cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acoustic Destabilization of Asphaltene Laden Interfaces: A Micromechanical Investigation
Creators: name: Khalesi Moghaddam, Razie
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Emulsion
subject: Asphaltene
subject: Destabilization
subject: Interfacial Rheology
subject: Microrheology
subject: Optical tweezers
subject: fractionation
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Engineering--Materials Science

description: Fluid-fluid interfaces are important in both natural and industrial settings, and their mechanical characteristics play a crucial role in the systems’ stability. To assess the local rheology of fluid-fluid interfaces, the Brownian motion of probe particles at the interface was analyzed. Using this method, the micromechanical characteristics of the interface and map of interfacial heterogeneity were calculated from the local microrheological measurements. The potential of the proposed methodology was illustrated by examining the stabilizing mechanisms of asphaltene-laden interfaces. Asphaltenes are the heaviest components of crude oils that adsorb on water/oil interfaces to form viscoelastic films. Local rheological measurements were used to characterize the viscoelastic behavior of asphaltene-laden water/oil interfaces prepared from fractionated asphaltenes. It was found that the interfacially active fraction of asphaltenes formed more rigid films at the interface more quickly and led to more stable emulsions than the partially active fraction. The ultrasonic treatment impact on the film properties and emulsion stability was also investigated. Asphaltene-coated silica particles in water were treated with an ultrasonic field, and the thickness of the coating on the particle was calculated using interaction force profiles measured by optical tweezers. The coating thickness decreased with increasing the ultrasound irradiation duration. The ultrasonic treatment led to demulsification in asphaltene-stabilized water-in-oil emulsions, suggesting that the disruption of the asphaltene coating observed in the force measurement experiments may play a role in the demulsification process. To strengthen the link between emulsion stability and ultrasound perturbation, the microrheology apparatus was adapted to generate an in-situ ultrasound field with adjustable voltages and frequencies. Asphaltene-laden water-toluene flat interfaces were treated with ultrasonic fields over a range of voltages and frequencies. The application of different ultrasonic fields revealed different microrheology regimes, and in the regime where interfacial cavitation occurred, a significant disruption of the asphaltene interfacial film was detected. Emulsion stability was found to decrease significantly in this regime. Overall, this thesis demonstrated that interfacial microrheology is an important technique to explore the local mechanical properties of interfaces between fluids, and in particular, asphaltene-laden interfaces. Additionally, it was shown under what conditions ultrasonic perturbation could induce coalescence in asphaltene-stabilized emulsions.
title: The Oral Health Status of Individuals on Renal Dialysis
Creators: name: Naugle, Kimberley
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The purpose of this investigation was to perform oral assessments on individuals undergoing renal dialysis in Hampton Roads health care facilities to determine their oral health status. A purposive sample was identified via the Sentara Health System in Hampton Roads, from which individuals on renal dialysis who agreed to participate in the study were selected.

Three subgroups of the population were studied: those who have been on renal dialysis for less than a year, individuals on renal dialysis for one to three years and those on renal dialysis for longer than three years.

The Periodontal Disease Index by Ramfjord (1967) was used to measure the periodontal disease status of the population; while the Decayed, Missing, Filled Index by Klein, Palmer and Knutson (1938) was used to evaluate past and present dental caries activity. The Simplified Oral Hygiene Index by Greene and Vermillion (1964) was used to identify the oral hygiene status.

To decrease instrumentation threats to internal validity, a pilot study was performed and intrarater reliability established using the t-test for correlated samples. Data were compiled and analyzed using the parametric test, one-way analysis of variance. All analyses were made at the .05 level of significance.

Results revealed no significant difference in the oral health status of those who have been on renal dialysis for less than a year, individuals on renal dialysis for one to three years and those on renal dialysis for longer than three years.

Findings suggest that 100 percent of the sample in Hampton Roads health facilities had some form of periodontal disease(x̄=3.15, S.D.=1.41). The majority of the population (64 percent) displayed severe gingivitis (28 percent) or early periodontitis (36 percent). The dental caries activity for the sample population indicated that sixty-four percent of the sample had existing caries activity (x̄=11.77, S.D.=7.55), implying restorative procedures may be necessary for many individuals on renal dialysis. Ninety-eight percent of the sample had calculus, while 100 percent had oral debris resulting in a high Simplified Oral Hygiene Index score (x̄=3.24, S.D.=1.26), suggesting an increased need for oral care instruction.

