cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Σχεδιασμός-detailing έργων από δομικό χάλυβα
Creators: name: Vogiatzis, Tzanetis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: ΜΕΤΑΛΛΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΕΣ
ΣΙΔΗΡΕΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΕΣ
ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΔΟΜΙΚΟ ΧΑΛΥΒΑ
ΕΥΡΩΚΩΔΙΚΑΣ 3
ΔΟΜΙΚΑ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΧΑΛΥΒΑ

description: Τα έργα από δομικό χάλυβα απαιτούν γνώση και εξειδίκευση πέρα από την καθαρά υπολογιστική ικανότητα του μηχανικού μελετητή. Είναι τέτοια η φύση των έργων, ακόμη και των πιο απλών, που δημιουργούν την ανάγκη για την ανάπτυξη μιας σειράς σχεδίων προκειμένου να καταστεί εφικτή η ανέγερση της κατασκευής. Πέρα όλων των άλλων ο μελετητής μεταλλικών κατασκευών πρέπει να γνωρίζει μια σειρά από κατασκευαστικές πρακτικές προκειμένου να εκπονήσει μια άρτια μελέτη κατασκευάσιμη στο σύνολο της. Επίσης πρέπει να γνωρίζει την διαθεσιμότητα της αγοράς σε υλικά (π.χ. διατομές που υπάρχουν στην αγορά), τις δυνατότητες του κατασκευαστικού τομέα επεξεργασίας μεταλλικών κατασκευών και τέλος τις εκάστοτε συνθήκες κατά τις οποίες θα ανεγερθεί η κατασκευή. Ερωτήματα του τύπου “κοχλιωτές ή συγκολλητές συνδέσεις”, “χρήση πρότυπων ή συγκολλητών διατομών, “συνδέσεις απλής διάτμησης ή κάμψης” υφίστανται στην καθημερινή πρακτική του μελετητή. Η απάντηση δεν είναι πάντα εύκολη και απαιτεί συνδυασμό πολλών παραγόντων προκειμένου να επιτευχθεί η βέλτιστη λύση.
Ushering Buyers into Electronic Channels: An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Nishtha  Langer
name: Forman, Chris
name: Sunder  Kekre
name: Baohong  Sun
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Many firms introduce electronic channels in addition to their traditional sales channels and observe
increasing buyer adoption rates immediately after the introduction but subsequent declines. Firms must
understand the factors that drive channel adoption decisions and how these factors change over time and
across buyers. Using panel data pertaining to the purchase histories of 683 buyers over a 43-month period,
we estimate a buyer response model that incorporates buyer heterogeneity, channel inertia, and dynamic
pricing. We find that channel adoption behavior is both heterogeneous and dynamic, and the firm’s
allocation decisions, if not aligned with buyer behavior, can alienate buyers. Based on the parameter
estimates from the buyer response model, we propose an alternative channel allocation would enable firms
to attract more buyers to the e-channel and improve revenues. Channel adoption increases when firms
understand and account for individual buyers’ channel adoption behavior.
What Do Tests of Market Efficiency Show In The Presence of The Permanent-Transitory Confusion
Creators: name: Cukierman, Alex
name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: To test for the efficiency of the Treasury bill market, Fama (1975) examined the residuals from a linear regression relating the rate of change in the value of money to a (previous) market forecast of its value. His maintained hypothesis is that if serial correlation of the regression residuals is found, market participants do not use all of the available information in an efficient manner; errors of forecast can be reduced by using the information contained in the persistent deviations of actual values from the forecast values implied by observable, market values.
Using systems-mapping to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma: A qualitative study of stakeholder experiences
Creators: name: Emmerling, D.
name: Saeugling, S.
name: Valmadrid, L.
name: McGill, L.
name: Bishop, J.
name: Vu, T.H.
name: Golden, S.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2022

description: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma have been linked to decreased psychosocial and physiological health functioning. While various individual and community-level interventions to address ACEs have been reported, one novel approach that has not been explored in detail is a community-engaged causal loop diagramming project, or systems mapping project (SMP), in which diverse stakeholders work together to document the forces that are creating the outcomes and patterns within the community. To better document and understand the impact of participation in an SMP, we conducted in-depth, qualitative interviews with 16 stakeholders who were involved in a systems-mapping process facilitated by a local nonprofit in Eastern North Carolina. We used an iterative, content analysis coding process to generate and analyze themes from these interviews. Three major themes emerged: 1) Recognition and understanding of own trauma, 2) Trauma as both a community issue and an individual issue, and 3) Systems-mapping as a conceptual tool with practical benefits. All participants strongly recommended the systems-mapping approach to other communities and believed that it is a valuable tool for empowerment and provided several considerations for future organizers of similar systems-mapping projects. Our findings suggest that systems mapping is a feasible, transferable, and promising modality for understanding and addressing ACEs at the individual, interpersonal, and community-levels, as well as for putting community voices at the forefront of efforts to address ACEs.
Predicting the biogeography of marine fish food webs
Creators: name: van Denderen, P Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trait-based ecology
Food webs
Pelagic
Benthic
Biogeography

description: Bio at noon research seminar at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Summary: Marine fish vary in size and functional type across the oceans. This variation affects structure and energy flux in ecosystems and regulates fish ecosystem functions such as potential production for fisheries. My talk will focus on the development of trait based ecological models to examine the bottom-up drivers of fish functional diversity. I will illustrate how these trait-based models can be used to quantify fish biomass and energy flow across oceanic regions, predict the global biogeography of fish food webs and project future changes in demersal and pelagic fish functional types. Lastly, I will show how empirical data at the individual and community level can be used to tackle uncertainty in model parameters and improve the predictive skills of the approaches.
The Global Network Socioeconomic Status Index as a predictor of stillbirths, perinatal mortality, and neonatal mortality in rural communities in low and lower middle income country sites of the Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research
Creators: name: Chomba, E.
name: McClure, E.M.
name: Tshefu, A.
name: Figueroa, L.
name: Goldenberg, R.L.
name: Patel, A.B.
name: Kolhe, C.S.
name: Saleem, S.
name: Bann, C.M.
name: Krebs, N.F.
name: Lokangaka, A.
name: Bauserman, M.
name: Carlo, W.A.
name: Esamai, F.
name: Derman, R.J.
name: Bucher, S.
name: Goudar, S.
name: Koso-Thomas, M.
name: Hibberd, P.L.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2022

description: Background Globally, socioeconomic status (SES) is an important health determinant across a range of health conditions and diseases. However, measuring SES within low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can be particularly challenging given the variation and diversity of LMIC populations. Objective The current study investigates whether maternal SES as assessed by the newly developed Global Network-SES Index is associated with pregnancy outcomes (stillbirths, perinatal mortality, and neonatal mortality) in six LMICs: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Pakistan, and Zambia. Methods The analysis included data from 87,923 women enrolled in the Maternal and Newborn Health Registry of the NICHD-funded Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research. Generalized estimating equations models were computed for each outcome by SES level (high, moderate, or low) and controlling for site, maternal age, parity, years of schooling, body mass index, and facility birth, including sampling cluster as a random effect. Results Women with low SES had significantly higher risks for stillbirth (p < 0.001), perinatal mortality (p = 0.001), and neonatal mortality (p = 0.005) than women with high SES. In addition, those with moderate SES had significantly higher risks of stillbirth (p = 0.003) and perinatal mortality (p = 0.008) in comparison to those with high SES. Conclusion The SES categories were associated with pregnancy outcomes, supporting the validity of the index as a non–income-based measure of SES for use in studies of pregnancy outcomes in LMICs.
Woodrow Wilson and the Federal Reserve
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: I am honored to participate in this remembrance of President Woodrow Wilson and his major role in creating the Federal Reserve System as a unique experiment in public-private partnership. The federal government was small during non-war periods in the 19th and early 20th century. Relative to GIMP, federal spending or outlays remained between 2 and 3% of GNP. That compares to about 25% today. That's a main reason that the federal government did not have a role, but it is not the only reason. Both the public and politicians understood that keeping the government far away from money creation was the best assurance against inflation that could be had. That's advice that officials repeat but ignore today.
Tuning the pressure-induced superconductivity in Pd-substituted CeRhIn5
Creators: name: Kratochvilova, Marie
name: Uhlirova, Klara
name: Prchal, Jiri
name: Prokleska, Jan
name: Misek, Martin
name: Sechovsky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of substituting Rh in CeRh1-xPdxIn5 with Pd up to x = 0.25 has been studied on single crystals. The crystals have been grown by means of the In self-flux method and characterized by x-ray diffraction and microprobe. The tetragonal HoCoGa5-type of structure and the c/a ratio of the parent compound remains intact by the Pd substitution; the unit cell volume increases by 0.6 % with x = 0.25 of Pd. The low-temperature behavior of resistivity was studied also under hydrostatic pressure up to 2.25 GPa. The Pd substitution for Rh affects the magnetic behavior and the maximum value of the superconducting transition temperature measured at pressures above 2 GPa only negligibly. On the other hand, the results provide evidence that superconductivity in CeRh0.75Pd0.25In5 is induced at significantly lower pressures, i.e. the Pd substitution for Rh shifts the CeRh1-xPdxIn5 system closer to coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity at ambient pressure.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Understanding the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor(AhR)-mediated generation of the intraepithelial lymphocytes
Creators: name: Wang, Howard
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Mature T cells are divided into two distinct major subsets: CD4 helper T (Th) cells and CD8 cytotoxic T (Tc) cells. Th cells essentially regulate immune responses by mediating the activation and controlling the function of other immune cell types, whereas Tc cells predominantly perform cytotoxic actions to infected or cancerous cells for immune protection. Although the fate to become a Th or Tc lineage is pre-determined during the T cell development in thymus, recent studies have revealed that mature Th cells, when losing Th lineage-determining transcription factor ThPOK, could upregulate Tc lineage-determining transcription factor Runx3, express CD8 and gain cytotoxic function. The cytotoxic reprogramming of Th cells is particularly observed in a significant population of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs). These cells are also shown to suppress intestinal inflammation. With the emerging evidence highlighting a fundamental role of gut immune homoeostasis for human health, my lab aims to identify signals that regulate the generation and function of CD8aa+CD4+ IELs and CD8aa+ IELs, particularly those extracellular and intracellular signals with potentials to be targeted for immunomodulation and immunotherapies. My PhD project focused on aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) as a physiological regulator for CD8aa+CD4+ IELs and CD8aa+ IELs. AhR is an intracellular sensor of aryl hydrocarbons, which are enriched in the mammalian mucosal environment. Our results showed that certain AhR ligands induce CD8 expression on both mouse and human CD4 T cells ex vivo. Correspondingly, AhR-deficient mice demonstrated a defective generation of CD8aa+CD4+ IELs and CD8aa+ IELs. we further characterised the role of TCF1 in the AhR mediated generation of CD8aa+CD4+ IELs and CD8aa+ IELs. TCF1 is a key regulator maintained ThPOK expression, while we found that AhR through a directly binding on the Tcf7 promoter, inhibited its transcript, consequently leading to the suppressed expression of TCF1 in IELs. My study will provide the first detailed mechanism for the AhR-mediated regulation CD8aa+CD4+ IELs and CD8aa+ IELs. Such mechanism may further explain a general regulatory function of AhR in the homeostasis of T cells in the mucosal environment. Therefore, this new knowledge will pave the way for rationale-based design of immune interventions to enhance healthy gut and treat diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Simulations of astrometric planet detection in Alpha Centauri by intensity interferometry
Creators: name: Rai, Km Nitu
name: Sarangi, Subrata
name: Saha, Prasenjit
name: Basak, Soumen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent dynamical studies indicate that the possibility of an Earth-like planet around $α\;$Cen A or B should be taken seriously. Such a planet, if it exists, would perturb the orbital astrometry by $<10 \ μ\rm as$, which is $10^{-6}$ of the separation between the two stars. We assess the feasibility of detecting such perturbations using ground-based intensity interferometry. We simulate a dedicated setup consisting of four 40-cm telescopes equipped with photon counters and correlators with time resolution $0.1\,\rm ns$, and a sort of matched filter implemented through an aperture mask. The astrometric error from one night of observing $α\;$Cen AB is $\approx0.5\,\rm mas$. The error decreases if longer observing times and multiple spectral channels are used, as $(\hbox{channels}\times\hbox{nights})^{-1/2}$.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 16 of Non-canonical two-step biosynthesis of anti-oomycete indole alkaloids in Kickxellales
Creators: name: Rassbach, Johannes
name: Hilsberg, Nathalie
name: Haensch, Veit G.
name: Dörner, Sebastian
name: Gressler, Julia
name: Sonnabend, Robin
name: Semm, Caroline
name: Voigt, Kerstin
name: Hertweck, Christian
name: Gressler, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 16: Figure S14. 1H-1H COSY spectrum of 5 in DMSO-d6.
Constraining Fundamental Constant Variations from Ultralight Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing Arrays
Creators: name: Kaplan, David E.
name: Mitridate, Andrea
name: Trickle, Tanner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band $\text{nHz} \lesssim f \lesssim μ\text{Hz}$. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the range $10^{-23}\,\text{eV} \lesssim m_ϕ\lesssim 10^{-20}\,\text{eV}$, is one class of DM models known to generate signals in this frequency window. While purely gravitational signatures of ULDM have been studied previously, in this work we consider two signals in PTAs which arise in presence of direct couplings between ULDM and ordinary matter. These couplings induce variations in fundamental constants, i.e., particle masses and couplings. These variations can alter the moment of inertia of pulsars, inducing pulsar spin fluctuations via conservation of angular momentum, or induce apparent timing residuals due to reference clock shifts. By using mock data mimicking current PTA datasets, we show that PTA experiments outperform torsion balance and atomic clock constraints for ULDM coupled to electrons, muons, or gluons. In the case of coupling to quarks or photons, we find that PTAs and atomic clocks set similar constraints. Additionally, we discuss how future PTAs can further improve these constraints, and detail the unique properties of these signals relative to the previously studied effects of ULDM on PTAs.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Markers of neutrophil activation and neutrophil extracellular traps in diagnosing patients with acute venous thromboembolism: A feasibility study based on two VTE cohorts
Creators: name: Bruzelius, M.
name: Smith, P.
name: Farm, M.
name: Odeberg, J.
name: Thålin, C.
name: Gatica, K.A.
name: Rosell, A.
name: Mackman, N.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2022

description: Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) diagnosis would greatly benefit from the identification of novel biomarkers to complement D-dimer, a marker limited by low specificity. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have been shown to promote thrombosis and could hypothetically be used for diagnosis of acute VTE. Objectives: To assess the levels of specific markers of neutrophil activation and NETs and compare their diagnostic accuracy to D-dimer. Methods: We measured plasma levels of neutrophil activation marker neutrophil elastase (NE), the NET marker nucleosomal citrullinated histone H3 (H3Cit-DNA) and cell-free DNA in patients (n = 294) with suspected VTE (pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis) as well as healthy controls (n = 30). A total of 112 VTE positive and 182 VTE negative patients from two prospective cohort studies were included. Results: Higher levels of H3Cit-DNA and NE, but not cell-free DNA, were associated with VTE. Area under receiver operating curves (AUC) were 0.90 and 0.93 for D-dimer, 0.65 and 0.68 for NE and 0.60 and 0.67 for H3Cit-DNA in the respective cohorts. Adding NE and H3Cit-DNA to a D-dimer based risk model did not improve AUC. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates the presence of neutrophil activation and NET formation in VTE using specific markers. However, the addition of NE or H3Cit-DNA to D-dimer did not improve the discrimination compared to D-dimer alone. This study provides information on the feasibility of using markers of NETs as diagnostic tools in acute VTE. Based on our findings, we believe the potential of these markers are limited in this setting.
Extensions and Applications of the Bohm Criterion
Creators: name: Baalrud, Scott D.
name: Scheiner, Brett
name: Yee, Benjamin
name: Hopkins, Matthew
name: Barnat, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generalized Bohm criterion is revisited in the context of incorporating kinetic effects of the electron and ion distribution functions into the theory. The underlying assumptions and results of two different approaches are compared: The conventional `kinetic Bohm criterion' and a fluid-moment hierarchy approach. The former is based on the asymptotic limit of an infinitely thin sheath ($λ_D/l =0$), whereas the latter is based on a perturbative expansion of a sheath that is thin compared to the plasma ($λ_D/l \ll 1$). Here $λ_D$ is the Debye length, which characterizes the sheath length scale, and $l$ is a measure of the plasma or presheath length scale. The consequences of these assumptions are discussed in terms of how they restrict the class of distribution functions to which the resulting criteria can be applied. Two examples are considered to provide concrete comparisons between the two approaches. The first is a Tonks-Langmuir model including a warm ion source [Robertson 2009 \textit{Phys.\ Plasmas} {\bf 16} 103503]. This highlights a substantial difference between the conventional kinetic theory, which predicts slow ions dominate at the sheath edge, and the fluid moment approach, which predicts slow ions have little influence. The second example considers planar electrostatic probes biased near the plasma potential using model equations and particle-in-cell simulations. This demonstrates a situation where electron kinetic effects alter the Bohm criterion, leading to a subsonic ion flow at the sheath edge.
description: To be published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion as part of the ICPP 2014 special issue
Dressing due to correlations strongly reduces the effect of electron-phonon coupling
Creators: name: Yam, Yau-Chuen
name: Sawatzky, George A.
name: Berciu, Mona
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the difference between the coupling of a bare carrier to phonons versus the coupling of a correlations-dressed quasiparticle to phonons, and show that latter may be weak even if the former is strong. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the hole-phonon coupling on the dispersion of the quasiparticle that forms when a single hole is doped into a cuprate layer. To model this, we start from the three-band Emery model supplemented by the Peierls modulation of the $p$-$d$ and $p$-$p$ hoppings due to the motion of O ions. We then project onto the strongly correlated $U_{dd}\rightarrow \infty$ limit where charge fluctuations are frozen on the Cu site. The resulting effective Hamiltonian describes the motion of a doped hole on the O sublattice, and its interactions with Cu spins and O phonons. We show that even though the hole-phonon coupling is moderate to strong, it leads to only a very minor increase of the quasiparticle's effective mass as compared to its mass in the absence of coupling to phonons, consistent with a weak coupling to phonons of the correlations-dressed quasiparticle. We explain the reasons for this suppression, revealing why it is expected to happen in any systems with strong correlations.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Labour law in Australia and Nigeria: a comparative study in the sociology of legislation
Creators: name: Omaji, Paul Omojo
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Sociological jurisprudence
subject: Arbitration, Industrial Australia
subject: Arbitration, Industrial Nigeria
subject: Labor laws and legislation Australia
subject: Labor laws and legislation Nigeria

description: This thesis attempts a comparative sociology of the labour law in Australia and Nigeria. It finds that there are fundamental similarities between the compulsory arbitration laws of both countries which cannot be adequately explained, simply, in terms of race, geography or stages of industrial development. The thesis outlines in considerable details two broad sociological perspectives on law, the autonomy model and the social product model, and uses the insights of these two approaches to explain the observed similarities. The thesis shows that the 1904 Australian law was transplanted to Nigeria in the period 1968-76. Further, it shows that although at first sight Australia in 1904 is very different from Nigeria in 1968, the respective social circumstances (particularly the social control traditions) were remarkably similar, thus allowing the borrowing of the Australian legislation by Nigeria. The few differences which the thesis identifies suggest that the borrowing was not a case of blind legal transplantation.
Moral distress among clinicians working in US safety net practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Pathman, Donald E.
name: Alton, Kristina
name: Headlee, Anna S.
name: Harrison, Jerry N.
name: Sonis, Jeffrey
name: Rauner, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Objective To explore the causes and levels of moral distress experienced by clinicians caring for the low-income patients of safety net practices in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Cross-sectional survey in late 2020, employing quantitative and qualitative analyses. Setting Safety net practices in 20 US states. Participants 2073 survey respondents (45.8% response rate) in primary care, dental and behavioural health disciplines working in safety net practices and participating in state and national education loan repayment programmes. EMPAVELI® (pegcetacoplan) - Official Physician Website See Prescribing Info & Boxed Warning. Read What to Know Before Prescribing EMPAVELI. empavelihcp.com Measures Ordinally scaled degree of moral distress experienced during the pandemic, and open-ended response descriptions of issues that caused most moral distress. Results Weighted to reflect all surveyed clinicians, 28.4% reported no moral distress related to work during the pandemic, 44.8% reported ‘mild’ or ‘uncomfortable’ levels and 26.8% characterised their moral distress as ‘distressing’, ‘intense’ or ‘worst possible’. The most frequently described types of morally distressing issues encountered were patients not being able to receive the best or needed care, and patients and staff risking infection in the office. Abuse of clinic staff, suffering of patients, suffering of staff and inequities for patients were also morally distressing, as were politics, inequities and injustices within the community. Clinicians who reported instances of inequities for patients and communities and the abuse of staff were more likely to report higher levels of moral distress. Conclusions During the pandemic’s first 9 months, moral distress was common among these clinicians working in US safety net practices. But for only one-quarter was this significantly distressing. As reported for hospital-based clinicians during the pandemic, this study’s clinicians in safety net practices were often morally distressed by being unable to provide optimal care to patients. New to the literature is clinicians’ moral distress from witnessing inequities and other injustices for their patients and communities.
Two Views on the Carbon-Dioxide Problem -- A More Feasible Social Response
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have been increasing for more than a century from human activities such as the clearing of forests and the combustion of fossil fuel.
D5.4 - Energy Analytics dashboard for business analysts
Creators: name: FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
name: UNIVERSITY OF BONN
name: ENGIE
name: COMSENSUS
name: INDRA SOLUCIONES TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Visualisation Dashboard
Batch
Realtime
Open Source
Visual Analytics

description: This deliverable explains in detail two open source alternatives of analytics dashboards that have been developed and implemented as part of PLATOON project. The document contains the complementary information for the actual developed open source visualisation dashboards publicly available in the PLATOON GitHub repository.
Double-GEM based thermal neutron detector prototype
Creators: name: Filho, L. A. Serra
name: Santos, R. Felix dos
name: de Souza, G. G. A.
name: Paulino, M. M. M.
name: Souza, F. A.
name: Moralles, M.
name: da Luz, H. Natal
name: Bregant, M.
name: Munhoz, M. G.
name: Lai, Chung-Chuan
name: Höglund, Carina
name: Svensson, Per-Olof
name: Robinson, Linda
name: Hall-Wilton, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Helium-3 shortage and the growing interest in neutron science constitute a driving factor in developing new neutron detection technologies. In this work, we report the development of a double-GEM detector prototype that uses a $^{10}$B$_4$C layer as a neutron converter material. GEANT4 simulations were performed predicting an efficiency of 3.14(10) %, agreeing within 2.7 $σ$ with the experimental and analytic detection efficiencies obtained by the detector when tested in a 41.8 meV thermal neutron beam. The detector is position sensitive, equipped with a 256+256 strip readout connected to resistive chains, and achieves a spatial resolution better than 3 mm. The gain stability over time was also measured with a fluctuation of about 0.2 %h$^{-1}$ of the signal amplitude. A simple data acquisition with only 5 electronic channels is sufficient to operate this detector.
description: Prepared for submission to JINST
Plasmodium falciparum importation does not sustain malaria transmission in a semi-arid region of Kenya
Creators: name: Wesolowski, Amy
name: Abel, Lucy
name: Freedman, Elizabeth
name: Menya, Diana
name: Obala, Andrew A.
name: Sumner, Kelsey M.
name: O'Meara, Wendy P.
name: Kipkoech, Joseph
name: Ambani, George
name: Markwalter, Christine F.
name: Lokoel, Gilchrist
name: Esimit, Daniel
name: Taylor, Steve M.
name: Meredith, Hannah R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Human movement impacts the spread and transmission of infectious diseases. Recently, a large reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum malaria was identified in a semi-arid region of northwestern Kenya historically considered unsuitable for malaria transmission. Understanding the sources and patterns of transmission attributable to human movement would aid in designing and targeting interventions to decrease the unexpectedly high malaria burden in the region. Toward this goal, polymorphic parasite genes (ama1, csp) in residents and passengers traveling to Central Turkana were genotyped by amplicon deep sequencing. Genotyping and epidemiological data were combined to assess parasite importation. The contribution of travel to malaria transmission was estimated by modelling case reproductive numbers inclusive and exclusive of travelers. P. falciparum was detected in 6.7% (127/1891) of inbound passengers, including new haplotypes which were later detected in locally-transmitted infections. Case reproductive numbers approximated 1 and did not change when travelers were removed from transmission networks, suggesting that transmission is not fueled by travel to the region but locally endemic. Thus, malaria is not only prevalent in Central Turkana but also sustained by local transmission. As such, interrupting importation is unlikely to be an effective malaria control strategy on its own, but targeting interventions locally has the potential to drive down transmission.
Cluster radioactivity in trans-lead region: A systematic study with modified empirical formulas
Creators: name: Jain, A.
name: Sharma, P. K.
name: Jain, S. K.
name: Deegwal, J. K.
name: Saxena, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of cluster emission from trans-lead (86$\leq$Z$\leq$96) region of periodic chart has been explored comprehensively by employing few empirical formulas which are modified by adding angular momentum ($l$) or isospin-dependent ($I=(N-Z)/A$) or both terms for the calculation of cluster decay half-lives. These modified versions of the formulas are found with lesser $χ^2$ per degree of freedom and root mean-square error, in addition to the smaller values of some other statistical parameters, while compared to their corresponding old versions on available 61 experimental data of cluster radioactivity. By applying the modified version of the formula given by Balasubramaniam \textit{et al.} [PRC 70 (2004) 017301], the most accurate formula among these, half-lives of several clusters i.e. isotopes of Be, B, C, N, O, F, Ne, Na, Mg, and Si are predicted systematically for the several isotopes in the trans-lead region. The contest of cluster emission with $α$-decay has been investigated in form of branching ratio which brings several potential cluster emissions into the probable decay modes of these nuclei. The accurate prediction of half-lives of such clusters is expected to be crucial for the future experimental observations where $α$-decay is observed dominantly.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Accepted in Nuclear Physics A
The assignments of the bottom mesons within the screened potential model and $^3P_0$ model
Creators: name: Feng, Xue-Chao
name: Wei-Hao
name: Liu, li-Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we calculate the mass spectrum of the bottom mesons with a modified nonrelativistic quark model by involving the screening effect, and explore their strong decay properties within the $^3P_0$ model. Our results suggest that the $B_1(5721)$, $B^*_2(5747)$, $B_J(5840)$, and $B_J(5970)$ could be reasonably assigned as the $B_1^\prime(1P)$, $B(1^3P_2)$, $B(2^1S_0)$, and $B(1^3D_3)$ respectively. The more precise measurements of the excited bottom mesons are crucial to confirm these assignments.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
IR study of nova V2468 Cyg from early decline to the coronal phase
Creators: name: Raj, A.
name: Ashok, N. M.
name: Rudy, Richard J.
name: Russell, Ray W.
name: Lynch, David K.
name: Woodward, Charles E.
name: Sitko, Michael
name: Day-Wilson, Amanda
name: Perry, R. Brad
name: KIM, Sang Chul
name: Pak, Mina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present infrared spectroscopic and photometric observations of the nova V2468 Cyg covering the period from 2008 March 13 till 2008 November 11. The JHK spectra of the object have been taken from the Mount Abu Infrared Observatory using the Near-Infrared Imager/Spectrometer. Spectra from 0.8-5.2 micron are also presented that were obtained using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the SPEX instrument. The spectra are dominated by strong H I lines from the Brackett and Paschen series, Fe II, OI and CI lines in the initial days, typical of an Fe II type nova. The lines were broader in the period immediately after outburst with measured FWHM of 1800-2300 km/s for the Pa-beta and Br-gamma lines. These values narrowed to 1500-1600 km/s by 12 days from outburst. The spectra showed prominent He I lines at 1.0830 and 2.0581 micron together with H I and O I emission features after 36 days from outburst. Our IR observations show the comparatively broad emission lines, the rapid development of the spectrum to higher ionization, the early appearance of coronal lines, and the absence of dust emission, all features that indicate the hybrid nature of the nova. This is perhaps the most extensively observed example of a probable Fe IIb type nova at the infrared wavelengths. We also notice a short lived emission line of Fe II at 2.0888 micron which was present between April 9, 2008 to May 9, 2008. No dust emission is seen from the nova ejecta. We have also estimated the range for the ejecta mass in V2468 Cyg to be 3 x 10^{-6} - 10^{-5} Msun.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in AJ
Rapid localization of gravitational wave hosts with FIGARO
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Stefano
name: Del Pozzo, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The copious scientific literature produced after the detection of GW170817 electromagnetic counterpart demonstrated the importance of a prompt and accurate localization of the gravitational wave within the co-moving volume. In this letter, we present FIGARO, a ready to use and publicly available software that relies on Bayesian non-parametrics. FIGARO is designed to run in parallel with parameter estimation algorithms to provide updated three-dimensional volume localization information. Differently from any existing algorithms, the analytical nature of the FIGARO reconstruction allows a ranking of the entries of galaxy catalogues by their probability of being the host of a gravitational wave event, hence providing an additional tool for a prompt electromagnetic follow up of gravitational waves. We illustrate the features of FIGARO on binary black holes as well as on GW170817. Finally, we demonstrate the robustness of FIGARO by producing so-called pp-plots and we present a method based on information entropy to assess when, during the parameter estimation run, it is reasonable to begin releasing skymaps.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Penrose junction conditions with $Λ$: Geometric insights into low-regularity metrics for impulsive gravitational waves
Creators: name: Podolsky, Jiri
name: Steinbauer, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C15, 83C35, 83C10

description: Impulsive gravitational waves in Minkowski space were introduced by Roger Penrose at the end of the 1960s, and have been widely studied over the decades. Here we focus on nonexpanding waves which later have been generalized to impulses traveling in all constant-curvature backgrounds, i.e., the (anti-)de Sitter universe. While Penrose's original construction was based on his vivid geometric "scissors-and-paste" approach in a flat background, until recently a comparably powerful visualization and understanding has been missing in the case with a cosmological constant $Λ\not=0$. Here we review the original Penrose construction and its generalization to non-vanishing $Λ$ in a pedagogical way, as well as the recently established visualization: A special family of global null geodesics defines an appropriate comoving coordinate system that allows to relate the distributional to the continuous form of the metric.
description: To appear in the topical volume "Singularity theorems, causality, and all that (SCRI21)" https://link.springer.com/collections/hjjgajaagg honoring Roger Penrose's accomplishments in mathematical relativity; final corrected version, 27 pages, 7 figures
What's Wrong with the IMF? What Would be Better?
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank were created in
1944 reflecting the experience of the 1920s and 1930s. The Fund's tasks were to
adjust current account imbalances and manage the exchange rate system. The
Bank's main tasks were to lend for the reconstruction of Europe and eliminate the
alleged bias against lending to developing countries.

Whatever may have been true in the 1940s, the international financial
system has found other means of solving the problems that the Fund and the Bank
were supposed to solve. Changes in exchange rates are now one common means
of adjusting current account imbalances. Leading countries including the United
States, Japan, Britain and the European Union allow their currencies to float.
Within Western Europe there will soon be a common currency with a single central
bank in place of fixed but adjustable exchange rates.
Critical behavior of the relaxation rate, the susceptibility, and a pair correlation function in the Kuramoto model on scale-free networks
Creators: name: Yoon, S.
name: Sindaci, M. Sorbaro
name: Goltsev, A. V.
name: Mendes, J. F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of network heterogeneity on relaxation dynamics of the Kuramoto model on uncorrelated complex networks with scale-free degree distributions. Using the Ott-Antonsen method and the annealed-network approach, we find that the critical behavior of the relaxation rate near the synchronization phase transition does not depend on network heterogeneity and critical slowing down takes place at the critical point when the second moment of the degree distribution is finite. In the case of a complete graph we obtain an explicit result for the relaxation rate when the distribution of natural frequencies is Lorentzian. We also find a response of the Kuramoto model to an external field and show that the susceptibility of the model is inversely proportional to the relaxation rate. We reveal that network heterogeneity strongly impacts a field dependence of the relaxation rate and the susceptibility when the network has a divergent fourth moment of degree distribution. We introduce a pair correlation function of phase oscillators and show that it has a sharp peak at the critical point, signaling emergence of long-range correlations. Our numerical simulations of the Kuramoto model support our analytical results.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 17 of Non-canonical two-step biosynthesis of anti-oomycete indole alkaloids in Kickxellales
Creators: name: Rassbach, Johannes
name: Hilsberg, Nathalie
name: Haensch, Veit G.
name: Dörner, Sebastian
name: Gressler, Julia
name: Sonnabend, Robin
name: Semm, Caroline
name: Voigt, Kerstin
name: Hertweck, Christian
name: Gressler, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 17: Figure S15. 1H-13C HSQC spectrum of 5 in DMSO-d6.
Why Government Grows
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Wherever we look, the state is large or growing. Food, shelter, and medical care are subsidized, regulated, or controlled to some degree in all the once-liberal economies. Regulation, control, and direction of the economy increase in both scope and detail from decade to decade. Deregulation is exceptional, not commonplace. The powers that the state acquires are not often surrendered.
Nonlytic cellular release of hepatitis A virus requires dual capsid recruitment of the ESCRT-associated Bro1 domain proteins HD-PTP and ALIX
Creators: name: Xie, Ling
name: Stuart, David I.
name: Lemon, Stanley M.
name: González-López, Olga
name: Shirasaki, Takayoshi
name: Einav, Shirit
name: Kapustina, Maryna
name: McKnight, Kevin L.
name: Barouch-Bentov, Rina
name: Boyce, Mark
name: Duyvesteyn, Helen M. E.
name: Feng, Hui
name: Chen, Xian
name: Hertel-Wulff, Adriana
name: Fry, Elizabeth E.
name: Duncan, Joseph A.
name: Fusco, William G.
name: Wang, Li
name: McNamara, Ryan
name: Kumar, Sathish
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Although picornaviruses are conventionally considered ‘nonenveloped’, members of multiple picornaviral genera are released nonlytically from infected cells in extracellular vesicles. The mechanisms underlying this process are poorly understood. Here, we describe interactions of the hepatitis A virus (HAV) capsid with components of host endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) that play an essential role in release. We show release of quasi-enveloped virus (eHAV) in exosome-like vesicles requires a conserved export signal located within the 8 kDa C-terminal VP1 pX extension that functions in a manner analogous to late domains of canonical enveloped viruses. Fusing pX to a self-assembling engineered protein nanocage (EPN-pX) resulted in its ESCRT-dependent release in extracellular vesicles. Mutational analysis identified a 24 amino acid peptide sequence located within the center of pX that was both necessary and sufficient for nanocage release. Deleting a YxxL motif within this sequence ablated eHAV release, resulting in virus accumulating intracellularly. The pX export signal is conserved in non-human hepatoviruses from a wide range of mammalian species, and functional in pX sequences from bat hepatoviruses when fused to the nanocage protein, suggesting these viruses are released as quasi-enveloped virions. Quantitative proteomics identified multiple ESCRT-related proteins associating with EPN-pX, including ALG2-interacting protein X (ALIX), and its paralog, tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 23 (HD-PTP), a second Bro1 domain protein linked to sorting of ubiquitylated cargo into multivesicular endosomes. RNAi-mediated depletion of either Bro1 domain protein impeded eHAV release. Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy demonstrated colocalization of viral capsids with endogenous ALIX and HD-PTP. Co-immunoprecipitation assays using biotin-tagged peptides and recombinant proteins revealed pX interacts directly through the export signal with N-terminal Bro1 domains of both HD-PTP and ALIX. Our study identifies an exceptionally potent viral export signal mediating extracellular release of virus-sized protein assemblies and shows release requires non-redundant activities of both HD-PTP and ALIX.
Sri Lankans in Melbourne: factors influencing patterns of ethnicity
Creators: name: Pinnawala, Sisira Kumara
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) Australia Melbourne (Vic.)
subject: Ethnicity Australia Melbourne (Vic.)

description: This study examines ethnic relations among Sri Lankan immigrants in Melbourne. It argues that though ethnicity is an ideology, the relationship between ethnic phenomena and social structural relations is not a deterministic one. There is an interdependency between the two so ethnic phenomena must be explained by examining the interaction between ideology and social structure . This interactive relationship is explained by examining patterns of ethnicity among Sri Lankans in Melbourne. Two patterns of ethnicities among Sri Lankans are examined in the study. They are the home country ethnic identification s and the new 'Sri Lankan' identity that is being formed in the Australian context . This study explains these two by examining the influence of factors related to both home society and host society on Sri Lankans in Melbourne.
Magnetotransport in disordered two-dimensional topological insulators: signatures of charge puddles
Creators: name: Essert, Sven
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this numerical study we investigate the influence and interplay of disorder, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field on the edge-transport in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells in the framework of coherent elastic scattering. We show that the edge states remain unaffected by the combined effect of moderate disorder and a weak magnetic field at realistic spin-orbit coupling strengths. Agreement with the experimentally observed linear magnetic field dependence for the conductance of long samples is obtained when considering the existence of charge puddles.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures