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Stability and excitations of a bilayer of strongly correlated dipolar Bosons
Creators: name: Hufnagl, Diana
name: Zillich, Robert E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study correlation effects and excitations in a dipolar Bose gas bilayer which is modeled by a one-dimensional double well trap that determines the width of an individual layer, the distance between the two layers, and the height of the barrier between them. For the ground state calculations we use the hypernetted--chain Euler Lagrange method and for the calculation of the excitations we use the correlated basis function method. We observe instabilities both for wide, well-separated layers dominated by \emph{intra-layer} attraction of the dipoles, and for narrow layers that are close to each other dominated by \emph{inter-layer} attraction. The behavior of the pair distribution function leads to the interpretation that the monomer phase becomes unstable when pairing of two dipoles becomes energetically favorable between or within layers, respectively. In both cases we observe a tendency towards "rotonization", i.e. the appearance of a soft mode with finite momentum in the excitation spectrum. The dynamic structure function is not simply characterized by a single excitation mode, but has a non-trivial multi-peak structure that is not captured by the Bijl-Feynman approximation. The dipole-dipole interaction between different layers leads to additional damping compared to the damping obtained for uncoupled layers.
description: 11 pages
title: Ευρετικοί αλγόριθμοι βελτιστοποίησης για τον προσδιορισμό βέλτιστης περιφερειακής οικονομικής πολιτικής
Creators: name: Πρωτόπαπας Ματθαίος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2005

description: σαγωγή -- 1. Το μοντέλο των Ichibuchi et al -- 2. Η επέκταση του μοντέλου για την εισαγωγή κυβέρνησης -- 3. Το μοντέλο βελτιστοποίησης -- 4. Αποτελέσματα προσομοίωσης -- 5. Σχεδιασμός της έρευνας -- 6. Τυχαία κατάβαση -- 7. Προσομοιωμένη ανόπτυση -- 8. Γενετικός αλγόριθμος -- 9. Σύγκριση των 3 αλγόριθμων -- 10. Ανόπτυση Lundy, Mees και σύγκρισή της με την κλασσική μέθοδο
title: Αξιολόγηση της ικανότητας πρόβλεψης των κυριοτέρων σιγμοειδών και ημισιγμοειδών μοντέλων μάρκετινγκ
Creators: name: Ζωντός Σωτήρης.
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1996

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Additional file 1 of Establishing relationships between particle-induced in vitro and in vivo inflammation endpoints to better extrapolate between in vitro markers and in vivo fibrosis
Creators: name: McLean, Polly
name: Mueller, William
name: Gosens, Ilse
name: Cassee, Flemming R.
name: Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara
name: Boyles, Matthew
name: Tran, Lang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file1. Literature screening methodology, graphical comparisons of in vivo and in vitro responses, and data analysis results. Figure S1. IL-8, IL-6, IL-1β and TNF-α cytokine responses in vitro compared to PMN influx in vivo following exposure to α-quartz. Figure S2. IL-8, IL-6, IL-1β and TNF-α cytokine responses in vitro compared to PMN influx in vivo following exposure to nano-CeO2. Table S1. Data analysis results for in vitro studies. Table S2. Data analysis results for in vivo studies. Table S3. CIs for various BMR applied in BMD analysis. Table S4 Model comparisons for α-quartz using log-log regression analysis. Table S5. Model comparisons for nano-CeO2 using log-log regression analysis.
Using High-Resolution Optical Spectra to Measure Intrinsic Properties of Low-Mass Stars: New Properties for KOI-314 and GJ 3470
Creators: name: Pineda, J. Sebastian
name: Bottom, Michael
name: Johnson, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct high signal-to-noise "template" spectra by co-adding hundreds of spectra of nearby dwarfs spanning K7 to M4, taken with Keck/HIRES as part of the California Planet Search. We identify several spectral regions in the visible (370 - 800 nm) that are sensitive to the stellar luminosity and metallicity. We use these regions to develop a spectral calibration method to measure the mass, metallicity, and distance of low-mass stars, without the requirement of geometric parallaxes. Testing our method on a sample of nearby M dwarfs we show that we can reproduce stellar masses to about 8 - 10%, metallicity to ~0.15 dex and distance to 11%. We were able to make use of HIRES spectra obtained as part of the radial velocity monitoring of the star KOI-314 to derive a new mass estimate of 0.57 +/- 0.05 Msun, a radius of 0.54 +/- 0.05 Rsun, a metallicity, [Fe/H], of -0.28 +/- 0.10 and a distance of 66.5 +/- 7.3 pc. Using HARPS archival data and combining our spectral method with constraints from transit observations, we are also able to derive the stellar properties of GJ3470, a transiting planet hosting M dwarf. We estimate a mass of 0.53 +/- 0.05 Msun, a radius of 0.50 +/- 0.05 Rsun, a metallicity, [Fe/H] = 0.12 +/- 0.12 and a distance of 29.9_{-3.4}^{+3.7} pc.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Badly behaving bipyridine: the surprising coordination behaviour of 5,5′-substituted-2,2′-bipyridine towards iron(II) and ruthenium(II) ions
Creators: name: Iranmanesh, Hasti
name: Bhadbhade, Mohan
name: De Haas, Nicholas
name: Luis, Ena T.
name: Yan, Hong
name: Yang, Jiajia
name: Beves, Jonathon E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health

description: A new tetrapyridine ligand, 5,5′-(3-pyridyl)-2,2′-bipyridine (2) was prepared from 5,5′-dibromo-2,2′-bipyridine (1) via Pd(0)-mediated Suzuki coupling. The reaction was performed either directly upon the free ligand, or upon its Ru(II) complex. The structures of [Ru(1)3](PF6)2 and [Ru(2)3](PF6)2 were studied in solution by NMR, and in the solid state by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Solution NMR data suggests distorted structures, consistent with the observed slow reactivity of the ligands towards Ru(II) ions, and their reluctance to coordinate to Fe(II) ions. However, solid-state X-ray data indicated little distortion from ideal geometries, suggesting the effect may be more electronic than steric in nature.
Device Design for Inducing Aneurysm-Susceptible Flow Conditions Onto Endothelial Cells
Creators: name: foelsche, hans f
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Aneurysms are a deadly asymptomatic cardiovascular disease that may occur especially where there are bends and bifurcations in the cerebral vasculature. A region where these features are especially prominent is the Circle of Willis (COW) in the brain, where aneurysms are known to occur. In the carotid artery, which feeds into the COW, the Reynolds number of blood flow is typically around 200-500. Even with such a low Reynolds number, turbulent-like flow, or tortuous flow, can occur due to bends, bifurcations and highly pulsatile flow which lower the effective Reynolds number where tortuous flow can occur. Highly pulsatile flow is unsteady flow that is high in magnitude and changes over time.
Endothelial cells (ECs) line the inner wall of the blood vessel and experience the friction force of blood flow. This work is focused on designing a device that can expose ECs to forces they would undergo in an aneurysm-susceptible site. This is accomplished by exposing ECs to physiologically relevant Wall Shear Stress (WSS) and vibrations simultaneously. Vibrations in the body occur due to flow separation at the vessel wall, which leads to pressure changes. These pressure changes induce vibrations onto ECs.
The fluid flow in the designed Parallel Plate Flow Chamber (PPFC) is laminar to induce a predictable WSS onto the cells, while the vibrations will induce a rapid cyclical force to simulate pressure fluctuations that may occur in vivo. The aneurysm-susceptible flow will simulate a more turbulent-like flow in the carotid artery; higher maximum WSS (around 2.2 Pa) with vibrations. The aneurysm-protective flow will have a lower WSS maximum (around 0.5 Pa).
The PPFC, made of polycarbonate, is small and light enough to be conveniently vibrated using an electromagnetic vibration stage. The PPFC can be driven by a syringe or peristaltic pump, allowing for either steady or transient waveforms. The PPFC’s fluid domain will not change upon vibration, isolating the effect of vibration on the cells. Also, two side-by-side glass slide slots were included to allow for both protein and mRNA quantification from the same experiment, increasing experimental efficiency and flow-related consistency between the two cell areas.
Simulations using ANSYS Fluent verified the flow field and WSS waveform on the cells for the designed geometry for 3D and 2D cases, as well as verified equal WSS values throughout all areas of ECs. Then, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) was done to verify the predicted flow rate in the machined PPFC given a steady flow rate driven by a syringe pump. Preliminary cell experiments were performed in an incubator under flow and vibration conditions to demonstrate cell survivability.
Photometry of two DQ white dwarfs - search for spots
Creators: name: Vornanen, Tommi
name: Berdyugin, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. The intensity profiles of the C_2 Swan bands in cool DQ white dwarfs cannot be adequately fitted with models that otherwise succesfully reproduce spectral features of the molecule CH in these stars. Initial modelling showed that a two-component atmosphere in the style of a spot might be able to solve the problem. Methods. We photometrically observed the two cool DQ white dwarfs GJ1117 and EGGR78 to search for variability caused by stellar spots. Results. We have not found any such variability, but we estimate the effects of hypothetical spots on lightcurves. We also estimate detection probabilities for spots in different configurations. Alternative explanations of the problem are needed and briefly discussed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, published in A&A
Nutrient Density, Added Sugar, and Fiber Contents of  Commercially Available Fruit Snacks in the United States from  2017 to 2022
Creators: name: Fu, Hao
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Fruit snacks have become a popular and convenient snacking choice and have the potential to contribute to a well-balanced diet. However, the nutritional quality of fruit snack products has not yet been studied in the fruit snack category. This study used the Mintel Global New Product Database to collect fruit snack product data launched in the United States from 2017 to 2022. Fruit snack products (n=2,405) are divided into nine product categories based on product characteristics. We assessed the nutrition profile by using a comprehensive score, Nutrient Rich Food (NRF6.4) model, and examining individual components (added sugar and fiber) among all fruit snack product categories. The results show that dry fruit has the highest nutrient density, fiber content, and lowest added sugar content per Reference Amount Customarily Consumed (RACC). Conversely, fruit-flavored snack has the least nutrient density, fiber content, and the highest added sugar content per RACC. Fruit puree, canned fruit with juice, and dried fruit currently are the only fruit snacks that meet the current recommendations set by the USDA Dietary Guidelines. Decreasing added sugar content, increasing fiber content, and enhancing sensory profile can be the directions for fruit snack product development in the industry.
title: Ανάπτυξη πολυκριτήριου συστήματος υποστήριξης ομαδικών αποφάσεων βασιζόμενο στην ασαφή λογική
title: Development of a fuzzy multicriteria group decision support system
Creators: name: Λαππα Δαφνη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Η επιστήμη της λήψης αποφάσεων κλήθηκε τα τελευταία χρόνια να αντιμετωπίσει τις δυσκολίες που παρουσιάστηκαν από τη συμμετοχή πολλών αποφασιζόντων στη διαδικασία λήψης της απόφασης, κατάσταση που προέκυψε λόγω της μετατόπισης του βάρους της απόφασης σε επιχειρήσεις και οργανισμούς από μεμονωμένα άτομα σε ομάδες ατόμων. Γνωστές μέθοδοι εξελίχθηκαν προκειμένου να διαχειριστούν το παραπάνω πρόβλημα. Πλέον, έχοντας κατακτήσει την επιστημονική βάση πάνω στην οποία πραγματοποιείται η λήψη ομαδικών αποφάσεων ο κλάδος της λήψης αποφάσεων έρχεται αντιμέτωπος με τη δυσκολία μοντελοποίησης της ανθρώπινης σκέψης, της γλώσσας και των λεκτικών μεταβλητών που χρησιμοποιούνται για την αξιολόγηση των εναλλακτικών επιλογών κατά τη διαδικασία λήψης μιας απόφασης.
Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζεται μια νέα μεθοδολογία, GroupFuzzyUTASTAR, βασιζόμενη στην ασαφή λογική για τη λήψη αποφάσεων από ομάδες ατόμων. Η μέθοδος αυτή προέκυψε ως συνδυασμός των τεχνικών μοντελοποίησης που χρησιμοποιούνται στην μέθοδο ασαφούς UTASTAR (fuzzyUTASTAR) με αυτές που χρησιμοποιούνται στην UTASTAR για ομάδα αποφασιζόντων (group UTASTAR).

