cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Archaeology of Fisherman Lake: western District of MacKenzie, N.W.T.
Creators: name: Millar, James F. V.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: F 5916 M54 1968 Microfilm
subject: Northwest Territories - Antiquities
subject: Fisherman Lake, Northwest Territories

description: Bibliography: p. 458-496.
description: The archaeological and geological data collected during 2 field seasons in the Fisherman Lake Valley of the western MacKenzie Basin produced a sequence of 12 cultural complexes representing a series of occupations extending from the late Pleistocene to the present. Interpretation of the glacial and sedimentary characteristics of the region and a series of radiocarbon dates provide a chronological framework for the sequence. The provenience of the earliest 2 complexes implies habitation of the valley prior to the final Lauren tide ice-stand in the western MacKenzie Basin. The geographic and physiographic location of the valley in the central section of the Eastern Cordilleran Migration Corridor allows correlation of previous work in the western interior with that in the eastern interior Arctic, as well as between the northern and central latitudes of the continent. Analysis of the indicated relationships results in a tentative reconstruction of population movement through the western MacKenzie Basin. The earliest 3 complexes, Hughes, McLeod and Cordilleran show evidence of separate movements from antecedents in the northwest. The following 2 complexes, Stem Point and Agate Basin Plana, appear derived from developments in the central plains and central western intermontane plateau region. In the subsequent Julian Complex there appear several lithic technologies related to the northern intermontane plateau and the Alaskan lowlands. These persist into the Pointed Mountain Complex, but are gradually replaced during the Fish Lake, JcRw8-l W and Mac-Kenzie Complexes by the ethnographic Athabascan pattern found in the Spence River and Fort Liard Complexes.
Straat et al. Immune gene expression after cold exposure. Supplementary data.
Creators: name: Straat, Maaike
name: Martinez-Tellez, Borja
name: Janssen, Laura G. M.
name: Veen, Suzanne Van
name: Eenige, Robin Van
name: Berg, Sjoerd A. A. Van Den
name: Rijke, Yolanda B. De
name: Haks, Marielle C.
name: Rensen, Patrick C. N.
name: Boon, Mariëtte R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary data.
Figure S1: The cold-induced changes in plasma cortisol levels do not correlate with changes in immune gene expression.Table S1: Relative gene expression levels of immune markers in blood before and after cold exposure.
Table S2: Relative gene expression levels of immune markers in blood of Europid and South Asian individuals in thermoneutrality
An Approach to Developing Tourism Marketing in Samut Sakhon Province
Creators: name: ณัฐรินทร์ ปริวงศ์กุลธร
Publisher: name: University of Phayao
Year: 2021
Subjects: Development, Tourism Marketing, Samut Sakhon Province

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Phayao, 9, 1, 185-201
PlasticsFatE Deliverable Summary D1.2 Analytical characterization data for the first set of MP-NP samples as distributed to partners
Creators: name: Potthoff, Annegret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: microplastics
nanoplastics
ecotoxicology
toxicology
characterization
human exposure
standard operation procedures

description: This document provides a summary of D1.2 Analytical characterization data for the first set of MP/NP samples, which is a confidential deliverable within the scope of PlasticsFatE. This summary contains the essential details of the original deliverable. In compliance with intellectual property protection, no confidential information is given.
On the kernel average for n functions
Creators: name: Moffat, Sarah Michelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: After an introduction to Hilbert spaces and convex analysis, the proximal average is studied and two smooth operators are provided. The first is a new version of an operator previously supplied by Goebel, while the second one is new and uses the proximal average of a function and a quadratic to find a smooth approximation of the function. Then, the kernel average of two functions is studied and a reformulation of the proximal average is used to extend the definition of the kernel average to allow for any number of functions. The Fenchel conjugate of this new kernel average is then examined by calculating the conjugate for two specific kernel functions that represent two of the simplest cases that could be considered. A closed form solution was found for the conjugate of the first kernel function and it was rewritten in three equivalent forms. A solution was also found for the conjugate of the second kernel function, but the two solutions do not have the same form which suggests that a general solution for the conjugate of any kernel function will not be found.
Hitzdrahtgeräte des Instituts für Schiffbau der Universität Hamburg
Creators: name: Hasselmann, Klaus
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 1961
Subjects: classificationCode: 52.00
subject: Maschinenbau, Energietechnik, Fertigungstechnik: Allgemeines

description: Hitzdrahtgeräte des Instituts für Schiffbau der Universität Hamburg
title:  Grüne Pädagogik und konstruktivistische Religionspädagogik. Ein Vergleich zweier konstruktivistischer pädagogischer Konzepte
Creators: name: Holzwieser, Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Graz
Year: 2020

description: Dieser Beitrag stellt das didaktische Konzept der Grünen Pädagogik als eine systemisch-
konstruktivistische Didaktik vor. Diese kann bei Naturthemen wie Schöpfung
und Schöpfungsverantwortung als Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung für
den Religionsunterricht Impulse bieten. Die Grüne Pädagogik wird mit der konstruktivistischen
Religionspädagogik verglichen. Abschließend werden einige Themen
genannt, wo die Grüne Pädagogik und die Religionspädagogik von Bedeutung
sein können.
description: Schlagworte
Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Grüne Pädagogik – Religionsunterricht
– konstruktivistische Didaktik
description: ÖRF - Jg. 28 (2020), H. Heft: H. 2: Nachhaltiges Lernen, S. 100-116
Neural Networks for Handwritten English Alphabet Recognition
Creators: name: Perwej, Yusuf
name: Chaturvedi, Ashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper demonstrates the use of neural networks for developing a system that can recognize hand-written English alphabets. In this system, each English alphabet is represented by binary values that are used as input to a simple feature extraction system, whose output is fed to our neural network system.
description: 5 pages, 3 Figure, ISSN:0975 - 8887
Effects of Rotationally-Induced Mixing in Compact Binary Systems with Low-Mass Secondaries and in Single Solar-Type Stars
Creators: name: Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
name: Robinson, Edward L.
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many population synthesis and stellar evolution studies have addressed the evolution of close binary systems in which the primary is a compact remnant and the secondary is filling its Roche lobe, thus triggering mass transfer. Although tidal locking is expected in such systems, most studies have neglected the rotationally-induced mixing that may occur. Here we study the possible effects of mixing in the mass-losing stars for a range in secondary star masses and metallicities. We find that tidal locking can induce rotational mixing prior to contact and thus affect the evolution of the secondary star if the effects of the Spruit-Tayler dynamo are included both for angular momentum and chemical transport. Once contact is made, the effect of mass transfer tends to be more rapid than the evolutionary time scale, so the effects of mixing are no longer directly important, but the mass transfer strips matter to inner layers that may have been affected by the mixing. These effects are enhanced for secondaries of 1-1.2 Msun and for lower metallicities. We discuss the possible implications for the paucity of carbon in the secondaries of the cataclysmic variable SS Cyg and the black hole candidate XTE J1118+480 and for the progenitor evolution of Type Ia supernovae. We also address the issue of the origin of blue straggler stars in globular and open clusters. We find that for models that include rotation consistent with that observed for some blue straggler stars, evolution is chemically homogeneous. This leads to tracks in the HR diagram that are brighter and bluer than the non-rotating main-sequence turn-off point. Rotational mixing could thus be one of the factors that contribute to the formation of blue stragglers.
description: 46 pages, 18 figures
Diffusion with Optimal Resetting
Creators: name: Evans, Martin R.
name: Majumdar, Satya N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the mean time to absorption by an absorbing target of a diffusive particle with the addition of a process whereby the particle is reset to its initial position with rate $r$. We consider several generalisations of the model of M. R. Evans and S. N. Majumdar (2011), Diffusion with stochastic resetting, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 160601: (i) a space dependent resetting rate $r(x)$ ii) resetting to a random position $z$ drawn from a resetting distribution ${\cal P}(z)$ iii) a spatial distribution for the absorbing target $P_T(x)$. As an example of (i) we show that the introduction of a non-resetting window around the initial position can reduce the mean time to absorption provided that the initial position is sufficiently far from the target. We address the problem of optimal resetting, that is, minimising the mean time to absorption for a given target distribution. For an exponentially decaying target distribution centred at the origin we show that a transition in the optimal resetting distribution occurs as the target distribution narrows.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, submitted to J. Phys. A: Math. Theor, abstract corrected
On Born approximation in black hole scattering
Creators: name: Batic, D.
name: Kelkar, N. G.
name: Nowakowski, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massless field propagating on spherically symmetric black hole metrics such as the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström and Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter backgrounds is considered. In particular, explicit formulae in terms of transcendental functions for the scattering of massless scalar particles off black holes are derived within a Born approximation. It is shown that the conditions on the existence of the Born integral forbid a straightforward extraction of the quasi normal modes using the Born approximation for the scattering amplitude. Such a method has been used in literature. We suggest a novel, well defined method, to extract the large imaginary part of quasinormal modes via the Coulomb-like phase shift. Furthermore, we compare the numerically evaluated exact scattering amplitude with the Born one to find that the approximation is not very useful for the scattering of massless scalar, electromagnetic as well as gravitational waves from black holes.
NPD-Process and Planning in Japanese engineering companies – Findings from an interview research
Creators: name: Herstatt, Cornelius
name: Stockstrom, Christoph
name: Nagahira, Akio
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: New product development
subject: Japanese firms
subject: planning
subject: success innovation
subject: project management
classificationCode: 85.15
subject: Forschung und Entwicklung
subject: Produktentwicklung
subject: Projektmanagement
subject: Unternehmensplanung
subject: Erfolgsplanung
subject: Firma
subject: Japan

