cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Architecting NP-Dynamic Skybridge
Creators: name: Shi, Jiajun
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: With the scaling of technology nodes, modern CMOS integrated circuits face severe fundamental challenges that stem from device scaling limitations, interconnection bottlenecks and increasing manufacturing complexities. These challenges drive researchers to look for revolutionary technologies beyond the end of CMOS roadmap. Towards this end, a new nanoscale 3-D computing fabric for future integrated circuits, Skybridge, has been proposed [1]. In this new fabric, core aspects from device to circuit style, connectivity, thermal management and manufacturing pathway are co-architected in a 3-D fabric-centric manner.
However, the Skybridge fabric uses only n-type transistors in a dynamic circuit style for logic and memory implementations. Therefore, it requires complicated clocking schemes to overcome signal monotonicity associated with cascading dynamic logic gates. For Skybridge’s large-scale circuits, the dynamic circuit style requires cascaded stages to be micro-pipelined, which results in large number of buffers used for storing minterms causing significant overhead in terms of area and power. Moreover, implementation of logic is limited to NAND or AND-of-NAND based logic expressions, which does not always result in compact circuits. In this work, we propose an extension of original Skybridge fabric, called NP-Dynamic-Skybridge, to solve these challenges by using both n-and p-type transistors in an innovative circuit style. Here, every stage in a given circuit is implemented by either n-type or p-type dynamic logic.
Cascading n- and p-type dynamic logic effectively avoids signal monotonicity problem, and allows combinational-like circuit implementation. This helps to simplify the clocking scheme for cascaded logics requiring only one set of global precharge and evaluate clock signals. And also it expands the degree of expressing logic enabling expressions such as NOR, OR-of-NORs, in addition to those previously mentioned. Furthermore, the number of pipeline stages is significantly reduced for a given logic function, and buffer requirements are less compared with Skybridge 3D fabric thus improving on area and power metrics. Initial evaluation for NP-Dynamic-Skybridge’s 4-bit carry look-ahead adder shows up to 2x density benefits over Skybridge 3-D fabric and at least 17% power/throughput benefit.
On some questions of Eymard and Bekka concerning amenability of homogeneous spaces and induced representations
Creators: name: Pestov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 43A07; 43A65; 43A85; 22D30

description: Let $F\subseteq H\subseteq G$ be closed subgroups of a locally compact group. In response to a 1972 question by Eymard, we construct an example where the homogeneous factor-space $G/F$ is amenable in the sense of Eymard-Greenleaf, while $H/F$ is not. (In our example, $G$ is discrete.) As a corollary which answers a 1990 question by Bekka, the induced representation $\ind_H^G(ρ)$ can be amenable in the sense of Bekka even if $ρ$ is not amenable. The second example, answering another question by Bekka, shows that $\ind_H^G(ρ)$ need not be amenable even if both the representation $ρ$ and the coset space $G/H$ are amenable.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX 2e, to appear in: C.R.Math.Rep.Acad.Sci.Canada
Scalable and Vision Free User Interface Approaches for Indoor Navigation Systems for the Visually Impaired
Creators: name: Tao, Yang
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis introduces scalable and vision free user interface approaches for indoor navigation systems for the visually impaired. Using an Android Smartphone that runs the indoor navigation system – Percept Application with accessibility features, the blind user obtains navigation instructions generated automatically by our navigation generation algorithm to the chosen destination when touching specific landmarks tagged with Near Field Communication tags. This thesis also introduces an Orientation & Mobility Survey Tool that can help O&M Instructors survey the building and deploy such indoor navigation system. The system was deployed and tested in a large building at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure Systems to Climatic Extreme Events
Creators: name: Testa, Alexandra C.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: A topology-based approach has been used to measure the resilience of a highway network to climatic events. Civil infrastructure systems are inarguably critical to the everyday functions of society. Because such systems are regionally distributed, their components undergo a wide range of hazard intensities, often dependent on their relative locations. The ability of an infrastructure system to withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from extreme events is paramount to its ability to continuously serve users. The topological properties of a network can provide a good means to assess the resilience of the system which is adequate to comprehend the preparedness and functionality of an infrastructure system in the face of various hazards. Hurricanes and storm surges are especially relevant on the eastern coast of the US, where they can cause widespread damage and destruction. Furthermore, the effects of climate change are proven to increase the intensity of climatic events, worsening the consequences to infrastructure networks. The vulnerability of the transportation network of New York City, the most populous urban area in the U.S., was underlined in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and for this purpose has been chosen as the test bed for this study. Reducing the highway system to a combination of nodes and links, the principles of graph theory are applied to quantify defining network properties. More specifically, by assessing and measuring the change in topological properties during extreme climatic events, the resilience of a transportation network can be succinctly evaluated.
