cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Controlling transport dynamics of confined asymmetric fibers
Creators: name: Bechert, M.
name: Cappello, J.
name: Daïeff, M.
name: Gallaire, F.
name: Lindner, A.
name: Duprat, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport properties of particles in confining geometries show very specific characteristics as lateral drift, oscillatory movement between lateral walls or the deformation of flexible fibers. These dynamics result from viscous friction with transversal and lateral channel walls inducing strong flow perturbations around the particles that act like moving obstacles. In this paper, we modify the fiber shape by adding an additional, small fiber arm, which leads to T and L shaped fibers with only one or, respectively, zero symmetry axes and investigate the transport properties. For this purpose, we combine precise microfluidic experiments and numerical simulations based on modified Brinkman equations. Even for small shape perturbations, the transport dynamics change fundamentally and formerly stable configurations become unstable, leading to non-monotonous fiber rotation and lateral drift. Our results show that the fundamental transport dynamics change with respect to the level of fiber symmetry, which thus enables a precise control of particle trajectories and which can further be used for targeted delivery, particle sorting or capture inside microchannels.
Cycnium herzfeldianum Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Cycnium
Cycnium herzfeldianum

description: Cycnium herzfeldianum (Vatke) Engl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Lake Nkunga, Alt. 1 847 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003836 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Synthesis and characterization of new hydrolytic-resistant dental resin adhesive monomer HMTAF
Creators: name: Nattawut Decha
name: Supitcha Talungchit
name: Panata Iawsipo
name: Arthit Pikulngam
name: Piangkwan Saiprasert
name: Chittreeya Tansakul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation of resin adhesives over time has been mainly attributed to secondary caries formation of methacrylate-based tooth-colored resin-based composite restorations. Ability of resin adhesive monomers to infiltrate into demineralized dentin forming stiff polymer matrix and potentially bonding to tooth structure is also a crucial property. The only commercially available antibacterial monomer, 12-methacryloyloxydodecyl pyridinium bromide (MDPB), is a quaternary ammonium methacrylate. This methacrylate monomer undergoes hydrolytic degradation, and could not bond to tooth structure. In this study, a new hydrolytic resistant monomer HMTAF was synthesized. It is methacrylamide-based monomer that, unlike methacrylate, is highly resistant to hydrolysis. Its molecular structure has particular functional groups; quaternary ammonium fluoride salt with potential antibacterial fluoride-releasing activity, hydroxyl and amide group with hydrogen bonding potential to dentin collagen. Hydroxyl group also increases monomer hydrophilicity for better penetration into water-saturated dentin and sufficient resin-dentin bond. The synthesized HMTAF and its polymer showed no hydrolytic degradation in acidic environment, while MDPB and its polymer were partially decomposed under this challenge. The conversion of monomer HMTAF to polymer was illustrated by FT-IR. The results indicated that HMTAF is highly resistant to hydrolysis, polymerizable and non-cytotoxic to Vero cell lines. It is a potential monomer to be incorporated into resin adhesives for improving hydrolytic and enzymatic resistance.
title: Der vergilische und der vatikanische Laokoon : Mit einem Anhang zu Michelangelos Laokoon-Zeichnung
Creators: name: Maurach, Gregor
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 70
subject: 4
subject: 10

description: Zuweilen ist ein Augenblick, der für denjenigen, der die bloße Zeit mißt, nur das Vorübergehen des Zeigers an einem Skalenstrich bedeutet, für den Erlebenden überlang, überreich und gesättigt von Jubel, Angst oder Schmerz; es sind dies Momente, da der Blick nach innen geht, die Stimme nur des Lautes, noch nicht des bewußten Wortes fähig ist. Diesen kurzen Augenblick, den Lessing den "fruchtbaren", Goethe den "höchsten Punkt" nannte, im Worte oder Bilde festzuhalten, war seit Jahrtausenden hoher Reiz und schwerste Aufgabe für den Künstler; doch nicht als bloße Lebenswirklichkeit und "genau so, wie es war", sondern verwandelt, gestaltet und in Schönheit aufgehoben, sogar wenn es um furchtbare Geschehnisse ging. Die schöne Darstellung ist nun aber auch dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie nicht alles, was der Wirklichkeit nach hätte gezeigt werden müssen, auch wirklich zeigt: sie läßt Beiwerk fort und gibt nur das Wesentliche, kurzum: sie beschränkt sich. Der Wortkunst gelingt es zuweilen, verdichtend nur das auszusprechen, was für einen starken Eindruck nötig ist; die Bildkunst ordnet nur das Wenige zueinander, das (mag es auch nur einen vorübergehenden, aber dennoch reichen Augenblick darstellen) starkes Empfinden hervorruft und das Bedenken zu keinem Ende kommen läßt. Immer aber gaben die alten Künstler Schönes, auch im Erschreckenden, und dies gelang dem Wortmeister, wenn er gewaltige oder zarte Wörter von seltenem Reiz, Farb- und Tonwerte zu evozieren wußte, zu steigern, abzusenken und sinnträchtig Einzelnes ins Ganze einzubetten. Der Bildner war ebenfalls bemüht, auch im Furchtbaren das Schöne aufleuchten zu lassen, wenn er z.B. die Gliedmaßen schön, die Bewegung harmonisch gestaltete und nirgends ins bloß Gräßliche absank.
Um solche Fragen wird es auf den folgenden Seiten gehen; manches Neue wird zu lernen sein, aber zunächst führt der Weg hinab in die Niederungen der Textkritik Vergils, um den Einstieg zu gewinnen.
Mycelial disturbance stimulates the formation of sporomes of edible ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with two neotropical pines
Creators: name: Villegas-Olivera, J.A
name: Pérez-Moreno, Jesús
name: Sánchez-Viveros, G
name: Martínez-Reyes, M
name: Alvarado-Castillo, G
name: Almaraz-Suárez, J.J
name: Cerdán-Cabrera, Carlos R
name: Villegas-Olivera, J.A
name: Pérez-Moreno, Jesús
name: Sánchez-Viveros, G
name: Martínez-Reyes, M
name: Alvarado-Castillo, G
name: Almaraz-Suárez, J.J
name: Cerdán-Cabrera, Carlos R
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: spore inoculum
subject: ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
subject: wild edible fungi
subject: mycelial disturbance

description: Objective: To determine the effect of mycelial disturbance on the formation of sporomes of two edible ectomycorrhizal fungi of great biocultural relevance in Mexico (Laccaria laccata and Hebeloma leucosarx) associated to two Neotropical pines with economic and ecological importance, Pinus greggii and P. montezumae. Design/Methodology/Approach: Spore inoculum was produced using ground pilei of the evaluated ectomycorrhizal fungi; each pine plant was inoculated with 107 to 108 fungal spores. A completely randomized experimental design was used with four treatments and six replicates per treatment for each pine species, having a total of 48 experimental units, each one consisting in an inoculated tree. During two years the sporome production was evaluated in the treatments with and without mycelial disturbance. The duration of the experiment, since seed germination, was 5 years. Results: The mycelial disturbance originated a higher formation of sporomes in both fungal species, regardless of the associated tree species. The highest sporome formation was recorded in plants inoculated with H. leucosarx compared to those inoculated with L. laccata in both pine species. Mycelial disturbance, originated a higher number of sporomes in Pinus greggii compared to P. montezumae. Study Limitations/Implications: The evaluation of factors influencing sporome formation in edible ectomycorrhizal fungi requires long term experiments. Findings/Conclusions: This study shows for the first time that mycelial disturbance increases sporome formation in Neotropical ectomycorrhizal fungi. Additionally, a differential influence of the fungal and tree species on the number of produced sporomes was found. These findings shed some light on potential cultivation methods for edible ectomycorrhizal mushrooms
Constraining extra-spatial dimensions with observations of GW170817
Creators: name: Chakravarti, Kabir
name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
name: Phukon, Khun Sang
name: Bose, Sukanta
name: SenGupta, Soumitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the modifications introduced by extra-spatial dimensions beyond the four dimensional spacetime on the macroscopic properties of neutron stars, which in turn affect the gravitational wave spectrum of their binaries. It turns out that the mass-radius relation of the neutron stars, and their tidal deformability, are affected non-trivially by the presence of extra dimensions, and can be used to constrain parameters associated with those dimensions. Implications for I-Love-Q universality relations are also discussed and utilized to obtain a constraint on one such parameter. Importantly, we show, for the first time, that measurements of the component masses and tidal deformabilities of the binary neutron star system GW170817, constrain the brane tension in the single brane-world model of Randall and Sundrum to be greater than $35.1~\textrm{GeV}^{4}$. This work opens up the possibility of making such a constraint more robust by improving the modelling of binaries on the brane in the future.
description: Published Version, 17 pages, 5 figures
Systems for pervasive electronics and interfaces
Creators: Sarik, John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Electrical engineering

description: Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs) are a new type of wireless device in the domain between RFIDs and sensor networks. Future EnHANTs will be small, flexible, and self-powered devices that can be attached to everyday objects that are traditionally not networked to enable "Internet of Things" applications. This work describes the design and development of the EnHANT prototypes and testbed. The current prototypes use thin-film photovoltaics optimized for indoor light harvesting, form multihop networks using ultra-low-power Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radio (UWB-IR) transceivers, and implement energy harvesting adaptive networking protocols. The current testbed enables the evaluation of different algorithms by exposing individual prototypes to repeatable light conditions based on real-world irradiance data. New approaches to characterizing the energy available to energy harvesting devices were explored. A mobile data-logger was used to record the intensity of ambient light, determine the light source, and record the acceleration from motion during different real world activities. These traces were used to model the behavior of photovoltaic and inertial energy harvesters in real world deployments and can be replayed in the EnHANTs testbed. In addition, new techniques to evaluate the efficiency of different photovoltaic technologies under indoor illumination were developed. A proof-of-concept system was built to characterize photovoltaics under a standardized set of conditions in which the radiant intensity and spectral composition of the light source were systematically varied. Techniques to structure student research projects within the EnHANTs project were developed. Project-based learning approaches were implemented to engage students using real-world system development constraints. A survey of the students showed that this approach is an effective method for developing technical, professional, and soft skills. Open source hardware was also applied to EnHANTs project and extended into other domains. A laboratory-based class in flat panel display technology was developed. The course introduces fundamental concepts of display systems and reinforces these concepts through the fabrication of three display devices. A lab kit platform was developed to enable remote students to use low-cost, course specific hardware to complete the lab exercises remotely. This platform was also applied to external projects targeted at non-university students. A workshop was developed to teach artists, designers, and hobbyists how to design and build custom user interfaces using thin-film electronics and rapid prototyping tools. Surveys of the students and workshop participants showed that this platform is an effective teaching tool and can be easily adapted and expanded.
A Review of Microbial Induced Carbonate Precipitation Treatment in the Remediation of Diverse Mine Tailings
Creators: name: Miles, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP) offers a promising solution for a multitude of potential areas of concern with the remediation of mine tailings. The microorganisms involved in MICP can bind the contaminants in tailings as an effective source control treatment, preventing them from leaching into the environment. The formation of calcium carbonate minerals within tailings can also help build stability and strength, thus reducing the risk of landslides or erosional dispersion. Research has shown that MICP can be effective on diverse sources and conditions of tailings – not only metal resources, but also coal and oil sands tailings. MICP has demonstrated the ability to reduce permeability, improve dewatering, and increase the strength of oil sands mine tailings. The microorganisms involved in MICP can also effectively immobilize and isolate contaminants within the tailings’ containment facilities, preventing spread to other areas of the site. The formation of calcium carbonate minerals can also help to neutralize acidic conditions, which is often a problem with mine tailings’ locations. The use of MICP for remediation has several advantages over traditional remediation methods. It is a natural process that does not require the use of harsh chemicals or heavy machinery. MICP can be applied in situ, which is particularly beneficial as tailings are often located in remote or inaccessible areas. MICP can also be a costeffective remediation method, as materials required are often readily available and relatively inexpensive. MICP offers a promising solution for remediation of mine tailings, but requires further research for large-scale application. There are challenges associated with the process, and ongoing research and development are likely required to improve its effectiveness and applicability for a diverse range of conditions encountered at mine tailings sites. The focus of this paper is to highlight MICP as a valid established treatment option for a multitude of issues associated with mine tailings.
Open Science: a Shift in the Conversation
Creators: name: Masuzzo, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: open science
inclusive science
research evaluation
diversity
inclusion
inclusiveness

