cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying requirements for a construction software : a case study of a public sector construction organization
Creators: name: Grover, Raghav
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Over the past 10 to15 years, there has been a boom in the construction software market. Most of these software’s have functionality to support processes like document management, on-site data logging and reporting, and safety management. They simplify the process of entering and storing the data through supporting mobile and cloud-based computing. Several construction organizations are looking to adopt such IT solutions in their existing processes. One challenge they face is identifying the requirements for the software, and ensuring that it meets the needs and expectations of the internal stakeholders. This thesis aims to address this issue. In this thesis, a case study of one such organization is presented; the case organization was looking to adopt a construction software in its Engineering Services division, and facing the challenge of identifying its internal requirements. This thesis uses a structured requirements capture approach, adopted from the domain of software development, and applies it to some of the existing processes in the organization. Semi-structured interviews were used to document the current Business Use Cases (BUCs), and challenges relating to different business areas. Each documented BUC was analyzed to identify the software requirements, which can address the existing challenges and make the processes more efficient. The requirements were validated through using self-checklists, stakeholder verification and expert reviews. The methodology for capturing requirements is presented in a way such that it can easily be replicated by other organizations. Overall, this thesis dissertation highlights on the importance of pulling requirements from the stakeholders, and presents a case of applying systems development approach on typical construction processes.
title: U.S. Army Medical Corps Collection
Creators: name: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Publisher: name: University Archives, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Year: 2010
Subjects: classificationCode: 3
subject: FOS: Medical and health sciences
classificationCode: 6.1
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: USUHS Archives Finding Aid
U.S. Army Medical Corps Collection
2010
Foot Bone in Vivo: Its Center of Mass and Centroid of Shape
Creators: name: Fan, Yifang
name: Loan, Mushtaq
name: Fan, Yubo
name: Lin, Zhiyu
name: Lv, Changsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies foot bone geometrical shape and its mass distribution and establishes an assessment method of bone strength. Using spiral CT scanning, with an accuracy of sub-millimeter, we analyze the data of 384 pieces of foot bones in vivo and investigate the relationship between the bone's external shape and internal structure. This analysis is explored on the bases of the bone's center of mass and its centroid of shape. We observe the phenomenon of superposition of center of mass and centroid of shape fairly precisely, indicating a possible appearance of biomechanical organism. We investigate two aspects of the geometrical shape, (i) distance between compact bone's centroid of shape and that of the bone and (ii) the mean radius of the same density bone issue relative to the bone's centroid of shape. These quantities are used to interpret the influence of different physical exercises imposed on bone strength, thereby contributing to an alternate assessment technique to bone strength.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Mott-insulator to metal transition in filling-controlled SmMnAsO_{1-x}
Creators: name: Shiomi, Y.
name: Ishiwata, S.
name: Taguchi, Y.
name: Tokura, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport and magnetic properties have been systematically investigated for SmMnAsO_{1-x} with controlled electron-doping. As the electron band-filling is increased with the increase of oxygen deficiency (x), the resistivity monotonically decreases and the transition from Mott-insulator to metal occurs between x=0.17 and 0.2. Seebeck coefficient at room temperature abruptly changes around the critical doping level from a large value (\sim -300 μV/K) to a small one (\sim -50 μV/K) both with negative sign. In the metallic compounds with x=0.2 and x=0.3, Mn spins order antiferromagnetically around 30 K, and the Hall coefficient with the negative sign shows a reduction in magnitude upon the magnetic transition, indicating the change in the multiple Fermi surfaces. Gigantic positive magnetoresistance effect is observed in a wide range of temperature, reaching up to 60 % at 2 K for the x=0.3 compound. The effect is attributed to the field-induced change of the complex Fermi surfaces in this multi-orbital correlated electron system.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Could dissipationless current be observed at non-zero resistance?
Creators: name: Gurtovoi, V. L.
name: Ilin, A. I.
name: Nikulov, A. V.
name: Tulin, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The persistent current, i.e. the equilibrium direct electric current circulating in realistic rings, some authors interpreted as dissipationless in spite of non-zero resistance of the rings, whereas the other one suppose that this current can not decay at dissipation. The observation of potential difference connected with the persistent current may give new important information about paradoxical nature of this quantum phenomena observed in nanostructures.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures,
Sequence-based prediction of permissive stretches for internal protein tagging and knockdown
Creators: Oesterle, Sabine
Roberts, Tania M.
Widmer, Lukas A.
Mustafa, Harun
Panke, Sven
Billerbeck, Sonja
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biotechnology
Proteins
Protein engineering
Biochemistry

description: Background:
                Internal tagging of proteins by inserting small functional peptides into surface accessible permissive sites has proven to be an indispensable tool for basic and applied science. Permissive sites are typically identified by transposon mutagenesis on a case-by-case basis, limiting scalability and their exploitation as a system-wide protein engineering tool.

                Methods:
                We developed an apporach for predicting permissive stretches (PSs) in proteins based on the identification of length-variable regions (regions containing indels) in homologous proteins.

                Results:
                We verify that a protein's primary structure information alone is sufficient to identify PSs. Identified PSs are predicted to be predominantly surface accessible; hence, the position of inserted peptides is likely suitable for diverse applications. We demonstrate the viability of this approach by inserting a Tobacco etch virus protease recognition site (TEV-tag) into several PSs in a wide range of proteins, from small monomeric enzymes (adenylate kinase) to large multi-subunit molecular machines (ATP synthase) and verify their functionality after insertion. We apply this method to engineer conditional protein knockdowns directly in the Escherichia coli chromosome and generate a cell-free platform with enhanced nucleotide stability.

                Conclusions:
                Functional internally tagged proteins can be rationally designed and directly chromosomally implemented. Critical for the successful design of protein knockdowns was the incorporation of surface accessibility and secondary structure predictions, as well as the design of an improved TEV-tag that enables efficient hydrolysis when inserted into the middle of a protein. This versatile and portable approach can likely be adapted for other applications, and broadly adopted. We provide guidelines for the design of internally tagged proteins in order to empower scientists with little or no protein engineering expertise to internally tag their target proteins.
Additional file 7 of SRCP: a comprehensive pipeline for accurate annotation and quantification of circRNAs
Creators: name: Rabin, Avigayel
name: Zaffagni, Michela
name: Ashwal-Fluss, Reut
name: Patop, Ines Lucia
name: Jajoo, Aarti
name: Shenzis, Shlomo
name: Carmel, Liran
name: Kadener, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7. Review history.
Jamming in complex networks with degree correlation
Creators: name: Piontti, Ana L. Pastore y
name: Braunstein, Lidia A.
name: Macri, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the effects of the degree-degree correlations on the pressure congestion J when we apply a dynamical process on scale free complex networks using the gradient network approach. We find that the pressure congestion for disassortative (assortative) networks is lower (bigger) than the one for uncorrelated networks which allow us to affirm that disassortative networks enhance transport through them. This result agree with the fact that many real world transportation networks naturally evolve to this kind of correlation. We explain our results showing that for the disassortative case the clusters in the gradient network turn out to be as much elongated as possible, reducing the pressure congestion J and observing the opposite behavior for the assortative case. Finally we apply our model to real world networks, and the results agree with our theoretical model.
Real-time switching between multiple steady-states in quantum transport
Creators: name: Uimonen, A. -M.
name: Khosravi, E.
name: Stefanucci, G.
name: Kurth, S.
name: van Leeuwen, R.