Findings lead to the conclusion that the renal dialysis population in Hampton Roads, regardless of length of time on dialysis, is in need of comprehensive oral care. Oral disease is present within this population and is a source of active infection in these medically compromised individuals. The presence of active oral disease would limit an individuals opportunity to receive a kidney transplant.
Lo status giuridico degli insegnanti di religione cattolica
Creators: name: Bettetini, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Istruzione e IRC

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, riproduce il testo della relazione tenuta al Convegno nazionale ADEC "Insegnamenti e insegnanti di religione nella scuola pubblica italiana" (Catanzaro, 25-27 ottobre 2012); destinato alla pubblicazione nei relativi atti, si anticipa per gentile concessione dei Curatori.
SOMMARIO: 1. Uguaglianza sostanziale e parità di trattamento nell’insegnamento della religione – 2. Il regime giuridico dei docenti di religione nella scuola pubblica statale. L’idoneità canonica all’insegnamento della religione cattolica – 3. Rilevanza civile del provvedimento canonico di idoneità e controlli dello Stato – 4. Analogia (identità e diversità) del docente di religione cattolica con i docenti della materie curriculari – 5. La mobilità degli insegnanti di religione (art. 4, 3° comma l. 186 del 2003) – 6. Conclusioni.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 17 dicembre
Confessionismo e “libertad de cultos” nell’ordinamento della Repubblica Dominicana
Creators: name: Ingoglia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico comparato e straniero

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Il sistema costituzionale e concordatario – 2. Brevi cenni sulle radici storiche del confessionismo dominicano - 3. Il sindacato di costituzionalità sulle norme concordatarie, alla luce della sentenza della “Suprema Corte de Justicia” n. 6 del 2008 – 4. Verso una soluzione della questione matrimoniale: la legge n. 198 del 2011 sui matrimoni religiosi civilmente trascritti.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 17 dicembre
title: Imagistic evaluation of the uterine scar after cesarean delivery: what the radiologist should know
Creators: name: Ciolan, Elena Raluca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Acute

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background Cesarean delivery is a commonly performed major abdominal operation in women. The surgical incision line in the uterus is generally located in the lower segment of the anterior uterine wall. Although is a safe procedure, cesarean delivery...
"A chiare lettere". L’editto e la dote: un anniversario della libertà religiosa?
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Nicola Colaianni è ordinario di Diritto ecclesiastico nel Dipartimento di
Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi “Aldo Moro” di Bari.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 14 gennaio
La “ricerca dell’effettività”: dalla lotta per l’attuazione dei principi costituzionali all’obiettivo della “massima espansione delle tutele”
Creators: name: Cassetti, Luisa
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo

description: Il contributo - che introduce il volume collettaneo a cura di L. Cassetti, Diritti, principi e garanzie sotto la lente dei giudici di Strasburgo, Jovene editore, Napoli, 2012, p. 19 ss. - si pubblica per la cortesia dell’Autrice e dell’Editore.
SOMMARIO: Premessa – 1. La CEDU e l’integrazione del parametro costituzionale (art. 117, co. 1 Cost.): i confini del vincolo derivante dalla interpretazione della Corte europea di Strasburgo – 2. Il bilanciamento tra l’interpretazione vincolante della Corte europea ed il “sistema “ dei diritti e dei principi costituzionali: la lotta per l’effettività della Costituzione e l’equilibrio tra i poteri – 2.1. Il sistema dei diritti e gli spazi del legislatore: la soluzione (inammissibilità) che lascia al Parlamento la piena responsabilità di dare forma al “diritto di vivere la coppia omosessuale” – 2.2. Il sindacato sulle scelte legislative alla luce dell’evoluzione dei principi fondamentali dell’ordinamento maturati in ambito CEDU – 3. Il bilanciamento alla luce del sistema costituzionale dei diritti: le trasformazioni dei principi e la ricerca del massimo livello di tutela nel sistema del processo penale. La variegata forza delle additive di principio – 4. L’effettività dei diritti nelle dinamiche tra il livello statale ed il livello regionale dell’intervento legislativo. Il ruolo degli standard omogenei di tutela a livello nazionale ed il potenziamento a livello locale delle garanzie fondato sulla illegittima discriminazione tra i destinatari dei benefici – 5. Un occhio a Strasburgo e un occhio alla storia della Corte costituzionale.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 14 gennaio
Additional file 1 of Comprehensive analysis of RNA m6A methylation in pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy
Creators: name: Li, Weidong
name: Xing, Chenxv
name: Bao, Limeng
name: Han, Shengna
name: Luo, Tianxia
name: Wang, Zhiju
name: Fan, Hongkun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental figure 1. Full length of representative immunoblots.
Parton-distribution functions for the pion and kaon in the gauge-invariant nonlocal chiral-quark model
Creators: name: Nam, Seung-il
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the parton-distribution functions (PDFs) for the positively charged pion and kaon at a low-renormalization scale ~ 1 GeV. To this end, we employ the gauge-invariant effective chiral action from the nonlocal chiral-quark model, resulting in that the vector currents are conserved. All the model parameters are determined phenomenologically with the normalization condition for PDF and the empirical values for the pseudoscalar-meson weak-decay constants. We consider the momentum dependence of the effective quark mass properly within the model calculations. It turns out that the leading local contribution provides about 70 % of the total strength for PDF, whereas the nonlocal one that is newly taken into account in this work for the gauge invariance does the rest. High-Q^2 evolution to 27 GeV^2 is performed for valance-quark distribution function (VQDF), using the DGALP equation. The moments for the pion and kaon VQDFs are also computed. The numerical results are compared with the empirical data and theoretical estimations, and show qualitatively agreement with them.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Riappare un “déjà vu” nella giurisprudenza: la responsabilità oggettiva del vescovo per gli atti illeciti dei suoi sacerdoti
Creators: name: Licastro, Angelo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Ministri di culto

