cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Multiple Images of the Plasma Lensing FRB
Creators: name: Wang, Y-B.
name: Wen, Z-G.
name: Yuen, R.
name: Wang, N.
name: Yuan, J-P.
name: Zhou, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the formation of multiple images as the radio signals from fast radio bursts (FRBs) pass through the plane of a plasma clump. The exponential model for the plasma clump is adopted to analyze the properties of the multiple images. By comparing with the classical dispersion relations, we find that one image has exhibited specific inverse properties to others, such as their delay times at high frequency is higher than that at low frequency, owing to the lensing effects of the plasma clump. We demonstrate that these inverse effects should be observable in some repeating FRBs. Our results predict deviation in the estimated DM across multiple images, consistent with the observations of FRB 121102 and FRB 180916.J0158+65. If other plasma lenses have effects similar to an exponential lens, we find that they should also give rise to the similar dispersion relation in the multiple images. For some repeating FRBs, analysis of the differences in time delay and in DM between multiple images at different frequencies can serve as a method to reveal the plasma distribution.
Exogenous delivery of water to Mercury
Creators: name: Frantseva, Kateryna
name: Nesvorný, David
name: Mueller, Michael
name: van der Tak, Floris F. S.
name: Kate, Inge Loes ten
name: Pokorný, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radar and spacecraft observations show the permanently shadowed regions around Mercury's North Pole to contain water ice and complex organic material. One possible source of this material are impacts by interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), asteroids, and comets. We have performed numerical simulations of the dynamical evolution of asteroids and comets over the few Myr and checked for their impacts with Mercury. We use the N-body integrator RMVS/Swifter to propagate the Sun and the eight planets from their current positions. We add comets and asteroids to the simulations as massless test particles, based on their current orbital distributions. Asteroid impactors are assigned a probability of being water-rich (C-class) based on the measured distribution of taxonomic types. For comets, we assume a constant water fraction. For IDPs, we use a dynamical meteoroid model to compute the dust flux on Mercury. Relative to previous work on asteroid and comet impacts (Moses et al. 1999), we leverage 20 years of progress in minor body surveys. Immediate post-impact ejection of impactor material into outer space is taken into account as is the migration efficiency of water across Mercury's surface to the polar cold traps. We find that asteroids deliver $\sim 1 \times 10^{3}$ kg/yr of water to Mercury, comets deliver $\sim 1 \times 10^{3}$ kg/yr and IDPs deliver $\sim 16 \times 10^{3}$ kg/yr within a factor of several. Over a timescale of $\sim 1$ Gyr, this is enough to deliver the minimum amount of water required by the radar and MESSENGER observations. While other sources of water on Mercury are not ruled out by our analysis, we show that they are not required to explain the currently available observational lower limits.
description: 38 pages, 10 figures, published in Icarus
Direct Waste-Free Synthesis of Amides from Nonactivated Carboxylic Acids and Amines: Application to the Synthesis of Tetrahydroisoquinolines
Creators: name: Bala, Manju
name: Verma, Praveen Kumar
name: Kumar, Neeraj
name: Singh, Bikram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biotechnology
Molecular Biology
Medicine
Biophysics
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Biochemistry

description: An efficient, waste-free protocol has been developed for the synthesis of amides directly from nonactivated carboxylic acids and amines without any tedious purification. Fatty acids were also converted into corresponding amides by reaction with nonactivated amines. The synthesized amides were cyclized to tetrahydroisoquinolines in good yields.
Automated Generation of High-Performance Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes
Creators: name: Macià, Sandra
name: Martıínez-Ferrer, Pedro J.
name: Ayguadé, Eduard
name: Beltran, Vicenç
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.3; J.2

description: Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) improve programmers productivity by decoupling problem descriptions from algorithmic implementations. However, DSLs for High-Performance Computing (HPC) have two additional critical requirements: performance and scalability. This paper presents the automated process of generating, from abstract mathematical specifications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) problems, optimised parallel codes that perform and scale as manually optimised ones. We consciously combine within Saiph, a DSL for solving CFD problems, low-level optimisations and parallelisation strategies, enabling high-performance single-core executions which effectively scale to multi-core and distributed environments. Our results demonstrate how high-level DSLs can offer competitive performance by transparently leveraging state-of-the-art HPC techniques.
description: 30 pages, 18 figures. Postprint submitted to the Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier). Article updated with reviewers' comments, additional material in section 4.3 including figures and correction of typos
Direct Waste-Free Synthesis of Amides from Non-Activated Carboxylic Acids and Amines: Application to the Synthesis of Tetrahydroisoquinolines
Creators: name: Bala, Manju
name: Verma, Praveen Kumar
name: Kumar, Neeraj
name: Singh, Bikram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biotechnology
Molecular Biology
Medicine
Biophysics
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Cell Biology
Biochemistry

