cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The EU and Its Member States at War in Ukraine? Collective Self-defence, Neutrality and Party Status in the Russo-Ukraine War
Creators: name: Hofer, Alexandra
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: European Union Peace Facility
subject: military aid and assistance
subject: neutrality law
subject: collective self-defence
subject: party status
subject: Russian aggression against Ukraine

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(3), 1697-1740
description: I. Introduction. – II. Aid and assistance provided to Ukraine since February 2022. – II.1. The European Union and its Member States. – II.2. The United States of America, the United Kingdom and Canada. – II.3. Russia’s response. – II.4. Reactions from other states. – II.5. Conclusion. – III. Jus ad bellum, neutrality law, and jus in bello: the need for legal coherence. – III.1. Collective self-defence. – III.2. Different shades of neutrality? – III.3. Party status. – IV. Conclusion.
description: To assist Ukraine in defending itself against Russian aggression, the EU invoked the European Peace Facility to “finance the provision of […] military equipment and platforms designed to deliver lethal force for defensive purposes”. It marks the first time that the EU is funding the provision of lethal equipment to a third state. In October 2022, the EU announced the creation of EUMAM Ukraine to train Ukrainian Armed Forces to use the weapons EU Member States have provided. Since February 2022, the EU’s military aid and assistance has only increased. EU Member States are also providing military aid and assistance bilaterally, including training Ukrainian soldiers. In so doing, they are aligning their assistance with “like-minded” partners and NATO Member States, particularly the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Canada. This Article will assess the supply of military aid and equipment to Ukraine as well as the training of UAF through the lens of international law. One wonders whether the EU’s military aid and assistance amounts to collective self-defence, even if none of the supporting actors have invoked art. 51 UN Charter. The argument could be made that the EU and its Member States are breaching neutrality law in supplying lethal aid to Ukraine, albeit it has been argued that neutrality law is no longer relevant in the post charter era. The question also arises whether these actors have become parties to the conflict, even if supporting states and the EU frequently assert that they are not co-belligerents.
Consistency of Risk Preference Measures: An Artefactual Field Experiment from Rural China
Creators: name: He, Pan
name: Veronesi, Marcella
name: Engel, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A variety of measures have been developed to elicit individual risk preferences. How these measures perform in the field, in particular in developing countries with non-student subjects, is still an open question. We implement an artefactual field experiment in rural China to investigate (i) consistency across incentivised experimental risk measures, (ii) consistency in risk preferences elicitation between non-incentivised survey measures and incentivised experiments, and (iii) possible explanations for risk preference inconsistency across measures. We find that inconsistent risk preferences across survey and experimental measures may be explained by ambiguity preferences. In the survey, subjects may mix risk and ambiguity preferences.
The Roles of Language Models and Hierarchical Models in Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction
Creators: name: Stahlberg, Felix
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: neural machine translation
natural language processing
statistical machine translation
grammatical error correction
language models
operation sequence model
text normalization

