cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the fluid mechanics of viscoplastic particle suspension fractionation : understanding multilayer spiral poiseuille flow in an annulus
Creators: name: Al-Shibl, Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The focus of the present work is the study of laminar spiral multi-layer viscoplastic flow in annular geometries. The motivation for the present work stems from an interest in utilizing such flow in fractionation of particle suspensions. The work is presented in four studies. In the first study we solve the fully developed condition of the flow analytically. This solution is considered a reliable reference to validate the remaining numerical studies. Also it provides a means to test the stability of the flow. The second study is related to the fractionation of particle suspensions utilizing the solution demonstrated in the first study. We develop fractionation curves of particles of different sizes in fluids with different rheology. We develop a code to simulate thousands of flow cases (a flow case has a unique combination of streams flowrates) of known fluids properties. We predict the fractionation operating window (some range of streams flowrates) needed for successful fractionation. In the third study, we examine the flow in the full annulus geometry including the entrance region of the flow. Here, we estimate the flow entrance length in order to design the length of the mixing zone of the two streams in the continuous fractionation device. We study the effect of Kelvin-Helmholtz and density current instabilities on the flow. In the fourth study, we attempt to design the continuous fractionation device in which we use the results of the first three studies together with the analysis of the constraints imposed by the physical construction of the device. We explore the flow behavior in the exit region of the device and suggest some guidelines to achieve successful fractionation accordingly. Results of this work show that spiral multi-layer Poisuille viscoplastic flow can be stable and the range of stability expands with increasing fluids yield stress. Gravity current instability is evident in density unstable cases and the flow can be stabilized by increasing the fluids yield stress. Kelvin Helmholtz instability was not found on conditions tested. Viscoplastic flow entrance length was found to be shorter than the equivalent Newtonian one for the same range of Reynolds number.
Recommender Systems for Scientific and Technical Information Providers
Creators: name: Neumann, Andreas W.
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: Providers of scientific and technical information are a promising application area of recommender systems due to high search costs for their goods and the general problem of assessing the quality of information products. Nevertheless, the usage of recommendation services in this market is still in its infancy. This book presents economical concepts,
statistical methods and algorithms, technical architectures, as well as experiences from case studies on how recommender systems can be integrated.
การเฝ้าระวังการระบาดของเชื้อเอชไอวีดื้อยาในประเทศไทย 2553
Creators: name: สุรพล เกาะเรียนอุดม
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: การเฝ้าระวัง
การดื้อยา
ยาต้านไวรัส

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 4, 243-252
Causal Inference from Statistical Data
Creators: name: Sun, Xiaohai
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: The so-called kernel-based tests of independence are developed for automatic causal discovery between random variables from purely observational statistical data, i.e., without intervention. Beyond the independence relations, the complexity of conditional distriubtions is used as an additional inference principle of determining the causal ordering between variables. Experiments with simulated and real-world data show that the proposed methods surpass the state-of-the-art approaches.
รูปแบบการดำเนินงานป้องกันควบคุมโรคเอดส์ในชุมชนขององค์กรบริหารส่วนตำบลเขาชายธง จังหวัดนครสวรรค์
Creators: name: สายรุ้ง จันทรปราสาท
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: รูปแบบ
โรคเอดส์
องค์การบริหารส่วนตำบล

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 4, 253-259
Theorie und Numerik unidirektional verstärkter Faserverbundwerkstoffe: 3D Finite-Element-Untersuchungen der Faser-Matrix Mikroinstabilitäten
Creators: name: Harich, Jens
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: The topic of this work is a study of the microbuckling behavior of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composite materials. Some alternative finite element discretizations are compared in order to model the characteristic cell. Transversely isotropic material behavior is taken into account to model some anisotropic fibers. The free surface of the matrix has also influence on the fiber microbuckling. The results are compared qualitatively and quantitatively with analytical solutions and experiments.
D3.4 - Guidelines and recommendations for data privacy in public administration
Creators: name: Khalid, Ahmed
name: Mehmood, Hassan
name: Cortes, Marta
name: Truong, Thuy
name: Sun, Jun
name: Kostakos, Panos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data privacy
data protection
data governance
data encryption
public administration
smart city platform
cloud
data collection
policy making

description: This deliverable summarizes the lessons learned from the CUTLER project in terms of data interoperability and privacy with the intention to formally submit this document as part of EU’s regulations and directives on this topic.
title: Salix scouleriana
title: Scouler's willow
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Salicaceae
Salix
scouleriana

