cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. leaves alleviate adjuvant-induced rheumatoid arthritis in rats via modulating the finest disease targets - IL2RA, IL18 and VEGFA
Creators: name: Lakshmanan, Dinesh Kumar
name: Murugesan, Selvakumar
name: Rajendran, Sasikala
name: Ravichandran, Guna
name: Elangovan, Abbirami
name: Raju, Karthik
name: Prathiviraj, Ragothaman
name: Pandiyan, Ramya
name: Thilagar, Sivasudha
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Brassica juncea (BJ) is a familiar edible crop, which has been used as a dietary ingredient and to prepare anti-inflammatory/anti-arthritic formulations in Ayurveda. But, the scientific validation or confirmation of its therapeutic properties is very limited. This study was performed to determine the efficiency of BJ leaves for the treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis using in vivo and in silico systems. Standard in vitro procedures was followed to study the total phenolic, flavonoid contents and free radical scavenging ability of the extracts of BJ. The effective extract was screened and the presence of bioactive chemicals was studied using HPLC. Further, the possible therapeutic actions of the BJ active principles against the disease targets were studied using PPI networking and docking analysis. IL2RA, IL18 and VEGFA are found to be the potential RA target and the compounds detected from BJ extract have shown great binding efficiency towards the target from molecular docking study. The resulting complexes were then subject to 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation studies with the GROMACS package to analyze the stability of docked protein-ligand complexes and to assess the fluctuation and conformational changes during protein-ligand interactions. To confirm the anti-arthritic activity of BJ, the extract was tested in CFA-induced arthritic Wistar rats. The test groups administered with BJ extract showed retrieval of altered hematological parameters and substantial recovery from inflammation and degeneration of rat hind paw. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Additional file 1 of Systems resilience in the implementation of a large-scale suicide prevention intervention: a qualitative study using a multilevel theoretical approach
Creators: name: Ellis, Louise A
name: Zurynski, Yvonne
name: Long, Janet C
name: Clay-Williams, Robyn
name: Ree, Eline
name: Sarkies, Mitchell
name: Churruca, Kate
name: Shand, Fiona
name: Pomare, Chiara
name: Saba, Maree
name: Haraldseid-Driftland, Cecilie
name: Braithwaite, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

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title: How not to Reduce Commission Rates of Real Estate Agents: Evidence From Germany
Creators: name: Stoll, Julius
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2023

description: This paper studies a recent legal reform in Germany, which aims to lower commission rates of real estate agents by raising the cost salience of sellers. I find that the reform has backfired and real estate agents have exploited the transition to increase their commission rates. The findings document that in some regions real estate agents increase their commission by up to 2 percentage points, adding over € 6,000 in transaction cost to the average home sale. As explicit collusion is unlikely in this setting, I argue that this arbitrary increase points to seller ignorance instead. To verify if and why sellers fail to induce price competition, I run a pre-registered survey experiment with 1,062 real estate agents. Although commission rates should be negotiated independently for each sale, the survey confirms that 85% of sellers do not attempt to negotiate lower commission rates. The randomized experimental questions suggest that real estate agents may cater to the low willingness of sellers to negotiate by providing misleading reference commission rates and shrouding the economic incidence for sellers.
A visual language and environment for representing the execution of concurrent object-oriented software
Creators: name: Leroux., Hugo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Deterministic strong-field quantum control
Creators: name: Cavaletto, Stefano M.
name: Harman, Zoltán
name: Pfeifer, Thomas
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong-field quantum-state control is investigated, taking advantage of the full---amplitude and phase---characterization of the interaction between matter and intense ultrashort pulses via transient-absorption spectroscopy. A sequence of intense delayed pulses is used, whose parameters are tailored to steer the system into a desired quantum state. We show how to experimentally enable this optimization by retrieving all quantum features of the light-matter interaction from observable spectra. This provides a full characterization of the action of strong fields on the atomic system, including the dependence upon possibly unknown pulse properties and atomic structures. Precision and robustness of the scheme are tested, in the presence of surrounding atomic levels influencing the system's dynamics.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Pro-tumorigenic role of lnc-ZNF30-3 as a sponge counteracting miR-145-5p in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Le Hars, Matthieu
name: Castro-Vega, Luis Jaime
name: Rajabi, Fatemeh
name: Tabatadze, David
name: Romero, Martha
name: Pinskaya, Marina
name: Groisman, Irina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
A STUDY ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS WITH REFERENCE TO PADMAVAHINI TRANSFORMERS PVT LTD
Creators: name: Dr. Prem Anand*, Aalaya K** & Niketha N**
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study aims to analyze the financial performance of Padmavahini Transformers Pvt Ltd. to assess the company's financial health and identify key areas for improvement. The method employed involves a detailed financial analysis using key financial ratios, including profitability, liquidity, solvency, and efficiency ratios, derived from the company's financial statements over a specified period. The results reveal a stable financial performance in terms of profitability and liquidity, with consistent growth in revenues and assets. However, certain areas related to debt management and operating efficiency require attention, as indicated by the solvency and efficiency ratios. The conclusion suggests that while the company demonstrates a strong financial position overall, strategic adjustments in cost control and debt management could enhance its future stability and growth. Key recommendations include improving operational efficiency, managing debt more effectively, and diversifying investment avenues to ensure long-term sustainability.
Role of the transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) bound magnesium ions in the charging step of aminoacylation reaction in the glutamyl tRNA synthetase and the seryl tRNA synthetase bound with cognate tRNA
Creators: name: Saha, Amrita
name: Nandi, Nilashis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: Aminoacylation reaction is the first step of protein biosynthesis. Transfer RNA (tRNA) is charged with an amino acid in this reaction and the reaction is catalyzed by aminoacyl tRNA synthetase enzyme (aaRS). In the present work, we use classical molecular dynamics simulation to show that the tRNA bound Mg2+ ions significantly influence the charging step of class I TtGluRS: Glu-AMP: tRNAGlu and class II dimeric TtSerRS: Ser-AMP: tRNASer. The CCA end of the acceptor terminal is disordered in the absence of coordinated Mg2+ ions and the CCA end can freely explore beyond the specific conformational space of the tRNA in its precharging state. A balance between the conformational disorder of the tRNA and the restriction imposed on the CCA terminal via coordination with the Mg2+ ions is needed for the placement of the CCA terminal in a precharging state organization. This result provides a molecular-level explanation of the experimental observation that the presence of Mg2+ ions is a necessary condition for a successful aminoacylation reaction. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Dynamic nuclear polarization and relaxation of H and D atoms in solid mixtures of hydrogen isotopes
Creators: name: Sheludiakov, S.
name: Ahokas, J.
name: Järvinen, J.
name: Vainio, O.
name: Lehtonen, L.
name: Vasiliev, S.
name: Lee, D. M.
name: Khmelenko, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a study of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and electron and nuclear spin relaxation of atomic hydrogen and deuterium in solid molecular matrices of H$_{2}$, D$_{2}$, and HD mixtures. The electron and nuclear spin relaxation times ($T_{1e}$ and $T_{1N}$) were measured within the temperature range 0.15-2.5$\,$K in a magnetic field of 4.6 T, conditions which ensure a high polarization of electron spins. We found that $T_{1e}$ is nearly temperature independent in this temperature range, while $T_{1N}$ decreased by 2 orders of magnitude. Such strong temperature dependence is typical for the nuclear Orbach mechanism of relaxation via the electron spins. We found that the nuclear spins of H atoms in solid D$_{2}$ and D$_{2}:$HD can be efficiently polarized by the Overhauser effect. Pumping the forbidden transitions of H atoms also leads to DNP, with the efficiency strongly dependent on the concentration of D atoms. This behaviour indicates the Cross effect mechanism of the DNP and nuclear relaxation, which turns out to be well resolved in the conditions of our experiments. Efficient DNP of H atoms was also observed when pumping the middle D line located in center of the ESR spectrum. This phenomenon can be explained in terms of clusters or pairs of H atoms with strong exchange interaction. These clusters have partially allowed transitions in the center of the ESR spectrum and DNP may be created via the resolved Cross effect.
