cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigating teachers’ perceptions of the usefulness of Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA) in Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) programme
Creators: name: Mohammadian Haghighi, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The growing tendency towards student-centred communicative approach to language pedagogy has given rise to alternative modes of assessment such as Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA), which is compatible with student-centred SLA theories and pedagogical practices in ESL classrooms (e.g., Fox, 2014; Ripley, 2012). In Canada, since 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has allocated funding to different projects across the country to implement PBLA as an assessment tool in the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) programme. Since language assessment tools have a remarkable role in determining learners’ progress through the LINC programme, and due to the significant impact of assessment tools on newcomers’ professional and educational possibilities in Canada, this study investigated instructors’ perceptions of the usefulness, challenges and benefits of PBLA in the LINC programme. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten LINC instructors who have been using PBLA for at least three months. Data were analyzed drawing on Bachman and Palmer’s (1996) concept of test usefulness (validity, reliability, authenticity, interactiveness, impact and practicality) as a theoretical framework for the study. The findings showed that although PBLA has numerous benefits for language learners, when it comes to its implementation, it presents many challenges for LINC teachers. Some of these challenges include: Challenges in developing real-life, CLB-aligned instructional and assessment tasks, difficulties in assessing portfolios and providing feedback, etc. According to the participants, PBLA is better to be used for formative assessment rather than summative assessment. In terms of test usefulness framework, according to the findings, validity and reliability of PBLA as a summative assessment tool is questionable. Regarding authenticity and interactiveness, except for teachers who were teaching lower CLB levels other teachers found PBLA an authentic and interactive method of assessment. As for the students, based on the findings, positive impacts of PBLA on learners’ lives outweigh potential negative impacts. Finally, concerning the practicality of PBLA, a number of issues regarding PBLA implementation were raised. It should be noted that since I had a small number of research participants, the findings of this study may not be generalized to other LINC instructors and LINC programmes across Canada.
Next-to-Leading Order Corrections to W+photon+jet and W+Z+jet Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Englert, Christoph
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: perturbative QCD
NLO computations
electroweak bosons
jets

description: Electroweak boson pair production in association with jets represents important signal and background processes to searches of Standard Model physics and beyond at present and future collider experiments. The full next-to-leading order corrections from Quantum chromodynamics to W+photon+jet and W+Z+jet production at hadron colliders have been computed and implemented into a fully-flexible Monte Carlo
program. Leptonic decays of the W and Z are included throughout.
Lithium Titanate Ceramic System as Electronic and Li-ion Mixed Conductors for Cathode Matrix in Lithium-Sulfur Battery
Creators: name: Ogihara, Hideki
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012

description: Lithium-Titanat-Spinell Li4/3Ti5/3O4, Ramsdellit Li2Ti3O7, und Spinell - Steinsalz abgeleitet Li4/3+xTi5/3O4 (0 kleiner/gleich x kleiner/gleich 1) wurden untersucht, um ein gemischtes (d.h. Li-Ionen und Elektronen) leitendes keramisches Material als eine Kathode-Matrix für alle Festköper-Lithium-Schwefel-Batterie zu entwickeln.
Umfassendes Modell für den Einfluss des Aerosols auf die Vorgänge in der Atmosphäre von Ballungsgebieten
Creators: name: Halmer, Gerold
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012

description: Ein Gesamtmodell bestehend aus einem mesoskaligen Grenzschichtmodell, einem Strahlungsmodell, einem Optikmodul und einem Chemie- und Ausbreitungsmodell wird vorgestellt. Damit kann der Einfluss des Aerosols auf den Strahlungshaushalt der Atmosphäre und auch auf die meteorologischen Größen detailliert berechnen werden. Anhand eines einfachen Falles werden das Strahlungsmodell und das Optikmodul validiert, die Leistungsfähigkeit des Gesamtmodells wird anhand eines realitätsnahen Falles beurteilt.
Die Rolle sekretierter Proteine zu Beginn der pathogenen Entwicklung von Ustilago maydis
Creators: name: Hofmann, Kai Patrick
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ustilago
maydis
Adhäsion
Plp2
Effektor

description: Sekretierte Proteine sind unerlässlich für die biotrophe Entwicklung des phytopathogenen Basidiomyzeten Ustilago maydis, dem Erreger des Maisbeulenbrands. Diese Arbeit beschreibt Versuche zur Identifizierung und Charakterisierung sekretierter Adhäsions- und Pathogenitätsfaktoren in U. maydis. Sie beschreibt weiterhin die Charakterisierung des Effektorproteins Plp2, dessen Identifizierung durch Expressionsanalysen pathogenitätsspezifisch induzierter sekretierter Proteine erfolgte.
