cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scalar Casimir effect with non-local boundary conditions
Creators: name: Saharian, Aram
name: Esposito, Giampiero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-local boundary conditions have been considered in theoretical high-energy physics with emphasis on one-loop quantum cosmology, one-loop conformal anomalies, Bose-Einstein condensation models and spectral branes. We have therefore studied the Wightman function, the vacuum expectation value of the field square and the energy-momentum tensor for a massive scalar field satisfying non-local boundary conditions on a single and two parallel plates. Interestingly, we find that suitable choices of the kernel in the non-local boundary conditions lead to forces acting on the plates that can be repulsive for intermediate distances.
description: Brief report prepared for the QG3 session of the MG11 Conference (Berlin, July 2006). In the final version, the third institution of the first author and reference 4 have been added
Additional file 1 of MutationalPatterns: the one stop shop for the analysis of mutational processes
Creators: name: Manders, Freek
name: Brandsma, Arianne M.
name: de Kanter, Jurrian
name: Verheul, Mark
name: Oka, Rurika
name: van Roosmalen, Markus J.
name: van der Roest, Bastiaan
name: van Hoeck, Arne
name: Cuppen, Edwin
name: van Boxtel, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Additional figures, which help to illustrate the data present in this work and provide the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the manuscript. Figure S1. Removing the DBSs and MBSs results in an improved SBS profile. Figure S2. Mutation contexts can be visualized with a river plot. Figure S3. Lesion segregation can be visualized. Figure S4. Variational Bayes NMF can be used to predict the optimal number of signatures to extract. Figure S5. Strict refitting iteratively removes signatures. Figure S6. Bootstrapped signature refitting can be visualized with a jitter plot. Figure S7. TT[C > T]CT is the most common substitution type in metastatic melanomas. Figure S8. The matrix generating functions have O(n) or better scaling. Figure S9. Benchmark of the “mut_matrix” function. Figure S10. Recall-precision plot of different refitting methods in MutationalPatterns. Figure S11. Western blot analysis of AHH-1 CRISPR-Cas9 edited clonal lines. Figure S12. Uncropped original version of the western blots in Fig. S11. Figure S13. SBS profiles of knockout samples.
INCORPORATING IDEAS OF DISPLACEMENT AND DIFFUSION OF BENEFITS INTO EVALUATIONS OF COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY
Creators: name: Safer-Lichtenstein, Aaron
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: animal-rights
subject: deterrence
subject: diffusion
subject: displacement
subject: terrorism

description: Criminologists and terrorism specialists alike have conducted research on the deterrent effect of policies; however, to date, only criminologists have thoroughly examined the associated displacement of crime and diffusion of benefits.  Using data from the Eco-Incidents Database, this study first examines the deterrent effect of government efforts targeting animal rights and environmental terrorism over several years.  Next, it extends this application by examining non-terrorist actions by both terrorist groups and non-terrorist groups to see if deterrent actions have any unintended consequences.  Results show no evidence of displacement, but rather that several government actions evidenced a diffusion of benefits.  If anti-terrorist laws reduce other types of crime, particularly by non-terrorists, then this has policy implications for law enforcement strategies.
The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES)
Creators: name: Alloza, Eva
name: Gelpí, Josep Lluís
name: Valencia, Alfonso
name: Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador
name: INB Members
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) is the ELIXIR Node in Spain (ELIXIR-ES). The INB was founded in 2003 as a distributed network of nodes with a central coordination hub. Since its renewal process (2018 - 2020), the INB/ELIXIR-ES has increased the participant nodes to 19 research groups distributed across 13 institutions in Spain, and it has become the bioinformatics platform of Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). The two main overarching objectives are: deepen its alignment with ELIXIR and its communities with a strong focus on human data related activities; and increasing its translational medicine ties with the Spanish National Health System (SNS).
Additional file 2: of Diversity of Rickettsia species in border regions of northwestern China
Creators: name: Song, Shengnan
name: Chen, Chuangfu
name: Yang, Meihua
name: Zhao, Shanshan
name: Wang, Baoju
name: Hornok, Sรกndor
name: Makhatov, Bolatkhan
name: Rizabek, Kadyken
name: Wang, Yuanzhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S2. Rickettsia endosymbiont and Rickettsia bellii detected in this study. (DOCX 15 kb)
Εξελληνίζοντας τα συννεφάκια μιας ισπανίδας Λάμιας. Σχολιασμένη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά της Lamia, του Rayco Pulido. Εθνικό Βραβείο Κόμικ της Ισπανίας, 2017
Creators: name: Χατζής, Σταύρος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Κόμικ
Μετάφραση Κόμικ
Εθνικό Βραβείο Κόμικ Ισπανίας
Comic
Comic translation
National Comic Prize

description: Η παρούσα εργασία αποτελεί μία σχολιασμένη μετάφραση μίας επιλογής αποσπασμάτων της Lamia του Rayco Pulido, ενός graphic novel που κέρδισε το Εθνικό Βραβείο Κόμικ της Ισπανίας το 2017. Μετά από μία σύντομη θεωρητική προσέγγιση της μετάφρασης κόμικ και του είδους του graphic novel στην Ελλάδα και στην Ισπανία, παρουσιάζεται η πρόταση μετάφρασης σε αντιπαράθεση με το πρωτότυπο. Τα προβλήματα που συχνότερα εμφανίζονται κατά τη διαδικασία της μετάφρασης ενός κόμικ, δηλαδή οι περιορισμοί που επιβάλλουν το συννεφάκι και η εικόνα, οι ονοματοποιίες, οι πολιτισμικοί ενδείκτες και η διαδικασία τεκμηρίωσης σε ένα εικονογραφημένο μέσο, εξετάζονται τόσο στη μετάφραση όσο και στα σχόλια και τα συμπεράσματα. Σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις παρουσιάζεται και μία ερασιτεχνική προσπάθεια lettering, με σκοπό να γίνουν πιο φανερά τα χαρακτηριστικά και οι προκλήσεις που θέτουν τα graphic novels
description: The present work consists of the commented translation of a selection of fragments of Lamia by Rayco Pulido, a graphic novel that was awarded the 2017 Spain’s National Comic Prize. After a brief theoretical approach to the translation of comics and the graphic novel genre in Greece and in Spain, the translation proposal and the original are presented on opposite pages. The most common problems encountered in the process of translating a comic, i.e., the constraints imposed by the balloon and the image, the onomatopoeias, the cultural references and the documentation process in an illustrated medium, have been addressed in both the translation and the comments and conclusions. In some cases the translation is presented with an amateur lettering, in order to make clearer the characteristics and the challenges set by the translation of this type of texts, the graphic novels
Hybrid topological magnon-phonon modes in honeycomb and kagome lattices
Creators: name: Sheikhi, Bahman
name: Kargarian, Mehdi
name: Langari, Abdollah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnons and phonons are two fundamental neutral excitations of magnetically ordered materials which can significantly dominate the low-energy thermal properties. In this work we study the interplay of magnons and phonons in honeycomb and Kagome lattices. When the mirror reflection with respect to the magnetic ordering direction is broken, the symmetry-allowed in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction will couple the magnons to the phonons and the magnon-polaron states are formed. Besides, both lattice structures also allow for an out-of-plane DM interaction rendering the uncoupled magnons to be topological. Our aim is to study the interplay of such topological magnons with phonons. We show that the hybridization between magnons and phonons can significantly redistribute the Berry curvature among the bands. Especially, we found that the topological magnon band becomes trivial while the hybridized states at lower energy acquire Berry curvature strongly peaked near the avoided crossings. As such the thermal Hall conductivity of topological magnons shows significant changes due to coupling to the phonons.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Active Engagement:  Development of Cooking Skills for Young Adults with Autism
Creators: name: Bailey-Goldschmidt, Janice
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nutrition
subject: Health education
subject: Special education
subject: Adults with Autism
subject: Autism
subject: Developmental Disabilities
subject: Food Preparation
subject: Health Promotion
subject: Life Skills

description: Autism is a broadly defined disorder of communication and social development of neurobiological origin. While adults with autism are generally invisible in the national public health surveys, increased rates of overweight and obesity among this population are apparent and few nutrition programs have been developed for this at-risk population. The objective of the research was to test the feasibility of a community-based nutritional intervention for young adults (18- 25 years of age) with autism founded on the premise of teaching introductory cooking skills. This nutrition intervention program was guided by Hodge et al.'s conceptual framework for developing life skills and is focused on four motivational climates that contribute to autonomy, self-efficacy, social-relatedness, and preference.  Active Engagement was found to be a feasible program for involving young adults with autism in their food preparation process, contributing to an improvement in their variety of diet, and promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption.
