cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Advanced fluid modeling and PIC/MCC simulations of low-pressure ccrf discharges
Creators: name: Becker, M.M.
name: Kählert, H.
name: Sun, A.
name: Bonitz, M.
name: Loffhagen, D.
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: benchmarking
subject: capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasmas
subject: drift-diffusion approximation
subject: fluid modeling
subject: particle-in-cell simulations
subject: 530

description: Comparative studies of capacitively coupled radio-frequency discharges in helium and argon at pressures between 10 and 80 Pa are presented applying two different fluid modeling approaches as well as two independently developed particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision (PIC/MCC) codes. The focus is on the analysis of the range of applicability of a recently proposed fluid model including an improved drift-diffusion approximation for the electron component as well as its comparison with fluid modeling results using the classical drift-diffusion approximation and benchmark results obtained by PIC/MCC simulations. Main features of this time- and space-dependent fluid model are given. It is found that the novel approach shows generally quite good agreement with the macroscopic properties derived by the kinetic simulations and is largely able to characterize qualitatively and quantitatively the discharge behavior even at conditions when the classical fluid modeling approach fails. Furthermore, the excellent agreement between the two PIC/MCC simulation codes using the velocity Verlet method for the integration of the equations of motion verifies their accuracy and applicability.
title: Политология
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Профобразование
Year: 2023

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены этапы становления и развития политической мысли. Освещены такие понятия как политическая власть, политические элиты и лидерство, политическая система, государство и гражданское общество, политические режимы. Показаны формы политических конфликтов и политических кризисов, мировая политика и международные отношения, социально-политическое развитие Республики Казахстан. Особенностью книги являются логические блок-схемы к каждой главе, помогающие студенту эффективнее усвоить основные понятия темы. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов учебных заведений технического и профессионального образования, обучающихся по специальностям области образования 04 «Бизнес, управление и право» и изучающих дисциплину «Основы политологии и социологии». Также будет полезно для студентов иных областей образования, изучающих данную дисциплину.
Validation of Continuously Tagged MRI for the Measurement of Dynamic 3D Skeletal Muscle Tissue Deformation
Creators: name: Moerman, Kevin M.
name: Sprengers, Andre M. J.
name: Simms, Ciaran K.
name: Lamerichs, Rolf M.
name: Stoker, Jaap
name: Nederveen, Aart J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A SPAMM tagged MRI methodology is presented allowing continuous (3.3-3.6 Hz) sampling of 3D dynamic soft tissue deformation using non-segmented 3D acquisitions. The 3D deformation is reconstructed by the combination of 3 mutually orthogonal tagging directions, thus requiring only 3 repeated motion cycles. In addition a fully automatic post-processing framework is presented employing Gabor scale-space and filter-bank analysis for tag extrema segmentation and triangulated surface fitting aided by Gabor filter bank derived surface normals. Deformation is derived following tracking of tag surface triplet triangle intersections. The dynamic deformation measurements were validated using indentation tests (~20 mm deep at 12 mm/s) on a silicone gel soft tissue phantom containing contrasting markers which provide a reference measure of deformation. In addition, the techniques were evaluated in-vivo for dynamic skeletal muscle tissue deformation measurement during indentation of the biceps region of the upper arm in a volunteer.
description: Medical Physics 2012
RES-Q-Trace: A Mobile CEAS-Based Demonstrator for Multi-Component Trace Gas Detection in the MIR
Creators: name: Lang, Norbert
name: Macherius, Uwe
name: Zimmermann, Henrik
name: Glitsch, Sven
name: Wiese, Mathias
name: Röpcke, Jürgen
name: Van Helden, Jean-Pierre H.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Absorption spectroscopy
subject: Cavity-enhanced spectroscopy
subject: Interband cascade laser
subject: Quantum cascade laser
subject: Trace gas sensing
subject: 620

