cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Isikute vaba liikumise leping Šveitsi ja Euroopa Liidu vahel: arstid ja õed
Creators: name: Adrian, Udo
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2004

description: Isikute  vaba  liikumise  leping  Šveitsi  ja  Euroopa Liidu vahel jõustus 1. juunil 2002. a. Alates 1. maist 2004  laieneb see ka Eesti Vabariigi kodanikele. Palgalistel arstidel ja õdedel, erapraksises tegutsevatel arstidel ja arstidel kui teenuste osutajatel, kellel on mõne Euroopa Liidu (EL) liikmesriigi kodakondsus, on õigus töötada Šveitsis. Tegevusalata isikud võivad asuda elama Šveitsi, kui neil on piisavalt raha, et mitte olla koormaks vastuvõtjale riigile.
description: Eesti Arst, Oktoober 2004
Millest sõltub Eesti meditsiini jätkusuutlikkus?
Creators: name: Asser, Toomas
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2004

description: Maailmas praktiseerib ca 6 miljonit arsti ning vastava hariduse saab omandada ligi 1800 ülikoolis. Kuigi esmapilgul tundub pakutav haridus erinevates ülikoolides olevat  sarnane, on õpetuse  sisus olulisi  erinevusi. Õppekavadega  püütakse  tagada samadel  alustel  professionaalsed  teadmised  ja väärtused, arstlik suhtumine ja eetika, meditsiini teaduslik  tagapõhi, kliinilised ning suhtlemisoskused, ülevaade  rahvatervisest  ja  tervishoiukorraldusest, kliiniline mõtlemine ja teadustöö oskus.

Eesti Arst 2004; 83 (9): 585–587
description: Eesti Arst, September 2004
Primordial Black Holes and Higgs Vacuum Decay
Creators: name: Gregory, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phase transitions are part of everyday life, yet are also believed to be part of the history of our universe, where the nature of particle interactions change as the universe settles into its vacuum state. The discovery of the Higgs, and measurement of its mass suggests that our vacuum may not be entirely stable, and that a further phase transition could take place. This article is based on a talk in the Oldenberg Series, and reviews how we find the probability of these phase transitions, discussing past work on how black holes can dramatically change the result! Apart from a brief update at the end, this article mostly follows the content of the talk.
description: Based on talk given in the Oldenburg Seminar Series, May 2021. Contribution to Lecture Notes in Physics: Gravity, Cosmology, and Astrophysics: A Journey of Exploration and Discovery with Female Pioneers, Eds Betti Hartmann and Jutta Kunz
title: The Indian Student Placement Program as a Means of Increasing the Education of Children of Selected Indian Families
Creators: name: Lindquist, Geraldine T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1974

description: The purpose of this paper was: (1) To compare the number of years of formal education of participants in the Latter-Day Saints Indian Student Placement Program with those that had not participated. (2) To see if the number of years a student participates in the Indian Student Placement Program had an effect on the amount of formal education he receives. (3) To compare the future educational and employment plans of the two groups. (4) To see how students evaluated their educational program.
The results showed no differences between the two groups in number of years of formal education, future educational and employment plans. The majority of students preferred the Latter-Day Saints Indian Student Placement Program as an educational program whether they had been participants or not.
A sustainable application for the extraction of lichen metabolites from Usnea cornuta: nontargeted metabolomics and antioxidant activity
Creators: name: Castañeta, Grover
name: Sepulveda, Beatriz
name: Vargas, Reinaldo
name: Garcia-Beltran, Olimpo
name: Simirgiotis, Mario
name: Areche, Carlos
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: In this study, isolation and purification of lichen substances from Usnea cornuta were performed using conventional solvents, green solvents and green technologies. In addition, several lichen compounds were tentatively identified by UHPLC/ESI/MS/MS and usnic acid, diffractaic and galbinic acids were quantified as well. Limonene, ethyl lactate and methanol, were compared regarding their extraction properties and antioxidant capacities, determined by DPPH, ORAC, and FRAP assays. In the ethyl lactate, methanol and limonene extracts, 28 compounds in all, were detected for the first time by high resolution UHPLC-MS/MS fingerprinting. Untargeted metabolomics tentatively identified 14 compounds from the methanolic extract, 4 from limonene extract, and 20 metabolites from ethyl lactate extract. The green extract of ethyl lactate showed a similar antioxidant capacity to toxic methanol extract, except at ORAC assay where it was higher. Therefore, ethyl lactate can replace methanol, to provide more sustainable green chemistry methods.