Initial mass function effects on the colour evolution of disk galaxies
Creators: name: Westera, P.
name: Samland, M.
name: Kautsch, S. J.
name: Buser, R.
name: Ammon, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we want to find out if the IMF can be determined from colour images, integrated colours, or mass-to-light ratios, especially at high redshift, where galaxies cannot be resolved into individual stars, which would enable us to investigate dependencies of the IMF on cosmological epoch. We use chemo-dynamical models to investigate the influence of the Initial Mass Function (IMF) on the evolution of a Milky Way-type disk galaxy, in particular of its colours. We find that the effect of the IMF on the internal gas absorption is larger than its effect on the light from the stellar content. However, the two effects work in the opposite sense: An IMF with more high mass stars leads to brighter and bluer star-light, but also to more interstellar dust and thus to more absorption, causing a kind of "IMF degeneracy". The most likely wavelength region in which to detect IMF effects is the infrared (i. e., JHK). We also provide photometric absorption and inclination corrections in the SDSS ugriz and the HST WFPC2 and NICMOS systems.
description: published in A&A, some figures have reduced resolution. For a full resolution version, see the A&A version
Amalgamated products and properly 3-realizable groups
Creators: name: Cardenas, M.
name: Lasheras, F. F.
name: Quintero, A.
name: Repovš, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M07, 57M10, 57M20

description: In this paper, we show that the class of all properly 3-realizable groups is closed under amalgamated free products (and HNN-extensions) over finite groups. We recall that $G$ is said to be properly 3-realizable if there exists a compact 2-polyhedron $K$ with $π_1(K) \cong G$ and whose universal cover $\tilde{K}$ has the proper homotopy type of a 3-manifold (with boundary).
description: J. Pure Appl. Alg., to appear
Additional file 2 of MutationalPatterns: the one stop shop for the analysis of mutational processes
Creators: name: Manders, Freek
name: Brandsma, Arianne M.
name: de Kanter, Jurrian
name: Verheul, Mark
name: Oka, Rurika
name: van Roosmalen, Markus J.
name: van der Roest, Bastiaan
name: van Hoeck, Arne
name: Cuppen, Edwin
name: van Boxtel, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Description of the wet-lab generation and sequencing analysis of the knockout lines. These lines were used to illustrate the functions of the MutationalPatterns package on novel real-world data and provide new biological conclusions.
The transformation of a captured city : New Westminster, B.C. 1945-1991
Creators: name: Noah, Earl G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The envelopment of small, pre-existing cities into the urban field of larger metropoles is a neglected area of geographic inquiry. Smaller established cities often maintain distinctive identity and possess an internal cohesion and vitality which in time is significantly disrupted by an advancing metropolitan frontier. As the wave of metropolitan influence flows outwards, the secondary cities are metaphorically "captured" and in the process their unique identities are eroded. New Westminster, B.C., has been chosen to examine the complex processes that maintain or transform captured cities. The viability and coherence of New Westminster is interpreted within a theoretical framework utilizing concepts arising from Jane Jacobs's urban commentary, social science research derived from systemics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and the urban field model. This framework is operationalized by the use of surrogate measures, such as retail sales, traffic flows and the May Day festival, to indicate the interrelationships among the various economic, political, community, cultural and demographic forces. The framework documents the stability of New Westminster between 1945 and 1956, its deterioration from 1957 to 1983 and its tentative revitalization in the 1980s and 1990s. This analysis permits the presentation of a model that accounts for the transformation of a captured city.
Experimental verification of the feasibility of a quantum channel between Space and Earth
Creators: name: Villoresi, Paolo
name: Jennewein, Thomas
name: Tamburini, Fabrizio
name: Aspelmeyer, Markus
name: Bonato, Cristian
name: Ursin, Rupert
name: Pernechele, Claudio
name: Luceri, Vincenza
name: Bianco, Giuseppe
name: Zeilinger, Anton
name: Barbieri, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extending quantum communication to Space environments would enable to perform fundamental experiments on quantum physics as well as applications of quantum information at planetary and interplanetary scales. Here, we report the first experimental implementation of a scheme for single-photon exchange between a satellite and an Earth-based station. We built an experiment that mimics a single photon source on a satellite, exploiting the telescope at the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory of the Italian Space Agency to detect the transmitted photons. Weak laser pulses, emitted by the ground-based station, are directed towards a satellite equipped with cube-corner retroreflectors. These reflect a small portion of the pulse, with an average of less-than-one photon per pulse directed to our receiver, as required for the faint-pulse quantum communication. We were able to detect returns from satellite Ajisai, a low-earth orbit geodetic satellite, whose orbit has a perigee height of 1485 km.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
ОСЛОЖНЕНИЯ САХАРНОГО ДИАБЕТА: ДИАБЕТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕТИНОПАТИЯ
Creators: name: Негматова, Гулзода
name: Раисова, Мехрибан
name: Муинова, Шахноза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Диабетическая ретинопатия (ДР) остаётся одной из ведущих причин нарушения зрения и её распространенность неуклонно растет по мере увеличения заболеваемости людей сахарным диабетом (СД). Однако изучение статистических данных по диабетической ретинопатии среди офтальмологических осложнений сахарного диабета практически не проводилось. Своевременное офтальмологическое обследование позволяет выявить развитие ретинопатии на ранней стадии[4]. Нарушение зрения — одно из инвалидизирующих проявлений сахарного диабета[5]. Слепота у пациентов с сахарным диабетом наступает в 25 раз чаще, чем среди лиц, не страдающих этим недугом. Патогенез диабетической ретинопатии сложен. Ведущим звеном являются расстройства микроциркуляции, связанные с наследственными особенностями строения сосудов сетчатки и метаболическими сдвигами, сопровождающими сахарный диабет[4].
Finite size corrections to random Boolean networks
Creators: name: Leone, Michele
name: Pagnani, Andrea
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Zagordi, Osvaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Since their introduction, Boolean networks have been traditionally studied in view of their rich dynamical behavior under different update protocols and for their qualitative analogy with cell regulatory networks. More recently, tools borrowed from statistical physics of disordered systems and from computer science have provided a more complete characterization of their equilibrium behavior. However, the largest part of the results have been obtained in the thermodynamic limit, which is often far from being reached when dealing with realistic instances of the problem. The numerical analysis presented here aims at comparing - for a specific family of models - the outcomes given by the heuristic belief propagation algorithm with those given by exhaustive enumeration. In the second part of the paper some analytical considerations on the validity of the annealed approximation are discussed.
description: Minor corrections
Mean-payoff pushdown games
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Velner, Yaron
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2012
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: Two-player games on graphs are central in many problems in formal verification and program analysis such as synthesis and verification of open systems. In this work we consider solving recursive game graphs (or pushdown game graphs) that can model the control flow of sequential programs with recursion. While pushdown games have been studied before with qualitative objectives, such as reachability and ω-regular objectives, in this work we study for the first time such games with the most well-studied quantitative objective, namely, mean-payoff objectives. In pushdown games two types of strategies are relevant: (1) global strategies, that depend on the entire global history; and (2) modular strategies, that have only local memory and thus do not depend on the context of invocation, but only on the history of the current invocation of the module. Our main results are as follows: (1) One-player pushdown games with mean-payoff objectives under global strategies are decidable in polynomial time. (2) Two- player pushdown games with mean-payoff objectives under global strategies are undecidable. (3) One-player pushdown games with mean-payoff objectives under modular strategies are NP- hard. (4) Two-player pushdown games with mean-payoff objectives under modular strategies can be solved in NP (i.e., both one-player and two-player pushdown games with mean-payoff objectives under modular strategies are NP-complete). We also establish the optimal strategy complexity showing that global strategies for mean-payoff objectives require infinite memory even in one-player pushdown games; and memoryless modular strategies are sufficient in two- player pushdown games. Finally we also show that all the problems have the same complexity if the stack boundedness condition is added, where along with the mean-payoff objective the player must also ensure that the stack height is bounded.
Additional file 3 of MutationalPatterns: the one stop shop for the analysis of mutational processes
Creators: name: Manders, Freek
name: Brandsma, Arianne M.
name: de Kanter, Jurrian
name: Verheul, Mark
name: Oka, Rurika
name: van Roosmalen, Markus J.
name: van der Roest, Bastiaan
name: van Hoeck, Arne
name: Cuppen, Edwin
name: van Boxtel, Ruben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Additional tables containing extra data that can help the reader better understand the manuscript. Table S1. List of new features and bugfixes. Table S2. The potential damage of mutational signatures. Table S3. The genes used for the signature potential damage analysis. Table S4. Overview of the source of the replication timing data.
Meson Screening Masses in the Interacting QCD Plasma
Creators: name: Alberico, W. M.
name: Beraudo, A.
name: Czerska, A.
name: Czerski, P.
name: Molinari, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The meson screening mass in the pseudoscalar channel is calculated from the momentum dependent meson spectral function, using HTL fermionic propagators. A careful subtraction procedure is required to get an UV finite result. It is shown that in the whole range of temperatures explored here the HTL screening mass stays above the non-interacting result, slowly approaching the value $m_{\trm{scr}}=2\sqrt{π^2T^2+m_\infty^2}$, where $m_\infty^2$ is the HTL asymptotic thermal quark mass. Our analysis leads to a better understanding of the excitations of QGP at sufficiently large temperatures and may be of relevance for interpreting lattice results.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Nucl.Phys.A
Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for traditional board games
Creators: name: Ahmed, Umair
name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Gulwani, Sumit
Publisher: name: IST Austria
Year: 2013
Subjects: 000 Computer science, knowledge & general works

description: Board games, like Tic-Tac-Toe and CONNECT-4, play an important role not only in development of mathematical and logical skills, but also in emotional and social development. In this paper, we address the problem of generating targeted starting positions for such games. This can facilitate new approaches for bringing novice players to mastery, and also leads to discovery of interesting game variants. Our approach generates starting states of varying hardness levels for player 1 in a two-player board game, given rules of the board game, the desired number of steps required for player 1 to win, and the expertise levels of the two players. Our approach leverages symbolic methods and iterative simulation to efficiently search the extremely large state space. We present experimental results that include discovery of states of varying hardness levels for several simple grid-based board games. Also, the presence of such states for standard game variants like Tic-Tac-Toe on board size 4x4 opens up new games to be played that have not been played for ages since the default start state is heavily biased.
On-chip erbium-doped lithium niobate microring lasers
Creators: name: Luo, Qiang
name: Yang, Chen
name: Zhang, Ru
name: Hao, Zhengzhong
name: Zheng, Dahuai
name: Liu, Hongde
name: Yu, Xuanyi
name: Gao, Feng
name: Bo, Fang
name: Kong, Yongfa
name: Zhang, Guoquan
name: Xu, Jingjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI), regarded as an important candidate platform for optical integration due to its excellent nonlinear, electro-optic and other physical properties, has become a research hotspot. Light source, as an essential component for integrated optical system, is urgently needed. In this paper, we reported the realization of 1550-nm band on-chip LNOI microlasers based on erbium-doped LNOI ring cavities with loaded quality factors higher than one million, which were fabricated by using electron beam lithography and inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching processes. These microlasers demonstrated a low pump threshold of ~20 μW and stable performance under the pump of a 980-nm band continuous laser. Comb-like laser spectra spanning from 1510 nm to 1580 nm were observed in high pump power regime, which lays the foundation of the realization of pulsed laser and frequency combs on rare-earth ion doped LNOI platform. This work has effectively promoted the development of on-chip integrated active LNOI devices.
description: 4 pages,4 figures
Μελέτη σταθερότητας και ανάπτυξη μεθόδου προσδιορισμού δραστικής ουσίας, ολμεσαρτάνης, σε δισκία με υγρή χρωματογραφία
Creators: name: Μαυρίκη, Νίκη Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ολμεσαρτάνη
Υγρή χρωματογραφία υψηλής πίεσης
Σταθερότητα
Olmesartan
High pressure liquid chromatography
Stability

description: Βασικό αντικείμενο, αυτής της εργασίας, όπως μαρτυρά και ο τίτλος της, είναι ο ποσοτικός προσδιορισμός της ολμεσαρτάνης μεδοξομίλης, δραστική ουσία με αντι-υπερτασικό χαρακτήρα, σε έξι γενόσημα φαρμακευτικά προϊόντα. Έγινε διερεύνηση της σταθερότητας των παραπάνω, της ικανότητας δηλαδή του προϊόντος να παραμένει εντός καθορισμένων προδιαγραφών ταυτότητας. Αρχικά, ερευνήθηκαν οι βασικές παράμετροι για τη σωστή ανάπτυξη της μεθόδου, όπως ο τύπος της στατικής φάσης της αναλυτικής στήλης, η σύσταση και η ροή της κινητής φάσης. Στη συνέχεια, διερευνήθηκε το κατάλληλο εύρος των συγκεντρώσεων των διαλυμάτων της ουσίας και έπειτα έγινε έλεγχος περιεκτικότητας δισκίων σε έξι σκευάσματα του εμπορίου με χρήση υγρής χρωματογραφίας (HPLC), με ανιχνευτή PDA (photodiode-array). Η ανάλυση διενεργήθηκε έξι φορές για τα έξι διαφορετικά σκευάσματα και σε δύο διαφορετικές ημέρες. Τέλος, διενεργήθηκε έλεγχος για την αξιοπιστία της μεθόδου ως προς την ακρίβεια, την επαναληψιμότητα, την ευαισθησία και τη γραμμικότητα
description: The basic object of this work, according to it’s title, is the quantitative determination of Olmesartan, an active substance with antihypertensive character, in an original and generic medical product. In addition, the stability of the above has been investigated, the ability of the product to remain within specific identity standards. Initially, the basic parameters for the proper development of the method were investigated, such as the type of the stationary phase of the analytical column, the composition and the flow of the mobile phase. Subsequently, the appropriate range of concentrations of the substance was investigated and then a test of tablets’ content was made in six formulations of the trade using liquid chromatography (HPLC), with a PDA (photodiode-array) detector. The analysis was carried out six times for the six different formulations and on two different
Additional file 1 of The prevalence and pattern of cannabis use among patients attending a methadone treatment clinic in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: Ngarachu, Elizabeth Wambui
name: Kiburi, Sarah Kanana
name: Owiti, Frederick R.
name: Kangethe, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Data abstraction tool.
Completeness of non-normalizable modes
Creators: name: Mannheim, Philip D.
name: Simbotin, Ionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish the completeness of some characteristic sets of non-normalizable modes by constructing fully localized square steps out of them, with each such construction expressly displaying the Gibbs phenomenon associated with trying to use a complete basis of modes to fit functions with discontinuous edges. As well as being of interest in and of itself, our study is also of interest to the recently introduced large extra dimension brane-localized gravity program of Randall and Sundrum, since the particular non-normalizable mode bases that we consider (specifically the irregular Bessel functions and the associated Legendre functions of the second kind) are associated with the tensor gravitational fluctuations which occur in those specific brane worlds in which the embedding of a maximally four-symmetric brane in a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter bulk leads to a warp factor which is divergent. Since the brane-world massless four-dimensional graviton has a divergent wave function in these particular cases, its resulting lack of normalizability is thus not seen to be any impediment to its belonging to a complete basis of modes, and consequently its lack of normalizability should not be seen as a criterion for not including it in the spectrum of observable modes. Moreover, because the divergent modes we consider form complete bases, we can even construct propagators out of them in which these modes appear as poles with residues which are expressly finite. Thus even though normalizable modes appear in propagators with residues which are given as their finite normalization constants, non-normalizable modes can just as equally appear in propagators with finite residues too -- it is just that such residues will not be associated with bilinear integrals of the modes.
description: 34 pages, 6 figures. Revtex
STUaNet: Understanding uncertainty in spatiotemporal collective human mobility
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhengyang
name: Wang, Yang
name: Xie, Xike
name: Qiao, Lei
name: Li, Yuantao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The high dynamics and heterogeneous interactions in the complicated urban systems have raised the issue of uncertainty quantification in spatiotemporal human mobility, to support critical decision-makings in risk-aware web applications such as urban event prediction where fluctuations are of significant interests. Given the fact that uncertainty quantifies the potential variations around prediction results, traditional learning schemes always lack uncertainty labels, and conventional uncertainty quantification approaches mostly rely upon statistical estimations with Bayesian Neural Networks or ensemble methods. However, they have never involved any spatiotemporal evolution of uncertainties under various contexts, and also have kept suffering from the poor efficiency of statistical uncertainty estimation while training models with multiple times. To provide high-quality uncertainty quantification for spatiotemporal forecasting, we propose an uncertainty learning mechanism to simultaneously estimate internal data quality and quantify external uncertainty regarding various contextual interactions. To address the issue of lacking labels of uncertainty, we propose a hierarchical data turbulence scheme where we can actively inject controllable uncertainty for guidance, and hence provide insights to both uncertainty quantification and weak supervised learning. Finally, we re-calibrate and boost the prediction performance by devising a gated-based bridge to adaptively leverage the learned uncertainty into predictions. Extensive experiments on three real-world spatiotemporal mobility sets have corroborated the superiority of our proposed model in terms of both forecasting and uncertainty quantification.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, WWW 2021 Conference
Additional file 2 of The prevalence and pattern of cannabis use among patients attending a methadone treatment clinic in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: Ngarachu, Elizabeth Wambui
name: Kiburi, Sarah Kanana
name: Owiti, Frederick R.
name: Kangethe, Rachel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table 1. Sociodemographic Factors and Cannabis use at Repeat Urine Drug Screen (Cannabis use only). Table 2. Sociodemographic Factors and Cannabis use at Repeat Urine Drug Screen (Cannabis use with other substances). Figure 2. Ethical approval document.
Community plan monitoring : a case study
Creators: name: Nowlan, Paul John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, a monitoring system is designed and implemented for the Community Development Plan for the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. The literature review first provides the context for plan monitoring by showing that the complexity of urban systems necessitates a continuous planning process, i.e. a cyclical or iterative linking of decision-making, implementation and monitoring in order that planning can adapt to changing community goals, issues, and trends. The role of monitoring in this continuous planning process is initially reviewed in terms of systems feedback and control. However, the complexity of urban systems suggests that concentrating on the goals and objectives of a plan provides too narrow a perspective for monitoring. An expanded role for plan monitoring, one that also addresses assumptions, policies, decisions and issues of concern, is reviewed in the context of a general monitoring system model. This model incorporates four sub-systems: information collection; technical evaluation; provision of advice; and monitoring system improvement. The case study is conducted in three stages: first, a monitoring system based on the four function model is designed for the Mount Pleasant Plan; second, monitoring systems requirements are specified for one section of the Plan, the Mount Pleasant industrial area strategy; and third, data are collected and analyzed for the still more specific policy to maintain existing residential use in the industrial area.
Additional file 1 of De-escalation of conflict in forensic mental health inpatient settings: a Theoretical Domains Framework-informed qualitative investigation of staff and patient perspectives
Creators: name: Johnston, Isobel
name: Price, Owen
name: McPherson, Peter
name: Armitage, Christopher J.
name: Brooks, Helen
name: Bee, Penny
name: Lovell, Karina
name: Brooks, Cat Papastavrou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Patient demographics questionnaire.
Thouless energy of a superconductor from non local conductance fluctuations
Creators: name: Duhot, S.
name: Mélin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a spin-up electron from a normal metal entering a superconductor propagates as a composite object consisting of a spin-down hole and a pair in the condensate. This leads to a factorization of the non local conductance as two local Andreev reflections at both interfaces and one propagation in the superconductor, which is tested numerically within a one dimensional toy model of reflectionless tunneling. Small area junctions are characterized by non local conductance fluctuations. A treatment ignoring weak localization leads to a Thouless energy inverse proportional to the sample size, as observed in the numerical simulations. We show that weak localization can have a strong effect, and leads to a coupling between evanescent quasiparticles and the condensate by Andreev reflections ``internal'' to the superconductor.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, revised manuscript
Legendrian helix and cable links
Creators: name: Ding, Fan
name: Geiges, Hansjörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 53D10

description: Lisa Traynor has described an example of a two-component Legendrian `circular helix link' in the 1-jet space of the circle (with its canonical contact structure) that is topologically but not Legendrian isotopic to that same link with the order of the two components reversed. We give a complete classification of the Legendrian realisations of this topological link type, as well as all other `cable links' in that 1-jet space.
description: 12 pages, v2: considerably expanded, Sections 4 and 5 are new
Additional file 2 of De-escalation of conflict in forensic mental health inpatient settings: a Theoretical Domains Framework-informed qualitative investigation of staff and patient perspectives
Creators: name: Johnston, Isobel
name: Price, Owen
name: McPherson, Peter
name: Armitage, Christopher J.
name: Brooks, Helen
name: Bee, Penny
name: Lovell, Karina
name: Brooks, Cat Papastavrou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Clinical staff demographics questionnaire.
Features of students’ responses to a socioscientific issue presented in print and on video
Creators: name: Ojelel, Alfred Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In recent years there has been increasing interest among science educators on the need to discuss science-related social issues in science classrooms. This study explores the features of students' responses to one science-related social issue (referred to as a socioscientific issue) presented in print and video formats. In the study, Grade 10 students either read a newspaper-type article or watched a video on the issue of the use of animals in scientific and biomedical research. Through semi-structured interviews, students were asked to abstract and frame the central issues in the story and to specifically identify the different points of view discussed in the story. Students were also asked to give their own points of view on the issues. And afterwards, a second, related story that attempted to make the issues more personally relevant was read to students. The features of students’ responses to this socioscientific issue across these areas were explored. Contemporary information processing theories on the comprehension and response to television and print material formed a theoretical perspective for analyzing the data. The findings of this study reveal interesting features of students’ responses by the presentation format of the story and by the gender of the respondents. Responses from students who watched the video story, when compared to those from students who read the print story tended to be rather superficial, more empathic to animals, and were sometimes framed more or less to describe a chronological sequence of events rather than an identification of the issues. More important, it was found that the influence of the presentation format of the story is pronounced in students’ ability to abstract the central issues in the story. The presentation format seemed to have little influence on the points of view students expressed and on the consistency of students’ views in a personally-oriented situation. As for the variation of these features by gender, females more than males tended to abstract the central issues in the story and to identify the different points of view presented on the issue. They also tended to give views that were geared toward caring and protecting animals, whereas males correspondingly seemed to give views that were utilitarian. When presented with a second, related story that attempted to make the issue more personally relevant, females, more than males, seemed to give views on this second story that were fairly consistent with the ways they expressed their points of view about this issue both at a personal and societal context, and continued to support views that were consistent with the caring and the protection of animals. Males mainly appear to support views that are utilitarian. Implications for curriculum and practise are discussed.
Taxonomy of GRB optical light-curves: identification of a salient class of early afterglows
Creators: name: Panaitescu, A.
name: Vestrand, W. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temporal behaviour of the early optical emission from Gamma-Ray Burst afterglows can be divided in four classes: fast-rising with an early peak, slow-rising with a late peak, flat plateaus, and rapid decays since first measurement. The fast-rising optical afterglows display correlations among peak flux, peak epoch, and post-peak power-law decay index that can be explained with a structured outflow seen off-axis, but the shock origin (reverse or forward) of the optical emission cannot be determined. The afterglows with plateaus and slow-rises may be accommodated by the same model, if observer location offsets are larger than for the fast-rising afterglows, or could be due to a long-lived injection of energy and/or ejecta in the blast-wave. If better calibrated with more afterglows, the peak flux-peak epoch relation exhibited by the fast and slow-rising optical light-curves could provide a way to use this type of afterglows as standard candles.
description: 8 pages, submitted to MNRAS
Constant Random Perturbations Provide Adversarial Robustness with Minimal Effect on Accuracy
Creators: name: Chernyak, Bronya Roni
name: Raj, Bhiksha
name: Hazan, Tamir
name: Keshet, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes an attack-independent (non-adversarial training) technique for improving adversarial robustness of neural network models, with minimal loss of standard accuracy. We suggest creating a neighborhood around each training example, such that the label is kept constant for all inputs within that neighborhood. Unlike previous work that follows a similar principle, we apply this idea by extending the training set with multiple perturbations for each training example, drawn from within the neighborhood. These perturbations are model independent, and remain constant throughout the entire training process. We analyzed our method empirically on MNIST, SVHN, and CIFAR-10, under different attacks and conditions. Results suggest that the proposed approach improves standard accuracy over other defenses while having increased robustness compared to vanilla adversarial training.
Χωρικός σχεδιασμός της έκθεσης “Ανδρείκελο και Υπεράνθρωπος
Creators: name: Χατζηασλάνη, Αννα Αρκαδίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Giorgio De Chirico - Friedrich Nietzsche
Χωρικός σχεδιασμός
Ανδρείκελο και Υπεράνθρωπος
Spatial design
Manikin and Superhuman

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως θέμα της τον χωρικό σχεδιασμό έκθεσης με περιεχόμενο την ανάδειξη της φιλοσοφίας του Friedrich Nietzsche μέσα από τα έργα του Giorgio de Chirico. Σχεδιάστηκε για τους χώρους του ΜΟΜus Σύγχρονης Τέχνης και η προσέγγιση του σχεδιασμού είναι κυρίως εικαστική. Ο τίτλος της έκθεσης είναι “Ανδρείκελο και Υπεράνθρωπος” και το αφήγημά της έχει ως στόχο του να αναλογιστεί ο επισκέπτης ζητήματα που αφορούν τη μάζα, την ατομικότητα και τον ρόλο του στη σύγχρονη κοινωνία. Μέσω του έργου των δύο πρωταγωνιστών της, νοηματικά η έκθεση πραγματεύεται τις διαφορές του ανδρείκελου και του υπερανθρώπου και προσφέρει στον επισκέπτη τα μέσα ώστε να μετουσιωθεί από το ένα στο άλλο. Παρουσιάζει αρχικά την ιστορία, τη φιλοσοφία και την τέχνη του 20ου αιώνα έτσι ώστε να κατανοήσει ο ίδιος του την έννοια του ανδρείκελου. Στη συνέχεια ακολουθούν ενότητες που στοχεύουν στην μετουσίωσή του σε υπεράνθρωπο μέσω του προσωπικού αγώνα. Η σχεδιαστική προσέγγιση είναι κατά βάση εικαστική. Δημιουργήθηκαν καθόλη την έκθεση περιβάλλοντα στα οποία τοποθετήθηκαν εγκαταστάσεις έτσι ώστε να αποκόπτουν τον επισκέπτη από την καθημερινότητά του εντάσσοντάς τον σε έναν διαδραστικό χώρο πρόσληψης πληροφοριών. Πρόκειται για μια εκσυγχρονισμένη προσέγγιση που έχει ως στόχο της ο επισκέπτης να εκμαιεύσει το νόημα από τον περιβάλλον στο οποίο βρίσκεται μέσω των μηνυμάτων που υπονοούνται σε αυτό
description: This diploma thesis focuses on the spatial planning of an exhibition whose content focuses on the presentation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy through the artworks of Giorgio de Chirico. It was designed for the premises of MOMus of Contemporary Art and the approach of the design is mainly visual. The title of the exhibition is "Manikin and Superhuman" and its narrative aims to make the visitor consider issues concerning mass, individuality and his role in modern society. Through the work of the two protagonists, the exhibition deals with the differences between the passive human and superhuman and offers the means to the visitor in order to transform from one to another. Firstly, it presents the history, philosophy and art of the 20th century so that the visitor understands the essence of the manikin. The remaining sections aim to help the visitor reach his transformation into a superhuman, through personal struggle. The design approach is basically visual. The exhibition is designed by creating environments with installations in order to cut off the visitor from his everyday life, by putting him in an interactive space that provides information. It is a contemporary approach that aims to force the visitor into evoking the meaning of the environment in which he finds himself, through the messages that are implied in it
description: Σε συνεργασία με το Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης (Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας)