cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Care-seeking and health insurance among pregnancy-related deaths: A population-based study in Jember District, East Java Province, Indonesia
Creators: name: Setel, Philip W.
name: Rianty, Tika
name: Adi, Annis C.
name: Nandiaty, Fitri
name: Latief, Kamaluddin
name: Riyanti, Akhir
name: Achadi, Anhari
name: Deviany, Poppy E.
name: Kalter, Henry D.
name: Anggondowati, Trisari
name: Kusariana, Nissa
name: Lisnawati, Naintina
name: Achadi, Endang L.
name: Wahyuni, Sri
name: Weaver, Emily H.
name: Ruby, Mahlil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background Despite the increased access to facility-based delivery in Indonesia, the country’s maternal mortality remains unacceptably high. Reducing maternal mortality requires a good understanding of the care-seeking pathways for maternal complications, especially with the government moving toward universal health coverage. This study examined care-seeking practices and health insurance in instances of pregnancy-related deaths in Jember District, East Java, Indonesia. Methods This was a community-based cross-sectional study to identify all pregnancy-related deaths in the district from January 2017 to December 2018. Follow-up verbal and social autopsy interviews were conducted to collect information on care-seeking behavior, health insurance, causes of death, and other factors. Findings Among 103 pregnancy-related deaths, 40% occurred after 24 hours postpartum, 36% during delivery or within the first 24 hours postpartum, and 24% occurred while pregnant. The leading causes of deaths were hemorrhage (38.8%), pregnancy-induced hypertension (20.4%), and sepsis (16.5%). Most deaths occurred in health facilities (81.6%), primarily hospitals (74.8%). Nearly all the deceased sought care from a formal health provider during their fatal illness (93.2%). Seeking any care from an informal provider during the fatal illness was more likely among women who died after 24 hours postpartum (41.0%, OR 7.4, 95% CI 1.9, 28.5, p = 0.049) or during pregnancy (29.2%, OR 4.4, 95% CI 1.0, 19.2, p = 0.003) than among those who died during delivery or within 24 hours postpartum (8.6%). There was no difference in care-seeking patterns between insured and uninsured groups. Conclusions The fact that women sought care and reached health facilities regardless of their insurance status provides opportunities to prevent deaths by ensuring that every woman receives timely and quality care. Accordingly, the increasing demand should be met with balanced readiness of both primary care and hospitals to provide quality care, supported by an effective referral system.
title: Melt inclusions in zircon are powerful petrogenetic indicators and improve zircon thermometry
Creators: name:  Gudelius ,  Dominik
name:  Zeh ,  Armin
name:  Almeev ,  Renat R.
name:  Wilson ,  Allan H.
name:  Fischer ,  Lennart A.
name:  Schmitt ,  Axel K.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Melt inclusions in zircon (MIZ) directly reflect the physicochemical state of the magma during zircon growth. However, their potential as geothermometers and petrogenetic indicators is still poorly explored. Therefore, we investigated MIZ from well-characterized mafic and felsic rocks of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa) and acquired a novel dataset of major, trace and volatile element contents. Re-homogenized MIZ of all rock types display rhyolitic compositions (65-78 wt% SiO2) and similar H2O contents (1.6-4.0 wt%). Liquidus temperatures of MIZ obtained from normative Qz-Ab-Or and rhyolite-MELTS modelling indicate melt entrapment at 930–850°C (at 200 MPa), tailing down to 700°C in some samples. For rutile-bearing mafic cumulates of the lower BC (Marginal and Critical Zone), these temperatures overlap with TiO2 saturation temperatures of MIZ as well as with Ti-in-zircon of host crystals using aTiO2=aSiO2=1.0 [1], in accordance with textural associations of zircon+rutile+quartz. In contrast, MIZ in all rutile-free, magnetite-ilmenite-titanite- and quartz-bearing rocks of the upper BC (Upper Zone ferrogabbros, granitic rocks), display strikingly lower Ti contents, but also higher ƩREE and lower Th/U. Cross-calibration of TiO2 saturation (MIZ) and Ti-in-zircon thermometers with MIZ liquidus temperatures suggests that zircon crystallized at highly reduced aTiO2~0.3, significantly below aTiO2~0.6 previously estimated for rutile-free rocks in the literature, usage of which would underestimate zircon crystallization temperatures by 50-100 °C. In summary, MIZ may inherit chemical signatures of host rocks, are powerful zircon geothermometers and provide constraints for aTiO2 in Rt-free rocks. [1] Ferry & Watson (2007) CMP 154, 429–437; [2] Hayden & Watson (2007) EPSL 258, 561-568
