cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum surface diffusion in Bohmian Mechanics
Creators: name: Miret-Artés, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface diffusion of small adsorbates is analyzed in terms of the so-called intermediate scattering function and dynamic structure factor, observables in experiments using the well-known quasielastic Helium atom scattering and Helium spin echo techniques. The linear theory used is an extension of the neutron scattering due to van Hove and considers the time evolution of the position of the adsorbates in the surface. This approach allows us to use a stochastic trajectory description following the classical, quantum and Bohmian frameworks. Three regimes of motion are clearly identified in the diffusion process: ballistic, Brownian and intermediate which are well characterized, for the first two regimes, through the mean square displacements and Einstein relation for the diffusion constant. The Langevin formalism is used by considering Ohmic friction, moderate surface temperatures and small coverages. In the Bohmian framework, the starting point is the so-called Schrödinger-Langevin equation which is a nonlinear, logarithmic differential equation. By assuming a Gaussian function for the probability density, the corresponding quantum stochastic trajectories are given by a dressing scheme consisting of a classical stochastic trajectory of the center of the Gaussian wave packet, issued from solving the Langevin equation (particle property), plus the time evolution of its width governed by the damped Pinney differential equation (wave property). The velocity autocorrelation function is the same as the classical one when the initial spread rate is assumed to be zero. If not, in the diffusion regime, the Brownian-Bohmian motion shows a weak anomalous diffusion.
Canis familiaris subsp. domestic Linnaeus, 1758, subspec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris subsp. domestic

description: Canis familiaris subsp. domestic [subspec. nov.]
auriculis erectis, cauda subtus lanata.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 39, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Проблеми доступу місцевого населення до лісових ресурсів та незаконні рубки в лісах Карпат і Західного Полісся
Creators: name: Henyk, Oksana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Economics

description: Чернявський М. В., Соловій І. П., Геник Я. В., Каспрук О. І., Геник О. В., Мельникович М. П., Герасим Г. З., Савка В. Є. Проблеми доступу місцевого населення до лісових ресурсів та незаконні рубки в лісах Карпат і Західного Полісся / за ред. М. В. Чернявського, І. П. Соловія, Я. В. Геника: монографія. – Львів: Зелений Хрест, Ліга-Прес. – 2011. – 256 с. – ISBN 978-966-397-108-7.
Additional file 5: of β-blockers and risk of all-cause mortality in patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation—a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Tianyu
name: Huang, Yuli
name: Zhou, Haobin
name: Bai, Yujia
name: Huang, Xingfu
name: Hu, Yunzhao
name: Xu, Dingli
name: Zhang, Yuhui
name: Zhang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Funnel plot the comparison of β-blockers treatment versus no β-blockers treatment in patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Stratified on study design, outcomes: all-cause mortality. BBs: β-blockers; CI: confidence intervals; SE: standard error. (PDF 67 kb)
Blending of Light in Gravitational Microlensing Events
Creators: name: DiStefano, R.
name: Esin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When there is more than one source of light along the line of sight to a gravitationally lensed object, the characteristics of the observed light curve are influenced by the presence of the light that is not lensed. In this paper we develop a formalism to quantify the associated effects. We find it useful to introduce the concept of a ``blended Einstein radius" and an ``effective Einstein radius", to describe the probability that a mass will serve as a lens, or that a source will be lensed in an observable way. These considerations lead to generic predictions about the results of gravitational microlensing experiments. One example is that the optical depth for the lensing of giants is greater than that for the lensing of main sequence stars; for any given population of sources and lenses this effect can be quantified. We test and sharpen these predictions by performing a series of Monte Carlo simulations. We also outline general methods to (1) test whether specific events which fail to be fit by point-mass light curves are viable candidates for blended events, (2) use the effects of blending to learn more about the lensing event than would be possible if there were no blending, and (3) include the effects of blending when inferring properties of underlying populations through the statistical study of lensing events.
