cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of Identifying frailty in primary care: a qualitative description of family physiciansâ   gestalt impressions of their older adult patients
Creators: name: Korenvain, Clara
name: Ida-Maisie Famiyeh
name: Dunn, Sheila
name: Whitehead, Cynthia
name: Rochon, Paula
name: McCarthy, Lisa
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Interview Guide. Question used for interviewing participants. (DOCX 12Â kb)
Aplicabilidade da calculadora da aplicação MN Urolith Center na previsão da composição mineral dos urólitos de cães e gatos
Creators: name: Carvalho, Mariana
name: Ramilo, David
name: Canejo-Teixeira, Rute
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2022

description: Objetivos: Em medicina de pequenos animais é frequente apresentarem-se à consulta pacientes com quadros de litíase ou mesmo obstrução das vias urinárias. A identificação da presença de urólitos radiopacos é, por norma, identificada por radiografia. Apesar de ser possível a previsão da composição dos urólitos por radiografia, esta pode ser complexa. A previsão da composição dos urólitos é essencial, uma vez que os urólitos de estruvite podem ser dissolvidos com uma dieta específica enquanto outros tipos de urólitos devem ser removidos cirurgicamente. Este estudo tem como objetivo avaliar a concordância entre os resultados dados pela calculadora da aplicação MN Urolith Center, que identifica os cálculos com base numa fotografia de uma radiografia, e a análise quantitativa dos urólitos radiografados em cães e em gatos. Materiais e métodos: Foram selecionados 10 cães e 5 gatos diagnosticados com urolitíase por radiografia, no Hospital Veterinário da Maia e no Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Lusófona, num período compreendido entre outubro de 2019 e março de 2022, sendo critério de inclusão o diagnóstico de urolitíase por radiografia abdominal e a respetiva análise quantitativa desses mesmos urólitos. Resultados: Dos 10 cães avaliados no estudo, a aplicação e a análise concordaram em 9 dos casos (90%) e dos 5 gatos incluídos no presente estudo, a aplicação e a análise quantitativa foram concordantes em 4 casos (80%). Conclusões: A aplicação demonstrou uma elevada concordância com a análise quantitativa dos urólitos em cães, pelo que pode auxiliar na decisão entre tratamento médico e tratamento cirúrgico nesta espécie. Palavras-chave: Urolitíase, Urólitos, Previsão da composição, Calculadora MN Urolith Center, Tratamento.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 13 (2022): I Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
title: ISIS 2013: Neutron and Muon Source Annual Review
Creators: name: Fletcher, Sara
name: Glynn, Oliver
name: King, P J C
name: Knowles, K J
name: Markvardsen, A J
name: Norris, J
name: Parker, S F
name: Seel, Andrew
name: Washington, Rob
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2013

description: ISIS provides world-class facilities for neutron and muon investigations of materials across a diverse range of science disciplines. ISIS 2013 details the work of the facility over the past year, including science highlights, descriptions of major instrument and accelerator developments and the facility’s publications for the past year.
Canine intestinal organoid as a model for inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Meneses, Andre
name: Carvalho, Pedro
name: Spee, Bart
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2022

description: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects dogs as well and similarly to what happens in humans, pathogenesis remains unknown. Organoids are tiny, self-organized three-dimensional tissue cultures that are derived from adult stem cells or pluripotent stem cells. Today, researchers are able to produce organoids that resemble various organs, including the intestines, mimicking development or organ regeneration in vitro. In the past few years, novel methods for long-term culture of isolated human and non-human intestinal crypts or intestinal stem cells have been presented. When in culture using a three-dimensional extracellular matrix and specific factors (maintenance or differentiation), these cells can develop into enteroids or colonoids. Long-term growth of intestinal organotypic cultures was made possible through the identification of conditions that mimic the intestinal stem cell niche. Despite the great utility as models for human diseases, in the veterinary medicine field only recently some intestinal organoids models were published using dogs, cats and farm animals. The use of new technologies, such as organoid technology, can improve the actual knowledgment regarding IBD in dogs and humans, and can improve the response to new therapies and outcome of these patients. Based on current human, murine and canine data and preliminary findings, we hypothesize that canine intestinal organoids faithfully recapitulate the structure and function of the intestinal segment they represent and that constitute an ideal model for IBD in dogs. Keywords: 3D cell culture, Dogs, Regenerative medicine.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 13 (2022): I Encontro de Investigação da FMV da Universidade Lusófona- Edição Especial
The Quadrupole Moment of Compact Binaries to the Fourth post-Newtonian Order: From Source to Canonical Moment
Creators: name: Blanchet, Luc
name: Faye, Guillaume
name: Larrouturou, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a crucial step towards the completion of the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) gravitational-wave generation from compact binary systems, we obtain the expressions of the so-called "canonical" multipole moments of the source in terms of the "source" and "gauge" moments. The canonical moments describe the propagation of gravitational waves outside the source's near zone, while the source and gauge moments encode explicit information about the matter source. Those two descriptions, in terms of two sets of canonical moments or in terms of six sets of source and gauge moments, are isometric. We thus construct the non-linear diffeomorphism between them up to the third post-Minkowskian order, and we exhibit the concrete expression of the canonical mass-type quadrupole moment at the 4PN order. This computation is one of the last missing pieces for the determination of the gravitational-wave phasing of compact binary systems at 4PN order.
description: 25 pages, no figure
title: TOSCA International Beamline Review
Creators: name: Rudic, Svemir
name: Ramirez-Cuesta, A J
name: Parker, S F
name: Fernandez-Alonso, F
name: Pinna, Roberto
name: Gorini, G
name: Salzmann, C G
name: McLain, S E
name: Skipper, N T
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2013