title: Untersuchungen zum Löten von fine-pitch SMD-Bauteilen auf bedruckten Polymersubstraten
Creators: name: Auer, Lukas Matthias
Publisher: name: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut
Year: 2022

description: Grundsätzlich besteht die Bachelorarbeit aus zwei Unterteilungen. Den Anfang stellt das Projekt GlucoFlex dar. Hier wurde die Arbeit des ehemaligen Bacheloranden Nicolas Holzheimer aufgegriffen. Das Ziel dieses Projekts ist die Realisierung eines Technologiedemonstrators. Unter Anwendung des Siebdruckverfahrens wurde ein uhrartiges Layout in mehreren Schichten auf ein flexibles PET-Substrat gedruckt. Ein Elektrolumineszenzdisplay dient der Informationsübermittlung an den Anwender. Die Besonderheit dieses Substrats ist dabei, dass auch die gesamte Bestückung auf der flexiblen PET-Folie stattfindet. Da bisherige Versuche, eine elektrische Verbindung zwischen den Bauteilen und dem Substrat herzustellen, gescheitert sind, wird nun die Verbindungstechnologie Loten untersucht. Dabei wird versucht mithilfe von niederschmelzenden Lotpasten die Bauteile mit den gedruckten Pads der Folie zu verbinden. Die Herausforderungen sind die unbekannte Kompatibilität zwischen den Leit- und Lotpasten auf dem Substrat und die maximale Prozesstemperatur von 150°C, welche nicht überschritten werden darf. Im Zuge der Arbeit wurden umfangreiche Lotversuche auf dem GlucoFlex-Substrat und einem eigens entworfenen Lotlayout unternommen. Ziel war ein kompatibles Zusammenspiel zwischen Lot- und Leitpasten zu finden, welche die Realisierung einer funktionierenden Schaltung ermöglichen. Es wird auf die Reproduzierbarkeit der Durchführung Wert gelegt.
SRC FAMILY KINASE MEMBERS MEDIATE TYPE I INTERFERON PRODUCTION BY PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELLS
Creators: name: DALLARI, SIMONE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are the most powerful type I interferon (IFN-I) producing cells, playing important roles in defense against pathogens, tumor immune-surveillance and autoimmune diseases. Therefore, understanding pDC regulatory pathways to ultimately manipulate them holds great promise for immune-based therapeutics to attenuate several human illnesses. Here we investigated the role of Src Family Kinases (SFKs), a family of non-receptor tyrosine kinases, in pDC response to toll like receptor (TLR) stimulation. We observed for the first time that pDCs from either Fyn or Lyn deficient mice exhibited impaired IFN-I and pro-inflammatory cytokine production after TLR7 and TLR9 stimulation, whereas no difference was observed in conventional DCs. Consistently, treatment with either a pan-SFK inhibitor or a selective dual BCR-ABL/LYN inhibitor (i.e. Bafetinib) profoundly ablated TLR-induced IFN-I production in both a human pDC cell line (CAL-1) and in primary pDCs from human peripheral blood. Furthermore, genetic ablation of LYN by CRISPR/Cas9 in CAL-1 cells resulted in diminished TLR responses. Mechanistically, we showed that the inhibition of SFK activity by Bafetinib reduced the TLR-induced activation of IKK?/?, ERK1/2, P38 and IRF7, key elements downstream pDC TLR signaling, as well as those of MTOR and BCAP, an adaptor protein that bridges PI3K and TLR pathways. Taken together, our data indicate that SFKs, particularly LYN, promote pDC IFN-I and pro-inflammatory cytokine production and suggest that SFK inhibitory drugs, such as Bafetinib, could be considered for attenuating pDC response in autoimmune diseases.
Experimental characterization of the Gaussian state of squeezed light obtained via single-passage through an atomic vapor
Creators: name: Valente, P.
name: Auyuanet, A.
name: Barreiro, S.
name: Failache, H.
name: Lezama, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the description of light in terms of Stokes operators in combination with the assumption of Gaussian statistics results in a dramatic simplification of the experimental study of fluctuations in the light transmitted through an atomic vapor: no local oscillator is required, the detected quadrature is easily selected by a wave-plate angle and the complete noise ellipsis reconstruction is obtained via matrix diagonalization. We provide empirical support for the assumption of Gaussian statistics in quasi-resonant light transmitted through an $^{87}$Rb vapor cell and we illustrate the suggested approach by studying the evolution of the fluctuation ellipsis as a function of laser detuning. Applying the method to two light beams obtained by parting squeezed light in a beamsplitter, we have measured entanglement and quantum discord.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. A. New version. References added
Testosterone pulses paired with a location induce a place preference to the nest of a monogamous mouse under field conditions
Creators: name: Kalcounis-Rueppell, Matina C
name: Petric, Radmila
name: Marler, Catherine A
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Changing social environments such as the birth of young or aggressive encounters present a need to adjust behavior. Previous research examined how long-term changes in steroid hormones mediate these adjustments. We tested the novel concept that the rewarding effects of transient testosterone pulses (T-pulses) in males after social encounters alters their spatial distribution on a territory. In free-living monogamous California mice (Peromyscus californicus), males administered three T-injections at the nest spent more time at the nest than males treated with placebo injections. This mimics T-induced place preferences in the laboratory. Female mates of T-treated males spent less time at the nest but the pair produced more vocalizations and call types than controls. Traditionally, transient T-changes were thought to have transient behavioral effects. Our work demonstrates that in the wild, when T-pulses occur in a salient context such as a territory, the behavioral effects last days after T-levels return to baseline.
MPEC 2023-Q160 : 2023 QM7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QM7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
LA RESPONSABILIT� DELLE AGENZIE DI RATING PER DIFFUSIONE DI GIUDIZI INESATTI SUL MERCATO FINANZIARIO
Creators: name: PICCIAU, CHIARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Since excessive liability can force reputational intermediaries out of the market, it is very important to balance liability restrictions with investor protection. To determine which level of liability the agencies actually face, given the current European regulatory regime, and whether this level could be justified looking at the trade-off between free market dynamics and little regulation of rating services, on one hand, and investor protection, on the other hand, the thesis analyzes two main problems: rating agencies' prospectus liability and the applicability of art. 2055 of the Italian Civil Code. In fact, the extent of liability highly depends on whether the agencies are jointly and severally liable for the misconduct of the issuer, its management, its auditors and other operators of the market.
Computer simulation and optimisation of solar heating systems for Cyprus
Creators: name: Michaelides, Ioannis
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1993

description: This thesis reports the results of research into the modelling and simulation of solar water and space heating for Cyprus, and the investigation of the factors concerning the optimisation of such systems. Further a number of design criteria, which can be used by consultants and designers of solar heating systems, have been established. Five solar heating system configurations have been modelled using the component models of the TRNSYS programme. They concern thermosyphon solar water heating systems, active solar water heating systems, solar space heating systems, combined solar water and space heating systems and solar assisted heat pump systems for space and water heating. These models are used to simulate the thermal performance of the systems and investigate their cost effectiveness under the weather and socioeconomic conditions of Cyprus. The results of the simulations have been used to identify the optimum design criteria for such systems in the Cyprus environment. The design criteria that have been established are concerned mainly with the solar collector and the storage tank and they are key design factors for a solar heating system. The design factors include the collector orientation and tilt angle, the collector to load factor which relates the collector surface area to the annual thermal load, the storage factor which relates the capacity of the storage tank to the collector size, the collector water flow flux, which relates the water flow rate through the collector with the collector area, and other criteria, which concern the auxiliary heat supply and the heat exchangers. For space heating systems, in addition to the above factors, a new design criterion is introduced, the collector to floor area factor, which relates the collector area to the building floor area, while for domestic hot water systems, the collector to consumer factor is used to specify the collector surface area needed for each hot water consumer in the building. This work has resulted in the publication of four papers in refereed International Journals and the presentation of three other papers at International Conferences. A list of publications is included in the Appendices.
FLUORESCENT ULTRASHORT NANOTUBES FROM DEFECT-INDUCED CHEMICAL CUTTING
Creators: name: Li, Yunfeng
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Fluorescent Quantum Defect
subject: Nanotube Cutting
subject: Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
subject: Ultrashort

description: Ultrashort single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that fluoresce brightly in the shortwave infrared shows great potentials in bioimaging, sensing and enabling room-temperature, solid-state single-photon sources. However, this novel family of materials remains largely unexplored due to the synthetic challenge. In this thesis, I will introduce a high-yield synthesis method of fluorescent ultrashort nanotubes based on a fundamental new understanding of defect-induced chemical cutting of SWCNTs. The method includes implanting fluorescent quantum defects onto the carbon nanotubes, and then cutting the nanotubes preferentially from the defect sites. Firstly, I demonstrate that this simple two-step process leads to the synthesis of ultrashort nanotubes with a narrow length distribution and fluorescence in the shortwave infrared. Then, I will further elucidate the mechanism of this defect-induced chemical cutting at the molecular level for the first time by in-situ monitoring the spectral fingerprint of the nanotube and the fluorescent quantum defect as the reaction proceeds. This thesis reveals fundamental insights in defect chemistry and makes fluorescent ultrashort nanotubes synthetically accessible for both basic and applied studies.
INTELLIGENT CLOUD STORAGE MANAGEMENT USING HYBRID TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: MUHAMMAD ABID SALEEM
name: ZAIGHAM MUSHTAQ
name: MUHAMMAD SULEMAN
name: OMER RIAZ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Resource Discovery, Resource Allocation, function as service, amazon web service, Stateless, Virtual Machine

description: Abstract
Cloud applications that utilize the "Functions as a Service" (FaaS) model, have gained significant popularity. However, their stateless nature necessitates frequent interaction with an external data store, which can limit their performance. To address this issue, a system for FaaS platforms that is transparent, vertically and horizontally elastic, and distributed across worker nodes. It mitigates effectively the problem by leveraging two common sources of resource wastage (I) cloud tenants typically observe overprovision memory resources for their functions due to their non-trivial input-dependence, and (ii) FaaS providers keep function sandboxes active for several minutes to avoid cold starts. By utilizing machine learning models tailored to different types of function input data including data mining, multimedia applications and gaming. We employed a novel technique that classifies the data in Azure Storage Blobs in hot and cold. Hot data is used frequently and cold data is not frequently required. There are no straight forward annotations or features that directly label the hot items. We have to examine the attributes of each data item and segregate them into classes. We employed a Naïve Bayes classifier to mark the data items with improvisation of Sine-Cosine optimization for hyper parameter tuning. This methodology significantly boosts the accuracy from 57.44% to 94.34%.
BLACK MADONNA AND MISS AMERICA: IN THE STREETS, ON THE STAGE AND IN THE CHURCH
Creators: name: Anderson, Ronya-Lee
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dance
subject: Black studies
subject: Performing arts
subject: black church
subject: black women
subject: dance
subject: racism

description: The black female body is a political body that inhabits the collective imagination of a nation. This body constantly negotiates a multiplicity of meanings that have life and death consequences and in turn teach America about herself. What does it look like for this body to take up space? As the black female body navigates the streets, the stage, the church, both private and public space, what concessions must be made? Black Madonna and Miss America is a choreographic and critical investigation of socio-political happenings in conversation with the positioning of the black female icon in the streets, on the stage and in the church. It is cinematic in nature, employing a familiar series of still and moving images tied to a complex historical canon. Black Madonna and Miss America tackles the tension between the public and private; the doing and being of the black female iconic body. The work confronts the worship of the black female body in popular culture; worship undone in the political and economic treatment of that same body. In the making of the work, theory and practice have been lovers, sometimes in harmony, other times, at odds. The practice of making the work in the body challenged and was challenged by the theoretical work of thinking through and researching related issues; some tangental and others glaringly present. What does the performance protest of Colin Rand Kaepernick have in common with black female bodies engaged in their own political and social choreography on stage? How does #BlackGirlMagic both illuminate the work and threaten its potential potency? What does the work borrow from the Black Church and the Black Lives Matter Movement?
Factors Associated with Nodal Pathologic Complete Response Among Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Results of CALGB 40601 (HER2+) and 40603 (Triple-Negative) (Alliance)
Creators: name: Ollila, D.W.
name: Partridge, A.H.
name: Sikov, W.M.
name: Poppe, M.M.
name: Ballman, K.V.
name: Carey, L.A.
name: Weiss, A.
name: Hwang, E.S.
name: Campbell, J.
name: Golshan, M.
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Year: 2021

description: Background: De-escalation of axillary surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) requires careful patient selection. We seek to determine predictors of nodal pathologic complete response (ypN0) among patients treated on CALGB 40601 or 40603, which tested NAC regimens in HER2+ and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), respectively. Patients and Methods: A total of 760 patients with stage II–III HER2+ or TNBC were analyzed. Those who had axillary surgery before NAC (N = 122), or who had missing pretreatment clinical nodal status (cN) (N = 58) or ypN status (N = 41) were excluded. The proportion of patients with ypN0 disease was estimated for those with and without breast pathologic complete response (pCR) according to pretreatment nodal status. Results: In 539 patients, the overall ypN0 rate was 76.3% (411/539) to 93.2% (245/263) in patients with breast pCR and 60.1% (166/276) with residual breast disease (RD) (P < 0.0001). For patients who were cN0 pretreatment, the ypN0 rate was 88.8% (214/241), 96.3% (104/108) with breast pCR, and 82.7% (110/133) with RD. For patients who were cN1, 66.2% (157/237) converted to ypN0, 91.7% (111/121) with breast pCR and 39.7% (46/116) with RD. For patients who were cN2/3, 65.6% (40/61) converted to ypN0, 88.2% (30/34) with breast pCR and 37.0% (10/27) with RD. On multivariable analysis, only pretreatment clinical nodal status and breast pCR/RD were associated with ypN0 status (both P < 0.0001). Conclusions: Breast pCR and pretreatment nodal status are predictive of ypN0 axillary nodal involvement, with < 5% residual nodal disease among cN0 patients who experience breast pCR. These findings support the incorporation of axillary surgery de-escalation strategies into NAC trials.
Five-Dimensional Weakly Exceptional Quotient Singularities
Creators: name: Sakovics, Dmitrijs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 14E07

description: A singularity is said to be weakly-exceptional if it has a unique purely log terminal blow up. This is a natural generalization of the surface singularities of types $D_{n}$, $E_{6}$, $E_{7}$ and $E_{8}$. Since this idea was introduced, quotient singularities of this type have been classified in dimensions up to most $4$. This note extends that classification to dimension $5$.
description: 6 pages
The Visit: A Lighting Design
Creators: name: Gallup, Lauren Nicoline
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Theater
subject: Design
subject: Lighting Design
subject: Theatre
subject: Theatre Design

description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide research, supporting paperwork, production photos, and other materials to document the lighting design for The School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at The University of Maryland – College Park production of The Visit. This thesis contains the following: research images collected to develop and visually communicate ideas about color, texture, intensity, form, composition, and mood to the production team; preliminary and final organization of desired equipment to execute the lighting design; a full set of drafting plates and supplementary paperwork used to communicate the organization and placement of lighting equipment to the master electrician; and magic sheets and cue lists used as organizational tools for the lighting designer during the tech process. Archival production photographs are included as documentation of the completed design.
Critical suppression of spin Seebeck effect by magnetic fields
Creators: name: Kikkawa, Takashi
name: Uchida, Ken-ichi
name: Daimon, Shunsuke
name: Qiu, Zhiyong
name: Shiomi, Yuki
name: Saitoh, Eiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG) junction systems has been investigated at various magnetic fields and temperatures. We found that the LSSE voltage in a Pt/YIG-slab system is suppressed by applying high magnetic fields and this suppression is critically enhanced at low temperatures. The field-induced suppression of the LSSE in the Pt/YIG-slab system is too large at around room temperature to be explained simply by considering the effect of the Zeeman gap in magnon excitation. This result requires us to introduce magnon-frequency-dependent mechanism into the scenario of LSSE; low-frequency magnons dominantly contribute to the LSSE. The magnetic field dependence of the LSSE voltage was observed to change by changing the thickness of YIG, suggesting that the thermo-spin conversion by the low-frequency magnons is suppressed in thin YIG films due to the long characteristic lengths of such magnons.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
title: Evidence for time-variable thickness of the Phanerozoic continental lithosphere in Central Europe
Creators: name:  El-Sharkawy ,  Amr
name:  Meier ,  Thomas
name:  Lebedev ,  Sergei
name:  Clemente-Gomez ,  Carlos
name:  Fullea ,  Javier
name:  Hansteen ,  Thor
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The Phanerozoic lithosphere in Central Europe was formed due to the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies. It then probably underwent modification and thinning associated with widespread and intense Permian volcanism. Since the Permian, the evolution of the Central Europe lithosphere is characterized by various phases of moderate extension and inversion tectonics caused by external forces. Sedimentation and intra-plate volcanism yield evidence for additional intra-plate processes related to variable lithsopheric thickness and deformation. Whereas its crustal structure has been extensively studied by Deep Seismic Soundings, properties of the subcontinental mantle lithosphere including its thickness are less well known. Surface waves are well suited to study the lithosphere and the sub-lithospheric structure, being mainly sensitive to the S-wave velocity structure at those depths. Here we present results of high-resolution surface-wave tomography, down to ~250 km depth, from automated broad-band inter-station Rayleigh phase velocities. The thickness of Central Europe lithosphere shows a remarkable variability. Thick lithosphere is found beneath the Paris Basin, whereas the lithosphere in the area of the North German Basin and the Bohemian Massive shows moderate thickness. Thinner lithosphere is found in the area of the Cenozoic intra-plate volcanism. Comparison to the distribution of Permian and Jurassic volcanic rocks provides evidence for a time variable thickness of the continental lithosphere in Central Europe. We relate subsidence and sedimentation without substantial extension to lithospheric cooling and thickening. In contrast, uplift and volcanism without compression indicate thermal thinning of the lithosphere. Conceptual models for the lithopsheric evolution in the area are discussed.
MPEC 2023-Q161 : 2023 QN7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QN7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Association Between Superwoman Schema, Depression, and Resilience: The Mediating Role of Social Isolation and Gendered Racial Centrality
Creators: name: Nelson, T.
name: Overstreet, N.M.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.L.
name: Hunter, C.D.
name: Cardemil, E.V.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association
Year: 2022

description: Objectives: We examined dimensions of Superwoman Schema as predictors of both depression and resilience. We also investigated if social isolation and gendered racial centrality mediated these relationships. Method: We used path analysis to investigate the direct and indirect effects of an obligation to display an image of strength, emotional suppression, and resistance to vulnerability on depressive symptoms through social isolation. We also explored the direct and indirect effects of an intense motivation to succeed and an obligation to help others on resilience through gendered racial centrality. Results: Emotional suppression and an obligation to help others were directly associated with depression. Emotional suppression, resistance to vulnerability, and an obligation to help others were indirectly associated with depression through social isolation. In contrast, an obligation to display an image of strength and an intense motivation to succeed was associated with resilience and gendered racial centrality. Conclusion: Findings highlight the unique complexity of Superwoman Schema as suggested within qualitative research. Black women’s endorsement of Superwoman Schema may be both adaptive in navigating interlocking systems of oppression and psychologically distressing
A NEW PROCEDURE TO ISOLATE BRAIN MITOCHONDRIA FROM HUMAN CORTEX AND ITS APPLICATION FOR LIPID ANALYSIS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL AGING
Creators: name: VALMADRE, ALICE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Many studies have revealed the importance of mitochondria as cellular organelles decisively involved in the onset or progression of neurodegenerative diseases, whose main risk factor is aging. Current protocols for brain mitochondria isolation have been developed to preserve viability, sacrificing the purity that is required to perform high-throughput biochemical analyses. My Phd project focused on the development of a new procedure to obtain a highly pure mitochondrial fraction starting from post mortem frozen tissues of human brain cortex of healthy subjects. The evaluation of mitochondrial enrichment and other cellular contaminants has been performed through different enzyme assays, western blot analyses and transmission electron microscopy. These validation experiments demonstrated the purity of mitochondria and their integrity, as well as the preservation of mitochondria-associated membranes. The brain aging process is allegedly responsible for chemical modification of lipids and changes in the lipid composition of cell membranes. In this scenario, there are no previous studies on human brain mitochondria lipids. Thus, this new method has been applied to investigate lipid composition of pure mitochondria by means of thin layer chromatography. Furthermore, we investigated if there were aging related changes in the lipid composition of these organelles essentials to cell life and death, since that could produce an impairment of the membrane function.
Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in spin-fermion model of ferrimagnetic spinel in an external magnetic field
Creators: name: Karchev, Naoum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-sublattice spin-fermion model of ferrimagnetic spinel, with spin-$1/2$ itinerant electrons at the sublattice $A$ site and spin-$s$ localized electrons at the sublattice $B$ site is considered. The exchange between itinerant and localized electrons is antiferromanetic. As a result the external magnetic field, applied along the magnetization of the localized electrons, compensates the Zeeman splitting due to the spin-fermion exchange and magnon-fermion interaction induces spin anti-parallel p-wave superconductivity which coexists with magnetism. We have obtained five characteristic values of the applied field (in units of energy) $H_{cr1}
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
LO SVILUPPO DELL'INDUSTRIA SPAZIALE ITALIANA
Creators: name: LANDONI, MATTEO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: The development of the Italian space industry is the result of the reciprocal interaction between firms and supporting institutions of research. This thesis investigates how a renewed innovation policy overcame the constraints imposed by the disappearing of the entrepreneurial state and allowed the rise of a high technology industry in Italy during the last 30 years. The creation of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) has then created the incentives to merge the main firms of the industry into a new company, Alenia Spazio, based on the heritage of the former State-owned holding from which it collected capabilities and technologies. Despite a promising start, innovation in the industry was poor and affected by the changing economic environment of the Nineties that caused a difficult process of internationalization and limited the efforts of ASI.
Don't Call It Grieving
Creators: name: Shibli, Ayesha
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative writing
subject: Poetry

description: “Don’t Call It Grieving” is in constant conversation with the modes of formality and performance of losing. Each formal decision and subsequent departure tells its own story of loss and obsesses over the question: Is all loss equal, and what do we owe to those we choose to leave behind? The collection of poems in this thesis explores both the kinds of loss we know and those we don’t have a word for. Form attempts to express what can’t be said—what words are subsequently found serve to continuously shape around absence. Whether a lost loved one, a friend, or a home—these poems fill in the space with stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally, acceptance.
A review on GSM Based fire alarm system module
Creators: name: Hossain, Md Turab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80609 Information Systems Management

description: An Microcontroller based house fire alarm system using a GSM Module is described in this paper. The project's primary goal is to keep residents and their belongings safe from fires, which are a common hazard in residential areas. It uses an Arduino Uno board and an ATmega328 microcontroller. The ATmega328 is the primary controller for the temperature-triggered fire alarm in the average home. The fire's heat is detected by an LM35 temperature sensor. The GSM module will use SMS to send an alarm to the user's mobile phone. A warning message will appear on the LCD display and an SMS alert will be sent to the user's phone when the temperature rises above 400C. Documentation and discussion of the test's outcomes are required. This device can assist users enhance their safety standards by providing an early response in the event of a potential accident. Finally, users will be able to protect themselves, as well as those they care about, from the disaster.
Using Black Feminist Theory and Methods to Uncover Best Practices in Health Promotion Programming
Creators: name: Giscombé, C.W.
name: Wade, J.
name: Ferguson, J.V.
name: McElroy, A.
name: Keegan, D.
name: Jackson, K.
name: Gibbs, J.
name: Alexander, R.
name: Parker, S.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2022

description: This study was created to uncover the social determinants of Black American women’s success in health promotion programs. We used the Superwoman Schema to understand the complexities of Black womanhood and uncover best practices in the promotion of their health. The sample consisted of women ages 18–25 who attend a large southern HBCU. We collected data using qualitative focus groups. Participants reported the greatest health-related concerns Black American women facing are mental health, obesity, and relationships with Black men. When it comes to health promotion programs, respondents reported a desire for classes that are fun, interactive, informative, educational, and include group interaction, accessible, and incentivize participation. Uncovering the social determinants of Black American women’s health and program success is central in decreasing extant health disparities. Future health scholars are urged to incorporate Black feminist theory and methods into their work to create health promotion interventions tailored for Black women.
Immigration and Neighborhood Crime: The Moderating Influence of City Labor Instability
Creators: name: Chen, Xuanying
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Immigrant Gateways
subject: Immigration
subject: Labor Market
subject: Neighborhood Crime

description: The bulk of extant work finds that immigrant prevalence helps to reduce neighborhood levels of serious crime. These findings align with the “immigrant revitalization thesis” in which states that immigration reduces crime by strengthening social ties and attendant social controls as well as stimulating the local economy. Also, a city’s conditions are shown to be a substantial moderator for the immigration-crime nexus. Thus, this study tests whether labor instability at the city level shapes the immigration-crime relationship, and whether this interaction differs by gateway status. Using the National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS) which provides information on crime as well as demographics for 87 cities across 8,931 neighborhoods, I fit multilevel models for violent and property crime, and for gateway and non-gateway cities. This paper finds that in cities with a higher level of labor instability, immigrant prevalence is associated with reductions in neighborhood level of violent crime, but not property crime. This interaction effect is significant for violent crime regardless of cities’ gateway status but not for property crime.
The bodega on the corner: neighborhoods, transnationalism, and redevelopment in Philadelphia
Creators: name: Pine, Adam M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: This dissertation examines the relationship between immigration and urban redevelopment through an analysis of two sites of immigration debates in the City of Philadelphia: the city’s promotion of increased international immigration as an economic development tool and the experiences of one group of immigrant entrepreneurs – small neighborhood grocery stores owners from the Dominican Republic. I interviewed city policy makers, neighborhood economic development officials, Dominican storeowners, and conducted participant observation in Dominican-owned stores. I argue that pro-immigration policies embody a form of citizenship whose boundaries are delineated by the needs of the market. The policies act as a form of governmentality because they seek to condition the behavior of immigrants. Similarly, my work with the grocers suggests that their sense of citizenship is coerced and performative: they expressed incredible fears of crime and violence, yet bent over backwards to serve their customers, obey neighborhood codes of conduct, and appear as contented neighborhood residents. The grocers’ actions are therefore designed to preserve their fragile situation as middlemen minority and are not a reflection of feelings of community belonging. My research uses the immigration debates in the City of Philadelphia to suggest new understandings of scale. In looking to other countries for the workers needed to revitalize the city, pro-immigrant policies rescale development to the global level. In contrast, by demanding economically profitable actions from immigrants, the policies rescale economic development down to the bodies of urban residents. The grocers’ mobility questions the appropriateness of the “neighborhood᾿ as a scale of economic development and suggests the need to integrate theories of economic development with theories of migration, transnationalism, and mobility. To this end, the grocers survive through a process I label “temporary permanence᾿ through which they are embedded in Philadelphia neighborhoods while simultaneously using their mobility to constantly transgress neighborhood, urban, and transnational boundaries. Likewise, my work suggests that households constitute an essential scale in the process of urban redevelopment. Because bodegas are family-run businesses that make the social reproduction of families in urban neighborhoods possible they illustrate that households are a vital scale of urban analysis.
Scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy of graphene on metals
Creators: name: Dedkov, Yuriy
name: Voloshina, Elena
name: Fonin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) material with unique electronic properties, appears to be an ideal object for the application of surface-science methods. Among them, a family of scanning probe microscopy methods (STM, AFM, KPFM) and the corresponding spectroscopy add-ons provide information about the structure and electronic properties of graphene on the local scale (from inline imagem to atoms). This review focuses on the recent applications of these microscopic/spectroscopic methods for the investigation of graphene on metals (interfaces, intercalation-like systems, graphene nanoribbons, and quantum dots, etc.). It is shown that very important information about interaction strength at the graphene/metal interfaces as well as about modification of the electronic spectrum of graphene at the Fermi level can be obtained on the local scale. The combination of these results with those obtained by other methods and comparison with recent theoretical data demonstrate the power of this approach for the investigation of the graphene-based systems.
description: Feature Article in pss (b)
title: The SpannEnD project – Towards a robust prediction of the 3D stress state in the upper crust of Germany
Creators: name:  Reiter ,  Karsten
name:  Ahlers ,  Steffen
name:  Morawietz ,  Sophia
name:  Röckel ,  Luisa
name:  Hergert ,  Tobias
name:  Henk ,  Andreas
name:  Müller ,  Birgit
name:  Heidbach ,  Oliver
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The assessment of the long-term stability of geological units in the context of subsurface use is a complex topic in which various geoscientific and technical aspects play an important role. For example, the geomechanical stability of radioactive waste repositories due to endogenous, exogenous and engineering processes is an important aspect in the long term. For a stability prognosis, an estimation of the recent stress state as well as an assessment of realistic future stress changes is required. However, data on the current stress state in the upper crust are incomplete, sparse and spatially unevenly distributed. Therefore, geomechanical-numerical models are the only possibility to estimate the complete stress tensor at locations where stress observations are not available. The SpannEnD project, had the goal to estimate the 3-D stress state in Germany. Therefore, a simplified subsurface model was created. Since stress data are essential for the calibration procedure, the first open access database for stress orientations as well as stress magnitudes was developed, which mainly summarises data from the study region. The best-fit stress model is assigned to the model which reproduces the results of many of the available magnitudes of horizontal stresses well. In the model region, there are numerous large-scale faults or fault systems that have an influence on the local stress state. However, the large number of faults could not be implemented as structural features in the geomechanical model. However, the modelled stresses are applied on the fault geometries to assess the fault reactivation potential.
A MODEL BASED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO HUMAN VERTICAL JUMPING
Creators: name: CIMADORO, GIUSEPPE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: A subject specific forward dynamic 3-actuator torque-driven model of the human musculoskeletal system was created, based on measure- ments of individual subject characteristics. The goal was to simu- late a common strength exercise: squat jump with and without extra load. Hip, knee and ankle resultant net torques were modeled from experimental data. Elastic components were not considered. Two models were created for each joint, and then implemented into sim- ulations. Subsequently they were compared to each other to estab- lished which one best matched actual performances. By analyzing kinematic and kinetic experimental data at the instant of the toe-off, it was shown that accurate joint torque models implemented in a sim- ple computer simulation could reproduce squat jumps. The model that best matched actual jumps was used to optimize jump height performance with and without extra load. A linear decreasing of the jump height was found as the load increased. The load at which the model would not be able to take-off was predicted. In addition, joint and global power outputs for different extra load conditions were es- timated. It seemed that global power output probably suffered from a slight inaccuracy of simulated vertical ground reaction forces. It was concluded that a computational approach combined with exper- imental data, is an original way to conduct research in strength and conditioning training. It would help coaches, athletes and scientists to better understand human performances. This investigation is the first step in a wider project aiming to evaluate the advantages of the individual subject approach for understanding strength exercise tasks.