The Many Phases of Holographic Superfluids
Creators: name: Arean, Daniel
name: Basu, Pallab
name: Krishnan, Chethan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate holographic superfluids in AdS_{d+1} with d=3,4 in the non-backreacted approximation for various masses of the scalar field. In d=3 the phase structure is universal for all the masses that we consider: the critical temperature decreases as the superfluid velocity increases, and as it is cranked high enough, the order of the phase transition changes from second to first. Surprisingly, in d=4 we find that the phase structure is more intricate. For sufficiently high mass, there is always a second order phase transition to the normal phase, no matter how high the superfluid velocity. For some parameters, as we lower the temperature, this transition happens before a first order transition to a new superconducting phase. Across this first order transition, the gap in the transverse conductivity jumps from almost zero to about half its maximum value. We also introduce a double scaling limit where we can study the phase transitions (semi-)analytically in the large velocity limit. The results corroborate and complement our numerical results. In d=4, this approach has the virtue of being fully analytically tractable.
description: 31 pages, 19 figures
Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Creators: name: The ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements are presented from proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events were collected using a single-arm minimum-bias trigger. The charged-particle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the relationship between the mean transverse momentum and charged-particle multiplicity are measured. Measurements in different regions of phase-space are shown, providing diffraction-reduced measurements as well as more inclusive ones. The observed distributions are corrected to well-defined phase-space regions, using model-independent corrections. The results are compared to each other and to various Monte Carlo models, including a new AMBT1 PYTHIA 6 tune. In all the kinematic regions considered, the particle multiplicities are higher than predicted by the Monte Carlo models. The central charged-particle multiplicity per event and unit of pseudorapidity, for tracks with pT >100 MeV, is measured to be 3.483 +- 0.009 (stat) +- 0.106 (syst) at sqrt(s) = 0.9 TeV and 5.630 +- 0.003 (stat) +- 0.169 (syst) at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
description: 57 pages plus author list (82 pages total), 19 figures (85 independent .eps files), 10 tables, Accepted by New Journal of Physics
A Positive-Weight Next-to-Leading-Order Monte Carlo Simulation of Deep Inelastic Scattering and Higgs Boson Production via Vector Boson Fusion in Herwig++
Creators: name: D'Errico, Luca
name: Richardson, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The positive weight next-to-leading-order matching formalism (POWHEG) is applied to Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and the related Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion process in the Herwig++ Monte Carlo event generator. This scheme combines parton shower simulation and next-to-leading-order calculation in a consistent way which only produces positive weight events. The simulation contains a full implementation of the truncated shower required to correctly model soft emissions in an angular-ordered parton shower.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures, 105 references, added references
On the global solutions of the Higgs boson equation
Creators: name: Yagdjian, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35L70, 35Q75, 35Q85

description: In this article we study global in time (not necessarily small) solutions of the equation for the Higgs boson in the Minkowski and in the de Sitter spacetimes. We reveal some qualitative behavior of the global solutions. In particular, we formulate sufficient conditions for the existence of the zeros of global solutions in the interior of their supports, and, consequently, for the creation of the so-called bubbles, which have been studied in particle physics and inflationary cosmology. We also give some sufficient conditions for the global solution to be an oscillatory in time solution.
Electronic Raman Scattering in copper oxide Superconductors: Understanding the Phase Diagram
Creators: name: Sacuto, A.
name: Gallais, Y.
name: Cazayous, M.
name: Blanc, S.
name: Wen, J. S.
name: Xu, Z. J.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Colson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic Raman scattering measurements have been performed on hole doped copper oxide superconductors as a function of temperature and doping level. In the superconducting state coherent Bogoliubov quasiparticles develop preferentially over the nodal region in the underdoped regime. We can then define the fraction of coherent Fermi surface, $f_c$ around the nodes for which quasiparticles are well defined and superconductivity sets in. We find that $f_c$ is doping dependent and leads to the emergence of two energy scales. We then establish in a one single gap shem, that the critical temperature $T_{c} \propto f_{c}Δ_{max}$ where $Δ_{max}$ is the maximum amplitude of the d-wave superconducting gap. In the normal state, the loss of antinodal quasiparticles spectral weight detected in the superconducting state persists and the spectral weight is only restored above the pseudogap temperature $T*$. Such a dichotomy in the quasiparticles dynamics is then responsible for the emergence of the two energy scales in the superconducting state and the appearance of the pseudogap in the normal state. We propose a 3D phase diagram where both the temperature and the energy phase diagrams have been plotted together. We anticipate that the development of coherent excitations on a restricted part of the Fermi surface only is a general feature in high $T_c$ cuprate superconductors as the Mott insulating is approaching.
description: 40 pages, 19 figures some new references and comments have been added with respect to the first version of march 30th
Nanofiltration bei der Aufbereitung von Trink- und Schwimmbeckenwasser - Foulingmechanismen und Rückhalt anthropogener Kontaminanten
Creators: name: Klüpfel, Angela
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012

description: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Faktoren, die den Fluxrückgang und den Rückhalt organischer Belastungsstoffe bei der Nanofiltration beeinflussen. Das Filtrationsverhalten ausgewählter Nanofiltrationsmembranen wurde bei unterschiedlichen Betriebsbedingungen verglichen und die entstandenen Deckschichten einer umfangreichen Charakterisierung unterzogen. Mit Hilfe von Langzeitversuchen und Modellrechnungen wurde das Potenzial der Nanofiltration für die Schwimmbeckenwasseraufbereitung analysiert.
Spatiotemporal Modeling of Resting State Brain Imaging Data for Functional Connectivity Analysis
Creators: name: Rupnow, Rawan Allozi
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this dissertation, we develop a cluster of models for high dimensional time dependent data with a hierarchical structure observed in resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Addressing some of the existing fundamental concerns, we incorporate a flexible spatio type covariance matrix when distance-based space is absent and ensure its positive definiteness. Furthermore, we reduce the dimension using Moran basis functions for easing the computational burden while guaranteeing robust estimates. This is achieved by developing a spatio type weighting matrix utilizing the semivariogram. In multiple ways, we can count the benefits of our approach. First, the hierarchical nature of the proposed spatiotemporal model reduces the noise at different levels, leading to better power in signal detection. Second, our approach decorrelates the temporal association for proper inferential properties and explores the input-output relation focusing on only spatial correlations. Third, it provides better interpretation of the relationship between outcome measures and covariates while controlling the false discovery rate. Methodologies developed in this article are used to detect disrupted connectivities from neuroimaging data comparing autism subjects to controls. A network is built using disrupted connectivities and interpretation of links is provided in terms of neurobehavioral functions.
Vector unparticle enhanced black holes: exact solutions and thermodynamics
Creators: name: Mureika, J. R.
name: Spallucci, Euro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensor and scalar unparticle couplings to matter have been shown to enhance gravitational interactions and provide corrections to the Schwarzschild metric and associated black hole structure. We derive an exact solution to the Einstein equations for vector unparticles, and conclusively demonstrate that these induce Riessner-Nordström (RN)-like solutions where the role of the "charge" is defined by a composite of unparticle phase space parameters. These black holes admit double-horizon structure, although unlike the RN metric these solutions have a minimum inner horizon value. In the extremal limit, the Hawking temperature is shown to vanish. As with the scalar/tensor case, the (outer) horizon is shown via entropy considerations to behave like a fractal surface of spectral dimension $d_H = 2\du$.
description: Typo fixed in Equation (17); to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Generalized sine-Gordon solitons
Creators: name: Santos, C. dos
name: Rubiera-Garcia, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we construct analytical self-dual soliton solutions in (1+1) dimensions for two families of models which can be seen as generalizations of the sine-Gordon system but where the kinetic term is non-canonical. For that purpose we use a projection method applied to the Sine-Gordon soliton. We focus our attention on the wall and lump-like soliton solutions of these k-field models. These solutions and their potentials reduce to those of the Klein-Gordon kink and the standard lump for the case of canonical kinetic term. As we increase the non-linearity on the kinetic term the corresponding potentials get modified and the nature of the soliton may change, in particular, undergoing a topology modification. The procedure constructed here is shown to be a sort of generalization of the deformation method for a specific class of k-field models.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, revtex4 style, submitted to Journal of Physics A; minor errors fixed
Measurement of underlying event characteristics using charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 900 GeV$ and 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: The ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of charged particle distributions, sensitive to the underlying event, have been performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The measurements are based on data collected using a minimum-bias trigger to select proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV. The "underlying event" is defined as those aspects of a hadronic interaction attributed not to the hard scattering process, but rather to the accompanying interactions of the rest of the proton. Three regions are defined in azimuthal angle with respect to the highest-pt charged particle in the event, such that the region transverse to the dominant momentum-flow is most sensitive to the underlying event. In each of these regions, distributions of the charged particle multiplicity, pt density, and average pt are measured. The data show a higher underlying event activity than that predicted by Monte Carlo models tuned to pre-LHC data.
description: 36 pages plus author list (65 pages total), 12 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 6 of The taxonomic distribution of histamine-secreting bacteria in the human gut microbiome
Creators: name: Mou, Zhongyu
name: Yang, Yiyan
name: Hall, A. Brantley
name: Jiang, Xiaofang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 6 (DOCX 1547 kb)
title: Elsewhere Lies Its Meaning: The Vagaries of Kalīla and Dimna’s Reception
Creators: name: Keegan, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Kalila and Dimna
subject: Kalila wa-Dimna
subject: Fabel
subject: Tierfabel
subject: Fürstenspiegel
subject: mirrors of princes
subject: specula principium
subject: adab
subject: AnonymClassic publication
classificationCode: 892
subject: Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic

description: alīla and Dimna was translated from Pahlavi into Arabic in the 8th century AD by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, and it became an influential text in numerous literary cultures. Copyists in the Arabic manuscript tradition acted as coauthors, changing the text in ways both large and small. The modern scholarly tradition tends to see Kalīla and Dimna as part of a Fürstenspiegel genre or as an example of animal fables. What these categorizations overlook is the variegated medieval reception of the text, which was more multifaceted than is generally appreciated. The unruliness of the text's reception is the theme of this article, which explores the ways in which medieval readers categorized and reinterpreted Kalīla and Dimna over centuries, with special attention to Ibn al-Habbāriyya's late 11th-century dramatization of the divergent interpretations of Kalīla and Dimna. The article reveals that the interpreters of this text reconfigured its generic affiliation, making it a Quranic competitor, a repository of proverbs, an allegory for the soul, a source of law, and a model for storytelling that imparts practical wisdom.
Holographic Techni-dilaton
Creators: name: Haba, Kazumoto
name: Matsuzaki, Shinya
name: Yamawaki, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Techni-dilaton, a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of scale symmetry, was predicted long ago in the Scale-invariant/Walking/Conformal Technicolor (SWC-TC) as a remnant of the (approximate) scale symmetry associated with the conformal fixed point, based on the conformal gauge dynamics of ladder Schwinger-Dyson (SD) equation with non-running coupling. We study the techni-dilaton as a flavor-singlet bound state of techni-fermions by including the techni-gluon condensate (tGC) effect into the previous (bottom-up) holographic approach to the SWC-TC, a deformation of the holographic QCD with $γ_m \simeq 0$ by large anomalous dimension $γ_m \simeq 1$. With including a bulk scalar field corresponding to the gluon condensate, we first improve the Operator Product Expansion of the current correlators so as to reproduce gluonic $1/Q^4$ term both in QCD and SWC-TC. We find in QCD about $10\%$ (negative) contribution of gluon condensate to the $ρ$ meson mass. We also calculate the oblique electroweak $S$-parameter in the presence of the effect of the tGC and find that for the fixed value of $S$ the tGC effects dramatically reduce the flavor-singlet scalar (techni-dilaton) mass $M_{\rm TD}$ (in the unit of $F_π$), while the vector and axial-vector masses $M_ρ$ and $M_{a_1}$ are rather insensitive to the tGC, where $F_π$ is the decay constant of the techni-pion. If we use the range of values of tGC implied by the ladder SD analysis of the non-perturbative scale anomaly in the large $N_f$ QCD near the conformal window, the phenomenological constraint $S \simeq 0.1$ predicts the techni-dilaton mass $M_{\rm TD} \sim 600$ GeV which is within reach of LHC discovery.