description: The ISIS Facilty at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is a major international centre for neutron and muon scattering. To ensure that the instrumentation suite is kept at the forefront of capability, the ISIS Director has instituted a series of rolling reviews for all the instruments, such that every instrument will be reviewed by an international panel every 10 years or when a major upgrade is required. For one of the first reviews the inelastic neutron scattering instrument TOSCA was selected. This report is the documentation presented to the review panel and as such comprises a snapshot of the current status of TOSCA.
A OXIGENOTERAPIA HIPERBÁRICA E A OZONIOTERAPIA INTEGRADAS AO TRATAMENTO DE INFECÇÃO CRÔNICA POR ACINETOBACTER SP. EM GATO VÍTIMA DE MAUS TRATOS - RELATO DE CASO
Creators: name: Mazzi, M F
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2022

description: Infecções bacterianas multirresistentes emergem como um pesadelo para a saúde pública mundial. Na medicina veterinária sua ocorrência não está bem estabelecida, mas fatores que contri­buem para sua incidência em humanos também estão se tornando comuns nos animais, como o aumento de cuidados intensivos, cirurgias complexas bem como o uso indiscriminado de antimicrobianos e fármacos imunossupressores. O acenitobacter sp. ganhou visibilidade pelo número de surtos em humanos e sua alta letalidade, recebendo como protocolo de tratamento uma terapia tipicamente empírica, com diversos fármacos para infecções graves. Neste trabalho, objetivou-se descrever a utilização da oxigenoterapia hiperbárica e a ozonioterapia como terapias integrativas ao protocolo antimicrobiano específico a esta estirpe bacteriana e a avaliação de seus efeitos durante as 20 sessões realizadas em gato vítima de trauma por projétil de arma de fogo, com fratura consolidada, mas com colonização do ferimento pelo acinetobacter sp. caracterizada por fístulas indolentes e inflamação do membro torácico, em processo de cronicidade de 3 anos, com diversas abordagens terapeuticas. Concluiu-se que a utilização da oxigenoterapia hiperbárica associada a ozonioterapia ajudaram na efetiva atuação no combate à inflamação e ao agente infeccioso, promovendo de forma diferenciada e precoce a cicatrização do membro, restabelecendo a funcionalidade ao doente, deste modo casos seriados devem ser continuados.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 12 (2022)
APICULTURA: REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Creators: name: Martinho, C
name: Ferradeira, C
name: Catita, J
name: Faustino-Rocha, A
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2022

description: A apicultura constitui um setor pecuário da máxima importância. A abelha é considerada um inseto valioso do ponto de vista económico e da diversidade biológica dos ecossistemas. As abelhas melíferas (Apis mellifera) são consideradas biossensores da saúde dos ecossistemas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo apresentar uma revisão de literatura sobre a apicultura, descrevendo as espécies de abelhas envolvidas nesta atividade, os produtos apícolas, a evolução da apicultura e a situação atual desta atividade em Portugal. Em Portugal, o setor apícola encontra-se fortemente ligado à agricultura e a apicultura portuguesa é maioritariamente de pequena escala, sendo exercida como complemento a uma atividade principal. O Algarve é a região a nível nacional onde se encontra o maior número de apicultores profissionais e a maior concentração de colmeias e apiários por apicultor, o que se traduz num impacto significativo na cadeia alimentar.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 12 (2022)
Extending the Technology Acceptance Model 3 to Incorporate the Phenomenon of Warm-Glow
Creators: name: Saravanos, Antonios
name: Zervoudakis, Stavros
name: Zheng, Dongnanzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we extend the third evolution of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM3) to incorporate warm-glow with the aim of understanding the role this phenomenon plays on user adoption decisions. Warm-glow is the feeling of satisfaction or pleasure (or both) that is experienced by individuals after they do something "good" for their fellow human. Two constructs - perceived extrinsic warm-glow (PEWG) and perceived intrinsic warm-glow (PIWG) - were incorporated into the TAM3 model to measure the two dimensions of user-experienced warm-glow, forming what we refer to as the TAM3 + WG model. An experimental approach was taken to evaluate the suitability of the proposed model (i.e., TAM3 + WG). A vignette was created to present users with a hypothetical technology designed to evoke warm-glow in participants. Our TAM3 + WG model was found to be superior in terms of fit to the TAM3 model. Furthermore, the PEWG and PIWG constructs were confirmed to be unique within the original TAM3 model. The findings indicate that the factors that have the greatest influence on consumer decisions are (in decreasing order) perceived usefulness (PU), PIWG, subjective norm (SN), and PEWG. Additionally, a higher PEWG resulted in the technology being perceived as more useful. In other words, both extrinsic and intrinsic warm-glow play a prominent role in user decisions as to whether or not to adopt a particular technology.
ÁCAROS TROMBICULÍDEOS: REVISÃO DE UMA PARASITOSE NEGLIGENCIADA EM ANIMAIS DE COMPANHIA
Creators: name: Marques, C
name: Delgado, I
name: Cruz, J
name: Costa, P
name: Portela, G
name: Munoz, A
name: Waap, H
name: Pereira, A
name: Ramilo, D W
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2022

description: A trombiculose é uma parasitose causada por ácaros trombiculídeos (Acari: Trombiculidae) que afeta vertebrados, incluindo cães, gatos e o ser humano. É a fase larvar dos ácaros trombiculídeos que se caracteriza por ser parasita obrigatório e responsável pelo aparecimento de sinais clínicos. Estes incluem prurido, várias lesões cutâneas, podendo, em alguns casos, surgir distúrbios gastrointestinais, neurológicos ou mesmo a morte do animal quando as infestações são massivas. Apesar da sua distribuição mundial, incluindo em Portugal, esta é uma parasitose negligenciada, sobretudo no contexto da medicina veterinária de animais de companhia. Os estudos existentes são escassos, contribuindo para o seu desconhecimento, e a sua verdadeira prevalência nestes animais é pouco conhecida a nível mundial. Apesar do seu papel enquanto vetores de agentes patogénicos não ser claro, alguns estudos já demonstraram a presença de ADN de Anaplasma spp., Bartonella spp., Borrelia spp. e Rickettsia spp., em trombiculídeos. O facto de os ácaros trombiculídeos afetarem várias espécies animais, incluindo os animais de companhia e o ser humano, bem como o seu potencial papel no ciclo de manutenção de vários agentes infeciosos, revela a importância de um maior conhecimento acerca desta parasitose, tanto ao nível da comunidade científica como da comunidade médico veterinária. Assim, esta revisão pretende reunir os dados disponíveis à data quanto à epidemiologia, características clínicas e tratamento desta parasitose, com especial enfoque em Portugal.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 12 (2022)
Interplay of the disorder and strain in gallium oxide
Creators: name: Azarov, Alexander
name: Venkatachalapathy, Vishnukanthan
name: Karaseov, Platon
name: Titov, Andrei
name: Karabeshkin, Konstantin
name: Struchkov, Andrei
name: Kuznetsov, Andrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ion irradiation is a powerful tool to tune properties of semiconductors and, in particular, of gallium oxide (Ga2O3) which is a promising ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor exhibiting phase instability for high enough strain/disorder levels. In the present paper we observed an interesting interplay between the disorder and strain in monoclinic \b{eta}-Ga2O3 single crystals by comparing atomic and cluster ion irradiations as well as atomic ions co-implants. The results obtained by a combination of the channeling technique, x-ray diffraction and theoretical calculations show that the disorder accumulation in \b{eta}-Ga2O3 exhibits superlinear behavior as a function of the collision cascade density. Moreover, the level of strain in the implanted region can be engineered by changing the disorder conditions in the near surface layer. The results can be used for better understanding of the radiation effects in \b{eta}-Ga2O3 and imply that disorder/strain interplay provides an additional degree of freedom to maintain desirable strain in Ga2O3, potentially applicable to modify the rate of the polymorphic transitions in this material.
Review on age-specific exposure to organophosphate esters: Multiple exposure pathways and microenvironments
Creators: name: Lao, Jia-Yong
name: Ruan, Yuefei
name: Leung, Kenneth M. Y.
name: Zeng, Eddy Y.
name: Lam, Paul K. S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Organophosphate esters (OPEs) widely exist in the environment, raising increasing concerns about their potential health risks. This comprehensive review surveyed the occurrence of OPEs over the last decade in indoor microenvironments (i.e. residence, in-vehicle, office, and school/daycare center), outdoors, foodstuffs, drinking water, and human-related specimen (i.e. breast milk and urine) with a view to unraveling age-specific exposure to OPEs. Multiple exposure pathways including inhalation, dermal absorption, dust ingestion, and dietary ingestion were considered to prioritize their relative importance. The results showed that dietary ingestion was the main contributor, followed by dust ingestion, regardless of age. A healthy diet with less contaminated food can effectively reduce OPE intake. OPE concentrations in air and dust followed the sequence of in-vehicle and office > school/daycare center > residence > outdoors. Compared to other indoor settings, exposure in schools/daycare centers and offices contributed to a greater OPE intake in non-adults and adults, respectively. The estimated daily intake of OPEs followed the sequence of infants > toddlers > children > teenagers > adults > elderlies. Overall, OPEs posed low health risks to all age cohorts, but infants were vulnerable and subject to the highest risk, largely attributed to breast milk ingestion. This review highlights the need for more toxicity and bioaccessibility studies on OPE mixtures and metabolites to further refine the health risk assessment of OPEs.
Competing structures in 2D-trapped dipolar gases
Creators: name: Gränz, Barbara
name: Korshunov, Sergey E.
name: Geshkenbein, Vadim B.
name: Blatter, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system of dipolar molecules confined in a two-dimensional trap and subject to an optical square lattice. The repulsive long-range dipolar interaction $D/r^3$ favors an equilateral triangular arrangement of the molecules, which competes against the square symmetry of the underlying optical lattice with lattice constant $b$ and amplitude $V$. We find the minimal-energy states at the commensurate density $n = 1/b^2$ and establish the complete square-to-triangular transformation pathway of the lattice with decreasing $V$ involving period-doubled, solitonic, and distorted-triangular configurations.
Healthcare Trainees’ and Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Single-Session Interventions (SSI) for Mental Health Before and After SSI Training
Creators: name: Szkody, Erica
name: Schleider, Jessica L.
name: Sotomayor, Ian
name: Sung, Jenna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: There is a pressing need for effective, sustainable service delivery models that may facilitate more rapid access to care. One possible solution is the integration of single-session intervention (SSI) services into mental health clinics. However, the success of such an approach might depend partly on provider attitudes. Although provider expectancies for an intervention’s effectiveness have a major impact on its clinical potency and implementation success, therapist attitudes toward SSIs have not been explored. Therapist attitudes toward brief, scalable interventions may provide important insights for the dissemination and implementation of therapist-delivered SSIs in clinical settings. Thus, the objectives of this study are to examine diverse healthcare trainees’ and providers’ (1) beliefs about treatment length, (2) their expectations of the SSI’s feasibility and effectiveness, and (3) the malleability of their attitudes.
A CETOSE LACTACIONAL EM CAPRINO MANTIDOS EM SISTEMA INTENSIVO E EXTENSIVO
Creators: name: Silva, Ana Rita
name: Bressan, Cristina
name: Matos, Raquel
name: Harten, Sofia
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2021

description: Em cabras leiteiras, as incidências de doenças metabólicas no pós-parto são na ordem de 30%. A cetose metabólica enquadra-se nessa categoria, sendo que neste estudo foi abordado a cetose lactacional. Nesses animais, o controle e diagnóstico da cetose é realizada no período pós-parto através da determinação de β-hidroxibutirato, um dos corpos cetónicos resultado da mobilização de gorduras, em quadros de balanço energético negativo. Este trabalho foi conduzido na região do Alentejo com o objetivo de avaliar a concentração sanguínea de β-hidroxibutirato em cabras da raça Murciano-Granadina mantidas em sistema extensivo (n = 15) e intensivo (n = 15). Os níveis de β-hidroxibutirato foram determinados no 1º, 8º e 15º dias pós-parto com o auxílio do Medidor GlucoMen LX Plus®. Os valores superiores a 0,5mmol/l e inferiores a 0,8mmol/l são considerados indicativos de cetose subclínica e valores superiores a 0,8mmol/l de cetose clínica. As concentrações obtidas foram semelhantes entre os sistemas de produção, com médias que variaram entre 0.3 e 0.4mmol/l apresentando ausência de cetose, revelando, no entanto, níveis mais elevados no 1º dia do que aos 15 dias pós-parto. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram também, que, ao contrário do esperado o número de crias não influenciou os níveis de BHB no grupo de cabras em sistema extensivo.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 11 (2021)
title: IRIS & OSIRIS International Beamline Review - Report Presented to the Panel
Creators: name: Demmel, F
name: Garcia-Sakai, V
name: Mukhopadhyay, Sanghamitra
name: Parker, S F
name: Fernandez-Alonso, F
name: Armstrong, J
name: Bresme, Fernando
name: De Vicente, JP
name: Sordo, F
name: Bermejo, F J
name: Salzmann, C G
name: McLain, S E
Publisher: name: Science and Technology Facilities Council
Year: 2014

description: The ISIS Facility at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is a major international centre for neutron scattering and muon spectroscopy. To ensure that the instrumentation suite is kept at the forefront of capability, the ISIS Director has instituted a series of rolling reviews across the instrument suite, such that every instrument will be reviewed by an international panel every 10 years or when a major upgrade is required. Following an earlier review of the TOSCA spectrometer in 2013 (see RAL-TR-2013-015), this report contains the documentation presented to the IRIS & OSIRIS International Beamline Review panel in November 2014.
CASO CLÍNICO: AMILOIDOSE SUBCUTÂNEA NUM GATO
Creators: name: Catarino, José
name: Botelho, Marta
name: Faísca, Pedro
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2021

description: Um gato macho, de 14 anos, apresentou-se para consulta devido a duas massas subcutâneas não dolorosas presentes nas regiões inguinais esquerda e direita. Após excisão cirúrgica a análise histopatológica revelou a presença de um material amorfo acelular eosinofílico no tecido subcutâneo, rodeado por um infiltrado inflamatório rico em linfócitos, plasmócitos e células gigantes multinucleadas. Com base nas alterações encontradas foi emitido um diagnóstico de amiloidose cutânea.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 11 (2021)
Irish dialect classification
Creators: name: Hickey, Raymond
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: The Irish language is among the oldest vernaculars spoken in Europe, but Ireland’s history and the language shift to English led to the almost complete demise of traditional Irish in Ireland. The current dialects areas – South, West and North – are the remnants of a much greater geographical distribution of Irish throughout the country. The major differences in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, which can be observed in Irish today, probably go back to the early classical period. The standard dialect survey of Irish is Heinrich Wagner’s comprehensive atlas (1958-1964); there are also many individual studies which document the language in the early twentieth century. Southern Irish refers to a few areas in the southern province of Munster (Co. Kerry, Co. Waterford), Western Irish refers to forms of Irish spoken west of Galway and on the Aran Islands and Northern Irish is spoken in pockets of West Ulster (Co. Donegal).
Holographic Schwinger-Keldysh field theory of SU(2) diffusion
Creators: name: Bu, Yanyan
name: Sun, Xiyang
name: Zhang, Biye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct effective field theory for SU(2) isospin charge diffusion, based on holographic Schwinger-Keldysh contour arXiv:2008.01269. The holographic model consists of a probe SU(2) gauge field in a doubled Schwarzschild-AdS$_5$ geometry. Accurate to first order in derivative expansion, we analytically compute the effective action up to quartic order in hydrodynamical fields. The effective theory contains both non-Gaussianity for noises and nonlinear interactions between noises and dynamical variables. Moreover, the effective theory captures both thermal and quantum fluctuations, which perfectly satisfy dynamical Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) symmetry at quantum level. Interestingly, the dynamical KMS symmetry, which is crucial in formulating non-equilibrium effective field theory for a quantum many-body system, is found to have a nice holographic interpretation.
description: published version ,32 pages, 2 figures
Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa
Creators: name: Hallinan, Emily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The Late Pleistocene and Holocene settlement record of southern Africa shows clear discontinuities both through time and across space. While there is considerable variability between different ecological biomes, the sub-continent’s interior arid zones show particularly unstable occupation histories. However, understanding the nature of and reasons for these discontinuities is hampered by substantial spatial gaps in our archaeological knowledge. This paper presents evidence from the Tankwa Karoo region — intermediate between the well-studied Western Cape Cederberg Mountains and the interior Upper Karoo — to capture Later Stone Age (LSA) behaviour at the interface between Cape and Karoo environments. Off-site surveys recorded surface artefacts across a 100 km-long study area, documenting LSA settlement at a landscape scale and testing expected patterns against settlement records of regions to the west and east. The results indicate that in contrast to the strongly pulsed occupation evidence from the Cederberg Mountains and the Upper Karoo, no LSA phases show particularly high site densities or sustained use of longer-term sites. Additionally, the most arid parts of the eastern Tankwa Karoo show very limited LSA evidence. This suggests that this marginal environment was occupied only ephemerally during the LSA, potentially serving as a corridor between more reliably resourced regions.
NATIONAL SURVEY OF CAT TUMORS IN 2019: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
Creators: name: Soares, Maria
name: Marques, Cátia
name: Catarino, José
name: Batista, Mariana
name: Catita, Joana
name: Faísca, Pedro
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2021

description: Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in cats. Besides its clinical importance, small animals with spontaneous tumours are attractive comparative models for Oncologic studies. Cancer registries are important to provide increased information, which can be used in epidemiological studies and prophylactic and treatment strategies. The aim of this study was to characterize the current distribution of feline tumors in Portugal. A total of 752 feline histopathology records obtained in 2019 were included and data regarding breed, sex, age, type of tumor and malignancy were recorded. Statistical analysis was conducted to detect associations between variables using an alpha value of 0.05. One or more tumours were present in 417 animals, and a total of 475 tumors were reported (63.2%, n=475/752), of which 74.7% were malignant (n=355/475). Mammary tumors were the most common (43.7%, n= 207/475), including carcinoma (n=158) and adenoma (n=36). Mammary tumors were followed in frequency by tumors of the soft/mesenchymal tissue (19.6%, n=93/475) and epithelial skin (18.4%, n=87/475), which differs from published data in other countries. Similarly, to mammary tumors, soft/mesenchymal (64,5%, n=60/93) and epithelial skin tumors (18.4%, n=87/475) were also highly malignant. In the soft/mesenchymal tumors, lipoma (18.3%, n=17/93) and fibrosarcoma (17.2%, n=16/93) were the most common types; nevertheless, other tumors were also frequent, such as mastocitoma, lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma. Finally, in the epithelial skin tumours, the most prevalent was the squamous cell carcinoma (48.3%, n=42/87). Tumor malignancy was associated with older ages (mean 10.6 ± 3.4 years, p<0,001), whereas no association was obtained between breed and tumor type or tumor malignancy. Sex was associated with tumor type, as females presented a higher risk of developing mammary tumors. To our best knowledge this is the first retrospective study of this type conducted in Portugal. Given the high frequency of malignant tumors, early diagnosis and screening for nodules is of paramount importance, both at home and at veterinary consultations.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 11 (2021)
Modeling Ride-Sourcing Matching and Pickup Processes based on Additive Gaussian Process Models
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Xu, Meng
name: Di, Yining
name: Chen, Xiqun
name: Yu, Jingru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Matching and pickup processes are core features of ride-sourcing services. Previous studies have adopted abundant analytical models to depict the two processes and obtain operational insights; while the goodness of fit between models and data was dismissed. To simultaneously consider the fitness between models and data and analytically tractable formations, we propose a data-driven approach based on the additive Gaussian Process Model (AGPM) for ride-sourcing market modeling. The framework is tested based on real-world data collected in Hangzhou, China. We fit analytical models, machine learning models, and AGPMs, in which the number of matches or pickups are used as outputs and spatial, temporal, demand, and supply covariates are utilized as inputs. The results demonstrate the advantages of AGPMs in recovering the two processes in terms of estimation accuracy. Furthermore, we illustrate the modeling power of AGPM by utilizing the trained model to design and estimate idle vehicle relocation strategies.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Submitted and under review in Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
CASO CLÍNICO: GRANULOMA REPARATIVO DE CÉLULAS GIGANTES
Creators: name: Catarino, José
name: Machado, M
name: Faísca, Pedro
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2021

description: Um gato, fêmea, de 8 anos, apresentou-se para consulta devido à presença de um nódulo de crescimento rápido na base da unha. A lesão foi extirpada cirurgicamente e enviada para histopatologia. Na análise histopatológica observou-se a presença de um infiltrado inflamatório dérmico rico em células gigantes multinucleadas que focalmente rodeavam restos de queratina livre, num estroma reativo com regiões de metaplasia óssea. Tendo em conta as alterações descritas, foi emitido um diagnóstico de granuloma reparativo de células gigantes.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 11 (2021)
On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation
Creators: name: Shkerin, Andrey
name: Sibiryakov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Coleman-De Luccia tunneling of the Standard Model Higgs field during inflation in the case when the electroweak vacuum is metastable. We verify that the tunneling rate is exponentially suppressed. The main contribution to the suppression is the same as in flat space-time. We analytically estimate the corrections due to the expansion of the universe and an effective mass term in the Higgs potential that can be present at inflation.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, dependence of the grav. corrections to the bounce action on non-minimal coupling updated, corresponding references added
Academic Success and Self-Esteem Correlational Research
Creators: name: Miller, Jessica
name: Tomlinson, Tracy
name: Goldsmith, Jane Alexandra
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Self-esteem
subject: Academic success
subject: Observational research

description: This research will analyze if there is a causal relationship between academic success and self-esteem.
Joint Radar and Multicast-Unicast Communication: A NOMA Aided Framework
Creators: name: Mu, Xidong
name: Liu, Yuanwei
name: Guo, Li
name: Lin, Jiaru
name: Hanzo, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The novel concept of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided joint radar and multicast-unicast communication (Rad-MU-Com) is investigated. Employing the same spectrum resource, a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station detects the radar-centric user (R-user), while transmitting mixed multicast-unicast messages both to the R-user and to the communication-centric user (C-user). In particular, the multicast information is intended for both the R- and C-users, whereas the unicast information is only intended for the C-user. More explicitly, NOMA is employed to facilitate this double spectrum sharing, where the multicast and unicast signals are superimposed in the power domain and the superimposed communication signals are also exploited as radar probing waveforms. A beamformer-based NOMA-aided joint Rad-MU-Com framework is proposed for the system having a single R-user and a single C-user. Based on this framework, the unicast rate maximization problem is formulated by optimizing the beamformers employed, while satisfying the rate requirement of multicast and the predefined accuracy of the radar beam pattern. The resultant non-convex optimization problem is solved by a penalty-based iterative algorithm to find a high-quality near-optimal solution. Finally, our numerical results reveal that significant performance gains can be achieved by the proposed scheme over the benchmark schemes.
description: This is the conference version of arXiv:2110.02372
Intracellular and intercellular transport of RNA organelles in CXG repeat disorders: The strength of weak ties
Creators: name: Kailash Nabariya, Deepti
name: Heinz, Annika
name: Derksen, Sabrina
name: Krauß, Sybille
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: RNA granules
subject: Processing bodies (p-bodies; PB)
subject: CXG repeat disorders
subject: RNA toxicity
subject: Neurodegeneration
subject: Stressgranula
subject: Exosome
subject: Granulum
subject: Nervendegeneration

