cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Provision of Equitable Careers Education in Australia: The Case for Middle Years Outreach programmes
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Belinda
name: Dollinger, Mollie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3505
subject: Human resources and industrial relations
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: No description supplied
Anomalous force diffusion in nearly-ordered packings of frictionless discs
Creators: name: Head, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive analytic expressions for force propagation in packings of frictionless discs with a narrow distribution of disc sizes, by expanding to first order about the known ordered solution. The distribution of contact forces P(f) is found to be narrow at the upper surface, and broaden at a rate that varies with depth, being superdiffusive near the surface until crossing over to a subdiffusive regime near the fixed base. Furthermore, the response to an isolated load propagates along the edge of a `cone,' as in the ordered case, but fluctuates under ensemble averaging by an amount that depends purely on height, not on the lateral position. Finally, we comment on ways in which the analytical framework presented here could be extended to a wider range of granular packings.
description: Extra figure that graphically shows the main results; typos fixed. To appear in J. Phys. A
Appraisal of the first phase of the school farm progamme in Oyo State
Creators: name: Ladele, A. A.
name: Badiru, I. O.
name: Ladele, A. A.
name: Badiru, I. O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: School farm
subject: Career in agriculture
subject: Youth-in-agriculture

description: Youth’s interest in agriculture is crucial to the sustainability of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA). The attempt to renew this crucial but dying interest through the School Farm Programme in Oyo state is currently moving towards its second phase. Therefore, an enquiry into the operations of the programme in its first phase becomes imperative for better programme delivery. In-depth Interview (IDI) with key informants was used to elicit information from principals, agricultural science teachers and participating students from three out of the eleven schools that participated in the programme based on enterprise being managed. Data on programme characteristics, achievements of the programme, inhibiting factors and areas of further improvement were collected and analysed qualitatively. Schools benefitting from the programme participated in one of the enterprise (arable, poultry or fishery) promoted under the programme while participating students felt that agriculture was worth being pursued as a future career. Inadequate manpower was a major inhibiting factor in the programme while capacity building of supervising officers and provision of incentives to participating students were advocated for enhanced project delivery. The programme was successful at enhancing the interests of the students in pursuing career in agriculture. The next phase of the project should be supported by a detailed implementation manual while incentives are provided for the implementers for more effective delivery.
Plistonax inopinatus Lane 1960
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plistonax
Plistonax inopinatus

description: 2. Plistonax inopinatus Lane, 1960
Type locality — Brazil, Santa Catarina: Corupá. (AMNH). Distribution — Brazil (Bahia to Santa Catarina).
 Plistonax inopinatus Lane, 1960: 47, 1 fig.; Zajciw, 1972a: 66 (distr.); 1974a: 77 (distr.); Monné & Magno, 1992: 719, 721, fig. 4.
 Plistonax albolinitus; Zikán & Zikán, 1944: 34 (not Bates, 1861); Zajciw, 1958a: 18, 24 (distr.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Assessment of local government status of funding for agricultural sector in Rivers State (2005-2010)
Creators: name: Albert, C. O.
name: Ezeano, C. I
name: Albert, C. O.
name: Ezeano, C. I
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Local Government
subject: Funding status
subject: Agricultural Sector

description: The study assessed Local Government (LG) status of funding for agricultural sector in Rivers state from 2005 to 2010. Data for the study were obtained from secondary sources. Secondary data were collected from LG annual budgets, Human Rights Watch and the Nigerian Tide publications of monthly allocations in Rivers state to elicit information on annual budget to agricultural development and monthly allocation to LG from the Federal Government. Nine Local Government Areas (LGAs) were proportionately and randomly selected from twenty three LGAs in the state comprising 6 uplands and 3 coastal areas. Data obtained were subjected to descriptive statistics. The LGA that budgeted and spent the highest amount on agricultural development out of the 9 LGAs surveyed was Khana LGA with 6.15% out of an average annual allocation of N108,200,000 followed by Bonny LGA who received an average annual allocation of N125,296,666.67 and spent N472,750.00 representing 4.53% on agricultural development. It was therefore recommended that for the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) to make the required impact on the rural people, enough funds have to be allocated to the sector by LGCs. A minimum of 20% annual budget allocation should be assigned to the sector annually, not just allocated on paper but also actually spent on the sector.
