cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Viral RNA level, serum antibody responses, and transmission risk in recovered COVID-19 patients with recurrent positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA test results: a population-based observational cohort study
Creators: name: Yang, Chao
name: Jiang, Min
name: Wang, Xiaohui
name: Tang, Xiujuan
name: Fang, Shisong
name: Li, Hao
name: Zuo, Le
name: Jiang, Yixiang
name: Zhong, Yifan
name: Chen, Qiongcheng
name: Zheng, Chenli
name: Wang, Lei
name: Wu, Shuang
name: Wu, Weihua
name: Liu, Hui
name: Yuan, Jing
name: Liao, Xuejiao
name: Zhang, Zhen
name: Shi, Xiaolu
name: Geng, Yijie
name: Zhang, Huan
name: Zheng, Huanying
name: Wan, Min
name: Lu, Linying
name: Ren, Xiaohu
name: Cui, Yujun
name: Zou, Xuan
name: Feng, Tiejian
name: Xia, Junjie
name: Yang, Ruifu
name: Liu, Yingxia
name: Mei, Shujiang
name: Li, Baisheng
name: Yang, Zhengrong
name: Hu, Qinghua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Managing recovered COVID-19 patients with recurrent-positive SARS-CoV-2 RNA test results is challenging. We performed a population-based observational study to characterize the viral RNA level and serum antibody responses in recurrent-positive patients and evaluate their viral transmission risk. Of 479 recovered COVID-19 patients, 93 (19%) recurrent-positive patients were identified, characterized by younger age, with a median discharge-to-recurrent-positive length of 8 days. After readmission, recurrent-positive patients exhibited mild (28%) or absent (72%) symptoms, with no disease progression. The viral RNA level in recurrent-positive patients ranged from 1.8 to 5.7 log10 copies/mL (median: 3.2), which was significantly lower than the corresponding values at disease onset. There are generally no significant differences in antibody levels between recurrent-positive and non-recurrent-positive patients, or in recurrent-positive patients over time (before, during, or after recurrent-positive detection). Virus isolation of nine representative specimens returned negative results. Whole genome sequencing of six specimens yielded only genomic fragments. 96 close contacts and 1,200 candidate contacts of 23 recurrent-positive patients showed no clinical symptoms; their viral RNA (1,296/1,296) and antibody (20/20) tests were negative. After full recovery (no longer/never recurrent-positive), 60% (98/162) patients had neutralizing antibody titers of ≥1:32. Our findings suggested that an intermittent, non-stable excretion of low-level viral RNA may result in recurrent-positive occurrence, rather than re-infection. Recurrent-positive patients pose a low transmission risk, a relatively relaxed management of recovered COVID-19 patients is recommended.
Edgeworth expansions for studentized statistics under weak dependence
Creators: name: Lahiri, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05 (Primary) 62E20, 62M10 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we derive valid Edgeworth expansions for studentized versions of a large class of statistics when the data are generated by a strongly mixing process. Under dependence, the asymptotic variance of such a statistic is given by an infinite series of lag-covariances, and therefore, studentizing factors (i.e., estimators of the asymptotic standard error) typically involve an increasing number, say, $\ell$ of lag-covariance estimators, which are themselves quadratic functions of the observations. The unboundedness of the dimension $\ell$ of these quadratic functions makes the derivation and the form of the expansions nonstandard. It is shown that in contrast to the case of the studentized means under independence, the derived Edgeworth expansion is a superposition of three distinct series, respectively, given by one in powers of $n^{-1/2}$, one in powers of $[n/\ell]^{-1/2}$ (resulting from the standard error of the studentizing factor) and one in powers of the bias of the studentizing factor, where $n$ denotes the sample size.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOS722 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Public participation in decisionmaking Sullivans Cove, Tasmania
Creators: name: Cohn, Shelley
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis follows the progress of two controversial development projects in an historic waterfront precinct in the city of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The thesis examines the public participation processes in these developments and compares the effectiveness of public involvement with that found in a review of literature on public participation in planning. A brief outline of participation in the United States, Great Britain and Australia and its evolution is included. The dilemmas of public participation, including the lack of opportunities for 'real' participation and the perceived benefits for those who actually participate, are highlighted. Some recommendations are provided to guide authorities and participants in applying participation principles to planning proposals.
Block-diagonalisation of matrices and operators
Creators: name: Wirth, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A56; 15A22

