cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GP-select: Accelerating EM using adaptive subspace preselection
Creators: name: Shelton, Jacquelyn A.
name: Gasthaus, Jan
name: Dai, Zhenwen
name: Luecke, Joerg
name: Gretton, Arthur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a nonparametric procedure to achieve fast inference in generative graphical models when the number of latent states is very large. The approach is based on iterative latent variable preselection, where we alternate between learning a 'selection function' to reveal the relevant latent variables, and use this to obtain a compact approximation of the posterior distribution for EM; this can make inference possible where the number of possible latent states is e.g. exponential in the number of latent variables, whereas an exact approach would be computationally unfeasible. We learn the selection function entirely from the observed data and current EM state via Gaussian process regression. This is by contrast with earlier approaches, where selection functions were manually-designed for each problem setting. We show that our approach performs as well as these bespoke selection functions on a wide variety of inference problems: in particular, for the challenging case of a hierarchical model for object localization with occlusion, we achieve results that match a customized state-of-the-art selection method, at a far lower computational cost.
The exponentiated Hencky-logarithmic strain energy. Improvement of planar polyconvexity
Creators: name: Ghiba, Ionel-Dumitrel
name: Neff, Patrizio
name: Silhavy, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we improve the result about the polyconvexity of the energies from the family of isotropic volumetric-isochoric decoupled strain exponentiated Hencky energies defined in the first part of this series, i.e. $$ W_{_{\rm eH}}(F)= \left\{\begin{array}{lll} \fracμ{k}\,e^{k\,\|{\rm dev}_n\log U\|^2}+\fracκ{2\,\widehat{k}}\,e^{\widehat{k}\,[(\log {\rm det} U)]^2}&\text{if}& {\rm det}\, F>0,\\ +\infty &\text{if} &{\rm det} F\leq 0\,, \end{array}\right. $$ where $F=\nabla φ$ is the gradient of deformation, $U=\sqrt{F^T F}$ is the right stretch tensor and ${\rm dev}_n\log {U}$ is the deviatoric part of the strain tensor $\log U$. The main result in this paper is that in plane elastostatics, i.e. for $n=2$, the energies of this family are polyconvex for $k\geq \frac{1}{4}$, $\widehat{k}\geq \frac{1}{8}$, extending a previous result which proves polyconvexity for $k\geq \frac{1}{3}$, $\widehat{k}\geq \frac{1}{8}$. This leads immediately to an extension of the existence result.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1408.4430
RAAAP-3 HIBARMA Questionnaire
Creators: name: Fischer, Melinda
name: Kerridge, Simon
name: Oliveira, Cristina Isabel
name: Dutta, Madhuri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This is a PDF version of the Qualtrics questionnaire that was used to elicit the responses from the RAAAP-3 Survey. Here the exact wording used can be seen, or order to help interpret the responses. Note that as well as this English version, there was a Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American), Chinese, and partial French translation. These are all available in the Qualtrics qsf file that will be added to this collection later
Spin and quadrupole contributions to the motion of astrophysical binaries
Creators: name: Steinhoff, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact objects in general relativity approximately move along geodesics of spacetime. It is shown that the corrections to geodesic motion due to spin (dipole), quadrupole, and higher multipoles can be modeled by an extension of the point mass action. The quadrupole contributions are discussed in detail for astrophysical objects like neutron stars or black holes. Implications for binaries are analyzed for a small mass ratio situation. There quadrupole effects can encode information about the internal structure of the compact object, e.g., in principle they allow a distinction between black holes and neutron stars, and also different equations of state for the latter. Furthermore, a connection between the relativistic oscillation modes of the object and a dynamical quadrupole evolution is established.
description: 43 pages. Proceedings of the 524. WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity". v2: fixed reference. v3: corrected typos in eqs. (1), (57), (85)
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) hamipetiolatus Lundblad 1941
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus hamipetiolatus

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) hamipetiolatus Lundblad, 1941
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Lundblad (1941, 1969); Prasad (1974); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Stimulates Histone H3 and H4 Acetylation in the Brain in Vivo
Creators: name: Sun, Liou Y.
name: D’Ercole, A. Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: IGF-I is essential to normal brain growth and exerts actions on neural stem cells and each major neural cell lineage. Whereas many studies show that IGF-I regulates gene expression, mechanisms by which it modulates transcription have not been explored. Chromatin modifications, such as histone phosphorylation, acetylation, and methylation, are known to be important initial steps in gene regulation, and acetylation of histone H3 and H4 is associated with gene activation. In this study, we show that IGF-I modulates the acetylation of H3 and H4 histones in the brain of two transgenic mouse lines and that these effects are associated with activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt signaling pathway. This provides evidence that the chromatin architecture modification contributes to the action of IGF-I on gene expression in the mammalian central nerve system.
Native galaxiids are suppressed by both trout and reduced flow
Creators: name: Hore, Olivia
name: Tonkin, Jonathan D
name: Earl, Brittany
name: Boddy, Nixie
name: McIntosh, Angus
name: University of Canterbury, Freshwater Ecology Research Group
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biosecurity science and invasive species ecology
Freshwater ecology

description: A graphical handout to communicate results from new University of Canterbury research. We found that although low-flow conditions reduce predation on native galaxiids by non-native trout, native fish populations were also reduced by low flow. So, to conserve native fish and maintain suitable habitat, we should aim to restore and protect natural flows, as well as manage any harmful effects of non-natives.
 Methods We evaluated effects of drying flow conditions on galaxiids in streams varying in trout abundance. •Electrofishing surveys (Dec – March) in high country streams •Compared streams with: high (n=2), low (n=2) or no brown trout (n=3; Salmo trutta). •Compared perennial vs. drying reaches in each stream •Measured abundance, body sizes and growth of Canterbury and alpine galaxias (Galaxias vulgaris and G. paucispondylus)
RAAAP-3 HIBARMA Questionnaire
Creators: name: Kerridge, Simon
name: Fischer, Melinda
name: Oliveira, Cristina Isabel
name: Dutta, Madhuri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This is a PDF version of the Qualtrics questionnaire that was used to elicit the responses from the RAAAP-3 Survey. Here the exact wording used can be seen, or order to help interpret the responses. Note that as well as this English version, there was a Portuguese, Spanish (Latin American), Chinese, and partial French translation. These are all available in the Qualtrics qsf file that will be added to this collection later
Between automatic and manual encoding Towards a generic TEI model for historical prints and manuscripts
Creators: name: Ariane, Pinche
name: Kelly, Christensen
name: Simon, Gabay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: TEI
HTR
pipeline

description: Cultural heritage institutions today aim to digitise their collections of prints and
 manuscripts (Bermès 2020) and are generating more and more digital images (Gray
 2009). To enrich these images, many institutions work with standardised formats such as
 IIIF, preserving as much of the source’s information as possible. To take full advantage of
 textual documents, an image alone is not enough. Thanks to automatic text recognition
 technology, it is now possible to extract images’ content on a large scale. The TEI seems
 to provide the perfect format to capture both an image’s formal and textual data (Janès
 et al. 2021). However, this poses a problem. To ensure compatibility with a range of
 use cases, TEI XML files must guarantee IIIF or RDF exports and therefore must be
 based on strict data structures that can be automated. But a rigid structure contradicts
 the basic principles of philology, which require maximum flexibility to cope with various
 situations. The solution proposed by the Gallic(orpor)a project1 attempted to deal with such a
 contradiction, focusing on French historical documents produced between the 15th and
 the 18th c. It aims to enrich the digital facsimiles distributed by the French National
 Library (BnF).
Chapter 1: Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: West, Nancy A.
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
name: Maahs, David M.
name: Lawrence, Jean M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This chapter describes the epidemiology of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) around the world and across the lifespan. Epidemiologic patterns of T1D by demographic, geographic, biologic, cultural and other factors in populations are presented to gain insight about the etiology, natural history, risks, and complications of T1D. Data from large epidemiologic studies worldwide indicate that the incidence of T1D has been increasing by 2–5% worldwide and that the prevalence of T1D is approximately 1 in 300 in the US by 18 years of age. Research on risk factors for T1D is an active area of research to identify genetic and environmental triggers that could potentially be targeted for intervention. While significant advances have been made in the clinical care of T1D with resultant improvements in quality of life and clinical outcomes, much more needs to be done to improve care of, and ultimately find a cure for T1D. Epidemiologic studies have an important on-going role to investigate the complex causes, clinical care, prevention, and cure of T1D.
