cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trajectories of cognitive function in later life: predictors and outcomes
Creators: name: WU, ZIMU
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified

description: Cognitive function refers to the ability to think, learn and remember. This thesis discovered diverse patterns of cognitive changes across cognitive domains in community-dwelling older individuals. In addition, a higher risk of dementia, physical disability and death were observed among those whose cognitive function was consistently low or declined over time. In contrast, better cognitive performance was more common in individuals with higher education, alcohol intake, greater physical and mental status, and normal cardiometabolic function. This research indicates the importance of regular cognitive assessment, healthy lifestyles, social cohesion and prevention of chronic diseases and conditions, in promoting healthy cognitive ageing.
The CanCope Study: Testing an Emotion-Focused, Internet-Delivered Intervention to Improve Emotion Regulation and Mental Health in Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: SMITH, ISABELLE SARAH
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mental health services
Clinical psychology

description: Cancer survivors with poor emotion regulation are vulnerable to elevated anxiety and depressive symptoms. This thesis discusses the development and assessment of a multi-module, emotion-focused, and internet-delivered psychological intervention—CanCope Mind—to improve cancer survivors’ emotion regulation and anxiety and depressive symptoms. The research comprises two phases: (1) piloting each isolated intervention module in four pilot studies; and (2) running a randomised controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the entire intervention compared to an active control intervention. The results demonstrate that CanCope Mind shows promise in improving global emotion dysregulation, specific emotion regulation strategies, and mental health symptoms.
Parton-shower effects on Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion in association with three jets
Creators: name: Jager, B.
name: Schissler, F.
name: Zeppenfeld, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an implementation of Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion in association with three jets at hadron colliders in the POWHEG-BOX, a framework for the matching of NLO-QCD calculations with parton-shower programs. Our work provides the means to precisely describe the properties of extra jet activity in vector-boson fusion reactions that are used for the suppression of QCD backgrounds by central jet veto techniques. For a representative setup at the CERN LHC we verify that uncertainties related to parton-shower effects are mild for distributions related to the third jet, in contrast to what has been observed in calculations based on vector-boson fusion induced Higgs production in association with two jets.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Effective Helium Burning Rates and the Production of the Neutrino Nuclei
Creators: name: Austin, Sam M.
name: West, Christopher
name: Heger, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective values for the key helium burning reaction rates, triple-alpha and 12C(alpha,gamma)16O, are obtained by adjusting their strengths so as to obtain the best match with the solar abundance pattern of isotopes uniquely or predominately made in core collapse supernovae. These effective rates are then used to determine the production of the neutrino isotopes. The use of effective rates considerably reduces the uncertainties in the production factors arising from uncertainties in the helium burning rates, and improves our ability to use the production of 11B to constrain the neutrino emission from supernovae.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Prediction of Ripening Stages of 'Hom Thong' Banana Using Partial Least Square Regression
Creators: name: Nuankamol Amnuaysin
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: 'Hom Thong' banana
physiological and chemical change
ripening stage
partial least square regression

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 2, 287-297
Distance and proper motion measurement of water masers in Shapless 269 IRS 2w
Creators: name: Asaki, Yoshiharu
name: Imai, Hiroshi
name: Sobolev, Andrej Mikhailovich
name: Parfenov, Sergey Yurievich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present astrometric analysis of archival data of water masers in the star-forming region Sharpless 269 (S269) IRS 2w, observed with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry. An annual parallax of one of the bright maser features in this region was previously reported to be 0.189+/-0.008 milliarcsecond (mas) using part of the same archival data as we used. However, we found that this maser feature is not the best to represent the annual parallax to S269 IRS 2w because the morphology is remarkably elongated in the east-west direction. For this study we have selected another maser feature showing simpler morphology. This makes the new annual parallax estimate more credible. Our newly obtained annual parallax is 0.247+/-0.034 mas, corresponding to 4.05+0.65-0.49 kpc. This value is well consistent with the 3.7-3.8 kpc obtained using the kinematic distance estimates and photometric distance modulus. We considered two hypotheses for the water maser spatial distribution, a bipolar outflow and an expanding ring, in a kinematic model fitting analysis with a radially expanding flow. At this stage, any conclusions about the systemic proper motion could not be drawn from the kinematic analysis. Alternatively, we evaluated the mean proper motion to be (0.39+/-0.92, -1.27+/-0.90) mas/yr eastward and northward, respectively, from the obtained proper motions of the detected water maser features. The newly obtained annual parallax and mean proper motion give the peculiar motion of S269 IRS 2w to be (Us, Vs, Ws) of (8+/-6, -21+/-17, 1+/-18) km/s.
description: Astrophysical Journal, in press
Consumer Evaluation of Mechanically Harvested Sun Dried Raisins
Creators: name: White, Elizabeth D.
name: Petrucci, Vincent E.
name: White, Elizabeth D.
name: Petrucci, Vincent E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: raisins
subject: harvesting
subject: cost
subject: product evaluation

