cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the Utility of Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Population Health Surveillance Indicator for Children and Youth: An International Analysis of Results from the 20 M Shuttle Run Test
Creators: name: Lang, Justin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Adolescent
Systematic review
Aerobic
Public health
Physical activity

description: Emerging evidence has demonstrated the strong link between cardiorespiratory fitness and multiple aspects of health (i.e., physiological, physical, psychosocial, cognitive), independent of physical activity, among school-aged children and youth. Cardiorespiratory fitness is a trait that does not vary substantially from day-to-day, and provides an indication of recent physical activity levels, making it an important possible indicator of population health. Thus, the objective of this dissertation was to investigate the utility of cardiorespiratory fitness, measured using the 20 m shuttle run test, as a broad, holistic health indicator for population health surveillance among children and youth. To achieve this objective we completed seven manuscripts, all prepared for submission to peer-reviewed, scientific journals: 1. Systematic review of the relationship between 20 m shuttle run performance and health indicators among children and youth. 2. Review of criterion-referenced standards for cardiorespiratory fitness: What percentage of 1 142 026 international children and youth are apparently healthy? 3. Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with physical literacy among Canadian children aged 8 to 12 years. 4. International variability in 20 m shuttle run performance in children and youth: Who are the fittest from a 50-country comparion? A systematic review with pooling of aggregate results. 5. Making a case for cardiorespiratory fitness surveillance among children and youth. 6. International normative 20 m shuttle run values from 1 142 026 children and youth representing 50 countries. 7. Temporal trends in the cardiorespiratory fitness of 965 264 children and youth representing 19 countries since 1981. Combined, this dissertation provides support for the importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for health surveillance among school-aged children and youth. Results from the international analysis highlighted the variability across countries, with countries in North-Central Europe and Africa having the highest cardiorespiratory fitness, and countries in South America having the lowest cardiorespiratory fitness. The results indicated that declines in cardiorespirtory fitness may have stabilized in recent years in some high- and middle-income countries. This dissertation also identified two methods (criterion- and normative-referenced standards) to interpret cardiorespirtory fitness levels among children and youth, methods that could be used to inform future consensus, surveillance, and cardiorespiratory fitness guidelines.
Exploring Potential Sites for Salinity Gradient Renewable Energy on the North Carolina Coast and Evaluating the Potential Effects of Local Salinity Regime Variation on SAV Communities due to Reverse Electrodialysis Effluent
Creators: name: Palko, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: North Carolina has many rivers, tributaries, and back barrier sounds that form complex estuarine systems, the largest of which is the Albemarle Pamlico Estuarine System. The extensive nature of North Carolina estuaries’ vertical and horizontal salinity gradients makes this region a suitable subject for the exploration of salinity gradient energy as an alternative clean energy source. Geographic Information Systems was used to analyze North Carolina salinity data and explore potential natural and anthropogenic salinity gradient energy sites. Though salinity gradients exist within North Carolina estuaries, it was found that citing options were limited due to the proximity of high and low salinity water and the salinity variability at potential sites. The potential environmental impacts of salinity gradient energy and reverse electrodialysis technology, primarily installation effluent-induced salinity change effects on submerged aquatic vegetation growth, distribution, and abundance, were evaluated through literature review. Results were compiled in an annotated bibliography.
Exploratory data analysis for moderate extreme values using non-parametric kernel methods
Creators: name: Beranger, Boris
name: Duong, Tarn
name: Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E.
name: Sisson, Scott A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many settings it is critical to accurately model the extreme tail behaviour of a random process. Non-parametric density estimation methods are commonly implemented as exploratory data analysis techniques for this purpose as they possess excellent visualisation properties, and can naturally avoid the model specification biases implied by using parametric estimators. In particular, kernel-based estimators place minimal assumptions on the data, and provide improved visualisation over scatterplots and histograms. However kernel density estimators are known to perform poorly when estimating extreme tail behaviour, which is important when interest is in process behaviour above some large threshold, and they can over-emphasise bumps in the density for heavy tailed data. In this article we develop a transformation kernel density estimator, and demonstrate that its mean integrated squared error (MISE) efficiency is equivalent to that of standard, non-tail focused kernel density estimators. Estimator performance is illustrated in numerical studies, and in an expanded analysis of the ability of well known global climate models to reproduce observed temperature extremes in Sydney, Australia.
title: Der Begriff Meister_in in den Kampfkünsten
Creators: name: Von Saldern, Matthias
Publisher: name: Journal of Martial Arts Research
Year: 2020

description: Der Begriff Meister_in ist integraler Bestandteil der Praxis der Kampfkünste. Um dessen Stellenwert herauszuarbeiten erfolgt als erstes eine sprachliche Abgrenzung zu den Begriffen des Trainers bzw. Lehrers. Es schließt sich die Frage nach den notwendigen Kompetenzen an und geht über in die kulturelle Einbettung des Begriffes beispielhaft diskutiert an den unterschiedlichen Religionen. Weitere Analysen werden sich der historischen Perspektive ebenso widmen müssen wie der ethische Frage, welche Verantwortung Meister_innen zu tragen haben.
description: Journal of Martial Arts Research, Bd. 3 Nr. 2 (2020): Nachdrucke von KuK 2013
The Incubot: A 3D Printer-Based Microscope for Long-Term Live Cell Imaging within a Tissue Culture Incubator
Creators: name: Merces, George
name: Pickering, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: automation
subject: microscopy
subject: tissue culture

description: The Incubot is an open-source project developed by the Pickering Lab (University College Dublin) to facilitate long-term physiological imaging of tissue culture monolayers within a commercial incubator. The hardware is constructed of a commercial desktop 3D printer, using 3D printed components and commercially available mechanical components to allow for XYZ imaging over time. A graphic user interface is also included to facilitate use of the hardware by users.
On Modules over Infinite Group Rings
Creators: name: Carlsson, Gunnar
name: Goldfarb, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $Γ$ be an infinite discrete group. The algebraic $K$-theory of the group ring $R[Γ]$ is an important object of computation in geometric topology and number theory. When the group ring is Noetherian there is a companion $G$-theory of $R[Γ]$ which is often easier to compute. However, it is exceptionally rare that the group ring is Noetherian for an infinite group. In this paper, we define a version of $G$-theory for any finitely generated discrete group. This construction is based on the coarse geometry of the group. Therefore it has some expected properties such as independence from the choice of a word metric. We prove that, whenever $R$ is a regular Noetherian ring of finite global homological dimension and $Γ$ has finite asymptotic dimension and a finite model for the classifying space $BΓ$, the natural Cartan map from the $K$-theory of $R[Γ]$ to $G$-theory is an equivalence. On the other hand, our $G$-theory is indeed better suited for computation as we show in a separate paper. Some results and constructions in this paper might be of independent interest as we learn to construct projective resolutions of finite type for certain modules over group rings.
description: 13 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1305.3349
Ratiometric Organic Fibers for Localized and Reversible Ion Sensing with Micrometer-Scale Spatial Resolution
Creators: name: del Mercato, Loretta L.
name: Moffa, Maria
name: Rinaldi, Rosaria
name: Pisignano, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental issue in biomedical and environmental sciences is the development of sensitive and robust sensors able to probe the analyte of interest, under physiological and pathological conditions or in environmental samples, and with very high spatial resolution. In this work, novel hybrid organic fibers that can effectively report the analyte concentration within the local microenvironment are reported. The nanostructured and flexible wires are prepared by embedding fluorescent pH sensors based on seminaphtho-rhodafluor-1-dextran conjugate. By adjusting capsule/polymer ratio and spinning conditions, the diameter of the fibers and the alignment of the reporting capsules are both tuned. The hybrid wires display excellent stability, high sensitivity, as well as reversible response, and their operation relies on effective diffusional kinetic coupling of the sensing regions and the embedding polymer matrix. These devices are believed to be a powerful new sensing platform for clinical diagnostics, bioassays and environmental monitoring.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures, Small, 2015
On a Turán problem in weakly quasirandom 3-uniform hypergraphs
Creators: name: Reiher, Christian
name: Rödl, Vojtěch
name: Schacht, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C35 (primary), 05C65, 05C80 (secondary)

description: Extremal problems for $3$-uniform hypergraphs are known to be very difficult and despite considerable effort the progress has been slow. We suggest a more systematic study of extremal problems in the context of quasirandom hypergraphs. We say that a $3$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ is weakly $(d,η)$-quasirandom if for any subset $U\subseteq V$ the number of hyperedges of $H$ contained in $U$ is in the interval $d\binom{|U|}{3}\pmη|V|^3$. We show that for any $\varepsilon>0$ there exists $η>0$ such that every sufficiently large weakly $(1/4+\varepsilon,η)$-quasirandom hypergraph contains four vertices spanning at least three hyperedges. This was conjectured by Erdős and Sós and it is known that the density $1/4$ is best possible. Recently, a computer assisted proof of this result based on the flag-algebra method was established by Glebov, Král', and Volec. In contrast to their work our proof presented here is based on the regularity method of hypergraphs and requires no heavy computations. In addition we obtain an ordered version of this result. The method of our proof allows us to study extremal problems of this type in a more systematic way and we discuss a few extensions and open problems here.
description: 24 pages, second version addresses changes arising from the referee reports. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.02289
THE DYNAMICS BETWEEN MIGRATION AND LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE (LULCC) IN BURKINA FASO: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Nebie, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climatic changes
Environmental management