description: Keynote talk at the Open Science Fair 2019, Porto, Portugal. Perhaps the most sincere and heart felt talk I have ever given about Open Science. I talk about things like research excellence, and how much damage has already done to science. I express the desire to shift the conversation towards topics like #failtales, mental health, reform of the assessment and evaluation of research and researchers.
 I show a much desired shift from Open Science towards Inclusive Science, where we (Europe) start listening to what is happening to other parts of the world and to underrepresented minorities. License on slides. Hugely inspired by a bunch of brilliant minds. All credit is given in the content.
A Global View of Kinks in 1+1 Gravity
Creators: name: Kloesch, T.
name: Strobl, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following Finkelstein and Misner, kinks are non-trivial field configurations of a field theory, and different kink-numbers correspond to different disconnected components of the space of allowed field configurations for a given topology of the base manifold. In a theory of gravity, non-vanishing kink-numbers are associated to a twisted causal structure. In two dimensions this means, more specifically, that the light-cone tilts around (non-trivially) when going along a non-contractible non-selfintersecting loop on spacetime. One purpose of this paper is to construct the maximal extensions of kink spacetimes using Penrose diagrams. This will yield surprising insights into their geometry but also allow us to give generalizations of some well-known examples like the bare kink and the Misner torus. However, even for an arbitrary 2D metric with a Killing field we can construct continuous one-parameter families of inequivalent kinks. This result has already interesting implications in the flat or deSitter case, but it applies e.g. also to generalized dilaton gravity solutions. Finally, several coordinate systems for these newly obtained kinks are discussed.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, uses amssymb
Supplemental Table S1.docx
Creators: name: Dubin, Arnaldo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental Table S1. Values of arterial, mixed venous, mesenteric venous, and renal venous blood gases, and arterial lactate in sham and endotoxin shock groups.
Sākshi: The Transnational Consciousness of Second-Generation Indian American Teachers
Creators: Viswanathan, Indu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Teachers--Training of
subject: East Indian Americans
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ethnology
subject: Imperialism--Social aspects
subject: Transnational education

description: The United States is increasingly populated by first- and second-generation Asian immigrants, while nearly 40% of New York State minors live with at least one immigrant parent. Immigration is a politically-charged topic. There is a persistent lacuna regarding immigration in teacher education, despite the fact that teachers’ attitudes about immigration impact how they teach about immigration and immigrants. Yet, discussions about diversifying the profession rarely move beyond race or include transnationalism or religion. When immigrant teacher voices are amplified, the focus is often on first-generation immigrants’ struggles with acculturation and English language acquisition. Teaching for inclusion and social justice seldom recognizes or incorporates the knowledges of second-generation immigrant teachers. This study is theoretically grounded in transnational feminism, transnational literacy, and decoloniality; it recognizes the United States as an imperialist, settler colonial nation that promotes and forces its image upon other countries and people from other countries, often in the name of multiculturalism, justice, and humanitarianism. Most Indian Americans are not Christian (in contrast to the majority of immigrants from East Asia); this gave significant cause to disaggregate the category of Asian American and discover if the transnational consciousness of second-generation Indian American teachers might offer unique insights into the intersection of immigration, immigrant experiences, and inclusive education. Four New York City-based teachers volunteered to participate in the study. Data was collected over the course of seven months in one-on-one interviews, group dinners, and in a private WhatsApp group. The teachers articulated asset-based views on immigrants, with an emic understanding of the factors that animate acculturation and resistance to assimilation. Their experiences and knowledges were embedded within transnational social fields that were locally grounded. The participants’ transnational consciousness illuminated dominant epistemic norms in school, media, and society, including: individualism; monotheistic, Christian epistemic normativity; and a persistent colonial gaze on Hinduism and India. None of the participants had explored their immigrant knowledges as a part of their teacher education experiences. The study indicates that further engagement with the knowledges and transnational consciousness of second-generation immigrant teachers would enrich teacher education practices and research, and theorizing about social justice education.
title: Alf Pflüger: Nachruf
Creators: name: Rothert, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 902

description: Vorgetragen in der Plenarversammlung am 12.10.1990
Optimal Bias Correction of the Log-periodogram Estimator of the Fractional Parameter: A Jackknife Approach
Creators: name: Nadarajah, Kanchana
name: Martin, Gael M
name: Poskitt, Donald S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Primary 62M10, 62M15, Secondary 62G09

description: We use the jackknife to bias correct the log-periodogram regression(LPR) estimator of the fractional parameter in a stationary fractionally integrated model. The weights for the jackknife estimator are chosen in such a way that bias reduction is achieved without the usual increase in asymptotic variance, with the estimator viewed as `optimal' in this sense. The theoretical results are valid under both the non-overlapping and moving-block sub-sampling schemes that can be used in the jackknife technique, and do not require the assumption of Gaussianity for the data generating process. A Monte Carlo study explores the finite sample performance of different versions of the jackknife estimator, under a variety of scenarios. The simulation experiments reveal that when the weights are constructed using the parameter values of the true data generating process, a version of the optimal jackknife estimator almost always out-performs alternative semi-parametric bias-corrected estimators. A feasible version of the jackknife estimator, in which the weights are constructed using estimates of the unknown parameters, whilst not dominant overall, is still the least biased estimator in some cases. Even when misspecified short run dynamics are assumed in the construction of the weights, the feasible jackknife still shows significant reduction in bias under certain designs. As is not surprising, parametric maximum likelihood estimation out-performs all semi-parametric methods when the true values of the short memory parameters are known, but is dominated by the semi-parametric methods (in terms of bias) when the short memory parameters need to be estimated, and in particular when the model is misspecified.
description: 57 pages
DNA Transcription Mechanism with a Moving Enzyme
Creators: name: Ting, Julian Juhi-Lian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Previous numerical investigations of an one-dimensional DNA model with an extended modified coupling constant by transcripting enzyme are integrated to longer time and demonstrated explicitly the trapping of breathers by DNA chains with realistic parameters obtained from experiments. Furthermore, collective coordinate method is used to explain a previously observed numerical evidence that breathers placed far from defects are difficult to trap, and the motional effect of RNA-polymerase is investigated.
description: paper published long time ago. 11 pages RevTeX 4 EPS files
Cycnium tenuisectum O. J. Hansen
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Cycnium
Cycnium tenuisectum

description: Cycnium tenuisectum (Standl.) O.J.Hansen  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF, UMF; 1 900–3 200 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near the border of Embori Farm and Mount Kenya National Park, Alt. 2 906 m, 20 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002737 (HIB).
References: Blundell (1987), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Two-dimensional algebro-geometric difference operators
Creators: name: Oblomkov, Alexei A.
name: Penskoi, Alexei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H70, 14K25, 39A70

description: A generalized inverse problem for a two-dimensional difference operator is introduced. A new construction of the algebro-geometric difference operators of two types first considered by I.M.Krichever and S.P.Novikov is proposed
description: 11 pages; added references, enlarged introduction, rewritten abstract
THINC: A Virtual and Remote Display Architecture for Desktop Computing and Mobile  Devices
Creators: Baratto, Ricardo A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Computer science

description: THINC is a new virtual and remote display architecture for desktop computing. It has been designed to address the limitations and performance shortcomings of existing remote display technology, and to provide a building block around which novel desktop architectures can be built. THINC is architected around the notion of a virtual display device driver, a software-only component that behaves like a traditional device driver, but instead of managing specific hardware, enables desktop input and output to be intercepted, manipulated, and redirected at will. On top of this architecture, THINC introduces a simple, low-level, device-independent representation of display changes, and a number of novel optimizations and techniques to perform efficient interception and redirection of display output. This dissertation presents the design and implementation of THINC. It also introduces a number of novel systems which build upon THINC's architecture to provide new and improved desktop computing services. The contributions of this dissertation are as follows: - A high performance remote display system for LAN and WAN environments. This system differs from existing remote display technologies in that it focuses on the architecture of the system as a mechanism to improve performance, and not just on the remote display protocol and compression techniques. - A novel mechanism to natively support multimedia content in a remote display system in a way that is both transparent to applications and format independent. - pTHINC, a system to deliver improved remote display support for mobile devices, both in terms of performance and usability, and provide a competitive, and in some cases superior, alternative to native mobile applications. - MobiDesk, a desktop utility computing infrastructure that enables service providers to host desktop sessions in fully virtualized environments. Hosted sessions can be remotely accessed using THINC, they can be migrated across computers to provide high-availability, and can be effectively and efficiently protected from denial of service attacks. - Moving beyond remote display, we show how THINC's architecture can be used to provide continuous, low overhead recording of a desktop. Alongside, we introduce a novel way to leverage desktop accessibility services to allow users to search their recording based on captured text content. We have implemented prototypes for these systems, and evaluated their performance in a number of scenarios, and compared it to representative alternatives whenever possible. Our results demonstrate that THINC can provide superior remote display performance, and can be successfully used as a fundamental building block for new and improved desktop applications and services.
title: Sind Wittgensteins Bemerkungen über Sprachspiele, Spiele und Familienähnlichkeiten philosophisch instruktiv?: Anmerkungen zur Frage der Kohärenz seines Spätwerks
Creators: name: Welding, Steen
Publisher: name: Seminar für Philosophie
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Begriffe ohne Grenzen
subject: Eigenschaften u. Merkmale von Begriffen
subject: Sprachspiele als Analogie oder Metapher
subject: Definition Begriffe
subject: Concepts without boundaries
subject: properties and marks of concepts
subject: language-games as an analogy or metaphor
subject: definition of concepts
subject: 10

description: Da es fragwürdig ist, ob Wittgensteins Bemerkungen von etwa 20 Jahren für die Entwicklung einer philosophischen Lehrmeinung kohärent sind, scheint es aufschlussreich zu sein, sich nur mit einigen wenigen Bemerkungen, z.B. denjenigen über Sprachspiele, Spiele und Familienähnlichkeiten auseinanderzusetzen. Wittgensteins Auffassung von Begriffen ohne Grenzen und seine Analogie zu Familienähnlichkeiten erweist sich als verfehlt und scheint darin für seine gesammelten Bemerkungen charakteristisch zu sein; denn es handelt sich ebenfalls nur um lose verbundene Notizen über Sachverhalte, ohne eine kohärente Erklärung für eine philosophische Position zu enthalten.
description: Since it is rather doubtful whether Wittgensteins remarks of about 20 years are coherent for establishing a philosophical doctrine, it seems to be illuminating to examine only some few remarks e.g. those of language-games, games and family resemblances. Wittgensteins view about concepts without boundaries and his analogy to family resemblances proves to be entirely mistaken. This result seems to be characteristical for his collected remarks, since they are likewise loosely connected without any coherent explanation for developing a philosophical position.
Radiation fluid singular hypersurfaces with de Sitter interior as models of charged extended particles in general relativity
Creators: name: Zloshchastiev, Konstantin G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In present paper we construct the classical and minisuperspace quantum models of an extended charged particle. The modelling is based on the radiation fluid singular hypersurface filled with physical vacuum. We demonstrate that both at classical and quantum levels such a model can have equilibrium states at the radius equal to the classical radius of a charged particle. In the cosmological context the model could be considered also as the primary stationary state, having the huge internal energy being nonobservable for an external observer, from which the Universe was born by virtue of the quantum tunnelling.
description: LaTeX (IOPP style); final version
TDP-43 and FUS in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: From Animal Models to Disease Mechanisms
Creators: Ebstein, Sarah Yehudit
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
subject: Mutation (Biology)
subject: Nervous system--Diseases--Animal models

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an aggressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons selectively degenerate, leading to paralysis and death. Rare causal mutations in FUS and TARDBP implicated RNA binding proteins and RNA metabolism in ALS disease mechanisms. The absence of faithful animal models has impeded precise understanding of the impact of ALS mutations on all functions of ALS-associated proteins. In my graduate studies, I used a novel, animal model of FUS-ALS to explore gain of function disease mechanisms and observed specific, aberrant interactions between mutant FUS and other RNA binding proteins including hnRNP U. Genetic experiments indicate loss of hnRNP U is toxic to motor neurons, suggesting mutant FUS toxicity may result from hnRNP U sequestration and loss of function. In a parallel series of experiments, I also generated novel knock-in mouse models of ALS expressing pathogenic TARDBP mutations to address the flaws of existing model systems and to study the functional consequences of disease-related mutations. We demonstrate that the ALS mutant alleles TDP-43M337V and TDP-43G298S are fully functional and are insufficient to cause age-dependent motor neuron pathology, indicating that physiological levels of mutant TDP-43 are alone insufficient to initiate disease. This model enables future exploration of the interaction between genetic and environmental factors that lead to TDP-43 toxicity in ALS and related disorders. Collectively, our findings suggest a gain of function mechanism of toxicity in which mutations and aging, with other factors, alter the local concentration of RNA binding proteins, leading motor neurons to degenerate.
Guidance Needs of Nursing Students in Iloilo City, Philippines
Creators: name: Oducado, Ryan Michael
name: Frigillano, Pio Reggie S.
name: Jesli Joy T. Gunce
name: Jover, Princess Louise B.
name: Krisha T. Pangilinan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Nursing students face numerous stresses and challenges that pose a threat to their well-being. They require guidance to attain satisfactory adjustment in all aspects of daily life in this critical stage of their development. This study was conducted to determine the guidance needs of nursing students in selected schools in Iloilo City. The sample of this descriptive, comparative study consisted of 283 randomly selected students from four nursing schools in Iloilo City. The Guidance Needs Inventory for Nursing Students (GNINS) developed by the researchers was used to gather data. Frequency, mean, standard deviation, and rank were used to describe the data. Independent Samples t-Test and ANOVA set at 0.05 alpha were employed to find out significant difference between variables. The study revealed that nursing students need guidance to a moderate extent. They need more guidance on the aspects of career and academic. Further, results indicated no significant difference in the guidance needs of nursing students when grouped according to sex, gender, year level, residence, type of school, living arrangement, employment status of parents, monthly family income, number of siblings, birth order and type of family. Guidance remains to be an integral part of nursing education. Continued provision of guidance that is responsive and relevant to the needs of nursing student cohort is therefore necessary.
Cycnium tubulosum subsp. montanum O. J. Hansen
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Cycnium
Cycnium tubulosum
Cycnium tubulosum (l.f.) engl. subsp. montanum (n.e.br.) o.j.hansen

description: Cycnium tubulosum (L.f.) Engl. subsp. montanum (N.E.Br.) O.J.Hansen  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Timau-Nanyuki Road, Alt. 2 100 m, 25 Jun. 1974, Faden & Faden 74/861 (EA, WAG).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Extending Hamiltonian Operators to Get Bi-Hamiltonian Coupled KdV Systems
Creators: name: Ma, Wen-Xiu
name: Pavlov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis of extension of Hamiltonian operators from lower order to higher order of matrix paves a way for constructing Hamiltonian pairs which may result in hereditary operators. Based on a specific choice of Hamiltonian operators of lower order, new local bi-Hamiltonian coupled KdV systems are proposed. As a consequence of bi-Hamiltonian structure, they all possess infinitely many symmetries and infinitely many conserved densities.
description: 13 pages, latex
title: Die Entstehung der Nationen und das mittelalterliche Reich
Creators: name: Ehlers, Joachim
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 90
subject: 320

description: Zusammenfassung des Vortrags in der Plenarversammlung vom 12.04.1991
Timescale divergence at the shear jamming transition
Creators: name: Vinutha, H. A.
name: Ramola, Kabir
name: Chakraborty, Bulbul
name: Sastry, Srikanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that in simulations of quasi-statically sheared frictional disks, the shear jamming transition can be characterized by an abrupt jump in the number of force bearing contacts between particles. This mechanical coordination number increases discontinuously from $Z = 0$ to $Z \gtrsim d +1$ at a critical shear value $γ_c$, as opposed to a smooth increase in the number of geometric contacts. This is accompanied by a diverging timescale $τ^*$ that characterizes the time required by the system to attain force balance when subjected to a perturbation. As the global shear $γ$ approaches the critical value $γ_c$ from below, one observes the divergence of the time taken to relax to a state where all the inter-particle contacts have uniformly zero force. Above $γ_{c}$, the system settles into a state characterized by finite forces between particles, with the timescale also increasing as $γ\to γ_{c}^{+}$. By using two different protocols to generate force balanced configurations, we show that this timescale divergence is a robust feature that accompanies the shear jamming transition.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Discourses of compassion from the margins of health care: the perspectives and experiences of people with a mental health condition
Creators: name: Bond, Carmel
name: Hui, Ada
name: Timmons, Stephen
name: Wildbore, Ellie
name: Sinclair, Shane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Evidence supports the positive influence of compassion on care experiences and health outcomes. However, there is limited understanding regarding how compassion is identified by people with lived experience of mental health care. To explore the views and experiences of compassion from people who have lived experience of mental health. Participants with a self-reported mental health condition and lived experience of mental health (n = 10) were interviewed in a community setting. Characteristics of compassion were identified using an interpretative description approach. Study participants identified compassion as comprised three key components; 'the compassionate virtues of the healthcare professional', which informs 'compassionate engagement', creating a 'compassionate relational space and the patient’s felt-sense response'. When all these elements were in place, enhanced recovery and healing was felt to be possible. Without the experience of compassion, mental health could be adversely affected, exacerbating mental health conditions, and leading to detachment from engaging with health services. The experience of compassion mobilises hope and promotes recovery. Health care policymakers and organisations must ensure services are structured to provide space and time for compassion to flourish. It is imperative that all staff are provided with training so that compassion can be acquired and developed.
Guidance Needs of Nursing Students.pdf
Creators: name: Oducado, Ryan Michael
name: Frigillano, Pio Reggie S.
name: Jesli Joy T. Gunce
name: Jover, Princess Louise B.
name: Krisha T. Pangilinan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Nursing students face numerous stresses and challenges that pose a threat to their well-being. They require guidance to attain satisfactory adjustment in all aspects of daily life in this critical stage of their development. This study was conducted to determine the guidance needs of nursing students in selected schools in Iloilo City. The sample of this descriptive, comparative study consisted of 283 randomly selected students from four nursing schools in Iloilo City. The Guidance Needs Inventory for Nursing Students (GNINS) developed by the researchers was used to gather data. Frequency, mean, standard deviation, and rank were used to describe the data. Independent Samples t-Test and ANOVA set at 0.05 alpha were employed to find out significant difference between variables. The study revealed that nursing students need guidance to a moderate extent. They need more guidance on the aspects of career and academic. Further, results indicated no significant difference in the guidance needs of nursing students when grouped according to sex, gender, year level, residence, type of school, living arrangement, employment status of parents, monthly family income, number of siblings, birth order and type of family. Guidance remains to be an integral part of nursing education. Continued provision of guidance that is responsive and relevant to the needs of nursing student cohort is therefore necessary.
title: Forschungsarbeiten des Laboratoriums für Informationstechnologie der Universität Hannover
Creators: name: Musmann, Hans
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 00

description: Das Laboratorium für Informationstechnologie wurde im Spätherbst 1987 als neue wissenschaftliche Einrichtung im Fachbereich Elektrotechnik an der Universität Hannover errichtet. Das Laboratorium dient der Förderung der Forschung und Lehre auf dem Gebiet der Informationstechnologie. Diese umfaßt mehrere Fachgebiete. Sie erstrecken sich von der Halbleiterphysik über die Integration mikroelektronischer Bauelemente, den Entwurf und das Testen mikroelektronischer Schaltungen, bis hin zur anwendungsbezogenen Systemtechnik mit der Entwicklung leistungsfähiger Algorithmen. Diese Fachgebiete entwickeln sich in starker gegenseitiger Abhängigkeit, wodurch einer interdisziplinären Arbeit große Bedeutung zukommt.
Das Laboratorium für Informationstechnologie bietet den Hochschullehrern dieser Fachgebiete die Möglichkeit zur Durchführung fachübergreifender Grundlagenforschung. Derzeit sind dies das Institut für Halbleitertechnologie und Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik, das Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik und das Institut für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung. Die Leiter dieser Institute bilden den Vorstand des Laboratoriums und vertreten die drei Bereiche, in die das Laboratorium gegliedert ist:
- Technologie (Prof. Jürgen Graul)
- Design und Text (Prof. Joachim Mucha)
- Systemtechnik (Prof. Hans Georg Musmann)
Das Laboratorium ermöglicht darüber hinaus eine wirtschaftliche Nutzung der für dieses Forschungsgebiet erforderlichen beträchtlichen Investitionen.
Realization of a quantum autoencoder for lossless compression of quantum data
Creators: name: Huang, Chang-Jiang
name: Ma, Hailan
name: Yin, Qi
name: Tang, Jun-Feng
name: Dong, Daoyi
name: Chen, Chunlin
name: Xiang, Guo-Yong
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a ubiquitous aspect of modern information technology, data compression has a wide range of applications. Therefore, a quantum autoencoder which can compress quantum information into a low-dimensional space is fundamentally important to achieve automatic data compression in the field of quantum information. Such a quantum autoencoder can be implemented through training the parameters of a quantum device using classical optimization algorithms. In this article, we analyze the condition of achieving a perfect quantum autoencoder and theoretically prove that a quantum autoencoder can losslessly compress high-dimensional quantum information into a low-dimensional space (also called latent space) if the number of maximum linearly independent vectors from input states is no more than the dimension of the latent space. Also, we experimentally realize a universal two-qubit unitary gate and design a quantum autoencoder device by applying machine learning method. Experimental results demonstrate that our quantum autoencoder is able to compress two two-qubit states into two one-qubit states. Besides compressing quantum information, the quantum autoencoder is used to experimentally discriminate two groups of nonorthogonal states.
Cycnium volkensii Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Orobanchaceae
Cycnium
Cycnium volkensii

description: Cycnium volkensii Engl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Mount Kenya, 15 Feb. 1922, Fries & Fries 1599 (K, S, BR).
 Reference: Ghazanfar et al. (2008).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Dynamical Borel-Cantelli lemmas for Gibbs measures
Creators: name: Chernov, Nikolai
name: Kleinbock, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10, 37D20

description: Let $T: X\mapsto X$ be a deterministic dynamical system preserving a probability measure $μ$. A dynamical Borel-Cantelli lemma asserts that for certain sequences of subsets $A_n\subset X$ and $μ$-almost every point $x\in X$ the inclusion $T^nx\in A_n$ holds for infinitely many $n$. We discuss here systems which are either symbolic (topological) Markov chain or Anosov diffeomorphisms preserving Gibbs measures. We find sufficient conditions on sequences of cylinders and rectangles, respectively, that ensure the dynamical Borel-Cantelli lemma.
description: Latex, 22 pages