cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gilbert & Sullivan
Creators: name: Moon, Becca
name: Vay, Robert
Publisher: name: Mason Publishing, George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Gilbert and Sullivan
subject: Musical theater

description: British dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan were perhaps the most popular and influential collaboration in the history of musical theatre. Their famous comic operas — including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado — continue to fill theatres and delight audiences to this day. “Oh, Joy Unbounded…": A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan, featuring items from the David and Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection, is a tribute to this lasting delight. The exhibition showcases memorabilia from all fourteen Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the individual compositions of each man, and personal items from their lives. In addition, the exhibition contains representative examples of other works performed by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, the chief custodians of the Gilbert & Sullivan tradition for over 100 years, until its closure in 1982. The exhibition is part of a larger celebration of the famous duo, which the University Libraries and the College of Visual and Performing Arts are coordinating at Mason throughout 2017.
Constraining gravity with a new precision $E_G$ estimator using Planck + SDSS BOSS
Creators: name: Wenzl, Lukas
name: Bean, Rachel
name: Chen, Shi-Fan
name: Farren, Gerrit S.
name: Madhavacheril, Mathew S.
name: Marques, Gabriela A.
name: Qu, Frank J.
name: Sehgal, Neelima
name: Sherwin, Blake D.
name: van Engelen, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $E_G$ statistic is a discriminating probe of gravity developed to test the prediction of general relativity (GR) for the relation between gravitational potential and clustering on the largest scales in the observable universe. We present a novel high-precision estimator for the $E_G$ statistic using CMB lensing and galaxy clustering correlations that carefully matches the effective redshifts across the different measurement components to minimize corrections. A suite of detailed tests is performed to characterize the estimator's accuracy, its sensitivity to assumptions and analysis choices and the non-Gaussianity of the estimator's uncertainty is characterized. After finalization of the estimator, it is applied to $\textit{Planck}$ CMB lensing and SDSS CMASS and LOWZ galaxy data. We report the first harmonic space measurement of $E_G$ using the LOWZ sample and CMB lensing and also updated constraints using the final CMASS sample and the latest $\textit{Planck}$ CMB lensing map. We find $E_G^{Planck+CMASS} = 0.36^{+0.06}_{-0.05}$ (68.27%) and $E_G^{\rm \textit{Planck}+LOWZ} = 0.40^{+0.11}_{-0.09} $ (68.27%), with additional subdominant systematic error budget estimates of 2% and 3% respectively. Using $Ω_{\rm m,0}$ constraints from $\textit{Planck}$ and SDSS BAO observations, $Λ$CDM-GR predicts $E_G^{\rm GR} (z = 0.555) = 0.401 \pm 0.005$ and $E_G^{\rm GR} (z = 0.316) = 0.452 \pm 0.005$ at the effective redshifts of the CMASS and LOWZ based measurements. We report the measurement to be in good statistical agreement with the $Λ$CDM-GR prediction, and report that the measurement is also consistent with the more general GR prediction of scale-independence for $E_G$. This work provides a carefully constructed and calibrated statistic with which $E_G$ measurements can be confidently and accurately obtained with upcoming survey data.
description: 36 pages, 20 figures, Accepted for publication in PRD
Succulent species differ substantially in their tolerance and phytoextraction potential when grown in the presence of Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn
Creators: name: C Zhang
name: Sale, Peter
name: Clark, Gary
name: W Liu
name: AI Doronila
name: SD Kolev
name: Caixian Tang
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Plants for the phytoextraction of heavy metals should have the ability to accumulate high concentrations of such metals and exhibit multiple tolerance traits to cope with adverse conditions such as coexistence of multiple heavy metals, high salinity, and drought which are the characteristics of many contaminated soils. This study compared 14 succulent species for their phytoextraction potential of Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn. There were species variations in metal tolerance and accumulation. Among the 14 succulent species, an Australian native halophyte Carpobrotus rossii exhibited the highest relative growth rate (20.6–26.6 mg plant−1 day−1) and highest tolerance index (78–93 %), whilst Sedum “Autumn Joy” had the lowest relative growth rate (8.3–13.6 mg plant−1 day−1), and Crassula multicava showed the lowest tolerance indices (<50 %). Carpobrotus rossii and Crassula helmsii showed higher potential for phytoextraction of these heavy metals than other species. These findings suggest that Carpobrotus rossii is a promising candidate for phytoextraction of multiple heavy metals, and the aquatic or semiterrestrial Crassula helmsii is suitable for phytoextraction of Cd and Zn from polluted waters or wetlands.
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) afghanus Lourenco & Qi 2006
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops afghanus

description: - S. (Scorpiops) afghanus Lourenço & Qi, 2006
Afghanistan
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
Plantar calcaneal spurs in older people: longitudinal traction or vertical compression?
Creators: name: Menz, Hylton
name: Zammit, Gerard
name: Landorf, Karl
name: Munteanu, Shannon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: Background: Plantar calcaneal spurs are common, however their pathophysiology is poorly understood. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and correlates of plantar calcaneal spurs in a large sample of older people.Methods: Weightbearing lateral foot radiographs of 216 people (140 women and 76 men) aged 62 to 94 years (mean age 75.9, SD 6.6) were examined for plantar calcaneal and Achilles tendon spurs. Associations between the presence of spurs and sex, body mass index, radiographic measures of foot posture, self-reported co-morbidities and current or previous heel pain were then explored.Results: Of the 216 participants, 119 (55%) had at least one plantar calcaneal spur and 103 (48%) had at least one Achilles tendon spur. Those with plantar calcaneal spurs were more likely to have Achilles tendon spurs (odds ratio [OR] = 2.0, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.2 to 3.5). Prevalence of spurs did not differ according to sex. Participants with plantar calcaneal spurs were more likely to be obese (OR = 7.9, 95% CI 3.6 to 17.0), report osteoarthritis (OR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.6 to 4.8) and have current or previous heel pain (OR = 4.6, 95% CI 2.3 to 9.4). No relationship was found between the presence of calcaneal spurs and radiographic measures of foot posture.Conclusion: Calcaneal spurs are common in older men and women and are related to obesity, osteoarthritis and current or previous heel pain, but are unrelated to radiographic measurements of foot posture. These findings support the theory that plantar calcaneal spurs may be an adaptive response to vertical compression of the heel rather than longitudinal traction at the calcaneal enthesis.
Lifting twisted coreflections against delta lenses
Creators: name: Clarke, Bryce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18A32, 18A40, 18C15, 18D30, 18N10

description: Delta lenses are functors equipped with a suitable choice of lifts, generalising the notion of split opfibration. In recent work, delta lenses were characterised as the right class of an algebraic weak factorisation system. In this paper, we show that this algebraic weak factorisation system is cofibrantly generated by a small double category, and characterise the left class as split coreflections with a certain property; we call these twisted coreflections. We demonstrate that every twisted coreflection arises as a pushout of an initial functor from a discrete category along a bijective-on-objects functor. Throughout the article, we take advantage of a reformulation of algebraic weak factorisation systems, due to Bourke, based on double-categorical lifting operations.
description: 40 pages, final version
རྦ་བཞེད་
Creators: name: སྦ་གསལ་སྣང་
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: སྦ་གསལ་སྣང་; RBA BZHED; SBA GSAL SNANG; Testimony of Ba; Tibetan Buddhism; Tibet; narrative;

description: RBA BZHED

SBA GSAL SNANG

With line numbers and folios marked
description: Published in dPal brtsegs 2010-2011; conflation of two manuscripts in a single copy; copied c. 1400s.
Infrared finite scattering theory: Scattering states and representations of the BMS group
Creators: name: Prabhu, Kartik
name: Satishchandran, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Any non-trivial scattering with any massless fields in four spacetime dimensions will generically produce an "out" state with memory which gives rise to infrared divergences in the standard $S$-matrix. To obtain an infrared-finite scattering theory, one must suitably include states with memory. However, except in the case of QED with massive charged particles, asymptotic states with memory that have finite energy and angular momentum have not been constructed for more general theories (e.g. massless QED, Yang-Mills and quantum gravity). To this end, we construct direct-integral representations over the "Lorentz orbit" of a given memory and classify all "orbit space representations" that have well-defined energy and angular momentum. We thereby provide an explicit construction of a large supply of physical states with memory as well as the explicit action of the BMS charges all states. The construction of such states is a key step toward the formulation of an infrared-finite scattering theory. While we primarily focus on the quantum gravitational case, we outline how the methods presented in this paper can be applied to obtain representations of the Poincaré group with memory for more general quantum field theories.
description: v2: minor edits, updated citations ; v1: 23 pages + appendix
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) lhasa Di & Zhu 2009
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops lhasa

description: - S. (Scorpiops) lhasa Di & Zhu, 2009
China
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
Brightest Cluster Galaxy Offsets in Cold Dark Matter
Creators: name: Roche, Cian
name: McDonald, Michael
name: Borrow, Josh
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Shen, Xuejian
name: Springel, Volker
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Pakmor, Ruediger
name: Bose, Sownak
name: Kannan, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of offsets between the brightest cluster galaxies of galaxy clusters and the centroid of their dark matter distributions is a promising probe of the underlying dark matter physics. In particular, since this distribution is sensitive to the shape of the potential in galaxy cluster cores, it constitutes a test of dark matter self-interaction on the largest mass scales in the universe. We examine these offsets in three suites of modern cosmological simulations; IllustrisTNG, MillenniumTNG and BAHAMAS. For clusters above $10^{14}\rm{M_\odot}$, we examine the dependence of the offset distribution on gravitational softening length, the method used to identify centroids, redshift, mass, baryonic physics, and establish the stability of our results with respect to various nuisance parameter choices. We find that offsets are overwhelmingly measured to be smaller than the minimum converged length scale in each simulation, with a median offset of $\sim1\rm{kpc}$ in the highest resolution simulation considered, TNG300-1, which uses a gravitational softening length of $1.48\rm{kpc}$. We also find that centroids identified via source extraction on smoothed dark matter and stellar particle data are consistent with the potential minimum, but that observationally relevant methods sensitive to cluster strong gravitational lensing scales, or those using gas as a tracer for the potential can overestimate offsets by factors of $\sim10$ and $\sim30$, respectively. This has the potential to reduce tensions with existing offset measurements which have served as evidence for a nonzero dark matter self-interaction cross section.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures; v3: OJA published
Radiographic correlates of hallux valgus severity in older people
Creators: name: D'Arcangelo, PR
name: Landorf, Karl
name: Munteanu, Shannon
name: Zammit, GV
name: Menz, Hylton
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: The severity of hallux valgus is easily appreciated by its clinical appearance, however x-ray measurements are also frequently used to evaluate the condition, particularly if surgery is being considered. There have been few large studies that have assessed the validity of these x-ray observations across a wide spectrum of the deformity. In addition, no studies have specifically focused on older people where the progression of the disorder has largely ceased. Therefore, this study aimed to explore relationships between relevant x-ray observations with respect to hallux valgus severity in older people.Methods: This study utilised 402 x-rays of 201 participants (74 men and 127 women) aged 65 to 94 years. All participants were graded using the Manchester Scale - a simple, validated system to grade the severity of hallux valgus - prior to radiographic assessment. A total of 19 hallux valgus-related x-ray observations were performed on each set of x-rays. These measurements were then correlated with the Manchester Scale scores.Results: Strong, positive correlations were identified between the severity of hallux valgus and the hallux abductus angle, the proximal articular set angle, the sesamoid position and congruency of the first metatarsophalangeal joint. As hallux valgus severity increased, so did the frequency of radiographic osteoarthritis of the first metatarsophalangeal joint and a round first metatarsal head. A strong linear relationship between increased relative length of the first metatarsal and increased severity of hallux valgus was also observed.Conclusions: Strong associations are evident between the clinical appearance of hallux valgus and a number of hallux valgus-related x-ray observations indicative of structural deformity and joint degeneration. As it is unlikely that metatarsal length increases as a result of hallux valgus deformity, increased length of the first metatarsal relative to the second metatarsal may be a contributing factor to the development and/or progression of hallux valgus. © 2010 D'Arcangelo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
title: Sans Patrie Fixe: How does Nancy Huston’s Intricate Cultural and Linguistic Background Effect/Affect Identity, Voice and Perspective in her Novels?
Creators: name: Mateu, Erin N
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Identity and marginality
subject: Feminism
subject: Francophone literature
subject: Voice and perspective
subject: Creation vs. procreation
subject: Huston, Nancy, 1953-

description: This thesis describes the works of Nancy Huston, an Anglophone-Canadian who began her writing career in Paris, and, more importantly, in French, an adopted language. The importance of this author’s cultural and linguistic background serves as the backdrop to the analysis of various themes from her work, such as marginality, creation and death. Feminism, motherhood, and religion are also strong components in Nancy Huston’s work and this thesis examines the interweaving of these themes. Several of this author’s fiction novels, including Cantique des plaines, La Virevolte, Instruments des ténèbres, and L’Empreinte de l’ange, as well as some of her non-fiction work (including Journal de la creation and Nord perdu, but also a number of her short essays) are presented as supporting documentation in this biographical critique of the thesis question.
Effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Cotchett, Matthew
name: Landorf, Karl
name: Munteanu, Shannon
name: Raspovic, Anita
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Plantar heel pain (plantar fasciitis) is a common and disabling condition, which has a detrimental impact on health-related quality of life. Despite the high prevalence of plantar heel pain, the optimal treatment for this disorder remains unclear. Consequently, an alternative therapy such as dry needling is increasingly being used as an adjunctive treatment by health practitioners. Only two trials have investigated the effectiveness of dry needling for plantar heel pain, however both trials were of a low methodological quality. This manuscript describes the design of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of dry needling for plantar heel pain.Methods: Eighty community-dwelling men and woman aged over 18 years with plantar heel pain (who satisfy the inclusion and exclusion criteria) will be recruited. Eligible participants with plantar heel pain will be randomised to receive either one of two interventions, (i) real dry needling or (ii) sham dry needling. The protocol (including needling details and treatment regimen) was formulated by general consensus (using the Delphi research method) using 30 experts worldwide that commonly use dry needling for plantar heel pain. Primary outcome measures will be the pain subscale of the Foot Health Status Questionnaire and "first step" pain as measured on a visual analogue scale. The secondary outcome measures will be health related quality of life (assessed using the Short Form-36 questionnaire - Version Two) and depression, anxiety and stress (assessed using the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - short version). Primary outcome measures will be performed at baseline, 2, 4, 6 and 12 weeks and secondary outcome measures will be performed at baseline, 6 and 12 weeks. Data will be analysed using the intention to treat principle.Conclusion: This study is the first randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of dry needling for plantar heel pain. The trial will be reported in accordance with the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials and the Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture guidelines. The findings from this trial will provide evidence for the effectiveness of trigger point dry needling for plantar heel pain.Trial registration: Australian New Zealand 'Clinical Trials Registry'. ACTRN12610000611022. © 2011 Cotchett et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Antiferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials: progress and computational challenges
Creators: name: Olsen, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a perspective on the status of antiferromagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) materials. Various types of spin-compensated orders are discussed and include non-collinear order, spin spirals and altermagnetism. Spin-orbit effects ultimately determine, whether compounds exhibit long range order, Kosterlitz-Thouless physics, or multiferroic properties and we discuss the basic magnetic prototypes that may arise in 2D materials depending on the magnetic anisotropy and ordering vector. A summary of 2D antiferromagnets that have been characterized experimentally is provided - with particular emphasis on magnetic anisotropies and Neel temperatures. We then outline the ingredients needed to describe the magnetic properties using density functional theory. In particular, the systematic determination of magnetic ground states from the generalized Bloch theorem and the magnetic force theorem, which may be used to calculate magnetic excitations from the Heisenberg model with parameters determined from first principles. The methods are exemplified by application to the monolayer helimagnet NiBr$_2$. Finally, we present a summary of predicted and prospective 2D antiferromagnets and discuss the challenges associated with the prediction of Néel temperatures from first principles.
description: Invited perspective. Comments or suggestions are welcome
Physiotherapy intervention practice patterns used in rehabilitation after distal radial fracture
Creators: name: Bruder, Andrea
name: Taylor, Nicholas
name: Dodd, Karen
name: Shields, Nora
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: No description supplied
Reproduction Number of the Omicron Variant Triples That of the Delta Variant.
Creators: name: Du, Zhanwei
name: Hong, Huaping
name: Wang, Shuqi
name: Ma, Lijia
name: Liu, Caifen
name: Bai, Yuan
name: Adam, Dillon C
name: Tian, Linwei
name: Wang, Lin
name: Lau, Eric H Y
name: Cowling, Benjamin J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Public Health
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2

description: COVID-19 remains a persistent threat, especially with the predominant Omicron variant emerging in early 2022, presenting with high transmissibility, immune escape, and waning. There is a need to rapidly ramp up global vaccine coverage while enhancing public health and social measures. Timely and reliable estimation of the reproduction number throughout a pandemic is critical for assessing the impact of mitigation efforts and the potential need to adjust for control measures. We conducted a systematic review on the reproduction numbers of the Omicron variant and gave the pooled estimates. We identified six studies by searching PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Google Scholar for articles published between 1 January 2020 and 6 March 2022. We estimate that the effective reproduction number ranges from 2.43 to 5.11, with a pooled estimate of 4.20 (95% CI: 2.05, 6.35). The Omicron variant has an effective reproduction number which is triple (2.71 (95% CI: 1.86, 3.56)) that of the Delta variant.
title: Newspaper Column: Banking Online in a New Millennium
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: The Connection
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Banking

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: If you’re the kind of check-writer who worries about overdrafts in a joint account because it’s hard to keep up with checks written by your spouse or because you don’t trouble to balance your own checkbook, I’m sympathetic because I’ve been there. Reston’s newest bank, Millennium, headquartered at Lake Anne Village Center, wants to take the worry out of check writing by providing instant information on your account balance, verified by check imaging. Five of eight other banks with Reston branches provide online bill paying and account information current to the previous day, but Millennium supplies, in addition, return-check imaging. From Millennium’s web site for registered depositors (bankatmillennium.com), just a click brings up the computer-current statement; another click on the unfamiliar or forgotten check entry brings up an image of the check itself; and another click shows the back of the check for endorsements and tracking information.
title: Article: Mental Hospitals, Article 4
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Seymour
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mental institutions

description: Article: 5 pgs, typescript, 11" x 8.5" (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: The fourth in a series of undated articles by Seymour Rosenberg for the Martinsville Bulletin on mental health issues in Virginia. The subject of this annotated article is the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital. C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection 22.01
Polynomial Semantics of Tractable Probabilistic Circuits
Creators: name: Broadrick, Oliver
name: Zhang, Honghua
name: Broeck, Guy Van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Probabilistic circuits compute multilinear polynomials that represent multivariate probability distributions. They are tractable models that support efficient marginal inference. However, various polynomial semantics have been considered in the literature (e.g., network polynomials, likelihood polynomials, generating functions, and Fourier transforms). The relationships between circuit representations of these polynomial encodings of distributions is largely unknown. In this paper, we prove that for distributions over binary variables, each of these probabilistic circuit models is equivalent in the sense that any circuit for one of them can be transformed into a circuit for any of the others with only a polynomial increase in size. They are therefore all tractable for marginal inference on the same class of distributions. Finally, we explore the natural extension of one such polynomial semantics, called probabilistic generating circuits, to categorical random variables, and establish that inference becomes #P-hard.
title: Identifying Active Oxygen and Copper Species in Cu/CeO₂ Catalysts Using Raman and UV–Vis Modulation Excitation Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hoyer, Henrik
name: Hess, Christian
Publisher: name: ACS Publications
Year: 2025

description: Modulation excitation spectroscopy (MES) with so-called phase-sensitive detection (PSD) is receiving increasing attention for the identification of active species and the elucidation of reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous catalysis. We report the combination of Raman- and UV–vis-MES to be a powerful approach to gain new mechanistic insight into oxide-supported metal catalysts, as illustrated for the CO oxidation over low-loaded Cu/CeO₂ catalysts. Due to the enhanced sensitivity of the MES/PSD approach, Raman spectroscopy provides direct evidence for the active participation of surface lattice oxygen of the ceria support in the reaction mechanism. While Raman-MES enables exclusive insight into the role of the ceria support, UV–vis-MES is shown to be sensitive to the low copper loading. ME-UV–vis spectra highlight the redox activity of copper species and the electronic interactions between copper and ceria, revealing major reduction of Cu²⁺ to Cu⁺ while reduction of Ce⁴⁺ to Ce³⁺ is minor under the studied reaction conditions. Based on the mechanistic findings provided by the combined Raman/UV–vis-MES/PSD methodology, we expect this approach to be a valuable tool to gain information about active species and sites of catalysts relevant for renewable energy.
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) pakistanus Kovarik & Ahmed 2009
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops pakistanus

description: - S. (Scorpiops) pakistanus Kovařík & Ahmed, 2009
Pakistan
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
Enhanced maternal and child health nurse care for women experiencing intimate partner/family violence: protocol for MOVE, a cluster randomised trial of screening and referral in primary health care.
Creators: name: Taft, Angela
name: Small, Rhonda
name: Humphreys, C
name: Hegarty, K
name: Walter, Ruth
name: Adams, Catina
name: Agius, P
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) can result in significant harm to women and families and is especially prevalent when women are pregnant or recent mothers. Maternal and child health nurses (MCHN) in Victoria, Australia are community-based nurse/midwives who see over 95% of all mothers with newborns. MCHN are in an ideal position to identify and support women experiencing IPV, or refer them to specialist family violence services. Evidence for IPV screening in primary health care is inconclusive to date. The Victorian government recently required nurses to screen all mothers when babies are four weeks old, offering an opportunity to examine the effectiveness of MCHN IPV screening practices. This protocol describes the development and design of MOVE, a study to examine IPV screening effectiveness and the sustainability of screening practice. MOVE is a cluster randomised trial of a good practice model of MCHN IPV screening involving eight maternal and child health nurse teams in Melbourne, Victoria. Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) was incorporated into the design, implementation and evaluation of the MOVE trial to enhance and evaluate sustainability. Using NPT, the development stage combined participatory action research with intervention nurse teams and a systematic review of nurse IPV studies to develop an intervention model incorporating consensus guidelines, clinical pathway and strategies for individual nurses, their teams and family violence services. Following twelve months' implementation, primary outcomes assessed include IPV inquiry, IPV disclosure by women and referral using data from MCHN routine data collection and a survey to all women giving birth in the previous eight months. IPV will be measured using the Composite Abuse Scale. Process and impact evaluation data (online surveys and key stakeholders interviews) will highlight NPT concepts to enhance sustainability of IPV identification and referral. Data will be collected again in two years. MOVE will be the first randomised trial to determine IPV screening effectiveness in a community based nurse setting and the first to examine sustainability of an IPV screening intervention. It will further inform the debate about the effectiveness of IPV screening and describe IPV prevalence in a community based post-partum and early infant population. ACTRN12609000424202.
Safety in Microbiology laboratory
Creators: name: Modi Ankita N  Chauhan H C and Sharma K K , Department of Microbiology
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: High standards of laboratory safety and containment that will ensure healthy working conditions for laboratory staff and protection of the environment must be of the greatest priority. They can only be achieved by careful study of the principals involved followed by practical application to premises, facilities, operating procedures and hygiene. Training of all laboratory personnel must be a high priority and no personnel should be allowed to work until appropriate training and competence has been demonstrated and documented. Veterinary laboratories handle biological materials that can pose bio risks to both animal and human populations. It is therefore of critical importance that laboratory managers ensure that bio risks in their facilities are clearly identified, understood, controlled, and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders.
Analyzing Operator States and the Impact of AI-Enhanced Decision Support in Control Rooms: A Human-in-the-Loop Specialized Reinforcement Learning Framework for Intervention Strategies
Creators: name: Abbas, Ammar N.
name: Amazu, Chidera W.
name: Mietkiewicz, Joseph
name: Briwa, Houda
name: Perez, Andres Alonzo
name: Baldissone, Gabriele
name: Demichela, Micaela
name: Chasparis, Georgios G.
name: Kelleher, John D.
name: Leva, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In complex industrial and chemical process control rooms, effective decision-making is crucial for safety and efficiency. The experiments in this paper evaluate the impact and applications of an AI-based decision support system integrated into an improved human-machine interface, using dynamic influence diagrams, a hidden Markov model, and deep reinforcement learning. The enhanced support system aims to reduce operator workload, improve situational awareness, and provide different intervention strategies to the operator adapted to the current state of both the system and human performance. Such a system can be particularly useful in cases of information overload when many alarms and inputs are presented all within the same time window, or for junior operators during training. A comprehensive cross-data analysis was conducted, involving 47 participants and a diverse range of data sources such as smartwatch metrics, eye-tracking data, process logs, and responses from questionnaires. The results indicate interesting insights regarding the effectiveness of the approach in aiding decision-making, decreasing perceived workload, and increasing situational awareness for the scenarios considered. Additionally, the results provide valuable insights to compare differences between styles of information gathering when using the system by individual participants. These findings are particularly relevant when predicting the overall performance of the individual participant and their capacity to successfully handle a plant upset and the alarms connected to it using process and human-machine interaction logs in real-time. These predictions enable the development of more effective intervention strategies.
title: Nesting
Creators: name: Knight, Brittney Lea
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Motherhood
subject: Birds
subject: Teenage parents
subject: Anxiety

description: This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until April 2029 at the earliest.
description: This thesis is a memoir about family, birds and the act of birdwatching, motherhood and the ever changing struggles of anxiety. It outlines the story of teenagers having the narrator and the impacts that birth has on the narrator throughout life. This is a story that explores how the narrator deals with the anxiety of perfection, when she feels her parents gave up everything for her and how she finds solace in the unlikely of places. Amongst the birds, exploring the species around her, the narrator comes to wonder what motherhood means and the loss of identity that could potentially come with it.
Integrating Youth Perspectives: Adopting a Human Rights and Public Health Approach to Climate Action.
Creators: name: Gasparri, Giulia
name: Tcholakov, Yassen
name: Gepp, Sophie
name: Guerreschi, Asia
name: Ayowole, Damilola
name: Okwudili, Élitz-Doris
name: Uwandu, Euphemia
name: Sanchez Iturregui, Rodrigo
name: Amer, Saad
name: Beaudoin, Simon
name: Sato, Mayumi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Humans
Public Health
Human Rights
Adolescent
Child
Climate Change

description: Climate change is a multidimensional issue that affects all aspects of society, including public health and human rights. Climate change is already severely impacting people's health and threatening people's guaranteed fundamental rights, including those to life, health, self-determination, and education, among others. Across geographical regions, population groups and communities who are already marginalized due to age, gender, ethnicity, income, and other socioeconomic factors, are those who are disproportionately affected by climate impacts despite having contributed the least to global emissions. Although scholars have been calling for a human rights-based approach and a health perspective to climate action, the literature looking at this multidisciplinary intersection is still nascent, and governments have yet to implement such intersectoral policies. This commentary begins to reflect on the relationship between climate change, human rights, and public health from the perspective of young people engaged in climate action and discourse at the national and international levels. It presents a way forward on what we, as youth climate advocates and researchers, believe is a priority to bring intersectoral integration of human rights and public health approaches to climate change to fruition. First, scholars and practitioners should examine and support youth-led climate interventions that tackle human rights and public health violations incurred by the climate crisis. Second, participatory approaches to climate change must be designed by working synergistically with climate-vulnerable groups, including children and young people, practitioners and scholars in public health and human rights sectors to holistically address the social, health, and environmental impacts of the climate crisis and root causes of injustice. Finally, we recommend more holistic data collection to better inform evidence-based climate policies that operationalize human rights and public health co-benefits.
title: The Political Economy of Policing
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation applies the concept of economic calculation to the provision of security and the implications of the presence or absence of institutions that enable its use. The inability of state police agencies to engage in economic calculation leads to several issues that are explored. Chapter 1 contrasts the institutional differences between public policing and private security and the implications these differences have for the implementation of the community-oriented policing philosophy. Chief among these differences is the ability of private security to use economic calculation to determine whether the allocation of security resources resulted in an outcome in which the costs of those resources were less than the benefit they created in terms of losses prevented or increased capital values. Government police departments, being unable to engage in economic calculation, have to employ some other means to evaluate performance. The lack of ability to engage in calculation presents a real barrier in determining whether police are producing the basket of outputs most desired by the community. Chapter 2 further explicates the implications of police bureaucracies’ inability to engage in calculation, arguing that a number of contemporary issues in policing stem from this muted capacity to negotiate trade-offs among competing ends desired by the heterogeneous consumers of policing services. These issues include the trade-offs between civil liberties and security, the use of force and police effectiveness, and police officer compensation and misconduct. Without the institutions that enable the ability to engage in economic calculation, the optimal trade-off between these competing values cannot be determined. Chapter 3 analyzes the political economy of police unions and the privileges they obtain for police officers, showing how these privileges undermine almost every avenue for holding police officers accountable. It is argued that these protections serve as compensating differentials allowing municipalities to pay police lower monetary wages, but undermines officer accountability. The main implication for policing reform is that greater officer accountability will come at the cost of higher wages.
RGIFE: a ranked guided iterative feature elimination heuristic for biomarkers identification
Creators: name: Lazzarini, Nicola
name: Bacardit, Jaume
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We present RGIFE, an heuristic for biomarkers identification applicable to labelled –omics data (e.g. control vs. case) for which a classification problem can be formulated. RGIFE is guided by the information extracted from machine learning models with the aim to identify minimal and highly predictive biomarker sets.
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) pseudomontanus Kovarik & Ahmed 2009
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops pseudomontanus

description: - S. (Scorpiops) pseudomontanus Kovařík &Ahmed, 2009
Pakistan
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
HIGH SPEED GAP HEATING PHENOMENA
Creators: name: Misquitta, Michael
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401204
subject: Computational methods in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer (incl. computational fluid dynamics)
classificationCode: 401201
subject: Aerodynamics (excl. hypersonic aerodynamics)

description: On many hypersonic vehicles, gaps are present on the outer surface of the vehicle and the interaction of the hypersonic freestream flow over these gaps can cause significant heat transfer to the vehicle. The project described in this thesis analyzed selected hypersonic gap problems and attempted to offer solutions to combat the heat transfer occurring in the gap. The first section of this thesis is a parametric study to understand the changes to the heat transfer and flow that modifications to the gap geometry can make. The second section is a comparison of the computational model to experimental data. The results of the studies show that adding a simple fillet or chamfer to the downstream step of the gap can reduce the maximum heat flux by over 90%. These results can be used to reduce the heat transfer caused by flow impingement in the gaps of hypersonic vehicles with a simple modification of the geometry and is consistent with the findings of other work in gap heating.
Scorpiops (Scorpiops) zubairahmedi Kovarik 2009
Creators: name: Lourenço, Wilson R.
name: Ythier, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Scorpiones
Scorpiopidae
Scorpiops
Scorpiops zubairahmedi

description: - S. (Scorpiops) zubairahmedi Kovařík, 2009
Pakistan
description: Published as part of Lourenço, Wilson R. & Ythier, Eric, 2022, A new species of the genus Scorpiops Peters, 1861, subgenus Euscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Laos (Scorpiones: Scorpiopidae), pp. 1-9 in Faunitaxys 10 (27) on page 2, DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(27), http://zenodo.org/record/15352467
title: Stories from The Inside: An Exploration into Prisoner Identity, Narrative, and the Violence of Silence
Creators: name: Brown, Brandon S
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Prisoner
subject: Identity
subject: Prison
subject: Silence
subject: Stereotype

description: This thesis utilizes narrative and social identity theories, as well as research around the social impact of stereotyping, shame, and humiliation to evaluate the narratives of twenty-seven currently incarcerated men within a maximum-security facility in the Northeastern United States. According to Nelson (2001), how individuals view themselves within the frame of master narratives may restrict moral agency and the freedom to act, as well as one’s view of what they can do. Identity becomes damaged through oppression and the deprivation of opportunity, and becomes twice damaged through internalizing the negative views that other people hold, resulting in an infiltrated consciousness. The author, also currently incarcerated, designed and conducted the interviews with three questions in mind: 1.) How does an individual’s self-narrative develop and change through their experiences within the system? 2.) Do prisoners begin to adopt the negative stigmas and stereotypes impressed upon them by society at large? 3.) Is it possible, based on the findings, to create counterstories that might allow prisoners to deinfiltrate their consciousness, and reposition themselves in their own narratives despite a significant lack of moral agency and self-efficacy? The aim of the counterstory, according to Nelson (2001), is two-fold; changing the oppressors’ perception of a group, along with the oppressed individuals’ perceptions of self. By discovering themes in the ways that inmate identities have been damaged, the author explores possibilities for the creation of counterstories which resist the master narratives ascribed to prisoners, build narrative bridges to their communities, and include the potential for narrative repair to occur. Through exploring authentic, and less simplistic narratives of prisoners, it may be possible to spark a new conversation about who resides behind the walls of America’s prisons, and how the process of incarceration can be made less damaging, from arrest to reentry, ultimately reducing conflict by reducing recidivism in the age of mass incarceration.
Differential effects of Scopus vs. Web of Science on university rankings: a case study of German universities
Creators: name: Schmidt, Birgit
name: Horstmann, Wolfram
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: University rankings measure the performance of universities through the lens of a set of indicators and these indicators are revised from time to time. However, changes may also be triggered by revisions in the use of data underlying the indicators. In particular, this holds for the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings’ recent switch from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (until 2014-2015 rankings) to Elsevier’s Scopus database (from 2015-2016 rankings). The poster investigates overall effects of this change on selected indicators, with a focus on German universities in the top-100 ranking.