cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fast Radio Transient searches with UTMOST at 843 MHz
Creators: name: Caleb, M.
name: Flynn, C.
name: Bailes, M.
name: Barr, E. D.
name: Bateman, T.
name: Bhandari, S.
name: Campbell-Wilson, D.
name: Green, A. J.
name: Hunstead, R. W.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Jankowski, F.
name: Keane, E. F.
name: Ravi, V.
name: van Straten, W.
name: Krishnan, V. Venkataraman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first radio interferometric search at 843 MHz for fast transients, particularly Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The recently recommissioned Swinburne University of Technology's digital backend for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope array (the UTMOST) with its large collecting area (18,000 $\mathrm{m^2}$) and wide instantaneous field of view (7.80 $\mathrm{deg^2}$) is expected to be an efficient tool to detect FRBs. As an interferometer it will be capable of discerning whether the FRBs are truly a celestial population. We show that UTMOST at full design sensitivity can detect an event approximately every few days. We report on 2 preliminary FRB surveys at about 7% and 14% respectively of the array's final sensitivity. Several pulsars have been detected via single pulses and no FRBs were discovered with pulse widths ($W$), in the range 655.36 $μ$s $< W < 41.9$ ms and dispersion measures (DMs) in the range $100 < $DM$< 2000$ $\mathrm{pc\,cm^{-3}}$. This non-detection sets a 2$σ$ upper limit of the sky rate of not more than 1000 events $\mathrm{sky^{-1}}$ $\mathrm{day^{-1}}$ at 843 MHz down to a flux limit of 11 Jy for 1 ms FRBs. We show that this limit is consistent with previous survey limits at 1.4 GHz and 145 MHz and set a lower limit on the mean spectral index of FRBs of $α> -3.2$.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Temperature and Velocity Characteristics of Rotating Turbulent Boundary Layers Under Non-Isothermal Conditions
Creators: name: Tao, Zhi
name: You, Ruquan
name: Ma, Yao
name: Li, Haiwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes an experimental investigation, by means of hot-wire anemometry, of the characteristics of velocity and temperature in a rotating turbulent boundary layer under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions. The ranges of experimental parameters are: Reynolds number from 10000 to 25000, rotational speed from 0 to 150 rpm, and y+ from 1.8 to 100. The relative temperature difference is held constant at 0.1. Detailed velocity and temperature distributions in the boundary layer are measured in the rotating state, and a new criterion for boundary layer segmentation under rotation is proposed. The applicability of boundary layer theory under the rotating state is extended. The influence of Coriolis force and buoyancy on the velocity and temperature distributions in the turbulent boundary layers are analyzed. Coriolis force is found to play an important role in the behavior of the boundary layer under rotation, as it shifts the velocity and temperature boundary layers. Under isothermal conditions, such effects can be classified according to the dominant force: viscous, Coriolis, or inertial. Under non-isothermal conditions, buoyancy occurs. The buoyancy induced by the Coriolis force suppresses the effect of the Coriolis force, and the suppression effect increases with temperature difference. The variation of turbulent Prandtl number Prt under rotation is also obtained.
Deploying Process Innovation in Manufacturing
Creators: name: Javahernia, Alireza
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Process Innovation
Innovation Deployment
Manufacturing
Deployment readiness
Delphi Study
Influencing Factors
Deployment Preparedness
Fuzzy Assessment

description: Manufacturing companies are increasingly under pressure to innovate due primarily to the intense competition they face, particularly under global market conditions. Innovation is recognised as a precondition for survival. Implementation of innovative initiatives in manufacturing is an important and challenging phase of process innovation. This is more so in the pre-implementation phase, in which manufacturing organisations need to prepare and be appropriately ready to deploy their process innovation initiative. This thesis focuses on the methodology of deploying process innovation in manufacturing to identify the factors influencing deployment readiness, evaluate hypothesised influences of some of the factors on deployment readiness, and provide an accessible method of assessing deployment readiness levels. Several important results and significant contributions to knowledge are arising from the research reported in this thesis. The thesis reports on the findings that several factors can influence deployment process innovation which is characterised along the dimensions of context for process innovation, performance, capability and capacity, resources, and collaboration. Through developing and evaluating a conceptual framework for process innovation deployment readiness, the thesis found a significant positive link between process innovation deployment preparedness and being fully ready to deploy. It was also found that having a deployment plan has a significant positive influence on being fully ready to deploy process innovation. These results have important implications for manufacturing managers, especially regarding the need for a deployment plan, ensuring a good climate for innovation, and being prepared to deploy process innovation in manufacturing. Perspectives of manufacturing managers reported in the thesis indicate that manufacturing companies do not necessarily need to attain a 100% deployment readiness level. On average, the companies appear satisfied with about 70% deployment readiness level. A fuzzy logic method for assessing manufacturing process innovation deployment readiness level presented in this thesis will help manufacturing companies gauge their readiness level and identify areas of improvement should they wish to increase their deployment readiness level prior to implementation. The method was validated in a case study company and found useful. The thesis concludes by reinforcing the need for manufacturing companies to rely more on appropriate techniques, such as those arising from this research, for use in successfully managing the deployment of their process innovation initiatives.
