cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Population-based epidemiologic studies of gout in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Rai, Sharan Kimberly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: This thesis contains original analyses aimed at better understanding the burden of gout, an excruciatingly painful form of inflammatory arthritis, in the Canadian context. While gout is increasingly recognized as the most common form of inflammatory arthritis worldwide (e.g., reported prevalence of 3.9% and 2.5% in the United States and United Kingdom, respectively), no Canadian trend data are available. Objectives: 1) To evaluate the contemporary prevalence and incidence of gout over the past decade, as well as gout treatment patterns and comorbidity burden. 2) To evaluate the burden of hospitalized gout and corresponding inpatient costs as compared to rheumatoid arthritis (RA), another inflammatory joint disease known to incur substantial resource use. Methods: To address both objectives, I used PopulationData BC, a large administrative database spanning the province of British Columbia (BC). For Objective 1, I used physician and hospital visits to identify gout cases and estimate the annual trends in prevalence and incidence among the general population. I additionally used data from PharmaNet, BC’s prescription drug database, to examine gout treatment patterns (i.e., urate-lowering therapy, colchicine, glucocorticoids, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) over the same time period. For Objective 2, I used hospital diagnoses and procedure codes to assess annual trends in hospitalizations and joint surgeries as well as inpatient costs for both gout and RA. Results: 1) Both the prevalence and incidence of gout have increased over the past decade (i.e., a 59% and 48% increase, respectively), while the prescription of gout treatment remains low. 2) The hospitalization rates for gout have doubled over the past decade, while those for RA have declined by 49%. The inpatient costs also reflected the hospitalization trends, with a 40% decrease in RA hospital costs, while gout costs more than doubled over the study period. Conclusion: Altogether, this thesis provides evidence that the burden of gout in Canada is substantial and increasing. These findings are further contrasted against the hospitalization burden of RA, which has decreased considerably over the same period. This thesis highlights the critical need to improve gout prevention and care to mitigate its rising disease burden in Canada and beyond.
An analytical formula for pricing interest rate swaps in terms of bondprices under the extended Cox-Ingersoll Ross model
Creators: name: Nopporn Thamrongrat
name: Rujivan, Sanae
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: interest rate swaps
bond prices
analytical pricing formula
extended CIR model

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 987-992
Wavelet power spectrum analysis applied for solar radiationinvestigations over Nigeria
Creators: name: Falayi E., O.
name: Adepitan J., O.
name: Oni O., O.
name: Faseyi M. T
Publisher: name: Research and Development Office, Prince of Songkla University
Year: 2021
Subjects: clearness index
solar irradiance
wavelet power spectrum
relative sunshine duration and bootstrap

description: Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 43, 4, 993-999
On the classification of binary self-dual [44,22,8] codes with an automorphism of order 3 or 7
Creators: name: Bouyuklieva, Stefka
name: Yankov, Nikolay
name: Russeva, Radka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 11T71

description: All binary self-dual [44,22,8] codes with an automorphism of order 3 or 7 are classified. In this way we complete the classification of extremal self-dual codes of length 44 having an automorphism of odd prime order.
TREX - CECAM WEBINAR Quantum Monte Carlo HPC Applications in Condensed Matter, Quantum Chemistry and Materials Science - Presentations
Creators: name: Filippi, Claudia
name: Bonella, Sara
name: Stich, Ivan
name: Doblhoff-Dier, Katharina
name: Alavi, Ali
name: Li Manni, Giovanni
name: Dobrautz, Werner
name: Lopez Rios, Pablo
name: A. Bogdanov, Nikolay
name: Monacelli, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The webinar explored the frontiers of quantum materials research and quantum chemistry,  by means of Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, owing to their unique suitability in solving complex many-body problems as well as in harnessing the parallelism offered by upcoming exascale supercomputer architectures.