description: 28 pages, 11 eps files, typos corrected, references added, Fig.1 corrected, some discussions added, to be published in PRD
title: Between Universalism and Diversity: Contradictions of Local Cultural Policy in Tower Hamlets and Oldham
Creators: name: Mirza, Munira
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: In the past two decades, there has been a substantial growth in the importance of cultural policy in the UK. This is most clearly manifest in the increased rhetoric and resources devoted to culture at local government level. Cultural policy is presumed to confer a number of benefits for individuals and communities, addressing issues of urban regeneration, social inclusion, community cohesion and well-being. Social and economic problems are also increasingly discussed in terms of their cultural dimension, especially in relation to 'identity' and 'community'. This thesis argues that there is a tendency in academic literature to understand this 'turn to culture' in terms of economic, profit-seeking motivations. As a result, there is less critical attention paid to other rationales, more specifically a shift in political discourse towards a therapeutic, identity-oriented understanding of subjectivity. One aspect of this is how local government has adopted an understanding of culture as something that can promote the principle of 'diversity', as opposed to the universalist orientation of traditional liberal-humanist cultural policy. This study investigates the development and implementation of cultural strategies in two local authorities: the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Oldham Metropolitan Borough. The case studies reveal variations in how and why cultural policy develops according to local social, institutional and economic expectations. However, I also demonstrate the persistence of certain contradictions in approach, which arise out of the application of 'diversity' in practice. Ultimately, a major tension exists between the universalist and identity-based approaches to culture and this creates problems in dealing with questions of cultural authority, community engagement and identity. To conclude, there are severe limitations in using cultural policy in this way to achieve a range of social and political objectives.
Interactions between childhood maltreatment and combat exposure trauma on stress-related activity within the cingulate cortex: a pilot study
Creators: name: Banihashemi, Layla
name: Wallace, Meredith L.
name: Peng, Christine W.
name: Stinley, Mark M.
name: Germain, Anne
name: Herringa, Ryan J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Childhood trauma may sensitize the brain, increasing vulnerability to maladaptive stress responses following adulthood trauma exposure. Previous work has identified the cingulum as a white matter pathway that may be sensitized to adulthood trauma by childhood maltreatment. In this pilot study of young adult male military veterans (N = 28), we examined a priori regions of interest (ROIs) connected by the cingulum, including regions involved in cognitive processes and stress responses. Our goal was to examine the interaction between childhood maltreatment and combat exposure on stress-related activity within cingulum-associated ROIs. As such we utilized a mild cognitive stress task, a performance-titrated multi-source interference task (MSIT). We found that childhood maltreatment moderated the effect of combat exposure on stress-related, interference-evoked activity within the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC, activation), subgenual ACC (sgACC, deactivation) and posterior midcingulate cortex (pMCC, deactivation). Greater combat exposure was associated with greater interference-evoked activation within the dACC, and less sgACC and pMCC deactivation among individuals with more severe childhood maltreatment. Our findings suggest that child maltreatment sensitizes these anterior and mid-cingulate regions to later life trauma. These findings may have implications for cognitive control, autonomic regulation/stress reactivity, and responses to noxious/aversive stimuli, which may contribute to increased psychiatric vulnerability.
The masses of the neutron and donor star in the high mass X-ray binary IGR J18027-2016
Creators: name: Mason, A. B.
name: Norton, A. J.
name: Clark, J. S.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: Roche, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report near-infrared observations of the supergiant donor to the eclipsing high mass X-ray binary pulsar IGR J18027-2016. We aim to determine its spectral type and measure its radial velocity curve and hence determine the stellar masses of the components. ESO/VLT observations of the donor utilising the NIR spectrograph ISAAC were obtained in the H and K bands. The multi-epoch H band spectra were cross-correlated with RV templates in order to determine a radial solution for the system. The spectral type of the donor was confirmed as B0-1 I. The radial velocity curve constructed has a semi-amplitude of $23.8 \pm 3.1$ km s$^{-1}$. Combined with other measured system parameters, a dynamically determined neutron star mass of 1.4 $\pm$ 0.2 - 1.6 $\pm$ 0.3 M$_{\odot}$ is found. The mass range of the B0-B1 I donor was 18.6 $\pm$ 0.8 - 21.8 $\pm$ 2.4 ~M$_{\odot}$. These lower and upper limits were obtained under the assumption that the system is viewed edge-on (i = 90$^\circ$ with $β$ = 0.89) for the lower limit and the donor fills its Roche lobe ($β= 1$ with i = 73.1$^\circ$) for the upper limit respectively.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
Modellierung, Integration und Analyse von Ressourcen in Geschäftsprozessen
Creators: name: Schuster, Thomas
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ressourcen
Modellierung
Geschäftsprozesse
Simulation

description: Geschäftsprozess- und Ressourcenmodelle können bislang nur eingeschränkt zur Untersuchung des Ressourceneinsatzes genutzt werden, da relevante Eigenschaften nicht adäquat abgebildet werden.
