cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Turkey and Bosnia- Herzegovina : A Future Re ecting on the Past
Creators: name: Eralp, Doğa Ulaş
Publisher: name: SETA
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Bosnia-Herzegovina remains as divided as ever. In the past year Turkish foreign policy in Bosnia-Herzegovina has become more assertive and outcome-oriented. The successes of the new Turkish assertiveness have helped to initiate a much- needed reconciliation process between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Turkey derives its assertiveness not only from Foreign Minister Davutoğlu’s vision of sustainable peace but also from its shared history and cultural practices throughout the region. Turkey’s efforts could strengthen the efforts of the international community to integrate BiH into European and trans-Atlantic bodies.
Comparison of Cost of Purchase and Lease of Mine Equipment as a Strategy for Production of Run-Off Mine – a case study of Zibo Fm Quarry and Roadstone Quarry, Ondo state, Nigeria.
Creators: name: Afeni, Thomas Busuyi
name: Onifade, Moshood
name: Sylvester, Amujo Kolade
name: Afeni, Thomas Busuyi
name: Onifade, Moshood
name: Sylvester, Amujo Kolade
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Lease, Net Present Value (NPV)
subject: Payback Period
subject: Total Revenue
subject: Total Investment
subject: Salvage Value and Depreciation

description: This research compares the cost of purchasing mining equipment with the cost of leasing mining equipment for the production of run-off mines. To achieve this objective, questionnaires were given to the quarry managers and also personal visitations were made. The data/information acquired from the questionnaires and personal visitations were subjected to statistical analysis. The results show that the total revenue for lease and purchase of mine equipment in Zibo FM for ten years are ₦ 11,263,200,000 and ₦11,289,142,610, the total investment for lease and purchase are ₦ 2,280,031,600 and ₦ 1,149,871,600, while the payback periods for lease and purchase option is 3 months 2 days and 2 months 28 days. The net present value for lease and purchase are ₦4.493 109 and ₦ 4.478 109 . The total revenue for lease and purchase of mine equipment in Roadstone Quarry for ten years are ₦ 2,026,200,000 and ₦ 2,042,917,220, the total investment for lease and purchase are ₦ 1,943,499,520 and ₦ 707,619,520, while the payback period considering lease and purchase option is 17 months 10 days and 14 months 22 days. The net present value for lease and purchase are ₦ 7.292 108 and ₦ 6.882 108.
Impact of Higher Learning Institutions in Provision of Quality Socio-Economic Development in Tanzania
Creators: name: Wetengere, Kitojo
name: Wetengere, Kitojo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Higher learning institutions
subject: quality
subject: outputs/outcomes
subject: inputs-output model
subject: socio-economic development
subject: Tanzania

description: The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Higher Learning Institions (HLIs) in provision of quality socio-economic development in Tanzania. In the new knowledge economy, the main roles of HLIs are: to provide high level manpower needs of the society, provide new knowledge and diffusing it into the national economy, provide services to the community and provide employment to the community. In reality, however, not much of the above mentioned roles has been done. If higher education is to become the drivers of high productivity, competition and socio-economic development, the following factors need to be taken on board: First, there is a need to re-think and to re-define the purpose of establishing the higher education to match with the local needs. Second, there is a need to prepare students for the future by building capacity for curiousity, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and imagination. Finally, the curriculum of the higher education must be liberated from the tyranny of the course book and content. Teaching and learning must be thematic, driven by experimentation, discovery and problem-solving based approaches.
Socioeconomic Determinants of Primary School Drop Out: The Logistic Model Analysis
Creators: name: Mike, Ibrahim Okumu
name: Nakajjo, Alex
name: Isoke, Doreen
name: Mike, Ibrahim Okumu
name: Nakajjo, Alex
name: Isoke, Doreen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: determinants of primary school dropout
subject: logistic model
subject: Survey data
subject: Uganda

description: This paper attempts to examine the socioeconomic determinants of primary school dropout in Uganda with the aid of a logistic model analysis using the 2004 National Service Delivery Survey data. The Objectives were to establish the household socioeconomic factors that influence dropout of pupils given free education and any possible policy alternatives to curb dropout of pupils. Various logistic regressions of primary school dropout were estimated and these took the following dimensions; rural-urban, gender, and age-cohort. After model estimation, marginal effects for each of the models were obtained. The analysis of the various coefficients was done across all models. The results showed the insignificance of distance to school, gender of pupil, gender of household head and total average amount of school dues paid by students in influencing dropout of pupils thus showing the profound impact Universal Primary Education has had on both access to primary education and pupil dropout. Also the results vindicated the importance of parental education, household size and proportion of economically active household members in influencing the chances of pupil dropout. The study finally calls for government to; keep a keen eye on non-school fees payments by parents to schools as these have the potential to increase to unsustainable levels by most households especially in rural areas; roll-out adult education across the entire country; and expand free universal education to secondary and vocational levels as it would allow some of those who can not afford secondary education to continue with schooling. This has the effect of reducing the number of unproductive members in the household.