Perception based quality measure for image compression and transmission
Creators: name: Le Phu Dung.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Anmeldungs-Buch
Creators: name: Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education--Curricula
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902556
subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Universities and colleges
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1161597

description: Enrollment booklet listing courses taken by Siegfried Preuss at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms-University of Breslau. Front of booklet mentions he was born on 02 March 1912 and registered on 10 April 1930.
Socio-economic Factors behind HIV Prevalence and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Teklea, Melaku
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2008

description: This study analyzes the socioeconomic factors behind HIV prevalence and risky sexual behaviors using the 2000 and 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys. The study also examines changes in risky sexual behaviors occurred between the two surveys. Econometric models used in the study include Heckman Probit model for HIV prevalence, Proportional Hazard model for age at first intercourse, and Probit model for condom use and number of sexual partners. According to the results of Heckman Probit model, Women who attend higher education are at lower risk of HIV infection, whereas those who attend primary education are at higher risk. However, education appears to have insignificant effect for men's HIV infection. On the other hand, wealth has a protective effect against HIV for men, whereas women of highest wealth quintile are at higher risk of HIV infection. Marriage for women and urban residence for both sexes consistently predicts higher HIV prevalence. With regard to the effect of education and wealth on risky sexual behaviors, both factors are associated with lower risky behaviors and the protective effects of these factors are more apparent in 2005 data. The exception to this fact is that education increases hazard rate of early sexual initiation for males in both survey data. Marriage and urban residence significantly increase risky behaviors, with exceptions that marriage reduces multiple partnerships and urban residence increases the probability of condom use. Changes in sexual behaviors are more pronounced among men than women. Compared to the earlier survey (2000), men have experienced later age at first sex, lower probability of multiple partners and higher probability of condom use in the later survey (2005). With exception of lower probability of multiple partners, women, however, exhibited earlier sexual initiation in 2005 than in 2000. Hence, the study assures that there are still opportunities to reduce HIV prevalence by devising policies which promote behavioral changes among women and the poor and illiterate society.
Low-dimensional hybrid models for content-based image retrieval
Creators: name: Kulkarni., Santosh
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Additional file 1 of Knee osteoarthritis patient perspectives of their care in an australian private physiotherapy setting: a qualitative exploratory interview study
Creators: name: Thom, Jeanette M
name: Dennis, Sarah
name: Gibson, Kathryn A
name: Livings, Rebecca
name: Mills, Kathryn
name: Schabrun, Siobhan M
name: Sun, Hans
name: Naylor, Justine M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Computational study to evaluate the potency of phytochemicals in Boerhavia diffusa and the impact of point mutation on cyclin-dependent kinase 2-associated protein 1
Creators: name: Sahu, Satya Narayan
name: Satpathy, Sneha Shriparna
name: Mohanty, Chandana
name: Pattanayak, Subrat Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: A protein's function is closely related to its structural properties. Mutations can affect the functionality of a protein. Different cancer tissues have found disordered expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase 2-associated Protein 1 (CDK2AP1) gene. A protein molecule's conformational flexibility affects its interaction with phytochemicals and their biological partners at various levels. Boerhavia diffusa has been investigated most extensively for its medicinal activities like anticancer properties. It contains many bioactive compounds like Boeravinone A, Boeravinone B, Boeravinone C, Boeravinone D, Boeravinone E, Boeravinone F, Boeravinone G, Boeravinone H, Boeravinone I and Boeravinone J. We have studied to analyse the binding efficacy properties as well as essential dynamic behaviour, free energy landscape of both the native and mutant protein CDK2AP1 with bioactive compounds from Boerhavia diffusa plant extracts through computational approaches by homology modelling, docking and molecular dynamics simulation. From the molecular docking study, we found that. Boeravinone J have best binding affinity (–7.9 kcal/mol) towards the native protein of CDKAP1 compared to others phytochemicals. However, we found the binding energy for H23R and C105R (mutation point) −7.8 and −7.6 kcal/mol, respectively. A single minima energy point (from 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation study) was found in the H23R mutant with Boeravinone J complex suggested that minimum structural changes with less conformational mobility compared C105A mutant model. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
A hybrid model for delivering Internet-based distributed data mining services
Creators: name: Krishnaswamy., Shonali
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes for Continuous-Time Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Fearnhead, Paul
name: Bierkens, Joris
name: Pollock, Murray
name: Roberts, Gareth O
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently there have been exciting developments in Monte Carlo methods, with the development of new MCMC and sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) algorithms which are based on continuous-time, rather than discrete-time, Markov processes. This has led to some fundamentally new Monte Carlo algorithms which can be used to sample from, say, a posterior distribution. Interestingly, continuous-time algorithms seem particularly well suited to Bayesian analysis in big-data settings as they need only access a small sub-set of data points at each iteration, and yet are still guaranteed to target the true posterior distribution. Whilst continuous-time MCMC and SMC methods have been developed independently we show here that they are related by the fact that both involve simulating a piecewise deterministic Markov process. Furthermore we show that the methods developed to date are just specific cases of a potentially much wider class of continuous-time Monte Carlo algorithms. We give an informal introduction to piecewise deterministic Markov processes, covering the aspects relevant to these new Monte Carlo algorithms, with a view to making the development of new continuous-time Monte Carlo more accessible. We focus on how and why sub-sampling ideas can be used with these algorithms, and aim to give insight into how these new algorithms can be implemented, and what are some of the issues that affect their efficiency.
K. W. G. [Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium]
Creators: name: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Osterode In Ostpreussen, Germany)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/902499
subject: Academic achievement
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/794949
subject: Preuss, Siegfried
subject: Grading and marking (Students)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/945795

description: Report card booklet from Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium with courses and grades from 1921 - 1929.
The Relations between Cardinal Number Knowledge and Quantifier Comprehension
Creators: name: Yang, Meiling
name: Wang, Yunqi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: How does linguistic structure affect children’s developing cardinal number knowledge? The bootstrapping theory proposes that children might use syntactic information provided by known words such as quantifiers to bootstrap the meanings of unfamiliar words such as number words. Prior studies of numeral and quantifier development have indicated that the bootstrapping mechanism that children can use to discover numeral meanings might work differently in different languages. Nevertheless, support for this conclusion remains preliminary. The present study explored this hypothesis through an investigation of the possible relations between cardinal number knowledge and quantifier comprehension in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children. Notably, in contrast with previous studies, this study also offered a glimpse into children’s receptive vocabulary development and its relation with cardinal number knowledge and quantifier comprehension. Results showed that cardinal number knowledge did not seem to be correlated with quantifier comprehension (both “exact” and “non-exact” quantifiers) when controlling for such covariates as children’s age, gender, parent education, and family income. Moreover, children’s receptive vocabulary size explained a significant amount of variance in their quantifier knowledge over and above children’s age, gender, parent education, and family income, but not in their cardinal number development over and above these covariates. These results provide further evidence for the hypothesis that while the bootstrapping mechanism may facilitate number word learning in children speaking languages like English, it might play a lesser role in children speaking classifier languages such as Mandarin Chinese. Implications for the role that general receptive vocabulary plays in the acquisition of number words and quantifiers are also discussed.