Additional file 6 of Prevalence and characterization of class I integrons in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from humans and food-producing animals in Zhejiang Province, China
Creators: name: Jiang, Han
name: Ran, Meijuan
name: Wang, Xinyuan
name: Chen, Qi
name: Wang, Jing
name: Ruan, Zhi
name: Wang, Jingwen
name: Tang, Biao
name: Fang, Jiehong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Supplementary Material 6
Thermocycle-regulated WALL REGULATOR INTERACTING bHLH Encodes a Protein That Interacts with Secondary-Cell-Wall-Associated Transcription Factors
Creators: name: Whitney, Ian P
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Lignocellulosic biomass is one of the most abundant raw materials on earth that can be utilized to created carbon-neutral biofuels as a replacement for conventional fossil fuels. In order to create ideal energy crops, the regulation and deposition of cell wall polysaccharides must first be fully understood. Improved understanding of cell wall regulation will enable selection of traits that can optimize biofuel feedstocks. Herein, I utilize the grass model system Brachypodium distachyon in order to understand the transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall deposition. Gene expression profiling was used to elucidate transcription factors that regulate secondary cell wall biosynthesis. Through this method, WALL REGULATOR INTERACTING bHLH (WRIB) was identified and its role as a secondary cell wall regulator was tested. Yeast-one- and yeast-two-hybrid assays showed that WRIB is capable of binding to promoters of secondary cell wall biosynthesis genes, as well as interacting with known secondary cell wall transcription factor proteins and also Phytochrome B. These results suggest that WRIB plays an important role in the secondary cell wall regulatory network and could perhaps be modulated by Phytochrome B. Discovery of this novel and interesting gene furthers the overall understanding of secondary cell wall development with the goal of improving our ability to engineer biofuel feedstocks.
Deep Learning the Morphology of Dark Matter Substructure
Creators: name: Alexander, Stephon
name: Gleyzer, Sergei
name: McDonough, Evan
name: Toomey, Michael W.
name: Usai, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong gravitational lensing is a promising probe of the substructure of dark matter halos. Deep learning methods have the potential to accurately identify images containing substructure, and differentiate WIMP dark matter from other well motivated models, including vortex substructure of dark matter condensates and superfluids. This is crucial in future efforts to identify the true nature of dark matter. We implement, for the first time, a classification approach to identifying dark matter substructure based on simulated strong lensing images with different substructure. Utilizing convolutional neural networks trained on sets of simulated images, we demonstrate the feasibility of deep neural networks to reliably distinguish among different types of dark matter substructure. With thousands of strong lensing images anticipated with the coming launch of LSST, we expect that supervised and unsupervised deep learning models will play a crucial role in determining the nature of dark matter.
description: 10 pages
Nanoparticles transfected with plasmid-encoded lncRNA-OIP5-AS1 inhibit renal ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice via the miR-410-3p/Nrf2 axis
Creators: name: Zhang, Rongjie
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Zhu, Xuhui
name: Li, Tao
name: Li, Yansheng
name: Zhang, Peng
name: Chen, Yuanhao
name: Li, Gao
name: Han, Xiuwu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Nanostructures composed of liposomes and polydopamine (PDA) have demonstrated efficacy as carriers for delivering plasmids, effectively alleviating renal cell carcinoma. However, their role in acute kidney injury (AKI) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the plasmid-encoded lncRNA-OIP5-AS1@PDA nanoparticles (POP-NPs) on renal ischemia/reperfusion (RI/R) injury and explore the underlying mechanisms. RI/R or OGD/R models were established in mice and HK-2 cells, respectively. In vivo, vector or POP-NPs were administered (10 nmol, IV) 48 h after RI/R treatment. In the RI/R mouse model, the OIP5-AS1 and Nrf2/HO-1 expressions were down-regulated, while miR-410-3p expression was upregulated. POP-NPs treatment effectively reversed RI/R-induced renal tissue injury, restoring altered levels of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, malondialdehyde, inflammatory factors (IL-8, IL-6, TNF-α), ROS, apoptosis, miR-410-3p, as well as the suppressed expression of SOD and Nrf2/HO-1 in the model mice. Similar results were obtained in cell models treated with POP-NPs. Additionally, miR-410-3p mimics could reverse the effects of POP-NPs on cellular models, partially counteracted by Nrf2 agonists. The binding relationship between OIP5-AS1 and miR-410-3p, alongside miR-410-3p and Nrf2, has been substantiated by dual-luciferase reporter and RNA pull-down assays. The study revealed that POP-NPs can attenuate RI/R-induced injury through miR-410-3p/Nrf2 axis. These findings lay the groundwork for future targeted therapeutic approaches utilizing nanoparticles for RI/R-induced AKI.
