cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The TeV emission of Ap Librae: a hadronic interpretation and prospects for CTA
Creators: name: Petropoulou, Maria
name: Vasilopoulos, Georgios
name: Giannios, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ap Librae is one out of a handful of low-frequency peaked blazars to be detected at TeV $γ$-rays and the only one with an identified X-ray jet. Combined observations of Fermi-LAT at high energies (HE) and of H.E.S.S at very high energies (VHE) revealed a striking spectral property of Ap Librae; the presence of a broad high-energy component that extends more than nine orders of magnitude in energy and is, therefore, hard to be explained by the usual single-zone synchrotron self-Compton model. We show that the superposition of different emission components related to photohadronic interactions can explain the $γ$-ray emission of Ap Librae without invoking external radiation fields. We present two indicative model fits to the spectral energy distribution of Ap Librae where the VHE emission is assumed to originate from a compact, sub-pc scale region of the jet. A robust prediction of our model is VHE flux variability on timescales similar to those observed at X-rays and HE $γ$-rays, which can be further used to distinguish between a sub-pc or kpc scale origin of the TeV emission. We thus calculate the expected variability signatures at X-rays, HE and VHE $γ$-rays and show that quasi-simultaneous flares are expected, with larger amplitude flares appearing at $γ$-rays. We assess the detectability of VHE variability from Ap Librae with CTA, next generation of IACTs. We show that $\sim$hr timescale variability at $E_γ>0.1$ TeV could be detectable at high significance with shorter exposure times than current Cherenkov telescopes.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Capped Accumulated Return Call Valuation with Lock-In Feature
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Capped Accumulated Return Call Valuation with Lock-In Feature

description: A Monte Carlo (Gaussian MC and Quasi MC) pricing model is presented for the product named capped-accumulated-return-call (CARC) with lock in feature.
description: https://ia601505.us.archive.org/7/items/amortizing-floor-option/AmortizingFloorOption.pdf
The Interior Lives of Early Career English Teachers Narratives, Stances, and Symbiosis
Creators: name: Davis, Duane Bernard
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The interior lives of teachers have come into focus during the last three years of school in a global pandemic. The ways that teachers' lived experience impacts the choice to become a teacher, the way they approach their training, the choices they make in the classroom and ultimately who they are as a professional are defined by who they are and what they have done. This study explores three questions. First, what narratives do early career English teachers share? These narratives are their self-reported versions of their life story that inform the decisions they make and how they interact with young people. It informs their “why” to get up and teach every day. The second question this study addresses is “What stances do early career high school English teachers take about their beliefs about teaching?” Lastly, "how do their narratives about their lives shape what they believe about teaching?" This qualitative descriptive case study was conducted to, in part, describe the connection, if one exists, between their lived experiences and how these experiences shape their beliefs about their roles and their impact as teachers. Data collected using interviews that explored the perceptions of four teachers showed certain shared narratives. The power of language, the importance of perseverance, the magnitude of the impact of school environments, all prove to impact their teacher beliefs and suggest that these narratives should be considered in matters of pedagogy, policy and human capital.
Adaptive force and impact control for robot manipulators involving friction dynamics
Creators: name: Quach., Nghe Huan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Treatment of Textile Wastewater Using Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis to Remove COD and Color
Creators: name: Abeba, Kebede
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Textile industry is faced with serious environmental problems associated with its immense wastewater discharge, high BOD, COD, TS, extreme alkalinity and heavily colored effluent. It is discharged without enough treatment above the discharge limit set by EPA which affects the aquatic environment as well as human beings. Therefore, the objective of this study was to reduce COD and color from the textile wastewater by using TiO2 photocatalysis experiment to an acceptable discharge limit. In this study, effect of TiO2 dosage (400-550 mg/l), pH (7-9), and irradiation time (3-5 hr.) were investigated in batch experiment. The influent results revealed that the COD, BOD, TS, TSS, TDS and turbidity of textile wastewater were in concentration of 1150 mg/L, 210.77 mg/L, 2500 mg/L, 850 mg/L, 1650 mg/L and 190 NTU respectively. After TiO2 photocatalytic treatment the effluent resulted at the optimum condition (475 mg/L of TiO2 dosage, pH 9, and irradiation time of 5 hour) for the removal of COD and color showed that 110 mg/L of COD removal which is 90.4% in percent and 88% color removal respectively. When we see the removal of other pollutant load such as BOD, TSS, TDS and turbidity the concentration reduced to 210.77 mg/L, 25 mg/L, 74 mg/L and 22 NTU respectively which shows photocatalytic treatment of textile wastewater is the best treatment choice not only to remove COD and color but also the other pollutant load. Consequently, the experimental result showed that TiO2 photocatalysis is an efficient, cost effective and environmental friendly treatment technology for textile wa
Frequency-dependent dielectric function of semiconductors with application to physisorption
Creators: name: Zheng, Fan
name: Tao, Jianmin
name: Rappe, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dielectric function is one of the most important quantities that describes the electrical and optical properties of solids. Accurate modeling of the frequency-dependent dielectric function has great significance in the study of the long-range van der Waals (vdW) interaction for solids and adsorption. In this work, we calculate the frequency-dependent dielectric functions of semiconductors and insulators using the $GW$ method with and without exciton effects, as well as efficient semilocal density functional theory (DFT), and compare these calculations with a model frequency-dependent dielectric function. We find that for semiconductors with moderate band gaps, the model dielectric functions, $GW$ values, and DFT calculations all agree well with each other. However, for insulators with strong exciton effects, the model dielectric functions have a better agreement with accurate $GW$ values than the DFT calculations, particularly in high-frequency region. To understand this, we repeat the DFT calculations with scissors correction, by shifting DFT Kohn-Sham energy gap to match the experimental band gap. We find that scissors correction only moderately improves the DFT dielectric function in low-frequency region. Based on the dielectric functions calculated with different methods, we make a comparative study by applying these dielectric functions to calculate the vdW coefficients ($C_3$ and $C_5$) for adsorption of rare-gas atoms on a variety of surfaces. We find that the vdW coefficients obtained with the nearly-free electron gas-based model dielectric function agree quite well with those obtained from the $GW$ dielectric function, in particular for adsorption on semiconductors, leading to an overall error of less than 7% for $C_3$ and 5% for $C_5$. This demonstrates the reliability of the model dielectric function for the study of physisorption.
The Association of Childhood Obesity with Dental Crowding and Skeletal Malocclusion
Creators: name: Yip, Kayla
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Hypothesis and Objective: Children with obesity have precocious dental development, with researchers suggesting that this may lead to increased dental crowding. This study aims to test the hypothesis that children with obesity have greater mandibular incisor crowding. Methods: Subjects were recruited from the UIC College of Dentistry’s Orthodontic Clinic (n=105) and categorized into healthy, overweight or obese body mass index (BMI) as defined by the Center of Disease (CDC) for children and adolescents. OrthoCAD was used to measure mandibular intercanine distance and crowding. Skeletal classification was determined by Steiner's analysis of traced cephalograms. Descriptive statistics, Kruskal-Wallis test, Chi-squared test and Spearman’s rank correlation were employed to examine differences in dental crowding and skeletal classification by CDC BMI categories and BMI percentile. Results: 78 children with a mean age of 13.72 years (SD 2.01) met the inclusion criteria. Among the total sample, mean crowding measured 2.36mm (SD 2.67) and mean intercanine distance measured 28.20mm (SD 2.84). BMI categorization of the sample included, 25 obese (35%), 13 overweight (17%), 39 healthy (50%) and 1 underweight (1%). Furthermore, skeletal classification of the sample indicated, 31% Class I (24 subjects), 46% Class 2 (36 subjects) and 23% Class 3 (18 subjects). There was no significant association between BMI and lower incisor crowding. In contrast, there was an association between BMI and intercanine distance, with higher BMI children having larger intercanine widths, when controlling for sex and age (rho=0.40; p<0.001). Furthermore, there was no association between BMI category and skeletal classification. Conclusions: In our sample, there is no evidence of increased crowding nor greater likelihood of skeletal malocclusion with childhood obesity. Remarkably, wider intercanine distances were observed that could contribute to decreased crowding. Although the cause of increased intercanine distance is unclear, this may reflect overall greater mandibular growth. IRB and/or ACC Protocol #: 2017-1276 and 2017-0956
Half a state, half an operator: a general formulation of stators
Creators: name: Zohar, Erez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stators, which may be intuitively defined as "half states, half operators" are mathematical objects which act on two Hilbert spaces and utilize entanglement to create remote operations and exchange information between two physical systems. In particular, they allow to induce effective dynamics on one physical system by acting on the other one, given they have properly been connected with the right stator. In this work, the concept of stators is generalized and formalized in a way that allows the utilization of stators for some physical problems based on symmetry groups, and in particular digital quantum simulation.
S1.xls
Creators: name: Gao, Junyin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pathology (excl. oral pathology)
Oral medicine and pathology
Animal physiology - biophysics
Animal physiology - cell
Animal physiology - systems
Toxicology (incl. clinical toxicology)

description: Lung function of mice(C57BL/6J ) from cigarette smoke induced COPD and control groups.
Optimization ofMunicipal SolidWaste Vermicomposting Parameters
Creators: name: Gebrekrstos, Teklebrahan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Today, increasing population and rapid development are resulting for generation of large amount of solid wastes in developing countries. Most of these wastes are usually disposed in open dumping site, open spaces, rivers or burned in the streets without any treatment due to lack of proper management techniques, awareness and commitment of the society and the government, which creates severe environmental pollution and health hazards, hence it was thought to attempt use of municipal solid waste for cheap and ecofriendly treatment methods like vermicomposting. It is the process of compost formation by earthworms. Optimization of process parameters for the vermicomposting of municipal solid waste using Esenia fetida was investigated using response surface methodology (RSM). The three parameters and their ranges namely moisture content (60-90%), C/N ratio (20-30), and worm stocking density (0.8-2.0 kg/m2) were chosen from the previous study of vermicomposting. The experimental data on the quantity of N, P and K were fitted into a quadratic polynomial model using multiple regression analysis. The experimental results and software predicted N, P and K values were comparable. The individual parameters effect as well as effect of interactions between the vermicomposting parameters on N, P and K was analysed using various graphical representations. A three-level three factorial Box-Behnken design technique under RSM using numerical optimization method was used to optimize their interactions, which showed that a moisture content of 74.62%, C/N ratio of 23.21, and worm stocking density of 2 kg/m2 were the best conditions. Under these conditions, the maximum predicted yield of N, P and K was 2.82%, 1.58% and 1.28%, respectively. The produced vermicompost was found to be better in desired level of composition of macro-nutrients i.e., N, P and K and the efficacy of the prepared vermicompost has been studied on the spinach vegetable plant. A plastic pot set-up with soil was used to determine the effects and efficiency level of vermicompost on the yields of spinach. The study was conducted through effect of increasing concentration of Vermicompost (0% (control), 50% and 100% w/w) in target plant growth. Total leaves wet weight and number of leaves has been studied. Results showed that the number of leaves produced using 100% VC was 2.67 times greater than the number of leaves produced using 0% VC and 1.6 times greater than produced using 50% VC and leaf wet weight of the spinach plant produced using 100% VC was 2.2 times greater than produced using the control (soil) and 1.2 times greater than produced using 50% VC. Thus, vermicomposting of municipal solid waste is an excellent and ecofriendly method of municipal solid waste management. Key words: Optimization; vermicomposting; municipal solid waste; Esenia fetida; response surface methodology; spinach
Saul Holiff and Johnny Cash at Holiff's apartment in L.A. before Hollywood Bowl show
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Country musicians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/881442
subject: Concert tours
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/872992
subject: Music trade--Management
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030650
subject: Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/680168
subject: Country musicians--Homes and haunts
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/881444
subject: Cash, Johnny
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31281
subject: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1958130

description: Appears in Julie Chadwick's The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon (cover); Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash: The Biography (2006).
description: Publicity still of Saul Holiff and Johnny Cash at Holiff's apartment in Los Angeles before the Hollywood Bowl show on 15 June 1962. On the back, it reads, "Souvenir of C & W Musical Spectacular, June 15, 1962, Hollywood Bowl, Compliments of Saul Holiff & Johnny Cash."
Supplementary tables from Does artificial light at night alter moth community composition?
Creators: name: Grenis, Kylee
name: Nufio, César
name: Wimp, Gina M.
name: Murphy, Shannon M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1: Location of study sites, when they were sampled, species richness, and abundance corrected species richness. Table S2: List of moth species recorded during the experiment. The number next to each species represents the average number of individuals found at all light or bait traps, respectively.
COVID-19, Food Insecurity, and Access to Oral Healthcare
Creators: name: Abraham, Pheba Abraham
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to dramatic shifts in employment rates and inflation, and will likely have long-ranging economic impacts, particularly on those who are already in lower SES groups. The initial shut-down and subsequent public health considerations have also affected the logistics of the practice of dentistry. It is likely that both the physical parameters of the pandemic and the economic effects have influenced access to oral health care and oral health care choices. We propose that increased economic instability and food insecurity early in the pandemic may have negatively influenced oral health outcomes and oral healthcare access. We further suggest that the ongoing pandemic is influencing patient choices regarding orthodontic treatment. To test these hypotheses, we developed a survey instrument that asks about demographics, dietary choices /food access, and oral health access and orthodontic choices. We are particularly interested in whether patients view their perceptions of orthodontic treatment as having shifted since the beginning of the pandemic, such as whether direct-to-consumer aligners have become perceived as “safer”. This survey (available in both English and Spanish) was made available to dental patients in all clinics at the Colleges of Dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The proposed project has provided us valuable, real-time insight into the longitudinal effects of an economic and healthcare crisis on a range of dietary and oral health behaviors.
Investigation of Environmental and Economic Benefits Of Bioslurry From Coffee Husk Relative to Chemical Fertilizer
Creators: name: Takele, Uma
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Agriculture dominates the Ethiopian economy. It is the major supplier of raw materials to food processing, beverage and textile industries. Application of fertilizer is one of the major interventions made by the government to increase the productivity of the sector. The government focuses on productivity improvement of smallholder agriculture through diffusion of fertilizers and improved seeds. However, the price of chemical fertilizer is increasing from time to time which results in shortage of the supply and unaffordable to smallholder farmers. The objective of the study was to (i) to see the effect of bioslurry from coffee husk on the macro nutrients of the soil (ii) to assess the influence of bioslurry from coffee husk on soil organic carbon content (iii) to compare the effect of bio slurry on yield and yield components of the test crop (iv) To compare the economic benefit of bio slurry application from yield perspective. In order to achieve the stated objectives, a pot study was conducted under greenhouse condition. Seven treatments were designed with combined and sole application rates of bioslurry and urea to 5 kg soil pot -1 using wheat as a test crop. The results of the study revealed that combined and sole application of the bioslurry with chemical fertilizer positively increased the yield, yield component of the test crop and organic carbon soil. The conjugate application of bioslurry with chemical fertilizer at (3.1m bioslurry +62 kg urea) ha -1 gave the highest yield (4368.2 kgha -1 ) and highest spike length was also recorded with this treatment. The high application rate of bioslurry at (6.2m 3 ) increased the soil organic carbon content over 100% compared to the control without any amendment. The simple economic calculation based on economic efficiency indicated that the combined application of bioslurry with chemical fertilizer at (3.1 m 3 +62 kg urea) ha- 1 gave a net benefit of 23, 460.8 ETB. The study showed that the appropriate utilization of bioslurry as soil amendment not only increases soil fertility but also plays a great role in alleviation of climate change through increment of soil organic carbon which in turn serves as a carbon pool of planet earth.
Low Rank and Sparsity Analysis Applied to Speech Enhancement via Online Estimated Dictionary
Creators: name: Sun, Pengfei
name: Qin, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an online estimated dictionary based single channel speech enhancement algorithm, which focuses on low rank and sparse matrix decomposition. In this proposed algorithm, a noisy speech spectral matrix is considered as the summation of low rank background noise components and an activation of the online speech dictionary, on which both low rank and sparsity constraints are imposed. This decomposition takes the advantage of local estimated dictionary high expressiveness on speech components. The local dictionary can be obtained through estimating the speech presence probability by applying Expectation Maximal algorithm, in which a generalized Gamma prior for speech magnitude spectrum is used. The evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves significant improvements when compared to four other speech enhancement algorithms.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, journal in IEEE signal processing letter 2016
Distocia fetal: manobras obstétricas e  cirurgia instrumental para o paro seguro de  bebê e mãe
Creators: name: BITTENCOURT, RODRIGO AUGUSTO
name: FILHO, ANDERSON BERNARDO MOREIRA ALVES
name: RIBEIRO, RAQUEL BARBOSA
name: ELISEU, MARIA LUIZA WERNECK
name: PEREIRA, HELENA COSTA
name: MAGALHÃES, LETÍCIA FERREIRA REZENDE
name: SOUSA, FLÁVIA BRAGANÇA RABELO DE
name: PEGO, DIANA FREIRE
name: NETO, RUY PENNA
name: DE MIRANDA, NAYARA LIMA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: PERIÓDICO MÉDICO NÃO INDEXADO Á NENHUMA BASE DE DADOS
Flow-induced vibrations of a tethered sphere
Creators: name: Pregnalato., Craig Justin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Poincaré chaos and unpredictable functions
Creators: name: Akhmet, Marat
name: Fen, Mehmet Onur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D45, 34C28

description: The results of this study are continuation of the research of Poincaré chaos initiated in papers (Akhmet M, Fen MO. Commun Nonlinear Sci Numer Simulat 2016;40:1-5; Akhmet M, Fen MO. Turk J Math, doi:10.3906/mat-1603-51, accepted). We focus on the construction of an unpredictable function, continuous on the real axis. As auxiliary results, unpredictable orbits for the symbolic dynamics and the logistic map are obtained. By shaping the unpredictable function as well as Poisson function we have performed the first step in the development of the theory of unpredictable solutions for differential and discrete equations. The results are preliminary ones for deep analysis of chaos existence in differential and hybrid systems. Illustrative examples concerning unpredictable solutions of differential equations are provided.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Supplemental Table 1.xls
Creators: name: Gao, Junyin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pathology (excl. oral pathology)
Oral medicine and pathology
Animal physiology - biophysics
Animal physiology - cell
Animal physiology - systems
Toxicology (incl. clinical toxicology)

description: Lung function of mice(C57BL/6J ) from cigarette smoke induced COPD and control groups.
Narratives of Race and Ancestry: Across Cuba and the U.S.
Creators: name: Obregon, Elizabeth D
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: My research explores the ways that ancestry, race, and biogenetic ideas (ideas that intersect biology and genetics) impact racial formation among Cubans on the island and the Cuban American diasporic community in the United States. In Cuba, the narrative suggests that everyone can trace their roots to a mixture of African and Spanish blood. To be Cuban is to be mestizo (racially mixed). Cuba’s national identity as a place of racial mixture and harmony has a long history, but these ideas were reshaped and came to be closely tied to the State’s revolutionary politics after the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Growing research demonstrates that systemic racial inequality continues to exist in Cuba, a “colorblind” nation that celebrates its African roots. However, less attention has been given to the biologically-based understandings of race that continue to develop within Cuba, and that legitimize White superiority. My focus on these biogenetic assumptions shed light on the ways Blackness is socially constructed as not only culturally inferior, but even biologically detrimental across Cuban island racial narratives. My transnational scope also pushes back against assumptions that immigrants simply adopt U.S. notions of race and reveals how those categorized as Latina/o in the U.S. retain their own formations of race. Finally, by including those Cuban Americans born and raised in the U.S., my work exposes the ways race is refashioned across generations in a U.S. context where U.S.-raised Cuban Americans are overwhelmingly considering genetic ancestry knowledge for their heritage work and even (racialized) identity productions. Rather than seeing engagement with genomic technologies as re-geneticizing race, my qualitative focus demonstrates that biogenetic assumptions are widespread even in the absence of genetic tests. By exploring the narratives of race and biogenetic ideas of mestizaje, or racial mixture, across Cuban island and U.S. diasporic communities, my research provides insight on the ways that biological ideas continue to shape racial formation, and persistence of anti-Blackness, across the Americas.
Briquetting of Sawdust using Waste Paper as a Binder
Creators: name: Mengist, Muluken
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This study explored the possibility of producing sawdust briquettes that could be used for energy supply in small factories and for domestic cooking. A briquetting machine suitable for the production of sawdust briquettes on a small scale was constructed. A portion of sawdust was screened in to average diameter of: A (0.5mm), B (1.5mm), C (3mm), D (4.8mm), E (6.8mm) using standard sieves of 1mm, 2mm, 4mm, 5.6mm and 8mm mesh size. The raw sawdust was characterized for the following properties: moisture content (24.43%), density (91.34 kg/m3), volatile matter (94.92%) and ash content (2.6%). Briquettes were produced by mixing sawdust (both screened and raw) with waste paper in weight percentage ratios of 75:25, 70:30, 65:35, 60:40 and 55:45 respectively at three different die diameters. The computed density, porosity index, shatter resistance, volatile matter, ash content, fixed carbon and calorific value for all sawdust briquettes falls in the range of 218.24-322.62kg/m3, 33.97-312.4%, 98.88-99.95%, 70.24-90.56%, 2.33-7.26%, 6.7-24.26% and 14.5019-18.3832MJ/kg respectively. Further more from the results of the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) carried out, there were no significant difference (p>0.05) in the quality of briquettes bonded with waste paper at different percentages except for percentage volatile matter, ash content and heating value . The effect of die diameter was found to be significant only on the physical properties of sawdust briquettes. A significant effect of average particle size of sawdust was recorded in density, porosity index and volatile matter of the briquettes. However, it was insignificant on shatter resistance, ash content and fixed carbon of the briquettes. The optimum blend of sawdust particle size - waste paper percentage and die diameter- waste paper percentage was assessed on the basis of the briquette properties: density, porosity index, volatile matter, ash content and gross calorific value. The combination of 0.5mm average particle size of sawdust and 30% waste paper gave the optimal density of 270.658kg/m3, porosity index of 29.782%, volatile matter of 86.496%, ash content of 2.829% and gross calorific values of 16.613 MJ/kg. The optimum blend of die diameter and waste paper was obtained at the combination of 6 cm and 25% with optimal values of density of 306.079 kg/m3, porosity index of 35.92%, volatile matter of 83.90%, ash content of 3.05% and gross calorific value of 17.134MJ/kg. It was concluded that the calorific values of briquettes obtained were sufficient to produce heat required for household cooking. Therefore sawdust briquettes can be a very good alternative source of energy for domestic cooking
Long-range correlations in rectangular cavities containing point-like perturbations
Creators: name: Bialous, Malgorzata
name: Yunko, Vitalii
name: Bauch, Szymon
name: Lawniczak, Michal
name: Dietz, Barbara
name: Sirko, Leszek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated experimentally the short- and long-range correlations in the fluctuations of the resonance frequencies of flat, rectangular microwave cavities that contained antennas acting as point-like perturbations. We demonstrate that their spectral properties exhibit the features typical for singular statistics. Hitherto, only the nearest-neighbor spacing distribution had been studied. We, in addition considered statistical measures for the long-range correlations and analyzed power spectra. Thereby, we could corroborate that the spectral properties change to semi-Poisson statistic with increasing microwave frequency. Furthermore, the experimental results are shown to be well described by a model applicable to billiards containing a zero-range perturbation [T. Tudorovskiy et al., New. J. Phys. 12, 12302 (2010)].
Kinematics of Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies: Evidence for Stellar Feedback
Creators: name: Olmo-Garcia, A.
name: Almeida, J. Sanchez
name: Munoz-Tunon, C.
name: Filho, M. E.
name: Elmegreen, B. G.
name: Elmegreen, D. M.
name: Perez-Montero, E.
name: Mendez-Abreu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies analyzed in a previous paper have large star-forming regions with a metallicity lower than the rest of the galaxy. Such a chemical inhomogeneity reveals the external origin of the metal-poor gas fueling star formation, possibly indicating accretion from the cosmic web. This paper studies the kinematic properties of the ionized gas in these galaxies. Most XMPs have rotation velocity around a few tens of km/s. The star-forming regions appear to move coherently. The velocity is constant within each region, and the velocity dispersion sometimes increases within the star-forming clump towards the galaxy midpoint, suggesting inspiral motion toward the galaxy center. Other regions present a local maximum in velocity dispersion at their center, suggesting a moderate global expansion. The Halpha line wings show a number of faint emission features with amplitudes around a few percent of the main Halpha component, and wavelength shifts between 100 and 400 km/s. The components are often paired, so that red and blue emission features with similar amplitudes and shifts appear simultaneously. Assuming the faint emission to be produced by expanding shell-like structures, the inferred mass loading factor (mass loss rate divided by star formation rate) exceeds 10. Since the expansion velocity exceeds by far the rotational and turbulent velocities, the gas may eventually escape from the galaxy disk. The observed motions involve energies consistent with the kinetic energy released by individual core-collapse supernovae. Alternative explanations for the faint emission have been considered and discarded.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Paper II of ApJL, 810, 15
Coherent dynamics of V-type systems driven by time-dependent incoherent radiation
Creators: name: Dodin, Amro
name: Tscherbul, Timur V.
name: Brumer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light induced processes in nature occur by irradiation with slowly turned-on incoherent light. The general case of time-dependent incoherent excitation is solved here analytically for V-type systems using a newly developed master equation method. Clear evidence emerges for the disappearance of radiatively induced coherence as turn-on times of the radiation exceed characteristic system times. The latter is the case, in nature, for all relevant dynamical time scales for other than nearly degenerate energy levels. We estimate that, in the absence of non-radiative relaxation and decoherence, turn-on times slower than 1 ms (still short by natural standards) induce Fano coherences between energy eigenstates that are separated by less than 0.9 cm$^{-1}$.
Investigating the Role of HOIL1 in Controlling Citrobacter rodentium Pathogenesis
Creators: name: Hartley, Victoria L
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: HOIL1-deficient patients experience chronic intestinal inflammation and diarrhea as well as increased susceptibility to certain bacterial infections. HOIL1 is a component of the linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex (LUBAC) that regulates immune signaling pathways including NFκB-activating pathways. We have shown previously that HOIL1 is essential for survival following Citrobacter rodentium gastrointestinal infection of mice, but the mechanism of protection by HOIL1 was not examined. C. rodentium is a murine model for human attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, that cause diarrhea and food-borne illnesses, and lead to severe disease in children and immunocompromised individuals. Here, we found that C. rodentium infection caused severe colitis and dissemination of C. rodentium to systemic organs in Hoil1-/- mice. HOIL1 was important in the innate immune response to limit C. rodentium replication in the intestine, and to modulate induction of inflammatory cytokines. Using cell type-specific knock-out mice, we found that HOIL1 was dispensable in intestinal epithelial cells (IEC), but was required in CD11c- and lysozyme 2-expressing myeloid cells to prevent weight loss and systemic dissemination of C. rodentium. While HOIL1-deficiency did not affect populations of neutrophils or macrophages, dendritic cells and group 3 innate lymphoid cell (ILC3) numbers were reduced, resulting in a defect in IL-22 induction during C. rodentium infection. Understanding the role HOIL1 plays in limiting the pathogenesis of A/E lesion-forming bacteria will provide further insights into the innate immune response to gastrointestinal pathogens and inflammatory disorders.
