cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of stretchable sensors for enhanced shear characterization of woven fabric composites
Creators: name: Montazerianoliaee, Hossein
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Shear is known to be the dominant mode of deformation in woven fabric composites when forming complex, doubly-curved parts. Picture frame (PF) testing has been widely employed in the literature to quantify the mechanical properties of woven fabrics under shearing, albite a number of uncertainty factors present during this test set-up. In the present study, common sources of such uncertainties (imperfections) are first classified and their effects on characterization data are studied, through both analytical and numerical approaches. Namely, the mechanical response of fabrics under PF testing is recognized to be highly sensitive to the imperfections stemmed from either misplacing the fabric into the fixture, or deviation of fixture from an ideal shearing frame. In addition, to prevent the fabric/fixture contacts, corner cut-offs are usually introduced to the fabric by experimenter during PF testing, exacerbating the shear angle mismatches between the sample center and fixture frame. Upon the above general, theoretical assessment of PF test imperfections, their adverse effects on shear characterization of fabrics have been experimentally demonstrated through novel sensors integrated within the yarns of a typical polypropylene/glass plain weave, capturing the local tensile deformation of the material during the shear tests. Finally, a novel frameless picture frame (FPF) shear testing approach was introduced for mitigating of imperfections as seen in the conventional PF test. In the new set-up, the frame is inscribed on the sample itself by locally consolidating the fabric at regions corresponding to the clamping areas in the conventional PF. A high controllability was realized over the sample during preparation and installation phases of the new test set-up. Furthermore, high shear strain deformation behavior as well as normalized force-shear angle response of the fabric was assessed during the FPF testing and was proven to be more consistent than the PF test, by means of eliminating sample size effects and significantly improving the data repeatability under cyclic loads. The embedded PDMS/CCF sensor into the fabric further confirmed the performance of the new test by monitoring local yarn strain level; it was significantly lower in a needle integrated version of FPF test when compared to the PF test.
Antifungal activity in vitro using kraft-pulping crude black liquor and hydrothermal treatment black liquor against wood-decaying fungi
Creators: name: Abrantes, Karen Keli Barbosa
name: da Cruz, Rayane Monique Sete
name: Barros, Thiago Vinicius
name: de Souto, Eliezer Rodrigues
name: Paes, Juarez Benigno
name: Cardozo-Filho, Lucio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: We investigated antifungal properties of two kraft-pulping liquors as potential environmentally friendly wood preservatives targeting in deterioration by white rot (WRF) and brown rot fungi (BRF). The in vitro antifungal activity of crude black liquor (BL) and the product from a hydrothermal gasification (BLWSupc) process were investigated. Both products showed high bioactivity, with BL completely inhibiting the activity of WRF and BRF; 80% was entirely suppressed at low BL concentrations (5–10% vol/vol). Using the BLWSupc at 2.55% wt/wt, we achieved the same inhibitory effect as BL (15% vol/vol) for the two fungi. These antifungal effects can be explained by the composition of liquors that act as antioxidants, promoting enzymatic inactivation and inhibiting the growth of WRF and BRF. BLWSupc exhibited radical quenching activity against DPPH of 43.9%, and the BL, a phenolic content about 20 times higher (23.635 mg/L) than BLWSupc (2.093 mg/L), suggesting that antifungal activity of BL and BLW is related to their chemical composition. An opportunity demonstrated by this study is the reuse of BLWSupc as a protective treatment within a sustainable chain.
Scot's discovery of witchcraft : proving the common opinions of witches contracting with divels, spirits, or familiars, and their power to kill, torment, and consume the bodies of men, women, and children, or other creatures by diseases or otherwise, their flying in the air, &c. to be but imaginary, erronious conceptions and novelties : wherein also the lewde unchristian practices of witchmongers upon aged, melancholy, ignorant, and superstious [sic] people in extorting confessions by inhumane terrors and tortures is notably detected ... : whereunto is added, a treatise upon the nature, and substance of spirits and divels &c
Creators: name: Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599
Publisher: name: [London] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Ornamented initials; marginal notations; organized into books and chapters ; includes index. Pagination inconsistent
Quasiparticle interference in antiferromagnetic parent compounds of Fe-based superconductors
Creators: name: Mazin, I. I.
name: Kimber, Simon A. J.
name: Argyriou, Dimitri N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently reported quasiparticle interference imaging in underdoped Ca(Fe{1-x}Co{x})_2As{2} shows pronounced C{2} asymmetry that is interpreted as an indication of an electronic nematic phase with a unidirectional electron band, dispersive predominantly along the $b$-axis of this orthorhombic material. On the other hand, even more recent transport measurements on untwinned samples show near isotropy of the resistivity in the $ab$ plane, with slightly larger conductivity along a (and not b). We show that in fact both sets of data are consistent with the calculated ab initio Fermi surfaces, which has a decisively broken C_{4}, and yet similar Fermi velocity in both directions. This reconciles completely the apparent contradiction between the conclusions of the STM and the transport experiments.
description: A version of this work was posted (arXiv:1005.1761) as a comment on a Science paper entitled "Nematic Electronic Structure in the Parent State of the Iron-Based Superconductor Ca(Fe1-xCox)2As2". The comment was rejected by Science on account of it being posted on the ArXiv. This is a version published in PRB as a research paper
title: fMRI investigations into the effect of spatial attention shifting and visual perception of separation on BOLD responses in the superior parietal lobule
Creators: name: Goodwin, Charlotte
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: Multiple conflicting claims have been made about the function of the superior parietal lobule (SPL), but no consensus reached. This thesis investigates the functionality of the SPL by challenging existing attention shifting hypotheses and proposing an alternative visual separation hypothesis, in which the perception of changing distances between objects relative to each other is potentially supported in the SPL. Replicating Vandenberghe et al. (2001), activation was observed in the SPL for conditions containing a fixed and displacing element, and minimal activation in the conditions containing only fixed elements. However, a key condition consisting of attention shifts to a single displacing stimulus failed to activate the SPL, which was not compatible with the shifting spatial attention hypothesis. In contrast, the proposed visual separation hypothesis correctly predicted no significant activation in SPL because there was no perception of changing distances between elements. Although, for two conditions, the results could not be explained by this hypothesis: in these two conditions multiple objects displaced in unison and there were no changes in separation. It was proposed that the stimuli’s abrupt displacement to new locations might be responsible for these unexpected results by disrupting the natural occurrence of adaptation. This was further explored in experiment 2, where displacing stimuli comprising of multiple elements again activated the SPL whereas smoothly translating stimuli consisting of multiple elements did not, these results supported the visual separation hypothesis. Experiment 3 explored visual separation further by examining two components: interobject distance and visual angle. Using complex visual stimuli, results showed that the SPL is particularly sensitive to relative changes to interobject distance and visual angle. Finally, these experimental results and previous ones were overlaid on a SPL parcellation (Wang et al., 2015) showing that activation produced by perceiving visual separation was not concentrated in one subregion of SPL, but rather across multiple subregions.
Stochastic effects at ripple formation processes in anisotropic systems with multiplicative noise
Creators: name: Kharchenko, D. O.
name: Kharchenko, V. O.
name: Lysenko, I. O.
name: Kokhan, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study pattern formation processes in anisotropic system governed by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with multiplicative noise as a generalization of the Bradley-Harper model for ripple formation induced by ion bombardment. For both linear and nonlinear systems we study noise induced effects at ripple formation and discuss scaling behavior of the surface growth and roughness characteristics. It was found that the secondary parameters of the ion beam (beam profile and variations of an incidence angle) can crucially change the topology of patterns and the corresponding dynamics.
Strong and Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling of One-Dimensional Holes in Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires
Creators: name: Hao, Xiao-Jie
name: Tu, Tao
name: Cao, Gang
name: Zhou, Cheng
name: Li, Hai-Ou
name: Guo, Guang-Can
name: Fung, Wayne Y.
name: Ji, Zhongqing
name: Guo, Guo-Ping
name: Lu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the low-temperature magneto-transport properties of individual Ge/Si core/shell nanowires. Negative magneto-conductance was observed, which is a signature of one-dimensional weak antilocalization of holes in the presence of strong spin-orbit coupling. The temperature and back gate dependences of phase coherence length, spin-orbit relaxation time, and background conductance were studied. Specifically, we show the spin-orbit coupling strength can be modulated by more than five folds with an external electric field. These results suggest the Ge/Si nanowire system possesses strong and tunable spin-orbit interactions and may serve as a candidate for spintronics applications.
description: 14 pages with Supporting Information
Open Source Secure Data Infrastructure and Processes for Life Sciences (OSSDIP4LIFE)
Creators: name: Andreas, Rauber
name: Martin, Weise
name: Landman Martina
name: Moritz, Staudinger
name: Cornelia, Michlitz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The Open Source Secure Data Infrastructure (OSSDIP) is centered around the principle of data visiting: data is never passed on to researchers, but researchers visit isolated and completely shielded compute environments (virtual machines in a shielded network) via remote desktop. All interactions are strictly monitored, the desktop screen is recorded with subsequent share to the data owner and export of data is blocked. The infrastructure never provides direct access to the air-gapped Data Node, instead, data subsets are copied and fingerprinted at the Analyst-VM along with the analysis tools required to directly work with the data set.
Magnetoelastic Coupling in the Phase Diagram of Ba1-xKxFe2As2
Creators: name: Avci, Sevda
name: Chmaissem, Omar
name: Goremychkin, Eugene A.
name: Rosenkranz, Stephan
name: Castellan, John-Paul
name: Chung, Duck-Young
name: Todorov, Ilya S.
name: Schlueter, John A.
name: Claus, Helmut
name: Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
name: Daoud-Aladine, Aziz
name: Khalyavin, Dmitry
name: Osborn, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a high resolution neutron diffraction investigation of the coupling of structural and magnetic transitions in Ba1xKxFe2As2. The tetragonal-orthorhombic and antiferromagnetic transitions are suppressed with potassium-doping, falling to zero at x ~ 0.24.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Opere inedite di Gio. Alfonso Borelli, delle Scuole Pie
Creators: name: Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679
Publisher: name: [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Manuscript (handwritten, in cursive script) dealing with natural and physical sciences. The first volume consists of two sections (leaves 7-41, and leaves 61-129) both containing scientific writings ; leaves 42-60 are blank.

 The second volume consists of two sections (leaves 7-44 and leaves 67-84) both containing correspondence ; leaves 45-66 are blank. In both volumes, initial letters at the beginning of numerous paragraphs are blank, and diagrams intended to accompany parts of the text are absent.

 On spine of volume 1: ""Tom. I-II"" ; on spine of volume 2: ""Tom. III""
Human-ecological interconnections: Policy concepts and applications
Creators: name: Dorward-King, E.
name: Charnley, G.
name: Bus, J.
name: Miranda, Marie Lynn
name: Foster, P.
name: Mohai, P.
name: Munns, W.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Human-ecological interconnections: Policy concepts and applications
Population decline and changes in food store access
Creators: name: Nilsson, Helena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: I examine how neighbourhood-level food store access, proxied by distance to the nearest food store, changed in Sweden between 2000 and 2013, and how this change is correlated with changes in potential market size, proxied by population density. I find that distance has increased in rural and more affluent neighbourhoods. Furthermore, an increase in distance is negatively correlated with an increase in population density and is most pronounced in rural areas. The results are driven by the growing, rather than the declining, regions. Since the latter have often been a target for subsidies over the years, this could suggest that the aid may have had an impact.
Passive hand tremor attenuator : magnetic spring
Creators: name: Masoumi, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: It is known that Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that has a significant impact on body movement. Symptoms of the disease begins with a barely noticeable tremor of the hands. Though Parkinson’s disease is mostly recognizable by the tremors it causes on the patients, it generally leads to stiffness and reduction of movement as the time progresses. In this thesis, a novel approach is taken to reduce vibration through designing a passive wearable device with the use of magnetic actuators. In the proposed device, magnets are arranged in a particular alignment, so as to attenuate the hand tremors of the patients. The device has shown to be effective while weighing approximately 120 grams, which is a relatively lightweight device for the desired purpose.
Some comments on C. S. Wallace's random number generators
Creators: name: Brent, Richard P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; G.4; K.2
subject: 11K45 (Primary) 65-03, 65C10 (Secondary)

description: We outline some of Chris Wallace's contributions to pseudo-random number generation. In particular, we consider his idea for generating normally distributed variates without relying on a source of uniform random numbers, and compare it with more conventional methods for generating normal random numbers. Implementations of Wallace's idea can be very fast (approximately as fast as good uniform generators). We discuss the statistical quality of the output, and mention how certain pitfalls can be avoided.
description: 13 pages. For further information, see http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~brent/pub/pub213.html
Regional environmental and energy policies: are they effective for the sustainable transition of listed companies?
Creators: name: Baiardi, Donatella
name: Soana, Maria Gaia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: We test the effectiveness of environmental and energy policies, complying with legal requirements and followed voluntarily, on endeavours towards green and energy transitions. With this aim, a sample of Italian listed firms in the period 2008–19 is investigated. The empirical framework is developed by means of a propensity score matching analysis with multiple treatments, implemented in both a panel data and cross-sectional contexts. Our results show that regional interventions operate as a push/pull mechanism in driving companies to be more environmentally friendly. This is important for identification of policy-driven changes which make some regions more successful than others in sustainability transition.
"Eppur si muove", Software Libero e Ricerca Riproducibile
Creators: name: Frigeri, Alessandro
name: Speranza, Gisella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article describes similarities of the scientific method and the free open source software development, and how reproducibility is the key of an healthy scientific production.
description: The article is in Italian. ISSN:2037-1217
Escape from Rome: Teofan Prokopovych and Ukrainian Orthodox Ties to the Eternal City, 1650-1721
Creators: name: Ivanov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: For most people, a sojourn in Rome does not result in the life-changing event of becoming a religious reformer. The story of Teofan Prokopovych, a Kyivan student in the Eternal City in the late 1690s, stands out as a lesser-known exception to that overall trend, the most famous case being the visit by a young monk Martin Luther in 1511. Although hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox believers sought Catholic education abroad at the time, Prokopovych's 'scandal' in Rome, was a paradigm-shifting experience that served as a catalyst for subsequent church reform in Ukraine and Russia. This reform ended the dissimulative practice of seeking education in Catholic schools and turned more Ukrainians towards the universities and theological curriculum of Protestant Europe. Having run away from Rome, Ukrainian Orthodoxy turned to Pietist Halle, under the watchful guidance of Prokopovych and other reforming hierarchs of the Holy Synod.
The magnetic fields of forming solar-like stars
Creators: name: Gregory, S. G.
name: Jardine, M.
name: Gray, C. G.
name: Donati, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields play a crucial role at all stages of the formation of low mass stars and planetary systems. In the final stages, in particular, they control the kinematics of in-falling gas from circumstellar discs, and the launching and collimation of spectacular outflows. The magnetic coupling with the disc is thought to influence the rotational evolution of the star, while magnetised stellar winds control the braking of more evolved stars and may influence the migration of planets. Magnetic reconnection events trigger energetic flares which irradiate circumstellar discs with high energy particles that influence the disc chemistry and set the initial conditions for planet formation. However, it is only in the past few years that the current generation of optical spectropolarimeters have allowed the magnetic fields of forming solar-like stars to be probed in unprecedented detail. In order to do justice to the recent extensive observational programs new theoretical models are being developed that incorporate magnetic fields with an observed degree of complexity. In this review we draw together disparate results from the classical electromagnetism, molecular physics/chemistry, and the geophysics literature, and demonstrate how they can be adapted to construct models of the large scale magnetospheres of stars and planets. We conclude by examining how the incorporation of multipolar magnetic fields into new theoretical models will drive future progress in the field through the elucidation of several observational conundrums.
description: 55 pages, review article accepted for publication in Reports on Progress in Physics. Astro-ph version includes additional appendices
Multifunctional nanoparticles for biosensing and medical imaging
Creators: name: Schrittwieser, Stefan
name: Haslinger, Michael
name: Mitteramskogler, Tina
name: Mühlberger, Michael
name: Shoshi, Astrit
name: Brückl, Hubert
name: Bauch, Martin
name: Dimopoulos, Theodoros
name: Schmid, Barbara
name: Schotter, Jörg
name: Eggeling, Moritz
name: Derntl, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster presentation at the MNE2021 Micro and Nano Engineering Conference
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Feature selection guided by structural information
Creators: name: Slawski, Martin
name: Castell, Wolfgang zu
name: Tutz, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In generalized linear regression problems with an abundant number of features, lasso-type regularization which imposes an $\ell^1$-constraint on the regression coefficients has become a widely established technique. Deficiencies of the lasso in certain scenarios, notably strongly correlated design, were unmasked when Zou and Hastie [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 67 (2005) 301--320] introduced the elastic net. In this paper we propose to extend the elastic net by admitting general nonnegative quadratic constraints as a second form of regularization. The generalized ridge-type constraint will typically make use of the known association structure of features, for example, by using temporal- or spatial closeness. We study properties of the resulting "structured elastic net" regression estimation procedure, including basic asymptotics and the issue of model selection consistency. In this vein, we provide an analog to the so-called "irrepresentable condition" which holds for the lasso. Moreover, we outline algorithmic solutions for the structured elastic net within the generalized linear model family. The rationale and the performance of our approach is illustrated by means of simulated and real world data, with a focus on signal regression.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS302 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Counting solutions of the Bethe equations of the quantum group invariant open XXZ chain at roots of unity
Creators: name: Sommese, Andrew
name: Gainutdinov, Azat M.
name: Nepomechie, Rafael I.
name: Hao, Wenrui
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: We consider the sl(2)_q-invariant open spin-1/2 XXZ quantum spin chain of finite length N. For the case that q is a root of unity, we propose a formula for the number of admissible solutions of the Bethe ansatz equations in terms of dimensions of irreducible representations of the Temperley-Lieb algebra; and a formula for the degeneracies of the transfer matrix eigenvalues in terms of dimensions of tilting sl(2)_q-modules. These formulas include corrections that appear if two or more tilting modules are spectrum-degenerate. For the XX case (q=exp(i pi/2)), we give explicit formulas for the number of admissible solutions and degeneracies. We also consider the cases of generic q and the isotropic (q->1) limit. Numerical solutions of the Bethe equations up to N=8 are presented. Our results are consistent with the Bethe ansatz solution being complete.
Institutions and territorial structuring: the transformation of the dairy sector in France and Germany
Creators: name: Dervillé, Marie
name: Fink-Kessler, Andrea
name: Trouvé, Aurélie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This article develops a multiscale institutional framework to shed light on the territorial dynamics of a sector. The case of the long-term transformation of the European dairy industry shows that, within a common European regulatory system, sectoral communities are structured territorially in Germany and nationally in France. Second, a change in public policies exerts pressure not only on firms’ adaptation capacities but also on sectoral communities. Third, territorial institutions appear primary in structuring sectoral dynamics when territorial players (public, private and collective) create, pool and sustainably manage productive resources, either for integration into a wider market or for developing a local means of competing.
Experimental characterization, black-box modeling, and optimization of the fused deposition modelled Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
Creators: name: Vahed Mohammad Ghasemloo, Ronak
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming a mainstream manufacturing process in different engineering applications, owing to its capability to build 3-dimensional parts with complex geometries, while maintaining high production speed, low cost and a minimal material waste. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), as one of the AM techniques, is frequently used in industries and research laboratories to print parts from different thermoplastic filaments. The properties and quality of the FDM processed thermoplastic parts, however, is highly restricted by the proper selection of process parameters, and it remains as a challenging task for producing defect-free 3D printed parts. On the other hand, owing to the large number of FDM process parameters with highly nonlinear and interacting effects, the experimental optimization of FDM is costly and requires mathematical predictive models. This thesis presents an integrated experimental-black box modeling and optimization framework to study the viscoelastic and tensile properties of FDM processed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). The effect of selected process parameters (including nozzle temperature, layer height, raster orientation and deposition speed) as well as their interaction effects are studied. Specifically, in the first step, a Taguchi orthogonal array was employed to design the experiments with a minimal number of runs, while considering different working conditions (temperatures) for the final prints. The Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) as well as tensile testing were carried out to investigate the significance of the process parameters, measured by statistical hypothesis testing methods. Due to the observed complex nature of the interacting effects of the FDM parameters, a series of artificial neural networks were developed and employed to predict the propeorites of the 3D printed samples, and consequently the process parameters were optimized via a particle swarm optimization (PSO). The percent contribution and ranking of the process parameters were identified and linked to the underlying meso/micro level mechanisms, through visual inspections of the samples and a Raman spectroscopy analysis.
LEXICOGRAPHICAL ANALYSES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES
Creators: name: Quralova Feruza Obid qizi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Lexicography, the art and science of dictionary-making, plays a crucial role in the study of languages. This article examines lexicographical aspects of English and Uzbek, analyzing their similarities and differences in word formation, dictionary compilation, and semantic structures. Special emphasis is placed on the role of historical development, technological advancements, and the impact of globalization. Examples from both languages illustrate key distinctions
Using Emotions to Deliver Personal TV Experiences
Creators: name: Prabhala, Sasanka
name: Payne, Michael J.
name: Melican, Jay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: personality
emotions
TV experiences
media recommendations

description: The majority of the world-wide population currently turns to their television (TV) sets for news, weather, traffic, sports, movies, TV shows and other entertainment and information. Digital cable and satellite TV are providing people with an immense and growing variety of options for live and on-demand programming. In addition, emerging design, technology and media rights advancements in consumer electronics (CE) are also paving the way for new and innovative set- top boxes (STB) and TVs that bring internet content directly to the TV. While access to this vast array of media is appealing, it also has led (and will increasingly lead) to the alarmingly difficult task of finding personally relevant and desirable content while filtering out the „noise."

This paper introduces a novel concept of measuring and inferencing people"s personality characteristics and emotions, based on their interactions with the TV remote control, in order to create personal, context-rich views into available media options.
Social capital and patients’ mobility in Italy
Creators: name: Ciarrapico, Anna Micaela
name: Cosci, Stefania
name: Mirra, Loredana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Using a 10-year (2006–15) regional dataset on hospital discharges, we estimate the determinants of Italian regional outflow rates while also including three proxies for social capital: the quality of friendships, the involvement in social activities and the ratio of blood donors to the population. We find a significant push effect from the lack of social capital intended as generalized expectation of cooperative behaviour (proxied by blood donors); this does not hold true for the other two proxies of social capital. The lack of a cultural context where norms of reciprocity matter may reduce regions’ ability to retain their patients.
title: Regulation of neuronal voltagegated calcium channels via carbon monoxide and amyloid-β
Creators: name: Kaisis, Eleni
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequently occurring form of dementia worldwide. Calcium (Ca2+) is important in maintaining cellular physiology with roles in gene expression, cell proliferation, differentiation and survival. One mechanism by which aggregated amyloid-b (Ab), a main protagonist in AD, can cause Ca2+ dysregulation and subsequent changes in cell activity is through changes in both the expression and activity of VGCCs. Carbon monoxide (CO) acting as a gasotransmitter has shown a range of cytoprotective roles potentially mediated by ion channel-dependant mechanisms. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of protofibrillar Ab1-42 on voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) and to investigate how CO can modulate these channels and therefore interfere with Ab-mediated cytotoxicity. Chemical analysis and neuroblastoma activity assays revealed time-dependent (48hr) protofibril formation of Ab1-42 using NH4OH demonstrating protofibril formation that structurally and functionally resembles aggregated Ab1-42 cytotoxicity seen in vivo. Moreover, mimicking the microenvironment of cell membranes, SDS was shown to aid Ab1- 42 aggregation. Molecular approaches (qPCR) revealed that within retinoic acid (RTA) differentiated cells protofibril Ab1-42 changes Cav1 expression at gene level, proposed to be representative of Ca2+ dysregulation seen at early stages of AD. On the other hand, electrophysiology findings revealed that Ab1-42 is capable of inhibiting Cav2.2 currents of stably transfected HEK293 cells. Reduction in Cav2.2 dependent Ca2+ influx represents changes in Ca2+ homeostasis seen at late stages of AD where significant neurotransmitter depletion and synaptotoxicity is observed. CO, generated using the donor CORM2 (tricarbonyldichlororuthenium(II) dimer), was shown to inhibit Cav2.2 channels through selective changes in channel kinetics. Further through electrophysiological investigation it was revealed that CO acts similarly to an oxidant, with the reducing agent DTT (dithiothreitol) reversing CO inhibitory effects on the channel. Findings from the current study aid our understanding of AD by highlighting the different effects of Ab on Ca2+ homeostasis dependent on early or late AD stage. Moreover, this study reveals that CO, might inhibit VGCCs, via an oxidant action, which may be beneficial in targeting Ca2+ dyshomeostasis seen at early stage of the disease where neuronal hyperactivity is observed. This study demonstrates the potential of CO, or the activation of CO-dependent pathways as a novel therapeutic against AD.
D- shallow donor near a semiconductor-metal and a semiconductor-dielectric interface
Creators: name: Hao, Y. L.
name: Djotyan, A. P.
name: Avetisyan, A. A.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state energy and the extend of the wavefunction of a negatively charged donor (D-) located near a semiconductor-metal or a semiconductor-dielectric interface is obtained. We apply the effective mass approximation and use a variational two-electron wavefunction that takes into account the influence of all image charges that arise due to the presence of the interface, as well as the correlation between the two electrons bound to the donor. For a semiconductor-metal interface, the D- binding energy is enhanced for donor positions d>1.5a_B (a_B is the effective Bohr radius) due to the additional attraction of the electrons with their images. When the donor approaches the interface (i.e. d<1.5a_B) the D- binding energy drops and eventually it becomes unbound. For a semiconductor-dielectric (or a semiconductor-vacuum) interface the D- binding energy is reduced for any donor position as compared to the bulk case and the system becomes rapidly unbound when the donor approaches the interface.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. B on 19 November 2009
Is backreaction really small within concordance cosmology?
Creators: name: Clarkson, Chris
name: Umeh, Obinna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Smoothing over structures in general relativity leads to a renormalisation of the background, and potentially many other effects which are poorly understood. Observables such as the distance-redshift relation when averaged on the sky do not necessarily yield the same smooth model which arises when performing spatial averages. These issues are thought to be of technical interest only in the standard model of cosmology, giving only tiny corrections. However, when we try to calculate observable quantities such as the all-sky average of the distance-redshift relation, we find that perturbation theory delivers divergent answers in the UV and corrections to the background of order unity. There are further problems. Second-order perturbations are the same size as first-order, and fourth-order at least the same as second, and possibly much larger, owing to the divergences. Much hinges on a coincidental balance of 2 numbers: the primordial power, and the ratio between the comoving Hubble scales at matter-radiation equality and today. Consequently, it is far from obvious that backreaction is irrelevant even in the concordance model, however natural it intuitively seems.
description: 28 pages. Invited contribution to Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue "Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models and Averaging in Cosmology"
First version of value propositions for stakeholders
Creators: name: Diaz, Carlos
name: Camprubi, Montse
name: Glòria Garcia-Negredo
name: EHDEN VP Team Members
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Value propositions
SME
HTA
Data source
Regulator
Payer agency

description: This deliverable reports on the methodology used and results obtained to create the first versions of value propositions (VP) for priority stakeholders. The three priority stakeholders agreed by the Consortium are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), data sources and regulatory/HTA/payer agencies. The methodology used followed a stepwise approach: Breakout brainstorming sessions at the project kick-off meeting, to identify the stakeholders, to define an initial list of key benefits per stakeholder, and other relevant aspects Configuration of VP teams (one per priority stakeholder) Creation of a first version of each VP document Review of the VP document and survey among VP team members to refine and rank importance of key benefits Full text version produced and reviewed As a result, a stable first version of value propositions for SMEs, data sources and regulatory/HTA agencies was obtained and is included in this deliverable. These are considered living documents and will be refined during the project as needed. Next steps will entail producing VP documents for other key stakeholders.
Bringing the underground economy to light
Creators: name: Kurti, Marin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: Institutional anomie theory (IAT) contends that crime is the result of interplay between culture that values material success (American Dream), and an institutional imbalance, where the economy is overvalued in relation to the polity, family, and education (Messner & Rosenfeld, 2012). Scholars have measured this imbalance at the level of countries or states via the relative strength of the formal economy (e.g., Gross Domestic Product and Gini index of inequality). However, by focusing solely on formal, aggregate measures it neglects the true nature and size of the broader economy that encompasses the informal (e.g., garage sales, day labor, lemonade stands) and illegal economy (e.g., drug sales, sex work, gambling). This lack of specification may underestimate the extent of the institutional imbalance, whose processes are more easily observed and varied at the neighborhood level. This dissertation sought to advance Messner and Rosenfeld’s (1994) institutional anomie theory by broadening the economy to include, the formal, informal and illegal economy. It also examined this reconfiguration at the neighborhood level using a representative sample of block groups in New York City (n=107). Preliminary examination of this theoretical expansion was tested combining administrative data (census, police, and city records) with primary data collection (e.g., systematic observations and the collection of littered artifacts collected from street segments that were aggregated to the block group level). Between late August and October 2016, trained raters made systematic social observations (SSO) and collected litter artifacts in all of the streets nested within the block groups. Walking on opposite sides of the street and in pairs, raters counted the number of street behaviors, postings and litter artifacts that pointed to the presence and strength of the informal, illegal economy and the American Dream: including: (1) advertisements for “off-the-books” jobs; (2) illegal transactions in public spaces (e.g., drug sales, gambling, prostitution); (3) litter drug artifacts (e.g. small zip lock bags, synthetic marijuana wrappers, ‘blunt’ wrappers, syringes, crack pipes, glassine envelopes); and (4) public advertisements for free and paid services that are visual cues for the American Dream. Overall, I find partial support for the theory. The formal economy was related to robbery incidents at the neighborhood level. However, there were no significant association between the informal and the illegal economy and robbery counts. Some of the reasons why this study yielded non-significant findings include the difficulties associated with measuring concepts. I provide additional considerations for a theory retest at a larger unit of analysis (county or borough).
Does political decentralization affect income inequality? The role of governance quality
Creators: name: Tselios, Vassilis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper examines whether an increase in political decentralization, which is a global trend, affects income inequality. It argues that the effect of decentralization on equality lies with the quality of governance, that is, how well the traditions and institutions of an authority in a country are exercised. Using an instrumental variables (IV)/two-stage least squares (2SLS) method, this paper shows that an increase in decentralization reduces inequality. However, this reduction is stronger for countries with a relatively low quality of governance, possibly because private investments in these countries reduce income inequality. A policy implication is that institutional-specific decentralization strategies can reduce inequalities.
NEUCAL: a prototype detector for electron/hadron discrimination through neutron measurement
Creators: name: Bonechi, L.
name: Adriani, O.
name: D'Alessandro, R.
name: Sona, P.
name: Sorichetti, G.
name: Spillantini, P.
name: Bottai, S.
name: Grandi, M.
name: Papini, P.
name: Ricciarini, S.
name: Sguazzoni, G.
name: Vannuccini, E.
name: Viciani, A.
name: Castellini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NEUCAL is a neutron detector which is currently under study to be used as a sub-detector complementing electromagnetic (e.m.) calorimeters for electron/hadron discrimination in cosmic rays at high energy. Its aim is to reveal the different yield of neutron production in e.m. and hadronic showers, not only by counting signals due to their absorption in some sensible detector after passive moderation, but also looking for signals produced during the moderation phase. The basic idea and a test of a prototype detector are discussed in this paper. A first preliminary comparison of experimental data with simulation is also shown.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, "11th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications"
[Reinke de Vos.]
Creators: name: [Unknown]
Publisher: name: [Germany] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2017

description: Title page in red and black; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Woodcut illustrations by Jost Amman.

Imprint date and woodcut artist information from: Menke, H. Bibliotheca Reinardiana.

Signatures: A-Y⁸