description: With the advent of deep learning, research in many areas of machine learning is converging towards the same set of methods and models. For example, long short-term memory networks are not only popular for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP) such as speech recognition, machine translation, handwriting recognition, syntactic parsing, etc., but they are also applicable to seemingly unrelated fields such as robot control, time series prediction, and bioinformatics. Recent advances in contextual word embeddings like BERT boast with achieving state-of-the-art results on 11 NLP tasks with the same model. Before deep learning, a speech recognizer and a syntactic parser used to have little in common as systems were much more tailored towards the task at hand. At the core of this development is the tendency to view each task as yet another data mapping problem, neglecting the particular characteristics and (soft) requirements tasks often have in practice. This often goes along with a sharp break of deep learning methods with previous research in the specific area. This work can be understood as an antithesis to this paradigm. We show how traditional symbolic statistical machine translation models can still improve neural machine translation (NMT) while reducing the risk for common pathologies of NMT such as hallucinations and neologisms. Other external symbolic models such as spell checkers and morphology databases help neural grammatical error correction. We also focus on language models that often do not play a role in vanilla end-to-end approaches and apply them in different ways to word reordering, grammatical error correction, low-resource NMT, and document-level NMT. Finally, we demonstrate the benefit of hierarchical models in sequence-to-sequence prediction. Hand-engineered covering grammars are effective in preventing catastrophic errors in neural text normalization systems. Our operation sequence model for interpretable NMT represents translation as a series of actions that modify the translation state, and can also be seen as derivation in a formal grammar.
description: EPSRC grant EP/L027623/1 EPSRC Tier-2 capital grant EP/P020259/1
Disease relevant modifications of the methylome and transcriptome by particulate matter (PM2.5) from biomass combustion
Creators: name: Heßelbach, Katharina
name: Gwang-Jin Kim
name: Flemming, Stephan
name: Häupl, Thomas
name: Bonin, Marc
name: Dornhof, Regina
name: Günther, Stefan
name: Merfort, Irmgard
name: Matjaz Humar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is recognized as a major health hazard, but molecular responses are still insufficiently described. We analyzed the epigenetic impact of ambient PM2.5 from biomass combustion on the methylome of primary human bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. The transcriptome was determined by the Affymetrix HG-U133 Plus 2.0 Array. PM2.5 induced genome wide alterations of the DNA methylation pattern, including differentially methylated CpGs in the promoter region associated with CpG islands. Gene ontology analysis revealed that differentially methylated genes were significantly clustered in pathways associated with the extracellular matrix, cellular adhesion, function of GTPases, and responses to extracellular stimuli, or were involved in ion binding and shuttling. Differential methylations also affected tandem repeats. Additionally, 45 different miRNA CpG loci showed differential DNA methylation, most of them proximal to their promoter. These miRNAs are functionally relevant for lung cancer, inflammation, asthma, and other PM-associated diseases. Correlation of the methylome and transcriptome demonstrated a clear bias toward transcriptional activation by hypomethylation. Genes that exhibited both differential methylation and expression were functionally linked to cytokine and immune responses, cellular motility, angiogenesis, inflammation, wound healing, cell growth, differentiation and development, or responses to exogenous matter. Disease ontology of differentially methylated and expressed genes indicated their prominent role in lung cancer and their participation in dominant cancer related signaling pathways. Thus, in lung epithelial cells, PM2.5 alters the methylome of genes and noncoding transcripts or elements that might be relevant for PM- and lung-associated diseases.
Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
Creators: name: Brownlee, Emma Claire
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Funerary Archaeology
Early Medieval
Europe
Globalisation
Grave Goods

description: In the seventh century AD, burial practice fundamentally changed across northern and western Europe, transitioning from burial with varying provision of grave goods, to a standardised, simple burial, with no accompanying objects. This was a process that happened around the same time across many areas of Europe, but previous studies into the transition have been constrained by modern national boundaries, resulting in quite different explanations being proposed for the same process in different countries. I have analysed data from a sample of 246 cemeteries from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. I used GIS and basic statistical analysis to map the changing use of grave goods over the sixth to eighth centuries, looking at numbers, and types of objects placed in the grave, as well as where objects were placed in relation to the body. By analysing these processes at a variety of scales, from continental, to individual sites, I assessed how local communities fitted into broader networks of social change. This analysis revealed that although the abandonment of grave goods was a drawn-out process, it began in almost every region around the middle of the sixth century. I argue that there was a link between this process and the contemporary development of Christian thought on death and the afterlife, influenced by events such as the Justinianic plague, which affected Europe from the mid-sixth century onwards. This in turn inspired a change in the perception of the corpse; from the continued embodiment of the person which was capable of maintaining possession over select objects, to more of an object itself, devoid of possessive agency. Finally, I use globalisation and diffusion theory to argue that this change was evidence of strong cultural and religious connections across early medieval Europe, which made the rapid transmission of cultural practices possible.
description: Funded by the AHRC (grant no. 1808445), and by the Cambridge School of Humanities and Social Sciences
A synthesis of functionalized 2,5-diimino-thiazolidines from Nef-isocyanide adduct and 1-alkyl-3-arylthioureas
Creators: name: Salehitabar, Liza
name: Yavari, Issa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The reaction of ethyl 3-chloro-3-(alkylimino)-2-oxopropanoate (obtained from alkyl isocyanides and ethyl 2-chloro-2-oxoacetate) with 1-alkyl-3-arylthioureas (prepared from primary alkylamines andaryl isothiocyanates) in dry MeCN at room temperature affords ethyl 5-(alkylimino)-4-hydroxy-2-(arylimino)-3-alkylthiazolidine-4-carboxylates in moderate to good yields.
Disease relevant modifications of the methylome and transcriptome by particulate matter (PM2.5) from biomass combustion
Creators: name: Heßelbach, Katharina
name: Gwang-Jin Kim
name: Flemming, Stephan
name: Häupl, Thomas
name: Bonin, Marc
name: Dornhof, Regina
name: Günther, Stefan
name: Merfort, Irmgard
name: Matjaz Humar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Exposure to particulate matter (PM) is recognized as a major health hazard, but molecular responses are still insufficiently described. We analyzed the epigenetic impact of ambient PM2.5 from biomass combustion on the methylome of primary human bronchial epithelial BEAS-2B cells using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. The transcriptome was determined by the Affymetrix HG-U133 Plus 2.0 Array. PM2.5 induced genome wide alterations of the DNA methylation pattern, including differentially methylated CpGs in the promoter region associated with CpG islands. Gene ontology analysis revealed that differentially methylated genes were significantly clustered in pathways associated with the extracellular matrix, cellular adhesion, GTPases function, and responses to extracellular stimuli, or were involved in ion binding and shuttling. Differential methylations also affected tandem repeats. Additionally, 45 different miRNA CpG loci showed differential DNA methylation, most of them proximal to their promoter. These miRNAs are functionally relevant for lung cancer, inflammation, asthma, and other PM-associated diseases. Correlation of the methylome and transcriptome demonstrated a clear bias towards transcriptional activation by hypomethylation. Genes that exhibited both differential methylation and expression were functionally linked to cytokine and immune responses, cellular motility, angiogenesis, inflammation, wound healing, cell growth, differentiation and development, or responses to exogenous matter. Disease ontology of differentially methylated and expressed genes indicated their prominent role in lung cancer and their participation in dominant cancer related signaling pathways. Thus, in lung epithelial cells, PM2.5 alters the methylome of genes and noncoding transcripts or elements that might be relevant for PM- and lung-associated diseases.
Grit, motivation and university grades
Creators: name: Nicholls, Nichola
name: Pleace, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Pretoria
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics of education

