cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bridging the impactibility gap in population health management: a systematic review
Creators: name: Orlowski, Andi
name: Snow, Sally
name: Humphreys, Heather
name: Smith, Wayne
name: Jones, Rebecca Siân
name: Ashton, Rachel
name: Buck, Jackie
name: Bottle, Alex
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Public health
1506
1724
public health
risk management
therapeutics

description: Objectives: Assess whether impactibility modelling is being used to refine risk stratification for preventive health interventions. Design: Systematic review. Setting: Primary and secondary healthcare populations. Papers: Articles published from 2010 to 2020 on the use or implementation of impactibility modelling in population health management, reported with the terms ‘intervenability’, ‘amenability’, and ‘propensity to succeed’ (PTS) and associated with the themes ‘care sensitivity’, ‘characteristic responders’, ‘needs gap’, ‘case finding’, ‘patient selection’ and ‘risk stratification’. Interventions: Qualitative synthesis to identify themes for approaches to impactibility modelling. Results: Of 1244 records identified, 20 were eligible for inclusion. Identified themes were ‘health conditions amenable to care’ (n=6), ‘PTS modelling’ (n=8) and ‘comparison or combination with clinical judgement’ (n=6). For the theme ‘health conditions amenable to care’, changes in practice did not reduce admissions, particularly for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, and sometimes increased them, with implementation noted as a possible issue. For ‘PTS modelling’, high costs and needs did not necessarily equate to high impactibility and targeting a larger number of individuals with disorders associated with lower costs had more potential. PTS modelling seemed to improve accuracy in care planning, estimation of cost savings, engagement and/or care quality. The ‘comparison or combination with clinical judgement’ theme suggested that models can reach reasonable to good discriminatory power to detect impactable patients. For instance, a model used to identify patients appropriate for proactive multimorbid care management showed good concordance with physicians (c-statistic 0.75). Another model employing electronic health record scores reached 65% concordance with nurse and physician decisions when referring elderly hospitalised patients to a readmission prevention programme. However, healthcare professionals consider much wider information that might improve or impede the likelihood of treatment impact, suggesting that complementary use of models might be optimum. Conclusions: The efficiency and equity of targeted preventive care guided by risk stratification could be augmented and personalised by impactibility modelling.
Elytrobium monilicorne
Creators: name: Assing, Volker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Elytrobium
Elytrobium monilicorne

description: Elytrobium monilicorne (SHARP, 1889)
 Additional material examined: Japan: 1 ex., Honshu, Gumma Pref., Kirizumi Spa, 30. V.1955, leg. Watanabe (MNHUB).
 Comment: Confirmed records were previously known only from Fujisan in Honshu, Japan (ASSING 2013e).
description: Published as part of Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lathrobium and Elytrobium from the Palaearctic region, with special reference to the fauna of East Yunnan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), pp. 41-74 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.1.41-74, http://zenodo.org/record/4753882
Feasibility of a magnetic suspension for second generation Gravitational Wave interferometers
Creators: name: Varvella, Monica
name: Calloni, Enrico
name: Di Fiore, Luciano
name: Milano, Leopoldo
name: Arnaud, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with the use of a magnetic levitation system as a part of a multi-stage seismic attenuator for gravitational wave interferometric antennas. The proposed configuration uses permanent magnets in attraction to balance the suspended weight, plus a closed loop position control to obtain a stable levitation. The system is analyzed using a MATLAB simulation code to compute the forces exerted by extended magnets. The validity of this model has been tested by a comparison with the experimental data from a levitated suspension prototype.
description: Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Study Compression, Hardness and Density properties of PMMA Reinforced by Natural Powder Used in Denture Base applications
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 110501 Dental Materials and Equipment
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This research had been done to investigate the effect of adding natural powder of Pistachio Shell to PMMA, which popularly used in denture applications. The powder added in different weights fraction (3%, 6%, 9%, and 12%), and different average particle size (53μm, 106 μm, 150 μm, and 212μm %), and studying Compression Strength, Surface Hardness, and Density properties. Hand Lay-Up represented the method used to prepare the specimens in this research. The results were statistically analyzed by SPSS (one-way ANOVA) to determine the mean value and showed a significant difference for each particle size. The highest value of compression strength and surface hardness of PMMA composite specimens happened at (9%wt.) of the filler particles. Also the results represented that the density values for the composite specimens are increased with increasing the weight fraction of the filler particles.
Two-dimensional Nanolithography Using Atom Interferometry
Creators: name: Gangat, A.
name: Pradhan, P.
name: Pati, G.
name: Shahriar, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel scheme for the lithography of arbitrary, two-dimensional nanostructures via matter-wave interference. The required quantum control is provided by a pi/2-pi-pi/2 atom interferometer with an integrated atom lens system. The lens system is developed such that it allows simultaneous control over atomic wave-packet spatial extent, trajectory, and phase signature. We demonstrate arbitrary pattern formations with two-dimensional 87Rb wavepackets through numerical simulations of the scheme in a practical parameter space. Prospects for experimental realizations of the lithography scheme are also discussed.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures
Primary mental healthcare for older people in India: an analysis of policies and stakeholder interviews
Creators: name: Kafczyk, Tom
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 360

description: #### Introduction
The mental health of older people - especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with ageing populations - is of increasing concern to public health research and practice. Although primary mental healthcare (PMHC) approaches are particularly important for old age-inclusive and equitable approaches to mental healthcare, there is a lack of understanding of how the mental health needs of older people can be addressed in policies and practice. An in-depth exploration at the country level considering contextual factors is needed. With its changing sociodemographic context and evolving PMHC system, India offers an interesting setting.

#### Objectives
The main objective of this dissertation is to understand and explore how the developing PMHC system in India addresses the mental health needs of older people. In addition, the aim of this dissertation is to understand the challenges and opportunities for strengthening PMHC for older people.

#### Methods
This cumulative dissertation builds on a qualitative research approach with a public policy document analysis (results published in two substudies) and semi-structured key stakeholder interviews (results published in two substudies) as its primary methods.

#### Results and discussion
Influenced by international policy developments, older persons – and their specific needs as well as socioeconomic context – are increasingly addressed in policies framing PMHC in India. This is underlined by new rights and entitlements for older persons. Consistent with the idea of primary healthcare (PHC), participatory community- and family-based as well as traditional Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homeopathy (AYUSH) approaches to mental healthcare for older people prevail. Moreover, stakeholders suggest strengthening PHC to overcome what is perceived as a major gap between policy ambitions and implementation capacities at the PHC level. This would need to go hand in hand with further embedding the concept of biopsychosocial health in policies and practice to move away from a medicalization of mental health. The state is expected to govern and steer these developments in close collaboration with older people and other important stakeholders. According to the findings in this dissertation, strengthening PMHC for older persons is crucial for addressing the negative social perceptions and norms of mental health and old age in India that hamper progress in developing old-age-inclusive PMHC.

#### Conclusion
This is the first comprehensive study on PMHC for older people in India. While several challenges in strengthening old-age-inclusive PMHC have been identified, the importance of PMHC in providing equitable and needs-based mental healthcare to older people is emphasized. The results can inform further research and evidence-based policymaking and the development of PMHC for older people in India and other countries.
Broken Symmetry in Density-Functional Theory: Analysis and Cure
Creators: name: Harju, A.
name: Rasanen, E.
name: Saarikoski, H.
name: Puska, M. J.
name: Nieminen, R. M.
name: Niemela, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of the broken-symmetry mean-field solutions using a four-electron rectangular quantum dot as a model system. Comparisons of the density-functional theory predictions with the exact ones show that the symmetry breaking results from the single-configuration wave function used in the mean-field approach. As a general cure we present a scheme that systematically incorporates several configurations into the density-functional theory and restores the symmetry. This cure is easily applicable to any density-functional approach.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL
THE EFFECTS OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PEER AND PROFESSIONAL DIDACTIC SUPERVISION ON THE ACQUISITION OF COUNSELING SKILLS
Creators: name: Sharenow, Eric
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-03, Section: B, page: 1449.
title: 'Difficulty' in text as a function of syntactic complexity: A study of syntactic complexity within and between sentences.
Creators: name: Edwards, Neville
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1980

description: This work proposes possible categories for analysing complexity in English text. Particular attention is paid to the following categories: the long subject construction, the nominal group, the appositional group, and Interpolation structures. These categories are analysed in relation to two dimensions of text: firstly, in relation to the individual sentence, and secondly, in relation to the larger discourse context of clause relations. (A clause relation is a binary relation between members. Each member consists of one or more clauses or sentences). The first dimension examines how the presence of these categories functions to interrupt the structure of the clause as a minimal grammatical form. It is assumed that the structure of the clause is basic to the structure of text and is central to the reading process, When the structure of the clause is interrupted excessively by these categories, it is predicted that there will be a consequent impairment of reading comprehension. The second dimension of complexity examines how the structural interruption of the individual sentence can entail the structural interruption of the clause relation. Syntactic complexity at this level of structure is increased when the minimal grammatical form of the clause relation (that is, the relation between two members) is delayed excessively by structural interruption. Thus, although the individual clause is the primary unit of description in this analysis of complexity, the analysis is not restricted to the single sentence. Moreover, the individual categories proposed are descriptive procedures which derive from the examination of texts as aspects of performance, not as aspects of competence. Finally, the notion of clause is put forward as a grammatical constraint which has important implications for our production of texts. The clause is fundamental to the structure of texts and provides the mechanism for its cohesion.
Improving the Properties of the Tire Tread by Adding SiO2 and Al2O3 to SBR Rubber
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 100708 Nanomaterials
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Particulate reinforced elastomer composite was prepared by adding reinforcing fillers Al2O3 and SiO2 separately to the styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), at different loading levels (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 pphr). Also many specific testsare performed on these composites. The effects of fillers type and their loading level on the mechanical and physical properties were studied. The results showed that the mechanical properties except resilience increased with the addition of both types of reinforcing fillers and with theincrease of the loading level of them. Silica fillers increased these properties more than alumina fillers. The largest value of ultimate tensile strength, modulus of elasticity at 100% elongation, and percentage of elongation at break were (67 MPa, 13MPa, and 172%) respectively for the SBR composite reinforced with 25 pphr of silica fillers. The minimum resilience was (65.59%) for the styrene butadiene rubber reinforced with 25 pphr of silica, also it has the largest values of hardness and minimum values of abrasion wear rate; which are (85 IRHD and 0.91 mm3/mm) respectively. The physical properties are significantly affected by the variables, so that the liquids effect (swelling) was distinctively affected by the loading level ofreinforcing fillers.The thermal conductivity was also increased with the addition of the reinforcing fillers and with the increase of the loading level of reinforcing fillers. Alumina fillers increase the thermal conductivity more than silicafillers. The specific gravity for rubber composite was increased with the increase of loading level of reinforcing fillers.
Multi-Regge Limit of the Two-Loop Five-Point Amplitudes in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang-Mills and $\mathcal{N} = 8$ Supergravity
Creators: name: Caron-Huot, Simon
name: Chicherin, Dmitry
name: Henn, Johannes
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zoia, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous work, the two-loop five-point amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity were computed at symbol level. In this paper, we compute the full functional form. The amplitudes are assembled and simplified using the analytic expressions of the two-loop pentagon integrals in the physical scattering region. We provide the explicit functional expressions, and a numerical reference point in the scattering region. We then calculate the multi-Regge limit of both amplitudes. The result is written in terms of an explicit transcendental function basis. For certain non-planar colour structures of the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills amplitude, we perform an independent calculation based on the BFKL effective theory. We find perfect agreement. We comment on the analytic properties of the amplitudes.
description: 60 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected, functional expressions of the hard functions provided
The role of colour flows in matrix element computations and Monte Carlo simulations.
Creators: name: Frixione, Stefano
name: Webber, Bryan R
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Nlo Computations
Qcd Phenomenology

description: We discuss how colour flows can be used to simplify the computation of matrix elements, and in the context of parton shower Monte Carlos with accuracy beyond leading-colour. We show that, by systematically employing them, the results for tree-level matrix elements and their soft limits can be given in a closed form that does not require any colour algebra. The colour flows that we define are a natural generalization of those exploited by existing Monte Carlos; we construct their representations in terms of different but conceptually equivalent quantities, namely colour loops and dipole graphs, and examine how these objects may help to extend the accuracy of Monte Carlos through the inclusion of subleading-colour effects. We show how the results that we obtain can be used, with trivial modifications, in the context of QCD+QED simulations, since we are able to put the gluon and photon soft-radiation patterns on the same footing. We also comment on some peculiar properties of gluon-only colour flows, and their relationships with established results in the mathematics of permutations.
Color superconductivity, BPS strings and monopole confinement in N=2 and N=4 super Yang-Mills theories
Creators: name: Kneipp, Marco A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some recent developments on BPS string solutions and monopole confinement in the Higgs or (color) superconducting phase of deformed N=2 and N=4 super Yang-Mills theories. In particular, the monopole magnetic fluxes are shown to be always integer linear combinations of string fluxes. Moreover, a bound for the threshold length of the string breaking is obtained. When the gauge group SU(N) is broken to Z_N, the BPS string tension satisfies the Casimir scaling law. Furthermore in the SU(3) case the string solutions are such that they allow the formation of a confining system with three monopoles.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, invited talk given at 24th Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields
Atheta (Traumoecia) tambourinensis Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta tambourinensis

description: Atheta (Traumoecia) tambourinensis spec. nov.
(Figs 10, 43–45)
 Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, Mt. Tambourine, 5.III.1997, leg. Wachtel.
 Paratypes: 2  and 2  same data (CSCÜ).
 Description: Length 2.2 mm. Body shiny, reddishbrown, head, fourth free abdominal tergite and base of fifth brown, antennae brown with the three basal antennomeres reddish-brown, legs yellow. Eyes as long as the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere longer than the first one, third as long as the second one, fourth to eighth as long as wide, ninth and tenth transverse. Fore-body devoid of reticulation, that of the abdomen very transverse and strong. Head dotting close and superficial, absent on the longitudinal median band; granulation of pronotum and elytra delicate, close and salient, that of the abdomen sparse and evanescent. Aedeagus as in Figs 43-44; spermatheca as in Fig. 45.
 Comparative notes: The habitus of the new species (Fig. 10) is similar to daccordiana PACE, 2003, also coming from Australia. The proximal portion of the spermatheca of the new species is not bisinuate as in daccordiana. The male of daccordiana is unknown.
 Etymology: The new species derives its name from Mt. Tambourine.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 327-339 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on pages 331-332, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.327-339, http://zenodo.org/record/4754013
Study the Tensile Characteristics of Elastomer Composites Reinforced with Alumina and Precipitated Silica Particles
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 100708 Nanomaterials
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) and natural rubber (NR) composites reinforced with alumina (Al2O3) and precipitated silica (SiO2) particles had been prepared separately by calendaring process. It had been studied the adding effect of the alumina and silica particles separately at different ratio (5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 pphr) on the tensile characteristics of natural rubber NR and styrene butadiene rubber SBR.The results show that the tensile characteristics increase with the increase loading level of the both reinforcing particles. The maximum values of the tensile characteristics were for natural rubber as compared with styrene butadiene rubber, and the reinforcing effect of silica particles higher than of alumina. The results indicate that the maximum tensile strength at break, modulus of elasticity, andelongation percentage at break were (70MPa, 18, 350%) respectively for natural rubber reinforced with (25 pphr) of SiO2
Measuring the quartic Higgs self-coupling at a multi-TeV muon collider
Creators: name: Chiesa, Mauro
name: Maltoni, Fabio
name: Mantani, Luca
name: Mele, Barbara
name: Piccinini, Fulvio
name: Zhao, Xiaoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring the shape of the Higgs boson potential is of paramount importance and will be a challenging task at current as well as future colliders. While the expectations for the measurement of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling are rather promising, an accurate measurement of the quartic self-coupling interaction is presently considered extremely challenging even at a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider. In this work we explore the sensitivity that a muon collider with a center of mass energy in the multi-TeV range, and luminosities of the order of 10^35cm^-2s^-1, as presently under discussion, might provide thanks to a rather large three Higgs-boson production and to a limited background. By performing a first and simple analysis, we find a clear indication that a muon collider could provide a determination of the quartic Higgs self-coupling that is significantly better than what is currently considered attainable at other future colliders.
description: Table 3 and figs.14-18 added. Matches version published on JHEP
Running into New Territory in SUSY Parameter Space
Creators: name: Batra, Puneet
name: Delgado, Antonio
name: Kaplan, David E.
name: Tait, Tim M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LEP-II bound on the light Higgs mass rules out the vast majority of parameter space left to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with weak-scale soft-masses. This suggests the importance of exploring extensions of the MSSM with non-minimal Higgs physics. In this article, we explore a theory with an additional singlet superfield and an extended gauge sector. The theory has a number of novel features compared to both the MSSM and Next-to-MSSM, including easily realizing a light CP-even Higgs mass consistent with LEP-II limits, tan(beta) < 1, and a lightest Higgs which is charged. These features are achieved while remaining consistent with perturbative unification and without large stop-masses. Discovery modes at the Tevatron and LHC are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures; Typo in equation (4.5) corrected; submitted to JHEP
Veneziano-Yankielowicz Superpotential Terms in N=1 SUSY Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Gripaios, Ben M.
name: Wheater, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Veneziano-Yankielowicz glueball superpotential for an arbitrary N=1 SUSY pure gauge theory with classical gauge group is derived using an approach following recent work of Dijkgraaf, Vafa and others. These non-perturbative terms, which had hitherto been included by hand in the above approach, are thus seen to arise naturally, and the approach is rendered self-contained. By minimising the glueball superpotential for theories with fundamental matter added, the expected vacuum structure with gaugino condensation and chiral symmetry breaking is obtained. Various possible extensions are also discussed.
description: 9 pages
title: Effects of Asbestos in the Human Respiratory Tract
Creators: name: Taylor, Reginald George William
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: The aims of this investigation were to study differences in the protein composition and cellular content of the sputum from workers in an asbestos textile factory and also to reconstruct the sequence of events that occurs when inhaled chrysotile is retained in the human respiratory tract. The mean value of total protein in the sputum from workers exposed to chrysotile without asbestosis was lower than that from workers in the unexposed and the asbestotic groups. Within the group 'exposed without asbestosis' sputum total protein was correlated with all electrophoretic fractions except beta/gamma globulin whereas within the group 'exposed with asbestosis' sputum protein levels were correlated only with beta/gamma globulin. Immunoanalysis showed increased transferrin in sputa from exposed donors but no specific marker protein for asbestosis was found. A non-serous, PAS reacting protein with beta^ electromobility was isolated by cation exchange separation from all sputa examined. Cytological analysis showed that half of the exposed donors possessed Type 1 pneumocytes in their sputa; Type 2 pneumocytes and iron-containing histiocytes were also found but with lower frequency. Histiocytes with endocytosed chrysotile or asbestos bodies were found only in sputa from asbestotic donors and extracellular asbestos bodies were found five times more frequently in these sputa than in those from exposed donors without asbestosis. None of these findings were seen in sputa from unexposed donors. A negligible amount of water was taken up by chrysotile from wet air at 37°C during the inhalation period, 1.74 seconds, but when chrysotile was immersed in sputum, water uptake proceeded protein adsorption. About 45 mg protein/g chrysotile was taken up in the proportion 1:1:3:1 of albumin: alpha globulin: beta/gamma globulin: lysozyme independent of sputum protein concentration and about two thirds of all adsorbed protein was PAS positive protein. When chrysotile was coated with sputum protein, its cytolytic property was markedly attenuated and viable histiocytes were still present after 25 hours exposure to the coated fibre. The results indicate that some part of retained chrysotile reaches the lung alveoli causing loss of alveolar epithelial cells although in exposed persons without asbestosis the capillary endothelium probably remains intact.
Edge States in Doped Antiferromagnetic Nano-Structures
Creators: name: Chernyshev, A. L.
name: Neto, A. H. Castro
name: White, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study competition between different phases in a strongly correlated nano-structure with an edge. Making use of the self-consistent Green's function and density matrix renormalization group methods, we study a system described by the t-Jz and t-J models on a strip of a square lattice with a linear hole density n_||. At intermediate interaction strength J/t we find edge stripe-like states, reminiscent of the bulk stripes that occur at smaller J/t. We find that stripes attach to edges more readily than hole pairs, and that the edge stripes can exhibit a peculiar phase separation.
description: 4+ pages, 3 Figures, published version
Hungry Nomad food truck
Creators: name: Berney, Jen
name: Clements, Sarah
name: Hannam, Mikaela
name: Holloway, Paige
name: Shim, Rebecca
name: Tang, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The food truck industry is catching on across University and College campuses including the University of British Columbia (UBC) all over North America. UBC has integrated this form of food service amongst a variety of other restaurants and cafés; the HNFT Food Truck (HNFT). Not only is it UBC Food Service’s goal to develop good tasting, and affordable food for students, but to maintain an overall sustainable system as well. It was our team’s objective to discover the long-term goals of the HNFT, assess the current ingredients used, as well as find out the demand for sustainable food production by consumers of the HNFT. This project was carried out by initially interviewing several members of the UBC Food Services and obtaining and assessing the current ingredient list for the HNFT. The project also involved a public survey in which a rating system of the importance of Ocean Wise, local food, organic food, and animal welfare was used. Once the objectives were identified, the food list was obtained and ingredients sourced to producers, and 120 HNFT consumers were surveyed, the results could be interpreted. The results showed that animal welfare was of utmost importance for purchasing behaviour of HNFT consumers, followed by local food production, closely followed by Ocean Wise certification, whereas organic food was the least of consumers concerns. These results coincided closely with the current trends within BC and some within Canada. It was also found that the primary ingredients of the HNFT being pork, beef, and fish, were all sourced from BC, Alberta, and Alaska respectively, and the fish was Ocean Wise certified. There were some ingredients of concern such as condiments, spices, and bread that were not the most sustainably sourced. Recommendations for any potential increases in the level of sustainability of the HNFT have been made and include alternative ingredient suppliers, and ways the HNFT can maximize food output by appealing to consumer’s purchasing behaviour Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
A Study of Mechanical Properties of Poly Methacrylate Polymer Reinforced by Silica Particles (Sio2)
Creators: name: Oleiwi, Jawad K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: In this research the mechanical properties of PMMA polymer reinforced by ceramic particles (silica) has been investigated. Many tests are performed on these composites. The effects of the particles size and volume fraction on the mechanical properties which include: ultimate tensile strength, elongation percentage, modulus of elasticity, bending modulus, flexural strength, max. shear stress, impact strength and fracture toughness were studied.Statistical and mathematical analyses were used to the processing of the experimental data. Mathematical models were done which show the mechanical properties of composite materials as a function of particles size and volume fraction. The results had revealed that the values of modulus of elasticity, elongation percentage, tensile strength, bending modulus and max. shear stress increase with the addition of SiO2 particles and with the increase of the volume fraction of them and its reach the maximum value at (12% vol.) and (25 mm) particles size. Thevalues of fracture toughness and impact energy decrease with increase of volume fraction. Silica particles with small particles size improved these properties more than that of large particles size.
Reconstructing gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers with minimal assumptions
Creators: name: Ghonge, Sudarshan
name: Chatziioannou, Katerina
name: Clark, James A.
name: Littenberg, Tyson
name: Millhouse, Margaret
name: Cadonati, Laura
name: Cornish, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic comparison of the binary black hole (BBH) signal waveform reconstructed by two independent and complementary approaches used in LIGO and Virgo source inference: a template-based analysis, and a morphology-independent analysis. We apply the two approaches to real events and to two sets of simulated observations made by adding simulated BBH signals to LIGO and Virgo detector noise. The first set is representative of the 10 BBH events in the first Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-1). The second set is constructed from a population of BBH systems with total mass and signal strength in the ranges that ground based detectors are typically sensitive. We find that the reconstruction quality of the GWTC-1 events is consistent with the results of both sets of simulated signals. We also demonstrate a simulated case where the presence of a mismodelled effect in the observed signal, namely higher order modes, can be identified through the morphology-independent analysis. This study is relevant for currently progressing and future observational runs by LIGO and Virgo.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Many-Body Superconformal Systems from Hamiltonian Reductions
Creators: name: Bellucci, Stefano
name: Galajinsky, Anton
name: Krivonos, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new reduction mechanism which allows one to construct n-particle (super)conformal theories with pairwise interaction starting from a composite system involving n(n-1)/2+1 copies of the ordinary (super)conformal mechanics. Applications of the scheme include an N=4 superconformal extension for a complexification of the Calogero model and a D(2,1|α)-invariant n-particle system.
description: 12 pages, no figures. v2: Title changed. New material and acknowledgements added
Sternotropa tambourinensis Pace 2015, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Pace, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sternotropa
Sternotropa tambourinensis

description: Sternotropa tambourinensis spec. nov.
(Figs 3, 21)
 Type material: Holotype , Australia, Queensland, Mt. Tambourine, 1.1997, leg. Wachtel (CSCÜ).
 Description: Length 1.4 mm. Body shiny, yellow, head and fourth free abdominal tergite of the male yellowishred, posterior half of the elytra brown, antennae brown with the three basal antennomeres yellow, legs yellow. Eyes as long as the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere as long as the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth to tenth transverse. Head and abdomen devoid of reticulation, that of pronotum and elytra clearly visible. Head dotting sparse and superficial, that of the elytra close and superficial. Granulation of the pronotum delicate and moderately clear. Aedeagus as in Fig 21.
 Comparative notes: The aedeagus of the new species is similar to S. monteithi PACE, 2003, also coming from Australia, but the sternal lamina of monteithi it is much longer than in the new species and, in lateral view, dilated in the preapical portion.
 Etymology: The new species derives its name from Mt. Tambourine.
description: Published as part of Pace, Roberto, 2015, New genera and new species of Aleocharinae from Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 327-339 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2) on page 329, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.65.2.327-339, http://zenodo.org/record/4754013
THE NATURE OF MAPUCHE SOCIAL POWER
Creators: name: Melville, Thomas Robert
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-08, Section: A, page: 5216.
Transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicular puncture (Ovum Pick Up)
Creators: name: Brijesh Kumar Yadav 1*, Kavisha Gangwar2, Brijesh Kumar3, Vikas Sachan4
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description:  The Ovum Pick Up method involves using an ultrasound probe to aspirate the ovarian follicles to remove the oocytes transvaginally. The donor remains unharmed throughout this process, which takes 15 to 20 minutes and involves confining the donor in a cattle crush. Implicitly linked to in vitro embryo production (IVEP), transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicular puncture (Ovum Pick-Up) has emerged as a competitive alternative to superovulation in cattle embryo development. A Dutch team pioneered in vivo oocyte harvest in cattle using transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicle aspiration, or Ovum Pick-Up (OPU) (Pieterse et al., 1988). A reproducible and non-invasive method called "Ovum Pick-Up" (OPU) is used to extract a high number of viable oocytes from the antral follicles of living animals. The application of the OPU technology to buffalo species was first documented in 1994 (Boni et al., 1994). Galli et al. (1998) reported the production of the first buffalo utilizing the OPU and in vitro fertilization (IVF) combination of procedures. India's first cattle calf to be generated with OPU-IVF technology is named "Holi." Age, the time of year, and the stimulation of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) all influence the development of embryos from ovum pick-up oocytes. On average, 1-3 embryos are produced from oocytes collected per session. The first bovine calf (Holi) was created at ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, after that Prasad et al. (2013) produced the first buffalo calf (Saubhagya) in India using this method.
title: Education in the presbytery of Jedburgh in the eighteenth century
Creators: name: Glaister, Robert T.D.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: This thesis is concerned with the history of educational provision in that part of Roxburghshire which comprised the Presbytery of Jedburgh, between the Education Acts of 1696 and 1803. The principal sources were manuscripts and documents from the area itself: church, parish and local government records, and the papers of families and estates. What was discovered about education was analysed in the context of society in Roxburghshire generally and also in the light of other local studies of education in Scotland. Data was gathered on selection and appointment procedures, the provision and quality of schoolbuildings, and the schoolmasters’ income from salary, fees, mortifications and other emoluments. In addition an examination was made of the careers and qualifications of schoolmasters, of their role in the community at large, of the presbytery’s role in education, and of the extent and nature of private provision. It is likely that all parishes were provided with a salaried schoolmaster at the beginning of the century offering a curriculum of the 3 Rs and possibly Latin. The developments during the century led to better salaries and conditions for the schoolmasters, but also to a two-tier system in which Latin was only taught in the burghs. There was little expansion of the public sector of education, but an increasing contribution was made by private teachers. Their contribution was, however, limited to elementary education; there was no evidence of a widening of the curriculum. A blurring of roles and responsibilities led to the conclusion that the control and administration of education was much more pragmatic in the first part of the century than might have been expected. In the second half of the century an increasing secularisation of education was noticed which coincided with an expanding commitment by the parochial schoolmaster to non-educational activities.
Morphological, molecular and virulence characterisation of six Cordyceps spp. isolates infecting the diamondback moth, Pluttela xylostella
Creators: name: Cailian Du
name: Jianhui Wu
name: Cuthbertson, Andrew G. S.
name: Bashir, Muhammad Hamid
name: Tingfei Sun
name: Shaukat Ali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Entomopathogenic fungi are widely distributed and well described within the fungal kingdom. Different species of fungi belonging to the Genus Cordyceps are well known pest control agents. This study reports the isolation, characterisation as well as virulence of six fungal isolates belonging to three different species of Cordyceps genus including three C. farinosa isolates; two C. fumosorosea isolates; and one C. tenuipes isolate against P. xylostella. The newly identified strains proved pathogenic to P. xylostella under laboratory conditions. In addition, the C. fumosorosea isolate SCFU-1 was virulent against eggs, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th instar larvae and pupae of P. xylostella having LC50 values of 1.27 × 109, 2.78 × 106, 2.59 × 106, 2.87 × 106, 1.22 × 107, and 1.71 × 109 conidia/mL, respectively 7 days post application. The newly isolated strains can be developed as potential biopesticide for P. xylostella although extensive field bioassays as well as development of proper formulation is still required.
Structural and electronic properties in asymmetric binuclear Zn(II) amphiphilic compounds
Creators: name: Realista, Sara
name: Oliveira, Bárbara
name: Aldeias, Joana
name: Fernández-Moreira, Vanesa
name: M. Concepción Gimeno
name: Viana, Ana S.
name: Calhorda, Maria José
name: Martinho, Paulo N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A new type of asymmetric binuclear Zn(II) complex was synthesized from a suitable mononuclear precursor. One Zn(II) was coordinated to a salphen ligand (salphen = N,N′-disalicylidene-1,2-phenylenediamine) and the other to a modified salphen bearing OC12H25 chain in the 4,4’ positions, the two being joined by phenylene rings. The molecular structure, determined by DFT calculations (ADF/BP86(COSMO:THF)/TZ2P), showed the non-planarity of each of the two complexes, the dihedral angle at the junction being ∼36°. The absorption spectra of 2 and its precursor 1 in DMSO showed a strong band in the visible at 427 and 408 nm, respectively, assigned based on TDDFT calculations mainly to intra- and interligand π→π* transitions. Complex 2 displayed emission at 531 nm in DMSO and 534 nm in other solvents. The long alkyl chain of its substituents promoted self-assembly of these amphiphilic molecules. No gels were formed in DMSO, but several bands (420, 418 and 480 nm) and shoulders appeared in other solvents, and gels were detected when increasing concentration. The formation of aggregates was studied by scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, and the images found in the three solvents reflected different supramolecular arrangements. These studies revealed that the binuclear compound formed stable gels above 8.88 mM for tetrahydrofuran and 13.3 mM for toluene and chloroform.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STYLES OF PUBLIC AND INDEPENDENT SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND HEADMASTERS
Creators: name: Welch, David Fife
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 37-07, Section: A, page: 4054.
title: Characterization of Ocrl in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Alizadeh, Niyousha
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Disease modelling has enabled researchers to study a wide range of human diseases in the laboratory, overcoming many challenges. Parkinson Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects 1 to 2% of the human population over 65 years old, influencing cognitive ability and motor function. It is characterized by the inadequate function or the loss of dopamine-producing neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta in the human midbrain. Impairment of several genes has been associated with disease progression. Recently, a polymorphism in Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome of Lowe protein (Ocrl), was identified as a risk factor for PD. As Ocrl is very well-conserved between mammals and insects, I have used D. melanogaster to create an Ocrl-dependant model of human PD. Ocrl is the D. melanogaster orthologue of human Ocrl, a PtdIns(4,5)P2 phosphatase encoding gene in which mutant forms can result in the X-linked disorder known as Oculocerebrorenal Lowe Syndrome. Directed manipulation of the single D. melanogaster version of Ocrl in neurons that include dopaminergic neurons was performed in order to produce an in vivo model of the development and progression of a unique version of PD. The directed loss of function of Ocrl in dopaminergic neurons, through the use of RNAi, resulted in a decreased locomotor ability and median lifespan of the flies over time. In complementary experiments, the directed interference of Ocrl expression in the developing eye, led to a reduction in the number of ommatidia and interommatidial bristles. Overexpression of Ocrl using D42 Gal4 and ddc Gal4 decreased lifespan, locomotor ability, the number of ommatidia and interommatidial bristles and increased lifespan by using TH Gal4. Crossing Ocrl with recombinant Ddc-GAL4/CyO; UAS-park RNAi/TM3 reduced lifespan overtime. Further investigation of Ocrl and its role in human disease progression is needed and crucial to our understanding of new therapeutic approaches for research into human disease.