cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of green marketing strategy on firm financial performance. The moderating role of government policy
Creators: name: Eneizan, Bilal M.
name: Matar, Ali
name: Al-Zawahreh, Abdelghafour
name: Alkhawaldeh, Abdelbaset M.
name: Eneizan, Odai
name: Eneizan, Bilal M.
name: Matar, Ali
name: Al-Zawahreh, Abdelghafour
name: Alkhawaldeh, Abdelbaset M.
name: Eneizan, Odai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Government policy
subject: resource-based view
subject: stakeholders theory
subject: financial performance
subject: structural equation model
subject: green marketing strategy

description: The present study follows two main theories - stakeholder and resource-based view - in order to understand the relationships of green marketing strategy and firm performance, and evaluate the moderating role of government policy in this interconnection. The paper aims to explore effects of green marketing mix strategy to overall performance and financial performance of firms using the case of car dealers in Jordan. To meet this aim, the present research collects data from 386 green car dealers in Jordan. The study performed structural equation modelling (SEM). The research has found that the effects of size, education, experience, product, distribution, physical evidence, process on the firm overall performance and the effects of age, product, and promotion on the firm financial performance are significant and positive. The analysis has found that government policy has a moderating effect on the influence of education and green marketing strategy on the firm overall performance.
title: 01_1389
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The impact of corporate ownership structure on corporate risk disclosure: Evidence from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Habtoor, Omer Saeed
name: Hassan, Waddah Kamal
name: Aljaaidi, Khaled Salmeen
name: Habtoor, Omer Saeed
name: Hassan, Waddah Kamal
name: Aljaaidi, Khaled Salmeen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Ownership structure
subject: corporate risk disclosure
subject: Saudi Arabia
subject: annual reports
subject: panel data analysis

description: Understanding the role of corporate ownership structure on corporate disclosure allows an assessment of its current effectiveness and opportunities for potential improvements. Prior research on the determinants of corporate risk disclosure (CRD) has basically focused on firm-specific characteristics and corporate governance characteristics and has largely ignored the potential role of ownership structure on CRD. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no study has yet extensively investigated the effect of ownership structure on the level of CRD in Saudi Arabia. This study examines the influence of different types of ownership on CRD in a developing country with high ownership concentration and unique institutional setting, namely the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study uses panel data analysis of the annual reports of Saudi listed companies over a period of four years. The findings show a strong impact of ownership structure on CRD. However, the extent and direction of this influence depend on the type of ownership. Companies with higher royal ownership and government ownership disclose more risk-related information. By contrast, companies with higher family ownership and institutional ownership tend to disclose less risk-related information. However, executive directors’ ownership and non-executive directors’ ownership have no impact on CRD. The results suggest that not all controlling families have the same characteristics and motivations towards CRD practice. Overall, the results confirm the essential role of ownership structure to influence the agency conflicts through increase (decrease) CRD. The results of this study support the use of different theories to better explain the phenomenon of CRD. The study has important implications for policymakers, regulatory authorities, and practitioners in Saudi Arabia and developing countries to improve CRD practices and optimize ownership structure.
idlib: A homogenous model for heterogenous *data
Creators: name: Gillespie, Tom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: There are countless PID systems, each with its own quirks and peculiarities. Even technical users of PID systems may not be PID experts. Do they need to be? How can we make the heterogeneity of PID systems and their features more accessible to technical users? We suggest that one potential way to achieve this is by creating enshrining technical knowledge about specific PID systems into libraries for major programming languages. This talk presents a unifying conceptual model for understanding identifiers, metadata, data, persistence grantees etc. that is independent of any particular identifier system. We describe the series of use cases that led to the development of this model and present an implementation of model as a python library. Finally, we report our experiences using an earlier versions of the library as part of an automated curation pipeline for a major neuroscience consortium.
Quantitative and Qualitative Characteristics of Retinal Vasculature Shadowing on Enface Swept Source Oct, in Healthy Subjects and Diabetic Macular Edema
Creators: name: Hanhart J
name: Arieli Y
name: Caspi A
name: Rozenman Y
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Background: To evaluate the characteristics of retinal vascular shadowing, viewed through en face swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) imaging in normality and diabetic macular edema (DME). Design: Prospective case series conducted at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Participants or Samples: 34 eyes of 17 healthy subjects and 30 eyes of 16 diabetic patients. Methods: Collected data included demographics, Snellen chart measured visual acuity, current HBA1C levels, previous laser treatments and swept source OCT measured central retinal subfield thickness. SS-OCT en face images were generated and flattened at three planes: ganglion cell layer (GCL), inner plexiform layer (IPL), retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The largest vessel was identified at the RPE level, retrieved at the GCL and IPL layers and its diameter measured. The deepest plane in the choroid at which shadow of this vessel could be identified was then measured from the RPE. Main Outcome Measures: Diameter of the largest vessel, depth of the vascular signal. Results: DME mostly affected the vascular shadow at the IPL level. At this plane, the measured vessel of the largest vessel was significantly reduced in DME (93.3 ± 33.5 vs. 115.9 ± 2.54 microns; p<0.01). A trend was found between DME and reduction of depth of the vascular signal (retrieved at 120.0 ± 74.2 microns below the RPE in diabetic eyes vs. 148.7 ± 92.1 microns in eyes of healthy patients aged more than 55 years; p=0.07). Conclusions: DME impacts vascular shadowing, over and under the RPE.
Development of new fluorescent molecules for use as biomolecular probes
Creators: name: Paranjothy, Murali
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis is composed of two aspects of research that will be linked as part of a future PhD project. The first part describes the development of two new ligands designed to chelate lanthanide ions - specifically europium and terbium. The ligands are based on the known terphenyl platform (and are related to BHHCT), but replace the central phenyl ring with a 2,3-disubstituted quinoxaline ring. The goal of this aspect of the research is to prepare compounds capable of producing long-lived fluorescence that is either red (for Eu3+ chelates) or green (for Tb3+ chelates) that can be conjugated to biomolecules to form biological probes. The second part is aimed at preparing a fluorescent peptide conjugate from a linker peptide (LPG) with conventional fluorescent dyes from the Alexa Fluor family. The ability of this conjugate to directly label an antibody to quickly and efficiently generate a fluorescent antibody for use as a biomolecular probe was also investigated. Utimately, the new lanthanide chelates described in the first part of this work will be covalently bound to Linker Protein G (LPG). LPG is a recombinant fusion protein consisting of two regions; (a) a peptide linker sequence containing eight lysine residues and (b), Streptococcus Protein G' which has specific binding affinity towards antibodies. The lanthanide chelates will be attached to LPG via the lysine residues in the linker region, and the assembly will interact with target antibodies via the Protein G binding region, to afford antibodies labelled with a long-lived fluorescence probe that can be visualised with time-gated techniques.
Explosive chromospheric evaporation driven by nonthermal electrons around one footpoint of a solar flare loop
Creators: name: Li, Dong
name: Ning, Zongjun
name: Huang, Yu
name: Zhang, Qingmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the temporal relationship between microwave/HXR emission and Doppler velocity during the impulsive phase of a solar flare on 2014 October 27 (SOL2014-10-27), which displays a pulse on the light curves in microwave (34 GHz) and hard X-ray (HXR, 25-50 keV) bands before the flare maximum. Imaging observation shows that this pulse mainly comes from one footpoint of a solar flare loop. The slit of Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) stays at this footpoint during this solar flare. The Doppler velocities of Fe XXI 1354.09 A and Si IV 1402.77 A are extracted from the Gaussian fitting method. We find that the hot line of Fe XXI 1354.09 A (logT~7.05) in corona exhibits blue shift, while the cool line of Si IV 1402.77 A (logT~4.8) in transition region exhibits red shift, indicating explosive chromospheric evaporation. The evaporative upflows along the flare loop are also observed in the AIA 131 A image. To our knowledge, this is the first report of chromospheric evaporation evidence from both spectral and imaging observations in the same flare. Both microwave and HXR pulses are well correlated with the Doppler velocities, suggesting that the chromospheric evaporation is driven by nonthermal electrons around this footpoint of a solar flare loop.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accept for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Colored Petri Nets for Modeling and Simulation of a Green Supply Chain System
Creators: name: Kaiyandra, Daffa R.
name: F, Farizal
name: Rakoto, Naly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Green supply chain is an emerging approach in supply chain management to reduce environmental impact of the process concerning the flow of goods and materials. As a discrete-event system, supply chain can be modeled using Petri Nets. Colored Petri Nets (CPNs) extend the classical Petri net formalism with data, time and hierarchy. These extensions makes it possible to deal with the green aspects of the supply chain.This paper deals with the Colored Petri Net approach to model and simulate a green supply chain system. The forward supply chain network starts from the raw material suppliers, to the manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and to the final customers. The reverse supply chain network is made of collecting points, recycling plants, disassembly plants,and secondary material market. A government environment agency plays the role of regulation of the recycling process. A colored Petri net model of the green supply chain is developed and simulated with CPN Tools, a dedicated software for CPN models. The simulation results as well as the state-space analysis results validate the correctness of the model.