description: Dataset underpins an article published on 'South African Journal of Economics', 2022, vol. 90, no.1, pp. 1-120. Many South African university students either do not complete their degrees or take a prolonged time to meet the minimum degree requirements, with significant cost implications. Identifying malleable drivers of academic success is an important starting point in designing policies and programmes to improve student outcomes. To this end, we assess grit and intrinsic motivation as possible predictors of academic success, where motivation type is coded using text analysis of open-ended responses. We also investigate interactions between these traits. In line with existing literature, mostly in the United States and Canada, our results show that higher levels of grit are related to higher grades among Economic and Management Science students in a South African University. We further note intrinsic motivation as a significant predictor of grit levels. Our findings suggest that grade outcomes might be improved by interventions focusing on building grittinessin students.
Data and stata dofile are attached.
Reactions of sulfenyl- and selenylchlorides of boron difluoride acetylacetonate with C-H acids
Creators: name: Svistunova, Irina V.
name: Tretyakova, Galina O.
name: Gaivoronskaya, Ksenia A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The interaction of sulfenyl- and selenylchloride derivatives of boron difluoride acetylacetonate with ketones, diketones and other dicarbonyl compounds was investigated. In the majority of cases the expected products of substitution of hydrogen atom with γ-hio(selen)acetylacetonate group were obtained. The products with two chelate groups were obtained using the lack of ketone. The unusual interaction of selenylchloride with acetylacetone and acetoacetic ether was revealed. Derivatives of acetylacetone with ketone groups at the central sulfur atom were obtained by soft hydrolysis of boron complexes.
title: Textile orientalisms: cashmere and Paisley shawls in British literature
Creators: name: Choudhury, Suchitra
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Paisley shawls, cashmere shawls, textile in literature, objects in literature, fashion, British empire in literature

description: Britain imported a vast number of cashmere shawls from the Indian subcontinent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These were largely male garments in India at the time, which became popular dress accessories for British women. The demand for these shawls was opportune for textile manufacturers at home – particularly in Edinburgh, Norwich, and Paisley, who launched a thriving industry of shawls, ‘made in imitation of the Indian’. There has been considerable scholarship on cashmere shawls and their European copies in textile history. However, it has enjoyed no such prominence in literary studies. This PhD thesis examines Cashmere and ‘Paisley’ shawls in works of literature.

Indian shawls are mentioned in a number of literary texts, including plays, poems, novels, opera, and satire. A wide variety of writers such as Richard Sheridan, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Wilkie Collins (to name a few) depict these textiles in their works. For these writers, I argue, shawls provide a means to explore Britain’s changing social and imperial identity through the prism of material culture. The sheer incidence of ‘shawls’ in printed discourse furthermore suggests that they went beyond the realm of everyday fashion to constitute one of the important narratives of nineteenth-century Britain.