description: RNA is a vital biomolecule, the function of which is tightly spatiotemporally regulated. RNA organelles are biological structures that either membrane-less or surrounded by membrane. They are produced by the all the cells and indulge in vital cellular mechanisms. They include the intracellular RNA granules and the extracellular exosomes. RNA granules play an essential role in intracellular regulation of RNA localization, stability and translation. Aberrant regulation of RNA is connected to disease development. For example, in microsatellite diseases such as CXG repeat expansion disorders, the mutant CXG repeat RNA’s localization and function are affected. RNA is not only transported intracellularly but can also be transported between cells via exosomes. The loading of the exosomes is regulated by RNA-protein complexes, and recent studies show that cytosolic RNA granules and exosomes share common content. Intracellular RNA granules and exosome loading may therefore be related. Exosomes can also transfer pathogenic molecules of CXG diseases from cell to cell, thereby driving disease progression. Both intracellular RNA granules and extracellular RNA vesicles may serve as a source for diagnostic and treatment strategies. In therapeutic approaches, pharmaceutical agents may be loaded into exosomes which then transport them to the desired cells/tissues. This is a promising target specific treatment strategy with few side effects. With respect to diagnostics, disease-specific content of exosomes, e.g., RNA-signatures, can serve as attractive biomarker of central nervous system diseases detecting early physiological disturbances, even before symptoms of neurodegeneration appear and irreparable damage to the nervous system occurs. In this review, we summarize the known function of cytoplasmic RNA granules and extracellular vesicles, as well as their role and dysfunction in CXG repeat expansion disorders. We also provide a summary of established protocols for the isolation and characterization of both cytoplasmic and extracellular RNA organelles.
Femtosecond time-resolved dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect
Creators: name: Otobe, T.
name: Shinohara, Y.
name: Sato, S. A.
name: Yabana, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in femtosecond time resolution, that is, the time-dependent modulation of a dielectric function at around the band gap under an irradiation of an intense laser field. We develop a pump-probe formalism in two distinct approaches: first-principles simulation based on real-time time-dependent density functional theory and analytic consideration of a simple two-band model. We find that, while time-average modulation may be reasonably described by the static Franz-Keldysh theory, a remarkable phase shift is found to appear between the dielectric response and the applied electric field.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Response of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPPT) in the Wujiang catchment (China) to the construction of cascade hydropower stations
Creators: name: Junyao Sun
name: Hunter, Peter D.
name: Cao, Yu
name: Doeser, Anna
name: Li, Wei
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The damming of rivers results in hydrological modifications that not only affect the aquatic ecosystem but also adjoining terrestrial systems. Thirteen dams commissioned along the Wujiang River have induced ecological problems, including decreased water turbidity and loss of biodiversity, which potentially influence ecosystem net primary production (NPP) and hence the sequestration, transformation, and storage of carbon. We used terrestrial NPP (NPPT) as a bioindicator to assess the impact of dams on carbon storage in the Wujiang catchment. MODIS satellite and meteorological data were used as inputs to the CASA model to calculate annual NPPT from 2000 to 2014. NPPT was calculated at the catchment and landscape scale to quantify the impact of dams on surrounding terrestrial ecosystems. Mean NPPT was calculated for concentric buffer zones covering a range of spatial extents (0–10 km) from the reservoir shoreline. We found a negligible impact from construction of a single dam on NPPT at the catchment scale. By contrast, the impact of dam construction was scale-dependent, with a stronger landscape-scale effect observed at short distances (i.e., 0–1 km) from the reservoir. Decreases in NPPT were mainly ascribed to the loss of vegetated land resulting from dam impoundment and subsequent urbanization of the surrounding area.
In situ coupling applied voltage and synchrotron radiation: operando characterization of transistors
Creators: name: Davydok, Anton
name: Luponosov, Yuriy N.
name: Ponomarenko, Sergey A.
name: Grigorian, Souren
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: OFETs
subject: Operando studies
subject: nanoGIWAXS
subject: nanoGIXD
subject: α,ω-dihexyl-α-quaterthiophene
subject: Thiophen
subject: Organischer Feldeffekttransistor
subject: Röntgenweitwinkelstreuung

description: A compact voltage application setup has been developed for in situ electrical testing of organic field effect transistors in combination with X-ray scattering studies at a synchrotron beamlines. Challenges faced during real condition in-operando test of newly developed OFETs originated an idea of creation of a new setup which excludes number of factors that make experiments complicated. The application of the setup is demonstrated on a prototype of an organic transistors based on α,ω-dihexyl-α-quaterthiophene molecules. The new setup allows to monitor material structural changes by X-ray scattering under applied voltage conditions and their direct correlations. The versatile setup eliminates possible shadowing effects and short circuits due to misalignment of the contacts. The electrical stability of the prototypes was characterized by the application of different voltage values. Corresponding structural changes were monitored by grazing X-ray scattering technique before, during and after the voltage was applied. The selected oligothiophene material with proved transistor properties shows high stability and directional anisotropy under applied voltage conditions. Thanks to a compact and flexible design of the setup, different type of small dimension devices could be studied under external voltage conditions at various synchrotron beamlines.
Analysis of WiFi and WiMAX and Wireless Network Coexistence
Creators: name: Song, Shuang
name: Issac, Biju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless networks are very popular nowadays. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that uses the IEEE 802.11 standard and WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) that uses the IEEE 802.16 standard are networks that we want to explore. WiMAX has been developed over 10 years, but it is still unknown to most people. However compared to WLAN, it has many advantages in transmission speed and coverage area. This paper will introduce these two technologies and make comparisons between WiMAX and WiFi. In addition, wireless network coexistence of WLAN and WiMAX will be explored through simulation. Lastly we want to discuss the future of WiMAX in relation to WiFi.
description: 16 pages. ISSN 0974-9322
APRENDER HISTOLOGIA: PREFERÊNCIA DOS ALUNOS DE MEDICINA VETERINÁRIA NA ERA DIGITAL
Creators: name: Marques, Cátia
name: Faísca, Pedro
name: Soares, Maria
Publisher: name: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária
Year: 2021

description: O objetivo deste estudo foi partilhar a experiência e avaliar as preferências de estudantes de Medicina Veterinária em relação ao ensino de Histologia. Devido à pandemia Covid-19 foram adotadas várias estratégias de ensino. Assim, em paralelo com os métodos de ensino tradicionais (livro de texto, sites de histologia, observação de lâminas físicas ao microscópio ótico [MO]), foram criados dois recursos adicionais: observação tutorada de lâminas histológicas digitalizadas (lâminas virtuais) através do uso do NDPview2 e vídeos explicativos das lâminas virtuais recorrendo ao NDPview2 e à plataforma LOOM. Os estudantes de medicina veterinária do segundo semestre de Histologia foram convidados a participar no estudo, respondendo a um inquérito sobre as suas preferências de aprendizagem. 1º Inquérito: Quando questionados sobre os diferentes tipos de ensino, 52.8% (n=56/106) preferem exclusivamente aulas presenciais e 32.7% (n=35/107) preferem um ensino misto, com aulas on-line e presenciais. Cerca de 70.1% (n=75/107) e 16.8% (n=18/107) dos estudantes consideraram as aulas práticas como “muito importantes” ou “importantes” na compreensão da matéria, respetivamente. Em relação às diferentes componentes das aulas práticas, 67.6% (n=73/108), 88.0% (n=95/108) e 41.7% (n=45/108) dos estudantes classificaram a apresentação inicial, a visualização na aula das lâminas virtuais e a visualização individual das lâminas histológicas ao MO como “muito importantes/importantes”, respetivamente. A apresentação do professor (88.8%, n=95/107) e os vídeos explicativos (82.2%, n=88/107) foram as ferramentas de estudo preferidas pela maioria dos estudantes. 2º Inquérito: Sessenta e três por cento (n=56/89) dos estudantes ainda usam material impresso. Em relação ao uso de tecnologia e recursos digitais, 98.9% (n=88/89), 31.4% (28/89) e 32.6% (29/89) dos estudantes usam computador, tablet e telemóvel, respetivamente. Curiosamente, 56.3% (n=49/87) dos estudantes preferem estudar para as aulas práticas de histologia em grupo. O uso de recursos de aprendizagem eletrónicos, tais como as lâminas virtuais e os vídeos explicativos, foram bastante apreciados pelos estudantes de veterinária. Consequentemente, estes recursos são considerados vantajosos no ensino de Histologia. Adicionalmente, o uso de dispositivos eletrónicos, incluindo tablets e telemóveis, é frequente nos estudantes de veterinária, pelo que os recursos de aprendizagem deverão ser otimizados para esses dispositivos.
description: Revista Lusófona de Ciência e Medicina Veterinária, v. 11 (2021)