cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lithics as Markers of Societal Change in the Prehistoric Aegean
Creators: name: Psoma, Aikaterini
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: This dissertation explores the onset of social complexity and differentiation through the theoretical framework of heterarchy. Key to understanding the emergence of such anthropological phenomena and the formation processes of early socioeconomic systems in pre-state societies are the very early aspects of socio-economic interactions: craft production and the exchange of goods. I investigate how production organization can provide insights to the evolution of differential dynamics among pre-modern communities. These processes are explored in the Aegean region, where multiple interactions occur, at different scales and intensities, in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (5th - end of 4th Millennium BCE) – a critical temporal juncture of social and economic transformations. The above concepts are investigated through the analysis of obsidian stone tools, one of the most common artifacts encountered at Aegean sites of the Late Neolithic (LN) and Early Bronze Age (EBA). I reconstruct the lithic production organization and exchange at an interregional scale, mapping interactions within and among communities, uncovering their roles in broader networks. To that end, I use as techno-economical markers a lithic collection of 32,778 artifacts and perform an extended, multi-scalar regional analysis. I use the chaîne opératoire approach and spatial analysis to analyze a diverse lithic dataset from both excavations and surveys, from regions located in southern Euboea and eastern Attica, key trade routes with increased activity from the LN to the EBA. These are (i) the Katsaronio valley, whose regional production and distribution hubs controlled trade-route access and defended key resources, (ii) the Gourimadi site, a strategic and naturally-defensible production center where projectile points were crafted en masse at the end the Neolithic, yielding the largest collection of lithic arrowheads ever recorded in the region, (iii) the Porto Rafti Bay, whose lithic production hubs are prime examples of specialized activities and regulated regional movement of lithics from the Cyclades to Attica and beyond, and (iv) the Agia Triada cave, whose lithics from domestic and burial/ceremonial contexts reveal how technology changes through time. The outcomes of this study give new insights on societal change and power relations at the dawn of proto-urban communities.
Gestures of Value: A moral recounting of psychosomatic response
Creators: name: Nood, Ryan R van
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Bioethics
Ethical theory
History and philosophy of medicine
History and philosophy of science
History of philosophy
Medical ethics
Philosophical psychology (incl. moral psychology and philosophy of action)
Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: This dissertation redefines the placebo effect in light of new empirical observations and certain strands of philosophical ethics. Chapter 1 critically reviews available definitions of placebo responsiveness against their abilities to hang together the diversity of empirical observations and emerging research interests. Projecting Wittgenstein's example of a child learning pain language, Chapter 2 redefines the phenomenon as a particular kind of experience of meaning and reconsiders clinical empathy in terms of the loss and recovery of language that belongs to illness experience and diagnosis. Chapter 3 broadens the account of psychosomatic responsiveness from the experience of meaning to the experience of values, utilising Canguilhem's definition of health and Nietzsche's genealogical account of the health of values. Chapter 4 explores the foregoing by recounting how Wittgenstein's moral philosophy might hold together the traditional ethical and bioethical question of what makes life worth living with psychosomatic responsiveness.
Additional file 13 of Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments
Creators: name: Fernández-Arjona, María del Mar
name: Navarro, Juan Antonio
name: López-Gambero, Antonio Jesús
name: de Ceglia, Marialuisa
name: Rodríguez, Miguel
name: Rubio, Leticia
name: Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando
name: Barrios, Vicente
name: Chowen, Julie A.
name: Argente, Jesús
name: Rivera, Patricia
name: Suárez, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 13
FORMATION AND CONTROL OF HELICAL STATES IN 2D GASES AND TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS
Creators: name: Wang, Ying
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Condensed matter physics not elsewhere classified

description: It has been realized that a p-wave order parameter can emerge in a synthetic superconductor constructed from a semiconductor and an s-wave superconductor, provided that fermion doubling is removed. In one dimension, the required electron spectrum consists of two counter-propagating modes with opposite spin orientations, so-called helical channels. Helical channels can be realized in nanowires with spin-orbit interactions in the presence of magnetic field, topological insulators, at the edges of the quantum spin Hall system, or in the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect regimes. This thesis will discuss the formation and control of helical states in different systems.
title: Pistazie :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Pistachio
Green Almond

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Additional file 14 of Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments
Creators: name: Fernández-Arjona, María del Mar
name: Navarro, Juan Antonio
name: López-Gambero, Antonio Jesús
name: de Ceglia, Marialuisa
name: Rodríguez, Miguel
name: Rubio, Leticia
name: Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando
name: Barrios, Vicente
name: Chowen, Julie A.
name: Argente, Jesús
name: Rivera, Patricia
name: Suárez, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 14
Additional file 15 of Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments
Creators: name: Fernández-Arjona, María del Mar
name: Navarro, Juan Antonio
name: López-Gambero, Antonio Jesús
name: de Ceglia, Marialuisa
name: Rodríguez, Miguel
name: Rubio, Leticia
name: Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando
name: Barrios, Vicente
name: Chowen, Julie A.
name: Argente, Jesús
name: Rivera, Patricia
name: Suárez, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 15
sj-pdf-1-apr-10.1177_1532673X211042001 – Supplemental material for Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising
Creators: name: Banda, Kevin K.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-apr-10.1177_1532673X211042001 for Reexamining the Effects of Electoral Competition on Negative Advertising by Kevin K. Banda in American Politics Research
Enlightenment Devilry: Devils in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Creators: name: Froid, Daniel D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: “Enlightenment Devilry” investigates why, in the period often referred to as the Age of Reason, British writers link devils to knowledge that is forbidden, secret, or threatening but also perversely appealing. I argue that literary texts use devils to articulate a particular form of curiosity that is driven by perverse objects or seeks ends that defy social and intellectual convention. Many eighteenth-century British writers questioned the historical veracity of the Bible and the reality of heaven and hell due to scientific discoveries, contact with nonwestern cultures, and changes in religious thought. At the same time, the emerging print marketplace made religious texts such as the Bible as well as leisure reading more easily accessible to wider audiences. Within this discursive context, depictions of devils and devilry helped readers and writers navigate tensions between competing sources for authority and legitimacy, including secular and spiritual institutions; old and new ways of conceiving of literature, theology, and philosophy; and historiographical and religious ideas from around the globe. There has never been a full-length study of the significance of devils in British culture of the long eighteenth century; in addition to deepening our understanding of this subject, I intervene into current debates about knowledge-making practices, religion, and secularization in the period.
AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF BURN INJURIES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Creators: name: Chanci Arrubla, Daniela
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified

description: Accurate assessment of burn injuries is critical for the correct management of such wounds. Depending on the total body surface area affected by the burn, and the severity of the injury, the optimal treatment and the surgical requirements are selected. However, such assessment is considered a clinical challenge. In this thesis, to address this challenge, an automatic framework to segment the burn using RGB images, and classify the injury based on the severity using ultrasound images is proposed and implemented. With the use this framework, the conventional assessment approach, which relies exclusively on a physical and visual examination of the injury performed by medical practitioners, could be complemented and supported, yielding accurate results. The ultrasound data enables the assessment of internal structures of the body, which can provide complementary and useful information. It is a noninvasive imaging modality that provides access to internal body structures that are not visible during the typical physical examination of the burn. The semantic segmentation module of the proposed approach was evaluated through one experiment. Similarly, the classification module was evaluated through two experiments. The second experiment assessed the effects of incorporating texture features as extra features for the classification task. Experimental results and evaluation metrics demonstrated the satisfactory results obtained with the proposed framework for the segmentation and classification problem. Therefore, this work acts as a first step towards the creation of a Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Detection system for burn injury assessment.
Measurements of the Alkali-Metal Spin-Destruction Rate and Spin-Exchange Rate Coefficient in Xe-Rb and Xe-Cs Systems
Creators: name: Armanfard, Zahra
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Despite the practice of noble gas spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) since 1960, various fundamental aspects of this method, including the values of the spin-destruction rate, numerous elements of alkali-metal polarization, and spin-exchange coefficient, still need to be explored. The mechanisms governing $^{129}$Xe polarization, and the spin-exchange efficiency have also been noted as areas of exploration. This thesis explains the results of our efforts to measure these features and initiates an understanding of some of these mysteries. This document includes measurements of the alkali-metal spin-destruction rate, alkali-metal-Xe spin-exchange rate coefficient, and spin-exchange efficiency. We made a comparison between Xe-Rb and Xe-Cs systems by comparing the SEOP efficiency for the two systems to understand which alkali-metal can be a better partner for polarizing Xe. The results show that Xe-Cs system has ∼ 35% higher spin-exchange rate coefficient and ∼ 30% higher spin-destruction rate than Xe-Rb system, resulting in a slightly better SEOP efficiency for Xe-Cs system than Xe-Rb system.
Additional file 16 of Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments
Creators: name: Fernández-Arjona, María del Mar
name: Navarro, Juan Antonio
name: López-Gambero, Antonio Jesús
name: de Ceglia, Marialuisa
name: Rodríguez, Miguel
name: Rubio, Leticia
name: Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando
name: Barrios, Vicente
name: Chowen, Julie A.
name: Argente, Jesús
name: Rivera, Patricia
name: Suárez, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 16
Additional file 17 of Sex-based differences in growth-related IGF1 signaling in response to PAPP-A2 deficiency: comparative effects of rhGH, rhIGF1 and rhPAPP-A2 treatments
Creators: name: Fernández-Arjona, María del Mar
name: Navarro, Juan Antonio
name: López-Gambero, Antonio Jesús
name: de Ceglia, Marialuisa
name: Rodríguez, Miguel
name: Rubio, Leticia
name: Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando
name: Barrios, Vicente
name: Chowen, Julie A.
name: Argente, Jesús
name: Rivera, Patricia
name: Suárez, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 17
MPEC 2025-F101 : 2025 FM4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FM4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Mechanisms of Vascular Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Leasure, Joseph W
Publisher: name: University of Illinois Chicago
Year: 2025

description: The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a vital role in maintaining health of the brain by strictly regulating blood-flow and the entry of nutrients and oxygen. Disruption of this BBB and dysfunction of the endothelial cells has been previously linked to a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Due to the limited efficacy of therapeutics that target the AD-related peptide Amyloid-Beta (Aβ), new methods and molecular pathways for investigating cerebrovascular dysfunction are required. The first approach presented in this thesis is integrating endothelial cells into established stem cell derived brain organoid protocols in order to foster the development of a vasculature. We found that adding endothelial cells to the extracellular matrix and supplementing the organoid media with vascular endothelial growth factor was sufficient for generating cerebral orgaonids with contiguous, three-dimensional vasculature-like structures that stained positive for CD31, an endothelial marker. We next utilized mouse models of AD to determine how Aβ deposition effected endothelial barrier function and transcriptional profile. We found there was a direct positive correlation between Aβ deposition and vascular leakiness, as well as an increase in type I interferon antiviral signaling. We found that activating type I interferon signaling in endothelial cells decreased VE-cadherin expression and increased vascular permeability. Following this, we investigated Amyloid-induced disruption of WNT/β-catenin signaling in brain endothelial cells. We found that Amyloid-Beta reduced both endogenous and WNT-stimulated β-catenin signaling, as well as endothelial barrier function. This effect was consistent across brain endothelial cells and stem cell derived endothelial cells.
Associations Among Fatty Food Sensations, Diet, and Expectorated Emulsions
Creators: name: Huang, Li-Chu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Nutritional science

description: Saliva influences chemical and textural sensations, yet details on sources of individual variability for these phenomena are still lacking. In this project, we investigated fatty sensations, dietary habits, and saliva’s emulsifying properties. Through a remote tasting and spitting protocol, participants were asked to rate sensory properties of fatty candies with varying concentrations of added linoleic acid (LA) as well as discriminate among fatty candies with/without LA and high/low fat ranch dressings. Additionally, participants swished and expectorated an oil/water mixture, and the expectorated emulsion was visually analyzed. Dietary habits were also assessed by 3-day dietary recalls. Linear mixed model was used to analyze sensory response, diet, and spit data. Sensory ratings of fatty candies indicate differences based on successful completion of either discrimination tasks. People who passed either discrimination tests (N=26 passed LA; N=22 passed high/low fat tests) rated higher “Fattiness” for the highest LA concentration. In contrast, people who failed the tests (N=36 failed LA; N=40 failed high/low fat tests) rated higher “Bitterness” with the highest LA concentration. Importantly, only 7 individuals overlapped in these two groups who passed the discrimination tasks. Lower total fat intake and larger expectorated fat layer were associated with higher “Bitterness,” particularly among those who passed the LA discrimination test and those who failed the high/low fat test. Moreover, lower protein and greater carbohydrate intake seemed to associate with the greater formation and stability of oral emulsions, particularly in individuals who failed the high/low fat discrimination task. Other factors such as total fat intake, medication usage, and BMI were mixed. In conclusion, sensory experience of fatty candies may vary based on the ability of an individual to sense the LA or fat content, and saliva’s ability to emulsify fat into water may vary with diet.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating photodynamic therapy versus brolucizumab as a second-line treatment for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
Creators: name: Funatsu, Ryoh
name: Terasaki, Hiroto
name: Mihara, Naohisa
name: Sonoda, Shozo
name: Shiihara, Hideki
name: Sakamoto, Taiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Causal directed acyclic graph (DAG) for assessing the association between treatment selection and outcomes.
title: Navigating Histories: An Exploration of Second Generation High-Achieving British Bangladeshi Muslim Young Women Living in North-East London
Creators: name: Mia, Shamea Yasmin
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Generation, Bengali/Bangladeshi, Diaspora, Migration, Psychoanalysis, Intergeneration Relations

description: This thesis examines the lives of second generation high-achieving British Bangladeshi Muslim young women living in various parts of north-east London (within the M25). My respondents are educated to at least degree level and are in, or aspire to, middle class employment. This research explores their relationships with their families, and in particular their first generation parents. It also looks at school friendships, romantic relationships, issues of travel to Bangladesh and, finally, how religion shapes both the respondents’ sense of self and the ways in which they orient themselves in relation to their nuclear family. My respondents’ accounts are explored through in-depth narrative analysis in the empirical chapters. This research draws from literature examining migrational and postcolonial understandings of psychoanalysis, Bangladeshi communities, relationships between first generation migrant parents and their second generation daughters and intergenerational dialogue. It is qualitative in nature, employing grounded theoretical and ethnographic research methodologies. The data upon which the research is empirically based is drawn from semi-structured, in-depth interviews with twenty young women, which were carried out between 2006 and 2012. 

This study’s findings suggest that these young women are able to speak from various historical positionalities. By navigating through and between different cultural histories, this thesis argues, such young women have become or are in the process of becoming ‘hybrid’ in their complex and multi-layered identities. 

This research has the potential to contribute to the study of intergenerational ethnicities and diasporic identities, as well as enriching our understanding of how a sense of self is formed when respondents belong to a number of differing cultures.
Catalytic Nitrene Reactions Enabled By Dinuclear Nickel Catalysts
Creators: name: Andjaba, John M
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Catalysis and mechanisms of reactions

description: Nitrenes are reactive intermediates that are known to generate high interest organic molecules. Due to their inherent instability, nitrenes are often stabilized by introducing them to transition metal complexes. Many transition metal stabilized nitrenes (M=NR2) have been reported and some of these complexes have been shown to control nitrene reactivity and selectivity. Transition metal nitrene reactivity can be categorized into two main groups: bond-insertion and group transfer reactions. In the reference to the former, chapter one of this dissertation highlights using unique dinuclear Ni catalysts to generate nitrenes from aromatic azides. These Ni2 nitrenes are used towards selective C(sp2)−H bond amination in order to generate indole and carbazole derivatives. This work highlights the unique properties of the Ni2 imide that enable a 1,2-addition pathway, which contrasts known bimetallic nitrene insertion reactions. A detailed mechanistic study, primarily using density functional theory (DFT) is the focus of this chapter. Chapter two of this dissertation focuses on nitrene group transfer. In particular, this chapter highlights the ability of the dinuclear Ni catalyst [i-PrNDI]Ni2(C6H6) to react with aromatic azides to perform N=N coupling. A large scope of functional groups are tolerated in high yield with short reaction times. Catalyst comparison studies, studies on relevant catalytic intermediates for N=N coupling and reaction kinetics are shown in this chapter. Lastly, chapter three showcases the expansion of the nitrene group transfer ability of [i-PrNDI]Ni2(C6H6) to generate high molecular weight azopolymers from aromatic diazides. These azopolymers are generated from monomers often used in organic semi-conducting materials. End group control and post polymer functionalization are highlighted in this chapter. Lastly, this work showcases a new polymer, polyazoisoindigo, as the first organic semiconducting material that reversibly transitions from a colored to colorless state upon reduction.
title: For-Profit Social Entrepreneurship: A Study of Resources, Challenges, and Competencies in UK
Creators: name: Kupolokun, Oluwakemi
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social Entrepreneurship, For-Profit Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, Double-Bottom Line, Bricolage

description: Social Entrepreneurship has received increasing attention over the years. However, little is known about the different business models of social enterprises and how they can be run effectively to realise their full potential (Prabhu, 1999; Nicholls, 2006).  Moreover, empirical research has largely focused on non-profit social value creation while the for-profit context of social entrepreneurship has received less attention (Dees, 1998). Therefore, research within the for-profit context can contribute strongly to the advancement of the field, whereby exploring the challenges for-profit social enterprises face is an important research task which will, among other things, shed more light on how they overcome resource constraints. To address these research opportunities, this thesis analyses twelve social enterprises in the UK through original semi-structured interviews, observations, and archival research. It adopts a resource-based lens and employs an interpretivist approach to gain new insights. 

With close reference to extant SE literature as well as entrepreneurial capital and bricolage theory, the research identifies three specific challenges experienced by social enterprises operating within the for-profit context. These challenges - that spring from a 'double bottom line' configuration - are: (1) successfully positioning a for-profit social enterprise along the enterprise spectrum; (2) maintaining a balanced focus on contrasting objectives; (3) and countering pressures to compromise on objectives. The present study also critically extends the theory of social bricolage as the findings show that creativity, social skills, resilience and adaptability comprise key competencies that enable bricolage activity by for-profit social enterprises. The surveyed social enterprises have extensively leveraged these competencies while navigating resource scarce environments. The identification of such particular competencies is one significant theoretical contribution the thesis makes to both bricolage theory and the broader social entrepreneurship literature. The study furthermore makes a general contribution to the study of for-profit social entrepreneurship, an outstanding gap in the field.
Additional file 2 of Evaluating photodynamic therapy versus brolucizumab as a second-line treatment for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
Creators: name: Funatsu, Ryoh
name: Terasaki, Hiroto
name: Mihara, Naohisa
name: Sonoda, Shozo
name: Shiihara, Hideki
name: Sakamoto, Taiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Comparison of best-corrected visual acuity between brolucizmab andphotodynamic therapy groups at each time point.
Deformation Mechanisms in Unirradiated and Irradiated Iron Chromium Aluminum Identified by TEM in situ Tensile Testing
Creators: name: Warren, George A
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Metals and alloy materials
Nuclear engineering (incl. fuel enrichment and waste processing and storage)
Materials engineering not elsewhere classified
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
Nanoelectromechanical systems

description: FeCrAl alloys are being investigated as candidate materials for replacing zirconium based alloys as nuclear reactor fuel cladding because of their superior high temperature oxidation resistance in steam environments. Unirradiated FeCrAl as well as Fe2+ ion irradiated FeCrAl to a peak dose of 20DPA were mechanically tested and compared against each other. Nanohardness tests were performed on both the unirradiated and irradiated conditions and it was found that the irradiated alloy was about 1GPa harder than its unirradiated counterpart. TEM in situ tensile tests were performed using the Bruker push to pull device alongside a PI95 Picoindenter on single crystals with grain orientations 001, 011 and 111. The unirradiated 001 grains tended to fail without yielding in a brittle manner while the irradiated 001 grain yielded and reached an ultimate tensile strength before failure. The unirradiated 011 grains behaved in a mixed manner, where one failed without yielding and one slipped many times before failing. The irradiated 011 grain yielded and failed quickly thereafter. The unirradiated 111 grain yielded, slipped and twinned before failing and both irradiated 111 grains slipped. Two general trends were observed. One, each unirradiated single grain was stronger than its irradiated counterpart. This trend is indicative of the ion irradiated microstructure facilitating bulklike mechanical behavior in the irradiated samples whereas the unirradiated samples exhibited mechanical size effects due to either the total lack of preexisting defects or the ability for existing defects to escape easily to the surface of the sample resulting in a pristine, defect free sample. Two, regardless of irradiation condition, the 001 grain orientation was brittle, the 011 grain orientation deformed in a mixed brittle/ductile manner and the 111 grain orientation was ductile through all tests. These results are indicative of the geometry of the BCC crystal structure and the slip system involving these orientations.
Ground-based measurements of the weather-driven sky radiance distribution in the Southern Hemisphere
Creators: name: Cordero, Raúl R.
name: Feron, Sarah
name: Sepúlveda, Edgardo
name: Damiani, Alessandro
name: Jorquera, Jose
name: Rowe, Penny M.
name: Carrasco, Jorge
name: Rayas, Juan A.
name: Llanillo, Pedro
name: MacDonell, Shelley
name: Seckmeyer, Gunther
Publisher: name: San Francisco, California, US : PLOS
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: aerosol
subject: air quality
subject: albedo
subject: Antarctica
subject: article
subject: glacier
subject: latitude
subject: Southern Hemisphere
subject: weather
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: The angular distribution of the sky radiance determines the energy generation of solar power technologies as well as the ultraviolet (UV) doses delivered to the biosphere. The sky-diffuse radiance distribution depends on the wavelength, the solar elevation, and the atmospheric conditions. Here, we report on ground-based measurements of the all-sky radiance at three sites in the Southern Hemisphere across a transect of about 5,000 km: Santiago (33°S, a mid-latitude city of 6 million inhabitants with endemic poor air quality), King George Island (62°S, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the cloudiest regions on Earth), and Union Glacier (79°S, a snow-covered glacier in the vast interior of Western Antarctica). The sites were strategically selected for studying the influence of urban aerosols, frequent and thick clouds, and extremely high albedo on the sky-diffuse radiance distribution. Our results show that, due to changing site-specific atmospheric conditions, the characterization of the weather-driven sky radiance distribution may require ground-based measurements.
sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_0003134820973365 – Supplemental Material for Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy and Postoperative Outcomes in an Enhanced Recovery Program for Colorectal Surgery: A Propensity Score-Matched Multicenter Study
Creators: name: Zorrilla-Vaca, Andres
name: Mena, Gabriel E.
name: Ripolles-Melchor, Javier
name: Abad-Motos, Ane
name: Aldecoa, Cesar
name: Lorente, Juan Victor
name: Ramirez-Rodriguez, José M.
name: Grant, Michael C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-asu-10.1177_0003134820973365 for Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy and Postoperative Outcomes in an Enhanced Recovery Program for Colorectal Surgery: A Propensity Score-Matched Multicenter Study by Andres Zorrilla-Vaca, Gabriel E. Mena, Javier Ripolles-Melchor, Ane Abad-Motos, Cesar Aldecoa, Juan Victor Lorente, José M. M. Ramirez-Rodriguez and Michael C. Grant in The American Surgeon
Geometric Confinement in Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Popov, Alexander D.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: confinement
subject: Higgs fields
subject: QCD
subject: Yang-Mills theory
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: In 1978, Friedberg and Lee introduced the phenomenological soliton bag model of hadrons, generalizing the MIT bag model developed in 1974 shortly after the formulation of QCD. In this model, quarks and gluons are confined due to coupling with a real scalar field (Formula presented.), which tends to zero outside some compact region (Formula presented.) determined dynamically from the equations of motion. The gauge coupling in the soliton bag model runs as the inverse power of (Formula presented.), already at the semiclassical level. We show that this model arises naturally as a consequence of introducing the warped product metric (Formula presented.) on the principal G-bundle (Formula presented.) with a non-Abelian group G over Minkowski space (Formula presented.). Confinement of quarks and gluons in a compact domain (Formula presented.) is a consequence of the collapse of the bundle manifold (Formula presented.) to M outside S due to shrinking of the group manifold G to a point. We describe the formation of such regions S as a dynamical process controlled by the order parameter field (Formula presented.).
Compensation of strain gauge signal changes due to position-based internal changes in sensory linear guides
Creators: name: Denkena, Berend
name: Buhl, Henning
name: Kowalke, Dennis
name: Ottermann, Rico
name: Wurz, Marc C.
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: linear guide
subject: strain gauge
subject: thin-film sensors
subject: Linearführung
subject: Dehnungsmessstreifen
subject: Dünnfilm Sensor
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: The process force is a suitable parameter for process monitoring of machine tools. Using a standard component (e.g. linear guides) to measure the process force is key for industrial applications. The measurement of sensory machine components is not only influenced by the process force but also by disturbance factors. For strain gauge based sensory linear guides, position-based changes within the guide system influence the surface strain. One influence is the relative position between the rolling elements of each raceway, which varies especially when reversing direction. Furthermore, due to the rail´s geometric tolerances and varying stiffness caused by the mounting holes, the preload of the linear rolling guide changes based on its position. These internal changes impact the surface strain and superimpose the influence of the process force on the surface strain. This limits the accuracy during the motion. Therefore, this paper presents a novel approach for compensating position-based influences on he measured strain on sensory linear guides. As a result, the signal deviation is reduced by up to 39 %.
title: The Chilean Diaspora of London: Diasporic Social Scenes and the Spatial Politics of Home
Creators: name: Ramirez, Carolina
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Diaspora, Chilean exiles, social scenes, home, belonging, Latin American London, diaspora space, visual methods, visual sociology, curating sociology

description: This thesis traces the experience of home, migration and belonging of an intergenerational group of Chileans who have remained in the UK after being exiled by the Pinochet regime (1973-1990). The Chilean diaspora of London form one of the ‘new diasporas’ who are not straightforwardly connected to The UK’s imperial past but to its contemporary history. This case offers insight into diasporas’ power to unsettle spatial and temporal delimitations and to reveal alternative geopolitical connections and social webs. The research involved a multi-method and multi-site ethnography. Through biographical accounts, fieldwork conducted in situ, and both archive and contemporary photographs, I followed a web of social scenes dating from the 1970s. Long-standing diasporic social scenes allow for a conceptualisation of ‘home’ as made through continuity and change, and in relation to diverse public domains rather than in seclusion. Through social scenes, home-making is achieved through embodied practices, material objects and physical landscapes, dynamics that allow for a grounded approach to diaspora and home, both of which emerge as a process rather than as given. In this grounded approach, diasporas’ historical grievances and memories still matter. The focus is on how they are reinstated and made to matter in the local present. The thesis was accompanied by an exhibition which presented different research materials to provide to the reader alternative means to navigate and weave the lines that connect the scenes’ different temporalities and spaces. Complementing the written account, it offered a more vivid approach to the scenes’ connected actors, routines and atmospheres. Moreover, the exhibition established a parallel between ethnographic research and ‘curating’ – both involve managing, classifying, arranging and selecting ‘objects’, as well as using one’s knowledge to collect relevant pieces and make them public. As a form of assembled scenery, the exhibition also contributed to an interactive, multidimensional and dynamic understanding of home.
Airline Maintenance Outsource Strategy and Aviation Safety
Creators: name: Jin, Linfeng
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2021
Subjects: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Airline maintenance outsourcing is a common practice in the deregulation era of airline industry, and it mainly covers topics across technology, economics, and politics. This dissertation used an explanatory sequential mixed methods research to explore the effect of airline maintenance outsource on aviation safety. The first stage of the research was a quantitative research using a panel data analysis using five models to explore the statistical relationships between the independent variables: amount of outsourced maintenance, airline profitability, and real gross domestic product per capita, and dependent variables: aircraft accident rate and aircraft incident rate for the major U.S. Part 121 passenger air carriers between 1995 and 2019. The second qualitative research was interview with commercial aircraft maintenance professionals, airline manager, civil aviation regulators, and other key stakeholders to seek their interpretation about the first stage research results, opinions and understandings about the current commercial aircraft maintenance practice, and their expectations of the industry. Both stages of research confirmed that airline maintenance outsourcing does not affect aviation safety, and there is a positive relationship between airline financial performance and aviation safety performance. Consequently, airline maintenance outsourcing is not only economically sensible but also conducive to aviation safety if it is done properly. In the second stage research, the researcher found deficiencies in the current oversight system mainly due to lack of funding and personnel which needs to be addressed. The researcher recommended activity-based accounting to solve the funding issues about airline maintenance oversight and the future study can focus on decision-making process for airline maintenance outsourcing/insourcing based on empirical data.
Perpendicular Alignment of 2D Nanoplatelet Emitters in Electrospun Fibers: A Result of the Barus Effect?
Creators: name: Liu, Xu
name: Li, Fuzhao
name: Hohgardt, Manuel
name: Klepzig, Lars Frederik
name: Willich, Marcel Maximilian
name: Christ, Henrik‐Alexander
name: Schaate, Andreas
name: Behrens, Peter
name: Lauth, Jannika
name: Menzel, Henning
name: Walla, Peter Jomo
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: fiber optics
subject: light redirecting
subject: nanoparticle alignment
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Stable jet electrospinning (SJES) is a special form of optical fiber generation that prevents chaotic fiber whipping typical for conventional electrospinning procedures. Incorporation of highly emissive semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs) in such fibers has very high potential in optical data transmission, optological circuits, fiber lasers, solar light concentrators and many other fields because NPLs exhibit strongly directed emission from their surface plane due to various in-plane transition dipole moments. However, potential orientation control of 2D-NPLs in SJES is entirely unknown as electric fields and various mechanical forces contribute in a complex manner simultaneously. Here, the observation of counter-intuitive yet very beneficial orientation of rectangular CdSe/CdS 2D-NLP in SJES perpendicular to the fiber drawing axis is reported. Scanning electron microscopy, 3D-single particle excitation polarization microscopy, 3D-photogoniometry, polarized emission spectroscopy and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) demonstrate aggregation free perpendicular alignment of the NPLs in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) fibers, resulting in dominant emission in directions parallel to the fiber. It is suggested that the observed vertical alignment is due to normal forces resulting from viscoelastic expansion when the polymer solution leaves the cannula (Barus effect) and that using such perpendicular nano-emitter alignment forces allows for the generation of novel materials also beyond fibers.
title: ‘Pioneers in the Corridors of Power’: Women Civil Servants at the Board of Trade and the Factory Inspectorate, 1893-1919
Creators: name: Wheeldon, Christine
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: women's history, civil service, home office and board of trade, 1893-1919

description: In the early 1890s university educated women who were considered experts on women’s issues were appointed to the Home Office and the Board of Trade. This thesis investigates their work, lives and the impact of these appointments with in the political context of the period (1893 - 1919): the expansion of the women’s movements, the rediscovery of poverty and the development of social conscience. A select group of nine women have been identified. They were pioneers in the establishment of a position for women in the professional grades within the Civil Service. Their numbers expanded during the First World War but contracted sharply afterwards.

The study reconstructs the ‘life histories’ of this cohort, their working practices and investigates their legacy for the civil service, for feminism and for the industrial working lives of women. It examines the influence of their work on legislation and on improvements in the working lives of women in industry and workshops throughout Britain. Sources include Parliamentary papers, select committee reports, census returns and directories as well as biographical sources and some private papers to reconstruct their working practices.

In improved sanitary conditions, the reduction of hours, the gradual elimination of truck violations, increased protection against injurious industrial processes, this cohort were effective. Clara Collet’s work played a significant part in the investigative process resulting in the first Trade Boards Act in 1909 and her statistical analyses of the effects of industrial work on women and their children informed both government and the public. These women civil servants’ war work was also impressive and they served on several reconstruction committees. However, post-war politics seriously impeded the progress that such a distinguished beginning might have indicated. Chapter six explores the way in which the women’s achievements were obfuscated after 1919.
Additional file 3 of Evaluating photodynamic therapy versus brolucizumab as a second-line treatment for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
Creators: name: Funatsu, Ryoh
name: Terasaki, Hiroto
name: Mihara, Naohisa
name: Sonoda, Shozo
name: Shiihara, Hideki
name: Sakamoto, Taiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Logistic regression analyses with cases that did not require additional treatments followinga second-line treatment as a dependent variable.
title: The Angel of Ferrara
Creators: name: Woolley, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: historical fiction, renaissance, historicism, creative writing

description: This thesis comprises two components: an extract of The Angel of Ferrara, a historical novel, and a critical commentary entitled What is history doing in Fiction?

The novel is set in the Italian city of Ferrara in February, 1579, a jewel of the Renaissance at the height of its powers but deep in debt. Amid the aristocratic pomp and popular festivities surrounding the duke’s marriage to his third wife, the secret child of the city’s most celebrated singer goes missing. A street-smart debt collector and lovelorn bureaucrat help her increasingly desperate attempts to find her son, their efforts uncovering the brutal instruments of ostentation and domination that gave rise to what we now know as the Renaissance.

In the critical commentary, I draw on the experience writing The Angel of Ferrara, together with my own historical works, to explore the relationship between history and fiction. Beginning with a survey of the development of historical fiction since the inception of the genre’s modern form with the Walter Scott’s Waverley, I analyze the various paratextual interventions—prefaces, authors’ notes, acknowledgements—authors have used in their attempts to explore and explain the use of factual research in their works. I draw on this to reflect in more detail at how research shaped the writing of the Angel of Ferrara and other recent historical novels, in particular Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall.

I then examine the issue form the opposite perspective: the use of fictional devices such as narrative in history, considering whether or not this compromises or enhances the authority and validity of historical work. I end by critically examining the prevailing notion that the borderline between fiction and history has become blurred, arguing that, while each influences the other, the distinction is one of type rather than degree.