description: In this short note we deal with a constructive scheme to decompose a continuous family of matrices $A(ρ)$ asymptotically as $ρ\to0$ into blocks corresponding to groups of eigenvalues of the limit matrix A(0). We also discuss the extension of the scheme to matrix families depending upon additional parameters and operators on Hilbert spaces.
description: 8 pages
EPR study of CdIn₂S₄
Creators: name: Kerr, Richard Kelso
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Properties of CdIn₂S₄ have been studied using EPR. The temperature dependence of the hyperfine interaction for Mn²⁺ impurities has been measured over the range 1 °K - 450 °K. The results have been interpreted using both the localized vibration model and the interaction with the phonon continuum. The g-tensor for Co²⁺ dopants has been determined, yielding g[sub ⊥] = 4.07 ±.15, g₁₁ = 6.00 ±.05 with the distortion axes along the four <111> directions. Both Mn²⁺ and Co²⁺ have a preference to substitute at a "B" site in the crystal. A 'conduction electron' signal that is dependent on the sulphur vacancy concentration has been observed with an isotropic g = 1.68 ±.005. The g-value for a resonance ascribed to surface states was found to be 1.70. Strain experiments indicate that the band gap is most probably a direct one. Preliminary studies of production of sulphur vacancies by heat treatment and light excitation of electrons have been performed.
How to improve the accuracy of the discrete gradient method in the one-dimensional case
Creators: name: Cieslinski, Jan L.
name: Ratkiewicz, Boguslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.7

description: We present a new numerical scheme for one dimensional dynamical systems. This is a modification of the discrete gradient method and keeps its advantages, including the stability and the conservation of the energy integral. However, its accuracy is higher by several orders of magnitude.
description: 7 pages plus 7 figures
Impurity optical absorption and magnetic susceptibility in silicon and germanium
Creators: name: Macek, Vilko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The eigenvalue problem for the two-electron system of a donor pair in germanium and silicon was solved. Using the Heitler-London method the 1s-1s electron energy spectra were calculated as a function of the separation between the two donors in the crystal. Also the widths of bands of closely spaced 1s-2p donor molecular levels were calculated as a function or interdonor separation. In this study the many-valley nature of the conduction band as well as the discrete structure of the crystal medium of the host semiconductor were taken into account. It was observed that all donor pairs in a germanium crystal can be divided into three classes; any two donor pairs belonging to the same class have identical electron energy spectra if their interdonor separations are equal. As an application of this study of the donor-donor interaction, the linewidths of B and E infra-red absorption lines in silicon and germanium were estimated as a function of donor concentration and compared with experimental results. A random distribution of donors in the crystal was assumed. It was supposed that optical absorption takes place through excitation of the electron system of a donor pair from an occupied state to a higher lying excited state. The agreement between theory and experiment was very good. In another application of the results of the study of the donor-donor interaction, the magnetic susceptibility of weakly interacting donors in germanium was studied as a function of donor concentration (10¹⁶ cm ⁻³ ≲N[sub d] ≲ 10¹⁷ cm ⁻³) and temperature (1°K ≲ T ≲ 5°K). The system of interacting donors was treated as a system of isolated donor pairs. A random distribution of donors in the crystal was assumed. The spin paramagnetic and orbital diamagnetic susceptibilities were calculated and an upper limit to the Van Vleck paramagnetic susceptibility was calculated. The results were compared to results of experimental measurements, and again a good agreement was observed. Special attention was paid to the behaviour of antimony-doped germanium for which case the Sonder and Schweinler theory breaks down.
Deep Inelastic Scattering in Holographic AdS/QCD Models
Creators: name: Bayona, C. A. Ballon
name: Boschi-Filho, Henrique
name: Braga, Nelson R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the description of deep inelastic scattering using some AdS/QCD phenomenological models.