Level Lines of Gaussian Free Field I: Zero-Boundary GFF
Creators: name: Wang, Menglu
name: Wu, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $h$ be an instance of Gaussian Free Field in a planar domain. We study level lines of $h$ starting from boundary points. We show that the level lines are random continuous curves which are variants of SLE$_4$ path. We show that the level lines with different heights satisfy the same monotonicity behavior as the level lines of smooth functions. We prove that the time-reversal of the level line coincides with the level line of $-h$. This implies that the time-reversal of SLE$_4(\underlineρ)$ process is still an SLE$_4(\underlineρ)$ process. We prove that the level lines satisfy "target-independent" property. We also discuss the relation between Gaussian Free Field and CLE$_4$.
description: 60 pages, 43 figures. This version adds a discussion about GFF with general boundary conditions at the end of the introduction and updates several references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1201.1496 by other authors
Permanent Austerity: A 40 Year Case Study of Chicago Public Finance
Creators: name: Poulos, Christopher D
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: My dissertation is a case study of Chicago public finance from 1980 to present, which explores the causes of Chicago's fiscal crisis. Chicago’s status quo policy repertoire consists of budget cuts to social programs and borrowing as a means of reconciling the City’s revenue imbalance without raising requisite taxes. It has been carried out with remarkable consistency over the past 30-plus years, with little variation expect for its intensification. I call this permanent austerity public finance, which refers to the taken-for-granted implementation and dogmatic adherence to austerity and a low-tax environment. Permanent austerity public finance is facing series limits today and placing Chicago on a frightening precipice, which could very well lead in the direction of right-wing authoritarianism if the City maintains present course. I examine Chicago public finance in its historical, economic, and political contexts in order to understand the origins and unfolding of permanent austerity public finance. In doing so, I demonstrate why it is a dogma today and the nature of its crisis.
Metabolic Actions of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I in Normal Physiology and Diabetes
Creators: name: Clemmons, David R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is closely related to insulin but has distinct metabolic actions. IGF-I is an important stimulant of protein synthesis in muscle but it also stimulates free fatty acid utilization. Important indirect effects of IGF-I that influence metabolism include suppression of growth hormone secretion and at supraphysiologic concentrations suppression of insulin secretion. IGF-I actions are regulated by IGF binding proteins and in obesity and metabolic syndrome there is major dysregulation of IGF binding protein secretion resulting in alterations in the concentration of free IGF-I and IGF-I actions. In type 1 diabetes, IGF-I synthesis is markedly impaired and in type 2 diabetes multiple changes occur in IGF-I actions including sensitization to its mitogenic actions in some target tissues. Administration of IGF-I to patients with extreme insulin resistance results in improvement in glycemic control and IGF-I has been shown to be associated with lowering glucose and enhancing insulin sensitivity in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. However diabetics are also quite sensitive to stimulation of side effects in response to IGF-I and this has greatly limited its usefulness as a hypoglycemic agent. IGF-I coordinately links growth hormone and insulin actions as well as having direct effects on intermediary metabolism.
Finding a sparse vector in a subspace: Linear sparsity using alternating directions
Creators: name: Qu, Qing
name: Sun, Ju
name: Wright, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Is it possible to find the sparsest vector (direction) in a generic subspace $\mathcal{S} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^p$ with $\mathrm{dim}(\mathcal{S})= n < p$? This problem can be considered a homogeneous variant of the sparse recovery problem, and finds connections to sparse dictionary learning, sparse PCA, and many other problems in signal processing and machine learning. In this paper, we focus on a **planted sparse model** for the subspace: the target sparse vector is embedded in an otherwise random subspace. Simple convex heuristics for this planted recovery problem provably break down when the fraction of nonzero entries in the target sparse vector substantially exceeds $O(1/\sqrt{n})$. In contrast, we exhibit a relatively simple nonconvex approach based on alternating directions, which provably succeeds even when the fraction of nonzero entries is $Ω(1)$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical algorithm to achieve linear scaling under the planted sparse model. Empirically, our proposed algorithm also succeeds in more challenging data models, e.g., sparse dictionary learning.
description: Accepted by IEEE Trans. Information Theory. The paper has been revised by the reviewers' comments. The proofs have been streamlined
Quantifying sudden changes in dynamical systems using symbolic networks
Creators: name: Masoller, Cristina
name: Hong, Yanhua
name: Ayad, Sarah
name: Gustave, Francois
name: Barland, Stephane
name: Pons, Antonio J.
name: Gómez, Sergio
name: Arenas, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterise the evolution of a dynamical system by combining two well-known complex systems' tools, namely, symbolic ordinal analysis and networks. From the ordinal representation of a time-series we construct a network in which every node weights represents the probability of an ordinal patterns (OPs) to appear in the symbolic sequence and each edges weight represents the probability of transitions between two consecutive OPs. Several network-based diagnostics are then proposed to characterize the dynamics of different systems: logistic, tent and circle maps. We show that these diagnostics are able to capture changes produced in the dynamics as a control parameter is varied. We also apply our new measures to empirical data from semiconductor lasers and show that they are able to anticipate the polarization switchings, thus providing early warning signals of abrupt transitions.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, to appear in New Journal of Physics
Quality of life following radiofrequency ablation of dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus
Creators: name: Carr, C.
name: Spechler, S.
name: Peery, A.
name: Siddiqui, A.
name: Shaheen, N.
name: Fowler, B.
name: Infantolino, A.
name: Campbell, M.
name: Walsh, J.
name: Hawes, R.
name: Rothstein, R.
name: Galanko, J.
name: Wolfsen, H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The impact of the diagnosis and treatment of dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus (BE) on quality of life (QoL) is poorly understood. This study assessed the influence of dysplastic BE on QoL and evaluated if endoscopic treatment of dysplastic BE with radiofrequency ablation (RFA) improves QoL.
Fostering Socio-Economic Development in Ghana through Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Creators: name: Essuman, Bismark
Publisher: name: AfricArXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140202 Economic Development and Growth

description: The ongoing development problems on the continents, from Africa to Asia, have drawn attention from around the world on numerous occasions in the first few years of the twenty-first century. The gap between industrialized nations and emerging economies is getting wider as government initiatives to support innovation and entrepreneurship become more widespread in those nations. For developing nations, entrepreneurship and innovation have significant potential advantages. To that end, the majority of Sub-Saharan African nations support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a way to reduce poverty, provide jobs, and advance national economic development.
Parameter estimation for univariate Skew-Normal distribution based on the modified empirical characteristic function
Creators: name: Hou, Gege
name: Xu, Ancha
name: Cai, Fengjing
name: Wang, You-Gan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Parameter estimation for the skew-normal distribution is challenging, since the profile likelihood function of shape parameter has a stationary point at zero, which hampers the use of traditional methods, such as maximum likelihood method. We present a modified empirical characteristic function method to perform parameter estimation for the skew-normal distribution. The proposed approach is flexible and easy to implement. We show that the estimators converge to the true values in probability. The simulation study and data analysis suggest that the proposed method performs well, even for the case of small sample size.
Bachelor and Master Final Projects
Creators: name: Inarejos, Patricia García
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Radon emission
subject: Microbial electrochemistry
subject: Electrogenic microorganisms
subject: Fluidized bed microbial reactor

description: This repository contains the Bachelor and the Master Final Projects. The author of both works is Patricia García Inarejos, under the supervison of: - Bachelors in Environmental Sciences Final Project, Autonomous University of Madrid: Prof. Belén Oliva Urcia (currently working in Zaragoza University). - Masters in hydrology and Water Resources Management, University of Alcalá. Prof. Abraham Esteve Núñez, Dr. Yeray Asensio Ramírez.
Computing Functions of Random Variables via Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Representations
Creators: name: Schölkopf, Bernhard
name: Muandet, Krikamol
name: Fukumizu, Kenji
name: Peters, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.3; I.2.6; D.3.3

description: We describe a method to perform functional operations on probability distributions of random variables. The method uses reproducing kernel Hilbert space representations of probability distributions, and it is applicable to all operations which can be applied to points drawn from the respective distributions. We refer to our approach as {\em kernel probabilistic programming}. We illustrate it on synthetic data, and show how it can be used for nonparametric structural equation models, with an application to causal inference.
ارزیابی و پهنه بندي خطرپذيري خطوط انتقال گاز (مطالعه موردی: شهرستان دهگلان)
Creators: name: فردین احمدی
name: حجت اله رنجبر
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 40303 Geochronology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40403 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

description: سامانه ­هاي خطوط لوله­ گاز به عنوان يكي از شريان­ هاي حياتي در كاهش و يا افزايش خسارات و آسيب­ پذيري ناشي از خطرات زمين لرزه و ديگر سوانح احتمالي، نقشي كليدي خواهند داشت. اين شريان­هاي حياتي در اثر وقوع حوادث گوناگون، علاوه بر اينكه خسارت اقتصادي مستقيمي مي­بينند؛ خسارت­هاي ثانويه­ اي هم ايجاد مي­كنند. در این تحقیق با تهيه­ نقشه­ هاي جداگانه عواملي که بر خطوط انتقال گاز تأثير مي­گذارند، ميزان آسيب­ پذيري خطوط لوله گاز تحت تأثير هر کدام از اين عوامل ارزيابي گرديد. اين عوامل عبارتند از: تقاطع خطوط گازرساني با گسل­ ها، ميزان سطح آب زيرزميني، حريم رودخانه، حريم جاده و تراکم جمعيتي. در ادامه، نقشه ­هاي فازي پارامترهاي ذکر شده در محيط سامانه اطلاعات جغرافیایی(GIS) تهيه گرديد. سپس با استفاده از روش فرآیند تحلیل سلسله مراتبی (AHP) اهميت نسبي اين عوامل تعيين شد. با توجه به آن که ميزان مقامت الکتريکي لايه­ ها بر روي مقاومت خطوط لوله تأثير می­گذارد، لذا بر اساس اطلاعات 208 سونداژ (15 پروفيل) مقاومت ويژه ظاهري بخش­هاي مختلف دشت دهگلان به دست آمد. نتایج حاکی از آن است که در بخش غربي شهرستان به دليل وجود گسل­ هاي کم و بيش فعال، خطوط لوله در معرض آسيب بيشتري از اين نظر قرار دارند. همچنین با توجه به حضور رودخانه­ هاي متعدد در منطقه، تقاطع خطوط لوله با اين رودخانه ­ها زياد بوده و خطر آسيب به اين خطوط وجود دارد
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) liberatus Walter 1929
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus liberatus

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) liberatus Walter (1929)
New records: India, Assam State, Kamrup district, SW of Guwahati city, Deeper Beel wetland, among the vegetation of water hyacinth Eichhornia corniculata, 26.10903N 91.68359E, 37 m asl., 8. xii. 2009, leg. Das & Bordoloi, 1/0/0.
Remarks: New for India.
Habitat: Lake.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, China, Burma, Singapore, Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
European guidelines for quality assurance in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis: Overview and introduction to the full Supplement publication
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Population-based screening for early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) and precursor lesions, using evidence-based methods, can be effective in populations with a significant burden of the disease provided the services are of high quality. Multidisciplinary, evidence-based guidelines for quality assurance in CRC screening and diagnosis have been developed by experts in a project co-financed by the European Union. The 450-page guidelines were published in book format by the European Commission in 2010.They include 10 chapters and over 250 recommendations, individually graded according to the strength of the recommendation and the supporting evidence. Adoption of the recommendations can improve and maintain the quality and effectiveness of an entire screening process, including identification and invitation of the target population, diagnosis and management of the disease and appropriate surveillance in people with detected lesions. To make the principles, recommendations and standards in the guidelines known to a wider professional and scientific community and to facilitate their use in the scientific literature, the original content is presented in journal format in an open-access Supplement of Endoscopy. The editors have prepared the present overview to inform readers of the comprehensive scope and content of the guidelines.
The learning experiences of student nurses in the perioperative environment: An integrative literature review
Creators: name: McNamara, Claire
name: O'Brien, Brid
name: O'Reilly, Pauline
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: For the Student Nurse placement in the perioperative environment provides an opportunity to observe and engage in preoperative, intraoperative, and immediate postoperative care of the surgical patient. To date no synthesis of empirical studies has been undertaken to ascertain the learning impact of the perioperative experience. The objectives of this review were to identify and synthesise the literature on the learning experiences of student nurses within the perioperative environment.Design: An integrative review that followed Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) framework. Data sources: Studies published between 2012 and 2022 were identified via a comprehensive search of the following databases: CINAHL, Medline (OVID), Medline (Pubmed), Medline (EBSCO), EMBASE, PsychINFO, ISI Web of Science and SCOPUS.Review methods: The review was reported in line with the Preferred Reporting for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). The initial search located 1475 Articles. After screening and checking for eligibility 17 articles were selected. These were critically appraised using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP). The papers were analysed and reported in a narrative synthesis.Results: Seventeen studies met the inclusion criteria for the review. Three categories with five sub categories were identified including: Learning opportunities, Appreciation for perioperative role and intent to return and Factors influencing student learning.Conclusions: A large variety of student learning occurs within the perioperative clinical environment. Students viewed staff nurses as positive role models in an environment that posed opportunities and challenges for student learning. Anxiety and stress in an unfamiliar environment were commonly mentioned with students offering recommendations to improve their experience.
Land use change, fuel use and respiratory health in Uganda
Creators: name: Shively, Gerald
name: Jagger, Pamela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This paper examines how biomass supply and consumption are affected by land use change in Uganda. We find that between 2007 and 2012 there was a 22% reduction in fuelwood sourced from proximate forests, and an 18% increase in fuelwood sourced from fallows and other areas with lower biomass availability and quality. We estimate a series of panel regression models and find that deforestation has a negative effect on total fuel consumed. We also find that access to forests, whether through ownership or proximity, plays a large role in determining fuel use. We then explore whether patterns of biomass fuel consumption are related to the incidence of acute respiratory infection using a cross-sectional data set of 1209 women and 598 children. We find a positive and significant relationship between ARI and the quantity of fuelwood from non-forest areas; a 100 kilogram increase in fuelwood sourced from a non-forest area results in a 2.4% increase in the incidence of ARI for children. We find the inverse effect of increased reliance on crop residues. As deforestation reduces the availability of high quality fuelwood, rural households may experience higher incidence of health problems associated with exposure to biomass burning.
The enduring legacy of the doctrine of discovery: a comparative critique of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the USA, the Site-C dam in Canada and the Adani mine in Australia
Creators: name: Salauddin, Sheikh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is based on the premise that the Doctrine of Discovery explicitly and tacitly underpinned the colonisation of the USA, Canada and Australia. Elements of the Doctrine, including first discovery, civilisation, Christianity, pre-emption, native title, limited sovereign and commercial rights, and conquest, have been used recurrently by the Crown and by subsequent governments to extinguish Indigenous rights and cultures, dispossess them of their lands and undermine their sovereignty, self-determination and systems of government. Some of these elements continue to be used by governments and their agencies to acquire Indigenous lands and to exploit their resources. Indigenous lands are still prime lands for the development of mines, highways, dams, pipelines and many other projects, for which Indigenous rights are ignored. This thesis draws on Indigenous perspectives that identify the continuing application of the Doctrine in the dispossession of their lands. Most notably, the rise of neoliberalism and globalisation has resulted in further dispossession through the expansion of global markets and a corresponding increase in government support for multinational corporations that seek to extract natural resources and construct mega infrastructure projects on Indigenous lands. This thesis argues that these developments have given rise to a new era, in which a Doctrine of Neo-Discovery now prevails. To exemplify the enduring legacy of the Doctrine, this thesis examines three recent case studies in detail: the Dakota Access Pipeline in the USA, the Site-C dam in Canada and the Adani mine in Australia. While these development projects have lacked the ‘free, prior and informed’ consent and Indigenous peoples continued to struggle to have their rights recognised, the governments in these countries have different approaches towards Indigenous peoples. The differences in each government’s approach may be traced to differences in government structures, histories of dispossession and ill treatment of Indigenous peoples in each nation. Despite these differences, the outcomes for Indigenous peoples appear to be largely the same. In each case, government supported economic development in line with neoliberal and globalisation trends. While attempts have been made to challenge these developments in the courts, their power to circumvent these developments is limited either by common law precedents or by laws enacted by parliament. Further, international legal developments have not served to address the continuing negative effects of the Doctrine. In view of the limitations of current national and international legal regimes to protect and safeguard Indigenous rights, this thesis presents recommendations that could temper the enduring effects of the Doctrine across national and international levels.
Search for dark Higgsstrahlung in e+ e- -> mu+ mu- and missing energy events with the KLOE experiment
Creators: name: 2 Collaboration
name: Babusci, D.
name: Bencivenni, G.
name: Bloise, C.
name: Bossi, F.
name: Branchini, P.
name: Budano, A.
name: Balkestahl, L. Caldeira
name: Ceradini, F.
name: Ciambrone, P.
name: Curciarello, F.
name: Czerwinski, E.
name: Dane', E.
name: De Leo, V.
name: De Lucia, E.
name: De Santis, A.
name: De Simone, P.
name: Di Cicco, A.
name: Di Domenico, A.
name: Di Salvo, R.
name: Domenici, D.
name: Fantini, A.
name: Felici, G.
name: Fiore, S.
name: Gajos, A.
name: Gauzzi, P.
name: Giardina, G.
name: Giovannella, S.
name: Graziani, E.
name: Happacher, F.
name: Heijkenskjold, L.
name: Andersson, W. Ikegami
name: Johansson, T.
name: Kaminska, D.
name: Krzemien, W.
name: Kupsc, A.
name: Loffredo, S.
name: Mandaglio, G.
name: Martini, M.
name: Mascolo, M.
name: Messi, R.
name: Miscetti, S.
name: Morello, G.
name: Moricciani, D.
name: Moskal, P.
name: Nguyen, F.
name: Palladino, A.
name: Passeri, A.
name: Patera, V.
name: Ranieri, A.
name: Santangelo, P.
name: Sarra, I.
name: Schioppa, M.
name: Silarski, M.
name: Tortora, L.
name: Venanzoni, G.
name: Wislicki, W.
name: Wolke, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We searched for evidence of a Higgsstrahlung process in a secluded sector, leading to a final state with a dark photon U and a dark Higgs boson h', with the KLOE detector at DAFNE. We investigated the case of h' lighter than U, with U decaying into a muon pair and h' producing a missing energy signature. We found no evidence of the process and set upper limits to its parameters in the range 2m_mu
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B
A summary of the Planck constant measurements using a watt balance with a superconducting solenoid at NIST
Creators: name: Schlamminger, S.
name: Steiner, R. L.
name: Haddad, D.
name: Newell, D. B.
name: Seifert, F.
name: Chao, L. S.
name: Liu, R.
name: Williams, E. R.
name: Pratt, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been using a watt balance, NIST-3, to measure the Planck constant $h$ for over ten years. Two recently published values disagree by more than one standard uncertainty. The motivation for the present manuscript is twofold. First, we correct the latest published number to take into account a recently discovered systematic error in mass dissemination at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). Second, we provide guidance on how to combine the two numbers into one final result. In order to adequately reflect the discrepancy, we added an additional systematic uncertainty to the published uncertainty budgets. The final value of $h$ measured with NIST-3 is $h = 6.626\,069\,36(37)\times 10^{-34}\,\mbox{J\,s}$. This result is $77(57) \times 10^{-9}$ fractionally higher than $h_{\mathrm{90}}$. Each number in parentheses gives the value of the standard uncertainty in the last two digits of the respective value and $h_{\mathrm{90}}$ is the conventional value of the Planck constant given by $h_{\mathrm{90}}\equiv 4 /( K_{\mathrm{J-90}}^2 R_{\mathrm{K-90}})$, where $K_{\mathrm{J-90}}$ and $R_{\mathrm{K-90}}$ denote the conventional values of the Josephson and von Klitzing constants, respectively.
description: 3 pages 2 figures. Accepted by metrologia. Link to the Journal Homepage: http://iopscience.iop.org/0026-1394
Methods for Collection, Quantification and Identification of Biomolecules from Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Fisher, Patrick Uriah
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The development of methods to generate quantitative chemical content information from precise tissue locations is needed to understand fundamental cellular and tissue physiology. This work describes a method to perfuse the extracellular fluid of fly brains in vivo using μLFPP for quantitative chemical content determinations, as well as a preliminary study of npc1a mutant flies. Miniaturization of push-pull perfusion probe designs allowed the development of methods for probe tip placement into and sampling from the fruit fly’s brain. Perfusate analysis identified and quantified arginine, octopamine, histidine, taurine, glycine, glutamate, and aspartate. Perfusate protein content was quantified to yield an average of 0.57 ± 0.092 µg of protein per fly and 159 unique proteins identified over the course of this study. The perfusate data did not exhibit any statistical differences based on sex. The perfusate analysis was compared to hemolymph samples to confirm probe placement in fly brain tissues. Appearance of probe placement into the brain space was confirmed with the following observations. Hemolymph and perfusate samples were found to contain analytes unique to each sample type. Quantitated levels of perfusate were not a simple dilution of hemolymph content. Further, the discovery of perfusates with composition similar to both hemolymph and brain perfusate when damage was intentionally inflicted supports the observation that perfusates are distinct from hemolymph. The probe placement into the fly brain was also confirmed by several protein IDs. The analysis of perfusate collected for greater than an hour of sampling exhibits the possibility of monitoring applications. Tissue and hemolymph collection were performed to determine lipid compositional differences between control and npc1a mutant flies. Experimental results suggests that there are compositional differences in each group’s lipidome and how the downregulation of LPC 16:0/0:0 could be evidence of how ineffectively lipids are transported around the npc1a fly body. Altogether, this work demonstrates the viability of performing μ low-flow push−pull perfusion for in vivo studies of fly brain tissues to identify and quantitate neurotransmitter content, as well as the potential for annotating lipid content and shifts that correspond with specific biological mechanisms in fruit flies.
Decoding Stress – ein interdisziplinärer Stressforschungsansatz zur Förderung qualitätsvoller öffentlicher Stadträume für den Rad- und Fußverkehr
Creators: name: Haug, Nina
name: Zeile, Peter
name: Neppl, Markus
Publisher: name: CORP -Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
Year: 2023
Subjects: Emotion Sensing
Stadtplanung
Stressorenanalyse
öffentlicher Raum
Radverkehrsforschung

description: Wie nehmen wir Stadträume wahr, wenn wir mit dem Fahrrad oder zu Fuß unterwegs sind? An welchen Orten in der Stadt fühlen wir uns wohl, respektive unwohl und gestresst? Welche spezifischen Faktoren beeinflussen dabei unsere Emotionen? Und vor allem: Wie können diese Einflussfaktoren für die Planung entschlüsselt werden? Ausgehend von den Emo-Cycling-Stressmessungen der Urban Emotions Initiative untersucht die Studie „Decoding Stress“ auffallende Stress-Hotspots für Radfahrende im urbanen Kontext. Im Fokus steht dabei die Entwicklung eines interdisziplinären und multimodalen Analyseansatzes zur Erweiterung der Stressorenanalyse. In diesem Zusammenhang greift die Studie zum einen auf bereits vereinzelt in der Radverkehrsforschung zur Anwendung kommende, digitale Analysetools und Open-Data-Ansätze zurück. Darüber hinaus beschäftigt sich der vorgestellte Forschungsansatz intensiv mit der Erweiterung der Methodik um einen bislang vorwiegend im Bereich der Architektur- und Stadtplanung bekannten, analogen Werkzeugkasten. Innerhalb eines experimentellen Rahmens erprobt die Studie dabei die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Mappings und fotografischen Annäherungen, sowie deren Kombination. Im Kontext der Ursachenforschung des Stressempfindens von Radfahrenden soll damit ein holistischer Analyseansatz erprobt werden, der quantifizierbare „harte“ Faktoren und qualifizierbare „weiche“ Faktoren gleichermaßen berücksichtigt. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse leisten einen Beitrag dazu, die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit von Stadt- und Verkehrsplanung zu fördern und schließlich gemeinsame Lösungsansätze für qualitätsvolle und menschengerechte öffentliche Stadträume zu erarbeiten. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags werden erste Ergebnisse der experimentell im Untersuchungsgebiet der Karlsruher Innenstadt durchgeführten Stressorenanalyse vorgestellt. Der Beitrag evaluiert die durchgeführten Analysen sowohl inhaltlich, als auch methodisch und skizziert darüber hinaus erste Lösungsansätze.
Atom interferometric gravitational wave detection using heterodyne laser links
Creators: name: Hogan, Jason M.
name: Kasevich, Mark A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme based on a heterodyne laser link that allows for long baseline gravitational wave detection using atom interferometry. While the baseline length in previous atom-based proposals is constrained by the need for a reference laser to remain collimated as it propagates between two satellites, here we circumvent this requirement by employing a strong local oscillator laser near each atom ensemble that is phase locked to the reference laser beam. Longer baselines offer a number of potential advantages, including enhanced sensitivity, simplified atom optics, and reduced atomic source flux requirements.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Arrenurus (Arrenurus) mysorensis Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus mysorensis

description: Arrenurus (Arrenurus) mysorensis Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Karnataka—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974); Smit & Pešić (2008).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Stanley Kubrick and the art of artificial theatricality
Creators: name: Parker, Angus Mortimer
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, producer and screenwriter whose career spanned thirteen feature length motion pictures from Fear and Desire (1953) to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Kubrick’s cinematic body of work is one of the most extensively studied, across a number of fields. Even so, this thesis situates itself within a specific, pre-existing area of studies into Kubrick. The thesis considers the director’s engagement with other art forms within his film texts. In doing so its primary goal is to analyse how the director incorporates concepts or aesthetic content from other art forms or specific art works outside of the medium of cinema. It asserts that Kubrick’s films consistently call attention to their nature as constructed, artificial texts through the interpolation of concepts from other art forms both within their narratives and through their form. Therefore, prominent sub-topics of the project include the theatricality of Kubrick’s work exemplified through the employment of concepts from theatre, or his incorporation of visual art, both within his narratives and in the creation of the film texts themselves. This thesis selects three of Kubrick’s films as key texts: A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975) and Full Metal Jacket (1987). Whilst more general scholarly works have examined artificiality and theatricality in the medium of film, my thesis draws and expands on this theoretical backing to understand how Kubrick’s implementation of other art forms to highlight the artificiality of the cinema allows for unique explorations of narrative content as well as cinematic form.
Demonstration of quantum permutation algorithm with a single photon ququart
Creators: name: Wang, Feiran
name: Wang, Yunlong
name: Liu, Ruifeng
name: Chen, Dongxu
name: Zhang, Pei
name: Gao, Hong
name: Li, Fuli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an experiment to demonstrate a quantum permutation determining algorithm with linear optical system. By employing photon polarization and spatial modes, we realize the quantum ququart states and all the essential permutation transformations. Compared with the classical case, this work determines the parity of the permutation in only one step of evaluation and displays the remarkable speedup of quantum algorithm. This experiment is accomplished in single photon level and exhibits strong universality in quantum computation.
description: Comments are welcome
Autonomous Robotic Control and Marine Automation
Creators: name: Kumar, Dr.P.S.Jagadeesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90602 Control Systems, Robotics and Automation
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91007 Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics (excl. Automotive Mechatronics)

description: This article expresses the devise of the “Accrue
Discovery” regulation for the robotic control of an inundated
marine cybernetics and automation.