description: Family: Salicaceae
description: Genus: Salix
description: Species: scouleriana
NeMo Project - D7.2 Business Model and regulatory guidelines
Creators: name: Pantelis, Kanellopoulos
name: CAUMONT Edouard
name: CASTAGNIE Adrien
name: PAJKOVSKA Sonja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This deliverable is the outcome of the work under Tasks 7.3 and 7.4 of NeMo, and presents the value sharing model among the actors and key partners joining the NeMo Hyper-Network, building a sustainable business model for the Hyper-Network that can last beyond the project lifetime. Regulatory and business requirements that will ensure that the Hyper-Network continues to be fully operational under the European electromobility ecosystem in a sustainable way is also presented at the last chapter of the document. In the present deliverable, the Business Model Canvas approach was used to define the value proposition of the Business Alliance for Electro-Mobility (BAEM), a subscription based association to be formed by the first group of key actors, responsible to develop and engage the relations with the Hyper-Network partners, to manage and be the legal entity ensuring full exploitation of the NeMo Hyper-Network and its services permitting the sustainability of the network. The business model includes identification of the key actors, the main resources, the revenues streams that are analysed in depth. A proposition of the first years’ financial plan of the association and a marketing plan are also proposed. Requirements are also being proposed for building the necessary regulatory and business framework for the Hyper-Network’s sustainable and interoperable operation within the EU. A business solution is being proposed for a Connection Service Agreement between charging network operators and mobility service providers that would support their business interconnection. The NeMo Business Alliance for Electromobility will need to meet the dynamic market trends and regulation changes and take action over the needed regulatory and business tasks mentioned in this deliverable, establishing standardizations update processes, enabling commercial framework for Inter-roaming and service provision, and participating in policy recommendations.
Methane and nitrous oxide distributions across the North American Arctic Ocean during summer, 2015
Creators: name: Fenwick, Lindsay Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: We collected Arctic Ocean water column samples for methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) analysis on three separate cruises in the summer and fall of 2015, covering a ~10,000 km transect from the Bering Sea to Baffin Bay. Our sampling program provides a large-scale, three-dimensional view of methane and nitrous oxide concentrations across contrasting hydrographic environments, from the deep oligotrophic waters of the deep Canada Basin and Baffin Bay, to the productive continental shelf regions of the Bering and Chukchi Shelves. Percent saturation relative to atmospheric equilibrium ranged from 30-800% and 75-145% for CH₄ and N₂O, respectively, with the highest concentrations of both gases occurring in waters overlying the continental shelf in the northern Chukchi Sea. Nitrification and denitrification in the sediments of the Bering and Chukchi Shelves constituted a major source of N₂O to the water column, and the resulting high N₂O concentrations were transported across the entire North American Arctic. Methane sources to the water column were more spatially heterogeneous, reflecting a greater variety of hydrographic influences, including likely inputs from sediments, rivers, and sea ice processes. Localized regions of high CH₄ concentrations were observed at various locations across our sampling transect, but unlike N₂O, CH₄ was rapidly consumed through microbial oxidation, as shown by the ¹³C enrichment of CH₄ at low concentrations. High CH₄ signatures were thus more localized across our sampling region. For both CH₄ and N₂O, surface super-saturation and sea-air fluxes were generally low across the region, with valuess of 1.3 ± 1.2 mol m-² d-¹ and -0.52 ± 1.0 µmol m-² d-¹, for CH₄ and N₂O, respectively. Low surface water concentrations were at least partially attributable to dilution by low CH₄ and N₂O fresh water. Our results provide insight into the factors controlling the distribution of CH₄ and N₂O in the North American Arctic Ocean, and an important baseline data set against which future changes can be assessed.
title: Helianthus annuus
title: Common sunflower
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Asteraceae
Helianthus
annuus

description: Family: Asteraceae
description: Genus: Helianthus
description: Species: annuus
Pattern Classification using Simplified Neural Networks
Creators: name: Kamruzzaman, S. M.
name: Hasan, Ahmed Ryadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, many neural network models have been proposed for pattern classification, function approximation and regression problems. This paper presents an approach for classifying patterns from simplified NNs. Although the predictive accuracy of ANNs is often higher than that of other methods or human experts, it is often said that ANNs are practically "black boxes", due to the complexity of the networks. In this paper, we have an attempted to open up these black boxes by reducing the complexity of the network. The factor makes this possible is the pruning algorithm. By eliminating redundant weights, redundant input and hidden units are identified and removed from the network. Using the pruning algorithm, we have been able to prune networks such that only a few input units, hidden units and connections left yield a simplified network. Experimental results on several benchmarks problems in neural networks show the effectiveness of the proposed approach with good generalization ability.
description: 7 Pages, International Conference
title: Ledum glandulosum
title: Western Labrador tea
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Ericaceae
Ledum
glandulosum

description: Family: Ericaceae
description: Genus: Ledum
description: Species: glandulosum
title: Gaillardia pulchella
title: Indian blanket
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Asteraceae
Gaillardia
pulchella

description: Family: Asteraceae
description: Genus: Gaillardia
description: Species: pulchella
Predictive Power of Markets - Prediction Accuracy, Incentive Schemes, and Traders' Biases
Creators: name: Luckner, Stefan
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008

description: Accurate predictions are essential in many areas such as business and sports forecasting. Prediction markets are a promising approach for predicting uncertain future events and developments. This work demonstrates that markets are accurate predictors beyond the field of political stock markets. Moreover, the findings on trader' biases and incentive schemes are valuable for designing future prediction markets.
Additional file 3 of Association between healthy eating index-2015 and various cognitive domains in US adults aged 60 years or older: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2014
Creators: name: Fan, Yameng
name: Zhang, Yinyin
name: Li, Jiaqiao
name: Liu, Yamei
name: Chang, Huan
name: Jiang, Yude
name: Tuo, Xingxia
name: Zhou, Long
name: Yu, Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3. Sensitivity analysis on the associations between HEI-2015 (continuous) and cognition scores when excluding participants with depression symptom (n = 2273)1.
Examination of predictable factors of perioperative respiratory complications by preoperative forced oscillation technique parameters
Creators: name: Igarashi, Akira
name: Inoue, Sumito
name: Shibata, Yoko
name: Nunomiya, Keiko
name: Ota, Takahito
name: Ishibashi, Yu
name: Murano, Hiroaki
name: Furuyama, Kodai
name: Yang, Sujeong
name: Machida, Hiroyoshi
name: Nakano, Hiroshi
name: Sato, Kento
name: Sato, Masamichi
name: Nemoto, Takako
name: Nishiwaki, Michiko
name: Yamauchi, Keiko
name: Suzuki, Jun
name: Sadahiro, Mitsuaki
name: Watanabe, Masafumi
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: forced oscillation technique parameter
general anesthesia
perioperative respiratory complications
pulmonary function test
surgery

description: In this study, we investigated whether pulmonary function tests such as forced oscillation technique parameters could predict perioperative respiratory complications. In the results of our study, perioperative respiratory complications cannot be predicted using the results of preoperative pulmonary function tests and forced oscillation technique parameters. Patients who are judged by comprehensive preoperative judgment to be suitable for general anesthesia may not need to consider the risk of perioperative complications using pulmonary function test.
description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1610; ISSN 1611-2156
Superconducting Plate in Transverse Magnetic Field: New State
Creators: name: Batyev, E. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model to describe Cooper pairs near the transition point (on temperature and magnetic field), when the distance between them is big compared to their sizes, is proposed. A superconducting plate whose thickness is less than the pair size in the transverse magnetic field near the critical value $H_{c2}$ is considered as an application of the model. A new state that is energetically more favourable than that of Abrikosov vortex state within an interval near the transition point was obtained. The system's wave function in this state looks like that of Laughlin's having been used in fractional quantum Hall effect (naturally, in our case - for Cooper pairs as Bose-particles) and it corresponds to homogeneous incompressible liquid. The state energy is proportional to the first power of value $(1 - H/H_{c2})$, unlike the vortex state energy having this value squared. The interval of the new state existence is greater for dirty specimens.
description: 7 pages
Newtonian photorealistic ray tracing of grating cloaks and correlation-function-based cloaking-quality assessment
Creators: name: Halimeh, Jad C.
name: Schmied, Roman
name: Wegener, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grating cloaks are a variation of dielectric carpet (or ground- plane) cloaks. The latter were introduced by Li and Pendry. In contrast to the numerical work involved in the quasi-conformal carpet cloak, the refractive-index profile of a conformal grating cloak follows a closed and exact analytical form. We have previously mentioned that finite-size conformal grating cloaks may exhibit better cloaking than usual finite-size carpet cloaks. In this letter, we directly visualize their performance using photorealistic ray-tracing simulations. We employ a Newtonian approach that is advantageous compared to conventional ray tracing based on Snell's law. Furthermore, we quantify the achieved cloaking quality by computing the cross-correlations of rendered images. The cross-correlations for the grating cloak are much closer to 100% (i.e., ideal) than those for the Gaussian carpet cloak.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, journal paper
ลักษณะทางคลินิกและผลการตรวจทางห้องปฏิบัติการของเด็กอายุต่ำกว่า 5 ปีที่ป่วยด้วยโรคชิคุนกุนยาในโรงพยาบาลศูนย์ตรัง
Creators: name: ลัดดาวัลย์ สุขุม
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: ชิคุนกุนยาในเด็ก
โรงพยาบาลศูนย์ตรัง

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 3, 215-221
การวางแผนครอบครัวของสตรีที่ติดเชื้อเอชไอวี/เอดส์ ในสถาบันบำราศนราดูร
Creators: name: ปิยวรรณ ลิ้มปัญญาเลิศ
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: สตรีที่ติดเชื้อเอชไอวี/เอดส์
วางแผนครอบครัว
สถาบันบำราศนราดูร

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 4, 260-276
title: Sporobolus heterolepis
title: Prairie dropseed
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Poaceae
Sporobolus
heterolepis

description: Family: Poaceae
description: Genus: Sporobolus
description: Species: heterolepis
Hidden Extra U(1) at the Electroweak/TeV Scale
Creators: name: Grossmann, B. N.
name: McElrath, B.
name: Nandi, S.
name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) by adding an extra U(1) symmetry which is hidden from the SM sector. Such a hidden U(1) has not been considered before, and its existence at the TeV scale can be explored at the LHC. This hidden U(1) does not couple directly to the SM particles, and couples only to new SU(2)_L singlet exotic quarks and singlet Higgs bosons, and is broken at the TeV scale. The dominant signals at the high energy hadron colliders are multi lepton and multi b-jet final states with or without missing energy. We calculate the signal rates as well as the corresponding Standard Model background for these final states. A very distinctive signal is 6 high p_T b-jets in the final state with no missing energy. For a wide range of the exotic quarks masses the signals are observable above the background at the LHC.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
การพัฒนาเครือข่ายห้องปฏิบัติการตรวจวิเคราะห์เชื้อไข้หวัดใหญ่สายพันธุ์ใหม่ชนิด A (H1N1) ตามเกณฑ์มาตรฐานกระทรวงสาธารณสุขปี 2553
Creators: name: เรวดี สิริธัญญานนท์
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: เชื้อไข้หวัดใหญ่สายพันธุ์ใหม่ ชนิด A (H1N1)
การพัฒนาเครือข่ายห้องปฏิบัติการ

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 4, 281-286
รูปแบบการประเมินผลแบบเสริมพลังอำนาจเพื่อพัฒนาพฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชนในการป้องกันโรคไข้หวัดนก จังหวัดกำแพงเพชร
Creators: name: สำราญ สิริภคมงคล
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2554
Subjects: การประเมินผลแบบเสริมพลังอำนาจ
พฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วม
ไข้หวัดนก

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 37, 4, 287-295
title: Grayia spinosa
title: Spiny hopsage
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Chenopodiaceae
Grayia
spinosa

description: Family: Chenopodiaceae
description: Genus: Grayia
description: Species: spinosa
title: Andropogon gerardii
title: Big bluestem
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Poaceae
Andropogon
gerardii

description: Family: Poaceae
description: Genus: Andropogon
description: Species: gerardii
title: Mimulus lewisii
title: Purple monkeyflower
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Scrophulariaceae
Mimulus
lewisii

description: Family: Scrophulariaceae
description: Genus: Mimulus
description: Species: lewisii
Customized workflow development and omics data integration concepts in systems medicine
Creators: name: Wolfien, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences
subject: 570 Life science
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: The ever-increasing amount and diversity of biological and medical data is a major challenge in computational analyses. Computational methods have to be combined into analysis workflows for seamless, swift, and transparent computation. In this work, numerous workflows were developed for the general processing of bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq), single-cell sequencing experiments, and non-coding RNA identification. Mathematical concepts of machine learning and univariate meta-analyses were successfully implemented to independently investigate the role of cell therapies in cardiac regeneration.
Rule Extraction using Artificial Neural Networks
Creators: name: Kamruzzaman, S. M.
name: Hasan, Ahmed Ryadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial neural networks have been successfully applied to a variety of business application problems involving classification and regression. Although backpropagation neural networks generally predict better than decision trees do for pattern classification problems, they are often regarded as black boxes, i.e., their predictions are not as interpretable as those of decision trees. In many applications, it is desirable to extract knowledge from trained neural networks so that the users can gain a better understanding of the solution. This paper presents an efficient algorithm to extract rules from artificial neural networks. We use two-phase training algorithm for backpropagation learning. In the first phase, the number of hidden nodes of the network is determined automatically in a constructive fashion by adding nodes one after another based on the performance of the network on training data. In the second phase, the number of relevant input units of the network is determined using pruning algorithm. The pruning process attempts to eliminate as many connections as possible from the network. Relevant and irrelevant attributes of the data are distinguished during the training process. Those that are relevant will be kept and others will be automatically discarded. From the simplified networks having small number of connections and nodes we may easily able to extract symbolic rules using the proposed algorithm. Extensive experimental results on several benchmarks problems in neural networks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach with good generalization ability.
description: 14 Pages, International Conference
D11.3 - Policy Briefs (final update)
Creators: name: Filareti Tsalakanidou
name: Yiannis Kompatsiaris
name: Haberstock, Holger
name: Valta, Katerina
name: Yiannis Pragidis
name: Kumar, Chandan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: big data
decision-making
policy making
policy impact
business process model
pilot cases
socioeconomic and democratic impact
recommendations
exploitation
decision-support system
public administration
dashboards
social data
economic data
environmental data
CUTLER platform

description: This report is addressed to the policy makers of DG CNECT and follows a pre-specified template addressing questions related to policy making, including: a) description of relevant policy problems and evidence to the task of addressing them, b) potential economic, social and democratic impacts of the project, c) use cases, d) policy implications of intermediate findings, lessons learnt and recommendations, and e) ideas for exploitation and economic models for sustainability. The report is updated yearly. This is the third and final version of the report, incorporating updates, findings and recommendations from the third year of the project. This report is addressed to the policy makers of DG CNECT and follows a pre-specified template addressing questions related to policy making, including: a) description of relevant policy problems and evidence to the task of addressing them, b) potential economic, social and democratic impacts of the project, c) use cases, d) policy implications of intermediate findings, lessons learnt and recommendations, and e) ideas for exploitation and economic models for sustainability. The report is updated yearly. This is the third and final version of the report, incorporating updates, findings and recommendations from the third year of the project.
The impact of novelty on sexual desire and sexual satisfaction in committed relationships
Creators: name: Morton, Heather
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Evidence from several areas of research suggests that sexual functioning declines in response to partner familiarity and increases in response to partner novelty in men and women. This evidence includes findings from studies examining habituation of sexual arousal in response to erotic material, expressed desire for multiple sexual partners, declines in sexual functioning in long-term relationships, and the prevalence of extra-dyadic behavior. What is unknown however, is whether the benefits to sexual functioning that arise with a novel partner may be replicated by introducing novelty within long-term relationships. This is a common recommendation of self-help books, websites, and marriage counselors, and yet there has been no research to date directly examining the efficacy of this intervention. The purpose of this line of research was to conduct a series of studies investigating 1) associations between the variety of leisure and sexual activities that couples engage in and their levels of sexual desire and satisfaction, and 2) the impact of a novelty intervention on sexual desire, satisfaction, and desire for one’s partner. Results of Study 1 revealed an association between engaging in novel activities and sexual desire and satisfaction in women. However, this was not the case for men. In Studies 2 and 3 no differences were found between couples assigned to the novelty intervention and those in the control and wait-list conditions with regards to sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, or desire for one’s partner. Together, the findings from this line of research suggest that there is a relationship between novel activities and sexual functioning in women in long-term relationships. However, no support was found for an online intervention which encouraged couples to engage in novel sexual activities. This set of studies has important implications for couple therapy and self-help resources aimed at benefiting couples who want to enhance their sexual desire and satisfaction.
Infrared fixed point of the 12-fermion SU(3) gauge model based on 2-lattice MCRG matching
Creators: name: Hasenfratz, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate an SU(3) gauge model with 12 fundamental fermions. The physically interesting region of this strongly coupled system can be influenced by an ultraviolet fixed point due to lattice artifacts. I suggest to use a gauge action with an additional negative adjoint plaquette term that lessens this problem. I also introduce a new analysis method for the 2-lattice matching Monte Carlo renormalization group technique that significantly reduces finite volume effects. The combination of these two improvements allows me to measure the bare step scaling function in a region of the gauge coupling where it is clearly negative, indicating a positive renormalization group $β$ function and infrared conformality.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Sequence Mining for Customer Behaviour Predictions in Telecommunications
Creators: name: Eichinger, Frank
name: Nauck, Detlef D.
name: Klawonn, Frank
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2006

