cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Functional characterisation of the RIO kinase family
Creators: name: Mendes, Tasha K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The riok family of atypical protein kinases are evolutionary conserved; however their precise functions remain unknown. riok-1 and riok-2 exist in all eukaryotes and have predicted roles in cell cycle regulation and rRNA biogenesis, while riok-3 exists exclusively in metazoans with little known about its function. The riok family were examined in the C. elegans model system. Expression of riok-1, -2, -3 was highest in the first larval stage, consistent with the riok-1 and riok-2 deletion mutants early larval arrest phenotype. To investigate the tissue and developmental expression of RIOK in vivo, GFP tagged transgenic animals were created. RIOK-1 was expressed in a range of different tissues, including the spermatheca, intestinal cells and a subset of neurons. RIOK-2 displayed expression in the pharynx, while riok-3 animals revealed expression in a small subset of neuron. RNAi was used to further analysis riok members, as it bypassed the genetic mutant arrest stage. Our data identified a new novel role for riok-l in oogenesis. Interestingly, knockdown of riok-1 in hermaphrodite animals results in 100% sterility, while males produce viable/functional sperm. Adult riok-1 (RNAi) hermaphrodite gonads are smaller in size and display endomitotic oocytes, where large DNA aggregates were observed. Interestingly, riok-1 knockdown resulted in increased MAP kinase activation in gonads, which has previously been shown to induce endomitotic oocyte formation. To assess the somatic vs. gonad contribution towards the riok-1 (RNAi) defect, riok-1 was knocked down in a genetic background where gonad RNAi only occurs. A major impact on the reproductive capacity of these animals was still apparent, suggesting riok-1 is primarily a germ cell mediated defect. Therefore, riok-1 and riok-2 are required for normal development, with riok-1 possessing a major function in oogenesis. Our data suggests that riok-1 plays a role in meiosis and has an important cell cycle regulator role; however a mechanistic understanding remains to be elucidated.
The Topology of Dislocations in Smectic Liquid Crystals
Creators: name: Kamien, Randall D.
name: Mosna, Ricardo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The order parameter of the smectic liquid crystal phase is the same as that of a superfluid or superconductor, namely a complex scalar field. We show that the essential difference in boundary conditions between these systems leads to a markedly different topological structure of the defects. Screw and edge defects can be distinguished topologically. This implies an invariant on an edge dislocation loop so that smectic defects can be topologically linked not unlike defects in ordered systems with non-Abelian fundamental groups.
description: 11 pages, many figures, the full catastrophe. Supplementary data with two movies can be found at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/053012
Butumia Cheek 2022
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Butumia

description: Subgenus 2. Butumia (G.Taylor) Cheek comb. et stat. nov. Type species: Sapicolella marginalis (G.Taylor) Cheek. http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77297285-1 Basionym: Butumia G.Taylor, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 1: 55 (1952). Roots, crustose in centre, but mostly comprised of radiating, long, entire, rarely branched, broadly ribbon-like roots with numerous marginal shoots. Stems highly contracted, not visible. Leaves with sheathing base (where known), blade reduced, shorter than base, stipules present (where known). DISTRIBUTION. Guinea-Conakry, Nigeria, Cameroon. ETYMOLOGY. Taking the name of the basionym Butumia (itself named for the Butum River, Nigeria). Species 5 – 6: Sapicolella marginalis (G.Taylor) Cheek, S. deniseae Cheek
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 419, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
Mailed Human Papillomavirus Self-Collection With Papanicolaou Test Referral for Infrequently Screened Women in the United States
Creators: name: Perez-Heydrich, Carolina
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: Barclay, Lynn
name: Belinson, Jerome
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
name: Deal, Allison M.
name: Rinas, Allen
name: Des Marais, Andrea C.
name: Richman, Alice R.
name: Yen-Lieberman, Belinda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Testing for high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection using mailed, self-collected samples is a promising approach to increase screening in women who do not attend clinic screening at recommended intervals.
