cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aging effects of dodecagonal quasicrystal formed in Mn-Cr-Ni-Si alloys
Creators: name: Toyonaga, Kotoba
name: Ishimasa, Tsutomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of Mn-Cr-Ni-Si dodecagonal quasicrystal has been studied at 600 and 700 C. The growth process of the quasicrystal from as-cast beta-Mn phase was explained by Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation. In order to evaluate structural quality of the quasicrystal, distortion in the diffraction pattern observed along the 12-fold axis was analyzed. This analysis indicated that the aging at 600 C for 100 h is the best condition to synthesize the quasicrystal.
description: 4 pages including 4 figures
Destination management level evaluation with an emphasis on the internationalisation factor
Creators: name: Kotíková, Sylvie
name: Pavlů, Karolína
name: Kotíková, Sylvie
name: Pavlů, Karolína
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Benchmarking
subject: business environment
subject: destination management
subject: internationalisation
subject: locality potential

description: The paper deals with main research problem connecting with the assessment of the quality of the tourism business environment at different levels. The aim of this paper is to identify the key indicators of the business environment of tourism. Based on identified indicators evaluation of specific destination management in the medium term is set. The benchmarking method then determines the position of regional destination management within the chosen economy. In the Czech Republic, the level of destination managers in the range of the two evaluated three-year periods of 2013-2015 and 2016-2018 improved. An influx of tourists, the use of higher-class accommodation capacities, and the increasing number of tourist destinations were drivers of these improvements at the sub-national level, taking into account the internationalisation factor of incoming tourism. On average, the number of domestic visitors in research area increased by 38% overtime, and this trend was even more pronounced from a foreign perspective at 42%. Main contribution of this paper is methodology of the designed destination management evaluation methodology applicatable at the national as well as regional level. Constructed indicator takes into account the number of foreign and domestic tourists separately and brings results and trends of internationalization in evaluated areas.
ASIC and the secondary electricity market
Creators: name: Mullan, David
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The deregulation of Australia's electricity grid led to the development and growth of derivative financial products used to offset risk. These derivatives have formed a market of their own: the secondary electricity market. To date, there has been no investigation of the regulation of the secondary electricity market. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's ('ASIC') regulation of the secondary electricity market. Using a modified version of the regulatory conversations model, regulatory effectiveness is examined from the perspective of the subjects of regulation. The findings reveal dissatisfaction with ASIC's regulatory approach. Viewing the results through the lens of historical institutionalism further reveals that the cause of this dissatisfaction has become ingrained in ASIC as a result of ASIC's historical development. From the perspective of the subjects of regulation in the secondary electricity market, three critical junctures in ASIC's historical development prevent ASIC from properly regulating these derivatives: 1. The formation of ASIC as a 'pro-industry' body. 2. The switch from ASC to ASIC, which promoted an anti-regulatory ideology. 3. The growth in derivatives in the 90s, which forced ASIC to adopt ineffective, pragmatic regulation. Both the existence and justifiability of these perceptions pose challenges for ASIC. This paper suggests that ASIC's historical development has left it unable to achieve its own measures of effectiveness in regulating electricity related derivatives. It further suggests that, given ASIC's funding and regulatory load, that it would be undesirable for ASIC to attempt to address the specific needs of the secondary electricity market.
Sympathetic Ophthalmia as a Major Sight-threatening Disorder
Creators: name: A, Mohammed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Sympathetic Ophthalma: Iris and eyeball inflammatory condition affecting both eyes that occurs after a penetrating injury as a delayed autoimmune reaction to eye injury. Patients present with pain, photophobia, paresis of accommodation, metamorphopsia and mild to significant visual loss. The granulomatous anterior uveitis is accompanied by posterior segment findings including moderate to severe vitritis, choroiditis, papillitis, perivasculitis, and yellow-white lesions of the retinal pigment epithelium (Dalen-Fuchs nodules). The inflammation can lead to serious retinal detachment and macular edema. Extraocular symptoms include headache, meningitis or cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis, hearing loss, poliosis and vitiligo. The inflammation is caused by a cell-mediated immune mechanism and autoimmune inflammatory response directed against ocular self-antigens released after the initial injury. SO may occur after ocular trauma (47 to 65 % of patients) or contusions. Wounds involving the ciliary body are associated with the highest risk. Surgical interventions may also trigger SO, with posterior segment surgery carrying a higher risk than anterior segment surgery. Diagnosis of SO is mainly based on patient history and clinical presentation. Imaging studies (fluorescein or indocyanine green angiography, B-scan ultrasonography and optical coherence tomography) may be useful to confirm the diagnosis.