description: 8 pages, uuencoded, compressed postscript including figures
Anemia following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity; a 5-year follow-up study
Creators: name: K. V. Engebretsen
name: I. K. Blom-Høgestøl
name: S. Hewitt
name: H. Risstad
name: B. Moum
name: J. A. Kristinsson
name: T. Mala
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Objectives: Patients are at risk of anemia post Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB). We sought to determine the prevalence of anemia and related nutritional deficiencies 5 years after RYGB and to evaluate adherence to nutritional supplements with iron, vitamin B12, and folate. Material and methods: Patients operated with RYGB 2004–2006 were eligible for evaluation. Blood samples were collected and use of nutritional supplements was recorded preoperatively, and at outpatients’ consultations 1, 2, and 5 years postoperatively. Of 203 patients operated, 184 (91%) completed the 5 year follow-up and were included in the study. Of these, 97% had valid measurements of hemoglobin both at baseline and after 5 years. Results: During the 5 years after RYGB, the prevalence of anemia increased from 4% preoperatively to 24% in females, and from 0% to 7% in males. Ferritin levels decreased gradually in both genders. Iron deficiency increased from 6% preoperatively to 42% at 5 years in females, and from 0% to 9% in males. Vitamin B12 deficiency was not altered while folate deficiency decreased from 10% preoperatively to 1% at 5 years. Five years after surgery 25% reported the use of supplements with iron, while 83% used vitamin B12 and 65% used multivitamins with folate. Conclusions: We observed a long-term increase in anemia and iron deficiency after RYGB in both genders, but most pronounced in women. Our postoperative protocol for prevention of vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies appear acceptable. Iron status and iron supplementation seems to need stronger emphasis during follow-up after RYGB.
Supplementary Information from Pathogen evolution in finite populations: slow and steady spreads the best
Creators: name: Parsons, Todd L.
name: Lambert, Amaury
name: Day, Troy
name: Gandon, Sylvain
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The theory of life-history evolution provides a powerful framework to understand the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens. It assumes, however, that host populations are large and that one can neglect the effects of demographic stochasticity. Here, we expand the theory to account for the effects of finite population size on the evolution of pathogen virulence. We show that demographic stochasticity introduces additional evolutionary forces that can qualitatively affect the dynamics and the evolutionary outcome. We discuss the importance of the shape of the pathogen fitness landscape and host heterogeneity on the balance between mutation, selection and genetic drift. This analysis reconciles adaptive dynamics with population genetics in finite populations and provides a new theoretical toolbox to study life-history evolution in realistic ecological scenarios.
The environments of z<0.3 QSOs
Creators: name: Smith, R. J.
name: Boyle, B. J.
name: Maddox, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out an investigation of the galaxy environments of low redshift ($z<0.3$) QSOs by cross-correlating the positions on the sky of X-ray-selected QSOs/AGN identified in the {\it Einstein} Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS) with those of $B_J<20.5$ galaxies in the APM galaxy catalogues. At $<5\,$arcmin, we find a significant ($5σ$) galaxy excess around $z<0.3$ QSOs. The amplitude of the low redshift ($z<0.3$) QSO-galaxy angular cross-correlation function is identical to that of the APM galaxy angular correlation function, implying that these (predominantly radio-quiet) QSOs inhabit environments similar to those of normal galaxies. No significant galaxy excess was found around a `control' sample of $z>0.3$ QSOs. Coupled with previous observations, these results imply that the environment of radio-quiet QSOs undergoes little evolution over a wide range in redshift ($0 less than z less than 1.5$). This is in marked contrast to the rapid increase in the richness of the environments associated with radio-loud QSOs over the same redshift range. The similarity between QSO-galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy clustering also suggests that QSOs are unbiased with respect to galaxies and make useful tracers of large-scale structure in the Universe.
description: uuencoded compressed postscript. The preprint is also available at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/preprint/PrePrint.html
Canis familiaris subsp. molossus Linnaeus, 1758, subspec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris subsp. molossus

description: Canis familiaris subsp. molossus [subspec. nov.]
