cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cost effectiveness review of text messaging, smartphone application, and website interventions targeting T2DM or hypertension
Creators: name: Willems, Ruben
name: Annemans, Lieven
name: Siopis, George
name: Moschonis, George
name: Vedanthan, Rajesh
name: Jung, Jenny
name: Kwasnicka, Dominika
name: Oldenburg, Brian
name: d’Antonio, Claudia
name: Girolami, Sandro
name: Agapidaki, Eirini
name: Manios, Yannis
name: Verhaeghe, Nick
name: Usheva, Natalya
name: Iotova, Violeta
name: Triantafyllidis, Andreas
name: Votis, Konstantinos
name: Toti, Florian
name: Makrilakis, Konstantinos
name: Seghieri, Chiara
name: Moreno, Luis
name: Dupont, Sabine
name: Lewis, Leo
name: Djokic, Djordje
name: Skouteris, Helen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems

description: Digital health interventions have been shown to be clinically-effective for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension prevention and treatment. This study synthesizes and compares the cost-effectiveness of text-messaging, smartphone application, and websites by searching CINAHL, Cochrane Central, Embase, Medline and PsycInfo for full economic or cost-minimisation studies of digital health interventions in adults with or at risk of T2DM and/or hypertension. Costs and health effects are synthesised narratively. Study quality appraisal using the Consensus on Health Economic Criteria (CHEC) list results in recommendations for future health economic evaluations of digital health interventions. Of 3056 records identified, 14 studies are included (7 studies applied text-messaging, 4 employed smartphone applications, and 5 used websites). Ten studies are cost-utility analyses: incremental cost-utility ratios (ICUR) vary from dominant to €75,233/quality-adjusted life year (QALY), with a median of €3840/QALY (interquartile range €16,179). One study finds no QALY difference. None of the three digital health intervention modes is associated with substantially better cost-effectiveness. Interventions are consistently cost-effective in populations with (pre)T2DM but not in populations with hypertension. Mean quality score is 63.0% (standard deviation 13.7%). Substandard application of time horizon, sensitivity analysis, and subgroup analysis next to transparency concerns (regarding competing alternatives, perspective, and costing) downgrades quality of evidence. In conclusion, smartphone application, text-messaging, and website-based interventions are cost-effective without substantial differences between the different delivery modes. Future health economic studies should increase transparency, conduct sufficient sensitivity analyses, and appraise the ICUR more critically in light of a reasoned willingness-to-pay threshold. Registration: PROSPERO (CRD42021247845).
PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN TERHADAP PERILAKU MASYARAKAT TENTANG CUCI TANGAN
Creators: name: Zainaro, M. Arifki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: ABSTRAK Cuci tangan sering dianggap sebagai hal yang biasa di masyarakat, padahal cuci tangan bisa memberi kontribusi pada peningkatan status kesehatan masyarakat. Khususnya masyarakata di gedong air mempunyai kebiasaan kurang memperhatikan perlunya cuci tangan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama ketika hendak melakukan aktivitas (makan dan minum) . Perilaku tersebut berpengaruh dan dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam terjadinya penyakit Diare dan ISPA. Cuci tangan merupakan teknik dasar yang paling penting dalam pencegahan dan pengontrolan penularan infeksi. Subyek penelitian masyarakat di gedong air dengan teknik penkes serta mendemonstrasikan 7 langkah cuci tangan yaitu sebanyak 14 responden. Hasil pendidikan kesehatan perilaku cuci tangan pada masyarakat gedong air cukup baik dan masyarakat mampu meningkatkan perilaku hidup bersih dan sehat dengan melakukan 7 langkah cuci tangan. Kata kunci: Cuci Tangan, Perilaku, Masyarakat
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, May/June 2008
Creators: name: Atwood, Lindsay
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Crooks, Anthony
name: Todd, Anne
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Atwood, Lindsay
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Crooks, Anthony
name: Todd, Anne
name: Thompson, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features- Idaho’s Bounty; The New Quest for ‘Fire’; Energy innovators push technology curve ever forward; Raising the Standard; Biodiesel at the Intersection; Great River Soy falls victim to soaring soybean oil prices; Baltimore Biodiesel
PEMERIKSAAN, PERAWATAN DAN SENAM PADA LANSIA DENGAN DIABETES MELLITUS
Creators: name: Zainaro, M. Arifki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: ABSTRACTWorld Health Organization (WHO) data showed that Indonesia ranks 4th largest number of people with diabetes mellitus after India, China and the United States. In 2013 it was estimated that the number of diabetics in Indonesia has reached 14 million people, of which only 50% are aware of it and among them only about 30% who come for regular treatment. The objective of this activity is to increase knowledge people about the examination, treatment and foot gymnastic DM in people with diabetes mellitus. This activity was done on Monday, December 18, 2017. The activities consist of Examination, Treatment and Gymnastics Prolanis In Elderly with Diabetes Mellitus at UPT Puskesmas Kota Bumi Lampung Utara 2017 with the method was using leaflets and demonstrations. There was a change in the knowledge and techniques of prolanic gymnastics. Hope this prolanic exercise techniques of DM patients can reduce wounds in patients with DM. Keywords: Gymnastics, DM, Puskesmas.
