cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1: of NephroCheck: should we consider urine osmolality?
Creators: name: Noto, Alberto
name: Cortegiani, Andrea
name: David, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Raw data. Urine osmolality and AKIRisk score of each patient. (DOCX 43 kb)
Characteristics of Bus Transit Vehicles in the United States: How They Have Changed Over a Quarter Century
Creators: name: Tang, Li
name: Gan, Albert
name: Cevallos, Fabian
name: Tang, Li
name: Gan, Albert
name: Cevallos, Fabian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: In 2009, transit agencies in the United States spent nearly 60% of their bus transit capital funds on their revenue vehicles. Using 25 years of data from the National Transit Database (NTD), this paper examines the national trends of seven major characteristics associated specifically with bus revenue vehicles. These trends can provide important information on where the market might be heading and aid in the planning decision on transit investments. The characteristics examined include number of vehicles, spare ratio, average age, average capacity, ADA accessibility, vehicle reliability, and vehicle operations and maintenance expenses. Some findings from the trend data include: (1) a steady increase in the privatization of bus services; (2) the average spare ratios have consistently exceeded the maximum of 20%, as suggested by the Federal Transit Administration for systems operating with more than 50 vehicles; (3) vehicles operated by contractors tended to be significantly newer than those operated directly by transit agencies, although the gap has narrowed in recent years; (4) vehicles operated directly by transit agencies tended to have higher seating and standing capacities than those operated by contractors; (5) there was a tendency among transit agencies to trade seats for more standing room; (6) by 2006, nearly all bus vehicles were ADA-compliant, and increasingly vehicles with lifts were converted to vehicles with ramps/low-floor; (7) reliability of vehicles in terms of number mechanical failures per million revenue vehicle miles has significantly improved over the years; and (8) contractors spent less on average than transit agencies in operating and maintaining their vehicles.
The Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds
Creators: name: Delmotte, N.
name: Loup, C.
name: Egret, D.
name: Cioni, M. -R.
name: Pierfederici, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds (MC2) is a multi-wavelength reference catalogue. The current paper presents the first results of the MC2 project. We started with a massive cross-identification of the two recently released near-infrared surveys: the DENIS Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds (DCMC) with more than 1.3 million sources identified in at least two of the three DENIS filters (I J Ks) and the 2nd Incremental Release of the 2MASS point source catalogue (J H Ks) covering the same region of the sky. Both point source catalogues provide an unprecedented wealth of data on the stellar populations of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The cross-matching procedure has been extended to optical wavelength ranges, including the UCAC1 (USNO) and GSC2.2 catalogues. New cross-matching procedures for very large catalogues have been developed and important results on the astrometric and photometric accuracy of the cross-identified catalogues were derived. The cross-matching of large surveys is an essential tool to improve our understanding of their specific contents. This study has been partly supported by the ASTROVIRTEL project that aims at improving access to astronomical archives as virtual telescopes.
description: 14 pages, 29 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. For more information, see http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/MC2/
Hemagallia plotina C.A.Viraktamath 2011, comb. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Hemagallia
Hemagallia plotina

description: Hemagallia plotina (Distant) comb. nov.
Figs 282–285, 568, 582, 597.
 Agallia plotina Distant 1908: 194, fig. 127. SYNTYPE ♂, INDIA: Bengal [BMNH, examined]
 Agallia rugosa Distant 1912: 607; 1916: 228–229, fig. 167. SYNTYPE ♂, INDIA: N. Bengal [BMNH, examined] syn. nov. Agallia bhuntra Sawai Singh 1969: 359–361, figs 60–64. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Chandigarh [PAU, not examined] syn. nov.
 Color. Pale reddish brown to dark brown with whitish or pale marginal stripe on clavus along claval suture, more pronounced in male than in female. Face ochraceous, sutures on face, apex of clypellus, antennal pits in male, fuscous. Ocelli pink or brown. Female from Nepal and holotype male of H. rugosa darker in color, the lateral margins of pronotum, basal angles and central spot on scutellum, anal angle and central area of forewings, fuscous, these areas ochraceous in holotype male of H. plotina. Costa of forewings broadly hyaline. Thoracic pleura with fuscous areas. Abdominal sterna dark brown in male, paler in female.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer elongate, caudal lobe membranous bearing number of setae; tergum completely sclerotized and pigmented. Subgenital plates pointed caudally. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme concavely excavated both ventrally and apically, shaft strongly curved, without processes. Anal collar with hook-like process directed ventro-caudally, pointed apically.
 Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite concave and medially pigmented.