magnitudine lupi, labiis ad latera pendulis, corpore toroso. Canis sagax sangvinarius. Gesn. quadr. 251.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 39, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Biochemical, molecular and cellular studies on negative regulators of TLR-signalling
Creators: name: Carlsson, Emil Karl Viktor
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognise pathogenic microorganisms through conserved pathogen associated molecular patterns, which activates the innate immune response. TLR signalling is mediated by cytoplasmic adaptor proteins via Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains. Sterile α- and armadillo-motif- containing protein (SARM) is the fifth TLR adaptor protein identified in humans and has been described as a negative regulator of the innate immune response. Several pathogenic bacteria are also known to express proteins with TIR- domains, which are believed to be involved in disruption of TLR signalling. This raises the question of whether SARM functions in a similar manner, as phylogenetic studies have shown that SARM is closely related to bacterial proteins. In this project, functional characterisation of SARM and a bacterial TIR domain protein from Bacillus anthracis (BaTdp) have been performed using both recombinantly expressed and purified proteins, as well as cellular assays. The TIR domains of both SARM and BaTdp were found to form heterotypic TIR-TIR interactions with multiple human TLR adaptors, including Myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88). SARM and MyD88 both localised to mitochondria when overexpressed in mammalian cells, and SARM overexpression was associated with a reduction of TLR2-, TLR4- and MyD88- induced cytokine activation. A single amino acid residue in the SARM BB-loop motif, G601, was also identified as being critical for SARM’s anti-inflammatory effect. A short peptide derived from this motif was able to target MyD88 in vitro and slightly reduce TLR4-mediated cytokine activation. Overexpression of BaTdp in mammalian cells had no significant effect on TLR-mediated cytokine activation. Instead, the protein targeted microtubular networks in the cell and BaTdp expression was associated with a significant increase in cellular autophagy activity. The findings further enhance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which SARM suppress the innate immune response, and also describe previously unknown functions of BaTdp.
Prethermalization Production of Dark Matter
Creators: name: Garcia, Marcos A. G.
name: Amin, Mustafa A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the end of inflation, the inflaton field decays into an initially nonthermal population of relativistic particles which eventually thermalize. We consider the production of dark matter from this relativistic plasma, focusing on the prethermal phase. We find that for a production cross section $σ(E)\sim E^n$ with $n> 2$, the present dark matter abundance is produced during the prethermal phase of its progenitors. For $n\le 2$, entropy production during reheating makes the nonthermal contribution to the present dark matter abundance subdominant compared to that produced thermally. As specific examples, we verify that the nonthermal contribution is irrelevant for gravitino production in low scale supersymmetric models ($n=0$) and is dominant for gravitino production in high scale supersymmetry models ($n=6$).
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Numerical Solution of the Expanding Stellar Atmosphere Problem
Creators: name: Hauschildt, P. H.
name: Baron, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss numerical methods and algorithms for the solution of NLTE stellar atmosphere problems involving expanding atmospheres, e.g., found in novae, supernovae and stellar winds. We show how a scheme of nested iterations can be used to reduce the high dimension of the problem to a number of problems with smaller dimensions. As examples of these sub-problems, we discuss the numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation for relativistically expanding media with spherical symmetry, the solution of the multi-level non-LTE statistical equilibrium problem for extremely large model atoms, and our temperature correction procedure. Although modern iteration schemes are very efficient, parallel algorithms are essential in making large scale calculations feasible, therefore we discuss some parallelization schemes that we have developed.
description: JCAM, in press. 28 pages, also available at ftp://calvin.physast.uga.edu:/pub/preprints/CompAstro.ps.gz
Canis familiaris subsp. avicular Linnaeus, 1758, subspec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris subsp. avicular

description: Canis familiaris subsp. avicular [subspec. nov.]
cauda truncata. Canis pantherinus. Aldr. digit. 555.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 39, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Generic multiple object tracking
Creators: name: Luo, Wenhan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Multiple object tracking is an important problem in the computer vision community due to its applications, including but not limited to, visual surveillance, crowd behavior analysis and robotics. The difficulties of this problem lie in several challenges such as frequent occlusion, interaction, high-degree articulation, etc. In recent years, data association based approaches have been successful in tracking multiple pedestrians on top of specific kinds of object detectors. Thus these approaches are type-specific. This may constrain their application in scenario where type-specific object detectors are unavailable. In view of this, I investigate in this thesis tracking multiple objects without ready-to-use and type-specific object detectors. More specifically, the problem of multiple object tracking is generalized to tracking targets of a generic type. Namely, objects to be tracked are no longer constrained to be a specific kind of objects. This problem is termed as Generic Multiple Object Tracking (GMOT), which is handled by three approaches presented in this thesis. In the first approach, a generic object detector is learned based on manual annotation of only one initial bounding box. Then the detector is employed to regularize the online learning procedure of multiple trackers which are specialized to each object. More specifically, multiple trackers are learned simultaneously with shared features and are guided to keep close to the detector. Experimental results have shown considerable improvement on this problem compared with the state-of-the-art methods. The second approach treats detection and tracking of multiple generic objects as a bi-label propagation procedure, which is consisted of class label propagation (detection) and object label propagation (tracking). In particular, the cluster Multiple Task Learning (cMTL) is employed along with the spatio-temporal consistency to address the online detection problem. The tracking problem is addressed by associating existing trajectories with new detection responses considering appearance, motion and context information. The advantages of this approach is verified by extensive experiments on several public data sets. The aforementioned two approaches handle GMOT in an online manner. In contrast, a batch method is proposed in the third work. It dynamically clusters given detection hypotheses into groups corresponding to individual objects. Inspired by the success of topic model in tackling textual tasks, Dirichlet Process Mixture Model (DPMM) is utilized to address the tracking problem by cooperating with the so-called must-links and cannot-links, which are proposed to avoid physical collision. Moreover, two kinds of representations, superpixel and Deformable Part Model (DPM), are introduced to track both rigid and non-rigid objects. Effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with experiments on public data sets.
Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and Galactic Chemical Evolution
Creators: name: Copi, Craig J.
name: Schramm, David N.
name: Turner, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deuterium is the best indicator of the baryon density; however, only its present abundance is known (and only locally) and its chemical evolution is intertwined with that of $^3$He. Because galactic abundances are spatially heterogeneous, mean chemical-evolution models are not well suited for extrapolating the pre-solar D and $^3$He abundances to their primeval values. We introduce a new approach which explicitly addresses heterogeneity, and show that the decade-old big-bang nucleosynthesis concordance interval $η\approx (2 -8)\times 10^{-10}$ based on D and $^3$He is robust.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX(2.09), 4 postscript figures (attached). A postscript version with figures can be found at ftp://astro.uchicago.edu/pub/astro/chem_evolution. (See the README file for details). REVISION: Numerous changes have been made to the text and the focus of the discussion has changed
Non-linear general relativistic effects in the observed redshift
Creators: name: Fanizza, Giuseppe
name: Yoo, Jaiyul
name: Biern, Sang Gyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the second-order expression for the observed redshift, accounting for all the relativistic effects from the light propagation and from the frame change at the observer and the source positions. We derive the generic gauge-transformation law that any observable quantities should satisfy, and we verify our second-order expression for the observed redshift by explicitly checking its gauge transformation property. This is the first time an explicit verification is made for the second-order calculations of observable quantities. We present our results in popular gauge choices for easy use and discuss the origin of disagreements in previous calculations.
description: 44 pages, 1 figure, Version published in JCAP
Additional file 1: of Distinct variations of antibody secreting cells and memory B cells during the course of Kawasaki disease
Creators: name: Xu, Meng
name: Jiang, Yanfang
name: Wang, Jinghua
name: Liu, Jinxiang
name: Liu, Congcong
name: Liu, Deying
name: Yang, Sirui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Correlation analysis. (A) Correlations between the percentage of IgG+ ASCs and laboratory findings including CRP, ESR, immunoglobulins, and complement C3 and C4. (B) Correlations between the percentage of CD138+ ASCs and those laboratory findings. (PDF 69 kb)
Multiresidue GC-MS/MS pesticide analysis for evaluation of tea and herbal infusion safety
Creators: name: Beneta, Antonija
name: Pavlović, Dragana Mutavdžić
name: Periša, Ivan
name: Petrović, Mira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A fast, simple, low-cost and high-throughput multiresidue pesticide analysis method was developed and validated for 300 pesticides in herbal and fruit infusion samples based on modified QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) procedure combined with gas chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry method (GC-MS/MS). The objectives were to develop low cost GC-MS/MS method, validate the method in accordance to SANTE/11,813/2017 guidance document and application in routine. The results obtained using different GC and MS/MS parameters were evaluated in order to develop quick, robust, accurate and effective multiresidue method. Total analysis time was 28 min with 0.6 µL injection volume. For accurate quantification, matrix-matched calibration (MMC) curves (in range of 10 µg/kg – 250 µg/kg) were applied to compensate matrix effect. The limits of quantification (LOQ) were ranged between 0.06 µg/kg and 135 µg/kg, and for the majority of the pesticides the LOQ were below the regulatory maximum residue limits. Most recoveries at 10 µg/kg and 100 µg/kg were in the range 70%–120% indicating satisfactory accuracy. The validated method was applied to commercial herbal and fruit infusion products detecting chlorpyriphos, DEET, tebuconazole, terbuthylazine, piperonyl butoxide, biphenyl, pendimethalin, pirimiphos-methyl and p,p’-DDE in more than 100 samples from 1,466 so risk assessment on human health was calculated specially for those pesticides.
