cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MACROECONOMIC DYNAMICS AND THE REAL ECONOMY IN SUB -SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: A STUDY OF NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND GHANA
Creators: name: Seybold Report Journal
Publisher: name: Seybold Report Journal
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

This research examined the impact of macroeconomic dynamics on the real economy of three sub-Saharan African nations over a forty-year period, spanning from 1981 to 2020. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test revealed that the dataset exhibited a combination of integrated levels and first difference variables, necessitating the utilization of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. Primarily, the findings indicate that the effect of macroeconomic indicators on GDP differed across Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana. In the prolonged term, Nigeria's economy experienced a substantial negative impact from the exchange rate and discount rate, with inflation displaying a negative and inconsequential effect, while the unemployment rate had a positive yet insignificant influence on Nigeria's GDP. South Africa's GDP was significantly and adversely affected by the exchange rate and inflation in the long run, whereas the discount rate and unemployment rate had a negative and insignificant impact on South Africa's GDP over time. Ghana's long-term GDP was notably and negatively influenced by the exchange rate, discount rate, and unemployment rate, while inflation had a negative and inconsequential effect. The error correction mechanism within the ARDL model indicated that GDP in all the examined countries was influenced in varying manners by the chosen macroeconomic indicators. In the short term, the exchange rate, inflation rate, discount rate, and unemployment rate were significant factors affecting Nigeria's GDP; for South Africa, GDP was notably influenced by the exchange rate, discount rate, and unemployment rate in the short term, while Ghana's GDP was significantly impacted by inflation, discount rate, and unemployment rate in the short term. From a policy standpoint, these results are particularly relevant to governmental bodies tasked with the management of the economy.

 Keywords: Macro-economic indicators, GDP,ARDL, Exchange rate, Discount rate, Inflation rate.
PRISMA-ScR Checklist for Innovation in entrepreneurship during the time of COVID-19: a scoping review of the scientific evidence from Peru
Creators: name: Fernández-Bedoya, Víctor Hugo
name: Meneses-La-Riva, Monica Elisa
name: Suyo-Vega, Josefina Amanda
name: Grijalva-Salazar, Rosario Violeta
name: De Jesús Stephanie Gago-Chávez, Johanna
name: Hitler Giovanni Ocupa-Cabrera
name: Alvarado-Suyo, Sofía Almendra
name: Di Deus Ocupa-Meneses, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: PRISMA-ScR Checklist for Innovation in entrepreneurship during the time of COVID-19: a scoping review of the scientific evidence from Peru
Practical Initial Evaluation of Fetus and Placenta of Stillbirths for Obstetricians in Delivery Room
Creators: name: Patou Tantbirojn
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: stillbirths
gross examination
placenta

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 331-339
Benefit of Paraaortic Lymph Node Evaluation in Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma
A 10-year retrospective study in Thailand
Creators: name: Atthapon Jaishuen
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: cancer of the endometrium
lymphadenectomy

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 340-357
Effects of acoustic and semantic contextual cues on Mandarin spoken word recognition by English-speaking American learners of Mandarin
Creators: name: Chen, Kaidi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Proficiency
subject: Fundamental Frequency
subject: Second Language
subject: Mandarin Spoken Word Recognition
subject: Semantic Context
subject: Noise

description: Sensitivity to semantic context and acoustic cues are important factors affecting spoken word recognition. Previous research (e.g., Miller et al., 2010; Benichov et al., 2012) has shown that semantic context and dynamic F0 are beneficial to native language (L1) listeners for comprehension of speech that occurs in background noise. However, novice second language (L2) listeners do not receive the same benefit from semantic cues compared to L1 listeners, consistent with emerging mastery of L2 (Zhang et al., 2016). In this framework, the research questions for the current study are: 1. How do semantic context, F0, and background noise combine to influence L2 word recognition; and, critically, do these patterns differ between inexperienced and experienced L2 listeners? 2. Can variability in the use of semantic and acoustic cues be explained by individual differences in word frequency, word familiarity, cognitive ability, auditory acuity, and/or fine-grained language experience?
Efficacy of the Si-Washer in Cleansing Gynaecological Laparoscopic Instruments: A randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Siriporn Somjit
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: cleaning
washer
instrument
laparoscopy
Innovation