Powerful CMD: A Tool for Colour-Magnitude Diagram Studies
Creators: name: Li, Zhong-Mu
name: Mao, Cai-Yan
name: Luo, Qi-Ping
name: Fan, Zhou
name: Zhao, Wen-Chang
name: Chen, Li
name: Li, Ru-Xi
name: Guo, Jian-Po
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new tool for colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) studies, $Powerful~CMD$. This tool is built on the basis of the advanced stellar population synthesis (ASPS) model, in which single stars, binary stars, rotating stars, and star formation history have been taken into account. Via $Powerful~CMD$, the distance modulus, colour excess, metallicity, age, binary fraction, rotating star fraction, and star formation history of star clusters can be determined simultaneously from observed CMDs. The new tool is tested via both simulated and real star clusters. Five parameters of clusters NGC6362, NGC6652, NGC6838 and M67 are determined and compared to other works. It is shown that this tool is useful for CMD studies, in particular for those with the data of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Moreover, we find that the inclusion of binaries in theoretical stellar population models may lead to smaller colour excess compared to the case of single star population models.
description: Accepted to publish in RAA
Retinopathy of Prematurity: Incidence and Risk Factors
Creators: name: Verma A
name: Nema N
name: Patel S
name: Ishrat S
name: Sidharth M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Background: With improved neonatal care services across India, even the tiniest and sickest babies are surviving. However, they carry a high chance of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Therefore, pediatricians and ophthalmologists must be aware of the risk factors of ROP to detect and treat the disease at the earliest. Aims: To study the incidence and risk factors that predispose to ROP. Design: Observational study. Methods: Preterm and low birth weight infants, born between the years 2012 and 2014, and admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit of Sri Aurobindo Medical College and PG Institute, Indore were screened for ROP. Neonates with gestational age ≤ 34 weeks and birth weight < 1500 grams were examined within 4 weeks of birth. Results: The incidence of ROP was 23.4 % in 308 infants who were screened. Birth weight was significantly lower in infants with ROP than without ROP. Risk factors predisposing to ROP were septicemia (P=0.001), apnea (P<0.0001), oxygen therapy (P=0.003) and mechanical ventilation (P=0.004). However, only septicemia and apnea were found to be independent risk factors for development of ROP on multivariate analysis. Conclusion: The incidence of ROP was 23.4 % and the risk factors predisposing to the disease were septicemia and apnea besides low birth weight and prematurity.
title: ADCO, Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0010
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0010, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Second cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 22 (G 126), 110 folios, f. 0010, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Malware architects and rational choice: a case study analysis of three cyber-offenders
Creators: name: Morrison, Sarah
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis explores the cybercrime of malware through case study research. In doing so, the paper will apply rational choice theory, specifically Cornish and Clarkes (1986) rational choice perspectives, to malware architects Robert Tappan Morris and David Lee Smith, as well as alleged malware architect Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev. As will be demonstrated, each of the three-case examples, spread over four decades,have contributed to the development of future malware through their architecture and design, providing a critical timeline of events and motivation. The primary aim of the research is to establish whether rational choice is an appropriate theory to apply to malware architects. As such, this thesis explores a variety of complex issues, with the intention of gaining insights into why malware architects commit their crimes. This thesis is intended to help fill a gap in criminological knowledge regarding malware and provide a pathway to future research into malware and malware architects.