In emphasising the significance of material culture and recovering new historical contexts, this investigation raises important questions relating to the links between industry and trade, and literary production. I rely on literary criticism, scholarship on India, and textile history to examine the phenomenon of cashmere shawls. In the wider context of postcolonialism, the research suggests that instead of the Saidian model which viewed the East as an abject ‘Other,’ colonies actually exerted a reverse and important influence on the imperial centre. A new emphasis on Indian things in literature, this work hopes, will contribute a fresh strand of thought to studies of imperialism.
Guidelines for Operationalising the Data
Creators: name: Burlina, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Among the goals of the Developing Inclusive & Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE) project, is the need to collect quantitative data and improve the state of the art of the creative economy and creative and cultural industries (CCIs) from a statistical viewpoint. There is no clear consensus about the definition of creative economy itself. However, this report aims to investigate the most important variables and indices to define CCIs.
title: Assessing the Antioxidant Properties of Larrea tridentata Extract as a Potential Molecular Therapy against Oxidative Stress
Creators: name: Skouta, Rachid
name: Morán-Santibañez, Karla
name: Valenzuela, Carlos A.
name: Vasquez, Abimael H.
name: Fenelon, Karine
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: oxidative stress
subject: Larrea tridentata extract
subject: antioxidant in vitro assays
subject: cytotoxicity assay

description: Oxidative stress has been linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diseases. Larrea tridentata (LT) also known as Creosote Bush is an evergreen shrub found in the Chihuahuan desert which has been used medicinally by Native American tribes in southwestern North America and the Amerindians of South America. However, studies of the antioxidant capacity of the crude extract of LT towards the discovery of novel molecular therapies bearing antioxidants and drug-like properties are lacking. In this study, we assessed the antioxidant properties of Larrea tridentata, collected specifically from the Chihuahuan desert in the region of El Paso del Norte, TX, USA. LT phytochemicals were obtained from three different extracts (ethanol; ethanol: water (60:40) and water). Then the extracts were evaluated in eight different assays (DPPH, ABTS, superoxide; FRAP activity, nitric oxide, phenolic content, UV visible absorption and cytotoxicity in non-cancerous HS27 cells). The three extracts were not affecting the HS27 cells at concentrations up to 120 µg/mL. Among the three extracts, we found that the mixture of ethanol: water (60:40) LT extract has the most efficient antioxidant properties (IC50 (DPPH at 30 min) = 111.7 ± 3.8 μg/mL; IC50 (ABTS) = 8.49 ± 2.28 μg/mL; IC50 (superoxide) = 0.43 ± 0.17 μg/mL; IC50 (NO) = 230.4 ± 130.4 μg/mL; and the highest phenolic content was estimated to 212.46 ± 7.05 mg GAE/L). In addition, there was a strong correlation between phenolic content and the free-radical scavenging activity assays. HPLC-MS study identified nine compounds from the LT-ethanol: water extract including Justicidin B and Beta peltain have been previously reported as secondary metabolites of Larrea tridentata.
Synthesis and antibacterial screening of novel 2-(4-(aryl) thiazol-2-yl)-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-1H-4,7-ethanoisoindole-1,3(2H)-dione derivatives
Creators: name: Oguz Özbek
name: Usta, Necibe Canan
name: Gürdere, Meliha Burcu
name: Aslan, Osman Nuri
name: Budak, Yakup
name: Ceylan, Mustafa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A series of novel 2-(4-(aryl)thiazol-2-yl)-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-1H-4,7-ethanoisoindole-1,3(2H)-dione derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity. The structures of the synthesized derivatives (9a-j) were confirmed by means of IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and elemental analyses. All the compounds 9a-j showed activity against all microorganisms. Compounds 9a, 9c-d, and 9j exhibit potent antibacterial activity against tested S. pyogenes. Compounds 9c showed higher activity than standards against C. perfringes. 9a-e, 9j and 9i possess good activity against A. tumefacen.
A Comparative Study on Customer Satisfaction Towards Online Shopping and Offline Shopping with Special Reference to Coimbatore District
Creators: name: Jothiraj.R, R.Britamolen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study attempts to analyses the customer satisfaction of online and offline shopping.Customer’s satisfaction has become a crucial point of differentiation in online and offline shoppingwhere consumers make weekly, fortnightly or monthly trips and then spend more on these trips thanother times especially in countries like India where competition in online is very fierce. Unfortunatelyin offline shopping, i.e., especially in departmental stores most of the unsatisfied customers do notcomplaint, they just go shopping somewhere else. The most popular form of shopping include thosethat are click- and- mortar which means stores that have both physical entity and an on-line presence.The numbers of strictly online stores will only continue to grow because of the growing popularity inonline shopping and buying. In this study using different socio – economic variables. The outcomes ofthe study suggest that the better understanding of customer satisfaction.
Numerical Investigation of Reinforced Concrete Columns with Transverse Holes
Creators: name: Fraol Negassa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis (NLFEA), transverse holes, columns with holes, CFRP jacketing.