description: In Burkina Faso, population pressure on land cover, fragmenting agricultural units and reduced rainfall have exacerbated land degradation. The long-term failure to balance human interferences and natural degrading processes with natural reproduction and restorative management efforts has initiated Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC). In northern Burkina Faso, land degradation has stimulated a large migration toward more fertile areas of the south. While northern provinces such as Bam Province in Burkina Faso are being rehabilitated by Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) projects, southern provinces, such as Sissili Province, considered more "pristine," have been neglected. Recently, researchers have been highlighting the role of demographic pressure and agro-pastoral activities on land degradation in Sissili. However, comparative research between provinces of departure and destination has not yet been undertaken. This paper, informed by regional political ecology, integrates LULCC data with ethnographic and demographic information to compare the dynamics between migration and LULCC trends in Bam and Sissili. This comparison assesses whether these provinces are migration `sources' or `sinks.' The results show that migration correlates with LULCC and detect greater LULCC in in-migration areas and little LULCC in areas of out-migration.
Sibotes Frauenerziehung. Die Handschrift Rom, Bibl. Vat. cpl 1361
Creators: name: Berron, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Handschriftenkunde , Kurzepik , John
subject: 830
subject: Mären, Sibote

description: Beschreibung der Handschrift cpl 1361, besonders der darin repräsentierten Redaktion von Sibotes 'Frauenerziehung'
Locally Stationary Functional Time Series
Creators: name: van Delft, Anne
name: Eichler, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62M10 (Primary), 62M15 (Secondary)

description: The literature on time series of functional data has focused on processes of which the probabilistic law is either constant over time or constant up to its second-order structure. Especially for long stretches of data it is desirable to be able to weaken this assumption. This paper introduces a framework that will enable meaningful statistical inference of functional data of which the dynamics change over time. We put forward the concept of local stationarity in the functional setting and establish a class of processes that have a functional time-varying spectral representation. Subsequently, we derive conditions that allow for fundamental results from nonstationary multivariate time series to carry over to the function space. In particular, time-varying functional ARMA processes are investigated and shown to be functional locally stationary according to the proposed definition. As a side-result, we establish a Cramér representation for an important class of weakly stationary functional processes. Important in our context is the notion of a time-varying spectral density operator of which the properties are studied and uniqueness is derived. Finally, we provide a consistent nonparametric estimator of this operator and show it is asymptotically Gaussian using a weaker tightness criterion than what is usually deemed necessary.
The Influence of Awareness on Explicit and Implicit Contributions to Visuomotor Adaptation to Different Rotation Sizes
Creators: name: Neville, Kristin-Marie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Reach Adaptation
Time Course
Awareness
Motor Learning

description: Explicit and implicit processes play a role in visuomotor adaptation. (Bond & Taylor, 2015; Werner et al, 2015). The purpose of the current experiment was to investigate the potential contributions of explicit and implicit processes to visuomotor adaptation when awareness was manipulated directly and indirectly. To manipulate the degree of awareness directly, participants were assigned to a Strategy or No-Strategy group, in which they were made aware or remained unaware of the distortion respectively. They were then further subdivided into groups to train with a large (60°), medium (40°) or small (20°) visuomotor distortion, such that participants could become aware of the distortion indirectly with increasing sizes. All participants performed a reaching task to three targets with a cursor that was rotated clockwise relative to their hand by the assigned degrees, and then completed a series of no-cursor reaches without visual feedback to establish the contribution of explicit and implicit processes to visuomotor adaptation. Within the no-cursor reaching trials, the contribution of explicit and implicit processes to visuomotor adaptation were determined by having subjects reach (i) with any strategies they had gained during training (explicit + implicit processes), and (ii) as they did before training with the cursor rotation (implicit processes). Our results showed that the contribution of implicit processes to visuomotor adaptation was greater in the No-Strategy group compared to the Strategy group. Moreover, implicit processes took time to develop, and decayed following a 5-minute break. In contrast, the contribution of explicit processes was greatest in the Strategy group, and increased with rotation size in the No-Strategy group. Explicit contributions also remained consistent over Blocks, as well as when re-tested following a 5-minute break. Thus, the results of the current experiment indicate that there are notable differences in explicit and implicit contributions to visuomotor distortions depending on if, and how participants become aware of the perturbation. The results also highlight the importance of instructions when evaluating reaching performance in aftereffect trials, as they can modulate reaching errors observed.
Rare variant analyses across multiethnic cohorts identify novel genes for refractive error.
Creators: name: Musolf, Anthony M
name: Haarman, Annechien EG
name: Luben, Robert N
name: Ong, Jue-Sheng
name: Patasova, Karina
name: Trapero, Rolando Hernandez
name: Marsh, Joseph
name: Jain, Ishika
name: Jain, Riya
name: Wang, Paul Zhiping
name: Lewis, Deyana D
name: Tedja, Milly S
name: Iglesias, Adriana I
name: Li, Hengtong
name: Cowan, Cameron S
name: Consortium For Refractive Error And Myopia (CREAM)
name: Biino, Ginevra
name: Klein, Alison P
name: Duggal, Priya
name: Mackey, David A
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: Haller, Toomas
name: Metspalu, Andres
name: Wedenoja, Juho
name: Pärssinen, Olavi
name: Cheng, Ching-Yu
name: Saw, Seang-Mei
name: Stambolian, Dwight
name: Hysi, Pirro G
name: Khawaja, Anthony P
name: Vitart, Veronique
name: Hammond, Christopher J
name: Van Duijn, Cornelia M
name: Verhoeven, Virginie JM
name: Klaver, Caroline CW
name: Bailey-Wilson, Joan E
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Article
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/631/208/729/743
/631/208/480
/631/114/2407
/631/208/727/2000
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article

description: Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (NEI)
description: Funder: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
description: Funder: Intraamural Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
description: Refractive error, measured here as mean spherical equivalent (SER), is a complex eye condition caused by both genetic and environmental factors. Individuals with strong positive or negative values of SER require spectacles or other approaches for vision correction. Common genetic risk factors have been identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), but a great part of the refractive error heritability is still missing. Some of this heritability may be explained by rare variants (minor allele frequency [MAF] ≤ 0.01.). We performed multiple gene-based association tests of mean Spherical Equivalent with rare variants in exome array data from the Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM). The dataset consisted of over 27,000 total subjects from five cohorts of Indo-European and Eastern Asian ethnicity. We identified 129 unique genes associated with refractive error, many of which were replicated in multiple cohorts. Our best novel candidates included the retina expressed PDCD6IP, the circadian rhythm gene PER3, and P4HTM, which affects eye morphology. Future work will include functional studies and validation. Identification of genes contributing to refractive error and future understanding of their function may lead to better treatment and prevention of refractive errors, which themselves are important risk factors for various blinding conditions.
Securing Human Rights? Exploring the Impact of the United Nations Security Council on Changing Norms Surrounding Counter-Terrorism
Creators: name: Clarke, Virginia
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Counter-Terrorism
Human Rights
Kadi
United Nations Security Council
Terrorism

description: This thesis argues that a tension exists between a new individualized norm of security within the counter-terrorism context and human security framework of the United Nations Security Council, focusing on the implications of the resolution 1267 counter-terrorism regime. This topic is of particular relevance as the threat of terrorism continues to grow and evolve. While the human security framework has been well studied, the individualization of security through counter-terrorism is a more recent development, and its tensions and implications have not been fully considered. This thesis uses a discourse analysis in order to demonstrate that counter-terrorism is constructed as a norm, and that there has been a shift in norms within the UN Security Council in relation to counter-terrorism and human rights. It will trace how a set of norms has emerged in order to make terrorism a part of the Security Council’s agenda, and how and why these have changed. In order to trace these norms, terrorism has been separated into two stages: state-sponsored and international terrorism, where terrorism was viewed as a threat stemming from state-governments and; transnational terrorism, where it was viewed as a trans-border threat arising from individuals. Within these stages, the objectives, targets and tools of the Council’s counter-terrorism policies will be studied in order to demonstrate how they work together to reinforce a norm. The analysis will be used to show how the case of Kadi v. Council and Commission came about in the transnational terrorism stage as a direct result of the Security Council’s counter-terrorism regime and its alleged breach of human rights. The Kadi case demonstrates that a tension does exist between the norm of individualization of security within the counter-terrorism context and the human security framework.
Statistical Analysis and Optimization of Ammonia Nitrogen Removal from Aqueous Solutions and Landfill Leachate by Ultrasound Iradiation
Creators: name: Tobalt, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ultrasonic Irradiation
Ammonia
Statistical Analysis
pH
Sonication Time
Response Surface Methodology
Optimization
Factorial Design

description: The application of Ultrasound (US) irradiation to remove ammonia nitrogen from aqueous solutions, including synthetic solution and landfill leachate, at 20 kHz was investigated in this thesis. Batch experiments were carried out using two synthetic solutions with initial ammonia concentrations of 3000 and 5000 mg TAN/L in addition to two leachates from new and old landfills. The results of testing showed that US irradiation is an effective treatment technology for the removal of aqueous ammonia. More specifically, it was found that increasing sonication time and pH increased ammonia removal. The maximum observed removal of ammonia was 87.4% at a pH of 11 and sonication time of 25 minutes. Also, it was found that volatilization of ammonia to the atmosphere accounted for 0-7% of removal, the thermal effect of US accounted for 21.1-52.7%, and the non-thermal effect of US accounted for 44.5-78.8% (depending on pH and sonication time). Results of factorial design and response surface methodology showed that pH, energy output (kJ), and the interaction between the two were significant parameters. The predicted two factor interaction (2FI) model was in close agreement to the observed data (R2 = 0.94) and produced an optimum ammonia removal of 87% at a pH of 10.9 and energy output of 94.8 kJ. Analysis of variance tests showed that there were no significant differences in the percent removal of ammonia due to the non-thermal effects of US across all four solutions (synthetic and leachate) indicating that US irradiation is a non-selective treatment method for ammonia removal.
Acanthopsis dregeana H. M. Steyn
Creators: name: Steyn, Hester M.
name: Van Wyk, Abraham E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Acanthaceae
Acanthopsis
Acanthopsis dregeana

description: 2. Acanthopsis dregeana H.M.Steyn in Steyn & Van Wyk (2016: 155)
 Type: — SOUTH AFRICA. Northern Cape: Namaqualand District, NW of Eksteenfontein, 398 m, (2817 CA), 16 September 2010, Steyn 1822 (holotype PRE0861475 -0!; isotype NBG!).
Perennial shrublet, 20–40 cm tall. Stems brown (maroon when young), ribbed, almost glabrous to pubescent with deflexed short, white hairs; internodes (10–) 15–30 mm long. Leaves sessile; lamina lanceolate to oblanceolate, 25– 45(–50) × (5–)7–10(–12) mm, appear glaucous with appressed, densely packed short hairs; base often decurrent; margin undulate, coarsely dentate-spinose, spines rigid, 2–6(–9) mm long, orange-brown; apex cuspidate. Inflorescences pedunculate, cylindrical, 25–55 mm long (excluding peduncle), 10–12(–15) mm in diameter; peduncle (3–)20–40(– 70) mm long, pubescent with short, spreading hairs. Bracts obovate to oblong, (16–)18–30(–38) mm long, lamina 10–13(–15) mm long; lower bracts ending in 3–5 primary spines, central primary spine always simple and spreading to recurved or spreading, spine tips often dark brown or maroon; middle to upper bracts oblong, 5 primary veins converging into 3 mucronate to spinose, ovate to oblong lobes with 2 outer lobes reduced, central primary spine always simple; peduncular bracts strigose with appressed, short hairs; lower bracts with deflexed to spreading short hairs becoming more densely pubescent with long, glandular hairs towards top of inflorescence. Bracteoles linear to sickleshaped, 3–6(–7) mm long, silky-hairy, also with glandular hairs. Calyx with dorsal sepal oblong to ovate, acuminate, 10–11 mm long, silky-hairy, also with short spreading and glandular hairs abaxially, (5–)7–9-veined from base; ventral sepal ovate, 10–11 mm long, silky-hairy, also with short spreading and glandular hairs abaxially, 5–7-veined from base; lateral sepals 8–9 mm long, silky-hairy, also with isolated glandular hairs. Corolla lilac to purple with lemon-yellow throat, 23–25(–27) × 8–10(–11) mm, tube 7–8(–9) mm long; central lobe constricted at base, truncate to emarginate. Filaments (5–)6–7(–8) mm long, glandular, silky-hairy towards the base; anthers orange-brown, 3 mm long. Style with patch or ring of glandular hairs at base. Capsules narrowly ovate to ovate, 7–8 × 2–3(–4) mm. Seeds ovate, 4–5 × 3 mm, covered with long white hygroscopic hairs.
 Notes: —Subsequent to the publication of the name A. dregeana (a shrublet species in Steyn & Van Wyk 2016), a distinct form was discovered during field work in the Northern Cape; it is described here as a new subspecies.
description: Published as part of Steyn, Hester M. & Van Wyk, Abraham E., 2017, Taxonomic notes on Acanthopsis Harv. (Acanthaceae, tribe Acantheae): the group with trifid bracts, pp. 201-217 in Phytotaxa 295 (3) on page 209, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13688365
Dynamics of entanglement in qubit-qutrit with x component of DM interaction
Creators: name: Sharma, Kapil K.
name: Pandey, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P45 (Primary), 81P68, 37N20, 46N50 (Secondary)

description: In this present paper we study the entanglement dynamics in qubit A-qutrit B pair under x component of Dzyaloshinshkii-Moriya $(D_{x})$ by taking an auxiliary qubit C. Here we consider an entangled qubit-qutrit pair initially prepared in two parameter qubit-qutrit states and one auxiliary qubit prepared in pure state interacts with the qutrit of the pair through DM interaction. We trace away the auxiliary qubit and calculate the reduced dynamics in qubit A-qutrit B pair to study the influence of the state of auxiliary qubit C and $D_{x}$ on entanglement. We find that the state (probability amplitude) of auxiliary qubit does not influence the entanglement, only $D_{x}$ influences the same. The phenomenon of entanglement sudden death (ESD) induced by $D_{x}$ has also been observed. We also present the affected and unaffected two parameter qubit-qutrit states by $D_{x}$.
description: 8 pages,8 figures, Submitted, Communications in Theoritical physics, 2015
title: Przestrzeń świątyni – przestrzeń teatru
Creators: name: Kozień-Woźniak, Magdalena
name: Podhalański, Bogusław
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2022

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 8, 5-14
title: spotlight: STOP
Η περίπτωση μιας επανάχρησης, ως μέρος της φυσικής εξέλιξης μιας πόλης
title: spotlight: STOP
The casestudy of a reuse, as part of the natural evolution of a city
Creators: name: Καλομενοπουλου Αλικη-Ελενη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2022

description: Την δεκαετία του 80, οι πόλεις της Ευρώπης, ακολουθώντας τα Αμερικανικά πρότυπα, γεμίζουν τα αστικά τους κενά με εμπορικά κέντρα. Η παρούσα διπλωματική, καταγράφει υπό την μορφή του πειραματικού ντοκιμαντέρ, την ιδιότυπη περίπτωση του Centro Comercial Stop. Ένα “hype” εμπορικό κέντρο της εποχής, που μετά την χρεοκοπία και εγκατάλειψή του, επαν οικειοποιήθηκε, από τους ίδιους τους κατοίκους της πόλης. Πρόκειται για ένα φαινόμενο, που συγκεντρώνει σε έναν μη-τόπο, ολόκληρη την μουσική σκηνή του Πόρτο.

description: In the 1980s, European cities, following the American model, filled their urban voids with shopping centres. This thesis documents, in the form of an experimental documentary, the particular case of Centro Comercial Stop. A "hype" shopping centre of the time, which after its bankruptcy and abandonment, was re-appropriated, by the city's own inhabitants. It is a phenomenon which, n a non-place, brings together the entire music scene of Porto.
Image size influences visual search and perception of hemorrhages when reading Cranial CT: an eye-tracking study
Creators: name: Venjakob, Antje C.
name: Marnitz, Tim
name: Phillips, Peter
name: Mello-Thoms, Claudia R.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
subject: radiology and medical imaging
subject: eye movements
subject: tracking
subject: visual search
subject: computer interface

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Objective: The aim of this study was to explore reader gaze, performance, and preference during interpretation of cranial computed tomography (cCT) in stack mode at two different sizes. Background: Digital display of medical images allows for the manipulation of many imaging factors, like image size, by the radiologists, yet it is often not known what display parameters better suit human perception. Method: Twenty-one radiologists provided informed consent to be eye tracked while reading 20 cCT cases. Half of these cases were presented at a size of 14 x 14 cm (512 x 512 pixels), half at 28 x 28 cm (1,024 x 1,024 pixels). Visual search, performance, and preference for the two image sizes were assessed. Results: When reading small images, significantly fewer, but longer, fixations were observed, and these fixations covered significantly more slices. Time to first fixation of true positive findings was faster in small images, but dwell time on true findings was longer. Readers made more false positive decisions in small images, but no overall difference in either jackknife alternative free-response receiver operating characteristic or reading time was found. Conclusion: Overall performance is not affected by image size. However, small-stack-mode cCT images may better support the use of motion perception and acquiring an overview, whereas large-stack-mode cCT images seem better suited for detailed analyses. Application: Subjective and eye-tracking data suggest that image size influences how images are searched and that different search strategies might be beneficial under different circumstances.
Apprentice–trainer relationship and work group integration in the first months of an apprenticeship
Creators: name: Nägele, Christof
name: Neuenschwander, Markus
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Organizational entry
Social integration
School-to-work transition
Apprenticeship

description: Social integration is an important outcome of organizational socialization. It helps adolescents after transition to their first job to adapt rapidly to the new work and organizational situation. Positive social integration, especially a positive apprentice–trainer relationship and work group integration, helps the apprentices not only to overcome the uncertainties linked to this transition, but also to gain access to the resources needed for successful socialization and learning in the organization. The social integration develops within the first months in the new organization. First, we study how two indicators of social integration, namely the apprentice–trainer relationship and work group integration, develop over time. Second, we investigate how an individual’s reliability, the perceived person–occupation fit, and organizational resources predict the level and development of the social integration within the first months in the new job.
Tools for analysis and conditional deletion of subsets of sensory neurons
Creators: name: Cox, James
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Background: Somatosensation depends on primary sensory neurons of the trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia (DRG). Transcriptional profiling of mouse DRG sensory neurons has defined at least 18 distinct neuronal cell types. Using an advillin promoter, we have generated a transgenic mouse line that only expresses diphtheria toxin A (DTA) in sensory neurons in the presence of Cre recombinase. This has allowed us to ablate specific neuronal subsets within the DRG using a range of established and novel Cre lines that encompass all sets of sensory neurons. Methods: A floxed-tdTomato-stop-DTA bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) transgenic reporter line (AdvDTA) under the control of the mouse advillin DRG promoter was generated. The line was first validated using a Nav1.8Cre and then crossed to CGRPCreER (Calca), ThCreERT2, Tmem45bCre, Tmem233Cre, Ntng1Cre and TrkBCreER (Ntrk2) lines. Pain behavioural assays included Hargreaves’, hot plate, Randall-Selitto, cold plantar, partial sciatic nerve ligation and formalin tests. Results: Motor activity, as assessed by the rotarod test, was normal for all lines tested. Noxious mechanosensation was significantly reduced when either Nav1.8 positive neurons or Tmem45b positive neurons were ablated whilst acute heat pain was unaffected. In contrast, noxious mechanosensation was normal following ablation of CGRP-positive neurons but acute heat pain thresholds were significantly elevated and a reduction in nocifensive responses was observed in the second phase of the formalin test. Ablation of TrkB-positive neurons led to significant deficits in mechanical hypersensitivity in the partial sciatic nerve ligation neuropathic pain model. Conclusions: Ablation of specific DRG neuronal subsets using the AdvDTA line will be a useful resource for further functional characterization of somatosensory processing, neuro-immune interactions and chronic pain disorders.
The Quantum-Classical Boundary for Precision Interferometric Measurements
Creators: name: Birchall, Patrick M.
name: O'Brien, Jeremy L.
name: Matthews, Jonathan C. F.
name: Cable, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the fundamental limits on the precision to which an optical phase can be estimated is of key interest for many investigative techniques utilized across science and technology. We study the estimation of a fixed optical phase shift due to a sample which has an associated optical loss, and compare phase estimation strategies using classical and non-classical probe states. These comparisons are based on the attainable (quantum) Fisher information calculated per number of photons absorbed or scattered by the sample throughout the sensing process. We find that, for a given number of incident photons upon the unknown phase, non-classical techniques in principle provide less than a 20% reduction in root-mean-square-error (RMSE) in comparison with ideal classical techniques in multi-pass optical setups. Using classical techniques in a new optical setup we analyze, which incorporates additional stages of interference during the sensing process, the achievable reduction in RMSE afforded by non-classical techniques falls to only ~4%. We explain how these conclusions change when non-classical techniques are compared to classical probe states in non-ideal multi-pass optical setups, with additional photon losses due to the measurement apparatus.
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Experiments testing macroscopic quantum superpositions must be slow
Creators: name: Mari, Andrea
name: De Palma, Giacomo
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a thought experiment where the preparation of a macroscopically massive or charged particle in a quantum superposition and the associated dynamics of a distant test particle apparently allow for superluminal communication. We give a solution to the paradox which is based on the following fundamental principle: any local experiment, discriminating a coherent superposition from an incoherent statistical mixture, necessarily requires a minimum time proportional to the mass (or charge) of the system. For a charged particle, we consider two examples of such experiments, and show that they are both consistent with the previous limitation. In the first, the measurement requires to accelerate the charge, that can entangle with the emitted photons. In the second, the limitation can be ascribed to the quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. On the other hand, when applied to massive particles our result provides an indirect evidence for the existence of gravitational vacuum fluctuations and for the possibility of entangling a particle with quantum gravitational radiation.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Data-selective Transfer Learning for Multi-Domain Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Doulaty, Mortaza
name: Saz, Oscar
name: Hain, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Negative transfer in training of acoustic models for automatic speech recognition has been reported in several contexts such as domain change or speaker characteristics. This paper proposes a novel technique to overcome negative transfer by efficient selection of speech data for acoustic model training. Here data is chosen on relevance for a specific target. A submodular function based on likelihood ratios is used to determine how acoustically similar each training utterance is to a target test set. The approach is evaluated on a wide-domain data set, covering speech from radio and TV broadcasts, telephone conversations, meetings, lectures and read speech. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed technique both finds relevant data and limits negative transfer. Results on a 6--hour test set show a relative improvement of 4% with data selection over using all data in PLP based models, and 2% with DNN features.
The real effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders: Systematic Review.
Creators: name: Germoglio, Irene
name: Maselli, Filippo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Musculoskeletal Disease
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Telerehabilitation

description: The aim of this systematic review is to determine the effectiveness of telerehabilitation in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders compared with face-to-face physiotherapy and where it is possible to report cost-benefit analysis data. This project is a systematic review of RCTs, we used the PubMed, EMBASE, CINHAL databases as sources from 2010 to 30 April 2020. We followed the PICO model (Patien-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome) to build the research question and strategy: -P: Adult patients, 18 years of age and older, diagnosed with Musculoskeletal disorder not undergoing surgery, -I: treated with Telerehabilitation (in all its variants found in the letter) -C: physical therapy in presence (performed in any modality) -O: Pain, function, quality of life, patient satisfaction, treatment costs, and any other Musculoskeletal disorder's related outcomes evaluated in the RCTs reviewed were examined. Two reviewers applying eligibility criteria and selecting studies for inclusion in the systematic review, using an independent data extraction form builded with Microsoft Excel 2007. We used the RoB2 risk of bias tool to assess studies quality. We planned to carry on a descriptive analysis of the outcome measures extracted in the different RCTs, such as pain, physical function, disability and cost analysis data.
Heating up: a series of articles on global warming in the American South
Creators: name: Peach, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Nearly all climatologists believe the planet will undergo climate change throughout the twenty-first century. In a series of three articles, this master's thesis explores the effects of the phenomenon on the American South. The first article examines the effects of carbon dioxide emissions on coral reef ecosystems in coastal Florida. The second describes the impact of climate change on North Carolina's wine industry. The final article chronicles a young Southern activist's efforts to persuade government officials to regulate greenhouse gases. Research included a literature review, interviews with more than 30 sources, as well as visits to the Florida Keys, North Carolina's vineyards, and several universities in North Carolina. The thesis suggests that climate change will have significant effects on the environments, economies and communities of the South.
Emergency Contraception in Albania: A Multi-Methods Study of Awareness, Attitudes and Practices
Creators: name: Doci, Florida
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: reproductive health
abortion
contraception
emergency contraception
qualitative research
provider training
service delivery
Albania
Europe

description: Modern methods of contraception are freely available in Albania, yet contraceptive prevalence among Albanians is relatively low (11%). Abortion on the other hand has long been the mainstay of family planning in the country. Emergency contraception is not very popular in Albania either, even though two different levonorgestrel-only EC pills (NorLevo® and Postinor®) are widely available in Albanian pharmacies. This study aimed to investigate potential factors that influence women’s choices of contraception. In 2016, we conducted a multi-method qualitative study with women and service providers in Albania. Women were invited to report their knowledge of, attitudes toward, and practices surrounding contraception in an online survey. Also, we conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with key informants to better understand the current reproductive health landscape in the country. Additionally, we conducted structured interviews with pharmacists in Tirana to assess their training and practices with regard to different available contraceptive methods. Misinformation, lack of awareness, fear of judgement and embarrassment, and lack of infrastructure are the strongest influencers of women’s choice of contraception in Albania. Training of health service providers, as well as development of materials for distribution are warranted to improve knowledge and uptake of contraception among women.
Equality and difference: political debates on gender equality in West Germany, 1949-1958
Creators: name: Ruble, Alexandria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Gleichberechtigung, or the equality of men and women, became a controversial issue in the public political debates of post-war West Germany. This discussion already had started before the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in May 1949 with the conflict over Article 3 in the Basic Law, the provisional constitution of the FRG that stated men and women are equal and demanded the implementation of this principle in all legislation. In the context of the Cold War, the confrontation with East Germany, and the needs of the political, economic, and social reconstruction of the FRG following World War II, this debate gained increasing importance during the 1950s and resulted in the passing of the Gleichberechtigungsgesetz (Equal Rights Act) in June 1957, which came into effect in July 1958. The aim of the MA thesis is to analyze the political debate over the equality of men and women in the two major parties - the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and the oppositional Social Democratic Party (SPD) and their women's organizations - and in the Bundestag, the West German parliament. I will interpret it as a conflict over highly gendered definitions of social, political, and civil citizenship rights.
WHEN A GOOD GOD MAKES BAD PEOPLE: TESTING A THEORY OF RELIGION AND IMMORALITY
Creators: name: Jackson, Joshua
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: When might religious belief lower ethical standards? We propose a theory of religion and immorality that makes three central predictions. First, people will judge immoral acts as more permissible when they make divine attributions for these acts, seeing them as enabled by an intervening God. Second, people will be more likely to make divine attributions when evaluating passive immorality (e.g. keeping a lost wallet) than active immorality (e.g. pick-pocketing) since human action makes people less likely to infer God’s agency. Third, believers will be more likely than non-believers to perpetrate passive immorality, because they feel justified taking advantage of God’s beneficence. Thirteen studies and an internal meta-analysis support these predictions.