Suppression of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition by Prostaglandin E2 in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Orita T
name: Kimura K
name: Kohata Y
name: Sakuma A
name: Fujitsu Y
name: Wakuta M
name: Sonoda KH
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Background/Aims: An epithelial to mesenchymal transition of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells plays an important role in the formation of proliferative fibrocellular membranes in individuals with proliferative retinopathy. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2 ) exhibits various physiological actions including both pro- and anti-inflammatory effects. We have now investigated the effect of PGE2 on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of mouse RPE cells and fibrotic reactions in a type I collagen gel. Methods: Mouse RPE cells were incubated in three dimentional type 1 collagen gel culture system with transforming growth factor (TGF)-β2 (1ng/ml) in the absence or presence of PGE2 at various concentration. The expression of α-smooth muscle actin as well as matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3, the phosphorylation of Smad2, paxillin were examined by immunoblot analysis. The release of MMP-2 and MMP-9 was examined by gelatin zymography. Results: PGE2 inhibited the TGF-β2–induced contraction of collagen gels mediated by RPE cells in concentration dependent manner. The expression of α–smooth muscle actin and fibronectin as mesenchymal markers was inhibited. The release of MMP–2 and MMP-9 as well as the phosphorylation of Smad2 and paxillin induced by TGF-β2 in RPE cells were also attenuated by PGE2 . Conclusion: PGE2 may inhibit the contraction of proliferative fibrocellular membranes that can lead to retinal detachment in individuals with progressive vitreoretinal diseases.
FlowMM: Generating Materials with Riemannian Flow Matching
Creators: name: Miller, Benjamin Kurt
name: Chen, Ricky T. Q.
name: Sriram, Anuroop
name: Wood, Brandon M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crystalline materials are a fundamental component in next-generation technologies, yet modeling their distribution presents unique computational challenges. Of the plausible arrangements of atoms in a periodic lattice only a vanishingly small percentage are thermodynamically stable, which is a key indicator of the materials that can be experimentally realized. Two fundamental tasks in this area are to (a) predict the stable crystal structure of a known composition of elements and (b) propose novel compositions along with their stable structures. We present FlowMM, a pair of generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance on both tasks while being more efficient and more flexible than competing methods. We generalize Riemannian Flow Matching to suit the symmetries inherent to crystals: translation, rotation, permutation, and periodic boundary conditions. Our framework enables the freedom to choose the flow base distributions, drastically simplifying the problem of learning crystal structures compared with diffusion models. In addition to standard benchmarks, we validate FlowMM's generated structures with quantum chemistry calculations, demonstrating that it is about 3x more efficient, in terms of integration steps, at finding stable materials compared to previous open methods.
description: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flowmm
Entanglement-enhanced Neyman-Pearson target detection using quantum illumination
Creators: name: Zhuang, Quntao
name: Zhang, Zheshen
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum illumination (QI) provides entanglement-based target detection---in an entanglement-breaking environment---whose performance is significantly better than that of optimum classical-illumination target detection. QI's performance advantage was established in a Bayesian setting with the target presumed equally likely to be absent or present and error probability employed as the performance metric. Radar theory, however, eschews that Bayesian approach, preferring the Neyman-Pearson performance criterion to avoid the difficulties of accurately assigning prior probabilities to target absence and presence and appropriate costs to false-alarm and miss errors. We have recently reported an architecture---based on sum-frequency generation (SFG) and feedforward (FF) processing---for minimum error-probability QI target detection with arbitrary prior probabilities for target absence and presence. In this paper, we use our results for FF-SFG reception to determine the receiver operating characteristic---detection probability versus false-alarm probability---for optimum QI target detection under the Neyman-Pearson criterion.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Motherhood wage penalty in Japan: What causes mothers to earn less in regular jobs?
Creators: name: Dumauli, Magdalena Triasih
name: Dumauli, Magdalena Triasih
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Motherhood wage penalty
subject: wage differentials
subject: occupational choice
subject: working conditions

description: This study presents evidence of motherhood wage penalties in regular jobs in Japan. Limited previous studies examine the existence of motherhood wage penalties working permanently. This paper, therefore, investigates the causes of mothers’ lower wages in comparison to nonmothers in regular jobs. Japanese female workers are offered the choice between "general" and "integrated" career paths, and which path they choose is likely to affect the magnitude of the wage gap between mothers and nonmothers. This research estimates wage equations that consider observed and unobserved individual characteristics using unbalanced panel dataset from the Japan Household Panel Survey (the JHPS/KHPS 2004-2015) under a fixed-effect method. The empirical estimates confirm there is indeed a wage penalty for Japanese working mothers who work in full-time employment. The result shows that the presence of children is related to penalties in wages of 5.4% per child. Besides, the penalty associated with the presence of one child is consistently higher than that of two children. This study divides regular working women into two categories, large versus small enterprises and estimates the motherhood wage gap for each separately to find what factors contribute to the existence of this wage gap. Interestingly, the result shows the wage penalty for motherhood is high in large companies and not evident at all in small companies. This finding reinforces the hypothesis that the motherhood wage penalties in regular jobs in Japan may be due to "unobserved individual heterogeneity" that there are different career tracks chosen by mothers and nonmothers. High wage penalties in large companies are generated from a comparison between mothers on "general career paths" and childless women who are in "company-specific skills". Meanwhile, there is no evidence of wage penalties in small companies because female workers tend to have the same "traditional pattern." Overall, the finding of high motherhood penalties in regular employment bears a close relationship to labor market practice in Japan that relies heavily upon on-the-job-training (OJT) in company-specific-skills, couples with wages that rise with tenure of employment. However, it pertains only to employees who have chosen integrated career tracks.
Key audit matters: A research on listed firms in CEE countries and Turkey
Creators: name: Ciğer, Ayşegül
name: Vardar, Gizem Çopur
name: Kınay, Bülent
name: Ciğer, Ayşegül
name: Vardar, Gizem Çopur
name: Kınay, Bülent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Key audit matters
subject: listed companies
subject: CEE countries
subject: Turkey
subject: manufacturing sector

description: This study aims to identify and analyze the most significant matters (key audit matters) in auditing highlighted in auditors’ reports of companies in the manufacturing sector and to determine whether there is a divergence or convergence between the CEE countries and Turkey. Three CEE countries were chosen according to their economic development levels (Romania, Poland and the Czech Republic). Audit reports of the firms listed in stock exchange examined and analyzed for the year ended in 2017 by frequency and cross-table analysis. When the manufacturing sector is considered as a whole, both key audit matters (KAMs) sub-headings and the average number of KAMs showed the most similarity in Turkey and Poland. In a more specific assessment, Turkey bears a resemblance to both Poland and Romania in the "fabricated metal production" sub-sector. The most notable difference in terms of KAMs sub-headings between Turkey and two of the CEE countries (Poland and Romania) is "going concern."
A nexus between 3D atomistic data hybrids derived from atom probe microscopy and computational materials science: a new analysis of solute clustering in Al-alloys
Creators: name: Gault, Baptiste
name: Cui, Xiang Yuan
name: Moody, Michael P.
name: Ceguerra, Anna V.
name: Breen, Andrew J.
name: Marceau, Ross K. W.
name: Ringer, Simon P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solute clusters affect the physical properties of alloys. Knowledge of the atomic structure of solute clusters is a prerequisite for material optimisation. In this study, solute clusters in a rapid-hardening Al-Cu-Mg alloy were characterised by a combination of atom probe tomography and density functional theory, making use of a hybrid data type that combines lattice rectification and data completion to directly input experimental data into atomistic simulations. The clusters input to the atomistic simulations are thus observed experimentally, reducing the number of possible configurations. Our results show that spheroidal, compact clusters are more energetically favourable and more abundant.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, published in Scripta Materialia, Jan 2017
End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction
Creators: name: Stegner, Laura
name: Porfirio, David
name: Hiatt, Laura M.
name: Lemaignan, Séverin
name: Mead, Ross
name: Mutlu, Bilge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: End-user development (EUD) represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for experts and nonexperts alike. Within academia, researchers investigate novel ways that EUD tools can capture, represent, visualize, analyze, and test developer intent. At the same time, industry researchers increasingly build and ship programming tools that enable customers to interact with their robots. However, despite this growing interest, the role of EUD within HRI is not well defined. EUD struggles to situate itself within a growing array of alternative approaches to application development, such as robot learning and teleoperation. EUD further struggles due to the wide range of individuals who can be considered end users, such as independent third-party application developers, consumers, hobbyists, or even employees of the robot manufacturer. Key questions remain such as how EUD is justified over alternate approaches to application development, which contexts EUD is most suited for, who the target users of an EUD system are, and where interaction between a human and a robot takes place, amongst many other questions. We seek to address these challenges and questions by organizing the first End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction (EUD4HRI) workshop at the 2024 International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction. The workshop will bring together researchers with a wide range of expertise across academia and industry, spanning perspectives from multiple subfields of robotics, with the primary goal being a consensus of perspectives about the role that EUD must play within human-robot interaction.
description: Accepted at Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24 Companion), March 11--14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA
Dry Eye Changes after Phacoemulsification and Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS)
Creators: name: MYS, Saif
name: ATS, Saif
name: PS, Saif
name: AbdElKhalek MO
name: Mahran W
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: Evaluation of tear film stability and tear secretion after phacoemulsification and manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS). Design: Prospective comparative randomized clinical study. Subject and methods: 40 Patients included in this study divided into, Group A: 20 eyes with phacoemulsification. Group B: 20 eyes with MSICS. All patients had full ophthalmic examination including Tear film break-up time (TF-BUT), schirmer test, corneal fluorescein staining and dry eye symptoms recorded pre- and post- operatively. All patients were done by the same surgeon randomly selected standard coaxial phacoemulsification or MSICS. Results: The mean age in group A 55.8 ± 15.8 while, 60.65 ± 9.2 in group B. Most of patients in group B were females (90%) versus 45% in group A with statistically significant difference (p-value < 0.05). Grade of dry eye symptoms (DES) has significantly increased 1 week after each procedure and remained increased after 4 weeks of surgery. After 3 months, the grade of DES has decreased again and returned to near baseline data. There was no statistically significant difference between both groups regarding TF-BUT, Cornea fluorescein staining, and Schirmer test. Conclusion: The present study has shown that MSICS is as effective as phacoemulsification with no difference between both techniques as regarding effect on tear film stability and tear secretion.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515) (11 H 1162), f. 00002
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162), f. 00002, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
High Glucose and Glucose Deprivation Modulate Müller Cell Viability and VEGF Secretion
Creators: name: Vellanki S
name: Ferrigno A
name: Y, Alanis
name: Betts-Obregon BS
name: Tsin AT
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy is manifested by excessive angiogenesis and high level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the eye. Methods: Human (MIO-M1) and rat (rMC-1) Müller cells were treated with 0, 5.5, or 30mM glucose for 24 hours. Viable cell counts were obtained by Trypan Blue Dye Exclusion Method. ELISA was used to determine VEGF levels in cell medium. Results: Compared to 24 hour treatment by 5.5mM glucose, MIO-M1 and rMC-1 in 30mM glucose increased in viable cell number by 38% and 24% respectively. In contrast, viable cells in 0mM glucose decreased by 28% and 50% respectively. Compared to 5.5mM, MIO-M1 and rMC-1 in 30mM glucose had increased levels of VEGF in cell medium (pg/ml by 24% and 20%) and also VEGF concentration in cells held in 0mM increased by 47% and 10% respectively. In both MIO-M1 and rMC-1, the amount of VEGF secreted per cell increased by about 100% when glucose was changed from 5.5 to 0mM but decreased slightly (17% in MIO-M1 and 11% in rMC-1) when glucose was increased from 5.5 to 30mM. Conclusions: Our results show that MIO-M1 and rMC-1 are highly responsive to changes in glucose concentrations. 30mM compared to 5.5mM significantly increased cell viability but induced a significant change in VEGF secretion per cell in rMC-1 only. At 0, 5.5, and 30mM glucose, MIO-M1 secreted about 5-7-fold higher level of VEGF (pg/cell) than rMC-1. The mechanism of glucose-induced changes in rMC-1 and MIO-M1 cell viability and VEGF secretion remains to be elucidated.
Thermodynamic formalism for transport coefficients with an application to the shear modulus and shear viscosity
Creators: name: Palmer, Thomas
name: Speck, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss Onsager's thermodynamic formalism for transport coefficients and apply it to the calculation of the shear modulus and shear viscosity of a monodisperse system of repulsive particles. We focus on the concept of extensive "distance" and intensive "field" conjugated via a Fenchel-Legendre transform involving a thermodynamic(-like) potential, which allows to switch ensembles. Employing Brownian dynamics, we calculate both the shear modulus and the shear viscosity from strain fluctuations and show that they agree with direct calculations from strained and non-equilibrium simulations, respectively. We find a dependence of the fluctuations on the coupling strength to the strain reservoir, which can be traced back to the discrete-time integration. These results demonstrate the viability of exploiting fluctuations of extensive quantities for the numerical calculation of transport coefficients.