On finite symmetries of simply connected four-manifolds
Creators: name: Suvaina, Ioana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R55 (Primary), 57R57, 53C21 (Secondary)

description: For most positive integer pairs $(a,b)$, the topological space $#a{\mathbb C \mathbb P}^2#b{\bar{\mathbb C \mathbb P^2}}$ is shown to admit infinitely many inequivalent smooth structures which dissolve upon performing a single connected sum with $S^2\times S^2$. This is then used to construct infinitely many non-equivalent smooth free actions of suitable finite groups on the connected sum $#a{\mathbb C \mathbb P}^2#b{\bar{\mathbb C \mathbb P^2}}$. We then investigate the behavior of the sign of the Yamabe invariant for the resulting finite covers, and observe that these constructions provide many new counter-examples to the $4$-dimensional Rosenberg Conjecture.
description: title changed at the referee's suggestion, presentation improved
Supplemental Table 2.xls
Creators: name: Gao, Junyin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pathology (excl. oral pathology)
Oral medicine and pathology
Toxicology (incl. clinical toxicology)
Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: Genes quantified at both the transcriptome and proteome levels of mice lung tissues from COPD group and control group.
Rainbow metric from quantum gravity: anisotropic cosmology
Creators: name: Assanioussi, Mehdi
name: Dapor, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a construction of effective cosmological models which describe the propagation of a massive quantum scalar field on a quantum anisotropic cosmological spacetime. Each obtained effective model is represented by a rainbow metric in which particles of distinct momenta propagate on different classical geometries. Our analysis shows that upon certain assumptions and conditions on the parameters determining such anisotropic models, we surprisingly obtain a unique deformation parameter $β$ in the modified dispersion relation of the modes. Hence inducing an isotropic deformation despite the general starting considerations. We then ensure the recovery of the dispersion relation realized in the isotropic case, studied in [arXiv:1412.6000], when some proper symmetry constraints are imposed, and we estimate the value of the deformation parameter for this case in loop quantum cosmology context.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure
Development and Testing of a Survey to Measure Moral Distress in Undergraduate Medical Students
Creators: name: Swirsky, Eric Scott
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Purpose To develop and test the construct validity of an instrument measuring variables related to moral distress resulting from the hidden curriculum of undergraduate medical education (UME) by identifying root causes and measuring their frequency and intensity among a cohort of learners. For this study, moral distress is defined as the perception of dissonance between an agent’s moral identity and values, standards, and situations attendant to human occupation in clinical environments, referred to collectively as moral events. Moral distress resulting from the hidden curriculum of academic medicine has not been measured. Method A scoping review was conducted to inform the development of a 26-item instrument, called the Moral Distress Scale–Hidden Curriculum (MDS-HC), describing potentially moral events that were potentially distressing to students in UME. The survey was vetted through 10 cognitive interviews, and seven pretests were conducted to debug and observe response process. The survey was administered to medical students at a single medical school who were invited by Slack channel during a four-week period in 2022. Results Seventy-one undergraduate medical students completed the survey portion of the MDS-HC, and all items were experienced at least once and caused some level of distress. The mean frequency of items was measured at 1.2 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.0 – 1.3), mean intensity was 2.3 (CI = 2.1 – 2.5), and the mean composite score was 3.2 (CI = 2.6 – 3.7). Cronbach’s alpha suggested high inter-item consistency in ratings of intensity (α = 0.95). Data suggest that respondents who never had experienced an event report higher intensity (by 0.58 points on average, CI = 0.46 - 0.70) than those who had not (p < 0.001). Respondents with higher composite MDR-HC scores were significantly more likely to report a change in specialty or career interest (Odds Ratio = 1.53, Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.18 – 2.10, p = 0.003). A four-factor model was found to have good fit indexes (chi-square (dgf = 227, N = 71) = 248.89, p = 0.152) and accounted for 48% of the total item variance. Conclusions Moral events have been observed early in medical training and are enculturated as part of the hidden curriculum. This study provides modest evidence for the validity and reliability of the MDS-HC, which could serve as a base for future research in moral distress in UME.
Kinetic modelling of coal liquiefaction reactions
Creators: name: Prasad., Giyarpuam Nadathur
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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7th international Med-CORDEX Workshop, On line, Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th, May 2023
Creators: name: Somot, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Med-CORDEX, workshop, climate, regional modelling, coastal risk, biogeochemistry, Mediterranean

description: This zenodo page gives access to the main documents of the 7th international Med-CORDEX Workshop: agenda, discussion rendering, talks, ... WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: - have scientific talks and exchanges to raise momentum in the community - refine the CORDEX-CMIP6 Baseline run protocol - prepare the CORDEX ICRC conference in Trieste - start to identify new possible activities within Med-CORDEX - introduce the new ocean biogeochemistry and coastal risk communities WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Erika Coppola (ICTP), Samuel Somot (CNRM), Bodo Ahrens (GUF), Gabriel Jordà (IEO), Fabien Solmon (LAERO), Gianmaria Sannino (ENEA), Marco Reale (OGS), Rosh Ranasinghe (IHE Delft), Florence Sevault (CNRM), Pierre Nabat (CNRM), Emanuela Pichelli (ICTP)
S2.xls
Creators: name: Gao, Junyin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pathology (excl. oral pathology)
Oral medicine and pathology
Toxicology (incl. clinical toxicology)
Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: Genes quantified at both the transcriptome and proteome levels of mice lung tissues from COPD group and control group.
Degenerate Density Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Palenik, Mark C.
name: Dunlap, Brett I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractional occupation numbers can be used in density functional theory to create a symmetric Kohn-Sham potential, resulting in orbitals with degenerate eigenvalues. We develop the corresponding perturbation theory and apply it to a system of $N_d$ degenerate electrons in a harmonic oscillator potential. The order-by-order expansions of both the fractional occupation numbers and unitary transformations within the degenerate subspace are determined by the requirement that a differentiable map exists connecting the initial and perturbed states. Using the X$α$ exchange-correlation (XC) functional, we find an analytic solution for the first-order density and first through third-order energies as a function of $α$, with and without a self-interaction correction. The fact that the XC Hessian is not positive definite plays an important role in the behavior of the occupation numbers.
Investigation of Biogas Production by Co-Digestion of Brewery Wastewater and Brewery Spent Yeast
Creators: name: Getachew, Abrha
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Production of biogas through anaerobic digestion of organic waste materials provides an alternative environmentally friendly renewable energy. In this study, biogas production from codigestion of brewery wastewater, spent yeast and brewery sludge in five mix ratios was evaluated under mesophilic condition (35 ℃, 37 ℃, 39 ℃) using a batch digester for 21 days. For all substrates, total solids (TS), biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), temperature (T), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and pH were measured before and after digestion. For the experimental design, different mix ratios of yeast and wastewater by volume (0 %, 1 %, 6 %, 11 %, 100 %) were adopted for all the anaerobic digestion employed. All measured physico-chemical parameters of the sample substrate significantly varied before and after anaerobic digestion AD. Gas production was measured for all the samples periodically starting from fourth day of digestion experiment and went to zero at about 21 days in all substrates. Assessment of cumulative biogas production revealed that substrate in a mix ratio of 1 %, temperature 37 ℃, pH 6.5 (3417 mL/800 mL sample) spent and 6 %, 37 ℃, 6.5 (3325.5 mL/800 mL sample) showed the highest biogas production and the lowest was in 11 % volume ratio, 35 ℃ temperature and pH of 5 (2173 mL/800 mL sample) and 11 %, 39 ℃, 5 pH suggesting the first mix ratio of the two substrates is an optimal mix to yield better biogas. Overall the results indicated that biogas yield and TS, BOD, COD reduction can be significantly enhanced when brewery spent yeast and brewery wastewater are co-digested.
Level/rank Duality and Chern-Simons-Matter Theories
Creators: name: Hsin, Po-Shen
name: Seiberg, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss in detail level/rank duality in three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories and various related dualities in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. We couple the dual Lagrangians to appropriate background fields (including gauge fields, spin$_c$ connections and the metric). The non-trivial maps between the currents and the line operators in the dual theories is accounted for by mixing of these fields. In order for the duality to be valid we must add finite counterterms depending on these background fields. This analysis allows us to resolve a number of puzzles with these dualities, to provide derivations of some of them, and to find new consistency conditions and relations between them. In addition, we find new level/rank dualities of topological Chern-Simons theories and new dualities of Chern-Simons-matter theories, including new boson/boson and fermion/fermion dualities.
description: 36 pages, clarifications about the fixed point with several flavors