cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The relationship between coping strategies and psychological adjustment among siblings of chronically ill children.
Creators: name: Bendavid-Streiner, Zohar.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: This study was designed to examine: how siblings of chronically ill children cope with decreased parental availability, disruption to daily routines, and worries about the ill sibling; whether siblings cope differently with each of these three situations; what type of coping strategies siblings perceive as effective; the relation between psychological adjustment and the use of problem-focused and emotion-focused strategies; and the incremental variance in siblings' psychological functioning accounted for by siblings' coping strategies after controlling for age and gender. The study also explored how coping differs as a function of secondary appraisal and whether there are gender differences in coping. The Cognitive Appraisal Model of stress and coping guided the study. 110 participants (56 girls and 54 boys), 8--12 years old, completed the Kidcope, the Children's Depression Inventory, and the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale, and parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist. Results indicate that siblings' coping strategies explain a significant proportion of the variance in externalizing (14%) and internalizing (7%) behaviour problems after siblings' age and gender are controlled for, though coping is not related to child-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety. The most frequently used coping strategies are cognitive restructuring and wishful thinking. Other commonly utilized strategies are social support, distraction, problem solving, emotional regulation, and social withdrawal. Of these, social support is perceived as the most helpful in dealing with decreased parental availability and disruptions to routines, and cognitive restructuring as the most helpful in dealing with worries. Siblings employ significantly more emotion---than problem-focused strategies in dealing with all situations, though the use of problem---or emotion-focused coping is not related to secondary appraisal. Problem-focused coping in dealing with disruptions and worries is associated with higher parental reports of externalizing problems, whereas the use of emotion-focused coping in dealing with these two situations is associated with fewer such reports. There are no gender differences with regard to the relative use of problem---or emotion-focused coping. Research and clinical implications of these findings, as well as the insights and limitations of this study, are considered in the discussion.
GAMA/H-ATLAS: A meta-analysis of SFR indicators - comprehensive measures of the SFR-M* relation and cosmic star formation history at z 0.4
Creators: name: Davies, L. J M
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Robotham, A. S G
name: Grootes, M. W.
name: Popescu, C. C.
name: Tuffs, R. J.
name: Hopkins, A.
name: Alpaslan, M.
name: Andrews, S. K.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bremer, M. N.
name: Brough, S.
name: Brown, M. J I
name: Cluver, Michelle
name: Croom, S.
name: Lima Da Cunha, Elisabete
name: Dunne, L.
name: Lara-López, M. A.
name: Liske, J.
name: Loveday, J.
name: Moffett, A. J.
name: Owers, M.
name: Phillipps, S.
name: Sansom, A. E.
name: Taylor, Edward
name: Michalowski, M. J.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Smith, M.
name: Bourne, N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present a meta-analysis of star formation rate (SFR) indicators in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, producing 12 different SFR metrics and determining the SFR-M* relation for each. We compare and contrast published methods to extract the SFR from each indicator, using a well-defined local sample of morphologically selected spiral galaxies, which excludes sources which potentially have large recent changes to their SFR. The different methods are found to yield SFR-M* relations with inconsistent slopes and normalizations, suggesting differences between calibration methods. The recovered SFR-M* relations also have a large range in scatter which, as SFRs of the targets may be considered constant over the different time-scales, suggests differences in the accuracy by which methods correct for attenuation in individual targets. We then recalibrate all SFR indicators to provide new, robust and consistent luminosity-to-SFR calibrations, finding that the most consistent slopes and normalizations of the SFR-M* relations are obtained when recalibrated using the radiation transfer method of Popescu et al. These new calibrations can be used to directly compare SFRs across different observations, epochs and galaxy populations. We then apply our calibrations to the GAMA II equatorial data set and explore the evolution of star formation in the local Universe. We determine the evolution of the normalization to the SFR-M* relation from 0 〈 z 〈 0.35 - finding consistent trends with previous estimates at 0.3 〈 z 〈 1.2. We then provide the definitive z 〈 0.35 cosmic star formation history, SFR-M* relation and its evolution over the last 3 billion years.
Empirical comparison on performance of Ryan and Ritchken bound theories and assessment on pricing bias.
Creators: name: Sun, Weimin.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Economics, Finance.

description: The focus of our empirical assessment is on studying two bound theories proposed by Ritchken (1985) and Ryan (1997). The study embarks on two tasks. One task is to answer how much tighter Ryan bounds are. The second is to propose a method to detect the pricing bias problem for a bound theory. The test data set consists of 1910 samples recorded at 9:00am, 11:00am and 2:00pm Central Time at Chicago Board Options Exchange, in total, 20875 S&P 500 index call options. Analysis with our test data set shows that by adding in an additional constraint, Ryan bounds are approximately 22% tighter than Ritchken bounds. The empirical analysis also shows that the proposed method has successfully detected the pricing bias problem for the Ritchken's theory when a lognormal distribution is assumed.
title: Hallazgos radiológicos del Síndrome de Budd-Chiari.
Creators: name: Monteagudo Cortecero, Juana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos y otros aspectos importantes del Síndrome de...
Multiplicative update rules for accelerating deep learning training and increasing robustness
Creators: name: Kirtas, Manos
name: Passalis, Nikolaos
name: Tefas, Anastasios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Even nowadays, where Deep Learning (DL) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of research domains, accelerating training and building robust DL models remains a challenging task. To this end, generations of researchers have pursued to develop robust methods for training DL architectures that can be less sensitive to weight distributions, model architectures and loss landscapes. However, such methods are limited to adaptive learning rate optimizers, initialization schemes, and clipping gradients without investigating the fundamental rule of parameters update. Although multiplicative updates have contributed significantly to the early development of machine learning and hold strong theoretical claims, to best of our knowledge, this is the first work that investigate them in context of DL training acceleration and robustness. In this work, we propose an optimization framework that fits to a wide range of optimization algorithms and enables one to apply alternative update rules. To this end, we propose a novel multiplicative update rule and we extend their capabilities by combining it with a traditional additive update term, under a novel hybrid update method. We claim that the proposed framework accelerates training, while leading to more robust models in contrast to traditionally used additive update rule and we experimentally demonstrate their effectiveness in a wide range of task and optimization methods. Such tasks ranging from convex and non-convex optimization to difficult image classification benchmarks applying a wide range of traditionally used optimization methods and Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures.
A user-definable office information system.
Creators: name: Walther, David A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Information Science.

description: This thesis investigates the design and implementation of an Office Information System that allows user input in defining a system for the office environment. This system has a limited knowledge of its domain, as an expert system. This knowledge is provided by users, and specified in terms of production rules. The system allows users to tailoring of the system to best meet their own requirements. The system has been implemented in Common Lisp on a VAX computer.
Photon beam properties at the European XFEL
Creators: name: E.A. Schneidmiller
name: M.V. Yurkov
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2011
Subjects: Physics

description: A new set of baseline parameters of the electron beam and undulator for the
             European XFEL project has been defined recently. Changes refer to the electron
             beam emittance, charge, operation at different electron energies, and change of
             undulator period. According to the present concept, it is planned to vary charge
             from 20 pC to 1 nC allowing control of the FWHM radiation pulse duration.
             Operation at different electron energies of 17.5 GeV, 14 GeV, and 10.5 GeV will
             allow extension of the wavelength range to longer wavelengths. Electron bunches
             with different charges possess different properties. These features have an
             inmpact on photon beam properties which should be taken into account at the
             design stage optical beamlines and instruments and planning user experiments. In
             this note we present an overview of the radiation properties generated by SASE
             FEL radiators driven by electron beam with revised baseline parameters.
description: DESY Technical Report
K-divergent lattices
Creators: name: Lachman, Guy
name: Rao, Anurag
name: Shapira, Uri
name: Yifrach, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a novel concept in topological dynamics, referred to as $k$-divergence, which extends the notion of divergent orbits. Motivated by questions in the theory of inhomogeneous Diophantine approximations, we investigate this notion in the dynamical system given by a certain flow on the space of unimodular lattices in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our main result is the existence of $k$-divergent lattices for any $k\geq 0$. In fact, we utilize the emerging theory of parametric geometry of numbers and calculate the Hausdorff dimension of the set of $k$-divergent lattices.