description: Contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. La “novità” dell’ordinanza del Tribunale di Lecce 8 ottobre 2012 – 2. Il precedente belga – 3. Uno sguardo sulla dottrina civilistica del respondeat superior nell’esperienza americana – 4. La fattispecie esaminata dai giudici salentini e la questione della soggettività della Curia arcivescovile – 5. (segue) Il riconoscimento della responsabilità indiretta ex art. 2049 c.c. – 6. Le ragioni della non configurabilità di una posizione di responsabilità del vescovo ex art. 2049 c.c. - Appendice.
It’s “Déjà vu” in Case Law: Vicarious Liability of the Diocesan Bishopfor the Intentional Torts committed by his Priests

ABSTRACT: This Article addresses the issue of a Diocesan Curia’s liability for the intentional torts (sexual assault) committed by his parish priest. The paper takes as a starting point a recent Italian ruling that found a master-servant relationship between the Diocesan Curia and parish priest. The Court also held that a parish priest who committed a intentional tort (sexual assault), causally connected to the relationship, is acting within the scope of employment, so that the Diocesan Curia is vicariously liable. The Author suggests a comparative approach to the guidelines of Belgian and American case law on the subject of sexual abuse committed by clergy and examines the legal aspects of the topic as they are ruled by Italian law, which should lead to reject the conclusion of imputing a vicarious liability upon the Diocesan Curia.
KEYWORDS: Vicarious liability of churches for sexual misconduct; Respondeat superior liability; Master-servant relationship in the religious organizations.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 14 gennaio
Mitochondrial protein TOM22 in COS7 cells
Creators: name: OUYANG, Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: shareloc.xyz
shareloc.xyz:dataset
mitochondria
tom22
cos7
4%pfa
2d
smlm

description: Open in Shareloc.XYZ

description: Mitochondrial protein TOM22 in COS7 cells, using secondary antibody immunolabeling strategy. Used for figure 6b, Ouyang et al., Nat. Biotechnol. 2018 (Uploaded via https://shareloc.xyz)
Le ragioni dell’ordinamento canonico come contributo critico alla scienza giuridica laica
Creators: name: Bilotti, Domenico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: contributo sottoposto a valutazione
SOMMARIO: 1. Ineliminabile interesse del diritto canonico nella riflessione ius-religiosa del post-moderno - 2. L’ermeneutica del rinnovamento nella continuità e la metodologia suggerita dal Concilio Vaticano II: pregi e difetti di una transizione permanente - 3. La richiesta di riconsiderazione delle istanze poste dall’umana coscienza - 4. Una proposta alternativa rispetto a canoni e confini delle (presunte) leggi di mercato - 5. Prime conclusioni: verso un approccio assiologico e razionale sull’analisi degli istituti.
ABSTRACT The fundamental reasons of Canon Law to be considered as theoretical contribution to the secular juridical science
The aim of this article is to underline how secular Law surprisingly shows a great influence on Canon Law’s theories and how doctrines and disciplines introjected from ecclesiastical Orders have moulded and modified civil institutions. The most controversial points, in the last decade, still seem the interpretation and the application of the Second Vatican Council, properly because many scholars are daily arguing about inner aftermath of the event, if in consistent behaviour, or in an unpredicted disagreement, with Roman Catholic Church and generally Christianity’s history. Anyhow, current debates, concerning the crisis of liberal politics and the decline of a meaningful conception of sovereignty, should be cleared up by considering how controversies about jurisdiction, power and its legitimacy were composed during the past.
PAROLE CHIAVE Ordinamento Canonico; Concilio Vaticano II; Fonti del Diritto; Secolarizzazione.
KEY-WORDS Canon Law; Second Vatican Council; Sources of Law; Secularization.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 21 gennaio
Investigating the biosynthesis of cuticular alkanes in Arabidopsis thaliana : Characterization of SCD2 and chemical analysis of double CER mutant waxes
Creators: name: Skvortsova, Mariya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The plant cuticle is a hydrophobic layer that seals the surface of primary aerial organs of terrestrial plants and serves in protecting the tissues from abiotic and biotic stresses. Lipids are synthesized in the plastid and in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of epidermal cells for eventual export and deposition on the surface. Great progress has been made by genetic studies in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana in elucidating fatty acid elongation, but knowledge of alkane biosynthesis is still scarce. The current work was focused on expanding our current understanding of alkane biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. A recent discovery of Susceptible to Coronatine-Deficient Pst DC3118-2 (SCD2) whose mutant has a leaf-specific increase in aldehydes and a decrease in alkanes suggests that SCD2 has a role in converting aldehydes to alkanes. In this thesis, further characterization of SCD2 revealed that alkanes are decreased in two mutant lines, the wax of mutants was restored by transgene complementation with the native gene, the transcript is abundant in leaves, and the promoter is active in the phloem of vasculature. Finally, the protein localized to the ER, consistent with its role in wax biosynthesis. This work provided evidence for yet another gene whose product is involved in formation of cuticular alkanes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Double mutants were generated to further study wax biosynthesis in both stems and leaves. The cer1cer3 mutant had greatly reduced total stem and leaf wax amounts compared to wild-type, as well as a substantial reduction of alkanes. It has an increase in C30 primary alcohol levels like the cer3 parent, indicating epistasis. This suggests that CER3 precedes CER1 in alkane formation. Furthermore, it is severely male-sterile with a reduction in epicuticular wax crystals. Wax biosynthesis is similar in stems and leaves of cer1cer3, cer1cer4 and cer3cer4. The cer1cer3 will be an important tool to test domain functionality of CER1 and CER3 and may shed more light on the mechanisms of alkane formation in Arabidopsis thaliana.
La tutela delle esigenze religiose
Creators: name: Bolgiani, Isabella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: Il contributo, sottoposto a valutazione, costituisce il capitolo I dell’opera monografica di I. BOLGIANI, Regioni e fattore religioso. Analisi e prospettive normative, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2012, qui riprodotto per la cortesia dell'Editore.
SOMMARIO: 1. Gli interessi religiosi nella Costituzione – 2. La rappresentanza delle esigenze religiose tra centro e periferia - 3. Il principio di tutela della libertà religiosa nella tavola dei valori costituzionali - 4. La collaborazione tra pubblici poteri ed autorità religiose quale chiave di volta del sistema - 5. L’apporto offerto dal principio di sussidiarietà.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2013: 21 gennaio
Development of Antifouling Ceramic Membranes Through Doping with In Situ Hydrophilic Nanoparticles: Application to Organic Removal and Produced Water Treatment
Creators: name: Barati, Nasim
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Membrane Fouling
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Natural Organic Matter
subject: Produced Water Treatment
subject: Organic Removal
subject: Environmental Sciences

description: Membrane based separation processes have been one of the most promising techniques in water and wastewater treatment. However, membrane fouling due to the accumulation of contaminants on the membrane surface or within its pores has remained a big challenge toward the wide application of this technology. Fouling results in a decreased membrane performance, costly cleaning procedures, and frequent membrane replacements. As such, the development of membranes with enhanced antifouling and rejection performance is of crucial importance.In this work, a facile novel membrane modification method was developed to promote membrane applicability to synthetic and field produced water (PW) treatment. Commercially available ceramic membranes with different pore sizes were decorated with in situ generated iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs). Characterization showed successful incorporation of uniformly distributed ?-Fe_2 O_3 NPs of 4 – 15 nm on the membrane surface and within the active layer. Relative to as-received (AR) membranes, modified (MM) membranes exhibited higher intrinsic hydraulic resistance, lower surface roughness, and enhanced surface and pore hydrophilicity.A novel dimensionless number calculated based on permeate flux and contaminant rejection captured higher membrane efficiency (up to 3 times) with slight/no decrease in permeate flux for membranes having low NPs content. Higher NPs loading, however, decreased the membrane performance owing to pore plugging and organic adsorption. In addition, MM membranes exhibited enhanced antifouling characteristics in terms of flux decline (reduced 4 – 60 %) and fouling reversibility (increased 4 – 30 %). Modification impacted loose membranes to a greater extent, where with optimized NPs loading, larger pore size MM membranes rejected organics to the same extent as tight membranes while providing higher permeate flux.A combined stream of organic (humic acid, HA) – inorganic (silica, Si) colloidal contaminants contributed to more severe combined fouling for all membranes, while organic rejection was not considerably affected by Si. Intermolecular adhesion energies between the contaminants and the membrane surface successfully predicted the enhanced antifouling characteristics. The accuracy of combined fouling extent prediction, however, was not adequate probably since fouling mechanisms other than adsorption, including pore restriction, are not accounted for in the model.Overall, a facile, inexpensive, and efficient membrane modification method was developed. The modified membranes offered significantly enhanced performance and antifouling characteristics toward synthetic and field PW.
Full-Scale Testing of Large Diameter Steel Pipes under Soil Compaction and External Load
Creators: name: Zhang, Yadong
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soil-pipe interaction
subject: Soil compaction
subject: External load
subject: Deformation
subject: Unsaturated soil
subject: Strain profile
subject: Engineering--Civil

description: Pipes are buried as the safest method of transporting natural resources, such as oil and gas. 86% of the existing pipes buried in Alberta, Canada are made from steel. Large diameter pipes are designed and buried to replace the old ones and improve the oil transportation capacity. For buried pipes, heavy truck load is considered as one of the most important factors influencing the pipe behavior. Soil compaction during the pipe installation has been proven to affect the pipe behavior. The main objective of this study is to investigate the buried pipe behavior under soil compaction and truck load. The study is performed in three parts, i.e., laboratory soil tests, full-scale prototype tests on two Grade X52 steel pipes, and development and validation of a new semi-empirical method to predict pipe deformation.Firstly, the laboratory soil test results indicate that the soil modulus decreases with increasing water content, while it tends to increase slightly with confining pressure. The undrained shear strength of compacted silty sand increases with decreasing water content and increasing confining pressure. Secondly, the prototype test results illustrate that, during the soil compaction, the so-called peaking effect is detected on both pipes mainly due to the compaction pressure at the pipe sides. After that, the pipe is vertically compressed under overburden. The measured pipe strains increase with increasing applied load and decreasing cover depth. Perforation in pipe would induce stress concentration near the opening, thereby increasing the pipe strain. Increasing water content decreases the soil stiffness. As a result, a higher percentage of the applied load is taken by the pipe, and the pipe deformation is magnified. Compared to a static loading condition, pipe behavior under dynamic load is more complicated, and affected by factors including road roughness, cover depth, truck load, and truck moving speed.Thirdly, based on the results from the prototype tests, a semi-empirical method is proposed to predict the pipe stress and deflection in two steps. Pipe deformation is mainly attributed to the peaking effect and the overburden.
Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Sommer, Ariel T.
name: Cheuk, Lawrence W.
name: Ku, Mark Jen-Hao
name: Bakr, Waseem S.
name: Zwierlein, Martin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We follow the evolution of fermion pairing in the dimensional crossover from 3D to 2D as a strongly interacting Fermi gas of $^6$Li atoms becomes confined to a stack of two-dimensional layers formed by a one-dimensional optical lattice. Decreasing the dimensionality leads to the opening of a gap in radio-frequency spectra, even on the BCS-side of a Feshbach resonance. The measured binding energy of fermion pairs closely follows the theoretical two-body binding energy and, in the 2D limit, the zero-temperature mean-field BEC-BCS theory.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
From genomic data to metabolism of an uncultured thermophilic bacterium S2R-29 and a hydrocarbon degrader Solimonas aquatica
Creators: name: Tran, Triet M
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental microbiology
subject: Extremophile
subject: Uncultured bacteria
subject: Hydrocarbon degrader
subject: Biological Sciences

description: This thesis investigated metabolic functions through in-depth analyses of two bacterial genomes from two distinct environments: an uncultured thermophilic bacterium from Dewar Creek geothermal spring in British Columbia, Canada and Solimonas aquatica from freshwater in Taiwan.Twenty-two SAGs (Single-celled amplified genomes) of S2R-29 were retrieved from the source of Dewar Creek hot springs. S2R-29 is known to have extremely low GC content (24.23%) and predicted to be a facultative anaerobic bacterium. Based on phylogenetic trees constructed from full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences, the closest relatives to S2R-29 are members of the phyla Candidatus Calescamantes and Candidatus Fervidibacter. Metabolic analysis revealed 4 hypothesized energy sources for S2R-29: Cellobiose, glycerol, proteins, and DNA. Low GC content in S2R-29 might be directly related to the DNA degradation process and immediate environment surrounding the bacteria. S2R-29 is most likely a facultative anaerobe capable of twitching motility. The optimal growth temperature of S2R-29 was predicted to be at 65 – 70oC and appears to be almost exclusively present in Dewar Creek hot springs.Copper membrane monooxygenases are usually encoded by three genes found in xmoCAB operon, which is also known as pmoCAB in methanotrophs. Four sets of primers were designed to amplify the members of two phylogenetic clusters named tailing group 1 and 3. Three out of four primer pairs successfully amplified xmoA genes. Solimonas aquatica is the only xmoA-carrying bacterium from tailing group 1 with a cultured representative. Culture-based studies were therefore performed on Solimonas aquatica, which carries two different copies of xmoCAB. Solimonas aquatica cultures were grown and monitored for 30 to 60 days under various carbon sources including glucose, methane, propane, and butane in medium 10D. Gas chromatography and optical density were able to confirm the growth of Solimonas aquatica onglucose and butane only. Optical density of Solimonas aquatica cultures did not increase when cultured using butane-related intermediates aside from 1-butanol, in which the bacteria showed almost similar trend compared to butane-grown culture. However, based on the presence of genes encoding copper membrane monooxygenases and soluble di-iron monooxygenases, the exact mechanism and the enzyme responsible for butane-related oxidation is still unknown.
Van der Waals interaction in uniaxial anisotropic media
Creators: name: Kornilovitch, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Van der Waals interactions between flat surfaces in uniaxial anisotropic media are investigated in the nonretarded limit. The main focus is the effect of nonzero tilt between the optical axis and the surface normal on the strength of van der Waals attraction. General expressions for the van der Waals free energy are derived using the surface mode method and the transfer-matrix formalism. To facilitate numerical calculations a temperature-dependent three-band parameterization of the dielectric tensor of the liquid crystal 5CB is developed. A solid slab immersed in a liquid crystal experiences a van der Waals torque that aligns the surface normal relative to the optical axis of the medium. The preferred orientation is different for different materials. Two solid slabs in close proximity experience a van der Waals attraction that is strongest for homeotropic alignment of the intervening liquid crystal for all the materials studied. The results have implications for the stability of colloids in liquid crystal hosts.
description: Published version. Typos in Table 1 corrected
title: Digital Tomosynthesis: The Next Generation
Creators: name: PHILLIPS, SIAN
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radiation physics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review current Digital Tomosynthesis (DT) technologies Describe emerging DT technologies using compact cold cathode emitters Understand the evolving clinical applications of current and future DT...
Performance Improvement of Iterative Multiuser Detection for Large Sparsely-Spread CDMA Systems by Spatial Coupling
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Keigo
name: Tanaka, Toshiyuki
name: Kawabata, Tsutomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Kudekar et al. proved that the belief-propagation (BP) performance for low-density parity check (LDPC) codes can be boosted up to the maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) performance by spatial coupling. In this paper, spatial coupling is applied to sparsely-spread code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems to improve the performance of iterative multiuser detection based on BP. Two iterative receivers based on BP are considered: One receiver is based on exact BP and the other on an approximate BP with Gaussian approximation. The performance of the two BP receivers is evaluated via density evolution (DE) in the dense limit after taking the large-system limit, in which the number of users and the spreading factor tend to infinity while their ratio is kept constant. The two BP receivers are shown to achieve the same performance as each other in these limits. Furthermore, taking a continuum limit for the obtained DE equations implies that the performance of the two BP receivers can be improved up to the performance achieved by the symbol-wise MAP detection, called individually-optimal detection, via spatial coupling. Numerical simulations show that spatial coupling can provide a significant improvement in bit error rate for finite-sized systems especially in the region of high system loads.
description: submitted to IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech v1.2
Creators: name: Lippus, Pärtel
name: Aare, Kätlin
name: Malmi, Anton
name: Tuisk, Tuuli
name: Teras, Pire
Publisher: name: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu
Year: 2021
Subjects: speech corpus
phonetic annotation
phoneme segments
multimodal speech
dialogues
voice quality
morphological analysis

description: The Phonetic Corpus of Estonian Spontaneous Speech consists of recordings that have been annotated on different linguistic tiers including words and segments and their boundaries in the speech signal. The corpus mainly contains dialogues. The corpus can be used for studying different phonetic and linguistic research questions and for training various language technological applications (e.g. speech recognition, dialogue systems). In addition to the detailed phonetic segmentation the corpus has word-level annotation uses standard orthography so the corpus can be used with most NLP tools built for written language. The corpus includes: - Studio quality sound recordings, separate channels for each speaker Spontaneous conversation between 2-3 speakers, approximately 30 minutes for each recording - Manual transcription of words and phonemes - 205 individual speakers in the age range of 20–85 years - A total of 134 hours of speech recordings - Word & phoneme level annotation of 106 hours / 914 thousand word level intervals
Becoming a Multiculturally Responsive Clinical Supervisor: The Experience of Supervisors-in-Training
Creators: name: Spowart, Payden
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: supervision
subject: supervisor
subject: supervisor-in-training
subject: development
subject: culture and diversity
subject: multicultural
subject: social justice
subject: Canadian counselling psychology
subject: Education--Educational Psychology
subject: Clinical

description: Clinical supervisors must learn to attend to and address multicultural and social justice factors and dynamics when providing supervision. Developing these abilities does not occur automatically; rather, training in clinical supervision has a significant impact on supervisors’ development. Unfortunately, there is relatively limited research on the experiences of doctoral student supervisors-in-training, especially related to how they understand their development as multiculturally responsive supervisors. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to explore how counselling psychology doctoral students understand their experiences of becoming multiculturally responsive clinical supervisors. I used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis as the research method to address the research question “How do advanced counselling psychology doctoral students understand their experience of becoming a multiculturally responsive supervisor?” I interviewed eight doctoral student supervisors-in-training enrolled in Canadian Psychological Association accredited PhD programs in counselling psychology, who had completed their program-required supervision coursework and gained supervised practice in clinical supervision. The analysis resulted in six overarching themes: (a) the importance of multicultural and social justice factors and dynamics, (b) needing a road map, (c) supports to development, (d) experiences with supervisees, (e) changes over time, and (f) what lies ahead. I explain these findings and discuss them in the context of relevant literature. I also present the strengths and limitations of the study, along with the implications for research; theory; and education, training, and practice.
Cosmetic crossings and Seifert matrices
Creators: name: Balm, Cheryl
name: Friedl, Stefan
name: Kalfagianni, Efstratia
name: Powell, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: We study cosmetic crossings in knots of genus one and obtain obstructions to such crossings in terms of knot invariants determined by Seifert matrices. In particular, we prove that for genus one knots the Alexander polynomial and the homology of the double cover branching over the knot provide obstructions to cosmetic crossings. As an application we prove the nugatory crossing conjecture for twisted Whitehead doubles of non-cable knots. We also verify the conjecture for several families of pretzel knots and all genus one knots with up to 12 crossings.
description: 16 pages, 5 Figures. Minor revisions. This version will appear in Communications in Analysis and Geometry. This paper subsumes the results of arXiv:1107.2034
title: The essential of the thymus in CT evaluation: normal and pathological findings
Creators: name: Selea, Adriana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Mediastinum

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present and illustrate the thymic CT morphology in relation to age. To list and discuss the CT features in thymic pathology. To review the classification of thymic epithelial tumors. To discuss the differential diagnosis of anterior mediastinal...
Die Personenbetreuung aus Sicht der Betreuten und Angehörigen
Creators: name: Geserick, Christine
Publisher: name: University of Vienna. Project: Family Studies in Austria
Year: 2021
Subjects: Familienforschung
Personenbetreuung
24-Stunden-Betreuung
Angehörige
betreute Person

description: Rund 25.000 Pflegebedürftige hatten in Österreich 2020 eine Personenbetreuung ("24-Stunden-Betreuung"). Wie erleben sie und ihre Angehörigen dieses Arrangement? Was macht eine "gute" Betreuungsperson aus? Wo gibt es Konfliktpotenzial? Die Grounded-Theory-Studie widmet sich diesen und weiteren Fragen. Die Interviews wurden zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie geführt und zeigen noch mal mehr, wie sehr die Familien auf die Personenbetreuer/innen angewiesen sind und wie sie agieren, um das Arrangement aufrechtzuerhalten.
title: Value of radiomics analysis in predictive response to treatment in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer
Creators: name: Gabelloni, Michela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Computer applications
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for approximately 1,400,000 new cases and about 700,000 deaths worldwide. In recent years, numerous advances have...
Bilder der Bilder der Bilder. Die narrative Inszenierung von Erinnerung in Prosawerken von Christoph Hein
Creators: name: Slipp, Richard T.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Narratology
subject: GDR
subject: Prose
subject: Memory
subject: Christoph Hein
subject: Literature--Germanic
subject: Literature--General
subject: Language, Literature, And Linguistics

description: This thesis examines the narrative staging of memory acts by Christoph Hein, who began his literary career in the German Democratic Republic and has established himself since unification as one of Germany's most recognised contemporary writers. Hein’s prose works invariably focus on the imperative to remember, on the subjective and dynamic character of memory and on tensions between collective and individual memories. The thesis performs close readings of eleven of Hein's book-length prose texts, including several newer works which have not been treated extensively in academic criticism to date, and is guided in its readings by various modern narratological approaches. Among the more influential methodologies applied here are the foundational theories of Franz Stanzel and Gérard Genette on narrative situations, time structure and perspective as well as more recent refinements of these by Monika Fludernik and Wolf Schmid, the analytical categories of multiperspectival narration identified by Vera and Ansgar Nünning, Werner Wolf’s research on literary framing and frame stories and the theories of fictionality and metafiction of Frank Zipfel and Linda Hutcheon, respectively. The narratological orientation of the thesis represents a departure from the bulk of research on Hein, which has all too often remained at the level of histoire and has focused primarily on the historical referentiality of the texts, in particular with regard to GDR society.It is argued that although Hein’s texts display the language of disinterested chronicles and at times evoke an illusion of authenticity or even objectivity – in keeping with his oft-cited characterisation as a “chronicler without a message” –, they are also replete with subversive narrative strategies that lay bare the works’ status as fictional and that destabilise and confound straightforward readings. The texts are thus shown to be innovative and self-reflexive to an extent that has not been recognised previously. The thesis concludes that the narrative intricacies and indeterminacies in Christoph Hein’s prose texts are not only employed to reflect the psychological complexity and unreliability of memory, but also to emphasise the role of fiction and fictionalising in individual and collective acts of memory.
Person-Environment Fit in the Employment Interview: Interview Focus, Design, and Validity
Creators: name: Wingate, Timothy G. H. L.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personnel Selection
subject: Employment Interview
subject: Person-Environment Fit
subject: Task Performance
subject: Contextual Performance
subject: Staffing
subject: Industrial

description: This dissertation describes two research studies that examined employment interviewers’ goals for the interview, strategies for interview design, and the criterion-related validity of specific interview assessments. Both studies drew on theoretical perspectives of person-environment fit and multifaceted models of work performance. From this lens, Study 1 was carried out to investigate how practitioners design interviews to facilitate assessments of specific constructs. Study 1 therefore qualitatively explored the interviewing goals and strategies of 29 experienced Human Resources (HR) practitioners and hiring managers. Semi-structured interviews with participants lasted an average of 58 minutes; these interviews were recorded and transcribed for analysis. Participants’ responses were subjected to template analysis and inductively formulated into a theoretical model of interview goals and interview design. Along with this model, Study 1 results identify interview goals and design strategies that have received little attention in the research area, and specify how and why practitioners strategically design their interviews to accomplish their goals. Study 2 moves beyond practitioners’ perspectives to systematically review and meta-analyze the criterion-related validity of interview assessments of specific constructs (i.e., task and contextual performance). Meta-analyses were conducted on 37 samples spanning 31 articles (N = 30,646, or 4,449 upon excluding one study). Study 2 further assesses the moderation effects of four sets of interview design strategies (interview structure, format, use of an interviewer panel, and question type) on interview assessment-specific criterion-related validity. Study 2 results suggest that interviewers can accurately assess distinct forms of performance, but that assessments of task and communication performance are also predictive of on-the-job leadership performance. Furthermore, results imply some potential benefits of strategically designing (i.e., tailoring) the interview to facilitate different assessments. Together, the findings of these two studies present several directions for future research to close the science-practice gap in employment interviewing. In particular, future research on the interview can be enhanced by stipulating the particular constructs to be assessed in the interview (rather than an overall performance assessment), as well as the particular design components (beyond solely interview structure) that comprise the interview.
title: Choledochal cysts: lesions to follow or to ignore?
Creators: name: MANAVI, EKATERINI
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: to cover the wide spectrum of presentation of choledochal cysts to differentiate between this pathological entity and malignancy to introduce the possible etiology related to embryology to provide clues in order to detect complications in known...