Particle acceleration in explosive relativistic reconnection events and Crab Nebula gamma-ray flares
Creators: name: Lyutikov, Maxim
name: Sironi, Lorenzo
name: Komissarov, Sergey
name: Porth, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a model of particle acceleration in explosive reconnection events in relativistic magnetically-dominated plasmas and apply it to explain gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula. The model relies on development of current-driven instabilities on macroscopic scales (not related to plasma skin depths). Using analytical and numerical methods (fluid and particle-in-cell simulations), we study a number of model problems in relativistic magnetically-dominated plasma: (i) we extend Syrovatsky's classical model of explosive X-point collapse to magnetically-dominated plasmas; (ii) we consider instability of two-dimensional force-free system of magnetic flux tubes; (iii) we consider merger of two zero total poloidal current magnetic flux tubes. In all cases regimes of spontaneous and driven evolution are investigated. We identify two stages of particle acceleration: (i) fast explosive prompt X-point collapse and (ii) ensuing island merger. The fastest acceleration occurs during the initial catastrophic X-point collapse, with the reconnection electric field of the order of the magnetic field. The explosive stage of reconnection produces non-thermal power-law tails with slopes that depend on the average magnetization. The X-point collapse stage is followed by magnetic island merger that dissipates a large fraction of the initial magnetic energy in a regime of forced reconnection, further accelerating the particles, but proceeds at a slower reconnection rate. Crab flares result from the initial explosive stages of magnetic island mergers of magnetic flux tubes produced in the bulk of nebula at intermediate polar regions. The post-termination shock plasma flow in the wind sectors with mild magnetization naturally generates large-scale highly magnetized structures. Internal kink-like instabilities lead to the formation of macroscopic current-carrying magnetic flux tubes that merge explosively.
description: 140 pages, 81 figures, submitted to the Journal of Plasma Physics on March 16th 2016 -- invited contribution to the special collection on "Plasma Physics of Gamma Ray Emission from Pulsars and their Nebulae"
Detection of Sharp Symmetric Features in the Circumbinary Disk Around AK Sco
Creators: name: Janson, Markus
name: Thalmann, Christian
name: Boccaletti, Anthony
name: Maire, Anne-Lise
name: Zurlo, Alice
name: Marzari, Francesco
name: Meyer, Michael R.
name: Carson, Joseph C.
name: Augereau, Jean-Charles
name: Garufi, Antonio
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Desidera, Silvano
name: Asensio-Torres, Ruben
name: Pohl, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Search for Planets Orbiting Two Stars (SPOTS) survey aims to study the formation and distribution of planets in binary systems by detecting and characterizing circumbinary planets and their formation environments through direct imaging. With the SPHERE Extreme Adaptive Optics instrument, a good contrast can be achieved even at small (<300 mas) separations from bright stars, which enables studies of planets and disks in a separation range that was previously inaccessible. Here, we report the discovery of resolved scattered light emission from the circumbinary disk around the well-studied young double star AK Sco, at projected separations in the ~13--40 AU range. The sharp morphology of the imaged feature is surprising, given the smooth appearance of the disk in its spectral energy distribution. We show that the observed morphology can be represented either as a highly eccentric ring around AK Sco, or as two separate spiral arms in the disk, wound in opposite directions. The relative merits of these interpretations are discussed, as well as whether these features may have been caused by one or several circumbinary planets interacting with the disk.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Minor (proof-level) corrections implemented in this version
Black-boxing journalistic chains, an actor-network theory inquiry into journalistic truth
Creators: name: Nawarathne, Dilina
name: STORNI, CRISTIANO
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Understanding journalistic truth has always been important in Journalism Studies, but it is increasingly significant in a society influenced by constantly evolving digital technologies and information disorder. This article explores the potential of “actor-network theory” to enhance the understanding of journalistic truth, surpassing the limitations of existing perspectives that categorise it as objective, subjective, or a combination of the two. Alternatively, through the utilisation of a plausibility probe case study in investigative journalism, the article suggests examining news-making as black-boxing and conceptualises journalistic truth as arising from the skilful construction of journalistic chains comprising heterogeneous actors. We discuss these as pivotal steps toward gaining a deeper understanding of journalistic truth that paves the way for constructing an alternative but empirical account of journalism.