description: Economic and consumer evaluations of raisins produced from mechanically harvested grapes were conducted. Preliminary estimates of costs per acre for the mechanical harvesting of grapes for raisins indicate a reduction of $15 per acre from the costs of hand harvesting. Product evaluations indicated that most consumers could not tell the difference between the mechanically harvested raisins and hand picked raisins.
description: Reprinted from the Marketing and Transportation Situation-February 1974
Amherst Admissions and Essay Importance
Creators: name: Richardson, Jason
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: I spend a lot of time emphasizing the importance of the admissions essay on this blog because it’s something that we firmly believe in here. I share articles, anecdotes, write my essay free and advice that all point to your essay as being a critical application component that is only increasing in significance. A few days ago, I ran across a news story that really hit home on this point. I want to share it with our readers because it provides a remarkable glimpse inside the admissions process itself at a competitive, elite institution: Amherst College. In this NPR story, you actually hear from admissions officers themselves as they evaluate applicants and make accept/reject decisions. Again, this story provides an extremely interesting look at application evaluation from the inside. You hear how competitive the applicant pool is, how difficult the decision-making process is, and how little things can make a big difference. Most importantly, though, you hear firsthand how absolutely vital the application essays are. For one unfortunate applicant, a single sentence in a single essay is all it takes to push the admissions committee toward a rejection. For another, a passage from an essay elicits laughter from the entire room and bolsters his candidacy. This comes straight from the admissions committee at a top U.S. college. It’s not based on opinions or even statistics; instead, it’s based on the actual process used by admissions decision makers. Listen to the report when you have a chance. Share it with friends, family, or students who will be applying in coming years. Above all, share it with anyone who says that an admissions essay can’t possibly be that important. In today’s applications, nothing could be further from the truth.
The Cloud's Cloudy Moment: A Systematic Survey of Public Cloud Service Outage
Creators: name: Li, Zheng
name: Liang, Mingfei
name: O'Brien, Liam
name: Zhang, He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inadequate service availability is the top concern when employing Cloud computing. It has been recognized that zero downtime is impossible for large-scale Internet services. By learning from the previous and others' mistakes, nevertheless, it is possible for Cloud vendors to minimize the risk of future downtime or at least keep the downtime short. To facilitate summarizing lessons for Cloud providers, we performed a systematic survey of public Cloud service outage events. This paper reports the result of this survey. In addition to a set of findings, our work generated a lessons framework by classifying the outage root causes. The framework can in turn be used to arrange outage lessons for reference by Cloud providers. By including potentially new root causes, this lessons framework will be smoothly expanded in our future work.
description: 11 pages
Power Scaling of Uplink Massive MIMO Systems with Arbitrary-Rank Channel Means
Creators: name: Zhang, Qi
name: Jin, Shi
name: Wong, Kai-Kit
name: Zhu, Hongbo
name: Matthaiou, Michail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the uplink achievable rates of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems in Ricean fading channels, using maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and zero-forcing (ZF) receivers, assuming perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI). In contrast to previous relevant works, the fast fading MIMO channel matrix is assumed to have an arbitrary-rank deterministic component as well as a Rayleigh-distributed random component. We derive tractable expressions for the achievable uplink rate in the large-antenna limit, along with approximating results that hold for any finite number of antennas. Based on these analytical results, we obtain the scaling law that the users' transmit power should satisfy, while maintaining a desirable quality of service. In particular, it is found that regardless of the Ricean $K$-factor, in the case of perfect CSI, the approximations converge to the same constant value as the exact results, as the number of base station antennas, $M$, grows large, while the transmit power of each user can be scaled down proportionally to $1/M$. If CSI is estimated with uncertainty, the same result holds true but only when the Ricean $K$-factor is non-zero. Otherwise, if the channel experiences Rayleigh fading, we can only cut the transmit power of each user proportionally to $1/\sqrt M$. In addition, we show that with an increasing Ricean $K$-factor, the uplink rates will converge to fixed values for both MRC and ZF receivers.
Predictors of prolonged supratherapeutic serum lithium concentrations: a retrospective chart review
Creators: name: Ahsan, Salman
name: Illg, Zachary N.
name: Moran, Tim Patrick
name: Morgan, Brent W.
name: Carpenter, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mental Health
Virology

description: The Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning (EXTRIP) workgroup suggests hemodialysis in severe lithium poisoning if specific criteria are met. One criterion is if the expected time to obtain a lithium concentration <1.0 mEq/L with optimal management is >36 h. There are a lack of data regarding which patient characteristics are associated with the rate at which patients achieve a lithium concentration <1.0 mEq/L. We conducted a retrospective chart review analyzing hospital electronic medical records. Inclusion criteria consisted of a lithium concentration >1.2 mEq/L during hospitalization. We excluded patients who received extracorporeal treatment before 36 h elapsed from time of initial lithium concentration >1.2 mEq/L. The primary analysis consisted of a Cox regression and a secondary analysis evaluated the nomogram method described by Buckley and colleagues for predicting prolonged supratherapeutic lithium concentration. One hundred and one patients were included in the study. The median time to reach a lithium concentration <1.0 mEq/L was 42.5 h (IQR: 33.8–51.1). Older patients, patients taking a thiazide, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker, patients with a higher initial lithium concentration, and patients with higher sodium concentrations achieved a lithium concentration <1 mEq/L at a slower rate. For the nomogram analysis, sensitivity (61.5%) and specificity (54.5%) were moderate, the positive predictive value (16.7%) was poor, and the negative predictive value (90.6%) was excellent. The results from our primary analysis suggest that identifying higher serum sodium concentration and use of certain antihypertensives that decrease glomerular filtration rate as predictors of an increased time to reach a therapeutic lithium concentration may help identify patients who meet the Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning criteria for hemodialysis. The nomogram method performed similarly to prior validation studies. In this retrospective chart review of patients with supratherapeutic lithium concentrations, we identified several risk factors for prolonged supratherapeutic lithium concentrations.
title: Traded metal scrap, traded alloying elements: A case study of Denmark and implications for circular economy
Creators: name: Tan , Juan
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Since metals are often used in alloyed forms, proper management and efficient recycling of metal scrap is key to sustainable management of those alloying metals as well. Previous studies on the trade of metals and metal containing products focused mainly on the carrying major metals themselves, however, the quantity and type of their embodied alloying elements remain rarely investigated. In this paper, we aim to address this knowledge gap by compiling an alloying element composition database for scrap of three bulk metals (iron and steel, aluminum, and copper), and using Denmark, a typical industrialized country with a high share of metal scrap export, as an example. Our results show that most alloying elements embodied in bulk metal scrap exported from Denmark depict a fluctuating yet overall increasing pattern from 1988 to 2017. Denmark’s metal scrap exported almost only to European countries, and Germany and Sweden are two largest receivers. While alloying elements embodied in steel scrap such as chromium and nickel and the construction sector contribute the most to the total embodied alloying elements, other alloying elements such as cobalt, bismuth, vanadium, titanium, and niobium with a lower amount yet a high market value and criticality status deserve a closer look as well. We conclude that further investigation on how the trade of metal scrap affect the recycling pathways and efficiencies of alloying elements are needed to support discussion on global and regional resource management and circular economy strategies.
Humanity in a Time of Political Hostility
Creators: name: Cox, Phoebe
name: Gillespie, Marie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Anthropology not elsewhere classified
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: Phoebe Cox is an OU Psychology Student who volunteers with Care4Calais, a charity supporting refugees in the UK, France, and Belgium. On International Migrants Day 2021, she argues that it has never been more important to find the humanity inside each of us and stand alongside refugees with compassion and solidarity, as they start trying to rebuild their lives here in the UK. She also offers suggestions as to how OU students can get involved.
 ----- This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.
 This item can be found on our website, here: https://cov19chronicles.com/humanity-in-a-time-of-political-hostility/
migrant de 19 ans consulte pour une urétrite et une éruption vésiculeuse
Creators: name: HOCHEDEZ, Patrick
name: CONSIGNY, Paul-Henri
name: DURAND, Agnès
name: BUFFET, Pierre
Publisher: name: MTSI
Year: 2023