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 358-364
Contrasting zinc toxicity effects on model extremophilic and neutrophilic freshwater algal species
Creators: name: Mikulic, Paulina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Extremophilic microorganisms thrive in some of the harshest environments on Earth. Genetic and enzymatic differences across the gradients from “neutral” to “harsh” environments render extremophiles survivors of some of the harshest environments on earth, and metal tolerance is often found in acidophiles. Acidophilic microorganisms, including microalgae, are often found at sites heavily affected by acid mine drainage and in naturally occurring acidic environments. Essential or non-essential, all metals are harmful when present at toxic levels. Cells cope with metal toxicity through exclusion, sequestration, active transport or biotransformations, all having implications to the cellular physiology. Microalgae, like other species, use different coping strategies when subjected to metal stress, which determines their threshold of metal stress tolerance. An example of an alga with a high level of metal tolerance is the extremophilic red alga Cyanidium caldarium. In this study, we have looked at the coping mechanisms C. caldarium employs to deal with zinc stress, and have compared it to the more susceptible mesophilic green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Measurements of photosynthesis, respiration, pigment levels, oxidative stress, stress protein and FTIR as a phenomics approach show that these species with contrasting Zn tolerances also have a contrasting approach to coping with Zn-induced oxidative stress. Despite its significantly lower tolerance to Zn, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii showed a robust Photosystem II (PSII) at Zn levels over EC50, and was able to regain gross photosynthetic capacity after an acclimation period to sub-toxic Zn levels, which it also maintained when subjected to further zinc challenges. This was not seen in the much more tolerant Cyanidium caldarium, which showed an affected PSII capacity at Zn levels above EC50, and decreased its photosynthetic rates when subjected to Zn stress, even after an acclimation period. Additionally, elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) and heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) were found in the acclimated C. reinhardtii, which regained photosynthetic capacity, pointing to ROS acting as signalling molecules. The coping strategy of Cyanidium caldarium resulted in down-regulation of photosynthetic capacity, and its ROS production depended on the Zn-dose. FTIR analysis shows that Zn acclimation and stress results in modification of cellular macromolecular composition. The biological spectra were successfully applied to predicting levels of common bioindicators of environmental stress and pollution and thus, with further development, biospectroscopy might provide a useful tool in ecotoxicological studies and monitoring. These results open up questions of the role ROS signalling might play in the different coping strategies seen in microalgae and the wider implications of metal-stress-induced alterations in the nutritional quality of microalgae.
Multiscale response of ionic systems to a spatially varying electric field
Creators: name: Hansen, Jesper Schmidt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the response of ionic systems subjected to a spatially varying electric field is studied. Following the Nernst-Planck equation, two forces driving the mass flux are present, namely, the concentration gradient and the electric potential gradient. The mass flux due to the concentration gradient is modelled through Fick's law, and a new constitutive relation for the mass flux due to the potential gradient is proposed. In the regime of low screening the response function due to the potential gradient is closely related to the ionic conductivity. In the large screening regime, on the other hand, the response function is governed by the charge-charge structure. Molecular dynamics simulations are conducted and the two wave vector dependent response functions are evaluated for models of a molten salt and an ionic liquid. In the low screening regime the response functions show same wave vector dependency, indicating that it is the same underlying physical processes that govern the response. In the screening regime the wave vector dependency is very different and, thus, the overall response is determined by different processes. This is in agreement with the observed failure of the Nernst-Einstein relation.
Platypus in a changing world: impacts of land use and climate
Creators: name: Klamt, Melissa Anne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Human activity affects natural environments in a range of ways, including through the impacts of climate change and land-use conversion. Of particular concern are the potential impacts these changes will have on top predators and, in turn, on food webs and ecosystems. This thesis examines the effects of drought and land use on the food-web role and body condition of a top aquatic predator, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus is reliant on freshwater environments for prey and habitat and is likely an important top order consumer in eastern Australia. Stable isotope analysis was used to investigate the trophic relationships of platypuses when subjected to drought and land-use change. During drought, platypuses had lower body condition and fed at a lower trophic level. While basal resources did differ slightly for the drought and post-drought food webs, terrestrial vegetation was supporting the platypuses’ main prey species under both conditions. A shift was observed from lentic (standing water) invertebrate taxa to lotic (running water) invertebrates after the drought, which underscores the flexibility of the platypuses’ diet. The effects of urbanisation were complex. There was no effect detected of urbanisation extent (measured as catchment total imperviousness) on platypus condition. However a significant relationship was observed between platypus condition and distance from the central business district of Melbourne, interpreted as an impact of time since urbanisation occurred. There was some evidence of an effect of urbanisation on invertebrate community composition, but platypus trophic relationships appeared to largely be driven by prey availability rather than urbanisation per se. A comparison between platypus from catchments with urban, agricultural and native forest land cover revealed that platypus body condition, food chain length and isotopic niche width varied with land-use type. Platypuses in agricultural catchments were in better condition than those from forested and urban systems. To explore a potential mechanism for the effect of urbanisation on platypus, a platypus-substrate interaction experiment was carried out. Platypus showed a preference for pebble substrates and fed effectively in those settings. A feature of urban systems is high inputs of fine sediment and loss of pebble and cobble habitats. This may reduce the quality of habitat for platypuses in urban settings. The present study demonstrates that the resource and food-web flexibility of the platypuses' diet is the key to its ability to survive under drought and land-use stressors. However this also shows that platypuses may be vulnerable to the accruing effects of those impacts through time. The greatest challenges for platypus populations into the future are likely to be ongoing habitat modification, changes in drought frequency as a consequence of climate change, and competition for freshwater resources with consumptive users.
Impact of Delivery Mode on Sexual Function in the First Year after Childbirth: A comparative study of vaginal delivery and cesarean section
Creators: name: Terece, Cem
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: female sexual function index
normal birth
cesarean section
postpartum period
sexual dysfunction