description: GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Investigating Accuracy-Novelty Performance for Graph-based Collaborative Filtering
Creators: name: Zhao, Minghao
name: Wu, Le
name: Liang, Yile
name: Chen, Lei
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Deng, Qilin
name: Wang, Kai
name: Shen, Xudong
name: Lv, Tangjie
name: Wu, Runze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent years have witnessed the great accuracy performance of graph-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) models for recommender systems. By taking the user-item interaction behavior as a graph, these graph-based CF models borrow the success of Graph Neural Networks (GNN), and iteratively perform neighborhood aggregation to propagate the collaborative signals. While conventional CF models are known for facing the challenges of the popularity bias that favors popular items, one may wonder "Whether the existing graph-based CF models alleviate or exacerbate popularity bias of recommender systems?" To answer this question, we first investigate the two-fold performances w.r.t. accuracy and novelty for existing graph-based CF methods. The empirical results show that symmetric neighborhood aggregation adopted by most existing graph-based CF models exacerbate the popularity bias and this phenomenon becomes more serious as the depth of graph propagation increases. Further, we theoretically analyze the cause of popularity bias for graph-based CF. Then, we propose a simple yet effective plugin, namely r-AdjNorm, to achieve an accuracy-novelty trade-off by controlling the normalization strength in the neighborhood aggregation process. Meanwhile, r-AdjNorm can be smoothly applied to the existing graph-based CF backbones without additional computation. Finally, experimental results on three benchmark datasets show that our proposed method can improve novelty without sacrificing accuracy under various graph-based CF backbones.
description: To appear in SIGIR 2022
Performance Analysis of Out-of-Distribution Detection on Trained Neural Networks
Creators: name: Henriksson, Jens
name: Berger, Christian
name: Borg, Markus
name: Tornberg, Lars
name: Sathyamoorthy, Sankar Raman
name: Englund, Cristofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several areas have been improved with Deep Learning during the past years. Implementing Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for non-safety related applications have shown remarkable achievements over the past years; however, for using DNNs in safety critical applications, we are missing approaches for verifying the robustness of such models. A common challenge for DNNs occurs when exposed to out-of-distribution samples that are outside of the scope of a DNN, but which result in high confidence outputs despite no prior knowledge of such input. In this paper, we analyze three methods that separate between in- and out-of-distribution data, called supervisors, on four well-known DNN architectures. We find that the outlier detection performance improves with the quality of the model. We also analyse the performance of the particular supervisors during the training procedure by applying the supervisor at a predefined interval to investigate its performance as the training proceeds. We observe that understanding the relationship between training results and supervisor performance is crucial to improve the model's robustness and to indicate, what input samples require further measures to improve the robustness of a DNN. In addition, our work paves the road towards an instrument for safety argumentation for safety critical applications. This paper is an extended version of our previous work presented at 2019 SEAA (cf. [1]); here, we elaborate on the used metrics, add an additional supervisor and test them on two additional datasets.
description: preprint. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.15580
Investigating the personal exposure to air pollution in London
Creators: name: Zhu, Tianye
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The use of fixed air pollution monitors to assess population exposure to pollution may result in significant errors because actual exposure for individuals depends on their activities and distances from emissions source locations. To investigate personal exposure to air pollution, this study: (i) evaluates the accuracy of personal exposure measuring instruments by comparisons to reference instruments; (ii) measures the variation in personal exposure to black carbon (BC) in three different UK cities along different transport modes and routes; (iii) evaluates exposure along a specific walking route in Marylebone, measuring BC and lung deposited surface area (LDSA); and (iv) investigates the spatial distribution of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) measured by diffusion tubes in Marylebone. BC levels measured by the portable exposure instrument (AE 51) were higher than those measured by the reference instrument by approximately 14% to 16%. BC concentrations recorded on four different transport modes in different cities showed large variation. Walking on quiet streets led to the lowest mean BC exposure when compared with any other route in every city. Children are found to be exposed to higher BC concentrations than adults when walking on the busy streets. On the walking route in Marylebone, BC and LDSA are more highly correlated on busy streets compared to streets with low traffic volumes, which indicate that a greater proportion of the LDSA is BC when closer to transport emissions. Finally, the NO2 measurements indicate that road-side concentrations are higher than urban background values over the entire period. This thesis indicates that personal exposure cannot be accurately predicted with fixed monitoring stations and that there is significant variability in exposure at different times of the day and along different routes, heavily influenced by transport emissions.
POLÍTICAS INDÍGENAS EN BRASIL: PASADO ASIMILACIONISTA, EMANCIPADORA FUTURO?
Creators: name: Kyrillos, Gabriela Moraes
name: SHEILA STOLZ
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el estado actual del tratamiento que recibelos pueblos indígenas del Estado brasileño, por ello, se analiza la trayectoria de la institucionalización de las políticas sociales diseñadas para ese grupo en particular y que paradigmas han servido de referencia - el asimilacionista y/o el emancipatorio.En consecuencia, a través de un breve historico vemos como se han constituido las Políticas Sociales y perpassaremos su relación con las diferentes formas de Estado– liberal, neo-liberal y global. Para analizar la cuestión indígena hoy es indispensable recurrir a los conceptos de interculturalidad y decolonialidad desde el cual podemos pensar en el tipo de política social indígena que tenemos y lo que queremos. .
Learner Autonomy in Digitalized Education
Creators: name: Lezhnina, Olga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: digitization
autonomy
research
education
learning and skill analytics
PISA
ICT

description: In this presentation, students’ ICT autonomy as a crucially important quality required for effective digitalization of education is discussed. Results of research conducted by Learning and Skill Analytics Research Group (Olga Lezhnina and Gábor Kismihók) on PISA dataset are reported to illustrate the role of ICT autonomy in contemporary education.
CESSDA SaW D2.4: Stakeholder workshop report 2
Creators: name: Zemborain, Federico
name: Oliveira, Claudia
name: Milon, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Strategy and Policy
Workshop

description: This report provides information on the 3rd CESSDA SaW workshop aimed at establishing an informal collaborative network between current CESSDA members and potential partner countries on “Widening the European infrastructure of social science data archives”. The event was held in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 3rd and the 4th of May 2017. It highlighted the financial, research and societal benefits of establishing national data services. Presented current initiatives and models for data archives, and assisted countries in developing national plans for establishing data archiving services. Information regarding the needs of potential partners for future cooperation was also collected during this event.
THE JUDICIAL BRANCH AS A PORTAL OF REQUIRED ANSWERS: REFLEXES OF THE POTENCIALIZATION OF PRINCIPLES
Creators: name: Barbosa, Estefania Maria Queiroz
name: UBIRAJARA CARLOS MENDES
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: With this notes we hope to bring toughts about the maximizing capacities of human rights, irradiating principles of a new way of evaluating the Constitutional Courts decisions, in the plane of constitutionalization or when they decide on controvertial social complaints when facing a “legislative deficit”. Relating aspects with the Common Law culture bring together new perspectives in the conceiving of a linear decisive system about the “stare decisis”, showing that we must assume a less shocked posture about political interaction with the legal sphere, noting that it is in construction a juridical dogmatic concerned with legal safety not assured in a hermetic world of the law made positivism.
The visceral response to underbody blast
Creators: name: Pearce, Andrew Phillip
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Blast is the most common cause of injury and death in contemporary warfare. Blast injuries may be categorised based upon their mechanism with underbody blast describing the effect of an explosive device detonating underneath a vehicle. Torso injuries are highly lethal within this environment and yet their mechanism in response to underbody blast is poorly understood. This work seeks to understand the pattern and mechanism of these injuries and to link them to physical underbody blast loading parameters in order to enable mitigation and prevention of serious injury and death. An analysis of the United Kingdom Joint Theatre Trauma Registry for underbody blast events demonstrates that torso injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality from such incidents. Mediastinal injury, including those trauma to the heart and thoracic great vessels is shown confer the greatest lethality within this complex environment. This work explores the need for a novel in vivo model of underbody loading in order to explore the mechanisms of severe torso injury and to define the relationship between the “dose” of underbody loading and resultant injury. The work includes the development of a new rig which causes underbody blast analogous vertical accelerations upon a seated rat model. Injuries causes by this loading to both the chest and abdomen can be best predicted by the examining the kinematic response of the torso to the loading. Axial compression of the torso, a previously undescribed injury metric is shown to be the best predictor of injury. The ability of these results to translate to a human model is explored in detail, with focus upon the biomechanical rationale; that torso organ injuries occur through both direct compression and shearing of tethering attachments. Survivability of underbody blast could be improved by applying these principles to the design and modification of seats, vehicles and posture.
On symplectic resolutions in the Nonabelian Hodge Correspondence
Creators: name: Tirelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is devoted to the study of the symplectic algebraic geometry of the moduli spaces of the nonabelian Hodge correspondence: namely, we consider character varieties of (open) Riemann surfaces and the moduli spaces of semistable Higgs bundles on a closed Riemann surface and aim at giving an answer to the following two questions: are those moduli spaces symplectic singularities? Do they admit symplectic resolutions? In the case of Higgs bundles on closed Riemann surfaces, we are able to completely solve the problem, using the work of Bellamy and Schedler, in combination with Simpson’s Isosingularity theorem. For what concerns the Betti moduli spaces, we take a different perspective and realise them as (singular open subsets of) multiplicative quiver varieties, and we study the aforementioned problem for the latter varieties. The present work represents a first step of a series of investigations on the symplectic algebraic geometry involved in the nonabelian Hodge correspondence.
Nutrition at the hospital-community interface; an investigation of nutritional risk in community-dwelling older adults
Creators: name: Julian, Anna
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Undernutrition is a predictor of morbidity and mortality in older adults and those living with conditions of accelerated aging such as COPD. Nutritional screening is recommended to identify at-risk individuals but there are concerns that this initial step in a pathway of nutritional care is not always completed or communicated. In addition, there is little research in community-dwelling older populations regarding how best to organise care at the hospital-community interface. Exploring existing pathways of nutritional care experienced by community dwelling older adults will help us to understand potential determinants of undernutrition that may influence their trajectory of recovery and highlight any gaps in care. The aim of this thesis was to examine nutritional risk, physical function and quality of life in a cohort of community-dwelling older adults. An observational prospective cohort study of community-dwelling, older adults demonstrated that individuals at medium and high risk of undernutrition were at higher risk of mortality and suffered a worse trajectory of recovery following hospital admission compared to their counterparts at low nutritional risk. However, cross-sectional analyses using data from a large cohort of COPD patients attending pulmonary rehabilitation between August 2009 and January 2015 showed that whilst medium/high nutritional risk was associated with worse strength and function prior to a period of respiratory rehabilitation, it did not influence performance, with similar benefits observed in low and medium/high nutrition risk groups. This thesis suggests that irrespective of nutritional status, older adults recently discharged from hospital or attending outpatient rehabilitation programmes exhibited reduced ability to perform activities of daily living, however, that individuals at nutritional risk experience a reduced rate of recovery, suggesting that worse nutritional status may compound adverse effects on physical function and quality of life following hospital admission. However, nutritional support may have the potential to reduce further deterioration in at risk participants.
A collection of problems in spectral analysis for self-adjoint and non self-adjoint operators
Creators: name: Ferrulli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The overall aim of this dissertation is to investigate some problems in spectral anal- ysis for self-adjoint and non self-adjoint operators which arise in different contexts of physics. In the first part of this thesis we study the problem of localisation of complex eigen- values of non Hermitian perturbations of self-adjoint operators realised by means of complex potentials. In particular, we focus our attention on two different operators. The first one is the Laplacian defined on the real half line. The other is a second order two dimensional operator which arises in the context of the physics of materials, in particular from the study of the Hamiltonian of a double layer graphene. For both we provide Keller-type estimates on the localisation of complex eigenvalues. The existence of trapped waves solutions for a set of equations describing the dynamics of a stratified two layers fluid of different densities, confined in a ocean channel of fixed width and varying depth and subject to rotation is studied in the second chapter. The existence of these solutions is then recovered by proving the existence of points in the point spectrum of a two dimensional operator pencil. We prove that, under some smallness assumptions on the difference between the two fluid densities and some geometric assumption of the channel’s shape, the problem has positive solution. The last part of this dissertation focuses on existence of particular Wronskian type of solutions for the KdV equation of the type of complex complexitons. We study these solutions both from a dynamical point of view when seen evolving in time, and also for fixed values of time if regarded as potentials for a spectral problem for the Schr ̈odinger operator.
Structural investigation of the evolution, mechanism and assembly of the flagellar motor
Creators: name: Ferreira, Josie Liane
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The evolution of molecular machines is fundamental to the development of pathogenesis in bacteria. This drives the adaptation to new lifestyles and the colonisation of novel niches. One such machine is the bacterial flagellum, an extracellular motility device which enables cells to actively seek out favourable environments. The flagellum is a vital virulence factor in many bacteria including the important human pathogen, Salmonella enterica. Studying the evolution, mechanism, assembly and regulation of the flagellum will shed light on how modifications in this large molecular machine facilitate life in different environments. At the base of the flagellum is the flagellar motor, which converts electrochemical potential, via the stator complexes, into torque. Torque is then transmitted up the periplasmic rod to rotate the extracellular hook, and filament. The -proteobacterium, Salmonella, has a highly dynamic flagellar motor, perfectly poised for encountering different environments. Surprisingly, this gut pathogen has evolved a different mode of swimming and an environmental niche which is distinct from its close aquatic relatives. Here, using a combination of techniques, I studied the flagellar motor in situ and show that Salmonella’s motor is not native but is a -proteobacterial motor acquired from an ancestor of Bordetella. This new, adaptive motor may have provided a selective advantage to enable Salmonella’s enteropathogenic lifestyle. Interestingly, the non-enteric, -proteobacteria that retained native -motors, swim faster than Salmonella but fare poorly in low nutrient environments. I show that these bacteria have a distinct mechanism for down regulation of motility, for entry into a sessile state. These cells eject their flagella in nutrient limited environments and actively plug the partial structure that is left behind in the outer membrane. I next work towards providing a more detailed understanding of the dynamic mechanism of stator complex incorporation, and finally, provide a novel mechanism for the regulation of rod length. Together, enabled by recent technological advances in the field of electron cryotomography, this work provides insight into some of the fundamental outstanding questions into the evolution, mechanism and regulation of the flagellum.
Γ.-Φοίβος Σαργέντης. Γλυπτική. Κατάλογος επιλεγμένων θρησκευτικών έργων
Creators: name: Sargentis, G.-Fivos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Η επαφή μου με το Άγιον Όρος και συγκεκριμένα με την Ιερά Μονή Δοχειαρίου και τους πατέρες της Μονής, μετέστρεψε όλη μου την γλυπτική δημιουργία σε έναν νέο εικαστικό δρόμο. Την αγιοπλαστική. Στην αναζήτηση αυτή καθοριστικό ήταν ένα περιστατικό που συνέβη στο αγιογραφείο της μονής. Εκεί που έκανα γλυπτική σε φυσικό κερί, βλέποντας με ο Ιερομόναχος Γαβριήλ παρατήρησε: εξαιρετική διαδικασία αυτή, κόνοντάς την μπορείτε να προσεύχεστε. Πλαστική- γλυπτική, είναι έννοιες που δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα οικείες στους Χριστιανούς Ορθοδόξους, μολονότι η γλυπτική, ως εργόχειρο είναι πράγματι μια πολύ καλή διαδικασία. Όμως με τις ευλογίες και τις ευχές του Γέροντα Γρηγορίου, Καθηγουμένου της Ιεράς Μονής Δοχειαρίου και με τις συμβουλές και τις ευχές των πατέρων της Μονής, δημιούργησα κατά παραγγελία της Μονής ορισμένα γλυπτά τα οποία μεταβάλλανε τον δημιουργικό μου προσανατολισμό. Ο νέος δρόμος που με οδηγήσανε καθορίζεται μεν από το Βυζαντινό σχέδιο και την αγιογραφία, προσπαθεί όμως να βγάλει τη μορφή στον χώρο, μεταποιώντας την όλη γλυπτική δημιουργία σε μια διαδικασία μετάνοιας και προσευχής. Στις παρακάτω παραγράφους, ιστορούνται τα έργα που έχουν δημιουργηθεί για την Ιερά Μονή Δοχειαρίου, για την Ιερά Μονή Παναγίας Θεοσκεπάστου Σοχού, καθώς και νεότερα έργα όπου πολλά από αυτά, στο παρών τεύχος, παρουσιάζονται ημιτελή ως προπλάσματα σε φυσικό κερί.
IN03205 Alutnuvara Slab Inscription 1 - Bell (1904)
Creators: name: Bell, H. C. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03205
H. C. P. Bell
Report on the Kegalla District
Alutnuvara
Archaeological Survey of Ceylon

description: IN03205 Alutnuvara Slab Inscription 1 - Transcript and Translation Source: Bell, H. C. P. (1904). Report on the Kegalla District of the Province of Sabaragamuwa. Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, Sessional Papers, No. XIX – 1892. Colombo: J. A. Skeen, pp. 80–81, A. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3716133
Εργαλειοθήκη κατάρτισης για εκπαιδευτικούς
Creators: name: Scheuer, Claude
name: Heck, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: motor competence
children
promotion
assessment
teacher

description: Στο πλαίσιο του έργου BMC-EU (Βασικές Κινητικές Δεξιότητες στην Ευρώπη), αναπτύχθηκε μία εργαλειοθήκη κατάρτισης για εκπαιδευτικούς, αποτελούμενη από τη γενική πρακτική ιδέα και ένα συνοδευτικό εγχειρίδιο χρήστη (BMC-EU πνευματική παραγωγή 4), για να υποστηρίξει την εφαρμογή της υποστηρικτικής εργαλειοθήκης με βάση την έννοια των βασικών κινητικών δεξιοτήτων (BMC-EU πνευματική παραγωγή 3; Scheuer & Heck, 2020). Ο σκοπός της εργαλειοθήκης αυτής είναι να εφαρμοστεί στα μαθήματα φυσικής αγωγής, ώστε να προσαρμοστούν κατάλληλα τόσο το περιεχόμενο όσο και οι μέθοδοι διδασκαλίας της φυσικής αγωγής. Η εργαλειοθήκη κατάρτισης για εκπαιδευτικούς περιέχει υλικό για τη δημιουργία πρακτικών προγραμμάτων για εκπαιδευτικούς δομημένα τόσο σε θεωρητικό, όσο και πρακτικό επίπεδο. Αρχικά, οι εκπαιδευτικοί εξοικειώνονται με την έννοια του ΜΟΒΑΚ, τις μετρήσεις, τη διαδικασία της εξέτασης, την επεξεργασία των δεδομένων και την αξιολόγηση, καθώς και με την ερμηνεία των αποτελεσμάτων. Στη συνέχεια, μαθαίνουν πώς να μεταβούν από τη διάγνωση των βασικών κινητικών δεξιοτήτων και τον εντοπισμό των αντίστοιχων ικανοτήτων των μαθητών, στον σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίηση συγκεκριμένων παρεμβάσεων με τη χρήση του υποστηρικτικού πλαισίου ΜΟΒΑΚ και των συνοδευτικών υποστηρικτικών φυλλαδίων, που είναι έτοιμα προς εφαρμογή σε συγκεκριμένες εκπαιδευτικές συνθήκες για την υποστήριξη μαθητών με πρόσθετες ανάγκες στις βασικές κινητικές δεξιότητες. Η εργαλειοθήκη κατάρτισης για εκπαιδευτικούς έχει ως σκοπό να υποστηρίξει και να διευκολύνει την εφαρμογή της Υποστηρικτικής εργαλειοθήκης για εκπαιδευτικούς (Scheuer & Heck, 2020), που βασίζεται στην έννοια και τις μετρήσεις ΜΟΒΑΚ (Herrmann, 2018).
description: Project "Basic Motor Competencies in Europe – Assessment and Promotion" (BMC-EU); Funder: European Commission - Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union; Programme: Erasmus+ Sport: Collaborative Partnerships - 2017; Reference: 590777-EPP-1-2017-1-DE-SPO-SCP; Timeline: January 2018 - December 2019; Project Sheet: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/590777-EPP-1-2017-1-DE-SPO-SCP
INFORME DE RESULTADOS DE ESTUDIO Y DOCUMENTACIÓN GRÁFICA DE YACIMIENTOS DERIVADA DE UN ESTUDIO DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL PARA LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN ÁREA DE SERVICIO EN CARCHUNA (MOTRIL, GRANADA)
Creators: name: Toquero Pérez, Carlos Alberto
name: Malpica Cuello, Antonio
name: Palomo Gijón, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Informe, Intervención arqueológica, Arqueología, Estudio y Documentación gráfica de yacimientos, Yacimiento, Carchuna

description: Informe realizado con motivo de la intervención arqueológica, estudio y documentación gráfica de yacimientos que se ha realizado en la finca de Motril nº 157, denominada «La Reala», en el pago de la Fuente del Moral de Carchuna y Dehesa, sito en el paraje Cerros del Llano de Carchuna, Cortijo del Rejón, Fuentes del Carriso y Cunillas, Colmenillas y Cuesta de Gualchos.
Climate change mitigation potential of lignocellulosic succinic acid: assessing feedstock supply and integrated land use options in a UK Wheat-Miscanthus bio-succinic acid-based bioplastics production system
Creators: name: Ni, Yuanzhi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: This research addresses emergent societal concerns driving national policies that seek to replace or reduce the use of petro-based plastics. Whilst environmental pollution by plastics is the dominant contemporary driver, alternatives will also need to demonstrate wider environmental and social benefits, not least the reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Biodegradable plastics produced from bio-based Succinic Acid (SA) are evaluated as an alternative to petro-based plastics in the context of the transition to a post-petroleum era. A case study-based methodology was adopted that uses a feedstock catchment area near Hull, England, to provide high spatial and temporal resolution bio-physical, agronomic and climatic data to parameterise quantitative models for crop growth, nitrogen and carbon turnover and life cycle assessment (LCA). The main research questions are: (1) how can the feedstock availability of lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) be optimized, and; (2) can the associated GHG emissions of the commercial scale production of LCB-derived SA be reduced by the using agricultural residues and/or perennial, LCB crops? The results of this case study suggest that significant environmental benefits would result from the adoption of a mixed LCB resourcing strategy. Introducing the perennial grass crop Miscanthus into the arable landscape to replace winter wheat on selected low quality, and environmentally vulnerable soils (8% of the total area) is the main driver for the benefits. A ‘mixed production’ (MP) scenario, using Miscanthus and winter wheat, and a ‘winter wheat only’ single production (SP) scenario, were developed to investigate the productivity and the potential climate change mitigation impacts arising from the proposed land use change strategy i.e. a shift from the SP to MP scenarios. LCAs were conducted to explore the climate mitigation potential of LCB-based SA production. Integrated feedstock provision strategies that include perennial-derived LCB are found to be crucial for the overall climate mitigation performance of bio-plastics. A significant bioeconomy and agricultural opportunity has been identified for the provision of LCB-derived bio-plastics from dedicated, perennial crops. Scenarios without the perennial crop resulted in GHG emission balances of bio-SA based plastics that were similar to grain and petro-based plastics. In the scenario of Miscanthus being cultivated on low-quality soils, the LCB-based SA life cycle results in a persistent net carbon sink being generated.
Development of an agglutination-dependent E. coli-based biosensor for diagnostic applications
Creators: name: Riangrungroj, Pinpunya
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Whole-cell biosensors are powerful diagnostic tools for detection of various analytes, including proteins which have difficulty in transporting across the cell membrane. Here, we developed a novel biosensor based on the agglutination reaction by using an E. coli chassis displaying nanobodies (VHHs) as the detection element for selectively binding to a target of interest. As a proof-of-concept, we demonstrated that this design was able to detect a model protein having two antigenic determinants in a semi-quantitative manner with a detectable change in the output, which was easily visualised using the naked eye. Subsequently, the designer cells were re-engineered to develop tests for clinically relevant biomarkers by the display of specific VHHs against human fibrinogen (Fib) and 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA). Fib is a bivalent protein so detection was achieved in the same manner as the prototype by observing cell agglutination. 3-PBA is a small molecule, therefore, detection was achieved by modifying the platform based on a competitive ELISA technique. Binding with a 3-PBA-protein conjugate, allowed cell crosslinking, which was disrupted by the presence of free 3-PBA, thus resulting in cell pellets. The optimised cell biosensors detected both analytes at nanomolar concentrations and exhibited robust function in complex sample backgrounds such as human plasma and synthetic urine. Furthermore, we studied the feasibility of using the bacterial LuxIR quorum sensing as a quantitative output design for differentiating cell agglutination versus pellets by monitoring the production of the fluorescent reporter. Despite the verified functional constructs, there was no signal difference between the two states, possibly due to a similar spatial cell distribution in a 96-well plate. This agglutination-dependent E. coli biosensor was shown to be a promising platform for identifying both protein and chemical analytes. Therefore this simple, affordable design could be developed as a potential diagnostic tool for field use.
Constitutive modelling of compacted clays for applications in nuclear waste disposal
Creators: name: Ghiadistri, Giulia Marianna
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Compacted highly expansive clays are envisaged to be employed as buffers for the long-term storage of nuclear waste in deep geological repositories. Buffers are tasked with preventing any form of contamination of the environment by the radioactive matter. Their strong swelling behaviour upon contact with water, which is originated in the structure of the fabric and in the mineralogical composition, is meant to ensure the absence of leakage into the biosphere. Overall, compacted highly expansive clays present different characteristics compared to moderately expansive clays. The aim of the present thesis is to develop a suitable constitutive model for these materials and to conduct a numerical investigation of their hydro-mechanical behaviour. A new constitutive framework is formulated and implemented into the Imperial College Finite Element Program (ICFEP). It accounts for the double-porosity structure that is observed in the fabric of compacted clays. Two levels of structure are considered, the macro-structure and the micro-structure. The overall behaviour of the material is characterised as an interaction of these two levels of structure, which are assumed to be elastoplastic and not independent. The validation of the new model is discussed by means of the analysis of laboratory experiments that demonstrates, among other things, the improved simulation of soil behaviour with respect to the single-structure constitutive model available in ICFEP. The new double structure model is employed to perform a numerical investigation of the behaviour upon wetting of compacted clays observed at the small and large scale. In the former case, a series of swelling pressure tests are studied in order to verify that the model correctly reproduces the fundamental features of the swelling behaviour. In the latter case, a large scale deep geological repository is reproduced in order to assess the predictive capabilities of the model for the long-term state of the buffer.
Invalid Votes, Political Efficacy and Lack of Preferences in Brazilian Elections
Creators: name: Freire, Danilo
name: Arbache, Guilherme
name: Rodrigues, Pietro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Abstract
This paper explores the causes of invalid voting in Brazilian elections. Given that invalid ballot rates tend to be higher where voting is compulsory, the correlates of invalid votes in those countries deserve attention. In this regard, Brazil provides an ideal case for analysing the issue. Brazil not only has the largest electorate of all democracies with compulsory voting laws, but it has also introduced electronic ballots, what has been responsible for a considerable decline in the invalid vote rates.
Using data from ESEB, a public opinion survey on elections, we perform a series of logistic regressions to analyse the 2010 presidential, gubernatorial and parliamentary elections, and evaluate the impact of political disaffection and educational level on invalid voting behaviour. We also test a third explanation that so far has not received much attention of scholars: the sheer lack of preference over the running candidates, regardless of distrust levels. Our analyses find that both lack of preference and political efficacy have a significant impact on invalid voting at all government levels. Education is negatively correlated with invalid voting, but it is significant only for the presidential elections, a result that confirms the role of the complexity of Brazilian
parliamentary elections on invalid voting. Low evaluation of institutions has an impact only over certain types of elections.

Keywords : Elections, Invalid Votes, Opinion Survey, Political Behaviour, Brazil
ROBOTIC ARM WITH OBSTACLE DETECTION DESIGNED FOR ASSISTIVE APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Ruppert, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: assistive robotics
object detection
obstacle detection
human detection
automation

description: With the growing popularity in manufacturing, medical or aerospace applications, Robotic Arm machinery is a growing industry and field of focus. In this paper, a low-cost robotic arm, HiWonder xArm 2.0, provides a proof-of-concept assistive system for use towards individuals with visual impairment. The system takes the camera and ultrasonic sensor input to collect objects of interest while maintaining user safety, automatically detecting obstacles or humans nearby and providing a requested object as close to a human as possible. This system correctly identifies and retrieves the objects based on the YOLOv4-tiny (You only look Once) deep-learning object detection network, Intel's pyrealsense2 library for the Intel RealSense D435i camera, and four HC-S04 ultrasonic sensors connected to an Arduino Uno.
CESSDA SaW D2.6: Final Dissemination Event Report
Creators: name: Zemborain, Federico
name: Ilijasic Versic, Ivana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Project Management

description: This report provides information on the CESSDA SaW Final Conference “Strengthening and Widening of the European infrastructure for Social Science data archives” aimed at presenting the outcomes of the two-year project, which has helped to increase the consortium membership and strengthen CESSDA members and aspiring members. The event was held in Dublin, Ireland, on the 19th of October 2017. Event summarised the results on strengthening and widening of European infrastructure of social science data archives during the project and highlighted the financial, scientific and societal benefits of establishing national data services.
NO LIABILITY COMPANY IMPROVEMENT OF EMPLOYEES
Creators: name: Souza, Carlos Aurélio Mota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In the labor relations between employer and employee, companies must comply with the constitutional foundations on full employment and may not consider their employees as mere means to achieve economic ends. In this sense, there are two doctrines that advocate opposing principles of business organization: one gives primacy to profit at the sacrifice of other employees and the other favors the improvement of employees, as a way to achieve productivity. The intent of this work is to analyze the two theories under parameter of the economic order, positively valued by the Constitution, emphasizing the company as a social institution, agent of society that must meet social needs to fulfill its social function.
Invalid Votes, Political Efficacy and Lack of Preferences in Brazilian Elections
Creators: name: Freire, Danilo
name: Arbache, Guilherme
name: Rodrigues, Pietro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Abstract
This paper explores the causes of invalid voting in Brazilian elections. Given that invalid ballot rates tend to be higher where voting is compulsory, the correlates of invalid votes in those countries deserve attention. In this regard, Brazil provides an ideal case for analysing the issue. Brazil not only has the largest electorate of all democracies with compulsory voting laws, but it has also introduced electronic ballots, what has been responsible for a considerable decline in the invalid vote rates.
Using data from ESEB, a public opinion survey on elections, we perform a series of logistic regressions to analyse the 2010 presidential, gubernatorial and parliamentary elections, and evaluate the impact of political disaffection and educational level on invalid voting behaviour. We also test a third explanation that so far has not received much attention of scholars: the sheer lack of preference over the running candidates, regardless of distrust levels. Our analyses find that both lack of preference and political efficacy have a significant impact on invalid voting at all government levels. Education is negatively correlated with invalid voting, but it is significant only for the presidential elections, a result that confirms the role of the complexity of Brazilian
parliamentary elections on invalid voting. Low evaluation of institutions has an impact only over certain types of elections.

Keywords : Elections, Invalid Votes, Opinion Survey, Political Behaviour, Brazil
ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND JUSTICE ITINERANT
Creators: name: Adeilda Coelho Resende
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The article reflects on the judiciary and the structural changes that occurred in that power in the country, emphasizing the 'judicial reform' that brought the mandatory implementation of the Justice Itinerant. It is understood in this study that the Justice Itinerant became an effective tool to access to justice, judicial reform as promoted by the EC 45-2004 shows concern for the effective application of the law swiftly and isonomic at least principiológico a speech. This discussion, however, evokes a more complex issue of access to justice and judicial mechanisms for such access, because the problems are interrelated. In the present article is focused only on the conceptual aspects in relation to access to justice, and the instrumental mechanisms for such access: the Justice Itinerant.
IN03206 Alutnuvara Slab Inscription 2 - Bell (1904)
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03206
H. C. P. Bell
Report on the Kegalla District
Archaeological Survey of Ceylon
Alutnuvara

description: IN03206 Alutnuvara Slab Inscription 2 - Transcript and Translation Source: Bell, H. C. P. (1904). Report on the Kegalla District of the Province of Sabaragamuwa. Archaeological Survey of Ceylon, Sessional Papers, No. XIX – 1892. Colombo: J. A. Skeen, pp. 80–81, B. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3716133
Methods for PRMT5 cellular assay-updated
Creators: name: Szewczyk, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PRMT5, cell assay, SmBB' methylation, symmetric arginine dimethylation, arginine methyltransferase, epigenetics

description: Methods for cellular PRMT5 assay posted on openlabnotebook.org
Effects of the lateral substituent on the cubic phase formation of two analogous compounds, 4ʹ-n-hexadecyloxy-3ʹ-cyanobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (ACBC-16) and its 3ʹ-nitro compound (ANBC-16)
Creators: name: Ogawa, Ryoji
name: Miwa, Yohei
name: Sumita, Masato
name: Saito, Kazuya
name: Kutsumizu, Shoichi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Two cubic (Cub) phase forming compounds, 4ʹ-n-hexadecyloxy-3ʹ-cyanobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (ACBC-16) and its 3′-nitro analogue (ANBC-16) were studied by infrared (IR) spectroscopy. In the temperature region of the Cub phase, the molar fraction of hydrogen-bonded COOH groups estimated for ACBC-16 was by ≈0.05 at maximum larger than that for ANBC-16 and the aromatic ring C═C stretching (ν(C═C)ring) band frequency of ACBC-16 was by 3 cm−1 lower than that of ANBC-16. The quantum chemical calculation at DFT/B3LYP level, on the one hand, showed no meaningful difference in the stabilisation energy for dimerisation and the ν(C═C)ring band frequency between the respective model compounds. These results can be ascribed to the different steric effects of the side groups; the CN group would make possible the close contact of neighbouring phenyl rings while the bulky NO2 group would not, giving slightly more stabilised dimerisation of ACBC-16 in the Cub phase than in ANBC-16.
Applicationof Data Envelopment Analysis forAssessment of Eco-Efficiency of Food Shops atPhuket Island, Thailand
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hong Anh Thi
Publisher: name: Environmental Engineering Association of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Eco-efficiency
subject: Food service
subject: Phuket Island
subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Food shop

description: Thai Environmental Engineering Journal (TEEJ), 36, 1, 11-20