description: In this paper we report on the results of an interview research about new product development (NPD) processes and planning in 15 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We asked the companies to describe one successful and one less successful project. All in all, we collected data for 29 projects, 15 of which were successful.
 We explore how these companies structure their NPD processes and conduct their planning activities in order to strike a balance between the needs for efficiency and flexibility, which often carry opposing implications for organizing and managing new product development projects. While the majority of the companies in our sample build their NPD efforts on a similar process model, we find them to employ diverse procedures to achieve their aims.
 In the companies we interviewed, there is a strong inclination towards planning R&D activities. New product development projects are based on well-defined procedures and written documents, which represent a standard approach to the companies’ R&D efforts. However, not all aspects are planned in equal depth and later phases of NPD projects, such as the implementation of the product concept into production, which exhibit lower uncertainty, are planned in much more detail. The need for flexibility in planning is highlighted by our finding that the less successful projects failed to anticipate changes – especially within the environment – and therefore were often carried out according to outdated plans and information. Our results suggest that the quality of the initial project plan with regard to the information it is based upon is closely linked to success. Despite the environmental turbulence, there seem to be no pronounced differences between successful and less successful projects concerning changes of the plan throughout the course of the project. Consequently, our interview partners consider the project managers of the unsuccessful projects to be less skilled in marketing and management than their successful counterparts.
Member to member learning in a therapeutic enactment group
Creators: name: Bailey, Bruce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study examines the influence of member to member learning in a Therapeutic Enactment group. Using the lens of Bandura’s (1986) Social Cognitive Theory this study utilizes this theoretical framework to examine the extent members have influenced and do influence each other’s therapeutic change process. Using Yalom’s (1985) work on group process as a base and incorporating the elements he has identified as necessary for therapeutic change the study examines the factors as they relate to the change process. Fourteen individuals participated in a therapeutic enactment based on a model Westwood & Wilensky (2005) developed using Moreno’s (1946) initial work. This is a qualitative study utilizing content analysis and Mayring’s (2000) model as the methodological approach.
Revisiting the shocks in BHR71: new observational constraints and H2O predictions for Herschel
Creators: name: Gusdorf, A.
name: Giannini, T.
name: Flower, D. R.
name: Parise, B.
name: Güsten, R.
name: Kristensen, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the formation of a star, material is ejected along powerful jets that impact the ambient material. This outflow phenomenon plays an important role in the regulation of star formation. Understanding the associated shocks and their energetic effects is therefore essential to the study of star formation. We present comparisons of shock models with observations of H$_2$ and SiO emission in the bipolar outflow BHR71, and predict water emission, under the basic assumption that the emission regions of the considered species coincide, at the resolution of currently available observations. New SiO observations from APEX are presented, and combined with \textit{Spitzer} and ground-based observations of H$_2$ to constrain shock models. The shock regions associated with targeted positions in the molecular outflow are studied by means of a 1D code that generates models of the propagation of stationary shock waves, and approximations to non-stationary ones. The SiO emission in the inner part of the outflow is concentrated near the apex of the corresponding bow-shock that is also seen in the pure rotational transitions of H$_2$. Simultaneous modelling is possible for H$_2$ and SiO and leads to constraints on the silicon pre-shock distribution on the grain mantles and/or cores. The best-fitting models are found to be of the non-stationary type, but the degeneracy of the solutions is still large. Pre-shock densities of 10$^4$ and 10$^5$ cm$^{-3}$ are investigated, and the associated best-model candidates have rather low velocity (respectively, 20-30 and 10-15 km s$^{-1}$) and are not older than 1000 years. We provide emission predictions for water, focusing on the brightest transitions, to be observed with the PACS and HIFI instruments of the \textit{Herschel} Telescope.
description: 22 pages (12 text + 10 appendix), 8 figures, 8 tables (4 text + 4 appendix). Abstract has been amended to fullfill arxiv requirements
title: Multiple criteria decision analysis techniques in aircraft design and evaluation processes
title: Multikriterielle Entscheidungsanalysetechniken in Flugzeugentwurfs- und Flugzeugevaluierungsprozessen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaoqian
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)
subject: Methodenauswahl
subject: Fehlerbewertung
subject: multikriterielle Optimierung
subject: Flugzeugentwurf
subject: Flugzeugevaluierung
subject: MCDA
subject: method selection
subject: uncertainty assessment
subject: multi-criteria optimization
subject: aircraft design
subject: aircraft evaluation
classificationCode: 620
subject: Ingenieurwissenschaften
classificationCode: 620
subject: Engineering and allied operations
classificationCode: 55.51
subject: Flugzeuge

description: Obwohl viele Vorschläge für die Umsetzung von Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Techniken in der Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik gemacht worden sind, bleibt immer noch eine große Kluft zwischen der MCDA-Theorie und ihrer Praxis. Das Ziel dieser Forschung ist es, diese Lücke zu schließen, indem untersucht wird, wie bestehenden MCDA-Techniken zu einer besseren Lösung komplexer Entscheidungsprobleme beitragen können, und wie die verbesserten MCDA-Techniken in Flugzeugbau- und Evaluierungsverfahren implementiert werden können.
description: Although many efforts have been made in implementing Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques in aerospace engineering, there still remains a large gap between the MCDA theory and its practice. The goal of this research is to fill the gap by investigating how existing MCDA techniques can be improved to better solve complex decision making problems, and how the improved MCDA techniques can be implemented in aircraft design and evaluation processes.
Amnesic effects of electroconvulsive shock
Creators: name: Belton, Gerald P. (Gerald Paul)
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: BF 376 B44 1968
subject: Additional Copy: WM 412 B44 1968 Medical
subject: Memory
subject: Electrotherapeutics

description: Bibliography: p. 103-114.
Large-Scale Kinematics, Astrochemistry and Magnetic Field Studies of Massive Star-forming Regions through HC3N, HNC and C2H Mappings
Creators: name: Li, Juan
name: Wang, Junzhi
name: Gu, Qiusheng
name: Zhang, Zhi-yu
name: Zheng, Xingwu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have mapped 27 massive star-forming regions associated with water masers using three dense gas tracers: HC3N 10-9, HNC 1-0 and C2H 1-0. The FWHM sizes of HNC clumps and C2H clumps are about 1.5 and 1.6 times higher than those of HC3N, respectively, which can be explained by the fact that HC3N traces more dense gas than HNC and C2H. We found evidence for increase in optical depth of C2H with `radius' from center to outer regions in some targets, supporting the chemical model of C2H. The C2H optical depth is found to decline as molecular clouds evolve to later stage, suggesting that C2H might be used as "chemical clock" for molecular clouds. Large-scale kinematic structure of clouds was investigated with three molecular lines. All these sources show significant velocity gradients. The magnitudes of gradient are found to increase towards the inner region, indicating differential rotation of clouds. Both the ratio of rotational to gravitational energy and specific angular momentum seem to decrease toward the inner region, implying obvious angular momentum transfer, which might be caused by magnetic braking. The average magnetic field strength and number density of molecular clouds is derived using the uniformly magnetic sphere model. The derived magnetic field strengths range from 3 to 88 μG, with a median value of 13 μG. The mass-to-flux ratio of molecular cloud is calculated to be much higher than critical value with derived parameters, which agrees well with numerical simulations.
description: 56 pages, 24 figures, accepted by ApJ
Quantum Vacuum and Virtual Gravitational Dipoles: The solution to the Dark Energy Problem?
Creators: name: Hajdukovic, Dragan Slavkov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological constant problem is the principal obstacle in the attempt to interpret dark energy as the quantum vacuum energy. We suggest that the obstacle can be removed, i.e. that the cosmological constant problem can be resolved by assuming that the virtual particles and antiparticles in the quantum vacuum have the gravitational charge of the opposite sign. The corresponding estimates of the cosmological constant, dark energy density and the equation of state for dark energy are in the intriguing agreement with the observed values in the present day Universe. However, our approach and the Standard Cosmology lead to very different predictions for the future of the Universe; the exponential growth of the scale factor, predicted by the Standard Cosmology, is suppressed in our model.
Rheology of synovial fluid with and without viscosupplements in patients with osteoarthritis : a pilot study
Creators: name: Bhuanantanondh, Petcharatana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease that is characterized by the breakdown of articular cartilage. Over 80% of people over the age of 60 show radiographic evidence of OA. Rheology of synovial fluid is of interest because of its significance in the joint lubrication. However, there are still many questions related to synovial fluid rheology and its relation with OA. Although viscosupplementation has been used as a treatment for OA for many years, its clinical effect remains controversial. Therefore, the purposes of this pilot study were to determine rheological behavior of synovial fluid in patients with OA to better understand its role in joint lubrication, and to determine in vitro the effect of different viscosupplements on the rheological properties of synovial fluid. A detailed rheological characterization of synovial fluid from 22 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty was performed. The results showed that synovial fluid in OA exhibited a non-Newtonian shear thinning behavior and viscoelastic properties. Within an individual, rheological properties of synovial fluid from the left knee differed substantially from the right knee. Moreover, rheopectic behavior (i.e. shear stress increases over time at a constant shear rate) was observed in OA synovial fluid. All three viscosupplements considered in this study (i.e. Orthovisc®, Suplasyn®, and Synvisc®) exhibited a non-Newtonian shear thinning behavior. Within the range of frequency from 0.1 to 10 Hz., Orthovisc® exhibited a linear viscoelastic behavior, whereas Synvisc® and Suplasyn® exhibited a gel-like behavior and a viscous-like behavior, respectively. By adding viscosupplements to OA synovial fluid, the results showed cross linked high molecular weight viscosupplement is more efficient than the non cross-linked ones in improving the overall rheological properties of synovial fluid. Furthermore, rheological properties of synovial fluid mixed with viscosupplements in vitro were nearly unchanged over 2 weeks. In conclusions, synovial fluid in OA exhibited a non-Newtonian shear thinning behavior, viscoelastic properties, and rheopectic behavior. Cross-linked viscosupplement is more efficient than the non cross-linked ones in improving the overall rheological properties of synovial fluid. The rheology of synovial fluid mixed with viscosupplements was nearly unchanged over 2 weeks.
title: Bank Stabilization (NWS-2021-598 Simpson)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Simpson Bank Stabilization Project, Castle Rock, Cowlitz County, Washington, Toutle River Subwatershed, HUC 12 170800050702 (NWS-2021-0598)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2025

description: WCRO-2022-02161
Unidentifed gamma-ray sources: hunting gamma-ray blazars
Creators: name: Massaro, F.
name: D'Abrusco, R.
name: Tosti, G.
name: Ajello, M.
name: Gasparrini, A. Paggi. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main scientific objectives of the ongoing Fermi mission is unveiling the nature of the unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs). Despite the large improvements of Fermi in the localization of gamma-ray sources with respect to the past gamma-ray missions, about one third of the Fermi-detected objects are still not associated to low energy counterparts. Recently, using the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) survey, we discovered that blazars, the rarest class of Active Galactic Nuclei and the largest population of gamma-ray sources, can be recognized and separated from other extragalactic sources on the basis of their infrared (IR) colors. Based on this result, we designed an association method for the gamma-ray sources to reognize if there is a blazar candidate within the positional uncertainty region of a generic gamma-ray source. With this new IR diagnostic tool, we searched for gamma-ray blazar candidates associated to the UGS sample of the second Fermi gamma-ray catalog (2FGL). We found that our method associates at least one gamma-ray blazar candidate as a counterpart each of 156 out of 313 UGSs analyzed. These new low-energy candidates have the same IR properties as the blazars associated to gamma-ray sources in the 2FGL catalog.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal
Study on factors affecting on tensile strength and micro structures of hybrid nano composites prepared by e-glass/epoxy and multi walled carbon nano tubes
Creators: name: Ahammad, Mohammad Musthak
name: Madhavi, M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91099 Manufacturing Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Multi walled Carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are creating a center of attention in scientific and industrial attention by good feature of their distinctiveness. Present research is on Fabrication and depiction of E-Glass Fiber Composites developed by MWCNTs. The Factors deemed for present problem are Weight of MWCNTs, Methodology to disperse MWCNTs in epoxy, Orientation of the E-glass fiber. Fabrication of E-Glass Fiber Composites was carried out with respect to the ASTM standards D3039-76 and Tensile Testing was performed. The results show that the nano-particulated composite plate can be manufactured by considering less nano-particles stirred with probe sonicator and plied up with hybrid orientation.
Anisotropy of TeV and PeV cosmic rays with IceCube and IceTop
Creators: name: Santander, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interaction of high energy cosmic rays with the Earth's atmosphere produces extensive air showers of secondary particles with a large muon component. By exploiting the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to high energy muons, it is possible to use these detectors for precision cosmic ray studies. The high rate of cosmic-ray muon events provides a high-statistics data sample that can be used to look for anisotropy in the arrival directions of the parent particles at the per-mille level. This paper reports on the observation of anisotropy in the cosmic ray data collected with the IceCube neutrino telescope in the 20-400 TeV energy range at multiple angular scales. New data from the IceTop air shower array, located on the ice surface above IceCube, shows an anisotropy that is consistent with the high-energy IceCube results. The sensitivity of IceTop to all the components of the extensive air shower will allow us to explore in more detail the characteristics of the primary cosmic rays associated with the observed anisotropy.
description: To appear in the Proceedings of the 2011 Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes Conference
Highest coefficient of scalar products in SU(3)-invariant integrable models
Creators: name: Belliard, S.
name: Pakuliak, S.
name: Ragoucy, E.
name: Slavnov, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study SU(3)-invariant integrable models solvable by nested algebraic Bethe ansatz. Scalar products of Bethe vectors in such models can be expressed in terms of a bilinear combination of their highest coefficients. We obtain various different representations for the highest coefficient in terms of sums over partitions. We also obtain multiple integral representations for the highest coefficient.
description: 17 pages
Reversal to cue in squirrel monkeys, tree shrews and tree squirrels
Creators: name: Foley, James Patrick
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: QL 785 F64 1968
subject: Animal intelligence
subject: Shrews - Psychology
subject: Squirrel monkeys - Psychology
subject: American red squirrels - Psychology

description: Bibliography: p. 29-43.
Entanglement Entropy from a Holographic Viewpoint
Creators: name: Takayanagi, Tadashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy has been historically studied by many authors in order to obtain quantum mechanical interpretations of the gravitational entropy. The discovery of AdS/CFT correspondence leads to the idea of holographic entanglement entropy, which is a clear solution to this important problem in gravity. In this article, we would like to give a quick survey of recent progresses on the holographic entanglement entropy. We focus on its gravitational aspects, so that it is comprehensible to those who are familiar with general relativity and basics of quantum field theory.
description: Latex, 30 pages, invited review for Classical and Quantum Gravity, minor corrections
Strychnine: suppression of exploration
Creators: name: Whishaw, Ian Quentin Addison
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: QP 921 S8 W56 1968
subject: Strychnine - Physiological effect
subject: Rats - Physiology
subject: Curiosity

description: Bibliography: p. 24-25.
Models for converting CLD to PSD for bimodal distributions of particles
Creators: name: Honavar, Vaishnavi
name: Pandit, Ajinkya V.
name: Singh, Mehakpreet
name: RANADE, VIVEK
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Focused Beam Reflectance Measurement (FBRM) is a commonly used PAT tool that measures the Chord Length Distribution (CLD) of the particles in a suspension, providing a fingerprint of the size distribution of the suspended particles. Despite the extensive usage, there still exists a need for models for converting CLD to particle size distribution (PSD) particularly for bimodal distribution of particles with aspect ratio higher than one. In this work, we further developed and evaluated different models for converting the CLD to the PSD of particles with an aspect ratio greater than one and have discussed the applicability of the models to monomodal as well as bimodal distributions. The models have been verified at different aspect ratios using synthetically generated experimental data. It was observed that the geometric model proposed in this work performs better than the other models compared in this work. The presented models and results will be useful for selecting appropriate CLD to PSD models for a wide range of applications.
Dibosons from CMS
Creators: name: Martelli, Arabella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is here presented the diboson production cross section measured by the CMS collaboration in $pp$ collisions data at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV. $W γ$ and $Z γ$ results from 2010 analyses (36 pb$^{-1}$) are presented together with 2011 first measurements of $WW$, $WZ$ and $ZZ$ final states obtained using 1.1 fb$^{-1}$. Results obtained with 2010 data are also interpreted in term of anomalous triple gauge couplings.
description: Presented at the 2011 Hadron Collider Physics symposium (HCP-2011), Paris, France, November 14-18 2011, 4 pages, 3 figures
Analysis of peripheral inflammatory T cell subsets and their effector function in patients with Birdshot Retinochoroiditis
Creators: name: Trombke, Janine
name: Loyal, Lucie
name: Braun, Julian
name: Pleyer, Uwe
name: Thiel, Andreas
name: Pohlmann, Dominika
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: autoimmunity
subject: chemokines
subject: chronic inflammation

description: Birdshot Retinochoroiditis (BSRC) is a progressive non-infectious intraocular inflammation that affects choroid and retina. Inflammatory processes have adverse effects on vision by affecting photoreceptor-bearing cells that do not regenerate. This study aimed at characterizing inflammatory CD4+ and CD8+ T cell subsets in the peripheral blood of active and inactive BSRCs. Furthermore, we correlated phenotypical and functional immunological analyses with clinical data. We observed a slight increase of terminally differentiated effector memory CD8+ T cells expressing CD45RA (TEMRA) in blood of inactive, compared to active BSRCs. Moreover, we identified a trend for a decreased population of TH2 cells and increased TH1 frequencies in active BSRCs, a typical sign of ongoing autoimmune processes. Functional assays demonstrated severe and overall impairment of effector function of both, CD4+ and CD8+ inflammatory T cells, which might reflect T cell exhaustion. Although the eye is the main site of inflammation in BSRC, we observed altered T cell subset compositions in the peripheral blood, dependent on the disease status. Our results indicate that T cells may play a major role in BSRC pathology, although our cohort size is too limited for definitve conclusions. Future studies with larger BSRCs have to be performed.
Einfluss von Anreizsystemen zur Förderung alternativer Antriebe auf Kaufentscheidungen und Verkehrsverhalten
Creators: name: Rudolph, Christian
Publisher: name: Verlagshaus Monsenstein und Vannerdat
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Elektromobilität, alternative Antriebe, discrete choice modeling, mixed logit, Kaufentscheidung, Handlungsempfehlungen
classificationCode: 380
subject: Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr

description: Die Marktdurchdringung alternativ angetriebener Fahrzeuge schreitet in Deutschland langsamer voran, als von der Bundesregierung erhofft. Das formulierte Ziel von einer Millionen Elektrofahrzeugen auf Deutschlands Straßen bis 2020 scheint nach derzeitigen Entwicklungen nicht erreichbar. Stimmen nach mehr staatlicher Unterstützung zur Beschleunigung der Marktdurchdringung von Elektrofahrzeugen werden lauter. Diese Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss staatlicher Anreizsysteme auf Pkw- Kaufentscheidungen bezüglich der Antriebstechnologie. Hierzu wird ein auswahlbasiertes Stated-Preference-Experiment zu hypothetischen Kaufentscheidungen mit rund 1.000 Personen in der Metropolregion Hamburg durchgeführt. Die Elemente des Experiments werden zuvor anhand von Experteninterviews validiert. Die Kaufentscheidung wird mit einem Mixed-Logit-Modell simuliert, in das das Verkehrsverhalten der Teilnehmer integriert wird. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass große Präferenzunterschiede bezüglich der Antriebe in der Bevölkerung bestehen. Rebound-Effekte sind vorallem bei Nutzern des Umweltverbundes (ÖPNV-Nutzer und Radfahrer) zu erwarten. Die Arbeit gibt Handlungsempfehlungen an die Politik und beschreibt Handlungsfelder für weitere Forschungsaktivitäten zur Unterstützung einer zielorientierten Förderung der Elektromobilität in Deutschland.
US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico marine mammal stock assessments - 2015
Creators: name: Byrd, Barbie L.
name: Cole, Timothy V. N.
name: Engleby, Laura
name: Garrison, Lance Preston, 1970-
name: Hatch, Joshua M.
name: Henry, Allison
name: Horstman, Stacey C.
name: Litz, Jenny Alison, 1974-
name: Lyssikatos, Marjorie
name: Mullin, Keith, (Keith D.)
name: Orphanides, Christopher
name: Pace, Richard M.
name: Palka, Debra L., ǂd 1959-
name: Soldevilla, Melissa
name: Wenzel, Frederick W.
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Marine mammal populations--Estimates--Atlantic Coast (U.S.)

description: Under the 1994 amendments of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) were required to generate stock assessment reports (SARs) for all marine mammal stocks in waters within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The first reports for the Atlantic (includes the Gulf of Mexico) were published in July 1995 (Blaylock et al. 1995). The MMPA requires NMFS and USFWS to review these reports annually for strategic stocks of marine mammals and at least every 3 years for stocks determined to be non-strategic. Included in this report as appendices are: 1) a summary of serious injury/mortality estimates of marine mammals in observed U.S. fisheries (Appendix I), 2) a summary of NMFS records of large whale human-caused serious injury and mortality (Appendix II), 3) detailed fisheries information (Appendix III), 4) summary tables of abundance estimates generated over recent years and the surveys from which they are derived (Appendix IV), a summary of observed fisheries bycatch (Appendix V), and a list of reports not updated in the current year (Appendix VI).  Table 1 contains a summary, by species, of the information included in the stock assessments, and also indicates those that have been revised since the 2014 publication. Most of the changes incorporate new information into sections on population size and/or mortality estimates. A total of 43 of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico stock assessment reports were revised for 2015. The revised SARs include 27 strategic and 16 non-strategic stocks.  This report was prepared by staff of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC). NMFS staff presented the reports at the February 2014 meeting of the Atlantic Scientific Review Group (ASRG), and subsequent revisions were based on their contributions and constructive criticism. This is a working document and individual stock assessment reports will be updated as new information becomes available and as changes to marine mammal stocks and fisheries occur. The authors solicit any new information or comments which would improve future stock assessment reports.
Spontaneous Polaron Transport in Biopolymers
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, B.
name: Piette, B. M. A. G.
name: Zakrzewski, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Polarons, introduced by Davydov to explain energy transport in $α$-helices, correspond to electrons localised on a few lattice sites because of their interaction with phonons. While the static polaron field configurations have been extensively studied, their displacement is more difficult to explain. In this paper we show that, when the next to nearest neighbour interactions are included, for physical values of the parameters, polarons can spontaneously move, at T=0, on bent chains that exhibit a positive gradient in their curvature. At room temperature polarons perform a random walk but a curvature gradient can induce a non-zero average speed similar to the one observed at zero temperature. We also show that at zero temperature a polaron bounces on sharply kinked junctions. We interpret these results in light of the energy transport by transmembrane proteins.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
East-West entanglements : Pamuk, Özdamar, Derrida
Creators: name: Meliz, Ergin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In my dissertation titled East-West Entanglements: Pamuk, Özdamar, Derrida, I analyze the representation of cultural, linguistic, and religious tensions chronicled by these authors who have variously inhabited Western and non-Western worlds. They all problematize the complicated relations between memory and identity within and without the borders of the modem nation state. I argue that their works address existing multicultural situations, which arise from diverging and converging histories, and remind us that we can no longer inhabit segregated states of being. In the face of multi-referential modes of living in the 2lst century, these authors suggest malleable and hybrid readings of entangled collectivities. Attention to the entanglements that overwhelm temporal, linguistic, and cultural boundaries is salutary, because it challenges the conceptual model based on mutually exclusive dichotomies, and calls into play the network of filiations that generate an ongoing interaction among conflicting singularities. I propose that Pamuk, Özdamar, and Derrida accommodate the ever-shifting ways of interaction on the levels of both content and form. They offer examples of grafted genre that accentuate the resemblances in difference across various generic forms. The grafted narratives they construct supersede and re-formulate the permeable boundaries between self and other, and call attention to the many Easts and Wests, enmeshed as they are in one another.
Detectable seismic consequences of the interaction of a primordial black hole with Earth
Creators: name: Luo, Yang
name: Hanasoge, Shravan
name: Tromp, Jeroen
name: Pretorius, Frans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxies observed today are likely to have evolved from density perturbations in the early universe. Perturbations that exceeded some critical threshold are conjectured to have undergone gravitational collapse to form primordial black holes (PBHs) at a range of masses. Such PBHs serve as candidates for cold dark matter and their detection would shed light on conditions in the early universe. Here we propose a mechanism to search for transits of PBHs through/nearby Earth by studying the associated seismic waves. Using a spectral-element method, we simulate and visualize this seismic wave field in Earth's interior. We predict the emergence of two unique signatures, namely, a wave that would arrive almost simultaneously everywhere on Earth's free surface and the excitation of unusual spheroidal modes with a characteristic frequency-spacing in free oscillation spectra. These qualitative characteristics are unaffected by the speed or proximity of the PBH trajectory. The seismic energy deposited by a proximal ${M^{PBH} = 10^{15}}$ g PBH is comparable to a magnitude $M_w=4$ earthquake. The non-seismic collateral damage due to the actual impact of such small PBHs with Earth would be negligible. Unfortunately, the expected collision rate is very low even if PBHs constituted all of dark matter, at ${\sim 10^{-7} {yr}^{-1}}$, and since the rate scales as ${1/M^{PBH}}$, fortunately encounters with larger, Earth-threatening PBHs are exceedingly unlikely. However, the rate at which non-colliding close encounters of PBHs could be detected by seismic activity alone is roughly two orders of magnitude larger --- that is once every hundred thousand years --- than the direct collision rate.
description: Accepted, ApJ; 22 pages, 12 figures
Skin tolerant inactivation of multiresistant pathogens using far-UVC LEDs
Creators: name: Glaab, Johannes
name: Lobo-Ploch, Neysha
name: Cho, Hyun Kyong
name: Filler, Thomas
name: Gundlach, Heiko
name: Guttmann, Martin
name: Hagedorn, Sylvia
name: Lohan, Silke B.
name: Mehnke, Frank
name: Schleusener, Johannes
name: Sicher, Claudia
name: Sulmoni, Luca
name: Wernicke, Tim
name: Wittenbecher, Lucas
name: Woggon, Ulrike
name: Zwicker, Paula
name: Kramer, Axel
name: Meinke, Martina C.
name: Kneissl, Michael
name: Weyers, Markus
name: Winterwerber, Ulrike
name: Einfeldt, Sven
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik
subject: biomedical engineering
subject: disease prevention
subject: infectious diseases
subject: inorganic LEDs

description: Multiresistant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) cause serious postoperative infections. A skin tolerant far-UVC (< 240 nm) irradiation system for their inactivation is presented here. It uses UVC LEDs in combination with a spectral filter and provides a peak wavelength of 233 nm, with a full width at half maximum of 12 nm, and an irradiance of 44 µW/cm2. MRSA bacteria in different concentrations on blood agar plates were inactivated with irradiation doses in the range of 15–40 mJ/cm2. Porcine skin irradiated with a dose of 40 mJ/cm2 at 233 nm showed only 3.7% CPD and 2.3% 6-4PP DNA damage. Corresponding irradiation at 254 nm caused 11–14 times higher damage. Thus, the skin damage caused by the disinfectant doses is so small that it can be expected to be compensated by the skin's natural repair mechanisms. LED-based far-UVC lamps could therefore soon be used in everyday clinical practice to eradicate multiresistant pathogens directly on humans.