cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraints faced by rural women arable crop farmers in adapting to climate change in Orlu agricultural zone of Imo State
Creators: name: Agumagu, A. C.
name: Ifeanyi-Obi, C. C.
name: Iromuanya, P. K.
name: Agumagu, A. C.
name: Ifeanyi-Obi, C. C.
name: Iromuanya, P. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: rural
subject: women-crop farmers
subject: adaptation
subject: climate change

description: The study identified the constraints faced by rural women arable crop farmers in adapting to climate change in Orlu agricultural zone of Imo state. Multi stage sampling technique was used to select 80 rural women arable crop farmers for the study. Data was collected using structured interview schedule and was analyzed using frequency, percentages and varimax rotated factor analysis. The study revealed that majority (67.5%) of the arable crop farmers were fifty years and above, 78.4% were married and 40.5% had at most primary education. Also, 39.2% had farm size of less than 1ha, 36.2% have household size of between 4 and 6 persons. Only 5.4% earned above N20, 000 and 18.2% do not belong to any social organization. Furthermore, it was shown that all (100%) of the rural women arable crop farmers are aware of climate change while 31.2% have been aware for more than 10 years. The major source of information on climate change was personal experience (95.9%), radio (85.1%), extension agents (65.7%) and fellow villagers/relatives (64.8%). The factor identified the major constraints faced by rural women arable crop farmers in adapting to climate change as unavailability of farm facilities and lack of adequate information, lack of/or inadequate supply of farm inputs, Poor skills of extension personnel and health status of farmers, traditional belief, land and labour constraints and lack of credit facilities. It was then recommended that Government and other stakeholders should be responsible for the provision and accessibility of farm inputs and credit facilities for the farmers. Also, more training and support should be given to extension personnel on effective sensitization of climate change and practical adaptation measures.
Psapharochrus albomaculatus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Psapharochrus
Psapharochrus albomaculatus

description: 3. Psapharochrus albomaculatus (Fuchs, 1963)
Type locality — Bolivia, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista (Ichilo). (Herbert Schmid, Vienna). Distribution — Bolivia.
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus) albomaculatus Fuchs, 1963: 10.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
The Zeeman, Spin-Orbit, and Quantum Spin-Hall Interactions in Anisotropic and Low-Dimensional Conductors
Creators: name: Zhao, Aiying
name: Gu, Qiang
name: Haugan, Timothy J.
name: Klemm, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When an electron or hole is in a conduction band of a crystal, it can be very different from 2, depending upon the crystalline anisotropy and the direction of the applied magnetic induction ${\bf B}$. In fact, it can even be 0! To demonstrate this quantitatively, the Dirac equation is extended for a relativistic electron or hole in an orthorhombically-anisotropic conduction band with effective masses $m_j$ for $j=1,2,3$ with geometric mean $m_g=(m_1m_2m_3)^{1/3}$. The appropriate Foldy-Wouthuysen transformations are extended to evaluate the non-relativistic Hamiltonian to $O({\rm m}c^2)^{-4}$, where ${\rm m}c^2$ is the particle's Einstein rest energy. For ${\bf B}||\hat{\bf e}_μ$, the Zeeman $g_μ$ factor is $2{\rm m}\sqrt{m_μ}/m_g^{3/2} + O({\rm m}c^2)^{-2}$. While propagating in a two-dimensional (2D) conduction band with $m_3\gg m_1,m_2$, $g_{||}<<2$, consistent with recent measurements of the temperature $T$ dependence of the parallel upper critical induction $B_{c2,||}(T)$ in superconducting monolayer NbSe$_2$ and in twisted bilayer graphene. While a particle is in its conduction band of an atomically thin one-dimensional metallic chain along $\hat{\bf e}_μ$, $g<<2$ for all ${\bf B}={\bf\nabla}\times{\bf A}$ directions and vanishingly small for ${\bf B}||\hat{\bf e}_μ$. The quantum spin Hall Hamiltonian for 2D metals with $m_1=m_2=m_{||}$ is $K[{\bf E}\times({\bf p}-q{\bf A})]_{\perp}σ_{\perp}+O({\rm m}c^2)^{-4}$, where ${\bf E}$ and ${\bf p}-q{\bf A}$ are the planar electric field and gauge-invariant momentum, $q=\mp|e|$ is the particle's charge, $σ_{\perp}$ is the Pauli matrix normal to the layer, $K=\pmμ_B/(2m_{||}c^2)$, and $μ_B$ is the Bohr magneton.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1906.10164
Psapharochrus alboniger
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Psapharochrus
Psapharochrus alboniger

description: 4. Psapharochrus alboniger (Bates, 1861)
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Santarém. (MNHN). Distribution — Brazil (Amazonas, Pará). Peru, Bolivia.
 Acanthoderes alboniger Bates, 1861: 218.
 Psapharochrus alboniger; Lacordaire, 1872: 751.
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus) albonigra; Aurivillius, 1923a: 385 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Coping strategies adopted by Australian frontline health workers to address psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Smallwood, N
name: Karimi, Leila
name: Pascoe, Amy
name: Bismark, M
name: Putland, M
name: Johnson, D
name: Dharmage, SC
name: Barson, E
name: Atkin, N
name: Long, C
name: Ng, I
name: Holland, Anne
name: Munro, J
name: Thevarajan, I
name: Moore, C
name: McGillion, Anthony
name: Willis, Karen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Objectives: The Australian COVID-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers Study investigated coping strategies and help-seeking behaviours, and their relationship to mental health symptoms experienced by Australian healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Australian HCWs were invited to participate a nationwide, voluntary, anonymous, single time-point, online survey between 27th August and 23rd October 2020. Complete responses on demographics, home and work situation, and measures of health and psychological wellbeing were received from 7846 participants. Results: The most commonly reported adaptive coping strategies were maintaining exercise (44.9%) and social connections (31.7%). Over a quarter of HCWs (26.3%) reported increased alcohol use which was associated with a history of poor mental health and worse personal relationships. Few used psychological wellbeing apps or sought professional help; those who did were more likely to be suffering from moderate to severe symptoms of mental illness. People living in Victoria, in regional areas, and those with children at home were significantly less likely to report adaptive coping strategies. Conclusions: Personal, social, and workplace predictors of coping strategies and help-seeking behaviour during the pandemic were identified. Use of maladaptive coping strategies and low rates of professional help-seeking indicate an urgent need to understand the effectiveness of, and the barriers and enablers of accessing, different coping strategies.
Quantitative analysis of Inventory Management System - Case study of an Auto-Parts Warehouse
Creators: name: Πασχαλέρης, Γεώργιος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Σύστημα Διαχείρισης Αποθέματος
Πρόβλεψη ζήτησης
Αβέβαιη ζήτηση
Inventory Management System
Demand forecasting
Uncertain demand

description: Inventory management systems are a vital part of any organization that has to keep order and trace the products that are immediately available and those that have to be ordered or are in the process of being ordered and transported to the firm’s warehouse. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the inventory management system of an existing company in using real data and propose better ways to forecast demand, place optimal order quantities and minimize the costs of operation. The literature review used articles of scientific journals, studies and books on the subject from the international literature through the Google Scholar platform and also academic books. Finally, the knowledge and methods gathered from the literature review, were exploited for the interpretation of the results of the analysis and the comparison with the firm’s system. It’s been proven that the firm has a distance to cover in order of proper utilization of its inventory management system and for the SKU that was taken into consideration it’s been shown that the proposed model is more efficient as it takes into account the peculiarity of the demand data.
description: Τα συστήματα διαχείρισης αποθέματος αποτελούν ζωτικό μέρος κάθε οργανισμού που πρέπει να διατηρεί μια οργάνωση και να εντοπίζει τα προϊόντα που είναι άμεσα διαθέσιμα και αυτά που πρέπει να παραγγελθούν ή βρίσκονται στη διαδικασία παραγγελίας και μεταφοράς στην αποθήκη της εταιρείας. Ο σκοπός αυτής της διατριβής είναι να αναλύσει το σύστημα διαχείρισης αποθεμάτων μιας υπάρχουσας εταιρείας στη χρήση πραγματικών δεδομένων και να προτείνει καλύτερους τρόπους για την πρόβλεψη της ζήτησης, την τοποθέτηση βέλτιστων ποσοτήτων παραγγελιών και την ελαχιστοποίηση του κόστους λειτουργίας. Για τη βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση χρησιμοποιήθηκαν άρθρα επιστημονικών περιοδικών, μελετών και βιβλίων σχετικά με το θέμα από τη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία μέσω της πλατφόρμας Google Scholars καθώς επίσης και ακαδημαϊκά βιβλία. Τέλος, οι γνώσεις και οι μέθοδοι που συγκεντρώθηκαν από τη βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση εκμεταλλεύτηκαν για την ερμηνεία των αποτελεσμάτων της ανάλυσης και τη σύγκριση με το σύστημα της εταιρείας. Έχει αποδειχθεί ότι η εταιρεία έχει απόσταση για να καλύψει τη σωστή χρήση του συστήματος διαχείρισης αποθεμάτων και για το SKU που ελήφθη υπόψη, έχει αποδειχθεί ότι το προτεινόμενο μοντέλο είναι πιο αποτελεσματικό καθώς υπολογίζει την ιδιαιτερότητα των δεδομένων ζήτησης.
Effect of clustering on extragalactic source counts with low-resolution instruments
Creators: name: Negrello, M.
name: Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
name: Magliocchetti, M.
name: Moscardini, L.
name: De Zotti, G.
name: Toffolatti, L.
name: Danese, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of strong clustering, low-resolution surveys measure the summed contributions of groups of sources within the beam. The counts of bright intensity peaks are therefore shifted to higher flux levels compared to the counts of individual sources detected with high-resolution instruments. If the beam-width corresponds a sizable fraction of the clustering size, as in the case of Planck/HFI, one actually detects the fluxes of clumps of sources. We argue that the distribution of clump luminosities can be modelled in terms of the two- and three-point correlation functions, and apply our formalism to the Planck/HFI 850 micron surveys. The effect on counts is found to be large and sensitive also to the evolution of the three-point correlation function; in the extreme case that the latter function is redshift-independent, the source confusion due to clustering keeps being important above the canonical 5*sigma detection limit. Detailed simulations confirm the reliability of our approach. As the ratio of the beam-width to the clustering angular size decreases, the observed fluxes approach those of the brightest sources in the beam and the clump formalism no longer applies. However, simulations show that also in the case of the Herschel/SPIRE 500 micron survey the enhancement of the bright source counts due to clustering is important.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Substantially revised, major weaknesses of the previous model cured, results tested with numerical simulations. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Structure-guided screening of protein-protein interaction for the identification of Myc-Max heterodimer complex modulators
Creators: name: Bhowmick, Shovonlal
name: Roy, Kunal
name: Saha, Achintya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: De-regulation of oncogenic myelocytomatosis (c-Myc or Myc) transcription factor is one of the most common molecular anomalies encountered in human cancers, and it is typically linked to many aggressive malignancies including breast, lung, cervix, colon glioblastomas, and other haematological organs. The Myc belongs to the basic helix-loop-helix zipper protein family (bHLH-ZIP), and its dimerization with another principal interactor protein partner Myc-associated factor X (Max) is essentially required for cellular transformation, cell growth and proliferation, and transcriptional activation. Intermolecular interactions have been evaluated between hetero-dimer Myc-Max protein, which identified protein-protein interaction (PPI) specific modulators using highly précised molecular docking study followed by long-range interaction stability analyzed through molecular dynamic (MD) simulation. Moreover, ADME profile analyses have been estimated for screened hit compounds. MM-GBSA-based binding free energy (ΔG) estimations have been performed for all screened hit compounds obtained from multi-step molecular docking-based virtual screening technique. According to the employed various rigorous multi-chemometric techniques, four identified inhibitors/modulators appear to have a considerable number of intermolecular contacts with hotspot residues in the hetero-dimer interface region of the Myc-Max PPI complex. However, identified hit compounds might need further structural optimization or extensive biophysical analyses for better understanding of the molecular mechanism for exhibiting the Myc-Max PPI interface binding stability.
Community Libraries in Uganda as Sites for Negotiating Students’ Identities
Creators: name: Stranger-Johannessen, Espen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper presents data from 14 community libraries in Uganda and discusses avenues for exploring how students’ identities and imagined communities can be interpreted and analyzed through the resources and services that community libraries offer, with particular reference to the issue of language. The guiding question is: how can and do community libraries in Uganda function as sites for the negotiation of student identities and imagined communities, and what are the implications of this for the libraries, donors and student users of the libraries?
Parafermionic theory with the symmetry Z_N, for N odd
Creators: name: Dotsenko, Vladimir S
name: Jacobsen, Jesper Lykke
name: Santachiara, Raoul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a parafermionic conformal theory with the symmetry Z_N, for N odd, based on the second solution of Fateev-Zamolodchikov for the corresponding parafermionic chiral algebra. Primary operators are classified according to their transformation properties under the dihedral group D_N, as singlet, doublet 1,2,...,(N-1)/2, and disorder operators. In an assumed Coulomb gas scenario, the corresponding vertex operators are accommodated by the weight lattice of the Lie algebra B_(N-1)/2. The unitary theories are representations of the coset SO_n(N) x SO_2(N) / SO_{n+2}(N), with n=1,2,... . Physically, they realise the series of multicritical points in statistical theories having a D_N symmetry.
description: 34 pages, 1 figure. v2: note added in proof
Περιβαλλοντική Εκπαίδευση και Αγωγή Υγείας στη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση
Creators: name: Παπαδόπουλος, Θωμάς Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Περιβαλλοντική Εκπαίδευση
Αγωγή Υγείας
Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση
Environmental Education
Health Education
Secondary Education

description: Στη σημερινή εποχή λόγω των έντονων περιβαλλοντικών προβλημάτων όπως η κλιματική αλλαγή, το φωτοχημικό νέφος, η αραίωση της στοιβάδας του ατμοσφαιρικού όζοντος και η όξινη βροχή, η ευαισθητοποίηση των πολιτών σε θέματα περιβάλλοντος συνίσταται πιο επίκαιρη από ποτέ. Επιπλέον, οι συνεχείς πανδημίες που παρουσιάζονται όπως η γρίπη των χοίρων, η γρίπη των πτηνών, ο ιός HIV, καθιστούν επιτακτική την ενημέρωση των πολιτών σε θέματα υγείας. Αξιοσημείωτο είναι το γεγονός ότι όλα τα παραπάνω αποκτούν μεγαλύτερη βαρύτητα όταν αναφερόμαστε στους μελλοντικούς πολίτες μίας χώρας, τους σημερινούς μαθητές και μαθήτριες. Η παρούσα εργασία διερευνά και μελετά την ενσωμάτωση της Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης και της Αγωγής Υγείας και τις συνθήκες υλοποίησης των Προγραμμάτων Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης και Αγωγής Υγείας στη Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση στο ελληνικό εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα τόσο σε πανελλήνιο όσο και σε τοπικό επίπεδο. Επίσης, εξετάζει την επίδραση της Περιβαλλοντικής Εκπαίδευσης και της Αγωγής Υγείας σε σχέση με την υιοθέτηση ενός διαφορετικού ηθικού κώδικα, μίας νέας στάσης και συμπεριφοράς από τους μαθητές και τις μαθήτριες απέναντι σε θέματα περιβάλλοντος και υγείας.
description: Today, due to severe environmental problems such as climate change, photochemical clouds, thinning of the ozone layer and acid rain, raising public awareness of environmental issues is more relevant than ever. In addition, ongoing pandemics such as swine flu, avian influenza, HIV, make it imperative to inform citizens about health issues. It is noteworthy that all of the above become more important when we refer to the future citizens of a country, the current students. The present work investigates and studies the integration of Environmental Education and Health Education and the conditions for the implementation of Environmental Education and Health Education Programs in Secondary Education in the Greek educational system both nationally and locally. It also examines the impact of Environmental Education and Health Education in relation to the adoption of a different code of ethics, a new attitude and behavior by students towards environmental and health issues.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Ιατρικής (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης), Πολιτικών Μηχανικών T.E. (Αλεξάνδρειο Τ.Ε.Ι. Θεσσαλονίκης)
Use of the complete basis set limit for computing highly accurate ab initio dipole moments
Creators: name: Conway, Eamon K.
name: Gordon, Iouli E.
name: Polyansky, Oleg L.
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculating dipole moments with high-order basis sets is generally only possible for the light molecules, such as water. A simple, yet highly effective strategy of obtaining high-order dipoles with small, computationally less expensive basis sets is described. Using the finite field method for computing dipoles, energies calculated with small basis sets can be extrapolated to produce dipoles that are comparable to those obtained in high order calculations. The method reduces computational resources by approximately 50% (allowing the calculation of reliable dipole moments for larger molecules) and simultaneously improves the agreement with experimentally measured infrared transition intensities. For atmospherically important molecules which are typically too large to consider the use of large basis sets, this procedure will provide the necessary means of improving calculated spectral intensities by several percent.
Connected and consuming: applying a deep learning algorithm to quantify alcoholic beverage prevalence in user-generated instagram images
Creators: name: Norman, Thomas
name: Bonela, Abraham Albert
name: He, Zhen
name: Angus, D
name: Carah, N
name: Kuntsche, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: No description supplied.
Επεκτεταμένο και Unscented φίλτρο Kalman με περιορισμούς. Εφαρμογή στα Οικονομικά
Creators: name: Παναγιωτίδου, Μιχαέλα Χαραλάμπου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Επεκτεταμένο Φίλτρο Kalman
Unscented Φίλτρο Kalman
Προβολή Εκτίμησης
Extended Kalman Filter
Unscented Kalman Filter
Estimate Projection

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η εκτίμηση της «κρυφής» κατάστασης μη γραμμικών συστημάτων, με την χρήση των Επεκτεταμένων (Extended) και Unscented Φίλτρων Kalman. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζεται το γραμμικό φίλτρο Kalman, έτσι ώστε να αποτελέσει την βάση για τις μη γραμμικές επεκτάσεις του, που χρησιμοποιούνται στη συνέχεια. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο, περιγράφονται αναλυτικά οι αλγόριθμοι του Επεκτεταμένου Φίλτρου Kalman και του Φίλτρου Kalman Σ-Σημείων, καθώς και κάποιες παραλλαγές τους. Στη συνέχεια, στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο μελετώνται συστήματα των οποίων η κατάσταση υπόκειται σε περιορισμούς, ισοτικούς ή ανισοτικούς, και παρουσιάζονται κάποιες μέθοδοι για την αντιμετώπιση τέτοιων προβλημάτων εκτίμησης κατάστασης. Τέλος, στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο εφαρμόζονται μέθοδοι εκτίμησης μιας κατάστασης που ικανοποιεί κάποιους περιορισμούς και αξιολογείται η απόδοσή τους στην συγκεκριμένη εφαρμογή, βάσει των μέσων τετραγωνικών σφαλμάτων. Η εφαρμογή γίνεται στην χρονοσειρά των αποδόσεων του Σύνθετου δείκτη NASDAQ και πραγματοποιήθηκε στο περιβάλλον του υπολογιστικού πακέτου Matlab.
description: The goal of this thesis is to estimate the hidden state of nonlinear systems, making use of the Extended and Unscented Kalman Filters. In the first chapter, the linear Kalman filter is presented, in order to form the basis for the nonlinear extensions of it, that are used afterwards. In the second chapter, the algorithms of the Extended and the Unscented Kalman Filter are described in detail, as well as some alternatives of them. Then, the third chapter studies systems whose state is subject to constrains, equality or inequality, and presents some methods to deal with such state estimation problems. Finally, in the fourth chapter, methods of estimating a state that satisfies some constrains are applied and their performance in this application is evaluated, based on the mean squared errors. The application is carried out using the time-series of the Composite NASDAQ index returns and took place in the Matlab computing environment.
A discussion guide for healthcare professionals to support decision making about partial foot amputation due to peripheral arterial disease
Creators: name: Dillon, Michael
name: Fatone, Stefania
name: Quigley, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Amputation Decision Aid is a resource written specifically for people facing the prospect of partial foot amputation due to peripheral arterial disease. High-quality decision aids include unbiased information about the different options as well as evidence about the likely outcomes and risks. Armed with good information, we hope to empower people to be active participants in decisions about their healthcare.
Η Εσχατολογία των Μαρτύρων του Ιεχωβά
Creators: name: Οικονομίδου, Έλλη Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Εσχατολογία
Μάρτυρες του Ιεχωβά
Βίβλος
Eschatology
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Bible

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας διατριβής ήταν να εξετάσουμε την εσχατολογική αντίληψη των Μαρτύρων του Ιεχωβά. Αρχικά, εξετάσαμε τη χιλιαστική τους δοξασία σχετικά με παλαιότερους και νεότερους χρόνους. Στη συνέχεια παρουσιάσαμε την εξέλιξη της ιστορίας από τον ιδρυτή Κάρολο Ρώσσελ μέχρι και σήμερα. Ακόμη αναφερθήκαμε σε διάφορους προϋποθετικούς παράγοντες που σχετίζονται με την Εσχατολογία των Μαρτύρων του Ιεχωβά και το πώς επισημοποιείται η ένταξη των μελών. Ένα άλλο θέμα που θίξαμε ήταν οι διακρίσεις των οπαδών της εταιρείας Σκοπιά και το πώς τελικά ο διαχωρισμός που γίνεται ανάμεσα σε «κεχρισμένους» και το υπόλοιπο πλήθος, επηρεάζει την τοποθέτησή τους την τελική ώρα της κρίσης. Τέλος, ασχοληθήκαμε με κάποια συγκεκριμένα σημεία που χαρακτηρίζουν τη διδασκαλία των Μαρτύρων του Ιεχωβά σε σχέση με το τέλος του κόσμου.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of the eschatological perception of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Initially, we examined their millennial glory as far as it concerns the older and the newer times. Then we presented the development of their history since the times of Karol Rossel until nowadays. Furthermore, we analyzed some prerequisites which are factors related to the Eschatology of Jehovah’s Witnesses and moreover how the integration of the members is formalized. We also examined the distinctions existing between the followers of the company of Watchtower and how this separation - between those “chosen” by God and the rest of the crowd - affects their ultimate placement during the final judgment. Finally, another aim of this study was to mention some specific points of the teaching of Jehovah’s Witnesses compared with the end of the world.
description: To Tμήμα Ποιμαντικής και Kοινωνικής Θεολογίας του Α.Π.Θ. μετονομάστηκε σε Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας και Χριστιανικού Πολιτισμού σύμφωνα με το ΦΕΚ 5710/24-12-2020
A combined ligand-based and structure-based in silico molecular modeling approach to pinpoint the key structural attributes of hydroxamate derivatives as promising meprin β inhibitors
Creators: name: Jana, Sandeep
name: Banerjee, Suvankar
name: Baidya, Sandip Kumar
name: Ghosh, Balaram
name: Jha, Tarun
name: Adhikari, Nilanjan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Human meprin β is a Zn2+-containing multidomain metalloprotease enzyme that belongs to the astacin family of the metzincin endopeptidase superfamily. Meprin β, with its diverse tissue expression pattern and wide substrate specificity, plays a significant role in various biological processes, including regulation of IL-6R pathways, lung fibrosis, collagen deposition, cellular migration, neurotoxic amyloid β levels, and inflammation. Again, meprin β is involved in Alzheimer’s disease, hyperkeratosis, glomerulonephritis, diabetic kidney injury, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer. Despite a crucial role in diverse disease processes, no such promising inhibitors of meprin β are marketed to date. Thus, it is an unmet requirement to find novel promising meprin β inhibitors that hold promise as potential therapeutics. In this study, a series of arylsulfonamide and tertiary amine-based hydroxamate derivatives as meprin β inhibitors has been analyzed through ligand-based and structure-based in silico approaches to pinpoint their structural and physiochemical requirements crucial for exerting higher inhibitory potential. This study identified different crucial structural features such as arylcarboxylic acid, sulfonamide, and arylsulfonamide moieties, as well as hydrogen bond donor and hydrophobicity, inevitable for exerting higher meprin β inhibition, providing valuable insight for their further future development.
How violent are fast controls for Schroedinger and plate vibrations ?
Creators: name: Miller, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B37; 74K20

description: Given a time T>0 and a region Omega on a compact Riemannian manifold M, we consider the best constant, denoted C_{T,Omega}, in the observation inequality for the Schroedinger evolution group of the Laplacian Delta with Dirichlet boundary condition: for all f in L^2(M), ||f||_{L^2(M)} \leq C_{T,Omega} ||exp(itDelta)f||_{L^2((0,T)xOmega)}. We investigate the influence of the geometry of Omega on the growth of C_{T,Omega} as T tends to 0. By duality, C_{T,Omega} is also the controllability cost of the free Schroedinger equation on M with Dirichlet boundary condition in time T by interior controls on Omega. It relates to hinged vibrating plates as well. We emphasize a tool of wider scope: the control transmutation method. We prove that C_{T,Omega} grows at least like exp(d^2/4T), where d is the largest distance of a point in M from Omega, and at most like exp(alpha L^2/T), where L is the length of the longest generalized geodesic in M which does not intersect Omega, and alpha is a constant in ]0,4[ (it is the growth rate of the controllability cost in a similar one dimensional problem). We also deduce such upper bounds on product manifolds for some control regions which are not intersected by all geodesics.
description: 23 pages, a4paper, no figures
Psapharochrus analis
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Psapharochrus
Psapharochrus analis

description: 5. Psapharochrus analis (Melzer, 1935)
Type locality — Brazil, Santa Catarina: Corupá. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (São Paulo to Santa Catarina), Argentina.
 Acanthoderes analis Melzer, 1935: 192; Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 44 (type); Zajciw, 1970a: 5 (distr.).
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus) analis; Gilmour, 1965: 616 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Pandemic Dark Matter
Creators: name: Bringmann, Torsten
name: Depta, Paul Frederik
name: Hufnagel, Marco
name: Ruderman, Joshua
name: Schmidt-Hoberg, Kai
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: * Automatic Keywords *
production: thermal
dark matter
density
Boltzmann equation
duality

description: We propose a novel thermal production mechanism for dark matter based on the idea that dark matter particles $\chi$ can transform (`infect') heat bath particles $\psi$: $\chi \psi \rightarrow \chi \chi$. For a small initial abundance of $\chi$ this induces an exponential growth in the dark matter number density, closely resembling the epidemic curves of a spreading pathogen after an initial outbreak. To quantify this relation we present a sharp duality between the Boltzmann equation for the dark matter number density and epidemiological models for the spread of infectious diseases. Finally we demonstrate that the exponential growth naturally stops before $\chi$ thermalizes with the heat bath, corresponding to a triumphant `flattening of the curve' that matches the observed dark matter abundance.
Fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) of the Werribee grasslands: A case study of a species in decline
Creators: name: Scicluna, Emily
name: Gill, Brittney
name: Robert, Kylie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Grasslands are among the most endangered ecosystems, with <1% of Victorian grasslands remaining. Extinctions of many grassland fauna species have occurred since European settlement due to loss of suitable habitat, and dramatic range reductions continue for those that still exist. Fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) are the only small ground-dwelling marsupial known to persist in Victorian grassland habitats. The last long-term targeted surveys for this species were conducted in Victoria in the 1970s. Incidental findings from more recent short-term targeted and non-targeted surveys in the same area suggest a decline. We performed direct targeted surveys for fat-tailed dunnarts at the 1970s survey site over a 12-month period in 2019 and found no evidence of fat-tailed dunnart presence. The species is classified as Near Threatened in the state and Least Concern internationally. Our work highlights the importance of targeted surveys to assess the stability of this species across Victoria, and the need for collection of long-term data to better identify population declines.
Scenarios for the Origin of the Orbits of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 2000 CR105 and 2003 VB12
Creators: name: Morbidelli, A.
name: Levison, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Explaining the origin of the orbit of 2000 CR105 (a ~ 230AU, q ~ 45AU) is a major test for our understanding of the primordial evolution of the outer Solar System. Gladman et al. (2001) showed that this objects could not have been a normal member of the scattered disk that had its perihelion distance increased by chaotic diffusion. In this paper we explore four seemingly promising mechanisms for explaining the origin of the orbit of this peculiar object: (i) the passage of Neptune through a high-eccentricity phase, (ii) the past existence of massive planetary embryos in the Kuiper belt or the scattered disk, (iii) the presence of a massive trans-Neptunian disk at early epochs which exerted tides on scattered disk objects, and (iv) encounters with other stars. Of all these mechanisms, the only one giving satisfactory results is the passage of a star. Indeed, our simulations show that the passage of a solar mass star at about 800 AU only perturbs objects with semi-major axes larger than roughly 200 AU to large perihelion distances. This is in good agreement with the fact that 2000 CR105 has a semi-major axis of 230AU and no other bodies with similar perihelion distances but smaller semi-major axes have yet been discovered. The discovery of 2003 VB12, (a=450AU, q=75AU) announced a few days before the submission of this paper, strengthen our conclusions.
description: AJ submitted. 27 pages, 6 figures
Psapharochrus arietis
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Psapharochrus
Psapharochrus arietis

description: 6. Psapharochrus arietis (Bates, 1885)
Type locality — Guatemala, Quezaltenango: Cerro Zunil. (BMNH). Distribution — Guatemala.
 Acanthoderes arietis Bates, 1885: 380, pl. 23, fig. 10; Chemsak & Linsley, 1970: 406 (lect.); Chemsak et al., 1992: 130 (cat.).
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus) arietis; Aurivillius, 1923a: 385 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Higgsless Electroweak Symmetry Breaking in Warped Backgrounds: Constraints and Signatures
Creators: name: Davoudiasl, H.
name: Hewett, J. L.
name: Lillie, B.
name: Rizzo, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the phenomenology of a warped 5-dimensional model based on SU(2)$_L \times$ SU(2)$_R \times$ U(1)$_{B-L}$ model which implements electroweak symmetry breaking through boundary conditions, without the presence of a Higgs boson. We use precision electroweak data to constrain the general parameter space of this model. Our analysis includes independent $L$ and $R$ gauge couplings, radiatively induced UV boundary gauge kinetic terms, and all higher order corrections from the curvature of the 5-d space. We show that this setup can be brought into good agreement with the precision electroweak data for typical values of the parameters. However, we find that the entire range of model parameters leads to violation of perturbative unitarity in gauge boson scattering and hence this model is not a reliable perturbative framework. Assuming that unitarity can be restored in a modified version of this scenario, we consider the collider signatures. It is found that new spin-1 states will be observed at the LHC and measurement of their properties would identify this model. However, the spin-2 graviton Kaluza-Klein resonances, which are a hallmark of the Randall-Sundrum model, are too weakly coupled to be detected.
description: More detailed analysis, added references, 43 pages, 15 figures, LaTex
Perceived effects of oil exploration among among male and female fishers in Ilaje and Ese-Odo local government areas of Ondo State
Creators: name: Faborode, H. F. B
name: Koledoye, G. F
name: Faborode, H. F. B
name: Koledoye, G. F
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Effects
subject: crude oil
subject: exploration
subject: vulnerability
subject: gender

description: The study investigated the perceived effects of crude oil exploration on fishers in riverine areas of Ondo State on a gender basis. It specifically identified and determined respondents’ level of awareness on crude oil exploration activities, analyzed the effects of crude oil exploration on the socio-economic status of male and female fisher folks and determined their level of vulnerability to the perceived effects of crude oil exploration in the study area. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select 156 (78 male and 78 female) fishers. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Regression and t-test were used to make inferences. Results showed that the mean ages of male and female fishers were 46.9±13.5 and 46.7±13.9 years with mean household size of 8.7±2.9 and 6.0±2.1 persons per house for both male and female fishers, respectively. A significant proportion (47.0% and 38.7% for male and female, respectively) of the fishers were aware of the various crude oil exploration activities in the study area. The major effects of crude oil exploration activities in the study area on male and female fishers were increase in infrastructure, improvement in peoples’ welfare, increase in economic activities but has alterred specific gender roles, migration and shifted government focus away from fishing. About 48.5 percent of male and 60.0% of female fishers were ranked high in their level of perceived effects of oil exploration. The findings revealed that most of the female (66.7%) and very few of the male (6.1%) fishers were highly vulnerable to the various negative effects of crude oil exploration. Based on the findings, it was concluded that there was a significant difference (t=2.721;p≤0.01) in the effects of crude oil exploration on male and female fishers and that age (t=3.768≤0.05), length of stay in the community (t=5.532;p≤0.05) and family size (t=2.439;p≤0.05) were the determinants of the perceived effects of crude oil exploration activities in the study area among male respondents while age (t=-4.643;p≤0.05), length of stay in the community (t=2.342;p≤0.05) and monthly income (t=4.643;p≤0.05) were the determinants of the perceived effects of crude oil exploration activities among females. Also, the females were more vulnerable to the identified negative effects of crude oil exploration in the study area. For a result oriented Agricultural Transformation Agenda, there is need to meet both gender needs and interest for better livelihood.
Ανάλυση δεδομένων στα Κοινωνικά Δίκτυα
Creators: name: Νικολάου Μαρία, Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Δίκτυα
Ανάλυση κοινωνικών δικτύων
Κοινωνικά μέσα
Networks
Social network analysis
Social media

description: Η χρήση των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης (social media) τα τελευταία χρόνια συνιστά μία από τις πλέον δημοφιλείς δραστηριότητες σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, καθώς ένας σημαντικά υψηλός και διαρκώς αυξανόμενος αριθμός χρηστών μοιράζονται καθημερινά ενδιαφέροντα, γνώμες, απόψεις, ενημερώνονται και ψυχαγωγούνται με τη βοήθεια πληθώρας εφαρμογών όπως newsgroups, virtual chat rooms, instant messaging, weblogs, emails, video, voice data, forum discussion. Η αλληλεπίδραση αυτή που εκδηλώνεται μεταξύ των χρηστών παράγει ένα σημαντικό αριθμό δεδομένων και στοιχείων, η μελέτη των οποίων μέσω διαφόρων εργαλείων ανάλυσης είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντική, παρέχοντας πληροφόρηση επί διαφόρων θεμάτων όπως οι προτιμήσεις των καταναλωτών, κυρίαρχες ή νέες τάσεις κ.λπ. Υπό το πρίσμα των ανωτέρω, αντικείμενο μελέτης της παρούσας εργασίας αποτέλεσε η σύγκριση επιλεγμένων εργαλείων ανάλυσης κοινωνικών μέσων, με σκοπό τον εντοπισμό κοινών, ισχυρών και αδύναμων σημείων καθώς και επιμέρους διαφορών των προς σύγκριση εργαλείων. Για το σκοπό αυτό αναπτύχθηκαν στον απαιτούμενο βαθμό οι θεματικές των δικτύων και γράφων, των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, της ανάλυσης κοινωνικών δικτύων και της ανάλυσης συναισθήματος, προκειμένου να υποστηριχτεί και πλαισιωθεί -σε θεωρητικό επίπεδο- η εν συνεχεία παρουσίαση και εφαρμογή επιλεγμένων εργαλείων ανάλυσης κοινωνικών μέσων.
description: The use of social media in recent years is one of the most popular activities worldwide, as a significantly high and ever-increasing number of users share daily interests, opinions, views, information and entertainment with the help of a variety of applications such as newsgroups, virtual chat rooms, instant messaging, weblogs, emails, video, voice data, forum discussion. This interaction that occurs between users produces a significant amount of data. The study of these data through various analysis tools is particularly important, providing information on various topics, such as consumer preferences, current or new trends etc. In the light of the above, the object of this study was the comparison of selected tools for social media analysis, in order to identify common strengths and weaknesses as well as differences of the tools to be compared. For this purpose, the topics of networks and graphs, social media, social network analysis and emotion analysis were developed to the required degree, in order to support and frame - at a theoretical level - the subsequent presentation and implementation of selected social media analysis tools.
Investigation of a set of flavonoid compounds as Helicobacter pylori urease inhibitors: insights from in silico studies
Creators: name: Asadi, Golnoush Sadat
name: Abdizadeh, Rahman
name: Abdizadeh, Tooba
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral, microaerophilic gram-negative bacterium, which is associated with the destruction of the lining of the stomach, leads to chronic inflammation of the stomach, which can cause stomach and duodenal ulcers. The problems caused by the treatment with antibiotics have caused researchers to use new approaches to treat infections caused by H. pylori, among them specific treatments with flavonoids. Urease enzyme, as one of the most important pathogenic and antigenic factors of this bacterium, is a suitable target for this purpose. In this study, the inhibitory effect of flavonoid compounds compared to acetohydroxamic acid on H. pylori urease enzyme was evaluated using molecular modeling methods. First, the interaction of flavonoids with urease enzyme compared with acetohydroxamic acid was investigated by molecular docking method to produce efficient docking poses. Then the physicochemical properties and toxicity of the best flavonoid compounds were analyzed using the swissadme server. Also, molecular dynamics calculations were performed to precisely understand the interactions between ligands and protein. The results of this study show that all the investigated flavonoid compounds are capable of inhibiting H. pylori urease. Among these compounds, six compounds chrysin, galangin, kaempferol, luteolin, morin and quercetin showed a greater tendency to bind to urease, compared to the acetohydroxamic acid inhibitor. These compounds are desirable in terms of physicochemical properties. This study also revealed that the flavonoids with their hydroxyl groups (–OH) play an important role during bond formation with amino acids Ala278, Ala169, His314, Asp362 and Asn168. Therefore, flavonoid compounds, due to their suitable location in the active site of the urease, create a more effective inhibition than the chemical drug acetohydroxamic acid and can be suitable candidates for the treatment of Helicobacter pylori under in vitro and in vivo investigations.
An intergenerational farm transfer: when to start handing over the reins?
Creators: name: Tetteh, Iuliia
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Tetteh, Iuliia
name: Boehlje, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: intergenerational farm transfer
subject: estate and succession planning
subject: farmer productivity
subject: farm family living expenses

description: This case illustrates a challenging management decision faced by the family farm: when should they bring the younger generation to the farm full-time? Under consideration is a critical trade-off between the firm’s growth and transfer tax implications that drives the farm transfer decision. Industry practitioners and students are asked to use the results of the intergenerational farm transfer simulation model to evaluate this tradeoff and provide an effective recommendation. The case can be used as part of succession/estate planning workshops attended by agricultural producers, farm managers, agricultural lenders, as well as in Master’s level courses in agricultural finance and farm management.