECONOMIC INSTRUCTIONS
Creators: name: Turzyński, Mikołaj
name: Turzyński, Mikołaj
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: rachunkowość rolnicza
subject: historia rachunkowości
subject: kontrola

description: Included in the study economic briefings cover sets of rules and principles that have guided the administration of estates. With the increase of estates took on the issue of the importance of documenting responsibilities. For agricultural accounting have been marked by several centuries of a single accounting solutions. The primary function of accounting in the former Poland was ensuring control over the use of resources in agricultural production. Over the centuries, is visible transition from simple solutions to complex registration of cash registers and tables. An important factor to adjust the accounting for the needs of landowners was the level of education of workers using the simplest solutions registration (notches).
title: The concept of revelation
Creators: name: Moon, Arnold Charles
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1983

description: In choosing an experiential approach to the concept of revelation and, in preferring this to either an informative or an instructional view, I have faced head-on a central concern for Christian theists. This appertains to the epistemological problem raised by the assumption at the heart of belief in revelation, that God can, in some way or another, be known by men. For to say that God has revealed Himself to his human creatures implies some kind of knowledge of God. I have rejected attempts to describe this in terms simply of degrees of commitment, evinced by Christian faith and attitudes, and attempted to show that the concept of revelation, as traditionally understood, requires an apperception of reality which enables the verb to know to be suitably used. My method has been to use Wittgenstein's concepts of a language game and a form of life to demonstrate that it makes sense to say that, in Christ, a knowledge of God is possible. I have argued that certain fundamental propositions, implicit within the Kerygma of the Apostolic community, provide the basis for intelligible talk about man's encounter with his Creator. After analysing different sorts of knowledge claim, I reached the conclusion that knowledge by description best suits the demands of the kerygmatic language game. This coheres with my argument, following Wittgenstein, that it is in the learning of an apposite language game and adhering to the rules prescribed by its autonomous grammar that understanding of Christian propositions can be gained. To elucidate this, I discussed Kant's view concerning the place of reason in reaching a posteriori judgements. I introduced Popper's notion of a 'third world of ideas' to justify the Christian's claim that ideas relative to the kerygma and didache etc have stood the test of time. Such ideas might be accorded a certain objectivity. Is the question of God's existence begged in the language game? To answer this I examined a number of views about the verb 'to exist' and adopted Russell's suggestion that it operates in a second order manner. I explored his thinking about significant inexistent objects. 1 proceeded to relate these problems to Wittgenstein's discussion of sense and reference in respect of what he says of the 'mystical' and about significant yet meaningless propositions. Yet the main thrust of my argument was to seek to explicate the notion of man's response to God (who is thus taken to exist and to be active in communication with man), by pointing again to the fact of the form of life of Christian belief. I concluded that it is here that all that can intelligibly be said of God making Himself known, and being known by believers, must be grounded.
Interactions of vortices with rarefaction solitary waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate and their role in the decay of superfluid turbulence
Creators: name: Berloff, Natalia G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are several ways to create the vorticity-free solitary waves -- rarefaction pulses -- in condensates: by the process of strongly nonequilibrium condensate formation in a weakly interacting Bose gas, by creating local depletion of the condensate density by a laser beam, and by moving a small object with supercritical velocities. Perturbations created by such waves colliding with vortices are studied in the context of the Gross-Pitaevskii model. We find that the effect of the interactions consists of two competing mechanisms: the creation of vortex line as rarefaction waves acquire circulation in a vicinity of a vortex core and the loss of the vortex line to sound due to Kelvin waves that are generated on vortex lines by rarefaction pulses. When a vortex ring collides with a rarefaction wave, the ring either stabilises to a smaller ring after emitting sound through Kelvin wave radiation or the entire energy of the vortex ring is lost to sound if the radius of the ring is of the order of the healing length. We show that during the time evolution of a tangle of vortices, the interactions with rarefaction pulses provide an important dissipation mechanism enhancing the decay of superfluid turbulence.
description: Revised paper accepted by Phys. Rev. A
Additional file 2 of Examining the impact of a social skills training program on preschoolers’ social behaviors: a cluster-randomized controlled trial in child care centers
Creators: name: Marie-Pier Larose
name: Ouellet-Morin, Isabelle
name: Vergunst, Francis
name: Vitaro, Frank
name: Girard, Alain
name: Tremblay, Richard E.
name: Brendgen, Mara
name: Côté, Sylvana M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Linear Mixed Models Linking Intervention Conditions to Disruptive and Prosocial Behaviors in Pre-intervention.
Isolation and evaluation of rhoifolin: an anxiolytic flavonoid from Citrus paradisi Macfayden var. redblush leaves
Creators: name: Sohi, Shaheena
name: Shri, Richa
name: Singh, Varinder
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Citrus species have a history of use in treating neurological conditions like insomnia, anxiety, and nervousness, though these claims lack exhaustive validation. This study evaluated the anxiolytic activity of Citrus paradisi Macfayden var. redblush leaves, aiming to isolate and characterise the bioactive constituent. Four leaf extracts (petroleum ether (60–80 °C), chloroform, methanol and aqueous) were evaluated for anxiolytic activity using elevated plus maze (EPM) in mice. The methanol extract showed anxiolytic activity and was subjected to bioactivity guided isolation using solvent partitioning, column chromatography and preparative HPLC to isolate the anxiolytic compound, CP-1, characterised as rhoifolin (based on spectroscopic analysis). Rhoifolin, at 0.705% w/w in leaves, was confirmed as anxiolytic compound through additional tests (light-dark box and social interaction tests) and holds promise as a potential treatment for anxiety disorders.