name: Gross, E. K. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transport through an interacting model system consisting of a central correlated site coupled to finite bandwidth tight-binding leads, which are considered as effectively noninteracting. Its nonequilibrium properties are determined by real-time propagation of the Kadanoff-Baym equations after applying a bias voltage to the system. The electronic interactions on the central site are incorporated by means of self-energy approximations at Hartree-Fock, second Born and GW level. We investigate the conditions under which multiple steady-state solutions occur within different self-energy approximations, and analyze in detail the nature of these states from an analysis of their spectral functions. At the Hartree-Fock level at least two stable steady-state solutions with different densities and currents can be found. By applying a gate voltage-pulse at a given time we are able to switch between these solutions. With the same parameters we find only one steady-state solution when the self-consistent second Born and GW approximations are considered. We therefore conclude that treatment of many-body interactions beyond mean-field can destroy bistability and lead to qualitatively different results as compared those at mean-field level.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, Submitted at "Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions IV" conference
Regulation of immune receptor homeostasis : lessons from four MUSE proteins
Creators: name: Huang, Shuai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Plants are sessile organisms and rely on their innate immune systems to defend against pathogens. Nucleotide-binding (NB) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain-containing proteins (NLRs) serve as immune receptors in both plants and animals. It remains poorly understood how NLRs are activated and very few components downstream of NLR activation have been identified. Autoimmune mutants provide a powerful tool to study NLR-mediated immune pathways through genetic screens. To search for negative regulators of plant immunity, we performed a MUSE (MUTANT, SNC1-ENHANCING) screen in Arabidopsis thaliana, where 15 novel muse mutants were identified. My Ph.D. dissertation consists of the cloning and characterization of four muse mutants: muse10, muse12, muse13 and muse14. muse10 and muse12 are alleles of Arabidopsis thaliana hsp90.3 and hsp90.2, respectively. HSP90s are conserved molecular chaperones that play diverse roles. Previous studies have shown that HSP90s are positive regulators in NLR protein assembly. We found that they also exert negative roles in NLR protein turnover. Specific mutations in HSP90.3 lead to increased protein levels of multiples NLRs. Using an immunoprecipitation assay we also demonstrated that SNC1 is a client of HSP90.3. MUSE13 and MUSE14 are both TRAF domain-containing proteins. TRAF domains are conserved in eukaryotes, and TRAF domain proteins are predominantly involved in protein ubiquitination or protein processing. MUSE13 and MUSE14 function redundantly in the negative regulation of protein turnover of two NLRs. We found that MUSE13 forms a protein complex with SCFCPR1 and NLRs, which suggests the existence of a plant type TRAFasome that modulates NLR homeostasis. Overall, my study on these MUSE proteins provides insights into the regulation of plant NLR turnover, and broadens our knowledge of the tight control of the plant immune system.
Interaction of a nonlinear spin wave and magnetic soliton in a uniaxial anisotropic ferromagnet
Creators: name: Li, Zai-Dong
name: Li, Qiu-Yan
name: Bai, Zhan-Guo
name: Sun, Yubao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction of a nonlinear spin-wave and magnetic soliton in a uniaxial anisotropic ferromagnet. By means of a reasonable assumption and a straightforward Darboux transformation one- and two-soliton solutions in a nonlinear spin-wave background are obtained analytically, and their properties are discussed in detail. In the background of a nonlinear spin wave the amplitude of the envelope soliton has the spatial and temporal period, and soliton can be trapped only in space. The amplitude and wave number of spin wave have the different contribution to the width, velocity, and the amplitude of soliton solutions, respectively. The envelope of solution hold the shape of soliton, and the amplitude of each envelope soliton keeps invariability before and after collision which shows the elastic collision of two envelope soliton in the background of a nonlinear spin wave.
New states of matter in one- and twodimensional lattice models
Creators: name: Rachel, Stephan
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: bosonic flux lattice
superfluid order
antiferromagnetic order
SU(N) spin chains
spinon confinement

description: In the first part, we consider a system of neutral, bosonic atoms on a square lattice subject to an artificial magnetic field. We focus on a field strength of half a Dirac flux quantum through every plaquette. We point out that this system exhibits not only superfluid order but also antiferromagnetic order. In the second part, we consider SU(N) spin chains and present an approach to generalize Haldane's conjecture for abritrary spin representations.
Additional file 1 of Adaptation of ELISA detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite proteins in mosquitoes to a multiplex bead-based immunoassay
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Alice C.
name: Irish, Seth R.
name: Rogier, Eric
name: Finney, Micaela
name: Zohdy, Sarah
name: Dotson, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Circumsporozoite (cs) multiplex-bead assay (MBA) median fluorescence intensity minus background (MFI-Bkgd) values of recombinant positive control antigen with varying Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax210 and P. vivax247 capture and detection antibody concentrations and streptavidin-phycoerythrin (RPE) concentrations for selection of optimal conditions.
Datenakquisitionsentwicklung  und Untergrundstudien für den  Weltraumdetektor AMS-02 und  den CMOS-Detektor MIMOSA-V
Creators: name: Schmanau, Mike
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: AMS
MIMOSA
transition
radiation
diffractive
GEANT4
XTR
LabView
microarray
ISS
NASA

description: This thesis deals with the development of space qualified electronics, detector simulations and realtime data acquisition software. The covered detector designs reach from the AMS-02 experiment, as a large scale multi purpose detector with several sub-detectors for cosmic particle research, to the small single type CMOS-detector MIMOSA-V for autoradiography of micro-arrays within the REGINS project. The presented background study focuses on problems with the simulation of diffractive scattering.
The NA62 RICH detector
Creators: name: Marinova, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The RICH detector of the NA62 experiment is proposed for pion - muon separation and to contribute to the first level of the trigger. The design parameters of the detector and the results of test beams performed at CERN in 2007 and 2009 with a prototype are presented.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, To appear in the proceedings of 12th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors (IPRD10), Siena, Italy, 7-10 June 2010
Additional file 2 of Adaptation of ELISA detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite proteins in mosquitoes to a multiplex bead-based immunoassay
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Alice C.
name: Irish, Seth R.
name: Rogier, Eric
name: Finney, Micaela
name: Zohdy, Sarah
name: Dotson, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Distribution of multiplex-bead assay (MBA) median fluorescence intensity minus background (MFI-Bkgd) values of negative samples from Madagascar and Guinea for Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax210 and P. vivax247. Values are log-transformed and are only shown for MFI-Bkgd values above zero. Those below zero are summarized in the top left corner of each histogram.
Two-state Bose-Hubbard model in the hard-core boson limit
Creators: name: Stasyuk, I. V.
name: Velychko, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase transition into the phase with Bose-Einstein (BE) condensate in the two-band Bose-Hubbard model with the particle hopping in the excited band only is investigated. Instability connected with such a transition (which appears at excitation energies $δδ_{\mathrm{crit}}\approx-0.12\lvert t_0' \rvert$). At $μ<0$ the phase transition mostly remains to be of the second order. The behaviour of the BE-condensate order parameter is analyzed, the $(Θ,μ)$ and $(\lvert t_0' \rvert,μ)$ phase diagrams are built and localizations of tricritical points are established. The conditions are found at which the separation on the normal phase and the phase with the BE condensate takes place.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Polynomial parametrization of Pythagorean quadruples, quintuples and sextuples
Creators: name: Frisch, Sophie
name: Vaserstein, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D09, 11E25, 13F20, 11D85, 11C20

description: A Pythagorean n-tuple is an integer solution of x_1^2+...+x_{n-1}^2=x_n^2. For n=4 and n=6, the Pythagorean n-tuples admit a parametrization by a single n-tuple of polynomials with integer coefficients (which is impossible for n=3). For n=5, there is an integer-valued polynomial Pythagorean 5-tuple which parametrizes Pythagorean quintuples (similar to the case n=3). Pythagorean quadruples are closely related to (integer) Descartes quadruples (solutions of 2(b_1^2+b_2^2+b_3^2+b_4^2) = (b_1+b_2+b_3+b_4)^2), which we also parametrize by a Descartes quadruple of polynomials with integer coefficients.
description: 11 pages; to appear in J. Pure Appl. Algebra; June 28 2011: corrected typo in Thm 1 (plus instead of minus in first coord)
Emergence Of Ferromagnetism In Nanoparticles Of Antiferromagnetic Nd0.4Sr0.6MnO3
Creators: name: Kundu, S.
name: Nath, T. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the magnetic state of Nd0.4Sr0.6MnO3 with the variation of its grain size down to average nanometric diameter (40 nm). The bulk sample is antiferromagnetic (AFM) in nature. However, on reduction of the grain size, emergence of ferromagnetic behavior is experimentally observed. Linear and nonlinear ac magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal that ferromagnetic nature is enhanced as the grain size is reduced. Large coercivity and bifurcation between zero field cooled and field cooled magnetization curves indicate an intrinsic disorder and large anisotropy in the system. Observed behaviors are attributed to surface disorder as well as to possible pressure effect on nano grains.
Additional file 3 of Adaptation of ELISA detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite proteins in mosquitoes to a multiplex bead-based immunoassay
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Alice C.
name: Irish, Seth R.
name: Rogier, Eric
name: Finney, Micaela
name: Zohdy, Sarah
name: Dotson, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Example of circumsporozoite (cs) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and cs multiplex-bead assay (MBA) workflow for assessing 384 samples with three analytes (Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax210 and P. vivax247).
WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized transiting exoplanet
Creators: name: Hellier, Coel
name: Anderson, D. R.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Gillon, M.
name: Lendl, M.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Smalley, B.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
name: West, R. G.
name: Brown, D. J. A.
name: Enoch, B.
name: Lister, T. A.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Segransan, D.
name: Udry, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a Saturn-sized planet transiting a V = 11.3, K4 dwarf star every 3.9 d. WASP-29b has a mass of 0.24+/-0.02 M_Jup and a radius of 0.79+/-0.05 R_Jup, making it the smallest planet so far discovered by the WASP survey, and the exoplanet most similar in mass and radius to Saturn. The host star WASP-29 has an above-Solar metallicity and fits a possible correlation for Saturn-mass planets such that planets with higher-metallicity host stars have higher core masses and thus smaller radii.
description: 6 pages, submitted to ApJL
Searching for Possible Siblings of the Sun from a Common Cluster based on Stellar Space Velocities
Creators: name: Bobylev, V. V.
name: Bajkova, A. T.
name: Myllari, A.
name: Valtonen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a kinematic approach to searching for the stars that could be formed with the Sun in a common "parent" open cluster. The approach consists in preselecting suitable candidates by the closeness of their space velocities to the solar velocity and analyzing the parameters of their encounters with the solar orbit in the past in a time interval comparable to the lifetime of stars. We consider stars from the Hipparcos catalog with available radial velocities. The Galactic orbits of stars have been constructed in the Allen--Santillan potential by taking into account the perturbations from the spiral density wave. We show that two stars, HIP 87382 and HIP 47399, are of considerable interest in our problem. Their orbits oscillate near the solar orbit with an amplitude of about 250 pc; there are short-term close encounters to distances <10 pc. Both stars have an evolutionary status and metallicity similar to the solar ones.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 4 of Adaptation of ELISA detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoite proteins in mosquitoes to a multiplex bead-based immunoassay
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Alice C.
name: Irish, Seth R.
name: Rogier, Eric
name: Finney, Micaela
name: Zohdy, Sarah
name: Dotson, Ellen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Cost analysis of consumables used in the circumsporozoite (cs) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and cs multiplex-bead assay (MBA) for assessing three analytes (Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax210 and P. vivax247) or a single analyte.
Land degradation in Central Asia : identifying dynamics of pasture resources in heterogeneous landscapes using remote sensing
Creators: name: Eddy, Ian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Rangeland degradation is an issue of global concern yet it can be challenging to accurately assess. In Kyrgyzstan, the post-Soviet transition led to wide-ranging environmental changes in pasturelands, though comprehensive and spatially explicit data remains scarce. Remote sensing vegetation indices (VI) are often used to assess pasture condition where higher VI are assumed to indicate greater productivity. However, pasture productivity may be degraded owing to declining vegetation productivity or changes in plant species composition, both of which can differentially affect vegetation indices. Here, we examined these two aspects using satellite-derived vegetation indices. In Chapter 1, we compared temporal trends (2000-2015) and seasonal maximums of Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) VI in field sites with varying cover of plant species unpalatable to livestock. Relative to other pastures, we found pastures with unpalatable plant cover were associated with higher seasonal maximums of VI (r² = 0.23-0.31) and increases in VI over time (r² = 0.08-0.16). These findings were problematic for pasture monitoring using remote sensing, as detrimental changes in species composition may be conflated with desirable increases in plant cover. In Chapter 2, we examined pixel-based temporal trends in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in Naryn oblast, Kyrgyzstan from 2000-2015. We then examined trends in the residuals after applying a regression relationship linking NDVI as a function of precipitation and temperature metrics in order to differentiate anthropogenic from climate-induced impacts to pasture resources. Trend maps were validated against areas of overgrazing identified from interviews with local pasture managers. Temporal trends in NDVI and the regression residuals were overwhelmingly negative (24.0 and 15.2% of the landscape, respectively) outside of row crop agricultural fields, particularly in the lower elevation spring/fall and winter pastures, and were consistent with local managers’ perceptions of pasture degradation. While our approach was limited by the topographic complexity of the study region, it was most successful in the semi-arid steppe region where pasture degradation is believed to be worst.
Local approximation of observables and commutator bounds
Creators: name: Nachtergaele, Bruno
name: Scholz, Volkher B.
name: Werner, Reinhard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L10, 46L53

description: We discuss conditional expectations that can be used as generalizations of the partial trace for quantum systems with an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of states.