title: Border Ache
Creators: name: Eleftheriou, Joanna
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: Border Ache is a collection of essays that explore the author's experiences growing up as an American-born Greek Cypriot, brought back to her father's divided island at the age of ten. The essays consider the divisions created by ethnicity, gender, generation gaps, and religion in an effort to better understand the human conflicts hidden behind the political ones.
Callinectes exasperatus
Creators: name: Coelho, Petrônio Alves
name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Portunidae
Callinectes
Callinectes exasperatus

description: Callinectes exasperatus (Gerstaecker, 1856)
Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, northern South America to Brazil (Santa Catarina) (Melo 1996).
 Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PA: Barros & Pimentel (2001); MA: Ramos-Porto et al. (1978); RN: Rathbun (1930); PE: Moreira (1901); AL: Coelho et al. (1990); BA: Moreira (1901).
description: Published as part of Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-58 in Zootaxa 1956 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241063
Additional file 2 of The theoretical basis of a nationally implemented type 2 diabetes prevention programme: how is the programme expected to produce changes in behaviour?
Creators: name: Hawkes, Rhiannon E.
name: Miles, Lisa M.
name: French, David P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. NHS-DPP service logic model.
On The Symplectic Two-Form of Gravity in Terms of Dirac Eigenvalues
Creators: name: Abdalla, M. C. B.
name: De Andrade, M. A.
name: Santos, M. A.
name: Vancea, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dirac eigenvalues form a subset of observables of the Euclidean gravity. The symplectic two-form in the covariant phase space could be expressed, in principle, in terms of the Dirac eigenvalues. We discuss the existence of the formal solution of the equations defining the components of the symplectic form in this framework.
description: misprints corrected, final interpretation of results given
Reliabilibity Aware Thermal Management of Real-time Multi-core Systems
Creators: name: Xu, Shikang
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Continued scaling of CMOS technology has led to increasing working temperature of VLSI circuits. High temperature brings a greater probability of permanent errors (failure) in VLSI circuits, which is a critical threat for real-time systems. As the multi-core architecture is gaining in popularity, this research proposes an adaptive workload assignment approach for multi-core real-time systems to balance thermal stress among cores. While previously developed scheduling algorithms use temperature as the criterion, the proposed algorithm uses reliability of each core in the system to dynamically assign tasks to cores. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm gains as large as 10% benefit in system reliability compared with commonly used static assignment while algorithms using temperature as criterion gain 4%. The reliability difference between cores, which indicates the imbalance of thermal stress on each core, is as large as 25 times smaller when proposed algorithm is applied.
Experimental Tests of Road Passage Systems for Reducing Road Mortalities of Freshwater Turtles
Creators: name: Yorks, Derek T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Roadways are a pervasive feature of northeastern landscapes and can be a significant source of mortality for turtles. Until recently, little has been known about the design requirements for successful under-road passages for turtles and other wildlife to move safely between bisected habitat patches. At outdoor laboratories, using a factorial experimental design, we examined movements in response to varying light levels, and barrier opacity for painted turtles (Chrysemys picta, n=833), Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii, n=49), and spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata, n=49). Additionally, we examined tunnel size, tunnel entrance design, and artificial lighting for painted turtles only. All three species responded poorly to a 0% available light treatment. As the amount of natural light transmitted through the tops of tunnels increased, successful completion of the trials increased. Furthermore, turtles generally moved at a slower rate when traveling along a translucent barrier, compared to an opaque one. Our results indicate the importance of designing road passage structures for freshwater turtles that provide adequate tunnel lighting in combination with specific entrance designs that meet the goals of the project.
Strike A Note Of Wonder:  A Director's Adventures In Peter Pan
Creators: name: Sloane, Brianna A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: This written portion of my thesis documents how I, as Director, set about to bring J.M. Barrie’s classic, Peter Pan to the contemporary stage. I take the reader through my in-depth research into Barrie’s many adaptations of his story, seeking an understanding of the evolution of Peter Pan and noting major elements that were retained across time and those that were changed, in search of the “true” story of Peter Pan. I explore how my discoveries informed design choices, were folded into rehearsals, and ultimately arrived on stage.
In seeking the backbone of a classic, the vast interpretive history of Peter Pan and its many adaptations also gave me a sense of freedom to make my own changes. I discuss the major re-imagining of Tiger Lily and the Redskins to become the collaboratively created Never Landers, a dance ensemble of otherworldly characters sprung from the land itself.
I explore the major themes I identified in the play and discuss decisions to bring darkness, longing and loneliness to the stage rather than glossing over the complex elements of the story in order to create something cute for children. Finally, I offer an exploration of the production process as a major collaboration with many artists and consider various elements of my collaborations with the design team, fight director, dance choreographer, and the actors.
Peritoneal dialysis in an end-stage renal disease patient with massive ascites and primary liver cancer
Creators: name: Sun, Lulu
name: Liang, Chunmei
name: Wang, Yuqin
name: Li, Hui
name: Yao, Lijun
name: Jiang, Huajun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) coexisted with cirrhosis, ascites, and primary liver cancer represents an extraordinarily rare clinical condition that typically occurs in very late-stage decompensated cirrhosis and is associated with an extremely poor prognosis. We present a case of a 68-year-old male patient with ESRD who experienced various decompensated complications of liver cirrhosis, particularly massive ascites and hepatic space-occupying lesions. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) treatment were successfully performed. During meticulous follow-up, the patient survived for one year but ultimately succumbed to complications related to liver cancer. PD can serve as an efficacious therapeutic approach for such late-stage patients afflicted together with severe cirrhosis, massive ascites and primary liver cancer.
Encountering "Agaat": Toward a Dramaturgical Method of Adaptation
Creators: name: Adolphsen, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This M.F.A. thesis in dramaturgy presents the first-ever stage adaptation of South African writer Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat. Van Niekerk is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short story writer, poet, and dramatist particularly known for her lengthy novelistic excavations of Afriakner identity, in which sexuality, race, and gender collide in compelling but fraught ways. Covering nearly fifty-years of South African history—from the establishment of apartheid in 1948 through the nation’s transition to democracy in 1994—Agaat investigates everyday cycles of abuse and intimacy through the story of white farmer Milla de Wet and her coloured adopted daughter-cum-maid, Agaat Lourier. This thesis foregrounds the interconnections between theory and practice by presenting both the adaptation itself and a prolonged engagement with theories of adaptation and dramaturgy. It is framed, then, around a simple question: How might dramaturgy and adaptation, as cultural and artistic processes and products, encounter one another? Through analysis of current discussions in the fields of Adaptation Studies and dramaturgy, and reflections on the particular challenges and possibilities of adapting van Niekerk’s novel to the stage, the thesis argues that adaption can be understood as a mode of encounter that opens up spaces for connection between people, texts, and cultures. A dramaturgical method of adaptation is concerned not with hierarchy, authority, and fidelity, but rather with viewing adaptation as a conversation between a network of resonances. The thesis begins with an overview of van Niekerk’s work and context, moves to an examination of current conversations in Adaptation Studies and dramaturgy, and concludes with a prolonged reflection on the process of adapting Agaat to the stage.
Quark-Squark Alignment Revisited
Creators: name: Nir, Yosef
name: Raz, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the possibility that the solution to the supersymmetric flavor problem is related to small mixing angles in gaugino couplings induced by approximate horizontal Abelian symmetries. We prove that, for a large class of models, there is a single viable structure for the down quark mass matrix with four holomorphic zeros. Consequently, we are able to obtain both lower and upper bounds on the supersymmetric mixing angles and predict the contributions to various flavor changing neutral current processes. We find that the most likely signals for alignment are $Δm_D$ close to the present bound, significant CP violation in $D^0-\bar{D^0}$ mixing, and shifts of order a few percent in various CP asymmetries in $B^0$ and $B_s$ decays. In contrast, the modifications to radiative B decays, to $ε^\prime/ε$ and to $K\toπν\barν$ decays are small. We further investigate a new class of alignment models, where supersymmetric contributions to flavor changing processes are suppressed by both alignment and RGE-induced degeneracy.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
Clinical value of soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor in predicting sepsis-associated acute kidney injury
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenwen
name: Gu, Yue
name: Zhou, Jing
name: Wang, Juntao
name: Zhao, Xiaoru
name: Deng, Xiaoyu
name: Li, Han
name: Yan, Lei
name: Jiao, Xiaojing
name: Shao, Fengmin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (S-AKI) is a critical illness and is often associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. The soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is an important immune mediator and is involved in kidney injury. However, its diagnostic value in S-AKI patients remains unclear. Therefore, we assessed the early predictive value of suPAR for S-AKI patients. We prospectively enrolled adult patients, immediately after fulfilling the sepsis-3 criteria. Plasma suPAR levels at 0-, 12-, 24-, and 48-h post-sepsis diagnosis were measured. S-AKI development was the primary outcome. S-AKI risk factors were analyzed using logistic regression, and the value of plasma suPAR for early S-AKI diagnosis was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Of 179 sepsis patients, 63 (35.2%) developed AKI during hospitalization. At 12-, 24-, and 48-h post-sepsis diagnosis, plasma suPAR levels were significantly higher in patients with S-AKI than in patients without S-AKI (p < 0.05). The plasma suPAR had the highest area under the ROC curve of 0.700 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.621–0.779) at 24-h post-sepsis diagnosis, at which the best discrimination ability for S-AKI was achieved with suPAR of ≥6.31 ng/mL (sensitivity 61.9% and specificity 71.6%). Logistic regression analysis showed that suPAR at 24-h post-sepsis diagnosis remained an independent S-AKI risk factor after adjusting for mechanical ventilation, blood urea nitrogen, and pH. The findings suggest that plasma suPAR may be a potential biomarker for early S-AKI diagnosis.
COMPETITIVE ELECTRICITY MARKETS IN NEW YORK STATE: EMPIRICAL IMPACTS OF INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING
Creators: name: Ethier, Robert G.
name: Mount, Timothy D.
name: Ethier, Robert G.
name: Mount, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The analysis finds that if high industrial prices for electricity induce industrial customers to leave the regulated grid for self-generation or contracts with IPPs, this raises rates for those remaining on the system and reduces quantities purchased. It is assumed that lower industrial sector rates, such as those associated with a competitive electricity industry, will effectively eliminate defections. A switch to a more efficient two-part tariff, which can be expected to occur in a competitive electricity market, has the effect of increasing sales of electricity in all sectors while still raising needed revenues. Such a price structure is also found to lower the average price of electricity in each sector. An efficient two-part tariff is also likely to shift revenue responsibilities to immobile residential and commercial customers. This would occur because industrial customers shift demand by defection in response to average price changes, but residential and commercial demand is inelastic to customer charges. If prices are efficient, strandable cost allocations only have a minor effect on electricity demand because strandable cost payments are raised via a customer charge. If strandable costs are recovered by a wires charge (e.g. higher prices),however, there will be negative demand effects. Strandable costs significantly affect the average price of electricity and the average monthly bill in either case. Their allocation is important for equity reasons, as is the method of collection in determining the levels of sales. Removing strandable costs lowers the average price of electricity in each sector and increases demand. Lowering strandable costs is the only option which clearly benefits all sectors. •
Araguaia: Maoist Uprising and Military Counterinsurgency in the Brazilian Amazon, 1967-1975
Creators: name: Almeida, Thamyris F. T.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis argues that the Maoist guerrilla movement headed by members of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) chose Araguaia as the stage for its insurrection based on perceived ideological and physical advantages. It examines the founding of the PCdoB as it split from the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) over the issue of armed resistance in 1962. While the PCB did not promote the use of violence against the military dictatorship, the PCdoB sought an environment in which they could foster revolutionary fervor. Though the war’s longevity demonstrates that the PCdoB accurately assessed some camponeses’ willingness to help the guerrilheiros, their inability to foster loyalty within their ranks hindered the party’s mission. The movement’s leaders policed the bodies of pregnant guerrilla members and this lack of reproductive freedom led two members to abandon the revolutionary cause. Pedro Albuquerque Neto and his wife Tereza Cristina successfully abandoned detachment C in favor of keeping their child. Pedro was imprisoned in Fortaleza leading to the discovery of the guerrilla camps in Araguaia and the end to a revolution that never truly got off the ground. Thus, this thesis proposes that while the PCdoB’s choice in Araguaia was thought to garner the best possible opportunity for a rural revolution, their mission to radicalize the camponeses was cut short by the Brazilian Armed Forces in April of 1972.
Constraining the dense matter equation of state with joint analysis of NICER and LIGO/Virgo measurements
Creators: name: Raaijmakers, G.
name: Greif, S. K.
name: Riley, T. E.
name: Hinderer, T.
name: Hebeler, K.
name: Schwenk, A.
name: Watts, A. L.
name: Nissanke, S.
name: Guillot, S.
name: Lattimer, J. M.
name: Ludlam, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NICER collaboration recently published a joint estimate of the mass and the radius of PSR J0030+0451, derived via X-ray pulse-profile modeling. Raaijmakers et al. (2019) explored the implications of this measurement for the dense matter equation of state (EOS) using two parameterizations of the high-density EOS: a piecewise-polytropic model, and a model based on the speed of sound in neutron stars. In this work we obtain further constraints on the EOS following this approach, but we also include information about the tidal deformability of neutron stars from the gravitational wave signal of the compact binary merger GW170817. We compare the constraints on the EOS to those set by the recent measurement of a 2.14 solar mass pulsar, included as a likelihood function approximated by a Gaussian, and find a small increase in information gain. To show the flexibility of our method, we also explore the possibility that GW170817 was a neutron star-black hole merger, which yields weaker constraints on the EOS.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Reconsidering the Community Center - Restorative Strategies Within Existing Frameworks
Creators: name: Gilbert, John
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: The overarching goal of this investigation is to determine how an existing building of spatial and programmatic rigidity can serve as a framework for designing a more integrated center for personal and community development. This project is an exploration of what a building can evolve into after its "shelf-life" has expired, with the aid of a reconsidered architectural vision. Formulated within criteria individual to its context, it is intended to be an investigation of possibility and the testing of a nascent potential, not an attempt to serve as a prescriptive, panacea solution. It is an examination of a creative vision in the development of a more responsive and expressive community space.
Through this exploration, the architectural experience as derived from a subject-object perspective will be investigated and considered, as well as the art of placemaking in crafting a design strategy that is responsive to its immediate context, reconsidering the ability of architecture to generate meaning and experience outside of its prototypically considered building-envelope boundaries. By focusing on the potential to for personal and community-based growth and development, three avenues of program will be explored: Education, Experience, and Expression. Serving as an intersection point between cultural production and cultural consumption, the transmission of this cultural capital has the ability to gestate a deeper sense of identity amongst the embedded community.
TUGAS MAKALAH INDIVIDU DAN MAKALAH KELOMPOK
Creators: name: RISTY RAFI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: kewirausahaan
peluang usaha
karakteristik wirausaha

description: Adapun Makalah Individu membahasa mengenai peluang usaha, cara mengenali peluang usaha dan analisis kelayakan usaha. Makalah Kelompok membahas mengenai pengertian dari kewirausahaan dan karakter seorang wirausaha.
description: Makalah Individu dan Makalah Kelompok guna memenuhi ujian akhir semester mata kuliah kewirausahaan
Investigating a Cartographic Niche: Drawing Maps for Historians
Creators: name: Blackmer, Kate
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Drawing maps for historians involves a number of distinct challenges. The historical cartographer must grapple not only with geological changes over time, but geographical ones, from human-cultural to physical, and from political to spatial. Original manuscripts must be read with close attention toward extracting geographical data, map sources must be vetted, and design challenges must be resolved. Furthermore, many of the antiquarian sources that are used to create current-day maps of historical times have unique scales, projections, and senses of place—all of which present complications that need to be overcome when creating historically based maps for publication. This thesis describes some of the quagmires that the historical cartographer encounters on a regular basis, and details methods for avoiding them. Using maps drawn by the author as source materials, techniques for creating historically cognizant, technically accurate, and elegant maps are examined and described as parts of the process of illustrating historians’ manuscripts. Ultimately, the goal of the historical cartographer is to create maps that provide readers with an easily graspable graphic methodology for understanding the arguments presented in the text. When this is done well, the maps support the legitimacy of the historian’s research and offer a clarity of vision that might otherwise be difficult with words alone.
What the resonance peak cannot do
Creators: name: Kee, Hae-Young
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
name: Aeppli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In certain cuprates, a spin 1 resonance mode is prominent in the magnetic structure measured by neutron scattering. It has been proposed that this mode is responsible for significant features seen in other spectroscopies, such as photoemission and optical absorption, which are sensitive to the charge dynamics, and even that this mode is the boson responsibile for ``mediating'' the superconducting pairing. We show that its small (measured) intensity and weak coupling to electron-hole pairs (as deduced from the measured lifetime) disqualifies the resonant mode from either proposed role.
description: 4 pages, no figure
A Lighting Design Concept for the Lighting for William Shakespeare's: The Merchant of Venice
Creators: name: Blagys, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: ABSTRACT
A LIGHTING DESIGN CONCEPT FOR THE LIGHTING FOR
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Spring 2015
MICHAEL BLAGYS, B.A., LE MOYNE COLLEGE
M.F.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
Under the Direction of Penny L. Remsen
I designed the lighting for William Shakespeare's complex piece, The Merchant of Venice, which was produced by the UMass Amherst Theater Department. In this thesis paper, I will discuss the creative process from start to finish, including relevant lighting paperwork and production photographs.
Additional file 3 of The theoretical basis of a nationally implemented type 2 diabetes prevention programme: how is the programme expected to produce changes in behaviour?
Creators: name: Hawkes, Rhiannon E.
name: Miles, Lisa M.
name: French, David P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. ‘If-Then’ table to inform the BCT logic model of the NHS-DPP.
MOESM2 of Mapping actionable pathways and mutations in brain tumours using targeted RNA next generation sequencing
Creators: name: Krissie Lenting
name: Heuvel, Corina
name: Ewijk, Anne
name: Duaa ElMelik
name: Boer, Remco
name: Tindall, Elizabeth
name: Wei, Ge
name: Kusters, Benno
name: Dorsthorst, Maarten
name: Laan, Mark
name: Huynen, Martijn
name: Leenders, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1a. Differential gene expression in cluster A vs. B. A total of 83 genes were differentially expressed between the two clusters. Only genes that were significantly different are shown. Mean gene expression values (FPM) values for the clusters are given. For significance: A Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test with multiple testing correction was performed. Values are significant when the p-value is lower than the False Discovery Rate (FDR). The cutoff for the FDR was
FlowSense: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Data Exploration within a Dataflow System
Creators: name: Yu, Bowen
name: Silva, Claudio T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dataflow visualization systems enable flexible visual data exploration by allowing the user to construct a dataflow diagram that composes query and visualization modules to specify system functionality. However learning dataflow diagram usage presents overhead that often discourages the user. In this work we design FlowSense, a natural language interface for dataflow visualization systems that utilizes state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to assist dataflow diagram construction. FlowSense employs a semantic parser with special utterance tagging and special utterance placeholders to generalize to different datasets and dataflow diagrams. It explicitly presents recognized dataset and diagram special utterances to the user for dataflow context awareness. With FlowSense the user can expand and adjust dataflow diagrams more conveniently via plain English. We apply FlowSense to the VisFlow subset-flow visualization system to enhance its usability. We evaluate FlowSense by one case study with domain experts on a real-world data analysis problem and a formal user study.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
MOESM1 of Measuring energy, macro and micronutrient intake in UK children and adolescents: a comparison of validated dietary assessment tools
Creators: name: Bush, Linda
name: Hutchinson, Jayne
name: Hooson, Jozef
name: Warthon-Medina, Marisol
name: Hancock, Neil
name: Greathead, Katharine
name: Knowles, Bethany
name: Vargas-Garcia, Elisa
name: Gibson, Lauren
name: Margetts, Barrie
name: Robinson, Sian
name: Ness, Andy
name: Nisreen Alwan
name: Wark, Petra
name: Roe, Mark
name: Finglas, Paul
name: Steer, Toni
name: Page, Polly
name: Johnson, Laura
name: Roberts, Katharine
name: Birdem Amoutzopoulos
name: Greenwood, Darren
name: Cade, Janet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. systematic review of reviews search algorithm. This is an example of a search run in Ovid MEDLINE(R). The search was initially conducted in May/June 2015, then updated in October 2016, and was restricted to reviews published between January 2000 and October 2016. (DOCX 12 kb)
Search for Single Leptoquark and Squark Production in Electron-Photon Scattering at sqrt(s_ee) = 189 GeV at LEP
Creators: name: The OPAL Collaboration
name: Abbiendi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks (LQ) as well as for squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models has been performed using e+e- collisions collected with the OPAL detector at LEP at an e+e- centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s_ee) of 189 GeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of about 160 pb-1. The dominant process for this search is e q -> LQ/squark -> e q, nu q, where a photon, which has been radiated by one of the beam electrons, serves as a source of quarks. The numbers of selected events found in the two decay channels are in agreement with the expectations from Standard Model processes. This result allows to set lower limits at the 95% confidence level on the mass of first generation scalar and vector leptoquarks, and of squarks in R-parity violating SUSY models. For Yukawa couplings lambda to fermions larger than sqrt{4 pi alpha_em}, the mass limits range from 121 GeV/c^2 to 175 GeV/c^2 (149 GeV/c^2 to 188 GeV/c^2) depending on the branching ratio beta of the scalar (vector) leptoquark state. Furthermore, limits are set on the Yukawa couplings lambda for leptoquarks and lambda'_1jk for squarks, and on beta as a function of the scalar leptoquark/squark mass.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures, Submitted to Eur.Phys.J.C
Analysis of chronic kidney disease epidemiology in Kazakhstan using nationwide data for 2014–2020 and forecasting future trends of prevalence and mortality for 2030
Creators: name: Zhakhina, Gulnur
name: Mussina, Kamilla
name: Yerdessov, Sauran
name: Gusmanov, Arnur
name: Sakko, Yesbolat
name: Kim, Valdemir
name: Syssoyev, Dmitriy
name: Madikenova, Meruyert
name: Assan, Ainur
name: Kuanshaliyeva, Zhanat
name: Turebekov, Duman
name: Yergaliyev, Kuanysh
name: Bekishev, Bolat
name: Gaipov, Abduzhappar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, chronic kidney disease (CKD) was prevalent in 697.5 million individuals worldwide in 2017. By 2040, it is anticipated that CKD will rank as the fifth most common cause of death. This study aims to examine the epidemiology of CKD in Kazakhstan and to project future trends in CKD prevalence and mortality by 2030. The retrospective analysis was performed on a database acquired from the Unified National Electronic Health System for 703,122 patients with CKD between 2014 and 2020. During the observation period, 444,404 women and 258,718 men were registered with CKD, 459,900 (66%) were Kazakhs and 47% were older than 50. The incidence rate notably decreased: 6365 people per million population (PMP) in 2014 and 4040 people PMP in 2020. The prevalence changed from 10,346 to 38,287 people PMP, and the mortality rate increased dramatically from 279 PMP to 916 PMP. Kazakhstan’s central regions, Turkestan and Kyzylorda were identified as the most burdensome ones. The ARIMA model projected 1,504,694 expected prevalent cases in 2030. The predicted mortality climbed from 17,068 cases in 2020 to 37,305 deaths in 2030. By 2030, the prevalence and mortality of CKD will significantly increase, according to the predicted model. A thorough action plan with effective risk factor management, enhanced screening among risk populations, and prompt treatment are required to lessen the burden of disease in Kazakhstan.
Microgrid Resilience: A holistic approach for assessing threats, identifying vulnerabilities, and designing corresponding mitigation strategies
Creators: name: Mishra, Sakshi
name: Anderson, Kate
name: Miller, Brian
name: Boyer, Kyle
name: Warren, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Microgrids are being increasing deployed to improve the operational flexibility, resilience, coordinated-energy management capabilities, self-adequacy, and increased reliability of power systems. This strong market growth is also driven by advances in power electronics, improved control systems, and the rapidly falling price and increased adoption of distributed energy generation technologies, like solar photovoltaics and storage. In the event of grid outages, microgrids can provide a backup source of power; providing resilience to the critical loads; however, this requires that the microgrid itself is resilient to physical and cyber threats. Building highly resilient microgrids requires a methodological assessment of potential threats, identification of vulnerabilities, and design of mitigation strategies. This paper provides a comprehensive review of threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies and develops a definition for microgrid resilience. The paper also develops a methodology for designing resilient microgrids by considering how microgrid designers and site owners evaluate threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences and choose the microgrid features required to address these threats under different situations.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Dendronotus Alder and Hancock 1845
Creators: name: Pola, Marta
name: Stout, Carla C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Nudibranchia
Dendronotidae
Dendronotus

description: Dendronotus Alder and Hancock, 1845
 Type species: Dendronotus frondosus (Ascanius, 1774), by original designation.
description: Published as part of Pola, Marta & Stout, Carla C., 2008, Description of the first two tropical Indo-Pacific species of Dendronotus (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia) with new data of the poorly known species Dendronotus gracilis Baba, 1949, pp. 45-66 in Zootaxa 1960 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1960.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5241478