description: It is not uncommon to provide traverse openings in reinforced concrete (RC) columns
 for various reasons. The presence of a hole in a reinforced concrete column will disrupt
 the stress distribution leading it to splitting and failure at an early life. The aim of this
 study is to numerically investigate the behavior of reinforced concrete columns with
 transverse holes and also evaluate means of strengthening to restore or increase
 performance losses due to presence of holes.
 A nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) using ANSYS software program was used
 for validation analysis of full-scale experimental result reported in literature and further
 perform parametric study on opening size, shape, single vs multiple, horizontal and
 vertical positions. Also, strengthening options namely CFRP Jacketing, Steel Casing
 and their combination are investigated to restore or enhance capacity of RC column with
 opening cutouts.
 The results of the finite element analysis were compared with analytical methods. The
 impact of a hole with a diameter less than or equal to a third of the width of the column
 was linearly estimated. It was further observed that a square shaped hole results in
 5.69% additional capacity reduction as compared to circular shaped opening whereas
 horizontal opening position has more influence in load carrying capacity than vertical.
 CFRP jacketing with a steel casing inside the hole was found to be the most significant
 strengthening method.
Numerical Investigation of Confined Tied Columns wit CFRP Composites
Creators: name: Asnakech Kidane
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020
Subjects: reinforced concrete column, CFRP, plastic hinge, tie configuration

description: Recurrence of earthquakes is unpredictable and engineers deals with it when designing seismic
 resistant structures. Among structural members, columns are compression elements, failure of one
 column in a critical location can cause progressive collapse of adjoining floors leading to ultimate
 total collapse of entire structure. Thus, extreme care needs to be taken in column design with proper
 confinement, especially in seismic active areas.
 This thesis work numerically investigates the monotonic load response of confined tied columns
 with carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) Composites. ANSYS non-linear finite element
 analysis software is used to develop full scale 3D reinforced concrete column model reported from
 literature to perform validation analysis. Further, parametric studies on concrete strength, aspect
 ratio, tie spacing, tie configuration, sizes of tie bar and longitudinal bar, and number of layers of
 carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for strengthening purpose are investigated.
 Results showed as compared to control, applying three layers CFRP wrapping on seismic deficient
 column at plastic hinge improved ductility ratio and ultimate load carrying capacity by 148.54%
 and 20.35%, respectively. Also, as aspect ratio increased ductility increased whereas CFRP
 strengthened column ultimate load carrying capacity declined. Overall, usage of CFRP on
 reinforcement concrete (RC) column reduced concrete damage at the plastic hinge.
Boîte 63 64 Bouvet tournage martelage engobe pdf
Creators: name: UMR 7055 Préhistoire Et Technologie
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Source: Technothèque de l'UMR 7055 Préhistoire et Technologie, Référentiel de la technologie céramique
PROTOCOLOS DE SIEMBRAS DE MUESTRAS GENITALES,COPROCULTIVOS, UROCULTIVOS Y ESTUDIOS DE COLONIZACIÓN POR AGENTES MULTIRRESISTENTES. 2017
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-Fernández, José
name: Navarro-Mari, José María
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Se trata de una Guía de Práctica Clínica donde se describen los protocolos de siembras de muestras genitales, heces, orinas y para estudios de colonización por agentes multirresistentes en el laboratorio de microbiología de nuestro Hospital.
Measuring Creative Economies: Existing Models & The DISCE Approach
Creators: name: Crociata, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The approach of DISCE is to combine both conceptual and empirical inquiry. As part of the overall research design, WP2 has a specific role in helping to identify and analyse the range of data that is currently used in processes of modelling and analysing the ‘creative economy’ across Europe. However, part of the specific approach of DISCE is to rethink what we might mean by ‘inclusivity’ and ‘sustainability’, and to ask: what are ‘creative economies’. In this context, the role of WP2 is not only to analyse existing data within the frameworks of existing models of the creative economy, but to work closely with other work packages to identify and analyse new sources of data on the basis of DISCE’s reconceptualization of inclusive and sustainable creative economies. Working closely with the other DISCE work packages, WP2 will thereby work to develop new approaches to modelling, mapping and measuring creative economies across the EU.
Numerical Analysis on the Optimal Placement of Phase Changing Material (PCM) for Improved Performance of Solar Greenhouse Dryer
Creators: name: Bereket Lemma
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2021
Subjects: Greenhouse Dryer, CFD, PCM, TES, ANSYS Fluent, Thermal performance, Optimal

description: It was perceived that about 49% of the fruits and vegetables produced get rejected in the
 market. The reasons are delays in transportation, production being more than consumption for
 seasonal food products, preservation and lack of storage facilities. Solar drying is the alternate
 for preserving and lengthening the life span of perishable farm products. Available solar
 energy also depends on the metrological condition of location and climate. However, there is
 no sufficient information about the effect of different greenhouse type solar dryers on
 temperature variation and drying effectiveness. Most researchers have conducted experiments
 by integrating solar greenhouse dryer and phase changing materials for improving the
 efficiency of the dryer and they have found promising results. But the effect of placing the
 thermal energy storage inside the solar greenhouse dryer on the drying effectiveness and
 temperature inside the dryer is not investigated by any means.
 The main goal of the present study is to numerically evaluate the performance of three
 different shapes of solar greenhouse dryers and to evaluate the placement of the Thermal
 Energy Storage by using CFD software. Three different forms are Gable-even-span shape
 (GHSD1), Pyramidal Greenhouse solar dryer shape (GHSD2) and Half-spherical (Quonset)
 shape (GHSD3). The dryers are located at the latitude angle of 8.83°, longitude angle of 38.81°,
 and oriented in the east-west direction in Addis Ababa city.
 The solar dryers are designed and developed by considering the conditions found at a given
 location from NASA data server and National Metrology Agency. Three-dimensional
 simulations have been carried out by means of commercial CFD software (ANSYS Fluent R1).
 For the simulation, the Greenhouse is empty, without any crop. The total temperature
 distribution obtained from the previous data reveals that the Gable Even Span solar dryer
 (GHSD1), Pyramidal Greenhouse solar dryer shape (GHSD2) and Half-spherical (Quonset)
 shape (GHSD3) is 36℃, 33℃ and 31℃ respectively. The most convenient dryer is Gable Even
 Span solar dryer (GHSD1) since it gave high gain solar energy, high fluid temperature, and
 highest efficiency during the numerical simulation. The Gable Even Span solar dryer (GHSD1)
 is then integrated with thermal energy storage to its north and south wall sides for further
 investigations. The total temperature distribution is obtained from the numerical simulation for
 both dryers with phase changing material placed in south and north is 34.43℃ and 41.7℃
 respectively.
PROTOCOLOS DE SIEMBRAS DE MUESTRAS GENITALES,COPROCULTIVOS, UROCULTIVOS Y ESTUDIOS DE COLONIZACIÓN POR AGENTES MULTIRRESISTENTES. 2017
Creators: name: Gutiérrez-Fernández, José
name: Navarro-Mari, José María
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Se describen los protocolos de siembras de muestras genitales, heces, orinas y para estudios de colonización por agentes multirresistentes en el laboratorio de microbiología clínica.
Studies on the formation of formaldehyde during 2-ethylhexyl 4-(dimethylamino)benzoate demethylation in the presence of reactive oxygen and chlorine species
Creators: name: Studziński, Waldemar
name: Gackowska, Alicja
name: Przybyłek, Maciej
name: Gaca, Jerzy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30101 Analytical Spectrometry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: 30505 Physical Organic Chemistry
subject: 30703 Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics
subject: 30108 Separation Science
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: In order to protect the skin from UV radiation, personal care products (PCPS) often contain chemical UV-filters. These compounds can enter the environment causing serious consequences on the water ecosystems. The aim of this study was to examine, the effect of different factors, such as UV light, the presence of NaOCl and H2O2 on the formaldehyde formation during popular UV filter, 2-ethylhexyl 4-(dimethylamino)benzoate (ODPABA) demethylation. The concentration of formaldehyde was determined by VIS spectrophotometry after derivatization. The reaction mixtures were qualitatively analyzed using GC/MS chromatography. The highest concentration of formaldehyde was observed in the case of ODPABA/H2O2/UV reaction mixture. In order to describe two types of demethylation mechanisms, namely, radical and ionic, the experimental results were enriched with Fukui function analysis and thermodynamic calculations. In the case of non-irradiated system containing ODPABA and NaOCl, demethylation reaction probably proceeds via ionic mechanism. As it was established, amino nitrogen atom in the ODPABA molecule is the most susceptible site for the HOCl electrophilic attack, which is the first step of ionic demethylation mechanism. In the case of irradiated mixtures, the reaction is probably radical in nature. The results of thermodynamic calculations showed that abstraction of the hydrogen from N(CH3)2 group is more probable than from 2-ethylhexyl moiety, which indicates higher susceptibility of N(CH3)2 to the oxidation.
Non – Engineering Landfill Gas atmospheric Dispersion Modeling : Case of Reppie, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Berhe  Tekle
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020

description: Reppie non-engineered landfill is a rudimentary destination of solid waste that comes from
 Addis Ababa city. Recently, the landfill site has engulfed due to the expansion of the
 capital. Due to the engulfment, dispersion of pollutant gases like H2S, NH3, and CH4 that
 produce from the landfill reach nearby residence with high concentration. High
 concentration of the pollutant gases increases the risk of offensive odor, asphyxiation, and
 explosion hazards. The main objective of this research was assessing Reppie landfill gas
 dispersion through field measurement and Semi-physical model simulation. The semiphysical model simulation depends on the field measurement values. After experimental
 design was performed using temporal and spatial variation as independent variable,
 observation and field measurement was continued. Through series of field measurement,
 the average maximum concentrations of CH4, H2S, and NH3 were recorded at sample
 station (Ss-13) with 307.72 mg/m3, 142.18 mg/m3, and 3635.52 mg/m3 respectively. After
 having the field measurement values, meteorological data and other remote sensing data,
 the semi-physical model of and CH4, H2S, and NH3 was simulated separately in Lake
 Aermod®. Gaussian dispersion model is the governing mathematical model behind the
 semi-physical model simulation. After running the semi-physical model simulation using
 the field value, concentration gases were estimated in all over the landfill site. The semiphysical model simulation result shows high at the active site with 13.09 mg/m3 methane at
 (468417.77, 992379.64), 121.95 mg/m3 ammonia at the location of (468417.77,
 992379.64) and 0.13 mg/m3 hydrogen sulfide at (467975.9, 992297.13). The semi-physical
 model indicates that concentration of the landfill gases is inversely related with temporal
 and special variation. Concentration of CH4, H2S, and NH3 varies when the average
 dilution time varies from 1-hour to 24 hours as 13.09 to 7.43 mg/m3, 0.13 to 0.04 mg/m3
 and 121.95 to 41.43 mg/m3 respectively. The scenario analysis also shows that wind speed,
 wind direction and rate of gas emission influences for the dispersion of the gases. This
 means, Reppie landfill gases have impact on the public and environmental health along the
 wind direction proximate to the source. Especially, the impact increases when resident
 and/or scavengers get closer to the source and spend more time on there. This research has
 some limitations not to fully address the problem related to the impact of landfill gases.
On the origin of surface imposed anisotropic growth of salicylic and acetylsalicylic acids crystals during droplet evaporation
Creators: name: Przybyłek, Maciej
name: Cysewski, Piotr
name: Pawelec, Maciej
name: Ziółkowska, Dorota
name: Mirosław Kobierski
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Crystallography
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: 30701 Quantum Chemistry
subject: 30206 Solid State Chemistry
subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy
subject: Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30307 Theory and Design of Materials
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics

description: In this paper droplet evaporative crystallization of salicylic acid (SA) and acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) crystals on different surfaces, such as glass, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and paraffin was studied. The obtained crystals were analyzed using powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) technique. In order to better understand the effect of the surface on evaporative crystallization, crystals deposited on glass were scraped off. Moreover, evaporative crystallization of a large volume of solution was performed. As we found, paraffin which is non-polar surface promotes formation of crystals morphologically similar to those obtained via bulk evaporative crystallization. On the other hand, when crystallization is carried out on the polar surfaces (glass and PVA), there is a significant orientation effect. This phenomenon is manifested by the reduction of the number of peaks in PXRD spectrum recorded for deposited on the surface crystals. Noteworthy, reduction of PXRD signals is not observed for powder samples obtained after scraping crystals off the glass. In order to explain the mechanism of carboxylic crystals growth on the polar surfaces, quantum-chemical computations were performed. It has been found that crystal faces of the strongest orientation effect can be characterized by the highest surface densities of intermolecular interactions energy (IIE). In case of SA and ASA crystals formed on the polar surfaces the most dominant faces are characterized by the highest adhesive and cohesive properties. This suggests that the selection rules of the orientation effect comes directly from surface IIE densities.
Numerical Investigation on out of Plane Behavior of Load Bearing Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls
Creators: name: Abebe Ayalew
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Words: Macro modeling, Out of plane forces, wall, boundary conditions, masonry