Comparison between Smoluchowski and Boltzmann approaches for self-propelled rods
Creators: name: Bertin, Eric
name: Baskaran, Aparna
name: Chaté, Hugues
name: Marchetti, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering systems of self-propelled polar particles with nematic interactions ("rods"), we compare the continuum equations describing the evolution of polar and nematic order parameters, derived either from Smoluchowski or Boltzmann equations. Our main goal is to understand the discrepancies between the continuum equations obtained so far in both frameworks. We first show that in the simple case of point-like particles with only alignment interactions, the continuum equations obtained have the same structure in both cases. We further study, in the Smoluchowski framework, the case where an interaction force is added on top of the aligning torque. This clarifies the origin of the additional terms obtained in previous works. Our observations lead us to emphasize the need for a more involved closure scheme than the standard normal form of the distribution when dealing with active systems.
description: 11 pages, final version published in Phys. Rev. E
The effect of tensor interaction in splitting the energy levels of relativistic systems
Creators: name: Shojaei, Mohammad Reza
name: Mousavi, Mohsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: H.5.2
subject: 81-08

description: In this paper we solve analytically Dirac equation for Eckart plus Hulthen potentials with Coulomb-like and Yukawa-like tensor interaction in the presence of Spin and Pseudo-spin Symmetry for any k number. The Parametric Nikiforov-Uvarov method is used to obtain the energy Eigen-values and wave functions. We also discuss the energy Eigen-values and the Dirac spinors for the Eckart plus Hulthen potentials for the spin and pseudo-spin symmetry with PNU method. To show the accuracy of the present model, some numerical results are shown in both pseudo-spin and spin symmetry limits.
description: 19 Pages, 13 Figures,6 Table
A new approach to measurement in quantum tomography
Creators: name: Czerwiński, Artur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we propose a new approach to quantum measurement in reference to the stroboscopic tomography. Generally, in the stroboscopic approach it is assumed that the information about the quantum system is encoded in the mean values of certain Hermitian operators $Q_1, ..., Q_r$ and each of them can be measured more than once. The main goal of the stroboscopic tomography is to determine when one can reconstruct the initial density matrix $ρ(0)$ on the basis of the measurement results $\langle Q_i \rangle_{t_j}$. In this paper we propose to treat every complex matrix as a measurable operator. This generalized approach to quantum measurement may bring some improvement into the models of stroboscopic tomography.
description: The article presents a theoretical idea that every complex matrix can be regarded as a measurable operator
Identification and characterization of HBV core CTL epitopes in Indonesian samples
Creators: name: Nursanty, Ni Ketut Dias
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a non-cytopathic virus that causes liver disease with variable duration and severity. During infection, host immune response is responsible for both liver damage and viral clearance. The adaptive immune response, particularly virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response, has been shown to play a major role in HBV infection immunopathogenesis by destroying the infected hepatocytes or eliminating HBV in a non-cytolytic manner. From virus-host interaction perspective, HBV core antigen (HBcAg) has been of interest because it is a major immunological target of CTL. Many human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted HBcAg T cell epitopes have been reported which might be different due to the diverse distribution ethnic-specific HLA in distinct geographical regions. Therefore, it is important to identify and characterize HBcAg CTL epitopes in area with high HBV endemic and high population diversity like Indonesia. To support HBcAg as a promising protein to develop CTL epitope-based vaccine, HBcAg sequences of samples from individuals in Indonesia were analyzed. It was found that the sequences were conserved, and amino acid substitutions observed did not reflect the influence of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) types on the HBcAg variability. To develop such a vaccine, the first thing to do is to determine the peptide(s) that must be immunogenic and can interact with HLA class I proteins of Indonesian populations. Using immunoinformatic approaches, 20 HBcAg CTL epitopes (14 nonamers and 6 decamers) against HLA alleles in Javanese, Sundanese-Javanese, and T ernatean populations were identified. These 20 CTL epitopes were also characterized for sequence variation and conservation in 125 HBcAg of Indonesian isolates. Variations of HBcAg CTL epitope were detected, but one variant was found to be predominant in each epitope. By immunoinformatic analysis, different binding affinity was observed for each variant. The difference was found to depend on the location and type of amino acid in related epitope that affect its interaction with HLA binding grooves. The present study describes the use of immunoinformatic approaches as a pilot study to identify HBcAg-CTL epitopes of Indonesian isolates and analyze their conservation and variability. Of 20 CTL epitopes, HBcAg 18-27 was found the best CTL epitope for the Indonesian populations represented by the Javanese, Sundanese-Javanese, and Ternatean. Among the discovered epitope variants, residue FLPSDFFPSI was identified as the best candidate to develop peptide-based vaccine due to its predominance among all isolates studied. This study will be beneficial for developing an approach for successful viral control in hepatitis B patients.
Understanding Graph Structure of Wikipedia for Query Expansion
Creators: name: Guisado-Gámez, Joan
name: Prat-Pérez, Arnau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3; E.1; G.2.2
subject: 68P20

description: Knowledge bases are very good sources for knowledge extraction, the ability to create knowledge from structured and unstructured sources and use it to improve automatic processes as query expansion. However, extracting knowledge from unstructured sources is still an open challenge. In this respect, understanding the structure of knowledge bases can provide significant benefits for the effectiveness of such purpose. In particular, Wikipedia has become a very popular knowledge base in the last years because it is a general encyclopedia that has a large amount of information and thus, covers a large amount of different topics. In this piece of work, we analyze how articles and categories of Wikipedia relate to each other and how these relationships can support a query expansion technique. In particular, we show that the structures in the form of dense cycles with a minimum amount of categories tend to identify the most relevant information.
MPEC 2024-R140 : 2024 RO4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RO4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Who are the Devils Wearing Prada in New York City?
Creators: name: Chen, KuanTing
name: Chen, Kezhen
name: Cong, Peizhong
name: Hsu, Winston H.
name: Luo, Jiebo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fashion is a perpetual topic in human social life, and the mass has the penchant to emulate what large city residents and celebrities wear. Undeniably, New York City is such a bellwether large city with all kinds of fashion leadership. Consequently, to study what the fashion trends are during this year, it is very helpful to learn the fashion trends of New York City. Discovering fashion trends in New York City could boost many applications such as clothing recommendation and advertising. Does the fashion trend in the New York Fashion Show actually influence the clothing styles on the public? To answer this question, we design a novel system that consists of three major components: (1) constructing a large dataset from the New York Fashion Shows and New York street chic in order to understand the likely clothing fashion trends in New York, (2) utilizing a learning-based approach to discover fashion attributes as the representative characteristics of fashion trends, and (3) comparing the analysis results from the New York Fashion Shows and street-chic images to verify whether the fashion shows have actual influence on the people in New York City. Through the preliminary experiments over a large clothing dataset, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed system, and obtain useful insights on fashion trends and fashion influence.
ROLE OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ENTERPRISES IN INDIA
Creators: name: Mrs. Vidya Vijay Patil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Small enterprises, Financing Agencies, Financial Institutions,

description: Abstract  The small enterprises have been important role of Indian economy. The essential part small enterprises can be significant place of structure frame work of planning right from the beginning and occupies a crucial position in the industrial sector, the creation of employment opportunities, utilization of resources and income generation. The government at both central and state level established various financial institutions to provide non-financial and financial assistances to small enterprises. In the same way there are institutions in addition to commercial banks which cater to the financial requirements of small enterprises. This paper focuses on analyzing the contribution of small enterprises in Indian Economy, role of financial institutions in development of these Indian small enterprises.
Credentialling of Australian critical care nurses : a dialectical study
Creators: name: Haralambous, Kathryn Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Aims: This research project endeavoured to explore and debate the purpose of credentialling Australian critical care nurses; a process created and instituted by the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses between 1996 and 1998. This research project explored the impetus for the development of credentialling and its impact on critical care nursing theory, practice and education. Methodology: The student researcher employed a qualitative research framework utilising dialectical approaches and Critical Social Theory to explore the phenomenon of credentialling. In-depth interviews were conducted by telephone with two nurses credentialled by the Australian College of Critical Care Nursing and with two credentialling committee members of the Australian College of Critical Care Nursing. Findings: The student researcher found that credentialling critical care nurses resulted in highlighting the need for positive changes to theory, practice and education. Positive changes created by credentialling included increasing the perceived value of specialist nursing care by the gaining of rewards and incentives through personal and professional recognition, creating a clinical career path and, describing what nurses do in practice, thus confirming their role and scope of practice in writing. Positive changes were seen to contribute to increased professionalism. Negative outcomes of credentialling explored by participants included changes in workplace flexibility and the introduction of additional nursing regulation. Discussion: Discussion of the findings explored and examined many social conditions including patriarchy and empirics which support the ideology evident in the findings. The ideologies that were explored in the discussion of the findings related to altruism, professionalism and career structures. Conclusion: Credentialling of Australian critical care nurses serves many purposes, some of which are controversial. This research project has demonstrated that one of the primary purposes of any credentialling process is to enhance the process of professionalism and the gaining of professional status. The implications for critical care nursing theory practice and education are currently unknown due to the small number of critical care nurses credentialled to date.
Effect of Gromov-hyperbolicity Parameter on Cuts and Expansions in Graphs and Some Algorithmic Implications
Creators: name: DasGupta, Bhaskar
name: Karpinski, Marek
name: Mobasheri, Nasim
name: Yahyanejad, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.2; G.2.2; I.1.2
subject: 68Q25, 68W25, 68W40, 05C85

description: $δ$-hyperbolic graphs, originally conceived by Gromov in 1987, occur often in many network applications; for fixed $δ$, such graphs are simply called hyperbolic graphs and include non-trivial interesting classes of "non-expander" graphs. The main motivation of this paper is to investigate the effect of the hyperbolicity measure $δ$ on expansion and cut-size bounds on graphs (here $δ$ need not be a constant), and the asymptotic ranges of $δ$ for which these results may provide improved approximation algorithms for related combinatorial problems. To this effect, we provide constructive bounds on node expansions for $δ$-hyperbolic graphs as a function of $δ$, and show that many witnesses (subsets of nodes) for such expansions can be computed efficiently even if the witnesses are required to be nested or sufficiently distinct from each other. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first such constructive bounds proven. We also show how to find a large family of s-t cuts with relatively small number of cut-edges when s and t are sufficiently far apart. We then provide algorithmic consequences of these bounds and their related proof techniques for two problems for $δ$-hyperbolic graphs (where $δ$ is a function $f$ of the number of nodes, the exact nature of growth of $f$ being dependent on the particular problem considered).
description: Final corrected author version, to appear in the journal Algorithmica
Understanding the needs and expectations of family members when a critically ill relative is admitted to accident and emergency in Kuwait
Creators: name: Kandela, Austrid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is a small ethnographic study that attempts to learn directly from a purposive convenience sample of eight Arab family members how they felt, what they wanted and expected in the way of emergency care, and why they responded to the situation in the ways they did when a relative was admitted critically ill to the Emergency Room (ER) of Accident and Emergency (A & E) in a community hospital in Kuwait. An ethnographic approach was utilised because of the culturally loaded character of healthcare in Kuwait. The study was predicated on the basis that by understanding culturally the meaning and concerns that emergency admission holds for relatives, expatriate healthcare staff would be better able to respond to their needs, provide culturally meaningful care, minimise risks of abusive and aggressive behaviour towards staff and enhance health outcomes for their clients. The findings generated from participant observation, interviews and survey were augmented by field notes. The emotions and behaviours of family members most frequently observed were shock, fear and panic, confusion, suffering for and with their critically ill relative, emotional distress and spiritual faith. Family members' over-riding needs and expectations were found to relate to access to immediate medical attention, to be with their critically ill relative, to be told the truth gently, tactfully, not immediately but in stages, availability of information from the doctor, and to have the waiting room close by. Coping, family ties and family centred-care, transcultural sensitivity and abuse and aggression towards nurses also surfaced as important issues. Supportive behaviours valued by family members included health care staff being present, being provided with timely, on-going information, being acknowledged by staff, being permitted to stay with their loved one and staff respecting their faith in Islam. Although the participants cannot be claimed as representative or the results of the study generalisable, this study furnishes insight about the pervasive impact of Islam in all aspects of family members' life including their strong belief that whatever the outcome, it was God's will (inshalla); insight that is culturally enriching, and potentially transferable to similar situations and groups.
Kinkonia Cheek
Creators: name: Cheek, Martin
name: Molmou, Denise
name: Magassouba, Sekou
name: Ghogue, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Malpighiales
Podostemaceae
Kinkonia

description: Subgenus 3. Kinkonia Cheek subgen. nov. Type species: Sapicolella futa Cheek sp. nov. http://www.ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77297287-1 Roots radiating from a central point, lacking a central crustose part (or crustose portion minute), narrowly ribbon-like, bifurcating regularly and frequently, shoots only at the sinuses of the bifurcations. Stems highly contracted, inconspicuous. Leaves comprised of concave elliptic base, blade absent or rudimentary, stipules absent. DISTRIBUTION. Guinea-Conakry, Futa Djalon. ETYMOLOGY. Named for the Kinkon Falls at Pita, one of the locations for the only known species.
description: Published as part of Cheek, Martin, Molmou, Denise, Magassouba, Sekou & Ghogue, Jean-Paul, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Saxicolella (Podostemaceae), African waterfall plants highly threatened by Hydro-Electric projects, pp. 403-433 in Kew Bulletin 77 (2) on page 423, DOI: 10.1007/s12225-022-10019-2, http://zenodo.org/record/7599361
Rate of Decline in Nontreponemal Antibody Titers and Seroreversion After Treatment of Early Syphilis
Creators: name: Wolff, Mark
name: Leone, Peter
name: McNeil, Linda
name: Seña, Arlene C.
name: Behets, Frieda
name: Hook, Edward W.
name: Langley, Carol
name: Martin, David H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Syphilis management is complex and demonstration of treatment response requires monitoring of nontreponemal antibody titers for a ≥ 4-fold decline and/or seroreversion to nonreactive titers.
New type of stable particle like states in chiral magnets (Chiral bobbers)
Creators: name: Rybakov, F. N.
name: Borisov, A. B.
name: Blügel, S.
name: Kiselev, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new type of a thermodynamically stable magnetic state at interfaces and surfaces of chiral magnets. The state is a soliton solution of micromagnetic equations localized in all three dimensions near a boundary and contains a singularity, but nevertheless has a finite energy. Both features combine to a quasi-particle state for which we expect unusual transport and dynamical properties. It exhibits high thermal stability and thereby can be considered as promising object for fundamental research and practical applications in spintronic devices. We provide arguments that such a state can be found in different B20-type alloys e.g. Mn$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$Ge, Mn$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$Si, Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$Si.
description: accepted in PRL
Didymoplexis siamensis var. amamiana Suetsugu 2019, var. nov.
Creators: name: Suetsugu, Kenji
name: Hsu, Tian-Chuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Didymoplexis
Didymoplexis siamensis
Didymoplexis siamensis var. amamiana suetsugu

description: Didymoplexis siamensis var. amamiana Suetsugu, var. nov. (Figs. 1A, 2)
 Type:— JAPAN. Ryukyu Islands: Kagoshima Pref., Amami-Oshima Island, Amami City, Naze, 5 May 2018, Morita N 15-04 (holotype: TNS, a flower in the spirit collection).
 Didymoplexis siamensis var. amamiana differs from D. siamensis var. siamensis only in lacking a pair of the long recurved stelidia on each side of its stigma.
 Additional specimens examined:— JAPAN. Ryukyu Islands: Kagoshima Pref., Amami-Oshima Island, Amami City, Naze, 5 May 2018, Morita N15-07 (TNS, a flower in the spirit collection); Kagoshima Pref., Amami-Oshima Island, Amami City, 13 May 2018, Morita N15 - A (KYO, a flower in the spirit collection).
 Note:— The new variety is currently known only from a single population. About 20 flowering individuals were found in a dense forest dominated by Castanopsis sieboldii (Makino) Hatusima (1971: 223). The new variety is not completely sympatric with D. siamensis var. siamensis, whereas D. siamensis var. siamensis can be observed a few hundred meters from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Suetsugu, Kenji & Hsu, Tian-Chuan, 2019, New combinations in the genus Didymoplexis (Orchidaceae; Epidendroideae; Gastrodieae), with a new variety of D. siamensis from Amami-Oshima Island, Japan, pp. 174-178 in Phytotaxa 388 (2) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13725214
Integrative review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of therapeutic touch as a therapeutic intervention
Creators: name: Colgan, Stephen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In 1972, Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz developed Therapeutic Touch as a healing modality for use by health professionals. Proponents of Therapeutic Touch claim that the effectiveness of the practice is well supported by a substantive amount of rigorously controlled and methodologically sound scientific research. In recent years Therapeutic Touch has come under increasing criticism from members of the nursing profession and skeptical organizations in Australia and the United States. This study examined the effectiveness of Therapeutic Touch using a prototype research design for integrative review and meta-analysis developed by Smith & Stullenbarger (1991). A total sample of forty-one studies into Therapeutic Touch were collected, of which 15 (37%) were examined in the integrative review and seven (17%) in the meta-analytic components of the study. The effect sizes of the seven studies in the meta-analysis combined to return large positive treatment effects. The probability values (one-tailed) associated with these results were such that they were extremely unlikely to have occurred simply due to chance. The Fail-safe number of 29.79 associated with these results is inadequate and so the results of this meta-analysis are very likely to be overturned by future research. The diffuse comparison of significance levels and effect sizes, disjoint cluster analysis and funnel plotting, all demonstrated significant heterogeneity. Indicating that the studies in the meta-analysis may be seen to represent different sub-populations of study outcomes, which may not be representative of the total population of Therapeutic Touch studies. The findings of this study did not support the claims of Therapeutic Touch proponents. The findings of this study, within the limitations imposed by the sample and the methodology used, provide support for the findings of the Claman Report (University of Colorado Report on Touch Therapy). To date, the limited amount of research into Therapeutic Touch and the quality of that research is insufficient to establish the efficacy of the practice. Statistical and meta-analytic calculations within the study were performed using SPSS version 6.1 (Student edition) and Mullen's (1989) Advanced BASIC Meta-analysis program.
Attitudes of registered nurses regarding their own undergraduate clinical education
Creators: name: Lewis, Leanne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A descriptive survey style study was conducted in order to describe the attitudes of recently graduated registered nurses towards the structure and supervision of their own undergraduate clinical education. This thesis presents and explores the findings of the study. The sample was obtained from Grade 1 and Grade 2 Year 1 Registered Nurses working within two metropolitan teaching hospitals. One hundred and twenty four (124) subjects participated by returning the questionnaire. The data collection tool was a highly structured self-administered questionnaire designed specifically for the study. Factor analysis of the results identified fifteen factors related to structure, supervision and overall outcomes of undergraduate clinical placements. From these factors conclusions related to graduates attitudes towards their undergraduate clinical education were drawn. The sample illustrates a positive overall evaluation of the current model of clinical education and describes high outcomes of their clinical placements. They were generally satisfied with structure models. Although no relationship was found between length of placement and overall outcomes, the results did indicate that an increase in the number of venues led to decreased satisfaction with assistance gained from ward staff and decreased overall outcomes of the placement. The results supported both the clinical educator and preceptor models of supervision. The role of ward staff in the clinical experience was explored with feelings of inclusion and belonging within the ward environment being closely linked to the graduates overall student clinical outcomes. The full findings of the study are presented in this thesis, significant findings discussed and recommendations made in relation to the implications on nursing education, research and practice.
Using two point correlation functions to understand the assembly histories of Milky Way-like galaxies
Creators: name: Zhang, Yike
name: Wang, Wenting
name: Han, Jiaxin
name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente
name: Palau, Carles G.
name: Tan, Zhenlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two point correlation function (2PCF) is a powerful statistical tool to measure galaxy clustering. Although 2PCF has also been used to study the clustering of stars on parsec and sub-parsec scales, its physical implication is not clear on such non-linear scales. In this study, we use the Illustris-TNG50 simulation to study the connection between the 2PCF signals of accreted halo stars and the assembly histories of Milky Way-mass galaxies. We find, in general, the 2PCF signal increases with the increase in galactocentric radii, $r$, and with the decrease in the pair separations. Galaxies which assemble late on average have stronger 2PCF signals. With $z_{1/4}$, $z_{1/2}$ and $z_{3/4}$ defined as the redshifts when galaxies accreted one-fourth, half and three-fourths of their ex-situ stellar mass at today, we find all of them show the strongest correlations with the 2PCF signals at $r\sim0.2R_{200}$. $z_{3/4}$ shows the strongest correlations at all radii than those of $z_{1/4}$ or $z_{1/2}$, as later accreted stars preserve better clusterings. However, the correlations between the 2PCF signals at different radii and the galaxy formation times all have large scatters. The 2PCFs in velocity space show weaker correlations with the galaxy formation times within $0.38R_{200}$ than real space 2PCFs, and the scatter is considerably large. Both the real and velocity space 2PCFs correlate with the assembly histories of the host dark matter halos as well. Within $0.38R_{200}$, the real space 2PCF shows stronger correlations with the galaxy formation histories than with the halo formation histories, while the velocity space 2PCFs do not show large differences. We conclude that it is difficult to use 2PCF alone to precisely predict the formation times or assembly histories of galaxies.
description: accepted by ApJ
Co-EP Banach Algebra Elements
Creators: name: Benitez, Julio
name: Boasso, Enrico
name: Rakocevic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46H05, Secondary 47A05

description: In this work, given a unital Banach algebra $\A$ and $a\in \A$ such that $a$ has a Moore-Penrose inverse $a^\dagger$, it will be characterized when $aa^\dagger-a^\dagger a$ is invertible. A particular subset of this class of objects will also be studied. In addition, perturbations of this class of elements will be studied. Finally, the Banach space operator case will be also considered.
description: 14 pages, original research article
MPEC 2024-R141 : 2024 RP4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RP4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Anisotropic dark energy model with a hybrid scale factor
Creators: name: Mishra, B.
name: Tripathy, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic dark energy model with dynamic pressure anisotropies along different spatial directions is constructed at the backdrop of a spatially homogeneous diagonal Bianchi type $V$ $(BV)$ space-time in the framework of General Relativity. A time varying deceleration parameter generating a hybrid scale factor is considered to simulate a cosmic transition from early deceleration to late time acceleration. We found that the pressure anisotropies along the $y-$ and $z-$ axes evolve dynamically and continue along with the cosmic expansion without being subsided even at late times. The anisotropic pressure along the $x-$axis becomes equal to the mean fluid pressure. At a late phase of cosmic evolution, the model enters into a phantom region. From a state finder diagnosis, it is found that the model overlaps with $Λ$CDM at late phase of cosmic time.
BodyFormer: Semantics-guided 3D Body Gesture Synthesis with Transformer
Creators: name: Pang, Kunkun
name: Qin, Dafei
name: Fan, Yingruo
name: Habekost, Julian
name: Shiratori, Takaaki
name: Yamagishi, Junichi
name: Komura, Taku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic gesture synthesis from speech is a topic that has attracted researchers for applications in remote communication, video games and Metaverse. Learning the mapping between speech and 3D full-body gestures is difficult due to the stochastic nature of the problem and the lack of a rich cross-modal dataset that is needed for training. In this paper, we propose a novel transformer-based framework for automatic 3D body gesture synthesis from speech. To learn the stochastic nature of the body gesture during speech, we propose a variational transformer to effectively model a probabilistic distribution over gestures, which can produce diverse gestures during inference. Furthermore, we introduce a mode positional embedding layer to capture the different motion speeds in different speaking modes. To cope with the scarcity of data, we design an intra-modal pre-training scheme that can learn the complex mapping between the speech and the 3D gesture from a limited amount of data. Our system is trained with either the Trinity speech-gesture dataset or the Talking With Hands 16.2M dataset. The results show that our system can produce more realistic, appropriate, and diverse body gestures compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Association of perceived partner non-monogamy with prevalent and incident sexual concurrency
Creators: name: Adimora, Adaora A
name: Poole, Charles
name: Agnew, Christopher R
name: Warren, Jocelyn T
name: Schoenbach, Victor J
name: Sanchez, Diana M.
name: Leone, Peter A
name: Harvey, S Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Concurrency is suggested as an important factor in sexually transmitted infection transmission and acquisition, though little is known regarding factors that may predict concurrency initiation. We examined the association between perception of a partner’s non-monogamy (PPNM) and simultaneous or subsequent concurrency among at-risk heterosexual young adults in the Los Angeles area.
Effective Hamiltonians, prethermalization and slow energy absorption in periodically driven many-body systems
Creators: name: Abanin, D. A.
name: De Roeck, W.
name: Ho, W. W.
name: Huveneers, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish some general dynamical properties of lattice many-body systems that are subject to a high-frequency periodic driving. We prove that such systems have a quasi-conserved extensive quantity $H_*$, which plays the role of an effective static Hamiltonian. The dynamics of the system (e.g., evolution of any local observable) is well-approximated by the evolution with the Hamiltonian $H_*$ up to time $τ_*$, which is exponentially long in the driving frequency. We further show that the energy absorption rate is exponentially small in the driving frequency. In cases where $H_*$ is ergodic, the driven system prethermalizes to a thermal state described by $H_*$ at intermediate times $t\lesssim τ_*$, eventually heating up to an infinite-temperature state at times $t\sim τ_*$. Our results indicate that rapidly driven many-body systems generically exhibit prethermalization and very slow heating. We briefly discuss implications for experiments which realize topological states by periodic driving.
description: 6 + 4 pages, Paper updated to match published version
Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks: the gas-phase CO/H2 ratio and the Carbon reservoir
Creators: name: Reboussin, L.
name: Wakelam, V.
name: Guilloteau, S.
name: Hersant, F.
name: Dutrey, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gas mass of protoplanetary disks, and the gas-to-dust ratio, are two key elements driving the evolution of these disks and the formation of planetary system. We explore here to what extent CO (or its isotopologues) can be used as a tracer of gas mass. We use a detailed gas-grain chemical model and study the evolution of the disk composition, starting from a dense pre-stellar core composition. We explore a range of disk temperature profiles, cosmic rays ionization rates, and disk ages for a disk model representative of T Tauri stars. At the high densities that prevail in disks, we find that, due to fast reactions on grain surfaces, CO can be converted to less volatile forms (principally s-CO$_2$, and to a lesser extent s-CH$_4$) instead of being evaporated over a wide range of temperature. The canonical gas-phase abundance of 10$^{-4}$ is only reached above about 30-35 K. The dominant Carbon bearing entity depends on the temperature structure and age of the disk. The chemical evolution of CO is also sensitive to the cosmic rays ionization rate. Larger gas phase CO abundances are found in younger disks. Initial conditions, such as parent cloud age and density, have a limited impact. This study reveals that CO gas-phase abundance is heavily dependent on grain surface processes, which remain very incompletely understood so far. The strong dependence on dust temperature profile makes CO a poor tracer of the gas-phase content of disks.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
Oenothera perangusta Gates, Canad. Field-Naturalist 1950
Creators: name: Woźniak-Chodacka, Monika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Onagraceae
Oenothera
Oenothera perangusta

description: Oenothera perangusta Gates, Canad. Field-Naturalist 64: 142. 1950.
 Type:— CANADA. Ontario: sandy beach of Lake Huron at Stokes Bay, Bruce Peninsula, 11 July 1934, Krotkov 9252 (holotype: GH-00073029!). Figure 1.
 Genetic features: —Permanent translocation heterozygote (PTH); main types of haploid genomes AC [based on morphology] (Dietrich et al. 1997).
 Distribution: —In North America it has been found in Canada (Provinces of Ontario and Alberta) and United States of America (State of Montana) (Gates 1950). According to Rostański, the species is widely distributed also in Eastern, Northern and Central Europe (Rostański et al. 2010).
description: Published as part of Woźniak-Chodacka, Monika, 2018, A revision of taxonomic relation between Oenothera perangusta and O. ersteinensis (Onagraceae) based on morphometric research and statistical analyses, pp. 55-74 in Phytotaxa 383 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.383.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13725223
Application of Principal Component Analysis As A DataReducing Technique
Creators: name: Fayose Taiwo Stephen
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Principal Component Analysis, Principal Component, Kaiser's Criterion, Guttman, Kaiser, Karhunen-Loeve Transform, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

description: Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 6, 1, 27 to 30
Yoga in Australia: an ethnographic study of Gita International in Melbourne
Creators: name: Walsh, Trevor
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of Gita International, one of Melbourne’s oldest continuously-run Yoga schools, conducted from May 2010 until December 2011. Its aim is to explore how and why an “Eastern” spirituality such as Yoga was able to be transferred from its cultural base in India to Melbourne, Australia in the 1950s and successfully established in the predominantly Anglo-Australian society of the time. Yoga subsequently grew in popularity in the increasingly multicultural community, as indicated by of the large number of Yoga groups, schools, styles and teachers in Melbourne today. I argue that the successful establishment of Yoga in Melbourne is due to the narrowing of the cultural distance between Yoga as practised in India and the Australian socio-cultural context through a hybridisation process which includes four dimensions: the de-emphasis over traditional Indian philosophic Yoga sources; the re-casting of the representation and role of the guru as conceived in India; the re-conceptualisation of the traditional Indian Yoga ashram into an idealised spiritual home; and the adaptation of the traditional Indian Yoga lifestyle and practices to dominant cultural idioms associated with the Australian lifestyle - exercise, fitness, health and well-being. This study contends that adaptations of the yogic lifestyle and practices were necessary and strategically enacted by the founder and subsequent directors of the school to overcome the cultural distance potentially experienced by the Australian Yoga practitioners at Gita International in relation to the unfamiliar doctrines and practices of the Indian Yoga tradition when encountered in an Australian socio-cultural context. The successful narrowing of the cultural distance of the yogic lifestyle enabled Gita International to assimilate Yoga into the host socio-cultural environment and promote the long term commitment of its members to both the yogic practices and to Gita International.
More on Heisenberg's model for high energy nucleon-nucleon scattering
Creators: name: Nastase, Horatiu
name: Sonnenschein, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit Heisenberg's model for nucleon-nucleon scattering which admits a saturation of the Froissart bound. We examine its uniqueness, and find that up to certain natural generalizations, it is the only action that saturates the bound. We find that we can extract also sub-leading behaviour for $σ_{\rm tot}(s)$ from it, though that requires a knowledge of the wavefunction solution that is hard to obtain, and a black-disk model allows the calculation of $σ_{elastic}(s)$ as well. The wavefunction solution is analyzed perturbatively, and its source is interpreted. Generalizations to several mesons, addition of vector mesons, and curved space regimes are also found. We discuss the relations between Heisenberg's model and holographic models that are dual to QCD-like theories.
description: 55 pages, 5 figures