Aus diesem Grund wird in dieser Arbeit die Resource Modeling Language (RML) konzipiert und durch Ressourcen-Netze in die Geschäftsprozessmodellierung integriert. Zur Modellierung und Analyse wird das Werkzeug RAvEN konzipiert. Die Analyse des Ressourceneinsatzes erfolgt durch Simulationsexperimente.
An Efficient Oncology Phase II/III Development Strategy Using Response and Overall Survival Information
Creators: name: Junyuan Julia Xiong
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cancer has a big impact on public health. The years of life and productivity lost to diseases and death, and the economic burden to the community make cancer a focus of public health. Efficiency in drug development in oncology area is critical as it impacts millions of families. In clinical development, there is a trade-off between investment and level of confidence in the potential of the drug before going into phase III. Contemporary approaches of decision making with reduced investment often require use of short-term endpoints or limited information on long-term endpoints. The probability of success for a future phase III trial based on long-term endpoints is the measure of confidence. Both aspects can be integrated within a framework that models the probability of success using both short-term and long-term endpoints data. This dissertation compares current methods of determining the probability of success and proposes a mixed approach that combines the Bayesian and frequentist ideas to utilize individual-level information from a multi-categorical short-term endpoint (response status) and a long-term endpoint (overall survival). The Bayesian paradigm is used to obtain predicted overall survival of censored or not-enrolled-yet patients, while the analysis for estimating the treatment effects is based on frequentist methods to comply with regulatory requirements of controlling type I error. During the development of a new medication, usually there is limited reliable prior information about the relationship between response and overall survival. Therefore, the proposed approach utilizes the ‘phase 2+’ design concept that further follow-up data of the long-term endpoint from phase II, after a go-to-phase-III decision (1st look), are considered for further decision making (2nd look) during phase III. The proposed method was evaluated and compared with current approaches in a simulation study. The results show that the proposed method with a planned 2nd look benefits estimating the probability of success and could provide a customized development planning strategy with respect to quality of decision making and program duration. Furthermore, various scenarios such as informative prior on control arm, heterogeneity in response status between phase II and phase III trials, different sample sizes of phase II trials and side conditions for decision making and one-trial design were assessed.
Thermoresponsive and biocompatible poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)–cellulose nanocrystals hydrogel for cell growth
Creators: name: Trubetskaya, Anna
name: Leppiniemi, Jenni
name: Lipponen, Sami
name: Lombardo, Salvatore
name: Thielemans, Wim
name: Maloney, Thaddeus
name: Pääkkönen, Timo
name: Kesari, Kavindra Kumar
name: Ruokolainen, Janne
name: Hytönen, Vesa P
name: Kontturi, Eero
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: We describe herein a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm)–cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) hydrogel as thermoresponsive and biocompatible material. The hydrogel was generated with simple and robust mixing without need for complicated derivatization. The composition of the hydrogel was optimized for good stiffening and its biocompatibility was verified with fibroblast cells. The hydrogel was prepared using an osmotic dehydration method by tuning its water content and porosity without the incorporation of additional cross-linkers. The interaction of PNIPAAm and CNC was supported by the formation of a small endotherm at 30.5–33.5 1C observed with differential scanning calorimetry and a negative value for the enthalpy during the adsorption of both compounds by the isothermal titration calorimeter. The resulting PNIPAAm–CNC hydrogel (0.25 wt%; 0.5 wt%) showed better compatibility with fibroblasts than 0.5 wt% CNC alone. Our preliminary data indicates that it is possible to use the thermoresponsive characteristics of the material to influence cell behavior by temperature changes. PNIPAAm–CNC hydrogel offer a platform for the development of versatile and affordable plant-based materials for controllable 3D cell culture and the thermoresponsive nature of the material may help to develop novel applications for example in 3D-printing.
Autonomous Interconnection of Heterogeneous Networks
Creators: name: Mies, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: Connectivity
Autonomy
P2P
Scalability
Self-Organization

description: In today's and future networks heterogeneity tends to grow which complicates configuration of devices and communication between them. This dissertation introduces a generic solution for auto-detecting and interconnecting heterogeneous networks in a self-organizing and scalable manner. As a result, this approach relieves users and administrators from complicated configuration and enables the deployment of P2P applications in heterogeneous networks.
hp-FEM for Two-component Flows with Applications in Optofluidics
Creators: name: Ronnås, Staffan
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2012
Subjects: hp-FEM
adaptive error control
microfluidics
optics
optofluidics

description: This thesis is concerned with the application of hp-adaptive finite element methods to a mathematical model of immiscible two-component flows. With the aim of simulating the flow processes in microfluidic optical devices based on liquid-liquid interfaces, we couple the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a level set method to describe the flow of the fluids and the evolution of the interface between them.
Additional file 2 of Evaluating the use of a recommender system for selecting optimal messages for smoking cessation: patterns and effects of user-system engagement
Creators: name: Chen, Jinying
name: Houston, Thomas K.
name: Faro, Jamie M.
name: Nagawa, Catherine S.
name: Orvek, Elizabeth A.
name: Blok, Amanda C.
name: Allison, Jeroan J.
name: Person, Sharina D.
name: Smith, Bridget M.
name: Sadasivam, Rajani S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Trend of user-system engagement over time.
Diffuse Radio Emission in/around the Coma Cluster: Beyond Simple Accretion
Creators: name: Brown, Shea
name: Rudnick, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on new 1.41 GHz Green Bank Telescope and 352 MHz Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope observations of the Coma cluster and its environs. At 1.41 GHz we tentatively detect an extension to the Coma cluster radio relic source 1253+275 which makes its total extent ~2 Mpc. This extended relic is linearly polarized as seen in our GBT data, the NVSS, and archival images, strengthening a shock interpretation. The extended relic borders a previously undetected "wall" of galaxies in the infall region of the Coma cluster. We suggest that the radio relic is an infall shock, as opposed to the outgoing merger shocks believed responsible for other radio relics. We also find a sharp edge, or "front", on the western side of the 352 MHz radio halo. This front is coincident with a similar discontinuity in the X-ray surface brightness and temperature in its southern half, suggesting a primary shock-acceleration origin for the local synchrotron emitting electrons. The northern half of the synchrotron front is less well correlated with the X-ray properties, perhaps due to projection effects. We confirm the global pixel-to-pixel power-law correlation between the 352 MHz radio brightness and X-ray brightness with a slope that is inconsistent with predictions of either primary shock acceleration or secondary production of relativistic electrons in Giant Radio Halos, but is allowable in the framework of the turbulent re-acceleration of relic plasma. The failure of these first order models and the need for a more comprehensive view of the intracluster medium energization is also highlighted by the very different shapes of the diffuse radio and X-ray emission. We note the puzzling correspondence between the shape of the brighter regions of the radio halo and the surface mass density derived from weak lensing.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to MNRAS. Full resolution version available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Shea.Brown/COMA/ Edited to include references to turbulent models of CR acceleration
Additional file 1 of Diné (Navajo) female perspectives on mother–daughter communication and cultural assets around the transition to womanhood: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Richards, Jennifer
name: Chambers, Rachel Strom
name: Begay, Jaime Lynn
name: Jackson, Kendrea
name: Tingey, Lauren
name: Patel, Hima
name: Carvajal, Scott
name: Carroll, Stephanie Russo
name: Teufel-Shone, Nicolette
name: Barlow, Allison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Women's Health Survey.
Dynamics of Majority Rule with Differential Latencies
Creators: name: Scheidler, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of the majority-rule opinion formation model when voters experience differential latencies. With this extension, voters that just adopted an opinion go into a latent state during which they are excluded from the opinion formation process. The duration of the latent state depends on the opinion adopted by the voter. The net result is a bias towards consensus on the opinion that is associated with the shorter latency. We determine the exit probability and time to consensus for systems of $N$ voters. Additionally, we derive an asymptotic characterisation of the time to consensus by means of a continuum model.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Study on financial assurance and closure cost for mine reclamation
Creators: name: Shen, Boxi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Financial assurance for mine closure has been widely adopted by governments and companies internationally. Concern has grown in and around the global mining and mineral processing industry over potential risks associated with insufficient funding for mine closure. The motivation of this research is to review financial assurance information from several jurisdictions and to quantitatively assess closure cost for a specific example. This research address the following four objectives: 1. To carry out a literature review on financial assurance for mine reclamation. 2. To compare present regulations and policies on financial assurance for mine closure in Canada, United States and Western Australia. 3. To identify expectations for different types of mining. 4. To develop the closure approaches and apply a method to estimate and calculate the closure cost for a mine site. Main research results are as follow: a. Significant reclamation financial assurance information is highlighted, and the expectations of various stakeholder are identified for different types of mines in various jurisdictions across the world. b. Mine reclamation laws in selected jurisdictions of the Canada, United States, Western Australia have some differences and similarities in regulating agency, closure legislation, guidelines and other aspects. Regulations and policies on financial assurance for mine reclamation in the United States and Canada can be classified into prescriptive and performance-based approaches. The performance-based approach is preferred by mining companies for mine reclamation regulations. c. Developing a mine closure cost estimate requires an understanding of the site-specific closure requirements and available software can be used to perform the closure cost estimates. This study applies the Sherpa software to calculate the closure cost of a conceptual gold mine near Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada. ArcGIS Software is used for calculating the size of each small surface water catchment areas for this mine. The final cost estimate for the total closure cost for the gold mine near Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada is $32,417,400 including $22,574,400 direct cost and $9,843,000 of indirect cost. Considering the Gross Receipt Tax of $677,200, the total financial assurance for this project is $33,094,600. The total overhead costs account for 30.4% of the direct project costs.
Additional file 1 of The effect of hand hygiene promotion programs during epidemics and pandemics of respiratory droplet-transmissible infections on health outcomes: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: Veys, Koen
name: Dockx, Kim
name: Van Remoortel, Hans
name: Vandekerckhove, Philippe
name: De Buck, Emmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA checklist.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating the use of a recommender system for selecting optimal messages for smoking cessation: patterns and effects of user-system engagement
Creators: name: Chen, Jinying
name: Houston, Thomas K.
name: Faro, Jamie M.
name: Nagawa, Catherine S.
name: Orvek, Elizabeth A.
name: Blok, Amanda C.
name: Allison, Jeroan J.
name: Person, Sharina D.
name: Smith, Bridget M.
name: Sadasivam, Rajani S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Interaction between a user and the recommender system that motivates smoking cessation.
Chemical Communication Visualized by Mass Spectrometry: Specialized Metabolism in Bacterial Biofilms
Creators: name: Condren, Alanna R
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A bacterial biofilm is a physiological state bacteria enter when adjusting to changes in the surrounding environment. Pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae, utilize biofilms as a mechanism to aid in surface adhesion, increase proliferation, and institute colonization. Biofilms also allow these pathogenic species to maintain antibiotic resistance and are responsible for the majority of chronic microbial infections. Therefore, biofilm inhibition by exogenous molecules has been an attractive strategy for the development of novel therapeutics. Chapter 1 provides a general overview of bacterial biofilms, the impact they have on human health, and also highlights what is known about biofilm regulation and the current gaps in knowledge. The following body of work follows this theme to investigate biofilm regulation, and more specifically, the arsenal of specialized metabolites produced by these species employed to do so. The chapters in this thesis report on studies of biofilm chemical communication that transition from in vitro to in vivo, and then shift to the pursuit of biofilm inhibition.
Abelian sandpiles: an overview and results on certain transitive graphs
Creators: name: Járai, Antal A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35

description: We review the Majumdar-Dhar bijection between recurrent states of the Abelian sandpile model and spanning trees. We generalize earlier results of Athreya and Jarai on the infinite volume limit of the stationary distribution of the sandpile model on Z^d, d >= 2, to a large class of graphs. This includes: (i) graphs on which the wired spanning forest is connected and has one end; (ii) transitive graphs with volume growth at least c n^5 on which all bounded harmonic functions are constant. We also extend a result of Maes, Redig and Saada on the stationary distribution of sandpiles on infinite regular trees, to arbitrary exhaustions.
description: 44 pages. Version 2 incorporates some smaller changes. To appear in Markov Processes and Related Fields in the proceedings of the meeting: Inhomogeneous Random Systems, Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Mechanics, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, 27 January 2010
Additional file 1 of Expectations and behaviour of older adults with neurological disorders regarding general practitioner consultations: an observational study
Creators: name: Schönenberg, Aline
name: Teschner, Ulrike
name: Prell, Tino
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Translation of the questionnaire. Table S2. Exploratory general practitioner (GP)-related patient behaviour. Table S3. Exploratory factor analysis for relationship-related factors. Table S4. Block-wise linear regression with backward selection for importance of physician’s perception. Table S5. Mann-Whitney U test for people with and without preparation for consultation. Table S6. Chi2 Test/Fishers Exact Test for people with and without preparation for consultation.
Additional file 2 of The effect of hand hygiene promotion programs during epidemics and pandemics of respiratory droplet-transmissible infections on health outcomes: a rapid systematic review
Creators: name: Veys, Koen
name: Dockx, Kim
name: Van Remoortel, Hans
name: Vandekerckhove, Philippe
name: De Buck, Emmy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Search strategies.