Are they really motor learning therapies? A scoping review of evidence-based, task-focused models of upper limb therapy for children with unilateral cerebral palsy
Creators: name: Taghizadeh, Atefeh
name: Webster, Kate
name: Bhopti, Anoopama
name: Carey, Leeanne
name: Hoare, Brian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: To identify the specific motor learning (ML) theories underpinning evidence-based, task-focused upper limb models of therapy for children with unilateral cerebral palsy; and to document the strategies used in the operationalisation of these theories. Material and Method: This scoping review searched for relevant studies using eight electronic databases. A list of 68 ML strategies and accompanying definitions was developed for data extraction. Three classifications; adequate, inadequate or not described were used to rate the description of ML strategies. A corresponding colour-coding system was used to provide a visual summary. Results: There is a limited description of the ML theories and strategies used to operationalise these theories in existing models of evidence-based upper limb therapy. Of 103 therapy protocols included, only 24 explicitly described the guiding ML theory. When described, there was significant variation in the underlying theories, leading to significantly different focus and content of therapy. Of the 68 ML strategies, only three were adequately described. Conclusions: To support treatment fidelity and the implementation of evidence-based, task-focused models of upper limb therapy in clinical practice, future research needs to provide explicit details about the underlying theories and strategies used in the operationalisation of these theories.Implications for rehabilitation Evidence-based models of upper limb therapy purport to be based on motor learning theory, however, most provide a very limited description of the theories and strategies used. Dosage of practice is only one element that is specific to a therapy approach and other elements guided by the principles of type of task and type of feedback should be considered. To support the implementation of evidence-based approaches in clinical practice, and improve treatment fidelity, it is important for researchers to define the theories that guide therapy approaches and explicitly describe the strategies used to operationalise these theories.
Διερεύνηση περιφερειακών συστημάτων αναπαραγωγής και αξιολόγηση πιστότητας αναπαραγωγής εικονικού περιφερειακού ήχου.
Creators: name: Αχμέτ Κεχαγιά, Ενές Νεβζάτ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Περιφερειακός ήχος
Εικονικός περιφερειακός ήχος
Εντοπισμός προέλευσης ηχητικής πηγής
Surround sound
Virtual surround or 3D audio
Localization of sound source

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματοποιήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του Διατμηματικού Μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος «Προηγμένα Συστήματα υπολογιστών και Επικοινωνιών», για την κατεύθυνση «Τεχνολογίες του ήχου και της εικόνας στην παραγωγή και την εκπαίδευση» του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης. Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση και παρουσίαση μεθόδων και εργαλείων που χρησιμοποιούνται για την αναπαραγωγή πραγματικών και εικονικών πολυκάναλων συστημάτων περιφερειακού ήχου. Στην συνέχεια μέσα από μια υποκειμενική αξιολόγηση στην οποία συμμετέχουν εξωτερικοί χρήστες, στόχος είναι να οδηγηθούμε σε πιθανά αντικειμενικά συμπεράσματα αναφορικά με την πιστότητα αναπαράστασης εικονικού περιφερειακού ήχου. Η αξιολόγηση αυτή αφορά την αναγνώριση της αναπαράστασης ενός ακουστικού χώρου και τη θέση προέλευσης μια ηχητικής πηγής ήχου η οποία κινείται σε έναν χώρο και πραγματοποιείται μέσω διεξαγωγής πειραμάτων ακρόασης. Τα ακουστικά ερεθίσματα του πειράματος αποτελούνται από ηχητικά αποσπάσματα, που διαθέτουν κατάλληλη επεξεργασία προσομοίωσης της αρχικής περιφερειακής τους μίξης 5.1, για ακρόαση μέσω ακουστικών.