From Specification Models to Explanation Models: An Extraction and Refinement Process for Timed Automata
Creators: name: Schwammberger, Maike
name: Klös, Verena
name: Luckcuck, Matt
name: Farrell, Marie
Publisher: name: Open Publishing Association
Year: 2022

description: Autonomous systems control many tasks in our daily lives. To increase trust in those systems and safety of the interaction between humans and autonomous systems, the system behaviour and reasons for autonomous decision should be explained to users, experts and public authorities. One way to provide such explanations is to use behavioural models to generate context- and user-specific explanations at run-time. However, this comes at the cost of higher modelling effort as additional models need to be constructed. In this paper, we propose a high-level process to extract such explanation models from system models, and to subsequently refine these towards specific users, explanation purposes and situations. By this, we enable the reuse of specification models for integrating self-explanation capabilities into systems. We showcase our approach using a running example from the autonomous driving domain.
Phlyctenular Conjunctivitis and Tuberculosis
Creators: name: Tomar M
name: Sharma G
name: Sood T
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Introduction: Phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis is a nodular affliction characterized by the formation of a small, circumscribed lesion at the corneal limbus and now accepted as a morphologic expression of delayed hypersensitivity to diverse antigens. The condition is one of several corneal disorders that arise as an expression of altered immune mechanisms [4]. Materials and Methods: A 2.5 years old male child presented with a history of watering and redness from his left eye since 3-4 days. On ocular examination, an elevated nodule of approximately 2x1 mm in size with central erosion at 1‘0 clock and of size 1x1 mm was present at 6:0 clock position at the limbus. History of ATT intake in the mother for a period of 6 months, at 1 year of age, was present. Monteux was 25x26 mm (Figure 3), ESR was 34mm in 1st hour, chest radiograph revealed perihilar shadows. Results: Child was put on Antitubercular therapy in the form of rifampicin (10mg/kg/day), isoniazid (10mg/kg/day), pyrazinamide (25mg/kg/day) for 2 months (2HRZ) and isoniazid and rifampicin for another 4 months (4HR). Phlyctens resolved after a follow up of 1 month. Conclusion: Phlyctenular keratoconjunctivitis should be evaluated for tuberculosis and with a positive test, should be referred for tuberculosis therapy.
Invariants of Specht Modules
Creators: name: Donkin, Stephen
name: Geranios, Haralampos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In [14] Hemmer conjectures that the module of fixed points for the symmetric group $Σ_m$ of a Specht module for $Σ_n$ (with $n>m$), over a field of positive characteristic $p$, has a Specht series, when viewed as a $Σ_{n-m}$-module. We provide a counterexample for each prime $p$. The examples have the same form for $p\geq 5$ and we treat the cases $p=3$ and $p=2$ separately.
5- Fluorouracil Versus Triamcinolone Injection in the Management of Periocular Scars
Creators: name: Tanushree V
name: Venkate Gowda HT
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Purpose: The purpose of our study was to compare the effects of intralesional 5 Fluorouracil versus Triamcinolone injection for the modulation of periocular scar formation and wound contracture. Methods: Prospective interventional study was done on patients attending outpatient department of ophthalmology diagnosed to have unfavourable post traumatic or post surgical periocular scars who received intralesional 5FU/Triamcinolone injection. Results: 20 cases were reviewed. Significant improvement in appearance and release of wound contracture was seen in both the groups. Conclusion: Intralesional 5FU/Triamcinolone injection is an effective non surgical tool in the management of periocular wound modulation.