The webinar is a collaborative effort between the Targeting Real Chemical Accuracy at the EXascale (TREX) project and CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire).
TeRRItoria D6.2 Formative Evaluation
Creators: name: Christensen, Malene Vinther
name: Ravn, Tine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The report at hand presents the results of the process evaluation/formative evaluation of the TeRRitoria project. The process evaluation seeks to take stock of the five different territorial Transformative Experiments (TE) carried out in the project. It reviews their development and implementation progress in order to increase the awareness of potential challenges in time for adjustments to increase implementation success and foster reflection and internal learning. The process evaluation is a periodic and practice-oriented assessment of an ongoing territorial experimental process, and it aims to review the activities undertaken to date by identifying challenges to the experiments and corresponding mitigation strategies for the purpose of reflecting on the process of reaching TE strategic objectives and overall success criteria. In general, the evaluation asks to what extent the five Transformative Experiments are being implemented as designed and intended, addressing key issues such as process and progress, implemented changes, level and type of stakeholder engagement, territorial RRI, and the next steps of the experiments to secure sustainability of TE initiatives and actions beyond the life cycle of the project. The major part of this report is dedicated to the status and progress of each of the five experiments in Trøndelag, the Municipality of Gabrovo, North-East Romania, Emilia-Romagna, and the Region of Central Macedonia. Primarily based on Process Evaluation Interviews and document analysis, it details the aims, success criteria, and evolvement of each TE in individual case descriptions. Subsequently, the report highlights key cross-cutting topics of collective relevance for all five experiments and, from an evaluative perspective, it connects these to a set of eight associated recommendations/suggestions for continued attention in the next phase of experimental implementation. Finally, the report outlines the next evaluative steps toward the impact assessment/summative valuation carried out towards the end of the TeRRItoria project.
Development of High Throughput Screening Methods for the Automated Optimization of Inclusion Body Protein Refolding Processes
Creators: name: Berg, Annette
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: refolding
HTS
screening
downstream
processing

description: In this study robotic HTS methods for protein refolding were developed with a focus on HTS compatible analytics. Solubility was identified as a meaningful objective function during refolding processes. Measurement of protein solubility in a highly complex buffer matrix with varying protein conformations was established. A genetic algorithm in combination with DoE was used for an effective and fully automated optimization of 5 process parameters in parallel in a wide parameters space.
Turbulenter Wärmetransport in flüssigem Blei-Wismut an einem vertikalen Heizstab im Ringspalt
Creators: name: Zeininger, Jörg
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Turbulenz
Strömung
Wärmetransport
Flüssigmetall
Blei-Wismut
Ringspalt
vertikaler Heizstab

description: Heavy liquid metals(HLM) are considered as coolant and neutron source for advanced nuclear applications. In this context the turbulent heat transfer of a lead bismuth flow along a heated rod con-centrically arranged in an annular cavity is ascertained at prototypical power densities. The hydraulically fully developed and thermally developing flow is investigated experimentally and compared with numerical simulations. Also a new local heat transfer correlation for forced convection is presented.
Helical magnetic state in the distorted triangular lattice of alpha-CaCr2O4
Creators: name: Chapon, L. C.
name: Manuel, P.
name: Damay, F.
name: Toledano, P.
name: hardy, V.
name: Martin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic properties of the high temperature alpha form of the CaCr2O4 compound have been investigated for the first time by magnetic susceptibility, specific heat and powder neutron diffraction. The system undergoes a unique magnetic phase transition at 43K to a long range order incommensurate helical phase with magnetic propagation vector k=(0,0.3317(2),0). The magnetic model proposed from neutron diffraction data shows that the plane of rotation of the spins is perpendicular to the wave-vector, and that the magnetic modulation is consistent with two modes belonging to distinct irreducible representations of the group. The magnetic point group 2221' is not compatible with ferroelectricity unlike the CuCrO2 delafossite [Kimura et al., Phys. Rev. B, 78 140401 (2008)] but predicts the existence of quadratic magnetoelectric effects, discussed based on a Landau analysis.
Parallel Information Algorithm with Local Tuning for Solving Multidimensional GO Problems
Creators: name: Sergeyev, Yaroslav D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 90C26, 65K05, 68W10