description: A 19-year-old male migrant with urethritis and vesicular rash We report the case of a 19-year-old Malian patient, who presented with urethritis and a vesicular rash during the summer of 2022, following a probable heterosexual intercourse. The epidemic context among the male homosexual population and the clinical picture without genital lesions or lymphadenopathy allowed to discuss both chickenpox and mpox, the latter being finally confirmed by the detection of Monkeypox virus DNA from vesicular fluid. Un migrant de 19 ans consulte pour une urétrite et une éruption vésiculeuse Nous rapportons le cas d’un patient malien de 19 ans, ayant présenté une urétrite et une éruption vésiculeuse au cours de l’été 2022, dans les suites d’un probable rapport hétérosexuel. Le contexte épidémique parmi la population homosexuelle masculine et le tableau clinique sans atteinte génito-anale ni adénopathie font discuter une varicelle et un mpox, ce dernier étant finalement confirmé par la détection de l’ADN du virus Monkeypox sur du liquide vésiculaire.
description: MTSI, Vol. 3 No 3 (2023): MTSI-Revue
Exploring the implementation challenges of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs through the lived experience of health care providers and patients.
Creators: name: HAINES, SARAH ADELAIDE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Public policy

description: Prescription opioid overdose death is a significant global issue. Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP), which allow healthcare providers to monitor patients’ medication history, have been implemented throughout North America and recently in Australia to address this issue. Unintended harms, including stigma toward people who use these medications has been observed in North America. Little is known about Australia’s PDMP, including if any harms are transpiring here. This thesis attempts to bridge this gap by exploring how PDMP is being understood, implemented, and experienced by Victorian healthcare providers and patients. Thesis findings are used to support PDMP implementation, policy and development.
Flavour physics and flavour symmetries after the first LHC phase
Creators: name: Barbieri, Riccardo
name: Buttazzo, Dario
name: Sala, Filippo
name: Straub, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on flavour symmetries only, there are two ways to give rise to an effective description of flavour physics in the quark sector close to the CKM picture: one is based on $U(3)_q\times U(3)_u\times U(3)_d$ (or equivalent) and the other on $U(2)_q\times U(2)_u\times U(2)_d$ (or equivalent). In this context we analyze the current status of flavour physics measurements and we compare their impact, in the specific case of supersymmetry, with the direct searches of new particles at the LHC, present or foreseen.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Reference image selection for difference imaging analysis
Creators: name: Huckvale, Leo
name: Kerins, Eamonn
name: Sale, Stuart E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Difference image analysis (DIA) is an effective technique for obtaining photometry in crowded fields, relative to a chosen reference image. As yet, however, optimal reference image selection is an unsolved problem. We examine how this selection depends on the combination of seeing, background and detector pixel size. Our tests use a combination of simulated data and quality indicators from DIA of well-sampled optical data and under-sampled near-infrared data from the OGLE and VVV surveys, respectively. We search for a figure-of-merit (FoM) which could be used to select reference images for each survey. While we do not find a universally applicable FoM, survey-specific measures indicate that the effect of spatial under-sampling may require a change in strategy from the standard DIA approach, even though seeing remains the primary criterion. We find that background is not an important criterion for reference selection, at least for the dynamic range in the images we test. For our analysis of VVV data in particular, we find that spatial under-sampling is best handled by reversing the standard DIA procedure and convolving target images to a better-sampled (poor seeing) reference image.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Ortiz-Flores et al 2020 Functional hyperandrogenism and mild iron overload: in a randomized clinical trial, bloodletting does not improve metabolic outcomes. Supplementary Data
Creators: name: Ortiz-Flores, Andrés E.
name: M. Ángeles Martínez-García
name: Nattero-Chávez, Lia
name: Álvarez-Blasco, Francisco
name: Fernández-Durán, Elena
name: Quintero-Tobar, Alejandra
name: Escobar-Morreale, Héctor F.
name: Luque-Ramírez, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Figure 1. Study diagram.
Supplementary Tables.
Table 1. Clinica characteristics of consecutive patients fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria for the randomized clinical trial (n = 57).
Table 2. Adverse events likely related to combined oral contraceptive use.
CONSORT guideline checkist.
Long-term operation of a double phase LAr LEM Time Projection Chamber with a simplified anode and extraction-grid design
Creators: name: Cantini, C.
name: Epprecht, L.
name: Gendotti, A.
name: Horikawa, S.
name: Murphy, S.
name: Natterer, G.
name: Periale, L.
name: Resnati, F.
name: Rubbia, A.
name: Sergiampietri, F.
name: Viant, T.
name: Wu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the successful operation of a double phase Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC) equipped with two dimensional projective anodes with dimensions 10$\times$10 cm$^2$, and with a maximum drift length of 21 cm. The anodes were manufactured for the first time from a single multilayer printed circuit board (PCB). Various layouts of the readout views have been tested and optimised. In addition, the ionisation charge was efficiently extracted from the liquid to the gas phase with a single grid instead of two previously. We studied the response and the gain of the detector to cosmic muon tracks. To study long-term stability over several weeks, we continuously operated the chamber at fixed electric field settings. We reproducibly observe that after an initial decrease with a characteristic time of $τ\approx 1.6$ days, the observed gain is stable. In 46 days of operation, a total of 14.6 million triggers have been collected at a stable effective gain of $G_\infty\sim 15$ corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio $(S/N)\gtrsim 60$ for minimum ionising tracks. During the full period, eight discharges across the LEM were observed. A maximum effective gain of 90 was also observed, corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio $(S/N)\gtrsim 400$ for minimum ionising tracks, or $S/N\approx10$ for an energy deposition of 15 keV on a single readout channel.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
Cognitive Remediation for Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Creators: name: ANDERSON, ALEXANDRA CATHERINE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: Executive dysfunction is a core feature of methamphetamine use disorder (MUD) and is linked with poor clinical outcomes across substance use disorders. Current evidence-based MUD treatments do not directly target these deficits; although cognition remediation may be well-suited to fill this gap. Goal Management Training (GMT) is an evidence-based cognitive remediation intervention, originally designed for neurological populations. This thesis tailored GMT (now GMT+) to enhance relevance for MUD and explored tolerability and initial benefits for executive functions and outcomes. The findings provide preliminary support for GMT+ as an adjunctive MUD treatment and provide clinical recommendations to further optimise the intervention.
AI Research Tools
Creators: name: Wadson, Kelley
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: This table compares a selection of various AI tools (available as of June, 2024) that can be used to survey and synthesize academic literature. These tools can assist you in discovering, organizing, and visualizing research papers; used alongside search tools like Google Scholar and the Library Search, these can help you conduct a thorough literature review and identify key trends in your field.
Browning Reduction of Rice Bran Extract Produced by Subcritical Water Extraction Followed by Protease Hydrolysis
Creators: name: Supattra Supawong
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2020
Subjects: rice bran
browning reduction
anti-browning agent
hydrolytic enzyme
antioxidant activity

description: Thai Journal of Science and Technology, 9, 2, 309-324
Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Matrices
Creators: name: Khan, Susanta Kumar
name: Pal, Madhumangal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy matrix (IVIFM) is introduced. The interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy determinant is also defined. Some fundamental operations are also presented. The need of IVIFM is explain by an example.
description: 12 pages
Early Observations on Performance of Google Compute Engine for Scientific Computing
Creators: name: Li, Zheng
name: O'Brien, Liam
name: Ranjan, Rajiv
name: Zhang, Miranda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Although Cloud computing emerged for business applications in industry, public Cloud services have been widely accepted and encouraged for scientific computing in academia. The recently available Google Compute Engine (GCE) is claimed to support high-performance and computationally intensive tasks, while little evaluation studies can be found to reveal GCE's scientific capabilities. Considering that fundamental performance benchmarking is the strategy of early-stage evaluation of new Cloud services, we followed the Cloud Evaluation Experiment Methodology (CEEM) to benchmark GCE and also compare it with Amazon EC2, to help understand the elementary capability of GCE for dealing with scientific problems. The experimental results and analyses show both potential advantages of, and possible threats to applying GCE to scientific computing. For example, compared to Amazon's EC2 service, GCE may better suit applications that require frequent disk operations, while it may not be ready yet for single VM-based parallel computing. Following the same evaluation methodology, different evaluators can replicate and/or supplement this fundamental evaluation of GCE. Based on the fundamental evaluation results, suitable GCE environments can be further established for case studies of solving real science problems.
description: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Science (CloudCom 2013), pp. 1-8, Bristol, UK, December 2-5, 2013
The impact of triboelectrification on desert dust flow dynamics
Creators: name: Daskalopoulou, Vasiliki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dust Electrification
Dust Orientation
Atmospheric Electricity
Atmospheric Electricity Measurements
Instrumentation

description: PhD viva presentation in Dust Particle Electrification & Orientation, along with related novel instrument implementations.
Role of G protein-coupled receptor 139 in cognitive functions in zebrafish
Creators: name: ROY, NISA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Behavioural neuroscience
Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
Cognitive neuroscience

description: G protein Coupled Receptor 139 (GPR139) is an evolutionarily conserved orphan receptor involved in controlling motivation and reward. In the zebrafish, GPR139 is exclusively expressed in the ventral habenula, a region of the brain that mediates aversive responses. By combining immunofluorescence technique, behavior, and Ca2+ imaging recordings in slice culture, we demonstrate that GPR139 signalling in the habenula plays a differential role in multiple phases of fear conditioning via modulation of habenula neural activities in the zebrafish.
Association of Kisspeptin and α-Synuclein in Cholinergic Neurons
Creators: name: SIMON, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell neurochemistry
Neurosciences not elsewhere classified
Structural biology (incl. macromolecular modelling)

description: Dementia with Lewy bodies reflects the etiopathological convergence between amyloid-β (Aβ) deposits and α-synuclein (α-syn)-laden inclusions in cholinergic neurons. The recent revelation that kisspeptin-10 (KP-10), which is arbitrated by its G protein-coupled receptor, GPR54, is predisposed to alleviating Aβ toxicity via an extracellular binding mechanism heralds a new horizon for α-syn-based treatments. Given the structural similarities between α-syn’s non-amyloid-β component (NAC) and Aβ’s C-terminus, we postulated that KP-10 would augment cholinergic resistance against α-syn’s noxious insults through preferential binding. Herein, our findings insinuate a mechanistic link between KP-10 and α-syn pathology, which may have broader connotations for α-syn-centric drug design endeavors.
On a linear problem arising in dynamic boundaries
Creators: name: Disconzi, Marcelo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a linear problem that arises in the study of dynamic boundaries, in particular in free boundary problems in connection with fluid dynamics. The equations are also very natural and of interest on their own.
description: to appear in Evolution Equations and Control Theory
H2+ and HD+: candidates for a molecular clock
Creators: name: Karr, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the leading systematic effects in ro-vibrational spectroscopy of the molecular hydrogen ions H2+ and HD+, in order to assess their potential for the realization of optical clocks that would be sensitive to possible variations of the proton-to-electron mass ratio. Both two-photon (2E1) and quadrupole (E2) transitions are considered. In view of the weakness of these transitions, most attention is devoted to the light shift induced by the probe laser, which we express as a function of the transition amplitude, differential dynamic polarizability and clock interrogation times. Transition amplitudes and dynamic polarizabilites including the effect of hyperfine structure are then calculated in a full three-body approach to get a precise evaluation of the light shift. Together with the quadrupole and Zeeman shifts that are obtained from previous works, these results provide a realistic estimate of the achievable accuracy. We show that the lightshift is the main limiting factor in the case of two-photon transitions, both in H2+ and HD+, leading to expected accuracy levels close to 5 10-16 in the best cases. Quadrupole transitions have even more promising properties and may allow reaching or going beyond 10-16.
The Rise of China in the International Trade Network: A Community Core Detection Approach
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhen
name: Cerina, Federica
name: Chessa, Alessandro
name: Caldarelli, Guido
name: Riccaboni, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Theory of complex networks proved successful in the description of a variety of static networks ranging from biology to computer and social sciences and to economics and finance. Here we use network models to describe the evolution of a particular economic system, namely the International Trade Network (ITN). Previous studies often assume that globalization and regionalization in international trade are contradictory to each other. We re-examine the relationship between globalization and regionalization by viewing the international trade system as an interdependent complex network. We use the modularity optimization method to detect communities and community cores in the ITN during the years 1995-2011. We find rich dynamics over time both inter- and intra-communities. Most importantly, we have a multilevel description of the evolution where the global dynamics (i.e., communities disappear or reemerge) tend to be correlated with the regional dynamics (i.e., community core changes between community members). In particular, the Asia-Oceania community disappeared and reemerged over time along with a switch in leadership from Japan to China. Moreover, simulation results show that the global dynamics can be generated by a preferential attachment mechanism both inter- and intra-communities.