description: Predicting the behaviour of customers is challenging, but important for service oriented businesses. Data mining techniques are used to make such predictions, typically using only recent static data. In this paper, a sequence mining approach is proposed, which allows taking historic data and temporal developments into account as well. In order to form a combined classifier, sequence mining is combined with decision tree analysis. In the area of sequence mining, a tree data structure is extended with hashing techniques and a variation of a classic algorithm is presented. The combined classifier is applied to real customer data and produces promising results.
Postulation of general quintuple fat point schemes in P^3
Creators: name: Ballico, Edoardo
name: Brambilla, Maria Chiara
name: Caruso, Fabrizio
name: Sala, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14N05, 15A72, 65D05

description: We study the postulation of a general union Y of double, triple, quartuple and quintuple points of P^3. In characteristic 0, we prove that Y has good postulation in degree $d\ge 11$. The proof is based on the combination of the Horace differential lemma with a computer-assisted proof. We also classify the exceptions in degree 9 and 10.
title: Defining Liveability in a Chinese Context: determining the qualities of liveability at the level of residential streets in Shanghai
Creators: name: Istrate, AL
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: In Chinese cities, existing studies of liveability have either produced broad and unspecific results, or have overlooked liveability at the level of the street, in direct connection to the way people live. For this research, Shanghai, a Chinese city with foreign influences, is selected as case study city. The first stage of the study was conducted with design and planning professionals. Thereafter, an extensive field study consisting of interviews with residents and systematic observations was conducted on fifteen selected street sites nominalized as S, M, L, XL1 and XL2 streets, according to their historical-morphological characteristics. The study puts forth the definition of liveability at the level of residential streets in Shanghai through six liveability qualities: ‘the Local Humanized Environment’, ‘Physical Facilities for Living and the Mix of Uses’, ‘Local Economic Activities’, ‘Safety’, ‘Social Interaction and Public Life’, and ‘Sense of Place and Belonging’. The study reveals the value of social life and the particular way it manifests in Shanghai especially on the smallest streets (S and M streets). This has been particularly captured through the context-sensitive qualities of ‘social interaction and public life’, and ‘sense of place and belonging’, which are reinforced by the ‘local economic activities’ on residential streets. In regard to these three vulnerable, yet crucial qualities of liveability in Shanghai, the study identified the most significant differences when compared to the international literature on liveable streets. This research offers guidance to urban design and planning in order to improve liveability in this Chinese context.
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Centaurus A: Jet Interaction with Gaseous Shells
Creators: name: Gopal-Krishna
name: Biermann, Peter L.
name: de Souza, Vitor
name: Wiita, Paul J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), with energies above ~6 x 10^19 eV, seem to show a weak correlation with the distribution of matter relatively near to us in the universe. It has earlier been proposed that UHECRs could be accelerated in either the nucleus or the outer lobes of the nearby radio galaxy Cen A. We show that UHECR production at a spatially intermediate location about 15 kpc northeast from the nucleus, where the jet emerging from the nucleus is observed to strike a large star-forming shell of gas, is a plausible alternative. A relativistic jet is capable of accelerating lower-energy heavy seed cosmic rays (CRs) to UHECRs on timescales comparable to the time it takes the jet to pierce the large gaseous cloud. In this model many CRs arising from a starburst, with a composition enhanced in heavy elements near the knee region around PeV, are boosted to ultra-high energies by the relativistic shock of a newly oriented jet. This model matches the overall spectrum shown by the Auger data and also makes a prediction for the chemical composition as a function of particle energy. We thus predict an observable anisotropy in the composition at high energy in the sense that lighter nuclei should preferentially be seen toward the general direction of Cen A. Taking into consideration the magnetic field models for the Galactic disk and a Galactic magnetic wind, this scenario may resolve the discrepancy between HiRes and Auger results concerning the chemical composition of UHECRs.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, in press in Astrophysical Journal Letters
title: Clarkia rhomboidea
title: Diamond clarkia
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Onagraceae
Clarkia
rhomboidea

description: Family: Onagraceae
description: Genus: Clarkia
description: Species: rhomboidea
title: Pseudotsuga menziesii
title: Douglas fir
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Pinaceae
Pseudotsuga
menziesii

description: Family: Pinaceae
description: Genus: Pseudotsuga
description: Species: menziesii
title: END-USER CENTRED PARTICIPATORY DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY–BASED HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS IN CHINA
Creators: name: Ban, Q
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: The national healthcare system in China is currently experiencing significant reform, which aims to establish a more accessible, affordable and equitable healthcare service for the whole society. One of the long-term key tasks is set to transform the allocation of medical resources in urban areas from a “centralised” pattern to a “decentralised” one. It intends to improve the capacity of delivering primary care for urban residents. In this research, attention is paid to the social sustainability and design process of healthcare environments at a community level, since the design quality has a significant impact upon the provision and delivery of healthcare service while there is a lack of specific building regulations or standards that are tailored to inform or assess the design of community-based healthcare facilities in China. This research explores end-users’ satisfaction and the design strategies related to their needs. A “multi-strategy research” strategy is applied for the research framework, which consists of desktop research and field investigations. In the desktop research, the design strategies for healthcare environments are collected with relevant evidence from regulations and previous literature. A series of social studies are conducted for the field investigations, and finally, the responses of target groups in this research are cross-compared and analysed in order to shed an in-depth insight into end-users’ cognitive differences. Their preferences are used to identify the relative importance of design strategies that are related to end-users’ needs for community-based healthcare environments. It is found that a complete consensus on the needs of end-users cannot be reached for good healthcare environment design at a community level. Evidence-based design principles can improve the efficiency of knowledge exchange in the participatory design decision-making process. Information from building regulations is expected to be used as a communication platform for stakeholders with different knowledge levels. Based on the findings regarding end-users’ preferences for the design of community-based healthcare environments, the suggestions on improving the existing building regulations from a social perspective are raised. Furthermore, a design aided tool, End-user Centred Participatory Design for Community-based Healthcare Environments Version 1.0 (ECPD), is proposed, which can be employed in conjunction with GB/T 51153 currently, in order to improve the overall design quality and social sustainability of community-based healthcare environments in China.
Micro-Structured Ferromagnetic Tubes for Spin Wave Excitation
Creators: name: Kozhanov, A.
name: Ouellette, D.
name: Rodwell, M.
name: Lee, D. W.
name: Wang, S. X.
name: Allen, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Micron scale ferromagnetic tubes placed on the ends of ferromagnetic CoTaZr spin waveguides are explored in order to enhance the excitation of Backward Volume Magnetostatic Spin Waves. The tubes produce a closed magnetic circuit about the signal line of the coplanar waveguide and are, at the same time, magnetically contiguous with the spin waveguide. This results in a 10 fold increase in spin wave amplitude. However, the tube geometry distorts the magnetic field near the spin waveguide and relatively high biasing magnetic fields are required to establish well defined spin waves. Only the lowest (uniform) spin wave mode is excited.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Quasinormal modes for the charged Vaidya metric
Creators: name: Chirenti, Cecilia
name: Saa, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scalar wave equation is considered in the background of a charged Vaidya metric in double null coordinates $(u,v)$ describing a non-stationary charged black hole with varying mass $m(v)$ and charge $q(v)$. The resulting time-dependent quasinormal modes are presented and analyzed. We show, in particular, that it is possible to identify some signatures in the quasinormal frequencies from the creation of a naked singularity.
description: 4 pages. Prepared for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2010), Granada, Spain, September 6-10, 2010
Warm turbulence in the Boltzmann equation
Creators: name: Proment, Davide
name: Nazarenko, Sergey
name: Asinari, Pietro
name: Onorato, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the single-particle distributions of three-dimensional hard sphere gas described by the Boltzmann equation. We focus on the steady homogeneous isotropic solutions in thermodynamically open conditions, i.e. in the presence of forcing and dissipation. We observe nonequilibrium steady state solution characterized by a warm turbulence, that is an energy and particle cascade superimposed on the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. We use a dimensional analysis approach to relate the thermodynamic quantities of the steady state with the characteristics of the forcing and dissipation terms. In particular, we present an analytical prediction for the temperature of the system which we show to be dependent only on the forcing and dissipative scales. Numerical simulations of the Boltzmann equation support our analytical predictions.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Projective Structure and Holonomy in 4-dimensional Lorentz Manifolds
Creators: name: Hall, Graham S.
name: Lonie, David P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C20, 53B30, 53C22, 53C29

description: This paper studies the situation when two 4-dimensional Lorentz manifolds (that is, space-times) admit the same (unparametrised) geodesics, that is, when they are projectively related. A review of some known results is given and then the problem is considered further by treating each holonomy type in turn for the space-time connection. It transpires that all holonomy possibilities can be dealt with completely except the most general one and that the consequences of two space-times being projectively related leads, in many cases, to their associated Levi-Civita connections being identical.
description: 24 pages
title: Computational modelling of the condensation process of the fast pyrolysis vapours in liquid collection systems
Creators: name: Palla Venkata Satya, KK
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The aim of the present thesis is to model the conversion process of the fast pyrolysis vapours into liquid bio-oil in liquid collection systems. The study focuses on the two major types of condensation systems namely the indirect contact condensers and the direct contact condensers (quenching columns). In the first part of the research, the hydrodynamic and heat transfer characteristics of a bench scale quenching column are presented by conducting numerical simulations based on the immiscible Eulerian-Eulerian model. The simulations are compared with experimental observations on flooding phenomena and various design variants are proposed for their elimination. In the second part, a multiphase multi-component model, with the condensable vapours and non-condensable gases as the gaseous phase and the condensed bio-oil as the liquid phase, has been developed. Species transport modelling has been used to capture the detailed physical phenomena of 11 major compounds present in the pyrolysis vapours. The development of the condensation model relies on the saturation pressures of the individual compounds computed based on the corresponding state correlations. In the final part, detailed information is provided on the vapour phase change dynamics implemented on a disc and donut quenching column design obtained from the first part. The study investigates the effect of the different numbers of disc and donut pairs on the condensation performance of the column. The numerical simulations showed that different number of stages can significantly affect the final bio-oil composition. It is shown that heavy molecular weight compounds, condense rapidly even with a low number of stages, whereas an increased number of stages is needed to completely capture the heavier acidic fractions. The modelling results are in good agreement with data published in the existing literature.
Text Classification using Data Mining
Creators: name: Kamruzzaman, S. M.
name: Haider, Farhana
name: Hasan, Ahmed Ryadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Text classification is the process of classifying documents into predefined categories based on their content. It is the automated assignment of natural language texts to predefined categories. Text classification is the primary requirement of text retrieval systems, which retrieve texts in response to a user query, and text understanding systems, which transform text in some way such as producing summaries, answering questions or extracting data. Existing supervised learning algorithms to automatically classify text need sufficient documents to learn accurately. This paper presents a new algorithm for text classification using data mining that requires fewer documents for training. Instead of using words, word relation i.e. association rules from these words is used to derive feature set from pre-classified text documents. The concept of Naive Bayes classifier is then used on derived features and finally only a single concept of Genetic Algorithm has been added for final classification. A system based on the proposed algorithm has been implemented and tested. The experimental results show that the proposed system works as a successful text classifier.
description: 19 Pages, International Conference
title: Quercus macrocarpa
title: Bur oak
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dorn, Robert
name: Dorn, Jane
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming
Year: 2006
Subjects: Fagaceae
Quercus
macrocarpa

description: Family: Fagaceae
description: Genus: Quercus
description: Species: macrocarpa
A remotely powered electrolytic actuator with dose control for implantable drug delivery
Creators: name: Yi, Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: “On demand” implantable drug delivery systems can provide optimized treatments, due to their ability to provide targeted, flexible and precise dose release. This dissertation focuses on remotely powering an implantable drug delivery system and providing a high degree of control over the released dose, addressing two important issues for “on demand” drug delivery: effective actuation stimulus and controllable dose release mechanism. This is accomplished by integration of a resonance-based wireless power transfer system, a constant voltage control circuit and an electrolytic pump. A novel actuation mechanism that is based on a cyclical actuation mode is introduced, implementing a solid drug in reservoir approach. The solid drug is partly dissolved during the initial stage, when a voltage is applied to the electrolytic pump, an electrolytic reaction occurs and the induced gas expansion drives the drug solution outwards. When the power turns off, the electrolysis bubble recombines and pressure decreases in the pump, which draws body fluids into the drug reservoir to dissolve more of the remaining solid drug. Power is repeatedly turned on and off to form a reproducible drug solution. A catalytic reformer enables the combination of the electrolytic pump and solid drug in reservoir approach as it significantly increases the electrolysis-bubble recombination rate, and is capable of fully replenishing the drug reservoir. Resonance-based wireless power transfer technology performs as the power source and a control circuit maintains a constant voltage for the actuator. Upon the application of an external alternating magnetic field, the electrolytic actuator is powered by a constant voltage regardless of movements of the device within an effective range of shift and rotation. This in turn contributes to a predictable dose release rate and greater flexibility in the positioning of external powering coils. Moreover, a thermo-responsive valve using “Poly N-Isopropylacrylamide” hydrogel is implemented in order to avoid the negative effect of drug diffusion. It allows actively controlled drug delivery and valving mechanism under the same input power signal. We have conducted proof-of-concept drug delivery studies using solvent blue 38 as the drug substitute, and the experimental results indicate the stability, feasibility and controllability of our system.