Fluctuational electrodynamics for nonlinear media
Creators: name: Soo, Heino
name: Krüger, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop fluctuational electrodynamics for media with nonlinear optical response. In a perturbative manner, we amend the stochastic Helmholtz equation to describe fluctuations in a nonlinear setting, in agreement with the fluctuation dissipation theorem, and identify the local (Rytov) current fluctuations. We show how the linear response (the solution of the scattering problem) of a collection of objects is found from the individual responses, as measured in isolation. As an example, we compute the Casimir force acting between nonlinear objects which approaches the result for linear optics for large separations, and deviates for small distances.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Efficient artificial mineralization route to decontaminate Arsenic(III) polluted water -the Tooeleite Way
Creators: name: Malakar, Arindam
name: Das, Bidisa
name: Islam, Samirul
name: Meneghini, Carlo
name: De Giudici, Giovanni
name: Merlini, Marco
name: 'ko, Yury V Kolen
name: Iadecola, Antonella
name: Aquilanti, Giuliana
name: Acharya, Somobrata
name: Ray, Sugata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Increasing exposure to arsenic (As) contaminated ground water is a great threat to humanity. Suitable technology for As immobilization and removal from water, especially for As(III) than As(V), is not available yet. However, it is known that As(III) is more toxic than As(V) and most groundwater aquifers, particularly the Gangetic basin in India, is alarmingly contaminated with it. In search of a viable solution here, we took a cue from the natural mineralization of Tooeleite, a mineral containing Fe(III) and As(III)ions, grown under acidic condition, in presence of SO42- ions. Complying to this natural process, we could grow and separate Tooeleite-like templates from Fe(III) and As(III) containing water at overall circumneutral pH and in absence of SO42- ions by using highly polar Zn-only ends of wurtzite ZnS nanorods as insoluble nano-acidic-surfaces. The central idea here is to exploit these insoluble nano-acidic-surfaces (called as INAS in the manuscript) as nucleation centres for Tooeleite growth while keeping the overall pH of the aqueous media neutral. Therefore, we propose a novel method of artificial mineralization of As(III) by mimicking a natural process at nanoscale.
Development of Smart Polymeric Nanocontainers for the Therapy of Head and Brain Malignancies
Creators: name: Seriah, Sara
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nanocontainers
Nanoparticles
Head Tumours
Brain Tumours
Targeted Therapy

description: Head and brain tumours account for 2% to 4% of all cancers globally. Despite progress made in diagnosis and adjuvant therapies, they remain a global burden with unsatisfactory survival rates, reduced treatment outcome, poor prognosis and high risks of recurrence. First line chemotherapy drugs used in current regimens lack specificity, which ensues long term and unpleasant side effects for the patient. Encapsulating the chemotherapy drugs within nanocontainers (NCs) is one approach to improving their efficacy and therapeutic outcome as well as reducing side effects. Due to their nano-size and suitable modified surface, polymeric NCs can reach critical areas in the head and brain without causing any damage to the healthy tissue. The aim was to synthesize polymeric NCs capable of carrying and delivering chemotherapy drugs in tumour cells to increase their efficacy and reduce their side effects. Hollow P(MAA-co-MBA-co-NIPAM-co-EGDMA) NCs with dual sensitivity were synthesised and characterized structurally and morphologically throughout the synthesis steps. Daunorubicin, cisplatin, and temozolomide loaded NCs, and free NCs were assessed by haemolysis assay, MTT assay, fluorescence microscopy, western blot, and flow cytometry in rhabdomyosarcoma TE671 cell line and glioblastoma U87 MG cell line. The free NCs showed high biocompatibility and non-toxicity trait with good cellular uptake. Also, the loading capacities were between 27% and 63%, and the release studies showed a sustained release profile for up to 72h. Treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma and glioblastoma cells with different drugs loaded in NCs showed high cancer cell cytotoxicity, variation in induced DNA damage levels, induced apoptosis and cell cycles arrest for 24h and 72h. Overall, smart polymeric NCs showed reliability in carrying and delivering chemotherapy drugs in rhabdomyosarcoma and glioblastoma cells with efficiency in tackling the tumour cells. Our polymeric NCs exhibited excellent potential as a novel therapeutic approach for targeted drug delivery in head and brain tumours. This could be verified in the preclinical models to assess their improved efficacy and reducing side effects of first line cancer therapies. It could further pave the way for clinical trials of head and brain cancers in human patients.
Evolution of airway remodelling in lung transplant recipients
Creators: name: McWilliams., Tanya Jane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Evaluation of Twisted Gaussian Schell Model beams produced with phase randomized coherent fields
Creators: name: Cañas, Gustavo
name: Gómes, Esteban Sepúlveda
name: Santos, Gustavo Henrique dos
name: de Oliveira, André Gustavo
name: da Silva, Nara Rubiano
name: Joshi, Stuti
name: Ismail, Yaseera
name: Ribeiro, Paulo Henrique Souto
name: Walborn, Stephen Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The twisted Gaussian Schell Model describes a family of partially coherent beams that present several interesting characteristics, and as such have attracted attention in classical and quantum optics. Recent techniques have been demonstrated to synthesize these beams from a coherent source using a discrete set of "pseudo-modes", where the phase of each mode is randomized so that they are mutually incoherent. Here we investigate this technique and evaluate the resulting beam parameters, such as divergence, coherence length and twist phase. We show that for a finite set of modes there is also some residual coherence, which can have an observable effect. A theoretical model is developed for the output field that includes residual coherence and agrees very well with experimental data. In addition, we demonstrate a simple method to measure the twist phase using double slit interference.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
title: РЕЦЕНЗИЯ НА КОЛЛЕКТИВНУЮ МОНОГРАФИЮ "СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ЛИНГВИСТИКИ И ЛИНГВОДИДАКТИКИ" (ОТВЕТСТВЕННЫЙ РЕДАКТОР Т.В. ДРОЗДОВА)
Creators: name: Маджаева, Санья Ибрагимовна
Publisher: name: Астраханский государственный медицинский университет
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational sciences
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Рецензируемая коллективная монография убедительно показывает актуальность и сложность проблем, касающихся связи языка и сознания, мультимодальности устной и письменной форм коммуникации, поиска решений задач лингводидактики и др.
Studies on the biosynthesis of proteoglycans by articular cartilage
Creators: name: McQuillan., David James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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D3.6 Exploitation Plan
Creators: name: Bassols, Meritxell
name: Sivila Castellana, Anna Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: IPR
Exploitable

description: Most of the opportunities have been articulated around the reference integration model provided by SIGRUN. The main free-to-use part has been the framework, and the free-to-use design has been separated from the actual implementation by one of the partners. Regarding IPR, IPR Management will follow the compliance requirements provided in the GA for the exploitation of the results. Specific agreements might be signed for licensing further services and products. The governance of further exploitation organisations aimed to exploit the VALKYRIES opportunities shall be managed by Technology Transfer offices of the involved partners, considering the type, features, nature, duration of the solutions proposed.
Detecting triple systems with gravitational wave observations
Creators: name: Meiron, Yohai
name: Kocsis, Bence
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has recently discovered gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by merging black hole binaries. We examine whether future GW detections may identify triple companions of merging binaries. Such a triple companion causes variations in the GW signal due to (1) the varying path length along the line of sight during the orbit around the center of mass, (2) relativistic beaming, Doppler, and gravitational redshift, (3) the variation of the "light"-travel time in the gravitational field of the triple companion, and (4) secular variations of the orbital elements. We find that the prospects for detecting the triple companion are the highest for low-mass compact object binaries which spend the longest time in the LIGO frequency band. In particular, for merging neutron star binaries, LIGO may detect a white dwarf or M-dwarf perturber at signal to noise ratio of 8, if it is within 0.4 solar radius distance from the binary and the system is within a distance of 100 Mpc. Stellar mass (supermassive) black hole perturbers may be detected at a factor 5x (1000x) larger separations. Such pertubers in orbit around the merging binary emit GWs at frequencies above 1 mHz detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in coincidence.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Governance of and with nature-based solutions in cities
Creators: name: Frantzeskaki, Niki
name: Wijsman, Katinka
name: Adams, Clare
name: Kabisch, Nadja
name: Malekpour, Shririn
name: Pineda Pinto, Melissa
name: Vandergert, Paula
Publisher: name: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Inclusivity
subject: Governance
subject: Intersectionality
subject: Interdisciplinarity
subject: Transdisciplinarity
subject: Urban nature-based solutions
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: This chapter centres on the planning and governance of urban nature-based solutions (NBS). We discuss on the one hand the governance of NBS, where the implementation of NBS is the goal and governance centres around questions of planning, designing, and building NBS, and on the other hand the governance with NBS, where NBS become a governance tool to achieve other goals in urban areas, such as the Sustainable Development Goals. We argue that inclusivity is critical in NBS governance and offer five dimensions of inclusive governance to be considered: cross-sectoral, epistemic, multi-species, intergenerational, and spatial inclusivity. While these dimensions highlight diverse takes on who should be included in NBS governance and how, they share a foundation in two critical principles of inclusive governance that we briefly discuss: intersectionality and inter- and transdisciplinarity.
Warm ionized gas in the blue compact galaxy Haro 14 viewed by MUSE. The diverse ionization mechanisms acting in low-mass starbursts
Creators: name: Cairós, L. M.
name: González-Pérez, J. N.
name: Weilbacher, P. M.
name: Sainz, R. Manso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the warm ionized gas in the blue compact galaxy (BCG) Haro 14 by means of integral field spectroscopic observations taken with the MUSE/VLT. The large FoV of MUSE and its unprecedented sensitivity enable observations of the galaxy nebular emission up to large galactocentric distances. This allowed us to trace the ionized gas morphology and ionization structure up to kiloparsec scales and, for the first time, to accurately investigate the excitation mechanism operating in the outskirts of a typical BCG. The intensity and diagnostic maps reveal at least two highly distinct components of ionized gas: the bright central regions, mostly made of individual clumps, and a faint component which extends up to kiloparsec scales and consists of widespread diffuse emission, well-delineated filamentary structures, and faint knots. Noteworthy are the two curvilinear filaments extending up to 2 and 2.3 kpc southwest, which likely trace the edges of supergiant expanding bubbles driven by galactic outflows. We find that while the central clumps in Haro 14 are HII-region complexes, the morphology and line ratios of the whole low-surface-brightness component are not compatible with star formation photoionization. In the spatially resolved emission-line-ratio diagnostic diagrams, spaxels above the maximum starburst line form the majority. Moreover, our findings suggest that more than one alternative mechanism is ionizing the outer galaxy regions. The properties of the diffuse component are consistent with ionization by diluted radiation and the large filaments and shells are most probably shocked areas at the edge of bubbles. The mechanism responsible for the ionization of the faint individual clumps observed in the galaxy periphery is more difficult to assess. These clumps could be the shocked debris of fragmented shells or regions where star formation is proceeding under extreme conditions.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures. Accepted in A&A
Characterization of belmont virus, an ungrouped Australian arbovirus and comparisons with other arboviruses
Creators: name: McPhee., Dale Alan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Towards mainstreaming nature-based solutions for achieving biodiverse, resilient, and inclusive cities
Creators: name: McPhearson, Timon
name: Kabisch, Nadja
name: Frantzeskaki, Niki
Publisher: name: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nature-based solutions
subject: Urban resilience
subject: Cities
subject: Climate change
subject: Complex systems
subject: Green infrastructure
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: Reconnecting humanity to the biosphere must be a focus in cities. Transforming cities to be inclusive, equitable, resilient, and sustainable requires rethinking our relationship to nature, and investing in urban development, design, and governance that brings nature into the center. We provide seven key insights drawn from the chapters in this book: (1) put nature-based solutions (NBS) first in adaptation to climate change in cities; (2) make equity and justice central in the design, planning, management, and governance of NBS in cities; (3) ensure biodiversity is a priority in urban planning for NBS; (4) employ and design NBS to improve human health in cities; (5) realize NBS in cities with inclusive urban planning and innovative governance approaches that respond to local context dynamics; (6) assess the holistic value of urban nature to make a case for NBS in cities; and (7) bring art into NBS and position art as a NBS in cities.
Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Reveals That SN 2015bh Is Much Fainter than Its Progenitor
Creators: name: Jencson, Jacob E.
name: Sand, David J.
name: Andrews, Jennifer E.
name: Smith, Nathan
name: Strader, Jay
name: Aghakhanloo, Mojgan
name: Pearson, Jeniveve
name: Valenti, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the site of SN 2015bh in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2770 taken between 2017 and 2019, nearly four years after the peak of the explosion. In 2017-2018, the transient fades steadily in optical filters before declining more slowly to $F814W = -7.1$ mag in 2019, $\approx$4 mag below the level of its eruptive luminous blue variable (LBV) progenitor observed with HST in 2008-2009. The source fades at a constant color of $F555W - F814W = 0.4$ mag until 2018, similar to SN 2009ip and consistent with a spectrum dominated by interaction of the ejecta with circumstellar material (CSM). A deep optical spectrum obtained in 2021 lacks signatures of ongoing interaction ($L_{\mathrm{H}α} \lesssim 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$ for broadened emission $\lesssim$2000 km s$^{-1}$), but indicates the presence of a nearby H II region ($\lesssim$300 pc). The color evolution of the fading source makes it unlikely that emission from a scattered-light echo or binary OB companion of the progenitor contributes significantly to the flattening of the late-time light curve. The remaining emission in 2019 may plausibly be attributed an evolved/inflated companion or an unresolved ($\lesssim$3 pc), young stellar cluster. Importantly, the color evolution of SN 2015bh rules out scenarios in which the surviving progenitor is obscured by nascent dust and does not clearly indicate a transition to a hotter, optically faint state. The simplest explanation is that the massive progenitor did not survive. SN 2015bh likely represents a remarkable example of the terminal explosion of a massive star preceded by decades of end-stage eruptive variability.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, published in ApJL. Replacement with revisions to match published article
Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities
Creators: name: McPhearson, Timon
name: Kabisch, Nadja
name: Frantzeskaki, Niki
Publisher: name: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nature-based solutions
subject: Urban resilience
subject: Cities
subject: Climate change
subject: Complex systems
subject: Green infrastructure
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: Nature-based Solutions for Cities brings diverse perspectives from across the globe together to describe the state of the art in advancing nature-based solutions (NBS) for cities. Our goal is to provide a handbook for graduate students, early-career professionals, and emerging and advanced scholars to begin working with NBS in ways that consider multiple perspectives, disciplines, and ways of knowing. Together, the chapters in this book aim at understanding how NBS can be better managed, planned, and engaged with, and to center questions of NBS for whom and for what NBS are planned and implemented in cities. Through chapters led by experts in both global south and north contexts, we describe key knowledge and learning for advancing the interdisciplinary science of NBS in, for, and with cities and discuss the frontiers for next-generation NBS.
Impact of peer-led basic life support training on student confidence performing real-life cardiopulmonary resuscitation before, during and after COVID-19 restrictions.
Creators: name: Rylance, Annie
name: Mears, William
name: King, Oliver
name: Hewitt, Daisy
name: Allsop, Sarah
name: Booker, Matthew
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Background
 Basic Life Support (BLS) training is an integral part of Medical School curricula, but limited literature has explored how confident students feel performing BLS skills. At Bristol Medical School, we undertook a study (2018-2022) to investigate the impact of BLS training on student confidence. Due to the timing of the study, we could capture data pre, during and post the COVID-19 pandemic and investigate its impact on medical student confidence and willingness to perform BLS, using both in-person and virtual teaching methods. Both courses were delivered via student peer-teaching, utilising a modified Peyton’s four-step approach. Each enabled student participation in BLS activities, although the virtual training had reduced practical and assessment components.

 Summary Of Work
 A closed-questionnaire prospective cohort study was undertaken, with 3 groups of medical students: 1) Pre-COVID in-person training, 2) During-COVID virtual training, 3) Post-COVID in-person training. The questionnaire assessed self-reported confidence and willingness to perform BLS (5-point Likert scale) before and after BLS training. Pre-course questionnaires of groups 1 and 2 were compared to investigate if the pandemic impacted student willingness to administer BLS. Paired questionnaire responses for groups 2 and 3 were analysed to assess the effect of virtual and in-person training. (Ethics approval: 66702)

 Summary Of Results
 347 questionnaires were included from 543 medical students. Both virtual and in-person peer-led BLS training significantly increased student self-reported confidence and willingness to perform BLS. However, the improvements seen following the virtual course regressed after 6 months. When compared to the pre-COVID group, the students taught during COVID showed a reduction in willingness to perform BLS in a community but not hospital setting.

 Discussion And Conclusion
 Peer-led BLS training is effective in improving medical student confidence and willingness to administer BLS, regardless of delivery modality. Although virtual teaching may not produce a sustained improvement in these metrics. Environmental factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic can significantly influence both the delivery of teaching, as well as students’ attitudes towards performing bystander CPR.

 Take Home Messages
 Peer-led teaching is an effective, sustainable and low-cost alternative to traditional BLS training and impacts student willingness to intervene in real-life emergencies. Such models have potential for wider application within and beyond medical education curricula.
Immersivity in Music Performance with Original Compositions
Creators: name: Michael, Kyriacos
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2023
Subjects: Immersive
Immersivity
Music
Performance
Taxonomy
Proximity
Envelopment
Sound Processing
Visual Processing
Audience Engagement
Practice-Based
Practice-Led
Spatial Music
Sound Diffusion
Acousmatic Music
Electroacoustic Music
Soundscape Music
Binaural Audio
Surround-Sound
Ambisonics
Object-Based Audio
Mono
Stereophony
Phantom Imaging

description: The aim of this study is to critically investigate immersivity in music performance. It will evaluate how the combination of the performance space, musical material and delivery methods can produce unique and valuable sonic experiences to an audience. This investigative process hopes to highlight what compositional and spatial characteristics define this performance paradigm, with the goal to provide a taxonomy of key characteristics which creators must consider when devising an immersive music performance.
Muon capture on 3H
Creators: name: Golak, J.
name: Skibinski, R.
name: Witala, H.
name: Topolnicki, K.
name: Kamada, H.
name: Nogga, A.
name: Marcucci, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The muon capture on 3H leading to muonic neutrino and three neutrons in the final state is studied under full inclusion of final state interactions. Predictions for the three-body break-up of 3H are calculated with the AV18 potential, augmented by the Urbana IX three-nucleon force. Our results are based on the single nucleon weak current operator comprising the dominant relativistic corrections. This work is a natural extension of our investigations of the muon capture on 3He leading to 3H or n+d or n+n+p and muonic neutrino in the final state, presented in Phys. Rev. C90, 024001 (2014).
description: 18 pages, 6 eps figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.6781
Molecular data confirm Monolepta hieroglyphica (Motschulsky, 1858) and M. quadriguttata (Motschulsky, 1860) being synonyms of M. signata (Oliver, 1808)
Creators: name: Ge, Yacong
name: Shi, Chengmin
name: Bai, Ming
name: Cao, Zhiyan
name: Cao, Liping
name: Wang, Zhenying
name: Dong, Jingao
name: Wang, Yuyu
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Monolepta hieroglyphica (Motschulsky, 1858) has been recently revised as the synonym of M. signata (Oliver, 1808) based on morphological characteristics. M. quadriguttata (Motschulsky, 1860) was synonymized with M. signata over 100 years ago. However, this synonymy has not be confirmed by molecular data. This widely distributed and abundant species shows a high variability in coloration patterns that caused numbers of synonyms. We selected color forms typical for the three nominal taxa for phylogenetic analysis. The phylogenetic, haplotype and genetic differentiation analysis of M. hieroglyphica, M. quadriguttata and M. signata were constructed to determine the relationships between them, and we also found mating behavior between them. They were intermixed together on phylogenetic trees, and M. hieroglyphica and M. quadriguttata had shared haplotype. There was no significant difference among them for genetic distance, and the synonymy of the three names based on external and genital characters can be confirmed by molecular data.
EMPRESS. V. Metallicity Diagnostics of Galaxies over 12+log(O/H)=~6.9-8.9 Established by a Local Galaxy Census: Preparing for JWST Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Nakajima, Kimihiko
name: Ouchi, Masami
name: Xu, Yi
name: Rauch, Michael
name: Harikane, Yuichi
name: Nishigaki, Moka
name: Isobe, Yuki
name: Kusakabe, Haruka
name: Nagao, Tohru
name: Ono, Yoshiaki
name: Onodera, Masato
name: Sugahara, Yuma
name: Kim, Ji Hoon
name: Komiyama, Yutaka
name: Lee, Chien-Hsiu
name: Zahedy, Fakhri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical-line gas metallicity diagnostics established by the combination of local SDSS galaxies and the largest compilation of extremely metal-poor galaxies (EMPGs) including new EMPGs identified by the Subaru EMPRESS survey. A total of 103 EMPGs are included that cover a large parameter space of magnitude (Mi=-19 to -7) and H-beta equivalent width (10-600 Ang), i.e., wide ranges of stellar mass and star-formation rate. Using reliable metallicity measurements of the direct method for these galaxies, we derive the relationships between strong optical-line ratios and gas-phase metallicity over the range of 12+log(O/H)=~6.9-8.9 corresponding to 0.02-2 solar metallicity Zsun. We confirm that R23-index, ([OIII]+[OII])/H-beta, is the most accurate metallicity indicator with the metallicity uncertainty of 0.14 dex over the range among various popular metallicity indicators. The other metallicity indicators show large scatters in the metal-poor range (<0.1 Zsun). It is explained by our CLOUDY photoionization modeling that, unlike R23-index, the other metallicity indicators do not use a sum of singly and doubly ionized lines and cannot trace both low and high ionization gas. We find that the accuracy of the metallicity indicators is significantly improved, if one uses H-beta equivalent width measurements that tightly correlate with ionization states. In this work, we also present the relation of physical properties with UV-continuum slope beta and ionization production rate xi_ion derived with GALEX data for the EMPGs, and provide local anchors of galaxy properties together with the optical-line metallicity indicators that are available in the form of ASCII table and useful for forthcoming JWST spectroscopic studies.
description: 33 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Supplement Series. Visit https://sci.nao.ac.jp/MEMBER/ouchi/members/nakajima.html for the publicly available table of EMPGs (Table 6)
Pointwise estimates of Brezis-Kamin type for solutions of sublinear elliptic equations
Creators: name: Cao, Dat T.
name: Verbitsky, Igor E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B05, 35J92

description: We study quasilinear elliptic equations of the type $$-Δ_pu=σ\, u^q \quad \text{in} \, \, \, \mathbb{R}^n,$$ where $Δ_p u=\nabla \cdot(\nabla u |\nabla u|^{p-2})$ is the $p$-Laplacian (or a more general $\mathcal{A}$-Laplace operator $\text{div} \, \mathcal{A}(x, \nabla u)$), $0
description: 24 pages
Epidemiological and stereological studies of morphology and pathology in the kidneys of Senegalese Africans and African Americans
Creators: name: McNamara., Bridgette Joy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Nature-based solutions and mental health
Creators: name: Kabisch, Nadja
name: Basu, Sukanya
name: Van Den Bosch, Matilda
name: Bratman, Gregory N.
name: Masztalerz, Oskar
Publisher: name: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cities
subject: Mental health
subject: Well-being
subject: Urban green space
subject: Nature
subject: Design
subject: Urban planning
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

description: This chapter demonstrates the mental health benefits of nature-based solutions in cities. First, factors that determine urban mental health and adverse health effects of environmental stressors in cities are explained. Second, it is demonstrated that green spaces as nature-based solutions for many societal challenges provide co-benefits for mental health by reducing these stressors. It is further discussed how nature-based solutions may target supporting mental health by providing resources for human–nature interaction, enhancing social interaction and strengthening mental resilience. Nature-based interventions that are originally intended to support persons with psychiatric illness are introduced as models for the design of mentally supportive cities. And third, two case studies illustrate the mental health benefits of urban parks with the example of Leipzig, Germany and of street trees by the example of Hyderabad, India. The two case studies were used as application cases for a recent conceptual framework as a guide for putting science into practice.
A Chemical Evolution Model for the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Creators: name: Yuan, Zhen
name: Qian, Yong-Zhong
name: Jing, Y. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fornax is the brightest Milky Way (MW) dwarf spheroidal galaxy and its star formation history (SFH) has been derived from observations. We estimate the time evolution of its gas mass and net inflow and outflow rates from the SFH using a simple star formation law that relates the star formation rate to the gas mass. We present a chemical evolution model on a 2D mass grid with supernovae (SNe) as sources of metal enrichment. We find that a key parameter controlling the enrichment is the mass M_x of the gas to mix with the ejecta from each SN. The choice of M_x depends on the evolution of SN remnants and on the global gas dynamics. It differs between the two types of SNe involved and between the periods before and after Fornax became an MW satellite at time t = t_sat . Our results indicate that due to the global gas outflow at t > t_sat , part of the ejecta from each SN may directly escape from Fornax. Sample results from our model are presented and compared with data.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, OMEG 2015 conference proceedings, to appear in EPJ WOC proceedings
Black Maternal Experiences of Birthing and Postnatal Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Williams, Candice Anna
Publisher: name: UH Research Archive
Year: 2022
Subjects: Black maternal experiences
birthing
postnatal
Covid-19

description: Background With a longstanding backdrop of maternal health inequalities, literature exploring the experiences of Black mothers in maternity services in the UK is sparse. The Covid-19 pandemic has presented challenge, trauma and complexity across societies. With a disproportionate impact on women from Black and Ethnically Minoritised backgrounds within the perinatal period, their voices and lived experiences urgently need honouring and reflecting in research. Method This study used a qualitative approach and through purposive and snowballing sampling, recruited 13 self-identifying Black women who gave birth in the context of the pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were completed to explore experiences of care during birth and postnatally from maternity services and perinatal mental health services. The study aimed to explore recommendations and ideas for service improvement and policy change. Findings Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) was used from a critical realist stance to interpret data and generate three themes: ‘The Ripples of Covid’, ‘Inequality within Inequality’ and ‘Conscientious Change for Maternity Systems’ with subsequent sub-themes. The context of the pandemic revealed multiple layers of experience with participants sharing what facilitated and hindered their experiences of the care they received. Highlighted were existing inequalities and significant intersections of identity woven into the experiences of birthing and navigating the postnatal transition. Findings were further conceptualised using relevant maternal health literature and psychological theory. Conclusions & Implications The strengths and limitations of the study are outlined including scope for further research such as, experiences and journeys of birthing partners, professionals and the voice of the infant during the pandemic. The implications of the study are explored relevant to communities, maternity services, perinatal mental health services, commissioners, and policymakers to truly tackle Black maternal health inequalities with commitment and sincerity.