description: In this paper we propose a new parallel algorithm for solving global optimization (GO) multidimensional problems. The method unifies two powerful approaches for accelerating the search: parallel computations and local tuning on the behavior of the objective function. We establish convergence conditions for the algorithm and theoretically show that the usage of local information during the global search permits to accelerate solving the problem significantly. Results of numerical experiments executed with 100 test functions are also reported.
description: 11 pages
Time transformation for random walks in the quenched trap model
Creators: name: Burov, S.
name: Barkai, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusion in the quenched trap model is investigated with an approach we call weak subordination breaking. We map the problem onto Brownian motion and show that the operational time is ${\cal S}_α= \sum_{x=-\infty} ^\infty (n_x)^α$ where $n_x$ is the visitation number at site $x$ . In the limit of zero temperature we recover the renormalization group (RG) solution found by Monthus. Our approach is an alternative to RG capable of dealing with any disorder strength.
The Wolf-Rayet Content of M33
Creators: name: Neugent, Kathryn F.
name: Massey, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wolf-Rayet stars (WRs) are evolved massive stars, and the relative number of WC-type and WN-type WRs should vary with metallicity, providing a sensitive test of stellar evolutionary theory. The observed WC/WN ratio is much higher than that predicted by theory in some galaxies but this could be due to observational incompleteness for WN-types, which have weaker lines. Previous studies of M33's WR content show a galactocentric gradient in the relative numbers of WCs and WNs, but only small regions have been surveyed with sufficient sensitivity to detect all of the WNs. Here we present a sensitive survey for WRs covering all of M33, finding 55 new WRs, mostly of WN type. Our spectroscopy also improves the spectral types of many previously known WRs, establishing in one case that the star is actually a background quasar. The total number of spectroscopically confirmed WRs in M33 is 206, a number we argue is complete to approximately 5%, with most WRs residing in OB associations, although approximately 2% are truly isolated. The WC/WN ratio in the central regions (<2 kpc) of M33 is much higher than that predicted by the current Geneva evolutionary models, while the WC/WN ratios in the outer regions are in good accord, as are the values in the SMC and LMC. The WC/WN ratio and the WC subtype distribution both argue that the oxygen abundance gradient in M33 is significantly larger than found by some recent studies, but are consistent with the two-component model proposed by Magrini et al.
description: ApJ, in press
Additional file 1 of Immune cell atlas of cholangiocarcinomas reveals distinct tumor microenvironments and associated prognoses
Creators: name: Xia, Tao
name: Li, Keyu
name: Niu, Nan
name: Shao, Yingkuan
name: Ding, Ding
name: Thomas, Dwayne L.
name: Jing, Hao
name: Fujiwara, Kenji
name: Hu, Haijie
name: Osipov, Arsen
name: Yuan, Chunhui
name: Wolfgang, Christopher L.
name: Thompson, Elizabeth D.
name: Anders, Robert A.
name: He, Jin
name: Mou, Yiping
name: Murphy, Adrian G.
name: Zheng, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Figures and Tables.
Interpersonal emotion regulation in emerging adults
Creators: name: Lisi, Diana Michelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: The critical role of emotion regulation (ER) for emotional and social well-being has now been well-established. Recently, there have been calls in the literature for a better understanding of the interpersonal context of ER. This study used an intensive longitudinal design to (i) describe the frequency with which interpersonal ER strategies are used; (ii) assess the association of interpersonal ER strategies with positive and negative emotions, and (iii) assess the roles of friends and parents in ER efforts. Methods: A sample of 139 emerging adults was recruited. Participants recorded their emotions, use of 12 interpersonal ER strategies, and use of respective support sources three times a day over the course of a week using their mobile device. The moderating roles of neuroticism and extraversion were also examined. Multilevel modeling was used to assess the within- and between-person variability in positive and negative emotions. Results: Positive strategies, and specifically those that communicated acceptance of the individual, were not only used most frequently, but were also associated with higher and lower levels of positive and negative emotions, respectively. When source of support was considered, acceptance strategies were associated with positive and negative emotions when used by friends as well as parents. Positive engagement strategies (i.e., those that involve attempts to engage in the individual’s situation or emotion) were associated with emotions when used by friends, but there was no significant association when parents used these same strategies. Neuroticism was found to moderate the relationship between acceptance and negative emotions. Conclusions: This study is one of the first of its kind to explore interpersonal ER on a day-to-day basis and provides insights into the strategies being used to manage emotions, as well as the respective roles of friends and parents. Future intensive longitudinal research is warranted that considers lagged effects and additional within- and between-person factors associated with positive and negative emotions in order to further understand the dynamic process of ER as it unfolds in social relationships.