description: Sensitive trace gas detection plays an important role in current challenges occurring in areas such as industrial process control and environmental monitoring. In particular, for medical breath analysis and for the detection of illegal substances, e.g., drugs and explosives, a selective and sensitive detection of trace gases in real-time is required. We report on a compact and transportable multi-component system (RES-Q-Trace) for molecular trace gas detection based on cavity-enhanced techniques in the mid-infrared (MIR). The RES-Q-Trace system can operate four independent continuous wave quantum or interband cascade lasers each combined with an optical cavity. Twice the method of off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (OA-CEAS) was used, twice the method of optical feedback cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy (OF-CEAS), respectively. Multi-functional software has been implemented (i) for the general system control; (ii) to drive the four different laser sources and (iii) to analyze the detector signals for concentration determination of several molecular species. For the validation of the versatility and the performance of the RES-Q-Trace instrument the species NO, N2O, CH4, C2H4 and C3H6O, with relevance in the fields of breath gas analysis and the detection of explosives have been monitored in the MIR with detection limits at atmospheric pressure in the ppb and ppt range.
The fourtangle in the transverse XY model
Creators: name: Osterloh, Andreas
name: Schützhold, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the entanglement measure $C_4$ for mixed states in general and for the transverse XY model. We come to the conclusion that it cannot serve alone for guaranteeing an entanglement of $GHZ_4$-type. The genuine negativity calculated in Ref.~\cite{Hofmann14} isn't sufficient for that either and some additional measure of entanglement must be considered. In particular we study the transverse XY-model and find a non-zero $C_4$ measure which is of the same order of magnitude than the genuine negativity. Furthermore, we observe a feature in the $C_4$ values that resembles a destructive interference with the underlying concurrence.
description: 7 pages, 17 figures, revtex4
The role of Mrf2 in murine development
Creators: name: Lahoud., Mireille Hanna
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Liquid assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition with a non-thermal plasma jet at atmospheric pressure
Creators: name: Schäfer, Jan
name: Fricke, Katja
name: Mika, Filip
name: Pokorná, Zuzana
name: Zajíčková, Lenka
name: Foest, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hexamethyldisiloxane; Liquid assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition; Octamethyltetrasiloxane; Plasma jet; Silicon oxide; Tetrakis(trimethylsilyloxy)silane
subject: 070
subject: 660

description: The present study introduces a process for the synthesis of functional films onto substrates directly from the liquid phase. The reported method is based on the initialization of the synthesis by means of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet operating with argon above a thin liquid film of the starting material. The process is demonstrated by the formation of a thin, solid SiOx film from siloxane-based liquid precursors. Changes in the chemical properties of the precursor were studied in-situ during the polymerization process on the diamond crystal by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy The elemental composition of the SiOxCy films was analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Furthermore, XPS was applied to study the effect of post-annealing processes on the composition of the films. The obtained deposits exhibit a low concentration of carbon groups. The amount of hydroxyl groups and interstitial water can be reduced significantly by post-process annealing of the films.
Biscutella arvernensis Jord. 1864
Creators: name: Thiebaut, Melanie
name: Tison, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Biscutella
Biscutella arvernensis

description: Biscutella arvernensis Jord. (1864: 298).
Ind. loc.: “ Auvergne; Pic de Sancy, etcˮ.
 Lectotype (designated here):— FRANCE. “ Biscutella (laevigata) arvernensis Jord., B. montana […] silic. laev., pic de Sancy juillet 1847, MLˮ (handwriting) leg. M. Lamotte, det. A. Jordan (LY0005459!).
description: Published as part of Thiebaut, Melanie & Tison, Jean-Marc, 2016, Typification of thirty-two names given by Alexis Jordan in the genus Biscutella (Brassicaceae), pp. 103-112 in Phytotaxa 269 (2) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13665485
Microstructural stability of nanostructured fcc metals during cyclic deformation and fatigue
Creators: name: Funk, Matthias Friedrich
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: nanostructured metals
fatigue
in situ
electron microscopy

description: Nanostructured metals with maximal grain or twin sizes of less than 100 nm have advanced properties like increased strength.
As beneficial as these microstructures can be for the strength of materials, they are not infinitely stable. During mechanical loading these metals tend to coarsen and lose their beneficial structure. Besides electron microscopic analysis of fatigued samples, in situ cycling tests were conducted in order to observe structural degradation during mechanical loading.
Phenomenological Magnetic Model in Tsai-Type Approximants
Creators: name: Sugimoto, Takanori
name: Tohyama, Takami
name: Hiroto, Takanobu
name: Tamura, Ryuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent discovery of canted ferromagnetism in Tsai-type approximants Au-Si-RE (RE = Tb, Dy, Ho), we propose a phenomenological magnetic model reproducing their magnetic structure and thermodynamic quantities. In the model, cubic symmetry ($m\bar{3}$) of the approximately-regular icosahedra plays a key role in the peculiar magnetic structure determined by a neutron diffraction experiment. Our magnetic model does not only explain magnetic behaviors in the quasicrystal approximants, but also provides a good starting point for the possibility of coexistence between magnetic long-range order and aperiodicity in quasicrystals.
description: 5 pages, 3figures
title: Сравнительная оценка свойств липовых медов разного географического происхождения
Creators: name: Есенкина, Светлана Николаевна
Publisher: name: ФГБНУ КНЦЗВ
Year: 2022

description: Липовый мед является одним из элитных сортов за счет большего содержания фрукто-зы и глюкозы, обладая комплексом свойств полезных для человека: антибактериальных, жа-ропонижающих, потогонных, противовоспалительных. Наибольшее количество липового меда в мире производит Россия и Китай.
Липовый мед получают с деревьев рода лип, который входит в состав разных сообществ лесов, иногда занимая доминирующее положение и включает 45 видов. По данным Е. С. Му-рахтанова, на территории России естественно произрастает 16 видов лип. В кормовой базе пчеловодства Российской Федерации липа играет важное значение, максимальные площади под липняками отмечаются в Приморском крае, Башкортостане, Татарстане, Удмуртской Рес-публике, Республике Марий–Эл, Кировской области.
Учитывая видовое разнообразие экотипов лип на территории России, полученный мед имеет характерные отличительные показатели, свойственные тому или иному виду.
Fertilization using sperm microinjection in the mouse and in the human
Creators: name: Lacham-Kaplan., Orly
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Biscutella collina Jord. 1864
Creators: name: Thiebaut, Melanie
name: Tison, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Biscutella
Biscutella collina

description: Biscutella collina Jord. (1864: 299).
Ind. loc.: “ Nord du Dauphiné; Crémieu (Isère)ˮ.
 Note: no topotypic sheet or identified by A. Jordan could be found for this species in the numerous collections studied. It is not mentioned in the notes and seedling notebooks either. B. collina is probably equivalent to B. laevigata subsp. varia (Dumort.) Rouy & Foucaud which seems to be the only Biscutella living in the east side of Lyon. Five gatherings bearing this name could be found: one in LY (from Valencia district, Spain) and four in P (from Auvergne region, Montagne Noire and Pyrenees), but they were all identified by other authors and they do not match this microtaxon. However, one of these gatherings could be designated as neotype, thus altering the meaning of the name. But as the population near Crémieu still exists, it would be better to choose an actual neotype coming from this locality. Especially since B. laevigata subsp. varia itself is subject to schizoendemism and still requires to be studied in that sense (Tremetsberger et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Thiebaut, Melanie & Tison, Jean-Marc, 2016, Typification of thirty-two names given by Alexis Jordan in the genus Biscutella (Brassicaceae), pp. 103-112 in Phytotaxa 269 (2) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13665485
Biscutella flexuosa Jord. 1864
Creators: name: Thiebaut, Melanie
name: Tison, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Biscutella
Biscutella flexuosa

description: Biscutella flexuosa Jord. (1864: 300).
Ind. loc.: “ Pyrénées; Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-pyrénées)ˮ.
 Lectotype (designated here):— FRANCE. “ Biscutella flexuosa Jord., Htes Pyr. L’hiéris 1838ˮ (handwriting) leg. and det. A. Jordan (LY004728!).
Note: although the toponym is different, “L’hiérisˮ matches Bagnères-de-Bigorre: this old name designates le Casque du Lhéris, about 4 km to the south-east of this town, near Asté.
description: Published as part of Thiebaut, Melanie & Tison, Jean-Marc, 2016, Typification of thirty-two names given by Alexis Jordan in the genus Biscutella (Brassicaceae), pp. 103-112 in Phytotaxa 269 (2) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13665485
Initiating events in experimental autoimmune gastritis
Creators: name: La Gruta., Nicole Louise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The SLUGGS Survey: The mass distribution in early-type galaxies within five effective radii and beyond
Creators: name: Alabi, Adebusola B.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Brodie, Jean P.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Janz, Joachim
name: Pota, Vincenzo
name: Pastorello, Nicola
name: Usher, Christopher
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Foster, Caroline
name: Jennings, Zachary G.
name: Villaume, Alexa
name: Kartha, Sreeja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study mass distributions within and beyond 5~effective radii ($R_{\rm e}$) in 23 early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey, using their globular cluster (GC) kinematic data. The data are obtained with Keck/DEIMOS spectrograph, and consist of line-of-sight velocities for ~$3500$ GCs, measured with a high precision of ~15 $\rm km\ s^{-1}$ per GC and extending out to $~13 R_{\rm e}$. We obtain the mass distribution in each galaxy using the tracer mass estimator of Watkins et al. and account for kinematic substructures, rotation of the GC systems and galaxy flattening in our mass estimates. The observed scatter between our mass estimates and results from the literature is less than 0.2 dex. The dark matter fraction within $5R_{\rm e}$ ($f_{\rm DM}$) increases from ~$0.6$ to ~$0.8$ for low- and high-mass galaxies, respectively, with some intermediate-mass galaxies ($M_*{\sim}10^{11}M_\odot$) having low $f_{\rm DM}\sim0.3$, which appears at odds with predictions from simple galaxy models. We show that these results are independent of the adopted orbital anisotropy, stellar mass-to-light ratio, and the assumed slope of the gravitational potential. However, the low $f_{\rm DM}$ in the ~$10^{11}M_\odot$ galaxies agrees with the cosmological simulations of Wu et al. where the pristine dark matter distribution has been modified by baryons during the galaxy assembly process. We find hints that these $M_*\sim10^{11}M_\odot$ galaxies with low $f_{\rm DM}$ have very diffuse dark matter haloes, implying that they assembled late. Beyond $5R_{\rm e}$, the $M/L$ gradients are steeper in the more massive galaxies and shallower in both low and intermediate mass galaxies.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, 9 tables - Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Observation of $π^- K^+$ and $π^+ K^-$ atoms
Creators: name: DIRAC Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of hydrogen-like $πK$ atoms, consisting of $π^- K^+$ or $π^+ K^-$ mesons, is presented. The atoms have been produced by 24 GeV/$c$ protons from the CERN PS accelerator, interacting with platinum or nickel foil targets. The breakup (ionisation) of $πK$ atoms in the same targets yields characteristic $πK$ pairs, called "atomic pairs", with small relative momenta in the pair centre-of-mass system. The upgraded DIRAC experiment has observed $349\pm62$ such atomic $πK$ pairs, corresponding to a signal of 5.6 standard deviations.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Biscutella brevicaulis Jord. 1864
Creators: name: Thiebaut, Melanie
name: Tison, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Biscutella
Biscutella brevicaulis

description: Biscutella brevicaulis Jord. (1864: 303).
Ind. loc.: “ Provence supérieure; Mont-de-Lure (Basses-Alpes)., […] Je l’ai apportée vivante de son lieu natal dans mes cultures et j’en ai fait de nombreux semisˮ.
 Neotype (designated here):— FRANCE. “ Biscutella brevicaulis Jord., de Lure (Bses Alp.), s.d. 1862, (29) mj. 6 mai/ juin 1865 ˮ (handwriting) leg. and det. A. Jordan (LY0004748!).
 Note: A. Jordan describes in Diagnoses three other forms: “J’ai recueilli sur le Mont-Ventoux une forme pareillement naine, dont le fruit est scabre, qui est peut-être distincte du B. brevicaulisˮ, this could match with a specimen from MPU (“Mont Ventoux au sommet, 21 juin/29 juilt 1876ˮ, ex herb. A. Jordan). He writes then: “ Une autre forme du Mont-Ventoux est remarquable…ˮ, and: “J’ai récolté à Cervières, près de Briançon, dans les Hautes-Alpes, une troisième forme…ˮ, but no specimen in the collections matches these descriptions. Furthermore, in his notes and seedling notebooks, from 1860, Jordan discriminates: “Lure du 1 er rangˮ, from “pied nordˮ and “pied sudˮ, then “Lure du 2 ème rangˮ. In 1861, he writes about Lure n°1: “paraît mêléˮ.
description: Published as part of Thiebaut, Melanie & Tison, Jean-Marc, 2016, Typification of thirty-two names given by Alexis Jordan in the genus Biscutella (Brassicaceae), pp. 103-112 in Phytotaxa 269 (2) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13665485
Agile-SD: A Linux-based TCP Congestion Control Algorithm for Supporting High-speed and Short-distance Networks
Creators: name: Alrshah, Mohamed A.
name: Othman, Mohamed
name: Ali, Borhanuddin
name: Hanapi, Zurina Mohd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, high-speed and short-distance networks are widely deployed and their necessity is rapidly increasing everyday. This type of networks is used in several network applications; such as Local Area Networks (LAN) and Data Center Networks (DCN). In LANs and DCNs, high-speed and short-distance networks are commonly deployed to connect between computing and storage elements in order to provide rapid services. Indeed, the overall performance of such networks is significantly influenced by the Congestion Control Algorithm (CCA) which suffers from the problem of bandwidth under-utilization, especially if the applied buffer regime is very small. In this paper, a novel loss-based CCA tailored for high-speed and Short-Distance (SD) networks, namely Agile-SD, has been proposed. The main contribution of the proposed CCA is to implement the mechanism of agility factor. Further, intensive simulation experiments have been carried out to evaluate the performance of Agile-SD compared to Compound and Cubic which are the default CCAs of the most commonly used operating systems. The results of the simulation experiments show that the proposed CCA outperforms the compared CCAs in terms of average throughput, loss ratio and fairness, especially when a small buffer is applied. Moreover, Agile-SD shows lower sensitivity to the buffer size change and packet error rate variation which increases its efficiency.
description: 12 Pages
G20 Economical Analysis
Creators: name: Hanna, Mina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: G20