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 365-376
Kikimbu: Documenting nomadism in central Tanzania
Creators: name: Kagwema, Augustino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Bantu languages
Kimbu
Language documentation and description
Nomadism

description: Kimbu (ISO 639-3 kiv; glottolog kimb1242) is a Niger-Congo Narrow Bantu language spoken in central Tanzania by about 62 000 people (Muzale and Rugemalira 2008). Despite the relatively small number of speakers, the language community is spread throughout a large portion of west-central Tanzania, including the Singida, Tabora, and Mbeya regions. This seems to be a result of the Kimbu people’s semi-nomadic lifestyle (Simons and Fenig 2018) - a unique state of affairs is that most Bantu-speaking people in central Tanzania are sedentary agriculturalists. Indeed, this thinly-spread population (few people distributed throughout vast areas in which other languages such as Nyilamba, Nyamwezi, and Nyakyusa are spoken by the majority) contributes in a major way to Kimbu’s status as an endangered language. This talk provides an overview of the ELDP-funded project which will take place over the coming year to document the Kimbu language and elements of nomadism present in Kimbu culture.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Kagwema, Augustino. 2019. Kikimbu: Documenting nomadism in central Tanzania. Talk Given at Rift Valley Webinar Series 02/10/2019.
NGS Analysis of the BRCA1/BRCA2 Variants in the Ovarian Cancer Patients at High versus Low Risk of Mutation
Creators: name: Dinh-Toi Chu
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: ovarian cancer
NGS analysis
BRCA1/BRCA2 variants
mutation

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 377-390
East Africa Day Leiden: Introduction
Creators: name: Harvey, Andrew
name: Griscom, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: East Africa
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area

description: Introductory remarks at the East Africa Day workshop held at Leiden University on Friday, September 27th, 2019.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Harvey, Andrew, and Richard Griscom. 2019. East Africa Day Leiden: Introduction. Talk given at East Africa Day Leiden 27/09/2019.
(200420) Mildred Snell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
SuperMann: a superlinearly convergent algorithm for finding fixed points of nonexpansive operators
Creators: name: Themelis, Andreas
name: Patrinos, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47H09, 90C25, 90C53, 65K15

description: Operator splitting techniques have recently gained popularity in convex optimization problems arising in various control fields. Being fixed-point iterations of nonexpansive operators, such methods suffer many well known downsides, which include high sensitivity to ill conditioning and parameter selection, and consequent low accuracy and robustness. As universal solution we propose SuperMann, a Newton-type algorithm for finding fixed points of nonexpansive operators. It generalizes the classical Krasnosel'skii-Mann scheme, enjoys its favorable global convergence properties and requires exactly the same oracle. It is based on a novel separating hyperplane projection tailored for nonexpansive mappings which makes it possible to include steps along any direction. In particular, when the directions satisfy a Dennis-Moré condition we show that SuperMann converges superlinearly under mild assumptions, which, surprisingly, do not entail nonsingularity of the Jacobian at the solution but merely metric subregularity. As a result, SuperMann enhances and robustifies all operator splitting schemes for structured convex optimization, overcoming their well known sensitivity to ill conditioning.
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Iron- Deficient Erythropoiesis in Thai Pregnant Women
Creators: name: Palinlat Wittayatanaseth
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: Iron-deficient erythropoiesis
iron deficiency anemia
serum ferritin
pregnant women

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 391-399
The Contestation Manifesto
Creators: name: Collins, Robert
name: Redström, Johan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: contestability
manifesto
contestation
repair
maintenance
artificial intelligence
algorithms
algorithmic decision systems
community
activism

description: A manifesto for contesting algorithmic decision systems inspired by the Right to Repair movement and grassroots activism. Algorithmic Decision Systems are making assumptions and judgements about us based on minimal and often incomplete data about our lives and actions. These systems are becoming more and more entangled within our day-to-day existence and have the potential to affect our futures in fundamental, unexpected and far-reaching ways. As with any technological advance, Algorithmic Systems have the potential to bring great benefits to both the human and the non-human world, but only if it is ethically applied, negotiated and has the ability for those that it affects to contest its methods and decisions. Just because a product is designed in response to a problem does not mean that it is an effective solution to that problem, or that it does not create other problems in other areas. Question motivations, power structures, stakeholders, ambitions and histories!
Viscous stratified flow past an object
Creators: name: Mohd Alias, Anis Atikah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Diffusion-driven flow occurs when an object with a sloping surface is immersed in a stratified fluid, both of which are stationary in a stable configuration. The influence of this flow is examined on slow vertical fluid motion moving past an object, particularly for a cylinder and a sphere. Analytical solutions for streamfunction and density fields are presented, for which the governing equations are derived using perturbation theory. It is found that the solutions violate far-field flow conditions in a region surrounding the object. This difficulty is similar to that encountered for the Stokes’ streamfunction in a homogeneous viscous flow. An analogous approach to the Oseen’s method is followed here by introducing an "outer region", in which the dynamical balances are slightly different. In this thesis, the "outer solutions" (Oseen-type solutions) for viscous stratified fluid motion around the cylinder are successfully derived using the Fourier transform method. On the other hand, the "inner solutions" (Stokes-type solutions) are derived using a standard approach to solving differential equations. Results show that the outer solutions not only satisfy the conditions at a large radius but also match with the inner solutions at a small radius, based on the matched asymptotic expansions principle. In the case of the sphere, the exact outer solutions based on the same approach appear to be unavailable, but the fundamentals of the outer flow are presented; for instance, the governing equations and the relevant boundary conditions. Despite the unavailability of the exact outer solutions for the sphere, a numerical approach indicates that suitable outer solutions appear to exist. Previous studies have ignored the effect of the diffusion-driven flow on the viscous stratified flow past an object, but here the solutions reveal their relative importance in this parameter regime.
Continuous point symmetries in Group Field Theories
Creators: name: Kegeles, Alexander
name: Oriti, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the notion of symmetries in non-local field theories characterized by integro-differential equations of motion, from a geometric perspective. We then focus on Group Field Theory (GFT) models of quantum gravity and provide a general analysis of their continuous point symmetry transformations, including the generalized conservation laws following from them.
On binary cubic and quartic forms
Creators: name: Xiao, Stanley Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we determine the group of rational automorphisms of binary cubic and quartic forms with integer coefficients and non-zero discriminant in terms of certain quadratic covariants of cubic and quartic forms. This allows one to give precise asymptotic formulae for the number of integers in an interval representable by a binary cubic or quartic form and extends work of Hooley. Further, we give the field of definition of lines contained in certain cubic and quartic surfaces related to binary cubic and quartic forms.
description: Significantly revised; 14 pages
Impersonal in South Cushitic
Creators: name: Mous, Maarten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Iraqw
Burunge
South Cushitic
Impersonal
Morphology
Semantics

description: This talk examines the various functions of the morphemes called 'impersonal' in the South Cushitic languages of Tanzania. Drawing on a rich body of natural language data, first for Iraqw, and then for Burunge, it is shown that impersonal morphemes are involved in a range of grammatical constructions, some of which (but not all) approximate what has been referred to as impersonal in the wider typological literature. The talk closes by comparing and contrasting the functions of the impersonal in Iraqw and Burunge, as well as, following material presented by Griscom 2019, reflecting on how the meanings included in the South Cushitic impersonal match with those described in Southern Nilotic: a language family with which South Cushitic is in contact.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Mous, Maarten. 2019. Impersonal in South Cushitic. Talk Given at Rift Valley Webinar Series 19/09/2019.
title: The role of microRNAs in the host-parasite relationship in the veterinary nematode Haemonchus contortus
Creators: name: Gu, Henry Yuekun
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: haemonchus contortus, microRNAs.

description: Haemonchus contortus is one of the most pathogenic nematodes of small ruminants, particularly sheep, and has a major impact on welfare as well as causing significant economic losses to farmers worldwide. In this project, the possible interaction of parasite microRNAs with the host’s immune response was investigated with a view to determining whether microRNAs may enhance parasite survival. microRNAs are 22 nucleotides long, non-coding RNA molecules that bind to target sites with complementary sequences on mRNAs, usually in the 3' UTR. This interaction causes degradation of the mRNA or suppression of protein synthesis (Bartel, 2009; Selbach et al., 2008). A previous study identified 192 microRNAs in H. contortus, a large proportion of which were unique to parasitic nematodes (Winter et al., 2012). One particular microRNA, Hco-miR-5352 is of particular interest and is the major focus of this study. This microRNA is one of a cluster of four microRNAs (the miR-5352 cluster) which is conserved predominantly in nematodes that reside within the gastro-intestinal tract. Microarray and qRT-PCR data show that the miR-5352 cluster was most highly expressed in parasitic stages of the H. contortus life cycle. Some members of the cluster were detected in the excretory-secretory products of H. contortus as well as in abomasal and lymph node tissues taken from sheep infected with H. contortus. Transmission electron microscopy of the excretory-secretory products showed the presence of small vesicle-like structures. The data presented here showed that H. contortus releases a range of microRNAs in the excretory-secretory products, some of which were present within extracellular vesicles. Bioinformatic target prediction methods identified CD69 as a likely target of Hco-miR-5352 and this interaction was demonstrated experimentally using a dual luciferase assay. However the interaction was not confirmed using an inducible CD69 system in Jurkat T cells. The impact of Hco-miR-5352 on global gene expression of an intestinal epithelial cell line identified several interesting targets with important roles in the host immune response against H. contortus, the regulation of which may be important in parasite survival within the host.
The periplectic Brauer algebra
Creators: name: Coulembier, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G10, 17B10, 20C05, 81R05

description: We study the periplectic Brauer algebra introduced by Moon in the study of invariant theory for periplectic Lie superalgebras. We determine when the algebra is quasi-hereditary and, for fields of characteristic zero, describe the block decomposition. To achieve this, we also develop theories of Jucys-Murphy elements, Bratteli diagrams, Murphy bases, determine when there exist quasi-hereditary 1-covers, obtain a BGG reciprocity relation and determine some decomposition multiplicities of cell modules. As an application, we determine the blocks in the category of finite dimensional weight modules over the periplectic Lie superalgebra.
Southern Nilotic Impersonal Constructions from a Typological Perspective
Creators: name: Griscom, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Impersonal
Passive
Linguistic typology
Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Southern Nilotic
Datooga
Asimjeeg Datooga

description: This presentation will explore a set of cognate constructions in the Southern Nilotic family that have variably been described as passive, impersonal, and third person plural subject constructions. Based on their formal and functional features, it will be argued that the term “impersonal” is the most appropriate label to describe these constructions, and it will be demonstrated how the constructions align and do not align with generalizations from the typological literature on impersonals.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Griscom, Richard. 2019. Southern Nilotic Impersonal Constructions from a Typological Perspective. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 04/09/2019
Prevalence of Endometrial Cancer in Patients with Endometrioid Intraepithelial Neoplasia Histology
Creators: name: Thanchanok Sompratthana
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: atypical endometrial hyperplasia
concurrent endometrial cancer
endometrial carcinoma
endometrioid intraepithelial neoplasia (EIN)
occult cancer

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 400-408
IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS ON MEGA TRENDS IN ENERGY SECTORS REGARDING GLOBAL MEGA TRENDS AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON THE OIL INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Mega Trends Analysis
name: Energy Trends
name: Oil Industry Trends
name: Technology Trends
name: Global Energy Trends.
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mega trends analysis
Energy trends
Oil industry trends
Technology trends
Global energy trends.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 18, 10A18B: 1-6
The many facets of community detection in complex networks
Creators: name: Schaub, Michael T.
name: Delvenne, Jean-Charles
name: Rosvall, Martin
name: Lambiotte, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Community detection, the decomposition of a graph into essential building blocks, has been a core research topic in network science over the past years. Since a precise notion of what constitutes a community has remained evasive, community detection algorithms have often been compared on benchmark graphs with a particular form of assortative community structure and classified based on the mathematical techniques they employ. However, this comparison can be misleading because apparent similarities in their mathematical machinery can disguise different goals and reasons for why we want to employ community detection in the first place. Here we provide a focused review of these different motivations that underpin community detection. This problem-driven classification is useful in applied network science, where it is important to select an appropriate algorithm for the given purpose. Moreover, highlighting the different facets of community detection also delineates the many lines of research and points out open directions and avenues for future research.
description: 8 Pages, 1 Figure
(200416) William Philip Snell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
COVend Website
Creators: name: Keyaert, Kevin
name: Cruz, Andreia
name: Ginski, Benjamin
name: Minazhetdinova, Regina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The deliverable D8.1 - COVend website, presents the COVend project website, describing the main structure of the website, how it is set up and how it will be maintained throughout the project’s duration and for the five years following its completion. The project website serves as a powerful tool to communicate, inform and raise awareness on the endeavours and progress of the project, enabling the COVend consortium to easily reach out to all its stakeholders. Tailored to the COVend stakeholders, the website provides up-to-date, consistent and comprehensive information on the project.
(200417) Rosa Jane Morgan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
LANDED INTERESTS AND THE QUESTION OF LAND IN THE LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK OF PAKISTAN
Creators: name: Mazhar Abbas, Sabahat Jaleel
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Landed aristocracy
Legislative framework
National Assembly
Katchi Abadis
Landed class
Land reforms
Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP).

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 18, 10A18C: 1-11
Surgical Outcomes of Laparoscopic High Uterosacral Vaginal Vault Suspension for Apical Prolapse Repair
Creators: name: Kreaingsak Sirisakpanich
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: laparoscopic high uterosacral ligament suspension
apical prolapse repair
success rate
perioperative complications

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 409-417
Creating and Steering Highly Directional Electron Beams in Graphene
Creators: name: Liu, Ming-Hao
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put forward a concept to create highly collimated, non-dispersive electron beams in pseudo-relativistic Dirac materials such as graphene or topological insulator surfaces. Combining negative refraction and Klein collimation at a parabolic pn junction, the proposed lens generates beams, as narrow as the focal length, that stay focused over scales of several microns and can be steered by a magnetic field without losing collimation. We demonstrate the lens capabilities by applying it to two paradigmatic settings of graphene electron optics: We propose a setup for observing high-resolution angle-dependent Klein tunneling, and, exploiting the intimate quantum-to-classical correspondence of these focused electron waves, we consider high-fidelity transverse magnetic focusing accompanied by simulations for current mapping through scanning gate microscopy. Our proposal opens up new perspectives for next-generation graphene electron optics experiments.
description: published version, with supplemental material
Urethral Caruncle: A Diagnosis Conundrum in Teenage Girl: A case report
Creators: name: Dasrilsyah, Rima Anggrena
Publisher: name: PIMDEE Co., Ltd.
Year: 2024
Subjects: urethral
caruncle
female
young
adolescent

description: Thai Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 32, 5, 418-421
A critical evaluation of Hadza language use and maintenance efforts
Creators: name: Coburn, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Languages of Tanzania
Tanzanian Rift Valley Area
Hadza
Language endangerment

description: This presentation offers insight on the current status of Hadza language use as observed during a recent trip to the Mang’ola Ghorofani area. Increased interaction between the Hadzabe, tourists and tour guides, and increasing numbers of Hadza children being sent to boarding schools, appears to be contributing significantly to language change and language shift among the Mang’ola Hadzabe. The effects of these interactions will be presented in conjunction with a critical overview of the maintenance efforts that are being pursued during this critical period. This talk aims to consider the effects of tourism on minority languages and cultures.
description: Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Coburn, Jeremy. 2019. A critical evaluation of Hadza language use and maintenance efforts. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 21/08/2019.
(200419) Mary Louisa Snell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Mobility Transition in the Neighbourhood: Simulating Citizen Participation in Berlin's Digital Administration
Creators: name: Stenzel, Maurice
name: Auer, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: How can city administrations tackle complex challenges like achieving climate neutrality, bringing about a mobility transition, and modernising governance? The "Data & Smart City Governance using the example of air quality management" project explores how data and digital solutions can address these issues. It focuses on collaboration between administrations, businesses, and civil society in data collection and processing to achieve outcomes that serve the common good. The goal is to develop a data governance concept for smart cities. It should define various roles, responsibilities, processes, and policies to meet the normative, organisational, and technical requirements of data-driven urban development. The living lab tested whether the developed approaches genuinely address the needs of all stakeholders and offer sustainable solutions.
Analytic definition of spin structure
Creators: name: Avetisyan, Zhirayr
name: Fang, Yan-Long
name: Saveliev, Nikolai
name: Vassiliev, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R01 (primary), 35L40, 35Q41, 53C27, 53C50 (secondary)

description: We work on a parallelizable time-orientable Lorentzian 4-manifold and prove that in this case the notion of spin structure can be equivalently defined in a purely analytic fashion. Our analytic definition relies on the use of the concept of a non-degenerate two-by-two formally self-adjoint first order linear differential operator and gauge transformations of such operators. We also give an analytic definition of spin structure for the 3-dimensional Riemannian case.
description: Updated bibliography
TriCheck: Memory Model Verification at the Trisection of Software, Hardware, and ISA
Creators: name: Trippel, Caroline
name: Manerkar, Yatin A.
name: Lustig, Daniel
name: Pellauer, Michael
name: Martonosi, Margaret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Memory consistency models (MCMs) which govern inter-module interactions in a shared memory system, are a significant, yet often under-appreciated, aspect of system design. MCMs are defined at the various layers of the hardware-software stack, requiring thoroughly verified specifications, compilers, and implementations at the interfaces between layers. Current verification techniques evaluate segments of the system stack in isolation, such as proving compiler mappings from a high-level language (HLL) to an ISA or proving validity of a microarchitectural implementation of an ISA. This paper makes a case for full-stack MCM verification and provides a toolflow, TriCheck, capable of verifying that the HLL, compiler, ISA, and implementation collectively uphold MCM requirements. The work showcases TriCheck's ability to evaluate a proposed ISA MCM in order to ensure that each layer and each mapping is correct and complete. Specifically, we apply TriCheck to the open source RISC-V ISA, seeking to verify accurate, efficient, and legal compilations from C11. We uncover under-specifications and potential inefficiencies in the current RISC-V ISA documentation and identify possible solutions for each. As an example, we find that a RISC-V-compliant microarchitecture allows 144 outcomes forbidden by C11 to be observed out of 1,701 litmus tests examined. Overall, this paper demonstrates the necessity of full-stack verification for detecting MCM-related bugs in the hardware-software stack.
description: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems
(200425) David Howard Morgan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Smooth Surfaces in Smooth Fourfolds with Vanishing First Chern Class
Creators: name: Diamond, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J35 (Primary) 11P21, 14C17, 14C30, 14J32, 14N10 (Secondary)

description: According to a conjecture attributed to Hartshorne and Lichtenbaum and proven by Ellingsrud and Peskine, the smooth rational surfaces in $\mathbb{P}^4$ belong to only finitely many families. We formulate and study a collection of analogous problems in which $\mathbb{P}^4$ is replaced by a smooth fourfold $X$ with vanishing first integral Chern class. We embed such $X$ into a smooth ambient variety and count families of smooth surfaces which arise in $X$ from the ambient variety. We obtain various finiteness results in such settings. The central technique is the introduction of a new numerical invariant for smooth surfaces in smooth fourfolds with vanishing first Chern class.
description: final version, published in the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
Characterisation of the Tumour Immune Microenvironment and Mechanisms of Checkpoint Blockade in Mesothelioma
Creators: name: Harber, James
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a lethal cancer causally associated with asbestos exposure. MPM carries a dismal prognosis and few effective treatment options currently exist. Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) immunotherapies have repeatedly demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials for MPM since 2017 and have received regulatory approval in many industrialised countries since 2020. Despite its efficacy, the mechanisms behind these ICB responses remain unknown, partially because many canonical pan-cancer biomarkers are less reliable in MPM, but also due to a scarcity of translational data. This project therefore aimed to characterise MPM’s complex tumour immune microenvironment and elucidate mechanisms of response and resistance to ICB, focussing on tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs). Bioinformatic deconvolution algorithms, a syngeneic mouse model and multiplex fluorescent immunohistochemistry were used to quantify these key leukocytes and evaluate their clinical impact. Deconvolution-defined TAMs were associated with poor clinical outcomes and lower CTL infiltration, though inter-algorithm discrepancies emerged. Murine mesotheliomas were dominated by myeloid cells, particularly macrophages, while anti-tumour lymphocytes were scarce, indicating failure to recapitulate the complex microenvironment of human MPM, which discouraged ICB experiments. However, multiplex staining of biopsies obtained before nivolumab administration revealed several differentiators of clinical response, including high CTL density within programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)+ tumours and tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS), especially mature TLS with distinctively zoned secondary follicles. TLSs also epitomised a ‘hot’ microenvironment, existing primarily in tumours with substantial anti-tumour infiltrates of B lymphocytes and naïve T lymphocytes. These latter findings shed light on mechanisms of ICB response in MPM in agreement with evidence from lung cancer and melanoma, further suggesting actionable candidate biomarkers for future patient stratification. Being the first histopathological data from ICB-treated MPM, and the first data implicating TLS in MPM drug response, these results should be validated in future patient cohorts and could be refined further when supplemented with connected ‘omics data.