Development of new benzil-hydrazone derivatives as anticholinesterase inhibitors: synthesis, X-ray analysis, DFT study and in vitro/in silico evaluation
Creators: name: Tabbiche, Abdelkader
name: Bouchama, Abdelaziz
name: Fadli, Khadidja
name: Ahmad, Basharat
name: Kumar, Neeraj
name: Chiter, Chaabane
name: Yahiaoui, Messaoud
name: Zaidi, Farouk
name: Boudjemaa, Kaouther
name: Dege, Necmi
name: Djedouani, Amel
name: Chafai, Nadjib
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system. Current drugs for AD have limited effectiveness and often come with side effects. Consequently, there is a pressing need to develop new, safe, and more effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. In this work, two novel benzil-hydrazone compounds, abbreviated 2-ClMHB and 2-ClBHB, were synthesized for the first time by refluxing the benzil with 2-Chloro phenyl hydrazine and they have been tested for their in vitro anti-cholinesterase activities and in silico acetyl and butyryl enzymes inhibition. The resulting products were characterized using UV-Vis and IR spectroscopy, while the single-crystal X-ray diffraction investigation was successful in establishing the structures of these compounds. DFT calculations have been successfully made to correlate the experimental data. According to biological studies, the synthesized hydrazones significantly inhibited both butyrylcholinesterase (2-ClMHB: 20.95 ± 1.29 µM and 2-ClBHB: 31.21 ± 1.50 µM) and acetylcholinesterase (2-ClMHB: 21.80 ± 1.10 µM and 2-ClBHB: 10.38 ± 1.27 µM). Moreover, molecular docking was also employed to locate the molecule with the optimum interaction and stability as well as to explain the experimental findings. The compound’s dynamic nature, binding interaction, and protein-ligand stability were investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Analyzing parameters such as RMSD and RMSF indicated that the compound remained stable throughout the 100 ns MD simulation. Finally, the drugs displayed high oral bioavailability, as per projected ADME and pharmacokinetic parameters.
Amputation Decision Aid video training resources
Creators: name: Dillon, Michael
name: Fatone, Stefania
name: Quigley, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Given our desire to fundamentally change the way people have conversations about amputation surgery, we recognise just how important it is that people know how to use the resources we’ve developed.
If you’re wanting to incorporate the Amputation Decision Aid and Discussion Guide into your day-to-day clinical practice, we encourage you to watch our suite of training videos. Each video is just a few minutes long so you can easily fit them in as your time allows.
All two-loop scalar self-energies and tadpoles in general renormalisable field theories
Creators: name: Goodsell, Mark D.
name: Paßehr, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the complete tadpoles and self-energies at the two-loop order for scalars in general renormalisable theories, a crucial component for calculating two-loop electroweak corrections to Higgs-boson masses or for any scalar beyond the Standard Model. We renormalise the amplitudes using mass-independent renormalisation schemes, based on both dimensional regularisation and dimensional reduction. The results are presented here in Feynman gauge, with expressions for all 121 self-energy and 25 tadpole diagrams given in terms of scalar and tensor integrals with the complete set of rules to reduce them to a minimal basis of scalar integrals for any physical kinematic configuration. In addition, we simplify the results to a set of only 16 tadpole and 58 self-energy topologies using relations in order to substitute the ghost and Goldstone-boson couplings that we derive. To facilitate their application, we also provide our results in electronic form as a new code TLDR. We test our results by applying them to the Standard Model and compare with analytic expressions in the literature.
description: 76 pages, 5 figures
Plistonax insolitus Monne 2001
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plistonax
Plistonax insolitus

description: 3. Plistonax insolitus Monné, 2001
Type locality — Brazil, Amapá: Macapá (Fazendinha, IEPA). (MNRJ). Distribution — Brazil (Amapá).
 Plistonax insolitus Monné, 2001c: 1.
 Plistonax inopinatus; Monné, 2001c: fig. 1. (inadvertent error).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Pion structure from improved lattice QCD: form factor and charge radius at low masses
Creators: name: van der Heide, J.
name: Koch, J.
name: Laermann, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge form factor of the pion is calculated in lattice QCD. The non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert action is used together with the $\mathcal{O}(a)$ improved vector current. Other choices for the current are examined. The form factor is extracted for pion masses from 970 MeV down to 360 MeV and for momentum transfers $Q^2 \leq 2 \mathrm{GeV}^2$. The mean square charge radius is extracted, compared to previous determinations and its extrapolation to lower masses discussed.
description: 12 pages REVTeX, 15 figures. Designation of currents clarified. Details concerning extraction of parameters added. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Η εθνική κυριαρχία και ο ευρωπαϊκός συνταγματισμός υπό το πρίσμα της νέας ευρωπαϊκής οικονομικής διακυβέρνησης
Creators: name: Σιδέρης, Δημήτριος Ιωάννη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Εθνική κυριαρχία
Ευρωπαϊκός συνταγματισμός
Νέα Ευρωπαϊκή Οικονομική Διακυβέρνηση
National Sovereignty
European Constitutionalism
New European Economic Governance

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται το ζήτημα των ορίων της εθνικής κυριαρχίας, έτσι όπως διαμορφώνονται μέσα στη νέα ευρωπαϊκή συνταγματική τάξη, νοουμένη κατά βάσιν υπό το πρίσμα της νέας ευρωπαϊκής οικονομικής διακυβέρνησης, οι βάσεις της οποίας ετέθησαν ήδη με τη συνθήκη του Μάαστριχτ και την ίδρυση της Οικονομικής και Νομισματικής Ένωσης το 1992. Ειδικά κατά την περίοδο που ακολούθησε την έκρηξη της παγκόσμιας οικονομικής κρίσης του 2008 αναπτύχθηκαν καινοφανή νομικά σχήματα και θεσμικά εργαλεία, οδηγώντας στην εγκαθίδρυση μιας νέας ευρωπαϊκής οικονομικής διακυβέρνησης, δηλαδή ενός συστήματος κανόνων, μηχανισμών και διαδικασιών για τον συντονισμό και την εποπτεία των οικονομικών πολιτικών των κρατών-μελών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, με αυστηρότερο τόσο το προληπτικό όσο και το κατασταλτικό σκέλος, καθώς και με μια σημαντική εκχώρηση αρμοδιοτήτων προς τα ενωσιακά όργανα. Στο πλαίσιο αυτής της μελέτης θα διαληφθεί η αποστολή του εθνικού κράτους και του ρόλου που αυτό καλείται να διαδραματίσει εντός της νέας ευρωπαϊκής συνταγματικής τάξεως, όπως αυτή διαμορφώνεται από τα νέα δεδομένα, με μια κατά το δυνατόν συνθετική παράθεση των κυριότερων απόψεων και ιδεολογικών ρευμάτων που εκφράζονται στη σύγχρονη πολιτική θεωρία.
description: This dissertation deals with the question of the limits of national sovereignty, as they are formed within the new European constitutional order, perceived in the light of the new European economic governance, the foundations of which have already been laid by the Maastricht Treaty and the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union in 1992. Especially in the period following the outbreak of the global financial crisis of 2008, new legal systems and institutional tools were developed, leading to the establishment of a new European economic governance, i.e. a system of rules, mechanisms and procedures for coordinating and supervising the economic policies of the Member States of the European Union with stricter both the ex ante and the ex post control, as well as a significant delegation of responsibilities to the Union institutions. In the context of this study, mention shall be made to the mission of the nation-state and the role it is called upon to play within the new European constitutional order, as shaped by the new data, through a synthesis of the main views and ideological currents expressed in modern political theory.
Amputation Decision Aid website
Creators: name: Dillon, Michael
name: Fatone, Stefania
name: Quigley, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Amputation Decision Aid is a resource written specifically for people facing the prospect of partial foot amputation due to peripheral vascular disease. High-quality decision aids include unbiased information about the different options as well as evidence about the likely outcomes and risks. Armed with good information, we hope to empower people to be active participants in decisions about their healthcare.
Additional file 1 of Vascular access for renal replacement therapy among 459 critically ill patients: a pragmatic analysis of the randomized AKIKI trial
Creators: name: Benichou, Nicolas
name: Saïd Lebbah
name: Hajage, David
name: Martin-Lefèvre, Laurent
name: Pons, Bertrand
name: Boulet, Eric
name: Boyer, Alexandre
name: Chevrel, Guillaume
name: Lerolle, Nicolas
name: Carpentier, Dorothée
name: De Prost, Nicolas
name: Lautrette, Alexandre
name: Bretagnol, Anne
name: Mayaux, Julien
name: Nseir, Saad
name: Megarbane, Bruno
name: Thirion, Marina
name: Forel, Jean-Marie
name: Maizel, Julien
name: Hodane Yonis
name: Markowicz, Philippe
name: Thiery, Guillaume
name: Schortgen, Frederique
name: Tubach, Florence
name: Jean-Damien Ricard
name: Dreyfuss, Didier
name: Gaudry, Stéphane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Catheter tip culture at removal, skin cleaning protocol and catheter lock solution according to participating centers.
Assessment of teak plantation among farmers in Ose local government area, Ondo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Akinwalere, B. O.
name: Osanyintuyi, O. O.
name: Akinwalere, B. O.
name: Osanyintuyi, O. O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Teak plantation
subject: profitability assessment
subject: farmers’ constraints

description: The study was carried out to assess teak plantation among farmers in Ose Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to ascertain the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, examine the level of teak production, level of profitability and the various challenges facing the respondents. Data were obtained from primary source from 90 farmers using a set of structured questionnaire with interview schedule. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Likert scale, profitability and regression analysis. The study revealed that 78.9% of the respondents were were male, middle aged (50%), married (87.8%), fairly educated and small holder farm size (73.3%). The study further revealed that lack of equipment and capital, market instability, drudgery and risk were the major challenges facing the farmers. Moreover, the findings showed that involvement of teak farming which determined the number of teak produced depend on cost of production, sex, age, marital status, household size and level of education of the respondents in the study area.
Assessment of women involvement in agricultural activities in Kuje and Abuja municipal area councils of federal capital territory, Abuja, Nigeria
Creators: name: Kehinde, E. A.
name: Tologbonse, E. B.
name: Adeniji, O. B.
name: Yemison, G. H.
name: Tologbonse, O. M.
name: Kehinde, E. A.
name: Tologbonse, E. B.
name: Adeniji, O. B.
name: Yemison, G. H.
name: Tologbonse, O. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Women
subject: involvement
subject: agriculture
subject: activities

description: The Federal Government of Nigeria in 2011 launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) as its Vision and Mission to promote the growth and development of Nigeria. The agenda clearly has many promising hope for Nigerians. However, like many programmes of past governments, designed to address the structural imbalance in legislation, policy and governance, between men and women, no pragmatic and concrete effort is made to address the anomalies. Therefore, this paper seeks to bring to the fore women’s involvement in agricultural activities in Kuje and Abuja Municipal Area Councils, Abuja, Nigeria. A multi stage sampling procedure was employed in selecting the respondents. Two Area Councils (AC), from the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, were purposively selected due to the high number of women involved in farming in the area councils. Twenty percent of the registered women farmers were randomly sampled from six villages in each of the selected Area Council (AC), giving a total of 240 respondents. Structured questionnaire was administered to obtain information from registered women farmers purposively selected from a register of women farmers in the area. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the data. Results revealed that 45% of the women were between 31-40 years, 82.9% were married and 78% had formal education. Out of 24 agricultural activities engaged in by the women only six variables, namely, fish farming (mean=2.5), agro forestry products (mean =2.6), fish salting (mean 2.2), fish smoking (2.4), shea butter processing (mean=2.4) and carrying of farm produce home (mean=2.5) above the cut-off point mean of 2.0 were most practised activities. The t-test showed that mean involvement in agricultural activities of women farmers from Kuje (29.1) and Municipal (28.5) AC were not significantly different at 5% of probability. The Logit Regression model shows that cultural beliefs significantly influenced women’s involvement in agricultural activities at 1% level of probability while age, income, household size and extension contact had significant influence at 5% level of probability. Credit was also significant at 10% level of probability. The correlation was highly significant between women involvement in agricultural activities and the following variables: age, household size, and years of experience in farming. It is recommended that clear governmental policies, national guidelines, strategies, and plans for the involvement of more women in agricultural activities, be formulated and implemented.
Parametrized Post-Newtonian Theory of Reference Frames, Multipolar Expansions and Equations of Motion in the N-body Problem
Creators: name: Kopeikin, Sergei
name: Vlasov, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a covariant generalization of the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) formalism in a class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. It includes an exact construction of a set of global and local (Fermi-like) references frames for an isolated N-body astronomical system as well as PPN multipolar decomposition of gravitational field in these frames. We derive PPN equations of translational and rotational motion of extended bodies taking into account all gravitational multipoles and analyze the body finite-size effects in relativistic dynamics that can be important at the latest stages of orbital evolution of coalescing binary systems. We also reconcile the IAU 2000 resolutions on the general relativistic reference frames in the solar system with the PPN equations of motion of the solar system bodies used in JPL ephemerides.
description: 121 pages, 5 figures, references added, improvements made in response to referee's report
Turbulence control by developing a spiral wave with a periodic signal injection in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
Creators: name: Zhang, Hong
name: Hu, Bambi
name: Hu, Gang
name: Ouyang, Qi
name: Kurths, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence control in the two-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is investigated. A new approach is proposed for the control purpose. In the presence of a small spiral wave seed initiation, a fully developed turbulence can be completely annihilated by injecting a single periodic signal to a small fixed space area around the spiral wave tip. The control is achieved in a parameter region where the spiral wave of the uncontrolled system is absolutely unstable. The robustness, convenience and high control efficiency of this method is emphasized, and the mechanism underlying these practical advantages are intuitively understood.
description: 12 pages, figures can be found in the following journal
An in-silico approach to identify bioactive phytochemicals from Houttuynia cordata Thunb. As potential inhibitors of human glutathione reductase
Creators: name: Sangeet, Satyam
name: Khan, Arshad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Cellular infections are central to the etiology of various diseases, notably cancer and malaria. Counteracting cellular oxidative stress via the inhibition of glutathione reductase (GR) has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy. Houttuynia cordata, a medicinal plant known for its potent antioxidant properties, has been the focus of our investigation. In this study, we conducted comprehensive in silico analyses involving the phytochemical constituents of H. cordata to identify potential natural GR inhibitors. Our methodological approach encompassed multiple in silico techniques, including molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, MMPBSA analysis, and dynamic cross-correlation analysis. Out of 13 docked phytochemicals, Quercetin, Quercitrin, and Sesamin emerged as particularly noteworthy due to their exceptional binding affinities for GR. Notably, our investigation demonstrated that Quercetin and Sesamin exhibited promising outcomes compared to the well-established pharmaceutical agent N-acetylcysteine (NAC). Molecular dynamics analyses provided insights into the ability of these phytochemicals to induce structural compaction and stabilization of the GR protein, as evidenced by changes in radius of gyration and solvent-accessible surface area. Moreover, MMPBSA analysis highlighted the crucial roles of specific residues, namely Gly27, Gly28, Ser51, His52, and Val61, in mediating essential interactions with these phytochemicals. Furthermore, an assessment of Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity (ADME-Tox) profiles underscored the favourable drug-like attributes of these phytochemicals. Thus, the current findings underscore the immense potential of Houttuynia cordata phytochemicals as potent antioxidants with the capacity to combat a spectrum of maladies, including malaria and cancer. This study not only unveils novel therapeutic avenues but also underscores the distinctive outcomes and paramount significance of harnessing H. cordata phytochemicals for their efficacious antioxidant properties.
Treatment preferences and use of diagnostic imaging in midportion Achilles tendinopathy by Australian allied health professionals
Creators: name: Bonello, Christian
name: Menz, Hylton
name: Munteanu, Shannon
name: Rio, Ebonie
name: Docking, Sean
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: No description supplied
Women participation in farming skill acquisition programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Usman, I. S.
name: Musa, N. Y.
name: Usman, I. S.
name: Musa, N. Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Agriculture
subject: enterprise
subject: participation
subject: skill
subject: women

description: The study assessed the participation of women in farming skill acquisition programme in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected by the use of semi-structured questionnaire administered to 180 respondents who were randomly selected from a population of 602. Data collected were analysed using percentages, frequency distribution, mean and regression analysis. The findings of the study revealed that 90.0% of the respondents were between 20-40 years of age and 66.7% of the respondents had completed secondary education. Fifty five percent (55.0%) of the respondents were housewives and were between 1-6 months old in the training programme. The study revealed that 90.7% of the respondents learned one form of skill or another as a result of their participation and as such 81.7% of those who learned these skills started an agricultural enterprise. Result of the regression analysis revealed that the coefficients for experience and number of training sessions attended were positively related to the participation by women in the programme at 1% level of significance, while coefficient of education and age were significant at 5% level of significance. Inadequate capital and land to start their agricultural enterprise were the major constraints faced by the women. The study concluded that women who engaged in farming skill acquisition programme learned various skills and extended the knowledge to their personal farms which is in line with the agricultural transformation agenda. It study concluded that farming skill acquisition programme has been able to impact positively on the lives of the women in the study area. Those who were found to be engaged learned various skills and extended the knowledge to their personal agricultural enterprise. It was recommended that Government should provide women with land to start/expand their agricultural enterprise. Also, women should form cooperative associations to help themselves in terms accessing loans and farm inputs from micro finance institutions and input suppliers respectively.
Re-entrant Behavior and Gigantic Response in Disordered Spin-Peierls System
Creators: name: Seo, Hitoshi
name: Motome, Yukitoshi
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of disorder and external field on the competing spin-Peierls and antiferromagnetic states are studied theoretically in terms of the numerical transfer matrix method applied to a quasi one-dimensional spin 1/2 Heisenberg model coupled to the lattice degree of freedom. We show that, at temperatures above the impurity-induced antiferromagnetic phase, inhomogeneous spin-Peierls lattice distortions remain to exist showing a re-entrant behavior. This feature can be drastically altered by very weak perturbations, e.g., the staggered magnetic field or the change in interchain exchange coupling $J_\perp$, leading to a huge response, which is analogous to the colossal magnetoresistance phenomenon in perovskite manganese oxides.
description: 5 pages including 5 figures
ASTROD, ASTROD I and their gravitational-wave sensitivities
Creators: name: Ni, Wei-Tou
name: Shiomi, Sachie
name: Liao, An-Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ASTROD (Astrodynamical Space Test of Relativity using Optical Devices) is a mission concept with three spacecraft -- one near L1/L2 point, one with an inner solar orbit and one with an outer solar orbit, ranging coherently with one another using lasers to test relativistic gravity, to measure the solar system and to detect gravitational waves. ASTROD I with one spacecraft ranging optically with ground stations is the first step toward the ASTROD mission. In this paper, we present the ASTROD I payload and accelerometer requirements, discuss the gravitational-wave sensitivities for ASTROD and ASTROD I, and compare them with LISA and radio-wave PDoppler-tracking of spacecraft.
description: presented to the 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference (July 6-11, 2003) and submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Bindweeds or random walks in random environments on multiplexed trees and their asympotics
Creators: name: Menshikov, Mikhail
name: Petritis, Dimitri
name: Popov, Serguei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We report on the asymptotic behaviour of a new model of random walk, we term the bindweed model, evolving in a random environment on an infinite multiplexed tree. The term \textit{multiplexed} means that the model can be viewed as a nearest neighbours random walk on a tree whose vertices carry an internal degree of freedom from the finite set $\{1,...,d\}$, for some integer $d$. The consequence of the internal degree of freedom is an enhancement of the tree graph structure induced by the replacement of ordinary edges by multi-edges, indexed by the set $\{1,...,d\}\times\{1,...,d\}$. This indexing conveys the information on the internal degree of freedom of the vertices contiguous to each edge. The term \textit{random environment} means that the jumping rates for the random walk are a family of edge-indexed random variables, independent of the natural filtration generated by the random variables entering in the definition of the random walk; their joint distribution depends on the index of each component of the multi-edges. We study the large time asymptotic behaviour of this random walk and classify it with respect to positive recurrence or transience in terms of a specific parameter of the probability distribution of the jump rates. This classifying parameter is shown to coincide with the critical value of a matrix-valued multiplicative cascade on the ordinary tree (\textit{i.e.} the one without internal degrees of freedom attached to the vertices) having the same vertex set as the state space of the random walk. Only results are presented here since the detailed proofs will appear elsewhere.
Evaluating binding and interaction of selected pesticides with serum albumin proteins by Raman, 1H NMR, mass spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Wulf, Josefa
name: Lewit, Noam
name: Akter, Shaila
name: Bwambok, David K.
name: Anum, Davis
name: Alonge, Temitope
name: Kuedukey, Charles
name: Bolton, Brinkley
name: Dassow, Bailey
name: Halim, Mohammad A.
name: Fakayode, Sayo O.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Addressing the acute pesticide poisoning and toxicity to humans, is a global challenge of top priority. Serum albumin is the most abundant plasma protein, capable of binding with herbicide and pesticide residues. This study reports multifaceted approaches for in-depth and robust investigation of the molecular interactions of selected pesticides, including propanil (PPL), bromoxynil (BXL), metolachlor (MLR) and glyphosate (GPE) with bovine serum albumin (BSA) proteins using experimental (Raman and FTIR spectroscopy, native mass spectrometry and high field 1H NMR), molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and principal component analysis (PCA). The binding of pesticides with BSA resulted in BSA amide I and amide II Raman spectral shifts. PCA of Raman spectra of serum-pesticide complexes showed the grouping of pesticides on the score plot based on the similarities and differences in pesticides’ chemical structures. Native mass spectrometry results revealed strong adduct formation of the pesticides with the protein. The observed changes in chemical shifts, peak broadening or peak disappearance of characteristic proton signals of the pesticides, indicated altered chemical environments due to binding BSA-pesticides interactions. The results of MD simulation conducted for over 500 ns revealed strong pesticides interaction with LEU197, LEU218, LEU237, TRP213, SER286 and ILE289 residues to the site I of BSA. Free energy landscapes provided insights into the conformational changes in BSA on the binding of pesticides. Overall, the experimental and computational results are in consonant and indicate the binding of pesticides into the site I and site II (sub-domain IIA) of the BSA via hydrogen bonding, non-covalent and hydrophobic interactions.
Plistonax travassosi Monne & Magno 1992
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Plistonax
Plistonax travassosi

description: 4. Plistonax travassosi Monné & Magno, 1992
Type locality — Brazil, Pará: Cachimbo. (MNRJ). Distribution — Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Mato Grosso).
 Plistonax travassosi Monné & Magno, 1992: 718, fig. 2; Julio et al., 2000: 47 (holotype).
  Psapharochrus Thomson, 1864
 Psapharochrus Thomson, 1864: 18, 351; Lacordaire, 1872: 750; Casey, 1913: 301, 302; Sama, 1994: 329; Chemsak & Hovore, 2002a: 3.
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus); Aurivillius, 1923a: 385 (cat.).
 Type­species — Acanthoderes cylindrica Bates, 1861 (original designation).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection using AutoEncoders
Creators: name: Minhas, Manpreet Singh
name: Zelek, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Anomaly detection refers to the task of finding unusual instances that stand out from the normal data. In several applications, these outliers or anomalous instances are of greater interest compared to the normal ones. Specifically in the case of industrial optical inspection and infrastructure asset management, finding these defects (anomalous regions) is of extreme importance. Traditionally and even today this process has been carried out manually. Humans rely on the saliency of the defects in comparison to the normal texture to detect the defects. However, manual inspection is slow, tedious, subjective and susceptible to human biases. Therefore, the automation of defect detection is desirable. But for defect detection lack of availability of a large number of anomalous instances and labelled data is a problem. In this paper, we present a convolutional auto-encoder architecture for anomaly detection that is trained only on the defect-free (normal) instances. For the test images, residual masks that are obtained by subtracting the original image from the auto-encoder output are thresholded to obtain the defect segmentation masks. The approach was tested on two data-sets and achieved an impressive average F1 score of 0.885. The network learnt to detect the actual shape of the defects even though no defected images were used during the training.
Psapharochrus alboguttatus
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Psapharochrus
Psapharochrus alboguttatus

description: 2. Psapharochrus alboguttatus (Melzer, 1935)
Type locality — Brazil, Santa Catarina: Corupá. (MZSP). Distribution — Brazil (Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina).
 Acanthoderes alboguttata Melzer, 1935: 192; Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 44 (type); Zajciw, 1970a: 5 (distr.); 1972a: 67 (distr.); 1974a: 77 (distr.).
 Acanthoderes (Psapharochrus?) alboguttata; Gilmour, 1965: 616 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Optical properties of periodically-driven open nonequilibrium quantum systems
Creators: name: Cabra, Gabriel
name: Franco, Ignacio
name: Galperin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterization and control of matter by optical means is at the forefront of research both due to fundamental insights and technological promise. Theoretical modeling of periodically driven systems is a prerequisite to understanding and engineering nanoscale quantum devices for quantum technologies. Here, we develop a theory for transport and optical response of molecular junctions, open nonequilibrium quantum systems, under external periodic driving. Periodic driving is described using the Floquet theory combined with nonequilibrium Green's function description of the system. Light-matter interaction is modeled employing the self-consistent Born approximation. Generic three-level model is utilized to illustrate effect of the driving on optical and transport properties of junctions.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Inertial modes of a freely rotating ellipsoidal planet and their relation to nutations
Creators: name: Rekier, Jeremy
name: Triana, Santiago A.
name: Trinh, Antony
name: Dehant, Veronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the inertial modes of a freely rotating two-layer planetary model with an ellipsoidal inviscid fluid core and a perfectly rigid mantle. We present a method to derive analytical formulae for the frequencies of the Free Core Nutation (FCN) and Chandler Wobble (CW) which are valid to all orders of the dynamical flattening of the core and mantle, and we show how the FCN and CW are the direct generalisation of the purely fluid Spin-Over mode (SO) and of the Eulerian Wobble (EW) to the case where the mantle can oscillate freely around a state of steady rotation. Through a numerical computation for an axisymmetric (oblate spheroidal) planet, we demonstrate that all other inertial modes of the steadily rotating fluid core are also free modes of the freely rotating two-layer planet.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Planetary Science Journal (AAS)
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Prevalence in Bats’ Guano from Caves and Attics of Buildings Studied by Culture and qPCR Examinations
Creators: name: Pavlik, I
name: Ulmann, V
name: Modra, H
name: Gersl, M
name: Rantova, B
name: Zukal, J
name: Zukalova, K
name: Konecny, O
name: Kana, V
name: Kubalek, P
name: Babak, V
name: Weston, Ross
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A total of 281 guano samples were collected from caves (N = 181) in eight European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) and attics in the Czech R. (N = 100). The correlation of detection of mycobacteria between Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN) microscopy and culture examination and qPCR was strong. ZN microscopy was positive in guano from caves (58.6%) more than double than positivity in guano from attics (21.0%; p < 0.01). From 89 mycobacterial isolates (73 isolates from cave guano and 16 isolates from attics’ guano), 68 (76.4%) isolates of 19 sp., ssp. and complex were identified as members of three Groups (M. fortuitum, M. chelonae, and M. mucogenicum) and four complexes (M. avium, M. terrae, M. vaccae, and M. smegmatis). A total of 20 isolates (22.5%) belonged to risk group 1 (environmental saprophytes), 48 isolates (53.9%) belonged to risk group 2 (potential pathogens), and none of the isolates belonged to risk group 3 (obligatory pathogens). When comparing bat guano collected from caves and attics, differences (p < 0.01; Mann–Whitney test) were observed for the electrical conductivity, total carbon, total organic, and total inorganic carbon. No difference (p > 0.05; Mann–Whitney test) was found for pH and oxidation-reduction potential parameters.
Molecular docking, network pharmacology, and QSAR modelling studies of benzo[c]phenanthridines – novel antileishmaniasis agents
Creators: name: Kikaawa, David
name: Vadivel, E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Leishmaniasis treatment primarily relies on chemotherapy due to lack of vaccines. However, the low efficacy, parasite resistance, and toxicity associated with existing drugs necessitate the development of effective and safer therapies. Fuchino et al. reported promising leishmanicidal activity in a series of benzo[c]phenanthridines against L. major promastigotes. To progress these compounds towards drug development, it is crucial to understand their molecular targets, mechanisms of action, binding interactions, and structural requirements. In this research, molecular docking, network pharmacology, 2D-QSAR, and 3D-QSAR CoMFA studies were performed on 30 benzo[c]phenanthridines. Docking analysis showed that all molecules had a strong binding affinity to L. major-nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK) compared to the other targets. 10-isopropoxy sanguinarine had the highest binding affinity (-10.6 kcal/mol) and formed ionic and hydrophobic interactions. Network pharmacology analysis of the most active compounds identified serine/threonine-protein kinase Mtor as a potential antileishmaniasis target in humans for benzo[c]phenanthridines. This was confirmed with high-affinity scores > −7.0 kcal/mol for all the compounds docked. GO and KEGG pathway enrichment identified Reg. of fatty acid oxidation (BP), TORC1 complex (CC), RNA polymerase III type 1 promoter sequence-specific DNA binding (MF), and Acute myeloid leukemia (KEGG pathway) to be highly enriched with the hub genes. Both 2D and 3D-QSAR CoMFA models satisfied the internal and external validation tests as follows: 2D-QSAR: R2Train = 0.9040, Q2cv = 0.8648, R2adj = 0.8838, and R2Test = 0.8740; and 3D-QSAR: r2 = 0.998, q2 = 0.526, and SDEP = 0.856. The molecules can be practically evaluated as superior antileishmaniasis agents.
Free Energy of the Two-Matrix Model/dToda Tau-Function
Creators: name: Bertola, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an integral formula for the free energy of the two-matrix model with polynomial potentials of arbitrary degree (or formal power series). This is known to coincide with the tau-function of the dispersionless two--dimensional Toda hierarchy. The formula generalizes the case studied by Kostov, Krichever, Mineev-Weinstein, Wiegmann, Zabrodin and separately Takhtajan in the case of conformal maps of Jordan curves. Finally we generalize the formula found in genus zero to the case of spectral curves of arbitrary genus with certain fixed data.
description: Ver 2: 18 pages added important formulas for higher genus spectral curves, few typos removed (and few added). Ver 3: 19 pages (minor changes). Typos removed, added appendix and improved exposition Ver 4: 19 pages, minor corrections. Version submitted Ver 4; corrections prompted by referee and accepted in Nuclear Phys. B