 Measurements. Male 2.5 (2.4–2.7) mm long, 1.0 (1.0–1.1) mm wide across eyes. Female 2.7 mm long, 1.1 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. INDIA: West Bengal: SYNTYPE ♂, Bengal, Distant Coll., 1911-383, Agallia plotina Dist. (BMNH); SYNTYPE ♂, N. Bengal, Distant Coll., 1911-383, Agallia rugosa Dist. (BMNH). Additional material: NEPAL: 1 ♀, Pokhara, 910m, 18–29. ix.1965, L.W. Quate (BPBM).
 Remarks. This species resembles H. biplagiata but differs in lacking the arrowhead shaped apex of the aedeagal shaft of that species and by the concave female seventh sternite. The synonymy of A. bhuntra is based on the published description and illustration by Sawai Singh (1969).
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 60-61
Investigating the Hubble Constant Tension -- Two Numbers in the Standard Cosmological Model
Creators: name: Lin, Weikang
name: Mack, Katherine J.
name: Hou, Liqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current Hubble constant tension is usually presented by comparing constraints on $H_0$ only. However, the post-recombination background cosmic evolution is determined by two parameters in the standard $Λ$CDM model, the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and today's matter energy fraction ($Ω_{\rm{m}}$). If we therefore compare all constraints individually in the $H_0$-$Ω_{\rm{m}}$ plane, (1) various constraints can be treated as independently as possible, (2) single-sided constraints are easier to consider, (3) compatibility among different constraints can be viewed in a more robust way, (4) the model dependence of each constraint is clear, and (5) whether or not a nonstandard model is able to reconcile all constraints in tension can be seen more effectively. We perform a systematic comparison of different constraints in the $H_0$-$Ω_{\rm{m}}$ space based on a flat $Λ$CDM model, treating them as separately as possible. Constraints along different degeneracy directions consistently overlap in one region of the space, with the local measurement from Cepheid variable-calibrated supernovae being the most outlying, followed by the time-delay strong-lensing result. Considering the possibility that some nonstandard physics may reconcile the constraints, we provide a general discussion on nonstandard models with modifications at high, mid, or low redshifts, and the effect of local environmental factors. Due to the different responses of individual constraints to a modified model, it is not easy for nonstandard models to reconcile all constraints if none of them have unaccounted-for systematic effects.
description: 11 pages, including appendix. 3 figures. Updated to match version accepted for publication in ApJL
Manipulation of the Spin Memory of Electrons in n-GaAs
Creators: name: Dzhioev, R. I.
name: Korenev, V. L.
name: Merkulov, I. A.
name: Zakharchenya, B. P.
name: Gammon, D.
name: Efros, Al. L.
name: Katzer, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the optical manipulation of the electron spin relaxation time in a GaAs based heterostructure. Experimental and theoretical study shows that the average electron spin relaxes through hyperfine interaction with the lattice nuclei, and that the rate can be controlled by the electron-electron interactions. This time has been changed from 300 ns down to 5 ns by variation of the laser frequency. This modification originates in the optically induced depletion of n-GaAs layer.
Conference proceedings – The 19th International conference on bioinformatics (InCoB) 2020
Creators: name: 19th International Conference On Bioinformatics (InCoB2020)
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) is a conference series first started in Bangkok, Thailand in 2002. Since then, the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) has adopted this conference and grown the conference to become one of Asia’s oldest and largest conferences on bioinformatics, with special focus on bioinformatics amongst life scientists. After the first InCoB, the conference has gone places, held in Penang (Malaysia), Auckland (New Zealand), Busan (Korea), Delhi (India), Hong Kong, Taipei (Taiwan), Singapore, Tokyo (Japan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bangkok (Thailand), New South Wales (Australia), Odaiba (Japan), Shenzhen (China), and Jakarta (Indonesia). This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, InCoB 2020 was organized virtually for the first time. InCoB is one of the main drivers of APBioNET’s key thrust area of “Connecting the Bioinformatics Community in the Region”.
Expanding the deep-learning model to diagnosis LVNC: Limitations and trade-offs
Creators: name: Bernabé, Gregorio
name: González-Férez, Pilar
name: García, José M.
name: Casas, Guillem
name: González-Carrillo, Josefa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyper-trabeculation or non-compaction in the left ventricle of the myocardium (LVNC) is a recently classified form of cardiomyopathy. Several methods have been proposed to quantify the trabeculae accurately in the left ventricle, but there is no general agreement in the medical community to use a particular approach. In previous work, we proposed DL-LVTQ, a deep learning approach for left ventricular trabecular quantification based on a U-Net CNN architecture. DL-LVTQ was an automatic diagnosis tool developed from a dataset of patients with the same cardiomyopathy (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy).