Regular homotopy of Hurwitz curves
Creators: name: Auroux, Denis
name: Kulikov, Viktor S.
name: Shevchishin, Vsevolod V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that any two irreducible cuspidal Hurwitz curves $C_0$ and $C_1$ (or more generally, curves with A-type singularities) in the Hirzebruch surface $F_N$ with coinciding homology classes and sets of singularities are regular homotopic; and symplectically regular homotopic if $C_0$ and $C_1$ are symplectic with respect to a compatible symplectic form.
description: 26 pages
Additional file 1 of Oral functions in adult persons with spinal muscular atrophy compared to a healthy control group: a prospective cross-sectional study with a multimodal approach
Creators: name: Kruse, Teresa
name: Leflerovà, Diana
name: Cap, Annette
name: Portegys, Sara
name: Wirth, Brunhilde
name: Heller, Raoul
name: Brakemeier, Svenja
name: Hagenacker, Tim
name: Braumann, Bert
name: Wunderlich, Gilbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Results from multiple linear regression models. Results from multiple linear regression models regressing patients' maximum tongue pressure and maximum mouth opening on their treatment status, controlling for their SMA type and ambulatory status (models 1 and 2), and on the interaction between treatment status and their SMA type and ambulatory status (models 3 and 4).
OAUNI astronomical photometry: Stellar variability of FO Aqr on 2016 low state
Creators: name: Pereyra, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work reports a photometric monitoring of the intermediate polar cataclysmic variable star FO Aqr. This is part of the ongoing OAUNI stellar variability program. Around 1200 individual measurements (or $\sim$ 9 hrs of observations) were gathered distributed in five nights. The observation epoch was coincident with the 2016 low state brightness of FO Aqr. Good quality light curves detect unambiguously the expected stellar variability of FO~Aqr. The analysis using periodograms let to determine the main two known periods, P$_{1}$~=~20.380~$\pm$~.003~min and P$_{2}$~=~11.076~$\pm$~.001~min. Our full five-nights analysis shows that P$_{1}$, the spin white dwarf period, is more prominent than P$_{2}$, the one-half of the beat period between the spin and orbital periods. Nevertheless, individual light curves show than, at least in one case, a reverse pattern is found. It suggests a dependence of the beat period with the orbital phase of the system with important variations at the same phase interval.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Journal of Physics: Conference Series
title: Professional Trust In Osteopathy: A Theory For Educational Practice
Creators: name: Mackay Tumber, Lucy
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2019

description: This research, exploring a theory of professionalism in osteopathy, comes at an opportune moment when regulation and implications for practice are evolving in healthcare. The study sought to uncover the perceptions of osteopaths, students and patients as to their concept of professionalism and to seek a consensus on what this constitutes in osteopathy. It developed the PIECE theory of professional trust containing five key elements which are mediated by dialogue and touch used by the osteopath. The elements are Personal approach; Interaction and communication; Engagement and relationships; Customised approach; Empowerment and education. Twenty-nine interviews were undertaken using two video vignettes to prompt discussion, three facilitated and three unfacilitated focus groups with individual stakeholder groups followed, with a final focus group of mixed stakeholders to develop the final theory using Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology. The findings show how the elements of dialogue and touch are key throughout all phases of the osteopathic consultation and to the formation of professional trust in osteopathy. An important implication of these findings is that the values and attitudes are not stand-alone concepts but learnt and enacted within the clinical context, not only for students, but for clinicians throughout their working lives. The research has explored the perceptions of patients who are also learners within the osteopathic consultation. The PIECE learning cycle to build professional trust in osteopathy has been developed to aid educators and students along with the PIECE self-reflection tool for students to learn about professional trust in osteopathy.
SME Credit Financing, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Nigeria
Creators: name: Alimi, Y. Olorunfemi
name: Yinusa, Olumuyiwa Ganiyu
name: Alimi, Y. Olorunfemi
name: Yinusa, Olumuyiwa Ganiyu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: SMEs financing
subject: financial development
subject: investment, output
subject: Nigeria

description: This paper examines the impact of small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) credit financing and financial market development and their shocks on the output growth of Nigeria. The study estimated a VAR model for Nigeria using 1970-2013 annual data series. Unit root tests and cointegration are carried out. The study explores IRFs and FEVDs in a system that includes output, commercial bank loan to SMEs, domestic credit to private sector by banks, money supply, lending rate and investment. Findings suggest that shocks in commercial bank credit to SMEs has a major impact on the output changes of Nigeria. Money supply shocks also have a sizeable impact on output growth variations amidst other financial instruments. Lastly, neutrality of investment does not hold in Nigeria as it also has impact on output fluctuations.
Resonant acousto-optics of microcavity polaritons
Creators: name: Ivanov, A. L.
name: Littlewood, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze theoretically a resonant acousto-optic Stark effect for microcavity (MC) polaritons parametrically driven by a surface acoustic wave. For GaAs-based microcavities our scheme ``acoustic pumping - optical probing'' deals with surface acoustic waves of frequency $ν_{\rm SAW} \simeq 0.5 - 3$ GHz and intensity $I_{\rm SAW} \simeq 0.1 - 10$ mW/mm. The acoustically-induced stop gaps in the MC polariton spectrum drastically change the optical response of MC polaritons. Because an acoustically pumped intrinsic semiconductor microcavity remains in its ground electronic state, no many-body effects screen and weaken the resonant acousto-optic Stark effect. In the meantime, this allows us to work out an exactly-solvable model for resonant acousto-optics of MC polaritons which deals with giant acousto-optical nonlinearities. Finally, we discuss possible applications of the proposed resonant acoustic Stark effect for optical modulation and switching and describe an acousto-optic device based on a (GaAs) microcavity driven by a surface acoustic wave.
description: Accepted for publication in a special issue of Semiconductor Science and Technology
Audio Impairment Recognition Using a Correlation-Based Feature Representation
Creators: name: Ragano, Alessandro
name: Benetos, Emmanouil
name: Hines, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Audio impairment recognition is based on finding noise in audio files and categorising the impairment type. Recently, significant performance improvement has been obtained thanks to the usage of advanced deep learning models. However, feature robustness is still an unresolved issue and it is one of the main reasons why we need powerful deep learning architectures. In the presence of a variety of musical styles, hand-crafted features are less efficient in capturing audio degradation characteristics and they are prone to failure when recognising audio impairments and could mistakenly learn musical concepts rather than impairment types. In this paper, we propose a new representation of hand-crafted features that is based on the correlation of feature pairs. We experimentally compare the proposed correlation-based feature representation with a typical raw feature representation used in machine learning and we show superior performance in terms of compact feature dimensionality and improved computational speed in the test stage whilst achieving comparable accuracy.
description: This publication has been accepted in 2020 Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)
title: The breeding ecology of the Merlin (Falco columbarius aesalon), with particular reference to north-east Scotland and land-use change
Creators: name: Rebecca, Graham W.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: The breeding population of the Merlin in Britain in 1993 and 1994 was estimated at 1300 ± 200 pairs following a survey of around 60% of the range and calculated extrapolation of the remaining suitable habitat. This reflected a recovery, following widespread declines in numbers and range earlier in the 20th century. Over 1000 nest records from the survey were analysed, with habitat and nest site described and quantified, and related to clutch size, successful brood size and productivity. Heather moor or mixed grass-heather moor, and tall conifer plantations were the main core habitats at 88% and 9% of territories respectively. Habitat choice influenced nest site, with 77% of nests on the ground, 2% on crags and 19% in trees. Productivity averaged 2.25 fledged young per pair and was indicative of a stable or increasing population. In north-east Scotland, part of a delimited Merlin study area was afforested with conifers, providing an opportunity to monitor the effects of this land-use change on Merlin breeding ecology. One of the forestry schemes led to public outcry, official objections, Government assessment, judicial Review and an appeal to the European Commission. These events were unprecedented in British forestry history and were seen as a test-case. Despite modifications to the scheme, by leaving approximately 30% of land unpianted, the Merlins declined to zero, as they also did at the other afforested areas. Breeding phenology and clutch size at the afforested areas were similar to comparable adjacent and further afield Merlin study areas, where there was minimal change in habitat management. However, productivity was significantly less and it was concluded that commercially afforested moorland was an inappropriate breeding habitat for Merlin in north-east Scotland. Identifying and quantifying prey remains assessed breeding season diet, with small birds accounting for 95% of numbers and 99% of biomass from 11,225 items. It is reasoned that the majority of the new potential prey resource associated with commercial afforestation was unavailable for Merlin, due to the protection provided by dense thicket plantations. Guidelines for retaining breeding Merlin within commercial forestry schemes in Britain are recommended. These could be requested by conservation planners, adopted by foresters or tested by raptor ecologists, and their use could be a condition within new grant-aided forestry schemes in Britain.
Transverse beam polarization and CP-violating triple-gauge-boson couplings in e+e- -> gamma Z
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Rindani, Saurabh D.
name: Singh, Ritesh K.
name: Bartl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that an anomalous CP-violating gamma-gamma-Z vertex gives rise to a novel asymmetry with transversely polarized electron and positron beams in the process e+e- -> gamma Z. This asymmetry, which is odd under naive time reversal, is proportional to the real part of the gamma-gamma-Z CP-violating coupling. This is in contrast to the simple forward-backward asymmetry of the gamma (or Z) with unpolarized or longitudinally polarized beams studied earlier, which is even under naive time reversal, and is proportional to the imaginary part. We estimate the sensitivity of future experiments to the determination of CP-odd gamma-gamma-Z and gamma-Z-Z couplings using these asymmetries and transversely polarized beams.
description: 13 pages, latex, 7 figures included as postscript
Rocking shadows in broken circumbinary discs
Creators: name: Nealon, Rebecca
name: Price, Daniel
name: Pinte, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use three dimensional simulations with coupled hydrodynamics and Monte Carlo radiative transfer to show that shadows cast by the inner disc in broken circumbinary discs move within a confined range of position angles on the outer disc. Over time, shadows appear to rock back and forth in azimuth as the inner disc precesses. The effect occurs because the inner disc precesses around a vector that is not the angular momentum vector of the outer disc. We relate our findings to recent observations of shadows in discs.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. Movie of figure 1 available at https://youtu.be/jGYLuEx-I78
Stock Market Returns and Exchange Rates in Botswana
Creators: name: Lesotho, O. K.
name: Motlaleng, G. R.
name: Ntsosa, M. M.
name: Lesotho, O. K.
name: Motlaleng, G. R.
name: Ntsosa, M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Stock market returns
subject: Exchange rates
subject: Botswana

description: This paper investigates the effect of bilateral exchange rates on stock market returns in the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) measured by the domestic company index (DCI). To examine whether this effect exists or not, Johansen cointegration test, Vector Error Correction model (VECM), Granger causality test, Impulse Response Function and Variance Decomposition are employed. The paper employs monthly data from 2001:M1-20014:M11. The empirical results indicate that there exists a long run equilibrium relationship between the stock market returns and exchange rates in Botswana. These findings corroborate those found by Mishra (2004), Phylaktis and Ravazzo (2005), Sohail and Hussain (2009) who explored the relationship in developed and emerging markets. In this paper, a negative relationship was found to exist between the stock market returns and the US dollar, British Pound and South African Rand. The Euro and the Japanese Yen showed a positive relationship. The findings of the paper also revealed that the speed of adjustment in the VECM is significant and relatively slow. The causality test indicated a unidirectional causality running from exchange rates to the stock market returns. The significant causality relationship was established between the British Pound, US Dollar, Japanese Yen and the Domestic Company Index. The causality results are consistent with those found by Alagidede et.al (2010) and Granger et.al (1998). Therefore, the evidence from this study implies that bilateral exchange rates have a significant effect on the performance of stock prices.
Semiclassical wormholes
Creators: name: Khusnutdinov, Nail R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Smooth-throat wormholes are treated on as possessing quantum fluctuation energy with scalar massive field as its source. Heat kernel coefficients of the Laplace operator are calculated in background of the arbitrary-profile throat wormhole with the help of the zeta-function approach. Two specific profile are considered. Some arguments are given that the wormholes may exist. It serves as a solution of semiclassical Einstein equations in the range of specific values of length and certain radius of wormhole's throat and constant of non-minimal connection.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, revtex4
Photometric Properties of White Dwarf Dominated Halos
Creators: name: Lee, H. -c.
name: Gibson, B. K.
name: Fenner, Y.
name: Brook, C. B.
name: Kawata, D.
name: Renda, A.
name: Holopainen, J.
name: Flynn, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using stellar population synthesis techniques, we explore the photometric signatures of white dwarf progenitor dominated galactic halos, in order to constrain the fraction of halo mass that may be locked-up in white dwarf stellar remnants. We first construct a 10^9 M_sun stellar halo using the canonical Salpeter initial stellar mass distribution, and then allow for an additional component of low- and intermediate-mass stars, which ultimately give rise to white dwarf remnants. Microlensing observations towards the Large Magellanic Cloud, coupled with several ground-based proper motion surveys, have led to claims that in excess of 20% of the dynamical mass of the halo (10^12 M_sun) might be found in white dwarfs. Our results indicate that (1) even if only 1% of the dynamical mass of the dark halo today could be attributed to white dwarfs, their main sequence progenitors at high redshift (z ~ 3) would have resulted in halos more than 100 times more luminous than those expected from conventional initial mass functions alone, and (2) any putative halo white dwarf progenitor dominated initial mass function component, regardless of its dynamical importance, would be virtually impossible to detect at the present-day, due to its extremely faint surface brightness.
description: 4 pages, Refereed contribution to the 5th Galactic Chemodynamics conference held in Swinburne, July 2003. Accepted for publication in PASA
title: An exploration of the factors that affect the ethnic identities of a group of three and four year old children
Creators: name: Barron, Ian
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: This study seeks to explore the relationship between the individual and the social and cultural in the development of young children's ethnic identities in the context of a particular nursery school and its community in the North-West of England. A group of children, three-quarters of whom were of Pakistani-heritage and a quarter of whom were of British white-indigenous heritage, were studied, initially at home and then as they started nursery, using an ethnographic approach. The research points to a conception of ethnic identity as part of a multiple, shifting and fixing network of performances which involve borders of belonging and marginalisation and which include identities of gender, age, class, ethnicity, culture and religion. The research reveals the way in which white, indigenous, more affluent children, (particularly girls), were encouraged as legitimate participants but how less affluent, white children, (particularly boys), and children from the least affluent and most traditional families of Pakistani - heritage were marginalised as outsiders, usually because of barriers of language and previous experience. Ethnic identity is thus conceived of as emerging from practices and communities and is mediated and brokered by access to participation. In this sense, participation, in all its forms, may be understood as an ontological imperative because without it, ethnic identity, and other forms of identity, cannot emerge. None of this is straightforward: it is embedded in the multitude of power relations which shape the world. The research points to a need for more recognition that cultural practices in early childhood education are not necessarily shared and greater clarity is needed about the sociocultural resources that children from different backgrounds bring to the experience of early childhood education. This requires thoughtful and sensitive professional development and exploration of what early childhood provision should look like if fossilization and marginalisation are to be avoided.
Schistosomiasis Morbidity Hotspots: Roles of the Human Host, the Parasite and Their Interface in the Development of Severe Morbidity
Creators: name: Mawa, Patrice A.
name: Kincaid-Smith, Julien
name: Tukahebwa, Edridah M.
name: Webster, Joanne P.
name: Wilson, Shona
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: schistosomiasis
subject: biological hotspot
subject: morbidity
subject: host-parasite-environmental-factors
subject: FibroScHot

description: Schistosomiasis is the second most important human parasitic disease in terms of socioeconomic impact, causing great morbidity and mortality, predominantly across the African continent. For intestinal schistosomiasis, severe morbidity manifests as periportal fibrosis (PPF) in which large tracts of macro-fibrosis of the liver, visible by ultrasound, can occlude the main portal vein leading to portal hypertension (PHT), sequelae such as ascites and collateral vasculature, and ultimately fatalities. For urogenital schistosomiasis, severe morbidity manifests as pathology throughout the urinary system and genitals, and is a definitive cause of squamous cell bladder carcinoma. Preventative chemotherapy (PC) programmes, delivered through mass drug administration (MDA) of praziquantel (PZQ), have been at the forefront of schistosomiasis control programmes in sub-Saharan Africa since their commencement in Uganda in 2003. However, despite many successes, ‘biological hotspots’ (as distinct from ‘operational hotspots’) of both persistent high transmission and morbidity remain. In some areas, this failure to gain control of schistosomiasis has devastating consequences, with not only persistently high infection intensities, but both “subtle” and severe morbidity remaining prevalent. These hotspots highlight the requirement to revisit research into severe morbidity and its mechanisms, a topic that has been out of favor during times of PC implementation. Indeed, the focality and spatially-structured epidemiology of schistosomiasis, its transmission persistence and the morbidity induced, has long suggested that gene-environmental-interactions playing out at the host-parasite interface are crucial. Here we review evidence of potential unique parasite factors, host factors, and their gene-environmental interactions in terms of explaining differential morbidity profiles in the human host. We then take the situation of schistosomiasis mansoni within the Albertine region of Uganda as a case study in terms of elucidating the factors behind the severe morbidity observed and the avenues and directions for future research currently underway within a new research and clinical trial programme (FibroScHot).
Configurational Entropic Study of the Enhanced Longevity in Resonant Oscillons
Creators: name: Gleiser, Marcelo
name: Krackow, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use an information-theoretic measure of shape complexity known as configurational entropy (CE) to investigate numerically the remarkably long lifetimes of spherically-symmetric ``resonant oscillons'' in three-dimensional and of azimuthally-symmetric oscillons in two-dimensional relativistic scalar field theories, which have been conjectured to be infinite. In 3d, we obtain a power law relating a stability measure derived from CE to the oscillons' lifetimes that, upon extrapolation to large times, offers support to this conjecture. In 2d, we obtain a three-way relation between the oscillons' energies, a CE-derived measure of their stability, and their radiation rates to support the conjecture that they asymptotically tend toward a classically-stable attractor solution.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 5 of The effects of enhanced primary healthcare interventions on primary care providers’ job satisfaction
Creators: name: Wong, Wen Jun
name: Aisyah Mohd Norzi
name: Swee Hung Ang
name: Chan, Chee Lee
name: Faeiz Syezri Adzmin Jaafar
name: Sheamini Sivasampu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5.
Large-n excitations in the ferromagnetic Ising field theory in a small magnetic field: mass spectrum and decay widths
Creators: name: Rutkevich, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In presence of a small magnetic field h, the elementary excitations in the scaling two-dimensional Ising model are studied perturbatively in h in the ferromagnetic phase. For excitations with large numbers n, the mass spectrum is obtained in the first order in h. The decay widths of excitations with energies above the stability threshold are calculated in the leading h^3-order.
description: 5 pages, no figures
Vortex solutions of Liouville equation and quasi spherical surfaces
Creators: name: Iorio, Alfredo
name: Kus, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify the two-dimensional surfaces corresponding to certain solutions of the Liouville equation of importance for mathematical physics, the non-topological Chern-Simons (or Jackiw-Pi) vortex solutions, characterized by an integer $N \ge 1$. Such surfaces, that we call $S^2 (N)$, have positive constant Gaussian curvature, $K$, but are spheres only when $N=1$. They have edges, and, for any fixed $K$, have maximal radius $c$ that we find here to be $c = N / \sqrt{K} $. If such surfaces are constructed in a laboratory by using graphene (or any other Dirac material), our findings could be of interest to realize table-top Dirac massless excitations on nontrivial backgrounds. We also briefly discuss the type of three-dimensional spacetimes obtained as the product $S^2 (N) \times \mathbb{R}$.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures;
Automatic Inference of High-Level Network Intents by Mining Forwarding Patterns
Creators: name: Kheradmand, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is a semantic gap between the high-level intents of network operators and the low-level configurations that achieve the intents. Previous works tried to bridge the gap using verification or synthesis techniques, both requiring formal specifications of the intended behavior which are rarely available or even known in the real world. This paper discusses an alternative approach for bridging the gap, namely to infer the high-level intents from the low-level network behavior. Specifically, we provide Anime, a framework and a tool that given a set of observed forwarding behavior, automatically infers a set of possible intents that best describe all observations. Our results show that Anime can infer high-quality intents from the low-level forwarding behavior with acceptable performance.
description: SOSR 2020
Additional file 4 of The effects of enhanced primary healthcare interventions on primary care providers’ job satisfaction
Creators: name: Wong, Wen Jun
name: Aisyah Mohd Norzi
name: Swee Hung Ang
name: Chan, Chee Lee
name: Faeiz Syezri Adzmin Jaafar
name: Sheamini Sivasampu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
Late Reheating, Hadronic Jets and Baryogenesis
Creators: name: Asaka, Takehiko
name: Grigoriev, Dmitri
name: Kuzmin, Vadim
name: Shaposhnikov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If inflaton couples very weakly to ordinary matter the reheating temperature of the universe can be lower than the electroweak scale. In this letter we show that the late reheating occurs in a highly non-uniform way, within narrow areas along the jets produced by ordinary particles originated from inflaton decays. Depending on inflaton mass and decay constant, the initial temperature inside the lumps of the overheated plasma may be large enough to trigger the unsuppressed sphaleron processes with baryon number non-conservation, allowing for efficient local electroweak baryogenesis.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, revtex4
Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality in Uganda
Creators: name: Atuhaire, Ruth
name: Kaberuka, Will
name: Atuhaire, Ruth
name: Kaberuka, Will
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Antenatal care
subject: Likelihood
subject: maternal health care
subject: maternal mortality rate

description: The study aimed at establishing the factors affecting maternal mortality in Uganda. It was guided by the following objectives; to investigating whether the number of antenatal Care visits, maternal education, age, area and region of residence had any effect on maternal mortality in Uganda. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize characteristics of the respondents, and the results presented in frequencies and percentages. Cross tabulations on the number of antenatal care visits, maternal education, region where mother comes from, age and area of residence to maternal mortality were run to establish the association between them. The Binary Logistic model was used to analyze the relationship between maternal mortality on the number of antenatal care visits, maternal education, age, area and region of residence. All the variables apart from area of residence were found to be significant at bivariate level. The study found mothers who make fewer or no ANC visits had a higher likelihood of death, both for themselves and their babies, than those who had more visits. It was also found that, mothers living in rural areas, compared to those in urban areas, are more likely to die due to pregnancy or related conditions. Maternal education, especially at secondary and tertiary levels increases the likelihood of using and attending ANC hence reducing maternal mortality. The study recommends that the government of Uganda and other stakeholders should increase efforts to enhance female education to attain favorable maternal health outcomes in the future and also to sensitize families more on the effectiveness of attending at least 3 ANC so as to reduce the scourge of maternal mortality.
Additional file 2 of Sepsis-associated pathways segregate cancer groups
Creators: name: Himanshu Tripathi
name: Samanwoy Mukhopadhyay
name: Mohapatra, Saroj Kant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Gene level heat map of each of the selected 66 pathways. LFC for each gene was calculated from disease and normal samples (disease-normal) for all studies. For each disease type (CA, SLC or SS), median LFC was calculated across the studies in that disease type. Combined heat map was generated based on the pathway genes and the three disease groups. We considered only those genes which have similar LFC directionality in SLC and SS. Red colour represents up-regulation in disease compared to control, while green colour represents down-regulation. Pathway names with KEGG identifiers are shown on the top, gene symbols and names are row-labels of heat map. The major class (to which the pathway belongs) is shown at the bottom.
Accelerating universe in modified teleparallel gravity theory
Creators: name: Sahlu, Shambel
name: Ntahompagaze, Joseph
name: Abebe, Amare
name: Mota, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies the cosmology of accelerating expansion of the universe in modified teleparallel gravity theory. We discuss the cosmology of $f(T,B)$ gravity theory and its implication to the new general form of the equation of state parameter $w_{TB}$ for explaining the late-time accelerating expansion of the universe without the need for the cosmological constant scenario. We examine the numerical value of $w_{TB}$ in different paradigmatic $f(T,B)$ gravity models. In those models, the numerical result of $w_{TB}$ is favored with observations in the presence of the torsion scalar T associated with a boundary term B and shows the accelerating expansion of the universe.
description: Conference proceeding: Nuclear Activity in Galaxies Across Cosmic Time" (Ethiopia) accepted for publishing under the Cambridge University Press, eds. M. Povic, P. Marziani, J. Masegosa, H. Netzer, S. H. Negu, and S. B. Tessema
Additional file 5 of Distribution and diversity of olefins and olefin-biosynthesis genes in Gram-positive bacteria
Creators: name: Surger, Maximilian
name: Angelov, Angel
name: Liebl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. Diverse Micrococcales strains. The total fatty acid and olefin chain lengths and isomer distributions, as well as absolute cellular amounts in complex medium. The values are the mean of at least two biological replicates. The error bars represent standard deviation. The standard deviations of the heat map values did not exceed 7%. Abbreviations: cyclo, cyclic fatty acids; for other abbreviations see Additional file: 1 Figure S1 [15].
Efficient transport controlled by biharmonic frictional driving
Creators: name: Maza-Cuello, Martin
name: Maza, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dry friction has been proposed as a rectifying mechanism allowing mass transport over a vibrating surface, even when vibrations are horizontal and unbiased. It has been suggested that the drift velocity will always saturate when the energy of the input oscillation increases, leading to a vanishing efficiency that would hinder the applicability of this phenomenon. Contrary to this conjecture, in this work we experimentally demonstrate that, by carefully controlling the forcing oscillations, this system can maintain a finite transport efficiency for any input energy. A minimal friction model explains the observed dependencies of the drift velocity on the signal parameters in the case of biharmonic base oscillations, which can be extended to obtain efficiency estimates for any periodic excitation.
description: Accepted in Physical Review Letters. 5 pages, 4 figures. Supplemental Material (5 figures) and Videos
Realized Access to Antenatal Care Utilization in Uganda: Household Welfare and Governance Implications
Creators: name: Okumu, Ibrahim Mike
name: Bbaale, Edward
name: Okumu, Ibrahim Mike
name: Bbaale, Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Antenatal Care
subject: Household Welfare
subject: logit analysis
subject: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
subject: Uganda

description: This study explores into realized access to antenatal care utilisation in Uganda. This emanates from the fact that access to antenatal care is still a national nemesis, (National Service Delivery Survey Report, 2005). In Uganda, the Ministry of Health (MoH) recommends that a pregnant woman should attend antenatal care at least four times during pregnancy. Also she should attend antenatal care monthly during the first seven months, every two weeks in the eighth month, then weekly until birth. On the whole however, 42 percent of expecting women sought for antenatal care at least four times during pregnancy, 52 percent of them one to three visits which of course is below the MoH recommendation while six percent did not seek care at all, (Uganda Demographic Household Survey, 2000/2001). This clearly indicates the under utilization of antenatal care; with such a state of affairs, no wonder Uganda’s maternal mortality rate of 505 per 100,000 live births is high given the Millennium Development Goals maternal mortality rate target of 131 per 100,000 live births by 2015 (UNDP, 2007). Against that background, this study sought to establish the factors which determine realized access to antenatal care. More importantly the paper unearths the interaction between realised access to antenatal care, governance and household welfare. The study unearthed that both governance and household welfare to a great extent explain antenatal care utilisation.
Steep Inflation followed by Born-Infeld Reheating
Creators: name: Sami, M.
name: Dadhich, N.
name: Shiromizu, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a model in which high energy brane corrections allow a single scalar field to describe inflation at early epochs and quintessence at late times. The reheating mechanism in the model originates from Born-Infeld matter whose energy density mimics cosmological constant at very early times and manifests itself as radiation subsequently. For most of the inflationary evolution the Born-Infeld matter remains subdominant to the the scalar field. Shortly before the end of inflation driven by the scalar field, the energy density of Born-Infeld matter starts scaling as radiation and drops by several orders of magnitudes at the epoch inflation ends. The problem of over production of gravity wave background in scenarios based upon reheating through gravitational particle production is successfully resolved by suitably fixing the initial value of radiation energy density at the end of inflation. No additional fine tuning of the parameters is required for a viable evolution.
description: Final version accepted in PLB ; some clarifications and references added
title: The effects of hops (Humulus lupulus L.) and silymarin on performance and health of newly weaned pigs
Creators: name: Williams, Jeanne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The ban of antimicrobial growth promoters in pig production has resulted in an increased interest in investigating the effects of different alternatives, which can reduce the problems post weaning and improve the performance in piglets. Initially two botanical extracts with different properties were investigated: hops, which have antibacterial properties and silymarin, which is used for liver disorders.

The first experiment showed that hops and silymarin had beneficial effects on FCR in piglets (P = 0.014) by 9.6% and 15.8%, respectively. Furthermore, hops significantly improved some of the measured liver enzymes, so it was decided to focus on hops only.

Two further experiments were carried out examining the effects of different concentrations of hops and isolated hop compounds (iso-α acids and ß-acids), and the combination with organic acids in weaner pigs. A higher inclusion level of hops was associated with a better FCR, and the isolated hop compounds also resulted in an improved FCR (P = 0.027) by 9.2%. The addition of an organic acid mixture did not affect the performance.

An in vitro experiment confirmed that hops and isolated hop compounds had antibacterial properties. To try and elucidate the mechanism by which the hops and the isolated hop compounds improved the FCR, the effects on the gut flora were studied in the piglets. Both the hops and the iso-α acids and ß-acids reduced the level of lactic acid bacteria and the level of Bacteriodes in one of the two experiments, but no effects were seen on the other bacteria. This lead to investigate the effects of hops/isolated hop compounds on the level of volatile fatty acids, digestibility and level of digestive enzymes and level of liver enzymes. However, none of these parameters gave conclusive results about the mode of action of hops/isolated hop compounds in the piglet.