Stochastic Samples versus Vacuum Expectation Values in Cosmology
Creators: name: Tsamis, N. C.
name: Tzetzias, Aggelos
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particle theorists typically use expectation values to study the quantum back-reaction on inflation, whereas many cosmologists stress the stochastic nature of the process. While expectation values certainly give misleading results for some things, such as the stress tensor, we argue that operators exist for which there is no essential problem. We quantify this by examining the stochastic properties of a noninteracting, massless, minimally coupled scalar on a locally de Sitter background. The square of the stochastic realization of this field seems to provide an example of great relevance for which expectation values are not misleading. We also examine the frequently expressed concern that significant back-reaction from expectation values necessarily implies large stochastic fluctuations between nearby spatial points. Rather than viewing the stochastic formalism in opposition to expectation values, we argue that it provides a marvelously simple way of capturing the leading infrared logarithm corrections to the latter, as advocated by Starobinsky.
description: 15 pages, no figures, uses LaTeX2e
Interaction-based quantum metrology showing scaling beyond the Heisenberg limit
Creators: name: Napolitano, M.
name: Koschorreck, M.
name: Dubost, B.
name: Behbood, N.
name: Sewell, R. J.
name: Mitchell, M. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum metrology studies the use of entanglement and other quantum resources to improve precision measurement. An interferometer using N independent particles to measure a parameter X can achieve at best the "standard quantum limit" (SQL) of sensitivity δX \propto N^{-1/2}. The same interferometer using N entangled particles can achieve in principle the "Heisenberg limit" δX \propto N^{-1}, using exotic states. Recent theoretical work argues that interactions among particles may be a valuable resource for quantum metrology, allowing scaling beyond the Heisenberg limit. Specifically, a k-particle interaction will produce sensitivity δX \propto N^{-k} with appropriate entangled states and δX \propto N^{-(k-1/2)} even without entanglement. Here we demonstrate this "super-Heisenberg" scaling in a nonlinear, non-destructive measurement of the magnetisation of an atomic ensemble. We use fast optical nonlinearities to generate a pairwise photon-photon interaction (k = 2) while preserving quantum-noise-limited performance, to produce δX \propto N^{-3/2}. We observe super-Heisenberg scaling over two orders of magnitude in N, limited at large N by higher-order nonlinear effects, in good agreement with theory. For a measurement of limited duration, super-Heisenberg scaling allows the nonlinear measurement to overtake in sensitivity a comparable linear measurement with the same number of photons. In other scenarios, however, higher-order nonlinearities prevent this crossover from occurring, reflecting the subtle relationship of scaling to sensitivity in nonlinear systems. This work shows that inter-particle interactions can improve sensitivity in a quantum-limited measurement, and introduces a fundamentally new resource for quantum metrology.
Accelerating Nearest Neighbor Search on Manycore Systems
Creators: name: Cayton, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite the simple structure of our algorithms, their search performance is provably sublinear in the size of the database, with a factor dependent only on its intrinsic dimensionality. We demonstrate that our methods provide substantial speedups on a range of datasets and hardware platforms. In particular, we present results on a 48-core server machine, on graphics hardware, and on a multicore desktop.
Proceedings Second International Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Model-based Software Engineering
Creators: name: Durán, Francisco
name: Rusu, Vlad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the past years there has been quite a lot of activity in the algebraic community about using algebraic methods for providing support to model-driven software engineering. The aim of this workshop is to gather researchers working on the development and application of algebraic methods to provide rigorous support to model-based software engineering. The topics relevant to the workshop are all those related to the use of algebraic methods in software engineering, including but not limited to: formally specifying and verifying model-based software engineering concepts and related ones (MDE, UML, OCL, MOF, DSLs, ...); tool support for the above; integration of formal and informal methods; and theoretical frameworks (algebraic, rewriting-based, category theory-based, ...). The workshop's main goal is to examine, discuss, and relate the existing projects within the algebraic community that address common open-issues in model-driven software engineering.
description: EPTCS 56, 2011
Global properties of kernels of transition semigroups. Globale Eigenschaften der Kerne von Übergangshalbgruppen
Creators: name: Bleich, Esther
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Semigroup
parabolic
fundamental
solution

description: The main objective of this work is to study the properties of the integral kernels of Markov semigroups associated with elliptic differential operator of second order with unbounded coefficients.
Gravitation as a vacuum nonlinear electrodynamics effect
Creators: name: Chernitskii, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective Riemann space effect of vacuum nonlinear electrodynamics is considered in the context of theory for unified gravitation and electromagnetism. The electromagnetic four-vector potential in the scope of Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics model is considered as the unified field. The electromagnetic interaction appears naturally in the first perturbation order by the small field of distant material objects. The gravitational interaction appears naturally in the appropriate second order. In this case the effective metric components contain the corresponding energy-momentum tensor components for quick-oscillating electromagnetic field of the distant objects.
description: 3 pages, The article for Proceedings of the MG11 Meeting on General Relativity, Berlin, Germany 23 - 29 July 2006
Resource Policy Subsidies and the GATT Negotiations
Creators: name: Sutton, John D.
name: Sutton, John D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Resource policy
subject: GATT negotiations
subject: conservation
subject: European Community
subject: developing countries
subject: soil erosion

description: Domestic resource policies, such as below-market price irrigation water and conservation acreage retirement, may be important to the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) negotiations when they are, in effect, subsidies that can affect production and trade. This report looks at both explicit and implicit producer subsidies in overall terms and with respect to specific policies of major trading countries. Two guidelines are presented that might be used to determine whether resource policies distort trade.
Searching for overturning convection in penumbral filaments: slit spectroscopy at 0.2 arcsec resolution
Creators: name: Rubio, L. R. Bellot
name: Schlichenmaier, R.
name: Langhans, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent numerical simulations of sunspots suggest that overturning convection is responsible for the existence of penumbral filaments and the Evershed flow, but there is little observational evidence of this process. Here we carry out a spectroscopic search for small-scale convective motions in the penumbra of a sunspot located 5 deg away from the disk center. The position of the spot is very favorable for the detection of overturning downflows at the edges of penumbral filaments. Our analysis is based on measurements of the Fe I 709.0 nm line taken with the Littrow spectrograph of the Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope under excellent seeing conditions. We compute line bisectors at different intensity levels and derive Doppler velocities from them. The velocities are calibrated using a nearby telluric line, with systematic errors smaller than 150 m/s. Deep in the photosphere, as sampled by the bisectors at the 80%-88% intensity levels, we always observe blueshifts or zero velocities. The maximum blueshifts reach 1.2 km/s and tend to be cospatial with bright penumbral filaments. In the line core we detect blueshifts for the most part, with small velocities not exceeding 300 m/s. Redshifts also occur, but at the level of 100-150 m/s, and only occasionally. The fact that they are visible in high layers casts doubts on their convective origin. Overall, we do not find indications of downflows that could be associated with overturning convection at our detection limit of 150 m/s. Either no downflows exist, or we have been unable to observe them because they occur beneath tau=1 or the spatial resolution/height resolution of the measurements is still insufficient.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Mapping the local density of optical states of a photonic crystal with single quantum dots
Creators: name: Wang, Qin
name: Stobbe, Søren
name: Lodahl, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots as internal probes to map the local density of optical states of photonic crystal membranes. The employed technique separates contributions from non-radiative recombination and spin-flip processes by properly accounting for the role of the exciton fine structure. We observe inhibition factors as high as 55 and compare our results to local density of optical states calculations available from the literature, thereby establishing a quantitative understanding of photon emission in photonic crystal membranes.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Mapping spin-orbit splitting in strained InGaAs epilayers
Creators: name: Norman, B. M.
name: Trowbridge, C. J.
name: Stephens, J.
name: Gossard, A. C.
name: Awschalom, D. D.
name: Sih, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time- and spatially-resolved Faraday rotation spectroscopy is used to measure the magnitude and direction of the momentum-dependent spin splitting in strained InGaAs epilayers. The epilayers are lattice-matched to the GaAs substrate and designed to reduce inhomogeneous effects related to strain relaxation. Measurements of momentum-dependent spin splitting as a function of electron spin drift velocity along [100], [010], [110] and [1$\overline{1}$0] directions enable separation of isotropic and anisotropic effective magnetic fields that arise from uniaxial and biaxial strain along $\langle$110$\rangle$. We relate our findings to previous measurements and theoretical predictions of spin splitting for inversion symmetry breaking in bulk strained semiconductors.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The Town and the Templum, in the Discussions by Nissen, Nietzsche, Valeton, Catalano and many others
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: ijsciences
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
Isaac Valeton
Heinrich Nissen
Ferdinando Castagnoli
Pierangelo Catalano
Templum
Roman towns
Pomerium
Decumanus
Cardo
Orientation
Foundation of Roman Towns
Centuriation
Dies Natalis
Augusta Taurinorum
roman surveying
Surveying

description: According to Heinrich Nissen, in his Das Templum, 1869, the Roman town is a templum, an inaugurated space with its main axis, the decumanus, oriented towards the rising sun. The day on which the decumanus’ direction was established, according to Nissen, was also the Dies Natalis of the town, and was associated with a festival in the Roman calendar. Nissen seems to have been the first to associate decumanus, sunrise, and festivals of the Roman calendar together. Nissen's Das Templum was used by Friedrich Nietzsche for his Der Gottesdienst der Griechen, which contains the lectures on the Greek cult that Nietzsche held between 1875 and 1878. Nietzsche endorsed Nissen's thesis regarding the decumanus. A totally different position is that of Isaac Valeton who, in his De Templis Romanis (1983), does not consider the town a templum and therefore does not believe that the decumanus had any specific alignment ritually linked to the sun. Valeton demonstrated that, according to Roman laws, the soil of the town is profane, and used by common people, subjected to the rule of the magistrate, not of àugur priests. So Valeton criticizes Nissen's theory. We will also see in detail the discussion by Pierangelo Catalano, 1978, regarding the spatial aspects of the Roman juridical-religious system. In Catalano we find reiterated that the town is not a templum. Consequently, there is no reason to ritually orient the decumanus with the sunrise. Other scholar studies will be mentioned such as, for example, those by F. Castagnoli and J. Le Gall, which say that the city is not a templum. Regarding the centuriations, i.e. the subdivisions of agrarian land, Castagnoli, Catalano and Le Gall stress that they are not templa. The fact demonstrated by several scholars, that the town is not a templum (the same for centuriation), needs to be stressed because archaeoastronomical approaches exist claims to infer conclusions about the Roman world without considering Valeton, Catalano, Castagnoli and others’ criticisms.
Additional file 2 of Acid ceramidase targeting pyruvate kinase affected trypsinogen activation in acute pancreatitis
Creators: name: Xiao, Juan
name: Zeng, Wenying
name: Zhang, Pengcheng
name: Zhou, Yuan
name: Fang, Qiangqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Proteins binding to biotin or biotinsphingosine under saline or cerulein plus LPS.
title: Quality Assurance of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Institutions  - Training on Internal Quality Assurance Series | Module 3
Creators: name: Randhahn, Solveig
name: Niedermeier, Frank
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2017
Subjects: Curriculum Development and Revision
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Self-Evaluation Report
Internal and External Quality Assurance

description: This course book introduces the role of quality managers in communication and information processes of teaching and learning. Readers learn how to support teaching staff with defining objectives, expected learning outcomes and competences of a study programme. Furthermore, the course book deals with the continuous revision of study programmes and how to write a self-evaluation report at programme level. Finally, it examines the linkage between external and internal quality assurance approaches and how to make best use of both.
Repellent Surface Applications for Pest Birds
Creators: name: DeLiberto, Shelagh T
name: Carlson, James C
name: McLean, Hailey E
name: Olson, Caroline S
name: Werner, Scott J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Common pest birds in the United States include the non-native European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), and the pigeon (Columba livia domestica), as well as native birds including Canada geese (Branta canadensis) and gull species (Laridae). Large concentrations of pest birds can create human health hazards and monetary losses due to consumption of crops, depredation, and fecal contamination and accumulation. Fecal contamination hazards include the potential spread of zoonotic diseases including antimicrobial-resistant zoonoses and human injury due to the accumulation of fecal material on walking surfaces. Additionally, fecal accumulation causes structural and aesthetic damage due to the accelerated deterioration of building materials and increased maintenance costs. Methods to alleviate hazards and damages from aggregations of pest birds are needed. In a series of 3 experiments conducted in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, between 2016 and 2018, we evaluated 3 surface-application repellent formulations for the reduction of fecal accumulations due to European starlings: Airepel® HC with castor oil, an anthraquinone-based repellent; Airepel HC with castor oil without anthraquinone; and MS2, a novel inert formulation with a tacky, oily texture. We compared each formulation directly to an untreated control. All 3 formulations reduced fecal accumulations beneath treated aluminum perches as compared to fecal accumulations beneath untreated aluminum perches. Interestingly, both formulations that contained no anthraquinone worked equally well or better than Airepel HC with castor oil, the anthraquinone-based formulation. The benefits of an exclusively inert formulation include less risk to applicators and non-target species. Comprehensive experimental field testing of these surface-application repellent formulations is warranted.
The Town and the Templum, in the scholarly works by Nissen, Nietzsche, Valeton, Castagnoli, Catalano, Le Gall and many others
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
Isaac Valeton
Heinrich Nissen
Ferdinando Castagnoli
Pierangelo Catalano
Templum
Roman towns
Pomerium
Decumanus
Cardo
Orientation
Foundation of Roman Towns
Centuriation
Dies Natalis
Augusta Taurinorum

description: According to Heinrich Nissen, in his Das Templum, 1869, the Roman town is a templum, an inaugurated space with its main axis, the decumanus, oriented towards the rising sun. The day on which the decumanus’ direction was established, according to Nissen, was also the Dies Natalis of the town, and was associated with a festival in the Roman calendar. Nissen seems to have been the first to associate decumanus, sunrise, and festivals of the Roman calendar together. Nissen's Das Templum was used by Friedrich Nietzsche for his Der Gottesdienst der Griechen, which contains the lectures on the Greek cult that Nietzsche held between 1875 and 1878. Nietzsche endorsed Nissen's thesis regarding the decumanus. A totally different position is that of Isaac Valeton who, in his De Templis Romani (1983), does not consider the town a templum and therefore does not believe that the decumanus had any specific alignment ritually linked to the sun. Valeton demonstrated that, according to Roman laws, the soil of the town is profane, and used by common people, subjected to the rule of the magistrate, not of àugur priests. So Valeton criticizes Nissen's theory. We will also see in detail the discussion by Pierangelo Catalano, 1978, regarding the spatial aspects of the Roman juridical-religious system. In Catalano we find reiterated that the town is not a templum. Consequently, there is no reason to ritually orient the decumanus with the sunrise. Other scholar studies will be mentioned such as, for example, those by F. Castagnoli and J. Le Gall, which say that the city is not a templum. Regarding the centuriations, i.e. the subdivisions of agrarian land, Castagnoli, Catalano and Le Gall stress that they are not templa. The fact demonstrated by several scholars, that the town is not a templum (the same for centuriation), needs to be stressed because archaeoastronomical approaches exist claims to infer conclusions about the Roman world without considering Valeton, Catalano, Castagnoli and others’ criticisms.
title: The questing spirit: listening to the silent voice of gay clergy in the Church of Scotland
Creators: name: Langlands, Cameron Hunter
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2008

description: This research arises from personal experience. The thesis is divided into two parts in order to reflect and symbolize the dichotomy which the subject of homosexuality, in general, and gay clergy, in particular, creates within the Church of Scotland. This thesis seeks to explore this dichotomy The Prologue provides an autobiographical backcloth to the research, it acknowledges my own personal experience and seeks to place the debate, with regards to the inclusion of gay clergy in the Church, in context. Chapter One outlines the research methodology and, in particular justifies the use of discourse analysis as an appropriate research tool to investigate the subtext of the Church of Scotland’s 1983 Report of Study Group on Sexuality. Chapter Two focuses on the 1983 Report of Study Group on Sexuality. Although there have been later reports which have dealt with various aspects of sexuality this remains the Church’s official stance on the particular subject of homosexuality. Chapter Three outlines the research methodology for the second part of my research where I interview five members of the clergy who have self-identified as being homosexual. It will justify, as an appropriate research tool, the use of case studies and semi-structured interviews as a means of uncovering information that would be impossible to gain otherwise. Chapter Four contains a summary of the interviews that I have conducted allowing the voices of those who are hidden in the Church to be heard. Chapter Five focuses on the five interviews and identifies common themes which have emerged from the semi-structured interviews and offers theological reflection and explores the wider implications which such reflection implies. The conclusion seeks to offer a way forward in the present climate which will allow gay clergy to play a full part in the life of the Church, free from the current constraints that being open about their sexuality forbids.
The Town and the Templum, in the scholarly works by Nissen, Nietzsche, Valeton, Castagnoli, Catalano, Le Gall and many others
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy
Isaac Valeton
Heinrich Nissen
Ferdinando Castagnoli
Pierangelo Catalano
Templum
Roman towns
Pomerium
Decumanus
Cardo
Orientation
Foundation of Roman Towns
Centuriation
Dies Natalis
Augusta Taurinorum
roman surveying
Surveying

description: According to Heinrich Nissen, in his Das Templum, 1869, the Roman town is a templum, an inaugurated space with its main axis, the decumanus, oriented towards the rising sun. The day on which the decumanus’ direction was established, according to Nissen, was also the Dies Natalis of the town, and was associated with a festival in the Roman calendar. Nissen seems to have been the first to associate decumanus, sunrise, and festivals of the Roman calendar together. Nissen's Das Templum was used by Friedrich Nietzsche for his Der Gottesdienst der Griechen, which contains the lectures on the Greek cult that Nietzsche held between 1875 and 1878. Nietzsche endorsed Nissen's thesis regarding the decumanus. A totally different position is that of Isaac Valeton who, in his De Templis Romani (1983), does not consider the town a templum and therefore does not believe that the decumanus had any specific alignment ritually linked to the sun. Valeton demonstrated that, according to Roman laws, the soil of the town is profane, and used by common people, subjected to the rule of the magistrate, not of àugur priests. So Valeton criticizes Nissen's theory. We will also see in detail the discussion by Pierangelo Catalano, 1978, regarding the spatial aspects of the Roman juridical-religious system. In Catalano we find reiterated that the town is not a templum. Consequently, there is no reason to ritually orient the decumanus with the sunrise. Other scholar studies will be mentioned such as, for example, those by F. Castagnoli and J. Le Gall, which say that the city is not a templum. Regarding the centuriations, i.e. the subdivisions of agrarian land, Castagnoli, Catalano and Le Gall stress that they are not templa. The fact demonstrated by several scholars, that the town is not a templum (the same for centuriation), needs to be stressed because archaeoastronomical approaches exist claims to infer conclusions about the Roman world without considering Valeton, Catalano, Castagnoli and others’ criticisms.
Sectoral Endogenous Growth by Education in a System Dynamics Model
Creators: name: Helfrich, Nicki Daniel
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2010
Subjects: Endogenous Growth
System Dynamics
Education Investment

description: The  effect  of  an  increase  of  the  education level  of  the  population  on  innovation  and economic growth is an important topic in current political discussions. This thesis quantifies the effect with an empirically grounded system dynamics model distinguishing 30 economic sectors in Germany. Therefore SEGESD - Sectoral Endogenous Growth driven by Education in System Dynamics - was developed.
COVID-19 Disease Mapping Based on Poisson Kriging Model and Bayesian Spatial Statistical Model
Creators: name: Mu, Jingrui
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
Bayesian Spatial-temporal Models
Area-to-area Poisson Kriging
Integrated nested Laplace approximation

description: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019, much research has been done to develop the spatial-temporal methods to track it and to predict the spread of the virus. In this thesis, a COVID-19 dataset containing the number of biweekly infected cases registered in Ontario since the start of the pandemic to the end of June 2021 is analysed using Bayesian Spatial-temporal models and Area-to-area (Area-to-point) Poisson Kriging models. With the Bayesian models, spatial-temporal effects on infected risk will be checked and ATP Poisson Kriging models will show how the virus spreads over the space and the spatial clustering feature. According to these models, a Shinyapp website https://mujingrui.shinyapps.io/covid19 is developed to present the results.
Line of Sight: Simulated Aerial Avian Predators Can Reduce Problematic Bird Flyovers of Airfields
Creators: name: O'Shea, William
name: Coughlan, Neil E
name: Kelly, Thomas C
name: Mitham, Neil
name: Nicholson, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Collisions between birds and aircraft (bird strikes) are a serious threat to air safety and represent a substantial economic cost to the global aviation industry. In recent years, the frequency of wood pigeons (Columba palumbus) flying over active runways has increased at airports in Ireland. Here, we examine the effectiveness of imitation hawk-kites as a means of excluding wood pigeons from sensitive airfield locations. Over 2 years, during August and September, we conducted control (no kites deployed) and treatment trials (kites deployed) at Casement Aerodrome, an active airfield of approximately 320 ha in County Dublin, Ireland and on agricultural farmland in County Waterford, Ireland, where the movement of large numbers of wood pigeons had previously been identified (≥50 birds per hour). Overall, we recorded a significant reduction in the mean (±SE) number of wood pigeons observed to successfully cross sites during deployment of the hawk-kites (70.69 ± 11.01 per hour),compared to control trials (178.37 ± 29.98 per hour). Although preliminary, our data suggest that hawk-kites can be used to provide an additional means of bird control to reduce instances of airfield flyovers by a problematic species. Nevertheless, further research is required to determine the reliability of hawk-kites under a range of context-dependencies, such as airfield location, size surrounding land-use, seasonality, and weather conditions.
Additional file 1 of MiR-3976 regulates HCT-8 cell apoptosis and parasite burden by targeting BCL2A1 in response to Cryptosporidium parvum infection
Creators: name: Li, Juanfeng
name: Sun, Lulu
name: Xie, Fujie
name: Shao, Tianren
name: Wu, Shanbo
name: Li, Xiaoying
name: Zhang, Longxian
name: Wang, Rongjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in RT-qPCR and sequences used to generate constructs.
The LISA PathFinder DMU and Radiation Monitor
Creators: name: Canizares, Priscilla
name: Conchillo, Aleix
name: Diaz--Aguilo, Marc
name: Garcia-Berro, Enrique
name: Gesa, Lluis
name: Gibert, Ferran
name: Grimani, Catia
name: Lloro, Ivan
name: Lobo, Alberto
name: Mateos, Ignacio
name: Nofrarias, Miquel
name: Ramos-Castro, Juan
name: Sanjuan, Josep
name: Sopuerta, Carlos F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LISA PathFinder DMU (Data Management Unit) flight model was formally accepted by ESA and ASD on 11 February 2010, after all hardware and software tests had been successfully completed. The diagnostics items are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2010. In this paper we review the requirements and performance of this instrumentation, specially focusing on the Radiation Monitor and the DMU, as well as the status of their programmed use during mission operations, on which work is ongoing at the time of writing.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Classical and Quantum Gravity