Modeling the Very Small-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies
Creators: name: Watson, Douglas F.
name: Berlind, Andreas A.
name: McBride, Cameron K.
name: Masjedi, Morad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the small-scale clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs; Masjedi et al. 2006) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Specifically, we use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) formalism to model the projected two-point correlation function of LRGs on scales well within the sizes of their host halos (0.016 Mpc/h < r < 0.42 Mpc/h). We start by varying P(N|M), the probability distribution that a dark matter halo of mass M contains N LRGs, and assuming that the radial distribution of satellite LRGs within halos traces the NFW dark matter density profile. We find that varying P(N|M) alone is not sufficient to match the small-scale data. We next allow the concentration of satellite LRG galaxies to differ from that of dark matter and find that this is also not sufficient. Finally, we relax the assumption of an NFW profile and allow the inner slope of the density profile to vary. We find that this model provides a good fit to the data and the resulting value of the slope is -2.17 +/- 0.12. The radial density profile of satellite LRGs within halos is thus not compatible with that of the underlying dark matter, but rather is closer to an isothermal distribution.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, Accepted to ApJ
title: Achievement of Students in Introductory Social Science Courses Offered by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Utah State University
Creators: name: Lewis, James Collins
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The evaluation of student achievement in college has only recently become an important area of research. The main focus of this study was to determine the achievement of students in introductory social science courses offered by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Utah State University. Several other variables were considered throughout the study including (1) the achievement of students in introductory courses offered by other colleges than the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, (2) the effects of using standardized and teacher-made tests in measuring achievement, and (3) the achievement gain/loss of students tested two months after the completion of the course.
The students in four introductory courses--Political Science 111, Sociology 101, Geology 101, and Economics 200--were tested. The students in Political Science 111 and Economics 200 were tested with standardized tests specific to the subject area. The students in Sociology 101 and Geology 101 were tested with teacher-made tests. All students were given a pretest at the beginning of the course and a posttest at the conclusion of the course. The students in Sociology 101 and Geology 101 were tested a third time two months after the termination of the course to measure long term retention.
Null hypotheses were used in the study. The analysis of variance with the F-test of significance was employed at the .01 level of significance for the primary hypothesis and the .05 level for the subsidiary hypotheses. In conclusion, the data indicated that students in introductory social science courses offered by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences--Political Science 111 and Sociology 101--showed an increase in knowledge after taking those courses. The data also showed increases in knowledge of those students laking introductory courses--Geology 101 and Economics 200--which were offered by colleges other than the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
The data in relation to the subsidiary hypotheses indicated that (1) students in introductory courses offered by other colleges at USU showed larger knowledge gains than the students in the introductory social science courses offered by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, (2) students in courses measured with teacher-made tests scored higher than the students in courses measured with standardized tests, and (3) an interaction existed between the method of testing and the college offering the course. Finally, the students in the two courses--Sociology 101 and Geology 101--who were tested two months after the completion of the course continued to show positive achievement gains.
Method of process control with identification
Creators: name: Mukerjee, Malay Raj
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A general system for controlling an unknown process by adjusting compensation networks is discussed. The control operation is divided into two parts, that of identification of the unknown process dynamics and that of adaption by adjusting the compensation networks. Both operations are carried out by the method of steepest descent, using a suitable error signal as a performance function. A general method of investigation is considered, which is applicable to all systems of this type. The systems are classified as Type I and Type II; it is shown that a Type I system is stable for all input signals and initial conditions. The systems which are not of Type I are designated as Type II and it is shown that the behaviour of Type II systems can be approximated by that of a Type I system in the neighbourhood of the optimum point of operation. These results are applied to investigating the behaviour of a number of controllers and identification systems.
Stimulation of glucose uptake by glycosides from Alectra parasitica subsp. chitrakutensis (M.A. Rau) K.K. Khanna & An. Kumar: An in-vitro study of TNF-α induced insulin resistance in L6 myoblasts
Creators: name: Ranjana
name: Binwal, Monika
name: Verma, Ashutosh Kumar
name: Bawankule, Dnyaneshwar U.
name: Tiwari, Neerja
name: Shanker, Karuna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Alectra parasitica subsp. chitrakutensis (M.A. Rau) K.K. Khanna & An. Kumar (Orobanchaceae) is a parasitic plant indigenous to India. Locally, the plant is known as 'Midaki and Nirgundikand'. It is used to treat fever, piles, cardiovascular disorders, and blood-borne non-infectious diseases by ethnic communities. The phytochemical investigation of A. parasitica subsp. chitrakutensis rhizome led to the isolation of azafrin (1), rehmaionoside-C (2), and mussaenoside (3). Compounds (2) and (3) are being reported for the first time from this plant. Compounds were evaluated for their intercellular glucose uptake activity in basal and insulin-TNF-α-stimulated L6 muscle cells. In particular, rehmaionoside C exhibited activity comparative to metformin, increasing uptake by basal- and insulin-TNF-α-stimulated cells by 4.88- and 3.90-fold and 5.04- and 4.04-fold. While azafrin and mussaenoside have produced 3.03- and 2.36-fold; 4.03- and 3.22-fold increase in intercellular glucose uptake. Compounds did not show toxicities in rat L6 myoblast cells. The study suggests that rehmaionoside-C from A. parasitica subsp. chitrakutensis might activate glucose uptake by insulin mimics and could be a nontoxic anti-diabetes lead for drug discovery.
Suppressing ZZ Crosstalk of Quantum Computers through Pulse and Scheduling Co-Optimization
Creators: name: Xie, Lei
name: Zhai, Jidong
name: Zhang, Zhenxing
name: Allcock, Jonathan
name: Zhang, Shengyu
name: Zheng, Yi-Cong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noise is a significant obstacle to quantum computing, and $ZZ$ crosstalk is one of the most destructive types of noise affecting superconducting qubits. Previous approaches to suppressing $ZZ$ crosstalk have mainly relied on specific chip design that can complicate chip fabrication and aggravate decoherence. To some extent, special chip design can be avoided by relying on pulse optimization to suppress $ZZ$ crosstalk. However, existing approaches are non-scalable, as their required time and memory grow exponentially with the number of qubits involved. To address the above problems, we propose a scalable approach by co-optimizing pulses and scheduling. We optimize pulses to offer an ability to suppress $ZZ$ crosstalk surrounding a gate, and then design scheduling strategies to exploit this ability and achieve suppression across the whole circuit. A main advantage of such co-optimization is that it does not require special hardware support. Besides, we implement our approach as a general framework that is compatible with different pulse optimization methods. We have conducted extensive evaluations by simulation and on a real quantum computer. Simulation results show that our proposal can improve the fidelity of quantum computing on $4{\sim}12$ qubits by up to $81\times$ ($11\times$ on average). Ramsey experiments on a real quantum computer also demonstrate that our method can eliminate the effect of $ZZ$ crosstalk to a great extent.
description: 15 pages, 28 figures; comments are welcome
The Penrose inequality in general relativity and volume comparison theorems involving scalar curvature (thesis)
Creators: name: Bray, Hubert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C80

description: In this thesis we describe how minimal surface techniques can be used to prove the Penrose inequality in general relativity for two classes of 3-manifolds. We also describe how a new volume comparison theorem involving scalar curvature for 3-manifolds follows from these same techniques.
description: (111 pages, 8 figures) This posting is my thesis (Stanford, 1997). I have not gotten around to publishing these results as of 2009, although I have always had the intention to do so. Since multiple papers have cited this thesis, I am posting it here
title: Evaluation of a Clothing Construction Waiver Test at Utah State University with Implications for Revision
Creators: name: Starkey, Judy Sims
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a clothing construction waiver test at Utah State University so it can become a better predictor of student past experience and future performance. The original test and a revised test, written by the investigator, were used as the instrument. The subjects included two groups of students --those who had taken the Basic Clothing Construction Course at Utah State University and those who had not taken the course. The results indicate that there is a difference between the knowledge of the students who have and have not taken the course. lt was also indicated that those students who waived the course had knowledge similar to those students who had taken the course and which those students who had not taken the course lacked. It was found that there was a positive correlation between number of years of junior high and high school clothing construction experience and test scores. The correlation between 4-H club clothing experience and test scores was not found to be significant. An item-analysis of the test revealed that many items were poor discriminators. The test was found to be quite reliable. Further evaluation and revision of the test is needed.
title: An Evaluation of the Consistency With Which Extension Workers in Utah Interpret Data Elements for Reporting into the State Extension Management Information System
Creators: name: Wilde, Murray F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the consistency with which Extension workers in Utah interpret data elements for reporting Extension activities into State Extension Management Information System (SEMIS). Subsequent insight into the areas of greatest inconsistencies and in-service training needs were gained. Extension workers in Utah were asked to report a predetermined list of hypothetical activities on the SEMIS weekly report form. These together with other report forms of previously submitted reports of common activities were studied in detail. It was found that the consistency for various activities reported ranged from 53 percent to 96 percent. It was also found that there were certain types of activities that were more often inconsistently reported than others. It was concluded that in-service training was needed to improve the consistency with which Utah Extension workers reported their weekly activities into SEMIS.
Diamonds in Klein geometry
Creators: name: Santos, Rafael Mancini
name: Brito, L. C. T.
name: Filgueiras, Cleverson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it was suggested that the Unruh effect might occur in metamaterials at accessible Unruh temperatures. In some cases, the class of metamaterials that may be useful for this observation has a Klein instead of a Minkowski signature. Thus, confirmation of this effect in those materials requires more careful analysis. In this paper, we use the path integral formulation of Quantum Field Theory to investigate the analogous to the Unruh effect in Kleinian geometry. We calculate the analogous of the Unruh temperature for a scalar theory, provided we restrict the action in a convenient subspace of the Kleinian spacetime. As a consequence, we obtain the diamond temperature for a static observer with a finite lifetime. The result suggest metamaterials as a possible system to observe diamond regions.
description: Version accepted for publication in EPJPlus
title: State Expenditures in Utah: An Analysis of Time-Series Models
Creators: name: Lewis, William Darrell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The purpose of this paper was to determine the economic, sociopolitical, and other related factors which account for the variation in state expenditures across time. Utah was selected as the test state and data were collected from school records, political rosters, employment statistics, and a variety of federal government documents. Particular emphasis was placed on three areas: the cause-effect relationships between variables, relating the model to a body of economic theory, and demonstrating how the model may be applied in forecasting state expenditure needs.
Supply-and-demand analysis was the underlying economic theory. A simultaneous-equation model consisting of four equations--demand for state expenditures, supply of state expenditures, federal grants to states, and an equilibrium condition--was constructed and tested . The paper also discusses the problems of serial correlation and mulli-collinearity.
Additional file 1 of Clinical, biochemical, and genetic analysis of 28 Chinese patients with holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency
Creators: name: Ling, Shiying
name: Qiu, Wenjuan
name: Zhang, Huiwen
name: Liang, Lili
name: Lu, Deyun
name: Chen, Ting
name: Zhan, Xia
name: Wang, Yu
name: Gu, Xuefan
name: Han, Lianshu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. The mutations of HLCS identified in the study.
Understanding the Impact and Management of Body Weight in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Creators: name: BILLICH, NATASSJA KIM
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 321099
subject: Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 321399
subject: Paediatrics not elsewhere classified

description: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe condition that affects males from early childhood. DMD causes muscle wasting, loss of mobility, breathing and sleep problems and excessive weight gain. Boys with DMD also take medication which causes fractures. This thesis shows that up to half of boys with DMD are above a healthy weight which leads to fractures and sleep problems at an even younger age. To address this, a program to manage weight gain was designed collaboratively with families. Families who participated in the program said it was beneficial and feasible, and the boys with DMD achieved weight stabilisation.
Ravimijääkide võimalik keskkonnamõju ja selle hindamine
Creators: name: Altmets, Aune
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2011
Subjects: ravimijäägid, keskkonnarisk, riski hindamine, ravimite tarbimine, Eesti

description: Eesmärk. Teha kindlaks inimesel kasutatavate ravimite tarbimisest tulenev koormus Eesti veekeskkonnale ning hinnata valitud toimeainete keskkonnariski.
 Meetodid. Eesti 2008. aasta müügitulemuste põhjal arvutati võimalik ravimite tarbimine massiühikutes. Koguseid ja varasemaid uuringuid arvestades valiti 14 toimeainet, mille keskkonnamõju tõenäosust hinnati kolme mudeli alusel. Selleks arvutati iga toimeaine eeldatav kontsentratsioon keskkonnas (PEC) ning jagati see eeldatava mõjuta kontsentratsiooniga. Hindamisel arvestati ravimi keskkonnaohtlikke omadusi nagu püsivus, bioakumuleeruvus ja toksilisus.
 Tulemused. Kõrge riskiga kohalikule veekeskkonnale on amoksitsilliin (PEC = 0,26–8,19 μg/l), diklofenak (PEC = 0,11–,28 μg/l), tsiprofloksatsiin (PEC = 73–65 ng/l) ja etünüülostradiool (PEC = 0,2–,35 ng/l).
 Järeldused. Ettevaatusprintsiibist lähtuvalt oleks mõistlik riski vähendamiseks alustada teavitustöö ja ravimite klassifitseerimisega, lähtudes toimeaine keskkonnamõjust.


 Eesti Arst 2011; 90(7):311–320
description: Eesti Arst, August 2011
Development of inclusion complexes of 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin with Psidium guajava L. essential oil by freeze-drying and kneading methods for application as Aedes aegypti L. larvicide
Creators: name: Mendes, Luiza Alves
name: Silva, Rafael Resende Assis
name: de Fátima Ferreira Soares, Nilda
name: Martins, Gustavo Ferreira
name: Teixeira, Róbson Ricardo
name: da Silva Ferreira, Marcia Flores
name: Moreira, Renata Pereira Lopes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Inclusion complexes (ICs) of 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin with the essential oil (EO) from Seculo XXI cultivar of Psidium guajava were prepared using kneading (KN) and freeze-drying (FD) methods. The resulting ICs clusters have a nanometric size, with a diameter of approximately 80 and 40 nm for KN and FD, respectively. Complexation efficiency was 80.3% and 50.8% for KN and FD methods, respectively. The larvicidal activity of the EO in DMSO on A. aegypti had LC50 and LC90 values of 51.49 and 64.51 µg mL−1, respectively. For the KN method, the toxicity corresponded to 77.54 and 107.29 µg mL−1 for LC50 and LC90, respectively. FD method demonstrated toxicity at concentrations above 600 µg mL−1. Thus, ICs enable the use of EO in breeding sites for A. aegypti, thus being potential products to be commercially exploited.
Transport through a Kondo quantum dot: Functional RG approach
Creators: name: Schmidt, Holger
name: Woelfle, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the functional renormalization group (FRG) method to calculate the conductance of a quantum dot in the Kondo regime. Starting from the exact FRG equations in Keldysh formulation for the Kondo exchange Hamiltonian in pseudo-fermion (pf) representation, we solve the coupled equations for the pf self energy and the coupling function, neglecting three-particle and higher correlation functions. The conductance $G$ as a function of temperature $T$ and bias voltage $V$ is calculated using a renormalized Golden Rule expression. The limiting behavior at $T$ and/or $V$ $\gg T_{K}$ ($T_{K}$ : Kondo temperature) agrees with known results. The difficulties when approaching strong coupling are analyzed and improvements are suggested.
description: accepted for publication in Ann. Phys. (Berlin)
Chemical constituents of the Ajuga multiflora bunge and their protective effects on dexamethasone-induced muscle atrophy in C2C12 myotubes
Creators: name: Lee, Yunjung
name: Kim, Hye Mi
name: Kim, Ji Hoon
name: Lee, Ju-Hee
name: Zhang, Kai Xuan
name: Gao, En Mei
name: Jeon, Je-Seung
name: Syed, Ahmed Shah
name: Son, Rak Ho
name: Kim, Jae-Yong
name: Kim, Chul Young
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Ajuga multiflora Bunge is a perennial ornamental herb and has been used for the treatment of fever in Korean folk medicine. In the course of searching for protective agents associated with the potential of A. multiflora against dexamethsone (DEX)-induced muscle atrophy, a new phytoecdysteroid, 29-hydroxyprecyasterone (1), together with four known compounds (2–5), were isolated from A. multiflora. The structures of the compounds were determined by spectroscopic analyses, including 1D-, 2D-NMR and HR-MS interpretation. To elucidate the effects of obtained compounds on DEX-induced muscle atrophy, the myotubes diameter, myosin heavy chain (MyHC) positive area, and fusion index were evaluated by immunofluorescence staining. Overall, each compound treatment effectively prevented the atrophic myotubes through an increase of MyHC-positive myotubes and the number of nuclei. Particularly, the measurement of myotube diameter showed that compounds 1 and 5 treatment significantly alleviated the myotube thickness.
Spatiotemporal variability of ride-pooling potential -- half a year New York City experiment
Creators: name: Shulika, Olha
name: Bujak, Michal
name: Ghasemi, Farnoud
name: Kucharski, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ride-pooling systems, despite being an appealing urban mobility mode, still struggle to gain momentum. While we know the significance of critical mass in reaching system sustainability, less is known about the spatiotemporal patterns of system performance. Here, we use 1.5 million NYC taxi trips (sampled over a six-month period) and experiment to understand how well they could be served with pooled services. We use a utility-driven ride-pooling algorithm and observe the pooling potential with six performance indicators: mileage reductions, travellers' utility gains, share of pooled rides, occupancy, detours, and potential fleet reduction. We report distributions and temporal profiles of about 35 thousand experiments covering weekdays, weekends, evenings, mornings, and nights. We report complex spatial patterns, with gains concentrated in the core of the network and costs concentrated on the peripheries. The greatest potential shifts from the North in the morning to the Central and South in the afternoon. Offering pooled rides at the fare 32% lower than private ride-hailing seems to be sufficient to attract pooling yet dynamically adjusting it to the demand level and spatial pattern may be efficient. The patterns observed in NYC were replicated on smaller datasets in Chicago and Washington, DC, the occupancy grows with the demand with similar trends.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Review of the administration of justice for the adult offender in the Greater Vancouver area
Creators: name: Smith, Perry Herbert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An exploration of public policy towards the habitual criminal by the Vancouver City Prosecutor's Office and the courts of criminal jurisdiction serving the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, as shown by the numbers and kinds of offenders being prosecuted in these courts as habitual criminals and sentenced to preventive detention. The material presented was derived from a review of the literature in the field, including the applicable legislation, reports of governmental investigative committees and parliamentary debates, newspaper articles and editorials, and interviews with staff of the city prosecutor's office, several criminal attorneys, and personnel of the British Columbia Penitentiary, Oakalla Prison and the John Howard Society. If the rate at which sentences of preventive detention are being obtained against persistent offenders through the Vancouver courts continues, inmates serving this indeterminate sentence will soon comprise a major segment of the inmate population of the British Columbia Penitentiary; a development neither the penitentiary program, the National Parole Service, or the John Howard Society are equipped to deal with effectively or constructively through existing program, services or staff. Means whereby this situation might be met are explored. This study constitutes the first organized effort to explore and present the various aspects of this problem in the local context and from the standpoint of legislation, law enforcement, the judicial correctional processes involved, and the resources available to meet the problem.
Stochastic contribution to the growth factor in the LCDM model
Creators: name: Ribeiro, A. L. B.
name: Andrade, A. P. A.
name: Letelier, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of noise on the evolution of the growth factor of density perturbations in the context of the LCDM model. Stochasticity is introduced as a Wiener process amplified by an intensity parameter alpha. By comparing the evolution of deterministic and stochastic cases for different values of alpha we estimate the intensity level necessary to make noise relevant for cosmological tests based on large-scale structure data. Our results indicate that the presence of random forces underlying the fluid description can lead to significant deviations from the nonstochastic solution at late times for alpha>0.001.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
title: Relationship of Circulating Eosinophils, Other Blood Cellular Components and Plasma Corticoids in Dairy Cattle Subjected to Nutritional Stress
Creators: name: Wisniewski, Eugene W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: Twenty-six first lactation dairy cattle were sampled biweekly for four months to determine the effect of five levels of nutrition on blood plasma corticoids, total and differential leucocytes, hemoglobin and packed cell volume. Cows completing their 305 day lactation during the four month sampling interval were removed from the experimental herd, but were sampled twice more.
It was hypothesized that cows on ration s below NRC requirements for milk production would demonstrate stress symptoms of elevated plasma corticoids, elevated white blood count, neutrophilia and eosinopenia. It was also hypothesized that measuring the decrease in eosinophils would be a better method of quantifying nutritional stress than by measuring corticoids, since circulating eosinophils are not subject to rapid increases from stresses of sampling, as are the corticoids.
Least squares analysis indicated a trend for increased corticoids with decreased level of nutrition, but the trend was not significant (p> . 05). Eosinophil level was significantly (p < . 05) correlated with ration indicating increased stress caused a rise in eosinophils in stead of a decline as was expected. Eosinophils were negatively correlated with corticoids (-.12) as expected but the relation ship was not significant (p>.05). Ration was positively correlated with milk yield, body weight, and number of circulating neutrophils. Ration was negatively correlated with total leucocyte count. No significant change in hemoglobin or packed cell volume was detected.
Significant (p < • 01) increases in leucocytes, neutrophils and hemoglobin were observed in the cows after completion of the 305 day lactation. Significant (p
Bio-inspired speed detection and discrimination
Creators: name: Cerda, Mauricio
name: Terissi, Lucas
name: Girau, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the field of computer vision, a crucial task is the detection of motion (also called optical flow extraction). This operation allows analysis such as 3D reconstruction, feature tracking, time-to-collision and novelty detection among others. Most of the optical flow extraction techniques work within a finite range of speeds. Usually, the range of detection is extended towards higher speeds by combining some multiscale information in a serial architecture. This serial multi-scale approach suffers from the problem of error propagation related to the number of scales used in the algorithm. On the other hand, biological experiments show that human motion perception seems to follow a parallel multiscale scheme. In this work we present a bio-inspired parallel architecture to perform detection of motion, providing a wide range of operation and avoiding error propagation associated with the serial architecture. To test our algorithm, we perform relative error comparisons between both classical and proposed techniques, showing that the parallel architecture is able to achieve motion detection with results similar to the serial approach.
Experimental Investigation of Machine Learning based Soft-Failure Management using the Optical Spectrum
Creators: name: Kruse, Lars E.
name: Kühl, Sebastian
name: Dochhan, Annika
name: Pachnicke, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The demand for high-speed data is exponentially growing. To conquer this, optical networks underwent significant changes getting more complex and versatile. The increasing complexity necessitates the fault management to be more adaptive to enhance network assurance. In this paper, we experimentally compare the performance of soft-failure management of different machine learning algorithms. We further introduce a machine-learning based soft-failure management framework. It utilizes a variational autoencoder based generative adversarial network (VAE-GAN) running on optical spectral data obtained by optical spectrum analyzers. The framework is able to reliably run on a fraction of available training data as well as identifying unknown failure types. The investigations show, that the VAE-GAN outperforms the other machine learning algorithms when up to 10\% of the total training data is available in identification tasks. Furthermore, the advanced training mechanism for the GAN shows a high F1-score for unknown spectrum identification. The failure localization comparison shows the advantage of a low complexity neural network in combination with a VAE over established machine learning algorithms.
Häirekeskused ja kiirabi
Creators: name: Suits, Siiri
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2004

description: Riigikontroll uuris, kuidas saadetakse kiirabibrigaade väljakutsetele kahes Eesti suuremas häirekeskuses. Kahe häirekeskuse kutsete töö erines oluliselt, selgus, et kutseid hinnatakse liiga tihti tegelikust raskemaks. Peamised probleemid häirekeskuste töös seisnevad kokkuleppimata alustes: häirekeskustes tegutsetakse erinevate juhiste järgi ning sealse personali väljaõpe ei ole ühtlane. Häirekeskuste töö parendamiseks tuleks tagada ühtsed riiklikud alused, omada ülevaadet nende töö kohta ning anda ka vastavat tagasisidet.


Eesti Arst 2004; 83 (11): 762–764
description: Eesti Arst, November 2004
Silica in Protoplanetary Disks
Creators: name: Sargent, B. A.
name: Forrest, W. J.
name: Tayrien, C.
name: McClure, M. K.
name: Li, A.
name: Basu, A. R.
name: Manoj, P.
name: Watson, D. M.
name: Bohac, C. J.
name: Furlan, E.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Green, J. D.
name: Sloan, G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mid-infrared spectra of a few T Tauri stars (TTS) taken with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope show prominent narrow emission features indicating silica (crystalline silicon dioxide). Silica is not a major constituent of the interstellar medium; therefore, any silica present in the circumstellar protoplanetary disks of TTS must be largely the result of processing of primitive dust material in the disks surrouding these stars. We model the silica emission features in our spectra using the opacities of various polymorphs of silica and their amorphous versions computed from earth-based laboratory measurements. This modeling indicates that the two polymorphs of silica, tridymite and cristobalite, which form at successively higher temperatures and low pressures, are the dominant forms of silica in the TTS of our sample. These high temperature, low pressure polymorphs of silica present in protoplanetary disks are consistent with a grain composed mostly of tridymite named Ada found in the cometary dust samples collected from the STARDUST mission to Comet 81P/Wild 2. The silica in these protoplanetary disks may arise from incongruent melting of enstatite or from incongruent melting of amorphous pyroxene, the latter being analogous to the former. The high temperatures of 1200K-1300K and rapid cooling required to crystallize tridymite or cristobalite set constraints on the mechanisms that could have formed the silica in these protoplanetary disks, suggestive of processing of these grains during the transient heating events hypothesized to create chondrules.
description: 47 pages, 9 figures, to appear in the 1 January, 2009 issue of the Astrophysical Journal
Chemical composition, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of extracts from the pericarp of Tecoma stans (L.) Juss. Ex Kunth (Bignoniaceae)
Creators: name: da Silva, Adriano Lopes
name: Azevedo, Lucas Santos
name: Gonçalves, Thaís Paula Rodrigues
name: de Siqueira, Ezequias Pessoa
name: dos Santos Lima, Luciana Alves Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Tecoma stans (L.), popularly known as ipê-mirim, is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of diabetes and digestive problems. The components of the hexane (HE) and methanol (ME) extracts obtained from the pericarp of T. stans were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) in their methyl ester forms (FAME). The antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of extracts, fatty acids, and methyl esters were evaluated. Methyl linolenate, methyl linoleate, and methyl palmitate were the major compounds in the HE, while methyl hexacosanoate was the main component in the ME. The samples exhibited significant antioxidant potential by DPPH assay. In the Artemia salina larvae bioassay, FAME (HE) and FAME (ME) were considered toxic. This study showed, for the first time to our knowledge, the chemical composition of the hexane and methanol extracts from T. stans pericarp, as well as the antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of the extracts, fatty acids, and methyl esters.
Preventing Violence at Home, Allowing Violence in the Workplace: A Case Study of Security Guards in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Lusby, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2014

description: In this In Brief I ask: How do Papua New Guinean men living in violent contexts make sense of messages aimed at preventing violence against women? I explore this question through the views shared by security guards who participated in discussion groups as part of a larger research project that explores how men interpret and respond to primary prevention messaging addressing HIV and violence against women. Drawing on this research, I suggest that the efficacy of behaviour-change messaging aimed at primary prevention of violence against women in Papua New Guinea is challenged by the normalisation of men's experiences of violence, both as perpetrators and as targets of violent 'discipline' outside the home.
title: Adjustment of Persian Students at Utah State University
Creators: name: Aflatouni, Homa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: Social adjustment of Persian students in terms of their social participation with Americans is analyzed by correlation and multiple regression analyses with six independent variables. The six independent variables are: education, attitude, time, English, social class, and religion. The results of correlation and multiple regression analyses support some of the hypotheses. The significant finding is that the level of education the Persian students completed before coming to the United States, their attitudes toward the Americans, and the length of stay in the United States are the most important factors while other variables are much less useful.
Alkoholivastase hoiaku kujundamine kooliõpilastel
Creators: name: Volver, Anne
name: Viru, Atko
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2004
Subjects: alaealised, alkoholivastane hoiak, sekkumisprogramm

description: Alkoholivastane kasvatus sisaldab keeldusid ning piiranguid, alkoholist tulenevatest ohtudest teavitamist, sotsiaalse kompetentsuse  (ka emotsionaalse  intellektuaalsuse) arendamist, oskuste õpetamist, kuidas vastanduda täiskasvanute ettepanekutele, kuidas keelduda alkoholi joomisest. Programmide tulemused on variatiivsed, programmide teostamisel on tähtis hea pedagoogitöö, regulaarse kasvatustöö vajalikkus jm. Nende asjaolude pärast otsitakse uusi teid, kuidas kujundada tauniv hoiak alkoholi suhtes ja muuta alkoholivastane kasvatus tõhusaks.


Eesti Arst 2004; 83 (11): 770–774
description: Eesti Arst, November 2004
Employment and employability of new graduate dietitians in Australia and New Zealand: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: BLAIR, MERRAN E
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 321099
subject: Nutrition and dietetics not elsewhere classified

description: This doctoral research explored current employment trends in the new graduate dietitian workforce in Australia and New Zealand and identified ways to enhance the employability of this workforce. For the first time, employment rates and fields of employment for new graduate dietitians in Australia and New Zealand were quantified. Findings from this research indicated that dietetic graduates felt unprepared for private practice, which was the most common area of employment. Diverse placement settings, including private practice, may be important to prepare this valuable workforce for current and future employment opportunities.
title: The Impact of Oil Shale Development on the Uintah School District
Creators: name: Alozie, Dominica Onyesonam
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The aim of this study is to estimate the future school enrollment in the Uintah School District that results from oil shale development. Future need for classrooms and teachers is also projected, and costs to the school district for providing this need are estimated.
Yearly revenue from the oil shale plant and from new residential buildings due to the plant is also estimated. The annual costs and revenues are compared and it is observed that the costs exceed the revenue during the first five years. The deficit can be reduced, however, if stagger sessions are used to provide needed classrooms and teachers. Also, temporary rather than permanent structures could go a long way towards reducing the cost to the school district.
It is observed that a premature withdrawal of the oil shale company from the county would produce insolvency for the school district. The financial ability of the district in terms of assessed valuation is very closely related to the success of the shale industry. The time needed for industry maturity and eventual withdrawal is a very crucial.
factor in determining the needed finances of the school district. Caution must be exercised before any "big" capital expense is undertaken. Stagger sessions in combination with temporary structures may be the most prudent and economical way to provide the needed facilities. Stagger sessions eliminate capital expense, and the temporary structures could be sold or turned to other uses when not needed for classroom use. If stagger sessions are used, there may be no financial adjustments required of the school district in the event of industry withdrawal.
This study should help education planners in the district involved to plan and execute a prudent school program despite the pressures from fast population increases. It should also help the planners to look ahead in securing funds to run the district. Armed with such statistics as are found in this study, the school district, the state government, and the oil shale companies could hopefully work out a method of filling in the gap during the revenue-short period until the industry fully matures.