Deep optical galaxy counts with the Keck Telescope
Creators: name: Smail, Ian
name: Hogg, David W.
name: Yan, Lin
name: Cohen, Judy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present faint galaxy counts from deep $VRI$ images obtained with the Keck Telescope. These images reach $R\sim27$ in median seeing FWHM $\sim 0.5$--0.6 arcsec and we detect a integrated galaxy number density of $7\times 10^{5}$ degree$^{-2}$, equivalent to $3\times 10^{10}$ galaxies in the observable Universe. In addition we present median galaxy colors as a function of magnitude; bluing trends are visible in all colors to $R\sim 24.5$. Fainter than $R\sim24.5$, however, the typical \VR\ color becomes redder again, \VI\ remains constant, and \RI\ becomes yet bluer. These trends are consistent with the $VRI$ count slopes, implying a decrease in the $V$ slope at the faintest levels, which our data supports. Taking advantage of our good seeing we also present median half-light radii for faint galaxies, these show a steady decline at fainter magnitudes, leading to an intrinsic half-light radius of $\sim 0.2$ arcsec for a typical $R\sim25.5$--26 galaxy. Irrespective of the redshift distribution, the extremely high galaxy surface densities and their small intrinsic sizes are consistent with a scenario in which the majority of the very faint field population are dwarf galaxies or sub-galactic units.
description: 7 pages plus four figures in a self-unpacking uuencoded tar file. Accepted for publication, ApJ Letters
Holographic Heat Engines, Entanglement Entropy, and Renormalization Group Flow
Creators: name: Johnson, Clifford V.
name: Rosso, Felipe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a fruitful connection between the physics of conformal field theories (CFTs) in d-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and the extended gravitational thermodynamics of hyperbolic black holes in (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. The CFTs are reduced on a region bounded by a sphere. We show that Renormalization Group (RG) flows between CFTs are specific thermodynamic processes in the (p,V) plane, where the irreversibility of coarse-graining flows from the ultraviolet to the infrared corresponds to the Second Law of thermodynamics, preventing heat from flowing from low temperature to high. We observe that holographic heat engines using the black holes as a working substance correspond to specific combinations of CFT flows and deformations. We construct three special engines whose net heat and work can be described in terms of changes of entanglement entropy across the sphere. Engine efficiencies emerge as simple functions of the ratio of the number of degrees of freedom of two CFTs.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures (v3: updated to match published version.)
The role of the patient in evaluating quality of care
Creators: name: Caris, Jochem
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: This thesis outlines the emerging role of the patient, central in the transition from a volume-driven towards a patient-driven healthcare. Healthcare systems, regardless of region or economic status, must develop new ways to deliver care whilst at the same time improving both quality of care and containing costs. Today’s society is increasingly ‘horizontal’ shaped by affiliations and networks, and this changes the way information flows, increasing people’s willingness to participate in the decision- making process. Encouraging more patient involvement by promoting feedback will increase communication between system and users, this is important as it can improve quality of service. The inception and preliminary results of a national programme based around patient-reported health surveys, i.e. PROMs, are discussed together with the potential of the programme and its limited evidence on how this translates to quality of care for patients. The feasibility of PROMs data, in order to investigate important difference as reported by patients in this large national cohort, is tested by segmentation into individual procedures. A subsequent risk analysis of important confounders demonstrates that poor mobility and self-reported depression are significant predictors of poor HRQoL outcomes as well as self-reported adverse events. A further comparison between self-reported and administrative collected comorbidities is undertaken to substantiate the reliability of self-reported comorbidities followed by the development of an accumulated risk prediction score generated from self- reported comorbidities to identify individual patient segments before treatment. And finally, a mixed method study is undertaken into factors behind poor unit response rates by exploring the patients’ views on PROMs and their place in quality of care. This thesis demonstrates the limitations of the current data dissemination of national PROMs data and proposes several steps of improvement to increase relevance to both patients and clinicians.
Additional file 8: of Î˛-blockers and risk of all-cause mortality in patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillationâ a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Tianyu
name: Huang, Yuli
name: Zhou, Haobin
name: Bai, Yujia
name: Huang, Xingfu
name: Hu, Yunzhao
name: Xu, Dingli
name: Zhang, Yuhui
name: Zhang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Search strategy for pubmed. (DOCX 14 kb)
Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems With Boolean Satisfiability Solvers
Creators: name: Bierlee, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 490304
subject: Optimisation
classificationCode: 460210
subject: Satisfiability and optimisation

description: Combinatorial Optimization problems are about making decisions that satisfy constraints and optimize objectives. An example is the hospital staff rostering problem, where we decide which staff members take which shifts. Rosters cannot violate policy constraints, but should minimize costs and maximize quality of care.

We can specify the decisions, constraints and objectives in a so-called constraint model. A model is translated for and then solved by some solving algorithm. Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely efficient, however, the translation of the model is uniquely challenging. This thesis improves the theoretical understanding and practical effectiveness of the translation process for SAT solvers.
User modelling for personalised dressing assistance by humanoid robots using multi-modal information
Creators: name: Gao, Yixing
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: To enable personalised assistance, assistive robots benefit from building a user-specific model, so that the assistance is customised to the particular set of user abilities. Among various tasks in home environments, assistive dressing, which is greatly beneficial to people with upper-body movement limitations, remains a challenging task for humanoid robots. In this thesis, we aim to design, implement, and evaluate user modelling methods which can enable humanoid robots to provide personalised dressing assistance. We begin by proposing a user modelling method using vision information. We use Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) to model the movement space of the human upper-body joints to learn the reachable area of each joint. We enabled a Baxter humanoid robot to plan its dressing motion using the GMMs of the human joints and real-time pose estimation. The dressing assistance is personalised by fulfilling a reachability criterion. To compensate for the disadvantages of using vision information only, we proposed an online iterative path optimisation method based on adaptive moment estimation. We enabled the Baxter robot to search for the optimal personalised dressing path for human users using force information. The dressing assistance is personalised by fulfilling a comfort criterion. Finally, to enable personalised dressing assistance fulfilling both the reachability and the comfort criteria, we proposed a user modelling method using multi-modal information by combining the GMMs of the human upper-body joints with the online iterative path optimisation. Experiments on both the synthetic dataset and the real-world assistive dressing data showed that the proposed method can achieve a balance between the two criteria when searching for the optimal path.
Using final black hole spins and masses to infer the formation history of the observed population of gravitational wave sources
Creators: name: Sedda, Manuel Arca
name: Benacquista, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a novel technique to constrain the progenitor binary black hole (BBH) formation history using the remnant masses and spins of merged black holes (BHs). Exploring different models, we found that dynamically formed BBHs are distributed differently in the mass-spin plane than those that have formed in isolation. Stellar evolution recipes crucially affect the remnant mass distribution, suggesting that future efforts should be devoted to finding a common way of modelling the evolutionary phases of single and binary stars. Our simple approach has allowed us to place weak constraints on the origin of the presently observed population of merged BHs, although with high uncertainties. Our results show that the fingerprints of different BBH formation channels will emerge as soon as LIGO detects more than $\sim 10^2$ merger events. This work provides a way of thinking that can be easily used both by people working on isolated and on dynamical BBH formation and evolution.
description: 22 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 482, Issue 3, p.2991-3010
title: Διαχείριση ενέργειας ηλεκτρικού οχήματος με ηλεκτρονικό μετατροπέα ισχύος πολλαπλών θυρών

title: Energy management of electric vehicle based on a multi-port power electronic converter
Creators: name: Μεταβιτσιαδης Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια παρατηρείται στροφή προς τα ηλεκτρικά και τα υβριδικά οχήματα, τα οποία θεωρούνται βιώσιμες εναλλακτικές λύσεις, έναντι των βενζινοκίνητων οχημάτων.  Παρά το γεγονός ότι τα πλεονεκτήματά τους είναι πολλαπλά, ο χρόνος φόρτισης, το υψηλό κόστος και η ενεργειακή πυκνότητα αποτελούν τα βασικά μειονεκτήματα που εμποδίζουν την ταχύτερη εξάπλωσή τους. Παράλληλα με τις εξελίξεις στον τομέα των ηλεκτρικών και υβριδικών οχημάτων, έχουν αναπτυχθεί καινοτόμες τοπολογίες ηλεκτρονικών μετατροπέων ισχύος πολλαπλών θυρών με κύριο στόχο την ελάττωση του κόστους και της πολυπλοκότητας στον έλεγχο των συμβατικών μετατροπέων ισχύος που χρησιμοποιούνται σε αντίστοιχες εφαρμογές Ανανεώσιμων Πηγών Ενέργειας.

Στην παρούσα εργασία μοντελοποιείται σε περιβάλλον Simulink/Matlab ένα ηλεκτρικό όχημα κυψέλης καυσίμου και μπαταριών, στο οποίο χρησιμοποιείται ηλεκτρονικός μετατροπέας ισχύος πολλαπλών θυρών. Ο έλεγχος της λειτουργίας του μετατροπέα ισχύος και των πηγών ενέργειας υλοποιείται μέσω ενός συστήματος διαχείρισης ενέργειας που εξασφαλίζει την ομαλή λειτουργία του οχήματος.
Η λειτουργία του ηλεκτρικού οχήματος εξετάστηκε για εναλλακτικούς κύκλους οδήγησης. Τα αποτελέσματα των προσομοιώσεων έδειξαν ότι η χρήση του μετατροπέα ισχύος πολλαπλών θυρών διασφαλίζει σταθερή τάση στη έξοδο του και ομαλή εναλλαγή της ροής ισχύος μεταξύ των θυρών του.
description: In recent years, there has been a shift of interest towards electric and hybrid vehicles, which are considered viable alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles. Despite the fact that their advantages are multiple, charging time, high cost and energy density are the main disadvantages that slow-down their immediate spread. Alongside the developments regarding electric and hybrid vehicles, innovative topologies of multi-port power converters have been designed targeting the reduction of the cost and complexity of controlling conventional converters applied in corresponding renewable energy applications.
In this thesis, a fuel cell electric vehicle is modeled using a multiport power electronic converter, in the environment of Simulink/Matlab. The control of the power converter's operation and the energy sources is implemented through an energy management system that ensures the smooth operation of the vehicle.
The operation of the electric vehicle was examined for alternative driving cycles. Based on the results, it can be deduced that the use of the multi-port converter ensures a constant output voltage and the smooth switching of power flow between its ports.
The Synchrotron Shock Model Confronts a `Line of Death' in the BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Data
Creators: name: Preece, R. D.
name: Briggs, M. S.
name: Mallozzi, R. S.
name: Pendleton, G. N.
name: Paciesas, W. S.
name: Band, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The synchrotron shock model (SSM) for gamma-ray burst emission makes a testable prediction: that the observed low-energy power-law photon number spectral index cannot exceed -2/3 (where the photon model is defined with a positive index: dN/dE is proportional to E^alpha). We have collected time-resolved spectral fit parameters for over 100 bright bursts observed by the Burst And Transient Source Experiment on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Using this database, we find 23 bursts in which the spectral index limit of the SSM is violated. We discuss elements of the analysis methodology that affect the robustness of this result, as well as some of the escape hatches left for the SSM by theory.
description: 8 pages plus 3 figures. Accepted by ApJ (Letters)
Additional file 2 of Exosomal microRNAs are novel circulating biomarkers in cigarette, waterpipe smokers, E-cigarette users and dual smokers
Creators: name: Singh, Kameshwar P.
name: Maremanda, Krishna P.
name: Li, Dongmei
name: Rahman, Irfan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Differential expressed microRNAs from plasma exosomes of cigarette smokers in comparison to non-smokers.
Canis familiaris subsp. aegyptius Linnaeus, 1758, subspec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris subsp. aegyptius

description: Canis familiaris subsp. aegyptius [subspec. nov.]
nudus absque pilis.
Habitat saepius cum homine passim, etiam spontaneus evasit.
Caput vertice carinatum. Labium inferius lateribus dentatis nudis occultatum. Mystaces ordinibus 5. f. 6. Nares extrorsum recurvato sinu lunares. Auriculae margine baseos superiore reflexo; posteriore duplicato; antico trilobo. Verrucae faciei pilosae 7. Suturae velleris 8: collares, sternea, cubitales, abdominales, oculares, lumbares, auriculares, anales. Mammae 10: harum quatuor in pectore. Pedes subpalmati.
Edit carnes, vegetabilia farinosa, non olera. Digerit ossa; Vomitu a gramine purgatur, cacat supra lapidem: Album graecum, septicum summum. Potat lambendo, mingit ad latus, cum hospite saepe centies, odorat anum alterius, odoratu excellit naso humido. Levissime incedit supra digitos, vix sudat, calidus linguam exserit, cubitum iturus circumit locum, dormit auditu acutiore, somniat. Procis rixantibus crudelis, catullit cum variis, mordet illa illos, cohaeret copula junctus; gravida 63 diebus, parit saepe 4 ad 8, masculis patri similibus, femineis matri. Fidissimus omnium, docilis, odit ignotos, mordet projectum lapidem, ad musicam ululat. Latrat in peregrinos, excepto cane Americae australis; a Mahometanis rejectus.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 39, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Canis familiaris subsp. meliteus Linnaeus, 1758, subspec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris subsp. meliteus

description: Canis familiaris subsp. meliteus [subspec. nov.]
magnitudine Sciuri.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 39, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Newtonian Hydrodynamics of the Coalescence of Black Holes with Neutron Stars I: Tidally locked binaries with a stiff equation of state
Creators: name: Lee, William H.
name: Kluzniak, Wlodzimierz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the hydrodynamical interactions in a Newtonian black hole-neutron star binary during the last stages of inspiral. We consider close binaries which are tidally locked, use a stiff equation of state (with an adiabatic index Gamma=3) throughout, and explore the effect of different initial mass ratios on the evolution of the system. We calculate the gravitational radiation signal in the quadrupole approximation. Our calculations are carried out using a Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) code.
description: Replaces previous version which had figures separate from the text of the paper. Now 47 pages long with 19 embedded figures (the figures are the same, they were renumbered) Uses aaspp4.sty
Systematics in virial mass estimators for pressure-supported systems
Creators: name: Errani, Raphaël
name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
name: Walker, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mass estimators are a key tool to infer the dark matter content in pressure-supported systems like dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). We construct an estimator for enclosed masses based on the virial theorem which is insensitive to anisotropy in the velocity dispersion and tailored to yield masses with minimum uncertainty introduced by our ignorance on (i) the shape of the inner halo profile, and (ii) how deeply the stellar component is embedded within the halo: $M(<1.8\,R_\mathrm{h}) \approx 3.5 \times 1.8\,R_\mathrm{h} \langle σ_\mathrm{los}^2 \rangle G^{-1}$, where by $R_\mathrm{h}$ we denote the projected half-light radius and by $\langle σ_\mathrm{los}^2 \rangle$ the luminosity-averaged squared line-of-sight velocity dispersion. Tests against controlled simulations show that this estimator provides unbiased enclosed masses with an accuracy of $\sim 10$ per cent. This confirms the robustness of similar previously proposed mass estimators. Application to published kinematic data of Milky Way dSphs reveals a tight correlation between enclosed mass and luminosity. Using $N$-body models we show that tidal stripping has little effect on this relation. Comparison against cuspy and cored dark matter haloes extracted from controlled re-simulations of the Aquarius A2 merger tree shows that the high mass densities of ultrafaint galaxies are not compatible with large dark matter cores, and that the (total) halo masses of the classical Milky Way dSphs span a remarkably narrow range ($8 \lesssim \mathrm{log_{10}}\,(M/\mathrm{M_\odot}) \lesssim 10$) at present, showing no clear trend with either galaxy size or luminosity.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Edited to match accepted version
Effervescence-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on deep eutectic solvent for preconcentration and FAAS determination of copper in aqueous samples
Creators: name: Çiğdem Arpa
name: Albayati, Sarah
name: Yahya, Maha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: A new effervescence-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction, EA-DLLME, technique was developed for preconcentration and flame atomic absorption spectrometric determination of copper in aqueous samples. Effervescence assistance and DES combination for metal ion extraction was used for the first time. In the presented study, six different effervescence powders were examined to achieve maximum extraction efficiency. In addition, 1,5 diphenyl carbazide was used as complexing agent and DES prepared by mixing choline chloride and phenol was used as extraction solvent. The effect of several parameters such as pH, concentration of complexing agent, composition and volume of DES, amount of THF, composition and amount of effervescent agent were examined. Performed experiments showed that optimum pH was 6.0, the best effervesce powder composition was NaH2PO4:Na2CO3 with 2 × 10−3:1 × 10−3 molar ratio and the amount of effervesce powder was 0.4 g. Under optimum conditions enhancement factor, limit of detection and limit of quantification were calculated as 78, 2.9 and 9.7 μg L−1, respectively. In addition, to prove precision of the method intra-day relative standard deviations were calculated for 10 and 50 μg L−1 Cu2+ concentrations and found as 2.1% and 1.3%, respectively. The proposed method showed good linearity within the range of 10.0–100 μg L−1. Finally, proposed method was successfully applied to determination of copper traces in aqueous samples.