cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimating Cost of Implementing Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) at Different levels of Health System in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Tesfaye, Dagmawit
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Globally it is estimated that 15 million babies are born preterm. Ethiopian neonatal mortality rate in 2015 was 28 per 1000 live births. Kangaroo mother care(KMC) has been proposed one safe and effective solution for preterm and low birth weight infants and can provide a very good alternative for neonatal intensive care unit. This study was conducted to estimate the cost of providing KMC to mother infant dyad and outline the major resource inputs incurred by the health system. Objective: To estimate the cost of providing kangaroo mother care (KMC) at different levels of health system in Addis Ababa 2017 G.C Methodology: Facility based cross sectional study design was used to collect cost data and utilization data from facility perspective. Purposive sampling was used to select the facilities providing kangaroo mother care. This study employed accounting method of cost estimation in order to estimate the total cost of implementing kangaroo mother care. The total cost was estimated by summing up the direct cost, indirect cost and intermediate cost. Result: The average cost providing KMC for mother infant dyad at Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital is estimated to be USD 55.3. The total cost of providing KMC at the TBGH for a total of one month, was estimated to be USD 874.86. The total cost for providing KMC at the Akaki Health Center is estimated to be USD 654.31. Thus unit cost for a follow up for one mother is about USD 65.28.The total cost for providing the KMC post facility follow up, i.e. four visits till the neonate is 28 days post-delivery, is USD 809.71. Conclusion and recommendation: The total cost for providing kangaroo mother care at Tirunesh Beijing General Hospital and Akaki Health Center was found to be USD 874.86 and ix USD 535.24 respectively. Health professional salary at both the TBGH and Akaki Health center has the highest cost for total cost. Further studies on assessing the health outcome and health impact of KMC by doing further research will help in knowing the return of the money spent.
Additional file 8 of DRR Dhan 58, a Seedling Stage Salinity Tolerant NIL of Improved Samba Mahsuri Shows Superior Performance in Multi-location Trials
Creators: name: Rekha, G.
name: Abhilash Kumar, V.
name: Gokulan, C. G.
name: Koushik, M. B. V. N.
name: Laxmi Prasanna, B.
name: Kulkarni, Swapnil
name: Aleena, D.
name: Harika, G.
name: Hajira, S. K.
name: Pranathi, K.
name: Punniakoti, E.
name: Kale, R. R.
name: Dilip Kumar, T.
name: Ayyappa, D.
name: Anila, M.
name: Sinha, Pragya
name: Manohara, K. K.
name: Padmavathi, G.
name: Subba Rao, L. V.
name: Laha, G. S.
name: Srinivas Prasad, M. S.
name: Fiyaz, R. A.
name: Suneetha, K.
name: Balachandran, S. M.
name: Patel, Hitendra Kumar
name: Sonti, Ramesh V.
name: Senguttuvel, P.
name: Sundaram, R. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S8: Distribution of variants based on the location in the genome of the rice lines and their consequences.
Effects of delays in feedback on the voluntary control of EEG alpha rhythm
Creators: name: Borland, Ronald MacDonald.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Additional file 9 of DRR Dhan 58, a Seedling Stage Salinity Tolerant NIL of Improved Samba Mahsuri Shows Superior Performance in Multi-location Trials
Creators: name: Rekha, G.
name: Abhilash Kumar, V.
name: Gokulan, C. G.
name: Koushik, M. B. V. N.
name: Laxmi Prasanna, B.
name: Kulkarni, Swapnil
name: Aleena, D.
name: Harika, G.
name: Hajira, S. K.
name: Pranathi, K.
name: Punniakoti, E.
name: Kale, R. R.
name: Dilip Kumar, T.
name: Ayyappa, D.
name: Anila, M.
name: Sinha, Pragya
name: Manohara, K. K.
name: Padmavathi, G.
name: Subba Rao, L. V.
name: Laha, G. S.
name: Srinivas Prasad, M. S.
name: Fiyaz, R. A.
name: Suneetha, K.
name: Balachandran, S. M.
name: Patel, Hitendra Kumar
name: Sonti, Ramesh V.
name: Senguttuvel, P.
name: Sundaram, R. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. Table S5: Summary of yield (kg/ha) data of Zone wise Advanced varietal trails (AVT NIL) for Kharif 2019 and 2020 (June to Nov)
Evaluating Lya Emission as a Tracer of the Largest Cosmic Structure at z~2.47
Creators: name: Huang, Yun
name: Lee, Kyoung-Soo
name: Cucciati, Olga
name: Lemaux, Brian
name: Sawicki, Marcin
name: Malavasi, Nicola
name: Ramakrishnan, Vandana
name: Xue, Rui
name: Cassara, Letizia P.
name: Chiang, Yi-Kuan
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Gwyn, Stephen D. J.
name: Hathi, Nimish
name: Pentericci, Laura
name: Prescott, Moire
name: Zamorani, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery and spectroscopic confirmation of Hyperion, a proto-supercluster at z~2.47, provides an unprecedented opportunity to study distant galaxies in the context of their large-scale environment. We carry out deep narrow-band imaging of a ~1*1 deg^2 region around Hyperion and select 157 Lya emitters (LAEs). The inferred LAE overdensity is delta_g~40 within an effective volume of 30*20*15 cMpc^3, consistent with the fact that Hyperion is composed of multiple protoclusters and will evolve into a super-cluster with a total mass of M_tot ~1.4*10^15 M_sun at z=0. The distribution of LAEs closely mirrors that of known spectroscopic members, tracing the protocluster cores and extended filamentary arms connected to them, suggesting that they trace the same large-scale structure. By cross-correlating the LAE positions with HI tomography data, we find weak evidence that LAEs may be less abundant in the highest HI regions, perhaps because Lya is suppressed in such regions. The Hyperion region hosts a large population of active galactic nuclei (AGN), ~12 times more abundant than that in the field. The prevalence of AGN in protocluster regions hints at the possibility that they may be triggered by physical processes that occur more frequently in dense environments, such as galaxy mergers. Our study demonstrates LAEs as reliable markers of the largest cosmic structures. When combined with ongoing and upcoming imaging and spectroscopic surveys, wide-field narrow-band imaging has the potential to advance our knowledge in the formation and evolution of cosmic structures and of their galaxy inhabitants.
Public Service Interpreting from an Ethical Perspective: professional deontology and its application to the penitentiary setting
Creators: name: Lluís Baixauli-Olmos
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2013
Subjects: community interpreting
dialogue interpretin
prison interpreting
professional deontology
professional ethics
public service interpreting
sociology of professions

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 9, 1, -
Doubly assisted Sauter-Schwinger effect
Creators: name: Torgrimsson, Greger
name: Oertel, Johannes
name: Schützhold, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study electron-positron pair creation by a strong and slowly varying electric field, assisted by a weaker and more rapidly changing field (e.g., in the keV regime) plus an additional high-energy (say MeV) photon. It turns out that this combination can yield a pair creation probability which is exponentially larger than in the case where one (or more) of the three ingredients is missing. Apart from a deeper understanding of these non-perturbative phenomena, this double enhancement may pave the way for an experimental verification of this fundamental prediction.
description: 5 pages. Version 2: reference and figures added
Nonlinear input feature reduction for data-based physical modeling
Creators: name: Beneddine, Samir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work introduces a novel methodology to derive physical scalings for input features from data. The approach developed in this article relies on the maximization of mutual information to derive optimal nonlinear combinations of input features. These combinations are both adapted to physics-related models and interpretable (in a symbolic way). The algorithm is presented in detail, then tested on a synthetic toy model. The results show that our approach can effectively construct relevant combinations by analyzing a strongly noisy nonlinear dataset. These results are promising and may significantly help training data-driven models. Finally, the last part of the paper introduces a way to perform automatic dimensional analysis from data. The test case is a synthetic dataset inspired by the Law of the Wall from turbulent boundary layer theory. Once again, the algorithm shows that it can recover relevant nondimensional variables from data.
Plethystic Vertex Operators and Boson-Fermion Correspondences
Creators: name: Fauser, Bertfried
name: Jarvis, Peter D
name: King, Ronald C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20G05, 22E70, 81T40

description: We study the algebraic properties of plethystic vertex operators, introduced in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 405202 (2010), underlying the structure of symmetric functions associated with certain generalized universal character rings of subgroups of the general linear group, defined to stabilize tensors of Young symmetry type characterized by a partition of arbitrary shape π. Here we establish an extension of the well-known boson-fermion correspondence involving Schur functions and their associated (Bernstein) vertex operators: for each π, the modes generated by the plethystic vertex operators and their suitably constructed duals, satisfy the anticommutation relations of a complex Clifford algebra. The combinatorial manipulations underlying the results involve exchange identities exploiting the Hopf-algebraic structure of certain symmetric function series and their plethysms.
description: 21 pages, LaTeX. Minor typos corrected. Added brief survey of related work and new references
Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia -- IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars
Creators: name: Lemon, C.
name: Anguita, T.
name: Auger, M.
name: Courbin, F.
name: Galan, A.
name: McMahon, R.
name: Neira, F.
name: Oguri, M.
name: Schechter, P.
name: Shajib, A.
name: Treu, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the spectroscopic follow-up of 175 lensed quasar candidates selected using Gaia Data Release 2 observations following Lemon et al. 2019. Systems include 86 confirmed lensed quasars and a further 17 likely lensed quasars based on imaging and/or similar spectra. We also confirm 11 projected quasar pairs and 11 physical quasar pairs, while 25 systems are left as unclassified quasar pairs -- pairs of quasars at the same redshift, which could be either distinct quasars or potential lensed quasars. Especially interesting objects include 8 quadruply imaged quasars of which two have BAL sources, an apparent triple, and a doubly lensed LoBaL quasar. The source redshifts and image separations of these new lenses range between 0.65 - 3.59 and 0.78 - 6.23 arcseconds respectively. We compare the known population of lensed quasars to an updated mock catalogue at image separations between 1 and 4 arcseconds, showing a very good match at z<1.5. At z>1.5, only 47% of the predicted number are known, with 56% of these missing lenses at image separations below 1.5 arcseconds. The missing higher-redshift, small-separation systems will have fainter lensing galaxies, and are partially explained by the unclassified quasar pairs and likely lenses presented in this work, which require deeper imaging. Of the 11 new reported projected quasar pairs, 5 have impact parameters below 10 kpc, almost tripling the number of such systems, which can probe the innermost regions of quasar host galaxies through absorption studies. We also report four new lensed galaxies discovered through our searches, with source redshifts ranging from 0.62 to 2.79.
description: 30 pages, 19 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Predictors of Successful Performance on U.S. Consortium Court Interpreter Certification Exams
Creators: name: Wallace, Melissa
Publisher: name: IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University
Year: 2013
Subjects: abbreviated testing models
bifurcated testing
certification exams
court interpreting
performance assessment

description: New Voices in Translation Studies, 9, 1, -
On the growth of a particle coalescing in a Poisson distribution of obstacles
Creators: name: Nota, Alessia
name: Velázquez, Juan J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the coalescence dynamics of a tagged particle moving in a random distribution of particles with volumes independently distributed according to a probability distribution (CTP model). We provide a rigorous derivation of a kinetic equation for the probability density for the size and position of the tagged particle in the kinetic limit where the volume fraction $ϕ$ filled by the background of particles tends to zero. Moreover, we prove that the particle system, i.e. CTP model, is well posed for a small but positive volume fraction with probability one as long as the the distribution of the particle sizes is compactly supported.
description: 57 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Comparison of different clinical risk scores to predict long-term survival and neurological outcome in adults after cardiac arrest: results from a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Blatter, René
name: Amacher, Simon A.
name: Bohren, Chantal
name: Becker, Christoph
name: Beck, Katharina
name: Gross, Sebastian
name: Tisljar, Kai
name: Sutter, Raoul
name: Marsch, Stephan
name: Hunziker, Sabina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Subgroup analysis. Figure S1. Kaplan Meier survival estimate for the entire cohort. Number at risk for the individual time points are reported. Figure S2. Comparison of ROC curves for the primary outcome 2-year mortality. Figure S3. Calibration plot depicting observed vs. expected numbers of primary outcome (2-year mortality) per decile of risk as predicted by the CAHP score. Figure S4. Calibration plot depicting observed vs. expected numbers of primary outcome (2-year mortality) per decile of risk as predicted by the OHCA score. Figure S5. Calibration plot depicting observed vs. expected numbers of poor neurological outcome at 2 years per decile of risk as predicted by the CAHP score. Figure S6. Calibration plot depicting observed vs. expected numbers of poor neurological outcome at 2 years per decile of risk as predicted by the OHCA score.
Quantitative analysis of boundary layers in periodic homogenization
Creators: name: Armstrong, Scott
name: Kuusi, Tuomo
name: Mourrat, Jean-Christophe
name: Prange, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove quantitative estimates on the rate of convergence for the oscillating Dirichlet problem in periodic homogenization of divergence-form uniformly elliptic systems. The estimates are optimal in dimensions larger than three and new in every dimension. We also prove a regularity estimate on the homogenized boundary condition.
description: 41 pages; updated to comment on results of arXiv:1610.05273
Prevalelence of Tachoma among Children Attending Ketchene Debre-Selam Elementary School in Addis Ababa and a Case-Control Study of Risk Factors in Their Home Environment
Creators: name: Erfo, Desta
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1986

description: A total of 301 randomly selo c tod elumentary scbool chllaren f rDm kG~uuene Th ur cse l oll slsillenGary SChDOl A,ddis ilba oa , Nu L'0 tlAaflHhJ for Gr a CiJooa in June - July, 1986 , and a motcllud case-control st udy was carried out ~o taSG ~~U JsSO Cia~lon D~~uo~n the occurrance of GraC!1lJma and somu i'isk faco Drs i n the home environmutlt of the: studUIlIiS . Casas wuru all tboso !;I;t ud81lts dia ~ llosucJ to Ui?VO aotivu traohoma , match ~ d with tlOn-tr8ouomatous s Gud Qn~s Dy aso , sox, and ,j r vdo . Thul'o ,7as no sic nificant d i ff ~ r c ncu ill tba [JruvCllenco fat o ~ f traclloma bll t l/Utlll males illl0 fomal os ilmOtlG thu stud'lnts . How
Development towards Improved Respiratory Protective Equipment to resolve problems with industry standard following the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: James, Lauren
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2027

description: There are various environmental, ergonomic, and social issues surrounding currently used respiratory protective equipment (RPE). Most medical grade respirators are currently single use and are either incinerated releasing CO2 into the atmosphere or end up in landfill taking approximately 450 years to degrade. Additionally, many healthcare workers have reported pressure induced discomfort on the nose and cheeks due to donning RPE for prolonged periods, whilst some struggle to find a respirator which fits their face and have to rely on heavy and expensive powered air purifying respirators. Current RPE also acts as a physical barrier obstructing non-verbal communication. This research considered methods to address the identified issues using a combination of reverse engineering, additive manufacturing, and material science. A LiDAR scanner was used to assess the facial topology of the user. This information was then used to generate a computerised three-dimensional (3D) model of a respirator which is complementary to the user’s facial topology. An extensive literature review spotlighted potential biopolymer materials which show suitable characteristics for use in creating a respirator body that is both transparent and fully degradable under domestic composting conditions. Protocols for testing the transparent materials for their suitability were drawn up and testing of some of the materials and protocols were carried out.
Generic instabilities of non-singular cosmologies in Horndeski theory: a no-go theorem
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Tsutomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The null energy condition can be violated stably in generalized Galileon theories, which gives rise to the possibilities of healthy non-singular cosmologies. However, it has been reported that in many cases cosmological solutions are plagued with instabilities or have some pathologies somewhere in the whole history of the universe. Recently, this was shown to be generically true in a certain subclass of the Horndeski theory. In this short paper, we extend this no-go argument to the full Horndeski theory, and show that non-singular models (with flat spatial sections) in general suffer either from gradient instabilities or some kind of pathology in the tensor sector. This implies that one must go beyond the Horndeski theory to implement healthy non-singular cosmologies.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added
Bayesian analysis of linear models : univariate and multivariate aspects
Creators: name: Williams, Kenneth George.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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A halo of trapped interstellar matter surrounding the solar system
Creators: name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper shows that gravitating bodies travelling through the Galaxy can trap lighter interstellar particles that pass nearby with small relative velocities onto temporarily-bound orbits. The capture mechanism is driven by the Galactic tidal field, which can decelerate infalling objects to a degree where their binding energy becomes negative. Over time, trapped particles build a local overdensity -- or `halo'-- that reaches a steady state as the number of particles being captured equals that being tidally stripped. This paper uses classical stochastic techniques to calculate the capture rate and the phase-space distribution of particles trapped by a point-mass. In a steady state, bound particles generate a density enhancement that scales as $δ(r)\sim r^{-3/2}$ (a.k.a `density spike') and follow a velocity dispersion profile $σ_h(r)\sim r^{-1/2}$. Collisionless $N$-body experiments show excellent agreement with these theoretical predictions within a distance range $r\gtrsim r_ε$, where $r_ε\simeq 0.8\,\exp[-V_\star^2/(2σ^2)]\,Gm_\star/σ^2$ is the thermal critical radius of a point-mass $m_\star$ moving with a speed $V_\star$ through a sea of particles with a velocity dispersion $σ$. Preliminary estimates that ignore collisions with planets and Galactic substructures suggest that the solar system may be surrounded by a halo that contains the order of $N^{\rm ISO}(<0.1\,{\rm pc})\sim 10^7$ energetically-bound 'Oumuamua-like objects, and a dark matter mass of $M^{\rm DM}(<0.1\,{\rm pc})\sim 10^{-13}M_\odot$. The presence of trapped interstellar matter in the solar system can affect current estimates on the size of the Oort Cloud, and leave a distinct signal in direct dark matter detection experiments.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
Recent progress on CP violation in $K\to ππ$ decays in the SM and a supersymmetric solution
Creators: name: Kitahara, Teppei
name: Nierste, Ulrich
name: Tremper, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the recent first lattice results of the RBC-UKQCD collaboration for $K \to ππ$ decays, we perform a phenomenological analysis of $ε_K^{\prime}/ε_K$ and find a discrepancy between SM prediction and experiments by $\sim 3\,σ$. We discuss an explanation by new physics. The well-understood value of $ε_K$, which quantifies indirect $CP$ violation, however, typically prevents large new physics contributions to $ε_K^{\prime}/ε_K$. In this talk, we show a solution of the $ε_K^{\prime}/ε_K$ discrepancy in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with squark masses above 3 TeV without fine-tuning of $CP$ phases. In this solution, the Trojan penguin diagram gives large isospin-breaking contributions which enhance $ε_K^{\prime}$, while the contribution to $ε_K$ is suppressed thanks to the Majorana nature of gluinos.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; Contribution to proceedings of KAON 2016 conference, Birmingham, UK, 14-17 September 2016
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Acute Lower RespiRatory Infection among under Five Children, Yeka Sub City, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wogderes, Bashaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Acute lower respiratory tract infections in developing countries cause considerable morbidity, hospitalization and mortality in children aged under five years. In Ethiopia acute respiratory infection is the leading causes of under-five mortality which accounts for 18% of total death among under five children. Objective:To assess risk factors associated with acute lower respiratory infection among under five children in Yeka sub city, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Methods: community based cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample size of 447. Data was collected by interview, entered to EPI data version 3.1, and was exported to SPSS version 22 for analysis. Descriptive statistics using frequencies, proportion and tables were used to present the study results. Binary logistic regression analysis was employed to see association between acute lower respiratory infection and different risk factors. To evaluate the association and adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval were computed. Results: The prevalence of acute lower respiratory tract infection was 4.6%. Evidence from this study also showed that house hold with window (AOR=0.2, 95% CI: 0.1-0.6, p-value=0.002) and family size of less than five children (AOR=0.1, 95% CI: 0.01-0.6, p-value=0.01) were preventive risk factors. Conclusions and recommendations: The prevalence of acute lower respiratory infection was low. This study has demonstrated that the preventive factors for acute lower respiratory infection were maternal education to primary or secondary level, household with window and less than five children in the household. These risk factors can be modified by encouraging and increasing community awareness for child spacing and increase and promote female education.
Design of an achromatic zoom metalens doublet in the visible
Creators: name: Hu, Tie
name: Feng, Xing
name: Wei, Yuanxuan
name: Wang, Shengqi
name: Wei, Yuhong
name: Yang, Zhenyu
name: Zhao, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zoom metalens doublet exhibits unprecedented advantages over the traditional zoom lens in many aspects, like ultra-compactness, CMOS compatibility, and miniaturization. However, most of them can only work in a narrow band due to chromatic aberration. Here, we numerically demonstrate a broadband achromatic zoom metalens doublet inspired by the Moiré lens principle. This design is achieved by globally optimizing the multi-wavelength phase profiles of the metalens doublet in the visible. The doublet can achieve achromatic continuous 1-10 zoom range at wavelengths of 440 nm, 540 nm, and 640 nm, featuring high focusing efficiency up to 86.5% and polarization insensitivity.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Matchmaker: A Toolkit for Combining Satellite Observations from Multiple Sensors
Creators: name: Quinn, Greg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Matchmaker constructs multi-sensor datasets that enable scientists to directly compare observations for validation or monitoring purposes, or to fuse measurements from complementary instruments to improve geophysical understanding. Matchmaker leverages SciPy ecosystem tools to perform each of its primary tasks: orbital simulation, geometric collocation of individual observations, and alignment / aggregation of sensor data arrays.
Additional file 1 of Competition-cooperation in the chemoautotrophic ecosystem of Movile Cave: first metagenomic approach on sediments
Creators: name: Chiciudean, Iulia
name: Russo, Giancarlo
name: Bogdan, Diana Felicia
name: Levei, Erika Andrea
name: Faur, Luchiana
name: Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Alexandra
name: Moldovan, Oana Teodora
name: Banciu, Horia Leonard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Fig. S1 The display of sediment samples collected from Movile Cave. Photographic images of the sediments.
Mercuration of polychlorobenzenes
Creators: name: Taylor, Brian Samuel Francis.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Predictors of cervical cancer screening practice among hiv-positive women attending adult antiretroviral clinics, Bishoftu, Ethiopia: the application of health belief model
Creators: name: Solomon, Kalkidan
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Background: Cervical cancer is a global public health problem. In Ethiopia, it is the second most common cancer causing morbidity and mortality. Few available evidences revealed that despite distribution and severity of cervical cancer among HIV-positive women and the ease at which it could be prevented, cervical cancer screening practice in Ethiopia among HIV positive women is considerably low. Therefore this study aims to assess predictors of cervical cancer screening practice among HIV positive women by applying health belief model concepts. Method: Facility based cross-sectional study was conducted at health facilities in Bishoftu. Data were collected from 475 women who came to health facilities for antiretroviral services. Iinterviewer administered questionnaires were employed to collect data. Frequencies, proportion, measures of central tendency and dispersion were used to describe findings. Independent sample t-test was used to determine whether mean differences existed between perceptions of HIV-positive women who had ever screened and never screened for cervical cancer. Crude odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were considered to measure associations for each variable with the cervical cancer screening practice. Multivariable logistic regression was run to identify predictors of cervical cancer screening practice by controlling possible confounders. Result: Cervical cancer screening practice among HIV-positive women in this study was 25%. Health proffesionals were the main source of information about cervical cancer and its screening. There was a difference between the ever and never screened groups in mean scores of their perceived severity, perceived benefit, perceived barrier, perceived self-efficacy, perceived threat and net-benefit towards screening (P < 0.05). Perceived self-efficacy (AOR 1.24, 95%CI 1.13-1.37), perceived threat (AOR 1.08, 95%CI 1.05-1.12) and perceived net-benefit (AOR 1.18, 95% CI 1.12, 1.24) were the predictors of cervical cancer screening practice. Percieved self-efficacy was the major predictor of cervical screening practice. Conclusion and recommendation: The low screening level and significant association of HIV-positive women's perceptions toward cervical cancer screening identified in this study indicated that much work needs to be done on changing of their perceptions by responsible bodies such as health care providers, organizations working on female cancer and researchers.
Optimal tests of genuine multipartite nonlocality
Creators: name: Pandit, Mahasweta
name: Barasinski, Artur
name: Marton, Istvan
name: Vertesi, Tamas
name: Laskowski, Wieslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an optimal numerical test for genuine multipartite nonlocality based on linear programming. In particular, we consider two non-equivalent models of local hidden variables, namely the Svetlichny and the no-signaling bilocal model. While our knowledge concerning these models is well established for Bell scenarios involving two measurement settings per party, the general case based on an arbitrary number of settings is a considerably more challenging task and very little work has been done in this field. In this paper, we applied such general tests to detect and characterize genuine $n$-way nonlocal correlations for various states of three qubits and qutrits. As a measure of nonlocality, we use the probability of violation of local realism under randomly sampled observables, and the strength of nonlocality, described by the resistance to white noise admixture. In particular, we analyze to what extent the Bell scenario involving two measurement settings can be used to determine genuine $n$-way non-local correlations generated for more general models. In addition, we propose a simple procedure to detect genuine multipartite nonlocality for randomly chosen settings with up to 100% efficiency.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Gradient-driven diffusion and pattern formation in crowded mixtures
Creators: name: Nandigrami, Prithviraj
name: Grove, Brandy
name: Konya, Andrew
name: Selinger, Robin L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gradient-driven diffusion in crowded, multicomponent mixtures is a topic of high interest because of its role in biological processes such as transport in cell membranes. In partially phase-separated solutions, gradient-driven diffusion affects microstructure, which in turn affects diffusivity; a key question is how this complex coupling controls both transport and pattern formation. To examine these mechanisms, we study a two-dimensional multi-component lattice gas model, where "tracer" molecules diffuse between a source and a sink separated by a solution of sticky "crowder" molecules that cluster to form dynamically evolving obstacles. In the high temperature limit, crowders and tracers are miscible and transport may be predicted analytically. At intermediate temperatures, crowders phase separate into clusters that drift toward the tracer sink. As a result, steady-state tracer diffusivity depends non-monotonically on both temperature and crowder density and we observe a variety of complex microstructures. In the low temperature limit, crowders rapidly aggregate to form obstacles that are kinetically arrested; if crowder density is near the percolation threshold, resulting tracer diffusivity shows scaling behavior with the same scaling exponent as the random resistor network model. Though highly idealized, this simple model reveals fundamental mechanisms governing coupled gradient-driven diffusion, phase separation, and microstructural evolution in crowded solutions.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Generalised Boundary Terms for Higher Derivative Theories of Gravity
Creators: name: Teimouri, Ali
name: Talaganis, Spyridon
name: Edholm, James
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we wish to find the corresponding Gibbons-Hawking-York term for the most general quadratic in curvature gravity by using Coframe slicing within the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) decomposition of spacetime in four dimensions. In order to make sure that the higher derivative gravity is ghost and tachyon free at a perturbative level, one requires infinite covariant derivatives, which yields a generalised covariant infinite derivative theory of gravity. We will be exploring the boundary term for such a covariant infinite derivative theory of gravity.
description: 37 pages
Radiative detection of nuclear magnetic resonance at low temperatures [microform]
Creators: name: Stewart, Glen Alan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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El principal desafío a superar, según los estudiantes, en el trabajo en equipo
Creators: name: Fidalgo-Blanco, Ángel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Trabajo en equipo
CTMTC
Barreras

description: La formación de la competencia de trabajo en equipo es una de las más demandadas en el mundo laborar, y al mismo tiempo, una herramienta eficaz para promover el aprendizaje entre iguales, fomentar valores cooperativos y profundizar en aspectos específicos de una materia. Para lograr una formación exitosa de la competencia, es esencial conocer las barreras que implica su aplicación. En este trabajo nos centraremos en el obstáculo más importante identificada por el alumnado que ha realizado trabajo en equipo. Este trabajo se basa en investigaciones realizadas por académicos de tres universidades: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Ángel Fidalgo Blanco), Universidad de Zaragoza (María Luisa Sein-Echalue Lacleta) y Universidad de Salamanca (Francisco José García Peñalvo) El propósito de este trabajo es doble. En primer lugar, divulgar una característica concreta sobre el trabajo en equipo que se debe tener en cuenta para poder aplicarla con eficacia. En segundo lugar, proporcionar bases científicas que sirvan para complementar la información divulgativa anterior.
Additional file 2 of Competition-cooperation in the chemoautotrophic ecosystem of Movile Cave: first metagenomic approach on sediments
Creators: name: Chiciudean, Iulia
name: Russo, Giancarlo
name: Bogdan, Diana Felicia
name: Levei, Erika Andrea
name: Faur, Luchiana
name: Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Alexandra
name: Moldovan, Oana Teodora
name: Banciu, Horia Leonard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Table S1 Minimal media composition used in the reconstruction of metaGEMs and community simulations. Minimal compounds (primarily inorganic) that may be in the inorganic environment or can result from microbial metabolic traits (e.g., sulfur and nitrogen oxidation/reduction, CO2 fixation, methanotrophy) previously shown in Movile Cave environment. The compound name and abbreviation are in accordance with the BIGG database (http://bigg.ucsd.edu/ ). Table S2 Metagenome scale metabolic models (metaGEMs) reconstruction and community simulation parameters, results generated and used in this study. Table S3 Codes used for CarveMe v.1.5.1 [41] metabolic model reconstructions (metaGEMs) and SMETANA v.1.1.0 [43] community simulations.
Resonant interaction of $ϕ^4$ kink with spatially periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric perturbation
Creators: name: Saadatmand, Danial
name: Borisov, Denis I.
name: Kevrekidis, Panayotis G.
name: Zhou, Kun
name: Dmitriev, Sergey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resonant interaction of the $ϕ^4$ kink with a periodic $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric perturbation is observed in the frame of the continuum model and with the help of a two degree of freedom collective variable model derived in PRA 89, 010102(R). When the kink interacts with the perturbation, the kink's internal mode is excited with the amplitude varying in time quasiperiodically. The maximal value of the amplitude was found to grow when the kink velocity is such that it travels one period of perturbation is nearly one period of the kink's internal mode. It is also found that the kink's translational and vibrational modes are coupled in a way that an increase in the kink's internal mode amplitude results in a decrease in kink velocity. The results obtained with the collective variable method are in a good qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations for the continuum model. The results of the present study suggest that kink dynamics in open systems with balanced gain and loss can have new features in comparison with the case of conservative systems.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
A Southern Photometric Quasar Catalog from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2
Creators: name: Yang, Qian
name: Shen, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of 1.4 million photometrically-selected quasar candidates in the southern hemisphere over the $\sim 5000\,{\rm deg^2}$ Dark Energy Survey (DES) wide survey area. We combine optical photometry from the DES second data release (DR2) with available near-infrared (NIR) and the all-sky unWISE mid-infrared photometry in the selection. We build models of quasars, galaxies, and stars with multivariate Skew-t distributions in the multi-dimensional space of relative fluxes as functions of redshift (or color for stars) and magnitude. Our selection algorithm assigns probabilities for quasars, galaxies, and stars, and simultaneously calculates photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) for quasar and galaxy candidates. Benchmarking on spectroscopically confirmed objects, we successfully classify (with photometry) 94.7% of quasars, 99.3% of galaxies, and 96.3% of stars when all IR bands (NIR $YJHK$ and WISE $W1W2$) are available. The classification and photo-$z$ regression success rates decrease when fewer bands are available. Our quasar (galaxy) photo-$z$ quality, defined as the fraction of objects with the difference between the photo-$z$ $z_p$ and the spectroscopic redshift $z_s$, $|Δz| = |z_s - z_p|/(1 + z_s)\le 0.1$, is 92.2% (98.1%) when all IR bands are available, decreasing to 72.2% (90.0%) using optical DES data only. Our photometric quasar catalog achieves estimated completeness of 89% and purity of 79% at $r<21.5$ (0.68 million quasar candidates), with reduced completeness and purity at $21.5
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in ApJS. We added a section and Fig. 10 to compare with Gaia low-resolution spectral redshifts. The catalogs can be downloaded from http://quasar.astro.illinois.edu/paper_data/DES_QSO/
Trail-Needs pseudopotentials in quantum Monte Carlo calculations with plane-wave/blip basis sets
Creators: name: Drummond, N. D.
name: Trail, J. R.
name: Needs, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a systematic analysis of the performance of a widely used set of Dirac-Fock pseudopotentials for quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations. We study each atom in the periodic table from hydrogen (Z=1) to mercury (Z=80), with the exception of the 4f elements (57 <= Z <= 70). We demonstrate that ghost states are a potentially serious problem when plane-wave basis sets are used in density functional theory (DFT) orbital-generation calculations, but that this problem can be almost entirely eliminated by choosing the s channel to be local in the DFT calculation; the d channel can then be chosen to be local in subsequent QMC calculations, which generally leads to more accurate results. We investigate the achievable energy variance per electron with different levels of trial wave function and we determine appropriate plane-wave cutoff energies for DFT calculations for each pseudopotential. We demonstrate that the so-called "T-move" scheme in diffusion Monte Carlo is essential for many elements. We investigate the optimal choice of spherical integration rule for pseudopotential projectors in QMC calculations. The information reported here will prove crucial in the planning and execution of QMC projects involving beyond-first-row elements.
International Cooperation; EURAD Domain Insight 1.3.3
Creators: name: Andersson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Knowledge
Technology
International experience
International organisations
Advisory groups
Secondments
Collaborative research
Generic underground facilities
Technology transfer
Competence maintenance
Training courses
Multinational repositories
Consultancy services

description: The roadmap describes typical programme goals, activities and capabilities needed against 7 themes, which are each further broken down into sub-themes and domains in what we can call the Goals Breakdown Structure (GBS). This document provides the overall goal for the International Cooperation (Use the knowledge, technology and experience gained internationally and co-develop RD+D where possible to improve and consolidate confidence in the scientific and technical data base, to help reduce risks to successful programme implementation and to avoid unnecessary costs), extracted from the EURAD Roadmap goals breakdown structure (GBS). This is supplemented by typical activities, according to phases of implementation, needed to achieve the domain goal. Activities are generic and are common to most regional and geological disposal programmes.
description: Reviewers: Astrid Göbel, Stefan Mayer, Robert Winsley
Kinetics, stoichiomety and mechanism of aqueous iodination of indole and tryptophan
Creators: name: Meschers, Aviva.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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SWAG Newsletter, Vol. 10, No. 08 (December, 1983)
Creators: name: Group, Victoria Status Of Women Action
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176568
subject: Feminism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922671
subject: Women's rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1178818
subject: Women--Societies and clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176970
subject: Sex discrimination against women
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1114376
subject: Women--Employment--Law and legislation
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176724
subject: Women--Economic conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176665
subject: Women--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176947
subject: Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1176824

description: The Victoria chapter of the Status of Women Action Group (SWAG) was formed in 1971 in response to the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. SWAG is a feminist organization that promotes economic, political and social equality and freedom for women. It is a non-profit society with several committees working on specific issues of concern to women. The group is an active member of the BC and Yukon Association of Women's Centres and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.