description: Talk presented by NRFB at Light Cone 2009: Relativistic Hadronic and Particle Physics, 8-13 Jul 2009, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Vascularity of mammalian retinae : a comparative anatomical study of mammals with and without intraretinal blood vessels
Creators: name: Buttery, Robert Gordon
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The physical requirements necessary for the perception of light have produced peculiar adaptions to the way in which the eye is nourished. In many mammals there is a dual blood supply to the retina derived from both choroidal and intraretinal circulations. Interestingly, some species have only a choroidal blood supply. This study has addressed the coping strategies of those retinae which lack intraretinal blood vessels. Placental guinea pigs and diprotodont marsupial brushtail possums and sugar gliders, all of which lack retinal circulation (avascular retinae) have been compared with placental rats and polyprotodont marsupial quolls, Virginia opossums and Tasmanian devils, all of which possess intraretinal blood vessels (vascular retinae). Functional angiographic study has documented vascular patterns and demonstrated the close arteriovenous pairing within the polyprotodont marsupial retina. Avascular retinae are thinner than their vascular counterparts. The difference is not great (170Am versus 220gm): The limitation in thickness is borne by most retinal laminae but more so by those layers furthest from the choroidal supply. Morphological analysis suggests that spatial visual acuity is comparable in vascular and avascular species. Corrosion casting and microscopy of the ocular vasculature has shown that the choroid of the avascular species examined has no obvious morphological specialisations which might offset the lack of retinal vessels. However, the metabolic pathways within the inner layers of avascular retinae are markedly different, with limited oxidative metabolism as indicated by the activity of the mitochondrial enzyme, cytochrome oxidase. However, ATPase activity, as a measure of overall energy consumption, is known to be high within the inner layers of the avascular guinea pig retina (Ueno et al. 1981). This suggests that low cytochrome oxidase activity need not mean limited functional metabolic capacity. As a morphological accompaniment of oxidative activity, ultrastructural analysis would suggest that mitochondrial numbers may be reduced within the inner retinal layers of avascular retinae when compared with similar regions in vascular retinae. Central to these observations is the clinical question of whether the human retina can mimic the coping strategies of avascular retinae following pathological disruption of its intrinsic vasculature.
Stable Mode Sorting by Two-Dimensional Parity of Photonic Transverse Spatial States
Creators: name: Leary, C. C.
name: Baumgardner, L. A.
name: Raymer, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a mode sorter for two-dimensional parity of transverse spatial states of light based on an out-of-plane Sagnac interferometer. Both Hermite-Gauss (HG) and Laguerre-Gauss (LG) modes can be guided into one of two output ports according to the two-dimensional parity of the mode in question. Our interferometer sorts HG_nm input modes depending upon whether they have even or odd order n+m; it equivalently sorts LG modes depending upon whether they have an even or odd value of their orbital angular momentum. It functions efficiently at the single-photon level, and therefore can be used to sort single-photon states. Due to the inherent phase stability of this type of interferometer as compared to those of the Mach-Zehnder type, it provides a promising tool for the manipulation and filtering of higher order transverse spatial modes for the purposes of quantum information processing. For example, several similar Sagnacs cascaded together may allow, for the first time, a stable measurement of the orbital angular momentum of a true single-photon state. Furthermore, as an alternative to well-known holographic techniques, one can use the Sagnac in conjunction with a multi-mode fiber as a spatial mode filter, which can be used to produce spatial-mode entangled Bell states and heralded single photons in arbitrary first-order (n+m=1) spatial states, covering the entire Poincare sphere of first-order transverse modes.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, 2 appendices
Parent’s perspectives on their child’s communication during COVID-19: Survey results and infographics
Creators: name: Demers, Catrine; Aguila, Kylene; Casault, Claire; Jamal, Farah; Meloni, Geneviève; Montakhab, Maryam; Salinas-Marchant, Carolina; MacLeod, Andrea A.N.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2021

Abstract
Additional file 2 of Cumulative evidence for association of rhinitis and depression
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Xiao, Dongqiong
name: Chen, Huayou
name: Hu, Juan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale results for cohort and cross-sectional studies.
The impact of extensive audit experience on internal control evaluation
Creators: name: Chew, Tong Gunn
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates the effect of extensive internal control audit experience on internal control evaluation. Prior studies have examined the effect of industry experience on specific audit knowledge and the effect of general audit experience on internal control knowledge/performance. However, there has been no known study that examines the effect of extensive internal control audit experience on multiple measures of internal control performance. Extensive internal control audit experience includes compliance based audit experience and financial institution audit experience. Auditors with predominantly compliance based audit experience perform a higher level of compliance testing compared to auditors with predominantly substantive based audit experience. Auditors with financial institution audit experience are more frequently exposed to internal control review due to the audit requirement specified in AGS 1008, Audit Implications of Reserve Bank Prudential Reporting Requirements. Due to the frequent exposure to internal control review, auditors with these extensive audit experiences are expected to attain a higher level of knowledge accuracy, consensus between subjects and self insight within subjects. The study also examines the effect of the level of knowledge on internal control evaluation. It is predicted that subjects with a higher level of knowledge will attain a higher level of consensus and self insight. Results indicate that there are significant differences in the levels of knowledge accuracy, consensus and self insight between student and auditor subjects except for the level of consensus between auditors with predominantly substantive based audit experience and students. Auditors with predominantly compliance based audit experience exhibit a significantly higher level of consensus compared to auditors with predominantly substantive audit experience but neither a higher level of knowledge accuracy nor self insight. There are no significant differences in the performance of auditors with and without financial institution experience. Furthermore, there are no significant differences in the level of accuracy of consensus and self insight between the high knowledge group and the low knowledge group. The results indicate that compliance based audit experience may be a useful factor in training an auditor to become an expert in internal control evaluations, as evidenced by firstly, the significant differences in the level of consensus between auditors with compliance based audit experience and auditors with substantive based audit experience; and secondly, the lack of significant difference in the level of consensus between auditors with predominantly substantive audit experience and students. Furthermore, it is clear that some experience as opposed to no experience plays a key role in the accumulation of knowledge and performance of internal control evaluation.
title:  Sustainability and Competition Law and Policy: Do We Need to Broaden the Concept of ‘Consumer Welfare’ in Order to Contribute to the Realisation of Green Transition?
Creators: name: Siragusa, Mario
Publisher: name: Roma Tre University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05vf0dg29
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Consumer welfare is a core element of many antitrust regimes. It is not surprising, therefore, that it attracts many of the tensions associated with the growing calls for competition policy to extend the scope of interests pro-tected by competition law to non-market values such as environmental protection. This article analyses the risk that antitrust assessments lose their objectivity and verifiability when they move away from economic-quantitative criteria to rely on more abstract parameters such as the contribution to sustainability goals. To this end, the reflection focuses on the discipline of sustainability agreements in the European Commission’s 2023 Guidelines on horizontal co-operation and compares this balanced solution with an alternative Dutch proposal, more daring but more risky.
description: Roma Tre Law Review – 01/2024
The mechanisms of spatial and temporal earthquake clustering
Creators: name: Jagla, E. A.
name: Kolton, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The number of earthquakes as a function of magnitude decays as a power law. This trend is usually justified using spring-block models, where slips with the appropriate global statistics have been numerically observed. However, prominent spatial and temporal clustering features of earthquakes are not reproduced by this kind of modeling. We show that when a spring-block model is complemented with a mechanism allowing for structural relaxation, realistic earthquake patterns are obtained. The proposed model does not need to include a phenomenological velocity weakening friction law, as traditional spring-block models do, since this behavior is effectively induced by the relaxational mechanism as well. In this way, the model provides also a simple microscopic basis for the widely used phenomenological rate-and-state equations of rock friction.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, comments welcome
Can Hyperfine Excitation explain the Observed Oscillation-Puzzle of Nuclear Orbital Electron Capture of Hydrogen-like Ions?
Creators: name: Winckler, Nicolas
name: Siegien-Iwaniuk, Katarzyna
name: Bosch, Fritz
name: Geissel, Hans
name: Litvinov, Yuri A.
name: Patyk, Zygmunt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modulated in time orbital electron capture (EC) decays have been observed recently in stored H-like $^{140}$Pr$^{58+}$ and $^{142}$Pm$^{60+}$ ions. Although, the experimental results are extensively discussed in literature, a firm interpretation has still to be established. Periodic transitions between the hyperfine states could possible lead to the observed effect. Both selected nuclides decay to stable daughter nuclei via allowed Gamow-Teller transitions. Due to the conservation of total angular momentum, the allowed EC decay can only proceed from the hyperfine ground state of parent ions. In this work we argue that periodic transitions to the excited hyperfine state (sterile) in respect to the allowed EC decay ground state cannot explain the observed decay pattern.
Cosmic string configuration in a five dimensional Brans-Dicke theory
Creators: name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Ferreira, C. N.
name: Marques, G. de A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a scalar field interaction with a cosmic string configuration in a flat 3-brane. The origin of this field is given by a compactification mechanism in the context of a 5-dimensional Brans-Dicke theory. We use the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation constraint to analyse a possibility of optical activity effect in connection with the Brans-Dicke parameter w and obtain relations between the compactification modes. We show that the dilatons produced by a cosmic string can decay into gauge bosons with masses given by the compactification modes. The Brans- Dicke parameter w imposes stringent constraints on the mass of the dilaton which lives in the brane and help us to understand the energy scales. In this scenario we estimate the lifetime of the dilaton which decays into light gauge bosons and the dependence of this phenomenon with the Brans-Dicke parameter.
description: 9 pages, 5 fgures
The use of orthographic analogy in children with a specific reading disability
Creators: name: Bakker, Vanessa J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Current understanding of specific reading disability (SRD) conceptualises the problem as stemming from a specific deficit in phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is essential to reading development and so a deficit in this skill would impair successful reading acquisition. Research suggests that there is a reciprocal causal relationship between phonological awareness and reading acquisition. It is also suggested that the level of phonological awareness necessary as a prerequisite to reading acquisition lies at the level of onset/rime awareness and that phonemic awareness is a more sophisticated awareness which arises as a product of reading acquisition. An interactive analogy model of reading development proposes that the initial level of phonological awareness plays an important role in setting up orthographic recognition units which become a basis for reading by orthographic analogy. This reading strategy has been shown to exist from the very beginning of reading and is not a sophisticated strategy as originally suggested by stage-based models. Some theorists argue that an orthographic analogy strategy would reduce the demands on phonological processing and would thus be a beneficial strategy for children with an SRD, however, others have argued that either orthographic or phonological awareness deficits in children with an SRD would limit their capacity to benefit from such a strategy.
Additional file 1 of Tumor microenvironment-activated cancer cell membrane-liposome hybrid nanoparticle-mediated synergistic metabolic therapy and chemotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Gong, Chunai
name: Chen, Ziqiang
name: Li, Ming
name: Li, Yuping
name: Gao, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. 1H NMR spectra of PC. Figure S2. Characterization of CLip-PC@CO-LC NPs. Nanoparticle size distribution (a) and Zeta potential (b) of CLip-PC@CO-LC NPs at pH 7.4, 6.0, and 5.0, determined by DLS. Hydrodynamic diameter (c) and zeta potential (d) of CLip-PC@CO-LC NPs treated with or without MMP-9. Figure S3. The biocompatibility of CLip-PC@Blank-LC NPs. The cells were treated with Clip-PC@Blank-LC NPs during 0–150 μg/mL for 24 h and 48 h, respectively.
Peaks in the cosmological density field: parameter constraints from 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data
Creators: name: De, S.
name: Croft, R. A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the number density of peaks in the smoothed cosmological density field taken from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to constrain parameters related to the power spectrum of mass fluctuations, n (the spectral index), dn/d(lnk) (rolling in the spectral index), and the neutrino mass, m_nu. In a companion paper we use N-body simulations to study how the peak density responds to changes in the power spectrum, the presence of redshift distortions and the relationship between galaxies and dark matter halos. In the present paper we make measurements of the peak density from 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data, for a range of smoothing filter scales from 4-33 h^-1 Mpc. We use these measurements to constrain the cosmological parameters, finding n=1.36 (+0.75)(-0.64), m_nu < 1.76 eV, dn/d(lnk)=-0.012 (+0.192)(-0.208), at the 68 % confidence level, where m_nu is the total mass of three massive neutrinos. At 95% confidence we find m_nu< 2.48 eV. These measurements represent an alternative way to constrain cosmological parameters to the usual direct fits to the galaxy power spectrum, and are expected to be relatively insensitive to non-linear clustering evolution and galaxy biasing.
description: Accepted for Publication in MNRAS on Sept 25, 2009. Abstract modified to remove LaTex markups
PANIWATER: Risk in Water Management Workshop presentations (Dec '23)
Creators: name: Ugolini, Fabio
name: DHODAPKAR, RITA
name: Labhasetwar, Pawan
name: Testai, Emanuela
name: Rana, Roberta
name: Biasibetti, Michela
name: Tomei, Maria Concetta
name: Santoro, Domenico
name: Roccaro, Paolo
name: Manoli, Kyriakos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: wastewater
drinking water
water treatment
risk management
water safety plans

description: Version 1.0.0

This archive contains the presentation given by the invited speakers for the workshop "Risk in Water Management", held on December 13th 2023 in Rome, organised by the Horizon 2020 project PANIWATER (Grant Agreement N° 820718)

Presentations inlcuded in this archive version are 

1-Circular economy solutions for Wastewater Resource Management - Rita Dhodapkar (CSIR-NEERI)3-The general risk assessment framework applied to water contamination - Emanuela Testai (Istituto Superiore di Sanità - ISS)4-Wastewater reuse in Apulia Region: a best practice approach to governance challenges - Roberta Rana (Autorità Idrica Pugliese)5-Water Safety Plans: the experience of Acque Bresciane - Michela Biasibetti6-Funding opportunities in Horizon Europe - Fabio Ugolini7-Anaerobic process as mainstream treatment option for urban wastewater - Concetta Tomei8a-Novel advanced oxidation processes for controlling known and unknown micropollutants in wastewater: treatment strategies - Domenico Santoro 8b-Novel advanced oxidation processes for controlling known and unknown micropollutants in wastewater: online and real-time control by fluorescence - Paolo Roccaro9-Interaction between microplastics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in water: Effect on disinfection performance - Kyriakos Manoli

Presentations not included in this archive version are2-Risk assessment methods, hazard identification, environmental risks and public health implications - Pawan Labhasetwar

In addition are included:- a pdf file with the meeting agenda and the speakers short bios- a pdf file with the poster used to advertise the event

for info, please contact: innova@paniwater.eu
title: Re-constructing a Ukrainian Baptist understanding of the ecclesiological nature of associations of churches through dialogue with Paul S. Fiddes’ covenant ecclesiology
Creators: name: Geychenko, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2020

description: This thesis explores a Ukrainian Baptist understanding of the ecclesiological nature of associations of churches. The thesis re-constructs historical understanding of the nature of associations, maps the current perspective on associations and suggests its further development through constructive dialogue with Paul S. Fiddes’ covenant ecclesiology. In the process of reconstruction and mapping special attention is paid to associational practices, organisational structure and theological language and imagery related to associations of churches. The thesis demonstrates that Ukrainian Baptists understand associations of churches as ecclesial entities. This is evident in associational practices and the theological language and imagery they use with regard to associations. Employment of Fiddes’ concepts of the covenant, participation in the Trinity and theology of trust permits moving beyond pragmatic reasons for associating and mission and to construe associations as covenantal brotherhood in Christ that visualises unity of the Body of Christ, commits to mutual care through the ministry of trans-local ministers and participates in Christ’s mission in the world.
ON SOLVING BHASKARA – FERMAT PUZZLE
Creators: name: Dr. R. Sivaraman
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pell’s Equation
Associated Pell’s Equation
Continued Fraction
Convergents

description: In this paper I will introduce an interesting puzzle posed by notable Indian mathematician Bhaskara II and notorious French mathematician Pierre – de – Fermat. It turns out that there are infinitely many solutions but even to determine the smallest solution in positive integers had been challenge to mathematicians. I will discuss a way as easy as possible to determine the smallest solution as well as provide methods to generate other solutions posed by the two great mathematicians.
Origin of CEMP stars: What helium and lithium can tell us about CEMP stars?
Creators: name: Meynet, Georges
name: Hirschi, Raphael
name: Ekstrom, Sylvia
name: Maeder, Andre
name: Georgy, Cyril
name: Eggenberger, Patrick
name: Chiappini, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the peculiar surface abundance patterns of Carbon Enhanced Metal Poor (CEMP) stars has been inherited from material having been processed by H- and He-burning phases in a previous generation of stars (hereafter called the ``Source Stars''). In this previous generation, some mixing must have occurred between the He- and the H-burning regions in order to explain the high observed abundances of nitrogen. In addition, it is necessary to postulate that a very small fraction of the carbon-oxygen core has been expelled (either by winds or by the supernova explosion). Therefore only the most outer layers should have been released by the Source Stars. Some of the CEMP stars may be He-rich if the matter from the Source Star is not too much diluted with the InterStellar Medium (ISM). Those stars formed from nearly pure ejecta would also be Li-poor.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, contribution in Symposium UAI 268, Light elements in the Universe, C. Charbonnel, M. Tosi, F. Primas, C. Chiappini, eds
QCD Sum Rules study of meson-baryon sigma terms
Creators: name: Erkol, G.
name: Oka, M.
name: Turan, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion-baryon sigma terms and the strange-quark condensates of the octet and the decuplet baryons are calculated by employing the method of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) sum rules. We evaluate the vacuum-to-vacuum transition matrix elements of two baryon interpolating fields in an external isoscalar-scalar field and use a Monte Carlo-based approach to systematically analyze the sum rules and the uncertainties in the results. We extract the ratios of the sigma terms, which have rather high accuracy and minimal dependence on QCD parameters. We discuss the sources of uncertainties and comment on possible strangeness content of the nucleon and the Delta.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. D
The effect of autologous tumour vaccine on benzo-a-pyrene induced squamous cell carcinoma of skin in mice
Creators: name: Al-lahham, Y
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Many studies have correlated the presence of infiltrating immune cells within solid tumours, with a more favourable prognosis. These observations indicate that the immune system may act to defend against tumour formation or growth. The generation of an immune response requires that the tumour cells express antigens recognised by the host immune system. The association between an impaired immune system with advanced tumours and poor prognosis suggests that appropriate stimulation of the immune system against tumour tissues might be beneficial. Active specific immunotherapy with autologous tumour cells or extract has been shown to be effective in causing regression of tumour. The prerequisite for effective immunotherapy is the expression of structures on tumour cells which are antigenic to the immune system and may function as rejection antigens. Various attempts have been made to identify such antigens in different tumours. Many antigens have been detected in different tumours, some of these antigens are immunogenic and some are not. In an attempt to overcoming the difficulty in identifying the tumour antigens and in determining which are immunogenic, could be used as an indicator of the immunogenicity of tumour cells. DC are an antigen presenting cells, the presence of these cells in the region of tumour tissues may indicate the presence of an immunogenic antigens on tumour cells. In this study, squamous tumours induced by BP were chosen for immunotherapy by autologous tumour vaccine because these tumours were reported to have high numbers of dendritic. The application of tumour vaccine to mice possessing these tumours was shown to be effective and to lead to an enhanced immune response against tumour cells compared to controls. DC infiltration of tumours in test group was significantly higher than DC infiltration of control group, this correlating with high degree of tumour necrosis and infiltration of tumours by non-DC leukocytes in test group compared to the control group.
Entropy, Triangulation, and Point Location in Planar Subdivisions
Creators: name: Collette, Sebastien
name: Dujmovic, Vida
name: Iacono, John
name: Langerman, Stefan
name: Morin, Pat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.5; E.1

description: A data structure is presented for point location in connected planar subdivisions when the distribution of queries is known in advance. The data structure has an expected query time that is within a constant factor of optimal. More specifically, an algorithm is presented that preprocesses a connected planar subdivision G of size n and a query distribution D to produce a point location data structure for G. The expected number of point-line comparisons performed by this data structure, when the queries are distributed according to D, is H + O(H^{2/3}+1) where H=H(G,D) is a lower bound on the expected number of point-line comparisons performed by any linear decision tree for point location in G under the query distribution D. The preprocessing algorithm runs in O(n log n) time and produces a data structure of size O(n). These results are obtained by creating a Steiner triangulation of G that has near-minimum entropy.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, lots of formulas
ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ В УЗБЕКИСТАНЕ
Creators: name: Абдурахманова Зубдохон Асадуллаевна Cтудентка 3-го курса Ташкентского университета прикладных наук факультета педагогики По направлению начальное образование. Преподаватель начальных классов в средней школе №15 г.Ташкента Алмазарского района
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассматриваются современные тенденции развития системы образования в Узбекистане, анализируются реформы, направленные на улучшение качества образования, а также проблемы, стоящие перед образовательными учреждениями страны. Особое внимание уделено роли государства в формировании стратегий модернизации образовательной системы, а также внедрению инновационных методов обучения. В статье также обсуждаются достижения и вызовы, с которыми сталкивается Узбекистан на пути к созданию системы образования, соответствующей международным стандартам.

Ключевые слова: образование в Узбекистане, образовательные реформы, качество образования, государственная политика, инновационные методы обучения, модернизация образования, международные стандарты
A Generalized Construction for Lumps and Non-Abelian Vortices
Creators: name: Vinci, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the general vortex solution in a fully-Higgsed, color-flavor locked vacuum of a non-Abelian gauge theory, where the gauge group is taken to be the product of an arbitrary simple group and U(1), with a Fayet-Iliopoulos term. The strict correspondence between vortices and lumps in the associated Non-Linear Sigma-Model which arise in the limit of strong coupling is pointed out. The construction of the vortex moduli space is derived here as a consequence of this correspondence.
description: 12 pages, no figures, Contribution to "Continuous Advances in QCD 2008", Minneapolis, May 2008
Best practice environmental management : an assessment of implementation in Tasmanian industry
Creators: name: Chundara, Virasack
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The universal acceptance of the need for improved environmental management in all sectors of society has witnessed a plethora of approaches to achieve such ends. Central to the concerns over the continuing degradation of the environment has been the practice of industry and, in order for industry to reduce its impact on the environment, it is increasingly being required to accept and implement the concept of 'Best Practice Environmental Management' (BPEM). The concept of BPEM focuses on three general principles. The first is the need for improved technology in both internal manufacturing and external effluent treatment processes. Such improvements may involve the introduction of best available technology or modifications to existing technology. The second principle consists of achieving consistently improved environmental performance through the improved management of industrial activities. This is largely achieved through the introduction of efficient and effective Environmental Management Systems (EMS). Best Practice Environmental Regulation (BPER) comprises the third principle which involves the identification of practices that have produced outcomes consistent with enhanced environmental performance and improved competitiveness. This thesis assesses the level of acceptance and implementation of the concept of BPEM by using two of Tasmania's major industrial plants, Fletcher Challenge's pulp and paper mill and Pasminco ‚ÄövÑvÆ EZ's electrolytic zinc processing facility. Two definitions of the concept of BPEM are used for this assessment, one from Tasmania's resource management legislation, the other from the Australian Manufacturing Council. Assessment of these two industrial complexes shows that management's acceptance and implementation of the principles of BPEM, as defined in the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994, has been substantial, and that significant improvements in environmental management have been achieved. The assessment also shows that these improvements have coincided with the introduction of appropriate legislation. Conversely, it is impossible, from the data generated by the case studies, to assess the compliance of these two industrial facilities with the definition of BPEM used by the Australian Manufacturing Council. Furthermore, given the absence of prescription and capacity for interpretation allowed by the AMC definition, it may be argued that rather than a definition, the definition is merely a pointer towards the general direction of BPEM.
Ecological modernisation at the periphery : an analysis of greenhouse development opportunities in a 'clean green' Australian state
Creators: name: Beckitt, Alexander C. R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Concern over greenhouse gases and the onset of global warming has become international in scale. Business opportunities arising from greenhouse gas abatement have been correspondingly recognised, and the potential advantages of less greenhouse intensive processes are being explored for any available market advantage. With this recognition comes a need to ensure that abatement is occurring, and that environmental benefit is a real outcome. Ecological modernisation theory posits that capitalist business behaviour can benefit by building into its activities environmental stewardship, thereby contributing to long term conservation of global ecosystems. The theory is explored, defining terms and discussing insights and limitations. The nature of greenhouse policy and definitions of what might comprise a greenhouse abatement industry are then established. This background provides a basis from which to investigate the business opportunities and constraints of genuine ecologically driven greenhouse reform. The thesis employs two case studies from the small Australian state of Tasmania. They depict how the theory of ecological modernisation is translated into practice. The Tasmanian government owns two businesses that significantly influence the state's greenhouse profile - one managing forests, the other renewable energy resources ‚ÄövÑvÆ and these have been chosen. Each case is tested against a history of environmental conflict and in the context of current marketing of a 'clean and green' image for the state. On this basis an assessment of what ecological modernisation can achieve is made. It is concluded that the environmental discourse characteristic of greenhouse policies cannot be translated into significant business opportunities due to difficulties involved with investment risks and with breaking from traditional development paradigms. Outcomes tend to constitute technological add-ons (evidence of weak ecological modernisation), or, in the worst case, a continuation of existing unsustainable practices within an environmental guise. This confines policy goals and production outcomes, and directly results in overstating environmental gains, a constriction of socio-political discourse, and undermined marketing potential in terms of environmental care. The promotion of greenhouse potential is therefore likely to be little more than rhetoric. The study concludes that, while ecological modernisation provides a theoretical framework through which trends can be ascertained, it fails in a prescriptive sense, for it does not explicitly cater for the uptake of environmental stewardship in the confines of strained economic circumstances similar to those of Tasmania and, perhaps, other types of economies.
OPTIMIZATION OF DESIGN PARAMETERS OF DEVICE FOR THRESHING DRY SHORTSTALKED GRAIN
Creators: name: Bayzakova, Z.
name: Zhumabayeva, A.
name: Akhmadieva, T.
name: Utegalieva, F.
name: Tursbekova, G.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Harvesting 1
optimal 2 distribution 3
devices 4
tilt chamber 5
combine 6

description: The article analyzes the results of experimental studies of device settings for dry cleaning of the short crops. Planning methods of experiment are used which consist in selection of the number of necessary experimental conditions and sufficient to solve the problem. The issues of research methodology, the main research results, discussion of the data and conclusion are reviewed. Based on results of a multivariate experiment, the necessary device parameters for distributing dry short-stalked grain mass in the inclined chamber of the combine are found. The proposed device design helps to expand the technological capabilities of the distribution of bread mass across the width of the inclined chamber due to the effect of a variable gap in the area of the discharge edge of the inclined chamber of the combine harvester. Issues on improvement of threshing crops process using the proposed thresh device are covered.
Kinetic models for polymers with inertial effects
Creators: name: Degond, Pierre
name: Liu, Hailiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel kinetic models for both Dumbbell-like and rigid-rod like polymers are derived, based on the probability distribution function $f(t, x, n, \dot n)$ for a polymer molecule positioned at $x$ to be oriented along direction $n$ while embedded in a $\dot n$ environment created by inertial effects. It is shown that the probability distribution function of the extended model, when converging, will lead to well accepted kinetic models when inertial effects are ignored such as the Doi models for rod like polymers, and the Finitely Extensible Non-linear Elastic (FENE) models for Dumbbell like polymers.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures