cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Rôle infirmier dans la prévention de la chronicité de la dépression post-partum
title: Rôle infirmier dans la prévention de la chronicité de la dépression post-partum
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cabana Salgado, Vanesa
name: Chakir Turqui, Souad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Dépression post-partum
subject: Attachement mère-enfant
subject: Prévention
subject: Rôle infirmier

description: La dépression du post-partum est considérée comme un problème de santé publique en raison de sa prévalence et des conséquences sur la santé de la femme et de l’enfant. Ce trouble est susceptible de toucher un grand nombre de femmes pendant la grossesse et dans la première année suite à l’accouchement. La DPP a des conséquences graves sur la maman et la famille, pouvant entrainer sur l’enfant des difficultés d’attachement si le trouble de la maman persiste. Dans les cas les plus extrêmes cette souffrance peut même conduire au suicide maternel.
Reproductive Rights as Theatrical Counterculture in Women's Drama
Creators: name: Arciniega, Maria
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature--English
subject: Reproductive Rights
subject: Women's Drama
subject: Twentieth-Century Drama
subject: Twenty-first Century Drama

description: This dissertation engages with a critically neglected subgenre of dramas by women on reproductive rights, which emerged during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and resurfaced towards the end of the same century. Since these plays also intersected with the rise of feminist movements, women playwrights created feminist spaces of performance for their work, which had been thus far marginalized from canonical discourse. The first two chapters of this dissertation focus on the plays of British birth control pioneer Marie Stopes, and on dramatic texts by African American playwrights Mary Burrill and Angelina Grimké, which appeared in Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review. These amateur works introduced scientific, eugenic, and racial concerns into dramatic representations of feminist issues. The third chapter features professional playwright Susan Glaspell’s reproductive rights dramas, Chains of Dew (1921) and The Verge (1922), both written for the last season of the Provincetown Players. Glaspell introduced Brechtian theatrical innovations into the birth control rhetoric reinforcing a growing foundation of women’s activist theatre. The second half of the research centers on a similar confluence of feminist rights and reproductive rights, which appeared with the rise of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs), such as in-vitro fertilization, stem cell research and cloning. These contemporary and recent plays pushed back against the use of artificial gestational procedures which sometimes effaced women from their central roles in natural, biological reproduction. Thus, Michelene Wandor’s AID Thy Neighbour (1978) and Lisa Loomer’s Expecting Isabel (2005) offer feminist counterpoints to man-made in-vitro fertilization policies. Wendy Lill’s Chimera (2007) and Cassandra Medley’s Relativity (2006) in turn tackle stem cell research issues from a matriarchal standpoint while also echoing some of the eugenic and racial concerns raised by the birth control plays. The last chapter takes the critical discussion to the frontiers of reproductive rights technology and ethics through Caryl Churchill’s A Number (2002) and Liz Lochhead’s Blood and Ice (2003). Churchill’s drama produced and reproduced a feminist science rhetoric that became a blueprint for female dramatic agency, while Lochhead’s work reasserted women’s standing as figures of scientific and literary authority. In summary, this dissertation traces how women playwrights deployed control of biological reproduction as a dramatic theme to revision and reassert women’s often overlooked contributions to canonical theatre. By focusing on reproductive rights drama, women playwrights created a counterculture of independent, continuous, and retroactive feminist theatre.
title: Le Kangourou à la rescousse des nouveau-nés prématurés
title: Le Kangourou à la rescousse des nouveau-nés prématurés
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Camina, Deborah
name: Cefalù, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Nouveau-nés prématurés
subject: Méthode de portage
subject: Relation patient-infirmière

description: Ce travail, qui clôture la formation Bachelor en soins infirmiers, consiste en une revue de la littérature scientifique afin de répondre à la question suivante : Le soin du peau à peau entre un nouveau-né prématuré et sa mère favorise la stabilité physiologique de l’enfant, comment l’infirmière dans un service de néonatologie peut-elle promouvoir ce soin pour renforcer le lien d’attachement ? Nous avons contextualisé notre problématique en développant des concepts en lien : la prématurité, le contact peau à peau, le développement de l’enfant, le lien d’attachement et l’empowerment.
The HARPS search for Earth-like planets in the habitable zone: I -- Very low-mass planets around HD20794, HD85512 and HD192310
Creators: name: Pepe, F.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Ségransan, D.
name: Benz, W.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Udry, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2009 we started an intense radial-velocity monitoring of a few nearby, slowly-rotating and quiet solar-type stars within the dedicated HARPS-Upgrade GTO program. The goal of this campaign is to gather very-precise radial-velocity data with high cadence and continuity to detect tiny signatures of very-low-mass stars that are potentially present in the habitable zone of their parent stars. Ten stars were selected among the most stable stars of the original HARPS high-precision program that are uniformly spread in hour angle, such that three to four of them are observable at any time of the year. For each star we recorded 50 data points spread over the observing season. The data points consist of three nightly observations with a total integration time of 10 minutes each and are separated by two hours. This is an observational strategy adopted to minimize stellar pulsation and granulation noise. We present the first results of this ambitious program. The radial-velocity data and the orbital parameters of five new and one confirmed low-mass planets around the stars HD20794, HD85512, and HD192310 are reported and discussed, among which is a system of three super-Earths and one that harbors a 3.6 Earth-mass planet at the inner edge of the habitable zone. This result already confirms previous indications that low-mass planets seem to be very frequent around solar-type stars and that this may occur with a frequency higher than 30%
description: 18 pages, 22 figures, accepted by A&A on 15/08/2011 with reference AA/2011/17055. Radial velocity data will be available through CDS
Catheter-Based Acoustic Interrogation Device for Monitoring Motility Dynamics of the Lower Esophageal Sphincter
Creators: name: Lu, Qian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Catheter-Based
subject: Acoustic
subject: Microphone
subject: Oscillator
subject: Lower Esophageal Sphincter

description: Dysfunction of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) could result in various gastrointestinal disorders.However, minimally-invasive technology for direct, long-term, ambulatory monitoring of the dynamics of the LES is lacking. This thesis aims at filling this void by presenting a novel, catheter-based acoustic interrogation device for real-time monitoring the motility dynamics of the LES. The device was first tested in-vitro on a custom-designed LES simulator. Measurements showed statistically significant Pearson correlation coefficients (p<0.05). In a pilot test on a canine model, the device successfully detected an episode in which the LES was forced opened and closed by a transoral endoscope, which was monitored by a second, transpyloric endoscope positioned in the distal stomach. The dynamics of the LES was independently confirmed by frame-by-frame endoscopic video analysis. The proposed acoustic catheter has the potential for facilitating the diagnosis of LES-related diseases.
Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Industrial Wireless Applications
Creators: name: Rizopoulos, Kassandra Athena
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: LDPC
subject: Forward Error Correction
subject: Wireless
subject: Decoding

description: In recent years, advances in wireless technologies have led to a surge in the adoption of wireless networks for industrial control, and automation purposes. Existing standards are often based upon IEEE 802.15.4, which specifies automatic repeat request (ARQ) for packet retransmission. Alone, ARQ can lead to large transmission delays in the presence of adverse channel conditions. Forward error correction (FEC) as an alternative solution is tempting. However, if decoding errors persist, no provision is given for packet retransmission. Therefore, a type-II hybrid ARQ (HARQ) mechanism that utilizes pseudo-randomly punctured low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is considered. The viability of LDPC codes in the proposed type-II HARQ system is fully explored by utilizing a range of short block lengths and varying decoder types. Hard-decision Gallager-A and soft and soft-decision sum-product decoding are considered. Additionally, an improved hard-decision decoder based on a modified peeling algorithm in tandem with the Gallager-A algorithm is proposed. The throughput and complexity of both decoder types are explored. The complexity is presented in terms of worst case clock cycles. The results show that short LDPC codes perform better than RS codes and Turbo codes with respect to bit error rate. As well, the improved hard-decision decoder greatly improves the bit error rate performance of hard-decision decoding in the presence of pseudo-random puncturing. The HARQ throughput performance of short codelengths surpasses that of longer codes, on a per frame basis, regardless of decoder type. Finally, the complexity of soft-decision decoding is shown to fall below hard-decision decoding for a range of SNR values.
title: Comment vivre la mort ?
title: quel est le vécu de l'infirmière confrontée à un arrêt de dialyse et comment est-il influencé ?
titleType: Subtitle
title: Comment vivre la mort ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Chibani, Mélanie
name: Félix, Marjorie
name: Rimaz, Zoé
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Dyalise, arrêt
subject: Patient dyalisé
subject: Infirmière, vécu

description: Le but de cette revue de littérature est d’étudier le vécu infirmier dans le contexte d’une décision d’arrêt de traitement chez un patient dialysé. Des facteurs influençant l’expérience infirmière et des stratégies de prévention sont identifiés dans le but d’émettre des pistes d’amélioration pour la pratique.
Inner Planetary System Gap Complexity is a Predictor of Outer Giant Planets
Creators: name: He, Matthias Y.
name: Weiss, Lauren M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between inner small planets and outer giant planets is crucial to our understanding of planet formation across a wide range of orbital separations. While Kepler provided a plethora of compact multi-planet systems at short separations ($\lesssim 1$ AU), relatively little is known about the occurrence of giant companions at larger separations and how they impact the architectures of the inner systems. Here, we use the catalog of systems from the Kepler Giant Planet Search (KGPS) to study how the architectures of the inner transiting planets correlate with the presence of outer giant planets. We find that for systems with at least three small transiting planets, the distribution of inner-system gap complexity ($\mathcal{C}$), a measure of the deviation from uniform spacings, appears to differ ($p \lesssim 0.02$) between those with an outer giant planet ($50 M_\oplus \leq M_p\sin{i} \leq 13 M_{\rm Jup}$) and those without any outer giants. All four inner systems (with 3+ transiting planets) with outer giant(s) have a higher gap complexity ($\mathcal{C} > 0.32$) than 79% (19/24) of the inner systems without any outer giants (median $\mathcal{C} \simeq 0.06$). This suggests that one can predict the occurrence of outer giant companions by selecting multi-transiting systems with highly irregular spacings. We do not find any correlation between outer giant occurrence and the size (similarity or ordering) patterns of the inner planets. The larger gap complexities of inner systems with an outer giant hints that massive external planets play an important role in the formation and/or disruption of the inner systems.
description: Published in AJ. 16 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
A Novel Approach to White-Box Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Balasubramaniam, Jayalakshmi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Policy analysis
subject: White-box testing
subject: Change impact analysis
subject: Break-glass reduction
subject: Dead policy
subject: Policy pruning
subject: Policy composition
subject: XACML
subject: Propositional satisfiability
subject: Pseudo boolean satisfiability

description: The access control systems in dynamic environments contain composite access control policies, that combine decisions from multiple component policies using policy combining algorithms. In such dynamic environments, analysis of policies is a challenge. In this thesis, I propose a white-box policy analysis Decision in Context (DIC), that would analyse component policies situated inside a composite policy. For generality, the DIC query is defined in an XACML-style policy composition framework. The DIC query is implemented via a reduction to either propositional satisfiability or pseudo boolean satisfiability instances, after which standard solvers can be invoked to complete the evaluation. Empirical analyses have been conducted to compare the relative efficiency of the SAT and PBS encodings. The latter is found to be the more effective encoding, in reducing DIC queries containing majority voting policy combining algorithms.
USFD2: Annotating Temporal Expresions and TLINKs for TempEval-2
Creators: name: Derczynski, Leon
name: Gaizauskas, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe the University of Sheffield system used in the TempEval-2 challenge, USFD2. The challenge requires the automatic identification of temporal entities and relations in text. USFD2 identifies and anchors temporal expressions, and also attempts two of the four temporal relation assignment tasks. A rule-based system picks out and anchors temporal expressions, and a maximum entropy classifier assigns temporal link labels, based on features that include descriptions of associated temporal signal words. USFD2 identified temporal expressions successfully, and correctly classified their type in 90% of cases. Determining the relation between an event and time expression in the same sentence was performed at 63% accuracy, the second highest score in this part of the challenge.
description: Part of TempEval-2
Reliability Assessment of Historical Masonry Structures
Creators: name: Seyedain Boroujeni, Setare
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Engineering--Civil

description: Despite the high level of vulnerability of unreinforced masonry structures under applied loads and the importance of their reliability evaluation, there is no formal methodology to assess the reliability of historic masonry structures. To develop an appropriate methodology, estimations of probabilistic models of structural resistance and load effects are required to formulate a limit state function. The stochastic characteristics of materials play key roles in the determination of probabilistic models of structural resistance. Therefore, in current study, methodologies for estimating the statistical characteristics of historic masonry materials through non-destructive tests are described. Best fit probabilistic models for load effects are also presented. Target reliability index and different approaches for calculating suitable targets for historic structures are described as well. Evaluation of the reliability level of historical structures through the recommended procedure would lead to more realistic and accurate levels of reliability estimation without requiring degradation of the historic structure.
From Prometheus to Presumption: Frankenstein's Theatrical Doppelgänger
Creators: name: Reid, Brittany Lee Alexandra
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Theater
subject: Comparative
subject: English
subject: Romantic Literature
subject: Romantic Drama
subject: Frankenstein
subject: Presumption
subject: Doppelgänger
subject: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
subject: Richard Brinsley Peake

description: This thesis examines the Doppelgänger relationship between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, as it is characterized through both Frankenstein and its first theatrical adaptation. With a specific focus on Richard Brinsley Peake’s 1823 gothic melodrama, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein I unpack how the novel’s cross-medium adaptation leads to a changed conception of the relationship of its central characters. In Frankenstein, Victor is the focal figure and acts as the Creature’s dominant counterpart. However, the characters’ cross-medium adaptation from page to stage inverts this Doppelgänger relationship from Shelley’s initial conception in the novel. Consequently, the Creature is privileged as the drama’s focal figure while Victor is rendered both secondary and subservient. By contextualizing both texts within their formal, generic, critical, and cultural milieus, this study explores the implications of this significant role reversal to the Frankenstein myth.
Two-pion interferometry for the granular sources in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei-ning
name: Yin, Hong-Jie
name: Ren, Yan-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the two-pion interferometry in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions in the granular source model of quark-gluon plasma droplets. The pion transverse momentum spectra and HBT radii of the granular sources agree well with the experimental data of the $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au-Au and $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV Pb-Pb most central collisions. In the granular source model the larger initial system breakup time may lead to the larger HBT radii $R_{\rm out}$, $R_{\rm side}$, and $R_{\rm long}$. However, the large droplet transverse expansion and limited average relative emitting time of particles in the granular source lead to small ratios of the transverse HBT radii $R_{\rm out}/R_{\rm side}$.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Il notaio Ingo Contardi e la sua clientela a Genova nel pieno Duecento
Creators: name: Guglielmotti, Paola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Middle Ages
13th Century
Genoa
Notaries
Family
Clientele
Artisans
Aristocracy
alberghi
Social Mobility
Urban Territoriality

description: The first part of the essay addresses the problem of the origins of the Genoese notary Ingo Contardi by considering two, perhaps interconnected, hypotheses which raise the problem of social mobility: was his father a butcher or did he belong to a family of the lesser aristocracy? A brief discussion on his professional training ensues. Here it is noted that only a single document written by him for the commune survives, as compares to several fragments of registers containing private contracts covering the years 1234-1262, that have been preserved. Overall, the article traces how this notary attracted clients and the different ways by which he managed to secure the loyalty of two specific segments of his clientele: on the one hand a group of drapers and the artisans connected to them, and on the other a group of noble families, some of which joined into an albergum at the end of the thirteenth century. For what concerns the artisans, Ingo Contardi chose to be easily available to them by establishing his workplace in front of the store run by his brother Bonaventura, a draper. In order to secure the fealty of the aristocratic families he gauged his professional behaviour carefully, bringing out their internal bonds, perhaps acting also as a bridge to some fringes of the Popolo.
Elucidating the Role of Pten in Retinal Development and Pattern Formation
Creators: name: Tachibana, Nobuhiko
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Retina
subject: Development
subject: Pten
subject: Hamartoma
subject: Amacrine cell

description: The retina is a neural tissue that is a part of the central nervous system that resides at the back of the eye. It serves as the first sensory processing center of the visual environment. All of the cell types in the retina have been well-characterized, and their physiological functions are generally well described. As a member of a developmental biology laboratory, I have been interested in understanding the factors that dictate the events that regulate the precisely orchestrated development of the retina, such as the proliferation of neural progenitors, differentiation of neuronal cell types, migration of neuronal cells to their designated destinations, and the formation of synaptic connections. When this project was undertaken, very little was understood about the role of the Pten (phosphatase and tensin homologue) phosphatase and PI3K (phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase) signaling pathway in the retina. While PI3K signaling was known to be responsible for proliferation, differentiation, cell death, migration, neurite outgrowth, and synapse formation in different regions of the developing CNS, its role in the retina was understudied. In this thesis, I describe experiments in which I deleted Pten gene in the mouse retina with a conditional knockout (cKO) approach to elucidate its role in retinal development. During early retinal development, I found that Pten is required to regulate the differentiation of retinal amacrine cells and rod photoreceptors. I focused on amacrine cells, and found that Pten regulates amacrine cell number by modulating three different signaling pathways, Akt, TgfβII, and Erk (Chapter 3). Furthermore, I found that the deletion of Pten in the peripheral and not central retina created an animal model of Pten hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS), with the central ‘wild-type’-like retinal tissue forming a hamartoma-like lesion (Chapter 4). Finally, I described a role for Pten at later stages of the retinal development in regulating cellular patterning (Chapter 5). Specifically, I observed several examples of mispatterning in Pten cKO retinas, including an expansion of the inner plexiform layer, and the disrupted organization of amacrine cells in both the radial and tangential planes. I also investigated genetic relationships between Pten and the cell adhesion molecule Dscam in guiding cellular positioning, as the deletion of Dscam largely phenocopies the Pten cKO in the retina, and I found for the most part that they act in separate pathways. In summary, I have significantly expanded our knowledge of Pten function in the developing retina during my PhD studies.
Megalithgräber im Emsland Der Hümmling im Fokus geografischer Informationssysteme (GIS)
Creators: name: , Menne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Funnelbeaker
Neolithic
GIS
Lower Saxony
Megalith
Archaeology
Landscape

description: The present article focuses upon the applicability of geographic information systems (GIS) for an analysis of the Hümmling area, district Emsland. Object of this study is the analysis of cultural connections within the microregion of the northern Hümmling, that is based on analized inventories of megalithic tombs. Internal and external cultural influences show signs of a well-established network.

These contact zones between local groups of the northwest German TRB West Group are supposed to be established via GIS. For that purpose associated finds of this archeological context category are related, thereby drawing a direct comparison. In addition to mappings and geographical links, spatial structures, which are based upon the distinctive architecture of megalithic tombs, can be recorded. Furthermore, studies of the visibility might point out probable connections between the inventories and the architecture and/or the topographical site of the tombs. The question of cultural disposition of this area within the TRB West Group follows in a résumé.
Breathing oscillations of a trapped impurity in a Bose gas
Creators: name: Johnson, T. H.
name: Bruderer, M.
name: Cai, Y.
name: Clark, S. R.
name: Bao, W.
name: Jaksch, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by a recent experiment [J. Catani et al., arXiv:1106.0828v1 preprint, 2011], we study breathing oscillations in the width of a harmonically trapped impurity interacting with a separately trapped Bose gas. We provide an intuitive physical picture of such dynamics at zero temperature, using a time-dependent variational approach. In the Gross-Pitaevskii regime we obtain breathing oscillations whose amplitudes are suppressed by self trapping, due to interactions with the Bose gas. Introducing phonons in the Bose gas leads to the damping of breathing oscillations and non-Markovian dynamics of the width of the impurity, the degree of which can be engineered through controllable parameters. Our results reproduce the main features of the impurity dynamics observed by Catani et al. despite experimental thermal effects, and are supported by simulations of the system in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime. Moreover, we predict novel effects at lower temperatures due to self-trapping and the inhomogeneity of the trapped Bose gas.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Time Dependence of the RXTE X-ray Spectrum of Hercules X-1/HZ Hercules
Creators: name: Abdallah, Mohammed Hassan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astronomy and Astrophysics
subject: X-ray Binary Pulsars

description: We study the time dependence of the energy spectra (i.e. of the spectral model parameters, and the interpretation) of the X-ray binary system Hercules X-1/HZ Hercules (Her X-1/HZ Her) over the superorbital/35-day cycle. The results are discussed separately in two parts: one for the data during the main high state and one for the data obtained during low state and short high state. We made use of data collected by RXTE/PCA instrument in the standard-2 mode during the period from July,1996 to August of 2005 (MJD = 50290 - 53584) acquired as a result of 23 study proposals for observing the HZ Her/Her X-1 system. Observations made while the system was in anomalous low state (ALS) were removed, as the ALS are believed to be caused by a change in the status of the disc which results in disappearance of the 35-day superorbital cycle. In our data there are two anomalous low states (MJD = 51226.4 to 51756.9 & MJD = 52950.6 to 53159.4). Due to the rapid change of count rates and energy spectra during eclipse and dips periods, we remove these periods from our analysis. The main results during main high state are directly linked to the disc precession and its effect in occulting the central source and surrounding emission regions, while results obtained for the low state and short high state are related to the changing visibility of the irradiated face of HZ Her which contributes to the observed spectra by the reflected emission off of its heated face.
Design of a Drone-Assisted Wireless Sensor Network System for Feedlot Animal Health Monitoring
Creators: name: Wang, Hai
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Wireless Sensor Network
subject: drone
subject: animal health monitoring
subject: feedlot
subject: directional antenna
subject: mesh network
subject: localization

description: Cattle health monitoring on the feedlot is a crucial but nontrivial task. Conventionally, the monitoring quality relies heavily on the obviousness of the observed traits and the time spent on observing each animal, which make the early detection of the illness hard to achieve. In this thesis, a wireless sensor network system is developed to monitor the animals’ feeding and drinking behaviors thereby increasing the probability of detecting the animals with early signs of illness. Deploying mechanism of the drone is also proposed to localize the animal that needs care. Finally, a scheduling algorithm is designed to support data transmissions in animal wireless body area networks. The significance of the research lies in the novelty and feasibility of using directional antenna, drone and wireless body area networks for feedlot animal health monitoring.
The political, the urban, and the cosmopolitan : the 1970s generation in Romanian-German poetry
Creators: name: Cernahoschi-Condurateanu, Raluca
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study is an introduction to the body of work produced by the German poets who were born during or after World War II in Romania and whose almost simultaneous debut lies in the relatively liberal period 1965 – 1971. Helped onto the Romanian-German literary scene by a propitious environment and informed by the socialist ideology they were born “into,” the poets born between 1942 and 1955 formed a remarkable generation unit which sought to significantly renew German-language literature in Romania. Rejecting identification with the insulary Romanian-German communities, the young poets strove to create a socially and politically relevant verse expressing an urban and cosmopolitan attitude. The growing nationalist rhetoric and isolationist stance of Romania's regime and the material and psychological hardships endured by its population through the 1970s and 80s forced the generation to revise its incipient enthusiasm for Romanian socialism. Increasingly, the poets' work came to depict the threatened existence of the German minority and the harsh general living conditions in Romania and to provide an alternative to the absurd official proclamations of a “golden age” under Ceauşescu, despite the poetry's growing reliance on obscuring literary techniques. The emigration of most of the generation members in the mid to late 1980s brought about the eventual unravelling of the generation unit and marks the end of my study. By following the evolution of three themes – social and political engagement, the German minority, and the urban environment – which define the poets as a generation throughout their literary careers in Romania, the analysis illuminates not only the generation's development from identification with Romanian socialism and rejection of the German minority to criticism of the country's policies and a renewed interest in the fate of the German community but also the changing possibilities and limits of literary expression under communism. In addition to providing an introduction to the body of work created by the 1970s generation in Romania, the study also expands the understanding of German literature in the 20th century by providing new material on literature written under totalitarianism and of intercultural German literature.
A Study of the Multiple-Unicast Network Coding Conjecture Using Riemannian Manifolds
Creators: name: Fang, Wei
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: network coding
subject: multiple-unicast conjecture
subject: Riemannian manifolds

description: Network coding encourages information mixing at the intermediate nodes within a network. The multiple-unicast conjecture proposed by Li and Li [18] in 2004 is one of the most well-known unsolved problems in network coding field. The conjecture asserts that, for multiple independent unicast transmissions in an undirected network, network coding has no advantage over traditional routing. In this thesis, we study the conjecture by embedding graphs into Riemannian manifolds using a geometric framework developed by Xiahou el al. [32]. We prove that isometric embedding of graphs into a Riemannian manifold is impossible. Then, interestingly, we construct an embedding that achieves an infinitesimally small distortion. We show that if the multiple-unicast network coding conjecture is true on Riemannian manifolds, it is also true for undirected networks. Our hope is to develop a Riemannian geometry approach for making new progresses against the long-time open conjecture.
Stimulation of liver immune cells with adjuvant immunotherapy restricts the occurrence of liver metastasis
Creators: name: Babes, Liane
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Biology
subject: Oncology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The prognosis of most cancer patients depends on the extent of primary tumor metastasis to distant organs. At the time of diagnosis a substantial percentage of patients with colorectal carcinoma have already developed liver metastases. Many patients who are free of liver metastases can be saved by surgical resection of the primary tumor, however, surgery itself can enhance metastasis development in the liver. Circulating tumor cells in the liver sinusoids interact with various resident immune cells in the liver such as Kupffer cells, iNKT cells and neutrophils. This interaction results in weak immunity against tumor cells due to the tolerant environment in the liver which promotes the establishment of metastases. We hypothesized that adjuvant immunotherapy could stimulate liver resident effector cells to attack tumor cells thereby restricting their survival and lowering the occurrence of hepatic metastases. We found that monoclonal antibody therapy targeting tumor cells stimulates Kupffer cells to phagocytose cancer cells and impedes the formation of liver metastases. However, Kupffer cells lack the ability to reduce established metastases. In a different approach we used a strong iNKT cell agonist (α-GalCer) to stimulate the secretion of immunomodulatory cytokines in the liver. iNKT cells created a tumor hostile hepatic microenvironment that led to reduced tumor growth and increased the survival rate. Yet, continuous treatment with the iNKT cell agonist attenuated the anti-tumor effect and enhanced the incidence of metastases indicating that α-GalCer therapy is only effective within a narrow temporal window. Lastly, the engagement of circulating neutrophils by therapeutic antibodies in combination with innate immune checkpoint inhibition demonstrated that neutrophils have anti-tumor activity in the presence of therapeutic antibodies in the liver. These studies demonstrated that adjuvant immunotherapy can delay the formation of liver metastases but they also indicated that the start point and duration of treatment are critical factors and that anti-metastatic therapy is only effective within a narrow window.
Autonomic Specificity Associated with Participation in the Mindfulness And Tai chi for Cancer Health (MATCH) Study
Creators: name: Toivonen, Kirsti
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education--Health
subject: Oncology
subject: Psychology--Physiological
subject: Cancer
subject: Psychophysiology
subject: Mindfulness
subject: Tai Chi
subject: Qigong

description: Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery (MBCR) and Tai Chi/Qigong (TCQ) are two therapies used by cancer survivors to help alleviate side effects of cancer and its treatment, but have never been directly compared in this population. The present study assessed the autonomic specificity (indexed by blood pressure, heart rate variability, and baroreflex sensitivity) associated with participating in MBCR or TCQ among cancer survivors. Secondary analyses examined associations between changes in distress, quality of life, sleep, and pain and changes in autonomic functioning. Results suggest participation in MBCR, but not TCQ, may be associated with a degree of change in baroreflex sensitivity and blood pressure. Further, increased low-frequency heart rate variability was associated with a pattern of improvements (e.g., decreased fatigue, depression, and mood disturbance). Results may lead to a better understanding of mechanisms involved in symptom improvement as well as a better rationale for selection of complementary therapies.
Powellsnakes II: a fast Bayesian approach to discrete object detection in multi-frequency astronomical data sets
Creators: name: Carvalho, Pedro
name: Rocha, Graça
name: Hobson, M. P.
name: Lasenby, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Powellsnakes is a Bayesian algorithm for detecting compact objects embedded in a diffuse background, and was selected and successfully employed by the Planck consortium in the production of its first public deliverable: the Early Release Compact Source Catalogue (ERCSC). We present the critical foundations and main directions of further development of PwS, which extend it in terms of formal correctness and the optimal use of all the available information in a consistent unified framework, where no distinction is made between point sources (unresolved objects), SZ clusters, single or multi-channel detection. An emphasis is placed on the necessity of a multi-frequency, multi-model detection algorithm in order to achieve optimality.
Squilla obtusa Holthuis 1959
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Stomatopoda
Squillidae
Squilla
Squilla obtusa

description: Squilla obtusa Holthuis, 1959
Material examined (N=3). 1f, 25/IV/2004, St. 0 6 (MZUESC #642); 1f, 25/III/2005, St. 0 6 (MZUESC #700).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, and Brazil (from Amapá to Espírito Santo) (Manning 1969; Gomes Corrêa 1986; Rodrigues & Young 2005).
Ecological notes. On muddy bottoms, between 13 and 182 m, but more frequently at depths less than 90 m (Manning 1969; Gomes Corrêa 1986).
Previous records in Bahia. Manning (1966), Coelho & Koening (1972), Gomes Corrêa (1986), Rodrigues & Young (2005), Almeida et al. (2007).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
On (h-s)_{1,2}-convex Functions and Hadamard-type Inequalities
Creators: name: Ozdemir, M. Emin
name: Tunc, Mevlut
name: Akdemir, Ahmet Ocak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D15

description: In this paper, two new classes of convex functions as a generalization of convexity which is called (h-s)_{1,2}-convex functions are given. We also prove some Hadamard-type inequalities and applications to the special means are given.
description: 11 pages
Improved multiscale computational strategies for delamination
Creators: name: Allix, Olivier
name: Gosselet, Pierre
name: Kerfriden, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a three-scale computational strategy for the study of composite modeled at the mesoscale so that delamination can be reliably simulated. The solver is based on a LaTIn approach so that nonlinearities can be tackled at the local scale. We show how search directions which are parameters of the method need to be updated according to the delamination status of interfaces. We also present the parallelization of the macro problem which transmits long-range phenomena and warranty the scalabilty of the method; this parallelization is based on the balancing domain decomposition method, it leads to the introduction of a third (super-macro) scale.
description: Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics -- Progress and Accomplishments, Ren\'e de Borst and Ekkehard Ramm (Ed.)
On Renormalization Group Flows in Four Dimensions
Creators: name: Komargodski, Zohar
name: Schwimmer, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some general aspects of renormalization group flows in four dimensions. Every such flow can be reinterpreted in terms of a spontaneously broken conformal symmetry. We analyze in detail the consequences of trace anomalies for the effective action of the Nambu-Goldstone boson of broken conformal symmetry. While the c-anomaly is algebraically trivial, the a-anomaly is "non-Abelian," and leads to a positive-definite universal contribution to the S-matrix of 2->2 dilaton scattering. Unitarity of the S-matrix results in a monotonically decreasing function that interpolates between the Euler anomalies in the ultraviolet and the infrared, thereby establishing the a-theorem.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures. v2: references added and minor corrections
Testing Special Relativity With an Infinite Arm Interferometer
Creators: name: Korula, Aswan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Michelson-Morley experiment and its resolution by the special theory of relativity form a foundational truth in modern physics. In this paper we propose an equivalent experiment involving a relativistic interferometer having infinite arms. Curiously, we find that lorentz contraction and time dilation are absent in our experiment leading to a conflict between special relativity and the symmetry of nature.
An Annotation Scheme for Reichenbach's Verbal Tense Structure
Creators: name: Derczynski, Leon
name: Gaizauskas, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present RTMML, a markup language for the tenses of verbs and temporal relations between verbs. There is a richness to tense in language that is not fully captured by existing temporal annotation schemata. Following Reichenbach we present an analysis of tense in terms of abstract time points, with the aim of supporting automated processing of tense and temporal relations in language. This allows for precise reasoning about tense in documents, and the deduction of temporal relations between the times and verbal events in a discourse. We define the syntax of RTMML, and demonstrate the markup in a range of situations.
TAKAI Team‐Arbeit‐Kontext‐Analyse Inventar
Creators: name: Elsenbast, Christian
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: DDC::100 Philosophie und Psychologie::100 Philosophie
subject: DDC::100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie
subject: DDC::100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::153 Kognitive Prozesse, Intelligenz

description: Das Team‐Arbeit‐Kontext‐Analyse Inventar nach Hagemann et al. dient zur Erhebung des Arbeitskontextes von High-Responsibility-Teams.
description: The Team Work Context Analysis Inventory (Hagemann et al.) is designed to assess the work context of high responsibility teams.
Roto-flexoelectric coupling impact on the phase diagrams and pyroelectricity of thin SrTiO3 films
Creators: name: Morozovska, A. N.
name: Eliseev, E. A.
name: Bravina, S. L.
name: Borisevich, A. Y.
name: Kalinin, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the flexoelectric and rotostriction coupling on the phase diagrams of ferroelastic-quantum paraelectric SrTiO3 films was studied using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) theory. The phase diagrams in coordinates temperature - film thickness were calculated for different epitaxial misfit strains. Tensile misfit strains stimulate appearance of the spontaneous out-of-plane structural order parameter (displacement vector of an appropriate oxygen atom from its cubic position) in the structural phase. Compressive misfit strains stimulate appearance of the spontaneous in-plane structural order parameter. Gradients of the structural order parameter components, which inevitably exist in the vicinity of film surfaces due to the termination and symmetry breaking, induce improper polarization and pyroelectric response via the flexoelectric and rotostriction coupling mechanism. Flexoelectric and rotostriction coupling results in the roto-flexoelectric field that is antisymmetric inside the film, small in the central part of the film, where the gradients of the structural parameter are small, and maximal near the surfaces, where the gradients of the structural parameter are highest. The field induces improper polarization and pyroelectric response. Penetration depths of the improper phases (both polar and structural) can reach several nm from the film surfaces. An improper pyroelectric response of thin films is high enough to be registered with planar-type electrode configurations by conventional pyroelectric methods.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, 1 appendix, 1 table
Lithologic and Mineral Mapping in the Chocolate Mountains, California, Using ASTER Data and Image Processing Techniques
Creators: name: Zou, Huihui
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sciences
subject: ASTER
subject: lithology
subject: alteration minerals

description: The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a multispectral sensor, which has broad band coverage and is suitable for mineral and lithologic mapping. This research evaluated the use of ASTER imagery for both lithologic and mineral mapping in an arid area, Chocolate Mountains, southeast California. Various remote sensing techniques were applied to map alteration minerals including false colour composite, band ratios, Principal Components Analysis (PCA). Three classification techniques were used to map the lithologies, including Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) and Mixture Tuned Matched Filtering (MTMF). Finally, two prospectivity maps were produced by using weighted overlay and logistic regression models. The results indicate ASTER is very effective in mapping various alteration minerals. In lithologic mapping, MLC has the highest overall accuracy of 70.56%. SAM and MTMF have very low overall accuracy (37.15% and 16.78% in respect). The efficiency score for logistic regression is 90.5%, weighted overlay has an efficiency score of 84.7%. However, the results need further aseessment using field data.
Entrevista a Enrique Dans
Creators: name: Dans, Enrique
Publisher: name: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació
Year: 2023

description: El professor Enrique Dans és un reputat expert en tecnologies de la informació i professor d’innovació a l’IE University des de fa uns 32 anys. Els seus interessos de recerca se centren en els efectes de les noves tecnologies en persones i empreses. És per aquesta raó que hem volgut convidar-lo a aquesta entrevista per al número 74 de la revista Ítem que dediquem a la transformació digital i comptar, així, amb la seva opinió experta.
description: Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació, 2023: Núm.:74