cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Guide to the treatment of cancer pain in South Africa
Creators: name: Blanchard, Charmaine
name: Chetty, Sean
name: Ganca, Linda
name: Gwyther, Elizabeth
name: Hodgson, Eric
name: Kamerman, Peter
name: Meiring, Michelle
name: Sharma, Vinay
name: Webb, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Diseases
Health Care

description: Palliative care, including effective management of cancer pain, is recognised under international law as a human right. Pain management can and should be delivered from the time of cancer diagnosis. This care is inexpensive, safe and effective and can be delivered in a variety of settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential hospices, nursing homes, community health centers and at home. However, cancer pain is frequently inadequately treated. and healthcare providers often feel insufficiently prepared to assess and manage cancer pain. The purpose of this guideline is to assist members of all healthcare professions in South Africa to optimise patient care within the limitations of their resources, aiming to reduce suffering while maintaining quality of life and dignity. The guideline has been endorsed by the following organisations: Gauteng Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care / Wits Centre for Palliative Care PainSA Hospice Palliative Care Association Palliative Treatment for Children – South Africa (PATCH-SA) University of Cape Town, FHS, Family Medicine Division South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology (SASCRO) South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA)
(±)-Camphor-10-Sulfonic Acid as Recyclable and Efficient Catalyst for the Synthesis of Some Novel Coumarin Derivatives
Creators: name: Madhukar Deshmukh
name: Digambar Kumbhar
name: Patil, Reshma
name: Dayanand Patil
name: Ajinkya Patravale
name: Dattatray Chandam
name: Jadhav, Sunetra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A highly competent diversity oriented synthesis of coumarin core derivatives through a Knoevenagel condensation followed by Michael addition and subsequent cyclization in the presence of (±)-Camphor-10-Sulfonic Acid in water: ethanol (1:1) solvent system is depicted. Furthermore, easy work-up procedures with high yield, rapid reactions with high atom economy and catalyst recyclability are the fascinating features of the procedure.
การเปลี่ยนแปลงมิติภายในของพระสงฆ์กลุ่มอาสาคิลานธรรมภายหลังเข้าร่วมหลักสูตรการปรึกษาเชิงจิตวิทยาแนวพุทธและในระยะติดตามผลการปฏิบัติงานต่อผู้ป่วยระยะท้าย
Creators: name: เพริศพรรณ แดนศิลป์
Publisher: name: คณะศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น
Year: 2563
Subjects: การเปลี่ยนแปลงมิติภายใน การปรึกษาเชิงจิตวิทยาแนวพุทธ การเยียวยาจิตใจผู้ป่วยระยะท้าย

description: วารสารศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น, 43, 1, 15-29
A theoretical study of the regio- and stereoselectivities of non-polar 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between C-diethoxyphosphoryl-N-methylnitrone and N-(2-fluorophenyl)acrylamide
Creators: name: Chafaa, Fouad
name: Hellel, Djamila
name: Abdelmalek Khorief Nacereddine
name: Abdelhafid Djerourou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions (13DC) of C-diethoxyphosphoryl-N-methylnitrone and N-(2-fluorophenyl) acrylamide have been studied using density functional theory (DFT) calculations at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory. Our calculations show that this 13DC reaction takes place with complete ortho regioselectivity with endo stereoselectivity, which favours kinetically the formation of the ortho–endo cycloadduct, in agreement with the experimental observations. The inclusion of solvent effects does not modify the gas-phase selectivities but slightly decreases the reactivity of the reagents. Analysis of the bond order and charge transfer at the transition states indicates that this 13DC reaction takes place via a one-step asynchronous mechanism. Analysis of the DFT global reactivity indices and the Parr functions of the reagents allow us to provide an explanation of the regioselectivity of this 13DC reaction.
Collateral Management Framework
Creators: name: Xiao, Tim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: unilateral/bilateral collateralization, partial/full/over collateralization, asset pricing, plumbing of the financial system, swap premium spread, OTC/cleared/listed financial markets.