Suspended Electrons: A Quantum–Gravitational Hypothesis on Atmospheric Charge Formation Around Earth: A Conceptual Framework by Mohendra Dey (April 2025)
Creators: name: Dey, Mohendra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This paper presents an original theoretical hypothesis proposing the existence of a naturally suspended electron layer in Earth’s atmosphere. Unlike conventional models that rely on solar wind or magnetic trapping, this hypothesis suggests that photoelectric emissions from Earth’s surface—triggered by solar ultraviolet radiation—eject electrons that lack the escape velocity to leave Earth’s gravitational field. As a result, these electrons accumulate in a suspended region above the surface, forming a stable electron-rich zone.

 

The heavier, positively charged remnants remain bound to the Earth's surface, creating a vertical charge separation that contributes to Earth’s fair-weather electric field (~100 V/m). This theory offers a unified perspective that links quantum physics (photoelectric effect), gravitational confinement, and atmospheric electricity.

 

The hypothesis is entirely conceptual and based on established physical principles such as Einstein’s photoelectric effect and Newtonian gravity. While the idea lacks direct experimental confirmation at this time, it opens pathways for future research in atmospheric physics, quantum gravity, and electromagnetic field dynamics.

 

Author: Mohendra Dey  

Date: April 2025  

Email: mohendradey2021@gmail.com  

Copyright © 2025. All rights reserved.
Influence of Screen Exposure on Vergence Components from Childhood to Adolescence
Creators: name: Ajrezo L
name: Wiener-Vacher S
name: Bucci MP
name: Bui-Quoc E
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: The goal of our study is to explore the impact of screen exposure on vergence components in children. Sixty-eight healthy children (aged from 5.4 to 16 years old) were studied. We recorded vergence components (near point of convergence, heterophoria at far and near distances, fusional amplitudes of convergence and divergence at far and near distances, AC/A ratio). We reported the time spent in front of screens at near and far distance per day. NPC value is 1.87 ± 1.05 cm. Phoria at far is -0.29 ± 0.21 pD. Phoria at near is -3.00 ± 0.45 pD. Fusional amplitudes are as follows: convergence at far is 18.72 ± 0.73 pD; convergence at near is 38.16 ± 0.98 pD; divergence at far is 4.76 ± 0.19 pD; divergence at near is 17.01 ± 0.33 pD. AC/A ratio is 2.35 ± 0.08. Amplitude of divergence and convergence at near distance decreased significantly with age, while other vergence components did not vary. The time spent in front of screens at near distance increased significantly with age. There is a significant correlation between the amplitudes of convergence and exposure time to screens (both at near distance). Our study, beside reporting precise normative vergence data in children, suggests that near distance activity could possibly allow older children to have better vergence accuracy at near distance and a smaller range of vergence amplitude as a possible consequence of visual training.
Universal Coherence-Induced Power Losses of Quantum Heat Engines in Linear Response
Creators: name: Brandner, Kay
name: Bauer, Michael
name: Seifert, Udo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a universal scheme to divide the power output of a periodically driven quantum heat engine into a classical contribution and one stemming solely from quantum coherence. Specializing to Lindblad-dynamics and small driving amplitudes, we derive general upper bounds on both, the coherent and the total power. These constraints imply that, in the linear-response regime, coherence inevitably leads to power losses. To illustrate our general analysis, we explicitly work out the experimentally relevant example of a single-qubit engine.
description: 7+4 pages, 2 figures
A study on the impact of economic freedom on economic growth in ASEAN countries
Creators: name: Tran, Dung Viet
name: Tran, Dung Viet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Economic freedom
subject: labor freedom
subject: trade freedom
subject: financial freedom
subject: economic growth

description: We examine the impact of economic freedom on economic growth using data of ASEAN countries over the period of 2000-2017. To capture the characteristics of ASEAN liberalization purposes, we use different proxies documented in prior literature such as trade freedom, labor freedom and financial freedom as proxies of economic freedom. We document that higher economic freedom and higher labor freedom lead to higher economic growth. However, more trade freedom appears to inhibit economic growth in ASEAN countries. We find no significant relationship between financial freedom and economic growth. These findings survive robustness tests
Magnon-polaron transport in magnetic insulators
Creators: name: Flebus, Benedetta
name: Shen, Ka
name: Kikkawa, Takashi
name: Uchida, Ken-ichi
name: Qiu, Zhiyong
name: Saitoh, Eiji
name: Duine, Rembert A.
name: Bauer, Gerrit E. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the effects of strong magnetoelastic coupling on the transport properties of magnetic insulators. We develop a Boltzmann transport theory for the mixed magnon-phonon modes (magnon polarons) and determine transport coefficients and spin diffusion length. Magnon-polaron formation causes anomalous features in the magnetic field and temperature dependence of the spin Seebeck effect when the disorder scattering in the magnetic and elastic subsystems is sufficiently different. Experimental data by Kikkawa et al. [PRL 117, 207203 (2016)] on yttrium iron garnet films can be explained by an acoustic quality that is much better than the magnetic quality of the material. We predict similar anomalous features in the spin and heat conductivity and non-local spin transport experiments.
Visual Field Loss, Quality of Life and Ocular Biometric Parameters: A Cross Sectional Study of Taiwanese Adults
Creators: name: Hsieh MH
name: JC, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: To evaluate the severity of visual field loss in Taiwanese adults and assess the associations between visual field loss detected by frequency doubling technology (FDT) perimetry and vision-related quality of life (QoL) in Taiwanese adults. Methods: A total of 206 eyes from 206 subjects were included. Each subject was examined using FDT (N-30 threshold test) perimetry, optical coherence tomography (OCT), noncontact tonometry, cycloplegic refractometry, and National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire 25 items (NEI VFQ-25). Results of FDT tests were classified into four groups (normal, early, moderate, and severe defects) using FDT probability map analysis. OCT parameters included central cornea thickness (CCT), thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell complex (GCC), focal loss volume (FLV), and global loss volume (GLV) of GCC. The global score, subscales of near and distance activities of VFQ were calculated. Linear regression analysis was used to analyze the factors associated with visual field loss. Kruskal-Wallis analysis was used to examine the relationship between FDT results and vision-related QoL. Results: Among the 206 subjects, 72 were normal. The numbers of participants having early, moderate, and severe visual field loss were 101, 27, and 6. Moderate visual field defect was associated with CCT, GLV, GCC, and SE when compared to the subjects with normal response. Kruskal-Wallis analysis indicated that those with moderate visual field loss determined by FDT had worse vision related QoL and more difficulties in distance activities of VFQ (p=0.01) than people with normal response. Conclusion: Moderate visual field loss detected by FDT was associated with vision-related QoL in young adults. Further study is warranted to determine the potential of visual field loss as a predicting factor for vision loss related QoL.
Parallels in the story of Adam and Eve, and the genesis of neurosis in Freudian psychoanalysis
Creators: name: Winning, Anthony P.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Christianity has proven to be one of the most influential phenomena in human history, playing an important role in Western society and culture for centuries. While psychoanalysis, as espoused by Sigmund Freud, is only a comparatively recent development, many of its ideas have become part of the wider cultural fabric, and of mainstream psychology in the Western world. Central to both Western Christianity and Freudian psychoanalysis is the perceived fabric of human nature. In turn, each framework offers an account for the genesis of dysfunction in the human condition, that is, why human beings are unable to be fully at peace with both themselves and life. Given that both of these systems have become so ingrained in Western society, an exploration of the similarities in the conceptualisation of human dysfunction may offer some illumination on the nature of human consciousness and the human condition. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to explore areas of overlap in theological doctrine and psychoanalytic theory, and in turn to derive an account for why human beings experience discord in life. Specifically, this thesis will argue that the story of Adam and Eve tells through symbols and images the trajectory for psychical development envisaged by Freud, and that both accounts posit the same core reason for human dysfunction. Thus, instead of being a revelation, Freud merely rediscovered through science what religion knew all along.
A detailed analysis of impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy of bismuth selenide
Creators: name: Zhou, Weimin
name: Zhu, Haoshan
name: Yarmoff, Jory A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Impact collision ion scattering spectroscopy (ICISS), which is a variation of low energy ion scattering (LEIS) that employs large scattering angles, is performed on Bi2Se3 surfaces prepared by ion bombardment and annealing (IBA). ICISS angular scans are collected experimentally and simulated numerically along the [120] and [-1 -2 0] azimuths, and the match of the positions of the flux peaks shows that the top three atomic layers are bulk-terminated. A newly observed feature is identified as a minimum in the multiple scattering background when the ion beam incidence is along a low index direction. Calculated scans as a function of scattering angle are employed to identify the behavior of flux peaks to show whether they originate from shadowing, blocking or both. This new method for analysis of large-angle LEIS data is shown to be useful for accurately investigating complex surface structures.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures
CHINA’S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA THROUGH THE LENS OF THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE
Creators: name: TAFADZWA MANDINYENYA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: History

description: This research pays attention to the gradual development and changing statecraft of China’s foreign policy in the post-Cold War era (1990-2017). The research explores the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence as enshrined in China’s 1982 Constitution. The inquiry reveals inconsistencies between China’s foreign policy 'talk' and 'walk.' The research found that the Five Principles fall secondary to China’s national self-interests. Moreover, although the spirit of the Five Principles is prevalent in China’s foreign policy 'talk,' they seem to in fact be used more as 'survival strategies' than mechanisms for common, shared aspirations in international affairs. The country’s behavioral transformation, coupled with its foreign policy 'walk' post the 2007 global economic crisis, can be seen to have changed from being passive to becoming more assertive and confrontational.
Shaking Shangri-la: the Tibetan mentoring case study
Creators: name: Bellemore, Phillipa
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The relationship between refugees and their receiving community is an area requiring further investigation and research. This thesis examines refugee monitoring through a case study of the Tibetan Mentoring Program, based in the Northern Beaches of Sydney. My research question is "How might mentoring assist integration of refugees in Australia?" The study has two aims: firstly, to better understand what contributes to good mentoring relationships and why they sometimes fail; and secondly to understand what mentoring brings to the refugee resettlement experience. A qualitative research methodology was used, including interviews with mentor and mentees, a focus group, and ethnography. The research aims to add to limited literature on how the receiving community can assist refugee settlement. A key hook is exploring and interrogating the role of the receiving community and possibilities of welcome or unwelcome thrown open by refugee mentoring programs. I argue care must be taken to unpack the romantic notions attributed to mentoring and I contend there is a need for theoretical development of refugee mentoring. Everyday social connections and ontological security enable a sense of belonging, and the forging of these emotional connections are examined. Also explored, the nature of the bonds formed in the mentoring relationship and how mentors and mentees interplay, symbolise and construct their cultural identity. In other words, how the mentoring relationship is constructed, shaken and contested between mentors and mentees.
A Clash Of Cultures
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: But before we do that we will have to return to a common flaw that has prevailed in the perception of pre-CE India. Most of the history texts speak of the Āryavarta (“That country which lies between the Himavatand the Vindhya mountains” [Bühler, 1886 : The Laws of Manu, Chapter II, 33]) and the Tāmiḷākam(“Venkata Hillin the north to Cape Comorin in the south and Bay of Bengal in the east to Arabian Sea in the west.” [Kanakasabhai, 1904 :The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago, 10])But that leaves out the best part of the Indian peninsula between the Vindhya and the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers. Was that a mere uninhabited forest or inhabited by savages not worthy of mention in history ?
Reconstruction of 400 GeV/c proton interactions with the SHiP-charm project
Creators: name: SHiP Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SHiP-charm project was proposed to measure the associated charm production induced by 400 GeV/c protons in a thick target, including the contribution from cascade production. An optimisation run was performed in July 2018 at CERN SPS using a hybrid setup. The high resolution of nuclear emulsions acting as vertex detector was complemented by electronic detectors for kinematic measurements and muon identification. Here we present first results on the analysis of nuclear emulsions exposed in the 2018 run, which prove the capability of reconstructing proton interaction vertices in a harsh environment, where the signal is largely dominated by secondary particles produced in hadronic and electromagnetic showers within the lead target.
Intersections and Unions of Session Types
Creators: name: Acay, Coşku
name: Pfenning, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prior work has extended the deep, logical connection between the linear sequent calculus and session-typed message-passing concurrent computation with equi-recursive types and a natural notion of subtyping. In this paper, we extend this further by intersection and union types in order to express multiple behavioral properties of processes in a single type. We prove session fidelity and absence of deadlock and illustrate the expressive power of our system with some simple examples. We observe that we can represent internal and external choice by intersection and union, respectively, which was previously suggested by Padovani for a different language of session types motivated by operational rather than logical concerns.
description: In Proceedings ITRS 2016, arXiv:1702.01874