description: Decision-making science has been called in recent years to address the difficulties encountered by the participation of many decision-makers in the decision-making process, a situation that arose due to the decision weight shifting from individuals to groups, regarding companies and other organizations. Known methods evolved in order to manage this problem. Now, having conquered the scientific basis on which group decisions are made, the scientific sector of decision-making is confronted with the difficulty of modeling human thought and language and the verbal variables that are used to evaluate the options in the decision-making process.
This diploma thesis presents a new methodology, Group Fuzzy UTASTAR, based on fuzzy logic for decision-making by groups. This method emerged as a combination of modelling techniques used in the fuzzy UTASTAR method with those used in UTASTAR for group decision making.
title: Routing Mechanical στο σχεδιαστικό πρόγραμμα NX SIEMENS
title: Construction of a piping system of a fuel installation in the NX SIEMENS design program
Creators: name: Αθανασιου Νικολας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Αντικείμενο μελέτης της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι οι σωληνώσεις και πιο συγκεκριμένα η κατασκευή ενός συστήματος σωληνώσεων μιας εγκατάστασης καυσίμων στο σχεδιαστικό πρόγραμμα NX SIEMENS. Το αντικείμενο των σωληνώσεων και το επιστημονικό υπόβαθρο αυτών, είναι ένα αντικείμενο με ιδιαίτερη σημασία και ενδιαφέρον, αφού πλέον είναι αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι κάθε βιομηχανικής εγκατάστασης. Όσον αφορά τις εγκαταστάσεις καυσίμων, οι σωληνώσεις αποτελούν ένα πάγιο ζήτημα, λόγω της φύσης των υλικών που διέρχονται μέσω αυτών. Στο πρώτο μέρος της πτυχιακής εργασίας γίνεται μία εισαγωγή στην έννοια των σωληνώσεων. Παρουσιάζονται θέματα όπως τα είδη των σωληνώσεων, οι καταλήξεις αυτών, τα υλικά κατασκευής τους κ.α. Στο δεύτερο μέρος, περιγράφονται αναλυτικά οι εντολές σχεδίασης του προγράμματος NX SIEMENS ανά περιβάλλον σχεδίασης. Τα περιβάλλοντα αυτά αντιστοιχούν στα παρακάτω: Αρχική σελίδα, Ανάλυση, Εφαρμογή, Περιβάλλον προγραμματιστή, Περιβάλλον καμπυλών, Περιβάλλον συναρμολόγησης, Αναπαράσταση, Εργαλεία, Προβολή, Οπτική αναφορά, και Επιλογή. Στο τρίτο μέρος, δίνεται η ακολουθία των εντολών  για την σχεδίαση του συστήματος σωληνώσεων εγκατάστασης καυσίμων. Ειδικότερα, τα μέρη τα οποία σχεδιάστηκαν και συνθέτουν το τελικό αντικείμενο είναι: Plug Valve, Ball Valve, Αντλία, Flanged Filter, Μετρητής, Μανόμετρο, Φλάντζα συγκόλλησης λαιμού, Υ - φίλτρα, Αγκώνας, Δεξαμενή, και Βραχίονας. Τέλος, το τέταρτο μέρος περιέχει την απεικόνιση της εγκατάστασης την οποία σχεδιάσαμε, καθώς και φωτογραφικό υλικό από μία πραγματική αντίστοιχη εγκατάσταση.
description: The subject of the diploma thesis is piping systems and more specifically the construction of a piping system of a fuel installation in the NX SIEMENS design program.. Piping systems and their scientific background is an object of particular importance and interest, since it is now an integral part of any industrial installation. As far as fuel installations are concerned, piping systems are always a critical issue due to the nature of the materials passing through them. The first part of the thesis is an introduction to the concept of piping. Subjects such as piping types, their endings, their construction materials, etc. are presented. In the second part, the design commands of the NX SIEMENS are described in detail by design environment. These environments are: Home, Analysis, Application, Developer, Curve, Assemblies, Render, Tool, View, Visual reporting and Selection. In the third part, it is given the sequence of commands for the design of the piping system of the fuel installation. In particular, the parts designed and compose the final object are: Plug Valve, Ball Valve, Pump, Flanged Filter, Measurer, Manometer, Weld neck flange, Y-Strainer, Elbow, Tank, and the Filler. Finally, the fourth part illustrates the installation that we designed, as well as photographs from a real corresponding installation.
IMPACT OF FERMENTED AND NON-FERMENTED PLANT-BASED FOODS  SUPPLEMENTATION ON GUT MICROBIOTA AND METABOLITES IN C57BL/6J  MICE
Creators: name: Gandhi, Priya Darshan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Plant-based proteins have gained popularity because of their high nutritional value and more sustainable alternative to animal-based proteins. Soybean and chickpea are two widely consumed plant-based proteins, whereas tempeh is a popular plant-based fermented whole food product that is rich in protein. With the increase in the development of plant-based food products, there is little research into how plant proteins affect gut microbiota characteristics and metabolites. Therefore, there is a need to understand the underlying mechanisms surrounding the consumption of these foods. The purpose of this study was to investigate the health benefits of soybean, chickpea, and their tempeh counterparts’ consumption as whole foods on the gut microbiota and metabolites.
Our results showed that soybean tempeh significantly increased the abundance of beneficial probiotic bacteria such as Roseburia and Ruminiclostridium 5 in the gut microbiota of mice. Additionally, soybean tempeh and soybean significantly increased Muribaculaeceae abundance, known to increase SCFA production in the colon. Lachnospiraceae NKA136 was significantly increased in soybean tempeh, soybean, and chickpea groups which may allow these foods to be used as a way of probiotic restoration. Our results showed that all dietary supplementation groups had significantly altered metabolic profiles compared to the control group. The soybean tempeh group had higher levels of peroxide (vitamin B6), myoinositol, and tetrahydrobiopterin while the chickpea tempeh group had higher levels of metabolites such as 3 hydroxyanthranilic acid. The soybean group had higher levels of metabolites such as 3-hydroxytryptophan (Oxitriptan) whereas the chickpea protein group had higher levels of metabolites such as 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid and oxitriptan.
In conclusion, our study suggests that different plant-based foods can have distinct effects on gut microbiota and metabolic profiles in mice. These findings may have implications for human health and warrant further investigation into the effects of plant protein consumption on human metabolism.
title: Ανάπτυξη μεθοδολογίας και συστήματος προσωποποιημένων συστάσεων ηλεκτρονικών παιχνιδιών
Creators: name: Παπαδημητριου Θεοδωρος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Η εργασία αυτή αφορά την ανάπτυξη μιας πολυκριτήριας μεθοδολογίας και ενός συστήματος συστάσεων, το οποίο βασιζόμενο στο προφίλ και τις απαιτήσεις των χρηστών (παικτών ηλεκτρονικών παιχνιδιών) και λαμβάνοντας υπόψη του τα χαρακτηριστικά των παιχνιδιών, θα αξιολογεί και θα προτείνει εκείνα τα ηλεκτρονικά παιχνίδια(video games) που θα του ταιριάζουν. Για την υλοποίηση του συστήματος έγινε χρήση του Steam Web Api για την εξαγωγή στοιχείων για τους χρήστες που είχαν το προφίλ τους δημόσιο. Παράλληλα αντλήθηκαν πληροφορίες για τα ηλεκτρονικά παιχνίδια και από άλλες ιστοσελίδες. Τα δεδομένα αυτά χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για τη δημιουργία των προφίλ των χρηστών και των παιχνιδιών και εν συνεχεία στη δημιουργία των σχετικών πολυκριτήριων πινάκων. Έγινε ανάλυση του δείγματος και εξόρυξη δεδομένων με χρήση τεχνικών συσταδοποίησης και ταξινόμησης.  Με χρήση της Utastar και του αλγορίθμου k-means δημιουργείται μια λίστα προτεινόμενων παιχνιδιών για κάθε χρήστη της πλατφόρμας.
Imagining the “Day of Reckoning”: American Jewish Performance Activism during the Holocaust
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Maya C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Scholars of American Jewish history have long debated the complicity of the American Jewish community in the loss of six million Jewish lives in Europe during the Holocaust. After Hitler took power in 1933, American Jewish leaders took to the streets to protest the Nazi Party’s abuse of German Jews. Two central figures in this history are Reform Rabbi Stephen Wise and Revisionist Zionist Ben Hecht because of their wide-reaching protest movements that operated in competition with each other. Although the historiography presents Wise and Hecht's inability to unite as the product of difference, my examination of their protest performances presents a novel picture of similarity. Despite their ideological antagonism, Wise and Hecht's shared cultural identities, as both Americans and Jews, produced pageants with decidedly similar elements. The three productions studied here – The Case of Civilization Against Hitler (1934), Stop Hitler Now (1943), and We Will Never Die (1943) – were reflective of these identities. Appealing to their Americanness, they performed rituals of democratic justice. Appealing to their Jewishness, they presented Jewish prayer, iconography, and ritual related to divine justice. In highlighting the parallels in the performances, I read their actions as successful insofar as they appealed to a diverse American Jewish audience.
title: Υπολογισμός πιθανότητας εμφάνισης ατυχήματος στο χώρο εξυπηρέτησης αεροσκαφών στο αεροδρόμιο ‘Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης’ και μελέτη επιρροής παραγόντων αυτών