description: Lately, blast resistance design of structures has gained momentum following rise in terrorism
 related explosion in past decade. Besides, earthquake accelerations create out-of-plane forces
 resulted a wall to fail under flexure, similar to a reinforced concrete slab, loaded perpendicular to
 its plane. In both aforementioned cases, there is a need to study response of a load bearing wall
 when subjected to dynamic out of plane external forces.
 This study numerically investigates out of plane behavior of a load bearing masonry wall.
 Experimental result reported in literature was used for validation analyses using ANSYS finite
 element software program and further parametric study on influential variables such as axial load
 ratio level, masonry compressive strength, area/size of vertical reinforcement bar and spacing of
 horizontal reinforcement bar, top masonry support condition and comparative studies evaluating
 various codes of practices and empirical formulas were performed to get insight into out of plane
 behavior of a load bearing wall.
 Finite element analysis (FEA) results showed as compared to control, increasing compressive
 strength of masonry to 20 and 25 MPa raised load carrying capacity of a masonry shear wall by
 23.2% and 49.26%. Also, results indicated in comparison with free end masonry support
 condition, pin and fixed end support conditions increased wall ultimate load capacity by 58.29%
 and 63.82% respectively. Similarly, horizontal reinforcement bars spacing had no effect on
 ultimate load capacity of a wall. Thus, cost effectiveness could be achieved by not using
 horizontal bars for reinforced masonry shear walls subjected to out of plane loads.
On the origin of surfaces-dependent growth of benzoic acid crystal inferred through the droplet evaporation method
Creators: name: Cysewski, Piotr
name: Przybyłek, Maciej
name: Miernik, Tomasz
name: Mirosław Kobierski
name: Ziółkowska, Dorota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Crystallography
subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials
subject: 30701 Quantum Chemistry
subject: 30206 Solid State Chemistry
subject: 30606 Structural Chemistry and Spectroscopy
subject: Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30307 Theory and Design of Materials
subject: 30602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics

description: Crystal growth behavior of benzoic acid crystals on different surfaces was examined. The performed experiments documented the existence of very strong influence introduced by polar surfaces as glass, gelatin, and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) on the growth of benzoic acid crystals. These surfaces impose strong orientation effect resulting in a dramatic reduction of number of faces seen with x-ray powder diffractions (XPRD). However, scrapping the crystal off the surface leads to a morphology that is similar to the one observed for bulk crystallization. The surfaces of low wettability (paraffin) seem to be useful for preparation of amorphous powders, even for well-crystallizable compounds. The performed quantum chemistry computations characterized energetic contributions to stabilization of morphology related faces. It has been demonstrated, that the dominant face (002) of benzoic acid crystal, growing on polar surfaces, is characterized by the highest densities of intermolecular interaction energies determining the highest cohesive properties among all studied faces. Additionally, the inter-layer interactions, which stand for adhesive properties, are also the strongest in the case of this face. Thus, quantum chemistry computations providing detailed description of energetic contributions can be successfully used for clarification of adhesive and cohesive nature of benzoic acids crystal faces.
Research Topic II
Creators: name: Tjepkema, Wim
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2016

description: Introduction
In an attempt to uncover the mechanisms underlying the cue-approach paradigm[1], we will investigate the effects of cue-approach training on food choice when the cue signals the release of a button instead of the press of a button. Thus, a functional mirror of the cue-approach paradigm will be performed, where the cued response is altered into an avoidance movement, which should convey a negative, instead of a positive motivational state.

Outcome Possibilities
In accordance with the above, there are three possible outcomes for this study that determine the further execution of a follow-up study. These are outlined below.

Outcome Possibility 1
Cued items are valued lower and are chosen less often compared to un-cued items. This would suggest that the motivational quality of the performed response (avoidance) overrides the attentional salience for cued items. The next study will then aim to replicate effects found normally using the original cue-approach paradigm.

Outcome Possibility 2
Cued items are both valued and chosen equally as compared to un-cued items. This would suggest that the motivational quality of the performed response and attentional salience for cued items balance each other out. The next study will then also aim to replicate effects found normally using the original cue-approach paradigm.

Outcome Possibility 3
Cued items are valued higher and are chosen more often compared to un-cued items. This would suggest that the release of a button may not be construed as an avoidance movement. To be sure that the motivational quality of the response is processed as being negative in nature by the participants, the next study will then replicate this earlier study with additional instructions for participants on how to interpret the release of the button.