Why were the Sclavenes never Roman allies?: A study of Late Antique Roman frontier policy and a barbarian society
Creators: name: Wood, Amy
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis addresses evidence which suggests that those barbarians identified as Sclavenes in the sources never became fully integrated into the Roman system of alliances or its cultural orbit in the sixth and seventh centuries. The written and archaeological evidence available is examined to compare it with previous Roman-barbarian relationships to draw reasonable conclusions about the Sclavene relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire and to some extent, the nature of Sclavene society before it transformed into the recognisable Slavic polities of the Early Middle Ages. The question is conceptualised within the overall framework of the Late Antique Roman frontiers along the Danube and its hinterland on either side (the Balkans and Pontic-Danubian region). This is the point at which the Sclavenes become visible in the written sources and where the cause and effect of Roman barbarian policy can be seen over time and across various (mainly Germanic) barbarian groups in both the written and archaeological material. It will be argued that the Sclavenes were never Roman allies due to a confluence of historical circumstances, the nature of Sclavene society itself, and the availability and operation of alternative imperial orbits in Central Eastern Europe, namely the First Avar Khaganate.
The Rise of Jihadist Propaganda on Social Networks
Creators: name: Badawy, Adam
name: Ferrara, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS members, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to spread its propaganda and to recruit militants from the Arab world and across the globe. By distinguishing between violence-driven, theological, and sectarian content, we trace the connection between online rhetoric and key events on the ground. To the best of our knowledge, ours is one of the first studies to focus on Arabic content, while most literature focuses on English content. Our findings yield new important insights about how social media is used by radical militant groups to target the Arab-speaking world, and reveal important patterns in their propaganda efforts.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables
Joint Seismic Data Denoising and Interpolation with Double-Sparsity Dictionary Learning
Creators: name: Zhu, Lingchen
name: Liu, Entao
name: McClellan, James H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Seismic data quality is vital to geophysical applications, so methods of data recovery, including denoising and interpolation, are common initial steps in the seismic data processing flow. We present a method to perform simultaneous interpolation and denoising, which is based on double-sparsity dictionary learning. This extends previous work that was for denoising only. The original double sparsity dictionary learning algorithm is modified to track the traces with missing data by defining a masking operator that is integrated into the sparse representation of the dictionary. A weighted low-rank approximation algorithm is adopted to handle the dictionary updating as a sparse recovery optimization problem constrained by the masking operator. Compared to traditional sparse transforms with fixed dictionaries that lack the ability to adapt to complex data structures, the double-sparsity dictionary learning method learns the signal adaptively from selected patches of the corrupted seismic data while preserving compact forward and inverse transform operators. Numerical experiments on synthetic seismic data indicate that this new method preserves more subtle features in the dataset without introducing pseudo-Gibbs artifacts when compared to other directional multiscale transform methods such as curvelets.
Muon g-2 in GMSB with Adjoint Messengers
Creators: name: Gogoladze, Ilia
name: Un, Cem Salih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explored the sparticle mass spectrum in light of the muon g-2 anomaly and the little hierarchy problem in a class of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking model. Here the messenger fields transform in the adjoint representation of the Standard Model gauge symmetry. To avoid unacceptably light right-handed slepton masses the standard model is supplemented by additional U(1)_B-L gauge symmetry. Considering a non-zero U(1)_B-L D-term leads to an additional contribution to the soft supersymmetry breaking mass terms which makes the right-handed slepton masses compatible with the current experimental bounds. We show that in the framework of Lambda_{3}<0 and mu < 0, the muon g-2 anomaly and the observed 125 GeV Higgs boson mass a can be simultaneously accommodated. The slepton masses in this case are predicted to lie in the few hundred GeV range, which can be tested at LHC. Despite the heavy colored spectrum the the little hierarchy problem in this model can be ameliorated and electroweak fine tuning parameter can be as low as 10 or so.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.02124
Successful Management of a Patient with Florid Diabetic Retinopathy
Creators: name: SS, Ahmad
name: Ghani SA
name: SM, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Florid diabetic retinopathy is an unusual, aggressive type of diabetic retinopathy. It is seen in young patients with poor metabolic control. Despite advances in treatment the overall prognosis of this condition remains poor. A 21-year old female patient was seen by us and found to have florid diabetic retinopathy despite an adequate metabolic control by oral hypoglycemic agents. The patient underwent multiple laser and orbital floor triamcinolone acetonide injections. Later the left eye developed persistent vitreous hemorrhage for which a vitrectomy with silicone oil injection was done. During a 4 year follow-up she has shown a visually and anatomical stable response. Keywords: ; Vitreous Hemorrhage; Light Coagulation; Vitrectomy
title: ADCO, Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493) (11 H 1166), f. 00246
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1166). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Boursier de Cîteaux : comptes (1489-1493), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1166), f. 00246, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Teachers’ perceptions and implementations of technology in EFL classroom: a case study of using e-books for EFL reading
Creators: name: Yin, Yijun
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Technologies have emerged as a powerful tool for education. Teachers are the catalysts for integrating technology in the classroom. This study, by using the E-book as the most commonly used educational technology, explored EFL teachers’ perceptions and implementations of the technology in public and private primary schools in China’s first tier cities. A mixed-method approach underpinned the study by using both questionnaire and interview protocols. An online questionnaire on how teachers define and perceive E-books in their personal and professional lives was distributed, 155 EFL teachers responded. Follow-up interviews were then conducted with ten teachers to gather more in-depth interpretations and the reasons for using or not using E-books in the classroom. The results showed that EFL teachers have very different personal interpretations of E-books.The findings also revealed that basic knowledge and a positive attitude to CALL does not guarantee eventual CALL implementation in teaching practice. A number of factors that appeared to influence Chinese EFL teachers’ technology use were identified.The present study contributes to an understanding of the CALL climate in China, especially in the private EFL education sector. Although CALL integration has been addressed in China’s English Curriculum Standards and teachers have given the technology a positive reception, its implementation is still problematic and hindered by the school environment.
Compressed Crystalline Bismuth and Superconductivity-An ab initio computational Simulation
Creators: name: Hinojosa-Romero, David
name: Rodríguez, Isaías
name: Mata-Pinzón, Zaahel
name: Valladares, Alexander
name: Valladares, Renela
name: Valladares, Ariel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bismuth displays puzzling superconducting properties. In its crystalline equilibrium phase, it does not seem to superconduct at accessible low temperatures. However, in the amorphous phase it displays superconductivity at ~ 6 K. Under pressure bismuth has been found to superconduct at Tcs that go from 3.9 K to 8.5 K depending on the phase obtained. So the question is: what electronic or vibrational changes occur that explains this radical transformation in the conducting behavior of this material? In a recent publication we argue that changes in the density of electronic and vibrational states may account for the behavior observed in the amorphous phase with respect to the crystal. We have now undertaken an ab initio computational study of the effects of pressure alone maintaining the original crystalline structure and compressing our supercell computationally. From the results obtained we infer that if the crystal structure remains the same (except for the contraction), no superconductivity will appear.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit 2016
Personalizing Smart Home Privacy Protection With Individuals' Regulatory Focus: Would You Preserve or Enhance Your Information Privacy?
Creators: name: Anaraky, Reza Ghaiumy
name: Li, Yao
name: Cho, Hichang
name: Huang, Danny Yuxing
name: Byrne, Kaileigh A.
name: Knijnenburg, Bart
name: Nov, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this study, we explore the effectiveness of persuasive messages endorsing the adoption of a privacy protection technology (IoT Inspector) tailored to individuals' regulatory focus (promotion or prevention). We explore if and how regulatory fit (i.e., tuning the goal-pursuit mechanism to individuals' internal regulatory focus) can increase persuasion and adoption. We conducted a between-subject experiment (N = 236) presenting participants with the IoT Inspector in gain ("Privacy Enhancing Technology" -- PET) or loss ("Privacy Preserving Technology" -- PPT) framing. Results show that the effect of regulatory fit on adoption is mediated by trust and privacy calculus processes: prevention-focused users who read the PPT message trust the tool more. Furthermore, privacy calculus favors using the tool when promotion-focused individuals read the PET message. We discuss the contribution of understanding the cognitive mechanisms behind regulatory fit in privacy decision-making to support privacy protection.
Maintaining patient safety: surgical instruments and environment surface care
Creators: name: de Melo Costa, Dayane
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Background: The processing of surgical instruments and environmental surface cleaning/disinfection are crucial measures for preventing healthcare associated infection and maintaining patient safety. However, both practices involve complex interdependent step-by-step processes that, if not properly performed, may result in devices/surfaces remaining contaminated, which promotes biofilm formation, and threatens patient safety. Conclusion: Successful processing is multifactorial depending on infrastructure and work processes, and requires knowledge and training. We have shown how the various components of processing impact the safe supply of RSI. With technological advances, RSI management and processing must improve, otherwise, advanced non-cleanable technology becomes a risk to patients. Similarly, cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces and medical devices must evolve to prevent and/or remove pathogens from patient areas.
Demographic Characteristics of Normal Tension Glaucoma Seen in a Suburban Tertiary Hospital
Creators: name: Ajite KO
name: Fadamiro CO
name: Ajayi IA
name: Omotoye OJ
name: Salami TK
name: Abah EC
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Introduction: Normal Tension Glaucoma (NTG) is a form of glaucoma in which there are distinct demographic characteristics and associated factors to its development. Identifying these characteristics helps early diagnosis and prevention of blindness. Aim of the study is to identify the various demographic characteristics and associated factors with the diagnosis of NTG in patients presenting to the glaucoma clinic of a tertiary hospital. Methods: All consecutive newly diagnosed glaucoma patients attending the eye clinic of EKSUTH, Ado Ekiti, from January 2012 to December 2014 were selected for the study. They all had thorough ocular and systemic examination. The patients with diagnosis of normal tension glaucoma had a protocol prepared for the study administered on them. Demographic data, family history of glaucoma, history of migraine, hypertension, and use of antihypertensive drugs at night were obtained from them. Data were analysed using SPSS version 18 and presented as tables, and figures, in frequencies, and percentage. Result: A total of 1265 patients were newly diagnosed to have glaucoma, of these, 864(68.3%) were POAG, 336(26.6%) were secondary glaucomas, 48(3.8%) normal tension glaucoma, 12(0.9%) angle closure glaucoma and 5(0.4%) were developmental glaucoma. Among the NTG patients, 30(62.5%) were females and 18(37.5%) males, (M:F =1.7:1) Age range was between 30years to 68years, median age of 59.3years. The identifiable associated factors in NTG patients include; family history of glaucoma 33(68.8%), hypertension and use of antihypertensive at night before sleep 24(50%), history suggestive of sleep apnea 6(12.5%), migraine headaches 10(20.8%) and thyroid disease 2(4.2%). No statistically significant association of these factors with severity of visual field defect in the subjects studied. Conclusion: This study suggests that age and positive family history of glaucoma are important demographic characteristics for consideration in diagnosis of NTG.
Public Goods Games in Disease Evolution and Spread
Creators: name: Morison, Christo
name: Fic, Małgorzata
name: Marcou, Thomas
name: Mohamadichamgavi, Javad
name: Antón, Javier Redondo
name: Sayyar, Golsa
name: Stein, Alexander
name: Bastian, Frank
name: Krakovská, Hana
name: Krishnan, Nandakishor
name: Pires, Diogo L.
name: Satouri, Mohammadreza
name: Thomsen, Frederik J.
name: Tjikundi, Kausutua
name: Ali, Wajid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cooperation arises in nature at every scale, from within cells to entire ecosystems. In the framework of evolutionary game theory, public goods games (PGGs) are used to analyse scenarios where individuals can cooperate or defect, and can predict when and how these behaviours emerge. However, too few examples motivate the transferal of knowledge from one application of PGGs to another. Here, we focus on PGGs arising in disease modelling of cancer evolution and the spread of infectious diseases. We use these two systems as case studies for the development of the theory and applications of PGGs, which we succinctly review and compare. We also posit that applications of evolutionary game theory to decision-making in cancer, such as interactions between a clinician and a tumour, can learn from the PGGs studied in epidemiology, where cooperative behaviours such as quarantine and vaccination compliance have been more thoroughly investigated. Furthermore, instances of cellular-level cooperation observed in cancers point to a corresponding area of potential interest for modellers of other diseases, be they viral, bacterial or otherwise. We aim to demonstrate the breadth of applicability of PGGs in disease modelling while providing a starting point for those interested in quantifying cooperation arising in healthcare.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
Composition Factors of Tensor Products of Truncated Symmetric Powers
Creators: name: Donkin, Stephen
name: Geranios, Haralampos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $G$ be the general linear group of degree $n$ over an algebraically closed field $K$ of characteristic $p>0$. We study the $m$-fold tensor product $\bar{S}(E)^{\otimes m}$ of the truncated symmetric algebra $\bar{S}(E)$ of the symmetric algebra $S(E)$ of the natural module $E$ for $G$. We are particularly interested in the set of partitions $λ$ occurring as the highest weight of a composition factor of $\bar{S}(E)^{\otimes m}$. We explain how the determination of these composition factors is related to the determination of the set of composition factors of the $m$-fold tensor product $S(E)^{\otimes m}$ of the symmetric algebra. We give a complete description of the composition factors of $\bar{S}(E)^{\otimes m}$ in terms of "distinguished" partitions. Our main interest is in the classical case, but since the quantised version is essentially no more difficult we express our results in the general context throughout.
Climatic Keratopathy in Snow Laden Hilly Areas
Creators: name: Sood T
name: Sharma RL
name: T, Mandeep
name: Sood S
name: Sharma A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Spheroidal degeneration, reported as a rare entity in western literature is a common ocular morbidity in some parts of India. It is commonly seen in persons who are exposed to intense sun light (excess UV radiation) reflected off the surface of the sea, snow and sand. The State of Himachal Pradesh lies in the northern part of India. Himachal Pradesh occupies an area of 55,673 sq km. It forms a key and central part of the Indian Himalayan region (IHR). The IHR region covers vast areas, with about 17 percent of the region being under permanent snow cover and glaciers and about 30-40 percent under seasonal snow cover, forming a unique water reservoir. High level of UV radiation reflected from snow have been implicated in pathology of spheroidal degeneration which may be one of reasons that prevalence of spheroidal degeneration is more in snowy areas of himachal. The author tends to report a case series of few cases of spheroidal degeneration.
Granin - Derived Peptides in the Eye
Creators: name: Troger J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Diseases

description: The granins are the acidic proteins of secretory granules and there exist three main members of this family, in particular chromogranin A, chromogranin B and secretogranin II. These proteins are widely distributed throughout neuroendocrine tissues and are stored in large dense core vesicles in neuronal cells. Their functional role is not fully clear but it seems that they might play an important role in the formation of secretory granules. Furthermore, the primary amino acid sequence of the granins features many pairs of basic amino acids and these pairs together with monobasic residues are targets of enzymes which proteolytically process the proteins, in particular the prohormone convertases 1 and 2. Thus the granins might be precursors of smaller fragments and they are indeed cleaved. Processing of chromogranin A leads to the generation of catestatin, vasostatins, pancreastatin, serpinin, WE-14, chromacin, chromofungin, chromostatin, betagranin and parastatin, of chromogranin B to secretolytin and of secretogranin II to secretoneurin, manserin and EM66. These peptides are either biologically highly active and/or of pathophysiological significance and the peptides with the highest degree of biological activity are secretoneurin, catestatin, vasostatins and pancreastatin. For secretoneurin, outstanding effects have been described, in particular it promotes not only both angiogenesis and vasculogenesis but also therapeutic angiogenesis in the hindlimb ischemia and myocardial infarcation model. Others however seem to be functionally inert, especially the chromogranin A-derived peptide GE-25 and the chromogranin B-derived peptide PE-11.
Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication
Creators: name: Soliman, Nouran
name: Kang, Hyeonsu B
name: Latzke, Matthew
name: Bragg, Jonathan
name: Chang, Joseph Chee
name: Zhang, Amy X.
name: Karger, David R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In communities with social hierarchies, fear of judgment can discourage communication. While anonymity may alleviate some social pressure, fully anonymous spaces enable toxic behavior and hide the social context that motivates people to participate and helps them tailor their communication. We explore a design space of meronymous communication, where people can reveal carefully chosen aspects of their identity and also leverage trusted endorsers to gain credibility. We implemented these ideas in a system for scholars to meronymously seek and receive paper recommendations on Twitter and Mastodon. A formative study with 20 scholars confirmed that scholars see benefits to participating but are deterred due to social anxiety. From a month-long public deployment, we found that with meronymity, junior scholars could comfortably ask ``newbie'' questions and get responses from senior scholars who they normally found intimidating. Responses were also tailored to the aspects about themselves that junior scholars chose to reveal.
description: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24), May 11--16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA
Knotted 4-regular graphs II: Consistent application of the Pachner moves
Creators: name: Cartin, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A common choice for the evolution of the knotted graphs in loop quantum gravity is to use the Pachner moves, adapted to graphs from their dual triangulations. Here, we show that the natural way to consistently use these moves is on framed graphs with edge twists, where the Pachner moves can only be performed when the twists, and the vertices the edges are incident on, meet certain criteria. For other twists, one can introduce an algebraic object, which allow any knotted graph with framed edges to be written in terms of a generalized braid group.