title: Calculation of the possibility of an accident in an aircraft turnaround at Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport and analysis of performance of the influencing factors
Creators: name: Μανης Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια όλο και περισσότεροι φορείς ερευνούν τα αεροπορικά ατυχήματα που λαμβάνουν χώρα στο έδαφος στο χρόνο μεταξύ της προσγείωσης, εξυπηρέτησης και απογείωσης του αεροσκάφους. Αυτές οι διαδικασίες απασχολούν  προσωπικό καθώς επίσης και εξοπλισμός υψηλού κόστους και εμπεριέχουν εργασίες όπως ο ανεφοδιασμός του αεροσκάφους, έλεγχο πριν και μετά την πτήση του αεροσκάφους, χειρισμό αποσκευών κλπ.  Τα κόστη σε ένα ατύχημα είναι πολύ υψηλά είτε το ατύχημα επηρεάσει το έμψυχο δυναμικό της εταιρείας είτε τον εξοπλισμό αυτής. 								Στην παρούσα εργασία λαμβάνοντας ως αφορμή τις όλο και αυξανόμενες απαιτήσεις στο αεροδρόμιο ‘Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης’ του νομού Χανίων Κρήτης λόγω της ραγδαίας ανάπτυξης του κλάδου του τουρισμού, θα αναπτυχθεί ένας τρόπος υπολογισμού πιθανότητας εμφάνισης ενός ατυχήματος στο χρονικό διάστημα μεταξύ προσγείωσης και απογείωσης του αεροσκάφους στο συγκεκριμένο αεροδρόμιο έχοντας ως στόχο την ελαχιστοποίηση αυτής. Ο υπολογισμός αυτός θα γίνει λαμβάνοντας ως βάση τον ανθρώπινο παράγοντα, και θα προσμετρηθούν παράγοντες όπως είναι η εκπαίδευση προσωπικού, ο έλεγχος κατά την εργασία, μέτρα ασφαλείας, παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την ανθρώπινη επίδοση κ.α καθώς επίσης και το ποσοστό επιρροής καθενός από αυτά.
TAU2012 Summary
Creators: name: Pich, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main highlights discussed at TAU2012 are briefly summarized. Besides the standard topics on lepton physics covered also at previous conferences (universality, QCD tests, V_{us} determination from tau decay, g-2, neutrino oscillations, lepton-flavour violation), the tau lepton is playing now a very important role in searches for new physics phenomena.
description: Physics Summary at the 12th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2012)
Storage of Potatoes in Pallet Boxes for Chip Manufacture
Creators: name: Findlen, H.
name: Findlen, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: Potato chip companies now attempt to obtain potatoes that can be processed at once into light-colored chips, without reconditioning the potatoes at the chip plant. Storage temperatures much below 50° F. result in excessive accumulation of reducing-sugars in potatoes and consequent undesirable dark-colored chips. Although raising the temperature to 70° to 80° for 1 to 4 weeks following cool storage may restore the potatoes to the desired condition, this process is costly and uncertain. High real-estate values at many of the chip plant locations make extensive reconditioning facilities too costly there. Moreover, a certain amount of risk is involved in reconditioning potatoes. Sometimes this process cannot be accomplished at all or within a reasonable length of time. By the time the processor has determined this, the potatoes have become almost worthless for other uses because of sprouting, shriveling, and decay. Potatoes stored at 50° F. or higher soon begin to sprout and unless used shortly after sprouting begins, excessive loss of weight results. Zukel was probably the first to demonstrate that the foliar application of maleic hydrazide (MH) would inhibit potato sprouting at moderate temperatures. Following this discovery many investigators gave attention to this problem. Results of many studies show that application 4 to 6 weeks before harvest at the rate of 2 to 3 pounds of the active ingredient per acre was apparently best. Patterson and others obtained beneficial effects on the specific gravity and color of potato chips from the use of maleic hydrazide, but in general other workers have not obtained these effects. This report deals with a study of pilot-plant size to test the commercial feasibility of storing potatoes in 1-ton pallet boxes that could be handled with forklift equipment, at temperatures high enough to insure good chip color and yield by using foliar applications of MH to prevent excessive sprouting during long storage.
title: Μεταφορά οργανισμών μέσω του θαλάσσιου έρματος των πλοίων: ανάλυση επιπτώσεων και μέθοδοι εξάλειψης του προβλήματος
title: Transfer of organisms through ships’ ballast water: impact analysis and eradication methods
Creators: name: Κοτζια Αμαλια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Στόχος της διπλωματικής αποτελεί η ανάλυση του προβλήματος της μεταφοράς οργανισμών μέσω των διαδικασιών ερματισμού και αφερματισμού των πλοίων. Η μεταφορά αλλόχθονων οργανισμών μέσω του νερού-έρματος προκαλεί σημαντικές επιπτώσεις, τόσο στο περιβάλλον όσο και στην οικονομία. Η θέσπιση διεθνών ναυτιλιακών κανονισμών, με ενιαία εφαρμογή παγκοσμίως, αποτελεί τρόπο βελτίωσης της ασφάλειας της θάλασσας. Ηγετικό ρόλο στη ρύθμιση του προβλήματος κατέχει ο Διεθνής Ναυτιλιακός Οργανισμός (ΙΜΟ) με τη θέσπιση της Σύμβασης για τον έλεγχο και τη διαχείριση του νερού έρματος και των ιζημάτων των πλοίων, στις 13 Φεβρουαρίου του 2004. Εξίσου σημαντικό ρόλο έχουν βέβαια και τα κράτη ξεχωριστά μέσω διεθνών κανονισμών, όπως η Αμερικανική Ακτοφυλακή (USCG). Αναγνωρίζοντας την ανάγκη για μεθόδους επεξεργασίας του έρματος, έχει αναπτυχθεί μεγάλος αριθμός συστημάτων τα οποία όμως πρέπει να λάβουν πιστοποιητικό έγκρισης τύπου. Η μεταφορά ξενικών οργανισμών προκαλεί σημαντικές περιβαλλοντικές επιπτώσεις, καθώς πραγματοποιείται ανάμειξη οικοσυστημάτων. Σοβαρό αντίκτυπο έχει και για την ανθρώπινη υγεία, λόγω των ασθενειών που μεταφέρουν οι νέοι αυτοί πληθυσμοί. Τέλος μην ξεχνάμε και τις οικονομικές επιπτώσεις προκειμένου να επιτύχουν συμμόρφωση με τους κανόνες που αφορούν τη διαχείριση του έρματος.
description: The purpose of the thesis is to analyze the problem of organism transference during the process of ballasting and deballasting a ship. The transference of alien organisms through the water-ballast significantly affects both the natural environment and the economy. The establishment of international maritime regulations, which apply universally, is an additional means in protecting the marine environment. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) plays a pivotal role in attempts to tackle the problem, by drafting the 13th February 2013 Convention for the control and management of ballast water and sediments of the ships. An equally central role is nonetheless also held by each individual country through its own services, like the United States Coast Guard (USCG), which help ensure the observance of the international regulations. The recognition of the need for ballast treatment methods has led to the development of a wide range of ballast treatment systems, which must, however, be issued a type-approval certificate. The transference of alien organisms has serious environmental implications, as different ecosystems are mixed. It also has a significant impact on human health, because of the diseases that these organisms carry and transfer. Last but not least, we should not neglect the financial consequences that derive from the effort to achieve a general compliance to the ballast management regulations.
Cold fronts and metal anisotropies in the X-ray cool core of the galaxy cluster Zw1742+3306
Creators: name: Ettori, S.
name: Gastaldello, F.
name: Gitti, M.
name: O'Sullivan, E.
name: Gaspari, M.
name: Brighenti, F.
name: David, L.
name: Edge, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Context) In recent years, our understanding of the cool cores of galaxy clusters has changed. Once thought to be relatively simple places where gas cools and flows toward the centre, now they are believed to be very dynamic places where heating from the central Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) and cooling, as inferred from active star formation, molecular gas, and Halpha nebulosity, find an uneasy energetic balance. (Aims) We want to characterize the X-ray properties of the nearby cool-core cluster Zw1742+3306, selected because it is bright at X-ray (with a flux greater than 1e-11 erg/s/cm2 in the 0.1-2.4 keV band) and Halpha wavelengths (Halpha luminosity > 1e40 erg/s). (Methods) We used Chandra data to analyze the spatial and spectral properties of the cool core of Zw1742+3306, a galaxy cluster at z=0.0757 that emits in Halpha and presents the brightest central galaxy located in a diffuse X-ray emission with multiple peaks in surface brightness. (Results) We show that the X-ray cool core of the galaxy cluster Zw1742+3306 is thermodynamically very active with evidence of cold fronts and a weak shock in the surface brightness map and of an apparently coherent, elongated structure with metallicity greater than the value measured in the surrounding ambient gas by about 50 per cent. This anisotropic structure is 280 x 90 kpc2 and is aligned with the cold fronts and with the X-ray emission on larger scales. We suggest that all these peculiarities in the X-ray emission of Zw1742+3306 are either a very fine-tuned output of a sloshing gas in the cluster core or the product of a metal-rich outflow from the central AGN.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures. A&A in press. Minor changes to match accepted version
No One is Alone: Directing Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods
Creators: name: Ramirez, Alexandro R
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

This thesis is an account of my directorial process for the Spring 2023 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods. I begin by illustrating how this show speaks to the contemporary political and social moment in the United States through a libretto and score that insists the only way to battle the giants brought on by the pursuit of individual goals is for a community to take responsibility for its errors and work together. I put Into the Woods in conversation with the cartoon series Over the Garden Wall to ground the show in an American context, discussing how our designers drew inspiration for the cartoon’s use of 19th Century American folk aesthetics and distorted images of monstrous figures to develop a unique approach to the world of the play. I then chronicle the audition and rehearsal process, including the incorporation of Michael Chekhov technique into character creation as well as the paths individual actors took to know and embody their characters. I offer an account of some of the unique problems we faced during tech week and how we, like the very characters in the story we were telling, came together to overcome the difficulties we faced. I conclude with an account of the performances and how I have taken the lessons from this process into the professional work I have undertaken since.
No hay burlas con el amor
Creators: name: Resta, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Calderón
No hay burlas con el amor
Métrica dramática
Segmentación dramática
Bibliografía

description: Calderón Digital: base de datos, argumentos y motivos del teatro de Calderón (dir. Fausta Antonucci). Ficha dedicada a No hay burlas con el amor, con datos bibliográficos primarios y secundarios, fecha probable de composición, cómputo de las formas métricas, análisis de las coordenadas espacio-temporales, adscripción genérica y sinopsis argumental detallada, con indicación de los principales motivos (diegéticos y simbólicos) y propuesta de segmentación articulada según los cambios de forma métrica, de espacio y tiempo dramáticos.
title: Μελέτη ενίσχυσης διαστρωματικής τοιχοποιίας με χρήση μεταλλικών ράβδων με την μέθοδο πεπερασμένων στοιχείων
Creators: name: Γουλοδημος Παναγιωτης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2018