description: The present thesis was conducted within the framework of the interdisciplinary post-graduate program "Advanced Computer and Communication Systems", specialising in the field of "Audio and Video Production Technologies" of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The purpose of this work is to present methods and tools that are used to reproduce multi-channel peripheral audio mixes through the technique of virtual surround. The aim was to arrive, as much as possible, at objective conclusions regarding the fidelity of virtual surround sound representation through a subjective evaluation in which external users participated. By relying on listening experiments conducted, this evaluation involves the recognition of a represented acoustic space and the localization of a sound source that moves in that space. The auditory stimuli are three audio clips which are produced for this experiment and they have been converted from their original peripheral 5.1 mix, to virtual surround, for listening through headphones.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Λογιστικής και Χρηματοοικονομικής (Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας)
Improved Baade-Wesselink surface-brightness relations
Creators: name: Groenewegen, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent, and older accurate, data on (limb-darkened) angular diameters is compiled for 221 stars, as well as BVRIJK[12][25] magnitudes for those objects, when available. Nine stars (all M-giants or supergiants) showing excess in the [12-25] colour are excluded in the analysis as this may indicate the present of dust influencing the optical and near-infrared colours as well. Based on this large sample, Baade-Wesselink surface-brightness (SB) relations are presented for dwarfs, giants, supergiants and dwarfs in the optical and near-infrared. M-giants are found to follow different SB-relations from non-M giants, in particular in V-(V-R). The preferred relation for non-M giants are compared to earlier relation by Fouque & Gieren (1997, based on 10 stars) and Nordgren et al. (2002, based on 57 stars). Increasing the sample size does not lead to a lower rms value. It is shown that the residuals do not correlate with metallicity at a significant level. The finally adopted observed angular diameters are compared to those predicted by Cohen et al. (1999) for 45 stars in common, and there is reasonable overall, to good agreement when θ<6 mas. Finally, I comment on the common practice in the literature to average, and then fix, the zero point of the V-(V-K), V-(V-R) and K-(J-K) relations, and then re-derive the slopes. Such a common zero point at zero colour is not expected from model atmospheres for the (V-R) colour and depends on gravity. Relations derived in this way may be biased.
description: accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Non-market valuation: usage and impacts in environmental policy and management in Australia
Creators: name: Rogers, Abbie A.
name: Kragt, Marit E.
name: Gibson, Fiona L.
name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Rogers, Abbie A.
name: Kragt, Marit E.
name: Gibson, Fiona L.
name: Burton, Michael P.
name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Pannell, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: decision-making
subject: environmental policy
subject: nomarket valuation

description: An extensive literature exists on environmental nonmarket valuation research. It appears that results from these studies should be useful inputs to decision-making about environmental policy or management. Here, we investigate the extent to which this occurs in practice in Australian environmental management bodies. Nonmarket valuation experts were surveyed about their studies that they believed to have influenced policy. Then, decision-makers in environmental bodies were interviewed about the level of influence nonmarket valuation has had on their decisions. We find that researchers’ perceptions of the influence that nonmarket valuation has on decision-making are overly optimistic. Interviews with decision-makers suggest that nonmarket valuation is little used in decision-making. Indeed, the majority of them are unfamiliar with nonmarket valuation techniques. Nevertheless, once the concept was explained to them, many decision-makers believed it could benefit environmental policy. Researchers’ perceptions of the reasons for low usage of nonmarket valuation are largely inaccurate. We suggest a range of strategies that economists can use to promote the use of nonmarket valuation in environmental policy and management decisions, including ways to improve communication and engagement with decision makers, and strategies to increase the capacity for decision-makers to use nonmarket valuation results.
Cultural Learning and Adaptation while Working for a Chinese Public School
Creators: name: Yakiwchuk, Erin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Three years ago I began a journey of learning. What started off as a difficult adjustment to a new work and living environment in Beijing China ended up being a very rich experience that allowed me to absolutely enjoy my life in my new place of work and residence. The purpose of this paper, which is divided into four main sections, is to explore and reflect on my process of becoming culturally competent within my new environment. I begin by briefly describing how I came to work in China, followed by a discussion of my context, which I consider through the lens of internationalization, privatization and globalization of education within China. I then explore my experience through a variety of sociocultural theoretical frameworks, including the development of culture, communities of practice and identity. This is used to view and explain the process of learning, primarily using Fenwick’s (2001) situative perspective and critical cultural perspective. Finally, I provide suggestions and recommendations for similar work environments.
Dividing out quantification uncertainty allows efficient assessment of differential transcript expression with edgeR
Creators: name: Baldoni, Pedro L
name: Chen, Yunshun
name: Hediyeh-Zadeh, Soroor
name: Liao, Yang
name: Dong, Xueyi
name: Ritchie, Matthew E
name: Shi, Wei
name: Smyth, Gordon K
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310505
subject: Gene expression (incl. microarray and other genome-wide approaches)
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq is one of the most commonly performed bioinformatics analyses. Transcript-level quantifications are inherently more uncertain than gene-level read counts because of ambiguous assignment of sequence reads to transcripts. While sequence reads can usually be assigned unambiguously to a gene, reads are very often compatible with multiple transcripts for that gene, particularly for genes with many isoforms. Software tools designed for gene-level differential expression do not perform optimally on transcript counts because the read-to-transcript ambiguity (RTA) disrupts the mean-variance relationship normally observed for gene level RNA-seq data and interferes with the efficiency of the empirical Bayes dispersion estimation procedures. The pseudoaligners kallisto and Salmon provide bootstrap samples from which quantification uncertainty can be assessed. We show that the overdispersion arising from RTA can be elegantly estimated by fitting a quasi-Poisson model to the bootstrap counts for each transcript. The technical overdispersion arising from RTA can then be divided out of the transcript counts, leading to scaled counts that can be input for analysis by established gene-level software tools with full statistical efficiency. Comprehensive simulations and test data show that an edgeR analysis of the scaled counts is more powerful and efficient than previous differential transcript expression pipelines while providing correct control of the false discovery rate. Simulations explore a wide range of scenarios including the effects of paired vs single-end reads, different read lengths and different numbers of replicates.
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, May/June 2009
Creators: name: Pitman, Lynn
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Perry, Mike
name: Todd, Anne
name: Pitman, Lynn
name: Campbell, Dan
name: Thompson, Stephen
name: Perry, Mike
name: Todd, Anne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features- Co-op economic footprint; A place at the table; Waste not; A legacy of cooperation; Green thumbs up; Wind power key to reducing costs for Alaskan villages
Finite spin-glass transition of the $\pm J$ XY model in three dimensions
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Takeo
name: Sugashima, Takeshi
name: Nakamura, Tota
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A three-dimensional $\pm J$ XY spin-glass model is investigated by a nonequilibrium relaxation method. We have introduced a new criterion for the finite-time scaling analysis. A transition temperature is obtained by a crossing point of obtained data. The scaling analysis on the relaxation functions of the spin-glass susceptibility and the chiral-glass susceptibility shows that both transitions occur simultaneously. The result is checked by relaxation functions of the Binder parameters and the glass correlation lengths of the spin and the chirality. Every result is consistent if we consider that the transition is driven by the spin degrees of freedom.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, incorrect arguments are deleted
An economic model of aboriginal fire-stick farming
Creators: name: Wilman, Elizabeth A.
name: Wilman, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Aborigine
subject: catastrophe
subject: fire-stick farming
subject: optimal control
subject: wildfire

description: Australian Aborigines faced a resource management problem, which they addressed though burning regimes, referred to as fire-stick farming. While dynamic economic analysis is clearly applicable, to date there have been no attempts to use it to model burning regimes. This paper develops a delayed-response optimal-control model to describe Aboriginal fire-stick farming. The model explains a collective welfare maximizing burning regime that successfully controlled wildfires, protected the resources essential to survival, and, incidentally, produced a biodiverse landscape and limited greenhouse gas emissions. When the parameters of the model are changed to reflect the current institutional realities of reduced access to the land, and less direct dependence on it, traditional Aboriginal burning is prevented or delayed, fuel loads build up and uncontrolled fires are more likely to occur, damaging previously protected species. If Aboriginal burning is to be used to control fires successfully in a modern resource management context, it is necessary to adjust for changes in the institutional incentive structure. Payments for carbon offsets are an example of replacing lost incentives with new ones.
A note on the power divergence in lattice calculations of $ΔI = 1/2$ $K\toππ$ amplitudes at $M_{K}=M_π$
Creators: name: Golterman, Maarten
name: Lin, C. -J. David
name: Pallante, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note, we clarify a point concerning the power divergence in lattice calculations of $ΔI = 1/2$ $K\toππ$ decay amplitudes. There have been worries that this divergence might show up in the Minkowski amplitudes at $M_{K}=M_π$ with all the mesons at rest. Here we demonstrate, via an explicit calculation in leading-order Chiral Perturbation Theory, that the power divergence is absent at the above kinematic point, as predicted by CPS symmetry.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Enhancement of magnetodielectric coupling in 6H-perovskites Ba3RRu2O9 for heavier rare earth cations (R=Ho,Tb)
Creators: name: Basu, Tathamay
name: Caignaert, Vincent
name: Ghara, Somnath
name: Ke, Xianglin
name: Pautrat, Alain
name: Krohns, Stephan
name: Loidl, Alois
name: Raveau, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of rare-earth (R) ions on the magnetodielectric (MD) coupling is always intriguing and markedly different for different systems. Although many reports are available concerning this aspect in frustrated 3d-transition metal oxides, no such reports exist on higher d (4d/5d)-orbital based systems due to the rare availability of highly insulating 4d/5d-systems. Here, we systematically investigated the magnetic, dielectric, ferroelectric and magnetodielectric behavior of the 6H-perovskites Ba3RRu2O9 for different R-ions, namely, R= Sm, Tb and Ho, which magnetically order at 12, 9.5 and 10.2 K respectively. For R=Tb and Ho, the temperature and magnetic-field dependent complex dielectric constant traces the magnetic features, which manifests MD coupling in this system. A weak magnetic-field (H) induced transition is observed for ~30 kOe, which is clearly captured in H-dependent dielectric measurements. No MD coupling is observed for Ba3SmRu2O9. The MD coupling is enhanced by a factor of 3 and 20 times for R=Tb and Ho, respectively, when compared to that of the Nd-counterpart. These results evidence the gradual enhancement of MD coupling with the introduction of heavier R-ions in this series, which is attributed to their larger moment values. A weak improper ferroelectricity is documented for Ho-member, which is absent for Nd. Our investigation establishes dominating 4d(Ru)-4f(R) magnetic correlation in this series for the heavier R-members.
Rural Cooperatives Magazine, May/June 2010
Creators: name: Allen, Gary
name: Barrett, Selise
name: Gabeen, Alicia
name: Holcombe, Gloria
name: Reickson, Jim
name: English, Glenn
name: Mayberry, Anne
name: Chesnick, David
name: Thomspon, Stephen
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Borst, Alan
name: Allen, Gary
name: Barrett, Selise
name: Gabeen, Alicia
name: Holcombe, Gloria
name: Reickson, Jim
name: English, Glenn
name: Mayberry, Anne
name: Chesnick, David
name: Thomspon, Stephen
name: Eversull, E. Eldon
name: Borst, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness
Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Features- A legacy of cooperation and innovation; Filling the gap; Project pathway; Celebrating the greatest public-private partnership; Out of darkness; $122 billion in '08 sales set record for top 100; Heat by bushel; Uniquely cooperative: Equity redemption; Organic farmers increasingly turn to cooperative business model
title: The development of alternative energy sources with particular reference to wind farms
Creators: name: Midgley, Keith H
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2009

description: Numerous study groups and government white papers have concluded that a mixture of energy sources, including gas, clean-coal, alternative energy and possibly nuclear, will be required to meet future energy needs. Foremost amongst alternative energy sources is wind power, seen by the government as a cheap, carbon dioxide free energy source and one which has a history of successful development in Denmark and Germany. Wind power is currently the most developed renewable in the UK and because of its geographical position, Wales has been at the forefront of several new wind developments. This thesis outlines some of the stages in implementing a major wind farm development in Wales and how there is a correlation with developments in Denmark. It examines the challenges facing energy companies during the planning stage; foremost amongst these, the fact that some of the most favourable sites for wind penetration in the UK also coincide with a number of environmentally sensitive and protected areas and whether in the future, major new developments will be sited offshore.

Other challenges include the need to gain public approval for this form of alternative energy, through opinion polls, positive media coverage and most importantly a greater willingness by energy companies to engage the public in a sensible debate about the benefits of wind energy. It looks at, in some detail, the more recent concerns being expressed over the intermittency of the wind resource and at more specific issues including local objections to visual intrusion in scenic areas and the well publicised promises for job creation. It examines the opposition to wind farm developments being mounted by well informed groups who question the viability of this form of alternative energy to play a significant part in the UK’s future energy needs. In conclusion, it maintains that wind power, in the form of offshore wind farms, will complement other more traditional forms of energy sources, providing the case for wind power is not overstated.
4-volume cutoff measure of the multiverse
Creators: name: Vilenkin, Alexander
name: Yamada, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predictions in an eternally inflating multiverse are meaningless unless we specify the probability measure. The scale-factor cutoff is perhaps the simplest and most successful measure which avoid catastrophic problems such as the youngness paradox, runaway problem, and Boltzmann brain problem, but it is not well defined in contracting regions with a negative cosmological constant. In this paper, we propose a new measure with properties similar to the scale-factor cutoff which is well defined everywhere. The measure is defined by a cutoff in the 4-volume spanned by infinitesimal comoving neighborhoods in a congruence of timelike geodesics. The probability distributions for the cosmological constant and for the curvature parameter in this measure are similar to those for the scale factor cutoff and are in a good agreement with observations.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
The odd eight-vertex model
Creators: name: Wu, F. Y.
name: Kunz, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a vertex model on the simple-quartic lattice defined by line graphs on the lattice for which there is always an odd number of lines incident at a vertex. This is the odd 8-vertex model which has eight possible vertex configurations. We establish that the odd 8-vertex model is equivalent to a staggered 8-vertex model. Using this equivalence we deduce the solution of the odd 8-vertex model when the weights satisfy a free-fermion condition. It is found that the free-fermion model exhibits no phase transitions in the regime of positive vertex weights. We also establish the complete equivalence of the free-fermion odd 8-vertex model with the free-fermion 8-vertex model solved by Fan and Wu. Our analysis leads to several Ising model representations of the free-fermion model with pure 2-spin interactions.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, dedicated to Elliott H. Lieb on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Identifying potential dietary treatments for inherited metabolic disorders using Drosophila nutrigenomics.
Creators: name: Martelli, Felipe
name: Lin, Jiayi
name: Mele, Sarah
name: Imlach, Wendy
name: Kanca, Oguz
name: Barlow, Christopher K
name: Paril, Jefferson
name: Schittenhelm, Ralf B
name: Christodoulou, John
name: Bellen, Hugo J
name: Piper, Matthew DW
name: Johnson, Travis
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3102
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology

description: Inherited metabolic disorders are a group of genetic conditions that can cause severe neurological impairment and child mortality. Uniquely, these disorders respond to dietary treatment; however, this option remains largely unexplored because of low disorder prevalence and the lack of a suitable paradigm for testing diets. Here, we screened 35 Drosophila amino acid disorder models for disease-diet interactions and found 26 with diet-altered development and/or survival. Using a targeted multi-nutrient array, we examine the interaction in a model of isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency, an infant-lethal disorder. We show that dietary cysteine depletion normalizes their metabolic profile and rescues development, neurophysiology, behavior, and lifelong fly survival, thus providing a basis for further study into the pathogenic mechanisms involved in this disorder. Our work highlights the diet-sensitive nature of metabolic disorders and establishes Drosophila as a valuable tool for nutrigenomic studies for informing potential dietary therapies.
Valuing seasonal climate forecasts in a state-contingent manner
Creators: name: Crean, Jason
name: Parton, Kevin
name: Mullen, John
name: Hayman, Peter
name: Crean, Jason
name: Parton, Kevin
name: Mullen, John
name: Hayman, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: value of information
subject: climate forecasting
subject: R&D evaluation
subject: risk
subject: uncertainty
subject: simulation

description: We applied state-contingent theory to climate uncertainty at a farm level to assess the value of seasonal climate forecasts in the Central West region of NSW. We find that modelling uncertainty in a state-contingent manner results in a lower estimate of forecast value than the typical expected value approach. We attribute this finding to a more conservative long-term farm plan in the discrete stochastic programming (DSP) model, which is better balanced for climate uncertainty. Hence, a climate forecast, even though it still revises probabilities held by farmers, does not call forth such large changes in farm plans and associated farm incomes. We then use the DSP model to assess how attributes of a hypothetical forecasting system, particularly its skill and timeliness, as well as attributes of the decision environment, influence its value. Lastly, we assess the value of current operational forecast systems and show that the value derived from seasonal climate forecasts is relatively limited in the case study region largely because of low skill embodied in forecasts at the time when major farm decisions are being made.
Variations in fundamental constants at the cosmic dawn
Creators: name: Lopez-Honorez, Laura
name: Mena, Olga
name: Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio
name: Villanueva-Domingo, Pablo
name: Witte, Samuel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of space-time variations in fundamental constants would provide strong evidence for the existence of new light degrees of freedom in the theory of Nature. Robustly constraining such scenarios requires exploiting observations that span different scales and probe the state of the Universe at different epochs. In the context of cosmology, both the cosmic microwave background and the Lyman-$α$ forest have proven to be powerful tools capable of constraining variations in electromagnetism, however at the moment there do not exist cosmological probes capable of bridging the gap between recombination and reionization. In the near future, radio telescopes will attempt to measure the 21cm transition of neutral hydrogen during the epochs of reionization and the cosmic dawn (and potentially the tail end of the dark ages); being inherently sensitive to electromagnetic phenomena, these experiments will offer a unique perspective on space-time variations of the fine-structure constant and the electron mass. We show here that large variations in these fundamental constants would produce features on the 21cm power spectrum that may be distinguishable from astrophysical uncertainties. Furthermore, we forecast the sensitivity for the Square Kilometer Array, and show that the 21cm power spectrum may be able to constrain variations at the level of ${\cal O}(10^{-3})$.
description: v2: Published version. Small modifications, conclusions unchanged. v1: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Local economic impacts of an unconventional energy boom: the coal seam gas industry in Australia
Creators: name: Fleming, David A.
name: Measham, Thomas G.
name: Fleming, David A.
name: Measham, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Australia
subject: coal seam gas
subject: mining
subject: resouce boom
subject: unconventiaonal natural gas

description: Complementing the scarce economic literature about local impacts of energy extraction booms, this paper empirically investigates economic outcomes related to the new coal seam gas (CSG) industry located across southern Queensland. This Australian state has seen an unprecedented inflow of investments into the extraction of this previously unexploited unconventional natural gas over the last decade. We analyze census data to study income and employment effects associated with the CSG boom, exploiting the quasi-experimental conditions provided by CSG extraction areas (treatment regions) and regions without this development (control regions). Findings show that treatment regions have higher income growth than control areas during 2001–2011 for families residing locally and for individuals present on census night. Employment in the mining sector also shows higher growth as has non-mining employment in some areas. We include comparisons between CSG areas with no major mining history (the Surratt basin) and CSG areas where mining was important before the CSG boom (the Bowen basin), to better understand boom effects in areas with different initial mining industry importance in their economies. Local job multipliers are also analyzed for Surratt basin CSG areas, where positive impacts (job spillovers) are restricted to construction and professional services jobs, while agricultural jobs have decreased.
BOSNIAN VALLEY OF PYRAMIDS - ANALYSIS OF GEOMETRICAL ANOMALIES
Creators: name: Zujic, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geometry

description: The subject of this brief paper is the analysis of geometrical anomalies in a wide research area of the Bosnian valley of pyramids. The paper lists eight pyramid-shaped structures, five of which – from two to six on the list (picture 1) are either part of the research or are planned to be researched. The last three remaining structures could be considered potential pyramid structures. Such a high number of pyramid-shaped structures in the research area of approximately 50 km2 makes this region the largest archaeological area in Europe, with a chance of further expansion. That fact alone is enough to make us think and wonder if all those construction – technological – architectural structures, arranged in such a way, were built without any connections to each other, like cemeteries and tombs, or if they were planned in advance by ancient pyramid constructors, as a functional unit, i.e. as a unique mega pyramid complex. To reach a definite answer to that question, enormous financial resources are required, as well as decades of hard field work of many scientists and experts from various fields. However, there is a shorter way to reach an approximate answer to that question. And that is to study geometrical anomalies in the Bosnian valley of pyramids. If all pyramid-shaped structures were functionally connected, they had to be geometrically arranged in advance. That is exactly the aim of this paper, which we made as an important encouragement to try to make this issue accepted as one of the strategic issues of the project of the Bosnian valley of pyramids. Semir Osmanagić, in his thesis on the existence of the first European pyramid (Pyramid of the Sun, Visočica hill, 2006), and other pyramid-shaped structures, launched the thesis that those structures are connected to each other by underground tunnels. Such a network of tunnels has partly already been discovered, as a special phenomenon, and it is being restored, cleaned, widened and supported, in accordance with the available funds. But the functional connection between the pyramid-shaped structures was not only under the ground. They were probably connected by underground water courses, movements of directed air currents and radiation of the same or similar frequencies for energy communication. With such a viewpoint we enter an inexhaustible area of research. The analysis of geometrical anomalies is the first and the easiest step in that direction, but in many aspects it is also a hard one to make. That is supported by the fact that nowhere in the world has the joined geometrics of pyramids been studied yet, although there are 130 of them in Egypt and 600 of them in only one town, Teotiuhacan, in Mexico.
Αναπαραγωγή, Ταυτοποίηση και Θρέψη της ποικιλίας llex aquifolium νar. agrifoglio commune
Creators: name: Χαβαλέ, Ελεάνα Ευαγγέλου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ilex aquifolium
Μοσχεύματα
Ταυτοποίηση
Cuttings
Identification

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία μελετήθηκαν η αναπαραγωγή, η ταυτοποίηση και η θρέψη της ποικιλίας llex aquifolium νar. agrifoglio commune. Το llex aquifolium παρουσιάζει μεγάλη ποικολομορφία η οποία σε συνδυασμό με το έντονο κόκκινο χρώμα των καρπών του, καθιστούν το είδος ιδανικό ως διακοσμητικό προσδίνοντας του τεράστια οικονομική αξία. Η τεχνική αναπαραγωγής αφορούσε στον αγενή πολλαπλασιασμό μοσχευμάτων χρησιμοποιώντας διαφορετικούς χειρισμούς: αναλογίας υποστρώματος (75:25 και 50:50 τύρφη προς περλίτη), μεγέθους φυτοδοχείου (3.5 και 2 λίτρων) και εμποτισμού με ορμόνη ή όχι. Έπειτα από την ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων στο στατιστικό πακέτο SPSS προέκυψε πως οι καλύτεροι χειρισμοί είναι ο εμποτισμός με ορμόνη, η αναλογία υποστρώματος 75:25 και το μέγεθος φυτοδοχείου 3,5 λίτρων. Ως προς την περιεκτικότητα σε θρεπτικά στοιχεία δεν υπήρχε ξεκάθαρη προτίμηση ως προς ένα χειρισμό, επομένως συνίσταται έλεγχος σε μεγαλύτερο χρονικό διάστημα όπου ενδεχομένως θα υπάρξουν σημαντικότερες διαφοροποιήσεις ως προς τις συγκεντρώσεις. Τέλος, η ταυτοποίηση μέσω της μοριακής ανάλυσης των ατόμων πραγματοποιήθηκε χρησιμοποιώντας δείκτες ISSR οι οποίοι αποδείχτηκαν αρκετά αποτελεσματικοί, καθώς αποτύπωσαν με απόλυτη σαφήνεια τη γενετική σχέση μεταξύ των δειγμάτων.
description: Reproduction, identification and nutrition of llex aquifolium νar. agrifoglio commune, were investigated in this study. Its large variety combined with the characteristic bright red color of its fruits, make it ideal as a decorative with a great economic value. The reproduction technique of cuttings used different manipulations: substrate proportions (75:25 and 50:50 peat to perlite), containers size (3.5 and 2 liters) and hormone implementation or not. After analyzing results in SPSS statistical package it emerged that the best manipulations are hormone imlementation, substrate proportion of 75:25 and container size of 3.5 liters. There was no clear preference for nutrient content in terms of handling, so it is recommended to investigated in a longer period of time where there may be more significant variations in concentrations. Finally, the identification through molecular analysis was carried out using ISSR markers which proved to be quite effective, as they clearly recorded the genetic relationship between the samples.
Participation of Schools and Pupils in School Lunch Programs in Elementary and Secondary Schools of the United States
Creators: name: Anderson, Kenneth E.
name: Anderson, Kenneth E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Excerpts from the report Summary: Approximately two-thirds of the 33 million pupils in the public elementary and secondary schools of the United States were enrolled in schools participating in the National School Lunch Program in March 1957; one-tenth were schools having other plate Iunch service; less than one twenty-fifth were in schools offering only a la carte service; and one-fifth were in schools having no lunch service. This information is based on results of a sample survey of 4,347 public elementary and secondary schools in March 1957. The study was made to ascertain the extent of school and pupil participation in feeding programs in the United States and factors associated with participation of pupils in such programs. Findings of the study indicated that certain factors were associated with high participation in feeding programs. A low-priced lunch, eating together of faculty and pupils, dependence of pupils on school transportation, and modernized kitchens and lunchrooms were associated with higher levels of participation in school feeding programs. In contrast, publication of menus in advance was associated with lower levels of pupil participation. Other factors considered but appearing to have little, if any, influence on pupil participation included availability of commercial eating facilities near the school and seating capacity and location of the lunchroom within the school building.
A New Matrix Model for Noncommutative Field Theory
Creators: name: Landi, Giovanni
name: Lizzi, Fedele
name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe a new regularization of quantum field theory on the noncommutative torus by means of one-dimensional matrix models. The construction is based on the Elliott-Evans inductive limit decomposition of the noncommutative torus algebra. The matrix trajectories are obtained via the expansion of fields in a basis of new noncommutative solitons described by projections and partial isometries. The matrix quantum mechanics are compared with the usual zero-dimensional matrix model regularizations and some applications are sketched.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures
Breast hypoplasia markers among women who report insufficient milk production: A retrospective online survey.
Creators: name: Kam, Renee
name: Amir, Lisa
name: Cullinane, Meabh
name: Ingram, Jenny
name: Li, Xia
name: Nommsen-Rivers, Laurie A
name: Li, Xia
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 321109
subject: Predictive and prognostic markers
classificationCode: 3215
subject: Reproductive medicine
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportions of anatomical breast characteristics suggestive of breast hypoplasia among breastfeeding women self-reporting low milk supply. We also explored breast hypoplasia risk factors. DESIGN: Online survey conducted between October 2021 and January 2022. SETTING: Five low milk supply Facebook groups. PARTICIPANTS: 487 women reporting low milk supply with their first child born ≥ 37 weeks gestation within 5 years of participation in this study, and residing in the USA, Australia or the UK. We present data on the primary outcome ('breast type') for 399 women. Women were excluded if the dyad was separated for more than 24 hours during the hospital stay, or if the mother reported removing milk less than 6 times per day from each breast on most days before being aware of having insufficient milk production. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The proportions of proposed breast hypoplasia markers including atypical breast type, widely spaced breasts, breast asymmetry, stretch marks on the breast and lack of pregnancy breast growth. We also estimated the odds of having breast hypoplasia markers in at-risk groups compared to reference groups, adjusting for covariates. RESULTS: Approximately 68% reported at least one atypical breast (270/399; 95% CI: 62.9%, 72.1%). Around 47% reported widely spaced breasts (212/449; 95% CI: 42.7%, 52.7%), 72% a lack of pregnancy breast growth (322/449; 95% CI: 68.3%, 77.4%), and 76% stretch marks on the breast (191/250; 95% CI: 70.7%, 81.3%). Multiple logistic regression analyses identified being overweight during pubertal years as a risk factor for atypical breast type and lack of pregnancy breast growth. CONCLUSIONS: Participants in low milk supply Facebook groups reported high rates of breast hypoplasia markers. Being overweight during adolescence was a risk factor for breast hypoplasia markers. These findings should be confirmed in well-conducted large cohort studies to determine the strongest combination of hypoplasia markers in predicting low supply.
Thermopower peak in phase transition region of (1-x)La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/xYSZ
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Zhao, Jun
name: Chen, Chinping
name: Yan, Shousheng
name: Xia, Zhengcai
name: Liu, Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermoelectric power (TEP) and the electrical resistivity of the intergranular magnetoresistance (IGMR) composite, (1-x)La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/xYSZ (LCMO/YSZ) with x = 0, 0.75%, 1.25%, 4.5%, 13% 15% and 80% of the yttria-stabalized zirconia (YSZ), have been measured from 300 K down to 77 K. Pronounced TEP peak appears during the phase transition for the samples of x $>$ 0, while not observed for x = 0. We suggest that this is due to the magnetic structure variation induced by the lattice strain which is resulting from the LCMO/YSZ boundary layers. The transition width in temperature derived from $dχ/dT$, with $χ$ being the AC magnetic susceptibility, supports this interpretation.
description: 4 pages, 4 eps figures, Latex, J. Appl. Phys 94, 7206 (2003)