cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monochromatic Gamma Rays from Dark Matter Annihilation to Leptons
Creators: name: Coogan, Adam
name: Profumo, Stefano
name: Shepherd, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relation between the annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles into lepton pairs and into 2-body final states including one or two photons. We parametrize the DM interactions with leptons in terms of contact interactions, and calculate the loop-level annihilation into monochromatic gamma rays, specifically computing the ratio of the DM annihilation cross sections into two gamma rays versus lepton pairs. While the loop-level processes are generically suppressed in comparison with the tree-level annihilation into leptons, we find that some choices for the mediator spin and coupling structure lead to large branching fractions into gamma-ray lines. This result has implications for a dark matter contribution to the AMS-02 positron excess. We also explore the possibility of mediators which are charged under a dark symmetry and find that, for these loop-level processes, an effective field theory description is accurate for DM masses up to about half the mediator mass.
description: 21 pages plus appendices, 7 figures. v2: added experimental constraints from CMB and Fermi, expanded and reorganized discussion throughout. Accepted by JHEP
Liturgi for et godt liv
Creators: name: Opsahl, Carl Petter
Publisher: name: Tidsskrift for Praktisk Teologi
Year: 2022

description: Hartmut Rosa er for tiden blant de mest toneangivende stemmene i sosiologien. Hans tenkning om «fremmedgjøring», «aksellerasjon», «resonans» og «det ukontrollerbare» har vunnet innpass i mange fagmiljøer. Ikke minst gjelder det praktisk-teologiske fagfelt som homiletikk og sjelesorg. Denne artikkelen presenterer hovedtrekk i Rosas tenkning, og avsluttes med forslag til en resonanskritisk tilnærming til liturgi.
description: Tidsskrift for Praktisk Teologi, Vol 39 Nr. 2 (2022): Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi
The Analysis of the Effect of the Farm Revival Program using the Option Pricing Approach
Creators: name: Lim, Sewha
name: Lim, Sewha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm Revival Program
subject: option value
subject: Monte Carlo simulation

description: Farm household debts have been the critical problem in the Korean agricultural society. Despite various policies of the government, farm household debts have been steadily increased. The Korean government has conducted “Revival Supporting Project” to reduce farmhouse debts since 2006. Farmers could more easily overcome the difficulties through “Farm Revival Program”. However, it resulted in discontinuance of business. The redemptive right of “Farm Revival Program” is a kind of call option and farmer's buyback arbitrage could be interpreted as the option value. If farmland price increases in the market, farmer's buyback arbitrage would be up by exercising the redemptive right, but the policy cost of the government would increase, too. Therefore, the continuity of business could be threatened. The objective of this study is to estimate the option value of “Farm Revival Program” and examine new policy directions.
Self–management and Type 1 Diabetes. How Technology Redefines Illness
Creators: name: Moretti, Veronica
name: Morsello, Barbara
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2017

description: In the last decades, health and illness have been redefined by the technological artefacts. This research explores users’ opinions of the potentials and limits of apps related to the self-management of type 1 diabetes. Our research takes the “app” to be a socio-cultural artefact whose meanings and practices are mediated by situated practices and knowledges. The analysis has been conducted on two different kinds of texts: the description provided by the app itself (commercial description) and the reviews provided by app users (customer reviews). Our aim is thus to contribute to the study of how technological tools contribute to the processes of patients empowerment.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017): Tecnoscienza Nr. 15
Menighetsrådenes betydning under okkupasjonen 1940-1945
Creators: name: Austad, Torleiv
Publisher: name: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology
Year: 2022

description: The parish councils of the Church of Norway during the occupation 1940-1945 occupied a central position in the civil resistance against the efforts of the NS (the National Assembly) to recruit them in the campaign for the hearts and minds of the people. The councils continued to function even after the Quisling government’s decision to abolish them and replace them with three-member councils appointed by superiors who were affiliated with the NS. Quisling’s attempt to use this comprehensive national network as one of several instruments to create a NS church and nazify Norway not only failed but backfired. His strategy actually strengthened the resistance of the parish councils and their solidarity with the clergy of the autonomous church of the people. With the exception of those compatriots who either were members of and sympathized with the NS, the church people of Norway stood united in proclaiming “No!” to national socialist ideology and ecclesiastical policies.
description: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology, Vol 39 Nr. 2 (2022): Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi
Alignment of the nucleotide sequence of the Tax fragment obtained from milk cells (cow033 and cow034) and muscle cells (cow32 and cow14) of BLV-infected cattle
Creators: name: Luiz Carlos Kreutz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: BLV, Tax gene sequence

description: Alignment of the nucleotide sequence of the Tax fragment obtained from milk cells (cow033 and cow034) and muscle cells (cow32 and cow14) of BLV-infected cattle.
«Afterpastor» i norsk kontekst
Creators: name: Kleiven, Tormod
Publisher: name: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology
Year: 2022

description: The article explores and discusses how Norwegian church pastors have experienced and dealt with the role of spiritual leader in a Christian community after a predecessor had to quit because of accusations of sexually abusive behaviour. ‘Afterpastor’ is the term applied to such pastors in the United States after they discovered as a group that shared similar challenges in this role. Six pastors from four denominations in Norway are interviewed about their experiences. The resulting analysis is discussed considering theoretical perspectives on congregations as an arena for sexual violence, and literature presenting systematized practice experiences of ‘afterpastor’ role in the United States. The findings shed light on the experiences of being a pastor in a community in crisis, where both the church leadership and congregation expect the pastor to deal with the situation. The challenge seems to be limited access to sufficient resources and competent support. The need for supervision and support for pastors to address different needs are preconditions for a responsible and constructive approach to caring for themselves, those involved and the Christian community.
description: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology, Vol 39 Nr. 2 (2022): Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi
No Longer at Ease and the Thinking of Limits.pdf
Creators: name: Akwanya, Amechi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Literature

description: Chinua Achebe’s works can be deceptive in their classical simplicity. Such is the case with No Longer at Ease (1960). For critics used to referring the work to what is thought to stand behind it (which it represents) or to what stands before it, which it is aiming to correct or give normative direction to, this second novel of Chinua Achebe is particularly disappointing, apparently lacking what Samuel Johnson calls a ‘moral purpose’. The power of the text, however, becomes manifest when the action is analysed as a significant pattern; and the pattern in question is literary tragedy. In this particular tragic pattern, the character begins his career, with all certainty about his personal freedom, but goes on to discover from episode to episode that he is locked in a situation of constraint, and ringed round by limits he cannot pass over or sidestep. In this paper we shall examine the narrative in the light of these limits and this constraint.
Can the masses of isolated planetary-mass gravitational lenses be measured by terrestrial parallax?
Creators: name: Freeman, M.
name: Philpott, L. C.
name: Abe, F.
name: Albrow, M. D.
name: Bennett, D. P.
name: Bond, I. A.
name: Botzler, C. S.
name: Bray, J. C.
name: Cherrie, J. M.
name: Christie, G. W.
name: Dionnet, Z.
name: Gould, A.
name: Han, C.
name: Heyrovsky, D.
name: McCormick, J. M.
name: Moorhouse, D. M.
name: Muraki, Y.
name: Natusch, T.
name: Rattenbury, N. J.
name: Skowron, J.
name: Sumi, T.
name: Suzuki, D.
name: Tan, T. -G.
name: Tristram, P. J.
name: Yock, P. C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Sumi et al. (2011) reported evidence for a large population of planetary-mass objects (PMOs) that are either unbound or orbit host stars in orbits > 10 AU. Their result was deduced from the statistical distribution of durations of gravitational microlensing events observed by the MOA collaboration during 2006 and 2007. Here we study the feasibility of measuring the mass of an individual PMO through microlensing by examining a particular event, MOA-2011-BLG-274. This event was unusual as the duration was short, the magnification high, the source-size effect large and the angular Einstein radius small. Also, it was intensively monitored from widely separated locations under clear skies at low air masses. Choi et al. (2012) concluded that the lens of the event may have been a PMO but they did not attempt a measurement of its mass. We report here a re-analysis of the event using re-reduced data. We confirm the results of Choi et al. and attempt a measurement of the mass and distance of the lens using the terrestrial parallax effect. Evidence for terrestrial parallax is found at a 3 sigma level of confidence. The best fit to the data yields the mass and distance of the lens as 0.80 +/- 0.30 M_J and 0.80 +/- 0.25 kpc respectively. We exclude a host star to the lens out to a separation ~ 40 AU. Drawing on our analysis of MOA-2011-BLG-274 we propose observational strategies for future microlensing surveys to yield sharper results on PMOs including those down to super-Earth mass.
description: 44 pages, 12 figures, to appear in ApJ
The Sky is Falling: An Evaluation of Policy Responses to the Orbital Debris Problem
Creators: name: Wilson, Kate
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Orbital Debris
Space Debris
Kingdon's Three Streams
Commercial Space
Space Law
Space Policy

description: In the last 60 years, humankind has littered the space around our planet with
debris. The accumulation of that debris presents dangers to both current and future
activities in space. In response to this problem, policymakers at the national and
international levels have enforced policies to mitigate the creation of new debris.
This paper examines the relationship between the growth of the orbital debris
problem and those policies, evaluating potential political science explanations to
explain the relationship. The results show that Kingdon’s “three streams” theory,
where the convergence of a problem, a policy solution, and a political opportunity
propels an issue onto the political agenda, best accounts for the positive
relationship observed between orbital debris and policy responses. Finally, this
paper evaluates how the entry of new private, players into the launch game will
worsen the orbital debris problem long-term. It examines the relationship between
the debris problem and policy into the future, concluding that the continuance of
current mitigation efforts is a more likely policy future than a shift to the type of
active removal policies necessary to solve the orbital debris problem.
title: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017): Tecnoscienza Nr. 15
title: Tecnoscienza Nr. 15
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal Of Science & Technology Studies
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2017

description: 6th STS Italia Conference, Experts and Cultural Heritage, Healthcare Apps, STS in Switzerland
description: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Situated Intervention: Sociological Experiments in Health Care, MIT Press, 2015...175-178 Simone Tosoni with Trevor Pinch, Entanglements: Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound, MIT Press, 2017...171-175 David Pontille, Signing Together. Contribution and Evaluation in Sciences, Economica, 2016...167-171 Luigi Pellizzoni, Ontological Politics in a Disposable World: The New Mastery of Nature, Ashgate, 2015...162-167 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press, 2015...159-162 Stefania Consigliere (ed.), Multiple Worlds - vol. 1 - Beyond the great divide + Multiple Worlds - vol. 1I - The splendour of the worlds, Kajak, 2014...154-158 Davide Bennato, The computer as a macroscope. Big data and computational approaches to understand social and cultural changes, Angeli, 2015...151-153 Neel Ahuja, Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species, Duke University Press, 2016...148-150 A Fragile Field. The Development and Transformation of Science and Technology Studies in Switzerland...129-145 Sociotechnical Environments. Actors, Technologies, Geographies and New Kinds of Action...103-128 Theory within a Policy. Dissecting Capacity Development, Harvesting Knowledge Stances...73-102 Self–management and Type 1 Diabetes. How Technology Redefines Illness...51-71 The Network of Experts and the Construction of Cultural Heritage. Identity Formation in Contemporaneity...23-50 The Becoming Environmental of Computation. From Citizen Sensing to Planetary Computerization...5-21 Freedom Flies (Cover’s Comment)
Deacons as conversation partners on existential issues with older people
Creators: name: Olafsson, Åsta Marie
name: Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans
name: Austad, Anne
Publisher: name: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology
Year: 2022

description: Deacons within the Church of Norway constitute a professional group that can encounter older people’s need for existential conversations, but empirical research in this field is scarce. This study aims to explore professional deacons’ perceived competence in the field of older people and existential issues. Three focus group interviews with 18 deacons and an inductive qualitative content analysis were used to answer the inquiry. We introduce the term “approachable deacons” as an analytical innovation. Based on the empirical material and the perspectives from diaconia and the psychology of religion, arguments are made for the societal contribution of the deacon profession. As approachable existential conversation partners, deacons may make an essential contribution to public mental health. We assert that the deacon profession represents a counterculture to society and healthcare, where time is short, older people may feel downgraded, and existential and religious literacy is limited.
description: Nordic Journal of Practical Theology, Vol 39 Nr. 2 (2022): Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi
EMG-based Hybrid Impedance-Force Control for Human-Robot Collaboration on Ultrasound Imaging
Creators: Teng Li
Hongjun Xing
Hamid D. Taghirad
Mahdi Tavakoli
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

ABSTRACT: Ultrasound (US) imaging is a common but physically demanding task in the medical field, and sonographers may need to put in considerable physical effort for producing high-quality US images. During physical human-robot interaction on US imaging, robot compliance is a critical feature that can ensure human user safety while automatic force regulation ability can help to improve task performance. However, higher robot compliance may mean lower force regulation accuracy, and vice versa. Especially, the contact/non-contact status transition can largely affect the control system stability. In this paper, a novel electromyography (EMG)-based hybrid impedance-force control system is developed for US imaging task. The proposed control system incorporates the robot compliance and force regulation ability via a hybrid controller while the EMG channel enables the user to online modulate the trade-off between the two features as necessary. Two experiments are conducted to examine the hybrid controller and show the necessity of involving an EMG-based modulator. A proof-of-concept study on US imaging is performed with implementing the proposed EMG-based control system, and the effectiveness is demonstrated. The proposed control system is promising to ensure robot's stability and patient's safety, thus obtain high-quality US images, while monitoring and reducing sonographer's fatigue. Furthermore, it can be easily adapted to other physically demanding tasks in the field of medicine.
A four moments theorem for Gamma limits on a Poisson chaos
Creators: name: Fissler, Tobias
name: Thaele, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 60F05, 60H05, 60G57, Secondary: 60G55, 62E20

description: This paper deals with sequences of random variables belonging to a fixed chaos of order $q$ generated by a Poisson random measure on a Polish space. The problem is investigated whether convergence of the third and fourth moment of such a suitably normalized sequence to the third and fourth moment of a centred Gamma law implies convergence in distribution of the involved random variables. A positive answer is obtained for $q=2$ and $q=4$. The proof of this four moments theorem is based on a number of new estimates for contraction norms. Applications concern homogeneous sums and $U$-statistics on the Poisson space.
Small-$x$ evolution of jet quenching parameter
Creators: name: Abir, Raktim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Concept of transverse deflection probability of a parton that travels through strongly interacting medium, recently introduced by D'Eramo, Liu and Rajagopal, have been used to derive high energy evolution equation for the jet quenching parameter in stochastic multiple scatterings regime. Jet quenching parameter, ${\hat q}(x)$, appears to evolve with $x$, with an exponent $0.9{\bar α}_s$, which is slightly less than that of $x {\cal G} (x)$ where ${\cal G} (x)$ is the gluon distribution function.
description: Version accepted in Phys. Lett. B
Additional file 1 of DNAm scores for serum GDF15 and NT-proBNP levels associate with a range of traits affecting the body and brain
Creators: name: Gadd, Danni A.
name: Smith, Hannah M.
name: Mullin, Donncha
name: Chybowska, Ola
name: Hillary, Robert F.
name: Kimenai, Dorien M.
name: Bernabeu, Elena
name: Cheng, Yipeng
name: Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe
name: Campbell, Archie
name: Page, Danielle
name: Taylor, Adele
name: Corley, Janie
name: Del C. Valdés-Hernández, Maria
name: Maniega, Susana Muñoz
name: Bastin, Mark E.
name: Wardlaw, Joanna M.
name: Walker, Rosie M.
name: Evans, Kathryn L.
name: McIntosh, Andrew M.
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: Russ, Tom C.
name: Harris, Sarah E.
name: Welsh, Paul
name: Sattar, Naveed
name: Cox, Simon R.
name: McCartney, Daniel L.
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
title: On the Number of Accepting States of Finite Automata
Creators: name: Dassow, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Institut für Informatik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, we start a systematic study of the number of accepting states. For a regular language $L$, we define
  the complexity $\asc(L)$ as the minimal number of accepting states necessary to accept $L$ by deterministic finite
  automata. With respect to nondeterministic automata, the corresponding measure is $\nasc(L)$. We prove that, for any
  non-negative integer $n$, there is a regular language $L$ such that $\asc(L)=n$, whereas we have $\nasc(R)\leq 2$
  for any regular language $R$.
  Moreover, for a $k$-ary regularity preserving operation $\circ$ on languages, we define
  $g_{\circ}^{\asc}(n_1,n_2,\dots ,n_k)$ as the set of all integers~$r$ such that there are $k$ regular languages $L_i$,
  $1\leq i\leq k$, such that $\asc(L_i)=n_i$ for $1\leq i\leq k$ and $\asc(\circ(L_1,L_2,\dots ,L_k))=r$. We determine
  this set for the operations complement, union, product, Kleene closure, and set difference.
description: Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, Volume 21, Numbers 1-2, 2016, 55-67
Former Republic Academies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Creators: name: Cross, Jack L.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1995
Subjects: Russia
academic science in Russia
Russian Academy of Sciences

description: The material in this guide was part of a larger study begun several years ago, which, when the Soviet Union broke up, I put on the shelf. What I had done was to work with all 15 republic academies as members of the one Soviet Academy of Sciences--a system of academic science. In 1992, with the establishment of a revitalized Russian Academy of Sciences, uncertainty remained about the academies of the other 14 former republics. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania went their own way, as did several other academies in some respects. Just how far remains to be sorted out over the next several years. Relations between the other republic academies and the Russian academy in Moscow vary from academy to academy, and the breakup of the political unity of the Soviet Union does not necessarily affect the ties between the engineers and scientists which are of long standing. But these relations vary, of course, from republic academy to republic academy, department to department, and subject to subject. There are essentially two major models which the academies in the fourteen former republics may follow: that of the West as illustrated by that of the United States, in which graduate work is done primarily in the Universities, both public and private; or the Soviet and Russian model, in which graduate and postgraduate (postdoctoral) work is done primarily in the scientific research units which have been under the administrative control of the academy of sciences presidium and its various scientific departments--both subject-matter and geographic regional departments. The United States model epitomizes the "Western" structures, and elects scientists and engineers recognized by their peers to recognition and membership in the respective national academies, and they can represent both "town and gown." In the Western models, universities play a much greater role in the development of graduate research training than in the Russian model. The Baltic States, for the most part, have chosen to go the Western way, making their research units under the former arrangement State entities, and shifting graduate work to their universities. Most of the other former republic academies are maintaining their former structures intact, though, in many cases broadening membership, and softening the differences between Corresponding Members and Academicians. These brief surveys of these particular academies are starting points for analysis as more information becomes available. While the subject of scientific and technological development is very important in these regions of the world, much remains to be learned about these matters, hence the tentative tone of this preface
Random convex analysis (II): continuity and subdifferentiability theorems in $L^{0}$--pre--barreled random locally convex modules
Creators: name: Guo, Tiexin
name: Zhao, Shien
name: Zeng, Xiaolin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46A08, 46A20, 46H25, 46T20

description: In this paper, we continue to study random convex analysis. First, we introduce the notion of an $L^0$--pre--barreled module. Then, we develop the theory of random duality under the framework of a random locally convex module endowed with the locally $L^0$--convex topology in order to establish a characterization for a random locally convex module to be $L^0$--pre--barreled, in particular we prove that the model space $L^{p}_{\mathcal{F}}(\mathcal{E})$ employed in the module approach to conditional risk measures is $L^0$--pre--barreled, which forms the most difficult part of this paper. Finally, we prove the continuity and subdifferentiability theorems for a proper lower semicontinuous $L^0$--convex function on an $L^{0}$--pre--barreled random locally convex module. So the principal results of this paper may be well suited to the study of continuity and subdifferentiability for $L^0$--convex conditional risk measures.
description: 19 pages. this article draws heavily from arXiv:1210.1848v6
The Determinants of the Changes in the Energy Consumption Patterns in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery Sectors
Creators: name: Kim, Hanho
name: Kim, Hanho
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: energy input-output table
subject: structural decomposition analysis
subject: change in energy use

description: The aims of this study are to analyze the patterns of energy consumptions in agriculture, forestry and fishery sectors (AFF sectors hereafter) and to identify the deterministic factors underlying the changes in the patterns during the last two decades, particularly since 1995. The analysis includes indirect energy consumptions in other sectors induced by the production of AFF sectors as well as direct energy consumptions in the sectors, which differentiates this study from previous ones. In addition, we attempt to make energy input-output tables and decompose structurally the changes in total energy consumptions (encompassing both direct and indirect consumptions) of AFF sectors based on the tables. It turned out that total energy consumptions in the sectors had increased until around 2000 and have been gradually decreasing afterward, and that this fluctuation has been mainly led by the structural change in the composition of energy consumptions in AFF sectors and improved efficiencies of energy consumptions in livestock sector.
A Participatory Action Research Approach to Participation With Young People Within Mental Health Settings
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Lucy
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2018
Subjects: Young people
mental health
user participation
user involvement
participatory action research
community psychology
liberation psychology

description: Poor mental health is a growing issue for young people (YP) in the UK with 75% of all mental health issues occurring by age 24 (Kessler et al., 2005). YP are one of society’s most oppressed groups (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). Oppression disrupts potential for social equality, justice and wellbeing (Freire, 1973) and when already oppressed YP are faced with further oppressive structures in mental health settings their relative powerlessness is compounded (Dexter, Larkin & Newnes, 2012). Participation is a way of resisting such disempowerment and can contribute to wellbeing and recovery through empowering YP towards change (Taggart, Franks, Osborne & Collins 2013) and increasing YP’s skills and competencies (Day, 2008). Services improve in quality and effectiveness when ‘service-users’ needs are met through ‘participation’ (Beresford, 1997). Despite human rights, legislation and policy drivers (Department of Health, 2005, 2015, 2017) promoting YP’s meaningful participation, YP’s voice is not fully heard in mental health systems (Beresford, 2002). This research recognises gaps in practice and direct research with YP around YP’s participation in mental health settings. Collaborating with YoungMinds, using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, YP as ‘co-researchers’ shared their voice through cycles of dialogue, reflection and action towards (Baum, MacDougal & Smith, 2006) transformational change on varying levels. This research is grounded in liberation practices and community psychology, utilising discursive ideas of power (Foucault,1977, 1984, 1988). Thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) led to four main themes developed, in collaboration with coresearchers, namely ‘Power over YP’, ‘Hearing YP’s voice’, ‘Safe Structures’ and ‘Participation as Fundamental to Wellbeing’. YP discussed professionals privileging their knowledge over them as problematic in YP’s voice being heard and identified action towards shaping safe, ethical and meaningful participation in mental health settings. YP positioned participation as vital to wellbeing through connecting it to transformational processes and preventing harm. A reflexive stance towards evaluating the research is considered with future implications, including how this research may be taken forward by co-researchers beyond the scope of this thesis.
Cortisol Regulates Cerebral Mitochondrial Oxidative Phosphorylation and Morphology of the Brain in a Region-Specific Manner in the Ovine Fetus
Creators: name: Davies
name: , Smith
name: , El-Bacha
name: Wooding
name: Forhead
name: , Murray
name: Fowden
name: , Camm
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: cortisol
fetus
mitochondria
brain

description: In adults, glucocorticoids are stress hormones that act, partly, through actions on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) to increase energy availability. Before birth, glucocorticoids are primarily maturational signals that prepare the fetus for new postnatal challenges. However, the role of the normal prepartum glucocorticoid rise in preparing mitochondria for the increased postnatal energy demands remains largely unknown. This study examined the effect of physiological increases in the fetal cortisol concentration on cerebral mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity near term (~130 days gestation, term ~145 days gestation). Fetal sheep were infused with saline or cortisol for 5 days at ~0.8 of gestation before the mitochondrial content, respiratory rates, abundance of the electron transfer system proteins and OXPHOS efficiency were measured in their cortex and cerebellum. Cerebral morphology was assessed by immunohistochemistry and stereology. Cortisol treatment increased the mitochondrial content, while decreasing Complex I-linked respiration in the cerebellum. There was no effect on the cortical mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity. Cortisol infusion had regional effects on cerebral morphology, with increased myelination in the cerebrum. The findings demonstrate the importance of cortisol in regulating the cerebral mitochondrial OXPHOS capacity prenatally and have implications for infants born preterm or after glucocorticoid overexposure due to pregnancy complications or clinical treatment.
Bioenergy in agricultural companies: financial performance assessment
Creators: name: Nurmet, Maire
name: Mõtte, Mati
name: Lemsalu, Katrin
name: Lehtsaar, Jüri
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2019
Subjects: agricultural companies’ performance
bioenergy investment
DuPont identity
renewable energy
article

description: The target of increasing the use of renewable energy in rural areas has initiated the investments in bioenergy. The purpose of this paper is to assess the financial performance of Estonian agricultural companies that have invested in bioenergy solutions. An investment in bioenergy is attractive to the company if the results obtained by it enable benefits to the investors. In the context of the study of financial performance of agricultural companies that have undertaken bioenergy investments, the key performance indicators based on DuPont identity are analysed from the perspective of formulating and implementing a company’s financial decisions. The data of financial statements of the analysed companies are from Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board (ARIB) and Commercial Register. The study reports the financial performance results of Estonian agricultural companies using renewable resources and producing bioenergy: whether they achieved higher efficiency and profitability or change in financial structure. The Estonian agricultural companies that have invested in bioenergy solutions may need to control their financial performance by improving profitability and controlling financial leverage.
Relevância dos indicadores da Ciência Aberta no impacto dos periódicos da saúde
Creators: name: Padua, Bruna Lins Rocha de
name: Sousa, Renato Philipe de
name: Teixeira, Patricia Luciene da Costa
name: Silveira, Naira Christofoletti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão O meu Póster em 40 segundos da 13ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, formato híbrido, de 10 a 12 de outubro de 2022.
Additional file 3 of DNAm scores for serum GDF15 and NT-proBNP levels associate with a range of traits affecting the body and brain
Creators: name: Gadd, Danni A.
name: Smith, Hannah M.
name: Mullin, Donncha
name: Chybowska, Ola
name: Hillary, Robert F.
name: Kimenai, Dorien M.
name: Bernabeu, Elena
name: Cheng, Yipeng
name: Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe
name: Campbell, Archie
name: Page, Danielle
name: Taylor, Adele
name: Corley, Janie
name: Del C. Valdés-Hernández, Maria
name: Maniega, Susana Muñoz
name: Bastin, Mark E.
name: Wardlaw, Joanna M.
name: Walker, Rosie M.
name: Evans, Kathryn L.
name: McIntosh, Andrew M.
name: Hayward, Caroline
name: Russ, Tom C.
name: Harris, Sarah E.
name: Welsh, Paul
name: Sattar, Naveed
name: Cox, Simon R.
name: McCartney, Daniel L.
name: Marioni, Riccardo E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3.
The relationship between family expressed emotion (EE) and caregiver burden in stroke and acquired brain injury (ABI)
Creators: name: Rooney, Clare
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: Section one describes a narrative systematic literature review examining the relationship between expressed emotion (EE) and mental health in acquired brain injury (ABI) populations. Nine papers were identified through searching 5 electronic databases using MeSH terms for ABI and search terms for EE. Six of the nine studies reviewed found significant relationships between EE and some measure of psychological outcome. Studies gathered data from the ABI survivor, the caregiver or both. None of the nine were rated the highest score for quality. The results showed a lack of research in this area and evidence to support the relationship between EE and mental health in ABI but not consistently. Further higher quality and more focussed research is required. The review highlighted areas for improvement and directions of future research in this domain. Section two describes a research study which aimed to identify whether high EE predicted high levels of burden in stroke caregivers and if stroke knowledge moderated this relationship. Significant positive correlations were identified between EE and measures of caregiver burden. Regression analyses found EE significantly explained the variance in measures of caregiver burden, Stroke knowledge was not found to be a significant moderating effect between EE and caregiver burden in this study. Services should consider the impact of EE and how to support caregivers in order to facilitate good outcomes for both the stroke survivor and their caregiver. Further exploration of stroke knowledge and development of appropriate measures is indicated. Section three describes a critical appraisal of the thesis as a whole. This includes an overview of the main findings from the other papers and discussions of issues and limitations raised including terminology used, measures and the impact of culture. It also has reflections on the thesis journey as a whole and makes recommendations for further research.
Documenting North Netherlandish 17th Century Panel Makers' House Marks
Creators: name: Wadum, Jorgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: panel marks
Dutch 17th century

description: In 1617 the need for quality control of Antwerp oak panels used by painters became structured via detailed regulations requiring panel makers to issue each of their panels with the maker’s personal house mark. Upon approval by the dean of the panel makers, each accepted panel would then be branded with the Coat of Arms of Antwerp with a hot iron. This poster for the first time presents arguments and documentation on a comparable practice for panels produced in the Northern Netherlands during the 17th century. One panel maker’s mark in particular has been traced a sufficient number of times to suggest that this practice was established in Dordrecht. It shall further be argued that this may indicate that these incidents could reflect the practice of a few Flemish immigrants who took their native Antwerp tradition with them to the North. This poster is a first attempt to present the different North Netherlandish house marks/brands, their design, size, and other characteristics, in chronological order as found on 17th-century Netherlandish panels. This information is presented in conjunction with frequently recorded saw-marks on the back of the panels and the active years of the painters who used the recorded panels. Being able to identify the original mark of a painter’s support is an important documentary source which provides new evidence on the art production of the 17th century in a broader, more informative framework. The findings will be of assistance to (art) historians in placing specific paintings in time and context and it is argued that an openaccess database would be of immense importance to a variety of stakeholders interested in the art market and trade of the 17th century. The first negotiation on this issue is underway with the Dutch Institute for Art History (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie – RKD), in The Hague. The work presented is part of the research carried out under the recently established multidisciplinary and international research group STIPS (Studies in Picture Sizes).
Wood-strand sandwich panels for panelized construction
Creators: name: White, N.
name: Voth, C.
name: Yadama, V.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2015

description: Changing resources and demand for reduced energy dependency have led to consideration of combining energy and structural performance codes for construction of sustainable buildings with low embodied energy materials and reduced operational energy (residential and commercial buildings account for almost 39% of the total U.S. energy consumption and 38% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions). Washington State University has developed a wood-strand sandwich panel with a thin walled 3-D core that shows promise for use in building envelopes. This lightweight sandwich construction with a thin-walled 3-D core creates a structural panel using undervalued timber from forest thinning or fast growing plantations. Research is focused on replacing typical construction products such as oriented strand board (OSB) as sheathing with the possibility of creating a thicker built-up panel geared toward panelized construction similar to cross-laminated timber (CLT) and structural insulated panels (SIPs). Small-diameter ponderosa pine woodstrands were utilized in manufacturing of a sandwich panel that has a bending stiffness that is 21% stiffer than commercial OSB, but a density of approximately 300 kg/m3. The desirable mechanical and thermal results allow for this material to be utilized in designing panelized wall, floor, and roof elements for countless building construction applications. Compared to currently used OSB, which represents over 60% of the sheathing market, the thicker lightweight sandwich panel is significantly stiffer in bending with increased R-value while utilizing over 40% less material than OSB of equal thickness. Resin consumption, which accounts for approximately 30% of the production costs in a typical composite panel plant, is reduced by over 40%. Incorporation of foam insulation into the cavities of the sandwich panel further increases its flexural stiffness and thermal properties. This presentation will focus on manufacturing, mechanical and thermal properties, and application of wood-strand sandwich panels.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 33 No 2 (2015): Special Issue - ICBBM 2015
Efficient algorithms to decide tightness
Creators: name: Bagchi, Bhaskar
name: Burton, Benjamin A.
name: Datta, Basudeb
name: Singh, Nitin
name: Spreer, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.2; G.2.1

description: Tightness is a generalisation of the notion of convexity: a space is tight if and only if it is "as convex as possible", given its topological constraints. For a simplicial complex, deciding tightness has a straightforward exponential time algorithm, but efficient methods to decide tightness are only known in the trivial setting of triangulated surfaces. In this article, we present a new polynomial time procedure to decide tightness for triangulations of $3$-manifolds -- a problem which previously was thought to be hard. Furthermore, we describe an algorithm to decide general tightness in the case of $4$-dimensional combinatorial manifolds which is fixed parameter tractable in the treewidth of the $1$-skeletons of their vertex links, and we present an algorithm to decide $\mathbb{F}_2$-tightness for weak pseudomanifolds $M$ of arbitrary but fixed dimension which is fixed parameter tractable in the treewidth of the dual graph of $M$.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Delayed Leidenfrost phenomenon during impact of elastic fluid droplets
Creators: name: Purbarun Dhar
name: Soumya Ranjan Mishra
name: Gairola, Ajay
name: Samanta, Devranjan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91504 Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: supplementary information (figures and tables)
Integrating Impedance Control and Nonlinear Disturbance Observer for Robot-Assisted Arthroscope Control in Elbow Arthroscopic Surgery
Creators: Teng Li
Armin Badre
Hamid D. Taghirad
Mahdi Tavakoli
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

ABSTRACT: Robot-assisted arthroscopic surgery is transforming the tradition in orthopaedic surgery. Compliance and stability are essential features that a surgical robot must have for safe physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). Surgical tools attached at the robot end-effector and human-robot interaction will affect the robot dynamics inevitably. This could undermine the utility and stability of the robotic system if the varying robot dynamics are not identified and updated in the robot control law. In this paper, an integrated framework for robot impedance control and nonlinear disturbance observer (NDOB)-based compensation of uncertain dynamics is proposed, where the former ensures compliant robot behavior and the latter compensates for dynamic uncertainties when necessary. The combination of impedance controller and NDOB is analyzed theoretically in three scenarios. A complete simulation and experimental studies involving three common conditions are then conducted to evaluate the theoretical analyses. A preliminary pHRI application on arthroscopic surgery is designed to implement the proposed framework on a robotic surgeon-assist system and evaluate its effectiveness experimentally. By integrating impedance controller with NDOB, the proposed framework allows an accurate impedance control when dynamic model inaccuracy and external disturbance exist.
Construction of an inexpensive molecular Iodine spectrometer using a self developed Pohl wavemeter around 670 nm wavelength
Creators: name: Barthwal, Sachin
name: Vudayagiri, Ashok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe construction of an inexpensive Iodine Spectrometer with a home made Iodine vapour cell and a self developed wavemeter based on Pohl Interferometer, around 670 nm wavelength.This can be easily realised in an undergraduate teaching laboratory to demonstrate use of a diode laser interferometry using a Pohl interferometer and measurement of wavelength using image processing techniques.Visible alternative to the IR diode lasers, 670 nm diode laser used here give chance to undergraduate students to perform comprehensive though illustrative atomic physics experiments including the Zeeman effect, the Hanle effect, Magneto Optic Rotation (MOR) effect with a little tweaking in the present spectrometer. The advantage of the spectrometer is its ease of construction with readily available optics, electronics, evacuation and glass blowing facilities and easy analysis algorithm to evaluate the wavelength. The self developed algorithm of raster scanning and circular averaging gives the researcher insight into the basics of image processing techniques. Resolution approaching 0.5 nm can be easily achieved using such simple setup.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to European Journal of Physics
What works to recruit general practices to trials? A rapid review. PRISMA checklist.
Creators: name: Buckley, Daire
name: McHugh, Sheena M
name: Riordan, Fiona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: recruitment, general practice, rapid review, systematic review

description: PRISMA checklist for a rapid review of strategies used to recruit general practices for trials.
description: This work was funded through a HRB TMRN Student Summer Scholarship award (2021).
An Analysis of Causal Structure on Quality of Rural Life
Creators: name: Choi, Kanghwa
name: Choi, Kanghwa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: quality of rural life
subject: causal loop diagram

description: This study is about investigating the cause and effect relationship among those factors that affect the quality of rural life. Throughout this process, this study would draw a variety of policies with those potential factors that contribute to enhancing the quality of rural life. The existing studies concerning the quality of rural life are most likely empirical studies about which factors are more effective to improve the quality of rural life. However, the sole method of comparing the factors has limitations to solve the issues of rural life. In order to improve the quality of rural life, it is necessary to approach the issue based on system thinking. Therefore, this study investigates a variety of factors based on existing studies and examines reciprocal relationships between each factors. This study would propose detailed measures for sustainable growth of agriculture and rural life, and also suggest three different aspects of enhancing the quality of rural life: first, the rural community as the industrial area, second, the rural communities as the living space, and finally the rural communities as a welfare society.