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία αφορά την μελέτη τεσσάρων διαφορετικών μοντέλων τοιχοποιίας, τα οποία έχουν αποτελέσει τεστ δοκιμών σε διάφορες έρευνες (Oliveira et al. 2006), αποτελούμενα από τρία φύλλα-στρώσεις το καθένα, με τον διαχωρισμό τους να έγκειται στο είδος της ποιότητας του γεμίσματος αλλά και στο αν ο τοίχος έχει ενισχυθεί ή όχι με δύο μεταλλικές ράβδους. Αρχικά τα μοντέλα σχεδιάστηκαν στο λογισμικό SolidWorks 2016, το οποίο αποτελεί πρόγραμμα τρισδιάστατης σχεδίασης CAD, με το κάθε μοντέλο να είναι διαστάσεων 600 x 300 x 1100 mm και να αποτελείται από τρία κομμάτια (parts),το κονίαμα, τους λίθους και τέλος το εσωτερικό γέμισμα με το καθένα να παρουσιάζει τις δικές του μηχανικές ιδιότητες. Πιο συγκεκριμένα η πρώτη κατηγοριοποίηση αφορά την χρησιμοποίηση είτε χαμηλής είτε υψηλής ποιότητας γεμίσματος ενώ η δεύτερη κατηγοριοποίηση αφορά στο αν η τοιχοποιία έχει ενισχυθεί ή όχι με δύο μεταλλικές ράβδους πάχους 10 mm, οι οποίες τοποθετήθηκαν σε δύο θέσεις στο μέσο του μήκους και στο 1/3 και 2/3 του ύψους του τοίχου. Επίσης τα δύο εξωτερικά φύλλα απαρτίζονται από λίθους διαστάσεων 150-250 mm τόσο σε μήκος όσο και σε πλάτος και πάχους 100 mm ενώ το εσωτερικό γέμισμα είναι διαστάσεων 600 x 100 x 1100 mm. Εν συνεχεία τα μοντέλα εισήχθησαν στο λογισμικό Abaqus 2012 ,το οποίο αποτελεί πρόγραμμα υποβοηθούμενης μηχανικής CAE, όπου και έγινε χρήση της μεθόδου των πεπερασμένων στοιχείων.
Prevention of What? Competing Biological Citizenship Claims and the Biopolitics of Autism Prevention
Creators: name: Grogan, Helene D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

In the early 2000s, the idea of an “autism epidemic” spurred State action to expand research into autism’s causes and corresponding efforts at prevention, an effort overseen by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). However, the language of autism prevention in the IACC’s Strategic Plan changed dramatically between 2009 and 2017, from the wholesale prevention of autism to prevention of its “most disabling aspects.” Through an analysis of IACC meeting transcripts during this timeframe, I trace the process by which this language was changed, with particular attention to the often-conflicting ways in which autistic self-advocates and non-autistic parent advocates framed autism itself. These conflicting conceptions of autism led to conflicting biological citizenship claims regarding the value of prevention, to which the IACC responded by attempting to appease both sides through language without substantially changing its aims. This process highlights the importance of framing in biological citizenship claims, as well as the persistence of the biopower State in asserting the need to regulate the existence of disability in the population.
title: Αυτοπροσαμοζόμενο σύστημα πρόβλεψης της ζήτησης των ΕΓΕΔ (Έντοκων Γραμματίων Ελληνικού Δημοσίου) με βάση ένα οικονομετρικό μοντέλο
Creators: name: Αντωνιάδου Μαρία
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1992

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Sketch-based Querying of Distributed Sliding-Window Data Streams
Creators: name: Papapetrou, Odysseas
name: Garofalakis, Minos
name: Deligiannakis, Antonios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While traditional data-management systems focus on evaluating single, ad-hoc queries over static data sets in a centralized setting, several emerging applications require (possibly, continuous) answers to queries on dynamic data that is widely distributed and constantly updated. Furthermore, such query answers often need to discount data that is "stale", and operate solely on a sliding window of recent data arrivals (e.g., data updates occurring over the last 24 hours). Such distributed data streaming applications mandate novel algorithmic solutions that are both time- and space-efficient (to manage high-speed data streams), and also communication-efficient (to deal with physical data distribution). In this paper, we consider the problem of complex query answering over distributed, high-dimensional data streams in the sliding-window model. We introduce a novel sketching technique (termed ECM-sketch) that allows effective summarization of streaming data over both time-based and count-based sliding windows with probabilistic accuracy guarantees. Our sketch structure enables point as well as inner-product queries, and can be employed to address a broad range of problems, such as maintaining frequency statistics, finding heavy hitters, and computing quantiles in the sliding-window model. Focusing on distributed environments, we demonstrate how ECM-sketches of individual, local streams can be composed to generate a (low-error) ECM-sketch summary of the order-preserving aggregation of all streams; furthermore, we show how ECM-sketches can be exploited for continuous monitoring of sliding-window queries over distributed streams. Our extensive experimental study with two real-life data sets validates our theoretical claims and verifies the effectiveness of our techniques. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work to address efficient, guaranteed-error complex query answ...[truncated].
description: VLDB2012
title: Ενας αλγόριθμος εύρεσης θέσης και ασφαλούς μονοπατιού για ένα αυτοκινούμενο ρομπότ
Creators: name: Κόκκορης Μιχάλης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1992

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Chilling Injury and Alternaria Rot of Bell Peppers
Creators: name: McColloch, Lacy P.
name: McColloch, Lacy P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: Mature-green bell peppers are subject to chilling injury and should not be stored at temperatures below 45° F. Each year chilling injury takes its toll of peppers during marketing, because some produce handlers do not know of the sensitiveness of bell peppers to low temperatures. This study was prompted by the problem of protecting fresh peppers by refrigeration without causing chilling injury. This is part of a broad program of marketing research aimed at reducing spoilage of farm products and maintaining their quality during marketing. The purpose of the study was to determine the time-temperature relationship to chilling injury of bell peppers, determine and describe symptoms of chilling injury, relate the occurrence of alternaria rot to chilling injury, and bring together information needed by produce handlers on the proper temperatures for peppers during marketing.
title: Τεχνοοικονομική μελέτη επενδυτικού έργου τυποποίησης ελαιολάδου και αξιολόγησή του
Creators: name: Ψαρομηλίγκου Καλλιόπη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1993

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Theories of Urban Form
Creators: name: Kiss, Daniel
name: Kretz, Simon
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2016
Subjects: STADTPLANUNGSTHEORIE (STÄDTEBAU)
THEORY OF URBAN PLANNING (BUILT ENVIRONMENT)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/710
Civic & landscape art

description: This reader takes a journey through different positions concerning form in the urban design discourse of the last half a century, with special regard to the reciprocal relationships between material space and human activities. It discusses early post-modern concepts of form, inspired by the urban texture’s figure-ground relations, as well as theories that qualify form through its performance, its social-material relations or operations of its emergence. The aim thereby is to offer a basic grid, which allows for the periodization of different form theories and provides orientation for their discussion, comparison and synthesis.
Fractionation in the Evolution of Syntenic Homology in Coffea Arabica
Creators: name: Yu, Zhe
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: fractionation
Coffea
gene loss
run length
pseudogene
plant evolution

description: Gene loss is the obverse of novel gene acquisition by a genome through a variety of evolutionary processes. It serves a number of functional and structural roles, compensating for the energy and material costs of gene complement expansion. A type of gene loss widespread in the lineages of plant genomes is ``fractionation" after whole genome doubling or tripling, where one of a pair or triplet of paralogous genes in parallel syntenic contexts is discarded. Based on previous mathematical work on the distribution of gap sizes caused by fractionation in synteny blocks, we studied fractionation in the evolutionary history of the allotetraploid Coffea arabica (CA) and its two diploid progenitors, C. canephora (CC) and C. eugenioides (CE), annotated genome assemblies being provided by the Arabica Coffee Genome Consortium. By taking advantage of synteny blocks produced by SynMap, we studied the fractionation process after speciation and tetraploidization events, including visualization and modelling the distribution of deletion segments, and mechanisms of deletion events. We also expanded the research to eight other plant species to verify the dominance of DNA excision over pseudigenization during the fractionation and other gene loss.
The Impact of Cannabidiol on Intestinal Tumorigenesis: A  Pilot Study on Caco-2 Cell
Creators: name: Guan, Yingxue
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most prevalent cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Despite the availability of early diagnosis and treatment options, which could potentially increase the 5-year survival rate, the accessibility of such CRC management measures remains limited due to cost barriers and uneven healthcare infrastructure globally. This underscores an urgent need for effective preventive methods and affordable treatments. Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from cannabis, has garnered attention as a potential natural therapeutic agent. This study investigates the influence of CBD on the serotonin pathway and intestinal tumorigenesis. Serotonin, primarily produced in the intestine, is not only a critical neurotransmitter but also has complex and multifaceted biological functions. In this investigation, Caco-2 cells were exposed to CBD, and we observed an increase in serotonin levels. The treatment elevated the expression of several genes related to serotonin such as TPH, SLC6A4, HTR2A, HTR1D, HTR2C, and HTR4, with a notable increase in TPH and HTR2C. Concurrently, CBD exhibited an enhancement in immune response and significant inhibition of the Wnt signaling pathway, implying a protective role of CBD in CRC. Given the dual roles of serotonin in CRC - protective in early stages and promotive in later stages — the interaction between serotonin, the Wnt signaling pathway, and the immune system necessitates further research. Our findings shed new light on the potential role of CBD in inflammatory colorectal tumors, suggesting that CBD could be a promising candidate for CRC immunotherapy. Key words: Canabidiol, Colorectal Cancer, Serotonin pathway, Wnt-signaling.
Política e cinema na era da Boa Vizinhança (1933-1945)
Creators: name: Albertin de Moraes, Isaías
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: International relations
Cinema studies

description: O presente artigo apresenta uma análise histórica da Política Externa de Boa Vizinhança para América Latina, particularmente no Brasil, e de sua principal instituição o Office of the coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), destacando sua divisão de cinema, a Motion Picture Division (MPD). Essas instituições são analisadas pelo enfoque teórico dos construtivistas modernistas-linguistas. Assim, o texto busca destacar a importância da construção de uma infraestrutura física, discursiva e humana com habilidade para selecionar, organizar, regular e redistribuir os discursos enunciados pela Política Externa de Boa Vizinhança no setor da indústria cinematográfica.
A GA-based household scheduler
Creators: name: Meister, Konrad
name: Frick, Martin
name: Axhausen, Kay W.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2004
Subjects: Scheduler
Household
GA
Rhythm
Travel behavior
Activity analysis
Zeitplanung
Mehrpersonen-Haushalt
Zielwahl
Verkehrsmittel

description: Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 241
Additional file 1 of Inequalities in local government spending on cultural, environmental and planning services: a time-trend analysis in England, Scotland, and Wales
Creators: name: Fahy, Katie
name: Alexiou, Alexandros
name: Mason, Kate
name: Bennett, Davara
name: Egan, Matt
name: Taylor-Robinson, David
name: Barr, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1