High diversity of native plants and vegetation types in the Morialta Conservation Park and the threat of invasive species
Creators: name: J. Anderson
name: G. Keppel
name: S.-M. Thomson
name: J. Gibbs
name: G. Brunetti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Morialta Conservation Park is a scenic protected area that contains important vegetation remnants of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Here we investigate the vegetation ecology, soils and plant diversity of the park. Using a stratified, quantitative survey of woody vegetation and topsoils throughout the park within forty-five 10 × 10 m plots, we identified ten distinct vegetation types, nine being native and the other being dominated by the invasive European olive (Olea europaea). Soil conductivity and fertility, as well as aspect, were significant predictors of species composition, indicating that high environmental heterogeneity in soils and topography are important in facilitating the high biodiversity in the Morialta Conservation Park. The European olive and Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera) are widespread in the park and a threat to native vegetation. Using published plant lists and the Atlas of Living Australia, we report 486 native (and 300 introduced) plant taxa from the park and its immediate surrounds, including species considered endangered at either the state or national level, or the IUCN Red List. Therefore, the park is highly important for conservation and the threat posed by the European olive, Boneseed and other invasive species should be effectively managed.
Matter couplings in Horava-Lifshitz and their cosmological applications
Creators: name: Carloni, Sante
name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Silva, Pedro J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the issue how to introduce matter in Hořava-Lifshitz theories of gravity is addressed. This is a key point in order to complete the proper definition of these theories and, what is very important, to study their possible phenomenological implications. As is well known, in Hořava-Lifshitz gravity the breakdown of Lorentz invariance invalidates the usual notion of minimally coupled matter. Two different approaches to bypass this problem are here described. One is based on a Kaluza-Klein reinterpretation of the 3+1 decomposition of the gravity degrees of freedom, what naturally leads to a definition of a U(1) gauge symmetry and, hence, to a new type of minimal coupling. The other approach relies on a midi-superspace formalism and the subsequent parametrization of the matter stress-energy tensor in terms of deep infrared variables. Using the last option, the phase space of the Horava-Lifshitz cosmology in the presence of general matter couplings is studied. It is found, in particular, that the equation of state of the effective matter may be very different from the actual matter one, owing to the non-linear interactions which exists between matter and gravity.
description: 13 pages, latex
Additional file 1 of The Great Belt train accident: the emergency medical services response
Creators: name: Hansen, Peter Martin
name: Jepsen, Søren Bruun
name: Mikkelsen, Søren
name: Rehn, Marius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Overview of EMS units tasked for incident. AMB: Ambulance; MECU: Mobile Emergency Care Unit; HELI: Helicopter; STD DEV: Standard Deviation.
Dark Soliton Interaction of Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Li, Zai-Dong
name: Li, Qiu-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic soliton dynamics of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice which results in an effective Hamiltonian of anisotropic pseudospin chain. An equation of nonlinear Schrödinger type is derived and exact magnetic soliton solutions are obtained analytically by means of Hirota method. Our results show that the critical external field is needed for creating the magnetic soliton in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. The soliton size, velocity and shape frequency can be controlled in practical experiment by adjusting the magnetic field. Moreover, the elastic collision of two solitons is investigated in detail.
NMSDECAY: A Fortran Code for Supersymmetric Particle Decays in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Creators: name: Das, Debottam
name: Ellwanger, Ulrich
name: Teixeira, Ana M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The code NMSDECAY allows to compute widths and branching ratios of sparticle decays in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. It is based on a generalization of SDECAY, to include the extended Higgs and neutralino sectors of the NMSSM. Slepton 3-body decays, possibly relevant in the case of a singlino-like lightest supersymmetric particle, have been added. NMSDECAY will be part of the NMSSMTools package, which computes Higgs, sparticle masses and Higgs decays in the NMSSM.
description: 12 pages, no figures
Additional file 2 of The Great Belt train accident: the emergency medical services response
Creators: name: Hansen, Peter Martin
name: Jepsen, Søren Bruun
name: Mikkelsen, Søren
name: Rehn, Marius
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Prehospital Patient Journal (PPJ). Electronic Casualty Clearing Station and patient wristband. PPJ: Prehospital patient journal.
Gravitational Waves Astronomy: a cornerstone for gravitational theories
Creators: name: Corda, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Realizing a gravitational wave (GW) astronomy in next years is a great challenge for the scientific community. By giving a significant amount of new information, GWs will be a cornerstone for a better understanding of gravitational physics. In this paper we re-discuss that the GW astronomy will permit to solve a captivating issue of gravitation. In fact, it will be the definitive test for Einstein's general relativity (GR), or, alternatively, a strong endorsement for extended theories of gravity (ETG).
description: To appear in Proceedings of the Workshop "Cosmology, the Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions" for the celebration of Emilio Elizalde's sixtieth birthday, Barcelona, March 8-10, 2010
Curcumin: Zelluläre Verteilung, Metabolismus und toxische Effekte
Creators: name: Dempe, Julia
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009

description: Den sekundären Inhaltsstoffen der Curcuma-Pflanze, den Curcuminoiden, werden viele gesundheitsfördernde Wirkungen zugeschrieben. Daher wurde in dieser Arbeit der Einfluss von Curcumin auf die Morphologie und die zellulären Wirkungen von kultivierten Zellen bestimmt. Zudem wurde die Aufnahme und Akkumulation von Curcumin in diesen Zellen aufgeklärt. Weiterhin wurde die Resorption von Curcumin im etablierten Caco-2 Millicell® System und dessen Metabolisierung durch humane Darmbakterien untersucht.
An overview of a review protocol for vitamin D and the development and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Creators: name: Potenza, Marc N.
name: Kitaneh, Razee
name: Angarita, Gustavo A.
name: Laya Jalilian-Khave
name: Funaro, Melissa
name: Binah Baht Ysrayl
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: adhd
subject: vitamin D
subject: psychiatric outcomes
subject: brain development

description: The present overview examines and synthesizes information from systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and rapid reviews exploring vitamin D’s role in the development, progression and treatment of ADHD.
Hirota method for the nonlinear Schrődinger equation with an arbitrary linear time-dependent potential
Creators: name: Li, Zai-Dong
name: Li, Qiu-Yan
name: Hu, Xing-Hua
name: Zheng, Zhong-Xi
name: Sun, Yu-Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a Hirota method is developed for applying to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with arbitrary time-dependent linear potential which denotes the dynamics of soliton solutions in quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensation. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation is decoupled to two equations carefully. With a reasonable assumption the one- and two-soliton solutions are constructed analytically in the presence of an arbitrary time-dependent linear potential.
description: 11 pages
African and western aspects of Ballanta's opera "Afiwa"
Creators: name: Beckley, Joseryl Olayinka Lucy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Nicholas George Julius Ballanta (1893-1962) was a Sierra Leonean composer, ethnomusicologist and scholar. Trained in Western art and church music both in his home country and in the United States, he also conducted many years’ research into tribal music in Africa, and indeed was a pioneer in the study of West African music. His most complete opera is “Afiwa,” which sets the story of a girl who stands up to her father, the king of the Anlo Ewe tribe in Ghana, for atrocities he had committed at her birth. This study identifies what is uniquely African yet also Western about Ballanta’s “Afiwa”. In chapter 1, an introduction to the work is presented, including Ballanta’s biography. In Chapter 2, I determine what Ballanta believed to be characteristic of the African music he studied by examining his writings about rhythm, melody, form, texture and harmony. In Chapter 3, I cite numerous passages from “Afiwa” where these characteristics are found. My conclusion is that Ballanta combined both African and Western musical aspects in this opera. Chapter 4 goes beyond the music to explain, referencing the 2010 Cottey College production, aspects of the libretto, plot and staging that will help any future producers to understand the opera better so as to provide as authentic a production as possible.
Using Unified Personal Information in Workspaces
Creators: name: Grebner, Olaf
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Personal Information Management
unified personal information
Knowledge Work
personal information fragmentation
Semantic Desktop

description: Knowledge workers (KWers) deal with personal information and use tools like, e.g., desktop workspaces to support their work. But KWer support is hindered by personal information fragmentation, i.e., applications keep a set of personal information while not interconnecting it. This thesis addresses this in the domains personal task management and meeting management by using a common unified personal information model as offered by the semantic desktop personal information management (PIM) system.
Understanding alcohol use in everyday life: A systematic review of alcohol use, problems, impairment, and comorbidity as measured using ambulatory, experience sampling, and ecological methods
Creators: name: Piccirillo, Marilyn
name: Spink, Katie Malloy
name: Louden, Diana Nelson
name: Volpe, Laila
name: Foster, Katherine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Systematic review of alcohol use, problems, impairment, and comorbidity as measured using ambulatory, experience sampling, and ecological methods
Superhydrophobicity on hairy surfaces
Creators: name: Blow, M. L.
name: Yeomans, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the wetting properties of surfaces patterned with fine elastic hairs, with an emphasis on identifying superhydrophobic states on hydrophilic hairs. We formulate a two dimensional model of a large drop in contact with a row of equispaced elastic hairs and, by minimising the free energy of the model, identify the stable and metastable states. In particular we concentrate on "partially suspended" states, where the hairs bend to support the drop -- singlet states where all hairs bend in the same direction, and doublet states where neighbouring hairs bend in opposite directions -- and find the limits of stability of these configurations in terms of material contact angle, hair flexibility, and system geometry. The drop can remain suspended in a singlet state at hydrophilic contact angles, but doublets exist only when the hairs are hydrophobic. The system is more likely to evolve into a singlet state if the hairs are inclined at the root. We discuss how, under limited circumstances, the results can be modified to describe an array of hairs in three dimensions. We find that now both singlets and doublets can exhibit superhydrophobic behaviour on hydrophilic hairs. We discuss the limitations of our approach and the directions for future work.
Crossed-ratchet effects and domain wall geometrical pinning
Creators: name: Marconi, V. I.
name: Kolton, A. B.
name: Capitan, J. A.
name: Cuesta, J. A.
name: Perez-Junquera, A.
name: Velez, M.
name: Martin, J. I.
name: Parrondo, J. M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motion of a domain wall in a two dimensional medium is studied taking into account the internal elastic degrees of freedom of the wall and geometrical pinning produced both by holes and sample boundaries. This study is used to analyze the geometrical conditions needed for optimizing crossed ratchet effects in periodic rectangular arrays of asymmetric holes, recently observed experimentally in patterned ferromagnetic films. Geometrical calculations and numerical simulations have been used to obtain the anisotropic critical fields for depinning flat and kinked walls in rectangular arrays of triangles. The aim is to show with a generic elastic model for interfaces how to build a rectifier able to display crossed ratchet effects or effective potential landscapes for controlling the motion of interfaces or invasion fronts.
description: 13 pages, 18 figures
What we imagine learning from watching others: how motor imagery modulates competency perceptions resulting from the repeated observation of a juggling action
Creators: name: Kraeutner, Sarah N
name: Besler, Zachary Andrew
name: Hodges, Nicola
name: Karlinsky, April
name: Welsh, Timothy N.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Although motor learning can occur from observing others perform a motor skill (action observation; AO), observers’ confidence in their own ability to perform the skill can be falsely increased compared to their actual ability. This illusion of motor competence (i.e., ‘over-confidence’) may arise because the learner does not gain access to sensory feedback about their own performance – a source of information that can help individuals understand their veridical motor capabilities. Unlike AO, motor imagery (MI; the mental rehearsal of a motor skill) is thought to be linked to an understanding of movement consequences and kinaesthetic information. MI may thus provide the learner with movement-related diagnostic information, leading to greater accuracy in assessing ability. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of MI when paired with AO in assessments of one’s own motor capabilities in an online observation task. Two groups rated their confidence in performing a juggling task following repeated observations of the action without MI (OBS group; n=45) or with MI following observation (OBS+MI; n=39). As predicted, confidence increased with repeated observation for both groups, yet increased to a greater extent in the OBS relative to the OBS+MI group. The addition of MI appeared to reduce confidence that resulted from repeated AO alone. Data support the hypothesis that AO and MI are separable and that MI allows better access to sensory information than AO. However, further research is required to assess changes in confidence that result from MI alone and motor execution. This registration pertains to a manuscript submission (Psy Res: Submission ID 86305a27-e58a-4d05-b9c4-12a3f639047b).
Numerical modelling of the absolute stress state in the Marmara region - a contribution to seismic hazard assessment
Creators: name: Hergert, Tobias
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Fault slip rates
absolute stress
Sea of Marmara
Finite element modelling

description: The kinematics and dynamics of the Sea of Marmara region are addressed using 3D geomechanical numerical modelling. The velocity field and absolute stress in the crust are modelled both in the long-term and during the interseismic period. A number of quantities relevant for seismic hazard assessment are derived.
Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays using very inclined Extensive Air Showers measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Creators: name: Schmidt, Talianna Christina
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Cosmic Rays
Extensive Air Showers
Pierre Auger Observatory

description: The flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays has been determined using very inclined showers detected by the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Two methods suitable for very inclined air showers have been implemented and compared. The regime of very inclined showers extends the aperture of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory by 30%.