description: This paper presents a model that allows for collateralization adhering to bankruptcy laws. Our theoretical analysis shows that collateralization can always improve recovery and reduce credit risk. If a contract is over-collateralized, its value is equal to the risk-free value. If a contract is partially collateralized, its CSA value is less than the risk-free value but greater than the non-CSA risky value. The estimation results show that the constant term is insignificantly different from zero; the slope coefficient is close to 1 and the adjusted is very high. This suggests that the implied premium spreads explain nearly all of the market premium spreads.
description: https://ia601508.us.archive.org/32/items/examining-collateralization-6/examining-collateralization-6.pdf
A theoretical study of the regio- and stereoselectivities of non-polar 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction between C-diethoxyphosphoryl-N-methylnitrone and N-(2-fluorophenyl)acrylamide
Creators: name: Chafaa, Fouad
name: Hellel, Djamila
name: Abdelmalek Khorief Nacereddine
name: Abdelhafid Djerourou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions (13DC) of C-diethoxyphosphoryl-N-methylnitrone and N-(2-fluorophenyl) acrylamide have been studied using density functional theory (DFT) calculations at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory. Our calculations show that this 13DC reaction takes place with complete ortho regioselectivity with endo stereoselectivity, which favours kinetically the formation of the ortho–endo cycloadduct, in agreement with the experimental observations. The inclusion of solvent effects does not modify the gas-phase selectivities but slightly decreases the reactivity of the reagents. Analysis of the bond order and charge transfer at the transition states indicates that this 13DC reaction takes place via a one-step asynchronous mechanism. Analysis of the DFT global reactivity indices and the Parr functions of the reagents allow us to provide an explanation of the regioselectivity of this 13DC reaction.
Design of experiments and multivariate analysis approach to study dissolution stability of a modified-release drug product to support lean design strategies
Creators: name: Jordan, Nika
name: Roškar, Robert
name: Grabnar, Iztok
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this paper is to present the use of Design of Experiments and multivariate analysis for evaluation of a modified-release drug product stability to support post-approval lean stability approaches. The focus of the paper was to investigate potential root-causes for acceleration of dissolution upon stability. For statistical evaluation of stability data, multiple linear regression statistics was used. The design space of the stability study was modeled using MODDE 12.1 software. For experimental set-up, parameters such as Temperature, Time, Packaging, Batch, and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient supplier were selected. With multiple linear regression modeling of the all generated stability data until six months, we were able to identify or confirm the Stability-related quality attributes and Shelf life limiting attributes. From the multiple linear regression correlation coefficients, we have evaluated that decrease of an antioxidant upon stability could cause potential shift in dissolution. However, main factors for accelerated dissolution can be attributed to other material and process variables. In the last part of the study, we have shown the usefulness of these methodologies for supporting lean stability approaches. With enhanced drug product knowledge, we designed two reduced long-term stability studies and showed that with ‘One-half’ reduced design, we would still be able to confirm 24-month shelf life. Implementing Quality by design approaches on stability studies could reduce the need for excessive analytical testing, help to evaluate meaningfulness of the data and set a risk-based stability testing strategy.
Improving the 6-Aminopenicillanic acid release process using vermiculite-alginate biocomposite bead on drug delivery system
Creators: name: moghadam, Nona Soleimanpour
name: Azadmehr, Amirreza
name: Hezarkhani, Ardeshir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present study deals with developing vermiculite (VMT)-alginate (Alg) composites with different cross-linker concentrations (CaCl2) to deliver the controlled 6-aminopenicillin acid (6-APA). The Characterization of synthesized composites was conducted by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses. Optimization attempts were explored via the response surface method (RSM) to best predict the actual amount of compound. The adsorption capacity of 6-APA onto this adsorbent was found to be 208.33 mg/g, which was higher than that for other clays. The equilibrium and Kinetic studies (chemical reaction and diffusion-based models) indicated that drug absorption on VMT-Alg is homogeneous with chemical interaction. An increase in cross-linker (CaCl2) concentration leads to improvement in the drug encapsulation efficiency while having no significant effect on loading efficiency. The in-vitro release of the pure drug shows a rapid burst release followed by 100% cumulative release within 6 h. Whereas, the synthesized drug with Alg substantially showed less release of 43% after 8 h. Release experiments revealed that the presence of the CaCl2 delayed the release of the 6-APA less than 35% after 12 h. The kinetic release of 6-APA is followed by the Korsmeyer-Peppas model based on Fick's law mechanism due to the kinetic exponent (n E. Coli and S. aureus. The antibacterial activities of composites were evaluated by the halo of no growth. The results showed that the VMT-Alg-6APA composite had strong activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
Enhancing Long-Term Person Re-Identification Using Global, Local Body Part, and Head Streams
Creators: name: Thanh, Duy Tran
name: Lee, Yeejin
name: Kang, Byeongkeun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work addresses the task of long-term person re-identification. Typically, person re-identification assumes that people do not change their clothes, which limits its applications to short-term scenarios. To overcome this limitation, we investigate long-term person re-identification, which considers both clothes-changing and clothes-consistent scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that effectively learns and utilizes both global and local information. The proposed framework consists of three streams: global, local body part, and head streams. The global and head streams encode identity-relevant information from an entire image and a cropped image of the head region, respectively. Both streams encode the most distinct, less distinct, and average features using the combinations of adversarial erasing, max pooling, and average pooling. The local body part stream extracts identity-related information for each body part, allowing it to be compared with the same body part from another image. Since body part annotations are not available in re-identification datasets, pseudo-labels are generated using clustering. These labels are then utilized to train a body part segmentation head in the local body part stream. The proposed framework is trained by backpropagating the weighted summation of the identity classification loss, the pair-based loss, and the pseudo body part segmentation loss. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conducted experiments on three publicly available datasets (Celeb-reID, PRCC, and VC-Clothes). The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the previous state-of-the-art method.
description: 16 pages
การพัฒนาตัวบ่งชี้และยุทธศาสตร์การบริหารงานวิชาการตามหลักปรัชญาของเศรษฐกิจพอเพียงของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา
Creators: name: อรุณี หงษ์ศิริวัฒน์
Publisher: name: คณะศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น
Year: 2563
Subjects: การพัฒนาตัวบ่งชี้ ยุทธศาสตร์ การบริหารงานวิชาการ หลักปรัชญาของเศรษฐกิจพอเพียง

description: วารสารศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น, 43, 1, 31-50
Barriers to and Enablers of Usability in Electronic Consumer Product Development – a Multiple Case Study
Creators: name: Kuijk, Jasper Van
name: Heimrich Kanis
name: Christiaans, Henri
name: Eijk, Daan Van
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology

description: This study identified practitioner-reported barriers to and enablers of usability in the development of electronic consumer products. Barriers and enablers are properties, situations, or conditions in the product development process, team, or context that negatively or positively influence the usability of a product. Based on a review of literature on user-centered design (UCD) and exploratory expert interview, central concepts for studying usability in practice were identified. This was used as input for the case study, which was conducted at 5 product development groups in large multinationals, making 1) portable audio/video players, 2) personal navigation devices, 3) cellphones, 4) laundry care products, and 5) home control products. Data were primarily collected through interviews with 31 product development practitioners. Based on the data collected, case descriptions were created and more than 1500 barriers and enablers were identified, categorized, and analyzed. The results of the study are 23 sets of barriers and enablers, of which it is indicated in which of the cases they occur, and accompanied with illustrative quotations from the interviewees. In barriers and enablers, a predominantly “outside-in” relation was observed, from the more external properties of companies (market, company organization) to the more internal (process, team, project). This seems to indicate that the user-centeredness of a product development process is highly influenced by the context in which it is executed. The results also lead to the conclusion that if the goal is to make usable products, one cannot only address activities that are generally considered typical of UCD, such as conducting user research and user testing. One also has to take into account how these activities are integrated with and supported by the rest of the product development process, which in turn has to be supported by the product development organization.
Combinatorial designs, difference sets and bent functions as perfect colorings of graphs and multigraphs
Creators: name: Potapov, V. N.
name: Avgustinovich, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15, 05C50, 05B05

description: It is proved that 1) the indicator function of some onefold or multifold independent set in a regular graph is a perfect coloring if and only if the set attain the Delsarte--Hoffman bound; 2) each transversal in a uniform regular hypergraph is an independent set attaining the Delsarte--Hoffman bound in the vertex adjacency multigraph of this hypergraph; 3) combinatorial designs with parameters $t$-$(v,k,λ)$ and similar $q$-designs, difference sets, Hadamard matrices, and bent functions are equivalent to perfect colorings of special graphs and multigraphs, in particular, it is true in the cases of the Johnson graphs $J(n,k)$ for $(k-1)$-$(v,k,λ)$ designs and the Grassmann graphs $J_2(n,2)$ for bent functions.
 Keywords: perfect coloring, equitable partition, transversal of hypergraph, combinatorial design, $q$-design, difference set, bent function, Johnson graph, Grassmann graph, Delsarte--Hoffman bound
description: This is improved version of the paper published in Siberian Mathematical Journal. We fix some misprints and a gap in the proof of Theorem 2
การพัฒนารูปแบบการจัดกิจกรรมแนะแนวที่ใช้เครื่องมือสอนคิดเพื่อเสริมสร้างกระบวนการคิดเชิงระบบสำหรับนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 2
Creators: name: ธัญญา  กฤตานนท์
Publisher: name: คณะศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น
Year: 2563
Subjects: กิจกรรมแนะแนว เครื่องมือสอนคิด การคิดเชิงระบบ

description: วารสารศึกษาศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยขอนแก่น, 43, 1, 51-67
An aspect of selecting resolving agents: The role of differences in molecule length in diastereomeric salt resolutions
Creators: name: Szeleczky, Zsolt
name: Semsey, Sándor
name: Bagi, Péter
name: Fődi, Balázs
name: Faigl, Ferenc
name: Pálovics, Emese
name: Fogassy, Elemér
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In the course of 49 individual experiments of diastereomeric salt resolution we have examined the effect of the difference between the racemic and resolving agent molecule lengths on the resolution. We concluded that using resolving agents with the molecule length differing by 3 to 6 from the racemic molecule produces the best result.
Improving the 6-Aminopenicillanic acid release process using vermiculite-alginate biocomposite bead on drug delivery system
Creators: name: moghadam, Nona soleimanpour
name: Azadmehr, Amirreza
name: Hezarkhani, Ardeshir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present study deals with developing vermiculite (VMT)-alginate (Alg) composites with different cross-linker concentrations (CaCl2) to deliver the controlled 6-aminopenicillin acid (6-APA). The Characterization of synthesized composites were conducted by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses. Optimization attempts were explored via the response surface method (RSM) to best predict the actual amount of compound. The adsorption capacity of 6-APA onto this adsorbent was found to be 208.33 mg/g, which was higher than that for other clays. The equilibrium and Kinetic studies (chemical reaction and diffusion-based models) indicated that drug absorption on VMT-Alg is homogeneous with chemical interaction. An increase in cross-linker (CaCl2) concentration leads to improvement in the drug encapsulation efficiency while has no significant effect on loading efficiency. The in-vitro release of the pure drug shows a rapid burst release followed by 100% cumulative release within 6 hours. Whereas, the synthesized drug with Alg substantially showed less release of 43% after 8 hours. Release experiments revealed that the presence of the CaCl2 delayed the release of the 6-APA less than 35% after 12 hours. The kinetic release of 6-APA followed by the Korsmeyer-Peppas model based on Fick's law mechanism due to the kinetic exponent (n
Mutation on lysX from Mycobacterium avium hominissuis impacts the host–pathogen interaction and virulence phenotype
Creators: name: Kirubakar, Greana
name: Schäfer, Hubert
name: Rickerts, Volker
name: Schwarz, Carsten
name: Lewin, Astrid
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Virulence
subject: Mycobacterium avium hominissuis
subject: nontuberculous mycobacteria
subject: Galleria mellonella infection model
subject: multinucleated giant cells
subject: pathogenesis
subject: lysX (lysyl-tRNA synthetase)
subject: host-pathogen interaction
subject: inflammatory cytokines
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The lysX gene from Mycobacterium avium hominissuis (MAH) is not only involved in cationic antimicrobial resistance but also regulates metabolic activity. An MAH lysX deficient mutant was shown to exhibit a metabolic shift at the extracellular state preadapting the bacteria to the conditions inside host-cells. It further showed stronger growth in human monocytes. In the present study, the LysX activity on host–pathogen interactions were analyzed. The lysX mutant from MAH proved to be more sensitive toward host-mediated stresses such as reactive oxygen species. Further, the lysX mutant exhibited increased inflammatory response in PBMC and multinucleated giant cell (MGC) formation in human macrophages during infection studies. Coincidentally, the lysX mutant strain revealed to be more reproductive in the Galleria mellonella infection model. Together, these data demonstrate that LysX plays a role in regulating the bacillary load in host organisms and the lack of lysX gene facilitates MAH adaptation to intracellular host-habitat, thereby suggesting an essential role of LysX in the modulation of host–pathogen interaction.
A Miniaturized Device for Ultrafast On-demand Drug Release based on a Gigahertz Ultrasonic Resonator
Creators: name: Zhou, Yangchao
name: Jeong, Moonkwang
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Duan, Xuexin
name: Qiu, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.3

description: On-demand controlled drug delivery is essential for the treatment of a wide range of chronic diseases. As the drug is released at the time when required, its efficacy is boosted and the side effects are minimized. However, so far, drug delivery devices often rely on the passive diffusion process for a sustained release, which is slow and uncontrollable. Here, we present a miniaturized microfluidic device for wirelessly controlled ultrafast active drug delivery, driven by an oscillating solid-liquid interface. The oscillation generates acoustic streaming in the drug reservoir, which opens an elastic valve to deliver the drug. High-speed microscopy reveals the fast response of the valve on the order of 1 ms, which is more than three orders of magnitude faster than the start-of-the-art. The amount of the released drug exhibits a linear relationship with the working time and the electric power applied to the ultrasonic resonator. The trigger of the release is wirelessly controlled via a magnetic field, and the system shows stable output in a continuous experiment for two weeks. The integrated system shows great promise as a long-term controlled drug delivery implant for chronic diseases.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Food Prices and Why
Creators: name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: Retail prices of food, excluding seafood and imports, were 15 per cent higher in 1963 than in 1947-49. How come—when farmers got 15 per cent less? The answer is a 44 per cent increase in marketing costs. At war's end, farmers got over half of every retail dollar. Today they receive just over one-third. The rest goes to process, package, transport and distribute the food the farmer grows,
description: Reprinted from The Farm INDEX August 1964
Single-Channel Robot Ego-Speech Filtering during Human-Robot Interaction
Creators: name: Li, Yue
name: Hindriks, Koen V
name: Kunneman, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.9

description: In this paper, we study how well human speech can automatically be filtered when this overlaps with the voice and fan noise of a social robot, Pepper. We ultimately aim for an HRI scenario where the microphone can remain open when the robot is speaking, enabling a more natural turn-taking scheme where the human can interrupt the robot. To respond appropriately, the robot would need to understand what the interlocutor said in the overlapping part of the speech, which can be accomplished by target speech extraction (TSE). To investigate how well TSE can be accomplished in the context of the popular social robot Pepper, we set out to manufacture a datase composed of a mixture of recorded speech of Pepper itself, its fan noise (which is close to the microphones), and human speech as recorded by the Pepper microphone, in a room with low reverberation and high reverberation. Comparing a signal processing approach, with and without post-filtering, and a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) approach to a state-of-the-art speaker identification-based TSE model, we found that the signal processing approach without post-filtering yielded the best performance in terms of Word Error Rate on the overlapping speech signals with low reverberation, while the CRNN approach is more robust for reverberation. These results show that estimating the human voice in overlapping speech with a robot is possible in real-life application, provided that the room reverberation is low and the human speech has a high volume or high pitch.
description: Accepted by ACM Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction. 9 pages
Atmospheric chemistry of HFE-7000 (i-C3F7OCH3) and isofluoro-propyl formate (i-C3F7OC(O)H): reactions with OH radicals, atmospheric lifetime and fate of alkoxy radical (i-C3F7OCH2O•) – a DFT study
Creators: name: Bhupesh Kumar Mishra
name: Nand Kishor Gour
name: Debajyoti Bhattacharjee
name: Deka, Ramesh Chandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The mechanism of hydrogen abstraction reaction between HFE-7000 (i-C3F7OCH3) and OH radicals using M06-2X functional in conjunction with 6-31+G(d,p) basis set is investigated. The pre-reactive and post-reactive complexes from intrinsic reaction coordinate calculations are validated at entrance and exit channels, respectively. The standard enthalpies of formation for the species and bond dissociation energy for C–H bond are also estimated. The rate constants of the titled reactions over the temperature range of 250–450 K are reported. The OH-driven atmospheric life time of i-HFE-7000 is computed to be 3.19 years. The atmospheric fate of the alkoxy radical (i-C3F7OCH2O•) is also explored here for the first time. Three prominent plausible decomposition channels including oxidation are considered in detail. The thermochemical data reveal that reaction with O2 is the dominant path for the decomposition of i-C3F7OCH2O• radical. Moreover, rate constant for the OH-initiated hydrogen abstraction of isofluoro-propyl formate (i-C3F7OC(O)H) is also reported.
Spatial congruence between organic farming and biodiversity related landscape features in Germany
Creators: name: Bredemeier, Birte
name: Rüter, Stefan
name: Haaren, Christina Von
name: Reich, Michael
name: Schaarschmidt, Frank
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Poor spatial targeting of agri-environmental measures (AEMs) is frequently criticised as a major cause for insufficient biodiversity conservation effectiveness. For the horizontal measure organic farming (OF), targeting of remuneration is considered to be necessary because conservation effectiveness might be higher in structurally complex landscapes with high amounts of biodiversity related landscape features. In this article, we investigate the spatial congruence between OF and biodiversity related landscape features at the NUTS 3-regional level (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) in Germany. Using principal component analysis and generalised least square models, we tested the predictor variable value for proportions of permanent pastures, (semi-) natural habitats, Natura 2000 sites, protected habitats and forests as well as the number of the total and endangered plant species. We found OF to be more prevalent in regions with favourable landscape conditions for increasing biodiversity on farmland, i.e. regions with higher proportion of permanent pastures, (semi-) natural habitats and protected habitats. Our results suggest that, at present, conservation potentially benefits from the general funding of OF in Germany without spatial targeting as OF is already concentrated in structurally complex landscapes. Given the assumption that targeted AEMs cause additional administrative efforts, the efficiency of the general funding seems to be sufficient.
Atmospheric chemistry of HFE-7000 (i-C3F7OCH3) and isofluoro-propyl formate (i-C3F7OC(O)H): reactions with OH radicals, atmospheric lifetime and fate of alkoxy radical (i-C3F7OCH2O•) – a DFT study
Creators: name: Bhupesh Kumar Mishra
name: Nand Kishor Gour
name: Debajyoti Bhattacharjee
name: Deka, Ramesh Chandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The mechanism of hydrogen abstraction reaction between HFE-7000 (i-C3F7OCH3) and OH radicals using M06-2X functional in conjunction with 6-31+G(d,p) basis set is investigated. The pre-reactive and post-reactive complexes from intrinsic reaction coordinate calculations are validated at entrance and exit channels, respectively. The standard enthalpies of formation for the species and bond dissociation energy for C–H bond are also estimated. The rate constants of the titled reactions over the temperature range of 250–450 K are reported. The OH-driven atmospheric life time of i-HFE-7000 is computed to be 3.19 years. The atmospheric fate of the alkoxy radical (i-C3F7OCH2O•) is also explored here for the first time. Three prominent plausible decomposition channels including oxidation are considered in detail. The thermochemical data reveal that reaction with O2 is the dominant path for the decomposition of i-C3F7OCH2O• radical. Moreover, rate constant for the OH-initiated hydrogen abstraction of isofluoro-propyl formate (i-C3F7OC(O)H) is also reported.
An Aspect of Selecting Resolving Agents – The Role of Differences in Molecule Length in Diastereomeric Salt Resolutions
Creators: name: Faigl, Ferenc
name: Szeleczky, Zsolt
name: Semsey, Sándor
name: Bagi, Péter
name: Fődi, Balázs
name: Pálovics, Emese
name: Fogassy, Elemér
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: ABSTRACTIn the course of 49 individual experiments of diastereomeric salt resolution we have examined the effect of the difference between the racemic and resolving agent molecule lengths on the resolution. We concluded that using resolving agents with the molecule length differing by 3 to 6 from the racemic molecule produces the best result.
Increasing Public Awareness About PFAS
Creators: name: Gonzales, Anthony
name: Flores, Adam
name: Li, Yunxin
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2025

description: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of harmful chemicals contaminating drinking water all across the United States. Despite the danger, there is a sizable knowledge gap among the population about PFAS and its dangers. The goal of this project is to help inform communities in Massachusetts about PFAS contamination through infographics and posters. Our research used case studies for two towns in MA Webster and Westborough, including semi- structured interviews and the development of infographics, to develop and gain feedback on effective strategies.
