cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Myocardial Antioxidant Enzyme Systems, Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, and Selenium
Creators: name: Venardos, Kylie M
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Coronary heart disease
subject: myocardial antoxidant
subject: ischemic myocardium
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: ischemia-reperfusion injury
subject: selenium

description: Coronary heart disease remains the greatest killer of Australian's, and given our ageing population, along with increasing risk factors, it is predicted to become an even more significant problem worldwide over the next 20 years. Reperfusion, without doubt is the most effective treatment for ischemic myocardium. However, this produces deleterious effects upon cells, and depending on the severity, may ultimately lead to cell death. While the pathogenesis of ischemia-reperfusion is not completely understood, there is considerable evidence implicating reactive oxygen species (ROS) as an initial cause of the injury. ROS formed during oxidative stress can initiate lipid peroxidation, oxidize proteins to inactive states and cause DNA strand breaks, all potentially damaging to normal cellular function. ROS have been shown to be generated following routine clinical procedures such as coronary bypass surgery and thrombolysis, due to the unavoidable episode of ischemiareperfusion. Furthermore, they have been associated with poor cardiac recovery post-ischemia, with recent studies supporting a role for them in infarction, necrosis, apoptosis, arrhythmogenesis and endothelial dysfunction following ischemia-reperfusion. In normal physiological condition, ROS production is usually homeostatically controlled by endogenous free radical scavengers such as SOD, catalase, and the glutathione peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase systems. Targeting the generation of ROS with various antioxidants has been shown to reduce injury following oxidative stress, and improve recovery from ischemia-reperfusion injury. This thesis investigates the role of myocardial antioxidant enzymes in ischemiareperfusion injury, particularly the glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and the thioredoxin reductase (TxnRed) systems. GPX and TxnRed are selenocysteine dependent enzymes, and their activity is known to be dependent upon an adequate supply of dietary selenium and selenocysteine. In mammalian cells, the generation of selenocysteine occurs during amino acid biosynthesis and the degree of selenium (Se) incorporation into the cysteine residue is concentration dependent. Previous studies have found that up-regulation of these systems is cardioprotective and down-regulation is detrimental following ischemia-reperfusion. This thesis attempts to extend these observations by increasing not only our understanding of the roles of myocardial antioxidant enzymes in ischemia-reperfusion injury, but also the effect of dietary selenium on these systems. Furthermore, it investigates the effects of ischemia, reperfusion, and ageing on myocardial antioxidant enzymes.
A new software implementation of the Oslo method with rigorous statistical uncertainty propagation
Creators: name: Midtbø, Jørgen E.
name: Zeiser, Fabio
name: Lima, Erlend
name: Larsen, Ann-Cecilie
name: Tveten, Gry M.
name: Guttormsen, Magne
name: Garrote, Frank L. Bello
name: Kvellestad, Anders
name: Renstrøm, Therese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Oslo method comprises a set of analysis techniques designed to extract nuclear level density and average $γ$-decay strength function from a set of excitation-energy tagged $γ$-ray spectra. Here we present a new software implementation of the entire Oslo method, called OMpy. We provide a summary of the theoretical basis and derive the essential equations used in the Oslo method. In addition to the functionality of the original analysis code, the new implementation includes novel components such as a rigorous method to propagate uncertainties throughout all steps of the Oslo method using a Monte Carlo approach. The resulting level density and $γ$-ray strength function have to be normalized to auxiliary data. The normalization is performed simultaneously for both quantities, thus preserving all correlations. The software is verified by the analysis of a synthetic spectrum and compared to the results of the previous implementation, the oslo-method-software.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures. Updated v5: Eq. (C.6); v4: Major revision of App. C
Additional file 1: of Arabidopsis thaliana organelles mimic the T7 phage DNA replisome with specific interactions between Twinkle protein and DNA polymerases Pol1A and Pol1B
Creators: name: Morley, Stewart
name: AntolĂ­N Peralta-Castro
name: Brieba, Luis
name: Miller, Justin
name: Ong, Kai
name: Ridge, Perry
name: Oliphant, Amanda
name: Aldous, Stephen
name: Nielsen, Brent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Table S1 Primers used to create gene truncations. (DOCX 18 kb)
Yanagi: Fast and interpretable segment-based alternative splicing and gene expression analysis
Creators: name: Gunady, Mohamed K
name: Mount, Stephen M
name: Bravo, Héctor Corrada
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: Transcriptome quantification
Differential gene expression
Alternative splicing
RNA-seq
Pseudo-alignment