Development and application of monocular 3D point cloud for structural damage quantification
Creators: name: Faraji Zonouz, Elmira
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: The early detection of structural damage is critical for preventing catastrophic failures and ensuring public safety. Traditional manual inspection methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and pose inherent safety risks to human inspectors. Consequently, the automation of inspection processes using advanced computer vision and machine learning techniques offers a promising alternative that is both efficient and safer. Currently, most computer vision-based inspection systems rely on two-dimensional (2D) analysis. However, 2D methods are inherently limited, as they primarily enable qualitative damage classification, basic localization, and in-plane quantification. The introduction of three-dimensional (3D) vision-based techniques has significantly expanded the capabilities of structural assessment by incorporating depth perception, a wider field of view, and improved performance in complex environments. Technologies such as laser scanning, stereo vision, photogrammetry, and structure-from-motion have been employed to generate high-resolution 3D point clouds for bridges and other structures. While effective, these methods typically require specialized equipment and are often constrained by slow data acquisition and processing speeds. This study investigates state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods for 3D reconstruction of structural elements from a single RGB image. Initially, monocular depth estimation algorithms are employed to generate depth maps from individual RGB images. This data is then converted into RGBD format, which is subsequently used to generate 3D point clouds. Structural damage is then autonomously identified and quantified within these point clouds using mathematical algorithms. A key requirement for accurate 3D reconstruction is knowledge of the intrinsic parameters of the camera. Two approaches were proposed for this purpose. The first involves standard camera calibration techniques widely used in computer vision. The second leverages deep learning-based estimation or approximation of intrinsic parameters. Experimental results demonstrate that intrinsic parameters can be estimated with sufficient accuracy, enabling the use of uncalibrated, previously captured images for structural damage assessment. The proposed methods offer a cost-effective, rapid, and scalable solution for both real-time and retrospective damage detection. Continued advancements in deep learning models for depth estimation and camera parameter prediction are expected to further enhance the accuracy and applicability of these techniques within the field of structural health monitoring.
Zur Einführung der „Schocktherapien" und Leukotomie in Deutschland
Creators: name: Rzesnitzek, Lara
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: history of psychiatry
subject: convulsive therapy
subject: electroshock
subject: psychosurgery
subject: leucotomy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Die Geschichte der „Schocktherapien“ und Leukotomie in Deutschland war lange ein vernachlässigtes Kapitel der Psychiatriegeschichte. Vorurteile behinderten über Jahre hinweg eine detaillierte Aufarbeitung. Die in dieser Habilitationsschrift zusammengefassten Recherchen widerlegen die unter Historikern weit verbreitete These, die deutsche Psychiatrie während des Nationalsozialismus habe die in den 1930ern entwickelten somatischen sog. „heroischen“ Therapien Insulinkoma, Cardialzolkrampf, Elektrokrampftherapie und Leukotomie im internationalen Vergleich ausgesprochen schnell eingeführt und radikal eingesetzt, im Sinne einer vor nichts zurückschreckenden Anwendung mutmaßlich grausamer Therapiemethoden als letztem Schritt vor der „Euthanasie“. Während die Einführung der Elektrokrampftherapie im Deutschen Reich u.a. auch durch kriegsbedingte Hindernisse eher langsam und kaum flächendeckend erfolgte, wurde die Leukotomie erst in der Nachkriegszeit aufgegriffen. Der in die USA emigrierte Berliner Nervenarzt Lothar Kalinowsky unterstützte über Veröffentlichungen, Gastvorlesungen, Begleitung von wissenschaftlichen Reisen amerikanischer Psychiater, Neurologen und Neurochirurgen, die weitere Verbreitung und Anwendung der Elektrokrampftherapie und der Leukotomie. Da die tatsächliche psychiatrische Praxis häufig von der jeweils aus wissenschaftlichen Artikeln, Büchern, Kongressberichten etc. herauslesbaren Lehrmeinung abweicht, war für die hier dargestellte Untersuchung die quantitative und qualitative Auswertung von Krankenakten unverzichtbar. Der Erhalt der alten Krankenakten, idealerweise innerhalb der Kliniken selbst, wäre daher dringend wünschenswert.
"Pardevant nous, clercs notaires jures de Chastellet": Étude comparative de la pratique notariale à Orléans en 1437
Creators: name: Fortier, Anne
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: History, European.
subject: History, Medieval.

description: Pour une raison encore inexpliquée, les notaires royaux d'Orléans conservèrent, dès 1385, les minutes des actes qu'ils passaient, ce que ne faisaient pas systèmatiquement leurs confrères instrumentant ailleurs dans le Nord de la France. De cette conjoncture est issue la présente recherche, qui se veut un double redressement réhabiliter l'étude du notariat en pays coutumier et aborder les actes notariés dans leur intégralité en tenant compte de leur auteur. Que signifiait être clerc notaire du Chatelet d'Orléans en 1437? Les minutes de Pierre Christophe, Guillaume Girault et Jehan de Recouin permettent d'effectuer une comparaison. Il en ressort que l'expérience et les aspirations propres à chaque notaire sont perceptibles dans la tenue de leur registre et les caracteristiques de leur clientele et ce, malgré le fait qu'ils travaillaient tous au même endroit dans des conditions semblables en utilisant les normes établies ou conseillées par la prévôté.
Assessing Factors Affecting Purchase Intention of Mobile Application Users
Creators: name: Tang, Ida Xin En
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Due to changing demand from electronic commerce to mobile commerce, the significance of research on purchase intention of mobile application users has increased. The main purpose of this study is to explore factors influencing purchase intention of mobile application users. 215 respondents fall under age group 18-35 years old in Malaysia who used mobile shopping applications in the past six months were recruited for the survey. The results have highlighted the importance of providing a mobile application that will induce purchase intention of users through information quality, system quality and service quality which promote usefulness, entertainment gratification and reduce irritation.
Le rythme et l'individuation du sujet traduisant
Creators: name: Houdin, Guy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Literature, Comparative.

description: Generally speaking, the translator figure does not appear in translation definitions and models. To counteract the illusion of the "translator's invisibility" (Venuti), this study will try, through the analysis of rhythm, to provide elements that establish the translator figure's subjectivity at work in the translation. Since the purpose of this work is to verify whether rhythm is an individuation factor of translators, the corpus is comprised of several translations of three works by three different authors: a naturalist (Darwin), a philosopher (Hegel) and a novelist (Kafka). The corpus sets a diachronic differentiation, but the translations selected for every original text are contemporaneous of each other in order to verify whether rhythm allows for the establishing of a difference between translators on a synchronic level. The part of subjectivity that the analyses have actually highlighted in every one of the translations shows that rhythm can no longer be seen as a mere ornament nor does it fall within the domain of stylistics where it has been confined until now. Rhythm discursive functions are either in the field of narration (as an element of focalization) or in the field of argumentation (as a modelization factor). Rhythm can also have an epistemological function as, in conjunction with other textual features, it modifies the knowledge subtly represented in the original text. Rhythm unequivocally brings out the translator's very own voice. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Software defect content estimation: A Bayesian approach
Creators: name: Jain, Achin
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Software inspection is a method to detect errors in software artefacts early in the development cycle. At the end of the inspection process the inspectors need to make a decision whether the inspected artefact is of sufficient quality or not. Several methods have been proposed to assist in making this decision like capture recapture methods and Bayesian approach. In this study these methods have been analyzed and compared and a new Bayesian approach for software inspection is proposed. All of the estimation models rely on an underlying assumption that the inspectors are independent. However, this assumption of independence is not necessarily true in practical sense, as most of the inspection teams interact with each other and share their findings. We, therefore, studied a new Bayesian model where the inspectors share their findings, for defect estimate and compared it with the Bayesian model (Gupta et al. 2003), where inspectors examine the artefact independently. The simulations were carried out under realistic software conditions with a small number of difficult defects and a few inspectors. The models were evaluated on the basis of decision accuracy and median relative error and our results suggest that the dependent inspector assumption improves the decision accuracy (DA) over the previous Bayesian model and CR models.
Stickstoff - Element mit Wirkung
Creators: name: Geupel, Markus
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Stickstoff
subject: Ammoniak
subject: Nitrat
subject: Distickstoffoxid
subject: Lachgas
subject: Stickstoffoxide
subject: Zielwerte
subject: integriert
subject: Luft
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Wasser
subject: Landwirtschaft
subject: Lärm

description: Stickstoffemissionen aus nahezu allen Gesellschaftsbereichen führen zu Risiken für Mensch und Umwelt. Eine nachhaltiger Umgang mit Stickstoff und seinen Verbindungen spielt daher für das Erreichen der UN Nachhaltigkeitsziele (SDG) ein große Rolle. Als Meilenstein hin zu einem nachhaltigen Stickstoffmanagement, schlägt das Umweltbundesamt für Deutschland eine neue Obergrenze vom 1.000 kt Stickstoff pro Jahr vor. Die neue Obergrenze erfasst nahezu alle Quellen und schließt neben der Landwirtschaft auch Sektoren wie den Verkehr oder die Industrie ein. Das Hintergrundpapier erläutert Hintergründe zu Risiken, fasst den Sachstand zur gegenwärtigen Belastungssituation zusammen und bewertet bestehende Minderungsoptionen anhand der neuen Obergrenze. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Stickstoffemissionen aus nahezu allen Gesellschaftsbereichen führen zu Risiken für Mensch und Umwelt. Eine nachhaltiger Umgang mit Stickstoff und seinen Verbindungen spielt daher für das Erreichen der ⁠UN⁠ Nachhaltigkeitsziele (SDG) ein große Rolle. Als Meilenstein hin zu einem nachhaltigen Stickstoffmanagement, schlägt das Umweltbundesamt für Deutschland eine neue Obergrenze vom 1.000 kt Stickstoff pro Jahr vor. Die neue Obergrenze erfasst nahezu alle Quellen und schließt neben der Landwirtschaft auch Sektoren wie den Verkehr oder die Industrie ein. Das Hintergrundpapier erläutert Hintergründe zu Risiken, fasst den Sachstand zur gegenwärtigen Belastungssituation zusammen und bewertet bestehende Minderungsoptionen anhand der neuen Obergrenze.
Including aspects of climate change into water safety planning: Literature review of global experience and case studies from Ethiopian urban supplies
Creators: name: Rickert, Bettina
name: Van Den Berg, Harold
name: Bekure, Kasa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Trinkwasser
Klimaänderung

description: In recent years, the water safety plan approach has been extended towards climate-resilient water safety planning. This happened in response to increasing insight into impacts of climate on drinking-water and required adaptation to anticipated climate change. Literature was reviewed for published guidance and case examples, documenting how to consider climate in water safety planning to support future uptake. Climate-resilient water safety plans were piloted within a project in the water supplies of Addis Ababa and Adama, Ethiopia. Case examples have been published in four of six WHO regions with a focus on urban supplies. Integration of climate aspects focused mostly on the steps of establishing the team, system description, hazard analysis and risk assessment, improvement planning and development of management procedures. While the traditional framework focuses on drinking-water quality, considering climate change augments aspects of water quantity. Therefore, other factors affecting water quantity such as population development and demand of other sectors need to be considered as well. Local climate information and tools should be employed as a significant success factor for future uptake. Such information should be incorporated as it becomes available, and may - depending on the setting - be incrementally integrated into existing water safety plans or used to develop new ones. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Studying the Security Centric Intelligence on Android Malware Detection
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoqi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The detection of malicious apps on the Android smartphone system has long been a critical challenge. While the industry and academia have spent numerous efforts in proposing various systems to detect these malicious apps, malicious apps are evolving to evade detection. This thesis studies how malicious apps evolve and how they leverage the vulnerabilities in existing detection systems to avoid detection. Understanding how malicious apps evolve and how they bypass existing detection will help researchers and malware analysts better address the issue of detecting malicious apps in an adversarial environment.
Molecular and atomic gas along and across the main sequence of star-forming galaxies
Creators: name: Saintonge, Amelie
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
name: Haynes, Martha P.
name: Janowiecki, Steven
name: Kramer, Carsten
name: Lutz, Katharina A.
name: Schiminovich, David
name: Tacconi, Linda J.
name: Wuyts, Stijn
name: Accurso, Gioacchino
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We use spectra from the ALFALFA, GASS and COLD GASS surveys to quantify variations in the mean atomic and molecular gas mass fractions throughout the SFR-M-* plane and along the main sequence (MS) of star-forming galaxies. Although galaxies well below the MS tend to be undetected in the Arecibo and IRAM observations, reliable mean atomic and molecular gas fractions can be obtained through a spectral stacking technique. We find that the position of galaxies in the SFR-M-* plane can be explained mostly by their global cold gas reservoirs as observed in the H I line, with in addition systematic variations in the molecular-to-atomic ratio and star formation efficiency. When looking at galaxies within +/- 0.4 dex of the MS, we find that as stellar mass increases, both atomic and molecular gas mass fractions decrease, stellar bulges become more prominent, and the mean stellar ages increase. Both star formation efficiency and molecular-to-atomic ratios vary little for massive MS galaxies, indicating that the flattening of the MS is due to the global decrease of the cold gas reservoirs of galaxies rather than to bottlenecks in the process of converting cold atomic gas to stars.
Supplementary document for Megahertz X-ray microscopy at X-ray Free-Electron Laser and Synchrotron sources - 4067998.pdf
Creators: name: Vagovic, Patrik
name: sato, tokushi
name: Mikes, Ladislav
name: Mills, Grant
name: Graceffa, Rita
name: Mattsson, Frans
name: Villanueva-Perez, Pablo
name: Ershov, Alexey
name: Faragó, Tomáš
name: Uličný, Jozef
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Fluid Physics

description: Supplemental 1
Dévissage for periodic cyclic homology of complete intersections
Creators: name: Brown, Michael K.
name: Walker, Mark E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D03, 13D09, 14F08, 19D55

description: We prove that the dévissage property holds for periodic cyclic homology for a local complete intersection embedding into a smooth scheme. As a consequence, we show that the complexified topological Chern character maps for the bounded derived category and singularity category of a local complete intersection are isomorphisms, proving new cases of the Lattice Conjecture in noncommutative Hodge theory.
description: 14 pages. To appear in Annals of K-theory
Supplementary document for Megahertz X-ray microscopy at X-ray Free-Electron Laser and Synchrotron sources - 4067998.pdf
Creators: name: Vagovic, Patrik
name: sato, tokushi
name: Mikes, Ladislav
name: Mills, Grant
name: Graceffa, Rita
name: Mattsson, Frans
name: Villanueva-Perez, Pablo
name: Ershov, Alexey
name: Faragó, Tomáš
name: Uličný, Jozef
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fluid Physics

description: Supplemental 1
EFFECT OF PLYOMETRIC TRAINING AND RESISTANCE TRAINING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR FITNESS COMPONENTS AMONG DISTRICT LEVEL MALE STUDENTS
Creators: name: Dr. P. Ganesh Kumar*, Dr. S. Ezhilarasi** & Dr. K. P. Saravanan***
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of Plyometric training and resistance training on the development of motor fitness components. To achieve this purpose of the study, forty five students were selected as subjects at random from Namakkal district. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 21 years. The selected subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen subjects each Group I underwent Plyometric training, Group II underwent resistance training, Group III act as control group. The selected criterion variables were assessed using standard tests and procedures, before and after the training schedule. Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used as a statistical technique to determine the significant difference, if any existing between pre test and post test data on selected dependent variables. The level of significance was accepted at p<0.05. Result reveals that speed, Explosive power, Cardio-respiratory Endurance and Muscular Endurance can be improved through Plyometrics and Resistance training as compared with control group.
Pregled odabranih presuda Europskog suda za ljudska prava za 2019. godinu
Creators: name: Dabić, Tea
Publisher: name: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb
Year: 2019

description: Kuća ljudskih prava Zagreb izradila je pregled četiri odabrane presude Europskog suda za ljudska prava, koje su ili donesene ili postale konačne u 2019. godine, u cilju informiranja šire javnosti o sadržaju donesenih odluka. Imajući na umu da su domaći sudovi dužni tumačiti nacionalno pravo u skladu s izraženim zaključcima, utvrđenjima i praksom Europskog suda, od ključne je važnosti poznavanje i razumijevanje judikature Europskog suda.
Spectral Metric and Einstein Functionals for Hodge-Dirac operator
Creators: name: Dąbrowski, Ludwik
name: Zalecki, Paweł
name: Sitarz, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58J50, 46L87, 58B34

description: We examine the metric and Einstein bilinear functionals of differential forms introduced in Adv.Math.,Vol.427,(2023)1091286, for Hodge-Dirac operator $d+δ$ on an oriented even-dimensional Riemannian manifold. We show that they reproduce these functionals for the canonical Dirac operator on a spin manifold up to a numerical factor. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the associated spectral triple is spectrally closed, which implies that it is torsion-free.
description: Final version
La polarisation cognitive chez l'anorexique selon une philosophie existentielle.
Creators: name: Warah, Aïda A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Clinical.

description: L'anorexie mentale demeure un probleme enigmatique. La nature de ce desordre provient de ses manifestations qui semblent contraster avec nos conceptions de la nature et des besoins fondamentaux de l'homme. Une facon d'etudier et de comprendre la specificite de ce desordre est d'examiner les modes de traitement de l'information qui lui sont propres. Plusieurs auteurs referent a un mode de penser etroit, concret et irrationnel. J'appelle ce mode d'apprehension du monde "polarisation cognitive". L'expression designe une incapacite et un refus de s'arreter ou de tracer des limites. Au fond, l'anorexique trace des limites absolues et surtout les limites de son corps. Son monde est parfaitement delimite et souvent elle reussit bien dans les activites academique et artistique. Cependant, elle est loin d'etre une personne epanouie. Dans cette recherche, je prends la polarisation cognitive comme point de depart et je pose les questions suivantes: Comment la facon d'interagir avec le monde d'apres la polarisation est-elle problematique? Quelle fonction remplit-elle et dans quelles conditions se developpe-t-elle? Meme si je m'attarde au probleme de la polarisation cognitive chez l'anorexique, le vecu de l'anorexique dans sa totalite fera l'objet de cette recherche. Ce sont les conceptions d'ensemble d'un objet d'etude qui informent davantage sur sa nature que les recherches parcellaires et trop abstraites. La polarisation cognitive chez l'anorexique ne refere pas a un mode de penser mais a un mode d'etre-dans-le-monde. Pour cette raison le concept de polarisation cognitive se "transforme" en polarisation existentielle. La question directrice de cette recherche concerne la facon dont l'anorexique entre en relation avec son monde et cree des sens. Cette question est abordee selon une approche deductive ou la connaissance s'obtient en partant d'un cadre philosophique. Le cadre general de cette recherche est appele "metatheorique". Il comprend des postulats sur l'emergence de l'etre et du connai tre. Ensuite, le discours theorique contient des hypotheses sur la polarisation existentielle. Au niveau pratique de la recherche j'elabore une approche therapeutique basee sur ces formulations theoriques. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Nematic metal in a multi-valley electron gas: Variational Monte Carlo analysis and application to AlAs
Creators: name: Valenti, Agnes
name: Calvera, Vladimir
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
name: Berg, Erez
name: Huber, Sebastian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-dimensional electron gas is of fundamental importance in quantum many-body physics. We study a minimal extension of this model with $C_4$ (as opposed to full rotational) symmetry and an electronic dispersion with two valleys with anisotropic effective masses. Using variational Monte Carlo simulations, we find a broad intermediate range of densities with a metallic valley-polarized, spin-unpolarized ground-state. Our results are of direct relevance to the recently discovered ``nematic'' state in AlAs quantum wells. For the effective mass anisotropy relevant to this system, $m_x/m_y\approx 5.2$, we obtain a transition from an anisotropic metal to a valley-polarized metal at $r_s \approx 12$ (where $r_s$ is the dimensionless Wigner-Seitz radius). At still lower densities, we find a (possibly metastable) valley and spin-polarized state with a reduced electronic anisotropy.
description: 5+20 pages
Enhancement of the REACH requirements for (imported) articles
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Besonders besorgniserregende Stoffe
subject: Zulassungsverfahren
subject: REACH
subject: European Chemicals Regulation
subject: SVHC
subject: substances of very high concern
subject: CLP
subject: imported products
subject: TBT Agreement
subject: CTBT
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: The EU might introduce an authorization scheme for imported goods such as clothing, sports gear and toys in the REACH Regulation, to aim at a better protection of humans and the environment against Substances of Very High Concern in articles. An UBA study claims that the necessary amendment of the EU chemicals regulation REACH would not breach international trade law. Another simple improvement could be achieved by introducing a standardized communication format to oblige manufacturers to indicate not only the name of the Substances of Very High Concern, but also the concentrations, total volumes and information about hazardous properties and safe use and disposal through the production chain.
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: The EU might introduce an authorization scheme for imported goods such as clothing, sports gear and toys in the ⁠REACH⁠ Regulation, to aim at a better protection of humans and the environment against Substances of Very High Concern in articles. An ⁠UBA⁠ study claims that the necessary amendment of the EU chemicals regulation REACH would not breach international trade law. Another simple improvement could be achieved by introducing a standardized communication format to oblige manufacturers to indicate not only the name of the Substances of Very High Concern, but also the concentrations, total volumes and information about hazardous properties and safe use and disposal through the production chain.
Molecular and biochemical studies of Trichomonas vaginalis.
Creators: name: Petrin, Dino P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Trichomonas vaginalis is known to produce a 60 kDa extracellular cysteine proteinase (ECP) that is believed to be important in the initial stages of T. vaginalis infection. Upon further purification, the 60 kDs protein breaks down into a 43 and 23 kDa subunits. Anti-serum raised against a purified preparation of the 23 kDa subunit was used to screen a $\lambda$ gt11 T. vaginalis cDNA library. The strongest reactive clone of the four was partially sequenced and found to have homology to an exoantigen called ABRA found in Plasmodium falciparum. It was decided to sequence the other three clones to determine if they contained sequences that are indicative of cysteine proteinases (CP). Molecular analysis of the remaining clones indicated that they were distinct and did not represent cysteine proteinases. By using the cDNA sequence of 23-4-2, gene specific primers (GSPs) were used in RACE PCR in an effort to obtain a translational start codon and to determine if the putative gene designated bdh was polyadenylated. To determine if T. vaginalis did produce butanol as a byproduct of metabolism, T. vaginalis cultures were incubated under anaerobic conditions and subsequently under aerobic and anaerobic conditions and the culture supernatants were extracted with ether. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Auzelg im Schatten der Segregation: Eine qualitativ-empirische Stude der Lebenswelt Auzelg im Kontext sozialer und räumlicher Segregation
Creators: name: Kressig, Emanuel
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2024

description: Städte fungieren seit ihrer Entstehung als Bühnen sozialer und symbolischer Konflikte, auf denen sich unterschiedliche Klassen, Lebensstile und ethnische Gruppen begegnen. Diese Dynamik prägt die soziale Struktur, die räumliche Anordnung und die Segregationsmuster innerhalb urbaner Räume.

In der Arbeit «Auzelg im Schatten der Segregation: Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie der Lebenswelt Auzelg im Kontext sozialer Segregation» wird die Siedlung Auzelg in Zürich als Fallbeispiel herangezogen. Emanuel Kressig erforscht, wie gesellschaftliche Strukturen, soziale Ungleichheit und Diskriminierungsformen zu sozioökonomischer Segregation beitragen und wie sich diese auf die Lebensrealität der Bewohner:innen der Siedlung Auzelg auswirken. Das theoretische Fundament bilden dabei Lefèbvres triadisches Raummodell, Löws relationale Raumperspektive sowie das Konzept der Sozialraumorientierung.

Anhand fünf qualitativer Interviews wird die subjektive Lebenswelt der Bewohner:innen in Auzelg erforscht, um die individuellen Erfahrungen im Kontext der Segregation zu untersuchen. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf den positiven wie auch negativen Auswirkungen der Segregation auf ihre Lebensbedingungen und sozialen Kontakte. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass bestimmte räumliche und soziale Strukturen die Segregation verstärken und das Zusammenleben sowie die Identität innerhalb der Siedlung beeinflussen. Die vielfältigen Lebenswelten der Bewohner:innen zeigen die enormen Spannungsfelder, in denen sie sich befinden. Die Arbeit betont die Bedeutung einer reflektierten Haltung in der Sozialraumarbeit, um die Machtstrukturen, die zur sozialen Trennung im städtischen Raum führen, kritisch zu hinterfragen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur, 2024 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202411
Manipulation of prokaryotic communities in the coral model organism, Exaiptasia diaphana
Creators: name: Hartman, Leon Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The persistence of coral reefs is threatened by elevated temperatures linked to climate change. In this thesis, the hypothesised link between coral's thermal tolerance and the bacteria they harbour was investigated using a coral model organism, the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana. Bacterial communities harboured by Exaiptasia from the Great Barrier Reef were characterised, and heat-induced community changes were described. Methods to reduce and measure bacterial load in Exaiptasia were developed. Exaiptasia were inoculated with probiotic bacteria and their physiological performance under thermal stress was assessed. This research helped develop a model organism that is becoming more important under climate change.
Redshift distributions of galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification shear catalogue and implications for weak lensing
Creators: name: Bonnett, C.
name: Troxel, M. A.
name: Hartley, W.
name: Amara, A.
name: Leistedt, B.
name: Becker, M. R.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bridle, S. L.
name: Bruderer, C.
name: Busha, M. T.
name: Carrasco Kind, M.
name: Childress, M. J.
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Chang, C.
name: Crocce, M.
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Eifler, T. F.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Gangkofner, C.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Gruen, D.
name: Kacprzak, T.
name: King, A.
name: Kwan, J.
name: Lahav, O.
name: Lewis, G.
name: Lidman, C.
name: Lin, H.
name: MacCrann, N.
name: Miquel, R.
name: O'Neill, C. R.
name: Palmese, A.
name: Peiris, H. V.
name: Refregier, A.
name: Rozo, E.
name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Sadeh, I.
name: Sánchez, C.
name: Sheldon, E.
name: Uddin, S.
name: Wechsler, R. H.
name: Zuntz, J.
name: Abbott, T.
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Allam, S.
name: Armstrong, R.
name: Banerji, M.
name: Bauer, A. H.
name: Benoit-Lévy, A.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Capozzi, D.
name: Carnero Rosell, A.
name: Carretero, J.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: Da Costa, L. N.
name: Depoy, D. L.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Dietrich, J. P.
name: Doel, P.
name: Fausti Neto, A.
name: Fernandez, E.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Fosalba, P.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: Jain, B.
name: James, D. J.
name: Jarvis, M.
name: Kim, A. G.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Li, T. S.
name: Lima, M.
name: Maia, M. A G
name: March, M.
name: Marshall, J. L.
name: Martini, P.
name: Melchior, P.
name: Miller, C. J.
name: Neilsen, E.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Nord, B.
name: Ogando, R.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Reil, K.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Roodman, A.
name: Sako, M.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Santiago, B.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Swanson, M. E C
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thaler, J.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Vikram, V.
name: Walker, A. R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We present photometric redshift estimates for galaxies used in the weak lensing analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification (DES SV) data. Four model- or machine learning-based photometric redshift methods—annz2, bpz calibrated against BCC-Ufig simulations, skynet, and tpz—are analyzed. For training, calibration, and testing of these methods, we construct a catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies matched against DES SV data. The performance of the methods is evaluated against the matched spectroscopic catalogue, focusing on metrics relevant for weak lensing analyses, with additional validation against COSMOS photo-z’s. From the galaxies in the DES SV shear catalogue, which have mean redshift 0.72±0.01 over the range 0.3
Supplementary document for Low threshold polariton lasing in a highly disordered conjugated polymer - 4069948.pdf
Creators: name: Wei, Mengjie
name: Rajendran, Sai Kiran
name: Ohadi, Hamid
name: Tropf, Laura
name: Gather, Malte
name: Turnbull, Graham
name: Samuel, Ifor D.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Physics not elsewhere classified

description: supplemental document
The genetics of smoking in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Obeidat, Ma’en
name: Zhou, Guohai
name: Li, Xuan
name: Hansel, Nadia N
name: Rafaels, Nicholas
name: Mathias, Rasika
name: Ruczinski, Ingo
name: Beaty, Terri H
name: Barnes, Kathleen C
name: Paré, Peter D
name: Sin, Don D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Smoking is the principal modifiable environmental risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which affects 300 million people and is the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide. Most of the genetic studies of smoking have relied on self-reported smoking status which is vulnerable to reporting and recall bias. Using data from the Lung Health Study (LHS), we sought to identify genetic variants associated with quantitative smoking and cessation in individuals with mild to moderate COPD. Methods: The LHS is a longitudinal multicenter study of mild-to-moderate COPD subjects who were all smokers at recruitment. We performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for salivary cotinine (n = 4024), exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) (n = 2854), cigarettes per day (CPD) (n = 2706) and smoking cessation at year 5 follow-up (n = 717 quitters and 2175 smokers). The GWAS analyses were adjusted for age, gender, and genetic principal components. Results: For cotinine levels, SNPs near UGT2B10 gene achieved genome-wide significance (i.e. P < 5 × 10− 8) with top SNP rs10023464, P = 1.27 × 10− 11. For eCO levels, one significant SNP was identified which mapped to the CHRNA3 gene (rs12914385, P = 2.38 × 10− 8). A borderline region mapping to KCNMA1 gene was associated with smoking cessation (rs207675, P = 5.95 × 10− 8). Of the identified loci, only the CHRNA3/5 locus showed significant associations with lung function but only in heavy smokers. No regions met genome-wide significance for CPD. Conclusion: The study demonstrates that using objective measures of smoking such as eCO and/or salivary cotinine can more precisely capture the genetic contribution to multiple aspects of smoking behaviour. The KCNMA1 gene association with smoking cessation may represent a potential therapeutic target and warrants further studies. Trial registration The Lung Health Study ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00000568 . Date of registration: October 28, 1999.