Synthesis and applications of copillar[5]arene dithiols
Creators: name: Raghuram Reddy Kothur
name: Fucassi, Flavia
name: Dichello, Gennaro
name: Doudet, Ludovic
name: Abdalaziz, Wafa
name: Bhavik Anil Patel
name: Cave, Gareth W. V.
name: Gass, Ian A.
name: Sarker, Dipak K.
name: Mikhalovsky, Sergey V.
name: Cragg, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A novel copillar[4+1]arene incorporating alkylthiol substituents was synthesised in three steps and structurally characterised as the first example of a pillar[n]arene to incorporate two terminal thiols on the same aromatic ring. The macrocycle was attached to gold electrodes through a standard dipping technique. Cyclic voltammetry demonstrated selectivity for Li+ over other alkali metal cations. The copillar[4+1]arene was also used as a capping agent in the preparation of 3 nm gold nanoparticles.
Supramolecular system composed of B12 model complex and organic photosensitizer: impact of the corrin framework of B12 on the visible-light-driven dechlorination without the use of noble metals
Creators: name: Keishiro Tahara
name: Mikuriya, Kumiko
name: Masuko, Takahiro
name: Jun-Ichi Kikuchi
name: Hisaeda, Yoshio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The visible-light-driven dechlorination system without the use of a noble metal has been developed. We screened the combination of cobalt catalysts having square-planar monoanionic ligands (hydrophobic B12 model complex 1/imine-oxime type complex 2) and typical red dyes (Rose Bengal 3/Rhodamine B 4/Nile Red 5) for the construction of a dehalogenation system via a noble-metal-free and visible-light-driven process. The combination of the hydrophobic B12 model complex 1 and Rose Bengal 3 exhibited the highest catalytic activity to 1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethane (DDT) to form the monodechlorinated compound, 1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane, as the major product. The prolonged photocatalysis of DDT by the B12–Rose Bengal system afforded the tri-dechlorinated compound, trans-4,4′-dichlorostilbene, as the major product. Furthermore, we investigated the mechanism of the dehalogenation cycle using various methods such as UV–vis spectroscopy and laser flash photolysis. Finally, we clarified the advantage of using the hydrophobic B12 model complex 1 as an electron acceptor as well as a cobalt catalyst in the organic dye-involved photocatalysis.
Lake Peipsi phytoplankton samples (1962-2018) - methods and comments
Creators: name: Laugaste, Reet
Publisher: name: EMU DSpace
Year: 2020
Subjects: Lake Peipsi
lakes
datasets
methods
phytoplankton
samples of biological origin

description: In the course of time, beginning from the 1960s, methods of sampling, counting and microscoping have changed. More complete handbooks have become available and most importantly, inexperienced students have gradually developed into specialists. Many determinations of species have been questioned several decades later. Important changes in counting methods took place in 1999 when the invert microscope was taken into use and the Utermöhl (1958) method was introduced. A large number of tiny unicellular organisms became visible and enumerated. Macroscopic colonies of Gloeotrichia echinulata were enumerated visually in 500 ml measuring cylinder.
An Analysis of Grain Transportation in the Northwest
Creators: name: Corley, Joseph R.
name: Corley, Joseph R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the Preface: This study of the changing patterns of grain transportation in the Northwest is part of a broad program of research by the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, to improve the marketing of agricultural products. There is much interest among grain producers, carriers, country and terminal elevator operators, marketing firms, and other groups as to possible changes in the various aspects of grain marketing. This study provides data for one of these aspects--transportation. It was undertaken in response to the expressed interest of the grain trade in the extent and the reasons why other modes of transport are participating in grain movements which for many years were almost exclusively handled by the railroads. This report analyzes grain transportation for the marketing years 1956-57 through 1960-61 within and from the Northwest. The States included are Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. The analysis in this report was based primarily upon data furnished by a sample of country and terminal elevators and processors located in the five Northwestern States. The data were summarized from questionnaires completed by respondents in the survey.
Supramolecular system composed of B12 model complex and organic photosensitizer: impact of the corrin framework of B12 on the visible-light-driven dechlorination without the use of noble metals
Creators: name: Keishiro Tahara
name: Mikuriya, Kumiko
name: Masuko, Takahiro
name: Jun-Ichi Kikuchi
name: Hisaeda, Yoshio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The visible-light-driven dechlorination system without the use of a noble metal has been developed. We screened the combination of cobalt catalysts having square-planar monoanionic ligands (hydrophobic B12 model complex 1/imine-oxime type complex 2) and typical red dyes (Rose Bengal 3/Rhodamine B 4/Nile Red 5) for the construction of a dehalogenation system via a noble-metal-free and visible-light-driven process. The combination of the hydrophobic B12 model complex 1 and Rose Bengal 3 exhibited the highest catalytic activity to 1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethane (DDT) to form the monodechlorinated compound, 1,1-bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dichloroethane, as the major product. The prolonged photocatalysis of DDT by the B12–Rose Bengal system afforded the tri-dechlorinated compound, trans-4,4′-dichlorostilbene, as the major product. Furthermore, we investigated the mechanism of the dehalogenation cycle using various methods such as UV–vis spectroscopy and laser flash photolysis. Finally, we clarified the advantage of using the hydrophobic B12 model complex 1 as an electron acceptor as well as a cobalt catalyst in the organic dye-involved photocatalysis.
title: An optimized hybrid data reduction strategy in 1D Raman/Rayleigh spectroscopic measurements of turbulent flames
Creators: name: Luciano, Nicola
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: A variety of technical applications in energy conversion are based on turbulent combustion. Despite the advanced contest of operation, (turbulent) combustion science is at a relatively young stage. Detailed investigations of benchmark flames are essential to achieve a better understanding of the physics behind the mentioned processes, as well as to provide reliable database for validating numerical models developed to simulate turbulent combustion problems. Raman/Rayleigh spectroscopy is a highly valuable technique which allows to access simultaneous information on temperature and main chemical species concentration within the flame structures. The data reduction strategy applied with this technique is crucial, in order to extract reliable information from the experimental investigations. In this this thesis, a modified version of the strategy, based on the Hybrid Method by Fuest et al., has been developed and tested using NLP problem solving techniques, including global optimization methods and a genetic algorithm. The proposed strategy allows for a significant reduction of the data processing time, requires less user’s expertise and returns better results in reduced measurements error. The modified routine has been applied to data set provided by an experimental investigation of two turbulent premixed methane/air jet flames belonging to the flamelet regime of turbulent premixed combustion. The data set is composed by multiple scalars, including major species and temperature, simultaneously measured with single-shot 1D Raman/Rayleigh spectroscopy. The results of the measurements are analyzed and discussed.
AIx Speed: Playback Speed Optimization Using Listening Comprehension of Speech Recognition Models
Creators: name: Kawamura, Kazuki
name: Rekimoto, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Since humans can listen to audio and watch videos at faster speeds than actually observed, we often listen to or watch these pieces of content at higher playback speeds to increase the time efficiency of content comprehension. To further utilize this capability, systems that automatically adjust the playback speed according to the user's condition and the type of content to assist in more efficient comprehension of time-series content have been developed. However, there is still room for these systems to further extend human speed-listening ability by generating speech with playback speed optimized for even finer time units and providing it to humans. In this study, we determine whether humans can hear the optimized speech and propose a system that automatically adjusts playback speed at units as small as phonemes while ensuring speech intelligibility. The system uses the speech recognizer score as a proxy for how well a human can hear a certain unit of speech and maximizes the speech playback speed to the extent that a human can hear. This method can be used to produce fast but intelligible speech. In the evaluation experiment, we compared the speech played back at a constant fast speed and the flexibly speed-up speech generated by the proposed method in a blind test and confirmed that the proposed method produced speech that was easier to listen to.
Synthesis and applications of copillar[5]arene dithiols
Creators: name: Raghuram Reddy Kothur
name: Fucassi, Flavia
name: Dichello, Gennaro
name: Doudet, Ludovic
name: Abdalaziz, Wafa
name: Bhavik Anil Patel
name: Cave, Gareth W. V.
name: Gass, Ian A.
name: Sarker, Dipak K.
name: Mikhalovsky, Sergey V.
name: Cragg, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A novel copillar[4+1]arene incorporating alkylthiol substituents was synthesised in three steps and structurally characterised as the first example of a pillar[n]arene to incorporate two terminal thiols on the same aromatic ring. The macrocycle was attached to gold electrodes through a standard dipping technique. Cyclic voltammetry demonstrated selectivity for Li+ over other alkali metal cations. The copillar[4+1]arene was also used as a capping agent in the preparation of 3 nm gold nanoparticles.