cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Overexpression of human processing alpha-glucosidase I and functional study of yeast processing alpha-glucosidase I
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Processing α-glucosidase I (Glu I) holds a key regulatory position in the N-glycosylation pathway. Glu I mutations in humans have severe or fatal outcomes. Despite the important role of human Glu I (MOGS), very little information is available regarding the function, mechanism and structure of the enzyme. The lack of methods to produce sufficient quantities of the enzyme is a major drawback in carrying out further structural and mechanistic studies. Therefore, this thesis was focused on establishing a Pichia pastoris expression system for MOGS. MOGS with an N-terminal histidine (6xHis) tag was overexpressed in P. pastoris and purified by FPLC using a His-trap column. The purified MOGS was N-linked glycosylated and was enzymatically active (specific activity of 735 U/mg) against the synthetic substrate α-D-Glc1,2α-D-Glc1,3α-D-Glc–OCH₃. However, the overexpression of MOGS in P. pastoris was not reproducible and it was overexpressed intracellularly in subsequent expression trials. Therefore, overexpression of MOGS in E. coli was attempted, but the expressed MOGS accumulated as inclusion bodies with either a MBP (maltose binding protein) tag or a 6xHis-tag. Two methods (urea denaturation-refolding and freeze-thawing) were used to purify MOGS from inclusion bodies. However, less than 0.5 mg from one litre culture was recovered and it was not enzymatically active. As the overexpression of active MOGS in either P. pastoris or E. coli was not successful, further characterization of Glu I was continued with the study of the N-terminal function of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Glu I (Cwh41p). The Cwh41p clones with N-terminal truncations were constructed and the proteins were overexpressed in E. coli. Among the six truncations, five truncations (Cwh41Δ1-167p, Cwh41Δ1-93p, Cwh41Δ1-74p, Cwh41Δ1-54p and Cwh41Δ1-45p) were expressed mainly in inclusion bodies and the eluted fractions from His-trap column were not enzymatically active. However, the eluted fractions of Cwh41Δ1-39p and the internal control (Cwh41Δ1-34p) were active with a specific activity of 266 U/mg and 2000 U/mg, respectively. This indicates that the residues 35-45 of Cwh41p may be essential for the proper folding of Cwh41p. I propose that the α-helix (NH1) of Cwh41p plays a positive role in protein folding by interacting with C-domain of the enzyme.
Characterization, metal chelation and anti-cancerous activity ofextracelluar melanin pigments produced byPseudomonas mosselii STSGRDS1
Creators: name: Trisha Mary P., A.
name: Sharmila Srimathi, D.
name: Arya R. Krishna, Jayaprabha. C
name: Swathy Krishna, J.
name: Suganthi Ramasamy
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: melanin
Pseudomonas mosselii
anti-cancer
metal chelation
MIC

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1041-1048
FUNCTIONAL PRODUCTS, THEIR PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS
Creators: name: Bondar, M.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2020
Subjects: prebiotics
probiotics
bifidobacteria
lactobacilli
fruit and berry enrichments
thickeners
fermented sour milk desserts

description: The article deals with the functions and properties of functional dairy products according to the systematization of terms, in relation to functional foods initiated by the introduction of GOST 52349-2005 "Food, food functional. Terms and definitions ", which was introduced on July 10, 2006.
Robust correlators
Creators: name: Fridman, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio frequency interference (RFI) already limits the sensitivity of existing radio telescopes in several frequency bands and may prove to be an even greater obstacle for future generation instruments to overcome. I aim to create a structure of radio astronomy correlators which will be statistically stable (robust) in the presence of interference. A statistical analysis of the mixture of system noise + signal noise + RFI is proposed here which could be incorporated into the block diagram of a correlator. Order and rank statistics are especially useful when calculated in both temporal and frequency domains. Several new algorithms of robust correlators are proposed and investigated here. Computer simulations and processing of real data demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed algorithms.
Just Enough, Just in Time, Just for "Me": Fundamental Principles for Engineering IoT-native Software Systems
Creators: name: Li, Zheng
name: Ranjan, Rajiv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: By seamlessly integrating everyday objects and by changing the way we interact with our surroundings, Internet of Things (IoT) is drastically improving the life quality of households and enhancing the productivity of businesses. Given the unique IoT characteristics, IoT applications have emerged distinctively from the mainstream application types. Inspired by the outlook of a programmable world, we further foresee an IoT-native trend in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining software systems. However, although the challenges of IoT software projects are frequently discussed, addressing those challenges are still in the "crossing the chasm" period. By participating in a few various IoT projects, we gradually distilled three fundamental principles for engineering IoT-native software systems, such as just enough, just in time, and just for "me". These principles target the challenges that are associated with the most typical features of IoT environments, ranging from resource limits to technology heterogeneity of IoT devices. We expect this research to trigger dedicated efforts, techniques and theories for the topic IoT-native software engineering.
description: 5 pages
PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRATED COUNTER RISK MANAGEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS IN CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Creators: name: Bedrii, D.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2020
Subjects: scientific project
principles
integrated counter risk management
conflicts
factors
behavioral economics.

description: The principles of integrated counter risk management of scientific projects in conditions of uncertainty and behavioral economics have been proposed in the study. Based on the analysis of previous works, the need to improve the efficiency of human resources management of scientific projects through the use of performance indicators has been identified. The principles of the integrated counter-risk management of a scientific project in the conditions of behavioral economics, which can be applied in the process of human resource management of scientific projects, are considered.
Polyploidy induction of black sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) for yieldcomponent improvement
Creators: name: Suntaree Surson
name: Suphasit Sitthaphanit
name: Khumpanat Wongkerson
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: black sesame
Sesamum indicum L.
polyploid
colchicine

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1049-1055
Asteroseismology of Solar-type stars with Kepler II: Stellar Modeling
Creators: name: Metcalfe, T. S.
name: Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.
name: Thompson, M. J.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
name: Basu, S.
name: Bonanno, A.
name: DiMauro, M. P.
name: Dogan, G.
name: Eggenberger, P.
name: Karoff, C.
name: Stello, D.
name: WG1, KASC
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations from the Kepler satellite were recently published for three bright G-type stars, which were monitored during the first 33.5d of science operations. One of these stars, KIC 11026764, exhibits a characteristic pattern of oscillation frequencies suggesting that the star has evolved significantly. We have derived initial estimates of the properties of KIC 11026764 from the oscillation frequencies observed by Kepler, combined with ground-based spectroscopic data. We present preliminary results from detailed modeling of this star, employing a variety of independent codes and analyses that attempt to match the asteroseismic and spectroscopic constraints simultaneously.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, Astronomische Nachrichten
Generation of modal and path-entangled photons using a domain-engineered integrated optical waveguide device
Creators: name: Lugani, Jasleen
name: Ghosh, Sankalpa
name: Thyagarajan, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integrated optical devices are expected to play a promising role in the field of quantum information science and technology. In this paper, we propose a scheme for the generation of nondegenerate, copolarised, modal, and path- entangled photons using a directional coupler and an asymmetric Y-coupler geometry in type 0 phase-matched domain engineered lithium niobate(LN) waveguide. The nonlinearity in LN is tailored in such a way that quasi phase matching conditions for two different spontaneous parametric down conversion processes are obeyed simultaneously, leading to a modal and path-entangled state at the output. Assuming typical values of various parameters, we show, through numerical simulations, that an almost maximally entangled state is achievable over a wide range of waveguide parameters. For the degenerate case, the scheme gives a NOON state for N = 2. The generated entangled photon pairs should have potential applications in quantum information schemes and also in quantum metrology. By appropriate domain engineering and component designing, the idea can be further extended to generate hyperentangled and two-photon multipath-entangled states, which may have further applications in quantum computation protocols.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
REDUCED PROCESSING TIME WHEN WORKING WITH LONG ARITHMETIC
Creators: name: Popova, O.
name: Bogatsky N
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2020
Subjects: Visual Studio 2017
Processing Time
Method
Long Arithmetic.

description: In this article suggested, considered and analyzed a new faster method for working with long arithmetic, compare to built in programming languages C#. Long arithmetic is the main part in that scopes such as cryptography and bank software. Scope of the presented method covers in built library Big Integer. The implemented class you can use as faster alternative to the built-in class. The solution considered is implemented using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. Results conclude theoretical findings, based on practical research. As a result, this method shows itself as a possible alternative to the built-in class. Despite the faster processing of operations, the proposed method loses in terms of speed of initialization and memory. But it is worth saying that this method can be significantly accelerated by reworking the initialization and the operations themselves using shifts, while maintaining the idea of dividing a number into blocks, the proposed method can also be redone to store any values. Thus, both methods have their pros and cons, and the idea in the proposed method can be developed for a very long time to achieve better results
Liver histopathology of selected estuarine fishesfrom the Pranburi River estuary of Thailand
Creators: name: Tassaporn Kanjanarakha
name: Sinlapachai Senarat
name: Kettratad, Jes
name: Koraon Wongkamhaeng
name: Chanyut Sudtongkong
name: Wannee Jiraungkoorskul
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: estuarine
histopathology
liver
teleost
Thailand

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1056-1062
Above and below : changes in conduit artery after spinal cord injury, autonomic dysreflexia, and passive exercise
Creators: name: Zheng, Mei Mu Zi (Annie)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that not only results in motor and sensory loss, but also autonomic dysfunctions. Individuals with SCI experience a 3-4 fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading cause of mortality in this population. Endothelial dysfunction is among the earliest markers of CVD progression. This thesis aims to: 1) clarify previous reports showing a counterintuitive improvement in endothelial function after SCI, 2) examine the effect of autonomic dysreflexia (AD) on conduit vasculature, and 3) assess the efficacy of passive exercise (PE) to reverse vascular dysfunction. In uninjured controls (CON), T3-complete spinal cord transected Wistar rats (SCI), T3-transected with induced AD by colorectal distension (SCI+CRD), and T3-transected with PE (SCI+PE), we assessed endothelium-dependent vasodilation and specific mechanisms for relaxation in brachial (BA) and femoral artery (FA) using wire-myography. Sympathetic innervation, mechanotransducer expression [transient receptor potential channel V4 (TRPV4)], arterial morphology, and profibrotic markers were assessed using immunohistochemistry. Impaired reactivity to acetylcholine was seen in FA after SCI via decreased contribution of endothelium dependent hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) mediated pathways, while BA showed preserved endothelial function. Moreover, FA in SCI exhibited inward remodelling, 37.7% less sympathetic nerve fiber density, and increased collagen I expression (53.0%). Chronic repetitive AD resulted in a shift in vasodilatory mechanisms away from nitric oxide and towards EDHF, hypersensitivity to phenylephrine, and reduced elastin expression (13.9%). Passive hind-limb exercise after SCI led to improved sensitivity of FA to acetylcholine, through an increase in TRPV4 and prostacyclin-mediated pathways for vasodilation. Outward remodelling, as well as decreased expression of transforming growth factor beta (47.7%) and collagen I (39.0%) was seen in FA after PE. We have shown, for the first time, the expected endothelial dysfunction in the inactive/supraspinally disrupted FA after SCI and that chronic repetitive AD resulted in exacerbation of vascular dysfunction caudal to injury. Furthermore, PE was effective in reversing endothelial dysfunction and provided atheroprotective benefit, indicating PE may be a viable therapeutic intervention for preventing CVD after SCI. The observed changes provide insight into the mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction and possible directions on improvement of vascular health after SCI.
Statistically Stable Estimates of Variance in Radioastronomical Observations as Tools for RFI Mitigation
Creators: name: Fridman, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A selection of statistically stable (robust) algorithms for data variance calculating has been made. Their properties have been analyzed via computer simulation. These algorithms would be useful if adopted in radio astronomy observations in the presence of strong sporadic radio frequency interference (RFI). Several observational results have been presented here to demonstrate the effectiveness of these algorithms in RFI mitigation.
DRAWNAPART: A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting
Creators: name: Laor, Tomer
name: Mehanna, Naif
name: Durey, Antonin
name: Dyadyuk, Vitaly
name: Laperdrix, Pierre
name: Maurice, Clémentine
name: Oren, Yossi
name: Rouvoy, Romain
name: Rudametkin, Walter
name: Yarom, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Browser fingerprinting aims to identify users or their devices, through scripts that execute in the users' browser and collect information on software or hardware characteristics. It is used to track users or as an additional means of identification to improve security. In this paper, we report on a new technique that can significantly extend the tracking time of fingerprint-based tracking methods. Our technique, which we call DrawnApart, is a new GPU fingerprinting technique that identifies a device based on the unique properties of its GPU stack. Specifically, we show that variations in speed among the multiple execution units that comprise a GPU can serve as a reliable and robust device signature, which can be collected using unprivileged JavaScript. We investigate the accuracy of DrawnApart under two scenarios. In the first scenario, our controlled experiments confirm that the technique is effective in distinguishing devices with similar hardware and software configurations, even when they are considered identical by current state-of-the-art fingerprinting algorithms. In the second scenario, we integrate a one-shot learning version of our technique into a state-of-the-art browser fingerprint tracking algorithm. We verify our technique through a large-scale experiment involving data collected from over 2,500 crowd-sourced devices over a period of several months and show it provides a boost of up to 67% to the median tracking duration, compared to the state-of-the-art method. DrawnApart makes two contributions to the state of the art in browser fingerprinting. On the conceptual front, it is the first work that explores the manufacturing differences between identical GPUs and the first to exploit these differences in a privacy context. On the practical front, it demonstrates a robust technique for distinguishing between machines with identical hardware and software configurations.
description: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, Feb 2022, San Diego, United States
VHMPID: a new detector for the ALICE experiment at LHC
Creators: name: Agócs, A. G.
name: Alfaro, R.
name: Barnaföldi, G. G.
name: Bellwied, R.
name: Bencze, Gy.
name: Berényi, D.
name: Boldizsár, L.
name: Cuautle, E.
name: De Cataldo, G.
name: Di Bari, D.
name: Di Mauro, A.
name: Dominguez, I.
name: Futó, E.
name: García, E.
name: Hamar, G.
name: Harris, J.
name: Harton, A.
name: Kovács, L.
name: Lévai, P.
name: Lipusz, Cs.
name: Markert, C.
name: Martinengo, P.
name: Martinez, M. I.
name: Mastromarco, M.
name: Mayani, D.
name: Molnár, L.
name: Nappi, E.
name: Ortiz, A.
name: Paić, G.
name: Pastore, C.
name: Patino, M. E.
name: Perini, D.
name: Perrino, D.
name: Peskov, V.
name: Pinsky, L.
name: Piuz, F.
name: Pochybová, S.
name: Smirnov, N.
name: Song, J.
name: Timmins, A.
name: Varga, D.
name: Vargas, A.
name: Vergara, S.
name: Volpe, G.
name: Yi, J.
name: Yoo, I. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents the basic idea of VHMPID, an upgrade detector for the ALICE experiment at LHC, CERN. The main goal of this detector is to extend the particle identification capabilities of ALICE to give more insight into the evolution of the hot and dense matter created in Pb-Pb collisions. Starting from the physics motivations and working principles the challenges and current status of development is detailed.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures. To be published in EPJ Web of Conferences
Responding to ideological change : partisan sorting in contemporary democracies, 1996-2015
Creators: name: Major, Tiana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This paper examines whether shifts in a party’s ideological positioning affect their own partisans’ left-right self-placements. When faced with a change in their party’s position, partisans are likely to adapt to this change, either through switching partisanship to another party, or updating their own ideology to match that of the party. Together, this process of partisan sorting leads to greater ideological alignment between parties and partisans. This paper examines whether there is evidence of partisan sorting in 23 contemporary democracies from 1996 to 2015. Using the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems and Manifesto Project data, the analysis finds evidence that partisan sorting may be occurring, but only in polarized party systems.
Dimensionality reduction - A soft set-theoretic and soft graph approach
Creators: name: Omdutt Sharma
name: Pratiksha Tiwari
name: Gupta, Priti
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: dimensionality reduction
soft set
grade membership
binary-valued information system
soft graph

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1063-1070
Hadronic final states in DIS with Sherpa
Creators: name: Carli, Tancredi
name: Gehrmann, Thomas
name: Hoeche, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extension of the multi-purpose Monte-Carlo event generator Sherpa for processes in deeply inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering. Hadronic final states in this kinematical setting are characterised by the presence of multiple kinematical scales, which were up to now accounted for only by specific resummations in individual kinematical regions. An extension of a known method for merging truncated parton showers with higher-order tree-level matrix elements allows to obtain predictions which are reliable in all kinematical limits.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the XVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, April 19-23, 2010, Firenze, Italy
Fuzzy logic based scheduling of the product familiesin reconfigurable manufacturing systems
Creators: name: Durga Prasad
name: S. C. Jayswal
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: reconfigurable manufacturing system
reconfigurable machines
scheduling
fuzzy logic
fuzzy rules

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1071-1077
On the reliability of proxies for globular cluster collision rates
Creators: name: Maccarone, Thomas J.
name: Peacock, Mark B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) Proxies for the stellar collision rates in globular clusters are often used. We present comparisons between these proxies and the full integrated collision rate for King models. Gamma, defined to be rho_0^3/2 r_c^2$, where $ρ_0$ is the central cluster density, and r_c is the core radius, is an accurate representation of the collision rate from the King model to within about 25% for all but the least concentrated clusters. Gamma_h, defined to be rho_h^3/2 r_h^2, where rho_h is the average density within the half-light radius, and $r_h$ is the half-light radius, is only marginally better correlated with the full King model collision rate than is the cluster luminosity. The two galaxies where results of King model fitting have been reported in detail show a dearth of core-collapsed clusters relative to that seen in the Milky Way, indicating that the core radii of the most concentrated clusters are probably slightly overestimated. Recent work has suggested that shallower than linear relations exist between proxies for Gamma and the probability that a cluster will contain an X-ray source; we show that there is a similarly shallow relationship between Gamma and Gamma_h; we also show that measurement errors are likely to produce a shallower than linear relationship even when Gamma itself is used. The evidence is thus consistent with the idea that X-ray binary formation rates are linearly proportional to cluster collision rates. We also find, through comparison with multimass models, suggestive evidence that the retention fractions of neutron stars in globular clusters may be related to the present day concentration parameters, which would imply that the most concentrated clusters today were the most concentrated clusters at the time of their supernovae.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Impact of soil amendments and fertilizers on maize (Zea mays L.)growth and yield and on physical, chemical,and biological soil properties
Creators: name: Agbesi Kwadzo Keteku
name: Pumisak Intanon
name: Suwat Terapongtanakorn
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: calcium carbonate powder
HO fertilizer
maize yield
soil properties
Ultragreen

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 1078-1085
Evidenzbasierte Mentaltechniken für Kinder und ihre Möglichkeiten in der Psychomotoriktherapie
Creators: name: Renaud-dit-Louis, Fabienne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Studiengang Psychomotoriktherapietherapie
Kind
Mentales Training
Bachelorarbeit

description: Diese Bachelor-Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche evidenzbasierten Mentaltechni-ken für die Arbeit mit Kindern existieren und was sich durch deren Anwendung für Förder-möglichkeiten in der Psychomotoriktherapie ergeben. Es handelt sich um eine Literaturarbeit. 24 Studien konnten anhand bestimmter Einschlusskriterien in die qualitative Auswertung miteinbezogen werden. Die Analyse zeigt, dass sich für die Psychomotoriktherapie vielfältige Möglichkeiten ergeben, mit evidenzbasierten Mentaltechniken zu arbeiten. Es wird aber auch klar, dass weitere Studien notwendig sind, um die konkrete Umsetzung in der praktischen Arbeit optimal zu gestalten.
Ejection of cool plasma into the hot corona
Creators: name: Zacharias, P.
name: Peter, H.
name: Bingert, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the processes that lead to the formation, ejection and fall of a confined plasma ejection that was observed in a numerical experiment of the solar corona. By quantifying physical parameters such as mass, velocity, and orientation of the plasma ejection relative to the magnetic field, we provide a description of the nature of this particular phenomenon. The time-dependent three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (3D MHD) equations are solved in a box extending from the chromosphere to the lower corona. The plasma is heated by currents that are induced through field line braiding as a consequence of photospheric motions. Spectra of optically thin emission lines in the extreme ultraviolet range are synthesized, and magnetic field lines are traced over time. Following strong heating just above the chromosphere, the pressure rapidly increases, leading to a hydrodynamic explosion above the upper chromosphere in the low transition region. The explosion drives the plasma, which needs to follow the magnetic field lines. The ejection is then moving more or less ballistically along the loop-like field lines and eventually drops down onto the surface of the Sun. The speed of the ejection is in the range of the sound speed, well below the Alfven velocity. The plasma ejection is basically a hydrodynamic phenomenon, whereas the rise of the heating rate is of magnetic nature. The granular motions in the photosphere lead (by chance) to a strong braiding of the magnetic field lines at the location of the explosion that in turn is causing strong currents which are dissipated. Future studies need to determine if this process is a ubiquitous phenomenon on the Sun on small scales. Data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (AIA/SDO) might provide the relevant information.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE FAILURE OF INTESTINAL SUTURES. WAYS TO ELIMINATE THEM
Creators: name: Moroz, P.
name: Kurchyk, R.
name: Kotelban, A.
name: Kharabara, O.
Publisher: name: The Scientific Heritage
Year: 2020
Subjects: abdominal surgery
failure of intestinal anastomoses
intestinal sutures
laparotomy
fibrin sealant
antimicrobial endoprotector
epidermized cryophilized xenodermoimplants

description: Failure of intestinal anastomoses remains an urgent and complex problem of abdominal surgery. It’s caused by a number of post-surgery complications (peritonitis, abdominal abscesses, intestinal fistulas, etc.), as well as by related to them further surgical interventions, which is accompanied by an increase in the duration and cost of treatment of patients, as well as high mortality rates. According to statistics, failure of anastomoses occurs in 3.4– 34.6% of cases, which leads to post-surgery peritonitis in 24.2–44.3%, and the mortality from the latter reaches 50–65%. This problem has not only medical but also socio-economic significance
A relationship between AGN jet power and radio power
Creators: name: Cavagnolo, K. W.
name: McNamara, B. R.
name: Nulsen, P. E. J.
name: Carilli, C. L.
name: Jones, C.
name: Birzan, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Chandra X-ray and VLA radio data, we investigate the scaling relationship between jet power, P_jet, and synchrotron luminosity, P_rad. We expand the sample presented in Birzan et al. (2008) to lower radio power by incorporating measurements for 21 gEs to determine if the Birzan et al. (2008) P_jet-P_rad scaling relations are continuous in form and scatter from giant elliptical galaxies (gEs) up to brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). We find a mean scaling relation of P_jet approximately 5.8x10^43 (P_rad/10^40)^(0.70) erg/s which is continuous over ~6-8 decades in P_jet and P_rad with a scatter of approximately 0.7 dex. Our mean scaling relationship is consistent with the model presented in Willott et al. (1999) if the typical fraction of lobe energy in non-radiating particles to that in relativistic electrons is > 100. We identify several gEs whose radio luminosities are unusually large for their jet powers and have radio sources which extend well beyond the densest parts of their X-ray halos. We suggest that these radio sources are unusually luminous because they were unable to entrain appreciable amounts of gas.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal; 8 pages, 3 color figures, 1 table
Solvability of second-order equations with hierarchically partially BMO coefficients
Creators: name: Dong, Hongjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By using some recent results for divergence form equations, we study the $L_p$-solvability of second-order elliptic and parabolic equations in nondivergence form for any $p\in (1,\infty)$. The leading coefficients are assumed to be in locally BMO spaces with suitably small BMO seminorms. We not only extend several previous results by Krylov and Kim [14]-[18] to the full range of $p$, but also deal with equations with more general coefficients.
description: 28 Pages. An earlier version was submitted in 2009. The current version is to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc
Getting the message across: flexitarians as messengers for meat reduction
Creators: name: Ginn, Joel
name: Lickel, Brian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite a consensus among climate scientists on the impact of meat consumption on climate change, this has not yet had a significant impact on dietary attitudes and behavior in the broader public. Recent efforts to address this have focused on reduction of meat consumption (e.g., flexitarianism, reducetarianism) rather than elimination of meat consumption. This reduction-rather-than-elimination approach may have positive effects on how far messages about meat consumption will spread in a social network, reaching more people with therefore a potentially greater impact. To better understand the potential impact of such message, three studies compared reduction versus vegetarian messages that were provided by a person who reduces their meat consumption versus a vegetarian. Overall, reduction focused messages and messengers result in greater acceptance of the message and higher willingness to share the message with others compared to a strictly vegetarian message/messenger.
Canadian civic education, deliberative democracy, and dissent
Creators: name: Van Den Berg, Ryan James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This thesis develops two normative standards for the evaluation of secondary-level Canadian civic education curricula, and evaluates British Columbia (B.C.)’s Civic Studies 11 and Ontario’s Civics (Politics) curricula accordingly. Both standards are concerned with the models of democracy that inform each curriculum and, more specifically, how these models open or close curricular spaces to prepare students to dissent in civic and political life. These standards are also sensitive to policymakers’ desire to increase Canadian youths’ civic engagement. Chapter One outlines the author’s agonist and semi-archic theoretical framework, positionality, research questions, and literature review. Chapter Two employs qualitative thematic analysis and determines that deliberative models of democracy inform both curricula. Chapters Three and Four use philosophical inquiry to develop normative evaluative standards based on critiques of deliberative democracy. Chapter Three makes the case that civics curricula should teach dissent as a positive right. Chapter Four argues that curricula should give critical attention to the passionate demands of civic life, especially as civic and political passions prepare students to exercise dissent. Chapter Five applies these standards to B.C.’s and Ontario’s civics curricula, and offers concluding thoughts.
MonLAD: Money Laundering Agents Detection in Transaction Streams
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaobing
name: Feng, Wenjie
name: Liu, Shenghua
name: Xie, Yuyang
name: Bhatia, Siddharth
name: Hooi, Bryan
name: Wang, Wenhan
name: Cheng, Xueqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a stream of money transactions between accounts in a bank, how can we accurately detect money laundering agent accounts and suspected behaviors in real-time? Money laundering agents try to hide the origin of illegally obtained money by dispersive multiple small transactions and evade detection by smart strategies. Therefore, it is challenging to accurately catch such fraudsters in an unsupervised manner. Existing approaches do not consider the characteristics of those agent accounts and are not suitable to the streaming settings. Therefore, we propose MonLAD and MonLAD-W to detect money laundering agent accounts in a transaction stream by keeping track of their residuals and other features; we devise AnoScore algorithm to find anomalies based on the robust measure of statistical deviation. Experimental results show that MonLAD outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines on real-world data and finds various suspicious behavior patterns of money laundering. Additionally, several detected suspected accounts have been manually-verified as agents in real money laundering scenario.
A Telemonitoring System for Children with Cardiac Arythmias
Creators: name: Chimonidou, P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: One of the major factors limiting but also causing the application of modern technology in medicine is the response time to patients, should they need specialized medical care. In this thesis we propose a solution that can help and improve the patients’ life. Patients, after a heart surgery, have to visit the hospital for a small period of time for a routine check which can take only a few minutes. The aim of this project is to give the opportunity to these patients to be monitored at home after their operation and not visit the hospital every day. On the other hand, the doctor can use his time seeing other patients. Furthermore he can view his patient’s vital information from his office at any time that he desires. The vital information that can be measured by the proposed system is the blood pressure, oxygen saturation, weight and last but most important is the patient’s ECG at for at least five minutes. The ECG will be analyzed by the system using a specific algorithm that recognizes some predefined types of arrhythmias. This algorithm was implemented during a previous project and it will be incorporated in this project. The ECG can be shown to the doctor when he wishes to see it. Furthermore the system can preview the ECG with the analyzed information in order to help the doctor. In addition statistics and scores can be measured before and after the patient’s treatment and can be used to find some important results concerning his/her heart condition. This project can improve the life quality of patient after his/her surgery.
description: Master Theses
Additive twists of Fourier coefficients of symmetric-square lifts
Creators: name: Li, Xiaoqing
name: Young, Matthew P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F30

description: We study the sum of additively twisted Fourier coefficients of a symmetric-square lift of a Maass form invariant under the full modular group. Our bounds are uniform in terms of the spectral parameter of the Maass form, as well as in terms of the additive twist.
description: 13 pages. v2: fixed the relation between T and t_j on p.2 and added clarification to some references
Παγκοσμιοποίηση και Εκπαίδευση, οι απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης Αιτωλοακαρνανίας για τη χρησιμότητα και την αποτελεσματικότητα του Διεθνούς Μαθητικού Προγράμματος Αξιολόγησης PISA
Creators: name: Μπουργάνη, Γλυκερία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Οργανισμός Οικονομικής Συνεργασίας και Ανάπτυξης
subject: Εκπαιδευτική αξιολόγηση -- ΟΟΣΑ, Χώρες του
subject: Εκπαιδευτική αλλαγή -- ΟΟΣΑ, Χώρες του
subject: Εκπαιδευτικοί -- Στάσεις -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Εκπαίδευση και κράτος -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Εκπαίδευση και παγκοσμιοποίηση -- Ελλάδα -- Περιπτωσιολογικές μελέτες
subject: Παγκοσμιοποίηση
subject: Διεθνείς οργανισμοί
subject: ΟΟΣΑ
subject: Ε.Ε.
subject: Εκπαιδευτική πολιτική
subject: Δια βίου μάθηση
subject: Αξιολόγηση
subject: Πρόγραμμα αξιολόγησης μαθητών PISA
subject: Globalization
subject: International organizations
subject: OECD
subject: EU
subject: Educational policy
subject: Lifelong learning
subject: Evaluation
subject: PISA student evaluation programs

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013611 cd
description: Η «κοινωνία της γνώσης» χαρακτηρίζεται από την ταχεία διάδοση μεγάλου όγκου γνώσης και πληροφοριών σε όλο τον κόσμο μέσω του Διαδικτύου και το φαινόμενο της παγκοσμιοποίησης συνεχίζει να εντείνεται. Η παγκοσμιοποίηση επηρεάζει την εκπαίδευση και καθοδηγεί τη διαδικασία της σύγχρονης εκπαίδευσης Τα έθνη-κράτη δεν είναι πλέον οι μοναδικοί διαμορφωτές των εκπαιδευτικών πολιτικών τους, αλλά επηρεάζονται επίσης από διεθνείς οργανισμούς. Διεθνείς οργανισμοί όπως η UNESCO, ο O.O.S.A. και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ασχολούνται με οικονομικά και αναπτυξιακά ζητήματα, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στον τομέα της εκπαίδευσης, ο οποίος θεωρείται μοχλός εθνικής ανάπτυξης. Σε αυτή την περίπτωση, αναπτύσσουν εκπαιδευτικές πολιτικές που προωθούν ένα κοινό σύστημα αξιών και το καθιστούν αποδεκτό από την παγκόσμια κοινότητα. Ως εκ τούτου, εισήγαγαν τη δια βίου μάθηση, βασικό συστατικό της τεχνολογικής ανάπτυξης, καθώς θεωρείται ο καταλληλότερος τρόπος και αξιολόγηση για την απόκτηση και διεύρυνση ποικίλων γνώσεων και δεξιοτήτων, ως μηχανισμό εκσυγχρονισμού και ανάπτυξης της εκπαιδευτικής πολιτικής. Συγκεκριμένα, ο Ο.Ο.Σ.Α. διοργανώνει το πρόγραμμα PISA κάθε τρία χρόνια για τη δοκιμή και αξιολόγηση των βασικών γνώσεων και δεξιοτήτων 15χρονων μαθητών, με στόχο τη σύγκριση των εκπαιδευτικών συστημάτων για τη βελτίωση της εκπαίδευσης που τους παρέχεται. Σκοπός αυτού του άρθρου είναι να κατανοήσουμε τις απόψεις των εκπαιδευτικών δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης στην Αιτωλοακαρνανία για την πρακτικότητα και την αποτελεσματικότητα του έργου PISA, καθώς υπάρχουν κάποιες αμφιβολίες και σκέψεις και παρά τις συνεχείς διαβεβαιώσεις των αρμοδίων, τα αποτελέσματα θα χρησιμοποιηθούν για περαιτέρω αξιολόγηση του έργου των εκπαιδευτικών και των σχολικών μονάδων, όχι μόνο είναι απλώς μια αξιολόγηση των εκπαιδευτικών συστημάτων των συμμετεχουσών χωρών για τη διευκόλυνση συγκεκριμένων εκπαιδευτικών πολιτικών που εμπορευματοποιούν την εκπαίδευση και τη διοχετεύουν στην αγορά εργασίας.
title: Ταυτοποίηση και χαρακτηρισμός βιολογικών επικαθίσεων υφασμάτινης ζώνης από το Δίκτυο Συλλογών Λαογραφίας - Παράδοσης Ν. Φλώρινας. Προτάσεις αντιμετώπισης και φύλαξης.
title: Identification and characterization of textile belt biological deposits from the Network of Ethnographic Collections of Florina - Greece. Conservation and storage proposals.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Τσατσάλοβα, Κριστίνα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2023
Subjects: Βιοαποικοδόμηση
Bιοδιάβρωση
Βαμβάκι
Μύκητες
OM
Οπτική Μικροσκοπία
SEM/EDS
SDA
Preventol
Desogen
Aspergillus
Penicillium
Gram-positive
Gram-negative
Μικροβιακές καλλιέργειες

description: Η παρούσα εργασία παρουσιάζει τη μεθοδολογία της ταυτοποίησης και του χαρακτηρισμού βιολογικών επικαθίσεων υφασμάτινης ζώνης από το Δίκτυο Συλλογών Λαογραφίας–Παράδοσης Ν. Φλώρινας. Συγκεκριμένα, παρουσιάζουμε τη μικροβιολογική μελέτη που πραγματοποιήθηκε στην υφασμάτινη ζώνη του 19ου αιώνα, προκειμένου να βρεθεί ο μικροβιακός πληθυσμός που εμπλέκεται στη διαδικασία βιοφθοράς, έτσι ώστε να μπορέσουμε να αναπτυξουμε, μια αποτελεσματική παρέμβαση, από εφαρμογή βιοκτόνων για τον έλεγχο της διάδοσης μικροβιακών κοινοτήτων που είναι υπεύθυνες για τη βιοαποικοδόμηση της ζώνης. Η μεθοδολογία που ακολουθήθηκε ήταν η εξής: • Προσδιορισμός των ινών της υφασμάτινης ζώνης (αναγνώριση υλικού κατασκευής) • Απομόνωση και χαρακτηρισμός μικροοργανισμών (μικροβιολογική μελέτη) • Αντιμικροβιακή και αντιμυκητιακή δράση (δοκιμή εφαρμογής βιοκτόνων In vitro) Η ανάλυση των ινών αναφοράς και των δειγμάτων της ζώνης, πραγματοποιήθηκε με τη χρήση οπτικής μικροσκοπίας (OM) και ηλεκτρονιακή μικροσκοπία σάρωσης (SEM) μετά από διατομές των ινών. Το υλικό κατασκευής της υφασμάτινης ζώνης 100% φυσικό βαμβάκι. Τα θρεπτικά υλικά που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για τη μικροβιολογική μελέτη, ήταν το Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA), το Blood Agar (BL) και το Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA). Οι καλλιέργειες επωάστηκαν στους 37οC για 24-48 ώρες και στους 28ο C για 5 ημέρες για να επιτραπεί η ανάπτυξη βακτηρίων και μυκήτων αντίστοιχα. Η μικροβιολογική μελέτη έδειξε πως: από τα 62 τρυβλία (100%), που εξετάσθηκαν στην παρούσα μελέτη, τα 26 (41.93%) παρουσίασαν ανάπτυξη, τα 5 (8.6%) παρουσίασαν επιμόλυνση στο θρεπτικό υλικό, και 31 (50%), δεν παρουσίασαν ανάπτυξη μικροοργανισμών. Η 100% ανάπτυξη των μικροοργανισμών ταξινομήθηκε σύμφωνα με το είδος μικροοργανισμών που αναπτύχθηκαν. Τα βακτήρια (Gram- και Gram+), αποτελούν το 69.23%, οι μύκητες (Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp.), το 57.69% και τέλος το 11.53% αποτελεί η μούχλα. Η αντιμικροβιακή δράση των εμπορικών βιοκτόνων, συγκεκριμένα του Preventol PN® (2%,1,5%,1%,0,5% και 0,1%) και του NEO Desogen® (2:10 και 1:10), δοκιμάστηκαν έναντι των μυκήτων Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp. και του Bacillus sp. Το διάλυμα NEO Desogen® συγκέντρωσης 2:10, έδειξε να είναι το καταλληλότερο για τον καθαρισμό του δείγματος.
Graphene quantum dots embedded in hexagonal boron nitride sheets
Creators: name: Li, Junwen
name: Shenoy, Vivek B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out first-principles calculations on electronic properties of graphene quantum dots embedded in hexagonal boron nitride monolayer sheets. The calculations with density functional theory show that the band gaps of quantum dots are determined by the quantum confinement effects and the hybridization of π orbitals from B, N and C atoms. The energy states near the Fermi level are found to be strongly localized within and in the vicinity of the quantum dots.
Deterministic integrated tuning of multi-cavity resonances and phase for slow-light in coupled photonic crystal cavities
Creators: name: Gu, Tingyi
name: Kocaman, Serdar
name: Yang, Xiaodong
name: McMillan, James F.
name: Yu, Mingbin
name: Lo, Guo-Qiang
name: Kwong, Dim-Lee
name: Wong, Chee Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the integrated chip-scale tuning of multiple photonic crystal cavities. The optimized implementation allows effective and precise tuning of multiple cavity resonances (up to ~1.60 nm/mW) and inter-cavity phase (~ 0.038 pi/mW) by direct local temperature tuning on silicon nanomembranes. Through designing the serpentine metal electrodes and careful electron-beam alignment to avoid cavity mode overlap, the coupled photonic crystal L3 cavities preserve their high quality factors. The deterministic resonance and phase control enables switching between the all-optical analogue of electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) to flat-top filter lineshapes, with future applications of trapping photons/photonic transistors and optoelectronic modulators.
Meat and interpersonal motives: the case of self-enhancement
Creators: name: Vonk, Roos
name: Weiper, Maike L. V.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Meat eaters have a more hierarchical, less egalitarian view at the world than vegetarians. This can be manifested in social dominance orientation, at the intergroup level, but also at the interspecies level, yielding more empathy with nonhuman animals, and at the interpersonal level. We examined if interpersonal motives in human–human relationships and empathy with people are associated with frequency of meat eating, using a cross-sectional survey (N = 580). For the motives power and affiliation, no significant relationships emerged, but the self-enhancement motive was positively related to the number of days that participants ate meat. This predicted additional variance over and above variables at the intergroup and interspecies level, such as social dominance orientation and human-animal continuity. Empathy with people was negatively related to meat consumption, but this was explained by its correlation with empathy with animals. Discussion focuses on the importance of the self-enhancement motive in attachment to meat, the symbol of human superiority, as well as resistance to meat refusers.