description: 26 pages; 34 figures
The living, the dead and the disappeared: memory activism in post-dictatorship Argentina
Creators: name: Dabinet, Anmarie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Memory is potent in Argentinean society elicited by the traumatic experiences of the military dictatorship era (1976-1983) and the enforced 'disappearances' of up to 30,000 people. This thesis examines memory as a conscious construct for Argentinean human rights organizations whose demands focus on truth and justice on behalf of the dictatorship's victims. Memory draws the past and, indeed, the 'disappeared' themselves into the present, where they act as integral and dynamic forces that are able to shape each group's current initiatives and future plans. This style of memory-focused activism embodies the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead or 'disappeared'. In this framework, this thesis explores a broad range of social and political concerns and the activities of human rights organizations in which this vivid relationship between the living and the disappeared is made visible to others. This relationship unfolds in the context of temporality and place, through performative rituals and commemoration practices, by sharing stories and memories, and through efforts that recover disappeared grandchildren and reunite the remains of the disappeared with their living families.
To Study the Association of HbA1c with Retinopathy, Neuropathy and High Risk Foot among Diabetic Patients Attending Rural Tertiary Care Hospital of Tamil Nadu, India
Creators: name: Hassan, Kamran M
name: Balaji R
name: Gnaneswaran S
name: JS, Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Diseases

description: Background: Blindness and non-traumatic amputation of foot are among the biggest morbidities complicating diabetes mellitus. Burden of diabetes and its complications is increasing in India. The current study was designed to find out the association of HbA1C with these diabetic microvascular complications i.e., neuropathy leading to high risk diabetic foot and retinopathy. Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional analytical study. 222 patients were examined with established Diabetes between ages 27 to 85 years, who visited the hospital from June 2012 to October 2014. Assessment of retinopathy, neuropathy and HbA1c was done by standardised methods. The obtained data was analysed statistically by SPSS version of 21.0. Results: The mean age of the study population was 55.4 ± 11.1 years (range 27-85 years). There were 145 (65.32%) males and 77 (34.68%) were females. The mean level of HbA1c was 8.6 ± 2.1%. Patients with HbA1c >7% included 107 males and 55 females. The prevalence of DR in our study was 49.10% of which NPDR was seen in 38.29% and PDR was seen in 10.81% of patients. The prevalence of neuropathy was seen in 62 (27.93%) patients. The condition of footwear was poor in 32.5%. Conclusion: A strong association was found between HbA1C and neuropathy leading to high risk diabetic foot and retinopathy. These associations suggest the need for earlier diagnosis of these devastating complications and predicting their severity.
Convex and non-convex regularization methods for spatial point processes intensity estimation
Creators: name: Choiruddin, Achmad
name: Coeurjolly, Jean-François
name: Letué, Frédérique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper deals with feature selection procedures for spatial point processes intensity estimation. We consider regularized versions of estimating equations based on Campbell theorem derived from two classical functions: Poisson likelihood and logistic regression likelihood. We provide general conditions on the spatial point processes and on penalty functions which ensure consistency, sparsity and asymptotic normality. We discuss the numerical implementation and assess finite sample properties in a simulation study. Finally, an application to tropical forestry datasets illustrates the use of the proposed methods.
Gravitational-Wave Localization Alone Probes AGN Origin of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers
Creators: name: Bartos, I.
name: Haiman, Z.
name: Marka, Z.
name: Metzger, B. D.
name: Stone, N. C.
name: Marka, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar-mass binary black hole mergers are poised to represent the majority of gravitational-wave (GW) observations by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Probing their origin will be difficult due to the expected lack of electromagnetic emission and limited localization accuracy. Associations with rare host galaxy types -- such as active galactic nuclei (AGN) -- can nevertheless be identified statistically through spatial correlation. We show that (i) fractional contributions $f_{\rm agn}=50-100\%$ from AGN hosts to the total BBH merger rate can be statistically established with 70-300 detected events (expected in 0.5-2 years of observation with Advanced LIGO-Virgo at design sensitivity and current rate estimates); (ii) fractional contributions as low as $f_{\rm agn}=25\%$ can be tested with 1000 events ($\sim$ 5\,years of observation); (iii) the $\sim5\%$ best localized GWs drive these constraints. The presented method and results are generally applicable to binary formation channels with rare host populations.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure