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Entanglement entropy of dispersive media from thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension
Creators: name: Maghrebi, Mohammad F.
name: Reid, Homer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dispersive medium becomes entangled with zero-point fluctuations in the vacuum. We consider an arbitrary array of material bodies weakly interacting with a quantum field and compute the quantum mutual information between them. It is shown that the mutual information in D dimensions can be mapped to classical thermodynamic entropy in D+1 dimensions. As a specific example, we compute the mutual information both analytically and numerically for a range of separation distances between two bodies in D=2 dimensions and find a logarithmic correction to the area law at short separations. A key advantage of our method is that it allows the strong subadditivity property---notoriously difficult to prove for quantum systems---to be easily verified.
description: Corrected typos. Added references
การพัฒนาผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนและความพึงพอใจในการเรียนวิชาภาษามือเพื่อการสื่อสารโดยใช้การเรียนรู้ผ่านการปฏิบัติ (Active Learning) ของนักศึกษา สาขาวิชาภาษาและการสื่อสาร คณะมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ ชั้นปีที่ 3 มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต
Creators: name: ภริมา  วินิธาสถิตย์กุล
Publisher: name: ชมรมวิทยาลัยนวัตกรรมการจัดการ
Year: 2023
Subjects: การเรียนรู้ผ่านการปฏิบัติ
ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน
ภาษามือเพื่อการสื่อสาร

description: วารสารวิชาการ การจัดการภาครัฐและเอกชน, 5, 2, 93-105
title: A critical analysis of legal responses to trafficking : a case study of child domestic work
Creators: name: Yvonne  Scullion, Dianne
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the UK response to child trafficking, taking child domestic work as a case study. The UK's approach has been influenced by, and created alongside, European and International responses. The United Nations Trafficking Protocol has been particularly significant in terms of providing a legal definition of trafficking which has subsequently been used as the basis for the definition contained within the Council Europe Convention. As a result, child trafficking involves the movement of a child either internationally across state borders, or internally within one state, for the purpose of exploitation. This thesis takes a child-focused approach to human trafficking and examines whether the UK has created a legal response which accounts for all trafficked children regardless of the type of exploitation they experience and whether the enforcement of the law accurately reflects the law. Human trafficking laws have developed primarily with the aim of preventing transnational organised crime and protecting States' borders. However there is also emerging recognition of victims' human rights. A set of assumptions surround human trafficking and these have influenced the current enforcement of the law and created a stereotypical image of the trafficked child. These assumptions are explored and applied to children exploited in domestic work to assess the protection provided to this particular group of trafficked children and more widely, to those trafficked children who do not 'fit' into the stereotypical image.
การพัฒนาผลิตภัณฑ์พายสับปะรด สินค้า OTOP ประเภทอาหารเพื่อยกระดับมาตรฐาน ห้า ดาว ของกลุ่มวิสาหกิจชุมชน จังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์
Creators: name: สุรีรัตน์  เยี่ยมตระกูล
Publisher: name: ชมรมวิทยาลัยนวัตกรรมการจัดการ
Year: 2023
Subjects: ผลิตภัณฑ์พายสับปะรด
สินค้า OTOP
กลุ่มวิสาหกิจชุมชน

description: วารสารวิชาการ การจัดการภาครัฐและเอกชน, 5, 2, 106-121
Diel Interactions of Oxygenic Photosynthesis and N2 Fixation (Acetylene Reduction) in a Marine Microbial Mat Community
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: Diel variations in N(2) fixation (acetylene reduction), CO(2) fixation, and oxygen concentrations were measured, on three separate occasions, in a marine microbial mat located on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. Nitrogenase activity (NA) was found to be inversely correlated with CO(2) fixation and, in two of the three diel periods studied, was higher at night than during the day. Oxygen concentrations within the top 3 mm of the mat ranged from 0 to 400 muM on a diel cycle; anaerobic conditions generally persisted below 4 mm. NA in the mat was profoundly affected by naturally occurring oxygen concentrations. Experimentally elevated oxygen concentrations resulted in a significant depression of NA, whereas the addition of the Photosystem II inhibitor 3(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea decreased oxygen concentrations within the mat and resulted in a significant short-term enhancement of NA. Mat N(2)-fixing microorganisms include cyanobacteria and heterotrophic, photoautotrophic, and chemolithotrophic eubacteria. Measured (whole-mat) NA is probably due to a combination of the NA of each of these groups of organisms. The relative contributions of each group to whole-mat NA probably varied during diel and seasonal (successional) cycles. Reduced compounds derived from photosynthetic CO(2) fixation appeared to be an important source of energy for NA during the day, whereas heterotrophic or chemolithotrophic utilization of reduced compounds appeared to be an important source of energy for NA at night, under reduced ambient oxygen concentrations. Previous estimates of N(2) fixation calculated on the basis of daytime measurements may have seriously underestimated diel and seasonal nitrogen inputs in mat systems.
Chains with loops - synthetic magnetic fluxes and topological order in one-dimensional spin systems
Creators: name: Grass, Tobias
name: Muschik, Christine
name: Celi, Alessio
name: Chhajlany, Ravindra
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Engineering topological quantum order has become a major field of physics. Many advances have been made by synthesizing gauge fields in cold atomic systems. Here, we carry over these developments to other platforms which are extremely well suited for quantum engineering, namely trapped ions and nano-trapped atoms. Since these systems are typically one-dimensional, the action of artificial magnetic fields has so far received little attention. However, exploiting the long-range nature of interactions, loops with non-vanishing magnetic fluxes become possible even in one-dimensional settings. This gives rise to intriguing phenomena, such as fractal energy spectra, flat bands with localized edge states, and topological many-body states. We elaborate on a simple scheme for generating the required artificial fluxes by periodically driving an XY spin chain. Concrete estimates demonstrating the experimental feasibility for trapped ions and atoms in waveguides are given.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Separable Ball around any Full-Rank Multipartite Product State
Creators: name: Wen, Robin Yunfei
name: Kempf, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that around any $m$-partite product state $ρ_{\rm prod}=ρ_1\otimes...\otimesρ_m$ of full rank (that is ${\rm det}(ρ_{\rm prod})\neq 0)$, there exists a finite-sized closed ball of separable states centered around $ρ_{\rm prod}$ whose radius is $β:=2^{1-m/2}λ_{\rm min}(ρ_{\rm prod})$. Here, $λ_{\rm min}(ρ_{\rm prod})$ is the smallest eigenvalue of $ρ_{\rm prod}$. We are assuming that the total Hilbert space is finite dimensional and we use the notion of distance induced by the Frobenius norm. Applying a scaling relation, we also give a new and simple sufficient criterion for multipartite separability based on trace: ${\rm Tr}[ρρ_{\rm prod}]^2/{\rm Tr}[ρ^2]\geq {\rm Tr}[ρ_{\rm prod}^2]-β^2$. Using the separable balls around the full-rank product states, we discuss the existence and possible sizes of separable balls around any multipartite separable states, which are important features for the set of all separable states. We discuss the implication of these separable balls on entanglement dynamics.
description: 12 pages. v2: new sections, added references
การจัดการโซ่คุณค่าธุรกิจอาหารฮาลาลประเภทอาหารกล่องพร้อมรับประทาน ในกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: วิริยา บุญมาเลิศ
Publisher: name: ชมรมวิทยาลัยนวัตกรรมการจัดการ
Year: 2023
Subjects: การจัดการโซ่คุณค่า
ธุรกิจอาหารฮาลาล
อาหารกล่องพร้อมรับประทาน

description: วารสารวิชาการ การจัดการภาครัฐและเอกชน, 5, 2, 122-135
Asymptotic variance of the Beurling transform
Creators: name: Astala, Kari
name: Ivrii, Oleg
name: Perälä, Antti
name: Prause, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C62, 30H30

description: We study the interplay between infinitesimal deformations of conformal mappings, quasiconformal distortion estimates and integral means spectra. By the work of McMullen, the second derivative of the Hausdorff dimension of the boundary of the image domain is naturally related to asymptotic variance of the Beurling transform. In view of a theorem of Smirnov which states that the dimension of a $k$-quasicircle is at most $1+k^2$, it is natural to expect that the maximum asymptotic variance $Σ^2 = 1$. In this paper, we prove $0.87913 \le Σ^2 \le 1$. For the lower bound, we give examples of polynomial Julia sets which are $k$-quasicircles with dimensions $1+ 0.87913 \, k^2$ for $k$ small, thereby showing that $Σ^2 \ge 0.87913$. The key ingredient in this construction is a good estimate for the distortion $k$, which is better than the one given by a straightforward use of the $λ$-lemma in the appropriate parameter space. Finally, we develop a new fractal approximation scheme for evaluating $Σ^2$ in terms of nearly circular polynomial Julia sets.
description: 45 pages
Effect of adaptation to phenol on biodegradation of monosubstituted phenols by aquatic microbial communities.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: The adaptation of a mixed aquatic microbial community to phenol was examined in microcosms receiving phenol as a sole carbon source. Extended exposure (adaptation) to phenol resulted in adaptation of the microbial community to the structurally related aromatic compounds m-cresol, m-aminophenol, and p-chlorophenol. The increased biodegradation potential of the phenol-adapted microbial community was accompanied by a concurrent increase in the number of microorganisms able to degrade the three test compounds. Thus, adaptation to the three test chemicals was likely a growth-related result of extended exposure to phenol. The results indicate that adaptation to a single chemical may increase the assimilative capacity of an aquatic environment for other related chemicals even in the absence of adaptation-inducing levels of those materials.
FACTORS INFLUENCING GOLFERS' REVISIT INTENTIONS OF GOLF COURSES IN BANGKOK METROPOLITAN REGION
Creators: name: Anchalee Khajittanakorncharoen
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2014
Subjects: golf courses
golfer
past experience
service quality
price fairness
overall customer satisfaction
revisit intention

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 6, 1, 105-116
Effect of Plasmid pSa and of Auxin on Attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Carrot Cells
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: When the plasmid pSa is introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens, its presence results in the suppression of bacterial virulence. A. tumefaciens(pSa) cells are virulent on Bryophyllum diagremontiana only when inoculated with auxin. A. tumefaciens(pSa) cells also bind to plant cells only in the presence of auxin. The effect of auxin is on the bacteria rather than on the plant cells, since the bacteria require auxin to bind to heat-killed carrot cells. Bacteria containing pSa and grown in the absence of auxin showed a lag in binding to carrot cells in auxin-containing medium. This lag was not seen during the binding of wild-type strains. Tetracycline inhibited the binding of A. tumefaciens(pSa) in auxin-containing medium, suggesting that bacterial protein synthesis is required for the auxin effect. No difference was seen in the size or ability to inhibit bacterial binding of lipopolysaccharides from bacteria containing or lacking pSa and grown with or without auxin. A. tumefaciens(pSa) cells grown in the absence of auxin lacked surface polypeptide(s) found in bacteria grown in the presence of auxin and in the wild-type bacteria, which do not contain pSa. Thus, the presence of certain polypeptides appears to be associated with the ability of the bacteria to bind to plant cells.
Using sparse polynomial chaos expansions for the global sensitivity analysis of groundwater lifetime expectancy in a multi-layered hydrogeological model
Creators: name: Deman, G.
name: Konakli, K.
name: Sudret, B.
name: Kerrou, J.
name: Perrochet, P.
name: Benabderrahmane, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The study makes use of polynomial chaos expansions to compute Sobol' indices within the frame of a global sensitivity analysis of hydro-dispersive parameters in a simplified vertical cross-section of a segment of the subsurface of the Paris Basin. Applying conservative ranges, the uncertainty in 78 input variables is propagated upon the mean lifetime expectancy of water molecules departing from a specific location within a highly confining layer situated in the middle of the model domain. Lifetime expectancy is a hydrogeological performance measure pertinent to safety analysis with respect to subsurface contaminants, such as radionuclides. The sensitivity analysis indicates that the variability in the mean lifetime expectancy can be sufficiently explained by the uncertainty in the petrofacies, \ie the sets of porosity and hydraulic conductivity, of only a few layers of the model. The obtained results provide guidance regarding the uncertainty modeling in future investigations employing detailed numerical models of the subsurface of the Paris Basin. Moreover, the study demonstrates the high efficiency of sparse polynomial chaos expansions in computing Sobol' indices for high-dimensional models.
Oxygen-Poor Microzones as Potential Sites of Microbial N2 Fixation in Nitrogen-Depleted Aerobic Marine Waters
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: The nitrogen-deficient coastal waters of North Carolina contain suspended bacteria potentially able to fix N(2). Bioassays aimed at identifying environmental factors controlling the development and proliferation of N(2) fixation showed that dissolved organic carbon (as simple sugars and sugar alcohols) and particulate organic carbon (derived from Spartina alterniflora) additions elicited and enhanced N(2) fixation (nitrogenase activity) in these waters. Nitrogenase activity occurred in samples containing flocculent, mucilage-covered bacterial aggregates. Cyanobacterium-bacterium aggregates also revealed N(2) fixation. In all cases bacterial N(2) fixation occurred in association with surficial microenvironments or microzones. Since nitrogenase is oxygen labile, we hypothesized that the aggregates themselves protected their constituent microbes from O(2). Microelectrode O(2) profiles revealed that aggregates had lower internal O(2) tensions than surrounding waters. Tetrazolium salt (2,3,5-triphenyl-3-tetrazolium chloride) reduction revealed that patchy zones existed both within microbes and extracellularly in the mucilage surrounding microbes where free O(2) was excluded. Triphenyltetrazolium chloride reduction also strongly inhibited nitrogenase activity. These findings suggest that N(2) fixation is mediated by the availability of the appropriate types of reduced microzones. Organic carbon enrichment appears to serve as an energy and structural source for aggregate formation, both of which were required for eliciting N(2) fixation responses of these waters.
Stochastic C-stability and B-consistency of explicit and implicit Euler-type schemes
Creators: name: Beyn, Wolf-Jürgen
name: Isaak, Elena
name: Kruse, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C30, 65L20

description: This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of stochastic ordinary differential equations, which satisfy a global monotonicity condition. This condition includes several equations with super-linearly growing drift and diffusion coefficient functions such as the stochastic Ginzburg-Landau equation and the 3/2-volatility model from mathematical finance. Our analysis of the mean-square error of convergence is based on a suitable generalization of the notions of C-stability and B-consistency known from deterministic numerical analysis for stiff ordinary differential equations. An important feature of our stability concept is that it does not rely on the availability of higher moment bounds of the numerical one-step scheme. While the convergence theorem is derived in a somewhat more abstract framework, this paper also contains two more concrete examples of stochastically C-stable numerical one-step schemes: the split-step backward Euler method from Higham et al. (2002) and a newly proposed explicit variant of the Euler-Maruyama scheme, the so called projected Euler-Maruyama method. For both methods the optimal rate of strong convergence is proven theoretically and verified in a series of numerical experiments.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures
Influence of inorganic and organic nutrients on aerobic biodegradation and on the adaptation response of subsurface microbial communities.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: The influence of inorganic and organic amendments on the mineralization of ethylene dibromide, p-nitrophenol, phenol, and toluene was examined in subsurface soil samples from a pristine aquifer near Lula, Okla. The responses indicate that the metabolic abilities and nutrient requirements of groundwater microorganisms vary substantially within an aquifer. In some samples, additions of inorganic nutrients resulted in a more rapid adaptation to the test substrate and a higher rate of metabolism, indicating that metabolism may have been limited by these nutrients. In other samples from the same aquifer layer, inorganic amendments had little or no influence on mineralization. In general, the addition of multiple inorganic nutrients resulted in a greater enhancement of degradation than did the addition of single substances. Additions of alternate carbon sources, such as glucose or amino acids, inhibited the mineralization of the xenobiotic substrates. This inhibition appears to be the result of the preferential utilization of the more easily degradable carbon amendments.
Instanton Operators in Five-Dimensional Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Lambert, N.
name: Papageorgakis, C.
name: Schmidt-Sommerfeld, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss instanton operators in five-dimensional gauge theories. These are defined as disorder operators which create a non-vanishing second Chern class on a four-sphere surrounding their insertion point. As such they may be thought of as higher-dimensional analogues of three-dimensional monopole (or `t Hooft) operators. We argue that they play an important role in the enhancement of the Lorentz symmetry for maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills to SO(1,5) at strong coupling.
description: 17 pages, Latex; v2: reference added; v3: typos corrected, references added and included a comment on \rho =0 instanton operators being BPS
Sensitivity of pathogenic and free-living Leptospira spp. to UV radiation and mitomycin C.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: The habitats for the two major Leptospira spp. differ. The main habitat of L. biflexa is soil and water, whereas L. interrogans primarily resides in the renal tubules of animals. We investigated whether these two species, along with L. illini (species incertae sedis), differ with respect to their sensitivity to UV radiation. The doses of UV resulting in 37, 10, and 1% survival were determined for representative serovars from each species. L. interrogans serovar pomona was 3.0 to 4.8 times more sensitive to UV than the other Leptospira species under the 37, 10, and 1% survival parameters. In comparison to other bacteria, L. interrogans serovar pomona is among the most sensitive to UV. In a qualitative UV sensitivity assay, L. interrogans serovars were found to be in general more sensitive than L. biflexa serovars. All three species were found to have a photoreactivation DNA repair mechanism. Since organisms that are resistant to UV are often resistant to the DNA cross-linking agent mitomycin C, we tested the relative sensitivity of several Leptospira serovars to this compound. With few exceptions, L. biflexa and L. illini serovars were considerably more resistant to mitomycin C than the L. interrogans serovars. The mitomycin C sensitivity assay could be a useful addition to current characterization tests used to differentiate the Leptospira species.
Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework and the Analysis of Decision-Making Processes Regarding Publicly-Funded Immunization Programs.
Creators: name: Wals, Philippe De
name: Maria-Eugenia Espinoza-Moya
name: Béland, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Introduction: The implementation of a publicly-funded immunization program results from a complex decision-making process. John Kingdon’s ‘Multiple Streams Framework’ has been extensively used to analyze how and why governmental policies were adopted. Area covered: Ideas that will ultimately end up in a proposal for a new immunization program develop gradually along three main streams: (i) the problem stream, which focuses on a particular vaccine-preventable disease and its perception by stakeholders; (ii) the policy stream, which is centered on experts’ views on the optimal use of available vaccines; and (iii) the politics stream, which consists of socio-political factors, including budgetary constraints. Ideas are progressively shaped by policy entrepreneurs into a proposal with concrete implementation strategies. The three streams then converge within a policy window, during which adoption is especially likely to occur. To survive, the proposed program should be operationally feasible, consistent with mainstream social values, and financially affordable. The timing of the policy window is usually unpredictable and of short duration. Expert opinion: Analytical frameworks traditionally used to assess immunization programs focus on the technical aspects of the disease, the vaccine, and the program. The ‘Multiple Streams Framework’ brings added analytical value by enlarging the scope of the analysis into the political arena.
THE STUDY OF FRONT-LINE EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN RETAILING BUSINESS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM DEPARTMENT STORES IN BANGKOK
Creators: name: Guidan Mo
Publisher: name: University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Year: 2014
Subjects: employee motivation
front-line employee
department stores
retailing business
pay satisfaction
job satisfaction
organization commitment
Bangkok

description: UTCC International Journal of Business and Economics, 6, 1, 117-138
Intermediate inflation from a non-canonical scalar field
Creators: name: Rezazadeh, K.
name: Karami, K.
name: Karimi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the intermediate inflation in a non-canonical scalar field framework with a power-like Lagrangian. We show that in contrast with the standard canonical intermediate inflation, our non-canonical model is compatible with the observational results of Planck 2015. Also, we estimate the equilateral non-Gaussianity parameter which is in well agreement with the prediction of Planck 2015. Then, we obtain an approximation for the energy scale at the initial time of inflation and show that it can be of order of the Planck energy scale, i.e. ${M_P} \sim {10^{18}}\,{\rm{GeV}}$. We will see that after a short period of time, inflation enters in the slow-roll regime that its energy scale is of order ${M_P}/100 \sim \;{10^{16}}{\rm{GeV}}$ and the horizon exit takes place in this energy scale. We also examine an idea in our non-canonical model to overcome the central drawback of intermediate inflation which is the fact that inflation never ends. We solve this problem without disturbing significantly the nature of the intermediate inflation until the time of horizon exit.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
title: Menstrual attitudes and distress : a multidimensional approach to cross-cultural research
Creators: name: Dawn Hewett, Angela
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Much of the cross-cultural literature in menstrual cycle attitude and symptom reporting has previously taken a unidimensional approach to designating individuals to cultural groups. This approach may not sufficiently describe the participants, and therefore conclusions drawn from this type of research may be flawed. Little of the previous literature has endeavoured to bring together menstruation, mood, and culture in order to examine menstruation using a biopsychosocial model. Additionally, the concept of alexithymia has been attached to anxiety and mood, however there is a paucity of research that attempts to connect alexithymia to _I]lJnstruation . •••••••• .I • Method: Two questionnaire-based studies were carried out as part of this thesis. The first study was comprised of 322 participants from the US and UK who were Protestant or Catholic. These participants completed the MAQ, MDQ, HADS, a religion questionnaire, and demographic questionnaire. The second study consisted of 191 participants, all of whom were British and were either Protestant or Catholic. These participants completed the MDQ, HADS, TAS, and a demographic questionnaire. Results: The results from Study One showed that anxiety alone was able to predict menstrual cycle symptom reporting independently of the other explanatory variables. Religiosity was negatively significantly related to the menstrual attitude Bothersome. Very few differences in menstrual cycle attitude and symptom reporting could be found between national or religious groups; however, when anxiety caseness was added as a third variable, interactions between anxiety and national cultural group and anxiety and religious cultural group showed a graphed trend for menstrual cycle symptom reporting, although this was not significant in the multivariate regression models. The results from Study Two showed that the interaction patterns between anxiety and religious cultural group were not able to be replicated in a sample of students. Additionally, the Study Two results showed that alexithymia predicts menstrual cycle symptom reporting, and that it is a significant predictor even after anxiety has been controlled for. Conclusions: Menstrual cycle symptom reporting seems to be more affected by the experience of anxiety than cultural group membership, although the importance of investigating and discussing culture from a multidimensional perspective is still valid. Alexithymia was also shown to have an effect on menstrual cycle symptom reporting, and this effect was independent of the effect of anxiety. Support is given for the Psychosomatic Model and Social Psychological Model, along with the roles of stereotyping and the use of cultural idioms of distress. xii
Pseudomonas pellicle in disinfectant testing: electron microscopy, pellicle removal, and effect on test results.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 15442 is a required organism in the Association of Official Analytical Chemists use-dilution method for disinfectant efficacy testing. When grown in a liquid medium, P. aeruginosa produces a dense mat or pellicle at the broth/air interface. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the pellicle by scanning electron microscopy, to evaluate three pellicle removal methods, and to determine the effect of pellicle fragments on disinfectant efficacy test results. The efficacies of three methods of pellicle removal (decanting, vacuum suction, and filtration) were assessed by quantifying cell numbers on penicylinders. The Association of Official Analytical Chemists use-dilution method was used to determine whether pellicle fragments in the tubes used to inoculate penicylinders affected test results. Scanning electron micrographs showed the pellicle to be a dense mass of intact, interlacing cells at least 10 microns thick. No significant differences in pellicle removal methods were observed, and the presence of pellicle fragments usually increased the number of positive tubes in the use-dilution method significantly.
Prospects for multi-wavelength polarimetry of blazars
Creators: name: Boettcher, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Active Galactic Nuclei – blazars – polarization – high-energy polarimetry – spectropolarimetry

description: This talk provides a review of prospects for multi-wavelength polarimetry of blazars. This includes inferences from optical spectropolarimetry as well as high-energy polarimetry, with special emphasis on first results from and expectations for IXPE.
title: Discourse and power in the formulation of UK anti-file-sharing legislation : the place of recording company and music creator interests
Creators: name: William  Kirton, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Throughout the history of 'music industry' in the UK at least, legislators have frequently been called upon to help establish and preferable (profitable) . . socio-economic maintain arrangements in the face of disruption following technological development. The history of copyright legislation can thus be read as one in which we see the gradual extension and expansion of rights III ways that enable the effective monetisation of practices afforded by technological development, and/or the restriction of those technologically afforded practices seen to be detrimental to existing profit accumulation strategies. The passing of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (c.24), which brings forward new anti-file-sharing measures, further illustrates the apparent capacity of music corporations to affect legislative action/change in this area. This thesis offers an account and analysis of the visible 'discursive' mechanisms via which recording companies and their representatives were apparently able to affect the specific direction of recent legislative action. The thesis demonstrates that music creators, as a distinct set of actors within the recording and broader music industry, were apparently unable to affect legislative change. The interests of creators were seemingly marginalised in the UK Government's legislative response to file-sharing. The thesis subsequently provides further important illustration of the way in which copyright laws are apparently being advanced and rationalised in line with corporate interests exclusively.
Effect of methodology, dilution, and exposure time on the tuberculocidal activity of glutaraldehyde-based disinfectants.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: The Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) test for assessing the tuberculocidal activity of disinfectants has been shown to be variable. A modified AOAC test, which substituted Middlebrook 7H9 broth as the primary subculture medium and used neutralization by dilution, was compared with the standard AOAC method to assess the mycobactericidal activity of three glutaraldehyde-based disinfectants at 20 degrees C and various exposure times. These changes had a marked effect on results, with the modified AOAC test providing more positive penicylinders per 10 replicates in 12 of the 13 comparisons that provided positive results. These differences were observed with both Mycobacterium bovis (ATCC 35743) and a clinical isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The effects of various exposure times to and dilutions of the glutaraldehyde-based disinfectants were also examined. The minimum exposure time needed to inactivate reliably M. bovis or M. tuberculosis with 2% glutaraldehyde was 20 min at 20 degrees C. Diluting 2% glutaraldehyde caused a significant decline in mycobactericidal activity. Modification of the standard AOAC test to improve its sensitivity in detecting the failure of disinfectants to inactivate mycobacteria is indicated.
Archaeological Investigations At AZ U:6:61 (ASU), a Prehistoric Limited Activity Site In South-Central Arizona
Creators: name: Brown, Patricia E.
name: A. E. Rogge
Publisher: name: Arizona State University (ASU)
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: Salt River
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/127/salt-river
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Hohokam Classic period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/144/hohokam-classic-period
subject: Late Archaic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/7330/late-archaic-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: AZ U:6:61 (ASU)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/24738/az-u661-asu
subject: Artifact Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/340/artifact-scatter
subject: Lithic Scatter
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/490/lithic-scatter
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Prehistory
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/511/prehistory
subject: Bureau of Reclamation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/2404/bureau-of-reclamation
subject: Central Arizona Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/28426/central-arizona-project
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Site Evaluation / Testing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/10/site-evaluation-testing

description: This report documents the archaeological investigations at AZ U:6:61 (ASU), an extensive artifact scatter on a Quaternary river terrace above the Salt River in south-central Arizona. The study involved the technological and functional analysis of the lithic assemblage and the statistical analysis of the spatial distribution of artifacts and features within the site area. The distribution of artifacts also was examined in the non-site portions of the study area. The analyses indicate that the site represents a multicomponent, low intensity occupation of the terrace oriented toward the exploitation of the natural food resources of the desert and the riverine environments and the lithic raw material resources of the terrace gravels. The time range for prehistoric utilization of the area may extend from the late Archaic to the Hohokam Classic period.
Cloning of the recA gene from a free-living leptospire and distribution of RecA-like protein among spirochetes.
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: A recombinant plasmid carrying the recA gene of Leptospira biflexa serovar patoc was isolated from a cosmid library of genomic DNA by complementation of an Escherichia coli recA mutation. The cloned serovar patoc recA gene efficiently restored resistance to UV radiation and methyl methanesulfonate. Recombination proficiency was also restored, as measured by the formation of Lac+ recombinants from duplicated mutant lacZ genes. Additionally, the cloned recA gene increased the spontaneous and mitomycin C-induced production of lambda phage in lysogens of an E. coli recA mutant. The product of the cloned recA gene was identified in maxicells as a polypeptide with an Mr of 43,000. Antibodies prepared against the E. coli RecA protein cross-reacted with the serovar patoc RecA protein, indicating structural conservation. Southern hybridization data showed that the serovar patoc recA gene has diverged from the recA gene of L. interrogans, Leptonema illini, and E. coli. With the exception of the RecA protein of L. interrogans serovar hardjo, the RecA protein of the Leptospira serovars and L. illini were synthesized at elevated levels following treatment of cells with nalidixic acid. The level of detectable RecA correlated with previous studies demonstrating that free-living cells of L. biflexa serovars and L. illini were considerably more resistant to DNA-damaging agents than were those of parasitic L. interrogans serovars. RecA protein was not detected in cells of virulent Treponema pallidum or Borrelia burgdorferi.
VAFB-1984-25: Draft: Preliminary Case Report Peacekeeper Program, Fiber Optics Line Installation Program, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Creators: name: US Air Force, AFRCE-BMS
Year: 1984

description: This document is a cultural resources evaluation of three archaeological sites located along a proposed fiber optics cable installation route was conducted to determine site characteristics , NRHP eligibility, project effects, and potential mitigation measures. The Air Force has determined that the three sites, SBA-939, 513, and 1853, are eligible for the NRHP.

The fiber optics cable installation will adversely affect site SBA-939. SBA-513 will likely not be affected; however, it is of considerable concern to the local Native American group. SBA-1853 could be impacted by project activities but the effects will need to be determined on a case by case basis. Mitigation through data recovery and monitoring is recommended for SBA-939. Monitoring
Flavonoids and fatty acids, key metabolites involved in Pseudomonas syringae adaptation to cherry shoots
Creators: name: Vinchira-Villarraga, Diana
name: Dhaouadi, Sabrine
name: Rabiey, Mojgan
name: Jackson, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pseudomonas
Untargeted metabolomics
Bacterial canker
cherry

description: Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (Pss) and pv. morsprunorum (Psm) are the causal agent of the bacterial canker of cherry trees. Both pathogens infect woody tissues but exhibit different pathogenicity towards their host, which may be related to their adaptation to this environment1. Therefore, we aimed to characterize the changes in Pss and Psm metabolism in the presence of their host (in vitro), and the plant response towards the pathogen’s infection (in vivo) using mass-spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics. After five days of inoculation on sterile cherry shoots, Pss and Psm caused the accumulation of several flavonones, such as naringenin, suggesting the degradation of their respective glycosylated forms. This hypothesis was supported by the reduction in the abundance of o-glycosylated flavonoids, which remained stable on the control shoots. Pss seemed to be more efficient at degrading cherry flavonoids than Psm, which could explain why this bacterium grew better while using cherry as the sole source of nutrients. While growing on shoots, Psm accumulated Rhamnolipid-related backbone fatty acid chains, however, its role in the infection process remains unclear. On the other hand, infected cherry trees accumulated naringenin, chrysin and genistein after the first month of inoculation with Pss or Psm. Coumarins such as 6-Hydroxy-7-methoxycoumarin and pipecolic acid were also accumulated. These metabolites have been reported as antibacterial compounds and as regulators of systemic induced resistance, indicating a role in cherry defence against Pss and Psm. Additionally, Syringopeptin and Syringomicin phytotoxins were detected in the Pss-infected trees, after four weeks of infection, coinciding with the time-point in which the highest abundance of Pss in the infected tissue and necrosis in the inoculation zone was observed. Further research will be done to understand the differences between Pss and Psm interaction with cherry and to confirm the observed results using samples obtained from field conditions. References  1 Hulin MT, Mansfield JW, Brain P, Xu X, Jackson RW, Harrison RJ. Plant Pathology. 2018 67(5):1177-1193.
Effects of Nutrient Availability on the Thermal Optima and Sensitivities of Galápagos Seaweeds
Creators: name: Capone, Haley Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Thermal sensitivity in ectothermic organisms is highly context-dependent and may explain the varied responses to climate change among species and with ambient environmental conditions. As such, there is renewed interest to examine the potential combined effects of local factors (i.e., nutrients) and global temperature on thermal biology. This study was conducted to determine whether nutrients influence the thermal optima and sensitivities (estimated as the Topt, and slope values E and Eh, respectively) of four genera of Galápagos seaweeds (Padina, Caulerpa, Ulva, and Ochtodes) through estimating thermal performance curves for respiration (R) and net photosynthesis (NP). The thermal optimum varied substantially across taxa (27.6-36 °C) and was enhanced ~2 °C under nutrient additions in Padina and Caulerpa genera. Ulva spp. displayed reduced sensitivity to higher temperatures under enrichment. Lastly, NP across taxa showed lower optimal temperatures than R, suggesting further warming could reduce primary productivity, with potentially far-reaching implications for marine food webs.
Antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and unconventional superconductivity in topological superconductor candidate YPtBi revealed by $^{195}$Pt-NMR
Creators: name: Zhou, Y. Z.
name: Chen, J.
name: Li, Z. X.
name: Luo, J.
name: Yang, J.
name: Guo, Y. F.
name: Wang, W. H.
name: Zhou, R.
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{195}$Pt nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on topological superconductor candidate YPtBi which has the broken inversion symmetry and topological non-trivial band structures due to the strong spin-orbit coupling(SOC). In the normal state, we find that Knight shift $K$ is field- and temperature-independent, suggesting that the contribution from the topological bands is very small at low temperatures. However, the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/$T_1$ divided by temperature ($T$), 1/$T_1T$, increases with decreasing $T$, implying the existence of antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations. In the superconducting state, no Hebel-Slichter coherence peak is seen below $T_{\rm c}$ and 1/$T_1$ follows $T^{3}$ variation, indicating the unconventional superconductivity. The finite spin susceptibility at zero-temperature limit and the anomalous increase of the NMR line width below $T_{\rm c}$ point to a mixed state of spin-singlet and spin-triplet(or spin-septet) pairing.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
title: The Khedive Ismail and Slavery in the Sudan
Creators: name: Fuad Shukry, Mohamed
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Egypt and the Sudan have always been considered two sister countries. The River Nile flowing from its springs in the heart of the Dark Continent, and pouring its waters through Lower Egypt, into the Mediterranean, has connected inseparably the two regions since the earliest times. In their voyages of discovery and conquest, the Ancient Egyptians appear to have reached the junction of the Nile with Bahr Al Ghazal in the west (10°N. L. ), and ascended the Blue Nile, an eastern tributary, to its sources in Abyssinia. Through trade, migrations, occasional raids and more definite attempts at conquest, contact was maintained between the two countries.
Supremum Norm Posterior Contraction and Credible Sets for Nonparametric Multivariate Regression
Creators: name: Yoo, William Weimin
name: Ghosal, Subhashis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G08 (Primary), 62G05, 62G15, 62G20 (Secondary)

description: In the setting of nonparametric multivariate regression with unknown error variance, we study asymptotic properties of a Bayesian method for estimating a regression function f and its mixed partial derivatives. We use a random series of tensor product of B-splines with normal basis coefficients as a prior for f, and the error variance is either estimated using the empirical Bayes approach or is endowed with a suitable prior in a hierarchical Bayes approach. We establish pointwise, L2 and supremum norm posterior contraction rates for f and its mixed partial derivatives, and show that they coincide with the minimax rates. Our results cover even the anisotropic situation, where the true regression function may have different smoothness in different directions. Using the convergence bounds, we show that pointwise, L2 and supremum norm credible sets for f and its mixed partial derivatives have guaranteed frequentist coverage with optimal size. New results on tensor products of B-splines are also obtained in the course.
description: 36 pages, 2 figures, uses imsart.sty
VAFB-1984-01: SUBJECT: Draft Final Report on Subsurface Testing at Archaeological Site CA-SBa-1686; GSSI Station Set Location V-33; Vandenberg AFB, Santa Barbara County California
Creators: name: Spanne, Laurence
Year: 1984

description: This document is a report on subsurface testing at CA-SBA-1686 revealing a low density cultural deposit consisting predominantly of Monterey Chert flakes. Testing was concentrated along the alignment of a proposed security fence and associated electrical trench. Datable charcoal and charred bone were collected (no dates reported), along with four chert tools. No features or distinguishable artifact clusters were identified within the area tested. These results are similar to those of previous episodes of archaeological testing and data recovery at CA-SBA-1686.