description: Ultra-fast pseudo-alignment approaches are the tool of choice in transcript-level RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analyses. Unfortunately, these methods couple the tasks of pseudo-alignment and transcript quantification. This coupling precludes the direct usage of pseudo-alignment to other expression analyses, including alternative splicing or differential gene expression analysis, without including a non-essential transcript quantification step.
The dynamical evolution of molecular clouds near the Galactic Centre -- III. Tidally--induced star formation in protocluster clouds
Creators: name: Dale, James E.
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Longmore, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of a series of papers aimed at understanding the evolution of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), we present hydrodynamical simulations of turbulent molecular clouds orbiting in an accurate model of the gravitational potential extant there. We consider two sets of model clouds differing in the energy content of their velocity fields. In the first, self--virialised set, the turbulent kinetic energies are chosen to be close in magnitude to the clouds' self--gravitational potential energies. Comparison with isolated clouds evolving without an external potential shows that the self--virialised clouds are unable to withstand the compressive tidal field of the CMZ and rapidly collapse, forming stars much faster and reaching gas exhaustion after a small fraction of a Galactocentric orbit. In the second, tidally--virialised, set of simulations, the clouds' turbulent kinetic energies are in equilibrium with the external tidal field. These models are better supported against the field and the stronger turbulence suppresses star formation. Our results strongly support the inference that anomalously low star formation rates in the CMZ are due primarily to high velocity dispersions in the molecular gas. The clouds follow open, eccentric orbits oscillating in all three spatial coordinates. We examine the consequences of the orbital dynamics, particularly pericentre passage, by performing companion simulations of clouds on circular orbits. The increased tidal forces at pericentre produce transient accelerations in star formation rates of at most a factor of 2.7. Our results demonstrate that modelling star formation in galactic centres requires the inclusion of tidal forces.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Generalized cohomology for irreducible tensor fields of mixed Young symmetry type
Creators: name: Dubois-Violette, Michel
name: Henneaux, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct N-complexes of non completely antisymmetric irreducible tensor fields on $\mathbb R^D$ generalizing thereby the usual complex (N=2) of differential forms. These complexes arise naturally in the description of higher spin gauge fields. Although, for $N\geq 3$, the generalized cohomology of these N-complexes is non trivial, we prove a generalization of the Poincaré lemma. Several results which appeared in various contexts are shown to be particular cases of this generalized Poincaré lemma.
description: 12 pages
title: Cetraria nivalis
title: Schneeflechte (Cetraria nivalis)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 2 Bilder der Schneeflechte.
Synbiotic-like effect of linoleic acid overproducing Lactobacillus casei with berry phenolic extracts against pathogenesis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Tabashsum, Zajeba
name: Peng, Mengfei
name: Bernhardt, Cassendra
name: Patel, Puja
name: Carrion, Michael
name: Biswas, Debabrata
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: EHEC
Prebiotic
Probiotic
Synbiotic
Prevention

description: Majority of enteric infections are foodborne and antimicrobials including antibiotics have been used for their control and treatment. However, probiotics or prebiotics or their combination offer a potential alternative intervention strategy for improving the host health and preventing foodborne pathogen colonization/infections in reservoir. Further, bioengineered probiotics expressing bioactive products to achieve specific function is highly desirable. Recently, we over-expressed mcra (myosin cross-reactive antigen) gene in Lactobacillus casei (Lc) and developed a bioengineered probiotics Lc + CLA which produce higher amounts of metabolites including conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Furthermore, we also reported that prebiotic like components such as berry pomace (byproduct) phenolic extracts (BPEs) can enhance the growth of probiotics and improved the beneficial effects of probiotics. In this study, we evaluated the antimicrobial effect of modified Lc + CLA in combination of BPEs on growth, survival and pathogenesis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC).
Planning for post-mining reclamation within a forest management area : Obed-Marsh Project, Hinton, Alberta
Creators: name: Beresford, Eric
name: Kennedy, Allan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: [Beresford] In conclusion, I would like to say that a good spirit of cooperation has been built up between St. Regis and Union Oil, and each industry can benefit from a non-renewable resource activity such as coal mining followed by restoration of healthy tree growth on mined-out lands. As we say, we are only borrowing the land for a short while and giving it back for future years of productive timber growth. [Kennedy] Monitoring studies are planned to continue at Judy Creek annually for two more years and once every three years thereafter to 15 years. We believe the information gained from the Judy Creek test pit monitoring will be beneficial to our reclamation planning for the proposed Judy Creek mine and hopefully can be used in reclamation planning for other Esso Minerals coal properties in Alberta such as the Hinton east property.
Additional file 3: of Process evaluation of the Healthy Primary School of the Future: the key learning points
Creators: name: N. Bartelink
name: P. Assema
name: M. Jansen
name: H. Savelberg
name: G. Moore
name: J. Hawkins
name: S. Kremers
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Perceived important factors for success of HPSF. Description: Perception of teachers and external pedagogical employees regarding important factors for success (DOCX 19 kb)
title: Cetraria olivetorum
title: Oliven-Cetrarie (Cetraria olivetorum)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Oliven-Cetrarie.
Feeling Machines: Immersion, Expression, and Technological Embodiment in Electroacoustic Music of the French Spectral School
Creators: Mason, William Lowell
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Music theory
Computer music
Spectral music
Composers
Listening

