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Performance characterization of the high temperature direct alcohol fuel cell
Creators: name: Fan, Simon Shun Ming
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A fuel cell that promotes the direct use of alcohol fuels such as methanol and ethanol is attractive because these fuels are friendlier than other fuels, such as gasoline, to the end-user and are renewable. Therefore, these fuel cells continue to receive much interest from academia and industry who actively seek alternative energy sources and comprehensive energy supply solutions. However, one of the barriers to the performance improvement of the alcohol fuel cell is the CO-like poisoning intermediates that hinder the alcohol electro-oxidations. This thesis project has validated several different advanced approaches to eliminate the CO-like intermediates from the catalyst surface. A 3-electrode electrochemical glass cell, a half-cell and a single fuel cell have been used to study the effects of these approaches (i.e., introduction of oxidant additives, increased operating temperature, electrochemical pulse techniques, and fuel starvation) on intermediates. A 3-way relationship between the onset potential for electro-oxidation of alcohols, the CO oxidizing potential, and temperatures was determined, and conditions required for a performance benefit were identified. A higher temperature Direct Alcohol Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell (DAPAFC) using Phosphoric Acid/Silicon Carbide (SiC) as an electrolyte/separator was investigated. Parametric studies were conducted to determine the effects of factors such as higher temperature operation (120-180ºC), etc. A reduced performance gap between PtRu and Pt catalyst at higher temperatures ((>120°C) was shown. Comprehensive studies were also conducted to demonstrate the performance effects of the gas diffusion layer and the micro-porous layer. It was shown that the structure improvement of the phosphoric acid electrode assembly significantly improved the durability and could also improve the cell performance. A higher temperature Direct Alcohol Alkaline Fuel Cell (DAAFC) was also developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the alcohol electro-oxidation in alkaline medium. An advantage for this system was the use of pure fuel operation which provides at least a 10% improvement in performance compared to dilute fuel operation. In general, the higher temperature direct alcohol vapor fed fuel cells show significantly improved performance using a simple inexpensive separator approach. It appears that this is a new approach which could have a number of advantages.
English Language Proficiency, Family Economic Security, and Child Development
Creators: name: Skinner, Curtis
name: Wight, Vanessa
name: Aratani, Yumiko
name: Cooper, Janice L.
name: Thampi, Kalyani
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Immigrant families
Immigrants--Services for
Children of immigrants--Language
Children of immigrants--Services for

description: According to the Census Bureau, the number of United States residents aged 5 years and older who speak a language other than English at home has more than doubled since 1980; and fewer than half of this group is fully proficient in English. These trends require specific policy action to support optimal child well-being.
Acrotritia ardua
Creators: name: Ordouni, Fatemeh
name: Ramroodi, Sara
name: Akrami, Mohammad Ali
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Euphthiracaridae
Acrotritia
Acrotritia ardua

description: Acrotritia ardua (Koch, 1841)
 Material examined – 12 ♀♀, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Culture complex, Morus sp., and Chah-Nimeh recreational, Zahak county (30° 50' 39" N, 61° 43' 07" E, 483 m a.s.l.), Morus sp., Olea europaea L., and Tamarix sp., 11 May 2018, leg.: F. Ordouni and Kahir village, Konarak county (25° 59' 00" N, 60° 12' 57" E, 5 m a.s.l.), Mangifera sp., 27 February 2019, leg.: A. Arjmandi-Nezhad.
 Distribution in Iran – Isfahan, East Azarbaijan, Hamedan, Ardabil, Mazandaran, Fars, Markazi, Guilan, Kurdistan, Khuzestan, Razavi Khorasanand Zanjan provinces (Akrami 2015; Akrami and Shahedi 2020).
 Zoogeographical distribution – Cosmopolitan.
description: Published as part of Ordouni, Fatemeh, Ramroodi, Sara, Akrami, Mohammad Ali & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2023, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from southeastern Iran, with supplementary description of Verachthonius cf. laticeps (Brachychthoniidae), pp. 173-188 in Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (2) on pages 178-179, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v12i2.75578, http://zenodo.org/record/10268285
Controlled synthesis and size effects of multifunctional mesoporous silica nanosystem for precise cancer therapy
Creators: name: Ma, Bin
name: He, Lizhen
name: You, Yuanyuan
name: Mo, Jianbin
name: Chen, Tianfeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Nanomaterials-based drug delivery systems display potent applications in cancer therapy, owing to the enhanced permeability and retention effect and diversified chemical modification. In this study, we have tailored and synthesized different sized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) through reactant control to investigate the relevancy of nanoparticle size toward anticancer efficacy and suppressing cancer multidrug resistance. The different sized MSNs loaded with anticancer ruthenium complex (RuPOP) and conjugated with folate acid (FA) to enhance the selectivity between cancer and normal cells. The nanosystem (Ru@MSNs) can specifically recognize HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma cells, thus enhance accumulation and selective cellular uptake. The smaller sized (20 nm) Ru@MSNs exhibit higher anticancer activity against HepG2 cells, while the larger sized (80 nm) Ru@MSNs exhibit higher inhibitory effect against DOX-resistant hepatocellular carcinoma cells (R-HepG2). Moreover, Ru@MSNs induced ROS overproduction in cancer cells, leading to DNA damage and p53 phosphorylation, consequently promoting cancer cells apoptosis. Ru@MSNs (80 nm) also inhibited ABCB1 and ABCG2 expression in R-HepG2 cells to prevent drug efflux, thus overcome multidrug resistance. Ru@MSNs also inhibited tumor growth in vivo without obvious toxicity in major organs of tumor-bearing nude mice. Taken together, these results verify the size effects of MSNs nanosystem for precise cancer therapy.
Leptonic asymmetry of the sterile neutrino hadronic decays in the nuMSM
Creators: name: Gorkavenko, Volodymyr M.
name: Rudenok, Igor
name: Vilchynskiy, Stanislav I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the leptonic asymmetry generation in the nuMSM via hadronic decays of sterile neutrinos at T<
description: 12 figures, 22 pages, the case of inverted hierarchy added
Quantum Renormalization Group for Ground-State Fidelity
Creators: name: Langari, A.
name: Rezakhani, A. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state fidelity (GSF) and quantum renormalization group theory (QRG) have proven useful tools in the study of quantum critical systems. Here we lay out a general, unified formalism of GSF and QRG; specifically, we propose a method to calculate GSF through QRG, obviating the need for calculating or approximating ground states. This method thus enhances characterization of quantum criticality as well as scaling analysis of relevant properties with system size. We illustrate the formalism in the one-dimensional Ising model in a transverse field and the anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model.
description: 5 pages and 5 figures (revised)
title: Howell, Evelyn Berkeley, Sir
title: Howell, Evelyn Berkeley, Sir
Creators: name: Singh, Gajendra
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o. P. Howell, Evelyn Berkeley
subject: Howell, Evelyn Berkeley, Sir, 1877-

description: Evelyn Berkeley Howell was appointed Chief Censor of Indian military correspondence in France in the winter of 1914. The thousands of letters that he and his staff translated and transcribed constitute the largest single compilation of colonial Indian soldiers’ testimonies. The article explores why these letters were recorded, explains who Howell was and what he made of the letters he was asked to censor.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Basic Facts About Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States, 2008
Creators: name: Wight, Vanessa
name: Thampi, Kalyani
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Food security
Families
Children

description: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), food security is defined as having, “dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living.” Conversely, food insecurity, or the lack of consistent access to adequate food, means that the “the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food.” The USDA classifies households by the level of food insecurity they have experienced (for example, low or very low food security). The food insecurity status of households with children is further classified by whether it affects only adults or whether it affects children and by the level of food insecurity among the children.
World investment prospects to 2011: Foreign direct investment and the challenge of political risk
Creators: name: Columbia University. Vale Columbia Center On Sustainable International Investment
name: Economist Intelligence Unit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Finance
Business

description: The report contains the first authoritative data on FDI flows for 2006 and forecasts flows until 2011, with 2007 set for a new record. It also contains the results of a survey of over 600 corporate executives concerning their investment intentions for the next five years. World Investment Prospects to 2011 pays special attention to the rise of FDI protectionism and regulatory risk.
Στρατηγική ανάλυση της παραγωγής και διάθεσης ηλεκτροκίνητων οχημάτων στον κλάδο αυτοκινητοβιομηχανίας : συγκριτική μελέτη σε Ευρώπη, Η.Π.Α. και Ασία
Creators: name: Σωτηρόπουλος, Ιάσων-Βασίλειος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ηλεκτροκίνηση
subject: Στρατηγική ανάπτυξης
subject: Αυτοκινητοβιομηχανία

description: Η προσπάθεια ανάπτυξης της ηλεκτροκίνησης δεν έχει γίνει πρόσφατα, όμως σαν κλάδος άρχισε να παίρνει τη μορφή που γνωρίζουμε σήμερα την τελευταία δεκαετία. Μεταξύ άλλων, από τα σημαντικότερα θέματα γύρω από τα ηλεκτρικά οχήματα συνιστούν οι μπαταρίες τους, καθώς αποτελούν το κύριο κομμάτι τους. Σταδιακά, η τεχνογνωσία γύρω από τις μπαταρίες διευρύνεται, γεγονός που επηρεάζει το κόστος αγοράς των οχημάτων και άρα το ρυθμό ανάπτυξης του κλάδου. Στόχο της παρούσας εργασίας αποτελεί η ανάλυση του κλάδου της ηλεκτροκίνησης, βασισμένη στα υποδείγματα P.E.S.T.E.L, P.O.R.T.E.R. και S.W.O.T., με σκοπό να διερευνηθούν οι εξωτερικοί και οι εσωτερικοί παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν τη στρατηγική των εταιρειών. Παρατίθεται μελέτη περίπτωσης της Tesla, η οποία αποτυπώνει ένα παράδειγμα επιτυχημένης δραστηριότητας στον κλάδο και προσαρμογής στις εκάστοτε αλλαγές που προκύπτουν στο εξωτερικό και το εσωτερικό περιβάλλον.
Sonic Therapeutic Intervention: A "Better Medicine" for the Future
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Shruti Gopal
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Alternative medicine
Mental illness--Alternative treatment
Medicine, Ayurvedic

description: The objective of this analysis was to study the practice of Sonic Therapeutic Intervention, an ancient methodology derived from the Vedic tradition, as well as its background, past and present usage, and potential effects. From this, a better understanding of its medical applications may be derived. The information presented for analysis was collected from a variety of published reliable sources on the subject, as well as via interviews of established and experienced practitioners of Sonic Therapeutic Intervention. The information collected was analyzed from the purview of science. The analysis concluded that Sonic Therapeutic Intervention is a safe, cost-effective methodology that is worthy of consideration as a viable treatment for the reduction of three primary root causes and aggravators of a number of health conditions - namely, anger, anxiety, and low self-control - with many potential beneficial effects, but without any known risks of harmful side effects. Recommendations were also made for further study on the potential medical applications of Sonic Therapeutic Intervention.
Doctoral thesis recital (horn)
Creators: name: Ramos, Francisco
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Horn music
Horn and piano music
Concertos (Horn)

description: Maestro Duda / da Silva -- Pachamama / Yenque -- Sonata para corno y piano / Roberto Pintos -- Solo español / Yenque -- Concierto en relatos breves / Roberto Pintos -- Concertino no. 1 / da Silva.
title: Ober Ost
title: Ober Ost
Creators: name: Klare, Kai-Achim
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o. P. Oberost
subject: o. P. World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Eastern Front
subject: Germany
subject: Military policy

description: Over the entire course of German occupation in Eastern Europe during the First World War, the Ober Ost administration wavered between domination by military leaders – and their efforts to create a settlement colony – and continued attempts by governmental and parliamentary actors to bind the local population by mutual agreement.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
WorldFAIR (MS12) Urban Health Data: Learning and training workshop
Creators: name: Ortigoza, Ana
name: Bilal, Usama
name: Li, Ran
name: Anderson, Theresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of WorldFAIR WP08 is to advance the FAIR and CARE principles  [Wilkinson 2016; Russo Carroll 2021] in the practices of Urban Health research.  To do this, the WP is developing guidelines and training in best practice.  Interim guidelines were developed and presented in D8.1 "Urban Health Data - Guidelines and Recommendations".  These guidelines and other work then informed the development of training materials for the course "How to create a data management plan with CARE and FAIR: introduction to essential concepts and good practices in data management and sharing for researchers and practitioners in urban/ public health" which was delivered as a special component of the Summer Course series at the Urban Health Collaborative - Drexel University during the week of 26-30 June 2023.
The present Milestone (WorldFAIR MS 12) provides information about the course for which the training materials were developed.  The materials used in the workshop are available at https://zenodo.org/records/10231138.  The materials will be further developed and refined through a consultation workshop and presented in D8.2 as the final version of the training materials and the documentation guidelines.
Visit WorldFAIR online at http://worldfair-project.eu.
WorldFAIR is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393.
Manual para la promoción de la Inversión Extranjera Directa a nivel subnacional en mercados emergentes
Creators: name: Millennium Cities Initiative
name: Vale Columbia Center On Sustainable International Investment
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Finance
Business

description: Este manual está diseñado como una herramienta práctica destinada a asistir a aquellas ciudades con recursos escasos a incrementar el nivel de inversiones general y, en particular, a atraer Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED). Las recomendaciones hechas en este manual pueden ayudar a determinar las estrategias de desarrollo de una ciudad y a tomar decisiones de asignación presupuestaria. Por lo tanto, los funcionarios locales y nacionales responsables de la elaboración de políticas públicas pueden beneficiarse con su uso. Este manual está especialmente diseñado para ciudades medianas con recursos limitados y escasa experiencia en atraer inversiones y establecer una agencia dedicada a promocionarlas.
21-cm cosmology
Creators: name: Pritchard, Jonathan R.
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Imaging the Universe during the first hundreds of millions of years remains one of the exciting challenges facing modern cosmology. Observations of the redshifted 21 cm line of atomic hydrogen offer the potential of opening a new window into this epoch. This would transform our understanding of the formation of the first stars and galaxies and of the thermal history of the Universe. A new generation of radio telescopes is being constructed for this purpose with the first results starting to trickle in. In this review, we detail the physics that governs the 21 cm signal and describe what might be learnt from upcoming observations. We also generalize our discussion to intensity mapping of other atomic and molecular lines.
description: 64 pages, 20 figures, submitted to Reports on Progress in Physics, comments welcome
The Japanese Government as a Portfolio Manager: Managing the Nation's Wealth
Creators: name: Center On Japanese Economy And Business
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics
Financial crises
Economic policy
Sovereign wealth funds
Finance

description: The Program on Alternative Investments of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) at Columbia Business School hosted a conference in Tokyo, Japan, titled "The Japanese Government as a Portfolio Manager: Managing the Nation's Wealth." One hundred sixty-seven people attended the conference to hear the views of seventeen distinguished speakers on the topic of a Japanese sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This report summarizes the presentations of the conference.
Probing Novel Scalar and Tensor Interactions from (Ultra)Cold Neutrons to the LHC
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Cirigliano, Vincenzo
name: Cohen, Saul D.
name: Filipuzzi, Alberto
name: Gonzalez-Alonso, Martin
name: Graesser, Michael L.
name: Gupta, Rajan
name: Lin, Huey-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar and tensor interactions were once competitors to the now well-established V-A structure of the Standard Model weak interactions. We revisit these interactions and survey constraints from low-energy probes (neutron, nuclear, and pion decays) as well as collider searches. Currently, the most stringent limit on scalar and tensor interactions arise from 0+ -> 0+ nuclear decays and the radiative pion decay pi -> e nu gamma, respectively. For the future, we find that upcoming neutron beta decay and LHC measurements will compete in setting the most stringent bounds. For neutron beta decay, we demonstrate the importance of lattice computations of the neutron-to-proton matrix elements to setting limits on these interactions, and provide the first lattice estimate of the scalar charge and a new average of existing results for the tensor charge. Data taken at the LHC is currently probing these interactions at the 10^-2 level (relative to the standard weak interactions), with the potential to reach the 10^-3 level. We show that, with some theoretical assumptions, the discovery of a charged spin-0 resonance decaying to an electron and missing energy implies a lower limit on the strength of scalar interactions probed at low energy.
description: 58 pages, 14 figures
title: Garros, Roland
title: Garros, Roland
Creators: name: Mahieu, Eric
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Garros, Roland
subject: Garros, Roland, 1888-1918

description: Roland Garros was a well-known French aviation pioneer before the war and successfully fought in a squadron as a fighter pilot during World War 1. His invention, firing through axis propeller, allowed him to win some aerial victories. After being taken prisoner early in the war, he escapted in February 1918. He died in a dogfight one month before the end of the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
title: Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
Creators: name: Höbelt, Lothar
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Franz Joseph [I., Österreich, Kaiser]
subject: Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1830-1916

description: Under the terms of the 1867 constitution, Francis Joseph retained his prerogatives in foreign policy. His decision to opt for war in 1914 was largely a result of the frustrations of Austria’s policy during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. Francis Joseph supported the high-handed policy of the military against his better judgment, but moved to curtail Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf’s position when he opted for the creation of a unified command in the east. He was a firm believer in the Dual Alliance, but opposed attempts to browbeat him into a Mitteleuropa and resented German efforts to buy off Italy at the expense of Austria in 1915.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
FullSWOF: A software for overland flow simulation / FullSWOF : un logiciel pour la simulation du ruissellement
Creators: name: Delestre, Olivier
name: Cordier, Stéphane
name: Darboux, Frédéric
name: Du, Mingxuan
name: James, Francois
name: Laguerre, Christian
name: Lucas, Carine
name: Planchon, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Overland flow on agricultural fields may have some undesirable effects such as soil erosion, flood and pollutant transport. To better understand this phenomenon and limit its consequences, we developed a code using state-of-the-art numerical methods: FullSWOF (Full Shallow Water equations for Overland Flow), an object oriented code written in C++. It has been made open-source and can be downloaded from http://www.univ-orleans.fr/mapmo/soft/FullSWOF/. The model is based on the classical system of Shallow Water (SW) (or Saint-Venant system). Numerical difficulties come from the numerous dry/wet transitions and the highly-variable topography encountered inside a field. It includes runon and rainfall inputs, infiltration (modified Green-Ampt equation), friction (Darcy-Weisbach and Manning formulas). First we present the numerical method for the resolution of the Shallow Water equations integrated in FullSWOF_2D (the two-dimension version). This method is based on hydrostatic reconstruction scheme, coupled with a semi-implicit friction term treatment. FullSWOF_2D has been previously validated using analytical solutions from the SWASHES library (Shallow Water Analytic Solutions for Hydraulic and Environmental Studies). Finally, FullSWOF_2D is run on a real topography measured on a runoff plot located in Thies (Senegal). Simulation results are compared with measured data. This experimental benchmark demonstrate the capabilities of FullSWOF to simulate adequately overland flow. FullSWOF could also be used for other environmental issues, such as river floods and dam-breaks.
description: 9 pages
Investing in private equity: The Japan Roundtable on Alternative Investments
Creators: name: Columbia University. Center On Japanese Economy And Business
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: Although Japanese institutional investors continue to favor hedge funds and funds of hedge funds over other alternative investments, more and more Japanese pensions, banks, and insurance companies are now seriously exploring opportunities in private equity. How can Japanese investors effectively identify and conduct due diligence on promising private equity funds? If such funds prove attractive, how can they obtain access in cases where capacity is limited? Once invested, what methods are available to these investors to accurately value the private equity portfolios and monitor the ongoing operations of their fund managers? And how should they measure these managers' performance? To examine these and related questions, the Program on Alternative Investments hosted its second seminar and roundtable in Tokyo on March 11, 2005. Organized and moderated by Dr. Mark Mason, Program Director, the seminar and roundtable featured as principal speakers Andrew Golden, President of the Princeton University Investment Company (Princo); John Alouf, Senior Investment Officer, Private Equity, at the Virginia Retirement System (VRS); Toru Masuda, Senior Manager in the Global Credit Investment Management Department of Sumitomo Trust & Banking; and Akihiro Nakamura of the Pension Fund Association of Japan. These proceedings were divided into two main sessions. The first session was in the form of a seminar with participants drawn from the Japanese public and private pension fund communities, and the second session was in the form of a roundtable discussion with representatives from the Japanese banking and insurance communities. This report covers the initial presentations by the featured speakers together with the subsequent question and answer periods that followed.
Bioactive metabolites from Piperaceae
Creators: name: Ware, Ismail Bin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540

description: Piperaceae are well-known for their traditional medicinal and culinary applications. It is estimated to have 3700 species, which are widely distributed in tropical regions. Due to the vast number of Piperaceae species, there is still an enormous potential to find new bioactive drugs from chemically and biologically unexplored members of the family. Thus, the purpose of this thesis was to isolate and characterize constituents from two Piperaceae species, namely Piper sarmentosum Roxb. and Peperomia obtusifolia L.. Selected biological activities of the plant extracts and isolated compounds were also assessed. Furthermore, the secondary metabolite profiles, with a special focus on P. sarmentosum organs, were characterized in detail by LC-ESI-HRMS as an advanced analytical technique combined with multivariate data analysis.
description: Piperaceae sind für ihre traditionellen medizinischen und kulinarischen Anwendungen bekannt. Es gibt schätzungsweise 3700 Arten, die in tropischen Regionen weit verbreitet sind. Aufgrund der großen Anzahl von Piperaceae-Arten besteht immer noch ein enormes Potenzial, neue bioaktive Arzneimittel aus chemisch und biologisch unerforschten Vertretern der Pflanzenfamilie zu finden. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es daher, Inhaltsstoffe aus zwei Piperaceae-Arten, nämlich Piper sarmentosum Roxb. und Peperomia obtusifolia L., zu isolieren und zu charakterisieren. Ausgewählte biologische Aktivitäten der Pflanzenextrakte und isolierten Verbindungen wurden ebenfalls bewertet. Darüber hinaus wurden die Profile der Sekundärmetaboliten aus verschiedenen Organen (Blätter, Stängel, Früchte, Wurzeln) von P. sarmentosum mittels LC-ESI-HRMS als fortschrittlicher Analysetechnik in Kombination mit multivariater Datenanalyse eingehend charakterisiert.
Spurious Shear in Weak Lensing with LSST
Creators: name: Chang, C.
name: Kahn, S. M.
name: Jernigan, J. G.
name: Peterson, J. R.
name: AlSayyad, Y.
name: Ahmad, Z.
name: Bankert, J.
name: Bard, D.
name: Connolly, A.
name: Gibson, R. R.
name: Gilmore, K.
name: Grace, E.
name: Hannel, M.
name: Hodge, M. A.
name: Jee, M. J.
name: Jones, L.
name: Krughoff, S.
name: Lorenz, S.
name: Marshall, P. J.
name: Marshall, S.
name: Meert, A.
name: Nagarajan, S.
name: Peng, E.
name: Rasmussen, A. P.
name: Shmakova, M.
name: Sylvestre, N.
name: Todd, N.
name: Young, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete 10-year survey from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will image $\sim$ 20,000 square degrees of sky in six filter bands every few nights, bringing the final survey depth to $r\sim27.5$, with over 4 billion well measured galaxies. To take full advantage of this unprecedented statistical power, the systematic errors associated with weak lensing measurements need to be controlled to a level similar to the statistical errors. This work is the first attempt to quantitatively estimate the absolute level and statistical properties of the systematic errors on weak lensing shear measurements due to the most important physical effects in the LSST system via high fidelity ray-tracing simulations. We identify and isolate the different sources of algorithm-independent, \textit{additive} systematic errors on shear measurements for LSST and predict their impact on the final cosmic shear measurements using conventional weak lensing analysis techniques. We find that the main source of the errors comes from an inability to adequately characterise the atmospheric point spread function (PSF) due to its high frequency spatial variation on angular scales smaller than $\sim10'$ in the single short exposures, which propagates into a spurious shear correlation function at the $10^{-4}$--$10^{-3}$ level on these scales. With the large multi-epoch dataset that will be acquired by LSST, the stochastic errors average out, bringing the final spurious shear correlation function to a level very close to the statistical errors. Our results imply that the cosmological constraints from LSST will not be severely limited by these algorithm-independent, additive systematic effects.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures, accepted by MNRAS
title: Science and Technology (Canada)
title: Science and Technology (Canada)
Creators: name: Iarocci, Andrew
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Technik
subject: o. P. Kanada
subject: Canada
subject: o. P. World War, 1914-1918--Technology

description: Canada’s overseas military forces fought in the Great War under British Army command. The Canadian Corps largely employed the battlefield technology and doctrine of the British Expeditionary Force. Yet Canadian soldiers also innovated and adapted to meet the challenges of static and mobile operations. Within and beyond the Canadian Corps, specialist formations such as the Canadian Railway Troops and the Canadian Forestry Corps also made significant logistical contributions to the British Empire’s war effort, often using peacetime technological skills that were particular to prewar Canada.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Internment (Canada)
title: Internment (Canada)
Creators: name: Avery, Donald H.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o. P. Kanada
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Internierungslager
subject: o. P. World War, 1914-1918--Canada
subject: Concentration camps

description: How did Canada, as a self-governing country within the British Empire, deal with the internal security challenges of the First World War? Not surprisingly, this question has elicited many different scholarly responses, particularly in terms of Canada’s commitment to democratic principles and cultural toleration during this period of national emergency. For the purposes of this article three major questions have been addressed: what were the essential features of Canada’s War Measures Act; how did the enemy alien internment system operate; and in what ways were Canadians affected by the Russian Revolution and the Red Scare of 1918-1919?
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Children and Youth: Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
title: Children and Youth: Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
Creators: name: Maksudyan, Nazan
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o. P. Osmanisches Reich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kind
subject: o. P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Children
subject: Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

description: Ottoman children were not simply passive victims or casualties; they were engaged in every facet of total war. They also became active agents as wage earners, peasants and heads of family on the home front. They directly contributed to the propaganda and mobilization effort as boy scouts, symbolic heroes and orphans of martyrs. Ottoman children from different communal identities also embodied and reproduced internal political crisis and rivalries as actors and targets of nationalist politics. The development of childhood differed in the Ottoman Empire from in the other combatant states, especially due to the rise of nationalism(s), leading to the extermination of the Armenian population and the fall of the supranational Ottoman Empire. This paper discusses the variegated involvement of Ottoman children and youth in the war effort while recognizing the significant agency exercised by children and youth.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
U.S.-Japan Pension Fund Alternative Investment Conference: The current status of alternative investing and future directions
Creators: name: Center On Japanese Economy And Business
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: A new category of institutional investor has entered
the world of alternative investments: the Japanese
corporate pension plan. Long discouraged from
entering the field due to domestic government regulations
and other factors, since the late 1990s a growing
number of such plans have made financial commitments
to one or more categories of alternative investments.
Functional evaluation of RAMOSA2 cis-regulatory regions from different grass species for shaping inflorescence architecture in barley
Creators: name: Heliel, Omar Fathy Helmy
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Inflorescence architecture in grasses is considered one of the most important agronomic traits affecting crop yield. The inflorescence architecture is quite diverse, which includes branchless forms, such as the spike of barley and wheat, to more branched inflorescence, such as the panicle of sorghum. Identifying the genetic regulation of inflorescence developmental and molecular mechanisms behind the variation in inflorescence architecture is essential to increasing cereal crop yields. In the present study, to examine the effect of spatial-temporal activity of RA2 and its dosage on inflorescence architecture among barley, wheat, and sorghum, transgenic experiments were carried out by swapping RA2 promoters of different species fused with HvRA2 CDS and performing genetic complementation studies in branched barley ra2 mutant background and then quantifying recovery of canonical spike phenotypes.
description: Die Blütenstandsarchitektur von Gräsern gilt als eines der wichtigsten agronomischen Merkmale, die den Ernteertrag beeinflussen. Die Blütenstandsarchitektur ist sehr vielfältig und umfasst verzweigte Formen wie die Ähre von Gerste und Weizen bis hin zu verzweigteren Blütenständen wie der Rispe von Sorghum. Die Identifizierung der genetischen Regulation der Blütenstandsentwicklung und der molekularen Mechanismen hinter der Variation in der Blütenstandsarchitektur ist für die Steigerung der Getreideerträge von wesentlicher Bedeutung. In der vorliegenden Studie wurden zur Untersuchung des Effektes der räumlich-zeitlichen Aktivität von RA2 und seiner Dosierung bei der Blütenstandarchitektur in Gerste, Weizen und Sorghum transgene Experimente durchgeführt, indem RA2-Promotoren verschiedener Arten, die mit HvRA2-CDS fusioniert waren, ausgetauscht und genetische Komplementationsstudien in verzweigtem Gersten-ra2 durchgeführtwurden Mutantenhintergrund und anschließende Quantifizierung der Wiederherstellung kanonischer Spike-Phänotypen.
title: al-Da’uq, Umar
title: al-Da’uq, Umar
Creators: name: Sharif, Malek
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Umar al-Da’uq

description: Umar al-Da’uq was a merchant and notable of Beirut in the late Ottoman period. He was Mayor of Beirut during WWI and participated in his official and private capacities in the famine relief efforts. He became president of the short-lived Arab government of Beirut in October 1918.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Intervals of balanced binary trees in the Tamari lattice
Creators: name: Giraudo, Samuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the set of balanced binary trees is closed by interval in the Tamari lattice. We establish that the intervals [T, T'] where T and T' are balanced binary trees are isomorphic as posets to a hypercube. We introduce synchronous grammars that allow to generate tree-like structures and obtain fixed-point functional equations to enumerate these. We also introduce imbalance tree patterns and show that they can be used to describe some sets of balanced binary trees that play a particular role in the Tamari lattice. Finally, we investigate other families of binary trees that are also closed by interval in the Tamari lattice.
description: 38 pages
title: Vittorio Veneto, Battle of
title: Vittorio Veneto, Battle of
Creators: name: Frizzera, Francesco
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o. P. Piaveschlachten
subject: o. P. Vittorio Veneto, Battle of, 1918

description: The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought between 24 October and 4 November 1918 by the Italian 4th, 8th, 10th and 12th Armies against the Austro-Hungarian 6th Army, the ''Armeegruppe'' Belluno and the ''Isonzoarmee''. It resulted in the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian front and in an armistice between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Search for a heavy neutral particle decaying into an electron and a muon using 1 fb^-1 of ATLAS data
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is presented for a high mass neutral particle that decays directly to the emu final state. The data sample was recorded by the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC from March to June 2011 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.07 fb^-1. The data are found to be consistent with the Standard Model background. The high emu mass region is used to set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production of two possible new physics processes: tau sneutrinos in an R-parity violating supersymmetric model and Z'-like vector bosons in a lepton flavor violating model.
description: 5 pages plus author list (17 pages total), 3 figures, 2 tables, final version published in European Physical Journal C (Letter)
Cardioprotective Role of Angiotensin-(1-7) In Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Creators: name: Edalat, Pariya
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Heart Failure- Renin Angiotensin System- High Fat Diet
subject: Animal Physiology
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology

description: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a global health epidemic that accounts for half of the heart failure cases. Various therapeutic approaches have been tested to block the activation of the Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS), including AT1R blockers (ARBs), Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACEi), and direct renin inhibitors (DRIs) with modest to negligible benefits. The Discovery of ACE2, a novel homolog of ACE, has advanced our understanding of the RAS. ACE2 is a monocarboxypeptidase that degrades Angiotensin II (Ang II) into Angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-1-7), which works via the activation of the Mas receptor. It has been well understood that the actions of Ang-(1-7) attenuate cardiac remodeling, production of ROS, and cardiac fibrosis. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the therapeutic roles of Ang-(1-7) in HFpEF and identify the molecular mechanisms related to its actions. To generate a murine model of HFpEF, 10-12-weeks-old male mice were subjected to a high-fat diet (HFD) (including 60% Kcal fat) in addition to eNOS inhibition with L-NAME (0.5 g/L in drinking water). The Control group received a regular chow diet. The murine model of HFpEF was validated using the non-invasive transthoracic echocardiography and invasive pressure-volume (PV) loop analyses, which exhibited diastolic dysfunction as well as cardiac hypertrophy. To evaluate the effects of Ang-(1-7) on HFpEF, animals were administered with either saline or Ang-(1-7) (24 μg/kg/h) for four weeks. Ang-(1-7) treatment improved diastolic function by reducing isovolumetric relaxation time (IVRT), left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), and Tau value. The development of cardiac hypertrophy in the murine model of HFpEF was confirmed by wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) staining. Furthermore, by investigating different molecular pathways related to the development of hypertrophy, we indicated that the development of hypertrophy, fibrosis, and metabolic dysfunction in this study ii was a result of partial activation of ERK1/2 and inactivation of AMPK, GSK3β, and PDH which did not significantly reverse with 4-weeks treatment of Ang-(1-7).
A study of softwood torrefaction and densification for the production of high quality wood pellets
Creators: name: Peng, Jiang Hong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: British Columbia (BC) has become a major producer and exporter of wood pellets in the world. But the low energy density, the low water resistivity, the short shelf life, and the transportation cost impede the market development. Torrefaction, a thermal treatment without air or oxygen at 200-300°C, may provide a solution. The present study developed the torrefaction kinetics of BC softwood residues in a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA), studied the effect of the torrefaction reaction conditions on the properties of torrefied sawdust in a bench-scale fixed bed reactor and a bench-scale fluidized bed reactor, and identified the suitable conditions for making durable torrefied pellets in a press machine using torrefied samples. The weight loss of BC softwood residues significantly depended on the torrefaction temperature, the residence time, the particle size, and the oxygen concentration in the carrier gas. The weight loss could be approximately estimated from the weight loss of the chemical compositions. A two-component and one-step first order reaction kinetic model gave a good agreement with data over short residence time on the weight loss range of 0 to 40% at the temperature of 260-300°C. The heating value of torrefied pellets had a close relationship with the weight loss, increasing with increasing the severity of torrefaction. The torrefied samples were more difficult to be compressed into strong pellets under the same conditions as used for making the control (regular, untreated, conventional) pellets. More energy was needed for compacting torrefied samples into torrefied pellets. Increasing the die temperature and adding moisture into torrefied samples could improve the quality of torrefied pellets. The moisture content and density of torrefied pellets were lower than control pellets. Considering the quality of torrefied pellets, the optimal torrefaction conditions appeared to correspond to a weight loss of about 30%, which gave a 20% increase in pellet heating value and good hydrophobicity. The suitable densification conditions corresponded to a die temperature of 230°C, or over 110°C for torrefied samples conditioned to 10% moisture content.
title: Historiography 1918-Today (India)
title: Historiography 1918-Today (India)
Creators: name: Stadtler, Florian
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: o.P. Indien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Geschichtsschreibung
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Historiography
subject: India

description: This article details the historiography of South Asian involvement in the First World War. It traces the process from early examples, such as the battle histories written by J. W. B. Merewether and Frederick Smith, and by James Willcocks shortly after the end of the conflict to present day analyses. The article raises questions as to why the significant contribution of Indian soldiers and non-combatants has remained little known until recently and why the past two decades have led to a resurgence in interest to bring this narrative to the attention of wider public audiences.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War