Capital Mobility: Theory and Evidence For Sub-Saharan African Countries
Creators: name: Gurmessa, Nemera
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: In this paper the researcher is primarily concerned with assessing the degree of capital mobility in Sub-Saharan African countries. By applying the methodology as proposed by Feldstein and Horioka (1980), later termed the "Feldstein- Hoioka puzzle", the researcher tests the hypothesis of perfect capital mobility against the alternative of imperfect capital mobility. The provision is made in this model to show the dependency of the lesser developed Sub-Saharan African countries on international finance and aid and how a more open economy contributes towards improving the level of capital movement in these countries. The researcher also assess the change in the degree of capital mobility over the time period in an effort to test whether institutional and political changes have been successful or not. Stationary panel data estimation techniques are applied for the sample of 25 Sub-Saharan African countries over the time period 1988-2003. The benefits of using one-way error component models are derived from simultaneously by employing time and cross-section dimensions of the data, resulting in a substantial increase in the degrees of freedom. The fixed and random effects models enable us to acknowledge country heterogeneity within the panel, making provision for differences across countries like capital control policies, financial and capital market structures and exchange rate regimes.
Integrated support vector machine and pharmacophore based virtual screening driven identification of thiophene carboxamide scaffold containing compound as potential PARP1 inhibitor
Creators: name: Singh, Maninder
name: Rajawat, Jyotika
name: Kuldeep, Jitendra
name: Shukla, Nidhi
name: Mishra, Durga Prasad
name: Siddiqi, Mohammad Imran
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP1) inhibition strategy for cancer treatment is gaining advantage particularly in patients having a mutation in BRCA1/BRCA2 gene. To date, four drugs have obtained FDA approval and some inhibitors are in clinical trials. To identify more potent PARP1 inhibitors extensive research is going on to enrich the library of PARP1 inhibitors with compounds belonging to different classes. We employed an integrated virtual screening approach to identify potential PARP1 inhibitors. The sequential support vector machine (SVM) and pharmacophore model based virtual screening was carried out on the Maybridge library. The obtained hits were docked in the binding site of the PARP1 catalytic domain and nine drug-like compounds showing good ADME properties and form critical molecular interactions with the binding site residues were considered for the in vitro PARP1 inhibition assay. MD simulations were performed to decipher the stability of the PARP1-ligand complexes. Hydrogen bond interactions were also probed for their stability during MD simulations. We have identified three compounds (BTB02767, GK01172, and KM09200) showing 50% inhibition of PARP1 enzyme activity at 25 μM. BTB02767 and KM09200 have phthalazinone scaffold, while GK01172 bears a thiophene carboxamide scaffold, which could be a new chemotype of PARP1 inhibitors. In conclusion, GK01172 may serve as an important compound for further development of PARP1 inhibitors containing thiophene carboxamide scaffold. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
Morphology and displacement of dunes in a closed-conduit flow
Creators: name: Franklin, Erick de Moraes
name: Charru, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport of solid particles entrained by a fluid flow is frequently found in industrial applications. A better knowledge of it, is of importance to improve particle related industrial processes. When shear stresses exerted by the fluid on the bed of particles are bounded to some limits, a mobile layer of particles known as bed-load takes place in which the particles stay in contact with the fixed bed. If it takes place over a non-erodible ground, and if the particle flow rate is small enough, an initial thin continuous layer of particles becomes discontinuous and composed of isolated dunes. We present here an experimental study to understand some features of the dynamics of isolated dunes under a fluid flow using a closed-conduit experimental loop made of transparent material. Acquired data concerns mainly dune morphology and displacement velocity under different conditions: different types of beads (diameters and densities) and different water flow conditions. We observed that an initial pile of beads placed in the conduit is rapidly deformed by the water flow, adopting a "croissant" shape, like barchan dunes found in deserts at a much larger scale. We observed also self-similarity in dunes dimensions and that dune displacement velocity scales with the inverse of their dimensions. The variation of the dune displacement velocity with the fluid shear velocity is discussed here.
description: This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Fire resistance of geopolymer concretes
Creators: name: Kong., Daniel L.Y.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Compatibility of Ethiopian Agricultural Commodities Price with their Respective International Price
Creators: name: Bereket, Meseret
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This study investigates the compatibility of the domestic and international price of major primary agriculture products namely Coffee, Sesame & Pea beans. Cointegration Analysis is employed using monthly data over the period of 2012 to 2018 on top of analysing primary data through interview and focused group discussion. The empirical finding shows that selected agricultural products does not have a long-run relationship with their respective international price (FOB Price) and in most cases, the domestic price is distorted compared to the international price. According to primary data analysis the price incompatibility is aggravated through countries existing macroeconomic instability and prevalence of critical trade balance deficit. This leads to import business operators' become engage in export for the sake of securing foreign currency to their import and then export business become a scapegoat for import business. The analysis also tells that the price incompatibility does have a multidimensional effect on promoting imported inflation & worsen society's welfare in addition to affecting macro-economic variables like manipulating interest rate & exchange rate. Overall, the empirical analysis both in secondary & primary sources indicates that there is the absence of price compatibility on primary agricultural export business and, unless necessary policy intervention is implemented, the macroeconomic instability will exacerbate due to such irregularity.
Challenges for models with composite states
Creators: name: Cline, James M.
name: Huang, Weicong
name: Moore, Guy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Composite states of electrically charged and QCD-colored hyperquarks (HQs) in a confining SU(N_HC) hypercolor gauge sector are a plausible extension of the standard model at the TeV scale, and have been widely considered as an explanation for the tentative LHC diphoton excess. Additional new physics is required to avoid a stable charged hyperbaryon in such theories. We classify renormalizable models allowing the decay of this unwanted relic directly into standard model states, showing that they are significantly restricted if the new scalar states needed for UV completion are at the TeV scale. Alternatively, if hyperbaryon number is conserved, the charged relic can decay into a neutral hyperbaryon. Such theories are strongly constrained by direct detection, if the neutral constituent hyperquark carries color or weak isospin, and by LHC searches for leptoquarks if it is a color singlet. We show that the neutral hyperbaryon can have the observed relic abundance if the confinement scale and the hyperquark mass are above TeV scale, even in the absence of any hyperbaryon asymmetry.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; v2: added anomalous isotope constraints; published version
Additional file 1 of Electro-acupuncture for health-related quality of life and symptoms in patients with gastric cancer undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy (EAGER): a protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Chang, Xuesong
name: Zhu, Yanjuan
name: Zhao, Wenjie
name: Liu, Yihong
name: He, Yihan
name: Chen, Yadong
name: Xu, Danghan
name: Mao, Jun J.
name: Zhang, Hai-bo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

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Hydrodynamics of shear-flocculation
Creators: name: Koh., Peter Teng Lew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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On the Newtonian and Spin-induced Perturbations felt by the Stars Orbiting around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Zhang, Fupeng
name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The S-stars discovered in the Galactic center (GC) are expected to provide unique dynamical tests of the Kerr metric of the massive black hole (MBH) orbited by them. In order to obtain unbiased measurements of its spin and the related relativistic effects, a comprehensive understanding of the gravitational perturbations of the stars and stellar remnants around the MBH is quite essential. Here, we study the perturbations on the observables of a typical target star, i.e., the apparent orbital motion and the redshift, due to both the spin-induced relativistic effects and the Newtonian attractions of a single or a cluster of disturbing object(s). We find that, in most cases, the Newtonian perturbations on the observables are mainly attributed to the perturbed orbital period of the target star, rather than the Newtonian orbital precessions. The Newtonian perturbations have their unique features when they peak around the pericenter passage in each revolution, which is quite different from those of the spin-induced effects. Looking at the currently detected star S2/S0-2, we find that its spin-induced effects on both the image position and redshift are very likely obscured by the gravitational perturbations from the star S0-102 alone. We also investigate and discuss the Newtonian perturbations on a hypothetical S-star located inside the orbits of the currently detected ones. By considering a number of possible stellar distributions near the central MBH, we find that the spin-induced effects on the apparent position and the redshift dominate over the stellar perturbations for target stars with orbital semimajor axis smaller than $100-400$AU if the MBH is maximally spinning. Our results suggest that, in principle, the stellar perturbations can be removed as they have distinctive morphologies comparing to those of the relativistic Kerr-type signatures.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Viscoelastic deformation of plastic structures
Creators: name: Kinder., Donald Frederick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Gravity field and solar component of the precession rate and nutation coefficients of Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Creators: name: Lhotka, Christoph
name: Reimond, Stefan
name: Souchay, Jean
name: Baur, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this study is first to determine the gravity field of the comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko and second to derive the solar component of the precession rate and nutation coefficients of the spin axis of the comet nucleus, i.e. without the direct, usually larger, effect of outgassing. The gravity field, and related moments of inertia, are obtained from two polyhedra, that are provided by the OSIRIS and NAV-CAM experiments on Rosetta, and are based on the assumption of uniform density for the comet nucleus. We also calculate the forced precession rate as well as the nutation coefficients on the basis of Kinoshita's theory of rotation of the rigid Earth and adapted it to be able to indirectly include the effect of outgassing on the rotational parameters. The 2nd degree denormalized Stokes coefficients of comet 67P C-G turn out to be (bracketed numbers refer to second shape model) C20 = -6.74 [-7.93] * 10^-2, C22 = 2.60 [2.71] * 10^-2 consistent with normalized principal moments of inertia A/MR^2 = 0.13 [0.11], B/MR^2 = 0.23 [0.22], with polar moment c = C/MR^2 = 0.25, depending on the choice of the polyhedron model. The obliquity between the rotation axis and the mean orbit normal is 52 degree, and the precession rate only due to solar torques becomes 20-30 "/y. Oscillations in longitude caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun turn out to be of the order of 1', oscillations in obliquity can be estimated to be of the order of 0.5'.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, last version before publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/455/4/3588.abstract
Protest in unlikely times: dynamics of collective mobilization in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis
Creators: name: Kriesi, Hanspeter
name: Oana, Ioana-Elena
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Based on an original protest event analysis (PEA) dataset covering 30 European countries, this paper provides three sets of results. Despite its unlikeliness due to lockdowns and social distancing measures, protest during COVID-19 has hardly been put to a halt even if, as a result of the restrictions imposed by the lockdown measures on the opportunities of public collective actions, protest occurred at significantly lower levels compared to pre-COVID-19 times, in terms of number of events and, above all, in terms of the number of participants. Moreover, protest was refocused on COVID-19-related issues, in particular on protest against the restrictions imposed by the government lockdowns, while non-COVID-19 issues, in particular economic issues, were crowded out. In addition, protest during the COVID-19-crisis also responded to highly contingent national context conditions which varied between the different regions of Europe.
Effects of rest periods at elevated temperature on the fatigue of 4140 steel
Creators: name: Kim., Song-Hee
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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title: Lying to Individuals versus Lying to Groups
Creators: name: Angelova, Vera
name: Tolksdorf, Michel
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: We investigate experimentally whether individuals or groups are more lied to, and how lying depends on the group size and the monetary loss inflicted by the lie. We employ an observed cheating game, where an individual's misreport of a privately observed number can monetarily benefit her while causing a loss to either a single individual, a group of two or a group of five. As the privately observed number is known to the experimenter, the game allows to study both, whether the report deviates from the observed number and also by how much. Treatments either vary the individual loss caused by a given lie (keeping the total loss constant), or the total loss (keeping the individual loss constant). We find more lies toward individuals than toward groups. Liars impose a larger loss with their lie when that loss is split among group members rather than borne individually. The size of the group does not affect lying behavior.
Spatial patterns of EU funds absorption in Romanian rural municipalities
Creators: name: Marin, Monica
name: Glăvan, Eugen
name: Chiș, Alin
name: Corad, Bogdan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 441003
subject: Rural sociology
classificationCode: 440602
subject: Development geography
classificationCode: 490507
subject: Spatial statistics

description: This study analyses the spatial differences in EU funds absorption among Romanian rural municipalities through the 2014–2020 programming period. The absorption capacity for EU funds is measured by the volume of spent EU funds by inhabitant, for each Romanian rural municipality. The results of the analysis highlight the importance of the territorial dimension when studying the distribution of EU funds among the rural municipalities of Romania. Affiliation with a specific development region (NUTS 2), county (NUTS 3) or a functional urban area (FUA) is used to differentiate the volume of absorbed EU funds. In Romania, rural municipalities with higher levels of absorbed EU funding are, to a statistically higher extent, located in development regions in the Centre, North-West, South-West and West of the country; in communes with no change, or even an increase, in population between 2014 and 2021; in the highest quartile of fiscal capacity and in communes with experience with EU funding from the preceding programming period. This article adds to the growing body of territorial evidence and can be used as a policy instrument to more closely examine the intervention tools embedded in EU funding policy.
An Empirical Investigation on Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dagne, Metaket
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: To ensure sustainable growth, the interaction of monetary and fiscal policies- the two major macroeconomic policies- is paramount important. With the objective of investigating the interaction between fiscal and monetary policies on Ethiopian economy, the study used Vector Auto Regression (VAR) framework to compute impulse response and variance decomposition. Both trace and maximum Eigen value tests prove the existence of two co integrating vectors. The finding of the paper reveals that only fiscal policy proxied by government expenditure respond positively to a shock in money supply as a proxy of monetary policy which implies complementarity between the policies. But, monetary policy failed to react for the shocks of fiscal policy. Regarding with the adjustment of the model, all variables except that for GDP have at least one significant coefficient.
Nuclear energy gradients for internally contracted complete active space second-order perturbation theory: Multistate extensions
Creators: name: Vlaisavljevich, Bess
name: Shiozaki, Toru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the development of the theory and computer program for analytical nuclear energy gradients for (extended) multi-state complete active space perturbation theory (CASPT2) with full internal contraction. The vertical shifts are also considered in this work. This is an extension of the fully internally contracted CASPT2 nuclear gradient program, recently developed for a state-specific variant by us [MacLeod and Shiozaki, J. Chem. Phys. 142, 051103 (2015)]; in this extension, the so-called λ equation is solved to account for the variation of the multi-state CASPT2 energies with respect to the change in the amplitudes obtained in the preceding state-specific CASPT2 calculations, and the Z-vector equations are modified accordingly. The program is parallelized using the MPI3 remote memory access protocol that allows us to perform efficient one-sided communication. The optimized geometries of the ground and excited states of a copper corrole and benzophenone are presented as numerical examples. The code is publicly available under the GNU General Public License.
Barriers and Benefits of Electronic Banking System in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mulugeta, Rahel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis aims to examine implementation of E-banking in Ethiopian banking industry with respect to the barriers which can influence firms from taking advantage of E-banking system and expected benefits derived by adopting the system. The study was conducted based on the data gathered from seventeen banks in Ethiopia; sixteen private banks and one state owned bank. Descriptive research approach was used to answer the research questions that emerge through the review of existing literature and responses from participants through questionnaire. The study statistically analyzes data obtained from the survey questionnaire. A research framework is developed based on technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework to guide the study. The result of the study indicated that, the major barriers Ethiopian banking industry faces in the implementation of E-banking are technology infrastructure being not easily available and low level of telecommunication network, lack of participation of employees in the implementation process, lack of training, absence of management support, lack of government support and absence of legal framework. The study also revealed direct and indirect benefits from E-banking implementation which are low cost in performing transaction, high speed and efficiency in service delivery, increased productivity and profitability of banks and improvement in customer service. The study suggests a series of measures which could be taken by the banking industry and by government to address various challenges identified in the thesis. These measures include: government support in providing technology infrastructure for ICT development and setting the necessary legal framework, banks to modernize their service by mobilizing all their resources through participating their staffs and providing trainings, and banks to create awareness to customers on how to make use of E-banking products and the benefits that will come out of it.
Aspects of x-ray diffraction and refraction tomography
Creators: name: Kewish., Cameron Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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