description: This dissertation considers the music and technical practice of composers affiliated with French spectralism, including Hugues Dufourt, Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Jean-Claude Risset, and Kaija Saariaho. They regularly described their work, which was attuned to the transformative experiences that technologies of electronic sound production and reproduction could inspire in listeners, using metaphoric appeals to construction: to designing new sounds or exploring new illusory aural phenomena. To navigate a nascent but fast-expanding world of electronic and computer music, the spectralists appealed to physical musical attributes including gesture, space, and source-cause identification. Fascinated by gradual timbral transformations, they structured some of their pieces to invite speculative causal listening even while seeking to push it to expressive extremes.
      	I hypothesize that, much as the immersive technology of the cinema can create the illusory feeling of flight in viewers, electronic music can inspire listeners to have experiences in excess of their physical capabilities. Those feelings are possible because listening can be understood as empathetic and embodied, drawing on a listener’s embodied and ecological sensorimotor knowledge and musical imagery alongside referential, semiotic, and cultural aspects of music. One way that listeners can engage with sounds is by imagining how they would create them: what objects would be used, what kind of gestures would they perform, how much exertion would be required, what space would they inhabit. I cite recent research in psychoacoustics to argue that timbre indexes material, gesture, and affect in music listening. Technologies of sound production and reproduction allow for the manipulation of these tendencies by enabling composers to craft timbres that mimic, stretch, or subvert the timbres of real objects. Those electronic technologies also suggest manipulations to composers, by virtue of their design affordances, and perform an epistemological broadening by providing insight into the malleability of human perceptual modes. I illustrate these claims with analytic examples from Murail’s Ethers (1978), Saariaho’s Verblendungen (1984), and Grisey’s Les Chants de l’Amour (1984), relating an embodied and corporeal account of my hearing and linking it to compositional and technological features of spectral music.
title: Hypocenomyce scalaris
title: Baum-Schuppenflechte (Hypocenomyce scalaris)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Schwarznapfflechte
subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Baum-Schuppenflechte.
Feeding and Gastrointestinal Regulation: A Novel Domain of the Cerebellum
Creators: Birkenbach, Kathryn Elise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Biology
subject: Cerebellum
subject: Food habits--Physiological aspects
subject: Digestion

description: The cerebellum is well-known for its ability to integrate diverse internal and external stimuli, forming associations which serve as a basis for the construction of predictive models. Though traditionally studied in the context of motor learning, mounting evidence indicates that cerebellar learning may play an analogous role in many non-motor functions, including autonomic regulation and reward processing. Using combinatorial approaches of neuroanatomical tracing, electrophysiology, and behavioral studies, we investigated whether cerebellar learning extends to the domains of feeding behavior and gastrointestinal regulation, wherein prediction is critical for optimally timing food seeking and digestion in order to maximize nutrient acquisition while minimizing risk and energetic cost. Our results show direct anatomical connections between the cerebellum and known feeding centers, including the lateral hypothalamus, nucleus of the solitary tract, and parvocellular reticular nucleus. In addition, a localized area of the rostral cerebellum was found to respond to gastric distension and drive gastric emptying. Finally, we show that cerebellar activation drives robust, short-latency ingestive responses in awake, sated mice. Collectively, our results implicate the specific, interconnected cerebellar regions of Lobules II & III and the rostral fastigial nucleus, which we believe may represent one or more microzones devoted to integrating pre-and post-ingestive signals for control of feeding and digestion.
Automatic Programming of Cellular Automata and Artificial Neural Networks Guided by Philosophy
Creators: name: Christen, Patrik
name: Del Fabbro, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many computer models such as cellular automata and artificial neural networks have been developed and successfully applied. However, in some cases, these models might be restrictive on the possible solutions or their solutions might be difficult to interpret. To overcome this problem, we outline a new approach, the so-called allagmatic method, that automatically programs and executes models with as little limitations as possible while maintaining human interpretability. Earlier we described a metamodel and its building blocks according to the philosophical concepts of structure (spatial dimension) and operation (temporal dimension). They are entity, milieu, and update function that together abstractly describe cellular automata, artificial neural networks, and possibly any kind of computer model. By automatically combining these building blocks in an evolutionary computation, interpretability might be increased by the relationship to the metamodel, and models might be translated into more interpretable models via the metamodel. We propose generic and object-oriented programming to implement the entities and their milieus as dynamic and generic arrays and the update function as a method. We show two experiments where a simple cellular automaton and an artificial neural network are automatically programmed, compiled, and executed. A target state is successfully evolved and learned in the cellular automaton and artificial neural network, respectively. We conclude that the allagmatic method can create and execute cellular automaton and artificial neural network models in an automated manner with the guidance of philosophy.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Feeding Problems in Individuals with Autism and Developmental Disabilities
Creators: Roth, Sarah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Nutrition
Developmental psychology

description: Many children with developmental disabilities exhibit feeding problems, which in turn can lead to malnutrition and respiratory symptoms. The combination of discomfort and pain for the child and difficulty of treatment for the parents and attending professionals validate research on interventions for feeding problems in children with developmental disabilities. Feeding problems range from food selectivity and refusal to rumination and gastroenterological problems that require medical interventions. This paper will review research on feeding problems in children with developmental disabilities and possible causes for these problems, including poor oral-motor coordination, swallowing dysfunction and choking, food selectivity, and aversive feeding behaviors. This paper will further review behavioral treatment strategies for feeding problems, including multicomponent treatments, behavioral momentum procedures, and responses to behavioral cues and stimuli. Differences in diagnoses will be recorded, and factors in effectiveness will be noted.
title: Hypogymnia physodes
title: Blasenflechte (Hypogymnia physodes)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 3 Bilder der Blasenflechte.
The role of histidine-rich glycoprotein in necrotic cell clearance and regulation of degradative enzymes
Creators: name: Poon, Ivan Ka Ho
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Histidine rich glycoprotein, heparanase, innate immunity, phagocytosis, necrotic cell clearance, heparan sulfate

description: Histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) is an abundant multi-functional protein that is present in the plasma of many vertebrates. HRG has a multi-domain structure that allows the molecule to interact with many ligands including heparin, heparan sulfate (HS), Fcy receptors (FcyR), plasminogen, fibrinogen, IgG, Clq, haem and Zn2+. The ability of HRG to interact with various ligands simultaneously has suggested that HRG can act as an adaptor molecule and regulate numerous biological processes such as immune complex/necrotic cell/pathogen clearance, cell adhesion, angiogenesis, coagulation and fibrinolysis. Although HRG is thought to play an important role in both immunity and vascular biology, the molecular mechanisms underpinning its action remain largely undefined. Thus, the aim of this thesis was to characterize the molecular components that are involved in HRG-mediated uptake of necrotic cells and to further examine the role of HRG in regulating degradative enzymes, such as plasminogen/plasmin and heparanase...In summary, the studies presented in this thesis have delineated the molecular mechanisms underlying necrotic cell removal mediated by plasma-derived HRG and may have important implications for the development of autoimmune disease caused by defective clearance of dying/dead cells. In addition, the ability of HRG to regulate degradative enzymes, such as plasmin and heparanase, further supports the view that HRG may play an important role in angiogenesis, leukocyte migration and cancer metastasis.
An application of the musical style of jazz saxophone to the double bass
Creators: name: Hill, Gareth
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Jazz, Improvisation, Double Bass, and Saxophone

description: The aim of this dissertation is to explore improvising on the double bass through an investigation of the improvised solos of prominent jazz saxophonists. This involves a melodically focused analysis of solos of Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Oliver Nelson and Eric Dolphy. My melodic analysis is in aid of furthering my melodic concept on the double bass and consists largely of analysis in three areas: intervallic content, phrasing and melodic devices. It is through this process that I hope to develop techniques for the double bass and further my own concept for improvising. The disparity between saxophone and the double bass means that there is much to be gained from transferring ideas from each instrument. There are differences in dexterity, phrasing abilities and acoustics that have allowed the saxophone to develop an improvising style entirely different to that of many double bassists. While saxophonists I enjoy, solo in an exciting and complex way, my soloing on the double bass is generally slower, less melodic and lacking in intensity and concept. I believe that this study can give great insights into my playing as well as creating a model which may be used by others to develop their own improvising on the double bass.
A deficiency in SUMOylation activity disrupts multiple pathways leading to neural tube and heart defects in Xenopus embryos
Creators: name: Bertke, Michelle M.
name: Dubiak, Kyle M.
name: Cronin, Laura
name: Zeng, Erliang
name: Huber, Paul W.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: SUMO
Heart development
Neural tube development
Congenital birth defects
Non-canonical Wnt signaling
Planar cell polarity

description: Adenovirus protein, Gam1, triggers the proteolytic destruction of the E1 SUMO-activating enzyme. Microinjection of an empirically determined amount of Gam1 mRNA into one-cell Xenopus embryos can reduce SUMOylation activity to undetectable, but nonlethal, levels, enabling an examination of the role of this post-translational modification during early vertebrate development.
title: Lecidea decipiens
title: Krustenflechte (Lecidea decipiens)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulz, Herbert
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Psora decipiens
subject: Diasammlung Herbert Schulz
subject: 580

description: Enthält 1 Bild der Krustenflechte.
Additional file 1 of Comparing the effects of aquatic-based exercise and land-based exercise on balance in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Deng, Ying
name: Tang, Zheng
name: Yang, Zhengting
name: Chai, Qi
name: Lu, Wenting
name: Cai, Yunshi
name: Luo, Yiting
name: Zhou, Yongzhao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Low- and high-$β$ lasers in Class-A limit: photon statistics, linewidth, and the laser-phase transition analogy
Creators: name: Takemura, Naotomo
name: Takiguchi, Masato
name: Notomi, Masaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanocavity lasers are commonly characterized by the spontaneous coupling coefficient $β$ that represents the fraction of photons emitted into the lasing mode. While $β$ is conventionally discussed in semiconductor lasers where the photon lifetime is much shorter than the carrier lifetime (class-B lasers), little is known about $β$ in atomic lasers where the photon lifetime is much longer than the other lifetimes and only the photon degree of freedom exists (class-A lasers). We investigate the impact of the spontaneous coupling coefficient $β$ on lasing properties in the class-A limit by extending the well-known Scully-Lamb master equation. We demonstrate that, in the class-A limit, all the photon statistics are uniquely characterized by $β$ and that the laser phase transition-like analogy becomes transparent. In fact, $β$ perfectly represents the "system size" in phase transition. Finally, we investigate the laser-phase transition analogy from the standpoint of a quantum dissipative system. Calculating a Liouvillian gap, we clarify the relation between $β$ and the continuous phase symmetry breaking.
Feeling Understood: The Lived Experience of Culturally Competent Nursing Care as Perceived by Patients of Chinese Ethnicity
Creators: Little, Deborah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Families
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Cultural competence
subject: Chinese Americans

description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of the patients’ perceptions of the lived experience as recipients of culturally competent nursing care related to their cultural values, customs, and health beliefs.  A review of the literature revealed that culturally competent nursing care is the basis of providing holistic, individualized care.  However, as culturally competent care has gained momentum in recent years, healthcare disparities in the United States remain, particularly among underserved minority and vulnerable groups of multicultural backgrounds.  Literature suggests a link between culturally competent nursing care and improved health outcomes.  This connection has been the motivation for nursing professionals to embrace culturally competent care and work to close the gap of incongruence of quality healthcare for all individuals.
      	Van Manen’s phenomenological research method was used to reveal the essence of the lived experience of culturally competent nursing care as perceived by participants of Chinese ethnicity.  The phenomenon was the experience of being in a hospital receiving nursing care as a patient from diverse cultural background.  The context of the phenomenon was healthcare organizations that purport to provide exemplary culturally competent care.  Following interviews of nine participants, transcripts were analyzed.  Data analysis revealed four themes: (a) nurse’s presence; (b) feeling understood; (c) nice nurse, happy nurse, happy patient related to nurses’ caring behaviors and the impact on one’s perception of their health; and (d) gratitude.  The concept of connectedness was an overarching theme within each of the four identified themes, serving as the thread among all interviews and themes.  Watson’s Human Caring Science Theory of Nursing provided a framework for the themes and overarching theme.  In this qualitative study, participant interviews contributed to building the body of knowledge about culturally competent care that shed light on Chinese participants’ meaningful nursing care experiences.
Quantization of Hyperbolic N-Sphere Scattering Systems in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Henseler, Michael
name: Wirzba, Andreas
name: Guhr, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most discussions of chaotic scattering systems are devoted to two-dimensional systems. It is of considerable interest to extend these studies to the, in general, more realistic case of three dimensions. In this context, it is conceptually important to investigate the quality of semiclassical methods as a function of the dimensionality. As a model system, we choose various three dimensional generalizations of the famous three disk problem which played a central role in the study of chaotic scattering in two dimensions. We present a quantum-mechanical treatment of the hyperbolic scattering of a point particle off a finite number of non-overlapping and non-touching hard spheres in three dimensions. We derive expressions for the scattering matrix S and its determinant. The determinant of S decomposes into two parts, the first one contains the product of the determinants of the individual one-sphere S-matrices and the second one is given by a ratio involving the determinants of a characteristic KKR-type matrix and its conjugate. We justify our approach by showing that all formal manipulations in these derivations are correct and that all the determinants involved which are of infinite dimension exist. Moreover, for all complex wave numbers, we conjecture a direct link between the quantum-mechanical and semiclassical descriptions: The semiclassical limit of the cumulant expansion of the KKR-type matrix is given by the Gutzwiller-Voros zeta function plus diffractional corrections in the curvature expansion. This connection is direct since it is not based on any kind of subtraction scheme involving bounded reference systems. We present numerically computed resonances and compare them with the corresponding data for the similar two-dimensional N-disk systems and with semiclassical calculations.
description: 35 pages, LaTeX plus 8 Postscript figures, uses epsf.sty, epsfig.sty and epsf.tex
Electronic meeting systems – what they are and how they could benefit Australian government organisations
Creators: name: Hodges, S. Lesley
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: electronic meeting system, EMS, electronic meeting, online meeting, group support system, GSS, decision support system, GDSS, collaboration, e-collaboration, e-learning, iMeet!, Grouputer, Zingthing, Anyzing.

description: Meetings are very important in any organisation and the Australian public service is no exception. Unfortunately, meetings are costly and time consuming, and often are ineffective and inefficient. Participants are regularly left with feelings of dissatisfaction after the meeting. Electronic meeting systems (EMS) were first developed in the United States in the 1980s to make meetings more effective and efficient. They are now more user-friendly, internet-connected and support multimedia. However, EMS have not been adopted to the extent that could be expected. This study draws from an extensive literature review supplemented by three case studies of Australian companies that provide EMS products and services (Global Learning Pty Ltd, Grouputer Pty Ltd and Zing Technologies Pty Ltd). The study provides answers to six questions: • What are electronic meeting systems (EMS)? • What is the evidence that using an EMS does improve meeting productivity (efficiency and effectiveness) and satisfaction? • Are there other benefits from using these systems? • How does the use of an EMS bring about these improvements in meetings and group collaboration? • What factors need to be managed in order for the organisation to obtain the most benefit from these systems? • Could EMS be used to improve meetings and business processes in Australian (including state/territory) government organisations? The study concluded that EMS could be used to great benefit to improve meetings and their outcomes for an enormous range of tasks that are carried out in all levels in the Australian public sector. EMS have successfully supported meeting sizes from two people to 700, and an even larger number of participants is possible.
Random expansions of trees with bounded height
Creators: name: Koponen, Vera
name: Tousinejad, Yasmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4
subject: 03C13, 03C80, 03C98, 03B42, 03B70, 68T27, 68T30

description: We consider a sequence $\mathbf{T} = (\mathcal{T}_n : n \in \mathbb{N}^+)$ of trees $\mathcal{T}_n$ where, for some $Δ\in \mathbb{N}^+$ every $\mathcal{T}_n$ has height at most $Δ$ and as $n \to \infty$ the minimal number of children of a nonleaf tends to infinity. We can view every tree as a (first-order) $τ$-structure where $τ$ is a signature with one binary relation symbol. For a fixed (arbitrary) finite and relational signature $σ\supseteq τ$ we consider the set $\mathbf{W}_n$ of expansions of $\mathcal{T}_n$ to $σ$ and a probability distribution $\mathbb{P}_n$ on $\mathbf{W}_n$ which is determined by a (parametrized/lifted) Probabilistic Graphical Model (PGM) $\mathbb{G}$ which can use the information given by $\mathcal{T}_n$.
 The kind of PGM that we consider uses formulas of a many-valued logic that we call $PLA^*$ with truth values in the unit interval $[0, 1]$. We also use $PLA^*$ to express queries, or events, on $\mathbf{W}_n$. With this setup we prove that, under some assumptions on $\mathbf{T}$, $\mathbb{G}$, and a (possibly quite complex) formula $φ(x_1, \ldots, x_k)$ of $PLA^*$, as $n \to \infty$, if $a_1, \ldots, a_k$ are vertices of the tree $\mathcal{T}_n$ then the value of $φ(a_1, \ldots, a_k)$ will, with high probability, be almost the same as the value of $ψ(a_1, \ldots, a_k)$, where $ψ(x_1, \ldots, x_k)$ is a ``simple'' formula the value of which can always be computed quickly (without reference to $n$), and $ψ$ itself can be found by using only the information that defines $\mathbf{T}$, $\mathbb{G}$ and $φ$. A corollary of this, subject to the same conditions, is a probabilistic convergence law for $PLA^*$-formulas.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2401.04802 Author comment: This is a minor revision (but with some important corrections) of the first version
Femtoscopic signatures of small QGP droplets in proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: Clark, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nuclear physics and radiation
Particles (Nuclear physics)
High temperatures
Physics
Collisions (Nuclear physics)

description: The spacetime dimensions of the particle source in proton-lead collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV are measured with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Femtoscopic measurements are made from correlation functions built with charged pions identified by their ionization energy loss. The measured HBT radii that represent the source dimensions are presented differentially as a function of centrality, transverse momentum, and rapidity. The effect of jet fragmentation on the two-particle correlation function is studied, and a method using opposite-charge pair data to constrain its contributions to the measured correlations is described. The measured source sizes are substantially larger in more central collisions and are observed to decrease with increasing pair transverse momentum. A correlation of the radii with the local charged-particle density dN/dy is demonstrated. The scaling of the extracted radii with the mean number of participating nucleons is also used to compare a parameterization of an initial-geometry model that allows for fluctuations in the proton cross-section. The cross-term R_ol is measured as a function of rapidity, and a nonzero value is observed that agrees with hydrodynamic predictions. The HBT radii are also shown for central events in intervals of azimuthal angle relative to the 2nd-order event plane, pair transverse momentum, and flow vector magnitude, where the correlation functions are corrected for the event plane resolution. Significant modulations of the transverse HBT radii R_out, R_side, and R_os are observed. The orientation of this modulation is the same as that in heavy-ion collisions, in which they are attributed to hydrodynamic evolution from an elliptic initial geometry. The sign and transverse momentum dependence of these modulations are consistent with a hydrodynamic evolution of a short-lived medium.
A statistical analysis of vaccine-adverse event data
Creators: name: Ren, Jian-Jian
name: Sun, Tingni
name: He, Yongqun
name: Zhang, Yuji
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bacteria vaccine
Correlation coefficient matrix
Data visualization
Inactivated vaccine
Live vaccine
Neighboring method
Virus vaccine

description: Vaccination has been one of the most successful public health interventions to date, and the U.S. FDA/CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) currently contains more than 500,000 reports for post-vaccination adverse events that occur after the administration of vaccines licensed in the United States. The VAERS dataset is huge, contains very large dimension nominal variables, and is complex due to multiple listing of vaccines and adverse symptoms in a single report. So far there has not been any statistical analysis conducted in attempting to identify the cross-board patterns on how all reported adverse symptoms are related to the vaccines.
Stable/unstable holonomies, density of periodic points, and transitivity for continuum-wise hyperbolic homeomorphisms
Creators: name: Carvalho, Bernardo
name: Rego, Elias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 37B45, Secondary 37D10

description: We discuss different regularities on stable/unstable holonomies of cw-hyperbolic homeomorphisms and prove that if a cw-hyperbolic homeomorphism has continuous joint stable/unstable holonomies, then it has a dense set of periodic points in its non-wandering set. For that, we prove that the hyperbolic cw-metric (introduced in [9]) can be adapted to be self-similar (as in [6]) and, in this case, continuous joint stable/unstable holonomies are pseudo-isometric. We also prove transitivity of cw-hyperbolic homeomorphisms assuming that the stable/unstable holonomies are isometric. In the case the ambient space is a surface, we prove that a cw$_F$-hyperbolic homeomorphism has continuous joint stable/unstable holonomies when every bi-asymptotic sector is regular.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures
Experimental study of damping enhancement in aluminium rods by knurling
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Suparno
name: Anindya, Chatterjee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: continuous vibration
subject: structural dynamics
subject: structural damping
subject: modal damping
subject: modal analysis
subject: Ansys
subject: Machining
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Experimental mechanics
subject: LabView
subject: Analog filters
subject: Digital filters

description: The present work is motivated by an interest in the damping behaviour of lightly damped metal components. Prior studies have suggested that near surface plastic deformation like shot peening can increase the damping of metallic components. Following up on that idea, we have studied the damping behaviour of slender aluminium rods supported at one of the nodes of the first free-free mode, vibrating in the first mode. Three types of rods were studied. The first one was a plain aluminium rod obtained commercially from the market, the second one was the same rod but with knurling on the surface and the third one, used purely for reference purpose was plain aluminium rod with electrical insulation (viscoelastic) tapes wound on it. Two rods of each type were studied. After the rods were struck, the free vibration response of each rod was measured and recorded. Noise reduction in the measurement was carried out using both analog and digital filters. Ten such measurements were taken for each rod and corresponding to each oscillation the damping co-efficients for free vibration were determined. Results were found to be consistent across ten measurements and two rods within each pair, but the pairs were found to be significantly different from each other. In particular, the damping in knurled rods was found to be significantly (approximately 60%) higher than plain rods. For reference, this was not as effective as adding visco-elastic tape, which increased the damping by a factor of 2.3. However, as indicated earlier our interest in this work remained in the effect of the knurling on damping behaviour. The possible role of air damping in enhancing the dissipation for knurled rods was investigated analytically and numerically (using FLUENT), and it was concluded that air damping was not a dominant cause for the increase in damping of the knurled rods. It was further concluded that knurling which represents a surface deformation process can have significant effect on the damping property of metals just like shot peening, studied in previous works.
Additional file 3: of Vision-related quality of life considering both eyes: results from the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS)
Creators: name: Nickels, Stefan
name: Schuster, Alexander
name: Elflein, Heike
name: Wolfram, Christian
name: Schulz, Andreas
name: MĂźnzel, Thomas
name: Beutel, Manfred
name: Schmidtmann, Irene
name: Finger, Robert
name: Pfeiffer, Norbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S2b. Linear regression estimates of the influence of both the better-seeing and worse-seeing eyes on the NEI VFQ-25 socioemotional scale score in the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS), 2007â 2012, restricted to participants without chronic diseases or amblyopia. (PDF 218 kb)
Analysis of protoplasts and somatic embryogenesis in Medicago truncatula
Creators: name: De Jong, Femke
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2006
Subjects: protoplast proliferation, proteomics

description: This thesis examined protoplast proliferation and somatic embryogenesis, by comparing a highly with a poorly embryogenic Medicago truncatula line through microscopic, proteomic and in situ hybridization analysis. Proteome analysis of M. truncatula was used to identify proteins involved in protoplast proliferation and the initiation of somatic embryogenesis. Furthermore, an in situ hybridization study was done to compare the expression of genes known to be involved in zygotic embryogenesis with the expression during somatic embryogenesis. A large number of proteins were up-, and down-regulated during the first 5 days of protoplast culture indicating that cellular reorganization took place. An up-regUlation of PR 1 O-like proteins and flavonoid synthesis proteins and a down-regulation of energy metabolism proteins were observed, indicating an initiation of a stress response. The observed stress response in protoplasts was down-regulated before the first cell divisions at 5-7 d. A stress-inducing bioassay on protoplasts showed that the ability of protoplasts to overcome stress and to proliferate under stress conditions depended on the level of stress and density of the protoplast culture, whereby more stress or a lower culture density resulted in higher levels of cell death. Proteomic analysis of the initiation of somatic embryogenesis showed that similar metabolic pathways were involved in the initiation of somatic embryogenesis and protoplast proliferation. By using a highly embryogenic (2HA) line, and a poorly embryogenic (A 17) line of M. truncatu!a, it was shown that particular proteins were specifically accumulated during the initiation of somatic embryogenesis. A high accumulation of a peroxidase was observed only in At7 tissue at the time of initiation of somatic embryogenesis and might be the reason why the initiation of somatic embryogenesis is inhibited in A 17 tissue. The specific accumulation of flavonoid synthesis proteins might also indicate that flavonoids are involved during the initiation of somatic embryogenesis. In situ hybridization with probes to genes known to be involved in zygotic embryogenesis, showed that M. truncatula somatic and Arabidopsis thaliana zygotic embryogenesis both followed similar developmental pathways. However, a few genes showed distinct patterns of gene expression in M. truncatula somatic embryos.
Additional file 2: of Process evaluation of the Healthy Primary School of the Future: the key learning points
Creators: name: N. Bartelink
name: P. Assema
name: M. Jansen
name: H. Savelberg
name: G. Moore
name: J. Hawkins
name: S. Kremers
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Perceived potential barriers for HPSF. Description: Presence of potential barriers for HPSF according to teachers and external pedagogical employees (DOCX 83 kb)