description: The G20 (The Group of 20) is an international forum combining twenty major economies representing 19 countries and the European Union. The mission of the G20 is maintain an economic collaboration ensuring stable financial systems. While the member countries represent significant global GDP, trade, population and land area, criticism around bad representation of Africa within the G20 member countries of the G20 which is limited to South Africa. This publication with the embedded visualizations walks through the powerful economies of the G20 but also shows the poor representation of Africa.
description: Website using google API which will require webserver to access the API data
New Insights for High-precision Asteroseismology: Acoustic Radius of KIC 6225718
Creators: name: Wu, Tao
name: Li, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology is a powerful tool for probing stellar interiors and determining stellar fundamental parameters. In previous works, $χ^2$-minimization method is usually used to find the best matching model to characterize observations. In this letter, we adopt the $χ^2$-minimization method but only using the observed high-precision oscillation to constrain theoretical models for solar-like oscillating star KIC 6225718, which is observed by \kepler\ satellite. We also take into account the influence of model precision. Finally, we find that the time resolution of stellar evolution can not be ignored in high-precision asteroseismic analysis. Based on this, we find the acoustic radius $τ_{0}$ is the only global parameter that can be accurately measured by $χ^2_ν$ matching method between observed frequencies and theoretical model calculations. We obtain $τ_{0}=4601.5^{+4.4}_{-8.3}$ seconds. In addition, we analyze the distribution of $χ^2_ν$-minimization models (CMMs), and find that the distribution range of CMMs is slightly enlarged by some extreme cases, which possess both of larger mass and higher (or lower) heavy element abundance, at lower acoustic radius end.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Star-planet interactions: I. Stellar rotation and planetary orbits
Creators: name: Privitera, Giovanni
name: Meynet, Georges
name: Eggenberger, Patrick
name: Vidotto, Aline A.
name: Villaver, Eva
name: Bianda, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. As a star evolves, the planet orbits change with time due to tidal interactions, stellar mass losses, friction and gravitational drag forces, mass accretion and evaporation on/by the planet. Stellar rotation modifies the structure of the star and therefore the way these different processes occur. Changes of the orbits, at their turn, have an impact on the rotation of the star. Aims. Models accounting in a consistent way for these interactions between the orbital evolution of the planet and the evolution of the rotation of the star are still missing. The present work is a first attempt to fill this gap. Methods. We compute the evolution of stellar models including a comprehensive treatment of rotational effects together with the evolution of planetary orbits, so that the exchanges of angular momentum between the star and the planetary orbit are treated in a self-consistent way. The evolution of the rotation of the star accounts for the angular momentum exchange with the planet and also follows the effects of the internal transport of angular momentum and chemicals. Results. We show that rotating stellar models without tidal interactions can well reproduce the surface rotations of the bulk of the red giants. However, models without any interactions cannot account for fast rotating red giants in the upper part of the red giant branch, where, such models, whatever the initial rotation considered on the ZAMS, always predict very low velocities. For those stars some interaction with a companion is highly probable and the present rotating stellar models with planets confirm that tidal interaction can reproduce their high surface velocities. We show also that the minimum distance between the planet and the star on the ZAMS that will allow the planet to avoid engulfment and survive is decreased around faster rotating stars. [abridged]
description: 14 pages, abstract abridged for arXiv submission, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ultra-low power mixed-signal frontend for wearable EEGs
Creators: name: Abbasi, Mohammad Usaid
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Electronics circuits are ubiquitous in daily life, aided by advancements in the chip design industry, leading to miniaturised solutions for typical day to day problems. One of the critical healthcare areas helped by this advancement in technology is electroencephalography (EEG). EEG is a non-invasive method of tracking a person's brain waves, and a crucial tool in several healthcare contexts, including epilepsy and sleep disorders. Current ambulatory EEG systems still suffer from limitations that affect their usability. Furthermore, many patients admitted to emergency departments (ED) for a neurological disorder like altered mental status or seizures, would remain undiagnosed hours to days after admission, which leads to an elevated rate of death compared to other conditions. Conducting a thorough EEG monitoring in early-stage could prevent further damage to the brain and avoid high mortality. But lack of portability and ease of access results in a long wait time for the prescribed patients. All real signals are analogue in nature, including brainwaves sensed by EEG systems. For converting the EEG signal into digital for further processing, a truly wearable EEG has to have an analogue mixed-signal front-end (AFE). This research aims to define the specifications for building a custom AFE for the EEG recording and use that to review the suitability of the architectures available in the literature. Another critical task is to provide new architectures that can meet the developed specifications for EEG monitoring and can be used in epilepsy diagnosis, sleep monitoring, drowsiness detection and depression study. The thesis starts with a preview on EEG technology and available methods of brainwaves recording. It further expands to design requirements for the AFE, with a discussion about critical issues that need resolving. Three new continuous-time capacitive feedback chopped amplifier designs are proposed. A novel calibration loop for setting the accurate value for a pseudo-resistor, which is a crucial block in the proposed topology, is also discussed. This pseudoresistor calibration loop achieved the resistor variation of under 8.25%. The thesis also presents a new design of a curvature corrected bandgap, as well as a novel DDA based fourth-order Sallen-Key filter. A modified sensor frontend architecture is then proposed, along with a detailed analysis of its implementation. Measurement results of the AFE are finally presented. The AFE consumed a total power of 3.2A (including ADC, amplifier, filter, and current generation circuitry) with the overall integrated input-referred noise of 0.87V-rms in the frequency band of 0.5-50Hz. Measurement results confirmed that only the proposed AFE achieved all defined specifications for the wearable EEG system with the smallest power consumption than state-of-art architectures that meet few but not all specifications. The AFE also achieved a CMRR of 131.62dB, which is higher than any studied architectures.
Biscutella apricorum Jord., de Collobrieres (Var 1864
Creators: name: Thiebaut, Melanie
name: Tison, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Biscutella
Biscutella apricorum

description: Biscutella apricorum Jord. (1864: 307).
Ind. loc.: “Sud de la Provence; Collobrières (Var)ˮ.
 Lectotype (designated here):— FRANCE. “ Biscutella apricorum Jord., de Collobrières (Var), mj. 7 avril/ mai 1856 ” (handwriting) leg. and det. A. Jordan (LY0006359!; iso- LY0006360!).
 Syntypus: “ Biscutella apricorum Jord., Collobrières (Var), mj mai juin 1858, ex Herb. Al. Jordan 187_ˮ (handwriting) (LY0006358!).
Note: the gathering from 1858, could theoretically become a type, but should be excluded for taxonomic reasons (cf. supra “Material and Methodsˮ) in the absence of working notes.
description: Published as part of Thiebaut, Melanie & Tison, Jean-Marc, 2016, Typification of thirty-two names given by Alexis Jordan in the genus Biscutella (Brassicaceae), pp. 103-112 in Phytotaxa 269 (2) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.269.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13665485
Molecular analysis of the rRNA genes of Dichelobacter nodosus
Creators: name: La Fontaine., Sharon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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title: Collaborative approach highlighting the benefits of diversity in future engineering
Creators: name: Gilmour, Bob
name: Lyon, Dale
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde
Year: 2022

description: This paper looks at the key outputs and outcomes from the 3 year Erasmus+ KA2 Project PEETS (Promoting Excellence in Employability and Transversal Skills) which was awarded a CATE (Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence) by AdvanceHE for its innovative and collaborative approach where 117 students from Glasgow, Scotland; The Hague, Netherlands and Lahti, Finland worked together during three separate 8 day intensive study periods over the three years supported by industry partners and ExpLearn. The theme of renewables was threaded through the three years which gave context to the project activities for the built environment, engineering and applied sciences students. Whilst having students participating from six of the seven continents and more than fourteen participants who’s first language was not English ensured cultural diversity throughout the program. During the early stages of vetting of applicants letters of motivation all the project team had agreed on a policy of inclusivity, breaking down of the traditional barriers which may have precluded some applicants from participating. The initiative has resulted in the development of a range of outputs including an experiential learning model, readily transferable to different educational sectors, levels and disciplines. Outcomes have included enhanced learning experiences for students and staff leading on to further individual and organisational benefits.
The effect of oestrogen on excitation and contraction mechanisms in the heart
Creators: name: Francis, Alice Jane
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Post-menopausal women have an enhanced risk of developing cardiovascular disease and disturbances of cardiac rhythm, that have been attributed to declining oestrogen levels during menopause. This highlights the requirement to understand the effect of declining oestrogen levels and oestrogen signalling on cardiac structural remodelling and electrophysiology. This thesis addressed the hypotheses that cardiomyocytes undergo remodellingin response to long-term oestrogen withdrawal following ovariectomy (OVx) that may contribute to altered excitation-contraction (EC) coupling in the heart that such changes may involve the G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor 1 (GPER). OVx or sham surgeries were performed in female guinea pigs. Left ventricular cardiomyocytes were isolatedfor experimental use. Cellular t-tubule network and structural integrity were assessed using membrane staining and scanning ion conductance microscopy. Electrophysiological, fluorescence imaging and molecular biology techniques were utilised to investigate the effect of oestrogen withdrawal and GPER signalling on EC coupling. GPER was targeted with the agonist, G-1 or antagonist G36. Following OVx, t-tubule density decreased by 13% and these cells presented with larger Ca2+transients, prolonged action potential duration(APD) as well as increased spontaneous Ca2+activity and abnormal depolarisations that led to the formation of a pro-arrhythmic substrate. GPER localised to the t-tubules and its expressionincreased by32% in OVx. GPER activation reduced Ca2+transient amplitude (by 40%), shortened the APD (by 22%) and near abolished the formation of early after-depolarisations (by >96%). GPER appears to mediate these cardioprotective changes via the downstream effectors cAMP and eNOS, which were both upregulated in the presence of G-1. In an animal species with comparable steroidogenesis and cardiac physiology to humans, it is shown that adverse remodelling and Ca2+signalling occurred in cardiomyocytes following oestrogen deficiency. GPER activation induced negative inotropic responses and anti-arrhythmogenic behaviours, indicating the potential benefits of targeting oestrogenic signalling.
title: Мониторинг токсикантов в мясном сырье для детского питания
Creators: name: Забашта, Николай Николаевич
name: Головко, Елена Николаевна
name: Синельщикова, Ирина Алексеевна
name: Ижевская, Наталия Георгиевна
name: Забашта, Анастасия Васильевна
Publisher: name: ФГБНУ КНЦЗВ
Year: 2022

description: Приведены результаты мониторинговых исследований передвижения токсических ве-ществ в сырьевой зоне производства мясного сырья Краснодарского края. Содержание в поч-вах валовых форм ртути и мышьяка было ниже уровня пределов обнаружения, соответствен-но, <0,005 и <0,0025 мг/кг. Подвижные формы ртути и мышьяка практически отсутствовали. Концентрация подвижных форм цинка и меди варьировала, соответственно, от 0,60 до 2,40 и от 0,10 до 0,58 мг/кг почвы. По содержанию токсичных элементов, таких как ртуть, кадмий, свинец и мышьяк, регламентируемых нормативными действующими стандартами, большин-ство кормов благополучны. Накопление тяжелых металлов и других токсических веществ в кормовых растениях не превышало допустимых количеств. В мясном сырье, допущенном к производству детских продуктов питания, содержание токсических веществ ниже допусти-мых уровней.
Peasants, Markets and Austerity: State retrenchment and rural livelihoods in Amazonas and São Paulo in the aftermath of constitutional austerity (Brazil Post-2015)
Creators: name: Kanashiro Uehara, Thiago Hector
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: This thesis examines the politics and impacts of mediated markets for rural development in light of the austerity regime recently established in Brazil. Theory and praxis tend to overlook relational complexities between rural people and the state and their interplay with livelihood opportunities and self-reported wellbeing. Focused on Brazil’s Fome Zero Food Acquisition Programme, we analyse the political economy surrounding its establishment and subsequent retrenchment and the impacts of this rise and fall on rural people in two contrasting study areas. Paying attention to geographical, economic and demographic differences, we adapt political ecology and livelihood frameworks to investigate how peasants in São Paulo and Amazonas have coped with austerity. The research uncovers an underlying tension in nested markets for rural development, in which principles of equity and social justice are to some extent subsumed as policy principles by a modernisation project represented by a ‘pedagogy of marketisation’. Under this project, rural people are encouraged to move away from community self-provisioning to a market economy - which would transform them from being people belonging to the country (peasants or camponeses) into workers or controllers of the land (family farmers or rural entrepreneurs). This tension threatens to absorb peasants into the corporate food regime and undermine ecological and cultural diversity. Our findings suggest a complex set of impacts such as income-poverty alleviation, progress towards gender equality but limited effects on structural inequality or market integration. The significance of this thesis is that it informs our theoretical understanding of rural development through nested markets by introducing a political economy/ecology focus hitherto lacking – and informs our empirical understanding of wellbeing, public procurement, food, agrarian, environmental and social policy.
Quality of surgery in oncology trials
Creators: name: Butterworth, James William
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with surgical interventions often lack a framework to ensure surgical quality. Although recent oncology trials, such as ADDICT (D1+ vs. D2 gastrectomy), have sought to monitor surgery there has been no demonstrably reliable tool to assess surgical quality. We aimed to investigate SQA in oesophagogastric oncology trials and to develop a robust framework of consensus strategies to overcome challenges to design and implementation of SQA. A multi-method approach including both qualitative and quantitative methodologies were applied in order to address the research objectives. On systematic review of previously reported challenges to SQA in trials the most commonly encountered included: constraints of using case volume for credentialing surgeons; inter-centre variation in the definition and execution of interventions, and; insufficient monitoring of surgical quality. A meta-analysis of SQA and protocol utilisation within oesophagogastric RCTs revealed public availability of protocols and Eastern country of origin were associated with improved survival. Semi-structured interviews were subsequently conducted with expert stakeholders examining challenges to SQA in trials. Prominent mitigating strategies included operative monitoring using photographs and/or videos with a structured objective assessment tool. Expert consensus was reached for 59 strategies to overcome challenges to SQA in oncology trials. 14 (74%) of the 19 included expert stakeholder proposed strategies from chapter 4 gained consensus amongst ADDICT trial stakeholders within 2 Delphi rounds, indicating their relevance within oesophagogastric oncology RCTs. A patient focus group and survey, established to gain insight into service user perception of quality of surgery, reinforced the importance of considering operative volume and monitoring surgery using a structured methodology. Robust monitoring methods are required to assess surgical quality and oesophagectomy assessment tools were demonstrated to be reliable using generalisability theory. Condensing the expert Delphi consensus allowed formulation of a 33-item framework of strategies to overcome challenges to implementation of SQA in oncology trials (FOSQAT). Given the relevance of the expert Delphi strategies within ADDICT, in future we recommend trial committees and surgeons will not be required to conduct a Delphi process, but rather will be able to select relevant strategies for implementation from the FOSQAT consensus. Clinical validation of this framework assessing impact of implemented strategies on short and long-term outcomes should be the focus of future research in this area.
title: Политология
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2023

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные темы политологии, а именно: основные этапы становления и развития политической мысли, политическая власть, политические элиты и лидерство, политическая система, государство и гражданское общество, политические режимы. Показаны формы политических конфликтов и политических кризисов, мировая политика и международные отношения, социально-политическое развитие Республики Казахстан. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов и магистрантов высших учебных заведений, изучающих дисциплину «Политология», а также для всех, кто интересуется данной темой.
Fast all-optical nuclear spin echo technique based on EIT
Creators: name: Walther, Andreas
name: Nilsson, Adam N.
name: Li, Qian
name: Rippe, Lars
name: Kröll, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate an all-optical Raman spin echo technique, using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) to create the different pulses of the spin echo sequence: initialization, pi-rotation, and readout. The first pulse of the sequence induces coherence directly from a mixed state, and the technique is used to measure the nuclear spin coherence of an inhomogeneously broadened ensemble of rare-earth ions (Pr$^{3+}$). In contrast to previous experiments it does not require any preparatory hole burning pulse sequences, which greatly shortens the total duration of the sequence. The effect of the different pulses is characterized by quantum state tomography and is compared with simulations. We demonstrate two applications of the technique by using the spin echo sequence to accurately compensate a magnetic field across our sample, and to measure the coherence time at high temperatures up to 11 K, where standard preparation techniques are difficult to implement. We explore the potential of the technique and possible applications.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Time-efficient Simulation of Surface-excited Guided Lamb Wave Propagation in Composites
Creators: name: Karmazin, Alexander
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Lamb waves
composites
wave propagation
piezoelectric actuators
structural health monitoring

description: The methods of time-efficient simulation of surface-excited wave propagation in plate-like multilayered composites are presented. The mathematical model of wave propagation in laminated plate based on the elasticity theory is transformed and then solved in wavenumber-frequency domain. The numerical methods for computation of inverse transform in time-space domain are developed and used for analysis of wave and energy propagation phenomena occurring in composite plates due to surface excitation.
title: Simultaneous Barcode Sequencing of Diverse Museum Collection Specimens Using a Mixed RNA Bait Set
Creators: name: Agne, Stefanie
name: Preick, Michaela
name: Straube, Nicolas
name: Hofreiter, Michael
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: A growing number of publications presenting results from sequencing natural history collection specimens reflect the importance of DNA sequence information from such samples. Ancient DNA extraction and library preparation methods in combination with target gene capture are a way of unlocking archival DNA, including from formalin-fixed wet-collection material. Here we report on an experiment, in which we used an RNA bait set containing baits from a wide taxonomic range of species for DNA hybridisation capture of nuclear and mitochondrial targets for analysing natural history collection specimens. The bait set used consists of 2,492 mitochondrial and 530 nuclear RNA baits and comprises specific barcode loci of diverse animal groups including both invertebrates and vertebrates. The baits allowed to capture DNA sequence information of target barcode loci from 84% of the 37 samples tested, with nuclear markers being captured more frequently and consensus sequences of these being more complete compared to mitochondrial markers. Samples from dry material had a higher rate of success than wet-collection specimens, although target sequence information could be captured from 50% of formalin-fixed samples. Our study illustrates how efforts to obtain barcode sequence information from natural history collection specimens may be combined and are a way of implementing barcoding inventories of scientific collection material.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1293
Atmospheric ionization induced by precipitating electrons: Comparison of CRAC:EPII model with parametrization model
Creators: name: Artamonov, A. A.
name: Mishev, A. L.
name: Usoskin, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new model CRAC:EPII (Cosmic Ray Atmospheric Cascade: Electron Precipitation Induced Ionization) is presented. The CRAC:EPII is based on Monte Carlo simulation of precipitating electrons propagation and interaction with matter in the Earth atmosphere. It explicitly considers energy deposit: ionization, pair production, Compton scattering, generation of Bremsstrahlung high energy photons, photo-ionization and annihilation of positrons, multiple scattering as physical processes accordingly. The propagation of precipitating electrons and their interactions with atmospheric molecules is carried out with the GEANT4 simulation tool PLANETOCOSMICS code using NRLMSISE 00 atmospheric model. The ionization yields is compared with an analytical parametrization for various energies of incident precipitating electron, using a flux of mono-energetic particles. A good agreement between the two models is achieved. Subsequently, on the basis of balloon-born measured spectra of precipitating electrons at 30.10.2002 and 07.01.2004, the ion production rate in the middle and upper atmosphere is estimated using the CRAC:EPII model
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. Under review in JASTP