 In this work, we have extended and adapted DL-LVTQ to cope with patients with different cardiomyopathies. The dataset consists of up 379 patients in three groups with different particularities and cardiomyopathies. Patient images were taken from different scanners and hospitals. We have modified and adapted the U-Net convolutional neural network to account for the different particularities of a heterogeneous group of patients with various unclassifiable or mixed and inherited cardiomyopathies.
 The inclusion of new groups of patients has increased the accuracy, specificity and kappa values while maintaining the sensitivity of the automatic deep learning method proposed. Therefore, a better-prepared diagnosis tool is ready for various cardiomyopathies with different characteristics. Cardiologists have considered that 98.9% of the evaluated outputs are verified clinically for diagnosis. Therefore, the high precision to segment the different cardiac structures allows us to make a robust diagnostic system objective and faster, decreasing human error and time spent.
title: Laughing Bodies: An Exploration of Laughter as a Means of Insight
Creators: name: Graham, Nicole
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Located within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour, as critically examined in chapter one, this thesis demonstrates the importance of the non-serious in the study of religion. Through an exploration of laughter as a means of insight, I argue that there is a specific form of laughter, articulated within this thesis as insight laughter, that has not previously been identified, thoroughly considered, or had its value recognised. This reconceptualisation of laughter is significant as it challenges the classificatory orders of knowledge by recognising and arguing for the value of the body in the creation of knowledge and understanding. Grounded in the psychological and philosophical theory of William James, chapter two argues that insight laughter is a form of embodied knowledge and that the same dynamic shift of streams of consciousness, from the peripheral to the central consciousness, are found in this specific form of laughter. The insight that results from laughter offers an alternative perspective and, as such, presents the potential for change. In order to demonstrate the centrality of the body for insight laughter, and thus the creation of knowledge, this thesis engages with laughter within three thematic areas: religious experience, gendered experiences (of laughter), and ethics. These three areas offer a graduated analysis of the ethical understanding of gender and the body. Chapter three provides a critical engagement with the philosophy and practices of Osho and the Rajneesh Movement to address the presence of the non-serious in religion and explore whether laughter can be considered a religious experience. In order to reflect on how the politics of the body affects the reception of laughter within religious experience and beyond, chapter four considers the gendered experience of laughter through the examples of anasyrma, laughing witches, and feminist laughter, identifying the potential of insight laughter as a means of disrupting patriarchal structures. Finally, chapter five offers a consideration of how the ethics of the body, broadly conceived, has led to the value of laughter being negated. I will counter this position by demonstrating the value of laughter in ethics. As such, this thesis demonstrates how each of these themes challenges how the body, consciousness, and knowledge is understood and demonstrates how the laughing body can provide a rethinking of the creation of knowledge.
Deciphering and integrating invariants for neural operator learning with various physical mechanisms
Creators: name: Zhang, Rui
name: Meng, Qi
name: Ma, Zhi-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neural operators have been explored as surrogate models for simulating physical systems to overcome the limitations of traditional partial differential equation (PDE) solvers. However, most existing operator learning methods assume that the data originate from a single physical mechanism, limiting their applicability and performance in more realistic scenarios. To this end, we propose Physical Invariant Attention Neural Operator (PIANO) to decipher and integrate the physical invariants (PI) for operator learning from the PDE series with various physical mechanisms. PIANO employs self-supervised learning to extract physical knowledge and attention mechanisms to integrate them into dynamic convolutional layers. Compared to existing techniques, PIANO can reduce the relative error by 13.6\%-82.2\% on PDE forecasting tasks across varying coefficients, forces, or boundary conditions. Additionally, varied downstream tasks reveal that the PI embeddings deciphered by PIANO align well with the underlying invariants in the PDE systems, verifying the physical significance of PIANO. The source code will be publicly available at: https://github.com/optray/PIANO.
Themes and challenges in making freight Transport sustainable: A logistics service providers’ perspective
Creators: name: Abbasi, Maisam
name: Nilsson, Fredrik
name: Abbasi, Maisam
name: Nilsson, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The purpose of this article is to explore themes and challenges in making freight transport sustainable out of a logistics service providers’ perspective. The approach is explorative and the main method for data collection is interviews. The study has a cross sectional design which takes advantage of nine semi-structured interviews from selected logistics service providers operating in the Scandinavian countries. Our findings illustrate the major themes of sustainable freight transport, by analyses of current as well as future activities, in perspective of nine interviewed logistics service providers. In addition, the patterns of current and probable emerging challenges for developing sustainable freight transport were discovered. It is concluded that there is great need for a holistic perspective where logistics service providers and product owners together analyse and design future freight transport set-ups. The analysis of complex interactions among LSPs and other actors of supply chains provide several opportunities for future research. The results offered in this paper provide a systematic structure for classifying issues related to sustainable freight transport; something which will be beneficial for managers and policymakers when they approach sustainable supply chain management challenges. Syntheses and discovery of themes and challenges of making freight transport sustainable are critical for a sustainable society. This paper combines the results from interviews with a thorough review of related articles and homepages. The study ends with research propositions contributing to the further advancement of supply chain sustainability and management.
Integrability of quotients in Poisson and Dirac geometry
Creators: name: Álvarez, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the integrability of Poisson and Dirac structures that arise from quotient constructions. From our results we deduce several classical results as well as new applications. We also give explicit constructions of Lie groupoids integrating two interesting families of geometric structures: (i) a special class of Poisson homogeneous spaces of symplectic groupoids integrating Poisson groups and (ii) Dirac homogeneous spaces.
description: v2: Sections 4 and 5 of the original version where removed and re-elaborated independently
Productivity Improvements in the U.S. Rail Freight Industry 1980-2010
Creators: name: Martland, Carl D.
name: Martland, Carl D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Between 1980 and 2008, extensive productivity improvements and changes in traffic mix allowed railroads to become more profitable despite declining prices and stronger competition from motor carriers. In 1980, freight operating costs were $26.3 billion for the Class I railroads. Between 1980 and 2008, revenue ton-miles increased by a factor of 1.94 and inflation (measured by the GDP price deflator) increased by a factor of 2.27. Had the rail traffic mix and rail productivity remained at 1980 levels, and if freight costs had increased with inflation, then freight operating expense would have increased by a factor of 4.4, from $26 billion in 1980 to approximately $110 billion in 2008. If real revenue per tonmile had kept pace with inflation, revenues would also have increased by the same factor, from $28 billion in 1980 to $116 billion in 2008. In fact, Class I revenues in 2008 were under $60 billion. The $56 billion difference resulted primarily from a large reduction in real rail rates caused by stronger intra- and intermodal competition, along with a shift in traffic mix toward lower-rated commodities, changes in the ownership of the freight car fleet, and a larger role for small railroads. Railroads not only survived this extended period of declining rates, they increased their profits and their return on investment. Extensive productivity improvements enabled the Class I railroads to halve their real costs per ton-mile, even though fuel and other resource costs rose faster than inflation. Productivity improvements were greatest in the areas most suitable to rail freight: bulk traffic moving in heavy haul unit trains, long-haul movement of containers in double-stack trains, and high-volume shipments moving long-distances in specialized equipment. While the rail industry indeed achieved tremendous improvements in productivity following passage of the Staggers Act in 1980, it is incorrect to point to deregulation as the primary reason for these gains. Productivity growth was achieved in part through network rationalization, a restructuring process than was perhaps assisted by Staggers, but a process that was actually begun in the 19th century. Other factors that were even more critical to productivity growth included technological advances, new labor agreements, improved management, and public policy responses to the Northeast Rail Crisis.
Solid-that-flows picture of glass-forming liquids
Creators: name: Dyre, Jeppe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This perspective article reviews arguments that glass-forming liquids are different from those of standard liquid-state theory, which typically have a viscosity in the mPa$\cdot$s range and relaxation times of order picoseconds. These numbers grow dramatically and become $10^{12}-10^{15}$ times larger for liquids cooled toward the glass transition. This translates into a qualitative difference, and below the ``solidity length'' which is of order one micron at the glass transition, a glass-forming liquid behaves much like a solid. Recent numerical evidence for the solidity of ultraviscous liquids is reviewed, and experimental consequences are discussed in relation to dynamic heterogeneity, frequency-dependent linear-response functions, and the temperature dependence of the average relaxation time.
title: Counter-hegemony in a Brazilian Prison: A Study of the PCC
Creators: name: Stegemann Dieter, Vitor
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The 'Primeiro Comando da Capital' (PCC) is a Brazilian prison-street group that has been attracting great public attention and has affected prison policies for the last 25 years. In this study I analyse the system of power relations into which the PCC enters, both in inmate culture and in its interactions with prison governance. So far the mainstream literature on prison and gangs has explored the production of governance (of inmates in prison and gangs in the illicit market) without sufficiently engaging with the dynamics of power relations and the agency of groups and individuals in that process. Further, this thesis also seeks to move beyond the criminological tradition of theorising on power that is based on a liberal (social consensus) perspective or, alternatively, that locates power as a top-down exercise of domination. Instead, I suggest the concept of hegemony - power as a different form of domination designed to produce the consent of subaltern groups - and of praxis (agency as part of an interaction between ideology and material circumstances) to further explore the problem from a critical and radical perspective. Using this framework, I have undertaken an ethnography in three Brazilian prisons with prisoners and prison staff, as well as ex-convicts and other authorities, and have arrived at four major conclusions: 1) the PCC acts as a 'party' of prisoners who organise their culture ('the ethics', so-called) through an 'ideology'. 2) The 'ideology' enables a critical autonomy of the subaltern group (inmates) in opposition to the hegemonic form of the prison apparatus - producing a counter-hegemony. 3) Prison authorities must navigate inadequate and poor prison conditions to produce governance not by simply resorting to corruption and coercion but seeking the consent of inmates to their 'containment' in prison. 4) With the support of inmates, the PCC exerts pressure on authorities for a 'dialogue' on the governance of prison - producing 'shared governance', when successful. Therefore, I have found that there is a deep and embedded struggling interaction of the PCC with the inmate culture and in the production of prison governance, and I argue that this transforms the content and form of power relations in Brazilian prisons in the dynamics of producing order with consent and coercion with implications on how we think about prison governance in the Global South in general.
Clustering statistics in cosmology
Creators: name: Martinez, Vicent J.
name: Saar, Enn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main tools in cosmology for comparing theoretical models with the observations of the galaxy distribution are statistical. We will review the applications of spatial statistics to the description of the large-scale structure of the universe. Special topics discussed in this talk will be: description of the galaxy samples, selection effects and biases, correlation functions, Fourier analysis, nearest neighbor statistics, Minkowski functionals and structure statistics. Special attention will be devoted to scaling laws and the use of the lacunarity measures in the description of the cosmic texture.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, uses spie.cls (included). This paper will be published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4847, 2002, "Astronomical Data Analysis II," J.-L. Stark and F. Murtagh, eds., and is made available as an electronic preprint with permission of SPIE
Stellar population and structural properties of dwarf galaxies and young stellar systems in the M81 group
Creators: name: Okamoto, Sakurako
name: Arimoto, Nobuo
name: Ferguson, Annette M. N.
name: Irwin, Mike J.
name: Bernard, Edouard J.
name: Utsumi, Yousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope to investigate the structural and photometric properties of early-type dwarf galaxies and young stellar systems at the center of the M81 Group. We have mapped resolved stars to $\sim2$ magnitudes below the tip of the red giant branch over almost 6.5 square degrees, corresponding to a projected area of $160\times160 \rm{kpc}$ at the distance of M81. The resulting stellar catalogue enables a homogeneous analysis of the member galaxies with unprecedented sensitivity to low surface brightness emission. The radial profiles of the dwarf galaxies are well-described by Sersic and King profiles, and show no obvious signatures of tidal disruption. The measured radii for most of these systems are larger than the existing literature values and we find the total luminosity of IKN ($\rm{M_{V,0}}=-14.29$) to be almost 3 magnitudes brighter than previously-thought. We identify new dwarf satellite candidates, d1006+69 and d1009+68, which we estimate to lie at a distance of $4.3\pm0.2$ Mpc and $3.5\pm0.5$ Mpc. With $\rm{M_{V,0}}=-8.91\pm0.40$ and $\rm{[M/H]}=-1.83\pm0.28$, d1006+69 is one of the faintest and most metal-poor dwarf satellites currently-known in the M81 Group. The luminosity functions of young stellar systems in the outlying tidal HI debris imply continuous star formation in the recent past and the existence of populations as young as 30 Myr old. We find no evidence for old RGB stars coincident with the young MS/cHeB stars which define these objects, supporting the idea that they are genuinely new stellar systems resulting from triggered star formation in gaseous tidal debris.
description: 24 pages, 22 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Joyce Carol Oates: The Wonderland Quartet, Nietzsche, and Lewis Carroll
Creators: name: Horvath, Dorota
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This thesis discusses the aesthetics of a mode of survival in light of the postmodern reading in The Wonderland Quartet of Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ). Oates is a prominent American critic and writer of fiction, whose texts encompass novels, short stories, poetry, and plays. Her oeuvre has been translated into multiple languages, and she holds an array of literary and other awards. Additionally, Oates has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize five times, and has been the recipient of prestigious Nobel Prize nominations.Her writing takes on abundant influences of literary and philosophical intellectuals, mirrors her life observance and poses altering forms of her artistic imagination. What may be delineated as Oates' original literary scholarship is her ability to reflect on the cultural reception of Walter Arnold Kaufmann's Nietzsche in her fiction, while enabling her characters to decide their purposes. Echoing Nietzsche, her characters are not limited by any normative standards. The author's narrative techniques let the characters' polyphonic voices dominate the fabulation. In the context of societal margins from the 1950s until the early 1970s, the tone of The Wonderland Quartet progresses into a buoyant climax of human pursuit in its last text.Oates aestheticizes cultural experiments after the proclamation about the death of God that mould postmodern social theories of the American culture after 1950. She depicts the philosophical transition of Kaufmann's model of Nietzsche, as a shaping influence on society, into postmodern sentiment. In her fiction, Oates juxtaposes the concept of unity with the postmodern concept of decentralisation that affirms pluralism. Her fictional perspective of blurred lines between fantasy and reality is influenced by Lewis Carroll's texts that are celebrated for the element of absurdity and the images of jumbled nonsense by postmodern critics.In The Wonderland Quartet (A Garden of Earthly Delights(1967),Expensive People (1968), the National Book Award-winning Them (1969), and Wonderland (1971)), Oates' characters epitomise the cultural margins, and push their boundaries, testing their limitations and striving to go beyond them. The author celebrates the aesthetics of playful fictions that corresponds to the postmodern reading. However, her dramatisation of the power games invites an element of terror to depict the tragedy of disordered human domination. While the protagonists from the first three novels of the Quartet correspond to the postmodern appropriation of Nietzsche's ideas, in the last text, the protagonist achieves integrity, and centralises authoritative influences into his internal control, fashioning Kaufmann's model of Nietzsche.
The impacts of the panama canal expansion on world cotton Trade
Creators: name: Costa, Rafael
name: Rosson, Parr
name: Costa, Rafael
name: Rosson, Parr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use

description: The U.S. cotton industry is highly dependent on foreign markets. It is important for the U.S. industry to remain competitive with foreign suppliers such as Brazil, India and Uzbekistan. One of the major factors that will affect the efficiency, distribution and competitiveness of U.S. cotton will be the expansion of the Panama Canal. With sea freight the fastest growing mode of transportation, the number and size of vessels that are able to pass through the Canal will increase after the expansion is completed in 2014. In summary, taking into account the cost structure, transit time, and the Panama Canal tolls, when compared to the intermodal option, the expansion is expected to reduce maritime costs for shipments from the East Coast ports (e.g. Savannah port) to East Asia (China) by about $140/TEU, a 28 percent reduction of the current total cost of $490/TEU. A spatial, intertemporal equilibrium model of the international cotton sector was utilized to evaluate the effects of the expansion on the world cotton industry, with more emphasis given to the U.S. cotton industry. By assuming that the canal expansion will be completed in 2014, three scenarios assuming different reductions in ocean freight rates from the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic ports to Asian and Pacific importing countries are analyzed. In general, all scenarios suggested that cotton exports to Gulf and Atlantic ports would increase considerably with the port of Savannah leading the way. On the other hand, the Long Beach – Los Angeles ports would decrease its participation in total U.S. cotton exports significantly. Overall, the percentage of U.S. cotton exports via the Panama Canal relative to the total U.S. cotton exports would increase. Furthermore, total U.S. cotton exports were expected to increase due to the expansion. However, in relative terms, the maximum amount which the U.S. total exports would increase is equivalent to a 2.2 percent increase. As for the other competing countries, for all analyzed scenarios, these losses in exports, prices, and revenues are very modest in relative terms.
Igerna atrovenosa C.A.Viraktamath 2011, comb. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna atrovenosa

description: Igerna atrovenosa (Melichar) comb. nov.
Figs 286–288, 570, 584, 599.
 Agallia atrovenosa Melichar 1903: 152. SYNTYPE ♂, SRI LANKA (HNHM, examined); Distant 1908: 195–196, fig. 128.
 Color. Ochraceous with black markings. One quadrate spot on either side of median line on vertex closer to each other than to adjacent eye, spot surrounding ocelli, antennal cavity, submarginal stripe on fronto-clypeus joined ventrally, clypellus except lateral margins, black; lateral areas of genae yellow; lateral frontal sucli, black. Pronotum with anterior margin, two elongate oval large spots on posterior half, black, often meeting anterior marginal band. Scutellum with basal triangles black. Forewings with claval cells dark brown, corial veins dark brown, more conspicuously so in male than in female, inner claval submargin yellow. Legs infuscated.
 Morphology. Face slightly longer than broad. Ocelli closer to each other than to adjacent eyes.
 Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer with marginal stout microsetae; caudo-ventral margin oblique, shallowly excavated in middle. Subgenital plates triangular, inner margins almost parallel sided, posteriorly narrowed, covered with stout microseate. Styles elongate, slender. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme well developed, broader than shaft at base, shaft closely appressed to dorsal apodeme and of uniform width, arcuate, some times broadened in mid section dorsally, with apical pair of bifurcate, caudo-ventrally directed processes, gonopore subapical.
 Female genitalia. Seventh sternite dark pigmented, hind margin rather straight.
 Measurements. Male 4.5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. SRI LANKA: SYNTYPE ♂, Newara-Eliya, Pattipola (HNHM). Additonal material: SRI LANKA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Pattipola, 25.viii.1979, Dworakowska (UASB).
 Remarks. This is one of the larger agalliine leafhoppers of the Oriental region, others being I. violacea, I. aurora and I. fasciata (Osborn). It can be readily recognised by the coloration and male genitalia. It closely resembles I. aurora sp. nov. and I. delineata sp. nov. (see below) but differs from the former in the structure of the style, subgenital plate and from the latter in the structure of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 63
Brief Descriptions of Multispectral Imaging (MSI) Datasets
Creators: name: Shevchuk, Ivan
name: Huskin, Kyle Ann
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: CSMC
SFB950
UWA
Manuscript
Written Artefacts
Artefact Profiling
Mobile Lab
Z01
RFA10
RFA21
Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
Megavision E7
Megavision Q15

description: Both description files describe the MSI data, folder structure, file naming system and the multispectral imaging system itself with its main components and calibration steps. Two sensors (E7 and Q15) can be used. These descriptions can also be found in other MSI related uploads accompanying the data.
description: The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 (SFB 950) and under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
Additional file 1: of vvECMO can be avoided by a transpulmonary pressure guided open lung concept in patients with severe ARDS
Creators: name: Zee, Philip
name: Miranda, Dinis Dos Reis
name: Meeder, Han
name: Endeman, Henrik
name: Gommers, Diederik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Figure S1. Flowchart of patient inclusion. Table S1. Patient demographics. Table S2. Patient parameters. Appendix Mechanical ventilation strategy. (DOCX 38 kb)
A Better Upper Bound of Hausdorff Measure of the Cartesian Product of the Middle Third Cantor Set with Itself Compare to Others'
Creators: name: Fan, Yuchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37-A99

description: After the correction of an inaccurate result in the reference, the author uses five different methods, and gets five different inequalities on the Hausdorff measure of the Cartesian product of the middle third Cantor set with itself: $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.548563$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.504975$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502878$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.503263$$ $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502483.$$ The main theory of this paper is the best among them, which is $$H^s (C\times C)\leq 1.502483.$$
description: 36 pages, 20 figures
High $T_c$ superconductivity in MgB$_2$ by nonadiabatic pairing
Creators: name: Cappelluti, E.
name: Ciuchi, S.
name: Grimaldi, C.
name: Pietronero, L.
name: Strässler, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evidence for the key role of the $σ$ bands in the electronic properties of MgB$_2$ points to the possibility of nonadiabatic effects in the superconductivity of these materials. These are governed by the small value of the Fermi energy due to the vicinity of the hole doping level to the top of the $σ$ bands. We show that the nonadiabatic theory leads to a coherent interpretation of $T_c = 39$ K and the boron isotope coefficient $α_{\rm B} = 0.30$ without invoking very large couplings and it naturally explains the role of the disorder on $T_c$. It also leads to various specific predictions for the properties of MgB$_2$ and for the material optimization of these type of compounds.
description: 4 revtex pages, 3 eps figures, to appear on Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1: of Checklist to operationalize measurement characteristics of patient-reported outcome measures
Creators: name: Francis, David
name: McPheeters, Melissa
name: Noud, Meaghan
name: Penson, David
name: Feurer, Irene
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Written description of patient-reported outcome measure concepts included in the checklist. (DOCX 16.0 MB)
title: Pop-Up Stretchable Sensor Designs Using Multiphysics Modeliing
Creators: name: Soltani, Shaghayegh
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Stretchable electronic devices are critical for the future of wearable sensor technology, where existing rigid and non-flexible devices severely limit the applicability of them in many areas. Stretchable electronics extend flexible electronics one step further by introducing significant elastic deformation. Stretchable electronics can conform to curvy geometries like human skin which enables new applications such as fully wearable electronics whose properties can be tuned through mechanical deformation. Much of the effort in stretchable electronics has focused on investigation of the optimum fabrication method to make a trade-off between the manufacturing cost and acceptable performance. Here in this thesis a novel pop-up strain sensor design is introduced and tested.This technique is simple to use and can be applied to almost all available materials such as metals, dielectrics, semiconductors and different scales from centi-meter to nanoscale. Using this method three main electronic devices have been designed for different applications. The first category is pop-up antennas that are able to reconfigure their frequency response with respect to the mechanical deformation by out of plane displacement. The second category is pop-up frequency selective surface which similarly can change its frequency behaviour due to applied strain. This ability to accommodate the applied stress by three-dimensional (3D) deformation, making these devices ideal for strain sensing applications such as vapor sensing or on skin mountable sensors. Using the advantage of RFID technology in terms of wireless monitoring, the third category has been introduced which is a pop-up capacitor sensor integrating with an RFID chip to detect finger joint bending that can help those patients who are recovering after stroke. The proposed devices have been modelled using COMSOL Multiphysics and Extensive evaluations of the prototype system were conducted on purpose-built laboratory scale test rigs. Both results are in good correlation which makes them applicable for sensing purposes.
Additional file 2: Table S2. of Erratum to: systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of increased vegetable and fruit consumption on body weight and energy intake
Creators: name: O. Mytton
name: K. Nnoaham
name: H. Eyles
name: P. Scarborough
name: C. Ni Mhurchu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Derivation of standard errors for the difference in change in body weight between control and intervention from standard errors for each group (necessary for three studies). *size of control group halved; and estimate of SE correspondingly adjusted (values used in calculations are shown in the table); the following formula used to calculate the standard errors for the difference in change in body weight between control and intervention was: SE int â con = var int n int + var con n con $$ {SE}_{\mathit{\operatorname{int}}- con}=\sqrt{\frac{var_{int}}{n_{int}}+\frac{var_{con}}{n_{con}}} $$ â Ś (DOCX 12Â kb)
Numerical implications of including drifts in SOLPS-ITER simulations of EAST
Creators: name: Boeyaert, Dieter
name: Carli, Stefano
name: Dekeyser, Wouter
name: Wiesen, Sven
name: Baelmans, Martine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inclusion of drifts in plasma edge codes like SOLPS-ITER is required to match simulation data with experimental profiles. However, this remains numerically challenging. In this paper, the effect of some numerical factors on the final plasma solution is investigated. This study is performed on three EAST simulations in upper single null configuration: an attached purely deuterium case, an attached case with limited Ne-seeding and a detached Ne-seeded case. The effects of the anomalous conductivity and anomalous thermo-electric coefficient on the plasma potential are investigated. Next, the effect of the employed grids is shown. In order to investigate these effects, accurate drift simulations are needed. Therefore, the employed time step and used numerical parameters are discussed for the three studied simulations. For all presented simulations, it is verified that the restriction of the grid to the first flux surface tangent to the main chamber wall has only a small effect on the divertor solution. This means that the main power dissipation takes place inside the simulated domain and only a small fraction of the power is leaving the B2.5 grid trough the grid boundary closest to the first wall. Finally the effect of drifts on the asymmetry between the inner and outer target for EAST simulations is demonstrated.
Interacting Growth Walk on a honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Narasimhan, S. L.
name: Krishna, P. S. R.
name: Ramanadham, M.
name: Murthy, K. P. N.
name: Sridhar, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Interacting Growth Walk (IGW) is a kinetic algorithm proposed recently for generating long, compact, self avoiding walks. The growth process in IGW is tuned by the so called growth temperature $T' = 1/(k_B β')$. On a square lattice and at $T' = 0$, IGW is attrition free and hence grows indefinitely. In this paper we consider IGW on a honeycomb lattice. We take contact energy, see text, as $ε=-|ε|=-1$. We show that IGW at $β' =\infty$ ($T'=0$) is identical to Interacting Self Avoiding Walk (ISAW) at $β=\ln 4$ ($k_B T = 1/\ln 4=0.7213$). Also IGW at $β' = 0$ ($T' = \infty$) corresponds to ISAW at $β= \ln 2$ ($k_B T= 1/ln 2 = 1.4427$). For other temperatures we need to introduce a statistical weight factor to a walk of the IGW ensemble to make correspondence with the ISAW ensemble.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, REVTEX file