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Tuberculosis Prescription Practices In Private And Public Sector In India
Creators: name: Gyanshankar Mishra
name: Mulani, Jasmin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Introduction: India has the highest burden of tuberculosis in world, accounting for 20% of global incidence of TB (Tuberculosis). TB treatment is available both in private and public sector in India. Aim & objectives: The current study was carried out to study and compare the prescribing practices of anti-tuberculosis medications by private practitioners and healthcare providers in public sector (under RNTCP-Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme). Material and Methods: 105 anti TB prescriptions of private practitioners and 105 RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Programme) treatment cards were analysed. Results: 9.52% prescriptions by private practitioners and 4.76 % RNTCP prescriptions were correct. Factors for drug resistance were present in 67.62 % of prescriptions by private practitioners and 28.57 % of RNTCP prescriptions whereas overdosing was present in 53.33 % of prescriptions by private practitioners and 68.57 % of RNTCP prescriptions. Conclusion: The anti TB treatment offered in private and public sector in India is not satisfactory at present and needs to be improved.
APF - The Lick Observatory Automated Planet Finder
Creators: name: Vogt, Steven S.
name: Radovan, Matthew
name: Kibrick, Robert
name: Butler, R. Paul
name: Alcott, Barry
name: Allen, Steve
name: Arriagada, Pamela
name: Bolte, Mike
name: Burt, Jennifer
name: Cabak, Jerry
name: Chloros, Kostas
name: Cowley, David
name: Deich, William
name: Dupraw, Brian
name: Earthman, Wayne
name: Epps, Harland
name: Faber, Sandra
name: Fischer, Debra
name: Gates, Elinor
name: Hilyard, David
name: Holden, Brad
name: Johnston, Ken
name: Keiser, Sandy
name: Kanto, Dick
name: Katsuki, Myra
name: Laiterman, Lee
name: Lanclos, Kyle
name: Laughlin, Greg
name: Lewis, Jeff
name: Lockwood, Chris
name: Lynam, Paul
name: Marcy, Geoffrey
name: McLean, Maureen
name: Miller, Joe
name: Misch, Tony
name: Peck, Michael
name: Pfister, Terry
name: Phillips, Andrew
name: Rivera, Eugenio
name: Sandford, Dale
name: Saylor, Mike
name: Stover, Richard
name: Thompson, Matthew
name: Walp, Bernie
name: Ward, James
name: Wareham, John
name: Wei, Mingzhi
name: Wright, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Automated Planet Finder (APF) is a facility purpose-built for the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planets through high-cadence Doppler velocimetry of the reflex barycentric accelerations of their host stars. Located atop Mt. Hamilton, the APF facility consists of a 2.4-m telescope and its Levy spectrometer, an optical echelle spectrometer optimized for precision Doppler velocimetry. APF features a fixed format spectral range from 374 nm - 970 nm, and delivers a "Throughput" (resolution * slit width product) of 114,000 arc-seconds, with spectral resolutions up to 150,000. Overall system efficiency (fraction of photons incident on the primary mirror that are detected by the science CCD) on blaze at 560 nm in planet-hunting mode is 15%. First-light tests on the RV standard stars HD 185144 and HD 9407 demonstrate sub-meter per second precision (RMS per observation) held over a 3-month period. This paper reviews the basic features of the telescope, dome, and spectrometer, and gives a brief summary of first-light performance.
description: Accepted at PASP. Version with full resolution available at http://oklo.org/Vogt_APF_2014.pdf
Recurrent explosive eruptions and the sigmoid-to-arcade transformation in the sun driven by dynamical magnetic flux emergence
Creators: name: Archontis, V.
name: Hood, A. W.
name: Tsinganos, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...786L..21A

description: We report on three-dimensional (3D) MHD simulations of recurrent mini CME-like eruptions in a small active region (AR), which is formed by the dynamical emergence of a twisted (not kink unstable) flux tube from the solar interior. The eruptions are developed as a result of repeated formation and expulsion of new flux ropes due to continous emergence and reconnection of sheared fieldlines along the polarity inversion line (PIL) of the AR. The acceleration of the eruptions is triggered by tether-cutting reconnection at the current sheet underneath the erupting field. We find that each explosive eruption is followed by reformation of a sigmoidal structure and a subsequent sigmoid-to-flare arcade transformation in the AR. These results might have implications for recurrent CMEs and eruptive sigmoids/flares observations and theoretical studies.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
D2.3 Generic, federated OOP architecture (3rd version)
Creators: name: Grandry, Eric
name: Fieten, Sanders
name: Rotuna, Carmen
name: Selitto, Giovanni Paolo
name: Tepandi, Jaak
name: Täks, Ermo
name: Zeginis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: TOOP
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The deliverable "D2.3. Generic Federated OOP Architecture (3rd version)" is the third official version of the generic federated Once-Only Principle (OOP) architecture. It develops further and extends the deliverables “D2.1. Generic federated OOP architecture (1st version)” (D2.1) and “D2.2. Generic federated OOP architecture (2nd version)” (D2.2). The OOP architecture contributes to implementing OOP in public administrations and supports the interconnection and interoperability of national registries at the EU level. It is aligned with existing EU frameworks (EIRA, EIF) and aims to contribute to the implementation act of the forthcoming regulation about the Single Digital Gateway (SDGR). The OOP architecture uses the results of the e-SENS European Interoperability Reference Architecture. It provides support for developers of OOP projects and is based on the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs), on the Building Blocks consolidated by the e-SENS project, and in justified cases, on new building blocks. Compared to D2.2, this deliverable provides new Business Architecture, Information System Architecture, and Technology Architecture views. It is complemented with specific views addressing cross-cutting quality concerns, such as Security Architecture and Trust Architecture. The deliverable has also been further aligned with the existing EU interoperability frameworks, such as EIRA and EIF. The Architecture Principles and Architecturally Significant Requirements constitute the Architecture Drivers and Decisions. The Stakeholders section present the goal model of TOOP architecture, its target users and use cases, as well as main stakeholders. The deliverable D2.3 is comprised of a textual component and a wiki component. The current document is the textual component of D2.3. The wiki component is an architecture repository providing an in-depth content on the architecture views; it is available on the TOOP D2.3 documentation space in Confluence (please see the Glossary). The next official deliverable related to the generic federated OOP architecture is D2.4 (M30, due June 2019).
Imagine a World without Migration
Creators: name: Cavell, Hédé
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Anthropology not elsewhere classified
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: Hédé Cavell is studying for a degree in History at the Open University. In this blog she invites us to imagine a world without migration, and argues that a historical perspective is vital if we are to understand how who we are today is shaped by migrations of the past. On International Migrants Day 18 December 2021 Hédé celebrates the many ways in which migrants enrich our society and offers her support for the OU’s application to become a University of Sanctuary.
 ----- This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.
 This item can be found on our website, here: https://cov19chronicles.com/imagine-a-world-without-migration/
Bridging knowing and proving in mathematics An essay from a didactical perspective
Creators: name: Balacheff, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The learning of mathematics starts early but remains far from any theoretical considerations: pupils' mathematical knowledge is first rooted in pragmatic evidence or conforms to procedures taught. However, learners develop a knowledge which they can apply in significant problem situations, and which is amenable to falsification and argumentation. They can validate what they claim to be true but using means generally not conforming to mathematical standards. Here, I analyze how this situation underlies the epistemological and didactical complexities of teaching mathematical proof. I show that the evolution of the learners' understanding of what counts as proof in mathematics implies an evolution of their knowing of mathematical concepts. The key didactical point is not to persuade learners to accept a new formalism but to have them understand how mathematical proof and statements are tightly related within a common framework; that is, a mathematical theory. I address this aim by modeling the learners' way of knowing in terms of a dynamic, homeostatic system. I discuss the roles of different semiotic systems, of the types of actions the learners perform and of the controls they implement in constructing or validating knowledge. Particularly with modern technological aids, this model provides a basis designing didactical situations to help learners bridge the gap between pragmatics and theory.
description: Text of a talk at the conference "Explanation and Proof in Mathematics: Philosophical and Educational Perspective" held in Essen in November 2006
High-Frequency Trading in Australia
Creators: name: COELHO, DANIEL KENNETH MARTIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Finance
Financial mathematics

description: This thesis provides three projects regarding high-frequency traders (HFTs) in order to determine how they participate on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and how their participation impacts the quality of the market and other traders. To this end, their order-submission strategies and contributions toward market quality were examined. This thesis finds that HFTs do not appear to exhibit trading biases, help provide market liquidity and also contribute new information into stock prices (though the introduction of the colocation service did not significantly affect this), and that their presence during the opening batch auction improves liquidity and information flow.
Agrypnus lucidus Vats and Kashyap 1992
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Agrypnus
Agrypnus lucidus

description: Agrypnus lucidus Vats and Kashyap, 1992
Agrypnus lucidus Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 115.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Uttarakhand (Pantnagar).
Distribution. India: Uttarakhand.
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 115): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 77): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
title: Übersetzung in Arabisch: Herzschwäche. Herzschwäche - Was für Sie wichtig ist.
Creators: name: Ärztliches Zentrum Für Qualität In Der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Publisher: name: Bundesärztekammer (BÄK); Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV); Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

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